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How Lawyers Can Succeed by Developing Careers as Specialists
Experts get to experience more focus and charge more for their services. What more do lawyers need to know before narrowing down?
Expertise lends a strategic advantage over the long term. Business development cycles can be exhausting. Narrowing your niche into a specialty can deliver clients who are willing to pay a premium for your services with less effort than it takes to find clients who won't pay their bills.
Most lawyers fall in the middle of the generalist-to-specialist spectrum. Expertise evangelist Jay Harrington, author of One of a Kind: A Proven Path to a Profitable Law Practice illustrates the differences across the work of a "Jack of All Trades" and "Master Craftsman". Male-oriented terminology aside, Jay's comparison highlights four benefits to specializing in his piece for Attorney at Work.
- Specialists get work when results, not price, matter. Generalists get price sensitive work.
- Specialists are busy and focused. Generalists are busy and scattered.
- Specialists are sought after. Generalists seek out work.
- Specialists control client engagement. Generalists don't.
Generalists never control client engagement? Specialists evolve from generalists. You can start your evolution even if you can't yet conceive what specialty would return enough income and fulfillment by focusing on the clients and humans already in your life. Develop your communication skills and client relations processes — start with these resources. Jay Harrington presented a webinar for us a couple years back, in which he shares an anecdote about how a small, young San Francisco firm recognized an opportunity to narrow their consumer finance litigation by focusing on lawyers departing partnerships. You can catch that at around the 32-minute mark below, or viewing here on YouTube.
Self-awareness is everything in career development. Otherwise, you might find yourself pursuing nicely packaged opportunities that aren't fulfilling enough to sustain your efforts. Work-life balance is an illusory goal for those who don't feel sufficiently rewarded by their careers. Specializing in a narrow area isn't a panacea for lawyers struggling to find work they enjoy. There's a wild theory out there that some humans are "multi-potentialites". You know, even Jay Harrington didn't develop a specialty from whatever law he practiced at Skadden — he started a digital marketing agency for professional services firms.
Developing your career is some of the most involved, complex personal work you'll ever do. We're complex creatures in a complex economy. Yesterday's clear-cut career paths are overgrown, and they were never as likely to lead you to fulfillment as clearing your own. And all the tools you need are in our Career Research & Development Workbook Series, introduced here. We've published all 5 (free!) workbooks into a single, packaged version you can download here (still free!). Or just navigate through the workbooks through the individual posts below:
- STRENGTHS [Workbook 1]. SWOT inside and outside to uncover your technical and core strategy, leadership, and communication strengths and opportunities that are worth your time and effort to explore.
- VALUES [Workbook 2]. Revisit your values, beliefs, assumptions and unconscious biases and their impact on your most important decisions.
- BRAND [Workbook 3]. Rebrand yourself so that your project a strong, professional presence and people remember you exactly as you want them to.
- PURPOSE [Workbook 4]. Repurpose your passion into a driver of your success and happiness.
- PATH [Workbook 5]. Chart your course forward with clear goals, a step-by-step action plan, and insight for implementation accountability.
Career development doesn't put profitability first. Money requires attention and intention. Never ignore it; never follow it blindly. Stay mindful of why you want to become an expert: to find better balance (which considers income), not just to find more profit. The problem is that we've been conditioned to believe maximizing profits makes for happiness, and even if you believe the science that says it's untrue — you still have to reprogram your brain. Figuring out what really fuels our happiness requires taking care of ourselves. There are a lot of ways to practice self-care, and if you're not already in a healthy routine, you need to prioritize it now.
Too many lawyers already are looking for lucrative areas of expertise, and too few looking to close access to justice gaps, and too few developing expertise in fee-shifting to ensure income. Lawyers ready to start developing fee-shifting expertise can take advantage of an upcoming opportunity fee-shifting in debt collections (in which up to 98% of consumers are unrepresented!) at the MBA's program on January 29th.


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The book contains more than 20 different patterns in the fairy tale theme, from princes tot unicorn, from a frog to a magical castle. Many examples will show you how to use pixel patterns in quilt-, cross stitch- and crochet projects.

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GenoLogics Installs Early Version of Geneus at University of Pittsburgh Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratories
Product News Feb 06, 2007
GenoLogics has announced that Geneus, its solution for the genomics market, was installed at the first customer site, the University of Pittsburgh Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratories (GPCL).
GPCL currently uses GenoLogics' Proteus™, a lab and data management solution for proteomics research.
Geneus includes science-specific modules that are purposed for multiple platforms within genomics application areas. It also includes integrations to various genomics instruments and software.
An early access version of Geneus can be installed in genomics labs to manage a variety of genotyping and gene expression workflows including Taqman® processes and the next version of Geneus will include integrations to the Affymetrix GeneChip® platform.
"We are looking forward to using and providing feedback on Geneus. We expect to significantly improve our operational efficiency by incorporating all of our many molecular biology laboratory processes into the Geneus LIMS. This efficiency will be realized in the many small projects that need to be tracked through multiple processes as well as high throughput processes for many samples," stated Paul Wood, Director, University of Pittsburgh, Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratories.
"The flexible instrument integration has allowed for us to choose any level of integration from sample tracking to automatic data capture and data management for each of our processes," said Paul Wood.
The Companuy says that, University of Glasgow's Sir Henry Wellcome Functional Genomics Facility will be installing Geneus early in 2007. Three additional organizations have also stepped up with orders to purchase Geneus this year, and there are already a number of multiple-science and multi-lab opportunities in our pipeline for Geneus in 2007.


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Jaguar XF joins the motorway Police
The Jaguar XF will be joining the Central Motorway Police Group
Geoff Cousins, Managing Director for Jaguar Cars UK is delighted that the Jaguar XF will be joining the Central Motorway Police Group. He said "Police drivers demand the very best from their vehicles power, performance, safety and comfort are all very important, while their fleet managers are looking at good environmental credentials and strong residual values to ensure value for money.
The Central Motorway Police Group which patrols across Staffordshire, Mercia and the West Midlands has bought seven high performance Police vehicles based on the award winning Jaguar XF Diesel S Model.
The Jaguar XF is brilliantly built there is as much wood and leather as in any Jaguar but that does not imply it is traditional, everything from the shape of the dash to the textures and the ice blue ambient says 21st century.
A roof mounted light bar with 3600 blue flashing lights and integrated side alley lights, blue and white flashing LED lights inside the front grille, side mounted blue flashing LED lights, blue and red flashing LED lights integrated in the rear light clusters and a Home Office-specification electronics 'Police pack' that powers a full suite of electronic equipment help make these cars the ultimate Police vehicles.
The Jaguar XF beats other contenders with a fuel economy figure of 42mpg and an excellent CO2 rating of 179 g/km. The Jaguar XF's residual value is a key factor in making it a financially sound choice for police forces. Research carried out by EurotaxGlass's suggest the new 3.0-litre Jaguar XF will retain an impressive 80 per cent of its purchase price after 12 months or 14,000 miles which makes it the best in class, and an astonishing 45 per cent of its value after three years and 60,000 miles of motoring.
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I imagine that everyone here is playing 4K HDR 60 fps in our chromecast and our 55 "+ TV and without restrictions in Home.
Have you seen those graphics?
I recently bought Xenoverse 2 and watching Kakarot on PS4 comparing with Stadia Xenoverse I almost feel bad about them.
Hopefully Google can serve more countries and more devices ... for the world to see what this new tech can do.
Despite having the entire catalog on PC I am buying back the games ... because with Stadia a games has multiplatforms ...but, and then this Stadia ...the excellence.
Playing on 49" 4k TV and it does look good but not £8.99 a month better on pc or laptop. Can't use on my android phone either. Funny thing is that they announced Elder Scrolls Online so I remembered I had it on Steam and now happily playing it as a plus member for £8.99
@Fernspaeher it just sounds like it wasn't for you in the first place. You paid for a controller and a Chromecast, and if you didn't do anything else at all, by this upcoming Saturday you'll have 8 games that have been made available for free. Yes, some are old and the library is small. But dude... It's been 2 months. I'm not sure what you expected. I haven't used the service much to be honest, cuz I don't have a lot of time for games. But it works fine when I use it and I've also bought 5 games in addition to the "free"games.
The prices are high! I've been saying that since day one. The developers hopefully will eventually start matching the sales they have on other sites. I think (I hope) they will start doing that eventually. I bought 5 games so far but only when they were on Pro discount sales. Mk11 premium for $36 is a good deal, so I bought it. Is it the best deal? I think Greenman Gaming has it right now for $29 or something for PC. So then is it worth the extra $7 I paid to be able to play on my TV, laptop and phone without PC downloads and updates? To me it is.
I can't rave about how great the service is like some people because like I said, I'm hardly using it. But for $10 a month, which I haven't even had to start paying yet, it's worth it for me to get a couple free games and a good deal once in a while. I think it's going to be better when they finally start adding new games, and I think if you stick around or if you cancel and come back to it later you'll probably like it more when there's more stuff.
Giving Pro Games from the current catalogue also seems badly thought out as a lot of people have purchased them already. Especially as everyone is a Pro member at the moment!
really ? well you really know the community very well dont you lol
whats going on next week?
I am not at all disappointed with Stadia. That's simply because I am not comparing it to steam or my Nvidia Shield. For me, it fits perfectly into my gaming life as I can play stadia on one TV ( I have to 55's side by side in living room) and my son can stream nvidia shield TV/Steam on the other one.
The mobility and on the fly usage is fantastic and it's only going to get better. I like seeing the improvements.
I'm using my ps4 again and I'm going to come back to stadia if they release some good game like fortnite
@Muhammad good game and fortnite do not go hand in hand.
Good games are like
Doom eternal
Red dead Redemption 2
Fortnite ain't one of them
you ok dude ? you seem to complain a lot. you either have the service or not no one is forcing you to have it if your not happy i do recommend trying getting a console or selling your stadia then.
1, Stadia was never meant to be "Netflix for games".
2, Speaking as a new member who is sick of yearly PC upgrades (only to play the same game my PC ran 4 years ago, ie Ark) I've found Stadia a welcome breath of fresh air.
As far as money goes (you mentioned overpriced games) I just bought Xenoverse 2, FFXV and Assassin's Creed Odyssey with Season Pass for the grand total of £63 for all 3, far cheaper than on any other platform (steam for PC, PlayStation etc.) and other games that are full prices Red Dead Redemption etc, all line up with PC prices.
With the release of new games coming slowly but surely, this is a platform that can only grow, especially when games like Baldurs Gate 3, and Cyberpunk 2077 hit the platform.
If I could go back in time and buy the founders edition last year instead of a Nvidia 2080 gpu and 2 tb M.2 drive for my pc (for a little over £1000) and put the money into a top shelf TV and games for Stadia, I'd do it in a heartbeat (I remember buying my 1080 ti, thinking "this is costing me £700, but at least it'll last me a few years), the money I've spent on pc upgrades over the years is insane, as soon as the stadia catalogue gets bigger and better it'll take its rightful place as the future of gaming.
PS, The only downside to Stadia is the lack of mouse and keyboard support for chromecast.
Add me on Stadia ClassicRando#6222
The catalogue is growing, the Stadia team is hitting a lot of sweet spots with features, sales, and announcements...
Giving away 2 months of Pro for free was a pretty big deal, I didn't see Microsoft or Sony do that. I've been a Pro subscriber since day one, and will continue to be. Very happy with it so far, even though I spend most of my time on PS4. In fact I have two PS4 Pros, two Xbox Ones (one S one X), a gaming Laptop, a gaming desktop pc, 3DS, Vita.... and Stadia still has a very useful place in my gaming life.
I've been enjoying the free 2 months of Stadia Pro so far and like the service too. And been enjoying the games like Serious Sam Collection and Panzer Dragoon etc. And now subscribe to Pro because I like the pro games on the Stadia service. I used to be a console player and now shifted to cloud gaming as I don't want the hassle of downloading games and Installing game updates every time. I just want to play straight away and love playing on my laptop with my Bluetooth controller and on my Android tablet via the Stadia app 🙂
Dead. I just cancelled after the free months were up. For the monthly price they need hundreds of new games available for no charge. I don't pay Steam for games that i have to buy. And there are free games on Steam as is. The Stadia business model makes no sense until they have a few hundred triple A games in the subscription price.
XBox game pass is much better deal and allows me to play on consoles or computer. Without the horrid video lag.
I'm on a gigabit internet and I can't imagine how much Stadia sux on a slower connection.
You don't pay Steam but you bought your gaming computer...
Haha, its your connection. Dont know if the Problem is a 2.4ghz wlan or lag Spikes but the greatest lie about stadia is, that it has a high input lag 🤦♂
There is no lag and u can play shooter like pubg or the division 2 very well (i think its the KI behind the scence)
Stadia isnt dead, but at this point no fear for Sony of Microsoft.
Destiny 2 is the best exampel - get stadia get destiny2 - get 1080p, get Bad graphic in compare to midrange PC 🤷♂🤦♂
I love Stadia currently. Works great for me.
I think some of these naysayers are really just MS paid.
Not an MS shill.
I own a Pixel 3a, have been Android since the HTC G1, Chromebook user, etc.
Stadia has not convinced me to move away from PC. It's business model is not compelling.
Nobody *should* want to have to buy into a closed ecosystem where you don't own your games (you lease them virtually) and you lose it all should Google decide it's not in their interest to continue the service.
Nobody *should* want to buy years old games at launch date prices, or have to re-buy a game they already own at full price.
Nobody *should* want to buy into a system that does not embrace cross play across multiple platforms.
I own a PC, i own Steam. I get old games on sale all the time. Why would i pay full price for games years old already? The hope was it would play out like Netflix or a Gamepass, pay a monthly fee and play from a catalogue any game at any time. This is not the model they decided to follow, thus i have no intention of signing up for this service given all the continuing issues that plague the service at this time.
The day Google throws in the towel and goes to the Netflix model, i would spend the money. But until then.. nada.
I'm pretty disappointed with Stadia to be honest.
I'm a very casual gamer, only a few games really pull me away from work. I have bought and sold an xbox one about 4 times now, as i just can't justify the console cost given how much I can play.
So I thought Stadia was the answer to my problems.
But here we are...
Games with no release dates or delayed-release dates - What is point in instant on, if i have to wait 6 months for a game to be released. (Destroy all humans being that example here)
Indie games - soo many indie games.. these may be great for some players, but they are not my cup of tea.
Prices - I really can't help but cringe at the prices! They are horrendous!!!
That is my thoughts. I'll keep my sub up for a but , but i reckon when XCloud is released in full i will be making the move over


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Another trophy for Juvenile club.
Sunday 27th September, 2015
Buttevant are Minor A Champions
Sunday 20th September, 2015
Minor Final on Friday night at 8pm in Ballydesmond.
Thursday 17th September, 2015
Hurlers through to semi final in Junior C Championship.
Sunday 13th September, 2015
Minor Footballers through to Final
Sunday 13th September, 2015
Under 16 Footballers capture Rebel Og North title.
Friday 04th September, 2015
Defeat for Buttevant in Under 21 hurling Championship
Sunday 30th August, 2015
Buttevant bow out of Junior football Championship.
Wednesday 19th August, 2015
Buttevant drawn against Kilworth in Under 21 Championship.
Thursday 13th August, 2015
Under 15 Footballers are County Champions
Thursday 13th August, 2015
Disappointing end to Division 1 and Divisio Hurling Lg. campaign
Monday 20th July, 2015
Another County title for Buttevant Juvenile Club.
Monday 20th July, 2015
Comprehensive victory for Under 21 Hurlers
Monday 20th July, 2015
Under 14's are County Champions
Monday 13th July, 2015
Monday 13th July, 2015
All square in Division 3 Hurling Lg.
Monday 13th July, 2015
Under 14 Footballers claim County final spot.
Wednesday 08th July, 2015
Footballers reach North Cork semi/final.
Monday 06th July, 2015
Buttevant bow out of Junior A Hurling Championship.
Monday 22nd June, 2015
Victory seals semi/final spot in football league.
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If you've followed my blog for any amount of time you know I LOVE a good DIY project. But I have to be honest, I gave up DIY Skincare. I know, I know; you're shocked. But ladies (and gentlemen) it just wasn't cutting it anymore. And if I'm honest, it never really was giving me the results I wanted.
Look, I'm 47 years old. I was born and raised in Arizona and have lived in states full of sunshine all of my adult life. My skin isn't perfect. I have tried the coconut oil, the diy wrinkle creams, the essential oils. But I saw little to no improvement. And like you, my time is a rare commodity that I need to use like precious gold. So if a DIY skincare is sucking up my time without results, it gets the heave ho.
I Quit DIY Skincare
So there I am in all my nearing-50 glory, taking a minivan selfie. No filter just good skincare and a 5 minute face of light make-up.
So ya'll are probably wondering why the heck I am taking the time to write this article. Well I want to share something with you that has worked for me. I am using Beautycounter – WAIT don't leave before you read what I have to share. Give me that much of your time, I won't waste it.
Women use a lot of "beauty" products even if they aren't big make-up wearing ladies. We just soaps, lotions, specialized skincare, sunscreen, deodorant and so much more I can't list it all. What you may or may not know is that the skin is your largest organ. So what you are putting on your skin really matters – it is going straight into your bloodstream without any filtration.
Your Beauty Products Are Toxic
You should know that the personal-care industry (skincare, lotions, make-up, etc) in the USA is overseen by a small amount of legislation. Our federal government has not enacted a new piece of governing law over this industry since 1938. See Suffering For Beauty
These large corporations are policing themselves and not really taking your health, your daughter's health, you mom's / sister's or any woman's health seriously. And now that men or more interested in personal grooming, I think it is safe to say the same for them.
I started my search for the right company, that would offer the best quality ingredients, safe ingredients but still give me results. Over and over I heard Beautycounter but I didn't jump until this year.
1500 Unsafe Ingredients – Never!
Beautycounter has a "never list" of 1500 unsafe products that you'll never find in any of their products. They are meticulous about screening every ingredient for safety and THAT gave me the confidence to try it for myself and my daughters! You can see The Never List Here. I hate to drop the BIG C word but you should research these chemicals and their link to cancer.
I Started With A Quiz
After my research I started by taking the Beautycounter Skincare Quiz. With that I chose the Rejuvenating Line of Skincare and decided to jump in and get Flawless in Five Make-up set. I couldn't be happier with my results and I joined as a consultant.
Side By Side Comparison
Here is a side by side comparison, no filters or editing (which is why the tone is a bit off).
For My Bargain Shoppers!
I know my readers love a good deal! I guess that is why I am sharing my "little secret" now. Beautycounter is offering a RARE Friends and Family Share the Love Discount now through April 15th. The entire site is 15% off (a few exclusions). This is a wonderful time to try Beautycounter yourself. And they do offer a 60 day money back guarantee! Deal upon deal here folks!
What I am Ordering
I'll be ordering few essentials like the Cleansing Balm and Toner Pads. I highly recommend the Tint Skin Foundation – I HATED foundation before finding this one.
During this sale I'm ordering another safe lipstick (no lead) for myself and a lip gloss for my daughter.


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Think about it. Most business-builder "superstars" are sponsored by people who aren't "superstars."
What does that mean to you?
Spend time with everyone. Don't prejudge. The next person they sponsor could become a great leader.
You don't personally have to sponsor superstars to build a large, successful organization.
Tom "Big Al" Schreiter has 40+ years of experience in network marketing and MLM. As the author of the original "Big Al" training books in the late '70s, he has continued to speak in over 80 countries on using the exact words and phrases to get prospects to open up their minds and say "YES."


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The rumor gets stronger and stronger: Laura Pausini will be in Sanremo 2016? But hold your horses, she won't be in the competition but as a guest, and possibly the co-host? Last time Carlo Conti took two singers, Emma and Arisa next to him and this year he wants them both in the competition again. Time will tell if that will be the case. Both have already won it, too, and Emma has even done Eurovision while Arisa has declared several times she wants to do it. Would it be too soon for her to win again?
But back to Laura. She's one of those stars born in Sanremo. She came, sung La solitudine back in 1993 and won the newcomers and charmed Italians and half of Europe alike. Next year she was back among the Big and placed third with Strani amori. Since then she has become a worldstar with over 70 million sold albums, been back to Sanremo twice as guest star (2001, 2006), she has dueted with countless local and international stars, been nominated and won Grammys and other awards. In 2006 she was even awarded the third highest civil honour in Italy, Commander order of merit of the Italian republic by then president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
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Facebook has been trying to make itself a safer place for a lot of people, and while some have criticized its hate speech policy for equating harmless jokes with more serious subject matter one aspect of Facebook's push for a safer online space has involved working with a wide variety of organizations that specialize in the area of the protection of women and the process of giving them more rights as well as an equal place on the internet as well as the real world.
Facebook is using a wide variety of techniques to try and prevent domestic abuse. While it has always given users control over the kind of content that is shared, such as allowing people to delete comments and report images that has someone in them without the permission of the party that is featured within the image or video, the social media platform claims that it wants to try and take things further.
This is going to be done by using artificial intelligence as well as machine learning. These technologies are going to be used to try and detect when an image or video has an unwilling participant in it. The main focus is going to be on images and videos of a sexual nature since sexual abuse is commonly posted on social media and Facebook would want to try and prevent this from happening in order to make itself a safer space for women that use it on a daily basis.
These are some heartening developments that are coming from Facebook, and it indicates that the social media platform is starting to take the impact it has on the world around it a lot more seriously than it has before. However, some are saying that this might just be a publicity move for Facebook, although we will have to wait and see if this is truly the case.
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Yesterday I told you about my first experience with hitchhiking, travelling with friends eastward across lots of Canada in 1969. That was the first of five trips I made between Waterton, Alberta and Toronto, Ontario. On the others I was alone. Me and my little green tent and my junk food.
Looking back, I'm amazed that my parents didn't give me grief about these thumbings. They must have loved me a heck of a lot, and wanted me to drink deep from life's stream.
I remember dad letting me off near the on-ramp of Highway 400, heading north from Toronto. We were not a hugging family but his smile told me everything I needed to know.
With a few rides under my belt, I was feeling the freedom. Nobody except the driver and me knew where on Earth I was at the moment. So cool. I usually had some good conversations with my benefactors. Working at the Prince of Wales Hotel the previous summer had cured my shyness, I believe. This 21-year-old guy was feeling his oats as he talked to folks far older than him, and with much different life experiences. Plus they seemed to like me.
One evening towards sunset, I was walking on a curvy road in Northern Ontario. I know that walking doesn't make much sense when you're traversing four provinces, but it did ease the problem of "stationary thumb". I was singing "The Long and Winding Road", and not under my breath either. I'm pretty sure that the roadside creatures enjoyed the serenade. I look back at that moment with great fondness.
I got to be quite good at picking a place to pitch my wee tent, usually in a little grove of trees or bushes, with headlights scanning the scene but not finding me. Oh, I loved that feeling! My very own hero, so I fantasized.
I think that my longest wait for a ride was nine hours. Such a humbling experience. I tried to look friendly and "together" to oncoming drivers, without coming across as goofy, but sometimes that just didn't work. I was left with myself, a few snacks, and often aching feet. I liked who I was and it didn't matter if my journey lengthened by a day, or even a few.
Only once on that trip was I scared. Two drunk guys picked me up near Moosomin, Saskatchewan. I didn't think they'd hurt me but the car was all over the road. I wondered if my short and increasingly eventful life was coming to an abrupt halt. Happily, I convinced the bleary fellows that my destination was Regina, about 125 miles down the road. Open door. Walk on.
Somewhere west of Medicine Hat, Alberta, my windshield view began to include little bumps on the horizon. I was so excited. After a winter in Toronto, I was aching for the mountains. And perhaps they were aching for me. My last ride dropped me off in front of the dormitories of the PW, my spiritual home. Journey's end. And a happy young man.


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I got back to WoW after a 6 years break, and even though Im not much familiar with addons anymore (especially Weak Auras) I found a addon that is very nice (with all 3 speccs combined), It's still in beta though and sadly the enhancement build is not added yet (But it will be in the future.)
The addon is called: Sweetsour's Shaman Auras.
As someone like me that is very lost in making my own weak auras I found this add-on extremely nice. It's very clean-looking and customizable for any UI, while still keeping a very good efficiency when it comes to tracking your most important spells. Sure, It's a work in process and there are some slight annyoances and small bugs, even though I havnt experienced anything big yet. I have used it for a couple of days and I truly recommend it!
I already think It's an easy and great thing to set up, and it works really well. Since It's updated frequently and will later add the last specc (enhancement) this is the best and easiest to use when it comes to low knowledge of weak auras, and funtionality for ALL Shamans speccs together.
You should at least check it out and see if you like it 🙂
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Theresa May branded 'embarrassing' by her own MP because she won't support the armed forces
Johnny Mercer confronted the Prime Minister's chief of staff and criticised her record on defence
THERESA MAY has been branded "embarrassing" on defence and the Armed Forces in a brutal attack by one of her own MPs.
The Sun can reveal former squaddie Johnny Mercer ripped into the PM's chief of staff in the Commons – claiming the Government was refusing to back the military.
Sources claimed he hit back at Gavin Barwell after being challenged why he was so critical of the Government's record. And the MP told the aide he had "given up" on Downing Street.
The shouting match is thought to have occurred after Prime Minister's Questions last Wednesday.
A source said: "Johnny lost it. Gavin asked what he was playing at.
"Johnny gave it to him with both barrels, jabbing his finger and saying how the PM and No.10 were embarrassing him and he could no longer defend his own Government when he speaks to people in the military."
Mr Mercer – MP for Plymouth Moor – served as a captain with 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery in Afghanistan.
Last week he accused the PM of "not getting it" over the Government's refusal to offer Army veterans facing prosecution for killings in Northern Ireland an amnesty.
Mr Barwell is believed to have challenged the MP over the comments.
MPs are also furious at Theresa May's repeated failure to commit to the UK remaining a "tier one" military power.
In June, the PM sparked suggestions of spending cuts by only saying she was committed to Britain remaining a "leading military power".
Tory backbenchers are also livid with the appointment of Stuart Andrew as ministerial aide at the Ministry of Defence two months ago. One told The Sun: "He has no experience whatsoever. But he's been put in charge of equipment and defence exports."
Mr Mercer declined to comment last night.
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Bazhai or 8-Mansions Feng Shui is one of the oldest Feng Shui schools in China. It started around the "Spring and Autumn Warring States" period (770 to 221 BC).
The original Bazhai creators probably were the grand-daddy of positive thinking movement. They did not label negative sectors of a house as "inauspicious" but using "little auspicious 小吉", "less auspicious 玄吉" and "least auspicious 幺吉" instead.
When the Japanese ambassador requested China for Feng Shui help in around 7th century (Tang Dynasty), the Chinese emperor had ordered a rewrite of Bazhai to make sure our Japanese friends understand those not so auspicious sectors are actually bad sectors. This gives rise to modern version of Bazhai with the inauspicious sectors clearly labeled as negative– "death 绝命", "six-killing 六煞" and "disaster 祸害".
Basic premise of Bazhai Feng Shui is pretty simple– matching the magnetic profile of a person to the magnetic profile of a house. There are only two magnetic profiles: east-4-group and west-4-group. An individual's magnetic profile or ming-gua is determined by his birth year whereas a house is determined by its facing and sitting direction. Good Feng Shui is when a east-4-group person lives in a east-4-group house, A Feng Shui mismatch occurs when a east-4-group person lives in a west-4-group house.
While determining the magnetic profile or ming-gua of a person is straight-forward, for the house is a big mess or merry-go-round situation, especially with the changing definition of facing in modern architecture.
To do Bazhai Feng Shui, the first step is to determine the "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of a house. Essentially this is similar to determine the sitting and facing in other Feng Shui schools.
Below are different ways of determine the "Fu Wei 伏位" :
- Sitting determines house profile: the opposite side of door-facing direction is the sitting direction. For example, if the door-facing of a house is SE, the sitting will be NW or Qian palace, the house is a Qian house or a west-4-group house. NW or Qian sector is "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of the house. NW is always has the qi of NW. Hence this method is based on magnetic field
- Main door facing determines house profile: For example, if the main door is in SE or Xun palace, the house is a Xun house or a east-4-group house. SE or Xun sector is "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of the house. This method is based on energy or qi-flow. The main "qi-mouth" is in Xun.
- Resident's ming-gua determines house profile: For example, the house resided by a person with Li ming-gua will be a Li or east-4-group house. The south or Li sector will be the "Fu Wei 伏位". This method is based on the theory that Feng Shui will not operate without the resident and should be people-centered.
- The tallest sector of the house determines house profile: For example, if west side of the house is tallest, that sector will be the "Fu Wei 伏位" and he house is a Dui house. This is based on the tallest sector is the most dominant sector.
The methods listed above contain valid arguments. But which one should one use? I think it all depends on individual situation. For example, in a retail business, the main door traffic flow is important, using main door facing is likely more relevant. For residence, main door traffic is not as important as the house magnetic influence. Same arguments are also applicable to other Feng Shui methods like Flying star and the like. Consult your teacher or my "Practical Door Feng Shui" course for more inspirations.
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Single leg strength is an often neglected component in many people's training programs. Single leg exercises can help improve your strength on bilateral movements but also improve your mobility and stability in your ankles, knees, and hips. Most single exercises can be used as a regression or progression for bilateral movements and they can benefit all trainees from novice to advanced.
Here are my top single leg strength exercises…
The Lateral Lunge
The lateral lunge is definitely a forgotten and neglected movement pattern for many people. It provides extra benefit by strengthening the quads and glutei while working in the frontal plane of motion (lateral -> side to side movement) which most people are lacking in their movement diet.
The lateral lunge should be performed by starting with the feet together, from the starting position step on leg out as wide as you while bending the knee, keeping your chest up, and pushing your hips back. Be sure to keep your non-moving leg straight as you step out (you don't want your knee to bend.) From here, press your foot on the working leg into the ground and extend the knee and hip so you can step back in to the starting position. Complete 10-15 reps on one leg, and then do the other leg.
The Split Squat
The split squat is one of my "GO TO" exercises for novice trainees, especially those that struggle with the traditional squat. It can help to ingrain proper movement patterning for bilateral movements and it provides a great stretch through hip for those that are overly tight.
To do the split squat, get into a long and wide stance. Think of your stance as wanting to be standing on train tracks versus standing on a tight rope. From here, while keeping the torso upright, push the knee forward and down as far as you can on the front leg while bending the rear leg to accommodate this movement. Do not rest or kneel on the floor at the bottom position, from the bottom press your toes and heels from the front leg into the ground as hard as you can and return to the starting position. Perform 8-12 repetitions of this exercises. Start by doing the movement unloaded and then progressing to loading it with cables, dumbbells, and barbells over time.
The Reverse Lunge
The reverse lunge is one of my favourite exercises for developing the glutes, it is even more beneficial if you perform it with a deficit starting position. To perform the reverse lunge, start by standing with your feet together. From the starting position, step one foot back while bending the front knee. Lower yourself so you stop just shy of the floor. Exhale and return to the starting position. You can feel free to alternate your legs, or perform as all the reps on one leg and then on the other for each set. Perform the reverse lunge for 8-12 reps per leg. Add additional loads as you see fit – but don't be too eager to make this exercise too heavy.
The Cossack Squat
The Cossack squat is one of my favourite movements for developing hip mobility and stability. It does require a good foundation of mobility in order to perform with a full range of motion, but partial ranges can be beneficial as well. I usually do not recommend performing Cossack squats with external load, but you can use your discretion when deciding if you like to add additional weight.
Set up for the Cossack squat by getting into a very stance with the knees extending and toes turned out. Lower yourself down into a squat position on one side making sure to keeping the knee inline with your middle toe. Once you've hit your bottom depth, your torso should be relatively upright. Press the foot of the bent knee into the ground while also using the stretched/straight leg to pull yourself back to your starting position. Alternate legs on each repetition. Perform for 8-12 reps or as you see fit.
By placing the arms in front of you while doing the Cossack squat you create a counter balance, which can be helpful in regard to staying more upright during the movement.
Now that you have at least four exercise to add into your single leg strength work, you're well on your way to getting stronger and having more stable ankles, knees, and hips. They key is to use them at the right time for the right purpose 🙂
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This past week I had a chance to share in our weekly staff meeting. I'd been trying to find the words for this season for a long time, and yet I'm still sharing from a place of being in the middle of learning to walk this out, not having mastered it. Below is the text version that is the same-ish as my talk.
This past year I've been wrestling with some of those real life seasons I call 'stormy seasons'. You know the stormy seasons too don't you? They're the dry seasons when you're thirsty for a resolution. The seasons when you no longer know how to put your thirst aside. You used to be able to hide it, but it's spilling over into one big mess that spells out "why God?" And you try to bring that thirst for answers to God, but you're so darn thirsty the words just won't come out. And in the thickness of your silence is a raw, dry, mixture of grief, and anger, and loneliness and desire to trust. And that desire to trust is real but it's partnered with a feeling of hopelessness that makes you even doubt that you want to trust.
Maybe you have a few choice words for these stormy seasons. Maybe you're in a storm, or you know them well. I don't have all the answers; I have a cutesy acronym and a story of God in one of my stormy seasons. And I'll offer it, and hope you'll find something in it wherever you are.
My storm started in January 2017. I started getting sick, and getting sick a lot. I had the flu, and then maybe mono, no it definitely wasn't mono, it was a second flu, or maybe it was another virus but we can't really be sure… just go home and rest Brittany, kind of sick. And I never really recovered but life was busy, and I was working hard and enjoying life outside of work, and I was doing all the self care like taking naps and eating kale salads and going to the gym and all I needed was a few days off when things calmed down a bit and I would feel better. And things calmed down a bit, and I took some time off, and I didn't feel better. Honestly? I felt worse. I was going home after work and go straight to bed, and then I was only working half days, and I did all the things my doctor told me to do but I was still not feeling better.
And I went to see the doctor again and she said "I don't know what to do." Those are not the words you ever want to hear come out of a doctor's mouth. Doctors are the experts, the advice givers, they're not supposed to be the honest ones that say "I've tested you for everything and it's come back with nothing, and I need you to come see me again in a couple days after I've had time to think."
I went home and I had it out with God. Oh I really had it out. See, God had just told me I was entering a season of a trust but a season in which he wanted me to start to dream bigger, because he was going to do more than I could ask or imagine. And I wanted to trust him but didn't he know this wasn't how he was supposed to build my trust? You've been there haven't you. That place where you say "Okay God, isn't there another way to your promise?!" And God said there wasn't.
Then he said, "I'm going to reveal to the doctors what I want to reveal when I want to reveal it. And Brittany, this is going to be a season of joy." It didn't feel like a season of joy. It felt a little more like devastation.
I went back to the doctor and she said "I'm diagnosing you with chronic fatigue syndrome." And I already knew what that meant. That meant a mystery disease that they didn't know how to treat cause they don't know what causes it. It meant a 5% cure rate, and only a 15% chance that I would ever go back to full time work. It meant it's the diagnosis you don't want because when they diagnose you with it, they tell you the only real chance of a cure is that you've been misdiagnosed. (Note: if you have chronic fatigue I do not believe ME/CFS is as hopeless as I felt it was then. And let's chat!)
And I was thinking about all of this when my doctor looked at me and said, "effective today you're not allowed to go back to work. And the only thing I'm prescribing you is this: joy. You're only allowed to do things that will bring you joy." It's something else to hear your doctor quote God's word about joy back at you.
And I will stop here for a moment. I promise, if you're interested in the human brain and science there's an entirely fascinating story behind my chronic fatigue diagnosis that a truly amazing team of medical providers uncovered and I would love to share it with you but it's a tangent, so it'll come in another blog post.
Over the next months I did weekly IV treatments, and took 20 pills a day, and slept and rested…. and found joy. And in that God did something incredible. Y'all my natural posture is one of striving, I'm not inclined to a posture of surrender , and trust, and doing nothing. Somewhere in the wrestling, and the crying out, and the fear, God gave me the gift of peace and joy, and that allowed me to be at rest in the midst of the storm that surrounded me. Spiritually I was at peace, even though circumstances should have dictated otherwise. And that was a gift. It wasn't something I was capable of creating for myself.
This past January I saw a series of specialists, each of whom declared me healed of chronic fatigue. "What's fascinating," they said "is you're even healthier than you were before this whole chronic fatigue thing happened." And the doctors might call it fascinating, but I call it God's goodness in doing more than we can ask or imagine.
And here's where I know, that if you're in the middle of the storm, I've lost you for a moment. I've lost you because there's a gap between where we are in the storm, and the promise we long for. And when I share a story from the other side I can wrap up my resolution in a tidy little bow and present it to you like it's simple. I know that it's not. I know that promises feel like celebration but the middle of the storm feels like unshakable longing. And the neat little bows of someone else's promise don't do our grief justice, they only hint at the promise we're still believing for. I know this because I'm in the middle of a different storm, and finding myself struggling to carry forward even my own hope.
So maybe it's important for us to share stories from the other side of our promise. But maybe when we're in the storm that what our hearts really need is a little Spiritual CPR. Spiritual CPR is what I've been learning (not mastering) this past year. And it's a process of engaging: courage, perspective and rest.
Ann Voskamp published an article recently titled "what to do when you're caught between God and a hard place." And she writes about the "everyday places that feel like God forsaken places" or what i call the stormy seasons, suggesting that the weariness of these spaces makes us feel like we no longer want to be courageous, like we just want to stop feeling brave. And in reading that I thought, "yes, yes, yes" some days I just want to stop feeling brave. Somedays I don't have an ounce of courage left in me.
And then she writes "Do you dare believe that the place you're' in is a place where God's moved in? You never have to be brave alone. Because the truth is: find a place that you don't need to be brave and you've found a place that doesn't need God." Find a place that you don't need to be brave and you've found a place that doesn't need God.
Maybe the only courage we have is to invite God in.
And maybe we find the boldness to give God our honest prayers and those honest prayers don't sound like the kind we'd pray aloud in a church, but maybe it's courageous to invite God into all of it."
And maybe we find the boldness to give God our honest prayers and those honest prayers don't sound like the kind we'd pray aloud in a church, but maybe it's courageous to invite God into all of it with us: to tell him that we're angry, or sad, or doubting, yet longing to have hope.
Maybe courage is just the act of inviting God in, and finding out we're not alone because he's been there and our inviting him in just allows us to sit with him in it.
And that courageous invitation allows us to engage the second part of spiritual CPR: perspective.
The first story that comes to mind about perspective and storms for me, may be the one that comes to mind for you: the story of Jesus walking on water, and Peter courageously stepping out to him. Peter walks towards Jesus until he notices the wind and the waves, and then he begins to sink. And the moral of the story as we've always been told is "keep your eyes on Jesus!"
And maybe in our storm the concept of keeping our eyes on Jesus is just that: it's a perfect concept. We can grasp it intellectually but the practice of it is too much to bear. We can't help but notice the wind and the waves and keeping our eyes on Jesus feels like nothing but striving. What do we do when we find ourselves more like Peter than we want to be?
Maybe in those moments we've missed an invitation. I don't think it's always about us trying harder to keep our eyes on him, because it's not always about how hard we try. Maybe there are storms in which the only thing we can do is ask God to direct our vision.
I've been reading a lot in the book of Luke recently, and it's interesting that Luke never writes about the storm when Jesus & Peter are on the water, but Luke does write about storms. He writes about a physical storm and a spiritual storm (a concept I heard the musician Sean Feucht talk about recently).
In Luke 8 we find the disciples in another boat, in the midst of another storm, and Jesus is fast asleep. Luke 8 shows us a physical storm: wind & waves, anxious disciples, and a sleeping Jesus. And the disciples wake Jesus, and he calms the storm and says "do you not trust me?" In the midst of the physical storm: Jesus is asleep, the disciples are awake.
In Luke 22 we find the spiritual storm: Jesus praying in the garden in the hours before his crucifixion, and the disciples are fast asleep. Jesus had asked the disciples to stay awake and pray, and as Jesus is crying out to the Father and his pray sounds a little like that prayer I just talked about. The "God isn't there another way to your promise?!" Kind of prayer. Yet Jesus also says, "Father your will not mine." This is a storm, a spiritual storm, and Jesus is very much awake to it, but the disciples are asleep to it.
Too often we're like the disciples: awake to what Jesus is asleep to, and asleep to what he's awake to. Maybe instead of asking God to calm our storm we can ask for perceptive: that He would make us awake to the things he's awake to, and asleep to the things he's asleep to."
Too often we're like the disciples: awake to what Jesus is asleep to, and asleep to what he's awake to. Maybe instead of asking God to calm our storm we can ask for perceptive: that He would make us awake to the things he's awake to, and asleep to the things he's asleep to. Instead of criticizing ourselves for our failure to keep our eyes on him in the midst of the wind and waves, maybe we can invite him to give us his perspective in the storm.
I don't think we can give ourselves this perspective. Fear will always draw our eyes to the wind & the waves, but when we courageously invite God into the storm with us, he can give us the gift of seeing what he wants us to see in it.
Perspective isn't the same as the answer to our question of why. Maybe sometimes we get the answer to why, and maybe sometimes He just has to give us the gift of seeing things differently so we're capable of moving past the question of why. While I'm keenly aware we serve a God that answers promises, I also recognize he doesn't often choose to answer promises in ways that align with our human understanding or show us the answer to our question of "why" in the way we expect. This is the reason perspective is so important. Without perspective we're stuck in that place that says "you have to tell me why," but perspective is allows for movement. Peter was able to walk on water when his perspective was Jesus, and I think when God adjusts our perspective to being awake to what he wants us awake to, and asleep to what he wants us asleep to, he allows us to move past 'why' into the spaces he is calling us into, even as the storm rages.
The space that we can move into when we courageously invite God into the storm, and he gifts us his perspective, that space is what I call rest. And if nothing else, true rest is simply togetherness with God.
Courage allows for perspective and perspective allows for rest. And rest is what we need in the midst of a storm we can't calm on our own. God is in our storms, but the process of engaging courage, perspective and rest, allow us to move into the spaces in the storm where we can find togetherness with him.
In my year of learning about spiritual CPR I've been learning I spend a lot more time coming back to courage and perspective, than I spend in this space of rest. It's easy to let my eyes shift away from the perspective God has given me, and to wrestle myself out of God's presence in the storm. But as I practice spiritual CPR I find the rhythms easier to return to, like well-worn pathways that lead me back to 'withness' with Him.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be part of a process of restoring life but it's rarely successful on its own; it needs an outside source. When we engage in this process of spiritual CPR we create a space in which we invite God to be our source."
Here's the thing with the real CPR – cardiopulmonary resuscitation. When I read about it I found that "CPR may succeed in inducing a heart rhythm that may be shockable." In other words, CPR may allow for defibrillation that will result in the return of circulation to the body. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be part of a process of restoring life but it's rarely successful on its own; it needs an outside source.
When we engage in this process of spiritual CPR we create a space in which we invite God to be our source. We invite God to inject life back into us in the midst of the storm. We allow God to be our cool drink in that dryness of waiting. We find peace and joy and fullness that allow us to sit in the storm with him, but not be consumed by it, because we are reminded that he is our hope.
One final thought: when I conducted a very scientific Wikipedia search about CPR, I came across something called the Lazarus phenomenon. In layman's terms, it's the phenomenon that is observed when cardiopulmonary resuscitation has failed and someone is dead, but then spontaneously comes back to life. It's an aptly named phenomenon, and one that I believe brings the final bit of hope to these stormy seasons. As much as I can talk about how we should posture ourselves with spiritual CPR to face our stormy seasons, we also serve a God brings about miracles even when all hope seems lost. Even when we've failed at spiritual CPR we serve a God that can and does inject life into the stormy season: spontaneously responding with more than we could ask or imagine.
May we start with courage,


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In Vino Duplicitas
The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire
- 2017 INDIES Winner
- Gold, True Crime (Adult Nonfiction)
Wine aficionados and teetotalers alike would savor the well-reported true crime tale where FBI stands for Fake Bottle Investigators.
Peter Hellman's In Vino Duplicitas is a heady, intoxicating book that shines a light on the esoteric and intriguing world of ultrarare, ultrafine wines that can cost more per bottle than a car or even a house.
This is the tale of Rudy Kurniawan, an ambitious young Indonesian immigrant whose claim to have "arguably the greatest cellar on earth" falls flatter than a flute of two-day-old champagne. Kurniawan, known as Dr. Conti for his fondness for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, was infamously convicted of selling fake high-end wines at auctions where he made millions. The book charts his rise and fall, and how he was able to dupe sophisticated wine connoisseurs, including billionaires with MIT educations.
The book demonstrates a deep, wide-ranging knowledge of wine and wine culture, going behind the scenes of elite wineries, top vineyards, high-roller auctions, and unconventional drinking clubs like the Twelve Angry Men, where members "had pockets deep enough to pay for crazily expensive wine and physical constitutions strong enough to drink a lot of it."
Deep, thorough reportage fleshes out key players, like Bill Koch, who waged a war against forged wines after he was tricked into splurging on them. Court transcripts and television interviews are expertly used to paint a portrait of a man who spent millions on "drinking wines" to enjoy with superlative food, friends, and art, but was so paranoid about authenticity that he brought them to châteaus to check them out and enlisted an army of experts for vetting. The description of a "scorched-earth, costs-be-damned crusade" feels free from hyperbole.
The title gives away the outcome, but the book still reads like a mix between a crime thriller and a fascinating magazine feature that elucidates a particular subculture. In Vino Duplicitas maintains suspense over how long the con will go on, and when it will finally come crashing down.
In Vino Duplicitas is an engaging journalistic feat that can be enjoyed with some of the world's finest vino, Two-Buck Chuck, or while perfectly sober.
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Joseph S. Pete
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Galerie Crone Vienna is pleased to present the first Austrian solo exhibition by the American artist Peter Miller. On the occasion of Vienna Art Week 2015 and after important staging posts like a group exhibition in 2013 at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, a solo screening in 2014 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and a screening in 2015 as part of the exhibition "Screening the Speculative" at the New Museum, New York, we are delighted to show new work of Millers' conceptual photography under the title "Actinism".
Miller is a photographer, and yet he is not. Rather, he deals with photochemical processes, experimental use of light sources and not least the mechanisms in developing photo prints. Who draws the conclusion that Miller creates his work mainly in the darkroom and limits its development process to the photo lab, is mistaken. On the contrary he brings his environment to the laboratory and the laboratory is being expanded into the outer space.
The exhibition's title refers to the scientific term actinism, the photochemical effect of radiation of different wavelengths. Actinic are the rays that can cause sunburn or allow the growth of plants through photosynthesis. In photochemistry photosensitive materials are generally referred to as actinic chemicals. The red light in the photo lab, however, is not actinic.
In his new work "Sunburns (fade)" of 2015, Miller deals with the phenomenon of the photogramn, known especially through Man Ray. It is produced by placing more or less transparent objects between light-sensitive photographic paper and a light source for exposure. Miller's work examines the transparency and strength of the material: by holding a magnifying glass over photosensitive paper into the sunshine he burns a hole in the center of the stack. Developed in the laboratory the work shows a fascinating order, in which the blacks are fading more and more, whereas the first large burn hole developes into a burn mark which then completely disappears. It is a self-referential ad-absurdum-utilization of the photogram.
In turn the work "Kronleuchter" is Miller's homage to László Moholy-Nagy, who initially was a teaching assistant to Walter Gropius at the Weimar Bauhaus. With his luminograms the Hungarian created stunning testimonies of a special photo experiment that is closely related to the photogram. In contrast to the photogram, in which the object appears as a lighter footprint, in the luminogram it is the light, which is emerging as the bright part on the paper. "Kronleuchter" combines the unroll technique which is inherent to the architectural practice with the luminogram: Miller wraps a photo paper into a cylindrical shape around a chandelier, turns the light on for a millisecond, thus exposing the paper. The light of the chandelier looms in all spectral colors, filtered through the dangling glass parts.


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2018 Kerala floods signalled ecological devastation of Western Ghats: BookPTI | New Delhi | Updated: 11-08-2019 11:49 IST | Created: 11-08-2019 11:44 IST
The floods that devastated large parts of Kerala in 2018 were not an isolated, freak phenomenon; rather they signaled something graver - the ecological devastation of the Western Ghats says a new book. Made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012, the Ghats have become increasingly vulnerable to serious ecological damage, threatening the sustenance of their people.
The 2018 floods were a wake-up call for the region spanning 1,600 km and six states - Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, and Gujarat - that form an ecosystem older than the Himalayas. "In Flood and Fury: Ecological Devastation In The Western Ghats", Viju B looks into the crisis in the Western Ghats while documenting the devastating large-scale mining, quarrying, deforestation, and mismanagement of water resources, as also mapping its culture, history and ecology.
In the last six decades, the forest cover in the Western Ghats has been severely degraded due to human activity and rapid urbanization - an appalling 35 percent of the original forests in Western Ghats region have been destroyed, the author says. He says that there is an urgent need to ban mining and impose restrictions on construction activities in the fragile ecological regions of the Western Ghats.
According to Viju, the Kerala floods changed everything. "For the first time, the tribals in the Vazhachal forest, the coffee planters in Idukki, the farmers in Kuttanad, the rich businessmen who lived in palatial bungalows in cities and the NRIs who invested in resorts and plush houseboats on the Pamba river and Vembanad lake were united in tragedy," he says.
"But this unity was short-lived, arising more out of a survival impulse. When planners begin to talk about imposing regulations and zoning laws, it is met with immediate protests," he writes in the book, published by Penguin Random House India. The need of the hour, the author says, is to hear the voices of the marginalised tribal communities, who are the first humans in the line of climatic and environmental impact and are struggling to come to terms with the changing topography and climatic conditions of the Western Ghats, caused by both natural and man-made interventions.
"Their understanding of the ecology seems to come from their deep-rooted wisdom of living with nature for centuries. In their dogmas and myths, there is always respect and admiration for nature, which was seen as 'backward' in the march of economic progress and prosperity," the book says. "Their developmental model of minimal manipulation of the natural landscape and of sustainable living is especially relevant in the era of climate change. These communities valued the eco-services provided by rivers and forests precisely because their own lives depended directly on the existence of these ecosystems," it says.
Viju suggests that the first step towards conservation of the Western Ghats would be empathizing with the concerns and aspirations of communities inhabiting them, and understanding their centuries-old subcultures that are rooted in the mountains. "Planners, bureaucrats and judicial entities failed to take into account the community rights of traditional communities living here while making rules and regulations and implementing orders," he says.
"The only way to protect the Sahyadri ranges is through understanding and enabling the sustenance of microcultures of that particular region, rather than simply imposing rules and regulations on them," he adds.
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This past Tuesday (March 20), music mogul Jay-Z spent the first day of spring walking in his neighborhood. A casual dressed Jigga was spotted walking in the Tribeca section of Manhattan. He was wearing a blue button down shirt, jeans and a pair of Timberland boots. I respect and idolized Jigga. He went from the streets to the boardroom. In my opinion, Jigga epitomize the meaning of a hard-working dedicated Black male from the projects. Success, wealth, education, and power, Jigga represents all of that. Peep the pictures below:
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Blystone v. Pennsylvania
RESPONDENT: Pennsylvania
LOCATION: Michigan State Police Department
DECIDED BY: Rehnquist Court (1988-1990)
LOWER COURT: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ARGUED: Oct 10, 1989
DECIDED: Feb 28, 1990
Ernest D. Preate, Jr. - on behalf of the Respondent
Paul R. Gettleman - on behalf of the Petitioner
Facts of the case
Media for Blystone v. PennsylvaniaAudio Transcription for Oral Argument - October 10, 1989 in Blystone v. Pennsylvania
Audio Transcription for Opinion Announcement - February 28, 1990 in Blystone v. Pennsylvania
William H. Rehnquist:
And the second case is Blystone against Pennsylvania, and the petitioner in this case was convicted of robbery and first degree murder by a Pennsylvania jury and sentenced to death.
The Pennsylvania death penalty statute provides that in such cases a sentence of death must be imposed if a jury unanimously finds at least one aggravating circumstance and no mitigating circumstances.
The jury in this case found one aggravating factor, that the killing was committed during the course of a felony, but found no mitigating factors.
It accordingly sentenced the petitioner to death.
On appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, this conviction and sentence was upheld.
We granted certiorari.
In an opinion filed with the Clerk today, we hold that the Pennsylvania death penalty statute in petitioner's sentence under it is consistent with our decisions in interpreting the Eight Amendment of the United States Constitution.
We have previously decided that state laws which impose the death penalty solely because of a particular crime committed, for example, murder committed by an inmate serving a life sentence are invalid because they do not allow for any consideration of the particular circumstances of the offense or of the defendant.
Petitioner claims that the Pennsylvania statute is similarly mandatory in character because if the jury finds aggravating circumstances but no mitigating circumstances, it must impose the death penalty.
We reject this contention.
Pennsylvania allows the jury to consider both aggravating circumstances and mitigating circumstances regarding the nature of the offense in the character of the defendant.
The Eight Amendment imposes no further requirement that the jury be left totally free to find in favor of a life sentence even though it found aggravating circumstances but no mitigating ones.
So, we affirm the judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Justice Brennan has filed a dissenting opinion in which Justice Marshall has joined and in which Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens have joined except for part 4.


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It's believed that the first toilets for human waste were created in an ancient settlement in Scotland dating back to 3000 B.C. That's over 5000 years ago! Sadly enough, today approximately 2.4 billion people, or roughly one-third of the world's population still lack access to proper toilets. People poop on the side of the road, in bushes or rubbish heaps. Most times this is not by choice.
Open defecation effects human health and ultimately the environment. The use of "night soil" on cropland is ancient, but methods have changed through the centuries and now this creates potential disease. Without toilets, deadly diseases can spread rapidly. Over 750 children under the age of five die every day from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water, sanitation, and poor hygiene (Unicef). And too much poop in the environment causes an overload of toxins and bacteria into the ecosystem.
The effects on women and girls are extremely worrisome. Globally, 1 in 3 schools do not have adequate toilets, and 23% of schools have no toilets at all. Schools without toilets can cause girls to miss out on their education. Without proper sanitation facilities, many girls are forced to miss school when they're menstruating. This consequently affects their employment chances as they grow up.
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Bayelsa Governor Seriake Dickson has sent jitters into the camps of other aspirants outside his Restoration Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following moves to keep close watch on party's delegates loyal to him.
Investigations at the weekend revealed that Dickson has tightened all loose ends to ensure that delegates within his sphere of influence remained committed to their promises of casting their votes for his caucus' preferred aspirant at the September 3 governorship primary election.
The strategies rolled out by the governor were said to be causing panic in the camp of a major contender for the ticket and other aspirants, who were making frantic efforts to poach most of the delegates known to be loyal to the governor.
To strengthen his grip, Dickson, who controls majority of the delegates, at the weekend, reportedly dazzled his opponents with the appointment of 148-member committee, which he named the Restoration Governorship Primary Election Committee.
A peep into the list of the committee signed by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, showed that members were selected to cover all the wards, constituencies, local government areas in the state.
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The committee, it was gathered, was set up by the governor, to keep delegates busy and prevent a major contender for the ticket and other aspirants from infiltrating his camp.
The committee comprised six central campaign deputy directors-general, 43 campaign mobilisation and contact committee members headed by the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Tonye Isenah; campaign secretaries, security and media committee and seven members each to represent the eight local government areas.
It was also observed that each state constituency had coordinators to oversee the activities of the restoration caucus members within the constituency.
The statement said the committee would be inaugurated by Dickson on August 19 at the executive council chambers.
The statement said further appointments would be made to cover Ward coordinators, advisory teams, women and mobilisation team.


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Turkey's Cavusoglu denies taking money from disgraced US lobbyist
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has denied that he received payments from a controversial American political operative to lobby European politicians in an effort to improve Ukraine's image in 2012 and 2013.
The allegation was first reported by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) this week, based on leaked emails belonging to lobbyist Paul Manafort who served as US President Donald Trump's campaign chairman in 2016.
Manafort is now serving a prison sentence for tax and bank fraud charges, which were filed as part of an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential elections.
Manafort, according to OCCRP, wanted to run a campaign to convince European politicians that Ukraine's jailing of a prominent opposition leader shouldn't block Kiev from signing an association agreement with the European Union.
As part of the strategy, Cavusoglu, former chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and a Turkish parliamentarian, was allegedly hired to lobby the diplomatic circles, charges Cavusoglu denied on Thursday.
"The allegations reported by OCCRP aren't aligned with the reality. Thank God, I have never been in any position in my political career that I cannot account for," Cavusoglu said in a written statement to Turkish media.
The foreign minister sought to downplay OCCRP's credibility, highlighting that it receives funding from the famed hedge fund investor and philanthropist George Soros, whom the Turkish president has accused of stirring up activism.
"I first heard Paul Manafort's name when he had been sentenced in the US," he added.
Cavusoglu's statements came as Turkey's main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu from the Republican People's Party (CHP) and his associates piled on criticism of the foreign minister over the allegations.
Earlier in the week, the CHP's parliamentary whip Ozgur Ozel told reporters that Cavusoglu should make an immediate public statement.
"Startling allegations. His silence is troubling. Every minute passing by is strengthening the allegations. Their silence is harming the reputation of the country," he said on Wednesday.
According to OCCRP's report, Serhiy Lovochkin, a Ukrainian member of parliament and head of the country's largest opposition party, funded Manafort's campaign. Lovochkin, between 2010 and 2013, was chief of staff to then-president Viktor Yanukovych, who was overthrown by mass protests.
The report alleges that Cavusoglu was scheduled to receive €230,000 for his work which included "secretly lobbying" while observing Ukraine's 2012 parliamentary elections as a PACE mission member.
"Cavusoglu publicly advocated for the association agreement, while urging politicians not to criticise Ukraine's government over the [Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia] Tymoshenko case. He also gave positive reviews of the elections to media, contrary to assessments by international observation groups - including his own - that noted serious irregularities," the report says.
Cavusoglu acknowledged in his statement that he had established a good friendship with Lovochkin and his brother. "I joined in about 30 election observation missions. The assessments took place in the joint report," he said.
Cavusoglu also said, as he had in the past, he would continue to support the integration of Ukraine and Eastern European countries into institutions like Nato and the European Council.