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As I was getting ready to leave home after Thanksgiving, almost two years ago, my mom said she had something to show me. She pulled out a big black photo album from under our coffee table, casually laid it out in front of me, and blindsided me with the most meaningful, wonderful project I have ever undertaken.This is my great-grandfather Walter Koessler's photo album from when he was an officer throughout all four years of World War One.
... My family has also saved a box of about a hundred more stereographs that show WWI in 3D. I've since found that my grandma saved hundreds of the original negatives from both the album and the stereographs, and they're practically pristine. It's a formidable, and frankly somewhat intimidating collection. Nearly a hundred years later, it seems almost impossible that these things have been kept in such great condition, and I'm so grateful my family has let me take charge of it.
Finally, I think I'm prepared to start the process of scanning and sharing them here. I hope you'll find it as fascinating as I do.Just as noteworthy: great-granddad Walter was a German officer, so we get a rare personal glimpse at the other side in its daily life. Do take a look for yourself at http://wwiphotos.tumblr.com/


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In running a business, it is important that you should keep a record of all your transactions for efficient operations and survival. Whether you keep your books on paper, through software or you hire an accountant, it is important that the system is efficient so that it is easily accessible when needed. Without proper bookkeeping practices, your business is highly susceptible to legal problems and cash flow issues.
Bookkeeping is done to track your business and for smooth tax filing when necessary. Your business books are crucial ingredients to your business because without it, your numbers will get tangled in messy sheets. Therefore, as a standard practice, here are information that should always be kept in your books.
Revenues and Expenses
This is the most basic information in your book. You can place it in a journal or a ledger that record credit and debit transactions.
Revenues refer to money that you will receive from customers thus you must have an Accounts Receivable column in your book. Keeping it up to date is important so that you can accurately send timely and accurate bills or invoices.
It is also important that you record the money that your company spends to have data for annual inventory. Reimbursable checks or having a petty cash record are both valid ways of documenting cash expenditures.
It is important that any business, especially SMEs, should keep a record of all inventories to prevent merchandise misplacement and stealing. Keep your inventory holdings to a minimum to track your sales and trends. Your inventory page should have the following data: dates purchased, stock numbers, purchase prices, dates sold and sale prices. The numbers in your inventory should be periodically tested by doing physical counts of the products.
Accounts Payable
This section in your book keeps track of the money that you owe your suppliers as well as the money that your customers owe you. As a business, you should have data that includes invoice dates, numbers, amounts, terms, dates and amount paid and/or due, client information and balances. A good bookkeeping practice, particularly Accounts Payable, makes payments easier.
Payroll Expenses
This part of your book should be always up-to-date and accurate because it will prove to be useful during tax filing season as well as government reporting requirements. Ignoring these responsibilities will have negative repercussions in the future.
This is where you track any materials—raw or otherwise—that you purchase for your business. This is an important variable when calculating for your company's profits.
In the end, every business has their own way of bookkeeping—just as long as it works for them, it should be implemented appropriately. However, if you are a business owner who's not confident about your bookkeeping skills, you can always hire a professional accountant to do it for you. This way, your data is more concise, accurate and manageable.
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Yoda wrote:schmidty wrote:Well, I live in Milwaukee, and Yost didn't sound too concerned in the post-game interview, telling everyone to calm down and that it was just a cramp. Of course that doesn't mean anything until more tests
I think middle rounds for Sheets (10th at the earliest) sounds about right, still. Somebody'll probably reach for earlier than that, but if he dropped to me I'd still take him. He's still a completely different beast than Harden, who I won't touch unless it's as a last round flyer.
I think these injuries have a lot to do with make up as well. It seems to me that the organization is babying him and allowing him to take time off for every little thing wrong with his body. I am really unsure what happened to him since his break out year but mentally and physically he cannot hold up for an entire season.
Well, I don't know if the organization is necessarily babying him. He's been on the DL for a torn finger ligament (this year) and a torn back muscle (parts of the previous 2 years). Pulling him for cramps last night might appear to be babying, but from a manager's perspective, if he's going to be less effective b/c it hurts to push off and get his legs behind him, I wouldn't want him pitching. It's a pennant race and we have other options. It sounds as if he shouldn't miss a start, but we'll see I guess. In theory, he could get 2 more starts in, and that would give him 26 on the year. Do I wish he had more, yes, but 26 is still okay. Basically, to draft him, you have to say "would I be okay with him giving me 25-28 great starts and missing some time". I'd still draft him, but I'd temper my expectations.


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Senior Youth (Ninth -Twelfth Grade)
Senior Youth Group (SYG) is our youth empowerment, leadership skill building, open and safe space for older youth to connect with each other, the congregation, and our larger communities. Logistical support and program coordination is provided by our Youth Coordinator, Katie Byron, and a team of volunteer adult advisors.
SYG is structured with weekly meetings on Sundays from 5-7pm and is open to all 9th-12th grade youth including friends and youth outside of the church congregation. Regular meetings are a time and space during the week set aside to bond with peers, share joys and concerns, play games, and plan events and projects. Activities and program elements are selected by youth and have traditionally focused on service projects, social justice, fun and fellowship.
Youth CONventions
Senior youth in grades 9-12 are eligible to participate in local Youth Conventions, known as CONs. These are regional get togethers of UU youth from surrounding congregations and are weekend overnight events at a hosting church.
Youth Service Trip
Every three years Senior Youth select a project for a group Youth Service Trip, generally choosing an organization providing support to an underserved population either in the United States or abroad. Past projects have included trips to urban and rural Nicaragua.
Coming of Age (Grades 8-9)
The second year of our core youth programs, Coming of Age offers youth the opportunity to dig deep into their own personal belief system with the support of peers and adult mentors. Coming of Age will be offered in 2019-2020.
Volunteering in Religious Education
High school youth are encouraged to take the next step in their religious education journey by volunteering to teach the children of their congregation. Youth currently make up 25% of our corps of religious education teachers. .
Membership in the Unitarian Church of Sharon
Becoming a member of the church is one way youth can express and explore their connection with the congregation. Youth ages 14 or older are eligible to become members of the church. There is no fee. To find out more about membership, please contact the co-chairs of the Membership Committee, Jean Zaniewski and Terry Fitzgerald. Read more here, or check in with Katie Byron or Louise Marcoux.


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"Kill her, take her money and with the help of it devote oneself to the service of humanity and the good of all. Would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? One death, and a hundred lives in exchange." (Dostoevsky, 69)
At precisely the right moment, Raskolnikov stumbles into a 'miserable little tavern' and overhears these eerily fateful words between a student and an officer. The student goes on to argue that it is the role of a select few – extraordinary persons – to 'correct and direct nature' in instances where it would benefit the whole; yet when friend challenges him, he quickly and feebly remarks that he is only 'arguing for justice' and could never commit such a base act – thus demoting himself to the grade of inferior, ordinary folk. Indirectly, however, the student has unknowingly incited the act that he supports only in theory, by nurturing and vindicating the very same idea that had been growing within the eavesdropping Raskolnikov. Indeed, the fated timing of this encounter further convinces Raskolnikov that it is a 'guiding hint' of an 'inescapable pre-ordainment,' which compounds his budding belief that he is of the extraordinary few that are permitted to breach moral codes in certain, extreme...
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3. After the system retrieves new messages and then states, "Now what," either say "Change Password" or enter 31 on the keypad.
4. Follow the prompts. Your new password may be between 2 and 6 digits.
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1. Once logged into voicemail (by pressing the Messages button and entering your password), either say "Change Greeting" or enter 32 on the keypad.
2. The system will play your current greeting and then ask if you want to change it. Say "Yes" or press 1. (Or say "No" or press 2 if you don't want to change it.)
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Robots in the AuRoRA project
The robots can be used to teach the children basic social interaction skills using turn-taking, imitation games, collaborative skills, emotional expressions and others. The use of robots as mediators, as objects of shared attention can further encourage interaction with peers and adults. The robots that have been used in the project are as follows:


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Throughout the 2015-16 academic year, the Georgetown community saw a range of issues sparking activism and dialogue across campus. From continuing efforts to memorialize the university's history with slavery to improving programs dedicated to addressing mental health issues, our community's progress this past year found its stride in certain areas while stumbling in others. As this editorial board reflects on the past and looks to the future, we seek to understand the key issues that still require the entire community's undivided attention and commitment to action.
Champion Student Health
Building on advocacy efforts in previous years, addressing health and wellness issues became an increasingly urgent concern for the community. Initiatives such as the peer-to-peer counseling service Project Lighthouse and the extension of free, semester-long Counseling and Psychiatric Services to survivors of sexual assault and alleged perpetrators were all welcome steps in the right direction — toward an environment in which Georgetown students receive adequate institutional support and care for issues related to their mental health. What is more, the introduction of these developments were all collaborative efforts by the Georgetown University Student Association, student activists and the administration.
While such initiatives exemplify the ways our community can work together to achieve meaningful progress, we cannot now rest on our laurels. In time, Project Lighthouse is going to need a greater amount of funding and support from the administration in order to achieve its full potential and serve students 24 hours a day. Additionally, the university must meet the long-term goal of GUSA, which is to acquire office space for this program. This office space would demonstrate the structural support that the university would be willing to provide to this online, peer-to-peer service. It is important to have this space because support from the university can only ensure greater efficacy for student efforts to help classmates. Student movements are great, but programs carried out with the full force of the university behind them will always have the potential for greater results.
At the same time, while making a semester of CAPS free for survivors is positive, more students would benefit if the free services were extended past one semester. Instead of allocating capital for projects that do not directly benefit the majority of the community — such as building a new athletic center — the university should direct renewed fundraising efforts to create a CAPS program that gives students greater access to support for as long as they need these services.
Campus Plan and Living Space
Perhaps no other collaboration between the university, the Georgetown neighborhood and GUSA deserves more attention than the 2018 Campus Plan. The campus plan will not only affect current students. Its implications are far-reaching, and students more than a decade from now will bear the burden of any of the plan's mishaps and mistakes, particularly in regard to infrastructure and living space.
While the final negotiations for the plan have yet to be reached, the administration and GUSA have already laid out primary goals they hope to achieve. One area of concern is construction and refurbishment for existing residential buildings. While the construction of the new Northeast Triangle Residence Hall will increase the number of available beds, existing structures and housing continue to suffer from dilapidation and disrepair. Village A is suffering from a weakening roof, while residents in Henle Village lost hot water for nearly a month in January, a time when it was needed most. Additionally, the university has decided to close Kehoe Field, the former hub of club and intramural activities, with no plans for an immediate replacement.
Such examples highlight the university's failures to adequately address the pressing concerns of students. Students need hot water, recreational spaces and roofs that do not threaten to come crashing down on them. The university has made the wrong decision by emphasizing quantity rather than quality in regards to housing and overall campus development.
It is clear that renovations must be made to existing infrastructure, yet it is time for the university to properly listen to the demands of students and purchase more off-campus spaces, specifically townhouses. Open space within our gates is becoming increasingly scarce. Thus, the campus plan should prioritize developing more off-campus housing options in the Georgetown neighborhood for the sake of students. Going into the future, the university should also provide monthly reviews and updates to the whole student body in addition to existing roundtables and dialogue to ensure transparency. Providing such recaps of negotiations, construction and refurbishments are not unfathomable demands.
Beyond The legacy of Slavery
From November's demonstration of solidarity in Red Square to changing the names of former Mulledy and McSherry Halls to establishing plans for a dedicated African American studies department, the Georgetown community has sought ways to reconcile and grapple with this institution's slaveholding past. Though the wrongs of slavery can never be fully made right, there are avenues for this university to do the right thing by better serving the descendants of the slaves who toiled on these grounds.
By the time new students arrive on the Hilltop in late August, expert historians and faculty should give a presentation detailing the story of Georgetown's slaves during New Student Orientation. In addition, official Blue & Gray Tour Guide Society tours Tours should also cover the university's legacy with slaveholding in order to ensure that communities both within and outside our gates know of the slaves who either were forced to help build this university or were sold off to relieve the university of its crippling debt. We recommend that the administration makes a more permanent monument or statue to restore some of the dignity that was wrongly stolen from the 272 Georgetown slaves during their lifetimes. Their struggles, impact and history deserve to be memorialized.
While such measures would be further steps in dealing with our past, a major reparation for Georgetown's slaveholding history would be for the university to recognize the debt it owes to the living descendants of those who were bought and sold to ensure the financial survival of the university. Therefore, we call on the university to consider descendants of the 272 slaves as legacy applicants if they are eligible to be admitted as students. Scholarships should also be established to provide for those descendants who may choose to attend Georgetown. These are tangible steps forward the university can take to atone for its past sins.


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On Tuesday, April 29, 2008 join hundreds of New Yorkers who will be traveling to Albany to help win transgender non-discrimination protections, safe schools for LGBT youth, marriage equality and more funding for our community's health and human services needs.
Last year more than 1100 people traveled from all across New York to make sure that our elected officials in Albany saw first hand the power and determination of our community and our allies. This year will be even bigger. Be a part of this historic day.
Don't worry if you've never lobbied a legislator. Our partners at the Empire State Pride Agenda will provide you with the training you need. You can even get started now by watching these training videos (video 1, video 2)! For some of you, going to Albany means that you have to take a day off from work, and that isn't always easy. But we won't win this civil rights struggle unless we all come together at critical moments to show our community's strength.
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|Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:45 pm Christians are Revolting - Sean Lauren
|This thread will debate the book Christians are Revolting: An Infidel's Progress, by Sean Lauren.
We will go through the book one chapter at a time and discuss the contents of each chapter. I anticipate we'll spend several days on each chapter and then move on to the next one. Please avoid jumping ahead, but you're free to discuss previous chapters (for those that join late). We'll end the debate with each person giving a general overview of the book. The thread will then be closed.
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Post 151: Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:28 pm
Ch. 13 - Reradicalization
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I generally agree with your assessment of what the NT church looked like. The modern church is far from what is described in the Bible.Ch. 13 - Reradicalization
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Ch. 14 - Unthreading
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"While I personally knew I meant no malice, it still hurt deeply knowing that I could be viewed so harshly from so many people simply for trying to be the best I could be for God."
This seems to be a recurring theme of the book. And though this is unfortunate, unfortunately, this is not uncommon. I was once in a church where a friend of mine was zealous in trying to reach his neighborhood and tried to recruit people from the church to help him. What did the church leadership do? Did they encourage him and try to help him? No, instead they excommunicated him from the church. It's ridiculous things like this that burns people in church. In protest, I left the church as well.
If it weren't for the people in the church, church wouldn't be too bad. Though the people are flawed, I do not think it's an indictment against Christianity itself. As mentioned in the previous chapter, we do not follow the model of what is laid out in the Bible. Rather, we follow our own corrupt model and do not do what God wants.Ch. 14 - Unthreading
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I appreciate being able to debate a book where the author is also a participant, and even more so that the author is a regular forum member! I now know more about Sean than any other poster on the forum.
Sean's thoughts on his earlier manuscripts can carry over to the final publication...
"My tone of writing often hinted at personal despair or disgust, demonstrated disgruntlement"
To me, the book was mostly a rant on Christianity and was primarily an autobiographical look on his negative experiences with being a Christian. Though he states that a purpose of the book is "to spur the world on towards a more loving disposition", I do not see how the book can achieve that. The book is mostly about relating about how he tried to follow God with his whole heart, but more often than not resulted in him being burned. It does not offer practical steps for people to be more loving and does not really motivate people to do so. Also, I suspect only a very limited audience would want to read this book. The people that I'd recommend this book to would be to Christians who want to understand how one person who was once a devoted Christian could lose his faith. I'd also recommend this book to forum members who would like to know more about ElCodeMonkey.
I actually agree with many of the issues presented in the book about modern Christianity. There are many problems with Christianity today and agree it is far from what Christianity should be as described in the Bible.
I appreciated the candor of the book and several times I was surprised by the honesty. Few people would be so candid and open.
Again, I highly recommend this book for forum members, whether they are Christian or not.Closing thoughts.
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I assume this is a quotation from the book:
For a long time, I thought that I had to work hard to be the best I could be for God. But then I realized that I was trying to do that in my own power. It was when I realized that I had been filled with the Holy Spirit and that he was the one who would guide and empower my walk with the Lord, everything changed. I then realized that it wasn't about me doing my best for God, but God doing his best THROUGH me.
I'm sorry, Sean, that you met so many people wearing the Christian label who disappointed you. I gather that they were disappointed with you, too. Here's the thing: There are no perfect Christians. There are only people engaged in the life-long process of being sanctified. We need to be kind to and encouraging of each other in the process.'
A Christian is someone who is in a relationship with God through the person of Jesus Christ and the infilling of the Holy Spirit. I could not disavow the reality of my heavenly father any more than I could disavow the reality of my earthly father. People who are in relationships with the Lord can get angry with him because they think he has let them down or they can be hurt by people who wear the label of Christian, but they don't deny God exists.
Additionally, a Christian is someone who has been born again. That means that his or her dead spirit has been brought alive by and in Christ. That means that any atheist who says he used to be a Christian was never a Christian in fact, but only nominally or culturally because you can't be "unborn" spiritually any more than you can be "unborn" physically.
Bottom line: Don't let fallible human beings keep you from Christ. If you do that, you lose and the devil wins.
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Apparently this thread was moving along without me. I must have missed one of the updates and then it stopped giving them to my email. I appreciate the feedback and discussion overall. I find it interesting that my goal as stated ("to spur the world on towards a more loving disposition") is not visible from within the book itself. I think this is a difference in personality. For me, pointing out a flaw is a means to improve. Showing the uglier sides of Christianity is a call to become beautiful. Showing the hate and denouncing it is a means to encourage love. I have come to conclude that most people do not see it that way. A gripe is a gripe and nothing more. The goal was to point out the cracks and flaws within Christianity to have them mended and return to the love I believe Jesus taught, but perhaps I just don't tie it back around well enough. I intended to show that Christianity's fruit was failing and the salt had lost its savor to make my perspective on Jesus' teaching more palatable. Recognizing current failure should encourage seeking new answers. I had hoped to demonstrate well that the church had lost its way, that Jesus predicted it would occur, and to re-instantiate the proper way which is essentially humanism with a God-ordained radical flavor. Further, I hoped to have atheists better understand Christian and vice versa. With understanding comes easier compassion and less hate. At least, that's what I had hoped to accomplish.
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|I'd be interested to hear other perspectives on what the book is "about". Is it "about" simply getting burned by Christianity? Maybe a better title would simply be "Burned"? Or maybe "Burned by Fire Insurance" or the like?


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Hitt has more than 15 years of experience as a general manager, most recently at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott, a 405-room convention hotel in Norfolk, Virginia. He has also managed the Omaha Marriott, the Richmond Marriott in Virginia, the Sheraton West Palm Beach, the Harrisburg Crowne Plaza in Pennsylvania and the Jacksonville Marriott. He earned his undergraduate degree in business administration at Berry College in Georgia.
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Friday, 1.30 pm, San Francisco, CA
When we arrived in Culture Amp's offices, on the 5th floor of a very well located building in down town San Francisco, everything was silent. And the reason was that everybody was watching TV in the common area. On the screen, you could observe Didier Elzinga, co-founder and CEO of the company who was explaining his vision of the company's culture. During this keynote which took place in Australia, he was also detailing the company's values, such as diversity (which is very important to him and americans in general).
- What is Culture Amp doing?
Culture Amp offers two products that help companies to assess their employees' engagement and effectiveness. Those products are platforms which gather different kinds of surveys, with many templates such as 360° reviews, exit surveys etc.
But it goes farther. It's a platform that they pay for annually, and that they can use as much as they want. Every company has its own goal with this software, but it globally helps create "culture first companies".
Here is how Didier Elzinga describes a culture first company: "Putting culture first means turning traditional boardroom conversations upside down. Instead of concentrating first on the end result (profits to shareholders) a Culture First company focuses first on employees, as the driver of that performance."
- How Culture Amp used to be organized?
Culture Amp has known a very fast growth those last few years. In order to be able to go along with the turnover growth, the company had to hire employees, and now they are close to 100 people big. With this growth the company turned to have a classical way of management.
Once again, we were lucky to arrive in a transition time for the company: last June, Culture Amp decided to transform this model into a flatter management structure. In order to do so, the teams and the roles have been redefined. Before the transformation, the company was organized in a classic way. If you had looked at the organigram back at that time, then you would have seen that Culture Amp was divided into different business units, just like most companies nowadays. Even if there was not a lot of layers of management, they still decided to switch their structure so that it became more "team based".
- How are they organized now?
The model they have adopted is inspired from the book Team of teams (https://www.amazon.com/Team-Teams-Rules-Engagement-Complex/dp/1591847486). This best seller was written by a combat veteran who went to Iraq and Afghanistan, and was a great inspiration to many mangers.
Now, the teams are cross-functional and decision power has been more decentralized. Every team will have members with diverse skills and different objectives. There is a "growth team" whose mission is to ensure that every team has what they need in order to achieve their missions. The growth team will be in charge of hiring, for example. At a long run horizon, it is possible that every team will have to take care of those questions (P&L, Hiring, Budget…) by itself.
- What are the obstacles for Culture Amp?
"As the transformation in Culture Amp is still in progress – does a transformation ever end? – the company still has some things to figure out. It seems that even if the teams are now working on a cross functional way, their members can still feel like they are part of functional teams, as they used to be. Culture Amp is also using their product to ask employees how the transformation is progressing, and have used those insights to find better ways to fully understand how this new model works and where it's taking them. A transformation takes time. We'll keep you posted on this one."
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Gaming great on a budget
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8. Alienware 17 R5
Using the power of i9 to dominate the competition
CPU: Intel Core i9-8950HK | Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5X VRAM) | RAM: 32GB | Screen: 17.3-inch QHD (2,560 x 1,440)144Hz | Storage: 246GB PCIe M.2 SSD, 1TB 7,200RPM HDD
Ever since Intel unveiled its i9-8950HK, we just knew that it would find its way behind the best gaming laptops 2018 had to offer, and we've been proven right heading into 2019. The Alienware 17 R5 is a beast of a gaming laptop with the aforementioned CPU and an overclocked GTX 1080. If you're willing to get an absolute tank of a laptop that weighs nearly 10 pounds, this hulking computer will demolish any and all games you throw at it. Just don't expect to throw it in a bag without some severe back pain.
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Leading the next wave of virtual reality
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The Lenovo Legion Y720 looks to be a solid choice for a mid-range gaming laptop. While we've seen plenty of laptops break the bank for the best specs and performance, this 15.6-inch option starts at a refreshingly affordable AED 5,699 – and users on a tighter budget may want to consider the lower-end Legion Y520 that starts at AED 3,699.
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Thank you Nicholas - always good to recharge and re-think to make things better for ourselves and our profession! Thank you for your kind words.
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New Year - New Focus - New Involvement!Good afternoon Atlantic Chapter Members!!
It's a beautiful Thursday afternoon, not snowing (yet) but we know sooner or later some of us will get to see the fluffy stuff, whereas many of you are already contemplating the number of days until the spring thaw (although I know one member who probably already has his countdown clock set for how many days it is until Christmas). I was very fortunate this year to be able to take time off from work and be at home with my daughter and just do what I wanted to do, which was nothing - the house was as clean as it was going to get - presents were wrapped and either distributed or under the tree (with a scant number for me) and I didn't even have to worry about what was for dinner as it was only going to be me.
This was "my time" to reflect on what I wanted to do with myself and where I thought my path would take me in 2019 and beyond. There is so much more to accomplish for myself personally and professionally but I also know that sometimes I bite off more than I can chew and then get frustrated when I can't accomplish what I want. So this is different, this year I'm focusing on how to motivate staff - complete at least two new training programs and continue to work hard for and with the Chapter and APCO. Along with these lofty goals of mine I also want to make sure to learn at least one new thing each day, and to also make sure to take a walk and move a little more than I have been!
Some may think these goals are a little strange, but I never said I was cut from the same cloth as everyone else - I've already enrolled in the Instructor Illuminations program and completed the first quarter session "Grit and Resilience" talk about learning one new thing - totally not what I was expecting. I've completed the two part Police Legal Sciences Suicide Caller online training - awesome refresher for those who have been on for awhile, and perfect for new personnel. Motivation with staff is in planning phase but I'm confident as we will be part of a group who I hope will be working on a statewide texting policy and a new domestic violence/crisis intervention training for our dispatchers and staff to be a part of that process. As for working with APCO - well ByLaws - Agency Training and the Emergency Communications Center Response Task Force Committees are moving forward with their goals and objectives for the year. For the Chapter, it's business as usual with conference calls and note taking!
So, why bore some of you with all this, it's not to pat myself on the back or toot a horn - it's to show you and tell you of all the wonderful possibilities and opportunities out there for our members and in many cases I get to work side by side with YOU on committees on both a local and international level, it's great having someone you know and can connect with. There is so much out there outside our own little worlds that YOU (the WE of APCO) can be involved in, and the rewards to be had can be life changing. I have been so blessed with attaining my RPL - CPE and Senior Designation, I'm Vice Chair of a committee and a task force and have chaired a task force, and YOU can do the same, yea just have to put yourself out there, and the other rewards, my friends, that is the key word - FRIENDS. I have met the most amazing people and a handful of them have become more than friends, they are family. That is a reward that just keeps on giving.
Make 2019 your year to make a change, not a resolution or a goal but a path if you will. Whatever path or journey you choose to take and would you like some company (also known as mentors)? There are people out there that would be happy to take the walk with you, you need only ask. Happy New Year Atlantic APCO - may your path be clear and if there are bumps, that's ok -you'll navigate them - Keep learning and dreaming and moving forward. The rewards are so worth the risks!
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Our Beijing-based entertainment lawyer, Mathew Alderson, has been attending (and speaking at) the Beijing International Film Festival. Not surprisingly, Mathew reports that the talk of the town is the recent news regarding a United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into whether some of Hollywood's biggest movie studios made illegal payments to officials in China to gain the right to film and show movies there.
In an article entitled, "Did Hollywood dirty its hands in China? Reaction to SEC inquiry," the Los Angeles Times extensively quotes Mathew regarding how it is that Hollywood might have gotten into this problem:
Mathew Alderson, a Beijing-based entertainment lawyer and Asia Pacific partner at Seattle-based international law firm Harris Bricken, called the timing of the SEC inquiry story "instructional."
"The news broke during the second Beijing International Film Festival, when media attention was focused on the biggest foreign box-office market in the world. Mixing with U.S. delegates here during the festival I've been struck by how many still regard China as the Wild West. There is now something of a gold rush mentality," Alderson said.
"Those in the film business who regarded China as the Wild West are now in for a shock because the sheriff just rode in," Alderson added. "The less obvious message is that interests more powerful than entertainment may be prepared to sacrifice Hollywood in order to embarrass the Chinese about allegedly corrupt practices."
Alderson drew a comparison to the case of Chinese-Australian iron ore trader Stern Hu, who in 2010 began a 10-year jail sentence in China for corruption after his employer, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, appeared to some to get the better of a Chinese state-run mining competitor on prices for the commodity used to make steel.
"Certain factions in China may well be tempted to respond [to the new SEC allegations] by conducting their own investigations and using allegations of impropriety to stifle a worrisome cultural influence and punish the U.S. for casting the first stone," Alderson said.
The article goes on to hint at how China and Hollywood are a potentially toxic mix:
Among those unsurprised by the inquiry was Michael Peyser, a producer of several of Woody Allen's films and a professor of film at USC, who is in Beijing this week exploring Chinese co-production opportunities.
"China favors a culture of favors. I'm not saying that there aren't dirty dealings, but my sense is that the Hollywood studios are aware of how things work and understand the difference between influence and corruption," Peyser said.
On a small scale, Chinese film companies regularly pay local reporters a "red envelope" with a "transportation fee" of about $30 for attending press conferences. The companies have learned not to try to pay overseas journalists flustered by the practice, and Hollywood studios don't typically fall prey to this practice at all, offering gift bags with DVDs and branded trinkets instead.
We have written how software and gaming companies seem particularly prone to have legal problems in China. We attribute that to a tech culture that glorifies starting up in a garage and then back-filling any needed legal niceties. We get the sense movie industry culture is somewhat similar as we are finding a disproportionate amount of our work is helping movie companies get out of trouble, rather than avoid it. I want to make clear, however, that we have absolutely no idea whether there is any validity at all to the SEC investigation.
It cannot be coincidence that the SEC announced its investigation during the Beijing Film Festival. We must assume that its timing was intended to maximize the impact of its message, which is that US laws will be enforced. It remains to be seen what impact all of this will have on U.S. direct investment in the film business in China, whether it be through co-productions, production facility joint ventures or movie theater joint ventures. Though the investigation appears to be focused only on some of the major studios, the numerous other industry players involved with China will no doubt be watching closely.
For more on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) aspects of this check out China Hearsay's post, "Comparative Corruption: SEC Goes After Movie Studios Over China Deals." And if you want even more on the FCPA and China, check out the following:
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 101. The Basics For China.
- The FCPA And China. Do You Feel Lucky? Do You?
- Bribery In China And How To Get Caught. Have Employees.
- China Bribes And Transparency: Why The FCPA Matters
- China And The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Sometimes You Just Have To Step Away….
- The FCPA And China. Do I Need To Get All Loud On You?
- Understanding China FCPA Risks. Who Is A Foreign Official?
- The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Wants You. Even If You Are In China.


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Professor of Literature Hans Ulrich
Gumbrecht is a sports fan. Not only a sports fan; Professor Gumbrecht is a fan
of sports fans, so much so that he has written In praise of athletic beauty
to describe, and to make respectable, the hours spent watching baseball,
football, tennis and other sports. Dissatisfied with the academy's somewhat
elitist dismissal of sport as just another capitalist banality, Gumbrecht wants
to argue that there is more to the roar of the crowd than mere tribalism. To
Gumbrecht, the current mass appeal of sports represents more than the
manipulation of the masses by advertising corporates. There is something almost
transcendental about sport; some aesthetic quality that unites us with the
Greeks, the Romans, even with the gods themselves as we admire the movement of
a body, or revel in the million to one victory.
Gumbrecht has the ordinary sports
fan in mind as an audience. Perhaps the 'educated' sports fan might be more
accurate; someone with a passing familiarity with history, and the interest in
seeing sports in historical context. One thing is clear: Gumbrecht is not
providing an academic defense of the many 'readings' of sports of which he is
so critical. Sports, in Gumbrecht's view do not need such a defense; they have
the intransitive quality of being 'for themselves'. Gumbrecht describes the
attraction of sports as "a fascination in the true sense of the word -- a
phenomenon that manages to paralyze the eyes, something that endlessly
attracts, without implying an explanation for its attraction." The writing
is clear and approachable. There are no footnotes or references, and no attempt
to engage with any theory of sport. The book is littered with references to
great sportsmen (mainly) and women. There is plenty to hold the attention of
the reader. In praise of athletic beauty is a paean to what sports fans
already love: sports.
Gumbrecht takes a multilayered
approach. Not content to merely describe sports as possessing aesthetic
qualities, he reaches back to the 18th century, and further, to find
words suited to his task. Gumbrecht finds an appropriate language in Kant's
views of the beautiful and the sublime, and the Greek ideas of agon
(competition) and arete (striving for excellence). He devotes a long
section to the history of sport, showing the emergence in different historical
periods of activities recognizable as sports, but noting also the discontinuities
that are a feature of these developments. In a section titled 'Fascinations'
Gumbrecht develops his own taxonomy of what it is that captivates the sports
fan. This is the most rewarding section of the book, as Gumbrecht applies
himself to the development of an aesthetics of sports. While some may disagree
with Gumbrecht's categories (bodies, suffering, grace, tools, forms, plays and
timing) they are effectively employed in discussing the allure of sports. You
could perhaps ask where are speed, and strength. What of the Olympian's "Citius, Altius, Fortius"?
But Gumbrecht has his eye on the aesthetic, and for that, the physical
attributes necessary for the perfect play are not the point. Gumbrecht recognizes
that it is not intentionality alone that produces beauty, or even art (how many
well intentioned attempts at art fail spectacularly?). He also recognizes the
aesthetic qualities of practices and performances that simply happen to possess
those qualities (as does sports), rather than strive consciously for them (as
does art). In the final section Gumbrecht expresses his gratitude to the
players he has never met, but who created the inspired moments that have
Gumbrecht and others in their thrall.
Gumbrecht is extremely critical of commentators
he refers to as "people who deem themselves to be cultivated". This
group is held to exercise a conservative stranglehold on what may be deemed
aesthetic experience, allowing only "a limited set of canonized objects
and situations", and certainly not sports. Gumbrecht rails against
political and sociological interpretations: "Counter to many academic (and
highly incompetent) "readings" of sports, athletic competitions do
not express anything, and therefore do not offer anything to read."
According to Gumbrecht, academics are more likely to make pompous gestures than
to ever concede a "whiff of reality" or a "grain of
intelligence." Gumbrecht traces this reluctance to praise sports to the
Enlightenment legacy of criticism: a "reduction in the range of
permissible discourses" that makes praise (especially of sports) not just
unfashionable, but a reversion to pre-enlightenment intellectual values. So in
addition to developing an aesthetic of sport, In praise of athletic beauty
is a critique of class privilege in declaring what may be claimed in the name
of "culture" or "art". Notwithstanding his critique of
academic writing on sports, and his views on the effect of the Enlightenment on
academic writing, Gumbrecht opts for analysis as his method. His goal is to "lay
open the complexity of sports" as a music critic does with music.
In addition to praising the grace
of the body, Gumbrecht is also in awe of the crowd. The rapture of the crowd is
in many ways its own end. Gumbrecht describes his experience in walking away
from sports fixtures feeling intoxicated, the effect of the crowd having induced
a form of ecstasy. The crowd contributes its own exhilaration to individual
fans' appreciation of the "beautiful move". Fans may find themselves,
like Proust's narrator at a performance of La Berma, feeling that: "the
longer I went on clapping the better La Berma's acting seemed to have become".
At the risk of proposing that Gumbrecht
should have trawled the Internet for every possible example in support of his
thesis, I want to mention one that is relevant to my own context, and that
seems to fit well with Gumbrecht's analysis. For good reasons Gumbrecht makes
much of the performances of Jesse Owens at Berlin in 1936. Not only did Owens
steal the show from Hitler, he was as graceful and complete an athlete as you
could hope to see: lithe, elegant, rhythmic, totally focused. He also
apparently had very little appreciation of himself in aesthetic terms; he seems
to have been modest and almost bemused by his achievements. Another athlete at
the Berlin games was quite different. Jack
Lovelock, from the isolated West Coast of New Zealand, won the 1500 meters
with a performance that left commentators gasping. Harold Abrahams,
broadcasting for the very stiff upper lipped BBC lost all composure, shouting: "My
God, he's done it. Jack, come on! ... Lovelock wins. Five yards, six yards, he
wins. He's won. Hooray!!". The Manchester Guardian declared: "It was
a race magnificent beyond all description ...There never was such a run nor
such a runner." Of course such hyperbole is the very stuff of the sports
commentary. But even Lovelock himself thought of the race not merely as sport,
but as art. His diary records: "It was undoubtedly the most beautifully
executed race of my career, a true climax to eight years of steady work, an
artistic creation." A mythology has grown up around Lovelock that accords
him heroic status. His early and unexplained death in a New York subway added
to the myth of an athlete who some say ran the perfect race and, like the deified
victors in the ancient games, could not live easily in the company of mortals.
For a non-American, there is a forgivable
bias in Gumbrecht's work, towards those sports that dominate in the US. I hate to say it, but Joe Di Maggio and Babe Ruth are just names to me, along with all
those soccer greats who Gumbrecht invokes with admiration. Still, Gumbrecht
does enough by using the examples he is familiar with to invite readers to
apply this scheme to their own sporting interests. There will be few English
cricket fans who would struggle to recall a beautiful cover drive. For rugby
fans the well timed sidestep contains all those elements Gumbrecht ascribes to
the perfect play. Gumbrecht is right to argue that a play of exceptional
quality earns the admiration of most fans, not just those concerned with the
success of the home team.
So, how successful is Gumbrecht? I
was left with the sense that however much it may be possible to praise sports
as beautiful, that's not the whole story. There seems to be some validity in
the argument that sport is a product of capitalism, even if we accept that
products of capitalism (like painting or sculpture) might still be beautiful. Gumbrecht
is convincing in arguing that sports can be admired and enjoyed for the beauty
they express. The magical play, the perfect form of the gymnast, the rhythmic
perfection of the distance runner remain, no matter what other readings might
be made. Gumbrecht might take comfort from observing that the arts world has
recently seen a proliferation of prizes, competitions, live performances and
sponsorship, a case of art imitating sport, perhaps.
There is a class of sports fan who
is probably less concerned with the aesthetics of the game and simply enjoys
the rush of competition. Such a fan will carry on with or without encouragement
from Gumbrecht. More reflective sports fans will take pleasure in Gumbrecht's
analysis, pleased to find something more to enjoy at the baseball or in the
football stadium.
Gumbrecht has laid down something
of a challenge to his academic peers to take sports seriously in aesthetic
terms. Whether or not they rise to this challenge may be of little interest to
Gumbrecht. Whatever that outcome, In praise of athletic beauty gives
sports fans something to cheer about.
© 2006 Tony O'Brien
Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil, Senior
Lecturer, Mental Health Nursing, University of Auckland, firstname.lastname@example.com
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