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#SEOisAEO: The Knowledge Graph - How Well is Google doing in 'understanding the world'?
- Definitions of Knowledge Graph
- How well has Google done in growing an accurate Knowledge Graph since 2012? And how big is it?
- The bigger the brand, the more there is to optimize. Can you give us the lowdown on that?
- How can understanding the Knowledge Graph help improve rankings?
- Google Maps as a Knowledge Graph - is that inspiring or is it a dead duck?
- So who is the best? Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Diffbot, Amazon?
- Knowledge-based trust. For a Knowledge Graph, do we forget about PageRank?
- Ultimately, how are they going to make money out of Knowledge Graphs?
- How do you see the future of these knowledge graphs?
- How can the knowledge graph affect position zero?
Definitions of Knowledge Graph
"It's an encyclopedia that a machine can delve into and understand without any human help." Luke Cherno Del Coro
"Knowledge Graphs are a large network of entities with semantic types, properties and relationships between those entities." M. Kroestch and G. Weikum. Nice and simple.
"Knowledge Graphs are particularly appropriate to the continuous flow of large amounts of data from diverse, heterogeneous sources where the ontology of the data can be extended and revised algorithmically as new data arrives." Jo Stichbury
That is brilliant. And especially with the Topic Layer just being announced, that last little part takes on extra special meaning.
Taking it further still, Jo says that Knowledge Graphs can benefit from "the application of various graph computing techniques and algorithms which add additional intelligence over the stored data. For example, allowing a bit of information to be derived from explicitly asserted data."I love that last little bit because it's this idea of taking the information we have and extrapolating new information from it. Which is certainly something important for the future - if you can link enough entities together, with specific attributes, you can then guess an attribute of another linked entity. That will come.
In practical terms for #SEOisAEO, the Knowledge Graph can be seen as Google's understanding of the world. And Google's understanding can be greatly helped by communication on our part. We have this great opportunity to communicate to Google who we are, what we do and what our offers are.
How well has Google done in growing an accurate Knowledge Graph since 2012? And how big is it?
Bill: So how big is the Knowledge Graph? I think the last I heard, which was a couple of years ago: 570 million entities and over 20 billion facts. Obviously, the Knowledge Graph has grown a heck of a lot since then. I don't know where it's at right now. What I think is really compelling is "how accurate is it? How well has it done? "
And I have what is probably a semi-unpopular opinion on that. When it came out, I thought: "Wow, this is huge. This is great. Google's moving into a semantic search model. Google's doing everything the way the framework was designed to." We got the triple store: all the entities, the relationships, the attributes. Everything working together. But today, I get frustrated when seeing the limits of how it is implemented. And sometimes the accuracy is a little bit off.
Google looks at a lot of sources - everything from Schema to maps, to Google Plus, to Wikipedia, Wikidata. And those can be wrong a lot. Wikipedia can be wrong a hell of a lot. One example is of a really well-known company - the Knowledge Graph had their CEO wrong for a long time, despite the correct information being out there. The information could have been validated from several sources but wasn't. The same thing happened with the Knowledge card for my company, Greenlane. It says that Greenlane was started in Philadelphia. In fact, it was started in a city next door called Reddick. I submitted the feedback form and I said, "Hey, this information is wrong." They wrote back and said, "No, it's right. It matches what we believe based on everything that we're finding online." I said, "But I'm the source. I'm the guy who started the company. I can tell you it's wrong." But they didn't take it. I think that's a problem.
And then, as we were saying before the webinar, I used to be a musician, and it's got that right. But it lists a whole bunch of songs that aren't mine - they are terrible songs and I only write good songs :) And I think it's not doing as good a job as I had hoped it would've done in terms of content extraction that isn't marked up. I think it can extract more. I want to see it extract more… and also be a little bit more accurate. Maybe Google's struggling to figure out how to gather information reliably and gauge trust.
Jason: I think the word trust is a good point. And Google's being scaredy-pussyfoot and it won't put the data out there if it isn't incredibly sure of it. I get the feeling, Microsoft's a bit more adventurous. To summarise, you were incredibly enthusiastic in 2014. You're less enthusiastic now.
Bill: Less enthusiastic. I think I'm waiting for something to really impress me, right? Google created this second brain and they're capable of serving the information specifically. I'm just waiting for a little bit more to come from that other brain.
Jason: Brilliant. Bill's disappointed.
Bill: I'm one of those glass-half-empty guys.
Jason: Haha :) The number of Knowledge Graph opportunities for brands is humongous. Paul suggested to me:
The bigger the brand, the more there is to optimize. Can you give us the lowdown on that?
Paul: The bigger the brand, the more entities there are. The more topics there are. The more stuff there is to get right. The more stuff there is to get wrong. Some businesses operate across various industries, various verticals and potentially various languages. That's a lot of information to optimize. Take it further and think about "what are the topical entities for a brand". That can get pretty complex. In the case of university medical centers: the medical center itself, hospitals, doctors, departments etc. Add to that the decentralized and siloed nature of medical centers, we need to look at the university as a whole. At that level, Sports is a big, big driver of finance and money and status, so the football team becomes an incredibly important entity, perhaps an even stronger brand point than the university itself. So you need to expand your Knowledge Graph management to the entities around that: rosters, video, players, news, schedules, and fixtures. And there's more! So you can look into state costs, the rate of graduation, notable alumni, rankings and even test scores. Quick point about Doctors. People want to own their own Knowledge Graph entries and so there's a question about who owns the Knowledge Graph entries for these entities within the brand. Then the weird thing is, once you start looking at the overarching understanding Google has of the brand, you start getting more mixed results. It always seems a little bit haphazard. It always seems like Google's guessing a little bit, dependent on what's important at the time. So it's really important that brands understand what their own particular knowledge graph is because it can be slightly different within verticals.
Jason: Yeah, brilliant stuff. So get your company understood... then all the constituent parts. And both will serve each other. Understanding the doctors helps in understanding the university and understanding the university helps to understand the doctors. In fact, there's a lot of barnacling and self-referencing that can go on there.
Paul: Exactly.
Jason: By the way, I have been working on pushing information about me in the Knowledge Graph for a few years. I use the Knowledge Graph API - https://kalicube.pro/knowledge-graph-explorer - to track the relevancy score. And what I've seen is, when I stop actively working on pushing own name, the relevancy score that it throws back goes down. Is that a question of losing understanding? Losing confidence? Or just the other Jason Barnards have come more to the fore and my relative importance has gone down? So that's a question. If anyone has an answer to that out there, including you, Paul, please do give me the answer.
How can understanding the Knowledge Graph help improve rankings?
Bill: The statement "Google has a lot more information than we know", is very true. If you want to rank better, first you've gotta do everything you do with traditional SEO. But Google wants to get away from just ranking things based on keywords, they need to be able to understand content a little better. So you need to think about entities and the knowledge graph. Think about the information Google has, and understands, in what I call its 'second brain'.Let's say you're writing an article on the Philadelphia Eagles. You can look at the knowledge card, and you get a little bit of information on what Google knows. They know that Doug Pederson is the coach of the Eagles. They know that the Philadelphia Eagles are an NFL team… and, given the way this relationship-driven database works, they're able to infer that Doug Pederson is an NFL coach. That type of figuring things out is the whole magic about a semantic search. So when you're writing something about the Eagles, it's a great idea to take some of the entities that Google knows and pepper them in, as long as it makes sense. Don't spam it in like we used to with keyword stuffing, but think "if I'm writing about the Eagles, these are some things that I need to mention to give a little bit more assurance to Google that I'm talking about the Philadelphia Eagles and not just a bird." First, take a look at the SERPs that you want to rank for... look at the intent… make sure that you have a piece of content that fits the intent... and then go through the listings that are doing well and look for the entities. After that, use one of the tools out there that help take a look at related entities: Google Cloud natural language, Alchemy API … take a look at the entities they suggest and look at how you can work them inAnd it works really well. When we write content with those entities in mind, we are seeing a very good increase in visibility.
Jason: Great! I'm going to diss Google a bit more here and I use their NLP cloud and I've been pretty disappointed with it. I plan to start looking into DiffBot and WorldLift, because apparently, they've got something going on that's really interesting. Next up - I saw this from Evan Berkovich: "Google maps is a great example of what the future search should look like. Augmented public data powered by a knowledge graph, Google has thousands of employees on staff constantly correcting errors, machine learning, interpreting addresses. Cars driving through streets getting ground-level data, satellites taking photos, and millions of phones constantly sending in data. With this infrastructure, Google is able to maintain a real-time representation of the world and answer geospatial queries that have never been asked."What I understand from this is that Google maps is basically a knowledge graph that is functioning … and doing incredibly well. For example, if we type into Google maps, "I want to go from A to B", it can tell us how to get there, even if it's never done that trip before. Another example: if I ask "where's a restaurant where I can just have a coffee?" It's got the attributes of the café near me where it can say, "You can just have a coffee there".In short, we have all these entities, which are businesses, towns, roads. Each with attributes: with/without tolls for the roads, can just have a coffee / have to eat for a restaurant, disabled toilets are / are not available, et cetera, et cetera. Plus the phones are sending in shitloads of data constantly, meaning it can do real-time traffic or affluence in a local business because it's dealing with this data in real time. Here's a real-life experience: I was using Google maps to find my hotel in Luton. And Luton has got the world's worst one-way system, and Google had all the one-way streets wrong. And I ended up getting incredibly annoyed with it. I'm so used to Google maps getting it right that I now always expect it to get it right the first time. I've come to rely on what I now see as an active operational knowledge graph. Would you agree with that, Christine? Or am I getting over-excited about absolutely nothing?
Google Maps as a Knowledge Graph - is that inspiring or is it a dead duck?
Christine: No, no, that makes a lot of sense. However, a lot of that kind of knowledge is going to be a lot easier than language. Because we know where the coffee shop is and where the directions are and what the streets are we can easily make a good representation of a situation. But remember that that type of fact is relatively easy to interpret... Whereas things are much harder with the knowledge graph itself because they are dealing with language and that's much more difficult than a map result (where there's a lot of data that's already known and doesn't need to be interpreted). Language is incredibly complex, and Google can't do natural language processing. By the way, there is that misunderstanding that Google does natural language processing in the search results, but it can't. And that's why we have the Knowledge Graph. We need an interpreter. Google needs something to tell it what the entities are, and what the relationships are. In short, language is extremely complex, and Maps are probably a much simpler way for Google to apply a graph system.
Jason: Yeah, brilliant. Thank you. You've brought me down to earth. I think that's a really, really nice comment. Moving on. It's not just Google. We have Amazon, who have their Knowledge Graph and Product Graph. We have Facebook, who are obviously very big on graphs. We have Microsoft, who Martha was saying last week are coming back very strongly with their knowledge graph. We have Diffbot who claim to have 10 billion entities and one trillion facts. Aaron Bradley suggested that Google's Knowledge Graph is not particularly good, but they're shouting loud and making a big marketing deal out of it. All mouth and no trousers.
So who is the best? Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Diffbot, Amazon?
Bill: Be wary of "are you the best?". You could be the best, you could have the best technology, you can have the most information... but it's all about how that information is going to get used. Google has the advantage. They have the platform to put their knowledge graph to good use. So, I don't know who really is the best, but I think it's really important not to brag about how great you are if people aren't using it if it's not coming into play.
Jason: Great stuff. Now, knowledge-based trust versus PageRank. Luna Dong created this idea of knowledge-based trust and suggests that PageRank cannot be used to judge the credibility of a knowledge source. She used the example of gossip sites. A gossip site will have a very high PageRank, but the information it's providing is untrustworthy.
Knowledge-based trust. For a Knowledge Graph, do we forget about PageRank?
Christine: I don't think they'll ever forget about PageRank :) PageRank has been there since day one and I don't think it's going anywhere. And they may use something like knowledge-based trust for facts to make sure they get it right, but I don't think it's something that would replace PageRank.
Jason: But to fill their knowledge graph, Amazon are going to have some kind of knowledge-based trust because they don't have PageRank to rely on.
Christine: True, very true. When we say the knowledge graph, we often think of only Google, but you're right, they existed before Google said "the" knowledge graph. As Aaron said, that is a marketing term. Knowledge graphs have existed for a very, very long time.
Jason: So what it comes down to is: everyone building a knowledge graph from non-curated data is going to need some kind of knowledge-based trust. And Amazon, from what I understand, are doing a lot of work on that. Great!
Ultimately, how are they going to make money out of Knowledge Graphs?
Paul: Certain informational SERPs aren't really driving any kind of revenue, so maybe Google can try to push users from there to SERPs that have more paid results - kind of piggy-backing. Perhaps the "neighbour" model will work for them. They can start pushing paid elements in certain informative parts of the knowledge graph. Perhaps around events, appointments and things like that. But I think what they're really gunning for is a huge disruption. One place that will see a huge disruption is the medical knowledge graph. We've seen that with Mayo clinic taking overdiagnosis of patient symptoms. Right now, that's not money-making, because it's so far up the funnel. But it has changed the game already: healthcare operations have stopped creating content around symptoms because Google's got that sewn up. They have no opportunity. So, what are the big four playing at? Apple have health records on forms and they're starting to do life-alerts and things along those lines. Google Duplex is an interesting play that aims at appointments. Microsoft opened up their Healthcare division last year. And then Amazon are looking at insurance with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase. All of these are massive disruption plays. And if they all start playing at the same time, it could get quite ridiculous. They are all amassing enormous amounts of data behind the scenes. And they are using AI to exploit it. For example, in some cases, they have a 99% success rate when using image AI to identify metastatic breast cancer, whereas human pathologists have a 62% failure rate. I can see a scenario not too far away where people can take a picture of a mole on Google lens, send it to a telemedicine doctor, who can then have the image analyzed in the medical knowledge graph, then Duplex can set up an appointment with the local GP, sort out your insurance and order your prescription drugs from Amazon, Google or whatever. And that seems that it would work extremely nicely, all told. That is a major disruption.
Jason: Okay, brilliant. That's a bit of a step up from my Google Maps example - there's actually a commercial goal at the end, in that they can push people right along the acquisition path from informational search to purchasing something. So the monetizing of the knowledge graph is being able to catch people at one point along the funnel and then push them through to purchasing.
Paul: Yes, yes.
Jason: Question: is the medical part of the knowledge graph particularly well-developed?
Paul: Yes. The data is leaps ahead of the rest.
Jason: So that's a space to watch. I can look at healthcare and just copy what they're doing.
Paul: Pretty much.
Jason: Wow. Next up. Here's my resumé about the different knowledge graphs.
Google wants to understand the whole world,
Diffbot have great claims to the amount of knowledge they have, and they feed some big players - E-bay, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo.
Amazon, arguably, concentrating on the knowledge that is on a path to purchase, but they're keeping pretty quiet about what they're doing.
Microsoft is possibly very strong, but they're keeping pretty quiet.
Apple have a walled garden, and they're still keeping pretty quiet, but they've got all their data locked in through the IOS.
IBM won jeopardy in 2011, and they haven't done very much since.
Facebook - I have no idea.
How do you see the future of these knowledge graphs?
Bill: Remember I said I'm sad that Google is under-exploiting its knowledge graph? Well, the things I was shitting on will, at some point, be implemented a little bit better. Eventually, the real value of what a full, healthy knowledge graph can do will be finally obtained by Google users.
Paul: Yes. And it'll be very, very interesting to see how all this unfolds, and also how quickly this unfolds. As an example, in just two years, the understanding of the university I cited earlier has become more accurate and we can now nail searches with modifiers for particular topics around our entity. Google are now getting it right more often than they're getting it wrong, and I think that's encouraging. They still screw it up quite badly sometimes and are sometimes spammed. But it's definitely getting better.
Christine: In the long term, they need to move along the path towards natural language processing in order to pick up on all these entities. Then they need to use machine learning and human interaction to correct what they've got wrong. Long term, they will get to the point where the knowledge graph is feeding itself and do away with having any interpreters. Gary Ilyes has said they'd like to get away from Schema in about five years. That's the direction that they're taking. I like to think about a child who is learning. Their algorithms and everything at this point are in their infancy, maybe like a one or two-year-old child; but they are shooting for full-blown language skills within the next five to seven years.
Jason: Yeah, brilliant. In their infancy. Not quite what you were saying, but I really like the concept of educating a child. That idea of looking at knowledge graph and saying, "Okay, we've got a child here, we need to educate it." And for a child to learn, it needs simple information that it can understand, it needs drip feeding and it requires that the information is confirmed and re-confirmed and re-confirmed by trusted sources - parents, teachers, friends, grandparents, sisters, brothers. That is much the same for a knowledge graphLastly, the position zero profile. An important part of this series.
How can the knowledge graph affect position zero?
Bill: Bill Clinton plays the saxophone. If you actually type in "What instrument does Bill Clinton play?", you get a whole knowledge card in position zero on the saxophone. That kind of vague result makes me think there's more opportunity for Google to get that right, and make a very valuable position zero. By extension, that is a really good opportunity for marketers to try to get that position zero by optimizing for the knowledge graph or optimizing for rich answers. That's the thing that voice search is really big on. It's getting that rich answer. So optimization isn't just about making people click the little blue links, it's about making sure that your message is passed through, even when you're using voice search. As SEOs, we need to think beyond just getting the clicks. Google has changed, and we have to change with it because it's not going to go back.
Jason: Okay. Brilliant stuff. Paul, have you got a comment about position zero or anything that knowledge graph brings to the table that can be useful to us as marketers?
Paul: I think one thing that's interesting with the new Pixel and the new Assistant routines. And the way that Google has got prescriptive with the way that it's working people through particular workflows. We can aim to influence that. The better we do there, the better we'll be able to provide useful information to the user and give a better expérience throughout the user journey.
Jason: Brilliant. What I hear there is "pull the user in at the beginning of their journey, then make sure we accompany them from the moment they asked the first informational question about what we can potentially sell them, right through to when we actually sell it to them. And not losing them along the way."
Paul: Exactly. And I read something the other day. The Holy Grail really is to be invisible. People aren't supposed to know that you're there, with the knowledge that we have. These answers can be given and can help people and also give them what they require without you being in the way.
Christine: More concretely - right now position zero's kind of a blend of different kinds of content that's pulled directly from pages or schema…. And in truth quite a variety of sources. The knowledge graph can help make all that extraction a little more accurate. Sometimes position0 can pull up the completely wrong result, just because it's pulled the HTML from an inaccurate page. As it gets better and more sophisticated and becomes more able to understand the factual nature of the data, the Knowledge graph can greatly help.
Jason: Great! We've come to the end of the chat. I'd like to thank Bill, Christine, and Paul. That was really, really, really, really cool. I got a lot out of it. For the next episode, "how to get entities in the knowledge graph", please do join me next week, same time.
Bill, Christine, Paul, you've been absolutely wonderful and I thank you.


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Under the big umbrella family of Legumes (which includes soybeans, peanuts, fresh beans and fresh peas), lentils can be found categorized under the Pulses sub-family. Its siblings in the Pulses family are dry beans, dry peas, chickpeas. Essentially, pulses refer to the dried edible seeds of specific plants in the Legume family. Varieties of lentils grown include yellow lentils, red lentils, green lentils, brown lentils, black (Beluga) lentils and French (du Puy) lentils.
Just like the other lentils, red lentils are a great low-fat source of protein and other nutrients. A half cup of raw red lentils provides 22 grams of protein, along with 10 grams of fiber, 3 grams of zinc and 7 grams of iron. Red lentils are also a source of phosphorus, potassium and folate.
So…how to you cook it? When I first started on the path to plant-based eating, I was unsure and daunted by many things. For one, how does one cook lentils? What do I cook lentils with? Do I just eat it by itself? I've since learned a lot and want to share my experience and knowledge with you. Cooking lentils is actually super easy and they can be used in a myriad of ways in the kitchen to create tasty yet filling dishes. Here is a very simple straightforward way to cook red lentils:
- 1 cup dry uncooked red lentils [172 g]
- 2 cups water [480 mL]
Measure a cup of dry uncooked red lentils into a small pot.
Rinse the red lentils once or twice in cold water and drain out the excess water.
Add 2 cups of cold water to the pot.
Place the pot uncovered on the stovetop on a medium heat setting. Once the pot contents start to boil, turn down the fire to a low setting, so that the pot contents continue to simmer gently.
Cook 6-8 minutes then taste the lentils to ensure they are cooked through. If so, turn off the heat setting and move to the pot to an unheated burner.
Use a slotted spoon to remove the cooked lentils into a separate bowl to cool. (Reserve the lentil cooking liquid, as this can be used as a vegetable broth in other recipes.)
You can now use the cooked and drained lentils in your cooking!
Reserve the lentil cooking liquid as this makes a great vegetable broth base for other dishes (this keeps in the fridge for a few days). Note that some recipes call for using the uncooked red lentils which will save even more time during your cooking. I usually like to make a bigger batch of red lentils as once (like 2 dry uncooked cups' worth), as the leftover cooked lentils keep well in the fridge for a few days, and can be used for other dishes. Cooked lentils also freeze well so you can make extra and just freeze a portion in a freezer safe container to take out later and thaw to use in another dish.


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As a discouraged woman, early in life, I would like to offer 20 suggestions on how to stay encouraged in your dreams and goals.
(1) Do not allow others to put you down.
(2) Listen to yourself. You need to have a healthy self-esteem to do this.
(3) Test it out. Read about your condition or what others' say about you. Decide whether it's true or not.
(4) Ask yourself, "Is it true what I'm hearing?" Once you know, you can eliminate the negative thought that there is something missing or wrong with you.
(5) Believe in yourself. If you don't, neither will anyone else.
(6) Ask yourself what your gut feeling is. Go with that. Gut feelings are there for a reason.
(7) If you have tested out what someone says and it's not true, delete that person from your life. If it is a family member, limit your communication with them. This is not easy, but it is necessary for you to grow as a person.
(8) Do not feel sorry for yourself. It will not help the situation and possibly can hurt the situation as people will see you as weak.
(9) If, in fact, you do have a limitation, find a way to deal with it. You can either be a "poor me" person or an "I can and will do it, anyway" person.
(10) Practice brain exercises to strengthen your mind. These can be found in many books and articles. Go to the library and do a search on brain exercise.
(11) Look for alternative ways of doing things. For me, it was finding the right magnification to see better with.
(12) Seek out support groups that you can join. You will find that these groups have people in them just like you—people who understand and care.
(13) Read books about Successful Failures. These are people who were told they could not do something and did it better than anyone else!
(14) Read Investor's Business Daily's leaders for success column.
(15) Watch Game Changes and learn about what great people did to succeed.
(16) Listen to Audio Tapes on your iPod to hear stories of success.
(17) Meditate.
(18) Get rid of any negative self-talk. We have over 50 thousand thoughts a day. Do you want yours to be negative?
(19) Accept the person you are and were meant to be.
(20) THRIVE just because.
~Dr. Joyce


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Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 19th November 2013 Written Episode Update
Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 19th November 2013 Written Episode, Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi 19th November 2013 Written Update
The episode starts with sanjay being told by everyone to give a sweet to bhavna. Then he picks up one and gives to bhavna and everyone clap. Shruti is unable to see this and is feeling jealous and so she goes away drom there. Then prabha goes to her and then shruti tells prabha that because of her there will be no problem in the marriage and she will not do something such that sanjay and bhavna's marriage will gain any problem. Then prabha tells her that she does not need to act and she knows that shruti has come there to make another plan to take sanjay in his love. Then she tells shruti that her plan has failed and shruti cant do anything and then she tells her that what hse had said to her about forgetting sanjay and how she had blackmailed her and then she tells her that if she interprets in their marriage and even if she thinks of becoming the daughter in law of the house then she will have top go through her dead body. Prabha goes. Sanjay standing behind the window listens to this and then says to himself that how could mom do this and why did she blackmail shruti. Then bhavna comes and talks rudely to shruti that now she cant do anything as sanjay is all hers and that house. Shruti starts crying. Sanjay goes out.
Then shruti goes home and khushboo then asks her that how was the function. Shruti sits down. Then jasuben comes and tells shruti that she had to empty the house in 2 days but why is she still there. Then shruti tells her to give her sometime more and she will surely empty the house when she gets another house. Then jasuben tells her that since so many days she is saying that she will go but she is not and she will remove them if they don't go on time and then she goes. Shruti starts crying and then dadi and ami tell her not to cry.
Next day everyone is preparing for the marriage and preparations are in full swing. Prabha comes and a sweet man comes and gives her a sweet made by him to taste. She tastes and tells him good and tells that it should be made in large quantity and guests should not complain. Then sanjay's business partner comes and asks everyone standing together that whether sanjay is ok or no.
everyone say yes then he tells them that today sanjay gave him his resignation letter and is saying of going forever to U.S. then they get shocked and pravbha tells him that she will talk to sanjay. Then dad tells that he will talk. Prabha tells him that he will not be able to tell him to stop, then dad tell that he will at least be able to understand him. Sanjay comes home, dad makes him understand that what he is doing is like acting like a coward and his son never acted like that and why is he running like this and then dad tells him that his son(sanjay) always fought in tough times also and now also he should do that and then goes and tells prabha to listen to what sanjay is saying. Prabha goes where sanjay is packing his bag, mom tells him that why is he doing this does he not care for her happiness and what will he do with bhavna.
Sanjay tells her that she is not cared about him and his happiness and is always thinking of herself. Prabah tells him that she wanted only that her son should get all the happiness of the world. Sanjay tells that today she has to choose between him and her stubbornness and if not then he will go away to U.S. then he tells her that she blackmailed shruti and now she has to go to shruti's house and tell her to be the daughter in law of that house and make her wear those bangles which she gave to bhavna. Then mom tells ok.
Precap: prabha is telling riddhi that she will go to shruti and make her her daughter in law but today she has lost but that lose has taken her one step to her victory.
Update Credit to: Vishwal


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What is the Melbourne IT mirror?
The Melbourne IT mirror was established in 2005 under AS24557 (then AussieHQ Pty Ltd) as a means to rapidly roll out updates across our server fleet from one central location, rather than having each server download from external sources individually. Over time we have made resources available on this mirror to the public at large, and were official mirrors for several large open source projects including Apache, Debian, CentOS, CloudLinux, PHP, Fedora and Ubuntu.
Sadly, due to the closure of the data centre it was housed in, the mirror is due to be decommissioned very soon (August 2020).
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Speeches & Floor Statements
Floor Speech: "School Safety"
Posted on April 10, 2014
I support the senator from Iowa and his request that this bill go to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
In the Republican Conference, we talk a lot about the importance of taking legislation through committee so it can be amended and considered through the regular order. This is certainly important legislation. All of us would agree on that.
The senator from Pennsylvania and the senator from West Virginia deserve a lot of credit for bringing this terrible story to our attention and proposing we address it. And I think we should. But the appropriate way to do that here, is to take it to the committee of jurisdiction to be considered in a markup, amended, and see if anyone has a better idea.
My second reason for hoping this bill goes to the HELP committee is that I have my own idea. I think this bill poses an important question to the Senate about whether we want to constitute ourselves as a national school board. That is, in fact, what we would be doing if we passed it into law.
In our country there are 100,000 public elementary and secondary schools. They all have a principal who is in charge of the employees in that school.
This bill is about determining what kind of criminal background check those school employees should have. What is the principal supposed to do? Doesn't the principal have any responsibility for this? Can the principal just say that this is the job of the United States Senate, so I don't have to worry about that?
There are 14,000 local school boards across West Virginia, Tennessee, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and all of our other states. What is the responsibility of these local school boards when it comes to determining the qualifications of their teachers or the health and safety of their students? Do the members of the local school board say: We don't have to worry about those questions too much because the U.S. Senate will determine for us what the qualifications for teaching will be or how we will keep students healthy and safe in our local public schools?
There are 50 governors of our states. I used to be one of them, as was the distinguished senator from West Virginia. I got pretty tired of people flying to Washington, D.C. thinking that they were the only ones who had any sense of responsibility for the public school students in Tennessee. In fact, I felt like the more Washington, D.C. intruded into Tennessee by making decisions that we should be making for ourselves, the less responsible we felt for those decisions and the less effective we were at doing our jobs.
I remember in the early 1990s there was a piece of legislation which whizzed through the Senate and the House just like this piece of legislation has been doing. It was called the Gun-Free School Zones Act, and it came after a particularly terrible shooting at a school. We still have those shootings today, and it wrenches our heart every time they happen.
So, after the shooting, the U.S. Congress said: We will fix it. The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional because it exceeded the authority of Congress under the Commerce Clause -- that in effect it wasn't Washington's job; it was the job of the states and local communities to determine the issue of gun possession around schools.
I submit that the safety of our schools is the job of the parents of those schools, of the principal in that school, of the community which supports that school, of the local school board, of the supporting organizations, and of the governor and the legislature of the state. If they can pretend they can kick that responsibility up to Washington, I think that is wrong. I do not think that is within our constitutional framework in the United States. Those responsibilities belong locally.
The senator from Iowa and I have a terrific relationship and ideological differences on many occasions. I spent the morning debating with him about whether his proposal for early childhood education would in effect create a national school board.
He basically made the same argument that is being made here. He said: If we are going to give states money from Washington for early childhood education, we have a responsibility to define how that money is spent, including the parameters for what the teachers' salaries should be.
So if we can define what criminal background checks ought to be for school employees in Maryville, TN, public schools, we can define what the teachers' salaries ought to be in the Maryville, TN, public schools. If we can decide what the safety measures in the school ought to be, we can decide what the maximum size of classes ought to be. We can decide what the length of the school day ought to be and what kind of vision and health screenings we ought to provide.
Those decisions are important for children as well. Whether the children are fed properly is important as well. Are we going to kick those decisions upstairs to the U.S. Senate and say: You set the rules for that.
Physical activity programs. The distinguished senator from Iowa has been a champion for more physical activity his whole career here. He would like to set that as a goal from Washington. I think that is the job of a local community.
Professional development for school staff. If we make decisions about criminal background checks for staff, we can make decisions about their professional development as well.
How about academic standards and curriculum? In the state of Tennessee and in many other states there has been a near rebellion over the so-called Common Core State standards. The important issue is about how we raise standards for children who need to learn more to succeed. But the problem is that Washington got involved with the standards, and people in our state and many other states don't like national school boards and Washington control of public schools.
So I think we should stop and think about this. I would prefer to see the federal government in Washington act as an enabler of states and local school boards rather than a mandator.
I would like to see us take this terrific focus the senators from Pennsylvania and West Virginia have put on the importance of criminal background checks and the safety of our children by making it easier for states and local school boards to search a state criminal registry, a state-based child abuse and neglect registry, a fingerprint-based FBI criminal history, a search of the national sex offender registry.
Forty-six states already require all public school employees to go through some form of a background check. Are we to say we know better than they do? If so, what does that say about our entire structure of public education and whether we should just tell the 14,000 local school boards in the U.S. to disband?
We don't need you to make decisions about the safety of the schools in your district. We will do it in Washington. We don't need you to make decisions about academic standards and curriculum. We will do that here?
I think we in Congress should be enablers, not mandators. I think we should take this powerful focus the two senators have put on criminal background checks for school employees, take it to the HELP committee, and put a spotlight on making it easier and more important for all 100,000 principals, all 14,000 local school boards, all 50 state governors to do it, help parents to be aroused, and put the spotlight where the spotlight ought to be.
If they want a gun-free school zone, put the spotlight on the school and the community around it. If they want a safe school, put the spotlight on the school and the community around it. If they want to have a criminal background check system to keep predators out of schools, put the spotlight on the principal, the school board, and the community around it. That is the way to effectively do it. That is the way to respect our federalist system of government and our constitutional framework. That is the way to avoid creating a national school board.
So I look forward to working with the senator from Iowa, the senator from West Virginia, and the senator from Pennsylvania. This is an important issue. I would like to see it become law. But I would like for our government in Washington to be more of an enabler of local school boards and school principals than a mandator from Washington.
I am willing to support holding a hearing on the bill, moving it rapidly through the HELP committee, and moving it back to the Senate floor. I will make my argument in committee or on the floor, and I may win or I may lose. But I have thought about the gun-free school zones act for more than 20 years, and I thought about it from the point of view of a parent and of a governor.
The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has conservative Republicans on one side and liberal Democrats on the other. I spend most of my days on the committee trying to argue my Democratic friends out of their good ideas that they want to impose on every local school district in America. There is a moral imperative to have high academic standards for children. There is a moral imperative to have physical education for children. There is a moral imperative to have breakfast for children. There is a moral imperative to help disabled children. There is a moral imperative to do all these things. We all feel that. But just because we in Washington contribute 10 percent of the money spent on elementary and secondary education doesn't mean we should substitute our judgment for that of the local school board and the principal who is accountable to that community for the safety of each child in their school.
We ought to think about that before we start assuming these responsibilities because if we pass this bill into law, leave people to think that we solved the problem, and another problem happens, then who is going to be held accountable? The local principal? The local school board? The governor? No. Maybe the Senate will be held accountable because we took it upon ourselves to say to the parents: We have kept your child safe.
We should enable parents. We should enable schools. We should enable local school districts to create safe and effective schools with high standards. We should give parents choices of schools with effective teachers, but we shouldn't mandate it or define it from Washington. That is my argument, which I would like to be considered when we think about the extent to which we ought to say to a local school board or principal: We are going to define for you what a criminal background check should consist of for the people you hire in your schools. I pledge to work on it as rapidly as Senator Harkin can move it through the committee. I will make my argument, and we will come to a conclusion.
I appreciate the senators from Pennsylvania and West Virginia putting a focus on such an important issue, and I look forward to a speedy conclusion to the debate and a passage of an appropriate bill on an important issue. I just hope it enables instead of mandates.
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Release Blitz including Excerpt – Once Upon a Wild Fling by Lauren Blakely
My brother's best friend has a proposition for me. Have I mentioned he's a sexy single dad? Tell me more…
There are a million reasons why Miles Hart isn't the man I should date but allow me to enumerate the top three. He's friends with my brother, he's a single dad, and he's a sexy, in-demand rock star. He might as well wear an off-limits, totally unavailable, and don't-even-attempt-to-ride-this-ride sign.
Then he asks me to be his plus-one when his band plays at his high school reunion, and the night unfolds in ways I never expect. Continue reading


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Groped teenage girl while she slept
A 32-YEAR-OLD man who groped a 14-year-old girl while she slept was given a 12-month suspended sentence at last week's Portlaoise Circuit Court.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was previously given a ten-month sentence for the offence at a sitting of Portlaoise District Court, having been convicted of sexual assault in a home in Portlaoise on June 28, 2011. He was appealing this ten month sentence at the circuit court.
Defence, Mr Rory Hanniffy said there was now a "fulsome" probation report on his client, which deemed him "a low enough risk".
Remarking that the injured party had "a disgusting experience inflicted on her", Judge Tony Hunt imposed a 12-month sentence, suspended for 12 months on condition the man keep the peace, be of good behaviour, and remain under the supervision of the probation services. He will also be subject to notification under the Sex Offenders Act for five years.
Facts of the case were outlined at an earlier court sitting, by Garda Ray Demody and State solicitor, Mr Donal Dunne.
The court heard that the injured party went to bed at 3.15am, but was woken up to find the defendant with his hand up her top, squeezing her breast. She screamed and the owner of the house came to the room, where a struggle ensued with the defendant. There were four adults in the house, including the defendant. The girl had arrived at the house for a sleepover and had been playing cards and Monopoly. Some of the adults were drinking alcohol, but the girl was just drinking Coke. The girl got into bed in her clothes and when she woke up, she felt a hand going up and down under her top, with the defendant's hand moving from around her belly button up to around her breast.
The defendant wrote a letter of apology to the injured party, but she did not wish to receive it. She was satisfied to accept his offer of €1,000 compensation.


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The Lodge hall, Media room , reception area and kitchen will also be prepared and clean These areas should be left as they are found after the hire period is completed.
Caterers are expected to clean and pack away the supplied equipment , crockery and cutlery etc when the function meal is completed. Barmen are asked to clean and pack away the glassware and leave the bar as they found it. There is a dishwasher machine to do this on a 30 minute cycle.
All refuse from the event should be removed to the bins bags and recycle containers provided . Please advise if you wish us to hire staff for this cleanup on your behalf.
A refundable bond of 1000 dollars for breakage and damage incurred is requested before the event.
Cooks Gate if hired for a private vacation. The whole property is included and your privacy is assured.
The management should be advised if extra guests are staying over during the rental. There is no daily housekeeping routine unless requested. Bedrooms are cleaned and changed every 3rd day or when requested. Gardeners may be in the grounds and the property manager can be easily reached if need be. Bring your boat, ample parking, Bring the pony if you wish, well fenced fields. Please enquire.


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Brexit uncertainty in the UK impacts retail industry
Recent political uncertainty, and a lack of clarity about the UK's intended exit from the EU have made it difficult for retailers to effectively plan for life beyond Brexit.
However, consumer confidence aside, some retailers who failed to hedge their currency exposure have already seen an increase in the cost of goods purchased from overseas. Other retailers who hedged for 12 months are also seeing their agreements come to an end. A general reluctance to increase prices means that margins for those buying from overseas are being squeezed.
Tariffs and VAT
Supply Chain mapping needs to be high on the retail agenda. When the UK exits the EU, in the absence of any other agreed arrangements, World Trade Organisation (WTO) tariffs will apply to imports and exports between the UK and the EU. WTO tariffs will also apply to imports and exports between the UK and non-EU countries with whom the EU currently has free trade agreements. This is likely to lead to increased administration and costs. Retailers need to consider their contractual obligations, the added costs and potential time delays in transit.
For VAT purposes, assuming the UK leaves the single market, goods supplied to UK retailers would become imports and so would need import VAT to be paid at customs before the goods can be released. This could potentially create a significant cash flow disadvantage for retailers importing expensive goods, as this VAT will only be recoverable on the next VAT return.
Customs duty
The impact of customs duty could also be a major concern for UK retailers. If an agreement cannot be reached for the UK to be part of a customs union with the EU, then customs duty may be charged on the import of goods from the EU. This duty is not recoverable, so would be an actual additional cost for UK retailers. Likewise, for UK retailers selling to the EU, the goods may attract duty in the recipient country, potentially deterring EU customers from purchasing from the UK.
Despite the uncertainty surrounding trade relations, tariffs and VAT, retailers are having to plan and consider all the potential changes that may lie ahead. Some companies are considering the creation of an EU hub to ensure that they maintain access to the free market. Others are throwing their net further afield and exploring the possibility of extending their supply chain beyond the EU to more price competitive countries. For some companies, moving their sourcing back to the UK may be the most appropriate move, although this will obviously be dependent on the availability of the same quality of product in the UK.
If you would like advice on your retail business and trading abroad please get in touch with us on 01903 234094.
A version of this blog originally appeared on the website of one of our MHA association member firms, MHA MacIntyre Hudson.


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This past year has been crazy for me. It's been full of amazing opportunities like Mom Congress, the launch of KidzVuz, spending the day with Sony and photographer Brian Smith at BlogHer, being on ABC News Now and speaking at the 140 Edu Conference and She Streams. But none of these events would have been possible – or nearly as fun – without an amazing support system of family and friends. As I've gotten busier and busier this year I've had less time to spend with many of my non-work friends – and I miss them! So when I got the opportunity to try out a new payment system called Serve from American Express, and take out a bunch of my girlfriends, I jumped at the chance.
We are lucky to live in NYC where there are so many fab restaurants and we headed to Landmarc at the Time Warner Center, which not only does a great lunch but overlooks Columbus Circle and Central Park.
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It's been a busy August for everyone involved in Sassy Family. At the end of the month we had our swap in Oakland at the Oakland Baha'i Center and it's going to be our last one (for a while) with Sarah Scarborough. She's expecting baby #3 in October and is preparing for a huge change in her family. Since she loves doing these swaps, she was super excited to do this last one and have a lot of familiar faces come. There were also a lot of new faces, since the event was picked up by an African-American mom's group in the area. Thanks so much to Sarah for her work, along with Rana Chang and Siu Akiula, our connections with the Oakland Baha'i Center. Plans are in the works to host our next swap in November, with new board member Ingrid as the host. Look for details soon!
In Nashville, myself, Colleen (our fabulous parent volunteer), and board member Barbara are getting ready for our next swap on October 23. It's a Sunday this time because the venue that has been donated to us, Main Street Gallery, is in the height of art show season and Sundays were their only available date. Hopefully the event will be a big as the last one with 65 people who attended. Looking forward to seeing everyone at that event.
In Nashville, we are also planning to do small clothing giveaways to needy moms. Partially out of necessity (our storage unit is FULL) and of course to help the community, Sassy Family will be doing giveaways to teen moms through some of the public schools in the area. More info on that will be on the website.
The final thing that I am working on for Sassy Family is our fundraiser. Sassy Family will be doing a GoFund Me fundraiser for one month, September 15-October 15. Funds are needed to continue these events and will be used for advertising, supplies, and storage maintenance in Nashville and Oakland. Look for the link on our website and our Facebook page, but if you'd like to still donate before the GoFund me drive, click on the donate link on our front page!
Thanks for continuing the work of Sassy Family.
Founder and Operator of the Sassy Family Craft Fair and the Sassy Family Kid's Clothing Swap
November 2018


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Empire State Connector Open Solicitation Website
|As part of the Stage Two process of its Open Solicitation, ESC is offering generation suppliers a final opportunity to submit non-binding indicative energy supply offers. Participants to Stage One are also offered an opportunity to update their previous offers. All new and updated offers will be due before 5 p.m. on December 21, 2018. New transmission service customers interested in procuring energy from upstate New York for physical delivery into New York City via the ESC will also have until December 21, 2018 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time to submit non-binding Expression of Interest (EOI) forms to reserve space on the line.
On November 27, 2017, Empire State Connector ("ESC") launched their Open Solicitation to allocate transmission capacity on the proposed 1,000 megawatt, 265 miles, HVDC electric transmission line connecting Upstate New York to New York City (More information on the ESC).
London Economics International LLC ("LEI") has been retained as the Independent Solicitation Manager to conduct the Open Solicitation according to FERC-established guidelines and ensure that the Open Solicitation is fair, transparent, and not unduly discriminatory. This website serves as the portal to provide interested parties with information on the project as well as up-to-date information on the Open Solicitation process.
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May is National ALS Awareness Month. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal cord. More than 5,600 people each year are newly diagnosed with ALS.
Living with ALS impacts both the patient and his or her family. However, Social Security Disability benefits should be available. People who have ALS meet the medical qualifications for Social Security disability benefits because ALS is one of Social Security's "Compassionate Allowances." A Compassionate Allowances condition is one that the applicant's disease or condition clearly meets the statutory standard for disability. The agency can quickly identify potential Compassionate Allowances and then quickly make decisions and begin monthly benefit payments. In essence, it speeds up the approval of your Social Security Disability (SSDI) claim.
Social Security launched the Compassionate Allowances program in 2008 with a list of 50 diseases and conditions. There are now more than 100 Compassionate Allowances conditions. The complete list of Compassionate Allowances conditions can be found at www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances.
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The new Fox drama Touch, debuting with a preview on January 25th (prior to its March 19th premiere), shows how seemingly unrelated people all over the world affect each other's lives in ways that are both seen and unseen, known and unknown. From creator/writer Tim Kring (Heroes) and actor/executive producer Kiefer Sutherland, the series will follow widower and single father Martin Bohn (Sutherland), who learns that his emotionally challenged 11-year-old son, Jake (David Mazouz), possesses the ability to perceive the seemingly hidden patterns that connect every life on the planet and he figures out a way to communicate directly with his son through numbers instead of words.
While at the TCA Winter Press Tour, Kiefer Sutherland talked about how he came to be doing another television series so soon after 24, why he responded so deeply to this compelling idea, gave hints about where the series will go after the pilot, and said that he feels he's relatively astute, when it comes to seeing connections in his own life. He also talked about the status of the 24 movie, that he expects to shoot it in late April or early May, that it will pick up within six months of the last episode, and that two hours will represent a 24-hour day. Check out what he had to say after the jump:
Question: How did you come to be doing another TV show?
KIEFER SUTHERLAND: I was doing a play on Broadway, called That Championship Season, and I got a call from a great friend and partner of mine, who I've worked with forever. She said, "I have a script for a television pilot that I think you should read." And I said, "Do you know what? I'm not really ready to do that yet. I think I'm going to finish up the play and do this film with Mira Nair." I really wanted to set some time apart from this amazing experience that I had with 24 and try some different things. She said, "Trust me, you have to read it." And, I remember that I was on about page 35 and I went, "Shit, I'm in real trouble here," because it was just so beautifully written, and it presented itself as an opportunity.
Normally, I would say that I wouldn't think about something like this at all, but I'd made 200 episodes of 24, and it was impossible not to figure out how to navigate what I was going to do next without thinking about that. The character was so vastly different, and the tone of the piece was so vastly different, that that was part of its appeal. I had to re-read it a second time, to make sure that all of the emotional components that I was reacting to so strongly were affecting me on a personal level, as opposed to trying to manage a career. It was unbelievably appealing because it was so different, and then I just emotionally responded to the piece in such a strong way that, by the end of it, I realized that, if they would have me, this was certainly something I wanted to do.
What could you most relate to, with this character?
SUTHERLAND: The real driving force for my character is to really just simply communicate with his son. He wants to have as normal a relationship as he possibly can with his son, which I think every parent can relate to. The rest of the stuff is really for the audience to experience, in how one thing can interconnect or affect another. The driving force for me is to have this relationship with my son. The one parallel that I can actually bring from the two characters is that Jack Bauer was asked to save the day, and there were always going to be casualties. It was never going to be a perfect win. And Martin Bohm, my character in Touch, is never going to have the perfect, idyllic relationship with his son.
There is a circumstance that puts a weight on both characters, where they just will never completely win. That is something that, for whatever reason, I am drawn to, as an actor. If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting, for this next period of time.
Even though this series offers many opportunities to play a different character, the real choice to do this was not because I wanted to get away from 24. The reason why I could not turn this down was because it spoke to me on a really profound level. (Executive producer) Tim [Kring] said one of the nicest things I've heard in a long time. We were just talking about getting older and he said, "You know, at some point, you start to realize you have to be responsible for what you are going to say." And, if there was anything I wanted to be a part of saying, it was this beautiful idea of inter-connectivity and this responsibility that we have to each other as a people, as a race, and to this planet. So, for all of those reasons, that's why I chose to do this show.
Was it important fo you to find a role where you weren't superhuman?
SUTHERLAND: It's not part of the criteria of why I ultimately chose to do this. I think of them as two very, very different entities.
How different an experience is this for you, doing a character who is showing his emotions, compared to what you used to do on 24?
SUTHERLAND: Well, they are both fantastic opportunities. The opportunity that I had on 24, to have to repress all of this stuff and carry that with me, informed the character beautifully, for me. To be able to have the antithesis of that, with this opportunity now, where he can openly show and have an emotional reaction to what is actually happening, at this exact moment, is another fantastic opportunity. The one thing I learned over the course of doing 24 was that those characters developed over a long period of time. If we are lucky enough to be able to do this show for a few years, this character will grow. This is an aspect that I would like to see this character grow in. Very much like in 24, where the repression was something that got heavier and heavier and heavier, this will hopefully become more and more open.
How is this character's strength different from Jack Bauer?
SUTHERLAND: He's got an unbelievable perseverance. I think that any person, especially a single parent, who is dealing with a child with special needs is going to require that. The people that I have known, that have been in that situation, have an unbelievable strength.
What's it like to play off a character like Jake that doesn't give you much back?
SUTHERLAND: He gives me a lot back, actually. David [Mazouz] an extraordinary, young little actor. He was the first person I read with, out of about 25 young children. I remember that my reaction to that first reading was, "Oh, this is going to be fantastic. If they're going to be like this, we'll find an amazing kid." And then, I read with the second one and I was like, "No, the first one was better." And then, I read with about five more and I was like, "No, that first kid was still pretty good." And then, around 20 or 23, I was like, "Will you just hire the first kid?" He was really just unbelievably special. It's a real gift to be able to speak with very minimal body language, but he has something in his eyes that breaks my heart.
Is it a new set of people, in every episode?
SUTHERLAND: Yeah.
Will any of them return, at some point?
SUTHERLAND: Yeah, but it would not be the characters in the forefront of any single episode. There might be a third character, way in the background. For those of you who watch the show for the 13 episodes, or for the 22 episodes for the year after, if you watch every episode, you might see a character come back. But, for someone who's got a schedule where they're catching one episode here and one episode there, they will have a beginning, middle and end. Having done a serialized show like 24, and Tim [Kring] having done a serialized show like Heroes, to be able to do this was a great opportunity. It's a lot to ask of people, to set aside 24 hours a year to dedicate to one thing, with as many things that are going on in people's lives.
Where will things go with the series, after the pilot?
SUTHERLAND: You'll have to see it. My character's fight is really with child services, who is trying to take his son away from him. In an effort to communicate with his son, as he starts to isolate numbers, my character starts to figure out, very quickly, what he's trying to explain. What's funny is that there are moments when I'm waiting for something to happen and I know something's going to happen, but I might be looking at the wrong person.
How does your character explain to people why he's contacting them?
SUTHERLAND: In Episode 2, I'm given a number and I realize it's an address. So, I go to that address and I walk in and say, "I know this is gonna sound really weird, but I was meant to find you," and the guy is like, "Get the fuck away from me. You're freaking me out!" And then, literally three minutes later, the store gets robbed, and it was the robber he was supposed to be dealing with and not the other guy. He's flying blind. So, the audience knows exactly what he's being sent to do, but he doesn't. There's an almost light-heartedness, of watching him try to figure it out. The audience starts to see a lot more things. You'll start to see the cross-sections between all five storylines, long before I ever do.
Are you noticing more connections, in your daily life?
SUTHERLAND: I think I've been relatively astute about that, in all fairness, which is one of the reasons the show affected me the way it did. Now, instead of saying, "Oh, that was lucky," I think about it a little more and realize that maybe it wasn't that lucky. Almost every great thing that's ever happened to me in my life, I will find out 10 years later that someone made a phone call to someone and was really great on my behalf. I'd rather not wait 10 years to find that out. I think about it in a different way now.
Who, in your own family, has provided you strength when you've needed it?
SUTHERLAND: Everybody. I've been really fortunate. I grew up with my mother, and I have a very, very close relationship with my father now. Tommy Douglas was someone I was very, very close to. I have a twin sister, who has helped me through a lot of stuff. My youngest daughter is 24, and my oldest one is in her 30's. They have come around the other side and are unbelievable support systems, too.
Now that you're doing this series, what is the status of the 24 movie?
SUTHERLAND: The status on the movie is that, hopefully, we will be shooting the end of April, beginning of May.
Do you see the movie as a conclusion to the story in the series?
SUTHERLAND: I see it as a continuation. The script that we've got right now, which I'm very, very excited about, is relatively a direct continuation. It's within six months from the end of the last episode. We'll see where it goes from there.
The plan for the movie is still two hours, and not in real time?
SUTHERLAND: It's two hours, representing 24 hours. The movie is not in real time. It's a two-hour representation of a 24-hour day.
Is everybody from the cast back?
SUTHERLAND: I can't say that.


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Steve Garfield has posted another video, this time he's filmed a bit of a tour of the Comcast TiVo interface as he explores the various functions. The video is just over five minutes long, and a decent tour for those curious about the new software. He has it installed on his existing Motorola 3412 DVR.
I think some of the delay he's seeing is a difference in the way the software works. From what I was told back at CES 2007, some of the intelligence in the cable software is on the head end. So it is kind of like Universal Swivel Search on the standalone TiVos (which might even be based on the same search code, now that I think about it), in that you enter a string to search and it queries the head end. So it isn't all local like the standard search on a TiVo, which introduces some latency. But, conversely, reduces the data storage requirements and power locally.


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May and June 2015
During May and June most of the site was uncovered, revealing many interesting finds. There were lots of nails and bolts and various pieces of metal, slates and pantiles, bricks, carstone and small glass bottles with numbers on the side. The major find was the skull found on 27 June.
Many walls and floors were uncovered, plus small trenches, top of the cistern, a small sloping trench lined with cement, a furnace area and several other features.
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Each of the four generations in today's workplace brings very different—and often contradictory—values, beliefs and expectations to work where the success of the organization depends upon their strengths and collaboration. Never before have four so different generations worked side-by-side: loyal Traditionalists; idealistic Baby Boomers; pragmatic Gen X-ers; and confident Millennials. And a 5th generation—Gen Z / Gen Tech—adds yet another set of expectations to the workplace.
The "magic" of inter-generational (and 'gender' too!) collaboration includes viewing the world through others' lenses, finding the similarities and discovering the strengths that each generation brings to shape a successful enterprise. This happens through trust, agility and respect.
This program begins the discussion for organizations that want to improve collaboration by examining how each generation defines "work" and "how work gets done" so that future conversations can leverage those differences to improve business outcomes.


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- Berlin, 2018
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Die Imaginäre Bewegung (trans.: The Imaginary Movement) is a political interpellation towards spectators in which utopian engaged slogans strike eyes and awake consciousness. The capitalized letters scale game make them disappear into an abstract graphic landscape, recalling the Metagraphics of the Lettrism Movement. Close to the Situationist International practice theorized by Guy Debord in the 1970's and his concept of Psychogeography, an unplanned tour through an urban landscape directed entirely by the feelings evoked in the individual by their surroundings. Walch proposes his own interpretation of the Dérive (trans.: Drift) through an imaginary wandering inspired by Internet exploration. Through the hashtag figure, he is updating political slogans from the last fifty years through an activist drifting. Newsfeed like stripes are woven into the architecture elements. His installation could be seen as a metaphor of how citizen masses should occupy the political terrain. Besides, by extracting parts of those banners from the Acud and bringing them in the public space, the work claims more urgency to the socio-political landscape of Berlin.


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Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Edited by Wendy Bracewell and Alex Drace-Francis
240 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-254-4 $135.00/£99.00 Hb Published (May 2009)
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"…all the individual contributions are analytically sophisticated as well as readable…What stands out is how this collection as a whole enables us to rethink the significance of West-East connections from the perspective of travel writers from the Balkans who, while reflective of the West, often intended their travelogues to be also mirrors of what was either good or bad at home. Another important contribution is the rethinking and critique of binaries in the East-West dialogue." · Slavonic & East European Review
"This relatively slim but infinitely rich and engaging volume discussing travel writing in Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian literatures and cultures promises to change the state of scholarship on the region, as well as the genre of travel writing, more generally…It is bound to lead scholars of the region and travel writing in general, as well as those concerned with nuancing theoretical models of Otherness, in new productive directions." · Anthropological Notebooks
"The essays [in this volume] with their diverse perspectives on European and Balkan identity, as well as on the class, gender, political and literary identity of the travel writers themselves [...] contribute to the enrichment and further opening up of this interdisciplinary field, encompassing travel literature, literary and cultural contacts, in the equally heterogeneous and often arbitrarily-defined Balkan region." · Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore
"The collection fills an obvious gap in the literature on travel writing, and Bracewell's introductory essay, subtitled 'Points of Departure,' provides an excellent overview of the subject." · Choice
"...offers a set of unique perspectives on how travel writers have imagined, experienced and represented other people and other places. It shifts attention to the voices and agency of travellers from the Balkans and the ways in which they have experienced and described the sometimes strange and exotic West... Most fascinating the multi-faceted trajectories of expectations, perceptions and imageries which reverse the standard hegemonic gaze from West to East." · Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational. However, the Balkans have also long been travelled from. The region's writers have given accounts of their travels in the West and elsewhere, saying something in the process about themselves and their place in the world. The analyses presented here, ranging from those of 16th-century Greek humanists to 19th-century Romanian reformers to 20th-century writers, socialists and 'men-of-the-world', suggest that travellers from the region have also created their own identities through their encounters with Europe. Consequently, this book challenges assumptions of Western discursive hegemony, while at the same time exploring Balkan 'Occidentalisms'.
Wendy Bracewell is Senior Lecturer in History and Deputy Director at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, and Director of the AHRC research project 'East Looks West' on East European travel writing in Europe. She has published extensively on the Balkans and on travel writing.
Alex Drace-Francis is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of The Making of Modern Romanian Culture (2006) and of many articles on Romanian and Balkan history, historiography and literature.
Subject: History (General) Literary Studies
Area: Central/Eastern Europe
Chapter 1. Balkan Travel Writing: Points of Departure
Wendy Bracewell
Chapter 2. Hodoeporicon, Periegesis, Apodemia: Early Modern Greek Travel Writing on Europe
Maria Kostaridou
Chapter 3. Dinicu Golescu's Account Of My Travels (1826): Eurotopia as Manifesto
Alex Drace-Francis
Chapter 4. Writing Difference/Claiming General Validity: Jovan Ducic's Cities and Chimaeras and the West
Vladimir Gvozden
Chapter 5. Towards a Modernist Travel Culture
Dean Duda
Chapter 6. Getting to Know the Big Bad West? Images of Western Europe in Bulgarian Travel Writing of the Communist Era (1945–1985)
Ludmilla Kostova
Chapter 7. New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing
Wendy Bracewell
Notes on Contributors
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