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Nearly every player on the New York Mets baseball team dressed in orange like prison inmates to promote gun control, the political movement that would practically turn Americans into a disarmed prison population.
The Mets posed in orange for a photo tweeted out on Tuesday in support of "Gun Violence Awareness Day," which is sponsored by Michael Bloomberg's "Everytown for Gun Safety."
We are #wearingorange in support of National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Get involved: http://t.co/mLtC5UObNe pic.twitter.com/WXOftlyv6T
— New York Mets (@Mets) June 2, 2015
"The New York Mets became the first pro sports franchise to join the campaign and will today release a photo of the entire team wearing orange in support of efforts to reduce gun violence," Everytown said in a statement. "The team will also release a photo of the Mets' front office staff wearing orange in support of the campaign."
Other anti-gun celebrities, such as Sarah Silverman, also posed in orange.
On June 2nd, I'm #wearingorange for the 1st ever National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Join me -> http://t.co/ToQKJpyHCb
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) May 31, 2015
But guess who else wears orange and would likely support gun control? Violent prison inmates who are about to be released.
These nice people #WearingOrange all support gun control for law abiding citizens.
And they're getting out soon. pic.twitter.com/6QKPMscSaD
— Hillary's Uranium (@rovibe71) June 2, 2015
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes," Cesare Beccaria wrote in Essay on Crimes and Punishments, a quote which later influenced Thomas Jefferson. "Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
In other words, a disarmed population is at the mercy of those with arms, just like a prison population which is at the mercy of armed guards.
So it's actually quite fitting that anti-gun activists would dress like disarmed prisoners to push gun control.
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|Which administrative mechanisms are available to enforce the UCP Directive?
In Belgium, the Directive is implemented by the Belgian Law on market practices and the protection of consumers of 6 April 2010 ("Market Practices Act"). The general enforcement of this Act is handled by the Directorate General Control and Mediation (ADCB) (in Dutch: "Algemene Directie Controle en Bemiddeling"; in French: "Direction Générale du Controle et de la Médiation"), which is part of the Federal Public Service of Economy, SMEs, Self-employed and Energy (FPS Economy). The ADCB proactively enforces the Market Practices Act, and is also competent for receiving administrative complaints. The general website of the ADCB can be found at http://economie.fgov.be
|Who can file administrative complaints?
The ADCB allows administrative complaints to be filed by every natural or legal person. There is no need to prove a legitimate interest.
|Do any specific procedural requirements apply to filing administrative complaints?
A complaint can be filed in three ways: (1) The complaint can be directed to the ADCB by submitting an online form on the website of the FPS Economy (http://economie.fgov.be/nl/geschillen/klachten/waar_hoe_klacht_indienen/online_klacht/index.jsp) (2) It is also possible to download a form from the same website and send it in hard copy form to the FPS Economy (http://statbel.fgov.be/nl/geschillen/klachten/waar_hoe_klacht_indienen/index.jsp) (3) If the complainant desires a more personal settlement of the procedure, he can request a personal meeting with one of ADCB's staff members.
|Do the administrative authorities have an obligation to investigate the complaint?
Until December 2009, the ADCB investigated every complaint it received. However, as this consumed a lot of resources, the ADCB decided to launch a rationalisation programme, following the example of some other Member States. Although this rationalisation programme was only introduced in December 2009, it has already resulted in a dismissal of 40% of all complaints. Recently, the ADCB has also started to take into account the financial loss suffered by the complainant. If no financial loss, or only a very small financial loss, has been suffered, there is a high probability that the complaint will not be investigated by the ADCB.
|Are there any specific requirements regarding the provision of evidence to the competent authorities?
A competent official can require a trader to provide the evidence as to the accuracy of any statements disclosed in a commercial practice (article 103 of the Market Practices Act).
|Which court actions are available to enforce the UCP Directive?
Article 2 of the Law regarding the regulation of some procedures in the framework of the Market Practices Act provides for a specific cease-and-desist procedure, handled by the President of the Commercial Court, to counter infringements of its provisions. In addition, a general claim for civil damages can be filed before the competent civil courts.
|Who can start a court action?
Article 113 of the Market Practices Act explicitly allows the FPS Economy, the (inter)professional associations and the consumer associations to initiate a cease-and-desist procedure, even when they have no individual interest in the case.
|Can court actions be initiated by competitors?
Yes, although the applicant must prove its direct and legitimate interest in order to initiate a cease-and-desist procedure or a procedure for civil damages (see infra).
|Can the case be handled through an accelerated procedure?
The cease-and-desist procedure follows a procedure which is similar to the general interlocutory proceedings ("zoals in kort geding" - "comme en référé"). This means that the case can typically be decided in a short period of time, as the terms and the rules of procedure are similar to those of the general interlocutory proceedings. The short term is, however, not guaranteed, since urgency is not a requirement for filing a case under the cease-and-desist procedure. Although it is possible to use general interlocutory proceedings instead of the specific cease-and-desist procedure, it is generally advisable to the use cease-and-desist procedure, as the latter procedure was specifically introduced for countering infringements of the Market Practices Act. Moreover, the cease-and-desist procedure is a procedure as to the merits.
|Are there any specific requirements regarding the provision of evidence to the court?
The Belgian Market Practices Act does not contain any provision on this matter. Consequently, the general rules on evidence as laid down in the Belgian Judicial Code are applicable. According to article 871 of the Judicial Code, the court can order any party to disclose all evidence they dispose of.
|What are the possible civil sanctions and remedies for the infringement of the UCP provisions?
The sanction that results from a cease-and-desist procedure is the cessation of the alleged infringement. The President of the Commercial Court can also order the publication of his judgement (see infra). As civil sanction, Article 41 of the Market Practices Act provides that the consumer may ask the court that the trader shall reimburse the sums paid by him, without restitution of the delivered product, in case of certain unfair commercial practices. In case of an unsolicited delivery of products, this sanction must be applied automatically (hence, without the consumer being required to ask for this sanction).
Furthermore the competent civil court can award damages in the framework of a claim for civil damages based on the article 1382 of the Belgian Civil Code (see infra). These damages, however, should rather be interpreted as indemnifying measure than as sanctions. As is the case for most civil procedures under Belgian law, the Court can also order coercive civil fines, in order to ensure that the decision will be effectively complied with.
|What are the possible criminal sanctions for the infringement of the UCP provisions?
Infringements of the Belgian Market Practices Act are punishable with imprisonment and a series of criminal fines, ranging from 250 EUR to 20.000 EUR (augmented by surcharge). More specifically these criminal sanctions are:
- A criminal fine from 250 to 10.000 EUR for inter alia inertia selling or conducting certain misleading or aggressive commercial practices (art. 124, 13° of the Belgian Market Practices Act);
|What are the possible administrative sanctions for the infringement of the UCP provisions?
The ADCB cannot impose fines or order injunctions. The powers of the ADCB are limited to ordering the immediate cessation of unlawful auctions (art. 121 of the Belgian Market Practices Act) and proposing an administrative settlement to the infringer, for certain infringements (art. 136 of the Belgian Market Practices Act). In case the infringer does not accept the administrative settlement proposed by the ADCB, the ADCB will have to transfer the file to the public prosecutor.
|What are the contractual consequences of an administrative order or a judgement relating to an unfair commercial practice on an individual transaction?
Misleading and aggressive commercial practices can be terminated by initiating a cease and desist procedure. In practice this procedure will be initiated by a competitor or the public prosecutor, who are not a party to the individual transaction with the consumer. The individual transaction will therefore not be affected by a cease and desist decision, since a judicial decision only produces effects between the parties to the procedure, in casu the vendor and his competitor or the public prosecutor. Nevertheless, a procedure can also be initiated by the consumer who contemplates that the contract is void because he has concluded the contract with a mistaken consent. He will thus allege that this mistaken consent originates from inter alia error, fraud or violence. If a competent court concludes that the vendor has conducted an aggressive or misleading commercial practices, the consumer will be able to prove the origin of his mistaken consent and thus his contract will be declared void.
|How can consumers get redress/compensation (e.g. through collective actions)?
Belgian law does not allow a collective settlement of claims for civil damages (class actions). However, consumers do have the possibility of filing a claim for civil damages, even when they did not initiate a cease-and-desist procedure before the Commercial Court. Such claim for damages is subject to the general rules of Belgian tort law (art. 1382 of the Belgian Civil Code), which provide that an infringement of a legal provision (such as the Belgian Market Practices Act) constitutes a fault that can lead to damages, if a causal link with the loss is demonstrated. Although such claim for damages can be filed without having initiated the cease-and-desist procedure, it is nevertheless advisable to do so, because the Civil Court will be bound by the decision of the President of the Commercial Court. Hence, should the President of the Commercial Court find that the claimant has effectively suffered damages as a result of the unfair trade practice infringement, the claimant will only have to prove the size of the damage when he files a claim for compensation before the Commercial Court.
|Can the administrative authorities or the courts require the publication of their decisions?
The President of the Commercial Court can order that his judgment (or a summary thereof) be published either on the inside or outside of the establishment of the infringer or in the newspapers, at the expenses of the infringer, provided that this publication can contribute to the termination of the infringement (Art. 130 Market Practices Act). The ABCD does not have the power to order the publication of its decisions.
|Are there any self-regulatory enforcement systems in your jurisdiction that deal with aspects of the UCP Directive?
Belgium has several self-regulatory enforcement systems. The most relevant example is the Jury for Ethical Practices regarding Advertising ("JEP") (in Dutch: "Jury voor Ethische Praktijken inzake Reclame"; in French: "Jury d'Ethique Publicitaire"). The JEP is a self-regulatory body established by the Council for Advertising (in Dutch: "Raad voor de Reclame"; in French: "Conseil de la Publicité"). At the request of advertisers, it gives preliminary advice on intended advertisements and investigates complaints against actual advertisements, in which case the JEP will recommend the advertiser to either change or stop the advertisement. The body of rules that the JEP uses to evaluate the advertisements includes both traditional rules (including the Belgian Market Practices Act), and norms of good taste and decency. When the advertiser refuses to comply with the recommendations of the JEP, the JEP will request the Belgian media (newspapers, magazines, TV stations, …) not to broadcast the challenged advertisement. Since the majority of the media is affiliated with the Council for Advertising (of which the JEP is its executive and supervising body), the JEP has important moral authority. In practice, advertisers will therefore often comply with the JEP's recommendations.
|Are there any mediating services that deal with aspects of the UCP Directive (e.g., an ombudsman)?
The most relevant mediating services are the Ombudsman for Telecommunication and the Ombudsman of the Insurance Sector. Ombudsman for Telecommunication (Dutch: "Ombudsdienst voor Telecommunicatie"; French: "Service De Médiation Pour Les Télécommunications") The Ombudsman deals with complaints from consumers about their telecom provider. He formulates advice and tries to settle the dispute. In order to acquire a better understanding of the pending complaints, the Ombudsman can ask the telecom provider for any necessary information. Although the Ombudsman has important moral authority, he cannot impose any sanctions. Ombudsman of the Insurance Sector (Dutch: "Ombudsman van de verzekeringen" / French: "Ombudsman des assurances") This private body investigates complaints from consumers against an insurance company; mediates in order to facilitate a settlement; decides on issues regarding the application of the section "consumers" in the code of conduct of insurance companies and intermediaries; and provides advice and recommendations. Although this ombudsman has important moral authority, he cannot impose sanctions.
On the internet site www.ombudsman.be you will find a list of some mediating and ADR services.


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I saw The Fog of War on Saturday night. I strongly recommend that you see it. It was an intensely thought-provoking documentary, made especially powerful by the fact that the history was real. Real people made these decisions. Real cities were destroyed. Real people died — burned to death, shot, or vaporized — by the hundreds of thousands. And millions more could have been killed, as McNamara makes clear. He realized the world was close to nuclear war in October 1962, with the limited information available. But the true situation was even more dangerous than he knew then — nuclear warheads had actually been in Cuba at the time, aimed at the United States, and they would surely have been launched had the U. S. attempted an invasion of Cuba.
How can we be certain never to arrive at that situation again? The course of history that we are currently navigating does not bode well. Once again, a unilateral war. Once again, a oxymoronic "preventive war". A secret nuclear policy, with gathering indications toward escalation and development of new weapons. Continued aggression and deceptive posturing, even while 15000 kg of weapons-grade nuclear material (enough for a thousand nuclear bombs) distributed by the U. S. remains at large around the world. But this time, there is no single enemy. The enemy is a shadow; everywhere and nowhere; with no name and no face. The enemy is no single person; it is a concept in the minds of our assailants that cannot be vanquished by destroying anything or killing anyone.
A wise person once wrote:
The only thing you can learn from history is that people don't learn anything from history.
I would end here if i were trying to be poignant. But that's the easy way out. We can't afford to continue repeating the same mistakes.
One thing the movie reminded me is that everyone believes they are doing the right thing. The kind of conviction that is required to kill thousands of people can only come from an externally rooted belief. You may disagree with me, but i am convinced these people were not insane — they had logical reasons to believe that their actions were for the greater good. This was McNamara's lesson #2: "Rationality will not save us."
I see two reasons that rationality is insufficient.
The first reason is that all sides are dealing with incomplete information, and have neither the trust nor the means to combine that information and cooperate on a solution. The League of Nations was an attempt to provide that means, and today the United Nations plays that critical role. The United Nations must be maintained and made more effective. But that is not enough.
Conclusion 1. Multilateral bodies for co-operative decision making, such as the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, must be maintained and strengthened.
Even within countries, the information is not complete. Leaders hide crucial information from their own citizens; nuclear policies and reasons for war remain behind closed doors, never debated in public. And information within the administration itself is inconsistent and incomplete. According to McNamara, even Curtis LeMay, who directed the firebombings that burned over a million Japanese people to death, said that atomic bombing was unnecessary before the bomb was dropped. But Truman probably didn't know that 63 cities had already been burned to the ground by the firebombings. When Truman gave the order, he believed that Hiroshima was a military base, not a city. The bomb was dropped under LeMay's command — but LeMay was never asked for his opinion. He followed his orders.
Conclusion 2. The rationale for any military policy decision must be debated (publicly if possible) in front of a panel of peer-approved experts in fields relevant to the decision, and their feedback taken into account.
Conclusion 3. The administration must improve its capacity for internal communication and collaborative decision-making.
The second reason is that the impact of such decisions is so far-reaching. McNamara used the words "the fog of war" to refer to the impossibility of decision-making in war because of overwhelming complexity. Even when complete information is available, there are often so many variables that no human mind can comprehend the repercussions of the decision. We can fight that by reducing complexity or by managing complexity.
Where does the complexity come from? We all make decisions every day that also have cascading effects. The difference between these decisions and military decisions is their intended magnitude. War is about exercising power; thus, a major subgoal of the military is to magnify power as much as possible (usually by developing ever more destructive weapons). But, paradoxically, greater force leads to more complicated and less predictable results. The very thing done to exert greater control in fact leads to less control. The escalation must stop. We don't need W.O.P.R. to tell us the solution: The only way to win is not to play.
Conclusion 4. The nations of the world (and the United States especially, as the current superpower) must negotiate to eliminate nuclear weapons and generally to disarm, to reduce the effects of mistakes in decision-making.
Finally we come to the problem of the fog of war itself. There is no ultimate escape from complexity; in the end we must manage and cope with the complexity we face. Information design and information visualization play important roles in achieving this goal, parts of which may or may not involve computers.
Conclusion 5. We must develop the means to organize the information relevant to a complex decision and present it to decision-makers in a form that facilitates fact-based analysis of all the consequences of the decision.
Those are my suggestions.
hukuma made a similar call for better communication and discussion tools on his journal as well, just after seeing George Soros speak.
What would you propose? Go ahead, tell me what you think.
Robert McNamara was recently here in Berkeley, in an open discussion with Errol Morris. Alas, i missed the forum, as well as the one with George Soros, but video recordings are available online. A few of us are organizing a little group viewing of both the McNamara forum and the Soros forum at Kingman this Sunday around 8:30 pm. Want to join us?


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In a talk before the Beverly Hills Bar Association recapped by Variety, Ken Ziffren '65 spoke about the challenges movie studios face in making profits from blockbuster films. Ziffren, founding partner at Ziffren Brittenham LLP and the founder of the Ziffren Center for Media, Entertainment, Technology & Sports Law at UCLA Law, noted that strong film revenues don't always result in profits, and that studios are increasingly challenged by online content providers such as Netflix. "What's scary last year is if you do an analysis of all those $100-million-and-up pictures, two to one of them didn't make a profit," he said.
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In theory, marketing and sales should work simultaneously in a cohesive and transparent environment. After all, they have the same goal: contribute to the overall success of the company by growing pipeline and closing more deals.
While a cooperative relationship between sales and marketing is crucial, a notion of arguably equal importance is a sales rep's ability to market to their prospects directly. Here's why -- a sales person, is in many ways, the CEO of his or her own business.
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Salespeople have officially taken on the role of selling, but in today's rapidly changing business environment, reps must be equipped and ready for anything while they're out on the road selling. This can range from issues and concerns of existing customers, to handling pricing and operations questions for active deals, all the way to marketing and prospecting for new business.
Essentially, being a sales rep is the ultimate form of entrepreneurship, and we all know that entrepreneurs wear many hats for their business. Today's entrepreneurial world of sales is multifaceted and fast-moving. Sales reps must have the tools they need to consistently drive results. As emphatically stated by Alec Baldwin's memorable, if controversial, character in the early 90s flick Glengarry Glen Ross, it is imperative that salespeople remember their ABC's – Always Be Closing.
While perhaps not as do-or-die in real life, arguably sales' most crucial role, in addition to closing deals, is maintaining an abundant pipeline of leads. To do this, salespeople are constantly acting as their own marketers, even as the marketing department creates leads. Maybe a sales rep is hosting a dinner with top customers or inviting top prospects to the big game. Every one of these mini-events is, in essence a campaign.
To reach these customers and prospects, that sales rep needs the ability to spin up a mini, on-brand email campaign to invite top customers. They should be able to easily see which customer and prospects respond, when they respond and to which messages they are most inclined to respond.
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Empowering reps with marketing tools can make all the difference in converting leads into paying customers. No matter how successful marketing is, sales is always looking for more mature and qualified leads. The best salespeople can source their own leads and grow their pipeline through the creative use of their own highly targeted campaigns.
Salespeople are in the trenches, day in and day out, working with prospects and customers. They understand their territories and customers' needs better than anyone. As a result, sales reps relate to their customers, and potential customers, on a deeper level, a local level.
However, marketing a company or a company's products isn't the only type of marketing sales reps do. Equally important is building out, maintaining and marketing their unique personal brand to build trust and credibility with prospects. Customers come to expect a certain quality of sales rep. If they have a recognizable brand or reputation, the effectiveness of retention and upselling customers greatly increases. Word of a great sales rep spreads through customer communities and greatly improves the sales rep's relationship with new prospects, as well.
Salespeople should be empowered with the tools and resources to market themselves and their company's products. This enables sales reps to help create and maintain a sales pipeline that is fluid, growing and constantly evolving, ultimately leading to more leads, higher conversion rates and greater customer retention.
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Whether it's a young horse, an inexperienced rider, or a combination of both, it's important to develop that human-animal bond. As trust develops, both horse and rider gain confidence in one another.
This video seems to show a budding horse/rider relationship. Watch as the horse approaches a ditch, gently inspects it with its hoof, hesitates … and then dramatically over-leaps the obstacle!
Horses are often tentative about obstacles and jumps because of their poor depth perception. It is an issue that can definitely improve as horse and rider become more comfortable with one another.
But as we all know, horses have BIG personalities! Some really are drama queens through and through! They don't like their hooves to touch water or mud, and they insist on leaping well over every obstacle to ensure they stay dry and clean!
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Three shows of 'Bajirao Mastani' cancelled amidst BJP protest in Pune
Pune's City Pride theatre cancelled three shows of the film Bajirao Mastani on Friday after protest by the Bharatiya Janata Party
Pune's City Pride theatre cancelled three shows of the film 'Bajirao Mastani' on Friday after protest by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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The descendants of Peshwa and Chhatrasal dynasty had organised a protest at Shaniwar Wada on December 12 against Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming period drama which stars Ranveer Singh, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone.
The protesters had gathered at Shaniwarwada, the ancestral capital of Peshwas to condemn the promotional videos and songs of the movieand alleged that the film is an attempt to distort history.
Reportedly, the protest was led by Undaysinh Peshwa, the descendant of Peshwas, who was joined by Kothrud's BJP MLA, Medha Kulkarni, the descendant of Chhatrasal.
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LSD Jellyfish wrote:-The Major from Godzilla vs Biollante:
The guy who controls the super x. Normally I wouldn't criticize a character for the inner plot points of the film, but doesn't he just suck at his job? When the fire mirror starts to fail, he keeps using it repeatedly. Then he makes a grave error of where Godzilla will land, and skreeonks up again hard in the second super x fight. I also remember him being late and annoying.
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Appeasing the ally: Zardari working to remove MQM's reservationsFriday, March 23rd, 2012 10:00:42 by News Pakistan Admin
In another attempt to appease the coalition government's enraged ally MQM, President Asif Ali Zardari called for stringent law and order measures in Karachi and asked both Sindh and federal authorities to initiate tough action against anyone involved in extortion and other heinous crimes.
Presiding over a meeting on the law and order situation in Karachi held in the Presidency, the president also addressed existing cyber laws, saying they needed to be revisited to make them responsive to the reality of cyber crimes.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the business community have been protesting against ever increasing incidents of extortion in Karachi. MQM had earlier boycotted the president's address to the joint sitting of parliament, but reversed its decision at the eleventh hour. Now, the party has once again threatened to boycott the ongoing joint session which is reviewing recommendations made for reengagement with the United States.
Presidential spokesperson Farhatullah Babar, who is also a senator, said that a special cell had been established to tackle extortion and complaint centres had also been set up in the offices of the home minister, the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as the Additional IG Police Karachi.
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Vanna White has a new, albeit temporary, gig.
The longtime Wheel of Fortune letter-turner, who has largely remained silent since taking on the job in 1982, will step into the host role after Pat Sajak had emergency surgery.
Wheel of Fortune was forced to pull the plug on taping Thursday after Sajak was hospitalized with a blocked intestine. The 73-year-old, who has been the show's frontman since '82, had surgery and is expected to recover.
Sajak will miss two weeks of work, according to TMZ.
In his absence, White will take a turn spinning the big wheel for the first time ever, starting with the episode taped Friday. She had a brief moment as host in 2013, when Sajak had to go backstage to review a contestant's tape, giving the audience a rare chance to chat with her.
"I try to entertain the audience," White told the Washington Post in 2013. "They don't get to hear me talk too much, so I try to give them a little piece of who I am.
"Our viewers are loyal. They've seen Pat and me together for 30 years. It's like Ken and Barbie. How do you break them up?"


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SPRINGFIELD – Employers' view of the economy stayed gloomy last month.
And while executives think their businesses will survive, they are reluctant to hire staff, according to a monthly survey by the Boston-based business lobbying group Associated Industries of Massachusetts.
Business confidence was 47.6 points for September on a scale where 50 points is considered neutral, according to survey results released Tuesday. Business confidence was 48.5 points in July and 47.7 points in August, making for statistically insignificant changes over the past three months.
"People don't think things are going terribly well," said Andre Mayer, Associated Industries senior vice president for communications and research.
The index was higher in September than the 42 points registered in September 2009, but had fallen from a high of 53.7 points in June, before economic crises in Europe and persistently high unemployment here in the United States stalled the economic recovery, Mayer said.
"It gives you an insight as to how cautious businesses are feeling right now," said Karl J. Petrick, assistant professor of economics at Western New England College in Springfield. Mayer said executives had a confidence level of 53.1 points when asked how their own businesses were faring. That's up from 52.8 points in August and an annual gain of seven points over the 46.1 points in September 2009.
"A lot of companies have been able to make the adjustments," Mayer said. "It's one of the reasons why the employment situation is so bad, actually. They have cut a lot of staff."
Only 23 percent of respondents plan to add workers in the next six months, Mayer said. Twelve percent of the respondents said they plan to cut staff in the next six months. The remainder of the respondents are not planning to add or subtract employees.
"We have a lot of small members for whom it's a big deal to expand or contract," Mayer said.
Manufacturers lost confidence as well, with that index falling to 49.5 points from 50.7 points last month. But the manufacturing index was up from the 44.3 points recorded in September 2009.
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Part of: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28 (NIPS 2015)
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We show that there is a largely unexplored class of functions (positive polymatroids) that can define proper discrete metrics over pairs of binary vectors and that are fairly tractable to optimize over. By exploiting submodularity, we are able to give hardness results and approximation algorithms for optimizing over such metrics. Additionally, we demonstrate empirically the effectiveness of these metrics and associated algorithms on both a metric minimization task (a form of clustering) and also a metric maximization task (generating diverse k-best lists).


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Now that we are a month out from the end of the Mystery Shawl I think it's safe to show you finished photos of my shawl. Last month we had a contest and the pattern has a new name Portico.
I used Jade Sapphire Silk/Cashmere 2 Ply and made the small size. I think my colorway might be exclusive to Purl Soho, because I don't see it on the Jade Sapphire site. The pattern also gives instructions for a larger version, but be forewarned it uses a lot of yarn. You'll need almost double the amount of yarn for those last 40 rows.
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Size: small [large - aka extended] Finished Measurements: 52 [66.5]" (132 [169] cm) wide x 17 [24]" (43 [61] cm) deep
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Symmetry wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Symmetry, since you don't know very much about this, I'll do you a favor and explain it to you.
The Libertarian Party is a joke. Their average state convention consists of 30 high school dropouts in a Holiday Inn conference room making speeches at each other for a day. They're a book club that, every four years, painfully forms into some semblance of a political party.If you want to continue peddling your conspiracy theories, fine. Just realize that the Libertarian Party couldn't conspire to takeover a sidewalk flower stand and you sound very silly sowing these elaborate plots.
Separate from the LP are a number of libertarian (lowercase "L") institutions that predate the 197? founding of the LP by years to decades and have nothing to do with it. These include the CATO Institute, Reason Magazine, etc. The annual budget of the CATO Institute is $25 million. Gary Johnson will spend $3 million on his presidential campaign this year. The former represent the intellectual mainstream of libertarian thought in the U.S., not the Libertarian Party. There is no connection between Reason and LP. I'm not going to try to prove it to you anymore than I'd try to prove Santa Claus didn't exist to a 5-year old. These are just basic facts.
I'm simply pointing out how reliable their mouthpiece is as an indicator of who the Libertarian Party thinks people should vote for.
Hint- they're all for the Libertarian Party candidate.
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If this place sounds a familiar to you, the good news is you're not alone.
In an article conducted by Sheila McClear of the New York Post, McClear clarified something that many office workers have questioned for quite a while: That messy desk is likely to affect your perception in the workplace.
With the snow melting and spring just around the corner, there is no better time to get your office organized! So before you get started, here is a list of 5 tips to help you keep your workspace fresh:
Start SchedulingWhile this tip doesn't require you to actually clean anything, it does play into the entire purpose of spring-cleaning: To get organized. I've already covered the immense amount of value planning can provide to your quality of life once before, so we can skip ahead to all the fun stuff.
You can start by allocating a centralized location for all your scheduling needs. Whether it is a giant whiteboard or something more personal like a pocket planner, you want to get into the habit of writing things down. Studies indicate that the act of writing increases brain activity, making it easier to remember important dates and times. In fact, this is something you can get started on right away; plan a day for your spring-cleaning and make an event out of it!
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Label Everything.As you begin to pack away unwanted items from your workstation, putting labels to use is a great way to ensure your office stays spotless for a long time. You can start by zoning select areas of your office to store unneeded supplies. Actions like creating a mail station not only bring an additional level of organization to your office space, but also create a solid line of communication between your coworkers and yourself. This can help you get control of your incoming paperwork and avoid future clutter.
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- 2 cups of hot water (hot water to dissolve the ingredients properly)
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- 10 drops Melaleuca essential oil (also known as tea tree oil) – this is a natural oil that is notorious for killing germs. Yes, the tea tree oil has a strong scent, but it also has strong cleaning power.
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OK OK, I guess it's time to "fess up." There really is no "FlagNotify.com Services Team." It's just me, from CT sitting in his home office working to give something back to this great nation he has the privilege of growing up in.
However, there is a "we." I take design & layout ideas from my beautiful wife (and quite a bit of grammatical error checking) and incorporate them into this website.
If you like this service, spread the word, if you don't. . by all means, let me know. If something's not working. . .let me know. . .it can be fixed.
Oh yeah, if you would like to put our half staff/full staff picture that is on our frontpage (yes, it's our picture, so no copyright issues there) on your page, drop me a line, I'd be happy to send you some instructions.
How this project came to be:You know the old saying. . ."mother is the . . ." no that's not it. . ."Necessity is the mother of invention? This is true in software too!
You see, a few years ago, my wife (see above) bought me a flagpole (and the flag too) for fathers day, she knew it was something I wanted, so I eagerly put it in the ground right in front of our house. . .did a little research, found that I needed to have lights on it. . . Lit the flag up with some spotlights and voila! we're real Americans now (though we are both born and bred, right here in the good 'ole US of A).
So as all new shiny things eventually lose a bit of their luster, over time, I began to get lax on checking the CT.gov website daily to see where the flag should be.
One day, as I was driving in to work, I hear on the radio that an American Soldier from Connecticut was killed in Afghanistan, and Governor Rell has instructed all flags to be lowered to half staff until the body was interred. At that point, I realized I had not checked for the status for over 6 months. Even worse, my flag was at Full staff on Memorial Day. I needed to fix this.
So on my summer vacation, I sat down by the pool with my netbook, and wrote a little app (yes, I'm a geek, can't help it) that would scan the CT website for markers defining half staff. When the markers were found, it would email me and my wife (and send a text message to us too -- that feature will be coming in future months). I never missed another half staff. This is valuble to me since Presidential mandates can lower the flag. . . but more often is a gubernatorial mandate.
I told my pastor about this app, now understand something about my pastor, an Army Veteran and ex Police Detective for NYC, he takes his flag very seriously. He jumped on the chance for me to add him to my list. And so it began. . I thought, anyone who has a flagpole, wants this. So I opened it up, wrote a little more code, rented a server to host it on, and off we go.
Eventually I rewrote the code to handle more than just Connecticut, found the online status sites for MA and NJ, and added them in. . . NY was a bit trickier, since they don't actually have a flag status site. I wrote the NY governor's office, who in turn got me in touch with the Office of Veterans Affairs. They added me to their notification list, a little more software coding so I can maintain a schedule of our own, and that brings us to what we have today.Thanks for reading and God bless America


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Mini Science Projects About Specific Heat Capacity
Specific heat refers to the amount of heat per unit needed to raise the temperature by 1 degree Celsius. Specific heat is a constant -- the equation for the specific heat of water is 1 calorie gram degree Celsius of water equals 4.186 joules/gram Celsius, which is one of the highest specific heats of any substance. You can develop many small science fair projects on specific heat in less than a day.
Elementary School Science Fair Projects
While most elementary school classroom teachers frown on using an open flame in their classrooms because of safety concerns, many experiments can be done without an open flame, either at home or in a classroom. For example, students can compare the specific heat of water and the specific heat of other objects such as sand, metal or glass. Students can also compare the specific heat of water and ice and discover that both of those specific heats are the same.
Middle School Experiments
Middle school students can measure specific cooling temperatures of water and other objects over a period of time and record their observations. Middle-schoolers can also compare the specific heat of objects to heat conservation. This allows them to discover what they can do during an experiment to maintain the heat of an object -- such as covering a hot cup of water with a lid or a piece of foil -- and what reduces specific heat more quickly, such as putting a cup of water in the shade rather than sunlight.
High School Specific Heat Projects
High school students have moved beyond the comparison of specific heat in objects, and can concentrate on the identification of objects based on their specific heat. Students may want to try identifying metals using their specific heat. Students can heat metals using a burner or a device that can heat a metal to a specific temperature and then measure the specific heat of the metal using a calorimeter. The metals must first be cooled to a specific temperature, which can be accomplished with ice.
For Advanced Students
Advanced students may want to try making a mini compost pile, which self-generates heat. While some gardeners have large compost piles, students can make a mini pile in a large plastic container. Brown waste, such as leaves, pine straw and twigs, are placed on the bottom, while green waste like vegetables are placed on the top. Water is then used to moisten the pile. Solar ovens also generate heat. A simple solar oven can be made from a cardboard pizza carry-out box, aluminum foil, plastic wrap and black construction paper to absorb the sun's heat. These ideas use the specific heat of materials for the environment.
- Georgia State University: Hyperphysics: Specific Heat
- Physics Central: Physics Quest: Soak Up The Sun: Heat Absorption
- Carleton College: Science Education Resource Center: Investigation of Heat Capacity
- Pasco County School District: Specific Heat of an Unknown Metal
- Science Buddies: Science Fair Projects: Specific Heat
- EPA: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Composting at Home
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He is a huge Boston Red Sox fan and enjoys watching movies with his wife and son.
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Riveting Football in Rio
Will the German discipline take them to the final? Will Brazil be able to overcome the loss of Neymar Jr.? Will Argentina move its game to the next level for the semi-final? Or would the Dutch shrug off a bad day at work to reach the final again and get a shot at redemption? The best place to find out, says Mauktik Kulkarni, is the Fan Fest on Copacabana beach.
Roaming around the streets of Rio, it is easy to see why Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai should be declared sister cities. Both are urban sprawls of developing countries; huge skyscrapers dotting the skyline and huge slums that house the poor and migrants.
Like Marine Drive in Mumbai, there are the fancy fashion outlets and swanky restaurants lining the promenade of Copacabana beach. But you are never too far from abandoned lots, poverty and petty crime.
The Oscar-winning City of God captured the slum life of Rio, and Slumdog Millionaire exposed the underbelly of child labour in Mumbai.
When it comes to sports, just like cricket in Mumbai, the passion for football here transcends all class barriers. The Wankhede stadium played host to the cricket World Cup and the FIFA World Cup final will be played at the Maracana in Rio. Notwithstanding the injuries to Neymar Jr. of Brazil and Angel di Maria of Argentina, every Brazilian wants to see Brazil vs Argentina at the Maracana.
The rivalry is comparable to, or even bigger than, India-Pakistan or England-Australia in cricket. It was just a few decades ago that Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world based on per-capita income. Fueled by the strong economy, Argentines considered themselves as Europeans stuck in Latin America. They carried that air of superiority at all social, political and economic forums. In 2001, all that came crashing. A series of sovereign debt crises since then have made Argentina a basket case in Latin America, with another crisis looming on the horizon.
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Image: Argentina fans celebrate their victory over Belgium at Copacabana Beach
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Riveting Football in Rio
Going by the local opinion in Brazil, the Argentine air of superiority has not gone away. Even in the realm of football, they consider Diego Maradona to be better than Pele and believe that they will soon catch up with Brazil's tally of five World Cup trophies. With Lionel Messi leading the attack and a packed Maracana, it might just happen in Rio de Janeiro this week.
The best place to watch the match, though, is Copacabana beach. Consistently rated as one of the best beaches in the world, this 4-kilometre stretch of white sand is some of the most sought after real estate in the world. And FIFA has set up Fan Fest bang in the middle of the beach. Gigantic TV screens are set up for public viewing and entry is free to everyone. Rowdy, passionate, knowledgeable, young, old, all are welcomed with open arms and open beer cans.
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Image: Fans react during the Germany-Algeria match at FIFA Fan Fest at Copacabana Beach
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Riveting Football in Rio
The first quarter-final between Germany and France was a defensive gridlock rather than a goal fest. A perfect header by Mats Hummels in the 13th minute gave Germany the lead and they spent the rest of the match doggedly protecting it.
For France, Mathieu Valbuena and Karim Benzema had a few great looks. However, control and discipline by Germany ensured that there was no period of sustained pressure from France.
At this level of the tournament, Germany has been victorious so often for so long that France would have had to come up with an extraordinary performance to win, which they could not.
The real surprise of this round was Brazil's victory over Colombia. Neymar Jr. and Oscar have shown flashes of brilliance in this World Cup, but Brazil had not displayed the on-field magic that it is known for.
On the other hand, with James Rodriguez, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado and Teofilo Guttierrez had shown amazing consistency, coordinating attacks and scoring goals in all their matches.
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Image: James Rodriguez of Colombia celebrates scoring against Colombia
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For the quarter-final, though, it was Brazil that came out with its A-game. After the first-half goal by Brazil's Thiago Silva, it felt as if Colombia would respond quickly. However, solid defense by Marcelo Vieira da Silva Jr., David Luiz and Thiago Silva ensured lack of rhythm in the Colombian midfield and attack.
When the beautiful free-kick by David Luiz in the second half extended Brazil's lead to 2-0, bringing back memories of Roberto Carlos, the result was a foregone conclusion. Rodriguez won a penalty kick for Colombia to convert it and keep them in the hunt. But the Colombians succumbed to the pressure of trying to overcome a 0-2 deficit in a World Cup quarter-final.
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Image: David Luiz of Brazil
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Riveting Football in Rio
Argentina, the other Latin American giant that has been found wanting, finally conjured up a performance that did justice to their star-studded line-up. Gonzalo Higuain announced his arrival at the party by a beautiful turning finish in the first half and a great run in the second.
Angel di Maria had to bow out early in the first half due to injury and is doubtful for the upcoming matches, but Lionel Messi had a great match, routinely tackling two or three Belgian defenders, thereby putting others in open positions. He should have scored in the second half and the credit goes to Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Curtois for keeping the score line 1-0.
However, if Sergio Aguero is back in the starting line-up for the semi-final, Argentina will be a serious offensive threat even in the absence of Angel di Maria.
Belgium matched Argentina's speed and Marouane Felliani and Romelu Lukaku had several good chances. In the second half, it looked like the flurry of offensive activity by Belgium will get them an equalizer. But they lost out to some great saves by Sergio Romero.
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Image: Lionel Messi of Argentina
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The Netherlands has been so dominant in this tournament that virtually everyone had written off the Costa Ricans before kick-off. The Costa Ricans spent the first half and most of the second half being on the defensive. In spite of playing creative offense, Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie could not put the Dutch on the board. Wesley Sneijder had a couple of great finishing opportunities as well, but as the match moved to extra-time, tables had turned and it was the Costa Ricans who started dominating the proceedings. After the match moved to penalty shoot-out, though, the Dutch displayed their big-match temperament to book the last semi-final berth.
Will the German discipline take them to the final? Will Brazil be able to overcome the loss of Neymar Jr.? Would Argentina move its game to the next level for the semi-final? Or would the Dutch shrug off a bad day at work to reach the final again and get a shot at redemption?
One thing is for sure: The best place to find out is the Fan Fest® on Copacabana beach.
Image: Netherlands celebrate after defeating Costa Rica in their quarter-final match
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Its time for another review on Gamewarrior.net. Today we will review an awesome new game that is getting more and more popular around the globe. Game of Thrones Winter is Coming is a brilliant game based on the popular series by George RR Martin. Playable on a browser and set in the exciting Westeros, players slip into the role of the lord of Westeros with the goal of bringing peace and prosperity in this volatile world full of intense infighting.
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You can do anything from putting together a powerful army to creating a vast kingdom. Players can also take on the role of characters like Tyrion Lannister (you have to complete quests and reach new levels to get new characters/commanders). Every character has their unique strength and by upgrading them you can develop a very powerful commander. Other things you can do as you play this game include training your army and customizing your castle. You can also make teams with friends in exciting player vs player battles.
The role-playing element of this game, blended with a traditional strategy gaming style, make it quite an exciting game for many people. While playing this game, you can explore this unique universe, and interact with various characters from the show.
In the beginning, you have to keep completing quests. And that is very helpful because this is how you learn how to play. Later in the game, you are offered to join the alliance or create yours. Creating an alliance is a pretty nice process – you have to create your own logo and a name. Then you can compete with other GoT Winter is Coming players.
After playing this game for a few days, we can clearly say that this game has lots of functions and is very deep compared to other browser-based games.
You can even have famous characters from the show itself join your army, and then get in the middle of all the bloody squabbles that tears this kingdom apart in order to bring some peace. But it's not all about stopping wars and fortifying castles with this game, you can also enjoy some of the key moments of the show such as the Red Wedding and visiting Castle Black.
The game was released by Tencent Holdings, and it can be played on smartphones, and it was created by Yoozoo and Tencent Games. Within a short span of time, the game had already been played hundreds of millions of times on Tencent's video platform.
This is in no small part due to the popularity that the Game of Thrones Winter is Coming series enjoys around the world. Even today, the show remains to be HBO's most popular series. This game seeks to offer players the realism they enjoy from the actual show, and the popularity it currently enjoys clearly proves that this is working.
In fact, the game maker, Yoozoo, got into a partnership with HBO and Warner Bros while making this game. Clearly, the intention was to live up to the standards set by the popular television show in order to meet the desires of the show's fans who would like to give the game a try.
The game does not go to the very beginning of the story, but rather starts once Lord Eddard Stark is dead. The Game of Thrones Winter is Coming is not the only game based on the series. It competes against Game of Thrones: Conquest, and only time will tell how well it will do against this rival.
2019.04.23 update: it seems that developers released the PC/MAC client version of this game. We tested and it seems that it works a little bit faster compared to browser-based experience.
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Running tube well with a van engine power. The video shows a creative mind's work. They used a van to run a tube well. Note the pressure of water, the van engine has capability to run this tube well quite well.
Art and Craft
Creative Tile Design Work By Simple Tools Amazing Skills
Creative tile design work by hands. These workers are really creative to design and make such a beautiful tiles with simple tools. They use no machine to cut and assemble tiny pieces together. Such type of creative art is the result of many years of experience.
Bicycle Kite Flying an Amazing Piece of Creativity
Bicycle kite flying amazingly, its strange but real and is a great creative work. This bicycle kite flies easily like normal kites. Its look like a bicycle with person moving pedals as well. For pedals to move another paper fans combination is added in the center that rotates the pedals.
Cement Art Work Beautiful and Amazing Talent
Cement art work is not an easy task at all. This man really got amazing skills to design such a beautiful and fine quality picture on cement. Very creative and useful talent that can be really useful to decorate walls even without paints. Paints will definitely add more beauty and charm to this art.
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Creative Pencil Art Drawing Very Amazing
Creative pencil art drawing is really an amazing talent. This man got amazing skills to paint pencils before placing them together. This is really a tough task to get everything on correct position and angle when painting pencils one by one.
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Mini Harvester Plus Bundle Packer Good Creativity
This mini harvester is really a creative one, it can harvest wheat at a good speed and then packs bundles. Although this mini harvester is of small size but its function is really great. This harvester is although seems to be a local one but its work is really appreciate-able. Only one person can harvest and pack bundles at the same time then further work of threshing become much easier, manageable and fast.


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Several hundred well-designed studies have documented that well-planned and well-implemented SEL programming can positively affect a broad range of student social, health, behavioral and academic outcomes. This conference is designed to provide quality professional development opportunities for school administrators, teachers, school psychologists, school counselors, social workers, afterschool providers, youth development workers, early childhood professionals, student support specialists, staff who serve on SAP teams, alternative education teachers, homeless liaisons, foster care points of contact and other professionals who work on behalf of children and youth.
Hosted by CASEL, the 2020 SEL Exchange virtual summit is designed to provide a powerful and timely SEL experience for the widest possible audience to participate in safely and confidently. This summit will provide a platform to share SEL best practices to more districts, schools, and students in an era when these competencies and skills have never been more relevant.
This online panel discussion with renowned featured speakers is available to help parents with students returning or who have just returned to school – whether virtually, hybrid or live. Educators, school staff and administrators looking for ways to support parents are also welcome. Through the lens of social and emotional learning, our panelists will share thoughts, strategies and practices for helping our students returning to school during this challenging time in history.
Join Marc Brackett and Robin Stern and other leading researchers as we explore the latest research on emotional intelligence and how it can be applied to today's many challenges. Over two days, we'll explore topics for the workplace and home, with engaging presentations from top researchers, fun and fascinating panel discussions, and one-on-one chats with best-selling authors from academia.
The 10th annual Music City SEL Conference will bring together educators, youth-serving professionals, and other community leaders and stakeholders to share skills, tools, and resources for creating learning evironments that elevate whole-child wellness and empower all members of a community to thrive. This unique conference is designed and led BY practitioners FOR practitioners.
This two-day conference is an opportunity to learn how to build classroom practices and school-wide systems that nurture the social and emotional health of all members of school communities. This gathering will offer educators, administrators, counselors and social workers the opportunity to connect with others from across the region that are doing similar work and provide concrete steps to create a school environment that supports the whole child.
Every community in America has turned to schools to sustain relationships and connectedness during the COVID-19 crisis. Join this webinar to explore the practical realities and research foundations of how distance learning offers both opportunities, and imperatives, to re-establish relationships during school closure—and learn some of the new ways that students, parents, and educators are connecting to advance the work of schools. Now as much as ever, students need schools to attend to both social-emotional and academic development in unison. After a brief overview of foundational research on the role of relationships in learning and thriving, the webinar will lift up innovations and early learning from leaders in schools and systems across the country.
Have you asked yourself, "Are adults providing students with what they need during this crisis?" If so, join CASEL for a discussion with PDK CEO Josh Starr and Educators Rising high school students. PDK's recent survey shares more from high school students on what kind of social and emotional supports they need and from educators on what they're providing. While there is a lot of great work happening to attend to the needs of our kids, there are some clear disconnects. During this webinar, we'll look at the student voice data together and invite high school students to discuss strategies for bridging that gap.
During this time of crisis, educators face not only the stress of changes in their own lives and in their families, but also their deep concerns about the well-being of their students and families. What can we do to support ourselves, our colleagues and students?
This practice-based webinar led by Mark Greenberg, Christa Turksma and Velma Cobb will provide helpful tools and experiences educators can use to build their resilience and support their well-being. Come and participate in these practices to enhance your emotional awareness and compassion for both your own self-care and the care and nurturing of others.
The Urban Assembly and SEL4US invite communities across the globe to celebrate the importance of social emotional learning SEL on the first annual International SEL Day on March 27, 2020. Join individuals and organizations around the globe as we harness the power of SEL on the first ever International #SELday! Sign up now to showcase, promote, advocate for and support SEL.
This two-day event will feature keynote speakers, networking opportunities, and an action-based approach to building capacity and raising awareness for culturally responsive practice and processes that support the deconstruction and dismantling of institutional racism (e.g., increasing student agency and voice, engaging in conversations about race and racism) and integrating tenets of equity and student learning towards creating and/or sustaining equitable and welcoming school environments.
This conference is appropriate for school and district leadership/administrators, teachers, school psychologists, school counselors, student support services personnel, potential partners in this field, and other professionals working with or on behalf of students and families.


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Former Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. is facing the prospect of more time in jail after prosecutors filed new charges against him.
Shirakawa is already looking at up to a year in jail in a sentencing set for Friday. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to a series of charges, including perjury and misappropriation of public funds.
During a press conference Wednesday, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said he will seek more jail time after his office filed false impersonation charges against the disgraced former supervisor.
The new charges come after investigators say they found Shirakawa's DNA on the stamp of an illegal political hit piece mailer that was sent out during a San Jose city council race in 2010.
Shirakawa had denied having anything to do with the mailer, but investigators say DNA on the stamp matched a separate sample collected from Shirakawa when he was charged in the perjury case.
The race involving the mailer was between former Shirakawa aide Xaviar Campos and Magalena Carrasco. Campos won the District 5 supervisor seat in a tight race.
It was not clear what impact, if any, the new charges would have on Shirakawa's sentencing on Friday.


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A year ago, bitter.lace.beauty created the first ever rainbow highlighter. Everyone got swept up in the madness, including myself! I even tried to create my own rainbow highlighter. Fast forward to 2017, and brands everywhere have jumped on this trend, including Models Prefer.
Unlike other rainbow highlighters on the market, Models Prefer have created a more pastel rainbow, rather than an overly pigmented or bright one, so I feel this is pretty wearable.
The individual colours have an icy white base to them, but each shade is distinctively different. When each is swatched out side by side, the rainbow comes to life and looks especially gorgeous when in the light. This is a very powdery product though, so be sure to blend out the highlight.
When swirled together, the highlight turns into an icy white-silver with a blue-green reflect to it. I feel like this suits fair skin tones best, as the white really comes through when swirled around.
The compact did feel a little cheap, but for 10 grams of product, I can't really complain. It's not the cheapest of rainbow highlights, but it falls within drugstore pricing!
Onto the brush, this beauty does a fantastic job with most powdered makeup,. I feel this is best for applying foundation, blush or bronzer – but they've come out with four more brushes for highlight, contour and eyeshadow.
The brush has more weight to it than I expected, and the bristles are super soft (not to mention very pretty!) If you are after brushes that look good and are functional, try these unicorn brushes.
I am very happy I was able to pick these up, and hope to get another brush or two if they go on sale!
Have you tried out any rainbow highlighters? Let me know in the comments below!


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Though you'll more than likely be aware by now, 16 March marks the release of delightful-looking, LGBT-centred teen flick Love, Simon through 20th Century Fox.
Based on Becky Albertalli's now-acclaimed novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, the film follows in-the-closet teenager Simon and his romance for an anonymous messenger with whom he met online with all the warm, fuzzy-feeling clichés of a teen rom-com certain to ensure. Greg Berlanti is on directorial duties, with the film almost-certain to be a success in 2018's film world.
Better still, Jack Antonoff-lead indie-triumphs Bleachers lead the announcement of the soundtrack with a new song crafted especially for the film, titled Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song). Take a listen below:
With Antonoff taking the reigns of the soundtracks curation, the resulting product may be one of the finest we've seen in a long while and one you should rightfully get excited over. The tracklisting is as follows, whilst a re-read of our cover story with Antonoff right here is something we'd highly encourage. Pre-order the OST here.
Love, Simon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Bleachers: Alfie's Song (Not Your Typical Love Song)
- Bleachers: Rollercoaster
- Jack Antonoff & MØ: Never Fall In Love
- Troye Sivan: Strawberries & Cigarettes
- Amy Shark: Sink In
- Khalid & Normani (Fifth Harmony): Love Lies
- Brenton Wood: The Oogum Boogum Song
- The 1975: Love Me
- Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
- Jackson 5: Someday At Christmas
- HAERTS: Wings
- Bleachers: Keeping A Secret
- Bleachers: Wild Heart
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