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Track By Track | Listen To Creux Lies’ “The Hearth” + Music Video Premiere!
Sär Blackthorn
In honor of Creux Lies releasing “The Hearth” last month, Ean Clevenger is taking us through the album track by track! Stream the album (below) and enjoy!
“Well, “Silhouette”…I guess this song is an excellent start, and also, a pragmatic way to musically start the record. I believe we put this track on the lead as it somewhat corners all of our collective nervous system—reverb-drenched guitars, sweeping drums, hooks, ladders, etc. The further context, from a lyrical standpoint, covers what I guess is my transformation. Throughout my artistic career, I’ve been known as quite the little radical-leftist. With a quick search engine look at my name, the results will lend many of my philosophical leanings and angles; those found throughout my harder projects. With the change to Creux Lies, I guess I had to find a way to be that person still, to make amends with still feeling passionate and wanting to continue to bring my perspectives of earnest political assertiveness to such a, well, less friction-filled canvas. This song is somewhat of a relook in the mirror; a more honest, less charming, but truthful perspective of my current power and will. In the end realize, I will never bow down, regardless of the intensity of the soundscape.”
“The record turns and twists around so many themes and stories. When it the needle transfers to “Portals”, I recall how I wrote from my heart; and also, from a particular perspective of my continually evolving life. I’m taking stock in the pain and the profit from. Being in a transcending place today, as I found a right life partner to work through this world with, I have the sight to look at my past, and, as the killer of some romantic dreams in my days, the recipient of such, and through the eyes of tortured partnerships with my friends and family, I can tell you… Love is still worth it all. It’s better to live, and love, than die alone. Or at least, hold on that beautiful dream till the last breath… After all, haha, we all will anyway take the last one alone nevertheless if I am not mistaken?”
As an added bonus, Post-Punk.com is also premiering a brand new music video for “Portals” below! Easily one of the best music videos I have ever seen in the genre, I did indeed cry the first time. The symbolism is incredible, you might want to give this a few watches:
“From another part of my mind’s cosmos comes “The Unclasping”. This song is an extension, the metaphorical call, and call-back of a couple levels of notions. There is indeed a nihilist theme that permeates a good amount of my words here. From one side, this song echoes, too cold to feel, an animal…the stark truth of a human’s instinct. And, worse, with a shot in the heart, the adrenaline kick of free reign—laissez faire…we are a dangerous organism, and as a side note, so is the Trump administration, and those who worship this moment…these figures are a great example of how feeble and self-serving we can be. We need to pay close attention to ourselves as well as those stricken, and further, cure our illness.”
“And, speaking of sickness, we come to “Eulogy”. (sorry, being a marketer brings out the cheesiest of transitions in me). More darkly, but to me lightly, this song is literally my eulogy to my loved ones…for the day when I become something changed. I don’t believe in heaven, hell, etc., but I do believe in energy and entropy, and I infer we will all be one again in, the gathering.”
The Hearth by Creux Lies
“As I am writing this, I am following along as a listener to this record we, (SOMEHOW?) created. It’s a remarkable thing to create a new soundscape, and, I must say, I am proud of what we have accomplished. The next track I am soaking in is “Virginity”. The Cure is a band that we worship. I have always thought the composition of “Prayers For Rain” was simply the sexiest song ever imagined. I wanted to find a way to make something like this become ours. This song, being the most dramatic and ballad based track on this record, utterly dripped with sensuality and instinct. This song provoked those concepts of the tidal trial of coming together as two humans, intertwined both physically and mentally, and how illusively and powerfully that magic can both inspire and destroy in such a starkly real mode in our very primitive and modern appearances…”
“As a vegetarian and longtime advocate for animal rights, in unison with my environmental philosophies, the story (film) The Ghost and the Darkness resonated with me deeply as I began the content exploration for the song Tsavo. The concept of the story centers around imperialistic hunters attempting to protect a railroad company laying track in a region called Tsavo, in the Republic of Kenya. Through the men’s continued attempt to kill the lions, they also proceed to die at the claws and fangs by way of the king’s of the natural world. This process resumes until the last of the pride is taken in the name of (human) progress. I consider all of those, continuing the work of freedom, justice, and equality for all (not just humans) to be of that lion geist. We will continue to serve until the last gasp. I suspect this track is a reminder for Americans that stand against this sham of a government, to show your teeth, and use them if you have to.”
“With “Áine’s Song“, this tale is very personal. It’s a homage to my goddess of summer, my red mare, my wife. I burn by rites in her honor. There is magic for all of us who are loved and give love, by marriage, friendship, and compassion to those alone in this life. We all should burn for each—intensely, daily, and through word and work.”
“The last track, “Simulacrum“, closes this album. This song in so many ways cinches the thread tightly, both sonically and thematically, finishing this tapestry of ours. Contextually, it stands within the dualism and nihilism ever-present, the dance of life, and, the only enduring element of ourselves…our bone. That which will be stripped, bare, certain, and yet, hard enough persist. After all, this life is a dream…savor the seconds, the pain, and the glories.”
Order The Heart here!
Live Dates:
9/23 – Los Angeles w/ Glaare/Gene Loves Jezebel
9/28 – Sacramento w/ Actors
9/29 – Oakland w/ 13th Sky
10/5 – Reno (NV)
10/12 – Nevada City (CA)
10/25 – Seattle (WA)
10/26 – Vancouver (BC) w/ Actors
10/27 – Portland (OR)
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Losing to 'best in world' no disgrace for McGregor's Dragons
Brad Walter NRL.com Senior Reporter
Thu 25 Apr 2019, 08:53 PM
St George Illawarra coach Paul McGregor described Sydney Roosters as "the best team in the world”. Repeatedly.
Besides acknowledging the impressive way the Roosters had begun their 2018 premiership defence, McGregor's praise was his way of pointing out that the Dragons are going alright too.
He delivered the same message in the SCG dressing rooms after his side’s 20-10 Anzac Day loss.
The Roosters are on track to become the first team to win back-to-back grand finals in NRL history after their best start to a season in 20 years.
However, the character shown by an undermanned St George Illawarra to fight back in the second half suggests they will also be among the premiership contenders.
The win was the Roosters' fifth against another team in the top-eight and sixth in succession since their opening round loss to South Sydney. It has them placed better than in recent seasons, when they have started slowly and peaked closer to the finals.
In contrast, the Dragons have started the past two seasons in top form and led the Telstra Premiership for long periods but fallen away as injuries and a heavy State of Origin representation took its toll.
This season they have been without the services of Jack de Belin since round one and lost Gareth Widdop and Korbin Sims to long-term injuries but have still managed to win four of their opening seven matches and push the Roosters to the limit on just 40 per cent possession.
Halfback Ben Hunt injured his shoulder early in the match and couldn’t catch or pass properly but managed to play on until the 68th minute. He is expected to be fit for next weekend’s match against Parramatta.
The ambition within the St George Illawarra camp is to be well-placed when Sims, Widdop and possibly de Belin return later in the season.
“I’d like to play them with 50-50 possession and completing above 80 per cent, but in saying that they won the game and they are a very good football team,” McGregor said. “They have proved that time after time. They are the best team in the world.”
In the end, it was the resolve of the Roosters that got them home after the Dragons players responded to a call from McGregor for them to “leave it all out there” in the second half after trailing 14-0 at the interval.
A 47th minute try to winger Zac Lomax and a brilliant 60-metre solo effort by fullback Matt Dufty reduced the deficit to 14-10 with 18 minutes to go. But as they had done against Melbourne last week, the Roosters scored last to secure the two competition points.
It takes a top team to regain momentum and win close games against good opposition but Roosters coach Trent Robinson believes the premiers are still far from their best.
The key to whether the Roosters can become the first team to win successive grand finals since Brisbane in 1992 and 1993 is maintaining the hunger and desire of the players.
“I think we are hungry and we are seeing some really good signs from players and the team but if you take a step back and have a look at that game the Roosters can improve a fair bit,” Robinson said.
“We are going to stay hungry and I am going to make sure I breed that hunger into them continuously.
“We have worked hard to get a group of players over the last couple of years into this squad, we have worked hard to develop them, a couple of recruits and we want to play better footy each week and each month that goes by. We definitely need to get better.”
An indication of the Roosters' first-half domination was the fact the Dragons had made 203 tackles – 90 more than the Roosters by the interval – and most of the defending they’d been forced to do had been at their own end of the field.
There were several tough calls against the Dragons in the first half but mistakes contributed to the 69 per cent share of possession enjoyed by the Roosters with some poor handling and decision-making.
The back three of Matt Dufty, Jordan Pereira and Lomax didn’t look comfortable defusing kicks from Cooper Cronk in the wide expanses of the SCG and were responsible for five of their side’s seven first-half errors.
Hunt finished with three errors as he struggled through the match after injuring his shoulder in an early collision with Roosters winger Daniel Tupou.
With the SCG being the only ground in the NRL with a cricket pitch, it could be suggested that the Roosters have a greater home field advantage playing at the iconic venue than they did at the adjoining Allianz Stadium.
To prove that point, Jake Friend used the sloping surface to gain a 40-20 kick - their third of the season.
Angus Crichton’s 32nd minute try was scored during the ensuing set of possession but McGregor was entitled to call for "consistency" from match officials after a decision to award an earlier Roosters try after Lomax spilled a Cronk bomb.
Lomax turned his back as he attempted to catch the kick and lost the ball after Roosters winger Daniel Tupou collided with him in the air. A similar incident at the other end of the field was deemed a penalty against Hunt.
A forward pass denied Lomax a first half try but he kick-started St George Illawarra’s second half fight back when centre Euan Aitken put him over after Hunt ran the ball on the last tackle and the Dragons remained in the contest until Siosiua Taukeiaho scored in the 77th minute.
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E.A.Poets Approved/Bands We Like – Cat Ryan
our “E.A.Poets Approved/Bands We Like” section is dedicated to Cat Ryan. I discovered this fantastic band while shuffling songs on Spotify and I instantly loved the atmosphere of their songs.
Listening to Cat Ryan you find yourself in a very original world of approaching music.
The bold construction of the melodic lines and the different but intriguing lyrics create a modern and in the same sense unstable atmosphere.
I found, in their sound a gentle paranoia, but not in the brute sense of the word.
When on those endless Sundays in summer you get bored and you make your mind wander, maybe tearing the wings off a fly just to spend some time doing something, and in the meantime, you look out the window waiting for a friend to save you by bringing you a beer.
I really liked this kind of nostalgic atmosphere.
Mary-Anne’s voice is hot and cold at the same time. Cat Ryan’s music lives in that very moment where the opposites kiss themselves. They recklessly like to live in this unstable balance where the elements attract and repel each other at the same time.
Mary Shelley Song is Cat Ryan’s Single Out Now!
Creative and original band, I absolutely recommend them!
Fast gaining critical acclaim, Cat Ryan are a trio that are turning heads in the music industry – we hope that you can offer your support to them as they continue to grow.
Previous singles “Mannerism” and “Blessed Through The TV” thrust Cat Ryan into the spotlight, whilst receiving critical acclaim from tastemakers such as Xune Mag, When The Horn Blows, The Girls At The Rock Show, Indietronica and Yack Magazine, as well as being featured by, The Burning Ear, Loud Women, AAA Backstage and Little Indie Blogs.
Mary-Anne (singer, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist) reveals the creative process and story behind the single: “It’s a very unique song and, despite the title, it’s only the first verse that’s about Mary Shelley. Lyrically it’s quite random, having been inspired by a variety of memories stemming from my time at college studying for my A-Levels. Essentially, I showed my friends a new song I’d been working on and one of them came up with the first three lines on the spot. It was funny because it doesn’t fully make sense, but that’s sort of the theme of the song: it kind of makes sense to us, but other people will probably wonder how the lyrics were created and what they’re supposed to be about.”
The origins of the song, and its theme, exemplifies how the band draw inspiration from a variety of sources and set their own, unique, musical direction. As such, Cat Ryan look forward to the future as they develop alongside Art-Rock contemporaries such as Youth Sector, Swine Tax, Coach Party, Tranqua Lite, and CIEL.
Find Cat Ryan Here:
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from django.conf import settings
from django.core.validators import EmailValidator, ValidationError
import redis
def get_redis_connection():
"""
Helper used for obtain a raw redis client.
"""
from redis_cache.cache import pool
connection_pool = pool.get_connection_pool(
parser_class=redis.connection.HiredisParser,
connection_pool_class=redis.ConnectionPool,
connection_pool_class_kwargs={},
**settings.REDIS)
return redis.Redis(connection_pool=connection_pool, **settings.REDIS)
def is_email(value):
try:
EmailValidator()(value)
except ValidationError:
return False
else:
return True
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package com.wiwit.eplweb.service;
import java.util.List;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import com.wiwit.eplweb.dao.MatchdayCommentDAO;
import com.wiwit.eplweb.model.MatchdayComment;
import com.wiwit.eplweb.model.User;
@Component
public class MatchdayCommentService {
@Autowired
private MatchdayCommentDAO matchdayCommentDAO;
public void createComment(MatchdayComment m) {
matchdayCommentDAO.createComment(m);
}
public MatchdayComment findById(int id) {
return matchdayCommentDAO.findById(id);
}
public List<MatchdayComment> findByMatchdayId(int matchdayId, int offset,
int size) {
return matchdayCommentDAO.findByMatchdayId(matchdayId, offset, size);
}
public List<MatchdayComment> findByMatchAndUser(int matchdayId, User user,
int offset, int size) {
return matchdayCommentDAO.findByMatchAndUser(matchdayId, user.getId(), offset, size);
}
public List<MatchdayComment> findByParentId(int parentId, int offset,
int size) {
return matchdayCommentDAO.findByParentId(parentId, offset, size);
}
public Long countTotalCommentByMatchdayId(int matchdayId) {
return matchdayCommentDAO.countTotalCommentByMatchdayId(matchdayId);
}
public Long countTotalCommentByParentId(int parentId) {
return matchdayCommentDAO.countTotalCommentByParentId(parentId);
}
}
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During my recent trip to the city of Dallas, I decided to explore the city a bit, and while out, I decided to capture my look. The day was gloomy but not too cold so the “Pow” sweater deemed appropriate. Rather than making my rounds in denim, I opted for this tube Topshop skirt, very sleek and perfect for capturing the town. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-26T05:48:04Z', 'url': 'https://rantiinreview.com/powcity-of-dallas/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
package workflow
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"net/http"
log "github.com/golang/glog"
"github.com/gorilla/websocket"
"golang.org/x/net/context"
"github.com/youtube/vitess/go/acl"
)
var upgrader = websocket.Upgrader{} // use default options
// HandleHTTPWebSocket registers the WebSocket handler.
func (m *Manager) HandleHTTPWebSocket(pattern string) {
log.Infof("workflow Manager listening to websocket traffic at %v", pattern)
http.HandleFunc(pattern, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
defer func() {
if x := recover(); x != nil {
errMsg := fmt.Sprintf("uncaught panic: %v", x)
log.Error(errMsg)
http.Error(w, errMsg, http.StatusInternalServerError)
}
}()
// Check ACL.
if err := acl.CheckAccessHTTP(r, acl.ADMIN); err != nil {
msg := fmt.Sprintf("WorkflowManager acl.CheckAccessHTTP failed: %v", err)
log.Error(msg)
http.Error(w, msg, http.StatusUnauthorized)
return
}
// Upgrade to WebSocket.
c, err := upgrader.Upgrade(w, r, nil)
if err != nil {
log.Errorf("upgrade error: %v", err)
return
}
defer c.Close()
// Register the handler.
notifications := make(chan []byte, 10)
tree, i, err := m.NodeManager().GetAndWatchFullTree(notifications)
if err != nil {
log.Warningf("GetAndWatchFullTree failed: %v", err)
return
}
defer m.NodeManager().CloseWatcher(i)
// First we send the full dump
if err := c.WriteMessage(websocket.TextMessage, tree); err != nil {
log.Warningf("WriteMessage(tree) failed: %v", err)
return
}
// Start a go routine to get messages, send them to a channel.
recv := make(chan *ActionParameters, 10)
go func() {
for {
mt, message, err := c.ReadMessage()
if err != nil {
log.Warningf("failed to read message from websocket: %v", err)
close(recv)
return
}
if mt != websocket.TextMessage {
log.Warningf("weird message type: %v", mt)
}
ap := &ActionParameters{}
if err := json.Unmarshal(message, ap); err != nil {
log.Warningf("failed to JSON-decode message from websocket: %v", err)
close(recv)
return
}
recv <- ap
}
}()
// Let's listen to the channels until we're done.
for {
select {
case ap, ok := <-recv:
if !ok {
// The websocket was most likely closed.
return
}
ctx := context.TODO()
if err := m.NodeManager().Action(ctx, ap); err != nil {
log.Warningf("Action failed: %v", err)
}
case message, ok := <-notifications:
if !ok {
// We ran out of space on the update
// channel, so we had to close it.
return
}
if err := c.WriteMessage(websocket.TextMessage, message); err != nil {
log.Warningf("WriteMessage(tree) failed: %v", err)
return
}
}
}
})
}
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On 11/16 at the joint meeting between the council and FAC, a 1% increase in DeKalb sales tax was added/included to the 2018 City of DeKalb proposed budget.
Were you aware of this 1% sales tax increase in the budget?
A committee of the whole meeting is scheduled for Tuesday November 21 at council chambers at 5:00 pm for public input on the proposed budget.
Business owners need to give input at the meeting on this proposed sales tax increase by speaking at the public comment section. All speakers need to do is fill out a simple speaker request form (available outside the chambers on a table) and hand into the city clerk.
The Transmittal Letter in the Proposed Budget document discussed the 1% increase in the Home Rule Sales Tax. This information is from page 12.
*Operations total for 3 months is $417,600 of which $313,200 to support operations and $104,000 to meet the General Fund reserve requirement of 25% of expenditures. The three additional Police Officers hire date in FY2019.
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How about lower taxes attract more people which increase revenue..
damn, isn’t 10% high enough? I have an idea, try balancing your budget and quit borrowing…..
The aggregate sales tax already marches many suburbs that also pay into RTA.
The city needs to learn how to cut the sales tax, not increase it.
Isn’t this the truth. So many people feel exactly like this. Sad.
I am seriously looking forward to leaving this town. This despite many years of long commutes to be able to live here. The city administration has long viewed their residents as hicks, rubes, and as impediments to efficient public administration. And, now they view us as cash cows.
Maybe making some weekend trips to Wisconsin??
It’s way cheaper only 5.5 % sales tax! And really Janesville is not that far.
And in Wisconsin, you actually get decent services for your taxes.
I wonder how much their revenue will decrease because of this tax increase.
Yet the city has untold money to take the bike path under the train bridge. Large crews & large equipment working on this day after day after day. Was this really needed? Was this a priority? Keep raising taxes to fund this nonsense?
That $ came from a grant, specifically for that path.
Eventually everything comes from the tax paying public even if it came from the federal level or the state level.
This grant money didn’t fall from the sky.
Thomas Michael Bottom, grants are not free money. There are strings attached. But the bike path didn’t come from the General Fund.
DeKalb County Online why would Dekalb even take state money the state is broke.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m an avid bicyclist 🚴♀️ but I absolutely don’t see the value in all the money spent on a project like this. I understand it will be safer but coming down Pearl St. and going across 38 at the light worked just fine for me.
I would have much rather this “grant $” went to the Dekalb Police department. Stopping the violence & random shootings would make me feel safer, not this extremely expensive extension of the bike path. But I’m just a common working class tax paying citizen. What does it really matter what I think???
How much is the actual cost of this project?
WOW. How many more people are going to leave the county to make larger purchases just to avoid this level of tax?
So the sales tax would then be 9.25%. Wow high as cook county.
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'Smile, smile, smile': Aunt who raised Browns' D'Ernest Johnson still running alongside a Pop Warner fence
Marla Ridenour
BEREA — D’Ernest Johnson’s mother, aunt, brother, girlfriend and agent were at FirstEnergy Stadium on Oct. 21, when Johnson made his first NFL start on “Thursday Night Football.”
In Immokalee, Florida, his aunt Undreas Harrison was “screaming and hollering” in front of the television. Watching him rush for 146 yards and a touchdown and earn a game ball against the Denver Broncos, she experienced a flashback.
Harrison recalled one of Johnson's early games in Pop Warner, when she ran the length of the field with him, she outside the fence yelling, “‘Go! Go!’”
Johnson lived with Harrison for 15 years, starting when he was 3. Her voice filled with pride when she discussed his fight to reach the NFL in a phone interview Thursday. She was appreciative to hear that so many of his teammates, touched by his journey, have embraced him, with Nick Chubb calling him “lovable.”
Parts of that journey — like when Johnson direct messaged all the teams in the Alliance of American Football in 2018 asking if they wanted to see his highlight video — Harrison learned about after the fact. She didn’t hear many details about the six months he spent fishing for mahi-mahi off the coast of Key West, Florida except for his occasional comment about how tired he was.
By then, the University of South Florida product had left Immokalee for Gainesville, where Harrison said Johnson was providing for his now 6-year-old son D’Ernest Jr., “D.J.” to her.
When Harrison learned Johnson, now 25, was going to be a father, she said she wasn’t thrilled and told him, “’If you’re man enough to get it, you better be man enough to take care of it.’”
“He knew how I raised him. Him and his brother, I’m so proud that they’re stepping up to the plate and doing that, taking care of their kids,” she said. Johnson and his girlfriend Jasmin Brown now have a baby daughter, shown in the most recent episode of “Building the Browns.”
But no matter what job Johnson held, nothing obscured his relentless drive to continue his career.
“D’Ernest was tenacious about football,” Harrison said of Johnson as a child. “Football was like in his DNA. He loved football, loved football, loved it.
“When he was 4 or 5 when they put him in pads, a lot of them used to be out there just messing around, but he was always focused. A lot of people used to come up to me and say, ‘He’s the best one on the team’ because he played defense and offense.”
After toiling on special teams for two years, Johnson has become a valued member of the Browns in his third year in Cleveland. As the Browns (5-5) host the Detroit Lions (0-8-1) Sunday, Johnson may again be a big part of the running attack behind starter Chubb, activated off the reserve/COVID-19 list Friday with rookie Demetric Felton. Kareem Hunt, the other half of the Browns 1-2 punch, remains on injured reserve.
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In the 17-14 victory over the Broncos, the Browns were without Chubb and Hunt, both out with calf injuries. In Sunday’s 45-7 loss at New England, nearly the entire running back room — Chubb, Felton and John Kelly — landed on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Johnson, baffled and thankful he did not test positive for the virus, was the lone bright spot, rushing 19 times for 99 yards and leading the Browns in receiving with seven catches for 58 yards.
He showed the Browns his mettle with 2:42 remaining and his team behind by 38 points, catching a Case Keenum pass out of the backfield and running for 18 yards.
“He finished on the sideline late in the fourth quarter where he could have easily stepped out of bounds but he's like ‘No, I'm going to show that I can finish this game,’” Browns left guard Joel Bitionio said Thursday. “That's all you want, man. I think he has the potential. He's shown people that he can play running back in this league and that's huge for him.”
Offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt was just as impressed with the seemingly meaningless reception by Johnson.
“He had two defenders coming in on him. Nine out of 10 backs in this league would have stepped out of bounds, and he put his shoulder down,” Van Pelt said Thursday. “This guy loves football, and I love that he is in our room.”
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Harrison helped launch that dream, signing up Johnson for Pop Warner and driving him to his practices and games.
She took in Johnson and his older brother Tshumbi when D’Ernest was 3 and Tshumbi 4. Their mother, Harrison’s niece, was young and wanted a more stable life for her sons. Harrison, 53, who will finish her 26th year working in the cafeteria for Collier County Public Schools in 2022, eventually needed help caring for her sickly mother, and even as teenagers the boys were willing.
Immokalee is a football hotbed, Harrison said. Sports runs deep in the family and not just on the male side. Harrison played volleyball, basketball, and softball, and Johnson’s grandmother ran track. D’Ernest and Tshumbi made the varsity football team as high school freshmen.
At South Florida, Harrison said then-coach Willie Taggart, now at Florida Atlantic University, used to call Johnson “Junkyard Dog.”
“He wanted to win. No matter what position coach Taggart put him at, he’d go in and do what he had to do,” she said.
After Johnson left college, Harrison knew Johnson had a few dark days as he tried to break into the league.
“He went through a rough time, I talked to him and he was depressed, he thought he wasn’t going to make it there,” Harrison said. “I said, ‘Don’t give up on your dream.’”
When she found out he wrote all of the coaches before he latched on with the AAF’s Orlando franchise in the now-defunct league, Harrison said she told him, “You weren’t playing about that.’”
Getting that chance took more than the messages as none in the AAF initially answered.
“I actually got the [general manager’s] number from one of my college teammates and college coach,” Johnson said on Oct. 28. “They gave me the number and I kept calling every day. Every single day I kept calling until they finally said, ‘We’re going to bring you in for a tryout.’”
When he got a tryout with the Browns in 2019, he was headed to a yoga class with his girlfriend and the person on the phone told him he had about four hours to catch a plane. He threw some things in a bag and rushed to the airport.
Harrison has been watching most of this from afar. She saw Johnson play once in Cleveland his rookie year. The family also attended Browns' preseason games in Tampa in 2019 and in Jacksonville this year.
With Johnson thrust to the forefront this season, Harrison thought back to the day Johnson signed on May 16, 2019.
“When we FaceTimed he said, ‘Oh, my God, it seems so unreal.’ But I said, ‘You did it, D’Ernest. You’re in the NFL,’” Harrison said.
“That dream had been such a long time. He’s so happy. Even as a kid, he was always smiling. Smile, smile, smile.”
Marla Ridenour can be reached at [email protected]. Read more about the Browns at www.beaconjournal.com/browns. Follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MRidenourABJ.
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Part #1 of The Original Sinners series by Tiffany Reisz
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Nora had raced to church after school that day and found Søren praying here by the shrine to the Virgin Mary. She’d told him how grateful Jordan was, how shocked the whole school was, how nobody knew why the coach had left so abruptly.
Søren hadn’t smiled. He’d only lit a candle.
“Was that hard to do?” She remembered standing in this very spot and asking him that question. “Telling that guy off?”
“It was frighteningly easy to put the fear of God into him,” Søren had said. “And almost enjoyable. Why do you ask, Eleanor?”
She’d zipped up her hooded sweatshirt and plucked nervously at the ragged cuffs. “I thought it might be hard for you. You know, since you’re in love with me. ”
Søren had met her eyes and she saw she’d actually managed to catch him off guard, one of the few times in their eighteen years she had.
“Eleanor, there are suicide bombers on the Gaza Strip who are less dangerous than you are. ” He started toward his office. She followed him, nearly running to keep up with his long strides.
“I’m going to take that as a yes,” she’d said when they arrived at his office door.
“I’ve always been an admirer of the Cistercian monks. ” Søren stepped into his office. “Especially their vow of silence. ” And he’d closed the door in her face.
She’d smiled nonstop for the next two weeks.
Nora opened her eyes and stepped away from the shrine and out of the memory. Her heels clicked on the hardwood floors grown slick and shiny with age. She thought she’d find Søren in his office working. But she paused outside the sanctuary when she heard the sound of a piano wafting through the heavy wooden doors. Inhaling the muted notes, she slipped inside the nave and stepped quietly toward the chancel where Søren sat at a grand piano.
He didn’t look up at her as she came to the piano. She placed her hands flat on its polished black top. Closing her eyes again, she let the subtle waves vibrate through her and into her. The last note shivered up her arms and down to her feet. As the note echoed throughout the nave and back to the altar Nora opened her eyes.
“The Moonlight Sonata,” Nora said. “My favorite. ”
Søren smiled and played a few stray notes.
“I know it is. ”
Nora returned the smile and leaned forward, running her hand over the smooth black surface.
“Happy anniversary, Søren. ”
Søren smiled again, one of his rare, genuine smiles that reached his eyes. Something caught in her chest and she let her own smile fade.
“Happy anniversary, little one,” he said, his voice as gentle as the last note of the sonata.
With those four words came a thousand more memories. She and Søren had never, would never marry, had never dated in the traditional sense of the word, but never had they questioned what day would become the signifier of the beginning of their life together. The first time Søren had beaten her and then taken her virginity was thirteen years ago on Holy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, the day when Christ celebrated His Last Supper. Jesus, God Incarnate, had knelt before His disciples and washed their feet on this night. Thirteen years ago tonight Søren had done the same to her. Even as the liturgical calendar changed, they never once considered celebrating their anniversary on any other day but this too-neglected holy day, this last night of Christ’s freedom before He was taken, this last night to share a quiet moment alone with those He loved.
Søren began playing the haunting melody again, and she let it draw her inexorably into its insistent rhythms. She watched his hands, his perfect pianist’s hands, and recalled all too well how intimately she knew those hands, how intimately they knew her. One courageous strand of Søren’s perfect blond hair threatened to fall over his forehead. She longed to reach out and brush it back.
“You played this for me that night,” she said as the music faded. Nora closed her eyes and let the past come to her. “You were playing it when I came to the rectory. ” She remembered that night like yesterday, slipping in through the tree-shrouded back door, following the music to Søren’s elegant living room. She stood in silence and watched the priest who would become her lover that night play by the light of a single candle the world’s most beautiful piece of music as if it had been written by him and for her. “The next morning I woke up in your bed for the first time. ”
“The best morning of my life,” Søren said.
“And mine. ” Nora felt the old tug of love and straightened, trying to brush it off her. “When did the church get a grand piano?”
Søren smiled.
“A mysterious stranger had an Imperial Bösendorfer delivered to my home on my most recent birthday. I donated my Steinway to the church. ”
“That was very generous of that mysterious stranger,” Nora said with a sheepish grin.
“Very generous indeed. Although the Steinway still plays beautifully. ”
“It’s had a tricky sustain pedal for ages. ”
“Yes, and whose fault is that?”
“That is not my fault,” Nora protested. “Do you recall what you were doing to me at the time? I had to hold on to something, didn’t I?”
Søren looked down at his hands. His fingers hovered over the keyboard playing soundless phantom notes.
“You could have held on to me. ”
Nora only swallowed, finding herself in a rare moment of speechlessness. Perhaps sensing her discomfort, Søren dropped his hands to the keyboard and began playing again.
“The Moonlight Sonata is a strange piece of music,” Søren said. “It’s been called a Lamentation. You can feel that when you play it, can feel the sorrow and the need in the endless repetitions. It’s simple to play but maddeningly difficult to play well. The arpeggios allow great freedom of expression. Too much freedom in untutored, unskilled hands. They say Beethoven wrote it for a seventeen-year-old countess, the Countess Giulietta Guicciardi. He may have loved her. More likely he was simply trying to seduce her. ”
“It would have worked for me. ”
“It did work for you. ”
This time Nora smiled at the memories Søren’s words conjured. Again she slid her hands lovingly over the piano. “My God, the crimes against nature that have been committed on this piano. ”
“I hope you aren’t referring to my playing. ”
“Never. I know how gifted those hands of yours are. ”
“Some decorum please. We are in a church, Eleanor,” Søren reminded her with only a playful hint of sternness about his lips.
“Forgive me, Father. ” She composed her features into a pantomime mask of contrition.
“Of course, little one. I can forgive you anything. But don’t think you won’t be called upon to do your penance someday. ”
Before she could respond, the unmistakable squeak of sneakers on hardwood sounded outside the door. Another louder squeak followed that one and then the shrieking giggles of children.
“Duty calls. ” Søren rose from the bench.
Nora walked with him down the aisles and into the hall outside the sanctuary. They followed the sound of the children from the church to the annex that housed the fellowship hall and the church kitchen. Søren led her into the fellowship hall that was part gymnasium, part reception area, and before her was a scene of animal chaos. Her mental description proved even more apt as a boy dressed as a sheep careened by them.
“What on earth?” Nora asked as they found a quiet place near the kitchen.
“The children are practicing for Sunday’s Passion play,” Søren explained.
Everywhere children ran to parents, from parents, sometimes through parents. As Søren’s presence became known, however, the din quieted and order began to reassert itself. She had always admired that about Søren. He let his presence speak far more often than his words.
Nora’s eyes stopped on a woman who l
ooked vaguely familiar. As her features came into better focus, Nora placed a name to the face—Nancy James, one of her favorite mothers here. Sometimes it was hard for Nora to imagine that it was only five years ago that she still attended this church, babysat these kids, chatted with these parents. Nora was finally able to catch her eye and smile. It took Nancy a moment but then she returned the smile with full recognition. Five years…it felt like just yesterday, it felt like a million years ago.
“Did they know about us?” Nora inclined her head toward a group of parents. She kept her voice unnecessarily low. With all the children she could have screamed the question at Søren without fear.
“I am still a priest. I believe it is safe to assume they either never suspected or they never cared. ”
Nora laughed coldly. “Ex-con Elle Schreiber and the sainted Father Stearns? Of course they never suspected. ”
“Eleanor, they never thought as ill of you as you believed. When you come back, you will be welcomed with open arms. ”
“I’m not coming back. ”
A faint smile played at the corner of Søren’s exquisite lips.
“And yet you are here. ”
Nora started to argue, but she caught a glimpse of mirror-pale eyes across the room and froze.
“Michael…” she breathed.
“Yes, he’s helping with the Passion play this year. He’s quite good with the children. Around them he can relax, which is difficult for him in other situations. ”
At the moment Michael looked anything but relaxed. His long black hair was pulled back in a ponytail but she could see frustrated strands loose about his face. Children bustled around him frantically. He straightened haloes, retied wings, wrestled the little angels… A shepherd nearly plowed into him and he laughed and slid out of the way.
“Is he okay?” Nora asked, a knife of guilt threatening to cut into her.
“He and his mother started attending here over two years ago. This is truly the most contented I’ve ever seen him. He’s at peace now. Almost happy. There is a new look in his eyes. Relief. ”
“Relief…that he isn’t alone?”
“Yes. I told him about us, who we are, the other world we live in. I realize I was taking a great chance by doing so, but he had listened all too well to his father’s words and convinced himself that he was sick and depraved for his desires. But telling only goes so far…”
“Show, don’t tell,” Nora said with a grim smile and made herself not think of Zach. “It’s not fair, you know. It’s such a double standard. You let me have Michael and he’s only fifteen. But you made me wait until I was twenty. ”
Søren inhaled slowly. “That was my mistake. ”
“Miracles do happen. You just admitted to a mistake. What was your mistake? Not fucking me sooner?”
“It was my mistake—” he turned and met her eyes “—thinking we had all the time in the world. ”
Nora’s heart contracted in her chest. She studied Michael from across the room. He was far from jubilant, but she could see his posture had eased and he had a light in his eyes. She would never have guessed from just looking at him that he wore such fearsome scars under his wristbands.
“You owe Michael a small debt of gratitude, Eleanor. ” Søren interrupted her melancholy meditation. “I had counted the day you left as the worst day of my life. The day I knelt in the back of an ambulance and administered last rites to a fourteen-year-old boy…”
“Knocked me out of first place, did he?”
“Perhaps a tie for first. ”
“His scars are horrific. I can’t believe he survived that. ”
“It was not a premeditated attempt. He broke glass and slashed fast. He bled profusely but not fast enough that we didn’t have time to save him. Still, the attending physician called his survival a miracle. ”
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Detroit Regional Chamber > Member News > Brooks Kushman Continues to Expand IP Depth with the Addition of Two Attorneys
Brooks Kushman Continues to Expand IP Depth with the Addition of Two Attorneys
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., – Brooks Kushman P.C. is again expanding its intellectual property (IP) expertise with the addition of two new attorneys. Brooks Kushman is pleased to announce that Timothy B. Clise and Jennifer K. Ziegler have joined the firm as Senior Attorneys. The addition of Clise and Ziegler extends a series of recent new hires and promotions as the firm continues to expand its capacity in response to growing client needs.
“Following a solid year of growth in 2013, we’re again expanding our patent prosecution and trademark teams with the additions of Tim and Jennifer,” said Mark Cantor. “Tim and Jennifer bring the needed expertise to aid these teams in serving our growing client portfolio. We’re excited to welcome them both to the Brooks Kushman family.”
Clise adds significant depth to Brooks Kushman’s electrical engineering patent prosecution team, offering both in-house experience and leadership capabilities gained from managing his own firm. He specializes in U.S. and international patent preparation and prosecution in the electrical, mechanical and electromechanical arts for large, Fortune 500 companies to small start-ups. Clise’s practice and experience expands beyond traditional IP and across a wide range of industries and technologies.
Most recently, Clise served as a senior patent attorney and member of the Strategic Patent Development Team for Blackberry Limited where he evaluated internal inventions, directed patent application drafting on a worldwide basis and managed U.S. and European patent professionals to facilitate direct filing of responses. Prior, he was a managing attorney at Clise, Billion & Cyr in Minneapolis and an attorney/officer at the national IP firm Schwegman, Lundberg, & Woessner, which is also located in Minneapolis.
He earned his J.D. from University of Dayton School of Law in Ohio and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University in East Lansing. Clise is a member of the State of Michigan Bar, U.S. Patent Bar, State of Minnesota Bar and the American IP Law Association.
Ziegler also joins the firm as a Senior Attorney with nearly 20 years of combined in-house and outside counsel experience practicing in the trademark and copyright law areas. She specializes in global brand protection, trademark and copyright enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and trademark portfolio management. Ziegler has extensive experience working with clients in a variety of industries, including automotive, consumer products, entertainment, bio-tech and life sciences, and financial services.
Prior joining Brooks Kushman, Ziegler served as Senior Trademark Counsel, then Associate General CounselTrademarks, for Harley-Davidson Motor Company in Ann Arbor where she oversaw all aspects of trademark registration and brand protection in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Before this, she served as senior associate attorney at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP in Boston and has also held other associate attorney positions.
She earned her J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Ziegler is a member of the Supreme Courts of Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts and Michigan, American Bar Association, Association of Corporate Counsel and International Trademark Association. She is also a trained mediator.
About Brooks Kushman
Brooks Kushman P.C. is a leading intellectual property (IP) and technology law firm with offices in Michigan and California, representing clients nationally and internationally. The firm has more than 90 intellectual property professionals specializing in various technical disciplines. Brooks Kushman has a reputation for providing leading IP strategy and counseling with a focus on the business objectives of its clients and represents clients across many industries with respect to protection, enforcement and monetization of IP, including patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets.
Brooks Kushman counts a number of Fortune 100 companies across a variety of industries among its clients. The firm is recognized by a number of leading legal publications and rankings, including Corporate Counsel magazine, U.S. News & World Report, IP Law & Business magazine and the Law360.com organization. For more information, please visit www.BrooksKushman.com. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6230741143226624, "wiki_prob": 0.6230741143226624, "source": "cc/2021-04/en_head_0065.json.gz/line337795"} |
School Daze: Eye-tracking Study Reveals What Earns Student Attention in Classroom
Tobii Technology, the global leader in eye tracking and gaze interaction, today unveiled the…
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Tobii Technology, the global leader in eye tracking and gaze interaction, today unveiled the findings of a new research study using Tobii Glasses by Kennesaw State University associate professor of physics education David Rosengrant. By revealing the attention patterns of students in the classroom, the study provides new insight into effective teaching techniques that aim to keep students engaged and motivated to learn during lectures.
“Until now, there has been no first-hand, innate measurement of student attention from the student’s perspective in the classroom,” said Rosengrant. “We were able to measure what the students observe during a lecture, how much of their time is dedicated to the material presented in class and, as an instructor, what are the greatest inhibitors to keeping their attention.”
Rosengrant’s four-month pilot study observed eight college students during 70-minute pre-elementary education lectures at Kennesaw State University. Conducted using Tobii Glasses, a portable, wearable eye-tracking device that allows for unobtrusive eye tracking for research in real-world environments, the study contradicts the widely accepted belief that classroom attention peaks during the first 15 minutes of class and then generally tapers off. Instead, Rosengrant discovered that classroom attention is not as linear as previously thought and is actually impacted by various factors throughout the duration of the lecture.
These factors include the verbal presentation of new material that is not contained within the instructor’s PowerPoint, the use of humor by the instructor and the proximity of the instructor to the student, which all contribute to greater attention from the student. Rosengrant’s study also concluded that “digital distractions” such as mobile phones and the Web, particularly Facebook, are the greatest inhibitors to retaining students’ attention in the classroom. From these insights, Rosengrant stresses the need for professors to alter their lecture structure through the injection of varying activities and the use of humor to engage students.
“David’s study is yet another example of the valuable insights that can be unveiled through the application and analysis of eye-tracking studies in the field, especially in regard to teaching,” said Barbara Barclay, general manager of Tobii North America. “The insights collected from the gaze patterns in this study can radically alter the landscape of the education profession and allow instructors to apply much more efficient communication techniques that can have a profound positive impact on student success.”
Rosengrant will publish the full study, “Studying Student Attention via Eye Tracking” in the fall and will continue to expand his research in order to generate insights that can impact the future of classroom instruction and ultimately, students’ success and the field of teaching.
“I hope that this study enlightens the education community about how to engage students effectively in the classroom, maximize student focus on the material and, ultimately, increase their achievement,” added Rosengrant.
About Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw State University is the third-largest university in Georgia, offering 80 graduate and undergraduate degrees, including doctorates in education, business and nursing and a new Ph.D. in international conflict management. A member of the 35-unit University System of Georgia, Kennesaw State is a comprehensive, residential institution with a growing student population of 24,100 from 130 countries.
About Tobii Technology
Tobii Technology is the global market leader in eye tracking and eye control. The company’s products are widely used within the scientific community and in commercial market research and usability studies, as well as by people with disabilities as a means to communicate. Tobii also drives innovation of eye-tracking technology in many other areas, offering OEM components for integration into various industry applications, such as for use in hospitals, engineering, sports and entertainment. Founded in 2001, the company has received numerous awards for its technology innovations and its rapid financial growth. Tobii is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and has offices in the U.S., Germany, Norway, Japan and China. More information: www.tobii.com
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The National Parks was formed by Brady Parks in 2013 in Provo, Utah and has since independently released three studio albums. Upon the release of their debut LP, Young (2013), the band climbed to #13 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart and with their sophomore record, Until I Live (2015), the 4-piece became a Billboard Regional Heatseeker. The National Parks' third studio album, Places, was released in late 2017 followed by a deluxe version in February 2018.
In the first month after the release of Places (2017), the record had been streamed more than 1,000,000 times on Spotify alone with individual tracks landing on major Spotify playlists like Pop Chillout, Indie Pop and Morning Commute. Despite operating as a true independent, the band has built and maintained an impressive following with a Spotify monthly listenership nearing 400,000 and appearances at SXSW, CMJ, Snowmass Mammoth Fest, Oyster Ridge Music Festival, School Nights at Bardot's. Praise has come from major press outlets such as NPR, Paste, Baeble Music, The Vinyl District, and The National Parks create atmospheric and "anthemic indie-folk as boundless as their name would suggest" (Paste Magazine) centered around male/female harmonies backdropped by guitar/piano/violin instrumentation. The band's earliest touring was done as a three-piece but as the music has evolved, so has the band. A wide cast of musicians have joined as touring members of The National Parks but by 2015, the group had settled into a consistent four-piece setup with original members Brady Parks (vocals/guitar) and Sydney Macfarlane (vocals/keys) playing alongside, Cam Brannelly (drums) and Megan Parks (violin).
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Katie’s main takeaway from the event is goalball serves as a strong reminder – there is strength to be found in adapting to circumstances previously thought impossible.
Katie interviewed the coaches of the respective teams – Marlina Kasbi of Young Women’s Touch and Bay Hansen of Goalball Singapore.
“Kasbi believes that her players learned to play to their strengths, as well as communicate more clearly and specifically – “Not just ‘move’, but ‘move left by five steps’.” The players became more firm and precise in their instructions to each other.
When asked about the motivation of spending so much time on Goalball, Mr Hansen Bay, coach of the Singapore Goalball team “When you begin to see the effects goalball has on the confidence and behaviour of athletes, you don’t really ask yourself that question anymore.” He struck the example of players who initially faced challenges in speaking, walking, or exercising. By providing a safe and judgement-free forum to exercise these skills, goalball helped players to create a personal ‘evidence base’ of their own capabilities. Since players now knew they could speak, run, and make friends on the court, they were empowered to do the same in real life”. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-21T00:40:42Z', 'url': 'https://bravespace.org/goalball-reflections-from-katie/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
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Are you searching to know about the Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic? Do you want to know his height, weight, age, or his wife’s name? If you want to know about him, this post is for you. You can know from here about his age, height, weight, net worth, Jersey Number, father, mother, wife, children, Best Friends, Marital Status, Religion, Hobbies, favorites, and more about him.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is commonly known as Zlatanera or Ibra. He is a Swedish professional football player. He played as a striker for the Swedish national football team and currently, he plays for the Italian professional football club A.C. Milan. Ibra is regarded as one of the best football players for his generation.
Childhood/Early Life and Family Background
The Swedish great footballer was born on 3 October 1981 in the city of Malmo in Sweden. His father’s name is Sefik Ibrahimovic and his mother’s name is Jurka Gravic. Sefik Ibrahimovic was a Muslim who was born in Bosnia and emigrated to Sweden in 1977. Jurka Gravic was a Catholic who was born in Croatia and she emigrated to Sweden. His parents Sefik Ibrahimovic and Jurka Gravic did not have a relationship. They separated from one another when the football star was 2 years old. He lived with his mother. His mother was strict and sometimes beat him with a wooden spoon for disobedience. Zlatan does not practice any religion. Very often, he missed his father because they had fun together.
Professional Career debut
Zlatan made his professional career for the Swedish football club Malmo FF in 1999. With this club, he scored 16 goals in 40 appearances.
International Career
Due to his family heritage, the Swedish football star was eligible to represent Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina or Croatia at the international level, but he chose Sweden. That is why he made his international debut for the Swedish national football in a friendly match against the Faroe Island on 31 January 2001. He is the only player, who plays 100 matches for the Swedish national team. In total, he scored 62 goals in 116 appearances and makes him an all-time leading goalscorer. In 2016, the great Swedish footballer Zlatan retired from international football.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic- Height, age, girlfriends, wife, net worth, and more
Full Name Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Nickname Zlatanera,Ibra
Birth Date 3 October 1981
Birth Place Malmo in Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Religion Does not practice any religion
Father Sefik Ibrahimovic
Mother Jurka Gravic
Sister (s) Monika Ibrahimovic
Violeta Ibrahimovic
Selma Ibrahimovic
Brother (s) Aleksander Ibrahimovic
Sapko Ibrahimovic
Educational Qualifications Not Known
Mailing Address Not Known
Phone Number Not Known
Occupation Professional Footballer
Playing Position Forward
Current Team A.C. Milan
Jersey Number #21 / A.C. Milan
Professional Debut in 1999
International Debut in 2001
Sex Orientation Straight
Girlfriends / Affairs Maria Olhage (2000-2002)
Helena Seger (2000-Present)
Erika Johnson (2002)
Wife Helena Seger
Marriage Date / Year 2002
Children Maximilian Ibrahimovic
Vincent Ibrahimovic
Salary $35 million
Best Friends Carles Puyol
Hobbies Playing Football
Zlatan Favorite – Foods, Drinks, Footballers, Actor, Actress, Teams, Color, Pet, and More
Favorite foods Italian Foods
Favorite Drinks Prefers to drink water
Favorite Sports Football
Favorite Team Manchester United
Favorite Footballers Maradona
Favorite Musician Reggae
Favorite Actor Tom Cruise
Favorite Actress Noomi Rapace
Favorite Flower Not Known
Favorite Websites Twitter
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Deathrock nebo death rock je termín používaný k označení punkrockového podžánru, který obsahuje hororové prvky a strašidelnou atmosféru. Vznikl na Západním pobřeží USA okolo roku 1979.
Charakteristika
Termín "death rock" byl poprvé použití v 50. letech na popsání tematicky podobného žánru rock and rollu, který začal skladbou "Endless Sleep" od Jodyho Reynoldse v roce 1958 a skončil skladbou "Last Kiss" od J. Franka Wilsona v roce 1964. Název deathrock vznikl v roce 1979 kvůli popsání zvuku různých punkrockových skupin západního pobřeží USA.
Deathrocková skladby používají jednoduché akordy opakující se kytarové zvuky, basovou kytaru v popředí a bicí, které zdůrazňují opakované, post-punkové beaty v taktu 4/4. K vytvoření atmosféry jsou někdy použity skřípající zvuky kytary. Texty mohou být rozdílné, ale typicky jsou introspektivní a surrealistické s podílem temných témat samoty, rozčarování, ztráty, deprese, života, smrti atd.
Interpreti
45 Grave
Bella Morte
The Birthday Party
Bloody Dead & Sexy
Cauda Pavonis
Christian Death
Cinema Strange
Rudimentary Peni
Tragic Black
T.S.O.L.
Mephisto Walz
Moderní Death Rock 1990-2013
A Spectre Is Haunting Europe
All Gone Dead
Astrovamps
Black Ice
Bloody Dead and Sexy
CADR Ash
Cemetary Girlz, The
Chants of Maldoror
Cinema Strange
Curtains!
Deep Eyende
Devils Whorehouse
Dinah Cancer and the Graverobbers (anksčiau 45 Grave)
Disco Hospital, The
Eat Your Make Up
Eyeculation Post Mortem
Evil Speaks, The
Fear Cult
Frank The Baptist
Heiress presumptivní
Horatio, The
Human disea
Jacqui Bitch
La Peste Negra
La Vene Di Lucretia
Las Gorgon
Last Days of Jesus, The
Los Carniceros Del Norte
Madre del Visio
Miguel and the Living Dead
Murder at the Registry
New Days Delay
Novocaine Mausoleum
Noctivagus
N / A
Phantom Limbs, The
Pins and Needles
Radio Scarlet
Red Voice Choir
Scarlet 's Remains
Subtonix
Tragic Black
Turn Pale
Undying Legacy
Vanishing, The
Young Werewolves, The
Zombie zex
Reference
Externí odkazy
Punk
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An artistic depiction of President Zuma dancing, by Lawrence Lemaoana, from a T-shirt released at the Joburg Art Fair.
JOHANNESBURG - As South Africans await confirmation from the ANC about President Jacob Zuma&39;s fate, many on Twitter are already celebrating.
The party is said to have given Zuma 48 hours to resign, failing which he will be recalled.
The ANC will hold a press conference at 2pm on Tuesday..
The hashtag ZumaIsGoneParty trended on Twitter early on Tuesday, in anticipation of Zuma&39;s exit.
... than scraping off chewing gum under one&39;s shoe SMH!
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I am very happy to introduce you to the Midwest Artist Studios™ (MAS) Project. I created this project in early 2014 as a way to expose, educate, and engage my art students with regional contemporary art, to introduce another way to address Literacy within the art curriculum, and to provide my students with an avenue to start a dialogue with Midwest artists.
In the art world, we often think about successful artists living in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami. However, how often do we think about successful artists living in our communities such as Oskaloosa, Iowa; Ann Arbor, Michigan or Valley City, North Dakota? There are a lot of resources out there that introduce us to living artists, but what I have learned is that my art students need something relevant and accessible.
As an art educator I have learned that the units I created over the years have opened the world of possibilities for my art students. Since the day I began implementing these lessons into my curriculum I have noticed that the way I teach continues to improve and by introducing more technology into my classroom through mobile apps, video, and online critiques have helped tremendously. This momentum has made an impact in my professional life and as a result have benefitted my students’ learning and understanding the benefits of finding their artistic voice.
This video is about MAS 2016 artists sharing their thoughts of being our featured artists.
Here are some comments that my students have shared with me.
From this year, I have learned to have a little faith in the outcome of my projects. I am usually a self-doubting person, so I should take this experience and apply it to my life in general. There have been a lot of things this year that have actually increased my self-confidence. I do not feel ready for next year; however, I do feel a little more prepared, and I think I am in a slightly better mindset for what is to come. The world is complex just like these projects were. The outcome, on occasion, could turn out amazing though and I am excited to see what the world has to offer to me if I work hard enough. It is awfully strange, yet awesome, how many similarities the process of creating art is to living life.
The slightest change in a piece of art can change the entire meaning of a piece. After our interview with Jane Ryder, I began to think about what would be best for my painting, She gave specific suggestions to me through email, and I took those and created a more complex piece of art with the inclusion of another style of gouache painting. I watered down the gouache and created a fluid movement in the background, opposed to the strong colors and solid painting in the foreground. In the end, I gave my painting a softer, more balanced feeling. – Kimberly W, student.
I learned really only one thing this year about myself while doing art. The thing I learned about myself was that I can’t really plan out a project. After I plan out the design I always end up changing my mind because I find a new inspiration and add on to it. I think that the reason I do this is because art is about creativity and you can’t plan creativity. While doing all these projects it has opened my eyes to things around me by finding inspiration in the things around me. – Rachel R, student.
I learned that not everything I make will be what I expect it to be, some will not live up to my expectations and some may be. I have come to realize that I will not always excel in every single media that I’m given, I will always have a weakness in particular mediums, but that doesn’t mean that I should stop trying to work with them. I think that it just means I should just work with it to understand how it works, that way I don’t necessarily rule that media out for a project.
While learning about the last project it has helped me realize that not all art has to be so elaborate or perfect. Things aren’t always meant to go the way you want them to. I myself am a perfectionist and any art project I do. I won’t particularly like because it didn’t turn out the way I wanted to, but that’s just how things go. I know that I criticize my work harshly but that’s just the way I am. I always feel like I can do better, but I get lazy. I’ve got to learn to accept that my artwork has turned out this way, and if I want to improve I always have another shot at it. I don’t always have to be so hard on myself.
I would say the assemblage was my favorite project to do because I had dedicated it to my grandpa who passed away two years ago. – Savannah B, student.
Through creating my art I learned many different things about myself as not only an artist but an individual. I learned that creating different styles of art helps me expand my thinking and brainstorming. What I mean by this is that when I am having a hard time trying to think of ideas for my artwork I like to make sketches to get my mind thinking and get other ideas. I also have learned that creating art helps me deal with stress and helps me relax and calm down from my busy life. Art has helped me in many different ways. Overall by taking art over the last few years I think that I have grown into a stronger and more positive individual. – Natalie M, student.
Through art, I enjoy expressing my emotions on paper. By creating art I can express my creativity without anyone judging. I have noticed that everyones style is unique, no one is exactly the same, when expressing one’s creativity. The arts can teach individuals to make good judgement about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real. The arts help individuals learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job. This course, I have learned many techniques and strategies to improve my art capabilities. Stretching, creating canvases, paint strokes, sketching skills are some of the many techniques learned. By learning these new techniques, it has opened my eyes to the world around me. – Marisa B, student. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-18T22:43:06Z', 'url': 'https://midwestartiststudios.com/for-educators/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
Modern buildings comply with the highest energy standards and are therefore virtually airtight. This is why humidity, carbon dioxide and bad odours can no longer escape. In this case, a permanently installed ventilation system provides ideal air exchange - both in winter and in summer. The system referred to as heat recovery ventilation uses pipes to remove used air while supplying the rooms with fresh, filtered outdoor air at the same time. FRÄNKISCHE's system for heat recovery ventilation is termed profi-air. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-20T00:53:04Z', 'url': 'https://www.fraenkische.com/en/glossary-item/kontrollierte-wohnraumlueftung-kwl', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
As the first neuroscientist asked to contribute to the World Happiness Report, and a recent speaker at the World Economic Forum, Dr. Davidson studies how emotions, contemplative practices and positive qualities of mind (think kindness, compassion, empathy) influence our psychological well-being. He’s made startling discoveries on the interconnectivity of our brain, and seeks to understand how humans can achieve greater senses of happiness and well-being. One of the most remarkable discoveries to come out of his distinguished career is related to the neural plasticity of the brain.
Put simply, Dr. Davidson is interested in how we can train our brains to increase our well-being. Through daily activities such as meditation and other interventions, Dr. Davidson has shown that we have an incredible power over our own minds and well-being.
This isn’t a radical notion. But it is one that is underrepresented in neurological studies because the variables that make up well-being are difficult to quantify. Thanks to Dr. Davidson’s work, scientists are able to gain deeper understanding of what we can do to remain happy in our lives. According to his research, mindfulness, social relationship cultivation, and recovery from negative events are areas that we should focus on to cultivate well-being.
The human mind is a complex organ, and we can’t easily quantify how well-being impacts our everyday lives. But we do know that happier people are healthier, more productive members of society—and thanks to the work of Dr. Richard Davidson, we have learned that well-being can be an acquired skill, not unlike learning a musical instrument. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-22T16:46:50Z', 'url': 'https://www.allwaysforward.org/story/decoding-the-secrets-of-well-being/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
Playtesters - Code of Conduct
— Last updated: 9th of March, 2015
Members of the playtesting domain are required to agree to this code of conduct and to uphold it to their best abilities. Any violation of this code should be reported to the administration of the playtesting domain.
Being a playtester, like being a creator, is a responsibility and not a right. Part of being a playtester is being trustworthy enough that creators feel confident that you will not violate the confidentiality of the process. If you feel you cannot as a playtester accept the code of conduct here then you should bring your concerns to the attention of the administration of the playtesting domain.
Like all rules on Discworld, the important aspect here is the spirit and not the letter. Basically if you feel the only way your actions are justifiable is through some loophole or radical interpretation of this code of conduct then you will still be judged to have violated the code of conduct.
Violation of this code can be grounds for dismissal from the playtesting domain and depending on the violation may result in further punishment
Playtesters are expected to be 'model players' and conduct themselves in a manner befitting someone who has been formally trusted with additional responsibilities on Discworld. This means that you do not do anything that brings yourself or the playtesting domain into disrepute.
Creators are expected to treat you professionally and with respect, you in turn are expected to show the same courtesy to them. You are not required to agree with everything they say or do, but if you disagree, please concentrate on the issues and remain courteous and civilized.
Information that you receive as a result of being a playtester is confidential. This means you do not discuss it with anyone who is not formally a member of the playtesting team or a creator. This includes conversations on the playtesters channel, documents posted on the playtester boards and documents on the PT Wiki. Basically if the reason you know something is because you are a playtester then it is confidential.
Playtesters are expected to make their contributions and bug reports politely and constructively.
Playtesters are expected to devote at least sixty percent of the time spent playtesting to projects they are actively assigned to.
Playtesters often have access to commands and areas specifically to aid in playtesting. Playtesters are not to abuse the privilege of having these by using them to escape in-game situations or ameliorate the effects of in-game punishments.
Items that you possess that are in playtesting are not to be used against non-playtesters. They are not to leave your inventory unless being destroyed in the PT armoury or handed to a creator or fellow playtester. If a non-playtester has somehow gained possession of one of your playtesting items, then alert an online creator as soon as possible.
Spells or rituals that are in playtesting are not to be used against non-playtesters. They are not to be used in heavily player populated areas. They are not to be used when there is a chance that a non-playtester or NPC will be affected by primary or secondary effects.
NPCs in playtesting do not exist for the purposes of XP farming. Playtesting greatly restricts the number of players who have access to the NPC, and playtesters thus have a greatly improved opportunity to earn XP because of the limited competition. Farming PT NPCs will be considered an abuse of the system.
Playtesters have access to Igor (the Discworld clone) for purposes of testing and evaluating things which cannot be playtested on Discworld proper. This is a service made available for the purposes of testing and is not to be abused by taking advantage of the fact your Discworld character file is not synched with your Igor character file.
Playtesting areas are considered to be 'off-limits' as far as non-playtesting PK interactions, such as inhumations and thievery are concerned.
Creator code of conduct
Creators are expected to adhere to this code of conduct when their projects are undergoing playtesting. If a playtester feels that they have not been treated with the respect they deserve, then they should discuss it with the creator in question in the first place. If there is no satisfactory resolution after that, then it should be discussed with the creator's domain lord.
Creators will deal with playtester queries about their code in a polite and professional manner. Remember, playtesters are providing a valuable service in their own free time, and so should be treated with the respect you'd like to be treated with yourself.
Creators will provide acknowledgement of reported bugs that have been fixed so that:
The fix can be tested to work.
The fix can be tested to ensure it didn't introduce a new bug.
The playtester knows that the bug has been looked at.
The people responsible for the amount of game mechanic information on a project in playtesting are the people responsible for the code. For this reason, creators will not give out game mechanics for developments that they are not directly responsible for.
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hence it can be useful to identify the prevalence of single Clomifene criteria which contribute to this process or how broadly a candidate EBSA fulfils the criteria. This is a complementary analysis that does not replace the selection algorithms, and is intended to answer specific questions that environmental managers may have about the candidate EBSAs’ ’performance’ against the criteria or the influence of individual criteria (Fig. 5). For example, most seamounts in the Nazca and Sala y Gomez area meet most of the criteria. The exceptions are C1, which was met by only 10% of seamounts included in this candidate EBSA, and C2, which was not satisfied by any seamount in any area (Fig. 5). Conversely, if it were deemed important to select an area that would afford greater protection to unique or rare characteristics of an ecosystem, then Foundation Seamounts would be a better candidate area; many seamounts in this area perform poorly, however, against the other criteria (Fig. 5).
influence the ability of S. mutans to colonize the oral cavity. Several recent studies showed that SIgA is present in saliva and other secretions at birth. 6 and 7 However, the influence of these antibodies in the establishment of the oral microbiota is unknown. In this study, we characterised the levels and specificities of salivary IgA antibodies to S. mitis and S. mutans antigens in newborn children, and compared intensities and complexities of antibody responses between fullterm (FT) and preterm (PT) children. A total of 123 (70 FT and 53 PT) newborn children in the Hospital of the University of Ribeirao Preto, Brazil were enrolled in this study, under mothers consent for their participation. This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Medical School of Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil, 2963/2007. To be included in the study population, only healthy newborns less than 10 h old were included in this study. Children with congenital malformations, perinatal hypoxia, intracranial haemorrhage, with length or weight incompatible with gestational ages, or under antibiotic therapy were excluded from this study.
response thresholds 26 and 22. The previous section focussed on studies in which diffusion model properties were related to various regions of interest. In this section, we review work that has studied the BOLD response in spatial interference control tasks. The aim of this section is to identify which diffusion model processes can be expected to be important in an explanation of spatial interference control, given the overlap in regions of interest. The brain area that is most often reported in relation to interference control is the ACC (for a review see ). Although ACC activation is often associated with conflict monitoring or detection 28 and 29 and therefore should be active during interference tasks, the debate on the specific role of ACC is still open. Besides conflict monitoring 30•• and 31, people have argued that the ACC is active during anticipatory activation 32, 33 and 34, in response to errors , as an indicator of the likelihood of an upcoming error 36 and 37, and during task switching 38 and 39. In addition to the ACC, it has been argued that the DLPFC is involved in the resolution of conflict 30••, 40, 41, 42 and 43.
and focused searches. A more detailed description of the search methods is found in the accompanying clinical guideline document.19 Comprehensive searches (1988 to December 2013) in PubMed, Embase, and CINAHL used the search terms delirium, organic brain syndrome, and acute confusion and resulted in a total of 6,504 articles. Additional, alternative terms included for the prevention L-NAME HCl and treatment of delirium were the words prevention, management, treatment, intervention, therapy, therapeutic, and drug therapy. Two additional targeted searches using the U.S. Library of National Medicine PubMed Special Queries on Comparative Effectiveness Research and PubMed Clinical Queries were also conducted. Finally, the ClinicalTrials.gov registry was searched to identify trials that have not been published. Search terms used were the drugs quetiapine, dexmedetomidine, melatonin, rivastigmine, haloperidol, gabapentin, olanzapine, donepezil, risperidone, as well as the terms analgesia, delirium, and confusion.
(S: relative cross-sectional area; V: relative volume, S = πab; a: radius of the long axis; b: radius of the minor axis) and the ratio of the volume at each time point was calculated with the control volume. To investigate the cytotoxicity, CPS (CPS10) containing the cryoprotectant with the fastest cell permeability at a concentration Etofibrate of 10% v/v in PB1 was used. After the embryos were exposed to CPS10 for 300 or 600 s at 25 ± 0.5 °C, they were shifted to a solution containing 0.3 mol sucrose in PB1 (SPB1), and then left at rest for 120 s. The embryos were then washed with PB1 three times and embryo survival was confirmed. The surviving embryos after exposure to CPS were examined for in vivo development. First, we prepared five types of CPS containing 0.3 mol sucrose, 10% v/v propylene glycol, and various amounts of ethylene glycol (10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, or 30% v/v) in PB1 (Table 3).
habitats along the BC coast (Williams et al., 2013). It would be beneficial to conduct these control-exposure experiments while simultaneously capturing empirical data on the temporal variability in the soundscape. The whale behavioral data are summarized MRIP over 5 min intervals, due to the temporal resolution of theodolite track data (i.e., the time of each surfacing). Telemetry data, such as DTAG deployments (Johnson and Tyack, 2003), would give finer resolution data. As the DTAG technology improves and expands to include dosimeters and calibrated hydrophones, these may give empirical values of received noise level simultaneously. Telemetry alone may not resolve this problem, though, because the flow of water over the acoustic tag may always confound our ability to measure received noise level at the whale.
in aprotic media on GCE and mercury has already been reported (de Souza et al., 2010 and Hernández et al., 2008). A detailed study of the influence of oxygen concentration on EpIc and IpIc of both quinones was performed, as described previously for lapachol and isolapachol ( Goulart et al., 2003 and Goulart et al., 2004). The addition of O2 to the system caused remarkable changes to the position of the first reduction peak potential (EpIc) as well as to the shape of the other waves of QPhNO2 ( Fig. 7A). The peak of oxygen reduction (EpO2) in this medium occurred at −0.894 V. These effects include a) an increase in the height and anodic shift of the first cathodic wave (Ic) (inset, Fig. 7A, which is related to the generation of the semiquinone, and b) a disappearance of the corresponding anodic wave (Ia) ( Fig. 7A).
to resensitize cells to ineffective treatments . The failure of so-called targeted agents to significantly increase overall Edoxaban survival and quality of life supports an evidence-based paradigm shift away from the systematic avoidance of previously tried therapies toward their potential reuse for resensitization. With this resensitization paradigm shift, it would be theoretically possible to continue treatment instead of giving up after all conventional options have been exhausted, with reverted and reprogrammed tumors that are repeatedly susceptible to the same chemotherapies. Instead of a one-way arrow pointing inevitably in the direction of therapeutic failure, treatment would thereby alternate between resistance and resensitization, like a swinging pendulum. The desideratum is for patients to live out the rest of their lives with metastatic cancer in the form of a chronic condition, which is manageable and survivable, like diabetes, psoriasis, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and not under the shadow of a progressively fatal disease.
these figures were frozen wholesalers, a niche market with rather low production and employment, but with long ‘processing chains’. A typical processing chain for frozen seafood is, as an example, producer – frozen fish middlemen – freezing plant – domestic distributor of frozen seafood – frozen wholesalers – local markets – consumers. Such long chains increase revenue and employment. Following seafood through the process chain from producers to consumers, the revenue, cost, and employment was estimated by enterprise categories, and based on this the contribution to GDP was calculated. The primary sector and processing were found to provide the biggest contribution to the overall economy with 36% and 34% of the total, respectively (Table 2). Retailers followed at a close third with 26% though, indicating especially the importance of the restaurant business. The total contribution of the marine fisheries sector to the Peruvian economy was estimated to be US$ 3.2B for 2009 (Table 2), and this should be a conservative estimate given that this study, as explained in the methodology section, did not include all parts of the sector in the analysis. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-26T07:48:05Z', 'url': 'https://thrombininhibitors.com/2017/09', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
Reddy named a 2020 Chancellor EDGES Fellow recipient
One out of only 10 faculty members chosen at the university level for his significant accomplishments in neuroscience and drug discovery research
D. Samba Reddy, PhD, RPh, professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics at the Texas A&M University College of Medicine, has been named a 2020 Chancellor EDGES (Enhancing Development and Generating Excellence in Scholarship) Fellow recipient.
The EDGES Fellowship was launched in 2019 by the Texas A&M University System chancellor in order to support and honor mid-career Texas A&M faculty. Each of the 10 recipients was nominated by their college for demonstrating significant accomplishments, both nationally and internationally, and high levels of discipline in their respective fields.
EDGES Fellows retain the right to use the title throughout their tenure as faculty members in good standing at Texas A&M.
“These awards recognize the priority of Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp to develop and support faculty members with national and international acclaim,” said Provost and Executive Vice President Carol A. Fierke. “The honorees are scholars with careers on-track to make high-impact contributions to enhance the state and nation, leading to national and international recognition.”
In addition, the faculty chosen as fellowship recipients in fields with national academies are on-track to be or have already been inducted into their membership. Reddy is an already well-respected scholar in his field, as he has been named a fellow by the American Epilepsy Society (AES), American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
Reddy is a board-certified pharmacist-pharmacologist and has been researching brain disorders and new drug development for epilepsy for more than 25 years. His lab has been continually developing innovative therapies for preventing the development and progression of epilepsy and other brain disorders. Also, his multidisciplinary research group utilizes a wide array of pharmacological, neuroimaging, electrophysiological, neuropathological and molecular techniques for neurotherapeutics research.
Recently, the Texas A&M Association of Former Students has conferred Reddy with a Distinguished Achievement Award in the category of research.
The Reddy lab is currently researching and developing molecular pathophysiology drug therapies for epileptogenesis, status epilepticus, post-traumatic epilepsy, post-stroke epilepsy and chemical neurotoxicity.
Many of Reddy’s research findings and advancements have had a great impact in the health care industry and he has published more than 195 papers and book-chapters (h-index 52). In 2019, Reddy’s research helped develop allopregnanolone (brexanolone), approved by the FDA as the first drug to treat postpartum depression.
His research endeavors also include military medicine projects, such as prevention strategies for post-traumatic epilepsy and treatments for Gulf War illness in veterans. Additionally, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have continually funded his research projects for over 15 years.
— Gracie Blackwell
Southerland wins second place poster at Postdoctoral Research Symposium
McKyer receives Chancellor’s Research Initiative “EDGES” Award
Waer chosen as Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellow
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The invention relates to the field of printing consumables, and more specifically relates to a vacuum anti blocking ink cartridge. The vacuum anti blocking ink cartridge includes a matrix; the matrix is a hollow structure; one end of the matrix is provided with a passage through a channel; a first valve body and a second valve body are arranged in order from the inside to the outside through the channel; the hollow structure of the matrix is enclosed by the first valve body and the ink is stored in the air room; the first valve body is a one-way valve; accommodates a single valve; The space is vacuum state; the second valve body includes normally closed state and matching state; when the valve body is in the fit state, the valve body is opened in the direction of the first valve body; and the second valve body is in a vacuum state. The vacuum blocking ink cartridge has good sealing performance and avoids ink blockage in use and has long service life. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-22T02:11:08Z', 'url': 'http://www.jigao616.com/zhuanlijieshao_18437380.aspx', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
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FARGO – Season One Review
Stephanie Cooke 2014-06-18
Stephanie Cooke · 06/18/2014
When I first heard of Fargo, it was hard to imagine a TV series deserving of the name without the Coen Brothers. TV producers so often tries to just capitalize on a name that they don’t care whether it’s true to the original content or not. Fargo manages to forego any such nonsense and from the beginning of the season until the end, manages to embody the whole tone and vibe of the movie. Showrunner and writer, Noah Hawley, feels like an extension of the Coen Brothers or perhaps even a long lost brother reaching out to them through his talent.
If you still haven’t watched Fargo, you might be wondering how a show that carries over no characters from the original movie and no real ties can truly be a sequel and the answer is that it’s not. Fargo is its own separate entity for the most part. The real ties to the original movie are in how the story is presented to us. It’s a Fargo spin-off as opposed to a direct sequel.
For starters, the show tells us that the events taking place are based on a true story. Most people would believe something like that, but when it comes to Fargo, you best not. Both the movie and the series boast that fact but both are entirely fictional. However, Hawley said that’s part of the appeal. Recently I had a chance to ask him about the show’s fictitious nature and whether there were any actual true crimes that helped to inspire the series and his response was this (spoilers in Hawley’s response only):
“No. There wasn’t. It wasn’t like I read anything that I felt like was a detail that would play in well to this case. It was more that once I put the characters in motion, once I said—and there is a slight [indiscernible] undertrained quality to the set up, but the minute that “Lester” came in and “Malvo” came in and the idea of killing the bully and killing the wife came in, then it was about playing out the consequences of that, and the idea that “Sam” has had connections to a Fargo crime syndicate and that “Mr. Wrench” and “Numbers” came to town and all that. So, at that point, I wasn’t really looking for any true story to rely on. It was more the idea that once you call something a true story, you’re able to break a lot of the rules of hero-based story-telling that this sort of Joseph Campbell heroes journey thing that our friend Dan Harmon talks about all the time.
It was more like you’ll seen in Episode 4, “Gus” manages to arrest “Malvo” and he calls “Molly” and says you should be here, and she gets her coat but she never makes it there and “Bill” goes instead. In the fictional story, you would want her in that room, she’s the hero. She’s supposed to be sitting across from the villain, but the true story version is that she never makes it there, just like “Marge” wasn’t there when “Jerry Lundegaard” was arrested at the end of the movie and the same thing in 106. When “Malvo’s” doing his whole thing of setting up “Don Chumph” and playing out that end game, and even the shootout, it’s like “Molly” and “Gus” are sort of driving around and they’re having coffee and they’re not—the textbook tells you to put them at the center of the action, but by not putting them in the center of the action, it feels more real, I guess, was the conceit. So, it wasn’t so much about looking for real-world inspirations as much as it was to try to make a fictional story feel realer.”
The parallels between the show and the movie don’t just stop at the fictional storylines though. While FX didn’t get Frances McDormand back to reprise the role of Marge, they didn’t need to. They got Allison Tolman on board to play an original character that draws blatant inspiration from Marge. Tolman plays Deputy Molly Solverson, a smart and observant officer in the Bemidji Police Department. She’s the chief’s go-to gal and everything from the way she talks and solves crimes is very Marge-like without feeling like she’s a rip-off of the character. Allison Tolman makes the role her own and is definitely the breakout start of the series.
More comparisons exist but it’s honestly more fun to just watch the show and find them yourself as you go along. You will discover one throwback to the movie while watching the series and it’ll be interesting to see if that particular part of the story makes it into the next season in a sort of follow-the-money kind of way.
Everyone cast in Fargo does an outstanding job though. It’ll never not be weird to see Martin Freeman in the show with a Minnesota accent. I still maintain that his character, Lester Nygaard, is pretty much a mid-west Bilbo Baggins. He starts out not wanting to really leave his house or his town or do much of anything with his life and slowly as the show goes on, Lester evolves and not necessarily for the best. You’ll see.
Then there’s Billy Bob Thornton who plays Lorne Malvo, a hitman that is more comparable to a wild animal than a person. He has no real human compassion and is functionally insane and wow, does Thornton ever pull it off. I can’t recall the last thing that I really loved Thornton in but him as Malvo will forever be embedded in my brain and I hope he continues on this streak of taking on these high-quality roles.
It’s great to see Colin Hanks in something notable too. Hanks is a great actor that I’ve adored since his role in Orange County. He plays a police officer from Duluth and looks like a perpetually lost puppy in the best kind of way. He’s doing a job he doesn’t really want to be doing to support his family, trying to make the best of the bad things that come his way, like Lorne Malvo. As the show progresses, you’ll find yourself rooting for him and hoping that everything comes up Milhouse for him.
Bob Odenkirk and Keith Carradine are also equally fantastic in the show, as if you couldn’t deduce that for yourself. The performances are top-notch from everyone involved and that’s all I’ll say about that.
The art direction on the show was something else I wanted to make note of. The scenery and cinematography are breathtaking and if any of you watched HBO’s True Detective series, the whole Fargo aesthetic felt a bit like that. Each shot felt constructed as if they each might become a painting someday. If this doesn’t get an Emmy nomination at the very least for cinematography, then the show is being robbed.
Lastly, the story itself is wonderful in that dark, twisted Coen Brothers kind of way. I often find myself trying to figure out what’s going to happen in the movies and shows that I watch. I’m usually pretty good at it. I can’t help myself. Because of the nature of the show, you’re still trying to predict what will come next throughout the season but there are delightful twists and turns that you don’t see coming and it makes for excellent entertainment. There is also humour in the show too, despite the true crime nature of the plot and again, it’s that Coen Brothers-esque dark humour that we see and Noah Hawley nails it.
FX’s Fargo series is a must-watch. Even if true crime isn’t always your thing, make it your thing with Fargo. The show is spectacularly constructed and plays out like a movie rather than a TV show. And just as a FYI, the first season acts more like a mini-series than anything else as it has a definite conclusion by the end of it. FX has stated that the seasons that follow will be focused on different characters and stories that will ultimately make up an anthology.
I will say this: refresh your memory of the Fargo movie before setting out to watch the series. It’s 100% not necessary to enjoy the show, but if you’re a fan of the movie, the show got a lot more interesting to me once I sat down with the film again and was able to pick up on more common denominators between the two. It’s currently available to stream on Netflix.
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Stephanie Cooke
Stephanie is a comic book fan, but she also considers herself an avid gamer, movie watcher, lover of music and Twitter. Stephanie is a purveyor of too many projects and has written for Talking Comics, JoBlo.com, CG Magazine, Dork Shelf and more. She also runs Toronto Geek Trivia in her home city and can be found helping out at other “geek” community things around there.
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Drivers in Berkshire were found guilty of 10 different offences in November, from using their phone to drink driving and everything in between.
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A 55-year-old man from Slough was fined £220 for using a mobile phone while driving a Mercedes Benz.
Saranjit Chhokar, 55, of Horton Road, Datchet, was found guilty on November 10 for committing the offence in Hayes Road on April 14 this year.
He was ordered to pay £100 in costs and a surcharge to fund victim services of £34, while also receiving six points on his license.
Five days earlier, November 5, a Slough woman was fined £277 and banned from the roads for 12 months after drink driving in the same brand of car.
Amy Edwards, 32, of Tobermory Close, drove in London Road, Saffron Walden, with 91 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of her blood on October 17, 2020.
The driving ban will cease 12 months after June 2, 2021.
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A woman from Bracknell was fined £220 for failing to stop at a red light at a pelican crossing in Arlington Square.
Dawn Clatworthy, 59, of North Green, Bracknell, failed to stop on June 26, 2021 and was sentenced on November 23.
She must pay costs of £90 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £34.
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On the same court date, Anthony Whiteway, 48, was fined £600 for exceeding the motorway speed limit.
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Whiteway, of Jodie Court, Stevens Close, Beckenham, received six points on his license.
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A 23-year-old man from Slough was disqualified from driving from 18 months for failing to provide a breath sample.
Norbert Kukla, 23, of Gatewick Close, was suspected of having driven a vehicle but failed to offer a sample when asked on February 28.
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John Mckinnon, 23, of Bodin Gardens, Newbury, must pay £292 for failing to stop his Audi when required by an officer in Greenham Road, Queens Road, Hambridge Road, and London Road, Newbury on February 27.
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A man from Reading stole more than £2,000-worth of tyres from a Lexus car dealership.
Biondino Alessandro Fappiano, 39, of Prince of Wales Avenue, stole four car tyres on on March 8.
The judge at Berkshire Magistrates Court ordered him to undertake up to 20 days of rehabilitation.
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A man who drove without insurance in Britwell Road, Slough, was fined £660 on November 23.
Callum Bailey, 25, of Hag Hill Rise, Burnham, committed the office on May 18.
He received six points on his license and was ordered to pay costs of £90 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £66.
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A 29-year-old Maidenhead man must pay £357 after causing or permitting a heavy goods vehicle weighing 32 tonnes to be used on Thornford Road.
This contravened West Berkshire District Council laws on commercial vehicles.
Mitchell Constable, 29, from Orchard Close, was fined £143 for the offence, which occurred on March 9.
At Berkshire Magistrates Court on November 19, Mitchell was also ordered to pay costs of £180 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £34.
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Akhlaque Mohammad, 52, of Hampshire Avenue, Slough was fined £660 for failing to give information relating to the identification of a Mercedes driver between March 24 and April 21 in Banbury.
He was given six points on his license at Oxfordshire Magistrates' Court on November 11.
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I've had this on my backlog forever, and finally played and finished it. Amazing game/experience, Jesus. Should've played this sooner.
ampere said:
Spoilers (full game):
I had to save Chloe at the end. I briefly considered saving the town, but I felt like the relationship between Max and Chloe was so strong I couldn't bear breaking it and having Max bear this entire journey through time alone with no-one else aware of it and no-one to discuss it with. It was incredibly traumatic for her and she needs Chloe to get through it. I also felt that from Max's point of view... how do you truly know that letting Chloe die will fix everything?
Regarding the end of the game:
Saving Chloe was the easiest decision of the game for me. No hesitation, no weighing the options, nothing. I worked my ass off to keep her alive, like hell I was going to let her die. I watched the "kill Chloe" ending on YouTube and I was like FUCK THAT.
Dontnod makes believable, human characters, so now I'm gonna follow their work. I'm hella impressed.
Time to play Remember Me!
Phthisis said:
It was pretty intentionally an homage to the David Lynchian weirdness of the final episode of Twin Peaks, like so much of the rest of the game and that show.
I see. Not familiar with that show, but I hear about it a lot.
En Ex said:
Heh. Yea there are definitely certain choices in the game I don't think I could bring myself to go the other way. I may play back through it in the future to finish up the optional photo achievements I missed, but I have a feeling my choices would be similar to my first playthrough.
I'm thinking about getting Remember Me too. This studio is on my good list.
RedSparrows
Beat this game last night, and have been thinking about it for more than 24 hours. For a game with little actual "gameplay" to speak of, it is an incredibly powerful and resonant piece of fiction. I also can't think of a game that uses licensed music to such poignant emotional effect; it's fucking poetic.
The casting for the characters was pretty amazing across the board. I am infinitely sad I will never be able to play it again for the first time. Such an engrossing, unique experience that tackles themes you don't see in video games.
Dontnod are really really good at world building; Remember Me had the same rich backdrop even though the gameplay wasn't particularly amazing. I really hope they come back to the Life Is Strange IP for a season 2 in some way.
It stayed with me for a month+ after finishing. It totally blew me away, even as it's clunky and cliche at times. Love it so much.
Javin98
Just beat the game last night. Holy fuck, very few games have brought me so close to tearing up. Throughout the whole game, I felt very immersed in the story and the characters. Being in college really helps me relate to pretty much everything that happens in the game. Man, in the
alternate timeline when Chloe asked Max to end her life, I seriously almost shed a tear.
So few games and movies managed to do this that I can count them all in one hand. And that ending. The whole game was already pointing to it, but when the time came, it was heart wrenching. This ending will definitely stick with me for a long time.
I know most people think the dialogue is cheezy, but I actually found most of the lines in line with what us teenagers say. Well, with the exception of "hella", but I've grown fond of that word. While the writing can sometimes be weird, the story is surprisingly deep and I will definitely be reading up the theories and such. Also, the characters are much better written than in Telltale's and David Cage's games.
Overall, I really loved this game and would put it as one of the best games of last year.
Just finished the game. I had no idea the game was this good, damn. It does so many things right...
I'm a sucker for time travel and also this style of game (Quantic Dream\Telltale), this is the best game in this gender I've played so far.
Possibly the best utilization of episodic format I've seen.
Its hard to think of a story more fitting for this kind of decision making game.
Played it at 800x600 on my laptop, goes to show how little graphics matter.
Darksol
Even with a few hiccups, this has become one of my absolute favourite games. My girlfriend and I played it over the past couple of days. Really well done -- I have nothing to add which hasn't already been said in this thread.
mavericktopgun
So I bought this game on Steam a few days ago and started the game yesterday.
Holy shit why I haven't I played this earlier?????????
This game is UNBELIEVABLE!!!
I'm now on Episode 3 and holy cow I can't get enough of this wonderful game.
Max, Chloe, Kate, Warren,... All the characters are great and the MUSIC AND ATMOSPHERE!!!
I love this game.
Top 5 games ever.
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Hello everyone! Just dropping by to tell you that from tomorrow (21 July) onwards, Episode 1 will be entirely for free on all platforms (release timings and link to new trailer below). You'll be able to pick it up from www.lifeisstrange.com/free
If you have any questions about anything, let me know!
Uzzy
Very cool stuff! Hope this gets even more people to experience last years best game.
Very cool indeed. Take advantage of it, everyone! Be sure to buy a copy if you like the first episode
Nice, I hope more people give it a try!
Very good marketing! Someone should make a new thread.
I've been trying to get a friend of mine to play it, and he texted me about Episode 1 being free, so perfect timing!
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So I watched my gf play through the first two episodes on pc but I'd like to continue on PS4, could I start with ep 3 there?
JetSetRadio said:
I don't think so -- not on the first playthrough anyways, unless I'm mistaken.
RedAssedApe
everyone play this.
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First episode free is really great to give people a taste, but I think most people that have played thru this would agree with me that the end of episode 2 is where you will know if you're going to be hooked on this story for the long haul. I almost wish they'd have given the first two out for free. I hope people don't try the first episode and feel like it's too mundane and not worth investing in the whole season.
I think you're going to have to start fresh. I didn't have the option to choose a different part when I first started the game
Also you kinda need the decision data from the first two anyway
LiQuid! said:
I feel the same way. After the first episode I was kinda like... this is a neat story, but I could take it or leave it. Episode 2 is what really sucked me in and made me so glad I bought it
Darksol said:
Thanks for the replies, I kinda expected that this would be the case. Probably can't download a save either because of those silly trophies.
malfcn
How long in advance did they know they were using that song for the ending? Its got all the blue for Chloe in the video, convenience of inspiration for her character?
Poker Face said:
Finished it last night, I did 3 episodes in a day cause I was hooked lol. It was so good! Honestly wish I played it earlier.
I feel you. It's now one of my favorite games ever. It's sad that Max and Chloe are not real human beings.
SE Toby said:
Thanks!! Please port the game to Android and iOS
Love this game soooo mich and a Version to carry around everywhere I'll go would be perfect.
PeskyToaster
I just finished this after buying it during the Summer Sale. Damn, kinda wish I could pay more for it to be honest. In the end:
I couldn't sacrifice Chloe after everything. It was a nice ending but kind of a hollow victory. I watched the other ending and it seemed obvious that sacrificing Chloe was the one the game meant for you to do. Fucking emotional. Both endings are pretty Pyrrhic to be honest.
. Also I'm kind of debating whether or not to pick up a limited edition. I'll have to see if they are available.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvQmqdnFkZA
Hannah Telle (Max's VA) and Nik Shriner (Natha's VA) played through ep 1 on a livestream yesterday.
Entertaining stream and both are super likable.
Archie said:
Lol I was watching the scene in the bathroom. They are so into it.
PeskyToaster said:
Also I'm kind of debating whether or not to pick up a limited edition. I'll have to see if they are available.
I've been having a hard time tracking down an NA copy of the PC LE. It's sold out of the SE store and eBay hasn't been very helpful either.
Damn, I love watching VA's playing the games they star in. Might have to watch this.
#teamsavechloe fuck the city. :x
But seriously, can you imagine the emotional trauma for Max if she had to go back after all of that and watch Chloe die again, and have nobody to share any of her hardships with? Who would ever believe her story. That's too much for one person to bear.
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Yeah, god forbid she has to deal with loss. Let's just kill thousands of people instead.
I never understood this line of thinking. My first instinct when I reached the final choice in the game was to think "who the fuck would be selfish enough to sacrifice all those people, all those relationships, all those people loved by others, to satisfy their own flawed relationship with their childhood friend?" Turns out a lot of people would rather watch hordes of people die, which both surprised and disappointed me.
I know what I'm watching today.
Herr Starr said:
I think the whole tornado thing (or the ending(s), period) wasn't that well thought-out by Dontnod. I've never been convinced it was the result of Max's actions - the game tries to sell it to you as being part of some vague chaos theory idea, when realistically, it could just be a freak tornado. I mean this is one of those things where, the deeper you dig into Max having powers, the more questions you have about anything making sense.
The most egregious sin regarding the ending is how the choices you make in the game have no impact on the final, binary choice, which is disappointing. So yeah, bae over bay.
They have an impact, just not a 'you've totalled up 25 good actions, here's another ending choice'. They have an impact in how the player is and how they feel, and how they think Max and Chloe think and feel etc.
It's not as immediately satisfying as traditional choices>endings structures, but for my money it's light years more subtle and interesting than Mass Effect because of how you got there, even as the endings were unequal and even as the stark proposition was clunky.
It would have been nice to see it boil down to player actions in game, aye, but I can live with how it is.
Amazon has some. That's where I picked up mine. A little marked up I think but whatevs. There's some Xbox One versions sold by SE on Amazon if you just want the extras.
I resolve my dissonance by telling myself that people could have survived. I'm still sad after a couple days.
RedSparrows said:
Oh I totally agree that the choices you make throughout the game have a huge emotional impact on the ending, no question, and its extremely effective. I mean Im frustrated by how, regardless of what you did in the game, the ending will be the same. I felt like, with the way the game was going in the earlier episodes, certain decisions would radically alter the story more than they did. At the very least, the save Chloe ending couldve been more fleshed out, as I refuse to believe that every single person in Arcadia Bay died.
Ultimately, I still think this is one of the best games Ive ever played, and I have faith in Dontnods ability to deliver an effective and satisfying second season.
Thanks! For some reason, theres an abundance of UK PC copies on sites like Amazon and eBay, but all NA copies are an arm and a leg. I mean if I just want the extras, then it doesnt really matter, its just weird. Is this due to the SE online store exclusivity for the PC edition?
i believe there were survivors and the save Chloe ending should've show that.
The sacrifice Chloe ending is obviously the intended one based on how fleshed out it is compared to the Save Chloe one. Can't wait for the second season. I'll miss all the characters though. I'm excited to see which locale they pick.
That livestream of the actors playing the game had an interesting little tidbit. I might be reading too much into it, but it struck me as strange. When the host informed the audience that there would be no information about Life is Strange 2 during the stream, Hannah Telle immediately said "sorry" to the camera in a way that made it sound like she's involved with the game somehow.
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Love the music (my heart skipped a beat when Bright Eyes came on. Those were the daysss)
Anyway, my question is: Who's your favorite character design? (Not necessarily favorite character)
I like Brooke's and Evan's. I would like Max's if she didn't bear such a startling resemblance to Taylor Swift (yikes).
When are they doing the next ep on the livestream? They were really fun to watch.
jorgejjvr
Gaf would you recommend this game to someone that has never tried episodic games but is interested?
Just realized episode 1 was free, downloading now. What's the best way to play the rest? Pay each episode individually?
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jorgejjvr said:
Absolutely. This is as best a place to start.
If you're really not sure about the game after the free episode you can buy and try out episode 2. If by that point you're still not feeling it the game is probably not for you. Episode 1 can be a bit rough and doesn't really give you a great idea of where they're going with the game and story, but episode 2 definitely gives you a good taste of it. If you're really enjoying episode you should just buy the full game, though. Cheaper that way.
Episode 1 is a good tonal introduction to the game but it doesn't get batshit, GotY, crazypants mindfucky til ep 2 and then it gets even better from there.
It's been around a week since I finished the game and I can't really stop thinking about it. Probably doesn't help that I'm listening to the soundtrack but I just feel super sad whenever I think about it. I'm usually a heartless bastard when I play games but damn. How do I stop thinking about the game? Do I want to? It might be because I only have like one other person to talk to about it besides this thread lol. Still, didn't expect this game to affect me this much or in such a way.
We've all been there. ;_;
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Spoiler thread over yonder if you want to let it all out.
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DaMan121
So I finished (the free) Episode I, a few things will decide if I purchase the rest:
a) Are they longer than Ep I?
b) Are the puzzles more difficult?
c) Are all puzzles revealed once you failed them the first time? Or can you turn this off?
chadskin
DaMan121 said:
a) They're all in the same 2-3 hour range, see here: http://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=21702
b) Yes, there are a handful more difficult ones (in particular if you want to 100% it) but it's not really a puzzle game.
c) IIRC there are some puzzles that'll reveal the solution if you failed often enough but others won't. Again, don't go into this expecting a challenging puzzle game, the focus is on the narrative and the decisions you make that'll shape the story over the rest of the season.
OceanicAir
They did a playthrough of episode 2 with Hannah Telle (Max), Dayeanne Hutton (Kate), and Nik Shriner (Nathan)!
Oh yeah, today was National Suicide Prevention Day. Excellent choice to stream.
https://twitter.com/edouardcaplain/status/787926132880445440
Not so subtle hint season 2 is in the works.
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup for January: Back 4 Blood, Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition, Life is Strange and more.
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As you are getting ready to bake all of your delicious holiday treats, don’t forget about your four-legged companions. They can’t always have our favorite cookies like chocolate chip and raisin, so we gathered a couple of recipes from our friends at the DIY Network that Santa himself would be jealous of!
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In a microwave-safe bowl, warm the peanut butter approximately 30 seconds.
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Lay down one large sheet of parchment paper, roll your dough onto it, then lay another piece of parchment on top. You’ll essentially have a dog treat dough sandwich.
Lightly spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
Cut shapes out of the dough and place on your prepared baking sheet. Gather the extra dough, knead into a ball and repeat the process of rolling and cutting until there is no more dough.
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Zendesk Rounds Out 2012 By Signing its 25,000th Customer
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 8, 2013 – Zendesk, the proven cloud-based customer service software provider, today announced Evernote, the developer of products and services to help the world remember everything, signed up as the companys 25,000th customer at the end of 2012. This made 2012 a record year for Zendesk where just a few months ago it reached a 20,000 customer milestone.
When we develop Evernote, we strive for ease-of-use, scalability and availability across multiple platforms. We expect the same from our customer service provider, and we found that in Zendesk, said Philip Dean, Vice President of Customer Satisfaction at Evernote. Were excited to be working with Zendesk to provide our users around the world with the highest level of customer service.
This accomplishment helps Zendesk close out a remarkable year with notable achievements including:
-Receiving $60 million in funding to fuel the customer service revolution
-Launching the new Zendesk, rebuilt from the ground up with a sleek new interface, innovative new features, and a visionary application framework called Zendesk Apps
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-Introducing the industrys most comprehensive Customer Satisfaction Index that measures customer satisfaction from a pool of 100 million consumers
-Fulfilling its $1,000,000 pledge to UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital in San Francisco as a way to pay forward the success the company has had
The fact that our customer base is growing so rapidly demonstrates the increasing importance businesses are placing on customer service, said Zendesk founder and CEO Mikkel Svane. Today more than 100 million people in over 140 countries receive their customer service through Zendesk. As we continue to grow, we commit to even greater innovation to help our customers deliver superior customer service.
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Revel Casino Files for Bankruptcy Again, Begins Search for New Owner
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Atlantic City’s Revel Casino Hotel filed its second bankruptcy in a little over a year on Thursday. Now, the troubled casino is searching for a buyer.
The Revel Casino went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2013, but the move did not stabilize the company’s financial situation. Reuters reported a letter sent out in which management warned employees that staff layoffs would happen by August 18 if not buyer could be found.
Atlantic City Declines Further
Revel Casino’s latest financial downturn is just one in a series of bad signs for Atlantic City, which lost the Atlantic Club is January 2014. Atlantic City has seen declining revenues every year since 2006. In that time, profits have declined by 50%. The decline is blamed on market saturation in the northeast, along with the continuing recession.
Political Support for Cas
In the past couple of years, the leaders on the state level of New Jersey and the city level of Atlantic City have done their best to prop up the city’s struggling resorts.
The casinos appeared from a break on property taxes, which the city waived. The state passed licensed online gambling, hoping the revenues would boost the land-based casinos and add significantly to state revenues. So far, the results have been disappointing.
Meanwhile, Governor Chris Christie challenged a 20 year old law which banned sports gambling everywhere in the US except Nevada, Delaware, Montana, and Oregon. That filing has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it’s still uncertain whether the court will rule on the case or not. Governor Christie has taken criticism for spending tax dollars on the court case, because a significant number of experts think it is a legal dead end.
Searching for a New Owner
With no meaningful relief in sight, Revel Casino has decided its only answer is a dedicated buyer. In less than six months of operation in 2014, the casino showed a net loss of over $75 million. Such numbers are unsustainable, so it was only a matter of time before this round of bankruptcy filings happened.
In its statement to employees, Revel Casino’s management said they are seeking a buyer which has “the ability to provide the funding and long-term commitment to help Revel reach its full potential“.
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Scott Kreeger, president and COO of Revel Casino, said in the statement, “We will work to reach an agreement with a new owner who…shares our commitment to providing Revel’s guests and players an exceptional experience.”
Bob McDevitt is the President of Unite-HERE, a workers union. Unite-HERE Local 54 voted in June to unionize, but also supports Revel Casino’s search for a new owner. Bob McDevitt said, “We believe a sale of Revel to a buyer who wants to keep the property open and retain the employees is the best thing for the workers.”
Epic Failure
The $2.4 billion Revel Casino is becoming a model of failure. Revel Casino opened in April 2012 as part of a move by Governor Chris Christie and his allies to bring Las Vegas style resorts to Atlantic City. It was hoped at the time that big resort casinos would convince east coast tourists to stay near home, when they might otherwise go to Las Vegas.
Instead, the massive cost of building Revel Casino is beginning to look like politicians and developers threw good money after bad. The governor provided a $261 million tax initiative to help build the casino. Before it was finished, Morgan Stanley pulled out of the project, relieved to take a “mere” $932 million loss.
Unrealistic Financial Projections
Despite the sums of money spent, Revel Casino never lived up to the financial projections. The recession continues to hamper growth, though developers hoped the US economy would be primed by now. Market saturation is a perennial problem, one the executive who made projections should have considered. What makes the extravagance of the Revel Casino worse is the fact it was built after the global recession, when more sober estimates should have been the order of the day.
Pennsylvania and New York Build Casinos
As Atlantic City retreats, other states continue to build. Earlier this week, a panel in Philadelphia approved the construction of a new casino, overriding a motion to block new gaming projects. A new casino in the Philadelphia area, just an hour away from Atlantic City, is certain to draw more customers away.
In New York state, a casino license is expected within weeks for a casino in Woodbury, just 50 miles from New York City. Such a development would limit the number of gamblers streaming from the New York City area, too. Such moves continue to restrict the customer base for Atlantic City.
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The New Rules Of Work
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Publisher: Currency
The New Rules of Work by Book Resume:
The world of work has changed. People in previous generations tended to pick one professional path and stick to it. Switching companies every few years wasn’t the norm, and changing careers was even rarer. Today’s career trajectories aren’t so scripted and linear. Technology has given rise to new positions that never before existed, which means we are choosing from a much broader set of career options—and have even more opportunities to find work that lights us up. However, we don’t discover and apply for jobs the same way anymore, and employers don’t find applicants the way they used to. Isn’t it about time we had a playbook for navigating it all? Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos, founders of the popular career website TheMuse, offer the definitive guide to the modern workplace. Through quick exercises and structured tips, you will learn: · The New Rules for finding the right path: Sift through, and narrow today’s ever-growing menu of job and career options, using the simple step-by-step Muse Method. · The New Rules for landing the perfect job: Build your personal brand, and communicate exactly how you can contribute and why your experience is valuable in a way that is sure to get the attention of your dream employer. Then ace every step of the interview process, from getting a foot in the door to negotiating your offer. · The New Rules for growing and advancing in your career: Mastering first impressions, the art of communication, networking, managing up and other “soft” skills – and make it obvious that whatever level you’re at, you’re ready to get ahead. Whether you are starting out in your career, looking to advance, navigating a mid-career shift, or anywhere in between, this is the book you need to thrive in the New World of Work.
Stop Tweeting Boring Sh*t
Author: Division of Labor
Stop Tweeting Boring Sh*t by Division of Labor Book Resume:
The new generation of workers needs a new workplace manual designed to explain the particular norms, boundaries, and expectations of the contemporary office environment and help them navigate the cutthroat reality of a cubicled 9 to 5. Enter Stop Tweeting Boring Sh*t, a handbook of vintage-style public service announcements addressing modern office issues, including such gems as: "If you don't have something nice to say, e-mail it," "If it doesn't have a meeting invite, it didn't happen," and "Nothing good comes from hitting 'reply all.'" With plenty of revealing (and real) workplace statistics peppered throughout, plus a full-size Stop Tweeting Boring Sh*t pull-out poster to hang in the cubicle, this colorful guide offers just the motivation young people need to hunker down and get to work.
Why We Work
Author: Barry Schwartz
Why We Work by Barry Schwartz Book Resume:
An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace. Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent. We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we’ve shaped much of the infrastructure of our society to accommodate this belief. Then why are so many people dissatisfied with their work, despite healthy compensation? And why do so many people find immense fulfillment and satisfaction through “menial” jobs? Schwartz explores why so many believe that the goal for working should be to earn money, how we arrived to believe that paying workers more leads to better work, and why this has made our society confused, unhappy, and has established a dangerously misguided system. Through fascinating studies and compelling anecdotes, this book dispels this myth. Schwartz takes us through hospitals and hair salons, auto plants and boardrooms, showing workers in all walks of life, showcasing the trends and patterns that lead to happiness in the workplace. Ultimately, Schwartz proves that the root of what drives us to do good work can rarely be incentivized, and that the cause of bad work is often an attempt to do just that. How did we get to this tangled place? How do we change the way we work? With great insight and wisdom, Schwartz shows us how to take our first steps toward understanding, and empowering us all to find great work.
The New Rules of Marriage
Author: Terrence Real
Publisher: Ballantine Books
The New Rules of Marriage by Terrence Real Book Resume:
In his extraordinary new book, Terrence Real, distinguished therapist and bestselling author, presents a long overdue message that women need to hear: You aren’t crazy–you’re right! Women have changed in the last twenty-five years–they have become powerful, independent, self-confident, and happy. Yet many men remain irresponsible and emotionally detached. They don’t know how to respond to frustrated partners who just want their mates to show up and grow up. Enter the good news: In this revolutionary book, Real shows women how to master the new rules of twenty-first-century marriage by offering them a set of effective tools with which they can create the truly intimate relationship that they desire and deserve. He identifies five non-starters to avoid and shares practical strategies for bringing honesty, passion, and joy back to even the most difficult relationship. Using his experience helping thousands of couples shift from despair to profound emotional closeness, Real guides you through the process of relationship repair with exercises that you can do alone or with your partner. With this program you’ll discover how to - identify and articulate your wants and needs - listen well and respond generously - set limits, and stand up for yourself - embrace and appreciate what you have - know when to seek outside help The New Rules of Marriage will introduce you to a radically new kind of relationship, one based on the idea that every woman has the power to transform her marriage, while men, given the right support, have it in them to rise to the occasion. We have never wanted so much from our relationships as we do today. More than any other generation, we yearn for our mates to be lifelong friends and lovers. The New Rules of Marriage shows us how to fulfill this courageous and uncompromising new vision.
The Six New Rules of Business
Author: Judy Samuelson
The Six New Rules of Business by Judy Samuelson Book Resume:
The rules of business are changing dramatically. The Aspen Institute's Judy Samuelson describes the profound shifts in attitudes and mindsets that are redefining our notions of what constitutes business success. Dynamic forces are conspiring to clarify the new rules of real value creation—and to put the old rules to rest. Internet-powered transparency, more powerful worker voice, the decline in importance of capital, and the complexity of global supply chains in the face of planetary limits all define the new landscape. As executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, Judy Samuelson has a unique vantage point from which to engage business decision makers and identify the forces that are moving the needle in both boardrooms and business classrooms. Samuelson lays out how hard-to-measure intangibles like reputation, trust, and loyalty are imposing new ways to assess risk and opportunity in investment and asset management. She argues that “maximizing shareholder value” has never been the sole objective of effective businesses while observing that shareholder theory and the practices that keep it in place continue to lose power in both business and the public square. In our globalized era, she demonstrates how expectations of corporations are set far beyond the company gates—and why employees are both the best allies of the business and the new accountability mechanism, more so than consumers or investors. Samuelson's new rules offer a powerful guide to how businesses are changing today—and what is needed to succeed in tomorrow's economic and social landscape.
New Rules @ Work
Author: Barbara Pachter,Ellen Schneid Coleman
New Rules @ Work by Barbara Pachter,Ellen Schneid Coleman Book Resume:
For anyone who's breaking in, moving up, or just trying to make a great professional impression, this essential guide offers real-life anecdotes and advice to help you build competence and confidence in the tricky arena of modern business etiquette. Includes: "Blunder Busters" - proven strategies to help you tackle anything from office dating to business lunches "Sir, your fly is unzipped!" - the art of verbal diplomacy Contemporary guidelines for goof-proof e-mail The top ten career killers and how to beat them Global gaffes: easy ways to avoid overseas embarrassment Grace under fire-surviving dining disasters, party faux-pas and everything in-between
Brazen Careerist
Author: Penelope Trunk
Publisher: Business Plus
Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk Book Resume:
Are you taking long lunches? Ignoring sexual harassment? Do you keep your desk neat to the point of looking like you don't have enough to do? The answer to all three should be yes, if you want to succeed in your career on your own terms. Penelope Trunk, expert business advice columnist for the Boston Globe, gives anything but standard advice to help members of the X and Y generations succeed on their own terms in any industry. Trunk asserts that a take-charge attitude and thinking outside the box are the only ways to make it in today's job market. With 45 tips that will get you thinking bigger, acting bolder, and blazing trails you never thought possible, BRAZEN CAREERIST will forever change your career outlook. Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start "Take everything you think you 'know' about career strategies, throw them away, and read this book because the rules have changed. 'Brazen,' 'counter-intuitive,' and 'radical' are the best three descriptions of Trunk's work. Life is too short to be stuck in a rat hole..." Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D, author of the New York Times Bestseller The No Asshole Rule "A delightful book, with some edgy advice that made me squirm a bit at times. I agreed with 90% of it, found myself arguing with the other 10%, and was completely engaged from start to finish." Paul D. Tieger, author of Do What You Are and CEO of SpeedReading People, LLC "Penelope Trunk brings considerable savvy and a fresh new perspective to the business of career success. Bold and sometimes unconventional, BRAZEN CAREERIST gives readers much to think about as well as concrete, practical suggestions that will help them know what they want, and know how to get it." Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling author of Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time "BRAZEN CAREERIST has the street-smarts you need to make your career and life work for you from the start. Read it now, or you'll wish you had when you're 40!"
Love Your Job
Author: Kerry E. Hannon
Love Your Job by Kerry E. Hannon Book Resume:
AWARDS: Independent Publisher Book Award 2015 (Silver) and National Mature Media Award 2015 (Bronze) Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun — again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement when you could reinvigorate your workday, transforming the daily doldrums into a daily dose of enjoyable activity? Kerry Hannon, The New York Times columnist and AARP's Jobs Expert, focuses on the little things that can make a big difference in how we feel about work. Love Your Job is all about the routines, habits, and thought patterns that, over the years, may have turned a dream job into a drudge or, worse, a nightmare. Changing these habits and attitudes is simple, and this book shows you how to identify the little things that make work enjoyable and engaging. Using these simple techniques, you can adopt the attitude that will keep you happy and that might just lead to bigger and better things, no matter what stage of your career you are in. In this book, you will learn to: Develop new habits that bring more purpose into every single workday Rekindle your hope and motivation by celebrating small successes Recognize negative patterns that keep you from enjoying your job Craft an entrepreneurial attitude that will get you noticed and enrich your work life We all deserve to experience happiness and satisfaction every day, at every stage of our careers. Kerry Hannon explains that you don't have to make a huge career transition to love work again. But if you reinvent the way you see work, who knows where your new outlook will lead? Wake up to the countless possibilities that await you with Love Your Job.
Work Rules!
Author: Laszlo Bock
Publisher: Twelve
Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock Book Resume:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The Globe and Mail Top Leadership and Management BookForbes Top Creative Leadership Book From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work-and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. "We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, former head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto that offers lessons including: Take away managers' power over employees Learn from your best employees-and your worst Hire only people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find them Pay unfairly (it's more fair!) Don't trust your gut: Use data to predict and shape the future Default to open-be transparent and welcome feedback If you're comfortable with the amount of freedom you've given your employees, you haven't gone far enough. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound grasp of human psychology, WORK RULES! also provides teaching examples from a range of industries-including lauded companies that happen to be hideous places to work and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees. Bock takes us inside one of history's most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of intensive worker R&D into principles that are easy to put into action, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands. WORK RULES! shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do.
Work Without Boundaries
Author: Michael Allvin,Gunnar Aronsson,Tom Hagström,Gunn Johansson,Ulf Lundberg
Work Without Boundaries by Michael Allvin,Gunnar Aronsson,Tom Hagström,Gunn Johansson,Ulf Lundberg Book Resume:
Drawing on more than a decade of inter-disciplinary research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the available theories, concepts, data and research on new work organizations and the concept of ‘work without boundaries’. Explores a concept of work that is not restricted by traditional organizational rules like regular office hours, a single workplace, fixed procedures and limited responsibility Provides a comprehensive overview of the available theories, concepts, data and research on new work organizations Examines the shift of power away from organizations to make individuals accountable for their own employability and work Draws on over a decade of original research into ‘work without boundaries’ in which the authors are key authorities Brings together organization theory and work psychology with scholarship from related fields including sociology, social psychology, cognition and psychobiology
Because Internet
Author: Gretchen McCulloch
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch Book Resume:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.
You Unstuck
Author: Libby Gill
Publisher: Travelers\' Tales
You Unstuck by Libby Gill Book Resume:
In You Unstuck, Libby Gill uses cases studies, client stories from her coaching work, and brain research to help readers understand the biological basis of fears that hold them back. She shows how to reframe what she calls Riskophobia, turn off the fear voices, and circumvent ancient defense systems. Readers can then create an Escalating Risk Hierarchy by "chunking down" their vision into small, actionable steps, ordered from least to most anxiety inducing. By combining stress-busting relaxation techniques with small action steps, the readers’ odds for realizing their vision greatly increase in this Relax, Risk, Repeat cycle. Gill also shows readers how to "Avoid Limiters & Embrace Liberators," keeping naysayers at bay while seeking influential supporters who can help free their creativity and productivity. Capitalizing on her business background, coaching expertise, and a personal history of risk-taking and resilience, Gill makes complex concepts relevant and accessible through immediately applicable tools, exercises, self-tests, and questionnaires that challenge readers to change.
Author: Cal Newport
Deep Work by Cal Newport Book Resume:
Read the Wall Street Journal Bestseller for "cultivating intense focus" for fast, powerful performance results for achieving success and true meaning in one's professional life (Adam Grant, author of Give and Take). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ
The New Rules of War
Author: Sean McFate
Publisher: HarperCollins
The New Rules of War by Sean McFate Book Resume:
"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO An Economist Book of the Year 2019 Some of the principles of warfare are ancient, others are new, but all described in The New Rules of War will permanently shape war now and in the future. By following them Sean McFate argues, we can prevail. But if we do not, terrorists, rogue states, and others who do not fight conventionally will succeed—and rule the world. The New Rules of War is an urgent, fascinating exploration of war—past, present and future—and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University. War is timeless. Some things change—weapons, tactics, technology, leadership, objectives—but our desire to go into battle does not. We are living in the age of Durable Disorder—a period of unrest created by numerous factors: China’s rise, Russia’s resurgence, America’s retreat, global terrorism, international criminal empires, climate change, dwindling natural resources, and bloody civil wars. Sean McFate has been on the front lines of deep state conflicts and has studied and taught the history and practice of war. He’s seen firsthand the horrors of battle and understands the depth and complexity of the current global military situation. This devastating turmoil has given rise to difficult questions. What is the future of war? How can we survive? If Americans are drawn into major armed conflict, can we win? McFate calls upon the legends of military study Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and others, as well as his own experience, and carefully constructs the new rules for the future of military engagement, the ways we can fight and win in an age of entropy: one where corporations, mercenaries, and rogue states have more power and ‘nation states’ have less. With examples from the Roman conquest, World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan and others, he tackles the differences between conventional and future war, the danger in believing that technology will save us, the genuine leverage of psychological and ‘shadow’ warfare, and much more. McFate’s new rules distill the essence of war today, describing what it is in the real world, not what we believe or wish it to be.
The Passion Economy
Author: Adam Davidson
Publisher: Vintage
The Passion Economy by Adam Davidson Book Resume:
The brilliant creator of NPR's Planet Money podcast and award-winning New Yorker staff writer explains our current economy: laying out its internal logic and revealing the transformative hope it offers for millions of people to thrive as they never have before. Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson—one of our leading public voices on economic issues—the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories of average people doing exactly this—an accountant overturning his industry, a sweatshop owner's daughter fighting for better working conditions, an Amish craftsman meeting the technological needs of Amish farmers—as well as the latest academic research, Davidson shows us how the twentieth-century economy of scale has given way in this century to an economy of passion. He makes clear, too, that though the adjustment has brought measures of dislocation, confusion, and even panic, these are most often the result of a lack of understanding. The Passion Economy delineates the ground rules of the new economy, and armed with these, we begin to see how we can succeed in it according to its own terms—intimacy, insight, attention, automation, and, of course, passion. An indispensable road map and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future.
Author: Kevin Roose
Futureproof by Kevin Roose Book Resume:
“A concise, insightful and sophisticated guide to maintaining humane values in an age of new machines.”—The New York Times Book Review “While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin’s book is a great look at how people can do this on a personal level to always put humanity first.”—Andrew Yang You are being automated. After decades of hype and sci-fi fantasies, artificial intelligence is leaping out of research labs and into the center of our lives. Automation doesn’t just threaten our jobs. It shapes our entire human experience, with AI and algorithms influencing the TV shows we watch, the music we listen to, the beliefs we hold, and the relationships we form. And while the age-old debate over whether automation will destroy jobs rages on, an even more important question is being ignored: How can we be happy, successful humans in a world that is increasingly built by and for machines? In Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out a hopeful, pragmatic vision for how we can thrive in the age of AI and automation. He shares the secrets of people and organizations that have survived previous waves of technological change, and explains what skills are necessary to stay ahead of today’s intelligent machines, with lessons like • Be surprising, social, and scarce. • Resist machine drift. • Leave handprints. • Demote your devices. • Treat AI like a chimp army. Roose rejects the conventional wisdom that in order to succeed in the AI age, we have to become more like machines ourselves—hyper-efficient, data-driven workhorses. Instead, he says, we should focus on being more human, and doing the kinds of creative, inspiring, and meaningful things even the most advanced robots can’t do.
The Art of Gathering
Author: Priya Parker
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker Book Resume:
"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.
The Rules of Work
Author: Dan MacLeod
The Rules of Work by Dan MacLeod Book Resume:
The experience of the past decade since the publication of the first edition of The Rules of Work: A Practical Engineering Guide to Ergonomics proves just how central ergonomics is for effective production. Revised and updated to reflect new insights from workplace developments, the second edition continues the tradition of providing essential tools for implementing good ergonomics in a way that simultaneously improves both productivity and safety. What’s New in the Second Edition: Updated examples and additional rules of thumb "How to" pages cover actions such as how to design a workstation Coverage of RULA, Strain Index, and TAPDA In short, the plan of the book is that Part I provides help on how to think and Part II help on how to measure. The non-quantitative materials come first, since creativity in the application of the principles and rules provides greater value. Based on 35 years of practical problem-solving in over 1,500 workplaces, the book provides a down-to-earth and practical guide for solving ergonomics problems. It provides a framework for evaluating tasks using low-tech, non-quantitative methods, along with an overview of the standard measuring systems for those occasions when numbers are needed.
Rebel Talent
Author: Francesca Gino
Rebel Talent by Francesca Gino Book Resume:
“In this groundbreaking book, Francesca Gino shows us how to spark creativity, excel at work, and become happier: By learning to rebel.” — Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better Do you want to follow a script — or write your own story? Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why the most successful among us break the rules, and how rebellion brings joy and meaning into our lives. Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them as troublemakers, outcasts, contrarians: those colleagues, friends, and family members who complicate seemingly straightforward decisions, create chaos, and disagree when everyone else is in agreement. But in truth, rebels are also those among us who change the world for the better with their unconventional outlooks. Instead of clinging to what is safe and familiar, and falling back on routines and tradition, rebels defy the status quo. They are masters of innovation and reinvention, and they have a lot to teach us. Francesca Gino, a behavioral scientist and professor at Harvard Business School, has spent more than a decade studying rebels at organizations around the world, from high-end boutiques in Italy’s fashion capital, to the World’s Best Restaurant, to a thriving fast food chain, to an award-winning computer animation studio. In her work, she has identified leaders and employees who exemplify “rebel talent,” and whose examples we can all learn to embrace. Gino argues that the future belongs to the rebel — and that there’s a rebel in each of us. We live in turbulent times, when competition is fierce, reputations are easily tarnished on social media, and the world is more divided than ever before. In this cutthroat environment, cultivating rebel talent is what allows businesses to evolve and to prosper. And rebellion has an added benefit beyond the workplace: it leads to a more vital, engaged, and fulfilling life. Whether you want to inspire others to action, build a business, or build more meaningful relationships, Rebel Talent will show you how to succeed — by breaking all the rules.
Uberland
Author: Alex Rosenblat
Uberland by Alex Rosenblat Book Resume:
Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy. Uberland chronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel behind the wheel. The book also explores Uber’s outsized influence around the world: the billion-dollar company is now influencing everything from debates about sexual harassment and transportation regulations to racial equality campaigns and labor rights initiatives. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat’s firsthand experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
Author: Dan Schawbel
Publisher: St. Martin\'s Press
Promote Yourself by Dan Schawbel Book Resume:
How people perceive you at work has always been vital to a successful career. Now with the internet, social media, and the unrelenting hum of 24/7 business, the ability to brand and promote yourself is more crucial than ever. Schawbel shows readers how to navigate this new environment as an employee and lays out what managers are really looking for. Unveiling exclusive new research on the modern workplace, Schawbel breaks down the outdated mores of getting ahead and lays out a practical guide for building an outstanding career in an age of personal marketing, economic uncertainty and constant adaptation to new technologies. Shedding light on the disconnect between Gen Y and their managers, and revealing new findings on the most important skills required for management roles, professional development at work, networking, self-promotion, and social media's role in the workplace, Promote Yourself also gives readers the most critical skill necessary today: an awareness of their unique strengths and how to differentiate themselves.
Author: Jordan B. Peterson
Publisher: Random House Canada
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson Book Resume:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.
Jerks at Work
Author: Tessa West
Jerks at Work by Tessa West Book Resume:
A practical and hilarious guide to getting difficult people off your back, for anyone pulling their hair out over an irritating colleague who's not technically breaking any rules From open floor plans and Zoom calls to Slack channels, the workplace has changed a lot over the years. But there’s one thing that never changes: you’ll always encounter jerks. Jerks at Work is the definitive guide to dealing with—and ultimately breaking free from—the overbearing bosses, irritating coworkers, and all-around difficult people who make work and life miserable. Social psychologist Tessa West has spent years leveraging science to help people solve interpersonal conflicts in the workplace. What she discovered is that most of our go-to tactics don’t work because they fail to address the specific motivations that drive bad behavior. In this book, she takes you on a rollicking deep dive of the seven jerks you’re most likely to encounter at the office, drawing on decades of original research to expose their inner workings and weak points—and ultimately deliver an effective game plan for stopping each type before they take you down with them. Jerks at Work is packed with everyday examples and clever strategies, such as how to: • Stop a Bulldozer from gaining influence by making sure they're not the first to speak up in meetings • Report a Kiss Up/Kick Downer to a manager who idolizes them without looking like the bad guy • Protect your high-achieving team from Free Riders without stifling collaboration • Use a Gaslighter’s tactics to beat them at their own game For anyone who’s said “I can’t stand that jerk!” more times than they’d like to admit, Jerks at Work is the ultimate playbook you wish you didn’t need but will always turn to.
Me, Myself And Us
Author: Brian R. Little
Me, Myself And Us by Brian R. Little Book Resume:
In the spirit of Susan Cain's New York Times bestselling Quiet and other insightful books, Brian Little, one of the psychologists who helped shape the field, provides the first in-depth exploration of the new personality science and its provocative findings. In Untitled, Little explores questions that are rooted in the origins of human consciousness but are as commonplace as yesterday’s breakfast conversation: Are our first impressions of other people’s personalities usually fallacious? Are creative individuals essentially maladjusted? Are our personality traits, as William James put it “set like plaster” by the age of thirty? Are some individuals genetically hard-wired for happiness? And which is the more viable path toward human flourishing, the pursuit of happiness or the happiness of pursuit? Untitled provides a resource for answering such questions, and a framework through which readers can explore the personal implications of the new science of personality. Little helps us see ourselves, and other selves, as somewhat less perplexing and definitely more intriguing.
Making Marriage Work
Author: Lynn Toler
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Making Marriage Work by Lynn Toler Book Resume:
“Solid advice for newlyweds, golden anniversary celebrants and everybody in-between” from the Marriage Boot Camp and former Divorce Court star (The Augusta Chronicle). As the judge starring on two hit television shows, Lynn Toler has witnessed, en masse, the thematic mistakes made in American marriages. She herself has also been wed for more than 30 years and has seen both the highs and lows of matrimony in her own marriage as well as the marriages of those close to her. Drawing from both her professional career and personal life, Toler sees that the biggest impediment to marriage these days is that couples decide to take the plunge based almost entirely on the most irrational criteria: falling in love. Making Marriage Work doesn’t suggest that love has nothing to do with marriage at all; rather, Toler says that love by itself is simply not enough to make marriages survive. Marriage, Toler says, is a job, and it needs to be treated like one. This updated manual suggests specific procedures that should be put in place to bridge the gap between head over heels and happily ever after. It explains how to phrase things in order to span the great hormonal divide men and women often fall into when trying to talk to one another. It also discusses the very new and real challenges to marriage created in a culture often overwhelmed by the emphasis on (and ability to attain) instant gratification. Replete with simple, no-nonsense rules, Divorce Court anecdotes, and stories about Judge Toler’s own union, Making Marriage Work contains invaluable information couples can use today to secure their marital tomorrow.
No Rules Rules
Author: Reed Hastings,Erin Meyer
No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings,Erin Meyer Book Resume:
The New York Times bestseller Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed. Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrelevant. At Netflix, you don’t try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees don’t need approval, and the company pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these unorthodox principles, the implications were unknown and untested. But in just a short period, their methods led to unparalleled speed and boldness, as Netflix quickly became one of the most loved brands in the world. Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the world’s most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial ideologies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings’s own career, No Rules Rules is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.
The No Asshole Rule
Author: Robert I. Sutton
The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton Book Resume:
The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers: Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good Illuminating case histories from major organizations A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller.
Author: Dale Carnegie
Publisher: Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Book Resume:
Do you feel stuck in life, not knowing how to make it more successful? Do you wish to become more popular? Are you craving to earn more? Do you wish to expand your horizon, earn new clients and win people over with your ideas? How to Win Friends and Influence People is a well-researched and comprehensive guide that will help you through these everyday problems and make success look easier. You can learn to expand your social circle, polish your skill set, find ways to put forward your thoughts more clearly, and build mental strength to counter all hurdles that you may come across on the path to success. Having helped millions of readers from the world over achieve their goals, the clearly listed techniques and principles will be the answers to all your questions.
Author: Dr. Dawn Graham
Publisher: AMACOM
Switchers by Dr. Dawn Graham Book Resume:
Don’t settle . . . SUCCEED in the right career! Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job? In the wrong profession? An industry that just isn’t a fit? Get unstuck! Land a new career—one you’re genuinely passionate about. Switchers helps you realize that dream. Written by celebrated career coach and psychologist Dr. Dawn Graham, the book provides proven strategies that will get you where you want to go. The first step is to recognize that the usual rules and job search tools won’t work for you. Resumes and job boards were designed with traditional applicants in mind. As a career switcher, you have to go beyond the basics, using tactics tailor-made to ensure your candidacy stands out. The book reveals how to: Understand the concerns of hiring managers—and think like they do • Craft a resume that catches their attention within six seconds • Spotlight transferable skills that companies covet • Rebrand yourself—aligning your professional identity with your new aspirations • Reach decision-makers by recruiting “ambassadors” from within your network • Nail interviews by turning tough questions to your advantage • Convince skeptical employers to shelve their assumptions and take a chance on you • Negotiate a competitive salary and benefits package—even as a “newbie” to the field Career changers face unique challenges that demand fresh approaches. Packed with psychological insights, practical exercises, and inspiring success stories, Switchers helps you leap over obstacles and into a whole new field. Want to pull off the most daring—and fulfilling—career move of your life? Read Switchers.
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021
Author: Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021 by Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD Book Resume:
With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world’s most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2021. In today’s challenging job-market, as recent grads face a shifting economic landscape and seek work that pays and inspires, as workers are laid off mid-career, and as people search for an inspiring work-life change, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. This completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results. This practical manual has been fully revised for 2021 by Vanderbilt University Career Center Director Katharine Brooks, EdD, with modern advice on the job hunt strategies that are working today, such as building an online resume, making the most of social media tools to network effectively, interviewing virtually with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible. At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more. With the unique and authoritative guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have all the tools they need to discover—and land—their dream job.
Women Who Work
Author: Ivanka Trump
Women Who Work by Ivanka Trump Book Resume:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This is a chatty step-by-step guide to living a happy life and getting ahead in a career." —USA Today "The advice is spot-on for everyone, not just women." —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com and author of Delivering Happiness I believe that when it comes to women and work, there isn’t one right answer. The only person who can create a life you’ll love is you. Our grandmothers fought for the right to work. Our mothers fought for the choice to be in an office or to stay at home. Our generation is the first to fully embrace and celebrate the fact that our lives are multidimensional. Thanks to the women who came before us and paved the way, we can create the lives we want to lead—which look different for each of us. I’ve been fortunate to be able to build my career around my passions, from real estate to fashion. But my professional titles only begin to describe who I am and what I value. I have been an executive and an entrepreneur, but also—and just as importantly—a wife, mother, daughter, and friend. To me, “work” encompasses my efforts to succeed in all of these areas. After appearing on The Apprentice years ago and receiving a flood of letters from young women asking for guidance, I realized the need for more female leaders to speak out publicly in order to change the way society thinks and talks about “women who work.” So I created a forum to do just that. This book evolves the conversation that started on IvankaTrump.com, where so many incredible women (and men!) have shared their experiences, advice, ambitions, and passions. Women who work lead meetings and train for marathons. We learn how to cook and how to code. We inspire our employees and our children. We innovate at our current jobs and start new businesses. Women Who Work will equip you with the best skills I’ve learned from some of the amazing people I’ve met, on subjects such as identifying opportunities, shifting careers smoothly, negotiating, leading teams, starting companies, managing work and family, and helping change the system to make it better for women—now and in the future. I hope it will inspire you to redefine success and architect a life that honors your individual passions and priorities, in a way only you can. * The Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund (the “Fund”) is a donor advised fund that supports the economic empowerment of women and girls. Ivanka Trump is the grant advisor to the Fund and sole member of IT WWW Pub, LLC (the “LLC”), which receives royalties from the publication of Women Who Work. The LLC will contribute a minimum $425,000 to the Fund, which is the unpaid portion of the advance, net of expenses. In addition, the LLC will contribute all future royalties it receives that are in excess of the advance to the Fund during the period from May 1, 2017 to May 1, 2022.
Co-Opetition
Author: Adam M. Brandenburger,Barry J. Nalebuff
Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger,Barry J. Nalebuff Book Resume:
Now available in paperback, with an all new Reader's guide, The New York Times and Business Week bestseller Co-opetition revolutionized the game of business. With over 40,000 copies sold and now in its 9th printing, Co-opetition is a business strategy that goes beyond the old rules of competition and cooperation to combine the advantages of both. Co-opetition is a pioneering, high profit means of leveraging business relationships. Intel, Nintendo, American Express, NutraSweet, American Airlines, and dozens of other companies have been using the strategies of co-opetition to change the game of business to their benefit. Formulating strategies based on game theory, authors Brandenburger and Nalebuff created a book that's insightful and instructive for managers eager to move their companies into a new mind set.
New Rules for the New Economy
Author: Kevin Kelly
New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly Book Resume:
The classic book on business strategy in the new networked economy— from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world. Succinct and memorable, New Rules explains why these powerful laws are already hardwired into the new economy, and how they play out in all kinds of business—both low and high tech— all over the world. More than an overview of new economic principles, it prescribes clear and specific strategies for success in the network economy. For any worker, CEO, or middle manager, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy.
Rules for Radicals
Author: Saul Alinsky
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky Book Resume:
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
The Next Rules of Work
Author: Gary A. Bolles
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
The Next Rules of Work by Gary A. Bolles Book Resume:
Organizations, managers and workers still have an Industrial Era mindset towards work. How can leaders guide individuals and organizations to solve the increasingly complex work challenges of tomorrow? As traditional jobs give way to new work roles and software and robots perform the repetitive tasks formerly done by humans, the work of today is no longer guaranteed to be here tomorrow. The Next Rules of Work helps leaders understand why traditional notions about work inhibit the organization's ability to address new problems and how they can successfully equip their organizations to manage constant change. By first developing a new mindset to help themselves and their teams become more agile, leaders can then co-create the organization's "next mindset" by answering five key questions that help them establish constantly adaptive strategies. Finally, leaders develop agile learning practices to ensure that workers will continually have the skillsets and toolsets they need to solve organizational problems today. By redefining the fundamental nature of work, teams and the organization, The Next Rules of Work goes beyond offering advice and predictions and provides organizational leaders with a guide to create truly agile organizations that can respond to perpetual change.
Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees as if They're Real People
Author: Rodd Wagner
Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees as if They're Real People by Rodd Wagner Book Resume:
New York Times bestselling author Rodd Wagner tackles one of the most destructive problems facing organizations today–the breakdown of the relationship between employees and the organizations they work for "Your people are not your greatest asset. They're not yours, and they're not assets." With this declaration, one of the leading authorities on employee performance rolls up his sleeves against the weasel words, contradictions, bad habits, and intrusions that reduce people to "human resources." To "FTEs." To "human capital." To flesh-and-blood widgets. Armed with empirical evidence from the provocative studies he leads around the globe, Wagner guides you through the new realities of what it takes to get the highest levels of intensity from people in a more mercenary, skeptical, and wired work world. He explains how elements such as individualization, fearlessness, transparency, recognition, and coolness are reciprocated with loyalty, productivity, innovation, and--inescapably--corporate reputation.
Becoming the Boss
Author: Lindsey Pollak
Becoming the Boss by Lindsey Pollak Book Resume:
The author of Getting from College to Career reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows them how to make the next step: becoming a leader. We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from Baby Boomers to Millennials. All grown up, the highly educated Generation Y is moving into executive positions in corporations and government, as well as running their own businesses, where they are beginning to have a profound impact that will last for decades. Written exclusively for Gen Y readers to address their unique needs, Becoming the Boss is a brisk, tech savvy success manual filled with real-world, actionable tips, from an expert they respect and relate to. Lindsey Pollak defines what leadership is and draws on original research, her own extensive experience, and interviews with newly minted Gen Y managers and entrepreneurs around the world to share the secrets of what makes them successful leaders—and shows young professionals how to use that knowledge to rise in their own careers. From learning to develop a style that appeals to your older colleagues, to discovering the key trends affecting your career, to mastering the classic rules of excellence that never go out of style, Becoming the Boss helps you identify your next professional move and shows you how to get there.
Author: Richard Templar
Publisher: Pearson UK
The Rules of Work by Richard Templar Book Resume:
NOW WITH 10 NEW RULES A definitive code for personal success ‘The Rules of Work is an eye-opener for all those who would like to rise to the top, but don’t seem to be able to find the map.’ Sir Antony Jay, author of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minster, and founder of Video Arts For some people, work is a breeze. They glide effortlessly onwards and upwards, always saying and doing the right thing, getting paid more, getting promotions, getting results. Is there something successful people know that we don’t? You bet there is. They know the Rules of work. These Rules are the guiding principles that will improve what you do and how you do it. They will give you the unmistakable air of confidence that will win you admiration, respect, and help you towards your next promotion. In this new edition of the international bestseller, Richard Templar has added 10 new Rules to help you get heard, noticed, acknowledged and followed. To get ahead and stay on top, you need The Rules of Work.
The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing
Author: Natalie Canavor,Claire Meirowitz
Publisher: Pearson Education
The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing by Natalie Canavor,Claire Meirowitz Book Resume:
Give yourself a powerful competitive advantage by becoming a better business writer. Better writers get better jobs and more promotions; they persuade people through emails, Web sites, presentations, proposals, resumes, grant proposals, you name it. Businesses know this: that's why they spend $3 billion a year helping their employees become more effective writers. The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing shows you how to master the art of effective business communication replacing the old standards of jargon, pomposity, and grammar drills with a simple, quick and conversational writing style. Authors Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz demonstrate how to plan and organize your content; make your point faster; tell your readers what's in it for them; construct winning documents of every kind, print and electronic, even blog entries and text messages! The Truth about the New Rules of Business Writing brings together the field's best knowledge, and shows exactly how to put it to work. With an "aha" on every page, it presents information in a clear, accessible style that's easy to understand and use. Written in short chapters, it covers the entire field, cuts to the heart of every topic, pulls back the curtain on expert secrets, and pops the bubble of commonly-held assumptions. Simply put, this book delivers easy, painless writing techniques that work.
The New Rules of Retirement
Author: Robert C. Carlson
The New Rules of Retirement by Robert C. Carlson Book Resume:
Create the retirement you desire with proven financial strategies The New Rules of Retirement throws away the rules of thumb, clichés, and obsolete ideas. It provides a proven, updated approach to retiring successfully in today's world. In this new second edition based on independent, objective research, retirement expert Robert C. Carlson uses proven, profitable techniques to coordinate all the factors that lead to financial security and independence. You'll learn how much you really need to save for retirement, how to invest that nest egg before and during retirement, and how to establish a wise and sustainable spending strategy. Carlson will explain how to overcome the threats to lifetime financial security, such as longer life expectancy, low investment returns, higher taxes, and more. Importantly, you'll learn how to plan for the wildcards of retirement planning: health care and long-term care expenses. This edition covers changes in key areas such as annuities, IRA management, estate planning, and income taxes. You'll learn how to merge these insights into your plan to enhance financial security and to provide for loved ones in the future. Retirement no longer means being put out to pasture. Today's retirees are traveling the world, attending classes, developing new skills, starting businesses, mastering neglected hobbies, and more—well into their golden years. This guide helps ensure you have the financial independence to pursue the retirement you want through smart planning and effective financial strategies. Know and overcome the threats to retiree financial security Learn the right way to estimate retirement spending Develop a sustainable spending strategy Invest your nest egg to make it last Plan for potential long-term health care Leave a legacy for loved ones The retirement is now a new phase of life, not a winding down. It's a time to live your best life and do things you couldn't before. But all the financial aspects of retirement have changed. To maintain financial security and create the retirement you desire, you need to be on top of the changes. The New Rules of Retirement provides the latest, proven strategies that help put the shine in your golden years.
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Lebanon welcomes $13.3 million US aid to help combat COVID-19
The assistance includes $5.3 million to help the most vulnerable Lebanese and $8 million allocated for refugee and host communities.
By Nohad Topalian in Beirut
UNHCR personnel distributing sanitisation and cleaning materials to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. [UNHCR]
Lebanese officials have welcomed the US government's donation of $13.3 million to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, saying the amount of money needed to deal with the outbreak is "enormous".
US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea announced the new assistance at an April 22nd press conference at the American University of Beirut (AUB).
"This assistance includes $5.3 million in international disaster assistance from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for activities to help the most vulnerable Lebanese," she said in prepared remarks.
"Specifically, this assistance will support private healthcare facilities to properly manage patient care, ensure continuity of essential health services, enhance communication and community outreach."
Syrian volunteers participate in a training course on raising awareness about COVID-19 inside the camps in Lebanon. [UNHCR]
US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea (centre) announced $13.3 million in new assistance to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Lebanon at a press conference April 22nd at the American University of Beirut. [Photo courtesy of AUB]
"It will also increase access of vulnerable communities to water, sanitation and hygiene," she said.
The aid also includes $8 million allocated to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support refugee and host communities in Lebanon.
"The US government is helping to impact people's lives, by helping people on an individual and a societal basis to confront this pandemic," Shea said. "We have also been drawing on additional resources from Washington, tailoring that assistance with our trusted partners in Lebanon to help meet emerging needs."
AUB President Fadlo Khuri welcomed the US government's "generous support for the plague of COVID-19, a plague that is striking people across the world and disproportionately affecting and indeed killing vulnerable peoples".
"We believe that this generous investment by the US government will serve to protect more lives and possibly even save more lives than would be possible without this assistance," he said.
Needs are 'enormous'
The US assistance provided to Lebanon to fight the coronavirus "is welcome", said Pierre Bou Assi, a member of parliament's Public Health, Labour and Social Affairs Committee.
The way the assistance is allocated is "in line with Lebanon's policy on foreign support, which stipulates that any support for refugees must be matched by support for host communities", he told Al-Mashareq.
The ministries of public health and social affairs will co-ordinate and manage the US donation, he said.
"The ministry of social affairs has social centres located throughout Lebanon, including 12 dispensaries classified as primary health care centres," he said.
"This requires that raising awareness, monitoring and testing activities covered by the assistance be conducted in co-ordination with the ministry of public health for best results," he added.
The amount of money needed to contain and deal with the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic is "enormous", said Dr. Sharaf Abu Sharaf, head of the Lebanese Doctors Syndicate.
"We view all the financial assistance Lebanon receives, foremost among them the US assistance, as crucial to acquiring the basic materials needed to fight the coronavirus," he told Al-Mashareq.
"The range of medical and hospital needs and preventive measures is huge, amid a difficult economic situation," he said.
The US assistance will "complement the efforts of the municipalities with which we are co-operating to stem the spread of the virus through a team consisting of a doctor, a nurse and a pharmacist", Abu Sharaf said.
US largest donor to UNHCR
The US government "is the largest donor to UNHCR in the world and the largest donor in response the UNHCR's specific appeal aimed at fighting COVID-19", said UNHCR public information officer Lisa Abou Khaled.
"This donation is crucial," she told Al-Mashareq. "The US and the humanitarian community are standing in solidarity with host countries and communities and supporting national response plans."
"We recognise that this epidemic affects everyone, particularly refugees and the poorest and marginalised citizens in the host countries."
Many poor Lebanese and refugees "live at or below the poverty line, and the economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis will likely push many [more] into poverty", she said.
"As an immediate measure, UNHCR is providing emergency cash assistance to 11,500 refugee families -- in addition to the 34,500 families that are benefitting from UNHCR's regular monthly cash assistance programme -- to help them meet their basic needs during this period," Abou Khaled said.
"In-kind support is also devised with partner organisations for the most vulnerable groups, regardless of nationality," she said.
Donor support enables UNHCR to partner with many local non-governmental organisations on the coronavirus response, she said.
"Thanks to this support, UNHCR and its partners have been able to reach refugees and inform them about the virus, [including] how it is transmitted, its symptoms, how to access help and how to self-isolate," she said.
UNHCR and its partners "have also been able to conduct [awareness] sessions on improving hygiene and to distribute soap and detergents in about 5,500 informal camps and collective shelters, to more than 300,000 refugees so far", Abou Khaled said.
Thanks for your attention.
Millions in US aid seen as key factor in stemming spread of COVID-19 in Lebanon
The multiple tranches of aid since March of last year have gone to testing, vaccines and relief, and came at a time of deep economic and political turmoil.
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A new UN report reveals that Lebanon and Jordan host the largest number of refugees relative to the sizes of their populations.
Syrian refugees in Lebanon take coronavirus lockdown seriously
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The Cincinnati Symphony was established in 1896 and is the sixth oldest symphony orchestra in the United States. At that time, Haydn and Beethoven were still living and Cincinnati was only a small village surrounding Fort Washington. The Cincinnati Orchestra gave its first concert in December of 1872 and the nucleus of that group eventually went on to become the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra that we know and love today.
The Cincinnati Pops, which also performs as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, is under the direction of John Morris Russell and presents a diverse array of musical styles, all bathed in the world-renowned “Cincinnati Sound.” The Pops was officially founded in 1977 with the late Erich Kunzel, and since 1980 the Orchestra has sold 10 million recordings around the globe.
The CSO was also the first American orchestra to be featured on a national radio broadcast in 1921, and today the players continue to reach millions of listeners every year across the country and around the world through a variety of radio broadcasts and online streaming.
While very rich in history and accolades worldwide, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra returned to Cincinnati Music Hall after a $143 million renovation and a three-week European Tour that included debuts at the Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC Proms. The CSO was also the first international orchestra to perform at the new Paris concert hall, La Seine Musicale, where they premiered a new and highly acclaimed edition of Gershwin’s An American in Paris.
The CSO’s Concertos for Orchestra album was released in 2016 and features three pieces commissioned by the orchestra. The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra introduced the world to a variety of new commissions.
Music Director Louis Langree and the CSO have been pleased to welcome such acclaimed artists as Joshua Bell, Danil Trifonov, Alisa Wellerstein, Donald Runnicles, Yefim Bronfan, Sir Mark Eder and Composer-In-Residence Jonathan Bailey Holland.
Also of note, the Cincinnati Pops has had more albums on the Billboard charts than any other orchestra on the planet. Their recent project, American Original Volume 2 was recorded live at Music Hall and was released in the fall of 2018. In addition, the Pops’ American Soundscapes series of online videos has a global audience.
Conductor John Morris Russell and the Cincinnati Pops have also welcomed acclaimed artists such as Hamilton star Leslie Odom, Jr., Ashley Brown from the Indigo Girls, Amy Grant and Ms. Lisa Fischer, among others.
Finally, a “Pops In Space” program debuted in January of 2019, featuring dazzling visuals curated by Cincinnati’s own Lightborne Communications and a co-commission with NASA and the National Symphony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing by celebrated Hollywood composer Michael Giacchino.
As you can see, both the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and The Cincinnati Pops are highly regarded worldwide and continue to lead the way in innovative ways of staying current and involved in the local community.
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Learn about the architecture of OrderCloud that enables billions of dollars in B2B, B2C, and B2X commerce every year.
OrderCloud is a cloud-hosted B2B, B2C, and B2X eCommerce platform exposed entirely via a RESTful API. It enables rapid development of custom, secure, and scalable eCommerce solutions. Spin up a fully functional commerce app in minutes and customize it to the limits of your imagination.
Benefits of a RESTful API
Whether it's the central hub of a mobile purchasing app or one small piece of a larger microservices-based solution, the benefits of a RESTful API vs. other approaches are clear.
Language Agnostic
OrderCloud is language agnostic and API-first. This means you can access all of the domain through an Open API specification by using any of our SDKs or by generating your own clients with your preferred development stack. Plus, releases are automatic and non-breaking; there's a clear, inherent boundary between our code and yours. Nearly all modern web and mobile front-end frameworks are designed to work well out of the box with JSON-over-HTTP services that follow RESTful patterns.
Unlike on-premise solutions, server infrastructure and data security are taken care of for you. Start small and scale up only as your business usage grows. Unlike SaaS products, your ability to customize user interfaces and workflows is virtually limitless.
Best-of-Breed
OrderCloud plays nicely with other similarly architected services. We are entering the age of microservices, where best-of-breed solutions are not built from scratch. Rather, they are assembled from the best parts. Our "part" is B2B, B2C, or B2X eCommerce and Order Management; complex domains in which we have been building and refining an incredibly rich and flexible data model since 1999.
OAuth 2.0 - OrderCloud API authentication is based on the OAuth 2 specification and supports multiple workflows, including Single Sign-On (SSO).
SSL - API access is only allowed via HTTPS; connections on port 80 are refused entirely.
Environments - In addition to the production environment OrderCloud also exposes two test environments Sandbox (never restored) and Staging (restored weekly from production) to enable developers to make deploys to production with confidence.
Open API 3.0 - Our Open API specification is generated straight from our source code and used to generate the portal, documentation, and SDKs. It takes advantage of the latest Open API features, ensuring an accurate and programmatically useful description of every endpoint, model, and property.
Flexibility Over Features
OrderCloud is constantly evolving. But we've learned that we don't need to be experts at everything. We believe the best commerce solutions on the planet will not be built from scratch nor offered out-of-the box via SaaS. Rather, they'll be assembled out of distributed, best-in-breed components. We're the engine. We don't make tires or steering wheels or leather-upholstered bucket seats. But we can help you assemble all the best parts, and we think the result will be the shiniest, fastest car on the block.
Extensible Everywhere
Virtually every model in OrderCloud can be extended to meet your specific needs. This embodies our core value of flexibility and when combined with our native assignment-based relationships and Webhooks system it's easy to keep legacy systems in sync while augmenting them with powerful B2B commerce at the same time.
Filtering Buyers using XP
This example will return all your Buyers who are in your ‘USNW’ sales region
GET https://sandboxapi.ordercloud.io/buyers?filters=xp.MySalesRegion=USNW HTTP/1.1
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Nova lifetech warrants to the original purchaser that products sold conform to specifications provided with delivered products and are free from material defects. We will replace any product, free of charge that does not meet established product specifications.
This warranty does not extend to any product that has been altered in any way by personnel other than Nova lifetech employees or to any product that has been handled in a manner contrary to instructions included in product documentation.
Nova lifetech makes no warranty of the products suitability for any purchasers particular use, and the purchaser or use of the products must determine suitability for use.
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Bloem Addresses School Board About Lack of High-Level Math Classes
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Lester Bloem, a retired math teacher, addressed the Milbank School District Board of Education during its regular meeting on Monday, March 8. Bloem spoke during...
Lester Bloem, a retired math teacher, addressed the Milbank School District Board of Education during its regular meeting on Monday, March 8. Bloem spoke during the community input session of the meeting.
Bloem, who retired three years ago after teaching math in the Milbank School District for over 40 years, voiced his concerns about the lack of in-person calculus, probabilities, or statistics classes in the school curriculum since his departure. “I feel the students, especially the seniors, need these classes in preparation for college,” Bloem said. “I believe in-person classes are the most beneficial, and the district has several certified math teachers on staff, including Superintendent Justin Downes.” Bloem said he hopes the board will look into the deficiency and bring those classes back. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9344106912612915, "wiki_prob": 0.9344106912612915, "source": "cc/2022-05/en_middle_0091.json.gz/line1377579"} |
Cleveland is the birthplace of rock and roll, but with the city's airwaves dominated by moldering classic rock stations that only toyed with modernity for the last several years, it also threatened to be the place where rock and roll lay down and died. Xtreme Radio has helped change all this by bringing a younger, hipper presence to Cleveland rock radio, and results have been impressive. The station has already thrown a pair of successful concerts that featured Blink-182, Rob Zombie, Static-X, and dozens of others, and it's reestablishing Cleveland as a primary market for modern rock. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-25T13:45:11Z', 'url': 'https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/best-radio-station/BestOf?oid=1535409', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
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Top U.S. Travel Leaders Urge White House to Reopen International Travel
U.S. Travel Association
Leaders of 23 global travel companies sent a letter to President Biden Tuesday urging greater progress toward reopening international travel—as is successfully happening elsewhere in the world—and warning of dire economic consequences if U.S. borders remain shut.
The letter notes that current science, the success of the U.S. vaccine rollout, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s own guidance allows for steps toward a safe resumption of international visitation.
“While U.S. borders remain closed to much of the world, the remarkable scientific advancements to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and the tremendous vaccine deployment achieved by your administration have allowed the safe resumption of many activities,” the letter reads. “For all its economic and cultural contributions, international travel should be among them and it will hasten the economic recovery we all desire.”
The letter urges the establishment of a public-private taskforce by the end of May to develop a risk-based, data-driven roadmap for safely reopening international travel to the U.S.
The letter further states that efforts toward reopening should start by pursuing a “public health corridor” between the U.S. and the United Kingdom (U.K.), given its importance as a travel market and its similar pace of vaccinations and declining infection rates. On Friday, the U.K. categorized the U.S. in the “amber” middle tier of its new “traffic light” system for international travel.
The letter also urges the administration to utilize the upcoming G7 summit to seek commitments from other world leaders to develop and implement a global framework for reopening international travel.
“The U.S. must be a global leader in restarting international travel,” the letter says. “Using science and data as our guide, it is possible to reopen our borders and establish these important public health corridors.”
The letter says steep declines in international travel in 2020 resulted in the loss of $150 billion in U.S. export income and 1.1 million domestic jobs, according to figures provided by the U.S. Travel Association. If nothing is done to lift entry restrictions, the U.S. is projected to lose an additional $175 billion by the end of this year.
Though positive signs for domestic leisure travel have been widely reported, international and business-related travel—which together comprised more than a third of direct-travel jobs in the U.S. in 2019—remain almost completely halted, with a recovery for both expected to take years without significant policy action.
Click here to view the full letter.
About U.S. Travel Association
U.S. Travel Association is the national, non-profit organization representing all components of the travel industry. Travelers in the United States are estimated to spend $1.1 trillion in 2022 (still 10% below 2019 levels). U.S. Travel advocates for policies to accelerate an even recovery across the travel industry and restore economic and job growth for this essential contributor to our nation's success. Visit ustravel.org for information and recovery-related data.
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यततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्त्वतः ॥ — Verse 3, Ch VII, Bhagavad-Gita.
Among hundreds of thousands of people, one perchance strives for brahma jnAna (Self-Knowledge); even among those who strive and are perfect, only one perchance really knows me in essence.
What the Gita verse above indicates is that the complete experiential realization of the identity of the individual and brahman is a ‘rarest of the rare’ occurrences.
Further, the ancient scriptures give primacy to the prior attainment of absolute detachment (vairAgya) and declare it to be the sine qua non for Self-realization. Therefore, some of the traditional seekers opine that there is no scope for mokSha unless one takes up the sannyAsa AShrama, relinquishing all worldly interests; on the other hand, a few of the modern lot of Acharyas inform us that renouncing mentally all worldly interests is adequate to attain Self-realization.
In view of the confusing position above, a spiritual aspirant (sAdhak) sincerely committed to the path of liberation would need clear cut and well-calibrated “litmus tests” for self-appraisal to know that s/he is not deluding himself/herself about having had the intuitive and immediated Self-realization.
Towards that end, the first part of this Series talked about using the parameters of “desire” and “sorrow” as indicators. We shall now discuss another unambiguous marker that can be used for self-appraisal of one’s own realizational experience.
We all know the sense of “fear” which is very commonly experienced.
(ii) It could also be felt when there is a danger of losing “my” life due to an external source (like a wild animal).
Meaning: It is from a second entity that fear comes.
If the seeker really had had the immediated experiential understanding of jIva-brahmaikya, the undoubted realization of All-oneness, there is no second entity anywhere as s/he is everything that IS. So such an individual will not experience either type of fear (a sense of losing the image or the body).
The first is easily test-checked.
Watch your own ‘feeling’ and internal bodily sensations when someone praises or insults you. Do you get elated, feel happy if appreciated and crest-fallen and angry if slighted and disrespected? If so, surely there is work to do as it indicates the presence of subtle attachments to one’s ego and body lingering somewhere .
Recently, an author and a teacher on Non-duality left a social network group in a huff simply because s/he was questioned on some of his/her pet definitions. Can we say that s/he “realized” brahman?
I take it as one down and the next test on “fear from wild creatures” will surely expose the truth of more of those self-certified teachers.
I shall illustrate this most efficacious test taking the example from the real life story of a revered Saint who is credited by all as a jIvanmukta. This was an incident that happened on the late evening of 5th Dec 1935 in the life of the 35th Pontiff of Shringeri, Shri Abhinava Vidyateertha. At that time he was still a sAdhak serving his Guru the 34th Pontiff.
“He felt an urge to meditate again. … … Awareness of the surroundings and the body ceased. Subsequently, the mental chanting of the mantra automatically came to a stop and His focus was just on the form. There were no distracting thoughts of any kind. The meditation was deep, with the form quite clear. When He regained consciousness of the body and opened His eyes, He found no trace of sunlight. The place was, however, illumined by the light of the moon. Stars were visible.
“It was only a few moments later that He realized that there was something on His neck. A big cobra had loosely coiled itself around it. Its upraised hood was near His right shoulder, facing away from Him. He had meditated on Bhujaṅga-bhUShaNa (an epithet of Śiva meaning, “He who has a snake for an ornament”) and now a snake was on His body as an ornament.
“Taking this as a sign of the Lord’s grace, He felt very happy. He stroked the cobra gently. It seemed to like this and rested its head against His right cheek. After about five minutes, the snake slowly uncoiled itself and went away. He got up and walked down the hill, seeing His way in the light of the moon.
“At the base of the hill, He found His attendant waiting with a lamp. This was unprecedented, for, on earlier occasions, He was followed up the hill without any lamp by the attendant on duty. On His way back, in response to His question, the attendant said that after calling him, the senior Jagadguru had instructed him to wait for His Holiness, with a lamp in hand, at the base of the hill, after two and a half hours. He had been waiting only for some minutes when His Holiness came there. It was obvious to His Holiness that His Guru had accurately foreseen the time that He would be spending on the hill. He also discerned that His second session of meditation, which was totally unplanned, must have lasted for almost an hour.
Can the teacher claiming Self-realization feel comfortable having a cobra around his neck out in the wilderness?
The next example is an incident that happened to the Swami Ji on the 12th Dec 1935, during his evening meditation.
“He directed His gaze to between the brows. Then, without any premeditation, He mentally chanted not just ‘om’ but “oṁ namaḥ śivāya”, as He had done a week earlier on the day He beheld the Lord and received the advice to focus on the formless Supreme Reality. Soon, He beheld a moon-like disc of light between His brows, as had happened a week earlier. His mind became increasingly quiet. The sense of ‘I’ faded away and, effortlessly, nirvikalpa-samādhi ensued. When He opened His eyes, the sun was about to set. Two birds were seated on His shoulders.
“That Brahman is all was as clear to Him as a fruit in one’s palm. A few minutes later, even as His eyes were open, His mind automatically went into nirvikalpa-samādhi once again. He remained in that state for nearly an hour. As He regained awareness of the body and the surroundings, a big monkey bounded up to Him and positioned itself on Him lap. After being cuddled for a while by Him, it left. He walked down the hill and found His attendant, who had not accompanied Him up the hill that day, waiting there with a lamp, as had happened a week earlier.
The source for both the stories quoted above are from “The Multifaceted JIvanmukta – His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Abinava VidyatIrtha Mahaswamin,” 2017.
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How to Curate a Building is a course led by Dutch art historian and curator Renske Janssen. The focus will be on building an online exhibition in the form of a blog or archive through “curating.” Curating is a form of thinking using a “critical eye.” Writing is one of its central endeavors. What is said, viewed, pictured, discussed, and experienced will be translated into a publicly accessible online format that will allow interested viewers to gain an understanding of and benefit from the findings generated during the one-week course. The online presentation will become a permanent part of the summer school’s website so that these findings can always be accessed.
One can curate anything. We do this everyday when automatically selecting and editing the information around us in our age of word and image overload. In this course participants will heighten their perceptual awareness through discussing, writing, and editing while reflecting on the nature of the Bauhaus Denkmal’s historically significant setting. Both its physical appearance and conceptual heritage will be investigated. The Bauhaus Denkmal is an excellent point of departure for asking ourselves: How does this building affect me? Why is it still important and what do the “big ideas” of the Bauhaus mean for people today?
The various elements of Hannes Meyer’s architectural design and landscaping form the points of departure for a weeklong session of writing, picture-making, and reflecting. The course is for anyone interested in learning how to write with a greater sense of awareness and how to incorporate conceptual thinking. Participants will focus their eye and mind on the building’s original meaning and intent as a site of intellectual cooperation, including, for example, the color schemes and lighting scenarios, in order to better understand their present day function.
The aim is to become an activist thinker, writer, curator, and communicator.
What to bring: laptop, smartphone, camera
Schedule: weekdays: morning theory/afternoon practice; Saturday: presentation/moderated talks
Keywords: history of curating, art history, the Bauhaus, forms of writing
Goal: building an online exhibition (blog/archive)
Course language: Dutch, English, German, French
Renske Janssen (1975, lives in Amsterdam and works internationally) is an art historian who has worked as a curator for institutions including: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Artspeak, Vancouver; Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden; and Onomatopee, Eindhoven. She has curated numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists such as Tris Vonna-Michell, Germaine Kruip, Mathias Poledna, as well as many public lecture and discussion programs. Besides teaching and mentoring art students at the Ateliers, KASK, and many other international universities and art schools, she is also a cultural researcher. For her ongoing research project on the shifts between aesthetics and ethics in contemporary art of the 2010s and the inherent relationship between nature and culture, she received a fellowship from the Mondriaan Fund (NL). She is currently writing a book, which is also part of her PhD proposal. Furthermore, she contributes art texts for artists’ catalogues and magazines such as frieze magazine, serves as a board member and is the program director for the International Summer School at the Bauhaus Trade Union School Landmark in Bernau bei Berlin.
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How to curate a building was an situ workshop designed by art historian Renske Janssen in which seven international participants responded to the context in which they found themselves. Guided by Janssen they each formulated an idea, a concept or a research project that fitted their own wishes, interests and expertise. The theoretical basis, if there was any, was loosely based on a series of books and articles that were available during the course week such as Lucy Lippard’s Six Years […] on developments in conceptual art or Nina Möntmanns’s essay Art at the Limits: an introduction in Scandalous. A reader on art and ethics (2013). During the five-day course the participants where first of all triggered to stay close to who they are by inspiring safety and honesty through Marshall Rosenberg’s Non-violent communication. Within the group mutual respect and understanding led to free making and thinking. Janssen offers workshops to open-up new potential and ways of looking at art, life and work other then market- and strategically driven. Instead she likes to see what happens when inspired by ‘nonviolent communication’ in which language is set-free of moral judgments and artworks (or buildings) are valued by ‘show don’t tell’.
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GASTONIA – The opening round of Gaston County High School Spring Break Tournament featured impressive pitching performances throughout the day. Cherryville junior Noah Eaker allowed just three hits and one run against a strong South Point offense. Justin Helms of East Gaston threw a no-hitter against Huss, then North Gaston’s McKinley Scott one-hit Bessemer City.
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Brooks is still working his way back to full strength after a rotator cuff impingement kept him off the mound for much of the year. But the Green Wave pitcher did not show many signs of rust Monday night, allowing just one hit against Highland Tech and earning the win on the hill as Ashbrook moved on with a 3-1 win over the Rams.
The rotator cuff impingement is a fairly common occurrence, Brooks said, but it caused him pain every time he brought his right arm back to throw. He’s on his fourth week of a six-week rehab program, and threw Monday night for just the second time this year after he worked five innings in what he called a “rehab” start against Piedmont Community Charter on Monday, March 21.
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Highland Tech sophomore Taylor Hughes led off the game by beating out an infield single, but from there, Brooks did not allow another hit to any Rams batter. He walked five, giving up one run, and threw three wild pitches while striking out four in the victory.
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Ordnance survey data released for free on the OS OpenData web site
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead
For quite some time, the United States has been unique in that most of its federal government data, including GIS data, has been free to the general public. Now, for the first time in 250 years, the Ordnance Survey of Great Britian (OSGB), has also decided to release, for free, some of its data. In this transcript of a speech given on March 22, 2010 on “Building Britain’s Digital Future”, Prime Minister Gordon Brown states, “I can confirm that from 1st April, we will be making a substantial package of information held by ordnance survey freely available to the public, without restrictions on re-use.” (There are also some interesting references to other data sets that will be made available as well.)
The Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, maintains map data at several resolutions for map products at different scales. The free data they are releasing relates to their mid-scale map products at 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 map scale. The data are avaialable on the OS OpenData Web site at: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/index.html. The majority of the data can be downloaded, although some has to be ordered for delivery by DVD. The OS OpenData products include:
1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer – place names for “airports, farms, hills, woodlands, commons and other places, including over 42 000 towns and settlements with coordinates to 1 km resolution”
1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster – “roads, railways and other key features … as either full national coverage or as England, Scotland or Wales separately
Boundary-Line™ – 1:10,000 scale boundaries … of all levels of electoral and administrative boundaries, from district, wards and civil parishes (or communities) up to parliamentary, assembly and European constituencies
Code-Point Open – postcode units, each of which have a precise geographical location … for approximately 1.7 million postcode units in England, Scotland and Wales. Each postcode unit, such as KY12 8UP or PO14 2RS, contains an average of fifteen adjoining addresses
Land-Form PANORAMA® Contours (1:50,000) – height information in the form of contours, spot heights, break lines, coastline, lakes, ridges and form lines
Meridian™ 2 (1:50,000) – mid-scale digital representation of Great Britain’s … Communication and Topographic themes
MiniScale® (1:1,000,000) – for use within desktop graphic applications to provide simple backdrop mapping covering the whole of Great Britain
OS Locator – a fully searchable national gazetteer of road names … does not contain any road geometry although it does contain coordinates to create a minimum bounding rectangle encompassing the extent of the road referenced in the gazetteer
Strategi® (1,250,000) – derived from the Ordnance Survey 1:250 000 scale topographic database … geographical features within Strategi are represented as vector (point and line) data
OS Street View® – a scanned image of street-level mapping that can be combined with other data
Not surprisingly, some of the most desirable and useful data that the OSGB produces and maintains are not being released, such as the large scale (1:1,250 and 1:2,500) MasterMap data which includes vector representations of buildings and land parcels for the UK. Nonetheless, the current release provides some excellent opportunities for developers to create products without the huge financial overheads that have prevailed to date.
Note that in May OSGB will be releasing OS VectorMap District, “a new mid-scale product within the OS VectorMap family available in both raster and vector formats. It is designed to be a flexible and customisable product specifically designed for use on the web.” At this point, there are no plans to release any further data, although all the datasets will be maintained and updated.
Kudos to OSGB for making these data available — many cartographers and map makers will find these resources invaluable!
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Анатолій Євгенович Смірнов (; 1936, Москва, РРФСР) — радянський футболіст та тренер, виступав на позиції нападника. Провів понад сто матчів у Першій лізі СРСР. Майстер спорту СРСР.
Кар'єра гравця
Розпочав кар'єру футболіста у севастопольському клубі «Будинку офіцерів флоту», який виступав у чемпіонаті Української РСР 1956 року. Наступного року команда почала представляти місто у Першій лізі СРСР. У 1958 році команда змінила назву на Спортивний клуб Чорноморського флоту. Цього ж року команда посіла перше місце у своїй зональній групі, а в фіналі — третє місце. Бронзові нагороди стали найбільшим здобутком команди за всю її історію. Смірнов відзначився тоді 13-ма голами і став другим бомбардиром клубу цього сезону після Володимира Буцького.
Разом із командою дійшов до 1/8 фіналу Кубку СРСР у 1964 році, тоді севастопольці поступилися московському ЦСКА у додатковий час (1:2). Свій останній сезон як гравець провів у 1966 році, при цьому був граючим тренером команди.
Загалом за СКЧФ провів понад двісті матчів.
Кар'єра тренера
Смирнов тренував команду при СКЧФ, яка виступала в чемпіонаті Севастополя та Криму, де грали Сергій Філіпповський, Анатолій Солодовников та Віктор Прожога. Тривалий період часу залишався дитячим тренером, серед його вихованців був Євген Репенков. Анатолій тренував дітей у команді «Хвиля» та керував проведенням міських змагань на призи клубу «Шкіряний м'яч», в якому брало участь близько 150 дитячих команд. Разом із Василем Кучеренком збирав команду для участі у дитячому турнірі для міст-героїв у Ленінграді. Серед підопічних Смирнова тоді був Віктор Юров. 1971 року був тренером у севастопольському «Авангарді».
Пізніше повернувся на батьківщину, до Москви.
Статистика виступів
Досягнення
Перша ліга СРСР
Бронзовий призер (1): 1958
Примітки
Посилання
Уродженці Москви
Радянські футболісти
Футболісти СКЧФ (1946)
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The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany
By Ryan A. Piccirillo
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Within these words Locke invokes a right of the people to revolt against a government which fails to serve its purpose, namely the preservation of the property of its citizens. The Nazi government betrayed this purpose to the extreme, limiting its citizens’ most sacred property: their lives. Locke would therefore see it as a right of the people of Nazi Germany to resist this government’s rule, for a government which breaks its social contract with its people is illegitimate. This social right proposed by Locke is further evidence that The White Rose movement was fully in accordance with the tenets of justice.
National Socialism under Hitler represented one of the most profound bastardizations of justice throughout history. In a normal society, laws must be followed to maintain order, but Nazi law disregarded the sanctity of human life. Martin Luther King, Jr. offered that “any law that degrades human personality is unjust” (King). By this definition, the entire system of fascism is a mockery of justice. King also demanded that “one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” (King). His logic leads one to the undeniable conclusion that the members of The White Rose were among a minority who fulfilled their moral obligation to reject and resist Nazi rule.
Evaluation of Success
The members of The White Rose were unwilling to allow Germany’s history to be tarnished by an “irresponsible clique” (Scholl 73). They discovered through their own philosophical enlightenment that it was their moral duty, and the duty of every German, to stand up to the tyrannical government. In their final leaflet, the authors sum up their call to action with the following charge: “fight against the party!” (Scholl 92). Their goal was an all-encompassing intellectual rebellion in which all Germans would dissociate from the party and overthrow it by virtue of strength in numbers.
Tragically, the members were executed before this goal could ever be realized. On the day of her execution, Sophie Scholl said of her impending doom, “What does my death matter if through us thousands of people will be stirred to action and awakened?” (Scholl 56). Unfortunately, Sophie’s hope was in vain for the months following her execution (and the executions of her colleagues) were dominated by the same Nazi fear-machine which kept the populace silent for years prior. No posthumous revolution took place. However, one should hesitate to call the movement a failure, for its significance is not diminished by this fact.
The White Rose movement served a secondary purpose – a purpose its members had hoped would be shared by all of Germany; it demonstrated to the world that within the largely silent populace of Nazi Germany there existed those with a conscience. It recognized the guilt felt by every German and the shared responsibility for the atrocities. In her introduction to Inge Scholl’s book on the movement and the war, author Dorothee Sölle reflects that “sometimes [she] felt that it was just for us, the next generation, that [the members of The White Rose] had died. […] I wonder if they died so that we would know there had been at least a few people in Germany, a few students among hundreds of thousands, with a conscience” (Sölle x). In the Leaflet of the Resistance, the authors recognize the potential disgrace of inaction: “Germans! […] Are we to be forever the nation which is hated and rejected by all mankind?” (Scholl 89).
Through their actions, the members of The White Rose evidenced that Germany was not a nation of cruel anti-Semites without consideration for the value of human life. However, German guilt and shame are intensified by the fact that so few chose to act. When Dorothee Sölle reflects on the Holocaust, she feels “choked with shame that there were not more ‘white roses’ in the bleakest hour of [her] country’s history” (Sölle xiv). Though it failed to ignite an uprising momentous enough to topple Hitler and the National Socialist Party, The White Rose movement successfully preserved German dignity for future generations by having the courage to act.
The White Rose movement, like the stories of survival born from the Holocaust, demonstrates the capacity for human courage and morality. In the face of such horrific human-led atrocities, The White Rose movement contrasts the bleakest example of the capacity for evil which exists in humanity. Reflecting on the actions of her brother, sister, and their colleagues, Inge Scholl questions, “Were they heroes? They attempted no superhuman task. They stood up for a simple matter, an elementary principle: the right of the individual to choose his manner of life and to live in freedom” (Scholle 4).
It is in fact because of this axiom that the members of The White Rose movement are indeed heroes; they overcame fear in a sea of cowardice and sacrificed their lives for the basic principle of freedom and the preservation of human dignity. Their actions epitomize heroism.
King, Jr., Martin Luther. "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." 16 April 1963. Stanford University. 18 October 2009 .
Locke, John. "Two Trestises of Government." 2003-2009. Lonang Library. 17 October 2009 .
Scholl, Inge. The White Rose. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.
Sölle, Dorothee. "Introduction to the Second Edition: The Legacy of The White Rose." Scholl, Inge. The White Rose. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. ix-xiv.
Piccirillo, R. A. (2010). "The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse, 2(09). Retrieved from http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=1671
Piccirillo, Ryan A. "The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 2.09 (2010). <http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=1671>
Piccirillo, Ryan A. 2010. The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 2 (09), http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=1671
PICCIRILLO, R. A. 2010. The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse [Online], 2. Available: http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=1671
Ryan A. Piccirillo graduated in 2012 with a Bachelors degree in Film from Boston University in Boston, MA.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 31 (UPI) The nation's medical schools are failing the test when it comes to educating young physicians on how to approach patients about kicking the tobacco habit.
A study published in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association finds only three out of 122 medical schools, Boston University, Loma Linda University and Bowman Gray University, require medical students to take a course on tobacco education. "A majority of U.S. physicians and medical students are not adequately trained to treat nicotine dependence, the most costly and deadly preventable health care problem in the United States," the authors from Loma Linda University wrote. "Although 70 percent of smokers visit a physician each year, most are not advised or assisted in any attempt to quit." The National Cancer Institute and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research have developed two core curriculum content areas for medical schools to follow. The first six including the cancer risk from tobacco, nicotine withdrawal symptoms and high-risk groups are to be taught as part of the basic science curriculum. The second six including clinical intervention techniques, smoking cessation in clinical settings and the use of drugs for nicotine replacement are for the more advanced clinical science classes students take in the final years of med school. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-25T21:41:19Z', 'url': 'https://www.cigoutlet.net/news/med_schools_lack_anti_smoking_classes.html', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
The law of Texas is derived from the Constitution of Texas and consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law, as well as case law and local laws and regulations.
✪ Texas Law "I'll Kill You"
The Constitution of Texas is the foundation of the government of Texas and vests the legislative power of the state in the Texas Legislature. The Texas Constitution is subject only to the sovereignty of the people of Texas as well as the Constitution of the United States, although this is disputed.
Pursuant to the state constitution, the Texas Legislature has enacted various laws, known as "chapter laws" or generically as "slip laws". These are published in the official General and Special Laws of the State of Texas as "session laws". Most of these statutes are codified.
The Texas Constitution requires the Texas Legislature to revise, digest, and publish the laws of the state; however, it has never done so regularly. In 1925 the Texas Legislature reorganized the statutes into three major divisions: the <i>Revised Civil Statutes</i>, Penal Code, and <i>Code of Criminal Procedure</i>. In 1963, the Texas legislature began a major revision of the 1925 Texas statutory classification scheme, and as of 1989 over half of the statutory law had been arranged under the recodification process.
The de facto codifications are Vernon's Texas Statutes Annotated and Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated, commonly known as Vernon's. The unannotated constitution, codes, and statutes can also be accessed online through a website of the Texas Legislative Council. Gammel's Laws of Texas contains relevant legislation from 1822-1897.
Pursuant to broadly worded statutes, state agencies have promulgated an enormous body[clarification needed] of regulations (sometimes called administrative law). The Texas Administrative Code contains the compiled and indexed regulations of Texas state agencies and is published yearly by the Secretary of State. The Texas Register contains proposed rules, notices, executive orders, and other information of general use to the public and is published weekly by the Secretary of State. Both are also available online through a website of the Secretary of State.
The Texas legal system is based on common law, which is interpreted by case law through the decisions of the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Texas Courts of Appeals. There is no longer an officially published reporter. West's Texas Cases (a Texas-specific version of the South Western Reporter) includes reported opinions of the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Courts of Appeals. The Texas Reports includes Supreme Court opinions until July 1962, and the Texas Criminal Reports includes Court of Criminal Appeals opinions until November 1962. There is no systematic reporting of decisions of trial courts. Court opinions can generally be freely accessed on the web from the various courts' websites, with appellate opinions generally being available from 1997–2002 onwards.
Municipal governments may promulgate local ordinances, rules, and police regulations, and are usually codified in a "code of ordinances". Counties in Texas have limited regulatory (ordinance) authority. Some codes are printed by private publishers, and some are available online, but the most common method of discovering local ordinances is by physically traveling to the seat of government and asking around.
^ Legislative Council, p. 9.
^ a b c State of Texas v. West Publishing Company , 882 F.2d 171 (5th Cir. 1989).
^ Quarles & Cordon 2003, p. 219.
^ a b Quarles & Cordon 2008, p. 121.
^ Texas State Law Library. "Historical Texas Statutes". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
^ a b Legislative Council, pp. 24–25.
^ Gammel, H.P.N. (1898). The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897.
^ Quarles & Cordon 2003, p. 305.
^ Quarles & Cordon 2003, pp. 302–304.
^ Quarles & Cordon 2003, p. 304.
^ Quarles & Cordon 2003, p. 306.
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^ Quarles & Cordon 2003, pp. 225–226.
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Quarles, Brandon D.; Cordon, Matthew C. (2008). Researching Texas Law (2nd ed.). Wm. S. Hein Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8377-1533-9.
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Developmental Impact Analysis of an ICT-Enabled Scalable Healthcare Model in BRICS Economies
Punit Saurabh, Bhaskar Bhowmick, Amrita, Dhrubes Biswas
Age considers; youth ventures.
Gurudev Ravindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
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This article highlights the need for initiating a healthcare business model in a grassroots, emerging-nation context. This article’s backdrop is a history of chronic anomalies afflicting the healthcare sector in India and similarly placed BRICS nations. In these countries, a significant percentage of populations remain deprived of basic healthcare facilities and emergency services. Community (primary care) services are being offered by public and private stakeholders as a panacea to the problem. Yet, there is an urgent need for specialized (tertiary care) services at all levels.
As a response to this challenge, an all-inclusive health-exchange system (HES) model, which utilizes information communication technology (ICT) to provide solutions in rural India, has been developed. The uniqueness of the model lies in its innovative hub-and-spoke architecture and its emphasis on affordability, accessibility, and availability to the masses. This article describes a developmental impact analysis (DIA) that was used to assess the impact of this model. The article contributes to the knowledge base of readers by making them aware of the healthcare challenges emerging nations are facing and ways to mitigate those challenges using entrepreneurial solutions.
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) form a conglomerate of the world’s fastest-developing large economies. With the rising economic growth of the BRICS nations, the need for healthcare amenities has also grown by leaps and bounds. The challenge is to address the current healthcare issues of people living at the “bottom of the pyramid” in India and other emerging countries.
Health is a primary area of concern in BRICS nations, where services are not at par with developed nations. Governments in these nations have resorted to launching several customized health-centered programs and enhancing the basic healthcare infrastructure to bridge the gaps. Unfortunately, the issues relating to healthcare are too large to be addressed by governments alone. Health-service delivery in emerging nations, especially in a diverse country such as India, is under significant pressure. There is a lack of healthcare infrastructure, notably hospitals, primary healthcare facilities, and trained medical manpower (doctors, nurses, etc); there is also a lack of “affordable, available, and accessible” medical services and medicines. Rapid, uncontrolled urbanization and an overdependence on conventional business processes have made the existing healthcare-delivery model in India non-scalable in non-metro and rural areas (Sharad et al, 2011).
In India, most of the existing healthcare infrastructure consists of government-supported facilities, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and individual Registered Medical Practitioners (RMPs), mostly located in smaller towns and rural areas. Primary healthcare support is delivered through a constellation of over 146,000 public healthcare centers and around 4200 community healthcare centers. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare also supports many mid-level hospitals with variable capacity between 50 to 500 beds, as well as district headquarters. Most of the private-sector health infrastructure is located in larger towns and cities. This has forced the smaller city, towns and villages to rely more on government facilities and hospitals with low to medium levels of support services available.
A potential solution to this healthcare challenge is a delivery system based on a unique health-exchange system (HES) model that is scalable and affordable to its users to a considerable extent (Biswas et al., 2010). The term “health-exchange system” is similar to an Indian employment-exchange system, which provides a platform for the registration of unemployed youths, useful information, routing government training, and supported programs and employment opportunities. In the case of the HES, the model not only provides a platform for the exchange of useful health information, but it also delivers the requisite diagnostic, medical, emergency services required by patients at a nominal charges. Similar such health-exchange organizations exist elsewhere, such as in the United Kingdom.
The idea behind the HES was to create business opportunities, infrastructure facilities, and employment opportunities in healthcare, all while providing the targeted population with the required healthcare support. The HES is in tune with Government of India’s vision of fostering a grassroots, bottom-up approach to innovation and development and to arrive at healthcare solutions for local problems that are sustainable and scalable (Pande, 2012). The next part of the article provides background on the HES, followed by a description of the developmental impact analysis on the model.
The Health-Exchange System
The HES is a low-cost, scalable healthcare delivery model designed to serve the semi-town and rural areas of West Bengal, India. The HES model was inaugurated in 2009 and is currently operational at eight locations. It involves an innovative healthcare architecture consisting of health kiosks and is strategically located in semi-urban and rural areas (Sharad et al., 2011). The model is spread across tertiary towns and cities far from the reach of mainstream medical facilities but close to the targeted users, who are generally secluded from healthcare infrastructure. The kiosk model is considered inexpensive; it provides several emergency facilities at low cost. Medicines, vital medical measurement devices (e.g., blood pressure and blood sugar meters, electrocardiography and ambulance services are available for the benefit of patients at the kiosk.
The HES is based on an innovative business-process concept which was conceptualized by professors and students of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur under the platform of the Society of Social Entrepreneurs (SSE). SSE is a not-for-profit body that brings scalable healthcare services and insurance to people living at “bottom of the pyramid”. It established the entrepreneurship-driven HES with intention to provide “global solutions to local problems”.
The HES uses a hub-and-spoke architecture, which increases the accessibility of healthcare for the masses without compromising on quality (Amrita et al., 2009; RVIM Journal of Management Research, vol 1:41-56). It consists of a super-specialty hub hospital surrounded by a constellation of ‘health technology business nodes”. These health technology business nodes are commonly referred as “health kiosks” (see Figures 1 and 2). The technology business nodes or kiosks become focal points for creating a business infrastructure of medical, ambulance, diagnostic, and referral facilities. They also provide emergency healthcare services, maternity services, pre-natal and post-natal services, epidemic response services, etc. At times, these kiosks are also used for immunization, public health awareness, and other related services.
Figure 1. Outside a typical HES kiosk West Bengal, India
Figure 2. Inside a typical HES kiosk in West Bengal, India
The HES also has alliances with pharmaceutical companies, insurance providers, medical service providers (e.g., hospitals and nursing homes), and educational institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for mentoring. These partners help provide accessible and readily available quality healthcare at affordable costs.
The HES model contains three subsystems:
Hardware: client tools, servers, mobile access points, etc.
Software: database management systems, enterprise resource planning architecture, simulated workflow software and operating systems, optimized health information systems, cloud computing, etc.
Manpower: entrepreneurs, researchers, doctors, and academics
The HES model embodies the concept of “equity ownership of entrepreneurs” to deliver public health services to tertiary towns and cities, and it utilizes private enterprise network platforms supported by the SSE. The HES is designed to establish a unique and vigorous health delivery network at low cost; the kiosks offer innovative and essential health-centric services.
Developmental Impact Analysis
To scale up the HES model, early feedback for evaluation and path correction was needed in case a flaw in the model was detected. Therefore, a developmental impact analysis was conducted, which can predict the impact of a project before its implementation in the local community. A development impact analysis can also assess the post-development impact of a project on a community. According to Mary Edwards (2000):
“The DIA process makes use of existing information, where possible to determine potential impacts of a proposed development employing techniques to gather additional, new information, where necessary while providing a framework to integrate these data, models, spatial and statistical analyses and experiences in other locales to predict development impacts.”
For emerging nations, which have less resources and financial freedom to improve healthcare infrastructure, the development impact analysis assumes greater significance because it helps save precious resources. Thus, the analysis was particularly important for the HES model as it would enable stakeholders to assess the impact of future growth and assist with planning.
To conduct the development impact analysis, the research team visited eight health kiosks set up under the HES model in West Bengal, India. Researchers directly interacted with all the stakeholders of the HES, including the patients, doctors, kiosk owners, managers, and pharmaceutical and equipment suppliers. Particular attention was paid to studying the day-to-day working of the system and the means by which customers were attracted, services were provided, and feedback was received by the kiosk users. Reports generated by government agencies and internal reports relating to kiosks functioning and management were also analyzed.
The development impact analysis considered four key aspects, the results for which are described in the subsections that follow:
Potential market
Fiscal impact
Socio-economic impact
Innovative healthcare products for the HES form an integral part of the business design architecture of the kiosks. A technical analysis of the instruments, devices, and components contributes to the overall aim of developing business architecture and intelligence for the HES.
Cloud-computing technology is used extensively to share resources securely within the network and to provide healthcare providers with flexible access to resources. The kiosks are also equipped with wireless communication devices and an IT infrastructure for basic healthcare facilities, emergency medicines, and testing services. The system installed at the kiosk monitors and delivers a patient's physiological readings to the hospitals and provides an alert mechanism triggered by the patient's vital signs. This information is linked to a medical practitioner's mobile device for analysis. Thus, a doctor can remotely access all the information needed to monitor a patient.
The kiosks also include multifunctional medical instruments that are integrated with Android-based devices (see Figures 3 and 4). Thus, medical data can be collected and relayed by the devices to a centralized database via the GSM mobile communications network (Sharad et al., 2011). Enterprise resource planning software combines data from these devices with data provided by healthcare providers. The types of data these instruments can collect include electrocardiographs, blood pressure, pulse rate, plethysmographs, pulse-oximeters, and phono-cardiograms – all integrated with a single mobile device (Tiyashi et al., 2009). The device is portable, meaning it can be carried from the kiosk to a patient’s house if needed. Although these devices are expensive, the implementation becomes cost effective through volume purchasing.
Figure 3. The hardware and software interface devices and architecture in the HES model
Figure 4. Examples of medical instruments available in an HES kiosk
Looking at the robustness of the model, we believe that it provides tremendous scope and value for money for several stakeholders. The HES model is not only applicable for developing nations in the BRICS region but for nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region as well. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (2010), there is a considerable percentage of Africans who intend to start their own enterprises and healthcare is one of the priority markets for them.
The socio-economic impact of the model and the resultant effect on participating stakeholders is also important. The model has an elaborate list of partners, including: the kiosk owner or the entrepreneur, registered medical practitioners (RMPs), doctors, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturers of mobile health devices. Innovators, academics, business providers, researchers, and health professionals can also benefit in their own way from the implementation of the HES model. The HES acts as a platform for associated stakeholders to sell their products and utilize the business opportunities available at the kiosk for their growth. The potential for growth is also high for those companies involved in medical and educational content development, making the HES model a market-friendly business proposition.
According to Edwards (2000):
“Fiscal analysis involves assessing the public service costs and revenues associated with the development. According to the researcher, such an analysis projects the net cost of the development on the fiscal balance sheet of the community. Since finance plays an important role in determining whether or not to proceed with a proposed development, fiscal impact analysis is a critical component of any development impact assessment”.
A properly conceptualized financial model helps generate larger profits, which allow improvement in health infrastructure. This directly impacts the social aspects of the model, thereby strengthening its foundation. Social profits increase inclusivity, which ultimately decreases the incremental operating expenses that are necessary for affordable price points. Further innovations help create a synthesis between branding, insurance price models, and scale-up strategies with a host of partners from healthcare industries as well as from hardware and software organizations. The fiscal impact analysis of the model helps us to understand the fiscal management side of the model implementation and its impact on the market and stakeholders. It is difficult to predict the ultimate financial model for a project before it has been implemented. A properly conceptualized and planned model helps reduce the risk to a considerable extent.
A socio-economic impact analysis, according to Edwards (2000), measures the potential socio-economic impacts of a development and the changes occurring due to several factors. These factors include demographics, market analyses, public services, and employment and income levels, along with the aesthetic quality of the community. Thus, in order to provide and deliver appropriate medical care, effective planning and management of health services is essential.
The team involved in scaling up the HES is powered by members of the local population who are trained to become entrepreneurs with support from several agencies. The training was provided by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur through the government-supported Technology Entrepreneurship Development Program (TEDP), with handholding from the SSE. The emphasis is on a globally collaborated solution (i.e., following the doctrines of knowledge capital, co-creation and, co-entrepreneurship) by liaising with its partners in Finland (JYU) and the United States (UCB). Apart from a cost-effective and scalable architecture for tertiary and secondary healthcare delivery, HES is pioneering the creation of the “highways to health” that are essential for all-inclusive economic development of emerging economies, which public funding has so far failed to create. The novelty of TEDP entrepreneurs and optimized global solutions through local involvement enables the HES to more efficiently deliver health services. The HES model has further invoked time-tested methods of microfinance and secondary business solutions to increase affordability for the participants. It has also led to a significant increase in network penetration.
The HES model has benefited its target customers and promoters to a considerable extent. The model provides a low-cost, private alternative that is delivered by local entrepreneurs. The model is co-created by global partners, with significant opportunities for several key players in the proposed “highways to health”, spawning hundreds of micro-enterprises that will create rapid economic growth. The ensuing economic growth will ensure that major healthcare gaps in the local community are filled. So far, eight financially successful micro-enterprises have been created and several others are due to become operational shortly. Once the HES model is fully implemented in another five years from now, it will be able to create and sustain more than 5000 local jobs (direct and indirect).
Implications for BRICS Countries and Beyond
There is considerable scope to replicate the HES model in other BRICS nations and other countries. For example, the model has prospects in Africa and Latin America, which are vast and include many remote areas that are secluded from health care infrastructure. Russia has inaccessible places that hold a considerable population of elderly people that need substantial healthcare support. Similar such conditions exist in several parts of Scandinavia, central Asia, Europe, and America (notably Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico). In such areas, there is a need to provide quick and effective healthcare services. These places can effectively be served through the scalable HES model. The model, while creating direct benefits in the local region, indirectly helps the community by creating business opportunities across all stakeholders.
The uniqueness of the HES model lies in its emphasis on affordability, accessibility, and availability, which has been realized through ICT-driven healthcare technology. Although healthcare is a priority sector for the Indian government, the major factor that motivates the mission to improve healthcare is the affordability of ICT. India has made remarkable progress in this regard and now holds the top rank in terms of the affordability of ICT in the “Global Information Technology Report” (INSEAD-WEF, 2012). This progress has implications for the entire health sector because government and industry usage and emphasis on the affordability of ICT will benefit the health sector (Saurabh, 2012).
A review of existing literature shows that a development impact analysis has not been performed on a live, healthcare-based project, which adds a unique perspective to this article. While making an honest assessment of the model, the development impact analysis identified several issues that have a positive or negative impact on the stakeholders in terms of one or more related areas. This analysis thus helps us identify common issues that arise when implementing a project and solving its problems using a case-by-case approach. The article has also highlighted gaps in the literature, which help us understand how we can advance the theory and practice of the HES model in the context of BRICS and other nations.
On the academic side, the HES model has wider ramifications for prospective social entrepreneurs. Initially, the HES model was conceptualized as a joint research initiative of professors and researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur with limited academic output expected. Later, it became a multi-university collaborative effort under the Global Venture Lab platform with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and the University of California, Berkeley in the United States as partners. The very fact that academic research initiatives can be tuned in with innovation to create a social enterprise model at a global scale is a success in itself.
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Submitted by Sumantra Roy (not verified) on Tue, 2013-05-14 14:33
The model has tremendous potential indeed. I think the hub and spoke model is ideal but its true value can be unleashed by creating a dynamic platform where the kiosks are mobile thereby increasing accessibility with lower no of kiosks as well as providing the entrepreneur higher probability of revenue generation. At the same time an e commerce platform like Elance with video conferencing facility for Doctors can be developed and popularised to engage doctors and nursing homes across India to serve the rural population with the price point of their choice.
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It’s becoming more widely known among students and practitioners of alternative medicine (sometimes referred to as integrative medicine) that brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and autism have a common cause. This cause is heavy metal poisoning or, more specifically, mercury poisoning. It is also becoming known that these conditions can be successfully treated. While the main focus of this article is autism, keep in mind that the information also applies to the other conditions.
Autism has been receiving more attention in the media today. The incidence of the disease is growing rapidly. For instance, the California Department of Developmental Services reported a 273% increase in cases from 1987 to 1998.
A physician named Dr. Amy Yasko has been treating autism for several years with a great deal of success. She has written a book, The Puzzle of Autism, in which she offers a comprehensive theory for the great increase in autism we are seeing today. Her explanation for the epidemic is twofold: genetics and environment.
First is the genetic factor. Dr. Yasko has found that 100% of autistic children have a defect in a biochemical process called methylation. (Methylation is the chemical process in which a methyl radical, CH3, is substituted for a hydrogen atom in a molecule.) It is one of the most important processes in the body. Part of its job is to help cells repair and divide. It also helps protect the cells from toxins. Nutrients involved in this process include such things as folate, vitamin B6, Vitamin B12 and betaine, which serve as methyl donors. When the process doesn’t work properly, the cells’ ability to fight toxins is greatly hindered. So if toxins are kept to a minimum, most people with this defect will never experience any adverse effects.
It is estimated that 20% of the population has this defect in which the body is unable to produce the enzymes that carry on methylation. Nowhere near that number has a related brain disease yet. However, when the body is overloaded with toxins, then the trouble starts for a person with the defect. The body just can’t handle the overload the way it would if the defect weren’t present.
Autism was first described in 1943. Prior to 1970, the prevalence of autism was 1 in 2000. In 1970, it was one in 1000. In 1996 it was 1 in 500. By 2000, it was 1 in 150.
Since we are seeing a major increase in autism, there must be an increasingly active source of toxins coming from somewhere. Some suspected the food supply, especially considering the problems with processed food. If food were the cause, autism would be worldwide. However, it is largely confined to industrialized nations. It is also likely that many children would be born with autism, but this is not the case. Every case of autism comes on suddenly, either in infancy or early childhood. So there is another source of toxin affecting the child.
The only other known source of widespread toxin exposure for infants and young children is from vaccinations. One of the substances present in vaccines is thimerosal, a mercury containing compound used as a preservative. Thimerosal was first used in vaccines in the early 1930s.
Stephanie Cave, MD, a family practice physician in Louisiana, states: “I believe the introduction of the Hepatitus B vaccine in 1991 has sparked this recent epidemic because of the thimerosal. When added to the mercury impacted through the DTP and HIB vaccines the exposure to mercury exceeds the EPA safe limits for the metal considering a bolus dose on a single day. The EPA safe limits are usually related to ingested mercury, which is partly cleared by the liver. Injecting boluses of mercury presents another scenario. The two-month dose of mercury is at least 30 times higher than the recommended daily maximum exposure as set by the EPA.
“During the 1990s infants received 12.5 mcg. of mercury at birth followed by 12.5 mcg. at one month, 50 mcg. at 2 months, 50 mcg. at 4 months, 62.5 mcg. at 6 months, and 50 mcg. at 15-18 months. The total of 237.5 mcg. for a child, who at best weighs 22 pounds, far exceeds the safety limits if you consider bolus doses. In establishing normal safety levels, if there is indeed such a thing for a metal as toxic as mercury, bolus injections were not considered. If the nurse giving the injection did not shake the vial according to directions before drawing out the dose, there is a chance the child receiving the last dose could get as much as 10 times the usual amount in one dose.”
This amount of toxic mercury is given to children at an age when the liver and blood-brain barrier are not fully developed and the child’s body is not able to defend itself against this assault. Add to this the fact that 20% of people are genetically deficient in detoxifying enzymes, it is not hard to see why some children develop autism while other children do not. Also, in children with the defect, the poison destroys the function of remaining methylation pathways and so begins the vicious cycle of brain, intestinal and immune damage.
This process, which occurs rapidly in some children, can also occur more slowly in people over the course of their lives. Such diseases as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are a result of long-term exposure to toxic metals. Mercury can cause many known neurological diseases. It has been observed that adults getting the flu vaccine every year for five years had a substantially increased risk of getting Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s, in particular, is closely related to mercury. A few atoms of mercury have been shown to turn a healthy neuron in a lab dish into a disordered tangle of fibers identical to the pathology of Alzheimer’s.
A physician named Rashid Buttar, MD had a son who at 16 months of age quickly slipped into a “developmental” disorder that was called a moderate case of autism. His son lost his 15-word vocabulary and degenerated into an autistic syndrome. Dr. Buttar is highly skilled in heavy metal poisoning. (Dr. Buttar was at first unaware that his ex-wife had taken the boy for vaccinations.) Even though his son tested negative for mercury at first, he continued to pursue the mercury connection.
Through the process, he developed a system for delivering DMPS through the skin. (DMPS is one of the best mercury-chelating agents. It is far more effective than the more well-known EDTA.) Called TD-DMPS (for transdermal) Dr. Buttar believes its effectiveness is related to the continuous low-dose absorption through the skin.
Within eight months, his son was regaining his speech. At 42 months he had a 500-word vocabulary. By age five, he had fully recovered and became the youngest person to testify before Congress (about autism)!
Another doctor, Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, has seen some amazing results using TD-DMPS. Dr. Klinghardt introduced the German-manufactured DMPS research into the integrative medical community in the USA 15 years ago. His protocol for autism is simple. He first removes allergens and toxic foods (for example, gluten, dairy foods and processed foods). Then he adds sublingual B12 and folate (to restore methylation), and RNA products by Dr. Yaska (to restore cellular metabolism). He also adds TD-DMPS to get rid of the mercury. He reports success in 100% of the children he has treated.
Dr. Klinghardt tells of German studies that tracked radioactively tagged DMPS injected just below the skin. The skin is rich in nerves, which transport the DMPS backward into the spinal cord and into the brain. The nerves have proven to be a good way to bypass the blood-brain barrier and remove toxic metals buried deep in the brain.
The best part of the story is that the same mechanism may work to treat many degenerative diseases of the brain, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. All are connected with heavy metals. It has even been shown that damaged neurons in the brain can be repaired or replaced by stem cells that the body can make on its own if it is given the proper nutrients. There are researchers now focusing on autologous stem cells rather than umbilical cord blood stem cells. We are living in exciting times in more ways than one.
A final word of advice: In addition to avoiding refined and processed foods and following a more natural lifestyle, avoid vaccinations. Virtually all are filled with toxic metals and other preservatives, not to mention the main content of the vaccine, a harmful microorganism. In addition, most also contain unknown viruses and proteins from the culture medium. It is far easier to treat your flu than your dementia, or your child’s autism.
(George McDaniel is my father-in-law, and has been a registered nurse for many years, which, along with much research, has taught him many useful health principles. Editor) | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6728271245956421, "wiki_prob": 0.3271728754043579, "source": "cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line983257"} |
2 Major Victories For Cancer Patients Nationwide As Bills Promoting Equal Access To Cancer Trials Become Law
Congress and the state of Pennsylvania approve language aimed at increasing access among underserved communities
By: Lazarex Cancer Foundation
WASHINGTON - Oct. 17, 2018 - PRLog -- Lawmakers at both the federal and state level acknowledge the critical nature of breaking patient barriers to cancer clinical trials and pass two separate bills. This action gives cancer patients a better chance at life through accessing potentially life-saving breakthrough medical advancements.
Congress approved, and President Trump signed, the House Appropriations Committee Fiscal Year 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Funding Bill, which includes a directive to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to implement "a new pilot initiative to investigate the impact of providing navigation and direct patient expense reimbursement associated with participation in cancer clinical trials on cancer clinical trial enrollment, retention, patient outcomes, and research outcomes, including among underrepresented and minority communities." Read the language in its entirety here on page 52 of the Labor Report.
The inclusion of the language follows an intensive effort by Lazarex Cancer Foundation with members of congress to bring this problem forward. A bi-partisan letter proposing the report language was submitted to the Appropriations Committee in March 2018. The effort was led by Chairman Pete Sessions of the House Rules Committee (R-Dallas) and Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Bethesda) and was co-signed by 12 additional members of Congress. Chairman Tom Cole of the Appropriations Subcommittee worked closely with Chairman Sessions and Lazarex.
Just after the passage of the nation's spending bill, lawmakers in the Pennsylvania state legislature unanimously approved HB126 designed to improve access to clinical trials for cancer patients in that state. The bill, also initiated and supported by Lazarex, clarifies that reimbursing patients for the out of pocket expenses necessary to travel to a clinical trial site are not to be considered inducements. Governor Wolf is expected to sign the bill.
A national study in 2015 found that patient households making less than $50,000 annually were 30% less likely to participate in clinical trials. This disparity threatens one of the most basic ethical underpinnings of clinical research: the requirements that the benefits of research be made available equitably among all eligible individuals.
Meanwhile, some corporations, individuals, public and private foundations, health care providers, and other stakeholders are hesitant to contribute to, or accept funds from, programs organized to alleviate financial burdens faced by patients who wish to participate in clinical trials and their caregivers, due to concerns that the FDA and or other federal regulators would view the payments made from those funds as prohibited inducements for patients to receive the health care services provided during clinical trials.
"This bill makes it clear that Pennsylvania is 'open for business' in improving participation in cancer trials. Hopefully this will encourage the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry to partner with Lazarex to make a difference here in Pennsylvania," said Lieutenant Governor Mike Stack – a leader on the two-year Pennsylvania effort.
Lazarex Founder Dana Dornsife added, "So many people were instrumental in passing this bill. I can't possibly name them all here but I want to thank the following as without their efforts and support this would not have ever happened: Governor Tom Wolf, Senator Jake Corman, Senator Joe Scarnati, Senator Kim Ward, Senator Lisa Baker, Senator Andy Dinniman, Senator Jay Costa, Senator Judy Schwank, Senator Pat Browne, Speaker Mike Turzai, Rep. Warren Kampf, Rep. Ryan Warner, Rep. Martina White, Rep. Marguerite Quinn, John Fry, President of Drexel University, Dr. Bob Vonderheide, Director of the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn, and Dave Wilson and Chris Beck in the Government Affairs shops of Drexel and Penn respectively."
Congressman Pete Sessions said, "All of us have been touched by cancer, either through a loved one or through the experience of a personal diagnosis. I look forward to working with my colleagues to continue to support cancer research so that one day we can finally defeat this fast spreading disease and live in a cancer-free world."
All cancer treatments must complete a clinical trial before becoming FDA approved. Many cancer patients for whom standard treatment has failed are eligible for clinical trials that offer potentially life-saving drugs but aren't aware of that option or must decide between living expenses and hope. Why? For a variety of reasons, doctors do not refer patients to trials, and clinical trial sites are often inconveniently located making travel to them both difficult and financially burdensome.
Dornsife continued, "We are thrilled to finally be making progress with this important issue and grateful to all lawmakers who stepped up. If we don't have fully enrolled clinical trials with a diverse pool of patients, life-sustaining treatments are not possible. Clinical trials are the pathway to new treatments. But when you have only 3% of cancer patients enrolling in clinical trials and about 50% of clinical trials failing because they can't enroll enough patients, the pathway is blocked. That's why Lazarex raised this issue at the federal and state levels."
Lazarex is the only non-profit in the United States that assists patients with finding clinical trials and reimburses them for the out of pocket travel costs involved in getting to those clinical trials. In its 11 years, Lazarex has financially assisted more than 3,500 patients in clinical trials. Earlier this year, at the urging of Congress working with Lazarex, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed its official guidance, issuing new language allowing pharmaceutical companies to reimburse patients for travel costs to get to clinical trials, although not all trial sponsors do this.
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Faculty Position in Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics
University of California Irvine Henry Samueli School of Engineering
EECS Faculty Search in Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics
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Henry Samueli School of Engineering - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Position.
Areas include, but are not limited to nanophotonics, optoelectronics, and physical nanoelectronics. Optoelectronics and nano-optics find applications in ultrawide band communications, solar cells, sensors, nanofabrication, nanolithography, high density optical data storage, advanced microscopy and spectroscopy, medical diagnostics, medical therapies. Physical electronics finds applications in post-CMOS computing hardware architectures, including several areas of emerging research devices exploiting additional physical degrees of freedom beyond CMOS, including but not limited to magnetic, ferroelectric, quantum, molecular, and optical devices and circuits for memory and logic.
Applicants are expected to have a doctoral degree, at the time of hire, in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field from an accredited university. Successful candidates will be innovative leaders that can develop a vigorous externally funded research program, maintain a strong publication record, advise students, and provide outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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***WARNING: This article may contain spoilers, so read it at your own risk. Thank you.
The premise of this movie is centered on the fact that many seniors look forward to prom with high expectations. It is about a group of teens who feel the pressure of looking for prom dates and taking on the responsibility of planning prom. I wasn’t going to include this movie on the list, but it is quite literally called Prom. I wouldn’t necessarily call this one a classic, but it has its perks. It shows the unexpected turns that come with having prom and how even though the night might not be the way one expects, it can still turn out to be a great time.
This movie is definitely a classic. I’m only going to summarize it for the purpose of the article, but if you haven’t watched it, do so before you take your next breath. Mean Girls follows Cady Heron’s transformation from being homeschooled to her life at public school where drama explodes when she is accepted into the popular group. There’s so many layers to why this movie is good and the prom scene is just a plus. This movie showcases the road to prom like a masterpiece. *Spoiler* Regina George’s elegantly decorated back brace is also great inspiration for anyone going to prom with a back brace.
I am slightly biased because this movie has both Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon Levitt (whom are some of my favorite actors), but 10 Things I Hate About You is an amazing classic tale of smart girl falls for the bad boy. Between Patrick Verona’s (Ledger) grand romantic gestures, Kat Stratford’s (Stiles) emotional poem scene, and Cameron James’s (Levitt) adorable crush on Bianca Stratford (Oleynik), this movie will have you choking back your tears.
The dance scene in this movie wasn’t exactly set at prom (it was actually homecoming), but it was moving enough to be included on this list. This movie is centered on, Charlie, a boy who lets life go by until he befriends Sam and Patrick who show him the ropes of high school and the exciting little things that come with it. The dance scene showcases Charlie’s character growth as he gets out of his shell to step on the dance floor with Sam and Patrick. It only gets better by the fact that Dexy’s Midnight Runners’s “Come on Eileen” is the song the trio dances together to.
Like 10 Things I Hate About You, this movie will make you question what you’d wear to prom if it were the 90s. Although the premise is a bit cringeworthy (a boy makes a bet to change the nerdy girl into a prom queen and the nerdy girl is no longer nerdy just because she takes off her glasses *sigh*), the movie is quite humorous as well as cute. After watching this movie, you’ll dream of choreographed dances at prom and you won’t be able to stop listening to the song “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer.
Another classic! This John Hughes film dives into the the separation of the rich and poor. The protagonist, Andy, fights the need to conform to the common belief that the rich and poor can’t hang out together when she falls for a rich boy named Blane. The prom scene in this movie is so sweet; it will make you want to have a best friend like Ducky, who is there for Andy when she is on the verge of going to prom alone. It’ll also leave you requesting the catchy song “If You Leave” (by the Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) at prom.
Carrie is great for anyone who would rather watch a horror movie and whether you should watch the original or the remake, depends on how scared you get. (The original is far creepier.) In this movie, Carrie White is bullied and it continues on the night of prom when some of the popular kids don’t approve of her date. It teaches a valuable lesson: prom isn’t for everyone.
Grease is about a conflicting romance between a kind new girl named Sandy and a leather jacket wearing bad boy named Danny Zuko. The dance scene in Grease is by far one of the most fun because the characters have fun outfits and actually know how to do all types of dances. Watching this movie will give you great inspiration for dance movies, so you can become the next Cha Cha at prom.
The cinematic masterpiece known as Napoleon Dynamite is about an awkward teen that decides to help his friend run for class president. The prom scene in this movie is the best from this whole list as it is probably the closest to conveying a realistic depiction of prom night. *Spoiler* Although it is crushing to see Pedro get friendzoned, Deb and Napoleon’s not so close slow dance is far more touching than expected.
This film is the most recent one on this list, but it has managed to capture the same strong emotions as many of the classics. Lady Bird is about a senior in high school who is juggling to take on adulthood while keeping a healthy relationship with her mother. *Spoiler* The prom scene is very touching and is a great example of how sometimes it is best to end up taking your best friend to prom instead of a date. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-24T15:46:09Z', 'url': 'https://aviatornews.org/9672/a-e/10-movies-to-watch-in-preparation-for-prom/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
Creative Commons licences are useful but oversold
by Noric Dilanchian | 02/01/2008 | Intellectual Property Protection, Copyright Law
Creative Commons is a popular movement feeding on a populist “anti-copyright monopolists” zeitgeist growing in recent decades, particularly among academics, hackers and the digerati.
The reception given to Creative Commons has been so positive and widespread that it has obscured the fact that it is the right solution some of the time; it is not all of the solution for all people all of the time. It is useful for solving a range of needs of copyright creators, licensors, and users. It adds to and is supported by traditional copyright law and practices. It does not replace them. This article uses the word “traditional” to distinguish approaches to copyright licensing which pre-date Creative Commons.
This article is a critique in praise of Creative Commons. It is structured around three observations regarding limitations or limiting design features in Creative Commons licences. To maintain focus, examples are only drawn from the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence. Many comments also apply to the five other Creative Commons licences available in Australia.
If you believe a Creative Commons licence is a simple and effective solution for copyright licensing needs, then you need to know more. If you earn part of your living from copyright you definitely should be aware of legal risks and issues with Creative Commons licences relative to traditional alternatives.
Before launching into a critique we’ll briefly put Creative Commons into context for readers unfamiliar with it.
Overview of Creative Commons
Lawrence Lessig founded the Creative Commons not-for-profit corporation in 2001 (www.creativecommons.org), and he has been the leading voice in the broad church of the Creative Commons organisation or movement.
The formation of Creative Commons parallels Lessig’s involvement in the US Supreme Court 2003 copyright decision of Eldred v. Ashcroft as discussed in Lessig’s book, Free Culture [PDF]. Lessig’s side lost that case. This decision has been discussed by Australian author, Matthew Rimmer – see the referenced article.
Since December 2002 Creative Commons has released several licences labelled “Legal Code” for users of Creative Commons licences, ie contracts relating to copyright work.
Creative Commons licences are designed for creative works such as websites, music, film, photography, literature and courseware. Their bias is towards open access and expanding the “public domain”. As used in the copyright context, the public domain is a category description for the legal place where copyright works go when copyright expires in those works. In common speech we say for example, “the works of Shakespeare are in the public domain”.
By mid-2007 jurisdiction-specific Creative Commons licences were currently available in 34 different jurisdictions worldwide (see map below). Nine others were under development.
The Australian affiliate has its web presence at http://creativecommons.org.au. Catherine Bond, a PHD legal student at the University of NSW in a referenced 2007 paper put the six types of available Australian Creative Commons licences within the context of non-statutory public rights licences: “There are six Australian CC licences: Attribution, Attribution-NonCommercial, Attribution-NoDerivatives, Attribution-ShareAlike, AttributionNon-Commercial-ShareAlike and Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives. Each licence is available in three formats: a ‘Commons Deed’, described as a ‘human-readable format’ that is comprised of the main features of the licence but has no legal force; the Legal Code, which contains the full licence and is ‘lawyer-readable’; and the Digital Code, that is ‘machine readable’ and attached to the work by the licensor upon licensing the work. There are no fees payable.” (emphasis ours)
Like the earlier GNU General Public Licence, a benefit of the Creative Commons licences is that their provisions are standardised, in this context meaning that they are typically not offered for negotiation. Instead they are offered on a take it or leave it basis. Partly due to this, their terms are available or ascertainable at the outset. In this way they are akin to online contracts known in legal jargon as click wrap agreements.
These benefits contrast with what is usually the case in traditional copyright licensing. In the traditional model, those who wish to use a copyright work must first obtain permission, consent or a licence. This involves finding who to communicate to, finding contact details and then preparing and sending a message. After the message is received there is usually an exchange of information between the applicant and the owner, or between their representatives. This concludes in a negotiation, a deal and usually a contract between the claimed copyright owner (licensor) and the prospective copyright user (licensee).
The Creative Commons collection of licences allows people to reserve none or some of the rights under copyright law. They have an open access bias. In contrast the design of traditional copyright permissions, consents and licences usually has a narrower range of rights granted to users and a broader range of limitations, restrictions and prohibitions imposed on users.
As a neat summary, while “All Rights Reserved” notices are common in traditional copyright practice, Creative Commons instead uses a “Some Rights Reserved” notice.
We now turn to a critique of Creative Commons structured around three observations made in the headings below.
Observation 1: Designed to add a layer to traditional copyright knowledge
Creative Commons licences add a layer to the pre-existing legal environment of copyright law and practice. When interpretation is needed, readers of a Creative Commons licence must turn to traditional copyright law and practice. Clause 8f of the the Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence states the licence is “…governed by the laws in force in New South Wales, Australia” hence the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and common law relating to it will apply.
The layer that Creative Commons adds to the pre-existing legal environment of copyright law and practice broadly emerges from the open source movement in software creation and licensing (ie licensing of open source software) that began in the 1980s in the United States. Mapping Creative Commons across to that movement helps us to better appreciate the core reason for being and bias of Creative Commons.
In the mid-1980s the non-profit Free Software Foundation sought a solution for licensing code that was comprised entirely of free software.
One of those items of software was a computer operating system named GNU.
Creative Commons gained its inspiration from the the Open Publication License used for GNU. The License is now largely defunct and is substituted by the General Free Documentation License (GFDL).
The GFDL was intended mainly as a licence for software documentation, but is also in active use by non-software projects such as Wikipedia.
The approach taken to derivative works in the the Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence illustrates both what Creative Commons gained from such roots and the questionable approach Creative Commons takes to derivative works. In open source software licensing, copying programming code is fundamental to achieve interoperability between software programs and the largely utilitarian purposes of most software.
In contrast to software programming code, artistic, informational or educational content is typically not utilitarian and the notion of interoperability is generally redundant. This means that with such content there is a much lower need than there is with software to have a right to make a derivative work, eg make an adaptation. (Some would debate this, drawing on the fact that fair use and fair dealing provisions in copyright legislation could be a lot more permissive and helpful for users, especially in a Web 2.0 world.) It is surprising then that clause 3b of the Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence mimics open source software licensing provisions. Its extremely broad grant of rights to make derivative works states: “…a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual … licence … to create and reproduce Derivative Works”. In practical terms, in using the Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence, and subject to its moral rights provisions, an author of a short story permits adaptation of it into a play or film script, a photographer permits adaptation of it in a multimedia work, and a composer of music permits use of a full piece as a soundtrack.
There are other ways that Creative Commons licences break out of conventional or traditional thinking. Creative Commons licences take elements of traditional copyright law and practice, particularly provisions (ie terms and other clauses) for granting or restricting use of copyright material, and then add some novel elements. The novel elements include use of:
Symbols as shorthand reference to terms of use.
Three formats to communicate licence terms – the Commons Deed, Legal Code and Digital Code. These collectively help communicate the terms of a Creative Commons licence for a specific work. The theory is that, for example, those with a low level of understanding will more readily appreciate the Creative Commons symbols; while those in search of technical legal specifics can read the Commons Deed and Legal Code.
Trans-jurisdictional standardisation, including as regards licensing symbols and text.
The rapid takeup of Creative Commons is evidence supporting the proposition that these symbols, formats and globalisation of licensing terms are clever and useful. They build a layer onto non-statutory open public rights licences and traditional copyright law and practice.
There has been criticism in Australia as regards the Creative Commons symbols and licences. It has been said the symbols can confuse. Comments have been made regarding the general inflexibility of the licences. For example see here. Authors and critics who have spent considerable years understanding and practising traditional copyright law and practice need to be cautious in making observations based on experience. Experience can carry with it hidden and unhelpful bias in favour of entrenched or traditional models and antagonism against a new approach, such as is presented by Creative Commons licences.
Observation 2: Designed for those who don’t live off copyright remuneration
Observation 2 expands the critique of Creative Commons licensing terms.
The reception for Creative Commons licences has been especially positive in the blogosphere. This is understandable. The dominant model for blogs has been to build credibility or eyeballs and to either share thoughts and creations in blogs free of charge or monetarise them with advertising or via promotion and sale of services (eg consulting services) or demonstrated competency in niche fields (eg specific industry data and analysis)).
Illustrating the point, speaking on Radio National on 20 November 2007, Jessica Coats (Project Manager, Creative Commons Clinic, Queensland University of Technology) succinctly put the case for Creative Commons for individuals and organisations on the web:
If you wanted to take full advantage of the internet to make your material available, and as a publicity and distribution resource, then basically putting your material up on one website and locking it on that website, using copyright law, isn’t the most effective way to do that, and people are gradually realising this and realising that by being a bit more flexible with their copyright management, they can often get much larger returns back.
Let’s put this another way. Social networking, Web 2.0 sites and blogs provide opportunity for many copyright creators uninterested in business models, ie a commercial approach that involves using tight legal controls to earn revenues specifically from copyright licensing, whether online or offline.
A factor in helping to rapidly popularise and indeed commercialise Creative Commons has been that it was born just as an exponentially growing, global and new Web 2.0 user base or audience or market emerged in around 2003 onwards with a perception that Creative Commons licences served it’s need to share or license content-based copyright material (ie not software).
Nitty gritty elements of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence illustrate our point about bias.
Creative Commons licenses say nothing about remuneration and they are irrevocable, grant rights worldwide and for the full term of copyright. What is “commercial” or “non-commercial” is perhaps under-defined.
“High-level licence attributes” are listed in clause 1h of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence: “…Attribution, NonCommercial, NoDerivatives, ShareAlike.” They are high level in the context of what might be described as the Creative Commons ideology and certainly for many in its audience. For example, the career advancement of academics is often based on the publishing of papers credited to them (ie attribution) in circumstances where the academics and their institutional employers do not expect a publishing fee, royalty or other remuneration specifically from copyright licensing (ie non-commercial). Consistent with this, absent from the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence are provisions setting out royalties, fees or advances, a limited copyright duration or a myriad of other restrictive rights granted provisions found regularly in traditional copyright licensing contracts. When it comes to copyright licensing, it appears academics and Creative Commons typically favour provisions which promote replication rather than remuneration.
For copyright users seeking to use copyright material to build financially remunerative arrangements there are huge limitations in Creative Commons licences relative to use of types of licence available in traditional copyright law and practice. Such users would gain little or no comfort from the lack of contractual warranties. In the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence, clause 5 disclaims warranties and clause 6 limits them.
Only a very clever or rare operator, or one as big and powerful as Google or its YouTube arm, could succeed commercially in such conditions. Prudent, cautious or conservative investors, lenders and collaborators are likely to seek the security of warranties and indemnities before working with an individual, organisation or company which seeks to build a commercial enterprise founded on copyright materials licensed under Creative Commons. In fact there are examples of such clever, rare or big operators. Two discussed below are Revver and Flickr.
Given these key design elements of Creative Commons licences, it is potentially misleading for the Things to Think About page of Creative Commons to have such a brief overview, for example discussing the irrevocable feature of the licences.
Having to grant copyright rights worldwide, means that a licensor can’t distinguish users by territory or geography. To keep things simple and to maintain the bias towards open access, Creative Commons licences are designed to to not distinguish or discriminate between different users to a finite degree (as is possible with situation-specific, transaction-specific or other types of customised traditional copyright licences). For example, to give financially limited users free access but to apply a scale of fees for those with money. Some scope for variation is preserved as against future users by the following in clause 7b of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence: “…Licensor reserves the right to release the Work under different licence terms or to stop distributing the Work at any time…”.
These limitations can be overcome by using traditional copyright licences and practices instead of a Creative Commons licence. They can’t be used in addition to a Creative Commons licence, clause 8e of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence contains this sentence: “This Licence constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Work licensed here.” (Emphasis ours)
In the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence, the rights granted paragraph (clause 3) grants “worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual…” rights. Also, Creative Commons licences expressly prevent works being made subject to Technical Protection Measures, or technological protection measures as they are defined in Australia’s Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
These provisions and others fit with the design bias of Creative Commons licences. Creative Commons licences can suit:
Hobbyists who envisage that one day they might make a living from their copyright work, but for now can’t justify paying for legal advice, legal negotiations and customised licence contract drafting.
Academics and educational institutions if and when they use the model of publishing openly to build knowledge, their reputations or other causes which are not directly commercial.
Individuals and some commercial organisations to build an audience or market presence while making public or licensing out software, photographs, articles, videos, paintings and other copyright works.
This is illustrated by Revver, a US-based video aggregater, like YouTube. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted videos and shares all ad revenue 50/50 with the creators after paying 20% off the top for video distributors (sites that embed the video become distributors). Revver’s upload licence allows for redistribution under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Creative Commons Licence. In September 2007 Revver announced that in its first 12 months of operation it had paid US$1 million to those who uploaded material.
It is also illustrated by Yahoo’s photo-sharing site, Flickr. Flickr currently hosts more than 55 million images under Creative Commons licences.
Observation 3: Designed to be simple, not suitable for all
Creative Commons is a useful innovation with limitations in many cases and circumstances. Those limitations are partly a consequence of considerations covered in Observation 1.
Creative Commons seeks to create an easily understood set of rules for people to give and access works which would otherwise be the subject of copyright on its own or copyright in combination with a privately negotiated contract. While it is not always the case, generally Creative Commons suits little guys.
It has been claimed that promoters of Creative Commons are supporters for modern day digital gleaners. This makes a jump cut in imagery from agricultural age gleaners to information age gleaners (pictured right is François Millet famous 1857 painting, The Gleaners). The claim is insightful but ultimately unfair given what is being built at Flickr and in educational institutions using Creative Commons licences.
Creative Commons aims to help share open content by clarifying or simplifying permissions, prohibitions and requirements. These types of terms are also found in traditional copyright law and practice licences. They are licensing terms with a high degree of practical impact. They vary a great deal in wording between licences (though it should be noted that there are very few provisions in traditional licences which could be fairly said to be highly standardised across types of content, types of industries or countries). They are also complex for those with little or no legal know-how or training. Their effect is that:
Permissions are granted as regards, for eg, reproduction, distribution and derivative works.
Prohibitions are imposed to prohibit, for eg, the licensee making commercial use of a work.
Requirements are stipulated, for eg, for the provision of copyright notices and credits.
A design rationale for Creative Commons is to standardise copyright and contract paperwork and thus reduce the need for people skilled in legal thinking to interpret them. As discussed, it does this for permissions, prohibitions and requirements (many are contained in the lengthy clause 4 of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence).
A significant and positive consequence of such standardisation is that a Creative Commons licence (for situations where it is suitable or appropriate) can reduce transaction costs compared to traditional copyright practice.
For example, before using a part of a copyright work, traditional copyright law and practice requires that you obtain the owner’s copyright permission or consent.
In traditional copyright law and practice there are considerable transaction costs. There is no mandatory model wording for copyright permissions and consents. Similarly, there is no mandatory model wording for copyright licences. Copyright paperwork is therefore highly variable and flexible. It has been used for maybe 150 years or more in Australia, and certainly in England and the United States, to produce customised legal documents rewarding the creators of copyright works and downstream beneficiaries including publishers, distributors and users.
Creative Commons provides a useful additional layer to contract and traditional copyright law and practice. It can benefit little guys. It is not a stand alone solution for all issues, situations and players.
Given the remarkable growth of Creative Commons, its ideology and licences are obviously enticing. If you consider using them you need to be clear on what you are giving away, what is not covered, what remains unclear and how your legal position may be affected in the future, particularly with down-stream collaborators such as publishers, distributors, investors and other collaborators seeking to derive commercial value by regulating the availability of copyright works.
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (Penguin, New York, 2004) (also available digitally at http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf ).
Rimmer, Matthew. “The Dead Poets Society: The Copyright Term and The Public Domain”, First Monday, June 2003, Vol. 8, No. 6<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_6/rimmer/>
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Posted Tuesday, March 6th 2018 @AdamBakerBCFC
Flint and Bryan handed suspensions
Tuesday, March 6th 2018
Aden Flint and Joe Bryan will be serving suspensions in the aftermath of City's 2-1 defeat at Preston North End.
Flint was shown a straight red card after an altercation with former left-back Greg Cunningham.
Dismissals for violent conduct trigger an instant three-match ban, meaning Flint will be absent for forthcoming fixtures with Burton Albion, Ipswich Town and Barnsley.
Bryan will also miss clashes with Burton and Ipswich after picking up his tenth caution of the season - which carries a two-game suspension.
Assistant head coach Dean Holden told BCTV: "Flinty has gone to ground and it could have been a penalty.
"Then one of their lads (Cunningham) has run his hand across Flinty's face; he's reacted.
"No matter what the provocation is, if you lift your hands you're going to get a red card."
He added: "Joe's gone for the ball. It was an honest attempt to get the ball and I actually thought he got something on it."
The absence of Flint and Bryan heightens the need for Nathan Baker to recover from a groin issue which has sidelined him for the last two games.
Holden added: "Bakes failed a fitness test on Saturday and he didn't travel [to Preston].
"We'll get back to Bristol and assess him tomorrow. We've got Lloydy (Kelly) and Maggy (Hordur Magnusson) who can both play that position as well.
"The squad is going to be needed. We've said for weeks about the lads coming back from injury and the players on the periphery - they need to step in now."
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Del Toro Sells Out to Disney
By Dustin Rowles | Industry | July 22, 2010 |
Guillermo Del Toro, who has had the fanboys wrapped around his finger since The Devil’s Backbone and was set to direct The Hobbit up until a few weeks ago, has decided: “Fuck the fanboys; I’m taking the cash.”
Del Toro announced after the TR0N panel at Comic-Con today that he’d be remaking the movie based on the Disney ride. It was last made by Eddie Murphy in 2003. The results were disastrous.
But don’t worry, del Toro insisted that his version would be scary, and would focus on The Hatbox Ghost. We want this to be “the haunted house movie that a generation remembers and loves,” he added, according to The Washington Post. Talking to THR, he also said that The Haunted Mansion “would be a thrill ride for the whole family.”
It didn’t take long for del Toro to pick up the Disney talking points. What a sham and a half. This is what del Toro has been teasing would be the big announcement at Comic-con this year?
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Vardetangen is a point in Austrheim Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. This place is notable in that it is the westernmost mainland point in Norway proper. The point is located on the mainland Lindås peninsula, jutting out into the Fensfjorden. It is located about west of the Mongstad industrial area.
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Discussion in 'Internet Security' started by chris, Jul 11, 2018.
Thought this proof of concept was worth sharing since a lot of people rely on Incognito/Private Browsing. Here's a good example of how private browsing can be tracked via fingerprinting.
Nothing Private uses the browser fingerprinting feature of Client.js to obtain the fingerprint of your web browser. When you submit the form, this fingerprint is saved, along with your name in an SQLite database using PHP as a backend. The next time you visit the website your browser fingerprint is matched with the column in the database and your name is returned. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-20T18:59:31Z', 'url': 'https://www.dntrade.com.au/threads/are-you-anonymous-example-of-browser-fingerprinting.12024/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
These new credit cards make a great travel buddy thanks to no currency conversion fees.
If you frequently travel abroad or purchase items from foreign retailers, you’ll be happy to learn there are now credit cards that don’t charge you the pesky currency conversion fee. Most cards charge you 2.5% on top of the currency conversion rate on foreign purchases, but earlier this year Chase introduced a line of cards to Canada that convert currency for free. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-26T05:44:53Z', 'url': 'https://www.moneysense.ca/spend/shopping/ditch-currency-conversion-fees/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
3 mph is my target. That's with cranks that will handle that speed. Bomber Model A B02,B04, Bandit 100 series,200 series,and Flickershads in the 5cm and 6 cm.
With the action of the dinks and snags,you may wanna hold off on the planerboards. Dink action was so hot,2 of us can't even handle 2 rods,let alone 3 or more.Now after the coldfront,the dinks are still in a frenzy but it's a 20:1 Dink to keeper ratio.
Just downsize from erie. Half the yardage of line released and keep the cranks as close to the bottom as you can. I've caught them with as little as 32' out. Don't take much line released to catch saugeye.
Time of day doesn't matter. Usually sunrise to 9 a.m.is my best time.When they're in a frenzy like last weekend,didn't matter what time of day. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-19T13:22:21Z', 'url': 'http://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?action=read&id=1431631643.41752&user=wwweinc&page=7', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
Claire is experienced in mid to high-end residential projects, working on concept design through to documentation.
Passionate about being involved in providing good spatial design and design aesthetic to the growing Auckland population.
Completed her BArch in 2009 from the University of Auckland.
In her free time Claire enjoys painting, as well as playing squash. She grew up in South Africa, but moved to Auckland 14 years ago. She enjoys the diversity that Auckland city has to offer, as well as the proximity to amazing outdoor spaces to explore. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-21T16:55:37Z', 'url': 'https://construkt.nz/staff/claire-simpson/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
After a hiatus that has lasted nearly three years, Tullycraft has begun the process of recording a new album. It’s been a long time since we’ve recorded a record, so we’re currently trying to remember how to do it. More details will follow as the process moves forward. Thanks for listening!
Tweet of the Day In the studio!
Can’t even tell you how excited I am!!! This will no doubt be worth the wait. More fun in the sun and more ridiculous pop culture references please!
Also, bring back mp3 of the day, pals!
The Brilliantly Happy and Fun band who I totally, like, ♥, Tullycraft, have announced they are recording a new album. This is brilliant news. Hurrah!
This is great news!! Thank you Tullycraft! I agree with Robin, please bring back the mp3 of the day. I used to love reading the daily blog. Things just aren’t the same without it. | {'timestamp': '2019-04-25T22:18:45Z', 'url': 'https://tullycraft.com/2012/06/01/were-in-the-studio/', 'language': 'en', 'source': 'c4'} |
Powerball ist eine amerikanische Lotterie, die 1987 durch die Gründung der Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) ins Leben gerufen wurde. Die Multi-State Lottery Association ist eine Non-Profit-Organisation, die von den verschiedenen US-amerikanischen Lotterien gebildet wurde. Die MUSL koordiniert die Powerball-Lotterie für die teilnehmenden Staaten der Vereinigten Staaten (USA). Inzwischen sind die Staatslotterien von 44 US-Bundesstaaten, dem Hauptstadtgebiet Washington D.C. sowie den Gebieten Puerto Rico und Amerikanische Jungferninseln daran beteiligt und bieten gemeinsam einen der größten Jackpots weltweit an. Der minimale Jackpot liegt bei 40 Millionen US-Dollar ($). Wie in den USA üblich, gibt es die Option, sich den Gewinn in mehreren Tranchen auszahlen zu lassen.
Geschichte von Powerball
Die erste richtige Powerball-Ziehung fand am 22. April 1992 statt. Zu dieser Zeit war der minimale Jackpot noch bei 2 Millionen $. Ab dem 5. November 1997 wurde die minimale Jackpothöhe auf 10, am 31. August 2005 nochmals auf 15 Millionen US-Dollar erhöht. 4 Jahre später, ab dem 7. Januar 2009, starteten Jackpots bei 20 Millionen US-Dollar, die letzte Erhöhung fand am 8. Januar 2012 statt auf 40 Millionen US-Dollar statt. Bevor am 7. Oktober 2015 von 5 aus 59 und 1 aus 35 auf 5 aus 69 und 1 aus 26 umgestellt wurde, lag die Gewinnwahrscheinlichkeit auf den Jackpot bei Powerball bei rund 1:175,2 Millionen, seitdem bei 1:292,2 Millionen.
Spielprinzip bei Powerball
Das Spielprinzip bei Powerball ist folgendermaßen: Es müssen 5 Zahlen aus 69 ausgewählt werden und zusätzlich eine weitere Zahl aus 26.
Jackpots starten in der Powerball-Lotterie aktuell bei 40 Millionen Dollar. Wenn der Jackpot nicht geknackt wird, erhöht sich der Jackpot der nächsten Ziehung um mindestens 10 Millionen. Wenn es mehr als einen Gewinner mit den richtigen Gewinnzahlen gibt, wird der Gewinn zu gleichen Teilen aufgeteilt.
Die Ausschüttung des Gewinns kann als Einmalzahlung („lump sum“) oder Ratenzahlung erfolgen. Ein Lotteriegewinner muss sich innerhalb von 60 Tagen für eine der beiden Optionen entscheiden. Die Gewinnsumme ist als Einmalzahlung geringer als die Ratenzahlung, dafür wird sofort die komplette Summe ausgezahlt. Die Ratenzahlung unterteilt die Gewinnsumme in 30 Raten, die jährlich ausgezahlt werden.
Der Lotteriegewinn ist steuerpflichtig. Die Steuern, die auf den Lottogewinn gezahlt werden müssen, sind abhängig davon, wo der Gewinner seinen Wohnsitz hat. Es müssen zwei Arten an Steuern abgeführt werden, eine nationale und eine bundesstaatliche Steuer. Dabei richtet sich die Höhe der zweiten Steuer nach dem jeweiligen Bundesstaat, in dem der Gewinner wohnt. Im Weiteren wird noch zwischen US-Bürgern und Nicht-US-Bürgern unterschieden. Wer keine US-Staatsbürgerschaft hat, muss mehr Steuern zahlen: Amerikanische Bürger zahlen 25 % und ausländische Bürger 30 % an nationaler Steuer auf einen Lottogewinn.
Die Powerball-Ziehungen finden montags, mittwochs und samstags um 22:59 (Eastern Time) statt. Jeder Tipp kostet 2 $ oder mit der 2001 eingeführten Power Play Option 3 $.
Die Gewinnwahrscheinlichkeit auf den Jackpot bei Powerball liegt seit Oktober 2015 bei rund 1:292,2 Millionen.
Das gleiche Spielprinzip verwendet auch die Lotterie Mega Millions, die aber eine andere Konzeption hinsichtlich Spieleinsatz, Startjackpot und der Spielformel 5 plus 1 hat.
Gewinne bei Powerball
Der kleinste Jackpot bei Powerball ist 40 Millionen $. Anfang 2016 überschritt der Jackpot die bisherige Höchstmarke von 590 Millionen $ und wurde mit rund 1,5 Milliarden $ für den 13. Januar 2016 erstmals zehnstellig.
Die höchsten Gewinne bei Powerball:
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One of the main reasons I love my job is because I am able to see the rich education that our children are receiving. I decided to do a new series of blogs posts in order to share with you what I see on a daily basis: I'm fortunate enough to be able to go into the classrooms and see what our students are learning and how engaged they are with their teachers. The focus of my series is to give you insight into the everyday moments at ISTP. At first glance, it may seem so simple… an art project, a book report, a math lesson… but within these simple, everyday moments, you'll get a glimpse as to what makes ISTP so special and why our students are happy and enjoy learning at ISTP.
Quite honestly, I don’t remember what I studied in history when I was in 6th grade. Although, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t to the breadth and depth to what our 6th grade Chinese students are covering.
Last week I peeked into Huo Lao Shi’s 6th grade Chinese Humanities class. ISTP’s middle school is structured in a similar manner to other middle schools. Students attend classes based on subjects and their teacher changes depending on the subject matter. Specifically for our Chinese program students, they will take four courses in Chinese – language arts, humanities (focusing on China), art, and music. In addition to these courses, they take additional courses in English ranging from math, science, English language arts, humanities (World History) and physical education.
In the video clip above, Huo Lao Shi is discussing Ancient Chinese history. She started the school year by discussing the origin on humans and guided her students through discussions regarding the various eras. For example, man discovering fire and then learning how to make clothes and farm his own food. In my brief time with Huo Lao Shi and her students, they were discussing what life was like 6000 years ago in Ancient China. In particular, they were discussing the types of pottery they made, and one student questioned how they were able to get brown shades in their pottery. Thereafter, they moved on to a discussion bout how Ancient Chinese honored their loved ones after they passed. Similar to Ancient Egyptians, they buried their loved ones with objects from their lives, duly noting that they were not just jewels or treasures.
After I left the classroom, I unfortunately missed Huo Lao Shi discussing how archeologists discovered that some people had more objects buried with them than others. The students were asked to consider various reasons why this happened and they concluded that the buried individuals were probably wealthier than the others. Huo Lao Shi challenged the children to think a bit deeper and asked them how, even back in ancient China, some individuals or families could be wealthier than others and asked what they could have that others did not. It was concluded by the students, which was the ultimate objective of that day's lesson, that due to agriculture, the ones who could grow food were considered richer than the ones who could not. This lesson was so exciting and engaging that I was disappointed that I couldn’t stay to tape that portion of the class, as that is when the “interesting” debate between the students took place.
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Fitbit and Wearable Tech Make Their Debut in Court
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Technology does not usually find its way into the courtroom as quickly as it catches on with the general public. But as social media activity, such as posts on Facebook, has become a growing force in day-to-day culture, it is beginning to appear in court as evidence.
Now, a new player has entered the game: wearables. Currently, evidence garnered from such devices is infrequently used in courts. That is about to change with the increased popularity of wearable technology, which tracks and stores a variety of data about the daily activities of the wearer.
Wearable technology has been in use for many years in industries like fitness and health care. Devices allow doctors to track health data and athletes to monitor efficiency and performance.
The use of gadgets like smartwatches and the Fitbit Flex began increasing among mainstream, non-professional users in 2013, and by 2014, one in five American adults owned some sort of wearable device, according to the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Wearable Future Report.
The Fitbit and other wearables monitor data like activity levels, sleep patterns, heart rate, blood pressure, diet, exercise and number of calories burned. Some devices are capable of following a user's location throughout the day using GPS technology. Even without the onboard presence of a GPS, daily vitals can easily be tracked.
Wearable technologies paired with cloud storage ensure there is always an e-trail that provides information on what the wearer was doing on any given day. This can be helpful for people trying to stick to an exercise routine or decrease calorie intake. But the technology also provides a potential wealth of data for insurance companies looking to dispute a claim.
Currently, wearable data is most often used as evidence in criminal or personal injury cases. In a criminal case a defense attorney is needed to protect the accused’s rights and prove his or her innocence. A personal injury lawyer goes to bat for an injured client who wishes to recover compensation for injuries. The potential for acquiring either accurate or flawed data provided by wearables remains the same in both scenarios.
In a personal injury case, there is a need to show that an individual injured in a car crash or other accident can no longer perform his or her job, or that his or her life has been changed in a significant way. Often, personal injury attorneys must prove that their client can no longer enjoy the level of activity they once did, indicating that their injuries seriously impact their life. Proving a reduction or cessation in activity after an accident can lead to the award of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in compensation.
In a criminal case, the accused must defend him or herself against charges. Defense attorneys are beginning to use the black box data generated by such devices on behalf of their clients. However, a prosecutor could also be using the same data in an attempt to prove the accused did commit the crime. Is the e-device data being presented by either side foolproof?
The smart technology may not be as smart as one would like to think. Miller Leonard, Esq., a criminal defense attorney in Denver, Colorado, says that to challenge such evidence “I would need to hire an expert to make sure that I understood how the tracking information was gathered. As a starting point, you cannot assume that the information is accurate, or that there are not other explanations.”
A criminal defense attorney would also check to see if any propriety software is used to power the device as an effort to build a case to refuting such data. If that were the case, the court would be asked to order production of the software for the expert to evaluate. “Furthermore,” said Leonard, “if the device in question uses GPS — and many do — I would want to hire a GPS expert to tell me the limitations of such information.” Often, the government may have one version of how technology works that may or may not be accurate, or that may not be the accepted practice within the wearables industry.
A key point for the defense is to hire a consulting expert to first explain how the technology works, and then to determine how to use this information to attack the technology. The same protocol is applicable in personal injury cases. The attorney needs to thoroughly understand the technology and its limitations in order to prove a client does deserve compensation.
Currently, the courts typically use doctor evaluations of victims’ medical conditions as evidence in personal injury cases. While a qualified medical opinion tends to carry weight in court, the expert medical witness may have his or her personal bias or be inaccurate. Using fitness trackers may change the way a personal injury or a criminal defense case is put together.
The first personal injury case using tracking data was launched by a Calgary, Alberta, law firm, McLeod Law, in 2014. In that case, a personal fitness trainer was injured in an accident in 2010. Fitbits were not on the market then, but her occupation clearly showed her as being an active, fit individual.
Enter Fitbit and the wealth of hard data it offers attorneys. The firm processed the data from the plaintiff’s Fitbit to show her activity levels had dropped significantly from her usual level of activity given her profession and young age. In other words, the data provided corroborated the plaintiff’s assertions that the accident affected her ability to maintain the lifestyle she once did.
Other attorneys have weighed in on the use of such data, such as James McManis and William Faulkner, based in San Jose, California, who suggest that “data generated by the plaintiff’s wearable device may be discovered in litigation and, as a result, completely discredit [the] plaintiff’s case for damages resulting from the accident.”
For example, such use of data could apply to the case of a very fit, active plaintiff who ran every day who was involved in a car accident, and who claims the injuries sustained meant he or she can no longer run. If the wearable tracking device shows that the same plaintiff has been running several miles daily since the date of the accident, his or her claim may be deemed false. On the other hand, if the device showed the plaintiff no longer ran after the accident, such claims would be validated.
Consider a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, rape case in which the plaintiff’s Fitbit information was utilized to prove her sexual assault claims were false. The plaintiff claimed she was asleep when the defendant broke into her house, attacking her. Her Fitbit data revealed she had spent most of the evening walking around her house and was wide-awake. Police charged her with filing a false report.
The law has not always kept up with technology, but with the advent of devices that may offer proof of various assertions, the law will have to evolve. Fitbit is the tip of the evidentiary iceberg. With the Apple Watch now on the market, the types of evidence potentially collected has exploded to include, but not be limited to: phone calls, social media engagement, geolocation data, activity data, health information, payment history, texting history and much more. Suddenly George Orwell’s Big Brother scenario is beginning to look like a reality, not just a story in a book.
The wearables market offers a pool of information for users to track their lives and for those participating in a lawsuit in need of information to support their case or refute charges. Understandably, all technology has its limitations. A smart attorney takes the time to delve into those limitations to effectively and efficiently represent their client. Such information may even provide the leverage needed to win a case, or conversely, offer information that results in a loss.
Is using such personal, ostensibly private information an invasion of privacy? It is illegal? In a word: no, because data is just data. It is information relevant to a case and it does not matter where the data comes from, according to Mike Rhodes of San Francisco’s Cooley LLP. “There’s no intrinsic bar to admitting evidence from wearable tech devices,” Rhodes said. The key to a case involves authentication of all such data obtained from any wearable. The other side is being aware that technology can be defeated in many ways with enough persistence. Knowing the positive and negative sides of all wearable technology is another valuable tool in an attorney’s arsenal.
Kerrie Spencer
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On 1st October 1975, Field Marshal ldi Amin Dada received a raucous standing ovation for his poignantly honest and explosive speech to world leaders at the UN General Assembly (Verbatim):
"As a pure and proper son of Africa, who does not believe in any colonial and imperialist language, I shall address you in an African language (Luganda dialect) which will be interpreted to you through the good offices of the United Nations Secretariat.
I wish to pay tribute to our distinguished UN Secretary General, Mr. Kurt Waldheim, and his entire staff for the dynamism and dedication with which they have been executing their duties. The entire membership of the OAU is particularly satisfied with the manner in which the Secretary-General has executed his African assignments, especially in the field of decolonization and the problems of the racist minority regimes in southern Africa.
The thirtieth session of the General Assembly is being held at a time when developments in the world are moving fast. Imperialism is being resolutely driven back, and the peoples of the industrialized countries are showing fresh interest in the genuine development of the third world and in its fight for economic independence and construction. The OAU, of which I have the honour to be the current Chairman, wishes this session success in its deliberations, aimed not only at consolidating the political and economic independence and the construction of its members, but also at the cultural and moral development of peoples all over the world. We in Africa, and in Uganda in particular, are fully dedicated and committed to that end.
The agenda at this Assembly session is a long one. But it is not my intention to speak on it at length. Permit me, however, to address myself first, on behalf of the 46 States Members of the OAU, to the pertinent problems that are of greatest concern to the African continent in the context of this world body. At a later stage. I will also have a few points to make as President of the Republic of Uganda.
All over the globe, there continue to be hotbeds of crisis in the political, economic, social and cultural fields. Many countries have consequently been involved in one way or another in trying to find lasting solutions to those constant problems. The twelfth session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU at Kampala, the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima, and the seventh special session of the General Assembly held in this very Hall not very long ago, go a long way in demonstrating mankind's commitment to finding solutions to the problems that lie between it and the ideals and aspirations of the international community it is trying to achieve.
Permit me at this juncture to dwell particularly on the economic problems that for a long time have created bottlenecks in world development. The fact that the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order mapped out at the sixth special session of the General Assembly [resolution 3202 (S-Vl)], and has now clearly been enunciated by the Lima Conference and the seventh special session, is, in my view, highly significant. It is significant because the developed nations, I hope, are beginning to realize that economic co-operation of any kind with the developing countries must take place strictly on the basis of mutual benefit to both sides as well as respect for the national sovereignty of each State. These recent international meetings have furthered a positive trend towards the attainment of a realistic and just international economic order fair to all parties to it. For this progressive development, I wish to pay a special tribute to the United States authorities, especially the President and the Members of Congress who approved a change in the United States attitude and policy towards the third world and, consequently, made that position known to the world during the seventh special session of this Assembly.
Except for the southern tip of the African continent and isolated pockets here and there, the worldwide struggle for self-determination and political independence is almost over now. But the struggle for self-reliance continues. The present stage in this struggle is for economic independence without which, as it has rightly been stated, political freedom is meaningless.
All States Members of the OAU are vigorously waging battles for full economic control over their own affairs. Each State is following a method and a speed that is most suited to its national conditions. We in Uganda, having taken a short and revolutionary cut to economic independence, are now somewhat luckier than many of our sister States members of the OAU. Our experience, among many other things, has taught us that, if the more industrialized countries are genuinely serious about extending technical assistance to the developing countries, they should ensure that the experts they send· are dedicated and appreciative of the aspirations and determination of the third-world countries to be masters of their own economies.
These modern technical missionaries should not have that old colonial mentality of their predecessors who came out to Africa with the conviction that they were coming to work among second-rate human beings. The modern expatriates Africa now needs should come with the knowledge that they are employees, not employers; partners for peace, not preachers of political ideologies or builders of foreign empires. If this type of expatriate comes to Africa, and indeed goes to other parts of the third world, the cause of international peace and positive development will be served.
The efforts for economic independence by all States Members of this Organization are aimed at ensuring that mankind's gains in the future will be stable and significant and that the society that the new economic order aspires to create holds immense potentialities. We do not only want a world free of colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism and zionism but a world free of hunger, disease, ignorance and any form of tension arising from inequalities in social or regional development.
While there is positive co-operation among the nations of the third world, one regrets to note that co-operation between the third world and the industrialized nations still leaves a lot to be desired. Some
industrialized nations still cling to the outdated attitude whereby they unjustifiably depend for their prosperity on the exploitation of the natural resources of developing nations. It is our hope and prayer that this thirtieth session will go a long way in promoting economic co-operation among those who are prepared to respect each other's sovereignty and are willing and ready to co-operate on an equal basis.
Let me now touch on some basic political problems before this world body. Session after session this Assembly has spent long hours trying to find solutions to the problems of decolonization. Yet it is disheartening to note that, up to the present session, in this Organization which is the custodian of world peace and security there are still some countries which come to this Assembly to pay lip-service to the cause of liberty, democracy and justice while at the same time they continue the very malpractices condemned in this Hall.
I am glad to mention that, despite setbacks, events over the past year in the arena of decolonization have moved at a faster pace. I refer to the accession to independence of the three former Portuguese colonies, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe, and the former French Territory of Comoro, and their admission to the OAU at the twelfth session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government held at Kampala. I hail, on behalf of the OAU, their admission to the world body and I am convinced that their revolutionary zeal with which they fought for their independence will lead them to make a worthy contribution to the deliberations of this Organization. I should also take this opportunity to congratulate the people of the new State of Papua New Guinea on attaining their independence. Africa welcomes this newest State of the Pacific to the ranks of this world body.
At this point, it is fitting for me to pay Africa's compliments to the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement for their far-sightedness. As a result of their very progressive policies since they took over power last year, Portugal is now in the process of realizing the true and internationally accepted limits of its sovereignty. Portugal can now afford to develop its economy without wasting its resources in outmoded colonial ambitions which its economic means could not sustain. The new-found independence and freedom which both the former Portuguese Territories and the Portuguese people are enjoying is directly attributable to the many years of struggle by the African peoples in the Portuguese colonies and to the progressive forces inside Portugal.
I would like to punctuate the independence of the former Portuguese Territories by referring to the unhappy situation prevailing in Angola. The Portuguese Government remains in the final analysis the responsible Power in Angola until independence on 11 November 1975. For its part, the OAU will spare no efforts in contributing to measures to bring the situation under control.
It is pertinent here to warn against external interests in Angolan affairs which have made it more difficult to bring about reconciliation among the three major Angolan liberation movements: Movimento Popular de LibertaIao de Angola [MPLA], Frente Nacional para a Libertaiao de Angola [FNLIO and Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola [UNITA]. One positive role the United Nations can play in this tragic situation is to help to prevent the current conflict in Angola from being internationalized. The United Nations must unequivocally condemn those Powers which for ideological or strategic reasons are pouring arms into Angola, thereby complicating further an already delicate situation.
The problem of Angola, being essentially African, should and ought to have an African solution. I want to assure you that the Conciliation Commission on Angola which was appointed by the last Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU is doing everything possible to bring about peace among the warring Angola parties. I am sure that the Commission will succeed in its mission. While on this point, I should like to stress what has already been stated many times before: that the problems of Africa can be solved by Africans alone, without interference from outside. There should not be any press or other public utterances claiming that African problems in Africa are so explosive that they require non-Africans to come and control them.
With the independence of the new States of Mozambique, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe and the Comoros, come two related problems. These are the return of refugees to their countries of origin and the urgent need of the new States for technical and financial assistance to enable these new States to cope with the problems of national economic development and social reconstruction.
As far as the question of the refugees is concerned the OAU is grateful for the co-operation and generous assistance which the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, other United Nations agencies, individual Governments and various organizations have rendered and continue to render, not only for the return of the refugees to their countries of origin but for their resettlement, reconciliation and rehabilitation. However, the State of Cape Verde presently faces an exceptionally acute refugee problem arising from the current situation in Angola, where many of its citizens have been working. Cape Verde therefore needs urgent assistance or the resettlement of its displaced citizens, whom it cannot reabsorb at once. An appeal for assistance has already gone to all members of the OAU, but in view of the enormous size of the problem may I, on behalf of that Organization, extend the same appeal to all other Members of this Organization. The assistance can be channeled through bilateral or multilateral arrangements.
On technical and financial assistance, States Members of the United Nations will no doubt be aware of the scarcity of educational and health facilities that are normally allowed in colonial Territories by metropolitan Powers. A new structure for social services has therefore to be built; transport has to be developed; and, similarly, bases for agriculture and other economic backbones must be established. This is a formidable task with which the new nations are faced. I am sure that the United Nations, through its various specialized agencies, will play a worthwhile role in this great challenge facing its newest Members.
On behalf of the new nations I should also like to make a fervent appeal to all more developed nations represented in this great Organization to show solidarity and magnanimity by rising to the occasion through bilateral arrangements without undue political considerations.
As for the·other colonial Territories, I can only hope that the remaining European colonial Powers -France, the United Kingdom and Spain -will follow the example of the new Portugal and embark on a committed programme of decolonization. The OAU cannot accept the lame excuse used by some colonial Powers that the colonial people are not ready for
independence or that they prefer the colonial status to independence. No human being can choose to be a slave.
The Comoros declared independence from France last July. True to its principles of respect for the sovereign right of peoples to self-determination and independence, the OAU accepted the application of the Comoros for membership in that Organization.
The problems that ensued following the Comoros' declaration of independence and the stance adopted by the French Government are too well known to this august Assembly to require further elaboration. That the Comoros has not yet found it possible to apply for admission to the United Nations is no fault of the OAU. The intention of the French Government concerning the Comoros has remained ambiguous. France has a moral obligation to explain its position on this question.
In spite of France's negative attitude, the international community and OAU, in particular, have been more than patient with France on matters relating to the decolonization of its African Territories. It is time for France to reciprocate before our patience is completely exhausted.
The OAU has welcomed the results of the independence negotiations held last March at Marlborough House London between the United Kingdom Government and the two nationalist parties of Seychelles, Seychelles People's United Party [SPUP] and Seychelles Democratic Party[SDP], setting the date for independence as not later than 30 June 1976. It is our fervent hope that the United Kingdom Government will respect the wishes of the people for a united prosperous Seychelles nation.
We are, however, suspicious of the United Kingdom's intentions to retain some of the islands that rightly belong to Seychelles in what is referred to as the British Indian Ocean Territories. Our fears and concerns arise out of the fact that this action undermines the territorial integrity of Seychelles. Besides, the OAU, as well as the non-aligned States, have expressly stated their opposition to big-Power rivalry in the Indian Ocean, which we want to remain a zone of peace. ·
I would like to appeal to the United Nations, and particularly to the permanent members of the Security Council, to take meaningful measures to resolve the outstanding colonial problems of southern Africa. I am convinced that it is not beyond the competence of the United Nations to end colonialism and apartheid. We in Africa are prepared for a peaceful end to colonialism and apartheid, but if peaceful means are blocked there can be no other alternative but to achieve independence on the battlefield. The United Nations has a responsibility in this. You can help us save bloodshed by helping to implement United Nations resolutions on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.
Independent Africa will not allow itself to be deceived by detente, which is in any case increasingly going bankrupt in the face of the sharpened struggle of the people of Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. The States Members of the OAU have resolved to step up their support of the nationalists and the peoples of southern Africa in their multi-fronted struggle for national liberation. May I at this juncture express Africa's appreciation to all those countries that have assisted and continue to assist African liberation movements in their struggle for freedom and independence. In particular I wish to mention the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and other Socialist countries for their generous assistance, both moral and material, to the peoples of Africa still fighting to free themselves from the bondage of imperialism, racism and apartheid.
I cannot condone any compromise with apartheid. The system must be eradicated root and branch and buried. It defies all known principles of humanity as embodied in the Charter of the United Nations or in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is for this reason that free Africa has insisted that South Africa has no right to United Nations membership because the very basis of its ideology and practice are a direct contradiction to the Charter of the United Nations.
I would like now to turn to one other point that is of key importance not only to Africa and the rest of the third world but to the entire world. This is the question of peace and security. Africa rejects the opinion which has sometimes been publicly expressed that the problems of security should be the monopoly of the big Powers alone. We maintain that all peace-loving people of the world have an active role to play in world security, peace and co-operation. On a broader plane, we in Africa feel the need for more effective initiatives an the co-operation of all countries, big or small, which are keen to deliver the entire world once and for all from the forces of colonialism neo-colonialism, racialism
and apartheid. For us in Africa this is the central issue.
Having regard to the political and social clashes that are taking place in the southern part of our continent coupled with the bloody friction in the Middle East at the northern end of our continent it has become increasingly evident that without the concerted involvement of the countries of the third world in peace-keeping, it will be impossible to solve the endemic problems in southern Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere in the world where hot political issues exist. Indeed, it will even be difficult to implement any meaningful international economic changes that have become a necessary factor in the attainment of secure international peace and harmony if the third world countries which now command a numerical majority in this Assembly are not fully involved in the process of making and guaranteeing world peace. In this particular connection, I appeal on behalf of my African colleagues and the entire third world to the United States Government to reconsider its position in and relationship with Panama, an independent Member of this Organization, regarding the use of the Panama Canal. All international traffic using the watercourse should fully respect the sovereign rights of the Republic of Panama. This is within the acceptable principles of this Organization.
I would like at this point to refer to the continued monopoly of the veto by the permanent members of the Security Council, which privilege some of them have used to protect situations that are against world peace. The third world cannot now be overlooked when the most important decisions, some of which even directly affect it, are being taken in the Security Council. At this time when the interdependence of nations, big or small, is an acknowledged fact, it is high time that this Organization, especially the Security Council, decided to review the Charter of the United Nations, adopted when not more than three African Members were independent. The implementation of this idea will be a great leap forward for mankind, since the principle of equality and sovereignty will have been mutually respected by each and every State.
It is thus my belief that. in consideration of the changed world political situation since the adoption of the present Charter, the review of the Charter should among other things, enable the third-world countries to exercise the rights at present being monopolized by the conquering allies of the Second World War. I would specifically propose that Africa and other recognized regional groupings in this Organization, which do not enjoy the right of a veto, be given a bloc veto each. As and when, for example, the Security Council decides on substantive issues, the concurrent votes of a region's representatives at the Council will have the same effect as that of a permanent member of the Security Council.
East-West detente has now been made concrete with the conclusion of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe at Helsinki. I wish to compliment all the countries that contributed to the success of that Conference. The Soviet Union in particular is to be given special thanks for conceiving the idea of the Conference and for working tirelessly and consistently until the signing of the Helsinki agreement.
Now that detente between the Western and the Eastern States has thus been formalized, it would be a logical step forward in the search for world peace, if the third-world countries also met and reviewed their position in the light of the Helsinki agreement The third-world countries which spread all over the globe should never lag behind in the search for world peace and security. Being composed of developing countries, the third world needs an assurance of peace for itself much more than the more industrialized countries. A security conference for the third world has thus now become necessary and should be convened as soon as possible.
In our regional search for international peace and security, the position of the People's Republic of China and Japan has not been very clear. From what I know, these two countries rightly belong to the third world. China, because it has always stated that it wants to belong to the third world. Japan, in spite of its high industrial development, naturally belongs to the third world. In any case, because of its geographical position and, especially since its defeat in the Second World War, it has never really been accepted by either Eastern or Western blocs of countries as a member of either.
Countries of the third world, especially those in Africa, the Arab subcontinent and Asia, should very seriously think of this proposal to hold a security conference. With the inclusion of China and Japan in such a conference, the third world will find it easy to resolve, by peaceful means, problems that are found within or among its member States and thus avoid the interference of super-Powers that we have so often witnessed in such cases. The problems of North and South Korea, for example, would be made easier to solve in the context of the third-world peace efforts, as these two countries are also legitimately within the third-world group.
Given its large and varied membership and its enormous natural resources, such as those in Africa which include high-nuclear raw materials its rich historic cultures and revolutionary aspirations the third world stands the greatest chance to lead the world by peaceful means, if only it can co-ordinate its efforts.
As I said at the beginning, I should like now to discuss a few points in my capacity as President of Uganda, starting with the very first prerequisite of a State, namely, its land.
Needless to say, land is the greatest gift the Creator has given to man. Its price cannot be estimated in terms of money or any other measure of value. Without it there would be no States and the human race could not exist in the form in which we know it. Land, through the ages, has been the cause of both joys and woes, unity and conflict. When thinking about land in its proper perspective, considerations cut across national boundaries and assume an international character to which nations should give serious priority consideration, commitment and dedication. Today the peoples of the world are very much worried about overpopulation, and those fears are based entirely on the kind and amount of food that can be available to feed the ever-increasing millions of people on earth.
As we know it today, food is a product of land. Therefore, land utilization and settlement are subjects of top priority to the human race. In many countries there is no more space left for the growing of food to feed their nationals, and therefore in this regard they face peril. The only hope for survival of such people lies in the amount of food that can be obtained from the new lands which are less populated, endowed with a good climate and soil and which, therefore, an achieve maximum production with the least effort in terms of technology and finance. Nations blessed with the attribute of a large area of arable land therefore stand in a unique position.
I am glad and proud to inform this Assembly that Uganda is one of the very few countries which occupy that unique position. Uganda realizes its moral responsibility to humanity to hold out the bread basket to the starving world. In this connection, the Government of Uganda has recently promulgated three decrees designed to bring about maximum productivity and the better utilization of land within its national territorial boundaries and to increase employment opportunities. By the grace of God, Uganda does boast a wonderful climate, rich soil, a healthy energetic people, good means of communication and rich natural resources, all Of which, if fully exploited, would benefit the human race and go a long way towards removing the fears in which the world is engulfed today. It is against that background that the Land Reform Decree, the Community Farm Settlement Decree and the Self-Help Projects Decree were promulgated in the middle of this year. Those decrees place all land in the hands of the Government for management, distribution and control, provide for its planned settlement and utilization and encourage the supplementing of financial investment requirements by our time-honored voluntary communal labour supply for community development.
The following reasons led to the reform of land possession and management law: to enable the Government to make proper plans of land use for maximum productivity; to remove the evils of feudalism which discouraged the farmers of the land and encouraged laziness and exploitation by the absentee landlords; and to provide employment. Under the new decrees, everyone in Uganda now has an equal opportunity to own land and develop it for the benefit of himself, the country and the world at large, since the world expects those who are so favourably placed as regards rich natural resources, like Uganda, to share them with their fellow human beings the world over.
The effect of the new decrees on Uganda's social pattern of life and economic development has been tremendous. Anyone who visits Uganda today will see the great strides that have been taken by the people in the development of land for agriculture and animal husbandry, although it is barely four months since the decrees were promulgated.
The international community has recognized that one of the most serious problems facing the majority of mankind today is the problem of human settlement. The three decrees promulgated in Uganda, already referred to, are meant among other things to solve this problem at the national level. It will be appreciated, however, that human settlement is an international problem which can best be solved at the international level. For that reason Uganda supports the proposal for the creation of a United Nations agency or programme to deal specifically with this international problem of human settlement. In this connection, Uganda offers to be the host country to the secretariat of such an agency or programme of the United Nations, if and when it is created, As is very well known, Uganda has the capacity and the facilities to be host not only to the secretariat of such an agency or programme but even to much bigger ones.
Full exploitation of the land resources requires heavy financial investment. If the world is going to benefit in the shortest possible time from the natural wealth of Uganda, then the world must be prepared to invest in the exploitation of these resources. Uganda invites interested parties on the individual, State and international levels to participate in the exploitation of these rich resources. Our law protects foreign investments and we guarantee fair returns on these foreign investments. We respect in full measure the right to property as a fundamental inalienable right.
Our Constitution guarantees this right and the Government and people of Uganda observe this constitutional guarantee strictly; so much so that when I declared the economic war in order to restore to our people their natural rights, dignity and self-respect and save them from callous exploitation by foreigners, I also guaranteed payment of compensation to these exploiters. Negotiations are going on between Uganda and the countries concerned to determine the amount due and the method and programme of payment of compensation. The United Kingdom team was recently in Kampala, our capital city, for this purpose. The United States of America's claim has long since been settled. All that indicates that we are not just interested in making sweet utterances or paying lip-service to human rights and law, but that we observe all these principles and back them up with practical, visible action.
Uganda takes strength and gains inspiration from the numerous utterances and resolutions of this venerable house urging the colonial and imperial powers to make speedy restoration of full economic rights to the hitherto exploited, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the third world. My strength and earnestness of purpose is even greater when I stand here delivering my speech on the soil of the United States of America, the country which in our era conceived a new philosophy which has lit, cleansed, inspired and sustained the third world in the pursuit of freedom. The United States colonies resisted exploitation by foreign Powers 200 years ago. They wanted to have the sole right and control over their economy. This is the accepted principle today in this Assembly, in the world of peace-loving and right-thinking peoples and at the international law platform. We in Uganda have pursued the same goal.
For the pursuit of our natural rights; for the consolidation of our independence; for the retrieve of our economy; for our struggle for equality, dignity, justice in the world; for our efforts in fostering international brotherhood; for the creation of a world order in which there will be complete independence of States, with freedom for each State to decide on its destiny without regard to size, ethnic grouping, colour or. creed; for our unflinching fight against oppression by big or technologically advanced nations, against exploitation and enslavement of the majority by a few powerfully placed reactionary and fascist minority regimes in southern Africa; for our dedicated commitment to the liberation movements in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, we have been subjected to blackmail, vulgar abuse, commercial ostracism, economic strangulation and treachery by imperialists in league with the Fascists and Zionists. Our case has exposed the moral bankruptcy of those powerful nations of the West which through deceit have for so long held themselves up as the bastions of peace, freedom and justice. They have, in their endeavours to distort our image in the eyes of the international community through their powerful news media in order to coyer up for their inadequacies at home, not only revealed their hypocrisy but to their chagrin given unprecedented publicity to our nation and the truth we stand for.
While we have liberated our economy to feed our people, unemployment in the United Kingdom has but soared to an all-time record. While we have taken measures to restore our cultural values and establish justice among our people, the United Kingdom has turned to blackmail in order to confuse the world about the terrible situation of an internecine war in the United Kingdom colony of Northern Ireland, where the colonized people live in great fear for their lives. Today, the London-based organization, Amnesty International, continues to pay lip-service to the cause of justice and, as shown in its recent publication, has blackmailed over 100 nations of the world as violators of human rights without mentioning the United Kingdom and its role in Northern Ireland.
It is impossible to feel secure in the United Kingdom today because of the sporadic bomb blasts which wreck churches, schools, cafes, bars, trains and even hospitals. Kidnappings and murders have long since ceased to shock the British society as hardly a week passes without press reports of such horrible acts. This shows the decadence of a nation which once prided itself before the entire world, a quarter of which it colonized, as the fountain of peace, freedom, justice and tranquility. Amnesty International is fed on rumours and concoctions from discredited criminals in exile and, surprisingly, feels content to continue to be fed on rumours.
Where on earth have exiles spoken glowingly of the regime in their country or exposed their own criminality? Amnesty International has taken no trouble to investigate or send a team to Uganda to see for itself. Its report has indicted over 100 States. How can it be said that 95 per cent of the entire world does not conform to accepted standards? By what measures does it judge 95 per cent of the entire world? What is the justification of the continued existence of Amnesty International if it is so helplessly behind the times? It has lent itself as tools for the smear campaigns perpetrated by the colonial and imperialistic Powers that fund its existence. It wishes to divert the attention of those peoples fighting for their freedom, equality and independence in order to subvert the world order. Such tricks have not succeeded in Uganda. Such tricks have not been accepted by the peoples of the third world, who form the majority of the world society.
We in Uganda are proud and committed to hold the banner of independence for the oppressed peoples to see and to follow. We condemn all forms of enslavement and economic exploitation as exhibited by the minority regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa. We salute the new order in Portugal which has seen the truth and committed itself to the liberation of all its colonies which formerly were called overseas Territories. We condemn any form of territorial aggrandizement as practiced by the Zionists in the Middle East. We condemn any perpetration of illegalities in the United Nations or sustenance of the bogus State of Israel. Until 1947 there was no State of Israel but Palestine.
The colonial powers, for their imperialistic motives, created Israel, carved out of the State of Palestine, thus causing an upheaval which, if it is not settled immediately, may throw the world into conflagration. It is reported today that, in spite of the so-called peace accord between peace-loving Egypt and the bogus State of Israel, much more powerful arms have been delivered to Israel by the United States, including missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. This has created great uncertainty and fear not only in the Middle East but in all of Africa, which in the northern corner has the Zionists and in the southern corner the Boers of South Africa. It has also accelerated the chances of nuclear confrontation which may spell the doom of the human race. '
Israel, like South Africa, has absolutely ignored the United Nations resolutions commanding it to withdraw from the occupied territories of Egypt, Palestine, Jordan and Syria. It is disappointing to note that some major Powers, notably the United States of America, which are founder Members of this Organization which was established to bring about a world order based upon law, justice and peace, have not only continually supported Israel in flouting United Nations resolutions, but have also equipped it with powerful armaments to make it strong enough to defy, grab and plunder its neighbour's territory. Today, without the United States of America, there would be no Israel.
The United States' persistent support for Israel stems from the sad history of colonization. The United States of America has been colonized by the Zionists who hold all the tools of development and power. They own virtually all the banking institutions, the major manufacturing and processing industries and the major means of communication; and have so much infiltrated the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] that they are posing a great threat to nations and peoples which may be opposed to the atrocious Zionist movement. They have turned CIA into a murder squad to eliminate any form of just resistance anywhere in the world. The role of CIA has been revealed to the world community by United States senators and congressmen themselves, as we learn from the United States news media. The top echelon of CIA has made an admission of this. How can we expect freedom, peace and justice in the world when such a powerful nation as the United States of America is in the hands of the Zionists? I call upon the people of the United States of America whose forefathers founded this State "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" to rid their society of the Zionists in order that the true citizens of this nation may control their own destiny and exploit the natural resources of their country to their own benefit. I call for the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations and the extinction of Israel as a State, so that the territorial integrity of Palestine may be ensured and upheld.
When this objective is achieved the Holy City of Jerusalem will once more revert to its holy status. Jerusalem should and will remain the holy place of worship for Christians, Moslems and Jews and must be free of any military activity. When recently I had the honour of being received by His Holiness the Pope, in our discussion we shared this view.
I like the Jews but I do not approve of Zionism. There are many Jews in many countries who do not subscribe to the iniquitous Zionist philosophy. To these, all the peace-loving people of the world extend their hand in friendship. Indeed, Yasser Arafat himself announced at the General Assembly last year that the Palestinian people were prepared, ready and willing to live in partnership and amity with people of all creeds,
Christians, Moslems and Jews in one State, the State of Palestine. Zionist Israel has refused this offer. While millions of displaced Palestinians roam without home, without shelter, without food, millions of dollars extracted from the sweat and resources of the American people go to aid and fatten the Zionists. While the Unite Nations continues to pass resolutions calling for peace m the Middle East, resolutions without sanction, the displaced Palestinian people decay and perish. Their hope and reason are fast running out. To my Arab brothers I wish to give a piece of brotherly advice. If they wish to defeat Israel they must unite. No country should be diverted from the common objective without consulting the other Arab States. Lack of proper consultation causes friction and misunderstandings, to the great benefit of Israel. Arab must stop fighting Arab so that together they may face their enemy, Israel.
I wish to emphasize that I am not a racist. I hate racialism in all its manifestations, as practiced in Rhodesia and South Africa. Apartheid, like Zionism, is an enemy to humanity itself. Uganda is totally committed to the liberation of the African peoples under colonial minority regimes. We are baffled by the double standards displayed by imperialists who, in the name of democracy, plundered Vietnam, Cambodia and many other lands while they support oppression in Rhodesia, South Africa and the Middle East; who veto the admission of gallant Vietnam in the same way they veto the expulsion of South Africa and Israel from the United Nations; who withhold financial support from peaceful nations and pour investments into South Africa, Rhodesia and Israel.
We welcome investors to come to Uganda as friends but not as masters, and they will find us active, generous and friendly. Anyone interested in youth programmes, employment programmes, increased productivity programmes,
freedom-from-hunger programes and environmental programmes, whether taken together or separately, will certainly take an interest in our law of reform and the methods we have devised and continue to devise. To this end I wish to restate that we are non-aligned and therefore our doors are open to any country or organization in the world with aims, methods and objectives acceptable to us to participate with us in the development of our land resources for the benefit of the world.
While here in the United States of America, a country that is celebrating its two hundredth year of independence from British colonialism, I should like to mention, without in any way imputing racial bias, the position of the black Americans. In this country. In spite of the fact that he was forcibly brought to this country against his will, the black American has contributed as much as, if not more than, most of the other races towards the construction, development and now the economic mightiness of this country. His contribution, to his credit, stands sharply in contrast to the treatment he has received from his fellow Americans.
Having been in this country for some three centuries now and at present numbering some 30 million or more, one would have expected that of the 50-odd governors in this country at least one, if not several, would be black. As to the top executive policy-makers of the Federal Government, such as Secretaries of State, one would have hoped that at this time and moment in American history this great country, a champion of peace and freedom, would have boasted of having several black faces in that group of policy-makers. But none of these hopes have materialized. Why? This is a challenge that I would like to leave with the American people. It is a challenge whose concern has been beyond United States boundaries since the United States became a super-Power. Hence my mentioning it here.
While I leave the entire American community with this challenge, I should like to mention specifically that the black Americans themselves are to blame in a way because of the many reported divisions in their own communities. These divisions should certainly become unnecessary in the face of continued and perpetual subjugation of their own lot by their fellow citizens. For our part in Uganda, we have done our best to champion the cause of the black Americans. In the context of the OAU, we have for the last several years now advocated their identification with the continent of their origin in the same way as the other races in this continent take pride in their ancestral home lands.
The international community has committed itself to intensify action in promoting equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities of men and women, to ensure the full integration of women in the total development effort and to involve women widely in international co-operation and in the strengthening of world peace through the proclamation of this year, 1975, as International Women's Year [resolution 30/0 (XXVII)]. I am glad to say that as far as Uganda is concerned, under my Government we have already guaranteed, in principle and practice, equality between men and women.
Both sexes have equal opportunities and responsibilities to enable them to develop their particular talents and capabilities in the service of Uganda and the rest of the international community. Ugandan women have, like their male counterparts, full opportunities to make maximum contributions in every field and are playing their roles fully and effectively at all levels of decision-making, planning and implementation of all policies, programmes and projects. Our women have been fully integrated. They receive their full share of the benefits of development. In this connection I wish to mention that there are Ugandan women at all levels of administration, including, at the top, Permanent Secretaries; there are Ugandan women professors; a Ugandan woman ambassador; doctors; lawyers; business women, and women in all areas of our total endeavour.
Our faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human being is so strong that we have extended it to all spheres of our endeavours, including the prison services. Our view of prisoners is not to inflict punitive punishment on them but to reform and rehabilitate them so as to enable them to become useful and responsible members of society who make maximum contributions to the economic and social development of our country. Prisoners in Uganda are therefore trained in such fields as crop and animal husbandry, where our prison industries are some of the best farming institutions in the country. They are also trained in such other skills as furniture-making, shoe making, tailoring, blacksmithery, metal working, handicrafts and many other industrial skills. The results we are obtaining are very good indeed in that the majority of our prisoners complete their sentences fully reformed and use the skills attained in prisons in their future lives.
We in Uganda believe that the best and most practical and lasting form of international co-operation is in trade. It is for this reason that I wish to remind representatives, and through them the countries they represent, that Uganda produces some of the world's best coffee, cotton, tea, tobacco, copper and many other forms of trade commodities, which are available for the international community to buy. I express the hope that, under the proposed new world economic order, Uganda, like other developingcountries, will receive fair prices for its raw materials, which constitute the major part of its exports.
Uganda, which is in the very heart of Africa, astride the Equator, is renowned as one of the world's tourist paradises. The fabulous beauty of the country side, with its rich colours; the graciousness of its traditionally friendly, courteous and hospitable people; the mighty Kabalega Falls; the snow-capped, fantastic Mountains of the Moon, carrying permanent glaciers; the source of the immortal River Nile; the unsurpassable magnificence of the equatorial forests; the many lakes and the unequalled scenic beauty; the rolling and terraced hills; the extraordinary concentrations of wild life in its national parks and game reserves, including the rare, huge but extremely shy gorillas, the precious white rhinoceros, the lordly lion, zebras, leopards, cheetahs, herds of elephants, buffaloes, hippopotamuses, huge crocodiles, bewildering varieties of bird life; the famous local dishes, including the Nile perch and the local brand of gin-cum-vodka, unforgettable waragi; the elegance of Uganda's traditional crafts; Uganda's rich traditional music, dances and cultural activities; the glorious summer sunshine of the Equator and the coolness of the mountain breezes; Kampala, the capital city, standing on a series of closely-gathered, lush green hills-all these tourist attractions, topped with a year-round congenial climate, provide a visitor with the experience of a lifetime. All these God-given fantastic natural treasures are available to the world community as a whole. Ugandans welcome you and your fellow compatriots to come and share them with us in the spirit of international harmony and co-operation.
Long live Africa. Long live the third world. Long live the United Nations. For God and our country."
Mr. AMIN: "I am sure you have understood my speech in a foreign language. I would like to summarize my speech very briefly in the Ianguage of the British, the language of the former empire of which I was formerly a member. I would like to thank all of you very much for listening to my speech and I want to inform you, on behalf of the 46 independent African Member States, that we in Africa are not racists and we have no discrimination. We want to work with the entire world community. We want to work together with people from Europe, Asia, the Arab world and from the other parts of the world such as the United States and Latin America. We consider you as members of the world community. Therefore, nobody should tell you that Africans are against the whites. No. It is the members of the racist regime of South African apartheid who are the actual criminals, Who are highway robbers, stealing the gold and diamonds of others.
I thought it was necessary for me to speak to you in English so that you will understand me very well. I would like to advise the whole world community, the United Nations Members here, that it is not true that the people of Angola are against the Portuguese. The peoples of Africa are against the white regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa. But the people of Africa are a majority in that part of the world, and therefore it is not advisable for the Portuguese people to leave. Before I left Uganda to come directly here I talked with the Portuguese Government, which is now in discussions with the nine-member Conciliation Commission in Kampala. The Portuguese can stay when Angola gets its independence. They want the technicians, they want the doctors, they want the engineers for building roads, they want the electricians, they want the teachers to educate them. Now, if the whole Portuguese community or the white community runs away, who will build that particular new, independent country?
Nobody should deceive you on this. If you check the copy of my speech, you will see there the pictures of Britons in the various departments of the armed forces, being recruited, taking oaths. Of all the countries in black Africa, Uganda is the first to have even supersonic jetfighter women pilots and a women's squadron.
I just wanted briefly to tell you, therefore, that even the racist regimes in the southern part of Africa should not run away. They should not fear that if we liberate southern Africa we might kill them or throw them into the sea. No, because the people of southern Africa want people who can work together with them, but they are the majority there and they want to be the masters of their own country. Therefore, the Europeans who are there will be advisers to them. Even I myself have Italian advisers in the President's Office. I have British advisers. I have Germans; I have Americans; I have people from all over the world-from Asia, the Arab countries, Latin America-who are working with me.
It is very important that you, the representatives, tell your
countrymen, and I want you to tell them and I shall myself also be touring many parts of the world. I want to see that many people are recruited, as has already been mentioned by my representative. I want to get the newly independent African countries doctors, engineers, teachers, electricians, mining engineers and so forth to help in developing those countries. We have so many rich natural resources. We have gold that many other countries do not have.
Today Europe, and especially the United States of America and the Soviet Union, have the means to find minerals in the land by satellite. But in Africa we do not have the money to do that. We want assistance. Therefore, all the countries that have these means of finding minerals must assist Africa. I am speaking to you on behalf of all the States members Of the OAU and not only Uganda.
You should not listen to any rumours. If you want to know exactly what is going on in any African country, go to see for yourself. Some people might be talking, bringing some misunderstandings, even rumours, that for instance, the relations between Somalia and Ethiopia are very bad. They are not bad at all. They are very good-excellent. People are enjoying themselves. I wanted to tell you this.
And also, if you wish to hear anything about Africa, the office of the OAU in Addis Ababa is open to you. We have a Secretary-General; we have myself as Chairman, and my office is open 24 hours a day. You can get any information you want to have. But you should not listen to any rumours. African problems will be solved by Africa. This is very important. We have also gone deeply into uniting the Africans and the Arabs, and this will be happening very soon now.
In just a few words, do not fear Africa; be very friendly to Africa; when you come to Africa, you must know that you are coming to talk with people who also have brains and who can be very friendly to you. In Africa today the people are aware and capable of doing anything that any human being in this world can do.
With those few points, I thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen."
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT: "On behalf of the General Assembly, I wish to thank His Excellency the President of the Republic of Uganda for the statement he has just made and the statement he communicated to the General Assembly. We are aware of the importance of both."
Source: United Nations Archives
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Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix
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Peter Milligan (Writer), John Paul Leon (Artist)
The year is 1859...and the modern world is consumed in an age of enlightenment. But as humanity marches toward an era of undreamed science and technology, the dawn of a new race draws near; a divergent species possessed of powers and abilities that will lead mankind into a new epoch -- or doom it for all time! On the outskirts of London, one lone, outcast geneticist foresees this evolutionary leap forward. While Nathaniel Essex's theories are mocked by his colleagues, they have also drawn the interest of a being who has existed since the dawn of civilization -- the ancient being despot known as Apocalypse! The time-tossed X-Men Cyclops and Phoenix are the only barriers standing between this unholy alliance and global cataclysm! Now, trapped more than a century in the past, they will fight in a last, desperate conflict against their greatest enemy...with the battlefield being one man's soul!
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