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Uncertainty looms large for farmers
By: Bud Robertson
Posted: 03/23/2020 3:00 AM
TIM SMITH/THE BRANDON SUN
Bill Campbell, the president of Keystone Agricultural Producers, checks on some of his herd of Limousin cattle at his farm northeast of Minto on Friday.
This article was published 23/3/2020 (304 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Farmers are already facing challenges this year as COVID-19 strikes the agriculture and agri-food industries.
"The biggest thing that we're kind of concerned about is the uncertainty," said Keystone Agricultural Producers president Bill Campbell, who farms south of Brandon.
"A large component of agriculture deals with a chain, and if there's any disruption to that chain of services, what happens then?"
The temporary closing of the Canada-U.S. border is a major concern for farmers, Campbell said.
"When we rely on a lot of our products going that way and a lot of the things that we need coming from there ... is fertilizer going to be delivered on time? Will the transportation system be able to handle and cope with all of the issues that they're going to have to deal with?" he said. "Can we get parts, can we get seed if it's not in place?"
And while there appears to be enough seed stored in warehouses for planting, if a wet spring forces farmers to change their crops, "will there be that seed available for options?" Campbell said.
Even social distancing during the pandemic can have an effect on farmers if they take their crops to the inland elevators and they're not allowed inside, he said.
"They are not coming out of the office, and we are not to go into the office," he said, adding he has even heard of some closing their doors during the outbreak, and farmers need to phone ahead to find out if they'll open the door to them to take care of the paperwork.
"There's a lot of things that we will have to adjust to," he said, and that includes not only grain farmers but also cattle, hog and egg producers.
"The other part that is a major concern with this chain is the processing facilities and if there is a disruption in any of them, be it their movement to export position or their processing capabilities, or even trucking — getting the product to them," Campbell said. "What if there's problems at Maple Leaf or HyLife? That is huge."
Campbell said Premier Brian Pallister has spoken about the resiliency of Manitobans during the pandemic.
"But I would suggest that agriculture has been resilient since last September," he said. "The whole part of being resilient is strong, but resiliency relies on seeing some type of hope and promise somewhere along the line, so as we're staying in resiliency when do we move to recovery and rebounding and that glimmer of hope?"
Manitoba Beef Producers general manager Carson Callum said in an email to the Sun that his organization is in regular contact with industry stakeholders and the provincial government to ensure stable beef production and trade is maintained during the COVID-19 outbreak.
"Ensuring Manitoba producers are well-supported and all Manitobans have continued access to nutritious beef products is a top priority in these discussions."
He noted there have been no fundamental changes to the export and import of food and livestock outside of the increased precautions recommended by the federal government.
"While some delays may be anticipated due to the COVID-19 outbreak, international co-operation and prioritization is placed on maintaining a highly integrated, functioning food system," Callum said, adding there are no specific requirements in place in Canada restricting bovine or meat imports and exports related to the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said in a statement Saturday that Ottawa is working to ensure protocols are in place as temporary foreign workers enter the country to work on farms and in food-processing facilities.
"The participation of temporary foreign workers on our farms and our food businesses is absolutely necessary," Bibeau said.
"It is nothing less than an issue of food security. We are making sure that our food-supply chain is not compromised by the closure of our borders, as we now need thousands of workers on the farms for the planting season as well as the processing of foods from the land and sea."
Every measure will be taken to follow necessary health requirements, including thorough pre-screening, supervised isolation upon their arrival in Canada and employee monitoring, the minister said, noting more than 60,000 temporary foreign workers are employed in the agriculture and agri-food sectors.
"We're standing by our farmers every step of the way," Bibeau said.
"We're working closely with industry and provincial-territorial partners to closely monitor all the issues related to the health of Canadians, including an adequate food supply for all."
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Here they are – the very best of the best from yesterday's X Games Slopestyle qualifiers. The top three spots went to Mark McMorris, Peetu Piiroinen and Maxence Parrot – the young up and coming French Canadian.
I have to say we in the Whitelines office thought Peetu's run was the pick of the bunch here – everything is bolts, and while his second rail trick ain't that tech, it's steezy as.
He also lives up to his reputation for going massive over the jumps, but best of all, he's not afraid to throw in a styled-out flat spin or two. Makes a bit of a relief after the relentless onslaught of doubles!
The final run here is from Shaun White, who as we reported here, only managed to qualify in seventh! We'll have to see if he's keeping anything in reserve for the finals – like a triple cork maybe?
No surprises here as Shaun claims his sixth consecutive X-Games pipe gold. Watch the top three runs here. |
Benfica – Conveyor Belt to the Stars | Ep14: One final push – Season 5 Review | Football Manager 2019 Stories
Posted on July 19, 2019 October 28, 2019 by mikaelinhofm
Hello and welcome back to the final episode of this challenge, the challenge to win the Champions League with a team of only U21 players. In the first four seasons our Benfica team have managed to reach the quarter-final twice, but it had never felt particularly close to us lifting the trophy. We simply haven't been good enough compared to the biggest teams in Europe. This season however, Benfica and manager Ronaldo make one final push for the title with the best squad yet!
In the previous seasons the two oldest age groups, players aged 20 and 21 have made up the first squad, playing the Big games and challenging for trophies, while the younger players were put in the B and U19 squads with a single focus on individual player development.
Going into the fifth and final season manager Ronaldo scrapped the idea of creating the squad based on age groups and simply selected the 22 best players regardless of age (all under 21 of course) in an attempt to create the best squad so far.
This resulted in a squad spanning four age groups, with the backbone of our squad mainly consisting of players born in 2001. Six players are born in 2001, four in 2002, nine in 2003 and the youngest three in 2004. The squad really has an international feel to it with only two Portuguese players. The rest of them are a mix of Europe and South America. Four players are from France, three from Brazil, two from Argentina, England, and the Netherlands and one from Germany, Croatia, Spain, USA, Paraguay, Belgium and Mexico. The biggest star of the lot is unquestionably Croatian world-beater and Inverted Attacker Extraordinaire Antonio Marin who sadly will only spend the first half of the season with us. After that the loan back to us that was arranged as part of his transfer to Inter Milan is up and he'll leave for Italy.
This is one exciting squad and obviously our best one yet. The feeling is that we might still not be good enough though, since the top teams of Europe are filled with world class players. We might have the world's most talented team, but very few of the players have a current ability to match the best. In the last post I gave us a 20% chance to win the Champions League in our final season, which indicates that it's not an impossible task, but we'll need a lot of luck along the way.
So, let's see how we actually did!
We kept the dream alive, but it was a close call. Beforehand it didn't look like the toughest group ever, but after a couple of lack-lustre performances from us the adventure almost ended before it really started. Going into the final game of the group stage we were parked in third place on 8 pts with Bilbao and Leipzig ahead of us, both on 10 points. A win for us against Dynamo Kyiv would see us go through, no matter what the result would be in the Bilbao-Leipzig game, but a failure to win would send us packing. We did exactly what was needed though and a quite comfortable win against Kyiv saw us walk away with a 2nd place finish in the group.
Missing out on the 1st place meant that the 1st knockout round draw was gonna be a tough one. There were no "easy teams" among the group winners, but we really got one of the tougher ones.
1st Knockout rd vs Barcelona
So, before we get into the actual games, let's examine what sort of state FC Barcelona are in the 2022/23 season compared to the 2018/19 season? It's a bit of old and a bit of new for Barcelona. Messi at age 35 is still probably the best player in the world (even though he is starting to decline physically) keeping Luis Suarez on the bench. Both wingers are new and lethal in Leon Bailey and Cengiz Ünder and half the back four are new compared to the 2018/19 version of the team. They won the Spanish La Liga last season after two years of disappointing 3rd and 4th place finishes.
Obviously one of the toughest opponents out there and we were most likely forced to produce some of our best football ever to give us a chance to advance to the quarter-final.
The first leg at home was an even affair. Barcelona scored the first goal, but we managed to get that important equalizer through Tiago Aguiar 10 minutes before full time. A similar performance away would at least give us the chance to go through to the next round, even though Barcelona were massive favourites. After 15 starting minutes of pure Barcelona dominance the second leg, just like the first, turned into a tight game between two good teams. In the 25th minute we took the lead and we never let go. When the referee blew the final whistle we had done ourselves really proud by knocking out one of Europe's true greats! Perhaps this team was even better than I had thought!?
Quarter final vs Atletico Madrid
We got another Spanish team in the quarter final draw in Atletico Madrid. This felt like a slightly easier opponent than Barcelona, but the fact is that in the last couple of years the historical superior Spanish duo of Barca and Real Madrid has turned into a superior trio. Atletico has ten consecutive top 3 finishes in La Liga since 2012/13 and they won the league two seasons ago. Compared to the 2018/19 squad they have kept a core of top quality players such as Oblak, Rodri and Griezmann and have added a couple of solid pieces in Hamsik and Nastasic.
Not a bad team, but the feeling was that if we could knock out Barcelona, we could certainly knock out the white-and-red striped Madrid side as well! After a solid home leg where no1 striker John Udeh lead the way with the first goal of the game things were looking pretty bright for us getting past the quarter final for the first time. Another two Udeh goals in the away leg played a major part in the final 3-3 score which means that we had managed to pass our previous best result and we were through to the semi final!
The phrase "anything can happen" is truly a cliché, but after reaching the semi final we're at least closer to the Champions League trophy than we've ever been. However, we suffered a major blow going into the semi final as 1st choice striker and goal scoring leader John Udeh suffered pulled ankle ligaments and will miss both games.
Roy Bridges is a good back-up, but we'll certainly miss the excellent display of form from John Udeh's latest games. Hopefully Bridges will step up to the plate, because no matter what opposition we'll face in the semi final there are only real quality teams left.
Semi final vs Manchester United
We face a Man Utd team that has finished 2-3-3 in the last three Champions League seasons. It's a tough opponent but the feeling is that they're not absolutely top class. A central midfield consisting of Pogba and Van de Beek will make anyone drool, but the rest of the team doesn't look out of this world. However, with three consecutive finishes as runner-up in the Premier League they are a solid British force. They also lifted the Champions league trophy in 2019/20 and must be seen as favourites going into the games.
We lost the first leg 1-3 in a pretty disappointing performance. We looked like the better team, but we just couldn't threaten de Gea enough. It's tough to win games with a measly 2 out of 17 shots on goal, especially away to Man Utd. The away goal is the only thing that keeps my hopes of a final alive.
Do you remember me writing about Roy Bridges having to step up to the plate? An early brace from the man himself in the second leg meant that we were in the driver's seat all of a sudden.
We kept controlling the rest of the game and Man Utd really didn't stand a chance. I'm both delighted and surprised at how dominant we were.
The away goal came in handy as we won the 2nd leg 2-0, giving us an aggregate result of 3-3.
After an amazing run of results and a little bit of luck we're through to the Champions League final. Like a well-scripted Hollywood movie it all boils down to one game.
In the other semi final power-house and 2018/19 Champions League winners Man City managed to beat power-house and 2020/21 Champions League winners PSG on extra time with Phil Foden scoring the winning goal. We are through to the final where we'll most likely face our toughest opponent. Let's start by looking at what we're actually up against!
Wow, this certainly looks like a tough cookie! Compared to the 2018/19 version of the team Man City have kept three out of the back four, only adding our former player Josha Vagnoman. Offensively Olmo, Alli and Milinkovic-Savic are all top quality signings to add to "original trio" De Bruyne, Sterling and Gabriel Jesus. To make matters worse, the day before the final I notice that we are missing goalkeeper Vandevoort, defender Van de Berg and striker Bridges who are all away on international duty strangely enough. What the actual f***? Who schedules an international break that clashes with the Champions League final? To make matters worse newly recovered John Udeh suffers another injury, making him unable to play in the final.
I'm about to throw my computer out the window when curiosity stops me. If I'm missing players, perhaps Man City are too? And in a single mouse-click my bad mood turns into both happiness and amazement!
We are missing four players. Three away on international duty and the injured John Udeh. Man City on the other hand are missing 13 players! Nine are away on international duty, three are injured and poor Presnel Kimpembe is not even registered for the Champions League squad. Six out of the starting eleven are missing for them, while we really only struggle at the striker position. With both Udeh and Bridges out we're needed to call upon B squad striker Fabián Guevara to play the most important game of his life.
With these strange circumstances taken into account it feels like we actually go into the final as slight favourites. If we are ever to win the Champions League, this is our chance!
I was nervous to say the least as we approached the final.
I live reported the game on Twitter chat for a couple of friends as the clock closed in on midnight. It was a warm night, so I skipped the full suit and went with a jacket and shorts. The only red tie to match the Benfica colours was a Christmas one, but a final is a final.
The final itself then? I wish I could tell you that it was like watching an episode of Game of Thrones, exciting, intriguing and mind-blowing. I'm sorry, but it wasn't. It didn't even come close. I watched the game in full like I always do with important games and this won't go down in history as one of the better finals. It would be fairer to call it one of the most boring finals ever. However, we won it. WE F***ING WON IT! I was so excited when I saw the team celebrating after the game!
The feeling following the joy of winning and completing the challenge was emptiness. What now? I'm really proud that I managed to win the Champions League with a team of kids, but at the same time I'm a person that always looks forward. Perhaps this is actually the end of the series or I'll come back with another post highlighting the players in the winning team. Or I'll re-invent the series in one way or another.
Either way, now it's time for a couple of weeks of (FM free) summer holiday. I hope you enjoyed the series. I'll see you when I see you!
Thanks for reading another excellent post by Mikaelinho. You can follow him on Twitter here:
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Unreal Tournament will maintain its tradition as a competitive FPS and will run on the Unreal Engine 4. Development has just began today and will be carried by a small team of UT veterans in cooperation with the players. Development duties will be a collaboration between Epic, UT fans and UE4 developers and the game is planned on Windows, Mac and Linux.
You can read all the details on the press release here and watch the announcement trailer below – obviously, there's no gameplay footage since development has just begun and will take many months before the game is playable. |
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Q: Pandas throws ValueError while converting to datetime from string I have an excel sheet with a column that is supposed to contain date values but pandas reads it as float64. It has blanks
df:
date_int
15022016
23072017
I want to convert to a datetime object. I do:
df['date_int1'] = df['date_int'].astype(str).fillna('01011900')#To fill the blanks
df['date_int2']=pd.to_datetime(df['date_int1'],format='%d%m%Y')
I get error while converting to datetime:
TypeError: Unrecognized value type: <class 'str'>
ValueError: unconverted data remains: .0
A: You shouldn't convert to string until you've filled the NaNs. Otherwise, the NaNs are also stringified, and at the point there is nothing to fill.
df
date_int
0 15022016.0
1 23072017.0
2 NaN
df['date_int'] = df['date_int'].fillna(1011900, downcast='infer').astype(str)
pd.to_datetime(df['date_int'], format='%d%m%Y', errors='coerce')
0 2016-02-15
1 2017-07-23
2 1900-01-10
Name: date_int, dtype: datetime64[ns]
A: See comment from @Wen-Ben. Convert the data to int first.
df.date_int = df.date_int.astype(int)
Then the rest of the code will work fine.
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Gleaming white church peeping out from the top of vast expanses of the green canopy of palm trees is a common sight all across the landscape of Goa. Most of these churches are the remains of centuries which bears a testimony to the energy and enthusiasm of the state that never fails to impress.
With so many churches there are also plenty of feasts to go around – A time of happiness and spirituality. Here are 5 Goan feasts that you ought to visit.
The feast of Bonderam is celebrated on the fourth Saturday of August every year at Divar Island. Bonderam revolves around the involvement of flags which in itself is an interesting story.
Many years back, the villagers resented the rules that were adopted for settling disputes regarding the land issues. The Portuguese then set up flags to mark areas where the villagers were unable to take over the lands of the nearby villages. The villagers protested against this system by knocking down all the flags. The Bonderam festival is celebrated in the memory of those protests.
Literally translating to Cucumber Feast. The Touxeachem is celebrated on the feast of St. Anne, 29th July, at the Santana Church at Talaulim. This feast attracts childless couples who offer up cucumbers at the feet of St. Anne, with prayers that she will bless them with children. They then take the cucumbers home and eat them.
As with most Goan festivals, the area surrounding the church is lined up with vendors selling traditional sweets, grams, candles, and most importantly, thousands upon thousands of cucumbers. The festivities are often accompanied by a traditional band and of course High Mass which is said at the church.
Konsachem is celebrated at Our Lady of The Snows Church at Raia near the town of Margao in Salcete taluka. The feast is known as such as it happens after the sheaves (konsa) of rice harvest which are cut at the time of the celebration.
The feast is also celebrated with all pomp and splendour at the Taleigao church in Panaji. Here some of the sheaves which are cut by the local priest are also sent to the Governor of Goa. On this day as per tradition, a football tournament is held at the local grounds among the clubs of the surrounding areas.
The feast of the Three Kings commemorates the adoration by the Three Magi, at the feet of the Baby Jesus. This feast is usually celebrated on the 6th of January, or the first Sunday in January. It is celebrated in a lavish way in three places in Goa. The Reis Magos Church at Verem in the Bardez taluka in North Goa, the village of Chandor in South Goa, and at Nossa Senhora Dos Remédios, in Cansaulim in South Goa.
This festival is marked with grand processions and the crowning of three kings from the three villages, who are then escorted with pomp and fervour to the church on Remedios hill.
The Feast of St. Francis Xavier is unarguable the biggest feast in Goa. It begins every year from 3rd December and continues up to 2nd January. Which happens to be the peak season. So certainly there can be no better time to plan your trip to Goa. It gives you the superb opportunity to be a part of a religious festival and fair and also be witness to the extravagant activities.
Pilgrims come together at the Bom Jesus Basilica from far-away Kerala and Tamil Nadu, from neighboring Karnataka and Maharashtra, as well as from the most distant corners of the world.
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Time to be indoors and thinking happy thoughts. Its the first day of February...spring is on the distant horizon (well, it is in Stockholm anyhow) and I need a splash of colour and a fun project to brush away the winter blues. Red Roses are just the thing!
These are so fun to make. The technique is from an on-line class I found on www.craftsy.com For those of you who don't know this site, it is totally brilliant if you want to learn something new. Once you have bought the class, it stays in your little patch of cyberspace so you can watch it as many times as you like. Anyway, Vanessa Christenson's 'Sewing with Texture' is an interesting class with lots of lessons about pleating, tucking, folding and creating textured projects and I particularly liked these roses. As always, I have a stash of crimson and scarlet fabrics to hand and these flowers are surprising quick and easy. to make.
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S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 321 | Francis the Philosemite
Don't look now, Pope Francis is once again championing the ethnic interests of Christ-killers at the expense of Christians.
Francis lauds indiscriminate inclusion of latecomers as the highest possible virtue to which one could possibly aspire — all from within his comfy Vatican walls. Donald Trump is the REAL Christ-killer for wanting to secure the border, Francis assures us, comparing Trump to King Herod.
We'll also be talking a lot about Epstein, demographics, and impeachment.
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S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 320 | Bringing Down the Dollar
De-dollarization is basically the new ice bucket challenge, but on an international scale. And the bucket is full of tariffs and military threats.
From China to India to Russia to France, everyone seems to want to reduce their dependency on the US Dollar. It's almost as though world reserve currencies only have a 100 year (more or less) shelf life or something…
I've got a metric shitton of news about de-dollarization around the world. The TLDR: I predicted thith!!! We'll also be talking about Clinton donors and Mueller witnesses (one of whom happens to be a convicted pedophile) getting indicted for campaign finance violations.
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 319 | Kamala Defeated by Racism and Sexism
Racism and sexism have prevailed again, this time over disgraced Senator and now-former presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Kamala destroyed her reputation and alienated herself from her family in her psychotic and delusional bid for political power, but that's not going to stop her from going full Hillary Clinton and blaming her failure on YOU.
That's right, bigot. It's YOUR fault Kamala Harris lost.
Starting to notice a trend yet?
We're also going to be talking about Republican governor Chris Sinunu's decision to have New Hampshire continue participating in the federal refugee resettlement program, as well as rising mid-life mortality in New England.
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 318 | Epstein Accuser Tells All
After many failed attempts and quashed stories spanning several years, Virginia Roberts Giuffre finally got an opportunity to tell the world during a prime time news program about what happened to her at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew, and other powerful people.
Most of the details will no doubt be familiar to you by now but we're going to listen to a bit of it SIGHT UNSEEN to see if there is any new information coming to light.
We're also going to be covering testimony about child sex trafficking from someone who claims to be a member of the Genovese crime family.
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 317 | Lap Full of Kids
Joe Biden seems like he probably has a lot in common with Jeffrey Epstein, or so a recently resurfaced clip would appear to indicate.
It's hard to do it justice with a description, but suffice it to say that he "likes having kids on his lap".
We're also going to be talking a bit about the connection between central banking and immigration, and the deleterious effects thereof on states like Maine.
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Historically SINOPE, seaport on the southern coast of the Black Sea, northern Turkey. It lies on an isthmus linking the Boztepe Peninsula to the mainland and is shut off from the Anatolian Plateau to the south by high, forest-clad mountains. Because it has the only safe natural roadstead on the north coast of Asia Minor, Sinope was in antiquity the foremost port on the coast, with its land approaches barred by a huge citadel (now in ruins) and its sea side defended by a strong wall. Its decline was associated with its lack of easy access to the interior and its rivalry with Inebolu on the west and with Samsun on the east; the latter has emerged as the largest Turkish port on the Black Sea.
According to legend, Sinope was founded by the Amazons, who named it after their queen, Sinova. The city's ancient inhabitants ascribed its foundation to Autolycus, a companion of Hercules. Destroyed by the wandering Cimmerians, it was refounded toward the end of the 7th century BC by a colony of Milesians. It ultimately became the most flourishing Greek settlement on the Euxine (Black) Sea. As a terminus of the trade routes from Upper Mesopotamia, it commanded much of the maritime trade of the Pontic region and by the 5th century BC had established many colonies on the coast and enjoyed naval supremacy in the Black Sea. In 183 BC it was taken by Pharnaces I and became the capital of the Pontic kings. Under Mithridates VI the Great, who was born there (as was the 4th-century-BC founder of the Cynic sect, Diogenes), it enjoyed a high degree of prosperity and was embellished with fine buildings, naval arsenals, and well-built harbours. The Roman Lucius Licinius Lucullus captured the seaport in 70 BC, and the city was nearly destroyed by fire.
Taken by the Seljuq Turks from the Comneni of Trebizond (modern Trabzon) in AD 1214, it was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1458. In November 1853, shortly after the outbreak of the Crimean War, the Russian navy dramatically attacked Sinop, destroying the Ottoman fleet and reducing large parts of the city to ashes.
Sinop's extant monuments include a ruined ancient citadel rebuilt during Byzantine and Seljuq periods, some isolated columns and inscribed stones built into the old walls and dating from the early Greek and Roman periods, and the Alâeddin Cami (a mosque), built in 1214. A 13th-century Alâiye religious school now houses the local museum. Sinop is linked by road with Samsun and by sea with Istanbul.
The hinterland around Sinop is drained by the Gök River and is mountainous and partly forested. Agriculture employs most of the labour force. Corn (maize), flax, and tobacco are grown in the valleys and on the fertile coastal strip. Pop. (1985) city, 23,148.
Sinop is the most beautiful natural harbor the Black Sea. There are many legends about the foundation of the city but the most dependable is that the Miletion colonists founded it in the 7th century BC and the city is the birthplace of the cynic philosopher Diogenes. According to another legend the province is said to have received its name from the Amazon Queen "Sinova". The town's citadel dates from that early age and the foundations of the Temple of Serapis is to be found on the grounds of the Archaeological Museum where some beautiful golden icons are displayed. The 13th century Alaeddin Mosque, the Alaiye Medresse, and the Balatlar Church are of interest in the city. Traditional nautical wood carvings, good crystal and the original cotton clothes of the city are praiseworthy and unique, so you will want to have examples of these artifacts. The seaside hotels and holiday villages will make you stay longer and you will have the opportunity to sit in a fish restaurant by the harbor and watch the perfect combination of green and light blue while sipping your wine. Hamsilos Fjord, 11 kms from the city center is the only fjord in the country.
Gerze, situated on a peninsula, 40 kms southeast of Sinop, will provide you with fine beaches, meadows, restaurants and parks, while Camgolu provides camping facilities in a large forest sloping to the sea. At Boyabat, the largest town of the province, there are many rock tombs and a citadel. |
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How can artists create work that is both ecologically responsible and valid as art?
Alan Sonfist
Artist, author and environmentalist. Alan Sonfist is the originator of the movement to bring nature back into the city. His thinking has influenced a generation of visual artists, environmentalists, urban planners, landscape architects and urban dwellers. In his work, Sonfist seeks to conceptually expose the natural foundations of the urban landscape, and so bringing this sense of nature into life of the city. His projects address the amnesia that exists in the conceptual space of the city regarding the natural. Sonfist engages the urban in a dialogue by using structures already present within it. In 1965, he created the Time Landscape, in which he reconstructed a 16th century primeval forest in Manhattan. The Time Landscape has been recognized as a land marked park, and has spawned related projects in Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and Italy. A book about his work has recently been published, entitled Nature: The End of Art; Environ-mental Landscapes Alan Sonfist. www.alansonfist.com
This conference, hosted by University College Falmouth over three days in July 2006, brought together some of the leading members of the artistic community to consider this question and related issues. In addition to the formal presentations, delegates had the opportunity to continue the debates at Trebah Gardens, Gyllingvase Beach, The National Maritime Muesum and the River Fal. This provided an ideal backdrop to further consider the relationship between art and the environment.
F. David Peat
Author, and former theoretical physicist. David Peat was born in Liverpool and carried out research in theoretical physics in Canada where he also organized a series of dialogue circles between Native American Elders and Western Scientists. David is the author of twenty books on everything from superstrings and synchronicity to the world of the Blackfoot and the inventions of Nicola Tesla. His most recent book is Pathways of Chance. In 1996 he moved to the small medieval village of Pari, in Italy, were he now runs a cultural centre. He has had a long-term and on-going involvement in discussions between art and science and in particular with Anish Kapoor, Anthony Gormley and Janine Antoni. His web site can be found at www.fdavidpeat.com and the Centres at www.paricenter.com.
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In Pari, David has been exploring fundamental questions in science and religion, developing notions of Gentle Action in society, the notion of a network of networks and exploring the role of trust and ethics in the market place.
George Steinmann
Artist, researcher and educator. George Steinmann studied Graphic Design, Painting and African - American History in Berne, Basel and San Francisco. He now lives in Berne, Switzerland. Since 1979 he has produced numerous projects, performances and public art. His work has been exhibited in Kassel, Winnipeg, Ontario, Cincinnati, Helsinki, Berne, and Dresden. His work has been described as creating fundamental shifts in human perception and calls for an observer to participate in recreating a dynamic healing balance between nature and people. Between 1992-1995 he was involved in the renovation of Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia, as sustainable sculpture. He is currently lecturer and head of a trans-disciplinary Art as Research program at the Berne University of the Arts. www.george-steinmann.ch
John K. Grande
Author, art historian and critic. John Grande graduated in art history from the University of Toronto, and in 1994 was winner of the Prix Lison Dubreuil for art criticism. His reviews and feature articles have been published extensively in Artforum, Vice Versa, Sculpture, Art Papers, British Journal of Photography, Espace Sculpture, Public Art Review, Vie des Arts, Art On Paper, Circa & Canadian Forum. His published books focus on the relationships between art, nature and the environment. They include: Balance: Art and Nature, Intertwining: Landscape, Technology, Issues, Artists, and Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists. He has also co-authored Nils-Udo: Art with Nature, Nature: The End of Art; Environmental Landscapes Alan Sonfist and Le Mouvement Intuitif: Patrick Dougherty & Adrian Maryniak. Grande has also published numerous catalogue essays on selected artists and has taught art history at Bishops University. He is a contributing editor to Sculpture (USA) and English section editor for Vie des Arts Magazine.
Tim Collins & Reiko Goto
Artists, educators and theorists. Tim Collins and his partner, Reiko Goto, have collaborated together for many years. Tim Collins was born and raised in Rhode Island, USA. He is an artist, educator and theorist working with the cultural issues of ecological restoration and the form and function of post-industrial public space. Working in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University from 1997-2005, Collins and Goto directed 3Rivers - 2nd Nature, a project with primary funding from the Heinz Endowments and the Warhol Foundation. He is currently Associate Dean, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton. Reiko Goto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She is a Research Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and continues with her solo activities and teaching. Her work has been presented at Capp Street Project in San Francisco and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Her art explores the interface between nature and people and she is particularly interested in a restoration approach to environment.
Stacy Levy
Artist and environmentalist. Stacy Levy received her BA from Yale University in Art and in Forestry. She went to the Architectural Association in London for a year and did her graduate work at Tyler School of Art where she studied with Winifred Lutz. Levy began a landscape design firm which specialized in urban forest restoration, and worked on many public, corporate and private landscapes in the Mid-Atlantic States. Her years in forestry continue to inform her public art and installations. She was also part of the team to design and implement the Acid Mine Drainage and Art Project in Vintondale, Pennsylvania, a coal mining region. Levys work registers simple natural processes, giving the viewer a way to viscerally understand the workings of nature. Current projects include a commission for the Hudson River in New York, a stream diagram project at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Canada, and a project about microscopic life for The University of South Florida in Tampa.
CONFERENCE PAPERS Alan Sonfist Public Monuments F. David Peat The Dancing Strands John K. Grande The Logoising of Land Art: Re-sighting Ourselves in It All Reiko Goto 3 Rivers 2nd Nature / Groundworks Stacy Levy You Are Here: Locating Ourselves in Nature Suzi Gablik Art & The Big Picture Tim Collins Catalytic Aesthetics George Steinmann METALOG 9 13 25 35 45 59 71 91
RANE RESEARCH PROJECTS Materia Prima Stephen Turner Self-decomposing Laboratories Georg Dietzler Dendros: Horizons of Change Dave Pritchard Trace Elements 4: Mapping By Water Jane Atkinson Better Living Through Electrochemistry? Andy Webster & Jon Bird Seeing the Woods for the Trees Martin Prothero The Artful Green Sink Kerry Morrison 99 103 107 115 121 131 135
Public MonumentsAlan Sonfist
Public monuments have traditionally celebrated events in human history acts or humans of importance to the whole community. Now, as we perceive our dependence on nature, the concept of community expands to include non-human elements, and civic monuments should honor and celebrate the life and acts of another part of the community: natural phenomena. Within the city, public monuments should recapture and revitalise the history of the environment natural to that location. As in war monuments that record the life and death of soldiers, the life and death of natural phenomena such as rivers, springs and natural outcroppings should be remembered. Historical documents preserve observations of New York Citys natural past: The region in which they lived, which has now become the area of the greater City, was a paradise of nature, teeming with its products, and rich in natural beauty of woods and waters. Its varied climate, as one old-time writer described it, was of a Sweet and Wholesome Breath, its uplands covered with berries, roots, chestnuts and walnuts beech and oak masts. Birds sang in the branches, the deer and elk roamed the grassy meadows, the waters swarmed with fish, and the woods were redolent with the scent of the wild grape and of many flowers. Oak trees grew seventy feet high.1 In a city, one can be constantly reminded that the city was once a forest or a marsh. Just as some streets are named after trees, street names should be extended to other plants, animals and birds. Areas of the city could be renamed after the predominant natural phenomena that existed there. For example, Manhattans Lower East Side could be renamed by its previous marsh characteristics to create another symbolic identity and unification within
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December 30, 2020 January 11, 2021 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert
This year, we have had an increased number of clients applying to direct BS/MD programs. Few of our clients, by their choice, decided to apply to Brown Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) because they felt that ED may be too restrictive. We respect our clients' choices!
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Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs. The admissions affiliate: Ivy League Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges, Dr. Lowe also specializes in helping students who have been wait-listed, deferred or rejected gain admission into their top-choice schools: College Application Rejected. and student who wish to transfer to another college: College Transfer Admissions Advisors. For colleges and universities that recommend or require videos: College Admissions Video Productions.
Ivy League Early Applications Increase
This week seniors received their application decisions! What was discovered is that the the number of early applications had soared as compared to last year.
I recall at one of my webinars that several parents surmised that the numbers would decrease as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the expected decrease in international applicants. I disagreed! Based on our analysis, we know that the Ivies' brands soar in tough times.
Let's take colleges that just released their early admissions results. Harvard had 10,086 application and accepted 747; last year 6,424 applicants and admitted 895. Brown University's early application rose by 22%, 23% at UPenn, 29% at Dartmouth and 49% at Columbia. From, time to time I have heard parents, high school counselors and even fellow educational consultants state that "it doesn't really matter where you attend college as long as it's a good fit". Really! These numbers or increase percentages speak otherwise!
Now what, may you ask accounts for the soar in early applications? Here's a blog that I wrote: Why Your Child Should Apply to an Ivy League College or University. and another blog: Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. College Rankings 2021.
What does this mean for students who were deferred? They are now in the regular application pool and it's going to be even more competitive! Since you are in the larger pool, you will need to continue to attempt to standout and distinguish yourself from other applicants who were deferred and regular decision applicants. Our firm we provides "Post-Application Submission Deferred Strategies".
College Application Decisions/Outcomes
It's that important time of the year for high school seniors as many students are beginning to receive their application decisions. Let's describe each.
ACCEPTED/ADMITTED: You're in! You did it! You have been offered a spot in the incoming freshman class of one or more of the schools on your list. If it's one of your top-choice schools and you have been accepted EA or RD it's great! In terms of ED, the admissions process is technically over! "Technically", because although you are accepted, schools can rescind your acceptance based on numerous reasons. Don't forget the Common Application Affirmation Statement. According to the Common Application: "These affirmations are intended to make sure the applicant certifies the authenticity of the application, agrees to provide updated information to the college, and will commit only to one college once accepted".
DEFERRED: This means that the college is not prepared to either accept or deny you at this juncture, so they defer making a decision on your candidacy until they can consider you in the larger pool of regular decision applicants. Since you are the larger pool, you will need to continue to attempt to standout and distinguish yourself from other applicants who were deferred and regular decision applicants. Our firm provides "Post-Application Submission Deferred Strategies".
WAITLISTED: Being placed on the waitlist at a school means that you are not currently being offered a spot in their incoming class, but that you might be if enough spots open up as admitted students select other schools. How likely this is to occur (and it does happen) and in what volume, varies from school to school and even year to year. Our firm provides "Post-Application Submission Off-Waitlist Strategies".
DENIED/REJECTED: Unfortunately, this outcome requires no explanation. However, what you may choose to do is to transfer to schools that initially denied you a spot after the freshman year of the school you eventually end up. We provide transfer services through: College Transfer Admissions Advisors. We have successfully helped students transfer to schools that had initially denied them admissions.
"Being different and understanding differences allow me to help our clients stand out and be accepted!" – Dr. Paul Lowe
Fauci Effect on BS/MD Applications
December 13, 2020 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert
As college and university enrollment overall has dropped this fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic, research and reports have demonstrated that there is a record number of applicants to medical schools.
The number of applicants to medical schools has increased by 18% this year over last year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); and this is driven by the example of medical workers and public health figures such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Increase in BS/MD Applications translates to HYPERCOMPETITION –
It's going to HARDER to get in!
Our research and knowledge of the BS/MD programs has seen an increase in interest in BS/MD programs. More parents are encouraging their children to become doctors because of the uncertainty in the future of non-healthcare careers and the fact that there is a shortage of U.S. doctors. AAMC reports that United States will be short 54,000 to 139,000 physicians by 2033, the AAMC estimates and that more than two out of every five doctors now practicing will reach retirement age over the next 10 years.
In our practice, we are seeing more parents calling us seeking BS/MD admissions help. In fact, we are seeing a trend in high school students switching to BS/MD program admissions from traditional college admissions who are currently juniors. More international high school students and H-4 visas students are also requesting BS/MD assistance.
What does this mean for BS/MD programs? More high school students will be applying and there will be even more HYPERCOMPETITION!
Our BS/MD Admissions practice is specialized: Dr. Lowe and his team only work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is competitive, who desire help from an admissions expert and who see the value and investment in paying for expert advice through a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child's dream of becoming a doctor. He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. BS/MD Admissions Advisors – 2020 Acceptances. Parents who chose to use our services want to call their son or daughter – "Doctor" when they are seniors in high school.
After all that hard work, don't you want want your child to be a BS/MD student?
Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe is the managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group network. He and his team of admissions advisors, through the admissions affiliate, BS/MD Admissions Advisors, help high school students get accepted to BS/MD programs.
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Early Action and Early Decision Dates for 2020-2021 College Applicants
It's the 2020-2021 Early Decision and Early Action season! We are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants have already submitted their applications! Some applicants are having their alumni interviews and some have submitted their college videos! Competition to Ivy League and highly selective college remain high as these schools maintain their global educational brand. Therefore, expect many applicants with high SAT/ACT scores, high grades and seemly perfect applications, personal statements and the perfect story to be rejected or deferred to the regular decision pool!
Here are some early decision and early action notification dates for Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities:
Barnard College: December 14
Boston College: December 3 (ED I)
Boston University: December 15
Brown University: Mid-December
Cal Tech: Mid-December
Carnegie Mellon University: December 12
Columbia University: December 15
Cornell University: December 17
Dartmouth College: Mid-December
Duke University: Mid-December
Georgetown University: December 15
Hamilton College: December 15
Harvard University: Mid-December
Johns Hopkins University: December 11
MIT: Mid-December
New York University: December 15
Northwestern University: December 15
Princeton University: April 1 2021
Stanford University: December 11
Swarthmore College: Mid-December
Tufts University: Mid-December
University of Chicago: Mid-December
University of Michigan: January 2021 TBD
University of Notre Dame: December 16
University of Pennsylvania: Mid-December
Villanova University: December 15
Yale University: December 16
College Admissions: What Do Admissions Officers Look For?
December 6, 2020 December 6, 2020 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert
Parents always ask me: What do admissions officers look for?
We tend to think that college admissions officer/committees focus primarily on the tangible factors that are measurable and quantifiable: grades, standardized test scores, (SAT and ACT) and subject tests (AP and IB) and extracurricular activities: "saving the world", tutoring and volunteering to help the underprivileged.
The reality is that their emotions, feelings (and biases) and value judgement play a significant role in admissions decision.
Based on my professional experience and continually visiting colleges, and discussions with directors of admissions, there are other factors (and their interrelationships) which we have identified and understand that are just as important to help our clients gain admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities and direct BS/MD programs:
College application presentation
Supplemental essays
Collective interrelationship of all essays
Likability
Grit/Challenge
Sense of others
Sense of surroundings
Unsaid
Cultural Agility
Comparative Student Profile Analysis
Year after year, I hear the horror stories from parents whose kids got in nowhere because they thought the college admissions race was just about grades, SAT scores, their perceived 'unique' applications, generic essays and perfect connections."
Ivy League and highly selective colleges use a holistic approach and review process and a committee review approach process when evaluating applicants for admission. That means admission to these colleges is not based on a simple formula of grades and test scores and what may parents may believe. Instead, admissions officers/committees (with diverse backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities and perceptions) consider a variety of factors: the student's academic record, extracurricular interests, intellectual achievements and personal background and what I call "PERSONAL VIBE" to decide who will be rejected or accepted.
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At Fountain Inn Presbyterian Church, adults worship corporately to renew weekly and go out to serve. Adults are also called to nurture youth and children in their faith.
Sunday School for adults in January through May of 2016 will be a combined class of all ages of adults and will meet in the Fellowship Hall. The focus of the lessons will be on the Great Ends of the Church and will be taught by our church clergy.
Adults can grow and nurture their faith by participating in the Sunday School program, attending women's circles or men's breakfasts, volunteering time and talents for church activities, and joining in shared adult fellowship events with other churches. Visit our calendar to see upcoming events, and feel free to drop in and join us!
Three women's circles meet on the first Tuesday after the first Sunday January through May and September through December. Two meet during the day, and one is held in the evening.
The men of the church meet for breakfast before work on a monthly basis as well. Contact the pastor for more details on these groups.
Adults are needed to serve in church as ushers, helpers with children and youth activities, nursery volunteers, choir members, handbell players, and as members of the various committees of the church. Those committees include Children, Youth, Administrative, Worship, Property, Christian Education, and Commitment, which includes missions. Please contact the pastor if you would like to share your time in service in one of these ways. Learn more about opportunities for youth and adults to serve our church.
There are two main ways to connect in fellowship with other adults at Fountain Inn Presbyterian Church. One is to watch the bulletins and our calendar for information about joint events that will be held with two or three of our fellow PCUSA churches in the Golden Strip area. In 2015, the adults from our churches gathered together three times for shared events like meeting over coffee, viewing a play, and a day of blanket-making for a mission outreach. Another way to join an activity with other adults is to contact Pat O'Shields about the square dance club that meets at the church on Thursday evenings. They welcome new dancers of all skill levels at all times.
Adults are also encouraged to get involved service and missions opportunities in the local community and the world. Learn more. |
I have a confession to make. I struggle with knowing my worth and charging appropriately for my services. You may have heard me on my podcast The VO Meter, (www.vometer.com) discussing how it is SO important to set a rate for your voice over work that is commensurate with the amount of work involved, or the usage of the finished product; ideally both.
Well, with respect to Spike Lee, I haven't always Done the Right Thing.
Like many of my readers or listeners, I'm sure…once upon a time I didn't know what I was worth. Client asked me for 500 words at $50? "Sure, that sounds great", I said. Do a 50,000 word audiobook for $100 per finished hour? "No problem, I can still pay an editor and make a profit", I would mutter.
David Toback and the fine folks at GVAA have taken the guess work out of the process. The best part, it's completely free to use! They just want to stop the race to the bottom that has plagued the industry, and help people know what they are worth.
Speaking of…Even after all the research I have done, and preaching to the choir about doing things the right way, I still struggle with this, and I demonstrated it again a few weeks ago. A client came to me with a project. A series of power point presentations they wanted narrated. They offered me $100 per finished hour. The carrot they put in front of me was the promise of 2000 hours. Some quick math in my head and I said "That's a lot of money!". So I accepted it. Then, I sat down and did a few hours of videos. I thought "This is a ton of work!" I should have known better, but I caved. Sad, I know.
So, I decided to get some help. I reached out to my agents at The Atherton Group, TAG and requested them to step in on my behalf to re-negotiate my deal. After all, this is a lot of work and if we can get a fair rate, it would be beneficial for both of us. The agent made the offer of a fair rate, straight from the GVAA guide. You know what? The client didn't say no!
Now, they didn't exactly say yes either. The discussions are ongoing, but things look promising. I don't expect them to jump at the GVAA rate after what I had originally agreed to, but I do expect we'll get closer, and that will be a huge step in the right direction for me.
I know it's hard. If you are doing this, or running any full time business, it can be hard to turn down a paycheck. We all have bills coming in, and sometimes it seems something is better than nothing. It is not, however, if you damage your own career, or even the career of your colleagues, by setting the expectation of lower rates being okay.
So, say it with me, break those old habits, or don't start bad ones in the first place and KNOW YOUR WORTH! |
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This page is still being rewritten. Some parts of it are still in note form.
Life on board the 'Queen of Beauty' for the 96 days voyage from England, while boring and dull at times, also gave a sense of security. With no decision making to do, all meals provided and a group of people all united in the one aim of getting to a new life it was a situation that was far removed from everyday existence. As the ship drew near to Auckland feverish activity would have been engaged in with everything being cleaned and scrubbed so that the rigours of the voyage were minimised.
The passengers too would increasingly become excited as their destination and new life came closer and, in preparation for their landing, they were allowed to change into their best clothes. This however was a two edged excitement. On the one hand, hope and anticipation about the new life ahead of them but also, on the other hand, greater realisation about the finality of the steps that had been taken would also begin to dawn and doubts begin to creep in.
For some, the arrival could also have been very worrying if the comments by Mr. Farrell, referred to above, were accurate he says " As the Maori war had just started when we arrived many of the young men who failed to join the Volunteer Corps were conscripted and sent to the front" Not, I imagine, the reception from their new country that the Queen of Beauty's passengers would have expected and possibly the reason why David and Helen did not go on to Shortland, as was their original intention, but settled instead in Auckland.
Britain had always hoped, and intended, that the colonisation of New Zealand would be humane, because of the influence of the evangelical movement, and would not fall into the pitfalls of exploitation and extinction of the Natives that had marred other colonisation ventures. Sinclair, in his 'History of New Zealand' expresses this sentiment thus; " New Zealand was intended to set the world an example of humane colonization. The ideal was not attained. Race relations soon came to resemble those on other frontiers. That the British Government failed to achieve its expressed desire ' To avoid, if possible, the disasters and the guilt of a sanguinary conflict with the Native Tribes', is no occasion for surprise rather it would be a matter of astonishment if such wars, which seem everywhere to be part of the process of colonisation, had not occured. (p130)"
The seriousness of the situation even two years later can be judged from the information printed in the Local Stirling Press Newspaper two years later about incidents that, fortunately for the Philps, were well away from Auckland.
Stirling Journal and Advertiser 7th April 1865 New Zealand war. A British detachment was routed at Waitara, 13 were killed and 33 wounded.
Stirling Journal and Advertiser 19th May 1865 New Zealand Natives of Opatiki have taken and destroyed the schooner Eclipse. They hanged and beheaded the Rev. Mr. Volkner, scooped out and ate his brains and then a fanatic priest ate his eyes.
Information like this would not, I am sure, encourage the faint-hearted to uproots and go to seek their fortune in New Zealand.!!
Exactly what David's employment was in Auckland from his arrival in August 1863 until the following year we cannot, at present tell. Certainly by 1864 he was employed by the Bank of Auckland . The Registration documents for the birth of Helen and David's fourth child Agnes Helen on the 11th of November 1864 lists David as 'Accountant at the Auckland Bank' and record the fact that, at that time their residence was Shortland Street.
More than likely the house referred to in Bella Phillips letter to David and Helen prior to their leaving for Auckland. The birth was registered by Helen Philp on the 25th of November 1864 and raises the interesting hypothesis that my original research looking for a town or district called Shortland was based on a false premise arising from the newspaper note in Stirling being in error. Indeed Shortland, as a township, did not exist until 1867 so it is possible that Shortland Street Auckland was their destination from the start.
That David should be employed in a bank is not at all exceptional as, we saw above, his whole working life, apart from the few years after the collapse of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank were spent in banking.
In June 1864, following the success of the Bank of New Zealand, a group of merchants belonging to 'the outer circle' issued a prospectus with a view to setting up a second joint stock bank in the province.
In an unpublished article 'Early Financial Institutions of the Auckland Province' By Duncan B. Waterston, 1959, held at the Auckland Public Library we read ; "Incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly, the bank had a nominal capital of �100,000 in 10,000 �10 shares. Ten thousand shares were issued of which 4,000 were taken up by the promotors, 4,000 allocated to the public and 2,000 left in reserve. The latter were all placed on the market by 1864. All shares were paid up to one pound. The first Directors of the Bank of Auckland were James O'Neill, president, Edward King, Allan Kerr Taylor, G.M. O'Rourke and henry Isaacs. The bank commenced operations in July 1864 and by July 1866 was considered to be in a sound position, despite the depression which prevailed in Auckland. David Nathan, then President of the bank announced that the bank had made a net profit of �2, 513 over the past six months and that a dividend of 10% would be paid to shareholders. A reserve fund of �1,750 had been created and deposits at the bank totalled �36,734. Six months later the report of the directors was again most optimistic. A further 10% dividend was declared, although this was later reduced to 8% at the general meeting, and it was stated that the bank had purchased the Greyhound Hotel at the corner of Queen and Victoria Streets for its Head office. A branch had also been established at Onehunga."
Note. This photograph, provided by Russell Philp,is an early calotype and very feint being about 160 years old. The above is a renovation of that print using modern photo imaging techniques--- Cameron.
Onehunga Commercial Directory 1866 lists--- Bank of Auckland, D. Philp. Agent Princess Street In the same Directory and the Advertisement for the bank Charles F. Johns Esq. is listed as being the Manager of the Bank of Auckland.
Onehunga is situated to the south some seven to seven and a half miles from Auckland. Now, it is a suburb of the city but in the Philp's time it was a separate town being the port for Manakau Harbour. The above Directory says of the area " The port of Manakau, on the bar of which the lowest tides there is fifteen feet of water is situated seven miles from Auckland, and is the centre of a most fertile tract of volcanic soil. No doubt by its natural position, coupled with the development of the Waikato, for which it is the port of both supply and receipt, and the direct steam communication with Melbourne, which we are in a position to say has been determined upon, will progress most rapidly. Its population numbers about 1000, and a railway is nearly completed from Auckland to it."
Clearly it was to the bank in this thriving and developing new town that David turned for employment and for the next three years, despite a recession in Auckland the family, David and Helen, now forty four and forty one respectively with Margaret aged seven, James aged six Andrew aged four and Agnes Helen aged two, must have felt that their fortunes were on the ascendancy. This however was not to last and David and Helen were to experience, yet again, what it was like to be caught up in another bank crash.
Waterston continues the story of the Bank of Auckland " On the 3rd April 1867, however, it was revealed that the bank was in a perilous condition. the day before the manager, Johns, had attemoted to abscond to Sydney in an attempt to escape the consequences of his actions permitting large advances to be made without adequate security. These advance, amounting in all to over �4,000 were made without the knowledge of the director. Johns had not, however, robbed the bank for his own profit.
A run on the bank was avoided by the immediate announcement that the liabilities of the bank would be discharged by the Bank of New Zealand, the Bank of Australia, the Bank of New South Wales and the Union Bank of Australia. The Bank of Auckland was liquidated and its securities taken over by the four banks. Most of the shareholders' capital was lost.
The failure of the infant bank to survive the wayward actions of its manager demonstrated that Auckland could not support two locally financed banks as well as several overseas agencies. The capital reserves of the Bank of Auckland were insufficient and the depression ruined any remote chance of reconstructio. Auckland was already staggering under the financial disaster created by the transfer of the seat of government to wellington and the falling off of military expenditure after the conclusion of the Waikato campaign.
This bank crash also led to yet another major career move for David----one that eventually took him to Shortland, the place that I thought that they had originally set out for when they left Scotland in 1863. This move is documented by James Philp fifty years later when he wrote his 'Annals of the Philps'. (to be discussed fully in the next chapter) he said " Father went to the new goldfield at Thames which had been opened Aug. 1867. Mother and family joined father at Thames in 1868 after having built a house at 40 MacKay Street, Shortland. "
So the world of the Philps was, yet again, thrown into disarray. In the ten years since David and Helen were married in Stirling David was involved in three changes of career, four children had been born and the family had moved to the other side of the world. A decade of stark contrast to the three, relatively quiet, decades that they spent in Scotland prior to their marriage.
In 1852 gold, in fairly small quantities, had been found in the Coromandel Peninsula area on the east side of the Gulf of Hauraki and was worked off and on until 1863. At one time it was estimated that as many as three thousand diggers were involved but, on the outbreak of the 1863 Maori war in the Waikato district, the miners were forced to flee their claims and it was not until 1867 that mining recommenced in earnest.
The story of Thames, however, really starts in 1864 when James Mackay, Native Assistant Secretary, visited the Hauraki area with orders from the Governor to try to persuade the Maoris to surrender their weapons. While so engaged Mackay learned from the Maoris that gold had been discovered in what eventually became Thames.
Later that year Mackay was appointed as Comissioner for the Hauraki district and he tried further persuasion on the Maoris to open up their land and allow gold mining. After considerable dialogue and delay Hanauru Taipari, son of the Paramount Chief, and better known by his adopted name 'Willoughby Shortland' obtained permission for a limited exploration by two Maoris who had gold prospecting experience.
They found gold near the Karaka creek and Mackay persuaded the Chiefs to open up their land to the miners. This they agreed to do on the promise of the surface rights remaining with them. On the 30th July 1867 the official proclamation of the Thames goldfield was issued by Daniel Pollen the deputy Superintendent of Auckland and the gold rush that was to lead to the eventual development of the town of Thames had begun.
In 'Historic Gold Trails of the Coromandel', Tony Nolan asks us to " Imagine yourself in the booming rumbustious township that was threatening to rival Auckland in size, the rapidly growing conglomeration of tents,shanties, grog shops, hotels, stores, frame buildings and poppet heads that was fast becoming one of the most famous gold towns on earth." Seeing the chaos of the arrangements Mackay took it upon himself to lay out the main street line, Pollen Street, thus from the start Shortland had some system and symetry to it.
The influx of miners, and others, was so great and so rapid that the three small, but separate, townships, Shortland, Grahamstown and Tookey's Flat which quickly developed, within a distance of about two and a half miles or so, amalgamated into the one town.
Some idea of what Shortland must have been like when David and Helen Philp arrived there in 1867 and 1868 respectively can be found in a description given in a publication intended to give prospective gold miners information about the area called the Thames miners Guide printed in 1868.
" The township of Shortland is exceedingly well laid out, the streets are wide and very numerous, the houses are substantial, and in pollen street tolerably uniform. This is the principal street and it can boast of containing the Court House, Post office, a Custom house (all in a neat one storey building), four banks, a theatre, five hotels, five eating houses or restaurants, a local journal, and stores of all descriptions. There are four churches and chapels (one for each denomination), several small schools, and, to crown it all, an American coach runs between Shortland and Tookeys Flat. The only drawback to Shortland is the mud; literally speaking, you cannot walk along the streets without danger of being swamped." Anyone who has seen the film 'The Piano', set in New zealand about the same time, will have both sympathy with the residents a clear idea of what living with mud was like.
That such an organised town developed so quickly is remarkable and suggests that many people other that miners who had diverse interests and skills must have been drawn to the town, as indeed were the Philps.
quote population from Miner's guide.
Explaining that the Maoris kept the surface rights and leased sites for business and residences Grainger, 1951, says " Most of the newcomers erected tents on these sections and later built raupo whares (huts). In the first few weeks Shortland became quite a canvas town then, as timber became available when a sawmill was started, wooden buildings soon became general.
The Rev. Vicisimus Rush the first Vicar of Thames described the scene" At the entrance of the gully there are three large crushing machines which cause a terrible noise, the ponderous beaters, about 24 in all, keep up an incessant thump, thump---night and day" this must be considered as an understatement as J. F. Downey, the mining historian, quoted in 'Historic Gold trails of the Coromandel' p22, lists seven hundred productive mines.
For the Philp family the living conditions, in early Thames, were a complete contrast to the Georgian/Victorian lifestyle that we saw David and Helen enjoying when they lived in Scotland. Architect designed, classical, buildings had given way to wooden houses and civilised gentility had given way to a fronteer existence. One can't help wondering how, after three or four years faced with reality rather than dreams, they felt about their decision to seek a new life in New Zealand. Were their any regrets and longing to return to Scotland?
David's work as Legal Manager in the Gold Mines.
In the Auckland Directories 1866-67 we read that David was a Mining Agent.
1872 Wise's Directory (Slightly different list) Mining Companies p61 Grahamstown and Shortland D.Philp Legal manager unless otherwise stated. |
Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai woman with ties to the Yuin, Gundungurra, Gadigal and Biripi people. Kirli is the Manager of Poetic Learning and Aboriginal Cultural Liaison at Red Room Poetry. She was awarded 'Worker of the Year 2017' at the NAIDOC awards in the Illawarra/ Shoalhaven region and has been nominated for a National NAIDOC award in 2018. Kirli founded the Poetry in First Languages project. Her first children's picture book The Incredible Freedom Machines, illustrated by Matt Ottley was selected for Bologna Book Fair and is published internationally. Her second picture book Our Dreaming will be released by Scholastic in July 2019, Happy Ever After will follow in February 2020. Kirli's First Poetry Collection, Kindred is to be released by Magabala in 2019, it was Highly Commended in the 2018 Black&Write! prize. Kirli's poem 'A Dance of Hands' was Runner-up in the Nakata Brophy Prize. Kirli's poetry has been published by Cordite and Overland and has embedded in infrastructure at Darling Harbour and the Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne. In 2018, Kirli will be Writer in Residence at Bundanon Trust, Q Station and The Literature Centre, Fremantle for 'The Sound of Picture Books'. |
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Analysis: Calif. AG Report on Adopting Security Controls
Could Failure to Embrace 20 Critical Controls Pose Legal Threat to Enterprises? Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • February 29, 2016
California Attorney General Kamala Harris
A new report from California's attorney general says failure to implement the 20 critical security controls that define a minimum level of information security constitutes a lack of "reasonable security."
So, could failure to adopt these or similar controls pose a legal threat to organizations? Perhaps, under certain circumstances.
"The attorney general issuing guidance, by itself, doesn't set a legally binding duty on a company, but it certainly is indicative of what the AG thinks, and would likely be cited by the AG in cases the AG brought regarding data security," says privacy and data security attorney Andrew Serwin of the law firm Morrison & Foerster.
The controls California Attorney General Kamala Harris cited were developed seven years ago as the Consensus Audit Guidelines by a consortium of public-private IT security experts under the auspices of the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies and the SANS Institute. The 20 critical security controls - now managed by the not-for-profit Center for Internet Security - is a prioritized list of specific and actionable steps aimed to mitigate the most pervasive and dangerous cyberattacks (see Public/Private Group Creates Plan to Protect Critical Infrastructures).
Complying with the Law
Harris didn't explicitly say the recommendations in the report had the force of law, but she suggested that following them would be what the law encourages. "This report clearly articulates basic steps that businesses and organizations must take to comply with the law, reduce data breaches and better protect the public and our national security," Harris said in a statement issued with the report.
The report also recommends organizations adopt multifactor authentication on consumer-facing online accounts and use strong encryption on laptops and mobile devices to protect individual privacy, "a particular imperative for healthcare, which appears to be lagging behind other sectors in this regard."
The attorney general said many breaches reported to her office "could have been prevented by taking reasonable security measures, and an organization that voluntarily chooses to collect and retain personal information takes on a legal obligation to adopt appropriate security controls."
California's Influence on InfoSec
What California does regarding enforcing data privacy and online privacy laws matters beyond its borders. As the nation's most populous state, many national businesses operate or are based there. California is a trend leader in IT security law; in 2002, it became the first state to enact a data breach notification law.
"California has been the state to watch, and many other states have taken lessons from California's pronouncements and issuances and have mimicked those pronouncements," says privacy and cybersecurity lawyer Lisa Sotto of the law firm Hunton & Williams. "It's absolutely a state that is ahead of the curve on data privacy and data security issues. We have to sit up and take notice when the California AG makes this sort of a statement."
Lawyer Lisa Sotto explains why the California attorney general's pronouncement on the 20 security controls is significant.
Sotto characterizes Harris' pronouncement as warranting significant attention. "We now understand where she thinks the bar is set, and she, presumably, will be initiating investigations against companies that fall below that bar," Sotto says.
The California AG's report points out that the legal obligation to secure information is contained in an expanding set of laws, regulations, enforcement actions, common law duties, contracts and self-regulatory regimes. California has an information security statute that requires all businesses that collect personal information on California residents to use "reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to protect the personal information from unauthorized access, destruction use, modification or disclosure."
Detecting Breaches Rapidly
A review of 658 data breaches over the past four years by the California attorney general suggests that many could have been prevented or at least detected and corrected more rapidly had the basic security measures in the controls been implemented.
Harris and other legal experts are not saying that organizations must adopt the 20 critical security controls. Yet, not doing so could be deemed as failing to take proper steps to safeguard protected personal information when determining damages in a lawsuit in the eyes of jurors and judges after reviewing expert testimony. After all, in determining damages, a court could hold an organization liable if it does not follow standard industry practices.
"What one expert would say is reasonable isn't always agreed upon, and can also depend upon the sensitivity of the information, the damage to consumers, if any, and other factors," Serwin says.
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EXCLUSIVE: Big Covid-19 Outbreak At Ideal Snacks Could Be Approaching 100 Cases
LIBERTY - Two sources have told The SullivanTimes that there are between 50 and 100 positive cases of Covid-19 connected to Ideal Snacks in Liberty, now owned by Frito-Lay.
One of the sources said that once employees are inside the production area of the facility, many employees were regularly removing or lowering their masks during September and October, according to an employee who did not want to be identified. The employee added that the workforce has dwindled considerably in recent weeks.
The protocol at the facility, one source said, is that employees are mandated to wear masks upon entry and temperatures are taken by security personnel.
The New York State Department of Health reportedly inspected the facility about two weeks ago. That was confirmed by a Sullivan County government employee, who also confirmed that the number of cases could be closer to 100 than 50.
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Animation Film Review: Your Name (2016)
Posted on December 24, 2016 by Suz in Animation, Anime, Arts, Film & TV, Geek It!, Industry News, Music, Reviews, Spotlight // 0 Comments
For many decades, Hayao Miyazaki holds the honourable title of being the king of animation. So when YOUR NAME makes its mark on the industry gaining similar success to Miyazaki's Spirited Away, we must question: is it time for Miyazaki to pass the torch onto the next generation of animators and directors?
From the director of FIVE SECONDS PER CENTIMETRE and GARDEN OF WORDS, Makoto Shinkai returns with 'YOUR NAME' a comedic romance that has enchanted cinema-goers with its whimsical charm.
High school girl Mitsuha has lived in the peaceful town of Itomori her entire life. Fed up with the countryside and her commitments as a young priestess, Mitsuha wants to become a handsome boy living in Tokyo in her next life. Not so long after that, we are introduced to a high school boy in Tokyo, Taki, who wakes up to discover that he is indeed Mitsuha… who have somehow ended up in Taki's body.
Day after day, both Mitsuha and Taki find themselves in a wild loop of body-swapping madness that appears almost dream-like. With Mitsuha being Taki for one day and Taki becoming Mitsuha the next, they soon realise that this phenomenon was unstoppable. Rising to the challenge, they begin intervening with each other's lives much to each other's delight. Mitsuha helps Taki get closer to his female coworker while Taki helps Mitsuha become more popular at school. Everything was going perfect until the long-awaited Tiamat comet arrives on the same day as Mitsuha's town's festival. And before they knew it, everything changed from that moment on.
For many film fanatics, Your Name sets out like a typical Hollywood body-swapping film with an overdose of cringeworthy adolescent awkwardness. While it was all fun and games for the first half of the film, the film later takes an interesting turn when it splits away from its predictable narrative to a chilling disaster film complete with an out-of-sync time-travelling twist.
With the combination of sub-meta genres such as time-travel, romance, comedy, supernatural, and slice of life, Your Name is incredibly in-depth compared to other animated features. To be honest, it wouldn't be a surprise if the compilation of different genres threaten the cohesion of the narrative and the audience's sanity. However, none of this complexity and predictability matters. At the end of the day, it really came down to the well-moulded mixture of well-liked protagonists, striking animation, and melodic soundtrack that formed the heart and soul of Your Name and its success.
As expected of a Shinkai masterpiece, Your Name is a blend of gorgeous details and vibrant colours. From the glaring light amongst the stratosphere of clouds to the lush forests of greenery to the modern city landscape, Makoto Shinkai has once again outdone himself. Featuring recognisable landmarks such as Shinjuku's underpass and Aogashima Island, Shinkai offers an extraordinarily vivid glimpse into Japan and its way of life. Whether it is modern Japan or old Japan, Shinkai's representation of Japan is remarkably realistic yet sci-fi fantastical at the same time.
Just like how a music video tells a story, Your Name pans out like a narrative-based music video that brings the story together like red strings of fate. Composed by J-rock band Radwimps, the soundtrack features a variation of ballad and J-pop songs such as Nandemonaiya and Zenzenzense. Accompanying the narrative in great unison, this soundtrack is essentially the soundtrack to both Mitsuha and Taki's intertwined lives, capturing the ups and downs of adolescence.
Overall: To a majority of cinematic fans, YOUR NAME comes across as an average body-swapping rom-com. However, despite its fragmented concept and predictable storytelling, Your Name still manages to stand out remarkably well and surpass viewers' expectations.
Taking the audience out of our elaborate world, every minute of Your Name is a blissful experience. The film constantly reminds us that life is precious, and that we must not take things for granted such as time, hope, and bonds. It might be cliche but these messages could not be more relevant, especially for today's society.
With the ability to touch many viewers' hearts and trigger a versatile range of emotions, it is quite rare for a film to leave some sort of imprint on one's soul. Shinkai might be touted as the next Miyazaki but Shinkai is without a doubt his own genre in the animation industry. All Shinkai wants to achieve is create beautiful films and share them with the world — we hope he will continue to do so in the future.
For more information about Your Name, visit the website [here]
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The date is set and registration is open for the 2019 Nac Half!
The Nac Half boasts a 13.1, 10K and 5K distances through the scenic, historic town of Nacogdoches, including the beautiful Stephen F. Austin University Campus. This will be one race you won't want to miss!
The race resumes through the Piney Woods of East Texas on Sunday, November 17, 2019.
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In 2018, NYSHealth focused its attention on a few key areas. Explore our Best of 2018 to learn about some of our biggest wins and the progress we've made.
Read about the key successes, challenges, and lessons learned to date of our work in six neighborhoods across New York State to create healthier communities.
How can we make sure that patients are at the center of the health care system? Learn more about NYSHealth's approach.
Statewide Impact. Real New Yorkers.
Southern Tier Community Health Center simply did not have enough space. Situated between two poor counties—both federally designated health professional shortage areas—the clinic was stretched thin and could barely fit its providers, let alone serve its high-need population.
Mohammed Hussan is an Arabic-speaking refugee from Iraq; because of his Christian faith, he was jailed and beaten in his home country. Mohammed and his family arrived in Rochester in 2014, where they were able to access health care and rebuild their lives through an innovative program.
Riley Elementary's second-grade class faced an important choice: What snacks would they eat for their class Valentine's Day Party? The class has been learning about nutrition and physical activity through Oswego County Health Department's Healthy Highway program.
Lori, a mother of two, could not afford health insurance. Luckily, her children were able to qualify for low-cost health insurance—with the help of the North Country Children's Clinic, she enrolled them in Child Health Plus.
Four-year-old Noah has a happy, healthy smile, thanks in part to the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Smiles Program, a pilot program that is connecting some of New York's most vulnerable children to oral health services.
A diabetes prevention program offered by YMCAs across the State has helped Donald, Grace, and other participants reduce their risk developing the disease by 50% and improve their health and wellbeing.
5-year-old Moa is an expert on Randall's Island, having explored every corner of the park during weekly visits with his parents. For Moa, his parents, and other East Harlem residents, the ability to access Randall's Island for fresh air and physical activity has been a boon.
For children living with mental health conditions, finding and receiving timely treatment can be difficult. A new program on Long Island is working to better meet the needs of children with mental health issues and their families.
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CLG committee launches inquiry into National Planning Policy Framework CLG committee launches inquiry into National Planning Policy Framework
CLG committee launches inquiry into National Planning Policy Framework
The Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee has launched an inquiry into the operation of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) following a report's finding of "poor practice" and ineffectiveness among some local planning authorities.
The inquiry will scrutinise the operation of the NPPF during its first two years, including its impact on planning for housing and town centres.
It follows the publication of a report by the Centre for Housing and Planning Research (86-page / 980KB PDF) which found that some local planning authorities are ineffective and displaying poor practice despite meeting the government's planning performance targets.
The report, which was commissioned by the committee in December to find out why the effectiveness of the planning system varies so much between otherwise similar local authorities, said that some local planning authorities would refuse planning applications and request that developers resubmit the same application solely to meet the target time for a decision.
It said that delays were also caused by other issues including councillors rejecting officer recommendations on planning applications at the last minute, a lack of resources and skills in planning departments and environmental matters.
However, the report also said that the planning process can be effective when there is a "positive culture within local authorities and a pro-development attitude from chief executives, planning officers and elected members".
"The research suggests that government planning performance targets may be driving perverse behaviour," said CLG Committee chair Clive Betts in a statement. "This is especially worrying as the research also finds that a focus on good practice in local planning authorities is required if the NPPF is to be fully effective."
"It is extremely concerning that efficient authorities, which focus on customer service and enabling good development, could be placed in special measures because they miss arbitrary and unsatisfactory targets. On the other hand, poor authorities that game the system are being applauded for meeting those same targets."
"The evidence from the research suggests that government proposals to increase the threshold for designating authorities as underperforming may only make matters worse. I am today sending a copy of our research to Planning Minister Nick Boles," Betts said.
The British Property Federation (BPF) welcomed the inquiry and recommended that the committee should look at the pre-application process and timing issues in particular.
"We are glad to see that the committee is undertaking a full analysis of the NPPF, and that it is seeking to understand fully where problems are arising," said BPF chief executive Liz Peace in a statement. "All too often policy makers' knee-jerk reaction to failing policy is to make big changes, so this considered and detailed approach is to be applauded."
"The NPPF has contributed a lot of good to the planning system over the past few years, so it is important to ensure that we do not hinder development and undermine the positive work that it has so far brought about," Peace added.
The inquiry is accepting written submissions of evidence until 8 May.
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Pseudotryphia atralba is een vlinder uit de familie uilen (Noctuidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1976 door Berio.
De soort komt voor in tropisch Afrika.
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I'm uninterested in perfection; I want the raw, untouched beauty. The way the colors blend and the grain dances along the image. The beauty behind film sets my soul on fire, digging deep into nostalgia. Like a hot Summer afternoon, windows open, laying on your bedroom floor in nothing but blue jeans. Lungs full of heavy hot air and a vinyl cracking in the distance. An open road at dusk and the autumn air knotting up my locks. Moms cookies, dancing bare foot in an empty studio and the way a warm fire kisses your cheeks in the middle of winter. Coffee. Every memory comes rushing back all at once and you're overwhelmed but you welcome it to stay anyway. |
Welcome to the bag world!
This is not a shop; this is an exhibition on sale !
Here you will find bags of various kinds and sizes for every mood and occasion of your life. Every bag is handmade, unique, the one and only in the world and thus a personality. Bags are our hobby, facination and religion. Some may not understand it but it is impossible to have too many bags. Like anyone, once met with Her Highness Bag Mania, we also know that need has nothing to do with it! |
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World Cup 2022: Otto Addo has what it takes to make impact in Qatar – Tony Baffoe
Former Ghana international Anthony Baffoe has backed Black Stars coach Otto Addo to excel at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
The Black Stars who are returning to the global showpiece after missing out in Russia 2018 has been housed in Group H against Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea.
On Thursday, Ghana will open their account the European giants before they face South Korea and Uruguay respectively.
Despite being ranked the lowest team at the tournament, the former Ghana defender believes Otto Addo has what it takes to flourish with the Black Stars in the Asian country.
"In 2006, I had the pleasure to be part of the Black Stars delegation and I believe it is very important to be well prepared for World Cup apart from technical and tactical skills, you need also need managerial skills because this is the first time Otto Addo will be with the team for three-four weeks, so you will have different moods in camp"
"Every player has different character, you have a captain Dede and Thomas Partey who are the leaders together, Baba has been there for a while and it's important to have a good atmosphere, good ambiance, good team spirit that can take you places believe me"
"Bonuses should be paid if they are owing the players, you have to make sure everything is okay at camp. The technical team, the way they are working together, it is important that they are united because is not going to be easy. Ghana is a football nation, so this is a different pressure which comes with it and you have to live with it"
"I always tell Otto to stay calm, stay serene and continue to work hard. He doesn't sleep a lot and he is someone who is always doing research. I believe he has what it takes to make an impact at the World Cup"
Ghana defeated Switzerland 2-0 in their final friendly ahead of the biggest soccer mundial in Qatar.
Goals from Mohammed Salisu and Antoine Semenyo ensured the Black Stars signal warning to Portugal ahead of the opener.
The Black Stars having missed out in the last edition hosted in Russia in 2018 will be hoping to improve their performance in Qatar after exiting the group phase during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Only three sides from the continent have ever progressed to the quarter-finals; Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002, and Ghana in 2010.
Ghana will be hoping to progress from the group stage at this year's tournament.
Source: footballghana
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Sherrill Weiss (Sherrill Roecker) of New Jersey near Philadelphia was born in 1942 and died in 2004.
Her father was the light classical singer Eddie Roecker (1910-1975), a veteran of Broadway, radio and television as well as recordings.
Sherrill married lawyer Allan Joseph Weiss and they lived in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her one Argo recording was licenced from Swan Records of Philadelphia.
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SPI 381: Self-Publishing versus Traditional Publishing
It used to be that in the world of publishing, you were either a legitimate author working with a traditional publisher, or you were some weirdo trying to sell PDFs. Self-publishing has come a long way since I first got started in the world of architecture. Amazon Direct Publishing, the popularity of the Kindle, or Seth Godin's Kickstarter-funded book, The Icarus Deception, all of it has made ebooks much more legit.
At the same time, working with a traditional publisher still has a lot of benefits. You have a team dedicated to copyediting, fact-checking, layout, cover design, and more. You get an advance which can help support you while you work on actually writing the book. They have the connections you need to get you on shelves in bookstores, airports, and more. If you work with the right publisher, they'll help you market your book and put in the effort to make sure it has a lasting impact.
At the same time, self-publishing offers a lot in the way of creative control. You're probably the person who best understands your audience and how to reach them. And while getting an advance is nice, you end up having to pay it back to a traditional publisher until your book earns enough. What's more, the royalty split is never going to be as good as what you can get with Amazon. You might not retain the rights to things like audiobooks, which can earn even more than the book itself.
Choosing whether to work with a traditional publisher or go the route of self-publishing is ultimately going to come down to the why behind your book. Is it to expand your reach? Then maybe a traditional publisher's superior distribution is right for you. If you're to make money, maybe self-publish and take advantage of the better profit split you get through Amazon. I made this episode to share my own thought process with you and help you decide for yourself. Let me know what you think.
Pat Flynn: Self publishing or traditional publishing, which is right for you. That's the topic that we're going to tackle today. We're going to have different categories and try to determine, okay, well which is better for each of these categories and by the end you can make an informed decision for you and your next book. Whether you're in the middle of writing one right now or you know you always in the back of your mind, always wanted to write one. Well, these are some things that you need to think about and we're going to tackle them today in this episode of the Smart Passive Income podcast. Stick around. Here we go.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Smart Passive Income podcast where it's all about working hard now so you can sit back and reap the benefits later. And now your host, when he speaks on stage, he always calls it a performance, Pat Flynn.
Pat Flynn: What's up everybody? And welcome to session 381 of the Smart Passive Income podcast. My Name is Pat Flynn here to help you make more money, save more time, and help more people too. And one great way to help people is by writing a book. A book helps you build more authority. It helps you stand out from your competition. It helps you sort of put your foot on the ground about a certain topic and take a stance on something so people can kind of come into your tribe and believe in what you believe in and support you. And perhaps even a book can be a part of a funnel to lead into a course, which I've done before. And I have a book coming out very soon called 'Super Fans' on August 13th here in 2019 and books are on the top of my mind right now.
Pat Flynn: And a lot of people have been asking me about this idea of self publishing versus traditional publishing. I have had many, many offers to go down the traditional route and I've refused all of them so far. And I'll talk a little bit more about that why when we get towards sort of the scorecard here, when we pit self publishing versus traditional publishing. But it may be the right thing for you and it may be the right thing for me later on. There's also other options that are sort of hybrid models between the two, which I'll talk about in a second and that actually does relate to 'Super Fans' as well and I'll share with you some of the benefits of looking for some of these newer options that you might have available to you because it's not just, hey, you can self publish and write it yourself and publish it yourself or have somebody at another publisher publish it for you.
Pat Flynn: There's a lot of in-betweens now which is really interesting, but I still think this question of do you go self-published or do you go traditionally published? It's really important to sort of go into and so we're just going to go down category by category. We got 10 sort of things that we want to talk about, 10 talking points and we're going to weigh each one against each other and sort of provide a winner for each category. Then we'll have a winner at the end and ultimately it's going to be up to you. What works for you, but this is just a discussion, you know, what's right for me may Not be right for you. What's right for one author may not be right for another author, but there are pros and cons with each and we're going to talk about them right now. Starting with number one, the barrier to entry and I want to ask you the question, which do you think is easier to do, self publishing or traditional publishing?
Pat Flynn: This is an easy one. You probably got it right and it's very, the easier one to get involved with is self publishing, especially with all the tools and our access to Amazon now through, used to be known as create space, which is sort of a print on demand. You upload your book there, you get it all fine tuned and then anytime anybody orders it, Amazon will print it out or CreateSpace will print it out and then ship it through Amazon and fulfill it for you. CreateSpace has since combined with Amazon to create Kindle direct publishing where you can self publish eBooks and paperbacks for free and potentially reach millions of readers on Amazon, which is pretty amazing and the barrier to entry is quite low there because you just have to do the work yourself and there's no sort of qualifications. There's no manuscripts that you have to have at a certain length.
Pat Flynn: There's no sort of person above you to say, "No, this isn't the way it should be." You have full reign on how you want to do what you want to do, when you want to do what you want to do. It's just so easy to get involved. My first two books, 'Let Go' and 'Will It Fly?' published in 2013 and 2016 respectively we're both self published books and my new book 'Super Fans' coming out very soon is also self published. But there's some, like I said, nuances with this new and upcoming book that don't make it a, if I want to say not to confuse you, a traditionally self published book, there's some other cool things that are happening related to who I'm working with and I'll share with you the company I'm working with and just how awesome they are. But you can through Kindle direct publishing start your book.
Pat Flynn: If you actually go to a Kindle direct publishing on Google, you'll just direct yourself to where you can get started with that. It's not like push buttons simple. It's not like you can just write a pdf file and then ultimately have it, but you're close. If you've already written your book and you've gone through that process, then you're very close to that point at which you could begin to start publishing it. And so the barrier to entry definitely goes to self published books. But let's move on to the next category. And that is what it takes to get help with asset creation. You know, when you are an entrepreneur and you are going self published, you're going to have to work hard on your own to find copy editors and a designer for your cover and somebody to proofread it and to perhaps format it for Kindle, for formatting, for a paperback book, all those kinds of things you don't have access to unless you go and reach out and find those people.
Pat Flynn: And yes, of course there's companies out there that can help you do that. You can go the cheap route in certain places or you can go with full service design services to help you do all that stuff for you. But it is something that doesn't come easy. You have to find that and obviously you have to pay for that and it's going to come at a cost. Whereas with traditional publishing, if you get signed on with a traditional publisher, they are more than likely going to provide you with everything you need to get your book out there besides the actual words that you are putting in your book, which that's up to you. And the beauty of that is you get to focus just on your book alone and then working together with the publisher. They are going to supply you everything you need to make that book a reality because they're paying you and they're banking on fact that they're going to sell books.
Pat Flynn: So they're going to put a lot of time and effort into making the cover look great to their standards, to making the book look and feel great on the inside, to copy editing and traditional editors and all the pieces, like you don't have to worry about it. It's all a part of the prosthetic. It comes with the package in most cases and you just get to focus on your words, which is just a huge benefit. So I got to give for the category of asset creations, what we're going to call it from the design to the packaging of the book to putting it on Amazon, which is a whole nother ordeal that I've dealt with and have struggled with in the past with 'Will It Fly?' I remember 'Will It Fly?' was published paper back on launch day, but it wasn't ready for the eBook on launch day because I had some trouble with getting it approved on Amazon because there was just things I didn't know that stuff that you wouldn't have to worry about.
Pat Flynn: And honestly if there were problems with that process with a traditional publisher will then there's bigger problems that are likely involved in that publisher that just anyway, hopefully you don't, you know, get access to a publisher who doesn't know what they're doing cause that's their job. So their job is to help you and support you. So definitely a check plus right there for the traditional publishing route when it comes to getting the help you need to actually get your book out there. Right? But of course, like we talked about, the barrier to entry for traditional is much, much higher. You need to create your proposal, you need to maybe even get an agent to help you deal with these publishers and get the best deal that you can. Then you have just competition with other people who might be fighting for that spot and that attention from that publisher and it's just like you might get denied, right?
Pat Flynn: Just like even J. K. Rowling got denied with her book Harry Potter before a publisher finally gave her a chance. Like people were laughing at her before, like this wizard with like a lightning bolt on his head, like this is ridiculous. And of course we all know what happened with Harry Potter and we'll talk about some of the benefits of traditional publishing in terms of the reach and a little bit later. But the barrier to entry for traditional is much higher. So number one, barrier to entry, definitely self publishing. But the support to create this book is definitely there with traditional and when you get access to a traditional publisher, they'll supply those things. It's great and you're golden. You just worry about the book and getting it out there. Now number three, creative control. This one's kind of obvious when you're the boss, who's the boss? You're the boss.
Pat Flynn: And so when you're self publishing, you're the boss and you get to have full creative control over every part of the process and that is both a blessing and a curse, but more of a blessing because you likely know your audience and your target market better than the traditional publisher and some person there who just got to know you for the first time does and so you can better understand what might need to live in that cover. You might have some creative ideas for things to put in your book. I did some things in 'Will It Fly?' that were very untraditional in terms of how the page numbers worked, we put like a little, for those of you who have, 'Will It Fly?' I don't know if you know this, there's this little Easter egg that we put in there, but if you slowly sort of open the book, almost like a flip book, you know there's like illustration flip books that look like their movies. If you look on the bottom, you'll notice a paper airplane flying across the left side of the book to the right side of the book.
Pat Flynn: Just as you got kind of flipped through the pages. It's very subtle. It's very gray. But that was like one instance of, I don't even have to ask anybody if that's okay. It was just an idea that I had that I wanted to put it in the book that I thought was cool and some people did find that and maybe more people will find it now and think it's really cool and that's something that sometimes a traditional publisher is going to be like, "Why would we do that? That's a waste of time. That's a waste of money. No, we need to focus on this instead." So when it comes to the creative control, you are in full control if you are a self publisher. And I've heard horror stories of people working with traditional publishers with just clashes of ideas. No, the cover should look like this. No, the cover needs to look like this because it's proven in these markets. But no, I know my audience better.
Pat Flynn: But no, this is what the market says right now on the data and it's just like boom, heads butting, rams sort of running up against each other and it just adds a lot of stress to the situation. So definitely in category number three, which is creative control, you got to give it, you got to give it to the self published author. That's not, you know, and I'm just making generalizations, right? There are some traditional publishers that I'm sure are very open to their creatives and their authors having a say and having final word on what things look like and how things feel and what words are on the page. However, you're definitely running into more red tape when you get into the traditional world. Next, let's talk about the cost. When you self publish, this is category number four, the cost. When you self publish, You are devoting not only time, not just time to write the manuscript, but time for all the other things we mentioned, like the creation of the book and the formatting and the design of the cover and all that stuff.
Pat Flynn: Again, like I said, when you're self publishing comes with a cost, unless you get to do things pro-bono or you have some people in your network who can help you or you have some special skills that you can offer through the topic of your book in exchange, you know, in the client to client sort of situation pro-bono, getting help from people to design your work for you, which is going to be pretty tough to manage sometimes and find those people, well your kind of on your own. So you're going to need to spend some money and of course that money is going to be an investment and hopefully you'll get it back in sales and how this book plays a role in your business. Maybe it's through direct sales, maybe it's through the indirect sales that are created through the book in different funnels that you might have.
Pat Flynn: And just a little side note, I remember when I was thinking of writing my first book in 2010 it took me three years later to write it, but I remember pitching this book idea kind of similar to 'Let Go,' but more on the business level and of course 'Let Go' came out and I'm so glad I kind of waited for that because it just wasn't going to be when I created the initial outline back in 2010 when I was coming up with a book idea. But anyway, I remember pitching this book idea to one of my mentors and he said, "Pat, okay, this is a great first step, but what's after the book?" And I'm like, "What do you mean what's after the book?" He's like, "Okay, the people read the book, but what do you want them to do next? What do you want them to do after that?"
Pat Flynn: "Well, I don't know." "What do you mean, you don't have a product or another, you know, offer after that?" You know, I wasn't in marketer mode at that time. I was just in, hey, this book seems cool and I want to write it. And it's really important to think, and we talked about this in some previous episodes here on the podcast with [inaudible 00:12:05] and in the previous one about the sort of five hard truths about writing a book and whether it's profitable or not for you. If you think about the book as sort of a step one or step two in the process of many steps that you have to help and serve your audience, well then it can lead to a lot more profits down the road. But if you're writing a book to make money, well then you know, that's it. You don't have a step two or a step three or other additional offers on top of that. Well, you know, like we talked about in the previous episode 380, the hard truth is it's not very profitable right off the bat.
Pat Flynn: And so with a little bit of investment upfront and some cost and knowing that it's not going to be completely profitable for you up front, especially self published, could be tough. It could be a tough go and you have to think about, well, why are you really writing this book in the first place? Hopefully it's not for riches, but hopefully it's to serve people and through serving people, the byproduct of that are more earnings, right? Your earnings are a byproduct of how well you serve your audience. But a book of course like we mentioned in the last episode, can be a great way to get on different stages and make connections with other people who can help you build a bigger and more profitable business. It can help you get onto more podcasts and get in front of bigger audiences that way and have a bigger, more expansive reach. So books are great in that regard.
Pat Flynn: But anyway, when it comes to the cost category number four here, you're definitely going to be spending more money when it comes to the self publish space. You're definitely going to be spending time either way, maybe more time spent in the traditional published world, especially with the number of asks that might come your way related to edits and changes and things like that. But here's the thing with traditional, traditionally you're going to get an advance and I think I read recently that you know, you hear these stories about advances that are high six figure, even seven figure advances, multi-book deals and this is what makes the media and this is what we hear, this is what we dream of, but in most cases advances are going to be just a couple thousand dollars and still that, that's a great advance and that's cool, but there's definitely less cost there because you're getting an advance plus all that help is provided for you versus a self published book which is you've got to front up all that costs yourself.
Pat Flynn: Even for 'Super Fans,' we're working with this company called New type Publishing and they are providing some services that is helping with the cost. However, I have to pay for over 10,000 bucks up front to get them printed and then shipped to a fulfillment house to then ship to Amazon based on wherever they want them to fulfill to larger orders, for events that want to pick up bulk copies. And then also, you know, any individuals that they get fulfilled elsewhere, I have to buy them up front. It's not a create on demand sort of situation, print on demand situation anymore. This is a investment and so we're spending, you know well over $30,000 here upfront, but based on the numbers of 'Will It Fly?' And based on the audience size and based on historical records from this publisher, you know it should come back, it should come back.
Pat Flynn: But again that's not the end of the story. That's the first part and something that will hopefully serve you and in some way shape or form come back and be a benefit to me in some way down the road with this book. But anyway, when it comes to cost, you're definitely going to be spending less when it's traditional, right? You're going to be getting paid for that which is pretty cool. So we're currently four categories through and we're kind of tied two to two right now. So number one, self publishing definitely got the barrier to entry, asset creation and the help and support to create your book, traditional for sure. Creative control, by far, you have more creative control in this self publish route and then when it comes to the cost, well you're getting paid and traditional normally, even if it's a small amount, it's still you're going to be paying more for self-publish.
Pat Flynn: So we're at a tie right now, so let's go to number five and that is time. I just mentioned this, but time to create the book and honestly it's going to take time both ways. It's going to take time to come up with the idea for the book, to validate it, to outline it, to write it, the first draft, second draft, however many drafts. To copy, edit, to proof it and there's going to be changes either way. It's not just the traditional publisher who is asking for changes, it's you when you're self publishing and the people that you share it with. Perhaps some super fans that you might have who you might give early access to or some members of your team or just friends and family. They're going to find things that you're going to change too. So for both, this is our first category where both are going to take time.
Pat Flynn: This stuff doesn't happen overnight and I just wanted to knock that out of the park here. Just share with you that this is a commitment and writing a book is not easy. However, there are obviously benefits which we've talked about so it's worth doing it, especially if you're doing it for the right reasons and for the right person or audience avatar. But let's move on to category number six. So we are still at a tie, they each got three even though we're in category six right now because both had time. Anyway, let's keep going here. Distribution. Distribution means, how far can this book go? Like where is it going to be seen? Who might be able to find it somewhere? And this is a very obvious answer as well. You're going to get better, wider distribution going traditional, this is the primary motive for going traditional for most people.
Pat Flynn: It's less so about the sort of clout that comes with traditional now because you can still have a very, very well respected book in the self-published space. Even as an eBook alone, not even paperback but still it can still earn you a lot of respects so it's less so about that nowadays but it's more so traditional people are going down that route because of the distribution, the ability to get that book in Barnes and Noble, in Target, found in airports, that sort of thing and all the other bookstores that are out there and getting access to that because there are still people who go to bookstores and that's a huge thing and there's some prestige that comes with that that is not found in the self publishing world. It's much more difficult in a self publishing world to get found in bookstores. It's possible though and I was able to prove it because in mid 2016 after 'Will It Fly?' became a self published Wall Street Journal bestseller, still self-published, I asked my audience, my super fans in my audience to do me a favor.
Pat Flynn: I sort of recruited over 500 people to go to Barnes and Noble on one weekend all in the same weekend and ask the clerk to get, 'Will It Fly?' knowing that it was not going to be there. And I just wanted to see that if Barnes and Noble had that many search queries on a single day for 'Will It Fly?' would that inspire them in some way or trigger some sort of mechanism in their buying system to go and get, 'Will It Fly?' and actually put it in the bookstores. And guess what? It actually worked, I found 'Will It Fly?' in the bookstores soon after that about, you know, three or four weeks after that. It wasn't an all bookstores, but I found it. I actually recorded the moment that I found it at a Barnes and Noble here in San Diego and I took my kids and my son found it on the shelves and it was a really cool moment because that was something I said in 2012 it was a dream of mine to happen and to have it happened four years later. It was pretty awesome. It was a cool moment.
Pat Flynn: So it's possible, but it's not easy. It's not like I publish a self published book and then all of a sudden Barnes and Noble was going to have it and it doesn't work like that. There are relationships that exist between publishers and these bookstores and that's what allows these traditionally published books to get into these bookstores. There's transactions happening between them and that's stuff that you don't have to worry about when you're going to traditionally publish. That is almost expected. So by far distribution, huge plus on the traditional side and that's something that's still a lot of people are not able to get access to easily today in the self published world. That may change, that may change, but currently it's still heavily weighted on the traditionally published side. Okay, let's keep going here.
Pat Flynn: Clout and prestige, you know this to me is still ways more on the traditionally published side because of the fact that, hey, these books are found in bookstores and real bookstores and you can do book tours and you know, rent out. I don't know how it even works, I don't know. Do you run out of Barnes and Noble or do they ask you or, I mean this is really the job of the publisher to help work with a Barnes and Noble store to have you be in a bookstore and sign books with your fans there and you know, have a poster up leading up to that, all that stuff. I mean that's the responsibility of the publisher to help market in that way. And that's part of the distribution obviously. And not all publishers will do that, but many will.
Pat Flynn: But there is clout with that, right? There is prestige. Now I just mentioned that, you know, there's also prestige in some respect that comes with publishing eBooks and self publishing books nowadays and that's absolutely true. Way more than back in 2008 when I published my first eBook in the architecture world, people didn't even know what eBooks were. It was almost laughable. It's like, "Hey, this is just a pdf file. Oh, you made this thing yourself. Like that is not a real book." There's less of that today, but there still is some prestige and some clout and some authority that comes with traditional versus publishing. However, you are seeing now a lot of people who have been very, very much in the traditional space now coming over to self-publish for a lot of these reasons that we mentioned before and a lot of the ones that are coming up.
Pat Flynn: Even Seth Godin has experimented a lot with self publishing himself too, he did a campaign that launched on Kickstarter actually it did very, very well just to prove that you don't need a traditional publisher to make a massive impact and to do some amazing things and it was a very, very, very successful experiment and I was a part of that. I was a backer of sort of the acre's deception, which is what that sort of giant book was called that he launched. I can't even remember when back in 2011, 2010, I think. Anyway, I would still have to wait for the seventh category here. The seventh category sort of clout and prestigious authority that comes with publishing, it's definitely weighted on the traditional publishing side right now for sure. So I don't even know what the score is, but we're going to keep going here. Next I want to talk about lists.
Pat Flynn: So a lot of people assume that, well the only way to get on the list is to be traditionally published and there's arguments here and I don't know the exact science or the exact math or the exact route, but I will say that it is possible to be a self published author and get on a list because guess what? It happened to me, 'Will it fly?' which was self published, became a Wall Street Journal bestseller and it did definitely surprised me. I didn't think it was possible, but we sold a ton of books in that first week and just thank you to everybody who has helped support 'Will It Fly?' back then and I hope that you'll continue that support through 'Super Fans' and we'll see where that ends up. If it ends up on a list, it's not the main goal but I'm hoping, I'm hoping, but we'll see.
Pat Flynn: And again, you could pre-order that book before August 13th if you do submit your receipt at yoursuperfans.com and you'll be able to get the audio book for free on launch week, which is a really great deal for sure. But anyway, going back to what we're talking about lists, it can happen. Now, I am not so sure if a self published book can be on the New York Times list, New York Times bestseller list, but the New York Times when it's sort of a weird anomaly, right? Like I remember seeing books that you know and getting insider knowledge from authors and how many books they sold and ones that did very well, didn't even end up on the list and ones that didn't do very well ended up on the list. There's a lot of politics and other things that are happening behind the scenes, a lot of relationship related things in terms of what happens on the New York Times bestseller list. But there is the USA Today list. There's obviously the Wall Street Journal list and there's also Amazon bestseller list.
Pat Flynn: I mean, that one's the easiest one to get for sure whether you're self published or traditionally published. And honestly, if you want it to just work your way up toward number one bestseller in a category, it's pretty simple because there's a billion categories on Amazon, right? You just pick a very sort of not so populated category and you can have a bestseller if you just drive a lot of acceleration into that book on one day and then boom, you can call yourself a bestseller. That's why the sort of name of, you know, putting the word's bestseller on your resume right now is not as great anymore on both sides because it's easier to just say that now with Amazon. But Wall Street Journal bestseller, USA Today bestseller, New York Times bestseller, that's stuff that you know, definitely can happen. And whether you are a traditionally published or self published, I'm assuming with New York Times, but I obviously know it happens with Wall Street Journal, but anyway, it could still happen.
Pat Flynn: So it's for both. You know, I would assume that with traditional publishing, maybe there's a better chance of getting the New York Times, but I'm just going to say that, you know, that's a check mark for both. Now next let's talk about marketing. I think marketing is a very important topic here when it comes to books because a lot of people assume that, you know, hey, you just have to write the book and then it'll kind of work out, right? Like if you build it, they will come. And that's definitely not true. And I've heard on both sides, self publishing and traditional that there are good things that happen and there are not so good things that happen depending on your publisher, you could work with a publisher whose great all up until the point that the book launches and then they don't do anything for you anymore. And it's just that they don't have those assets, they don't have these responsibilities or relationships and it doesn't work out.
Pat Flynn: And a good friend of mine had gone through a process of working with a publisher and just being very disappointed with the publisher that they worked with because they didn't get any help. They had to rely completely on their own marketing skills, even though it was traditionally published. They had to use their platform and they had to use their marketing skills to get that book out there. And they still did very well with it, but it wasn't as good as they thought. They thought they were going to get a little bit more help from the traditional publisher. And of course there are publishers like you know Penguin and Random House that you know, hey, they're going to do and work really hard to get that book out there and in front of as many people as possible. And hey, you might be standing in the middle of Times Square and see an ad on those giant billboards because hey, they were able to make that happen. And sometimes that happens too.
Pat Flynn: But I've heard it on the self publishing side that there's pros and cons to marketing as well. Because first of all, it's your business. It's your brand, your platforms that you're building. You're going to know how to market better than anybody else. And so if you're going to go self published, obviously you need to hopefully rely on some of the skills that you have as a marketer to get that book out there and spread the word on all the channels that you have available to you, whether it's a podcast or a blog or social media or what have you. You got to use those assets and don't be afraid to sell your book. I mean, it's your obligation. You have something amazing that you've worked on that you know can help people, it's your responsibility to get it out there and you have a lot more sort of say again that what you can do. But either way, I mean really the bottom line is either way you're going to have to market it and you're going to have to work for it too.
Pat Flynn: You might get a boost of help with traditional, but it's not guaranteed. Again, it's all about the contract, right? So when you go into that sort of contract and you're signing it, be very careful. Read every word, have a lawyer and an attorney help you. If you're going traditional, you want to make sure that you have support. You want to make sure that you aren't tied into anything. I mean, what happens to the rights of your book, which is sort of the next topic here. Topic number nine I think, and that is the rights, the rights of your book. Or are we at 10, I lost count now, but I'll list this out one more time at the end here. But obviously when it comes to the rights of your book, you're selling the rights of your book to a traditional publisher. They almost own that content now at least for a period of time, but it's all about the contract. But that allows them to do a lot that you can't do anymore.
Pat Flynn: I've heard horror stories of people offering the rights to their audio book, for example, to companies. And then wishing they had that back because they would be able to make much more money from that if they were to offer it on their own and not do a rev share because, and then that publisher doesn't even do anything to help, you know, market it. It's almost like, "Hey, you're going to start marketing it, but that publishers are going to make more money from you marketing it yourself." So it's like, ah shit, should I give up my rights? Should I not, obviously self published got to give a check mark to this one because you own your book and it's yours and you could do whatever you want with it. With 'Will it fly?' self-published, I had the rights to that, the US rights and the worldwide rights and I worked with a company, a publisher to help sell the sort of translated versions to get it out there into other countries. And it's actually published in seven different countries right now, which is amazing.
Pat Flynn: From Serbia to Vietnam to China. It's in Mandarin, which is really cool. It's even just Poland. It's amazing. And those are rights that I sold to use the book and to sell it. And for that I was okay and it was more experimental, but it's just been really cool to see the book published in other languages. But hey, you know, it was published by a traditional publisher in Poland and they did all the work. I didn't have to do anything. And unfortunately I don't have a large audience in Poland that I can market to like I did in the US so it didn't really hit any lists or anything. But I am getting messages pretty much every week with my name at tagged on Instagram or on Twitter of people in Poland who, and I recognize the cover. It doesn't look anything like the one in the US, they have full control, but you know, it is still changing lives around the world, which is really amazing.
Pat Flynn: Another big benefit of writing a book, is it just the long lasting impact that a book can have versus something like a blog post or even a Facebook status update or a Twitter post that just sort of gets lost in the ether, sort of almost the moment it gets published. Right? So that's really interesting. But when it comes to marketing rights, definitely like, hey, you're going to benefit from having it self published for sure. And again, make sure that if you do go traditional that you are working with somebody who can help you interpret all that's in that contract when it comes to the proposal and sort of what that deal looks like, the advance work with an agent, perhaps if you have one or access to one, they're going to help you interpret all that stuff too. And then finally, let's talk about profits. Just bare bones math. When it comes to self publishing, you know, obviously there's some costs in there too. So there's some expenses, but when it comes to the individual books that are sold, I mean you're going to make more profit than if you were traditionally published.
Pat Flynn: Yes, if you are on Barnes and Noble or especially Amazon, you're going to be splitting profits with them and depending on the price of your book, you're likely going to be sharing 30% of your revenue with Amazon. But this is versus, you know, so if you have like a $10 book on Amazon, for example, you would be taking home $7 per sale, which is pretty amazing. And then of course on Audible it's much more, the book prices are much more on audible and I've actually made more money on the audio version of 'Will It Fly?' versus the eBook version. So hey, another benefit to get the audio book for 'Super Fans' early because that actually will cost more. But I even go off the script every once in a while. So if that's something you want to pick up, definitely submit your receipt for the pre-order before August 13th for 'Super Fans' at yoursuperfans.com.
Pat Flynn: But continuing on the profit stuff, like on traditional, right? Like yes, you get an advance, but it's called an advance. They're not paying you. And then they're paying you royalties for every book after that, you have to sort of almost make up that advanced through the books that are sold. And so you don't see any additional income coming in until you've reached a certain threshold after sort of the advanced is paid off with the book sales. And then after that, and I've heard from different people, you might be getting 10 to 20 cents per sale after that. It's very, very minimal at that point. And again, it's another reason why you need to think about the book as sort of step one. What happens after people read the book? Because in the traditional role, it's going to be very, very little that you're going to earn from your book after the advance. And oftentimes that advance is not very big.
Pat Flynn: So when it comes to the overall profits, publishing it on your own is going to be the best bet. So if you are writing a book to make money up front with the book alone, then definitely think about self publishing. And if you have that larger audience, it's definitely going to be easier to do that because again, the distribution is very helpful and so you kind of have to weigh both things against each other. And we talked about a lot of things and it's kind of equal weighted on both sides on various topics. But the main question you need to answer before you select self versus traditional and even before you select sort of the book that you want to write or why you're writing, I mean, that's the answer. You need to figure out the answer to that question, why are you writing this? What is the purpose, the purpose is reach for example. Then maybe it's worth foregoing some of the profits in order to get more distribution and working harder up front to work on a proposal and work with an agent.
Pat Flynn: Versus if you're doing this for more profits and sort of a lead gen sort of thing and taking advantage of Amazon and the search engine optimization there, well it's less likely you're even going to be accepted by a traditional publisher if you're going kind of that route and going more keyword base. But you might be able to find people who would be perfect for the start of a funnel to lead into a course that you might have to offer. So you kind of have to wait things based on, well, what's the purpose of you writing this book? Now I had mentioned before that there are some hybrid models and there's a lot of these popping up and the one that I'm working with right now is called New Type Publishing. Now what I'm going to do right now is go to their websites so I can describe for you exactly what they're doing because it's really interesting.
Pat Flynn: So newtypepublishing.com and this is who we're working with. There's a brilliant person there on the other end named Ryan who we've been working with and it's really amazing because they're sort of combining the best of both worlds, right? So I own the rights to my book. It is self published and I do receive higher profits than if I were to go traditional a little bit lower than if I were to go full self published, because guess what I'm paying for here? I'm paying New Type to help me with distribution. They don't select every author. It's not like you sign up and then they'll help distribute. They do have an application or a selection process and I'm very lucky to have gotten through, but they have the distribution, right? They have the distribution. So it's like the rights you get to keep the rights. Costs, they remove all the sort of cryptic costs that come around, sort of traditional publishing. You get to keep 75% of net royalty. And when it comes to buybacks, which is a sort of whole nother topic when it comes to books aren't sold in stores, you buy them back.
Pat Flynn: But depending on who you work with, you might have to buy them back at a higher price. With traditional, it's going to be bare bone minimum with New Type and what's cool, I'm going to read this word for word here with the distribution stuff on newtypepublishing.com. "New Type arm's a Manhattan based sales team to push your book to all the major national book retailers, chain accounts in more than 5,000 independent accounts led by the former head of sales of Simon and Schuster, our team fights for store placement." So what I said about earlier about 'Will It Fly?' and it being self published and just having it being a real challenge to get it noticed. New Type has the relationships already and again they don't choose everybody but this is going to be awesome. They help with the distribution and that's super cool.
Pat Flynn: And the other thing is timing. I mean these guys move fast, right? Traditional publishers, I mean you might work with a traditional publisher, get a deal, get an advanced, great and the book's not even going to be published for 12 to 24 months. But with New Type, I mean, it only takes about six months to make happen and we're right on target right now for an August 13th launch and you know, everything they promise they are doing. They even have a lot of services like printing and production and you know, creating specs and proofs and all that sort of stuff. And it's really amazing just how simple it's been and honestly really good guys who really care about the success of this book. So just big shout out to New Type Publishing. They didn't pay for this sort of spot, if you will. I always give shout outs to companies who are doing great things and doing new things, bold things and who are helping me out. I want to help others out as well.
Pat Flynn: So if you're interested in something like that, check out newtypepublishing.com and thanks to Ryan and the team there for helping out. Very, very excited with what we've seen so far. Most recent at the time of this recording, we got the manuscript back in the way that it's going to look when it's printed. It's not in final book form yet. That's going to happen it's literally being printed right now, which is really amazing. But the latest thing that I got in my hands was the layout. So it looked like it was printed at something like Kinko's, a little bit higher quality, but it shows you that like, hey, this is how it's going to look like when it's in a book, a lot bigger, eight and a half by 11 but you could see the sort of cutouts of how big the book's going to be.
Pat Flynn: And then my favorite thing that I've seen so far is like a giant sort of printout of the dust jacket. And this is another thing that, that's the benefit of using these kinds of companies versus something like the Amazon sort of direct publishing model, which is you can get a much higher quality print. So our covers beautiful and I'm so excited to see it on an actual book. And, oh man, I'm so excited for you to see it too. So again, just thank you to everybody who's been helpful and especially to you team Flynn for supporting the book. I hope that you'll check out 'Super Fans.' It's my answer for how to build a longterm long lasting business in today's age where, hey algorithms are getting in the way. There's a lot of competition out there. People aren't opening their emails anymore. How can you get people to just love everything that you do? And it doesn't happen the moment they find you, it happens with the moments that you create for them over time.
Pat Flynn: And I'm just so thankful that I have been able to build an amazing tribe of super fans over time at you know who you are, your fans of SPI, your fans of Pat Flynn, and you've already got the book in your hands, right? You know, pre-ordered, which is amazing. And this book has a how to, to have raving fans like that too. Because I'm just a regular person who's just trying to help people and you can in your own special way build super fans who can help support the business and life that you want to. So make sure you check out the book, pre-order it today. You can go pre-order it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Target. Thank you New Type and wherever you pre-order it from, make sure you submit your receipt at yoursuperfans.com and you'll be on the list to get the audio book on launch week and I'm excited to give it to you and get the book in your hands and I'm so excited.
Pat Flynn: Thank you so much for all the support team Flynn, you are amazing. All the links and everything. All the resources mentioned in this episode are going to be at smartpassiveincome.com/session381 and the most important link is yoursuperfans.com. Pre-order the book and I appreciate you so much. I hope this has been helpful to hear a lot of the stuff behind the scenes related to books. What's going in through my head related to books and hey, you know what? Traditional book, maybe in my future I've been asked many times by a lot of different companies and different publishers, some very reputable, some not so much, but either way I'm just very thankful and blessed for the opportunity, but I'm saying no right now. I love the self publishing model, but hey, that doesn't mean I'm not going to do traditional in the future, especially when it comes to some of these other bigger topics that I want to talk about, perhaps down the road, like education and putting entrepreneurship into schools.
Pat Flynn: That's something that's really important to me and so, hey, that might be my first traditionally published book, we will see. But in the meantime, 'Super Fans' headed your way, August 13. Thank you so much for the support team, Flynn, you're amazing. I love you. Team Flynn for the win.
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We're here again, Blindspotters! After a slow week, the show has given us an episode like those of yesteryear. In "Everybody hates Kathy" the good rhythm returns, as well as the tattoos, the mysteries and the emotional conflicts. In short, our favorite series returns. The case of the week has bifurcated to, on the one hand, advance the main plot in a surprising and wonderful way and, on the other, to develop one of our protagonists, giving us a closer perspective of his life, of his past and who he is now. Let's talk about everything!
This time the case of the week has bifurcated into several branches.
On the one hand we had the research of Rich and Pattersonm that has taken us directly towards Kathy and her anger once again.
On the other hand, the more than safe attack (this time nuclear) has taken us to a family that is a kind of an imperfect reflection of Kurt's family, thus connecting this plot intimately with him and the emotional conflict that he has to face on this occasion, which I loved. This is what a case of the week should be, something that connects directly to the characters and helps us to develop and better understand their plot, and something that leads us to advance in the grand scheme of things.
Focusing strictly on the case, we have returned to what we should never have left: tattoos. The origin of everything and part of the key to the success of the show. It has been pleasant and different, nothing has been what it seemed and the really guilty person was the one that seemed most affected: the mother.
This has connected directly with Kurt. He has seen the two sides of the coin that lead to his story. He has seen a father who is worried and willing to do everything to protect his son and has also seen a mother who was many things. She was a manipulator, a liar, a spy and even a terrorist … but she loved her son. At the end of the day, she chose him and put the well-being of the little one above her own. That woman was many things but, again, she loved her son. Because making mistakes, making big mistakes, and making horrible decisions doesn't mean you don't love your child. It doesn't mean that, in spite of everything, Kurt's mother doesn't love him.
BLINDSPOT — "The Big Blast from the Past Episode" Episode 414 — Pictured: Sullivan Stapleton as Kurt Weller — (Photo by: Barbara Nitke/NBC/Warner Brothers)
I really liked how they have managed to spin everything, developing a plot that has helped us to better understand the two sides of the coin in the story of Kurt and his family and, at the same time, has opened Kurt's eyes. All this without leaving aside the action, the other plots and mysteries and entertainment. Point for them!
JELLER
I have loved every moment of this couple! Kurt has always been there for Jane, at every moment. In the good, bad and worse. In every emotional challenge that she has had to deal with. And now Jane has done the same for Kurt. They have gone to see his mother to discover what tied her to Shepherd.
At all times, Kurt has treated her as another suspect, just wanted to find out the answers and close that door again with a bang, as he did years ago … but, at the same time, he was afraid to open it again for fear of what could come out of there. But at his side was Jane, she has given him the strength to do it and has treated his mother in a nicer way. Kurt's mother was happy to see him, happy to see that he had married and to see Jane's eyes full of love for her son, happy to see that he was happy … and proud of everything he has achieved.
Kurt is full of resentment, anger … almost hate but, in reality, all that covers his pain. But it's like trying to cover the sun with a finger. The pain is too great, it floods everything. He felt abandoned, unprotected by his mother. She was not there when he needed her, she never let herself be helped by him, because she didn't care enough, and did not take him away from the monster his father had become. She was not there to protect him. And that she has been deceived by Shepherd is too much.
Kurt's mother confided in Shepherd blindly, but she only used her to get close to Kurt and that his mother didn't realize it, that … accentuates Kurt's feeling of helplessness. It accentuates his pain. Although he knows that Shepherd was an expert manipulator … he is not rational at the moment.
Everything gets worse when a criminal goes looking for his mother. Her terror at seeing him makes Kurt realize that she has not changed anything in those years, no matter how she seems to. When she confesses what has happened, Kurt judges her harshly, while Jane is the one who is most sympathetic to her. Kurt's mother made many mistakes and never knew how to fight … and Kurt is absolutely right to feel angry, but the truth is that she is his family, she is in danger and he is not the type of man that leaves someone in danger to his fate and less to someone he loves.
Because that's where everything lies. Kurt loves her. She is his mother and, despite everything, he loves her and he still hopes that she will approach him, that she will embrace him so that he feels that everything will be fine. And he's angry with himself for feeling that. Kurt listens to Jane and gives in because he knows she's right … but stays away.
BLINDSPOT — "Frequently Recurring Struggle For Existence" Episode 415 — Pictured: Sullivan Stapleton as Kurt Weller — (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC/Warner Brothers)
It's Jane who listens to Kurt's mother. Nothing is what it seems. She tried to protect her son but his father threatened his life and she did the only thing she thought she could do: leave, to protect him. Because her son was more important than everything, including herself. Later, she got lost in her own addictions, in her own fears and demons … she let them consume her and was never there when her son needed her. She made one mistake after another and never let herself be helped.
This is key, since to help a person, that person should want to be helped. Kurt's mother didn't really want to do it at any time, that's why all of Kurt's attempts were unsuccessful.
The case leads Kurt to face his own feelings about his mother. First, he sees a mother concerned about the well-being of her son, almost dead in life for not having him by her side. And he can't help but think that his mother never cared about not having him by her side (although nothing could be further from reality). Afterwards, he sees a father capable of risking everything, including his life, to save his son. He at this moment thinks that his mother was never able to do anything it for him, that her would have been able, things would have been different (again, he is wrong).
And, in the end, Kurt sees how a mother turned into a spy and terrorist, returns to become a mother, showing that she loves her son above all else. She puts him first, even above herself.
Kurt can't, as he tells Tasha, forget everything that has happened with his mother and simply pretend. There is too much resentment, too much pain for that. Tasha tells him it's family … and that he should try. And she's right, it's not as easy as ignoring it, besides, that would not be healthy and it would be a lie. But family deserves another chance. His mother deserves to show that she has learned from her mistakes.
The case, along with the conversation he has with Jane makes him open his eyes. He is at a crossroads: he can say something that he will regret later and keep his mother away forever or he can give her another chance. Kurt decides to give her another chance. Now, thanks to Jane, he knows that nothing was as it seemed. His mother tried to put him first and losing him was a torture for her … although she was never brave enough to do something about it.
BLINDSPOT — "Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method In't" Episode 413 — Pictured: (l-r) Jaimie Alexander as Jane Doe, Sullivan Stapleton as Kurt Weller — (Photo by: Barbara Nitke/NBC/Warner Brothers)
Kurt is willing to give her another chance but he needs to know that she is capable of being his mother again. He needs to know that she is willing to let herself be helped, because he is not willing to repeat that flawed dynamic and she, this time, lets herself be helped because she feels she has something to fight for. It's not all right between them … but it's a beginning. It's the necessary and most significant one. Mother and son are starting again … and Kurt's pain has eased as he forgave his mother, once he has better understood her part of the story.
PATTERSON AND RICH
Great and interesting plot that has united Rich and Patterson with their friend Kathy. Both form a perfect tandem, the seriousness of Patterson and Rich's humor and how she gets carried many times by that humor and that madness that characterizes it … it just works.
At first, I didn't remember Kathy, but she will be key for the future. I loved this, to join this plot, in appearance, without relevance, to the entire final plan.
Kathy wants revenge. In her eyes, both Patterson and Rich did the same as her but Kathy ended up in jail and they continued to work for the government. Frankly, Kathy is crazy but I think we can all get to understand her anger and her desire for revenge.
In fact, that fact is important because, while it seems that Patterson and Rich did the same as her, there is a difference. Patterson and Rich did want to do something good, they did it for the common good, although in reality they were breaking the law for it … but, sometimes, that is what is needed to do what is right and just. That's what they were trying to do, and always separating it from their jobs at the FBI. They were white hats. But Kathy was always a black hat, never cared to cause chaos or the consequences of their actions as long as she got what she wanted, she didn't care what she had to lose along the way. That is the difference
Uniting the desire for revenge to the madness and psychopathy of Kathy creates an explosive cocktail. A time bomb about to go off.
BLINDSPOT — "Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method In't" Episode 413 — Pictured: (l-r) Rob Brown as Edgar Reade, Ashley Johnson as Patterson — (Photo by: Barbara Nitke/NBC/Warner Brothers)
And it will go off soon. For the time being, Kathy has blackmailed Patterson and Rich to give her money for her "wedding." Patterson has had no choice but to do it, but has she really trusted Kathy to think that would solve everything? I mean, Kathy is crazy, but she doesn't have to keep her word, especially with the unpredictability that her madness brings her. What prevents Kathy from revealing Patterson and Rich's hacktivist past once she has the money? I think both Patterson and Rich were too trusting here.
Apart from this, I don't think that money is for any wedding … it sounds more like a trap. That they are going to involve Patterson and Rich in some terrorist financing crime or similar. Because, attention Kathy's new boyfriend is … Dominic! Madeline's partner has joined Kathy with a specific goal.
It seems that in the midst of her madness, he has managed to convince Kathy that they have a kind of relationship and that he loves her, in addition to having a common goal that is to destroy Rich, Patterson and the FBI. But it is clear that he is using her for his own purposes.
Kathy wants to destroy the people who put her in jail and especially Patterson and Rich for "betraying" their friendship. Her knowledge of computers and hacktivism makes her have a talent that Dominic needs to carry out her plan or, better said, Madeline's plan, and Kathy is vulnerable … the perfect victim to be able to manipulate her at his whim.
Both together they are going to cause a lot of trouble … and the worst thing is that neither Rich nor Patterson have told a word about what happened to Reade so, when everything explodes, it will catch them off guard. What do you think will happen?
RAPATA
That little moment between the couple has given me life! It has been a few seconds of gold. They are like a couple that is living together … only they are not a couple. There has been a time when the laughter and the games have led them to be close, so close … they just had to lean a little so that their lips touched … they both want it very much, but they are afraid. Afraid of what it would mean and what would come next. Fear that it would not go well, like the other times.
So they separate and try to cover that uncomfortable moment with more laughter and jokes. But that moment is still there, latent, waiting. Just waiting for them to decide to deal with it. And they will do it soon, I'm sure. That will be a turning point for them.
In conclusion, this episode shows us that the series is increasingly returning to what it was. The episode has felt as before, with the case of the week serving to better develop the emotional conflicts of the characters, that is, intimately linked to the rest of the plot of the episode but with its own identity.
In addition, there are several well developed subplots that introduce a development of the characters, enriches them and, at the same time, introduce us to a new mystery, advancing the main plot of the season.
Unlike the previous weeks, there is no minute wasted in the episode, everything has its reason and each character has its time and place; everything works like a well-oiled machine that takes us, without haste but without pause, towards the final confrontation. And it's going to be epic.
Agree? Disagree? Don't hesitate to share your opinion with us in the comments below! The show takes a little rest again. We'll be back on May 3 with 4×20 "Coder to Killer." And here's the promo for the next episode.
Blindspot returns on Friday, May 3 at 8 / 7c on NBC.
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Allison and Joseph celebrated their marriage and the start of a new year with a stunning New Year's Eve destination wedding. Their three-day celebration was filled with love, family, friends, and all-around sparkle. We're thrilled to share some of the fabulous details and photos from this couple's wedding story.
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Allison and Joseph were on a walk (with her twin sister's dachshund) on the grounds of New England BioLabs in Ipswich, MA. The company lets locals walk their dogs around the grounds, which are adorned with awesome modern art installations. The grounds also feature a pond with swans. When Allison and Joseph stopped for a moment to admire the swans, Allison turned around to find Joseph down on one knee. Throughout the entire walk, Joseph had been carrying the ring in a vintage milk glass owl jewelry holder.
"How I missed that I will never know," Allison says. And, of course, she said "YES!"
The venue and theme
Allison and Joseph had a wonderful wedding on New Year's Eve at South Seas Island Resort on Captiva Island in Florida. They had family and friends from near and far join them for a three-day celebration. The color scheme included shades of pink with navy and silver accents. The first day guests were treated to a "Welcome Dinner" on the beach where they enjoyed the sounds of a steel drum player during the meal. After, everyone headed to the beach to light wish lanterns.
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The wedding was held on New Year's Eve. Allison and Joseph wanted to make sure the event was both romantic and festive. After a lovely outdoor ceremony, everyone had a blast dancing the night away and ringing in the holiday and all the new year had in store.
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Allison says she was looking for a wedding dress that was "romantic, whimsical, and fun." With her twin sister and mother by her side she went to VOWS looking for perfection.
"We had the most amazing time at VOWS picking out my wedding dress," Allison says. "The amount of dress choices was spectacular, and VOWS offered every style you could ever imagine. Our consultant, Amelia, was fantastic. She was so fun and helpful. She truly put me at ease. The gown I chose was by Allure. The dress set the tone for the entire event. The combination of the lace and champagne English net was just so romantic. I had actually gone into the appointment with a very different idea of the kind of dress I wanted. My sister pulled the dress, and I only tried it on to please her. Once I saw myself in it, and saw my family's reaction, I knew it was the one. I never wanted to take it off!"
Allison had indeed found the gown, but that wasn't all. She shopped VOWS accessories! "My headpiece and veil also came from VOWS, and the owner, Leslie, helped me choose those special pieces to bring the entire look together," Allison says. "Plus, my mother also got her dress that day. Leslie assisted her with picking it out, and she looked absolutely stunning. Mom's dress was by Oscar de la Renta… a beautiful orchid color with its own train. We had such a positive experience. Thank you for helping make beautiful wedding dresses be more obtainable for every bride."
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Airstrike creates Taliban firestorm
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The Associated Press - An Organization Without Judgment or Decency
[Hat tip to the Mudville Gazette for sending this story]
In the Politico today, Secretary Gates admonishes the AP for publishing a photo of Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard dying in Afghanistan:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting "in the strongest terms" to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision "appalling" and a breach of "common decency."
The AP reported that the Marine's father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.
AP reported in a story that it decided to make the image public anyway because it "conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it."
The photo shows Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, who was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, according to The AP.
Gates wrote to Thomas Curley, AP's president and chief executive officer. "Out of respect for his family's wishes, I ask you in the strongest of terms to reconsider your decision. I do not make this request lightly. In one of my first public statements as Secretary of Defense, I stated that the media should not be treated as the enemy, and made it a point to thank journalists for revealing problems that need to be fixed – as was the case with Walter Reed.
"I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Lance Corporal Bernard's death has caused his family. Why your organization would purposefully defy the family's wishes knowing full well that it will lead to yet more anguish is beyond me. Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image of their maimed and stricken child on the front page
of multiple American newspapers is appalling. The issue here is not law, policy or constitutional right – but judgment and common decency."
The four-paragraph letter concluded, "Sincerely," then had Gates' signature...
Below is the caption of the photo taken by AP photographer Julie Jacobson:
In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard is tended to by fellow U.S. Marines after being hit by a rocket propelled grenade during a firefight against the Taliban in the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was transported by helicopter to Camp Leatherneck where he later died of his wounds.
He died on the scene as Jacobson would go on to write about the photo:
"That's when I realized there was a casualty and saw the injured Marine, about 10 yards from where I'd stood," Jacobson would write in her journal. "For the second time in my life, I watched a Marine lose his. He was hit with the RPG which blew off one of his legs and badly mangled the other. ... I hadn't seen it happen, just heard the explosion. I hit the ground and lay as flat as I could and shot what I could of the scene."
This editor's note was in the sidebar next to the above statement in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald:
Although the Associated Press chose to distribute a photo of Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard taken shortly after he was mortally wounded, we believe that running the photo would be in poor taste and have chosen not to run it.
So, yes it was in poor taste and without consideration to LCpl Bernard's family. But was there other motivations? Here is Julie Jacobson's excuse:
"To ignore a moment like that simply ... would have been wrong. I was recording his impending death, just as I had recorded his life moments before walking the point in the bazaar. Death is a part of life and most certainly a part of war. Isn't that why we're here? To document for now and for history the events of this war?"
The Associated Press is long known for anti-war bias and even supporting the propaganda of the enemy (Bilal Hussein, anyone?).
Apparently, it is the enemy of common human decency as well.
Update: The military community is understandably upset.
I'll post their links and responses after the Jump.
First, I'll post a link to the response from Old Blue, a soldier in Afghanistan now.
It Takes Two to Tango
Next, the American Legion has responded. The National Commander's Press Release is below:
American Legion National Commander blasts AP decision to release image of fallen Marine hero
INDIANAPOLIS (September 4, 2009) – "Outrageously irresponsible," is how the leader of the nation's largest veterans organization characterized the Associated Press's decision to release a photo of a dying U.S. Marine taken in Afghanistan.
"The lack of compassion and common decency shown by the Associated Press in releasing this photograph is stunning," said American Legion National Commander Clarence E. Hill, a retired Navy captain. "Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard is a hero who gave his life for his country. His family is understandably offended. I have asked the American Legion state commander in Maine to reach out to this family. Indeed everybody in The American Legion stands with this family."
The photo shows Bernard bleeding after being stuck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14. Before the photograph was publicly released, Secretary of Defense Robert Gate asked Thomas Curley, AP's president and chief executive officer to refrain from transmitting the image. "Out of respect for his family's wishes, I ask you in the strongest of terms to reconsider your decision. I do not make this request lightly…The issue here is not law, policy or constitutional right – but judgment and common decency."
"Secretary Gates was right," Hill added. "The issue is judgment and common decency. There is some information, some actions that occur, that are simply too private, too personal, and too tragic to be intentionally broadcast into the homes of millions. For families with loved ones overseas, the fear of what might happen to them is a near constant companion. This photo not only keeps open the wounds of war for the Bernard family, but it also increases the fear for the families of those who are still facing the reality of sudden death every day."
Hill called for a review by the Department of Defense of the rules governing embedded media. "This should never have occurred in the first place, nor should it be allowed to occur again," Hill said. "Ironically, when I visited Camp Delta at Guantanamo, the photographer was prohibited from taking images showing the faces of detained terrorists. Yet, photographers are allowed to shoot photographs of fallen American heroes? Where is the common sense? Where is the common decency?"
With a membership of 2.6-million wartime veterans, The American Legion was founded in 1919 on the four pillars of a strong national security, veterans affairs, Americanism, and patriotic youth programs
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Full name: Kylie Ann Minogue
Born: 28th May 1968 Bethlehem Hospital, Melbourne. Australia.
Height: 5ft 1"
Family: Carol+Ron.
Brother: Brendan(1970)
Sister Danielle(1971)
Albums: Kylie('88) Enjoy Yourself ('89) Rhythm Of Love('90) Let's Get To It('91) Greatest Hits('92) Kylie Minogue('94) Impossible Princess('97) Intimate and Live('99) Light Years(2000) Fever('01)
Television: Sullivans('80)The Henderson Kids('85)Fame and Misfortune('85)Zoo Family('85) Neighbours('86)Vicar Of Dibley('94)
Films: The Delinquents('89),Streetfighter('94),Bio Dome('95), Hayride To Hell('95), Diana and Me('96), Sample People('99), Cut('00), Moulin Rouge('01)
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Edited July 10, 2005 by Qball
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they from a commerical she did.
Commerical is for Agent Provocateur lingerie.
That commercial was hot!
Excellent pics Hiro.
I love her music...her latest CD, however, sucked.
Hot stuff courtesy of RoninGrave
A couple of memorable images:
I just picked up her Greatest Hits 87-97 CD. She is such a great singer, I love her music. Her sister sucks at it though.
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I'm not seeing that on the pic you posted.
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o yea thats that chilax stuff....
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In today's world, many believers are suffering the consequences for their faith, even children.
When did it become illegal to read the Bible in your own free time? In today's world, many believers are suffering the consequences for their faith, even children.
Bible Banned from "Free Reading Time"
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Passing out Verses
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A seventh-grade student was told not to use a reference of the Bible for her class assignment on Roman history. The school reportedly apologized.
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Wellington, Florida, USA – April 02, 2021 – Bertram Allen (IRL) has announced the sale of Castlefield Vegas to Sergio Nieto del Rio (MEX). The Irishman made the following announcement on his website: "Castlefield Vegas (Cassino x Lux Z), owned by Ballywalter Stables LTD, Martin Egan and Ger O Neill – […]
Santiago Lambre & Dingeman Soar to First in $75,000 Agricon Kubota Superstore Grand Prix
By Jumper News on 21 21America/Sao_Paulo March 21America/Sao_Paulo 2021
Ocala, Florida, USA – March 20, 2021 – Thrilling equestrian sport filled the WEC Grand Arena today for the $75,000 Agricon Kubota Superstore Grand Prix. FEI Level 4 course designer Alan Wade (IRL) designed the technical tracks for the classes, which featured multiple combinations, along with jump-off courses […]
Super Santiago Lambre Scores a 1-2 in the Golden Ocola Golf & Equestrian Club $75,000 Grand Prix
By jumpernews01 on 8 08America/Sao_Paulo March 08America/Sao_Paulo 2021
Ocala, Florida, USA – March 6, 2021 – Saturday evening's $75,000 Grand Prix was sponsored by Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club, where the LPGA Drive On Championship presented by Volvik was held this past weekend. In honor of the event, a stunning decorative putting green was added […]
Francisco Pasquel & Coronado Fly to First in $2,000,000 Jump-off Challenge CSI 4* at Copexpan
By Jumper News on 20 20America/Sao_Paulo February 20America/Sao_Paulo 2021
Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico – February 18, 2021 – Francisco Pasquel (MEX) and Coronado were back to their old tricks again on Thursday during the second week of the Coapexpan CSI 3* & CSI 4* at the Club Hípico Coapexpan. The dynamic duo triumphed in the MXN $2,000,000 Jump-off […]
Santiago Lambre & Comtess Soar to Win $20,000 WEC Welcome at Ocala
By Jumper News on 29 29America/Sao_Paulo January 29America/Sao_Paulo 2021
Ocala, Florida, USA – January 28, 2021 – Feature class action for Week 4 of the 2021 World Equestrian Center — Ocala Winter Spectacular kicked off this afternoon with 36 entries vying for the top prize in the $20,000 Welcome Prix 1.45m. The course for today's class was […]
Santiago Lambre & Mick Jagger Supreme in $25,000 JTWG, Inc. National Grand Prix at PBIEC
Wellington, Florida, USA – November 15, 2020 – Besides the $137,000 Noltrex®Vet Grand Prix CSI 3*, there was another major attraction to to conclude the ESP Fall Series. The CSI 3* class was followed later in the day by the $25,000 JTWG, Inc. National Grand Prix, which featured a new […]
Santiago Lambre & Mick Jagger Prance & Dance to Victory in $24,999 Score At The Top Grand Prix in Wellington
Wellington, Florida, USA – October 11, 2020 – The first week of the ESP Fall Series came to an end on Sunday with the $24,999 Score At The Top Grand Prix in the Van Kampen Covered Arena of the Equestrian Village. A total of 20 competitors challenged the […]
Jaime Azcarraga & Verdinale Victorious in the $300,000 Clásico at Otomí
By Jumper News on 7 07America/Sao_Paulo October 07America/Sao_Paulo 2020
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico – October 04, 2020 – Jaime Azacarraga Romandia (MEX) and Verdinale were victorious in the MXN $300,000 Clásico CSI 2* last Sunday during the final day of the second and final week of the Otomí Grand Prix at the Club Hípico Otomí. The Mexican […]
Santiago Lambre & Cetano van Aspergem Z Supreme in $24,999 Palm Beach Equine Clinic Grand Prix
Wellington, Florida, USA – October 4, 2020 – The ESP October Show opened up the Fall Series at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) last week, taking place from Thursday until Sunday. The highlight of the week was Sunday's $24,999 Palm Beach Equine Clinic Grand Prix on the […]
Daniel Rihan & Couleur Van Berkenbroek Supreme in $1,100,000 Gas Express Nieto Grand Prix CSI 2* at Otomí
By Jumper News on 28 28America/Sao_Paulo September 28America/Sao_Paulo 2020
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico – September 27, 2020 – The first two weeks of competition during the Otomí Grand Prix came to a close in grand fashion last Saturday at the Club Hípico Otomí. Justice was served as Daniel Rihan Goyeneche (MEX) and Couleur Van Berkenbroek […]
Armando Hassey & Lomax Supreme in $25,000 LEG Grand Prix at Colorado Horse Park
Parker, Colorado, USA— On Saturday morning at Autumn in the Rockies II (Sept. 10-13), eight horse and rider pairs found the key to a track designed by Catsy Cruz (MEX), keeping all the poles up within the time allowed. Armando Hassey and his own 10-year-old Westphalian gelding, Lomax (Lord […]
Dale Mexico! Enrique Gonzalez Leads Mexican Trifecta in the Banbajío Grand Prix CSI 2*
Léon Guanajuato, Mexico – September 06, 2020 – The first week of the Banbajío Cup CSI 2* came to an end last Sunday at the Asociación Ecuestre de Léon Equestrian Center. The grand finale of an exciting week of showjumping was the Banbajío Grand Prix. The main class […]
Cornet's Dream Makes Winning the Clásico a Reality for Arturo Parada at the Banbajío Cup CSI 2*
Léon, Mexico – September 05, 2020 – Cornet's Dreams, that's the name of the horse that made Arturo Parada's (MEX) dream of winning the Clásico come true last Saturday during the Banbajío Cup CSI 2*. The Mexican and the 15-year-old grey Westphalian stallion (Cornet Obolensky x Cordobes I) […]
2020 NARG Sport Report Ranks the Best Winter Horse Show Venues
May 27, 2020 – When the North American Riders Group last sent a release about plans for the return of the NARG Top 25, the terms COVID-19 pandemic, shelter-in-place order, social distancing and face masks were not rampant in our daily vocabulary. As we dealt with the challenges […]
Otomi Grand Prix Competitions Postponed due to Coronavirus
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico – March 17, 2020 – The organizing committee of the Otomi Grand Prix (Grande Premio Otomí), at Otomí Club Hípico, have released a statement announcing that competitions have been postponed due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Their announcement is the following: Dear Equestrian […]
Luis Alejandro Plascencia & Elton ML Excel in $1,100,000 Banorte Grand Prix CSI 3* at Querétaro
By Jumper News on 2 02America/Sao_Paulo March 02America/Sao_Paulo 2020
Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico – Sunday, March 01, 2020 – The second week of the Equsport CSI 2*/3*/4* came to an end yesterday and it was Luis Alejandro Plascencia (MEX) and Elton ML who claimed top honors in the MXN $1,100,000 Banorte Grand Prix CSI 3* at the Balvanera Polo & […]
Francisco Pasquel & Manzano Power to First Place in $1,070,000 Banorte Grand Prix CSI 2* at Querétaro
Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico – Sunday, February 23, 2020 – Francisco Pasquel (MEX) and Manzano triumphed in the MXN $1,070,000 Banorte Grand Prix CSI 2* last Sunday during the first week of the Equsport CSI 2*/3*/4* at the Balvanera Polo & Golf Club in Santiago de Querétaro, State […]
Carlos Hank Guerreiro & H5 Quantador 3 Gallop for #1 Finish in $25,000 Grand Prix CSI U-25 at WEF
Wellington, Florida, USA – February 16, 2020 – The sixth week of the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) closed with a victory for Mexico's Carlos Hank Guerreiro (MEX) and in the $25,000 Grand Prix CSI U-25 on the picturesque grass Derby Field of the Equestrian Village (home to the […]
No Jump-off, No Problema! Salvador Oñate & Beautiful Red Top $2,000,000 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Leon CSI 4*-W
By Jumper News on 9 09America/Sao_Paulo February 09America/Sao_Paulo 2020
Lèon, Mexico – Saturday, February 8, 2020 – Salvador Oñate (MEX) recorded a meaningful victory in the $2,000,000 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Leon CSI 4*-W Saturday afternoon at the Lèon Country Club. Oñate, the owner of the venue hosting the prestigious event, was the only rider to […]
Jose A. Martinez Vazquez & No Limint Thrive in $1,070,000 BMW Grand Prix Qualifier at Copa Banbajío CSI 4*-W
Lèon, México, February 6, 2020 – First to go in an eight-horse jump-off, Jose Alberto Martinez Vazquez (MEX) held his lead through seven riders to record an impressive win in the MXN $1,070,000 BMW Grand Prix Qualifier CSI 4*-W. Part of the Copa BanBajío – Lèon CSI4*-W, the […]
Santiago Lambre & Doloris Dash for the Cash in $37,000 Douglas Elliman CSI 5* at WEF
Wellington, Florida – Wednesday, February 5, 2020 – Mexico's Santiago Lambre (MEX) opened Week five of the 2020 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) with a win in the $37,000 Douglas Elliman Real Estate 1.45m CSI 5* riding Doloris on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, as international competition reaches a peak […]
Alberto Sanchez-Cozar & Gonzalo Azcárraga Share the Win in $2,000,000 Longines Banorte FEI Jumping World Cup Guadalajara CSI 4*-W
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – January 26, 2020 – When Gonzalo Azcárraga (MEX) crossed the finish of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Guadalajara CSI 4*-W, he didn't know whether he had won or lost. To his surprise, he had done neither. He tied. In a history-making result, Azcárraga, […]
Juan Martin del Campo & Ben Gun Shoot to the Top in $100,000 Guadalajara Country Club Cup CSI 4*
Guadalajara, Mexico – January 23, 2020 – Juan Carlos Martin Del Campo Martinez (MEX) and Ben Gun were victorious in the MXN $100,000 Guadalajara Country Club Cup CSI 4* last Wednesday during the Triple Copa Scappino CSI 4*-W at the Guadalajara Country Club. Martinez and the 11-year-old chestnut […] |
Q: Merging trigger handlers to handle bulk records? I have two triggers in Opportunity and these triggers are handler from two different handler classes, now I want them as one class.
1.
if(trigger.isAfter){
if(trigger.isUpdate){
try{
Oppclass.afterInsertOpportunity(trigger.new, null);
}catch(Exception ex){
system.debug('OpportunityTrigger=>isAfter=>isInsert=>'+ex.getMessage() +'-----Line Number--->'+ex.getLineNumber());
oppClass.secondMethod(false,false,false,false);
}
}
2.
List<Opportunity> optyList = new List<Opportunity>();
for(Opportunity o:Trigger.new){
if(trigger.isupdate && trigger.isAfter){
//some condition
optyList.add(o);
opportunityclass.method(list of opp);
Now i want to merge these two triggers in one trigger that it will work fine and handle all the bulk records.
A: All you need to do here is add the method class to the first trigger.
if(trigger.isAfter){
if(trigger.isUpdate){
try{
Oppclass.afterInsertOpportunity(trigger.new, null);
*opportunityclass.method(Trigger.new);*
}catch(Exception ex){
system.debug('OpportunityTrigger=>isAfter=>isInsert=>'+ex.getMessage() +'-----Line Number--->'+ex.getLineNumber());
oppClass.secondMethod(false,false,false,false);
}
}
}
Option 1 is the more desired way to put a trigger together. Within your custom code, you always want to have 1 trigger per object. Then, within your trigger, you can customize what happens with the data. Specifically when it comes to order of operation of your code. With 2 triggers, you do not know which will fire first.
There are a few variations on how to setup your trigger, but they are similar to this:
trigger standardOpportunity on Opportunity (after delete, after insert, after undelete,
after update, before delete, before insert, before update) {
// before stuff here
if( trigger.isBefore )
{
if(trigger.isInsert)
{
// call class to do stuff
}
if(trigger.isUpdate)
{
// call class to do stuff
}
if(trigger.isDelete)
{
// call class to do stuff
}
}
// after stuff here
if(trigger.isAfter)
{
if(trigger.isInsert)
{
// call class to do stuff
}
if(trigger.isUpdate)
{
// call class to do stuff
}
}
}
Now, keep in mind, this is a variation. You want to keep it down to the necessary stuff you need to perform on each action.
What 'triggers' a trigger is some kind of DML on a record or set of records. Hence the conditional check isAfter, isBefore etc prior to doing logic. ALL of the records within the set are triggered off that DML. So there is no need to loop through the triggers in isBefore isUpdate to add them to a list to do processing. It will either always be that condition, or it will not be.
Triggers are also automatically bulkified. This means that 200 records will be process in a trigger at a time. So if 400 records are being updated at once, the trigger will run twice with 200 record increments.
When the desired conditions are met, send the entire list you want to process to your class. I do not put logic in my triggers. Business logic should be done in your classes that the trigger calls. I would bet that some refactoring will need to be done to your OpportunityClass and OppClass to work together.
Finally, you should think about triggers in terms of the execution context. What is the desired goal you want to happen when an opportunity is updated. Instead of adding an individual piece that doesn't fit well in the puzzle, you need to figure out the piece and how it fits into what is currently happening to the records at the given condition.
Please take a look at some apex coding best practices. This one touches on the example I described and continues to take it much further in depth of what is possible with triggers.
A: I would suggest that you consider using a framework. We have adopted the sfdc-trigger-framework so that we can use one handler class per object. You dont have to use this one as there are more if you just Google Apex Trigger Frameworks.
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An effect of age on implicit memory that is not due to explicit contamination: implications for single and multiple-systems theories
Ward, Emma V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2076-832X, Berry, Christopher J. and Shanks, David R. (2013) An effect of age on implicit memory that is not due to explicit contamination: implications for single and multiple-systems theories. Psychology and Aging, 28 (2) . pp. 429-442. ISSN 0882-7974 (doi:10.1037/a0031888)
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031888
Recognition memory is typically weaker in healthy older relative to young adults, while performance on implicit tests (e.g., repetition priming) is often comparable between groups. Such observations are commonly taken as evidence for independent explicit and implicit memory systems. On a picture version of the continuous identification with recognition (CID-R) task, we found a reliable age-related reduction in recognition memory, while the age effect on priming did not reach statistical significance (Experiment 1). This pattern was consistent with the predictions of a formal single-system model. Experiment 2 replicated these observations using separate priming (continuous identification; CID) and recognition phases, while a combined data analysis revealed a significant effect of age on priming. In Experiment 3, we provide evidence that priming in this task is unaffected by explicit processing, and we conclude that the age difference in priming is unlikely to have been driven by differences in explicit processing between groups of young and older adults ("explicit contamination"). The results support the view that explicit and implicit expressions of memory are driven by a single underlying memory system.
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The existence of cheetah in the country ended 70 years ago. In such a situation, the central government is trying to bring cheetahs to India. It is expected that eight cheetahs from Namibia will be brought to Sheopur MP on PM Modi's birthday.
The birthday of the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the 17th of this month. Born on 17 September 1950, PM Modi will turn 72 this year. PM Modi, who has a vision for the development of the country, is going to give another gift to the country on this birthday. There is a possibility that they may launch the Cheetah Project at Kuno Palpur Park in Madhya Pradesh. For this, the Madhya Pradesh government has also made full preparations.
These cheetahs have also been kept separate in Namibia and they are fully prepared to come to India. Although it was expected that these cheetahs would be brought to India only last month, but it could not happen. These cheetahs will be released in a special enclosure of the Prime Minister's Park. For this, five helipads are being prepared in the park and four in Karahal.
the cheetah would have arrived two years ago
Prior to the Corona period, the Government of India had decided to bring a cheetah in 2020 following the directions of the Supreme Court, but due to unfavorable weather that year in some parts of Madhya Pradesh, a fencing could not be prepared for the cheetah in the Kuno Palpur National Park. After this, new cases of corona started coming in Africa, due to which the trip of Indian officials related to the plan to Africa was canceled and work had to be stopped.
Cheetah numbers expected to reach 50 in next five years
India was once considered the home of Asiatic cheetahs. There was such a large number of them that hunting them became the hobby of the royals. Due to this hobby, cheetahs became extinct. The last cheetah in the country was killed in present-day Chhattisgarh due to this hobby of the kings. It was then declared extinct in 1952. Under the Cheetah Project, there is a plan to increase the number of cheetahs to 50 in the next 5 years.
Kuno Palpur Park Suitable area for cheetahs: Officials
According to news agency PTI, officials told that the Cheetah project was conceived in 2009. Last year, due to Kovid, the plan to bring cheetahs to Kuno Palpur Park suffered a setback. Officials said that Kuno Palpur Park is a suitable area for cheetahs as they can get good prey here. Experts from the Wildlife Institute of India have also monitored the area. According to officials, Madhya Pradesh has a good record of conservation of the fauna as tigers were successfully reared in Panna in 2009. |
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Semi-Automatic High Caliber Rifle
WRDIY
Beside the Browning BAR Mk3 Stalker, is there another company that makes a semi-automatic rifle in 30-06 or 300 win mag?
I am looking to collect. No particular usage. I know many companies make bolt action for those calibers.
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Gunguy45
Benelli R1 (AR type mechanism, but not looks) in both, Remington Woodsmaster in '06 only. (Assuming you want a more traditional looking rifle) Saw many AR lookalikes in .30-06 and .300 but never heard of most of the companies. A lot more .308 options since it's a short case. Of course, many of either type wouldn't be available to you in CA.
Btw, there are many more versions of the BAR in '06, not just the Stalker.
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Thanks GunGuy45.
I just looked up Benelli R1. It costs about the same (maybe $100 less) as the Browining Bar MK3. I know Benelli makes great shotguns but I wonder how the R1 vs MK3?
https://www.benelliusa.com/r1-big-game-rifle
At some point, I will pickup an AR-10 too since I already have an AR-15 but my eyes are on a 30-06 or 300 win for now.
This may not be everyone's cup of tea, but... the Civilian Marksmanship Program has M1 Garands again.
Fred_C_Dobbs
Gunguy45 has it pretty well covered. The Browning, the Benelli R1, and a bunch of AR10-ish ones.
FN (which basically is the military arm of Browning) makes a half-brother to the BAR called the FN-FNAR. Same mechanicals as the Browning but with a detachable box magazine, pistol grip, Picatinny rail and 'military' finish rather than the BAR's high-gloss wood furniture.
Oh, and one other. The Ohio Ordnance M1918-A3. It's a knock-off of the military .30-06 M1918 BAR, not the civilian hunting rifle introduced in the 1960s. And it's built under license from Browning so it's Browning-branded and built to Browning standards. The original BAR was select-fire and fired from an open bolt (to prevent cook-offs), and both those had to go to dodge the NFA. And the internal design of the receiver is different so it won't accept parts from the select-fire BAR. Still, it's externally identical and a lot of the parts are original. Not OEM, original. As in (almost) hundred-year-old parts manufactured for use in the military weapon. As soon as the military signed the check they started building them like gangbusters because WWI already was in full swing and they were eager to make up lost ground. But when the war ended sooner than they were anticipating, they had oodles and oodles of parts built that the military never took delivery on. Something like one-third of the 50,000 they built ever got to Europe. So the Ohio Ordnance versions are built with a lot of the original parts that had been in a warehouse somewhere still packed in cosmoline all these years. Colt (which originally owned Browning's patent) already was running at capacity with other weapons systems so they passed along the BAR to Marlin-Rockwell -- who made the barrels used in the Ohio Ordinance rifles -- and to Winchester.
So the Ohio Ordnance M1918-A3 gets two thumbs-up for collectability but two bug-eyes for it's price tag, north of 4 grand. But an 'original' transferable select-fire M1918 will set you back at least 20 grand. And those are all used, and usually used hard ... so there's that.
Ohio Ordnance also sells a mall-ninja version of the M1918 called the Heavy Combat Assault Rifle, a SopMod (semi-auto) BAR updated with 21st-Century accoutrements, like synthetic (OD) furniture, collapsible stock, pistol grip, Picatinny rails, muzzle brake and 30-round magazines. It's also several hundred dollars cheaper than the military replica. And it's butt-ugly. Like Christina Hendricks in a kevlar pot and body armor (all the best bits are camouflaged).
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Thanks Fred for taking the time to provide that information. I think after reading your post and a couple of the other posts from other gun forums, I am going to play it safe and stick to the Browning BAR MK3.
Doon1
Ruger has a swappable .300 barrel and mag for their SR-556. It's a high quality piston driven rifle.
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CasualJoe on Oct 08, 2017
Does anyone here have or familiar with the Remington 870 TAC14? I saw one at a grocery store down in Mountain Home, AR in August and thought it was an interesting home defense weapon. Fires either 2 3/4" or 3" 12 gauge shells and has a 14" barrel. It has a pistol grip, no stock. Overall length is I believe 26 3/8". Since that time, I have thought I might like to have one more to shoot for fun than for home defense, but it would also be the ultimate in a home defense weapon. I was doing some reading on it and found it is classed neither as a shotgun or a pistol, but as a firearm.
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I made it to a Body Sculpt class today. I arrived 20 mins early and did some walking on an incline on the treadmill before hand. Felt good. I was so hydrated, I felt like I could go on and on.... LOL Stopped by the grocery to pick up some milk and eggs and a sub for lunch. Ate lunch and ended up sweeping and mopping my floors. 2 dogs and a cat require lots of upkeep multiple times during the week. It had been at least a full week since I had swept or vacuumed. So you can imagine the fur balls fluttering all over the floor. Drives me mad. Felt good to get it all cleaned up and tidy.
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10.Plot should imitate actions that incite pity and feara€"pity as aroused by unmerited misfortune, and fear by witnessing the misfortune of a character like ourselves.
11.This character must be someone who brings misfortune on himself or herself, not through vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty. 13.The writer must focus on the action in the story and the part taken by the characters, and not drift off in several lines of action carried on at the same time.
14.The writer should put the scene before his or her eyes, as if he or she is an actual eyewitness to an event happening while writing. Hero or heroine faces jeopardy that incites in reader emotions of sympathetic fear and anxiety as to the outcome of the situation. Plant the idea or action early, then develop readera€™s understanding by returning to idea or action later in story. Description is the attempt to represent reality by using language to present as directly as possible the qualities of a person, place, object, or event. 1)The Eye of Insight sheds new light by examining inscape, viewing the interior, the shape within the shape of a thing.
2)The All-Accepting Eye examines things that we might rather not see, discards the labels, and searches for the beauty in a flaw, beginning discovery with the thing and not its label. 3)The Gliding Eye observes things in movement through time or space or both, picks up details of the passage, recording birth and decay of sensation at the center of a spinning mind. 4)The Childa€™s Eye observes a thing with the seriousness of a child at play, in a focused, highly concentrated way, without hurrya€"like watching an ant crawl across the ground or observing a dung beetle move a mass five times its size and weight.
5)The Dream Eye fragments reality and reshapes it, perhaps using symbols to penetrate below surface appearances. The Naked Eye merges with the Imaginative Eye to create effective descriptiona€"The Big Picturea€"by making things from, not making things up. New idea built from comparison between two unlike things; tension between two actualities creates possibility, or new meaning.
An Allusion measures a thing against a known cultural or memory tweak by referencing something the reader will know (Allegory, Conceit, direct or indirect reference to other texts (intertextuality), music, movies, etc.
Respond to each othera€™s work with respect, depth and thoughtfulness, in a manner that is civil and constructive. Over the Top a€" material is presented in such a way that reader has a hard time believing the story. Greenfield, Tennessee, a farm and factory town of twenty-two hundred in the statea€™s rural northwest corner, has never been more than a place between places, one in a long list of towns to be passed through along kudzu-choked U.S. It was in fact the railroad, and not the nearby Mississippi River, which was the prime mover in the delta land where I grew up. On September 2, 1979, two members of the Weakley County rescue squad found the raped and murdered body of eight year-old Cary Ann Medlin in one of the communitya€™s namesake green fields, not far from the Illinois Central tracks. I remember hearing news of her murder and running to find my first grade yearbook, hoping to fix her school days photo in my mind so I wouldna€™t lose it. It wasna€™t until twenty-one years later, long after Ia€™d left Tennessee, after Martin and Greenfield had became only places in my mind and that Lovera€™s Lane a Memory Lane that I began to consider the murdera€™s place in a childhood which I now see as violent in so many other ways. That first grade photo of Cary appeared over and over in the news in the months leading up to the Coe execution, along with another I found printed years before in the Nashville Tennessean and now reprinted as the newspaper re-capped the story: a shot of those rescue workers bent over the soybean plants, long-haired and t-shirted, hunting the girla€™s body. Bob Cowser, Jr.'s first book, Dream Season, was a New York Times Book Review a€?Editor's Choicea€? and a€?Paperback Rowa€? selection and was listed among the Chronicle of Higher Education's best-ever college sports books. Above our heads, a banner of the eartha€™s children: an African boy with corduroy hair, a fur-muffled Eskimo, a golden girl from Holland. Six years later my first stockings were seamed and I thought of Miss Ranney while I sat on the edge of the bathtub shaving the pale brown hairs. Rebecca McClanahan has published nine books, most recently Deep Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007 and The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, which won the 2005 Glasgow prize in nonfiction.
There was a woman who died while I was in Daffiama; she was young and eight months pregnant.
Jillian Schedneck taught Literature and Creative Writing at the American University in Dubai for the 2007-2008 academic year. Sitting on the edge of her bed, with legs dangling and shoulders slumped, my six-year-old stares at the wall in a trance. She moves to the beat of her own drum, but once in the car, I settle into the morning routine. As the overburdened stretch of I-95 south of the Capitol extends before me, with cars packed in every lane as we creep toward our northbound destinations, I cannot stop the seething anger and indignation that boils within me. Our passage onto the base is slowed at the gate by the forklift placing barriers in front of the gate shack. I look at her, and though I answer a€?yes,a€? I realize that I was late because I forgot to leave. Being a mother is not just something I do; it is who I am, who I should have been, and who I always want to be. On the way to work, I listen to the news, but then I turn it off and just listen to the sound of my breathing. During my first sixth months of recruiting duty, workdays lasted from 0700 to 2300 Monday thru Friday, and from 0800 to 1800 on Sunday.
Making all those a€?numbersa€? was occasionally impossible, especially the a€?three appointments for the next day.a€? The recruiter had to contact the staff non-commissioned officer in charge and report his numbers before securing. Create Scene, driving home, reflecting on the hours spent on the road as a recruiter and the nastiness of the bars carried on Na€™s clothing into the cara€"describe car: At the end of that night, I went home exhausted, sweaty, and smelling like the smoke from the bars, an odor I despise.
Create Scene: Pulling into the driveway at 0200 all I could think of was getting a shower and going to sleep. Deodorant soap replaced the smell of sweat and cigarette smoke from my body, but the taste in my mouth was getting worse. A recruiting SNCOIC doesna€™t want his recruiters getting caught with their integrity down but he is willing to risk it to make mission. This is a separate story inside this storya€"N is avoiding the real story by ending with this: Anyway, rumor had it the old man had assaulted a recruiter in Georgia and the Colonel just moved him to a new duty-station, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Like I said before, you have real talent, so dona€™t think badly of your writing when you see my comments. One of the most important things you can do, is to take this piece and determine what is summary and what is scene.
When you create your timeline, start with placing the major events in this piece on the line first.
Being assigned to recruiting from my usual job as a criminal investigator was both good and bad. Getting back to those tasks based on statistics, stay with me now as I get through how the numbers worked out. I talked to those people either on the telephone or in person, what we called daily activities. When I returned to my desk from the bathroom, the old sergeant was heading out the door with his Bible. This was the guy I had to call every night and get approval to secure, to leave work and go home at night.
After almost five hours of talking to people on the phone and going out and talking to people at malls, stores and various other public places, I felt done for the day.
Dragging ass, I continued to approach people around 7-eleven stores and such, acting like I just happened to be stopping by on my way home from work. After ironing out the details and writing down his contact information, I finally left the musty tavern and drove home, exhausted and sweaty.
The glowing numbers on the clock said it was a short night before I had to get back up and start another recruiting day.
Born and raised in a small town in the South, David Charles joined the US Marine Corps as a teenager during the Cold War period. Determine the point at which protagonist must make a decision in order to achieve goal (crisis). Coherent: Distilled image remains True to Life by reproducing the distinctive features of original. Consistent: Distilled image links the intended meaning from beginning to middle to end creating Unity of Meaning, as in an extended metaphor or exemplification. Allusion requires an understood knowledge base between writer and reader and recognition of a Cultural Memory Tweak by the reader in most cases.
Elusion is complex and mysterious and requires not just recognition, but discovery of what is absent.
In depicting the motions of the a€?human hearta€™ the durability of the writing depends on the exactitude. Submit line-edit suggestions, marginal comments, and an end comment (summary of your thoughts on the piece) addressed to the writer.
Offer an end comment that notes what you believe the work to be about, how you see the work achieving this, and what opportunities you can see for further exploration in this work. My slightly larger hometown of Martin, ten miles north up Highway 45, took its name from tobacco plantation owner Colonel William Martin who donated land for the railroad bed.
Cary had gone on a bike ride with her little brother twenty hours earlier, gotten into a strangera€™s Grand Torino and disappeared. Her stepfather worked in those days on the assembly line at the Goodyear tire plant in Union City, her mother as a nurse at a Jackson hospital, and before moving to Greenfield in the summer of a€?79 the family had lived for a time in Martin. As the state of Tennessee prepared to execute Coe for the Medlin murder (its first execution in forty years), I began to understand Bean Switch Road as a rutted track in memory which might run between me and many people I loved and respected, separating me from them. Both Medlin and Coe are as dead as they could bea€"Coe for almost five years at this writing, Cary Ann for nearly a quarter century. He is also the author of Scorekeeping, a collection of coming-of-age essays, and his essays and reviews have appeared widely in American literary magazines, including Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, American Literary Review, Sycamore Review, Brevity, Sonora Review, Fourth Genre, and Creative Nonfiction. I checked the seams each morning as we stood facing the chalkboard, my hand across a place I called a pocket but she called your heart, and I pledged allegiance to a flag no bigger than my brother's diaper flapping on the line. I fingered my Brownie badge and renewed my oath to help other people at all times, especially those at home.
She has also authored four previous books of poetry and two books of writing instruction, including Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively.
I didna€™t go to the funeral, but those who did said you could see the baby circling around inside of her, like a hand moving under a sheet.
The first one fell with the Twin Towers, and as the clots of blood dripped into the toilet, I said goodbye almost thankfully, glad not to bring a child into such a world. Something is different, something has changed, and I search my body for signs that my baby is still therea€"check my breasts, my belly, the fluid in the toilet, and back again to the breasts, wondering if the life inside me has died.
Not just any brown, but the kind you make with paint or too many layers of crayon when youa€™re a little kid. I would have gone to the funeral and made them cut the baby out while it was still alive, instead of after it had died. Her essay a€?Circling,a€? which first appeared in Brevity, will be anthologized in Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (Snowvigate Press, 2009).
As she rifled through the box of pencils, Alejandra must have also been watching my backside as I bent over Todda€™s desk, pondering the thin line of flower-print elastic that clings to my waistline.
He has dutifully added the e, but his compositiona€"five sentences describing his homea€"is riddled with errors. Calculating the hours, I am certain the Virginia state legislature steals an hour and a half from me five days a week.
Amandaa€™s before and after school care is local to our neighborhood, and my year old baby attends the day care on base.
Calculating the hours, I am certain the Virginia state legislature steals an hour and a half from me every workday. We are working with the Marine Corps program manager to set the timeline and milestones for the new Department of Defense messaging software.
She joined the Marine Corps in 1990 and is currently a Master Sergeant servingA with III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa Japan.
Those activities included about 200 telephone calls and, getting back to this day at a little after 5 p.m.
Having joined for law enforcement training, his first Marine job after a€?recruita€? and a€?studenta€? was as a military policeman. 8, 2012 I had a live blood microscopy with Rick Panson, a microbiologist, at the Live-Live store in NYC.
After countless hours of research on and about this breed, here is my version of how this wonderful breed came to be.In the early 1800a€™s Scotsman Bruce McKinsey moved his family moved from the cold damp climates of Northern Scotland to the Grampian Hills of Central Scotland. Scatter descriptive details by breaking large clumps of information into smaller bits and sprinkle throughout the story. More than a century ago now a conductor on a southbound Illinois Central Gulf train offered the town its name, noting the fields of winter wheat still green late in the year. Engineer Casey Jones lived 50 miles south in Jackson, Tennessee at the time of his legendary 1903 wreck, his modest house there now a museum.
By the time they found her tiny body atop a trampled swath of soybean plants just off Bean Switch Road, a notorious Lovera€™s Lane, the corpse had begun to turn in the late summer heat. I was as sad as a nine year-old boy could be about the business I suppose, but Cary had violated that cardinal rule of childhood about talking to strangers, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had Robert Glen Coe in custody just three days later. I sensed with a kind of strange excitement how the photo was an emblem of my childhooda€"the unmistakable heat, those men, something awful hidden just out of sight.
We sang of mountains and amber grain, our voices always a beat or two behind the warped '45 spinning on the phonograph beside the globe on Miss Ranney's desk.
Later that year, I was in Home Ec tracing my face shape with soap onto a mirror when the intercom crackled the news. McClanahana€™s work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Essays, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, and numerous other publications. Later I felt bad that I hadna€™t gone to the funeral, but I was never sure if my motivation was guilt or disappointment over missing such a spectacle. This one is taking its time, and I have nothing more than my intuition to tell me that ita€™s gone. Ia€™m still not completely sure, so I survey again, trying to find the feeling that was once there, that still comes back in little wisps, but seems mostly gone. You mix all the colors togethera€"the good colors and the bad colors too, just to see what will happen, and you come up with a muddy, greenish, sickly version of the color brown, a sort of chaos and confusion of life and lifelessness all blended into one, never to be separated into sky blue, tangerine, and sea foam again. I would have taken the dead womana€™s baby for my own, as a guard against the possibility that either of us would ever be alone, as a stone thrown in the face of death, as protection against this circling, this looking for something we both need desperately that is no longer there. I consider asking him what the correct spelling might be, imagine him looking up at me with big, brown eyes, searching the details of my face for the correct letter, but decide to just tell him what he needs instead.
I nod solemnly, mentally adding another dress code violation to my long list of teaching errors. Traffic is finally moving, and this idiot thinks the left lane is for pacing instead of passing. On the way to work, I listened to the news, but sometimes I turned it off and just listened to the sound of my breathing. Looking at my watch, I realize that the few minutes that I have been delayed will cost me many more. With my simple math skills, I conclude that including weekends, they rob me of at least ten hours a week.
My thoughts are focused on security, contingency operations, alternate network operations, and the myriad of requirements to overcome the obstacles presented by this occurrence. She knows something terrible has happened today and I dona€™t know how to explain it to her. Being a Marine is not something I do; it is who I am, who I have been, and who I will always be. The hands of time are moving again, but now I hear the slow, steady tick tock of each moment. She is also married to a Marine and has two daughters, ages 13 and 8.A She has served in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and her husband has served in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Once he cut his teeth guarding gates and on patrol, David became a Marine criminal investigator.
After all, something has drawn you here, readera€"you want to know what it is the searchers seek among the soybean plants. Lawrence University, where he teaches courses in nonfiction writing and later American literature, and an adjunct member of the faculty of Ashland Universitya€™s Low-Residency MFA program. Our world was the Weekly Reader, hopscotch and jump rope, the only war the Cold One which America of course was winning.
They lived only for my welfare, wrote notes about my progress and pinned them to my shirt, exchanged report card signatures. McClanahan, who lives in New York, has received the Wood Prize from POETRY, a Pushcart Prize in fiction, and (twice) the Carter prize for the essay from Shenendoah.
There is something about the way the breasts suddenly deflate, the way the body stops gurgling and humming, that lets me know I will continue to chase after the symptoms of another life in my body without ever finding what I am looking for. This brown, this color I am, it sucks in the colors of crocuses, bananas, my husbanda€™s eyes, and it holds them tight, keeping them for its own but never changing, never brightening to a rich mahogany or surrendering to black.
As my bitten fingernail zigzags over his sentences, I realize that even my fingers dona€™t match my image of a fourth grade teacher, who should be neat and composed, with a rosy complexion and trimmed, polished nails. He grins back at me, but there is something about his expression, the penetrating, hooded brown eyes, that tells me he knows Ia€™m overlooking his other mistakes. She is currently working on a travel memoir about her experiences in the United Arab Emirates titled a€?Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights.a€? Her creative work has been published in literary journals such as The Common Review, Brevity, and Fourth River. Adding lanes in both directions just wouldna€™t have been right a€" all that grass dividing the highway looks so much better! Most of his career was in military law enforcement minus some out of specialty assignments, including three years on recruiting duty. He spent an hour going over what he saw in my blood as well as giving me pointers that would move me into a greater state of health. After spending time together working the sheep in the fields and watching how McKinseya€™s dogs worked the livestock, Alexander eventually acquired a female Scottish Colley from Bruce and named her Flora.
She is not someone who must ask repeatedly for attention and good behavior, whose voice gets muffled in the chatter of children, who anxiously picks at her nails and tears at her cuticles until tiny red bumps appear. I finally allow myself to smile as I imagine the opportunity to place a full handed slap across the face of the Neanderthal that came up with that brilliant idea. And now these paragraphs lie before you like stands of trees, a deep forest of wonder and darkness whose mystery beckons. Each morning Mother locked my thermos and only Miss Ranney could loosen it, leaning over me in her ivory crepe blouse until the cap sighed once, then was free.
The rest of the orbit swirls out from there: King murdered the week of my senior prom, then Bobby in a hotel just miles from my school while I marched to Pomp and Circumstance, not knowing that within a year on a July night in the back seat of a Volkswagen, I would pledge what was left of my heart to a boy leaving for Vietnam while above us the tired moon finally gave in to a tiny man in gravity boots, planting an American flag.
Shea€™s probably doodling on the desk, her long, dark lashes cast down as she tries to escape the demands of the classroom and enter into the world of her drawing.
She is no longer a manipulative ten year old who pouts when she wants permission to draw hearts on the chalkboard or be excused to the lavatory for the third time in an hour. It is one thing to have lab work and testing, and quite another to witness firsthand what is transpiring in your blood.
Ia€™m trying to ignore her insubordinationa€"she should be writing a paragraph like the rest of the six students in my after school reading classa€"but clearly another one of my tactics has failed. In a moment, Alejandra has become a young woman learning how to manage the intimate details of our gender. I turn around, ready to demand she sit back in her seat, prepared to be heard and heeded this time, but she is looking at me, wide eyed. At the bottom of the page are images that various people suffering with Morgellons graciously contributed to this site.A note on the photos. Rick provided me with photos for this page and I've filled in some of the gaps with screen grabs taken from the video that was taping our session.Nov. There are several stages of microorganisms? here which include yeast, bacteria and fibrin, fungus and mold.
There isna€™t any information as to the demise of Alexander, but he was well into his 80's at this time. In the background are 'shadow cells' which were healthy red blood cells that 'popped' due to the loss of their phospolipid membranes.
This can occur from an acid producing diet, and poor assimilation of nutrients.Rick's comments "Healthy blood cells will be perfectly round, nice and dark with a glowing halo around them. Usually, if they have enough moisture inside them they are fully round because there is more pressure inside the cell then outside.""These 'shadow' or ghost cells were once perfectly healthy cells, you can see by their shape and color that they were—and they've now disappeared into the background. Every cell in the body has a double membrane of fat made up of phospholipids, a two layer membrane. This pup would come to be known as "Jet", a black pup with a faint line of white up his face, a white chest and socks. The acids can disentegrate the cell membrane as well as when your body ferments sugar, alcohol is the byproduct, and alcohol can easily melt the cell membrane.""Whatever is happening in the blood cells is happening to the rest of the body.
Both theseA lines worked from the head and didn't have the a€?loose eyeda€? working style of the traditional Collies.If you look at the picture of the Basque Sheepherder, taken at the turn of the century, you can see the resemblance of our modern day McNab in the Black and white dog in the back on the right side.
Clotted mass of blood cells due to changes in the cells polarity, loss of natural negative electrical charge. When there are this many cells and this little water, we are looking at the hydration level of the body. These nets act as a defense mechanism for the bacteria so that the white blood cells can't get to them.
Among Scottish flocks he is the pride of Scottish owners, and is valued, both in the Old World and the New, as one of the best aids money can procure.
Here even, in far California, there is one ranch, lying high on the breezy mountains and low in the grassy dells, that for years has relied upon the help given by imported collies and their offspring, and it is of the work these bright dogs do that this article is written.For the history of the collie one must look elsewhere than in a brief magazine sketch. There is no doubt that that is not part of normal healthy blood, and it's way bigger then what I think could survive in your cardiovascular system without being filtered out by your filter organs. That's why I don't think it's a fiber, per se, because it's so big compared to everything else. Many wise dogs have journeyed far by land and sea to race over the rugged hills after the nimble sheep, which in these mountain wilds give fleet defiance to the would-be-gatherer. From a biology point of view, my best guess is that it would be a contaminent that has nothing to do with you. No one but a real Scotch shepherd can train these dogs to the perfection they attain among Scottish flocks under constant supervision.
The red blood cells are fermenting as the yeast eats the cell itself.Above: Neutrophils You go guys! Descended from long generations of workers the puppies take actively to business, and practice amusing tactics of herding on the farm poultry while still too young to be initiated into the graver cares of life; and at first sight of a band of sheep will usually make some move that denotes the shepherd strain. Literally is it true of the collie, Ye cannot serve two masters ; his allegiance must be given to but one, or the valuable animal becomes worthless for the work that nature and training have given him to do. The other arrow is free-floating yeast, and you can see there is quite a bit of it in the blood. The breeze is sweet with bloom, and the sunlight falls, a flood of golden glory, over the lavish green of April meadow, as we take the upward trail, a woodland path that rises steeply under the shadow of the Peak, giving but glimpses of the valley home below, and winding through still shadows in the absolute silence of Natures own domains. Higher we go, and onward, past an old stone cabin, a picturesque bit of ruin in the lap of spring. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is the most important and most effective alkalizer your body makes to try and keep alkaline balance.
As we come out from the woods with the Peak still above us, send a swift glance northward, where Sanhedrim and the northern mountains still are capped in glittering snow, rising sharply from green valleys to the sunny sky, their sparkling peaks the only hint of winter in all this summerland. Off he dashes up the hill, makes a wide circle past a dozen ewes, and as they bolt up hill heads them, turns, and deftly drives them down. Their lambs lie asleep in the warm sun or frolic together on the hillside, bright bits of movement white against the green. This is not the greatest water filter but what it does is alkaline the water, so instead of drinking water that is pH 5 or 6, one is drinking water with a pH of 8-10 giving the body a running start on staying alkaline.
A motion of the hand directs the alert dogs, and they join the two bands and send them steadily along the trail. The benefits of this water are it's antioxidant properties which nullify free radical scavengers, plus the extra oxygen in the water is supposed to give energy and boost alertness and memory.Candida detox Next on the plate is to tackle the candida with capyrilic acid and olive leaf extract (for about 2 months).
Two ewes and a lamb go running to the side.Here, Pete!The dog dashes quickly across a little hill, the bright drops sparkling on his black coat as he passes the sheep and turns them.
I'm just going to take the recommended dosages on the bottles adding in one teaspoon of l-glutamine powder per day. The glutamine assists in strengthening the gut wall and helps patch any holes left by the yeast (which could lead to leaky gut syndrome and the problems it leads to, such as food allergies and parasites) Respiration "The biggest acid you make everyday is carbonic acid. Circling in front again, the dog overtakes, turns them, follows, and turns again, and patiently works them along till his troublesome charges are safely among their fellows. Every cell in your body is producing carbon dioxide from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head that is also surrounded by water and the carbon dioxide plus water makes carbonic acid, that's a very simple thing to keep in mind.
If sent to hurry the little flock, he dashes at the hindmost, barking his orders.Here the master whistles Fred to the right. By looking for acid based balance the amount of acid produced per day must be equal to the amount excreted or nutralized per day. Nothing is visible to him, but off scurries the obedient dog, barking frantically, circles, and stops. The thing that is happening is, if your body can't neutralize or eliminate the acid you stay at that level, you can't go beyond that level of health. You are taking the chest cavity, ribs and the lungs and trying to get them to be fantastic.
Off he dashes, perhaps fifty feet or so ahead, and dropping to the ground with nose between his paws, he waits till the flock is close upon him ; then he springs up and trots ahead again, and once more quietly waits their coming.Fred! The master walks away, and Fred, understanding perfectly that he must keep the flock, swiftly circles round them and brings them to a halt. Do 10 deep breaths a day 3x's a day (with long exhalation), in one month you are going to have a respiratory function that is 10%-15% better then you have now.
Here, alone, he holds them, keeping them closely together while Peter and the master gather the other side of the hill, and return two hours later to find the sheep quietly grazing and Fred lying as quietly watching them.Two ewes wander a little too far. Which means 10%-15% more energy and 10-15% less fermentation because fermentation only takes place where there is no oxygen. Scarcely rising to his feet, the dog slips quietly through the grass beside them, and they turn and slowly rejoin the band, cropping as they go.
Fred trots quietly around his charges, sees that all are safe, then drops down again, watching them ceaselessly with shining eyes, and not a ewe or lamb is missing when the returning master adds his flock.Steadily we climb, through the golden afternoon.
It's the greatest tool you have and it's free."Alkalizing with baking soda "The methods of getting rid of acidity from the body are respiration, perspiration, defecation and urination. Occasionally shy deer peer through the brush, the warm air is sweet with the breath of bloom, and a distant eagle screams as he sweeps in stately circles over the Peak.
The flocks number in the hundreds as we finally reach the summit, where we are met by the shepherd and Tweed, with another band. In go the dogs, and send the sheep briskly down the trail, while Peter, circling far behind of his own accord, often brings in a stray ewe that has slyly dropped out.Yonder is a place where the whole band broke away years ago, and never have forgotten it, but neither have the dogs. Rick gave me a great little tool (from the vet) that allows me to carry the soda in my back pocket making it more convienient to take. With a fierce challenge the collies vigorously meet the flying band, and force them back to the trail more roughly than we have seen them do yet, in punishment, perhaps, for their presumption and past sins. She has bolted away several times, and given Peter much trouble to bring her in ; but his Scotch is up, as she dashes away again. He springs in before her, and with a dexterous hoist of his body sends her tumbling end over end, which is his own cure for these troublesome bolters, and was never known to fail.
This is problematic for those of us taking supplements upon rising which are not supposed to be taken with clay. However, I'm trying to fit it in somewhere along the line.Magnesium oxide also called Oxy-Mag (NOW makes it). As if shot from a cannon, the ewe bangs against him, and over goes Tweed, howling rolling over and over, down the steep hillside, all four feet kicking at once, in angry protest as they come uppermost ; and his chap-fallen expression, as he struggles to his feet and slinks away, shows that Tweed is both a sadder and a wiser dog. Though all are trained alike in a general way, two collies differ as widely in characteristic methods of work as two men,each possessing a distinct individuality of his own.Ah! The process of oxygenating the bowel breaks down and eliminates solidified waste lodged in the large and small intestines. After much hard running the flock is finally under control, but a bunch of lambs has become separated in the confusion, and after circling helplessly, stampedes in wild disorder. Peter tries his wise best to work the foolish little things back, vainly attempting to head them off.but they jump over him, halfa-dozen in succession, ears and tails flapping wildly as they clear his broad back. Beware, if you take it (up to one teaspoon at night in water with the juice of 1-2 lemons), you must leave time the next morning to eliminate fully. While the master separates the sheep, let us sit on this sunny hillside and watch the collies as they circle round the running lambs.
They never bark at them as they would at old sheep, but merely follow and slowly check them by degrees. Rick says that eventually this watery stool will cease when the body is cleaned of accumulated waste. The little things are both obstinate and foolish, and at first pay no attention to the quiet collies that trot patiently round and round, quietly gather them together, and at last stop their wilr1 run. Slowly, and with marvelous patience they are turned, jumping over each other, then over the dogs, and it seems a hopeless task even to attempt to take them the half-mile to the corral, but in a couple of hours time Fred and Peter come slowly up to the gate with them, not a lamb hurt or missing, and their first acquaintance made with these gentle protectors and friends. I try and do this once a week.Food During our session together I became increasingly confused about food.
Peter is a favorite, bright even beyond the ordinary collie, his first appearance in the field showing a canine reason. All those veggies will eventually turn to sugar so they have to be balanced out with oils and proteins.
I was told by Nancy that each meal should have a carb, oil and protein and have been following that for some time. Then he suddenly spied a huge rock; straight for it he went, and springing into sight upon its top, he stood a moment, one paw uplifted, ears up and nose a-quiver, a pretty picture, gave two quick glances, and was down and with the sheep again, and quietly drove them straight across the field to the hidden gate. Rick has said the same thing and suggested I start the day with a chia smoothie."The perfect breakfast would be 2 tablespoons of chia seeds, ground to be chia meal with 2 tablespoons of chlorophyl, (spirulina, chlorella or grass powders (greener grasses, alkavision greens). Often, till he learned the hills, did he leave the sheep,, and on some high point literally take his bearings, to return to his charge and take them down the better way, justifying his masters assertion that surely the line between reason and instinct is closely drawn in the Scotch collie. Ground flax seeds can be added." "Chlorophyll is very cleansing and is a blood builder and it has a molecular structure that looks almost identical to red blood cells.
He was a ready match for a certain obstinate old ram, that always fought the dogs and delayed their work ; till at last when sent for the flock Peter went first for this old enemy, and there, nose to nose, both heads bobbing excitedly, he would angrily bark and growl, till the conquered ram at last would make a sudden bolt, and the victorious Peter calmly gather in the flock. A most conscientious dog, his work was done faithfully and well till years disabled him; but Fred, more alert to praise, did best were strangers present, when he abounded in bright ways and brilliant work, done with a comically conscious air of superior excellence.
When you take the chia seed and the flax seeds which are 28% protein 40-50% omega 3 fatty acids, that's very little carbohydrate there. The greens are 100% carbohydrate and when you mix them together, now you have carbs that burn like paper and you've got fats and oils, with proteins that don't really burn. The fats and oils are like the charcoal—now you have a sustained burn going on and then you don't ferment the sugars because the coal, the fatty acids, are there. The young man pondered a little, then to the country saddler he went and ordered made from his description little leather shoes. So that breakfast with the chia seeds or flax seeds, or both, and any of those chlorophyls you are using can be a very beneficial superfood breakfast.
He took to them kindly, like the wise dog he was, wore them gratefully, and after a long days run through flying seed, off would come the shoes, leaving his feet sound and well. Meekly he would let his shoes be donned, regarding his master quizzically the while, and wear them complacently enough in view, but let him be sent for sheep a little out of sight, a little delay would be noticed, then out from behind some bushy clump or sheltering rock Fred would gayly emerge, with many gambols to divert the eye.
They time release and give it back to you so you have have nice long sustained energy with oils, proteins and carbs all day. You'd be surprised, you don't need a lot of food, what you need is the right food."Rick suggested the more chia seeds used, the less hungry one will be. Clyde closely resembles Fred, whose days are past; and till the present puppy, tiny Tweed, grows to working age, Clyde is the mainstay of the gathering. Help fulfills his name on other portions of the large range ; but either are true types of the working collie, willing and faithful helpers till years disable them. Either one is sent for sheep entirely out of sight in a large field, and patiently hunts till he finds them, then brings them in alone ; and Gyps mother, Bessie, brings in the entire flock from her owners small range just as readily as from the field. They brought with them their stock dogs, the Fox Shepard, the origin not known, but have survived in Scotland for centuries. In fact, chia seeds have the highest known whole-food source levels of Omega-3 acids, as measured by percent of weight.• ?Rich In Antioxidants.
Chia is a great natural source of antioxidants, including chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, myricetin, quercetin and flavonols.• Full of Important Nutrients.
Chia is an excellent source of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc and copper.
McNab returned to the Grampian Hills in Scotland for the sole purpose of getting some of the dogs he was used to working.
He brought Peter back with him, leaving Fred to have his training completed, and he was later sent to America.
These two dogs were bred to select Shepard females of the Spanish origin, which were brought to this country by the Basque sheepherders, and that cross was called the McNab Shepherds because Mr.
He named this pup Jet he was black with a faint white line up his face, a white chest and a small amount of white on his feet.
Some of these dogs will have a wider strip up the face (Bentley Stripe) and a ring around the neck, there are also instances of pups with brown on their face and legs but will still be mostly black.
Alexander McNab and his family raised sheep in Scotland, but longed for a warmer climate and enticed by the news of the West, set out across the Atlantic to America. McNab was not satisfied with the type of working dogs he found locally, and in 1885 he returned to Scotland for the sole purpose of importing the type of dog(s) he had been accustomed to working with. It was said that these two male dogs were bred to female dogs of Spanish origin, which were brought to this country by the Basque sheep herders. I have searched (and continue to search) to find out the type of dog the Basque may have brought with them to California, and my findings were contradicting.
About five percent of this fiber is soluble, which can help reduce cholesterol.• Builds Endurance. Chia builds stamina and endurance because it steadily releases slow-burning glucose into the bloodstream.• ?Gluten-Free. Since essential amino acids are not produced by the body, it's important to get amino acids from nutrient-rich sources like chia seeds.
Research suggests leucine may help regulate blood sugar levels and aid in muscle recovery after exercise.• ?Stays Fresh.
16, 2012 • 2nd Live blood microscopyI saw Rick for a second live blood analysis on November 16, 2012. No ghost cells, no rouleax or sticky blood, the red blood cells are fuller, look stronger and are hydrated.
Candida has been greatly reduced in just 2+ months.?The treatment of olive leaf extract, caprylic acid and l-glutamine powder as per his suggestion for candida is working. I began addressing it by taking one capsule of both the olive leaf and caprylic acid plus one heaping tsp. After I was sure I had no reactions to this, upped the dosage to 2 caps of each with one tsp. That is not to say that the Morgellons has been effected, we saw two fibers in the dried blood samples. There seemed to me to be more bacteria in the blood and the white blood cells although they are strong and were very active were not plentiful.
I attribute the lower level of white blood cell activity to the fact that I was more sedentary these past two months then normally due to a foot problem that kept me off it. Rick suggested that I do lymphatic drainage work using a brush or mitt, followed by getting on a rebounder to jumpstart the lymph moving.
He feels that getting the lymphatics going will produce more white blood cells to remove the bacteria from the blood.The chia seeds in the morning are wonderful. Rick suggests way to activate more white blood cell activity by way of the lymphatic system.
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One of the best things about scrapbooking is looking back at old pages. Seeing the sweet faces in the photos that have grown up so much. Seeing the products on the pages that were so new and fun to me at the time. Seeing the craft that has made me so happy.
Love the pages with photos that just make me say "awwwww…"
Love the pages that make me say, "I wonder how long it took me to sew all those buttons down…"
THIS is one of the most amazing pages by Jamie Waters. Wowsers.
Loving the bottom card HERE by Debbie Olsen. Yum.
Check out THIS great card set by Lucy. What a great gift idea.
If you are in Cincinnati, be sure to check out Jana's class HERE. It is technique-heavy. It will rock.
The last Thinking Inking video went up today. Boohoo. :( HERE it is… I will catch up on all the other classes later.
soooooooo amazing!.. my spl picks are.. role model mothers and all the same..
I enjoyed that stroll down memory lane with you. Gorgeous layouts! I too love to look at my past layouts! Isn't that the reason we spend so much time making our books?!?!
although i check on yur blog (and VID's) every day, i never left you a comment. But now you brought me to tears with your honest scrapbook page 'Thank you'. Thanks for being you and sharing sooo much.
I remember seeing some of those pages on your blog and LOVING them the first time. Now that I see them again I recall how much I learned from reading your pages. How inspired I have been in many of my card making creations by what I saw in your blog. I love that you reflect on honesty and love and that you share what inspires YOU. Happy sunny Sunday!
Those layouts are all amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Jennifer. You don't know me, I'm nobody. I have really obsessively almost followed your blog and your thinking inking class was probably the highlight of my year, the anticipation of it and then the wonderful 9 weeks of it. I have admired you more thank I could ever express, and always thought that you were probably the happiest, luckiest, greatest wife and mother there is. I still do. I see that your relationship with your step daughters is something that I who grew up with no mother would have lived a different life if I had someone like you. Your "Thank You" page spoke to me, straight to me. Every single day I cry, I wonder why I've been given this horrible life of sadness every second of every single day for every day of my life for as long as I can remember. I try to put on a happy face outside my home, but knowing that you, too, aren't perfect, while being kinda my crafting idol, really gives me hope. This is rambling and I'm sure you don't understand, I just wanted to say, more than these words express, Thank you, for your "Thank You" page. It helped someone, it helped me. Take Care.
I'd like to thank you for the Thinking Inking series. I thought I know a lot, but you have really jump started my creativity. Because it showcased all the "old" LOs, this post is my favorite of all your posts. Thanks so much.
Jennifer, Thanks so much for the Thinking Inking classes.All your videos are so easy to follow and so inspiring. I really loved the "kitting video" and others where Colin slips in to help.Kay did a great job in her "take over" too.I appreciate your honesty and your generous attitude.It is so refreshing to hear from someone who is not ashamed of her spiritual side.
I saw a video for a card with a transparency panel. You must have made it for another site because I couldn't find it in your archives.Anyway it was such a great idea, I immediately made a card like it for a friend.Please keep the inspiration, tips and personal insights coming–we love it all and you too. |
Robert Konopaske and John Ivancevich and Michael Matteson Organizational Behavior and Management https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/1260260534.jpeg 12 2023 January 26, 2022 9781260260533 "Reading this new edition of Organizational Behavior and Management, students become involved participants in learning about behavior and management. The 12th edition combines text, self-learning exercises, group participation exercises, and cases. These elements are directed at students interested in attempting to predict the behavior of people working in organizations. Organizational functioning is complex. This edition devotes attention to encouraging the development of these probing and diagnostic skills. The first step in this development is for each reader to increase his or her own self-awareness. Fundamental themes are woven throughout the book, including globalization, managing diversity and demographic changes, technological changes, ethics and social responsibility. These themes are consistent with the recommendations for balanced subject matter coverage made by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business/International Association for Management Education."
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PARTONE: The Field of Organizational Behavior
Chapter1: Effective Managers Understand OrganizationalBehavior
Chapter2: International and Organizational Culture
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Chapter3: Individual Differences at Work
Chapter4: Perceptions and Attributions
Chapter5: Motivation
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APPENDIXA: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Techniquesfor Studying Organizational Behavior and Management Practice
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Robert Konopaske
Robert Konopaske received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.A. in international business studies from the University of South California, and his Ph.D. in business administration at the University of Houston. He has taught at several universities and currently is an associate professor at McCoy College of Business at Texas State University. Dr. Konopaske has received numerous teaching honors, most recently the 2016 Presidential Distinction Award, 2014 Gregg Master Teacher Award, and 2012–2013 Namesake for the PAWS Preview new student socialization program. He is co-author of several books, including Human Resource Management and Global Management and Organizational Behavior. Dr. Konopaske has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. Dr. Konopaske has worked with a wide range of companies and industries, such as Credit Suisse and KPMG.
John Ivancevich
The Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Management in the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses, conducted field research in organizations and provided training programs and consulting to numerous domestic and global organizations. Jack served as the Chairperson, Associate Dean of Research, Dean of the College, and University Provost. He is the author, co-author, and editor of numerous successful textbooks in human resource management, organizational behavior, and management. His latest professional books published are titled Managing Einsteins: Leading High Tech Workers in the Digital Age (McGraw-Hill) and Always Think Big (Dearborn Trade). Jack received grants, honors, and awards, the latest being induction as a charter member into the Academy of Management Hall of Fame. Please see his full profile in the Preface in the 11th edition of Organizational Behavior and Management.
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Rhys Curran (born 7 July 1989) is a France international rugby league footballer who plays as a forward for the London Broncos in the Betfred Championship.
He previously played for Villeneuve in the Elite One Championship, and Toulouse Olympique in League 1 and the Championship.
Background
Curran was born Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia and grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
He only started playing rugby league at the age of 16, but went through the youth systems at the Wests Tigers. He played for his local club, winning the under 19s competition with the Erina Eagles in 2007.
Career
Wests Tigers
Curran played in the Toyota Cup for the Wests Tigers and was elevated to the Tigers NRL squad in 2009, but did not feature in first grade. He featured extensively for Wests in the NSW Cup competition.
Villeneuve
He left Australia in 2012 and began his playing career in France at Villeneuve.
Toulouse Olympique
Curran joined Toulouse Olympique ahead of their entry into the English rugby league pyramid, joining the French club from the 2016 League 1 season.
He spent four seasons with Toulouse, earning international honours while at the club in 2018.
London Broncos
He joined the London Broncos ahead of the 2020 RFL Championship season on a two year contract.
International
Curran gained international honours for France in 2018. He qualified under residency grounds, having lived in France for over three years. He earned three caps against Wales, Ireland and Scotland, scoring a try on debut against the Welsh.
Club statistics
References
External links
London Broncos profile
Toulouse Olympique profile
London snap up Toulouse star Rhys Curran
Rhys CURRAN signs for one more season
Rhys CURRAN continues his journey with the TO
1989 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
France national rugby league team players
London Broncos players
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Sydney
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Andrew Forrest's lifetime of achievement
October 25, 2018 Features, NewsBen Creagh Ben Creagh
Andrew Forrest's optimistic view of the mining industry is undoubtedly one of his most noticeable traits.
This optimism has driven the growth of Fortescue Metals Group from an ambitious exploration and development company in 2003 to the world's fourth largest iron ore producer today.
It is what has made 'Twiggy' one of the most well-known and enduring personalities in Australian mining. And it is one reason why he has been honoured with the Liebherr Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Australian Mining Prospect Awards.
As Fortescue's inaugural chairman, then chief executive officer and now chairman once more, Forrest has guided the company into a powerhouse of the Pilbara.
The Perth-based company today produces 170 million tonnes of iron ore a year from its Pilbara mine sites. Its focus on productivity and improving efficiencies has helped it become the lowest cost seaborne provider of iron ore into China.
Forrest's achievements as Fortescue's leader have, however, covered a number of areas important to mining.
For all of the company's economic and operational successes, he most fondly speaks of the achievements that have helped increase diversity and improve the public perception of the industry.
"We employ almost 15 per cent Indigenous people (and) a good quarter of our ranks are women," Forrest explains by video recording at the Prospect Awards gala dinner.
"In leadership, I think we are still one of the only major companies with half or more than half women on our board.
"It is not because women are better than men. They certainly aren't, right? We are equal with opportunity and talent but those talents are so different.
"If you don't have those different talents coming on to your board, you are going to go monologue – you are going to think in a monologue. That would be dangerous."
Fortescue appointed its first female CEO, Elizabeth Gaines, in February. Five of its nine board members are currently female.
In addition to a workforce that is 15 per cent Indigenous Australian, the company provides considerable support for Aboriginal businesses throughout its supply chain.
Fortescue introduced the Billion opportunities program in 2011. Since the program's inception, the company has awarded 270 contracts and sub-contracts worth $2 billion to 110 Aboriginal-owned businesses and joint ventures.
Let's remove any argument that we are not environmentally friendly, environmentally neutral and environmentally sustainable.
Forrest's aforementioned achievements already mean he has a lifetime's worth of accomplishments to speak of, but it's obvious he wants to grow this list even further.
He has his sights on a long-term, sustainable future for mining where the importance of the industry is recognised by the next generation of Australians.
"Let's not think about that short-term dollar," he says. "Let's think like that little boy at two or three years old. One day he is going to be 18. One day he or she will be able to make a great contribution."
Forrest wants the industry to tell its positive story to the wider community and make sure it understands the massive contribution mining makes to Australia.
"Let's remove any argument that we are not environmentally friendly, environmentally neutral and environmentally sustainable," Forrest says.
"Let's remove the fact that we don't employ a huge proportion of Indigenous people. Let's continue to be Australia's leaders of employing Indigenous people, and let's continue to set the world straight by bringing women into our ranks.
"They are equal, they are so fantastic and they have done wonders for Fortescue. Let's make sure that we become the most diverse industry in the world."
Despite Forrest's optimism for mining, there is another passion that trumps this commitment to the industry – his family.
Forrest was unable to make the trip across the Nullarbor to accept his Prospect Awards honour, instead delivering an inspiring pre-recorded speech to the crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) by video.
His son, Sydney, was studying for his final school exam at the time. And like many teenagers, Sydney studies harder when his father is at home.
"He is about to leave school, and even though I make the worst tea and I am barely welcome in the house, there is just a little fact that if dad is in the house, Syd does more study. If dad is not in the house, Syd does a lot less study," Forrest says.
"I am kind of chained to my home for the next few days and for that reason I'd like you to forgive me for not being there."
Not to worry, Andrew, we forgive you.
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Q: NEO4J Query to find all the title of movies that an actor Query to find all the title of movies that an actor in Cloud Atlast acted in, for each movie title , also return the name of these actors
MATCH (m:Movie {title:"Cloud Atlast"})<-[:ACTED_IN]-(p:Person)
RETURN p.name, m.title
Kindly tell me what did I missed
A: Sounds like you just need to extend your pattern out and aggregate the actors per movie:
MATCH (:Movie {title:"Cloud Atlas"})<-[:ACTED_IN]-(p)-[:ACTED_IN]->(m)
RETURN m.title as title, collect(p.name) as actors
As you're using the movies graph, we can assume that :ACTED_IN relationships only connect :Person nodes to :Movie nodes, so we can remove the labels from the later parts of the path.
A: I think this is what you want :
MATCH (:Movie {title:"Cloud Atlas"})<-[:ACTED_IN]-(p)-[:ACTED_IN]->(m)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(others)
RETURN m.title as title, collect(others.name) as actors
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An early look at the 2019 Cheltenham Gold Cup odds
Only a few short months remain until Cheltenham Festival gets underway, and a lot of punters are already considering their own horse racing tips for the four-day event. From all race meetings throughout the year, the Cheltenham Gold Cup is by far one of the most highly-anticipated, with it being seen as an opportunity to pit all of the best horses against each other in one of the most competitive jump races in the world.
Through the advantage that can be gained from backing your horses ante post, there's a lot to be said for picking your Cheltenham tips early, so we're looking at how the odds currently assess the next Cheltenham Gold Cup, and who you'd be clever to keep tabs on.
Might Bite at 5/1
The current favourite with 5/1 odds, Might Bite stands a good chance of finishing first in the Cheltenham Gold Cup after several major wins, including a notable first place finish in last year's RSA Novices' Chase at Cheltenham Festival 2018. After making a lot of punters money through three wins at Cheltenham Festival out of five entries in the last four years, it's fair to say that the bookies are correct in seeing Might Bite as a favourite.
Presenting Percy at 6/1 and Native River at 6/1
Currently joint second in terms of odds, both Presenting Percy and Native River are high in the estimations of the bookies. Both horses have wins in the last Cheltenham Festival - Presenting Percy memorably winning the RSA Insurance Novices' Chase - but Native River has to be considered as being as favourable as Might Bite due to the fact that he finished first in last year's Gold Cup. Might Bite finished second and has arguably shown a stronger record since, but if Native River is as capable as last year, he could set an impressive record for two successive wins in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Potential outsiders
After these three favourites, the odds move past 10/1, with Footpad being ranked as the fourth most likely to win with odds of 12/1. Backing Footpad makes a lot of sense after successfully winning five races in a row between April 2017 and April 2018, which include Cheltenham Festival wins in the Stan James Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy and the Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Novices' Chase.
In a race as fiercely competitive as the Gold Cup, horse racing fans are entitled to choose their Cheltenham tips on practically any nag, with Sizing John being a worthwhile option at 14/1, as well as Thistlecrack at 20/1. It's a race with such a level of unpredictability that a horse as prolific as Altior, who's won fifteen of seventeen races in total, is given a price as large as 25/1.
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The piece reflects on powerful memories associated with individuals recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Viewers have the opportunity to interact by being able to write a memory and place it in the envelopes within the drawer. These memories will be shared with other participants. A 22 minute video explores the memories of a dozen recently diagnosed individuals.
The piece is constructed out of approximately 72 Laminations (glued up) half inch thick by 4 feet by 4feet pieces of plywood. Then I carved and sanded it into the large head form, which is nearly 4 feet tall. Inside the forehead is a 22-minute video in which I interviewed a dozen or so recently diagnosed individuals about a memory(s) or story they would like to share from their life. The video continuously dissolves from one individuals face to another's in which you hear parts of each persons shared story usually coming back to them a time or two. The video plays continuously. The screen is a 7-inch LCD screen. Many artist use large video projections. Having the video small in the forehead allows for more of an intimate viewing and draws people in closure encouraging them to engage with the piece. On the backside of the head is a 10-foot long drawer that cantilevers out the back off the head (no support underneath it). The drawer if fabricated out of aluminum. On the end of the drawer is a piece plywood shaped as part of the head with a filing cabinet handle on it. The 10 foot long drawer is filled with 1500 white and off-white envelopes, each stuffed with one sheet of paper. Viewers have the opportunity to interact with this part of the piece. The have the opportunity to place a small donation in a table size box near the piece and then select an envelope out of the drawer. They can think of an important memory/story from their life about certain person or event and write it on the enclosed paper. When done they can re-file it back in the drawer. Others have the opportunity to read what others have shared. All donations will go directly to fund Alzheimer's' research. Intermingled among these envelopes are a series of two dozen tabbed cards. Individuals have the opportunity to pull these cards and read the various powerful quotes on them about memory, Alzheimer's, as well as statistics about the disease. In my work I am always trying to engage the viewer in away that allows them to participate in the piece so that they can walk away with more than just an experience of viewing it but being able to touch it and add something to the piece--manipulating it while gaining a new awareness--a new perspective on the subject. My grandmother who passed away over two years ago inspired my piece. She had dementia the last few years of her life. Prior to that she lived a very long life…she was a woman full of energy and vitality. Specifically I remembered times I spent with her in those last few years when she would recount these very precise and particular memories of the two of us together. She would recount perfectly every detail and I would on occasion hear the same story weeks later. But she would recall these wonderful moments regarding both of us but maybe not fully remembering or identify who I was when see would tell the story. This multi-media interactive sculpture installation is meant to look at a small but powerfully positive spot despite the disease of dementia and specifically its derivative of Alzheimer's disease--That despite these disease that erode the mind and brain their are certain memories that even those individuals manage to hold on to and recount for a long time because for one reason or another they are that powerful of moments no matter how big or small. The ten foot long drawer creates this wonderful exaggeration as it extends unsupported out ten feet in space only being anchored by the head that it is attached to. I wanted to draw an obvious comparison between the smallness of our own physical head and the vast storehouse of our mind. If we had to fill a drawer with all the memories from our very own life how long would that be physically measured? Would it be infinite? The plywood was chosen because as you carve it, it reveals ring patterns around the features of the face, following the contours of the face. These rings symbolically represents the ring patterns that are revealed when a tree is cut down and one observes its trunk. The rings are the history of that tree--the history of that trees memory...as each of us has our own history and memory. |
It has a 16-megapixel camera, 2.7 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor, and S Pen stylus, but none of those are reasons that you'll notice the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge.
In fact, its hard to think of anything other than the Edge's 5.6-inch curved screen when you first see this Galaxy Note 4 alternative.
Alerts, alarms, and on-screen controls live in the sidebar on the phone's display.
No matter which screen you're on, the Edge Display glows with icons and controls you can access at a tap.
A manager app lets you customize the Edge.
Since it's context-aware, the Edge icons change when you launch certain apps, like the camera.
Just like the Note 4, the Edge has a stylus.
The edge from the side.
You can program the display to work as a ticker, and to flash notifications.
The power/lock button sit on the phone's top edge instead of its right side.
A fast-charging micro-USB charging port and stylus live at the bottom.
Just the volume rocker adorns the phone's spare left side.
The right side is taken up by the wraparound screen.
A home button and capacitive controls haven't budged from their usual spots.
You don't have to give up heart-rate tracking when you get an Edge.
The Galaxy Note Edge will sell in black and white shades.
A slogan marks the phone's identity, which you can also personalize.
Quick settings give you fast access to items like this clever ruler.
Go into the settings to reorder and even strike out Edge screens you don't want to see.
There's much more to know about the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. Read CNET's full review for all the details. |
In my travels through many countries where I am ignorant of the local languages, there is one thing I almost always know how to say: orange.
From Western Europe to India, there are basically four ways to say "orange." Three, really.
Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, a 1633 painting by the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbaran. Public domain.
Theatrical release poster for "Lost in Translation." Fair use.
Travel advice? This is the first such post for this blog. But I've been asked enough times how I travel in countries where I don't speak the language — and keep in mind that I am only a middling linguist, not one of those people who speak six or seven languages fluently. I know such people; so annoying.
No, I speak only two languages fluently, and then I dabble in a few others to varying degrees of proficiency. But I have never had any serious problems in the course of my travels as a result of language barriers. Below are some tricks of the trade that have helped me get around.
Obliquely, this exchange was a forewarning of the frustrations I would have a couple of months later in Portuguese-speaking Brazil. Portuguese, the language where everything is close enough to Spanish to be confusing, but different enough that no one understands you if you simply speak Spanish.
The Perito Moreno Glacier, near El Calafate, Argentina.
Cover of Ted Chiang's story collection that includes "Story of Your Life."
So I recently saw the film Arrival and read the short story it's based on, "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang.
At the center of the plot, both in the film and in the story, is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which states that the language(s) that one speaks determines or influences the way that one thinks. The film and the story present an extreme version of Sapir-Whorf, wherein one who learns an alien language comes to see time the way the aliens do. But in fact most scholars have rejected the strong version of Sapir-Whorf, which suggests that people aren't even able to think outside of their linguistic categories.
The weak version, though, seems to me surely true. This is an autobiographical account of how languages have repeatedly predicated my thinking. |
I have nothing but great things to say about Gabriel Iglesias's performance. His material is always entertaining, relateable, and non-offensive. His humble attitude is a really nice cherry on top of his materials. So glad to have been able to watch him live! |
Elytroleptus rufipennis är en skalbaggsart som först beskrevs av Leconte 1884. Elytroleptus rufipennis ingår i släktet Elytroleptus och familjen långhorningar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
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First and Only Destiny by Gloria Silk 💕 Book Blitz & Gift Card Giveaway 💕 (Contemporary Romance)
Second edition of USA Today Bestselling Author's debut novel.
"Beautifully written love story. The prose in this book is extraordinary, the emotions heart-breaking and the author leaves you hanging on the edge right to the end of the story. I could feel the characters' happiness, confusion, pain and sadness. When it rained, I felt that rain on me, when the characters were laughing, I laughed - it was really that good! I can't wait to read the next story in this book and will add Ms. Silk to my "must-buy" authors. Love her writing! Ms. Silk fills the pages with emotion - hope, happiness, sadness, guilt, joy - you will run the gamut with this book." Elizabeth Lennox, Author of the Thorpe Brothers series
Do you believe in love at first sight?
First love has never been more intense, heartbreaking, and oh so worth it!
Shy artist Lia cannot resist gorgeous genius, Devraj. Sparks fly and their families and friends try to break them apart.
FIRST LOVE...
It's love at first sketch for shy, sheltered art major Lia Abraham, when she meets the Bollywood-gorgeous Devraj Shah at a London university. But she refuses to show her undeniable attraction to the gregarious genius who is being groomed for his family business empire. Nothing can stand between her and her dreams of traveling and teaching art across Europe. No taking risks or detours for Lia!
The last thing Lia needs is a handsome distraction from her true love: art. Although she protests, the charming Devraj, with his dimpled grin and sparkling eyes, convinces Lia to be "just friends".
But inevitably—with one rain-soaked, sweet yet sizzling kiss—their unleashed desire becomes stronger than their cultural divides—a Hindu boy and a Jewish girl? Gods forbid!
As their friendship flares into an all-consuming passion, the growing pressure from both families changes the landscape of both their lives.
FOREVER LOVE?
Despite loving him to distraction, will Lia's gratitude to her frail grandparents, who raised her, and her loyalty to her cultural ties, force her to forsake the forbidden fruit of her love for Devraj?
Or can she stand up for her first and only love and face their uncharted future head on?
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"Gloria Silk is an amazing author that has provided a well-written and beautiful interracial romance." Annalei Chuchu
"... It's wonderfully written to tell a lovely story filled with lots of emotions and authentic characters. The author did a fantastic job! ... It's one of those must-have books that you've got to get in your collection!!! " J Summer
"Second Destiny is at its heart a romance, but it is so much more than that. The cultural differences that many of us take for granted are right at the forefront of this story. Both families have problems with their loved one marrying someone from another culture and at times it borders on full-on racism, which makes it easier to root for Danielle and Sanjay and even Lia and Devraj. Gloria Silk has written a wonderful tale about cultural differences, the need for love and freedom after a life of doing and being what is expected of you. This is no cut and dried romance story; it is much more than that because the feelings that still exist may not be enough to give Lia and Devraj their happily ever after.
STARRED REVIEW: "Gloria Silk has written a wonderful tale about cultural differences, the need for love and freedom after a life of doing and being what is expected of you. This is no cut and dried romance story; it is much more than that..." Natasha Jackson
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Gloria Silk
"Beautifully written love story with a perfect happy ever after." Elizabeth Lennox, Author of the Thorpe Brothers series
The standalone bestseller, First and Only Destiny gave Lia and Devraj their own well deserved dramatic and satisfying happy-ever-after! BUT what if...
What if Lia and Devraj lose each other within minutes and are both left devastated, unable to forget each other?
Second Destiny is an emotional, sensuous story of the star-crossed lovers reuniting 19 years later. Just as Lia discovers her husband's infidelity, her first love, Devraj is at her door. Lia's 18-year-old daughter and Devraj's nephew are repeating romantic history. Can Lia and the Bollywood-gorgeous hero put their past behind, or will their sizzling, intense passion reignite and endanger everything in its path?
THE OLDER GENERATION BROKE THEM APART…
Lia Abraham gave up everything for her family and culture—art, autonomy and even self-worth. Worst of all was the sacrifice of Bollywood-gorgeous, idealistic Devraj Shah, when Lia caved in to pressure from both their families. She broke her first love's heart by marrying the "right" Jewish man.
THE YOUNGER GENERATION REUNITES THEM…
Nineteen years later, minutes after Lia demands a divorce from her cheating husband, her world turns upside down again; Devraj is at her door. His nephew and Lia's feisty teenage daughter are repeating history. They're in love, but the now reserved, enigmatic Devraj is dead-set against the couple's marriage plans. He is convinced Lia's daughter will ultimately reject his nephew the way Lia had rejected Devraj.
After years of feeling caged in a loveless marriage, Lia embraces her newly found freedom, and her resurgent passion for Devraj is irresistible. Once again, she surrenders to the true love of her life, but their affair re-ignites opposition from both families. Will Lia's second chance at love again destroy her loved ones and her dreams?
Torn once again between her love for Devraj, her family responsibilities and her need for true independence, will Lia choose duty over the desires of her heart?
REVIEWS: "Second Destiny" is phenomenal!" J Summers.
"Beautifully written love story with a perfect happy ever after.. The prose in this book is extraordinary, the emotions heart-breaking and the author leaves you hanging on the edge right to the end of the story. I could feel the characters' happiness, confusion, pain and sadness. When it rained, I felt that rain on me, when the characters were laughing, I laughed - it was really that good! I can't wait to read the next story in this book and will add Ms. Silk to my "must-buy" authors. Love her writing! Ms. Silk fills the pages with emotion - hope, happiness, sadness, guilt, joy - you will run the gamut with this book." Elizabeth Lennox, Author of the Thorpe Brothers series
"Gloria Silk has written a wonderful tale about cultural differences, the need for love and freedom after a life of doing and being what is expected of you. This is no cut and dried romance story; it is much more than that..." Natasha Jackson, Reader Favorites
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from First and Only Destiny
Chapter One:
University of Central London, eight months earlier
Lia stole another glance at the beautiful, exotic young man whose image she was trying to capture in her sketchpad. Ignoring the bustling atmosphere of the campus cafeteria, she focused on the sensuous feel of the charcoal stick within her shaking fingers as it stroked the paper. Surreptitiously, she studied her subject's confident body language and his slightly amused, slightly superior expression, which acted on all her senses.
Once again, everything around her had faded to background noise as soon as she had seen the tall, young man several yards away, standing with his friends, yet seeming to be apart from them.
What a perfect Rajah he would be, dignified and confident, waiting for his beautiful Hindi bride to appear. Lia imagined the delicate fragrance of a jasmine-and-rose wedding garland around his neck. She resisted the temptation to draw him in a traditional white-and-gold bridegroom's suit.
Why had she never met a "suitable" Jewish man who captured her imagination like this?
Suddenly, her subject turned away from the girl smiling up at him and looked straight at Lia. Immediately she glanced away from those bright hazel eyes. Heat flushed her cheeks and her shaking hand stilled above her sketch. Why had she chosen to draw him again? Was she watching too many Bollywood movies with her aunt and grandmother?
Compelled by fascination with the forbidden, Lia hesitantly lifted her head. She watched the young man stride towards her across the short span between them, his gaze never releasing hers.
She gulped, forgetting how to breathe.
Hunching over her sketchpad, she wished she could disappear. He would not understand her interest in him was purely artistic.
Or was it?
Her world slowed as his bold steps covered the distance between them, like a conquering Maharaja with golden-dark skin claiming his bride. The charcoal stick snapped in half in her hand. A sense of inevitability rippled through her as he reached her table and she raised her head to look fully into his face.
Her many sketches had not done him justice.
Drawing in a revitalizing breath, she stared into those amber eyes that seemed to shine from within.
Lia absorbed his relaxed aura and easy-going smile, the tones of his skin, and the shiny black hair stroking his denim shirt collar. Even the slight bump on his regal nose added to his attraction.
His eyes lowered to her sketch.
With clammy, shaky hands, she snapped the pad shut but could not look away from him.
He rested one large, golden, beautifully shaped hand on the edge of the table and leaned toward her. "Like what you see?" he asked in a rich baritone that caressed even as it teased.
"I don't know what you mean." Her face prickled, leaving her as hot as if sunburned. She probably looked as red as a cooked lobster.
Smile widening, he sat opposite her. "Let me see?" his tone a mix of request and demand she found arrogant … and maybe a little attractive.
She clutched her sketchbook. "Absolutely not."
Her refusal did not dim his smile. "Did you give me horns and crossed-eyes?"
Lia shook her head. "No, of course not! I mean it's… it's private."
He shrugged, studying her. "Well, it's my image you're using. I should be allowed to see what you've done."
She took a slow, steadying breath. "I … I'm sorry. I won't sketch you anymore."
"I don't mind. In fact, I'm flattered. I just want to see—"
"Please leave me alone."
His dark brows rose. "Hey, now. That's not very friendly. You seemed to be interested—"
"Please?" she interrupted softly, but clearly he heard her because he stopped in mid-sentence and watched her reproachfully.
It was her own fault. She had been staring at him, drawing him, for several days. Treating him as if he were a still life. But he was a live, healthy, attractive man, not a bowl of fruit, so of course he had misunderstood.
She glanced at the group he had left minutes earlier, several young men, as dazzlingly handsome as the hunks in Gillette adverts, and sophisticated girls draped next to them, all students, and all strangers to her.
They had gone silent, their eyes fixed on her with open curiosity. Also obvious was the hostility in the narrowed eyes and flattened lips of one young blonde woman, fashionably dressed, and boldly made up. Her confident and assertive body language proclaimed her a woman who belonged here, not intimidated and out of her depths, like Lia felt.
Heat penetrated from her neck up to her face as Lia shifted her gaze from the scrutiny of this man's friends and looked up only far enough to focus on his chin. "Please go away." In the silence that met her words, she suddenly heard how rude, how unfriendly she sounded.
Maybe if she explained. "I'm sorry, I-I'm here … just to study. I'm not supposed to … mingle."
She watched as he weighed her words, holding her breath, willing him to accept her explanation and simply retreat to his own world.
Instead, he grinned and shook his head. "I'm Devraj, but people call me Dev, or Dave." The long fingers of his outreached hand drew her attention but she was not supposed to have physical—or any other—contact with men.
Devraj. Even his name was striking, regal. Feeling panicky because she wanted to touch his hand, wanted to feel his fingers on her own, Lia stood so quickly that her chair made a harsh noise against the floor.
Devraj stood up, too. Staring at him, slightly swaying forward Lia suddenly understood how magnetism worked. Grabbing her large cumbersome bag and draping it over her left shoulder she said, "I told you, I'm here, at this school, to study, not t-to meet strangers. I … I have to go. Excuse me."
Her pulse galloping, Lia clutched her sketchbook to her chest and spun round to flee.
But he blocked her way.
USA Today Bestselling author, Gloria Silk, loves writing sensuous, uplifting and unforgettable romance and women's fiction. Her powerful stories are filled with passion without cultural borders, which will take you to various exotic locales around the world. Her books focus on the many facets of romantic relationships with strong and complex family bonds.
Born in Russia, her love of travel was ingrained within her from a very young age, as she has lived in various parts of Europe and the Mediterranean. Some of her favorite visited places are Austria, France, the Middle East, Hawaii and Hong Kong. Her next planned excursion is to Australia and New Zealand.
England (where she was brought up) holds a very special place in her heart with all its history and lush, green landscapes. Her background in English literature, writing and psychology help her create well-rounded, unique characters.
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Q: QML StackView showing error You cannot push/pop recursively I have two QML files
Level1.qml and level2.qml
in main.qml,
StackView {
id: idMyStackView
focus: true
anchors.fill: parent
initialItem: Level1{
focus: true
}
}
in Level1.qml
Component.onCompleted:
{
idMyStackView.push(idLevel2.qml)
}
In this case I am getting error like
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push (file:///C:/Qt/5.13.0/msvc2017/qml/QtQuick/Controls/StackView.qml:568)
onCompleted (qrc:/setup/qml/setup_menu/setup_top/SetupTop.qml:250)
__loadElement (file:///C:/Qt/5.13.0/msvc2017/qml/QtQuick/Controls/StackView.qml:825)
__performTransition (file:///C:/Qt/5.13.0/msvc2017/qml/QtQuick/Controls/StackView.qml:911)
push (file:///C:/Qt/5.13.0/msvc2017/qml/QtQuick/Controls/StackView.qml:605)
expression for onCompleted (file:///C:/Qt/5.13.0/msvc2017/qml/QtQuick/Controls/StackView.qml:777)
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Q: load() isn't working within PHP echo I have the following snippet on my index page so that all links clicked on within the navbar will load within the 'content' div:
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("a.link").click(function() {
return false;
});
$("#navbar a").click(function(){
var a_href = $(this).attr('href');
$("#content").load(a_href);
});
});
This snippet works fine... But upon loading the page, I check with PHP to see if the index page has an argument to direct it to a specific page, which doesn't seem to work:
<?php
if(array_key_exists('page',$_GET)){
echo "<script>$('#content').load('" . $_GET['page'] . "', 'content')</script>";
} else {
echo "<script>$('#content').load('home.php')</script>";
}
?>
It may be a simple case of "it's staring you in the face but you've been looking at it for too long", but I can't seem to get the PHP snippet to work.
EDIT: I wrapped it in document.ready(), and it doesn't seem to have had an effect:
echo "
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('#content').load('home.php');
});
</script>";
A: Try this
<?php
echo "<script>"
echo "$(document).ready(function () {";
if(array_key_exists('page',$_GET)){
echo "$('#content').load('" . $_GET['page'] . "', 'content');";
} else {
echo "$('#content').load('home.php');";
}
echo "});";
echo "</script>";
?>
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MAGGIE'S PLAN: Greta Gerwig scores again in Rebecca Miller's droll rom-com about control
How good, how special is Greta Gerwig? Good enough, it would seem, to be able to do no wrong on screen. Even in underwhelming movies, she shines, and though she usually looks pretty much the same, that face and body hide quite a versatile-in-her-own-way actress.
In Rebecca Miller's newest film about the female (Miller also made the excellent Robin Wright movie The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), Gerwig gets another loaded role that she brings to life with compelling intelligence and ease.
Gerwig's secret, TrustMovies suspects, is that the actress always makes it appear that she has just sort of stumbled into a movie about her very own life. (Yes, she's that real.) In MAGGIE'S PLAN, she plays a young-but-getting-worrisomely-older woman who, given her record of bad romances up till now, decides to inseminate herself with the right male's semen, have her baby, and raise it on her own. Yes: Good luck with that.
Filmmaker Miller, shown at right, has made a very interesting movie that is mainly about control. Obviously, Maggie, via her plan, is intent on controlling her own life, But to do this, she must control to a large extent the lives of the folk around her. Of course, as is usual in life, those adjacent people want to control their own lives, and in fact, they have major control problems, too. Especially adjacent to our Maggie are three other characters: a former schoolmate named Guy (Travis Fimmel), whose sperm she decides on using; a fellow named John (Ethan Hawke), whom she subsequently falls in love with; and Georgette (Julianne Moore, below, sporting a delicious pseudo-Danish accent), John's soon-to-be ex.
All of these characters have their own desires and plans, but our Maggie, in her sweet but determined manner, rides around, above, below and through them. And yet -- especially regarding John (Mr. Hawke is shown below, left) and Georgette -- the way the other characters use their control (or seeming lack of same) proves even more interesting, curling the plot into new twists that tend to resist even the best-laid plans.
The film has been called a modern screwball comedy, but it seem to me something more, less and certainly different from that. Miller, as usual, has her own sense of characters, timing, humor, and all the rest, and as director and adaptor (of a story by Karen Rinaldi) she has grafted her signature sensibility onto this tale. These people are every bit as unsure, if not downright unstable, as any we're likely to meet in modern day movies. They haven't figured out how and when to properly strengthen and/or hold back on that control.
Consequently, some very oddball and pretty funny scenes and moments occur, sometimes involving Maggie's married friends (played by Maya Rudolph and Bill Hader, above) but these may prove too oddball for general audiences, who prefer their rom-coms straight up and with proper closure. By the end of Maggie's Plan, we get but a hint of what might be in the cards (and has actually been there all along).
I found the film a pleasure to watch and listen to, start to finish, and then afterward, to think about a bit. And, yes, it's more for arthouse audiences than mainstream moviegoers. From Sony Pictures Classics, the movie -- running 98 minutes and already playing in theaters across the country -- opens here in South Florida this Friday, June 10, at AMC AVENTURA 24 AVENTURA, LIVING ROOM THEATERS BOCA RATON, PALACE 20 BOCA RATON, SHADOWOOD SQUARE 16 BOCA RATON, BOYNTON BEACH 14 BOYNTON BEACH, PARADISE 24 DAVIE, MOVIES OF DEL RAY DELRAY BEACH, GATEWAY 4 FT LAUDERDALE, MOVIES OF LAKE WORTH LAKE WORTH, SOUTH BEACH 18 MIAMI BEACH, AMC SUNSET PLACE 24 SOUTH MIAMI, LAST PICTURE SHOW TAMARAC. Elsewhere? Sure: Just click here, and scroll down to view all the cities and theaters.
Labels: American independent cinema, Greta Gerwig, MAGGIE'S PLAN, Rebecca Miller, rom-coms with smarts, the female perspective
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Me, Myself, & I was one of my most anticipated new comedies of the Fall season. I'm a huge fan of Bobby Moynihan, and the show has an intriguing premise that had me interested even before Moynihan joined the show. Add John Larroquette and Jaleel White to the mix and you've got a really great cast. I'm hoping the show can be as good as I'm expecting it to be, and that it'll be worth the wait.
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Traditional or religious festivals (Corrected essay)
Writing Correction culture entertainment opinion essay
Most people have forgotten the meaning behind traditional or religious festivals; during festival periods, people nowadays only want to enjoy themselves.
Write about the following topic.
Most people have forgotten the meaning behind traditional or religious festivals; during festival periods, people nowadays only want to enjoy themselves. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
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SAMPLE WRITING TASK 2
A festival is the celebration of an agricultural or a religious traditional event. While some festivals have lost their original purposes, I disagree that they are merely for entertainment; instead, there is significant effort to revive the tradition of our ancestors.
The origins of festivals are linked with agriculture and religions. In the harvest season, after a year of hard work, rewarded by ample food, people could finally enjoy themselves with music and ritual ceremonies. As a result, tradition and religious festivals were created to provide entertainment and group cohesion. Various festivals started to appear throughout history, each had its own cultural and religious meaning.
The Industrialization Revolution has made agriculture less important, resulted in a decline in cultural awareness. The Halloween was originally a harvest festival of the Gaelic, however, recently it has become an entertainment event, with people wearing costume and drinking in the night. The same thing happened in Vietnam not so long ago, where Hau Dong - the practice of spirit mediums - gradually declined in the twentieth century.
However, there is a rise of traditional awareness around the world. For example, Hau Dong has been revived, with thousands of people attending the festival. Numerous efforts to signify the importance of cultural identity have been made worldwide, such as teaching history lessons to the children, or preservation and translation ancient texts into modern languages. Many young people are growing interest in their tradition, with the celebration of ancient festivals like The Olympics Games is a clear evidence.
To summarize, I acknowledge that some festivals have lost their original meanings. However, the effort to reinvigorate our culture has made significant impacts, thus the traditional and religious of festivals will be preserved into the future.
Corrected essay:
The author's opinion is clear. He partly agrees with the topic question: he accepts the fact that the meanings of some festivals have been lost, but he disagree with the notion that people only think of festivals as a place to indulge themselves.
The IELTS exam only test your ability, not your opinion. So you can either agree, disagree or partly agree with the question.
The origins of festivals are is linked with to agriculture and religions. In the harvest season, after a year of hard work, rewarded by ample food, people could finally enjoy themselves with music and ritual ceremonies. As a result, tradition and religious festivals were created to provide entertainment and group cohesion. Various festivals started to appear throughout history, each had its own cultural and religious meaning.
The author has explained the meanings behind most of the festivals: a celebration of harvest seasons and an event to strengthen social relations.
The use of passive voice in the first sentence is on point. If we simply start the first body paragrapth with "Agriculture and religions are the direct origins of festivals", then it might be confusing, even when the above example is grammatically correct. Since there is no mentioned of agriculture in the topic question, you need to introduce the required topic first ("festivals"), then do the same to the key word "agriculture".
Contrary to popular belief that passive voice makes your writing much weaker and ambiguous, it is in fact frequently used in academic contexts.
The Industrialization Revolution has made agriculture less important, which has resulted in a decline in cultural awareness. The Halloween was originally a harvest festival of the Gaelic, however, recently it has become an entertainment event, with people wearing costumes and drinking in the night. The same thing happened in Vietnam not so long ago, where Hau Dong - the practice of spirit mediums - gradually declined in the twentieth century.
The second body paragraph aims to express the notion that the meaning behind traditional festival are lost over time.
The second sentence is a typical example on when to use the present perfect. You firstly develop the sentence with a clause in past simple tense, then introduce another in present perfect tense.
However, there is a rise of traditional awareness around the world. For example, Hau Dong has been revived, with thousands of people attending the festival. Numerous efforts to signify the importance of cultural identity have been made worldwide, such as teaching history lessons to the children, or preservation and translation ancient texts into modern languages. Furthermore, many young people are growing interest in their tradition, with the celebration of ancient festivals like The Olympics Games is a clear evidence.
The last body paragraph is highly contrast to the previous one. By using the method "bait and switch" (first talk about the oppose idea, then attack it with your own opinion), the author has successfully expresses that he believes in the effort of reviving traditional festivals, without ever using words like "I think", I believe", "from my perspective", or "in my opinion".
Generally, saying "I think" too many times will lower both of your Coherence & Cohesion and Lexical Resource band score, so try to avoid it.
Lots of related vocabulary are presented in this paragraph: "traditional awareness", "cultural identity", "preservation", "ancient", "modern languages".
The author's position about tradition and festivals has stay the same throughout the whole essay. Your conclusion has to match the introduction.
Using topic markers such as "to summarize", or "in conclusion" may make your writing boring, and thus should be avoided in an academic thesis. However, the rule in the IELTS exam are much more relaxed, and a topic marker could be very helpful since it increases your word count and reminds the examiner that you have written the conclusion.
Task Response: 8
✓ sufficiently addresses all parts of the task (the author has written more than 250 words, and give an adequate answer to the topic question in both his introduction and conclusion)
✓ presents a well-developed response to the question with relevant, extended and supported ideas (each paragraphs is started with a topic sentence, then followed by evidences and examples)
Coherence and Cohesion: 8
✓ sequences information and ideas
✓ logically
✓ manages all aspects of cohesion well (the author has avoided using connectives in a repetitive way by using various relative pronouns and conjunctive adverbs)
✓ uses paragraphing sufficiently and appropriately
Lexical Resource: 9
✓ uses a wide range of vocabulary with very natural and sophisticated control of lexical features; rare minor errors occur only as 'slips' (the author only has one noticable mistake with collocations; he uses various less-frequently used and topic-related words such as "ritual ceremonies", "group cohesion", "spirit medium", etc)
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: 9
✓ uses a wide range of structures with full flexibility and accuracy; rare minor orrors occur only as 'slips' (The author can express his idea in many different ways, for example when he convey the notion of "reviving": "to revive the tradition", "Hau Dong has been revived", "to reinvigorate our culture". He also use a variety of sentence structures, with only a few small mistakes.)
This essay is corrected by Anh Tran - Let's Write Something Group.
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Crash tests
forschung leben – The magazine of the University of Stuttgart
Crash tests: better digital human models increase accident safety
Until now, the human models available for accident safety simulations have always been inadequate. Dummies don't have muscles and also don't adequately represent the complexity of the human musculoskeletal system. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have found a solution to this problem.
A crash test is an impressive experience: whenever a vehicle crashes into the wall, it shakes up the sensor-laden dummies inside the vehicle pretty severely. For a long time now, tests such as these have not only been performed in real life, but also in computer simulations, which include virtual dummies. Crashes involving vehicles made up of bits and bytes save a lot of time and money, but whilst the vehicles modelled in these simulations are replicated in an extremely realistic manner, the virtual dummies are still what they already are in real-life crash tests – incomplete approximations of the human body. What this means is that, although the weight, dimensions and rigidity of the individual body parts correspond to those of the average population, they do not come close to the complexity of the human locomotor system – neither in real-life nor in virtual tests or, to put it bluntly dummies don't have muscles.
For example, muscle tension can be measures in the driving simulator.
The driving simulator was developed at the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (ITM).
"This means that vehicles cannot be developed in a human-centered way," says Prof. Syn Schmitt, head of the Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems and researcher at the University of Stuttgart's "Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science" (SimTech) cluster of excellence.
Yet there are three good reasons for placing humans at the center of vehicle development: first, future safety systems should provide even better protection for vehicle occupants, particularly during the immediate pre-collision phase and with regard to non-life-threatening injuries.
Prof. Syn Schmitt
We need better digital human models to assess the risks that will be involved in future driving situations.
A person's actual stature plays a decisive role, for example, because it makes a difference if the person involved is a lightweight of 50 kilograms or weighs 150 kilograms. Second, these occupants will no longer necessarily occupy the classic seating positions when emergency braking occurs in autonomous vehicles; they might be dozing with thebacks of their seats folded back or be sitting with their backs to the direction of travel. Third, any such autonomous car must be able to detect whether a pedestrian is about to cross the road abruptly. Currently, this person is perceived by the on-board systems as little more than a silhouette from which the intended movement is difficult to derive.
Converging on real-life movements
As the results of real crash tests published by the ADAC [de] this spring, for example make clear, none of this is purely theoretical. According to these results, today's three-point seatbelts offer no protection to passengers in rear-facing or recumbent positions; sitting sideways can also result in injuries, even from the seatbelt itself.
"We need better digital human models to assess the risks that will be involved in future driving situations," says Schmitt. "Better", in this context, means human models that not only includes bones and the correct mass distribution, but also muscles and tendons, because these are the main factors that determine posture and movement. Schmitt and his team are developing such human models. Like all simulation models, a human model is basically a set of mathematical equations, which in this case describe interactions within the musculoskeletal system. Human beings have 656 muscle-tendon units of which Schmitt's most complex model takes account of 580, "all except those in the face, fingers and hands". Such human models are not only of interest to the automotive industry, but also for such fields as medicine and medical technology.
"Our human model is stored in a database," Schmitt explains. "To answer specific questions," he continues, "we often use just that part of the model that is particularly relevant to the movement under investigation, which may be an arm or the legs." Human movement "results from the interplay between the brain and nervous system with muscles and the musculoskeletal system. It is not possible, at present, to depict this interaction in the digital human model on a one-to-one basis, because it is far too complex and not yet fully understood, which is why Schmitt's team is developing mathematical descriptions that reflect the real movements as closely as possible.
Computer simulation of a standing person.
Photo: Universität Stuttgart/SimTech
The team is creating the basis for integrating such digital human models into future crash simulation systems within the framework of the EU's OSCCAR project, among others. The 3-year OSCCAR project which has a budget of just under 7.7 million euro, involves some 20 partners from industry and the research community, including Bosch, Daimler, Siemens, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo, and is due to end in June 2021. The digital human models developed during the project are to take into account specific characteristics relating, for example, to gender and age and will incorporate improved material properties and should be capable of simulating the muscular movements of pedestrians, drivers and passengers in hazardous situations.
"This applies to such postures as standing and sitting, but also to the movements that occur during braking, steering and swerving," says Schmitt. "Commercially available human models still can't do that and are practically static."
Validation is essential
present the thing as accurately as possible, which is done, for example, using real data from experiments with volunteers. This is where Prof. Jörg Fehr, Deputy Director of the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics (ITM) comes in; like Schmitt, he is also a researcher at the SimTech Cluster of Excellence. During his doctoral studies, Fehr had a driving simulator with an appropriate mensuration sequence developed and set up at the ITM.
Prof. Jörg Fehr
Our simulator can demonstrate ways of validating digital human models in a very cost-effective manner.
"There are much more powerful driving simulators, even at our university," says Fehr, "but our simulator can demonstrate ways of validating digital human models in a very cost-effective manner. This also enables us to introduce students to complex scientific issues." To carry out the tests, his team collaborates with Prof. Tobias Siebert and Privatdozent Norman Stutzig of the Institute of Sports Science and Kinesiology (INSPO). One of the central themes of their research is the further development of muscle models to better represent muscle forces in highly dynamic accident situations. "The INSPO team measures the muscle tension in the test subjects within the driving simulator, whereas we expose them to various traffic situations and analyze their movements," explains Fehr.
What is special about this driving simulator, is that researchers can demonstrate methods to inexpensively validate digital human models.
Towards more individual protection
One relevant question in this context is what changes take place in test subjects' musculoskeletal system, when forced to brake abruptly? It is well known that people who see a collision coming, reflexively tense their muscles to protect their bodies, a fact which has not yet been taken into account in virtual crash simulations, and especially not the fact that a well-trained 20-year-old might protect his or herself better than a feeble 80-year-old. "Our current safety systems only protect the average passenger, not the individual, whose stature, musculature and reactional behavior are specific and particular," says Fehr. The varied behaviors of real people can be studied in the simulator and then integrated into the digital human models.
For teaching and research: the driving simulator was developed at the ITM.
The following step involves extensive testing with several dozen volunteers in the simulator. "The digital human models provide numerous parameters and thus different ways to describe movements," says Fehr, explaining the basic problem that he hopes to solve through validation. It is often unclear how exactly muscles are controlled, because the control path is often non-linear, and basically involve tiny control signals that trigger major changes, but which cannot be identified in a causally isolated manner as part of the movement as a whole. So, to some extent, the emergence of the movement remains misunderstood.
But more importantly, one cannot play through all conceivable scenarios, because there are simply too many. "On the other hand," says Fehr, "the real data from the driving simulator helps us to narrow down the parameters for describing motion in the human model."
Artificial intelligence and digital muscles
Schmitt and his team also attempt to do this in other ways. One new approach, the essential feasibility of which they recently demonstrated, is based on artificial intelligence (AI). "We no longer need to understand the exact cause of movement in a given muscle group, but simply use machine learning to recognize patterns," said Schmitt. In the digital model of the arm, for example, an algorithm could run through all the movement control parameters and would then receive feedback on whether its result is correct or not, and would gradually learn which values to assign to the parameters. According to Schmitt's vision: "it will be possible at some point to integrate complex motion sequences into simulations that the digital human models would have previously learned themselves," at which point AI and digital muscles would simulate real movements with near perfection.
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How New AI technology is already impacting test organisations and how it will impact yours in the coming months
What is wrong with automated testing today?
As application complexity continues to increase, and test budgets grow larger, throwing more people at the problem is not the solution.
A few items that are creating enormous pressure are:
Application complexity increasing faster than test teams and tools can keep up
According to Gene Kim, noted DevOps expert, testing is the number one bottleneck to a true DevOps culture.
With about 40% of many IT budgets spent on QA and test (according to CapGemini), the budgets are already beyond the breaking point.
Users report substantially different functional, performance and security results (ie issues) than were found or even can be found by test tools.
Often load testing, UX-level performance testing and security testing are dropped in order to meet deadlines.
Defining the true costs of software QA
Today, access to large amounts of compute power in the cloud is cheap, but burdened labor cost is US$25/hr to well over US$100/hr depending on location and competency. Employing highly competent QA and/or dev team members to write 1000 Selenium scripts, for example, can cost US$100,000 (of labor). Multiply that by thousands of applications in an enterprise and it's easy to see how costs continue to rise.
IBM estimates that the cost of finding and fixing a bug early in the development phase is $100. But if found by the QA team rises to u$1500 and when found by a customer in production is at least $10,000, ignoring brand damage. So, testing deeper and wider is far more important in each release than testing fast, but ideally you want to achieve both.
The world's first AI-driven test automation
In order to consider automatically generating tests that are meaningful, one must consider the inputs that would be required. These include:
Knowledge of how users are using (ideally) or will use an application (user analytics)
Expected results and/or responses (how do we know a pass versus fail?)
How does the application function and what is its purpose?
How does one form requests which will not be rejected by the server, even if the server is now a different server (for instance the QA server instead of the production server)?
What data is required for valid forms (such as credentials)?
How can one create correlations to take server responses and place them back in to future requests (such as session ID's)?
How does one handle changes in a new build versus the old build?
The speed and accuracy of the system seems unbelievable at first
The AI system has been in use by several large companies since spring of 2017. In typical cases, after a short learning phase, the system automatically generates 1200 valid test cases in 5 seconds. The resulting tests increased test coverage from under 50% to over 90%, and represent real user workflows far better than achievable with traditional scripting.
In comparing scripting times with automatic script generation, we see AI can generate 1000 scripts in a few seconds versus 3.6 million seconds for humans. AI clearly has the advantage here.
We also see improvements in test or code coverage from less than 50% to over 90%. But now also able to predict actual coverage compared to what users do in the system. In the past, we simply wanted code coverage regardless of what user flows might look like. Now with full analysis of production user flows, the system can intelligently create scripts which more closely match what users actually do. And attaining user-flow coverage of nearly 100%.
And as a bonus of AI, false positives (commonplace in manual testing) are almost nonexistent.
AI driven test generation is now available from Appvance.
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There seem to be absolutes when it comes to Pittsburgh and the region. The sun rises in the East. The Pirates will finish with a losing record. Baseball season ends around here when training camp begins. Somebody, at some point in the day, will invariably stop before the tunnels to hear the ending of their favorite song.
Oh yes, there's one more: a democrat will will Pittsburgh's race for mayor. It's been one of the surest best in the region for years. It's why the democratic primary holds such importance. The winner of that usually can feel confident headed into the general election in the fall.
The reason? Tradition, history and money. The democratic candidate holds all three heading into the general election – and if that person is the incumbent, it seems the race is all but won. Once only in recent memory has someone other that the democratic candidate won the race … and that was Richard Caliguiri in 1977. A breakthrough? Hardly. He was a democrat who lost the primary and ran as an independent and won. Still, he was always seen first and foremost as a democrat.
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Attorney Kevin Acklin throws his hat into the ring. ( Courtesy Heidi Murrin, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review )
Acklin was raised by a single mom and went from South Oakland through Central Catholic to Harvard before getting his law degree from Georgetown. He could have worked in D.C., but came back to Pittsburgh where he's now going for the ultimate job: mayor. He faces long odds no doubt, but there seems to be a certain confidence in listening to him. He truly believes he can win … as an independent.
Sure, he's rough around the edges and needs to avoid making the ultimate mistake: not being good on television. However, I get the sense that he's not in this to make a statement. He's in this to win it and become mayor of Pittsburgh. It might make for an interesting fall if he is able to make this a race.
I am not a political expert, especially when it comes to Pittsburgh. However, I have watched the machinations of political contests for a few years now. I enjoy debates because it really is an exchange of new ideas and the chance to see those who may lead in the future take their first steps. Such was the case with Carmen Robinson who I believe will eventually earn a position of power on the city's political scene.
The same maybe true for Acklin depending on how he fares in the fall. The same might be true for Franco "Dok" Harris, the son of Steeler legend Franco Harris, who announced in May he too was running as an independent. However, I have heard very little of Harris since the announcement.
We'll see how things turn out for Harris, Acklin and our current mayor this fall. History says the race is all but decided. Then again, history is not everyone's strong suit.
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Q: CSS rotate transform messes up hover on sibling element Im trying to implement an overlay on an image element, with a button inside that lets you rotate the image 180 degrees. This works fine until you rotate the image the first time, then the overlay will not show up again or is for some reason behind the image tag, i have tried setting the z-index of the image to -999 but that did not do anything. I need the solution to work on mobile to, so working with onmouseover event listeners wasnt an option for me.
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Code:
<div class="relative">
<div class="absolute overlay">
<button id="rotate">Click to Rotate this Image 180 Degrees</button>
</div>
<div>
<img id="image-to-rotate" src="https://picsum.photos/200/300" />
</div>
</div>
import "./styles.css";
document.getElementById("rotate").addEventListener("click", () => {
document.getElementById("image-to-rotate").classList.toggle("rotate");
});
.relative {
position: relative;
height: 300px;
width: 200px;
}
.absolute {
color: white;
position: absolute;
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
/*invisible by default*/
opacity: 0;
}
.absolute:hover,
.absolute:active {
/*show on hover, also on activate to work on mobile*/
opacity: 1;
}
.rotate {
transform: rotate(180deg);
}
A:
.absolute:hover,
.absolute:active,
.absolute:visited {
/*show on hover*/
opacity: 1;
z-index: 999;
}
I added the visited to your css and the z-index and it stays after you click.
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Q: Парсинг чисел из ip адреса Требуется парсить числа из ip адреса, а потом их написать слитно в строку.
Делаю вот таким кодом.
String ips = ServerRuler.ip;
String ipes[] = ips.split(".");
System.out.println(ipes[0] + ipes[1] + ipes[2] + ipes[3]);
Выдает ошибку
Exception in thread "Thread-5" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
В чем проблема?
A: То, что вы указываете аргументом split() - это не последовательность символов, по которой надо разбить строку, а регулярное выражение. Поэтому точка воспринимается как метасимвол "любой символ". Насколько понимаю (беглый анализ метода не привел к точному пониманию), так как любой символ является разделителем, разделять остается нечего - вся строка состоит из одних разделителей. В любом случае тот шаблон разделения, который вы хотели использовать, будет выглядеть вот так:
ips.split("\\.");
Это экранирует вышеописанный метасимвол, который теперь будет играть роль обычной точки.
A: Формулировка вашей задачи, на мой взгляд, сводится к "убрать точки из текстового представления IP-адреса". Соответственно решается в одну строку:
String ips = ServerRuler.ip.replaceAll("\\.", "");
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Here is a link to my "freaky weather" article that I wrote on the 11th Feb 2014 and in one part I say, "…just three days ago we had about 35mm of rain overnight from a storm that went on to hit the UK".
Again as I write there is storm brewing in the Atlantic, Storm Imogen. So now up to "I" in the Weather Alphabet.
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