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Staples Center continues to distinguish itself as the host of major, high-profile events of national and international distinction, including the 2004, 2011, and 2018 NBA All-Stars Weekends, 2002, and 2017 NHL All-Star Games, and 2010 NHL Draft.
Now in its 19th year, Staples Center has developed an unrivaled reputation for excellence as the Sports and Entertainment Center of the World. Beginning with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's opening-night concert on October 17, 1999, more than 50 million guests have come to the AEG–owned and operated Staples Center to attend concerts, sporting events, awards shows, family programming, and other major attractions unmatched by any other arena. staplescenter.com
Staples Center served as the host of the 2002 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2000 Democratic National Convention, 2009 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, 17 of the last 19 Grammy Awards, 11 X Games competitions, four WTA Championships, 12 Pac 12 Men's Basketball Championships, 2013 and 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championships West Regional, and the Michael Jackson public memorial service on July 7, 2009.
Location: Los Angeles, Calif.
Scope: 950,000 square feet
Contact: David Brewster, Director, Premium Sales at dbrewster@staplescenter.com
Notable Features:
$10 million center-hung video LIVE 4HD Scoreboard specially designed for the arena.
$2 million specialty lighting package and other state-of-the-art amenities.
Along Staples Center's five concourses are 23 refreshment stands offering a variety of dining choices, including the Smokehouse BBQ on City View Terrace, a one-of-a-kind outdoor dining experience with a spectacular view of L.A. LIVE and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline.
The TEAM LA store located on the main concourse is a retail store featuring official merchandise from the teams and events that call Staples Center home, with satellite locations throughout the facility and L.A. LIVE.
The arena provides 55 public restrooms, including three family restrooms.
As home of four professional sports franchises—the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks—Staples Center gives a home-court advantage to local teams, with the Lakers capturing five NBA Championships and the Kings winning two Stanley Cup titles since 1999. The Sparks captured back-to-back WNBA Championships in their first two Staples Center campaigns and brought home their third WNBA Championship in June 2016.
The arena has free public Wi-Fi, over 840 Toshiba flat-panel televisions and (as part of a specially designed $1.5 million facility-wide sound system), 675 separate speakers outside of the seating area, so fans never miss any of the sights or sounds of a Staples Center event.
Staples Center has been designed with the fans of Los Angeles in mind. Guests are treated to the finest entertainment experience imaginable.
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Chuck Negron was one of three lead singers for Three Dog Night, which had a whopping twenty-one Top Forty songs between 1969 and 1975. Three of these hit Number One – "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)", "Black and White", and "Joy to the World", the latter featuring Negron's vocals and the familiar opening line "Jeremiah was a bullfrog". He also sang lead vocals on "One", "Eli's Coming", "An Old-Fashioned Love Song", and "Easy to be Hard". These, like most of Three Dog Night's songs, were covers, often in very different arrangements from the originals.
Chuck Negron: A great trip down memory lane of a time of great music, and an exciting time in Americana, the Sixties. You know, Gary Lewis & The Playboys bring me back unbelievable memories. Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere & The Raiders… it's a great, great show. And we have Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, and me, and then Flo and Eddie and The Turtles. It's just a fun, fun show filled with like twenty plus hits. It's a lot of fun.
JM: Back in the day, did you have any notable interactions with some of the guys that are now on this tour?
CN: Well, Mark Volman was a neighbor of mine. He lived right down the street from me, so I would run into him. Plus we had the same management, so we toured together. Three Dog Night toured with The Turtles. Mark Lindsay didn't live far from me, so I used to see him around Laurel Canyon, but we never worked together. Gary Puckett and I have worked together, have done shows together, as have Gary Lewis & The Playboys and myself.
JM: Regarding Three Dog Night, you guys seemed to have a great ear for material. How did you choose which songs to record?
CN: For me, you know I came from an era of the Brill Building, of Tin Pan Alley, when everything was about the song. I mean, all the acts, all the doo wop acts, all the pop acts of the day were working with people like Leiber and Stoller, Goffin and King, Mann and Weil, Bacharach and David.
So when Three Dog Night came together and we started writing, I didn't feel that the songs were strong enough. So I went to the publishers that handled these great, great writers, and I found some songs. I brought in "One", and "Don't Make Promises" from Tim Hardin, and a couple of other songs from the first album. The guys they were good, and when "One" became a big hit, the next album the guys started looking for tunes. On that album I brought in "Easy to be Hard" and "Eli's Coming" and a song by a new writing team Elton John and Bernie Taupin [laughs]. I recorded the first song ever recorded by Elton and Bernie.
So, you know, it just came down to being brought up looking and listening to good songs. So when I was in a position where I needed good songs, I knew where to go and I was lucky, I had good ears.
JM: How did the arrangements for the songs come together?
CN: That was a collaborative effort by the musicians and the singers and the producers. I mean, we really all got in there and really hashed out these songs until the arrangements were great. And we ended up getting into a real groove on tracks, and how to get these songs out. You know, it was our time. We weren't making any mistakes. We were in there, we just had a good thing and a good team, and we did it ourselves. We were totally self-contained.
JM: So you guys didn't use session musicians at all?
CN: No, no, no. We had four guys, and that was it. You know, every once in a while we brought in strings or we had horns come in. Actually the horns we had come in were the guys from Chicago. Yeah, we were totally self-contained. A totally self-contained band. We didn't have any A&R guys. We did the arrangements, we picked the songs. We had no interference. We just had the skills.
JM: You personally have been open about struggles with drugs you've had, which are thankfully in the past now. What's the short version of how that all went down?
CN: Well, it was the Sixties. People were experimenting with drugs. I did, and I didn't get to walk away. The fact is that there are some people that have addictive personalities. Some genetically. You're just predisposed. I was one of those, and I got myself in trouble.
So the short story is don't even try drugs, and maybe you'll get away [laughs].
CN: Keep a day job [laughs]. No. Work hard, be resilient. You must be resilient. But always be able to take care of yourself, you know, to earn a living, to be productive. You can't just say you're going to be a musician and then not do anything to be a productive member of society. You have to do something that makes yourself feel good when the times are bad in music.
JM: What are your plans, musical or otherwise for the near future?
CN: Well, I've got a Third Edition of the book [Three Dog Nightmare] that just came out. I've got a new CD that I'm working on and doing several new tunes. I also have three Three Dog Night tunes that have never been released that I'm bringing up to snuff, because they weren't finished. That's why they weren't released, they were never finished. So I'm doing a bunch of stuff, and this tour, we're doing six nights a week. So this tour is grueling. Right now, that's all we're doing, is this tour.
I'm also doing Kickstarter, which is a fan-based thing where fans make donations for gifts. They go from a dollar up to ten thousand dollars. The ten thousand dollar thing would be being brought to a show and playing live onstage. We're doing that to try and get this album off the ground.
JM: Do you want to set the record straight on anything? Or maybe it's all in the book?
CN: No, nothing I can think of that has irked me, you know, that I know about [laughs]. I mean, there could be a lot out there but I just don't know about it.
JM: An obligatory question, what would it take for you to get back together with Danny [Hutton] and Cory [Wells, the other two original lead vocalists for Three Dog Night]?
CN: You know, them just asking. And then planning on a special tour, planning on something special, a nice production. You know, not just sliding in there and going back to work, which was what they offered me, I don't know, fifteen years ago. To come back and just kind of anonymously flow back into the thing like I haven't been gone, which is not something I'm interested in.
JM: Well, it would be great if you could.
CN: It would be great. I would love to do it for the fans. I would love to do it.


The network contains an Active Directory forest named fabrikam.com. The forest contains all the identities used for user and computer authentication.
OUs for user account and computer accounts.
Fabrikam does NOT plan to implement identity federation.
Each office has a high-speed connection to the internet.
Each office contains two domain controllers. All domain controllers are configured as a DNS server.
All users connect to an on-premises Microsoft Exchange server 2016 organization. The users access their email by using Outlook Anywhere. Outlook on the web, or the Microsoft Outlook app for iOS. All the Exchange servers have the latest cumulative updates installed.
All shared company documents are stored on a Microsoft SharePoint server farm.
Fabrikam plans to implement a Microsoft 365 Enterprise subscription and move all email and shared document to the subscription.
Fabrikam plans to implement two pilot projects.
* Project1: During Project 1, the mailbox of 100 users in the sales department will be moved in Microsoft 365.
* Project2: After the successful completion of Project1, Microsoft Teams & Skype for business will be enable in Microsoft 365 for the sales departments users.
Fabrikam plans to create a group named User Licenses that will manage the allocation of all Microsoft 365 buy Licenses.
* All users must be able to exchange email messages successfully during project1 by using their current email.
* Users must be able to authenticate to cloud services if Active Directory becomes unavailable.
* A user named User1 must be able to view all DLP reports from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
* Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus applications must be installed from a network share only.
* Disruption to email access must be minimized.
* An On-Premises web application named App1 must allow users to complete their expense reports online.
* The installation of feature updates for Office 365 ProPlus must be minimized.
* After the planned migration to Microsoft 365 all users must continue to authenticate to their mailbox and to sharepoint sites by using their UPN.
* The memberships of UserLicense must be validated monthly. Unused user accounts must be removed from the group automatically.
* The Principle of least privilege must be used.
You create the Microsoft 365 tenant.
You implement Azure AD Connect as shown in the following exhibit.
Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information in the graphic.
You need to meet the application requirements for the Office 365 ProPlus applications. You create an XML files that contains the following settings.
You need to meet the application requirement for App1.
Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
You need to ensure that all the sales department users can authenticate successfully during Project1and Project2.
Which authentication strategy should you implement for the pilot projects?
You need to prepare the environment for Project1. You create the Microsoft 365 tenant.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence next? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Which migration solution should you recommend for Project1?
A. From Exchange Online PowerShell, run the New-MaiboxImportRequest cmdlet.
B. From Exchange Online PowerShell, run the New-MaiboxExportRequest cmdlet.
C. From the Microsoft 365 admin center, start a data migration and click Upload PSST as the data service.
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Our nonprofit friends on the opposite side of the state put on an amazing conference. A stellar lineup of local and national speakers like Linda Haley and Antionette Carroll, a chance to get Carol Weisman's latest book, and ample networking toped our list of favorites.
Really good fundraising is based on love. If you're doing it right, your fundraising journey is going to impact you as deeply as it does your donors.
We don't go to donors looking for money. We go looking for their heart. With that, money follows.
Quality video is an important part of a nonprofit organization's communication strategy. It produces more conversions than any other content.
Ask yourself if YOU find your social media content interesting, relevant and engaging. Would you take time to read it?
The average human attention span is 8 seconds, or about 2 scrolls of the wheel on a computer mouse. Is your email going to grab their attention?
By definition the small nonprofit is under-resourced. Utilizing consultants and agencies, you can accomplish what you don't have the bandwidth to personally, and the ROI is more than worth it.
The advantage of a small organization is a very focused team with strategic goals and tightly focused donors. Relentlessly review efforts to achieve goals, create a 'not-to-do' list because time is the hottest commodity not to waste.
Reach out to donors just to ask advice. They will appreciate a contact without an ask and they love to dispense their opinions.
Our overall consensus is that it's important to make time for professional development. We came back recharged, refreshed and armed with new ideas to help our clients.


BuGLe is a freeware debugger for Linux and other UNIX-like OSes. BuGLe combines a graphical OpenGL debugger with a selection of filters on the OpenGL command stream. The debugger allows viewing of state, textures, framebuffers and shaders, while the filters allow for logging, error checking, video capture and more.
AMD CodeXL is a free debugger and profiler for OpenGL and OpenCL applications. It is available as a Visual Studio plugin for Microsoft Windows, and as a standalone tool for Windows and Linux.
gDEBugger is a full-featured and free debugger and profiler representing the state-of-the-art in OpenGL and OpenGL ES debugging and profiling on Microsoft Windows and Linux.
GLIntercept is a freeware debugger/logger for Microsoft Windows 2000 & XP. GLIntercept can save function calls, textures, shaders, error states, and framebuffer data to XML or text file logs. Logging can be per-frame or continuous. The plugin system provided also allows real-time editing of shaders and manipulation of OpenGL states.
GLSLang is a reference parser and frontend for the OpenGL Shading Language.
KTX is a lightweight file format for delivering textures to OpenGL family APIs.
Nsight Visual Studio supports OpenGL frame debugging and profiling, GLSL GPU shader debugging and local single GPU shader debugging.


New Holland has launched a new course to train technicians for agricultural equipment and engines in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The course is part of the TechPro2 vocational programme launched by CNH Industrial with the aim to involve local communities in advanced training specifically tailored for young people and provide them with the skills and tools they need to build a successful future in the field of mechanics.
The course will be held at the Don Bosco Technical Centre, where a workshop built with New Holland's assistance will be used for both theoretical study and practical training dedicated to the farming sector.
As part of this project, MOENCO and New Holland jointly donates one New Holland tractor model TT75 4WD tractor to Don Bosco Technical Centre for teaching purposes. The students enrolled in the new course will have an internship opportunity at MOENCO, the exclusive dealer of New Holland agricultural products in Ethiopia, once they have completed the one-year course.
The official inauguration of the new workshop and donation of the tractor took place on November 28, 2018, and was attended by Yasin Seker, Business Manager for New Holland Agriculture EMEA, Daniela Ropolo, EMEA Sustainability Development Initiatives Manager for CNH Industrial, Basaznew Legese, Senior Manager of MOENCO Kaliti Machinery Branch and Alehegn Gebru, Sales Manager of Agricultural and Industrial Equipment.


If you're a fan of beaches and boating, Fort Lauderdale is the place for your next vacation. Visit the memorabilia-filled International Swimming Hall of Fame, and then hop on a boat and head out to the Atlantic for a day of deep-sea fishing. Or spend the day outdoors exploring the beauty of Hugh Taylor Birch State Park and then end your night with a water taxi ride around the luxurious coastline to learn more about the coastal city and its famous inhabitants.


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Trump's transgender ban is cruel, medically unethical and damaging to the US military
Transgender people are part of human diversity. It's senseless and indefensible to deny them medical care and force them to suppress their identities.
Robert H. Goldstein
Opinion contributor
Though President Donald Trump tweeted his solidarity with LGBT Americans as PRIDE month began, his actions speak louder than words. His administration's new policy on transgender military service deals a cruel blow to transgender service members who want to serve their country openly and proudly. The policy, which took effect last month, forbids military service by anyone who "requires gender transition" — forcing transgender troops to hide and deny who they are or face discharge.
As a physician, let me be clear: Requiring transgender people to serve in their birth sex is a dangerous and unworkable rule. It will cause great harm to transgender troops, lead to the loss of highly qualified service members, and weaken our military.
Under the military's prior policy, transgender people were allowed to serve openly, and — like other service members — to obtain medically needed care. In stark contrast, the Pentagon's new policy forbids all gender transition-related medical care. Service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria can remain in the military only if they undergo "counseling" to suppress who they are, despite clear evidence that such an approach is harmful and ineffective.
Read more commentary:
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Trump policy has no basis in medicine or ethics
Forcing someone who is transgender to hide who they are or try to change their identity is medically indefensible, akin to conversion therapy for gay people. It is similarly unethical, harmful and lacking any medical basis.
As medical science has long understood, transgender people are a natural part of human diversity. While gender dysphoria — the diagnosis given to someone who experiences distress when forced to live as the wrong gender — is a real and recognized medical condition, it is also highly treatable.When transgender people have access to appropriate medical care, they are as healthy, stable and productive as anyone else.The experience of transgender troops who transitioned under the open-service policy, and have continued serving with honor and distinction at home and overseas, shows that is as true in the military as it is anywhere.
That is why the American Medical Association and other organizations of physicians unequivocally recognize the medical necessity of transition-related care. The medical community recognizes gender transition as the standard of care — the only evidence-based, medically effective treatment for gender dysphoria.
Denying treatment is cruel and senseless
Rejecting this medical consensus makes no more sense than refusing to provide antibiotics to a sailor with bacterial pneumonia, or deciding not to set the bone of a recruit who breaks a leg during basic training. In all three cases, appropriate treatment can lead to healing and a healthy, productive future; denying that treatment will lead to predictable individual harm and deprive the military of qualified troops.
The medical treatments involved in gender transition are well-established and highly effective. In my practice, I have seen the effectiveness of transition-related care. Once they are able to live authentically, my transgender patients have thrived, going on to lead productive lives and to contribute their skills and talents to the larger society as students, scientists, accountants, and, yes, service members in the U.S. military.
The U.S. military should join the medical community and implement research-based medical practices, recognizing that you don't treat gender dysphoria by forcing someone to suppress their identity. You treat gender dysphoria by providing affirming, medically necessary gender transition-related care.
Variations in gender identity are normal. Cruelly denying appropriate medical care is not.
Dr. Robert H. Goldstein is the medical director of the Transgender Health Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Follow him on Twitter: @rgolds04

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Thu, 03 Nov 2016
Newbury MP would vote in favour of triggering Brexit negotiations
High Court ruling says Parliamentary vote needed to invoke Article 50
Chris Ord
chris.ord@newburynews.co.uk
NEWBURY MP Richard Benyon has said he will vote in favour of triggering Article 50 if the decision is put before Parliament.
Mr Benyon was speaking after a High Court judge ruled today that the government could not take the decision to begin Brexit negotiations on its own.
The government is expected to appeal the decision.
Newbury's Tory MP had campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU ahead of the referendum in June with the British public ultimately voting to leave.
Although Mr Benyon's constituents in Newbury and West Berkshire voted to remain with a majority of 52 per cent.
However he told the Newbury Weekly News today that if the vote was put to parliament he would respect the will of the British public.
He said: "I was an active remainer but I entirely accept the democratic decision taken by the British people and it would be foolish if parliament were to ignore that decision.
He added: "There's a very clear democratic process.
"It was a national referendum.
"I'm a democrat and anybody who claims to be a democrat has to recognise that the country voted to leave.
"There's no doubt that the country will leave the EU and I have a mandate to ask the difficult questions on how it does that to make sure we get the very best deal for the country."
The EU's other 27 members have said negotiations about the terms of the UK's exit, which would last last two years, cannot begin until Article 50 has been invoked.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she intends to start the process by the end of March 2017.
Mr Benyon, who has been Newbury MP since 2005, also said the High Court's decision presented a "constitutional conundrum".
He continued: "Are the courts saying they are more important than the decision that the public took in the referendum?
"At some point Article 50 has to be triggered.
"It's a seismic constitutional decision taken by the High Court."


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Q: AWS: dynamically allocate & associate new IP addresses to EC2 instance? I am running some web crawling jobs on an AWS hosted server. The crawler scrapes data from an eCommerce website but recently the crawler gets "timeout errors" from the website. The website might have limited my visiting frequency based on my IP address. Allocating a new Elastic-IP address solves the problem, but not for long.
My Question: Is there any service that I can use to automatically and dynamically allocate & associate new IPs to my instance? Thanks!

A: To change the EIP you can just use Python boto
Something like this:
#!/usr/bin/python

import boto.ec2

conn = boto.ec2.connect_to_region("us-east-1",
    aws_access_key_id='<key>',
    aws_secret_access_key='<secret>')

reservations = ec2_conn.get_all_instances(filters={'instance-id' : 'i-xxxxxxxx'})
instance = reservations[0].instances[0]

old_address = instance.ip_address
new_address = conn.allocate_address().public_ip

conn.disassociate_address(old_address)
conn.associate_address('i-xxxxxxxx', new_address)

A: If you want use TOR network just execute:
sudo apt-get install tor
sudo /etc/init.d/tor start

 netstat -ant | grep 9050 #  Tor port

and in your java project you set the proxy as:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.setProperty("socksProxyHost", "127.0.0.1");
    System.setProperty("socksProxyPort", "9050");

you can scheduler a cron job that each XX time reboot your application and tor.
Easy and secure.

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Dear, Klairs has infused a comfy rayon charcoal mask with the excellent Midnight Blue Calming Cream to create a cooling and soothing sheet mask. The mask is enriched with special ingredients such as erythritol to cool the skin and Salix Alba Bark extract to help control sebum and pore care. The inclusion of Tea Tree Leaf Oil, Licorice and Centella extract effectively calm and heal breakouts, making it perfect for those with oily skin or concerned with blackheads.
I have sensitive, easily irritated dry skin for reference, everything I've tried by Klairs has been amazing (which is unheard of me) and these sheet masks have continued that winning streak. I've found these to be my skin's saviour during the summer when the unusual English heat dried out my skin like mad and I've now stocked up on them again (alongside the moist soothing mask, also by Klairs) for winner. Totally recommend, yet again!
I really like Klairs sheetmasks and this one is my favourite!
I have never tried a toner this thick and moisturizing! Nothing bad to say about it. I dare you to try it!
Loved my purchases from Beauty & Seoul. This sheet mask is amazing! When I used it, my skin was sore from having quite a few sudden breakouts. This really helped soothe my sore skin. Would definitely recommend for anyone who has sore skin from breakouts. And the fit of the sheet mask is great as well. I will definitely be buying more of these.
This is the first time I have used these products, and there absolutely amazing! Would definitely buy from here again as there service is excellent.
I tried this mask and it's quite nice, I just prefer the Klair's tencil sheet Mask more.
One of the best masks I've ever tried (and I've tried a LOT!), it's soothing, cooling and calms my skin (which is sensitive, reactive and combination). The best part is, the effects of mask last all day, I'd argue for a couple of days after too. If this is any indication of the other products in this range I think I may of just found my new HG brand!
This is honestly one of the best sheet masks that i have ever tried! i instantly saw results after taking it off. My pores were noticeably smaller, my skin more plump and smoother! i will 100% be purchasing a lot more of these masks.


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I have an inane love for a good fairytale re-telling or an interesting twist on classic lore/mythology, Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles and Rick Riordan for Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus being my top favourites.
While I am not a big fan of zombies, I appreciate Issac Marion's (Warm Bodies) and Chris Roberson's (iZombie) unique interpretation of the franchise. Amy Tintera is another such individual who took the basics behind the trope and fashioned a complex (albeit convenient) YA dystopian out of it with her debut Reboot and its sequel Rebel.
While it would be easy to focus on politics and freedom-fighting in a post zombie and/or robot apocalyptic dystopian novel, Tintera manages to dig deeper and question the readers' perspectives on humanity. Is it black and white? Or shades of grey? Or a rainbow? She expertly weaves these existential queries/suggestions within a pulse-pounding, syrupy-sweet and appropriately gory narrative.
Wren is a beautifully crafted protagonist, conflicted and complex, each of her inner struggles palpable because Tintera qualifies her thoughts so well. Her character develops throughout the duology as opposed to a single isolated burst of clarity, something I found realistic. She questions and re-questions things using various points of reference. I loved her thorough thought process. I adored her relationship with Callum, Ever, Addie, Riley and even the antagonist equally because the interactions were engaging and revealed layers of her.
Callum, freaked me out for the most part of Reboot. He is the best version of a human (and a Reboot) possible, so insufferably pure of heart that he can pick up and swing Mjölnir like it's no Asgardian's business. It was weird yet refreshing to read about such an optimistic male lead with a conscience as stubborn as they come. I think YA fiction is so overpopulated by brooding, tall, dark and scary men of action, that someone like Callum is immediately disconcerting. The first impression of him is that of someone weak, soft and annoying but you eventually come to respect him for his convictions. I started off with shaking my head at his antics and later realised I started to smile while doing it, so he definitely grows on you.
I appreciated that Tintera wrote Rebel from both Callum's and Wren's perspectives because I finally got to understand Callum and genuinely like him. Also, his character development throughout Rebel, though not as gradual as Wren's, was shocking and exciting. I believe if The Hunger Games ever got written from Peeta's perspective, he would sound a bit like Callum.
Wren and Callum were very different people and I loved that their individualism was maintained throughout the two books even as they changed into better versions of themselves. Their relationship was built on understanding as opposed to blind compromise which I found quite endearing.
I honestly, cannot identify anything significantly unlikable about this duology. Some portions of the plot were rather convenient for my liking and I would not have minded Tintera making me sweat while she resolved it, but in hindsight my overall enjoyment of the books outweighs that little hitch.
In summary, Reboot and Rebel were quick, thrilling reads and I needless to say I will be eagerly looking forward to more great reads from Amy Tintera.


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Episcopal Diocese of Haiti caring for 23,000 quake survivors
By Anglican Journal on January 25, 2010
The Episcopal Diocese of Haiti is caring for close to 23,000 Haitians in at least 21 encampments around the earthquake-devastated country.The information came Jan. 23 in a letter from Bishop Jean Zache Duracin to Episcopal Relief & Development President Robert Radtke and posted here. In the letter, Duracin said that the diocese and the organization are working "hand-in-hand," telling Radtke he has "complete confidence in you and your agency.""Please tell our partners, the people of the Episcopal Church, the people of the United States and indeed the people of the world that we in Haiti are immensely grateful for their prayers, their support and their generosity," Duracin wrote. "This is a desperate time in Haiti; we have lost so much. But we still have the most important asset, the people of God, and we are working continuously to take care of them."The Haitian diocese suffered greatly with the quake. A number of the diocese's 254 schools, ranging from preschools to a university and a seminary, were destroyed or heavily damaged, including the Holy Trinity complex of primary, music and trade schools adjacent to the demolished diocesan Cathedrale Sainte Trinite (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince.A portion of the St. Vincent School for Handicapped Children, also in the Haitian capital, collapsed, killing between six and 10 students and staff. Many of the students are living at the camp while arrangements are being made for them to be housed elsewhere.More than 100 of the diocese's churches have been damaged or destroyed, Duracin has said.As many as 3,000 quake survivors, including many members of the diocese, have congregated on a rocky field next to College Ste. Pierre, a diocesan secondary school that the quake destroyed. Duracin, who was left homeless by the quake, has led the effort to organize and maintain the camp, where conditions are described as grim.Two Episcopal Relief & Development officials — Katie Mears, program manager for USA disaster preparedness and response, and Kirsten Muth, senior program director — have been in Port-au-Prince twice in the last week to assist the diocese. They have been operating out of the Dominican Republic, the country that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Mears and Muth are also assisting the Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic's efforts to aid its neighbors to the west.The agency's efforts include coordinating shipments of medical supplies and food to affected rural Haitian communities and parishes, organizing air drops to isolated rural areas and the provision of satellite phones and solar power chargers. The latter will enable coordination of efforts between dioceses and increase the organization's ability to communicate with Duracin and his colleagues as they serve thousands of survivors both in Port-au-Prince and in other areas served by the Episcopal Church of Haiti.The agency said Jan. 21 that its work is also helping to establish a response mechanism that can continue to operate efficiently as the recovery process gets underway in the coming weeks and months.The bishop said in his letter to Radtke that the members of the diocese "have a vision and a plan for this relief and recovery effort.""We know the situation on the ground, we are directing emergency relief to those who need it most, and we already are making plans and moving forward to help our people," he said, adding that he was aware that many people in the rest of the Episcopal Church want to come to Haiti immediately to offer their help."Please tell them that unless they are certified professionals in relief and recovery, they must wait," he asked of Radtke. "We will need them in the months and years to come, but at this point, it is too dangerous and too much of a burden for our people to have mission teams here."Duracin also said in the letter that he had appointed the Rev. Lauren Stanley, one of the Episcopal Church's four missionaries assigned to Haiti, to work on his behalf with Episcopal Relief & Development. He also asked the diocese's many partners in the Episcopal Church to communicate with her to facilitate contact with the diocese.Stanley was home in Virginia when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck outside of Port-au-Prince just before 5 p.m. local time. Another Episcopal Church missionary, the Rev. Canon Oge Beauvoir, the dean of the diocese's seminary, is still in Haiti and working with Duracin. Mallory Holding, 23, and Jude Harmon, 28, two Young Adult Service Corps missionaries, left the country the weekend after the quake."The world's response to this tragedy is overwhelming, the U.S. response is overwhelming, and our partners' response is overwhelming," Stanley told ENS on Jan. 24 via email. "Our priests and lay leaders know of the deep concern and incredible efforts that are being made on our behalf, and they are telling their people. Bishop Duracin's leadership is incredible … ERD's response, which was swift and direct and incredible, is what is holding everyone together. The Haitian people know they have not been forgotten, and they know they will be helped."– The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg is ENS national correspondent and editor of Episcopal News Monthly.
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Chennai Open: Coric overcomes Granollers challenge
With unforced errors and weaker serves, Coric lost the second set tamely, but then came back rejuvenated to break his opponent in the final set, and this eventually sealed the match.
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Borna Coric overcame Marcel Granollers in a game that lasted two hours and 31 minutes. - K. V. Srinivasan
In a battle between two evenly matched players, evidence of which was seen in the lengthy match of three sets, 19-year old Borna Coric made use of a crucial tiebreak win and a late surge to defeat Marcel Granollers 7-6, 6-2, 6-4.
The two players slugged it out from the baseline and for much of the contest, there was little to choose between them. With unforced errors and weaker serves, Coric lost the second set tamely, but then came back rejuvenated to break his opponent in the final set, and this eventually sealed the match.
That there was little to choose between the players was suggested by their lengthy points, including one lasting 24 shots in the third set. Having slogged to gain two match points, at 5-4, in the third set, Coric was made to commit errors in fierce rallies to give Granollers a break point. The game oscillated from one side to the other, before another prospective long rally was cut short by Coric by his arrival at the net and the match was clinched. It had lasted two hours and 31 minutes.
But Coric may not have had to wait for this long had he been tighter in the second set. He won less than half of his first serves in the set, and failed to convert any of the four break points he had gained. Granollers, on the other hand, was more aggressive than his opponent, broke him twice. It seemed frustration had set in for Coric, some of which may have been because of the heat.
But he left all of it behind in the final set. Amid a plethora of forehand and backhand shots from the baseline, he got the crucial break that eventually proved decisive. Towards the climax, he seemed to possess renewed power, in his serves as well as strokes, to literally overpower Granollers.
In the second round, Coric will play the winner of the first-round match between Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek. He needs a decent rest before that.
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Trump's approval rating falls
A March Iowa Poll showed 41% of likely Iowa voters would support Biden in a general election against the president, and 51% said they would support Trump.
In the months since, Biden has become the Democratic Party's de facto nominee — a title Democrats will formalize at a convention scheduled for August — allowing the party to begin to coalesce around him. The president, though, has faced consistent criticism for his management of the coronavirus pandemic and for his handling of protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, a Black resident of Minneapolis, at the hands of white police officers.
The president's job approval rating has also fallen in that time. In March, his approval rating was above water for the first time in a Register poll, with 50% of Iowans saying they approved of the job he was doing as president. At the time, 46% of Iowans said the country was on the right track — another high-water mark for Trump's presidency, and the highest that number had been recorded since May 2003.
But both measures have fallen substantially, the new poll shows.
Today, just 22% of Iowans say the nation is on the right track. Another 63% say the nation is on the wrong track, including a plurality of Republicans (45%). It's rare for members of a political party to break with a sitting president of the same party, Selzer said.
Trump's approval rating has fallen 5 percentage points from March to 45% today. Now, a majority of Iowans — 52% — disapprove of the job he's doing.
That ratings dip coincides with disapproval of the president's handling of two major current events.
Forty-five percent of Iowans say they approve of how he has addressed COVID-19, while 53% disapprove and 2% are unsure. Just 37% approve of the way he has addressed protests surrounding race and police actions. Another 55% disapprove and 8% are unsure.
Carolyn Robinson, a 44-year-old Des Moines resident and poll respondent, is among those who have problems with the way the president has managed the coronavirus crisis.
"I don't think he's done a very good job at all," she said. "I think we should have had more PPE (personal protective equipment). We should have been a lot more prepared than what we were. And I don't think he should be blaming other people for his mistakes. He can't take responsibility for what he says and does."
Robinson, a Democrat, said she's excited to vote for Biden in November and hopes the former vice president can reverse course and get the country back on track.
But both Biden and Trump are underwater in their favorability ratings, with more Iowans viewing them unfavorably than viewing them favorably.
For Biden, 45% of Iowans view him favorably and 50% view him unfavorably. For Trump, the same portion, 45%, have a favorable view, while 52% have an unfavorable view.
However, poll respondents were more likely to say they have a "very unfavorable" view of the president. Forty-three percent say their views of Trump are "very unfavorable," including 87% of Democrats and 42% of independents.
Thirty-two percent of Iowans say they have a "very unfavorable" view of Biden. That includes 66% of Republicans and 30% of independents.
Selzer said that dynamic was critical in 2016, when voters regularly said they disliked both candidates and ultimately chose between what many described as the "lesser of two evils."
She said she expects the Trump campaign to work to "vilify Joe Biden to make him an unacceptable candidate" in the same way they worked to make Hillary Clinton unacceptable to many voters.
"But there's some work to be done there," she said. "Because there's a stronger revulsion to Trump among the Democrats than there is toward Biden by the Republicans."
'A mood that feels more favorable to Democrats'
Supporters have divided firmly along party lines, with the president retaining the support of 93% of the Republican vote and Biden holding 92% of the Democratic vote.
Independents lean slightly toward Biden, 39% to 38%. Another 18% say they would vote for someone other than Biden or Trump.
Trump holds an advantage among those who say their mind is made up, with 87% of his supporters saying they are firm in their choice. Among Biden's supporters, that number is 80%.
"(Trump) does what he says he's going to do — Israel, building up the military, giving people tax breaks and voting in better judges," said Brad Blunt, a 55-year-old Ankeny resident and poll respondent.
Blunt said he considers himself an independent voter but tends to side with Republicans on most issues. He plans to vote for Trump in November and has been pleased with the way he's handled issues around the coronavirus and the protests.
"It's pretty much just Democratic governors that are causing the issues," he said. "I think he's done about all he can do right now."
Blunt is among the 53% of men who side with the president — a 17-percentage-point lead over Biden, who earns 36% with men.
The gender divide is significant among women as well. Biden leads by 14 percentage points with women, 50% to 36% over Trump.
The gap is even larger among white men with no college degree — a key demographic that helped propel Trump's success in 2016. That group favors the president 64% to 28% over Biden — a 36-point spread. White women with no college degree prefer Biden 53% to 35% over Trump — an 18-point margin.
Trump leads with the Republican Party's core voters in Iowa: rural residents (56% to 31%), evangelicals (69% to 20%) and those who live in Iowa's heavily conservative 4th congressional district, in northwest and north central Iowa (59% to 28%).
Biden does best among those with no religious affiliation (62% to 23%) and those who live in cities (51% to 36%). In the other three congressional districts, he leads:
1st District, northeast Iowa: 48% to 43%.
2nd District, southeast Iowa: 48% to 34%.
3rd District, the Des Moines metro and southwest Iowa: 49% to 41%.
Overall, Selzer said this poll seems to indicate a climate that favors Democrats. Likely voters preferred a Democratic U.S. House candidate over a Republican candidate in three of the state's four congressional districts, and they slightly favored Democratic Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield over Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst.
"Having come out of 2018 (when Democrats flipped two congressional seats) and now, with these dynamics and the popularity of these Democratic candidates, including Theresa Greenfield, it creates a mood that feels more favorable to Democrats statewide," she said.
Correction: The portion of Iowans who are unsure whether they approve or disapprove of how President Donald Trump addressed COVID-19 has been corrected in this version of the story. The portion of people who are unsure is 2%.
The Iowa Poll, conducted June 7-10 for the Des Moines Register and Mediacom by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, is based on telephone interviews with 801 Iowans ages 18 or older. Interviewers with Quantel Research contacted households with randomly selected landline and cellphone numbers supplied by Dynata. Interviews were administered in English. Responses were adjusted by age, sex, and congressional district to reflect the general population based on recent American Community Survey estimates.
Questions based on the sample of 801 Iowa adults have a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, and questions based on the sample of 674 likely voters in the 2020 general election have a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. This means that if this survey were repeated using the same questions and the same methodology, 19 times out of 20, the findings would not vary from the true population value by more than plus or minus 3.5 or 3.8 percentage points, respectively. Results based on smaller samples of respondents — such as by gender or age — have a larger margin of error.
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Brianne Pfannenstiel is the chief politics reporter for the Register. Reach her at bpfann@dmreg.com or 515-284-8244. Follow her on Twitter at @brianneDMR.
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PHOTOS Moments of the week (01/14-01/20/2019)
Moments of the week (01/14-01/20/2019)
By Yan Yiqiao | People's Daily app
Sheep filled a Spanish church in central Madrid on Thursday for an annual blessing on the Day of Saint Anthony, Spain's patron saint of animals. Every year, faithful animal lovers from across the country enthusiastically bring their pets to the church to receive blessings. (Photo: VCG)
A homeless woman helps her son Farmaan with his homework as they sit on a bicycle cart, their belongings hanging on a wall, in New Delhi, India, Jan. 16, 2019. Some 800 million people in the country live in poverty, many of them migrating to big cities in search of a livelihood and often ending up on the streets. (Photo: AP)
A Vietnamese woman collects incense sticks in a courtyard at century-old Quang Phu Cau village on January 14, 2019. In Vietnam's 'incense village', hundreds of workers are hard at work dying, drying and whittling down bamboo bark to make the fragrant sticks ahead of the busy lunar new year holiday. (Photo: VCG)
Tunisian workers stage a protest in front of the national union headquarters in the capital Tunis, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. Workers around Tunisia are on strike to demand higher pay in a standoff with a government struggling to tame unemployment, poverty and social tensions. (Photo: AP)
Kevin Anderson of South Africa in action against Adrian Mannarino of France during Australian Open 2019 Men's Singles match in Melbourne, Australia, on January 14, 2019. (Photos: VCG)
A female one-year-old panda cub sits next to her birthday cake during a celebration at Malaysia's national zoo in Kuala Lumpur on January 14, 2019. The second panda was born at the zoo on January 14, 2018 from parents Liang Liang and Xing Xing, a pair loaned from China. (Photo: VCG)
Fireworks explode over Belgrade's Saint Sava Church to mark the Orthodox Christian New Year early on January 14, 2019. The Old New Year or the Orthodox New Year is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year in the Julian calendar. (Photo: VCG)
An arrangement of daily newspapers photographed in London on January 16, 2019 shows front pages reporting on the UK parliament's rejection of the government's Brexit deal. Prime Minister Theresa May was left "crushed" and "humiliated", Britain's newspapers said on January 16 as they raked over the fallout from parliament's huge rejection of her EU divorce deal. (Photo: VCG)
Sri Lanka Police Special Task Force (STF) soldiers during a passing out parade at Katukurunda, 40 km south of Colombo, on January 16, 2019. (Photo: VCG)
A Chinese Dragon meets a mythical unicorn on the National Museum of Scotland rooftop at a program for Scotland's largest Chinese New Year celebrations on January 16, 2019. (Photo: VCG)
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Guo Zhihao (front), coach from Qiqihar Winter Sports Administration Center, trains the players of ice hockey team of Wenyun County Primary School in Fuyun County of Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan 18, 2019. Wenyun County Primary School established their ice hockey team in 2013, the first campus ice hockey team in Altay, with the help of the


Already parents of one son, Phyllis and Derek Stevens wanted to grow their family. The couple had space in their hearts and their home for more children, so they became foster parents.
Like other new foster parents, they weren't aware of the variety of resources beyond their case manager's services that were available to these growing families.
So, not wanting other parents to feel lost in the foster care system, the couple founded Together as Adoptive Parents (TAP) in 1988. TAP gives links to services that families didn't know about like tutoring.
Phyllis (pictured above), the leader of the group, found purpose from her third son.
"I realized that if I needed services for him, other families needed service for their children that they had adopted out of the foster care system," Stevens said.
Operating out of the Friends Center at 1501 Cherry St., Stevens and her board members put their energy into going around the state and advocating for families. TAP once went to the state Capitol building and put 1,000 shoes on the steps for the children in foster care.
A woman who witnessed Stevens' work first hand is Jenelle Lassiter (pictured above). One of TAP's board members, Lassiter met Stevens in the early 1990s.
One thing that Stevens believes in is creating relationships with the parents. Her cellphone is with her at all times, and Stevens answers any and all questions that parents have.
Her influence doesn't just reach the parents. Some of Lassiter's adult foster children come back to help TAP and Stevens with other children in the group.
Another parent on TAP's board, Jannifer Green, would like to see more groups like TAP develop. Green is the foster mother of three girls.
"As a single female, having no children at all, I thought I was Superwoman… I attended a lot of trainings with Ms. Stevens," Green said.
Lassiter and Green are a couple of parents who walked through the door of Stevens' office. Her passion for the rights of foster families is one step into increasing understanding.
"We know that once we have a foster child placed in our homes, they're still our child," Stevens said.
-Text, images, and video by Jaya Montague.


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'Camera: How to be holy'/'Camera: Stigmata'
Bonnell, Sian (2011) 'Camera: How to be holy'/'Camera: Stigmata'. [Exhibition]
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Fountains & Drains/The Sainsbury Gallery, The British School at Rome, Italy
Bonnell, Sian
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This exhibition featured the work of eight artist scholars and fellows marking the completion of Bonnell's Photoworks Senior Research Fellowship at the British School at Rome. Ten photographs were displayed in the Sainsbury Gallery with two images from an earlier series, the 2008 'Ordinary Magic,' featured in the Yearbook. The body of work produced in Rome, April - June 2011, contributed to thorough analyses of Bonnell's practice-led research over a thirty-year period., The key contribution of the research is 'Wilful Amateurism', a term coined by Bonnell to describe an aesthetic comparable to the aesthetics of play and boundary transgression found in artists such as Duchamp and Hannah Höch. 'Wilful Amateurism,' in this output, as in outputs 2 and 4, intends the agglutination of sculpture and performance apprehended as photography. The methodology incorporates bricolage-oriented syntheses of spaces, places, objects, performances and absurdities intended to fictionalise all of the source materials (blog entries demonstrate these processes)., The Roman work's impetus is manifest as a desire for the images to be 'entered' when the space between reality and fantasy is rendered as experiential. The work in the Yearbook is an ongoing research into human behaviour focused on the experiential aspects of fear and superstition. This avenue was further pursued as research into the Roman Catholic faith and its antecedents that emphasised Roman and Etruscan cultures. Related works in this area include 'Camera:How to be Holy,' self-images enacting religious gesture, and 'Camera:Stigmata,' images showing the re-enactment of five versions of St Catherine of Sienna receiving the stigmata.
http://photoworks.org.uk/sian-bonnells-bsr-proposa...
Sian Bonnell
https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/240


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In mezzotint, a tool that smoothes the surface of the roughened plate by scraping off some or all of the texture on the surface thus reducing the plate's ability to carry ink. A scraper usually has a wooden handle and a shaft with one or more knifelike edges.
A print made by a stencil technique in which ink is forced through stretched mesh fabric (silk, cotton, nylon, or metal) onto paper beneath the frame. The image is created by blocking out parts of the mesh in a variety of ways such as hand-painting the screen with glue or lacquer; applying a cutout design; or by painting a light-sensitive resist on the screen which is then developed photographically. Unlike many of the other printing media, there is no mirror reversal in screenprinting, which is very versatile as it can be placed on almost any material.
To work the surface of metal by a stream of shot, such as glass shards, in order to achieve a rougher, non-reflective surface.
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Special proof. A proof specifically created for presentation purposes by the artist or publisher that equals the right to print impression or standard used for the edition. In some cases this is called a dedication proof (DP).
A direct intaglio method of painting the grounded etching plate with a strong acid rather than placing it in an acid-bath. Pale to dark tones can be achieved by varying the time and strength of the acid application. The term originated with the traditional practice of putting saliva on the plate to mix with the acid in order to control the dispersal of the fluid over the plate.
The point at which an artist stops work on a matrix and pulls an impression of a print. A first state is the first impression or impressions. A second state is the next impression taken after further design adjustments have been made. This sequence may continue until a final state is produced.


Much less well known than other, similar vantage points, the Trolltunga (troll's tongue) is a narrow ledge of rock that projects out from the mountainside no less than 700m above Lake Ringedalsvatnet. Needless to say, the views fair take your breath away. To get there, take Highway 13 north from Odda to Tyssedal, where you follow the signs for the 7km journey up into the mountains to Skjeggedal, where you can park. The hike starts here in Skjeggedal beside the (currently defunct) funicular Mågelibanen. The path begins on the right-hand side of the funicular, is marked with painted red Ts, takes between eight and ten hours there and back, and involves an ascent of around 1000m. This is tough terrain, so you will need to come properly equipped, and you should check weather conditions at Odda tourist office before you set out – the path is closed when the snows come and is usually open from mid-June to early October. There is no mobile phone coverage along the route.


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Posted on September 28, 2016 by Warin	in Uncategorized and tagged 5 Years, Awkward Black Girl, FilmSwag.
The Fall of 2011 doesn't feel all that long ago, but at the same time feels like ages ago if that makes any sense.
Yesterday September 26th, marked 5 years to the day that this blog was founded. 5 years in the books and I'm still learning about this blogging thing if we're being honest. I don't post nearly as much as I used to, but nevertheless, FilmSwag remains near and dear to my heart and a platform I view as important as ever in these trying times.
I started this blog out of a need to say something about people of color (specifically black people) and how it related to film and media in general. It was an interesting time as media was also evolving. In 2011 the word 'web series' was still just coming into the public lexicon. Now we have people who have used the platform to make the jump into the more traditional world film and television including one awkward black girl who's come a long way from her Youtube debut in 2012.
Over the last 5 years video has gone from a nice thing to have to a must-have for many media companies. With the rise of HD video and the proliferation of smartphones, video is as ubiquitous as its ever been. Even Instagram, known more for its photo filters at first, now in features 1 minute videos up from 15 seconds earlier this year.
With as much video has increased over the last 5 years, not all of it has been for the better. People of color are still underrepresented in the major Hollywood studios and media outlets alike. Also, as more people have cellphones with video capabilities, we've seen a number of black men end up dead at the hands of the police, just within the last few months alone. Police brutality and mistrust among the community it serves are not new problems, just newly exposed problems with rise of new technology.
I've covered a number of topics beyond film and cinema on this blog, and intend to keep doing so. I think it's important to touch on issues that may make some folks uncomfortable for it is there where the fight for real solutions begin. Let's continue to keep getting educated together.
Posted on July 1, 2016 by Warin	in BET, Uncategorized and tagged BET, BET AWARDS, Jesse Williams, music, Television..
Sunday night I was playing NBA 2K16 and realized I had messed up.
I switched off my Xbox and turned on my TV only to realize I had missed the Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar performance. And with that, the BET Awards show kicked off and the disparate parts Black Twitter came together to laugh, criticize, throw shade, r ejoice, and all in all just enjoy the moment.
The BET Awards got off to a bit a rough start 15 years ago as it had to -like most brand new programs- find its sea legs of sort and figure out what it wanted to be. Was it going to be primarily focused on the awards? Was it going to be more about the performances? Was it going to be more about who showed up and shown out on the red carpet? In reality, it's all of these things under the umbrella of celebrating black excellence in music and film. The rise of social media – in particular, Twitter – has only helped fuel this growth but allowing the viewer at home to become an active participant.
The most stirring performance of the evening belonged not to a musical act, but an actor during a speech – Jesse Williams. Williams, known primarily for his work on Grey's Anatomy, gave a speech that was so poignant and powerful, that people rose from their seats and clapped. He addressed issues regarding police brutality, black lives matter, and the freedom that black people are still seeking some 397 years after our arrival.
It's moments like this that keep the BET Awards fresh, hip, and relevant in an ever changing media landscape. I look forward to next year's version.
Posted on October 10, 2014 by Warin	in Uncategorized.


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There are three natural stages in life. They appear in all metaphysical arts, in literature, myth and philosophy. While there is incredible complexity to each stage, they can also each be described with one word: plan, do and teach. Or to put it in more archetypal language: maiden, mother and crone. These archetypes describe the energy we are required to bring into their associated stage of life and have little to do with giving birth. They refer to the role in the world that we are required to fill.
Saturn returns are the doorways through which we pass on our journey to the next stage of life. They force us to look at the reality that we have created and see if it will stand the test of time and whether what we have built has provided us with the foundations and supplies that we need for the next stage of our journey.
It is important to understand these stages in order to truly grasp what foundations are necessary and what supplies we will need on the next leg of our journeys. The maiden (planning stage) asks us to be the novice and to remain open to all of the possibilities of life and to observe the lives of others in order to determine the kind of world that we would like to build for ourselves. We are asked to look at the world with fresh eyes and an open heart. As you can imagine this isn't a particularly grounded energy, it is a world of imagination, thought and observation.
When we hit our first Saturn return (usually around age 29 – 30) we enter through the doorway into the next stage of life. During this time life presents us with circumstances that crack faulty foundations and force us to look unflinchingly at our plans and whether we truly have the tools and resources to accomplish them. Resource is a big word and has multiple meanings.
In this context resources can be: physical energy, health – physical and mental, financial security, intellectual capacity, integrity, honesty, emotional capacity, creativity, talent or/and ability. So during this time in our lives we are asked to look honestly at what we have planned. Once we have completed this honest inventory of our resources we are forced to assess whether our plans for ourselves are logical, grounded and possible.
We are also required to look at our plans and ask why we have chosen to move in the direction that we have and to ensure that we are following a path that is true to ourselves and our journey. Essentially this is a time where we are redirected when we are on the wrong path and where we are forced to build the necessary foundations to move forward on the right one.
The following stage of life (the "mother" or "do" stage) is the time when we are required to put our plans into action. We build families or businesses or create things that we put out into the world. We are asked during this time to collect experiences, learn from them and from this learning create structures that support both ourselves and others. Everyone does this in a different way but the underlying energy on this leg of the journey is creation and experiential learning. It is important not to get caught up in the idea that building something always means creating something outside of ourselves, often the most profound act of creation is growing and building solid foundations within ourselves and learning how to heal our inner wounds. When we heal within ourselves we are building something that has a profound impact on everyone that we meet.
When we enter our second Saturn return at age 58-60 we are asked to ground the knowledge that we have amassed on the second leg of our journey and find the practical applications of it. As with your first Saturn return as you entered through this doorway you are pushed to enter into the next stage of life and leave the stage you are in behind. This is the doorway to the teaching stage of life and thus one of the most important functions of this doorway to find within ourselves the true teachings of our lives. To filter out that which doesn't hold weight and to look at what we have really build of value in our lives, what we bring to the world and what we have to offer to the world on the next stage of our journey. We are asked not only to look at that which we have amassed which serves us and the world around us but also to look at that which is poorly build in the structures that we have created.
Let's examine what "structures" mean in this context. When we talk about the structures that we have built in our lives we are talking about: patterns in relationships, emotional behaviours and attachments, communication style, personal and professional habits, family dynamics, personal care patterns, relationship with self, relationship to work, priorities, behaviours, addictions, values, motivations, intentions, self expression and routines.
So, in this second Saturn return we are required to look at all of the structures that we have built since our first Saturn return and find anything within those structure which does not fit or compromises the integrity of the whole. In order to break down those structures that are not serving us, we will draw experiences during this time that will force us to honesty look at these structures and where necessary, dismantle and rebuild them.
The other important function of the second Saturn return is detachment. We are asked during this time to leave the "mother" stage of life and move forward to the crone stage. We are being pushed to become the advisor and the teacher. Moving into this stage can be difficult in a western culture which in many ways has erased the traditional role of the crone and focuses and rewards the mother and the maiden without acknowledging the incredible power and wisdom of experience. This period of detachment is one of the key functions of the second Saturn return.
Saturn is a stern yet loving teacher, and one of the primary functions that it serves in our lives is to force us to look at truths in a grounded and practical way. When we experience our second Saturn return, one of the greatest truths that Saturn exposes is our aging process and our fears around our own mortality.
In our first Saturn return Saturn demands that we grow up and take our place in the adult world with adult responsibilities.
In our second Saturn return Saturn forces us to see our role as the elder and to deal with our own vulnerability that comes with aging and any fears that we may have around it. Saturn demands that we look honestly at our own mortality and the meaning we have found in our life changes in these moments of raw honesty and grounded, practical perceptions of life. Our priorities shift and our sense of who we are in the world shifts with it. Things that were once very important drift away and things that never held much value for us can sometimes take centre stage. The wisdom of the elder is bestowed upon us at this time, and part of that wisdom is a real shift in our perceptions of the world around us. It was glib to say we lose hope during this time, but in some ways we do….we let go of dreams that aren't grounded in reality and open ourselves to new experiences and new truths.
But life is full of doors that open and doors that close and with this chapter closing comes many gifts of another, newer chapter unfolding. Although this doorway to this new stage can involve shedding some uncomfortable skin once we have crossed the threshold there are amazing new experiences that will unfold before us. But those experiences are the experiences of the sage, the elder, the teacher. With that in mind, if we open ourselves up to the change in our role there is great work that can be accomplished.
In astrology the 11th house, the house of goals and aspirations is in full bloom once we cross the threshold of our second Saturn return and we will find that projects that we have worked on for years often start to bear fruit. Alliances and strategic partnerships begin to unfold before us and open doorways that were closed to us before. But one of the greatest gifts of this new chapter is a new comfort in our own skin and a new understanding of what is truly important in life, this will grow more and more as we step into the stage of the crone. This is where the teaching comes in, once we have inventoried all the knowledge we have amassed, and assessed what we have contributed to the world and what we can keep contributing to the world and once we have accepted our new role and released that which no longer serves us we are in a position where we can help others through direct teaching and mentorship. However, it is important to always remember that it is the job of the student to seek out the teacher, the teacher's job is merely to be ready for the moment the student arrives.
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I was hit in neck with an 8 lb axe on the back of my neck, the axe fell from 110 feet high.
The injury occurred 18 months ago, and I still have extreme neck back 24-7.
My MRI Does not seem to show anything to severe. I was curious if any one had recommendations, surgical or other options. I go to physical therapy every week, and have had epidural shots in neck.
C3-C4 Central canal is patent. Uncinate process hypertrophy change results in moderate bilateral neurofotaminal narrowing.
C5-C6 There is a prominent endplate osteophyte that indents the ventral thecal sac but does not form the com results in mild central canal narrowing. Unspecified and facet hypertrophic change results in mild-to-moderate bilateral neurogormanial narrowing.
C6-C7 Central canal is patent. Unspecified intravernous atrophic atrophic change results in mild-to moderate bilateral neuroformanial narrowing.
CYT1- Central canal and neural foramina patient.
Moderate bilateral neuroforaminal narrowing c4-c5 right greater then left.
As stated on top, any recommendations or thought's I would appreciate. I am meeting surgeon next month. Just anxious to find out, if I should prepare to be operated on , and other thoughts. This was very tough to write all this out, starring at a computer is terrible pain !
Hello and welcome to the board!
Wow, I would expect that an injury like that would have smashed vertebrae in your neck if not worse. But it appears like mostly chronic degenerative changes. Have you had the pain for the entire 18 months or when did it start? Where do you experience the pain?
From the MRI you have some chronic degenerative changes in your neck with some of the joints showing arthritic spurs (hypertrophy). It is very strange that at C5/C6 in the top section they mention "mild to moderate bilateral neuroforaminal narrowing" but in the impressions section they say "moderate/severe right and moderate left neuroforaminal narrowing at C5/C6" In general this means that the space for the nerve roots coming out at that level is compromised on both sides but I can't imagine why they'd have two different severities there. Assuming that the narrowing is severe that could definitely be a source of pain.
Are you under the care of a spine specialist ie. fellowship trained orthopedic surgeon or neurosurgeon specializing in spinal medicine? These Drs are the best at correlating symptoms, diagnostics etc and making appropriate treatment recommendations. They will also perform surgery if necessary but they are also well-versed in non-surgical treatments. That said, I would suspect, based on your MRI that conservative methods such as the PT you've been doing and injections would be the initial course of treatment. If those do not work, surgery may be indicated as a last result although there is nothing specific showing in the MRI that points to a real need for surgery. How has the PT been going? Are you getting any relief?
Thank you for the inquiry. I am no Doctor, but I don't believe calcium doesn't have anything to do with it. I do have neck throbbing in neck , but no tingling like she has or severe memory loss etc etc.