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As a player, OD enjoyed a decorated prep career at Palm Springs High School as a member of two CIF Championship teams and as the CIF Individual Champion. While a student-athlete at the University of Washington, OD captured Pac-10 medalist honors while leading the Huskies to the team championship as well. After graduating, the collegiate all-American turned professional and competed on the European Tour, the PGA Tour and played in The Open Championship at Muirfield.
OD enjoyed a successful and fulfilling coaching career at the University of Washington, UCLA and Duke University. He was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year three times and recognized as the 1999 GCAA National Coach of the Year.
OD is humbled and honored to be a Hall of Fame inductee at Palm Springs High School, the University of Washington and the Golf Coaches Association of America.
OD and his wife Jana are co-founders of Coachella Coaching and proud parents to daughter Prada and son Phar.
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Jana has been an athlete her entire life. She rose to become a two-time High School state champion in the pool and a league champion on the track. The US Junior National runner-up and Highline High School Hall of Fame inductee joined her father Earl at Washington where he was the Head Swim Coach for 30 years. Over Jana's collegiate career at the UW and Florida, she was an 18-time All-American, set 10 school records and was the NCAA runner-up in the 200 IM. In addition, Jana was the Pacific Northwest Female Swimmer of the Year, was a member of the USA Swimming National Team and competed in two US Olympic Trails.
After graduation, Jana focused her competitive energy into running and coaching. As a sponsored athlete, she established a personal best 10K time of 35:07. Jana started her coaching career with her father as an assistant coach at the UW. While raising her family she was the volunteer assistant at UCLA, Duke University and Pepperdine. Most recently, Jana was the Interim Head Coach at Pepperdine where she was named the Conference Coach of the Year after leading the Waves to a program best finish. Jana is currently the Head Girls Swim Coach at Xavier Prep and a certified Life Coach.
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Dave is a PGA of America Class "A" Member since 2003. From Elgin, IL, Dave has been in the Coachella Valley since 1993 and worked at the Jim McLean Golf School, La Quinta CC, Rancho La Quinta, and was most recently the Director of Golf at PGA WEST Private.
He has been the Head Golf Professional at Wilshire CC (Los Angeles) and Illahe Hills CC (Salem, OR). Previous to that he was the First Assistant at Bel-Air CC (Los Angeles) and has also worked at Bob O'Link GC (Highland Park, IL), Castle Pines CC (CO), and The Club at Cordillera (Vail, CO).
Currently Dave is the Head Coach of the Boys Golf team at Xavier College Prep and leads three PGA Junior League teams.
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At 25, She Decides To Proudly Show Off Her Gray Hair: "I Feel More Sure Of Myself"
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For many women, the appearance of gray hair can be a real problem. Many people cover them with coloring to hide them, but others don't think so.
This is what this young woman of 27 years proves. Her name is Sophie McGrath, and at 13 she already had her first silver strand. After years of coloring, when she turned 25, she realized her hair had turned completely gray. That's when the New Zealander decided she was going to change everything, and stop hiding something that is just natural.
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From dark brown to gray: for Sophie, it didn't take long for her hair to accomplish this transformation. Instead of making it a problem or fixing it, the young girl decided to fully adopt her natural appearance. So, although at a young age this is not common, she proudly sports her silver hair, which at 25 no longer had any trace of her original brown.
For her, gray hair is not a sign of old age or neglect. On the contrary: they are one more reason to stand out and tell stories of determination and non-conformism. That's why Sophie shared with the world what she had done, giving up coloring and accepting herself for who she is .
"I started to color my hair around the age of 15 – says Mcgrath – my two parents already had a lot around the age of 40, but not as much as me".
Instead of making her hair a cause for loss of self-esteem, Sophie thought, after ten years of coloring and hairdressing, that it was time to welcome it without hiding it . And it was this decision that gave him new self-confidence.
"I felt I had to hide something natural and thought about it constantly, my hair to be colored was causing me more stress than the gray hair itself." With the dye out of the way, "I've never felt so sure as I do now, I show off my gray hair with pride ." A pride so strong that Sophie decided to keep her natural hair color even on the occasion of her wedding.
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Although it's not every day you see a bride with white hair, this is how she introduced herself to her wedding. "It was then that I realized that I was no longer ashamed of my silver hair, I never imagined it could have such a positive impact on my life," she said. Again. Like many other women, Sophie has become a true source of inspiration for those who firmly believe that we can go beyond certain standards of beauty , welcoming what nature has in store for us.
And what do you think? Would you make such a choice?
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There is an expression from my parents, "There's a miller in the hut." It is the war cry of chasing a moth out of the house while it is intent on rushing to the light batting up against walls in its erratic flight patterns.
While in recovery mode from our stomach bug, the shout-out was relayed. Unsuccessful attempts meant the moth lived another day to terrorize us with its bomb diving. Alone with a towel in the bathroom, I continued swatting at it the following evening with no blows landing. The moth flew into a cosmetic bag sitting on the counter and buried itself beneath the contents. At least it was trapped. I zipped up the bag to leave it until I could deal with it in the morning.
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Moving towards the light that moth fought for another day. Its valiant effort gave it another twenty seconds of life.
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My lesson is to keep it light when possible, to keep laughing even when it seems impossible to find the humor, and to never stop moving towards the future. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
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With hotel market in freefall, Alexandria considers financing luxury hotel in Old Town
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This week, the City Council is docketed (items 27 and 28) to review a proposal for the city to, in a round-about way, be involved in the financing of a new luxury hotel in Old Town.
With hotel revenue going into freefall during the pandemic, the prospect of building or renovating hotels in Alexandria hasn't been a particularly financially appealing option, but a report prepared by Alexandria Economic Development Partnership (AEDP) and city staff said that's going to be a hit to tourism in the city as people travel again.
At the City Council meeting tomorrow (Tuesday), the Council is scheduled to vote on a "tourism development plan" developed with the Virginia Tourism Development Financing Program (TDFP) to provide gap financing for a hotel project at 699 Prince Street.
The project is coming to the city for financing because the project is below the anticipated yield investors would hope for. According to the tourism development plan being presented to the City Council, the anticipated operating profits for the hotel are between 6.5% and 7% — below the 10% yield targeted by investors for financing before the pandemic. According to the report:
The project's $69.6 [million] (includes building sale) ancipated cost will be capitalized with approximately $45.2M (65% loan-to-cost) senior construction financing, and approximately $10.27 million of net historic tax credit proceeds. The remaining $14.13 million will be funded through a combination of TDFP proceeds and investor capital.
It's a somewhat complicated chain of financing, but a graph in the presentation lays out some of the financing web.
Hotel project financing, via City of Alexandria
The tourism development plan laid out to Council also highlighted some of the issues with hotel room supply city-wide. One of the big issues, the plan said, is that residential units are seen as a safer bet than hotels. The report noted that the city has lost five hotels in the last two years.
"The major challenge for Alexandria's tourism economy is our recent reduction in hotel room supply," the plan said."The loss of hotel rooms is largely a result of the booming residential real estate market. With low-interest rates and increasing post-Covid migration from urban centers to suburban communities, the demand for residential housing in Northern Virginia is causing many hotel property owners to convert their properties to residential. As a result of these conversions, Alexandria's hotel base dropped 17% in the past two years."
The report also said while there are "upscale properties" in the city, there are no real luxury hotels in Alexandria.
"This proposed development would fill a void in the market and in turn, increase City revenues by increasing our Average Daily Rate," the report said.
The report also said the new hotel would provide large meeting spaces that are in short supply in Old Town.
Finally, Alexandria would benefit from more hotel meeting space in Old Town. Our largest conference hotel, the Hilton Mark Center, is located on the City's West End, a 20-minute drive from Old Town. Within Old Town, Alexandria has only three properties that can accommodate a large meeting (200+) — the Westin, the Hilton Old Town and Holiday Inn & Suites. Despite the walkable and historic downtown that many meeting planners and their attendees are seeking, Alexandria loses mid-size meetings to adjacent localities like Arlington, VA and National Harbor, MD.
The report from AEDP and city staff, though, said the expectation is for the hospitality market to rebound this year and next — how the ongoing wave of Covid cases from the omicron variant affects those projections isn't said.
"In the recent HVS market study, the tables indicate demand for higher-end hospitality that will surpass pre-Covid levels in 2022-2023 and point to continued growth thereafter," the report said. "Targeted for delivery in the 2023 timeframe, the Project will be well-positioned to capture this demand."
At the meeting on Tuesday, the City Council will vote both on creating a "tourism zone" at the site to incentivize hotel development and, immediately after, a tourism development plan for the proposed hotel.
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MIPIM 2015 in Cannes attracted 22,000 participants, clearly confirming the investors confidence in many areas and sectors of the international real estate.
With 93 represented countries, 450 exhibitors and more than 4,500 investors present among the 22,000 participants, the MIPIM 2015 confirms its status as the world's real estate market, to meet the needs of investors who are actively looking for attractive projects. The increased confidence in international real estate, already observed during the MIPIM in 2014, continued this year.
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According to DTZ, investments in Central and Eastern Europe in logistics projects have reached a new record last year with 1.7 billion investment. Savills is expecting that investment funds will invest in real estate this year some 172 billion euros in the main city-center business districts, an increase of 7% compared to 2014.
BNP Paribas Real Estate said that investment in office property in 39 major European cities has reached 74 billion euros in 2014 – reaching its highest level since 2007.
To honor the presence at MIPIM 2015 of Camille Cerf, Miss France 2015, on the Calais Promotion stand and to celebrate the nice French victories at MIPIM Awards – the Euroméditerrannée seafront boulevard and the Cité musicale of Ile Seguin – we dedicated most of our reports to exciting French projects such as Dijon's International City of Gastronomy.
Quality of life and sustainable development are among the priority criteria of local authorities but also of developers and managers specialized in commercial real estate, more and more keen to offer optimal working environment for the occupants of office buildings. In addition, shopping centers focus on providing customers with an "extra human something" to attract new customers in malls.
We thus invite you to discover the innovative hanging gardens on Grenoble's roofs and Nice Meridia in the Eco-Valley.
At two months of the opening of the first MIPIM Japan in Tokyo (20 and 21 May), a large Japanese delegation led by Kisaburo Ishii, Deputy Minister of plan, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, was at MIPIM 2015 to promote investment opportunities of the Japanese archipelago, while the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 – which should generate a significant increase in tourism – is coming up.
On the Japanese Pavillion, a sake ceremony (Kagami-biraki) was performed by officials in traditional Japanese costume to beseech the gods to grant harmony and good fortune over the first edition of MIPIM Japan.
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I am sure we will all agree to the rise of emotions when the topic of women's rights is raised. Tears well down, hearts come full with emotions, even the quietest of the lot makes sure to share an opinion and the melodrama begins. But this research paper is an interesting insight into a fact that women choose not to break the glass ceiling effect in most of the cases despite discrimination since most of these women choose to build their nest instead. It is of common knowledge that all companies have incorporated maternity leaves in their human resource policies but often women take a break from their career too look after their brood. It is true that there are exceptions but mostly women prioritize their family. In economics, the phenomena glass ceiling pertains to events where the advancement of a qualified/deserving person within the hierarchy of an organization is stopped at a lower level because of some underlining discrimination, mostly sexism or racism, but since the term was coined, "glass ceiling" has also come to describe the limited advancement of the mentally and physically challenged, aged, black and sexual minorities. It is an informal, transparent barrier that prevents women and minorities from advancing in businesses (Sheffrian). There are no advertisements that specifically say "no minorities hired at this establishment", nor are there any formal orders that say "minorities are not qualified" – but they do prevail under the surface.
While many women insist that the glass ceiling is a real barrier to accessing male-dominated positions in business, many challengers say that it exists mostly because women choose to focus more of their time on family and, in the end, cannot dedicate as much time to their career. People with such an opinion cite a 2005 report that 43% of highly qualified, educated women with children left their jobs voluntarily at some stage of their careers. Although 93% wanted to return to their careers, only 74% did so and only 40% went back to a full time position (Mitra). Of those women who wanted to return to work, only five percent desired to return to the position they had left. Older generations of women had little employment opportunities and more focus on intense training for being a good housewife and a mother was considered most important. At that time there was no choice for them to decide to break the glass ceiling or concentrate on family, family was the only option. (Maia)
The newer generations of women have changed and more and more women are choosing to work but no necessarily wanting to break the glass ceiling. Their life too circles around taking care of their husband and kids, namely building and managing their nest. (Maia)
We know that there is a lot of discrimination and that many people think that women are more apt to stay home and take care of their children and family. Women are about one third of all MBA graduates in law and medicine. Things are changing over the years but the change as we know is really slow. We cannot say that this decision of concentrating on building the nest instead of breaking the glass ceiling is only due to discrimination. More women compared to men might be taking this decision by themselves, because it is the decision they are expected to make (Jamieson). A very important aspect of this research study which has been pointed out is sabbaticals that have become an important terminology for working mothers who wish to build the nest. These mothers take a long and often a permanent break from their careers in order to tend to their children. But some who return after a long time compromise on compensation and positions acquired since a woman who has been home and away from work for years is definitely not the same competent woman anymore. This shall be the focus of our research that women choose to build the nest and that is why the glass ceiling effect has prevailed for this long. But discrimination is a result of the general attitude of women since they focus more on their homes than work and our questionnaire has helped to prove this information.
This research has been conducted with primary and secondary data. The questionnaire used in the paper has been taken from an internet source and it has been altered according to the requirements in order to fit with the scope of our research. The sample taken was random and according to convenience sampling. The sample size is 100. We randomly surveyed women we know and also those we do not know. The respondents were very helpful.
Our questionnaire is based on four factors. The first factor is discrimination which is described through Table 1. In Table 1 (See Appendix) we see that one of the major factors affecting the mother's choice and glass ceiling is discrimination we see that the sample size is 100 (N) for all. The first type of discrimination question is few women employed in top jobs and it was seen that most women felt that there few women are employed in top level jobs.
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The second question of discrimination is that women are generally accepted in low or clerical jobs. The third question of discrimination is that women make better secretaries most of the women working say that this is a false belief and they disagree. The third question of discrimination is women turned down for managerial positions are equally or more educated women, and women on an average believe this is so and agree that equally and more qualified women are treated unequally compared to men. A very recent example of this kind of discrimination is Hilary Clinton who was running for President but the lobby did not want a woman to be Commander in Chief although she is equally capable. The fourth question of discrimination is that women do not receive same salaries for same jobs when compared to men. Most of the women respondents agree to this fact. The fifth question of discrimination is that women are not easily promoted from lower to middle management. Here we see that the women mostly agree to this fact but mostly the lower designated women, whereas the women already at middle and top management positions may seem to disagree. The sixth question of discrimination is that the percentage of men promoted to middle management is higher than women, on average women employees agreed to this fact. The seventh question of discrimination is that even with higher education women do not get top level jobs. Surprisingly, on an average the respondents agreed to this fact. The last question of discrimination in the questionnaire is that women are being stereo typed in various ways which limits their growth. On average women agreed to this fact. When talking about acceptability of women only in low profile jobs like front desk ones the opinion of respondents between age group 26-30 varied from strong to neutral. "Equal opportunities for both qualified men and women" seemed to be negated by this chunk of the sample. They believe that they being women (qualified too) do not receive same privileges and chances as enjoyed by their male counterparts. Whereas, age group 31-35 agreed with women being stereotyped, but they were neutral when talking about unequal salaries where as rest of the findings were more or less on similar grounds. The most interesting and different finding in age bracket 41-45 was the neutral and disagreeing opinion about women more in demand for jobs like secretaries. Their opinion on unequal salaries and obstacles in promotion was more towards the neutral side and the reason being, more years of service which has resulted in higher pay drawing as well as acceptability of existing norms and trends of the organization. Above 50 agreed that women are accepted only on front desk jobs and discrimination exists. These respondents were mostly sabbaticals as discussed earlier in the paper.
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The second factor is personal beliefs and attitudes of women and in Table 2 (See Appendix) it shows that women respondents on an average strongly agree to the fact that women want to achieve higher positions in their jobs and they strongly agree to the fact that women should get job recognition and become a role model for their children and balance their work and family life to be successful. When talking about hitting and breaking the glass ceiling one has to make sacrifices on the personal front (Riper). Gender biasness is one of the reasons which prevent women to break the glass ceiling. Men just don't want women to get ahead of them. Globally, too we see that men are more focused to get high post jobs than women. (Dominguez). Even ambitious women don't measure their success by high job titles and salaries; they are more focused on developing good relationships with their colleagues and giving back to the community and giving fair time to their family (Dominguez). They want to be satisfied with their work and pay but also want to be satisfied with other things they value in life. Sometimes women just take different career paths and want to take out time for their children or are even planning for career change which stops them from breaking the glass ceiling. Women bosses whom we would think would sympathize with women and their diverted responsibilities are tended to be stricter when compared to male bosses.
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The third factor is management practices and polices and this has been illustrated in Table 3 (See appendix) In Table 3 that talks about the policies of management we see that the respondents on an average agreed that women get stuck at the supervisory positions and respondents were neutral and more so disagreed to the fact that women are denied executive positions due to less leadership and management skills learnt at entry level positions since its mostly due to discrimination according to respondents.
The fourth and the most important factor is culture. Table 4 (See Appendix) talks about culture and its impact since women on an average strongly agreed that the expectations of society affect their decisions. They were more towards disagreement on the point that they are not supported by immediate family, were agreeing but more neutral on average about the fact that they are not supported by in-laws and more towards disagreement when talking about them not getting support from their husbands. The women on average were neutral or mostly agreed to the fact that they valued relationships and community work more than titles and salaries. On an average a few agreed to the fact that the problematic behaviors of their colleagues are a stoppage for them to proceed further in their career. The rest disagreed or were neutral to the fact that problematic behaviors of their colleagues are a stoppage for them to proceed further in their career. Culture also has a major role in directing women to choose to build the nest rather than break the glass ceiling. Many cultures emphasize since many generations on women to be a role model at home by taking care of their house and family, nothing more. Culture also tends to build the mindset of people, women think they need to concentrate on their children and bring them up properly, while achieving heights in career seems like just an option, the previous obligatory. Men too are overshadowed by culture and see women's place at home and not at work. They want to have the power and be the bread earners for their family to prove their exalted position and power and their family dependency (Bergman).
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Working mothers tend to feel more comfortable in starting an entrepreneurial venture as they feel that in starting their own business they have more control over their internal and external environment and can be flexible enough to give full time to their family. These are the main reasons why working mothers tend to concentrate on building their family and spending more time on them rather than thinking about their careers and breaking the glass ceiling effect.
In 1995 the US commission said that the barrier of the glass ceiling effect resulting in innumerable qualified women to gauge the opportunity of holding executive jobs or higher level jobs and mostly in the private sector. The commission came up with striking statistics that proved 45.7% of jobs in American went to more than half of Master's degree holders and such were being awarded as well. But out of these degree holders 95% holding senior manager jobs were men and the female counterparts were earning only about 68% of what their equally capable make counterparts were earning while holding the same degree (Woodward).
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An interesting issue brought up was industrialization and its effect that created the glass ceiling effect. Industrialization has brought a change in society according to which women have to juggle two responsibilities that is to meet their expectations at home and also at work. This has affected the physical and psychological health of these women and has also affected family life especially children in a negative way. Due to these pressures women are much more prone to psychopathology. Thus, women have been subjugated to unfair assumptions and discriminations that have contributed to the formation of the Glass ceiling effect (Schumacher).
This research has been conducted using primary as well as secondary data and it proves that women due to various reasons choose to build their nest rather than break the glass ceiling effect. But however as there is a usual belief of expecting women to exhibit a certain role like spending less time at work and more time with children and family etc this belief is even evident in the research we conducted. There is another important finding which shows that there exists discrimination against females working in the organization as they don't get promotions that easily like males who are working with them in the organization. Moreover females are usually preferred for front desk jobs or are assigned with regular tasks (checking of luggage, at the check in, check out, assistants etc) whereas males are given more specific and jobs which have proper designations thus there are chances for them to progress more compared to females. Interestingly women belonging to the lower positions like secretaries did not agree to the fact that discrimination against promotions for women exists because according to the stereotype that women make better secretaries they have been provided with their slice of the cake which makes them satisfied. Women have proved to be good in such positions over the years of experience thus stereotypes strengthen whereas all women are not alike some are career driven and ambitious whereas others are simply family driven. The younger lot of the females seemed to be more enthusiastic, ambitious and career driven or working to achieve self actualization. Company policies, cultural expectations and lack of support from family/husband is a major hindrance for women to work and break the glass ceiling thus to avoid any conflicts at home they accept low position jobs that require less work and time. Women were mostly neutral to the problem creating behavior of men at work. According to the analysis it shows that unmarried women feel the most that their male counterparts are given more promotions and salaries whereas the females are equally capable. Married women are almost same as for unmarried women except for a deviation on the denial of executive positions due to less skills and other of promoting privileges. This discrepancy must have risen due to inclusion of few middle level managers for the married women but nevertheless the findings are not way far different.
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Hon. Lindsay Grant supports Jury (Amendment) Bill, 2022
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Parliamentary Representative for Constituency #4, The Honourable Lindsay Grant.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts — Parliamentary Representative for Constituency #4, The Honourable Lindsay Grant, supported the Bill shortly entitled the Jury (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was passed into law at the sitting of the National Assembly on March 4, 2021.
Minister Grant said that the Bill is to "facilitate the criminal procedure rules which are to come on board very shortly."
"I must say Mr. Speaker that the amendment that we seek to make with respect to the Jury Act is really very late in coming," he said.
He continued, "This is because nearly all our Jury Acts within the Eastern Caribbean have come out of the United Kingdom Jury Act of 1870."
Additionally, Minister Grant said, "If we look at the Act throughout the region, in particular with respect to alternate Jury which is really the critical amendment being sought today… in a number of Eastern Caribbean countries, the alternate jury has already been in place in several of those countries Mr. Speaker."
He named countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, and the British Virgin Islands as some countries that already have the alternate Jury in place.
"It is a matter that is not controversial; it is a matter that is tried, tested, and proven in the region and so what we are here doing today Mr. Speaker is mainly tidying up our Jury Act for what is to come in the criminal procedure role," Minister Grant said.
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Bollywood actress Sonali Bendre, who is currently undergoing treatment for a rare high-grade cancer in New York, urged everyone to extend their support to Kerala flood victims. She took to Twitter and wrote, "My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the #KeralaFloods… let's do everything we can to help them in this time of need."Earlier, many Bollywood celebrities extended their support and urged people to come forward and help people in the state.
Farhan Akhtar took to social media to express his concern over the flood situation in the state and wrote, "Thoughts with the people of #Kerala. Here's hoping that rescue teams, medical aid, and food relief can reach all those in need." Abhishek Bachchan also took to Twitter and prayed for the flood victims. "Tragic to see what is happening in Kerala floods please help in whatever way you can. Pray for Kerala," he tweeted. Terming the devastation caused in the state by the floods as "gut-wrenching", Anushka Sharma said, "Whatever we can do, we must. Kerala Floods." Kerala has been witnessing incessant rainfall over the last few days, causing unprecedented flooding and landslides in several parts of the state. So far, 324 people have lost their lives in the state. The Center launched a massive rescue and relief operations as the situation is getting worse with each passing day. Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been asked to mobilize additional manpower, boats, and helicopters to scale up the rescue and relief operations. Food packets and drinking water are also being rushed.


On account of the vital role played by Internet technologies in most businesses today, we continue to improve our understanding of the Internet's role in business strategy.
As a niche player in the Electronic Billing space, Striata is often approached to define the key differences between delivering documents via secure email and Internet Electronic Bill Presentment & Payment websites.
The two offerings provide both overlapping and unique benefits, sometimes to different customer segments. The most comprehensive Internet bill offering is the process that makes use of a combination of the two methods.
Historically, the emphasis has been on bill presentment websites. With the changing profile of online users, it is apparent that even those organisations with large bill presentment infrastructures, need to complement this process with an email offering; a secure one at that.
This requires a fundamental shift in the organisation's view of the value of email billing.
Complementary, not opposing, strategies. The two strategies can best be differentiated by a "pull" versus "push" focus.
From a customer's perspective, visiting a company's website to extract information can be described as a "pull" action. The customer needs to collect this information from the company's website.
The other method involves a "push" of information to a customer's inbox, mobile phone or fax machine. The information is delivered to an interface or device on the customer's side.
The choice of strategy, and the emphasis placed on each, must be driven by the business objectives. An online billing strategy can be driven by a number of objectives; namely cost saving, improved customer service, the ability to transact in another channel and additional marketing opportunities.
In order to assess this, it is necessary to understand the benefits and limitations of each method, and to construct a strategy that leverages the strengths of both.
The primary benefit of web presentment is security. The owner of the site has complete control over the online billing environment, including where information is hosted and stored. Access to the online billing service is controlled through specific web authentication procedures.
It follows that the pull method is appropriate for interactions requiring the highest level of security.
Financial transactions, personal information, specific products, personalized offers or rates: interactions involving highly confidential information may best be managed through the web.
Another advantage of the web method is the ability to keep extensive records online and enable customers to search and locate historical bills. Storage space is no longer an expensive resource, making it cost effective to store years of bills and associated documents.
Email has become the digital communication channel of choice. Delivering bills by email means the bill arrives in the most frequently used application – the email inbox. The bill can be an exact replica of the bill the customer receives in the mail or it can provide additional customer service by harnessing the flexibility and interactivity of the email environment.
There is no need to be connected to the Internet to view the eBill once the eBill has downloaded. This is particularly relevant for dial up users and travelers.
The resulting email (with eBill attached) is less typically than 50kb, as high degrees of compression can be achieved. The eBill is easy to save in its encrypted format (for confidentiality) on a local computer for filing and future reference.
Although, issues around identity theft, viruses and unsolicited email (spam) add significant challenge to communicating by email, the positive aspects cannot be ignored.
It is critical to understand the key difference in consumer behavior between the push and pull methods.
People will naturally gravitate towards the most energy-efficient process. Collecting a bill requires more effort on the part of the customer, making the 'hassle' factor higher for this method.
This is multiplied when one considers that customers may have many suppliers publishing their billing on their own individual websites.
Technology has created a push society. Consumers expect delivery. Television is pushed into our homes. Radio is pushed into our motor vehicles. The postal system has pushed mail to us our entire lives.
Therefore, if you want the customer to engage with the business, delivery could be a more effective service than collection.
Jupiter Research confirms that 96% of Internet users spend more time in their inbox than any other online activity. PSI Global reports that 69% of US customers choose email for the delivery of electronic invoices. Forrester Research found that 78% of consumers want invoices delivered into their inboxes.
Because the two strategies are suited for different objectives, ideally they should co-exist as valuable partners in an online billing strategy.
Email is best suited to encourage interaction with your customers. Notice for payment of a statement, information about a new product or just general communication, can be efficiently executed by email.
Email communication can also be used as a lead-in to the website, encouraging the recipient to visit your site to make the actual payment, order the item or just read more about what you are doing.
Push for incentivising the action, and pull to create the environment for it to take place.
Only a combined approach can achieve a complete online strategy.
Build your business strategy, ensure you understand the opportunities offered by different channels, build a comprehensive approach and then find the technology to fit into your requirements.
The mantra of interactive commerce remains – insert your content into your customer's daily activity.
This holds especially true in the eBill environment, where the inbox really is the postbox of the 21st century.


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Betfair co-founder Ed Wray has been named as one of the leading backers in London Fintech start-up Curve, which has secured $2 million (£1.4 million) in seed stage funding.
Curve an early stage Fintech start-up aims to replace the mechanisms of the retail banking sectors bankcard, giving customers greater visibility and ease management of their day to day accounts.
Led by CEO and Founder Shachar Bialick the company has released its first Beta version, welcoming test users to its product.
Ed Wray who in October was reported to have sold +2.5 million shares in Betfair at a value of £90 million, continues to diversify his personal investment portfolio in technology, with a concentrated focus in the UK Fintech sector.
At present Wray serves as a Non-Executive Director of leading crowdfunding platform Funding Circle Ltd. Joining Wray in the seed investment round are London enterprise fund Seedcamp and TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus.
The Curve team will utilise the $2 million investment to develop its 2016 Beta version.


The top is a Lee Enfield in .303, good condition.
The bottom is a Spanish Mauser in 7x57, matching serial numbers.
Why does the Enfield look like some Elmer glued a Monte Carlo to it?
Great deal. And they look good.
The Enfield alone was 150, the Mauser with the matching numbers was the pricier one.
Cooper mentioned the .303 Enfield numerous times. Seems he was a fan.
Two good rifles at a reasonable price. I've almost bought a Lee Enfield a couple of times, but each time hesitated because I have several other rifles in the same general category as the .303, and didn't want to add another caliber that was duplicative of what I already had. However, I'm sure one day desire will overcome common sense.
Other than these two. I only have one rifle, a very light 30-06.
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Following significant growth over the past two years, EY has further strengthened its capability and resources in digital after acquiring Adelphi Digital Consulting Group Pte. Ltd. and Adelphi Digital Consulting Group Pty Ltd, award-winning digital consultancy practices in Australia and Singapore.
The Adelphi Digital team of over 170 staff will join EY in Australia and Singapore, with the business now branded as EY. Adelphi Digital's CEO, Margaret Manning, will join EY as a Partner in the Advisory practice of EY and will be based in Singapore.
EY and Adelphi have both recently been recognized by Forrester Research. EY was recognized as a leader in innovation consulting services in The Forrester Wave™: Innovation Consulting Services Providers, Q4 2018. EY received the highest scores of all firms for "Current Offerings" and "Strategy". The Forrester report recognizes EY's vision and approach to innovation, highlighting how we are helping companies reinvent the value they bring to market through new business models, new products and services. Forrester's evaluation helps CIOs, businesses and tech leaders select vendors that can help them strengthen these five central innovation competencies.
This news release has been issued by Ernst & Young Advisory Pte. Ltd., a member of the global EY organization.
The Forrester Wave is a quarterly review of Innovation Consulting Services providers. It assesses consulting services providers, reviews organisations' core competencies for innovation, including innovation strategy, innovation ecosystems, innovation culture, innovation structure and governance, and dedicated innovation technologies.


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Health and waste experts: Pursuing zero waste possible amid COVID-19 pandemic
Quezon City – Pursuing zero waste strategies is still possible amid the COVID-19 pandemic, health and waste experts said during the 22nd episode of The Climate Reality Project Philippines' Klimatotohanan entitled "Unmasking the COVID-19 Plastic Pollution: Why Zero Waste is Essential Towards a Green and Just Recovery."
Zero waste, according to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), is defined as "a comprehensive waste management approach that prioritizes waste reduction and material recovery." Its strategies include redesigning products and delivery systems to be sustainable and environment-friendly and increasing access to reuse, repair, recycle, and compost.
The role of zero waste in green recovery and the challenges of zero waste amid the pandemic
A recent study published by GAIA in 2021 evaluated the job generation potential of zero waste in 16 countries, including the Philippines. It revealed that implementing zero-waste strategies does not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also provides significantly more and good quality jobs than disposal-based systems—therefore presenting an opportunity for a green recovery from the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.
The report showed that recycling, remanufacturing, and composting alone can create thousands of jobs across model cities and that the potential of full zero-waste systems that integrate repair, reuse, and waste reduction is even greater.
Marian Frances Ledesma, Zero Waste Campaigner of Greenpeace Philippines, shared that there are a lot of challenges in campaigning for zero waste, especially during the start of the pandemic.
"There were a lot of fears and uncertainty around the transmission of the coronavirus. It got [people] to question if reusables are safe. It didn't help that the plastic industry in various countries was actively lobbying for the use of single-use plastics as protective measures against COVID," Ledesma said.
"This led to more single-use plastics and disposables being used by people thinking that those are safer—when in reality, reusables are just as safe as single-use plastics, and in a way, even safer because they were designed to be reused, washed, and disinfected repeatedly," she added.
False solutions to plastic pollution
Ledesma also pointed out the rise of false solutions to plastic pollution, such as waste-to-energy and co-processing of plastic and cement, as additional challenges to advancing zero-waste during the pandemic, especially amid the rise of e-commerce.
"False solutions muddy the conversation. They distract people, particularly local governments, from real solutions like zero waste. The sad thing is they incentivize the generation of more waste instead of prevention," Ledesma explained.
Ledesma also added that while recycling and upcycling are good for the waste that are already generated, they do not address waste prevention.
Coleen Salamat, Plastic Solutions Campaigner at EcoWaste Coalition, agreed with Ledesma, adding that the problem with promoting recycling on its own is that it is a downstream approach. "It gives you the justification that it is okay to use single-use plastics because they will be recycled anyway. At the very core, once single-use plastics are manufactured, they become persistent pollutants," she added.
Salamat explained that in the hierarchy of zero waste, reduction comes first and that recycling is the least priority. She also highlighted that there are many business models that are already circular and that there is a need to go back to the basics.
Managing medical waste amid the pandemic
Ramon San Pascual, Executive Director of Healthcare Without Harm Asia Southeast Asia, underscored the need to balance COVID-19 response and the use of plastics.
"In the big picture, protecting our own health means protecting our environment," San Pascual said, noting that zoonotic diseases like COVID are caused by biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. "It shouldn't be a choice between public health and the environment. It should be both," he added.
San Pascual shared that Healthcare Without Harm Asia, in partnership with Break Free from Plastic, undertook an audit of five hospitals in the Greater Metropolitan Manila Area (GMA), which showed the unnecessary over-reliance on disposables during the pandemic.
According to San Pascual, 60 to 70 percent of the waste volume of the hospitals they've audited are single-use plastics—most are plastic packaging of food from fast-food chains near the hospitals and PET bottles for water. He shared that the hospital administrators reached out to the fast-food chains to reduce or avoid plastic packaging and encourage hospital staff to use reusables by distributing tumblers and putting up more water refilling stations.
Creating an enabling environment for zero waste
Ruzzel Morales, Youth Cluster Coordinator of Climate Reality Philippines, underscored the need to shift the burden of pursuing zero waste from individual actions to systemic changes.
"There are narratives revolving solely around how individuals are responsible in their own reducing, reusing, and recycling wastes. However, certain sectors do not have access, means, and budget to shift to alternatives. If we talk about accessibility, we also have to look at how our policies are supporting the creation of a zero-waste society," Morales explained.
Morales noted that the government and the private sector should also carry their weight. "It should be a collaborative effort," she said.
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An Introduction to Silicon Brains: Dr. Massimiliano Versace
"We are close to building silicon brains": If you have even a glancing interest in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), you would have heard this promise countless times, and seen it broken as often. Even before there were machines, there was the Golem, an animated anthropomorphic being from Jewish folklore, Frankenstein's monster, created by harnessing the power of lightning. These were to be followed by mechanized robots, HAL, and Skynet, among others.
In a slightly less theatrical setting, in 1997 Garry Kasparov faced off with the IBM supercomputer, Deep Blue. After a series of favorable games, Kasparov conceded to Deep Blue in the sixth game, prompting the AI community to declare victory. Unfortunately, Deep Blue was far from intelligent: a computer with software ad-hoc designed for rapid calculations of chess moves (I think you agree with me that playing chess requires intelligence, but the opposite is not true). You may think that the lesson was learned, and that AI was not going to be confused again with the notion of "special intelligence". Think again: the dream of an intelligence machine was recently resurrected by the same company, IBM, who engineering a new "human brain", Watson, able to defeat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings. These examples of special purpose intelligent machines are as fascinating as deceiving: despite their success in specific, very carefully delimited domains, the promise of a general purpose machine with 'human-like' intelligence has yet to be realized.
The reason is simple: building intelligence comparable to that of a human brain in silicon requires an understanding of how the interactions of billions of neurons and synapses give rise to complex behaviors, as well as the ability to replicate those interactions in sophisticated, powerful, and low-power computer hardware. Researchers in fields ranging from neuroscience, psychology, computer science, material science, and robotics have been steadily working to uncover the core design principles underlying neural computation and how this controls behavior, and inventing key technologies needed to build smart machines. To achieve this goal, innovations in fields ranging from computational modeling, hardware, and software design need to converge. This convergence is happening now.
Modeling Whole-Brain Systems
In building whole brain models for virtual animats (artificial animals) and robots, the core challenges include how to autonomously plan, explore, perceive, and understand new environments while both maintaining a sense of the agent's localization and safety within that environment and creating learned memories about the objects and affordances (threat or goal) within the environment. To date, animal capacities in such tasks far exceed those of autonomous machines. Researchers at Boston University (BU)'s Neuromorphics Lab, part of the NSF-sponsored Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology (CELEST), are translating decades of basic neuroscience research and computational modeling in a whole-brain system that will bring us closer to this goal. Our approach to building the neural models that power the artificial brain is modular. The macro-structure of the brain is initially specified with the goal of being able to "swap in" more refined neural circuits when they become available.
Figure 1. Left: MoNETA is a whole-brain-system model consisting of sensory, motivation, and navigation areas interfaced with a virtual environment or robotic platform. Right: MoNETA learns to perform the Morris Water Maze task. In the first trial, MoNETA explores its environment driven by lack of comfort and curiosity drives. Once it accidentally swims on top of the submerged platform (green), MoNETA learns its position by using some visual landmark at the border of the pool. As training progresses, MoNETA is able to swim directly from its current position to the platform. MoNETA integrates sensory information into higher order representations of its emerging reality, and is able to react to novel situations not explicitly programmed within the software. It can perceive its surroundings, decide what is useful, and in certain applications even be able to formulate plans that ensure its survival. MoNETA is motivated by analogs of the same drives that underlie the behavior of rats, cats, or humans.
This whole brain system is called MoNETA1 (Modular Neural Exploring Traveling Agent, Figure 1, left), and its first version has been tested in a virtual Morris Water Maze task (Figure 1, right). The Morris Water Maze is a task used to probe the navigation skills of a rodent. The rat is placed in a water tank and has to use visual cues in order to locate a submerged platform and swim to it. The rat is motivated to find the platform to get out of the water tank. Researchers have studied this task at great length, so we know a great deal of the brain areas a rat utilizes in completing the task. Although an apparently simple one, solving the water maze actually requires that the integrated functioning of object recognition and localization, goal selection, and navigation be simulated in several interacting brain areas. To build and simulate MoNETA, new software tools and hardware are needed that that implement these models at biological scale.
Software and Hardware Infrastructure
Building artificial brains in silicon is a huge task, and there is a big divide between computing in neurons and silicon (see Figure 2).
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Figure 2. Computing in biology and in silicon. a) Biological computation is deeply distributed, with data and computation tightly interwoven. Axons carry the input vector from neighboring neurons to the synapses of the target neuron. Each synapse stores its state locally and computes the product of its input with its state. These individual products flow towards the body of the neuron over the dendrites where the signal is implicitly summed. For an idealized neuron, by the time the combined signals reach the body of the neuron the synapses and dendrites have produced a single scalar value. b) In a conventional computing scheme, the memory and processor are physically separated by a fixed-capacity bus. The processor only contains a small number of slots for storing data during computation, called registers. The processor keeps the running total in a register, starting from zero. At each step, the processor loads the next element from the weight vector and the next element from the input vector and adds the product to the running total. After running through all the elements, the processor writes the result back to memory. For computing intelligent algorithms, accessing the bus is highly inefficient primarily because of the distance, both physical and electronic. c) Future memristive-based processors will have several architectural features that allow it to compute a dot product much more efficiently than a conventional processor. Most critically, the weights will be stored in a high-density memristive memory directly on top of the multiprocessor cores, decreasing the distance data must travel and increases memory bandwidth. Compared to a conventional processor, these devices will contain many simple cores instead of a few complex cores.
Consider, for example, one dimension of the problem: how to translate synapses into their electronic equivalent. Biological synapses are dense—the cortex needs roughly 1010 synapses per square centimeter, and they consume miniscule power; have complex, nonlinear dynamics; and, in some cases, can maintain their memory for decades. Until recently, these characteristics translated to one more unreachable goal for those aspiring to build electronic brains, particularly large models. In the past few years, however, work on memristive devices2 has gained momentum, which could bring designers closer to an electronic brain architecture that can adaptively interact with the world in real time.
Memristive devices are nanoscale electrical components that have several attractive features: nonlinear resistance that can be altered electrically, they can be packed into extremely dense crossbars, and they are compatible with CMOS processes. The last characteristic allows designers to integrate dense, memristive memories with conventional circuits and thus place memory and computation closer together, decreasing power dissipation and allowing to implement dense synaptic-like memories in conventional CMOS processors.
The problem remains on how to program neural algorithms in these massively parallel processors with dense local memories. To bootstrap this process of building intelligent hardware, Hewlett-Packard and the Boston University Neuromorphics Lab are jointly developing the Cog Ex Machina3. Along with the memristive-based hardware, the Cog software provide a low-cost, flexible all-digital platform for building large brain models that can interact with a simulated or real environment in real time. This is one of the seven key steps needed to build silicon brains.
Bringing it all Together: Building Silicon Brains in Seven Steps
Evolution has taken millions of years, and billions of organisms to engineer the 'wetware' that powers our perceptions, decisions and emotions. While biological brains have this unfair head start over their silicon counterparts, progress in basic research and emerging computing technologies can help to substantially close this gap, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Building a silicon brain in in seven steps.
Basic neuroscience research studies how brain circuits give rise to behavior (1), and isolates the main computations of these circuits (2). These are translated into mathematical modeling of neurons, networks, and whole brain systems (3). This step paves the way to implementation of these models in software, which can then be run on large clusters of GPUs (4) and simulate virtual agents behaving in virtual environments (5). These models can be then run on a much smaller, denser, portable, and low power hardware (6) that can then power mobile robotic platforms (7).
Building silicon brains requires coordinated advances in several fields to enable the development of biological-grade intelligence in machines. One can hope that the next time a chess grandmaster or a Jeopardy player sits down to a game with an intelligent computer, the computer may win or it may lose, but its behavior, emotions, and decisions will be indistinguishable from its human counterpart. And that will be a true victory for AI!
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Snider G., Amerson R., Carter D., Abdalla H., Qureshi S., Leveille J., Versace M., Ames H., Patrick S., Chandler B., Gorchetchnikov A., and Mingolla E. (2011) Adaptive Computation with Memristive Memory. Cover feature, IEEE Computer 44(2), 21-28.
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Q: Spock tests not running after switching to 1.3-groovy-2.5 instead a Nullpointer in ASTTransformation Issue description
I wrote tests for Java8 code (Spring controllers) with using  1.3-groovy-2.4 version of spock-core and spock-spring and everything was fine.
Now we are changing towards to Java11 / groovy 2.5. So I tried using  1.3-groovy-2.5 but even for minimal tests I get the following error
message.
Error:Groovyc: While compiling tests of groovy2.5.spock: Could not instantiate global transform class org.spockframework.compiler.SpockTransform specified at jar:file:/Users/me/.m2/repository/org/spockframework/spock-core/1.3-groovy-2.5/spock-core-1.3-groovy-2.5.jar!/META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.transform.ASTTransformation  because of exception java.lang.NullPointerException
Warning:Groovyc: While compiling tests of groovy2.5.spock: The global transform for class groovy.grape.GrabAnnotationTransformation is defined in both jar:file:/Users/me/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/groovy/groovy/2.4.11/groovy-2.4.11-indy.jar!/META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.transform.ASTTransformation and jar:file:/Users/me/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/groovy/groovy/2.5.5/groovy-2.5.5.jar!/META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.transform.ASTTransformation - the former definition will be used and the latter ignored.
Warning:Groovyc: While compiling tests of groovy2.5.spock: The global transform for class org.codehaus.groovy.ast.builder.AstBuilderTransformation is defined in both jar:file:/Users/me/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/groovy/groovy/2.4.11/groovy-2.4.11-indy.jar!/META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.transform.ASTTransformation and jar:file:/Users/me/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/groovy/groovy/2.5.5/groovy-2.5.5.jar!/META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.transform.ASTTransformation - the former definition will be used and the latter ignored.
Additional Environment information
IDE IntelliJ 2019.2
Java/JDK
jdk1.8.0_152
Groovy version
Groovy Version: 2.5.3 JVM: 11.0.2 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: Mac OS X
Build tool version
Apache Maven
Apache Maven 3.5.4
Operating System
Mac 10.14 Mojave
IDE
IntelliJ 2019.2
Build-tool dependencies used
Apache Maven
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.spockframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spock-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.3-groovy-2.5</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tinkerpop</groupId>
    <artifactId>gremlin-groovy</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.1</version>
     <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

Possible Reason
The gremlin-groovy 3.3.1 has as a groovy 2.4.11 dependency this produces the conflict that causes the error.

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Woodward Theatre is hosting the official "Festival Lineup Announce Party" on Tuesday, Jan. 24 from 6-8. It's free and open to the public.
Reverend Horton Heat is playing on Sunday 6/4/2017, per both pollstar and RHH website. I love how RHH doesn't respect Promowest's childish "hive hints" guessing game and just lists his appearance. They should just announce the lineup without all of the other nonsense.
I may stop by at the Woodward, maybe try and score some free tix, because they'll have some prizes to give away, right MK?
There are prizes but I don't know what sort.
I'm mostly interested in the Shins and DCFC, if I decide to go. Haven't bought tix yet (which just went up to $179 plus Ticketbastard charges).
I must admit, many of the underscore bands don't ring a bell with me. I must be out of it, I suppose.
I agree, but check out Dreamers, July Talk, San Fermin, Arkells & White Reaper. I'm not saying that they should make you go. Just check them out. July Talk is playing MOTR soon.
Thanks for the tips TayFo, but that's 4 bands (in addition to the other bands I mentioned earlier). Can't really justify buying a 3 days pass for that.
I'm just gonna wait for the daily schedule and if one day jumps out at me, I'll just do that.
This pretty much solidifies my writing off of Bunbury. Out of 42 bands there are 4 I would interested in seeing, but none of them enough that I want to watch them from 100 yards away. And the fact there are only 42 bands over 3 days shows how far this it has fallen. To compare, the first year there were 30 bands per day (and that isn't counting the silly DJ sets they had that year). Now they want me to pay twice as much for it.
The Enquirer's write-up about it was titled "Bunbury caters to the millenials". That may well be true. Let's face it, none of us here is a millenial.
I know we're all disappointed with how the festival has evolved in the last 2-3 years, but PromoWest doesn't care about us and certainly doesn't cater to us.
And if not, it was a nice 5 year run. Time to move on.
Sunday seems to be stacked this year.
Sunday does seem to be the day.
No day seems to be the day.


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Q: The irreducibility of $t^4 + 2$ over $\mathbb{Z}_5$ I'm reading Stewart's Galois Theory Third Edition Example 3.23, where we are proving that $f(t) = t^4 + 15t^3 + 7$ over $\mathbb{Z}$ is irreducible by showing its mapping to $\mathbb{Z}_5$ is irreducible.
First, the polynomial gets mapped to $t^4 + 2$ over $\mathbb{Z}_5$. Then Stewart says if it is reducible over $\mathbb{Z}_5$, then either it has a factor of degree 1, or it is a product of two factors of degree 2 (understandable). Then he claims "The first possibility gives rise to an element $x \in \mathbb{Z}_5$ such that $x^4 + 2 =0$" -- here I'm not following how this gives rise to such an equation for which we could check whether the factor of degree 1 is possible...Many thanks for help!

A: (copied from my comment)
If there is a linear factor $t - a$ so that $t^4 + 2 = (t - a)p(t)$, then
$$a^4 + 2 = (a - a) p(a) = 0$$
in $\mathbb{Z}_5$.


Cali Acoustic Sessions E.P. Digital Download includes 4 songs recorded as a live 3-piece acoustic session at 17th Street Studios in Newport Beach. These were songs that we re-recorded with the full band for the Avocado Album.


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Kissing With Open Eyes
1. January 6 - lyrics
2. Parlor City - lyrics
3. For You, For Me - lyrics
4. February 4 - lyrics
5. The Painting - lyrics
6. Hungary - lyrics
7. March 9 - lyrics
8. La Trappe - lyrics
9. How Do I Say - lyrics
10. April 28 - lyrics
11. Budapest - lyrics
Album notes:
In college someone told me I need to write love songs. This album wasn't written because of that statement, but if I had a way to talk to the person who told me that, I'd tell her, "I finally wrote some love songs."
Kissing With Open Eyes is my seventh full-length album and the first that deals exclusively with a romantic relationship. Though the album is very personal to me, I hope that others can find some of the feelings relatable. It goes through the first seven months of a relationship and deals with the highs of first dates, the pain of non-commitment and betrayal, the confusion of self-reliance, and the bittersweet peace of wanting what's best, even if that's the end.
Kissing With Open Eyes takes its title from a line in the song "Parlor City," which says "I'll kiss your lips and watch your eyes to find it." I was told that too often we kiss with our eyes closed and that we should learn to kiss with our eyes open to really get to know people. The title also refers to seeing relationships for what they really are, not what often we're told they will be. While going through the first year of this relationship (and concurrently writing the album), I found that I wasn't always experiencing the warm, fuzzy, sunshine love we often hear about. It was often full of warmth and joy, but other times it was messy and painful and full of mistakes. I was kissing with open eyes and seeing that love isn't always pretty.
All songs written, performed, recorded, and mixed by me.
20% of proceeds from purchases of this album or songs from this album will be donated to True Colors Fund to support homeless LGBTQ+ youth.
joe sorensen
piano | guitar | vocal | songwriter
joe sorensen | cedar rapids, ia | joesorensen@live.com
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