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Jesse Powell grew up singing with his family and in local talent shows. In 1993, Powell met fledgling producer Carl Roland in Kansas City. Upon their arrival in L.A., the two began working together. Trying to find Jesse Powell? We found 11 people public records in all 50 states.
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31 Mar 2020 Powell died early Friday of complications believed to be related to COVID-19 His African American father, Jessie Gardner, was one of the few
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Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. Background Checks R&B artist Jesse Powell Bout itL Carter recommendation and possibly our wedding song.Follow @browninkus Jackie Nelson http://tiredoftheweight.comLose weight Jesse Powell (born September 12, 1971 or November 12, 1971) (sources differ) is an American R&B/soul songwriter-singer. Discovered by Louil Silas, Jr, Powell is best known for his hit "You" which peaked at #2 R&B and #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Powell has released four studio albums to date (Jesse Powell, 'Bout It, JP, Jesse). Jesse Powell - You Lyrics. I've finally found the nerve to say I'm gonna make a change In my life starting here today I surrender all my love, I never thought I could Jesse Powell was born in 1795, in Clark, Kentucky, USA, to Ambrose Powell and Sally Sarah Powell.
He captivated us with his charming looks, silky smooth voice, and love-laced ballads. Jesse Powell (2) Profile: American jazz tenor saxophonist born February 27, 1924 in Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas died October 19, 1982 in New York City, New York 694 records for Jessie Powell. Find Jessie Powell's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. "You" is a song by American R&B singer Jesse Powell and appeared on Powell's first two albums, Jesse Powell and 'Bout It. The song, released as a single in 1999, became the biggest hit of Follow On Twitter| @RetroEraTVBorn in Gary, Indiana, Jesse's earliest introduction to music came via his family: with his mother, two sisters and younger bro Jesse Powell is the eponymous debut studio album by American R&B singer Jesse Powell.
Jesse Powell - You Lyrics. I've finally found the nerve to say I'm gonna make a change In my life starting here today I surrender all my love, I never thought I could Jesse Powell was born in 1795, in Clark, Kentucky, USA, to Ambrose Powell and Sally Sarah Powell. Jesse married Mary Roby on July 20 1822, at age 27 in Bourbon, Kentucky, USA. Jesse passed away in 1879, at age 84 in Clark, Kentucky, USA. Summary: Jessie Powell's birthday is 05/01/1949 and is 71 years old. Jessie's current home is located at Middleboro, MA. In the past, Jessie has also been known as Jessie A Powell, Jesse A Powell and Jessie A Bono. Phyllis Powell, Sylvester Powell, Dawn Powell and Daniel Powell, and many others are family members and associates of Jessie.
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Jesse Powell (10 Jul 1906–21 Dec 1995), Find a Grave Memorial no. 95769078, citing Rest in Peace Memorial Gardens, Hensley, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA ; Maintained by Genealogy Buff (contributor 47910730) . Dec 29, 2020 Jesse Powell is a great singer. I really dont think he was promoted enough or promoted by the right person.
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Jesse Powell (born September 12, 1971 or November 12, 1971) (sources differ) is an American R&B/soul songwriter-singer.Discovered by Louil Silas, Jr, Powell is best known for his hit "You" which peaked at #2 R&B and #10 on the Billboard Hot 100.Powell has released four studio albums to date (Jesse Powell, 'Bout It, JP, Jesse).He is the older brother of fellow contemporary R&B singers Trina Jesse Powell grew up singing with his family and in local talent shows. In 1993, Powell met fledgling producer Carl Roland in Kansas City. Upon their arrival in L.A., the two began working together. Powell… Read Full Biography. Overview ↓ Biography ↓ Discography ↓ Songs ↓ Jesse Powell, born in 1971, in Gary, Indiana is an African-American soul singer, known for his strong, gospel-drenched tenor, as well as his soaring falsetto.
Get current address, cell phone number, email address, relatives, friends and a lot more. We're 100% free for everything! "You" is a song by American R&B singer Jesse Powell and appeared on Powell's first two albums, Jesse Powell and 'Bout It. The song, released as a single in 1999, became the biggest hit of Create a free family tree for yourself or for Jesse Powell and we'll search for valuable new information for you. Get started WikiTree FREE. Jesse Albert Powell 1850 1927 Ohio Ohio Jesse Albert Powell, 1850 - 1927. Jesse Albert Powell was born on May 23 1850, in Springfield, Muskingum Co., Ohio, USA, to Dave Powell and Mary Ports. Jesse Powell passed away on August 3, 2017 at the age of 86 in Bolivia, North Carolina.


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Q: Send AJAX request to Django view with vanilla JS I'm trying to send a GET AJAX request to a Django view using vanilla JS. is_ajax() passes but I could not retrieve the request object properly.
Here is my JS code. With/out JSON.stringify(data) doesn't work.
document.querySelector('#testForm').onsubmit = () => {
      let data = {category : 'music'};

      const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
      request.open('GET', 'test/', true);
      request.setRequestHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest');

      request.onload = () => {
        const data = JSON.parse(request.responseText);
        console.log(data);
      }

      request.send(data);
      return false;
});

And here is my Django view:
def test(request):
    if request.is_ajax():
        print('Yes!')
        data = {'category': request.GET.get('category', None)}
        return JsonResponse(data)
    else:
        raise Http404

It prints Yes! to the terminal but I get back a {category: null} in the console.
This JQuery code works and I get the expected {category: "music"} response:
$.ajax({
        url: 'cart/',
        type: 'GET',
        data: data,
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function (data) {
          console.log(data);
        }
      });

I'm wondering what I'm missing in the vanilla JS code or in my Django view.

A: GET requests can't have a body, so the data parameter to request.send is ignored. You should make it part of the URL itself:
request.open('GET', 'test/?category=music', true);

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November in Zion Canyon signals a quieter time when fewer visitors enter Zion National Park to enjoy the peace, beauty, and recreational opportunities of this special place. With the decrease in visitation, some services will be cut back or ended. The Zion Canyon/Springdale mandatory shuttle system will end its eighth season of operation on October 28. Visitors may then drive their personal vehicles on the 6-mile Zion Canyon Scenic Drive. The mandatory shuttle system will resume operation on March 21, 2008.
Ranger Naturalist programs have concluded for the season.
For additional information, visit the park website at www.nps.gov/zion or call 435-772-3256.


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Coca-Cola enters kombucha category with acquisition of Australia's MOJO brand
19 Sep 2018 --- The Coca-Cola Company has acquired kombucha maker Organic & Raw Trading Co., which makes the MOJO brand of naturally fermented, live culture, organic kombucha drinks. Kombucha is a fast growing beverage category, boosted by growing consumer interest in natural and gut-boosting refreshments. The terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. This is the first time Coca-Cola has acquired full ownership of a brand in the kombucha category, signaling its intent to offer healthy beverages for all occasions.
Coca-Cola has over the past months announced a number of deals and acquisitions underlining its ambition to become a total beverage company. Earlier this month, it reached a definitive agreement to acquire UK headquartered coffee chain Costa Limited for £3.9 billion (approximately US$5.1 billion). In August, it was announced that Coca-Cola is to acquire a minority ownership stake in Bodyarmor – a fast-growing line of premium sports performance and hydration beverages – in a move that signifies Coca-Cola's challenge to the strong market player Gatorade, which is owned by Pepsi. The company is also eyeing CBD for its potential in functional beverages, as we reported yesterday.
"Across Australia, we now have more than 165 products and 25 brands. The addition of MOJO kombucha fits perfectly with the growing popularity of organic, probiotic drinks," says Vamsi Mohan, President of Coca-Cola Australia.
Sold throughout Australia, MOJO kombucha is made from naturally fermented tea.
Sold throughout Australia, MOJO kombucha is made from naturally fermented tea. Kombucha is a growing niche within the beverage area. The market has experienced rapid growth post-2016, with a four-fold increase in product launches from 2013 to 2017, according to Innova Market Insights data.
Launched in 2010, Anthony Crabb, Co-founder and CEO of Organic & Raw, has gone from creating MOJO in his home kitchen to producing one of Australia's leading organic kombucha brands.
"Coca-Cola is a total beverage company with massive intellectual capital," Crabb says. "We can learn a lot about consumer trends and marketing innovation, while Coca-Cola can benefit from MOJO's unique understanding of fermentation and what it takes to build great-tasting brewed beverages."
Crabb and Sales and Marketing Director Andrew Buttery will remain in their current roles.
Organic & Raw's biggest selling kombucha is MOJO CRAFTED KOMBUCHA, a low-sugar, naturally-fermented, live-culture, organic drink.
"With this acquisition, Coca-Cola Australia can take a leading role in helping The Coca-Cola Company in the still-emerging, premium-probiotic kombucha category, which is the fastest-growing beverage category in Australia," Mohan says. "This is a strong opportunity for us."
Mohan lists an increasing concern for health and interest in sustainability as consumer trends driving MOJO's rapid growth.
"Australians are increasingly after great-tasting, low sugar drinks that deliver additional functional benefits, such as gut health," he says.
Kombucha is a growing niche within the beverage area.
"They also support sustainable packaging options, and MOJO uses clear glass bottles that can be recycled. MOJO will play an important part in helping Coca-Cola meet our commitment to reduce sugar by 20 percent by 2025 and in meeting our sustainability commitments through providing recyclable packages," he adds.
MOJO products are currently sold in about 4,000 health food stores, restaurants and supermarkets in Australia, including Aldi, Costco, Foodland, IGA and Woolworths.
Space for growth
Fermented beverages are on-trend, with year-on-year growth from 2016 to 2017 of 47 percent in the past two years, not including alcoholic beverages, Innova Market Insights noted in a presentation at this year's Vitafoods Asia in Singapore.
Fermented, lightly effervescent black or green tea drinks, such as kombucha, contain multiple species of yeast and bacteria along with organic acids, active enzymes, amino acids and polyphenols produced by these microbes. They are positioned as a sustainable, well-being boosting alternative to artificial soft drinks.
Over 8 percent of global iced tea launches in the 12 months to the end of June 2017 featured kombucha in a growing range of flavors and formats, up from just over 5 percent in the 12 months to the end of June 2016 and less than one percent five years previously. Numbers rose nearly 60 percent in the 12 months to the end of June 2017, although still from a relatively small base.
The healthy positioning of green tea and kombucha is vital for growth. Nearly 96 percent of global launches in the 12 months to the end of June 2017 were positioned on a health platform of some kind, with clean labeling and digestive health key areas of interest.
Fermented boost
Fermented foods were tipped as the no. 1 superfood for 2018, underlining that consumers will be "going with their gut" by seeking out foods and beverages that improve gut health and overall well-being.
Coca-Cola's move into kombucha space underlines this trend further, but R&D in the fermented foods and digestive health spaces is still ongoing.
"There are absolutely unexplored potential pathways and benefits for fermented foods," says Jenna A. Bell, Ph.D., RD, SVP of Pollock Communications. "Over the past decade, science has begun to scrape the surface of the role of fermentation, gut bacteria and the gut microbiome in human health. I think that consumer interest in fermented foods will only drive more research and increase the availability of fermented foods."
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What is the most loyal breed of dog? We thought this might be an easy question, but after a bit of Internet research, we're left unsure of the answer. Iheartdogs.com says it's the Great Pyrenees, while barkpost.com suggests sheepdogs. Entirelypets.com offers up the Rough Collie (we did not know that collies have this tougher edge to them, at least in their formal name). Weluvpuppies.com and pet360.com both rank German Shepherds first, with the latter website citing an official with Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in support. Celebrity dog psychologist Cesar Millan (the Dog Whisperer) has done a bit more work: He says he reviewed six Internet lists that named 22 different breeds, with only the German Shepherd, Brittany, and Kuvasz listed on all of them. Now you know!
There may be a similar bit of dissonance with banks and their customer loyalty programs, we suspect. The Deluxe Corp. commissioned a survey of companies across various industries, including the financial sector. One of the primary questions: What are the top three objectives for your customer loyalty strategy? Interestingly, more financial institutions (66%) answered "acquire new customers" than said "retain existing customers" (56%). This ran counter to the overall results, where more companies of all kinds cited retention (54%) than acquisition (49%). A Director of Product Management looked at the numbers and said "somewhat ironically, the biggest objective for financial institutions offering loyalty program is not actually loyalty."
Consider a key finding of a survey conducted by Forrester Research that found: Only 13% of the bank leaders surveyed were "completely satisfied" with their own customer loyalty programs. The majority, 53%, were "somewhat satisfied." The "somewhat unsatisfied" and "completely unsatisfied" made up 9% and 6%, respectively. Apparently 16% of bankers were unable to pick from among these choices. Of note, the number of "completely unsatisfied" banking respondents was twice the level of non-financial respondents.
What were the characteristics of the satisfied ones? Well, Deluxe research found that banks that used multiple communication channels with their customers also tended to express more satisfaction with their loyalty programs. Financial institutions are greater users of call centers and mass media than companies in other industries, but adoption of modern tech methods may be lagging. Less than 33% of respondents currently use online chat, or websites, applications and messaging optimized for mobile phones. Further, a significant number of respondents say they "plan to use" these features, but adding their numbers to the users would still result in 30% to 40% of financial institutions leaving these out of loyalty programs.
When all is said and done, the data indicates some bankers may be focusing on the wrong metrics in designing loyalty programs. So maybe it is time to take a fresh look at your rewards program to see if you have incorporated enough technology and customer desires. Are you up to date, when was the last time you updated these programs and do your customers love them or seem not to care very much? Doing so can help you make sure you get a "best in show" award.
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Fed research on small businesses with less than 500 employees finds credit sources applied to were: small bank (52%), large bank (42%), online lender (20%) and credit union (9%).
Research by Business Intelligence that looked at Millennial usage of cash found that 40% said they would give up cash if their credit or debit card could replace all forms of cash transactions.
BLS research finds the cost of benefits has risen about 60% since 2001 vs. about 37% for wages and salaries.
Research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds 46% of workers nationwide participated in a retirement plan as of the end of 2012.
It is interesting to note that since 2000, about 52% of Fortune 500 companies have been acquired, are bankrupt or are no longer in existence.
An AARP survey finds 45% of respondents say they plan to retire between 65 and 70Ys old. Of note, however, 73% of those say they will continue to work part time.
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Fed research on small businesses with less than 500 employees finds approval rates by firm revenue for community banks are: $100k to $1mm (69%), $1mm to $10mm (88%) and more than $10mm (96%). This compares to larger banks at 49%, 72% and 88%, respectively for the same revenue levels.


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by Andrew Rowen | | Dominican Republic, Haiti, Sea of Darkness, Spain
In October 1492, the Taíno peoples of the Caribbean lived mostly in territory within modern Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, eastern Cuba, and Jamaica, and, to the north, the smaller islands of the Bahamas and the Turks & Caicos. Haiti was one of the Taíno names for the island of modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Taínos likely believed their islands were surrounded by an encompassing sea on a flat earth, with the heavens ascending above, the sea and underground caves descending below, and the sea and the heavens converging on the horizon―where the spirits they worshipped could pass from one to the other. Many also believed their Haiti lay at the center of this universe, and that mankind had lived in caves in the center of Haiti itself before emerging to populate the world.
Across the Atlantic Ocean, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain had reconquered the Emirate of Grenada from Islamic rulers in January 1492, and they now ruled the entire Iberian Peninsula, save for Portugal. As Aristotle had taught, they and learned Europeans believed that the earth was a globe. They understood its landmass, "terra firma," stretched east from the Iberian Peninsula through Europe to Jerusalem―which the scriptures held to be at terra firma's center―and then to the Indies. As Christians, they believed their God had blessed man's creation and the earth to live on, separating terra firma from the seas, lighting the sky with the sun, moon, and stars, and providing man beast and fish to eat, all in but six days.
Europeans then often referred to the Atlantic Ocean as the Sea of Darkness, and almost all believed it extended west to the Indies, unbroken by any landmasses except known and possibly unknown islands. Most also believed that the distance west to the Indies was too far to sail, but Columbus argued otherwise when seeking Isabella and Ferdinand's approval. See February 3 below for discussion of Columbus's geographic theory and the Norse settlements in North America.
Columbus's three ships departed Spain on August 3, 1492. After restocking food and supplies on the Canary Islands, they sailed west from the tiny Canary Island harbor at San Sebastian on Gomera―near where the photo below was taken―on September 6. They lost their last sight of land, the Canary Island's tallest volcano (Teide on Tenerife)―in the photo's background―on September 9.
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | There is only one good thing about the Obama administration's attempts to nationalize most health care and to begin to control Americans' energy consumption through cap-and-trade: clarity about the left. These attempts are enabling more and more Americans to understand the thinking and therefore the danger of the left.
The left has its first president — with the possible exception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt — and for the first time controls the Democratic Party and both houses of Congress. In the name of compassion for the sick and the poor and in the name of preventing worldwide environmental catastrophe, it is attempting to remake America.
Principal One: The left, as distinct from traditional liberals, is not, and has never been, interested in creating wealth. The left is no more interested in creating wealth than Christians are in creating Muslims or Muslims in creating Christians. The left is interested in redistributing wealth, not creating it. The left spends the wealth that private enterprise and entrepreneurial risk-taking individuals create.
The left does not perceive that poverty is the human norm and therefore asks, "Why is there poverty?" instead of asking the economic question that matters: Why is there wealth? And the obvious result of the left's disinterest in why wealth is created is that the left does not know how to create it.
Principal Two: The reason the left asks why there is poverty instead of why there is wealth is that the left's preoccupying ideal is equality — not economic growth. And those who are preoccupied with equality are more troubled by wealth than by poverty. Ask almost anyone on the left — not a liberal, but a leftist like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — which society they consider more desirable, a society in which all its members were equally lower middle class or one in which some were poor, most were middle class, and some were rich (i.e., America today). And whatever they say, in their hearts, the further left they are the more they would prefer the egalitarian society.
Principal Three: The left everywhere seeks to make as big and powerful a state as possible. It does so because only the state can redistribute society's wealth. And because only a strong and powerful state can impose values on society. The idea of small government, the American ideal since its inception, is the antithesis of the left's ideal.
The cap-and-trade bill's control of American energy and the "ObamaCare" takeover of American health care will mean an unprecedented expansion of the state. Added to increased taxes and the individual becomes less and less significant as the state looms ever larger. Americans will be left to decide little more than what they do with vacation time — just as Western Europeans do. Other questions are largely left to the state.
Principal Four: The left imposes its values on others whenever possible and to the extent possible. That is why virtually every totalitarian regime in the 20th century was left-wing. Inherent to all left-wing thought is a totalitarian temptation. People on the left know that not only are their values morally superior to conservative values, but that they themselves are morally superior to conservatives. Thus, for example, the former head of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean, could say in all seriousness, "In contradistinction to the Republicans, we don't think children ought to go to bed hungry at night."
Therefore, the morally superior have the right, indeed the duty, to impose their values on the rest of us: what light bulbs we use, what cars we drive, what we may ask a prospective employee, how we may discipline our children, and, of course, how much of our earnings we may keep.
It is dishonest to argue that the right wants to impose its values to anywhere near the extent the left does. This can be demonstrated to a fifth-grader: Who wants more power — those who want to govern a big state or those who want to govern a small state?
The president of the United States and the much of the Democratic Party embody these left-wing principals. Right now, America's only hope of staying American rather than becoming European lies in making these principals as clear as possible to as many Americans as possible. The left is so giddy with power right now, we actually have a chance.


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43325532 06:37am on 08 Mar 2018 Even Chiellini knows that Tottenham cant help being Spursy
42680158 09:06am on 14 Jan 2018 Credit to the Patriots. Their consistency in a sport where everything is stacked against them is remarkable. Imagine how Man City would do if their transfer kitty was continually handed to the 17th placed team in the Premier League the following year and they were given a fixture list in the Champ. League which always consisted of all the most difficult teams, I doubt they would be as successful
37194666 6:28pm on 26 Aug 2016 Another step in the direction of what to me is an almost inevitable European Super League. This move is going to significantly damage the competition, meaning its 16 places for the top 4 and 16 for everyone else. Given that Europe has something like 52 champions each season it means it will be a competition containing at most only 20 of them.
36832548 9:38pm on 19 Jul 2016 We've tried evertything else, don't care much now who they select, either Big Sam or Steve Bruce are fine in my book. Can't exactly do much worse than either of the last few.
Champions League: Why are English teams struggling? 09:30am on 30 Sep 2015 The Premier League is and has been for a long time now way behind La Liga. This is easy to see whenever there is a game between the two in either of the European compeitions. It is the most exciting league in the world for sure but that's it.
Qatar 2022 World Cup: How will it affect English season? 2:25pm on 25 Feb 2015 I have no problem with the timing, it would be interesting to see how it works, afterall I quite enjoyed the novelty of the morning World Cup in 2002. In terms of feeling sorry for the Premier League, they have 7 years to sort it out, no dramas.
Liverpool: Brendan Rodgers' side fail in Champions League 11:56am on 10 Dec 2014 Have to agree that Anfield was so quiet last night (with the exception of the Basel fans). Where has that once great atmosphere gone?
World Cup should not be held in Russia, Nick Clegg says 11:12am on 27 Jul 2014 The biggest problems for me is that: 1. The crime scene (and that's what it was) was not immediately secured, 2. Only partial access to it by the independent observers was allowed at first and 3. The blackboxes were not immediately handed over. Clearly the plane was shot down, but as to who did it, the above evidence would surely suggest an attempted cover-up by the separatists.
Treasury could make billions from Help to Buy 12:45pm on 07 Oct 2013 As someone who is currently waiting for my house sale to go through (bought in 2004, now selling in 2013 with just a £1,500 profit!) we really need this Help-to-buy scheme in order to go forwards as a family. I am however still waiting to see what the rates are going to be. I was hoping they were going to be in the region of 3.5% but fear it will be closer to 5%.
Obama's big question mark on Syria 11:33pm on 29 Aug 2013 In 2003 I supported the Iraq war at the time, believing the "facts" but I wouldn't now support this idea. Britain needs to stop trying to be the world's Policeman and let the UN take the lead instead. For once I am pleased with something that our Politicians have done in refusing to do in essence what the Americans wanted us to do, i.e. support them (again) in military action.
Neymar's Barcelona move costs Brazilian football its 'biggest star' 4:09pm on 28 May 2013 I see problems ahead. Barcelona are based around Messi. Bringing in another player with a huge ego in Neymar is going to end in tears for someone.
David Beckham not in Premier League's top 1,000 - Chris Waddle 1:15pm on 17 May 2013 Sorry Chris but that's utterly ridiculous. As a Liverpool fan, I can't say I was a huge Beckham supporter when he played for the Mancs but his influence on games (Particularly against us!) was obvious. I would imagine if such a list was made he would probably just creep in to the top 50.
Has the evolution of the beautiful game been for better or worse? 3:26pm on 29 Apr 2013 In my opinion the spectator and armchair experience is significantly better yes. Although I hate the amount of money involved these days and the fact that the top players are now more like popstars than todays popstars.
Football League clubs fear for future, BBC survey shows 10:57am on 10 Mar 2013 Am thinking of going to watch Crawley v Stevenage on Easter Friday where an average ticket costs £19. Given that this is for a mid-table League 1 game with very little to play for and given that a Sky Sports pack costs £21 for a month (and gives the viewer at least 10 or so high level matches to watch: Premier, Champions League, La Liga, etc), then its hardly any wonder people aren't going.
Man Utd v Chelsea: How Ferguson and Benitez's relationship soured 1:19pm on 09 Mar 2013 178 - I would think it has something to do with 12 or so Premier League titles he has won.
Why have the white British left London? 11:23am on 20 Feb 2013 #1216 - it was probably either deemed boring or offensive hence the chop.
Tim Vickery column: Why Neymar is so happy to stay in Brazil 1:18pm on 11 Feb 2013 Tim,
Out of interest, who did you support in the recent England v Brazil friendly?
Jamie Carragher leaves Liverpool a servant of The Kop 5:49pm on 07 Feb 2013 Legend and the club will miss him, however i'm sure we will still seem in some form or another as unlike many of today's players he truly loves the game.
Liverpool biggest club in England - Daniel Sturridge 2:51pm on 08 Jan 2013 In terms of Global reach Liverpool are either number 1 or 2, so he has a point (ever been to another country and seen whose shirts the majority of the local kids are wearing? its not City, Chelsea or Arsenal). In terms of Europe, of course the 5 European cups stand out, but failing to win a Title since 1990 does make it a bit hard to argue against United as loathed as I am to admit it.
Club World Cup: A watershed moment for South American clubs 12:21pm on 17 Dec 2012 I wasn't surprised by the result and fully expected Corinthians to win. English clubs (Man United aside) have an awful record in the competition. My suspicion is that this will be something they regret one day as i think this competition will in the future grow to be something bigger than what it currently is. It won't happen over night, but in 30-40 years time I think Chelsea will regret this.
Charts seek to stay on top after 60 years 12:00pm on 14 Nov 2012 One observation I would make is that whilst yes the numbers are impressive, it is much cheaper these days to buy a single that it used to be. 15-20 years ago when an artist would release a new CD single it often cost £4. Given inflation since then I would imagine that would not be like paying £6 for a song that can be downloaded via i-tunes for less than £1.
Brazil milestone evokes memories of Pele and Moore 10:03am on 14 Nov 2012 Brazil v England 1970 was a masterclass yes, but as I wasn't around to see it I will put my vote towards Brazil 2-3 Italy in 1982 which was another classic game but this time with a few goals thrown in to boot. Someone mentioned the 1986 game against France too which was also epic and I suppose you have to mentioned the 1994 battle with Holland, but overall I preferred the Paolo Rossi game. Sadly, since USA '94 I can't say I have really enjoyed many of Brazil's matches in the World Cup. Hopefully when they come to hosting the tournament however things will return to the glory days of the past.
Manchester City's European woes continue 09:36am on 25 Oct 2012 I was working last night and missed the game, when I saw the score I couldn't stop laughing. A good result for Football in general to see the money bags lose to a youthful team which has been nurtured from its academy. Taking last seasons fluke by Chelsea aside, results in the CL for the English sides over these past few years have been awful and the final nail in the coffin for the argument that the Premier League is the best League in the World when it clearly isn't.
Margin for error narrows after England stumble 09:39am on 13 Sep 2012 I was at the game and thought a draw was the right result. Yes England had a perfectly legitimate goal chalked off and yes we hit the post twice with Cleverley missing a sitter too, but Ukraine had several good chances themselves, scoring a blinder in the process.
A point gained for me rather than two lost.
Konoplyanka was definitely the man of the manger, skinning Glen Johnson on several occasions. Given that he "only" plays for Dnipro, surely its only a matter of time before one of the big boys picks him up.
Raheem Sterling's England call-up not too soon, says Roy Hodgson 03:48am on 11 Sep 2012 Roy's doing everything right so far and hopefully this will continue. I support this totally. If your good enough your old enough. Bring Sterling in, show him what's on offer and it can only work as a motivation for his future.


It's been a week since the conclusion of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process, a partisan side show that left a bitter taste in the mouths of many voters — whether they supported his confirmation or opposed it.
Now we are left with the political and social consequences of what transpired on the floor of the US Senate. Policymakers have been threatened in person and on social media, envelopes filled with suspicious substances were sent to administration officials, and the home addresses of Republican senators were doxxed.
This may not all have to do with the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, but the hyperbole on both sides fanned the flames of hatred and fear, and when you target the most extreme elements of human emotion, it can have dangerous consequences on the most vulnerable members of society.
There are some who believe it is false to say both sides are culpable in the regression of the nation's political landscape.
It's only the Republicans or only the Democrats who have degraded the conversation and do whatever they can to retain or garner power and control of the system.
The irony, of course, is this argument is a product of the "us-vs-them" politics that is at the heart of political dysfunction in the US. It's a battle of good vs evil. Our side is the good side; the other side is evil. And if voters support the other side it will be the destruction of the republic and everything they love and care about.
Americans watched the footage of protesters clashing in Charlottesville, where an alt-right activist used a car as a deadly weapon, killing 30-year-old Heather Heyer.
A small group of left-leaning activists were recently caught on video punching and kicking at cars in Portland, verbally assaulting people and threatening a man with physical violence. Portland police declared a riot after "far right" and Antifa protesters clashed.
President Trump has repeatedly said in his rallies that electing Democrats will turn the US into Venezuela and crime will run rampant as illegal aliens pour into the country unchecked.
Meanwhile, cable news outlets operate as echo chambers for one party or another, elevating the most extreme – or banal – of the opposing side to the fore of the national consciousness to show just how evil or witless the other side really is.
The truth is: In the Swamp, nobody's hands are clean.
And unfortunately, what gets lost in this hyper-partisan, hyperbolic struggle for the soul of America are the issues and news stories that Americans actually care about.
The US political system has been manufactured to give voters two choices — and only two choices. You can choose red or blue, and if you pick the other side, the consequences could mean the end of the world as we know it.
It's this consequentialist ethics, as the YouTube channel Wisecrack observed in 2016, that marginalizes the voices of anyone who would offer an alternative to the Republican and Democrat Parties.
A person's vote or actions are not judged by their intentions, but by the perceived consequences of said action.
If a voter casts a ballot for a Green Party or Libertarian candidate, they are really inviting the greater evil to win.
Hence the reason why it is called "lesser-of-two-evils" voting.
We are caught in the middle of the biggest battle of good vs evil (at least, that is what we are supposed to think), and the consequences that it is having on the American psyche are devastating.
Does it really surprise anyone that a majority of eligible voters in America don't vote in presidential elections? It would be unwise to cast this off as simple apathy. Millions of voters are left feeling disenfranchised by a system that puts the ongoing battle between two political parties over the interests of voters.
The truth is: In the Swamp, nobody's hands are clean.
The consequence of a political system that treats elections as a battle between good and evil is that as evil becomes infinite, as the people at Wisecrack observed, the stakes become more dire, and what we are willing to give up to defeat that evil becomes infinite as well. We will do whatever it takes to vanquish the ultimate evil.
One of the greatest examples of how this has shaped political culture in America is the direct comparisons between US political figures and Adolf Hitler. Bush Jr, Obama, Trump, Clinton are just the biggest examples of politicians who have been called the modern day Hitler by groups of people on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Why? Do a random survey of people, and ask what historical figure they believe best represents pure evil. I'd wager most would say Adolf Hitler. So when the parties engage in an ongoing battle between good and evil, it seems almost inevitable that certain ideological factions would make this comparison — and it does nothing but damage political discourse.
What would we do to defeat the modern day Hitler? What are people willing to sacrifice? Are people willing to disturb the peace? Threaten people with physical harm? Act out violently? The danger in our current political system is that there are people in society, though a marginal percentage of the population, who would.
The problem is that too many of the powers that be, political operatives, and members of the media don't seem to care about the impact pushing this perception of charged division has on society.
As long as the other side loses in the end or ratings go up, that is all that matters. The ends justify the means.
Certainly, there are people who have lost hope in the system. These people have checked out completely and refuse to engage in the political process as it has become so divisive and dysfunctional.
However, we should encourage these people not to give up on our institutions. The movement to change the system from one that represents the interest of private political parties to the interests of voters is undergoing historic growth.
Maine made history this year by being the first state to use ranked choice voting for statewide and non-presidential federal primary elections — an alternative voting system that research shows reduces the amount of attack ads and other negative campaign tactics in elections as candidates no longer go after a voter's first choice, but their second or third.
The movement to change the system from one that represents the interest of private political parties to the interests of voters is undergoing historic growth.
Local and state governments across the country are being used as laboratories of democracy to improve the quality of elections — to make them more accountable to the people, and create a healthier, less divisive political landscape.
In Oregon, many voters will have an opportunity to cast a ballot for STAR voting, a new voting method that would allow voters to rate candidates in a race like they would a product on Amazon or their Uber driver — on a scale of 0 to 5 stars. The two candidates with the highest score move on to an automatic runoff round and the candidate with the highest aggregate score wins.
In Fargo, North Dakota, voters will decide on whether or not they want the city to implement approval voting, arguably the simplest of the alternative voting methods. Voters cast a ballot for as many candidates as they approve of or wouldn't mind getting elected and the candidate with the highest vote count wins.
Anti-corruption initiatives, anti-gerrymandering proposals, and more are popping up nationwide in an effort to create a political ecosystem that puts people first. If we are going to reverse the current course the nation's politics are on, we need to start with reforming the system that created the current environment.
Further, we should hold the media accountable for bolstering the extreme minority to stoke the flames of division, fear, and anger.


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Truth vs. Ego in "The Lifespan of a Fact"
Bobby Cannavale and Daniel Radcliffe play a writer and a fact checker engaged in an epic tussle over the nature of narrative nonfiction.
By Alexandra Schwartz
Radcliffe and Cannavale reënact an epic battle between a fact checker and a writer.Illustration by Chris Gash
The ostensible subject of "The Lifespan of a Fact" (directed by Leigh Silverman, at Studio 54) is the truth—what constitutes it and who gets to decide. Actually, the play is about the prerogatives demanded by an unyielding ego, here of the defensive-male variety. The script, which is credited to a trio of playwrights—Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell—is based on a curious book of the same name, from 2012, which grew out of an antagonistic e-mail correspondence between the writer John D'Agata and Jim Fingal, an intern at the magazine The Believer, who had been assigned to fact-check a piece D'Agata had written about Levi Presley, a teen-ager who committed suicide by leaping from the top of a Las Vegas hotel. What began as a string of simple factual queries from Fingal swiftly escalated into an epic tussle over questions of authorial invention and the nature of narrative nonfiction. D'Agata, who had apparently never encountered a fact that he was unwilling to fudge in the name of art, refused to give an inch; Fingal pressed on, growing more persnickety with each dispute. The tug-of-war lasted for half a decade.
For the purposes of the stage, it has been compressed into a frantic five days. When the action begins, it is Wednesday, and Jim Fingal (a charmingly insistent Daniel Radcliffe) is hovering in the office of Emily Penrose (the ever-sensitive Cherry Jones), the editor-in-chief of the magazine where he is interning. His usual duties amount to glorified coffee-fetching, but Emily has decided to crash John D'Agata's Vegas piece into the upcoming issue, which must go to the printer first thing on Monday. The article needs a speedy fact-check, and Jim, who is quick to mention his Harvard pedigree, convinces her that he's the man for the job. Earnestly scribbling in a Moleskine notebook, Jim radiates nervous energy and ambition; Emily notices the way he hungrily eyes her desk when she asks him where he sees himself in five years. But by Thursday morning he's back in her office to report that he has gotten snagged on a tangle of errors:
Okay, he says that on the day Levi died, "lap dancing was temporarily banned by the city," but that doesn't check out. The day before Levi died, the Las Vegas Sun wrote about a possible upcoming ban on touching strippers in fully nude establishments, but there's nothing about a possible ban on lap dancing altogether in topless or even so-called go-go bars, where nipple nudity is essentially banned, but of course establishments get around that using pasties—
And that's just the second clause of D'Agata's first sentence.
Some writers might appreciate this scrupulous attention to detail. John (Bobby Cannavale) is not one of them. First, in an outraged fusillade of e-mails, which are cleverly projected onto a screen at the side of the stage, and then in person—growling bearishly into his phone as he sits in an overstuffed armchair, swaddled in an incongruous pink bathrobe—he tells Jim, in no uncertain terms, to piss off. He has written not an "article," as Jim so thoughtlessly calls it, but an "essay," a semantic distinction that lies at the core of John's very sense of self. He is not a journalist, a small-minded fact-grubber; he is a literary essayist, a self-appointed heir to Herodotus, Cicero, Seneca, and Plutarch, who, in his view, "nudged details to create a closer understanding." Isn't he entitled to do some nudging of his own if it allows him to better convey the symbolic meaning of Levi Presley's tragic death?
Thus are the battle lines drawn: soulful artist vs. nitpicking pedant, in John's view; amoral fabricator vs. ethical realist, in Jim's. The battle itself plays out mostly in John's home in Vegas, where the playwrights contrive to send Jim so that the two foes can confront each other in the flesh; Emily eventually follows, to act as referee, or babysitter. (One wonders about the team effort it took to write this play about collaborative dysfunction.) John, who moved to Vegas to care for his ailing mother, is still living in her house after her death; he stalks around her dowdy, fifties-style living room, with its stiffly upholstered sofa and yellow floral wallpaper, like a wild animal stuck in the wrong habitat. Few actors do wounded masculinity better than Cannavale. His John, by turns petty, aggressive, and self-pitying, looms a head above Radcliffe's Jim, pouring whiskey and slinging insults, plus the occasional fist, as the younger man stands his ground, piously pelting him with inaccuracy after inaccuracy.
For such a conceit to work, we have to believe in the merit of the thing that is in dispute. Is one essay really worth all this fuss? Time and again, we are reminded of the profundity of D'Agata's writing. "David Foster Wallace called him one of America's most significant living writers," Jim, who has done his due diligence on Google, informs us; if there is such a thing as damning with strong praise, this kind of starry-eyed overreach might be it. As with the book version of "The Lifespan of a Fact," the trouble here is that John's literary style, and therefore his authority, depends on an accrual of exactly the kinds of niggling details that he is so eager to dismiss. His essay on Levi Presley is loaded with precise figures and dates; they're just not the right ones. Take his explanation for why, in that fraught first sentence, he chose to inflate the number of strip clubs in Vegas from thirty-one to thirty-four: "I picked thirty-four because I liked the rhythm." This is funny, even a little poignant. Writers are shown up as the pathetically vain, illogical creatures we are, and the scene ends with a big laugh from the audience. Less amusing, as Emily points out, is John's assertion that a girl who jumped to her death on the same day as Levi killed herself by hanging. John wants his subject to feel unique. If the price is callous disregard for another person, well, that's just aesthetic necessity.
As the play goes on, and its initially sharp comedy dulls into a repetitive deadlock, it becomes clear that John is a martyr not to his notion of poetic truth but to the demands of his paper-thin writerly pride. He can't tolerate any of Jim's interferences, no matter how valid or minute, because to do so would throw his whole identity into doubt. Why does he feel so victimized by scrutiny? Might it have something to do with his own depressive, possibly suicidal tendencies, which are hastily suggested as a kind of emotional shortcut by which to understand his intransigence; or with his relationship with his mother, whose presence is still so oppressively felt in her old home? We don't find out. Instead, we get Emily as a representative of female authority, alternately cajoling and threatening the two men in an effort to reach some form of compromise as the hour grows ever later. Emily may be hardened in the way of tough women who've had to claw their way to the top—in the early scenes in her office, she wears black patent-leather brogues polished to a vicious sheen and displays a withering phone manner—but in Vegas she finds herself constrained by a more archetypal role. "Fuck off. I am not your mother," she says to Jim—not that he, or John, is willing to stop behaving as if she were. Jones, a consummately generous performer, softens Emily's rougher edges, but I wish that Silverman had found a way for her to serve as more than a mere foil to these bickering men.
This is a strange time to be debating the merits of truth in journalism on the stage—and it is journalism that John is practicing here, regardless of his genre hairsplitting. What distinguishes him from a Jayson Blair, or a Stephen Glass, or, for that matter, a Rudy Giuliani, whose "Truth isn't truth" slogan may come closest to capturing John's point of view? The climactic scene of the play, in which John, with the obsessive precision of a lawyer making a summation, raises doubts about the dimensions of a piece of furniture in order to prove that there's no such thing as objective reality, feels like an unintentional parody of our postmodern times. Applied to essay writing or to journalism, his logic is barely coherent, but that's not to say that it doesn't have a place. He should give politics a try. ♦
Published in the print edition of the October 29, 2018, issue, with the headline "Margin of Error."
Alexandra Schwartz has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2016.
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② Coat your skin with a drop of ampoule skin at the final step of your morning skincare routine. The texture feels lighter than oil but doesn't leave a slippery feeling on the skin. It will also be a wonderful drop for your skin!
At the last stage of evening skin care, apply onto the entire face, avoiding the eye and lip area. Gently massage for better absorbtion. Leave on overnight and rinse with water in the morning.


PC, ROM, CPU, RAM, CD-ROM, RW disс, BASIC.
Exercise 6. Study the Grammar Box section and learn the grammar rules concerning the Participle.
What computers can do in particular areas?
In factories, computers are used to control machinery, robots, production lines, lists of products, etc.
In Formula I, computers are used to design and construct racing cars. Computers help engineers to design the car body and the mechanical parts. During the races a lot of microprocessors control the electronic components of the car and monitor the engine speed, temperature and other actual information.
WHAT ARE THE SPEAKERS' JOBS?
I use my computer to do the usual office things like write memos, letters, faxes and so on, but the thing I find really useful is electronic mail. We are an international company and we have offices all over the world. We're linked up to all of them by e-mail. With e-mail I can communicate with the offices around the world very efficiently. It's really changed my life.
Well, I use computers for almost every aspect of my job. I use them to design electrical installations and lighting systems: for example the program will tell you how much lighting you need for a particular room, or how much cable you need, and it will show where the cable should go. I also use the computer to make drawings and to keep records. We have to test our installations every five years and the information is stored on computer.
To consist, to include, to make up, to contain, to execute, to increase, to install, to perform, to compose of, to turn on, to turn off, to store, to hold, to keep to start up, to operate, to attach, to enable, to allow, to print, to provide.
IWB – interactive whiteboards – are innovative tools providing efficient training in a classroom. IWB is made "interactive" by being linked to a computer which uses special IWB software. Three essential components needed to use in IWB are the whiteboard itself, a computer which has IWB software installed and a data projector (or beamer) which projects the image from the computer screen onto the whiteboard. What makes the IWD different from a normal whiteboard is that the teacher uses the special pen to manipulate content on the whiteboard itself rather than (а не using the mouse to manipulate images on the computer screen.
The latest IWB can also be used with a wireless tablet PC (a smaller hand-held computer) instead of a large desktop or laptop computer.
The interactive whiteboard itself comes in different sizes, measured diagonally across. The most common size is 190 cms (75 inches) across, and the teachers tend to agree that the bigger the board, the more effective it is, as images are more clearly displayed on a larger board.
The main advantage of an IWB used with a computer and data projector over a computer and data projector used on their own is that you can write on the IWB with your pen or finger and interact with what on the screen from the front of the class rather than having to look down to your computer and using the mouse to control the screen.
innovative tools, special software, three main components, data projector, to project the image, a wireless tablet PC, different sizes.
Read the text below and find the answers. Write them down in a chart.
What disciplines did N.Wiener study?
In what countries did he study ?
What project played an important part in his development of the science of cybernetics?
In what branches of science did N.Wiener work?
What modern sciences use today the ideas of Norbert Wiener ?
Norbert Wiener, the famous applied mathematician, was born in 1894 in the USA and died in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1964. His father was a professor of Slavonic languages at Harvard. Norbert was a very intelligent child and his father was determined to make him a famous scholar. This is indeed what he became, being awarded a PhD by Harvard at the age of 18. He also studied Philosophy, Logic and Mathematics at Cambridge and Göttingen.
His first important position was that of Instructor of mathematics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 1919, followed by that of Assistant Professor in 1929 and of Professor in 1931. Two years later, in 1922, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (USA), from which he resigned in 1941. In 1940 he started to work on a research project at MIT on anti-aircraft devices, a project that played an important part in his development of the science of cybernetics.
The idea of cybernetics came to Wiener when he began to consider the ways in which machines and human minds work. This led to the idea of cybernetics, which is the study of the ways humans and machines process information, in order to understand their differences. It often refers to the machines that imitate human behaviour. The term was coined from the Greek kubernetike which means the art of the steersman (the skill of the captain when controlling the ship). This idea made it possible to turn early computers into machines that imitate human ways of thinking, particularly in terms of control (via negative feedback) and communication (via transmission of information).
Norbert Wiener was also deeply attracted to mathematical physics. This interest originated in the collaborative work that he did with Max Born in 1926 on quantum mechanics. But Wiener's interests were not limited to logic, mathematics, cybernetics or mathematical physics alone, as he was also familiar with every aspect of philosophy. In fact, he was awarded his doctorate for a study on mathematical logic that was based on his studies of philosophy. In addition to that, in a very different field, he wrote two short stories and a novel. Wiener also published an autobiography in two parts: Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth and I am a Mathematician.
Due to his involvement in many different disciplines, Wiener was able to draw on many resources in his varied research, thus making him an incredibly successful applied scientist. Wiener was one of the most original and significant contemporary scientists and his reputation was securely established in the new sciences such as cybernetics, theory of information and biophysics.
Awarded a PhD by Harvard – – получил степень доктора философии (высшая научная степень, третья после степеней бакалавра и магистра) в Гарвардском университете – – одном из самых престижных и старинных университетов США.
Cambridge - – один из самых старинных и престижных университетов Великобритании.
Göttingen – знаменитый университет в Германии, знаменитый своей школой естественных наук и богатейшей библиотекой.
MIT – Массачусетский технологический институт – один из первых и самых престижных политехнических вузов США.
4) Discuss with your partner the biography of Norbert Wiener.
Software, hardware, chip, main memory, CPU, to contain, to consist of, to compose, cybernetics, to include, to exclude, to install, to perform, to operate, to process, to store information, to input, to output, to print, keyboard, device, to provide, access, accessible, www, web, digital.


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Samsung (Android)
Samsung Galaxy W, coming soon to Three
Coolsmartphone Staff August 24, 2011
Three has announced it will stock the new Samsung Galaxy W, set to hit Three stores soon.
This is a smaller version of the very popular Samsung Galaxy SII, running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with a super speedy 1.4Ghz processor and 3.7" Super LCD screen. It also has a 5MP camera and a front facing VGA camera for video calling.
See the Three press release for all the details and there is a little video of the Galaxy W on Three's blog.
Link – Three blog
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Today Three announces it will stock the new Samsung Galaxy W, set to hit Three stores soon. Whilst it's the little brother of the increasingly popular Samsung Galaxy SII, the features in the slimline device are still super-sized. This latest smartphone from Samsung runs Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with a speedy 1.4Ghz processor for quicker browsing and downloading and 3.7" Super LCD screen, perfect when enjoying videos, photos and games.
The Galaxy W has a cool design and a 5MP camera which is great for those wanting to take loads of photos on an ultra-portable phone. There is also Social Hub, a service provided by Samsung, which gathers all your messages, from Facebook, your work email, Twitter, LinkedIn, and puts them onto one page.
Sylvia Chind, head of handsets at Three said, "The Samsung Galaxy W has an ultra-portable design, making it an excellent addition to Three's range."
3.7 inch Super LCD screen
Front-facing VGA webcam
59mm x 115.8mm x 11.5mm
GPS / WiFi
Information on pricing and availability will be announced soon. In the meantime, why not take a peek at Three's blog for a sneak preview or the coming soon page for more information
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I use spreadsheets all the time. Why do something by hand that a computer can do quicker, more accurately and allow you to vary the inputs to see the effect on the results?
Here are a few gems—some functions, some operators and some formatting—that can make your spreadsheets hum.
NOW Puts in the current date and/or time.
YEARFRAC Calculates the number of years between two dates.
IF If a condition you establish is true, Excel makes one calculation; if it's false, it makes a different calculation. Perfect for determining, say, the capital gains tax on a stock sale: if the holding period is more than a year, multiply by the long-term capital gains rate; if it's under a year, multiply by the short-term rate.
COUNTIF It counts up a group of cells, but only includes those cells that meet the condition(s) you set. So let's say you have a column of donors, and next to it a column indicating if you've contacted them recently. COUNTIF can quickly count up how many donors still need to been reached.
VLOOKUP Looks up a value on a table for a given input. For example, for any given income level, Excel could look up the income tax rate.
XIRR Calculates the compounded annual rate of return for an investment. It uses the date and amount of each cash flow: the initial investment amount, any additional payments into or out of the investment, and the final value.
ROUND Rounds an answer up or down to the number of desired digits.
SUMPRODUCT Multiplies entries in two columns and then adds up the answers. Great for calculating weighted average returns, where one column has the individual investment returns, and the other columns shows the percentage that each investment is of the total account.
^ "Raise to the power." Let's say you wanted to square whatever's in cell H3, you'd write: =H3^2. By the way, the square root of whatever's in H3 would be: =H3^(1/2).
& Joins the text in different cells. So, if cell A1 has "super" in it and cell A2 has "girl" in it, then in cell A3 you could write "=A1&A2" to get "supergirl." Great for merging, say, first name and last name.
>= Greater than or equal to (<= would be just the opposite).
$ Freezes a cell you reference in a formula. Without the $, when you copy or drag the formula, the cell reference changes, too.
Gridlines: Eliminate them (View tab; uncheck Gridlines). Then put in just the lines you want using Borders. Much cleaner.
Conditional: The value of a cell will determine its font, text color, background color, etc. Great for easily differentiating results.
Labeled number: Example: instead of just showing the number "12," you can add some clarity and have the number show as, say, "12 pounds." But this is not text; you can still do other things to the 12 (like add or multiply). In Format, choose Custom and, in this example, type: ## "pounds" (where ## displays the 2-digit number and the text you choose is in quotes).


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When American Radicals Take Over the Berlin Bienniale
At this year's Berlin Bienniale, the organizers address war, terror, and migration via virtual reality and drones—while elevating the voices of refugees.
By Kaya Genç
Josh Klein's Crying Games at the 2016 Berlin Bienniale. (Photo: Timo Ohler)
In a basement room in Berlin last week, I listened to Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush as they apologized for having invaded Iraq. "Oh I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Dubya said in a tremulous Texan accent. "Oh God what have I done? All those people…." The ex-president's voice shook, and his posture signaled an impending meltdown, and for a moment you forgot you were looking at a hologram. "Dubya," of course, was what they call a virtual actor or a digital clone, and we watched as this pixelated doppelgänger of the 43rd president braced for a panic attack.
The installation, Crying Games, occupies a bunker-like space in the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, one of the main venues of this year's Berlin Bienniale. Josh Kline, the New York-based artist who conceived the piece, has covered the floor with sand, and the result feels at once like a chapel, a desert, and a prison cell.
Berlin, that citadel of European hipsters, is achingly cool, a city of refuge for contemporary artists who want state support and affordable rent, and one of the results of this influx is seen in the changing face of the Bienniale. Alongside the Kassel-based documenta exhibition, the Berlin Biennale is one of Germany's two leading contemporary arts events. First held in 1998, it presents Berlin as a city on the move. The event was born from a simple idea: If Germany's cultural capital would be home to a hybrid culture, it would need the Biennale whose form nicely accommodates the hybridization of arts.
This year's Bienniale takes the technology of war and repurposes it to make sense of contemporary terror.
I suppose I felt pulled in two directions as I watched the former architects of American foreign policy coming close to tears in front of me (Condoleezza Rice joined Rumsfeld and Cheney shortly after I arrived). True, the apology was merely a computer-generated illusion, effected on the blank heads of actors via face-substitution software. Yet there was still meaning, as a Middle Easterner, in hearing words of remorse from politicians, just for once. Even as a hologram.
New York's art establishment has taken over Berlin this year. In the first week of June, curators of leading American contemporary art museums could be seen rushing through the city's touristic heart; at a party in SAVVY, a contemporary art space located in a former crematorium from the 1910s, docents and directors burned calories while dancing to the tunes of local DJs. Also present at the former crematorium were editors of DIS, the "post-Internet lifestyle magazine" famous for its sub-sections that begin with the oppositional prefix: Dysmorphia, Dystopia, Distaste and so on.
Contrarianism is at the heart of the current festival, which makes sense, since the editors of DIS occupy the curatorial seat at this year's Bienniale.
DIS's fantastical take on issues, from virtual reality to Big Data to immigration, has not pleased all comers. A leading Turkish curator called their show "the most intolerable Bienniale I can remember from the last 25 years." The Guardian's Jason Farago complains of the show's digital nihilism and focuses on a slogan used in its advertising campaign ("Why should fascists have all the fun?) — "so shameless it treats even the comeback of fascism as a joke." Hyperallergic's Dorian Batycka laments that the Bienniale "negates any positive social vision in favor of fantasy, spectacle, and commodity fetishism."
Jon Rafman's View of Pariser Platz. (Photo: Timo Ohler)
In a more genial vein, the artistic directors of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, who fund the event, call the DIS curatorship of the Bienniale's ninth edition "a friendly takeover." (DIS was picked for the job by the Bienniale's selection committee.) The idea, according to GFCF directors Hortensia Völckers and Alexander Farenholtz, is to show Germans "what today's Berlin looks like as viewed from the Big Apple: a global metropolis, nervous, tech-savvy, populated by tourists, polyglot, in love with new beginnings," and so on. Far from treating totalitarianism as a mere joke, this year's Bienniale takes the technology of war, including drones, and repurposes it to make sense of contemporary terror.
In Jon Rafman's View of Pariser Platz, it is a virtual-reality headset that defines our experience of Berlin. Rafman's View is installed on the fourth floor of Akademie der Künste, in a terrace overlooking the Brandenburg Gate and the Pariser Platz. It is an unsettling and dizzying work and features sculptures of animals (a dog, an iguana, a lion, and a sloth, lined up on the terrace like uncanny signposts) that come to life once you put on the virtual-reality headset. Moments after putting on my own headset I inadvertently started walking toward the Pariser Platz. (Had I continued, I would have walked into a fellow visitor and, shortly thereafter, off the ledge.) The view of the Brandenburg Gate and surrounding protestors suddenly transformed before my eyes: The sky darkened, bodies started flying in the air, and I could hear myself asking aloud what the hell was going on. A few moments later, the floor of the terrace crumbled — in this manufactured reality, I fell down into a deep hole and arrived at a field populated by an endless army of mannequins. Some people fainted while interacting with Rafman's video. Small wonder. The work doesn't just exploit an iconic tourist trap—it turns that "tourist trap" into a literal, and terrifying, experience of falling into an abyss of ruin.
Following me throughout my visit was a line from a piece by Adrian Piper, a New York artist, one of whose installations feature this quotation from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "Once you have taken everything away from a man, he is no longer in your power. He is free."
Video still from Halil Altindere's Homeland. (Photo: Halil Altindere/Pilot Gallery, Istanbul)
Solzhenitsyn's negative understanding of freedom finds a fascinating expression in Homeland, the new video by Turkish artist Halil Altındere whose work runs strongly counter to the portrayal of the Biennale as apolitical, cynical, or crypto-fascist. The nine-minute video opens with the view of a war-torn Syrian city as seen from a camera mounted on a drone. From the rubble of destroyed apartment blocks, the video cuts to an Edenic scene by the sea, where a group of serene-looking women do yoga on a wooden pier. "We take a deep breath," the yoga instructor says, watching the beautiful Aegean sea just ahead of them. "Feel your body…. Focus on your breath…." The peace-filled moment is cut short, though, with the sudden appearance of Syrian refugees who materialize, wearing life vests, on the beach: The viewer reads a strong and desperate determination on their faces — so different from the yoga crew's blithe quest for tranquility. The soundtrack comes from Mohammad Abu Hajar, a Berlin-based Syrian singer, who raps about his journey from Syria to Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge and, from there, to Angela Merkel's Berlin. In the second part of the video, we watch Abu Hajar as he jumps and flies in the air like a comic book superhero. "Here is Sykes-Picot under my foot / I step on your border fence," he raps, name-checking the controversial agreement that drew the borders of the Middle East and is often blamed for having helped foment the region's modern problems.
Premiering exactly a century after the signing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916, Altındere's video feels insistently relevant in 2016. Its technique, too, feels significant. In Homeland, multiple drone cameras film refugees in a variety of spots: on war-torn streets, in front of the Troy War Horse in Turkey (a great poke at those who accuse immigrants of being "Trojan Horses" for terrorism), in the underground tunnels of Istanbul's Basilica Cistern, and in Berlin's Tempelhof airport, which now serves as a refugee camp. The piece is a fitting capstone to the 2016 Bienniale, where the computerized apologies of politicians were overshadowed, finally, by the voices of the disadvantaged and desperate.
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The premiere of the one-act opera by Richard Strauss Salome took place at the Royal Opera Theatre of Dresden on the 9th of December 1905. It was performed under the leadership of conductor Ernst von Schuch by the orchestra, that was enlarged to one hundred and twenty musicians, and excellent cast, amongst which were famous Wagnerian singers Marie Wittich (Salome), Karel Burian (Herodes) and Karl Perron (Jochanaan). The author considered it to be an outstanding performance.
A scandalous reputation of the play by Oscar Wilde (1891), which became the foundation of the libretto, written by the composer himself, fuelled interest in the new opera even further. By 1906, Salome had appeared on the stages of sixteen European opera theatres, including Leipzig, Cologne, Milan, Turin… A year later – in New York, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. The Austrian premiere, held in 1906 in Graz under the direction of the author, gathered the best representatives of the music world: in the auditorium amongst other important names were Gustav Mahler, Giacomo Puccini, Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg.
Coproduction with Metropolitan Opera.
Libretto by the composer after the play of the same name by Oscar Wilde in Hedwig Lachmann' translation
Claus Guth
Etienne Pluss
Ursula Kudrna
Olaf Freese
Video Projection
Roland Horvath / rocafilm
Sommer Ulrickson
Production Consultant
Yvonne Gebauer
Ilya Selivanov as Narraboth. Asmik Grigoryan as Salome.
Asmik Grigoryan as Salome. Elizaveta Muir as Child Salome.
Asmik Grigoryan as Salome. Tomas Mayer as Jochanaan.
Photo by Monika Rittershaus.
Tomas Mayer as Jochanaan. Elizaveta Muir as Child Salome.
Vincent Wolfsteiner as Herodes. Asmik Grigoryan as Salome. Anna Maria Chiuri as Herodias.
Asmik Grigoryan as Salome. Vincent Wolfsteiner as Herodes.
Elizaveta Litvinova as Child Salome.
Asmik Grigoryan as Salome. Natalia Kondratova, Uliana Utkina, Polina Lazareva, Viktoria Popugaeva, Elizaveta Litvinova, Elizaveta Muir as Child Salome.
Asmik Grigoryan as Salome.
Tuesday, 19:00
Narraboth and his men describe the beauty of the Princess Salome, who lives together with her mother Herodias in the house of her stepfather, the ruler Herod. Again and again, Salome hears the voice of Jokanaan. He prophecizes the overthrow of the existing order.
Salome is attracted by his voice and by the things he says. She demands to see Jokanaan and to speak with him. She is allowedto see him - against all the instructions. He speaks to her, and he also speaks to her stepfather, who fears him, and to her mother, who ridicules him. He continues his attack on Salome's parents, and his voice penetrates the isolated structure consisting of father, mother and child.


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Ha giocato la sua unica partita per la Nazionale inglese nel 1927.

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Matthew Werner
Handcrafted Furniture with Marquetry
cabinets & tables
art panels
An Artist and An Ancient Technique Reveal Time
ElegantArtisan.com Announces a New Exhibiting Artist — Matthew Werner!
The next time you find yourself staring at a clock, why not make it a really satisfying experience — one that will have you marveling at the workmanship and beauty inherent in a timepiece with the ability to, not only reveal the time, but also mesmerize.
"Queen Over King Clock" Inspired by "gaff" cards — non-standard playing cards used in sleight-of-hand tricks. Here, the warrior-queen is positioned over the flower-gazing king. 12″x12″ © 2015 Matthew Werner
That's just the kind of experience you will enjoy with one look at Santa Cruz artist Matthew Werner's originally-designed, handcrafted clocks. Matthew uses an inlay technique called marquetry, which is the assembly of thin slices of wood to form an image. Performing all the work himself, Matthew uses veneers from naturally-colored woods.
Realistic effects are achieved by dipping the inlay pieces in hot sand to scorch them, resulting in shadows and visual depth.
The art of marquetry is a technique dating back 3,000 years to Egypt. This skill requires incredible attention to detail and mass amounts of time. It's an art which isn't widely practiced today. Although Matthew acknowledges that marquetry can be produced using computers and lasers, what's lacking in those pieces is human craftmanship, which inbues each piece with otherwise missing elements, such as finesse and flair.
Matthew says, "My goal is to apply the technique with integrity and artistry, to add beauty to the objects I make without being overstated."
In addition to creating one-of-a-kind clocks, Matthew's focus encompasses furniture fabrication. He employs the same aptitude and discernment to his furniture pieces, each of which is a work of art.
"My inspiration comes from the natural world — what I think of as the 'unbuilt' world. I have a great appreciation for Japanese design aesthetics, especially the way natural elements are brought into the built world. I also recognize that the forms I work with are rooted in the cultural traditions of Europe. My location on the Pacific Rim provides an opportunity to balance influences from east and west, resulting in a body of New World originals that acknowledge both sources."
Enjoy a few of Matthew's clock creations by visiting ElegantArtisan.com. To view Matthew's masterful furniture, go to: MatthewWernerFurniture.com.
ElegantArtisan.com is honored and delighted to add Matthew Werner to the accomplished artists exhibiting on the site. Matthew's work will enchant you!
by satin_matt
The Latest from Matthew Werner Handcrafted Furniture 13 August 2021
Interview 18 May 2019
Learn Marquetry – Upcoming Class 13 April 2018
Open Studios Art Tour in October 7 September 2017
"...Matthew Werner ... shows his sure hand at the art of marquetry ... creating, in Werner's case, staggeringly intricate images drawn from nature." Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel


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Portrait of the artist as a... a... ah... where was I?
Sadly, wearing a digestive biscuit around one's neck never really caught on.
Yes, Louis really can do strange things with his fingers. Yes, it really does make your tummy do strange things too.
Rather interesting clothing, too, eh?
Louis at extreme left, listing to port while concentrating on keeping those fingers er... (ahem) somewhere else.
"See, I told you hopping was a viable means of transport."
Somewhere famous with someone famous. Both seem to have developed serious leaks.
Sadly, wearing half a jacket never really caught on.