The last decade has brought with it sweeping changes to the financial industry that has made it increasingly difficult and costly for banks, money services businesses (MSBs) and other financial institutions to fulfill their anti-money laundering (AML) compliance requirements. Under pressure from executives, board members, and regulators alike, many banks have taken aggressive steps to reduce their exposure to fines and penalties. One such step that is becoming increasingly common is to sever ties with smaller financial organizations that they consider high risk, including MSBs, non-profits, foreign embassies and correspondent banks.
Known as "de-risking", or "de-banking", this practice sees larger financial institutions end certain lines of business, sever relationships with or close the accounts of smaller financial institutions. While this minimizes the larger bank's risk exposure, it has significant implications for the smaller respondent banks that rely on their correspondent banking relationships (CBRs) to access international financial systems. Being denied this access further isolates some of the world's most vulnerable areas, including developing nations, and drives many to smaller, potentially non-compliant financial institutions or illegal "shadow markets" of cash transactions to get the services they need.
The National Bank of Kenya is one affected bank, making news after Deutsche Bank decided to end its CBR with the institution due to suspected money laundering activities. The issue of de-risking has also grown in such proportions that in Belize, for example, only two banks maintain CBRs. The Caribbean has been hit particularly hard by de-risking, with a World Bank report indicating that 89% of jurisdictions in the region have reported significant declines in CBRs. The situation is dire enough that the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has even stepped in, putting USD $250,000 toward increasing financial transparency and helping limit the loss of CBRs in the region.
Many respondent banks are implementing technologies that help create an effective transaction monitoring program, which is highly important to CBRs. To get ahead of their AML risks—and thereby appear less risky to larger financial institutions—respondent banks are working with solutions that monitor their information and transactions to generate alerts that can be remediated before they impact correspondent accounts.
Advanced AML compliance solutions are also being used to detect missing or incomplete data captured during onboarding; it's essential that there is a verification process in place to ensure that know your customer (KYC) compliance requirements are met. In addition, AML solutions should also calculate and maintain customer risk scores based on defined metrics that are updated as the customer's information or circumstances change. This helps ensure that respondent banks know, at any given moment, the risk that each customer poses to them—and therefore to their correspondent banking partners.
To secure the trust of their correspondent banking partners, respondent banks are increasingly having to demonstrate their commitment to their AML compliance programs by not only meeting the minimum expectations set out by regulations, but by going above and beyond them. For example, some institutions are adopting the World Bank's recommendation of having customers sign and submit a form declaring the identity and details of the ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) of a business relationship or transactions. Although not required by law, these declarations can deter individuals from falsifying information because they are written to state that criminal penalties will be placed on anyone found to have intentionally made a false statement on the form.
Respondent banks are also putting extra effort into staying on top of trends and methodologies, and doing their best to anticipate upcoming changes. Being able to foresee new types of criminal activity and respond proactively is valuable when it comes to protecting CBRs. This skill is helping respondent banks be better equipped to determine if a particular service area they have is vulnerable to new risks, then allowing the bank to decide if it's simply not worth the investment of more effort or resources. Communicating this decision to correspondent banks demonstrates that compliance is at work within the respondent bank, and is an indicator of willingness to make tough decisions on compliance when needed.
Respondent banks such as the National Commercial Bank Ltd. (NCB) in Jamaica have realized that if its risk appetite is misaligned with that of the correspondent bank, there is an increased chance of de-risking. As Dave Garcia, General Manager, Group Legal & Compliance at NCB, noted in a recent webinar on de-risking, proactive respondent banks are adjusting their AML compliance programs by objectively assessing their risk appetites by formally documenting a risk assessment for their organization when possible. If a risk assessment cannot be developed, the bank must fully understand its risks based on its business model and strategy. Some respondent banks are also reducing risk by placing additional resources in at-risk areas in order to provide more complete coverage.
In response to de-risking, many smaller financial institutions have begun aggressively redistributing staff as needed to best accommodate the needs of their correspondent banking partners. These employees are also receiving advanced training in order to be very knowledgeable not only of AML/CFT (combatting the financing of terrorism) requirements, but of the correspondent bank's expectations. Designated staff frequently communicate with their correspondent banking partners, inspiring confidence in their compliance program by keeping them informed of business activities. Employees with skills in clear, timely, thorough and accurate communications are placed in these roles.
Staffing changes are also being made to ensure that there is a sufficient number of employees dedicated to verifying the accuracy of any customer information obtained during onboarding and throughout the duration of their relationship with the bank. Some respondent banks, such as NCB, have designated separate staff who are responsible for collecting and verifying that this information is accurate and error-free.
While an unfortunate reality, de-risking is a practice that is only gaining momentum. To protect their business interests, both correspondent and respondent banks alike must continuously evolve their AML compliance programs to adapt to the landscape. By demonstrating their commitment to a strong compliance program, respondent banks become less risky—and therefore less of a liability—to their correspondent banking counterparts, ensuring continued access to the CBRs many regions of the world are heavily dependent upon.
To learn more about how de-risking is impacting correspondent banking relationships, download our white paper, Three Key Processes to Save Your Correspondent Banking Relationships.
Andrew Simpson (LinkedIn | Twitter) is Chief Operating Officer at CaseWare RCM and has more than 20 years of experience building businesses in the fields of information systems audit and security, data analytics, Anti-Money Laundering and forensics. He is a regular contributor to conferences and a recognized thought leader in financial crime management.


> Should this apply to Objective-C methods? What about other function-like interfaces such as function pointers?
I think maybe it should apply to objective-C. but I"m not sure because it doesn't look like the target attribute applies there?


The DeKalb Alphas execute our fraternal mission, in part, with numerous community service initiatives throughout the year.
Feed/Clothe the Homeless event on the 1st Friday of every month.
Adoption and support of Canby Lane Elementary School in DeKalb County.
Blood drives in partnership with Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church.
Thanksgiving Baskets in coordination with the DeKalb Pan Hellenic Council.
Parenting seminars (as part of our Annual Back to School Boot Camp Event).


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Disability Royal Commission
ACCAN has made two submissions to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (Disability Royal Commission). In these submissions we highlighted the importance of communications accessibility for consumers with disability.
Read more: Disability Royal Commission
Division 12 and Internet Activity Record Keeping Rule (RKR) review
ACCAN submitted to the ACCC's review on Division 12 and Internet Activity Record Keeping Rule where there were several proposals regarding the information the ACCC seeks from service providers.
Read more: Division 12 and Internet Activity Record Keeping Rule (RKR) review
Consultation on Draft Statutory Infrastructure Provider Exemption Instrument
The Department of Communications and the Arts has drafted an exemption instrument to the new Statutory Infrastructure Provider (SIP) obligations that started on 1 July 2020. The SIP obligations require NBN and any other carriers providing telecommunications services in existing and new developments to provide high speed internet (broadband) and voice services on request.
ACCAN supports the exemption instrument proposed by the Department for the following reasons:
It allows carriers providing voice and mobile services (for example, Telstra fixed voice services; mobile network operators) to continue to do so without being bound by SIP obligations; this ensures that they are not deterred in providing these services.
The exemption will support continuity of these important services for consumers and small businesses.
ACCAN notes that this does not affect Telstra's ongoing obligation to provide fixed voice services outside NBN's fixed line footprint under the Universal Service Obligation, and that NBN will in most cases be obliged by SIP obligations.
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Mobile Black Spot Program Round 5A
ACCAN made a submission to the Mobile Black Spot Program (MBSP) Round 5A Discussion Paper.
Lack of telecommunications connectivity denies regional, rural and remote communities the socio-economic benefits that people in metropolitan areas take for granted. Yet mobile network providers are now at a point where there is minimal return on investment for them in rural, remote and regional locations and there is little incentive for them to build infrastructure in these areas.
Read more: Mobile Black Spot Program Round 5A
Supporting Australian stories on our screens
ACCAN has made a submission to the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications consultation on options to support Australian stories on our screens. Australian content has cultural value for all Australians, including people with disability, and as such everyone should have access to Australian content.
In our submission, ACCAN explained that some accessibility features are readily included on Australian content, whereas others aren't available (or aren't consistently available). This is because there are no clear legislative requirements or protections to ensure access to Australian programming across all platforms.
Read more: Supporting Australian stories on our screens
Proposed update to the Telecommunications in New Developments Policy
ACCAN has commented on the proposed update to the Federal Government's telecommunications in new developments policy.
ACCAN agrees with the policy's objectives to provide people moving into new developments with ready access to modern telecommunications, both voice and broadband, and to create a competitive market for the provision of such infrastructure. However, ACCAN identified the following areas for improvement in the proposed approach:
Read more: Proposed update to the Telecommunications in New Developments Policy
Alternative voice service trials grant guidelines feedback
The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications is developing a trial to assess alternative ways of delivering voice (home phone) services in regional, rural and remote (RRR) areas. ACCAN previously commented on how these trials should be designed, run and evaluated. This round of consultation sought comments on the draft Grant Guidelines, Agreement and Application Form.
ACCAN supports the Alternative Voice Services Trials. Our submission makes a number of recommendations to ensure no consumer is worse off by participating in the trials. We also provided feedback on how to make sure the trials are as useful as possible. ACCAN reiterated the need for trialled services to be assessed not just in terms of value for money, but also in terms of quality.
Read more: Alternative voice service trials grant guidelines feedback
Telstra Request For Velocity And South Brisbane Exemption Extensions
Some of Telstra's networks are exempt from Parts 7 and 8 of the Telecommunications Act 1997. You can read more about this here. The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications is seeking comments on Telstra's request to extend its exemptions for its South Brisbane Velocity and other Velocity phone and internet networks. The current exemptions expire on 30 June 2020, so Telstra has asked the Minister of Communications, Cyber Security and the Arts to extend the exemptions further.
Consumers in the Velocity footprint have a difficult time getting affordable and good quality internet that is suitable to their needs. ACCAN's submission acknowledged the necessity to grant Telstra's request this time, otherwise current customers in the Velocity footprints may be left without a service after 30 June 2020. We argued that Telstra's exemptions should be granted for 2 years at most. We also argued that Telstra should have a plan to sell the networks and should report on this regularly to the ACCC and the Department.
Read more: Telstra Request For Velocity And South Brisbane Exemption Extensions
ACCC NBN Long Term Revenue Constraint Methodology 2018-2019 Draft Determination
ACCAN submitted to the ACCC'S draft determination of NBN's Long-Term Revenue Constraint Methodology (LTRCM) 2018-19. The LTRCM determines NBN's allowed annual regulated revenue by examining various components such as operating expenditure, depreciation and return on capital.
Read more: ACCC NBN Long Term Revenue Constraint Methodology 2018-2019 Draft Determination
NBN Co Limited and Ors application for authorisation
Released: 26 May 2020
ACCAN, the Consumers Federation of Australia and the Consumer Action Law Centre jointly submitted to the ACCC's consultation on authorisation for NBN Co and telecommunications companies who are members of a Special Working Group. The ACCC granted an interim authorisation and is considering issuing a final determination in September.
The authorisation allows members of the group to engage in conduct which would normally be viewed as anticompetitive and illegal. The purpose of the authorisation is so that members of the group can work together to support best performance of the network and hardship measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more: NBN Co Limited and Ors application for authorisation
Communications Alliance - Reducing Scam Calls Code
ACCAN wrote a submission in response to the draft Reducing Scam Calls Industry Code, released for comment by the Communications Alliance. ACCAN welcomed the draft Code as an acknowledgement of the important role the telecommunications industry can play in the control of scam calls which pose a risk to consumers.
Read more: Communications Alliance - Reducing Scam Calls Code
Human Rights and Technology Discussion Paper
ACCAN has made a submission in response to the Australian Human Rights Commission's Human Rights and Technology Discussion Paper. This follows our 2018 submission in response to the Human Rights and Technology Issues Paper.
The Discussion Paper considers possible responses to the human rights challenges and opportunities brought about by new and emerging technologies. It consolidates the responses to previous rounds of consultation, and outlines the Australian Human Rights Commission's thinking on a range of issues. In the Discussion Paper, the Australian Human Rights Commission offers a range of proposals designed to address the impact that new and emerging technologies have on human rights. This includes discussion of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-informed decision making, and of accessible technologies.
Read more: Human Rights and Technology Discussion Paper

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Home Art Chicago Artists Fuel the Movement for Prison Abolition
Chicago Artists Fuel the Movement for Prison Abolition
Nicole Marroquin, "ABOLISH" (2020) (image by Nicole Marroquin)
Nicole Marroquin's protest posters are a bit more elaborate than most homemade signs one might spot at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Rather than recycled cardboards bearing spray-painted slogans, her prints look more like Andy Warhol-inspired silkscreens, filled with scenes from Chicago's storied organizing history.
On one poster, an all-caps headline, "GET THEM OUT," frames a 1968 black-and-white photograph of Chicago police restraining students at the now-closed Harrison High School during a walkout to demand more Black and Latino teachers, ethnic studies courses, and insurance for athletes, among other resources. On another, the word "ABOLITION," in pink capital letters, is stamped atop a shot of officers at the Froebel School, a separate branch of Harrison, during another uprising for improved conditions five years later.
"I think a lot about the way that history exists in another layer of our consciousness." said Marroquin, who lives in South Lawndale, where Harrison High once stood. She's made schools the focus of her art, she said, because they're "sites of social transformation," where young people have, time and again, fought for a more equitable world.
Nicole Marroquin, "GET THEM OUT" (2020) (image by Nicole Marroquin)
When COVID-19 first hit the US, artist collectives around the country were preoccupied with raising emergency funds to help cover canceled exhibitions, rent, and other expenses for members of their own community. Since the murder of George Floyd, independent artmakers have also emerged as facilitators and fundraisers for the continuing abolition movement. In California, muralists with Trust Your Struggle collective furnished buildings in Sacramento and Oakland with portraits of Floyd and Elijah McClain — a Black massage therapist killed by Colorado police in August of 2019 — along with imagery of chains breaking and calls for reparations. In New York, artists from the Chinatown Art Brigade released informational pamphlets condemning local cultural institutions for verbally supporting the Black Lives Matter movement while covertly backing the construction of a new 40-story jail.
For Chicago-based artists, a coronavirus outbreak at Cook County Jail in April became a catalyzing moment. More than 900 inmates were infected, and seven died. The situation became more dire in June, when the Chicago police arrested more than 2,000 protesters in one weekend. The past couple of weeks have also brought heightened tension with the deployment of federal troops from the Department of Homeland Security.
Marroquin, whose house is just a few blocks away from the Cook County facility, said that she couldn't just stand by when "folks around me are stuck in a giant corona petri dish." As a new member of the Just Seeds artists' cooperative, she began making posters and prints to raise money for groups such as the Chicago Community Bond Fund, Voices of Youth in Chicago Education, and Minnesota's Black Visions Collective. So far, she's amassed more than $5,000 in sales and donations.
"This moment has been a jumpstart to my organizing," said Marroquin, who also teaches art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. "It's helped me figure out what I need to do as an artist to make a world that can better support my family."
Danbee Kim, "Nickolas Lee" (2020) (image by For The People Artist Collective)
For Brian Herrera, a queer, Latino illustrator, art has been one of the few safe avenues to contribute to the abolition movement, given that the possibility of arrest have made protesting extremely dangerous. Earlier this month, he partnered with Illegal Drip, a fashion brand run by undocumented immigrants, to design a t-shirt featuring a panther encircled by the slogan, "Until We Are All Free." The first bundle sold out in days, raising several thousand dollars for Brave Space Alliance, a Black- and trans-led LGBTQ center on the South Side.
"The work I do requires me to represent my community, and it's been taking a toll emotionally and mentally," said Herrera, who's also a member of the Define American Undocumented Art Fellows program, which supports immigrant artists and trains them to collaborate with community organizations. "But it's been reassuring to see that people are listening and paying attention. All that labor feels worth it."
For some artists, the road to abolishing police and prisons starts with humanizing the Black and Brown lives lost behind bars. In May, For The People Artists Collective, a group of eight queer, trans, gender non-conforming, and cis illustrators of color, worked with the Chicago Community Bond Fund to create a virtual quilt project that memorializes the seven Cook County inmates who died of COVID-19. Each quilt square features the name or an intimate portrait of each individual, captured in a moment of sorrow, contemplation, or peace.
"As artists we know the way that mainstream media dehumanizes people who are lost within state walls," said co-founder Monica Trinidad, a queer, Latina artist. "The only time you see them is either through mugshots or arrest reports." This project, she continued, was an attempt to help people recognize that an innate is also "someone's brother, father, or son."
Monica Trinidad, "Jefferey Pendleton" (2020) (image by For The People Artist Collective)
Working on the project was an emotional experience for some artists who have had interactions with people in the criminal justice system. Naimah Thomas, who memorialized detainee Karl Battiste, interned at Cook County Jail several years ago, where her brother was incarcerated after a confrontation that was incited by his mental illness.
"With COVID right now, I think people sometimes just hear numbers," said Thomas, who's also an art therapist. "For me, it's important to use art to remember, to use a delicate pattern to show that this person who died really mattered."
Darien Wendell, "William Sobczyk" (2020) (image by For The People Artist Collective)
Earlier this month, La Colombe Coffee Roasters reached out to Thomas and asked her to decorate a mug-and-roast bundle package with artwork she created in 2016, with a portion of proceeds going to the ACLU. The illustration shows the backsides of three young Black girls, against a cluttered, grey background filled with the words, "I Matter." Though she's happy to broaden the impact of her work, Thomas said she's often wary of the idea of monetizing activism.
"Sometimes there's a rush to say we support Black lives and people of color, but the question is, 'How are you showing up?'" she asked, adding that it's not enough to donate to art collectives and community organizations simply as a means to an end. "What else can we do after funds have been disbursed? How can we be intersectional, and intentional, in the work we do?"
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DS/PSP Gap Widens In Weekly Japanese Hardware Sales
The Nintendo DS hardware sales lead over Sony's PSP has grown in this week's Japanese charts, and the Xbox 360 has now recovered from stock problems resulting from the recent launch of Halo 3 - full stats inside.
David Jenkins
Market research firm Media Create has revealed data for weekly hardware sales in Japan for the week ending October 14th, following details of the software top thirty. After three weeks as the best-selling console in Japan, thanks to the launch of the PSP Slim and Lite and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, the sales gap between the PSP and Nintendo DS has begun to increase, after Nintendo's portable regained the top spot last week by a slim margin. However, the gap has largely been a result of falling PSP sales, rather than Nintendo DS gains, with the dual screen portable actually seeing sales fall by nearly 9,000 units to 78,746. The PSP drop was more precipitous, down by over 27,000 units to 59,584. Wii sales have also continued to fall, as has been the trend for over a month now, although this week saw a slip of only a few hundred units to a total of 20,575. PlayStation 3 sales rose by almost 1,500 units to 12,365. Despite Lair's less favorable critical reception in North America, the console's gains appear to be largely due to the success of that title at number seven in the software charts – the only other PlayStation 3 game in the top fifty this week being The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion at number thirty-five. PlayStation 2 sales fell by a few hundred to 10,181 units, while sales of Xbox 360 rose by over 4,500 units to a yearly high of 6,161. This figure is almost 1,000 units higher than during the release of Halo 3 (which re-enters the software charts at number forty-eight) two weeks ago, with the sudden drop last week apparently a result of low stock. The Game Boy Advance SP and Micro sold a combined 187 units, while the GameCube sold 79 units.


Exmoor ponies at sunrise, one of the oldest and most primitive horse breeds in Europe, Keent Nature Reserve, The Netherlands, September.
Livestock - Mixed breeds of beef cattle resting on a green pasture / Alberta, Canada.
Free range hens in Wales.
Small bush frog, Raorchestes dubois Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. Breeds during monsoons and froglets hatch from eggs.
Cattle breeds Bos primigenius f. Taurus, Bovidae, Mammalia. In captivity.
Exmoor pony at sunrise, one of the oldest and most primitive horse breeds in Europe, Keent Nature Reserve, The Netherlands, September.
Livestock - Mixed breeds of beef steers on native rangelands in the Canadian Rockies / Alberta, Canada.
Various breeds of sheep at a farming awareness demonstration at the Bakewell Show, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, U.K.
The New Forest pony is one of the recognised mountain and moorland or native pony breeds of the British Isles.
Livestock - Bunched up herd of mixed breeds of beef steers on the edge of a pasture / Alberta, Canada.
A variety of chicken breeds in a run.
Looking up at the historic Bunker Hill Monument, located on Breeds Hill Charlestown Massachusetts. USA.
Livestock - Mixed breeds of young beef cows grazing and resting on a green pasture / Alberta, Canada.


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Theatre Review: 'Disaster!' at Cockpit-In-Court
Posted By: Timoth David Copneyon: June 17, 2019
Shane Lowery and Carly J. Amato – Photo Credit: Trent Haines-Hopper
"Disaster, the Musical!" is anything but in its current incarnation at Cockpit-In-Court. Whatever the opposite of disaster is by definition, this is it. Cockpit has kicked off their 2019 Summer Season with a flat-out, unqualified, laugh-till-you're-sick good time.
Seth Rudesky and Jack Plotnick wrote the book, with most of the hitmakers of the 70s supplying the lyrics and music. Intended as a send-up of the disaster genre of movies popularized in the 70s, the surprisingly well-crafted plot opens in 1979, at the launch of a floating disco casino on the Hudson River.
Go, see, hear, laugh and enjoy every rollicking mishap!
With a mix of stock characters from the typical disaster movies of the day, the writers managed to include a good representation of most of the standards. You have the Shelly Winters character and husband (right out of 'Poseidon Adventure'), the pair of waiters (one cute, one nerdy), the lounge singer with kids, the earnest young female reporter hot on the trail of the corrupt developer, the down on her luck disco diva, the bookish professor and – straight out of 'Airport!,' the guitar-strumming nun. In addition to 'Airport!' and 'Poseidon,' other disaster entries include, rats ('Ben'), earthquakes, floods and fires ('Towering Inferno.')
Woven through the disaster action is a veritable songbook of the seventies, with way too many songs to mention. Some of the plotlines are so tortured in order to accommodate the music that it was literally groan-inducing but in a good way. Anyone old enough to recognize the songs or the hokey plot devices was having way too good a time to worry much about anything like believability.
Todd Pearthree has been a fixture on the Baltimore musical theatre scene for years and has a well-deserved reputation for delivering quality entertainment. In addition to directing with his trademark professionalism, he choreographs this one with a salute to the disco moves that complemented the music perfectly. Michael DeVito does his usual yeoman's job as Music Director, leading the talented cast and superb orchestra with finesse. The minimalist set with some clever special effects is designed by Michael Rasinski which is nicely lit by Thomas Gardner. Period worthy costumes were created by Wil Crother and watching them actually get dirtier and more authentic looking with each scene was great fun.
The large ensemble sings and dances together extremely like seasoned pros. The well-choreographed dance numbers are quirky and fun and performed with a level of energy that never lets up, especially in the big numbers like the opening Hot Stuff and the act one closer, Knock on Wood. The entire cast is outstanding and there is nary a weak link in the lineup. Which makes it really hard to review because I want to single out every song, every joke, every cheesy tongue in cheek sight gag.
Of particular note, though, let's go with John Andrew, playing Scott, the nerdy waiter, Brian Jacobs as Professor Ted Scheider, and Jeff Burch as Maury. Great job, guys. Special mention and shout out to Liam Hamilton as Ben AND Lisa cause he's adorable, and Liz Boyer Hunnicutt as Shirley because she's a friggin' force of nature and she does a tap number that saves the cute couple. Nancy Parrish Asendorf as Jackie has some fine moments, particularly when she sings Mockingbird and even when she sings (for no apparent reason) Muskrat Love. Don't ask – just enjoy her fine voice. Darren McDonnell is delightfully sleazy as the shady developer Tony and I wish he had been able to sing more of Don't Cry Out Loud but probably just as well because we might have forgotten that he was basically a slimeball.
Area audiences will remember Rikki Howie Lacewell as Delores Van Cartier in a previous season's "Sister Act" on this same stage. Her take on Levora Verona as a broke but not broken former disco star is rather similar and that is a wonderful thing because she nails that character. With a voice that rivals any of the stars of the 70s or today, Rikki knows how to deliver, and from her power-puff afro to her platform shoes, she is right-on, sister!
Shane Lowry and Carly J. Amato are the two love interests. Both are easy on the eye and even easier on the ear. Shane shines brightest when singing Without You and is a fine dancer. Carly is pitch-perfect when she sings I Am Woman, and they are both terrific together when crooning Baby Hold On to Me. These two stars are destined to play leading man and lady for some time to come and I look forward to every outing.
But I have to give best in show to Lisa Pastella for her portrayal as Sister Mary Downey. Her physical characterization reminded me of the Saturday Night Live character Mary Catherine, only way funnier. With her dead-pan delivery and some of the funniest lines in a hilarious script, she steals the night with her rendition of Never Can Say Goodbye. Sung to a one-armed bandit slot machine, she wriggles and writhes, tiptoes and slithers all over and around it while belting out the vocals so expertly that I was quivering with laughter and joy.
For those of my generation who remember when these were top 40 hits and first-run movies playing in the theatres on sultry summer nights, revisiting those times via this hysterical riff on the period was so much fun that it is a perfect antidote to whatever ills may have been visited upon you. Go, see, hear, laugh and enjoy every rollicking mishap!
Running Time: Approximately 2 hours with one intermission.
"Disaster!" runs through June 30th, 2019 on the CCBC Essex Campus at 7201 Rossville Blvd, Rosedale, MD 21237. Call 443.840.2787 or online.
Arts Review: Columbia Festival of the Arts 'LakeFest'
Timoth David Copney
Timoth David Copney has decades of experience in theatre. A classically trained dancer, he is a veteran of several Equity tours, a Canadian television series, and has worked on more than 40 productions in the Baltimore area as a dancer, director, choreographer, singer, and actor. He is the former theatre columnist for Baltimore Gay Life Magazine and the former Vice President of the Baltimore Theatre Alliance, and was the Artistic Director of Liberty Showcase Theatre. He currently is a member of the board of directors of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.


If you're expecting to launch a job search, or are already in the middle of one, you may be facing a lot of competition.
This two-part series will give you ideas to make yourself memorable during both stages of the hiring process -- on paper and in person. Here, Part I talks about crafting a standout resume, while Part II will address the interview process.
1) Keywords – How well do words and phrases on your resume match up with those in the job description? With competition from all sides, it's especially important to echo the employer's wording. To be sure, compare the skills and qualifications you have in your resume with the requirements listed in two or three descriptions of jobs for which you're well qualified. Look at the descriptions closely and determine which words and phrases show up most often, then work those words and phrases into your resume. The more keyword matches you have in your resume, the more likely it will get past the electronic scanning programs, recruiters, or HR people standing between it and the hiring manager.
2) Your Professional or Career Summary – Your summary is the resume's opening statement, and can determine whether the hiring manager will read on. Again using employers' keywords, summarize your skills and background in 50 words or less. You may even want to consider using a headline to grab someone's attention. Try something like: Sales Manager with 12-Year Record of Developing Profit-Generating Teams or Award-Winning Multimedia Designer.
3) Your Experience – When detailing your work experience, the typical job seeker's mistake is merely listing the duties from your most recent roles. Your accomplishments will carry more weight than your duties. Examine how you made a difference for your previous employers and how that might apply to your target employer. Write down anything that saved your employer money or time, or added revenue. For example, a hiring manager for a bank that recently acquired another bank would probably be looking for something like this: Directed integration of technology assets from newly acquired bank, coming in 20% under budget and 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
Presenting yourself memorably on paper can get you through the first stage of a successful job search: being called for an interview. In Part II, Michael Neece will discuss what makes a candidate memorable during the in-person interview process.


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The Exquisite Art of Wood-carving
By Pyi Phone Myint
It can safely be stated that a country's culture is her worth, the life of her people and quintessence of her nationals life. Our country possesses her own culture. Our Burmese culture is the life of her songs and its own national character has been inherited, nurtured and developed from days of old through the ages. A glance at the history of Burma will show that the Burmese culture has passed through various chapters of our history such as the earliest Pyu and Pagan eras up to the Yatanabon dynasty and present age.
It is a law of nature that as old orders wither and perish , new orders are born and take the old's place. IN accordance with this law of nature, the Burmese people have accepted and built the present-day culture on the basis of old heritages. The processes through which one of the main aspects of our culture, namely the Burmese wood-carving, which has passed and reached the present standard bears ample testimony to this assertion. The Burmese wood-carving flourished as long ago as the Pyu era. The level of wood-carving excellence reached during the Pyu era can be judged from the floral designs discovered on the great brass bells of the Pyu times found in the archaeological excavations of the Pyu capital Sare-khittaya. The floral designs of early Pagan age possess a serene and serious character while in later Pagan period they underwent a distinct change into something more active and energetic. This style was preserved in the following first Ave period and early Nyaung-yan era. New floral designs in wood-carving could be noticed in the later Nyaung-yan and early Konboung ages. Amara-pura era saw emergence of flowers, single and in clumps, while Yatana-bon times shifted the emphasis to leaves and twigs in wooden figures. The present-day floral design in wood-carving may be taken as an improvement open the style of Konbaung Yatana-bon times.
The main tool of the Burmese wood-carver is the chisel, made of iron with a wooden handle and a hammer-like wooden beater. The sizes of the chisel number as much as fifty and the shapes of the iron edge are also different such as straight, curved and concave. The complete art of wood-carving is divided into our principal phases. They are drawing , cutting out hollow parts, carving floral designs and putting final finishing touches to the work of art and these four stages are performed by artisans with varying degrees of proficiency. The present-day lessons in wood-carving still use the terms and names which were extant during the Yatana-bon era. For instance, a three-forked leave is called 'Thonsa-ywet', a five-forked leave ' Ngasa-ywet' and 'thon-ywet' for leaves with more than five forks or prongs. Those designs which are the products of modern day innovations are termed 'Ywet-sann'. Apart from these techniques invented by craftsmen of old to denote various aspects of wood-carving are still in use by their modern followers.
The wood-carving of floral designs, called 'Kanote-pan' in Burmese is only one of the four features of traditional wood-carving art and the remaining there are Nari, Kapi and Gaza. The Kanote-pan carving covers all parts of a floral design such as petals, flowers, bulbs, leaves, stems, stalks etc. The Burmese literature is rich in compositions relating to Kanote-pan. Here are some excerpts:-
Our forefathers had left posterity their traditional cultural heritage in floral wood-carving on the religious and social edifices. The second feature of Burmese wood-carving namely 'Nari' depicts figures of the Buddha, human beings, sprits and such beings. this feature of wood-carving is most evident on the well-known Mandalay Palace and Salin Monastery and Shwekyaungdaw Monasteries of Mandalay. Another center of great renown for wood-carving not only for the Burmese but also for foreigners is Pakokku, where traditional arts of Shwegu and Thi-ho-shin temples have been attracting art connoisseurs. There famous carving were executed on panels of 'yamanay' wood, about six feet in lengths . The carvings illustrate the well-known episodes of Lord Buddha's life and stories of his previous existences. It is noteworthy that there pictorial stories were shown entirely on wood with floral backgrounds and without the help of either masonry or iron-work.
Another feature of Burmese wood-carving called Kapi is related to beasts, birds, ogres and spirits in animated and nimble actions. These wood-carvings of massive and enormous figures in somber postures are called Gaza form of carving. The Burmese art of wood-carving is therefore a well-established and firmly based culture brought down to the present stage through eras of traditional heritage. This fact finds expression in literary works of many generations such as the followings:-
The traditional wood-carving called 'Pan-pu' art forms one of the ten branches of Burmese art, idealistically termed 'Ten flowers' because the word 'Pan' in Burmese is 'Flower'. There 'Ten Flowers' which figure prominently in adorning religious and public structures, are (1) Pan-pae ( iron-smith) , (2) Pan-tain (fold or silver smith), (3) Pan-tin (brass-ware making), (4) Pan-tawt (floral design with cement), (5) Pan-yan (masonry), (6) Pan-pu (wood-carving), (7) Pan-tamawt (stone-carving), (8) Pan-put (craft of wood turners lathe), (9) Pan-chi (painting) and (10) Panyun (lacquer-ware work).
The Burmese people have exhibited their cultural excellence through generations by utilizing the above-mentioned 'Ten Flowers' on glorious religious structures and imposing social edifices. These forms of art have borne witness to the irrefutable fact that we have possessed our own tradition of nationals culture.
We can assume that there remain in various parts of our country many works of wood-carving unknown to us. Let us continue our endeavours to strengthen the foundation and widen the knowledge of this cultural legacy, the art of Pan-pu left to us by our forefathers.


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The federal response to Hurricane Katrina came in for withering criticism in the Senate, as lawmakers from both parties blasted the Dept. of Homeland Security and its Federal Emergency Management Agency unit for being unprepared for the massive storm and failing to act quickly or effectively after it hit the Gulf Coast.
Chertoff concedes "many lapses" in DHS response.
Appearing before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Feb. 15, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff conceded that there were "many lapses that occurred" in his department's efforts to deal with Katrina late last summer. He said he takes responsibility for DHS's actions and also said he is responsible for making needed improvements.
The criticism of DHS and FEMA was blunt and bipartisan. Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) termed the federal preparation and response to the storms an utter failure. "The federal department that was supposed to lead, direct and coordinate the federal response to Katrina was, time and again, late, uncertain and ineffective," said Collins, whose panel has held 20 hearings on the hurricane.
Collins calls federal actions "late, uncertain and ineffective"
After Katrina hit land, "the department far too often appeared to be frozen with indecision and nearly paralyzed by ineffective communications," Collins said.
The committee's top Democrat, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, was just as harsh, contending there was "a jarring lack of preparation" for the storm and comparing federal agencies to the "Keystone Cops."
Chertoff, a former U.S. attorney and federal judge, who was sworn in as DHS secretary exactly one year earlier, called the hurricane "one of the most difficult and traumatic experiences of my life." He also noted that Katrina's damage was "unprecedented" in its scope, affecting about 90,000 square miles.
In his prepared testimony, Chertoff reiterated several steps announced two days earlier to make improvements at DHS and FEMA in logistics, communications, debris removal and handling claims.
Later the same day, across Capitol Hill, a special House committee released a scathing report on hurricane response, widening the criticism beyond the federal response to include actions of state and local governments, individuals, and the private sector.
The panel's chairman, Rep. Thomas Davis (R-Va.), said, "One-size-fits-all plans proved impervious to clear warnings of extraordinary peril. Category 5 needs elicited a Category 1 response."
Davis also said, "The failure of local, state and federal governments to respond more effectively to Katrina demonstrates that whatever emergency response improvements have been made after 9/11, we are still not fully prepared."
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Q: How exactly do you do transactions in SQLite? I'm trying to figure out how to do transactions in SQLite, but I've hit a wall. Let's say I want to transfer $50 from one person's account to another. Take a look at the following code. It's heavily commented.
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS accounts;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS accounts (
    name       VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    balance    INTEGER         NULL -- Money is going to be stored in cents
);

INSERT INTO accounts (name, balance) VALUES
("John Doe",  10050), -- This means 100 dollars and 50 cents
                      -- because 100 dollars and 50 cents is
                      -- 100 * 100 cents + 50 cents = 10050 cents
("Bob Smith", 20000); -- 200 dollars

DROP VIEW IF EXISTS view_accounts;
CREATE VIEW view_accounts AS
    SELECT rowid,
           name,
           printf("$%.2f", balance / 100.0) AS balance
    FROM accounts;

SELECT * FROM view_accounts;
-- rowid       name        balance
-- ----------  ----------  ----------
-- 1           John Doe    $100.50
-- 2           Bob Smith   $200.00

BEGIN TRANSACTION;

-- Subtract $50 from John Doe's balance
UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance - 5000 WHERE rowid = 1;
-- And add $50 to Bob Smith's balance, but let's now intentionally
-- create something erroneous here. Let's say there's been a mistake
-- and we got the wrong rowid (maybe we received an id that does not
-- exist in our table from a host language such as PHP, but really it
-- could be anything from power-down to inadvertent reboot. I'm using
-- this particular example because it's easy to emulate an exceptional
-- situation). Instead of rowid 2, we mistakenly used a rowid of 3
-- which does not exist in our table.
UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance + 5000 WHERE rowid = 3;

-- Here's where I get stuck. What exactly should my next steps be?
-- What statements should I use here? Obviously I should roll all the
-- changes made so far back with the ROLLBACK command if something
-- exceptional happens, but I can't know that beforehand because the
-- value for rowid is received from external sources. On the other hand,
-- I can't use COMMIT either because what if in fact something
-- exceptional did happen? I somehow need to detect that something bad
-- has happened and conditionally either roll all the changes back or, if
-- everything is okay, commit them.

A: You can't do this in SQLite alone since SQLite does not have any flow control statements.
What you're looking for is similar to this pseudo-code:
IF rows-affected = 0 THEN ROLLBACK TRANSACTION

Replace ROLLBACK TRANSACTION with whatever type of error response you would like.
Since there is no IF statement or similar in SQLite syntax, you can't do it without the help of the code / programming language / runtime that uses SQLite.
In other words, the programming language that ends up calling into SQLite needs to look at the number of rows affected as reported by the SQLite engine, and deal with the zero.
Please note that the fact that you want to rollback a transaction is part of the response to the error, but this problem is not related to transactions as such. Basically your question is about flow control.

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The Mustang tells the story of Roman Coleman (Matthias Schoenaerts – Red Sparrow), a violent convict, who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs.
However, I'm not wildly sold on this as it just seems to degenerate into a sickly-sweet family drama.
The film is shot in a rarely-used 1.66:1 aspect ratio, according to the IMDB, although that's not reflected in the trailer where it's 1.85:1.
The Mustang is selected for Robert Redford's Sundance film festival in 2019, but it's released in the US on March 15th 2019, although as of yet, there's no UK date.
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Q: Use both ahref and onclick on php to hIde parameters? I have a php function which gets data from database and calls a javasript function like this:
echo "
$header
";

The problem is when someone hovers over the link, the browser shows the complete parameters like this:(on bottom left of the browser, or a new tab)
javascript: customm('some secret code here');

Is there a way to hide this? I tried adding onclick to the php function and pointing ahref to #.
echo "
$header
";

But it didnot work.
Thanks in advance!

A: It's not working because you need to escape the quotes:
echo "
$header
";

A: This code worked:
echo "
$header
";

Thanks KaeruCT and Blender!


Last month I wrote an article commenting that Vince Vaughn's career has sunk fairly low after making movies like Fred Claus, Four Christmases, and Couples Retreat, despite what looked like his best effort. The upside was that he had signed on to make a movie with Oscar winner Ron Howard for a dark comedy about a man who finds out that his best friend's wife is cheating on him. It sounded like an interesting premise and a solid way to get his career back to Old School and Wedding Crashers-level success. Too bad Paul Blart had to ruin it.
Deadine Hollywood is reporting that Kevin James has joined the untitled Vaughn-Howard team up, based on a script by Allan Loeb. James will play Vaughn's friend with the unchaste paramour. Visions of psychological torture and contemplation have officially been replaced with fat jokes. Fantastic.
When the first story came out, it was sold as walking "a fine line of being comedy and drama" and that it would engage "the dark areas of relationships," but can you really see James playing a role in that type of movie? To be clearer, the man has a movie coming out this fall in which he plays an overweight zookeeper who talks to animals so that he can learn how to pick up girls. Vince Vaughn, I am sorry. Better luck next time.


"Diets don't fail – people do." This old adage couldn't be more true. We have become very accustomed to having everything at our finger tips and having everything right away. However, when it comes to creating a healthier lifestyle, it takes time to figure out your individual needs and determine what will work best for YOU in the long run.
There is an abundance of misleading information on the internet. People want a quick fix so they will believe pretty much anything they read as long as it comes from a person who looks the part. Unfortunately, those people may not be a credible source. There is no quick fix. It took you many years to form these unhealthy habits…and in some cases it's been an entire lifetime. Therefore, it's important to understand that it will likely take time to develop long-lasting healthy habits.
The word diet itself tends to have negative connotations but it shouldn't. People often equate the word "diet" with starvation or deprivation when, in fact, that couldn't be further from the truth. The word diet refers to what you eat daily. This consists of your macronutrients (protein, carbs, fats) as well as micronutrients (vitamins & minerals). The quickest way to fail is to eliminate things you love. You will end up eating those things again at some point…only instead of a normal portion it will be a binge-fest. Don't deprive yourself! Figure out ways to create healthier alternatives of your favorite foods. This will allow you to still eat the things you love…without realizing that it's good for you!
You can go through a series of tests to determine what nutrients your body lacks and go from there or you can just start off simple. The average person wants to just lose a few pounds and/or get healthier…maybe feel better or more confident. Make small changes. This can be as simple as switching from white rice to brown. Start incorporating complex carbs over simple and aim to have a higher protein count above all. Meal prep to avoid the common excuse "I had no time" – we all have time for what we want. If you want to be healthier or lose weight, make the time even if it's when the kids go to bed or during a nightly program. It could even mean preparing a little extra during your nightly dinner preparation. Little steps will equal big success in the long run and will help create healthy habits that last a lifetime.
Take some time to determine your motivation for this diet. Once you figure that out, you will see how easy it is to stick to it! That motivation will help keep you going if a slip-up happens or if you find yourself becoming discouraged. Surround yourself with supportive people. Having a genuine system around you will not only keep you accountable but help you reach your goals. The whole process can seem very intimidating but if you make it work for YOU and understand that NO diet is perfect just like no person is, things will seem a lot less scary.


FORT FAIRFIELD – The Fort Fairfield Review has been the newspaper of this central Aroostook County potato community for more than a century, but the paper reports that its Jan. 7 edition likely will be its last.
The paper's owner couldn't be reached Tuesday, but its editor, Kim Millard, wrote in a column in Tuesday's edition: "If something doesn't happen, there may be only one more edition of the paper after this week.
"It doesn't seem possible that the Review will simply be no more," Millard wrote.
For 86 of its 112-year history, the Review was owned by the Harvey family. Tom Harvey, now an English teacher in South Paris, was the last Harvey editor. He sold the paper to David Henley of Woodstock, New Brunswick.
Messages left at David Henley's home were not returned.
Henley owned newspapers in New Brunswick that were sold to the J.D. Irving newspaper group last year. He still owns the Review and the Katahdin Times in Maine.
"I had not heard, for God's sake," Tom Harvey said by telephone Tuesday afternoon. "My father and grandfather would spin in their graves.
"I'm kind of speechless," he said. "This is more than sad, more than shocking. It's partly because of family heritage, I guess, but I can't see a town without its newspaper.
Millard's column in Tuesday's Review said some were "holding out hope someone will buy the paper in the next week." Millard could not be reached, and nobody answered the phones at the newspaper's offices.
The Harvey family bought the newspaper in 1902 when it was known as the Northern Leader. The name was changed to the Review and published by Chandler Harvey until his death in 1940.
Kingdon Harvey, his son and Tom Harvey's father, was editor from 1940 until Tom became publisher in 1979, then sold it to Henley in 1988. The paper's circulation, about 2,400, covers parts of Limestone, Easton, Presque Isle and Fort Fairfield.
Marcia Langley, Tom Harvey's sister and a daughter of Kingdon Harvey, heard about the closing Tuesday morning.
"I didn't even know, but it's a very sad thing," she said.
Kathryn J. Olmstead, publisher of Aroostook County's Echoes magazine and a journalism professor at the University of Maine, called the demise of the newspaper "the end of an era.
"I knew King Harvey and he had built a reputation," she said Tuesday. "It really did have a role to play in that community. I hate to see any small town in Maine lose its newspaper," she said.
"It was probably a struggle to keep it going, but it is an important component of the community," Olmstead said.
Town Manager Dan Foster heard of the closing Tuesday.
He said the weekly provided the town, and many of its former residents, via mail subscriptions, news of the community's minutiae.
"I'm devastated and I'm grieved," she said.


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Q: Pre populate formArray on edit page - Angular4 i have an angular4 form which is built using form builder. The code is as follows.
initializeFromControls() {
    let obj = {
      firstname: new FormControl('', ),
      lastname: new FormControl('', ),
      email: new FormControl('',
              [Validators.required,
              Validators.pattern("^[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$")]),
      status: new FormControl('', ),
      role_id: new FormControl(''),
      account_ids: this.formBuilder.array([])
    }
    this.userFrm = this.formBuilder.group(obj);
  }

Now i have another field named account_ids which is an array. The account ids are fetched from the getAccounts api call.
ngOnInit() {
    this.initializeFromControls();
    this.getAccounts();
  }

Selected Account ids are send to backend using the following code.
onChange(account_id:string, isChecked: boolean) {
    const accountIdArray = <FormArray>this.userFrm.controls.account_ids;

    if(isChecked) {
      accountIdArray.push(new FormControl(account_id));
    } else {
      let index = accountIdArray.controls.findIndex(x => x.value == account_id)
      accountIdArray.removeAt(index);
    }

    console.log(this.userFrm.getRawValue());
  }

Now I need to pre-populate account ids (formArray) on edit page.
The template is as follows.
<div *ngFor="let account of accounts">
              <input type="checkbox" (change)="onChange(account.id, $event.target.checked)">{{account.id}}  {{account.acc_name}}<br>
            </div>

Any idea on how to achieve this?

A: Your initialization is fine.
Here how I did in my case where on the edit page I had to prepopulate FormArray:
items: FormArray;

//response from server
response['data'].map((item, index) => {

    const tmpDict = {};
    tmpDict['firstname'] = new FormControl(item.firstname);
    tmpDict['lastname'] = new FormControl(item.lastname);
    tmpDict['email'] = new FormControl(item.email);

   this.items = this.userFrm.get('items') as FormArray;
   this.items.push(new FormGroup(tmpDict));
})


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Julie Fantová-Kusá (provdaná Kusá, poté Fantová, rozená Kominíková, 17. dubna 1858 Sedlečko u Votic – 18. května 1908 Praha) byla česká spolková činovnice, mecenáška, sufražetka a feministka, spoluzakladatelka ženských spolků Vesna v Brně a Ústřední spolek českých žen v Praze, a rovněž v letech 1881 až 1891 starostka Vesny. Spolupracovala s předními osobnostmi českého ženského emancipačního hnutí, jako například Eliška Machová, Teréza Nováková, Věnceslava Lužická či Eliška Krásnohorská. Jejím prvním manželem byl advokát novinář a politik Wolfgang Kusý, druhým pak secesní architekt Josef Fanta.

Život

Mládí
Narodila se v obci Sedlečko u Votic (později součást městyse Neustupov) do rodiny statkáře Josefa Kominíka a jeho ženy Josefy, rozené Zavadilové, ze Sudoměřic. Její sestrou byla Pavlína Kominíková, později provdaná jako Klenková z Vlastimilu do Brna. Získala dobré vzdělání. Provdala se roku 1880 za brněnského advokáta Wolfganga Kusého. Manželé žili v Brně a založili rodinu. Ovdověla roku 1886.

Vesna
V Brně se spolu se sestrou začala zapojovat do české spolkové činnosti v silně německy osídleném Brně. Stála u zrodu prvního moravského ženského pěveckého souboru a později i vzdělávacího spolku Vesna, založeného roku 1870. O jeho vznik zasloužili Leopoldina (Lvislava) Rudišová, Miroslava Helceletová, Amálie Teplá, Ing. Antonín Peka či skladatel a sbormistr JUDr. Josef Illner. Už v roce 1872 se jeho poslání zobecnilo a z pěveckého spolku vznikla ženská vzdělávací jednota, jejíž cílem bylo šířit vzdělanost mezi brněnskými ženami, a to výhradně prostřednictvím českého jazyka. Roku 1881 se stala starostkou poté, co odstoupila Anna Veronika Mikšíčková. Spolek modernizovala dle vzoru pražského Amerického klubu dam, sama jej ze svých prostředků spolufinancovala. Spolupracovala mj. s Eliškou Machovou. Roku byla s jejím přičiněním roku 1891 postavena nová vlastní budova školy Vesny v Údolní ulici. Z funkce odešla roku 1891, kdy ji nahradila Adéla Koudelová.

Podruhé se provdala za architekta Josefa Fantu.

Ústřední spolek českých žen
Posléze se přesunula do Prahy, kde nadále působila v ženském hnutím. Roku 1897 se podílela spolu se svou sestrou Pavlínou Klenkovou z Vlastimilu, Karolínou Světlou, Terézou Novákovou či Věnceslavou Lužickou na vzniku tzv. Ústředního spolku českých žen. Vznikl s ambicí sjednotit české ženské a feministické spolky v Rakousku-Uhersku pod jednu organizaci. Stal se tak prvním ústředním ženským orgánem českých žen a následně se pak zabýval hájením jejich zájmů na rovnoprávnost, včetně rovných společenských příležitostí, dostupnějšího vzdělání či volebního práva. Na I. sjezdu českoslovanských žen ve dnech 15. až 17. května 1897 na Staroměstské radnici, kterého se zúčastnila přibližně tisícovka delegátek z Čech. Jeho starostkou byla zvolena Pavlína Klenková .

Byla po celý život štědrou mecenáškou a podporovatelkou ženských či charitativních aktivit.

Julie a Josef měli tři děti: dcery Marii a Evu a syna Josefa, který zemřel na italské frontě během první světové války. Dcera Maria se stala známou novinářkou a překladatelkou, psala pod pseudonymem Ma-Fa, měla dlouhodobý romantický vztah s českým politikem Janem Masarykem.

Úmrtí
Julie Fantová-Kusá zemřela 18. května 1908 v Praze ve věku 50 let. Pohřbena byla v rodinné hrobce na Olšanských hřbitovech.

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Q: How to use native javascript write jquery $.getJSON function? A demo i only want to use jquery $.getJSON function,but now i must import jquery, so i want to use native javascript write jquery $.getJSON function.
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As our home football season ended on November 17, I would like to use this week's column to express my appreciation to all of our support staff for creating such a great game day atmosphere at Clemson.
Everyone from concession workers to the Pawvision operators does an excellent job in making Clemson a special place for seven home football Saturdays.
I want to especially thank our spirit groups, which include the cheerleaders, the Rally Cats and Tiger Band. Under the supervision of Dr, Mark Spede, Tiger Band does more than its part to bring enthusiasm to Death Valley.
And, of course, our fans have been very supportive. Their support has been instrumental in our having an exciting football season in Death Valley.
On another note, architectural plans for the next component of the WestZone facility are being finalized. Soon, construction bids will be accepted on the project, which will include the football operations in the WestZone.
Construction may begin as early as March or April of next year.
These new facilities will have an impact throughout the Athletic Department as the Jervey and McFadden buildings are reconfigured to meet the needs of our other sports programs at Clemson.
Please know we appreciate your support of Clemson athletics.


HONG KONG and NEW YORK (March 23, 2015) – A global discussion of retail and retail technology trends and research now has a home: the Fung Business Intelligence Centre Global Retail and Technology's standalone website, now launched at www.FBICGroup.com. The site houses all of FBIC's publications, reports and independent research.
"The goal is to launch a collaborative community that can conduct a worldwide conversation on the latest retail and retail technology trends," says Deborah Weinswig, Executive Director-Head of Global Retail & Technology.
Fung Group, FBIC's parent. The site, which will be updated daily, is in English, with a Chinese version to be launched in the near future.
"We strongly believe that knowledge is power and must be shared, so we have made our reports, data and analysis easy to find," Weinswig says.
consultancy services to colleagues and business partners of the Fung Group on issues related to doing business in China, ranging from market entry and company structure, to tax, licensing and other regulatory matters.


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Kleopatra VII. Philopator (Κλεοπάτρα θεά φιλοπάτωρ, prosinac, 70. pr. Kr. ili siječanj, 69. pr. Kr. – 12. kolovoza?, 30. pr. Kr.) bila je posljednja kraljica drevnog Egipta iz dinastije Ptolemejevića, makedonskog podrijetla. Njenom smrću izumrla je kraljevska loza, a Egipat je pretvoren u rimsku provinciju.

Životopis

Godine 48. pr. Kr. je, koristeći svoje zavodničke i diplomatske sposobnosti, uspjela Gaja Julija Cezara privući na svoju stranu u dinastičkom sukobu i tako sebi osigurati vlast nad Egiptom. Cezaru je poslije rodila sina Cezariona. Nakon Cezarove smrti je zavela Cezarovog generala i pristašu Marka Antonija, kojemu će roditi djecu i na čijoj strani će se boriti u ratu protiv Oktavijana. Nakon bitke kod Akcija 31. godine pr. Kr. pobjednički Oktavijan je okupirao Egipat i učinio ga rimskom provincijom. Kleopatra je počinila samoubojstvo i s njom je za nekoliko stoljeća nestalo samostalne egipatske države. Uz nju se vezuju mnoge afere i teorije zavjera. Imala je sestru Arsinoe, s kojom se nije slagala. Čak se nagađa da je Kleopatra naredila Marku Antoniju da je ubije.
Usprkos tome smatra se najpoznatijom i najljepšom vladaricom u egipatskoj povijesti. Inspirirala je mnoge pjesme, drame, slike, knjige, filmove, kazališne predstave i TV serije. Elizabeth Taylor je sigurno najpoznatija filmska Kleopatra. Naslovni je lik stripa iz 1963. Asterix i Kleopatra.

Vanjske poveznice

Ptolemejevići
Kraljice drevnog Egipta
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Professor ratings reveal bias
A USA Today article shows that, regardless of the progress women have made in the last 50 years, gender bias still exists today.
"A history professor at Northeastern University has created a new interactive graph that reveals various truths about how college students view female professors more negatively compared to their male counterparts," Avery Powell, from George Mason University, reported. In the article, certain buzzwords, such as, "fun," "incompetent" and "mean" are shown on separate graphs, indicating a trend that shows a gender bias toward female professors.
They pulled this data from Rate My Professors, a website where students can rate their professors on a variety of categories such as overall quality, helpfulness, clarity, easiness, the interest level they had prior to attending class and even "hotness," where professors are judged in terms of physical attractiveness.
"Hot professors get a red chili pepper," a Rate My Professors ratings category sheet reported. Each of the other categories has the same rubric: A score of one is bad, while a score of five is good.
In terms of helpfulness, a score of five is "very helpful," while a score of one indicates a professor is "useless," according to the ratings category sheet.
Lynda Ames, professor of sociology at Plattsburgh State, said there are "lots of data" that tell why this gender bias exists today.
"All of us are born, and we are raised in a particular culture," Ames said. "We learn to be human beings in particular ways."
She said these biases are social, not genetic — although there are genetic differences between men and women.
"From the very beginning, even today, we treat little boys and little girls differently," she said. "We expect different things."
She said parents, friends, family and the media people consume affect how they regard women differently than men.
"In every genre of movies — action movies, romantic comedies and so forth — men and women are portrayed as different creatures," Ames said. "We started at the very beginning, and we continue to enforce it and say that men and women are different creatures, when the behavioral differences don't have to be that large."
Ames said that although Americans have more ground to cover in gender equality, she notes there have been large gains in the right direction.
"We have a woman running for president," she said. "That wouldn't have happened when I was a kid. Our society is changing, but we have not changed."
Lateef Wearrien, a senior and TV/video production major, said he thinks part of the reason the gender gap exists is because men "probably feel threatened" of educated women.
"It's unfortunate," he said.
Wearrien said people are societally taught to categorize the way people should act by gender.
"I don't think people come out born that way," he said. "I think we are taught these roles from the media, our parents, the education system (and) history."
He said change is necessary, but people have to be challenged by women and taught to respect women "for their intellect and not for their bodies."
"With this gender bias, it's also looking at women of color too, because that's going to be significantly different," he said. "It's unfortunate because when you look at higher education, it's supposed to be very open-minded…but no system is perfect, and every system has its flaws."
Wearrien said opinions regarding gender roles should be more evolved than they are today.
"Just because we make policies saying women are equal, well, let's really look at it," he said, adding that women on average make less per a man's dollar.
A video by CNN Money reported that, on average, it takes women 469 days to earn what men would earn in a year.
"In 2013, female full-time workers made only 78 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 22 percent," the Institute for Women's Policy Research reported.
Tess Acierno, a sophomore journalism major, said the issue of gender equality can be solved by parents educating their children about it as soon as possible.
"I feel like your views are already set in stone by the time you're our age," Acierno said.
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The 103rd Regiment of Foot (Volunteer Hunters) was a British Army regiment formed at Bury St Edmunds in October 1760. It took part, alongside the Royal Marines, in the Capture of Belle Île in April 1761 during the Seven Years' War. It was then disbanded in England in 1763.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Oswald was its colonel from 1761 to 1763.

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Viene definito blasone, in letteratura, un piccolo componimento in versi che consiste nel descrivere, in modo dettagliato, le caratteristiche e le qualità di un oggetto o, più frequentemente, una parte del corpo femminile, atta a omaggiare le qualità del soggetto trattate.

L'iniziatore di questa pratica è Clément Marot, che nel 1534 fa recapitare presso la corte di Ferrara, alla duchessa Renata di Francia, il primo blasone, intitolato Du Beau Tétin, omaggio ai seni della ricevente.

Prendendo spunto dal blasone, gli artisti dell'epoca rinascimentale creano il controblasone, sempre una composizione in versi, ma nel quale gli autori si prendono gioco delle bruttezze del corpo.

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Well, what do you think about that? Looks like there's some circling the wagons going on.
Fox News reports a federal judge ruled Friday that memos written by former FBI Director James Comey, detailing his "conversations" with President Donald Trump, will not be made public.
Releasing the Comey memos would "likely interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into the 2016 presidential race," U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote.
Comey was fired last May in the midst of an FBI investigation into the extent to which Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential race.


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'The Belle of Amherst' Will Make You Re-Read Emily Dickinson
by Ariella Carmell
Slow Art and Chicago's Handcrafted Poetry
In the 130 years since Emily Dickinson's death, a certain perception of her has been crystallized in the literary consciousness — that of a strange, secluded cat lady; a willful virgin; an unorthodox and opaque aphorist.
I vividly remember the boys in my high school poetry class deeming her "too weird" for their taste, a taste that included appreciation for Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk. Something about her, rightfully or not, reminds one of creaky floorboards and unopened chests.
But what's surprising about Dickinson is her purposeful eccentricity. "The white dress, the seclusion — it's all deliberate," she says with a glint in her eye in The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman play about the poet, currently being staged at the Court Theatre in Chicago's Hyde Park.
William Luce wrote the play in 1976, originally for the actress Julie Harris, though in this incarnation Kate Fry is the one playing Dickinson, with a true vivacity for life. In a single set evoking a quaint bedroom, she speaks to the audience with eyes widening as she recollects especially exquisite (now there's a word you can lift your hat to, as she often says) events from the course of her memory.
To be fair to her public image, Dickinson really didn't have an especially exciting life: with a hardy spirit, she did generally stay indoors, baking cakes and writing poems late into the night. But to have her voice tell us, every morsel of enchantment could be wrung out from a single act.
She was a poet in the true sense of the word, in that poems could not help but spill from her. "I've never had to go anywhere to find my paradise," she states, and you can't help but believe her, and crave such a fruitful solitude. Dickinson was a rare soul truly content to be alone, and not forced into it by some spinsterhood. In fact, as she notes with a smirk, she had her fair share of suitors — many of them married.
Dickinson often skirts back in time to show us her young self, and Fry emotes these moments in dialogue with an imaginary other. She shifts her posture and tone to portray a younger Emily — one whose poems were rejected by the Atlantic for being too bizarre, one who was head-over-heels in love with a married man, one grieving for a dead father.
Kate Fry as Emily Dickinson, Court Theatre.
The range of times and moods Fry encompasses is impressive: she looks back on her younger self with the tone of an older woman who has come to terms with her ails and her plainness, relishing in her amusing anecdotes. For, as she muses, "It's easier to look behind at a pain than to see it coming."
I cannot help but compare The Belle of Amherst to another fictionalization of Dickinson's life that was released earlier this year, Terence Davies's film A Quiet Passion. I saw nothing of the vibrant Emily in that depiction — only a stern, righteous figure. There was joy, certainly, but it was nothing like this chatty girl in a woman's body.
Whereas that film made me less inclined to read more of Dickinson's poetry, The Belle of Amherst has inspired me to crack open a copy of her collected poems and relish in her off-kilter brilliance, for I see now that her poetry was not a reprieve for loneliness, but an instinctual outpour of her spilling soul. This is the play's great accomplishment.
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Andreaea brevipes är en bladmossart som beskrevs av Richard Spruce 1861. Andreaea brevipes ingår i släktet sotmossor, och familjen Andreaeaceae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: What's the best chat client? I've recently switched to Ubuntu from windows, and I'm looking for alternatives for GTalk and windows Live messenger.
So which chat client do you use most?

A: Pidgin will allow you to use almost any instant messaging protocol, which includes but not limits to GTalk and Windows Live Messenger. However, you may miss some WLM and/or GTalk functions/abilities.
Good luck!

A: Empathy is pretty good as the default IM of Ubuntu 10.10 and their is always pidgin
sudo apt-get install pidgin


Christiana Campbell was a successful tavern owner in 18th Century Williamsburg, Virginia. The business, which continues to bear her name, still welcomes guests and feeds them well, in the same historic location. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were guests and patrons when Williamsburg was still the capitol of Virginia. Many recipes for the food served there today are the same ones, using the same local ingredients, that were served in 1750. Here's one for the holidays, long on tradition and great taste—and still a favorite at Christiana Campbell's Tavern.
Cream butter, sugar and sweet potatoes until smooth. Add eggs and beat well. Sift flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Add alternately with milk to butter mixture, mixing after each addition. Do not over mix. Add chopped fruit and nuts. To well-greased, or paper-lined muffin tins, filled about 2/3rds—regular size or mini-muffins. Top with dry cinnamon/sugar mixture. Bake at 400' for 15-20 minutes until done. Muffins freeze well.


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DAA is very saddened to learn of the death of our long-standing trustee, John Chillag.
He joined DAA from the outset, representing Inclusion International in which he had been very active. I had first met John in the late 1980s at a UN meeting to discuss the rights and inclusion of disabled people. We met on various occasions around the globe where his gentle but firm manner ensured that things went the right way. He took absolutely no notice of the usual personal politics that are so often the sub text to these events - always focussing on what was rightful.
It was only in 1995 that he was able to reveal that he was a Holocaust Survivor - his story is truly horrible. He was the only member of his 30 strong family to survive and ended up in Buchenwald weighing only 25 kilos. In his last months he would tell me that he was ill because of the cabbage soup that had been injected into him there, in attempts to keep him alive.
To most people he is remembered as a Holocaust Survivor. To all of us in the Disability Rights Movement John is remembered with great affection as a constructive, committed co-fighter in the struggle for disability rights. We will miss him sorely.


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Oncolytics Biotech, Inc. (TSE:ONC.TO) Seasonal Chart
ONC.TO Relative to the S&P 500
ONC.TO Relative to the Sector
Analysis of the Oncolytics Biotech, Inc. (TSE:ONC.TO) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of December 16 and a Sell Date of March 13 has resulted in a geometric average return of 13.58% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 16 of those periods. This is a very good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 32.23% per year.
The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Healthcare sector, which runs from April 25 to December 4. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Healthcare Sector Seasonal Chart.
Oncolytics Biotech Inc is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company. The company is focused on the discovery and development of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of cancers that have not been treated with therapeutics. Its clinical development plan has the approval of its products as quickly as possible and expands its products into commercially valuable new treatment areas as objectives. The company's product pipeline includes Bavencio, Keytruda, Retifanlimab, and Tecentriq.
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