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CYBERSPACE SIGHTING: Judgment Marketplace announces national launch
Oakland County Legal News
In the heart of New York City on 7th Avenue on March 3, Shawn Porat and Joseph Nierman announced the launch of their website judgmentmarketplace.com. Judgment Marketplace will provide the first free and secure platform for virtually any person or company to buy/sell/trade civil judgments. The site will cater to individuals who may have one judgment and corporations selling portfolios of thousands of judgments.
"Judgment Marketplace was created to revolutionize the post-judgment world. Over 80% of all judgments in the United States are unsatisfied and most people and businesses do not have additional options to use and simply forget the judgment existed under a stack of paper. At no cost, judgment holders, judgment buyers, investors and more will be able to utilize Judgment Marketplace and everything it has to offer. We are excited that we have also introduced the term judgment trade into the industry" said Porat.
"In today's tough economic environment, everybody is looking to squeeze as much as they can from their assets. Many, if not most judgment creditors grow frustrated with the fact that they have an asset that can be difficult to turn into cash. Judgmentmarketplace.com provides an arena for judgment creditors to take something from their judgment. We present a forum where people can buy the rights to execute a judgment as an investment. Alternatively, they have the option of trading their judgments for other judgments which may be easier for you to collect." added Nierman.
"Thousands of people throughout the United States search everyday for a place to sell their judgment and are unsuccessful. We are happy to finally put that to an end and provide the solution."
Published: Wed, Mar 30, 2011
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Catharina van Hongarije (circa 1256 - na 1314) was een Hongaarse prinses uit de Árpáden-dynastie en van 1276 tot 1282 koningin-gemalin van Servië.

Levensloop
Catharina was de tweede dochter van koning Stefanus V van Hongarije uit diens huwelijk met Elisabeth van Koemanië.

Onder het bewind van haar grootvader Béla IV en haar vader Stefanus V werd Hongarije aan zijn zuidelijke grens bedreigd door Servië. Om de dreiging die van hen uitkwam weg te nemen, wilde men via een dynastiek huwelijk Servië met Hongarije verbinden. Het resultaat was een huwelijk tussen Catharina en Stefan Dragutin (1252-1316), die in 1276 zijn vader Stefan Uroš I opvolgde als koning van Servië.

Stefan Dragutin werd in 1282 wegens zijn pro-Hongaarse politiek afgezet door de Servische adel. Vervolgens kreeg hij van zijn schoonbroer Ladislaus IV verschillende landerijen in Syrmië toegewezen, die bekend stonden onder de naam Koninkrijk Srem. De kinderen die hij en Catharina hadden waren tevens erfgenamen van de Hongaarse troon, omdat Ladislaus IV in 1290 kinderloos was gestorven. De troon werd echter overgenomen door zijn verre neef Andreas III. Zijn aanspraken werden door verschillende Europese monarchen in vraag gesteld, omdat ze de kinderen van Catharina en Stefan Dragotin als wettige erfgenamen beschouwden. Desondanks bleef Andreas III tot aan zijn dood in 1301 op de troon. Ook nadien konden Catharina's kinderen hun aanspraken op de Hongaarse troon niet doen gelden.

Catharina van Hongarije overleed vermoedelijk rond het jaar 1314.

Nakomelingen
Catharina en haar echtgenoot Stefan Dragutin kregen drie kinderen:
 Elisabeth (1270-1331), huwde in 1284 met ban Stefan I van Bosnië
 Stefan Vladislav II (1280-1326), koning van Srem
 Urošica (1285-1316), monnik

Arpaden
Persoon in de 13e eeuw
Persoon in de 14e eeuw

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The Tech Crew of the TGRC builds the sets, hangs the lights, plays the music and sound effects, provides the costumes and props, and sets the stage. We're the people behind the curtain.
We're always looking for people to help - before, during, and after the performances. We meet at The Warehouse most Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., to build the sets and some of the props. On occasion, we'll get EVERYBODY together for a set painting blitz. One week before opening is generally Load-In, when all the set pieces, lights, and props are put into place in the theatre. This is an "all hands on deck" event and marks the transition from the Warehouse to the Theatre. The work is rewarding and fun. No special skills or creativity are required, just an interest in working with your hands.
Want to work backstage during a production? Contact the Director of Technical Theatre, at production@tgrc-nc.com.


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Topics for the night will included best practices to protect from skimming and card cloning and fraud trends in the Pella Community. Mike Burke, Robbery & Crisis Mgmt. Consultant with Shazam, and Robert Bokinsky, Pella Chief of Police, will be the speakers for the night. Buffet dinner at 5:30pm with program to follow at Central College Graham Conference Center. Please RSVP by April 8 to 641-628-1566 or sdejong@leightonbank.com. No cost to attend but RSVP is required as space is limited.


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Q: How to update attributes of a shapefile using list values? I am using an update cursor to update the attributes of a shapefile using values from a list. It seems very easy, but I couldn't make it run correctly. When I run the following code, it updates all rows based on the final value in the list. Please suggest how to fix it.
cur1 = arcpy.UpdateCursor(fc)
for v in cur1:
    for s in list:
        val = s
        v.Val = val
        cur1.updateRow(v)

A: This looks like a simple logic error.  I'm assuming that you want the first feature in the cursor to be updated with the first item in the list, then the second feature with the second item, etc.  As written, you're updating the same row over and over again with each element of the list.  (Then repeating the process for each row.)
Maybe your loop should look something like this instead:
listIndex = 0
cur1 = arcpy.UpdateCursor(fc)
for c in cur1:
    if listIndex >= len(list):
        arcpy.AddMessage("More rows than items in the list.  Quitting early.")
        break
    val = list[listIndex]
    v.Val = val
    cur1.updateRow(v)
    listIndex = listIndex + 1

EDIT: Corrected logic error (needed to check array length before accessing it, not after).  Also fixed missing : on if statement.
EDIT: Following the suggestion in Paul's comment is more "Pythonic" and reduces the lines of code:
cur1 = arcpy.UpdateCursor(fc)
for tuple in enumerate(cur1):
    index = tuple[0]
    row = tuple[1]
    if index >= len(list):
        arcpy.AddMessage("More rows than items in the list.  Quitting early.")
        break
    row.Val = list[index]
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Posted on August 28, 2019 by Kelly Bulkeley
To prepare for a new study of dreams during the 2020 U.S. Presidential election campaign, I am doing a brief review of my previous work in this area, to remind myself of what I have learned so far and what seems most important to investigate next.
I have been studying dreams and politics since 1992, and I've published several articles and a book documenting my findings up to now. Although I'm not the only scholar looking into these issues, I think it's fair to say no one else has devoted more research effort towards illuminating the connections between people's sleep and dream patterns and their political views in waking life. Perhaps everything I have found so far is wrong and misguided; hopefully I have at least clarified some of the right kinds of questions that should be addressed.
Guided by almost thirty years of experience, these are some of the questions I will be asking in 2020:
In what specific ways are political beliefs, concerns, and issues reflected in dreams?
How do people relate to politicians as characters in their dreams?
Do liberals and conservatives sleep and dream differently from each other?
Can dreams help people think more clearly and creatively about politics?
Do dreams have special relevance for political progress on environmental issues?
I have several projects in the works aiming at gathering new data to help answer these questions. Many of these projects are collaborations with other researchers, which will hopefully expand the scope of the studies and open up new perspectives on this relatively unexplored area of dreaming experience. More on these projects soon….
Below is a list of my previous publications on this topic, with brief descriptions of the contents and findings.
Attitudes Towards Dreaming: Effects of Socio-Demographic and Religious Variables in an American Sample. (Co-authored with Michael Schredl.) International Journal of Dream Research 12 (1): 75-81.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/54314
Using data from a survey of 5,255 American adults, we looked at correlations between people's attitudes towards dreaming and numerous demographic variables. We found an especially intriguing link between positive attitudes towards dreaming and high levels of concern about global climate change, one of the most prominent political issues in the world today. People who report little or no concern about climate change also tend to have negative attitudes towards dreaming.
Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition (Stanford University Press, 2018)
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27061
Lucrecia's story is the most dramatic and well-documented case in history regarding the intersection of dreaming, politics, and prophecy. She was a young, illiterate woman in 16th century Spain whose prophetic dreams accurately foresaw a national catastrophe, and yet King Philip II ordered the Inquisition to arrest her on charges of heresy and treason. A vivid cautionary tale about what can happen when dreamers speak truth to power.
Three blog posts about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the 2016 election
https://kellybulkeley.org/199-dreams-donald-trump/
https://kellybulkeley.org/dreams-of-hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump/
https://kellybulkeley.org/dreams-of-the-2016-u-s-presidential-election/
These are reports on dreams I was gathering and analyzing during the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign. Included are some dream reports grouped around thematic categories: friendliness with a candidate, anticipations, political disagreements, opposition to Trump, openness to Trump, and work & place. The study of 199 dreams specifically about Donald Trump involved a statistical analysis of the word usage in the dreams, and a comparison of the results with other kinds of dreams. Here is my conclusion: "To summarize these findings, it seems that when Trump appears as a character in people's dreams, he does not disrupt the whole process; people continue dreaming more or less the way they typically do. But he does have a tangible and measurable impact on certain aspects of those dreams. A dream about Donald Trump typically involves fewer women and more talking, touching, and references to money and work. Men seem to become pacified around Trump in their dreams, while women seem to become more instinctually primed."
A March 2016 blog post about "The Sleep Deprivation Hypothesis"
https://kellybulkeley.org/donald-trump-the-sleep-deprivation-hypothesis/
A response to media discussions about the then-candidate's admitted lack of sleep, with psychological speculations about his public behavior in light of empirical research about the effects of chronic sleep deprivation.
Dream Recall and Political Ideology: Results of a Demographic Survey. Dreaming 22(1): 1-9.
Using data from a survey of 2,992 American adults, the study found a significant difference between political liberals and conservatives on questions of dream recall. People on the political left consistently reported higher recall on all types of dreams than people on the political right.
2008 Election Dreams: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain
https://kellybulkeley.org/2008-election-dreams-clinton-obama-mccain/
A collection of blog posts about dreams gathered by Sheli Heti and posted on her metaphysicalpoll.com website. The Obam dreams in particular are notable for their unusually mystical qualities.
2008 Dreams Shed Light on Obama's Values. San Francisco Chronicle (August 17)
https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Dreams-shed-light-on-Obama-s-values-3272948.php
Reflections on the two fascinating dreams then-candidate Barack Obama described in his memoir Dreams From My Father, with psychological speculations about the future potentials of his Presidency.
American Dreamers: What Dreams Tell Us about the Political Psychology of Conservatives, Liberals, and Everyone Else (Beacon Press, 2008)
https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/04/unravelling-mea.html
This is a book-length study of dreams and politics in American society during 2006-2007. A group of ten people from various parts of the country, six of them political conservatives and four liberals, kept a year-long journal of their dreams, which they discussed with me in relation to their political views and the dire situation of the country at that time (Iraq and Afghanistan wars, housing crisis, impending recession). The book offers a summary of the research I had done on this topic so far.
Sleep and Dream Patterns of Political Liberals and Conservatives. Dreaming 16(3): 223-235.
Using data from a collection of detailed surveys from 234 American adults (134 liberals, 100 conservatives), several patterns emerged in relation to their sleep and dream behaviors. Here is what I found: "Conservatives slept somewhat more soundly, with fewer remembered dreams. Liberals were more restless in their sleep and had a more active and varied dream life. In contrast to a previous study, liberals reported a somewhat greater proportion of bad dreams and nightmares. Consistent with earlier research, the dreams of conservatives were more mundane, whereas the dreams of liberals were more bizarre."
Dreaming in Christianity and Islam: Culture, Conflict, and Creativity (co-edited with Kate Adams and Patricia M. Davis) (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/dreaming-in-christianity-and-islam/9780813546100
This is an edited book, written in the shadows of 9/11, as an effort to find common ground across religious and national differences. We started the project in the early 2000's, and it took a long time to pull all the different chapters together. Patricia wrote a brilliant chapter on a significant auditory dream of Martin Luther King, Jr., his "vision in the kitchen" of 1956.
Dreaming of War in Iraq: A Preliminary Report. Sleep and Hypnosis 6(1): 19-28.
http://www.sleepandhypnosis.org/ing/Pdf/d2b0fb2ad2c247cab33ccd64a45d737f.pdf
A study of dreams related to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which began on March, 19, 2003. The dreams I gathered came from various sources, and I grouped them into several thematic categories: personal symbols, op-ed commentaries, political transformations, empathetic identifications, and fearful anticipations.
The Impact of September 11 on Dreaming. (Co-authored with Tracey L. Kahan.) Consciousness and Cognition 17:1248-1256.
During the fall quarter of 2001, Prof. Tracey Kahan was teaching a class at Santa Clara University on sleep and dreaming, and she had asked the students to keep a dream journal during the quarter. After the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 in New York City, Tracey and I engaged in a study of the students' journals. We found that the 9/11 attack appeared in several people's dreams, both directly and indirectly. We also found that on all the basic measures of people's cognitive functioning during their dreams, there was no difference between the dreams that did or did not have 9/11-related content. In other words, the terrorist attack impacted what people dreamed about, but not the way they dreamed.
Dream Content and Political Ideology. Dreaming 12(2): 61-78.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1015398822122
I called this a "pilot study," involving 56 people, divided into four equal groups: liberal males and liberal females, conservative males and conservative females. I had a most recent dream from each person, and a content analysis of the dreams suggested an intriguing difference regarding political ideology: "people on the political right had more nightmares, more dreams in which they lacked personal power, and a greater frequency of "lifelike" dreams; people on the political left had fewer nightmares, more dreams in which they had personal power, and a greater frequency of good fortunes and bizarre elements in their dreams. These findings have plausible correlations to certain features of the political ideologies of people on the left and the right, and merit future investigation in larger-scale studies."
It's All Just a Bad Dream. San Francisco Chronicle (December 6): A27.
https://m.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/It-s-All-Just-a-Bad-Dream-2723578.php
An Op-Ed article I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle about people's dreams during the agonizing wait to determine who would be the winner of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, Al Gore or George W. Bush. Most of the dream reports I gathered were nightmares from liberals: "Aliens taking over the Earth and turning all humans into slaves; terrorists attacking the country with biological weapons; the dreamer falling into the ocean and being chased by a hungry shark or losing control of a car and driving off a cliff — these are some of the distressing images that are filling Democratic imaginations."
Among All These Dreamers: Essays on Dreaming and Modern Society (Editor) (State University of New York Press, 1996)
https://www.sunypress.edu/p-2346-among-all-these-dreamers.aspx
This book gathers the best researchers I could find on the theme of dreams and social justice. Included are chapters on dreams in relation to education, sexual abuse, ecology, crime, race, gender, religion, and cross-cultural conflict. In chapter 10 I present a report on my first direct research project devoted to dreams and politics: "Political Dreaming: Dreams of the 1992 Presidential Election." The chapter describes several dreams about the 1992 candidates (Ross Perot, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton), the debates, the media coverage, voting, and all the fears, hopes, and disappointments surrounding the election. The goal of this project was to prove Calvin Hall wrong in his claim that dreams "have little or nothing to say about current events in the world of affairs" (The Meaning of Dreams, 1966).
Visions of the Night: Dreams, Religion, and Psychology (State University of New York Press, 1999)
https://www.sunypress.edu/p-3023-visions-of-the-night.aspx
The final chapter of this book is titled "Dreaming in Russia, August 1991," an essay originally published in the Stanford University alumni magazine. It recounts my waking and dreaming experiences at a conference of dream researchers in Moscow, right in the midst of the failed military coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, which precipitated the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Quest for Transformational Experience: Dreams and Environmental Ethics. Environmental Ethics 13(2): 151-163.
One of the first articles I ever published, this also appears as chapter 5 in Visions of the Night. In response to environmental philosophers who point to Western dualistic thinking as a primary source of our society's mistreatment of nature, I suggest that dreaming is a psychologically innate and highly effective means of stimulating the transformation of dualist thought and the opening of new conscious awareness towards the environment.
Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society: A Reading of Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams. Dreaming 4(2): 115-126.
https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1994-43941-001
This was based on a paper I wrote for a graduate seminar at the University of Chicago Divinity School, perhaps in 1988 or 1989. The course was taught by Peter Homans, and it focused on the neo-psychoanalytic theories of D.W. Winnicott and Heinz Kohut. I had been reading The Third Reich of Dreams on my own, and for the final paper of the class I used Winnicott's ideas about play, transitional space, and the True vs. False Self, to analyze and reflect upon the dreams gathered in Beradt's book. Here was my core Winnicottian claim: "Dreams are one of the ways that humans, from childhood to adulthood, develop the relationship between their inner psychic reality and external social reality. Beradt suggests that dream studies can be a potent means of studying troubled societies, and of helping those societies overcome their problems."
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'Sex and the City' stars, minus one, to appear in new show
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Three of the four stars of the popular HBO series "Sex and the City" will reunite for a new show that picks up with the same characters roughly two decades older, the network said on Sunday.
The new ten episode, half-hour series, will air on HBO Max and star Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis in the roles they made famous during the late 1990s and early 2000s, according to the network.
The show will be titled "And Just Like That" and begin production in late spring, HBO said.
"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humor and the beloved city that has always defined them," Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement announcing the new series.
The network did not say why Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones on "Sex and the City," was not cast in the new production.
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J Invest Dermatol. 2019 May;139(5):1045-1053. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.11.019. Epub 2018 Dec 5.
Cochrane Reviews and Dermatological Trials Outcome Concordance: Why Core Outcome Sets Could Make Trial Results More Usable.
Schmitt J1, Lange T2, Kottner J3, Prinsen CAC4, Weberschock T5, Hahnel E3, Apfelbacher C6, Brandstetter S6, Dreher A7, Stevens G2, Burden-Teh E8, Rogers N8, Spuls P9, Grainge MJ10, Williams HC8, Jacobi L2; Cochrane Skin Core Outcome Set Initiative.
Center for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Medical Facults Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden Germany. Electronic address: Jochen.Schmitt@uniklinikum-dresden.de.
Center for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Medical Facults Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden Germany.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Working Group Evidence-Based Medicine Frankfurt, Institute for General Practice, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Working Group Evidence-Based Medicine Frankfurt, Institute for General Practice, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Centre for Evidence-Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Department of Dermatology, Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health, Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Evidence-based health care requires that relevant outcomes for patients are included in clinical trials investigating treatment effects, allowing subsequent systematic reviews to summarize all relevant evidence to guide clinical practice. Currently, no gold standard of outcome choice for dermatology trials and reviews exists. We systematically assessed concordance between efficacy outcomes in a random sample of 10 Cochrane Skin systematic reviews and the 220 dermatology trials included. Reviews did not include 742 (68%) of the 1,086 trial outcomes. Of the 60 outcomes the reviews sought, 17 (28%) were not reported in any trial, while 12 were assessed in <50% of trials. For 11 of 23 (48%) primary review outcomes, meta-analysis was impossible, because trial outcomes were absent or unclear. This small overlap of review/trial outcomes could suggest that trials are not measuring the outcomes perceived to be the most important by patients, clinicians, systematic reviewers, and trialists. The lack of standardized outcome measures, poor reporting of outcomes in trials, and low concordance of outcomes between reviews and primary studies could be improved by the development and implementation of Core Outcome Sets. These are an agreed-upon minimum set of key outcomes, for specified conditions, to be reported in all trials.


Kostas Murkudis challenges the way fashion is perceived, created and curated, through a celebration of freethinking this Summer.
Since the establishment of the ready-to-wear fashion industry in early 20th century America, and its subsequent influence in ateliers across Europe, designers have not only taken inspiration from the world around them but also from the visual arts in an effort to satisfy the constant cycle of collections and fashion shows to which the new industrialisation of fashion subjected them. From Elsa Schiaparelli's collaborations with Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau in the 1930s, through Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dresses, Pucci's Louis Féraud prints and the Warhol-inspired paper dresses of the 1960s and on to the enduring presence of the pre-Raphaelites in the collections of Roksanda Ilincic today, the cross-pollination of the two worlds is manifest. The collaboration and crossover between art and fashion is a much discussed topic; however in recent decades this has reached fever pitch: with more designers citing contemporary art as their reference point in creating collections, while many artists are moving into the world of high fashion. Fine art photographers are shooting for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar while, in turn, fashion photographers such as Rankin, Miles Aldridge and Tim Walker are staging exhibitions in galleries and receiving editorial in art publications.
This July, the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, celebrates the artistic outlook of German designer Kostas Murkudis (b. 1959), in an exhibition that rejects traditional methods of showing fashion in museums in an attempt to bring visitors closer to Murkudis's creative process. Curator Peter Gorschlüter acknowledges that while "there have been artists who have already conceived fashion as some sort of art [and] there has been a longstanding dialogue between the two disciplines", he has increasingly noticed fashion designers themselves, from Dries Van Noten to Karl Lagerfeld, referencing this intersection between two worlds.
The liberation of Murkudis's practice stems from his decision in 2009 to stop producing ready-to-wear collections and instead move towards an approach where each piece is individual and new. Rather than focusing on the practicalities of production and distribution, Murkudis designs clothes as original, one-off pieces instead of a response to the market. Although the exhibition is a contemporary show rather than a retrospective, the timing is ripe to explore his work because, "after five years of almost 'artistic production', an outstanding body of work has been created, which demonstrates continuous development and has a direct similarity to today's practitioners across the creative sector." Though garments from as early as the 1990s are presented as a counterpoint to Murkudis's current practice, the exhibition highlights his progress and his contemporary output.
The impetus for the show derived from the 2010 Not In Fashion exhibition at the museum that showed Murkudis's fashion and photography from the 1990s and which also considered "something within the art and fashion scene that was not so much about a catwalk but more about street-style, finding new unconventional ways of looking at fashion and gathering inspiration from the underground." With the growth of more edgy magazines such as The Face and i-D, as well as the rise of fashion photographers like Jürgen Teller and Wolfgang Tillmans in the art world, Gorschlüter describes it as being "a very particular time in both the fashion and the visual art industries." Not In Fashion surveyed the moment in which Murkudis's career was taking off – he established his label in 1994 – through a collaboration with artist and musician Carsten Nicolai. It was "not the usual catwalk show [but] a visual and multi-sensorial display, with the overlaying of images and patterns by Nicolai and a new collection that fused to create a distinct design concept." Murkudis was on the cusp of creating an entirely new approach to the fashion cycle as well as directly challenging mass production in the industry. In 2009 he made the decision to retreat from the commercial cycle of ready-to-wear, with its mass-production and regular showings, and instead focus on pieces that enabled his imagination to run riot. When he later selected the museum as one of three recipients of his archive in 2013 (the others being the Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, and Kyoto Costume Institute, Japan) the relationship was firmly cemented.
Murkudis' interest in the blurred boundaries between fashion and art is shared by the Museum für Moderne Kunst and has increasingly become a part of the museum's aim to expand its programming. Founded in 1991, the museum was established, as its name suggests, with a focus on the visual arts, and previous exhibitions have shown work from Martin Boyce, Thomas Mann, Maurizio Cattelan, Isa Genzken, Sol LeWitt and Gerhard Richter. However, investigating contemporary practice of the last two decades makes it clear that the scope of what is possible in the fine art world has become much wider, which has directed the museum's programming in new and exciting ways. Murkudis's close working relationship with the museum extended to curating the show, and decisions made on the basis of collaboration between Murkudis, Gorschlüter and Nicolai. Shying away from the traditional presentation of fashion exhibitions, they made movement and performance central themes, therefore Gorschlüter does not resort to static mannequins. Indeed the exhibition's first room shows work "being performed and moving" on a large screen. The material and tactile elements of the pieces will be similarly prominent in a room that highlights "the idea of the micro and macro cosmos by getting very close to the textiles and then stepping back for an overview." There is also be light projections of minute detail from Murkudis's designs. Gorschlüter comments: "They are very intense, almost abstract pictures, but you also get a sense of the form and how material has developed." Murkudis's inspirations are further explored in both 2D and 3D planes through a gallery of moodboards. Gorschlüter says: "Looking at the process of his work – from selecting materials and testing images to using words or sentences – anything can generate an idea for a collection." There is a room with objects that are part of Murkudis's personal collection and also pieces that have inspired him from the museum's archives. Interspersed throughout the show are creations that have resulted from brand collaborations, ranging from adidas to glass baseball bats with inscriptions like "as long as it lasts", so that the narrative between inspiration and output is apparent before the viewers' eyes.
The artist's various collections will also be on display, including his 2014 4D collection in which the performance of dressing was as important as the garments themselves. Gorschlüter recounts it as a tribute to the conceptual artist Franz Erhard Walther, whose works such as First Work Set (1963-1969) presented inanimate fabric and invited participation in order to make the pieces take on a new identity. Inspired by this, Murkudis created a clothing presentation whereby "at first glance you might not realise that these are pieces to wear," because they are laid out on the floor. Then the model enters the space and selects the garments, allowing for participation and surprise.
Although two catwalk shows will be represented, it was a conscious decision to limit the idea of the fashion show. The layout also details one of Murkudis's more traditional Paris events from the 1990s which has been shot from the three angles: backstage, catwalk and audience. In addition, his contribution to Not In Fashion will be revived, which Gorschlüter describes as "abstract and experimental, in order to show two different styles of presentation." Instead of focusing exclusively on catwalk shows, the exhibition contains a variety of displays in an attempt to enable visitors to delve into Murkudis's consciousness. Some of the display also shows his object-based designs, which are free-standing in the space almost like sculptural objects. Gorschlüter is conscious of keeping the show in-line with Murkudis's aesthetic by remaining minimal and fresh.
Fashion exhibitions can so easily fall into the convention of staid rooms stuffed with bland-faced mannequins but the ones that are really successful attempt to capture the dynamism that clothing assumes when it is worn by people, when it moves and when it's played with. Presentations in institutions such as the V&A, London, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, have become increasingly dynamic and ambitious, and this show continues the intriguing dialogue about the creative ways in which clothing can not only be displayed but also curated and ultimately understood. While Murkudis is not a household name, the exhibition goes some way towards bringing his works to a wider audience.
Filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien's PLAYTIME at Victoria Miro is an ambitious new body of work exploring the dramatic and nuanced subject of capital.
Cityscapes collates artists who respond to elements of urban life in their various practices. Included in this exhibition will be David Hepher, Peter Howson, Patrick Hughes, Lucy Jones, and others.
Last week's Future Now: The Aesthetica Art Prize Symposium saw David Drake, Director, Ffotogallery and Diffusion meet with a panel of experts to discuss the photography in the digital age. We speak to Drake about shifts in the medium.


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Bonn konventionen eller Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) er en mellemstatslig traktat, som arbejder for at bevare de vildtlevende dyrearter der regelmæssigt krydser landegrænser, hvad enten det er til lands, på vandet eller i luften; Konventionen opfordrer til at indføre strenge beskyttelsesforhold for udrydningstruede dyr. Den er indgået inden for rammerne af De Forenede Nationers Miljøprogram (UNEP), og beskæftiger sig med bevarelse af dyreliv og levesteder på en global skala. Konventionen blev vedtaget i Bonn i 1979, trådte i kraft i 1983 og er i dag tiltrådt af 117 lande (2012). Danmark ratificerede konventionen i 1982. The Conference of the Parties (COP) er det besluttende organ i organisationen, og den mødes hvert tredje år. Endvidere er der et stående udvalg der følger den overordnede politik rådgiver om operationelle og finansielle spørgsmål, og Det Videnskabelige Råd (SCC) rådgiver om videnskabelige spørgsmål og prioriteringerne inden for forskning og bevarelse. Seneste COP-konference var COP-10 der blev afholdt 20. – 25. november 2011 i Bergen, Norge

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Fruit & vegetables in Canada industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016).
Fruit & vegetables in Canada industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value and volume 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Canada fruit & vegetables market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.
*The Canadian fruit & vegetables market had total revenues of $4.1bn in 2012, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.3% between 2008 and 2012.
*Market consumption volume increased with a CAGR of 0.5% between 2008-2012, to reach a total of 2.7m units in 2012.
*The performance of the market is forecast to decline, with an anticipated compound annual rate of change (CARC) of -0.9% for the five-year period 2012 - 2017, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $4.0bn by the end of 2017.
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Chances are you've got the internet at home and chances are, your devices are connected to it via a wireless router beaming interwebs all about the place.
Orange smartphone customers will be able to take advantage of Kineto Wireless' Smart Wi-Fi app, an app which basically uses Wi-Fi connections as extensions of the mobile network. So when you get home, or get into the office and your phone connects to your BT Home Hub or Netgear router, calls, texts and data are handled over the wireless connection.
This has the added advantage of being more battery efficient as well as providing a solution for those who have patchy phone reception at home or in the office.
Phones on Orange that come with Smart Wi-Fi pre-installed include the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Ace, HTC's Wildfire S, Desire S and ChaCha. LG's Optimus Me also gets the Smart Wi-Fi treatment, as does the Orange Barcelona, Monte Carlo and Stockholm.
Going forwards, ZTE's Skate (the unbranded version of the Orange Monte Carlo) will also come with Smart Wi-Fi installed, as will selected phones from Huawei's line up.


Are Your Owings Mills Appliances Ready for Game Day?
Owings Mills, Maryland is located in Baltimore County and is fortunate to be accessible via the Baltimore Metro Subway. The Owings Mills community is also served by public transportation via MTA. Residents enjoy the Irvine Nature Center which features many outdoor activities including classes for Owings Mill residents and others. More than 30,000 Owings Mills residents populate the community. The area has been listed among the "100 Best Places to Live and Launch". Many notable employers operate in Owings Mills. Maryland is full of historic sites and Owing Mills is no exception to the rich area history. The Meadows, an 18th century historic home and farm is on the National Register of Historic Places. Of local note is the Baltimore Ravens headquarters facility in Owings Mills. -Needless to say, the excitement around game days is widespread. You are going to need a working kitchen! Don't guess about appliance repair. Make an appointment with Landers Appliance.
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The Bradley Post Office is located in the state of Illinois within Kankakee County. This location serves 10,774 Bradley residents with a median income of $46,039. It's estimated that approximately 17,197 packages pass through this post office each year.


Why do hospitals resemble prisons? Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh (Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon) believes that in a secular world, hope for a long life has replaced hope for life after death. And hospitals have replaced cathedrals as the expression of this faith. But it is a false faith. Most of us now live far too long, and the appallingly poor quality of most hospital environments reflects this modern contradiction. Henry discusses the architecture and design of hospitals in today's changing world.
Juanita Feros Ruys is the director of the University of Sydney Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Medieval and Early Modern Centre and the author of Demons in the Middle Ages.


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In patients with ARDS, low tidal volume ventilation (initial TV 6ml/kg PBW) had lower mortality and more ventilator-free days.
ARDS is mediated by alveolar damage from the release of inflammatory mediators. Traditional approaches to mechanical ventilation used tidal volumes of 10-15ml/kg PBW. However, multiple animal studies and observational studies showed that these large tidal volumes and the consequential elevated plateau pressures were associated with significant barotrauma.
The 2000 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network (ARDSNet) trial — sometimes referred to as the ARMA trial — was conducted to compare a lung-protective strategy using lower tidal volumes of 6ml/kg of PBW (goal plateau pressure 25-30mmHg) with conventional mechanical ventilation using tidal volumes of 12ml/kg of PBW (goal plateau pressure 45-50 mmHg). The mean tidal volumes on days 1 to 3 were 6.2 vs. 11.8 ml/kg PBW and the mean plateau pressures were 25 vs. 33 cm H2O, respectively. The trial was stopped prematurely when the low tidal volumes arm demonstrated a significant decrease in mortality (31% vs. 40%) and more ventilator-free days (12 vs. 10 days) compared to the traditional tidal volumes arm. The absolute risk reduction of 9% correlates with a number needed to treat of 11 patients in order to prevent one death.
This trial was investigated by the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) for ethical concerns, specifically that the educational materials as part of the informed consent process were inadequate. Additionally, the use of 12 mL/kg of PBW has been criticized by some as higher than the standard of care.
Despite the trial's controversies, the benefit of low Vt ventilation has been supported by a recent Cochrane meta-analysis. The ARDSNet protocol's low tidal volume in ARDS has become the standard of care.
Comparisons are lower tidal volumes vs. traditional tidal volumes.
The trial studied more than just low Vt ventilation; a standardized PEEP protocol was used as well.
The mortality benefit may be from improved oxygen delivery to tissues rather than progression of lung disease.
The mortality benefit in the low Vt group may have been because the traditional Vt group had unnecessarily high Vt.
The traditional Vt group may not have been subjected to the best known therapy — an intermediate tidal volume (10 mL/kg of PBW) therapy was utilized at multiple centers at the time. The investigators may have, therefore, submitted the participants to unnecessary harm.
The informed consent educational materials was deemed to have "failed to describe adequately the reasonably foreseeable risks and discomforts" by the OHRP.
Supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Steinbrook R. "Health policy report: How best to ventilate? Trial design and patient safety in studies of the acute respiratory distress syndrome." The New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;348:1393-1401.
↑ Petrucci N and De Feo C. "Lung protective ventilation strategy for the acute respiratory distress syndrome." The Cochrane Library. Published online 2013-02-28. Accessed 2013-07-18.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Multiple authors. "Correspondence: Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury." The New England Journal of Medicine. 2000;343:812-814.
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Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford became the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Oct. 1, 2015. Prior to assuming the role of principal military advisor to the president, defense secretary and National Security Council, Dunford was the 36th commandant of the Marine Corps. Commissioned in 1977, Dunford served as an infantry officer at all levels, including commanding the 5th Marine Regiment during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd will assume command from U.S. Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will preside and officiate over the ceremony.


Nancy brings to her teaching over 25 years of nursing experience, including trauma and critical care, hospice, home health, rehabilitation and hospital administration. Nancy has studied numerous therapies with varied energetic healers including Janet Mentgen, Rosalyn Bruyere, Christine Page, and others. She has always been amazed by the anatomy and physiology of the human body and assisted teaching an EMT program that included human dissection. Nancy completed massage school, and through a life drawing and sculpture class gained additional understanding of the anatomical and energetic systems of the human body. Nancy maintains a private practice since 1995 and is a Healing Touch Certified Instructor for HTP levels 1-5 and on the Healing Touch Program Curriculum Review Board. She also teaches dream workshops and Healing Touch for Self-Care.
Anna Marie's experience in multiple nursing roles, (especially the Operating Room), as a massage therapist and as an energy worker, brings new learning and connections not seen in other anatomy classes. She brings the aspects of energy and anatomy together in a way that is informative and entertaining. Making the learning of how the body is put together and how it works into a fun and interesting event.
Currently, she is a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner/Instructor with training in many other modalities. She teaches Levels 1, 2 & 3 Healing Touch and Level 1 of Anatomy for Healers®. Bringing together her experience and training provides an experiential hands on workshop that will enrich you and your healing practice in amazing ways.
Jeannette delivers a lively and inspiring classroom experience filled with wisdom and humor. Her eclectic training and experience provides a unique fusion of science and energy healing—topics about which she is equally passionate. Initially, her love for sciences sent her in pursuit of an undergraduate degree in Biology that included many courses in Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry, She then taught secondary sciences for over 35 years. During this time, she raised three sons and completed her Masters .
Jeannette's journey with energy healing began over 30 years ago and her curiosity led her to continuously explore and train in many modalities. Jeannette is a Healing Touch Program Certified Practitioner /Instructor and currently employed as their Instructor Manager a role which includes supporting over 200 HTP instructors worldwide. Additionally, she has written and presented keynotes, workshops, and classes in energy medicine on a broad variety of topics . Her upcoming book "The Heart in You: A personal journey through your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual heart" reflects her enthusiasm for integrating science and energy medicine.
Walle is a registered nurse who specialized in pediatric oncology and bone marrow while studying Healing Touch in early 2000. Her passion for energy therapy together with her understanding of the body's physiological systems supported her goal to create a Healing Touch department in 2008 at Nemours/A I duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE as a certified Practitioner/Instructor. Walle currently lives in Bridgton, ME with her best four-legged friend, Rufus, serving as a pediatric holistic nurse for Central Maine HealthCare. She also facilitates "Stress Less! Joy More!" workshops for high school teens in Maine. Walle instructs HT Class Levels 1-3 and is the Chairperson for the Healing Touch Certification Governing Committee. Thrilled to co-instruct with her Teacher/Mentor Nancy Lester, they are quite the dynamic duo!


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Home page / News / Less than a month to go to the Opening Ceremony of the 10th IWAS World Junior Games 2014 at Stoke Mandeville Stadium on 3rd August
Less than a month to go to the Opening Ceremony of the 10th IWAS World Junior Games 2014 at Stoke Mandeville Stadium on 3rd August
Entries received from 350 athletes who will be accompanied by 150 team staff
The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) will host the 10th IWAS World Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville Stadium in the UK from 3 to 7 August 2014.
IWAS has now received entries from 350 athletes who will be accompanied by 150 team staff from 32 countries. Athletes will compete in seven sports: Archery, Athletics and Race Running, Powerlifting, Swimming, Table Tennis and Wheelchair Fencing. Para-Taekwondo will be included as an exhibition sport.
Athletes between the ages of 14 and 22 will be competing at the Games that will provide valuable competition for athletes on their pathway to the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The Games takes place just weeks before the IPC Athletic European Championships in Swansea, Wales.
IWAS took the decision in 2013 to once again organise the games here at Stoke Mandeville to give the world's best young athletes the opportunity to compete at an elite level at the birthplace of the Paralympic movement. *The first International Stoke Mandeville World Games was held in 1952 – ISMGF became ISMWSF became IWAS http://www.iwasf.com/iwasf/index.cfm/about-iwas111/history/
A number of London 2012 Paralympians made their international debut at the 1st IWAS World Junior Games here at Stoke Mandeville in 2005 including Marcel Hug (winner of the 2014 London Wheelchair Marathon), Aled Davis and Holly Arnold.
Following the first IWAS World Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville in 2005, the Games were held in Ireland in 2006, South Africa 2007, the USA 2008, Switzerland 2009, Czech Republic 2010, UAE 2011, Czech Republic 2012 and Puerto Rico in 2013.
Paul DePace, IWAS President said "IWAS is fortunate to be able to build on the legacy of London 2012 and the renewed interest in para-sport especially so here in Buckinghamshire – the birthplace of the Paralympic Movement."


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Salinas school district superintendent in hot water
Updated: 10:32 AM PDT Apr 18, 2013
The Alisal Union School District's board president said she is requesting a full investigation into questionable spending sprees by the school district's superintendent.Superintendent John Ramirez used an Alisal school district-issued Visa credit card for a $400 shopping stint at Macy's, movie tickets, fancy dinners, car washes, and car rentals, Board President Adella Lujan said. He also bought flowers the day before Valentine's Day.Ramirez is the only person in the Alisal Union School District who has a credit card paid for by the district. He is authorized to use it for official district business.Ramirez declined to answer any questions from reporters with KSBW and the Salinas Californian newspaper, both whom received Ramirez's Visa credit card statement from a source who requested to remain anonymous.Ramirez is the top educator in a public Salinas school district that serves about 8,000 elementary students in east Salinas.Lujan said she will make a request during Wednesday's board meeting for Ramirez's spending to be investigated. Lujan said the matter will be resolved in a transparent manner and said Ramirez did not deny using the credit card for personal expenses.Luci Clark, a union representative for the California School Employees Association, said after KSBW called Ramirez on Tuesday to ask him about the credit card, he hastily called a closed-door meeting with his employees that night. During the meeting, according to Clark, Ramirez told his staff that he works harder than anyone in the district and admitted he made personal charges on the district credit card.Ramirez also asserted that he paid the district back with personal checks, and said whoever leaked the credit card statement to the media was trying to bring down the Alisal district, according to Clark.Monterey County Office of Education Nancy Kotowski said her office will also investigate how Ramirez used the credit card.The Alisal Union School District is already at the center of another Salinas controversy.Alisal's former school board president and current trustee, Jose Castaneda, was sworn onto the Salinas City Council in December last year. Although he stepped down as president and was replaced by Lujan, he refused to let go of his position as a trustee despite an apparent conflict of interest.So Castaneda's fellow City Council members voted to pursue a lawsuit against Castaneda.Another Alisal school board trustee, Meredith Ibarra, turned her house on Towt Street into a headquarters for a new newspaper. Periodico El Californio published its first edition this week and its publisher is Meredith Ibarra's brother, Juvenal Ibarra.Juvenal Ibarra said he created the newspaper in part because he was unhappy with the mainstream media's reporting about Castaneda. He also filed a recall petition against Salinas Mayor Joe Gunter last week because Gunter has not appointed Castaneda to any committees.Like Ramirez, Castaneda has also refused to be interviewed on camera by KSBW. In February Castaneda filed a police report against KSBW Reporter Tom Miller claiming Miller blocked his path on a sidewalk. He also asked police to keep Miller from going anywhere near himself and his family. The Salinas Police Department and Monterey County District Attorney's Office concluded that Miller did not commit any crimes while attempting to interview Castaneda and get his side of the story. "Mr. Miller was simply carrying out his role as a journalist," assistant district attorney Terry Spitz said. Reported and written by KSBW's Felix Cortez and Amy Larson
SALINAS, Calif. —
The Alisal Union School District's board president said she is requesting a full investigation into questionable spending sprees by the school district's superintendent.
Superintendent John Ramirez used an Alisal school district-issued Visa credit card for a $400 shopping stint at Macy's, movie tickets, fancy dinners, car washes, and car rentals, Board President Adella Lujan said. He also bought flowers the day before Valentine's Day.
Ramirez is the only person in the Alisal Union School District who has a credit card paid for by the district. He is authorized to use it for official district business.
Ramirez declined to answer any questions from reporters with KSBW and the Salinas Californian newspaper, both whom received Ramirez's Visa credit card statement from a source who requested to remain anonymous.
Ramirez is the top educator in a public Salinas school district that serves about 8,000 elementary students in east Salinas.
Lujan said she will make a request during Wednesday's board meeting for Ramirez's spending to be investigated. Lujan said the matter will be resolved in a transparent manner and said Ramirez did not deny using the credit card for personal expenses.
Luci Clark, a union representative for the California School Employees Association, said after KSBW called Ramirez on Tuesday to ask him about the credit card, he hastily called a closed-door meeting with his employees that night. During the meeting, according to Clark, Ramirez told his staff that he works harder than anyone in the district and admitted he made personal charges on the district credit card.
Ramirez also asserted that he paid the district back with personal checks, and said whoever leaked the credit card statement to the media was trying to bring down the Alisal district, according to Clark.
Monterey County Office of Education Nancy Kotowski said her office will also investigate how Ramirez used the credit card.
The Alisal Union School District is already at the center of another Salinas controversy.
Alisal's former school board president and current trustee, Jose Castaneda, was sworn onto the Salinas City Council in December last year. Although he stepped down as president and was replaced by Lujan, he refused to let go of his position as a trustee despite an apparent conflict of interest.
So Castaneda's fellow City Council members voted to pursue a lawsuit against Castaneda.
Another Alisal school board trustee, Meredith Ibarra, turned her house on Towt Street into a headquarters for a new newspaper. Periodico El Californio published its first edition this week and its publisher is Meredith Ibarra's brother, Juvenal Ibarra.
Juvenal Ibarra said he created the newspaper in part because he was unhappy with the mainstream media's reporting about Castaneda. He also filed a recall petition against Salinas Mayor Joe Gunter last week because Gunter has not appointed Castaneda to any committees.
Like Ramirez, Castaneda has also refused to be interviewed on camera by KSBW. In February Castaneda filed a police report against KSBW Reporter Tom Miller claiming Miller blocked his path on a sidewalk. He also asked police to keep Miller from going anywhere near himself and his family.
The Salinas Police Department and Monterey County District Attorney's Office concluded that Miller did not commit any crimes while attempting to interview Castaneda and get his side of the story.
"Mr. Miller was simply carrying out his role as a journalist," assistant district attorney Terry Spitz said.
Reported and written by KSBW's Felix Cortez and Amy Larson


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The Wanted's Tom Parker Diagnosed With Inoperable Brain Tumor
October 12, 2020 9:17AM EDT
Sad news…32-year-old Tom Parker of The Wanted told Ok! Magazine he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. His wife, Kelsey, is pregnant and they shared their heartbreaking news of his terminal diagnosis.
The Wanted's Tom Parker shares heartbreak as he's diagnosed with inoperable brain tumourhttps://t.co/XwZDObwW6E
— OK! Magazine (@OK_Magazine) October 12, 2020
He was having bizarre seizures for weeks and went to doctors, finding out it was a grade four glioblastoma – and it was 'the worst case scenario'."
The Wanted star Tom Parker reveals he has terminal brain tumour https://t.co/7sveFo4nSg
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) October 12, 2020


We all want our children to grow up to be healthy, well-adjusted adults. The ability to understand their own emotions and to express them in accordance with the local culture and social norms is an important step towards becoming that. We know that young children need our help to express and manage their emotions. Yet when children grow older we sometimes expect them to 'behave' and tend to forget that learning how to manage our emotions is a life-long process, something not even all adults have mastered well.
The first step of managing emotions is to identify the emotions. Your child may be experiencing all kinds of bodily sensations without knowing where they come from or what they mean. As a parent, you will often know that the situation your child is facing would lead to an angry feeling, a happy, a sad or a scary one, or perhaps even a combination of several feelings at once (it does require a bit of perspective-taking from your end). By naming those feelings your child will learn which bodily sensation and type of situation corresponds to which emotion.
Let your child know you understand they feel this way, for example by mirroring the facial expression and using a soothing tone of voice. This validation of the emotion will help your child feel understood and gain some control over their sensations. It also tells your child that it is okay to experience (this) emotion.
Even though your child may not yet have learned how to control their emotions or how to express them appropriately, some expressions are simply harmful or unacceptable. You have to tell your child about this.
Now that your child knows it is okay to experience the emotion and that it is not okay to express those emotions in specific ways. However, your child does not know what to do instead. Therefore, it is helpful to provide an alternative.
– A verbal response: saying 'I don't like this' or 'It makes me feel angry', etc.
– A physical response: punching a boxing ball or pillow, running a distance, squeezing a stress ball, etc.
– A cognitive response: count to 10, distract yourself, etc.


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Emanuel Satie shares some of his favorite tunes
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Emanuel Satie is a Frankfurt-born, Berlin-based house and techno producer that has been steadily picking up steam with straight to dancefloor hits on DTFD, Get Physical, Saved Records and Gruuv, he was also featured in Resident Advisor's top charted tracks in 2015 making him an artist to look for this year. We asked Emanuel if he could share some of some his favorite electronic and non-electronic tracks. Here's his dope selection.
1.Burial – Archangel (Hyperdub)
To me Burial is the most gifted producer in electronic music in recent times. His anonymity and all the myths about him didn't hurt his hype, but even if you put that aside, this is just amazing and fresh music. He's balancing quite cheesy vocal elements out with raw beats and interesting atmospheres. It taught me that it's okay to use cheesy elements, as long as you have a counterpart. Burial is a true master at that.
2. Audion – Mouth to Mouth (Ghostly International)
When I went out to big raves for the first time this was one of the anthems. The crazy thing is, I still play "Mouth to Mouth" every so often and it goes off each and every time, talking about standing the test of time. There was a Remixes album just released celebrating the 10 years anniversary of 'Mouth to Mouth' and even though all they are great, nothing can steal the show to the original, even with today's production standards. Rave at it's best.
3. Damian Schwartz – Holloway (Oslo Records)
In the mid 2000's labels like Cécille and Oslo from the Frankfurt/Mannheim area in Germany brought house music back after minimal sounds dominated clubs for years and years. All of a sudden it was okay to make groovy, sexy music with vocals again. It's still one of my biggest influences to date. 'Holloway' is relying heavily on a well known diva vocal, building an enormous amount of tension but never releasing it, there's not one kick drum to be heard in the whole track. It inspired my love for diva vocals and showed me that it's possible to make hits with unusual measures. (Having said that, I still wish he'd put in a kick drum at the end.)
4. Paul Woolford – Erotic Discourse (2020 Vision)
This track is an exercise in simplicity. The same synth pattern repeated over and over with different effects on it. 'Erotic Discourse' ignited my love for strange and creative delays. Green Velvet and Dense & Pika delivered equally great remixes to it. 10 years old and still a banger.
5. Moodymann – Freeki Muthafucker (KDJ)
Moodymann is a genius obviously. The way he plays with his persona and the music that comes along with it are very unique. His vocals especially. There's a reason why his interviews get sampled over and over, a lot of times turning into hits. In 'Freeki Muthafucker' he shows his vocal game at the very best and makes it one of the most sexual house tracks of all time, period! If you don't want to get dirty after listening to this then I don't know what would.
Other Genres Selection
1.Kendrick Lamar – Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe
Hip Hop is a big influence in my musical life, but for a long time there just wasn't anything that excited me much, until Kendrick Lamar came on the scene and released his first album 'Good Kid m.a.a.d. City'. With very intelligent music from beginning to the end until perfection, the track still very catchy and it brought the genre to a new level; 'Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe' is just one of the tracks that I still listen to over and over. It's catchy hookline the way he plays with the tonality of his voice and the super laid back beat make it irresistible.
2. Frank Ocean – Novacane
Frank Ocean popped on the scene very quickly and took it by storm by releasing great soulful R&B songs. As far as I remember he's the first or even only bigger artist in the realms of Hip Hop that during all the hype came out as homosexual. Very bold in the macho world of the genre. As quick as he came on the scene, he also disappeared though. No one really knows what happened and why he stopped releasing music, but that makes the music that already exists even more valuable. I discovered 'Novacane' quite late the past winter and it has accompanied me through the dark months in Berlin. The video is genius too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMfPJT4XjAI
3. Steve Reich – 6 Marimbas
I discovered Steve Reich and the whole minimalism movement while I was loosely studying Musicology for a couple semesters. I'm always drawn to music that is boiled down to it's essentials, but makes sure these are on point. "6 Marimbas" is played by 6 marimbas, as you can imagine, everyone playing the same patterns over and over but in a slightly different timing, so the song shifts over time and always sounds a little bit different. It's a trip. It's not only interesting conceptually though, it's really good music to listen to aswell.
4. Erik Satie – Vexations
This one is where I got my name from. Yes, Satie is not my real surname. It's conceptual music and brings repetition to an extreme. The piece consists of a musical pattern that is to be repeated 840 times on the piano. A performance can take up to 24 hours, thus making it a very physical experience for the performer. It's just like a rave, repetitive music over hours and hours until you get exhausted. Satie was one of the first true ravers for me, my artist name is a tribute to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lDFSuh3qPI
5. Lil Wayne – A Milli
Ok let's put high art aside for a minute and end things on some banging Hip Hop. Hate on me as much as you want, but a minimalistic beat focused on a short vocal sample and an angry. Lil Wayne make this one of the best, most radical Hip Hop tracks for me. Peace out!
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Earlier this month at our Technology Services World (TSW) conference, I released the results of my 2010 TSIA Member Technology Survey, which tracks the adoption, satisfaction and planned spending in 24 areas of enabling technology and services for professional services, field service and technical support. After a long and very dark time for spending over the last couple of years, the numbers show that pent up need for refreshed technology is finally translating to spend: more than half of the categories covered in the survey are being invested in by more than 20% of members in 2010-2011.
Mobile devices and applications proliferate. Mobile technology and devices came out on top of the spending survey, with 34% of field service members having budget for mobile technology. iPad, iPhone and Blackberry users demand native applications, and increasingly they are getting them. For example, Oracle announced an iPad application for Oracle CRM on April 20th. NTRglobal's NTRconnect gives iPhone users full access to home computers, including the ability to shake the device to move from screen to screen in a multi-screen environment (a feature I LOVE). Our newest partner, Anoto, has created a line of writing devices that records as it writes, capturing data in real time and synching it with databases and applications.
Make it social. No surprise, spending on social service is big this year. In fact, 31% of members have budget for social service tools, meaning 2010 is the year enterprise companies are pulling the social trigger. While most companies have already invested in online communities, this new round of spending includes social media monitoring tools (Baynote, Clarabridge), wikis and other collaborative content and tribal knowledge tools, idea storming, and integrations to incident and knowledge management.
Focus shifts from knowledgebase to search. The emphasis of knowledge management programs shifts from KBs toward a "knowledge anywhere" approach, with 31% of members having budget for intelligent search tools than can mine content in any location, in any format. The new breed of search tools (Coveo, InQuira, Consona CRM) are also bridging the gap between traditional online support content and customer community content, helping to merge self-service, online communities and social service into single initiatives.
Other areas with high planned spending include workforce management/optimization tools, analytic platforms, quality monitoring tools, learning management, and professional services automation.
For any TSIA members starting a project to identify new tools, please leverage the inquiry process. I can give you additional information, such as top installed products by TSIA members, and member satisfaction with specific tools. And as always, thanks for reading!
Innovation in Knowledge Management (KM). Creating, maintaining, and leveraging content to speed issue resolution and project success is not only a core process within every technical support operation, but increasingly field services and professional services are launching KM initiatives to share learnings from the field across a global operation. The Recognized Innovator in this category will provide documented case studies of how their technology and/or services are enabling service organizations to more easily publish knowledge and effectively use that knowledge to improve business results.
Innovation in Emerging Channels. According to TSIA survey data, a quarter of TSIA support services members are leveraging video-sharing sites such as YouTube to communicate with customers, and 36% are offering some level of support via micro-blogging channels such as Twitter. Support organizations are struggling to not only identify which emerging channels to support, but there is little best-practice information available on effective customer management via social media. The Recognized Innovator in this category will provide documented case studies of how their technology and/or services are enabling services organizations to meet and exceed customer expectations for support via emerging channels without breaking the bank.
TSIA Research identified a panel of judges for the Spring 2010 Recognized Innovator Awards, including technology-savvy association members and partners, and several industry experts. The judges were: Kathleen Rege, Bluecoat Systems; David Kay, DB Kay & Associates; Chris Karp, Tektronix; Tim Matanovich, Value and Pricing Partners; Terry Clearkin, Bluecoat Systems; Liz Glagowski, 1to1 Media; Thomas Lah, TSIA; Esteban Kolsky, ThinkJar LLC; Mark Connolly, Logitech; Stacy Philippou, Intuit; Robert Guski, ADC; Melinda Schultz, Teletech; Shawn Santos, TSIA.
Lithium. The winner in this category is Lithium. Customer-driven content in online communities is changing the way companies approach knowledge management. Lithium, the leader in customer support community platforms, is pushing the envelope on customer content with their new Tribal Knowledge Base product. Lithium's Tribal Knowledge Base is the first knowledgebase designed to be managed and maintained by an organization's customer base.
Language Weaver. The finalist in this category is Language Weaver. To maximize adoption and success of self-service, knowledgebase content should be available in the native language of customers, but until now, manual translation has been too costly and time-consuming, and first-generation machine translation tools suffered from poor accuracy. Language Weaver has solved this problem with GlobalConnect, a product that plugs into knowledgebase applications and enables content managers to initiate automated translation of content articles—in one click—from within the knowledgebase application.
nGenera CIM. The winner in this category is nGenera CIM. TSIA Partners were invited to submit innovative service programs—not just technology—for award consideration, and nGenera CIM submitted their nGen Expert Services. The nGen Expert Services program optimizes ROI and customer satisfaction by increasing the number of features used and overall business value of nGen software to the partner's customers.
LivePerson. The finalist in this category is LivePerson. A provider of online intelligent engagement solutions that facilitate real-time assistance and expert advice, LivePerson offers enterprise solutions that improve customer care and customer service acceptance ratings, while reducing contact center costs. LivePerson intelligent engagement solutions also help enterprises turn their call centers into profit centers by enabling online businesses to assess who—of thousands of visitors on their site—will need personalized assistance in order to drive first-contact resolution and ensure retention.
InQuira. The winner of this category is InQuira. With four out of five Americans now using social networks, the era of social networking clearly has arrived—creating significant implications for enterprises. Today, there are compelling rewards for embracing social communities and having this new social channel tightly integrated with a central knowledge platform. The InQuira Q8 knowledge platform uniquely enables enterprises to maximize these rewards. Featuring seamless integration between social communities and knowledge collaboration, InQuira delivers a new channel of crowd-sourced knowledge.
nGenera CIM. The finalist in this category is nGenera CIM. nGenera CIM's nGen Social Media is a sophisticated collection of tools to identify, monitor, and respond to customer conversations on a variety of social mediums. To solve the problem of "not knowing what you don't know," nGen Social Media scans multiple social networking outlets using its Listening and Sentiment Analysis Platform. The platform swiftly identifies customer chatter, prioritizes the incident using sentiment-assessing technology, and routes the incident to the appropriate agent just like a traditional customer-initiated inquiry.
Each of the winners and finalists were featured on Innovation Tours. Tour attendees voted for the best demo–a seven minute overview of the technology, the innovation, and business value. The Spring 2010 Best Innovation Demo Award was presented to: InQuira.
Congratulations to all of our Recognized Innovators!
Yesterday at Technology Services World (TSW) was content, content, content, with 12 concurrent breakout sessions each hour, starting at 8am. I always like to look at the top attended sessions, as this is great indicator of what issues are top of mind with members. Here are the top attended sessions for yesterday. Interestingly, the majority were panel discussions, indicating the popularity of peer-to-peer sharing and the value of community/association collaboration.
Yesterday I also had my Innovation Tours of the Expo, visiting the booths of the finalists for our Recognized Innovator Awards. Today at the awards ceremony I will announce the winners, as well as give an award for the best innovation demo.
Yesterday our Spring 2010 Technology Services World (TSW) kicked off at the Santa Clara convention center, with over 700 attendees. The morning was filled with professional development workshops, advisory board meetings, and 1:1 meetings with members and partners. The conference officially opened at 3pm with a keynote by my boss, executive director of TSIA Thomas Lah.
Thomas talked about how "the cloud" is changing technology services, and not necessarily for the better. The traditional "on premise" hardware and software companies are all morphing into OnDemand as quickly as possible, yet pure SaaS companies have lower profit than their on premise counterparts. Should we really be running so fast towards what seems to be a cliff?
One thing you can't deny about cloud companies–support has a critical role in keeping customers happy so they renew when their 2-3 year agreement is up. The most profitable accounts are those that extend beyond the initial contract, but the cost of switching OnDemand solutions is low, and you have to work extra hard to be sure your customers won't leave for a better deal. In some ways, enterprise software is beginning to feel an awful lot like a cell phone plan: loyalty is hard to come by when the cost of switching is so low.
Multi-vendor support. As technology becomes more intertwined, identifying the failing component between a dizzy array of hardware and software is darn near impossible sometimes, and members are spending more time troubleshooting technology they don't own or control. Training time and costs are going through the roof to keep techs up to speed on dozens of technologies, in addition to the core technology they support.
Outsourcing attrition. With turnover rates as high as 15% per month for some outsourcing contracts, having adequate staffing of highly skilled staff becomes very challenging. And, this is not just an India problem anymore. Latin American and other areas in Asia are now finding high demand for seasoned, trained support techs, so turnover keeps growing.
Demonstrating value. The economy has put even more pressure on maintenance renewals, with discounts climbing and more customers asking to renegotiate terms.
Managing consolidation. High tech has always been a hot bed of mergers and acquisitions, and activity has increased as valuations dropped due to the economy. 2009 was a big year for acquisitions, and 2010 is expected to be as well. Multiple companies said more information is needed on best practices for merging support organizations, standardizing processes and systems across global operations.
Cloud complexities. Companies m0ving to the cloud are finding a new set of support challenges, including confusing international standards for cloud computing–data storage, privacy, etc. Also, what are the key metrics/KPIs for cloud operations?
Social media. Our larger members, and many of our smaller members, have jumped into social service and now are wondering how to effectively handle the huge influx of customer content. In addition, the ROI of social service continues to stymie companies as online communities find huge adoption…but assisted support interactions never decrease.
Day 2 of TSW is underway with a full day of breakout sessions, including my session at 4pm revealing the results of my 2010 Member Technology Survey. I'll also be giving 2 Innovation Tours of the Expo at 11am and 2pm, with a drawing for an iPod shuffle for tour attendees. Come join us!
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Yiyun Li (chinois 李翊雲), née le  à Pékin, est une écrivaine sino-américaine.

Biographie
Yiyun Li est née et a grandi à Pékin, en Chine. Son père est physicien nucléaire.
Après une année de service obligatoire dans l'Armée Populaire de Libération, elle entre à l'université de Pékin en 1996, où elle obtient une licence.
Elle part vivre aux Etats-Unis la même année, et obtient un master d'immunologie en 2000 à l'université de l'Iowa.
Elle obtient en 2005 un master en journalisme littéraire dans la même université.

Elle commence alors à publier des essais et courtes nouvelles publiées dans The New Yorker, The Paris Review ainsi que Zoetrope : All-Story.
Elle publie en 2005 un recueil de nouvelles, Un millier d'années de bonnes prières, alors très bien reçu par la critique américaine et adapté en film.

Son premier roman sort ensuite en 2007 sous le nom Un beau jour de printemps (titre original : The Vagrants), traduit dans une vingtaine de langues et acclamé par la presse, il raconte l'histoire d'un village de campagne chinoise nommé Rivière Fangeuse en 1979, et notamment la mise à mort d'une ancienne garde rouge condamnée pour trahison envers le parti communiste. L'auteur explique dans son essai Cher ami, de ma vie je vous écris dans votre vie s'être rendue à Baishan, l'actuelle Rivière Fangeuse, peu après la sortie de ce livre.

Sortent ensuite Plus doux que la solitude (2014), Cher ami, de ma vie je vous écris dans votre vie (2017),  La douceur de nos champs de bataille (2019) et Must I Go (2020).

Yiyun Li tombe en dépression en 2012 et tente de se suicider à deux reprises.

C'est pendant son séjour à l'hôpital qu'elle écrira Cher ami, de ma vie je vous écris dans votre vie, un essai dans lequel elle raconte certains moments marquants de sa vie, notamment son changement d'orientation de la médecine vers la littérature, ainsi que des réflexions personnelles sur la vie.

Elle y dévoile également son rapport à ses auteurs préférés, dont Katherine Mansfield, William Trevor, Ivan Tourgueniev, Søren Kierkegaard et Stefan Zweig.

Son livre La douceur de nos champs de bataille, sorti en 2019, sort peu après le suicide de son fils ainé.
Ce livre est un ensemble de conversations fictives qu'Yiyun Li s'imagine avoir avec celui-ci, ainsi que ses interrogations sur ce passage à l'acte auquel l'auteure a elle-même déjà survécu.

Œuvres
 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, nouvelles, 2005
 - traduit en français sous le titre Un millier d'années de bonne prières par Françoise Rose, Paris, Éditions Belfond, coll. « Littérature étrangère », 2011, 296 p.
 The Vagrants, roman, 2009
 - traduit en français sous le titre Un beau jour de printemps par Françoise Rose, Paris, Éditions Belfond, coll. « Littérature étrangère », 2010, 441 p.
 Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, nouvelles, 2010
 Kinder Than Solitude, roman, 2014
 - traduit en français sous le titre Plus doux que la solitude par Françoise Rose, Paris, Éditions Belfond, coll. « Littérature étrangère », 2010, 347 p.
 Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, mémoires, 2017
 - traduit en français sous le titre Cher ami, de ma vie je vous écris dans votre vie par Clément Baude, Paris, Éditions Belfond, coll. « Littérature étrangère », 2018, 224 p.
 Where Reasons End, roman, 2019
 - traduit en français sous le titre La douceur de nos champs de bataille par Clément Baude, Paris, Éditions Belfond, coll. « Littérature étrangère », 2019, 157 p.

 Must I Go, roman, 2020 (non traduit en français)

Adaptations cinématographiques
 Un millier d'années de bonnes prières, de Wayne Wang, 2007
 La Princesse du Nebraska, de Wayne Wang, 2008, d'après la nouvelle éponyme

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Site de l'auteur

Écrivain américain du XXIe siècle
Romancier américain du XXIe siècle
Nouvelliste américain du XXIe siècle
Lauréat du prix MacArthur
Étudiant de l'université de Pékin
Étudiant de l'université de l'Iowa
Étudiant de l'Iowa Writers' Workshop
Professeur à l'université de Californie à Davis
Naissance à Pékin
Naissance en novembre 1972
Personnalité américaine née d'un parent chinois


A native Oklahoman, Mr. Choate has been with Price Edwards & Company, in the Engineering Department for over 11 years. He is the Director of Engineering and currently oversees the daily engineering of approximately 35 commercial properties and 15 engineers. His Department is responsible for all maintenance issues and the extensive preventative maintenance program, along with energy usage monitoring. He holds the Real Property Administrator (RPA) designation through the Building Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI).


Ashley Rodholm is a director and editor originally from Palm Springs, Ca. Her short experimental documentary 3020 Laguna St. In Exitum premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2013, where it won the first prize Golden Gate Award. She went on to collaborate on the short film Box and directed Ballet Meets Robotics - two award winning projects that feature innovative uses for robotics. In 2015, Ashley directed a short documentary Step into the Page, with legendary Disney animator Glen Keane as he experiments with cutting-edge Virtual Reality tools. The film has received over 2 million views, was a Vimeo Staff Pick and was featured on several notable sites including Forbes, The Verge, Variety, and Fast Co. Currently, Ashley is working with Even/Odd, developing a narrative feature, and continuing to work on projects combining art and technology.


Revamping an outdated brick fireplace... without destruction!
I had a very outdated standard schmandard brick fireplace. When my house was about to get renovated, my artist friend Dan from http://imaginationcorporation.com stepped in to create a one of a kind old world fireplace with cultured stone, hand carved concrete, a whimsical mantel and stainless steel accents. WITHOUT any destruction!
This floor to ceiling fireplace was created with only additions and creativity. No hammer needed!
A typical unassuming brick fireplace with a tiny mantel was in need of a new look.
Dan hand carved and tooled a faux mantel out of precision board.
Beckie and I added layers of paint and glaze to achieve the wood appearance.
Dan and Phoenix applied cultured stone and added stainless steel corbels to fit over top of the brick ones, and a removable frame around the fireplace in case we'd like to change the wood burning out to a gas one day.
Phoenix from http://www.stonetreestudios.com hand carved the base out of a solid piece of fibreglass reinforced concrete and then stained it to resemble the cultured stone. You can't even tell them apart!
The end result is a cozy, large scale rock fireplace that's a little funky, a little old world, and a whole lotta fun to decorate!
I don't know how much this project cost because it was gifted to me.
Hi Diannah, I don't have a list of materials nor a full DIY because the project was gifted to me.
Love the ENTIRE look of the fireplace!! Beautiful job of creativity. I love the star, BUT....... Go Steelers!
Wow, you did an amazing job !!!


Today, The First Tee of South Dakota operates in 6 South Dakota communities. We also are involved in the National School Program in elementary schools and outreach programs across the state, overall impacting a total of more than 18,500 youth.
Giving Hope, Inc. contributed $3,120 to The First Tee of South Dakota in hopes to assist the organization in transforming the golf and athletic experience for our community's youth.


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Q: Sending to production or review environments depending on branch We're using Gitlab-CI but we have some troubles to have review and production environments at the same time.
We have several stages in our .gitlab-ci.yml but here I'll focus on the deploy stage:
deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - some commands
  environment:
    name: review/$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME
    url: http://$CI_BUILD_REF_SLUG.$DEPLOY_SERVER
    on_stop: stop_deploy
  only:
    - /^feature-[cw]\/.*$/

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - some other commands
  environment:
    name: production
  only:
    - prod

stop_deploy:
  stage: deploy
  variables:
    GIT_STRATEGY: none
  script:
    - some clean commands
  when: manual
  environment:
    name: review/$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME
    action: stop
  only:
    - /^feature-[cw]\/.*$/

The issue is that the first job is not run on the branches whose name starts with feature-c/. However when removing the second job, the first job is run on those branches.
The job that deploys to production is correctly run when pushed to prod.
So why does the first job is not run when the second job is defined? Where does the conflict comes from?
Thanks!

A: The answer is quite simple; they can't have the same name :) Name one deploy-review and the other deploy-prod and its fixed.


After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: 'My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.' So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them; and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money* and a gold ring. The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. After this Job lived for one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children's children, four generations. And Job died, old and full of days.
One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, 'These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you* a way of salvation.' She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, 'I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.' And it came out that very hour.
But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market-place before the authorities. When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, 'These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe.' The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.


Dice onions and Tomatoes finely.
Take a wide but shallow nonstick pan, add about 5 tablespoons of oil.
When the oil is hot add jeera and mustard seeds, when they start popping add the onions.
When the onions area little cooked, add diced tomatoes and rajma.
Put a lid on the pan and cook for about 15 min.
Add fresh lime juice, Chilli seasoning and salt.