The objective of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers of all domains (IE/IR, Web mining, etc.) where the temporal dimension opens up an entirely new range of challenges and possibilities. The workshop's ambition is to help shaping a community of interest on the research challenges and possibilities resulting from the introduction of the time dimension in Web analysis. The maturity of the Web, the emergence of large-scale repositories of Web material, makes this very timely and a growing set of research and services are emerging that have this focus in common. Having a dedicated workshop will help, we believe, to take a rich and cross-domain approach to this new research challenge with a strong focus on the temporal dimension.
Following up the success of the past events at WWW2015, WWW2016 and WWW2017, the 4th AW4City aims to keep on attracting a significant international attention with regard to web applications for smart cities. More specifically, the aim of this workshop is to focus on the applications smart city component and more specifically on the design and implementation of web-based innovative applications and mobile Apps that deliver smart services or address smart city challenges. This year, the proposed workshop will emphasize on the contribution of web applications and Apps to citizen centricity. In the era of cities, municipal leaders, service and utility providers are making an important shift regarding thinking of people as customers and of customer experience. This shift is not a simple task since it demands a continuous service monitoring, assessment and improvement [1;2;3], which normally is based on accurate data analysis and appears as a thinking that makes government and providers more personal and responsive . In this respect, the proposed workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications and Apps can enhance citizen centricity.
Modern web-based systems continuously generate data at very fast rates. This continuous flow of data encompasses web content — e.g. posts, news, products, comments –, but also user feedback — e.g. ratings, views, reads, clicks, thumbs up –, as well as context information — device used, geographic info, social network, current user activity, weather. This is potentially overwhelming for systems and algorithms design to work in batch, given the fast rate of change of content, usage patterns and contextual variables. Incremental models that learn from data streams are gaining attention, given their natural ability to deal with data generated in dynamic, complex environments. User modeling and personalization exploits content, user feedback and context in data, and can particularly benefit from algorithms capable of maintaining models incrementally and online, as data is generated. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in incremental and adaptive approaches to recommendation and personalization, as well as other related tasks, such as evaluation, web content mining, context-awareness or architectures.
The ever-increasing amounts of user-generated contents on online social media (OSM) platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. have become important sources of real-time information during emergency events (e.g. natural disasters like earthquakes, cyclones, floods, fire, epidemics or man-made disasters like terror attacks, riots). During such an event, various information is posted on OSM, which can contribute significantly to relief operations. Additionally, crowdsourced content from OSM can also be utilised for emergency preparedness, such as for identifying disaster-prone regions and infrastructures, developing early warning systems, developing emergency-resilient communities, and so on. [Note: the terms "emergency" and "disaster" are used inter-changeably in this proposal.] Given the huge volume and the rapid rates at which content is posted on OSM, automated techniques and information systems need to be developed for extracting, summarizing and presenting the critical information in a useful way. The proposed workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers working on related fields to present their insights. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse fields — Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Social Network Analysis, Computational Social Science, Human Computer Interaction — who can potentially contribute to utilising social media for emergency relief and preparedness. One specific objective of SMERP 2018 will be to promote multi-modal and multi-view information retrieval, i.e., developing methods for aggregating information from multiple online and offline data sources (including text, images, and video). Another objective of the SMERP workshop series is to provide the research community with real-life datasets to foster research on the theme. Along with a general track, the workshop will include a data-focused track, where we will make available a large dataset of content posted during a recent emergency event, and invite participants to develop methods for solving practical challenges on the dataset (details provided under Workshop topics and themes).
Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and World Wide Web technologies have opened a new direction in Enterprise Intelligence, that is gradually transforming the way enterprises perform business and interact with their customers. This change is largely driven by the widespread consumer adoption of sophisticated AI technologies and web based social media. Consequently, almost all business enterprises face a number of challenges such as adoption of new business paradigms; customer centric business processes; issues with large, multimodal, multilingual, and multicultural data, analysing behavioral signals from social media; agility, security and many more. Therefore, the primary goal of this workshop is to bring together industry professionals and researchers working in the area of AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine-Learning, linguistics, social science, HCI, design and vision and those whose work concerns the intersection of these areas, together and provide a venue for the multidisciplinary discussion of how ubiquitous AI technologies can help in extracting social and enterprise intelligence for smart enterprise transformation and addressing the aforementioned challenges.
Extreme Multilabel Classification (XMLC) is a very active and rapidly growing research area that deals with the problem of labeling an item with a small set of tags out of an extremely large number of potential tags. Applications include content understanding, document tagging, image tagging, biological sequence tagging, recommendation, etc. While the difficulty and the potential applications of XMLC are well understood in the core machine learning community, to the best of our knowledge, XMLC has not made inroads in the field of Information Retrieval (IR) and related areas. The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers from academia and industry in order to further advance this very exciting field and come up with potential applications of XMLC in new areas. We envision a gathering of researchers and practitioners either currently working on XMLC, or using XMLC algorithms for their products, or who may use XMLC in future. There would be invited talks from many renowned researchers in this area. We are also seeking extended abstracts and full papers (short and long) presenting interesting work in this direction for being accepted either as a spotlight talk, paper or poster. Given that we are soliciting new application areas for XMLC, we expect researchers from a variety of backgrounds: core ML, recommendations, applications of XMLC in video and image tagging, speech processing, IR etc.
The goal of LDOW2018 is to provide a forum for exposing and discussing novel research and applications in the area of Linked Data, as well as in other areas relating to the decentralised publication and consumption of structured and semi-structured data (e.g., knowledge graphs, schema.org, Microdata) on the Web. By bringing together the community of researchers in this and related fields, we expect to further shape the ongoing Linked Data research agenda. The increasingly mainstream adoption of Linked Data within the Web community and its main enterprises emphasises the continued relevance of this workshop to The Web Conference.
More and more knowledge is available electronically in a structured or unstructured form over the World Wide Web (WWW). Such knowledge has become a rich resource to answer our daily life questions and even scientific questions posed by domain experts. Accordingly, it becomes a necessity to develop tools that can (semi-)automatically answer questions based on the large amount of the available data. There have been distinct approaches developed due to the knowledge diversity existing in the data, and these approaches need to be combined to achieve a more reliable question answering system by exploring the heterogeneous information in full measure. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers working on question/query answering systems over structured or unstructured knowledge, and create a platform to grow potential collaborations in this multidisciplinary task.
The high volume of information in organizations has led researchers to starting to understand and appreciate knowledge and search how to manage it. Knowledge management aims to retrieve and share information within databases, documents or know-how of organizations' employees in order to help them to cooperate and improve their ideas, increase the opportunities for innovation, and therefore enable organizations to better stay ahead of the competition. Many organizations such as business, industrial, and medical ones are implementing technologies and tools to better manage their knowledge. However, these tools, and techniques can be applied in the educational domain. The interest in Knowledge Management for the educational domain has been growing in recent years. This can be seen in the series of conferences organized by the International Educational Data Mining Society and in papers discussing the role of knowledge management in higher education. As education is increasingly occurring online or in educational software, resulting in an explosion of data, new technologies such as semantic web and data mining techniques are being developed and tested, aiming for instance to improve educational effectiveness, determine the key factors to the success of educational training, support basic research on learning, or manage educational training by satisfying the needs of a community, local industry, or professional development.
The goal of WS-REST 2018 is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners where they can openly and freely exchange ideas about how they are using Web technologies in their APIs, what works and what does not work for them, and what challenges they see in the current landscape of standards and technologies. Our goal is to capture both the state of the art when it comes to Web APIs and service architecture, but to also provide a forum that identifies some of the most pressing issues in that space, and can help to build momentum solving them. The Call for Papers will include topics focused not just on classic Web Services and REST but also Web APIs in general including Internet of Things implementations and general discussions on the role of Web-based APIs in "digital transformation" of existing organizations.
With the rapid growing of social networking services (e.g., Facebook and Twitter), being able to process data come from such platforms has gained much attention in recent years. SocialNLP is a new inter-disciplinary area of natural language processing (NLP) and social computing. There are three plausible directions of SocialNLP: (1) addressing issues in social computing using NLP techniques; (2) solving NLP problems using information from social media; and (3) handling new problems related to both social computing and natural language processing. Several challenges are foreseeable in SocialNLP. First, the message lengths on social media are usu-ally short, and thus it is difficult to apply traditional NLP approaches directly. Second, social media contains heterogeneous information (e.g. tags, friends, followers, likes, and retweets) that should be considered together with the contents for better quality of analysis. Finally, social media contents always involve multiple persons with slangs and jargons, and usually require special techniques to process. We organize SocialNLP in WWW 2018 with three goals. First, social media data is essentially generated and collected from online social services that are functioned based on Web techniques. One can leverage Web techniques to investigate various user behaviors and investigate the interactions between users. Second, user-generated data in social media is mainly in the form of text. Theories and techniques on Web information retrieval and natural language processing are desired for semantic understanding, accurate search, and efficient processing of big social media data. Third, from the perspective of application, if social media data can be effectively processed to distill the collective knowledge of users, novel Web applications, such as emergency management, social recommendation, and future prediction, can be developed with higher accuracy and better user experience. We expect SocialNLP workshop in WWW community can provide mutually-reinforced benefits for researchers in areas of Web techniques, information retrieval and social media analytics.
The growing availability of multirelational data gives rise to an opportunity for novel characterization of complex real-world relations. This workshop aims to explore innovative methods to unveil deeper understanding of feature-rich networks such as Attributed Graphs, Multilayer Networks, Temporal and Heterogeneous Networks, Knowledge Graphs and Probabilistic Networks with innovative methods inspired from different fields. We also aim to incentive a domain-driven approach that can drive the design of novel network models exposing peculiar features to exploit the full potential of mining complex network structures in domain-specific applications.
How the web techonologies contribute to solve specific African problematics?
How the African problematics can drive and raise new fundamental questions for the www?
How the web applications could drive sub-regional integration?
Contributions will clearly point out answers to one of these goals focusing on web techniques as well as focusing on specific African problems.
The Web of Data has seen tremendous growth recently. In addition, new forms of structured data have emerged in the form of Web markup, such as schema.org, and entity-centric data in the Web tables. Considering these rich, heterogeneous and evolving data sources which cover a wide variety of domains, exploitation of Web Data becomes increasingly important in the context of various applications, including federated search, entity linking, question answering, and fact verification. These applications require reliable information on dataset characteristics, including general metadata, quality features, statistical information, dynamics, licensing and provenance. Lack of a thorough understanding of the nature, scope and characteristics of data from particular sources limits their take-up and reuse, such that applications are often limited and focused on well-known reference datasets. The PROFILES workshop series aim at gathering approaches to analyse, describe and discover data sources – including but not limited to semantic search and SPARQL endpoints – as a facilitator for applications and tasks such as query distribution, entity retrieval and recommendation. PROFILES offers a highly interactive forum for researchers and practitioners bringing together experts in the fields of Web, Semantic Web, Web Data, Semantic Search, Databases, NLP, IR and application domains.
Applications in different domains require reactive processing of massive, dynamically generated streams of data. This trend is increasingly visible also on the Web, where more and more streaming sources are becoming available. These originate from social networks, sensor networks, the Internet of Things (IoT) and many other technologies that use the Web as a platform for sharing data. This has resulted in new Web-centric efforts such as the Web of Things (WoT), which focuses on exposing and describing the IoT resources on the Web; or the Social Web which provides protocols, vocabularies, and APIs to facilitate access to social communications and interactions on the Web. Several challenges arise in this context, including the opportunity of performing data analytics over Web streams. This requires the necessity of integrating heterogeneous Web data, which should be distributed and accessible in a decentralized manner. Some of these challenges have been addressed through emerging efforts like Stream Reasoning and RDF Stream Processing. Stream Reasoning aims at combining data stream management and semantic technologies to perform reasoning over massive, heterogeneous and dynamic data; RDF Stream Processing focuses on continuous query answering over data streams modelled accordingly to RDF. While these are relevant examples of research in this domain, there is a growing need to develop flexible and scalable analytical processing for streaming data on the Web, in order to allow decentralized processing, publication and discovery of streaming data, as well as integration mechanisms at Web scale. To achieve this, the expertise from other communities, including stream mining, machine learning and distributed processing can be highly valuable. This workshop aims at putting together relevant communities in order to discuss and explore holistic processing models for streaming data on the Web. This will include discussions on the issues related to publishing data streams on the Web as well as analysing them with queries and inference processes. The event will contribute to the creation of an active community interested in integrating stream processing, data analytics and and dynamic data reasoning by using methods inspired by data and knowledge management.
Following the success of its first edition at the International Semantic Web Conference 2017, we are proposing to organise the "Re-coding Black Mirror" workshop at The Web Conference 2018, broadening the topics addressed previously. The objective of the workshop is to explore how the widespread adoption of state-of-the-art web technologies, principles and practices could lead to potential societal and ethical challenges of the kind depicted in Back Mirror episodes, and how research related to those technologies could help minimise or even prevent the risk of those issues arising. Black Mirror is a British science fiction television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker and centred around dark and dystopian themes that examine modern society, particularly with regard to the unanticipated consequences of new technologies. Re-coding Black Mirror aims at promoting the dialogue between computer and social scientists drawing upon case scenarios on specific technologies such as the ones in Black Mirror, with the objective to raise the awareness and reflection on societal and ethical challenges as discussed intensively within social science fields such as surveillance and critical media studies. It will also be a forum for raising opportunities of networking with scholars from different fields to explore novel research problems that can be relevant to both communities. To that end, a mixed program committee and target audience is proposed, which combines both traditions. The programme itself will be a mix of paper presentations and of open debates, taking specific examples of societal and ethical issues impacted by web technologies, as well as specific examples of current research on web technologies, principles and practices that can be expected to lead to such societal and ethical concerns.
The main goal of this workshop is bringing together publishers, companies and researchers from different fields (including Document and Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Scholarly Communication, Bibliometrics, and Human-Computer Interaction) in order to bridge the gap between the theoretical/academic and practical/industrial aspects with regards to scholarly data.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia websites such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. With members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team in the organizing committee and with the experience of successful workshops in 2015 (at ICWSM), 2016 (at WWW and ICWSM), and 2017 (at WWW), we aim to continue facilitating a direct pathway for exchanging ideas between the organization that operates Wikimedia websites and the researchers interested in studying them.
The workshop RoD will gather people on a timely issue at the crossroad on knowledge representation and reasoning, data management, and the Semantic Web: How to use knowledge to make better use of data? The workshop will more precisely focus on reasoning techniques that allow to exploit domain knowledge in data access. By data we mean here structured or semi-structured data, stored in data management systems provided with a query language, rather than unstructured contents. Domain knowledge can be encoded in ontologies, rules, or constraints. An emblematic task is query answering, but knowledge can be exploited within the whole data lifecycle. The goal of RoD is to bring together the developers and users of reasoners whatever the knowledge representation language used, including systems focusing on both intensional (ontology) and extensional (data) query answering. The workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their systems. We will call for papers of different nature: theoretical, system and applicative.
Human-in-the-loop is a model of interaction where a machine process and one or more humans have an iterative interaction. In this paradigm the user has the ability to heavily influence the outcome of the process by providing feedback to the system as well as the opportunity to grab different perspectives about the underlying domain and understand the step by step machine process leading to a certain outcome. Amongst the current major concerns in Artificial Intelligence research are being able to explain and understand the results as well as avoiding bias in the underlying data that might lead to unfair or unethical conclusions. Typically, computers are fast and accurate in processing vast amounts of data. People, however, are creative and bring in their perspectives and interpretation power. Bringing humans and machines together creates a natural symbiosis for accurate interpretation of data at scale. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in various areas of AI (i.e., Machine Learning, NLP, Computational Advertising, etc.) to explore new pathways of the human-in-the-loop paradigm.
The Second Workshop on Women in Data Science brings together female faculty, graduate students, research scientists, and industry researchers for an opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and learn from each other in the field of Data Science. Underrepresented minorities, graduates, and undergraduates interested in pursuing data science, machine learning research are encouraged to participate. While most presenters should be women, everybody is invited to attend.
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of network embedding research. The WWW2018 Edition of the BigNet Workshop series focuses on presenting and discussing the state-of-the-art, open problems, challenges and latest algorithms, techniques, and applications of network embedding in the era of big network data. It will provide a forum for bringing together network embedding researchers and practitioners. The workshop program will be featured with keynotes delivered by leading experts in learning representations for network and novel research works that address various challenges in this direction. In particular, the workshop welcomes submissions that present both original research results as full papers and preliminary work as extended abstracts. The topics of interest include but are not limited to network representation learning theories and foundations, representation learning for big, heterogeneous, dynamic, or multiple networks, node/graphs embeddings for application domains (i.e. text and NLP applications, image, etc), knowledge base embedding, graph kernels/similarity for embeddings, deep learning architectures able to effectively handle networks as input, network embeddings for structured prediction, visualization of network embeddings and beyond. Hereby, the BigNet workshop invites experts from all over the world to present the most recent advances in node/graph embeddings, as well as to discuss the future of this challenging research domain and its interactions with network science and graph mining in general. Detailed information about the workshop can be found at https://aminer.org/bignet_www2018.
The goal of this workshop is to apply machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms on social media, big data and the web. Contrary to last year's workshop at WWW2017, we particularly invite submissions that try to go beyond the "simple" computational approaches and try to discover the "hidden" intelligent information, evaluate how "good" they are, and how they can be validated for accuracy and reality. Hence, the workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of knowledge learning, recommendation, community discovery, social influence and prediction from social media, big data and the web. In short, the workshop invites topics that deal with user activities and social predictable behavior that is inferred from analysis and mining the social media, big data, or web using suitable machine learning and AI methods. Thus, our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, user analysis, big data and recommendation communities interested in 1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to mine hidden behavioral aspects of (complex) social media data, web data and big data, 2) inferring user and social influence, hidden knowledge and recommendation and 3) building models and frameworks for evaluating the designed approaches.
We are submitting the attached proposal for a CyberSafety workshop at The Web Conference 2018 in Lyon, France. Please refer to the following link for additional details.


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This project is winding down, with minimal impact on our serine location, and we're grateful for the ease of access this newly paved road allows to the Bella Vista Resort. Certainly, in the past, access was not to be taken for granted.
In 1969, Bob Adams purchased some property perched on Rabbit Ears Pass from George Woods. Bob Adams passed away in 1982 and was the owner of Energy Fuels, a part owner of the Denver Broncos, and an ardent philanthropist. At the time of purchase, the only dwellings on the property were a barn and a tiny caretaker's house. Just off the old Route 40, the local Steamboat Springs residences were referred to it as the house on Rabbit Ears Pass. No address was necessary because it was the only house on the pass.
Eventually, the property was renamed the Chateau at Lake Catamount. Adams made many additions to the property. The main house was expanded to 5,500 square feet, and a 2,000 square foot two-story log cabin, with separate upper and lower cabins was added as a guest house. A 2,670 square foot caretaker's house, a regulation size tennis court, and a 20'x40′ heated swimming pool were also added.
The last of the additions was a 1,000 gallon jetted Jacuzzi and a master bedroom in the main house. The Jacuzzi was designed by Maj Hagman, wife of Larry Hagman, best known for playing J.R. Ewing on the television show "Dallas." Bob Adams' daughter once remarked that the Jacuzzi had a jet for almost every body part. For more than thirty years, the Adams family used the property as a family retreat.
We love the history of this property and embrace the evolution of it and what is to come!


We know that college may seem far away to many students, but at Primavera, we're all about getting ready for the future! If you are a sophomore in high school, you have the opportunity to finish up to a year's worth of college credits before even graduating high school through the ACE program.
The Achieving a College Education (ACE) program could be right for you if you want to get ahead on college courses while working toward your high school diploma here at Primavera. The nationwide ACE program allows students to take college courses at a community college while in high school!
If accepted into the ACE program, you have the benefit of attending smaller classes to take advantage of more personalized attention. You also get access to a mentor who will help you throughout your time in the program and you can earn up to 24 college credits transferrable to all Arizona colleges and universities as well as most others throughout the country.
The deadline to apply for the ACE program is December 5th.
Hello, do you have to fall under one of the categories or can you take classes because you want to get ahead in life? Thank you.
I am the first child in my family who is working my to graduate and continue my education in college. And working a job at the age of 16, to help provide food and helping paying for the bills ,but also to save money for my college. I'm trying hard to work my way in graduating high school and college. So I like to see if I'm qualified for the ACE program.
If I am a senior does that exclude me from this?
Hi, Angelica. Unfortunately, the ACE program is only available for sophomores. However, you can still earn college credits in high school by taking one of our dual-enrollment courses. Thanks for the question.
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As your body ages, hormone levels decrease. Replacing the natural hormones to achieve the balanced levels. One option to treat "male menopause" is hormone replacement therapy for men. As the testosterone levels decrease, they are replaced with oral or injectable therapies.
In several clinical studies, men treated with supplemental testosterone had improvement in insulin sensitivity. Studies also show that there is a link between cardiovascular disease and hypogonadism. The goal of hormone replacement therapy in men is to restore hormone levels to a normal range of young adult males. Restoration of normal levels will improve muscle mass, restore libido, maintain mental acuity, and prevent osteoporosis.
Transdermal – This method is costly, but offers less gastrointestinal problems and can be given in a low dose.
Injectable – This type of treatment can be given in low doses, but is the most cost-effective method.
Topical – These agents have minimal risks and are safe. However, there is a chance of person-to-person transfer.
Male hormone replacement therapy is well-supported in the medical literature. In a study involving almost 800 men ages 65 years or older, with a testosterone level of less than 275 ng per deciliter, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a testosterone gel over a year. The treatment raised testosterone concentrations in the blood from low to mid-normal for most trial subjects. There was no benefit in vitality or walking distance.
In a recent meta-analysis, testosterone replacement therapy was found to improve lean body mass, enhance the quality of life, lower cholesterol levels, and improve hypogonadism. Another study reviewing randomized controlled trials. The data revealed that testosterone levels improved significantly with short-term administration of patches.
Prostate growth relies on the presence of testosterone, and higher levels have been associated with benign prostatic hypertrophy and a risk for prostate cancer. Regarding safety, researchers reviewed data collected from 1,400 participants who received testosterone therapy. The majority did not have elevations in prostate stimulating antigen (PSA) after treatment.
Changcheng G, Wenyu GU, Min L, et al. (2016). Efficacy and safety of testosterone replacement therapy in men with hypogonadism: A meta-analysis study of placebo-controlled trials. Exp Ther Med, 11(3), 853-863.
Pinsky MR & Hellsstrom WJ (2010). Hypogonadism, ADAM, and hormone replacement. Ther Adv Urol, 2(3), 99-104.
Snyder PJ, Rhasin S, Cunningham GR, et al. (2016). Effects of testosterone treatment in older men. N Engl J Med, 374, 611-624.


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The Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA) and Store Brands are joining forces, looking to the private label industry for nominations for the Private Label Hall of Fame Class of 2023.
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Who is the best in the business? Who is a leader not only in his or her organization, but someone who has set new standards in the world of private label?
This year, the Hall of Fame will feature honorees in four categories: Lifetime Achievement, Private Brand Champion, Private Brand Innovator, and Next Gen Private Label Leader. Each category has its own unique set of criteria (see below) as PLMA and Store Brands look to honor leaders across the career spectrum who have spent their professional careers developing new initiatives and driving the private label industry forward.
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Deadline for nominations is Tuesday, Jan. 31. For more information, please email PLMA at [email protected] Winners will be announced at PLMA's 2023 Annual Meeting & Leadership Conference from March 22-24 in Orlando.
Lifetime Achievement - minimum 25 years of experience
An individual who, over the span of her/his career, has distinguished herself or himself as a leader of store brand development and innovation -- as a manufacturer, retailer, broker, supplier, or operating in an allied field.
Among other accomplishments: advanced the growth of store brands through the creative use of marketing, merchandising and promotions;
Pioneered widely adopted business practices, strategy, and tactics;
Made significant contributions to store brand advancement in manufacturing, packaging, and quality assurance;
Demonstrated a pattern of mentorship throughout the span of his/her career to advance the growth and careers of those they have led.
Is a recognized advocate for store brands within her or his own organization, the wider business community, the media or in the consumer marketplace.
Private Brand Champion
A high-level commitment to a career in the private label/own brand industry.
A track record of developing successful initiatives that lead to growth in the private label industry.
Leadership that inspires others to do great things while continually sharing knowledge and helping others in their companies and communities.
Have a vision and a determination that cuts through barriers and obstacles that includes a willingness to take calculated risks as part of an effort to evolve private label and change the business environment.
Nominees demonstrate logical, analytical, practical and realistic thinking and actions in leading their organization.
Private Brand Innovator
An individual who has developed new programs and initiatives that demonstrates out-of-the-box thinking leading to a new way of doing business, has introduced new product categories or used non-traditional methods of promotions.
A unique ability to identify ever shifting consumer trends to stay ahead of new customer/shopper needs and keep the private label industry moving forward.
A strong desire to overcome obstacles and cut-through conventional thinking in the private label industry.
Have identifiable personality traits that have allowed him/her to succeed and see opportunities where others may not.
Next Gen Private Label Leader (40 and under)
The individual is an innovative thinker and adept at identifying and developing new ways to tackle current-day challenges and ultimately improving the level of service to customers/shoppers.
Serve as an inspiration to others through his/her leadership, vision and accomplishments.
Shows a high-level of commitment to his/her career, their company, and the communities that are served by his/her company.
The individual is involved in working with industry organizations. Involved with industry organizations or within their own company to address current social issues relevant to CPGs (i.e. sustainability, food insecurity, climate change).
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Join the International Club for a celebration featuring fun, food, flags, music, prizes and cultural exchange at the annual International Festival.
The International Festival is held during International Education Week (November 12-16), and is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn and exchange experiences.


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Q: Polymer add style dynamically In a polymer control,'my-grid', I'm trying to add style via the below code:
var styleElement = document.createElement('style', 'custom-style');
styleElement.innerHTML = cssText;
Polymer.StyleDefaults.addStyle(styleElement);

Here, the cssText can be string like
.oc-col-id-0{
     flex-basis: var(--oc-col-id-0-flex-basis);
     -webkit-flex-basis: var(--oc-col-id-0-flex-basis);
}
.oc-col-id-1{
       flex-basis: var(--oc-col-id-1-flex-basis);
       -webkit-flex-basis: var(--oc-col-id-1-flex-basis);
}

Without this custom variables, I can append the styleElement by
this.$.gridContainer.appendChild(styleElement);

But however, since there are custom variables, I'm not sure how to fix this issue.
After the element is attached, I can't change the --oc-col-id-0-flex-basis value via
this.customStyle['--oc-col-id-0-flex-basis'] = maxWidth + "px";
this.updateStyles();

It looks that the style variables are not applied to the element.
I'm not sure if there is any way to dynamically add/modify the style of the element. I'm not sure if I'm on the right track.

A: This is what I do in the end to inject the style class dynamically. It solved my problem so far.
            var style = this._styles[0];
            var text = style.textContent;
            var cssText = "";
            for (var id of ids)
            {
                var classStyle = ".col-id-" + id;

                var variableProperty = "--col-id-" + id + "-flex-basis";
                if (text.indexOf(classStyle) == -1)
                {
                    cssText += classStyle + "{ flex-basis: var(" + variableProperty + ", auto); -webkit-flex-basis: var(" + variableProperty + ", auto);} ";
                }

                if (this._ownStylePropertyNames.indexOf(variableProperty) == -1)
                {
                    this._ownStylePropertyNames.push(variableProperty);
                }
            }

            if (cssText.length > 0)
            {
                style.textContent += " " + cssText;
                style.__cssRules = null; //trick for rulesForStyle method in Polymer.html
            }

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A Turkish Constitutional Court ruling effective from today (Wednesday April 16) has put a temporary halt on the sale of Turkish property to foreigners.
According to Turkish newspaper Harriyet, a circular letter was sent to all land registry offices in Turkey indicating the end of the sale of real estate to foreigners on Tuesday April 15.
The law only applies to new purchases and does not restrict the sale of properties to Turkish citizens by foreigners that already own property in Turkey. It has come into effect just after another recent legislation preventing foreign companies from acquiring land or property through local joint ventures for property development purposes.
Turkish property has proved very popular especially amongst Brits, Germans and Greek buyers with a total of 73,103 foreign purchasers of 63,085 Turkish properties.
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Q: autoexp.dat equivalent in emacs Does anybody know if an equivalent of "auto expansion" mechanism (works with Visual Studio ) exist for emacs (used in debug mode with gdb).
In Visual Studio i can really hover over any class instance / structure and it shows me desired structure field (which i had specify through autoexp.dat).
Right now i am using .gdbinit but every time i have to type the aliases in (gdb) prompt to get the value of an struct instance. I am wondering any plugin/extension exist which can do autoexp.dat kind of work for me.
http://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2007/04/06/tweaking-autoexpdat-for-custom-types-in-vs2005

A: there are a number of ways to do this in Emacs. two popular ones are CEDET, which is powerful but heavyweight and can be brittle, and auto-complete combined with yasnippet, e.g. as described here, which was a bit slow for me but worked. All three can be installed with emacs 24's package facility.


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COLOSSEUM GRAFFITI IS MORONIC, BUT IT MISSES PODIUM OF IDIOTIC TOURISTS
Last week, a pair of Californian women were arrested for using a coin to carve their initials into a wall of Rome's ancient Colosseum…and then snapping a selfie to record their vandalism. The incident recalled Chinese teenager Ding Jinhao's 2013 defacing of Egypt's Temple of Luxor with Mandarin characters proclaiming he had visited the site.
Like Jinhao, the 20-something tourists were deservedly lambasted on social media – which for them may have been a fate worse than death – but in their defense they are complete morons. The question is: Are they moronic enough to make it onto the Podium of Idiotic Tourists? Here are the current PITs medalists (as determined by a panel of pretend judges):
FOOL'S GOLD: Anatoliy Baranovich, Ukraine
There's nothing particularly notable about airline passengers having in-flight meltdowns. But in October of 2012, Baranovich was reportedly involved in a tour de force of mid-air malfeasance. According to U.S. prosecutors, the Ukrainian immigrant's epic misadventure unfolded like this:
On his way back to Oregon after a trip to his homeland, Baranovich, 46, awoke from a nap, looked out a window as his Delta Airlines flight began its descent, and thought he saw fire.
He began yelling that a wing was aflame — in his native tongue, thankfully, as "wing," "on" and "fire" are three words you don't want to hear on an airplane.
He ran to the rear of the aircraft and tried to open the emergency doors.
He ignored flight attendants' orders to calm down, and fought off at least five passengers before being subdued.
During police questioning, he flipped out yet again when officers found 19 Ukrainian passports, mostly for young women, in his luggage, along with more than $6,500 in cash.
Last but not least, Baranovich offered the money to police in return for his release.
Well played, sir. Well played.
STUPID SILVER: Rhys Owen Jones and Keri Mules, Great Britain
You know you had a night to remember -- if only you could -- when you wake up to find a penguin in your pad. According to various media and police accounts, this is exactly what happened to a pair of young Welshmen who broke into Australia's Queensland Sea World, swam with dolphins, discharged a fire extinguisher in the shark tank, and kidnapped a penguin named Dirk. To make matters worse, the panicked pair proceeded to release Dirk into a canal (from which he was rescued, unharmed). The visitors ended up with a fine, but it could have been much worse: They could have gone swimming with the sharks.
BRAIN-DEAD BRONZE: Kevin Hudgeons, United States
Excuses, excuses. When police asked Hudgeons why he disembarked from the Norwegian Star cruise ship carrying a door-sized, $13,000 copy of Rembrandt's The Night Watch (pictured above), his reportedly replied that he had a) won it in a raffle, b) bought it in an auction, and c) painted it himself. His plan, he continued, was to "mail it home" from Bermuda. Unfortunately for Hudgeons, video footage of him removing the painting from a wall and carrying it to his berth thwarted the cunning plan.


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A tally of 668 components are contained in the daedal pocket watch, a minute repeater ornamented in the miniature with engraving, painting, and appliqués. Birds are a beloved motif for Jaquet Droz, and here the macaw, chosen for its vivid plumage, takes centre stage. The brand's celebrated automata—the technique of creating animated scenes through concealed mechanical devices—has a family of exotic parrots perform while cathedral-like chimes ring the hours, quarter hours, and minutes. When you are the only one of your kind in the world, you command attention.


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POTUS Trump tweets criticism at Mueller probe; drops hint about mysterious 'REPORT'
TOPICS:investigationPresident Donald TrumpRobert MuellerRussian collusion hoaxspecial counselspecial reportwitch hunt
Posted By: usafeaturesmedia May 27, 2018
(National Sentinel) Foreshadowing: President Donald Trump, as he is prone to do, launched a Twitter storm Saturday critical of the ongoing witch hunt probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
This time, however, the president was critical of the many conflicts of interest inherent in those conducting the investigation — as he should be.
"This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just an excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary lost the Election and States that haven't been lost in decades. 13 Angry Democrats, and all Dems if you include the people who worked for Obama for 8 years. #SPYGATE & CONFLICTS OF INTEREST!" he wrote.
This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just an excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary lost the Election and States that haven't been lost in decades. 13 Angry Democrats, and all Dems if you include the people who worked for Obama for 8 years. #SPYGATE & CONFLICTS OF INTEREST!
POTUS Trump — in a follow-up tweet — then referenced a mysterious "report" that may be upcoming.
"When will the 13 Angry Democrats (& those who worked for President O), reveal their disqualifying Conflicts of Interest? It's been a long time now! Will they be indelibly written into the Report along with the fact that the only Collusion is with the Dems, Justice, FBI & Russia?" he wrote.
When will the 13 Angry Democrats (& those who worked for President O), reveal their disqualifying Conflicts of Interest? It's been a long time now! Will they be indelibly written into the Report along with the fact that the only Collusion is with the Dems, Justice, FBI & Russia?
And he even capitalized "report."
Is he talking about the upcoming report from DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, which is focused primarily on the FBI's botching of the Hillary email investigation and which is expected to name names?
Is he referring to a report recommending criminal charges against some of those same people?
As for Mueller, rational people know that he should have never taken the job because he is personal friends with James Comey and a former close associate of many others including Hillary Clinton and Loretta Lynch.
A former assistant director of the FBI has even said that Mueller has a "huge conflict of interest" in handling the investigation.
"Bob Mueller should have never been offered nor accepted the job as special counsel as he has a huge conflict of interest," said Jim Kallstrom in an interview with Breitbart News. "He should have recused himself."
Kallstrom said that Mueller's primary conflict is that part of his investigation is tied to fired FBI Director James Comey, who was let go by President Donald J. Trump reportedly for botching the investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified emails.
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U-God Jumps on Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow" for New Song "Wu-Dak Yellow"
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To celebrate Cardi B's hit single "Bodak Yellow" becoming the No. 1 song on the Hot 100, Wu-Tang member U-God remixes the record for a new track titled "WU-Dak Yellow." U is as aggressive as ever.
"Who put a Wu nigga on this track, guess I'm going to slaughter you/And I had to rip this shit with bars on deck, minus the Auto-tune," raps U-God.
U-God recently announced that he's releasing his memoir, RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang Clan, early next year, with a scheduled release in March.
Last year, the Brownsville, Brooklyn native sued RZA and The Wu-Tang Clan for $2.5 million over unpaid royalties. U-God also revealed that he's dropping a new album titled Venom and released the titled track, which was produced by DJ Homicide and 1200 Warriors.
The Wu-Tang Clan are planning to release The Saga Continues, an 18-track album featuring appearances from RZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Inspektah Deck, Masta Killa and Redman, among others. U-God is not on the album.
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I have noticed multiple folders called mia*.tmp (~100) in my %programdata% folder. E.g.
Each folder contains various data and sub-folders to do with IA setups.
Since these folders end in 'tmp' are they temporary folders which can safely be deleted?
How did the folders get there in the first place, and is there a reason why IA is not automatically deleting them if they are temporary?
Still no explanation for this issue. However as of around about Oct 2018 (probably I updated IA then) also some newly produced folders with the names ~1, ~2, ~3, ... containing similar contents to the miaxxxx.tmp folders.
Last edited by Paul Guthrie on Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:34 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Did you ever get a reply on this, or a reason why it is happening?
I am seeing the same issue here in house as well as on some of my client's machines. Some of these folders are empty, and some have extracted setup files in them. Deleting them didn't seem to affect the uninstall of those products.
From testing, that folder is created when IA extracts the compressed setup program (I have a single self-extracting install). I haven't been able to reproduce the issue of the folder left behind; I've tried cancelling the install at various points, installing a previous version and having a later install version "upgrade" the older version. So far that directory is cleaned up. But at some point, it wasn't and I would like to know why.
no i never did get a reply. However it seems that they are not causing any harm except for taking up space, and the fact that they have a .TMP name would indicate that they should be able to be safely deleted.
Thanks for the follow-up; I'm still looking into this as it bothers me; hate leaving extra data around on the client's machine.
If I find out anything I'll let you know.
I'd be interested in solving this issue also, as I don't like the customers PC to keep those files, eventhough it's only space wasting.
Has the origin of these files ever been resolved? If not, I have some additional information.
1. These are not the folders used to cache the main install. those have a GUID name and are removed when the program is uninstalled.
2. On my system at least, these mia*.tmp files appear to contain the contents of filebags and program prerequisites. These folders are not removed when the program is uninstalled however, leaving over 2 GB of junk in the ProgramData folder.


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Magnified Healing established a constant flow of energy from your heart to the source, the GOD MOST HIGH OF THE UNIVERSE, through all of the spiritual centers, down to the diamond at the center of the Earth. The link spirals and brings a deep state of grace pulsing forth from the source, laying the vary foundation for the Ascension process.


National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): "Bitcoin is a Fork, Bitcoin Cash Is the Original Blockchain"
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a draft of its blockchain technology primer, and — consciously or not — it takes a controversial stand on the Bitcoin scaling debate.
As currently written, the 57-page "Blockchain Technology Overview" (Draft NISTIR 8202), which was published by the institute's Computer Security Resource Center (CRSC), claims that Bitcoin Cash –not Bitcoin — is the original blockchain created by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Clearly, this overview presents some factual errors. While advocates may claim that "Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin" and that the state of the original blockchain diverges from Satoshi's original vision for the cryptocurrency, there is no hiding the fact that Bitcoin Cash — not Bitcoin — was created through the August 1 hard fork.


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What is a newsletter "cure"? How voters can correct their ballots: NPR
September 27, 2022 by Robert Daruis
In this 2020 file photo, an election official sorts mail-in ballots at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections in Doral, Florida. Florida is one of about half of the U.S. states that have ballot hardening provisions.
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Many Americans are not familiar with how elections are conducted. And in recent years, disseminators have taken advantage of this lack of knowledge to cast doubt on certain aspects of the voting process.
In response, NPR's polling team offers a series of explanations on some of these election topics. This is the first. You can find all our stories here.
During major U.S. elections, hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots are routinely thrown away and left uncounted. In 2020, for example, more than 560,000 ballots were rejected (that's nearly 1% of the total).
Experts say ballot rejections are largely the result of relatively minor voter errors, often related to security measures designed to verify a voter's identity.
That's why about half of states have a process in place to help voters correct their mail-in ballots if they make a mistake. It is known as bulletin treatment.
To Wang, a fellow in democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School, says the 20 or so states without a due process leave their voters without much recourse if there's a problem with their ballot.
"The vote of someone who is an absolutely legitimate voter will not be counted because of what is usually just a technical error," she says.
Jose Altamirano, a graduate student in politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, says states that have a process, however, have significantly lower rates of rejected mail-in ballots.
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"Pretty consistent data shows that a certain number of voters would not have their absentee or mail-in ballots counted if it weren't for the voting remedy," he says.
In general, Altamirano says, states with a treatment process, ballot tracking and more accessible ballot dropout policies tend to reject a lower percentage of ballots in each election. But "if the state you live in has a more rigorous set of hoops to jump through to vote, the more likely your ballot will be rejected," he says.
Republican lawmakers, who are pushing for stricter rules on mail-in voting across the country, say those restrictions prevent fraud, although documented cases of voter fraud remain extremely rare.
Why ballots are rejected
Bulletin correction schedule
Who you are also matters
Voters make mistakes. Ballots are often not returned by the state-mandated deadline. But Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections at Common Cause, says many voters are also tripped up by mail-in voting requirements.
Depending on where you live, your state may require you to provide a signature that matches the one on file, voter identification information such as a driver's license, or a date.
She says all these "little checks" are opportunities for human error.
Plus, says Albert, voting at home means you're on your own for the most part.
"You don't have a poll worker there who can answer your questions or refer you to someone else who can help," she says. "You're just alone at your kitchen table."
Sometimes, Albert says, voters completely skip the field of providing their personal information or their signature. Other times, election officials have difficulty checking ID numbers or signatures against what's in their system.
Phil Keisling, president of the National Home Voting Institute and former Oregon secretary of state, says that's mostly because "voter signatures change" over time.
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"They may have signed years ago when they were young, they may have changed their signature, they may have had a health problem," he says.
Also, there's a lot of variety in how to tell if your ballot has been rejected.
Many states allow you to track your ballot with an online portal that shows you when your ballot was received and then processed. These sites will often notify you if your newsletter is rejected. Sometimes it will give a reason why.
But for the most part, voters are contacted directly by local election officials if their ballot has been rejected. This can be a letter or a call. Or in some cases, like Colorado, local officials may have a text message program to alert voters.
Some voters don't have access to landlines, don't check their mail often, or simply don't have constant access to the Internet.
That's why, says Harvard's Altamirano, how you know there's a problem with your ballot depends on who your local clerk is and where you live. He says some employees simply look up a number, mailing address or email address on file and send a notification that way — without checking to see if that contact information is up-to-date.
"Whereas in some other counties, local election officials did much more to reach out to voters — including trying to find them on social media to connect with them," Altamirano recalled.
Common Cause's Albert says it also depends on what it allows local officials to do when trying to reach voters.
"Some of that is set in state law," Albert says, "and some legislatures aren't really interested in giving election officials more leeway to reach those voters."
In this 2020 file photo, a person drops a vote-by-mail ballot into a drop box at the Clark County Elections Department in Las Vegas.
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If you live in a state that has a voting process, how much time you have depends on where you live.
Some states set a strict deadline tied to Election Day. So if you turn in your ballot close to Election Day, it is unlikely that you will be able to cure your ballot in time.
Other states give you a day or two after Election Day to correct your ballot; others give voters much more time. For example, Washington state gives voters up to 21 days after Election Day to correct their signature if there are problems.
Depending on where you live, you may need to either submit an entirely new ballot or send in some kind of statement or affidavit letting officials know that the ballot is actually yours.
Experts say one notable factor that influences ballot rejection has to do with who you are.
Harvard's Wang says a number of studies have found a disproportionate impact when it comes to rejecting mail-in ballots.
"People of color and young people are more likely to have their ballots rejected than others," she says. "And so especially for those groups that are already marginalized in the process in many ways, it's very important to give them the opportunity to have their ballots counted."
Even in states with lower ballot rejection rates, non-English speaking ballots are also more likely to be rejected than other voters.
Texas mail-in ballot rejections down since March primary:…
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Estonia's centennial year will go out with a bang with coordinated New Year's Eve celebrations across the country. Source: ev100.ee
New Year's Eve will mark the end of the Republic of Estonia's centennial year with a joint celebration titled "Full Speed Ahead, Estonia!" in 15 cities and towns across the country.
The centennial-concluding celebration will be held simultaneously in 15 towns and cities across Estonia: Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Narva, Rakvere, Jõhvi, Jõgeva, Paide, Kuressaare, Kärdla, Võru, Valga, Põlva, Rapla, and Haapsalu. All events will be free of charge.
"The centennial year has brought the people of Estonia closer together, and provided us with thousands of emotions," said Jaanus Rohumaa, head of the Government Office's Organising Committee of Estonia 100. "With this concluding party, we will be doing something that has never been done in Estonia before."
According to Mr Rohumaa, this celebration will be an expression of gratitude by the Estonian people to itself for a terrific centennial year. "The party is free of charge everywhere, and everyone is very much invited," he added.
"People will remember 2018 as a year of extraordinary events," said Maarja-Liisa Soe, head of programme on the organising committee. "Inspired by this, we are organising a final joint jubilee celebration, 'Full Speed Ahead, Estonia!' in Estonian town squares on 31 December. The final jubilee celebration will be held concurrently in 15 towns and cities across Estonia, kicking off our country's next 100 years."
During the day on Monday, the final joint dance of the Estonia 100 initiative Dancing Estonia will begin at 15:00 EET in the town squares of 16 towns and cities across Estonia: Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Narva, Rakvere, Viljandi, Jõhvi, Jõgeva, Paide, Kuressaare, Kärdla, Võru, Valga, Põlva, Rapla, and Haapsalu. Steps to the dance will be taught to all participants on site beginning at 14:00.
The final anniversary celebrations will begin at 23:00 at the latest in all participating towns and cities across the country. Click here for more information.
The centennial period of the Republic of Estonia will officially run through 2 February 2020, marking the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Tartu Peace Treaty. In 2019, events will focus primarily on Estonia's War of Independence.
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Why won't political aides watch what they post on social media?
By Julian Hattem - 02/15/15 10:30 AM EST
How can political aides be so stupid?
In an increasingly digital world, staffers continue to post embarrassing and offensive things on their social media accounts. For a few hours the comments get spun around through the news cycle and, in the end, the aides predictably lose their jobs.
Most recently it was Ethan Czahor, the chief technology officer to Jeb Bush's political action committee who resigned on Tuesday over years-old tweets that referred to women as "sluts," among other comments. .
The week before, a senior advisor to Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) stepped down over Facebook posts that compared African-American people to "zoo animals."
Shouldn't they have known better?
Despite the seemingly common knowledge not to over-share on the Internet, a mix of oversized egos on Capitol Hill and the Web's powers of preservation consistently conspire to doom political careers over a couple of poorly planned tweets.
"The place doesn't lack for narcissism," one former Senate aide told The Hill, and social media "plays to the worst sort of instincts in politicos."
Like other staffers, the ex-aide was granted anonymity in order to speak freely about their experiences.
Politics is necessarily an ego-driven industry. In a town where every job is only as secure as the next election cycle, people with a tendency to self-promote and make themselves popular can often have an easier time staying employed.
Sometimes, that drive is bigger than the job.
"There are a lot of egos on the Hill," one House Democratic aide said, "and people might feel like they need attention rather than just drawing attention to their boss."
"There's a risk versus reward," added the ex-Senate aide. The same tweet that could get someone in trouble may also make them a "'fun' political brand in town."
In some cases, cultivating an online following of reporters and policy experts can be an explicit part of someone's job, as a way to get the lawmaker's message out. But that turns into a problem when the same account becomes a venue for both work messaging and the steam they blow off after-hours.
It's not unique to social media. But the same off-color joke that would normally disappear at the end of happy hour takes on a new life when it is etched forever on the data servers of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
One Senate staffer remembered that before the rise of social media, aides would remind each other: "Hey if you're going out to the Hawk and Dove or something, just remember that you never know if the guy sitting next to you is a reporter," referring to a popular bar steps from the Capitol.
"If people weren't saying dumb things on social media, they'd find other mediums to say and do dumb things," the staffer said.
Political aides are hardly unique for their poor judgment.
Just this week, a Pennsylvania teenager was arrested for murder after taking a selfie with their alleged murder victim.
The New York Times Magazine devoted 4,500 words to the story of a communications professional whose life was "ruined" when she tweeted in 2013: "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
Like that 2013 incident, the outrage about political aides' missteps often seem all the more justified because of the public consensus that they should have known better.
"We live in a political environment, so I think we're especially scrutinized and the onus is on us even more so to ensure that we're not misrepresenting our employer," said another Capitol Hill aide.
It's not like they don't try.
Many congressional offices make clear in one form or another that aides need to watch what they post online. Some have employee handbooks that give out general ground rules for what people should and shouldn't do with their personal accounts, and others make it clear that anything they post on their own accounts could reflect on their boss.
"We use the rule 'would you be comfortable with the boss seeing your tweet or post?'" the House Democratic aide said. "If the answer is no, then you shouldn't do it."
Even interns get the memo, they added.
And every new scandal only reaffirms the need for them to clean up their act.
But while some might be getting the message, it only takes one misstep to cause a furor. With thousands of staffers on Capitol Hill and aides around the country gearing up for the 2016 elections, it's clear that the trend won't end.
Before the latest flaps it was Rep. Stephen Fincher Stephen Lee FincherTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Lamar Alexander's exit marks end of an era in evolving Tennessee Tensions on immigration erupt in the House GOP MORE's (R-Tenn.) communications director who told President Obama's daughters to "try showing a little class" during the pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey last year.
In 2013, a spokesman to Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) was fired for tweeting "Me likey Broke Girls" after a racy ad for the CBS sitcom "2 Broke Girls" during the Super Bowl.
In 2011, Rep. Rick Larsen Richard (Rick) Ray LarsenActing FAA chief defends agency's Boeing 737 Max safety certification Pelosi, Dems struggle to find unity in Mueller response Biden holds lead in 2020 endorsements MORE (D-Wash.) fired three staffers for tweeting about drinking on the job and trying to avoid their "idiot boss."
"We're all sort of struggling and navigating this world for the first time," said Scott Talan, a communications professor at American University who focuses on social media and personal branding.
"In another decade or two we'll have a much better sense of what is to be done with the Web, how to interact [and] etiquette on the Web," he added. "We're not yet there."
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Global Birthrate 2022
06-Jun-2022 by Jeff McNeill
The global birthrate continues it's ongoing descent. In some countries there has been a dramatic drop due to covid, such as in the Philippines whose annual births in 2019 were 1.5 million, and which dropped to 900,000 and 400,000 in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
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In 2021 the birthrate of Thailand dipped below the deathrate. Significant declines in birthrate precipitated since the 2012 coup, declining every year since 2013. The years 2018 and 2019 had a similar decline to that of 2020 and 2021, ~5% and ~7% for each set of years. Thailand soon will be or is now at peak population of just over 70 million. It is expected to decline to 45 million by 2100. Indeed, the birthrate dropped below the deathrate in 2021.
China has dropped to 0.73 births per female, as people declare themselves to be the last generation, a meme that the Chinese government is intent on suppressing. The birthrate declined by nearly 30% from 2020-2021. China now has the lowest birthrate since 1949. If this continues, even with an increase in life expectancy, China will halve its population from 1.4bn to 730m by 2100. It is expected to reach peak population from 1.45bn to 1.55bn in 2030, though the decline may accelerate due to the trends of the last two years. There are certain reports that due to the dramatic reduction in the birthrate, China may reach peak population this year.
In the UK, trends continued with only a temporary impact from lockdowns.
Russia continues its downward trend and there is speculation that the war in Ukraine and the resulting economic backlash will have a very negative effect on the birthrate.
India is now at a replacement level birthrate, announced in late 2021. It is expected to go from 1.4bn up to 1.7bn and down to 1.5bn by 2100. India will eclipse China as the most populous country quite soon. Even with India's own birthrate reduction, the Chinese birthrate is collapsing even faster.
In the United States there is ongoing birthrate decline, however immigration increases overall population growth to around a half percent per year, even with the impact from Covid, which was significant.
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We're all born with gifts, but we struggle to identify them, how to use or gifts and when to use them.
I connected with a friend online recently who has a way with words - her writings are thought provoking and moving. I encouraged her to write more - perhaps in the form of a blog. She expressed some uncertainty and fear about taking the next step.
As I thought about her situation, I was reminded that the Lord has given all of us gifts and talents to be used. Both grow with effectiveness when utilized and are intended to be used on behalf of others to help each other. They are not meant for selfish purposes or to be hoarded.
There is a distinction between gifts and talents as the gifts mentioned in the new testament are spiritual gifts imparted to us once we are believers. But we may also have natural talents and gifts also that we were born with or discovered along life's journey. The difference is in how we have received them but the Bible can lend some insight on how we use our gifts (natural or spiritual) and talents.
First and foremost our gifts and talents should be used. There are to be used in love, to help each other and with grace. Our gifts aren't simply given to us to hold on to because if we don't use what we have been given naturally - the need is still there and others will come along and fill that need. It may be harder for them - but the need will be met.
When you have a gift or talent, the skill associated with it comes easily to you. You're almost baffled that others don't see things the way you do, and no matter how you oversimplify or explain, it will never be as simple to the other person...because they don't have that gift or talent. This is a measure of grace.
Our natural gifts and talents may coincide and work in sync with our spiritual gifts. For example, I've discovered that I'm a runner and I seem to know how to encourage people. So if I'm jogging with a group and I see someone struggling, I can run alongside them and encourage them. This person may be so touched by what I did, that they may be curious about other aspects of my life. It may provide an opportunity for them to get to know the Christ in me whether by speaking to me or coming to church with me. Ironically, some may think that this is not special and everyone can encourage (or everyone can run). But everyone can't. We tend to minimize what we are blessed with. Once we recognize our gifts and talents, we shouldn't get hung up on the fact that we have the gift, but rather look for ways to use them. Our gifts and talents can be manifested in many ways; there's no limit on how you can use your gifts and might I add, no timeline. Use them for His Glory until you can't use them anymore.
We have gifts and we have talents and abilities - all come from the same Source but we still need to exercise the option of using them. Same source, different measure for each person.
The giver of all gifts - spiritual or natural, and talents is God. If your fearful about exercising what you have been blessed with, step out in faith and use it. You may be surprised at where it will take you.
Are you struggling with using your gifts or talents?
P.S. This post was inspired by a message I heard on Sunday.


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Q: CALayer Rotation animation is not working on presented ViewController I have two view controllers (i.e firstVC and secondVC). I am presenting secondVC over firstVC and trying to achieve rotation animation but it's not working, I have tried running animation on the main thread with some delay but it's giving weird behavior. Following is the code I am using to rotate the view.
extension UIView {

private static let kRotationAnimationKey = "rotationanimationkey"

func rotate(duration: Double = 1, delay: Int = 0) {
    if layer.animation(forKey: UIView.kRotationAnimationKey) == nil {
        let rotationAnimation = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "transform.rotation")

        rotationAnimation.fromValue = 0.0
        rotationAnimation.toValue = Float.pi * 2.0
        rotationAnimation.duration = duration
        rotationAnimation.repeatCount = Float.infinity

        DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + .seconds(delay)) {
            self.layer.add(rotationAnimation, forKey: UIView.kRotationAnimationKey)
        }
    }
}

func stopRotating() {
    if layer.animation(forKey: UIView.kRotationAnimationKey) != nil {
        layer.removeAnimation(forKey: UIView.kRotationAnimationKey)
    }
}}

Note: By pushing 'secondVC' animation is working properly. But I wanted to present 'secondVC'.
I am not getting what's happening during the presentation of the view controller and rotation animation.
Please let me know if you find any solution.

A: For using custom presentation transition you have to confirm to UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate. UIKit always call animationController(forPresented:presenting:source:) to see if a UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning is returned. If it is returning nil then default animation is used.


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on severance
An apocalyptic satire about a plague that turns people into mindless drones, Severance follows a millennial photoblogger as she navigates a world stripped of choice and feeling.
Released in August by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Severance is the debut novel of Ling Ma, who, after being laid off from her publishing job, wrote the book while living on severance pay. The novel ostensibly is a post-apocalyptic tale about the aftermath of the global onset of Shen Fever, a plague that strips people of conscious choice, turns them into nonviolent zombies, and makes them mindlessly repeat their daily routines until death. In spite of the straightforward and semi-familiar premise, though, Ma in fact has created a thought-provoking collage of genres: workplace satire, immigrant narrative, coming-of-age story, zombie novel.
In the main plot, former photoblogger and publishing assistant Candace Chen joins a group of survivors trying to reach a safe haven from the fever in Chicago. Along the way, Candace struggles to conceal a secret about her health, while also trying not to quarrel with the group's self-appointed leader, a self-righteous former IT worker named Bob. The post-apocalyptic landscape Ma sketches is not lurid or dystopian, as you might expect, but unbearably familiar, filled with rules and routines. Even the way the survivors encounter zombies follows a strict protocol. Try as Bob might to mystify the group's situation through longwinded speeches, Candace's affectless account of the journey makes it clear that the world after the plague is as banal as what preceded it.
Interspersed between these chapters are ones recounting the lives of Candace's parents, who immigrated to Salt Lake City from China early in their child's life, as well as ones describing Candace's coming-of-age in New York and her frequent business trips to factories in Shenzhen. Candace details at length her feelings of aimlessness and professional discontent, and she paints a vivid portrait of her parents' tense marriage. As wry as Ma's take on the apocalypse can be, her writing is at its best when it focuses on the complexities of close relationships and the malaise of millennial life, and these chapters often outshine the main storyline.
Much of the novel's bleak satire comes from the connections Ma draws between her trio of plots. Candace picks up photoblogging upon moving to New York, only to drop it after receiving little notice; after Shen Fever hits, she resumes and captures the attention of survivors across the world, captivated by the presence of suffering in otherwise generic photos. In her life before the plague, Candace works for a publishing company that regularly exploits Chinese labor to churn out special editions of Bibles, while her parents embraced Christianity upon immigration to America, as a way to enter the nation's social life. Severance rarely is funny, but it is clever.
The audiobook, narrated by Nancy Wu, expertly replicates Candace's voice: droll, sardonic, deliberate. Wu captures the subtlety of the novel's humor, while also preserving its meditative tone. In spite of how much I enjoyed the narration, I often felt like the audiobook moved too slowly at its default speed, and frequently found myself listening to it at 1.5x, and even 1.75x, its normal pace. The novel takes a little under ten hours to finish, but the stories move so quickly that the time easily passes.
Although the ending of Severance isn't quite as strong as the rest of the novel, most of it is extraordinarily well written, and it offers an inventive take on a well-worn premise. It easily is one of the most promising debuts I've read this year, and I'm looking forward to seeing what Ma writes next.
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collenerenee says:
Found your review on Google while trying to decide to commit to this book. Thanks for the review, I just picked up the book 🙂
Also – I keep trying to follow you and I don't think it's going through.
Hm, I've received a notification that you've followed me—for some reason your blog doesn't have the "follow" button in the app, but I'll check the site. Is your url lifejunkie.wordpress.com?
Got it finally! No, it's Collenerenee.wordpress.com 🙂
Just found it! Looking forward to following your posts 🙂
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An All Too Familiar Story
Stanley Kaminski, Englishman Charlie Hunnam ("Pacific Rim", "The Gentlemen"), Walter 'Lion' Kaminski, Englishman Jack O'Connell ("Money Monster", "Unbroken") are down on their luck.
Stanley owes Pepper, Jonathan Majors ("White Boy Rick", "Da 5 Bloods"), a lot of money and Pepper is not the sort of man you want to owe money to.
Lion is a bareknuckle fighter and Pepper offers them both a way out of their predicament, enter Jungleland, a no-holds barred fight with $100,000 top prize.
All Stanley and Lion must do, mainly Stanley as he's the overbearing brother, is take Sky, Englishwoman Jessica Barden ("Mindhorn", "The Lobster"), somewhere first. Pepper insists, Stanley does not have much choice.
However, Sky isn't who Pepper says she is and where the boys are taking her means she'll most likely be killed, but if they don't, they'll be killed.
Lion was on course to be a great boxer, but lost his license after Stanley tried to bribe a referee. Now, he fights on his brothers' instance, he'd sooner setup a dry cleaners.
Stanley ends up in the clutches of Yates, the man who wants Sky for himself, and it is up to Lion to rescue him, which he does, violently. This may have been ok, except that, whilst fleeing, Stanley drops his ID, of course.
This will come to bite him, badly, later and tee's things up for a Rocky-esq comeback fight, stirring music and brotherly love scene.
If I sound cynical, it's because I am. From the start Jungleland feels off. It's slow, the three main protagonists are all British but playing American's and it's all set in America.
"It's just acting", yeah, I know, and that's usually my argument, but we seem to be getting upset about everything these days and this does feel particularly odd, I mean, it's not as if there's a shortage of American actors.
That's not to say Hunnam, O'Connell and Barden are bad, far from it, O'Connell is great in particular, it still just feels odd.
Then there's the story which isn't anything new; overbearing brother, woman arrives and the scene and upsets the apple cart, big brother gets a chance at redemption. Meh. Seen it all before and, whilst this is well acted, it doesn't bring anything new.
There is a fabulous cameo from John Cullum as Yates. Fans of Northern Exposure will know Cullum as Holling Vincoeur, the bar owner, and here he plays a villain in that old man menacing way Hollywood seems to think villains go as they get older.
Jungleland could have been great, should have been great, but, despite some fine performances, a rousing soundtrack and it being all nicely put together, the story is all too familiar.
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