When you hear the term "room service," you may think of a luxury offering at a fancy resort. While this image wouldn't be incorrect, many healthcare facilities across the United States are altering the public's perception of room service by offering their patients the ability to order restaurant-style food on-demand.
Research has shown that facilities with a room service program in place can achieve higher patient satisfaction scores, as well as reduced food waste. In fact, according to a recent study conducted by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, one healthcare facility in Australia was able to increase its patient satisfaction ratings across all Press Ganey categories by implementing a room service program. In addition, this facility was able to reduce overall plate waste drastically. Given the improvements a room service program can provide, it's hard to believe that only 38% of healthcare facilities currently have a room service program in place today.
So how can you get ahead of the curve and gain a competitive advantage with the implementation of a room service program? We've got you covered. This article will provide you with everything you need to know about room service programs in healthcare, and tips to get you started with a successful room service program of your own.
When your patients enter your facility, they do not stop being human beings. As you know, humans like the ability to make their own decisions regarding food choice. A successful room service program will allow your patients to order restaurant-quality food, and have it delivered in 45 minutes or less. This elevated level of service will provide your patients with a sense of empowerment to eat when they want, and what they want and this, in turn, leads to increased patient satisfaction scores.
When it comes to room service increasing patient satisfaction scores, there's proof behind the pudding. According to Food Service Equipment & Supplies, the implementation of a successful room service program can lift customer satisfaction scores to the 90th or even 99th percentile, which can transform the entire image of a facility for the better.
As a food service worker, you understand the importance of reducing plate waste. Giving your patients the ability to choose their meals from a restaurant-style menu could be the answer to drastically decreasing food waste. In fact, a recent study by the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that a room service program can reduce plate waste by more than 29%. That number is hard to deny.
As we previously discussed, a room service program allows patients to eat what they want, when they want, (within dietary restrictions). This sense of empowerment usually results in patients eating better and thus improving their overall nutritional intake. A recent study by the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that a room service program can enhance patient dietary intake by 17%. It's important to remember that healthy patients equal happy patients. If a room service program can help you increase the well-being of your patients, implementing such a program at your facility is a no-brainer.
When patients order what they want, and how much they want, fewer meals are returned uneaten, which results in reduced patient meal costs. According to Sodexo, facilities that implemented successful room service programs saved between $7 and $8 per patient per day. A separate study by the Journal of the Academy of Nutritional and Dietetics found that a room service program can decrease overall patient meal costs by 15%. Given these numbers, the potential savings your facility could experience by implementing a room service program is something upper-management will have a hard time overlooking.
Implementing a room service program is hard work, and it will take proper planning. The decision to transform your foodservice program should not be taken lightly. So where do you begin? We've got some tips to help get you started.
Before you jump into starting a room service program, it's important to make sure the switch is right for your facility. Things such as labor needs, equipment, software requirements, finances, facility space, and stakeholder buy-in should be accessed before investing money in the transformation. Seek the answers to the following questions to help you determine if implementing a room service program is a smart move for your facility.
What does staff think about the switch?
Do you have a leadership strategy?
Do you have the infrastructure and communication lines in place to support the transformation, or will you need to invest resources to create this infrastructure?
Do you have an experienced culinary team that is ready to take on the endeavor, or will you need to hire industry professionals?
Do you have the necessary software in place to successfully run a room service program?
Do you have experienced customer service personnel in place to run and manage the program once it is implemented?
Can your kitchen be modified from the traditional trayline to galley-style cooking and serving areas essential for the room service concept?
The key to starting a successful room service program is making sure everyone at your organization is on board and accepts and believes in the idea. At the core, a room service program will change the way your facility approaches patient care. Implementing a successful program will require all departments at your facility to work in coordination to bring delicious, safe, and high-quality meals to your patients. You may find it challenging to work around everyone's busy schedules, but the time and effort will pay off in the end. You should aim at having one meeting per week with key stakeholders to get the project off the ground and if you find yourself in need of some additional expertise, one of our four teams may be able to hammer out some of the gritty details that sway management's opinion.
Did your labor costs increase significantly?
What changes did you have to make concerning equipment and physical space?
How much did you budget for new equipment and new staff?
What did you do if you did not have the culinary talent present at your facility to support a successful room service program?
What effect does your room service program have on your staff's morale?
What effect does your room service program have on patient satisfaction?
Did you have to invest in additional software to support the program?
What training did you conduct to get your staff ready for the transformation?
Did you enlist the services of a consultant to help you make the switch? If so, do you have a recommendation for us?
Creating delicious and nutritious food is critical to the success of your room service program. That's why it's essential to have the right people in place to run your kitchen. If you do not have classically trained chefs working at your facility, you will want to hire an executive chef to help build your program. This individual must have exceptional knowledge and passion for food, as well as experience in production management, customer service, and leadership. In addition to hiring an executive chef, you will need to implement a culinary recruitment program to help you find trained and experienced cooks with backgrounds in the restaurant and hospitality industries. You cannot afford to settle for cooks without experience. The success of your room service program will depend on you hiring the right talent from the start.
Before you can launch a successful room service program, you need to establish production procedures and have structures in place to help you navigate through daily tasks once the program is launched. Consider creating daily production sheets, food standards, portion and waste control sheets, and cleaning checklists. Having these elements ingrained in the daily routine will lead to success for years to come.
One thing that can make running a room service program much easier is automation. If you have the capital funds necessary to purchase software to help you automate this service, highly consider it. Automation can provide your organization and patients with greater flexibility in food offerings, as well as offer repeating room service deliveries, daily specials, and even tv meal ordering. Automation can save you time and money and be a high selling point for potential patients and their families.
Before attempting to implement a room service program on your own, consider enlisting our services to help you make the switch less painful. Our consultation teams can bring forth a wealth of knowledge and experience and can help you stay on track to complete milestones like equipment recommendations and POD system layout drawings of your kitchen. They can even assist with developing menus, recipes, policies, and procedures, and also assist with the implementation of training programs. An experienced culinary or custom design team can save your facility a significant amount of time and stress during your foodservice transformation and increase the likelihood that your program is a success.
Most healthcare operators state that you don't need a lot of equipment to start a room service program; however, if you're serious about starting a room service program, you need to make sure you have the necessary equipment in place to aid in your success. From foodservice delivery carts and non-skid meal trays to food storage bins, condiment caddies, and silverware sleeves, we have you covered. Consider these high-quality foodservice items to help make your transformation to room service a successful one.
To keep your residents happy, you must invest in a quiet room service delivery cart so you do not disrupt your resting residents when you're out for delivery. The TQ Supreme meal delivery cart is the perfect solution. This meal delivery cart encompasses a sound dampening design, and magnetic door lock to ensure you will not disrupt your resting patients after-hours. In addition, this aesthetically pleasing, noise canceling room service delivery cart can enhance the hospitality of your foodservice program by bringing a hotel-like atmosphere to your facility. Best of all, the TQ Supreme foodservice cart can be customized with your logo or other artwork.
Slipping trays are a top concern within the healthcare foodservice industry. Dinex's fiberglass non-slip meal trays will help you create beautiful setups and save money by eliminating the need for paper tray covers. In fact, Dinex non-skid meal delivery trays could save your facility over one ton of paper waste per 100 beds per year! Keep more money in your pocket in 2018 and help out the environment by ordering Dinex non-skid food trays for your facility. Order your non-skid trays online today.
Elevate patient dining experiences and modernize your entire traytop presentation and serve more appetizing meals with our Fenwick Insulated Wares collection. Increase patient satisfaction scores with the sleek, sculptured design of Fenwick. Available in a variety of attractive color choices including our new contemporary Graphite.
Keeping food stored at safe temperatures is a top concern for every healthcare foodservice provider. If you need to keep milk or other cold beverages at the correct temperature during meal delivery, look no further than Coldmaster®. These insulated food pans can hold food at or below the food safe temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit for up to 8 hours. When drinks are no longer safe, the containers will change color from blue to white. Coldmaster® CoolCheck's color changing technology can give you peace of mind knowing that patients will always receive ice cold drinks. Take the stress out of meal delivery and prepare by ordering your Coldmaster® CoolCheck food pans today!
No room service program would be complete without condiment caddies. A condiment caddy will help you organize condiments and save precious space atop your meal delivery cart, while upgrading the look of your room service program. Order your batch of condiment caddies online now.
Keep your utensils clean and provide an upscale look with our high-quality cutlery caddies. Our cutlery caddies are unique printed sleeves that come pre-loaded with a two-ply 16" by 16" Trimline napkin. Ordering silverware caddies can help reduce your labor costs associated with wrapping utensils, increase trayline efficiency, and eliminate the number of lost utensils during transport. Our beautiful silverware caddies come in three designs and are incredibly affordable. Order your set of cutlery caddies today!
Implementing a successful room service program at your facility will not be an easy undertaking. It will take considerable planning, time, and resources. While starting a room service program can be challenging, there are things you can do to make your transformation easier. It's important to keep in mind that a food service program may result in higher up-front costs, but the potential long-term savings associated with the implementation of such a program cannot be ignored. If you are ready to implement a room service program at your facility, check out all the foodservice equipment options we have to offer that can help you take your program to the next level.


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Blackstone Mortgage Trust Reports First Quarter 2021 Results
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April 28, 2021, 7:02 AM ·4 min read
Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. (NYSE:BXMT) today reported its first quarter 2021 results.
Stephen D. Plavin, Chief Executive Officer, said, "BXMT's first quarter demonstrated the strong momentum we have established on both sides of the balance sheet. We closed $1.7 billion of high-quality new loans, growing our portfolio by nearly $700 million, and we continued to optimize and diversify our balance sheet, ideally positioning BXMT to capture the next wave of investment opportunities."
Blackstone Mortgage Trust issued a full presentation of its first quarter 2021 results, which can be viewed at www.bxmt.com.
Quarterly Investor Call Details
Blackstone Mortgage Trust will host a conference call today at 9:00 a.m. ET to discuss results. To register for the webcast, please use the following link: https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1447802&tp_key=ae83863b18. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a recorded replay will be available on the company's website at www.bxmt.com beginning approximately two hours after the event.
About Blackstone Mortgage Trust
Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT) is a real estate finance company that originates senior loans collateralized by commercial real estate in North America, Europe, and Australia. Our investment objective is to preserve and protect shareholder capital while producing attractive risk-adjusted returns primarily through dividends generated from current income from our loan portfolio. Our portfolio is composed primarily of loans secured by high-quality, institutional assets in major markets, sponsored by experienced, well-capitalized real estate investment owners and operators. These senior loans are capitalized by accessing a variety of financing options, depending on our view of the most prudent strategy available for each of our investments. We are externally managed by BXMT Advisors L.L.C., a subsidiary of Blackstone. Further information is available at www.bxmt.com.
About Blackstone
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) is one of the world's leading investment firms. Blackstone seeks to create positive economic impact and long-term value for its investors, the companies it invests in, and the communities in which it works. Blackstone does this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Blackstone's asset management businesses, with $649 billion in assets under management, include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow Blackstone on Twitter @Blackstone.
Forward-Looking Statements and Other Matters
This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect Blackstone Mortgage Trust's current views with respect to, among other things, Blackstone Mortgage Trust's operations and financial performance and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. You can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as "outlook," "objective," "indicator," "believes," "expects," "potential," "continues," "may," "will," "should," "seeks," "predicts," "intends," "plans," "estimates," "anticipates" or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. Blackstone Mortgage Trust believes these factors include but are not limited to those described under the section entitled "Risk Factors" in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, as such factors may be further updated from time to time in its periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") which are accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this release and in the filings. Blackstone Mortgage Trust assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events or circumstances.
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Digital India Awards 2018: Here is how to apply
Digital India Awards: The Government of India has been bracing for innovation and transformation in the delivery of information/services with the adoption of best ICT practices. Almost every Government department is trying to make services accessible and integrated into citizens. It's time to recognize these e-governance initiatives.
Today, citizens can explore diverse services with a few clicks of the mouse. A number of e-Governance initiatives have been undertaken by the State Governments and Central Ministries on a continuous basis to improve the delivery and accessibility of public services. The National Portal of India provides an ideal front-end for these initiatives as it is a single window access to information and services being provided by the various Indian Government entities. In order to promote more innovative e-governance initiatives, the Digital India Awards have been instituted under the ambit of the National Portal of India. The awards also aim to spread awareness about such initiatives.
Nomination Eligibility
Central Government Ministries/ Departments/ Offices/ Institutions, State Government Departments/ Offices/ Institutions, District Administrations and Indian Missions Abroad are eligible to apply for the Digital India Awards. A project may be nominated for more than one category.
The Digital India Awards aim at encouraging Government entities, which have made significant contributions towards the implementation of e-Governance and shown an exemplary & innovative approach to achieve administrative efficiency and transparency.
All entries should be submitted online in the prescribed performa. The nomination should be supported by an Authorisation Certificate as per the prescribed format, duly signed by the respective nominating authority. A scanned copy of the certificate should be submitted online and original to be sent by post to the National Portal Secretariat.
Categories For Digital India Awards
Web Ratna – MINISTRY / DEPT.
The Award shall felicitate a Ministry or Department of the Government of India which has a comprehensive web presence and displays the level of accountability in terms of quantity, quality, the spectrum of coverage, integration with electronic authentication and digital payments. Level of convenience provided to the citizen for availing the services, usability, accessibility and citizen engagement for decision making would also be assessed.
Note: Nomination is expected from each Web Information Manager; nevertheless, other Ministries/Departments may also be evaluated.
Web Ratna – STATE / UT
The Award aims to acknowledge the State/UT of India for displaying exemplary initiative in establishing a comprehensive web presence and display the level of accountability in terms of quantity, quality, the spectrum of coverage, integration with electronic authentication and digital payments. Level of convenience provided to the citizen for availing the services, usability, accessibility and citizen engagement for decision making would also be assessed.
Note: Nomination is expected from each Web Information Manager; nevertheless, other States/UTs may also be evaluated. Special Award would be conferred to the participating North East States.
Web Ratna District
To reward the accomplishments of the District administration which has displayed exemplary focus on providing comprehensive information to the citizens. Entries must display the level of convenience provided to the citizen for availing the information in terms of accessibility, quality and spectrum of coverage highlighting the important facets of the districts in terms of tourism, art, culture, handicraft and access to utilities.
Note: Special Award would be conferred to the participating North East Districts.
Outstanding Digital initiative by the Local body
The Award aims to felicitate outstanding Local Body initiative with a focus on providing exemplary information quality, the extent of services provisioning by assessing the service maturity level, service catalogue, transparency, cost-effectiveness and efficiency enhancement in terms of service delivery. The entries would also be assessed on the level of convenience or empowerment provided to the citizen through the initiative. Integration with electronic authentication and digital payments features will also be assessed.
Exemplary Online Service
The Award shall facilitate those ICT based services by a Government Department (Central/State) which have displayed exemplary citizen focus, reach, scope and innovation in approach. The service should have effectively contributed to an enhancement in efficiency, productivity as well as in imparting transparency and accountability in the governance process. The entries should display the extent of service maturity, and the convenience provided to the citizen for availing the services. The extent of integration with electronic authentication, digital payments and digi locker will be evaluated. Citizen participation in decision making is desirable.
Best Mobile App
India is going mobile. More people today are accessing the internet on their phone than ever before. The Award aims to honour the Best Mobile App launched by a Government entity. The nominated app should have a well designed and intuitive mobile interface. The entry should also display ease of use and personalisation features. Usability, content organisation and availability on multiple platforms will be considered. Backend dashboards and analytics functionality are desirable.
Open Data Champion
Open Data Championship Award is to acknowledge the Ministries/Departments/Organizations/States for the proactive, timely and regular release of datasets/resources through Web Services/APIs on the Open Government Data (OGD) Platform (https://data.gov.in) in compliance with the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP). The selection criteria primarily focused on the overall release of datasets/resources through Web Services/APIs and consumption by the public at large apart from views, downloads, usability, etc. Potential usage of such datasets/resources for Open Data for Innovations would be an added advantage.
Note: Nomination is expected from Chief Data Officers; nevertheless, other Ministries/ Depts./ Organizations/ States may also be evaluated.
The award honours those digital initiatives that have made exemplary use of emerging technologies in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Virtual Reality, BlockChain, Internet of things, Voice user interface or Big Data & Analytics. The initiative must be successfully running and should have reached a substantial level of implementation at the time of filing the nomination.


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'The training must go on!' – Glyn Trefor-Jones on teaching drama socially distanced
Teachers and students returning to school this month are having to get to grips with a 'new normal' of bubbles, masks, and social distancing. The constraints caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic make teaching any subject trickier – but perhaps none more so than drama.
That's why director, writer and teacher Glyn Trefor-Jones has created Drama Menu at a Distance: a new follow-up to his bestselling first book, Drama Menu, which has been written specifically for all those teaching drama during COVID-19. Here, he discusses how even in these unprecedented times, training the next generation must continue – and how his new book can help.
Since the COVID‐19 pandemic began spreading across the world in 2020, we have faced challenges like never before. For those of us who teach and lead drama classes and workshops, it must be our priority to do so in a safe, secure, healthy way – whilst also observing social distancing, in order to protect our students and halt the spread of the disease. But, as the old adage goes… the show must go on! At a time when performers are needed more than ever, training the next generation of performers must also go on!
For however long we must keep our distance, we will continue to create, to reinvent, to strive and to feed our creativity. Performers are resilient and resourceful and we won't let a little thing like distance come between us and the drama.
This is where my new book, Drama Menu at a Distance, comes in. It contains eighty games and exercises that offer fun, creative, learning experiences without the need to get up close and personal. Several exercises have been adapted from my first book, the highly popular Drama Menu, due to their appropriateness for socially distanced play, whilst the rest are new exercises that have been devised with distance in mind. Even at a distance, drama training can still be vibrant, engaging, energising and extremely rewarding – and these exercises set out to increase every player's performance abilities as well as respecting the rules of social distancing.
For those of you familiar with the Drama Menu concept, you'll find that the format of the new book remains the same. The eighty exercises are categorised into menu‐inspired 'courses' that increase in difficulty (and dramatic potential) as you progress through the book. You will find the same progressive approach to theatre training, with exercises categorised into ever‐more engaging courses. Just like a menu in a restaurant, you should choose one exercise from each course (or two if you're feeling hungry) until you have a satisfying feast ready to be consumed!
Throughout the book there are also a great many exercises which are particularly useful as they can be employed in a physical setting and, with a bit of adaptation and ingenuity, in a virtual/digital workshop as well.
Social distancing must not be seen as an end to creativity. In fact, the current restrictions may prove to be the catalyst for untold invention if we embrace what's possible, rather than lamenting what has been (temporarily) lost. Developing a new way of teaching and leading our students will only serve to broaden all of our horizons, if we have the courage to look towards a whole new world of dramatic possibilities just waiting to be discovered.
The global pandemic has provided an opportunity like never before to rethink the old, and bring a new approach to teaching drama. The more we allow ourselves to embrace these opportunities, the more creativity will emerge during this unprecedented time. So, let's make this period one that will be forever regarded as a time when teaching was reimagined and rediscovered – and our students emerged stimulated, challenged, reinvigorated.
My hope is that Drama Menu at a Distance plays its part in reinventing what is possible within the drama session. When we are able to come together again, and the restrictions of social distancing are a distant memory, I trust that drama practitioners and players alike will be better, stronger and more resilient for the experience. By navigating this time with imagination and open minds, when the curtain rises on a new era of live performance, there will be a whole generation of inventive, imaginative, well‐rounded and resilient performers primed to take to the stage. At whatever distance, they will be ready once more to bring joy to our lives.
Until that time, stay positive, stay creative and stay safe.
This is an edited extract from Drama Menu at a Distance: 80 Socially Distanced or Online Theatre Games by Glyn Trefor-Jones.
Save 20% when you order your copy direct from publishers Nick Hern Books here.
To get a flavour of the book, you can download and keep four games – completely for free – in the Taster Pack, available here.
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As you probably know, shades can help to protect your home from harmful UV rays that can cause furnishings and flooring to fade over time. They also help to keep the homes cooler by reducing the heat that comes through windows. However, there are other benefits that you may not consider.
Shades can help to protect your home from prying eyes. When an intruder is considering breaking into your home, they usually want to do this when there is no one there. Looking through windows and checking for a car in the driveway or garage are two of the ways they determine if the home is occupied or not.
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(CTN NEWS) – SAN FRANCISCO – Elon Musk appeared in court on Friday to defend a tweet from 2018 in which he claimed to have secured the finance to take Tesla private in a deal that was never close to materializing.
A $40 million settlement with securities regulators followed the tweet. A class action lawsuit that claimed he had deceived investors soon followed, bringing him before the court on Friday.
On the third day of a civil trial in San Francisco, his lawyer unsuccessfully attempted to move to Texas, where Tesla is now headquartered.
On the theory that media coverage of his turbulent takeover of Twitter had tainted the jury pool, the mercurial billionaire took the witness stand wearing a dark suit.
Documents related to the class-action lawsuit on behalf of investors who owned Tesla stock in August 2018 are carried toward a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
The decision on whether two tweets Musk made on August 7, 2018, within the 10 days preceding his admission that the buyout he had envisioned was not going to happen hurt Tesla shareholders will be made by the nine-person jury that was selected earlier this week.
As part of the Securities and Exchange Commission settlement, Musk resigned as Tesla's chairman but kept his position as CEO a month later. He did not admit any wrongdoing.
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When Tesla was still struggling with production issues and was worth much less than now, Musk indicated in the first of those two 2018 tweets that "financing secured" for a $72 billion buyout was in place.
A few hours later, Elon Musk tweeted again, implying that a deal was close.
Elon Musk, who paid $44 billion to acquire Twitter last year, asserted on the witness stand on Friday that tweeting is the "most democratic approach" to interact with investors.
Alex Spiro, attorney for Elon Musk, arrives at a federal courthouse in San Francisco Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
During questioning by shareholder attorney Nicholas Porritt, he declared, "I care a great lot about retail investors."
Given the character restrictions on Twitter, he did concede that investors may obtain more information via a conventional business filing with securities regulators.
On Twitter, Elon Musk said, "I think you can certainly be truthful." "But can you be thorough? Not.
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The jury can consider those two tweets to be lies, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled before Elon Musk ever took the stand.
This leaves the jury to assess whether Musk intentionally misled investors and whether his words caused them to suffer damages.
Elon Musk has argued that he was coerced into signing the SEC settlement and that during talks with officials from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, he thought he had secured funding for a takeover of Tesla.
Harvard professor Guhan Subramanian arrives at a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
He has been concentrating on Twitter, which he bought in October after trying to back out of the purchase, at the same time as the trial over his Tesla tweets.
Tesla's present owners are concerned that Elon Musk has been spending less time managing the automaker at a time of escalating competition because of his leadership of Twitter, where he has decimated the staff and alienated consumers and advertisers.
In contrast to the $14 billion swing in fortune that occurred between the company's high and low stock prices during August 7–17, 2018, covered by the class-action lawsuit.
Those worries played a part in the 65% decline in Tesla's stock last year that wiped out more than $700 billion in shareholder wealth.
Nicholas Porritt, top, a lawyer representing Tesla shareholders in the class-action case, arrives at a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Since then, Tesla's stock has split twice, making the $420 purchase price mentioned in his 2018 tweet worth $28 today on an adjusted basis.
The company's shares were down from their split-adjusted top of $414.50 in November 2021, trading at roughly $133 on Friday.
After Musk abandoned the idea of a Tesla takeover, the firm fixed its production issues, leading to a sharp increase in car sales that sent its stock soaring and made Musk the richest man in the world until he acquired Twitter.
After the stock market reacted negatively to his management of Twitter, Elon Musk has knocked off the top spot on the wealth list.
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Q: Trying to integrate Javascript range slider into my website but not sure where to start I am trying to build a little test shell for my website using Javascript. What I have at the moment is a normal website. PHP/HTML with an SQL backend.
What I'd like is a simple Javascript feature whereby the user has a single slider object and can use this object to set the upper and lower limit on a number of variables, which will be determined by a drop down box just underneath the slider.
Aside from this, I'd just like a number of checkboxes which dictate which products are displayed (i.e if I'd like food but not drink, the food checkbox would be ticked!).
I'm not expecting anyone on SO to do this for me, of course, but I would like to find some specific areas I could go to learn how to do this, and google is failing me in this regard. I will then begin working/editing this post to show my code/ask for help.
Can anyone help please?

A: It seems that you want to build a specific search for site, but instead of the user searching it is what is displayed. I would start with looking at php, based upon which checkboxes they choose, you can return variables which would show them what they want to see.
I personally wouldn't use javascipt for this.

A: I'm not sure what your level of experience is with Javascript, so my apologies if this answer is too basic.
To put a slider on your page refer here for the HTML:
http://webhole.net/2010/04/24/html-5-slider-input-tutorial/
Then in Javascript get the value of that slider when making your GET requests of the server.

A: You can store the selected value or checked value in the target element, when you process, you just call the element and get the value from them. Using jquery data() method can store the value to element and retrive it pretty easy.
If you still have no clue, I redcomend you learn some basic javscript techniques, go to this site www.jquery.com .

A: Are you using jQuery and jQuery UI? jQuery UI has a nice slider widget with a number of configuration options and good documentation: http://jqueryui.com/demos/slider/
If you're not used to it, there may be a bit of a learning curve for jQuery, but it makes a great number of UI features much, much easier to code. Showing and hiding elements based on checkboxes, for example, is a pain to do in straight JS but fairly simple to do with jQuery. There are lots of other ways to just make a slider, but if you're planning to do much more with the UI I'd strongly recommend using a library like jQuery to do the heavy lifting.

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HomeIn Memoriam
REMEMBERING JASODHARA-DI (17th August, 1937 – 9th January, 2015)
March 30, 2015 March 30, 2016 theconfidentialclerk In Memoriam, Journal	in memoriam, jashodhara bagchi
By Rudrani Gangopadhyay
The first time I visited Dr Jasodhara Bagchi's Jodhpur Park residence was in July 2014. Her new book on Motherhood in India was "stuck", she had said on the phone, and she needed a research assistant to help her out. When I turned up at her place, thoroughly intimidated by her stature as an academician and an activist, the first thing that struck me was what Dr Sajni Mukherji would later identify as Jasodhara-di's "great hunger for people". We spent the entirety of the first day talking about me, with her expressing almost a child-like curiosity about my work, my schooling, my parents, my interests. On my way back home that day, my bag full of the books she had given me upon learning of my interest in Partition Studies and my insides full of the food she insisted I eat, I realized that somewhere along the way my great respect for her has commingled with a great affection as well.
I had known the facts for a while. That Jasodhara-di was educated at Presidency College (now University), Oxford University and Cambridge University. Upon returning to India, she taught English briefly at Lady Brabourne College. 1964 onwards, she spent a major part of her life teaching English at Jadavpur University and went on to become the founder-Director of the School of Women's Studies there. She was one of the people responsible for the English Department getting the UGC Special Assistance and was one of the Programme's first coordinators. Though she retired in 1997, she continued to be an Emeritus Professor at the School of Women's Studies and an active part of the English department. However, as I began spending afternoons at her place, pouring over books and essays, the stories behind these facts began to come alive for me. During our frequent cha breaks, she would talk to me about her life. It would begin with something else: something I had read or something she had read, something on the news, something about Jadavpur, something about music (she had discovered early on our shared love of Rabindrasangeet). But it would go on to be about her first sighting of the Indian soil when she returned from Cambridge: she had joyfully sung "Dhana dhanye pushpe bhora…" from the P&O boat arriving at the Bombay docks. As her vast repository of experience began to unfold, I went home every day with a renewed sense of admiration. And, of course, a newer set of books which she thought I should take a look at.
Amidst all the golpo and the food, we would work too. Her commitment to the book astounded me. Every week, she would want to incorporate something new to one of the chapters. We wrote the chapters afresh at times, at times we rearranged the chapters completely. What was amazing was her thirst to learn new things and try to incorporate her learnings into the book. I had very casually pointed out one day how the outline did not seem to incorporate working mothers anywhere. The next day, I arrived at her home to find her buried in a pile of essays about working mothers around the world and a 15 page write-up to be considered, "to begin with". It was amazing to see her be so open to the ideas of others. She would almost instigate them out of me at times. I had initially held back on my criticism, perhaps out of a kind of blind reverence for her. But she would not have it. Every time a chapter was finished, she would encourage me to tell her what was wrong with it. "Go home, read it again, and find out what is missing", she would say. She would be delighted if I came back with notes, and hand me another pile of books to go through in order to find a fix for what I had figured was missing.
Soon after I had begun working with her, Hok Kolorob began to take shape in J.U. Her active involvement with every aspect of the movement – micchils, meetings, the students – was a wonder to watch . Around this time, our cha breaks began to focus more and more on what is being done for Jadavpur and what else needs to be done. She was part of the five-member team of emeritus professors that met our Governor and University Chancellor Keshari Nath Tripathi and demanded a new Vice-Chancellor for Jadavpur. On the day when finally the now ex-VC stepped down, I think all of us who knew Jasodhara-di wished she had been there in person, but had known that her essence had been there in our celebrations anyway.
As the movement continued, our book too began to take shape. Sitting in her fourth floor apartment, we continued to talk about all things under the sun over cha and chire bhaja. She would ask me to talk about my coursework, about my research, and would ask me to show her what I have been writing lately. It was with her encouragement that I applied and received a fellowship. Her elation appeared almost greater than mine. Incidentally, it was when I was interviewing her for this fellowship that I found out even more about her life.
I learned of her time as the Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for Women. Found out about how she was one of the founder-members of Sachetana, one of the earliest women's rights organization in West Bengal, as well as of Maitree, an informal network of women's rights organizations and individual activists. Her substantial body of research over the years required little introduction, but it was humbling to hear about it nonetheless. Her work on Partition Studies with Dr Subhoranjan Dasgupta proved to a great and powerful inspiration for my own work.
The aspect of Jasodharadi that came back over and over in everyone's recollection of her was the infectious energy she brought to her work, her fierce passion for research, and her involvement with her students and associates. What I personally found very touching in her rather maternal being was how she treated everyone and everything with a great deal of affection, whether it be her books, or her writing, or her university, or her students. She inquired about the fasting students' health with the same concern with which she forced me to eat homemade chowmein because I had gone over to her place after a long day at the university. It was also with this same tenderness that we sent out the finished manuscript in November, right before her hospitalization.
I do not suppose any one of us have been able to process Jasodhara-di's passing. At her memorial lecture, I remember seeing a number of my juniors and batchmates in attendance. None of them have been taught by Jasodhara-di in person (I exempt myself from this because I consider myself to have learned much from her in our brief time together), and yet, they were there. As our professors shared anecdotes about Jasodhara-di, I think all of us who have not been fortunate enough to have her as our teacher were trying to claim a bit of her legacy as our own.
I suppose this is how Jasodhara-di will live on. Through her family, her students, colleagues, associates and everyone whose lives she touched and bettered simply by being a part of it.


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Q: How does the Compiler generate the Event handler code? I have added an event to a user control, and I call the event in the consumer window of the user control,
My question is: what code does the compiler generate when we assign an event handler through the IDE?
So that I can also use something similar to write the event handler at runtime automatically.
I know we can write an event handler e.g my event handler that I write here:
SearchControl.SearchChangedEvent += new RoutedEventHandler(SearchControl_SearchChanged);

The error thrown in this case is that there is no overload matching, so I try to do the same thing that the compiler does through code. How does the compiler automatically know the arguments?
EDIT: Solution.
I found the area of concern where I was confused in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/magazine/cc785480%28en-us%29.aspx
In "Routed Events overview" section, the author writes:

To see this, go to the constructor for
  your class, right-click on the
  InitializeComponent method call, and
  select Go To Definition from the
  context menu.The editor will display a
  generated code file (with a naming
  convention of .i.g.cs or .i.g.vb)
  containing the code that is normally
  generated at compile time.

I found the code behind generated !!
#line 6 "..\..\Window1.xaml"
this.myButton.Click +=
  new System.Windows.RoutedEventHandler(
  this.myButton_Click);

Thanks, for those who were a bit confused with the problem statement. I hope this makes it clear now (it was like I couldn't explain the problem until I found the solution :)

A: You fully described your SearchControl_SearchChanged function the second you passed it as a parameter to the delegate RoutedEventHandler. From MSDN, The delegate takes 2 parameters, an object and a RoutedEventArgs, and returns void. That right there is what the IDE uses to build the SearchControl_SearchChanged function header for you automatically.


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Kira Blazek Ziaii is a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist originally from Houston, TX. She has performed with Hubbard Street 2, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, Christopher Williams, anoukvandijkdc, Pilobolus Creative Services, Phantom Limb Company, and Shen Wei Dance Arts, among others. Her choreography has been presented in New York, Sarasota, Tulsa, Austin, and Los Angeles, as well as featured in music videos for Beach House and De Lux. Kira holds a BFA from Oklahoma University and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She has been a certified Countertechnique teacher since 2012 and is on faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Other teaching engagements have included Gibney Dance Center, Princeton University, California State University Long Beach, Hope Stone, Austin TBXS, Oklahoma University, and company classes for BODYTRAFFIC and Diavolo. kirablazek.com
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Gerri Houlihan began her professional training at The Juilliard School, studying with Antony Tudor, Alfredo Corvino, and members of the Martha Graham and Jose Limon dance companies. She performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company and spent five years as a soloist with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company touring extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Houlihan has taught or choreographed for such institutions as NY's High School of the Performing Arts, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Bates Dance Festival, the Boston Ballet, the Harvard Summer Dance Center, Meredith College, the University of South Florida, North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Richmond, the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and Virginia Commonwealth University. From 1984 to 1987, she directed her own school and company, the Boston Dance Project. She was one of five finalists in the Boston Ballet's International Choreography Competition. From 1988 to 1999, Ms. Houlihan was on the faculty of New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. During that time, she was also the artistic director of Houlihan and Dancers. The recipient of two Florida Individual Artist Fellowships in Dance/Choreography in 1991-92 and 1996-97, Houlihan and Dancers was on the touring roster for the state of Florida. She is a member of the board of directors for the Florida Dance Association and also for the American College Dance Association. Ms. Houlihan has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival from 1981 to 1983 and from 1987 to the present. As an international representative for ADF, she has participated in eighteen international linkages, teaching in Korea, China, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Estonia, Poland, the Philippines, Russia, and Mongolia. She is the 2005 recipient of the Balasaraswati Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching and a 2012 recipient of the Pearl S. Tyner Distinguished Professor in Teaching Award. She received her MFA in 2007 from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival MFA program. She recently retired from FSU and currently teaches year-round at the American Dance Festival studios and as a guest artist at Elon University.
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Jesse Zaritt is a Brooklyn, NY based dance artist. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, having previously been the inaugural 2014-2016 Research Fellow in the University's School of Dance. Jesse has performed his solo work in Taiwan, Uruguay, Russia, Korea, Germany, New York, Japan, Mexico, Israel and throughout the United States. His solo 'Binding' is the recipient of three 2010 New York Innovative Theater Awards: Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Solo Performance, and Outstanding Performance Art Production.
In 2017, Jesse presented work in San Diego as a commissioned choreographer and solo performer in the youTurn Arts performance series. Jesse worked collaboratively with choreographer Jumatatu Poe from 2012-2015; their evening length duet was presented by Gibney Dance Center in New York City in October 2015. Their work was also shown at AUX Performance Space (Vox Populi) and Fringe Arts in Philadelphia (PA) and at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (through the sponsorship of Triple Canopy), Dixon Place and New York Live Arts (through the Studio Series Program) in New York City. A duet created in collaboration with choreographer Katie Swords premiered at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City in Late October 2015. Jesse was commissioned by the American Dance Festival to create a duet with choreographer Mark Haim which premiered as part of the 2015 ADF performance season.
From September 2008 through June 2011, Jesse was an artist in residence at the 14th Street Y in Manhattan as part of LABA, a laboratory for new Jewish culture. He was the recipient of a 2006-2007 Dorot Fellowship in Israel which enabled him to study the relationship between political conflict and choreography. Jesse was a performer with the Shen Wei Dance Arts Company (NYC/2001-2006), the Inbal Pinto Dance Company (Tel Aviv/2008), and in the work of Netta Yerushalmy (NYC/2009-2016). Jesse has also performed in the work of Faye Driscoll (NYC/2010-2015) and works as an artistic adviser for her current projects. Jesse currently works in creative dialogue with Sara Shelton Mann.
Jesse has taught at Bard College (NY), the American Dance Festival (NC), Hollins University (VA) and Pomona College (CA), as well as at schools and festivals in Taiwan, Uruguay, Mexico, Japan, Korea, and Russia. Jesse received an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival (2008) and a BA from Pomona College (2000). http://www.jessezaritt.com
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The sky was dark over the lake and I stood on the edge of the water, throwing rocks with every bit of strength that I had in my arm. I didn't care at all where the rocks landed. There wasn't anyone anywhere nearby; and it wasn't as if I was aiming at anything in particular. All I really needed to do was release some energy. Even after hours of the most earnest prayer I've ever prayed – complete with weeping and even anger – I still felt intensely overwhelmed with energy. Hours of prayer had left my voice raspy and my mind unable to focus, so I just stood there throwing rocks … not ready to call it quits or get into my truck and drive back home. Even when the rain began to fall I stayed there throwing rocks until my arm finally followed my voice and gave out.
I won't go into detail about what it was that prompted those prayers. It doesn't really matter for this post and even the circumstances have been overcome by events since then. But I bring it up for a few reasons. First, it was a life-changing event because, up until then, I had only prayed simple, well-mannered prayers like, "Thanks for the food/clothing/shelter/conditions/etcetera that I enjoy. Please make such-and-such happen." And while respectfulness is completely necessary in every prayer (we're talking to the Sovereign of the whole universe, for pity's sake), there's also something to be said for being more real in your prayers. Why should we cover up the anger or disappointment we're feeling with plastic, mannerly words that come out more sarcastic than sincere? It's not as if God doesn't know what passions are stirring within us.
Second, the fact that the circumstances were overcome by events so quickly after the experience revealed to me just how silly I can be when things don't go my way. Was I somehow exceptional and distinct from every other person in the world to the point that my entire life should just fall into place the way I wanted it to? Was God somehow not keeping up His end of the bargain by making things go wrong? And what "bargain" did I make with God that He was breaking anyway? Was my salvation somehow a clause in a contract which also required Him have to provide me with happiness too? And was my heart, soul, mind and strength – promised in return for salvation – somehow worth that much anyway? God was already giving me a gift I could never earn – was I also expecting Him to make my life sweep along untouched by any frustration greater than a papercut or an occasional headache? Silliness seems to take on a life of its own when you become self-absorbed; and the strength of the passions on that lakeshore illustrated that silliness perfectly.
Third, the anger and frustration I was going through was real (even if the reasons for, and logic leading up to, them were silly). Even though I believe that emotion in itself is a rather spurious reason to do anything, it's obvious that God wants a relationship with us and a relationship seems rather impossible if we don't talk to Him about the things which absorb us. He has told us what is important to Him, thereby breaking the ice and stretching out a hand of friendship to us. In response do we hide our most passionate selves from Him? Or do we open up to Him about everything; raw though it may be?
I have a feeling that Daniel, Elijah, John the Baptist and other great prayer warriors wouldn't have been that great at praying if they had limited their talks with God to courteous prayers around meals and bedtime. As a matter of fact, I doubt Daniel could have made it through the night in the den of lions without some rather sweaty prayers of terror. Nor could Elijah have remained sane while running for his life from a murderous tyrant king without praying more than a "thanks for that raven, Lord" prayer. Nor could J the B have made it thirty years eating little more than bugs without saying something to God about the frustration of hunger and itchy, camel-haired clothing. It therefore seems entirely justified to bring our pain and anger and irritation to Him … provided we do it with the intention of drawing closer to God in the process.
Finally, in the immediate aftermath of that day, those prayers didn't seem to accomplish anything. Nothing changed except that I was extremely worn out physically, mentally and spiritually. My circumstances didn't change and, in fact, it seemed like the silence from God in answer to my anger was deeper than before. Why wasn't God answering me? It may sound silly, but I almost expected God to be angry with my anger … and therefore answer me. As if I could provoke Him to shoot back an, "Oh yeah?! Well I'll show you …" answer to the implications of my words. To be honest, I'm really glad God isn't as impulsive as I am. Something tells me that any provocation would not end well.
However, in the end, it did accomplish a lot. Not through any sort of disrespect in the encounter – something which never seems justified when conversing with God – but through the resulting knowledge that I was finally being real with a relationship which had previously been as sterile as an operating room.
Certainly, over the previous couple of decades, I had found ways to grow closer to God: reading the Bible, singing songs, thinking about Biblical themes, listening to sermons and training sessions, and, of course, regular prayer time – even if it was relatively weak prayer. Nevertheless the progress of the relationship had seemed to stagnate a little and it only took one little life event to shake it up. It could have shaken it into a deeper inactivity or it could have shaken it into anger. Thank God it was the latter. Anger caused me to communicate, communication caused me to evaluate, and evaluation made me realize how nonchalant my faith had been. I've never been a fan of nonchalance, so I decided to dig deeper and become more committed.
So, yeah, that day was pivotal for me. I won't say that I would've fallen away from God without it (only God knows that) but I will definitely say that spiritual torpor was slowly killing me and I didn't even realize it until that day.
Which brings me to the real reason I'm writing this post: the story of Nathanael (also known as Bartholomew), the apostle of Christ. In my mind, I'm a lot like Nathanael. And maybe you are too? So let's take a few inches of blog space to look together at his life.
Honestly, we don't know much about Nathanael other than the story of his calling in John 1. We know that he was from Cana (in Galilee), that his father was named Tolmai (I don't know how helpful that is), that he abandoned Jesus after his arrest (just like the rest of the apostles), and that tradition says that, after bringing the gospel to India, he died a martyr's death in the Balkans. He's mentioned in only one verse in each of the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), and in each of those it's only in a list of the apostles. As a matter of fact, the only story that gives more than his name is that first meeting he has with Jesus in John 1. But I believe we can learn – or at least surmise – quite a lot about his character and predilections that can help us recognize Christ and follow Him better.
It doesn't say outright in this passage that Nathanael wanted to see and know the Messiah, but when Jesus was "found" by Philip, Philip then "found" Nathanael. Sure, it could have been a chance meeting, or it might have been deliberate. But either way, Philip knew that Nathanael needed to know … we have found the prophesied one!
This verse always cracks me up. I might say the same thing if someone told me that the Messiah came from Oakland or a tiny town like Pickle's Gap, Arkansas. Can anything good come from Clovis, NM? Can anything good come from a place that is so broken? Can anything good come from a place so remote and uncouth?
Probably though, he was tired and suspicious. Tired of waiting for a promise that never seemed to materialize, and suspicious after each fake "Messiah" undermined the very real prophecies of God.
No matter how much suspicion he felt, no matter how worn out he was, those things didn't get in the way of Nathanael going. When Philip said, "Come and see," Nathanael went and saw. He didn't cower at home in Cana, whining, "Why haven't you sent us the Messiah yet, Lord?" No … he investigated instead. He laid his heart on the line, one more time, to see what he longed to see; and this time he wasn't disappointed.
Most commentaries say that this was simply Jesus affirming the integrity of the man called Nathanael. Jesus was saying that he was honest and guileless. In other words, he was a good and decent man. I love that description of him; and I hope that Jesus would be able to say that about me.
However, I wonder if there was something else in that statement? In fact, it would be something that would certainly apply to me as much as Nathanael. Imagine Jesus saying those words with a cocked eyebrow and a little half-smirk. Maybe also Jesus looked at him with love and then chuckled a little in a knowing way while talking? I'd take that to mean that Nathanael spoke his mind. "No deceit" … because he didn't sugarcoat things unnecessarily. If something was good, Nathanael called it good. If something was bad, Nathanael called it bad. If something wasn't the way Nathanael thought it should be, Nathanael told people. He didn't hold back because he was CONVINCED of what he believed. No matter how tired and suspicious he might be, he couldn't stop calling things what they were. He didn't pull any punches in order to deceive. He was honest as the day is long.
This conjecture on my part seems supported by what happens next.
This part of the story is why I believe that Nathanael spoke his mind and called things as he saw them. In fact, I think it proves it even more than the testing question, "How do you know me?" You see … SOMETHING must have happened under that fig tree; something very powerful in Nathanael's life.
We can guess that no one else was around when he was under the fig tree. Otherwise, Nathanael wouldn't be surprised that Jesus had seen him. We can guess that whatever happened had been between Nathanael and God. Otherwise, Nathanael wouldn't have immediately linked Jesus with the proclamation of "Son of God." We can even guess that Nathanael had been praying earnestly. Otherwise, Nathanael might have just assumed that someone had put two and two together regarding other outspoken things he may have revealed to anyone who asked.
All of that leads me to think that Nathanael had one of those real moments with God … under a fig tree in a backwater town of a hick province populated by troublesome people subjugated by the mighty Roman Empire. Perhaps he railed at God for the injustice he saw around him? Possibly he hurled his frustration at God's silence in sobbing torrents of prayerful agony? Maybe, while in the privacy of a field populated with a single fig tree, he broke down and cried aloud for God to deliver His people? Or perhaps … just perhaps … he broke down in his tired suspicion and even questioned the existence of a God around whom he'd based his whole identity?
It might have happened years in the past; he could have relived that day of prayer for years, wondering when he'd be answered. Or, it might have been only minutes before Philip ran up. Either way, Nathanael had to have been real with God as a matter of practice, because he WENT. He INVESTIGATED. He TESTED. He BELIEVED.
I don't know what brings this longing. I hope it's an honest and honorable desire. I DO know this though: a day of brokenness and raw real-ness at the foot of a tree is never a bad thing. It might be the foot of a big American Black Oak, like me, or it might be at the foot of a shriveled Galilean fig tree, like Nathanael. Or, best of all, it might be at the foot of a rugged-hewn tree on a hill called Calvary.


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By James Lu June 9, 2019 1:47 pm
The next season of Apex Legends will be called Battle Charge and it starts on July 2.
The centerpiece of the season is a new Legend called Wattson, a young French inventor who, along with her father, helped design and create the Apex Legends arena.
Wattson offers a different style of play from the run-and-gun offense of most legends, favoring a more defensive strategy that will reward careful planning. Her tactical ability is a deployable Electric Fence that will damage enemies that try to walk through it (don't worry, her teammates will be able to pass through safely). She can use this for area denial or to provide a safe retreat for her team.
Her ultimate is called Interception Pylon, and it's essentially an anti-air turret that will shoot down any incoming projectiles including Gibraltar and Bangalore's ults, as well as incoming grenades. Shooting down projectiles also recharges her tactical. Finally, her passive lets Ultimate Accelerants fully recharge her ultimate.
Wattson will be available to all players (the Battle Pass is not required) for Legend Tokens or Apex Coins.
Season 2 will also introduce a new gun: The L-Star light machine gun. The gun is a gold-class legendary weapon like the Kraber .50-CAL and Mastiff and will only be found in supply drops. Like the other two legendary guns, it uses a unique ammo type that cannot be replenished.
The L-Star has a 60-round magazine and comes with 180 rounds. While it does a ton of damage and fires extremely fast, sustained fire causes it to overheat.
A new Ranked Mode will also be coming to Season 2. The mode will include skill-based matchmaking and six ranked tiers, starting at Bronze, and going all the way up to Apex Predator. At the end of the season, you'll get rewards based on the highest tier you achieved.
Finally, Respawn also acknowledged that the reception to Season 1 was disappointing but that it will be making changes for Season 2. Battle Charge will include both daily and weekly challenges, similar to the ones in Fortnite, which will help you grind out Battle Pass levels. Filler reward levels that gave badges and stat trackers have also been removed in favor of new content, and you'll also be able to earn more crafting materials so you can make the skins you actually want.
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checking in | 25hours hotel hafencity, hamburg
Hello, sailor! If you're looking for somewhere to drop anchor in Hamburg, we'd heartily recommend this relaxed design hotel from the funky 25hours group that's slap bang in the middle of HafenCity. With a strong suit in irony and humour, the hotel plays up to its harbourside location and shipbuilding heritage with tongue-in-cheek references everywhere you look. Designed in the style of a cosy seaman's home (a rather well-off seaman, it has to be said), you sleep in a cabin, not a room, with soft shagpile underfoot while the beds' headboards are gently curved to mimic ship bunks.
Seafaring references and stories abound with loving attention to detail: think rope ladder shelving, a steamer trunk that's been repurposed as a (well-stocked but pricey) bar and desk, not to mention the intricate wallpaper that we spent a long time gazing at. Drawn by Berlin illustrator Jindrich Novotny, it hints at the 25 international seafarers' stories that are told in full in the logbooks in each cabin. Seamen like their music, apparently, so you'll find a UE Boom Bluetooth speaker in the room, too. Head downstairs, and it's more of a warehouse vibe, with tall racks and stencil-like numbering echoing the style of container terminals. We feel right at home here and we don't think it's just because our grandfather was in the Navy.
On a rainy day, it's quite easy not to leave the hotel at all – we spent a fair bit of time working our way through the records (from 70s disco to Cologne electronica) in the fantastic vinyl room complete with Technics turntables. There's also a chillout area with expansive leather sofas, help-yourself tea and coffee and, our favourite, table football. No prizes for guessing what we did while we waited for the rain to stop. Head up to the sixth floor and there's another surprise in store: a Finnish-style sauna with a breezy – bring a jumper – seating area and floor-to-ceiling windows, offering expansive views out over the city. Bliss. Oh, and did we mention you can get fruit and beer brought to you?
Literally around the corner is its slightly more grown-up sister hotel (this time we're in the captain's home), the Altes Hafenamt, housed in the oldest building in the HafenCity. It's well worth checking out, not least for its Neni restaurant, which serves up delicious and creative Eastern Mediterranean dishes.
Location-wise, you're well placed for visiting Herzog & De Meuron's new (and wildly expensive) concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, or exploring the historic warehouse district. After dark, though, the area grinds to a bit of a halt. But no matter, you're only a 20-minute walk (or 10-minute tube ride from right outside the hotel) to areas like St Pauli, with its buzzing bars and restaurants, or, if you prefer to keep it local, the hotel's Heimat bar and restaurant often hosts live gigs. If this is what the seafaring life is like, sign us up now!
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Indie favourites Space kick off their UK tour with a return to The Picturedrome in Northampton on February 4.
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Space are best known for their classic hits including Female of the Species, Neighbourhood, Avenging Angels and The Ballad of Tom Jones
The Liverpudlians are expected to release their new album Give Me Your Future this year after funding the record on Pledge Music. The LP will be the band's fifth official album and follows 2014's Attack of the Mutant 50ft Kebab.
Fronted by singer and guitarist Tommy Scott, Space came to prominence in the mid-1990s following the release of their debut album Spiders and are best known for their classic hits including Female of the Species, Neighbourhood, Avenging Angels and The Ballad of Tom Jones. After disbanding following the release of their third album Suburban Rock 'n' Roll, the band's remaining original members met at the funeral of drummer Andy Parle who died in 2009. This sowed the seeds of a reunion in 2011.
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At one time or another most of us have suffered at the hands of a petty tyrant, perhaps an overbearing supervisor at work, a rude clerk at the DMV, or an imperious police officer during a routine traffic stop, and wondered how such a person landed in a position of authority. After watching Donald Trump and his most strident enablers malign, subvert, and corrupt our national politics for four years, it seemed to me that an inordinate number of immoderate and ethically-challenged people are involved in politics. When I witness, for example, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy contorting himself to stay in Donald Trump's good graces in order to advance his own ambitions, it's clear that for some people acquiring power is an irresistible urge.
Brian Klaas, author of Corruptible: Who Gets Power And How It Changes Us, spent a decade studying the dynamics of power and why it leads some people to become tyrannical, cruel and corrupt. A political scientist and professor of global politics at University College London, Klaas criss-crossed the globe in search of answers to four main questions: Do Worse people get power? Does power make people worse? Why do we let people control us who clearly have no business being in control? How can we ensure that incorruptible people get into power and wield it justly? If there is one thing Klaas learned during his extensive investigation it is that much of the world is dominated by systems that attract and promote corruptible people.
In a chapter titled "Moths to a Flame," Klaas examines the issue of police reform and concludes that while changing the behavior of those who currently wear a badge is necessary, the path to true reform lies in recruiting people who have never considered putting one on. He presents the example of Doraville, Georgia, a small town of around ten thousand people. Doraville's crime rate isn't higher than other towns of similar size, yet the city's police department owns a M113 armored personnel carrier, a military vehicle typically deployed in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan. The M113 featured prominently in recruiting videos for the Doraville police department. Now, you might ask, so what? Well, as Klaas notes, "When you recruit into positions of power, it's not just about who gets the job and who doesn't. It's also about who applies in the first place." Klaas juxtaposes the Doraville recruitment video with a campaign used in New Zealand in which the theme had nothing to do with glorifying weaponry or military-style force, and everything to do with helping the community. This approach was very successful in attracting more females and ethnic minorities to apply.
In addition to studying what sort of people are drawn to power, and looking at ways to entice a broader and deeper pool of people to seek positions of authority, Klaas also looked at systems and structures. What if someone who abuses power isn't necessarily a malign person but rather a product of a malign system? In answering this question Klaas offers this thesis: "Our modern surveillance systems have everything backward. They should be inverted. We're watching the wrong people." CEO's and board members can do far more damage than low-level workers, but who is monitored more closely in most organizations? This may be one explanation for the massive delta between property crimes and white-collar crimes. As Klaas points out, white-collar crimes account for far greater losses or damages every year in the United States, with estimates ranging from $250 to $400 billion. Those who wield the most power also have the greatest opportunity to do harm and should face far more scrutiny than they do. Oversight matters. (Reasonable laws and regulations are also needed, but laws and regulations are only effective if enforced with rigor.) But the idea that leaders need to be constantly reminded of the real-world consequences of their actions is sound.
Klaas is surprisingly optimistic about our ability to make the world less corrupt. In terms of the political realm, especially in the United States, the impact of dark money makes meaningful reform very difficult. Proposals to hold the powerful to account are met with fierce resistance and relentless lobbying. Whether in politics or business, corrupt people and systems are adverse to scrutiny. The persecution of Julian Assange is indicative of how little those in power tolerate scrutiny. Perhaps the best we can hope for is that ideas like those advanced in Corruptible gain traction.
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