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Author - Sol Dolor
3 Ways to Embrace Workplace Diversity
Sol Dolor2020-08-11T09:37:10-04:00
Recent tension has flared up across the country about equality and biases. Diversity, especially workplace diversity, is once again one of the top-of-mind topics for businesses.
Jim Fitzpatrick and I got to talk about diversity in a recent episode of the Atlanta Small Business Show. We talked about three ways that business leaders can navigate this delicate issue.
1. Be more open
I think biases are widespread. That shouldn't surprise people.
We all have biases. We all have issues because we're human.
The key, however, is having empathy and understanding, as well as making the conscious choice to treat anyone crossing your path the way you would want to be treated.
Give everybody a chance, unless otherwise they give you a reason for it.
Jim had asked if there were times when biases are exactly what make people look for any minuscule reason to treat others differently.
That's important to note. When I say "unless people give me a reason to treat them otherwise," I mean if they directly threaten or hurt me or others.
As we're all discovering, we have to force ourselves to think differently sometimes and veer away from our normal of being very tribal, of being focused only on what's ours and what we're used to doing.
If we can do that, our businesses will be better for it, because workplace diversity improves the experiences of both customers and employees, as Jim and I discussed.
2. Welcome new perspectives
A few dimensions exist on how diversity and inclusion affect customer and employee experiences.
In recent days, we have focused on ethnic diversity in our organizations, and I think that's a good thing. Why? Because ethnic diversity leads to people bringing their different perspectives.
But diversity doesn't have to be just about ethnicity. Diversity can be about having a variety of thoughts, of religions, of emotions and much more.
Having many ideas from different backgrounds and ways of doing things is helpful and is an asset. We don't have to heed every idea out there, but having them gives us a perspective that can help us decide on what's the best option.
It's also important to remember that we are in a global world. We may be where we are – whether that's New York or San Francisco – but people passing through our online showrooms can come from all over the world.
Owners of companies, me included, need to have more open minds, which will in turn grow our businesses.
3. Initiate safe discussions
Unfortunately, it has again become apparent that inequality is still rampant in our society, which is why I think it's important to be open to addressing workplace diversity with our teams.
But what's the best way to address this issue, given that staff may be looking for our leadership in this area.
The important thing to remember is to have that dialogue but be careful. A lot of leaders have made mistakes and have needed to step down as a result.
Understand that there may be some training that's needed. Learn from best practices that are being used by fellow business leaders. Look at what's effective and adapt that for your team.
Jim pointed out in our discussion that some leaders think it's a mistake to open this can of worms; that getting the opinions of our staff about certain issues can lead to our companies being embroiled in entirely new arguments we didn't want to be involved with in the first place.
We can't avoid that sometimes, because the world we live in is so politicized. But that's where setting parameters can enable us to effectively navigate the issues.
Make it clear to your team that there are safe spaces where you can talk about issues. However, when facing customers, be very careful about setting biases aside. We don't know what sets people off.
In a business setting, my go-to practice is to always smile and say thank you.
You can view my full conversation with Jim here, where we also talk about opportunities in events despite the lockdown, becoming a celebrity CEO, and why most business owners should be thinking about how to do social media.
By Sol Dolor General
Sol Dolor
A seasoned writer, Sol has extensive experience as a business journalist and editor. He has covered the legal, sports, hedge fund, and consumer electronics sectors. Although currently based out of Vancouver, he also has experience covering the general news beats in multiple jurisdictions. Sol is looking to tell the stories that connect people with others, as well as with brands, organizations, causes, and goals.

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Toronto student saves mother's life
When Grade 11 Toronto student Ela's mother started complaining of chest pain and nausea, she sprung into action, confidently using the skills she learned in her high school CPR course.
"I knew that these were not good signs for someone to be experiencing. I stayed beside her hoping that the pain would go away."
But the pain continued, and within five minutes, 42-year-old Miranda became disoriented, fell off the couch and lost consciousness. Ela quickly called 911, providing detailed information to the operator. She checked for breathing and began artificial respiration (AR), breathing life back into her mother.
Upon arrival at the scene, paramedics told Ela she had done an excellent job and impressed upon her the importance of what she had done.
"They said that if I hadn't been there, my mom's chances of surviving would have been very slim. The 911 operator also congratulated me on a 'job well done.'"
Doctors informed Ela that her mother had suffered a mild heart attack. They also confirmed that Miranda wouldn't have survived without her daughter's quick action.
"I was really happy that I was taught in Grade 9 how to perform CPR and AR. If it hadn't been for the class then I wouldn't have been able to perform AR on my mom because I wouldn't have known how to," Ela says. "I'm happy to say that my mother is doing really well and she's really watching how she treats her body."
The ACT High School CPR Program was made possible in Madonna Catholic Secondary School, Ela's school, thanks to generous community and provincial-level support which enabled the donation of mannequins, teacher training and curriculum resources. The lead community partner in Toronto is the Kiwanis Club of Toronto. Provincial partners of the program are the Government of Ontario, Hydro One, Shoppers Drug Mart, and The Ontario Trillium Foundation.
The Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation is an award-winning, national charitable organization dedicated to establishing CPR in high schools across Canada. ACT raises funds to donate mannequins, teacher training, manuals and other materials to schools, and guides schools in program set-up and long-term sustainability. Teachers teach CPR to their students as a regular part of the curriculum. Over 900,000 youth have been trained in CPR through this lifesaving program to date.
Core partners supporting the program in Ontario and throughout Canada are companies in the research-based pharmaceutical industry: AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada, Pfizer Canada and sanofi-aventis. They provide ACT's sustaining funding and are committed to the Foundation's national goal of promoting health and empowering Canadians to save lives.


Many people just live for each day. They don't think about why they were born or what they are here for. After a lifetime on earth, they pass away as their bodies give way and many say that is the end of it. Does life end at death?
No, life does not end at death. If you want to know the truth about living you have to know God. John 17:17 tells us that God's Word (the Bible) is truth. Although, many proclaim to know some form of truth about life or living, the only pure truth is God and you can only discover His truth by knowing His Word. If you want to know God, you've got to read the Bible.
When you die, you are not actually dying. It is just your physical body that is dying. Hebrews 9:27 tells us it is death then judgment. You are a three part being (more on that here) so your spirit and soul continue on.
When your body dies, your spirit and soul (that's the real you or your inner man as the Bible says) departs your body. You go before God and are judged. In 2 Corinthians 5:10, we are told that we all go before the judgment seat of God. Those who have accepted, know, and walk with Jesus receive eternal life and are united with God for eternity. Those who have rejected Jesus are condemned to eternal damnation in hell.
Hell is a real place. It is in the center of the earth. This is why it is fiery and stinking of sulfur. Geologists tell us the earth is made up of the inner core, the outer core, the mantle and then the earth's crust. Depending on where you are on the earth, the thickness of the earth's crust varies but typically i,s believe to be 40 km deep. The earth's crust is really all we see as the deeper you into the earth, the more pressure there is. You body could not sustain going to the earths core as you would burn up. People that don't receive Jesus in life, go to hell in death. Hell is a physical place but filled with lost spirits (or some same 'souls'). These people range from liars, to sexual predators, rapists, murders, homosexuals, and other people who did evil on the earth while they were living in their physical bodies. There will be no one who loves and follows God in hell. Getting to heaven is only achieved by starting a relationship with God by accepting Jesus. Romans 10:9 shows us how simple it is to know God.
Hell was designed for satan and the demons who mounted a rebellion against God. They are currently on the earth, but have access to go between the earth and hell below. The enemy's time is limited. We are told that while the enemy has freedom, the forces of hell want to kill people, steal from them, and destroy whatever they can (John 10:10). If you feel under attack, it is likely demonic. You can overcome it by the power and blood of Jesus.
Hell is a real place. Is was designed for the demonic spirits that rebelled against God, but as God is perfect, He cannot accept people who have not been made right by receiving Jesus. Do not go there! The most important question of your life is right here. Do you know Jesus? If you know Jesus, there is something you can do to know God deeper. Get His power working in your life daily. Do you have God's power in your daily life?


Although this 350 ft. circumference, 180 year old tree is no longer standing in Oxford, its legacy lives on. More pictures are available in the Georgia Grove. Thanks Connie Head, Beryl Budd and partners for leaving this beautiful legacy in Georgia!
Photo: One of the 300 Yarbrough Oak offspring, 9" DBH, located at the Georgia Forestry Commission office, 6835 James B. Rivers/Memorial Dr., Stone Mountain, GA, 13 years later.


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Majority Supports Legal Abortion, But Details Indicate Ambivalence
By Damla Ergun July 25, 2013
Most Americans continue to support legal abortion, as many oppose making it more difficult for abortion clinics to operate and two-thirds say the U.S. Constitution should trump state abortion laws. But views on legal time limits for abortions mark underlying ambivalence on the issue.
Fifty-five percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 41 percent believe it should be entirely or mostly illegal. Those almost exactly match their long-term averages, 55-42 percent, in more than 30 ABC/Post polls since 1995.
See PDF with full results and charts here.
A similar 54 percent oppose state laws that effectively make it more difficult for abortion clinics to operate (most of them "strongly" opposed), vs. 40 percent in support. And by more than a 2-1 margin, 66-30 percent, Americans prefer abortion laws to be decided constitutionally rather than by each state individually. Preference for federal over state abortion laws encompasses both 69 percent of those who support legal abortion and 63 percent of those who oppose it.
At the same time, reflecting underlying unease with abortion, more say it should be legal without limitation only up to 20 weeks (as in some recent state laws), as opposed to about 24 weeks, as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Roe v. Wade case; the division is 56-27 percent (an additional 8 percent volunteer that it should never be legal).
Supporters of legal abortion divide fairly closely on the 20- vs. 24-week issue, with 49 percent supporting the former and 42 percent favoring the latter. On the other hand, not surprisingly, preference for the shorter option rises to 69 percent among those who oppose legal abortion, with an additional 18 percent of them saying the procedure never should be legal.
GROUPS - Support for legal abortion, as usual, includes similar numbers of men and women (56 and 55 percent, respectively). Also as is typical, religious, partisan and ideological differences are sharp in this survey, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates.
Among evangelical white Protestants, for example, 66 percent say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases; among non-evangelical white Protestants, an identical 66 percent say it should generally be legal. Catholics divide more evenly, 50-45 percent, legal-illegal. Among those who profess no religion, by contrast - one in six adults - 73 percent support legal abortion.
Sixty-five percent of Democrats and 58 percent of independents support legal abortion, while 58 percent of Republicans are opposed (partly because three in 10 Republicans are evangelical white Protestants). Seventy-nine percent of "very" conservatives oppose abortion in all or most cases, while 80 percent of liberals support it (partly, in this case, because nearly three in 10 liberals profess no religion).
Hispanics, a growing segment of the population (and a disproportionately Catholic group), divide narrowly on abortion, with 46 percent saying it should generally be legal, 50 percent, illegal. That compares with 57-40 percent among all non-Hispanics.
Differences also are evident in opinions on state legislation limiting the operation of abortion clinics, one of which recently was signed into law in Texas. Evangelical white Protestants support such laws while non-evangelical white Protestants oppose them, in each case by 33-point margins. Democrats, independents, liberals and moderates oppose these measures, by margins ranging from 14 to a very wide 58 percentage points, while Republicans, conservatives overall and "very" conservatives are in favor, by 23- to 44-point margins.
As noted, most prefer federal law to take precedence over state laws on the issue, though that preference is higher among Democrats than independents and among liberals and moderates vs. conservatives. Republicans and strong conservatives divide on whether state laws or the U.S. Constitution should carry the day.
Despite broad preference for federal rule, majorities in most groups also prefer a 20- rather than 24-week unrestricted period, from 51 and 55 percent of Democrats and independents, respectively, to about seven in 10 Republicans, strong conservatives and evangelical white Protestants. Liberals are closely divided on the question, even though about eight in 10 liberals support legal abortion, want federal law to prevail and oppose state measures that limit clinics' ability to operate.
In another example of the complexity of views on abortion, while similar numbers of men and women support legal abortion, women are more likely than men to oppose state laws restricting clinics (58 vs. 50 percent), but also are more apt to prefer a 20- to a 24-week unrestricted rule (60 vs. 53 percent).
METHODOLOGY - This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone July 18-21, 2013, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,002 adults, including landline and cell-phone-only respondents. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points, including design effect.
The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates of New York, N.Y., with sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York, N.Y


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Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothers and daughters by Janet Mason (Bella Books April 2012) is now available -- click here for more info
Harvey Milk -- then and now
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This audio commentary was aired in honor of Harvey Milk's birthday May 22nd on This Way Out,
the LGBT syndicated international radio program.
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"There is something here for everyone who has ever loved someone else or plans to. I highly recommend "Tea Leaves" just because it is so real and so beautifully written."–Reviews by Amos Lassen
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read Janet Mason's latest piece in The Huffington Post --Chick-fil-A: What Would Gandhi Do If He Were Gay?
Click here for an update on the murder trial of Anthony Milano
Harvey Milk was assassinated in 1978, my first year of college. I have a dim memory of the news accounts at the time, possibly because it was not a headline story in the mainstream media. I did not come out until I was 23 -- call it denial or survival, I was not consciously aware of my sexual orientation until then. When I left the suburban working class tract house development of Levittown, Pa., where I had grown up, I wasn't yet out -- but I instinctively moved to the nearest large city. A few years after I had left, a young gay man named Anthony Milano who lived in the same neighborhood where I grew up was brutally murdered. This was the first reported anti-gay hate crime murder, tried as such.
The first time I saw a movie about Harvey Bernard Milk, it was 1984 and I had a ticket for the premier showing at the Roxy movie theater on Sansom Street in Philadelphia. I was twenty five and had come out a few years before. For some reason--maybe I only had one ticket -- I went to the premier alone. I remember standing in line outside the theater with a number of gay and lesbian community luminaries, including Barbara Gittings, the lesbian activist who died last year, and her long-time partner, Kay Tobin Lahusen. Barbara's long list of victories include being part of the movement to get the American Psychiatric Association to drop homosexuality as a mental illness in 1972.
Inside the small but cozy theater, the audience was comprised mainly of gay men, with a few pockets of lesbians here and there. The Times of Harvey Milk opened with Diane Fienstein, as the first female President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, announcing that San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone had been assassinated. As the documentary progressed, with the narration of Harvey Fierstein, one of the few openly gay actors at the time, I became aware of an usual sound coming from all around me.
I realized, then, that it was the sound of men, sitting in the dark, softly crying.
In those days my activist life was divided into two camps, women's liberation -- which is where most of the lesbians were -- and the gay movement, at that time still predominantly men. Often, I was the person who brought the two groups together. I invited Frank Broderick, the then editor of the Philadelphia gay and (newly added since I had begun writing for them) lesbian newspaper, the now defunct, Au Courant, to come speak to a feminist collective I was working with.
Frank wanted to know what the little double-sided axe was that one of the women wore on a chain around her neck. He had seen other lesbians wearing this. We explained to him that it was a labyris, a symbol of female strength and independence from pre-patriarchal Minoan times. (There were a few Seven Sisters alumn in the room.) Frank was usually very quiet, with a deadpan look on his face, but I imagine he was has having a good laugh inside. I would never find out how he felt about the meeting, since he died of AIDS in the next six months or so, a swift and sudden casualty of the first stage of the epidemic.
The members of my feminist newspaper collective, (the now defunct newspaper was titled Labyrinth -- yes, the Labyrinth were the original labyris was found) -- were offended by the name of Frank's T&A column in Au Courant. With a glint of humor in his eye, he insisted that the T&A graphic stood for Tidbits and Advice. Of course, there was a double entendre -- and, of course, most gay men would have found it funny. Today, most lesbians would find it funny also. But times were different then. We were still on the heels of a feminist revolution that made it possible for women to have equality and, therefore, to be independent from men -- hence the slogan, 'A woman without a man is a fish without a bicycle.'
I saw Milk over the holidays -- and watched it back to back with the original documentary. Milk, the movie, came across as well-done fictionalized version of the documentary -- with some original archival news footage and an opening scene of gay men being led out of a bar and put into a paddy wagon -- the historic context of our gay lives.
Sean Penn plays a convincing, although stereotypically "gayer," Harvey Milk. One of the most poignant scenes in the movie is when Harvey receives a telephone call from a gay teen in a small town in the Midwest, saying he was going to kill to himself but then he saw Harvey on television. Before the conversation was cut off, Harvey manages to tell the young person to move to the nearest city.
Harvey Milk was assassinated in 1978, my first year of college. I have a dim memory of the news accounts at the time, possibly because it was not a headline story in the mainstream media. I did not come out until I was 23 -- call it denial or survival, I was not consciously aware of my sexual orientation until then. When I left the suburban working class tract house development of Levittown, Pa., where I had grown up, I wasn't yet out -- but I instinctively moved to the nearest large city (advice that Harvey gave to the young people who called him from samll towns across the country). A few years after I had left, a young gay man named Anthony Milano who lived in the same neighborhood where I grew up was brutally murdered. This was one of the first reported hate crimes.
I really didn't know much about Harvey Milk when he was living. I have never been to the Castro (Harvey was the unofficial Mayor of Castro Street), the 1970s Mecca for gay men. But Harvey Milk is my hero, too, and so is Anthony Milano who was so bravely himself in a redneck neighborhood that I had to flee before coming out. We might still have some differences, but today gay men and lesbians are working together -- and we are a force to be reckoned with. It's true, we've had our recent setbacks -- it often feels like the proverbial one step forward and two steps back but we are, in fact, still marching.


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UPDATE on SB 762 - Animal Cruelty Bill!
SB 762, our bill to increase penalties for the most violent acts of animal cruelty, passed the legislature Sunday night and was sent to the Governor today! Please contact Governor Abbott today and ask that he sign SB 762 into law! His contact form is located at: https://gov.texas.gov/contact/contact.aspx
SB 762 has been one of the toughest and most unpredictable fights ever witnessed in our state. Our bill to ensure the most vile acts of cruelty could be adequately prosecuted was used as a political volleyball within the Republican Party.
On the second reading of the bill in the House, Rep. Tinderholt said the bill placed "a higher value to a pet over the life of a human being," and argued against punishing cruelty to animals more harshly than an unlawful abortion. He then successfully amended the bill to keep animal cruelty a state jail felony with up to two years in prison, and removed enhanced penalties for repeated animal cruelty (thereby weakening existing law).
In the words of Bud Kennedy with the Star Telegram, "Since we don't compare crimes that way, you'd think lawmakers would dismiss it as a cheap stunt." However, thanks to our supporters holding their Representatives accountable, our sponsor. Rep. Joe Moody, was approached by many members assuring him they would help restore the integrity of our bill.
Thankfully, the Tinderholt amendment was stripped out by a conference committee, the bill was restored to its original version (increasing the punishment for violent offenses to a third-degree felony) and the House and Senate approved the bill Sunday night! Amazingly, 20 Representatives and 3 Senators flipped their votes on SB 762. The official vote records have not been recorded yet, but when they do they will post here.
We are so grateful for our amazing bill authors, Rep. Moody and Sen. Menendez. No legislators could have been braver or fought harder for the animals.
We are also so grateful for Rep. Sarah Davis, author of SB 1090, our bill to improve the conditions of thousands of chained dogs in Texas, which died at midnight on the last day. While it may be hard to celebrate progress when the ultimate victory is delayed, I implore you to do so with me, as these milestones are key indicators of the incredibly strong movement we have built this year.
To give some perspective, this session:
6,800 bills were filed, but a whopping 43% of these bills never even received a hearing.
Of the 918 bills that did receive hearings, approximately 13% of bills were never voted out of the committee they were debated in.
SB 1090 was one of 252 bills that made it passed all the hearings, the hurdles, were voted out of the Senate, and placed on the House calendar for a vote but died on the floor.
Only 18% of bills filed passed this session. That is the lowest number since 1995.
Thus, with all the political posturing and all the obstacles, we made it so much farther this year and so much farther than bills funded by heavily financed special interest groups. Speaking of the obstacles, we now know exactly who and where they are, and are wasting no time in re-calibrating to outmaneuver the opposition.
In the words of Bono from U2 "Don't agonize, get organized. Nothing makes legislators more nervous than thousands of people organized." And our organization has never began larger or stronger! This session 1,076 Texans have joined our action alert army and today we just reached 10,000 followers on Facebook- a more than 30% increase in just six months!
So, while our next piece of legislation for tethered dogs in Texas can't be filed for 18 months, our ground game to remove these obstacles begins today, and with thousands more advocates at our side. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements on our interim field strategy that will ensure victory for Texas dogs in the 86th legislative session.
Dawn Rawlings Neymeiyer commented 2018-01-13 22:43:06 -0600
Victory! 18 month wait period to file to help other animals? THAT'S a crime right there!


Right now, I'm obsessed with the podcast "Where Should We Begin?" by Esther Perel. The host is a couples therapist, and the podcast is basically her sitting down with a couple and discussing whatever is going on in their marriage. I stumbled upon it after listening to Perel on the podcast "Terrible, Thanks for Asking" which is hosted by the Hot Young Widows Club founder, Nora McInerny. So, oddly, I have spent now countless hours listening to a podcast about couples because of a connection I have through one of my spousal loss groups.
In any case, I love Perel's podcast. I've listened to couples dealing with infidelity, couples who are working through a serious illness and transgender couples trying to redefine their roles. The one I listened to most recently was about a couple that was dealing with the loss of all of their savings. The husband had spent every penny on apps for games he played on his phone (seriously!) It's fascinating.
I'm not sure why I keep listening to all of these stories about romantic relationships. I didn't listen to the podcast until a few months ago, and so I've spent all of this time immersed in the lives of other couples without having a partner myself. Sometimes I'll hear a person on the podcast say something and it will make me think of how it was to be married to Shawn. Even while I'm still listening to the podcast, I can feel my mind drifting to memories of our hilariously fun date nights and weekend playground trips with the kids.
Yesterday while listening to the podcast, I started thinking about our evenings. Sometimes, we were so tired that we just laid on the bed, looking at our phones or watching Netflix. But other times, when I was baking something for the next day or Shawn had missed dinner and needed something to eat, we'd find ourselves in the kitchen. It was where we had many discussions that are now seared in my memory. We talked about our friends, our careers, our kids, and everything else. I'd make him sign school forms and he'd make me look at our finances. But more than anything else, we'd plan. I don't mean that we planned for the next day or the weekend, though we did plenty of that. I mean that we'd plan our lives for the foreseeable future. What would we be doing personally and professionally in 5, 10, or 25 years? What trips were were going to take when we were retired? How many grandchildren did we want? When would we quit the DC rat-race and just be with each other, growing veggies on a farm and having weekend parties?
God, I miss those talks.
We'd always been planners. When we were first dating, probably only a few months into our relationship, we already talked about marriage and kids. Once we got engaged, we actually had a date where we wrote our "life plan" on the back of a napkin. We would get married when I was 25, have our first kid at 27 and two more kids after that. Shawn would go to graduate school and I would teach. We planned about 10 years down the line where Shawn had written "mid-level bureaucrat" and I had "part time teacher and full time mom" written down. I think we also talked about how we would both write books. We were young and somewhat ambitious, I guess. But what I remember about the napkin were the choices we wanted to make about our life as a couple and our future life as a family.
My life is not over, and so I understand that these things could still happen for me. But they will not happen for us.
Now, I am planning my life alone, and if I'm being really honest, I'm not actually planning at all anymore. I don't know if it's that I don't know how to do it anymore or if I can't face the idea of making those plans knowing that Shawn won't be doing them with me. We always had plans, and usually (loosely) stuck to at least the 5-year plans. Knowing what would happen next, even if I didn't know every small event, was comforting. I felt secure in the fact that my life would be a happy one and that we knew what was coming next.
There's no 5-year plan anymore. I don't even really have a 6-month plan. I guess I have a plan for this week that involves spending as much time outside as possible but that's really about it. I wish that a lack of plans made me feel free and unencumbered, but it doesn't. It just makes me feel a bit lost, unsure of the future and what it holds for me.
Just a note to say I appreciated your piece in the Washington Post. My husband died of colon cancer two years ago and I agree, it has been a journey of learning how to parent differently since then (along with just how to live life since then). It's so unfair. I'm sorry this happened to you and to me. You are a good mom and are doing a good job. We will make it though. Peace be with you.
Catherine, than you so much for sharing this. I hate cancer. Especially colon cancer. It's all so unfair and I'm so grateful that you shared this with me. We will make it through. Thank you so much for this.
In the craziness of being a widow of almost 10 months I completely forgot that my husband and I had planned on taking a cruise to Alaska, his dream destination. Your article made me remember that! Thank you for sharing! My husband was 30 when he passed and I was 31. We have two children now 4 & 6. Relating to another you widow is very inspiring! I have family and friends supporting me but none of them are in my situation. I feel less crazy reading your blog!
Thanks for letting me know. I think you really captured it – being a young widow can really make you feel crazy at times. ("Am I going crazy?" I asked myself MANY times the first year.) Thanks for sharing about your dream cruise – what a beautiful image.


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Џејми Скин (; Фејетвил, Северна Каролина, 2. мај 1988) је амерички кошаркаш. Игра на позицији крилног центра.

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Скин је колеџ каријеру провео на универзитету Вејк Форест где је наступао од 2006. до 2008. и Вирџинији на где је наступао од 2009. до 2011. Након што није изабран на НБА драфту, сениорску каријеру почиње у Француској, у Асвелу где је имао прилике да наступа у Еврокупу у којем је на 6 утакмица бележио 3,3 поена и 1,5 скок. Најбољу утакмицу у Еврокупу одиграо је на гостовању против Валенсије када је постигао 7 поена, уз 4 скока и 1 асистенцију. У децембру 2011. године потписује за Ирони Ашкелон где је провео остатак сезоне и просечно бележио 9,2 поена и 4,9 скокова по утакмици у првенству Израела. Наредну сезону је такође провео у Израелу, у екипи Макаби Ашдод. Наредне сезоне се преселио у Италију, где је наступао за Сутор Монтегранаро до марта 2014. и просечно бележио на 24 утакмице у првенству Италије 11,1 поен и 4,3 скока. У марту се преселио у Порто Рико и потписао за Касиквес де Умакао, где је провео остатак сезоне. У јулу 2014. се враћа у Европу и потписује за Монс-Ено. Сезону 2015/16. је пропустио због повреде, а сезону 2016/17. проводи у Пећи. У јулу 2017. потписује двогодишњи уговор са Партизаном. Ипак након што није прошао лекарске прегледе, клуб је одлучио да раскине уговор са њим 18. августа 2017. године. Наредног месеца, потписао је за фински Коувот.

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Спољашње везе
 Профил на сајту Евробаскет
 Подаци о играчу на сајту Еврокупа

Рођени 1988.
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By Kristine Sorensen September 18, 2015 at 5:45 pm
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Just in time for the Steelers' first home game of the season, the organization has launched a new fashion line, a new website and lots of fun ways to connect with the team and other fans.
We don't know how many points the Steelers will score Sunday, but the team is already scoring points with fans who want merchandise to suit their own style.
Susan McGalla, the new Steelers director of strategic planning, says you'll find it all on their newly-launched website: https://shop.steelers.com/.
"We want to make it easy, quick on any device you want to shop," says McGalla.
New this year, Pandora jewelry with Steelers charms, big labels like Tommy Bahama, Nike Golf and Victoria's Secret. There's also lots of pink for younger girls who love the Steelers, plus neon yellow and metallic gold.
"This is the whole idea of sport goes into street. You can dress it up or you can dress it down," says McGalla. "This has the thumbholes which a lot of the girls look for. Great zip, understated Steeler logo, but it's there. And we can amp it up a little bit with a great scarf with a little bit of bling."
McGalla knows retail. Before joining the Steelers organization, she was president of American Eagle Outfitters and CEO of Wet Seal.
Now, she's bringing her expertise in branding, lifestyle and merchandising to the Steelers. And she's starting by listening to fans.
"We're constantly innovating around the fans. We're bringing in focus groups talking about how we can have them share and be part of the organization in more vibrant ways," she says. "And we're embracing social networking in ways to make happen very seamless, very quick and very fun."
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Many men said they want something to wear to work. Now, they have lots of options. Women want clothes that fit their figures and look feminine, and many moms wanted something other than black onesies, now there's even pink animal print.
"We would get hundreds of letters from fans telling us, how do I get what Tomlin had on on the sideline? How do I get that sweatshirt or hoodie Ben had on before the game?" said McGalla.
They made that easy too. All you have to do is just look for the "Wear What We Wear" signs on the website.
The Steelers also have a new campaign called "It's Not Just Friday, It's Steelers Friday," and they want everyone to wear their black and gold on Fridays before games. Then, you can enter their contest with photos of you in your black and gold. You could win a whole new Steelers-themed wardrobe.
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The Ingeteam Group, one of the world's leading suppliers in the wind industry, is to showcase its technology at the WindEnergy Hamburg, one of the most important events in the European wind power sector.
We are proud to be the Technology & Innovation Partner at the first ever digital WindEnergy Hamburg and the international WindEurope conference that will be streamed on WindTV from 1-4 December. A commitment well aligned with our company's steady track-record of continuous innovation, backed by industry-leading R&D investment levels. WindTV will offer Insights and news from industry insiders and major policymakers directly on your screen, whether live or on-demand.
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We are the leading independent supplier of wind energy converters in the world, with a delivered capacity of more than 50 GW. Our power converters are designed to increase reliability, boost efficiency and reduce maintenance costs for turbines up to 15MW. Our wind generator division Indar is a recognised leader in its segment and has provided some 22,500 wind generators to date. We consistently seek to provide innovate solutions that improve project value and reduce risk. Ingeteam is the global leader in O&M services for its ability in multi-technology services. It provides O&M services in any power generation facility with +17 GW of power maintained worldwide and is absolute leader in LATAM and Spain.
At the beginning of this year, we launched our latest innovation, a new generation of wind energy converters developed for high power DFIG applications in the range of 6 to 8 MW. These state-of-the-art converters are compliant with the world's most stringent grid codes and manufactured according to the highest quality standards at our agile and localized facilities in Spain, Brazil, India and the USA.
We will also present our latest advances in SCADA solutions, predictive maintenance through its pioneering lifetime extension tool, Ingeboards data analysis platform and also its Ingesys CMS tool for the monitoring of vibrations, supervision and status diagnostics of wind turbines. The company is a leading ISP (Independent Service Provider), with maintained wind power of over 9GW.
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How to boss people around by just wearing really expensive clothes
YOU could save hundreds of hours learning management skills by just dressing like an ostentatious arse, it has been confirmed.
Researchers found that dressing like one of those dreadful twats you see tumbling out of over-priced restaurants is all you need to gain total control over your team.
Workplace fashion expert Tom Logan said: "An absurdly expensive suit conveys the idea that you're a shallow, rich, bastard who has done awful things to get where you are.
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He added: "To get started go to a boutique where you have to ring a bell to get in and are served by a dead-eyed shop assistant with an attitude that regularly wilts flowers."
What if they become friends? asks terrified world
THE world is terrified at the prospect of two spoilt, freak-haired idiots becoming best friends.
Experts stressed that a meeting between the world's two most self-centred, childish leaders, neither of whom cares about peace but who like being important, is in danger of being a deeply disturbing success.
Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: "Trump will brag about his army. Kim will brag about his army. Trump will show off about his gold toilets. Kim will show off about his.
"When both leaders step away from the negotiating table to show off their kung fu moves, each claiming to know a secret death touch so powerful they would never use it, they will bond. At that point, an insanely dangerous relationship is inevitable. I'm thinking Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars."
Professor Brubaker added: "From then on the world will live in fear of their moronic solutions for major international problems. China will be told they could do worse than Kim as leader. The USA will be advised that democracy is so 20th century.
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The Town of Vaughan was created by provincial legislation in 1971 as an amalgamation of the Village of Woodbridge and portions of the Townships of Vaughan and King. The Police Villages of Thornhill and Maple were dissolved, with their responsibilities taken over by the newly created municipality. In 1991, the municipality achieved official city status.
Although the municipality began with all Members of Council elected at-large, a ward system was established in 1985. The configuration was modified in an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), now known as the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, order in 1994 from three wards electing a total of five Councillors to five wards, each electing one Councillor per ward. Some minor boundary changes were approved before the 2000 and 2006 municipal elections. A by-law passed by Council following a staff-run review was appealed to the OMB in 2009. The existing boundaries date from the OMB's 2009 order. In 2016, an independent boundary review brought an alternative configuration to Council, but it was not adopted.
Over the last decade, Vaughan's population has grown by more than 28 per cent (2006 to 2016), but the growth has not been uniform across the city and has resulted in population disparity among the five wards. The City is seeking a ward system that represents each of its residents equitably and effectively. A successful ward system should ensure that all areas of the municipality are represented fairly and accurately so that citizen's voices and needs are reflected in Council decision-making.
The objective of a Ward Boundary Review is to assess whether Vaughan's present wards are continuing to provide effective, equitable and democratic representation. This will be achieved by evaluating the suitability of the present wards or new proposed wards using the following guiding principles, in accordance with the Directions for Ward Boundary Review and Council Composition Review presented to Council in May 2020:
representation by population
consideration of current and future population trends
consideration of physical and natural boundaries
consideration of communities of interest
No ward system design can uniformly meet all the guiding principles since some criteria may work at cross-purposes to one another. As well, different observers will prioritize certain principles over others. Ultimately, the final ward design should be the one that best fulfills as many of the guiding principles as possible.
Effective representation will serve as a kind of summary evaluation built from questions like:
Are the individual wards proposed reasonable and clear units of representation?
Do they provide equitable access to Councillors for residents of the municipality?
Are the proposed wards of a size, scale, and shape that a representative can serve a Councillor's constituents successfully?
Do the wards constitute a system that can be judged to deliver effective representation even if some of the specific principles are only partially successful?
The concept of "effective representation" has become an integral part of the evaluation of electoral systems in Canada. To help ensure a municipal Council effectively represents the population of the community, it is important to make voter parity (representation by population) a priority, but also to consider other important factors, including geography, community history, community interests and minority representation. According to the Supreme Court of Canada, considering all these factors constitutes the overriding principle of effective representation.
A final report will be submitted to Council, who will:
determine how Members of Council are elected (i.e. in wards or at-large)
divide, re-divide or dissolve existing wards
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Lygodactylus angularis este o specie de șopârle din genul Lygodactylus, familia Gekkonidae, descrisă de Günther 1893.

Subspecii

Această specie cuprinde următoarele subspecii:

 L. a. angularis
 L. a. heeneni
 L. a. grzimeki

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David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls (1998), and a short story collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1999). He has published short stories in" The New Yorker", "Tin House", "Newsweek", "The New York Times Book Review", Bookforum, "Rolling Stone", H.O.W, "The Oxford American", The Journal of Country Music, Esquire magazine, Ploughshares, GQ, Grand Street, TriQuarterly, and The Paris Review. Gates is also a Guggenheim Fellow.
Until 2008, he was a senior writer and editor in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music.
He teaches in the graduate writing program at The University of Montana as well as at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Here he is a member of the Dog House Band, performing on the guitar, pedal steel, and vocals.
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Getting to Cebu City port
The easiest way to get to the port is by taxi, which can be easily found and are reasonably priced. However there are other options. There are a few different buses you could get, depending on your start location, which go very close to the port. Or if you fancied something completely different then you could jump on a local colourful "jeepney".
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Lack of neutrality – Executors ordered to pay six figure costs
The Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, often referred to as the Inheritance Act, permits certain categories of beneficiaries to make a claim for reasonable financial provision against the estate of a deceased person. A claim can be made if they have not been provided for sufficiently or at all under a person's Will or, if the person died without a Will, their intestacy.
Buckles recently represented the cohabitee of a deceased person, bringing a claim under the Inheritance Act against his substantial (over £6million) estate for reasonable financial provision. Under the Will, our client had been left a legacy of £50,000. When the matter eventually came to trial, our client's claim was successful and she was awarded a house in her sole name and a substantial cash sum by way of reasonable financial provision for her maintenance.
Following the conclusion of the main trial, a further hearing determined who should pay the costs of the action. The general rule in England and Wales is that the loser pays all, or a proportion of, the winner's costs.
In Inheritance Act litigation, the executors usually steer a neutral course. If they abide by any orders the Court makes, carrying out their duties in administering the estate and providing information about the size and nature of the estate, then any costs that they incur should be properly refunded to them by the estate. This is broadly because the Court recognises that executors do not necessarily choose to be involved in litigation and are there simply to administer the estate rather than take sides.
However, in this case, despite claiming to the contrary in their correspondence and in Court documents, the Court found the executors had not remained neutral. Consequently, the Court found that the executors were not entitled to recover their costs from the estate, aside from some minor exceptions. Given that our client was successful, she obtained costs orders against the executors and two other Defendants who were daughters of the deceased.
The Judge said: "The Defendants' position at trial was that (the Claimant's)claim should be dismissed. They lost with this contention". "I see no reason not to give (the Claimant) her costs against (the Defendants) but the more important issues in this case are whether there should be an order against (the Executors) and whether (the Defendants) should get an indemnity from the estate … and how those two relate to each other."
In other words, ordinarily, the Defendants would have had to pay the Claimant's costs and that would have been an end to the matter but here, as a result of the Executors' lack of neutrality, the Judge considered whether they should pay instead.
The Judge found that the Executors took a position on the value of the assets that was not consistent with their protestations of neutrality and "presented an argument at trial, contrary to their expressed neutrality, consistent only with a position that no order (in favour of the Claimant) should be made" and that "It was not possible … for (the Executors) to maintain a position of neutrality and, at the same time, assert that the shareholding should be given no value. Those positions were directly opposed to each other."
He also found that the Executors had a conflict of interest, one being a shareholder and director in the company, and so should have taken independent advice.
In conclusion, the Judge said "I consider that (the Executors') conduct of the litigation has been such that the Court should make them personally responsible for (the Claimant's) costs."
This order required the executors to pay the Claimant's costs out of their own pocket. This matter involved six-figure costs and, therefore, this is a serious issue for the Executors to deal with, especially given that one of their number was a solicitor.
Whilst part of the costs order is subject to an appeal, there nonetheless remains a salutary lesson for Executors who do not remain neutral in this sort of litigation.
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2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the release of Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer's This Time for Keeps. The Esther Williams "water ballet" musical was the third she made in this genre. About a third of the 90-minute movie is set on Mackinac Island. A number of exterior shots and all interior scenes set on the island were filmed at the M-G-M studio in Culver City, California. However, a number of outdoor scenes were shot on the island. This included winter footage of the docks, downtown, the Stewart Woodfill residence, and wooded trails. These were filmed in February 1946, some using doubles to represent the principals. Most of the principal cast, including Esther Williams, Johnnie Johnston, Jimmy Durante and Lauritz Melchior came to Mackinac Island for several weeks in July 1946 for scenes shot along Main Street, at the Coal Dock, in front of Grand Hotel and at the hotel's swimming pool. More than 200 extras were also employed for these scenes. (more…)
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Texas Bankers Association exec moves to Texas Credit Union League
AUSTIN, Texas - With the majority of her 26 years of law experience devoted to the banking industry, Ann Graham said the timing was right to switch to credit unions. The former senior vice president/chief regulatory counsel and corporate secretary for the Texas Bankers Association is the new general counsel...
By Staff Writer | September 24, 2002 at 08:00 PM | The original version of this story was published on Credit Union Times Magazine
AUSTIN, Texas – With the majority of her 26 years of law experience devoted to the banking industry, Ann Graham said the timing was right to switch to credit unions. The former senior vice president/chief regulatory counsel and corporate secretary for the Texas Bankers Association is the new general counsel and senior vice president of advocacy for the Texas Credit Union League. "I see [this position] as a wonderful opportunity. The League has great resources, a great legislative profile, and a great attitude of service toward people who are credit union members in Texas. And that, member service, is the most appealing aspect of all," Graham said. An attorney friend told Graham about the opening with the Texas League and suggested she was ideally suited for the job. After contacting the League, Graham said indeed it was a good match. "When I spoke with TCUL president/CEO Dick Ensweiler, his vision for the industry and for the League convinced me this is where I need to be. This is a very impressive organization, and I think I have a lot to offer in terms of regulatory, legislative, and team building experience," she said. "Working at Texas Bankers Association, I had great respect for Dick's efforts and those of Jeff Huffmann, TCUL's vice president of legislative affairs, and Brian Jammer, TCUL's deputy general counsel." In her three-plus years with TBA, Graham provided the banking industry with legal and regulatory advice, comment letters, articles, and testimony, and performed federal and state legislative analysis and lobbying. Of particular interest was her involvement on home equity reform in Texas, a priority issue for credit unions. Her background also includes five years on the senior management team at the Texas Department of Banking, seven years with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and seven years in private law practice in Washington, D.C., Austin, Dallas, and Houston. During her tenure at FDIC and in private law, Graham had extensive experience in bankruptcy matters. Graham said she is looking forward to working closely with CUNA's legislative team on federal issues, but that her primary focus in early months on the job will be legislation in Texas. "The Texas legislative session will start in January, and one of the things we will be looking at is reform in home equity legislation. To accomplish that, we will have to generate awareness on the part of legislators. That means getting to know them and their families on a local basis," said Graham. "In addition, Harold Feeney, commissioner for the Texas Department of Credit Unions, is doing a great job. I'm looking forward to keeping credit unions informed about regulations proposed by the commissioner. He has a Department bill we would like to see passed during this next session. We will be looking to find an individual sponsor and working toward getting the bill through in an acceptable form," said Graham. Graham is an adjunct professor at both the University of Texas Law School and St. Edward's University. She also used vacation days this past year to teach an international economics course in Chihuahua, Mexico – across the border from Texas' Big Bend National Park area, one of Graham's favorite getaway spots – through Sul Ross University's MBA program. "We covered trade theory, monetary policy and current events. The students loved it and I loved it," she said. Credit unions continue to lobby for their place as a viable financial alternative alongside larger and sometimes more influential banks. After years in the banking industry, what is Graham's perspective? "I believe competition is most beneficial to the American public, and as financial institutions, credit unions compete very effectively on member service. They deserve every dollar they safeguard for their members, because they earn them with service – and not just financial services, but also community services. For example, the Texas League's efforts in establishing financial services for Hispanic citizens of Texas and Mexico. Border initiatives are so important. New entrants to Texas need access to affordable financial services, and credit unions are on the cutting edge to provide those services. I applaud them for that. I'll say it again, credit unions are doing the right thing by competing with banks, not on negative statements, but on service." Graham noted that she is not stepping into an area of the League that needs fixing. "The League already has a good legislative team. We're just going to take it to a higher level. I'm looking forward to working with credit unions of all sizes. And I'm looking forward to talking to non-member credit unions and showing them the benefits of League membership." Concerning her switch from banks to credit unions, Graham related, "When I spoke at my first chapter meeting, I told them [my move] is like the Texas bumper sticker: I wasn't born here, but I got here as fast as I could." -


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Meet Pioneer, the accelerator embracing the founders of "weird and different" startups
By Donna D. Knight	 Last updated Dec 15, 2021
Pioneer attendees at its last in-person summit in 2019. Under its newly announced terms, the … [+] The company is now also offering its portfolio founders a month-long trip to stay and work in Silicon Valley.
Daniel Gross is there for the underdogs. Its accelerator, Pioneer, aims to democratize the startup funnel for technological talents whose background or geographic location places them far from the usual funding streams. "The way our incentives are set up, we won't be able to fund the Stanford postdoctoral fellow who works at a machine learning company," he says. "We are here to attract strange and different people, and we firmly believe that tomorrow will be made by those who don't fit in. "
You could say he's looking for himself. Gross was 18 when he left Israel in 2010 to become the youngest founder (at the time) to be accepted into Y Combinator. "The life I was going to lead had to be quite different from the one I ended up leading," Gross says. "And that was the result of a relatively small business start-up and come to Silicon Valley intervention." The Pioneer accelerator has also accepted aspiring entrepreneurs from Argentina to South Africa, some of whom entered Pioneer before developing any semblance of a business. In some cases, Gross has even stepped in to help potential founders register business entities in Delaware.
In this sense, Gross, who was a partner at Y Combinator before launching Pioneer in 2018, positioned his new company as "X Combinator". He now announces a formalization of Pioneer terms that draws even more parallels with the comparison. Where his former employer invests $ 125,000 in exchange for 7% equity in his accelerator companies, Pioneer will now offer either $ 20,000 in exchange for 2% ownership or no money. , but the ability to join Pioneer's accelerator network and get mentorship — for 1%, as first reported in the Midas Touch newsletter.
"What we've learned is that $ 20,000 is the minimum effective dose of capital required for a business to reach another milestone," Gross said. It's the amount, he adds, that allows a startup to build a minimum viable product, hire an employee or two, get an AWS account, or fly to Silicon Valley and get started. to sell his product. "You just need to take the first step to create the next Google, Facebook, Stripe or Instacart. "
Pioneer has not produced any company of this caliber, but three years later it has shown promise. The approximately 130 companies she has supported with funds have collectively raised more than $ 100 million from investors such as Sequoia, General Catalyst and Y Combinator. They include cryptocurrency startup Iron Fish, which raised $ 27 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz last month, and Roboflow, a computer vision company based in Des Moines, Iowa, which raised $ 20 million in Round A led by Craft Ventures in September. Pioneer has also started to engage in seed funding, with its largest investment north of $ 1 million in Banana ML, a machine learning tool for developers. "Our business model is really based on the fact that most businesses don't perform well, but a small number of them perform phenomenally," Gross said. "As long as we are able to capture ten, 20, or 30 of the working ones, that will be fine."
The Pioneer team is (top row, from left) Co-Founder and CEO Rishi Narang, Co-Founder Daniel Gross, … [+] product engineer Wesley Dencker, (bottom row, from left) Jackson Prince, who works in operations and community, and Andrew Ng, who is responsible for growth.
Gross does not have a specific target for how many companies Pioneer plans to invest in. It has the backing of investor Marc Andreessen and fintech firm Stripe, although Gross would not share the capital that investors have contributed. Pioneer is not structured as a venture capital fund, Gross says, but as an operating company, much like the startups it has supported. Like a real startup, Pioneer has iterated its own product, an automated application (informed by Gross's experience leading machine learning efforts at Apple, which acquired its startup Y Combinator Cue in 2013) who selects potential accelerator companies.
Entry into its accelerator is via a free gamified application in which developers and aspiring entrepreneurs register their technological projects in a "tournament". Taking a page from game ratings, Pioneer uses a points system that ranks projects on self-submitted metrics such as website engagement, user reviews, and the amount of code being written. Progress and momentum catapult participants to the top of the rankings; the top 50 each week are reviewed by the Pioneer team, with the potential to receive support.
"The tournament is the most valuable part of Pioneer," says Erik Dunteman, founder of Banana ML. "It was gamified in a perfect way to make me want to log in and give my updates and build in public. I was following my place in the leaderboard.
For Karen Serfaty, founder of sales software startup Palabra.io, Pioneer was the very reason she was able to become a tech entrepreneur. After rising through the tournament ranks, Serfaty officially joined the Pioneer community in April 2020. At the time, she didn't know any investors and Palabra was just a project she was building from her living room in Argentina. On a virtual demo day at the end of the Pioneer program, Serfaty met investor Jason Calacanis, who invited her to his Launch Accelerator. From there, she wrapped up her first corporate cycle and grew the Palabra team to ten people.
"I am startups and have been watching Y Combinator for a few years. It's something that is close to my heart, but it has always been so far away from me. I'm from a country that's extremely far away, "says Serfaty, who has now been granted a visa to settle in Los Angeles next month. "[Pioneer] opened doors for me that were unlike anything I had known.
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The next Community Council meeting is to be held tomorrow at the Royal Oak Community Club. The meeting will start at 6:00pm to officially recognise and award the Citizen of the Year and the Young Citizen of the Year for 2011.
After the Citizen of the Year ceremony, it will be business as usual with the Community Council business starting from 7:00pm.
We do not have an agenda for the meeting, but top of the agenda will be selecting a secretary for the Community Council.
Without a secretary the Community Council cannot legally function as a community representative group, and the last meeting failed to fill the role. Without a secretary the public cannot get in touch with the Community Council.
If the secretary role is not filled, we are unsure if the meeting will be continued or if the meeting will have to be closed.
Little Raith is also likely to be discussed, as the previous meeting, health issues were raised from members of the public and we have raised our own issues of concern regarding the time line of the consultation process.
The Community Council represent the views of Lochgelly to Fife Council, so we are trying to encourage more people to attend the meetings to raise any issues of concern, and to hold the Community Council accountable and transparent to the local community for decisions they make on behalf of everyone in Lochgelly.


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Mini Baccat
November 2, 2020 by richard
Mini baccarat has a reputation of being played more than in its traditional counterpart, but this can only be seen from the growing number of websites that offer this game. This game is similar to regular baccarat except for the fact that its set up is much simpler.
Mini-baccarat is actually a lower, less exciting version of traditional punto banco. It does however, feature similar games like 'banco'. In mini baccarat the dealer hands the players four hands made of two-card groups with three numbers on the face. The dealer then reveals four cards in each hand, one at each corner. Each card is revealed to the players and they are asked to decide whether they have any information concerning the card(s). The dealer then offers them to bet on one of the cards. These bets are put on the side as a bonus to the person who places their bet or if the person would like to bet more than the base bet amount.
This game also has several variations and can be played in various ways depending on the type of tables that you have. It is therefore important to take some time to find out more about the different types and styles of mini baccarat tables before you sign up. There are many advantages and disadvantages to playing mini baccarat, so it is therefore a good idea to do some research.
When it comes to the game itself, it has two main games which are standard baccarat and standard mini-banco. The game play in standard mini-banco is exactly the same as that of regular mini baccarat and is essentially the same. The cards dealt in standard baccarat games are dealt face down to the players and they are expected to quickly make a decision and place their bets.
Standard baccarat is the one that differs in that instead of dealing out cards, it deals out cards from four suit cards that are placed into four piles and all the players then take the corresponding file from the deck. They then proceed to the dealer dealing phase where the dealer again hands out cards to the players and again they are expected to make a decision regarding what card they want to bet and what card they want to fold.
Mini baccarat on the other hand, has a very simple set up process and consists of a few simple steps. The four decks that are dealt are used in mini-banco the same way as in regular mini-banco, but they are dealt face down and players are required to make a decision and place their bets according to what cards they want to bet. They are given four hands of four cards to bet and after a player has made a decision, they are told which card they want to bet on and at what price and the rest is left for the dealer.
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from a very young age I have had a fascination wit the creative process, building Lego, origami, furniture and anything I was often more interested in the process of getting from A to B than I was arriving at B. Over the years this has helped me to focus on the things that are important and spend the time to do them right, so that when you arrive at point B, it is exactly as you would expect.
I started in programming but quickly switched to a Digital Art and Design course, from which I graduated from wit a diploma. I moved on to a print shop where I worked as bindery then, digital press operator and then, graphic designer I was there for five years before moving on to my current job where I work as a designer for a web team.
I spend my days designing, I come home spend time with my wife and kids and then in the evenings and weekends do more design, sometimes for my church, sometimes for freelance and sometimes for my wife's personal business. Point being I love what I do and I do it all day everyday all year long. I love the challenges it brings and I love the rage of projects I have the opportunity to work on and the people I get to work with.
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Since I have been pregnant, my breakfast usually consists of a fruit smoothie. It's healthy and gives me an extra boost of fruit for the day. Oranges, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, and sometimes peaches or pears…it's absolutely delicious but I sometimes get tired of eating the same thing for breakfast every day.
However, when I'm just making breakfast for myself, I want it to be quick and no-fuss. I'm usually fairly hungry in the mornings, so I need something pronto. I also don't like dirtying the kitchen when I'm just cooking for myself, knowing that in a couple of hours, I'm going to have to be back in the kitchen making a mess again!
This breakfast quesadilla is a quick and delicious breakfast that requires no dishes except one skillet and the plate that you eat it on (although I guess you could nix the plate and use a napkin to save even more dishes!!). It's made of ingredients I always keep on hand, so it's ready whenever I don't feel like having my smoothies in the morning.
In a skillet, fry egg until set. Make sure the yolk isn't too runny, otherwise it will make a mess in the quesadilla!
Meanwhile, spread salsa over one half of the tortilla, sprinkle chile powder over the salsa, and top with cheese. After egg is finished cooking, place on top of the cheese. Lastly, add the spinach on top of the egg and fold tortilla in half.
Cook tortilla over medium, flipping halfway through, until both sides are lightly browned and cheese is melted. Serve immediately.


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Marie Chatardová, född 6 mars 1963, är en tjeckisk karriärdiplomat som är den 73:e ordföranden för FN:s ekonomiska och sociala råd. Hon valdes in juli 2017.

Enligt Forbes 2017 är Marie Chatardova den fjärde mest inflytelserika kvinnan i Tjeckien.

Utbildning och tidig karriär
Marie Chatardová föddes i Znojmo, Tjeckoslovakien. Hennes familj kommer från regionen Södra Mähren. Hon flyttade till Brno när hon var 10 år och studerade vid Gymnázium Křenová. 1985 blev hon Doctor iuris vid Masaryk University i Brno.
Från 1985 till 1990 var Marie Chatardová anställd vid varumärkeskontoret i Prag. Efter Sammetsrevolutionen blev hon advokat, specialiserad på affärsjuridik.

Karriär som statstjänsteman
År 1994 började hon arbeta i Tjeckiens utrikesministerium, vid Institutionen för analys och planering, där hon var i ett år. Hon skickades sedan som Tjeckiens ständiga delegat i Europeiska unionen i Bryssel, där hon var ansvarig för programmet för rättsliga och inrikes frågor före Europeiska unionens utvidgning. År 1999 kom hon tillbaka till Prag och tjänstgjorde som enhetschef inom avdelningen för samordning av förbindelserna med Europeiska unionen. År 2000 utsågs hon till chef för avdelningen för strategisk kommunikation vid Tjeckiens utrikesministerium.

Diplomatisk karriär
Från 2002 till 2007 var Marie Chatardová Tjeckiens ambassadör i Sverige.

I slutet av detta uppdrag återvände hon till Tjeckiens utrikesministerium till posten som chef för protokollavdelningen (2007-2010).

Från 2010 till 2016 utsågs Marie Chatardová till Tjeckiens ambassadör i Frankrike, i furstendömet Monaco och Tjeckiens ständiga delegat vid Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

2013 blev hon också Tjeckiens permanenta delegat till UNESCO (2013-2016). Hon valdes sedan till ordförande för Utskottet för konventioner och rekommendationer (2013-2015)

Sedan 2016 är hon Tjeckiens ständiga representant vid FN. I juli 2017 valdes hon som 73:e president för Förenta nationernas ekonomiska och sociala råd (ECOSOC).

Familj
Chatardová är gift med Benoît E. Chatard. Hon har tre barn: Lucie (1986), Benoît (1993), Marien (2002).

Utmärkelser
  Kommendör av Hederslegionen (Frankrike; 2016)
  Kommendör av Karl den heliges orden (Monaco; 2016)

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Why gratitude is the best attitude.
Hold up. What does gratitude have to do with squeaky doors? But once I deepened into my position, my mind started to open up.
Although one of the weirder sentences I have heard to date, it still rings true. Here is the connection I made: When you are just squeaking by in life, and things feel a little tight, a spritz gratitude will loosen everything up.
This definitely resonated with my story. Finding myself working an 8 to 6 in a field that I wasn't passionate about was taking all I had. I wasn't as happy as I was telling myself, or more honestly, as I was letting other people tell me I should be. I mean, with a boyfriend of three years, our own home complete with cat and dog, and a well-paying job on top of a college education all by the time I was 23 is kind of hard to complain about. But the truth is, seeing myself now, I know that I wasn't happy. I was completing the motions of life routinely, and, like an over-worked machine, my cogs were starting to squeak.
In college and the years directly after, I became caught up with keeping up. Whether downloading the latest social media app, keeping my nails perfectly gel manicured, or pre-ordering the newest Urban Decay Naked pallet, I wanted in.
The minute my boyfriend asked me to move out, the tension I didn't know I was living with released. No longer tied to Northern California, a world of opportunities opened and with it, so did my mind to a fresh start.
With this reset, I stopped just squeaking by, trying to accomplish too much in a 24-hour period. With perfection no longer the ultimate goal (I was 23 and unemployed and living with M+D again, I was pretty out of the perfection competition), I began to loosen up.
Upon moving home, I decided to take the first three months to just enjoy my family and life in Los Angeles. With no plans, except to sleep without an alarm and to hike more often, I stopped moving at 80 miles an hour.
I first gave myself the time and energy to focus on what I already had around me. Placing shirt after shirt on hangers, hearing the clang of too-many perfume bottles in the box I was lugging upstairs, and examining the dozens of unused samples I had received from Sephora over the years, I realized as I unpacked that I had too much. I wasn't living in the realm of necessity, I was living in excess.
Giving my belongings a thoughtful once over, I began to purge. I donated the items that no longer brought me joy and made a promise to use up any product I owned before purchasing another (I still marvel at how I came to have three open body lotions at once).
I stripped away the excess. I took the time to enjoy the things that make up my life – the products, the places, and the people – I have realized that I have all I could want. Gratitude turns what you have into enough.
What are you grateful for? Let us know below.
Hi Tess! I'm grateful for a kid whose introspections are making me think about my choices…and realize that I am pretty dang happy with all of them. Sure, a little more closet purging wouldn't be a bad choice, but when one can say that 98% of her life is rating at a consistent 9 on a 10-point scale, life surely is good.
Life sure is good! Cheers to a 9! Thanks for reading and commenting!


What a joy to visit this family, kid, pet and bike friendly cafe at Narrabeen Lake.
The location is terrific, it's part of the Tramshed Arts … very close to Narrabeen Lake with it's marvellous 8km walk and bike loop trail.
Even better a magnificent playground is being built right beside the cafe at this very moment, It should be open in July.
And then there's the tram, a restored 19302-era Sydney tram, which was very appealing to the junior clientele when we visited. There is a fence between the tram and the road, nonetheless junior passengers will need to be watched closely by their carers.
You can buy your food and drinks as takeaway and enjoy eating them in the tram. Such fun for the little ones.
Trams used to run from Manly to Narrabeen from 1913 – 1939. This tram, Number 1753 R-class, travelled between North Sydney and the Spit until 1958. It became very delapidated, but was rescued by Council and the Forest Community Mens Shed to live at the Tramshed Arts and Community Centre.
The cafe sells Modern Australian cuisine, with a focus on healthy fresh produce and dishes. When we visited we just had coffees and the raw lemon slice, all very lovely. We'll have to go back to try out the breakfasts and lunches properly. Book me in for a Kale Quinoa Nest for brekkie, a walk around the Lake and then End Of The Line Fish and Chips for lunch.
You can check out the Tramshed cafe menu here.
This cafe has such a marvellous location that it might not have needed to put in the effort to be so welcoming to families. But it has and it's bound to be rewarded by becoming a Northern Beaches destination cafe.
Love the old tram design of the booth seats and the list of stops.
There were little kids in and out of the tram, having a lovely time. Bikes can be parked beside the cafe, dogs too.


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to fight off this hell.
although we push it away.
each day that you make.
the one all too clear.
we do not own "here".
a muddy reflection of the years, too fast.
a dimly lit moment juxtaposed in rhyme.
takes up all her time.
of a world and wonder.
or nothing that i say.
and this will not go away.
in this cycle of fear.
i understand all that i see and hear.
i float between these states of mind.
but you are the scourge of humanity.
they chatted in lilting tones,their voices not echoing the clouds of sadness and apprehension that hung heavily over them, waiting to pounce..
be they foolish or wise.
the filter to your light.
i am the sweetest good night.
1.got up and squawked at my mommy for breakfast.
2.jumped on mommy's finger so i could get aforementioned.
4.played fussbudgie and nibbled at food.
8.squawked again because i effing feel like it.
11. repeat all of the above all day long.
12. poop everywhere all day long, spread powder and feathers.
for jonylah and all lost children.
just a time to die.
to tempt all men to evil.
it is give and take.
♪my name is granny gangsta and cut the crap..
i had decades more than you to learn how to rap..
so when it comes to bad, we oldsters are worst.
she sees the world from the reach of an old woman's arms.
the mind, sharp yet blunting, still capable of some charms.
thinking to herself, this is being alive?
crawling into her silence, dark quiet womb.
what's left of her "me"
and all the joy that they made.