Wilder Textured Earth Line is an acrylic based range of paints containing grains. These colors are great for creating ground surfaces on dioramas. Each color comes in two textures: fine and stony.
You can pour the colors right from the jar and spread them onto your diorama. They will not shrink or crack. Use the different tones together in order to obtain authentic looking multi-toned ground work.
You can also paint additional ground tones or add both enamel or acrylic washes over the solidified Textured Earth colors. It will be best to locate any structures, trees and foliage on the diorama while the paint is still wet.
Wilder NitroLine are enamel-based products for quickly and easily applying various weathering effects onto all types of models and dioramas. NitroLine products can be used straight from the bottle or thinned using enamel thinner. Works best over acrylic finishes. The NitroLine range includes washes and filters.
Washes are a quick means of adding subtle fake shadows and tonal variations. Washes will help to highlight details such as rivets, seams and textures.
Filters are a thin transparent layer of paint applied over a surface to alter the tone of a base coat. Filters need to be brushed onto the model using a paintbrush dampened with the effect.
Acrylic based primer for all surfaces including plastic, metal, resin and wood. Paint onto the replica using a brush or dilute with water or most acrylic thinners to apply by airbrush.


Parks and Recreation's adult beach volleyball league is a 10-week league that begins immediately after Memorial Day (new in 2019 the league tournament has been eliminated and there will be no play the week of July 4). The season will be played at Stratford Woods Park Sunday-Thursday and all games begin between 6-8:30 p.m. Teams will only play on the night that they choose. Games will not be rescheduled if a team cannot play. Scores and standings will be updated daily. The winner of each league will receive tee shirts. Age 14 and older are eligible to play. Concussion forms must be completed and returned to Parks and Recreation for underage participants.
March 25-April 19, 2019 or when leagues fill (leagues WILL fill early). Teams accepted on a first-come first-serve basis. Managers can register the team online or in person at the Parks and Recreation Office by paying the full team fee. There are no individual player fees. Teams must have the minimum number of players by Fri., May 24 or will forfeit their first game.
What's the difference between "Recreational" and "Competitive?"
Recreation teams will officiate their own matches guided by pre-established rules. A court monitor will begin matches and collect game results.
Competitive teams will include a referee. The referee will begin the matches, officiate the games and record game results. If there are not enough competitive teams to form a league, teams will play in the recreational division. Please see the registration form for nights of league play.
Want to Play but No Team?
If you are interested in playing beach volleyball, but don't have a team, let us know! We have a list started at the Parks and Recreation Department of Free Agents. If teams need a player, we send them names on the list. To get on the list, contact Parks and Recreation!


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The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
Statements and messages
Interviews and press conferences
Telegrams and messages
Telegrams of Condolence
Congratulatory telegrams
Accreditation of mass medias
Domestic visits
Communities, businesses, the government and taxpayers should act as partners" – PM inspects progress in Kotayk Marz subsidy programs
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today paid a working visit to a number of communities in Kotayk Marz of Armenia. The Premier inspected progress in the ongoing subsidy programs implemented by the Government. The Prime Minister was accompanied by Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Suren Papikyan and Deputy Marz Governor Arnak Avetisyan, who is exercising the duties of Kotayk Marz Governor. The Premier first visited Aramus community, where a new kindergarten is being...
Co-subsidized programs seen as a pledge for rapid development of communities - PM pays working visit to Gegharkunik
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan paid a working visit to Gegharkunik Marz of Armenia, where he inspected progress in the implementation of state-subsidized programs underway in a number of communities. The Premier's visit started in Lchashen village, where the local Manchuk kindergarten is being renovated through the government's subvention program. The activities carried out so far were reported to the Prime Minister during his tour of the kindergarten. The Premier was told...
PM attends opening of integrated social services center in Sevan
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today attended the opening of a regional center for integrated social services in Sevan. Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Zaruhi Batoyan told the Prime Minister that as a local entity that makes part of the national system of integrated social services, the center will attend to nearly 40 thousand residents of 14 communities in Gegharkunik Marz of Armenia. The Premier walked through the center to get acquainted with the services provided. The center...
PM gets acquainted with agricultural activities and intensive orchards establishment programs in Ararat Marz
Accompanied by Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Suren Papikyan and Minister of Economy Tigran Khachatryan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan traveled to Ararat Marz of Armenia. The Premier visited several communities where he talked to the locals in order to learn of their problems and concerns. The Prime Minister first called at Azatavan community, where Nikol Pashinyan got acquainted with the works carried out in the newly established intensive orchard. The owner...
"10 million trees shall be planted by 10 million Armenians on the 10th day of the 10th month" – PM sows cedar seeds as part of new initiative
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today traveled to Lori Marz of Armenia. Accompanied by Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Suren Papikyan and Governor of Lori Marz Andrei Ghukasyan, the Prime Minister first inspected the newly refurbished Gulagarak road. Note that the 2.5 km-long road section was completely repaired in 2019. "This is the road leading to the Stepanavan Arboretum - one of the most picturesque and rare destinations in Armenia. Due to this...
Prime Minister attends inauguration of renovated Dilidjan Medical Center
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the inauguration of the renovated and re-equipped Dilijan Medical Center. The Head of Government toured the Center and took note of the work done as part of refurbishment. In the framework of Tavush Marz health development program, the Center works in close cooperation with Yerevan's major medical centers and is involved in state-administered health programs. In 2019, the Dilijan medical center received AMD 275 million under the...
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Five percent of men have spent in excess of £5,000 on a single online-shopping session, according to research that claims to expose the "extravagant shopping habits" of Britain's males on the Internet.
The survey, conducted by Direct Line, suggests that e-tailers who sell expensive goods would be well advised to make sure they are targeting men. It also flags up that the e-commerce sector needs to do more work persuading potential shoppers that the Web is a trustworthy shopping channel.
The research found that men are seven times more likely than women to spend as much as £1,000 shopping on the Internet, and are also particularly keen on buying motor and holiday insurance online.
According to Direct Line, women are generally less keen on spending large sums of money shopping via the Web, but are extremely satisfied with the results -- with 85 percent saying they've never been disappointed with an online purchase.
"These figures reveal many issues when it comes to purchasing online, not least that men's trust in using the Internet as a shopping channel is currently far greater than women's," said Richard Coombe, head of e-commerce at Direct Line, in a statement.
"This is reflected not only in the high sums of money they are willing to part with, but also by figures stating that women need greater reassurance of the brand they are buying from and that men are 40 percent happier to trust online-only brands with great reputations than their female counterparts," Coombe added.
Many of those people who are splashing £5,000 or more on single online purchases are likely to be snapping up holidays and cars, as automobiles are proving particularly popular on auction sites such as eBay.


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Q: issue with reading result from POST in fetch request to Github API I am using the fetch api to get an access token returned from the github api.
When I check the network tab I see that the token is returned but I am unable to access it in my fetch request.
My code looks like this:
fetch(`https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token?client_id=***&client_secret=***&code=${code}&redirect_uri=http://localhost:3000/&state=react`, {
    method: 'POST',
    mode: 'no-cors',
    headers: new Headers({
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    })
  }).then(function(res) {
    console.log(res); // I have already tried return res.json() here
  })

The console displays the following error if I return res.json():

index.js:30 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input

The GitHub docs states the response takes the following format:

By default, the response takes the following form:
access_token=e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a&token_type=bearer

I guess it isn't returning valid json but just a string so I am not sure how to access this response.
The response looks like this:

However, when I try and log out the response I get SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input

A: If you are using mode: 'no-cors, browser will restrict to access body. Browser has security for cross domain. If you want to access body you have to call without mode: 'no-cors property.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/mode
This will work
fetch(`https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1`, {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: new Headers({
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  })
})
.then(res => res.json())
.then(function(res) {
  console.log(res);
})

This will not work
fetch(`https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1`, {
  method: 'GET',
  mode: 'no-cors',
  headers: new Headers({
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  })
})
.then(res => res.json())
.then(function(res) {
  console.log(res);
})

A: I think you're almost there. You've mentioned this link to the docs. If you read further, you can see that to get response in JSON, you need to include a header named Accept with the value of application/json.
fetch(` ... `, {
    method: 'POST',
    mode: 'no-cors',
    headers: new Headers({
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    })
  }).then(function(res) {
    ...
  })

This way, you can apply .json() on res.

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> Daisuke Gori
Daisuke Gori
Stephen reviews: Dark Cat (1991)
Dark Cat [ダークキャット] (1991)
Starring Tsutomu Kashiwakura, Ryotaro Okiayu, Daisuke Gori, Shigeru Nakahara, Aya Hisakawa
Directed by Iku Suzuki
This is clearly one of those anime titles that is a reduced form of the original story it was based upon, except that upon further investigation I can't find anything that it was based upon. Now that's pretty bad if it really was this disjointed and incomplete right out of the original design phase. It truly feels as if there is a much larger story to be told, and it just got drastically cut down for a movie adaptation. So many of the plot threads reference backstory that doesn't exist in the film that I have to believe there was a lager story somewhere, even if only in the writer's head.
The film opens with a tall dude with hair shaped slightly like cat ears talking to a blue girl in a hospital bed. It cuts back and forth between his conversation and random girls about town vanishing in a flash of light that leaves smoking craters behind. This is actually a pretty good opening that really got me interested in what was going to happen. Sadly, it never really follows up on that mysterious situation. The rest of the film is mostly filled with the emotional struggles of a teenage girl and the guy she's been in love with since childhood, then a bland fight with a cat monster gets tacked on at the end to wrap things up.
October 26, 2016 - 7:00 Stephen 1990s, Action, Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Horror, Movie Reviews, Stephen's Reviews
1991, Aya Hisakawa, Daisuke Gori, Daisuke Gouri, Iku Suzuki, Ryotaro Okiayu, Shigeru Nakahara, Tsutomu Kashiwakura
Stephen reviews: Kimera (1996)
Kimera (1996)
AKA Ki*Me*Ra
Starring Yasunori Matsumoto, Mugito, Jurota Kosugi, Tatsuo Tobita, Daisuke Gori, Yoshitaka Arimoto
Directed by Kazu Kokota
Kimera throws a bit of a curveball at you by blending horror with gay romance. I wasn't quite aware of that particular sub-genre, but I doubt it's a very large one. What makes it really odd, though, is that the title character is, despite all appearances, actually a woman, and one of the most confusingly gendered characters I've ever seen. The film clearly states that she has ovaries and a menstrual cycle, but it makes no mention of male reproductive organs. Kimera, the character, nevertheless looks exactly like a dude. I'm still not sure whether to consider it a cop-out for guys who are insecure about their sexuality so they can say it's not gay, or whether it was just a forced plot device because the story needed to have a reproductive aspect to work. Either way, it is this gender-bending confusion that becomes the defining aspect of the movie.
This is not the only convoluted thing about this film either. The film's biggest problem is that its paltry 45-minute run time just isn't enough time to explain all the ideas that it tackles. I mean, look how long it took me to explain Kimera's gender, and that's not even what the film is about. The movie feels very rushed and incomplete, and that really drags it down. If the plot had more room to deal with its ideas it could have been a pretty decent film. As it is, however, it comes across cluttered and incoherent. Other than that, Kimera is a pretty mediocre anime, anyway. If it weren't for its bizarre gender confusion, it would be a pretty forgettable film.
October 8, 2014 - 5:20 Stephen 1990s, Action, Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Stephen's Reviews
1996, Daisuke Gori, Jurota Kosugi, Kazu Kokota, Mugito, Tatsuo Tobita, Yasunori Matsumoto, Yoshitaka Arimoto


Problems to find: the goal is finding a certain object, the unknown.
Problems to probe: the goal is to show whether a certain assertion is true or false.
In the problems to find, we work with the unknown (what we want to get), some data, and conditions to be met.
In the problems to prove, we work with the conclusion (what we want to get) and the hypothesis.


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City raises tribute to Brezhnev
KRASNODAR, Russia, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A Russian city of Novorossiisk Wednesday decided to erect a monument to former Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, Interfax news agency said Wednesday.
The monument will be erected on the next anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi occupation during World War II, known to Russians as the Great Patriotic War, Interfax said.
The decision to raise it was made by Novorossiisk Mayor Vladimir Sinyagovsky at a meeting with senior advisers and officials, the mayoral secretary Roman Shelest told Interfax.
The Ukrainian-born Brezhnev led the Soviet Union as general secretary of the Communist Party and then president for 18 years from 1964 to 1982. Although the long economic decline of the Soviet Union began during his later years in power, he presided over a greater degree of material progress for ordinary Soviet citizens than in any other period of the 74-year history of the state.
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Jan. 17 (UPI) -- An FAA advisory warns pilots could experience "unreliable or unavailable GPS signal" during a training exercise scheduled for Jan. 16 through Jan. 24.
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Eighth Space Flag exercise wrapped as Space Force signed into law
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Space Flag wrapped its eighth exercise at the Boeing Virtual Warfare Center on the day the U.S. Space Force was created, the branch has announced.
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The Gravely sisters grew up in the South, where entertaining is a way of life and visitors are always welcome, especially around the dinner table. Susan and Frances remember well the careful preparation behind a special evening, and they were often asked, as most children are, to help set the table.
Little did they know that very chore would turn into their life's passion. Their story starts with a magical trip to Italy in 1983. Susan, Frances, and their mother, Lee headed to the Amalfi Coast where they stayed at the San Pietro Hotel in Positano.
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How do you freak out?
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well, just play me that music and i mean: play it loud and things will go their way, dear! i looove dancing and if you love the stuff you can do it. been to a psychedelic night lately and beat my own record what was at about six sick hours of boogie!
what fun that is...especially when the crowd goes mad when you perform on the floor! i still have to deal with my famous "james brown knee". got it twisted when twisting. nevertheless, best one can do on a night out.
anyone remember them famous soul allnighters?
then you know what i mean.
love
wowie!
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check out the randamonium thread "blotter art," that would be a good place to freak out imo.
.."do you know what you are?..you are what you is.."
I live very close to Kansas. I go down there to freak out.
When is this trip going to end, man? Somebody please talk me down.
Have not really thought about that these days ... at 65, you don't exactly wonder around thinking that you want to take some acid, although I probably would if a hit or two walked into my path, mainly because I had a really good time with it in my earlier days.
In general, listening to music non stop, and or watching more foreign movies, does it for me.
You can't trust anyone over 60, man!
If you can't feel it, and don't know the difference, what is your point?


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The industry standard CPE WAN Management Protocol defined by the Broadband Forum.
The Broadband Forum defines several data models for use with the CPE WAN Management Protocol (TR-069 Amendment 6). These data models contain objects and parameters that describe the many different functions and capabilities available to devices and services that are manageable via CWMP.
CWMP data models are divided into two types: Root and Service. The root data model, Device1, is used to describe the major functions of a network aware device, including interfaces, software/firmware, diagnostics, components common to CWMP and other services, and the basic device information necessary to CWMP.
Service data models describe modular functionality that allow the extension of the root data model on a device (under Device.Services.) to provide particular services, such as a voice service, set top box service, network attached storage, etc.
Each data model is defined by a Name:Version syntax. A device defines its data model by defining a device type, an XML document that maps to (imports) BBF official data model objects and/or vendor specific objects. A full explanation of how to develop compliant CWMP data models can be found in TR-154.
1 Early versions of the CWMP data model defined two root data models, InternetGatewayDevice and Device. Version 2 of the Device root data model (Device:2) deprecates InternetGatewayDevice and Device:1 in favor of a single root data model.
Note: All the files below are directly reachable via: https://www.broadband-forum.org/cwmp/<filename>.
Use the CWMP data model files to define and implement what exists in your solution's Supported Data Model. This will help the ACS to learn what your CPE is capable of. The data models will also describe how your CPE's Instantiated Data Model will behave during operation.
View the HTML files on this page for a human-readable look at the data model documentation.
Use the XML files in this repository when generating code and performing data validation.
These data models are the basis for the Broadband Forum's data models for the User Services Platform (USP).
The source files used to build the complete CWMP data model can be found on GitHub.
A ZIP file containing all the latest data models can be downloaded from here.
Corrected errors in TR-196i2 per direction of 3GPP TS 32.592.
CWMP is developed and maintained by the Broadband Forum. This page was generated by GitHub Pages.


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Foxconn's focus shift, India preference cause concerns in China
Taiwanese firm Foxconn's decision to invest a whopping $5 billion in India has caused unease in China as it marks the first top international firm opting for India amid a slowdown in the Chinese economy.
tech Updated: Aug 11, 2015 08:35 IST
The logo of Foxconn, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry, is seen on top of the company's headquarters in Tucheng, New Taipei city. (Reuters Photo) ( )
"Foxconn chooses India over China for new plant," read the headline in state-run china.org.cn, while carrying the news of the Taiwanese electronic giant signing up to set up a big plant in Maharashtra.
"Foxconn's latest India investment represents the leading electronic product maker's intention to profit from the world's fastest expanding market of smartphones. Foxconn, famous for making parts for Apple, will reportedly produce Xiaomi phones in the new factory, a rumour that Foxconn authorities did not clarify or comment," it said.
Joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India initiative, China's Xiaomi Inc has tied up with Foxconn to assemble smartphones in India as it looks to grab a larger share of the booming Indian market.
The tie-up, which will make India Xiaomi's second local manufacturing hub outside China, comes within days of Foxconn announcing $5 billion investment for a plant in Maharashtra.
Despite the bad publicity over suicides in the past by Chinese employees owing to pressure and poor working conditions, China valued Foxconn's massive presence as it employed over a million workers, who mostly hailed from rural areas with little education.
Foxconn converted China the leading base for manufacturing of all top brands of phones and computers including Apple, Samsung, Dell etc.
It will be the first leading investor to show interest to shift to India.
"The Foxconn-India deal also shows that India wishes to develop its manufacturing sector, as the rising labor cost in China is forcing away many investments in lower-end and labor-intensive industries," the report said.
"At the same time, the Chinese government is encouraging its companies to take the opportunities brought by the "Beltand Road" initiatives, and to invest overseas, a move which also helps absorb excessive industrial capacity back home," it said.
China's growth stood at 7% in the first half of the year with forecasts that it would slow down further.
The slowdown is causing concern as the world's second largest economy which posted double digit growth rates for over two decades attracted massive foreign direct investment, (FDI).
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its recent forecast said China's economy will slowdown to 6.8% this year followed by 6.3% in 2016 and 6% for 2017.
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Religious Horror
June 16, 2011 June 16, 2011 by Arusha
To a young apolitical Iranian woman, America is an army of helicopters ruling purgatory, patrolling the vast, lawless space between the disorganized and deceitful now and the desperately sought paradise. This wondrous insight comes to us thanks to the Zanzibar Film Festival which opens this weekend.
(For a broader summary of the festival, please read my Tuesday blog.)
"Invitation" is a film by Payam Zeinalabedini, an Iranian with a very limited budget. It's not going to win any technical awards, and as you are carried along by the lilting, beautiful girl's voice over the film's haunting music, it becomes hard to "translate" the very poor English subtitles. But please stick with it, and forget the subtitles if you must. It is absolutely a film that every American should watch.
Watch it now, by clicking here, or come back to it, later. It is 30 minutes long and gives us Americans a widely held view of ourselves from the outside.
In a larger sense I think this is why so many Americans love Africa. There is something that we immediately identify with every moment of new experience, whether it be vast Midwest-like plains or thousands of animals. (American's empathy for animals is legendary.)
And I'd like to think a few clever Iranians understand this, too. Payam's film has shown in a few other festivals, but its technical merits are wanting. If shown, for example, in Milwaukee or Austin, it would probably fall flat as poorly made propaganda. But the characterization it makes of America will not offend an audience in Africa. And obviously it's not intended as propaganda, there.
Africa has manipulated America well, for both America and itself, for several generations. Africa knows the good we have, and the bad we seem unable to shake. And because the film really does lack the technical merits of so many of the other entrants in the festival, I have to believe, too, that the Africans running the festival are doing exactly what the Iranians are:
Trying to send us an important message. A post card, if you will, of an essentially apolitical Iranian girl of her journey into Iraq. In a way that won't evoke our defensiveness before we absorb it. 'Someone,' I can imagine them saying to themselves, 'has to let America know what's happening.'
Filmed in 2008 it is a story of this young lady making the trek to the holy Shiite shrine in Karbala, Iraq. We never know her name, or the name of her grandmother who she invokes constantly as her mentor and inspiration and the assumed recipient of her remarks.
In fact, throughout the film's crowded voyage through humanity, no one offers names. At the Iraqi/Iran border where American soldiers finger print and eye scan all pilgrims, names are clearly forged or just made up. Except for imams and holy historical figures, names aren't used, not even when trying to check into an inn for the night.
The film becomes a documentary of crowds of nameless pilgrims wandering towards the shrine, in a sort of hapless pursuit that things holy must be better.
The Iranian woman narrator has paid an Iraqi tour company for the trip, as have hundreds if not thousands of other Iranians in lines of buses coming out of Tehran. But when the convoy reaches the Iraqi border, the comfortable vacation turns into a horrible expedition.
It's raining and cold. Compared to Iran's paved roads, Iraqi's dirt tracks are terrible. And dangerous. The girl explains that Iraqi security personnel must join the bus groups to guard the continuing journey, because it's considered so dangerous.
Waning daylight infuses the "second-hand Iraqi" buses bereft of working windows or adequate heaters as the convoy pushes deeper into Iraq. They pass Tikrit, and the narrator turns her camera at Saddam's palace, but it passes quickly out of view as something no longer meaningful.
It's dark, cold and still raining, and the colored often neon lights that poke out from villages along the way seem like circuses or game parlors. The narrator remembers the tracer lights of Iraqi aircraft over Tehran during the great wars. She was very little, and she remembers her grandmother telling her to run to the shelter.
Then the tour bus gets stuck in the mud, in the dark, cold and rain. The Iraqi security officer orders them to stay in the bus "And don't sleep! It's dangerous!" By the broken English subtitle, she says mournfully, "Grandma, I now know what anxiety for the future means."
The next day she sees lines and lines of Iraqis walking on the muddy sides of the road to the shrine and feels embarrassed with her fortune. "I am not vengeful," she begins, invoking the long wars between the two countries, "and I wonder if I should get out and walk with my brothers."
Americans – which are never shown – are omnipresent, but as if in another dimension, outside real peoples' realities. At one point, the security officer accompanying her in her bus warns her not to take pictures or use her cell phone, because Americans "have X-rays and we'll all then get arrested."
As they approach Karbala in the darkness and drizzle, the sounds of excited pilgrims increase. There is self-flagellation and ominous and aggressive dancing common to this sect of Shiites, unhappy crowds, mixed and uncoordinated singing and shouting. They walk pass dilapidated or bombed out structures as the throngs of people move towards the only lighted structure in the area, a yet distant giant Christmas-lighted mosque and shrine.
They decide to check-in to their inn before going to the mosque. The electricity is erratic and there is no light in the cold, rainy street. Yellow light peeps out from shuttered windows. When they finally locate their presumed overnight lodging, they discover there's no room for them at the inn. And there's no representative around from the travel agency that took their money to complain to.
"This is Karbala," the innmaker intones, "go to Paris, go to the Emirates if you want a room!" The girl remarks they can't even find an internet café, because there's no electricity and no computers. She remarks with the first bit of political overtones that this is the country that was supposed to have a nuclear bomb, and they don't even have working computers!
What she had hoped would be a joyous excursion has become a nightmare. She finds an Iraqi who has the authority to allow her to film inside the shrine, but his laptop doesn't work so he can't give her the necessary permit. She finds a laptop from a fellow Iranian traveler, and the official creates a permit using Word.
Suicide bombers have attacked nearby mosques. There are sirens and flashing lights, and suddenly American soldiers who are never shown, though. No one seems to care. "This country is conquered by Americans," she says as if only realizing it herself, now.
Finally she gets inside the mosque. The light is bright, almost blinding. Most faces turn away from her camera. Those that don't reveal fear, anger, perhaps terror.
She gets in a line of congested movement towards the shrine, the object of the trek. The orderly movement forward is interrupted by security officials frisking entrants. Inside, she says, "Grandma, perhaps it was your prayers that got me here, but now I'm entrapped among the security Army of Blasphermers."
"I feel I am supposed to see and hear" inspiration or something religious, and then her voice is drowned out by the sounds of helicopters going around and around, closer and closer, louder and louder.
This is the view of Iraq by a young Iranian. I don't consider this propaganda, although I think it quite fair to presume the film maker had an agenda in mind. But strip away the commentary and subtitles, and just take the scenes shown for what they are:
A country in endless mourning, restless and lawless, pitifully unfulfilled.
Ready to either implode completely or explode entirely.
An American watching this film must wonder what the hell we're doing there. We're not bringing peace, and we're certainly not bringing prosperity or any measure of happiness. If our national security goal is to impede harm against us, we're certainly not doing it by making friends. You could not live in Karbala without hating America.
Nevertheless, if this has "kept a lid on terrorism" one wonders if the oppression this thrusts on the peoples of Karbala is fair strategy. In a tit-for-tat body bag game, we're winning. But one wonders if the game weren't played at all, if the numbers of dead, injured and unhappy would be infinitely less.
We have turned a once joyful religious trek undertaken for centuries into a modern horror film.
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Ron Taylor
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Hi Jim…
The "terrible consequences of our (US) actions"? Sure. We have done, and are doing, some stupid things. No excuse for that.
However, there is also plenty of room for concern about actions of others…actions which lead to reactions. And then more reactions, and more, and so on. ..throughout history. If you or this little girl narrator don't understand that, you understand nothing about what is happening, and has happened, in Iraq, Iran and beyond. Some in the Middle East are still fighting the crusades or, at least, use that imagery to inflame young people. Some are infused with a misbegotten religious zealotry and intolerance that results in individuals blowing innocent people apart with bombs strapped to their bodies… in the name of what?… their sect (Sunni or Shia) or their religion. Some want religious or political power over others ("death to infidels"). Some want wealth (individually or for their tribe or country). It is all a big cauldron that has been perking for hundreds and thousands of years. Why do you think that Iraq and Iran had multiple wars? Why did Iraq invade Kuwait? Why were the Kurds gassed? Why did the Baathists persecute the Shias? Also, much of the current conflict derives from political decisions taken in the early 20th century by the British, the French and the Russians. The immigration of large numbers of Jews into the Middle East (due to actions taken by Germany, etc. during WWII) also adds to the pernicious stew. Again, laying blame for all of this at the feet of the Americans is a bunch of ignorant baloney.
With specific regard to Iran, maybe their people would be better off if their government stopped allocating funds to the development of nuclear bomb-making capability or stopped allocating funds to the support of Hezbollah. Maybe they would be better off if they hadn't taken over the US embassy. Maybe they would be better off if their female population had access to education and other "rights". Maybe, maybe, maybe. The US did not make these decisions for the Iranian people.
I am sick of having people blame everything on the United States. I am sick of simplistic, jingoistic, preachy commentary on complex, deeply rooted conflicts and widely held, tribally-based hatreds. Give me a break.
Has the US done some things that I would rather they hadn't. Absolutely. Are they the real source of this girl's angst? Absolutely not. Am I bamboozled by scenes depicted in this film? Not in the slightest.
– Ron Taylor


Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the government is committed to fiscal discipline, and that the sharp decline in international oil prices and government initiatives would help keep the CAD at comfortable levels.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the government is committed to fiscal discipline, and that the sharp decline in international oil prices and government initiatives would help keep the current account deficit (CAD) at comfortable levels.
Addressing a pre-budget meeting with economists, Jaitley said that while the global economic situation is still facing critical challenges, the NDA government is committed to rebuilding investor confidence, especially for the infrastructure and manufacturing sectors.
He said the government has taken several measures to revive growth adding that with inflation under control, macro-economy stability has improved.
Economists who attended the meeting included Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Partha Mukhopadhyay of the Centre for Policy Research, Errol D'Souza from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Ajit Ranade of the Aditya Birla Group and Sonal Varma of Nomura.
"We stressed that focus must be given to the domestic market and consumption as the global economy is still to pick up," said one economist who was present in the meeting. Major suggestions include focus on boosting growth, containing inflation, rationalisation of subsidies, containing fiscal deficit and above all, bringing back the investors' confidence.
It was also suggested that a single-window system be implemented, both at the Centre and state-level, to ease doing business. "The Centre and states must be on the same page," the economist said, adding a mechanism must be put in place to ensure effective implementation of decisions upto grass root level.


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Is China's growth now increasing rather than reducing global inequality?
China's role as the main engine driving the reduction in global inequality becomes less important as the country gets richer. In 2011, China's mean per capita income, calculated from household surveys and expressed in international dollars, was 22 percent below the global mean and was greater than the mean incomes of 49 percent of the people in the world (assumed to have the mean incomes of their countries).
The world will very soon be in the position where China's high growth rate begins to add to global inequality, not detract from it. India's mean income is currently ahead of only 7 percent of the world population, and India cannot be expected to "turn the corner," that is, to become, in average per capita terms, richer than more than 50 percent of the world population, in the next twenty years. Thus it will, if it grows fast, take over from China as the main engine of global income equalization.
Footnote 16: In the case of the Gini coefficient (with which we work here), the point at which a unit begins to add to inequality depends on its rank (let's call it the "turning point rank"), that is, the number of units from which it has a higher income, but also on the initial Gini. The turning point rank formula is i > ½ (G + 1)( n + 1) which for a large n simplifies to i > ½ (G + 1) n, where i = the turning point rank (the rank i runs from 1 to n), n = total number of units, G = Gini coefficient. Note that the turning point is n/ 2 (i.e., the median) only when the Gini is zero. For the derivation of the formula, see Milanovic (1994).
With the current level of population-weighted global Gini being around 0.54, the turning point rank is 0.77n. That means that China's mean income has to be such that, when all individuals in the world are ranked by the mean incomes of their countries, 77 percent of the world population is left behind China. But because China's population is 20 percent of world population, for a Chinese person to be at that ("turning") point, he or she needs to leave behind only 57 percent (77 − 20) of the world population. Currently, as we have seen, China's mean income exceeds the mean income of 49 percent of world population. This means that China needs to leave behind just an additional 8 percent of people in the world to begin adding to global population-weighted inequality. This could already be happening by the time this text is being read.


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Q: PropertiesLauncher unable to jar files in Uberjar when using Spring Boot We seem to be having an issue while using propertiesLauncher (layout as ZIP). When we run the jar with or without using -Dloader.path
java   -jar  myuberjar.jar

We keep getting an error saying that it is not able to find jar file that is present in myuberjar.jar
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: File [/Users/myuser/myuberjar.jar!/lib/jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.5.4.jar] referenced by given URL [file:/Users/myuser/myuberjar.jar!/lib/jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.5.4.jar] does not exist
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.archive.internal.StandardArchiveDescriptorFactory.buildArchiveDescriptor(StandardArchiveDescriptorFactory.java:73)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.archive.internal.JarProtocolArchiveDescriptor.<init>(JarProtocolArchiveDescriptor.java:71)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.archive.internal.StandardArchiveDescriptorFactory.buildArchiveDescriptor(StandardArchiveDescriptorFactory.java:55)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.archive.internal.StandardArchiveDescriptorFactory.buildArchiveDescriptor(StandardArchiveDescriptorFactory.java:48)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.scan.spi.AbstractScannerImpl.buildArchiveDescriptor(AbstractScannerImpl.java:95)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.scan.spi.AbstractScannerImpl.scan(AbstractScannerImpl.java:70)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.scan(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:725)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:221)
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:188)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider$1.<init>(SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.java:49)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(SpringHibernateJpaPersistenceProvider.java:49)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:343)
at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:318)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1633)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1570)

Not sure what we are missing.
SpringBoot - 1.2.4.RELEASE
JDK1.8
PropertiesLauncher
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
               <layout>ZIP</layout>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

When i extract the uberjar , i can see all the jars in the lib folder. Bellow are the contents of the manifest file
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Implementation-Title: AppService
Implementation-Version: 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Built-By: avinash
Start-Class: com.company.app.AppServiceApplication
Implementation-Vendor-Id: com.company.services.app
Spring-Boot-Version: 1.2.4.RELEASE
Created-By: Apache Maven 3.2.1
Build-Jdk: 1.8.0_25
Implementation-Vendor: Pivotal Software, Inc.
Main-Class: org.springframework.boot.loader.PropertiesLauncher

A: The issue is not with Spring Boot properties launcher, but more with Hibernate jars as described in the bug below.
https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-4161


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Q: How to programmatically hide Imageview I have a linearlayout with three icons as below
 <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/cities"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content
            android:src="@drawable/city" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/red"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:src="@drawable/red"
            android:visibility="gone"
            />
        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/deal"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:src="@drawable/deal" />

initially the middle icon is hidden (android:visibility="gone") I have a login screen..when the login i success I want the icon to be visible ..tried as below..but itz not working
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.fyelogin);
    etPassword = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.password);
    btnLogin = (Button)findViewById(R.id.login_button);
    btnCancel = (Button)findViewById(R.id.cancel_button);
    lblResult = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);

    final ImageView details = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.red);

    btnLogin.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {

            String password = etPassword.getText().toString();

            if(password.equals("guest")){
                lblResult.setText("password successful.");

    giving error @ this line  ----->  details.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

            } else {
                lblResult.setText("password doesn't match.");
            }

            finish();
        }
    });

A: You should make the ImageView details object a class variable, so that it can definitely be accessed by your listener later.

A: Try this,
ImageView details;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.fyelogin);
        etPassword = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.password);
        btnLogin = (Button)findViewById(R.id.login_button);
        btnCancel = (Button)findViewById(R.id.cancel_button);
        lblResult = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);
        details = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.red);

        btnLogin.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {

                String password = etPassword.getText().toString();

                if(password.equals("guest")){
                    lblResult.setText("password successful.");

                     details.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

                } else {
                    lblResult.setText("password doesn't match.");

                }

                finish();} });


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2023 Winter Games
Dinner Downtown
What is Winter Games?
Winter Games is one of 13 state sports competitions. It is the culminating competition for those participating in alpine skiing and snowshoeing. Winter Games is hosted at Chestnut Mountain Resort and Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa in Galena, Illinois. Typically, more than 450 athletes will compete in this three-day event to show off their winning form.
Competition is offered in Alpine skiing and snowshoeing. Athletes cannot participate in more than one sport.
Sports competition runs from Tuesday, January 31 to Thursday, February 2. The public is invited and encouraged to attend any and all parts of Special Olympics Illinois Winter Games.
Tentative Competition Times
All times listed below are tentative and subject to change once event specific schedules are determined. Times only reflect actual competition times and do not include time frames for coach meetings, weigh-in times, etc. For a final schedule please check the supporting documents section close to competition day.
Tuesday: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Tuesday: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Please check back closer to Winter Games for more details.
Special Olympics Illinois is still looking for volunteers. If you would like more information on volunteering, please click here.
Opening Ceremony and the Parade of Athletes will be in downtown Galena beginning at 5:30 PM on Tuesday. Line up will begin at 5:15 PM on Green Street near the historic Post Office building. Agencies will line up behind their region's flag. The parade will progress through the downtown area and back to the Post Office area where Opening Ceremony will be held. Finally, to top off the ceremony, Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run officers will hand off the torch to athletes who will then carry it along its path and light the Flame of Hope cauldron to kick off the Games! Please dress appropriately for the weather – it is all outdoors.
After the Opening Ceremony, agencies will be escorted to local restaurants for dinner. Please check back in January for restaurant assignments.
Winter Games Reception
The Winter Games Reception will be at Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa from 7:30 – 9:00 PM on Tuesday, January 31. The dress is business casual. Light appetizers will be served and guests will enjoy presentations as well as socializing with other families, sponsors, volunteers, Board members, and staff.
Souvenirs will be sold on-site only at Eagle Ridge. Those staying at Chestnut Mountain will need to pre-order their items and can pick them up in Tournament Central at Chestnut Mountain. Customized items at either venue are only available via preorders. The souvenir area at Eagle Ridge is located in the lower level lobby area and is open Tuesday 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM and Wednesday 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Cash and most major credit cards are accepted. Checks are not accepted. The cut-off for preorders is January 23.
Please click here to view items and submit your order.
Souvenir items are offered by Minerva Promotions and a percentage of sales are given to Special Olympics Illinois.
Families are an integral part of Special Olympics Illinois and of Winter Games. Parents and family members attending Winter Games should stop by the families registration area, located on the lower level of Chestnut Mountain Resort and Eagle Ridge Resort.
Families are invited to take part in the Opening Ceremony on Tuesday evening in downtown Galena. At 5:30 PM, the Parade of Athletes will walk through downtown Galena and end up at the Post Office for the official ceremony ending at 6:00 PM. Dress appropriately for the weather – it is all outdoors.
Family members attending Winter Games will also be invited to the reception at Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa from 7:30 – 9:30 PM on Tuesday evening. Space is limited so preregistration is required for attendance at this event. The dress is business casual. Light appetizers will be served and guests will enjoy presentations as well as socializing with other families, sponsors, volunteers, Board members, and staff.
Victory Dance
Special Olympics Illinois will offer a dance from 7:00 – 8:30 PM on Wednesday, February 1. Location is TBA.
Due to housing assignment changes, lifeguards will not be provided and swimming will not be offered as an official recreational activity in 2023. For further information, please review the handbook located on this page.
Text Alerts and Event status Updates
In case of inclement weather, schedule changes or cancellations check the website here for updates or sign up for the text alert. This alert will send you any last minute changes in the Winter Games schedule. Please text "Winter" to 844-393-0980.
Chestnut Mountain: Awards will be downstairs in the Mississippi Vista Room. Alpine awards will take place
immediately after the completion of last event for each level each day.
Eagle Ridge: Awards will be located downstairs in the Galena Room. Snowshoe awards will take
place immediately after each final race.
2023 Winter Games Handbook
2023 Winter Games Handbook Memo
2023 Winter Games Final Coach Proof with Divisions
Healthy Habits Flyer
Winter Games 2023 Extracurricular Activities Flyer
Winter Games 2023 Immersive Technology Flyer
2023 Winter Games Menu
2023 Winter Game Opening Ceremony and Tuesday Agency Dinner Information
2023 Winter Games Housing At A Glance
2023 Alpine Final Schedule
2023 Snowshoe Final Schedule
View the Visit Galena site for information on lodging and activities in Galena.
To see a complete list of all State Championship competitions, click here.
To find out more information about the Knights of Columbus, who support Special Olympics Illinois throughout the year, click here.
Results will be available following the event.
Special Olympics is a global organization that unleashes the human spirit through the transformative power and joy of sport, every day around the world. Special Olympics Illinois is a not-for-profit organization offering year-round training and competition in 18 sports for more than 21,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities and 9,000 Young Athletes ages 2-7 with and without intellectual disabilities. Special Olympics transforms the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, allowing them to realize their full potential in sports and in life. Special Olympics programs enhance physical fitness, motor skills, self-confidence, social skills and encourage family and community support.
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8700 W Chestnut Mountain Rd, Galena, IL
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Welcome to Scotscraig, an Open Final Qualifying Course, steeped in history and with proud traditions.
Welcome to Scotscraig, an Open Final Qualifying Course, steeped in history and with proud traditions. Ideally situated in the heartland of Golf close to both the Old Course in St Andrews and Carnoustie Golf Links.
Scotscraig is conveniently located only 15 minutes from the famous Old Course, St Andrews. Although the course doesn't sit exactly adjacent to the coastline, there are a few sea breezes to consider when playing this links, heathland mixture.
Since 1984, Scotscraig has hosted the Final Open Qualifying when The Open is played over St Andrews. When the Open returned to St Andrews in 2010, Scotscraig once again hosted Final Open Qualifying.Ian Baker-Finch, Brian Barnes, Justin Rose, Mark Mouland, Duffy Waldorf and Sam Torrance are only a few of the famous players to have graced this renowned classic Fife course.
OFFERS:TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR TWILIGHT RATE FROM 1ST APRIL TO 31ST OCTOBER of only £140 per fourball after 1.30 midweek and 2.30 at weekends.On Line booking also available at greatly discounted prices.Winter Rate of only £25 from 1st November - 28th February.
Scotscraig is renowned for its excellent catering so why not pre-book your meal prior to teeing off. You will be made most welcome.Warm up practice area is available to members and visitors.


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UNSW Info Day offers all the answers for prospective students
Mikayla Keen
With UAC preferences closing soon, UNSW Info Day provides answers to those last-minute questions.
UNSW Sydney's Info Day will take place on Saturday December 15.
School leavers who are about to lock in their university preferences can obtain all the information they need about studying at UNSW Sydney at the University's Info Day on Saturday.
With the release of Australian Tertiary Admission Ranks (ATARs) this week, students will be deciding where their preferences lie and asking questions about which university will best prepare them to embark on their careers.
UNSW Info Day connects prospective students and their families with current students, academics and advisers to provide information and advice.
"This is an exciting time to be joining the UNSW community," Professor Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, says.
UNSW is adopting a new academic calendar, known as UNSW3+, for 2019. It is comprised of three 10-week teaching terms and an optional intensive summer term. The change in term structure, from the traditional two semesters a year, offers greater choice for students and the ability to spread workloads more evenly across the year.
It also provides students with the flexibility to easily incorporate extracurricular activities such as volunteering or an overseas experience into their study plan.
"Students will be able to take full advantage of our new flexible calendar, which will increase opportunities for exchange and internships, providing a richer university experience," Professor Crossley says.
The University's Head of Partnerships (Onshore), Mr Chris Lewis, says the new structure and diverse course options set UNSW apart.
"It's not just the excellence in the classroom we focus on, we offer a diverse range of experiences which provide our graduates with a degree and a suite of accomplishments.
"Connecting the dots between bright minds, industry and building community is at the core of everything we do."
Vanessa Zhao, Ho Jun Tang and Adrian Brossard are typical of the experiences enjoyed by students at UNSW. The trio set up a prize-winning tech company, YellowBox, this year with assistance from the UNSW Founders program. Their start-up specialises in short-term self-storage using Bluetooth technology. The innovative idea earned them $5000 as runners-up this year in the prestigious Peter Farrell Cup, a UNSW competition where start-ups pitch for funding.
The team behind YellowBox, a tech company created by UNSW students including Vanessa Zhao (right), celebrate their prize as runners-up in the 2018 Peter Farrell Cup.
"The business and entrepreneurial community was obvious to me as soon as I entered the Peter Farrell Cup competition. Everybody was willing to lend resources and knowledge, and give their input. It made the whole start-up space seem really safe and welcoming to us," Vanessa says.
"The UNSW Founders program coached us through the whole start-up process and it's given us a lot more direction and allowed us to focus on goals and tasks."
What: UNSW Info Day
When: 9am – 4pm Saturday, 15 December 2018
Where: Advisory Centre at the John Niland Scientia Building; Lecture program at Central Lecture Block, UNSW Kensington campus.
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Opinion: Advertisers must guarantee diversity and inclusion on both sides of the camera
Here are seven ways to level the playing field
By Sophie Gold. Published on February 18, 2021.
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It's been nine months since the death of George Floyd. This moment in time incited a frenzy of performative allyship—grand gestures creating the appearance of change while maintaining the status quo. We need only look at the Super Bowl lineup of commercials to see the same presumed "safe" directors filling director chairs. The Big Game was a wake-up call our industry desperately needed—a reminder that we must stay vigilant about ensuring diversity all year long, and on jobs big and small.
I know that many Black people in the industry, including myself, have grown tired of conversations, roundtables and invites to get our perspective. It feels like we're pushing against a resistance that says if you are non-white you have to fight for inclusion, you have to fight to show that you're safe, you have to work harder than the competition to show that you have the talent to deliver on the creative.
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It's also important to note that this really isn't a conversation about fairness, but about opportunity. The opportunity for creative and ads to be better. The opportunity to hear a different point of view that actually advances things. The opportunity for representation to grow so that it inspires the next generation. I have thought a lot about what can be done. Here are seven ways advertisers can improve director and production diversity:
Recognize the difference between lack of talent and lack of opportunity
Perhaps the director you're considering hasn't done a Super Bowl spot or doesn't have exactly what you're looking for on their reel. Dig a little deeper and consider their talent, their shot selections, how they direct talent, their art direction, etc. From this perspective, you might be surprised to find that their work actually resonates with the creative.
Prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion across the board
From production to editing to finishing to audio, take a 360-degree view of a project from concept to completion to level the playing field.
Share resources internally that highlight underrepresented groups
Start a Google doc that is referred to when starting a job. Resources like BidBlack and Free The Work showcase and champion underrepresented groups.
Ensure that 15% of the crew is diverse
Have conversations with vendors and include in their specs a suggestion that 15% of the crew should be diverse—focusing on heads of departments.
Prioritize diversity and inclusion on every project
Check the last 10 jobs to see who directed the projects, and internally review the bidding process to look for improvements.
Work with minority-owned companies to further industry diversity and representation
Allocate a certain percentage of jobs to minority-owned companies. It's important to disclose that I am the owner and executive producer at Eleanor, a Black- and women-owned production company. There aren't a lot of minority-owned companies and, if we are to change that and inspire more to be founded, then we need support because representation matters. I would also like to name some other amazing minority-owned companies: Prettybird, Contrast Eye, Invisible Collective and Quriosity Productions.
Ensure every bid includes a BIPOC director and that a certain number of jobs are awarded to BIPOC directors
Getting included in the bid pool is only half the battle; following through with awarding helps with diversity above and below the line.
It's not enough to have representation in front of the camera. Diversity and inclusion must also happen behind the camera, so our industry better reflects the world we live in. Let's create a new normal.
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Los Angeles, Nov 24 : Actress Helena Bonham Carter will be seen playingA one of the UK's forgotten soap stars in a new limited series from 'Years and Years' and 'It's a Sin' writer Russell T. Davies and producer Nicola Shindler. 'Nolly', commissioned by commercial broadcaster ITV, looks at the reign and fall from grace of TV legend Noele Gordon, who was a mainstay on long-running ITV soap opera 'Crossroads' for 18 years until she was unceremoniously fired, reports variety.com. "What's extraordinary is that this woman was at the absolute peak of the powers, and this was the biggest show in the country, and she was fired without any kind of explanation, and without any kind of right to respond," Shindler told Variety. "In a post-#MeToo world, it's fantastic to look at the theories and to examine what she (went through) at the time, and the way that she was treated, and how that was acceptable," the producer continued. The three-part drama will be written by Davies, and produced by Shindler's new production company Quay Street Productions, which is backed by ITV Studios. The project is the first for Shindler's new outfit, which was formed earlier this year following her 2020 exit from Studiocanal-backed RED Production Company. 'Nolly' appears to be a very specific British story. Known as the Queen of the Midlands, Gordon had a reputation as a tough and haughty actor who would sweep into rehearsals from a Rolls Royce, but she was beloved by cast and crew. Her sacking from 'Crossroads' in 1981 sparked a public outcry that created such pressure on the writing team that an alternative ending had to be written for her character, Meg Mortimer. "One of my very first jobs in TV was a trial script for 'Crossroads,' and I've wanted to write the story of behind the scenes on that show for 40 years," said Davies. "At last, the truth can be told!" Bonham Carter's turn as Gordon marks something of a return to British broadcasting for the Oscar-nominated actor, who last appeared in a recurring role on terrestrial television in 2016 with 'Love, Nina'. More recently, she starred as Princess Margaret in 'The Crown'. She also has a guest role in the forthcoming UK adaptation of 'Call My Agent'. "She's someone who can inhabit a really extraordinary, interesting, strong, eccentric kind of dynamic woman," said Shindler of the actor. "It needed to be someone who was iconic in her own right, because Noele Gordon was so iconic at the time. And it needed to be someone who has a sense of humour, which (Bonham Carter) clearly has." Bonham Carter admitted she hadn't previously heard of Gordon prior to receiving Davies' script, but was drawn to her public struggle as a woman battling sexism in the industry. "Noele Gordon was a fascinating, complex, brilliant and gutsy woman a" none of which I knew before I read Russell T Davies' script," said Bonham Carter. She added: "I'm so thrilled to help tell Nolly's long overdue and largely forgotten story. Russell's screenplay is a work of brilliance and I hope I'll do him and Nolly justice. I can't wait to start." The show is directed by Peter Hoar while Karen Lewis is producing. Production will begin in 2022. /IANS
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The Community Health and Wellbeing course offers the opportunity to top-up your foundation qualification to a full BSc (Hons) qualification with just one additional year of study.
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City school-leavers look to future in agriculture
December 13, 2017 By Good Education Group No comments yet agriculture, Chris Lester, employment outcomes, farming, Good Education Group, graduates, regional, The Good Universities Guide, The University of Melbourne, undergraduate degree
Georgia Osborne did not grow up on a farm, nor did she seriously consider studying agriculture when she was in high school.
The 20-year-old, who was raised in Melbourne's inner east, was certain she would do something in humanities when she left high school.
"I loved theatre, drama, history and biology, so I assumed it would be something in the arts or possibly marine biology," Georgia said.
"I was a bit of an allrounder in that I was good at everything, but not outstanding at one thing."
She applied for the Bachelor of Arts-Bachelor of Science degree at Melbourne University and listed a Bachelor of Agriculture course as her second preference.
"It was Mum who actually suggested I put down ag as an option because my Dad had studied it at the University of Sydney and really enjoyed it," she said.
Georgia missed out on her first choice, but was accepted into arts-science at Monash University. By that stage, however, she was intent on taking up the agricultural degree.
"I remember going to an open day and seeing the stats for how many graduate jobs there were in agriculture," she said. "I thought that was impressive. And I also liked the way that agriculture and farming affects everyone.."
In 2016, the National Farmers' Federation estimated for every agricultural graduate there were 2½ jobs available.
A 2016 report in Agricultural Science confirmed the demand for ag workers.
"It is clear that the proportion of agricultural graduates in full-time employment is 12-15 per cent higher than the proportion of all graduates," the report stated.
The Good Universities Guide estimated bachelor degrees in agriculture were now split about half and half between students from the country and city kids.
"Not only are many agriculture students from the city these days, quite a few of them never actually leave," Good Education Group chief executive Chris Lester said.
"As farming practices evolve and become ever more complex and hi-tech, formal qualifications will be needed like never before."
It is all music to Georgia's ears. She has recently changed her major to plants and soil science and would like to become a researcher or an agronomist when she graduates next year.
"I think people think that ag is just working on the land or driving a tractor," she said.
"But you can do pretty much any job within the field of ag. There are so many applications for it."
Georgia spent a semester this year studying at Melbourne University's Dookie agricultural campus, working in a real-world agricultural context for the first time.
"It was so much better than being on campus because you could actually see what you were learning about," she said.
Many of her friends have chosen broad science or arts degrees, but she prefers the close-knit world of the agriculture faculty.
"The thing with ag is that it is a smaller department so I am still friends with people I met on day one," she said. "I think it forces you to get out of your comfort zone as you're not in one of the larger faculties with so many students."
And her advice to school leavers is to think twice before they dismiss ag: you do not need to have grown up on the land or even want to grow crops to study it.
"I have friends in my course who want to do engineering or policy work," Georgia said.
Dookie campus director and Bachelor of Agriculture course co-ordinator Ros Gall said precision agriculture and smart farming were changing the nature of agriculture.
"Vehicles such as tractors will increasingly become driverless, and farmers can now be in a city or overseas and still remotely turn on their irrigation systems using their smartphones," Ms Gall said.
"The industry will increasingly need to rely on greater numbers of professionals to provide the expertise and advice to make the best use of technology, inform decision-making and maximise productivity."
According to Good Education Group, the University of Melbourne is Victoria's largest enroller of agriculture students, with more than 360.
For more information on agriculture courses and providers, as well as what career paths an agriculture degree can lead to, visit www.gooduniversitiesguide.com.au.
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Constitution Happy Hour
FRIDAYS, MAY 12, 19, 26; JUN 9, 16, 23, 30, 2017, 6:00PM This is a past program
Guided, topical conversations about the US Constitution and its role in our democracy—with drinks! Reflect, inquire, and build your knowledge of American government during AMMO Café's happy hour ($5 draft beer and select wine).
Constitution Café is a project of the artist Linda Pollack, who believes, "The U.S. Constitution is a living document, part of our quotidian life, influencing us in both large and small ways daily." Visit mydailyconstitution.org for more information.
WEEKLY TOPICS
May 12: Is it possible to constrain Trump under the War Powers Clause?
With David Glazier, Professor of International Law and the Law of War, Loyola Law School
May 19: Can the Constitution save LGBT and gender-based rights?
With David Codell, Lawyer and Former Visiting Legal Director, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
May 26: What are the rights of immigrants under the Constitution?
With Kathleen Kim, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School and Faculty Supervisor, Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic
June 9: Can our voting rights be salvaged?
With Rick Hasen, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science, UC Irvine School of Law
June 16: Does the Emoluments Clause disqualify Trump from the presidency?
With Adam Winkler, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
June 23: Can we achieve racial justice under the Constitution?
With Samantha Buckingham, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, The Juvenile Justice Clinic, Loyola Law School; and Students team members of The Juvenile Justice Clinic, Loyola Law School
June 30: Is hate speech protected under the Constitution?
With Damon Huss, Senior Editor and Curriculum Specialist, Constitutional Rights Foundation
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Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, and all Hammer members.
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When the ratings for "The CBS Evening News" dipped to 5.9 million for the week ended May 25 – an all-time low, and a smaller audience than former anchors Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer ever saw – it meantCBS was paying $2.51 per viewer.By comparison, ABC's Charlie Gibson-anchored "World News Tonight," cost 89 cents per viewer (7.78 million tuned in), while NBC's "Nightly News" with Brian Williams was a relative bargain at about 55 cents per head. Gibson reportedly pulls down about $7 million a year, and Williams is paid an estimated $4 million.
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August 24, 1945 – July 15, 2017
Kenneth Ray Stanley, 71, departed the loving arms of his family and entered peacefully into the arms of his Savior on Saturday, July 15, 2017. He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 47 years, Sandra Willoughby Stanley, as well as his parents, Jim Stanley and Maybelle B. Stanley and brother, David R. Stanley. Kenneth is survived by Sheila Stanley Roberson, loving niece and caregiver and husband Louis Roberson; niece Vanessa Stanley Holden (Paul); great nephews Jason Ross Roberson (Erin), David Alexander Holden; great nieces Sara Roberson Holmes (Bradley), Molli Paige Roberson, Brittany Stanley Chaney (Richard); great-great niece Lillian C. Chaney and great-great nephew Emmet W. Roberson. Born in Buncombe County, NC, Kenneth's family moved to Wilmington soon after his birth, where he lived and worked for the remainder of his life. He was a graduate of New Hanover High School (1963), Wilmington College (1967), attended Tennessee Technical University and later completed his graduate degree. Originally desiring to pursue dentistry, Kenneth instead chose a career in education and taught in New Hanover County Schools for 32 years until his retirement. He is perhaps most remembered for his many years of teaching chemistry at New Hanover High School. After retirement, he worked as a Learning and Development Manager for Cisco Systems until his death. Kenneth lived a faithful life, devoted to his Savior, Jesus Christ, the love of his life, Sandra, his work and the Pine Valley Church of God, where he was a member for over 50 years. Kenneth sang in the church choir, quartets and trios; played tenor saxophone; directed the youth choir and served with Sandra for several years as Minister of Music. He was a longtime member of the Deacon Board and served with distinction as Church Treasurer for 36 years until his death. Funeral Services will be held at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, July 19th at Pine Valley Church of God with the Reverend Larry Horrell officiating. The family will receive friends from 6:00 – 7:00 pm at the church prior to the Memorial Service. Graveside services will be held at 11:00 am on Thursday, July 20th at Greenlawn Memorial Park. Memorial Contributions may be made in Kenneth's honor to Pine Valley Church of God, 3810 Shipyard Blvd., Wilmington, NC 28403. Condolences to the family may be offered at www.coblewardsmithwilmington.com
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Welcome to the Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications! This guide shows you an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing. Whether you are new to performance testing, or looking for ways to improve your current performance testing approach, you will find insights that you can tailor for your specific scenarios. This guide is related to our Performance Testing Guidance Project.
To consolidate real-world lessons learned around performance testing.
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As online shopping continues to grow, especially through mobile commerce, the UK now has the lowest proportion of high street spending in Europe.
According to new research by Mastercard, just 43% of all money spent (volume) is done physically in stores, while online commerce – in all its' forms – accounts for more than half.
Of the 57% of volumes spent online, almost half of this (27%) is made up by mobile commerce spending, according to data from a pan-European survey of more than 18,000 people.
The UK is not the only country surveyed to see Physical POS spend drop below the 50% mark – Germany and Hungary were both at 44% while Italy and Poland were both at the 50% level.
As an example of the difficulties, two-thirds of consumers will abandon mobile transactions out of principle if the process is too difficult, according to research from Elavon.
Its study of 2,000 UK adults on their mobile shopping experience, identified that two-thirds of shoppers will abandon online transactions when the process is too difficult. Furthermore, over half (58%) surveyed reported that a poor experience would impact their decision to shop with the brand in the future.
The major sources of frustration range from being forced to repeat information (69%) to obligatory sign-up processes (54%) and limited payment options (41%).
The most popular products being purchased through mobile commerce are clothes and accessories, with just over half of British adults having bought them (55%). Food and beverage is the next most popular category, with 45% of UK shoppers having made a mobile purchase – the highest in Europe.