What It Takes To Achieve Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Success.
As many you already know, one of my interests is to research successful people and reverse-engineer how they became successful. I believe we are all born equal. No one person is born with super-human powers that help them to become more successful than everyone else. What determines success is life experiences and mindset and over the last couple of weeks or so I have been researching Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson discovering how a former Pro-wrestler became Hollywood's highest-earning actor ever! After reading articles about Johnson's work ethic and total commitment to his work it became very clear how he did it.
Have an insane work ethic.
As with all forms of success, whether that be in acting or sport, you find the people at the top have an insane focus on becoming the best. They out work, out train and out learn their 'rivals'. They are incredibly competitive, while being competitive may be unfashionable, their total focus is on being number one.
Dwayne Johnson's rivals may wake up at 6 am and practice their lines. Dwayne Johnson wakes up at 4:00 am and exercises. Rivals may feel working a twelve hour day is more than enough, Dwayne Johnson does seventeen hours and still feels there's more to be done.
And that's the thing, Life is competitive — it always has been — look at any large, successful company structure. There's normally only one CEO, yet there will be thousands of entry-level positions. It's relatively easy to enter a company, it's much harder to become the CEO of the company. To become the CEO you need experience, skills and a unique ability, a differentiator. It's that unique ability — the differentiator — that gives you the advantage. It could be you are a brilliant negotiator or have the ability to build incredibly talented teams. What that unique ability is, is less important than the fact you have that ability.
Dwayne Johnson may not be a classically trained actor, but he does have immense screen presence. His physicality jumps out at you and his booming voice is not only endearing it is also incredibly charismatic. You can bet he works on those parts of his skills relentlessly.
It is your strengths that will give you the advantage, not your weaknesses. Don't ignore your weaknesses but focus more on your strengths because your strengths will be what gives you the advantage.
When I was a competitive 1,500 metres runner I knew my strength was my sprint finish. I knew as long as I stayed on the shoulder of the runner leading the pack when it came to the last 200 metres I was in with a good chance of winning the race. This meant I needed to make sure my speed endurance was strong enough to put me in a position where I could allow my strengths to go to work. So I trained for speed endurance doing sets of 400 and 600 metres with very short rest between runs until I could run no more. I was strengthening my strengths. Sundays, though, were always long ten to twelve mile runs — stamina was still an important part of the overall training programme, even though that wasn't my strength I still needed the ability to stay on the shoulders of the leading runners if I wanted to win.
Be obsessed with the details.
When you look through Dwayne Johnson's social media feeds, it is clear he is most comfortable wearing sportswear. Yet, as a leading actor, he is required to attend premieres of his films and do media events. You can't exactly turn up in your training gear for an event like that. What does Johnson do? He hires one of the top stylists to dress him for those events. Whenever you see Dwayne Johnson at a premiere, he looks fantastic! Dressed entirely appropriate for the occasion. It's that attention to the details that put Johnson at the top of his field. He understands what it takes to get to the top.
You see the same with Tony Robbins. When Tony Robbins is on a business TV channel, he's wearing a suit and tie. When he's performing in front of 15,000 people at an Unleash The Power Within event, it's dark blue jeans and a dark blue shirt. Your image and the details of the work you create matter.
Whatever it is you want to achieve, striving to be the best at what you do is a sure fire way to achieve it. Never settle for average when with a bit of effort you can become the leader. You can be the one people look up to as the leader and you can be the one to set the example for people to follow. Total commitment, total dedication and total focus. That is how you become a leader, that is how you achieve success. There are no shortcuts, you create your own luck by doing the work, reading the books, lifting the weights and practising your craft day in day out.
If you want to learn more about achieving success and becoming the leader in your chosen field then take a look at my Ultimate Goal Planning course. It's a complete system that will help you to discover what you want to achieve and shows you how to create a plan to go out and achieve it.
Never Let Anyone Take You Away From Your Core Daily Disciplines.
Your core daily disciplines are the things that give you control, flexibility and freedom to live a great life. They are the things that are important to you. It could be your fitness, your self-development or your family values. If health and fitness are important to you, you will exercise regularly and eat healthily.
Your discipline ensures you go out for the run in cold wet weather or despite there being a plate of cookies on the meeting room table you refrain from eating any. If self-development is important, you allocate time every day to learn and develop the skills you want to learn. These are your core disciplines and they are based on the things that are important to you.
Choosing the easy option is the reason you don't achieve your goals.
The reason so many people fail to achieve the things they want to achieve is that they allow other people to distract them from the things that are important to them. Your friends call you on a Thursday afternoon and invite you out for a few beers. You had planned to go to the gym, but you've had a hard day at work so you agree to go for a few beers. It hard to motivate yourself to go to the gym and it's hard to say no to your friends. So you take the easy option and go for the beer.
On its own, that one night out for a few beers instead of going to the gym is going to do little harm. But the problem is not the one time, the problem is you likely regularly make those kinds of decisions. You regularly take the easy option instead of staying focused on your core values.
Being a disciplined person gains you respect from your peers.
Many years ago I worked with a guy who made it a priority to go to the gym Monday to Friday after work. He was in incredible shape and he ate clean and I mean clean — clean sources of protein and a lot of fruit, veg and nuts. On a weekend, he allowed himself the freedom to eat and drink and do whatever he liked. Interestingly, once you got to know Andy, you knew not to invite him out during the week because he would always say no. Andy got a lot of respect from the people around him. We all wished we could be like him (and look like him!).
The truth is we can all be like Andy. We can gain the respect and admiration of others and we can set an example for those people around us by not giving in to the easy decisions. By staying true to our core values and disciplines.
Don't give other people the power to determine the course of your life.
When you allow other people to prevent you from doing what is important to you, you are giving other people control of your life.
If exercise and maintaining your health is important to you, you will find time every day to exercise and to each healthily. If you allow the agendas of others take your exercise time or to push you to eat unhealthily or drink too much alcohol, then you give those others control over your life.
If studying new skills and improving your education is important to you, yet you allow other people to change your schedule so you cannot attend your class or practice your skill, then you are giving other people control over your life.
If spending quality time with your family every day is important to you yet you allow your boss to keep you late at the office doing additional work, you are giving up control of your life to your boss.
If you are responding to work messages and calls on a weekend instead of playing with your children you are giving up control of your life to your boss, colleagues and customers.
Take responsibility and control of your life.
To take control and to take full responsibility for your life and your time You need to establish boundaries that cannot be broken by the agendas of others except in extreme circumstances. If you don't do your daily core disciplines because you are not in the mood or you feel lazy, you are giving in to your weaker self. Stop yourself. These are your core disciplines, these are the habits and actions that will transform you from where you are today to where you want to be in the future. It's our negative, undisciplined self trying to maintain an easy life and we must ignore that voice and pursue the goals and dreams we have for the future. You need to develop the strength and discipline to do those daily activities that will move you a step closer each day towards where you want to go.
Once you establish these boundaries, and you do not allow the wishes and agendas of others to cross those boundaries, you will start to receive respect from the people around you. People will look to you as an example to follow, people will want to be like you and people will start asking you how do you do it? Just like we all saw Andy as a shining example of how to live life. You will also start making progress towards achieving all those things you want to achieve in life.
It's not all discipline and rigidity.
I am not suggesting you say no to everything that comes your way. It is important to have some flexibility in your life. But when pursuing the important things in your life you need to become uncompromising. Sure, if you want to keep Friday nights free so you can hang out with your friends, great, schedule that time. If you want to go out clubbing and drinking on a weekend, wonderful do it. But when Monday comes round, you get back to your focused, disciplined life and become uncompromising again. You go to the gym, you do the class, you spend time with your family and you allow nothing to get in the way of pursuing developing yourself into a better person.
That's how you go from where you are today to where you want to be in the future.
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How To Build A Social Media Channel Using P.A.C.T The FREE Online Course.
My latest online course has just gone live and it is a free course on using the principles of P.A.C.T to create your own successful social media channel, whether that is on YouTube, Facebook or Instagram.
Many people dream of creating a YouTube channel, an Instagram account or a blog that becomes one of the world's most popular places in its field. Yet, most people fail to achieve it. The reason is quite often nothing to do with skill or know-how. The majority of cases fail because they do not have P.A.C.T.
P.A.C.T is an acronym for Patience, Action, Consistency and Time. And if you want to be successful at creating a social media account—or anything else—you are going to need all four of these things. You are not going to become the next Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) on Instagram or the next Seth Godin in the blogging world overnight. It takes time, it takes patience, you need to take a lot of action and you have to be consistent.
In this course, I show you how you can apply these three behaviours and one element to build your own, successful social media channel. Each word has its own section, and each section has a scenario study that shows you how each one applied can really help to create a great channel.
I am not promising you will get millions of followers—that depends on your story and your content—what I am showing you is what you need to have to be able to achieve such a result.
I hope you enjoy this course, and I hope more than anything else that you will become a huge star in the world of social media.
The course is 100% free (for now), and included in the course is the slide-deck I used to make it. If you would like to download your own copy of the slide deck, you can do so right here.
Good luck and if you need any advice or help in creating your social media presence, feel free to reach out and if I can help, I will be more than happy to do so.


Will divorce affect your tax returns?
On behalf of Mayer Law Office, LLC posted in family law on Friday, August 31, 2018.
When going through a divorce in Wisconsin, you will need to need to know everything about taxes and how your assets, marital status, and post-divorce choices can affect how you file in the future. Mayer Law Office, LLC, provides you with the information you need to get started.
On behalf of Mayer Law Office, LLC on Friday, August 24, 2018.
Despite your best efforts, did your criminal case result in a conviction? Did the judge get it wrong? Were mistakes made in the presenting of your case? Did investigative errors hurt your case? If you feel did not get a fair shake, you may have the ability to appeal your criminal conviction to a higher court in Wisconsin.
On behalf of Mayer Law Office, LLC posted in criminal defense on Sunday, August 19, 2018.
If you or someone you know has been arrested for suspected driving under the influence in Wisconsin, you will want to learn about the different elements of the arrest process and options for a defense. Prior to being arrested for drunk driving, a person is generally asked to perform certain actions at the location where an officer first stopped them. One of these tests is called the one-leg stand test.
On behalf of Mayer Law Office, LLC posted in criminal defense on Friday, August 17, 2018.
In Wisconsin, the charges that a person faces can generally be divided into two categories. On one side are felonies, and on the other are misdemeanors. Though other categories exist, these are the two a person is most likely to come across. Each can have a vastly different impact, as well.
On behalf of Mayer Law Office, LLC posted in family law on Friday, August 10, 2018.
Child support is often a hot topic for divorced parents, as we understand at the Mayer Law Office, LLC. You may have trouble making ends meet even when you receive child support, and your ex might have a lot of opinions on how you should spend the money. Your ex may use the excuse that paying child support gives him or her the right to tell you what to use it for. However, you and other Wisconsin residents who receive child support have more freedom regarding the money than you may believe.
On behalf of Mayer Law Office, LLC posted in criminal defense on Friday, August 3, 2018.
Many people are likely aware that in many states, marijuana has been legalized. This substance is still illegal in Wisconsin, however, so it is important for people to understand the penalties of possessing marijuana.


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Why the new Rangers ballpark plan doesn't measure up to The Star in Frisco
Filed under Sports Business at Sep 2016
Mitchell Schnurman, Business columnist
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In public-private partnerships, the public part is often just a taxpayer subsidy. Private developers get incentives and tax breaks, and they keep all the revenue and upside.
What makes The Star project in Frisco different is that it includes tangible benefits for the public. High school teams are already playing football games in the same place where the Dallas Cowboys practice. Graduations, band competitions and other events will be held there, too.
As offices, restaurants, a hotel and health clinic come on line, The Star will be at the center of a new village. Several additional projects are underway in what's being called Frisco's $5 billion mile.
"The Star is a very powerful catalyst for the entire district," said Barry Hand, who oversees the mixed-use practice for Gensler, the architectural firm that designed the Cowboys headquarters complex.
In the world of economic development, The Star has raised the bar for transformational projects. And it just opened, only three months before voters in Arlington consider a plan for a new Rangers stadium.
By comparison, the Rangers proposal seems old-school and predictable -- and expensive. It uses the same funding formula that helped pay for AT&T Stadium a decade ago. Sales taxes, along with hotel and rental car taxes, would cover half the projected costs of a $1 billion ballpark with a retractable roof.
Taxpayers would pony up $500 million, the second-largest public subsidy for a baseball stadium.
The Star gets much more mileage from its public contribution. Frisco and the Frisco school district are putting $155 million into a project that will be worth about $1.5 billion. Jerry Jones and the Cowboys are putting up most of the private share.
Drill teams from two Frisco high schools, Heritage and Lone Star, performed simultaneously during halftime of one of four high school football games played at The Star on Aug. 27. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
That 10-to-1 ratio of private to public money is often a goal in subsidized projects. That's far from the mix with the Rangers.
A new park would add air conditioning for baseball fans and enable the stadium to host other events year-round. It also would keep the team, a major part of the city's tourism business, in Arlington beyond the end of the lease in 2024.
"We don't have a replacement for that," said Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams, who added that visitors to the city have grown 40 percent since 2010. "It's also critical to our image. No one else has Major League Baseball, the NFL and a major amusement park in one place."
Those are significant factors. But for so much public money, people should expect more, said Mark Rosentraub, a sports management professor at the University of Michigan and an expert on stadium deals.
There's been a substantial shift in public-private partnerships, he said. Cities, voters, even fans don't want to simply subsidize a new facility and enrich the team owners. They want the public dollars to be treated as an investment that will attract even greater investment.
"There has to be a specific return for the public," Rosentraub said. "Arlington's proposal is still well behind what's going on in other places."
At The Star, the Cowboys' headquarters and practice facility are anchoring a much larger project and pushing other developers to step up. Rosentraub said several cities have managed to get major investments that help justify the public contribution to a stadium or arena.
In Los Angeles, San Diego, Columbus, Ohio, and Edmonton in Canada, the public got a lot more from their sports owners, he said.
"There's a public contribution, but there's a tangible return on that investment," Rosentraub said.
In San Diego, the public share toward Petco Park was almost $300 million, and the team put in $187 million. But John Moores, owner of the Padres at the time, also guaranteed $487 million in real estate investment around the park. Commitments included 1,000 hotel rooms to enhance the convention center.
Long before the deadline, almost $2.9 billion in new real estate projects were in place, Rosentraub said. In 2007, three years after the park opened, over $4 billion in redevelopment projects were built, underway or planned, according to researchers at Stanford University.
"The previously blighted area was well on its way to a dramatic redevelopment," the researchers wrote, calling the project "a huge success" for the team, city and taxpayers.
A sign advertises where the new Texas Live! entertainment venue will be built across from Globe Life Park in Arlington. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)
Arlington leaders have talked about developing the vacant land around Globe Life Park since the early 1990s, before the park was even finished. Several proposals failed to get traction. Last December, the team and city announced plans for Texas Live, an entertainment district and a 300-room hotel. The $200 million project would include $50 million from the city and up to $50 million in state incentives for the hotel.
That's a modest private pledge, given the size of the stadium subsidy.
Construction plans for Texas Live went to Arlington officials for review this week, Williams said. While it's not contingent on the November election, Williams described the two as the first and second steps toward fulfilling a vision. The hotel is important, too.
"That's a real key to our success," he said, because Arlington would capture more of the tourist dollars that come for the big games.
One of the lessons from The Star and other successful stadium deals is that the best projects don't rely on game day alone, said Byron Chambers, who leads the sports practice for Gensler. If there's enough going on beyond the stadium, the area can attract people all the time.
"It's about creating a partnership and doing something greater than just for yourself," Chambers said.
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The origins of RekinySukcesu.pl date back to 2010 when, in pursuit of our passion and in response to market demand, we decided start a website-building business. Today, we not only build websites, but offer a broad range of on- and offline marketing services. Above all, we strive to provide our clients with the best comprehensive customer service.
As the saying goes, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Hence the idea for shark integration in the Stołowe Mountains - hiking, swimming, and a bit of competetive football.
We are proud to add collection agency GetBack S.A. from Warsaw and Wrocław to our list of satisfied customers.
We keep growing! The shark team of creative marketers is expanded to 10 people.
We become a Certified Partner of Google, which means that Google oversees and evaluates our operations.
We conduct training at the biggest Joomla conference in Poland, i.e. Joomla Day 2015.
RekinySukcesu.pl undergoes rebranding, which includes design of a new logo, website, and a relocation of headquarters.
We are entered into the Register of Training Institutions in Poland.
We sign a cooperation agreement with Czarna Góra S.A., the biggest ski resort in Poland.
We conduct training at the biggest Joomla conference in Poland, i.e. Joomla Day 2014.
We establish "Ziemia Kłodzka - Perła Sudetów" (Kłodzko - Pearl of the Sudetes), a tourist consortium bringing together 10 tourist facilities.
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Lightbulb moment: we decide to found RekinySukcesu.pl. To this end, we start collecting information, conducting market research on competition and demand, undertake relentless self-study, and perform a SWOT analysis of the entire venture. After all is said and done, we start building our first web pages.


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If you would like to start your own tomato plants or a flat of bedding plants for your flower bed, this class is the one for you. You'll learn how to start seeds, care for the seedlings and harden off the plants before setting them out in your garden. Instructors and Master Gardeners Royce and Sue Thompson have been gardening together for over 40 years.


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No Wealth But Life
John Batchelor
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Ruskin, whose life spanned almost a century from 1819 to 1900, was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual figures of his age. He was fundamentally a post-Romantic visionary; this fact underlies his activities as art critic and writer on architecture and also his passionate advocacy of an alternative social model for England. There is no Wealth but Life, wrote Ruskin in his political essays of the 1860s. This new biography shows him as a whole, demonstrating that his seemingly disparate ideas accrue into a developed - though constantly evolving - vision of the good society, and that the public activity of the man was at every stage closely associated with his disastrous private life.
John Batchelor has recently retired from the University of Newcastle and is now Emeritus Professor there. Formerly Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at Newcastle, he was also a visiting Professor of the University of Lancaster and previously a Fellow of New College Oxford. His books include biographies of Joseph Conrad and John Ruskin, monographs on the work of Virginia Woolf and H.G. Wells, and a study of the Edwardian novel. His most recent book, Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, is a lively biography of Pauline Trevelyan who established a salon of the arts in Wallington, Northumberland.
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So Much Longing in So Little Space
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Michelangelo: His Epic Life
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A Genius for Failure
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A Life Of Picasso Volume III
George Stubbs And The Wide Creation
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Winnipeg North MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis retired from federal politics last week, but admits she still has plenty of work left to do before she leaves Ottawa.
"I'm in the midst of sorting through 13 years of paperwork," the long-time NDP Member of Parliament joked last Thursday.
Judy Wasylycia-Leis officially resigned her North Winnipeg seat May 1 after serving 13 years as the federal representative for the area.
It has been widely speculated that she will soon announce her candidacy for mayor in this fall's Winnipeg municipal election.
"I'm in the midst of sorting through 13 years of paperwork," the long-time NDP Member of Parliament joked last Thursday.
Her resignation sent immediate ripples throughout the community she used to represent.
"She was a great contact with our tenant association over the year and I think if she were to run for mayor, it would be a great," said North End resident Linda Mayoh.
Wasylycia-Leis's decision to retire from federal politics was also felt amongst some of her former political colleagues here in Manitoba.
Wasylycia-Leis served as an MLA in the Manitoba Legislature from 1986 until she resigned in 1993 to take a run at a federal politics.
Jerry Storie, who represented Flin Flon as MLA from 1981 to 1994, said he was initially surprised when Wasylycia-Leis made the move away from provincial politics.
"We were on our way to reforming government and she would have had a major role, but Judy saw the bigger picture," Storie said.
Former MLA Muriel Smith, the first woman in Canada to serve as deputy premier, said she admired Wasylycia-Leis for the political tone she set.
"To me she was the next generation of women in politics and someone who has a broad policy grasp and a real feel for diversity," Smith said.
Wasylycia-Leis recalled last week that it was her concern over federal health care that prompted her to become involved in federal politics.
"In the early 1990s, it looked like we were going to lose transfer payments by 2000," she said. "Medicare is the heart and soul of this country, one of the basic things that tie us all together. It just became obvious that the battle had to be waged on a federal landscape."
Myrna Phillips, Speaker of the Manitoba Legislature from 1986 to 1988, said one memory stands out to her as she observed Wasylycia-Leis in action.
"I remember once when another MLA made a comment in the legislature that Judy was a high priced babysitter for bringing her children to work. She rose on a question of privilege and eloquently made her case that women and working women needed child care."
Wasylycia-Leis said one of her most enduring memories of her time in Ottawa will be how people in the North End rallied to fight the exodus of big banks from the community.
"When they started moving out of the North End, people came out and made their case. As the last bank was pulling out, CIBC, we had a terrible meeting with them that was not satisfactory at all," she said.
"The community forced a second meeting and won a few concessions that eventually led to things like alternative financial services being created for the area and eventually, the Assiniboine Credit Union moving into the area."
Wasylycia-Leis said last week that while she had yet to make up her mind on her political future, a decision would be forthcoming soon.
"If something does happen, there will be an announcement this week," she said.


After taking a week off from vlogging to prepare for Encircled's biggest show of the year thus far, the Toronto Yoga Conference + Show, I'm finally recording again.
I couldn't help but share my secrets to how I built our tradeshow booth in less than a few days for under $500. I'm super proud of how it turned out, after the drama of losing our booth designer last minute.
In this week's video, I share how you too can put together a tradeshow booth for your next show, or pop-up store using foamcore boards, zip ties and a little creativity.
Megan Auman - Tradeshow hardwalls. Didn't end up building these but she has great ideas!
Have you ever DIY'd a tradeshow booth or pop-up shop?
Would love to hear your experience in the comments below!


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Q: I want to choose what sites appear in my feed My feed shows questions from all SE sites, most of which are irrelevant to me.
I'm interested in physics, math, and programming, topics I find served well by the SE model.  There are many SE communities I have no interest in and even get annoyed when I see the kinds of questions and answers posted (ie, opinion based answers that are passed off as truths).
It would be much better if I could manually add each site I'd like to see questions from.

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2021 Iron Mic Conference
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Knowledge is the 5th pillar of hip hop. This conference is designed to empower artists and fans to shape ideas and goals into reality. Gain insights from local leaders to better understand Hip Hop as a musical genre and lifestyle, and discover how you can achieve success as an artist.
The 2021 Iron Mic Conference is being hosted at the PEI Convention Centre, located at 4 Queen Street, Charlottetown, PE, on Saturday, August 21st.
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Meet The Iron Mic Conference Speakers!
JOE DAMES of Xclusive Dance Crew
Presenting Hip Hop Culture & History
"Joe" started dancing at the age of sixteen in his senior year in high school. He has actively been involved in Ballet, Jazz, Afro Beat, Breakdancing and his main Style HipHop Choreography, and became a member of The Bahamas Dance Theatre in the year 2009. He is currently the Owner and Leader of his international Group The Xclusiv Dance Crew. Joe has had the opportunity to teach all over In "The Bahamas" "The United States" as well as in Canada and also competed abroad in national compositions. He has featured in numerous music videos for Bahamian and American Artists, Holds one of the highest scores in the Bahamas for the National Arts Festival, and is heavily involved in Theatre Plays such as, "The Circle Of Life" "FAME" and "Raisin In The Sun ", Joe is Currently Choreographing with his partner The Confederation Centre of the Arts Show "Young Company"!! And is a proud father of 3 beautiful girls.
JORDAN WARD of Transpire Music Management
Co-presenting From Mixtape to Release & Beyond
Transpire Music Management is a dedicated artist management and marketing service based in PEI. We provide artist management, marketing, content creation, and more. With a strong focus on product development, we represent artists whose goal is to make great music that speaks volumes and creates a strong brand presence as a career-based endeavour. Jordan has managed and marketed several artists including Cavy, Pat Stay, Josh Norrad, Jay Forbes, Clouse Hevy, and more.
Presley Isaiah of Hometown Musik Entertainment
Presley Isaiah is a singer, songwriter, producer, and sound engineer with a plethora of experience in the music industry. In addition to his work as an artist, he also co-founded a record label known popularly on the Island as Hometown Musik Entertainment. Having produced multiple albums and extended playlists for various artists as producer "D Beat Scientist", Presley has helped produce and deliver more than fifty single projects, two E.P projects, and two full-length studio albums. He has also co-produced on professional projects with other signed artists and has been featured on a number major broadcasting stations, such as CBC News Charlottetown.
Scott Parsons – Presenting How To Be A Career Musician
Singer-Songwriter Scott Parsons is a versatile and multi-dimensional talent whose musicianship and performance capabilities have taken him to many countries around the world. His perseverance as an independent artist is a testament to the Maritime Spirit. Parsons is a gifted songwriter, a solid musician, and an emotionally expressive vocalist with a powerful set of pipes that can take a song anywhere he wants that song to go.
Talks are focused on providing best practices and real-life experiences with the assumption that attendees have an interest in pursuing music as a career.
This session is presented by Xclusiv Dance Crew leader Joe Dames and explores the key elements that have made Hip Hop the world's leading genre of music, as well as a cultural lifestyle that resonates around the globe.
This session is presented by two local artist management services, Transpire Music Management and Hometown Musik Entertainment, to provide insight and tips for artists to learn what it takes to make a successful musical release that gets noticed!
This session is presented by award-winning Island musician Scott Parsons and explores a lifetime of being a career musician and what aspiring artists should know to achieve success.
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figurines et collections	> NOS COLLECTIONS > KING & COUNTRY > Colonial Hong Kong
For 156 years Hong Kong was a British Crown Colony until 30 June, 1997 when it was ceremonially handed back to the People's Republic of China.
Two years previously, in 1995, a unique military unit held its final parade before being disbanded and ending 143 years of loyal service to the British Crown and the people of, what was originally, a small port city on the southern coast of China – Hong Kong.
THE ROYAL HONG KONG REGIMENT (The Volunteers) was a militia formation founded in 1854 and tasked with the defense of the small Colony alongside the regular British Army garrison stationed there.
For many years it would join with other British Forces taking part in the Queen's Birthday Parade held annually in the city.
Taking the official salute on behalf of the Queen would be her representative, His Excellency, The Governor, resplendent in his 'Tropical Whites' and saluting as the different units marched past.
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It seems a common cliche in the media for the past few years to talk about how online gaming destroys various people's lives. Since the days of EverQuest almost every mention of MMORPGs that you see reported is a tale of dysfunction being presented as if it's normal for players of these games to be damaged by them. I think the fact that that MMORPGs also bring players together and can build new friendships and communities should be brought up more often in response.


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Q: What's difference between primitive and wrapper class in JPA (Hibernate) column mappings? For instance, there's an integer column in a database table.
Then in java model, it can be mapped both as primitive int and Integer.
My question is what's difference between the int and Integer in this case? And performance concern?
Thanks!

A: I tend to avoid using primitives. This is especially true for the Id attribute. This makes it possible to detect a not yet set value by testing for null. If using Java 5 or above, auto-boxing takes away the pain (and is not a performance concern). But also for other attributes. As pointed out by @skaffman, primitives are not suitable for nullable columns and I prefer the code to be as flexible as possible.

A: You've already mentioned the difference - Integer can be null, int can't. So if your database column is nullable, then you should use Integer.
As for performance, I wouldn't worry about it. Modern VMs are very good at that sort of thing.


Tim Duncan has amassed over $220 million in on court earnings over the course of his 19-year, 1st ballot Hall of Fame career. That won't stop him from lamenting the loss of over $20 million due to what he calls a dishonest financial advisor.
The 39-year-old Duncan sued Charles Banks (his former financial advisor) in January, after uncovering information during his divorce settlement that led him to believe Banks had been misappropriating Duncan's earnings.
Despite it all, the 4-time NBA champion does not want to become the face of this issue moving forward.
Let it be a lesson to us all. Never a bad thing to have someone checking on the someone, who's checking on your checks!
Steve Ballmer went on "Conan" to share the not-so-radical rebrand of the Clippers franchise he purchased for an NBA record $2 billion in August.
The new logos, colors and uniforms don't stray too far from the old but this is a move that makes sense for The Clippers organization following the long and tumultuous battle with their previous owner Donald Sterling (I think we've all had enough of him by now).
Fans took to twitter to express their… ummm… surprise.
We applaud The Clippers organization for making strides to distance themselves from the Clippers-of-old, but for a franchise valued at over $2 billion they could of at least spent some money on a decent graphic design team, they are in Los Angeles after all! Let us know what you think.
In March, a little less than 2 months before the NBA announced their league-wide awards, we predicted that Mike Budenholzer would win the 2014-'15 NBA Coach of the Year. Well, things continue to look up for the second-year head coach.
Thursday Atlanta Hawks officials confirmed he would replace longtime President and General Manager, Danny Ferry after Ferry was put on an indefinite suspension due to racially insensitive remarks he made regarding Luol Deng in a team scouting report.
Assistant General Manager, Wes Wilcox, will assume the role of General Manager and assist Budenholzer in all personnel decisions. Wilcox was responsible for helping Ferry assemble the roster that led The Hawks to their best season in years and the number 1 seed in this years NBA Playoffs.
The future for Danny Ferry is unclear at this point, the Duke basketball standout has impressed many decision makers around the league with his seemingly sincere contrition and is expected to be offered a similar role with a different NBA franchise.
POS does not condone the racially charged language or sentiment used by Ferry to convey his point about an athletes on-court persona, but we do believe in forgiveness and hope to see a more informed and socially conscious Danny Ferry moving forward.


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Contractors in hock to NZ finance firms
Monday December 02, 2019	Written by	Jonathan Milne Published in Local
The CM Contracting truck on-site in Rarotonga. 19110620
Troubled builders run up New Zealand debts as well, adding to local families' concerns.
Sam Capper and Teau McKenzie's New Zealand company owes debts to a list of banks and finance companies, investigations show.
The debts owed by CM Contracting Ltd (NZ) come on top of the money owed by CM Contracting Ltd (Cook Islands) to local builders and to families who paid for homes that weren't completed.
Local creditors have raised questions about money being paid into New Zealand bank accounts, amid fears that secured New Zealand creditors will be first in line for any repayments from the failed company.
Investigations show the New Zealand company – 90 per cent owned by Capper, 10 per cent owned by McKenzie – has motor vehicle debt secured to BOQ Equipment finance, Formula Four Investments, Heartland Bank, UDC Finance and Oxford Finance.
Capper and McKenzie own no property in New Zealand.
That means that if the couple's company defaults on their New Zealand debts, those finance companies are entitled to seize all their moveable assets – leaving little hope for small family creditors here.
One secured creditor, Tyremax, said they were not owed any money but would be putting a stop on the CM Contracting account to stop them purchasing any tyres on credit.
A Mack truck purchased by CM Contracting has been seen around Rarotonga in recent weeks, delivering containers – even though the company's lawyer has told the High Court that CM contracting is "utterly insolvent" and unable to trade its way out of trouble.
CM Contracting Ltd admitted it owed $123,112 to Ngatupuna Siliar and Eleanor Opai for failing to complete their house.
Founder Sam Capper has returned to New Zealand, leaving the remaining company directors, his former girlfriend Teau McKenzie and her father Ron, to clean up the mess.
The father and daughter were in the High Court last week, but did not say anything.
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W. Ellington Felton
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Official Biography (courtesy W Ellington Felton)
W. Ellington Felton is the son of jazz pianist Hilton Felton, music is in his veins, Its tempting to describe W. Ellington Felton with slashes: Hes a singer/ poet/ actor/emcee. Crowned the future folk-soul hero by Complex Magazine for his vocals on Prince Pauls Politics of the Business album, Ellington is using every weapon in his arsenal to resuscitate soul music. Hes a real talented brother, a Renaissance cat, who paints, writes, does books. Hes one of those Sammy Davis, Jr. types, but on kind of a millennium style, Prince Paul says of W. Ellington Felton, or Dub Ell, as hes known in his native Washington, DC.
Ellington knows that poems often make the best songs. His hip-hop rhapsodies paint vivid images that engage, and sometimes unnerve listeners. There's no element of originality, or surprise, or spontaneity. The only thing I try to consciously do with music...is try to figure out ways to push the buttons. And of course, he writes lots and lots of stories about lovefalling in it, getting over it, and making it work. Rather than the sappy, clich-ridden variety, Ellingtons songs address the complexities of love in real life. On the track Love is Somethin More from his 2002 CD Soul Sonnets he admonishes, Love is somethin more/Than love songs, love poems, and temporary highs. People are taking his music to heart. I get very specific comments in terms of the individual, Ellington says of his fans reactions, which range from you saved my marriage and you helped me get over a divorce.
Having performed on the Lollapalooza tour and at the Apollo Theater as a teenager, Ellington is as comfortable on stage with Mos Def, De La Soul, and Meshell Ndegocello as he was in the smoky, candlelit cafs of his open mic days. He quickly gained a following on Washingtons poetry circuit with his confessional lyrics, quirky pitch, and spontaneous style, also shared the stage with his mentor UK Soul legend Omar. When hes not making music, Ellington commands the spotlight as a classically trained actor. He studied theater for four years at Carnegie Mellon University.
In 1999, he starred in the critically acclaimed hip-hop play Rhyme Deferred, performed at the Kennedy Center, the National Black Theater Festival, and the Nuyorican Poets Caf. Ellington also graced the silver screen in Breakfast at Bens, part of Spike Lees 2000 and the most recent movie"multitudes of mercie' that aired on BET worldwide Dec 1, 2005 where W.Elllington Felton starred as the lead in the movie( with guest apppearances by Raheem Devaughn & Malcolm-Jamal Warner) that brings AIDS awareness to the youth of today.
He just completed his highly anticipated LP "Postcards From The Edge" featuring guest appearances and production by: Eric Roberson, Yahzarah, Raheem Devaughn, Kev Brown, Nick tha 1da, K'Alyn, and Wajeed of PPP. You can currently hear W.Ellington's comedic writting skills and performance featured on Chris Rock's "Never Scared" LP. Ironically, helped pen and perform a skit called, "Black Poet", making fun of the torture of spoken word....You will hear & see more of W.Ellington Felton overseas as well as the US where tours are being planned for spring 06.
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So you think you can do your own social media? Well maybe you can but is it effective, really? If you're an auto mechanic your an expert in the field of auto. If you're a florist your element is arrangements. So why is it that businesses think they can take on a tasks that requires strategy and targeting audiences that want your product or service? Well lets look at this. Some people want to save money and other feel they can do it all. Guess what you realistically cant do it all and give a little to get much more then you will most likely not be successful is whatever industry you are in.
Lets look at the benefits and keep an open mind because true entrepreneurs understand that they need to focus on getting customers in the door and provide that product or service better than anyone else. Ready? Lets take a look.
No matter what business you are in the main goal for EVERYONE is to get customers through the door and covert them to paying customers. Is there anyone that can dispute this is the end game? Guess what? News papers ads, that annoying guy or girl who is out on the sidewalk spinning your store sign who would rather be posting on Facebook is not a marketing strategy. Do you want to reach more people with less effort and money? I believe I hear the answer which is YES!
I know everyone always says competition is good but for you this this statement garbage. You want to dominate the competition. How can you possibly do that if you're not using social media properly. Everyone and their mother has a smart phone now. Greater percentages of people are seeing you on the phone first. Lets guess what people are doing on the phone. How many times walking don the street running into poles and walking into oncoming traffic? Its because people are glued to their phones looking at social media. You need to be there and experts can do that for you.
Lets take this example to start with. if you are a restaurant owner you are managing the staff, vendors, book keeping and maybe cooking and waiting on tables. Sometimes you are a host or hostess as well. At what point in the day did you plan on doing your digital marketing? You need someone who has the bandwidth to focus on this and that doesn't mean your cousin Johnny who is always posting to his Facebook account. This deserves the respect and attention that you put into creating your business.
Lets say you are a store front or a company in a high-rise. How many people do you think know you are there? You want people to know your brand when they need something. That can be your logo, the faces of your staff, or even the look and feel of your establishment. The same way people no matter what facial tissue they use always refer to it as "Kleenex" is the same impression you want to leave. Why would someone come to you for a deep dish pizza or buy your landscaping services unless you stand out for some reason to a person or a group of people? Stand out with your brand.


A concept wayfinding system and branding throughout the public park in Edmonton.
Working with Deprise Hutton, Shannon Fidler, and Terolenn Mykitiuk we chose the location of William Hawrelak Park within the city of Edmonton. Our goal was to establish a successful signage and wayfinding system throughout the park to help guide old and new visitors to whatever they needed. We began by focusing on using black powder coated plates of steel overlayed onto large slabs of maple wood. The overall goal was to establish a simple and consistent system throughout the park that worked well during all seasons and times of the day.


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Work on the Thames Path through the grounds
The relay race on Saturday has been cancelled
Notice of AGM to be held 31 October 2021
Participation survey of members
Award for Adrian Hart
Sprint racing this Sunday starting at 14.00
Bourne End Week regatta - results for all classes for all events
On-line Booking for Bourne End Week now closed
UTSC is now on Instagram
A Club To Be Proud Of
Enjoy Water Safely
Wednesday evening racing photos 9 June 2021
Ed flies the UTSC flag at Cookham Reach OK Open
Commodore's message - Hector Morris
New Sailing Rules for 2021-2024
BEW Priority List now open for non-members
Commodore's Message
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Im all for basking in reflected glory, young Ollie Meadowcroft is allowing us all to enjoy that feeling of being part of success. He is a young man who has grown to a standard where he was selected to represent the UK at the 420s International Championships held in Italy from the 2nd to the 10th July 2021. Ollie has been a member of UTSC since he was three years old, he has been able to benefit from the way the club has developed into a RYA Youth Sailing qualified club. Our club provides the environment for the young members in which to train and flourish. It gives encouragement, provides equipment and qualified trained instructors. Whilst Ollie may not have made it to the podium, he got through all six qualifying races to be in the Gold fleet for the final days racing. Well done.
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Last week September came rushing into our lives. To me it felt like some kind of drowsy spell had broken and I was finally motivated to do all the things I had told myself I would do over the summer months. While I doubt there is a witch casting spells on my productivity levels – although I would be thrilled if it were the case – there is some magic in the season of autumn.
According to the astronomical calendar, the season in the Northern Hemisphere doesn't start until the 22nd of September – made obvious by the trees filled with green leaves outside my window and the promise of a heatwave for England. However, I can't help but yearn after this 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' that is promised as soon as our calendars flip from August to September. Rooted in my intense love for autumn is my forever-student mentality that considers the 1st of September as more of a cause for celebration and resolutions than the New Year in January. The sluggish indulgences of summer should be over now colder months are at our doorstep, we should now concentrate on trying to become the better, more hard-working people that we promise to be every year. As someone starting her second year of university very soon, the image of productivity that comes with new pens, notepads, and timetables is incredibly tantalising. I'm as driven by aesthetics as much as by personal motivations, it seems.
The less productive side of autumn is, of course, another cause of excitement. Television seems to be revived with new seasons of brilliant shows being pumped out by broadcasters to the extent that I need a small timetable in my diary to keep up with it all - and I don't particularly consider myself a great watcher of television. Cinema listings become packed with a fresh wave of films after the summer blockbusters stagnate. Halloween, in all its tacky and commodified glory, awaits us at the top of the season, paving the way for the celebrations of November and December.
Everywhere on cobble and gravel and lawn, the leaves were falling and in the college gardens the smoke of the bonfires joined the wet river mist, drifting across the grey walls; the flags were oily underfoot and as, one by one, the lamps were lit in the windows round the quad, the golden lights were diffuse and remote, new figures in new gowns wandered through the twilights under the arches and the familiar bells now spoke of a year's memories.
O dying splendour of the dying woods!
So richly blent with rainbow-tinted floods.
The autumn leaves, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands. The autumn trees gleam in the yellow moonlight, in the light of harvest moons, the light which mellows the energy of labour, and smooths the stubble, and brings the wave lapping blue to the shore.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with hum how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-tress, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.


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Home Sports We have tripled athletes' pay — Sports minister
We have tripled athletes' pay — Sports minister
November 18, 2021 Sports Edit
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, has revealed that his Ministry has tripled its remuneration to athletes representing the country in various global tournaments including the Olympics.
This is as he revealed that the ministry still owes 54 athletes a total of N44.37m in bonuses and remunerations.
Dare revealed these to State House Correspondents on Thursday at the weekly ministerial briefing organized by the Presidential Communications team at the Presidential Villa.
The minister said "For the first time in a long time, we have decided to triple the bonuses for our athletes. We tripled their bonuses too.
"We also moved away from just giving them naira to giving them dollars because when you check other countries and what they pay their athletes, they pay in dollars.
"The Paralympians who won 10 medals, less than eight weeks after they returned, we paid them a bonus of $15,000 for gold, $10,000 for silver and $7,500 for bronze.
"We still have a few outstanding we have a balance of $2,000 to pay to about 54 athletes. And that's because I increased their allowances from $3,500 to $6,000 at the Olympics. So, we had to rework our budgets and we are almost there. As we speak $4,000 has been paid to all of them. The $2,000 will be available soon."(Punch)


This paper was prepared while the author was a participant of the "Young Scientist's Summer Program (YSSP)" at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg during the summer of 1991. It was completed just before, on August 19, 1991, conservative forces led by G. Yanaev attempted to oust USSR President M. Gorbachev in a coup.
After the eventual failure of this coup, the political and economic developments in the Soviet Union became even more dynamic: a much faster fiscal disintegration is one of them. In fact, it seems questionable in what sense the Soviet Union is still a fiscal entity, thus justifiably allowing the use of concepts of a Theory of Fiscal Federalism, in which the following analysis is cast: an essential element of any federal system is that a power exists which can effectively limit decision-making power on lower hierarchical government levels. In the case of non-compliance with the rules laid down in the constitution, the former can coerce the latter into adhering to the rules. Certainly after the coup, and probably already before, the central government of the USSR is very much in doubt of representing a political power which could exert the necessary coercion to enforce its rules.
The sequence of reform proposals mirrors the steady loss of power of the federal government in the Soviet Union. From Gorbachev's rejection in the fall 1990 of the so-called "500 Day Plan" prepared by a group of economists around S. Shatalin, partly because it conceded to Union republics alone the authority to tax, the federal government being financed by fixed quotas on the republic's revenues over the agreement on a new draft Union Treaty in April 1991, which was already less biased towards the center, to the latest so-called "Yavlinsky Plan" of September 5, 1991 -- economic reform proposals made by the Union level systematically lag behind the realities in the Soviet Union. With regard to fiscal matters, the "Yavlinsky Plan" envisages essentially what was the center's main objection to the "500 Day Plan" -- giving the right to tax exclusively to Union republics. And, it is doubtful today whether even a federation that loose is possible. If, thus, fiscal-economically the Soviet Union does not exist any more, is it mistaken to interpret developments in the fiscal system there in the light of the Theory of Fiscal Federalism?
The exact characterization of the political system in the former Soviet Union is not the heart of this paper. Rather, this paper singles out some mechanisms which are at work in the devolving fiscal system in the Soviet Union. To assess their relevance now, in post-coup times, one should think of a continuum of possible solutions between a perfectly centralized fiscal system, as had been prevailing until 1987, to a perfectly decentralized fiscal system in which a Soviet fiscal entity has ceased to exist.
Take one example: as discussed below, the fact that, before the coup, Union republics transferred less than 40% of tax revenue in 1991 which was assigned to the central government can be viewed, in terms of the Theory of Fiscal Federalism, as "free-rider" behavior on the republics part. As it turns out, since the failed coup, republican transfers to the center were close to zero.
Assume it is no longer meaningful to refer to a central government because now its power is perfectly dismantled. Considering the (ex-)republics as independent economies, as long as there are spatial spillovers creating externalities among the (ex-)republics, the issue is now one of "International Policy Coordination", in which a leading issue is again free-rider behavior.
This shows that mechanisms which were fiscally relevant up to August 1991 do not necessarily lose their importance in post-coup times-on the contrary, they might gain importance. If the struggle for fiscal power between the center and the republics is now over in the sense that fiscal power of the center is only what the republics want it to be, problems which relied on that, like the incentive implications for state enterprises which are torn between both subnational and central ministries, will be diminished. By the same token, however, inter-(ex-)republican fiscal relations on the one hand, and intra-republican relations on the other, and their potential inefficiencies (e.g., unstable tax competition between (ex-)republics, or state enterprises now under the sole, but closer surveillance, of subnational fiscal authorities, respectively) gain importance.
Taken together, the analysis of the devolving Soviet fiscal system portrays many elements which are bound to play a major role also for the fiscal relations of politically independent (ex-)republics. Although some aspects will vanish with independent economies, others have emerged already in the transformation of the centralized to a federalistic Soviet fiscal system, which is what this paper is dealing with.


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The all-powerful Monkey King once roamed freely between Heaven and Earth, but after angering the Gods, he was imprisoned within an ice cage deep within the mountains. 500 years later, monsters attack a small village and a child flees to the mountains. Unknowingly, the child releases the Monkey King from his curse. With the help and encouragement from this special child, Monkey King saves the village from the evil monsters.
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Brian Kelly, the CEO and founder of BKCM and a CNBC contributor, has launched a new actively managed blockchain startup-based exchange traded fund (ETF) called the REX BKCM ETF (BKC). BKCM LLC is an investment firm focused on digital currencies.
The ETF is being launched in partnership with REX Shares founder Gregg King, and will be comprised of investments in around 33 blockchain- and cryptocurrency-related companies. The fund seeks to generate total return by investing in stocks of global companies which attempt to generate revenue and profit from cryptocurrency-related and enterprise blockchain technology-related projects and businesses. It will support firms from the seed stage onward. The ETF will trade on NYSE ARCA exchange under the ticker symbol BKC and will have an expense ratio of 0.88 percent.
At the time of launch on Wednesday, the top five holdings of the fund included the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Global Unichip, GMO Internet, Overstock.com (OSTK) and SVB Financial Group (SIVB ), each with an 8 percent weighting. The other notable names in the holding list include Square Inc. (SQ) and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Speaking to CoinDesk, he outlined the basic strategy for selecting the eligible companies. The eligible ones should fit one of the four criteria - enterprise blockchain, or companies using the technology to streamline existing business processes; Wall Street disruptors, like those developing or offering services on changing how securities are traded (like Overstock.com's tZero exchange system); mining focused entities; and exchange firms and startups creating a decentralized internet.
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Each Pentecoste Sunday for centuries, a large crowd gathers in front of the Duomo di Orvieto to celebrate the Festa della Palombella. Despite the condemnation of animal rights advocates, a dove is placed in a plexiglass "space capsule" and launched on a zip-line across the Piazza. It arrives at the specially constructed cenacle with great fanfare of fireworks, red flames and clouds of smoke. The dove symbolizes the descent of lo Spirito Santo (the Holy Spirit) on the Apostles. It's said that if the dove survives the traumatic journey, it portends a year of good crops and fertility for the city's most recently wed couple, who vow to care for the dove until its natural death.
Apparently, this year "la colomba" had other plans! Somehow the container had opened prematurely and amidst a cheering crowd, the dove made her daring and defiant escape – literally and figuratively – she "flew the coop". The question remains: If a "surviving" dove signifies a year of favorable crop yields and a "deceased" dove predicts a weak harvest, then it's good news for farmers since a liberated dove is certainly "alive and well".
But what is the fate of the newlyweds who were deprived of their blessing of peace and fertility? I have no doubt that every bar in town is humming with speculation about this twist of fate! The discourse and theorizing could go on for the next 365 days!
Have just found your blog and am really enjoying reading it. So, are you in Orvieto now? Or still in the process of trying to get here? The paperwork can be a killer as I must renew my residency permit next month. Just the thought of it is enough to make my eyes glaze over as I run screaming into the street. Not really. But almost! "Met" you as we both left comments on Rebecca's FB post about !! today… Ciao!


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Telegram Launched a Contest to Create a News Aggregator
By Samuel White - May 12, 2020
Telegram launched the second stage of the Data Clustering Contest to create a module, based on which a news aggregator can be launched. Everyone can participate, including those who missed the previous stage.
$100K Telegram Data Clustering Contest | The Internet Protocol
Telegram has launched a contest to create a grouping and sorting algorithm for news articles. The prize fund is $100,000.
Samuel WhiteThe Internet Protocol
Following certain recommendations, the participants of the competition should create or improve existing clustering algorithms to highlight articles and news written in English and Russian, including from other materials, as well as group them into categories and stories.
The algorithm should analyze, store, and index incoming articles, as well as form a list of stories on the specified topic for a specified period sorted by importance. At the same time, news in Russian should be relevant for readers from Russia, and news in English should be relevant for a wide range of international readers.
Entries will be accepted as standalone tgnews applications. The app should be launched in the CLI interface and the HTTP/1.1 mode of the server with Keep-Alive support.
The second stage of the Data Clustering Contest will last two weeks and end on May 25 at 23:50 UTC. Its prize fund is €100,000.
You can find more detailed information about the contest here.
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A year ago, Telegram started to hold contests for the TON blockchain platform among Android, iOS, and JS developers. These competitions are still being held to this day. Here's a list of winners of the last contest with a brief description of the submitted works.
In the summer, Telegram founder Pavel Durov criticized Yandex.News for being censored and targeting the Russian market only. He invited Yandex developers to join the Telegram team to develop an effective and free news aggregator.
It seems that Telegram did not abandon the idea of Pavel Durov to create its own news aggregator, and the announcement of the competition clearly indicates that.
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Once an outspoken anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced plans to return to Judaism after a group of Conservative rabbis overturned an 800-year ban on eating kitniyot, a group of foods that includes rice, beans and legumes, during Passover.
"The only reason I converted to Islam in the first place was because I could never go eight days without bread, rice, beans or corn," Ahmadinejad told The Mideast Beast. "Now that the they've finally changed those stupid rules, I'm back, baby."
Despite his descriptions of the holocaust as a "myth" and his promises to wipe Israel off the map, there has long been speculation of Ahmadinejad's Jewish background. The former Iranian president confirmed to The Mideast Beast that he was born and raised Jewish, but felt deep anger towards the faith due to the restrictive rules during the eight days of Passover.
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Paul and I have been talking a lot about this lately, and we realize that we've come to the point that we need more than the Internet to bridge a gap in our knowledge – we need YOU, fellow subject matter experts in emergency management, public information, crisis communications and/or disaster incident response to give us the "boots on the ground" perspective.
We're working on a few projects in which we have a need to know how non-U.S. governmental organizations and incident response systems and doctrine correspond with those here in the states. Well, it goes beyond a "need to know" – we also have a desire to understand.
Virtual high fives (or your cultural equivalent) to all that help!
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L'ortografia, dal greco ὀρθογραϕία (οῤθός (orthós) = retto, corretto + γραϕία (graphía) = grafia), è la parte della grammatica costituita dall'insieme delle norme che regolano il modo corretto di scrivere secondo il sistema di scrittura di una data lingua.

In grafemica, il termine "sistema di scrittura" è preferito a "ortografia".

Origine del termine
Il termine deriva dal greco ὀρθός (orthós), "corretto" e γραφή (graphḗ), "scrittura"; nell'accezione odierna, esso si riferisce a sillabazione, punteggiatura, ecc.

In altre lingue

L'ortografia portoghese non è strettamente fonemica. Ha a che fare con l'espansione del portoghese e con la nascita di numerose varianti regionali e dialettali. Nel 2009 fu lanciata la riforma globale della lingua portoghese per eliminare il 98% delle discrepanze ortografiche tra vari paesi.

L'ortografia inglese è caratterizzata da un elevato livello di standardizzazione. Comunque, esistono alcune modalità di scrivere quasi ogni fonema, e anche la maggior parte delle lettere si possono pronunciare in alcuni modi a seconda della loro posizione nella parola e del contesto. Ecco perché certi errori ortografici sono diffusi pure tra i parlanti nativi. La causa è principalmente il gran numero delle parole che sono dei prestiti da altre lingue ed i mancati tentativi di intraprendere una riforma ortografica generale. La maggior parte delle regole ortografiche non corrispondono ai cambiamenti fonetici che sono occorsi a partire dalla fine del XVI secolo (ad esempio, il Grande spostamento vocalico).

L'ortografia islandese è basata sul principio etimologico, perciò gli islandesi stessi hanno certe difficoltà con la scrittura. L'alfabeto islandese moderno si basa sullo standard introdotto dal filologo danese Rasmus Rask.

I principi fondamentali dell'ortografia spagnola sono il principio fonologico e quello etimologico. Esistono dunque alcune lettere che definiscono dei fonemi uguali. A partire del XVII secolo si proponevano diverse varianti della riforma ortografica che avrebbe creato una corrispondenza univoca tra il grafema ed il fonema ma furono respinte tutte. Oggi la maggior parte delle proposte di svolgere una riforma ortografica non prevedono che l'eliminazione degli omofoni che persistono per motivi etimologici.

Note

Bibliografia
 L. Cignetti e S. Demartini, L'ortografia, Roma, Carocci, 2016.
B. Migliorini, Piccola guida di ortografia, Ivrea, Olivetti, 1955.
W.A. Smalley, Orthography studies: articles on new writing systems, Londra, United Bible Society, 1964.

Voci correlate
 Calligrafia
 Sistema di scrittura

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Posts Tagged 'Canadian Unknown Warrior'
With the Canadians around the Somme, Vimy and Arras
The maple leaf adorns Canadian graves
I recently returned from a fantastic three day trip guiding two Canadian gentlemen, Mark Sadler and Bill Teed around the Somme and Arras. Based in Arras at the Hotel Les Trois Luppars, our time was very much Canadian themed but interwoven were many of the key actions of the British and French armies.
The first day was spent on a general tour of the Somme taking in many of the well-known battlefield sites. Day two was much more bespoke, following Bill Teed's great uncle Cyrus Inches around the Somme. Cyrus, whose letters have been published as 'Uncle Cy's War: The First World War Letters of Major Cyrus F. Inches' was an officer in the 1st Canadian Heavy Battery operating on the Somme from June to November 1916. Prior to leaving Bristol I had marked out his battery positions on trench maps and modern maps.
Newfoundland Gueudecourt Memorial
This gave us an interesting afternoon following him as the battery moved forward with the British advance. Prior to 1 July his battery had been firing on the village of Fricourt and the small woods and copses nearby. With the fall of the village the battery moved forward, close to positions near Queen's Nullah. Two subsequent moves saw the battery north-west of Montauban for two months and, finally, for two months from the end of September to end November 1916 to positions close to Longueval Road Cemetery. For Bill, these positions, taken in as we toured the Somme, offered a chance to see where Uncle Cyrus had been operating.
Further stops included a visit to the Somme's lesser known Caribou Memorial at Gueudecourt commemorating the actions of the Newfoundland Regiment in October 1916 and a stop at the grave of Henry Hutton Scott, son of Canon Scott, Senior Chaplain to the 1st Canadian Division at Bapaume Post Cemetery. Our final halt of the day was at Mouquet Farm, looking not at Australian and British actions there but the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles attack on 15 September 1916.
Endless headstones at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery
The third day was spent around Vimy and Arras area, an area synonymous with the Canadian Corps. Cemeteries full of graves with the ubiquitous maple leaf are testament to huge Canadian efforts nearby in spring 1917. Stops included Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery to look at the grave where the remains of the Canadian Unknown Warrior were exhumed from in 2000.
CWGC staff re-engraving headstones at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery
These remains are now interred at the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. It was good to see CWGC staff re-engraving headstones during our visit, part of the massive maintenance programme they undertake.
We then had a drive to a cemetery well off the beaten track which I had not visited before – Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension where we paid our respects at the grave of Lieutenant Hugh Mariner Teed, a great uncle of Bill's.
Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension – final resting place of Hugh Mariner Teed and many other Canadians from the Vimy fighting
Our stop at Bruay was followed with a visit to Villers Station Cemetery, looking into the disastrous 1 March 1917 gas attack against Vimy Ridge. Many men who were killed that night, including Battalion commanders Lieutenant Colonel Beckett and Kemball are buried there. The story of the gas raid was hugely important to Mark Sadler whose relative, L/Cpl Robert Moffat, 11th Field Company, Canadian Engineers was killed that night. We paid our respects at the grave of Robert at the beautiful Ecoivres Military Cemetery close to Mont-St. Eloi. Rather unusually, there are over 750 French burials in the cemetery giving it a very special feel.
The beautiful Ecoivres Military Cemetery
After a visit to the Vimy Memorial we headed down to the rarely visited site of The Pimple and 44th Battalion memorial. All three of us enjoyed walking through the nearby wood and finding trenches and shell holes, testament to the destructive artillery bombardments on the ridge.
44th Battalion Memorial at The Pimple – well off the beaten track for most of the visitors to Vimy
Bill's grandfather had witnessed the 9 April attack on Vimy Ridge, watching infantry from the Canadian 5th Brigade advancing. Standing on the slope next to Lichfield Crater Cemetery I read Bill's grandfather's letter describing the action. What made it unique was that I spoke with Bill's mobile phone held up in front of me and my words reverberating around the breakfast table of the family back in Canada.
Lichfield Crater Cemetery, Vimy Ridge
The afternoon was spent in the British sector of the Arras battlefield astride the Scarpe. After stops at Fampoux, Roeux and Monchy we headed up Infantry Hill to look at the Newfoundland Regiment's disastrous attack on the morning of 14 April 1917.
Monchy British Cemetery. Daniel Teed's grave is in the foreground
Our final stop was Monchy British Cemetery visiting another of Bill's relatives, Lieutenant Daniel Lionel Teed MC, 36th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery. Daniel Teed, along with two NCOs had been killed at his battery position in Boiry Notre-Dame on 1 September 1918. We had looked down to Boiry from the Mound, the highest point of Infantry Hill and visualised the journey with his body and those of the NCOs back to the cemetery. Having devoted three days to Canadian endeavours on the Somme in 1916 and on Vimy Ridge in 1917 it seemed right to end our trip at Monchy, cleared by Canadian forces in late August 1918 at the start of their magnificent advance to Cambrai. With the cemetery bathed in evening sunlight I really could think of no finer place to be. My thanks to Mark and Bill for their companionship, genuine interest and terrific sense of humour. Until the next time….
"My friend and I recently completed a remarkable and highly personalized tour of the Somme and Arras region with Jeremy Banning. Our first of many pleasant surprises was the discovery of the substantial preparatory research Jeremy had performed on several relatives who had served in the Canadian Army during the Great War. The accrued knowledge was slowly revealed, along with countless other facts (big and small), during our three day tour.
Jeremy conducted our tour as a master storyteller. Far from reciting dry facts and pointing out sites from a moving vehicle, his modus operandi was to give instructions to the driver (me) and we would arrive at a site often not really knowing why we were there. Upon arrival at a cemetary, village, or a farmer's field we disembarked from the car and were treated to a short discourse on what happened at that spot with additional poignant comments on who was involved. Jeremy's mastery of the history always allowed him to frame the event or individual soldier within a larger context.
Jeremy did his utmost to ensure we had a full experience. This adventure was not a 2-3 hour morning and afternoon bus excursion. These were 11-12 hour days of steady touring and instruction followed by mid-evening dinner. Jeremy is passionate about his area of expertise, articulate, knowledgeable, witty, energetic, and most of all great fun. A surfeit of superlatives does not convey how much we enjoyed ourselves. Anybody with a serious interest in The First World War should strongly consider an expedition with him." Dr Mark Sadler
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