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Lessons from 'the Champ': Inspired by her dad, Laila Ali is fighting to raise kids who care
Three years after Muhammad Ali's death, daughter Laila reflects on what she learned about raising socially conscious kids from the boxing legend.
Muhammad Ali with his daughters Laila, left, and Hana on Dec. 19, 1978Frank Tewkesbury / Evening Standard/Getty Images file
By Dana McMahan
When humanitarian and boxing champion Muhammad Ali died three years ago this month, the world came together to celebrate what he meant to them. After all, to many of his fans, it felt like the Champ belonged to all of us, but to his nine children, his greatest role was being a father.
Ahead of Father's Day his next-to-youngest child Laila Ali — also a boxing champion and humanitarian — shared her thoughts with NBC News BETTER on the lessons she learned from her father, and how she's using those to raise socially conscious children of her own, son Curtis, 10, and daughter Sydney, eight.
Ali is following her father's footstep in more than just the boxing ring. She's worked with Feeding America for more than 10 years "because this is an issue I'm passionate about," she said.
Caring about, and helping others, has always been important, she said, "but we're just seeing so much of a divide and so many people suffering all over world [today] that now it's really heightened. We want to make sure we start with our kids young. If people cared more and had more compassion then we wouldn't have some problems we have."
That care and compassion starts in the home, Ali said. "You want to make sure you have love in your heart. Love makes you want to give back." It also lets us see the ways we're alike, not different, she said. "We all want to see the same thing — we want food on table, we want our family to be safe, to be successful in life and to be happy." When you see how alike we are, she said, "you naturally want to pull people up."
The compassion that led her to work for others "started for me in my house watching my father," Ali said. Even if he'd never taught her anything verbally, "I would know just from watching him," she said.
Muhammad Ali faced and overcame many challenges in his own humanitarian work. And parents today likewise have a fight in raising kids who care.
Laila Ali is kissed by her father, Muhammad Ali, at the MCI Center in Washington on June 11, 2005.Jason Reed / Reuters file
"Kids have so much access to things they don't need to see and pay attention to," said Ali. There's so much opportunity for them to see people not treating each other kindly, she said "it's really important that we balance that out by showing how we should treat people."
Ali likes to remind people that her father "was just a little boy from Louisville who believed in himself and wanted to change the world," she said. "Anyone can make a change if they have love in their heart." And that starts at home she said, using the lessons she learned from her father.
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Be their example
Like father, like daughter, Ali shows her children how to care by her own example. "They learn from what they see," she said. "My children see their mother really always trying to have integrity, and good character, and [to be] giving back when I can."
Let them see firsthand
The statistics are staggering. "One in six kids goes hungry and that number rises in summer because kids don't have access to school lunch," Ali said. "I remind [my kids] all the time, imagine if you said, 'mommy I'm hungry,' and I couldn't feed you. That breaks my heart."
But kids don't always get it, she said. "Sometimes they need to see it."
"It's not to beat your kids over the head with it," she said, but if you have a local food bank, it's important to let kids see who is affected by hunger. "These are a lot of times working families falling on hard times," she said. "A lot of people are just a paycheck away [from needing help]. I've seen people standing in line with business suits on."
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Do it even when it costs you
Muhammad Ali was known for his generosity, even when it didn't come easily. "When he had his titles stripped he was still going around the country and even up to the day he passed he never hid [from the public], even though it took a lot [for him to do that], she said. "He felt like that's what he was put on this earth to do, he had a passion, he had a purpose."
He rarely turned away people in need and gave so generously that he jeopardized his own finances on several occasions.
Laila Ali with her husband Curtis Conway and their two children.Courtesy of Laila Ali
It can start small
But you don't have to have wealth and fame to make a difference. "It doesn't have to be at [Muhammad Ali's] level," she said. "You can give back in your neighborhood or community, or start your own organization. There's going to be ways you can donate time."
Ali suggests making donations at the grocery store to give to food banks, or reaching out directly to the food banks. "If you want to give money, go to GiveAGallon.com and donate so kids in your community have access to high-quality nutrition, including milk."
Her son and daughter wanted to raise money, so they opened a lemonade stand. Did they make a fortune? No. But they learned they could make a difference.
And Ali's final advice ahead of Father's Day? "If you're fortunate enough to have your father, make sure you tell him you love him."
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Products and Partnerships
By RPA Staff February 16, 2021
New York City-based RPA firm Kryon said it is collaborating with the Brazil Ministry of Health to collect, process, validate, refine and distribute data relating to Covid-19. RPA has played an enormous role as organizations and governments respond to the requirements of dealing with—and hopefully returning to normal from—the global pandemic. The partnership has proved invaluable, according to a statement, in getting accurate information that has been used to save lives, out to the public.
Enterprise software giant SAP announced it has acquired no-code development platform AppGyver. According to a joint statement, that acquisition will enable SAP to expand its business process intelligence capabilities. "By adding AppGyver's solutions to our own no-code capabilities, we facilitate the creation of workflows, forms, robotic process automation and lightweight case management," the company said. The acquisition continues a trend of large software companies gobbling up startups that enable more robust automation capability.
Germany's second-largest software vendor, Software AG, announced a partnership with RPA technology provider Automation Anywhere under which Software AG's ARIS platform users will have access to AA's process mining and process management features. Software AG's Head of Business Transformation Marc Vietor noted how important it is to not only identify good opportunities to automate, but any changes that occur in the platforms or applications involved in an automation.
Highly regulated corporate sectors, including banking, devote considerable resources to "adverse media monitoring" as part of their reputational risk management activities. Typically, that includes the highly manual process of culling through online news sources for company mentions. New York City-based intelligent automation technology provider WorkFusion has partnered with content aggregator Nexis Solutions to automate the process. Under the agreement, a single manual keyword search that normally takes 20 minutes, takes only a minute or two for Nexis users.
RPA technology provider UiPath said it has "deepened" an existing partnership with digital workflow company ServiceNow. An integration between the two platforms enables ServiceNow customers to access expanded automation capabilities when they test software products.
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Q: Draw an aircraft with Tikz I want to draw a plane using the Tikz tool.
You will find, attached, a screenshot.

A: It was suggested in chat
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9482087#9482087
That picture mode would be the ideal tool for the job here:

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\caption{Aircraft with Mathcha/TikZ.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

A: I would politely discourage anyone from drawing extremely technical drawings like this one
using pure LaTeX (TikZ or PStricks). Here I'm actually referencing abstract/non-mathematical drawings, including an airplane with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. Why?
Well, there are many other applications that you can use and easily export to a graphics format that can be included into your document using \includegraphics from graphicx.
For example, searching the Google Sketchup 3D Warehouse for airplane gives you detailed 3D models of everything from a Boeing:

to a paper airplane
(on graphing paper!):

to a vintage toy wooden airplane:

Another 3D graphic tools, Sketch:3D Scene Description Translator not to be confused with google sketchup draws two- or three-dimensional solid objects and scenes by describing them in a tiny input language. Sketch emits PSTricks or TikZ/PGF code and allows embedding arbitrary LaTeX code for labeling and any other purpose the user can imagine. A novel feature allows LaTeX objects to be positioned with respect to 3d points in the scene. More details have a look at Italian document titled "Illustrazioni tridimensionali A con Sketch/LaTeX/PSTricks/Tikz nella didattica della Dinamica del Volo by A De Marco" at arstexnica no 4, Oct 2007. Some more related examples/hints by author

Figure 8(a) in above article 3D Illustrations using sketch of aircraft:

Similarly, OpenClipArt provides SVG images in abundance (sometimes more cartoon-like though), including many for airplanes. These can be converted to TikZ images using Inkscape.
Printing any of these to PDF if no other means exist (again, using free software like PDF Creator print driver
or otherwise) gives you a scalable vector graphics image which you can then use to overlay your annotations using techniques described in Drawing on an image with TikZ.

A: You could start with something like this:
http://github.com/lahvak/TeX-stuff/blob/master/plane.tex
(I tried to include the code here, but it was too large.)
It will produce a picture like this:

You can then edit the code, clean it up, shorten it, etc.
Edit: I took the original .png image, deleted some irrelevant parts, and use potrace to get a vectorized version.  That step would not be necessary if the original already was in a vector format.  Then I use pstoedit to convert it to an editable format.  At least the version of pstoedit on my computer does not do conversion to tikz, but metapost uses very similar syntax for path specifications, so I converted to metapost and eddited by hand.
Then I went through the file, adding color attributes to individual path to be able to locate which one is which, and, with a help of an overlayed grid, editted at least some of the paths.  The editing could be carried much further, but as an example I feel this is sufficient.  It is a tedious process, but IMHO it would be less work than creating the whole drawing from scratch in tikz.
As it is, it really did not take long, I had to interrupt the work several times, but altogether it took perhaps 30 minutes or so.

A:
\documentclass[preview,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{bbding,graphicx}
\begin{document}
\scalebox{10}{\Plane}
\end{document}

Edit:
Responding to the requested animation:

\documentclass[preview,border=12pt,multi]{standalone}
\usepackage{bbding,graphicx,multido}
\begin{document}
\multido{\i=10+-1}{10}{\preview\scalebox{\i}{\Plane}\endpreview}
\end{document}

How to enjoy it? Imagine that you are dropped from a plane.

A: An example, from pgfplots gallery:

A: The next revolution in aviation:
The duck plane
\documentclass{standalone}

\usepackage{tikzducks}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\duck

\fill[orange] (0.7331,0.5229) .. controls (1.8688,-0.6326) and (2.2337,0.0383) .. (1.2819,0.7331) -- cycle;

\fill[brown] (1.3848,1.6771) .. controls (1.2665,2.2823) and (0.5559,2.2697) .. (0.4000,1.6455) .. controls (0.5711,1.6714) and (0.8503,1.6562) .. (0.9926,1.6247) .. controls (0.9703,1.4641) and (1.0307,1.0718) .. (1.1444,1.0104) .. controls (1.3485,0.9002) and (1.4461,1.4498) .. (1.3848,1.6771) -- cycle;

\fill[gray] (0.9153,1.4857) -- (0.9472,1.6278) -- (1.3926,1.5288) -- (1.3840,1.4228) -- cycle;
\fill[gray] (0.6484,1.6773) -- (0.6601,1.7155) -- (0.7558,1.6863) -- (0.7441,1.6480) -- cycle;

\draw[gray,fill=black] (0.83,1.57) circle (0.135);
\draw[gray,fill=black] (0.54,1.65) circle (0.12);

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

A: fontawesome now offers a scalable alternative to the symbol from bbding, offering both an aeroplane symbol proper and two versions of a paper aeroplane.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\begin{document}
  \faPlane \faPaperPlane \faPaperPlaneO
\end{document}

And the font even scales correctly when compiled with pdfTeX. If you have problems with scaling make sure your TeX distribution is current as an earlier version was buggy in a way which affecting scaling with pdfTeX (but not Xe/LuaTeX).

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The CV rework is the bedrock, lets build upon it.
I'm generally known as being a person who complains a bit, points out flaws, points out issues, but even I must raise an eyebrow here. I literally look at these forums every day, from contributors to unicums, to the base player…everyone seems to scream that the CV rework will fail. I'm sick of it all, I'm sick of seeing the constant rage from a vocal few. I've recently adopted a new way of life that forces me to look at what can be done, versus what is lost. This community seems to look towards the vocal few with predictions the sky is falling…and failing to see what could be gleamed.
Many many many moons ago Wargaming gave us this amazing game. Yes, it wasn't perfect, yes it pissed me off to high heaven, yes it made me rage up and down, but it was a game I could play and enjoy. It took me a very long time to understand there are pitfalls to this game, and there is a very dark side that encourages you to run the hamster wheel (Steel/Coal).
With that being said, I want YOU the forum goer to sit back for a moment. Think for a moment about what this rework really is, it's something new. This is the bare bedrock for a class of warship. I think people are upset because they haven't grasped this concept yet. They see the vocal minority raging, losing their favorite toys, and they fall in line. To me, I played the rework, and I see it for what it is. It is Wargaming making a solid attempt to change the dark endless abyss of CV gameplay and the lost cause to balance it.
Note: trying to balance CV's was like fighting the war on drugs…you make progress…but you still lose…you make progress…you still lose…do you not see the endless cycle of failure here?
Now I'm no unicum, or tato when it comes to playing CV's. However, CV gameplay evolved into something that was overly complicated that arguably very few people could truly master…and then abuse. Time and time again, I saw Midways, Hack's, Zepplins…all of them delete people at will with massed strikes. You could tell how your game was going to go in the opening minutes by the actions of your CV. I truly wonder how many people were alpha strike'd away from this game.
THAT WAS NOT FUN PERIOD!
My time is limited these days, I work a lot more, and I don't want to jump into a game and spend 20 minutes on a lost cause I caught onto from the start. I loathe potato CV's, because they fail so badly, we almost automatically lose. They get to tier X by grinding free XP and whippin out the credit card.
You CANNOT make a skill-based match maker. The level of coding alone would cost the company more than it was worth. The MM is a core element of the game, it's far too late to do that drastic of a change.
The rework honestly makes a lot of sense to me. They removed RTS to make it user friendly and boost the numbers of CV drivers. Easier to play is easier to master. This will remove the "oh lost cause…" when you read off stats of your Hak driver and find out he's wearing a football helmet, whilst the enemy Midway is running par with Skynet.
Yes, the gameplay is wonky, yes AA can be confusing, yes unlimited planes are questionable…. but some of us have been here since beta, we should know better by now its gonna take time for this to evolve.
I honestly look forward to watching the evolution of the rework. It's enough for me to play, and work with. I will grind it, I will complain and gripe…but honestly, I won't need the level of focus and speed a few lines of Columbian snow can provide at tier 10 with all the squads, massing strikes, and strafing people.
I propose this people, give the CV rework a chance…come up with ways to enjoy it. Let's see what you all can do with it.
Ready to give it a go. I expect some pain some tears and a lot of fun.
I'm already burnt out again due to this event. By the time the update comes I will be back on the sidelines, laughing at you poor beta testers..
I will give it a shot for sure, but with how boring Tier IV gameplay looks I am already discouraged from grinding 2 tiers worth in them.
Good thing is that Ranked will be Tier IX so if the situation turns to be bad it may be a sanctuary for a while.
Lets hope that WG does not build on the CV rework by removing any other mechanics that they think are hard to understand.
Nice post. Sadly, this will fall on deaf ears for most of the vocal minority.
The game is still in beta so thanks for your service this far hope to see you back again after you are content with the update.
Seriously. I dread to think what WG might think of as "hard to understand". Anything they've created a training video for, for instance. Cos if those things were easy to understand, they wouldn't have needed to create a training video, right?
LOL I hear ya. The Christmas New years events were a lot but I loved it. I should be totally done well before 8.0 so will take a little break then.
I have this feeling that over the course of time, they eventually will keep adding squadrons to be able to control at the same time lol.
You completely misunderstood what WG was trying to say, didn't you?
@Dr_Venture, I agree with most of your points and the overall thrust of your post. Some of your examples could have been a little less politically or culturally charged - if you meant to imply that football players are stupid, for example, that's not universally true across all codes in all nations (I went to medical school with one, who passed quite successfully). If you are referring to the mentally handicapped with epilepsy needing their heads protected, that's even worse. As for the War on Drugs, perhaps a Labour of Sisyphus would have been a better example.
So many people let others make up their minds for them - a few bias videos from people who obviously expect the old CV model with the new rework - and bam, every unthinking troll says it's the worst thing ever.... when they haven't even tried it themselves.
Translation -- "People who don't agree with me about a video game are stupid sheep who can't manage to even draw their own conclusions".
I wish there was a proper 64-bit battleship-era naval sim out there. I really do.
But this isn't it, and never will be. It's an arcade game derived from one about tanks.
Real naval combat in the big-gun era was slow, with notable exceptions like the night actions around Guadalcanal. battles ran from hours- to days-long affairs. It also featured horribly inaccurate weapons (for the most part).
When everyone points to a single YouTube video as evidence when asked, yes, that makes you a stupid sheep.
Nice to see a positive thread.
A bunch of people are still looking backwards at what is going away, rather than forward at what is coming.
Such a waste of time, and hard on the neck trying to watch the sky falling on you 24/7.
The rework may turn out good, or bad, or so-so, but it'll still be better than this infernal wrangling over something that is going away and will soon be history.
I see possibilities, and I'm thinking that it may change more things than people realize. Yes, some people will leave. That was inevitable as soon as they showed the initial teaser video. People act like WG doesn't know that there will be some losses. It's their prerogative to change their game and the target audience for same. We can either join the new audience, or walk away as part of the old. Which one it will be for me, six months from now, I don't know, but I'll take the ride to find out.
Your opinion has been made obvious over the last weeks. "It's too hard, so we shouldn't try" seems to be the prevailing opinion among you folks.
You think we're against this rework because it's "too hard"?
Where would you even get that notion?
First it's "you're all afraid of change", then it's "you're all afraid to lose your easy mode" *, then it's "you're all trolls and haters", then it's "you're all sheep", then it's "you all just think it's too hard so why even try". The shopping list of lazy ad hom nonsense has nothing to do with anything real, it's just people with no real argument throwing whatever kneejerk mud they can come up with hoping something sticks.
Wargaming never tried the hard thing, they dithered and neglected and procrastinated and dumped sales gimmicks in the mix, and then said "screw it" and threw away the old interface that they'd played such a hand in making unpopular by those very actions or lack thereof.
I can't honestly say I like what I've seen of the rework, but it is more approachable than RTS mode for me. I like this game, I want it to be around for awhile and in general will support WG in this rework endeavor, even if I don't play CVs for awhile. I have 15 ships to grind, playing CV is simply bottom of my priority regardless of what was being done.
What gets my goat, and why I've been somewhat acerbic in the doom and gloom posts is the self-fulfilling prophecy aspect. Players are going to work against the rework actively or passively (quitting for 3 months as one would say) and then looking at the result and say, "see, toldya". Well of course the rework fails, you wanted it to fail and you did what you could to make it fail.


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text:
Bronx Bomber Ball
What exactly is wrong with the Yankees' bullpen?
By Alex Weir - April 15, 2018
When the 2017 season began, a common opinion about the Yankees was that their bullpen would be a strength. Many thought that there was a chance the Yankees' bullpen in 2018 would be the best ever, and there was good reason to think so. A group made up of flamethrowers Aroldis Chapman, Chad Green, and Tommy Kahnle, stalwarts David Robertson and Adam Warren, as well as four time All-Star Dellin Betances was one that, on paper at least, was arguably the best in baseball. However, throughout the first 14 games of the season, the majority of Yankee relievers have not yet lived up to their potential.
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Back in February, the BBB's own Shawn Maguire wrote that the Yanks' success would be built on their bullpen, and through the first two and a half weeks of the season, this could not be more true. While Chapman and Green have looked pretty solid this year, outside of some hiccups, Betances, Kahnle, Robertson, and Warren have all had varying levels of ineffectiveness. I won't waste time analyzing Jonathan Holder or Chasen Shreve, because I don't think anyone expected either of them to be anywhere near as effective as the others.
The Bombers have already lost seven games on the young season, and four of these were lost by the bullpen: the final two games in Toronto, and the two extra-inning games against the Orioles at Yankee Stadium (although the offense didn't do much to help in extras, either). This, however, does not even tell the whole story: the bullpen as a whole has given up 30 runs in the 14 games and 57.1 innings pitched. That's the fourth highest total runs allowed in baseball, behind only the Reds, Pirates and Marlins…three teams who are not supposed to be successful in 2018. So what exactly is wrong?
First off, let's talk about everyone's favorite scapegoat: Dellin Betances. In 6.2 innings so far, Dellin's numbers are…well, not good: a 8.10 ERA, three homers allowed, three walks, 12 strikeouts, and ten hits in total. A few things stand out to me here. First off, he's been much more hittable to start the year. Dellin's main problem in the past has been throwing strikes, as evidenced by his struggles in 2017 (44 walks in 59.2 innings). Bases on balls have not been the problem though, in fact, it may be just the opposite; he's throwing too many strikes. This is why batters are teeing off on him. Dellin gave up three homers ALL of last year, and he's already given up three this year. Friday night's game supports this perfectly. He recorded only two outs in the eighth inning while facing seven batters, allowing five hits, three runs, and striking out two. Dellin has essentially over corrected his woes from last year, and as a result, he has been wildly ineffective. All hope is not lost, however. If he can find some sort of middle ground between being incredibly wild and incredibly hittable, he could return to his old, dominant form.
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Next up on the list is Tommy Kahnle, one of the team's more exciting relievers. After a dominant show in the 2017 postseason, Kahnle had pretty high expectations for 2018. However, he's pretty much been a dud so far. In 7.1 innings, he's allowed seven runs (five earned), walked eight, and struck out nine. The answer to Kahnle's ineffectiveness is actually pretty simple, however. Most people will think of him as the dominant reliever he was in 2017 who struck out 96 batters in 62.2 innings with a 2.59 ERA, but not many people will remember that 2017 was essentially his only effective season out of the bullpen. From 2014-2016, Kahnle threw 129.1 innings for the White Sox and Rockies, with a 4.04 ERA. 127 strikeouts, and a whopping 79 walks. The main reason he turned a corner in 2017 was because he cut down on his walk rate, lowering a 6.59 BB/9 in 2016 to a 2.44 BB/9 in 2017. However, in 2018, Kahnle seems to have reverted to his old ways, as he has a 9.82 BB/9. If he can manage to cut down on the walks and be more aggressive, he should be able to return to his 2017 self. But if he can't, he won't nearly be as effective.
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As for Robertson and Warren, neither of them have been especially good in 2018, but they haven't been as brutally bad as Betances and Kahnle. There aren't many glaring differences between their past performances and 2018 performances, just a few minor ones. For D-Rob, there doesn't seem to be much wrong except for one thing: his pitches just haven't been as good as they normally have. This may sound too general, but here's the thing; he's only walked one batter so far this year, so it's not the walk rate. However, his strikeout rate is only 8.31/9, which is way down from his career average of 11.94/9. Robertson, like Betances, has basically just been too hittable so far, but not to the point where there should be a lot of concern. For now, I'm just going to chalk this up to the cold weather and rust of pitching early in the season, but if this continues, there may be more cause for concern.
Last, but not least, we have Adam Warren. If you've listened to the Bronx Bomber Babble Podcast, which I highly recommend, you'd have heard that myself and host Matt Luzzi are pretty high on Adam Warren. In the past, he's been an incredibly valuable pitcher for the Yankees, and has flown under the radar for years. In 2018, he's run into a lot of bad luck - and I mean a LOT. In his appearance on April 8, the game the Yankees blew against the Orioles in 12 innings after leading 5-0, he was the losing pitcher. In this outing, he wasn't necessarily bad, he just could not get any batters out, which has essentially been the story of this season so far. His pitches just haven't been as effective as they normally would be and this has led to an abnormally large ground ball percentage of 71.4%. While this seems good at first, it also can have negative effects, since a lot of the ground balls have managed to find holes and reach the outfield for base hits. Warren's career ground ball percentage is 45%, and I would expect that as the season progresses and the weather gets warmer, Warren's pitches will be more effective and his luck will be better. But for now, the defense will need to be on its toes when Warren is on the mound.
There's not much to say about the Yankee bullpen in 2018 other than the fact that it's been bad. Who knows, maybe the ineffectiveness will continue, but all hope is not lost. However, in order to live up to the preseason hype, changes are needed, as mentioned above. Dellin needs to throw less strikes (as weird as that sounds), Kahnle needs to throw more strikes, and Robertson and Warren just need to continue to work off the early season rust and perhaps run into a bit of better luck. For now, the bullpen remains a weakness for the Yankees, but, with a group this talented, there's no reason they can re-write the script and return to the dominant bullpen unit we all expected.
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Discerning Between Iconic Brands And The Rest
Arguably there are two types of brand in this world:
Those you could put on a hat, and those you couldn't.
Harley Davidson, Mountain Dew, Jack Daniels, Levis, Marlboro, Fender, Porsche; all "hattable" brands. Dell, Audi, Dove, Pepsi, Cadbury's, FedEx; all great brands, yes, but not "hattable".
To be the sort of brand who an ordinary person might emblazon on their clothing, or even tattoo to their body, is both extraordinarily valuable and extraordinarily difficult. At first glance it's hard to distil just what it is that makes a brand worthy of this rare honour.
Clearly, as we discussed in my recent post the toilet paper rule, the nature of the industry the brand occupies has a lot to do with it. Referring to the list above, it's clearly easier to pull this off if you make motorcycles than if you make shampoo. However that being said, it's not like a sexy category guarantees a hattable brand. Jack Daniels may pull it off, but I don't see many people rocking Famous Grouse or Glenfiddich merch as a fashion statement.
No, hattable brands do a different job which is in fact distinct from their core category job, and that is this:
They are symbols of an archetype or ideology.
If you think about the word "iconic" for a moment, you can see that what it literally means is that something (say a person) acts as a representative symbol (icon) for something else – e.g. Marilyn Monroe is an icon of femininity and glamour; Charles Manson is an icon of evil and insanity; Kurt Kobain is an icon of teenage angst; etc.
In certain instances, this same magic can become attached to a brand, whereby it comes to symbolise a certain idea separate from what the brand is. A Harley cap doesn't necessarily say "I like motorcycles". Instead, it says something akin to "I'm a rebel". A Google cap doesn't say "I like search engines". Instead, it says something like "I'm smart". In these cases, the brands are performing a sort of "double duty" – not only doing the usual job of communicating the propositions of their companies, but also acting as sort of free-floating "ideals", which would persist even if the company in question went out of business.
I am sceptical to what extent you can deliberately create a brand like this; iconography is formed in the cultural hive mind, not engineered by some marketing department. However, that being said the trend that often links such brands is a willingness to be co-opted by a group of people that stand against prevailing norms.
Just as we have discussed at length how important it is for businesses to strategically cut against category norms, here we are talking about businesses that cut against social norms – two techniques that can have similarly powerful effects in different arenas.
It goes without saying that all brands attempt to embody some sort of ideal– to be "aspirational". However, if you attempt to embody an ideal that is too broad or orthodox then nobody will feel sufficiently motivated to claim it as a personal emblem. Signalling with iconography is generally an act of defiance, and thus demands a certain degree of antagonism. Note that for the most part the brands we're talking about here have enemies. Or rather, the people associated with them do. It's unquestionable that one of the most "iconic" and literally hattable brands of the past 20 years is MAGA – Make America Great Again – which pretty much says it all.
Assuming that a brand successfully manages to tap into a counter-current like this, the next step on the road to iconography would have to be real-world adoption by genuine exemplars of the archetype in question. The most obvious example of this is of course the incredible loyalty that various generations of rock stars have felt towards Jack Daniels – surely the greatest organic cultural association in business history.
It is at this stage of the process that I do feel there is potential to engineer these associations, primarily though things like sponsorship, if sensitively handled. For the most part people see sponsorship for what it is: a desperate attempt for brands to borrow credibility from a cultural property they have no real claim to. However, there are notable exceptions. One that I find fascinating with the relationship between Red Stripe, the beer, and the Notting Hill Carnival, a huge Caribbean street party that takes place in London each year. Whether there is any official relationship between the two I don't know, however, if you visit the event you will immediately be struck by the dozens of opportunistic vendors selling the stuff out of bin bags on every corner. Although the truth is probably far more mundane, I like to think that Red Stripe surreptitiously organise this (highly illegal) activity in order to build their iconography.
More often however I think brands fall ass-backwards into these roles – as evidenced by those which end up as icons for things they wouldn't necessarily choose.
American readers will surely remember the trend of "icing" – whereby you creatively hide a Smirnoff Ice for an unsuspecting victim to find, meaning they have to drop to one knee and chug the whole thing. This came about because the brand had become emblematic of (for want of a better word) "lameness", hence being forced to drink one represented some sort of ritual humiliation.
I also recall, in my prior life, having Fruitella as a client. For those who don't know, Fruitella is a slightly old school, childish, chewy sweet (or "candy") – "made with real fruit juice". Unbeknownst to them however, they had developed a cult following as "the badman sweet" thanks to this great scene in the movie Anuvahood. Naturally, I wanted them to double down on this – I mean, come on, you couldn't come up with a better positioning than that in a million years – but alas they weren't keen.
In sum, although clearly companies have strategic influence over their brands, the true owners of them are the public at large. They are not only participants in their category, and in their market; they are also participants in history. The greatest ones recognise that there is no clear line that can be drawn between their basic commercial presence, and their presence in the world at large.
To develop a strategy that simultaneously plays a sharp category game (i.e. providing unique value in comparison to competitors) and a savvy cultural one (i.e. holding a clear position within a wider social conversation) is the greatest achievement to which we can aspire.
Perhaps the very best management consultants can do the first, and the very best brand / ad agencies can do the second. We should aspire to both.


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Class 9 - Total History & Civics Solutions
The Modern Age in Europe — (B) Reformation
History — Chapter 12
What is known as the Reformation?
The Reformation is the name given to a group of religious movements of the sixteenth century launched by the christians against the various drawbacks of the Church and the objectionable practices of the clergymen. The main target of these movements was the Pope, the highest authority in Church hierarchy.
What was known as a Letter of Indulgence?
A Letter of Indulgence was a pardon certificate issued to those, who paid money to the Church, for remitting punishments for their sins both in this life and after their death. It was issued by Pope Leo x, who needed money to build St. Peter's Church. Normally, the priest imposed a penance or punishment on a person who had sinned and he was required to perform a special service or make a pilgrimage to a holy place. But now they could be freed from doing penance for their sins by buying a Letter of Indulgence.
What is known as the Protestant Movement?
The Protestant Movement was a movement against the Church and their objectionable practices. The protestant movement started in different countries with different names but were collectively termed as Reformation.
Why did kings support the Reformation Movement?
The kings supported the Reformation Movement in order to weaken the Church. There was Pope's interference in political affairs which was apposed by the kings. As early as the 13th century, the rulers of Europe had quarrelled with the Popes over the royal right to tax the Church property. The rivalry ended in the defeat of the Papacy.
Who was Erasmus? Name the book he wrote.
Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch philosopher and humanist, who is said to have prepared the ground for the Reformation by exposing the Church for their objectionable practices like charging fees for salvation. The book he wrote was 'In Praise of Folly'.
What role did Henry VIII play in curbing the power of the Pope?
King Henry VIII of England got the Church lands and in 1536 passed an Act for dissolution of monasteries, whereby small monasteries with an income of less than £200 a year were closed and their buildings, land and money taken by the crown. By another Act of 1539, larger monasteries were closed. These monasteries were a reminder of power of Catholic Church and were the wealthiest institution in the country. By destroying the monastic system, Henry acquired all its wealth and property while at the same time removed the influence of Pope.
What was Counter Reformation?
The Reformation Movement was against the Roman Catholic Church and brought about the birth of the Protestant Church. In order to restore the credibility of the Catholic Church, a large number of dedicated Christians including some popes introduced certain reforms within the Church. This movement is known as the Counter Reformation.
What was the role of the Council of Trent in Counter Reformation?
The council of Trent was a Church council convened at Trent in North Italy in 1545 by Pope Paul III. This council made a number of changes in Catholic Church. The role of council of Trent in Counter Reformation can be summarised as follows:
It expanded its doctrines in light of the changed attitudes of the times.
It condemned leading an irresponsible religious life by the clergy.
Books with anti-catholic teachings were banned.
Pope was regarded as the head of Catholic church and the final interpreter of Christian doctrine.
It established centres known as seminaries to educate and train priests.
It forbade the Church to charge fees for conducting religious services.
It advocated the use of the local language for preaching in the Church.
With reference to the Reformation, answer the following:
(a) Mention any three Church practices that caused dissatisfaction among the people?
(b) How did New Learning become a factor that led to the Reformation?
(c) Who were the Protestants? By what other names was Protestantism known?
(a) Three Church practice — that caused dissatisfaction among the people were:
Economic Factors — In the middle ages, the Church had vast properties, which gave ample income to the Church. Besides, one-tenth of the income of a person was given to the Church. This was called the tithe. In addition to this, the clergy collected another sum called the 'Peter's Pence' from the people. The Church also started selling 'Letter of Indulgence'. These were pardon certificates remitting punishments of the sinners who bought them, both in this life and after their death.
Corruption in the Church — With passage of time, moral decay crept into some areas in the functioning of the Church. Some of the clergymen lacked proper education and lived a life of luxury neglecting their religious duties. They could pronounce a marriage lawful or unlawful. There were fees for every transaction in life, from birth to death.
Rulers' Resentment — Pope's interference in the political affairs was naturally opposed by the kings. They strongly supported the Reformation Movement in order to weaken the Church.
(b) The spread of new learning and spirit of enquiry was developed by Renaissance scholars. The invention of printing press and the printing of the Bible in vernacular languages brought a new outlook among laymen. The Renaissance encouraged spirit of enquiry, developed critical attitude space and broadened the mental outlook of man. People then began to question everything including the authority of the Pope. They criticised the Church practices, rituals and the lifestyles of some of the clergymen. The changed attitude of people finally led to outbreak of Reformation movement.
(c) The Reformation movements created a split in the Christian Church between those who continued to remain loyal to the Pope at Rome (known as Roman Catholics) and those who broke away from the Church at Rome. The latter were known as Protestants.
The Reformation broke out in number of countries like England, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Scotland. However all the Protestants did not share the same religious beliefs and Rituals. The different names of Protestantism were Calvinism, Presbyterianism (Scotland) and Puritanism (England).
Study the picture given below and answer the following questions.
(a) Identify the person in the picture. How did he challenge the Church?
(b) What is known as the Diet of Worms? Who supported him when he was outlawed?
(c) State the contribution of this person in reforming the church in Europe?
(a) The person in the picture is Martin Luther, a German clergyman and professor of Theology at University of Wittenburg.
He openly criticised papacy. He accused the Church for the sale of indulgences. In 1517, Luther wrote 'Ninety-five theses' or statements dealing with the difference between the beliefs and practices of the Church and nailed them on the Church door at Wittenburg.
(b) The holy Roman Emperor Charles V, upon request by Pope, asked Luther to defend his case before a Grand Diet held at Worms known as the Diet of Worms consisting of Council of Princes and high dignitaries in 1521.
The Diet ordered that Luther's writings be burnt and Luther be outlawed but Luther had support of German rulers and so no harm was done to him.
(c) The contribution of Martin Luther in reforming the church in Europe were following:
Luther translated the Bible into German and set up an independent church.
He travelled extensively to different parts of Europe, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The Protestant movement found wide acceptance.
Lutheranism was recognised as a legal form of Christianity by a treaty known as 'The Peace of Augsburg' in 1555.


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Scherzer, Cabrera lead Tigers past Rays, 5-2
FRED GOODALL
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Max Scherzer tried to focus on simply giving his team a chance to win.
The Detroit right-hander struck out seven in six innings and Miguel Cabrera had four hits and drove in two runs, helping the Detroit Tigers to a 5-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night.
Scherzer (7-5) allowed two runs and four hits in his second start following the death of his brother earlier this month. The right-hander was replaced after walking the only batter he faced in the seventh inning.
"As difficult as the time is for me, you know for me it's about going out there and pitching well and helping the team," Scherzer said. "We want to win. Any time I can go out there and give our team a chance to win, that's what I'm all about."
Cabrera hit a solo homer in the ninth and had two singles and a double to continue a hot stretch in which he's hit .342 over the past 46 games. The slugger has 11 RBIs in his last 13 games and seven homers in June after hitting nine in 51 games over April and May. His run-scoring single off James Shields (7-5) gave Scherzer a 4-1 lead.
Delmon Young, Alex Avila and Quintin Berry also drove in runs for the Tigers off Shields, who allowed four runs and a career-high 14 hits in 7 2/3 innings. Austin Jackson had four hits off the Rays starter, helping Detroit end a two-game losing streak while extending Tampa Bay's skid to four.
"We were able to swing the bat good. When you swing good (good things happen)," said Cabrera, who's batting .312 with 16 homers and 62 RBIs.
Scherzer, who has won six of his past eight decisions, gave up a RBI single to Elliot Johnson in the fifth inning. He walked Jeff Keppinger leading off the seventh, and Tampa Bay scored its second run when Brooks Conrad doubled off reliever Phil Coke and Berry mishandled the hit into the left-field corner for an error.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said Scherzer has been more consistent with his delivery lately.
"When he gets the right arm slot going, and is not flopping around off the mound ... he's pretty consistent," Leyland said.
"It was a good game. ... We pitched very well," Leyland added. "We got some big hits. Scherzer was good. The bullpen was good."
The Rays have lost seven of nine and are 5-11 since June 11, when they were last in first place in the AL East. They're 1-3 against the Tigers this season and have dropped 10 of 12 to them.
Scherzer left the Tigers this month after his brother's death, and returned two days later and allowed three runs and three hits over six innings of a 4-1 loss to Pittsburgh on June 23.
Young, Avila and Berry staked Scherzer to an early three-run lead in this one that could have been much larger.
The Tigers had a runner thrown out at the plate in the fourth and stranded eight while scattering 11 hits off Shields through the first five innings. They scored twice in the third, but may have had a much bigger if perfectly positioned Rays second baseman Keppinger hadn't snared Cabrera's rising liner and turned what likely would have been a run-scoring extra-base hit into an unassisted double play.
Scherzer didn't allow a runner past first base until Conrad doubled off the right-field wall and scored on Johnson's one-out single in the fifth for Tampa Bay.
Coke and Joaquin Benoit got the Tigers through the seventh and eighth innings. Jose Valverde pitched the ninth to earn his 14th save in 17 opportunities.
Detroit finished with 15 hits, including 11 singles off Shields.
"They found every single hole you can possibly find. There's nothing you can do about it," the Rays starter said.
Shields didn't take solace in keeping his team close and pitching deep into the game.
"You can compete all you want, and you can go deep into the game all you want," Shields said. "But the bottom line is you lost the game. I've got to do a better job."
NOTES: Rays 3B Evan Longoria, out since May 1, hasn't resumed baseball activities since feeling discomfort in his injured left hamstring during a minor league rehab assignment that was cut short on June 18. ... Tampa Bay activated DH Luke Scott (back stiffness) from the 15-day disabled list and optioned RHP Chris Archer to Triple-A Durham. RHPs Jeremy Hellickson (right shoulder inflammation) and Kyle Farnsworth (right elbow strain) are expected to return from the DL on Saturday. ... Tigers DH Victor Martinez had a follow-up MRI that shows improvement in his injured left knee. The best case scenario for a return this season remains mid-to-late September.


Awhile back, I thought that I might write a book someday about the impact on the art world seen and unseen disabilities have had within art history. From Monet's visual impairment to Van Gogh's Bipolar… I've never thought about this project as focusing on the disability in a more enhanced way than anything else that the artist brought to their respective work. When I have brought it up to friends who know that I am a visual artist, they often say things like, "well, you better not highlight disability because you want it to be about the person's work." The fear is that people reading this book would get fixated on the disability and see nothing else.
To me, a fixation on a person's disability by neuro-typical, regularly ambulating folks or anyone else is just a response to new stimuli, phenomena, that humans often have. You literally don't know what you don't know, and it seems to me that the cultural piece of disability could be the great equalizer, if disability can be seen as just another aspect of what a person brings to what they do.
By cultural piece of disability, I mean, Monet's blindness impacted his painting. Van Gogh's bipolar impacted his thinking, and therefore, his painting. My grandfather, who has a learning disability that affected his ability to read, can do high-level math and is in the space pioneer hall of fame. These disabilities aren't something that can be explained away, as things that people had to overcome. These filters persisted for people forever. They are an extension of what I would call the operational intellect of the individual.
Operational intellect means being able to move through your world, applying and adapting your intellect as filtered through your disability in problem solving. The operational intellect, when creatively nurtured, can grow the mechanisms by which one problem-solves. If a person is never given the opportunity to grow their operational intellect, and they have the diagnoses of cerebral palsy, with mild intellectual disability, then that's how they will remain, frozen in a state of arrested development. But if one grows their operational intellect, then that can go beyond one's IQ, so that the person with traumatic brain injury, or intellectual disability, can continually grow their operational intellect. They can learn how to use a computer, can learn a new skill on the job, can push themselves to higher heights. The thing is, that is not despite their disability. It is because of it. Like with anyone, coupled with a person's inabilities are numerous abilities, which are enhanced by their disability.
The idea is that in my eventual, but for right now, very "in the future" book project, all of my examples would be about the way disability enhanced not only the perspective of the artist, but their abilities. In order to push the community of people with disabilities forward, we must begin to craft our own tools for the making of our own road, that we can share with neuro-typical, regularly ambulating people, with the understanding that we can no longer be embarrassed by our unseen disability, or ashamed that because of our physical disability, we sometimes wet our pants, or that it takes me ten minutes to read one page. We have to understand that we can craft tools on our own creative path.
Audre Lord, the famous feminist scholar, would argue that differences must be acknowledged, embraced, and accepted in order to create new tools, and not just accept the tools given to us, bestowed upon us, by a helping system. I think she would push that forward by strongly suggesting that although we are all individually gifted with struggles and talents, we cannot build a house alone, carve a path to that house, and live there in solitary confinement. We are brothers and sisters. It is the trick of the system that affects neuro –typical, regularly ambulating, and the rest of us alike, to convince us that we are alone.
None of the artists from Picasso to Van Gogh, to Matisse, and even Golguin, that I know of, were ever truly alone. They found community. Picasso fed off of Matisse, and vice versa. The feminist scholar Audre Lord would, I think, remind us to check our privilege, know our roles, and invite difference, almost weirdness, to the table. Don't count on people with disabilities to educate you on the path we are carving. Educate yourself, and come along.


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Church's nativity scene goes live – really live – this weekend
Elmira Pentecostal Assembly takes Christmas back to its origin story with telling that involves live animals
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Rachel Bauman and Brian Chamberlain are both helping to organize the event that opens this weekend. The goal, they say, is bringing back the true meaning of Christmas.
"I think so often now, the story of Christmas is removed from schools and so many different aspects of our lives, and it is a story that needs to be told. As a church and as believers, we want to make sure that story is still told," said Bauman.
The outdoor play will take place in the field behind the Elmira Pentecostal Assembly at 280 Arthur St. S., and with a cast of more than 100, and plenty of live animals, it is set to be an entertaining and informative look at how the Christmas holidays began.
"We are going to have donkeys, alpacas, goats, sheep, chickens, horses, mini horses and calves. I think that's all of them," laughed Bauman. "Because of the area we are in, and the generosity of the people that live here, animals weren't hard for us to find."
The play is a church-wide project, with everyone coming together to make it happen.
"As much as we are excited about putting on a community event, and reaching out to the community, it is our pastor and all the people that it takes to put something like this on," said Chamberlain. "Every Saturday, there was been people here working and building, and pretty much every night of the week there has been somebody at the church doing something for the live nativity. Whether it is costume people, or sets."
A live nativity used to be put together by Bethany Missionary Church in Kitchener, but after over 15 years and a change in pastor, they discontinued the live show. It is estimated that some 500,000 people watched the live nativity in Kitchener, and now, members at Bethany Missionary Church are lending a hand to Elmira Pentecostal.
"Through different connections with people and the church, we heard that they were going to be giving their props and sets away. We jumped on board, and we were one of several that got props given to them. A lot of scenery sets, a lot of costumes," shared Chamberlain, adding that along with items to go in the show, Bethany members were full of advice. "Going into it, that is what Bethany Missionary Church was saying. We had a chance to chat with some of their people and they stressed how great this was to give to the community, and to even create a community within the church."
The play won't just focus on the more well-known aspects of the Christmas story, such as Mary and Joseph riding to the inn and being turned away, or the wise men with gold, frankincense and myrrh. The play will take the audience through the entire story all the way to Jesus on the cross.
"I think a big part of a lot of Christmas programs are focused on the birth, but we are going to tell the story right up until the cross, the plan of salvation," said Chamberlain. "It is the whole story. I have never seen that part of it myself. It didn't end when the three wise men showed up. That was just the beginning of the story."
There will be five showings of the live nativity and Christmas play: Dec. 3 at 6, 7 and 8 p.m. and on Dec. 4 at 6 and 7 p.m. There is no admission charge, and all guests are invited into the church after each showing for hot chocolate and cookies.
Brian Chamberlain
Elmira Pentecostal Assembly
Rachel Bauman
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"Two years ago I was searching for a small downtown studio for a client, when I found this 34 square meter apartment with a private garden in one of my favorite districts in Athens. Thiseio is one of the oldest neighborhoods in downtown Athens, part of the city's historical center.
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The small size of the apartment allowed me to renovate it to the guts, for a reasonable budget. The materials I've used are glass, metal, plywood, and bamboo for the floor. The house looks high end but it's not.
Small houses require an efficient use of space. The activities essential to operation have been carefully considered and housed with built-in plywood structures (storage, desk and kitchen) to allow freely circulated space.
With the first look at the house, I realized the potential. To open all the space, to lighten the main area by allowing more natural light in and leading the view to garden was, for me, the only solution. In this spirit I've opened completely the house to the garden creating an indoor/outdoor effect and replacing the old light well walls with two floor-to-ceiling windows, creating a more or less dual-light aspect.
For this limited available space, the use of a glass wall was essential and the LED-lit glass wall also creates an interesting kind of spacy element for the otherwise dark and small entrance. A full mirror wall at the end of the corridor is to reflect more light and create the illusion of extra length.
All the functions are built-in around the shell of the house, even the lights. I have designed many lighting scenarios, light is elementary for all my works.
As the bathroom and the kitchen are what you see at first when you enter the house, it was important they look discrete. The bathroom was relocated in the corridor, to allow more free space in the main living area (the marble sink was repurposed from the apartment's previous kitchen).
Another key elements of the design is the well thought storage. All dimensions were carefully measured – and double checked many times through the construction process – to ensure the right fit. The house has enough storage space: all available walls are cupboards, but it's not clear at first, since all are united by the same color.
There is also a simple metal structure to support an extra upper big storage, the wardrobe and the bathroom's glass walls. Part of the upper storage can be reached from the living room and the rest through the bathroom.
The more difficult part to design was the kitchen. All the appliances were picked after research to get the right product (size and quality). The open kitchen is fully-equipped and designed to look least like a kitchen as possible. That is why I've used security glass instead of tiles and a minimal tap with flexible hose. The kitchen is equipped with a dish washer, washing machine and dryer, fridge and and a simple pull out table (with laminated top).
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