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Karl Joseph Wirth, född 6 september 1879 i Freiburg im Breisgau, död där 3 januari 1956, var en tysk matematiker och politiker (Centrumpartiet). Han var Tysklands rikskansler 10 maj 1921 till 22 november 1922 och samtidigt Tysklands utrikesminister 10-23 maj 1921, oktober 1921-januari 1922 samt juni- november 1922 och därutöver Tysklands finansminister maj-oktober 1921.

Wirth, som var matematikprofessor och som räknades till Centrumpartiets vänsterflygel, innehade ämbetena som rikskansler och utrikesminister i en center-vänster-koalitionsregering som innefattade Centrumpartiet, socialdemokraterna och liberala Tyska Demokratiska Partiet, och som innehade regeringsmakten i en turbulent tid. Han försökte kraftfullt att motverka de reaktionära strömningarna, som bland annat ledde till mordet på politikern Matthias Erzberger 26 augusti 1921 och han tvingade Bayerns ministerpresident Gustav von Kahr att avgå 11 september 1921.

Wirth och hans utrikesminister under 1922 Walther Rathenau, som under 1921 var rekonstruktionsminister, arbetade aktivt för att visa Tysklands engagemang att leva upp till kraven fastslagna i Versaillefördraget. Den politiska kris som följde efter beslutet om att dela Oberschlesien ledde till att Wirth i oktober 1921 rekonstruerade sin ministär. Den egentlige starke mannen i Wirths ministär anses alltjämt ha varit hans karaktärsstarka utrikesminister Walter Rathenau och vid mordet på denne i juni 1922 entledigades Wirth av rikspresident Friedrich Ebert och blev istället ny utrikesminister efter Rathenau. Wirth efterträddes av Wilhelm Cuno i spetsen för en liberal-centerministär.

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Asahi Tanker Co., Ltd., Exeno Yamamizu Corporation, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., and Mitsubishi Corporation today announced their agreement to create a strategic partnership to provide new infrastructure services in the marine shipping industry that focus on electrically powered vessels. Their newly established company, e5 Lab. Inc. (e5 Lab) will work to develop and promote the greater use of these relatively clean modes of marine transport.
There are a number of challenges facing Japan's shipping industry (see below), which e5 Lab will seek to address by consolidating the technologies, know-how and networks of its four major shareholders. The new company will develop a platform to provide a lineup of services that takes advantage of electrically powered vessels and other cutting-edge technologies. The aim is to leverage this platform to encourage sustainable growth and development within the marine shipping industry.
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A group of Johnston Press newspapers is set to be left without any staff photographers after a review of how photographic content is generated.
All photographers will soon be leaving the company's Midlands publishing unit, most taking an enhanced voluntary redundancy package, with a small number facing compulsory redundancy.
HTFP reported in November that photographers in some areas of the Midlands and Scotland were at risk of compulsory redundancy as a result of the content review.
The company has now confirmed it will have no staff photographers for titles across its Midlands publishing division, which includes newspapers in Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire.
Johnston Press has not confirmed the number of photographers leaving the company but said most had taken an enhanced voluntary redundancy package, which was on offer across most areas of the business in the latter part of 2013.
There are understood to be fewer than ten compulsory redundancies among the photographic staff affected.
A spokeswoman for Johnston Press said: "All photographers will soon be leaving titles within the Midlands region following a review – at local level – of the way photographic content is generated.
A source told HTFP that five staff photographers would be leaving Northamptonshire Newspapers by the end of March, two currently based in Kettering at the Northants Telegraph and three in Northampton, at the Chronicle and Echo.
He said the papers would instead rely on freelance photographers, along with increasing use of submitted pictures from readers and reporters taking photos on their phones.
When the plans were first revealed, the National Union of Journalists claimed that 24 photographers were at risk in Scotland and the Midlands, but JP has not confirmed the exact number affected.
It is understood that some of the photographers whose roles are being axed may be re-employed by the company on a freelance basis.
Sad to see them go.. hopefully those freelancing for Johnston will charge proper commercial rates for the job .Best of luck to them all.
I'm a little confused by JPs actions. If "all photographers will soon be leaving the company's Midlands publishing unit" why were they offered enhanced VR? Harshly, this seems bad management (when the company is drastically cost cutting). They are being made redundant, same as the many that went before them, aren't they? I have every sympathy for those involved all the same, and hope freelance work is forthcoming.
To add to that, in a few weeks the Chron will have only two reporters left, and no newsdesk. JP bosses should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for deliberately destroying these newspapers, which until a few years ago were still selling 20,000 every night. They were guinea pigs in the failed evening-to-weekly experiment and now they're going to be part of the 'no photographers' experiment which will undoubtedly also fail. It's all so very sad.
"reporters taking photos on their phones"… From their desks I assume?
NO staffers across the whole Midlands region?
This so-called "publishing" company is an embarrassing joke.
For JP Midland snappers this is very old news. We've known since last year that our jobs were going. Most were 'encouraged' to apply for voluntary redundancy. Those that stood their ground, were given compulsory.
This UGC Highfield & Co vision will quite possibly spell the end for these two papers. Expecting the readership to submit their own content, then having the gall to sell it back to them, is quite frankly, dumb! Our dwindling readership are not stupid. JP top brass seem to think they are.
Feedback from the readers is of their disbelief and disgust. These once-proud publications that they bought every day are now a weekly shadow of their former selves. Reap what you sow.
I, for one, will be glad to leave the JP ship of fools come March.
It will be interesting to see how a positive spin is put on this.
And the country should prepare itself for more bad news in the coming weeks.
I feel very sorry those stood their ground and where made redundant anyway, but surely they should have seen it coming and just accepted the enhanced offer. I wonder if they will now receive less?
Meanwhile, i've seen elsewhere those who wanted out, turned down, whilst others who wanted to stay forced to go. The enhanced redundancy offer wasn't really open to all-comers it seems.
Finally, JP Cost Cut Victim. Can we please cut the bitterness? If some Photographers are getting their VR payout on enhanced terms well good look to them I say. Why would you even question that. You seem to harbor some kind of perverse loyalty to JP. Time to wean yourself of it's withered teat methinks. It's not healthy.
When your biggest rival is small hyper-local sites that rely on community contribution, mirroring them is the worst thing to do.
There is no now differentiation between what JP offers and what any keen resident or residents' association website puts out.
This is sad, but is just another example of how outmoded this industry is. Quality SHOULD matter when it comes to images, you would think, but all you have to do is look at any big site on the web to know that they are more interested in immediacy than quality. Someone posts a barely watchable video on youtube, it's lifted to another news site, and that's most people satisfied. They move on. There's so much else to do.
By the time a quality photograph, taken by staff, has been used, the story is yesterday's news.
Blame the user as much as JP.
There is now no differentiation between what JP offers and what any keen resident or residents' association website puts out.
Same thing happened in Bristol. Now we are all freelancers. I think staff photographers are an important part of a paper. I think as a staffer your prepared to give a bit more which ultimately benigits the paper. There loss! But ours too.
JP are certainly doing a demolition job on journalism, but I feel some people need to get real over photography.
Gone are the days when the snapper retired into his dark room and produced, by magic, black and white pictures.
Today, the fact is that most of the public can produce usable photographs suitable for newspapers. The camera itself does all the technical lighting etc and things like cropping and background are largely common sense.
Newspaper pictures were never meant to be works of art, and newsy subjects like major fires often look more dramatic if they are grainy or even slightly of focus.
If you look at so many photographs from the "golden age" of the regional press they are mostly boring shots of groups of people at various functions around town. "Unimaginative" is not a strong enough word to describe these offerings.
The worst thing journalists can do is under-estimate the intelligence of their readers.
The Internet has made people far more technically minded than they ever were in the past and there are all sorts of places where you can learn about photography for free.
"a review of how photographic content is generated"? What's to review? It involves a time served professional, a good quality camera and a properly put together newspaper in which to publish. Someone at Johnson has lost sight of these details I fancy.
Not surprising after seeing the design of the papers change a few months back. My favourite title used to have huge photos across the paper with the text fitted inside – it looked great.
Now the templates are so ugly there just isn't the room for them. Most of the pix are so small now that you can't make out who's in them!
With reference to the above comment, several minutes later the offending image on the Leamington Courier website was removed ….. point made!
JP will be giving the same 'enhanced' package to compulsory as those given VR.
Reporters could help photographers (and reducing their own workload and keeping standards high) by refusing to take pictures on their phones or even feigning ignorance to the mechanics of phone photography to avoid being sent on jobs. Thirty years ago there would have been a strike if a reporter even thought about taking pictures!
Me, Myself & I … I'm sorry to see you find me bitter and worse, having some loyalty, albeit perverse, to JP. You are mistaken.
With regard to the specific redundancies we are referring to here, you question whether those who did not volunteer will now receive less redundancy. (What do you think?) But that is my point. ALL the staff are losing their jobs, so where is the 'voluntary' aspect of these redundancies? As I previously said, those involved have my sympathy, not just yours. I merely question the distinction between enhanced VR and compulsory redundancy in this instance. It highlights the quality of management at JP, where they cut costs on one hand yet spend where they needn't on the other.
Having seen at first hand the devastation being wreaked at JP offices, and the subsequent decline in circulation at a number of weekly newspapers, I do despair at the slash-and-burn tactics employed by those at the top of the tree. They, of course, always seem to justify their existence while doing away with the very people who were the heart and soul of local newspapers. How very sad.
So, the policy of self-assisted suicide continues at JP.
Rarely has blind commercial ambition brought such disastrous results for all (beyond the boardroom, that is) concerned.
The UK is now littered with the barely functioning husks of once great titles that thrived for decades until these hapless predators got involved.
People are meant to be at either end of the newspaper cycle and day by day they are less in number at both ends.
Truth will out – "groups of people at various functions" has been the backbone of regional journalism since presses began printing. Unimaginative you may think it, but it is the bread and butter of what papers do (did).
No suprise JP have never rated the photographers value to the newspaper industry.
In Scotland they made 21 snappers redundant just before xmas!
They were told there would be some freelance work with terrible rates…and oh if you want to use our cameras, cars, laptops we will charge you a small fee deducted form your already low rate!
Such action will have major repercussions on the publishing industry as a whole. There will be no paid journalists. Just bots re-summarizing poor quality bad content and bad phoneography. Then the advertisers will walk as the publics interest feigns.
Sad. It seems the Trinity Mirror disease has spread to other organisations.
We did the same thing here a couple of years ago. To be fair, we've made it work. But relying on sent-in images and the goodwill of our one remaining photographer took quite some time to adjust to.
Perhaps JP could one day state what they see as the future of the newspaper industry (if, indeed, it has one at all!).
No photographers, no (dedicated) subs and a skeleton staff of deskbound reporters whose main role is to handle the written tripe supplied by "citizen journalists" is not the recipe for a vibrant Press.
The major casualties in all this are quality and the officialdom-challenging Press that once existed in the country.
I am one of the 10 or so JP photographers who declined VR but was made redundant anyway. After 27 years service it's a sad ending. I agree with nearly all the comments so far but cannot afford to carry bitterness around permanently. My main points are, press photography is a hard won skill, for me quality is all important, snappers are the only real people our readers can thank, moan at and ask favours of, face to face. We are photographers, videographers, news gatherers, reader generated picture repairers and ambassadors and will be hard if not impossible to replace. I will be going freelance (Jake McNulty Photography 07754 148222 advert) and expect that JP will use my skills on that basis. Good luck to all my colleagues!
jack the lad. Another sad story but this is another sign of times. The question is would you advise a daughter or son to join the profession ? Publishers do need to be pofitable but JP have gone over the top .Good luck to the photographers who are going freelance , but I suggest forget local newspapers and take up another profession.
@ Truth will out. I disagree with your analysis. Darkroom 'magic' was only part of the press photographers' art. The larger part was being in the right place, taking the picture at the right time, with good composition and lighting, all skills which are human and cannot be automatically done by a machine.
Wrong. The camera can do automatic exposure, though there are always exceptional situations that fool even the more sophisticated exposure systems. But exposure does not equal lighting; if you were a professional photographer you would know that. It's the photographer that sees the lighting. The camera is blind and just tries to produce an exposure from a certain level of light, whatever the form and quality and style of that lighting.
And while you might think that backgrounds and cropping are common sense, they are a common fault with amateur pictures, particularly backgrounds.
Newspaper pictures generally look better if they are sharp, with a good tonal range rather than murky and not too noisy (the digital equivalent of grain).
"boring shots of groups of people at various functions around town." was what some papers wanted, on the basis that the more faces and names you get into the paper, the more people will buy that copy.
"Unimaginative" was as much due to the wishes of those giving directions as to what pictures were wanted as to those taking them.
"The worst thing journalists can do is under-estimate the intelligence of their readers." A fair proportion of readers want to be pictured in their paper, particularly younger people.
"The Internet has made people far more technically minded than they ever were in the past and there are all sorts of places where you can learn about photography for free." But it's about much more than technical aspects, and there is no substitute for the experience which is being lost by getting rid of so many professional photographers.
And we are not only the eyes of the paper, but usually the representatives/ambassadors too as reporters are usually unable to leave their desks and report from the actual location.
In my 40 years in journalism, I've come across a few excellent press photographers…men and women who put thought, imagination and effort into their work, and produce great results.
Equally, I've come across lazy, shabby, cynical, talentless time-servers who point and click and produce rubbish pictures. The latter group are usually the same people who whine about quality, professionalism and the absolute inability of anyone, other than a press photographer, to take a good picture.
You dug your own graves, guys.
Totally agree with Jake and UnhappySnapper. The photographers have been treated in a similar way to designers. Their skills have not been valued. A camera does not a photographer make!
Similarly, a design suite on your PC doesn't make you a graphic designer. The creativity is in the head, not the hands: imaginative layout, use of colour, appropriate font/typography and headlines/copywriting etc.
Just as we saw (from Blurry Future) how poor JP photos may well be in the near future, today we see poor adverts that are merely fillers. The PC, just like the camera, is the tool. The creativity is in the head. The skill sets of both are no longer appreciated by JP and their products are now the poorer for it.
Just when I thought I had seen it all from JP. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Do they not have ANY long-term vision to actually IMPROVE their products (and revenue) in the longer-term, rather than just save money in the very short-term??
JP cost cut victim probably only became the aforementioned because he was happier facing the abyss. Future proofing this industry sadly lacking in everything he/she propagates.
Bob – You are incorrect.
Yet another job added to the ever-growing JP journalist workload. JP think that the few remaining journalists can write news, produce full length features, take and edit videos, upload stories to the internet, take their own photos, produce content for social media, sub their own work, answer the phones, man the newsdesk, oversee and edit the community submitted work (which is often incomprehensible, badly written and full of legal black holes) as well as being the 'heart of the community'. What a joke. When are the NUJ going to do something? Yes changes needed to happen but this is a step too far. JP should be reviewing the pay packages at the top before they lose the last remaining readers by cutting so hard at the company's 'heart' and it's main selling point (from JP research).
JP cost cut victim says: "The photographers have been treated in a similar way to designers".
But the point is that readers do not buy newspapers to admire a fancy design. A lot of designers can get, well, let's say carried away with their creations.
When newspapers started to lose their core product, ie news and adverts, editors started going in for stylish layouts. But the reader couldn't care less if what he paid for wasn't in the product.
One person's idea of a good design is to somebody else a dog's dinner. It's a matter of personal idiosyncrasy….not something that is going to sell a newspaper.
Yes, I agree with hacker that these were the backbone of papers for many years. Even though they were rather unimaginative, they filled a purpose in the past. But today everybody has a camera. Children of nine and ten are making videos of their school productions. When the local newspaper comes along and takes a class group shot and puts it in next week's issue, the kids couldn't care less about buying the paper to see the photo.
When the recent floods smashed up the sea wall around our way, neighbours went on social media sites within hours to view the damage.
By the time the local weekly was published, everybody had forgotten about it (and there was no smashed up seawall in it anyway).
I don't think group shots can sell newspapers like they did in 1950.
Looks like Lucky Jim and Roy Greenslade could be perfect bed-fellows.
Once again I must defend my comment, this time against SC ( do you realise I am not getting any work done?).
Yes, I have been a professional photographer for newspapers (note the s).
I'm not saying there is no skill in regional press photography (far from it), but it can be overstated.
All the broadcast media, national newspapers, as well as sites on the Internet use amateur photographs every day.
Any reporter who hasn't an eye for a photograph shouldn't be in the profession (yes, I've been a reporter, too).
The technical bit is easy.
It's like printing. What took me a five-year apprenticeship to learn in the 1970s can now be mastered in a matter of weeks by any 16-year-old with computers.
Sad for my pride, maybe, but it's the way of the world.
We must look forward, not backwards. Bite the bullet.
Truth will out … designers are important in retaining the advertisers that are vital to the newspapers and gaining the new. (You rightly say, adverts are a "core" product). I was not referring to editorial design, but graphic design. The product/retail adverts have to stand alone and work for the advertisers, or they will not advertise again. It's not about "fancy" design, it's about good design that works.
Lets face it, Newsquest is next company to give the photographers the chop, one does it and gets away with it,then the others follow,so very sadly, the Newsquest snappers will have to pack their bags very soon because you won't be there in 2015.
Okay, JP cost cut victim. Thanks for the clarification.
My fault for the lack of clarity.


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Play about the effects of dementia coming to Haddenham Library
Neil Shefferd
A theatre show about a mother's battle with dementia is coming to Haddenham Library later this month.
Connie's Colander is embarking on a 36 stop tour around libraries across the country this month which includes a visit to Haddenham on Wednesday May 22, during Dementia Action Week.
Gaye Poole and Amy Enticknap starring in Human Story Theatre's production of Connie's Colander
The show stars writer Gaye Poole who plays the character of Connie and Amy Enticknap, Human Story Theatre producer, who plays the character of Emily.
Amy said: "Connie's Colander is a play exploring the way lives and relationships are affected by dementia and it is being performed at libraries.
"The audience are asked to pay what they can after the show.
"The play tells the story of Connie, a retired domestic science teacher.
"Emily, her daughter, is enjoying hosting her first TV cookery show.
"The play reveals their relationship evolving during Emily's life and the audience can see the impact Connie's Alzheimer's has on them both, and on the TV show.
"The play aims to take a thought-provoking look at dementia and is suitable for general audiences and for those with an interest in the condition – including people whose own lives may be affected by it in some way."
After the play, the actors lead a 20-minute question and answer session with guest specialists, offering information and stories of living with dementia.
Audience members are encouraged to share their own experiences and experts help signpost people to services available in their area.
Amy explained why libraries are the venues for the shows - as opposed to theatres.
She said: "We want to make these shows accessible for everyone and reach people who don't go to the theatre regularly.
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"We want people to watch something comfortable that is on a low-key scale.
"We are very excited about this year's tour - last year was our first national tour with Connie's Colander and it went very well.
"There were 70 different locations that expressed an interest in hosting the play but we decided that would be too much of a jump from last year when we did 17 shows.
"We are very grateful to the Arts Council, the National Health Service and dementia groups who have helped to fund the project.
"It is very exciting to be able to tour a mix of rural locations and bigger towns and cities over the coming months."
Speaking about the show Dr Marion Lynch, dementia expert and deputy medical director for NHS England South said: "Connie gives us permission to laugh and cry about our own situation, the roles lost and responsibilities gained when living with dementia, and notice that we are not alone.
"More of this would lead to a different view on what it is to grow old and care for those who need our help."
Sue Williamson, libraries director at Arts Council England said: "An awful lot of people who are interested or touched by these issues don't feel safe in a theatre, but they do feel comfortable in their local library.''
This year's tour includes double the number of shows compared to 2018, after the company secured funding from the Arts Council.
Entry to the show is through a pay what you can arrangement and the performance starts at 7.30pm and lasts for 50 minutes.
Pre-booking is advised and details of how to book for the Haddenham show are available at https://humanstorytheatre.com
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	@echo '  up		run as service --container-- for current user: $(HOST_USER)(uid=$(HOST_UID))'
	@echo '  down		bring down docker --container-- for current user :$(HOST_USER)(uid=$(HOST_UID))'
	@echo '  login   	run as service and login --container-- for current user: $(HOST_USER)(uid=$(HOST_UID))'
	@echo '  clean    	remove docker --image-- for current user: $(HOST_USER)(uid=$(HOST_UID))'
	@echo '  prune    	shortcut for docker system prune -af. Cleanup inactive containers and cache.'
	@echo '  shell         run docker --container-- for current user: $(HOST_USER)(uid=$(HOST_UID))'
	@echo ''
	@echo 'Extra arguments:'
	@echo 'cmd=:	make cmd="whoami"'
	@echo '# user= and uid= allows to override current user. Might require additional privileges.'
	@echo 'user=:	make shell user=root (no need to set uid=0)'
	@echo 'uid=:	make shell user=dummy uid=4000 (defaults to 0 if user= set)'

rebuild:
	# force a rebuild by passing --no-cache
	docker-compose build --no-cache $(SERVICE_TARGET)

up:
	# bring up the app and the database
	docker-compose -p $(PROJECT_NAME)_$(HOST_UID) up $(SERVICE_TARGET) tsappdb

down:
	docker-compose down

login: up
	# run as a service and attach to it
	docker exec -it $(PROJECT_NAME)_$(HOST_UID) sh

build:
	# only build the container. Note, docker does this also if you apply other targets.
	docker-compose build $(SERVICE_TARGET)

clean:
	# remove created images
	@docker-compose -p $(PROJECT_NAME)_$(HOST_UID) down --remove-orphans --rmi all 2>/dev/null \
	&& echo 'Image(s) for "$(PROJECT_NAME):$(HOST_USER)" removed.' \
	|| echo 'Image(s) for "$(PROJECT_NAME):$(HOST_USER)" already removed.'

prune:
	# clean all that is not actively used
	docker system prune -af

test:
	# here it is useful to add your own customised tests
	docker-compose -p $(PROJECT_NAME)_$(HOST_UID) run --rm $(SERVICE_TARGET) sh -c '\
		echo "I am `whoami`. My uid is `id -u`." && echo "Docker runs!"' \
	&& echo success

image:
	docker build --no-cache --target release -t $(PROJECT_NAME):latest .
	docker tag $(PROJECT_NAME):latest $(PROJECT_NAME):$(GIT_SHA)

clean-image:
	docker rmi $(PROJECT_NAME):latest
	docker rmi $(PROJECT_NAME):$(GIT_SHA)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This is part 2 of enchiladas on dishgracepoint. I recently posted beef enchiladas. They look good, but I think this recipe should save a little more time. It's very similar, but with chicken as the filling.
Labor Intensity: 3-4 extra people should really help.
30 servings, adjust by 1.5x if your group tends to eat multiple servings.
Cut chicken into 1/2 - 1 inch cubes.
Heat some oil in a large skillet.
Add garlic and fry with chicken.
Wrap corn tortillas in a wet paper towel and heat for 30 seconds (this is so the tortilla is soft) in the microwave.
Roll it up, so it looks like a mini burrito.
Place in a baking tray and cover with "enchilada" sauce--I always like to use chile verde, but there are also chili rojo and others.
Bake in oven at 350 for 25-30 minutes and you're done!
Not much else to add here. I think you can use flour tortillas as well, but not sure.
Serving size is 2 tortilla's worth per person. Depending on side dishes and how hungry the audience is, I would adjust the quanitity as needed.
I would even suggest shredding 1 head of lettuce and adding it to the tortilla for texture.
this is one of my favorites!!!!


Buenos deseos a todos! Los miro en el 2015.
***Disclosure-I received sample product to review. Any opinions stated are my own.
· Pour the cocoa ingredients (water through extract) into a medium saucepan.
· Whisk until well combined.
· Heat saucepan from low to medium while whisking to desired temperature.
· Place all whipped cream ingredients (ice through protein powder) into the small base of a Magic Bullet fit with the double blade.
· Blend for 2-3 minutes or until mixture has become thick, fluffy and the consistency of whipped cream.
· Pour the cocoa into two large mugs. Spoon whipped cream over each mug.
Who is excited about Cinderella coming out?
NEW SHORT "FROZEN FEVER" TO OPEN IN THEATERS IN FRONT OF "CINDERELLA" ON MARCH 13, 2015!! WOOHOO!!!
"Frozen" won two Academy Awards® (best animated film and best original song with "Let It Go") and a Golden Globe® (best animated feature film). It is the fifth highest grossing film of all time and the highest grossing animated film earning more than $1.27 billion globally. Released wide domestically on Nov. 27, 2013, "Frozen" posted the No. 1 industry all-time Thanksgiving debut and Walt Disney Animation Studios' biggest opening ever. The film's Feb. 25 digital debut was the biggest digital release (sell-through) ever; it's Blu-ray/DVD release on March 18 was No. 1 on the Nielsen overall disc charts for eight nonconsecutive weeks. The "Frozen" soundtrack is the top-selling album of 2014 to date and spent 33 weeks in the top 5 on the Billboard 200 chart, including 13 weeks at No. 1. It is certified triple Platinum, selling more than 3.6 million units. The "Let It Go" film clip from "Frozen" has been viewed over 370 million times on YouTube. Topping the National Retail Federation's Hot Holiday Toys survey, "Frozen" product popularity continues to soar: more than 3 million role-play dresses have been sold in North America alone, the "Disney Karaoke: Frozen" app reached No.1 on the iPad Entertainment Downloads category in more than 100 countries, and Random House's "Frozen: The Junior Novelization" has been on the New York Times best sellers list for 41 weeks.
***Disclosure-My family was invited to an advanced screening of this movie. All opinions expressed are our own based on our personal experience.
"Into the Woods" is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone), and Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy)—all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife (James Corden & Emily Blunt), their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch (Meryl Streep) who has put a curse on them. Rob Marshall, the talented filmmaker behind the Academy Award®-winning musical "Chicago" and Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," helms the film, which is based on the Tony®-winning original musical by James Lapine, who also penned the screenplay, and legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, who provides the music and lyrics. Produced by Marshall, John DeLuca, "Wicked" producer Marc Platt and Callum McDougall.
So many starring from Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski and Johnny Depp.
So who loves a musical? and fairy tales? First of all I have to say my 3 year old was all into this movie. I loved the music. My husband said he wanted to sing along at one point. Afterwards, we walked out singing to each other, lol. This is a family friendly movie, we took our teen and toddler. We all enjoyed it. The witch was not scary to my daughter. And she was so worried about the giants. My favorite character was the baker's wife. And there were some life lessons thrown in there. I won't ruin the movie for you so no specific details. So if you are looking for something to do with the family, this is it.
The film is rated PG and opens in theaters Thursday, December 25th.
Are you still looking for the perfect gift? Haven't found just exactly what you are looking for? I love to give personal gifts, things that make sense to a person I am gifting. I hate to get unpersonal gifts. Are people paying attention? Well I do.
Do you have any motorcycle lovers, especially Harley Davidson?
Winter is here. Baby is cold outside. Why not give them some items to keep them warm?
Harley Davidson has many men's and women's gloves to chose from, just find the right one.
You don't have to break the bank when buying gifts. There are many things to chose from that are under $50.
You can ship your online orders to your local Harley-Davidson® dealership where you can pick them up—for free.


To establish a taskforce to develop a list of key criteria that can be used to evaluate business incubator effective-ness, with a proposal due at the next meeting of the Summit. Initial members of the taskforce were named and include representatives from NBIA, CBIA, UKBI, AABI, ANPROTEC, EBN and JANBO.
To investigate the value of permitting mid-level managers of the member associations to work for some period of time in other incubator associations.
To hold a second 2004 meeting in New Delhi in conjunction with a conference sponsored by infoDev, an initia-tive of the World bank and to develop a taskforce to devise the agenda of the upcoming New Delhi Summit.


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Devo Diary Chapter 20
Chapter 20: Rollerboy part 6
After my trip to visit my old friends from college, I return to Raser City and a new semester of grad school feeling good. I set up the squirrel shaman statue Borek gave me in a place of honor on a bookshelf in my tiny studio apartment. When Rollerboy comes to visit, he spots it right away.
"Ugh, what the hell is that?"
I explain how my artist friend made it and gave it to me as a gift, but he's unimpressed.
"I feel like it's staring at me," he complains. "It's fucking creepy."
"It's not creepy; it's awesome," I retort, feeling slightly wounded.
"There's something wrong with you," he says, dismissing my artistic taste with a sneer as he turns away and wheels over to the couch. I watch as he lifts one foot then the other onto the carpet, scoots forward to the edge of the seat, then swings his butt onto the couch. I sit down next to him and put my arms around him, trying to ignore what he just said. I missed him while I was away, and it feels so damn good to see him again. Those blue eyes get me every time. I kiss him long and hard.
"Did you miss me?" I ask. He nods, his forehead pressed up against mine.
We don't really talk again for a while. The sex with him is so good, and each time it just keeps getting better. I love the feel of him against me, the combination of his strong arms and weak hands, the unique way he moves his fingers by bending his wrists. I know the location of every scar, like a secret map.
He transfers back to his chair, then to the bed. We both like it a bit rough, pretending to wrestle in the bed, rolling around and around. I still can hardly believe that this guy wants to be with me. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I think of the contrast between his upper body, writhing and gripping me, and his still lower half, and start to let myself go, sinking into my dev fantasy come to life.
Rollerboy breaks our embrace and stares at me. "Knock it off."
"What?" Muzzy with desire, I have no idea what he's talking about.
"Those noises you were making, like 'uhhh, uuuuhhhh,'" he says, imitating my voice in a mocking tone.
"So? I thought guys like it when girls make noise. Isn't porn full of that kind of thing?"
"Yeah, but you're, like, faking it."
"What?! No I'm not!"
"Yeah, you are. No one makes noises like that for real."
I pull back to look him in the eye. "I wasn't faking! Do you really think it's impossible for someone to be that turned on for you?"
He looks away. "That's not it. You just sound totally fake, ok?"
"Whatever." I don't want to fight. We go back to having sex--even toned down, I enjoy it anyway.
I feel like I have gotten the hang of SCI sex. Strangely, the biggest adjustment for me was about his erection. He only gets hard from direct stimulation, physical only, nothing mental, and the minute I stop touching his penis, it gets soft again. I never realized how much meaning I attached to a guy's erection as a sign that he's into me. For a while, I kept catching myself wondering why he wasn't seeming turned on, then reminding myself it doesn't work that way.
Because he has an incomplete injury and has sensation all over his body, he doesn't have the extra-sensitive ears or neck that I heard some SCI guys get. He can still feel his penis, and he wants to come every time we have sex, even though it takes a lot of work to make it happen. I'm happy to oblige.
Even though we have sex a lot, it's mostly oral or mutual masturbation. We don't do penetration very often, because I'm not on birth control, and using a condom makes it difficult to get the intense sensation he needs for a reflex orgasm. But I'm hesitant to do it without the condom because even though most SCI guys have low sperm count, he did get his ex-girlfriend pregnant a few years ago. She had an abortion, but I really don't want to go down that road with him.
So I decide to look into a prescription for birth control pills. I know I'm a bit socially slow, considering that I'm twenty-seven years old and have never been on the pill, but I never had a boyfriend that lasted long enough to consider it. Except K, but we had to use condoms because we were never monogamous. The other reason I have hesitated until now is I get migraine headaches, and I've heard the hormones can mess you up.
I head down to the student health clinic, intending to just talk it over with a doctor and get more information. But it turns out that if you tell a doctor who sees college girls all day that you want birth control, you are not walking out of that office without a prescription. The doctor, a grey-haired no-nonsense Chinese-American lady, waves away my questions and shoves the scrip in my face. I go home with several circular pill packs and start taking it that day.
The next weekend, it's my turn to drive the three hours out to East Bessemer to visit Rollerboy. I've somewhat conquered my fear of driving. At least now I have a system of laying out snacks and CDs on the passenger seat so I can grab them easily and relieve the tedium a little. It's a chilly, gray winter day. I make it through the traffic around the university and merge onto the highway when it starts to rain. I turn on the windshield wipers, but nothing happens.
I start to freak out slightly. I can't pull over, and if I take an exit, I'll get stuck in the same weekend traffic I just crawled through. I drive on, trying to make up my mind what to do. The rain gets harder, but I'm going so fast it just rolls away. It's not so bad, I realize. I can see just fine, and I really don't want to turn around and go home. I've been thinking about Rollerboy all week, looking forward to seeing him. The disappointment would be crushing. In the end, I just make the whole drive out there without wipers.
When I arrive and tell Rollerboy, he seems impressed. I was half expecting him to tell me I'm lame for even worrying about it, but to the contrary, he's touched that I wanted to see him so badly. "That was really brave of you," he says, hugging me. It feels so good.
On Sunday afternoon when it's time for me to leave, he comes out to the parking lot with me to say goodbye.
"I just hope it doesn't start raining again," I say nervously. I've been worrying about this drive home since I arrived.
"Where's the fuse box?" he asks. I have no idea, but we soon locate it under the dash, next to the door. I pop off the cover, revealing two rows of fuses. He's sitting in his chair next to the open door, and I'm in the driver's seat. He leans over and whacks the fuses with the side of a half-open hand, and suddenly the wipers start moving again.
"You fixed it!" I squeal with delight and relief. "I love you!" I fling my arms around his neck and kiss him on the cheek.
"I didn't do anything," he says, laughing a little.
"Yes you did! At least now I know it's the fuse, I can go get it fixed tomorrow."
I feel so giddy with relief I don't even realize until I'm halfway home that I just said "I love you" to Rollerboy for the first time. Shit! The first I love you is supposed to be a big deal, not "thank you for fixing my windshield wipers." Did he even notice? Is it too soon? I decide to play it cool and not mention it again, at least not for a while.
Over a long weekend, Rollerboy and I decide to drive to Arcadia and stay in a fancy resort hotel. I've never been on a romantic getaway before, and now that I'm on birth control like a real grownup lady, I feel very sophisticated. Having to call ahead to book a wheelchair accessible room is like the devilicious cherry on top.
"My boyfriend uses a manual wheelchair. We need to be sure the room has a fully accessible bathroom," I inform the bored-sounding receptionist in my most officious voice.
"Yes, we have you down for one handicap room," she assures me.
Since Arcadia is west of Bessemer, the plan is for me to drive to his apartment and leave my car there, then he drives us over the mountains to the resort. As usual, he's weaving in and out of lanes and tailgating, one quad hand on the wheel, with his seat leaning back like he's in a game of Gran Turismo. I try not to worry about how fast we're going, but as soon as we get up into the switchback roads in the mountains the snow starts coming down hard and the panic sets in.
"Shouldn't we slow down a little?" I mutter as we pass a car embedded in the huge pile of snow on the embankment.
"Pff, it's fine," he snorts. "I don't plan on getting in a wreck today." He says it like it's a conscious decision he makes every morning. Today: live or die? Maybe that is how he thinks of it. It's not a reassuring thought. I grip the handle with white knuckles and scan the road for black ice.
Seeing my discomfort, Rollerboy guns the engine and takes his hand off the wheel for a second, laughing as he sees my panic-stricken face. "Imagine if my hand slipped! I'm a quad--it could happen so easily! Ha!" He waves a limp hand in the air and laughs again. "Relax, it's fine."
He's right, it is fine. We arrive at the hotel without incident. I stagger out of the car with weak knees.
Despite dire warnings I read on the internet about unreliable hotel accessibility, the hotel room is also fine. More than fine, it's gorgeous--a huge, open suite with a plush white carpet, a Jacuzzi and a stunning view of the mountains.
The second evening, we fill up the Jacuzzi and slip in together. It's so big and deep, it's almost like a small swimming pool.
"How is it?" I ask.
"Nice. Weird but kinda nice. I still feel like my butt is trying to flip me over. It's like trying to sit on a beach ball." We float around in the water and embrace, but there's no way to get enough traction to actually have sex.
Once again, the mood is totally broken when we try to get out. He can't get enough leverage to pull his butt back onto the edge of the tub. I try getting out and lifting under his armpits, but I'm not strong enough, and he flops around in the water like a wet noodle. He starts cursing, and I can hear the panicky edge to his voice. I'm cursing myself too. I can't believe I've made the same mistake a second time.
Eventually, we figure out that if I sit in front of him and brace his legs, he can lift himself up and back. Once he's precariously balanced on the edge of the tub, I jump out and help him balance as he transfers to his chair. The white carpet is soaked by the time we're done, but I figure that's the hotel's problem for surrounding a tub with shag carpeting. I'm just relieved to have gotten through another tub incident without having to call for help, which would have been way worse than a wet carpet.
Sex is still our main activity, not just at the hotel, but every weekend. Sex without condoms is easier, but not as easy as I had hoped. It still takes a lot of really hard, fast rubbing to make him come, even with Viagra. Penetration alone just doesn't do it. I've gotten a bit more adept at my bouncing technique, but my legs get tired after a few minutes and it's hard to keep up the pace. We get the idea that maybe a sex swing could help. Rollerboy buys one online, but installing it requires a trip to Home Depot to buy a stud finder and electric drill.
The whole process is occasion for many juvenile jokes (stud finder, haha). Even something as stupid as saying Home "Dehpo" instead of "Deepo" is enough to crack us up for hours. I'm the one who has to drill the hole in the ceiling over the bed, of course, getting drywall and sawdust in my eyes and hair and all over the bed.
As it turns out, the setup is the only fun part. As soon as we get the swing hooked onto the ceiling and installed, it's obvious it will never work. When I get in it, I sway gently six inches above his prone form. We try lowering it, but the straps go slack and don't hold me up enough to make any kind of difference. We consider trying to get him in it, but I'm not strong enough to lift him and without core control, he's just too floppy. It's like trying to get an octopus into a hammock. I take down the swing and ball it up on the bedside table where it collects dust.
I arrive at Rollerboy's apartment Saturday afternoon to find him pushing back and forth in the kitchen, in a state of seething rage.
"That fucking asshole! I'm gonna kill that faggot!"
"What are you talking about?"
"That fucking devotee!"
"Can you please just explain to me what is going on?"
He pushes angrily over to his computer, which is on the dining room table right next to the tiny kitchen area. "Look at this bullshit!" he exclaims, waving a hand at the screen.
I see a Geocities blog with a photo of him and some text underneath against a light blue background.
"Some asshole stole my photo and made up a fucking blog about his life as a quad. It's all about how hard everything is, how much I have to struggle." His voice drips with resentful sarcasm. "Give me a fucking break! I got this quad shit down, motherfucker. It ain't a struggle. Like he even knows what it's like. And the worst part is he made me gay. What the fuck!"
"Do you know who did this? How did he get your photo?"
"Yeah, I know. It was some fucking fag in Utah who pretended to be a devotee chick."
"I thought you decided to stop writing to those devotees online." Instead of answering he just glares at me. I bite back an I told you so and instead say, "You can try writing to Geocities and ask them to take the page down. I'm sure it's a violation of their terms of service."
He starts pacing around in his chair again. "Whatever. Like they fucking care. I can't believe my face is on this bullshit!"
"At least just try writing to them."
"I'm going to drive out to Utah and fucking kill that motherfucker."
"Please, just send an email to Geocities. I can look it up for you."
"I bet I could find his address online. I bet he thinks that because I'm a quad I can't shoot a gun. But I could. I just need a mount on the side of my car. Set it up and just pull the trigger. He thinks I couldn't but I fucking can. I don't need my fingers to blow him away. I can do it with my hand."
The conversation goes in circles like this for a while longer, me trying to come up with a practical solution to get the site taken down, and him fantasizing about shooting the person he thinks is responsible. I understand why he's so angry, even if most likely no one he knows will see the site. It's a violation, a kind of identity theft. It sucks, and I feel angry for him too. But the glee with which he turns to fantasies of violence is also disturbing. On the other hand, he doesn't own a gun, and as far as I know, has never actually used one.
I look up a tech support email for Geocities and give it to him, but I don't know if he ever writes, or even if the site gets taken down. I don't want to get him worked up again by asking about it. He doesn't mention it again.
I wake up one morning with a pounding headache. I've had migraines since I was a kid, but this is nothing like that. This feels like a metal stake being driven right through the center of my brain. It feels like my brain is going to explode. The slightest exertion makes it pound even more, like an aneurysm about to blow. The pain is so intense it causes my eyes to water and my nose to run.
I go to the urgent care in the student health clinic, where a doctor gives me a shot of something that cures it almost instantly. But foolishly I don't get the name of the medication. Two days later, the headache is back. I go to urgent care again, but this time there's a different doctor. I tell her about the magic shot, but she looks at me like I'm hallucinating.
"It sounds like a migraine brought on by birth control pills," she says. "We usually don't recommend hormonal birth control for someone with your history of migraines." I'm seething because this is exactly what I was worried about but the gyno who prescribed them to me gave me the brush-off.
"It doesn't feel like a migraine," I insist. "It feels like a blood vessel about to burst."
"That's not how it works. You typically don't feel anything." That's not very reassuring but ok. "Here, I'm switching you to a progesterone-only birth control. You should feel better soon."
But I don't. The headache continues around the clock with no relief. If I stay very very still, it's only just bearable, but the second my heart rate rises even the tiniest bit, it's excruciating. Even rolling over in bed triggers the pounding, enough to wake me out of the deepest sleep.
For the first time in months, I tell Rollerboy I can't drive up to see him on the weekend. It's all I can do to keep up with my coursework. A week passes in a painful haze, then two. I see multiple doctors who give me an array of garden-variety diagnoses--migraine, cluster headache, tension headache. I have an MRI but nothing unusual shows up. The progesterone-only birth control makes no difference, so I quit it altogether, but still the pounding through the center of my skull continues.
In the third week, Rollerboy drives down to visit me. At first he's kind and solicitous. "What do you wanna do?"
"I don't know, something relaxing that won't get my heart rate up."
"So no sex, huh?"
"I'm afraid not."
I give him an apologetic look, but his face falls. We both suck at hiding how we feel.
Since it's a nice day, we decide to go to a little park near my apartment. It's basically one small city block, a square of green grass ringed by trees. Some kids are playing soccer at one end. We settle down in the shade at the opposite corner. I carefully lie down in the grass and he transfers out of his chair to lie next to me. I spend the next hour trying not to move. If I lie completely still, the pain abates to a bearable level, the squeezing sensation in the center of my skull receding to the edges of my consciousness. But even the tiniest movement, the slightest shifting, and it all comes back, like a pickaxe through my head.
After another hour, Rollerboy starts getting antsy.
"Are you feeling better yet? Are you sure you don't want to go do something else?"
I put on my apologetic face again. "I'm sorry, I really can't."
He starts to make jokes about how "it's all in my head" and drop references to frigid housewives claiming to have "headaches," references as subtle as a stake through the skull.
We go out for a subdued dinner, then he opts to go back home rather than staying over. Normally I would be upset, but under the circumstances, I have to admit it's for the best. I can't face an evening of rebuffing his sexual advances, and even under the best circumstances, it's not that comfortable to sleep next to him in my Ikea double bed. His legs spasm at night while he's sleeping, not a lot, but enough to keep me awake. His foot will start going like a metronome--1, 2, 3, shake. And if I accidentally brush his leg with my foot, the spasms go crazy and wake him up, then we're both awake and cranky. I'm just too wrung out to deal, so we say goodbye after dinner and he drives back to Bessemer.
Through all of this, I'm still attending classes in my graduate program. Over lunch with my classmate Sarah (she of the glorious copper curls and Buffy superfandom), I fill her in on my latest phone conversation with Rollerboy.
"And then he said I need to just get over it! Like I'm faking or something." I poke at my pasta salad angrily.
"You'd think that having a disability himself, he'd be more sympathetic to your problem," she replies tartly.
I glance up at her uneasily. "It's not really the same, you know." I know where this is going.
"He isn't the only disabled guy out there," she ventures hesitantly. Sarah's been not so subtly nudging me to dump Rollerboy since she first met him a few months ago. I told her all about me being a devotee and she's cool with it, but she keeps pressuring me to find someone else. "He just seems like an unhappy person..." She trails off.
We've had this conversation so many times we don't even need to say all the lines. I kind of know she's right. But I love him, dammit. I just have to let things play out, see where it goes. Just like with K, I always hang on to the bitter end.
Rather than continue this futile line of discussion, I change the topic back to my headache. "It's so infuriating. There's literally nothing to see, so it's like there's no proof there's anything wrong. I feel like everyone thinks I'm making it all up. Even the doctors."
Sarah nods. "I feel the same way." She has thyroid disease, and often feels like crap for no outwardly visible reason.
"At least you have a diagnosis. All I get are shrugs. How long is this going to go on for? Months? Years? The rest of my life? Seriously, the pain makes me want to fucking kill myself." I'm sort of kidding, but my eyes fill up with tears.
"Go back to that one doctor and ask her to give you the shot again," Sarah suggests.
At the end of the fourth week, I finally follow her advice.
When I go back to urgent care, the doctor from the first time is there again. She gives me the shot, and within an hour, the headache is gone. I feel like I won the freaking lottery. I ask her what's in it (morphine? ecstasy?). She says it's a form of injectable acetaminophen. Seriously? I could have taken Tylenol all this time? But whatever, I'm so relieved I don't question it.
Posted by Devo Girl at 6:25 AM
Labels: Devo Diary
Emma August 26, 2016 at 9:38 PM
I'm so happy this story is back <3 ! Thanks for continuing to work on it. Man that headache sounds unbearable. Looking forward to the next chapter.
lynn c August 27, 2016 at 4:20 PM
Miss this story welcome back! Thanks for another great chatter!
Pepper August 27, 2016 at 10:12 PM
Glad you have joined us again to share a great chapter!
Lovis Johnson September 1, 2016 at 7:51 AM
I so enjoy reading this story! Thanks for writing.


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Zlata Ognevich Bares All at Eurovision in Concert
Posted on April 17, 2013 June 12, 2016
Well, maybe that's a stretch. But Zlata did discuss her plans for staging "Gravity" at Eurovision and raved about her back-up singers. She's stunning, friendly, talented and we're pretty much in love with her. You can hear our interview with Miss Ognevich below. Then you can read the press release her team sent to various media following the Eurovision in Concert event. We're getting all Huffington Post on you and re-printing the press release in its entirety. Enjoy!
From Zlata's team:
Yesterday Zlata Ognevich, Ukrainian entry at Eurovision 2013, gave her first live performance to the Eurovision fans in Europe. It was her first visit to Holland as well. In Amsterdam the Ukrainian butterfly made friends with other Eurovision entries, gave over 20 interviews in one day and shared details of her staging.
Zlata and Russia's Dina Garipova backstage at Eurovision in Concert
Zlata Ognevich said she would bring four backing vocals to the stage to sing along with her, the sixth character of the performance is yet being unrevealed. One of the backing vocals is Cleveland Watkiss, described as a Jazz legend by Telegraph, was the winner of the London Jazz Awards for Best Vocalist in 2010 and was voted Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards best vocalist for three consecutive years.
The show is directed by Maxim Litvinov, Ukrainian top class director, who designs shows for the Ukrainian analogues of The X-Factor and Ukraine's Got Talent. "Ukraine has always tried to surprise the European viewers, and this time we are doing the kind of show which Europe has never seen at the Eurovision stage before," says Maxim.
Zlata Ognevich will perform Gravity in the First Semi Final on 14 May 2013. Gravity was written by Mikhail Nekrasov, who was responsible for arranging Ruslana's winning entry in 2004. Lyrics to Gravity were written by Karen Kavaleryan, author of Ani Lorak's Shady Lady and Dima Bilan's Never Let You Go. Gravity is a song which one can find to be at the intersection of various cultures. Zlata says it very much coincides with the theme art of this year's Eurovision. The intercultural sound of music in Gravity reflects the big idea of cultural diversity behind Eurovision.
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Zlata: I love you. I think you are the most beautiful woman at Eurovision 2013. I can tell from the interview that your soul is as beautiful as your face. I love that you love unicorns. I love that you love Disney. I wish you the very best in Malmo and hope you will win! Kyiv 2014!!
Is she always that happy?? Good for her. It's a good song. A bit Lion King, a bit Broadway, but very good nonetheless
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Nice woman! Good luck to Zlata from Azerbaijan, the Land of Fire!


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Q: The same classes in gen and src folders I have an android project written in Scala and Java. It contains the multiple projects. One of the projects is a library published locally. However, when I compile all the projects, Android Studio always generates 2 folders for that project published locally: gen and src with the same classes so that I get an error:
Error:(4, 14) java: /Users/alex/Library/Caches/AndroidStudio/compile-server/my_app123_746df227/targets/java-production/google-play-services/android/generated_sources/build_config/com/google/android/gms/BuildConfig.java:4: duplicate class: com.google.android.gms.BuildConfig

Again, the same classes exist in gen and src folders in that project. I tried different ways to solve that but it didn't pan out.

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Lack of role models discourages and limits the entrance of female professionals into critical fields such as IT, law or engineering. This prevents many women from reaching their full potential in their preferred career paths, but the repercussions go much further. Companies miss out on valuable talent, families see reduced incomes, and society sees how women's valuable contributions are limited at a time in which ageing populations require that every member performs at their best.
We can't single-handedly solve this. But we can help by giving exposure to female role models that helped inspire us and acted as examples of outstanding human talent, glowing examples of women's ability to contribute to society and achieve great things. Due to this, we have launched the #SheShowsTheWay campaign.
Temi Sam-Adenekan, DevOps Engineer
Who are your role models and what did you learn from them?
Ursula Burns, the former Xerox CEO has inspired me in several ways as a female American business executive and the first African American woman to serve as CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Her leadership style and virtues give every aspiring woman some sense of a bright future.
Chinwe Bode-Akinwande (CBA) is a Harvard-trained consultant and is multi-skilled, with experience in Strategy, Digital Marketing, Sales, Brand Management and Business Development. She has dedicated her career to supporting underprivileged widows and children, creating the Chinwe Bode-Akinwande (CBA) foundation. The foundation ensures support for disadvantaged women who have expressed the willingness, passion and desire for support.
These two women, among many others, have inspired me to positively impact the lives of those in need. They have encouraged me to build my self-confidence, strength and doggedness when I examine their journey as leading women in their fields.
Do you think the environment in your area of work is welcoming to new women professionals?
My area of work is very welcoming to new women professionals but the demands of my field are significant and can be discouraging to anyone seeking a position in it.
What do you think could be done to encourage more women professionals to join your area of work?
I believe this starts with women personally determining to be in engineering.
Then, the engineering field as a whole should simplify job descriptions and should use gender-neutral language in job descriptions. The engineering field should prioritize and promote benefits that appeal to women.
Furthermore, the industry should encourage gender diversity, listen more to, engage with, and encourage women as much as possible.
Oliver Chu, Sr. Director, Global Legal
Who are your professional role models?
I can't point at a specific person. I respect the dynamics and organization of legal systems as a whole. Hong Kong, where I grew up, has a sophisticated and comprehensive legal system, and society respects and sees lawyers as the representatives of justice. My father strongly encouraged me to become a liberal professional.
Corporate law in the IT industry has changed over the years. The focus used to be on intellectual property protection, which required an engineering background. The situation has changed, and solving complex problems in cross-functional and multi-cultural departments is nowadays the core competence a corporate lawyer needs. Apart from thinking outside the box, it is essential to develop business management skills. These needs give a competitive edge to many women professionals, who bring with them assets such as attention to detail, patience and communication skills.
Companies must put a stronger emphasis on how corporate law's broader experiences enrich one's career portfolio in the way to becoming a senior manager. While law firm lawyers tend to specialize and have a narrow focus, corporate lawyers get the chance to learn about and explore a much broader range of areas. Corporate law is an exciting career without a single dull moment. Companies are not only looking for profit maximization, but also risk management. working in this area allows one to interact with peers from diverse cultures and professions and develop a holistic view of businesses.
Cheryl Wynkoop, Sr. Manager, Order Operations
There are three women during different stages of my life/career that each taught me something I still carry with me today. These are women who really influenced me and, while not what most would consider "high profile" professionals, were fantastic role models.
Karen, my manager early on in my high school job at Taco Bell (which turned into an early career), taught me that hard work required an equal amount of fun and reward. When I think back on jobs I've had, it was the early days there that really showed me what a team could accomplish and what it meant to be able to work hard, have fun doing it and that rewards didn't have to be extravagant to be effective.
Marti was my first manager once I joined the corporate world. She taught me how to multi-task effectively and focus on the "how it works" processes to see where it can be improved. I learned how to get to the core of an issue and work with others to improve it.
Finally, Corinne really influenced how I looked at hiring…while the skill was important; the personality and "fit" was even more so. Skills can be taught, but attitude and willingness to learn aren't as easy to teach. She also encouraged me to learn more of the financial processes and reconciliations so I could apply that to a more well-rounded understanding of the "after the sales order" process. All of these things they taught me to put me on the path to working in the operations side of each company I've been in since entering the corporate world. And, finally, they all taught me that it wasn't gender, title, role or responsibility that built a team, it was the respect for the persons and their contributions that made it all worthwhile.
Surprisingly, Operations seems to do very well in attracting and keeping women professionals; it seems to be a natural fit for the women I interact with across the industry. Even better would be to see is more of those women in senior roles and executive management.
Professional growth and career paths focusing on advancing women to senior/executive management roles. It's discouraging to see so few women at that level, and it drives women to seek other areas with faster/better career paths.
Rowina Lee, Vice president of Global Sales & Business Development Center
I like to think that I am a pretty good judge of character. I find strength and great things to learn from many people that I meet. It can be one's leadership capability, personal style, communication skills, or sometimes just the way people handle their daily responsibilities. People whom I have learned a great deal from are not only public figures.
The IT industry in Taiwan is the trend leader, not just because of the technology itself, but also because of the kind of people that are building the industry. We adopt and learn from the advantages of both business and people management from western corporations and exceed in promoting women. Compared to other business sectors, women who are self-driven and motivated are often encouraged to take on a leadership role. Management here at Getac is open to all professionals who show their passion and willingness to drive results.
What do you think can be done to encourage more women professionals to join your area of work?
Recognize and utilize strengths in soft skills. In addition to self-driven motivation, management roles require social skills and the ability to communicate and build relationships with others. Women are excellent listeners who can accommodate different opinions. Successful managers many times lead teams with different skill sets and from different backgrounds. Being able to find the right people, communicate with them, and help them to understand expectations while building trust is essential in management.
Amanda Ward, Director, EMEA Product and Solutions at Getac
There are a few individuals that have taught me great things. If I had to choose a female in business that I aspire to be, it would be Safra Catz; she is a confident, strong female in business with complete depth of knowledge.
I think the technology sector is typically a key choice for males, particularly when considering new technology or engineering-based roles. When engaging with customers, it is very common to see women in Project Management or Operational roles, later transitioning to more leadership-focused roles. When considering more creative roles (such as marketing), these tend to be more female-dominated.
We should educate the younger generations of women about career options and paths available within the tech sector. I think the current generation is much more exposed to technology these days. However, more communication is needed to market the true benefits and rewards that can be reaped from a career in the tech sector for young females just starting their careers.
Starting on March 8th 2020, the #SheShowsTheWay campaign will continue as a platform for everybody to share their female role models. To participate, send an email to [email protected] or post on social media with the hashtag #SheShowsTheWay and share your story!
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TORONTO [PeterPaul.ca] — Prince Charles ventured through manure-infested mulch to greet unsuspecting fair-goers in his most intimate moments yet since arriving in Toronto for a three-day visit to Ontario. As accredited media, we followed the Royals all day.
The Royal couple, on their first visit as a married couple to Canada, officially opened the 2009 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair on Friday. Billed as the largest agricultural show in Canada, the fair features over one million square feet of space with eateries, animals, and educational areas for children.
The fair offered free admission up to 9:30 a.m. on Friday. Those who made it were treated to performances by The Canadian Cowgirls Precision Riding Team and Pony Club members prior to the entrance by Their Royal Highnesses.
Accompanied by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the Royal couple entered Ricoh Coliseum in a landau, a horse-drawn carriage. They circled twice to greet the thousands in attendance. Following opening remarks by the fair's president, Gayle McPherson, Prince Charles opened the 2009 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. "Nothing could give me more pleasure than to declare the 87th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair officially open," he said.
As with other visits during their tour, there were gifts.
McPherson's grandson presented His Royal Highness with a basket of Canadian maple syrup and honey. Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, received a western saddle from McPherson's granddaughter.
Following the opening ceremony, the royal couple separated to explore the fair and interact with royal watchers and camera-toting guests. "I had no idea he was coming, I am just here with my kids," Christine Higgins said as Prince Charles entered the east concourse to meet with ordinary Canadians.
His Royal Highness made small talk and shook hands with ordinary fair-goers as RCMP and Royal Protection Officers nervously watched on. As he made his way throughout the fair, people with flowers and bags tried to offer them as gifts to His Royal Highness — gifts one RCMP officer said were not being accepted today.
Aside from some minor pushing a few feet from the prince, Prince Charles worked the crowd as only a down-to-earth royal could. Their Royal Highnesses then rendezvoused at the Ring of Excellence to present the championship ribbon to the supreme champion steer of the Queen's 2008 Guinea's beef cattle competition.
After signing an official guestbook, His Royal Highness made his way outside, shook a few hands and, for a brief moment, stood by the door of his Lincoln Town Car, as if to say he was sorry for leaving so soon. During that seldom-seen moment, Prince Charles seemed gratified.
As quickly as it came, the royal motorcade departed.
After a brief visit to the Evergreen Brickworks Facility, the royal motorcade arrived at Toronto's Pearson Airport shortly after The Duchess of Cornwall.
Shortly before 2 p.m., Lt.-Gov. David Onley and other royal delegates escorted Their Royal Highnesses to their Canadian Forces Airbus plane. With a final wave, the royal visit to Ontario was over. As the aircraft pushed off from the tarmac, the Royal Standard and Canadian flag drifted through the brisk air.
On Thursday, the royal couple visited Varsity Stadium and presented new Colours to the Royal Regiment of Canada and the Toronto Scottish Regiment. A less than capacity crowd watched on as the ceremony took place.
Prince Charles serves as Colonel-in-Chief to both regiments.
"As you watch on with your new colours, please be aware of your Colonel-in-Chief's undying interest and concern in all you do, but above all, the pride I feel being associated with two such special regiments," the prince said.
"God bless and preserve you all," he added.
Their Royal Highnesses' continue their 11-day visit to Canada on Saturday in Victoria, B.C., they are set to depart for London on November 12.


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Tax perks weather storm into 2018
Squirrel it away: this promises to be a good year for pension savers Credit: Getty
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20 December 2017 • 10:30am
Expect a welcome period of stability in 2018 following the Chancellor's decision to not cut pension allowances
Sam Brodbeck is senior personal finance reporter at The Telegraph
In a rare boon for pension savers – which, thanks to compulsory workplace schemes, is nearly everyone – next year seems likely to be one of welcome stability in retirement savings.
How can we be so confident? For one thing, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, resisted the temptation to cut pension allowances in 2017. The resurgence of Labour, particularly among young voters, led to predictions of a "Budget for the young" paid for by a raid on pension tax breaks. Mr Hammond resisted this step, although it could have saved the Treasury billions of pounds a year.
3% of salary is new minimum staff contribution to auto-enrolment pension scheme, from April
That means most people can still put £40,000 a year into a pension. There was even better news for the "lifetime allowance", which has been gradually cut since 2010-11, when it stood at £1.8m, to a low of £1m in April this year. For the next tax year, which begins on 6 April 2018, it will rise by £30,000, the first rise in seven years, because of a new link to inflation.
There are more encouraging signs that the Government has abandoned the pension raids favoured by George Osborne, the former chancellor. There is plenty of government appetite to encourage investing in fledgling companies with tax breaks, particularly since the Brexit vote. Until now this type of incentive has been reserved for alternatives to pensions such as venture capital trusts, but there are signs such perks could be extended to conventional pensions.
A government-commissioned review into long-term "patient" capital investing has recommended pension savers be given additional allowances in return for investing in British start-ups.
Even with a fair wind, the implementation of such changes is a few years away. Other significant developments are closer. As a result of near-compulsory membership of company pension schemes under the "automatic enrolment" scheme, almost all employed people have, or will soon have, employer-based pensions. Staff who earn £10,000 a year or more pay a minimum of 1pc on a given band of their earnings into a pension, while employers add another 1pc. Staff can opt out of the scheme.
From April 2018 the legal minimum rate of contributions will more than double. Staff will have to save 3pc of their salary, while employers' share will rise to 2pc. The increase was due to take place last month but Mr Osborne changed the timetable, ostensibly to help business, although the Treasury also saved nearly £1bn because of the reduction in tax relief.
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A review of the auto-enrolment programme is expected to recommend raising minimum contributions even further to try to bridge the savings gap. Whether ministers turn such a recommendation into law will hinge on workers' reaction to April's rise.
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A lot happened in 2017 – but what lessons can we take from it into 2018?
The Telegraph and Invesco have teamed up to share predictions for the New Year, written by our respected journalists and expert commentators.
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Dover Downs Hotel & Casino Places Twitter Billboard on Route 50 in DC
Delaware Casino Uses Traditional Advertising to Attract Twitter Followers
July 17, 2009: summarized from PRWEB -- Last week Dover Downs Hotel & Casino posted a billboard along Route 50 near Washington, D.C. instructing passers-by to "follow" the company on the social networking site Twitter.
While the company's other billboards feature more traditional contact info, such as a phone number or Web address, this billboard targets users of one specific Web site exclusively.
Anyone over 21 who subscribes to the company's updates on Twitter receives instructions on how to obtain free slot play credits at the casino.
Gloria Hammelef, Senior Director of Marketing at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino, was prompted by recent media coverage to begin exploring the different ways Twitter can be used to connect with new and current customers.
"Twitter has become, for us at least, a great way to interact with a vocal and vibrant segment of our customer base," says Hammelef. "We've been able to reach out to people via Twitter who might have been unaware of us otherwise."
Dover Downs Hotel & Casino began using Twitter in the beginning of June and as of this writing the company has over 370 followers and has "tweeted" (updated their profile) over 800 times.
To further connect with Twitter community, Dover Downs Hotel & Casino will host the September edition of the Delaware Tweetup at a restaurant in the hotel. The Delaware Tweetup is a gathering of Twitter users from Delaware for networking and charity fundraising.
Follow Dover Downs Hotel & Casino on Twitter by visiting the casino section of their Web site and following the link to their Twitter page.
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