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Q: Run multiple classes with netbeans maven project I have one Maven project in Netbeans, which has several classes, which contain a main method.
Is there a way to run different classes with a shortcut? I mean something like the different run configurations in Eclipse, which offers me a dropdown.
I found out that I can specify different main classes, if I add several configurations in NetBeans. But for me it is not very convenient if I have to set the configuration to A and press run, set the configuration to B and press run and so on.

A: Well this doesn't actually answers the question in the manner you want but this could be one of the workaround solution.

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*Create a separate class having a main method.

*It has a main method that calls main function of each of the classes (you want to run) using Switch-Case.

*Put this switch case in a loop with an exit switch.

link to achieve step 3. Using switch statements inside a for loop
Note: Visibility of classes can be an issue.


The challenges that retailers have faced in the past few years have been nearly biblical in size and scope.
• The unstoppable rise of ecommerce, driven by voracious competitor Amazon, has siphoned revenue growth from competitors great and small, and forced every retailer to reassess their vulnerabilities and contingency plans.
• Shifts in consumer tastes have left retailers struggling to reposition store footprints that are increasingly at odds with where and how their customers prefer to shop.
• Business model innovations, particularly among apparel retailers have forced legacy retailers to rethink historic approaches to sourcing that maximized volume procurement over speed and flexibility.
• And for private equity backed retailers, debt burdened capital structures have increasingly come to seem less like savvy aspects of financial engineering than millstones around the necks of companies robbed of the ability to pivot.
Perhaps most challenging: during this industry's (most recent) hundred-year flood, the ominous specter of an emerging consensus has hung like a pall over executives, investors, vendors, and advisors: bankruptcy had become a death sentence for retail, a roach motel with straightforward entrance but no viable way out (at least as a going concern).
Recently, the clouds have lifted somewhat. Retailers Toys "R" Us, Payless, and Gymboree are each on a path to successfully emerge from a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing with a substantial percentage of their pre-bankruptcy store count intact.
Enlightened self-interest has driven retail stakeholders to reassess their approaches to the challenges inherent in supporting a distressed retailer and better align their tactics with the twin goals of minimizing losses and repositioning struggling retailers for long-term success. As a result, following years of disappointing retail restructurings, stakeholders are more actively supporting a purposeful restructuring process as the best option for a distressed retailer, holding the prospect of considerably higher recoveries than a fire-sale liquidation.
The structural challenges facing retail are likely to persist, but with renewed signs of aligned interests among stakeholders, it now appears likely that struggling retailers can navigate a restructuring without the process devolving into a value-destroying liquidation.
David Johnson, founder and managing partner of Abraxas Group, has a 20-year track record of driving organizational change. David has served as interim executive or financial advisor to dozens of middle market companies in turnaround and restructuring situations.


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Thomas Losse-Müller (geb. Müller, * 3. April 1973 in Schwerte) ist ein deutscher Volkswirt und Politiker (SPD, bis Herbst 2020 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). Von 2012 bis 2017 war er Staatssekretär in Schleswig-Holstein, bis 2014 im Finanzministerium und anschließend als Chef der Staatskanzlei von Ministerpräsident Torsten Albig. Bei der Landtagswahl in Schleswig-Holstein 2022 war er Spitzenkandidat der SPD. Seit Mai 2022 ist er Fraktionsvorsitzender der SPD und Oppositionsführer im Kieler Landtag.

Leben und Beruf
Losse-Müller wuchs in Rheinen auf und legte sein Abitur am Märkischen Gymnasium Iserlohn ab. Er studierte Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität zu Köln und der School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. Von 2000 bis 2004 arbeitete er im Risikomanagement der Deutschen Bank in London, anschließend zunächst bis 2008 und dann erneut von 2010 bis 2012 bei der Weltbank in Washington im Bereich Finanz- und Privatsektorentwicklung; zwischenzeitlich war er von 2008 bis 2010 für die Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit als Leiter des Programms Making Finance Work for Africa tätig.

In seiner Zeit in Washington gründete er 2007 einen Ortsverband von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen; von 2009 bis 2012 war Losse-Müller Beisitzer im Landesvorstand der Grünen in Hessen.

2012 holte ihn Monika Heinold nach Schleswig-Holstein, ab dem 12. Juni 2012 war er Staatssekretär im Schleswig-Holsteinischen Finanzministerium. Als Nachfolger von Stefan Studt (SPD) übernahm er  am 26. September 2014 die Leitung der Staatskanzlei unter dem sozialdemokratischen Ministerpräsidenten Torsten Albig, die er bis zum 28. Juni 2017 innehatte. In dieser Zeit war er unter anderem Vorsitzender des Verwaltungsrats der Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein, Mitglied des Aufsichtsrats der HSH Nordbank, Mitglied des deutschen IT-Planungsrats, des Verwaltungsrats von Dataport und der Rundfunkkommission der Länder. Aus der Landespolitik schied er nach der Landtagswahl 2017 aus und arbeitete unter anderem in einer Unternehmensberatung.

Im Oktober 2020 trat er bei den Grünen aus und wechselte zur SPD. Dort arbeitet er in der Denkfabrik der Partei in Schleswig-Holstein mit, in die ihn die Landesparteivorsitzende Serpil Midyatli holte. Im April 2021 erklärte Losse-Müller, im Landtagswahlkreis Eckernförde für die SPD bei der Landtagswahl 2022 kandidieren zu wollen, in dem er gegen den Ministerpräsidenten Daniel Günther (CDU) antreten würde. Der Vorstand der SPD Schleswig-Holstein beschloss am 15. August 2021 einstimmig, dass Losse-Müller Spitzenkandidat der Partei bei der Landtagswahl am 8. Mai 2022 werden soll. Die Personalentscheidung musste noch von den Delegierten des Parteitags bestätigt werden. Auf dem Parteitag am 5. Februar 2022 in Neumünster wurde er mit 94 Prozent der Delegiertenstimmen (188 Ja, 8 Nein) ohne Gegenkandidaten zum SPD-Spitzenkandidaten bei der kommenden Landtagswahl gewählt.

Auf Vorschlag der SPD-Fraktion im Kieler Landtag nahm Losse-Müller als Delegierter bei der 17. Bundesversammlung zur Wahl des Bundespräsidenten teil.

Losse-Müller kündigte im Juni 2021 seine Anstellung bei der Unternehmensberatung EY, um sich um seine Spitzenkandidatur für die SPD Schleswig-Holstein zu kümmern. Bei der Landtagswahl unterlag er im Wahlkreis Eckernförde mit 16,1 % deutlich dem CDU-Spitzenkandidaten Daniel Günther mit 58,4 %.  Er zog jedoch über die SPD-Liste in den Landtag ein. Im Anschluss an die Landtagswahl wurde er im Mai 2022 als Nachfolger von Serpil Midyatli zum Vorsitzenden der SPD-Fraktion gewählt.

Losse-Müller ist im Beirat des Finanzwissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitut der Universität zu Köln und Mitglied im Beirat Innovative Verwaltungsentwicklung der Freien Hansestadt Bremen. Er ist verheiratet, hat zwei Töchter und lebt in Bistensee.

Positionen
Losse-Müller, der als Experte für Digitalisierung und Reform der öffentlichen Verwaltung gilt, steht für einen starken Staat, der die großen Zukunftstrends wie Digitalisierung, Klimawandel und Globalisierung aktiv gestaltet. Zu den Grundsatzfragen politischer Gestaltung im 21. Jahrhundert produziert er in Kooperation mit dem Behörden Spiegel und der Hertie-School einen Podcast.

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Staatssekretär (Schleswig-Holstein)
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
SPD-Mitglied
Bündnis-90/Die-Grünen-Mitglied
Fraktionsvorsitzender (SPD Schleswig-Holstein)
Deutscher
Geboren 1973
Mann
Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
Person (Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde)

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Having a team member apparently content to retire on the job is not an uncommon situation for many managers. The employee may simply not be aware that moss is growing on their back or a country named Greece has fallen on bad times. Their mental maps may need upgrading by management who knows how to motivate.
Drifting into comfortable patterns of behavior is natural for individuals, teams, and organizations; however, competitive innovation and complacency cannot co-exist. Innovation requires creative tension and conflict. Complacency, by nature, develops immunity to outside tensions.
Managers who successfully create purposeful urgency have an acute understanding of basic physics.
Newton's first law of motion basically states that there's a natural tendency of objects (your people) to just keep on doing what they've been doing, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. YOU, the manager, are the unbalancing force!
Effective managers, of course, never use force or coercion to persuade others; they leverage their hard-earned trusting relationships to influencing others into new ways of operating.
Still, it's very common for a manager to inherit a low-performing team where there's not time to build trust, prior to setting necessary new, bold directions. My experience is that engaging new team members in candid, transparent, and respectful dialogue actually builds trust fastest. Why?
Most under-performing teams didn't arrive in this handicapped state by market forces. Their performance crept downward, led by unfit management. Teams crave clear and courageous leadership. Your ability to create purposeful urgency and clear direction offers hope. Trust always follows on the heels of leader credibility.
1. Agitate, Don't Stir. Agitating your people is intentionally disrupting their current view of reality. In the best sense, agitating your people is engaging them in honest dialogue about the business consequences of not changing. Agitation is not causing careless duress by contriving burning platforms for change. Agitation is declaring a future that doesn't currently exist; it's the vision thing. You are the irritation that initiates the pearl-forming process.
There's a time to ask and there's a time to tell. This practice leverages the latter skill. Vision requires leadership clarity. Ideally, the vision setting process has been highly collaborative, involving front-line staff. But at the end of the day a decision made is a course set.
Awareness is an antecedent of change. The effective manager makes a compelling business case for why embracing the status quo is dangerous. She creates cognitive dissonance; appreciating that discomfort is the solution, not the problem. Actively playing the role of a grain of sand which forms the pearl requires management resiliency and courage.
2. Embed Emotions and Engage. People learn best with stories and visuals. Data rarely changes behaviors. If "wearing hard hats" is the new mandatory future, then show your people a video of like workers wearing hard hats at a respected industry leader known for their safety records and high employee morale.
Have your people listen to the stories of employees who journeyed the change path successfully. Engage your people in a rigorous dialogue about the implications. Be transparent. Respond authentically to their concerns.
Most (sane) people do not expect their opinion to carry the day, however, people do expect to be heard openly and with empathy. That is, if you want their buy-in. Leaders know there is tectonic difference between compliance and commitment.
3. Apply Constant, Gentle, Pressure. This is the leadership and management philosophy of famed restaurateur Danny Meyer (Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business).
Effective managers and leaders apply steady pressure on the standards-of-excellence gas pedal, not on people's necks. Meyer equates these three leadership dimensions to the legs of a stool – an absence or weakness in any one guarantees operational mediocrity.
Remember, people do not fear change. They fear change that is too big and too fast. Applying these practices, thoughtfully, ensures that your people do not rest on their laurels. After all, the customer doesn't care how good you were yesterday.
Do you wonder why a few of your handpicked team members can't seem to escape the gravitational pull of sub-par performance? Do you unconsciously use human attribution theory to explain and judge your people's lackluster performance or failings?
Perhaps the problem is not with your people but with your own belief systems, and possibly, your training and coaching skills. Your skill sets regarding human potential and motivation may need an upgrade.
High performing manager-coaches are keenly aware that their expectations of their people often become self-fulfilling. When others fall short of achievable performance results the emotionally intelligent manager first looks in the mirror to reflect on potential flaws in their thinking and competencies.
These Rats Are Really Smart!
A lab experiment was conducted to measure experimenter expectancy on rats' maze running abilities. Two groups of unsuspecting students (the rat handlers) were informed that one group of rats were bred to be "maze bright" and the other group "maze dull," when in fact the entire group were standard lab rats divided randomly.
Effective manager-coaches embrace the Pygmalion Effect (HBR article) – believing that most employees' performance will rise or fall to their leader's level of expectations. Believe it. In medicine, this phenomenon of human expectancy and results is accepted as the placebo effect.
However, do not confuse genuine belief in people's innate abilities with Pollyanna thinking. The effective manager deals in reality on the ground, not naivety, or unfiltered positive bias.
Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent. Effective manager-coaches do stay up at night appropriately worrying that they have the right team on the bus, knowing that their organizations are only as strong as their weakest employee. As undeniably brilliant as Steve Jobs was, his real mastery was in selecting really smart and capable people (it's reported that Steve personally conducted over 5,000 interviews). Impetuous in his early years, Steve evolved into a great manager.
Embodying High Performance Expectations for Producing Excellent Products and Services. Great managers are tough on principles and standards but gentle on their people. People have an innate desire to be successful, however, many have never been called upon to be great. Wholeheartedly believing in the potential of others is the greatest service a manager can perform.
Becoming a Master Teacher and Coach. The loss of an individual's hidden talent was named the 8th Deadly Waste in Toyota's Lean Manufacturing system. Being skilled at selecting top talent only brings the manager and his or her team part way up the performance mountain. "Sweeney's Miracle," drives home the mandatory requirement that managers believe in the ability to train and motivate others to high achievement. Simple belief in people's potential, minus capable training and teaching, falls into the categories of hopes and dreams.
Davie was a rising star in my restaurant. He possessed natural talent, had a positive attitude, and was a rare 15-year-old workhorse. He was rapidly promoted; along with commensurate pay increases to the very demanding sauté cook position by the time he was 17 years old.
Unfortunately, Davie's maturity didn't keep pace with his talent. He became cocky, undisciplined in following strict menu standards, and less open to feedback. Under my radar, he quietly built a power base with the younger kitchen crew who, not surprisingly, adapted his cavalier attitude.
After giving Davie several sincere course-correcting opportunities he chose the lone ranger path – not an option in our team-oriented kitchen culture. A Top Gun will always test your principles, values, and management fortitude. Davie was an exceptional kid and, like most of us, was full of insecurities. My unshakable belief in his abilities to take on more responsibilities never wavered, even when he made mistakes, and he made plenty. His achievements might not have fully manifested had I simply expected greatness out of him. However, my resolute belief combined with his steady progress in our Kitchen Professional training program, Davie's capabilities blossomed.
Start speaking and caring for your people as if they were really smart rats, while establishing and enforcing clear performance expectations. Commit to becoming an effective and inspiring manager-coach. Your people will start winning the maze course called work and you'll establish yourself as a credible leader worth following.
As always, check out the resources page for more great information about how you can improve your manager-coaching skills today!


Never in recent history has the Islamic world faced challenges of a magnitude it faces today. Islamic assertion has been identified as the main threat to western hegemony following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the bipolar world.
Understandable resentment and anger at mindless acts of individual or group terrorism, of which the attacks against US targets of September 11 were most condemnable, are being exploited for purposes of real politick; to subdue States containing strategic energy resources; to impose a new era of (camouflaged) colonialism in large parts of the Muslim world and to confront genuine freedom movements including the Kashmir and Palestinian struggles.
The Islamic world faces a near monolithic wall of suspicion and fear in respect of the alleged nature of Islamic resurgence and revival, indiscriminately seen as extremism and fundamentalism. The disinformation fostered world-wide, fuelled by activities of certain fanatic Islamic groups themselves, has produces a meeting of minds between the west, Russia, Israel and India, each of them with vested interests of their own.
Force will continue to play the role of a supreme arbiter of international conflicts as long as the spirit of Karbala is not imbibed by Muslims. Today the United Nations finds itself incapable of implementing its charter obligations of pacific settlement of disputes, safeguarding of human rights and helping peoples subjected to aggression and occupation.
While many brave men and women have laid down their lives for worthy cause, the citadels of oppression will fall only when the people as a whole make a conscious desiccation to render, if necessary, the ultimate sacrifice when the worth of the cause so demands. This has been shown by the success of the freedom struggles in places such as Algeria, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
In the milieu of our feudal society, Islam has been deprived of its progressive, humanistic spirit and relegated to a set of rituals and shibboleths. In a major part of the Islamic world, the dictates of justice and humanity (the essential engine for all progress, social or economic) are hamstrung by the vested interests of self-seeking regimes. If the lessons of Karbala were to be assimilated involving readiness to risk narrow, vested interests for a just cause, oppression and injustice would not flourish with such ease.
It is only when people or States are afraid to stand up and be counted that oppression thrives. How aptly has a German historian referred to this phenomenon when he wrote about the Hitlerite era: "First they came for the Jews and I did nothing because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I was not a Communist. They then came for the Catholics, while I was a Protestant. And finally when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up and be counted!" This applies to the international arena as much as it does to the domestic challenges within a State.
The foundation of Karbala's heroic saga lay in the realization by Imam Husain that the challenges in the Yazidi era to the pristine values of Islam were much too dangerous to be overcome by force of arms alone, the outcome of which would have been transitory, as of all military confrontations. He sensed that only the example of a supreme, conscious sacrifice in all its manifestations could breathe lasting life in the beleaguered body politic of Islam.
When he set out on his last journey with his family and a handful of followers, he had no illusions of a military victory over the formidable forces of Yazid, irrespective of expressions of support from some people in Kufa. Nourished in the arms of the last Prophet, Imam Husain had an inspired vision of the future. He seems to have visualized the tragic martyrdom of the progeny of the Prophet, the parading of severed heads on lances, the brutality inflicted on women and children in captivity. It was thus that Islam received at Karbala the shining beacon of sacrifice for a principle, a most comprehensive paradigm of courage and conviction, of faith and fortitude.
Courage, moral and physical, is not only a virtue in itself. It is in fact a security for all other virtues such as integrity, rectitude, probity and piety, all of which depend for their sustenance on the strength provided by moral courage. In this context, courage implies basically the willingness to bear difficult and, if necessary, offer the supreme sacrifice for a cause, which has to be worthy enough of the sacrifice.
In this world, with more than its share of trials and tribulations, there is no character-quality more important than a sensitive, social conscience.
In listening to the saga of Karbala, one achieves a heightened sensitivity, sharpening one's receptivity to human suffering and pain and blessing us with compassion and kindness for all people afflicted with sorrow and anguish. The feelings evoked by the martyrs of Karbala should, if properly assimilated, melt the heart into compassion for all victims of oppression, injustice and torture. Those among us, exposed to the tales of Karbala, but lacking human awareness and compassion have tragically missed the heart of the revered Imam's message.
That a monumental event like Karbala, which should bring all Muslims together in sorrow at its tragic aspects and in pride at the epic achievements of the martyrs, should be turned into an occasion for inter Islamic feuding in Pakistan, is a matter of great shame. Karbala should be commemorated to cement Islamic bounds, not to send them asunder. It is the duty of the ulema, the media and the intellectuals to interpret the unifying nature, in fact, the universality of the message of Karbala to the people.
Religion teaches nothing, nothing at all, if it does not teach respect for others' Feelings; avoiding injury to the sentiments of others is the only way of coexisting in a multi-denominational society.


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Murica doesn't want no illegal droids!
didn't it also cross the Netherlands and Germany before going to US? I don't remember too much about it so the locations may be wrong.
"The hitchhiking robot is an experiment to see how humans interact with robots. HitchBOT previously journeyed across Canada and Germany without incident, in addition to enjoying a three-week vacation in the Netherlands."
It IS Philadelphia after all.
Philadelphia, "The City of Brotherly Love"


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Abolish the CIA
Destroying the interrogation tapes amounts to mutiny and treason.
By Christopher Hitchens
Dec 10, 200712:09 PM
It seems flabbergastingly improbable that President George W. Bush learned of the National Intelligence Estimate concerning Iranian nuclear ambitions only a few days before the rest of us did, but the haplessness of his demeanor suggested that he might, in fact, have been telling the truth. After all, had the administration known for any appreciable length of time that the mullahs had hit the pause button on their program in late 2003, it would have been in a position to make a claim that is quite probably true, namely, that our overthrow of Saddam Hussein had impressed the Iranians in much the same way as it impressed the Libyans and made them at least reconsider their willingness to continue flouting the Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Given that the examination of the immense Libyan stockpile also disclosed the fingerprints that led back to the exposure of the A.Q. Khan nuke-mart in Pakistan, the removal of Saddam from the chessboard has had more effect in curbing the outlaw WMD business than it is normally given credit for.)
Nobody seems entirely sure what caused our intelligence agencies to reverse their opinion, but it seems rather likely that the defection and/or abduction of Brig. Gen. Ali Reza Asgari, Iran's former deputy minister of defense, in February of this year, has something to do with it. Asgari's ostensibly principal job had been that of liaison with Hezbollah in Lebanon, but his debriefing could also have helped confirm pre-existing surmises about Iran's reining-in of its nuclear ambitions.
Which is the most that can be said about those ambitions. It is completely false for anybody to claim, on the basis of this admitted "estimate," that Iran has ceased to be a candidate member of the fatuously named nuclear "club." It has the desire to acquire the weaponry, it retains the means to do so, and it has been caught lying and cheating about the process. If it suspended some overtly military elements of the project out of a justifiable apprehension in 2003, it has energetically persisted in the implicit aspects—most notably the installation of gas centrifuges at the plant in Natanz and the building of a heavy water reactor at Arak. All that the estimate has done is to define weaponry down and to suggest a distinction without much difference between a "civilian" and a "military" dimension of the same program. The acquisition of enriched uranium and of plutonium, for any purpose, is identical with the acquisition of a thermonuclear weapons capacity. Iran continues to strive to produce both, neither of which, as it happens, are required for its ostensible civilian energy needs.
The briefing that I was given by the British Embassy in Tehran in 2005, showing the howlingly glaring discrepancy between what Iran claims and what Iran does, is not in the least challenged by the most recent conclusions. To say that Iran has "stopped" rather than paused its program is to offer an opinion, not to present a finding. (For more on this, see the excellent article by Valerie Lincy and Gary Milhollin in the Dec. 6 New York Times, and also Jonathan Schell's Dec. 9 piece on the Guardian's Web site.) The mullahs are steadily amassing the uranium and plutonium ingredients of a weapon and will indeed soon be able to pause, along with other countries, like Japan, at the point where only a brief interlude and a swift spurt of effort would put them in full possession of the bomb.
Why, then, have our intelligence agencies helped to give the lying Iranian theocracy the appearance of a clean bill, while simultaneously and publicly (and with barely concealed relish) embarrassing the president and crippling his policy? It is not just a hypothetical strike on Iran that is rendered near-impossible by this estimate, but also the likelihood of any concerted diplomatic or economic pressure, as well. The policy of getting the United Nations to adopt sanctions on the regime, which was about to garner the crucial votes, can now be regarded as clinically dead. A fine day's work by those who claim to guard us while we sleep.
One explanation is that, like Mark Twain's cat, which having sat on a hot stove would never afterward sit on a cold one, the CIA has adopted a policy of caution to make up for its "slam-dunk" embarrassment over Iraq. This is a superficially plausible hypothesis, which ignores the fact that for most of the duration of the Iraq debate, the CIA was all but openly hostile to any argument for regime-change in Baghdad. This hostility extended all the way from a frenzied attempt to discredit Ahmad Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress, to the Plame/Wilson imbroglio, and the agency's "referral" of Robert Novak's disclosure to the Department of Justice. Interagency hostility in Washington, D.C., between the CIA and the Department of Defense has never been so damaging to any administration, let alone to any administration in time of war, as it has been to this one.
And now we have further confirmation of the astonishing culture of lawlessness and insubordination that continues to prevail at the highest levels in Langley. At a time when Congress and the courts are conducting important hearings on the critical question of extreme interrogation, and at a time when accusations of outright torture are helping to besmirch and discredit the United States all around the world, a senior official of the CIA takes the unilateral decision to destroy the crucial evidence. This deserves to be described as what it is: mutiny and treason. Despite a string of exposures going back all the way to the Church Commission, the CIA cannot rid itself of the impression that it has the right to subvert the democratic process both abroad and at home. Its criminality and arrogance could perhaps have been partially excused if it had ever got anything right, but, from predicting the indefinite survival of the Soviet Union to denying that Saddam Hussein was going to invade Kuwait, our spymasters have a Clouseau-like record, one that they have earned yet again with their exculpation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It was after the grotesque estimate of continued Soviet health and prosperity that the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that the CIA should be abolished. It is high time for his proposal to be revived. The system is worse than useless—it's a positive menace. We need to shut the whole thing down and start again.

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Despite the lack of posts lately our kitchen has been extremely busy. It's the end of the school year and things are just crazy busy. Swim practice four days a week has started. The kids are playing outside. The garden needs tending…the work never ends.
That is why these bars have become a staple in our house. They are similar to these granola balls, just in bar form. I make them often, they disappear quickly with three boys!
They are incredibly easy to make and have many add in options. You can use rolled oats or quick oats. I myself have been using quick oats lately because I bought them accidentally, I meant to get rolled oats! This is the perfect thing for me to make now that I have them.
I add chia seeds for a little extra nutritional boost. You could easily add hemp seeds, ground flax seed, oat bran or wheat germ. Dried fruit, nuts or coconut also give these bars a great flavor and texture. Sprinkle some chocolate chips on top and let them melt and spread. The possibilities are endless.
With swim season in full swing now these will always be in our house. I keep them in the fridge since it's too hot to leave them out. I can grab a few for after school snack, pack them for an emergency snack in the car or put them in the cooler for swim meets when I need to feed my hungry pack of wolves!
Put the oats, chia seeds and any other add ins in a bowl and stir to combine. Put the peanut butter and honey in a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds, stir. If it isn't well combined yet warm for another 30 seconds. Stir and add to oat mixture. Stir everything until well combined and place in a parchment paper lined 8×8 pan. Pack the mixture down using the bottom of a cup. If desired sprinkle the top with chocolate chips, once they melt spread out evenly. Refrigerate for about an hour and then cut into bars. Store in an airtight container in a cool place (for me that's the fridge with our heat).
This entry was posted in Snacks and tagged easy, energy bar, healthy, kid friendly, quick on May 25, 2016 by Gretchen.
those oat bars look awesome, Gretchen!
Thanks! So quick, easy and delicious.
These look great! No bake recipes are the best for the warm summer months when you don't want to turn on the oven.
I definitely lim no bake recipes in the summer! The heat here is ridiculous and oven time is unpleasant.
I bet they quickly disappear…nice that they are a healthy snack for the boys.
They certainly do disappear quickly! This is why I sometimes need to attempt to hide food or it will never last!
Thanks! They are definitely a most popular bar in our house.


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Home Storage EMC Braces for Tough Storage Market
EMC Braces for Tough Storage Market
By Paul Shread | January 27, 2009
EMC today issued a downbeat outlook for IT spending, saying global IT spending could fall 10 percent in the first half of the year before rebounding, with the data storage market faring only slightly better.
"We're all witnessing a severe economic crisis being played out across the globe," CEO Joe Tucci said during EMC's (NYSE: EMC) fourth quarter conference call.
"Customers are dramatically reducing the number of IT suppliers that they will deal with," he added. "There is a real flight to quality taking place. In addition, customers are giving every purchase order more scrutiny and are subjecting them to higher levels of approval."
Tucci said EMC is well positioned to weather the downturn and expects its data storage, security and server virtualization markets to perform better than the overall IT market.
EMC said its "best estimate" is that 2009 global IT spending will decline "in the mid-to-high single digits compared with 2008," and it "expects the markets that it addresses will perform slightly better than the overall IT market." The company thinks "a higher than usual percentage of the full-year IT spending will take place in the second half of the year" -- which could make for a very rough first half for IT spending.
Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Brian Babineau said that outlook could contain a glimmer of good news. "Companies right now are planning for the absolute worst," he said. "If the absolute worst doesn't last that long, then the recovery could be better than anticipated."
EMC's fourth-quarter results were in line with the guidance the company gave earlier this month.
The company's fourth quarter revenue rose 5 percent year-over-year to $4.02 billion, slightly ahead of estimates, but it broke a streak of 21 consecutive quarters of double-digit sales growth for the company. First quarter sales are expected to be flat compared to the first quarter of 2008.
GAAP net income was $288 million, or 14 cents a share. Factoring out a 10-cent restructuring charge, EMC's pro forma earnings of 24 cents a share were a penny better than analysts anticipated. EMC's full-year sales rose 12 percent to a record $14.88 billion, but that was just under the $15 billion that Tucci was targeting before the economic storm that followed the mid-September failures of Lehman Brothers and AIG.
Non-GAAP net income reached $2.16 billion last year, and the company ended the year with an enviable $8.8 billion in cash and investments.
Tucci said the fourth quarter was tough, but he expects a "harder storm" in the first two quarters of 2009, and a "bigger than normal drop off in Q1."
EMC experienced an 11 percent sequential sales decline last year between the fourth quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008, and as analysts were already looking for a 13 percent sequential decline this quarter, the storage giant might not fare any worse than analysts were already expecting. EMC shares were trading 2 percent lower in morning trading on the report.
Primary dedupe coming
Tucci said EMC plans a number of new products this year, including primary data de-duplication -- a market that until now has only been served by a few vendors, including EMC competitor NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP).
EMC also plans a new high-end Symmetrix, new versions of its fast-growing unified arrays, and new entry-level offerings. The company also plans new data mobility products, greater use of solid-state drives (SSD) and enhanced thin provisioning , and its VMware (NYSE: VMW) and RSA Security subsidiaries will get new product lineups too.
EMC's Information Infrastructure business, which includes storage, RSA Security, and Content Management and Archiving, grew sales 2 percent year-over-year to $3.5 billion in the fourth quarter, while VMware contributed $514 million to the company's sales, up 25 percent.
Sales were up 6 percent in the U.S. and 4 percent elsewhere. EMC also plans cost-cutting moves that are expected to save $350 million this year.
This story appears courtesy of Enterprise Storage Forum.


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Visions of Innovation: The Firm and Japan
Martin Fransman
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
1 Visions of the Firm: A Critical Survey of Leading Approaches to the Firm
2 A Vision of the Firm and the Evolution of Japanese Computer and Communications Firms
3 AT&T, BT, and NTT: A Comparison of Vision, Strategy, Competence, Path‐Dependency, and R&D
4 Visions of Corporate Organisation: From the Multidivisional to the Segmented Form of Organisation in AT&T, IBM, and NEC
5 A Vision of the Japanese Innovation System and How It Works
6 Is National Technology Policy Obsolete in a Globalised World?: The Japanese Vision
7 Visions of Future Technologies: Government, Globalisation, and Universities in Japanese Biotechnology
3 AT&T, BT, and NTT: A Comparison of Vision, Strategy, Competence, Path‐Dependency, and R&D
4 Visions of Corporate Organisation: From the Multidivisional to the Segmented Form of Organisation in AT&T, IBM, and NEC
A Vision of the Japanese Innovation System and How It Works
(p.155) 5 A Vision of the Japanese Innovation System and How It Works
Visions of Innovation
Martin Fransman (Contributor Webpage)
The chapter begins with a summary of the innovation process in Japanese companies, paying particular attention to several distinctive Japanese forms of organization, such as the lifetime employment system (referred to in the Japanese context as the assumption of no exit) and the importance of committed shareholders; the effects of these forms of organization on the innovation process are examined. The influence of the Japanese government on the innovation process is then analysed, and it is argued that while the 'engine' of innovation is located in Japanese companies, organs of the Japanese government have played an important supportive role in facilitating the innovation process. Attention is then turned to the part played by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). While it has often been argued that MITI is the most important organ of the Japanese government in terms of impact on the process of industrial innovation, MITI's expenditure on research and development (R&D) is dwarfed by that of the Ministry of Education and the Science and Technology Agency; this paradox is explained in terms of MITI's location at the centre of a vast information processing network. Finally, attention is turned briefly to the role of universities in the Japanese Innovation System, and it is argued that although Japanese universities are often weaker than their leading counterparts in the other major industrialized countries (in terms of their contribution to frontier research), the Japanese university system nevertheless makes an important contribution to the innovation process.
Keywords: companies, firms, government, innovation, Japan, Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, lifetime employment, organization, research and development, shareholders, universities


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As the summer officially arrives (although it feels like it's already here, or at least it was last week!) you might be tempted to jump in your car and go on a road trip, whether that's just to the countryside for a day trip or perhaps you're heading down to the English coast for a holiday.
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Local magistrate judge to pursue PhD
Photo courtesy of Debra O'Gara
Debra O'Gara helped prepare breakfast at the annual Juneau Arts and Cultural Center Fourth of July pancake breakfast last year.
Petersburg Magistrate Judge Debra O'Gara is retiring from her position with the state court system to pursue a PhD in indigenous studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her last day on the job is Friday, May 15.
O'Gara, who moved to town last summer from Juneau for the magistrate judge position, said her decision to retire isn't a reflection on how she feels about Petersburg. In fact, she will continue to live in town while attending UAF, since her studies will be done remotely.
"This is a great community," said O'Gara. "I'm really enjoying myself. It's a great place to sit and rela...


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Getting Back to the Workplace: To Be or Not to Be (In the Office)
Photo by Anelale Nájera on Unsplash
Part II in the new Fenway Law series, "Getting Back to the Workplace" — a guide for businesses emerging from COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Part I covered Mandatory Vaccinations in the Workplace.
Let's talk about what the post-pandemic workplace might look like for office dwellers.
With recent approval of a third COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, declining infection and mortality rates, and warmer spring and summer days ahead, employers are thinking about making permanent the changes that have upended traditional workplace norms in last year. In a post-pandemic workplace, who comes back to the office?
State level restrictions are easing the path for return. In Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker lifted or modified a number of COVID-19 restrictions across public and private spaces last week, with office spaces are now at 50% capacity (or, a maximum of 10 persons per 1,000 square feet of office space). However, Commonwealth Magazine reports that as many as half of all state employees may continue to work from home in a part-time capacity after all pandemic restrictions are lifted, and many large institutional employers have told most workers not to expect a return prior to June, and in some cases as late as September or into early 2022.
This hesitance is in line with a number of public health officials, who have warned against returning to the normal routine too quickly while also balancing the impacts of the pandemic on the broader community. Michael Colanti, a Zuckerman Fellow in the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and a former emergency management planner for the Boston Public Health Commission, says "risk mitigation is not risk elimination, and any risk assessment must take into account a comprehensive set of factors beyond COVID-19 transmission rates. While the threat posed by the virus remains with us, we must continue to assess the risk tradeoffs in other areas that are also experiencing severe health impacts, such as mental health, substance abuse, food and housing insecurity created by loss of employment, and the long term consequences of lost education for our children."
The Hybrid Approach
With uncertainty about the duration of current safety measures, some in the tech industry are adopting a fully-remote work policy where there is no default work location. As we discussed in Part 1 of the Getting Back to the Workplace series, Boston-based marketing software firm Drift is on the leading edge of this "hybrid" approach, abandoning large traditional office space for smaller, "conversation spaces" that can be used for client meetings and team collaboration work. The experience of the last year has been a proof point for knowledge-based professional services organizations in the financial services, consulting and legal sectors. Tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google are each adopting a similar approach, with employees agreeing to reside within a certain distance from work hubs in order to remain available for in-person meetings and other tasks.
For many other organizations, in-office staffing will return as pandemic restrictions continue to ease. A study conducted by the consulting firm Mercer six weeks into the pandemic (May 2020) found that employers expect one in five full-time employees to work in a remote capacity after the pandemic. According to another recent report from McKinsey, that would represent a four-fold increase from pre-pandemic levels and trigger a profound effect on an organization's footprint and related costs. A Global Workplace Analytics estimate that the average employer can reduce $11,000 in costs per employee per year for every person who works remotely half of the time and $10,000 per worker per year in real estate costs alone.
Nevertheless, at some point in the next year companies can expect nearly 80% of the pre-pandemic workforce to return to the office in a full-time or hybrid capacity.
Planning for the New Normal
In this environment, human resources are dusting off their work from home policies in light of our recent shared experiences, and the prospect for a permanent shift in the way organizations conduct work. The concept of remote work is not a new one: the EEOC has maintained guidelines on remote work since at least 2003. However, the past year has been a crash course in figuring out remote operations while maintaining operations. Many enterprises have seen considerable success: 67% of workplaces saw productivity remain level, and 27% saw an increase.
In the meantime, employers have become accustomed to returning workers (and customers) to the office in a safe manner: mask wearing, social distancing, sanitary practices and similar efforts will remain in place for the foreseeable future. In this "new normal," key organizational considerations focus on the right mix of risk and oversight, flexibility and collaboration, cost and productivity.
In crafting a permanent remote work policy, organizations should consider:
What are the equity impacts? Employers need to take a task-based approach to evaluating remote work assignments, and avoid casting a wide net in approving (or denying) full departments or position classifications. Make sure your position descriptions are up to date, and then consider which organizational functions can only be performed in the office and which may be capably performed on a remote basis. A task-based approach mitigates the risk of employee legal challenges to work location assignments on account of age, disability or other protected classifications. Maintaining a consistent and factual approach to evaluating the work that may be performed on a remote basis is key to maintaining good employee relations and consistent operations. Counsel can assist managers and human resources to assess disability concerns and other considerations in developing a work location assignment protocol.
Can you manage a remote workforce? Organizations may have survived a trial by fire over the last year, but the longer-term enterprise risks associated with permanent remote work assignments remain. Chief among these concerns is the threat of cyber attacks. The vulnerabilities of a dispersed workforce laboring on a patchwork of networks can create opportunity for hackers and thieves. Organizations need to invest in secure hardware, software and support to protect the enterprise. Companies need to consult information security experts to assure that critical data is protected and privacy is maintained in a remote work environment.
Managers must also be able to provide effective direction and oversight to workers. Operations need goals, and employees need feedback. Employers need to set clear limits on working hours to avoid costly wage and hour claims and overtime liability. Executives should be working closely with human resources professionals to assure that managers are available to employees seeking direction, are enforcing working hours expectations, and assuring that performance reviews are completed in a timely and effective manner.
Employers also need to keep a watchful eye out for injuries that may occur during work time in the home or other remote setting. Over the years, organizations have invested billions of dollars in ergonomic work settings to promote employee comfort and reduce repetitive stress injuries. Since last March, many office workers have been using substandard seating, typing and lighting in what was once thought by many to be a temporary arrangement. As with technology, employers need to consider investing in safe and durable office materials for remote workers.
Maintain cohesion between in-office and remote employees. Organizations need to think tactically about supporting and maintaining company culture and collaboration. One recent article discussed the concept of "presenteeism" — will in-office employees be treated differently than remote workers? Employers need to work with human resources to assure that teams continue to work together, regardless of work location.
For employees that must come in to the office, will your organization impose location, function or sanitary restrictions on those that refuse vaccinations? Review Part I in this series, on Mandating Employee Vaccinations at Work, for more on these considerations.
Be prepared for the next time. There is never a better time than the tail end of a crisis to begin an after-action report. While the crisis management manual your organization wrote during the SARS epidemic may never have left the shelf after this pandemic began, an ounce of prevention can truly be worth worth a pound of cure. Many administrators can attest to the need for a current plan, and maintaining a regular schedule for policy reviews and updates can best prepare a business for responding to the unexpected. Colanti recommends that executives, human resources, facilities, finance, risk management and counsel start now to collect lessons learned from the COVID-19 experience across the organization to create or update a crisis management protocol. Whether it be for a natural disaster, or the next pandemic, an organization's ability to shift operations without loss of productivity or unanticipated costs can mean the difference for survival.
Employers should be in the process of reviewing remote work policies now in order to be prepared for the post-pandemic workplace. Businesses must take care to articulate a non-discriminatory rationale for treating remote and in-person workers differently in an organization, and leaders should consult with counsel and human resources executives to ensure that operations in the post-pandemic workplace are safe, productive, and — most of all — prepared for the next challenge.
Michael Loconto is a Boston-based attorney and consultant, and can help your business think through post-pandemic workforce strategies and crisis management planning. Keep an eye on this space for upcoming previews of the Labor and Education departments in the Biden administration. If you like what you read, follow Mike on Medium and subscribe through Substack.
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class Recurly_InvoiceListTest extends Recurly_TestCase
{
  public function testGetOpen() {
    $params = array('other' => 'pickles');
    $url = '/invoices?other=pickles&state=open';
    $this->client->addResponse('GET', $url, 'invoices/index-200.xml');

    $invoices = Recurly_InvoiceList::getOpen($params, $this->client);
    $this->assertInstanceOf('Recurly_InvoiceList', $invoices);
    $this->assertEquals($url, $invoices->getHref());
  }

  public function testGetCollected() {
    $params = array('other' => 'pickles');
    $url = '/invoices?other=pickles&state=collected';
    $this->client->addResponse('GET', $url, 'invoices/index-200.xml');

    $invoices = Recurly_InvoiceList::getCollected($params, $this->client);
    $this->assertInstanceOf('Recurly_InvoiceList', $invoices);
    $this->assertEquals($url, $invoices->getHref());
  }

  public function testGetFailed() {
    $params = array('other' => 'pickles');
    $url = '/invoices?other=pickles&state=failed';
    $this->client->addResponse('GET', $url, 'invoices/index-200.xml');

    $invoices = Recurly_InvoiceList::getFailed($params, $this->client);
    $this->assertInstanceOf('Recurly_InvoiceList', $invoices);
    $this->assertEquals($url, $invoices->getHref());
  }

  public function testGetPastDue() {
    $params = array('other' => 'pickles');
    $url = '/invoices?other=pickles&state=past_due';
    $this->client->addResponse('GET', $url, 'invoices/index-200.xml');

    $invoices = Recurly_InvoiceList::getPastDue($params, $this->client);
    $this->assertInstanceOf('Recurly_InvoiceList', $invoices);
    $this->assertEquals($url, $invoices->getHref());
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Jason Hearne-McGuiness : Knuth, Amdahl: I spurn thee!
Photo Id required! We will be in the Ludlow room on the 4th floor.
Photo ID will be required to gain entrance to Bloomberg's Park House site.
Arrive from 18:00 for 19:00 start.
Knuth, Amdahl: I spurn thee!
A furtive fumble in Hard-Core Obscenity: the misuse of Template Meta-Programming to implement micro-optimisations in HFT.
High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and low-latency trading are becoming one of the few preserves of C++ in which Dionysian use of micro-optimisations is not only deemed acceptable, but positively demanded! This shameful secret has been covered up by the more prurient and sensible. In this talk a revealing glimpse of the juicy techniques and perve^H^H^H^Hractices will be given. For example performance anomalies lead to a discovery of quirks in generated assembler due to different compiler versions. Exactly what is static branch-prediction, and how is it (ab)used? Why is counting the number of set bits of the remotest interest? And the "curious case of the switch-statement" will be uncovered.
There might be some food and drink provided.
After the talk we will probably relocate to a suitable hostelry for drinks and chat.
Note that the need to show photo ID implies we will require people's names matching their ID.


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Curators: Drorit Gur Arie, Or Tshuva
Ella Littwitz's project Kwisatz Haderach has two parts: one is featured in the Museum's entrance concourse, and the other—inside the building. Together they attempt to refine the concept of "home" and examine its interrelations with its place and setting.
In 1982, on the eve of the return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and the evacuation of Yamit, the city's houses were taken apart, and their walls were stored in the hope that they could be used in the construction of new settlements. The Yamit region was largely built using prefabricated construction, due to the need to settle the area quickly and in keeping with the climate and the sand dunes surrounding it. One of these prefabricated pieces—a 6.5-meter long concrete wall—is now installed in front of the museum. For nearly four decades it was in a "wall cemetery" in the Shalom region, and it still bears signs of what was once a house: traces of interior walls, windows, and ceramic tiles. The project's other part is a sand dune, likewise cut off from its natural setting, which was introduced into the museum space. The dune is "respirated" by means of industrial fans, taking different shapes and changing in the space over the duration of the show, much like a natural dune.
Littwitz's research into Yamit's short history, from its construction to its tearing down, led her to explore the environmental conditions, and mainly the geo-morphological phenomenon of sand migration, taking shape and dissolving rapidly, like the city itself. This phenomenon was linked in her work, among others, to Frank Herbert's novel Dune (Holit in Hebrew, as the name of one of the evacuated settlements), which addresses attempts by political and religious groups to settle and dominate a hostile wilderness. Kwisatz Haderach, the title of the project—a term derived from Jewish literature, denoting a leap of distance, contracting the path, or shortening the way—is a quality attributed in Herbert's novel to the protagonist.
The installation extends along the axis between the fictive and the documentary, the personal and the collective, the artificial and the natural, touching upon questions of temporality, relics, and traces. It is centered on a quandary regarding the feasibility of settling a constantly changing geopolitical sphere; an (ostensibly doomed) attempt to settle that which migratesand shifts and to shift that which is settled.
Thanks to Prof. Itzhak Katra and Nitzan Swet, Aeolian Simulation Laboratory, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; thanks also to Nachum Shimshony, Shlomo Shkedi, Zahava Shaked (The Yamit Haggadah), Hezie Lavi, and Zohar Hayat.
Ella Littwitz, Kwisatz Haderach, Installation 2017
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Experience the exciting world of South Asian culture with ALCHEMY - taking place in and around Oldham Coliseum Theatre on 23 May.
A wide range of fun-packed events for everyone featuring music, dance, comedy, fashion, literature, art and design plus delicious food markets to savour, this series of one-off collaborations and unique events promise to spice up Oldham like no other event this year!
The Coliseum and variety make a perfect partnership that has been enthralling audiences for over a century. With Variety is the Spice, we showcase some of the very best in British Asian talent.
YouTube sensation Hussnain Lahori, Britain's Got Talent veterans Signature, universal fusion band AlphaNomega and actor/comedian Mani Liaqat join forces for a glitzy night of quality entertainment.
Presented by Oldham Coliseum Theatre. For tickets and further information, click here.
It's a party that everyone is invited to, as five artists take a witty and poignant journey into their own concepts of identity Featuring performances from Inder Goldfinger (Fun-Da-Mental) and Ezra Khan (Trespass Against Us).
Presented by Cast, Doncaster. For tickets and further information, click here.
Developed by comic and broadcaster, Hardeep Singh Kohli. There's a community spirit at the heart of Knives, Forks and Fingers, as The Women's Chai Morning Group from Oldham and residents of Aksa Homes will be joining storytellers from Doncaster, London and the Black Country to celebrate the timeless bond between generations of women through the filter of food.
Presented by Southbank Centre. This is free event, but will be ticketed. Further information click here.
From the Sonia Sabri Company and Black Country Touring, comes a fusion of Kathak dance, live music, and theatre technique with cutting edge digital technology.
Presented by Black Country Touring. For tickets and further information, click here.
Following rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, the dramatization of Nirbhaya's compelling real life story appears for two nights only at The Grange Arts Centre.
Presented by Southbank Centre. For tickets and further information, click here.
Southbank Centre's Alchemy is an annual festival exploring the cultural links between the UK and South Asia. It celebrates the best of contemporary music, dance, literature, comedy, fashion, art and design through a whole range of events including gigs, talks, exhibitions, workshops, fashion shows and delicious food markets.
From AR Rahman to Anoushka Shankar, Kailesh Kher to Sonia Sabri, Jonny Greenwood to Susheela Raman, Alchemy has presented a host of stellar artists, one-off collaborations and groundbreaking premieres, as well as supporting up-and-coming talent.
This year, Alchemy goes national. Working with three key national partners, a bespoke Alchemy programme has been devised for regional audiences and these festivals will take place at Cast in Doncaster, Oldham Coliseum Theatre and across venues in the Black Country.
For more information, visit southbankcentre.co.uk/alchemy.
Alchemy Oldham is supported by Aksa Homes and Sunrise Radio.


On March 15, acclaimed rock group Foreigner has released their "Live At The Rainbow '78" collection on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital video.
Classic British-American rock band Foreigner is back with a special version of "I Want To Know What Love Is," where the proceeds will help a charitable cause.
Beirut	- The Islamic State group launched a deadly counter-offensive on Wednesday to repel US-backed forces advancing on a final jihadist-held pocket of eastern Syria, a monitor said.
Sturgis	- On July 12, 2018, Lou Gramm, the original lead singer of Foreigner, chatted with Digital Journal about their reunion concert on August 4, 2018 in South Dakota.
New York	- On October 26, iHeartMedia presented iHeartRadio ICONS featuring Foreigner. It was presented by Citi MasterPass at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City.
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then that's the way it is.
what could I ever run to?
I've had an underlying thought at the back of my head for some time now, which I, for reasons I've decided to sequester for now, haven't found the time nor energy to quite bring to a conclusion. Suddenly on Thursday morning, however, while I was - somewhat indecently dressed - running around my apartment in a desperate search for any form of clothing, I grasped what I had been trying to apprehend(multitasking is the key to success).
I've always been quite the elitist when it comes to intelligence, as a character trait I've considered it fundamental. Despite being told by others that "there are other attributes" I haven't quite grasped the fact that intelligence in itself does not entail or effectuate any other attribute. Until now, that is.
What I've come to realize, both through interaction with a lot of people rather varying in kind, as well as simply meditating on the matter, is that intelligence is nothing more or less than a simple matter of choice. I've philosophized on the concept of a person having specific capacities in different aspects; about a person having social and emotional capacity, and the ability to exhaust these capacities.
I think intelligence in fact is a capacity too. Not, however, in the manner it is usually considered or measured. Intelligence is a simple tool, that correctly used is quite the powerful one. It grieves me to say that more often than not it is not used correctly(in the greyest context possible), alternatively not utilized at all. It is also an attribute that needs to be exercised so as not to abate completely. For someone born with intelligence this entails a choice that a person born without it does not need to make. Whatever a person of intelligence decides to do with the choice is determined by other attributes.
What I've learnt is that intelligence in itself is not something to aspire for or look for in other people, but rather to search for people who have chosen to be analytical, solicitous and respectful. And I've decided to live accordingly.
Furthermore, I've embarked on a journey that is reading a book called "A Million Little Pieces", by James Frey. It will most certainly be a difficult read for me personally, but I want to see it through, I find it important that I do.
men jag lever för ikväll.
vad har du gjort av dig, för dig, med dig själv?
för dig är det alltid helg.
This Sunday morning when I arrived at school to complete my essay, I instinctively went to the same table I've sat at everyday this week writing, working, analyzing. To my surprise I found the very same cup of cold coffee that my dear friend left on the very same table on Friday afternoon. This is actually not that odd, to be honest, but because of this discovery I was overcome by a sense of belonging.
This feeling was mixed with thoughts on independence and solitude. When I woke up as the the light from the window hit my bed this morning, I thought to myself how delightful it is to wake up alone to a day that is in its entirety decided by me.
I'm back after twenty hours on the road, carrying my entire world on my back; camera, computer, music, a pen and some paper and of course, my head. Which is aching from sleep deprivation; or caffeine poisoning, which, now that I think about it, is exactly the same thing either way you choose to express yourself. A day filled with bright lights and busy, distant people. On the train home, however, I got a chance to relax. Surprisingly my mind was suddenly filled with thoughts that felt the need to be expressed, almost as if I had an epiphany.
"I have, just now this very moment, come to realize a very fundamental aspect about my writing. It has become clear to me that what I choose not to put down in words in fact speaks more loudly about how I feel than what I do. I've assumed I've chosen not to mention a single significant person in my life, not by name or otherwise, because I wanted to stay anonymous. The fact is, I now know this illusion is in fact, an illusion. I am absolutely terrified of letting people into my life, and letting myself feel connected to someone, in the fear of being hurt, I assume (rather confident of myself to keep assuming facts about myself and how my mind works, isn't it?). As if writing about these important people and letting someone into my life would entail handing them the power to control it as well. The truth is, whether I am willing to admit it or not, there are some people in this new home of mine that have affected me in one way or another. Turns out I do like people in particular, just not in general."
The most awful of days ended in the most perfect of evenings, and I'm back to the whimsical little being that is myself again. Went out for a moonlit walk with vivid conversation in the best of companies and grabbed some sinfully expensive (but oh so good) ice cream on the way home.
Now that I feel completely rejuvenated I realize I need to do some rearranging of my schedule. Prioritizing mostly, I need to see to it that I do things for my own reasons and not to oblige others.
And so I am, once again, looking forward to whatever tomorrow brings.
Most of the time, I feel the need to curse my natural spontaneity because of all the trouble it gets me into. On the contrary, on this particular occasion I am mighty thankful for this rather childlike trait of mine. Without it I would not have discovered that it is pointless to try and rationalize, and by doing so destroying, any emotion that is present. I've been trying to figure out my empty state of heart for some time now. I did not realize that a matter of heart cannot be figured out by contemplation, which usually is my way of getting through everything.
Baby steps are the key through this bafflement. Breathe in. Breathe out. Sigh.


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Genevieve Ila Higgins
November 24, 1909 - May 6, 2011
Genevieve Ila Higgins, 101 of Springfield, died at Lewis Memorial Christian Village at 9:00 am, Friday, May 6, 2011. She was born November 24, 1909 in Bad Axe, MI. She was raised by her parents George and Irene Hofmann. She married Leonard Higgins in 1930 and he preceded her in death in 1983. She is also preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Harry Stone.
Genevieve is survived by her daughter, LulaJean (David) Bausch, Sr. of Springfield; a son, Leonard (Diana) Higgins of O'Fallon, MO; five grandchildren, Deborah (Kevin) Misner, David Bausch, Jr., Donna (Robert) Charlton, Connie (Chuck) Turbyeville and Tina (Steve) Dussold; six great grandchildren, Trista, Chris, Zac, Cathlene, Charles and Danny.
She was a member of Southside Christian Church. She was active at the churches she belonged to, was a former Girl Scout Troop leader and enjoyed crafting.
Genevieve had formerly lived in Missouri and has lived in the Illinois since 1998. She was a Saleslady at Famous Barr.
Graveside Service: 1 pm, Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at Oak Grove Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri with Chaplain Tom Novy officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made to Southside Christian Church or Lewis Memorial Christian Village.
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Home Commitments Headlines MCAC Lauren Derco-Todd Commits to CMU Blazers Women's Basketball for 2020-21 Season
Lauren Derco-Todd Commits to CMU Blazers Women's Basketball for 2020-21 Season
PUBLISHED ON May 11, 2020 Commitments, Headlines, MCAC,
Lauren Derco-Todd recently confirmed her plans to join the CMU Blazers in 2020 as the 5'6 guard signed her letter of intent for the Manitoba Colleges and Northern Intercollegiate Atheltic Conference seasons. Derco-Todd was a teammate of Reyna Reyes and Anna Pyne while at south-Winnipeg's College Jeanne-Sauvé for her Grade 11 season. Together the three led the Olympiens to a third-place finish in the ultra-competitive SCAC division in 2019. While Reyes and Pyne were helping CMU to 2020 MCAC and NIAC banners, Derco-Todd was leading Jeanne-Sauvé to a even better 2020 with the Olympiens who finished second in the SCAC only to have their provincial hopes dashed by Covid-19.
"Lauren has terrific point guard skills," said CMU head coach Joe Di Curzio, who enters season 9 with the Blazers in 2020. "She is excellent at setting up her teammates, she can really attack the basket and finish, plus she is a terrific outside shooter. At Jeanne-Sauve this year she had a role as a team leader and was a top scorer."
Derco-Todd averaged 15 points per game to go with 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals in her final year of high school and was recognized as both an SCAC All-star and an MHSAA 'AAAA' Girls Graduating All-star.
"Lauren was an impact player in our program," said Derco-Todd's high school coach Sonia Radi. "She came to CJS in Grade 9, ready to contribute and make a difference in our basketball program and that is exactly what she has done. All season I had coaches come up to me to compliment how tenacious and gritty of a player Lauren is. They remarked that she is "one of those kids that will go to bat for you." Lauren is all that and more. Her dedication, passion and leadership skills will definitely serve her well as she moves on to CMU. I am so excited to see her join her former teammates and make an impact in a big way for another program."
Derco-Todd, Reyes and Pyne are scheduled to open their 2020-21 NIAC season on home court, November 6th and 7th when they host the Free Lutheran Conquerors (Minneapolis, MN) and Turtle Mountain Mighty Mickinocks (Belcourt, ND). The first MCAC opponent on the calendar for the Blazers comes December 4th and 5th as CMU wraps up their fall semester schedule with a home and home against rivals, Providence Pilots.
Source: https://athletics.cmu.ca/2020/05/12/olympiens-will-reunite-as-derco-todd-commits-to-cmu/


Hey everybody! I was blessed with the opportunity to attend Toy Fair over the weekend (which is why I didn't post a comic Monday). Today I'm going to start posting photos on CreatureCantina.com (after having already posted a bunch to Facebook and Instagram). I'm going to try to push out as many as possible this morning, so keep checking back! There was a lot of cool stuff.


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Plaisantin, person with psychiatric problems or real terrorist? The profiles are varied for this type of malicious acts. On June 21 last, for example, a man wearing a fake explosive belt filled with salt and biscuits had caused a false alarm in a shopping center of Brussels, in a terrorist threat environment still hovering on the Belgian capital three months after the attacks hit her. It turned out that he was mentally ill.
"Disposal Squad"
In a different, but still terrorizing a group of anonymous Internet users assigned on social networks dozens of false bomb threats in high schools. One idea that has spread in the context of the vigilance consecutive attacks in 2015. A Twitter account called "Evacuation Squad" even proposed – for a fee – to launch these alerts on behalf of students wanting to "skip over" , or "a diversion for a crime you commit."
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Beach reopening hinges on test results
By CUTTER MITCHELL
Jul 31, 2007 at 5:56 AM Jul 31, 2007 at 6:06 AM
Town officials are hoping that the latest test results will show the level of E. coli bacteria in the waters off the town beach have dropped to the point where they can reopen the facility to swimming, perhaps as soon as today.
Last Thursday, when the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, conducted its weekly test of waters at public beaches, it was discovered that nine beaches, including Gilford and Sandogardy Pond in Northfield, had significant levels of harmful bacteria which cased the various towns to close down these waterways.
In the case of Gilford Beach, the high levels of bacteria were E. coli, though at many other beaches the state had concerns over the presence of cyanobacteria. In both cases, exposure to either bacteria can cause flu-like symptoms from nausea and vomiting to fever and diarrhea.
Gilford's Parks and Recreation Director Herb Greene, said it appears the town was able to catch the problem before anyone was exposed. He said no reports of people suffering effects from E. coli exposure had been brought to his attention.
Monday DES officials retested the waters to determine the E. coli levels. The results of the test were not expected to be available until later today.
Greene said that if the levels of bacteria are low enough, the town might be able to open up for a short while at the end of today, and with local meteorologist Russ Hobby forecasting today's weather full of sunshine with temperatures reaching the upper 80s potential lower 90s, some water relief will be what everyone is looking for.
On a hot day between 300 and 400 vehicles pass through the gates to the Gilford Beach on Varney Point Road. With a high of 87 degrees on Sunday, this left several hundred Gilford families without access to the Town Beach.
If today's test results do not come back favorably, still revealing a high concentration of the E. coli bacteria, Greene said the beach and all beach related activities will remained closed until those levels come back down to a safe standard.
"Where it is a heath risk we don't want to give the impression that is it safe to go in the water," said Greene, explaining the program cancellations coinciding with the beach closing. Currently the gate to the beach is locked with warning signs posted both on sight and on the town website.
This is not the first time Gilford Beach has been closed because of high levels of the E. coli bacteria. Last year the town closed the beach, though prior to that it had not been closed for any health reason in quite some time.
"I don't know if we will [be able to determine a cause]. It's hard to pinpoint," said Greene.
The heat and usage that the beach sees are two primary factors that can contribute to the proliferation of bacteria like E. coli, explained Greene.
He added that if this should become a persisting problem it would be looked into by either DES or the town.
For status information on Gilford Beach either contact the town hall at 527-4700 or look online at www.gilfordnh.org.
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Liberty Racing plays down its reaction in the wake of the Monza World Superbike round, but hints Effenbert may quit as a title sponsor.
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A further statement from the team this week confirmed it would still be present at this weekend's Donington Park event, but there are rumours that title sponsor Effenbert will be scaling back its title backing in protest.
On the eve of the Donington Park event, Liberty Racing has released a further statement, insisting some of its comments were misunderstood, adding that it wasn't squaring the blame on Infront or Pirelli, but instead at a portion of riders and teams who it feels shaped decisions to benefit themselves.
Despite this, Liberty Racing goes on to make reference to rumours that Effenbert will pull its title sponsorship in the wake of the furore, even if the team itself is committed to the series.
The Liberty Racing Team, following an interview released by La Gazzetta dello Sport with team owner Mario Bertuccio, would like to further point out that the press release issued by the team on Sunday, May 6, has been unambiguously understood by some media and given the wrong interpretations to the concepts expressed.
The clear disappointment was directed to a small number of team managers and riders that conditioned the development of the Monza race for their specific sports interests, and not against Infront Motorsport, to which the Czech team has great respect and trust, and thanks to which the team's image has grown over the years.
When the Sunday race one was cancelled at Monza, the team was damaged: "Our sponsor has invested heavily in the Effenbert Superbike project" said Bertuccio. "On Sunday we had Guintoli on and with such a result we couldn't properly take advantage of the media visibility. And now we risk losing the title sponsor. "
At Monza the team was ready to run, also thanks to the guarantee given by Pirelli about the perfect integrity of the tyre's performance, something that was supported by our riders who would have no hesitation in competing.
Mario Bertuccio also says that Liberty Racing will continue on its path of professional and sports growth in the World Superbike Championship.
World Superbike is a passion and is the expression on two wheels which are closer to the real fans. Team Liberty attempts to give aim to this thrill every time it takes the track with its riders.
Dedication, enthusiasm and the will to compete with opponents shoulder to shoulder, without distinction between "official and unofficial", is the indissoluble element that urges the Czech team to compete more strongly motivated, without underestimating to the sense of respect for significant economic investments without which it would be impossible even compete.