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The Best Horror Movies to Stream on Netflix for Halloween
Britt Hayes
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Whether you spend every month counting down the days until October (aka the real most wonderful time of the year), or you're just a casual fan of spookiness, the weeks leading up to Halloween are for one thing and one thing only: Watching scary movies. With all the streaming services and endless titles available, it can be difficult to make that crucial game-time decision, which is why we've put together this handy list of the best horror movies to stream on Netflix this Halloween.
Here, in no particular order, are 25 awesome horror movies (plus a couple of bonus titles) on Netflix to fit a variety of tastes and styles. From ghosts to found footage to witches and Stephen King — and everything in between — you're sure to find the perfect thing to stream for Halloween (I'm a poet!).
1. The Witch
Directed by Robert Eggers
Cast: Anya-Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson, and Kate Dickie.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A 17th century exercise in moral dread featuring a creepy and weirdly meme-able goat. It's like The Crucible, but scarier.
2. The Ritual
Directed by David Bruckner
Cast: Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, and Robert-James Collier.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Woods-based horror with a folklore slant, featuring a really cool and original monster design created with mostly practical effects.
3. It Follows
Directed by David Robert Mitchell
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Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, and Olivia Luccardi.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Classic boogeyman-stalker vibes with a contemporary twist – a relatable (but not puritanical) allegory about casual sex.
4. The Void
Directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski
Cast: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh and Daniel Fathers.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A visually cool throwback to '70s cult thrillers that takes a page out of the John Carpenter playbook (practical VFX included).
5. A Dark Song
Directed by Liam Gavin
Cast: Steve Oram and Catherine Walker.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Witchy business that's more focused on character development and rituals than jump scares.
6. The Devil's Candy
Directed by Sean Byrne
Cast: Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby and Pruitt Taylor Vince.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A satanic horror flick that shreds.
7. Under the Shadow
Directed by Babak Anvari
Cast: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, and Bobby Manderi.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A movie that's equal parts heavy and horrifying. Set in 1980s war-torn Tehran, Under the Shadow is the perfect terrifying companion piece for another movie on this list — The Babadook.
8. The Conjuring
Directed by James Wan
Watch when you're in the mood for: A ghost story based on actual events. The Conjuring is peak James Wan, and would make an excellent double feature with The Amityville Horror (the original, not the Ryan Reynolds one).
9. The Boy
Directed by William Brent Bell
Cast: Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, and James Russell.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Creepy, campy doll horror without all that Child's Play.
10. Murder Party
Directed by Jeremy Saulnier
Cast: Chris Sharp, Kate Porterfield, and Macon Blair.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A movie that you haven't seen from the director of Green Room and Blue Ruin.
11. Gerald's Game
Directed by Mike Flanagan
Cast: Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A Stephen King adaptation that's actually as good as the source material…and an extended squirm-inducing sequence that's great with a crowd.
12. Creep / Creep 2
Directed by Patrick Brice
Cast: Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice (Creep); Desiree Akhavan (Creep 2).
Watch when you're in the mood for: An exceedingly dark horror comedy double feature that makes clever use of the tired found footage approach. (And also full frontal Mark Duplass nudity, if you're in the market for that sort of thing.)
13. The Invitation
Directed by Karyn Kusama
Cast: Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi, and Michiel Huisman.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Grown-up slow-burn horror at its finest with a jaw-dropping third act.
14. The Babadook
Directed by Jennifer Kent
Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman and Daniel Henshall.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Heady horror with a terrifying ghoul and a terrific lead performance. (Would make for an excellent double feature with The Shining.)
15. Train to Busan
Directed by Sang-ho Yeon
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Cast: Yoo Gong, Yu-mi Jung, and Dong-seok Ma.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A movie that proves the zombie genre isn't dead.
16. Oculus / Hush
Cast: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites and Katee Sackhoff (Oculus); Kate Siegel and John Gallagher Jr. (Hush).
Watch when you're in the mood for: Prep for Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House series; a creepy and clever double feature from a contemporary horror master-in-training.
17. Clown
Directed by Jon Watts
Cast: Andy Powers, Laura Allen, and Peter Stormare.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A horror movie from the director of Spider-Man: Homecoming; scary shenanigans that are campy but totally self-aware.
18. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Directed by Oz Perkins
Cast: Ruth Wilson, Paula Prentiss, and Bob Balaban.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A good old-fashioned haunted house that's all about mood.
19. Under the Skin
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, and Lynsey Taylor Mackay.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Atmospheric horror sci-fi where the scariest thing isn't an alien who looks like Scarlett Johansson and eats men, but what happens when she tries to become a real human woman.
20. Evolution
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Cast: Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, and Julie-Marie Parmentier.
Watch when you're in the mood for: More dreamy sci-fi horror vibes like Under the Skin.
21. Interview With the Vampire
Directed by Neil Jordan
Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst.
Watch when you're in the mood for: An odd couple dark comedy about two immortal men with beautiful hair trying to raise a tiny vampire child together.
22. Raw
Directed by Julia Ducournau
Focus World
Cast: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, and Laurent Lucas.
Watch when you're in the mood for: A stunning female coming-of-age story…with a cannibal twist.
23. The Childhood of a Leader
Directed by Brady Corbet
Cast: Liam Cunningham, Robert Pattinson, and Berenice Bejo.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Unconventional, existential horror — like an exploration of the childhood of a fictional fascist ruler presented in the style of Michael Haneke, perhaps.
24. The Eyes of My Mother
Directed by Nicolas Pesce
Cast: Kika Magalhães, Will Brill, and Diana Agostini.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Gory arthouse character study about an isolated and repressed young woman — think May, but with a more sophisticated filmmaker behind the camera.
25. Scream 4
Directed by Wes Craven
Cast: Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, and Neve Campbell.
Watch when you're in the mood for: Giving this delightful meta-horror sequel another chance — it deserves it.
What's New on Netflix: October 2018
Source: The Best Horror Movies to Stream on Netflix for Halloween
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"Why are most poets utter assholes?" a coworker asked while munching on a blue cheese cracker with a dark olive thinly sliced.
"I don't know. Perhaps they are lost in their own worlds." I explained while shaking my head slightly, then slowly sipping a glass of lukewarm Belgian beer with a faint wisp of blueberry.
"I can certainly understand why politicians are assholes. You know, that's obvious! Also, it's not hard to see why many attorneys might be assholes, too. But poets?" she teased, shrugging her right shoulder until her undergarment protruded slightly with a mock solemnity.
Letting the cold chill of my umpteenth faculty party settle while glancing at the setting sun through a thinly veiled window curtain, gingerly I assembled a semi-coherent obfuscation, "Think of it this way: poets are lexical politicians. Each word in existence longs to have a voice, but only a few gain the privilege of appearing in ink."
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My coworker - who was eminently keen-witted when sober - pretended that our conversation was structured with impeccable logic. Indeed, as long as the alcohol worked and one did not think deeply, our exchange was almost convincing - or at least relatively harmless. Triumphantly she then proclaimed, "Yep! Makes perfect sense! Poets are assholes, along with politicians and lawyers!"
Smiling faintly, I then added, "Just like the rest of us" before departing to a dark corner of the banquet hall, waiting for the this tedious faculty party to wind down.
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… it has been shown repeatedly that suicide increases in the month after a front page suicide story. There is also evidence that the effect is bigger for famous people and gruesome attempts. You may want to remember that fact for later.
Details matter, as ever. Overdoses increased by 17% in the week after a prominent overdose on Casualty (watched by 22% of the population at the time), and paracetamol overdoses went up by more than others. In 1998 the Hong Kong media reported heavily on a case of carbon monoxide poisoning by a very specific method, using a charcoal burner. In the 10 months preceeding the reports, there had been no such suicides. In November there were 3; then in December there were 10; and over the next year there were 40. You may want to remember that story for later.
And it's not pie in the sky to suggest that the media should be careful in how they discuss suicide. After the introduction of media reporting guidelines in Austria, for example, there was a significant decrease in the number of people throwing themselves under trains.
So organisations like the Samaritans take this seriously. They suggest that journalists avoid crass phrases like "a 'successful' suicide attempt". They suggest that journalists avoid explicit or technical details of suicide methods, for reasons you can now understand. They suggest that journalists include details of further sources for help and advice, since an article about suicide represents a great opportunity to target people who are at risk with useful information. And they recommend avoiding simplistic explanations for suicide.
There is an open letter to Hyundai here, from someone who's father killed himself using the method depicted above.
This Hyundai advert is almost unbelievably misguided. I'm also a bit disappointed to see that The Guardian list it today as one of their "best adverts" of the week (their text has now been silently modified, see below, and comments on their piece). No responsible broadcaster should give it airtime, and I hope nobody at Hyundai will be childish enough to regard the attention given to them in this blog post as some kind of victory for their irresponsible, exploitative, attention-seeking and dangerous behaviour.
If you need them, here are the Samaritans' excellent media guidelines for anyone covering suicide in the public eye.
Some have tweeted to say it's not praised as one of the best adverts by the Guardian. Detail, but: in the last fifteen minutes the Guardian page has been silently edited to remove the praise of "best adverts". It's still listed as that on the Guardian's video version here, more critical coverage of this in New Statesman here.
Yes. But what possessed you to embed the ad here?
I agree that the ad is awful, and might have an influence on suicide in general, it is unlikely to cause an increase in method specific suicides. Since catalytic convertors were intoroduced, it has been much more difficult to kill yourself in this way – due to the much reduced levels of CO in the exhaust. You can still poison yourself with the fumes, but it is far less likely to be fatal.
Unfortunately, as suicides by this method have decreased, there has been some method substitution and hanging has increased to "fill the gap".
I can understand the reasons for not showing it, but all of the serious ramifications aside, that is a fantastic advert.
Then there's the quickly deleted VW ad from maybe 15 years ago(?) showing a fellow driving around, stopping in front of some building, blowing himself up, but the "wonderfully strong, safe…car" contains the entire blast inside the structure.
I think I'll stick with the Hulu ads telling us to watch more TV so our brains turn to mush because the aliens like mushy brains for supper.
That said… The idea wouldn't be out of place in a Monty Python sketch… People seem to be reacting more because it's an ad that if they had encountered it in a late night comedy show.
Troubling lack of transparency on their part.
This whole episode is one of morality dressing itself up in science. Sure, "studies have shown" that "suicide increases in the month after a front page suicide story", but AFAIK no-one knows the specific impact of this particular ad. Ironically, now that Hyundai have withdrawn it, it's eventual impact will probably owe more to those whose sense of moral outrage led them to repost it all over the web than to Hyundai. I myself only ever saw it in the context of people expressing moral indignation about it.
ptermx, are you seriously arguing about the whole idea of providing general guidelines against potentially-harmful behavior?
You can't determine the specific impact of any particular car crash, but if studies show that wearing seat belts reduces the number of deaths in car crashes, people are going to wear seat belts.
Sockatume: I'm quite prepared to believe that images of suicide can influence certain people to commit suicide. After all, if that were not true then ad agencies might find it difficult to explain how paying them to produce glitzy images of consumption stimulates … consumption.
However, if there's a specific 'case' against Hyundai here, it's either that (i) their ad itself caused harm; or (ii) that their ad failed to comply with some legal requirement. I'm not aware that either applies. What we're left with then, is that by causing widespread offense and resentment (rationalized in public by reference to the 'science' of imagery's effects on human behaviour), the ad damages Hyundai's business more than it enhances it. That's why they pulled it.
As I said before, the irony is that so many people saw the ad only because of those who said they thought it shouldn't be shown.
I don't think you appreciate that the argument you're applying against this one case applies to all of the available cases.
…other media depictions of suicide?
Suicide is a tricky thing to determine the cause of, for example, Town Gas was useful to the suicidal as it was poisonous, where natural gas simply suffocated you.
When Britain switched from Town Gas to Natural Gas people didn't switch other suicide methods, and the suicide rate dropped.
Argument being, if you remove a known method people don't think to find another way.
Advertising another way to commit does seem terribly irresponsible.
It's only an issue if you think suicide is bad.
If I've got this correctly, no more suicides occur when suicides are shown through the media, just the way in which people commit suicides match that shown.
Really? As the article makes no such claims. Can you provide a source?
I think this is a bad topic for the realm of science and strays into the territory of using scientific evidence to support a personal or professional moral or ethical position. The scientific point is clear – we can say with reasonable confidence that depictions of suicide increase the suicide rate. The question of whether suicide 'should' be depicted in the media is only related tangentially to this and it would be necessary to establish a cost metric for suicide in order to assess in a scientific context. Simply implying that suicide is bad and therefore anything that increases suicide rates is bad (and also implying the assumption that not depicting suicide has zero cost associated) is lazy reasoning. There is value in a reasoned ethical debate here but it is a dangerous precedent to set that a statistical link between media portrayal of undesirable actions and the occurrence of those actions justifies censorship. I remain agnostic as to whether this commercial is or is not acceptable, but feel that it is important to highlight the assumptions being made and emphasize the need for a framework for debate that includes all the relevant factors.
In fact, that VW ad was not made by VW, it was just someone with some time and talent with special effects and editing.
The "advert" is still on YouTube, and yes, it's offensive in a lot of ways: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnL-7x4n4d8 it's also clever in others.
At the time, VW couldn't distance themselves from the advert quickly enough, and rightly so. But it's funny how time makes people forget that it wasn't an actual ad. It's like that Jimmy Savile/Have I Got News For You thing all over again.


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Transparency and focus key to driving back cyberthreat in Asia-Pacific
22 June 2017 Consultancy.uk
Cybercrime in the Asia-Pacific region continues to plague business, individuals and governments alike, with a new report from Marsh & McLennan Companies' Asia Pacific Risk Center (APRC) stating transparency and focus are key to businesses' salvation.
Asia-Pacific is set to see increased digital activity, however, poor transparency and a lack of strong legislation in various countries is hampering efforts to create cyber-resilience in the region. Compelling organisations to improve security and improve transparency, from governments to individuals is central to future prosperity.
Cybercrime is becoming increasingly problematic for businesses, consumers and governments. The digitalisation and concentration of a wide range of processes and private and sensitive information, without a means or incentive to secure that (valuable) information, has created a situation in which huge troves of information regularly find themselves on the street or collated by those with nefarious intent.
Aside from the nightmare of dealing with identify theft, the absolute cost of cybercrime to the global economy was recently estimated at more than $400 billion. For businesses, the costs come in at up to $280 billion, while a severe breach has also been found to have a noticeable impact on the share price of public companies.
The APRC recently released a study into the cyber risks across the Asian-Pacific region. The report, titled 'Cyber Risk in Asia-Pacific', considers the current cybercrime climate in the region, from costs to business and consumers to various means of mitigating and protecting sensitive information.
By the numbers, businesses in the Asia-Pacific region lose around $81 billion in business revenues lost to cybercrime. Asian-Pacific businesses were also found to be considerably more likely to be attacked by hackers, making cybercrime the fifth biggest risk for the region.
Particularly Asian firms are also finding it difficult to deal with cybercrime. The report finds that Asian organisations take 1.7 times longer than the global median to discover a breach. This in part reflects investment levels, which are found to be 47% lower than the amount spent by North American firms. Internet users in the region too are found to be lacking in some respects, with 78% said to have not received any education on cybersecurity.
Firms face a range of challenges, some governance related and some related to talent scarcity. 70% of firms, for instance, are said to lack a firm understanding of their cybersecurity posture, while 74% say that they have 'difficult-to-extremely-difficult to recruit cyber talent'. Insurers in the region too are weary, with few willing to cover incidents at more than $100 million in damages.
One of the reasons for the region seeing higher levels of threat, is related to the speed of digital transformation in the region. The global online population is set to grow by around 500 million between 2016 and 2020, with the APAC region leading the growth in people online (60%). The number of connected devices too is set to grow steeply, again, predominantly in the APAC region (60%), with 4G mobile connections up from 1 billion in 2015 to 4.2 billion by 2020.
The region also has a high level of projected growth in IoT devices, with the number of connected devices – according to the firm – in the APAC region hitting 8.6 billion by 2020. While there too have been increases in FinTech propositions, including the transfer of e-money, which in Indonesia along have grown from $54.7 million in 2009 to $409 million in 2015.
Attacks in the region have not been without note, whether on the consumers or on businesses in the region. The firm notes a number of incidents that have had considerable impact, including, among others, the compromise of 3.2 million debit cards in India, the theft of $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh, the personal details of 7.9 million individuals stolen from Japan's largest travel agency, and the world's fifth largest bitcoin exchange seeing $65 million bitcoins lost from its servers.
The report notes that these attacks are likely to be the tip of the iceberg, with the largest share of attacks going unreported. Estimates place around 90% of large companies in the region as under some form of cyberattack last year; and, with no requirements to report incidents in many countries in the region (japan and Australia and New Zealand as exceptions), much of the damage from such attacks remains concealed.
Dealing with the threat in a way that systematically makes the region more robust against attacks – which are likely to increase and become more severe as digitalisation continues – will, according to the firm, require involvement from multiple stakeholders.
Governments are called on to change organisational behaviour by compelling organisations to develop and adopt behaviours that make their organisations cyber-resilient. Creates a cross-organisation framework for cybersecurity skills that leverages lessons learned to create best-practices for industries. Other measures include creating influential national institutions focused on cyber-resilience, and compelling company to government transparency, with comprehensive and enforceable data breach notification regulations.
Organisations remain key targets for cyberattacks, as they contain troves of valuable data. They too are able to create strong lines of defence for that data. Organisations play a key role in defending data, from internal transparency efforts to being transparent about attacks with the various stakeholders involved.
Individuals remain a key link in the cybersecurity chain, with errors implicated in 95% of breaches according to an 2014 IBM study. They too are able to exert considerable pressure on organisations and governments to prevent beaches and regulate information, whether as shareholders or as the public.
The research also cites the board of directors as a key source of direction for cybersecurity efforts within organisations. Making cybersecurity a board level agenda item improves the overall strategy setting of organisations, which, with strong governance, creates the conditions for top-down control of cyber risk and security throughout an enterprise.
Further benefits to the organisation's cybersecurity resilience can be won through regular audits to insure compliance and performance to each of the lines of defence in an organisation. Implementing a range of strong best-practice cybersecurity processes, including training of personnel, deploying relevant technologies, and designing infrastructure in a way that allows for relatively simple surveillance and crisis management.
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There's a lot of discussion these days about the "systemic" issues that leave the black community at a disadvantage.
They blame it all on policing, of course, as if it is somehow logical to blame the disproportionate rates of criminality within the black community on the officers who are enforcing the law—many of whom, of course, are black themselves.
It wasn't too long ago that narratives of black progress were not condescendingly directed towards dismantling the police forces that are the only thing standing between minority, low-income neighborhoods and complete and utter anarchy, but in fact, towards equal access to education and opportunities.
The great economist and academic Thomas Sowell argues that it is not, in fact, systemic racism that is maligning low-income minority children, but "plain old selfishness on the part of traditional public school officials and teachers unions protecting their own vested interests."
"Most Americans would probably be shocked and angry if they knew all the dirty tricks used to sabotage charter schools that are successfully educating" these children, he recently wrote.
"Most of us might see charter schools that succeed where traditional public schools have failed as welcome news, especially in minority communities where there is so much bad news.
"But, when there are a million public school students on waiting lists to get into charter schools nationwide, that amounts to many billions of dollars a year that traditional public schools would lose, if all those students could actually transfer. That would represent a lot of jobs lost in traditional public schools. It would also represent a lot of union dues lost, because most charter school teachers do not belong to a union. The success of many charter schools is definitely unwelcome news to both traditional public school officials and teachers unions," he explains.
Charter schools present a unique opportunity for millions of children across the country, but traditional public school officials and the all-powerful teachers' unions are doing everything they can to make sure that charter schools do not expand their capacity.
Sowell explains that many states have enacted laws that place arbitrary limits on how many charter schools will be allowed to operate. The quality of the education being provided by such institutions is irrelevant.
Such limits have nothing to do with providing the best schooling possible for the children of a given state but rather are put in place to protect the establishment school system.
What's more, where charter schools could expand capacity by occupying otherwise unused school space, officials have prevented them from using even completely vacant school buildings through "various tricks."
"Some of these buildings have been sold, with explicit provisos in the deeds that they cannot subsequently be used again as schools, but only for residential or other purposes," Sowell explains.
In Milwaukee, officials even officially established that they were trying to keep unused school buildings out of the hands of school officials while in Detroit, a member of the local school board said bluntly that "there is no way we should be sustaining our competition."
In Chicago, Washington, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and other localities buildings are demolished rather than being used by charter schools. Ironically Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee and D.C. public schools are at the bottom and among the worst-performing K-12 public school systems in America in terms of reading, science and math scores and graduation rates according to the National Association of Education Progress known as the Nation's Report Card. It's also curious that these failing schools are among the top in per pupil spending.
These are just some of the tactics being used by the defenders of the traditional public school system to prevent the expansion of charter schools.
What's truly tragic is that black voters are still favoring candidates who openly oppose charter schools, such as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio or Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, both of whom have expressed their emphatic support for teachers unions.
"Teachers unions supply millions of votes and millions of dollars to politicians, mostly Democrats. They don't do that automatically, but require politicians to do something in return," Sowell explains.
"Unless black voters take the same attitude, their interests — and the future of their children — will be sacrificed for the political support of teachers unions," he states.
While the 2020 election hangs in the balance as of this writing, it has been clear that the Republicans, who largely support charter schools and school choice, need to make sure to appeal more broadly to black voters on this issue in the future.
"Everything depends on how well Republicans inform black voters and how receptive those voters are to breaking their old voting habits," Sowell concludes.
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Friday is free at the Honda Indy Toronto in support of Make-A-Wish Canada
by Greg MacPherson
TORONTO, ON (May 31, 2012) – For the third year in a row, the Ontario Honda Dealers Association (OHDA) will pay the cost of admission for fans to enjoy the speed and spectacle of the Honda Indy Toronto on Friday, July 6. With generous support from fans, Honda Canada and the OHDA have raised more than $200,000 for Make-A-Wish® during the previous two seasons, helping to make the wishes of children who are living with a life-threatening medical condition come true.
"We're excited to once again partner with Make-A-Wish for Free Friday at the Honda Indy Toronto," said Kevin Pearson, president of the OHDA. "We hope fans enjoy the Indy experience and donate generously to help make wishes come true for children across Canada."
In lieu of admission, and to take part in various onsite games and activities, Free Friday attendees are encouraged to donate to Make-A-Wish. All donations will once again be matched dollar-for-dollar by Honda Canada. With support from organizations like Honda Canada and the OHDA, Make-A-Wish grants over 400 wishes a year through eight regional chapters across the country.
"Honda has been a very generous supporter of our magical wish granting efforts the past two years," said Jennifer Klotz-Ritter, CEO, Make-A-Wish Canada. "We are thrilled to be part of the Honda Indy Toronto again."
The Honda Indy Toronto, which runs July 6-8, marks the 10th race of the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series season and 26 years of racing on the streets of Toronto. On Free Friday, there is no regular reserved seating, so attendees can access all grandstands and choose their seats on a first-come/first-served basis. Throughout the day, attendees can explore the exclusive IZOD IndyCar Series Paddock where the new DW12 IndyCars will be on display while not on the track.
"We love Free Friday because it supports an important cause and it provides the public with a great chance, and the extra incentive, to experience the excitement of IndyCar racing," said Charlie Johnstone, vice president and general manager of the Honda Indy Toronto. "It's hard not to become a fan after experiencing the thrill of racing and all that the Honda Indy has to offer."
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Bite Me
Jason Sheehan September 18, 2003 4:00AM
To recap the action thus far: Duy Pham -- the chef who spent several years working the burners at Tante Louise (4900 East Colfax Avenue), then shocked the hell out of everyone with his amazing plates at Opal (100 East Ninth Avenue), then shocked us again this past spring with a sudden jump to top-dog position at Flow, the quasi-restaurant and lounge at Luna Hotel (1612 Wazee Street) -- has gone and done it again. As was reported here (and everywhere else) last week, Pham gave notice to Luna owner John Hamilton. And as of last Thursday morning, Flow was Pham-less.
"I gave up a lot to come work at this place," Pham tells me, his voice calm, his sentences clipped and uncharacteristically professional. "I really wanted to make this work. Despite all the rumors, I had no intention to quit. I wanted to avoid quitting, but at the end, I knew there was just no way it was going to work."
But that's only the short version of this story: Creative differences, contrasting concepts, taking the restaurant in a new direction -- spend any time in the business and you'll hear those phrases tossed around as often as a divorce-court judge hears irreconcilable differences, because everyone in the restaurant world wants you to think their relationships always end with a firm handshake and a fond fare-thee-well. No one ever wants to talk about the artistic snit he got himself into, the hard words, the apron torn off in anger and thrown in somebody's face. No, it's always a misunderstanding or conflict of vision that ends a partnership -- never an actual argument, never a bloody dog-pile in the parking lot.
"I want you to know that it wasn't a huge fight," Pham says carefully. "There was no huge blowup. John just wanted to take the place in a new direction."
But there's more to it than that. Lots more. Perhaps the biggest factor leading to this oh-so-politic parting of the ways was that Pham never really had an actual restaurant to cook for. What sold him on going to Luna in the first place was the concept of making Flow -- a space described to him as a lounge that served food -- into a real restaurant. "Going into this, I didn't expect it to be like a nightclub," Pham explains. And when I ask why he thought that -- considering that the place he walked into on his first day sure looked like a nightclub -- he says simply, "Because the owners told me it wasn't going to be like a nightclub."
But no restaurant separate from the lounge/nightclub ever emerged. The owners "never named the restaurant," Pham notes. They never advertised the space as a restaurant, never had a sign. "They never even called it a restaurant." If would-be diners somehow figured out that there was a restaurant downstairs from the street-level bar and were willing to brave the gauntlet of stiletto-heeled, leather-clad, cooler-than-thou hipsterati who seemed to own the place most nights, there was no reservation system. "And that's tough," Pham says.
"Flow was designed to be a dual product," responds Hamilton, "but never designed to be a full-blown restaurant." When he hired Pham, that possibility was discussed -- but with the caveat that Pham's cuisine would have to prove it could support such a concept. "When we met with Duy, we all acknowledged that this may or may not work," he continues. "We were taken by his charm. You know, the pedigree he came with. Duy came to us and said he'd left Opal, and we were kind of mesmerized."
But Hamilton quickly determined that building a place around Pham wouldn't work. "We were lucky we didn't name it," he says. "That was a good move." Because if Hamilton had branded a restaurant specifically for Pham, that restaurant would now be closed, the ovens cold, all the lights turned off. "As a new owner, you know you're going to have to make some adjustments for the market," Hamilton says, sounding altogether less upset by the loss of his name chef than I thought he'd be. "We got a good start, but finally the food was looked at as kind of...I don't know the word. Frou-frou? This was not an inexpensive kitchen to run. Duy was expensive; he had sous chefs and pastry chefs. And if people had been coming back for the food, that would've been great. But they were not coming back for the food."
There's this story about Hamilton that predates Luna's opening, back when Kevin Savoy was still set to be the chef. Hamilton had come to town to test Savoy's proposed menu. He and some of the hotel's management had a little sit-down in the downstairs dining room while Savoy brought out maybe half a dozen courses for them to taste. Granted, the menu was still in flux at this point, the kitchen was still being staffed and stocked, but this was it -- a test dinner for the owner -- and the way I hear it, Savoy's food was good, but a long way from great.
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Il tasso d'interesse nominale è il tasso applicato in un atto o in un contratto di prestito, di finanziamento o di mutuo.

Indica il costo teorico per chi prende a prestito del denaro ed il rendimento, teorico anch'esso, per chi lo presta.

La distinzione del tasso nominale da quello effettivo si origina dalla pratica dei prestatori commerciali (banche, società finanziarie, etc.), i quali affiancano agli interessi nominalmente convenuti altri costi da sostenersi forfettariamente o percentualmente sul capitale erogato (commissioni, assicurazione, istruttoria pratica, etc.), i quali costi incidono talvolta pesantemente sul concreto rapporto economico fra le parti.

Poiché il percettore dei costi accessori è sempre il prestatore, è gioco facile per questo pubblicizzare un tasso nominale estremamente interessante, salvo poi a trasferire le utilità che non ricava dal prestito su altre voci accessorie, la cui quantificazione è successiva alla fase pubblicitaria, guadagnando alla fine un valore del tutto equipollente, ma avendo venduto un prodotto finanziario nominalmente "vantaggioso".

Per questo, la legge italiana oggi obbliga i proponenti di prodotti finanziari a distinguere rigorosamente il tasso nominale (T.A.N.) dal tasso effettivo globale (T.A.E.G.).

In matematica finanziaria il T.A.N. si indica con J(m). . (Tasso effettivo di interesse valevole per un m-simo del periodo unitario).

La forma tipica di presentazione di un tasso di interesse nominale è sulla base annua (T.A.N. - tasso annuo nominale), dovendosi perciò rapportare all'annualità eventuali tassi a capitalizzazione semestrale, trimestrale, mensile, etc., i quali potrebbero fallacemente (e maliziosamente) apparire più vantaggiosi (essendo indicati da una percentuale più bassa). Va ricordato infatti che un tasso semestrale non corrisponde ad un tasso annuale di doppio valore: alla scadenza del primo semestre l'interesse viene aggiunto al capitale a costituire il montante, che sarà poi il valore sul quale si effettuerà la capitalizzazione al secondo semestre.

In presenza di inflazione può essere utile tener conto del tasso d'interesse reale.

Per il caso di "indicizzazione", cioè di preordinata variazione del tasso al variare dell'inflazione (registrata su alcuni paramentri ufficiali), taluni considerano che esiste purtuttavia uno scarto fra l'inflazione reale (quella che cioè veramente si verifica nella vita reale) e la minore inflazione dichiarata dallo stato (riduzione che può dipendere da sane finalità di immagine e prestigio dell'economia interna, con riguardo internazionale) e che tale scarto avvantaggia chi ha ricevuto il prestito.

Voci correlate
Tasso d'interesse reale
Equazione di Fisher (economia)
tasso annuo nominale
Tasso annuo effettivo globale

Matematica finanziaria

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National Commission for Backward Classes Gets Bhagwan Lal Sahni as Chairman
Shweta Kashyap March 04, 2019 Appointments & Resigns
Bhagwan Lal Sahni has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Commission for Backward Classes.
Also, Kaushalendra Singh Patel and Acharya Talloju have been appointed as the members of the commission.
About the National Commission for Backward Classes:
National Commission for Backward Classes is a Constitutional body set up through the 123rd constitutional amendment bill 2018 and 102nd amendment act under the provisions of Article 338B of Indian Constitution.
The commission consists of one Chairman and five Members with the term of three years.
The National Commission for Backward Classes is vested with the responsibility of considering inclusions in and exclusions from the lists of communities notified as backward for the purpose of job reservations.
The commission tenders the needful advice to the Central Government on the issues related to the backward classes and the commission has the powers of a civil court.
The National Commission for Backward Classes is not yet empowered to look into the grievances of persons of Other Backward Classes.
This responsibility continues to be vested with the National Commission for Scheduled Castes.
National Commission for Backward classes is the successor of the National Commission for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (NCSEBC).
Q. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Commission for Backward Classes?
a. Bhagwan Lal Sharma
b. Bhagwan Lal Singh
c. Bhagwan Lal Sahni
d. Bhagwan Lal Mishra
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Q: Unexpected output using subprocess in Python I am trying to run a shell command from within my Python (version 2.6.5) code, but it is generating different output than the same command run within the shell (bash):
bash:
~> ifconfig eth0 | sed -rn 's/inet addr:(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}).*/\1/p' | sed   's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'
192.168.1.10

Python:
>>> def get_ip():
...     cmd_string = "ifconfig eth0 | sed -rn \'s/inet addr:(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}).*/\1/p' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//\'"
...     process = subprocess.Popen(cmd_string, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
...     out, err = process.communicate()
...     return out
...
>>> get_ip()
'\x01\n'

My guess is that I need to escape the quotes somehow when running in python, but I am not sure how to go about this.
NOTE: I cannot install additional modules or update python on the machine that this code needs to be run on. It needs to work as-is with Python 2.6.5 and the standard library.

A: The reason your code is not working is that you're not escaping enough. You escaped the quotes, but nothing else that needed to be escaped.
Let's look at your intended command line:
ifconfig eth0 | sed -rn 's/inet addr:(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}).*/\1/p' | sed   's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'

And print out your actual command line (just print cmd_string)
ifconfig eth0 | sed -rn 's/inet addr:(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}).*//p' | sed 's/^[    ]*//;s/[    ]*$//'

Obviously these aren't the same. The key difference is that your \1 has been replaced with an invisible control character, the one whose ord is 1 (that is, ctrl-A). (You've also replaced each \t with a tab character, but that one probably won't break anything.)
Printing out the repr of the line (print repr(cmd_string)) often helps as well:
"ifconfig eth0 | sed -rn 's/inet addr:(([0-9]{1,3}\\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}).*/\x01/p' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'"

That \x01 should immediately alert you to what's going on—or, even if you don't understand it, it should alert you to where something is going wrong, so you can do an easier search or write a simpler question at SO.
You should get in the habit of doing both of these whenever you've got something wrong with escaping.

However, usually, the answer is easy: instead of trying to figure out what does and doesn't need to be escaped, just use a raw string:
cmd_string = r"ifconfig eth0 | sed -rn 's/inet addr:(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}).*/\1/p' | sed   's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'"

Now, when you print that out, you get:
ifconfig eth0 | sed -rn 's/inet addr:(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}).*/\1/p' | sed   's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'

Exactly what you wanted.

A: In python if you use double quotes around the string then you can use single quotes within that string with no need for escaping and vice versa. However, and backslashes will need to be escaped with an additional \ prefix.
Probably your best bet for debugging this would be to add:
print cmd_string

just after setting cmd_string and then compare this the original version to see if any further characters are missing (these will need escaping too).

A: Can you afford to install the sh module?
>>> import re, sh
>>> get_ip = lambda: re.search(r'inet addr:(\S+)',
                               str(sh.ifconfig('eth0'))).group(1)
>>> get_ip()
'10.0.0.202'

A cleaner version:
def get_ip(interface):
    ifconfig = sh.ifconfig(interface)
    match = re.search(r'inet addr:(\S+)', str(ifconfig))
    if match:
        return match.group(1)
    return None

>>> get_ip(eth0)
'192.168.1.10'

Even with subprocess, get rid of sed and use the re module, it will be simpler to read and spare you some troubles with escaping.

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In the unitive experience, every trace of separateness disappears; life is a seamless whole. But the body cannot remain in this state for long. After a while, awareness of mind and body returns, and then the conventional world of multiplicity rushes in again with such vigor and vividness that the memory of unity, though stamped with reality, seems as distant as a dream. The unitive state has to be entered over and over until a person is established in it. But once established, even in the midst of ordinary life, one sees the One underlying the many, the Eternal beneath the ephemeral.
What is it that makes undivided reality appear to be a world of separate, transient objects? What makes each of us believe that we are the body rather than our own Self? The sages answered with a story still told after thousands of years. Imagine, they said, a man dreaming that he is being attacked by a tiger. His pulse will race, his fists will clench, his forehead will be wet with the dew of fear – all just as if the attack were real. He will be able to describe the look of his tiger, the way he smelled, the sound of his roar. For him the tiger is real, and in a sense he is not wrong: the evidence he has is not qualitatively different from the kind of evidence we trust when we are awake. People have even died from the physiological effects of a potent dream. Only when we wake up can we realize that our dream-sensations, though real to our nervous system, are a lower level of reality than the waking state.
The Upanishads delineate three ordinary states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep. Each is real, but each has a higher order of reality. For beyond these three, the Upanishads say, is the unitive state, called simply "the fourth": turiya. Entering this state is similar to waking up out of dream sleep: the individual passes from a lower level of reality to a higher one.
The sages called the dream of waking life – the dream of separate, merely physical existence – by a suggestive name, maya. In general use the word meant a kind of magic, the power of a god or sorcerer to make a thing appear to be something else. In the Gita, maya becomes the creative power of the Godhead, the primal creative energy that makes unity appear as the world of innumerable separate things with "name and form."
Later philosophers explained maya in surprisingly contemporary terms. The mind, they said, observes the so-called outside world and sees its own structure. It reports that the world consists of a multiplicity of separate objects in a framework of time, space, and causality because these are the conditions of perception. In a word, the mind looks at unity and sees diversity; it looks at what is timeless and reports transience. And in fact the percepts of its experience are diverse and transient; on this level of experience, separateness is real. Our mistake is in taking this for ultimate reality, like the dreamer thinking that nothing is real except his dream.
Nowhere has this "mysterious Eastern notion" been formulated more succinctly than in the epigram of Ruysbroeck: "We behold what we are, and we are what we behold." When we look at unity through the instruments of the mind, we see diversity; when the mind is transcended, we enter a higher mode of knowing – turiya, the fourth state of consciousness – in which duality disappears. This does not mean, however, that the phenomenal world is an illusion or unreal. The illusion is the sense of separateness.
Here again we can illustrate from physics: the world of "name and form" exists only as a condition of perception; at the subatomic level, separate phenomena dissolve into a flux of energy. The effect of maya is similar. The world of the senses is real, but it must be known for what it is: unity appearing as multiplicity.
Those who disidentify themselves with the conditions of perception in maya wake up into a higher mode of knowing in which the unity of life is apprehended directly. The disciplines for achieving this are called yoga, as is the state of union: the word comes from the root yuj, to yoke or bind together. The "experience" itself (properly speaking, it is beyond experience) is called samadhi. And the state attained is moksha or nirvana, both of which signify going beyond the conditioning of maya – time, space, and causality.
In this state we realize that we are not a physical creature but the Atman, the Self, and thus not separate from God. We see the world not as pieces but whole, and we see that whole as a manifestation of God. Once identified with the Self, we know that although the body will die, we will not die; our awareness of this identity is not ruptured by the death of the physical body. Thus we have realized the essential immortality which is the birthright of every human being. To such a person, the Gita says, death is no more traumatic than taking off an old coat (2:22).
Life cannot offer any higher realization. The supreme goal of human existence has been attained. The man or woman who realizes God has everything and lacks nothing: having this, "they desire nothing else, and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow" (6:22). Life cannot threaten such a person; all it holds is the opportunity to love, to serve, and to give.
Matter and Mind
Perhaps I should confess at this point that the paragraphs that follow in this short section are somewhat technical and not necessary for understanding the Gita. They can be skipped by anyone who finds them dry. I include them simply because Sankhya's explanation of mind and matter, when properly understood, makes sense of many subjects in the Gita that might otherwise seem arbitrary: maya, the survival of personality after death, the way karma works through the mind. It accommodates modern physics perfectly and offers promising explanations of mind-body relationships in health and disease. However, Sankhya's way of looking at the mind is very different from our usual physical orientation, and therefore impossible to absorb without reflection.
Sankhya's hallmark is a list (sankhya means counting or listing) of twenty-four principles or tattvas ("suchnesses") which trace the steps by which unitary, primordial prakriti becomes manifested as the countless forms of mind, matter, and energy that make up the world we live in. The tattvas are listed in the Gita:
The field, Arjuna, is made up of the following: the five areas of sense perception; the five elements; the five sense organs and the five organs of action; the three components of the mind: manas, buddhi, and ahamkara; and the undifferentiated energy [prakriti] from which all these evolved. (13:5)
I know of no English words to use for most of these twenty-four constituents. Manas corresponds roughly to mind the way that word is commonly used; buddhi is the discriminative faculty, the discriminating intellect; ahamkara, literally "I-maker," is the sense of ego. I have used such rough labels in the translation which follows, but really they are technical terms with precise definitions, each associated with a specific function and level of consciousness. Approximations are misleading because they bring in associations from Western philosophy, which has a wholly different orientation. Behind all these categories lies a powerful, practical assumption: Sankhya is not trying to describe physical reality; it is analyzing consciousness, knowledge, for the sole purpose of unraveling the human being's true identity. So it does not begin with the material universe as something different and separate from the mind that perceives it. It does not talk about sense objects outside us and senses within and then try to get the two together. It begins with one world of experience. Sense objects and senses are not separate; they are two aspects of the same event. Mind, energy, and matter are a continuum, and the universe is not described as it might be in itself, but as it presents itself to the human mind. As they say in the "new physics," it is not just an observable universe but a participatory universe.
Let me illustrate. This morning I had a fresh mango for breakfast: a large, beautiful, fragrant one which had been allowed to ripen until just the right moment, when the skin was luminous with reds and oranges. You can see from that kind of description that I like mangoes. I must have eaten thousands of them when I was growing up, and I probably know most varieties intimately by their color, shape, flavor, fragrance, and feel.
Sankhya would say that this mango I appreciated so much does not exist in the world outside – at least, not with the qualities I ascribed to it. The mango-in-itself, for example, is not red and orange; these are categories of a nervous system that can deal only with a narrow range of radiant energy. My dog Bogart would not see a luscious red and orange mango. He would see some gray mass with no distinguishing features, much less interesting to him than a piece of buttered toast. But my mind takes in messages from five senses and fits them into a precise mango-form in consciousness, and that form – nothing outside – is what I experience. Not that there is no "real" mango! But what I experience, the objects of my sense perception and my "knowing," are in consciousness, nowhere else. A brilliant neuroscientist I was reading recently says something similar in contemporary language: we never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system.
When the Gita says that the material world is made up of five "material elements," then, it is talking about the world as we perceive it through our five senses. The objects of this world are in the mind, not outside. "Physical objects" in this sense require a mental component also: five "essences" or mental conditions of perception, each corresponding to one of the five senses. From these five tanmatras derive on the one hand the five sense organs, and on the other hand the five material elements. You can see that the number five and the correspondences of Sankhya are not arbitrary, but reflect the ways we have of sorting electrical information supplied to the brain.
Four of these elements have names similar to those from ancient philosophy in the West – earth, air, fire, and water. But if we remember that we are talking about principles of perception rather than "earth-stuff," "fire-stuff," and so on, it should become clear that this is not an antiquated theory left behind by the progress of physical science. It is quite sophisticated and accommodates contemporary physical thought rather well, for it recognizes that in the act of knowing, the mind conditions what is known.
Senses and sense objects, then, are very intimately related. There is a causal connection, for example, between the things we see and the physical organ of seeing, the eye and its related branches of the nervous system: both depend on the underlying form in the mind that conditions how we perceive light. The objects we see are shaped by the way we see. So senses and sense objects "make sense" only together: each is incomplete without the other. That is why there is such a strong pull between senses and sense objects.
On the other hand, the Gita says, this pull has nothing to do with us – the Self, the knower. When Krishna keeps telling Arjuna to train his mind to be alike in pleasure and pain, he is simply being practical: to discover unity, consciousness has to be withdrawn from the hold of the senses, which ties it to duality.
When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently, Arjuna. Those who are not affected by these changes, who are the same in pleasure and pain, are truly wise and fit for immortality. (2:14–15)
The sensory attraction of pleasure is just an interaction between inert elements of similar stuff, very much like a magnetic pull between two objects. We are not involved. When I look at a fresh, ripe mango, it is natural for my senses to respond; that is their nature. But I should be able to stand aside and watch this interaction with detachment, the way people stand and watch while movers unload a van. In that way I can enjoy what my senses report without ever having to act compulsively on their likes and dislikes.
Sankhya's explanation of mind and body has profound implications for psychosomatic medicine. In a system where mental phenomena and biochemical events take place in the same field, it is much easier to account for how ways of thinking affect the body. If one idea is central to yoga psychology, it is that thoughts are real and have real, tangible consequences, as we saw in the discussion of karma. Sankhya describes thoughts as packets of potential energy, which grow more and more solid when favorable conditions are present and obstacles are removed. They become desires, then habits, then ways of living with physical consequences. Those consequences may look no more like thoughts than an oak tree looks like an acorn, but the Gita says they are just as intimately related. Just as a seed can grow into only one kind of tree, thoughts can produce effects only of the same nature. Kindness to others, to take just one example, favors a nervous system that is kind to itself.
Extract from "The Bhagavad Gita"
by Eknath Easwaran
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Is Chris Brown a gay/bisexual?
What is Chris Brown marital status?
Who is Chris Brown wife?
How many children does he have?
Nia Guzman, also known as Nia Amey (by the surname of her first husband) was born in 1983 in Corpus Christi (a medium-size city in the southern part of Texas). There she was educated in a high school. The woman quit her studying, when she met Terry Amey. In 2001 the couple welcomed a daughter Zillah Jade Amey.
They wedded in 2003. After that Terry and Nia moved to LA. There Terry worked as a logistics coordinator in a successful oil company. Nia studied nursing in college and joined it with modeling. As a model, she knew many famous people. A musician and dancer Chris Brown was one of her friends. He is 5 years younger than Nia Gusman. Although Nia was married with Terry Amey and Chris was dating a model Karrueche Tran, it didn't stop them from having an affair. After a short-term relationship Nia got pregnant. In 2014 she gave a birth to a daughter Royalty Brown. Nia didn't tell Chris about her pregnancy. But 10 months later he discovered that he had a daughter. After that Chris Brown started a court process against Nia Gusman. As a result, they shared a child's custody.
Terry Amay filed for divorce, when he knew about his wife pregnancy from another man. He had no idea, who was a man, with whom his wife Nia cheated him. Terry was shocked, when he had learnt that it was R&B star Chris Brown. The musician broke up with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran after his baby news.
Nowadays Nia Gusman has a deal with a music label Y.E.M.G. She plans to try her hand as a singer. In addition, she develops a clothing line, named after her daughter – Royalty.
Although Chris Brown affair with Nia Gusman ruined his relationships with a model Karrueche Tran, he tells that he doesn't regret about this episode in his life, because it brought him a special gift – his daughter. As for now, Royalty is the only one child of a hip hop star.
At first Chris didn't know that he fathered a baby. After that he asked his friend a short-term lover Nia to pass DNA test, which confirmed, that Royalty is his baby.
After that Chris started a new page in his life. From a bright music star and bad boy, who beat Rihanna, he turned into a loving daddy.
Chris spends a lot of time with Royalty. According to court decision, he can spend 12 days per months with his daughter. Brown appears with his cute girl in public and posts her pics in Instagram. He named Royalty Brown "my little copy".
As for now, Royalty is a cute kid of 4 years old. She lives in LA with her mother and older sister. In 2016 the girl was diagnosed with asthma. Nia tells that this health disorder comes from Chris's habit to smoke weeds everywhere, even near his daughter. That caused the inflammatory illness.
Who are Chris Brown parents?
Joyce Hawkins is not just Chris Brown mother, she is also his most devoted fan. She supported her son after his scandal with Rihanna and tried to explain his assaulting behavior by a bad company that was around him in 2009.
Joyce spent most part of her life in Tappahannock, VA. She worked as a director of a day care centre. The woman was married twice. Her first husband was Clinton Brown, with whom she welcomed a daughter Lytrell Bundy and a son Chris Brown. Joyce spent a lot of time with her children. She helped them develop their talents. Thus, she supported her son's interest in music.
When Chris Brown turned 7, his mother Joyce and father Clinton filed for divorce. That situation influenced the boy. He met the first tragedy on his way.
Soon Joyce re-married Daniel Hawkins. She took his surname. Chris hated his stepfather and even promised to kill him. The reason was Daniel's abusive nature. Very often he beat Joyce. Chris wanted to protect his mother.
Daniel lost his eyesight after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. After that he became even crueler. During Chris Brown court process the musician blamed his abusive stepfather. But Daniel Hawkins denied all Brown's accusations in his interview. "Don't blame me in your problems", Mr. Hawkins said.
Soon Joyce separated from an abusive husband. Now she helps her son with his career. She also takes part in her granddaughter's upbringing.
Clinton Brown divorced with Chris's mother Joyce, when a future hip hop star had been in a primary school age. But till now he stays in touch with his son. Not long ago Chris Brown congratulated his parent with Father's Day.
Clinton earned his living as the prison officer. It was he, who inspired his son to start a music career. In his young years Clinton came home from work and played tunes for his daughter Lytrell and son Chris. He is a pensioner as for now and lives in a small house in Tappahannock. He supported his son during his time in jail, where he was put after abusive scandal with Rihanna. Later Clinton named his son and Rihanna's second attempt to start an affair "a mistake".
Lytrell Bundy is Chris Brown only sibling. She is 8 years older than her brother. Lytrell is nicknamed as "Tootie" by her friends.
The girl grew up in Tappahannock, VA. There she graduated from a local high school and then continued her education at James Madison University, where she studied biology. Currently the girl lives in Chesterfield, VA. She works as a medical laboratory scientist.
Lytrell has always been in a friendly relationship with her brother Chris. She defended him during his story with Rihanna. "He has never been violent", she told to journalists.
Christopher Maurice Brown spent his early years in Tappahannock, VA. He fell in love with music at a kindergarten age. The boy sang in a church choir. He also was a star of a school play "Elfis".
Chris Brown is widely known due to his self-titled album, which got platinum status. His other super-successful album is "Exclusive". In 2015 he released an album "Royalty", inspired by his daughter.
Chris is the owner of fourteen Burger King restaurants.
He was nominated for Grammy 12 times during the years of his career, but won it just once – in 2012.
Chris Brown is nicknamed as "Breezy". At the beginning of his career he performed under the name C-Syzle.
We love you chris…….. and I know its hard living under those flashing lights but I'm praying for you…….


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IBM Expands Cloud Pak For Data With New DataOps Enhancements To Help Clients Get Their Data Ready For AI
New DataOps features available in Cloud Pak for Data designed to simplify data quality and governance;
New StoredIQ InstaScan offering helps streamline risk assessment, compliance and AI projects
Expands Data Science Elite team to include DataOps practice
New York, NY /PRNewswire/ - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced enhancements to Cloud Pak for Data that leverage the DataOps methodology to help clients get their data 'business-ready' for AI.
As corporate data continues to grow in both volume and complexity – often of mixed structures and types and from sources strewn across the enterprise – the time required to collect and organize these vast datasets into usable data for AI can stress resources and actually stall AI projects. Improving data preparation, management and automation are the pillars of the burgeoning and collaborative DataOps (data operations) principle, which outlines methods for automating and streamlining data flows across an enterprise. DataOps is also at the core of the "Organize" rung of IBM's AI Ladder strategy, from which clients can transform datasets into data that's tuned and prepared for AI.
"The path to consistent success with AI projects begins with business-ready data and the methodology for delivering that is DataOps," said Rob Thomas, General Manager, IBM Data and AI. "The things we're announcing today, from infusing more automation, governance and collaboration capabilities into our products, to an expanded Data Science Elite practice, build on something we've been doing throughout the year: giving clients practical ways to speed this process in a uniform, thoughtful and consistent manner to speed their journey to AI."
The key technical updates unveiled today include:
Watson Knowledge Catalog (WKC), the company's data and AI catalog built into Cloud Pak for Data, IBM's multicloud data and analytics platform, has been updated with new quality and governance capabilities for policy enforcement. Already equipped with certain governance capabilities, WKC offers access to rich third-party data, such as socio-economic data, household data that can be combined with enterprise data in a single enterprise catalog.
StoredIQ InstaScan is a brand-new unstructured data management and privacy solution that is designed to identify risk hot spots in data sources and prioritizes potential fixes and remediations, to help reduce the time needed to meet compliance data collection obligations and AI projects. In addition, users can conduct periodic risk assessment tests, helping to build confidence and trust in the data. The software also enables users to define policies for assessing cloud data sources, to help assure collection and management is accountable and more accurate.
InfoSphere DataStage, a leading extract, transfer and load (ETL) tool available in Cloud Pak for Data has been updated with a new feature called, Change Data Capture designed to continuously capture data changes and automatically transforms and delivers that anywhere clients demand. Other new capabilities to the platform identify assets from a data catalog, and then automatically generate jobs, easing the user experience for data engineers. In addition, new collaboration features are engineered to make it easier for business users and data engineers to share data and insights.
For more on these solutions visit IBM.
Source: IBM


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Víkingur Ólafsson releases Reflections
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Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson's latest project, Reflections, inspired by the critically acclaimed and chart-topping 2020 album Debussy – Rameau, is released in all formats today.
Engaging in visionary conversations with French masters Debussy and Rameau, Ólafsson and other pioneering artists of today take a selection of scores as their starting points for a set of varied and original contemporary reworks. The new tracks feature the delicate guitar-based sounds of Texas-based duo Balmorhea, gentle vocals of Icelandic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Helgi Jónsson and Hugar, among others. The reworks are combined with some of Ólafsson's previously unreleased recordings of solo piano pieces by Debussy to create a dreamlike blend of past and present.
Víkingur Ólafsson says, "Great music is a renewable source which, in capable hands, can sound new to our ears, whether it was written 300 years ago or yesterday."
The forth EP Reflections Pt. 4 Debussy • Pour le Piano is now available to download and stream and the entire project Reflections is available in all formats, released today, 12 March 2021.
Karoline Melstveit
karoline.melstveit@harrisonparrott.co.uk
Three HarrisonParrott artists take part in Bergen Philharmonic's online Wintermezzo festival
Sayaka Shoji & Víkingur Ólafsson perform in Japan together
Limelight 2020 Recording of the Year & Instrumental Recording of the Year


The book I wrote about in this post was co-authored by my uncle, Duane Black.
It was reviewed Oct. 27 in Shanghai Daily at this link.
Shanghai Daily is one of two English newspapers in Shanghai. The other is the China Daily.
The writer gives the book a positive review, and elucidates many of the points from the book quite accurately.
Unfortunately, the reporter didn't get the title right (she calls the book The Hands-Off Management), but we'll take the review anyway.
This book really should be translated into simplified and traditional Mandarin and sold throughout greater China. Managers here need it–the younger, talented generation simply won't put up with dogmatic, authoritarian manager types anymore. They walk.
My uncle, Duane Black, and his co-author, success coach Steve Chandler, released a book in March 2007 entitled The Hands-Off Manager: How to Mentor People and Allow Them to be Successful. My uncle sent me a copy of the book in early April, and I read through it immediately. The book is only 207 pages long, but packed with life-changing wisdom.
Yeah, I know. "Packed with life-changing wisdom" sounds like a trite sales pitch. Well, beginning in late April, in one of my presentation skills courses at a large multinational north of Taipei, I asked the participants to prepare presentations on effective leadership. After several practice and coaching sessions, I delivered my own presentation on the same topic, mainly as a way of demonstrating effective presentation techniques. I centered my presentation around what the book teaches about leadership.
What I thought would be a half hour demonstration turned into two full sessions devoted to discussing the content of The Hands-Off Manager. I have since used material from the book in other training courses, and am now preparing proposals for leadership training courses based on the book.
The Hands-Off Manager teaches managers to lead by coaching and mentoring, rather than judging and criticizing. In the courses where I discussed the book, I ended up applying several of its concepts to relationships with suppliers, with customers, and with relatives and friends.
Managers in Taiwan are eating it up.
I'm sure that my uncle and Steve Chandler wrote this book for an American target audience, but it is interesting that groups of managers in Taiwan are so energized by its teachings. The book's treatment of vision, its encouragement to approach relationships without judgment and to face problems with neutrality, and the advice to fit a job to person rather than try to force a person to do a job he'll never be great at has really hit home with the people who manage the Taiwan divisions of the multinationals who are my clients.
The book is not totally devoid of Chinese philosophy. The section on neutrality fits very well with Taoist ideas about Yin and Yang, the two symbiotic life forces whose interaction is believed to have a major impact on health and spiritual and mental well-being.


In July last year, EzyLearn published a couple of posts about SuperStream, the government initiative to improve the efficiency of Australia's superannuation system, which all businesses with 19 or fewer employees must be compliant with by June 30 this year. As we've now reaching June 30, it's important to ensure that you're fully compliant with SuperStream, the government's electronic system for sending superannuation payments to your employees' super funds.
If you're already using a payroll system to pay super and send your employee information, then you may only need to alter your system slightly to ensure you're compliant. If you don't currently send super and employee information electronically, then you'll need to implement a system for doing so – and as soon as possible.
If you currently use one of the major cloud accounting programs, such as MYOB AccountRight or Xero, they're already SuperStream compliant – both have been gold certified, meaning they conform to all of the testing requirements for all data and messaging for SuperStream. As long as all of your employee information is current and accurate, then you're already SuperStream compliant. It's now just a click of a button in your accounting software to create the super fund report, which, along with the money, is sent through to each super fund.
If you don't use MYOB AccountRight or Xero or another SuperStream compliant accounting package – or the version of MYOB you're using isn't up-to-date – then you can use the government's Small Business Superannuation Clearing House, which is free for businesses with 19 or fewer employees and an aggregated turnover below $2 million per annum.
This will involve a few extra steps in the payroll process, and also involve some double handling of certain information, but it's still an incredibly simple process to follow to ensure you're sending your employees' super contributions electronically.
If you currently use a bookkeeper, however, the double handling of information may make it less cost effective to use the government's Small Business Superannuation Clearing House, as opposed to upgrading your accounting software to a compliant system, like Xero or MYOB AccountRight.
Check out this great video that explains from the horses mouth how SuperStream works and give you a checklist of things to do to see if you are compliant.
To find out if your current payroll system is SuperStream compliant, visit the ATO website, or ask your bookkeeper or accountant.
If you decide to upgrade or adopt a SuperStream compliant one, and you'd like training in how to use it correctly, EzyLearn offers both MYOB training courses (which includes payroll) and Xero training courses, delivered completely online. Otherwise, for more small business news, tips and insights subscribe to our blog.
As bookkeeping tasks become more complicated and require more compliance you may find it better to use the services of an experienced bookkeeper who provides their services on a contract basis when you need them. If you want to find a local bookkeeper be sure to check out great bookkeepers at our bookkeeping directory National Bookkeeping. If you are a great bookkeeper and want to get more exposure and join a collaborative marketing team feel free to Pre Qualify and tell us about yourself.


Instead of rushing to make everyone work around your system as soon as you step in, we recommend the following tactics to earn the trust and respect of your new team.
The impact of a new meeting space is particularly more when it is decked out creatively and artistically. Here's why we think a creative space can lead to a more productive and effective meeting.
Every year leaders are confronted with the challenge of maintaining office moral in the winter season.
The truth is that off-site meeting spaces are becoming more and more common in your area, and it's time to take advantage of the benefits.
Mindful communication practices are a must to stand out among the constant barrage of information.
Leaders are not born leaders. They are normal people like me and you who decide at some point in their lives that they need to take the reins of their life in their own hands and do some extraordinary things.
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With off-site meeting spaces becoming more popular, it can sometimes be difficult to decide on a space that will offer everything you need for a fair price.
Creatives tend to have the urge to challenge the status quo, and they often pushing tend to push for new limits to surpass the old.
Have You Considered Taking Your Meeting Offsite?
Meetings are a crucial part of the processes of any company. Stakeholders need to get together and make important decisions about operations. Many of the meetings are to cover general day to day matters, and short 15 to 30 minute sessions in the office's meeting room are sufficient to cover the scope and agenda of the meetings.
How Do I Communicate with My Team Effectively?
Earning the respect of your entire team is not an easy thing. Even if you're designation has the word 'manager' included in it, there will be people in your team that will always question your authority which is especially bothersome for all people who are new to performing their managerial duties.


Come along to a STEPS training programme and learn about managing epilepsy and broader health & wellness issues and meet others with epilepsy to learn from each other and share experiences. Our programmes are six weekly sessions, running in a number of locations around the country. Follow our events section to find an event in your area or contact your local office.