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Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Reports Rs 481.43 Crore Net Loss in Q1
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Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML), which has the license to provide services in Maharashtra and Goa, on Tuesday reported a net loss (before exceptional items) of Rs 481.43 crore for its first quarter ended June 30, 2017, against net loss of Rs 108.07 crore in the same period last year. The company's total comprehensive loss, however, stood at Rs 506 crore in the first quarter, as per the BSE filing.
TTML, which offers CDMA, GSM and 3G services, reported Rs 554.15 crore income from operations for the quarter, which has declined 7% from the previous quarter. It reported EBITDA of Rs 120 crore for the quarter, which has declined 6% from the previous quarter.
TTML had last month received a nod from its Board of Directors for the proposal to raise up to Rs 1,300 crore through a mix of preference shares and debentures.
According to various media reports, Tata Sons is infusing Rs 12,000 crore more into Tata Teleservices, which will allow the telco to repay its debt and improve its financial metrics. The infusion is approved by the board led by Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran, who is working on devising a strategy for TTSL to help its navigate the competitive landscape.
The latest investment follows infusion of Rs 2,000 crore into Tata Teleservices in the financial year 2016-17.
Notably, the infusion development comes amid the speculation that Tata Teleservices' merger talks with Reliance Jio after similar talks with Bharti Airtel fizzled out, according to reports.
Tata Teleservices recently reportedly approached its lenders, including the State Bank of India (SBI), to seek a restructuring of its debt, becoming the second telco to seek debt restructuring after Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications (Rcom). The telco wants bankers to restructure about Rs 30,000-crore of its total Rs 40,000-crore debt, which includes Rs 8,000-crore of deferred spectrum payments, according to a report by Business Line.
The Tata Group-owned telecom company has sought an extended maturity of 20 years for repayments. The telco has also requested for a fresh loan of Rs 5,000 crore, which it wants to use for operational and capital expenditure (capex) needs at a time when it is struggling to grow and stay relevant in a highly competitive telecom market.
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The council service center provides resources and information to the Scout family of chartered partners and their leaders. Services include: volunteer training, badges of rank and advancement records, processing of registration, reservations for use of our great camping facilities and programs, and personal leadership from a trained staff. Scouting merchandise, resources and supplies are available through the Scout Shop.
The Scout Center is closed for New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
The Samoset Scout Shop is here to serve all your needs in uniforms, BSA national supply items, advancement purchases, publications, outdoor equipment, crafts and more. Many of the items listed in the BSA Catalog are in stock and what isn't can be ordered through the Scout Shop, free of shipping charges for you.
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Design and specs
Delivery and setup process
Review of the Tempur-Pedic Ease Power Base
Cons to consider
What are your alternatives?
Tempur-Pedic's cheapest adjustable bed frame offers customization and support without all the flashy features of more expensive models
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When I reviewed the Tempur-Luxe Adapt mattress, I chose to pair it with Tempur-Pedic's Ease Power Base.
The Ease is an adjustable bed frame that offers raised head and foot positions controlled by a wireless remote.
It's the company's cheapest adjustable frame and starts at $849 for a Queen.
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When I recently made plans to review the Tempur-Luxe Adapt mattress, one thing became clear right away. Buying a Tempur-Pedic mattress is really a package deal.
That's because these highly specialized mattresses can't just be placed atop any old bed frame . They require a firm, flat surface with strong center support. Stacking one on top of a box spring or slatted-platform frame may not only harm the mattress but will void its generous 10-year warranty.
Tempur-Pedic sells foundations if you're set on making a previous frame work, but because Tempur-Pedic mattresses are also meant to provide a highly-customizable experience, it felt like a missed opportunity to not try it with an accompanying adjustable base.
As such, I tested Tempur's Ease Power Base for three months, provided by the company for review. This is their entry-level adjustable frame and is pretty standard, lacking the bells and whistles of its upgraded counterparts which boast USB ports, massage features, and automatic snore detection.
You don't technically have to own a Tempur-Pedic mattress to use one of its power bases, though; they're designed to work in tandem and other brand mattresses may not adapt to the adjustable features quite as well, if at all.
Here's what it's like to sleep on the Ease power base, and why I was so impressed.
The Ease Power Base is one of four adjustable base options offered by Tempur-Pedic and may be used with any Tempur-Pedic mattress.
The platform design consists of a simple, wide, flat surface with a subtle foot bar to keep the mattress in place when it's repositioned. There's no headboard, or option for one.
While these bases are designed to work with the brand's own mattresses, you may use another mattress so long as it doesn't exceed the average weight limit of 650 pounds, inclusive of the weight of the mattress. Just note that the base is designed to work with Tempur-Pedic's adaptable memory foam and may not be appropriate for other mattresses. Check with your mattress manufacturer to see what frames are approved.
This standard adjustable platform base allows you to personalize your sleep experience by raising or lowering the head and foot positions from a wireless remote control. Move one at a time or both to a height that suits you, with a max head tilt of 57 degrees, and bottom raise range of 46 degrees.
This range is what the company considers "zero gravity," because elevating your head and feet in this manner can simulate weightlessness and help relieve pressure.
While I can't say I felt shipped off to space, I can vouch that the frame offered an elevated (no pun intended) way to enhance the experience of my mattress as it was a pretty comfortable way to watch TV.
As the entry-level offering, the Ease is Tempur-Pedic's cheapest base, starting at $849 for a Full or Queen size, and also offered in Twin, King, California King, and Split King sizes.
Unlike Tempur mattresses, the Ease does not offer a free trial period. The warranty period, however, is much longer and covers any manufacturer defects that may occur within 25 years of purchase (a mattress warranty from Tempur-Pedic runs 10 years), so long as you purchased it from Tempur-Pedic or an authorized retailer.
Both the Tempur-Pedic mattress and Ease Base aren't cheap, but together, they formed quite the power couple for comfort and support.
White glove delivery comes standard with any Tempur-Pedic mattress, foundation, or power base. This includes in-home setup and removal of your old bed, if you wish.
Setting it up was fairly easy, though a bit slow. I ordered my base along with my mattress and received a call from the delivery service a little over a week after placing my order. I was then able to schedule a delivery date another week later, which was the soonest available. While this took more time than I anticipated, I also attributed the delay to the fact that my mattress was being delivered amid a global pandemic that resulted in mail and delivery delays across the board.
As a result of the pandemic, I also feared that the end-to-end service would be suspended and I'd be stuck with a giant, heavy bed frame sitting in my driveway.
Fortunately, two people delivered the mattress and base into my house without a problem and wore masks. From start to finish, it took just 20 minutes for them to put together the base and place the new mattress on top. The delivery team simply unfolded it, checked a few wires, screwed on the support legs, plugged it in, and handed me the remote. It seemed easy enough to manage should I need to move it on my own in the future.
I never thought I needed an adjustable bed before. It's likely why I opted for the most basic model. But I was quickly impressed by how enjoyable it was to be able to raise myself up to watch TV, read a book, or just relax in bed. The feature also came in handy since I was pregnant at the time, and the positioning made it easier for me to get up and out of bed or elevate my feet. Now that I've had my baby, it's also very convenient for middle-of-the-night nursing.
Fair warning though, once you start sitting in bed this way, it will be hard to go back to simply relying on propped up pillows to get the best view of the TV. I found myself saying all too often to my husband, "let's watch TV in bed," rather than retreating to the family room in a more civilized manner. For those that try to separate their bed as solely a place to sleep, using a base like the Ease may prove challenging.
And the Ease is still Tempur-Pedic's basic model, which really only comes with three functions: raise the head, raise the feet, or raise both, cocooning yourself in a taco-like state.
All three features are controlled by a wireless remote control, which also has a nifty button in the center to bring everything down flat at the same time.
One of my chief concerns when selecting a bed was motion reduction. The Tempur-Pedic sleep experience improved this dramatically, especially over a spring-style bed, but it wasn't an immediate cure-all.
I was initially still aware of my husband's movements, which I mostly attributed to the design of the power base, rather than the mattress itself. The platform frame is just a solid, open flat base on which the mattress sits. It stresses utility and function over design and aesthetics. There's a small foot bar, but no headboard or raised sides.
As such, when my husband moved dramatically, I felt a slight shift. Had the mattress been surrounded by four solid sides, I believe it would have prevented all motion by keeping it more firmly in place. But these movements were very minor. And after sleeping on it a few weeks, I was unbothered. But if you're quite concerned by any motion at all, I'd recommend pairing this mattress with a more supportive frame. Just be sure to buy the accompanying foundation, too.
The look of the Ease also means you won't make a design statement. There's no option to add a headboard or hide the bottom with a bed skirt. If you're looking to create a certain style aesthetic, you're better off choosing a different platform.
Despite these minor issues, the Ease provided a more customizable sleep experience than I would have found with a standard frame, and cost far less than Tempur-Pedic's upgraded models, which is important if you want to offset the cost of an already expensive mattress.
The Ease suited my needs fine, but it's hard not to be dizzied and impressed by the slick features of Tempur-Pedic's flashier Tempur-Ergo bed frames, of which there are three varieties.
Those upgraded models come with tech-forward enhancements such as a quiet mode, USB ports, head and foot massage, under-bed lighting, split functionality, and smart capabilities that can detect and prevent snoring automatically.
They also come with a companion smartphone app that relays minute-by-minute sleep analysis and insights through AI-powered sensors. All of these data points then provide sleep tips and may be connected with other smart home tech such as Google devices.
My base had none of that. All we had in common was simple head and foot elevation.
However, I found the standard, cheaper model to be more than adequate. Such snazzy customizations were novel, but my husband and I both prefer to sleep flat, and would probably be wasted on us.
Plus, the fancier frames range from $1,299 to $2,199 for Queen models, and that's before you even factor in a Tempur-Pedic mattress that can easily cost around the same price.
I didn't know I wanted an adjustable frame before, and the features made my bed a place where I wanted to spend extra time. I watched more TV in bed than I previously had (which some may consider a negative), took calls in it, and generally loved just sitting in it.
However, it favors function over design, and I wished I had more control over the look and style of the frame, and my room, with a headboard.
Still, the white-glove delivery, easy setup, generous warranty, and comfort made the Ease a, well, easy and affordable choice when purchasing a Tempur-Pedic mattress.
Pros: Easy and free setup included, long warranty, ability to customize head and foot positions to desired heights
Cons: Tempur-Pedic power bases can't be customized for style or design needs, not as smart or intuitive as upgraded models, expensive, no trial period
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More guns is never the answer
Postedby Natalia Grozina
When the members of the Texas school board were drafting their ruling on gun control, I wonder if an animated paperclip pop-up on their Microsoft Word document batted its eyelashes and said: "You seem to be writing something that will cause a lot more chaos than it already has. Would you like some help?"
Actually, we could all use some help here. The school board in Harrold, Texas announced on Aug. 28 that it would allow teachers to carry concealed weapons to schools.
The New York Times reported that "students in this tiny town of grain silos and ranch-style houses spent much of the first couple of days in school this week trying to guess which of their teachers were carrying pistols under their clothes." If this doesn't sound like a problem to you yet, I'm not sure what will.
I understand that the idea behind this was great; to prevent another massacre along the lines of what happened at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, or more recently the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting that killed 33 people.
However, my question is: Who is going to protect the students from the teachers? Carrying a gun makes someone a shooter and a potential killer, and as far as I know, teachers are trained to teach and not to kill.
Now, imagine you knew that your professor at Portland State was carrying a gun. Do you feel safe?
Perhaps, but I think most people would feel more safe if they were protecting themselves and the one with the right to carry the gun. Now, I'm not saying that it is a bad idea to protect people from potential school shootings, but according to the National Center for Law Enforcement Technology, statistics show that more police officers are killed with their own guns than illegal handguns on the street.
So, if a teacher feels so unsafe that they need to bring a firearm to school, they should also consider a career change, because if trained police officers are more likely to be killed with their own weapons, I see a teacher in an even more hazardous position, a position with a larger margin for error because they do not have the same training of handheld weapons that law enforcement has.
Protecting students from a school shooting seems to be the right thing to do, but having a teacher carrying a gun to school not only makes them a target but it also allows an easier opportunity for a student to obtain the weapon.
And if you know what happened at Columbine and Virginia Tech, you would know that both shootings were done by students who somehow obtained a gun, so having a teacher carry one to school seems counterintuitive to the goal of security.
I don't know about you, but I feel extremely safe at Portland State without these concealed weapons in my professors pockets–and compared to a city the size of the Portland State campus, I can't even imagine why on earth Harrold, Texas students and teachers would need guns to protect themselves from nothing but each other.
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Tales from Chicago's South Side, told with music and heart
Mon Jun 20, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Jack Zimmerman
Jack Zimmerman of the Lyric Opera of Chicago is known to members of the musical press for his unflappable professionalism and wryly subversive sense of humor. Yet in addition to his deft handling of press inquiries in his day (and night) job in the Lyric's public relations office, the native Chicagoan is also a published novelist, and wonderfully engaging story-teller and raconteur.
Jack will present two public readings from The Gift, his new CD collection of stories, featuring musical accompaniment by son, Andrew Zimmerman. The tales offer witty and poignant autobiographical reminiscences drawn from Zimmerman's South Side Irish family and childhood. For those of us who also hail from similarly humble South Side Irish origins, these events are not to be missed and should be attended by all with an interest in superb writing and Chicago history.
Jack will be also be on Prairie Home Companion this Saturday, which is broadcasting live from Ravinia starting at 4:45 p.m.
Copies of The Gift may be ordered at jackzimmerman.net.
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In Britain, the economic arguments around the value of the arts first acquired popularity in reaction to the cultural policies of the 1980s. Eleonora Belfiore explores some more recent thinking.
When the Thatcherite cultural policies of the 1980s pressed the arts to become less reliant upon the state, the need arose to present the case for the arts in a different, more convincing way. ?Subsidy? became a wholly unfashionable word and was quickly substituted by ?investment?. The state was thus invited to ?invest? in what were now referred to as the ?cultural industries?. As the argument went, the state should not recede from its commitment to the cultural sector, given the remarkable contribution that the arts make to the economy of the country, producing wealth, contributing to urban regeneration, creating employment and attracting investment from private businesses.
This economic argument in favour of public support of the arts was ultimately glorified in the 1988 study by John Myerscough, significantly entitled The Economic Importance of the Arts in Britain. This was a highly controversial publication, strongly criticised particularly by cultural economists, yet, it opened the way to an increasing number of similar studies claiming to be able to prove and measure the importance of the arts sector to the local and national economy. Myerscough?s work was admittedly motivated by an attempt to advocate for the subsidised cultural sector. Even today, most economic impact studies are commissioned by organisations directly involved in arts administration or funding. This has generated criticism and scepticism about their objectivity, to the extent that economists involved in impacts measurement have become, in Sir Alan Peacock?s words, a useful ?hired gun? for the cultural establishment. Such criticism, though, albeit not rare, has left the belief in the economic value of the arts largely unscathed. For example, the DCMS publication ?Creative Industries: 1998 Mapping Document?, was commissioned to provide an overview of the contribution of the British creative sector in wealth and job creation - an exercise that was repeated in 2001.
There are many different types of economic impact studies. These can focus on the economic importance of a single cultural event or organisation (a festival or a national tour, for example) or the entire cultural life of a town or region. A more ambitious study might attempt to measure the economic impacts of the cultural life of an entire country. However, the most common form that this type of study tends to take is the registration and measurement of the short-term economic impacts of the cultural activity or organisation observed, attempting to differentiate between direct, induced and indirect effects (Hansen 1995) 1.
The direct effects are the employment and income that are directly generated by the arts organisation or activity (for instance the number of people directly employed by it).
The indirect effects (closely linked to the previous two) are constituted by the ineffable yet revered multiplier effect. Put it simply, the multiplier operates on the principle that one individual?s expenditure is another individual?s income. Whenever any extra consumer spending happens, this gives rise to a series of further incomes and expenditures. The overall increase in spending is much higher than the initial injection of additional expenditure. The greater the proportion of the extra income that is spent, the bigger the multiplier effect will be.
To estimate the multiplier effect of the cultural sector on the economy it is necessary to establish the extent to which money spent on culture circulates within the local economy, thus creating additional local spending and positive indirect effects on the local economy at large. Supporters of the economic impact of the arts claim that the arts sector generates a high multiplier effect and tends to stimulate extra consumption and spending in other local businesses, thus minimising ?leakages? of the additional income from the local economy. Therefore, according to the champions of the economic argument, the cultural sector is an important player in the national economy because of the high number of people it employs, because of the wealth it generates - directly and indirectly - by stimulating additional spending within the local economy. Furthermore, there is a diffuse belief in the capacity of a vibrant cultural sector to make an area more attractive for business relocation. Moving to a lively and culturally vibrant location supposedly appeals to firms as it makes it easier for them to attract highly skilled professional labour.
However, these are hardly uncontroversial claims. In fact, there are a number of problematic issues concerning the way impact studies reach their conclusions. Some of the complications arise form the ambiguity of the very concept of the measurement of the ?economic importance? of the arts. This can be interpreted as referring to the measurement of that section of the local or national economy that has to do with the arts. In this case, the impact study would attempt to measure and register the actual size of the cultural sector (how many people it employs, its annual turnover, the tax revenue it generates, etc.). If the study aspires to provide a strong justification for the public support of the arts, though, this type of study would not represent an effective advocacy exercise. Registering the size of the arts sector within a country does not prove that the subsidies are public resources well spent, or that it might be worthwhile to maintain or increase current subsidy levels. Rather, in order to provide effective advocacy ammunition, an impact study should strive to measure the extent to which the cultural sector is able to generate economic growth (that is, new consumption and new jobs) as opposed to a mere diversion of consumer spending.
Surprisingly, though, this type of study represents a minority percentage of extant impacts studies. In fact, the advocacy of many impact studies is based on a clear exaggeration of the economic impacts observed. This exaggeration is the result of considering consumption, employment and tax revenues as gross quantities rather than trying to establish whether the arts sector has produced new consumption and new employment. Furthermore, it is not enough to show that the arts generate income, employment and tax revenue, for all sectors of the economy do that. For the advocacy argument to hold, impact studies also need to prove that investment in the arts is more beneficial (in terms of economic growth) than investment in other sectors. Regrettably, impact studies have failed, so far, to convincingly sustain the claim that in order to help economic development the best option is to invest in the arts.
One more argument that impact studies have failed to substantiate is that the arts are a crucial factor in business relocation decisions. Indeed, there is evidence (Seaman, 2000) 2 that businesses still consider infrastructures and other business-related factors as more decisive in their choice of a suitable location. Therefore, if we follow the argument to its logical conclusion, it would make more economic sense for the state to redirect available subsidies to other activities (such as infrastructure improvements) rather than the arts, in order to achieve the highest possible economic returns for its investment.
One final important reason to be cautious about economic impact studies is that they tend to encourage an instrumental view of the arts, and are evaluated in relation to their economic ? and, more recently, social ? impacts, rather than for their intrinsic purpose (which is not to generate new consumption and employment). Unfortunately, the impacts on the national cultural life, on the population?s quality of life, identity, and creativity (which are the areas where the arts could really represent a long-term investment in the development of society) don?t lend themselves to a short-term economic evaluation, and are thus unsuitable for a type of research that often equates to an advocacy exercise.
Eleonora Belfiore MA is a PhD student at the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick e: elebelfiore@yahoo.co.uk.
Contact her if you would like a re-print of her paper, ?Art as a means towards alleviating social exclusion: does it really work? A critique of instrumental cultural policies and social impact studies in the UK?, first published in 2002 in the International Journal of Cultural Policy.


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Center for Peacebuilding (CIM)
CIM works for reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina through creating spaces for inter-ethnic and inter-religious dialogue. They also organise international delegations to share experiences with other peace processes around the world.
The Center for Peacebuilding (CIM) is a peacebuilding organisation working for reconciliation among the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They offer a space for inter-ethnic and inter-religious dialogue that is highly valuable in a country where Croat, Serb, Bosniak and other groups are often segregated. The CIM also looks to support peace processes in other countries around the world. CIM was actually founded in 2004, almost a decade after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords. The founders felt that peacebuilding work is essential since the wounds of war have left deep and lasting divisions in Bosnian society, and they felt the need to counter the nationalist propaganda that remains commonplace.
Peace Camps
CIM runs an annual Peace Camp, a week-long retreat for individuals from different ethnic groups to discuss taboo topics relating to the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina. At the same time, participants are trained in skills of non-violent conflict resolution. Because CIM believes that true progress requires sustained effort, they have developed a three-year training programme, whereby participants are encouraged to attend two Peace Camps. After this, CIM provides organisational support for participants as they implement training in non-violent communication and conflict resolution and facilitate dialogue for primary school children in their own communities. Participants for the two peace camps in the last two years were about 40 people including: Serbs, Croats, Jews and Bosniaks. Participants came from BiH, Switzerland, Germany, Palestine/Israel and the USA. CIM also arrange monthly lectures and international delegations who come to learn about the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and to foster international connections in order to build a mutually supportive network of peacebuilders operating across national boundaries.
Peace Caravans
CIM organizes Peace Caravans which include a journey through the ethnic deeply divided cities and municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Youth travel around RS and FBiH and are guided to interview strangers to learn their perspectives and about local cultures and history. They interact with veterans, war victims, and leaders of diverse religions. At the same time, the youth organize panel discussions and other programs to motivate people in the host cities to contribute to intergroup acceptance.
International Peace Week
As part of a worldwide movement to celebrate the International Day of Peace (September 21st), we wanted to raise more awareness of the need for peacebuilding and interreligious dialogue activities in our local community, across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and internationally. This goal became reality through the implementation of annual International Peace Week events.
The first Peace Week took place in 2010. Since then it has been a public, week-long event where we concentrate most of the topics that our work focuses on and reach a wide number of people. On average around 300 people have participated in the weeklong programme every year. Participants come from a wide range of backgrounds, including youth, local professionals, disadvantaged groups, local authorities, religious leaders, local and international peacebuilding, and primary school pupils and teachers.
Throughout the week we organize concerts, film screenings, and inter-religious meetings. To further our mission of peace and tolerance, we also host workshops and seminars on topics like peacebuilding, dialogue, and reconciliation.
More details about the 10th International Peace week organized in year 2019 can be found under the link: http://unvocim.net/eng/cims-peace-fest-10th-international-peace-week/
Volunteer Club
The volunteers of the Center for Peacebuilding participated in numerous projects and activities. They participated in the REgeneracija project, one of the Center for Peacebuilding's partner organizations. Our volunteers received a grant for the project, and together with the youth from Drvar they participated in workshops and other activities related to the breaking of stereotypes and prejudices. As the final activity of the REgeneracija project, the primer of a documentary filmed in Sanski Most and Drvar was organized. Our volunteers also participated in a project called Una-Sana Connect implemented by "Udruženje građana Novi Grad." As part of this project, our volunteers worked with children with developmental difficulties and shared presents for Christmas and the New Year.
In 2018, CIM volunteers participated in a traditional youth festival that has been held for years in the German city of Hamm. The festival is attended by young people from cities that are in friendly relations with Hamm, including Sanski Most. Our volunteers participated in creative workshops for graphite production as well as dance and music workshops. This year, CIM volunteers were given the opportunity to arrange a classroom in the public school "Gymnasium" in Sanski Most with the support of the German foundation "Schuler helfen Leben" and the Municipality of Sanski Most.
As part of "Interreligious Dialogue Days," our volunteers, together with CIM directors, held a meeting with these high school students and introduced them to the concepts of volunteering and activism.
Our volunteers helped out with the garden at the farm, where we all together sowed various vegetables.
We also had a event called Coffee for Peace, where all Youth from Sanski Most was invited and also most of them joined as new member of the Volunteer Club.
Ideas for future
In addition to its current programmes, CIM has plans for further growth and expansion in the coming years, which primarily center around the development of a Peace Embassy. The Peace Embassy will provide a much-needed secular gathering space for members of the community where tolerance and dialogue will be fostered. Once operational, the Peace Embassy will be a self-sustaining enterprise, housing CIM's ongoing programs, which will continue to be offered to the community free of charge.
Conflict prevention and early warning Development Peace education Transitional justice and reconciliation Children and youth Human rights Dialogue and mediation
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What Search Entrepreneurs Have to Know About Criteo's Retail Media Platform
If you've been in the paid search industry for a few years, you've probably heard of – or even used – Criteo.
You may also know Criteo Retail Media from earlier times when it could be described as a sponsored product advertising network, around 2016 when Criteo acquired a company called Hooklogic.
Hooklogic had built a business by aggregating the inventory of many retailers and allowing brands to bid on that inventory on a CPC basis.
Additionally, you may also know that in 2018 Criteo acquired a company called Storetail to help retailers offer new creative formats and targeting options.
What you may have missed, however, is the announcement of Criteo's new retail media platform.
For now, I'll be sticking to this sponsored piece of product and the platform that powers it as it is an easy-to-reach promotional item that not only goes on vacation but also planning for 2021.
So, let's get to the features of the retail media platform for sponsored products.
Read on below
This technology enables retailers to serve ads that blend in with the existing site structure, look and feel. It enables the retailer to "sell" placements in search results, crawl pages, and anywhere they believe a sponsored product placement will meet user expectations.
So retailers can focus on being a retailer, not an ad management platform or software developer, so they can get promotional offers to market faster without the cost of owning, maintaining, and building an ad technology stack.
That's when you stop thinking about an extremely large and expensive set of tasks that need to be done properly.
The other thing this format does is give brands an always available option to advertise with that retailer.
Traditional retail advertising can be very administrative, even with online-only ad flights, with insert orders, large budgets or minimum requirements, weeks of planning on creative assets and reviews, embargo periods and post-campaign reports that may not happen until full Allocation period has expired.
While these larger display purchases allow you to associate in-store lift, shopping cart analytics, and brand halo effects, it can take eight weeks after the campaign ends to receive them.
Criteo is now partnering with retailers in North America to deliver corporate-level self-service advertising tools to brands such as Target, Best Buy, Costco, Meijer, Macy, Kohl, Walgreen, CVS and Ulta.
What is special about the Retail Media platform is that the advertiser can choose whether to run their ads with a single retailer, or to run a campaign with multiple retailers and break the reporting down to the individual retailer level.
Brands can use budget caps to allocate budgets to different retailers at the required levels, or use AI to dynamically allocate funds to get the best return on ad spend.
Some retailers, like Target, have already used Criteo for an exclusive environment they refer to as a "private market" where their ads are only shown on target.com.
The ability to target only Target (pun intended) is great for brands looking to drive more sales specifically on target.com, or even take advantage of product popularity to free up more physical shelf space, range expansion and also Target Plus sellers too valuable the marketplace, which has to advertise its products and has no presence in the store.
Sponsored products through Criteo are a CPC model and a first price auction.
It is not based on keywords. The focus is more on the individual SKUs.
All SKUs are pre-assigned keywords thanks to information from retailer product feeds, data collected from retailer websites, and Criteo's AI.
Brands then don't have to spend resources on developing creatives.
Bids can be set at the line item level and at the SKU level. The concept of a line item is actually new to the retail media platform.
In the past, to group SKUs, you had to divide campaigns using "product groups".
Now you are creating line items and each will act as a tactic to drive your larger campaign strategy forward. You assign a retailer to each line item.
This gives you control over where your budget is going and allows you to view reports at the dealer level.
Additionally, you can now use the SKU-level bidding feature to manage CPC bids for individual products.
By adjusting a product's bid, you can adjust the product's competitiveness in the auction.
The inline editing tool allows you to enter and save a new CPC value for each product in the Product Bid Override field. The entered value must either be equal to or greater than the minimum bid.
Another difference with the new platform is that these floors are now set by the retailer, so they can vary significantly within the categories. So far, Criteo has set minimum bids for running network campaigns.
Once entered, the product will use the new CPC for bids. The line item bid is automatically used for products that do not have a value to override the product bid.
With this new campaign structure there is a lot more flexibility in the organization. For example, you can create a campaign with a line item for a retailer.
You can also run a campaign of 10 line items with a different retailer each. Or you can have 100 SKUs in a line item.
Each line item has a start date and an optional end date. (The start and end dates are not at the campaign level.)
You can budget for the line item and use daily or monthly stimulation tools. You can also choose not to set a line item budget and rely on the budget set at the campaign level.
Your decision.
While the daily and monthly budget stimulation in the new platform has been moved from the campaign level to the line item level, the assignment is now carried out at the campaign level and no longer at the account level.
In addition, Criteo now offers several more mapping options. Previously, you could only work 30 days after clicking and 1 day after viewing. Options now include Post-Click: Seven Days / 14 Days / 30 Days and Post-Viewed: None / One Day / Seven Days / 14 Days / 30 Days.
Brands can now align with the attribution windows they use with other platforms if they so choose.
As mentioned earlier, brands can now view dealer-level reports. In addition, Criteo normalizes metrics between retailers so you can easily compare performance between retailers.
The new platform also includes data visualization so you can now slice and dice with customizable reports with the metrics you want.
You can download reports directly from the user interface or schedule reports via email.
Technically, there is no minimum spend to get access to the Retail Media platform.
However, prices on the platform depend on spending commitments and whether you use Criteo's managed services team for management support.
With the introduction of this new platform, Criteo has also evolved its pricing model to provide complete transparency to brands, agencies and retailers.
The new pricing model adapts to the media and cost prices used by other media buying tools and creates more transparency and flexibility in paying for your usage.
I highly recommend reading Forrester's report, "Consumer Brands: It's Time to Take Control of the Fate of Your Retail Media" report, produced by Forrester on behalf of Criteo. The full report is available for download and covers today's retail media landscape. And you can check where, as part of their process and optimization, you are going against respondents and their maturity in retail media.
It will cost you an email to get it, but I thought it was worth it. If not, there is a lot more material in the resource area. From there, you can contact Criteo to get started.
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Alyssa Milano and Annette Bening Lead Hollywood Stars in Livestreamed Play Based on Mueller Report
John Lithgow, Michael Shannon and more to perform on Monday night
Sean Burch | June 24, 2019 @ 8:25 AM	Last Updated: June 24, 2019 @ 3:51 PM
Alyssa Milano, Annette Bening and Jason Alexander are among the Hollywood figures who are joining together to participate in a livestreamed stage play based on the Mueller Report.
The play, dubbed "The Investigation," will take place on Monday night at 9:00 p.m. ET. The 10-part show is spearheaded by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan and will feature a number of top performers, including Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Frederick Weller, Ben McKenzie, Michael Shannon, Noah Emmerich, Justin Long, Gina Gershon, Wilson Cruz, Joel Grey, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Piper Perabo, Zachary Quinto and Aidan Quinn.
"The Investigation" is being produced by Abigail Disney, Susan Disney Lord and Timothy Disney and presented by Law Works, an organization that "engages bipartisan voices and educates the public on the importance of the rule of law, the role of the special counsel in the justice system, and the integrity of our judicial institutions," according to its website.
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"We must hold this president accountable," a Law Works donation page, linked to its announcement of the live stage play, said.
"The Mueller Report represents a turning point in our democracy — it establishes probable cause that a sitting president of the United States committed crimes and that President Trump's campaign knew the Russian government attacked our elections to help the President win."
The report, released in its entirety in April, found no evidence of organized collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and declined to indict the president on obstruction of justice charges.
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Milano, one of the president's fiercest critics in the entertainment world, tweeted on Monday that the Mueller Report established that President Trump "committed crimes and that the president's campaign not only knew Russia wanted them to win, but welcomed it." She invited the president to stream the show, since "we all know you haven't read" the Mueller Report.
Hey, @realDonaldTrump you may want to tune into our livestream tonight. We all know you haven't read the Mueller report. Think of this as the cliff notes version. Our all-star cast will perform all ten counts of your obstruction of justice! #TheInvestigation https://t.co/611DNgwmnc
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) June 24, 2019
If you'd like to watch the live production tonight, you can go here. The hashtag #TheInvestigation is also being used on Twitter, if you feel like talking about it.
2020 Presidential Contenders: Everyone Who's Challenging Donald Trump So Far (Photos)
There are still over 20 months to go until the 2020 presidential election, but the competition to *maybe* replace Donald Trump in the White House is already stiff.
The list already includes senators Joe Birden, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand, former Obama cabinet member Julián Castro and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. And that's just people who have officially declared -- some high profile politicians and wannabes are teasing runs too. It's a lot to keep track of, but we're here to help. Here's TheWrap's list of everyone who has announced they are running for president so far.
Joe Biden -
The former Obama VP was a late entry to the race, formally declaring his run for the presidency on April 25. But he's long been a presumed frontrunner, leading many early polls. This is third presidential run, and for months he's been telling anyone who'll listen that he'd be the most qualified candidate for the job. He's also already been under scrutiny over criticism about his behavior with women, prompting him to post a video promising he'd be "more mindful and respectful" of a woman's "personal space."
Beto O'Rourke - Democratic Party
The former congressman from El Paso, Texas, announced he is running for president on March 14, saying: "This is a defining moment of truth for this country and for every single one of us," and that the challenges have never been greater. "They will either consume us, or they will afford us the greatest opportunity to unleash the genius of the United States of America," he added. O'Rourke has already made a name for himself as a record-breaking fundraiser, the subject of an HBO documentary and a favorite among Hollywood elite.
Bernie Sanders, the runner-up in the 2016 contest for the Democratic nomination, has recorded a campaign video in which he says he is running for president in 2020, according to a report in Politico.
Elizabeth Warren -
The Massachusetts Senator formally announced her candidacy on Feb. 9 at a rally in her home state, and shortly after followed up with a tweet that read: "I believe in an America of opportunity. My daddy ended up as a janitor, but his little girl got the chance to be a public school teacher, a college professor, a United States Senator – and a candidate for President of the United States. #Warren2020."
Tulsi Gabbard -
Gabbard, a U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016, but in 2020 she's all-in on herself. She told CNN's Van Jones on Jan. 12 that she intends to run, and would make "a formal announcement within the next week." That announcement hasn't happened yet, but her Twitter account is bedecked with campaign branding.
Julián Castro -
The former mayor of San Antonio -- and former Obama cabinet member -- entered the presidential race on Jan. 12.
Kirsten Gillibrand -
The Senator from New York announced her bid Tuesday, Jan. 15 on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert."
Kamala Harris -
The California senator announced her bid for the presidency on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 21, while appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America." As a possible indication of her chances, her recent CNN town hall was the network's highest rated single presidential candidate town hall ever.
Pete Buttegieg -
The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, announced his presidential exploratory committee on Jan. 23. If he prevails in next year's primary, he'll be the first openly gay presidential nominee from a major political party.
Cory Booker -
The New Jersey senator and former mayor of Newark formally tossed his name into the presidential hat on Feb. 1, the first day of Black History Month.
Marianne Williamson -
The "Healing the Soul of America" author and founder of Project Angel Food announced her candidacy during a political rally at the Saban Theater in Los Angeles on Jan. 28.
Andrew Yang -
The entrepreneur and son of immigrant parents from Taiwan became a contender a year ago, telling The New York Times that he will advocate for a universal basic income.
John Delaney -
- Democratic Party
The U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th district declared back in July 2017. He says he'll "end reckless trade wars and expand trade," "create a universal health care system" and "launch a national AI strategy."
Amy Klobuchar -
The Minnesota Democrat, first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, announced her bid on Feb. 10, 2019, saying that she wanted to work for "everyone who wanted their work recognized."
Honorable Mention: Howard Schultz -
Like Biden, the former Starbucks CEO hasn't formally declared, but he's teased a possible run as an independent on the book tour for his autobiography. Given widespread fears that a third party candidate could help ensure a Trump victory, so far Schultz's hypothetical candidacy isn't going over well, according to a recent poll.
Schultz is a co-founder of the venture capital firm Maveron, which is an investor in TheWrap.
The crop of candidates already includes Joe Biden, Beto O'Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and more
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Q: Google Spreadsheet Makro - Add one time value to another var valueDate = Utilities.formatDate(sheet.getRange("D2").getValue(), SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSpreadsheetTimeZone(), "dd/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss");

var valueResetCD = Utilities.formatDate(sheet.getRange("C2").getValue(), SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSpreadsheetTimeZone(), "hh:mm:ss");

This are my 2 lines I currently have - As the Spreadsheet timezone may be different from the makro timezone I got told to always get the timezone from the Sheet.
In those 2 values I have the right values safed (tried to print them into a field)
first is 19/09/2020 22:34:52 (a specific date) and the second is 03:00:00.000 (3 Hours)
Now what I want to do is just add those 2 times together so I get as output: 20/09/2020 01:34:52
I tried it with: sheet.getRange("Data!$A$21").setValue(valueDate + valueResetCD) but I guess it is not that easy - it just copies the 2 string values of the times into one line.
How can I add those 2 Time / Date values to eachother so I get the output above

A: I believe your situation and goal as follows.

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*In your situation, as a sample value,

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*valueDate is 19/09/2020 22:34:52 retrieved from sheet.getRange("D2").getValue().

*valueResetCD is 03:00:00.000 retrieved from sheet.getRange("C2").getValue().

*Both values are the date object.

*You want to add valueResetCD to valueDate.

*

*When the sample values are used, you want to get 20/09/2020 01:34:52 as the result value.

Modification points:

*

*In this case, I think that valueDate is the correct date time like 19/09/2020 22:34:52 as the date object.

*But, I think that valueResetCD is 1899/12/30 03:00:00. Because the Spreadsheet uses the serial number.

*

*From this situation, it is required to convert the serial number to unix time.

*And also, in this case, the time difference is required to be considered.

*Both values are added by converting from the date object to the unix time. And, the result value is converted to the date object.

When above points are reflected to the Google Apps Script, it becomes as follows.
Modified script:
function myFunction() {
  var sheetName = "Sheet1";  // Please set the sheet name.

  // 1. Retrieve values from the cells as the date object.
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName(sheetName);
  var valueDate = sheet.getRange("D2").getValue();  // As a sample value, it's `19/09/2020 22:34:52`.
  var valueResetCD = sheet.getRange("C2").getValue();  // As a sample value, it's `03:00:00.000`.

  // 2. Convert the date object to the unix time.
  var valueDateUnix = valueDate.getTime();

  var differenceBetweenSerialAndUnix = new Date("1970/01/01 00:00:00").getTime() - new Date("1899/12/30 00:00:00").getTime();
  var timeDifference = (new Date().getTimezoneOffset()) * 60 * 1000;
  var valueResetCDUnix = valueResetCD.getTime() + differenceBetweenSerialAndUnix - timeDifference;

  // 3. Add both time and convert it to the date object.
  var resultDateObject = new Date(valueDateUnix + valueResetCDUnix);
  var resultString = Utilities.formatDate(resultDateObject, SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSpreadsheetTimeZone(), "dd/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss");
  console.log(resultDateObject)
  console.log(resultString)  // You can see "20/09/2020 01:34:52" at the log.

  // 4. Put the value to the cell.
  sheet.getRange("A1").setValue(resultDateObject);
}

Note:

*

*In this answer, it supposes that the values from the cells "C2" and "D2" are the date object. If those values are the string which is not the date object, above script cannot be used. So please be careful this.

References:

*

*Date

*getTime()

*getTimezoneOffset()

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Hello fellow walkers! I'm going to guess last night's episode was pretty intense, but unfortunately due to unpredicted conflicts I was unable to watch. So, I could try to recap the episode but it might not sync up too well with what everyone experienced! Per my usual protocol, I am still going to post this discussion thread for anyone to kick off the discussion. And I'll be sure to join in as soon as I watch (most likely tonight). Sorry about the lack of recap, but I'll see you in the comments!
MJ, I feel just like you!!! Not Glenn!! On Talking Dead, the note from Scott Gimple said we would see him again which doesn't mean he isn't dead, but I thought it was weird that Steven Yeun wasn't on TD since he has been there from the beginning! They were joking about us seeing him in a flash forward, flash back or sideways since Damon was on the couch, so maybe they didn't want to put the actor in a tough situation not being able to say anything.
Can't believe we're just 3 episodes in! This has been an intense season so far!
Mike......a note about Talking Dead that has nothing to do with last night's episode except that Damon Lindelof was on. Chris Hardwick announced they are going to have a super fan come onto the show, and I thought how amazing it would be for you and Damon to be on that couch together!!
As you can imagine it was tough to get to last night without being spoiled of what went down! lol But still rough to watch. I watched Talking Dead too and read some of the EW articles. Certainly ambiguous on the Glenn front. It looked like it could've been Nicholas on top of him, but there were so many hints in the episode that it could be Glenn's end. The fact that Gimple says "you will see him again" doesn't help.
It's funny, someone was talking to me about the episode and tried not to spoil anything but said "HE" in the conversation. And immediately I narrowed it down to Darryl and Glenn because of, like Damon said, who the "unkillables" are.
All in all it was a great episode of a great season so far! How about Rick running into the Wolves that Morgan let go? And now the car won't start and the herd is coming! That overhead shot showed a house pretty close by if he has to make a run for it.
@MJ - They referred to the comics too about Rick's hand on TD. Chris started talking about it and then Damon said, are you referring to the "luke skywalker" thing? lol Not very subtle! Certainly would be interesting if the lead on the show was missing a hand.
Certainly the red shirts were dying in record numbers. I feel some stuff does NOT point to it being Glenn. It was kinda Nicholas that had alot of stuff pointing to him. Yeah - Glenn looked at the watch and all and Michonne reminded him he wasn't a single guy. But - Nicholas saw one of his old crew who is now turned and had to end him. Plus he realized that this was one of the times they deserted people - and had to face that. Also he saw/felt the affects of being just left - cause that idiot with the hat did it. He volunteered to go - putting himself in harms way for others.
i say that cause I'm not sure next week we will see him. It's the 1.5 hour Morgan story next week.
leslie - think Talking Dead did not have him on due to not wanting to spoil anything.
I did read that a conflict will arise between Rick and Daryl on whether they should recruit - guessing all the deaths will allow that to come now that they need more folks in town.
I know Rick was missing a hand in the book and that Kirkman regretted it. So are they going there in the show ? Or is it something else in the book that this is foreshadowing ? I read in several places people referring to someone having an issue from wlaker blood in an open cut - but then have not read what happened.
Glenn also called Rick "dumbass" which he did in episode 2 of the first season...appropriately titled "GUTS". lol Glenn was also the first shot of the episode.
That's true...he could be alive and they have to kill him. Or he could be turned when they find him and they have to kill him. Or Maggie has to do it. Poor Maggie, she's had it worse than Rick with the people she's lost!
Yeah...I don't think we'll see any of them next week either. Definitely looks like a Morgan story.
Yeah they certainly are focusing on that hand issue of Rick's in the show and off the show. Interesting on the book stuff. Guess we'll see!!
Forgot to ask...did everyone recognize Greg Nicotero in that "final" Glenn scene? I spotted him and 'the hair' immediately. lol He did interviews yesterday too saying he was in that scene.
SO - Gimple still won't talk Glenn's fate - but says Rick is not losing a hand.
And he said we would know about Glenn before the mid season - and that means in the next 5 eps. Theya re gonna drag this out. Next week is Morgan. Week after that they fight the hoard at the town. Week after that they could go looking for him (he's alone out there). Who knows how long this will last.
But the fact that TD could not do the memorial says he is alive for now !
Where did you read the Gimple stuff?
So if Glenn DOES survive this that could mean that there could be episodes dedicated to going after him like you said, but if he does survive maybe the 8th episode might be from his perspective so we see exactly how he did.
I won't question Gimple...since he took over he's done some pretty great stuff with the show!
Ok, one thing that has been bugging me most was the lack of mercy kill. The limping girl, the bruised guy with note, I mean you could save them from all torture with mercy kill. It was just brutal.
second, the scene with Nicholas and Glenn was amazing. The actor who is portraying Nicholas was brilliant in this episode. The stare he gave to Glenn before saying thank you and shooting himself, it was really something. Kudos to that.
I was thinking the same about the mercy Kill. More of the guy that got bit and was getting pushed up against the face. They could've mercy killed him. The limping girl I think it was too late. They had to get out of there. Definitely brutal any way you slice it (pun intended).
Nicholas was definitely one of those guys you loved to hate! You certainly have a lot of people in your camp thinking Glen is under Nicholas and will find a way out of it. The fact that they're going to drag this out does give hope that he's okay. Or maybe he's okay for now but won't be in the long run. Maybe they want us to actually consider that they may kill off Glenn even though he's a fan fave!
In the pecking order he's still below Rick, Darryl and Carol on the can't kill list. And I'd say Carl too, not because the fans like him but because his importance to Rick.
I like reading review and comments of your good friends here.
I agree with you 100%. Cant wait for next week.
I enjoy reading everyone's thoughts too Zainab!


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PSG Signs Kylian Mbappé's Little Brother, 15, To 3-Year Deal
Reuters June 25, 2021
Ethan Mbappé will join the club that is desperate to prevent his brother Kylian Mbappé from leaving.
While Paris Saint-Germain sweats over Kylian Mbappé's future at the club, his younger brother Ethan has signed a three-year youth contract until 2024, the Ligue 1 side said on Friday.
Ethan, 15, has played for PSG's youth sides in the past and joined Senny Mayulu in signing for the next three seasons.
Le Paris Saint-Germain est heureux d'annoncer la signature d'un contrat aspirant pour deux de ses jeunes titis parisiens, pour trois saisons.https://t.co/VrUGPKdfn0
— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) June 25, 2021
"Born in 2006, these promising youngsters had until now been playing in the Paris St. Germain youth set-up. They are now tied to the club from the capital for three seasons," PSG said in a statement.
Kylian is currently on international duty with France at the European Championship and has one year left on his contract, with French President Emmanuel Macron also urging the 22-year-old to stay with PSG and continue playing in Ligue 1.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Christain Radnedge)
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Elko's late-game heroics help Ole Miss knock off No. 6 Miami
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Ole Miss first baseman Tim Elko celebrates after hitting a two-RBI double in the seventh inning of the Rebels' 2-1 win over No. 6 Miami in game four of the Coral Gables (Fla.) regional on Sunday, June 5 2022. (Josh McCoy/Ole Miss Athletics)
Ole Miss hadn't scored all afternoon.
The Rebels' offense, which averaged over seven runs per game this season, had managed just two hits through the first six innings of their contest with No. 6 Miami in game four of the Coral Gables (Fla.) regional, but now had a chance to break through on the scoreboard after Justin Bench and Jacob Gonzalez hit back-to-back two-out singles to put the go-ahead run on base for Tim Elko.
The Ole Miss captain stepped confidently into the box, adjusting his batting gloves and taking a few practice swings before settling into his stance.
The Rebels' senior leader did not waste any more time, driving the first pitch he saw into the gap in right-center to plate the go-ahead run from first.
The Ole Miss dugout erupted in cheers, ecstatically celebrating yet another clutch hit from a senior who has delivered in key moments throughout his collegiate career.
The Rebels cruised through the final two innings to secure the upset as they narrowly defeated the Hurricanes in a low-scoring pitching duel.
Freshman lefty Hunter Elliot was masterful on the mound for Ole Miss, surrendering just one run in five-plus innings while recording eight strikeouts.
He handed the ball over to fellow freshman Mason Nichols in the sixth, and the Jackson Prep product answered with three strikeouts in 2.1 innings to keep the Hurricanes at bay.
With five outs remaining and a trip to the regional final on the line, Ole Miss turned to closer Brandon Johnson to finish the game for the second time in as many days.
Johnson, who struggled through an up-and-down season in conference play, came up with one of his best performances of the year to shut the door and send the Rebels to their fourth consecutive regional final.
Ole Miss moves on to play the winner of tonight's elimination game between Miami and Arizona.
The Rebels will have two chances to advance to the Super Regionals after going 2-0 to start regional play. First pitch in game one of the regional final is scheduled for 12 p.m. CT.


"And everyone was working on the wall in front of them," Nehemiah said.
We were sitting on the floor in the Spiritual Formation class I'm teaching. The learners were sitting in groups of three or four, talking about the kinds of habits and practices and actions that they want to build into their lives. A week before, I'd asked them how they wanted to be known in five years. This week, they were talking about how to get there.
I turned to him. "Hmm?" I was working on an email. I wasn't paying attention.
I remembered that Nehemiah's great work wasn't rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem. It was rebuilding the confidence, the identify, of a nation that had been marched into exile, that had lived there for a couple generations, that was returning to their homeland and being hated for it.
"And they will be be humbled and encouraged and weak and strong, all at the same time," I said.
I looked to my left, wondering whether Nehemiah was going to be part of this conversation, too. But the space was empty.
"Start with a decade," I said.


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Woman lists home for sale, then learns it was posted online for rent without her knowledge
Shelly Roeglin was on the seller's side of the high-demand housing market. She had nine showings scheduled within an hour of listing her Milwaukee home. But the interest took an unexpected turn.
MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) - Shelly R. was on the seller's side of the high-demand housing market. She had nine showings scheduled within an hour of listing her Milwaukee home. But the interest took an unexpected turn.
"The very next day, a friend of mine messaged me and she's like, 'I found your house on Craigslist,'" Shelly recalls.
Then, after that final showing, Shelly said someone came to her front door asking about the home being for rent.
"He shows us this application that is sent to him and it has my fiance's name at the bottom of the application," she said.
Shelly said she found the Craiglist posting.
"He used the same verbiage as the listing from our realtor in his ad, just a copy and paste kind of thing," she explained.
Shelly decided to reach out and ask for an application. The person responded to her inquiry via text message stating he was a private owner.
Scott Bush with the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors is familiar with what he says is oftentimes a scheme to get potential tenants to send over a security deposit.
"It's been around for a long time. I have heard very sad accounts of these poor renters who show up to a property with a moving van full of furniture with nowhere to go," Bush said.
That's why the Better Business Bureau stresses renters should see a place and landlord in person before sending money and before filling out a rental application.
"You have to be careful of identity theft in these situations," Lisa Schiller said with the BBB serving Wisconsin.
Schiller says homeowners with listings can protect themselves by making sure photos of their homes online are watermarked.
"It will make it more difficult for scammers to copy photos of their properties online," Schiller said.
Shelly isn't sure if the man who knocked on her door put down a security deposit or submitted his application. She didn't get his contact information.
"He was just actually driving by because he had not had good communication with this person," Shelly said.
"There's people, vulnerable people that are putting their information out there -- their bank accounts, Social Security numbers, all of that on this document, and you know, I mean I just would hate for people to be taken advantage of," she said.
Shelly alerted Craigslist about the rental postings. She discovered there were two different ones. She's still worried about her fiance's name on that rental application.
"What if something comes back to him? Or us? I don't want that to happen either," she continued.
"Now more than ever with buying a house, we're watching all of those accounts closely."
WTMJ reached out to Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to see what advice the state agency can provide to consumers. DATCP provided the below advice:
"The Bureau of Consumer Protection suggests that consumers listing properties for sale report suspected fraud immediately to that platform with the false listing. Consider searching on a web browser by address, or reverse image search to see if you can identify other fraudulent listings for the property. If there is suspected fraud on the platform where their original listing occurred (i.e. Zillow and Craigslist,) consumers should also contact that site. Consumers can also file a complaint with DATCP to assist with mediating these issues if they do not receive a timely response from the companies.
For potential renters, the Bureau of Consumer Protection advises consumers when renting property to:
Know exactly with whom you are doing business. Does the person / management company actually exist?
Verify the property address exists and is actually for rent.
Inspect the property (inside and out) before you put any money down.
Get a rental agreement in writing, if possible.
Never wire money.
Be cautious if you are asked to send money out of state when the property you are renting is located in Wisconsin. Ask why and verify the reason.
Be wary if the advertised price is much lower than that of similar properties or the listing has grammatical, spelling errors, or overuse of capital letters."
This story originally reported by Kristin Byrne on TMJ4.com.


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Q: Ruby: Reading from a file written to by the system process I'm trying to open a tmpfile in the system $EDITOR, write to it, and then read in the output. I can get it to work, but I am wondering why calling file.read returns an empty string (when the file does have content)
Basically I'd like to know the correct way of reading the file once it has been written to.
require 'tempfile'

file = Tempfile.new("note")

system("$EDITOR #{file.path}")

file.rewind
puts file.read # this puts out an empty string "" .. why?

puts IO.read(file.path)  # this puts out the contents of the file

Yes, I will be running this in an ensure block to nuke the file once used ;)
I was running this on ruby 2.2.2 and using vim.

A: Make sure you are calling open on the file object before attempting to read it in:
require 'tempfile'

file = Tempfile.new("note")

system("$EDITOR #{file.path}")

file.open
puts file.read
file.close
file.unlink

This will also let you avoid calling rewind on the file, since your process hasn't written any bytes to it at the time you open it.
I believe IO.read will always open the file for you, which is why it worked in that case. Whereas calling .read on an IO-like object does not always open the file for you.


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Q: ReadLine is changing the text read? I have a text file that I need to read and modify.  This file come from another program so I can not modify its format. I need to use it as a template and make a bunch of replacements for specific cases. One of the lines I am reading is delimited with 0xFF characters. But when I call ReadLine the string returns the line delimited with 0x3F characters.  I have tried different encodings. ASCII where it comes back as 0x3f and UTF-8 where it comes back as 3bytes 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD.  The original text file seems to be ANSI format and the 0xFF character shows up as a "ÿ". How can I get my ReadLine (and the subsequent WriteLine) to keep this character intact?
   var replacements = new Dictionary<string, string> { {"to_replace1", "replacement1"}, {"to_replace2", "replacement2"}, {"etc etc", "more replaces"} };

    using (var writer = new StreamWriter(projectfileSpecific, false, Encoding.ASCII))
    {
      foreach (var line in File.ReadLines(projectfileTemplate, Encoding.ASCII))
      {
        foreach (var replacement in replacements)
        {
          if (line.Contains(replacement.Key))
          {
            var replaceLine = line;
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Bankers from all over the world have gathered in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the economy and the latest proposals in reining in banks with reforms and new taxes.
They are using Davos to groom opposition to Barack Obama's populist bank reforms.
Legendary financier George Soros called the plan to tax large banks "premature". The head of Deutsche Bank claimed the moves to limit bank size would leave small players ill-equipped for global trade.
Russian Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin dubbed Washington's plans "tough", but added he understood why Obama wanted to act.
Two lobbies have now taken shape in Davos, for and against the President's plans.
This real business in Davos goes on in the corridors of the Congress Centre. Rival groups of powerful business leaders try to find people with similar views from across the world who can push through their agenda.
Experts say Obama has bowed to popular outrage at banker excess.
Ian Goldin, director of the 21st Century Institution, Oxford University, believes that the banking system needs to get back to its core function.
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Eric May 9, 2018
Some South-West chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has held a meeting with the Ekiti State APC governorship aspirants in a bid to seek a common ground on the rescheduled party primary election.
The meeting was held behind closed doors at the Lagos State Government Lodge Annex in Abuja on Tuesday night.
The meeting, which started at about 4pm had almost all the 33 aspirants in attendance.
It was gathered that the meeting was part of the efforts by the party leaders from the zone to broker peace and find a way forward after the botched party primary in Ekiti even as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held a hitch free primary on Tuesday.
After the first round of talks which lasted for about two hours, Chief Bisi Akande stepped out of the hall of the meeting closely followed by Tinubu.
When approached by newsmen for comments, Akande said the party leaders were mandated by the aspirants to meet and come back with a decision.
He said, "We (leaders) were asked to go and meet and come up with a decision…"
In response to a question whether a consensus candidate was to be expected, he said, "I cannot tell you that…"
Soon after, Asiwaju held him by the hand and told reporters, "We are going for (a) caucus (meeting), we will get back to you."
A source privy to the meeting had earlier informed The PUNCH that the meeting, which was scheduled for 2:00 pm, was shifted to 4:00 pm because some of those expected for the meeting were held up at the Akure Airport.
One of the aspirants, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, however, left the venue of the meeting before the commencement of the second round.
Although he did not speak to reporters, another aspirant, Segun Oni, dismissed insinuations that Fayemi walked out of the meeting.
In response to a question whether Fayemi walked out of the meeting, Oni said, "Nobody walked out. We met and asked our leaders to go and meet and take a decision which we will abide by."
Those who attended the meeting included Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Ogun State Governor, Aremo Segun Osoba, former Osun State Governor, Chief Bisi Akande, and the chairman of the panel responsible for the Congress, Nasarawa State Governor Tanko Al-Makura and most of the 33 aspirants.
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import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
import org.slf4j.Marker;
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@InterfaceAudience.Private
public class HBaseMarkers {
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I use abc mouse and starfall. I think they work great. It improved my daughters reading skills. she just turned three and she can read pretty well with small words. Starfall helped her memorize her abcs she even signs it.
I used it and it didn't hold my kids attention as well as other apps. They are using Teach Monster to Read for phonics right now and they love it.
Many libraries offer ABC Mouse if you want to try before you buy.


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SXSW Review: WIN IT ALL Is Swanberg's Funniest By A Nose
Mumblecore auteur Joe Swanberg re-teams with Jake Johnson for his tightest film yet.
By Jacob Knight Mar. 13, 2017
"I want you to repeat after me: 'my name is Eddie, and I am a loser. I am addicted to losing.'" So says the sponsor (Keegan-Michael Key) of a Chicago gambling addict (Jake Johnson). Eddie Garrett knows he's a bum – parking cars at Cubs games before going out and playing poker all night, he's not so much chasing the high of winning as he seems to enjoy the ass end of the barrel. He's comfortable there, wallowing in filth and just scraping by. Eddie's got a brother (Joe Lo Truglio) who cares about him and keeps begging the deadbeat to come work his way up the ladder at his landscaping business. But Eddie is content to keep bottoming out, as writer/director Joe Swanberg (with the help of his now three-time multi-faceted collaborator, Johnson) crafts possibly his most complete character in the flat out funniest movie of his career, Win It All.
While the above description may sound like an utter bummer – revisiting the unglamorous gutters the likes of which The Gambler's Axel Freed once called home – Swanberg's approach is more like a drunken hangout take on Rounders. Like his previous breakout from the usual lo-fi mumblecore milieu, Drinking Buddies, Swanberg is more interested in observing his characters as they interact over beers and joints, sweating out their problems before waking up hung over and wanting to do it all again. There's certainly a plot; involving a bag of money left for Eddie to watch while his bookie (José Antonio García) goes off to the clink for six months with promises of a $10,000 pot of gold at the end of this shit-smeared rainbow. But Swanberg is again setting up scenarios in which we learn to empathize with this born loser, even as he digs a hole for himself in the middle of Wrigleyville by gambling the thug's ill-gotten gains away. All he had to do was not open the satchel, and we scream this at him as Swanberg's cringe comedy ratchets to unbearable levels of hilarious tension.
Johnson and Swanberg's partnership has turned into quite the mutually beneficial endeavor. As an actor, Johnson's evolved under the indie auteur into a slimy charmer who you'd let play with your kid, but never really consider allowing him to babysit. There's a layer of grease that covers Johnson at all time, just as there was a sheet of sweat that coated him during the entirety of Drinking Buddies. He physically manifests each character's defining characteristic, to the point that you can practically smell the gambler's cheap cologne and unclean body after a night spent in a back alley poker den. At the same time, Johnson is almost effortlessly entertaining, diffusing even the edgiest of situations with a goofy facial tic. He's a truly gifted performer, taking the comedic chops he honed on network TV and transmuting them to fit perfectly with Swanberg's naturalistic approach to character development. Though when Eddie is pushed or has his sense of responsibility challenged by Lo Truglio's equally realized sibling, he snaps back and shuts down. He's not stupid. He knows he's a fuck up. But that's for Eddie to deal with in his own way. He doesn't need anyone else to impose some bullshit familial mandate. This is a real human being Johnson and Swanberg have created, and (depending on your walk in life) you've more than likely known an addict like Eddie at least once.
Behind the camera, Swanberg retains his usual drifting sense of mis en scene; the ruddy lo-fi aesthetics he's been toying with ever since his days shooting and cutting on a laptop merely refined instead of compromised. However, where scenes in his previous endeavors either felt rushed or left lingering for one beat too long, the filmmaker's sensibilities as an editor have never been sharper. Each scene in Win it All unfolds with purpose, driving Eddie's narrative forward in one way or another. When the addict decides to shape up his life and take his brother up on the job offer in order to "get his shit together", Swanberg doesn't just skip through this via a flighty montage. Instead, he pays close attention to Johnson's choices as a performer, utilizing takes of half-scripted/half-improvised scenario work that contain truly fascinating moments of tiny human interaction. Likewise, he gives those Eddie bounces off of the chance to have their own, real reactions to the growth he's experiencing as a person. Win it All is Swanberg's tightest movie, and no doubt his most accessible; the directing/writing/performing duo having discovered a true rhythm and shorthand together that's magic when it works.
With his continued move toward more traditional storytelling, Swanberg experiences some growing pains of his own – namely that his two main plot threads hinge on rather large suspensions of disbelief. First off, the notion that a small time criminal would leave a large sum of cash in the care of a man everyone in the neighborhood knows to be an utter junkie is, frankly, a load of horseshit. Similarly, it's rather difficult to buy into his love interest, Eva (Aislinn Derbez) - a working single mother who also cares for her madre in the suburbs - ever really falling for this oily slickster, charming as he may be. But if you can accept the reality of this otherwise lived-in cinematic experience, Win it All proves to a rather satisfying comedy that ties itself up just a little too neatly. Nevertheless, we're all rooting for this lovable scumbag by the end, hoping everything will turn out OK, even though it probably shouldn't.
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Six Questions for Nigerian Guitarist King Sunny Adé
World-music pioneer returns to New York for two concerts, his first appearances here since 2009
King Sunny Adé and a 17-member version of his African Beats band will perform Sunday at Rumsey Playfield as part of Central Park SummerStage, as well as July 14 to MetroTech Commons as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's R&B Festival.
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By Steve Dollar
July 1, 2016 5:25 pm ET
Two months ago, headlines across Africa blared the news that, contrary to rumors, 69-year-old world-music pioneer King Sunny Adé wasn't dead. Now, the influential Nigerian guitarist and bandleader returns to New York for two concerts, his first appearances here since 2009.
Mr. Adé and a 17-member version of his African Beats band, will perform Sunday at Rumsey Playfield as part of Central Park SummerStage, opening the new season of the World Music Institute. They return July 14 to MetroTech Commons in downtown Brooklyn as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's R&B Festival.
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"There are few artists in modern African music history that are at the same legendary status of King Sunny Adé," said Par Neiburger, artistic director of the World Music Institute. "He can easily be mentioned in the same breath with artists such as Fela Kuti and Youssou N'Dour. "
Mr. Adé, who has released more than 100 records in Nigeria alone, and recently opened a radio station in his Osun State home, spoke to The Wall Street Journal about music, aging and happiness.
You first popularized juju music in the U.S. in the 1980s. How would you describe the spirit of your music?
It's like I'm changing the old to the new. In the olden days of my ancestors, they're playing the kora, which I changed to guitar. We're singing in chorus, call-and-response, which I try to do my best to do it. Any instrument I pick from all the other Western musics must have the tone of the African sound. The music itself is very traditional.
You are known for importing the pedal-steel guitar into Nigerian music. How does that translate?
With my kind of music, normally we have an instrument called goje. Goje is more like a—what do they call it here?—a violin. Then you can get the tone from the violin from the pedal steel. My fans accepted it, and it doesn't derail from the traditional juju music.
What kind of bandleader are you? Are you strict like James Brown, or more easygoing?
I am me. I don't want to be a commander. I love to be a bandleader that carries along a team of boys and girls, men and women, that all link together as a family.
You have been touring for 50 years and in September, you turn 70. Do you have a secret to aging well?
The more you play good music and the people love your music, they keep on asking for more. Eventually, you will find happiness. You will not feel that you are getting older.
I've read that you have seven wives. Is that still the right number?
I will say yes, but you know I don't normally say I have so many. I only say I have many wives. [Laughs]. I don't say seven.
In Africa fans are known to paste dollar bills on musicians' foreheads during shows. Do you think New York audiences will be so generous?
I have been playing in New York since 1975. I expect everyone to dust off [their] shoes and get ready to dance with me.
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