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This Founder Shares the One Trait He Looks for in Every Hire
Lead with empathy for others and leave your ego at the door.
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Bastian Lehmann, co-founder and chief executive officer of Postmates Inc.
Nina Zipkin
Entrepreneur Staff
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Editor's Note: Entrepreneur's "20 Questions" series features both established and up-and-coming entrepreneurs and asks them a number of questions about what makes them tick, their everyday success strategies and advice for aspiring founders.
In a world of smartphones, convenience is everything.
When Postmates, an on-demand delivery service, launched in San Francisco in 2011, CEO Bastian Lehmann and his co-founders Sean Plaice and Sam Street saw a void in the availability of fast, efficient and cost-effective local delivery.
Lehmann was first inspired to start Postmates in 2005 when he moved from Munich to London and had forgotten to move his snowboard from his place in Munich to his parents' house, which was in Berlin.
Related: Unlimited Deliveries for $9.99 a Month Sounds Insane. For Postmates, It's the Future.
After looking into various shipping options, he thought it would be interesting if there was a was a way to apply the concept of ride-sharing to shipping things. Lehmann says that the idea wasn't able to be realized until smartphones were introduced.
The company began as an app-delivery system for everything from flowers to furniture in the Bay Area, but today, the company has a presence in 26 states, from Arizona to Wisconsin.
In the last six years, the company has built of a base a base of more than 4,000 business partnerships including, Etsy, Starbucks, Walgreens and Apple.
Related: Everything You Need to Know About Business Partnerships
Postmates makes more than 1 million deliveries a month from local businesses all over the country. Recently, Postmates launched its own $9.99/month membership program that provides users with free delivery on orders over $25, with no additional service fees. The company has raised more than $278 million to date.
We caught up the German-born Lehmann and asked him 20 questions to figure out what makes him tick.
1. How do you start your day?
My best friend picks me up at 6:15 in the morning.Then we play basketball, lift some weights and get to the office by 9:15. My first meeting is my chief of staff, where we go over the schedule for the day. I do this five times a week. It's super important for me. I grew up borderline hyperactive as a child, so a routine is important for my body and my mind. It levels me for the day, allows me to be smarter, and I don't have as much anxiety, because exercise helps with that.
2. How do you end your day?
I go home and usually have dinner with my fiance. After that I'll go through a bunch of emails, and maybe read a bit or watch something on the TV. It's important to [slow down] and try to reflect a bit on the day. I often let my mind wander or meditate for a few minutes in the evenings. It is important for me to let the day pass by one more time. This process allows me to reflect on decisions and clear my mind before I go to bed.
Related: 6 Ways Embracing Mindfulness Helps You Thrive at Work
3. What's a book that changed your mind and why?
The Art of Innovation by Peter Kelley and Jonathan Littman. Peter and his brother David are the founders of a design firm called IDEO. The book is about how IDEO creates and builds teams of people that come from all sorts of different backgrounds and successfully work together to solve problems and create beautiful products. They talk about how IDEO is obsessed with hiring people that have a broad understanding of multiple disciplines but expertise in one or two. They call them T-shaped people. Because of the empathy they can understand what it takes to work in a given field, with no ego involved. We try to use that philosophy at Postmates.
4. What's a book you always recommend and why?
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I recommend it, because it's a great story of adolescence and a great example of powerful storytelling. As the founder of a company, it is important to understand what powerful storytelling is.
5. What's a strategy to keep focused?
With our teams we constantly try to question our assumptions. We don't ever want to wake up and find that the world has changed around us. The best way to do that is to question everything, stay ahead of things and understand change.
Related: 14 Things Ridiculously Successful People Do Every Day
6. When you were a kid what did you want to be when you grew up?
I always wanted to be a movie director. Stanley Kubrick is my absolute favorite. I think what a director does, and how you give life to an idea is related to building a company. I want to be the guy that makes things work out.
7. What did you learn from the worst boss you ever had?
One thing I try to do is help the people that want to do more. I want to help them realize that when they are at Postmates.
The worst boss I ever had told me that I couldn't do that. He was weak and afraid someone was more hungry than him. When I saw someone trying hard, and they gave it everything they had, that someone would not give them guidance and help them succeed
8. Who has influenced you most when it comes to how you approach your work?
Tom Kelley from IDEO. He has done a remarkable job there. When it comes to accomplishing what you want to achieve, Steve Jobs, even though it's a cliche. As for imagination, Stanley Kubrick, but not his management style
Related: 5 Ways to Open and Nurture Your Imagination
9. What's a trip that changed you?
Iceland. You see nature that is so raw. You feel like you're on a young continent. I found that very inspiring, just being there. Iceland feels like a different world. The nature had a very humbling effect on me, everything feels very pure there.
10. What inspires you?
My mom does. She is such a strong woman. She has dealt with her life and raised my brother and me in a remarkable way. Courage is something that drives me and inspires me when I see that in people. Friendship inspires me and being exposed to beautiful things, whether it's on a hike or in a gallery.
11. What was your first business idea and what did you do with it?
My first business idea was a reverse option platform -- to buy up electronics and the price would constantly fall, low enough that people would start to buy. We bootstrapped, and it was not very successful.
Related: Bootstrapping Is Much More Fun Than Investors
12. What was an early job that taught you something important or useful?
I was in the army in Germany -- at the time, after school, you still had compulsory service, either the army or civil service. What I learned during that time is where my personal limits are. If you think you're tired, you can go a lot further. You can endure a lot more cold that you assume. The most interesting thing is finding your real limits versus your comfortable limits.
13. What's the best advice you ever took?
You have to treat people with the highest level of respect. Being humble, treating other how you like to be treated is the best advice.
14. What's the worst piece of advice you ever got?
To be like someone else. I see that happening a lot in college when everyone has to fit into one thing. It's totally okay to have a different playbook. Just listen to your heart and try to find what you want to do and the people that support you. That's the answer.
Related: 3 Team-Building Secrets of Successful Small-Business Owners
15. What's a productivity tip you swear by?
I go to the gym every morning. It is the opposite of what I do in evening. In the mornings I like to prepare for the day. Channeling my energy into sports leaves just the right amount of energy and passion for work.
16. Is there an app or tool you use in a surprising way to get things done or stay on track?
I use Clear; it's a to-do list app. I also send myself emails. But I'm not really good at organizing time, so it helps me have a chief of staff to work with and to get things done. My advice is to figure out what you're strong at and what you're not. Having a team that does that [fills in the gaps] has freed up a lot of my time to spend more time doing the things I love.
17. What does work-life balance mean to you?
You can only be at your best if you have something that grounds you. It can be friends, a partner, a hobby, just something else that you do. It's so important that one finds a balance.
Related: 3 Keys to a Smooth Work-Life Balance
18. How do you prevent burnout?
When I feel that I'm running on low flames, spending time by myself sets my compass straight. Personal reflection is so important.
19. When you're faced with a creativity block, what's your strategy to get innovating?
You have to do something completely different. Do something you love, go outside, walk around. If you're not getting anything done, you may as well spend an hour outside the office.
20. What are you learning now?
I'm learning right now to really work with a large group of people. While they all have the company in mind, they also have personal goals for their personal lives and careers. I find it fascinating to discover that and help people succeed in both.
One of the questions I ask in every interview is how can the company help them develop on a personal level? I think it's a duty that we have. Someone who wants to work here for four years can take things from the company and those lessons can help him achieve goals and dreams in the future.
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Geologic Significance of Remotely Sensed Physiographic Features of the Texas Panhandle and Adjacent Regions
Remotely sensed features such as linear drainages, escarpments, ridges, and aligned playas have been identified on Landsat imagery (scale 1:250,000) of the Texas Panhandle and adjacent regions to allow comparison of these features with detailed regional and site-specific geologic data. Physiographic subdivisions of this area are the High Plains, Canadian Breaks, Rolling Plains, Pecos Valley, and Raton section. Geologic field data collected at some of the linear drainages, escarpments, and ridges indicate that orientations of about 70 percent of these linear features coincide with orientations of either fracture sets, faults, or dikes in the Canadian Breaks, Rolling Plains, Pecos Valley, and Raton section, where bedrock commonly crops out or is covered only by thin soils. However, orientations of aligned playas on the low-relief High Plains, where bedrock outcrops are sparse, do not coincide with fracture orientations measured nearby at the Caprock Escarpment and in the Rolling Plains. Thus the aligned playas of the High Plains may not reflect systematic fracture sets in bedrock. Statistical analysis of lineament orientations and lengths for the central Texas Panhandle and east-central New Mexico indicates that the lineament interpretations only partly reflect the orientations of the regional fracture sets and the general orientations of the structural grains of subsurface strata. Remotely sensed nonlinear features identified on the High Plains are large (diameters up to 15 km) topographic basins and an anomalous elongate area of sparse vegetation and sand hills (approximately 190 km long and 12 km wide). Some of the topographic basins are alkaline lake basins, whereas other basins are drained but have older lacustrine deposits cropping out within them. The topographic basins may indicate areas that have been affected by deflation or dissolution of calcrete or halite beds. The sand hills area has no known structural geologic control.
Edward W. Collins
Collins, E. W., 1990, Geologic significance of remotely sensed physiographic features of the Texas Panhandle and adjacent regions: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Geological Circular 90-1, 39 p. doi.org/10.23867/gc9001D.

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Legacy is a voluntary organisation dedicated to caring for the families of deceased and incapacitated veterans of our Australian Defence Force. Today, Legacy's service assists around 65,000 widows and widowers and 1800 children and dependents nationally. Legacy's national fundraising event, Legacy Badge Day, is the first Friday of September (September 7). The upper Southeast Legacy group comprises thirteen legatees supporting forty nine widow(er)'s in Naracoorte, Bordertown, Keith and Kingston. Our support and services now extend to include the dependents of members of today's Australian Defence Forces who lose their lives or are incapacitated as a result of their military service, providing a range of care and support services to its widow(er)s and children/youth including assistance and support through visitation, supply of firewood, and recognition on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. Legacy also provides advice on accommodation, home maintenance and safety, general welfare matters and pensions, help with accessing medical and welfare services, assistance with education and life opportunities for children and youth and provides practical assistance, and financial assistance to those in need. A Welfare Officer and a Pensions Officer are usually present to provide advice and assistance at Legacy House in Adelaide each day during normal business hours. Legacy had its origins in the Great War of 1914-18, in Gallipoli, Palestine, France and Flanders. Some of the men who returned from those battlefields felt their colleagues in business were failing to assist other returned men adequately. One of them who lived in Hobart decided to do something about it – General Sir John Gellibrand. In 1923 Gellibrand founded the Remembrance Club in Hobart. Its aim was to encourage returned servicemen in business. Stanley Savige, a former 24 Battalion Officer who had also served on Gellibrand's brigade, visited. Gellibrand urged him to set up a similar club in Melbourne. In 1925 it was suggested that Legacy should look into caring for the children of deceased servicemen. This proposal was accepted and Legacy found its soul. The legacy of care continues today.
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Legacy is a voluntary organisation dedicated to caring for the families of deceased and incapacitated veterans of our Australian Defence Force.
Today, Legacy's service assists around 65,000 widows and widowers and 1800 children and dependents nationally.
Legacy's national fundraising event, Legacy Badge Day, is the first Friday of September (September 7).
The upper Southeast Legacy group comprises thirteen legatees supporting forty nine widow(er)'s in Naracoorte, Bordertown, Keith and Kingston.
Our support and services now extend to include the dependents of members of today's Australian Defence Forces who lose their lives or are incapacitated as a result of their military service, providing a range of care and support services to its widow(er)s and children/youth including assistance and support through visitation, supply of firewood, and recognition on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day.
Legacy also provides advice on accommodation, home maintenance and safety, general welfare matters and pensions, help with accessing medical and welfare services, assistance with education and life opportunities for children and youth and provides practical assistance, and financial assistance to those in need.
A Welfare Officer and a Pensions Officer are usually present to provide advice and assistance at Legacy House in Adelaide each day during normal business hours.
Legacy had its origins in the Great War of 1914-18, in Gallipoli, Palestine, France and Flanders. Some of the men who returned from those battlefields felt their colleagues in business were failing to assist other returned men adequately. One of them who lived in Hobart decided to do something about it – General Sir John Gellibrand.
In 1923 Gellibrand founded the Remembrance Club in Hobart. Its aim was to encourage returned servicemen in business. Stanley Savige, a former 24 Battalion Officer who had also served on Gellibrand's brigade, visited. Gellibrand urged him to set up a similar club in Melbourne.
In 1925 it was suggested that Legacy should look into caring for the children of deceased servicemen. This proposal was accepted and Legacy found its soul. The legacy of care continues today.
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News1. October 2019
Gay marriage legal in 28 countries
By Agence France-Presse
Paris – The first-ever gay civil unions in Denmark 30 years ago paved the way for full same-sex marriages that are today allowed in 28 countries, even though homosexuality remains illegal in some parts of the world.
Here is an overview.
– Europe, gay marriage pioneers –
On October 1, 1989, for the first time in the world, several gay couples in Denmark tied the knot in legal civil unions.
Danish homosexual couples would however have to wait until 2012 to be allowed to marry in church.
The right to a religious marriage ceremony was first allowed in The Netherlands in 2001.
Thirteen European countries followed: Belgium, Britain (although not Northern Ireland), Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
Austria allowed gay marriage from 2019.
Gay marriage across Europe
Some countries allow only gay civil partnerships including Croatia, Cyprus, The Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland.
The Czech government has backed draft legislation that would make the country the first post-communist member of the European Union to legalise same-sex marriage, but its fate is uncertain.
Slovenia also allows civil partnerships but in 2015 rejected in a referendum a proposal to legalise gay marriage.
In 2014 Estonia became the first former Soviet republic to authorise same-sex civil unions.
In Romania a referendum aimed at enshrining a ban on gay marriage in the constitution failed in 2018 because of a low turnout.
Where are gay marriage and civil unions legal?
– Progress in the Americas –
Canada was the first American country to authorise same-sex marriage in 2005.
In 2015 the US Supreme Court legalised gay marriage nationwide at a time it was banned in 14 out of 50 states.
The United States' first gay marriage had actually taken place in 1971, when a Minnesota couple obtained a marriage licence thanks to an overlooked legal loophole. The marriage was officially recognised in March 2019, after a five-decade legal battle.
In Latin America five countries allow same-sex marriages: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay, joined by Ecuador in June 2019.
Mexico's federal capital authorised gay civil unions in 2007 and marriages in 2009. Half of its 32 states have followed.
Chile legalised gay civil unions in 2015.
Costa Rica's Supreme Court in 2018 ruled that a ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional and gave parliament 18 months to amend the laws.
Cuba left out of its new constitution adopted in February 2019 changes that would have paved the way for legal same-sex marriage. The definition of marriage will be left to a new Family Code which will be put to a referendum.
Gay rights activists tie the knot in Ecuador
– Taiwan, first in Asia –
While much of Asia is tolerant of homosexuality, Taiwan became in May 2019 the first in the region to allow gay marriage.
In the Middle East, where homosexuality is repressed, Israel leads the way in terms of gay rights, recognising same-sex marriages that are performed elsewhere although not allowing such unions in the country itself.
Several countries in the conservative region still have the death penalty for homosexuality, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Australia (2017) and New Zealand (2013) are the only places in the wider Asia-Pacific region to have passed gay marriage laws.
Taiwan holds Asia's first gay marriage
– Africa: marriage in one country –
South Africa is the sole nation on the African continent to allow gay marriage, which it legalised in 2006.
Around 30 African countries ban homosexuality, with Mauritania, Somalia and Sudan having the death penalty for same-sex relations.
Where are same-sex relations illegal?
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How to Work Turmeric Into Your Diet
Local Ayurvedic chef Talya Lutzker gives creative ways to incorporate this anti-inflammatory root into the diet
Talya Lutzker, certified Ayurvedic practitioner and author of 'The Ayurvedic Vegan Kitchen.'
By Andrew Steingrube
Turmeric, a tropical-plant cousin of ginger, has roots that are so deeply orange they make tanning bed enthusiasts twinge with pangs of jealousy, and they have left yellow stains on many a cutting board. Native to southern Asia, turmeric's richly hued roots may bring a wealth of health benefits to those who consume it.
"Turmeric is good for people with inflammation," says Talya Lutzker, a local certified Ayurvedic practitioner for more than 16 years. "Most holistic practitioners believe inflammation is at the root of most diseases." This includes cancer, arthritis, autoimmune disorders, heart disease, and digestive issues, among others. Many studies have confirmed turmeric's ability to mitigate inflammation in the body, including a 2009 review published in The International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology that provided evidence that circumin, turmeric's main bioactive ingredient, may play a role in both the prevention and treatment of inflammatory chronic diseases.
But turmeric's health-supporting qualities may also extend beyond the body to the mind. A 2013 study published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research showed that curcumin can increase levels of the brain hormone BDNF—low levels of which have been linked to many diseases of the brain, like depression and Alzheimer's disease. "Turmeric is good at cleaning the blood and opening circulatory pathways," says Lutzker, who compares the blood and lymph systems to the two rivers of the body. "There is no way that doesn't reach the brain."
Turmeric comes in two forms, which Lutzker notes have different properties. Traditionally, turmeric has been thought of as a spice, when its roots are ground and dried. This is also the form available in supplements, which Lutzker advises should be combined with black pepper in order to significantly enhance absorption. She adds that the dried form is most appropriate for people whose constitution is wet, oily, and congested, and for those with high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
The fresh form, which can be purchased at Asian markets and health food stores, is better for people who tend to have drier and hotter constitutions, says Lutzker, who emphasizes the Ayurvedic principle of taking an individual-based approach. "When you use foods and herbs medicinally to shift an issue, feel better, or heal, you should feel their effects," she says.
Regardless of whether you choose the dried or fresh, the functionally relevant question is how to regularly incorporate turmeric into the diet. For the dried and ground form, Lutzker, who is also the author of the cookbook The Ayurvedic Vegan Kitchen, recommends making a simple spice mix that highlights turmeric's healing ability. She suggests mixing one-fourth cup ground turmeric with one tablespoon each of black pepper, cinnamon and cardamom, and two tablespoons each of ground coriander and dried rosemary. This mix can then be easily added to a variety of foods like mashed potatoes, salad dressings, vegetables, and even to-go and take-out foods in order to increase their healthfulness. "Always put turmeric with two to three other 'spice friends' to aid in assimilating it deep into the tissues," says Lutzker. "I also really love to put turmeric on eggs. It is a digestively supportive spice for protein digestion," she says, adding that the spice mix makes a great rub for meat dishes. Another trendy way to eat more turmeric is in "golden milk," which is simply any type of milk—animal or plant-based—warmed to infuse it with turmeric and other spices. It's easy to make at home, but is also beginning to appear in stores.
To get more fresh turmeric into the diet, Lutzker says you can use it exactly like garlic or ginger. "One of my favorite things to do with turmeric is to grate it," she says, recommending two tablespoons on top of soups. "You can also chop it into discs and infuse any pot of grain, like rice," she adds.
But no matter which form of turmeric is consumed, Lutzker emphasizes the importance of breathing and mindful eating, too. "The most powerful anti-inflammatory we have is oxygen," she says. "If someone really wants to get the most out of their turmeric, take five deep breaths before taking the first bite. It makes a world of difference to get present before you eat."
Andrew Steingrube
Contributor at Good Times | Blog
Andrew has been writing for most of his life and has been published in multiple forms. He has a B.S. in Psychology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and an M.S. in Nutritional Science from California State University at Chico. His interests, journalistic and otherwise, are diverse. But like pretty much everyone else he loves music and sports as well as food, water, and shelter. His favorite animal is the Pacific green sea turtle and his favorite board game is Stratego. He is also prone to over-thinking and is glad that this paragraph will soon be over so that he can stop trying to describe himself within it.
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The upcoming Ben Affleck adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand has hired David Kajganich to write the script. Kajganich is best known for his work on The Invasion and Town Creek. Before being hired to write The Stand, he was working on IT, which is also based off of a Stephen King novel.
No news as to when Warner Bros. plans on releasing The Stand, but if the writer has only just been hired, it can be expected to be quite sometime.
There are currently no comments on The Stand Hires a Writer. Perhaps you would like to add one of your own?


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Q: Rails "Ancestry gem" and "Acts-as-taggable-on": "has_children?" method with "tagged_with" I'm using "Ancestry" and "Acts as taggable on" gems.
I want to know how to search if a node of Ancestry have many childrens with some tags.
Let's example (model: Hardware) menu:
Father
  -> Children (Here there are many "tablets" for the model hardware)
  -> Children (Here there are many "smartphone" for the model hardware)
  -> Children (Here there are... and so on...)
  -> Children
        -> ChildrenTwo (Here there are many "mousepad" for the model hardware, ancestry children of the parent)

Now, every "product" in every hardware's menu has one or more tags with "Acts as taggable on".
I want to know and write in menu html that there is at least one tag for at least one product in every ancestry level.
If yes, create a children of every ancestry with the name of the tag DISTINCT for every product in that ancestry level.
I know my language is worse. But I think is a great feature, because it's intelligent and dynamic.
For create the menu I'm using this code, that now works only for the ancestry gem, I don't know how to integrate it with acts-as-taggable-on.
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Home > About Us > Newsroom > 2017 > Holzer Receives "Maternity Best Practice Award"
Recently, Holzer received the "Maternity Best Practice Award" for the "Ban the Bag" pledge at the Ohio Lactation Consultant's Annual Breastfest Conference. During this event, 64 Ohio Hospitals were recognized for their efforts to discontinue the distribution of free formula giveaway bags that undermine breastfeeding support for our mothers and babies. This action places the facilities one step closer to a Baby-Friendly environment. Shown pictured are representatives of the 64 hospitals receiving this award. This is the second year that this recognition has been held through a partnership between Ohio First Steps program, Ohio Lactation Consultants Association and Ohio Breastfeeding Alliance.
Stephanie Carroll is the embodiment of "Do it big or stay in bed." Her commitment to improving dismal breastfeeding rates does not stop at the county line or even the Ohio border. It encompasses rural America! Providing culturally appropriate chronic disease prevention strategies is a challenge often researched by "outsiders" who are perplexed by appalling rates of obesity and disease in our culture, they scratch their heads at what they call ignorance and "noncompliance." Stephanie understands this challenge because she is truly an insider; she is one of "us." She understands that to make a change in a culture, you have to be part of that culture. She didn't go it alone; she reached out to others of "us," all across Appalachia, inviting them to come together to discuss our challenges, offer support and share our stories.
In May 2016 she birthed the idea of the Appalachian Breastfeeding Network, and in one short year she brought together multiple states in a coalition that will eventually shine a light on the dark aspects of our culture, the disparities rural women face from access to care barriers, health care abuse and neglect to intrapersonal violence, and very often loneliness. The network is focused on empowering women to make informed decisions about their own bodies, from contraception choices, how they will give birth, to how they will feed their child. It also includes how to demand health care providers who will help educate and support them. We will overcome the health care disparities in rural America, one beautiful…well informed and supported woman at a time.
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I've done lots of reading and I can't quite find this answer so here we go.
I would like to buy a Passport and I know that email will not work without a data plan, but the browser and some other functions will work over wifi.
So i thought well i don't plan to use the built in email or bbm, I just want to use a browser and an email app of my choice which is an Android app (Aquamail) does not requires google services. So is it possible to load an android app using Cobalts instructions to load android apps on the BB OS and use it over Wifi only without a SIM card?
Your info is based on older BBOS devices. Everything on BlackBerry 10 will work over WiFi.
This is the second thread where you say you have done some research. Clearly you haven't or have been misinformed.
If you want a Passport for browsing and email, you can use the built-in Hub for email and (it will be fabulous) and the built-in browser (it will not be fabulous).
Forget about Aquamail on a Passport. It is not an Android device, it is a BB10 device which can run Android apps on the side. It does this with old APK's and it does it adequately, not well.
Do not confuse BB10 and the older BBOS in regards to email and data.
I say this as a BB10 and Passport lover and heavy user.
Go away and do some more research.
Jets, James is absolutely right that it seems you've been misinformed at the least.
I would advise against using Android apps when native services will work better. Since Aquamail simply connects to IMAP and other accounts which BB10 supports natively, I'd suggest that route. But if you want to try Aquamail you certainly can.
I did a search and that is what came up on multiple threads. I clearly didn't know the difference between the older BBOS and BB10 which is why I asked the question.
That said I ordered a Priv so will play with that for now until Priv2 comes or even Key2 if i don't like the Priv.
Fair enough! I hope Android works out for you. Let me know if you decide you want to come back to BB10 or have questions about such a move.
Is there a problem with the Android 8.1 update for the KeyOne?


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As residents of Ukraine flee the country's capital and invade areas, many residents have not left their fur babies at the mercy of missiles.
While many have been seen on the run with their pets, there are fears that some have been left behind.
The NSPCA Says It Will Help The Country Care For Its Animals
"The NSPCA is devastated as news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds. Our hearts go out to our colleagues in animal welfare and the people of Ukraine," the animal welfare group said in a statement.
The NSPCA will donate 30,000 euros as a starting point for aid to animal welfare shelters in Ukraine.
"We commend our brave colleagues who work in animal welfare shelters in Ukraine, who have decided to stay behind and take care of the animals in their shelters. These animals have nowhere to go," the NSPCA said.
The animal welfare group is working with foreign colleagues to set up donation portals for as many Ukrainian animal welfare shelters as possible and to ensure that the money reaches the animals on the ground.
"South Africa, we are known to the world for our spirit of ubuntu, among many other wonderful things," the animal shelter said.
"We cannot stand by and do nothing. The NSPCA will help Ukraine. If you're willing to help us help animal shelters across Ukraine, please to donate using the reference "UKRANE."
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NEARLY eight decades ago, a pioneering group of Perth animal lovers came together during the Great Depression and subsequent war years to build a �refuge home for waifs and strays�.
Thus, the Dogs� Refuge Home in Shenton Park was born. The good news is refuge will celebrate 80 years of operation during October and it is still going strong � still saving thousands of dogs in need and still an integral part of the wider Perth community.
Indeed, over 50,000 abandoned dogs have been given a second chance at life as a result of the dedication, perseverance and unwavering belief held by everyone involved with the Home that dogs are valued members of our society and deserve to be treated with love, respect and above all compassion.
The sad news is there is still a seemingly never-ending number of dogs in need, waiting in pounds to be saved before their time is up, surrendered by the public because they can no longer look after their �best friend� and dumped because, well, who knows why?
Significantly, the awareness of rescue dogs and how they can make the most loyal, devoted pets is increasing – but it needs to increase much more.
We need more people who care and we need more people to take action.
Across WA things need to improve � fewer dogs need to be bred, more dogs need to be sterilised and every single dog should be given the same unconditional love they give us.
Owning a dog is a privilege not a right.
To every person who has ever adopted or fostered a dog from us and to anyone who has ever made a donation – a heartfelt thank you.
And to anyone who has ever wanted to make a difference to lost and abandoned dogs � adopt, foster or donate � it�s the best feeling in the world.
The refuge�s 80th anniversary book, Tales from our Home, is on sale at the refuge and all proceeds go directly to saving abandoned and unwanted dogs.


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From the St. Augustine Record: "The 1000 residential block of State Road 16 was quiet Thursday after the deadly events of Wednesday night, when one man was killed, another sent to the hospital and a third taken to the St. Johns County jail — all over a $400 overdue bill. Neighbors say that Jesse Elrode Ramirez, 51, who's lived in a small home at 1040 S.R. 16 with his wife for more than two years, is violent. Violent enough to shoot at two men from a local repossession company that came to his home Wednesday evening to tow away his truck over a $400 payment, said Sgt. Chuck Mulligan, spokesman for the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office. Ramirez's next door neighbor, who is deaf, said she saw him step outside his house with a handgun and shoot at two men standing near a tow truck. […] Wilfred Rivera, 48, and Delbert Charles Power Jr., 31, both of Jacksonville, were shot as they tried to tow away Ramirez's car. Rivera was pronounced dead at the scene while Power was airlifted to Shands Jacksonville. […] The two men worked for Atco//Bennett Recoveries LLC, which is based in Jacksonville. ATCO/Bennett Recoveries owner Jeanne Bennett said Rivera spent 20 minutes that afternoon on the telephone with the finance company and debtor and was told Ramirez owed $400, according to The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. […] Ramirez, an unemployed cook, is charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, said Kevin Kelshaw, media relations officer for the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office. […] He has no other criminal record in St. Johns County. The investigation is ongoing, and additional gun-related charges are pending, Kelshaw said." The full story.
Robert Smoley, a former mayor of North Bay Village, sentenced for online pharmaceutical drug sales
Slate's Christopher Beam and Chris Wilson have been running a terrific little feature of late. Obama on Facebook. Here's a sample. And see the complete feed.
Obama: So 70s
Obama: the Sputnik Moment That Wasn't
Obama-Leno: No Correspondence
Tribute to Jigme Norbu & Walk for Tibet Florida Completion
From the Walk for Tibet Blog: "AlterThe Walk for Tibet Florida held a bitter-sweet celebration on completion of 300 miles walked from St. Augustine to West Palm Beach February 14-26, 2011. The Final Mile walked from the downtown West Palm Beach Green Market square, and being greeted my Mayor Lois Frankel, to the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens for the Memorial Tribute to Jigme Norbu and Walk Completion Ceremony was laced with emotion for the 50-plus walkers and young skateboarders who joined in.
What a lovely environment at the Gardens- serene, beautiful and filled with love of the nearly 100 people who attended to pay tribute to Jigme and the higher values for which he ultimately gave his life: World Peace, Human Rights, Tibetan Independence & Freedom for All peoples. Thank you Cynthia Palmieri, Director and keeper of the flame that is Ann Norton's legacy…and to all volunteers and local establishments who gave so unstintingly of their talents, time & resources to make this event so memorable. Present to share their musical gifts were LeRoy Wright- drummer, Henry Lepler-toning & crystal bowls, Jamie Defrates with his song Winterhawk. Donna Kim-Brand invited all present to Come ALIVE in their own unique ways to make our world a better place: where
A=Align with your values & higher purpose
L= be Laser Focused
I= be bold in your Imagination of what is possible
V= be a human lightning rod of Vibrational Resonace &
E= Engage with Energy & your Expertise"
A Morning Memorial on A1A for Jigme Norbu Before His Walk Resumes By Other Steps
Dalai Lama's Nephew Killed by a Car While Walking for Tibet on A1A in the Hammock
Behind the Story: Jigme Norbu's Death–and Flagler's Responsibility to His Last Steps
Walk for Tibet Blog
Sara Small, from Army Strong Stories: "Deployment. That one word that so many soldiers fear and look forward to all at the same time. There is the group that has had at least one if not multiple deployments to Iraq and/or Afghanistan, the ones who have deployed elsewhere like Desert Storm, Somalia, Kuwait, even North Africa. And then there are the rest of us, a suprisingly large number of soldiers who have not been deployed at all, anywhere, with about 2 or 3 years of service, PFCs and SPCs looking to make our way into the ranks of the deployed. Yes, I said our, for I too have not been deployed before. That is, until now. Let's face it, we all joined the military knowing that there was a strong possibility that at some point we would go. […] Maturity. Many soldiers joined at the age of 18, fresh out of high school, or in their early 20s when they finally got motivated to want to do something with their lives. If you came into the Army an immature teenager, the drill sergeants were real quick to fix whatever the issue was. However, it becomes easy to go to your unit, especially Guard and Reserves, and revert right back to the irresponsible drinking, partying, blowing off school or jobs or whatever. Then you get your orders to deploy and life comes crashing down around you. At least for some. Maturity and Deployment. Two things in life that have to go hand in hand whether you realize it or not. […] Take that 18 year old soldier fresh out of AIT on his first deployment and put him (or her) in a situation where they are responsible for up to 50 detainees at a time, making sure that every one of them goes to their appointments, eats, drinks, showers, everything that we would do in the US at a correctional facility. You can not be an immature teenager more concerned with what video games are coming out or what movie is playing at the theater like you can be back home. In the shadow of Abu Ghraib, nothing is off the table. You must always do the right thing, not only because it is instilled in the Army values, but because at the end of the day, all detainees are still human beings and shall be treated as such. […] Deployment and maturity isn't something to be feared, it is to be embraced with open arms, for it can teach you life skills that you just can't get anywhere else. The full post.
More Sara: Oh the places we'll go…
Apparently I am a "Disgrace" to the Uniform
From Creative Loafing: "A study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that despite what you may think, fewer young people ages 15 to 24 are having sex than a decade ago. Respondents who claimed they've never had oral, vaginal or anal sex increased from 22 percent in 2002 to nearly 28 percent. Specifically, 27 percent of young men and 29 percent of young women reported having had no sexual contact." From AP: ""It's not even on my radar," said 17-year-old Abbey King of Hinsdale, Ill., a competitive swimmer who starts her day at 5 a.m. and falls into bed at 10:30 p.m. after swimming, school, weight lifting, running, more swimming, homework and a volunteer gig working with service dogs for the disabled. The study, released Thursday, is based on interviews of about 5,300 young people, ages 15 to 24. It shows the proportion in that age group who said they'd never had oral, vaginal or anal sex rose in the past decade from 22 percent to about 28 percent. The findings are sure to surprise some parents who see skin and lust in the media and worry that sex is rampant. […] There are other surveys of sexual behavior, but this is considered the largest and most reliable. […] Health scientist Anjani Chandra of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described the decline in sex as small but significant. She declined to speculate on the reasons. It's difficult to look for a trend earlier than 2002 because previous surveys did not gather as much detail about various types of sex, she added. However, data over the years on vaginal intercourse among never-married adolescents shows a steady decline since 1988. That seems to be in sync with other CDC studies showing an overall drop in teen pregnancy."
Speaking of Sex In (and Out of) Flagler Schools: Butterfly Project Shows Adults How It's Done
Flagler Lays Off Sex as Births Fall For First Time in 16 Years; Deaths Also Dip
Sex Advice from Poets
What Happened to Sex in movies?
On Premarital Sex in America
Condom Fumblings: Who Uses Them
Condom use by age and gender, based on percentage of past ten acts of vaginal intercourse. From the Centers for Disease Control:
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How to Put On a Condom:
Sex and the Bible
The Ultimate Manual on Sex? The Song of Songs
Tiger Woods Announces Return to Sex
Guardian Music Weekly: Where Are the Protest Songs?
From the Guardian: "As a new book about the history of protest songs is released, we look at the past, present and future of the genre. Why isn't Chris Martin protesting against the cuts in song? We find that despite arguments that protest songs are still being written, modern examples tend to be less explicit. Dorian Lynskey talks to Alexis Petridis about his new book 33 Revolutions Per Minute, which tells the history of protest music through 33 tracks. We also hear from the Agitator's Derek Meins, who supports contemporary protest groups such as UK Uncut and the university occupations with his music; and singer Hannah Peel covers the Doors anti-Vietnam war song Unknown Soldier. Plus: Michael Hann joins Dorian and Alexis to profile the story behind tracks by Ramones, Machine and Nina Simone. Listen to the full show.
Alice's Restaurant Illustrated
Hank Williams Wins a Pulitzer
Strange Fruit: On the History of Protest Music
Vietnam: The music of protest
Harmonic Shock Meets Art at Hollingsworth Gallery's "Music Is the Muse"
Woody Guthrie. Click on the image for larger view.
Misinformation Is as Close As Your Inbox
From Miller-McCune: "A newly published study of Internet usage and political knowledge assuages one set of fears but raises another. R. Kelly Garrett of the Ohio State University School of Communication reports obtaining information from websites and blogs does not make people more likely to believe false rumors about prominent political figures. However, those inaccurate, often malicious reports are spreading — and gaining unwarranted credibility — through the medium of e-mail. Compared to those mentioned on websites, "rumors e-mailed to friends and family are more likely believed and shared with others," Garrett writes in the journal Human Communications Research. […] In other words, if you read online that President Obama is a Muslim, it probably won't have much of an impact. But if you receive the same misinformation in an e-mail from a trusted pal, there's a better chance you'll take it seriously. […] Garrett found both exposure to, and belief in, the false rumors was generally low. Those who used the Internet for political information were more likely to have heard or read them. But they were also more likely to have come across a rebuttal, making the net effect of this exposure on belief very small. […] However, politically minded e-mail contact between individuals did promote beliefs in false rumors, in part because the recipients were unlikely to also receive contradictory communications. […] Whatever their faults, professional journalists have the ability and inclination to check out stories for their veracity — even those they might like to be true. If we increasingly get political information from e-mail correspondents and Facebook friends who can't or won't distinguish truth from fiction, we're all in trouble. Spread the word." The full story.
From 1994, in two parts. Part 1:
Gore Vidal on the Death of the American Way
Happy Birthday, Gore Vidal
Dr. Seus, Subversive
Again from Miller-McCune: "A radical departure from the Dick-and-Jane reading primers of their day, The Cat in the Hat and other Dr. Seuss classics remain remarkably fresh reads. […] But however enticing the rhymes or evocative the droopy-faced drawings, the key to Dr. Seuss' longevity is the way his tales resonate with their intended audience. In an insightful 1995 analysis in the journal Children's Literature, Tim Wolf of Middle Tennessee State University points out a recurring theme in his books: the desperate need "to win the approval of a rejecting parent." On the first page of Dr. Seuss' first children's book, 1937′s And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, a father sternly tells his son: "Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales." […] Consider the 1960 classic Green Eggs and Ham. In Wolf's interpretation, the unconventionally colored breakfast symbolizes a precious gift the child is trying to give his grumpy parent — a reminder of the importance of creativity and play. When the beaten-down adult finally submits to his child's wishes and eats the oddly hued food, he experiences "a return to lost bliss." There are fewer lines around his eyes and mouth, so he looks younger, more energetic — and more emotionally available. The child saves the parent from despair and reclaims him as a loving caregiver. That's a hero myth most every youngster can relate to — or at least fantasize about. There was never any question about Dr. Seuss' politics. Geisel drew editorial cartoons for a left-leaning newspaper during World War II, and several of his children's books are allegories, tackling such social issues as prejudice (Horton Hears a Who), environmental degradation (The Lorax) and the Cold War nuclear arms race (The Butter Battle Book). Nevertheless, some conservative thinkers have claimed him as one of their own, at least to a degree. […] But the real political message of the books concerns family dynamics. Writing in 2002, Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, asserts that Seuss "reflects a larger current in American progressivism during this period, which saw the home and family as the birthplace of a more democratic culture." In the 1950s, the patriarchal, because-I-said-so approach to child rearing was being replaced (at least among the educated) with a different style of interaction, in which parents set boundaries for their kids, but also let them explore and experiment. Dr. Spock explained the theories; Dr. Seuss brought them to life. […] Capitalism's dark side is the theme of his 1971 book The Lorax, which grew out of the ecology movement of the previous decade. It focuses on the Once-ler, an enterprising but morally blind businessman who chops down a forest of Truffula Trees in order to make Thneeds, a vaguely defined but highly desirable consumer product." The full story.
Seussville
Dr. Seuss, the 1991 Times Obituary
A Catalogue of Dr. Seuss's War Cartoons
Muting of the loudmouth
James Downie in The New Republic: "ix months ago, Glenn Beck held his "Restoring Honor" rally on the National Mall, drawing a crowd of about 100,000. Newspapers and magazines featured the rally on front pages around the country. The next month, The New York Times Magazine devoted a cover story to him. "In record time," the piece observed, "Beck has traveled the loop of curiosity to ratings bonanza to self-parody to sage." Just six months later, however, Beck seems to have traveled somewhere else entirely. His ratings and reputation are in steep decline: His show has lost more than one million viewers over the course of the past year, falling from an average of 2.9 million in January 2010 to 1.8 million in January 2011. He now ranks fifth among Fox's six weekday talk hosts, trailing lesser-known personalities like Shepard Smith and Bret Baier. Beck's three-hour radio show has been dropped in several major cities, including New York and Philadelphia, and has seen a ratings decline in most other markets. […] Beck's commercial viability also seems to have suffered. His viewership among 25- to 54-year-olds, a prized advertising demographic, declined by almost one-half in 2010. […] His most recent non-fiction book, Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure, was his first book in eight years not to reach number one on The New York Times best-seller list. Meanwhile, as a group, prominent conservatives have seemed more willing to speak out against Beck recently. […] In recent months, it seems, Beck's theories became so outlandish that even conservatives—both viewers and media personalities—were having a hard time stomaching them. Now, each new idea appears to be costing Beck both eyeballs and credibility. "At some point," says [Eric] Boehlert [of Media Matters], "it doesn't add up any more." The full story.
Neo-Supremacy Chic: Glenn Beck And Sarah Palin's Tea-Scalding of MLK
Glenn Beck's Holocaust Soros Smear
Being Glenn Beck
Beck Goes Lecter on Palin's Glass Eyes
Violence hits education in the Middle East
On shopping, bladder control and Charlie Sheen
The Curious Journey of Curious George
Rape Myths Alive and Well Judging from Headlines in US, Australia and Canada
Reef Chernobyl in South Africa 'will cost billions'
Internet Psychologies: Smarter, Happier, More Productive
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Joe... I'm thinkin' of emailing someone else's senators.
Them same anti-gunners, uh, I mean anti-Americans, are trying to use dirty tricks to stack the SCOTUS AND change national voting results by skewing how states count their votes or just simply try and eliminate the electoral college.
We can NEVER trust these SOBs. They will ruin this country. And they are certainly in full acceleration mode to do it.


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'Candy Cain' Holiday Trio of Films Features Former Soap Stars Patrick Muldoon, Carrie Genzel, Terri Garber, Jennifer Bassey, Cynthia Gibb
Former All My Children actress Carrie Genzel stars in the upcoming holiday film Ivy & Mistletoe.
Production has wrapped on the final film in the upcoming "Candy Cain" trio of Christmas-themed romances from writer-director Candice Cain. Production on Painting Christmas, a modern-day fairytale about an artist who receives a magical paintbrush from Santa, wrapped last week in Patchogue, NY. It follows the family-focused Ivy & Mistletoe, also shot on Long Island and the travel romance Destination: Christmas, partially shot on location on the southern European island Republic of Malta.
The holiday trio are produced by Gemelli Films and the Bryant Zamberlan Group, and are written and directed by Cain, based her original stories. The three films will be distributed by the Global Genesis Group in the United States and abroad.
All three films star Big Brother 16 runner-up, actor and model Cody Calafiore in different leading roles opposite actresses Julianne Michelle, Ashley Brinkman, and Taryn Hacker, respectively, as a young couple who unexpectedly find love in unusual circumstances. Supporting cast includes Golden Globe nominee Cynthia Gibb (ex-Suzi, Search for Tomorrow) and two-time Daytime Emmy-nominee Jennifer Bassey (ex-Marian, All My Children).
Cynthia Gibb with writer-director Candice Cain.
In Ivy & Mistletoe, Gibb and Carrie Genzel (ex-Skye, All My Children) star as the characters' mothers, each of whom have their own special role to play in bringing the holiday lovebirds together.
Destination: Christmas features former Disney Channel teen idol Clayton Snyder and Abigail Hawk as the sibling and friend who unwittingly place the couple on a path to love when they bow out of pre-planned trips to the Republic of Malta.
Painting Christmas features a parade of stage, television, and film favorites familiar to viewers from every genre and generation. Hallmark favorite and scream queen Crystal Lowe leads a supporting cast including Frank Whaley, Indie Series Award winner Terri Garber (ex-Iris, As the World Turns), Al Sapienza and Patrick Muldoon (ex-Austin, Days of our Lives).
Producers for the three films include Amy Minter and Benjamin Bryant. Olivia Balsinger serves as Executive Producer for Destination: Christmas and Painting Christmas.
Categories: Carrie Genzel, Cynthia Gibb, Daytime, Films, Holidays, Jennifer Bassey, Patrick Muldoon, Terri Garber, TV-Movies


A GPS time stamping "bundle" for the USBxCH family of data acquisition boards. A Garmin GPS 16x HVS antenna is terminated to a 9 pin D-shell and a connecting cable converts from the DB9 to 2.1mm power and a DB25 providing easy connection to the USBxCH A/Ds. Guaranteed 800 nanosecond accuracy. Continuous time and location information.
The bundled "in the box" system comes with the accessories you need to start time stamping your data. These include GPS antenna, magnetic mount, and connecting cable.
For more detailed specifications, please see the USBxCH and Garmin 16X User Manuals.


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require 'logger'
require 'fileutils'

module DTR
  module LoggerExt
    DATETIME_FORMAT = "%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
    def logger(file=nil)
      @logger ||= create_default_logger(file)
    end

    def logger=(logger)
      @logger = logger
    end

    def create_default_logger(file)
      dir = 'log'
      FileUtils.mkdir_p(dir)
      log_file = File.join(dir,  file || 'dtr.log')
      do_println "DTR logfile at #{log_file}"
      logger = Logger.new(log_file, 1, 5*1024*1024)
      logger.datetime_format = DATETIME_FORMAT
      logger.level = (ENV['DTR_LOG_LEVEL'] || Logger::INFO).to_i
      logger
    end

    def do_print(str)
      unless ENV['DTR_ENV'] == 'test'
        print str
      end
    end

    def do_println(str)
      do_print("#{str}\n")
    end

    def debug(message=nil, &block)
      output(:debug, message, &block)
    end

    def info(message=nil, &block)
      output(:info, message, &block)
    end

    def error(message=nil, &block)
      output(:error, message, &block)
    end

    def output(level, msg=nil, &block)
      logger.send(level) do
        message = block_given? ? block.call : msg.to_s
        # puts "log: #{message}"

        #output message when it's an error for agent error log should be displayed in console
        if level == :error
          $stderr.puts ''
          $stderr.puts "[#{Time.now.strftime(DATETIME_FORMAT)}] ERROR: #{message}"
        end
        message
      end
    end
  end

  extend LoggerExt
end


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Moving Beyond Logging Hours
December 23, 2014 By eJP
Moving Beyond Logging Hours:
United Synagogue Youth's Operation 54,000 Initiative Far Surpasses Its Goal
By Joe Goldberg
Too often when performing community service, we focus on just logging hours and forget what the hours actually represent. With "Operation 54,000," United Synagogue Youth's (USY) social action campaign, we challenged our members to look past logging hours, and rather, to consider the possibilities for positive human interaction and the potential to change lives. Our initiative asked all teens in the organization (which spans across North America) to collectively pool their volunteer service hours in order to hit a total of 54,000 hours for the 2014 year.
Last week at USY's 64th International Convention in Atlanta it was my pleasure to announce the final hour tally for this year's initiative. USYers far surpassed our proposed goal, with a whopping total of 142,887 hours of service logged – that's more than 70 straight years of work, accomplished in the span of just one year by our USYers. This is the beauty of Operation 54,000, the emphasis it places on the power of the individual and the impact they can make.
Playing a significant role in reaching this number, back in October USY held 54k Day, a day of service across the country designed to challenge USYers and the larger Conservative community to take part in local social action projects. Over 800 USYers participated, logging over 3,200 service hours that day alone.
Our impact was felt across the United States as USYers in Minneapolis, Minnesota made challot and delivered them to a local food bank. USYers in New Jersey participated in a program to help spread awareness about the environment, bullying, poverty, and health, which culminated in the making of PSA videos. Finally, USYers in California made get-well cards for Never Give Up, an organization that sends personalized cards to kids battling cancer, then creating their own campaign called "Operation #KickTuchus" to help support cancer patients by spreading awareness over social media.
On 54k Day, and over the course of the whole year, USYers worked together as a unified community, combining social action and tikun olam, "repairing the world," to make a difference in the lives of others, and empower their peers to stand up for what they believe. For example, Eliana Kurzrock from Sacramento, California led a discussion on homelessness at her local USY chapter. Afterwards the entire chapter made 250 sandwiches and lunches, which they donated to a local shelter. Across North America thousands of lives have been changed this year through the work of our individual USYers. But Operation 54,000 is just a beginning.
We've begun to change the narrative of social action and tikun olam in USY. The next step is utilizing social activism to promote change. We will continue to create accountability and motivate our USYers to be the difference they seek in their communities.
Our hope is that Operation 54,000 has inspired our teens, so that as they move forward they remember, each of us has the power, and furthermore, the responsibility to make a positive difference in our community.
Joe Goldberg is United Synagogue Youth Social Action/Tikun Olam VP (2014).
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At the ABCD Roxbury/North Dorchester Neighborhood Opportunity Center, we offer Senior Brown Bag food distribution for Boston residents age 65 and older on the last Tuesday of the month. We also host the Happy Hands senior community crochet and knitting circle.
From December through March, we distribute winter coats to children and adults, and during the holiday season, we provide holiday meals and gifts for those most in need.
If you need notary services, we're here for that, too.
The Food Pantry is open Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome first come first serve. EXCEPTIONS: The food pantry is closed the first and third Thursday and the last Wednesday of the month.
A stunningly renovated event space on our Roxbury/North Dorchester campus, ABCD's Thelma D. Burns building hosts public and private events that serve and enrich the community. For information about holding your next event here, contact us at burnsbuilding@bostonabcd.org or 617.652.7020.


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Q: Tag do HTML não aparecem faço uma consulta em uma tabela determinada e o resultado é o seguinte:

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Ate ai tudo bem mas quando coloco um echo $dados3['description'] que tem esse resultado acima ele escreve exatamente como colei acima, ele não formata.
quero que ai executar a pagina ele use essas tag html como salvo no banco, mas caso não for possível como posso fazer para eliminar todo restante e deixar só o texto puro?

A: Basta usar a função nativa do PHP html_entity_decode();
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echo $result; //

Em vez disso, use:
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A: Complementando a pergunta:
No banco de dados esta gravado dessa maneira:
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O Campo no mysql é:
Nome Campo    Tipo     Colação
description   text     utf8_general_ci
A Busca em php que faço é simples:
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$query3 = mysqli_query($conn, $sql3);
while ($dados3 = mysqli_fetch_array($query3)) {
  $descricao = strip_tags($dados3['description']);
}

Ao dar o echo o resultado é esse:

Produto feito 100% Artesanalmente com todo carinho e dedicação que as artesãs merecem.

Além de um item super útil para seu ateliê, pela sua elegância e sofisticação também é uma peça de decoração para o seu ateliê.

Produto Exclusivo do Ateliê Cris Ramos.

Obs.: Alfinetes não estão incluídos

Este produto pode ser trocado por 500 pontos do programa de fidelidade


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Im Siwan And Shin Se Kyung Exchange Loving Eye Contact In Main Poster For "Run On"
JTBC's upcoming drama "Run On" has released its romantic main poster!
"Run On" is about people trying to connect with each other in their own languages after having lived in different worlds and at different paces. Im Siwan will star as Ki Sun Kyum, a former track and field athlete who retires after a life-changing event and becomes a sports agent, while Shin Se Kyung will star as Oh Mi Joo, an adventurous foreign film translator.
In the newly released poster, Ki Sun Kyum and Oh Mi Joo pose against the backdrop of a dreamy sunset. They gaze at each other with loving eyes, and their lips are quirked upwards into sweet smiles. Their meaningful eye contact points out the truth behind the saying "actions speak louder than words."
The words beside Oh Mi Joo read, "I think I might make a mistake if my heart flutters more than this," and Ki Sun Kyum's caption boldly replies, "Can I make that mistake?" These meaningful quotes hint that this will be a relationship between a woman who tries to distance herself from new emotions and a man who directly faces romance without hesitation.
Im Siwan and Shin Se Kyung talked about working together. Im Siwan commented, "She is an actress who deserves endless praise. Sometimes I play pranks or joke around to get rid of my tiredness, and I'm really grateful that she enjoys that."
On the other hand, Shin Se Kyung said, "He's an actor who really shines in his works, so I was curious about his work style. After actually working with him, I realized he is a very detailed person."
The drama's production crew stated, "The main poster of the 'Kyum-Mi' couple that was unveiled today (December 2) captured Ki Sun Kyum and Oh Mi Joo at the 'magic hour' of nature's mesmerizing beauty. This moment of day when the sky changes various colors reflects the story of two people who will go on a rollercoaster of beautiful and intense emotions. Please look forward to their romance, which is the key point chosen by both Im Siwan and Shin Se Kyung."
"Run On" premieres on December 16 at 9 p.m. KST.
Watch more information of upcoming drama "Run On (2020)" at here.
Source: [Soompi]
Tags: #Run On 2020; #Im Si Wan; #Shin Se Kyung; #Choi Soo Young; #Kang Tae Oh;


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The proposal, which transmits a special HTTP header to websites, may be supported in future versions of Firefox, but in order for it to fully work, websites must also support the feature.
Mozilla is proposing a new feature that enables users of its Firefox browser to opt out of online behavioral advertising.
Called "Do Not Track," the proposed browser preference is being considered for future releases of Firefox. It will broadcast a user's desire to opt out of third-party advertising tracking by transmitting a Do Not Track HTTP header with every page view in Firefox.
In a blog post, Alex Fowler, global privacy and public policy Leader at Mozilla, wrote that the Do Not Track HTTP header proposal is the best way to provide people additional privacy when visiting websites.
We believe the header-based approach has the potential to be better for the Web in the long run because it is a clearer and more universal opt-out mechanism than cookies or blacklists.
Alex Fowlerglobal privacy and public policy leader, Mozilla Corp.
"We believe the header-based approach has the potential to be better for the Web in the long run because it is a clearer and more universal opt-out mechanism than cookies or blacklists," Fowler wrote.
The proposed browser preference comes with one caveat: In order to fully work, it requires websites to support the feature in the HTTP header. Mozilla issued the browser add-on Universal Behavioral Advertising Opt-out as a proof of concept demo.
Fowler wrote that the header technique is less complex to use and more persistent than cookie-based privacy solutions and "it doesn't rely on user's finding and loading lists of ad networks and advertisers to work," he wrote. With nearly 100 behavioral advertising companies, opting out of each one is too difficult for users.
In addition, Fowler said Mozilla is working to standardize the header-based privacy feature across the industry. "We ask that sites and advertisers join with us to recognize this new header and honor people's privacy choices just as they are with opt-outs for [online behavioral advertising]," he wrote.
Users can currently block tracking cookies in browsers, but it can cause some websites to malfunction and some online advertising networks have found other ways to track visits. A 2009 online browsing privacy study, conducted by researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and AT&T Labs Inc., highlighted a method by which third-party advertisers could couple a person's identity with the cookies in their browser by using data provided by social networking websites, such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Privacy advocates have also been pushing for more ways to block advertising networks and search engines from tracking a person's browsing session. The issue has caught the ear of the Federal Trade Commission, which has called for a new mechanism to enable users to opt out of online behavioral advertising.
For example, a Firefox add-on called GoogleSharing.net can be used to prevent search engine giant Google from tracking searches and websites a person visits.


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Blueprint for Revolution
Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller
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My beautiful city of Belgrade probably isn't on your list of the top ten places to visit before you die. Some neigh- borhoods can be rough, and we Serbs have a reputation for being troublemakers, which is why we named a major street after Gavrilo Princip, the man accused of setting World War I in motion, and another after his band of revolutionaries. And then there's the memory of our former dictator Slobodan Miloševic ́, the maniac who introduced "ethnic cleansing" to the world, started four disastrous wars with his neighbors in the 1990s, and brought on a slew of NATO bombings that ravaged the city. But none of that mattered to a group of fif- teen Egyptians who visited Belgrade in June 2009. That's because they weren't looking for a relaxing summer getaway. They were coming to plan a revolution.
Given their particular agenda, the first place I wanted to show them is the last place I would have recommended to any other visitor: Republic Square. To get an idea of what this dirty and misshapen part of town looks like, imagine that someone took Times Square, made it much smaller, sucked out all the energy, removed the neon, and left only the traffic and the grime. The Egyptians, however, didn't mind it at all— they were hoping to bring down their own dictator, Hosni Mubarak, and for them Republic Square wasn't just a tourist trap but ground zero for a nonviolent movement that was started by a bunch of ordinary youngsters and grew into a massive political force that did the unthinkable and toppled Miloševic ́. I was part of that movement's leadership, and my Egyptian friends came to visit hoping that there was some- thing they could learn from us Serbs.
I led the group to a quiet corner, far away from the bustling cafés with their overworked waiters, and began my short talk. Once upon a time, I told them, pointing at the clusters of luxury shops—Armani, Burberry, Max Mara—that dotted Republic Square, Serbia's inflation was so bad that the price for two pounds of potatoes skyrocketed from four thousand dinars to seventeen billion in just one year. If that wasn't enough, we were also at war with neighboring Croatia. And if you tried to speak out against the disastrous policies that led our economy to collapse and our security to wither away, you were arrested and beaten or worse. In 1992, I was a freshman biology student, and the future for us young Serbs looked very, very bleak.
"Yeah," one of the Egyptians responded with a laugh, "we know how that feels!"
The Egyptians continued to nod in understanding as I went on with my story. Faced with Miloševic ́'s terrors, I told them, the natural response, at least at first, was apathy. After all, my friends and I were not the type of people who could even imagine one day starting a movement. We weren't aspiring politicians. We were college kids, and we shared the same passions as college kids all over the world: staying up late, drinking a lot, and trying to get a date. If you'd asked me back in those days what could get me out of the house and out to Republic Square, I wouldn't have said a protest—I would have said a rock concert.
From my spot on the square's sidelines, I tried to explain to my Egyptian friends why I loved Rimtutituki, a band whose musical-sounding name, freely translated, means "I put a dick in you," hoping that the three or four women in the group who were wearing the hijab, the traditional headdress of ob- servant Muslim women, wouldn't be too mortified. In 1992, the band was the coolest thing in town, a bunch of rowdy guys who played fast guitars and were known for their rowdy lyrics. When they announced a rare free concert, my friends and I all promptly skipped class and filed into Republic Square to see our idols in action.
What happened next shocked us. Rather than give another of their fun-filled performances, the members of Rimtutituki rode into the square on the top of a flatbed truck, looking more like conquering generals than punk musicians. Then, with their truck driving around in circles, they sang a selection of their best-known songs, the words making such declara- tions as "If I shoot, then I won't have time to fuck" and "There is no brain under the helmet." You didn't have to be a genius to understand what was going on: with the war still raging, Belgrade was filled with soldiers and tanks en route to the front, and here were the boys in the punk band mocking all this militarism, speaking out against the war, advocating a normal and happy life. And this in a dictatorship, where spit- ting out such slogans in public could get you in a lot of trouble.
As I ran after the truck, cheering on my favorite musicians, I had a series of epiphanies. I understood that activism didn't have to be boring; in fact, it was probably more effective in the form of a cool punk show than as a stodgy demonstration. I understood that it was possible, even under the most seemingly dire conditions, to get people to care. And I under- stood that when enough people cared, and enough of them got together to do something about it, change was imminent. Of course, I didn't really understand any of these things, at least not yet. It would take me years to think through the feel- ings I had that afternoon in Republic Square, to make sense of my insights and convert them to actions. But once I'd witnessed the possibility of successful and attractive nonviolent action, it was impossible to go back to my previous state of apathy. My friends and I now felt we had to do something to bring down Miloševic ́.
Blueprint for Revolution Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller


Our trip overseas was a legitimate business trip for my husband, so we only had touring time with him on days 1 and 2. We had been told by everyone who had an opinion, that The Tower of London was not to be missed, so that was our objective for the day.
As I mentioned in blog post "LONDON – DAY 1" posted on July 23, 2017, our apartment was ideally located between London Bridge and The Tower Bridge. It was a gorgeous walk along the river, over The Tower Bridge and straight to The Tower of London complex.
One of the things that endeared this city to me is the fact that they consider kids, under the age of 16, children! This was almost shocking to me. In The States, we are so consumed by the almighty dollar, that our kids lose their "child" status around 10 or 11. But in the fair city of London, it is quite affordable to tour with kids. Infact, several of the museums that I will highlight on other tour days, admission for children was free!
Continuing through the complex, we made a quick stop to the gift shop (again, traveling with kids). This was a lovely little shop, which I might add, is a trait that I found at all of our points of interest throughout London. Low on the junk, high on the super cute!
One of the best pieces of advice that I read prior to going to Europe was that if you were traveling with children, to keep museum visits to an hour. No more. So we had some ground to cover. Next stop, the crown jewels. I mean the real things, including the jeweled coronation crowns worn throughout the history of the monarchy. The oldest item in the collection, the Coronation Spoon, used for anointing "the sovereign" with holy oil, dates back to the 12th century. A truly spectacular display of opulence.
Ironically, two days prior to our departure to the UK, I learned the story of St. Thomas Moore. After reading the story, I was super jazzed to visit The Tower of London and find his resting place. So a quick pass by the Queen's Guard and we dropped by The Chapel Royal. A tiny, gorgeous, military chapel that also houses the remains of three English queens. I asked one of the Beefeaters where I would find the remains of St. Thomas Moore. Since Thomas Moore was executed for treason, it stands to reason, although disappointing as a tourist, that his remains were placed in a cavern between the inner and outer walls of the Chapel Royal.
Our run through The Tower of London was complete for this trip. Spectacular. It had something for everyone; armaments, jewels, ghost stories, and animals. Oh yeah! I don't want to leave out the Ravens. Legend has it that the kingdom and the Tower will fall if the six resident ravens ever leave the fortress. Thankfully, the seven "on staff" (one is a spare) are well tended and a really fun part of the experience at The Tower.
Our day ended with a walk home via London Bridge. We passed by a makeshift memorial for the victims of the June 2017 attack on our way to our apartment. A reminder of the fragility of our human nature, but an equal reminder of the resilience and the enduring fortitude of the English.
For more photos from our trip, follow @jenniferthebeholder on Instagram.
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Situated in the uppermost part of the village, at the foot of the mountain. Three-leveled traditional Cretan house with two bedrooms.
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2nd level: a kitchen with a marble work surface looking out onto the open-air area, with stone benches, a marble table under a pergola, trees, flowers, bougainvilleas, and an astounding view.
3rd level: a large indigo blue bedroom, with a double bed and large built-in wardrobes made of cypress wood, a roofed veranda with a view of the mountain and the sea.
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