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IF BJD IS NOT REJECTED PM MAY BE THE CM
Intricate developments are taking shape in Orissa politics. Elections are not far away and shenanigans are sharp.
Superannuated IAS officer-turned-Rajya Sabha member Pyari Mohan Mohapatra (PM) is most busy. It is he who alone has trumpeted the conch of BJD ahead of any politician or political party in Orissa.
A month ago media was not mentioning his name though everybody was taking it to be him only when mentions were being made of Sahid Nagar Uncle. Now his name is occupying headlines.
A select group of journalists, irrespective of where they work, have started adding aura to his name.
And, BJD members all over the State have started looking at him as the real leader, as to them, there is no doubt that it is he who controls Chief Minister Navin Patnaik.
In fact, in their opinion, Navin is still a political novice despite around a decade in the Chief Minister chair. Peoples believe, he is too dependent on Mohapatra to learn intricacies of politics. But Bijedians are afraid; he has no ability to learn. They are embarrassed over his inability to learn the beautiful mother tongue of Orissa till date. To most of founder members of BJD, he is an unpredictable sophomore. Like a dull but boastful child discards or destroys his toys just to exhibit how capable is he in the game of naughtiness, Navin has, without any notice, dropped from the ministry and dismissed from the party many colleagues who in fact had founded the BJD and brought him to politics. This has often prompted them not to rely on him as a leader. But none of them being a chief-ministerial ingredient, they were unable to think of any alternative. Sri Mahapatra's decision to cast aside his playback role and to spearhead electioneering ahead of time and ahead of everybody is a calculated attempt in this context.
It is remarkable that he threw a bolt from the blue at BJP from the BJD podium at Bolangir by announcing that he wants his party to win all the 147 seats of Orissa. Navin who heads the ruling coalition with BJP was too surprised and shocked to react immediately. BJP made a feeble protest. Since then it is busy in assuring its cadres that the coalition will continue notwithstanding Mahapatra's assertions. Navin in his delayed reaction has tried to match to the BJP tune of conciliation. Only one man in BJD, a former minister jettisoned by Navin from his cabinet but yet not dismissed from the party, Damodar Raut, came down heavily on Mohapatra for his disrespect to ethicality of coalition and stressed that when the party has been sharing power with BJP, it was wrong to have said to plant candidates in all the constituencies.
Raut's reaction has two probable reasons. One, when he was in Biju's cabinet, Mohapatra was a government servant paying him respect every now and then. Therefore his exalted position in BJD has remained contretemps for Raut. In the circumstances, begrudging him is not unnatural and so, availing the opportunity to censor Mohapatra was perhaps driven by his desire to avenge the embarrassment. Two, Raut perhaps has read Mohapatra's aggressive electioneering stances as his strategic march towards the top post and hence has shrewdly tried to impress upon Navin that he will stand with him if others stand with Mohapatra.
Raut may not be wrong in his calculation. In a sense, it is just a corollary to Mohapatra's.
Mohapatra's Bolangir assertions were well calculated. The ex-princely area is a hot spot of rivalry between both the partners of the ruling coalition as the heirs of a former king that had kept this area under his grip, have, on the basis of their selfish ambitions, bifurcated into two rival groups and have joined both the parties and fighting against each other as acrimoniously as conceivable. So, media has an alert eye on Bolangir and Mahapatra knows it. He therefore deliberately choose this place to place on records his preference for planting BJD candidates in all the 147 constituencies of Orissa. The news, as calculated by Mohapatra, instantly spread all over the State and beyond.
He knows that the General Election 2009 is knocking at the door. He knows that his party BJD is a party of power politics and it does not stand for any political economy and its members are members thereof only for fulfilling their respective selfish ambitions in the sphere of financial gain and political positions that include berths in either the cabinet or in the Assembly / Parliament. So every member of BJD in every constituency has a latent desire to contest Assembly polls. Coalition with BJP has remained the strongest deterrent to this desire. Mohapatra calculated that in a single stroke he should raze down this deterrent and ignite the dormant ambitions of his party members in the grassroots and enkindle in them the courage to aspire for candidacy. This would, he was sure, make Bijedians convinced that he is the only one with whom at the top all their ambitions might be fulfilled. Why should he not become the CM? He must have asked the question to himself and must have answered the question himself, before choosing Bolangir as the launching pad of his all-constituency-claim. Before that Mohapatra was the Sahidnagar uncle; but after that he has become the only leader who personifies the ambitions of all the members of BJD.
Mohapatra has in his subsequent conduct shown that he does not care for what a man like Raut or even Navin says in the matter of coalition with BJP. He has not only ushered members from the rank and file of BJP into BJD, but also has repeated his all-constituency- claim even while unreservedly remitting the message that he is most happy over and hopeful of BJD victory over BJP as and when the occasion arises as has occurred in Bhubaneswar Municipal elections. This might have embittered Raut, but certainly has endeared him to members of BJD. If members are to choose from him and Navin, he may be the choice under the new circumstances.
Keeping this in mind, political equations in Orissa may change. The change has commenced with change of leadership in Orissa Pradesh Congress.
The new Congress team has enough ammunition to attack Navin.
Like his father Biju, Navin is an acrobat of assurances and MoUs.
During these ten years in power, what to speak of other ventures, he has not been able to add a single unit to generation of power in Orissa.
In the sector of production his entire term has remained barren, though corruption has become the order of the day so much so that even third class police officers have become men of crores. Navin raj stands synonymous with loot raj. From a Storekeeper in Class IV cadre to a Secretary in the IAS cadre employees have indulged in looting the State like never before and majority of his ministers with wretchedly poor background are now dazzling with multimillionaire aura.
So, Congress has enough ammunition to attack Navin. But this party of American lobbyists is so discredited that it is impossible on its part to get majority support in Orissa. It is a party also of discredited politicians thrown away by Navin from BJD and of opportunity users who after retirement from government service are eager to explore if any avenue for future benefit could be available under its banner and of elements whom peoples have rejected in the past.
The Congress in Orissa is a party of low morale at the moment.
It had a brilliant Leader of Opposition in J.B.Pattnaik and an equally brilliant Deputy Leader of Opposition in Narasingh Mishra. The former has been jettisoned and the later has resigned. It had a dedicated President in Jaydev Jena. He has been dropped.
It had a stock of disciplined intellectuals like Prasad Harichandan. But it has never given them due importance.
Its lady autocrat has now "appointed" for OrissaPradesh Unit of Congress Sri K. P. Singhdeo as President, Bhakta Das as Working President and Srikant Jena as the Campaigner-in-Chief.
None of these three fellows belong originally to Congress.
All of them had come to political lime light by opposing the "corrupt" Congress.
They have never said anywhere at any point of time so far that the Congress is not a corrupt party.
They have never said so far that it was wrong on their part to have opposed the Congress in the past or to have painted Congress as "corrupt".
There is a huge gap of communication between these fellows and Congress grassroots.
In Orissa, change of party is considered not as a change in politico-economic preference but as an act of opportunity use in personal interest.
So the new Congress team has no chance of bringing out a change.
But change of the old team by "appointment" of the new "soldiers" (as KP has defined his position) has wiped out whatever little confidence of stability had been thriving in persons who originally belong to the Congress.
It is not that the so-called Congress high command is not aware of this.
Then why this exercise? It is just a gambling.
If the change clicks, it will be well and truly a success; if it fails, at least POSCO agents should be in power again in Orissa. Who does not know POSCO resembles American imperialist ambition and Congress is now under the grip of American lobbyists?
Therefore, Orissa is under a bizarre business of politics.
The main rivals, the BJD and the Congress are one in their support to imperialism. So there is no problem for both these parties entering into a coalition in mutual interest.
But in this endeavor, Navin may be an obstacle. In the decade in power he has developed a working understanding with BJP and BJP knows where his shoes pinch. So for him to terminate his coalition with BJP will never be that easy.
On the other hand, his stark failure in making the industries under yoke of MoU a reality and his style of functioning that is more pro-rich is bound to prompt peoples to reject the BJD.
If BJD is rejected, at the spur of the moment, peoples may develop preference for BJP and any preference expressed for BJP would be disadvantageous to the Congress.
So the first strategy is to denigrate the BJP and to equip the BJD with an attire of progressiveness. This attire is Sri Mohapatra, who, despite having spent his entire career in the IAS, is known as darling of the left. So the way Mohapatra has come out of his cocoon and has swiftly spread his wings from a Sahidnagar lane of Bhubaneswar to every nook and corner of Orissa assuring Bijedians not to worry is perhaps dovetailed with the secret strategy of the Congress.
Mohapatra has already taken the steering of campaign into his own hand and I believe there is none in BJD to stop him. In fact it is only because of him, progressive peoples such as Narendra Swain, once a State Committee member of CPI and Nityananda Pradhan, once CPI's member in Orissa Assembly, have allowed themselves to be hoodwinked to support BJD notwithstanding how infested is it with the POSCO stink.
So, most probably, BJD-BJP coalition will collapse. If it continues, it will be just a cosmetic coalition. In many constituencies the farce of "friendly contest" shall be enacted by BJD to help the Congress and depending on poll outcome, alliance shall be redrafted with Mohapatra offered with the top position and Navin enacting Biju of Kamaraj phase. The Congress will then remain content with its share of power in Orissa and take it to its advantage in the Center.
Thus it seems, if BJD is not rejected, Sri Pyari Mohapatra may be the next Chief Minister.
If this does not happen, Orissa will be plunged into a new phase of anarchy.
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Dark nights, wet roads, cold weather.
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The God of Scripture is the one true constant in all the universe: "I, the Lord, do not change" (Malachi 3:6). His nature and His thoughts are as immutable as His eternal plans. Specifically, He does not alter His Word, revise His will, revoke His promises, or change His mind: "God is not man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent; has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?" (Numbers 23:19).
Divine impassibility is not an easy concept to grasp. Robert Ingersoll, the famous nineteenth-century skeptic, wrote, "Think of that!—without body, parts, or passions. I defy any man in the world to write a better description of nothing. You cannot conceive of a finer word-painting of a vacuum than 'without body, parts, or passions.'"  Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, 12 vols. (New York: Dresden, 1900) 2:361-62. Nowadays even some Christian theologians shun the idea of divine impassibility because they think it makes God seem cold and aloof.
But that's a false notion. To say that God is not vulnerable, that He Himself cannot be hurt, and that He isn't given to moodiness is not to say He is utterly unfeeling or devoid of affections. On the contrary, Scripture says "God is love" (1 John 4:8). His compassion, His lovingkindness, and His tender mercies endure forever (Psalm 136). His divine affections are more real, more sure, and more trustworthy than any human emotions could ever be. In fact, the constancy and infinity of God's tender affections epitomize why divine impassibility is such a wonderful truth. "The Lord's lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is [His] faithfulness" (Lamentations 3:22-23).
The main problem in our thinking about these things is that we tend to reduce God's attributes to human terms, and we shouldn't. We're not to imagine that God is like us (Psalm 50:21). His affections, unlike human emotions, are not involuntary reflexes, spasms of temper, paroxysms of good and bad humor, or conflicted states of mind. He is as deliberate and as faithful in His lovingkindness as He is perfect and incorruptible in His holiness.
The unchangeableness of God's affections is—or should be—a steady comfort to true believers. His love for us is infinite and unshakable. "As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him" (Psalm 103:11). And His constant mercy is a secure and dependable anchor—both when we sin and when we suffer unjustly. "As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him" (Psalm 103:13). Far from portraying God as unsympathetic and untouched by our suffering, Scripture stresses His deep and devoted compassion virtually every time it mentions the unchangeableness of God.
Notice that I have quoted almost entirely from Old Testament texts to establish the connection between God's compassion and His immutability. The commonly-held notion that the Hebrew Scriptures portray God as a stern judge whose verdicts are always unrelentingly severe is an unwarranted caricature. The tender mercies of God are a persistent theme throughout the Old Testament. From beginning to end the entire Bible presents God as "gracious and merciful; slow to anger and great in lovingkindness . . . good to all, and His mercies are over all His works" (Psalm 145:8-9).
In fact, God's lovingkindness is often given particular stress in the very places where His fiery wrath against sin is mentioned. (See, for example, Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 77:7-10; Isaiah 54:8; 60:10; Habakkuk 3:2). Even the prophets' most severe threats and harshest words of condemnation are tempered with reminders of God's inexhaustible kindness and sympathetic mercy (Jeremiah 33:5-11; Hosea 14:4-9).
Of course, there's a careful balance that must be maintained here. It is neither wise nor helpful to pit the divine attributes against one another as if they were contradictory (they are not)—or to act as if God's merciful attributes automatically overruled the gravity of divine justice (they do not). "Behold then the kindness and severity of God" (Romans 11:22). All God's attributes are equally—and infinitely—exalted in Scripture.
It is a serious mistake to imagine that God's wrath conflicts with His mercy. It is a particularly egregious error to pit God's holiness against His tenderness or to think God's lovingkindness toward sinners simply cancels out His wrath against sin. Don't dream for a moment that divine mercy eliminates the threat of God's judgment. God would be unjust if He did not punish evildoers (Exodus 34:7; Nahum 1:3). On the contrary, God's wrath magnifies His mercy—revealing the severity of punishment that we have been spared from.
There is no conflict or contradiction among God's attributes. God's unchanging nature doesn't make Him incapable of responding to us with compassion. Rather, His impassibility reassures us that His compassion never changes.


Google has launched its advanced navigation system for Pakistani users.
The navigation feature is presently for beta users and can be accessed on any android phone. With new proper navigation system, users will get automatic guidance based on their real-time location and turn by turn details through voice commands.
The previous navigation system available on Google Store was having basic features only, it was also missing automated voice guidance. In the updated app, after opening the navigation, phone screen will remain lit and the voice guidance will alert about coming turns, traffic jams.
The users will also be alerted if they make any wrong turn. The new introduced feature was already in use in many of the developed countries.
In order to get the latest software, users can download it from Google Store. Following the instructions the new app can be downloaded and activated with an internet connection or WI-FI.
Due to security reasons and for the smooth flow of traffic, the Islamabad administration continues to close many of the roads without any intimation.
U-turns has also been closed and opened on daily basis. Residents believe if this new feature could guide motorists about the real time changes in routes, on real time basis, it would be a major breakthrough.


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'Searching': A Traditional Thriller With an Unconventional (& Diverse!) Twist
By Aysha Qamar
"Searching," following in theaters a week after the debut of "Crazy Rich Asians," is the tale of a father's attempts to track down his teenage daughter after she goes missing.
Intensifying every parent's worst nightmare through the film's use of technology, "Searching" is a classic mystery thriller told in an unconventional way.
The film differs from others not only in its composition of being told entirely through devices we use every day like websites, social media, smartphones and computer screens but in its diversity of starring an Asian American family.
[Photo Source: Screenshot/Sony Pictures]
"Searching" stars Korean-American actor John Cho as David Kim, a widower raising 15-year-old Margot, whom David wakes up to find three missed calls from, with no voicemails, and news that she didn't show up to school.
A local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case, but 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to take the search into his own hands. The distraught father goes through Margot's laptop and her various social platforms to trace her steps, and better understand who she is and what happened before her disappearance.
We, at Brown Girl Magazine, had the opportunity to speak with Indian-American movie director and writer of "Searching," Aneesh Chaganty, co-writer, and producer Sev Ohanian, as well as lead actor, Cho. They told us about their experience making the film and what makes it different.
Making the film with a group of friends was the best part of producing the film for both Ohanian and Chaganty. Most of the crew graduated together from the University of South California (USC) and according to Ohanian, as "cheesy" as it is, just being able to spend time and make a film with friends who they considered family was rewarding in itself.
"Working together and the challenges we faced made the movie better. We relied on one another while maintaining a moral in the sense of what we were making," Ohanian said.
The movie is creating a buzz not only because of the innovative way it tells a traditional story but its diversity depicted on and off screen. "Searching" is the first mainstream thriller to ever have an Asian-American lead, but that wasn't the movie's intention. The goal of the film was never to draw attention to the background or ethnicity of the family.
According to Chaganty and Ohanian, the movie is not meant to be about race or representation, it is a thriller that just depicts an American family, that happens to be Asian.
"Aneesh is an Indian American, I am an Armenian American and our other producer is also Armenian. We have a great mix of diversity in our cast and crew," Ohanian said.
"This is a traditional thriller. It's a mystery film that has been done a million times before. Part of it that makes it unique, except for the obvious, is that it takes place on screens. Our approach to the film was to still treat it differently. You know, we come from very tight cultural families and we want to tell a story that will star an Asian American cast, even though there is no reason for it to star an Asian American cast," he added.
Every time someone would ask us 'why,' our only answer would be 'why not?'"
The idea to use an Asian American cast came from the place that both Chaganty and Ohanian grew up watching fun action-filled movies that they never saw themselves in. The storyline is not meant to highlight race but an American family.
"Even though there is a place and time for when movies should be about race, representation and diversity, this isn't one of them – there was just no other reason not to do it."
According to Chaganty, there is an element of "freshness" that comes from being able to still say universal truths without focusing on specific issues and "expressing in a totally different outside."
"We all kind of express and feel the same things no matter what we look like or what countries we come from. But often times, the stories that get told are limited to a specific culture or a specific type of mindset or perspective. To be able to say that we're all the same even though it looks like this and that, and that the things we like to do are similar through a show of different angles drastically informed us to make this decision," Chaganty said.
John Cho was also impressed and inspired by the writing and work of Chaganty. Prior to meeting Chaganty, he told us, his initial reaction was to say no to the film, because of the untraditional uses of technology. He worried it would not be cinematic, but after meeting Chaganty, he saw something in him and felt a connection.
[Photo Credit: Sebastian Baron/Screen Gems]
After seeing the finished film Cho immediately texted Chaganty how impressed he was. He told us, he felt Chaganty has "added to the vocabulary of cinema, an act that is hard to do."
According to Cho, more than any movie he's been a part of, this movie went far from what was done on set to where it landed.
"All the things you see on-screen had to be created," he said
"They weren't there when we shot, it was like he [Chaganty] painted this whole new world."
The role of David was specifically made for Cho. Chaganty wanted to make a "popcorn classic thriller movie" that starred someone that he didn't see much of in the genre, Cho told us.
"It was always meant to be David Kim and the intention was always to use me," Cho said.
"That is part of the deep satisfaction that I get from showing this to audiences. That, you know, we are seeing a whole Asian family on screen, not just as the side characters, not as just the bud, but a whole deep loving family. That truly gratifies me," Cho added.
According to Cho, his Asian American heritage is a part of who he is and his core values, but aside from that, it does not change the way he acts.
"I like putting a foot forward with a movie like this, that's written and directed by two exceptional people of color, and has a whole Asian American family in a genre that is such a mainstream popcorn kind of movie…"
So, I'm very proud of who I made this film with, who it shows and who it's for."
When asked about the advice they would give other children of immigrants in pursuing a nontraditional career path both Chaganty and Ohanian shared their thoughts.
Chaganty's advice was more to parents than those individuals hoping to pursue creative fields. He said that the source of his drive to create comes from the encouragement his family gave him, despite others questioning their parenting. To parents, he had one message:
…"to put them [children] in an environment where one can foster their curiosity and passion and ultimately let them chase their own fuels."
He hopes that this is something our generation as parents will and can do for their kids.
"Often times what stops people from following their dreams is when they don't have that reinforcement and encouragement from the people around them."
Chaganty believes we should all be parents that foster a child's dream.
"To the children of immigrants like ourselves who wanted to pursue these nontraditional career paths, like ourselves, my only advice is be just as serious about it as your cousins, brothers, sisters pursuing medical school. Don't treat it like a hobby or something you want to do for fun, be militant about it. Study hard, read every book, put all the effort that you can," Ohanian said.
"There is no way anybody—parents, community members, teachers—will ever doubt you if you don't give them the reason too."
[Read Related: Why "Crazy Rich Asians" Matters For South Asians, Too]
"Searching" has received numerous awards and rave reviews since its premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival. It is currently playing in select theaters and will open nationwide on August 31.
Aysha Qamar
Aysha Qamar is a writer, poet and advocate based in the tri-state area. She currently serves as BGM's News and Politics Editor and works as a staff writer for the Daily Kos. Before pursuing writing full time, she worked as a legal program coordinator and culturally specific sexual assault advocate for the South Asian community. She has extensive experience working with state officials and grassroots organizations on addressing issues of violence against women and language access. Common themes in her work include advocating for immigration reform, gender parity, feminism, language access, and cultural competency.
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Nepal to ask India for more air entry points
By NewsTeam On Feb 27, 2012
The Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) has formally invited Indian aviation authorities to discuss expanding new cross-border airspaces enabling flights through an additional three routes.
Currently, Nepal has five exit points but only one entry points among the routes connecting Nepal and India. Nepal wants to add entry points for aircraft as the single-entry route has become congested.
Nepal has a single-entry route over Simara but five exit points over Bhairahawa, Biratnagar, Nepalgunj, Janakpur and Dhangadhi.
MoTCA joint secretary Suresh Acharya said that Nepal would propose opening three cross-border bi-directional airspaces (including entry and exit points) over Janakpur, Bhairahawa and Nepalgunj during the discussion.
The move to open cross-border airspaces is directed at benefiting Nepal's domestic airlines aspiring to serve Indian cities. A healthy growth in the number of Indian tourists has encouraged Nepali domestic carriers like Buddha Air to operate cross-border flights to various Indian cities.
Acharya said that the ministry had written to two Indian aviation authorities—the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation—three weeks ago. India is yet to respond to the letters. However, ministry officials believe that the meeting will take place soon.
Besides expanding airspaces, the two countries are expected to discuss emergency recovery of aircraft during accidents, automatic message switching system and improvement of the air traffic service (ATS), among other issues, in Nepal's aviation sector if the meeting takes place.
Nepali and Indian aviation authorities last met on Sept 10, 2009 when they reviewed the air service agreement (ASA) and signed a technical accord permitting Nepali airlines to increase their weekly seat capacity to 30,000 from 6,000 over the two country's airspace. Nepali airlines have been permitted to fly to 21 destinations in India as per the reviewed ASA.
Acharya said that the MoTCA would forward a draft of the proposal to be discussed during the meeting to the cabinet after getting confirmation for the meeting from the Indian side. "We are awaiting the counterproposal from the Indian authorities."
Nepali airlines seeking to expand cross-border flights have been hampered by the absence of adequate entry points.
Buddha Air had to abandon its plan to fly on the Pokhara-Lucknow route due to the air route problem. The carrier had been allowed to depart from Pokhara to Lucknow; but on its return, it had to enter Nepal from the Simara point making it economically unviable.
Instead of the Pokhara-Lucknow service, it has started Kathmandu-Lucknow flights, and plans to operate a Kathmandu-Varanasi service from March 1. MoTCA officials said the proposed bi-directional airspace would benefit Nepal in two ways.
It will reduce air traffic congestion on the Simara point and encourage participation of more carriers to operate cross-border flights with increased Indian tourist inflow in Nepal. Arrivals from India, the largest source market for Nepal, jumped 39.1 percent to 145,338 (by air only) in 2011. The government is upgrading Gautam Buddha Airport at Bhairahawa and Janakpur Airport as regional international airports, while a new regional international airport has been planned in Pokhara.
Likewise, the Trans-Himalaya 2 airspace (Hong Kong-Kunming-Guwahati-Kathmandu) which is one of the lucrative routes for Nepal, is a top priority on Nepal's agenda for the meeting.
If the route is opened, it will be the shortest way from China and the Far East to the Middle East and Europe. The air distance from Kathmandu to Hong Kong will also be reduced. Operation of this airspace will allow international airlines to fly over Nepali airspace, which means savings in fuel and distance for carriers flying this route and revenue for Nepal.(Source:ekantipur)
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Many companies realise customer feedback is vital but don't know where to start or what type of survey is best. Should they do an in-depth face to face analysis or should they just do a mail shot?
Many factors must be considered when determining how to assess your customers' perception of you. For example are your customers other businesses (B2B) or consumers (B2C)? Do you interact with them regularly or on an ad hoc basis? How important are they to your business? What is their long term potential and what has their interaction been with you over the last year – increasing or decreasing?
You also need to look internally into your company. Which departments are the most affected by your customers? Who owns the customer, sales or support? What are you going to do with the results? How will different departments react to the results? Is there cohesion and commitment between departments on the importance of acting on the results? Do you have top management support to do something with the results? If you are doing none of the above then why bother with the survey?
Finally you need to look at the customer; how are you going to feed the results back to your customers? Remember customers participate in surveys because they want to see improvement. If you don't acknowledge their effort and do something about it, their resentment at being taken for granted could make them look elsewhere.
As to what type of survey and who to interview, I have found Gartner's model is an easy and intuitive one.
The model works on three tiers of a pyramid. The top tier is strategic aimed at your key customers. The interviews are open ended allowing the customer leeway to discuss a broad band of issues. The second tier is customer satisfaction at certain milestones like at the end of a project or after a complaint has been resolved. You ask all your customers a standard set of questions to ensure your goals and their satisfaction are aligned. The third tier is the point of delivery or moments of truth to find out if the customer experience or the customer's emotion after the experience is positive. This is only one or two short easy questions enabling you to map the customer experiences to determine strong and weak areas.
The top level looks at key customers. This survey is strategic and outputs of this survey will influence your strategic direction and will dictate customer interaction. The content of the survey is guided not dictated; you ask few questions and allow your customer to do most of the talking. Allow the customer to state what they want and don't try and pigeon hole their answers into your company structures. These interviews are best conducted face to face so the interviewer can pick up on subtle cues in body language, tone or inflection to be able to ask more probing questions. To remove bias, the interviewer should be external to the company, or at least someone far removed from any department that interacts with customers.
Customers to interview are those customers you cannot afford to lose, or customers where they deal only with you and you want to keep your competitors out, or customers where your wallet share is low and you want to increase it, or customers whose revenue streams are declining (they are obviously trying out a competitor).
Our product called "Customer Relationship Auditing" will help here. We ask our client's customers only one question – "What do you want from your ideal supplier?" We brainstorm statements, and then determine how well our client is meeting their customers' needs. This process allows the customer to dictate what they want and highlights gaps our client has to close if they want to stay competitive.
The next level down is a survey conducted after a strategic milestone in your service delivery so you can determine how your service delivery's effectiveness and consistency.
Milestones are usually after a lot of interaction between you and your client or after a complex set of steps both parties have completed. Examples include post purchases, or 3 months prior to or after contract renewals, or post product installation, or post service problem resolution.
The questions here are more specific asking satisfaction levels for certain tasks or whether certain tasks were done and if so how well were they done. The questionnaire should be as short as possible; the optimum is around 10 questions.
The questionnaire can be done online, telephonically or by email, each have their advantages and costs, e.g. telephonically is more expensive but the response rate is higher.
The third tier is aimed at the moments of truth or the customer experiences. This measures your customers' emotional satisfaction as well as how well the experience was delivered. Emotions must not be ignored, they can influence up to 70% or more of the buyer's decision making.
This measurement is conducted whenever customers "touch" your company like the call centre or a purchase or interaction with your company or some form of staff intervention. This information will enable you to create a customer experience map to determine which experiences are working and which need work. You can also compare different departments, stores, agents, or teams and use this knowledge to improve weak areas or people.
The questions here is only one or two at the most asking them what they thought of the experience on a scale. You can use Net Promoter Score or simple averages, both are effective. The questions are best sent by email asking the person to respond in the email itself.
As there are only one or two questions, you should phone customers who gave a bad score to find out why. This enables the customer to vent their frustration on you rather than their colleagues and your potential customers. It also gives you an opportunity to rectify the situation there and then.
Our answer to this is our product "Customer Experience Auditing" a secure web based tool that automatically sends emails to your customers after they interact with your company asking them to rate that experience on a scale from 0 to 10. The emails are customised for that experience and you can put your logo into the email. The emails are sent the next day after the experience or sooner to increase the response rate. The responses allow you to create customer experience maps and to determine weak processes, people, or departments in your company to be fixed.


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When many people think of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), they think of emirates such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi. The Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) doesn't come to mind. RAK is one of the seven emirates that make up UAE. However, unlike more well-established emirates, it has a low population. According to a census conducted in 2015, the total population of RAK was 345,000. RAK has one of the highest mountains in all of UAE, called Jebel Jais. Another surprising fact is that RAK has been a site of human settlement for 7,000 years. Today, RAK is not known for its glitzy buildings or massive malls, it is a place of eco-tourism where one can find the most beautiful beaches. Accordingly, those looking to buy property in Ras Al Khaimah should know that they will be enjoying a secluded lifestyle, away from all the hustle and bustle of city life. Being a sparsely populated emirate also means that properties here are relatively affordable. RAK is the second emirate to have offered freehold property.
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It has a number of apartments for sale and one has the option to buy studios and 2, 3 and 4-bed flats. The typical studio flat will come with 1 bath and 559 sq. ft. of floor space. With 1-bed flats, the average floor plan includes 2 baths and 690 sq. ft. of floor space. Moving on, the most popular 2-bed flats will come with 3 baths and around 1,380 sq. ft. of floor space. For those interested in 3-beds, the typical 3-bed unit will have around 2,163 sq. ft. of floor space and 3 baths. Finally, the average 4-bed apartment will include 3-bathrooms and around 4,200 sq. ft. of floor space. Moving on, there are also villas for sale in RAK. These offer anywhere between 2 to 5-bed layouts. A typical 2-bed villa will come with 3 baths and an overall living space of 3,250 sq. ft. Moving on, those thinking of buying a 3-bed house in Ras Al Khaimah will find that houses in this category will usually have 4 baths and 2,700 sq. ft. of residential living space. When it comes to 4-bed villas, the typical unit will come with 4 baths and around 4,046 sq. ft. of floor space. Finally, 5-bed villas will typically come with 14,000 sq. ft. of living space and around 5 bathrooms. For those interested in buying a townhouse in RAK, there are options starting from 2-beds and going up to 4-beds. The typical 2-bed townhouse will come with 2 baths and 1,200 sq. ft. of living area on average. Townhouses with 3-beds will typically include 2 baths and a residential space of 2,000 sq. ft. Finally, 4-bed townhouses in RAK will typically offer 3 baths and around 2,600 sq. ft. of floor space. Moving on, there are also commercial properties for sale in RAK. For instance, the typical office for sale in RAK will come with 919 sq. ft. of workspace with a sea view.
Popular Areas of Ras Al Khaimah
At the top of the list are the apartments of Al Hamra Village which are established on the shores of RAK. This is a community surrounded by a creek that encircles the entire community. Al Hamra is a well-established community by RAK standards. It has a golf-club, Hilton Hotel and a Ritz Carlton Hotel. Nearby, there are several banks, malls and franchise restaurants. The main highway linking to this community is E11. On second place is the community of Mina Al Arab. Similarly, this community is also established along the shores of RAK but is located a few kilometres west of Al Hamra Village. This community has two extended islands from the shoreline and has a few restaurants, hotels, café and places for shopping. In third place is Al Marian Island, which is RAK's version of Palm Jumeirah. These man-made islands are a series of 3 connected islands that form Arjan Islands.
Lifestyle in Ras Al Khaimah
Being the northernmost emirate, Ras Al Khaimah has a unique vibe that is unlike any other emirate. This emirate is less about glitz and glamour and more about natural beauty. It has some of the most pristine beaches in UAE and the emirate is surrounding by mangroves. Also, if one wants to see the biggest mountain in the UAE, RAK is the place where they will find it. Apart from that, RAK has several historical sites where tourist gets gain vital insight into the culture and history of the region. For the adventurous ones, RAK's eastern mountain range known as the Ru'us Al Jibal offers plenty of hiking and mountain biking trails. For those who are brave enough to try out mountain climbing, RAK is the place where they should experience it. Moving on, there are plenty of schools for children to attend but most schools in RAK are concentrated along the E18, just northeast of RAK International Airport. There are plenty of malls in RAK as well but the most visited one is Al Hamra Mall.
Sale Price Trend for Properties in Ras Al Khaimah
On average, a typical studio apartment will sell for AED 200k while a 1-bed will demand a price of AED 450k on average. For a 4-bed flat, one can expect to pay around AED 1.95M. Moving along, the smallest villa that comes with 2-beds will sell for an average price of AED 1M, while a 5-bed villa will cost AED 3.2M. Finally, if one is looking to purchase their own office space, they could purchase an office for AED 520k that will come with 919 sq. ft. of a working area.
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By Charlie Cray
Whistleblowers Describe Halliburton's "Free Fraud Zone"
"I can unequivocally state that the abuse related to contracts awarded to KBR represents the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career."
-- Bunnatine Greenhouse, top Army Corps of Engineers contract oversight official, turned whistleblower
Today's Democratic Policy Committee Hearing was another jawdropper.
The witnesses included:
1) Greenhouse -- the highest ranking civilian at the Army Corps of Engineers whose job it is to ensure openness and honesty in contracting. Greenhouse said that "essentially every aspect of the RIO contract remained under the control of the Office of the Secretary of Defense." In other words, Rumsfeld should be held responsible for giving his old pal Dick Cheney's firm Halliburton the no-bid contract before the war, under its global logistics contract, a violation of competitive contracting requirements (as Greenhouse testified and 60 Minutes reported, other contractors were itching to bid on the work but were never given a chance).
2) Rory Mayberry, a former manager of Halliburton's mess halls in Iraq, who testified that KBR fed U.S. troops expired food on a daily basis, and fed Turkish and Filipino workers "leftover food in boxes and garbage bags after the troops ate," while using beef, chicken, salads and sodas intended for the troops to cater parties and barbeques for KBR management and employees. He also said he was informed that "if we talked, we would be rotated out to other camps that were under fire."
3) Alan Waller and Gary Butters -- two top executives from Lloyd-Owen International, a transportation contractor who testified that one of their convoys was ambushed 2 kilometers from a U.S. base while bringing materials under a Halliburton contract. Not only were they not told by KBR that other contractors had been hit recently in the same area (they lost 3 individuals in the ambush), but upon arriving at the base were denied help by KBR (later learning from emails they obtained that KBR management had instructed its on site staff to offer no assistance).
Could this have anything to do with the fact that the company has a fuel supply contract with the Iraqi government that KBR would have had, if it hadn't been caught defrauding U.S. taxpayers for fuel shipments?
KBR still controls the military checkpoint along the Kuwait/Iraq border, where Lloyd-Owen has to bring over 100 fuel tankers across on a daily basis. They testified that KBR has hampered the company's ability to cross the border, using the fact that Lloyd-Owen does not have a U.S. Military contract as a technicality.
Meanwhile, they testified that Halliburton's incompetence in restoring fuel pumping and refinery equipment has also slowed fuel deliveries down, leading to the kind of festering resentments that are certain to fuel the resistance.
A joint report was also released at the hearing by Senator Dorgan and Rep. Henry Waxman, which estimates that Halliburton's questioned and unsupported costs in Iraq now exceed $1.4 billion, more than three times the previous estimate.


What does oral health have in common with diabetes? A lot when you consider that high blood sugar can affect your entire body including your teeth and gums. Diabetes, when uncontrolled, compromises white blood cell functionality. Because white blood cells are the body's main defense against bacterial infections in the mouth, this makes understanding dental care for diabetes imperative.
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@gohan how does the node keep track of time when sleeping? Is this the "new" smartsleep function?
don't you normally use sleep(30000) to sleep sleep a node for 5 minutes?
Well, maybe I missed something. So, if the node sleeps for say 30000 mS and it receives an interrupt from the bucket: After handling the interrupt, does it sleep for the remaining time until 30000 mS have passed or does it start over, sleeping for another 30000mS? Not fully clear from the API. What I wanted to achieve is to have a rain report every 5 minutes regardless if there is rain or not.
So this is why i implemented a timer. I want rain reports every five minutes, no more, no less. Since it is battery operated I need the node to sleep if there is no bucket tip. But if the bucket tips, and generates an interrupt, then the node will sleep for another five minutes. And I don't want the node to report rain as soon as the bucket tips either. I started messing around with an RTC but that got much too complicated and I don't need real-time. The controller OpenHAB handles that together with Influxdb and Grafana.
well... it is better to have the node reporting something at least every hour or so, otherwise the controller will most likely consider it offline. About reporting every bucket tip, unless you are living in a very rainy area, I don't think it will drain much battery anyway (there are nodes sending temperature and humidity every 10 minutes and battery lasts 1 or 2 years). I'd suggest to start simple and add more complicated things afterwards. Btw, in case you need it, the sleep function should return a value about what interrupted it.
It collects amount of rain per day and stores it in eeprom ( with other values) every hour.
If it is not raining, every hour it reports battery voltage and amount of rain per day (mm/day).
If it is raining, it collects bucket tips and reports rain rate (l/h) every 5 minutes. It doesn't matter that the one hour sleep timer is resetted in this case and amount of rain and battery voltage is sent too.
If it stops raining the bucket tip collector is reset to zero after a configurable amount of time, e.g. 1 minute.
Using Arduino pro mini with 2 AA Batteries. Still have 2.9V after 9 month of operation.
@heizelmann how do you keep track of time in your case?
@gohan As far as I can remember I used requestTime() on every wakeup which gets time from gateway. Basic implementation based on https://www.mysensors.org/build/rain.


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ALEX HUBBARD — THE CORNER OF THE TABLE
The videos involve a long, slow process, hunched in front of the computer… The paintings, when they started, were about changing gears in the studio and working quickly… With most if not all of the materials I use, there is no going back. With the plastics, the urethanes, and the resins, once they are mixed, the clock is ticking. The slower I am to start, the less time I have to work with them. — Alex Hubbard*
THE CORNER OF THE TABLE—Hubbard's solo show at Regen Projects—includes his new multimedia works on linen and cotton as well as two handmade projectors streaming animated videos.
ALEX HUBBARD—THE CORNER OF THE TABLE
Through December 21.
6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.
*"Alex Hubbard in conversation with Debra Singer," in Alex Hubbard—Eat Your Friends (Los Angeles: DoPe Press, 2015), 37–38.
Alex Hubbard, The Corner of the Table, November 16–December 21, 2019, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, from top: Youth Apparatus, 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, epoxy resin, fiberglass, and oil on linen; Vaper's Salon, 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, epoxy resin, fiberglass, and oil on cotton; Romeo's Purple Welcome, 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, epoxy resin, fiberglass, and oil on linen; The way things I wish they used to be, 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, epoxy resin, fiberglass, and oil on cotton; Boule's, 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, epoxy resin, and fiberglass on cotton; Life Preserver, 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, epoxy resin, fiberglass, and oil on cotton; Animal Dance, 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, epoxy resin, and fiberglass on linen; Infrared, 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, epoxy resin, fiberglass, and oil on linen; 1,000,000 (Iguana), 2019, urethane, acrylic, UV print, and oil on linen. Images courtesy and © the artist and Regen Projects.
This entry was posted in ART, BOOKS/PERIODICALS and tagged Alex Hubbard, dope press, Eat Your Friends (Hubbard), REGEN PROJECTS on November 21st, 2019 by Barlo Perry.
K8 HARDY'S OUTFITUMENTARY
"A record of the way a young lesbian feminist dressed in her coming of age" — K8 Hardy
K8 Hardy's directorial debut OUTFITUMENTARY (2016) will screen this week as part of the Jason Simon series Blame the Audience at MOCA.
Also on the bill: If Andy Warhol's Super-8 Camera Could Talk, directed by Roddy Bogawa, and Tiger Morse, directed by Warhol.
OUTFITUMENTARY
Thursday, March 7, at 6 pm.
MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.
From top: K8 Hardy, Outfitumentary, still; Andy Warhol, Tiger Morse, aka Tiger Morse (Reel 14 of ****), still; K8 Hardy, How To: Untitled Runway Show book cover, published by DoPe Press in 2013, cover design by Madame Paris.
This entry was posted in ART, FASHION, FILM and tagged Andy Warhol, dope press, If Andy Warhol's Super-8 Camera Could Talk (Bogawa), Jason Simon, K8 Hardy, K8 Hardy How To: Untitled Runway Show, Madame Paris, MOCA Grand Avenue, Outfitumentary (Hardy), Roddy Bogawa, Tiger Morse (Warhol) on March 6th, 2019 by Barlo Perry.
FELIX AND FRIEZE LOS ANGELES
Sales are good, tickets are selling out, events are full, and the sun is shining—although a brief shower is forecast for midday Sunday—so the inaugural edition of Frieze Los Angeles should be followed by many more.
We hope Felix returns, too. Co-founded by Morán Morán brothers Al and Mills and collector Dean Valentine, it's an intimate fair headquartered in Hollywood.
Through Sunday, February 17.
Hollywood Roosevelt
7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
An Arthur Jafa edition of Name That Tune has been added to today's Frieze Talks, and the fair will close on Sunday with Miranda July and Maggie Nelson in conversation.
When you're out on the Paramount studio backlot in the Frieze Projects section, stop by the Sqirl/Acid-Free space for Sqirl Away to-go items from the Los Feliz restaurant as well as a selection of art books and periodicals, including Liz Craft's …my life in the sunshine—published by DoPe Press—and the new print issue of PARIS LA.
5515 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles.
From top: Ken Price, Return to LA, 1990, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks (Frieze Los Angeles); Florian Morlat, collage, courtesy of the artist and The Pit (Frieze Los Angeles); Jessi Reaves installation at Felix, courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue, New York; Kristen Morgin, Jennifer Aniston's Used Book Sale (detail), ceramic, courtesy the artist and Marc Selwyn Fine Art (Felix); David Hockney, Peter Showering, 1976, C print, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks (Frieze Los Angeles); Nan Goldin, Blue, 2016, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman (Frieze Los Angeles).
This entry was posted in ART, BOOKS/PERIODICALS, CONVERSATION, MUSIC, PHOTOGRAPHY and tagged Al Morán, Arthur Jafa, Bridget Donahue, David Hockney, dope press, Felix art fair, Florian Morlat, Frieze Los Angeles, Frieze Los Angeles 2019, Jessi Reaves, Ken Price, Kristen Morgin, Liz Craft, Maggie Nelson, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Marian Goodman, Matthew Marks, Mills Morán, Miranda July, Moran Moran, My Life in the Sunshine (Craft), Nan Goldin, Paris LA #16, Paris-LA on February 16th, 2019 by Barlo Perry.
LIZ CRAFT'S LIFE IN THE SUNSHINE
The new artist's book …MY LIFE IN THE SUNSHINE—LIZ CRAFT 2006–2017 is a stream-of-consciousness visual diary of Craft's life and practice, featuring family and friends in California, Berlin, Washington State, Oslo, New York and beyond.
The 185 pages of color photographs include contributions by Craft's partner Pentti Monkkonen, as well as Lena Henke, Paul-Aymar Mourgued'Algue, Dorothée Perret, and Fabian Marti and many others.
…MY LIFE IN THE SUNSHINE—LIZ CRAFT 2006–2017 (Los Angeles: DoPe Press, 2017).
dopepress.fr/liz-craft-my-life-in-the-sunshine
See Louisa Elderton on Craft:
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Above: Liz Craft, Mermaid (Becky), 2008–2015, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Below: Liz Craft, Mushroom Bubble (Black), 2016. Images courtesy of the artist.
This entry was posted in ART, BOOKS/PERIODICALS, PHOTOGRAPHY and tagged dope press, Dorothée Perret, Fabian Marti, Lena Henke, Liz Craft, Louisa Elderton, My Life in the Sunshine (Craft), Paul-Aymar Mourgue d'Algue, Pentti Monkkonen, Whitney Museum of American Art on July 1st, 2018 by Barlo Perry.
ACID-FREE ART BOOK MARKET
ACID-FREE – an art-book market organized by a collective of independent publishers in Los Angeles – will open on Friday night at Blum & Poe.
The three-day event will include talks and readings, screenings, and music events. Exhibitors include Art Catalogues, DoPe Press, East of Borneo, Family Books, Ghebaly Gallery, LACA, LACE, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Regen Projects, and Semiotext(e). Come early, stay late.
ACID-FREE LOS ANGELES ART BOOK MARKET
Opening night, Friday, May 4, from 6 pm to 9 pm.
Regular hours, Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6, from 11 am to 7 pm.
BLUM & POE, 2727 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles.
acid-free.info
dopepress.fr
Liz Craft, Three Muses, 2008 (above), and My Lovely Assistant, 2011.
Images from the book …my life in the sunshine Liz Craft 2006–2017 (Los Angeles: DoPe Press, 2018).
This entry was posted in ART, BOOKS/PERIODICALS, CONVERSATION, EDUCATION/ACTIVISM, LITERATURE/POETRY, MUSIC, VIDEO and tagged Acid-Free, Acid-Free Los Angeles Art Book Market, Art Catalogues, Blum & Poe, dope press, East of Borneo, Family Books, Ghebaly Gallery, LACA, LACE, Liz Craft, My Life in the Sunshine (Craft), Peter Fetterman Gallery, REGEN PROJECTS, Semiotext(e) on May 3rd, 2018 by Barlo Perry.


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Longtime Lawton police officer dead after fatal single-car accident
Rapper Juice WRLD dies after medical emergency in Chicago
by: SOPHIA TAREEN and MESFIN FEKADU, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 8, 2019 / 10:41 AM CST / Updated: Dec 8, 2019 / 06:40 PM CST
FILE – In this May 15, 2019 file photo, Juice WRLD performs in concert during his "Death Race for Love Tour" at The Skyline Stage at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. The Chicago-area rapper, whose real name is Jarad A. Higgins, was pronounced dead Sunday, Dec. 8 after a "medical emergency" at Chicago's Midway International Airport, according to authorities. Chicago police said they're conducting a death investigation. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
CHICAGO (AP) — Rapper Juice WRLD, who launched his career on SoundCloud before becoming a streaming juggernaut and rose to the top of the charts with the Sting-sampled hit "Lucid Dreams," died early Sunday after a "medical emergency" at Chicago's Midway International Airport.
The rapper, whose legal name was Jarad A. Higgins, was 21. Authorities have not released details about his cause of death.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital around 3:15 a.m. and taken to the Cook County medical examiner's office several hours later, according to office spokeswoman Natalia Derevyanny, who said an autopsy would take place Monday.
Chicago police launched a death investigation after a 21-year-old male experiencing a "medical emergency" was transported from Midway to an area hospital. Police said there were no signs of foul play and those aboard the aircraft were cooperating with authorities. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said the man experienced cardiac arrest and was taken to a hospital from a hangar operated by Atlantic Aviation at Midway, away from the main terminal, where private planes land. Atlantic didn't return a message Sunday.
The rapper, who was named top new artist at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards in May, lived in the Chicago suburb of Homewood where he stood out as a musician early on.
Like a good number of young hip-hop performers, Juice WRLD blended rapping and singing on his songs, sometimes mumbling words and focusing more on melody. His hit "Lucid Dreams," which heavily samples Sting's 1993 song "Shape of My Heart," was a six-times platinum success and reached No. 2 on the all-genre Hot 100 chart. It reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.
"I was very impressed by what he put on top of (my version)," Sting told The Associated Press this year. "It's a really good song."
Juice WRLD got his start on the music sharing platform SoundCloud before signing to a record label and finding major success on streaming services. His major-label debut album, "Goodbye & Good Riddance," was a platinum success. It featured the hit "All Girls Are the Same," which gained platinum status, alongside seven more platinum hits including "Armed & Dangerous," "Robbery," "Fine China" and "Legends," which features the lyrics: "What's the 27 Club?/We ain't making it past 21."
He's had 10 songs reach gold status and also had success with 2018's "Wrld on Drugs," a collaborative album with rapper-singer-producer Future.
Juice WRLD graduated in 2017 from Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School outside Chicago, where he gained a reputation as a talented musician among the nearly 3,000 students. School officials said Sunday that they would offer counseling services for students affected by his death.
"He is remembered by his teachers and staff as being a brilliant and creative student. Jared was extraordinarily talented in music and played many instruments," said school spokeswoman Jodi Bryant. "He was a caring and outgoing person who always tried to reach out to others while at the same time he was introspective and had a great sense of humor."
Fekadu reported from New York.
by Shatanya Clarke / Jan 20, 2020
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL)— An exhibit that will be opening at the Museum of North Texas History highlighting the old Negro League Baseball and KFDX got an exclusive first look on the inside.
This exhibit is just the beginning of a two-month search for more information on the Black Spudders, the perfect way for an early kickoff Black History Month next month.
by Zach Verdea / Jan 20, 2020
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Tests are still being done to find out the exact cause of all this, but about nine horses have died with liver disorders.
"It really just started when we found a perfectly healthy horse dead, she was fine the day before and we come out to feed in the morning and she was dead in the stall," horse owner Jessica Geer said.
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL)—McDonald's is known for serving up billions of hamburgers throughout the years but today they served up food with a side of hope and happiness.
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Evolutionary distance metric learning (EDML) is an efficient technique for solving clustering problems with some background knowledge. However, EDML has never been applied to real world applications. Thus, we demonstrate EDML for cluster analysis and visualization of two applications, i.e., a face recognition image dataset and a literature dataset. In the facial image clustering, we demonstrate improvement of the cluster validity index and also analyze the distributions of classes (ages) visualized by a self-organizing map and a K-means clustering with K-nearest neighbor centroids graph. For the literature dataset, we have analyzed the topics (i.e., a cluster of articles) that are the most likely to win the best paper award. Application of EDML to these datasets yielded qualitatively promising visualization results that demonstrate the practicability and effectiveness of EDML.
This work was partially supported by the Kayamori Foundation of Informational Science Advancement, and by the cooperative research program of "Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices".


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'Rampage' Post-Credits Scene: One Huge, Unanswered Question
James Grebey
Haters will try to tell you that Rampage, the new movie about the Rock and the giant albino gorilla he loves, is dumb and bad. They're only half right, as it is indeed a very dumb movie, but quite an entertaining flick. You should see it, and you should stay until the end — but don't bother sitting through the credits. There is no post-credits scene, and as a result, there's a question that goes unanswered.
This post contains some spoilers for Rampage, but not any that you wouldn't have already guessed.
So, George, the albino gorilla who grows to tremendous proportions, survives at the end of Rampage's big climatic battle atop Chicago skyscrapers. This isn't really a spoiler, because Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson already said that George survives until the end. In a profile in Rolling Stone, he recounted how the original script for the film did have George dying after making a heroic sacrifice, but he demanded the ending be changed because the Rock doesn't do downer endings.
"My problem is I have a relationship with an audience around the world," he told Rolling Stone. "For years I've built a trust with them that they're gonna come to my movies and feel good."
Because of this, George is alive at the end of the movie, but he's still gigantic. The Rock's character, Davis Okoye, remarks that they need to find George a new place to live now that he's way too big for the San Diego Zoo, and the pair walk off. It's corny, charming, and curious. Where are they gonna find a home for George? Are they gonna find him his own Skull Island (as seen in the movie Kong: Skull Island, which was also produced by Warner Bros.)?
He's okay! Warner Bros.
It's a question that's begging for a post-credits sequence to answer, yet no post-credits scene ever comes. That's fine. There's no talk of a Rampage 2 yet, and not everything needs to be a full-length trailer for the next full length trailer. When the credits start to roll during your screening of Rampage, feel free to get up and leave, knowing that George's new home is in your imagination.
Rampage hits theaters on April 13.
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A characteristic feature of the S-Roll technology is the small roll diameter and the fact that there is no need for any crowned roll.
With the deflection controlled S-Roll, maximum pressure can be achieved (50 N/mm and more). This pressure is infinitely variable from minimum (basic load) to maximum, maintaining a constant uniform nip pressure. A characteristic feature of the S-Roll technology is the small roll diameter and the fact that there is no need for any crowned roll. This guarantees a maximum specific pressure, an absolutely even squeezing effect over the entire width of the roll nip, controlled even or uneven linear pressures. S-Roll dye padders, S-Roll mangles and high efficiency squeezers by Kusters Calico, under Jagenberg Group, are the most efficient solutions.


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Gerben Bruijstens (* 31. Dezember 1974) ist ein niederländischer Badmintonspieler.

Karriere
Gerben Bruijstens gewann in den Niederlanden 1993 zwei Juniorentitel. 1999 nahm er an den Badminton-Weltmeisterschaften teil. Ein Jahr später siegte er bei den Czech International, 2003 bei den Italian International. Bei den nationalen Titelkämpfen gewann er zahlreiche Medaillen, schaffte es aber nie bis auf das oberste Treppchen.

Sportliche Erfolge

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