How often are businessmen and women asked about their vision? Nowadays, it would appear to be the standard that every entrepreneur is expected to have, a strong and clear-cut vision. However, not all of them do. So what then? What if you don't have a vision?
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a workshop in Lisbon along with a number of other digital agency executives from across America, Europe and Russia. They too were asked about their vision. And their answers were actually quite shocking. From a group of ten men and women, all of which were CEOs of a top-notch agency, that all produce brilliant work for major brands, not a single one was able to give a satisfactory answer. How was this possible given that they all run agencies that are growing, profitable, and have really talented staff?
Come to think of it though, I don't actually have a clear and explicit vision either. Nevertheless, Dept is growing steadily and is flourishing. So how have we managed to do that? After all, there are plenty of gurus that have written volumes on the importance of a vision. And they all emphatically state that success is impossible without a specific vision.
But what is a vision? I often talk to entrepreneurs, clients and colleagues who refer to vision as part of the combination of vision, mission and strategy. However, vision, mission and strategy are concepts that often get confused with each other.
It's terrific when you have such a powerful vision, being convinced that the Earth is round while everyone else thinks that it's flat. Visionaries like Vasco, who succeed in linking a vision such as this, to a mission and strategy – and sail off – are the ones that are able to change the world.
Audi: We have the potential to revolutionise mobility.
These are attractively worded visions, but at the same time they are a little meaningless, certainly the first three. I believe that Alibaba has the most powerful vision of the four. However, I do wonder how many of their employees actually know their company's vision. I'd bet that the figure that actually does, would be rather disappointing. But having said that, I think that I can also safely say that many of our Dept staff would also be unable to rattle off our vision within three seconds of waking up in the middle of the night.
Dept's vision is that technology is connecting people to each other, and people to brands, at an extremely rapid pace. This lays the foundations for our mission, which is to build positive connections between all these people and brands. Our strategy to fulfill our mission is to connect the best digital talent to Dept that we need to produce the best work for our clients.
My brother and Dept co-founder, Bart, and I were involved in defining our vision. And although we did not have one when we founded Dept, our colleagues gave the impetus for its formulation. Moreover, I don't think that Dept actually needs a vision to set the company's course and give us our drive: what we do need is something slightly different – a shared goal.
I love goals. A goal is much less bombastic than a vision, it's easier to remember, it's a great help in determining the company's course, and it's easy to substantiate with a strategic plan. In 1996, Bart and I set ourselves the goal of building a real company. In 2007, our goal was to rank among the top three Dutch internet agencies. Six years later, in 2013, we set our sights on building up an international agency. In 2015, our next goal was to expand our operations to ten countries within the coming five years, with a turnover of one hundred million euros and about one thousand staff members. Given that we have achieved this, this year we set ourselves a new goal for the upcoming years: to evolve into a leading worldwide agency.
If you were now to wake up any Dept staff member, I think that they would all say that our goal is to become the world's best digital agency. It's an ambitious goal, and it's an important motivator for many of us. Goals that aren't so easy to reach, combine both drive and focus.
In other words, I have found that it certainly is possible to define and adopt specific goals, and then go for them, without first needing to formulate a highly defined vision. Nevertheless, I am not implying that I am advocating leadership and entrepreneurship without a vision; only that good entrepreneurship is possible without one. Working with your team on defining goals that will gain broad support also gives the company focus.
Operating a company without an enthralling vision will probably not fundamentally change the world – but a well-managed company with an eye for people, clients and development will add serious value to our society. So let's continue to focus on starting up great companies, with or without a vision!


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Friday, December 14, 2012, began as a fairly standard day in Newtown, Connecticut. People getting up, eating breakfast with their families, and heading to work. Moms and dads dropping their kids off at school. This all changed at 9:35am when a mentally ill young man named Adam Lanza stole a shotgun, murdered his mother, and then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he subsequently shot and killed 26 other people – most of them children aged six and seven – before turning the gun on himself. The incident was the deadliest mass shooting at a high school or grade school, and the third-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history – and yet, despite public outcry, despite the catastrophic numbers of dead children, the Government of then-President Barack Obama was unable to pass stricter laws on gun ownership. It remains ridiculously easy for Americans to buy these sorts of deadly weapons, and as such future tragedies like this remain a distinct possibility. These events, and their aftermath, are examined in detail in the harrowing documentary feature Newtown, directed by Kim A. Snyder. Read more…
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GERMANY face South Korea in a crucial game in World Cup Group F – who will start?
Germany take on South Korea in a crucial World Cup encounter that will make-or-break their tournament ahead of the knockout rounds.
The reigning champions got their campaign off to the worst possible start following a 1-0 defeat to Mexico, with Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira dropped for the second game of the tournament.
But despite their absence, Joachim Low has hinted that both players will still feature heavily in his thinking and could return to the line-up against South Korea.
Germany will guarantee their spot in the last-16 if they better Sweden's result and goal haul against Mexico.
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During Ambassador Miller's visit, Prof John D Clemens, Executive Director at icddr,b presented an overview of the institution. He explained how icddr,b undertakes basic and implementation research and knowledge translation to solve major public health problems facing low- and middle-income countries in the world, and has became a life-saving centre of excellence.
Ambassador Miller was impressed by the unprecedented pre-emptive measure taken by icddr,b and partners in administering more than 2.2 million doses of oral cholera vaccine in the Rohingya exiles stranded in Bangladesh from Myanmar . The initiative has successfully prevented a cholera outbreak that many public health experts predicted.
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Case for former Bucs great John Lynch for Hall of Fame
John Lynch won a Super Bowl, as a player, as a member of the all-time great 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneer defense. Sunday he will be looking to win his second title. This time as the GM of the San Francisco 49ers.
Before the big game, however, Lynch will be hoping to achieve the highest honor in football: being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Since 2013 Lynch has had his name on the ballot and has not had his name called, this despite making it to the final stage (like the discussion/vote Saturday) now seven times in a row.
Of the 15 names on the 2020 ballot, no one has been on that list more than Lynch.
Lynch has accolades that run deep to bolster to his resume:
He was a nine-time Pro Bowl safety, a two-time first-team All-Pro, and a two-time second-team All-Pro.
Lynch also is a member of two different "Ring of honors" for the Buccaneers (above) and the Denver Broncos.
He also has a claim to something not everyone can say and that is he is a Super Bowl champion.
Many share the thought that the voters were waiting to see how he would do in his new GM role. If he failed at it, he wouldn't make the Hall. If he succeeds, then that along with his numbers as a player, it would lock him in.
Well, Sunday his Niners will be playing in the Super Bowl. Lynch has built a championship contending roster for years to come inside of three years.
Lynch has shown what he could do as a player. His achievements speak for themselves.
What he has done after he hung up the cleats is also very impressive. He has shown he has one of the best football minds around.
He was a successful broadcaster for several years with Fox, and now on top of that, is one of the best executives in the league today.
Lynch checked the boxes as a player. What he's done post-playing should put him over the top this year.
Now, we wait.
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At The Hirshhorn's Marcel Duchamp Exhibit, Viewing The Pieces Makes You Part Of The Art
From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (The Box in a Valise) (De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy [Boîte-en-valise]), 1935–1941/1963. Photo courtesy Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
In a comprehensive new exhibition, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden traces the career of 20th century artist and provocateur Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection features the recent gift of more than 50 works of art that have been promised to the museum by Washingtonians Barbara and Aaron Levine.
The Hirshhorn exhibition, which opened Saturday, is a reverent display of work that was created with the utmost irreverence for institutions of fine art. For decades, Duchamp held onto his resentment towards such institutions after having his work rejected in two significant ways. The first rejection came in Paris in 1912.
As the story goes, Duchamp submitted his painting "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" to the Salon des Indépendants. The painting was poorly received by other members of the salon, who represented Cubism, and felt the painting slanted too far towards Futurism—a rival artistic movement. They asked Duchamp's brothers, also salon members, to have Duchamp replace his painting with a substitution. The 25-year-old Duchamp refused, took his painting home, and renounced his membership.
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National Museum Of Women In The Arts' Exhibit Lets Local Artists Of Color Tell Their Own Stories
DMV Color, a new exhibition featuring contemporary works of book art, highlights women of color connected to the local region, while also showcasing the D.C. area as fertile ground for the book arts.
With approximately 20 artists' books, graphic novels, photobooks, and zines on display in National Museum of Women in the Arts' fourth floor library, DMV Color includes both widely-known artists—such as Elizabeth Catlett and Loïs Mailou Jones—and lesser-known creators.
"The impetus was just feeling like we wanted to shine a spotlight on book arts in the DMV and shine a spotlight on the creative endeavors of women of color," says Lynora Williams, director of the Betty Boyd Library & Research Center. "It's somewhat understated the extent to which, for women of color, this is a very fertile area that sparks a lot of creative work, and it's also an area that's important for book arts."
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5 foods you can eat to reduce feelings of seasonal depression, according to a nutritionist
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Some foods can help regulate our mood as the seasons change, according to nutritionist Natalie Olsen.
Anti-inflammatory foods can help reduce inflammation, which is linked to seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Foods high in fiber can improve gut health, which produce "happy" hormones in the body, Olsen said.
The changing seasons can impact our body and mind in ways that feel out of our control. We rely on our biological clock to regulate our mood, and less overall sunlight can throw that natural rhythm off kilter.
For some, that can result in a form of depression called seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
But according to nutritionist Natalie Olsen, certain additions to our diet that can help us feel better during shorter, colder, darker days.
Olsen told Insider that eating foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids like fish and nuts as well as high-fiber foods can help bring down inflammation in the body and help us feel better overall.
Load up omega-3s by eating fatty fish
Foods with anti-inflammatory properties are key as the seasons change, Olsen said. Stress and negative feelings can drive up inflammation in the body, she said, creating a vicious cycle.
Above all, she recommends foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids. These are found in abundance in fatty fish like salmon, mackerel, and herring.
Try to get two servings per week, Olsen said.
If you don't eat fish, add nuts to your meals
Olsen said her second best recommendation for omega-3-rich foods is to eat nuts and seeds.
Walnuts, flax seeds, chia seeds, and hemp seeds are all great sources of omega-3s to help reduce inflammation.
High-fiber foods will help your body produce 'happy' hormones
Olsen said foods high in fiber like beans and oats can also provide great anti-inflammatory properties. Soluble fiber, she said, dissolves into water creating a gel-like substance which attaches to toxins in the body that can drive up inflammation and cholesterol.
Fiber also feeds the bacteria in our gut, creating a healthy microbiome, she said. Our gut produces "happy" hormones like serotonin, dopamine and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), she said, which are important for regulating our mood.
"Our gut health, keeping that healthy, is one of the best foundational things we can do to move through the seasons in a way that feels really good to us," she said.
Replace added sugar with fruit
Olsen said to especially pay attention to added sugar as the seasons change, because it can lead to blood sugar crashes as well as drive up inflammation in the body.
Look out for "added sugar" on nutrition labels, she said. 15 grams of added sugar, Olsen said, is going to spike your blood sugar and cause inflammation more than 15 grams of sugar from fruit. She said fruit also contains vitamins, minerals, and fiber, which make it much better for you than foods with mostly added sugar.
Choose lean, organic meat to avoid mood-impacting chemicals
Most people who eat meat are usually getting enough daily protein, Olsen said. The problem comes, she said, when people eat mostly processed, higher-fat meats.
She said meats with high saturated fat, hormones, and antibiotics can also produce inflammation throughout the body and affect your mood. Organic, grass-fed, leaner cuts of meat will help you get enough protein to feel full and have energy as well as reduce the amount of mood-impacting chemicals in your body. She said a few processed foods here and there won't hurt you though.
"As cliché as it is, moderation is key. It doesn't mean you can't ever go out and have a hamburger and fries with your friends or your family, but I think it's just about what are you doing majority of the time," she said.
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On Sunday I went up to Lake Morey to ice skate. It was a beautiful day; sun out, not too cold, but my inner climate was grey and bleak and I always do better when the weather of the world matches my internal one. A cloudy overcast day would have served me well.
Nevertheless, I pushed through my gloom, with great trepidation, eyed the Nordic skates I hadn't worn in four years, and put hand warmers in my mittens.
Lake Morey—which is the largest outdoor skating rink in the U.S. of A.—right here in the Upper Valley, sparkled under bright sunshine, occasionally giving off deep ominous cracking explosions. Though I had learned from previous years of skating on the lake that these were benign, they were still frightening, particularly if you were not in reach of the shore. But I knew the lake. I had skated around it dozens of times in all kinds of weather, through headwinds and, magically, with tailwinds at my back, an experience as close to flying as I had ever had.
That day the shore near the Lake Morey Hotel was crowded with people of all ages and there was a kinetic energy and a heady joyfulness in the air. I cheered up. I sat down on a bench and tried to get my skate blades to clip into my boots, failing entirely. Defeated, I sighed: it will be a short adventure today, I said to myself. Then the woman seated next to me on the bench leaned over and confided, "It took me twenty minutes to get mine on—let me help you." And she did, joined by her friend who also claimed to have had enormous trouble getting her skates on.
Exposed to all this friendliness, I took—as I felt—my life in my hands and stood up. Four years is a long time not to have been on skates and I felt like a one year old, just learning how to walk. I slid slowly and very unsteadily across a few feet of ice. I was tentative, unbalanced and awkward. What, I thought, made me think I could still do this?
But I pushed on, and slowly I found my center, my balance, my rhythm. I was no Sonja Henie but I began to slide, I began to glide, I skated away from the crowded shoreline and sailed up a wide clear avenue of ice, not entirely gracefully, but steadily enough to pass others. I was just hitting my first stride when the ice folded and crinkled and graveled under me. It was a very rough patch; I had noticed the skater ahead of me struggling but assumed he was just a beginner having trouble. But now I realized this patch of ice, very long and wide, would be difficult for anyone. I was moving slowly, sometimes just trying to walk over the crenellated ice, sometimes pushing a glide for a short rocky distance, when I fell. One of my blades, probably knocked loose by the rough ice, had come off. Gingerly I got up, maneuvered over the jagged ice field on one skate and retrieved the escaped blade. There was a low bank of snow created by the Zamboni and I limped over to it and attempted to secure my skate. No luck. I was about a third up one side of the lake and few other skaters had ventured that far. But just then a man came along, gliding slowly past me. He stopped and looked back. "I'm fine," I said. "Please just go on." He gave me a skeptical look, made his way over, and kneeled down in front of me, reaching for my foot. And I just could not help myself: I remembered an illustration in my daughter's Cinderella book, showing the prince kneeling down to try the glass slipper on Cinderella. "Please," I said, embarrassed, I'll be fine." And I was: after he had attached my skate to my boot and glided away, waving off my thanks.
I was so enchanted by this experience that I sailed over the next third of the lake, regaining balance and grace. And I began to notice something: the few skaters out this far were better than I was. And when they came to rough patches—of which there were many—they hardly changed their pace at all. They pushed through, retaining the balance and momentum which I lost by slowing down so much. They crossed the rough patches faster and more steadily than I did. And so I tried it. It was difficult, like skating over wash boards, but over in seconds rather than long minutes.
But now I had circled the lake, had the wind at my back, and had cruised smoothly into the crowd at the hotel. And I was smiling.
Skating on thin ice: sometimes a metaphor is too good to pass up.
Sometimes life sends you rough patches.
Sometimes pushing through is the only way.
Sometimes thin ice is the only platform you have. And that's O.K. Because, after all, thin as it is, it prevents you from drowning.


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    var index_i = index[i];
    validateIndex(index_i, data.length);
    data = data[index_i];
  }

  // set new value
  index_i = index[index.length - 1];
  validateIndex(index_i, data.length);
  data[index_i] = value;

  return this;
};

/**
 * Get a submatrix of this matrix
 * @param {Matrix} matrix
 * @param {Index} index   Zero-based index
 * @private
 */
function _get (matrix, index) {
  if (!(index instanceof Index)) {
    throw new TypeError('Invalid index');
  }

  var isScalar = index.isScalar();
  if (isScalar) {
    // return a scalar
    return matrix.get(index.min());
  }
  else {
    // validate dimensions
    var size = index.size();
    if (size.length != matrix._size.length) {
      throw new DimensionError(size.length, matrix._size.length);
    }

    // validate if any of the ranges in the index is out of range
    var min = index.min();
    var max = index.max();
    for (var i = 0, ii = matrix._size.length; i < ii; i++) {
      validateIndex(min[i], matrix._size[i]);
      validateIndex(max[i], matrix._size[i]);
    }

    // retrieve submatrix
    // TODO: more efficient when creating an empty matrix and setting _data and _size manually
    return new Matrix(_getSubmatrix(matrix._data, index, size.length, 0));
  }
}

/**
 * Recursively get a submatrix of a multi dimensional matrix.
 * Index is not checked for correct number or length of dimensions.
 * @param {Array} data
 * @param {Index} index
 * @param {number} dims   Total number of dimensions
 * @param {number} dim    Current dimension
 * @return {Array} submatrix
 * @private
 */
function _getSubmatrix (data, index, dims, dim) {
  var last = (dim == dims - 1);
  var range = index.range(dim);

  if (last) {
    return range.map(function (i) {
      return data[i];
    });
  }
  else {
    return range.map(function (i) {
      var child = data[i];
      return _getSubmatrix(child, index, dims, dim + 1);
    });
  }
}

/**
 * Replace a submatrix in this matrix
 * Indexes are zero-based.
 * @param {Matrix} matrix
 * @param {Index} index
 * @param {Matrix | Array | *} submatrix
 * @param {*} defaultValue          Default value, filled in on new entries when
 *                                  the matrix is resized.
 * @return {Matrix} matrix
 * @private
 */
function _set (matrix, index, submatrix, defaultValue) {
  if (!(index instanceof Index)) {
    throw new TypeError('Invalid index');
  }

  // get index size and check whether the index contains a single value
  var iSize = index.size(),
      isScalar = index.isScalar();

  // calculate the size of the submatrix, and convert it into an Array if needed
  var sSize;
  if (submatrix instanceof Matrix) {
    sSize = submatrix.size();
    submatrix = submatrix.valueOf();
  }
  else {
    sSize = array.size(submatrix);
  }

  if (isScalar) {
    // set a scalar

    // check whether submatrix is a scalar
    if (sSize.length != 0) {
      throw new TypeError('Scalar expected');
    }

    matrix.set(index.min(), submatrix, defaultValue);
  }
  else {
    // set a submatrix

    // validate dimensions
    if (iSize.length < matrix._size.length) {
      throw new DimensionError(iSize.length, matrix._size.length, '<');
    }

    if (sSize.length < iSize.length) {
      // calculate number of missing outer dimensions
      var i = 0;
      var outer = 0;
      while (iSize[i] === 1 && sSize[i] === 1) {
        i++;
      }
      while (iSize[i] === 1) {
        outer++;
        i++;
      }

      // unsqueeze both outer and inner dimensions
      submatrix = array.unsqueeze(submatrix, iSize.length, outer, sSize);
    }

    // check whether the size of the submatrix matches the index size
    if (!object.deepEqual(iSize, sSize)) {
      throw new DimensionError(iSize, sSize, '>');
    }

    // enlarge matrix when needed
    var size = index.max().map(function (i) {
      return i + 1;
    });
    _fit(matrix, size, defaultValue);

    // insert the sub matrix
    var dims = iSize.length,
        dim = 0;
    _setSubmatrix (matrix._data, index, submatrix, dims, dim);
  }

  return matrix;
}

/**
 * Replace a submatrix of a multi dimensional matrix.
 * @param {Array} data
 * @param {Index} index
 * @param {Array} submatrix
 * @param {number} dims   Total number of dimensions
 * @param {number} dim
 * @private
 */
function _setSubmatrix (data, index, submatrix, dims, dim) {
  var last = (dim == dims - 1),
      range = index.range(dim);

  if (last) {
    range.forEach(function (dataIndex, subIndex) {
      validateIndex(dataIndex);
      data[dataIndex] = submatrix[subIndex];
    });
  }
  else {
    range.forEach(function (dataIndex, subIndex) {
      validateIndex(dataIndex);
      _setSubmatrix(data[dataIndex], index, submatrix[subIndex], dims, dim + 1);
    });
  }
}

/**
 * Resize the matrix
 * @param {Number[]} size
 * @param {*} [defaultValue=0]      Default value, filled in on new entries.
 *                                  If not provided, the matrix elements will
 *                                  be filled with zeros.
 * @return {Matrix} self            The matrix itself is returned
 */
Matrix.prototype.resize = function (size, defaultValue) {
  this._size = object.clone(size);
  this._data = array.resize(this._data, this._size, defaultValue);

  // return the matrix itself
  return this;
};

/**
 * Enlarge the matrix when it is smaller than given size.
 * If the matrix is larger or equal sized, nothing is done.
 * @param {Matrix} matrix           The matrix to be resized
 * @param {Number[]} size
 * @param {*} defaultValue          Default value, filled in on new entries.
 * @private
 */
function _fit(matrix, size, defaultValue) {
  var newSize = object.clone(matrix._size),
      changed = false;

  // add dimensions when needed
  while (newSize.length < size.length) {
    newSize.push(0);
    changed = true;
  }

  // enlarge size when needed
  for (var i = 0, ii = size.length; i < ii; i++) {
    if (size[i] > newSize[i]) {
      newSize[i] = size[i];
      changed = true;
    }
  }

  if (changed) {
    // resize only when size is changed
    matrix.resize(newSize, defaultValue);
  }
}

/**
 * Create a clone of the matrix
 * @return {Matrix} clone
 */
Matrix.prototype.clone = function () {
  var matrix = new Matrix();
  matrix._data = object.clone(this._data);
  matrix._size = object.clone(this._size);
  return matrix;
};

/**
 * Retrieve the size of the matrix.
 * @returns {Number[]} size
 */
Matrix.prototype.size = function() {
  return this._size;
};

/**
 * Create a new matrix with the results of the callback function executed on
 * each entry of the matrix.
 * @param {function} callback   The callback function is invoked with three
 *                              parameters: the value of the element, the index
 *                              of the element, and the Matrix being traversed.
 * @return {Matrix} matrix
 */
Matrix.prototype.map = function (callback) {
  var me = this;
  var matrix = new Matrix();

  var recurse = function (value, index) {
    if (isArray(value)) {
      return value.map(function (child, i) {
        return recurse(child, index.concat(i));
      });
    }
    else {
      return callback(value, index, me);
    }
  };
  matrix._data = recurse(this._data, []);
  matrix._size = object.clone(this._size);

  return matrix;
};

/**
 * Execute a callback function on each entry of the matrix.
 * @param {function} callback   The callback function is invoked with three
 *                              parameters: the value of the element, the index
 *                              of the element, and the Matrix being traversed.
 */
Matrix.prototype.forEach = function (callback) {
  var me = this;

  var recurse = function (value, index) {
    if (isArray(value)) {
      value.forEach(function (child, i) {
        recurse(child, index.concat(i));
      });
    }
    else {
      callback(value, index, me);
    }
  };
  recurse(this._data, []);
};

/**
 * Create an Array with a copy of the data of the Matrix
 * @returns {Array} array
 */
Matrix.prototype.toArray = function () {
  return object.clone(this._data);
};

/**
 * Get the primitive value of the Matrix: a multidimensional array
 * @returns {Array} array
 */
Matrix.prototype.valueOf = function () {
  return this._data;
};

/**
 * Get a string representation of the matrix, with optional formatting options.
 * @param {Object | Number | Function} [options]  Formatting options. See
 *                                                lib/util/number:format for a
 *                                                description of the available
 *                                                options.
 * @returns {String} str
 */
Matrix.prototype.format = function (options) {
  return string.format(this._data, options);
};

/**
 * Get a string representation of the matrix
 * @returns {String} str
 */
Matrix.prototype.toString = function () {
  return string.format(this._data);
};

/**
 * Preprocess data, which can be an Array or Matrix with nested Arrays and
 * Matrices. Replaces all nested Matrices with Arrays
 * @param {Array} data
 * @return {Array} data
 */
function preprocess(data) {
  for (var i = 0, ii = data.length; i < ii; i++) {
    var elem = data[i];
    if (isArray(elem)) {
      data[i] = preprocess(elem);
    }
    else if (elem instanceof Matrix) {
      data[i] = preprocess(elem._data);
    }
  }

  return data;
}

// exports
module.exports = Matrix;

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The Hon'ble Supreme Court vide its interim orders dated July 4, 2012 and September 14, 2015, passed in the case of the Bar Council of India vs A.K. Balaji & Ors., has directed RBI not to grant any permission to any foreign law firm, on or after the date of the said interim order, for opening of Liaison Office (LO) in India. Hence, no foreign law firm shall be permitted to open any LO in India till further orders/notification in this regard. However, foreign law firms which have been granted permission prior to the date of interim order for opening LOs in India may be allowed to continue provided such permission is still in force. No fresh permission/ renewal of permission shall be granted by RBI/AD banks respectively till the policy is reviewed based on, among others, final disposal of the matter by the Hon'ble Supreme Court.
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STAFFORD – On July 15 at Stafford Motor Speedway, Todd Owen ended up with the winner's trophy for the SK Modified feature, but missed out on the chance to celebrate in victory lane.
Owen was declared the winner of the 40-lap feature that evening after Ronnie Williams was disqualified from victory for an issue in post-race inspection.
Sunday evening at Stafford, to close out the season, Owen got that chance he missed out on to celebrate in victory lane.
Owen, of Somers, used a daring three-wide move to go to the lead and went on to win the 40-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified feature at the NAPA Fall Final at Stafford Speedway.
Mike Christopher Jr. of Wolcott was second and Keith Rocco of Wallingford was third.
On lap 18 Owen was running second on the outside next to Christopher in the lead. Coming off of turn four Rocco went low to take the trio three-wide across the start/finish line. Into turn one Owen got the power drive through the corner and came off of turn two with a lead he wouldn't relinquish the rest of the way.
Rowan Pennink of Huntingdon Valley, Pa. had already clinched the 2016 SK Modified championship at the track before Sunday's final event.
Following the event Owen saluted track management and the Arute Family which owns the track for their resiliency in getting the event run on Sunday. The start of the event was delayed nearly seven hours because of showers through the morning and afternoon.


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Posts Tagged 'african'
Artist of the moment…….Maynard Maenzanise
{ March 11, 2014 @ 1:28 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: africa, african, figures, maynard maenzanise, portraits, sculptor, shona artist, zimbabwe } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Maynard Maenzanise is a contemporary Shona artist born in 1964 in Rusape, Zimbabwe. After finishing his general schooling the artist found work as a security guard. Maenzanise continued to create his artwork on the side. He soon took the plunge and slowly began to sell his artwork at local venues eventually quitting his guard job and becoming a full time artist.
Price range information: Works range from $300 to $3,000.
What I enjoy most about Maynard Maenzanise is his ability to produce what could be termed traditional shona art, simple shaped highly expressive characters. Maenzanise can also switch to more detailed highly realistic work.
The artist also sculpts remarkable usable art such as the bookends in the gallery. Another great fact about the artist is that he works in wood as well as the traditional stones found in the area.
Artist of the moment…..Ablade Glover
{ December 20, 2013 @ 11:10 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: ablade glover, africa, african, african art, ghana, impasto, landscapes, painter, people } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Ablade Glover was born in Accra, Ghana in the year 1934. Glover is among the most popular living African artists. He works with thick paint and warm colors trying to capture the heat and atmosphere of the continent alongside the energy of the very large masses of people.
In this clip a great interview with Ablade Glover that begins with how he became an artist:
For his collegiate education Ablade Glover studied at The University of Art and Science and Technology located in Kumasi, Ghana. Glover also attended the Central School of Art and Design located in London,England. Glover also attended the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England. The artist also attended school in the United States at Kent State in Kent, Ohio and Ohio State University located in Columbia, Ohio.
Glover is collected internationally including the Prince and Princess of Japan.
Price range information: Works range from $5,000 to $20,000.
Artist of the moment……Taurai Maisiri
{ October 21, 2013 @ 10:18 am } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: africa, african, animals, carver, sculptor, taura maisiri, wildlife, zimbabwe } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Taurai Maisiri is a shona artist born in Zimbabwe. Maisiri is one of few Shona artists that specializes in animals and wildlife of Africa rather than its people. Maisiri works often with the buffalo or rhino as his subject.
In this clip we see the artist at work! Many examples of his art is shown here.
Sorry no more information on this artist.
Artist of the moment…….Anderson Mukomberanwa
{ October 5, 2013 @ 12:10 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: africa, african, anderson mukomberanwa, harare, nicholas mukomberanwa, painter, printmaker, ruwa, second generation shona artist, shona sculptor, zimbabwe } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Anderson Mukomberanwa was a son of the legendary Shona artist Nicholas Mukomberanwa. Anderson Mukomberanwa was born in Ruwa, Zimbabwe in year 1968. Anderson was schooled in many mediums including printmaking, painting, and sculpting.
The artist attended college in Harare, Zimbabwe with the idea of working in the science industry, but after graduation decided to pursue an artistic career instead.
Other famous sculptors that were brothers of the artist include Taguma, Lawrence, Ennica, Netsai.
Anderson Mukomberanwa passed away in 2003 due to complications from cancer, he was only 35 years old.
What a great style Anderson Mukomberanwa had, I can't help but think of the artist father son relationship of other artists such as Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, or even N.C. and Andy Wyeth. Who knows how great Anderson Mukomberanwa could have become if he had even reached the age of fifty. Let us remember life is often times to short to tackle everything we would like to accomplish!
Artist of the moment…..Richard Mteki
{ September 26, 2013 @ 9:27 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: africa, african, harare, richard mteki, sculptor, sculpture, shona artist, zimbabwe } ·	{ Comments (3) }
Richard Mteki is a shona artist from Zimbabwe born in 1947 in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Had an older brother that was the first professional artist in the family, his name was Biora.
Took workshops at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe to hone his skills. First exhibited work at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in 1965.
Has many works included in the collection of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
The artist has completed commissions for the National Sports Stadium of Zimbabwe.
Collected by the Queen of England.
price range information: Most works priced between $1,000 and $5,000.
Artist of the moment……Witness Bonjisi
{ Tags: africa, african, female face, female figure, harare, nicholas mukomberanwa, sculptor, shona, witness bonjisi, zimbabwe } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Witness Bonjisi is a shona artist born in Mudzi, Zimbabwe in the year 1975. He is renown for his works featuring the female figure and face. Bonjisi comes from an artist filled family as three siblings went on to become artists.
price range information: Works range from $2,000 to $8,000.
Bonjisi began sculpting in 1992 with first generation shona artist Nicholas Mukomberanwa. Polishing and helping to finish works by others he began work on his won in 1997.
In this clip we view a work from 2010:
Below we view another wonderful sculpture by Bonjisi.
Artist of the moment…..Joram Mariga
{ Tags: africa, african, human figure, joram mariga, sculptor, shona, zimbabwe, zimbabwean } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Joram Mariga was one of the first generation of Zimbabwe's shona sculptors. Joram Moriga was born in the year 1927 in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe. The artist's parents were both artisans. His mother was a potter and his father a wood carver. Mariga is given credit for being the first shona artist to work with the green stone called soapstone.
Mariga was married four times and had eight children.
Started carving professionally in 1957. By the late 1960s Joram Mariga was considered the finest of all the shona sculptors.
Mariga's art has graced the covers of national stamps in his homeland of Zimbabwe.
Joram Mariga passed away in 2002, from injuries sustained in car accident.
Mariga was vital to the careers of many second and third generation artists of Zimbabwe.
Mariga is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Artist of the moment……Malangatana-Valente-Ngwenya
{ September 11, 2013 @ 12:21 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: africa, african, ceramics, Malangatana Valente- Ngweny, Mozambique, painter } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Malangatana Valente- Ngwenya is perhaps the best and most internationally renown painter to come from the country of Mozambique. Malangatana Valente- Ngwenya was born in the year 1936 in Matalana, Mozambique. The artist enjoys working with the human figure and exaggerating facial expressions and body language to make very large paintings that have a great emotional range of the subjects involved. The artist works in many mediums including ceramics and sculpture in addition to his paintings.
He came to fall in love with art as a teen. He moved away from his family and found work as a ball boy at a tennis club. A woman who was a member of the club would buy supplies for him and also help him to make sales to fellow members.
Spent one year and half in jail for supporting an anti-government movement. After his jail time he would go on to win a scholarship to study art in Portugal.
Included in the collection of the National Gallery of African Art located in Washington D.C.
I don't know what language this clip is in, but some great examples of the artist's style:
A quick visit to the studio of the artist. Again, I am unsure of the language but love the visual pictures!
The artist passed away in 2011 at the age of 74 years of age.
Artist of the moment………Shona artist Victor Fire
{ September 9, 2013 @ 3:12 am } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: africa, african, sculptor, shona sculptor, tengenenge, victor fire, zimbabwe } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Victor Fire is a contemporary shona sculptor from Zimbabwe. Victor Fire was born in the year 1965 in Guruve, Zimbabwe.
His father had 7 wives so he comes from a family that has 36 siblings in all including him. He quit school after the 7th grade. Fire wants his own children to learn skills in addition to sculpture. The artist has three children.
Works mainly with serpentine.
Winner of the best sculptor in Zimbabwe in the year 2004. This award is given out by the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Was working in a mine and a fellow worker was crushed to death. He quit and did not return to work and started to sculpt in order to make money.
In this clip an interview with the artist. We learn more about his family and the Tengenenge artist colony where more than 200 families now live:
In this clip we see many works by Victor Fire and an interview with the artist:
Artist of the moment….Shona Sculptor Elliott Katombera
{ September 6, 2013 @ 8:57 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: africa, african, butter jade, carver, elliott katombera, harare, people, portraits, serpentine, shona sculptor, stone, verdite, zimbabwe } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Elliott Katembera is a shona sculptor born in the 1970s. Katombera has been working alongside Nicholas Tandi and G. Gidi.
He is based out of Harare, Zimbabwe enjoys working with butter jade and verdite.
price range information:
Works range from $300 to $3,000.
In this clip we see the artist working on a piece. The best is at the end of the clip when at least 10 smaller bust carvings that Katombera is working are shown:


KANSAS CITY, Kan.– The Kansas City T-Bones announced today that the club has signed first baseman and former Milwaukee Brewer Jason Rogers and versatile outfielder Nick Torres for the 2018 season.
Jason Rogers comes to Kansas City following a 2017 season where he spent 40 games with Hanshin in the Japanese Central League (NPBL) where he hit .252 with five home runs and 23 RBI. Rogers was a mid-season acquisition and helped the Tigers to a second-place finish in the NPB Central League. Before heading to Japan, Rogers would play in 69 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates AAA club at Indianapolis in the International League. For the Indians he hit .289 with nine home runs and 34 RBI all while playing first base.
Rogers was the 32nd round draft pick by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2010 June draft out of Columbus State University (Georgia). He began his pro career in 2010 in the Brewers rookie team in the Arizona Rookie League and would make his Major League debut on September 2, 2014, going 1-for-1 against the Chicago Cubs. In 117 games in the Big Leagues, the native of College Park, Georgia hit .258 with four round trips and 18 RBI for the Brewers.
He would also reach the Major Leagues with the Pirates organization in 2016. Rogers would go 2-for-25 in three separate call ups to the Pirates with two RBI. That was part of a 2016 season where Rogers would hit .263 for Indianapolis with six homers and 40 RBI in 105 games.
Rogers best year in the Big Leagues came in 2015 when he played in 86 games, hitting four home runs while driving in 16 runs with a .296 clip for Milwaukee. On December 17, 2015, Rogers was traded to Milwaukee to Pittsburgh for Keon Broxton and a minor leaguer. The Georgia native is a career .292 hitter at the AAA level in 264 games with 34 of his career home runs launched at the games' second highest level. Throughout his pro career, Rogers has a .281 average in 956 professional games with 906 hits in eight seasons. Rogers bats right handed and also has played 100 games in left field and another 185 at third base.
Rogers would play one season at Columbus State in 2010, playing in 56 games and hitting .419 with 26 home runs and knocking in 86 runs at the NCAA Division II level. He would leave his mark leading the team in home runs, RBI, runs, walks (43), stolen bases (16), hits (93) and doubles (18). His 26 home runs tied a school and conference mark while Rogers would be named First Team All-Southeast Region player by both Daktronics and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA). Rogers began his college career at Southern Union Community College (Alabama) where he hit .443 with 16 home runs and 26 stolen bases over two years.
Nick Torres was the 4th round pick by the San Diego Padres in 2014 out of California Polytechnic State University. Torres spent 2017 with AA San Antonio in the Texas League where the right-handed batter hit .277 with 11 home runs and 61 RBI. He would finish second on the club in RBI and games played at 119. Torres would go to spring training with San Diego in 2018, but he was released on March 28th. He appeared in one Big League Spring Training contest and went 1-for-1 with an RBI.
In 2016 Torres reached AAA El Paso in the Pacific Coast League, playing in 36 games and hitting six home runs with 18 RBI and a .308 average, but he spent the bulk of his time at AA San Antonio where he hit .282 with six long balls and 40 RBI. Torres 28 doubles tied him for the Missions team lead. In 2015 the Lakewood, California native split time between High A Lake Elsinore and Low A Fort Wayne. In 77 games at Fort Wayne he hit .326 with two home runs and 40 RBI while hitting .275 at Lake Elsinore with three homers and 30 RBI. His 70 RBI combined in 2015 are a four-year career high.
Torres began his career with one game with the rookie level Arizona Padres in 2014 before hitting .254 in 43 games at Eugene in the Northwest League. Torres led the Big West Conference with 52 RBI in 58 games in his final season at Cal Poly.


The already-promoted Heysham Atoms' under 13s ended a superb debut season with a 14-10 defeat at table-topping Waterhead on Sunday.
Starting the game with just 12 players the Atoms defended resolutely for the opening quarter of an hour.
It paid off when Kyle Barton seized on possession in his own half to power his way past several would-be tacklers and score the first try converted by Henry Connolly.
Waterhead got on the board to make it 6-4 at the break before taking the lead at the start of the second half with a try out wide.
Heysham hit back however with Simon Cody scoring to make it 10-8 after good work from Barton and Adam Woodend.
Waterhead had the final say to take victory but it couldn't take anything away from what has been a successful first campaign for the Atoms youngsters.


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We were approached again by Robert Rafalat and Alex Kirkland to produce the visual effects in their new short film for the British Council's #ShakespeareLives series.
The Prince of Denmark is a fresh and comical take on Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, which sees our hero return from uni only to discover that something isn't quite right at home.
We produced the visual effects on 15 shots including all the toilet scenes, keying out backgrounds, eye warping effects and rotoscoping out signage and replacing with new graphics.


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Bernanke's Prescription for Inflation—Give the Fed More Power
By Judy L. Shelton
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Also published in The New York Sun Tue. May 31, 2022 « Show Fewer
Let's see. Inflation currently exceeds 8 percent a year in the United States. Our central bank, the Federal Reserve, is sitting on roughly $9 trillion in financial assets—most of them U.S. Treasury debt obligations—that it purchased with money it created for just that purpose. And along comes a new book by a former Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, seeking to explain and exalt how we got here.
It turns out that Mr. Bernanke's tome—wait for it—hails all the innovations of the last few decades that have enlarged the Fed's "toolkit." That's Fed-speak for the alarmingly powerful authorities granted to, or seized by, unelected central bankers. Mr. Bernanke has produced the perfect sequel to his earlier paean of self-praise, The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath.
This new memoir, 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19, is out just as President Biden, and two of Mr. Bernanke's successors—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and the current Fed chairman, Jerome Powell—huddle in a desperate bid to figure out what to do about inflation. And what is the basic premise that Mr. Biden might take from Mr. Bernanke's latest volume?
It is that the Fed has gained its enhanced powers to hold sway over economic activity as a direct result of various financial crises that have occurred since the late 1970s through the present. They all served to amplify the Fed's influence; he is plenty okay with that.
Monetary wonks will find Mr. Bernanke's elaborations on data analysis and policy deliberations quite riveting even as constitutionalists will bristle at his breezy assertions to justify government intervention.
"In a fiat-money system—one in which money is not backed by a physical commodity such as gold—it is not possible for a central bank to leave asset prices and yields entirely to the free market," Mr. Bernanke writes. "It must set some policy regarding interest rates and the money supply, which in turn inevitably influence market outcomes."
Also inevitable, once the Fed has been put in the driver's seat, is an expansion of the central bank's regulatory powers. Mr. Bernanke performs a neat sidestep in citing a "flawed regulatory system" for the 2008 global financial meltdown that took place on his watch. He goes so far as to refer to the "blind spot" of his predecessor, Alan Greenspan: "His error was that he trusted too much in market forces, including the self-interest of bank executives and boards, to limit bad lending and excessive risk-taking."
What about the low interest rates engineered by an activist Fed during the years prior to the collapse, between 2002 and 2004, when Mr. Bernanke was serving as a Fed governor? Mr. Bernanke took over as Fed chair in January 2006; in June 2006, he ended the long sequence of quarter-point rate hikes that had begun in June 2004 under Mr. Greenspan. Does the Fed bear culpability?
"Most economists believe that monetary policy was at best a minor source of the 2007-2009 crisis," according to Mr. Bernanke. He attributes the great financial panic to "other factors"—mass psychology, Wall Street financial innovation, and ineffective financial regulation—with only the slightest concession that "monetary policy does seem to influence risk-taking."
Yes, well.
Then we are off to the races as the Fed chief responds—heroically, if he does seem to suggest so himself—to central bank failures by expanding central bank powers. "Whatever the source of the housing bubble," states Mr. Bernanke with no sense of irony, "once it took shape monetary policymakers faced a difficult call."
That difficult call was met by adding two additional "tools" to the Fed's toolkit (sorry) that amounted to 1) purchasing massive amounts of U.S. government-backed debt and 2) dropping more hints to savvy investors about the likely future path of interest rates. Or as Mr. Bernanke puts it, the Fed leaned heavily on 1) "large-scale quantitative easing" and 2) "increasingly explicit forward guidance."
How did that all pan out? Read Mr. Bernanke's book to comprehend how central bankers can somehow take pride having choreographed the subsequent six years of sluggish growth and high unemployment as they continued to maintain near-zero interest rates and expand the Fed's balance sheet. It's all there.
He touches on Janet Yellen's turn at the helm after 2014 and the delayed liftoff for "normalizing" rates; there would only be two quarter-point hikes through the end of 2016. An entertaining chapter on "Powell and Trump" details how Fed chairman Jerome Powell struggled mightily against "caving" to Trump's demands for lower rates in 2019—before cutting them three times.
The most ominous chapters are entitled "Is the Fed's Toolkit Enough?" and "Making Policy More Powerful: New Tools and Frameworks," found in the final section. Spoiler alert: Mr. Bernanke deems the risks of Fed intervention "manageable" and urges monetary policymakers to "continue their search for new tools and strategies." For this consummate government technocrat, the only real sin would be to constrict the Fed's "policy space."
Judy L. Shelton is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, and former U.S. Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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FRANK CARSON et al 10-17-2016pm (marty)
In: FRANK CARSON, JUSTICE
Tagged: FRANK CARSON, Stanislaus County
Déjà vu all over again
by Marty Carlson
Martha Magana asked Robert Woody if he or his family and had contact with Kirk Bunch in the past prior to this case, he stated he did not recall.
Then there seemed to be a little bit of a spat between Marlisa Ferrera and Martha Magana about some portions of the transcript that is not actually in evidence at this time. Martha Magana finished it by saying saying she will talk to Kirk Bunch about. The judge looked at the both of them and asked them if they were both done, if so let's move on.
I happened to look at what Robert Woody was doing on the stand during this exchange and he appeared to be quite entertained by this little exchange between the attorneys.
Martha Magana then began playing jail phone calls from March 23, 2014. Robert Woody was talking to his dad, and his dad was saying no one called or told them anything about what's going on. Woody's dad was talking about a beating that somebody had endured by cops and he had tried to stop it. During the incident, one of the officers stuck a gun in Woody's dad's face forcing him to stop. Dad stated that all that stuff was a lie and he's having trouble trusting law enforcement worse than before.
What Woody stated on the phone was that he was being threatened by cops and he was saying he has fear he that he would be going down for something or some shit he did not do. He then states he did not do nothing and it is all a lie. Woody also stated that he does not know how to help them.
Robert Woody was saying that they have threatened him and his dad. That was the end of the first phone call.
Then a second phone call was played between Robert Woody and his dad. Woody kept saying in this phone call "he didn't do nothing." Both Woody and his dad talked about several different things and experiences they've had with law enforcement in the past.
Woody's dad talked about some family members that were getting strung out on meth and they were picking up rocks in the yard, calling them gold nuggets. He said they were constantly sweating and tweaking really bad.
There was an another call that was placed on April 3, 2014 from the jail to Robert Woody's dad. Woody's dad was talking about he was so broke right now and that he's been unable to find work. He was even unable to put gas in the truck right now. They talked about his next court date and Woody's dad talked about everything. He said the cops twist their words and they start to believe their own lies. They are supposed to be helping people but instead they were going around lying about people. Robert Woody at that point stated "I didn't Fucking do this."
They continued to talk about family statements that were being twisted and manipulated. Robert Woody stated the asshole, referring to Kirk Bunch, wanted him to say things about both Athwal brothers that were lies.
Another phone call was played, dated April 6 of 2014. Robert Woody had called his dad again. His dad invited someone from a law office to come talk to him. Dad also mentioned that the jerks at the District Attorney's Office won't even call him back anymore, apparently they no longer had any use for him. Dad talked about the fact that investigators are putting innocent people in jail and he's getting tired of it.
Dad stated he thought he was being told the truth by the investigators. Robert Woody stated that they had him hooked like a fish. Robert Woody also stated they want him to say all that shit about everybody else but they wanted him to go to prison for all these Fucking lies.
Shortly after that Beverly Woody got on the phone and had a short conversation with Woody. She continually said they know the right guys are out there and the wrong guy is in custody.
One last phone call from jail was recorded on April 8, 2014 and was a call from Robert Woody to Beverly Woody. They talked about the court date on the 10th and Beverly stated that her and Brian would be there.
Beverly Woody then went through a long list of commissary that she had ordered for Robert Woody, in fact it was about $120 worth of soups, candies, pastries and other things. Robert Woody stated during that phone call that he can't wait to get out. Beverly Woody said that the family wants to talk to the attorneys for Robert because he did not do anything wrong, and that the Korey Kaufman family had been coming over to their house regularly and saying they do not believe Robert was involved. Robert Woody stated the attorney said nothing about that in his paperwork.
Beverly Woody went on to say she sees the Athwals all the time as they live close to the store and she says to herself every time "I'm going to get them." Robert Woody was talking about why they wanted him to rent them out and he did not understand.
Segments of all these phone calls were objected to by the district attorney's office as not relevant and they ended up going through all of them one by one, almost page by page to clarify what was and was not relevant. There were many stipulations on both sides and the judge had to make a few rulings.
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Thanks Marty for all of your time and reports! Fab job like always! So the Kauffman family went over to the Woody family's home to let them know they think Woody is innocent? Hmmmm. So I'm assuming they were friends or became friends. I'm sorry, but if someone was lying and standing in the way of finding out who really killed my son, best believe I'm not going over there to play nice. I also don't believe that Woody had any part of this, but if that fucker was describing how he brutally hacked up my child, there would be nothing nice I could say about him. Woody is very stupid for allowing the DA to use him they way they did. If he knew any better, he should have kept his damn mouth shut. Those investigators preyed on a meth head (woody) and used the murder of Korey to satisfy their own vendetta.
Bunch's Dirty Bunnyhole
If anyone gets convicted of ANYTHING here it will be a damn shame. There is absolutely no way any jury would have to deliberate more than 30 minutes given what has gone on so far. The D.A. is overmatched by Martinez and Magana. Somebody is going to beat a murder case here and the D.A is too blame for putting on a tweaker that has to be given transcripts to read just so he can give some stupid ass reason as to why he told lie after lie. I went to high school with Kirk Bunch and he would bounce around the hallways like a little princess. i always wanted to punch him right in the face. Now I see I should have. Excellent job with the blog.Reality here is Stanislaus County is one corrupt system. They will never prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt and you have got to be joking by posting personal info from the Ramey warrant online. That is fucking pathetic
I would have paid money to see you punch him in the face in HS. Don't try it now though. He's apparently good at shooting people in the back :/


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It isn't always the best option.
You're probably thinking that I am crazy right now because I totally just contradicted myself.
Even though creating your own products, like online courses, can generate higher profits for your business, not everyone has the time or money to invest into creating a product right now.
Raise your hand if you want to be able to earn money to fuel your business, so that you will be able to create your own product…. ME! ME! ME!
Or, raise your hand if you have already created your own product, but need to find another stream of revenue.
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You don't have to invest a ton of money to get started with affiliate marketing, and you can immediately start promoting an affiliate offer even if you are new to having an online business or blog.
Today, I want to share with you 7 tips to drastically increase your affiliate conversions without feeling sleazy.
Before I do that, I wanted to tell you about the 3 rules of affiliate marketing that I follow to help me increase my conversions.
This will help to lay the groundwork for when you are ready to start earning money as an affiliate partner.
Kind of, but not necessarily.
The rules I am about to share with you are my own personal rules for affiliate marketing.
Following these rules has helped me to increase my conversion rates, which has led me to earn five figures every single month.
These are just my personal guidelines.
You do not have to follow them, but they help me to set boundaries and promote affiliate offers without feeling like I am selling my soul.
You never want to promote something on your website just because you think it will make you money.
In order for someone to purchase a product or service that you recommend on your site, they need to know that you genuinely use it and like it.
Don't try to recommend a product that you have never tried. This is a mistake I made, and I see it happening over and over again.
It is one of the reasons that a lot of people actually fail with affiliate marketing.
Your audience trusts your opinion, so don't sell them out to make a quick buck.
This is another mistake that I made.
I would promote anything and everything to my audience.
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I recently told you that my #1 way to increase conversions and make more money as an affiliate partner is by creating a resources page on your blog.
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Erika from Olyvia.co refers to her resources page on her social networks and in Facebook groups without coming off as spammy.
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I just told you about how important it is to only promote products and services that you genuinely use and have seen positive results from.
To take it a step further, you want to stick to a small amount of products to recommend to your audience. This will help to increase your conversions, because your readers will see that you are only promoting a handful of items because you know they can benefit from them.
Angie from The Work At Home Wife calls these your pillar products. You can increase your revenue when you are able to identify a few must-have resources.
Stick to a small list to increase your monthly affiliate revenue.
The other day I received an email from one of my readers, Elizabeth. She said she had recently became a partner of an affiliate program and started adding her link to a bunch of her blog posts, but was disappointed to see that she hadn't made any money.
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The big picture is to write a post that guides your audience on how and why you use certain tools and resources. Lay it out for them step-by-step.
Again, show them rather then tell them.
Elna from Twins Mommy shares how she tripled her affiliate earnings by writing a mini tutorial, and then linking to that page in other blog posts. Instead of just dropping her referral link into her content, she will send her readers to her tutorial, so that they can see how she uses the specific product she is recommending.
Another way to increase your earnings as an affiliate partner is by sending an email to your list that specifically focuses on 1 product or service you recommend.
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This is an awesome way to increase your conversions.
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Joint Venture Webinar - this is when you team up with someone else in your niche that you are an affiliate for, they teach your audience during a webinar, and then pitch their product at the end. You can see all the different types of JV partnerships laid out on the Teachable blog.
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This directly relates to the content upgrade (my budget binder worksheets), that they signed up for on my site.
Throughout the autoresponder sequence, I promote 1 affiliate product that I know this audience would be interested in.
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Checking off the days until I get to visit my husband again.
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone... Literally. My mom seriously needs to take up a hobby.
Persephone was one of the most beautiful of women. All men wanted her and Hades was no exception. One day, while she was swimming, he abducted and charmed her pants off. But their bliss was short-lived.
Demeter, her mother, refused to let their be any harvest or sunshine while her daughter was missing. Knowing the earth and humans were about to end, Zeus sent Hermes to tell Hades to release Persephone or else.
Hades doesn't like ultimatums. Before he released her, he gave her a pomegranate to eat. Something that would force her to return to him (some say she ate on her own). Demeter wasn't happy and whenever Persephone is with Hades, she mourns her daughter's absence and thus creates out winter. The stories on how long Seph is gone varies depending on the ancient Greek writer. Anywhere from 4-9 months.
In the DH world, it's 9 and Hades is beside himself the entire time.
The bushes rustled before a small woman wiggled out from between them. Geary hid her smile as a very petite and extremely beautiful blond woman stood up. Dressed in dark green overalls and a white t-shirt, she had dirt smeared across one cheek and on the tip of her nose. Her hands were covered by large gardening gloves while green and brown leaves were stuck in her upswept hair that still managed to be breathtaking on her. She slung her hands out and sent the gloves flying to the ground.
"I wanted…" Kat's voice trailed off as a small set of flowers started to move toward the woods.
Persephone blasted them with some kind of energy from her hands. She laughed then sent her gloves to go pull up more flowers.
"What are you doing?" Kat asked with a frown.
Everybody's darling. Seph is loved by all and his as kindhearted as her hubby is cold.
She's the one who helps Acheron after Apollo kills him.
Sherri has always loved their story of Hades and Persephone. She thinks it's one of the most romantic of the Greek tales.


At the SouthWest Cannabis Conference & Expo in Fort Worth Texas, February 28th, 2016.
Not sure presence or absence of MMJ leniency has had as much effect on youth cannabis use in recent years as the ongrowing FDT Fear of Drug Tests with terrible personal career penalties attached.
Most personal experiences with cannabis happen during formative teenage years. Damages from prohibition far outweigh what is learned from personal testing.
The glowing health of youth doesn't use it medicinally. Makes perfect sense to me.


ABUJA—A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said ex-leaders, including former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan; former military President, Ibrahim Babangida; ertswhile Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (retd) and a handful of other opposition elements are not enemies of the Nigerian state.
Fani-Kayode in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, also said the alleged plot by President Muhammadu Buhari's administration "to silence leaders" of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is dangerous to the survival of the nation's democracy.
Fani-Kayode who was one-time Minister of Culture and Tourism argued that the role being played by the former leaders is expected in a democracy where divergent views and opinions must be freely expressed to put government on its toes.
He said: "I have read the disturbing reports about the Buhari administration's plan to frame up, arrest and detain President Olusegun Obasanjo on trumped up and politically-motivated charges.
"It is almost as if they are begging for war and that is tragic. They may have the full machinery and power of the federal government but we have the living God.
"Peace, fair play and justice must be allowed to reign in our nation and those that oppose the President must be treated with the respect, decency and decorum that they deserve," the statement read in part.
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