I have a question regarding original wheel and tire sizes. Was it possible in 1970 to order your cougar with 15 inch wheels from the factory? Or was there a dealer option for 15 inch wheels? If so, are there any pictures of old sales brochures where you can see the factory wheel sizes?
Of course Magnum 500s and many other aftermarket wheels were available in 15" sizes for dealer or consumer installation.


Nefertiti, Royal Wife of Akhenaten, like her mother-in-law, Queen Tiye, was a trusted confidant to her husband. Akhenaten and Nefertiti were responsible for the creation of a whole new religion in which they worshipped only one God, the Aten. With her husband, she reigned at what was arguably the wealthiest period of Ancient Egyptian history. Some scholars believe that Nefertiti ruled briefly as Neferneferuaten after her husband's death and before the accession of Tutankhamun, although this identification is a matter of ongoing debate.
For half a millennia, the New Kingdom flourished, astonishing the world with such architectural marvels as the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, the expansion of the Karnak Temple Complex including the Precinct of Mut, the massive Precinct of Amen-Re built by Ramesses II and the Great Temple of Amun built by Ramesses III. In addition there is Amenhotep III's Colossi of Memnon and the temple for the pharaoh and his wife, Queen Tiye, in Nubia, the mystical city of Armana created by Akhenaten, the Temple of Seti I, and the magnanimous Temples of Ramesses II and Queen Nefertari, his Royal Wife, at Abu Simbel, Nubia to name a few.
Literature, drama and the arts also flourished during the New Kingdom, with love letters and poetry becoming commonplace. However, what is not often discussed is the literacy rate of ancient Egyptians. With the sheer volume of pyramid and temple text, papyri and other official writings, it is difficult to imagine that the ancient Egyptian population was illiterate or unskilled. In fact, the very opposite had to be true.
Of the eleven pharaohs that took the name of Ramesses during the Ramesside period (1292–1069 BCE) of the 20th Dynasty, Ramesses III, reign: 1186–1155 B.C.E., is considered to be the last great New Kingdom king to rule with any meaningful authority.
During his reign, Ramesses III was subjected to multiple invasions, which heavily strained the Egyptian economy. Ramesses III's murder is rumored to be have been a conspiracy. "Rameses III's death was followed by years of bickering among his heirs. Three of his sons ascended the throne successively as Ramesses IV, Rameses VI and Rameses VIII. Egypt was increasingly beset by droughts, below-normal flooding of the Nile, famine, civil unrest and official corruption. The power of the last pharaoh of the dynasty, Ramesses XI, grew so weak that in the south the High Priests of Amun at Thebes became the de facto rulers of Upper Egypt, and Smendes controlled Lower Egypt even before Rameses XI's death. Smendes eventually founded the Twenty-First dynasty at Tanis." This begins the Third Intermediate Period, which constitutes the 21st-25th Dynasties.
For this class, Part 1 of our unit on The New Kingdom, we will focus on the 17th Dynasty's "warrior pharaohs" who conquered the Hyksos to usher in the 18th Dynasty and the New Kingdom through Hatshepsut, the first and only female Pharaoh of ancient Kemet (Egypt). Part 2 begins with Amenhotep III and ends with Pharaoh Ahkenaten, Nefertiti and King "Tut." And finally, Part 3 begins with the Rameses II and ends with Rameses III, who is considered the last significant ruler of the 20th Dynasty and the New Kingdom.
Karnak Temple dates from around 2055 BC to around 100 AD. It is a temple dedicated to Amun, Mut and Khonsu and is the largest religious building ever constructed.
The temple of Karnak was known as Ipet-isu—or "most select of places"—by the ancient Egyptians. It is a city of temples built over 2,000 years and dedicated to the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu.
Row of sphixes that lead to Karnak Temple.


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Yo-Yo Girl Cop, known in Japan as  is a 2006 Japanese live-action feature film, the third to be based on the manga Sukeban Deka, directed by Kenta Fukasaku.

The film stars Aya Matsuura in the lead role of Saki Asamiya and Rika Ishikawa as her rival, Reika Akiyama. Yuki Saito, who played the role of Saki in the first live-action television series, appears here as her original character, who is revealed to be Saki's mother. The movie was released on September 30, 2006 in Japan and in the United States on July 17, 2007 by Magnolia Pictures as Yo-Yo Girl Cop.

Plot
Twenty years after the events of the original series, a Japanese girl by the name of "K" is arrested in New York for beating 11 policemen. Although held in a straight jacket, she escapes by dislocating her own shoulder and tries to exit the facility, but a moment of kindness to comfort a little girl gets her captured again. K is then informed by Japanese inspector Kazutoshi Kira that her mother will be deported to Japan for brutalizing a mugger and living illegally in New York, unless K accepts to work for them in the reactivated Sukeban Deka program.

After accepting, not without hesitating for her strained relationship with her mother, K is given a hi-tech steel yo-yo weapon and a new name, "Saki Asamiya," and is ordered to infiltrate an elite high school in Japan. The school, Seisen Academy, is suspected to be the source of a website called "Enola Gay" that rallies juvenile suicide bombers across the country. She is also briefed that another Sukeban operative was sent earlier only for her to commit suicide too, and that a counter for 72 hours has just appeared on the website.

Upon arriving the school, Saki learns that the entire school is dominated by a girl named Reika Akiyama and her henchwomen, and she immediately saves a bullied student named Taie "Tae" Konno from them. Saki looks into the chemistry club, which the former operative was investigating before her death, and is forced to struggle to save two suicide bombers, Amaki and Higashiyama, who try to use Tae as a human shield. Asamiya captures Higashiyama, while Amaki is saved from her bomb by the school janitor Jirou Kimura, who had become friends with Saki earlier.

Kira interrogates Higashiyama and informs Saki that the Enola Gay website is run by a user named Romeo, but Higashiyama is then abducted by a gang of thugs, despite Asamiya's efforts to fight them off. Afterwards, Tae tells Saki that she and a fellow bullied schoolgirl named Kotomi Kanda used to run together an anti-bullying website until Kanda snapped and tried to commit suicide by bombing, being left catatonic in a hospital and leaving their site to be replaced by Enola Gay. Moreover, Reika interrupts them and reveals that Kotomi fell in love with a man who compelled her to blow herself up. Going to the hospital, Saki and Tae visit Kotomi, who gives the name of Jirou Kimura. Now revealed to be Romeo, Kimura kidnaps Saki and ties her to a bomb, which she is left to escape from.

Meanwhile, Reika reveals herself as Romeo's lover and hosts an assembly on the school in front of all the students and teachers in order to celebrate his ideology. At the same time, Romeo and his gang capitalize on the event to rob a bank in Tokyo. Tae is brought in and strapped to another bomb, but after some dramatic exchanges she is saved by the returning Saki. The latter chases Reika, who still has Tae as her hostage and is attempting to reach Romeo, and ends up facing her in a singles duel. It's then revealed that Reika is a former operative of Tokumei Keiji, a police program similar to Sukeban Deka, and that she has her own armed yo-yo, which sports blades. Although the less experienced Asamiya is initially overpowered when trying to user her weapon, she defeats Reika by burying her under metal pipes.

Saki then confronts Romeo and his gang, who have seized Tae, Amaki and Higashiyama as bomb-strapped hostages, and manages to take the villains out thanks to a bulletproof uniform. Eventually Romeo, who wears a bomb strap as well, disables her yo-yo by slicing the string with his katana, but she still knocks him out. Saki takes the artifacts off the hostages but leaves Romeo's to explode, killing him.

At the end, Saki calls her mom, who is implied to be the first ever Saki Asamiya from the original series. After bidding farewell to Tae and Kotomi, Saki is informed by Kira of a new mission for her.

Cast
Aya Matsuura as
Rika Ishikawa as
Erika Miyoshi as
Yui Okada as
Shunsuke Kubozuka as
Riki Takeuchi as
Hiroyuki Nagato as
Makoto Sakamoto as
Mark Musashi as Wu
Houka Kinoshita as a teacher
Masai Ōtani as a detective
Tak Sakaguchi as a member of the Enola Gay gang
Yuki Saito as Saki's Mother

Music
The movie's theme song, "Thanks!" is by the Hello! Project group GAM, consisting of Aya Matsuura and Miki Fujimoto. The song "Shinkirō Romance", also by GAM, was used an insert song.

UK release
Yo-Yo Girl Cop was licensed for UK release by 4Digital Asia, a sublabel of 4Digital Media, formerly ILC Entertainment. The new sub-label was launched in 2008 to fill the gap in the UK for "Asia Extreme" titles created by the demise of label Tartan.  It was released on DVD on September 22.

Miscellaneous
The film is parodied in the softcore V-Cinema release , directed by Daigo Udagawa and starring AV idol Mihiro. In addition to its similar name, the cover artwork is a near-reproduction of Yo-yo Girl Cop's original poster. The DVD was released in Japan in November 2006 and in the United States with English subtitles by Cinema Epoch in November 2008.

References and footnotes

External links
 Official Web site

2006 films
2006 action films
Films directed by Kenta Fukasaku
Girls with guns films
Japanese action films
Japanese martial arts films
Japanese sequel films
Live-action films based on manga
Martial arts science fiction films
Toei Company films
2006 martial arts films
2000s Japanese films

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Working from Home - Privilege or Necessity?
If you've spoken to me at any point in the past 7 months, there's a good chance you've heard me mention the fact that I love my job. If not, then here it is - I LOVE MY JOB! It's a great company, I'm doing cool work, I work with two awesome, talented devs, and I'm able to challenge myself and learn new things on a daily basis.
As of a couple of weeks ago, my boss declared that we were enstating a new policy - WFHF (Work From Home Friday). To him, it was a no-brainer - a simple, easily-enstated perk that doesn't cost the company anything and in no way hinders productivity. In fact, it can actually increase productivity - but more on that in a bit.
There's no doubt about it, being able to work from home every so often is certainly a privilege - one that I'm extremely thankful for. But I also think that it can be an absolute necessity, which more companies should embrace as a means to secure their foothold in their respective industries.


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The targets stipulated in the FETPROACT-01-2018, requires expertise ranging from basic material research including theoretical modelling, to electrode manufacturing optimization and testing. The E-MAGIC consortium (4 universities, 5 research institutes and 1 industrial company) has been built taking into account these specific requirements leading to a multidisciplinary partnership with widely acknowledged expertise in their respective domains covering the complete chain from basic research to process optimization gathering chemists, physicists, computer scientists, applied mathematicians, environmental engineers and complex system engineers.
The partners are:
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Bar Ilan University (BIU), Israel
Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / Helmholtz Institute Ulm (KIT), Germany
Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany
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German Shell Fragment
The object pictured above is probably an interior part of the head of a shell, believed to have been fired from a German vessel in 1918. Artillery of this type could measure around 75cm long and would have been fatal to anyone it made contact with.
The attached label reads:
"Fragment of shell fired from U boat or German submarine, killing Mr R Valanoweth of Camborne when returning from West Coast, Africa. 6 May 1918".
Perhaps collected by a friend or comrade, this fragment is thought to have been directly responsible for the loss of a Cornish life during the Great War.
There are no available records of a man with that name, which was probably mis-spelled. However, a Reginald Vellanoweth, a market gardener of Perranuthoe, Marazion, is recorded as having served in the War from the age of 19.
His unit manned coastal Howitzer Guns in a regiment which operated around the West African coast.
The fact that there are no available death records associated with the name Valanoweth which can be attached to this item makes the losses of the Great War even more poignant. This shell was the instrument of his death, but sadly also serves to commemorate the very existence of this soldier.
Object chosen by Jeni Woolcock, Citizen Curator.
Behind the Lines: Personal Stories of the First World War
2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. To commemorate the centenary, Royal Cornwall Museum and Courtney Library staff, interns and volunteers have teamed up to create the online exhibition 'Behind the Lines: Personal Stories of the First World War'.
The Museum at War
2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. It is also the bicentenary of the founding of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (RIC). Research into the RIC journals published between 1914 and 1918 has revealed much about the trials faced by the RIC, and the continued importance of the museum during wartime.
Messages from the Royal Cornwall Infirmary
Within the RIC's collections lie two small, leather-bound autograph albums from the Royal Cornwall Infirmary in Truro. Remarkably, these unassuming objects contain entries written and illustrated by injured soldiers during the First World War. The messages offer a rare insight into life at the Infirmary, along with the thoughts and feelings of those convalescing.
Tregavethan Farm and the Women's Land Army
The RIC's photographic collection from the First World War features over 200 images of the Women's Land Army at Tregavethan Farm, near Truro. Reproduced from a series of glass plate pictures, taken by local photographer A W Jordan, they form an extraordinary record of the Land Girls' time in Cornwall – including their training and friendships.
The Haslam Diaries
Elsie Haslam's diaries - housed and digitised at the Courtney Library and Archive, Truro - and the people in them offer a rare insight into the progression of the War on the Homefront as well as on overseas French battlefields. In this section we explore several themes invoked by 'Charlie' Haslam's war story.
Citizen Curator Objects
'Flag Day' Digitised Image
Battle of Jutland Shrapnel
Princess Mary Christmas Box
Women's Land Army Digitised Image
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Texas Workplace
Employment Litigation in Texas
Negative online reviews and the limits of litigation
A business that used litigation to address an online Yelp review has to pay sanctions to the customer who posted the review. And the case still is not over!
I remember an old saying about being focused on the cheese and forgetting about the trap. The idea is that at some point you need to re-evaluate the initial goals and objectives in light of new information or circumstances. You know that you need to forget about the cheese and start worrying about the trap when you start using words like quagmire and phrases like "exit strategy" and "cut your losses."
Litigation can be a classic example of being focused on the cheese and forgetting about the trap. The Fifth Court of Appeals, Dallas, Texas issued an opinion this week involving a Yelp review and the Texas Citizens Participation Act that shows how litigation can create problems that did not exist prior to going down the litigation path.
The case is Duchouquette v. Prestigious Pets, LLC. The Douchouquettes hired Prestigious Pets to feed their fish while the Douchouquettes were out-of-town. On their fish webcam, the Douchouquettes saw Prestigious Pets' pet sitter over feed the fish. The Douchouquettes posted a negative review on Yelp.com. Prestigious Pets filed a lawsuit in justice court against the Douchouquettes over the Yelp review. The Douchouquettes responded with a motion to dismiss under the Texas Citizens Participation Act, and requested attorney fees and sanctions against Prestigious Pets.
The Texas Citizens Participation Act "encourage[s] and safeguard[s] the constitutional rights of persons to petition, speak freely, associate freely, and otherwise participate in government to the maximum extent permitted by law. . .." The TCPA allows a part to file a motion to dismiss a legal action if the legal action is "based on, relates to, or is in response to a party's exercise of the right of free speech, . . .." A TCPA motion to dismiss must be filed within 60 days after service of the legal action, and all discovery is suspended until the court decides the motion to dismiss. If the court grants the motion to dismiss under TCPA, the court must award court costs, reasonable attorney fees, and sanctions against the party who brought the legal action.
The TCPA raises the stakes anytime the legal action relates to free speech, and especially for parties like Prestigious Pets who file legal actions over negative online reviews.
Getting back at the Douchouquettes for the Yelp post was the cheese. The TCPA was the trap. Recognizing that it should forget the cheese and worry about the trap, Prestigious Pets dismissed its claims against the Douchouquettes in justice court and thereafter the justice court denied the Douchouquettes' TCPA motion.
The Douchouquettes appealed the denial of their TCPA motion to county court. At the same time, Prestigious Pets filed a separate legal action in district court, and the Douchouquettes filed another TCPA motion in the district court. The county court dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. In the district court case, the district court granted the Douchouquettes' TCPA motion and sanctioned Prestigious Pets $7,000 under the TCPA. Despite the mandatory language in the TCPA, the district court denied the Douchouquettes' request for $10,415 in attorney fees.
The Douchouquettes were not finished. They appealed the county court's dismissal on jurisdictional grounds to the Dallas Court of Appeals. The Dallas Court of Appeals reversed the county court, and remanded the Douchouquettes' TCPA motion for consideration by the county court.
What happens next in the county court with the Douchouquettes' original TCPA motion is anyone's guess. The county court could rule that the district court already decided the issue when it granted the Douchouquettes' TCPA motion and awarded them $7,000 in sanctions against Prestigious Pets. Or the county court could revisit the Douchouquettes' request for attorney fees, which now will include appellate attorney fees.
Prior to filing the legal action against the Douchouquettes for the Yelp review, Prestigious Pets' primary problem was how to overcome the Yelp review. After filing the legal action, Prestigious Pets had the Yelp problem, and the Douchouquettes' TCPA motion. If nothing else, this case is a cautionary tale of how the TCPA imposes limits on addressing online reviews through litigation.
Thunderdome 2017: Read it or don't, but you still are bound by what you sign
Under the law of the Thundedome, if you bust a deal then you face the wheel. That's clear enough.
Recently the Fifth Court of Appeals at Dallas paraphrased and expanded Thunderdome law in a case involving an arbitration clause and allegations by the employee that he did not read or speak English, and allegations that employer tricked the employee into signing an acknowledgment that the employee understood the employer's policies and procedures (which included the arbitration provision).
The case is MiCocina Ltd. d/b/a Taco Diner v. Jose Balderas-Villanueva. The case has some good Thunderdome-esque contract law sound bites like: "A party to an arms-length transaction is charged with the obligation of reading what he signs," and "It will not do for a man to enter into a contract, and, when called upon to respond to its obligations, to say that he did not read it when he signed it, or did not know what it contained."
The case also is significant because the Dallas Court of Appeals enforced the arbitration provision, even though the employer reserved the right to modify or terminate the provisions of the policy manual, and even though the employee alleged that the employer misrepresented the contents of the policy.
From time to time I get questions from clients about whether they are bound by terms they did not know about in a contract that they signed. The Dallas Court of Appeals says yes. There are exceptions to the general rule, but exceptions are not automatic.
If you have an arbitration clause and you want to ensure that it stands up to judicial review, this is an excellent case to evaluate whether your arbitration clause is in step with the Dallas Court of Appeals' most recent statement of the law.
What do you do with an OSHA citation?
You have an employee who is seriously injured in the workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigates the incident and issues one or more citations and proposes one or more penalties. OSHA also will direct you to post the notice of violation so that all of your employees can see it, and give you a hard deadline by which the cited condition must be abated. What do you do next? You contact OSHA and try to resolve the citation and penalties, right? Maybe.
The maximum penalties for serious and other than serious violations is $12,675 per violation and $126,749 per violation for willful or repeated violations. For failure to abate, the penalty is $12,675 per day beyond the abatement date. The penalties can really add up fast.
As part of the citation packet, you probably will receive an invitation to engage in an informal conference with OSHA to resolve the citation. OSHA also may make a preliminary offer to reduce the penalty and enter into an expedited settlement agreement.
Considering the potential expenses involved in contesting the OSHA citation, the offer to engage in an informal conference with OSHA to reduce the penalty sounds appealing. Even the initial offer from OSHA to reduce the proposed penalties is cause for optimism. However, as part of any informal settlement, whatever you ultimately agree to with OSHA regarding the cited condition will become a final order not subject to review by any court or agency. This means that if there is a future incident in your workplace you may be cited for a willful or repeated violation and hit with the substantially higher penalty. Then there is the issue of the admissibility of OSHA citations in subsequent litigation. In Texas there is case law establishing that OSHA standards represent the standard of care.
And to make the decision more complex than it needs to be, OSHA only gives you 15 business days to engage in the informal settlement process. Considering (1) the ramifications of admitting to a violation and having a record of the violation on future citations and penalties; and (2) the potential impact of the citation on subsequent litigation, 15 business days is not a whole lot of time to make a reasoned decision.
So you fight it, right? Keep in mind that the citation from OSHA is not conclusive. The citation is what OSHA hopes to prove by a preponderance of the evidence before an administrative law judge. And yes, OSHA tends to do very well at the administrative level. However, once the case moves to the appellate level, the results tend to even out somewhat. Fighting OSHA can be time-consuming and expensive, but it may be the best option for you when you consider the impact that settling with OSHA may have on the bigger picture down the road.
Why you might be receiving more unemployment claims.
Unemployment benefit applications resulting from Hurricane Harvey
Brett L. Myers is Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law and Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He routinely guides businesses through a variety of employment matters, including employment litigation, discrimination claims, and protection of intellectual property, confidential and proprietary information, and trade secrets.


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Q: Use single database for multiuser in Android app? I am developing a app and want to see offline data if Internet is not available . And this app can use multiple user like as after logout one user then another user can login and can see own data So how we can make database to accessible for among user

A: Use a discrimator column in your database table design to mark owner ship of every record.
Then you can impl. your data access methods so that they only query records for active user.
It's a design issue not a developing problem ;)

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For the past year, the power rankings have been compiled by a panel of bloggers. Starting this month, we're going to be returning back to the old version, a list compiled by Miami Restaurant Power Rankings. We're aiming to run guest power rankings every so often to mix things up as well. Big thanks to Food For Thought Miami; Blind Tastes; The Chowfather; Mango & Lime; and Assault N Pepper, for contributing to the rankings. You can find Food For Thought's latest 'best of' list here and The Chowfather's tiers of excellence here.
On the bubble: Makoto; Mandolin Aegean Bistro.
Love to see Las Tapas de Rosa and Buena Vista on the list. Time to Miami Spice!


The chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Natan Sharansky, speaking to the press at his office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sept. 12, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90).
PARIS (JTA) — The Jews of France have no future in their country because of Arab immigration and deep-seated anti-Semitism, said Natan Sharansky, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Sharansky made the declaration on Monday in Paris, where he was attending a Jewish Agency board of governors meeting held in the French capital for the first time as a sign of solidarity with its Jews.
"We came here because there are historical processes here," Sharansky said of France, which for the past two years has been Israel's largest source of immigrants, with a record-setting 15,000 Jews settling there during that period.
"There is no future for the Jews in France because of the Arabs, and because of a very anti-Israel position in society, where new anti-Semitism and ancient anti-Semitism converge," he told JTA.
Since 2012, Islamists have killed eight Jews in two shooting attacks that came amid hundreds of non-lethal violent assaults. A French citizen with alleged ties to Islamist groups is standing trial in France for a third shooting in 2014 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in which four people died.
The violence is one of several factors behind the increase in Jewish immigration to Israel, or aliyah, from France, Sharansky said, along with French Jewry's strong emotional attachment to Israel and France's stagnant economy.
Yet aliyah from France has decreased considerably in the first five months of 2016 over the corresponding period last year, Sharansky conceded. According to the Israeli daily Makor Rishon, 1,065 newcomers arrived before June this year, compared to 1,865 in that period in 2015.
Sharansky attributed the decrease to "a slightly improved feeling of security" by French Jews. He also said aliyah has been decreasing because of "high housing prices in Israel and non-recognition in Israel of diplomas" of some French professionals. Sharansky said The Jewish Agency is in talks with the government to solve these issues.
Since aliyah picked up in 2013, The Jewish Agency has reinforced its presence in France, where its team of dozens of professionals is "the largest delegation anywhere in the world," Sharansky said. "The potential is enormous, we estimate it can reach more than 15,000 olim annually," he said, using the Hebrew word for people who make aliyah.
In surveys conducted in 2014 among 1,580 respondents by the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, nearly three quarters of those who self-identified as observant Muslims agreed with the statement that Jews have too much influence on French economics, compared to 25 percent in the general population.
Among the general population, 32 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that "Jews use to their own benefit their status as victims of the Nazi genocide," compared to 56 percent of respondents from the Muslim category and among those who voted for the far-right National Front party in 2012. Among voters for the Front de Gauche far-left party, the assertion had a 51 percent approval rating.


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And yet they want me to be 6 feet beneath it.
I really need you to believe it.
OF How to make my flesh their feast.
SO what have i got to do with you?
Got to do with eating fruits???
But i was still born.
Obviously i'm here, so then i wasn't STILL-BORN.
But in my little kingdom i am that ruler.
And getting familiar with the fact that we all have an enemy.
This truth lies above all the lies they've been telling me.
Honestly, i'm ready to face that enemy squarely.
Because I'm BOLD enough to face that STORM – BLACKBERRY.
Raise me above the heads of my enemies like dreadlocks.
And i shall forever proclaim that i am sincerely yours.
And hold tightly to the feet of he who died on the cross.
kudos mehn, keep on n never cease irrespective of the adversities n unequanimity. The future is very bright n believe me or not, you are on the steppingstone to the great celebrated and famous predecessors poets' n scholars.God bless ya,one Love.


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Q: Can you explain how JSON objects are stored inside a Javascript object? Here I'm iterating over JSON objects stored inside a javascript object and print some of it's values.
 database.ref().once("value", function (snap) {
    //store javascript object containing JSON objects in scores variable.
    scores = snap.val();

    for(var key in scores){
        console.log(scores[key].Name);
    }
});

scores object look like this.

How does the for loop retrieve the key in each JSON object and store in the variable named "key"?
Since scores is not an array but a javascript object how does a for loop work at all?
For example scores[1].Name won't work. So, it's not index based.

A: In your example you have an object that looks like:
var obj = {
  'key1': {name: 'Josh', score: 9},
  'key2': {name: 'July', score: 30},
  'key3': {name: 'Joy', score: 18},
  'key4': {name: 'Barbara', score: 50},
};

Doing for (var key in obj) {...} will loop through all the keys of your initial object. In that example, that would be ['key1', 'key2', 'key3', 'key4'].
You are right to say that only array items can be access by index. For objects, children are accessed by keys (which are strings).
Both the following work:
// Directly when you know the key name
console.log(obj.key1.name); // Will print out 'Josh'

// Using a variable when the key name is stored in a variable
var customKey = 'key1';
console.log(obj[customKey].name); // Will print out 'Josh'

In your initial example, you are using the for ... in structure to loop through he object keys and then accessing the nested objects by key.
You can verify what I am saying with the following example:
database.ref().once("value", function (snap) {
    //store javascript object containing JSON objects in scores variable.
    scores = snap.val();

    for(var key in scores){
        console.log(key); // See what's inside your key variable
        console.log(scores[key].Name);
    }
});

A: The for...in statement iterates over the enumerable properties of the given object.
Asuming you have the following object:
var o = {
  a: 1,
  b: 2,
  c: {
    d: 3
  }
};

Doing:
for (var key in o) console.log(key, o[key]);

Will print:
a 1
b 2
c { d: 3 }

I think it is important to keep in mind that the for...in statement also loops through the inherited properties of the object.
Doing:
o.__proto__.x = 4;
for (var key in o) console.log(key, o[key]);

Will print:
a 1
b 2
c { d: 3 }
x 4

If you want to loop only through the properties that belong to the object directly, and not to the prototype chain, you can use Object.keys():
var o = {
  a: 1,
  b: 2,
  c: function () {}
};

o.__proto__.x = 4;
o.__proto__.y = function () {};

var keys = Object.keys(o);

for (var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) console.log(keys[i], o[keys[i]]);

The code above prints:
a 1
b 2
c function () {} //functions are also enumerable


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Movie Review: 1492: Conquest of Paradise
By jk on February 17, 2011 in Books & Movies
When Ridley Scott's 1992 movie on the voyages of Christopher Columbus starts, Columbus(Gérard Depardieu) is seen pitching his idea of a voyage to the Indies to the people of University of Salamanca. Marco Polo had traveled to and written about the gold and spices of the East. By trading and conquering the East, Columbus argues, that Spain can be an empire. But his logic of sailing West — because the land trade is controlled by the Arabs and the voyage around Africa takes too long — does not find supporters. They doubt his calculations and think he is a spoony dreamer. Also, what Columbus did not know at that time was that the Americas lay in the path between Spain and the East.
Someone asks him to meet Queen Isabella (Sigourney Weaver) and he succeeds in creating a favorable impression in her mind. To her suggestion that his voyage is an impossible one, he retorts if she thought Granada would ever fall. Isabella and her husband Ferdinand had just conquered the last Muslim stronghold on the Iberian peninsula. Impressed, she overrides the concerns of her advisors and remarks that it would be quite a loss if Columbus decided to be a monk.
In the next scene, we see sailors saying farewell to their families and boarding the Santa María, Pinta and Niña. The Spain Columbus was leaving was mired with religious wars and superstition; there is a brutal scene where he witnesses Christians burning witches to death. Economically, Europe was not a major power and had nothing valuable to contribute to Asia. A few years later when Vasco da Gama reached Calicut and displayed the gifts he had bought, my ancestors in Kerala laughed.
In all, Columbus made four voyages to the New World and the movie spends time on the first three. In the first voyage, he reached Bahamas and claimed it for Spain. From there he went to Hispaniola and after leaving some people there, he returned to Spain as a hero, taking with him some of the indigenous people. As he is about to leave Hispaniola, Columbus tells the local chief that he would come back with more people. When asked why he would be back, Columbus explains, "to bring the word of God." "But I already have a God", the chief replies. Columbus, then says, he will bring medicines and chief replies that he has enough medicines too. This conversation continues in Spain when a curious Ferdinand asks Columbus about the God of the natives.
In the colony, the relationship between the colonizers and the indigenous people proceed like any such relation. The Spaniards had arrived expecting gold and other riches, but were shocked to find neither. So they made the indigenous people, who lived freely so far, to scavenge for gold. In one incident, when a man turns shows up without any gold, one of Columbus' crew members chops off his arm. On hearing about this, Columbus imprisons him, but this forces a split in the camp. Soon every one is at each other's throat. Columbus goes on a rampage — like the British in 1857 — and kills the natives as well as his mutinous compatriots.
He is unflinching in his goal: He wants to build a New World, he tells a priest who is sickened by his cruelty and wants to leave. But his New World does not last. In one storm, everything is destroyed. Complaints against him cause the Ferdinand and Isabella to send a replacement. Columbus is jailed and the credit for discovering the mainland goes to another Italian – Amerigo Vespucci. He is eventually pardoned and sent on a voyage by Isabella.
Columbus's life was very eventful and this movie does not capture the entire drama. For example, initially, he spent quite some time wandering in various countries trying to get funding for his voyage. Towards the end, his fourth voyage turned out to be a disaster. He got caught in various storms and hurricanes and got stranded for a year. But if these were included, the movie would have been extended by a few days.
When it comes to such movies, you also have to pay attention to what is not said. Isabella was not being magnanimous by partially financing Columbus' first voyage. She had no other option. The wars against the Moors had bankrupt the empire and they had to find new lands to plunder. In the movie, Isabella comes across as this wise motherly figure which she was not. One important event, which happened few months before Columbus' voyage and not shown in the movie is Isabella's expulsion of Jews from Spain by the Alhambra Decree and the forced conversion of the Muslims of Granada.
Even the portrayal of Columbus is not without issue. The movie is quite sympathetic to him and his spirit of adventure. To counter Columbus, a troubled soul by the name of Moxica is introduced. Moxica is the one who tortures the indigenous people and is greedy while Columbus acts like a statesman. What is missing is a critical look of the influence of the Papal Bull of 1493 on later voyages and what effect the Conquistadors had on these people. The movie ends with Columbus narrating the voyage of his tales to his son to redeem his name. That scene should have been interspersed with what happened to the indigenous people.
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6 Responses to Movie Review: 1492: Conquest of Paradise
Sam February 9, 2014 at 11:28 am #
"he witnesses Christians burning witches to death."; I'm sorry to correct you but they are not burning witches, rather Jewish people who did not want to convert. You can hear some of them constantly screaming "Shema Yisrael Adonay Eloheinu Adonai Echad" (Hear O Israel, Adonay is our God, Adonai is one) which is a Jewish verse often said before sacrificing ones life for the sake of God and in his name. In addition, something many people don't know, is that many Jews were Marrano's, literally spines in spanish, and pretended to be christian to save themselves, while secretly retaining their traditions in the secrecy of their own homes. As a matter of fact, it is widely believed, and mostly proven that Columbus himself was a Marrano, as he signed all the letters to his children with the hebrew letters bet and he on the top right, a tradition only among religious jews, among many other jewish traditions he was found to have kept. There is an aura of secrecy surrounding the true mission he had in mind when wanting to discover the 'new world', since he didnt care about christianity. Many claim Columbus was looking for a safe haven for Jews to live in and be free of persecution. In fact today, we know that most sailors on his ships were actually marranos, and many of the first settlers in the America's were Jews, since they were being expulsed out of Spain after a decree by the King. There are a couple of books written on the topic interests you and feel free to contact me for any more info.
jk February 9, 2014 at 11:37 am #
Sam, Is that what was shown in the movie? If, so I need to watch again and pay attention. Or are you saying that was what happened historically and is not shown in the movie?
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THE OPERA sets to music the meeting between President Theodore Roosevelt and conservationist John Muir on their historic, 1903 camping trip in Yosemite National Park. Arguably the most famous camping trip in history, it marked a pivotal moment in the emergent American Conservation movement to save and protect lands and wildlife from the exploitative impulses of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Presented by Opera Theater Oregon, the fully staged world premiere in June 2017 will include several outdoor and indoor performances with orchestra throughout Portland. Learn more about the opera here.
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When John Muir set foot in Yosemite for the first time he was, in his own words, "a nameless nobody." A hard-working Scottish immigrant he could have risen to the top of industry or commerce. Instead he devoted his life to immersing himself in the wonders of nature and worked tirelessly to protect the Yosemite and countless other places, overcoming many challenges and set backs. It is in the spirit of Muir that we forge on, against the odds, to independently produce new opera. Many opera companies will not take risks on new works or new talent. Though, like Muir, we have formed a coalition of devoted collaborators and friends that get going when the going gets tough to see that the vision of this project reaches fruition.
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Mindscaping Tibet—Dan Smyer Yü
Dan Smyer Yü (2015)
Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics
Religion and Society, Vol.60, Walter de Gruyer, Berlin
Dan Smyer Yü is a Professor and Founding Director at the Centre for Trans-Himalayan Studies, Yunnan Minzu University, a core member of the Transregional Research Network at the University of Göttingen and a Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity. A documentary filmmaker, his widely screened films include Embrace (50 min. Tibetan mountain culture and ecology, 2011) and Rainbow Rider (55 min. Tibetan Buddhism in China 2013). This film documents the renowned Tibetan Buddhist public intellectual in China, Khenpo Sodargye through his lectures and dialogues with social scientists on the topics of environmental health, human flourishing, the scientific understanding of the mind, and the Buddhist vision of world peace. It invites audiences to join the ongoing global discussions and debates on whether or not Buddhism is a science of its own.
Sambha Village, shown above, is the site of his research for his book on Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet.
In this age of climate crisis and environmental anxiety, and the loss of faith in the modernist dream of endless progress through technology, more and more people are turning their attention to the modes of thinking that pervaded many pre-industrial cultures. The ethnic Tibetan cultural areas of modern China are rich with modes of pre-industrial ways of thinking and experiencing—mindscaping—the natural world and its lifeforms.
What is a mindscape? For Dan Smyer Yü it is the range of reflexes, intellectual reflections, emotional responses, memories, moving images and mental data storage of scents, colors, sounds, temperatures, and meteorological patterns, all of which originate from human lived experiences enveloped in the external physical environment, namely, landscape (p.20). Smyer Yü maintains that while the Chinese troops overpowered Tibetans with their tactical superiority, Tibetan natural and built environments profoundly overpowered many of them on a different scale—a delayed inner transformation (pp.40 and 72).
Mindscape is metaphorically the "inner landscape" from this experience, immersed in one's depthless and shapeless thoughts, affections, feelings, fears, hopes and dreams. It is the remembered place that continues to speak to us. This understanding of mindscape draws on the work of Tim Ingold, Christopher Tilley and Barbara Bender who have developed intertextual relationships with geographers, philosophers, psychologists and critical theorists to create a rich stream of interdisciplinary study (p.21).
Dan Smyer Yü sees that landscape, as the lifeworld itself, environs us, invades and permeates our body and mindscape with its air, water, nutrients, and its solid surface supporting our bipedal locomotion—a world entering each of us through "a visionscape, a touchscape, a soundscape, a smellscape, and a tastescape" (Tilley 2011, 27-28).
Dan Smyer Yü's research on the intersection of Tibetan landscape, culture and modernity, is explored through the following chapters of his book:
Geopolitics of place, gods and people in Sambha
Confessions of an Inner Liberation
Memorability of place among anti-traditionalists
Touching the skin of modern Tibet in the New Tibetan Cinema
Ensouling the Mountains
Drifting in the Mirages of the Tibetan Landscape
Conclusion—Mindscaping Tibetophilia
Tibet as a Cultural Hotspot
Tibet stands as a hotspot to Chinese, Westerners and Tibetan writers, intellectuals and artists as well. Successful artists and filmmakers such as Garma Dorje Tserang, Pema Tseden and Sonthar Gyal are telling their stories of Tibet through painting and film. In their creative artworks, Tibet is again revealed as a place of inspiration and its immensely breathtaking landscape, Buddhist spirituality, kinship bonds and communal intimacy. The productions of these groups of Tibetans in Beijing are adding more heat and complexity to Tibet as a "hot" place and a power culture (p.15). Dan Smyer Yü draws on his collaboration with this loose group of Tibetan artists, known as "Tibet-drifters" and "Beijing-drifters" who live as freelance creatives working on a range of projects in film, arts and literary creativity, and living in shared housing-workspaces.
Smyer Yü identifies two approaches to representations of Tibet. One is the modern romanticised Chinese image of Tibet as a nation of Buddhism and a paradise on earth, represented by emerald summer grasslands, blue sky, idyllic villages and high mountains—excluding non-traditional elements as much as possible. The other is Tibetan creatives and intellectuals engaging with verisimilitude in their reproduction of contemporary Tibetan social life, religious practices and natural landscape, which seek to peel away the symbolic 'overkill' and portray the realities of contemporary Tibet, for example in Old Dog (2010) by Pema Tseden and Sun Beaten Path (2010) by Sonthar Gyal (p.31).
One of the dilemmas of the global economy of mass tourism is that places that become famous as sources of spiritual potency, identified through academic scholarship or media, are commoditised. For example, Smyer Yü quotes Chen Xiaodong, a freelance Buddhist writer based in Shanghai, sharing online his first experience of the Tibetan landscape:
I was sitting on a hilltop looking at the endlessly expanding horizon under the blue sky. . . . A bliss began to permeate my body and mind. I didn't know that my eyes welled up with tears. I bent down to kiss this earth. This is a magic land, a sacred pureland… (Chen 2002:5)
As a result of such responses from modern Han Chinese, Smyer Yü notes that in this age of simultaneously occurring late-capitalism and late-socialism in China, the market economy, whether centralised or in a lassez faire state, is always keen on identifying popular desires, aspirations, and trends as potential and actual opportunities for profit. Once a popular desire is amassed around an object, this object, whether a brand name product or a geographic place or a charismatic person, is instantly given commercial value and thus is turned into a commodity" (p.36).
The search for a post-colonial mode of inquiry
Arguing for a post-colonialist appreciation of Tibet, Dan Smyu calls for a deeper view of locally expressed human universals in past and present conditions of human conflicts, one-sided curiosities and mutual interactions on a global scale, to take account of transnational migration and global visibility of human cultures, religions and intellectual thoughts in the twenty-first century (p.18). He argues that non-Western thought systems and religious practices are increasingly entering deeper into the core of Western cultural consciousness, particularly through the spread of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and the growth of Han Chinese engagement with Tibetan Buddhism in modern China. For Dan Smyer Yü, the aesthetic potency of the Tibetan landscape resides in the crisscrossed lineages of humans and earthly deities embodied in mountains and lakes (p.26). He notes that the early Buddhist conversion of Tibetans that began in the eighth century was not only a mindwork of humans, but also a conversion process for the entire landscape of Tibet, which embodied/embodies indigenous earthly deities, re-cosmologised as Buddhist sacred places centred on the historical figure and the legend of Padmasambhava (p.55).
Insurrection of the Modern Worldview
This intrusion of non-western modes of thought involves an intellectual and epistemic insurrection in the idea of rigpa, as the unhindered vision of realisation revealed through Tibetan Buddhist practices, subverts or revolutionises existing world views based on sem, merely conceptual thinking (p.27). Western (modern) modes of thinking valorise conceptual thought, and discredit the possibility of another domain of awareness such as rigpa, or mythopoetic modes of awareness such as permeate pre-industrial cultures like Tibet and Aboriginal Australia.
The other insurrection, revealed by Smyer Yü's fieldwork with Akhu Norbu, a yogi from Sambha Village in Qinghai province, is engagement with a culture where the landscape is alive with other beings, forming an integral part of their eco-spiritual world view and daily spiritual practices. Earth (sa) is animated with beings other than humans, and the world is seen as three realms: the celestial sphere above the earth (sabla), the surface of the earth (sadang) and the underworld (sa'og). He notes that the potency of the earth is animated through demons, ghosts, gods and spirits in celestial, terrestrial and underworld realms, creating an "inter-dwelling mode of being", the mutual saturation of landscape and mindscape, place and memory, and divinity and humanity (p.39). In modern culture demons, gods and spirits, and the different realms have all been subsumed within psychology as mental states, entirely divorced from landscape. Thus demons are mental states of anxiety, fear and hatred. Gods become mental states of euphoria, and spirits become the intuitive sense of aliveness within and around us. The celestial ream is the hypothesised 'heaven' of religious belief, or perhaps for the atheist, the world of planets and stars in our solar system. The underworld realm (sa'og), the world of the nagas, has become our unconscious mental states, home to all our hidden habitual patterns and stored but inaccessible memories.
Tibetan Cinema in China
In Chapter 5, Smyer Yü discusses the works of Tibetan filmmakers, beginning with the release of Pema Tseden's The Silent Holy Stone in 2004, the first film scripted and directed by a Tibetan in the one hundred year cinematic history of China. He regards the essence of Pema Tseden's style has been to create a reality on the screen through which the audience is empathetically moved into the lived experience of the Tibetan characters. The landscape is not background, but active, sustaining and saturating the film's human characters' inner landscape and their social acts. Drawing on Jungian psychology and notions of soul as anima (female) and animus (male), Smyer Yü regards this approach as enacting the anima of the landscape through a particular personified character, which clearly designates Buddhism as the anima of the Tibetan landscape (p.331).
Pema Tseden's evolution as a filmmaker tracks the challenges facing ethnic Tibetan intellectuals and artists in modern China as they seek to find a voice that captures their strong sense of connection to land and traditional Buddhist culture, set against the dislocations and challenges of a rapidly modernising China. Pema Tseden's later films, The Search and Old Dog, delve deeper into the social space of contemporary Tibet showing Buddhist values being challenged in modern terms, as the history and spirituality of Buddhism is enveloped in and challenged by the modern, secular, consumer world, whereby it is becoming susceptible to being marginalised, subverted and secularised (p.141). The messages in these later films point to increasing cultural and environmental stress among the Tibetans, with the films' cinematic hapticity almost coercing his audience into the feelings of chaos and psychological displacement (p.144). Thus Pema Tseden's cinematic hapticity is not the actual, subtle emotive skin surfaces of the characters of his narrative, but the "skin" of Tibet's landscape and its people's mental condition, social ethos, and people's moral and kindred ties within their land (p.146).
Symer Yü suggests that the proliferation and affordability of digital video and cinema cameras and editing equipment is allowing increased visual articulation of numerous public discourses, so that we will soon witness the second and third generation of Tibetan filmmakers emerging in China.
This also signifies a cultural and cognitive trend that our perceptions of the phenomenal world, as well as our projections of future states of being, are increasingly shaped by our mediated visual encounters with both local, regional, national and global events, issues, and concerns through images transmitted through TV broadcasting, the Internet, Streaming services and cell phones. (pp.153-155).
The Mountain Gods
However Smyer Yü maintains that while Pema Tsden remains sceptical that the ability of China's modern project will benefit Tibet and Tibetans, the power that sustains his cinematic restoration of traditional Tibet, his compatriot Tibetan filmmaker, Shogdon's construction is of a new modern Tibet. But both approaches stream in from the landscape which is the root of the total lifeworld of their home (p.151). Both filmmakers were born in Amdo in Qinghai Province, where one of Tibet's most revered mountain gods, Amnye Machen, also regarded as a soul-place of King Gesar, the great mythic warrior spirit of East Tibet, dominates the landscape. It is also the site of modern gold mining operations over the last 10 years. Akhu Shampa explained to a friend of Pema Tseden that many now think their mountain god wants to move to a different place:
Miners have dug deeply into Amnye Machen, at least seventy kilometres from the mouth of the mine to the current depth… The mountain will perish like a person with his intestines, heart and lungs dug out. In recent years the vitality of the glacier of Amnye Machen looks feeble. Mining makes the snow mountain lose its vigour… Amnye Machen is a Tenth Stage Bodhisattva. He doesn't have hatred of the miners but I feel it is unbearable and heart wrenching (p.168)… If we turn our back on our soul mountain, we will lose our soul. This is an inseverable relationship (p.171).
In a manner similar to how Australian Aboriginal people explain their connection to country and the laws of their Dreaming, Smyer Yü concludes from his conversations with Tenzin and his fellow Amdopas that for Tibetans the combined lifeworld of place, gods and humans is a "rhizomic world", because their "roots", in the senses of mythology, history and religion, are so entwined that the sphere of each intersects, overlaps, preconditions, and saturates the others. Thus this lifeworld is an embodiment of both the histories of gods and humans. Amnye Machen, from a local perspective, is a living being who bridges the past and present in psychic, spiritual, emotional and haptic terms (p.173). It is in this context that we can understand the Tibetan angst about the mining of such places, expressed mythopoetically as disturbing the nagas.
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Resilience, adaptability, and (hopefully) foresight are on the world's mind today like never before. To adequately prepare for the future and build a high level of resiliency, our organisations will probably have to make multiple, major mindset shifts. Do you know who's been thinking about these things for a long time? People who work as professional Futurists.
We've identified roughly 1500 Futurists online around the world by analysing Twitter data, starting with some of the top self-identified foresight consultants in the world, spidering out across their connections, and then doing a cluster analysis for validation of each one. 25% of these Futurists are in Europe – you can find a Twitter list of more than two hundred of them here.
The United Kingdom is home to about 15% of the world's futurists. That's the second highest concentration of Futurists in the world (after the US), followed by Finland, the Netherlands, and then France.
Two futurists in the United Kingdom that we've been inspired by lately are Joana Lenkova and Tom Cheesewright. As guests on our weekly video show 'The Sprinklr Coffee Club', Joana and Tom have shared some great perspectives on how organisations should strategise today to be prepared for tomorrow. Here are some highlights from those conversations:
Ambidexterity: Explore & Exploit
Joana Lenkova is the founder of Futures Forward, a strategy and foresight consultancy, who spent years working at Disney in Europe.
She says organisations must organically balance between exploiting their current opportunities and investing in exploration for what will come next. She explains that actions resulting in financial success today are not guaranteed to work tomorrow.
Athletic Organisations
How do you operationalise that ambidexterity? Tom Cheesewright's advice fits nicely here. Cheesewright lives in Manchester and uses Foresight, Narrative Planning, and Agile Organisation Design as an Applied Futurist. He's just released a new book titled Future-proof Your Business, where he expands on some of the ideas he discusses here.
He's got a great way of explaining the way agile organisations can use what they already know about their business, plus collaboration, plus foresight to train themselves like athletes do.
How to be Prepared for Volatility: Look Beyond Your Industry
Those athletic organisations Cheesewright talks about are made up of individuals – and Lenkova offers excellent advice on how each of us can contribute to our organisations' view of downfield.
What Questions to Ask in Your Research
Tom Cheesewright explains what he does for his clients as a futurist, and his answer suggests what kinds of questions we should all be asking when doing the kind of research that both of these futurists recommend. These may not be the kinds of questions you'd expect: two of three are focused on change management.
The Probability/Impact Matrix
All of this research could surface any number of scenarios that could be prepared for. Where should you focus? Joana Lenkova shares a model she likes to use to determine where to focus. Importantly, it includes listening to opposing points of view and stepping out of your comfort zone!
That's a wide-ranging but thorough body of advice for thinking about how to become a more agile organisation.
Balance the present with exploration for the future
Collaborate with your team as athletes do to look downfield
Look at the macro circumstances and outside your industry to find trends that could combine (the future is very combinatorial!)
Think about mid-term futures, how to tell the stories needed to mobilise for preparation, and how to operationalise the changes needed
And finally, consider both the likelihood and the impact of the various scenarios
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Dennis Green parts ways with assistants
TEMPE, Ariz. (Jan. 2, 2006) -- Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green fired two assistant coaches and said a third, defensive line coach Deek Pollard, had retired.
The contracts of offensive line coach Everett Lindsay and special teams coach Kevin O'Dea were not renewed.
Lindsay played for Green at Minnesota and joined the Cardinals' staff as an offensive line assistant in 2004. He was promoted to offensive line coach when Bob Wylie was fired six games into last season.
O'Dea was Arizona special teams coach for two seasons. Earlier, he was an assistant coach for Detroit, Tampa Bay and San Diego.
Pollard, 66, had been out of football for five years when he joined Green's staff.


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If you have an old house that you really want to sell fast, you have come to the right place today. If you are someone who really wants to get rid of your house as soon as possible but you do not have any buyers for your house, you are really in for a good surprise today because we are going to help you out if this is your problem. If you would really like to know the helpful things about how to sell your house fast, just keep on reading this article and we are going to tell you all about it. There have been a lot of people who have followed these tips really carefully and have really been able to sell their house fast so if you would also like to sell your house fast, you should really listen up and learn from this article.
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A little bit of politics
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There's a large empty office building in Strasbourg that gets used, on average, about five days a month. I refer of course to the famous European Parliament building at Wacken, which has been the subject of much debate in recent years.
"Why is it even there at all – when 99% of Eurocrats are in Brussels?" is a common question sounded out by those who are either speaking rhetorically, or by those who have no idea of the origins of the European Union. It's there, quite simply, because the European Parliament have always sat in Strasbourg.
The problem is, that while Strasbourg is a lovely city, Eurocrats, civil servants and politicians from member states have a hard time getting here, particularly from their admin bases in Brussels.
Strasbourg, although known as 'the crossroads of Europe' has had poor transport connections since the invention of the EU. For example:
before the arrival of the TGV last year, Strasbourg was four and a half hours from Paris by train
even with the TGV it takes over five hours to travel from Brussels to Strasbourg by train (it's faster by road)
Strasbourg's tiny airport welcomes no low-cost carriers, and offers direct flights to less than half of Europe's capital cities
the quickest way to the airport by public transport is to take a train from the central station (8 minutes) … but there are only 2 services a day!
So, it's no wonder that the politicos get so hot under the collar about the Parliament building. If the French government had had the foresight to improve transport links to 'The capital of Europe' twenty years ago, then perhaps they would not be subject to such rebellion by EU citizens.
Strasbourg is trying to make amends however: improved cross-Rhine rail links; a new train-tram shuttle service to the airport; and Strasbourg's new Mayor (Roland Ries) has promised to open up the airport to low-cost carriers.
But let's be honest – it's all too little too late. The only thing that would convince the hordes of Eurocrats now rooted in Brussels is a direct high-speed rail link that could do the 430km in less than an two hours, and as far as I'm aware no such plans exist. And to be frank what would be the point? I mean who on earth would want to go to Brussels?
Waffles and a fruit beer anyone?
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Edmonton will be well-represented in our new federal government
Though most of Alberta voted blue in yesterday's election, there were a few key races that went red, including two here in Edmonton. Current City Councillor Amarjeet Sohi narrowly won against incumbent Tim Uppal (Conservative) in Edmonton-Mill Woods, and Randy Boissonnault defeated James Cumming (Conservative) and Gil McGowan (NDP) in Edmonton-Centre.
Justin Trudeau & Amarjeet Sohi, photo by Sukhpreet Benipal
Sohi's victory (assuming it is confirmed) means that Council will see it's first by-election in more than 20 years. As I wrote earlier this year, a by-election must take place within 90 days according to the MGA, but the City is planning to ask the Province for a 30 day extension so that the Christmas holidays can be avoided. That will likely mean a nomination day sometime in January with the by-election taking place in mid-February.
Throughout his time on Council, Sohi has proven himself as a strong, effective leader who understands the importance of cities. He could have run for mayor in 2013 if Iveson hadn't. Sohi has been a consistent supporter of both expanding the LRT here in Edmonton and of our city's efforts to eliminate poverty. I'm sad to see him go from Council, and although he leaves behind a very capable group of colleagues, I know they'll miss his wisdom and dedication. At the same time I'm thrilled to have such a great Edmonton champion in our nation's government.
Randy Boissonnault was the other successful local Liberal candidate. I'm sure he's excited to get to work in Ottawa, but I bet he could also use a moment to catch his breath as it feels like he has been campaigning forever! Boissonnault has been a consistent supporter of many important initiatives in Edmonton, including TEDxEdmonton and Startup Edmonton. He'll bring a great Edmonton perspective to the government, and seems to have a strong relationship with Justin Trudeau as well.
Randy Boissonnault, photo by Dave Cournoyer
Edmonton-Centre was previously held by Laurie Hawn (Conservative) who announced he would not seek re-election after serving since 2006. He defeated Anne McLellan (Liberal) to win the seat, who was at the time the Deputy Prime Minister (the last person to hold that position as the Harper government did not name anyone).
We won't know until November 4 if either Sohi or Boissonnault are named to Trudeau's cabinet, but it's a positive sign that the Prime Minister-elect was in both Edmonton and Calgary on Sunday doing some last minute campaigning.
It's also a good thing that Edmonton has strong representation from all three parties, because opposition MPs do important work as well. Linda Duncan (NDP) won re-election in Edmonton-Strathcona, and Mike Lake (Conservative) won re-election in Edmonton-Wetaskiwin. Both have represented our city well in Ottawa and will continue to do so, although in slightly different roles. Joining them are new MPs like former City Councillor Kerry Diotte (Conservative) who should also bring an interesting municipal perspective to his new role.
Although we now have fewer Edmonton representatives in the government than we did under the Conservatives, I don't think that necessarily puts us at a disadvantage. Trudeau and the Liberals are arguably a better fit with progressives like Premier Notley and Mayor Iveson. And the Liberal promise to invest $20 billion over 10 years in transit aligns very well with Edmonton's top infrastructure priority.
For now I'm cautiously optimistic about what the new Liberal government means for Edmonton, and I'm thrilled for both Sohi and Boissonnault!
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Sheila Marie & Zoey Doll in solo BE clips. I put them together in a zip because they are similar clips. I shot Zoey 4 months ago and sheila 2 weeks ago. Zoey... well she was a tough one to direct but she`s HOT!