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White House|Black Market: Back to the Roots
President Donna Noce, who came on board in 2007, has focused on the brand's DNA.
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FORT MYERS, FLA. — White House|Black Market has returned to its specialty store roots in a big way.
Acquired by Chico's FAS Inc., in 2003, the niche brand with a minimal color scheme suffered the usual corporate setbacks, from growth pressures to quality control issues resulting from unrealistic demands. It also had drowned in the mass market's sea of sameness. President Donna Noce, an Ann Taylor and Lerner alumna who came on board in 2007, reports it was not only time to revisit the brand's DNA, but orchestrate a focused strategy to move forward.
"We've undergone a total restoration based on the original White House boutique in Baltimore, which was very aspirational and detail driven," she said from her sunny corner office within Chico's campus here of multiplying warehouses and old rural canals where the occasional reptile still roams.
The redirection has already proven its value — boosted somewhat by the early backing of First Lady Michelle Obama, who famously wore one of the retailer's dresses on "The View" two years ago. Among Chico's portfolio that also includes Soma Intimates, WH|BM has seen steady sales growth, with revenues increasing 14.3 percent to $590.3 million in the year ended Jan. 29 from $516.4 million a year earlier. The division represented 31 percent of Chico's total sales last year, up from 30.1 percent in 2009. Comparable-store sales rose 8.4 percent last year. Excluding the distribution center and field, the brand operates with 202 employees within Chico's total staff of 1,239. Continuing on the path of last year's addition of 17 stores for a total fleet of 363, Noce plans an aggressive retail expansion this year.
She partly attributes the improved efficiencies to running a tight ship. Only two others — including Lisa Converse, senior vice president of design, and Liz Edmiston, who departed Tory Burch and started as senior vice president, general merchandise manager in late February — have final say on strategic moves.
"I'm not about having a huge hierarchy, but a small group of hands-on senior people," Noce said.
On the verge of outgrowing its two lofty buildings adjacent to Chico's mother ship, WH|BM runs almost vertically save for outsourcing production in China, according to Noce. Trend scouts, exclusive print painters, patternmakers, and on down the line are neatly organized in a beehive-esque work flow, and each fashion department, broken down into items such as dresses or knits, surrounds its cozy, personal meeting area with a conference table and sofas.
The campus' soon-to-open amenity hub will offer healthy versus comfort food cafeterias, a fitness center and possibly daycare and will sit directly across from WH|BM's parking lot. Employees can even fill a prescription and get their nails done without leaving the grounds. With an easily accessible airport, Noce, a Jersey girl, may as well be just across the Hudson.
Just south in blink-and-you'll-miss-it Estero, Fla., the company's store in the Coconut Point Mall serves as the test site before collections roll out nationally. Its clientele of put-together snowbirds and young mothers doesn't seem to realize their comments and purchases are being monitored with the keenness of ospreys in surrounding nature preserves. They're too busy having a good time perusing product and playing dress up.
"Our associates style them just like at any specialty boutique," said Noce, referring to the late morning action in a roomy dressing area with Cecil Beaton décor and a three-way mirror center stage. "We have large dressing rooms because helping customers build head-to-toe outfits with at least three different ways to wear it, is where real sales occur. It's very glamour driven."
Service-driven sales naturally transitioned to Vow, a bridal collection of five dresses retailing from $348 to $698, plus shoes and accessories, that launched in spring 2010. It's available online or through the company's only bridal salon on the third story of its Oak Street location, formerly the Ultimo boutique, in Chicago.
"When I saw the space's parquet floors and fireplace, it reminded me of shopping for my wedding dress," said Noce, of the company's first multilevel store, which opened last September.
That sense of feminine indulgence crosses into everyday fashion and new categories, too. Cashmere in sexy, off-the-shoulder and cable-knit wrap sweaters for $168 and $248, respectively, debuted in 2010, along with faux fur vests, boleros and coats in black, white and leopard from $148 to $168. Cosmetics with "Feel Beautiful" branding also launched last year. Shoes evolved from basic black to pumps with bows, and jewelry jumped from uneventful to statement. Continuing to be wrinkle-free and machine-washable, fabrics are held to higher standards. Seams stay tight, and buttons no longer fall off.
"Fall 2008 was when we drew the line in the sand and made the commitment to improve on all levels," said Noce.
Spring 2011's midcentury sportswear inspired by Claire McCardell and the "Mad Men" craze balances fit and flair dresses in colorful European garden prints. Beginning with red in 2008, a fashion color such as hydrangea blue and coral pops between deliveries of styles in neutral colors, also known as "palette" cleansers.
"Customers anticipate the next color and talk about it on Facebook," she said, though signature black and white still comprises 80 percent to 85 percent of the offering. "Being limited to a single color per season is a bit risky because we only get one shot."
Built on ladylike cardigans, pearls and "Sex and the City" flower pins, as well as sexier bustiers and strapless dresses, the selection expanded into staples like denim in 2005. Originally reluctant about the addition, customers now love its novelty details and "Feel Beautiful" message inside waistbands, according to Noce, who followed up with embellished chinos. A new career wardrobe campaign branded as the "Work Kit," much like a real-life version of paper dolls with core items like The Cardi, The Shell and The Skirt, is especially geared toward women just starting out in the workforce, such as college graduates.
"We wanted going to work to feel special, but we aren't taking away from dresses. The flirty polka-dot dress for strolling down the boardwalk remains our DNA," she said.
Stores, which average 2,600 square feet of selling space, also avoid cookie-cutter molds, favoring unique and oddly shaped venues and props. A signature crystal chandelier and black-and-white fitting rooms are the only common ground within site-specific décor like vintage armoires and ceramic dogs. Sometimes context plays in, such as paintings and sculptures for Naples, Fla., which has a vibrant arts scene. Noce reports the whole experience must feel like an independent boutique, since that's where her customers mostly shop.
"They say we're their best-kept secret," said Noce, who sees it often when scrolling the company's Facebook page every night.
Late to social media, the company caught up quickly with 49,000 Facebook fans and a spike in blog posts. Rather than commerce, Noce uses the platform to connect as a community. Fans usually answer questions before customer service even gets a chance, and they love to post photos.
"We aren't just known as 'that black and white store' anymore. We're a viable brand," she said.


An article from Reuters reports that Amazon is allegedly in discussions with leading European insurers about their possible support for an insurance comparison type website in the UK.
''Amazon has so far been seen as a threat and source of competition by UK insurers, but this move [if correct] would see the company become a distribution business partner to the sector.
'The aggregator market has lacked innovation over recent years to which Amazon could bring something new. Some insurers could seek to build their relationship further, adding insurance skills to Amazon Alexa or using Amazon's marketplace of products such as smart home devices or wearables to further their product offerings.
However, Google launched a similar product in 2016 with limited success. Google and Amazon have similar profiles as giant tech players and there is not an obvious factor as to why Amazon would fare better, but its entry into the insurance industry is certainly more-timely.


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Exceptionally thought-out lighting designs, particularly LED coffered areas, help to give the illusion of higher ceilings. Neutral warm tones within the floor and wall tiles along with luxury vanity units give the bathrooms an opulent finish. A warm, welcoming entrance is created in the extensive hallways with the use of washed oak flooring, creating a stunning contrast to the dark walnut doors and feature staircase.
Jigsaw was given the opportunity to furnish one of the houses for a purchaser who was eager to combine a luxurious hotel style with a nautical twist, reflecting the property's location. Sumptuous buttoned and studded upholstery teamed with indulgent soft furnishings and rustic woods ensured the brief was met perfectly. Defining individual rooms with specific functionalities was essential; a formal living room and a casual, more inviting family room played key parts. This was achieved through the use of reclaimed oak furniture and lighter upholstery in the family room as opposed to the darker tones in both the furniture and upholstery in the main living room.


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"Наш човек" је југословенски и словеначки филм први пут приказан 11. јуна 1985. године. Режирао га је Јоже Погачник а сценарио су написали Жарко Петан и Јанез Повсе.

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|Данило Бенедичич ||
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|Миранда Цахарија || Соња
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|Борис Јух || Милан
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Филмови 1985.
Словеначки играни филмови
Југословенски играни филмови (сло)
Југословенски играни филмови
Словеначки филмови
Југословенски филмови

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It's finally starting to feel like spring has sprung in Charlotte. The weather is getting warmer, the pollen is getting thicker, and some of us are getting the itch to fire up the pressure washer and tidy up. But, as noble as our annual spring cleaning efforts may be, there is an area of our lives that we tend to let pile up until it's overwhelming: our finances.
People avoid periodically purging their collection of financial documents because they don't know what to keep, nor how to get rid of what they don't need while still protecting their identity. Have you ever wondered if you need to keep those quarterly statements you get in the mail, or how long to hold on to medical records? What about business agreements and closing paperwork?
In this video, Kris Carroll helps you tackle even the most overwhelming paper piles. He gives a detailed list of what you need to keep, how long you should keep it, and the best way to dispose of what you don't need.
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#Release Blitz "Escalation Clause & Mutual Release" by Liz Crowe
January 9, 2020 January 4, 2020 ~ Felicia Denise	~ Leave a comment
Titles: Escalation Clause (Stewart Realty, #6) & Mutual Release (Stewart Realty, #7)
Author: Liz Crowe
Genre: Family Saga
Release Date: January 9th
Publisher: Buoni Amici Press
Escalation Clause Description:
When tragedy strikes a massive blow, Jack and Sara Gordon's lives are sent into a tailspin. To keep her family from falling apart, Sara forces Jack to admit his deepest fears, while he convinces her that she must mourn in order to move on.
Rob and Lila now confront life without the emotional glue that once bound them, but a shared goal and desire to create a new life holds them together.
In the midst of everything, young widow Maureen Gordon Taylor confronts her feelings about her daughter's sexy soccer coach. Her body and heart slowly thaw, allowing her to let go of her long-held belief that her life was over.
The sweeping saga of the Stewart Realty series continues as spouses, long-time friends, and family learn to rely on each other, and to grab hold of happiness before it's too late.
Available in KINDLE UNLIMITED
Mutual Release Description:
As president of her own company, Julie Dawson has all she ever wanted — money, power, independence, and respect. But her carefully crafted façade conceals a history of helplessness. Because she refuses to rely on anyone but herself ever again, she considers herself an expert on remaining emotionally aloof.
Evan Adams is no stranger to success, or personal demons. The horrific trauma that destroyed his twin sister, and tore his family apart forced him to craft a new life from the ashes of the old. He's intent, focusing ahead, not dwelling on his murky past, but something important is missing. He knows what that thing is but refuses to acknowledge it.
When a chance encounter brings these two strong-willed people together, they begin a long, erotic journey through hell that could lead them to a match made in heaven.
A coming of age novel about two damaged souls learning to trust…on the long road to love.
Disclaimer: This novel contains realistic depictions of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse as well as explicit BDSM situations and settings.
Amazon best-selling author, mom of three, Realtor, beer blogger, brewery marketing expert, and soccer fan, Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Louisville currently living in Ann Arbor. She has decades of experience in sales and fund raising, plus an eight-year stint as a three-continent, ex-pat trailing spouse.
Her early forays into the publishing world led to a groundbreaking fiction subgenre, "Romance for Real Life," which has gained thousands of fans and followers interested less in the "HEA" and more in the "WHA" ("What Happens After?").
With stories set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries, on the soccer pitch, in successful real estate offices and at times in exotic locales like Istanbul, Turkey, her books are unique and told with a fresh voice. The Liz Crowe backlist has something for any reader seeking complex storylines with humor and complete casts of characters that will delight, frustrate and linger in the imagination long after the book is finished.
Don't ever ask her for anything "like a Budweiser" or risk bodily injury.
Liz Crowe writes intense true-to-life stories that make you feel. Whether it's anxiety, love, fear, hate, bliss, or loss woven into her plot lines, you will feel it deep down to your very soul.
–Audrey Carlan, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
Liz Crowe is one of those rare authors who knows how to take the emotions of her characters and make them real for her readers, binding you to the story."
—USA Today and Internationally Bestselling Author Desiree Holt
"Liz Crowe is my drug of choice for unconventional romance that pushes the envelope of my comfort zone."
–Bestselling Author of the Enigma Series, Ditter Kellan
"I've learned to expect the unexpected with any Liz Crowe novel—along with 3-dimensional characters and well-written, realistic plots."
–USA Today bestselling author AM Hargrove
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#ReleaseBlitz "Single Daddy Seduction (Hot Daddy Series #4)" by Angel Devlin, Tracy Lorraine
Single Daddy Seduction
(Hot Daddy Series #4)
by Angel Devlin & Tracy Lorraine
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Add to your TBR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49257895
STANDALONE READ!
Synopsis Forbidden never tasted so good.
He's my daddy's best friend, and he took a huge chance on me. I wasn't meant to thank him by falling into his bed, I was just meant to care for his twins. But my life has just imploded and he's the only good thing I've got right now.
She's my best friend's daughter. Completely off-limits and yet I simply can't resist. I need her to look after my babies, but I want her for myself. She's the first good thing to come into my life since my wife died.
But is our forbidden romance our chance at a fresh start or will we be forced apart before it even begins?
Angel Devlin is the alter-ego of paranormal, rom com, and suspense writer, Andie M. Long. Check out Angel for stories of heart and heat.
She lives in Sheffield with her partner, son, and a gorgeous whippet called Bella.
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Tracy Lorraine is a British contemporary romance author. Tracy lives in a cute Cotswold village with her husband, daughter and lovable but slightly crazy dog. Having always been a bookaholic with her head stuck in her Kindle Tracy decided to try her hand at a story idea she dreamt up and hasn't looked back since.
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#AudioTour "Counting on Trust" by M. Ferguson Powers
January 9, 2020 January 8, 2020 ~ Felicia Denise	~ 1 Comment
Publication date: Print and ebook,
May 2017. Audiobook, November 2019
In this suspense-charged, touching novel, Counting on Trust, information is stolen from a U.S. genetic engineering company (Omniprotein) by an employee promised payment by a Chinese general who wants to profit from selling the company's technologies in the military region of China he commands.
To force quick payment the thief attacks fellow employees and threatens to continue until his money arrives. Will his next targets be: young lovers, computer geek Gabriel and gorgeous biologist Selena, who are discovering loving sex while trying to overcome post-traumatic effects of Selena's girlhood rape.
Company president, Eleanor, who's determined to keep some privacy and intimacy although her job's high profile and her husband, Charley, has just had prostate cancer surgery.
Venture capitalist, John, who plans to duplicate Omniprotein's facility in China and reunite with his ex-wife, fashion designer Ziyi, who returned to Shanghai after their only child died.
The personal stories of these couples explore how privacy, intimacy and trust are changing in our social-media age. They paint a compelling portrait of our time.
eBook and Print
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Audible coming soon
Themes of novels by M. Ferguson Powers reflect the author's varied interests, including preservation of the natural world and its creatures;
Challenges of building and maintaining loving relationships in a culture with decreasing respect for personal boundaries and privacy
Influences of globalization on world events and how the U. S. and other nations relate to one another
Public policy issues such as controlling the military-industrial-political complex and requiring the health care industry to be more respectful of its clients
The need for cooperation across governments, cultures, and societies to address global challenges such as climate change
Developments in business and university administration and management
Powers has taught microbiology, headed a university office of research, served as executive director of two university-business partnership programs, and co-authored two books on university administration. She has a bachelor of science degree in bacteriology from The Pennsylvania State University, a master's in experimental psychology from George Mason University, and a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
She lives on an island near Seattle with her husband David R. Powers and their two shelties. Her first novel, Each Unique and Fascinating, about a bullied young girl whose father has gone to war, was published in 2012. OrcaSpeak, a novel of relationships and suspense, was published in 2013, and its prequel, Counting on Trust, was published in 2017.

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Sleep Salon is as an MP3 audio collection advertised to help people enjoy the benefits of a restful sleep in a very short time. It is claimed as one of the leading products designed to unlock the power of the mind offered by Inspire3. This London based developer is specialized in implementing programs aimed to help people increase brain performance, mental acuity, and energy through leading brands like Brain Evolution System or Hypnosis Live programs.
This program is designed for adults between 16 and 80 years old who suffer from sleeping problems caused by depression, caffeine addiction, pain or stress. The scientifically proven brainwave set of MP3's is marketed as an easy to use and highly effective product. Each session is advertised to last 50 minutes (although the actual length varies from 15 to 90 minutes), but the developer guarantees a much shorter period needed to experience the benefits of each track. The brainwave entrainment method features special tones and pulses known to influence the sound patterns of the brain and induce positive states of mind including relaxation, meditation, energy or focus.
Sleep Salon uses specific sound frequencies integrated in various patterns shown to characterize the "delta" state. This is the most relaxed state of the brain that usually occurs during a deep, dreamless sleep. This program features 12 MP3 sessions that cover the entire spectrum of known causes for this condition.
Sleep Salon contains the following ingredients: Not applicable.
The Sleep Salon is promoted as an effective solution to get a full-night restful sleep, increase energy, and reduce the unwanted side effects like irritability, memory loss, impaired judgment and hallucinations. Some of the most important benefits are maintaining a healthy immune system, improving the general mood, dealing with stress more easily, improving the memory and weight loss effects.
– the "Wake Up" session designed to maintain increased alertness and stimulate you during the day so that you can rest properly during the night.
– the "Relaxation" Sessions to help you release yourself of the stress and be able to relax when the tension in your mind and body reach maximum levels. A relaxed brain is essential for a good quality of sleep.
– the "Sleep Induction" session. This includes a set of 8 audios with various lengths (from 20 to 90 minutes).
There are some recommendations to be considered for increased effectiveness, including minimizing common disturbances (TV, radio, mobile phones or ambient noise), finding a comfortable position, using headphones (whenever possible) and most importantly trying to relax.
Sleep Salon has received a large number of positive reviews which is a solid proof of its effectiveness. More so, it is based on scientific evidence resulted from a precise analysis of the brain's activity and its particular frequencies. However this compilation is not approved by the FDA to treat or cure any condition, and is restrictively recommended for certain people (like the epileptics).
No free trial period is available for this compilation.
The Sleep Salon collection of MP3s is not a unique product, but is different due to a more restricted and focused area of benefits (it is designed only for people who suffer from insomnia and sleeping problems). This product is based on a very popular technology used to enhance brain capacity called brain entrainment. Besides the basic collection of CD's, the developer also provides free materials and services including a 40-page User Guide Manual and two additional MP3s and lifetime support.
Although Sleep Salon is advertised and offered as a safe to use product, a warning is issued for people who suffer from epilepsy as brainwave technologies are known to aggravate epileptic symptoms. For reasons of safety it is best to consult a health specialist before trying this product, especially if you suffer from a mental condition.


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Luftmensch's Last Post of 2010
Chris HickeyFare WellChris Hickey - Kerouac
Once more, I find myself staring at the ass end of a year, wondering, "Is that all there is?" I could try to explain my thoughts about signing on for another go round the sun, the uncertainty, anticipation and ennui, but Chris Hickey beat me to it. Way back in 1997, Hickey's band Uma released Fare Well. That record contains the song New Year's Day (Stephen Hawking), the impetus of which Hickey explains as follows:
I saw Stephen Hawking on New Year's Eve outside a movie theater in North Hollywood in 1994. He was the last person I expected to see that night. I was pleasantly shocked and wrote this song the next morning. "I don't remember what the future will bring, I should have checked with Stephen Hawking last night."
No way I can do better than that. Be good.
MP3 : Chris Hickey – Kerouac
djmatt
December 31, 2010 [ 12:12 pm ]
I was so glad to see that Chris re-released his older material this year. His solo work and band work is as good as it is under-appreciated.


Ace doesn't mind being called a she. He's super androgynous.
I've already have gotten started scoring each of the entries!
It's part of my daughter's costume for Halloween and I'm very proud at how crafty I've become I'm thinking about selling these things too!
omg that is too adorable!
Hey Caco, you missed 2 requirements and they're kind of important since this shot will be used as the model wall photo: Chest up shot & 650pixels wide x 1000 pixels tall.
Do you want to fix these and resubmit?
Loving the model wall of pictures and the tutu is just simply adorable! I love it. Now I wish we celebrated Halloween in the Netherlands, it seems like so much fun.
I know that I would've worn a tutu all day long if I had one when I was younger. So I completely understand her.
@Beech: I love lurking your contests! Do you think contest runners will begin to open up the contests to Sims 4 sims?
@Laryanue: Haha that's definitely her!
Also cute tutu, I can't wait to have kids to dress them up for Halloween.
Working on the last of my scores, I'll try to get this into you soon Beech!
Thanks Heather I had fun making that tutu. I've got people asking to buy some from me now >.< Kids are fun to dress up for sure!
Sorry for the delay! We had cleaners come to our house to wash our carpets. It was so worth paying to get them done, it feels so nice on my feet! I have four to finish then I'll send them to you!
Oh I forgot to say I sent you my scores earlier!
LOL yeah Ace is always cross-eyed. Nothing I can do about it. Just think of it as his endearing trait.


See Alberts et al, Molecular Biology of the Cell, "The Nucleolus is a Ribosome-Producing Machine", Garland Pub., 1994, pp 379-382.
The nucleolus is organized from the "nucleolar organizing regions" on different chromosomes. A number of chromosomes get together and transcribe ribosomal RNA at this site. The nuclear organizing (NO) regions are seen as circular areas (pale) surrounded by a rim of electron dense filaments. These filaments collectively are called the pars fibrosa (PF). This is formed from newly transcribed ribosomal RNA. This diagram shows the parts of the nucleolus.
After the ribosomal subunits are in the cytoplasm, they are connected and then, they may attach to endoplasmic reticulum. They provide an attachment and "code reading" site for the messenger RNA. If they attach to rough endoplasmic reticulum, they form a pore that moves the newly synthesized proteins into the cisterna of the rough endoplasmic reticulum.
One can study synthesis of ribosomal RNA with the electron microscope. A preparation of nucleoli is dissociated and spread on a liquid surface (in a manner similar to the spreading of chromatin). Then, the synthesis of ribosomal RNA is stimulated and after a period of time, the DNA from the nucleolar organizing region begins to look like a Christmas tree. The top of the tree is the start site. As you move down the "tree", the branches appear longer. Each branch is a growing strand of ribosomal RNA. The DNA code is being transcribed and the nucleotides added to the growing RNA strand. Taken from Bloom and Fawcett, A Textbook of Histology, Chapman and Hall, 1994, Figure 1-17.
For more information about the process, see the web site describing ribosomal functions.


So, the big thing has now been unveiled, the Gapers' Block Party (see the special anouncement on the right there), will be on the 18th of July as Ann Sather's in Lakeview. A private room has been secured, and a slew of festivities will happen as well as a chance to mingle, relax and catch up with some of your online friends. We'd love to meet some of you, and it'd be a great opportunity to thank all of you for reading and supporting us. Details here.


I had just now tried the trail version of ABC Inventory Software. All the features of the software are good. But I am getting wrong tax calculation. In India, there will be two taxes for most of the transactions. One is 12.5% of Excise duty and other one is 2% of Sales taxes.
Kindly help me to solve this.


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The Means of a Life: Fidel Castro at 90
Cuba celebrates its revolutionary leader's birthday. Why I don't
by Mario de Varona
8th January 1959: Fidel Castro addresses the people in Havana with a dove on his shoulder
Fidel Castro Ruz turns 90, the central figure of Cuba during almost six decades. This fervor, did it last, or did Castro find resistance from within for his revolutionary project? A glimpse of Cuba throughout the decades and the attempts of one man to hold on to power
Reports from Havana indicate that the country is ready to party celebrating the 90th birthday of Fidel Castro Ruz. Born on the 13th August 1926 in Oriente, Cuba, the revolutionary leader has been Cuba's central figure since seizing control of the island nation from another corrupt politician, Fulgencio Batista. Batista, also from Oriente, knew Fidel's father Angel Castro, enough to donate in 1948 when Castro married Mirta Diaz Balart, the then handsome sum of US$1,000. Some say that Batista's wedding gift was way much more than this amount. The honeymoon was in New York, and Mirta's father lavished tens of thousands of dollars for the three month sojourn in The Big Apple. Castro loved New York, and intensely disliked working when returning to Havana. The marriage foundered; Mirta's friends from her hometown of Banes would take up collections to support her and their baby, Fidelito.
Castro went into politics, lived in the mountainous Sierra Maestra during Cuba's Revolution, among what people say were twelve followers, and at the age of 33, came down from the mountain for a multitude of eager Cubans to greet him, cheering in Havana. The Cuban Messiah had been cooked, prepared, and presented to the Cuban people. Alas!, why even a white dove came down from the Cuban sky and symbolically anointed the new maximo leader on 8th January 1959. A spiritual homecoming with even a white dove reception, the perfect adorable 'gobernante', if the world ever saw one. No past experience, though, he never really had liked working.
Fidel's 1959 dove anointing fed the masses and the Cuban masses's exuberance -"Fidel, esta es tu casa"- allowed him to at once postpone elections while the country 'organized', and when there was clamor for elections, the anointed proclaimed, "…..elecciones, para que?" By then, the Revolution had been amassing fire arms from its citizens, rendering a nation's citizens totally defenseless against the Stalinist brutality entrenching itself.
We all know of the details of this Revolution: a one party system, multiple executions in the early years plus disappearances of once friends, Camilo Cienfuegos comes to mind, the flight of people from the island by boat or plane, the ensuing brain drain, the division of the Cuban family, the rationing of food although Cuba has at least 80% very arable, fertile land. Hunger, as a means of social control. No, not the embargo. Cuba has ample, first rate land for food production to feed itself, and to export. Even food began to be confiscated.
It is on Fidel's 90th a really good time to review his penchant for dates. His tenacity for power.
Recently, Cubans both at home and abroad remembered the sinking of the 13th March tugboat on the 13th July 1994. This very tragic chapter in Cuba's recent history cost the lives of 37 Cuban civilians who were attempting to flee Cuba and whose vessel was rammed by the Cuban Coast Guard. When mothers hoisted babies and children for the Coast Guard to see that there were kids on board, the latter used high pressure hoses to separate the kids from the hands holding them. Those who did not drown, and miraculously made it back to land, were able to narrate the night's horror. A horror amplified because it is a date which repeats itself, along with the usual impunity. The regime's goons can carry out any atrocity and come out lily white.
Yet the 13th of July 1989 saw four men brought to the firing squad in Cuba. Heroes of the Revolution, servants of the regime, they had been arbitrarily slapped with what most people see as trumped up charges of drug trafficking. A recent article appearing in Hispanopost.Com, written by Diana Lopez Zuleta in Medellin, sets forth that none other than our 90 year old Havana party animal was instrumental in creating Pablo Escobar's drug empire. "Popeye", head of Escobar's cronies, recently stated that it was thanks to Fidel's active participation, that cocaine was transported from Colombia via Cuba, to theUSA. This first hand witness of the Medellin cartel operations went on to state that Fidel Castro asked the Soviets for submarines to enable the transport of drugs to the United States, bringing a sizable cut of US$100,000,000 to none other than Havana's Capo di Capi.
Having seen what had transpired in Panama where in 1988, Manuel Noriega was indicted via Miami of drug trafficking charges, and removed from power in 1989 by theUSA, Fidel wasted no time.
General Arnaldo Ochoa, Tony de La Guardia, Amado Padron and Jorge Martinez were indicted in Cuba, facing drug charges, and on the 13th of July 1989 took the guilt -and the bullets- for Fidel. Arnaldo Ochoa was a beloved, brilliant army general who had commandeered Cuba's army in Angola. His fluency in Russian and lapse in conversing in Russian with Mikhael Gorbachev in front of Fidel when Gorbachev visited Cuba in December of 1988, some say made Fidel think that a glasnost and perestroika coup could be in the works. Thus, by getting rid of a possible threat to his power by way of the Russian connection which no longer wanted to subsidize the Soviet folly in Cuba, Fidel had also the perfect offering to those who would ever dare accuse him of drug trafficking. Throw in a few other men, and the plot was quickly snuffed out, of any remote possibility of a coup in Cuba through someone better fitted to liberalize Cuba's economy, or of the Noriega type of indictment via Miami, of Fidel Castro's known drug trafficking.
But the 13th July has more remote origins, sad ones as these involve the days when men rose against the regime that from its inception, has brutalized and destroyed the Cuban people.
The Association of former Cuban Political Prisoners in Union City, New Jersey stands guard for the thousands upon thousands of Cubans who have been enslaved and executed by the regime. There, on the 13th of July each year, there is a commemoration for the 21 men who lost their lives in the "Second Cause" of the Escambray. Transported from Isla de Pinos now known as the Isle of Youth, the 21 political prisoners met their executioners on this very fatidic day, in 1962. The 21 'trials' lasted but a grand total of 3 hours, and 21 more Cubans were shipped from this island paradise to their eternal bliss, to make and keep the space for the internationally acclaimed caudillo, loved by so many, who has cheapened Cuban blood, and remained in power with the adulation and admiration of those who would never wish a regime such as this for themselves. Yes, Cuban lives do matter.
The recurrent date of the 13th of July is but a small sample of something gone deeply wrong in Cuba, also in the world. The world's silence to Cuba's horror and that of other nations as well, is indeed the prelude of what already is throughout Europe and what will be. No, Raul has not brought any solution, and as the Italian Radical Party once taught me, no peace without justice. "None love Freedom but good men", posited Milton. Too late to know this, as Cuba, among other nations may be lost forever, my memory not.
Mario de Varona left Cuba as a child, and uses this pen name as he still has relatives on the island and is concerned that such an article could be used as reprisal by the Cuban regime against his family
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McAFuse - open source McAfee FDE decryption
By dfirfpi - August 30, 2021
This post is a guest post, where Andrea Canepa (recently graduated at University of Genoa, Computer Science) will explain his Master Thesis. The topic is how to handle McAfee FDE acquisitions when doing a DFIR investigations.
Suppose that you're asked to perform a forensic investigation on a laptop where McAfee FDE is used: the company will provide you the xml file (McAfee ePO) with the decrypting key. How would you proceed?
Our usual approach has always been to perform a full disk acquisition of the encrypted disk, as is: this is most likely the best freeze of the current data you could get. Then, how would you decrypt the forensic image?
McAfee provides the DETech tool and a proper manual: point is, you'd have to use it by creating a boot-able WinPE device (CD, USB) to run it and decrypt the original disk, sector by sector.
What I've done in the past is a Powershell script which will take the DETech.zip file and it will "install" it inside a Windows system: to say the truth, inside a Windows VM. By using that VM together with the DETech app with the proper decryption key, the mcafee filter driver will decrypt the volume on the fly when you access it: a second acquisition can then be performed to get the volume decrypted. I'm not going to release that script but, if you want to adopt a similar approach, be careful to use a VM: mcafee filter driver will allow one and only one decrypting key and if your host is using McAfee FDE, you're going to fast blue screen the system. Moreover a forced new filter driver will most likely kill your current FDE or trigger any TPM. Go virtual.
I've never liked the previous solution, so I swept Internet to spot a research about this full disk encryption. No luck, only few commercial tools able to handle it, without details. This is the reason I proposed a Master Thesis at University of Genoa, to see if some skilled student was interested in it. In the end, Andrea was, and that's how the McAFuse (which is not fuse a Mac, regardless the opportunity to do that) project started.
Before leaving the blog post to Andrea, let me say thanks to Prof. Giovanni Lagorio and, obviously to Andrea, who manage quite a complexity in a professional way. Disclaimer: we're all part of the ZenHack team (https://zenhack.it/).
Spoiler: the McAFuse project is a blue project. But the SafeDisk object - what is called Drive Encryption Pre-Boot File System (PBFS) by McAfee - is a gold mine for configurations, cracking and, maybe, xploits: decrypted offline, encrypted when online, fun trick.
Go on Andrea, and thank you!
DETech and McAfee internals
Let's start our journey by taking a quick look at one of the windows presented by DETech.exe after having it installed on our VM. In particular, in the picture below we can see the Workspace environment, where we can upload up to 40960 sectors from one of the mounted disks on our system.
Here we can play a little by encrypting and decrypting the data previously loaded. This was the starting point for the investigation! We knew in advance that the algorithm used by this technology was AES-256 in CBC mode. How do we know it? Elementary, Watson! There is another very informative frame that DETech displays to the user, like in the picture below (n.d.r. in the following some of the data showed in the pictures are redacted to preserve the privacy of those sensitive personal information):
At this point a question is legit: how are we able to see all those information if the disk is entirely encrypted? There must be some areas in memory which contain clear data, but the "only" difficulties are find and interpret them. Of course, we cannot analyze every single byte on the hard disk, so we need to develop a smart strategy that helps us finding the important stuff. So let's think simple: if the computer is able to boot, then there should be, at least, the bootstrapping code saved somewhere in clear. Usually those instruction are saved in the first(s) sector of the disk in a data structure called Master Boot Record (MBR). Indeed, that was the right direction that led us to identify 3 main internal components of the whole encryption system:
SafeBoot MBR: the first sector of the evidence we were working on, it contains the signature (in red) and a pointer to the SafeBootDiskInfSector
SafeBootDiskInf Sector: here we can find in plaintext the same information showed in the Disk Information window. This and the following sectors in the same memory region are linked together with a double-linked list, whose pointers are tracked at the end of the sector itself, along the special signature SBfs (n.d.r. SafeBoot File System, or at least what we inferred). In this area we can look at:
SafebootDiskInf signature
Disk ID, an integer auto-incremental identifier of the disk
Disk Crypt List, sector pointer, where we where we can find the number of defined encrypted areas of this logical disk, the physical first and last sector of the region, and the number of sectors in the region
Disk GUID, a unique little-endian 16-bytes value which has to be read in the following format: XXXX-XX-XX-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X
Algorithm ID, an identifier for the cryptographic primitive adopted, in this case 18 (0x12 in hexadecimal) means AES-256-CBC
Sector Map, an address, express in sectors, of the Sector Map area, which is the subject of the next section
Sector count, the number of sector in the region
Key check, a useful value for recovery operations in case the XML file with the key went missing
SectorMap Sector: here we can see what resemble an Hash-Map data structure: the "keys" are sector numbers, while the "values" are lengths. If we read n sectors starting from each of those pointers top-bottom, and we concatenate the buffers we obtain an entire FAT partition that was hidden and fragmented before.
The latter partition, as @dfirfpi already mention before, is a real goldmine for DFIR examiners and can be used for both blue team operations to retrieve useful information about the suspect, but also for the red team ones, since it contains a lot of configurations that can be tweaked to ease an entire class of exploits. For example, it contains the maximum number of attempts allowed to insert the master password that could be increased to perform a brute-force attack to recover the secret of the user.
Reverse Engineering experience
To build an application that can serve the decrypted disk, we must be able to understand how McAfee product implements its cryptography under the hood. Given that it is using the AES-256 algorithm in CBC mode (note that this is the default configuration, but there are more available), of which we own the secret key, we are still missing an important piece of information to be able to read in the clear the data: the initialization vector.
To describe better our experience, we divide this section in 3 parts:
DETech application
MfeEpePc driver
MfeCCDE driver
First of all we begun by reversing some of the features presented by the DETech applicative, starting with the decryption of the disk. After having mounted the encrypted device with the help of Arsenal Image Mounter, and ingested the program with the XML file containing the key, we investigate the flow of data after having clicked on the "Decrypt Workspace" button in the related window. And here our first discovery: all the cryptographic operations are performed at kernel level. The passage between these two "worlds" is clearly visible in the picture below.
After invoking the DeviceIoControl function from the Windows API core library, the control flow goes to the first of the two driver involved in this process, namely MfeEpePc. The latter is a filter driver that, given the buffer received from the user-space application, invoke different callbacks. The most important one, at some point in the middle of the instruction flow, jump (literally, with an unconditional jmp statement) to a function exposed at a very specific address in memory by the other driver, MfeCCDE, as we can see in the next picture.
Here we can find an implementation of the AES primitive along its mode (CBC in our case). At this point the whole reversing process got a lot easier! We just put a breakpoint in the WinDBG Preview debugger at that address to see the real value of the initialization vector that we were seeking from the beginning. The last two images of this sections show respectively a fragment of the implementation of the CBC mode and an AES round.
For the sake of completeness, I describe the shape of the initialization vector that we have found, since it played a very important role in our solution. It is a 16 bytes value, divided in four 32-bits integers, each of them representing the number of the sector we are trying to encrypt/decrypt. For example, if we had worked on the 1000-th sector, which is 0x3e8 in hexadecimal, its corresponding IV would have been: 00 00 03 e8 00 00 03 e8 00 00 03 e8 00 00 03 e8.
For the most curious among you, this blogpost was a big inspiration, and an influential source of knowledge. It helped a lot in understanding the most intricate parts of the reversing process, a highly suggested reading!
McAFuse
After all the research work, it was time to do some coding! We decided to implement an open-source tool that is shaped as a CLI util to help forensics examiners in the analysis of devices encrypted with this McAfee product. From a technical point of view, it was implemented in Python3 language, with the help of FUSE framework. FUSE stands for File system in USEr space. Basically it allows the programmers to write file systems, that usually are very complex piece of code, with ease by only overriding the behavior of the most common and basics operations, like write(), or read(), for example. To present the user an interesting interface we decided to implement a static, read-only file system with only two files:
SafeBoot.disk: the FAT partition that McAfee FDE solution install on the disk that encrypts, presented above
encdisk.img: the partition or the disk encrypted, depending on the parameter passed to the program
If the XML file containing the key is provided, then the user can see both files. In case the latter is missing, they can see only the first of the two files.
To emphasize the "read-onlyness" property of the exposed file system it is sufficient to say that we implemented this property at two different levels:
the write() operation was not implemented, instead for each request of this type our code throws an exception
the permissions on the files are 0444, that means read-only for owner, group and others
At the moment McAFuse is available only on GNU/Linux. For those who are interested in all the CLI parameters accepted by our program, please have a look at the README file present in the root directory of our project on GitHub (link below).
After 5 months of hard work this project came to a very successful end. We were able to implement a CLI tool to simplify the life of the DFIR examiners, letting them handle evidence with an easier and safer procedure than before. I could not have been able to terminate the work without the support I received from both my supervisors, @dfirfpi and Prof. Giovanni Lagorio, for this reason I am very grateful to them.
For those who are interested in the tool, you can find it here. Feel free to play with the code, and eventually provide a PR to improve it, I will be available to further discuss modifications, and improvements. Thank you all for the attention, and happy investigations!
@dfirfpi here - Thank you Andrea for your great work! For those who want to keep in touch with Andrea, here are his links: linkedin, github and email.
Huawei backup decryptor
By dfirfpi - July 30, 2019
When doing Mobile Forensics the first and usually the hardest step is to get access to user's data . It depends on the case type, but the so called physical acquisition is the analyst object of desire. The reason is simple: iOS and Android native backups, respectively adb and iTunes , contain a subset of user data, because they respect the various apps configurations where they can specify " you can't include me in backups ". Which leads to inconsistent situations like, for example, having WhatsApp data in iTunes backups and not having it in Android adb backups. Not considering WhatsApp, the majority of apps in iOS and Android do not allow their data to be included in backups . In the scenario where device is unlocked or the lock code is known (the only scenario considered in this post), the analyst could use the device itself to make the analysis of the installed applications. Anyone who did that at least once knows how uncomfortable is this approach. Al
Triaging modern Android devices (aka android_triage bash script)
By Mattia Epifani - March 30, 2021
When dealing with mobile devices, you need to follow a procedure that includes various stages from identification to reporting. One of the key-point in this process is the acquisition , where we extract a copy of the data stored in the mobile device. While evaluating your acquisition method, you should always consider the old but gold rule of the order of volatility ( RFC 3227 - " When collecting evidence you should proceed from the volatile to the less volatile "). Our general goal is to obtain a physical dump of the internal memory, from the very first to the very last bit. On most modern smartphone devices, where file-based encryption (FBE) is in use, a full file system is typically our "best evidence". These extraction methods often rely on vulnerabilities and exploits (either at the hardware or the software level) developed to overcome device security. We use various tools and techniques and sometimes also a physical approach. In some cases, especially
Checkra1n Era - Ep 4 - Analyzing extractions "Before First Unlock"
By Mattia Epifani - December 18, 2019
I spent the last couple of weeks investigating iOS 13 acquisitions "Before First Unlock". I want to start this blog post with an important point: USB Restricted Mode . Since iOS 11.4.1, Apple introduced a new security measure called "USB Restricted Mode" that, basically, disables USB data connection under certain conditions. The effects of USB Restricted Mode on an iOS device and possible ways to overcome it in a non-jailbroken device were intensively discussed on various blogs. Some references on this topic are: iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics on Elcomsoft Blog iOS 11.4.1 Beta: USB Restricted Mode Has Arrived on Elcomsoft Blog This $39 Device Can Defeat iOS USB Restricted Mode on Elcomsoft Blog iOS 11.4.1 Second Beta Extends USB Restricted Mode with Manual Activation on Elcomsoft Blog USB Restricted Mode Inside Out on Elcomsoft Blog iOS 12 Enhances USB Restricted Mode on Elcomsoft Blog iOS 11.4.1 F
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A friend asked me how we can know whether our spiritual practices – whatever they may be – are actually working. This is a good question because many times it may seem that nothing is happening and we may begin to wonder if our practices are pointless.
The short answer is this: We should have a sense, over time (i.e., months and years), that we are making progress.
Spiritual progress is usually very slow so it's not uncommon to become discouraged. However, overall, as we look back on our lives and especially on the time period of our conscious spiritual practices, we should notice that we are getting better. This does not mean that we never make mistakes. We will always be fallible human beings no matter how far we progress on the spiritual journey.
In general, we should notice things like: We are able to control our angry outbursts or judgemental thoughts; our relationships with others are more harmonious; we feel more peaceful and balanced as we go about our days; and especially, our sense of compassion is growing. These things are the evidence that our practices are working.
We remind ourselves that we carry peace, love and joy within ourselves because: We are made in the image of God. May we always be grateful for our many blessings – including the blessings of our spiritual practices.


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Since the first drone footage of the WRC 2013 and the live broadcast of the 24h race at Nürburgring, it was another special moment for us to write media history again.
Europeans biggest music festival just moved to a new location, so the expectations of the organizers and the audience were very high.
Our client DJI again put a lot of trust in our broadcasting work and sent us to the festival with two teams to cover as much action as possible.
We streamed three days, covering Bands like Foo Fighters or Kraftklub with our FullHD live stream technology. We created new perspectives of the whole Rock am Ring Festival in Mendig.


The Panasonic KX-TG5776S cordless phone system utilizes 5.8 GHz Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum technology, meaning that it operates on a different wavelength with much less traffic than the 2.4 GHz technology while maintaining the great security, incredible clarity and long range. Have a wireless computer network, or thinking about getting one? 5.8 GHz technology will not interfere with wireless networks such as 802.11b or 802.11g WiFi. Add Images To Your Calls The cordless handset is designed around a 1.5" backlit LCD screen, providing space for images that you can upload to the phone via its USB port. This set includes a single handset, but the system is expandable to a total of eight, each with its own screen. All-Digital Answering System This phone system is equipped with an all-digital answering system for quick, easy retrieval of crystal-clear messages. Message operation has never been easier, with up to 21 minutes of recording time, plus such features as pre-recorded outgoing message, remote operation, Tollsaver, and skip-and-repeat. And don't worry about losing your messages when the power goes out-they're stored in flash memory so they're unaffected by power failure or interruptions. Put the Phone Down While You Talk When you've been on hold for ten minutes, do you really need to hold the phone? Not with the handset speakerphone. Just listen along, and press a button or pick up when it's convenient. You'll think up other great uses, like letting Grandma and Grandpa listen to their new grandchild at the same time, painting your nails as you talk to your best friend, or just being able to set the phone down while you talk.


ADHD and Autism: Is There A Link?
Until his mid-40s, Tim Wright pretty much saw the world unaided by the interpretive lens of a camera. But while teaching social studies to seventh graders in Roxbury, it was just by happenstance that he picked up a Super 8 camera as a way to capture a project his students had created. One thing led to another and he was making films, ultimately earning film festival accolades for a documentary.
Cine Sparks, the International Film Festival for young people, will bring new cinematic experiences to South East Queensland schools and students this year, announced Arts Minister Rachel Nolan.
Ms Nolan said the event is a prelude to the Brisbane International Film Festival and provides children with the chance to experience and engage in the city's celebration of screen.
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Children are visual, physical and auditory beings.
They learn best when learning involves their senses.
The more senses involved, the better the learning.
Educators and learning theorists have indentified three different learning modalities; visual, kinesthetic and auditory learning. While children use a combination of these learning styles, they tend to favor one over others, resulting in visual, kinesthetic and auditory learners.
Why Are Austism Spectrum Kids Visual Learners?
A group of kids being taught life's lessons through a camera, learn about life the hard way when their cameras are stolen. A local company comes to the rescue with new cameras.


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The KTM X-Bow still has a massive amount of potential: this carbon-fiber speedster layout is likely to be the next big format for track cars over the coming decades. Retiring the floppy old chassis rails of Caterhams is not an instant hit, though. It turns out some of the driving fun and pleasure may have been derived from all that flex under your bum around fast corners.
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Jean McFaddin, Who Popularized Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Honored inSeeHer Story Episode 22
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By Georgia Slater
Thanks to Jean McFaddin, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has become one of the country's most spectacular and beloved Thanksgiving traditions.
The parade, often called "the longest-running show on Broadway," wouldn't have turned into the phenomenon it is today without McFaddin's creative mind to reimagine the event starting in the late 70s.
This week, SeeHer Story celebrates McFaddin and her unique additions to some of New York's most iconic events.
Katie Couric Media and PEOPLE partnered to create the second season of SeeHer Story, a weekly digital video series produced to celebrate various female trailblazers from the past 100 years to today.
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The late McFaddin earned her master's in theater production and produced a number of experimental shows in New York and Los Angeles before becoming a famous planner with Macy's.
Her work overseeing New York City's Fourth of July Land festival caught the eye of the department store, which at the time was looking to revive their Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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McFaddin became Macy's senior vice president for special productions in 1977, according to the New York Times, and revamped the event to transform it into the parade we all know and love today.
Under her supervision, the parade doubled in size and McFaddin added dozens of balloon characters that continue to float today including Snoopy, Tom Turkey and Kermit the Frog.
She went on to work as the producer behind the parade for 24 years.
Her additions to the event earned the parade's telecasts more than a dozen Emmy Awards and drew millions of viewers.
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In 1999, McFaddin was inducted into the International Festivals and Events Association Hall of Fame.
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Her creative talents went far beyond the parade — McFaddin was also the mastermind behind Macy's Santaland, their spring indoor Flower Show and the dazzling Fourth of July fireworks.
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McFaddin died of cancer in 2018, however, her impact on Macy's and New York City's most iconic traditions will live on for years to come.
SeeHer Story will be a regular feature in PEOPLE's print edition and the weekday morning newsletter Wake-Up Call with Katie Couric.
"SeeHer Story celebrates the important contributions of bold women from the past 100 years who have changed our country forever," said Couric in a statement. "We hope recognizing them and telling their stories will not only give them their due but will also inspire the next generation of leaders."
She added, "Together with Meredith and PEOPLE, I'm so excited to bring back a second season of stories of women whose names you may know — and put those whose achievements are not as well-known — front and center so we can celebrate them as well."


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No, religions are bad ... I have nothing to do with religions; I am an atheist.
"The difference between how a believer and nonbeliever form their morals is that believers don't know how to discern the difference between right and wrong."
OK. Nancy Pelosi claims to be a "devout" Catholic BELIEVER. She enthusiastically endorses homosexual rights and abortion on demand. Do people like her fail to discern what is right about these and other topics...or is it only the topics that YOU happen to agree with and that YOU see as right/proper? In other words, everyone agreeing with you is right, everyone disagreeing is wrong.
"They just blindly follow whatever they think god says is right or wrong. They think that something is only right or wrong if god says it's right or wrong, it doesn't matter if it actually is right or wrong. It's as if they are tiny babies who need an authority figure to give them a list of moral prescriptions to follow, otherwise they would just be causing havoc and mayhem. They are unable to understand that their morals are merely value judgements rather than something objective which everyone should abide by."
Please refer to the aforementioned Nancy Pelosi example.
"Atheists on the other hand, believe in the facts, therefore know the difference between right and wrong and are able to form morals based on rational thought."
You know, it's good that people such as you get out here in these forums and blogs so that all can see the abject absurdity and biased hatred illustrated in your viewpoints.
Agnosticism as a method says that we should withhold certainty when we lack what logically justifies certainty. Yet, the word literally means "without knowledge." It shares the root of the words "ignorance" and "ignoring" - the terms that best describe your assertions.
In my OP I ask the question: Can it be fairly stated that everyone is, at least in the very basic definition, religious?
In other words, due to the obvious similarities that we all have in the way we approach our world views, what would differentiate the atheistic approach from the theistic approach?
Is the debate settled? Judging from past assertions, you seem to be of the opinion that it is - so why would you continue posting?
"In other words" doesn't fit there. The first question is not the same as the second question. We have come to a consensus that not all people are religious, which answers the question of the OP "are we all religious?"
Now, if you want to change the topic to "what would differentiate the atheistic approach from the theistic approach?" then maybe the debate is not yet over.
religions are bad because they are inherently dishonest. they make claims and opinions as fact when they are not a fact.
for instance, religion tends to assume it has the monopoly on morality when morality is a universal concept. it's just inherent in nature derived from the basic law of self-preservation, hence empathy and awareness of the survival instinct in all. we are all in this together trying to survive, the need to be safe, to be healthy etc. so killing is a sin, stealing is a sin etc etc. real morality has no religious affiliation, it's a charade because you do not have to be religious in order to be moral. you do not have to affiliate with any organization in order to learn spirituality. you can learn it just by living, breathing and asking your own questions and observing life yourself.
so religion artificially creates an imaginary dividing line that excludes those outside of their religion and projects further imaginary judgements believing they will go to hell, they are not as worthy, possibly more evil or guilty etc etc etc.
it's easy to see how this can easily cause lies and confusion.
but religion did serve it's purpose, though very imperfectly *cough*, in a more ignorant time in order to keep people from being total barbarians and keep some semblance of society.
what was beneficial at one time can be detrimental in another. it's time for religion to go the way of the dinosaur and be recognized for what it is.
I'm sure this has been responded to well enough. But no, faith that the sun will rise tomorrow does not constitute a religion.
If you want to change the topic to "what would differentiate the atheistic approach from the theistic approach?" then maybe the debate is not yet over.
You're trying to tell me what the intent of, or what I meant to ask in my OP.
If you insist on playing mind reader, fine, have at it.
If the above question suits you, go with it.
Please tell me what it is that differentiates the theistic approach from the atheistic approach?
What differentiates the atheistic approach from the theistic approach?


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To most sports teams, the most important person is the star player, or maybe the coach, but to teams at Marian, one of the most important people is Mrs. Melissa Brusnahan. Brusnahan is the athletic trainer and does more for the athletic department as a whole than most students know. On top of being an athletic trainer and mother, Brusnahan has worked as the Assistant Athletic Director since 1997, along with being part of the Emergency Response Team, whose members rush to assist students and staff when they get injured in the building.
Athletic trainer Mrs. Melissa Brusnahan treats a student with a knee concern during her lunch break.
"I do all evaluations, treatment and rehabilitation sessions throughout the day during student study halls or lunch," Brusnahan said. "If I'm not busy with that, I'm doing Athletic Director duties."
As soon as practice time starts at 3:30, her job is in full swing. She watches the teams practice and makes sure that if she is needed, she's always right around the corner. Along with her athletic training duties, she teaches a few student assistants how to properly make ice bags, tape ankles and provide other basic athletic training services. "It's hard to do all of my athletic training duties on my own. In the fall, there's four volleyball teams inside, two softball teams outside, and 50 cross country runners everywhere," Brusnahan said. "I can't be everywhere at once, so it's just nice to have an extra set of hands helping me out with things."
Senior Abby Russell, one of the Varsity softball team captains, says that her team holds much respect for Brusnahan. "Melissa always helps out everyone, even when it's not asked of her. She does so much for our team behind the scenes, and we are so lucky to have her," Russell said.
As the Assistant Athletic Director, Brusnahan confirms schedules with other schools, confirms officials for games and adds the scores to Marian's website for the use of Journalism students and parents who might have missed a game. "It's a unique position, but it's really beneficial because when I'm not busy treating athletes, then I'm free to do a lot of the athletic directing duties," Brusnahan said. Ms. Rochelle Rohlfs, Athletic Director, covers most of the Athletic Department responsibilities, but like Brusnahan, cannot be everywhere at once. "She does so much work behind the scenes for the athletic department. I definitely wouldn't be able to function without her, and the games wouldn't run nearly as smoothly," Rohlfs said. "When I go to other schools and witness what athletic training is available to them, Melissa's expertise and the care she gives to our student athletes is second to none."
Brusnahan works tirelessly for Marian, as the rest of the staff does, and never lets her personal life get in the way of her duties as the athletic trainer or Assistant Athletic Director. She has three daughters, Melanie '19, Jessica '21 and Charli '23.
"As far as the amount of work, it's really a lot, to be honest. She has 10-hour days sometimes, of setting up schedules, working practices, communicating with coaches and stuff. She really does love to connect with students, especially the student trainers or the girls who end up in her office a lot with injuries," Charli said. The scholastic athletic training community is close knit, and Brusnahan is respected throughout it. She has been with Marian for much of her professional career, and athletes hope she will stay for the rest of it.
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As indicated in our previous announcement dated May 31, the SPEAR ENPET Team and ACT have been working on enhancing the ENPET system. As a result of these efforts, the following features will be incorporated into the ENPET system on June 28.
The system has been revised to provide a drop down menu that will allow departments to select the previous month for an ENPET's transaction date. The drop-down menu appears in the ENPET Transaction Editor screen and is identified by the title "Process transactions in period." This option is only available between the last day of the preceding month through the first working Friday of the current month. This period is extended for June to correspond with the fiscal closing process. When the prior month option is selected, the date for the last day of the previous month will be applied to the transaction.
The ENPET system's approval process is being amended to identify ENPETs with department and OPAFS approval dates that do not correspond to the same ledger period for the ENPET transaction date. When this condition occurs, the ENPET system will change the transaction date to correspond to the current accounting period for acceptance into IFIS. These changes will occur automatically and will not require any action from personnel preparing the ENPET.
To provide additional control information, document totals have been added to the "ENPET Document Successfully Loaded IFIS" screen and to the detail of the e-mail messages.


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Former England cricket captain Alastair Cook is being honoured with a knighthood in the Queen's New Year Honours list. The 34-year-old, who announced his retirement from international matches last year, is to receive the accolade after already being awarded the CBE in 2016 for his services to cricket.
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Q: How does pattern matching work in exists function? This code from book "Functional programming in scala"
sealed trait Stream[+A] {
  def foldRight[B](z: => B)(f: (A, => B) => B): B = this match {
    case Cons(h, t) => f(h(), t().foldRight(z)(f))
    case _ => z
  }

  def exists(p: A => Boolean): Boolean = foldRight(false)((a, b) => p(a) || b)
}

case object Empty extends Stream[Nothing]

case class Cons[+A](h: () => A, t: () => Stream[A]) extends Stream[A]

I don't understand what is it a and b in exists func? How scala match arguments to foldRight

A: The foldRight and foldLeft operates over a collection (stream in your example), receives two parameters (base value) and a function. This function receives also two parameters an accumulator and a element, which process in each iteration
The accumulator is in the side of the fold (i.e. to the right in foldRight and to the left in foldLeft), so in your case b is the accumulator.
The accumulator is initialized as the default value (false in your example)
The other parameter (a in your example) is each element of the stream over which you iterate.
In this case (exists) will iterate until an element satisfied the predicate p, otherwise it will keep iterating until it reaches the end of the Stream
From the API

def foldRight[B](z: B)(op: (A, B) ⇒ B): B Applies a binary operator to
  all elements of this sequence and a start value, going right to left.
Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.
B the result type of the binary operator.
z the start value.
op the binary operator.
returns the result of inserting op between consecutive elements of
  this sequence, going right to left with the start value z on the
  right:
op(x_1, op(x_2, ... op(x_n, z)...)) where x1, ..., xn are the elements
  of this sequence. Returns z if this sequence is empty.

You can check the whole API here

A: Always check the excellent ScalaAPI (http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scaladoc/library/scala/collection/TraversableOnce.html)
def foldRight[B](z: B)(op: (A, B) ⇒ B): B

From the types you can figure it out:
a -> A
b -> B

*

*As you have a Stream of type A (sealed trait Stream[+A]) a can only be one of the elements of the Stream.

*b is so the value you are accumulating the result on. In exists it checks if one element is true for the predicate p.

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Q: Is the current situation possible for recreaction in a lab? I want to convert cellulose to another form (crystalline => amorphous).
Cellulose requires a temperature of 320 °C and pressure of 25 MPa to become amorphous in water.(Is the pressure achievable in the lab?)
Is this doable in the lab and how should I begin on reproducing that situation (which tools would I need) ?
I'm guessing that a bunsen burner would produce high enough temperatures (but I'm not quite sure about the pressure)
EDIT (info) : I know that this is a chemical process, but aren't you physicists better in figuring out the 'realisticativity' of pressures?


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This weekend, the My 80s radio show celebrates its first anniversary at Mad Wasp Radio. In the run up to this momentous occasion, I have been back in touch with some of my former Favourite Five guests, to ask them to choose their favourite 80's dance floor fillers, which will be played in our special party show this Sunday from 7pm.
The tunes I will be playing are as wonderful and eclectic as the artists who have chosen them, so be sure to listen in as some of the decade's much-loved musicians takeover the My 80s playlist and introduce their choices. I've a few little treats lined up for the listeners too, including our very own 'Batesy', Alan Read, returning with another Our Choon.
It's the perfect way to end the week!
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On the next My 80s Radio Show my special guest will be Chris Amoo, lead singer of The Real Thing. The band that brought us hits such as Can't Get By Without You, Can You Feel The Force and You To Me Are Everything continue to tour after 45 years in the music business, despite the sad passing of Eddy Amoo in February this year. Tune in to Mad Wasp Radio on Sunday 1st July, from 7pm, to hear Chris choose his Favourite Five 80's tracks and share some of his memories of the decade.
We also have two pairs of tickets to see The Real Thing on 13th July at The King's Hall, Herne Bay to give away, so be sure to tune in. Plus, if you want to have a song played on the show, get your requests to me using #My80s on Twitter, via the show's Facebook page or using the contact form on my website.
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Home>Music> Nicki Minaj Reveals Chief Keef Was Originally Named On "Barbie Dreams"
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If you found yourself being name dropped in Nicki Minaj's "Barbie Dreams," would you be offended or honored? Perhaps a little bit of both, depending on the severity of her blow. Of course, if you're Desiigner or DJ Khaled, you may very well find yourself chuckling while restrained annoyance bubbles beneath the surface. Either way, the song certainly set the scene ablaze, leaving man fans dubbing the modern-day "How To Rob" an album highlight. In fact, with such hilarious and seemingly limitless content, the potential for remixes is undeniable.
And while Nicki has since admitted the original version would have been "too long," she has since opened the door for a continuation. Taking to the gram, Nicki hit em with the classic "hair-touch-doe-eye" look, while bumping the song in question for good measure. Yet it's the caption that really merits attention. "#BarbieDreams there are lines I removed from this song so that it wouldn't be too long," writes Nicki, pausing for good measure. "Chief Keef was one of them. Who else should I have said on this record?"
Many took to her comment section suggesting an extended version, and while the theme may run the risk of wearing out its welcome, it might be fun to hear an added batch of victims. Who you think Nicki should mention, should an alternate take come to pass?
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Queens Park Rangers were expected to struggle this season and that was exactly how the season started for the West London side with defeat in each of their opening four Championship outings, however since then QPR have won five and drawn two of their subsequent nine league outings and head into their Tuesday-evening meeting with Sheffield Wednesday on the back of a decent run during which they have dropped just two points in their last three outings and conceded just a single goal during that time. Clearly it's far too early to suggest that Rangers will keep themselves clear of the threat of relegation, especially so since they will be subject to a transfer embargo in the January transfer market, however as things stand Steve McClaren's men are managing to keep their heads above water and we believe that they can edge their way to their third win in four games on Tuesday evening, the bookmakers giving away free bets on Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield Wednesday.
Visitors Sheffield Wednesday are just two points adrift of the top-six in the Championship table although they certainly didn't boost their chances of threatening the play-off places following the disappointing 2-1 defeat at home to high-flying Middlesbrough on Friday evening. Nevertheless the Owls have been impressing both at home and away this season with their last game on the road ending in a 2-1 win at Bristol City earlier this month. Indeed Jos Luhukay's men have found the back of the net in all-but-one of their Championship outings this term and on just a single occasion have they lost by more than a single goal in the league, therefore we believe that they will play their part in making this a thoroughly entertaining affair although ultimately we envisage the hosts outgunning their opponents, Ladbrokes Bookmakers going 16/5 on QPR to win and both teams to score.


From the pie chart given above, we can observe that it reflects the statistics of sources of income of American and Chinese students. When it comes to American students, they get 15% of income from scholarship, 35% from part-time jobs and 50% from parents. In terms of Chinese students, income from scholarship accounts for 5%, and 5% of their income are from part-time jobs, 90% from their parents, 40% higher than that of American students.
The pie charts informs us of the phenomenon that there exists some difference in the sources of income between American and Chinese students. What exactly contribute to this phenomenon? Reasons can be listed as follows: for one thing, the reason why Chinese students get most of income from their parents is that Chinese parents hold that students should focus all their energies on study, they don't need to worry about their living expense and endeavor to make money. For another, However, American students tend to have a strong sense of independence. They would rather make money through part-time jobs or scholarship than ask their parents for money.


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Q: Make text readable on arbitrary background image I am using the carousel component from the new Bootstrap 3 RC2. However, I noticed that in practice the caption is often not readable because my pictures very a lot in color. The previous Bootstrap 2.3 used a black gradient for captions but that seems to have been removed.
What would be a way to style my caption with CSS to make them readable against arbitrary images? I have tried to play with shadow and background-color, but that just gets incredibly ugly.
Here some example code: http://bit.ly/1eX8Tz9

A: In order to get the content displayed on the gray semi-transparent background
Just Add the following code to your css
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}

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CAF announces new dates for AFCON 2021 and 2022 World Cup qualifiers
The qualifiers for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations are set to resume in November while those of the next stage for the 2022 World Cup will begin in May 2021, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Wednesday.
In March, CAF postponed upcoming AFCON qualifying matches due to the coronavirus after the World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic. The qualifiers were scheduled to kick off from March 25-31.
A statement from CAF said the 2021 AFCON qualifiers will be held between November 2020 and March 2021.
"For Cameroon 2021, the qualifiers resume on 9-17 November 2020 with the Day 3 and 4 matches whilst the penultimate and ultimate matches take place on 22-30 March 2021."
Meanwhile, the African qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, which are in the second round, will happen between May 2021 and November 2021.
"The 40 teams in contention for the five slots for Qatar 2022 will commence the journey between 31 May and 15 June 2021 with the Day 1 and 2 matches. From 30 August till 7 September, the Day 3 and 4 matches are expected to take place with Day 5 and 6 matches fixed for 4-12 October 2021."
The playoff matches, in which the 10 group winners will then be drawn to play against each other in a two-legged tie, have been scheduled for November 8-16 2021. The five winners will advance to represent Africa at the World Cup.
The second round of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Africa had been scheduled to begin in March and run through to October next year.
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