Of course, SEO copywriting is really important. But in the end, the main goal of your webcontent is probably to reach your target audience. To make sure they like, understand, share, feel your content. That's why you should write for your target audience. Don't just write what you like to write, but write what they want to read. That's how you reach your future customers! But that may be easier said than done. That's why we made a little list of the basic tips and tricks for target oriented writing!
It may sound a bit stupid, because of course you know your business. You know exactly what you do. But lots of businesses forget to tell why they do what they do. What their motivations are. And let this last thing be the most important thing.
People mostly don't buy Coca Cola or Apple because they think the physical product is better than their opponents, they buy it because they like the motivation of the companies. 'Think different' (Apple): We're not for everyone, just the ones that understand our status. 'Make it happy' (Coca Cola): We will help you to enjoy your life, Coca Cola makes everyone happy.
You have to keep your motivation in mind at all times. Don't (let someone) write a word before they know your business from the inside and the outside. You will write the best content if you truly know yourself.
John Sparks, 26 years old, lives in London but grew up in the countryside. He love to play soccer with his friends in the weekend but he also likes to grab a beer in his favorite Irish Pub in the neighborhood. He lives with his girlfriend in the middle of the city, but in the summer he likes to go on a holiday, back to his roots. John is a professional marketer.
The next step is to write your article or content for this John Sparks. By using this technique you make sure that you will see your target audience as people that you can communicate with, not just as customers. An important aspect to consider is the education level of your audience and making sure that you write your content at the right reading level – not too complex, not too easy.
If you write your content for John, then you have to make sure that John wants to read your content. You reach John in a different way than you reach Janet, a fifty year old lady from France. But to reach them the best way you can, you should think about a few things.
Are you talking to professionals? Then you can talk with more technical terms as when you talk with amateurs. Does your audience read your content for fun, or to learn something? That are some of the many questions that you could ask yourself. Every target audience speaks their own language and it's your job to be the interpreter of your business.
The next step is to think like your audience, not like a business that tries to sell your product. People like John are looking for a lot more than just a product. They're looking for a solution or an experience, and that's something that you should provide. You should focus on what your audience is looking for, and not on what your company is trying to sell.
Sometimes it's just important to be visible for your audience. When you rule an organization like the government or something like that, then it's just important that they know where to find what they are looking for.
But a lot of companies have to find their target audience themselves. Than you have to find out where to find your audience. You have to find out on what social media or forums they are. If you know where to find them, then you will be a lot closer to knowing how to reach them.
With the tips that we gave you today, you must be able to become quite a good targeted writer. Do you have some tips of your own, about how to write for your target or about anything else? Feel free to leave them through the support form! If you want to know how to reach your target audience in the search engines, you should check out the free trial of webtexttool. In this tool you'll be able to find numerous tips to technically optimize your texts for your target audience.


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Workers evacuated after blaze
DOZENS of workers were evacuated from an industrial estate after a blaze involving a gas cylinder.
The drama happened at the Siddons foundry, on the Siddons industrial estate, in Howard Street, Hill Top, West Bromwich, just before 11am yesterday.
An acetylene cylinder was on fire and around 100 workers from neighbouring factories were ordered to clear the area as firefighters set up a 200-metre exclusion zone.
Leading Firefighter Steve Cartwright, of West Bromwich fire station, said crews spent hours cooling down the cylinder.
"Other factories on the industrial estate were evacuated as a precaution because any fire involving acetylene carries the danger of an explosion," he added.
Crews were back at the scene early this morning and Mr Cartwright said it was not yet known when employees would be allowed to return to work.

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Employers need to ensure they have the appropriate policies and procedures in place to deal with age discrimination and should raise awareness of it so that acts of discrimination on the grounds of age can be prevented. If you are an employer or employee in the Tyne and Wear area we, at Laverick Walton & Co, can provide you with assistance or any additional information required.
If you are an employer or employee in the Tyne and Wear area we will be more than happy to provide you with assistance or any additional information required on age discrimination. Please contact us at Laverick Walton & Co for more detailed advice.


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Final Judgment Entered in Landmark Decision: Federal Tax on Crude Oil Exports Unconstitutional, Court orders $4.2 Million Tax Refund/Interest
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Court orders $4.2 Million Tax Refund and Statutory Interest in Landmark Decision
In a federal tax refund case with significant implications for the oil and gas industry, the Court determined that § 4611(b) is an unconstitutional tax on exports and in its final judgment ordered a refund of more than $4.2 million in taxes as well as statutory interest.
Trafigura Trading, LLC, a market leader in the global commodities industry, retained Chamberlain Hrdlicka to challenge the constitutionality of 26 U.S.C. § 4611(b), which imposes a "tax on . . . domestic crude oil . . . exported from the United States." The taxes are one of the sources of funding of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, enacted as part of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. For the tax periods in question, Trafigura paid over $4.2 million in taxes on its crude oil exports. After being denied a refund by the Internal Revenue Service, Trafigura filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Texas.
Trafigura argued that § 4611(b) violates the Export Clause of the United States Constitution, which states: "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State." The Government did not dispute that Trafigura paid the taxes but argued that § 4611(b), while labeled a tax, is a user fee paid by exporters in exchange for statutory capped liability under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. If characterized as a user fee instead of a tax, the Government maintained, the Export Clause would not forbid the charge.
Supreme Court guidance on the user fee defense is found in two cases that stand in contrast. In Pace v. Burgess, decided in 1875, Congress imposed an excise tax on tobacco and enacted a companion provision exempting tobacco intended for export. To identify those exempt packages, exporters were required to pay 25 cents in exchange for a stamp that it could place on the package. The Court found that the charge was a user fee because the price of the stamp did not fluctuate with the quantity or value of the export and the fee closely approximated the cost in providing the stamp.
That was not the case in United States v. U.S. Shoe Corp., where, in 1998, the Court struck down a Harbor Maintenance Tax on commercial exports as unconstitutional under the Export Clause. Unlike the 25-cent charge in Pace, the Harbor Maintenance Tax fluctuated with the quantity or value of the export and did not closely approximate costs in providing harbor maintenance services to the taxpayer.
On September 8, 2020, the Court determined that § 4611(b) is an unconstitutional tax on exports because the amount of taxes varies depending on the quantity of the crude oil export, and "the charge does not fairly match the exporter's use of the services provided by the funds raised from the charge." At the time, the Court deferred its decision as to the remedy.
On January 7, 2021, in its final judgment, the Court ordered the Government to refund Trafigura $4,215,924 in taxes that the company paid for tax periods at issue, as well as statutory interest pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. §2411.
Trafigura is represented by Chamberlain Hrdlicka attorneys Steven J. Knight, lead counsel and Chair of the firm's Appellate practice, Lawrence W. Sherlock, Co-Chair of the firm's Tax Controversy practice, and Peter A. Lowy, Co-Chair of the firm's State and Local Tax Controversy and Planning practice.
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Brink: Book Two
Jamie Brackell / July 30, 2018
Written by: Dan Abnett
Art by: INJ Culbard
Price: £12.99 (UK) $17.99 (USA)
This graphic novel reprints the following stories:
"Skeleton Life" – (Prog 2023 – 2040)
The initial volume of Brink was one of the most striking science-fiction adventures to come out of 2000AD in recent years, fusing the future police sub-genre with a dash of Lovecraftian horror. Creators Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard quickly established a world where humanity live in sterile, compact space stations following a mass-evacuation into the stars. Crime, corruption and poverty are rife amongst these habitats and the HSD are responsible for keeping the peace in the face of overwhelming pessimism and paranoia. The first volume saw HSD agents Brinkmann and Kurtis exploring a conspiracy involving sects, murder and processed foods, with a subtle hint of the supernatural that implied something more sinister behind events.
This second chapter, "Skeleton Life" continues to develop the same themes and sees Kurtis come into contact with the mysterious symbols and sect-messaging that was present in the initial chapter, teasing a grander conspiracy at work. Now a private security consultant, Kurtis is brought to Galina Habitat – a new hab under construction – to set up a new security division but quickly finds herself exploring mysterious deaths and rumours of ghosts haunting the site. Abnett manages to construct another thrilling mystery, with just as many twists and turns as its predecessor. As with Volume One, this series is a slow-burner, and Abnett gently introduces the set-up before pulling the rug from underneath the reader and blowing things up in grand fashion.
INJ Culbard's artwork is absolutely terrific in this series, and while the initial chapter was focused on the cramped living conditions aboard the habitats, "Skeleton Life" contrasts this by showcasing the wide-open spaces of the half-built Galina Hab. The emptiness of the environment plays into the narrative as Kurtis and the others find themselves uncomfortable to be surrounded by so much space after years growing up in confined areas. Despite this change in layout, Culbard continues to deliver a wonderfully atmospheric landscape – especially the sequence where Kurtis and Gita explore the underbelly of Galina Hab for clues.
While Culbard's palette is primarily focused on blues and greens to illustrate the sterile interior of the habitats, he uses an electrifying pink to introduce Mariam Junot, the CEO of Junot Corp – the company behind the habitat construction. It is a bold colour choice, and helps separate the character from the others, highlighting her wealth and importance before the narrative explores her backstory and motivations. The script, and central mystery, for "Skeleton Life" is arguably stronger than the first volume of Brink and the reveals and betrayals feel much more satisfying. Abnett plays with reader's expectations, as he did in the initial volume, to deliver some gut-punch revelations that will shock and surprise. As before, the story strikes a balance between hard sci-fi and horror fantasy, never quite revealing whether the delusions of the sect cultists has any basis in truth or not.
The series reads better in a collection than in weekly installments, mostly due to the slower pace of those initial episodes. While that more measured pace is essential for establishing the mood and atmosphere, it doesn't always suit the episodic nature of 2000AD strips and reading the whole adventure in one sitting is much more rewarding and allows readers to see the nuances and foreshadowing in Abnett's script. It is one of those strips that shines in the graphic novel format, and by collecting each series in these smaller volumes, 2000AD is making this series extremely accessible for a wider audience.
That said, there are some dramatic moments in the final act as Abnett and Culbard switch gears and deliver an action-led finale. As a whole, the series feels very reminiscent of Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic Alien, emphasising the vast emptiness of space to create a tense atmosphere before descending into restrained violence and action for its climax. While Brink doesn't have an alien threat, Abnett and Culbard manage to evoke those same feelings of horror and remoteness as our heroes attempt to fend off their enemies aboard the barren, half-finished interiors of Galina Hab. Those earlier panels from Culbard which leaked tension from each of its four corners now explode into blood-splattered action as violent stand-offs explode onto the page. It is the intimacy of the violence is what makes it all the more shocking, much like Tarantino's work on Reservoir Dogs, and it is Brink's "less is more" attitude is what makes it all the more appealing.
Improving upon its predecessor in almost every way, "Skeleton Life" is a riveting example of science-fiction horror, blending psychological horror with flashes of gore to deliver a story that'll stick in the memory long after the final page closes. It does everything a sequel should do – builds upon its original premise, without losing sight of what made it great in the first place.
Score – ★★★★ ½
Brink: Book Two is available in print and digital formats from Amazon and 2000AD's Webshop. A limited-edition bundle featuring Books One and Two is also available from the 2000AD Webshop.
July 30, 2018 in Graphic Novel Reviews. Tags: 2000AD, Brink
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ATLAS is a huge and highly complex particle physics detector built by an international collaboration of over three thousand scientists, including over a hundred from Canada! Canadian groups have designed and built large parts of ATLAS. ATLAS weighs about seven thousand tons and completely fills a 46 by 25 by 25 metre cavern situated 100 metres underground, in the 27-kilometre circular tunnel of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located on the French/Swiss border near Geneva. Bunches of protons in two counter-circulating beams are accelerated to energies of 13 trillion electron-volts (13 TeV), and these bunches collide with each other in the heart of the detectors, 40 million times every second. The unprecedented rate and energy of the proton collisions in the LHC allow us to explore the structure of matter and the fundamental forces, as well as search for new elementary particles. These high-energy proton collisions are able to reproduce the conditions of the early universe less than a billionth of a second after the Big Bang providing, for a brief instant, the energy needed to create new forms of matter. In July 2012, the ATLAS Collaboration announced the discovery of a new type of matter consistent with the long-sought-after Higgs boson, a fundamental particle whose existence would elucidate how matter acquires mass.
Though Canada is not a CERN member state, Canadians have significantly contributed to the LHC in the form of in-kind contributions to the LHC accelerator and its injector complex, worth over 40M$CDN. These contributions were made through TRIUMF and included substantial contracts with Canadian industry.


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import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
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	private ArrayList<String> mDataset = new ArrayList<>();

	public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
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	public SavedAdapter(ArrayList<String> dataset) {
		mDataset.clear();
		mDataset.addAll(dataset);
	}

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The Pantone Colour of the year for 2018 is Ultra Violet. Each year Pantone (a US colour industry corporation) set their colour of the year based on research into trends in fashion and industry.
So I have looked back on some of the images I've created over the past year using purples of all shades from the dark opulent and regal purples to the light, delicate and airy lilacs and I've realised that it's a really versatile colour no matter what the season.
I tend towards darker colours in the autumn and winter, moving towards the lighter colours as spring creeps up and then on into summer.
Purples are so versatile, they can be mixed with so many other wonderful colours, I particularly love them paired with yellow and also with grey.
What's your favourite shade of purple? Is it like Pantone's Ultra Violet, or the deeper richer purple favoured by monarchs or even the light and delicate lilacs of nature? Let me know your thoughts! I have a fab Pinterest board that has some lovely colour combinations and colour palettes for home decor, children's ourfits, even colour schemes for children's parties that might interest you.
Want to book your own newborn photography shoot with or without the purple element? Use the Contact Lisa page on the website or text 'newborn' to 07760 887946 for more information and how to book.


Tuscaloosa City School System administrators and school board members say they have problems with the entry requirements for the Tuscaloosa Magnet School, which has a special curriculum based on experiential learning.
TUSCALOOSA | Tuscaloosa City School System administrators and school board members say they have problems with the entry requirements for the Tuscaloosa Magnet School, which has a special curriculum based on experiential learning.
School officials said they intend to change the entry requirements at tonight's 6 p.m. board meeting at the central office.
School officials say there's no written policy detailing the magnet schools' entry requirements, and the percentage of students admitted to the magnet schools from other city schools is not equally allocated.
Officials also say students from what they termed the private sector are given unfilled slots at the magnet schools, which can give them an edge over students in the city school system.
Under the current policy, 7 percent of students in most schools in the city system can be admitted to the magnet schools. Schools in the historic district can have 14 percent of their students admitted. The historic district includes the University Place zone and the Rock Quarry choice area.
The private sector — students in private schools, home-schooled students, Tuscaloosa County School System students and students whose families just moved into the city — compete for the remaining magnet school openings.
When former Tuscaloosa City Schools Superintendent Joyce Levey introduced the magnet school concept several years ago, she said that the historic district would be given a larger allocation because it lost Tuscaloosa Middle School, which had served the district, That school was converted to the magnet elementary and middle school.
In his proposal to change the entry requirements, McKendrick says no board minutes or documents exist indicating the historic district's 14 percent allocation was approved by the board.
His proposal is slated to be approved tonight and recommends that references to the "historic district" be deleted and the University Place zone/Rock Quarry choice area be given a 7 percent allocation to the magnet schools.
At last week's work session, the school board also discussed the allocation for private sector students.
Levey had stated in 2007 that one of the purposes of the magnet schools was to attract students who left the city schools.
Current magnet school enrollment numbers weren't available Monday, but Levey's plan appeared to have been successful. When the magnet schools opened in 2009, 53 applications to the magnet schools were from students in the private sector.
Board member Marvin �Lucas said that the entry requirements for students in the private schools allowed a greater number of private sector students into the magnet schools than students who are already in the system.
"If there's a school that can send seven students to the magnet school, but only has five students who want to go to the magnet school, there's two extra slots open for school," Lucas said. "What we were doing is those two slots would go into a pool and people who were in private school or transferring to our system from another system would have first choice for those extra seats.
Board member James Minyard suggested Thursday that a fairer way to allocate space would be to cap the number of students entering the magnet schools from the private sector.
"What we're saying is, we need a cap number that couldn't be exceeded," said board member Erskine Simmons. "It would level the playing field. Regardless of what circumstances you're coming from, if you're not a student already in the system, you get a cap.
Simmons said the cap would equal the highest number of students transferring from another school in the city system.


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Q: where did the 5th element of the array go after adding the 'a' and 'y' characters, and why isn't the character assigned instead of the nul terminator? After adding characters, the array must contain 6 characters "roaday" but the for loop is executed 7 times and when if (p [i] == '\ 0') {p [i] = 'b';} the character b will not be assigned instead of the nul terminator .
how can I assign a character instead of a nul terminator  and why instead of 6 characters there are 7 characters???
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void main()
{
    char x[100];

    cin >>x; // cin >> "road"

    char* p;
    p = x;

    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
    {
        if (p[i] == '\0')
        {
/*
no character is assigned to nul terminator
*/
 /* this line */    p[i] = p[0];
          p[i++] = 'a';
          p[i++] = 'y';
          p[i++] = '\0';

          cout << endl << p << endl;
          break;
        }
    }

    cout << p;
  }

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when if (p [i] == '\ 0') {p [i] = 'b';} the character b will not be assigned instead of the nul terminator

This alone would work but in your code you are overwriting this assignment with the next line because you are probably misunderstanding the function of i++
You are entering the if-statement when i==4 which leads to:
p[4] = p[0] // overwrite '\0' with 'r'
p[4] = 'a'; // i is increased afterwards so you overwrite 'r' again
p[5] = 'y';
p[6] = '\0';
// i equals 7 now

So for overwriting the '\0' with the first character and then append 'a' and 'y' you could just change p[i] = p[0] to p[i++] = p[0] to not replace this position twice.

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package ro.nextreports.designer.template.report.action;

import javax.swing.*;

import ro.nextreports.designer.Globals;
import ro.nextreports.designer.LayoutHelper;
import ro.nextreports.designer.template.report.TemplateFileFilter;
import ro.nextreports.designer.template.report.TemplateManager;
import ro.nextreports.designer.util.I18NSupport;
import ro.nextreports.designer.util.ImageUtil;
import ro.nextreports.designer.util.ReporterPreferencesManager;
import ro.nextreports.designer.util.Show;

import java.io.File;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
//
// Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
// User: mihai.panaitescu
// Date: 22-May-2009
// Time: 14:11:36

//
public class ExtractTemplateAction extends AbstractAction {

    private File savedFile;

    public ExtractTemplateAction() {
        super();
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        chooser.addChoosableFileFilter(new TemplateFileFilter());
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        String path = ReporterPreferencesManager.getInstance().loadParameter(ReporterPreferencesManager.TEMPLATE_PATH_KEY);
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        	String loadPath = System.getProperty("nextreports.user.data") + File.separator + "templates" +File.separator + "Analyse.ntempl";
            prevFile = new File(loadPath);
        } else {
        	prevFile = new File(path);
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        if (prevFile.exists()) {
            chooser.setSelectedFile(prevFile);
        }

        int returnVal = chooser.showSaveDialog(Globals.getMainFrame());
        if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
            File file = chooser.getSelectedFile();
            path = file.getAbsolutePath();
            if (!path.endsWith(TemplateFileFilter.TEMPLATE_FILE_EXT)) {
                path += TemplateFileFilter.TEMPLATE_FILE_EXT;
            }
            savedFile = new File(path);

            boolean ok = false;
            if (savedFile.exists()) {
                int option = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(Globals.getMainFrame(),
                        I18NSupport.getString("extract.template.overwrite", savedFile.getName()), "", JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION);
                if (option == JOptionPane.YES_OPTION) {
                    ok = true;
                }
            } else {
                ok = true;
            }

            if (ok) {
                ReporterPreferencesManager.getInstance().storeParameter(ReporterPreferencesManager.TEMPLATE_PATH_KEY, path);
                try {
                    TemplateManager.saveTemplate(TemplateManager.getGeneralTemplate(LayoutHelper.getReportLayout()), path);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    Show.error(e);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


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Liberal criticism mounts on Grimes 'illegal aliens' campaign ad
By Ben Kamisar - 10/15/14 11:31 AM EDT
Liberal criticism continues to mount on Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes for using the term "illegal aliens" to hit her opponent, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - House to vote to condemn Trump tweet GOP put on the back foot by Trump's race storm Overnight Health Care — Presented by PCMA —Biden unveils health care plan | Proposal pitches subsidies, public option | Biden vows if you like your health insurance, 'you can keep it' | Sanders protests planned Philadelphia hospital closure MORE (R), on immigration.
"Immigration reform is a critical issue that will require leadership and political courage to do the right thing," Latino Victory Project President Cristóbal Alex said in a statement. "To see a candidate from either party use this kind of language in advertising is unacceptable in 2014, and we condemn this attempt by Alison Lundergan Grimes to play ugly politics with an issue so important to our community and the nation."
Actress Eva Longoria co-founded the Latino Victory Project to advocate for Hispanic voters. All of its endorsed candidates are Democrats.
This outcry is just the latest from Democratic allies who condemn the ad. Both MoveOn.org and Democracy for America called for the Grimes campaign to take the ad down.
The ad in question accuses McConnell of supporting "amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits to 3 million illegal aliens, the largest legalization program in U.S. history." And during the "stand by your ad" tag at the end of the ad, Grimes doubles down.
"I've never supported amnesty or benefits for illegal immigrants, and I never will," she says in the ad.
The term "illegal aliens" has drawn the ire of liberal groups who think it's offensive. Immigration activists have been pushing to use other terms like "undocumented immigrants" that criminalize actions instead of people.
When asked to respond to the controversy, Grimes's campaign manager Jonathan Hurst did not address the backlash. He defended Grimes's support of the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill, which the chamber passed last year with support from 14 Republicans.
"Alison favors comprehensive immigration reform," he said. "Neither the recent bill that passed the Senate nor any other serious bill currently supported by most Democrats and Republicans is amnesty. Mitch McConnell's hypocrisy on this issue is breathtaking."
Although the video is unlisted on YouTube, its views have almost tripled since the ad's existence became publicized on Tuesday.
Grimes is stumping today with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhy Trump's bigoted tropes won't work in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - House to vote to condemn Trump tweet GOP put on the back foot by Trump's race storm MORE. Sam Youngman, a political reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader, tweeted that Grimes did not address the controversy at a breakfast Wednesday morning.
Tags Hillary Clinton Mitch McConnell Kentucky Senate Alison Lundergan Grimes Latino Immigration


It's well documented that 2017 was the year Digital surpassed TV in US Ad Revenue. Digital spending grew at a torrid pace in 2017, increasing 21% YoY to $88B. Mobile spending was the primary driver of this growth, increasing 36% to $50B. Amazingly mobile now accounts for 57% of all digital spending in the US.
Besides just the topline numbers it's fascinating to see how the spending breaks down by channel. Search still commands a whopping $40B of the digital total. This is exactly why there's so much focus on voice-based search right now – such a huge budget pool to disrupt. Trusty old banner ads are still holding strong at $27B, but you've gotta figure that total will start to come down over the next few years as the digital world goes screenless. Digital Video still has a long runway to grow with just under $12B in 2017 spending. And you can really see opportunity in the relatively nascent Digital Audio sector which only billed $1.5B in 2017.
Great numbers to sink your teeth into. I'm guessing we'll see more of the same growth trends over the next few years.


Every fall brings a slew of new television shows. Most don't last beyond a few episodes, and even fewer get to finish their first years. Despite the fact that science-fiction as a genre (in any media) is considered to have limited appeal, "Star Trek" has endured for decades, and there has been a continuous run of "Star Trek" incarnations on TV since 1987. In fact, the seventh season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" received an Emmy nomination for Best Drama Series–a nomination that it had earned for years.
Paramount's "Star Trek" franchise has spawned 10 feature films (including the upcoming "Nemesis"), 5 television shows, and a pop sub-culture with world-wide penetration. No other motion picture series has such a continuous and evolving presence in the eyes of the world, and no other science-fiction programming avoids cheesiness and awful production values quite as successfully as "Star Trek". Paramount has released "Star Trek–The Original Series" on 40 DVDs (2 episodes each), and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is arriving on DVD a season per box set during 2002.
The "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 6 box set matches the quality of the other box sets for the most part. Seven discs have been included in an attractive silver box (with purple being the season's signature disc color). As with the previous seasons, Season 6 does not offer a big story arc. Rather, it expands upon the narrative, character, and thematic threads found in previous years that helped the show to transcend the science-fiction genre and to rise into the realm of human-interest drama.
Disc 1: "Time's Arrow, Part II", "Realm of Fear", "Man of the People", "Relics".
Disc 2: "Schisms", "True-Q", "Rascals", "A Fistful of Datas".
Disc 3: "The Quality of Life", "Chain of Command, Part I", "Chain of Command, Part II", "Ship in a Bottle".
Disc 4: "Aquiel", "Face of the Enemy", "Tapestry", "Birthright, Part I".
Disc 5: "Birthright, Part II", "Starship Mine", "Lessons", "The Chase".
Disc 6: "Frame of Mind", "Suspicions", "Rightful Heir", "Second Chances".
Disc 7: "Timescape", "Descent, Part I".
Season 6 begins with the conclusion to Season 5's cliffhanger final episode. Season 5's "Time's Arrow, Part 1" saw the crew of the Enterprise go back in time to Mark Twain's day in order to figure out how Data's head came to be an archeological find hundreds of years before he was even created! Now, I enjoy time-travel yarns as much as the next person, but the "Time's Arrow" story is a little screwy from where I sit.
Of all the Season 6 episodes, I like "Rascals" and "The Chase" the most. "Rascals" offers fun, plain and simple. Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart), Ensign Ro (Michelle Forbes), Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), and Keiko O'Brien (Rosalind Chao) fly a shuttlecraft through an energy anomaly that causes them to revert to a child-like physical condition. Their intellects and personalities remain intact, but their bodies become like when they were pre-teens. When Ferengis commandeer the Enterprise and beam all the adults down to a planet, the child-sized adults must use their outward appearances to deceive the intruders and to re-take the ship.
"The Chase" is one of the most profound stories ever told in the "Star Trek" universe. You know how the aliens in "Star Trek" mostly look like humanoids? The financial explanation for that phenomenon is that it's cheaper to attach a few rubber pieces to an actor's face than to create aliens vastly different from humans. This much has been acknowledged by the "Star Trek" handlers (you can find this information at www.startrek.com). However, there is also a philosophical explanation for the appearance of humanoids.
In "The Chase", Picard jets around the Alpha Quadrant, following clues left to him by his old archeology professor. Cardassians and Klingons join the Enterprise in finding the missing parts of a puzzle. The Klingons think that they are about to discover an ancient weapon of immense power, while the crafty Cardassians refuse to hint at what they think the object in question might be. For his part, Picard just wants to solve a mystery.
When the Federation, the Cardassians, and the Klingons arrive on an uninhabited planet, they find themselves ambushed by Romulans. The Romulans have been piecing together the same puzzle, and everyone is willing to go to war in order to control the mystery product. The puzzle turns out to be a video message encoded as DNA throughout the quadrant. The video explains the origins of various cultures in the universe–a common link unifying all humanoids.
The final moments of "The Chase" speak volumes about the "Star Trek" philosophy. Both a Romulan captain and Picard say, "Perhaps…one day…" There are resonations, reverberations, and repercussions a-plenty–most obvious being the possible peace overtures made by the Romulans in "Star Trek: Nemesis"–but the episode also reflects the filmmakers' desire for world peace. After all, Africans, Asians, Caucasians, and all humans share a common ancestor, making us members of the same family. To grow beyond our present condition, we must all cooperate in working for a better tomorrow.
"TNG" Season 6 appears on DVD in its original broadcast ratio of 1.33:1 (full-frame on 4:3 monitors). For the most part, the video image looks clear. Colors are natural and realistic. There are very few noticeable indications of scratches, dust, or hairs, and the sharpness is very refreshing. However, as with the previous seasons, some visual effects shots are noticeably grainy. Also, some shots look unstable, as if water and temperature had warped the film negative to wavy shapes.
For the DVD releases of "TNG", Paramount created new Dolby Digital 5.1 English sound mixes from the original stereo surround stems. The new audio tracks are of high-quality, and the true separation of audio effects to the 5 main speakers immerses the viewer in the onscreen action. The bass can be quite powerful, especially when the Enterprise jumps to warp speed and booms off of the screen. You can hear the constant hum of warp engines, too. Music can be fairly enveloping, filling the room courtesy of lively rear channels.
There are 5 newly-created featurettes to accompany Season 6. Older and more recent interviews comprise the majority of the footage in these featurettes. These extras appear on Disc 7, and they are: "Mission Overview: Year Six", "Special Crew Profile: Lt. Commander Data", "Bold New Directions", "Departmental Briefing–Year Six: Production", and "Departmental Briefing–Year Six: Dan Curry Profile". These items each run between 10 to 30 minutes.
"Mission Overview: Year Six" discusses pivotal moments in the "TNG" universe. There are cast reactions to James Doohan's guest turn in "Relics". (Doohan played Scotty in The Original Series and in the movies featuring the cast of TOS.) The featurette also looks into the creation of "Deep Space Nine", especially focusing on the development of the Cardassians as yet another civilization with a predilection for war.
"Special Crew Profile: Lt. Commander Data" focuses exclusively on Brent Spiner and his portrayal of an emotionless android. Everyone heaps praises on him for playing the most technically demanding role. After all, for so many years, he wasn't allowed to react in any way to changes in tone other than with a confused or curious look.
"Bold New Directions" reminds viewers that Patrick Stewart and LeVar Burton (Geordi LaForge) both tried their hands at direction. Stewart helmed "A Fistful of Datas", while Burton guided "Second Chances" from the page to the big screen. Everyone else loved what they did, of course, but you don't blame them or find it hard to believe that they took to their neophyte directors so well because the actors felt like members of one big family anyway.
"Departmental Briefing–Year Six: Production" and "Departmental Briefing–Year Six: Dan Curry Profile" look at "TNG" from the crews' perspectives. The "Production" featurette showcases many interviews with the show's writers as they reminisce about how they created their scripts. The "Dan Curry Profile" honors a man who has had a great deal of his work define the "look" of "Star Trek". Curry talks about the creation of visual effects (not all digital, of course) as well as shows the proper use of certain weapons in the "Star Trek" world.
Finally, there are 2 trailers, one being the teaser for "Star Trek: Nemesis" and the other being a promo for the "Deep Space Nine" box sets arriving in 2003.
A glossy insert fold-out provides brief notes about Season 6 and the Romulans, Airdates and Stardates for each episode, and a mini-mural of the cast members. The box set also offers a $25 rebate offer for those of you who buy Seasons 5, 6, and 7.
Seasons 3, 4, and 5 saw the best years of "Star Trek: The Next Generation". I think that Season 6 is a bit of a step back from the tension-filled drama of Seasons 3 through 5. The show's sixth year feels like one of the movies starring the cast of The Original Series–mostly happy-happy-joy-joy and buddy-buddy, with many joke-y situations. Familiarity breeds…a bit of silliness, I suppose. It's all in good fun, though, and there are enough somber moments to uphold the show's seriousness of purpose. Season 6 of "TNG" is much, much better than all the good episodes of "Ally McBeal", "Dawson's Creek", "Renegade", or "V.I.P." put together, so you'll still get quality when you buy the box set. Besides, if you've collected sets 1 through 5, why stop now?


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Oliver Gilbert to kick off fundraising effort for Miami-Dade Commission
Headlines South Florida
'My thoughts exactly!!': Marjorie Taylor Greene pushed lie that Parkland shooting was a false flag
Gilbert confirmed his run for the District 1 seat in January.
Ryan Nicol
Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert says he plans to formally kick off fundraising to run for Miami-Dade County Commission with an event at Hard Rock Stadium.
Gilbert confirmed his run for the District 1 seat in January. His event will be held at the NINE Club at Hard Rock Stadium on Feb. 28. The fundraiser will run from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Gilbert was first elected Miami Gardens Mayor in 2012 and is termed out of running for re-election. In his County Commission bid, he's seeking to replace his longtime political ally Barbara Jordan, who is also term-limited in 2020.
Gilbert decided to run for the post after he was pushed by some, including "Uncle" Luke Campbell of 2 Live Crew fame, to run for the open position of Miami-Dade County Mayor.
But ultimately, Gilbert decided to push for the District 1 seat instead.
Gilbert and Jordan are scheduled to appear together at a Black Heritage Festival on Feb. 23 in honor of Black History Month.
The event will feature musical and dance performances, along with "displays of African fashions, dancers, face painting, rock climbing, vendors, and food trucks," according to Miami's Community Newspapers.
The invitation for Gilbert's event is below.
In this article:2020 election, Barbara Jordan, District 1, fundraiser, Hard Rock Stadium, miami gardens, Miami-Dade Commission, Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County Commission, Oliver Gilbert
Written By Ryan Nicol
Ryan Nicol covers news out of South Florida for Florida Politics. Ryan is a native Floridian who attended undergrad at Nova Southeastern University before moving on to law school at Florida State. After graduating with a law degree he moved into the news industry, working in TV News as a writer and producer, along with some freelance writing work. If you'd like to contact him, send an email to ryan.t.nicol@gmail.com.


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As usual, E3 is full of amazing games to look forward to.
There are several occasions throughout the year worth celebrating for your average player of video games. There are the various Steam Sales that see price drops by the dozens, thus allowing you to buy games in bulk. There's Gamescom, a conference that's fairly awesome and allows your average person to play the games on hand. PlayStation Experience and The Game Awards have become big deals in their own right, even without all the high-profile reveals and announcements.
But one such event serves as the quintessential celebration of video games. It's that time of the year where the biggest names come together to show off the biggest games. It's where the release calendar for the year is pretty much set, which months we look forward to what and how to budget our time and money accordingly. Naturally we're talking about the Electronic Entertainment Expo, beginning this year on June 10th with EA Play and running for an entire week. Bethesda, Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft and even Devolver Digital will try to wow us and as much as it's about marketing, E3 2017 is the place to learn about the biggest upcoming titles from your favourite studios.
Rather than walk in and try to consume everything, we decided to choose the top 25 games to look out for at E3 2017. Some of these aren't even confirmed to be appearing. Others have had a wealth of information and footage showcased; E3 will just be the place to solidify their position. Project Scorpio may be the biggest reveal to look forward to but in terms of games, here are the 25 titles we're most excited to see.
Activision has already announced that it will be debuting the multiplayer component of Call of Duty: WWII at E3 2017. That means the new War game mode could be showcased along with a closer look at the new social hubs. Expect footage from a single-player mission, as the company has always done over the years, and bask in the World War 2 nostalgia. Is it too much to ask for Normandy? We feel like they'd save it for later. There's not much more to expect from Call of Duty: WWII aside from how the lack of health regeneration and AI teammates will work. Thankfully, that and the multiplayer are just enough to keep us interested throughout.


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Miami University Oxford, Ohio est. 1809 College of Arts and Science
College of Arts and Science
Rachel Serafin
Megan Zimmerer
Tiffany Campbell
Sydney Chuen
Ellen Florek
Emily Tatum
Kate Hanley
Olivia Vandervoort
Kaylie Schunk
Heather Burich
Daniel McClurkin
Keiko Wilkins
Daniel McClurkin (Class of 2017)
senior triple major in English/Literature, Anthropology, and Classical Humanities
from Youngstown, OH
Altman Undergraduate Fellow (2016-17)
College of Arts and Science Ambassador
anthropology research as Undergraduate Summer Scholar (2015)
volunteer for the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
personnel coordinator and member of the editorial staff for Inklings magazine
"People are people, and knowing people is important. It's not about getting an edge up — it's about feeling like you belong on this planet. And that's all a result of doing things, meaningful things."
Why Miami?
"One of the reasons I chose Miami was just the feeling of being on campus. I'm from Youngstown, which is very much an industrial/post-industrial city. Miami's natural green spaces and gorgeous architecture really struck me, like — and I'm embarrassed to admit this — the ideal British university: the Cambridges and the Oxfords. Of course, I was still in high school, but I still remember my first time seeing Miami's expansive quads, which hosted tightrope walkers and a spattering of napping students. As idealistic as those memories were, I can't underplay the effect they had on me.
"Originally, I tried to underplay these emotional reasonings. I didn't want people to think that I chose Miami on a whim, but as the years went by I've begun to realize that that emotional whim is a very valuable and important tool. Going to college shouldn't be a business deal that you're making — it's all about perceptions. Feeling comfortable on a campus for me was as much a prerequisite as the university being a top-rated institution. Luckily, I found both at Miami.
"More specifically, I chose Miami because of the English department, especially professors Patrick Murphy and Madelyn Detloff. When I visited Bachelor Hall, the entire department was very welcoming, and although I doubt they remember meeting me at the time, I definitely remember them. The way they received me helped me feel comfortable walking through those halls later on as a full-time student."
Best Miami Experiences
The cast and crew of Stage Left's production of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
"One of my best Miami experiences was directing the classic hippie production Hair: The American Love Rock Musical for Stage Left last fall. The production takes place in the late 1960s, and it was a great learning experience for the cast and me. I wanted to bring historical aspects of the show to life, so I brought in guest lecturers such as Miami alumnus and Vietnam veteran Lee Fisher, who talked about his experience in the Vietnam War to remind the cast that what they're singing about are real feelings and emotions. This wasn't some sentimental melodrama based off of bourgeois flights of fancy — this was a dramatic retelling of a part of American history. I also had the cast read poems and listen to albums from the era. It was great working with them as they confronted and interpreted these various situations.
"During my first year at Miami, I was also a nude model for an art class taught by Daniel Bonham. I'd always loved the idea of my visage being interpreted and recreated, and when I actually got a chance to model, the experience made me reinterpret everything I'd known. I'd gone to a Catholic school, where your body is constantly policed and is very morally based — from how long your hair is to how short your skirt is. It was all considered a moral affront to God, making it a very interesting experience modeling for this drawing class, along with three others. Don't get me wrong — my high school was top-notch, and I was privileged to be able to go there, but modeling was my first step in a sort of true 'corporeal' education.
"During my modeling days, I learned the difference between 'naked' and 'nude', which are different perceptions of displaying one's body. For example, Adam and Eve were naked when they were ashamed, but they were nude when they were created; it's all dependent upon the situation. I learned from the art students' questions, many of which I'd never thought of before. They had to capture shapes, and they were really concerned about objectifying our bodies. Some felt really uncomfortable that they were essentially breaking us down and putting us back together.
"This discomfort was revealing to me. Working through it, I learned how different people approach the human body, including the various ways they would draw the same kinds of poses. For me, all of those ideas and connotations led to a very positive, healthy, partially non-verbal discussion. It was really important to my own personal development.
"Finally, another key Miami experience was one that grew from a program I joined independently. During the summer of 2014, I volunteered to work at a farm in Ireland through an international program called World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF). This led me to apply for and receive an Undergraduate Summer Scholarship (USS) in 2015 to conduct ethnographic fieldwork with the Baha'i community of Northern Ireland.
"Most every professor I've had has helped me in important ways, but due to time and space constraints I'll focus on three — one from each of my major departments: Katherine Gillespie in English, Zara Torlone in Classics, and James Bielo in Anthropology.
"Dr. Gillespie's Milton course literally changed the course of my education. As the chair of my senior thesis, she taught me not only how to do research but also how to take texts from the 17th century and make them applicable today. She's been extremely involved in my education and is someone who I would sincerely call a mentor.
"I had Dr. Torlone for Latin 201 and 202, and then later for the Havighurst Colloquium. Her classes were incredibly difficult but invaluably rich, and I admire her as a teacher and as a scholar. She is the first person to show me how interdisciplinary research can and should be done. She's offered countless hours of counsel throughout my time at Miami and has kept me solidly moving forward through academia.
"Finally, Dr. Bielo oversaw all my research in Northern Ireland. He not only taught me how to do ethnographic fieldwork, but he also helped me realize the real power of talking to people on an intimate, personable level. His mentorship has undoubtedly made me a better scholar and, as cliche as it sounds, a better person.
"I feel the need to note that only naming three of Miami's faculty here is a disservice to the amazing professors who have enriched my life. Therefore, I would also like to mention Cynthia Klestinec, Andrew Hebard, Jeb Card, and Leighton Peterson as all being true boons to my university days!"
Miami and the Liberal Arts
Andrew Hofmann, Daniel T. McClurkin, and Heather Burich at the first meeting of the 2016-2017 Altman faculty, graduate, and undergraduate fellows.
"The liberal arts work off of the primary assumption that there is no such thing as non-interdisciplinary approaches to problems; there is no job that does not deal with multiple fields. For example, when I worked in an Oxford retirement community, it was not just about applying what I knew from gerontology lectures, but it was also about understanding and practicing communicative skills in order to sincerely engage with the residents in such a way that they didn't feel they were being talked down to or disrespected.
"A big part of the liberal arts approach is knowing how to engage with different situations and how to ask good questions. It's not enough to be a 'people person'. It's all about being able to take what you know and apply it to whatever situation you find yourself in; it's how to ask the right question and then how to listen for the right answers. In many ways, this is the practical manifestation of critical thinking.
"I believe that generally, as humans, our default response is to generalize and stereotype — not caring about what others have to say, but caring about what you expect them to say to justify your own beliefs. If you try to force something to map into what you want it to be, then you haven't listened — you've made it about you. That's why it's so important that the liberal arts teach us how to see and understand people through the lens of our complex, multicultural society."
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Northern Ireland's Baha'i Immigrant Community
Daniel McClurkin and then Lord Mayor of Belfast Arder Carson (2nd and 3rd from left) pose with 3 other volunteers.
"My Undergraduate Summer Scholarship (USS), under Dr. Bielo, came about after I joined the WWOOF program to volunteer on a farm in Northern Ireland. I ended up making friends with many of the farmers there during summer 2014, and my USS award allowed me to return to Northern Ireland during the summer of 2015 to do research.
"My family is originally from Northern Ireland, and I grew up in a decidedly Irish Catholic household. I learned about a Baha'i religious community living in the Belfast area. Some of them were immigrants, and others were native-born, and I became interested in how they performed 'Irishness' without being practicing Catholics or Protestants.
"Baha'i is a faith that accepts all teachings, all manifestations of God, and its practitioners have faced persecution in Iran, where their religion originated. I wanted to learn how their traditional faith informed their understanding and relationship to 'The Troubles', a period of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century.
"Understanding the background of 'The Troubles' was important to engaging with the Baha'i community and listening to their stories. I sat in on firesides and devotionals and feasts for all sorts of Baha'i' celebrations. I lived with them, worked with them, interviewed them, went to their community centers, and sat in on their lectures and sermons.
"At night I would look over my interviews and write up all of my notes for my USS research paper, sometimes working by nothing more than a small lamp in my cozy little guest room. It was truly a humbling and life-changing experience, and the Baha'i community of the greater Belfast area will always hold a place very close to my heart."
Advice to Students
"As a humanities student, it's important to surround yourself with people who remind you that what you're doing is important. That is one of the most onerous burdens felt by anyone who falls outside of some of the 'economically preferred' majors in business or the sciences. For English, anthropology, and classics majors like me, it's something that constantly weighs on you. You have to constantly justify yourself, so it's so important to find friends and peers who support you.
"As a CAS [College of Arts and Science] Ambassador, I've had people ask me in front of an entire group of incoming students, 'So do you expect to flip burgers for the rest of your life?' There'll always be people who think that they know what's best for you, and they're going to follow you everywhere until you prove yourself. You just have to surround yourself with people who know what you're doing is worthwhile.
"The other side of this advice is that you should surround yourself with people who can be cruelly honest, since sometimes what you're doing is not worthwhile. These people will help you ask better questions about your objectives; they're not going to just sit there and pat you on the back. Everyone needs constructive critics in their life!
"I also highly recommend getting a double major or a minor. Don't let anyone tell you that it's better to just focus on one thing. Even if you major in things with similar topics, you're going to come at whatever you're studying in a completely different way.
"Finally, the best advice that I could give is to just do things. That may sound really unhelpful, but it's important to do more than relax, lounge around, and go to parties. In healthy doses, those are all phenomenal activities, but I always try to remind myself of the great privileges of being a Miami student, and how many resources I have available to me. I try to take the time to go hiking, cook dinner for friends, write a short story when the mood strikes me. Simply 'doing things' helps me feel more in touch with the world around me. You have to remember that people are people, and knowing people is important. It's not about getting an edge up — it's about feeling like you belong on this planet. And that's all a result of doing things, meaningful things.
"None of us are fully formed human beings, nor will we ever be, but doing different things can help keep you mentally sane, reconnect you with the community, and make you feel like a real part of something."
As the center of Miami's diverse liberal arts curriculum, the College of Arts and Science (CAS) fosters a rigorous intellectual climate that promotes learning and discovery. CAS offers more than 60 undergraduate majors, 11 co-majors, and dozens of minors, as well as about 30 masters and 10 doctoral programs.
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By turns wry, sly, irreverent and provocative, Defamation asks the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?" Intent on shaking up the ultimate "sacred cow" for modern-day Jews, Israeli-born director Yoav Shamir embarks on an engaging, thought-provoking documentary quest to ascertain whether anti-Semitism remains a clear and immediate, ever-present threat, or is instead more of a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to smear their critics.
Spanning several continents, and speaking with an array of individuals from across the political spectrum (including the national director of the Anti-Defamation
League, Abe Foxman, as well as its fiercest critic, professor and author Norman Finkelstein), Shamir bravely, gamely digs into the realities of anti-Semitism today, with curiosity much more of his guide than any predetermined ideological road map. His findings are both enlightening and sometimes shocking. Whether assaying the exhaustive statistical cataloguing of anti-Semitic "acts" that is then in turn used in fund-raising and, by extension, political arm-twisting, or traveling to places like Auschwitz alongside Israeli school kids,
and simply observing the psychological and social effects of how they're being raised and taught that Jews are hated by almost all other cultures and ethnicities, Shamir eschews simple, pat answers.
While the sense of humor that informs the picture is a welcome,
leavening presence, Shamir's biggest gift is his flexibility, and
complete lack of assumptions; with Defamation, he creates the
cinematic equivalent of one of those newfangled exercise machines that
targets only the muscles you didn't really know you had, and certainly
don't spend any time working out. The film racked up an impressive slate of festival awards — the Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival, the prestigious Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Warsaw Film Festival, among others — and rightly so, for its that sort of arena that is its most natural home.
Audiences expecting the more definitive moral or statistical "outcome" of a filmic lecture will come away disappointed, but those who ponder and more deeply weigh Palestinian suffering alongside an Israeli right to existence and defend itself will likely be smitten with Defamation, because it posits at least the existence of ulterior motives or unintended consequences in the levying of charges of anti-Semitism. One teacher holds forth sourly on the "industry of death and violation" that the ADL encourages, and how its too-frequent cries of victimhood devalue real discrimination and hatred. The ADL's Foxman seems to tacitly acknowledge this when he ruminates, "How do you fight this sinister, conspiratorial view of Jews without using it?" That is to say, the power of the ADL and broader Jewish-American lobby, exists in part because they are able to pull the levers of power by playing on deeply held beliefs that Jews "control" the media, financial markets and government(s). Slippery slope, that. Without malice, however, Shamir digs into the equally intriguing notion that the ADL is a way for many Jews to exercise Jewish identity without religious practice.
Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case, Defamation comes to DVD presented in anamorphic widescreen, with an English language stereo track that for the most part more than adequately handles the title's relatively meager aural demands, except for when a couple of interviewees dip into a secretive whisper, since they're at a fund-raising event, and don't want to be overheard. Default English subtitles are also included, since a bit of the movie, understandably, dips into Hebrew. The only DVD bonus features consist of a textual filmmaker statement and biography. To purchase the DVD via Amazon, click here. B+ (Movie) C- (Disc)


NAS: He gives beautiful words.
KJV: he giveth goodly words.
NAS: That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
KJV: for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
NAS: Even the heritage decreed to him by God.
KJV: and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
NAS: Not one of you who answered his words.
NAS: will I reply to him with your arguments.
KJV: against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
KJV: [his hands] among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
NAS: your ears to the words of my mouth.
KJV: your ears to the words of my mouth.
NAS: they have heard the words of Your mouth.
NAS: And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.
KJV: they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
NAS: turn away from the words of my mouth.
KJV: [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
NAS: to me And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
KJV: and depart not from the words of my mouth.
KJV: thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
NAS: who flatters with her words.
KJV: [which] flattereth with her words.
NAS: to me, And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
KJV: and attend to the words of my mouth.
NAS: him! He pursues [them with] words, [but] they are gone.
KJV: from him? he pursueth [them with] words, [yet] they [are] wanting [to him].
NAS: [And you will] stray from the words of knowledge.
KJV: [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.
KJV: and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
NAS: there was no one who heard your words.
KJV: yea, [there is] none that heareth your words.


South Africa, an exotic destination that is becoming increasingly popular especially among European tourists. And with good reason! Stunning natural parks, Big 5 safaris , beautiful coasts and then there's Cape Town with her impressive Table Mountain.
Yet there is an area that often gets overlooked during the hugely popular route which leads travelers from Johannesburg to Cape Town – the Drakensberg.
Many tourists often travel straight from Johannesburg to Kruger National Park and then continue their journey south through Swaziland in order to proceed their trip along the coast to the west and end their journey in Cape Town. A short trip inland, however, brings you to an earthly paradise for hikers and nature lovers!
When Kristof and I started our road trip through South Africa, we knew we wanted to spend some time there. We're both avid hikers, both enjoy places that fewer people know about, and both love nature… a perfect match!
The park offers a few trails and two scenic roads, where we spotted our first game! In our opinion, the best hike in the park is by far the Wodehouse Trail.
After the hike, be sure to head back down and drive one of the scenic loops to catch the sunset as it reflects on the rocks and grass below. This sight is how Golden Gate got its name, after all.
You can find the Golden Gate Highlands National Park about 320 km from Johannesburg. A perfect hub to visit this park is the quaint little town of Clarens.
Next on our bucketlist was the Royal Natal National Park in the Drakensberg mountains – a UNESCO World Heritage site. We saw some gorgeous pictures of this park online when we were preparing for our trip and decided it had to be on our schedule! We planned hiking though the Tugela Gorge which had amazing views into the canyon and over the Tugela Falls, the apparent second tallest waterfall in the world which straddles the border of South Africa and Lesotho.
I got super excited when we got our first glimpses of the table mountain that dominates the national park. This hike, is an easy one with a gentle gradient. Yeey, no steep hills! Moreover, about half of the hike is in the shade, which is really nice when you're hiking in hot temperatures. The hike took us around 5 hours round trip from the car park including lunch break and photo stops.
If your time is limited, like ours was, this is a really great way to see some seriously impressive natural beauty during a relatively easy hike. Another alternative would be to do the Amphitheater hike, which gets you on top of the table mountain. However, the start of the hike was outside of Royal Natal National Park and the road to the carpark was in a bad shape so we decided to skip it. Hopefully we'll come back one day so we can admire the canyon from above!
The third stop through the Drakensberg was in the southern part of Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park. Underberg served as our hub for this final leg of our Drakensberg trip.
The park offers stupendous, sweeping views up to the Giant's Cup formation. We chose to hike the Pholela River trail which offers spectacular views of the Giant's Cup and passes through grassland and patches of indigenous forest. This easy to moderate trail follows the Pholea river and offers many opportunities to swim during the trail.
For some more adventure and a chance to visit another country we went for a drive over the Sani Pass into Lesotho. The Sani Pass is a winding dirt road that takes drivers up and over the Southern Drakensberg Mountains into the very small country of Lesotho. It can only be driven in a 4×4 vehicle. We rented a Toyota Corolla… that beauty would not have made it up the pass alive, so we opted for a tour that departed from Underberg.
Make sure to get out of the car a couple of times to take in the wonderful scenery. At the top, in the country of Lesotho, we had a drink in the highest pub on the African continent and drove around a bit to photograph some locals.
It was the cherry on top of a perfect trip to the Dragenberg mountains.
Have you been to the Drakenberg Mountains and how did you experience them?
Wow! What an incredible landscape! Beautiful and unique. I feel like the landscapes here are rivaling the wildlife of Kruger. Thank you for sharing!
Ah, thanks so much! So happy you love them too. There are some amazing places to visit in South-Africa isn't there?!
Thanks Lisa! South-africa looks amazing doesn't it? So diverse! We're sure you'll fall in love with it!
So i've nominated you for Liebster Award!
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Can Founders Have It All?
The founder of a brand new startup begins their endeavour with a clear vision for their company in their head. The ones that are smart will create an action plan as to how they will transform their innovative idea to a billion-dollar enterprise. Or should that even be the goal?
After all, not every entrepreneur runs a business purely to make a profit. Whatever the reason, it is vital for entrepreneurs to establish their WHY right from the get-go. Generally speaking, the WHY can be simplified into two things:
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A prime example of an entrepreneur benefiting from establishing their WHY early on is Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay. As eBay started gaining significant momentum in '98, Omidyar was willing to give up his role as CEO of the company. He trusted his investors and did what he thought was best to help grow the business allowed for revered executive Meg Whitman to step in as the new leader of the company.
Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman (Photo from Time.com)
His decision paid off dramatically. Whitman joined eBay in March 1998, when it had 30 employees and revenues of approximately $4 million. During her time as CEO, the company grew to approximately 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue by 2008. And now Pierre Omidyar has a total net worth of $12.4 billion.
In the beginning, it's common for founders to refer to their business as "my baby" and using similar parenting language without even noticing. For entrepreneurs running their business is a true labour of love and that is evident in the relatively low salaries founders pay themselves.
So when founders begin to seek funding, they are signing up to pay a heavy price: They often have to give up total control over the enterprise. Angel investors may allow entrepreneurs to preserve control to a greater degree than venture capital firms do, but in both cases, outside directors will join the company's board.
The Trade-Off Entrepreneurs Make (Image from ExhibitTitle)
Once the founder is no longer in control of the board, his or her job as CEO is at risk. The board's task is straightforward if the founder underperforms as CEO. Although even when founders are struggling, boards can have a hard time persuading them to put their "babies" up for adoption.
As the company grows founders have to start making more difficult decisions. They have to raise resources in order to capitalize on the opportunities before them. If they choose the right investors, their financial gains will soar. According to a report by Harvard Business Review, founders who give up more equity to attract investors build a more valuable company than founders who part with less — and end up with a more valuable slice, too.
In most cases, the reason investors bet on a startup is that they believe in the founder's vision for the product/service they are pitching, not the founder's ability to manage and scale the company to a billion-dollar exit. It's very rare to find investors that are willing to give founders the control that they want to run their company.
A look at Silicon Valley in 1991 (Image from BusinessInsider.com)
The internet boom of the 1990s and early 2000s produced thousands of ambition startups across the US, primarily in Silicon Valley. According to the same report by Harvard Business Review, most founders of the internet boom surrendered management control long before their companies went public. By the time the ventures were three years old, 50% of founders were no longer CEO; in year four, only 40% were still in the corner office; and fewer than 25% led their companies' initial public offerings. This example shows that, more often than not, founders end up with less control of the companies they created.
Elon Musk sitting down for an interview on TED (Photo from TED.com)
Then there are the exceptions to the rule. I'm talking about Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. The founders who were able to keep executive control of their company while also retaining significant equity. For most up-and-coming entrepreneurs this is the dream scenario, but it's one that is arduous to attain.
In the end, entrepreneurs face a choice, at every step, between making money and managing their ventures. Those who don't figure out which is more important to them often end up neither wealthy nor powerful.
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'Pinocchio' Trailer: Roberto Benigni Is Gepetto in Matteo Garrone's Modern Fairy Tale Update
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Roadside Attractions has released the first trailer for "Pinocchio," Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone's mature contemporary riff on the classic fairytale. The film premiered to rave reviews earlier this year at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it garnered attention for Garrone's layered storytelling, imaginative visuals, and zany surrealist flourishes. This live-action "Pinocchio" stars Oscar winner Roberto Benigni as puppetmaker Gepetto, and features a breakout performance from young newcomer Federico Ielapi as the little wooden boy.
Here's the official synopsis: "Shot in stunning Italian locations, Matteo Garrone's rich world of mystery and wonder stars Academy Award-winning actor Roberto Benigni as Geppetto, the old woodcarver whose puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio (nine-year-old Federico Ielapi) tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits through a wonderful world full of imaginative creatures – from the belly of a giant fish, to the Land Of Toys and the Field Of Miracles."
In his positive review out of Berlin, IndieWire's Eric Kohn wrote: "Garrone's enthralling version taps into the creepy, kinky nature of the material, resulting in a gothic fantasy that embodies the original's appeal. … Garrone's 'Pinocchio' doesn't look like any version an American studio might produce today, and instead occupies a peculiar limbo between the sensibility of a children's movie and a more unsettling adult take."
The tale of the puppet come to life has long held a fascination since its initial publication almost 150 years ago. Its most famous screen adaptation is, of course, the animated Disney version, released in 1940. Disney is currently whittling away at its own update to the classic tale, a live-action take from Robert Zemeckis, while Guillermo del Toro is working on his highly anticipated animated version for Netflix. With Benigni in the role and Garrone's darker, modern take on the allegory, this "Pinocchio" could attract if not a wider audience, than perhaps amore discerning one.
Roadside Attractions will release "Pinocchio" in theaters and on VOD on Christmas. Check out Roberto Benigni and Federico Ielapi in the first official trailer below.
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Williams é uma cidade localizada no estado americano de Iowa, no Condado de Hamilton.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 427 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 407, um decréscimo de 20 (-4.7%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
2,3 km², dos quais 2,3 km² cobertos por terra e 0,0 km² cobertos por água.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 20 km ao redor de Williams.

Ligações externas

Cidades de Iowa

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'Latin Fire' Concert – at Assembly Hall on Sunday; guitar soloist, Craig Ogden; conductor, John Gibbons.
Manuel De Falla, Ritual Fire Dance; Doreen Carwithen, Travel Royal Suite; Joaquin Rodrigo, Guitar Concert; Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Flight of the Bumble Bee'; Peter Tchaikovsky, Symphony No2 'Little Russian'.
Guitar heroes have played Worthing Assembly Hall since the Sixties. Clapton, Green, Beck, Taylor, Townshend, Latimer, Whitehorn spring straight to mind. So when the length of Craig Ogden's autographing queue delayed the start of Sunday's concert second half, it was a sign of old times and good news.
Classic FM's guitar star's fans coming for CDs and signatures included a party of 20 from Davison Girls High School, who are no strangers to WSO concerts. The audience of nearly 700 included many wanting further experiences of the infectious quality of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, of which Classic FM frequently broadcast Ogden's recording - often just the famous middle movement of its three.
It reigns supreme in its recording retail and box office appeal and longevity, and King Carlos bestowed on Rodrigo the hereditary title of Marquis of the Aranjuez Gardens which the composer so directly depicted in the music. We learned of this honour in the always excellent WSO concert programme, a mine of extra information for the music lover and seeker. Classical Guitar Magazine regards the composition as miraculous. Rodrigo's blindness, piano virtuosity but non-guitar expertise are among the factors.
But what if you are an Australian guitarist in the footsteps of the great John Williams and about to play it yet again, and to a British audience in a marvellous concert acoustic in which there is no hiding place for the performer? And it's packed with people who know your recording but many are perhaps hearing the whole concerto for the first time and, further, it's their maiden live performance?
Such a responsibility, the perception of and respect for the perpetual technical and artistic challenge of playing it would sound a note of caution. You have six strings to get exactly right and in classical that's a knife-edge. Some reasons, maybe, why Ogden sounded nervous and rhythmically imprecise in his solo opening bars.
Or wait. Was it his deliberate interpretative plan? A busking guitarist sits on a Spanish street, perhaps by the Alhambra Palace, digesting a snack, sipping a drink, and doodling around. A musical idea arrives, he tries it out. Dancers listening in (the orchestra), pick up the rhythm, connect with its castanets idiom, crisp it up, and an impromptu show begins.
I felt this spirited first movement tempo got a fraction fast for Ogden's complete stability and clarity of diction but John Gibbon and the WSO were in the spirit and up for the dash, swagger, suavity, flair and flavour of the Latin moment. The slow movement captured the mystery, romance and caprice of Rodrigo's garden scents and birdlife vision. It lasts seductively as long as the other two movements put together and finally the nocturnal, languid enchantment they gave to the ending drew spontaneous applause, which Ogden welcomed. His delivery of the movement was all you could have asked for.
The finale is the litmus test for the conductor and orchestra, who need to be those festing Spaniards in their myriad ways following the guitarist. This WSO performance had plenty of that evocation, with Ogden's glittering notes cascading like water in the moonlight all the way to the final cheeky close.
There were curtain calls for Deborah Goodyer (cor anglais) and Miriam Lowbury (principal cello), gift wine for Ogden (from Iberian vineyards?), and an encore for the crowd almost as famous as the Concierto – it was 'Memories of the Alhambra', the ravishingly evocative Tarrego tremolando study. The busker was thanking his donors.
November: A nostalgic time to recall a holiday Espana. This concert's first three composers were all November-born, Rodrigo on the 22nd (St Cecilia's Day) and on the 23rd de Falla the Argentinian, whose dark flickering Ritual Fire Dance set Sunday's scene – with Gibbons skilfully conducting while standing awkwardly to play the necessary piano part. Doreen Carwithen's Travel Royal Suite is contrived with standard British popular tunes to attract foreign tourists to Britain by air (BOAC) in an advertising film. Probably post-war music publishing sexism kept fame from Carwithen, so Rodrigo's Concierto has done a more conspicuous job for the Spanish tourist industry.
The autograph queue no doubt enabled extra last-minute practice for WSO principal flautist Monica McCarron before starring for 2 minutes with what seems like her 2,000 notes in The Flight of The Bumble Bee, the modern showpiece from Rimsky's opera The Tale of The Tsar Sultan. Then Tchaikovsky let loose the WSO collectively on their own with his brightly untroubled Second Symphony.
"It's one of my favourites," declared Gibbons in his rostrum chat. He's played it maybe three times in his 20-year tenure at WSO, and why not? The level to which he has taken this orchestra ensured it was fascination and a boon all the way to the highly original scherzo and the super-fun finale where instrumental sections aim droll jokes at each other, blow raspberries, exchange banter and tumble and crash around in boisterous games.
It started with first horn Dave Lee in top form and, throughout, timpanist Rob Millett revelled in the completion of, for him, a joyfully busy afternoon.
Craig Oden, in a dark blue suit and open-necked shirt, played a slightly larger classical guitar by Greg Smallman, lightly amplified with a Sennheiser microphone (not a pick-up) attached (not embedded) and positioned behind the strings (to avoid feedback), and fed to a very small cuboid combo amp with a six-inch speaker and placed beside him on a piano stool.
The last performance of this work with the WSO was by soloist Richard Durrant – also a November birthday.
Next WSO concert, Sunday, January 7 (2.45): New Year Tonic: traditional Viennese waltzes, marches and polkas but with Varvara Tarasova, the Russian winner of the most recent Sussex International Piano Competition, playing something magnificently fitting: Mozart's most luxuriantly-scored Piano Concerto of all, the No 22 in Eb K482. None other sounds like it.