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To Know Him Is To Love Him
Have you ever planted a seed?
What does planting a seed have to do with writing or a story called 'IN THE PRESENCE OF EVIL' you ask? Stay with me. I promise you'll get it.
Planting a seed…. You take this little, tiny thing, something so small that it could be a speck of dust you normally wouldn't even notice and carefully place it in the soil you've prepared and then cover it. Every day you water it and watch, waiting for the moment the seedling sprouts through the ground and turns its head toward the sun. The sense of joy you feel is hard to contain, right? Sure it is. Admit it. You what to jump up and down and shout to the world, "See what I did." No one will think you a whuz for saying so, so go ahead and admit it.
As the sprout grows, you feed it, protect it from harm and hoe away all the nasty weeds that take away its nutrients. You watch it grow bigger and stronger until it is the prettiest thing. (Darn, I wish you could hear me say that in my mock southern twang) You can't express how proud you feel showing off what you have created, but you show it by sticking your chest out and wearing a grin the size of the Grand Canyon. And it started all start with a tiny seed.
Writing a book mirrors the process and authors feel the same sense of pride when their books hit the cyber and hard shelves? IN THE PRESENCE OF EVIL, my new release from The Wild Rose Press, started with an idea, based on an actual personal experience. I can only tell you a bit. A request for a bank wire transfer from my work somehow got intercepted and was requested to be routed to a Russian bank account. This happened after Evil's Witness was released, so needless to say, eyes turned toward me. "Me, come on." I laughed until the FBI entered the investigation. I'm a country girl, born Army brat, who never wanted to be rich and bleeds red, white and blue. Please believe me.
Anyway, I wondered 'what if' a woman stumbles into a hornet's nest where the Mafia is laundering money by controlling wire transfers from a small private owned bank. How would she stop them and who could she ask to help her? Okay the answers to that question is easy the FBI, CIA, or police. But we can't have easy when writing a book. Easy is the weed that takes away from a good story. What if she didn't know what was going on, until it was too late and her life was put into danger?
Again easy. Once she found out what the bad guys were after, our heroine being the heroine we'd all aspire to be would die for her country, thus screwing the bad guys. Yeah, Gina. So I fed the story and added in a cast of secondary characters that love Gina and who she loves, including one yummy marine hero, Cole Hanson. Yup that's him. SIGH.
I played 'what if again' and asked what you do if the lives of those you love were to hang on the whether you help to commit a crime? Would you do anything asked of you? Or would you try to be a hero?
Like nurturing a seed from a dominate state into something to enjoyed, a great deal of time goes into writing a story that whisks you away to another world.
Excerpt from IN THE PRESENCE OF EVIL:
Rusty's gaze shifted beyond Cole's shoulder and an uneasy feeling crept up his back.
He turned. A beautiful woman walked toward them.
"I thought you had to get back to the hardware store, Rusty." Her gaze locked with Cole's, and she stopped cold.
Cole's heartbeat echoed in his ears like the sharp, piercing, rapid fire that had ended his career. Those eyes. He remembered them whenever loneliness slipped past his guard and grabbed him by the throat. "Gina?"
A slight, hesitant smile formed on her face.
Rusty went up on his toes. "Look who's here."
"Son-of-a-bitch," Gina said.
She took the words right out of his mouth. Cole took in every inch of her, starting at the leather boots she wore which added a few inches to her five-foot-five height, and worked his way up. Gina had changed. She wasn't the lanky sixteen year-old girl he remembered. She had the curves of a woman.
Her rust-colored dress brought out the red highlights in her mass of long curls.
Curls he knew coiled tighter when wet after a late afternoon skinny-dip in Harvey's Lake.
Gina crossed the short distance between them, holding his stare until she looked at Rusty. "You didn't tell me Cole was coming."
His name carried a quiver.
"I wanted to surprise you." It was evident Rusty was enjoying the scene. The guy was practically hoppin' in place.
"Well, you did that."
Cole saw the rise of her breasts with an intake of air. Then, with the stark determination he remembered she met his gaze head on.
"So what brings you back to Mountain Pine? I know small town is not your lifestyle of choice."
"That's true. Rusty invited me for the holidays."
Gina's dark lashes did little to hide a flash of the storm seething inside her, and he wondered why she thought she had the right to be angry.
"Is that how you greet an old friend? Go ahead, hug the guy." Rusty grabbed her elbow and urged her closer.
"Right." She took a step and stuck out her hand. "It's been a long time."
From behind, Rusty gave her a swift nudge, and Gina fell against him.
Cole stiffened and fought to keep his breathing normal. At one time, they'd been friends. Close friends. First-time lovers.
"I'm going to kill him."
Her warm whisper tickled Cole's cheek. His eyes drifted shut as he leaned into her, wrapping her in his arms. Her hair smelled the same as it did years ago, like a summer field of wildflowers. Her body fit perfectly against his, just as it always had, and he felt the years slip away.
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Home Town Hall Conserving the Future: How Easements Shield the Land
Conserving the Future: How Easements Shield the Land
Lisa Martin
Sarah Henley (Photo: Lisa Martin)
Henley's Orchard, now owned and managed by Tim and Sarah Henley and their family, was founded in 1932 with the purchase of a house on five acres by Tim's grandfather. Expanding the apple and peach orchards and adding a herd of cattle, horses, and hay, Tim's father steadily increased the family's holdings to over 800 acres of farmland, plus 770 acres of forested land on the mountainside along White Hall Road. To protect the land and preserve it for future generations, the Henleys have gradually placed large tracts under conservation easement.
"The easements make it possible for us to invest in the farm and to continue our sustainable agriculture practices," said Sarah Henley. "It will never be developed, and it's nice to know that our kids won't have to sell the farm to pay the taxes."
Conservation easements have surged in popularity over the last 20 years as a prime tool for preserving land as open space, left in its natural state and undeveloped. An easement is a legal agreement between a landowner and a nonprofit organization (a "land trust") that restricts development and certain commercial or industrial uses of the land. The agreement essentially splits off the owner's development rights and conveys them to the land trust to hold into perpetuity. Most often, a landowner gives up the right to construct additional buildings or alter waterways on her property but retains ownership of the land and continues to live on it.
The arrangement is a serious commitment, full of long-term pros and cons. The upside largely benefits the public: the land remains as open space, wildlife habitats are undisturbed, streams and rivers are protected, views are preserved. The property cannot be divided or developed, ever. Giving up the development rights on the property represents a significant loss of value to the landowner, and that is how the monetary value of the easement is measured—as the difference between the market value of the land "before" versus "after" the restrictions are placed on it.
Rex Linville (Photo: Lisa Martin)
"In this area, based on appraisals, typically there's a 20 to 40 percent reduction in the value of the land when a conservation easement is placed on it," said Rex Linville, a land conservation expert who covers Albemarle and Greene Counties for the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC). "It's a significant gift."
The landowner is compensated for this loss by receiving federal and state tax benefits if the easement is donated, or by receiving payment directly from the land trust if sold. The land usually remains private with no public access, and may continue to be used for farming or ranching consistent with open space provisions. Notably, the easement is legally bound to the property deed and is permanent, passing down through any property transfers in the future.
Conservation Easements in Western Albemarle. Click to enlarge. (Courtesy the County of Albemarle)
The permanence of an easement is a feature, not a bug. "Landowners don't need to protect the land from themselves," said Linville. "They are worried about the next owner, the next generation. They want to protect the land from the future." Forever seems like a long time to exclude building rights, but Linville points out that development decisions often have the same effect. "Building a set of houses or a shopping center on a piece of property is also a long-term use of the land, but people don't always think about it that way."
As a means of land preservation, the use of easements in the U.S. has been around since the 1800s. The earliest conservation easements were issued by local governments to create public parks in Boston and to provide scenic views along the Blue Ridge Parkway. In the mid-1900s they helped land-rich but cash-poor farmers, pressured by rising land values and property and estate taxes, to be able to keep their land and lower their tax burden. It was not until the 1990s, when conservationists began to recognize the value of easements in curbing out-of-control development, that the number of land trusts in the U.S. exploded, increasing four-fold between 1985 and 2000 to over 1,600 agencies.
Over the same period, the tax treatment of easements has turned strongly favorable, giving the landowner of a donated easement a charitable deduction of 50 percent of the easement's value (100 percent for farmers) with generous carryover terms, a 40 percent state tax credit, an estate tax exclusion, and a property tax basis reduction.
While these benefits are meaningful, so too are the constraints for the landowner. The market value decline makes future loans potentially harder to obtain and lowers the value of the estate for the owner's descendants. Restrictions on the use of the property can be severe, including limitations on building any other residences on the land for family members and on activities such as selling crops at a farm stand.
David and James King (Photo: Lisa Martin)
David King, founder and owner of King Family Vineyards, believes the motivation for an owner to put land under easement has to be preservation, not economics. "Why would you put an easement on a tract of land when you might be able to sell it for a fortune?" is the question he anticipates, before laying out his view. "Our intent was not to buy it as an investment. The easement allowed us to preserve it for future use by keeping it as a larger tract."
The family put all 327 acres of their farm under easement in 2000, just as they planted their first grapevines without knowing the future viability of the operation or how the local area would change. As growth has progressed westward from Charlottesville over the years, the value of the property has only increased. In their easement agreement, the family bargained for the rights to operate the winery, and for three additional parcels on the land should their descendants wish to live there in the future.
In King's view, the tax credits are a negligible inducement for working farmers. "There were 27 division rights on this land," he said. "If you wanted to sell them off today, that would dwarf the tax benefit. I expect that many people who put their land in easement must by definition have the ability to give up opportunity and economic value for the purpose of preserving the land."
While most land trusts such as The Nature Conservancy and the Piedmont Environmental Council are private agencies, Virginia's easement landscape is dominated by a public entity called the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF). Created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1966, the VOF is the only state-mandated land trust in the country, and its funding by state budget appropriation and grants means it doesn't have to rely on donations or outside fundraising as private land trusts do.
According to its website, the VOF's 800,000-acre portfolio of conserved land is larger than the state of Rhode Island, accounting for 80 percent of all open-space easement acreage in Virginia. Prior to the year 2000, the VOF conserved fewer than 10,000 acres per year; after 2000, when the state tax credit provision was instituted, that rate jumped to over 40,000 acres per year. The state issued over $250 million in tax credits for easements in 2006 alone, during which the VOF received over 70,000 donated easement acres.
"The difference is that while other land trusts do many things, from transportation to county issues to nature trails, we do largely one thing, which is easements," said Sherry Buttrick, VOF Assistant Director of Easements for the region. "We are a vehicle to further private philanthropy for public benefit. Most people come to us because they want to make sure the property stays the way it is beyond their tenure on this earth."
The farm across from Western Ridge and Wickam Pond is in a conservation easement, preventing the Crozet growth area from crossing north of Rte. 240 there. (Photo: Allie Pesch)
Albemarle County contains over 500 conservation easements covering almost 100,000 acres, 72 percent of which are held by VOF. Because it is a public foundation, the VOF's funding is subject to budgetary constraints, and it counts on the advocacy of state legislators in each new cycle to avoid cuts. Rex Linville of the PEC worries about the continuation of the state conservation tax credits, currently capped at $75 million per year, for the same reasons. "You never know when circumstances might change and the tax credit program may be altered or drastically reduced," he said.
Whether the current rate of land conservation can be sustained is an open question. The pace may slow as the number of landowners in a position to donate easements dwindles, or the boom may be just beginning. Future funding will certainly play a key role. When the conservation tax credit was established by Virginia legislators in 2000, did taxpayers expect to contribute $1.5 billion (the value of credits issued through 2015) to land conservation, and can that level be maintained?
Conservationists hope so, but time will tell. As Mark Twain said of investing in land, "They're not making any more."
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How North Dakota Bridged the COVID-19 Home Access Gap
By Andy John - July 1, 2020
States throughout the country are struggling to find ways to keep their students learning while schools are closed due to the pandemic. But in North Dakota, an astounding 99.8 percent of rural students have home Internet access to continue online instruction. How has this state been so successful at solving the homework gap? The answer involves long-term planning, inter-agency data correlation, and the FCC.
In 1996, 14 rural telecommunications companies in North Dakota joined forces to create the Dakota Carrier Network (DCN), essentially a state fiber-optic network owned by a co-op. Larger service providers did not object, because the cost of building fiber out to so many rural areas was prohibitive. By joining forces, the network was able to reduce the costs of service and reach more people. Usually, residents in rural areas struggle to get adequate connectivity built out to them because providers are unable to recoup the cost of the investment to build infrastructure. To offset this, there exist several federal programs to serve underserved areas, and rural providers in North Dakota (urged by the state) have aggressively pursued this funding for many years. Students (and non-students) in North Dakota are now reaping the benefits of this forward-thinking network buildout that happened decades earlier.
LOCATING STUDENTS WHILE MAINTAINING PRIVACY
In order to determine which students did not have access at home, multiple state agencies collaborated to identify where DCN could provide service and which homes needed connectivity. This multi-step process included:
Legal Pre-work
Prior to getting any student data, multiple stakeholders – DCN, North Dakota's Department of Public Instruction (DPI), and the North Dakota Department of Information Technology (NDIT) – began working with lawyers to examine the legal ramifications of working with sensitive personal data. DPI and NDIT needed to protect student privacy; DCN needed to protect customer privacy. They started this process around March 10, 2020.
By March 17, with legal issues out of the way, DPI and NDIT sent DCN a dataset of 116,000 student addresses. DCN then had to eliminate around 30 percent of those addresses because they were P.O. boxes, as well as all addresses in the Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Forks metro areas (North Dakota is unique in over 96 percent of the state is served by a combination of 12 rural co-ops and 4 locally-owned commercial providers).
Centralized Communication in the State
DCN, along with the Broadband Association of North Dakota (BAND), served as the centralized aggregation point to connect with the state (Governor Doug Burgum's office, DPI, and NDIT).
The Crux of the Solution: Inter-Agency Data Correlation Exercise
DCN and BAND worked closely with NDIT to overlay this student address data with their service data.
As a result of that overlay, the agencies identified 2,000 homes in rural North Dakota without connectivity. Of those 2,000, BAND providers could offer immediate service to 1,865. BAND providers took equipment into unserved students' homes and connected them to their local networks. Of those 1,865 homes, 1,762 were connected. (The remainder of the homes chose not to be connected.) In addition to providing this new service, BAND providers and DCN worked together to set up numerous Wi-Fi hotspots in school and community center parking lots, and opened them to the public free of charge.
COMMITMENT TO STUDENTS
DCN and all 16 BAND providers signed the FCC's Keep Americans Connected Pledge, an initiative stressing the importance of providing connectivity at no cost to unconnected families to maintain connectivity through the coronavirus pandemic. BAND providers connected the 1,762 new customers free of charge. This new traffic eventually gets on the DCN network, which is also not compensated. FCC Chairman Pai recently approached all carriers nationwide who signed the pledge and asked that they extend the period of free service, which DCN and all 16 BAND providers did. The service is still being provided free of charge as of this publication. The state hopes to recoup those costs through federal programs. Details about new federal resources that will be made available to states due to the coronavirus pandemic are still unknown.
Many moving parts aligned for North Dakota to achieve such a high rate of student connectivity at home. "The creation of DCN and the decision by the state to aggregate and provide broadband for the entire public sector – that decision of acting as an anchor tenant – was key to us having the necessary infrastructure in place," said Duane Schell, CTO of NDIT.
This case demonstrates how crucial the state can be in bridging the home access gap. Centralized procurement, inter-agency cooperation and data-sharing, and aggressive pursuit of federal funding to offset the cost of rural builds all played a role in North Dakota's success.
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Adventure High
by Changer (2 more by this author)
Adventure High takes place in a school that teaches Adult Students how to master their unique gifts for magic to survive in the wilderness beyond the city. The main character's gift, however, is that of Control, leading to the constant temptation for him, or her to use their powers on the people around them.
I can no longer export into flash, for some reason, so I have a new EXE version. There may be some issues at first; I will try to fix them as quickly as I can. You can find the current version here: https://hypnochanger.itch.io/adventure-high-hentai-game
Dan/Rosa: If you choose Male, you will play as Dan, and if you choose to be Female you will play as Rosa. He/She wanted to enter the school last year, but barely missed the 18 year old age limit before. Now finally able to join the school, they will have some hard choices ahead of them as they face the constant temptation to use thier power over others for their own benefit, or amusement.
Val: Val is a cheerful girl, with a fascination with 80's style. She is also Dan/Rosa's closest friend at the beginning of the game, and the first person to join your party... and perhaps, the first to fall under your power.
Sarah: Sarah is a powerful weilder of destructive magic, and will join your party early on. Although she has a lot of power, and confidence in it, she seems to have no aptitude or confidence in anything beyond destruction.
Ms. Rack: Ms. Rack is the Physical Magic instructor, and Val's aunt. She seems to go out of her way to keep Val out of trouble, but will not break the school's rules for her.
Mr. Drape: Mr. Drape is the Debilitating magic user, and sees not problem with using his magic on other students as a form of discipline. This year, however, he finally has Tenure, so you might want to keep on his good side.
Dr. Tiff: Dr. Tiff is the school's nurse, as well as the Support magic instructor. She is one of the most effective users of healing magic in the world, which has easily secured her possition as the schools nurse, but her bedside manner may be somewhat lacking.
Jane: Jane is the Destructive Magic instructor, and one of the most laid back of all the school's facualty. She was chosen over even superior destructive magic users for her unusually calm attitude, but she might not be as safe as she seems...
Julia: Julia is an intelligent student who has a plan to graduate without once stepping foot beyond the safety of the first floor of the dungeon, and wants your help in carrying that plan out. Will you take her up on her offer?
Cassandra: Cassandra is a popular student specializing in debilitating magic. In order to keep her fans happy, she frequently picks fights with other students to demonstrate her superiority.
Molly: Molly is a shy student with a gift for healing, and not a lot else. Not wanting to seem like a waste of time, she volunteers to help you learn to use your magic for some extra credit in Jane's class.
Erin and Eric: Erin and Eric are twins who operate a monster store. For most people, they offer services taming monsters for sale. For you, however, they are offering some work as a monster tamer as the monsters of the school's dungeon are unique from the ones found in the open.
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Review by ghdhsdhh
Version reviewed: 0.5.6 on 08/30/2019
A truely brilliant game
Review by alguienquepasaporaqu
Possibly the game i have played and replayed the most in this site. It seems development has currently paused, as core game is being ported to another engine. However, this version has a lot to do in it, and a lot of ramifications.
When replaying it, if looking for some specific events, use the guides. There are lines and scenes particulary difficult to get by chance or logic, as it is easy to mess up.
Its a fantastic game.
Review by EthanK
This game has coma loooooong way since a much earlier version that I vaguely remember playing. The new artwork is fantastic and I had no problems with the writing which I can be quite critical of. There's a ton of content for a game with so few likes in the Alpha stage and it's very well done and is definitely worth a couple playthroughs . Seriously, play this game!
It has it's flaws to be sure, again it's in Alpha. The save system is... odd and the menus just feel off but they function well enough. The most glaring issue is how easy it is to miss things, simply not knowing what to do next or locking yourself out of content because of a decision you made very early in the game. I'm all for decisions having consequences but I'd like to see more than one way to trigger certain things.
Looking forward to future updates and love the track this is on!
Review by kasra247
On one hand I do like that the content is starting to expand to the point that the game itself is starting to feel like it's own little world. The downside being that said world feels like it gets broken to easily by the number of ways you can break chains or simply the way you can miss sub-plots due to not having cast a certain spell enough times. Being able to start over with at least the spells unlocked would be a very welcome feature. Which speaking of I have to say I don't like the new save system at all. Where before you had three slots you now save by typing in a word and hitting save, but unless you write down said words somewhere you honestly won't have very many save fires due to forgetting your save's and their states.
All that said, if the version number is anything to go by this game has a lot more room to grow and I am not only looking forward to it but happy to send a couple bucks to help the developer(s) out. ^.^
Review by Dragonsan
I personally love this game. Great graphics if you choose the new ones and you can have some fun. I do see that the whole entire 16th floor is flooded so you cant pass and thats forgiveable as you dont need to progress there, but you can get val to go get Ms.Rack but it never happens and I feel that should have been with this update.


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A Study of the Effectiveness of a Software HACCP System FoodCheck for the Management of Food Safety
Ahmed Albandary* and Fintan Moran
School of Food Science and Environmental Health, College of Sciences and Health, Technology University Dublin, Republic of Ireland
*Corresponding Author: Ahmed Albandary, School of Food Science and Environmental Health, College of Sciences and Health, Technology University Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Unsafe food can impact public health and can cause serious issues within food businesses. Therefore, the implementation of a food safety management system is required, and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) is an essential system to ensure the safety of food. However, it can be a significant amount of work to maintain, if the system is paperbased. There are many issues, which often arise during its application, and paperwork is one of the biggest challenges, as well as inaccurate information. Other barriers include time needed and effort. Therefore, the main proposal of this research is to examine the effectiveness of software-based HACCP systems, such as the FoodCheck system and determine if can help to solve the issues, which typically result from traditional paper-based HACCP systems. The results outline several solutions offered by FoodCheck, namely, the saving of time and resources.
Keywords: HACCP; Food Safety; Software-Based HACCP; Paper Based HACCP; FoodCheck
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Citation: Ahmed Albandary and Fintan Moran. "A Study of the Effectiveness of a Software HACCP System FoodCheck for the Management of Food Safety". Acta Scientific Nutritional Health 4.1 (2020): 165-170.
Copyright: © 2020 Ahmed Albandary and Fintan Moran. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


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Watch Kids Hilariously Try to Explain How Babies Are Made on Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel speaks in front of his audience at 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.'
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By Melissa Locker
Jimmy Kimmel had a noble goal—to improve sex education in this country. He had the notion that the birds and the bees talk would be far more effective if kids taught the basics to other kids because they could speak at their level, using their language. With that aim in mind, he sent producers out on the streets to interview kids about how babies are made.
Their answers ranged from informative, if wildly euphemistic, like the young lady who summed it up as "the downstairs goes into the lady's downstairs" to completely wrong, like the tyke who claimed they came from a woman's chest. While off target, he was closer than the toddler who simply sang the alphabet into the microphone, but less succinct than the young man who simply answered, "Gross." He knows this, because he's "seen Star Wars" (the director's cut, apparently.)
In short, the results were hilarious if not exactly conducive to the continuation of the human species. Ah well, they'll figure it out eventually, probably. Watch below.
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Это метод в объекте с именем "_".
Метод делит массив на части. Каждая часть с кол-вом элементов size. Далее каждая часть (представляющая массив) помещается в новый массив как отдельный элемент.
Работает не как надо но мне нужно чтобы он хоть как-то отработал..
Запускаю из командной строки - ничего не происходит...
Где тут можно ошибиться - не понимаю...один цикл в две строчки...че еще надо ему...
Буду благодарен за подсказку
Вот вызов метода: console.log(_.chunk([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2));
P.S.: задача из цикла упражнений на Сodecademy. там никаких объяснений и подсказок не нашел...

A: Проблема в том что Вы не продвигаетесь в перед используя условие i+size, этим условием Вы говорите - На каждой итерации сделай временный результат i+size но не сохраняй его в i. Так Вы попадаете в бесконечный круг повторяющегося условия.
Попробуйте так:
  function chunk(array, size) {
 if(size == undefined) {
     size = 1;
   }
    let arrayChunks = [];

     for(let i=0; i<array.length; i+= size) {
         arrayChunk = array.slice(i,size+i);
         arrayChunks.push(arrayChunk);
      }
  return arrayChunks;
}

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Q: Put associated classes in separate source files I have two classes, User and Wallet. If I put them in a single file, everything works fine. How can I put them in separate files like Wallet.java and User.java?
When I tried User.java threw an error because it didn't not know what Wallet was.
public class Wallet{
    float winningAmount;
    float bonusAmount;
    float depositAmount;
    public Wallet(float winningAmount, float bonusAmount, float depositAmount){
      this.winningAmount = winningAmount;
      this.bonusAmount = bonusAmount;
      this.depositAmount = depositAmount;
    }
    public void debitBonus(float amountToDebit){
      this.bonusAmount = this.bonusAmount - amountToDebit;
    }
    public void debitDeposit(float amountToDebit){
      this.depositAmount = this.depositAmount - amountToDebit;
    }
    public void debitWinnings(float amountToDebit){
      this.winningAmount = this.winningAmount - amountToDebit;
    }
   }

public class User{
    int id;
    String name;
    String email;
    String mobileNumber;
    boolean isVerified;
    Wallet wallet;
    User(int id, String name, String email, String mobileNumber,Wallet wallet){
      this.id = id;
      this.name = name;
      this.email = email;
      this.mobileNumber = mobileNumber;
      this.isVerified = false;
      this.wallet = wallet;
    }
  }

A: If both files are in the same package it should work immediately.
If they are in different packages, just add an import statement to import Wallet into User:
User.java
package com.domain.package1;

import com.domain.package2.Wallet;

public class User {
    Wallet wallet;
}

Wallet.java
package com.domain.package2;

public class Wallet {
}


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James Norris Schatz, 66, of Greenwood, formerly of Elyria, OH, passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2019. He was born to Norris Schatz and Margaret (France) (Schatz) Brown on October 21, 1952 in Fort Hood, Texas.
James was a veteran of the United States Army. He was married to Sandra (Talbot) Schatz for 46 years. James coached baseball for many years. He also was an umpire. James was the president of the St. John Lutheran Church congregation in Elyria, Ohio.
James is survived by his wife, Sandra Schatz of Greenwood; his son, James (Hilarie) Schatz of Whiteland; his sisters, Linda (William) Sears of Chattanooga, TN, Laurie (Kevin) Baker of Elyria, OH, and Jackie McClintock of Bartlesville, OK; his brothers, Jerold (Diane) Schatz of Grafton, OH, Kevin (Mike) Brown of Concord, NC; his brother-in-law, Nelson Talbot; his grandchildren, Carl and John Schatz; his uncle, Irvin Schatz; eight nieces and nephews; and several great- nieces and nephews.
James was preceded in death by his parents, Norris Schatz and Margaret (France) (Schatz) Brown; his step-father, Richard Brown; his nephew, Eddie; and his great-niece Grace.
A visitation will be Monday, January 28th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with a service immediately following at Jessen Funeral Home, 729 N. U.S. Hwy 31, Whiteland, IN 46184. Burial will be at Rocklane Cemetery where military honors will be conducted.


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The Medalist 425xe was overshadowed by the outstanding Medalist 545xe, which looked almost identical and came out only a little later.
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Poetry: 3 Poems by Michael Lee Johnson
Poet Michael Lee Johnson
Untitled & South Chicago Night
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Michael Lee Johnson, a poet from Itasca, Illinois, who lived 10 years in Canada during the Vietnam era, is published in 23 countries, runs four poetry sites, including his website: http://poetryman.mysite.com. His published poetry books are available through his site, Amazon.Com, Borders Books, and Lulu.com.


Pro Tools | Avid Link App Brings A Unified Way For Users To Suggest Pro Tools Feature Requests to Avid. Will You Use It?
Avid Link App Brings A Unified Way For Users To Suggest Pro Tools Feature Requests to Avid. Will You Use It?
Until recently there has been a number of different ways Pro Tools users could send feature requests to Avid. With recent changes and developments, the good news is that with the new Avid Link app, which is currently in public beta, Avid Link is being developed to simplify these routes and deliver a unified interface that enables users to not only submit feature requests and other insights but also to be able to manage their applications, purchase products and plug-ins, and connecting with the Pro Tools community.
Avid invites you to share your ideas for new Pro Tools software features. Please visit the link below to submit, comment, and vote on Pro Tools features submitted by our users. You can easily register and then you will be able to submit new ideas. And of course, comment on or vote for the ideas you see proposed by others. We look forward to using this new tool to get even greater visibility on your needs for the future!
The Pro Tools Ideascale was also the place to report bugs and other issues as well as make feature requests.
Avid today announced the creation of the Avid Customer Association, a comprehensive initiative designed to provide essential strategic leadership to the media industry, collaborate with key industry leaders and visionaries and deepen relationships between the company and its customers. The multifaceted program will engage its network of broadcast, creative and media customers, and other industry leaders, in a highly collaborative process to provide both strategic leadership and cutting-edge technology solutions to address the most important issues facing the media industry today.
In December 2016 Avid launched their first annual ACA votes. The model was a two-stage process with round 2 taking place in February 2017.
Round 1 allowed ACA members to choose new feature options from a long list, and then in Round 2 ACA members voted again from a short list of the most popular features from round 1.
With the launch of the ACA votes, Pro Tools users had at least 3 different places through which we could feedback feature requests to Avid, the Pro Tools Ideascale, the ACA forums and the ACA surveys. But which one to use? Which would Avid take most notice of? It wasn't clear and nobody was sure.
At IBC 2018 in Amsterdam Avid released the public beta of the replacement to the Avid Application Manager, which hasn't been well received and has given users issues that have slowed up their computers. To help, we produced an article showing How To Stop The Avid Application Manager From Launching At Startup - Mac And Windows.
Avid Link is a free new app that is available for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, Avid Link has been designed to make it easy to find, message, and collaborate with other creators, promote your work and skills, manage your Avid account, and purchase software, hardware, plug-ins, and other tools to advance your creative capabilities. If you want to learn more about the Avid Link app then check out our news article.
Less than a week after announcing the Avid Link public beta at IBC 2018 in Amsterdam, Avid announced the closure of the Pro Tools Ideascale. On September 26th 2018 Avid sent out an email to Pro Tools Users giving some more information on how we can submit Feature Requests using the Lounges section of the new Avid Link app.
At Avid, we understand the value and importance of capturing ideas and feedback from our community and strive to collaborate on innovative solutions and capabilities for future releases. In reviewing the multiple platforms used to collect feedback with the goal of optimizing the process for everyone we have decided to retire our IdeaScale communities effective September 27, 2018.
During this transition, we encourage you to continue discussing your feature ideas in our communities and social channels. We are also in the process of adding a new Lounge called "ACA Feature Requests" within our Avid Link application, so you can give us your feedback any time throughout the year, for any of Avid's core products. Please join the Public Beta now and be ready when this lounge becomes available by the end of September.
Also, as part of this transition, we plan to import many of the most popular existing feature requests from IdeaScale into our annual ACA Vote at the end of this year.
We look forward to having you continue to share your insight and ideas.
Well, it seems that Avid has heard us and taken steps to reduce the confusion about which way to submit feature requests. With the launch of the public beta version of the new Avid Link app, intended to replace the Avid Application Manager, and the closure of the Pro Tools Ideascale, Avid has had a rethink on how users make feature requests and we can announce that the plan for feature requests will now work like this.
The key point is that the Avid Link app becomes the one-stop place to submit all feature requests.
You now submit feature requests using the dedicated Feature Request Lounge in the Avid Link app. These suggestions can be voted up and commented on just like we could in the Pro Tools Ideascale.
Avid have just added ability to sort by number of "Likes" in lounges, so you can see which are the most liked ideas. We have also suggested that there should be a thumbs down option to replicate the feature to both vote up and vote down ideas that we had in the Pro Tools Ideascale.
It also means that if you want to submit feature requests to Avid as well as comment on other feature requests you will need to download and use the Avid Link app. There is now no other way to submit feature requests to Avid.
These user-generated suggestions will then form the basis of the annual ACA Vote, which will be voted on as before and then the most popular feature requests will be scheduled into the Avid roadmap for Pro Tools and other Avid products.
The outcome of all this means is that new feature ideas for Pro Tools will be mainly driven by customer requests and that has got to be good news.
What Will Happen To The Feature Requests Left In The Pro Tools Ideascale?
It wasn't clear how the feature requests and the current top 10 from the Pro Tools Ideascale would be migrated into the Pro Tools Feature Request lounge in the Avid Link app, but Rob D'Amico has now copied them across to the Avid Link, so it would be worth 'Liking' them in the Avid Link lounge.
If there any feature requests that matter to you from the Pro Tools Ideascale we recommend that you copy them across to the Pro Tools Feature Request Lounge in the Avid Link app.
Are Avid Becoming More Customer Focused Under The Leadership Of Jeff Rosica?
There is a very clear shift in Avid's direction and I believe this is down to the leadership of the new CEO and President of Avid Jeff Rosica. As well as announcing the 1 millionth download of their First free apps at IBC 2018, Jeff hosted a press event which I attended.
At this event, Jeff reiterated the demands from Avid's customer base are for lower costs, simpler integration, faster deployment and easier to maintain systems and technical environments.
The theme of the whole event was Avid becoming must more customer focused. It was also interesting that for this event Avid chose a more informal setting, with no technology, no presentations, no slick videos, just a passionate man wanting to share his vision for the future.
With the new Avid Link app, we now have a single easy way to provide Avid with feature request suggestions that will feed the ACA Vote so that the features being voted on by users will have come from users in the Avid Link Feature Request Lounges and voted on again in the ACA Vote by the community. Don't forget that there is a lot more to the Avid Link app than submitting feature requests including manage your Avid applications, purchase products and plug-ins, and connecting with the Pro Tools community.
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The last round saw a quick draw by one of the leaders - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - with Parimarjan Negi. In fact there were three other draws with just one game with a result. That one game was Nguyen Ngoe Truong Son beating Anish Giri allowing the former to be in a three-way tie for the first spot.
Tie-breaks would be held on Thursday to decide the winner between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son.
Son qualifies for the final tie-break because of a better tie-break score. Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana would play a semifinal and the winner would take on Son in the final of the tie-break.
Meanwhile, here is the nice Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son - Anish Giri game that helped Son tie for the first. You can run the moves in our pgnplayer or watch the flash below.
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What To Do: West Chester Film Festival tops busy weekend of events
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By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Spring is here with flowers in bloom everywhere. Winter is now in the rear-view mirror (hopefully) and COVID restrictions are beginning to fade away. Not surprisingly, the area's schedule of special things is filled to the brim. Three of the area's popular events have returned this year – a film festival and a pair of art shows – and there a...
What To Do: Spring — no really — is finally here (probably)
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By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Winterthur If spring in the Delaware Valley this year were a baby in the womb, the doctors would surely have been working on induced labor by now. The vestiges of a long, grueling winter refuse to go away and spring continues a rectangle to emerge. According to the latest weather forecasts, warmer temperatures are on their way. ...
What To Do: Yellow Springs Art Show celebrates 44 years
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times The Yellow Springs Art Show The Yellow Springs Art Show got its start back in 1973 as a free event featuring a variety of artists displaying their work on clotheslines. It has changed immeasurably since then and has become one of the largest and most prestigious annual art shows in the Delaware Valley. The Yellow Springs Art Show, which is still free and open...
What To Do: The 43rd Yellow Springs Art Show
Also: West Chester Film Festival runs this weekend By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times The popular yellow Spring Art Show features more than 185 artists this year. The Yellow Springs Art Show got its start back in 1973 as a free event featuring a variety of artists displaying their work on clotheslines. It has changed immeasurably since then and has become one of the largest and most prestigious...
What To Do: Sheep and Wool at Springton
Also: Star Party, Yellow Springs Art Show and much more By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times One of annual events that celebrate the arrival of the new season has grown into a spring tradition in Chester County — "Sheep and Wool Day" at Springton Manor Farm (860 Springton Road, Glenmoore, 610-942-2450, www.chesco.org/ccparks). This year's "Sheep and Wool Day" is a free family event...
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Yellow Springs Art Show tops a very busy last weekend in April By Denny Dyroff, Correspondent, The Times The Yellow Springs Art Show had a humble beginning and, over the years, has become of the most prestigious — and largest — annual art shows in the Delaware Valley. It began in 1973 as a free event featuring a variety of artists displaying their work on clotheslines. It has changed considerably...


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Q: Implementing the Url Rewriting for a Zend Application I am doing my first Zend Application and I am finally done with the coding side.
But the problem which I have is Client has asked to rewrite the Url's which follows the SEO and as I don't have much knowledge of the Zend Router,I am finding myself helpless this time.
Please helo me out.The current Url which I have is...

http://localhost.ZendProject.com/keywords/ball

and Client needs it like

http://localhost.ZendProject.com/ball

and another Url (the search Url)

http://localhost.ZendProject.com/search/trends?q=nishant+shrivastava&select=All&Search=Search

and the Client wants is

http://localhost.ZendProject.com/nishant-shrivastava

A: i think there is no solution, because the first and second requested url by your client is the same? How can Zend Framework know if you want so show a keyword or search?
For the first route you can add this to your applications.ini (if you use ZF 1.8+):
resources.router.routes.route_1.route = ":keyword"
resources.router.routes.route_1.defaults.module = "default"
resources.router.routes.route_1.defaults.controller = "keywords"
resources.router.routes.route_1.defaults.action = "index"

This will route http://localhost.ZendProject.com/ball to keywords controller / index action
and is providing ball als paramater keyword.


The following essay is an extract from Tomorrow's People: Making Cultures for Creativity, a new book from UKTV promoting British creativity.
If you want to run an organisation with creativity at its heart, I have some advice that might surprise you. Because my advice is to keep the "creatives" as far away from the "organisation" as you can.
I'm Head of Drama at DR, which is Denmark's national broadcaster – roughly the equivalent of the BBC. Our shows have included Borgen and 1864, as well as current hits such as The Legacy and The Bridge. Until 2012, I spent seven years producing The Killing.
At the moment, we have four drama series in production or pre-production. All of the creative talent for these shows – the "software", as I sometimes say – comes from outside DR. Those directors, actors, producers and writers need a creative room where they can work. – and the most important thing that I can do, to help those people do their best work, is to protect their creative room.
The writers' room for The Legacy (below) is out at Søborg, a suburb of Copenhagen, in one of the few buildings that remain of DR's former campus headquarters. As they write and produce their final season, The Legacy's producer Karoline Leth, creator Maya Ilsøe and their team really don't need to know what's going on back at head office. I meet regularly with the controller of our main channel, DR1, who's a great partner for discussing how our drama series are going. But if those discussions include disagreements, or if I hit corporate problems or whatever… well, Karoline and Maya don't always need to know. I think that's one of the reasons why producers and writers like to work with us – because they feel that the freedom in the creative room is real.
Another thing that we do differently from many other broadcasters is to give the writers a little more time, when they're first starting out on a project. It's not that expensive to have a couple of writers sitting in a room, figuring stuff out. We did that with Jeppe Gjervig Gram, who had been a staff writer on Borgen, and who is now the creator of our big new financial crime drama Follow the Money. He had funding for about six months with his producer and one other writer, so they got really grounded in the concept. It only becomes expensive when you start to get lots of other people in – the director, and more writers. Investing a little more money in that "cheap" period is really vital, I think.
And it's really vital for me to get involved with some of those early scripts, too, to make sure that what is on the page is the same as what was pitched. Some people argue that subtlety and nuance can come when the actors and the director get involved, but I don't agree. As the Americans say: "If it ain't in the script, you ain't going to get it." And, of course, the more you know when you start shooting, the less expensive that shoot will be.
When we came up with The Killing, about 10 years ago now, it started in a similar way to Jeppe's project. It was just me and Søren Sveistrup, the creator, in a room. That was out in Søborg, too, in a building that's since been demolished – in the old DR "barracks", just a single-storey wooden building round a courtyard, like a summer house. The rain would sometimes come in through the roof. And there was a sort of weird sweet smell in the air – so we had someone from the cleaning company come in, who took up the floorboards, and found lots of dead rats underneath. It was a real creative paradise.
Anyway. Søren was a big fan of the thriller genre – he got me to watch the Brad Pitt movie Seven, as well as many other thriller movies. We decided to try and come up with a thriller series. The first idea that we really pinned down was that the father of the victim would end up going on a journey with the killer. Fans of The Killing will remember that climactic scene, at the end of season one, where Theis headed off into the woods with… Well, I won't do any spoilers here. But he headed off into the woods with the killer.
Even though it was police detective Sarah Lund who turned into the show's iconic character, she developed more slowly. Actress Sofie Gråbøl was pregnant with her daughter, so initially she said a flat "no" to doing another TV series. I said to her, "Will you at least read the script, and then say 'no'?" It was Søren's script that persuaded her – and from then on, Sofie participated in the development of the character.
Søren was obsessed by sending Sarah into dark places – alleys, pipelines below the streets, empty warehouses – where she had to keep going and going, she couldn't turn back. She did things most women would never dream of. If I were faced with something like that, I would get a taxi home, lock my door, take a tranquilliser and go to sleep.
We also never imagined that that sweater would become the international symbol of The Killing. The idea was just to dress Sarah down. A ponytail, blue jeans, boots, a sweater, a jacket and out she goes to fight crime. Wearing more or less the same clothes every day. Not being dirty or anything – it was the lack of vanity that was important.
I had also had another mentor who was very important to me. When I was first starting out in the 1980s, getting my education as a director at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, I met Birgitte Price. She was an actress at the Royal Theatre, but she also directed, and she asked me to help her with a production. It was Birgitte who introduced me to television, because she became Head of Drama at DR.
Of course, over the years I've also learned from management styles that I didn't like so much. When I was a producer, we used to have very strict meetings, where you sat with an agenda. It was pretty much just the management talking to the producers. Each producer only had five minutes to say how their show was going – "I had some trouble with this or that, but I'll solve it", that kind of thing – and we had to listen to the management talking about corporate stuff for an hour and a half.
As Head of Drama, I don't do that anymore. Every Wednesday, from 9.00am until 11.00am, I have a meeting with all the producers. We don't have an agenda, we don't write down what's been said. We have a very open discussion about everything – I hope that the producers feel they can say anything to me. It's a room full of trust and confidence. Someone might say, "I need a director in October, do you know anyone who would be good?" We might talk about the trends in American TV drama from the LA screenings, or about European and UK drama. It can be anything.
I want to stay away from a "management" mind-set. In Denmark, DR is often perceived the way the BBC seems to be perceived in the UK – bureaucratic and expensive and traditional. But nobody else would have made The Killing like we did, with the story of just one killer told over 20 episodes. Or Borgen. "We're doing a series about Danish politics." People said, "You've gone crazy." Yet it turned into a worldwide hit. And The Legacy could have just been a soap – but at DR, Maya has been able to give the characters and the conflicts such depth and complexity.
It's actually because we're a long-established public service broadcaster that we have to make sure we don't get stuck in a comfort zone. It's because we are funded by a licence fee, because the Danish people pay our wages, that we have to be first movers. New writers must come into DR and tell their stories. In a way, we're a little bit like Sarah Lund as she heads down a dark alley into the unknown. We don't know how it will turn out – but we just have to keep going.


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Ten Days Of Blessings And Simple Hopes
Once upon a time, there was a land wherein it was common practice for everyone to be happily affected by, and even actively participate in any kind of religious festival or event around them. It did not really matter whether it was a Christian, or a Muslim, everyone in the various communities enjoyed the events and they all rejoiced with their associates, colleagues, neighbors or family members who were part of that creed even though they were not. The only difference between say a Christian and a Muslim on Christmas day or the day of Eid was, who paid the bill because everybody celebrated and those that belonged to the celebrated faith hosted or sent refreshments to those that did not.
All that was way before terms like diversity, multicultural, multi-religious and tolerance became trendy in Europe and America. The land where such peaceful and joyous communion reigned was Ghana and the period, not long ago, was before the Christians started seeing Satan everywhere and saying "I reject it" or "I am strong" or "I bind you in the name of Jesus" and Muslims started feeling the need to wear long beard, dress like middle easterners, terrorism became a part of everyday language, and competing for Sundays with Christians.
By the way, it must be said that what guided the behaviors of the peaceful religious era in Ghana was not tolerance but wisdom, that says we can co-exist.
Those Ghanaians were wise enough to see humanity in all religions; they were capable of reminding themselves that they all worshiped the same
God via different formats. They were wise enough to believe that all religious festivals and events were to be celebrated by anyone alive and that whoever is alive, regardless of his or her professed creed, can reap the blessings and hopes that the prayers and rituals of the celebrated religion can bring.
As Muslims all over the world continue their thirty days of fasting, part of our simple hopes is that everyone everywhere should wish all the Muslims they know or meet a blessed Ramadan (Ramadan Mubarak) and a noble Ramadan (Ramadan Kareem).
We also hope that those fasting and, indeed, those around them, will truly discover a fuller meaning of Ramadan, which, as we are often reminded, is the third pillar of Islam, Faith or belief in the Oneness of God and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad; being the first, followed by Salat- the five daily obligatory prayers, followed by fasting during the month of Ramadan, Concern for and almsgiving to the needy;) and finally, The pilgrimage to Makkah for those who are able.
"O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard against evil." (The Holy Quran, 2:183)
The Holy Quran contains many references to an afterlife for those who do good deeds, and this includes fasting. Regarding the concept of heaven (Jannah) in the Quran, verse 35 of Sura Al-Raid says, "The parable of the garden of Eden which the righteous are promised! Beneath it flows rivers. Perpetual is the fruit the fruit thereof and the shade therein. Such is the end of the righteous and the end of the disbeliever is the fire". (Quran 13:35)
I personally also like to remind them that according to Islamic theology, "the night of power" (Lailut ul-Qadr) was during the month of Ramadan.
That was the night the holy Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God, was revealed. And that night will begin on Saturday, August 20, 2011; it is the night when all prayers are answered and it is belief in Islam that God Almighty will come down from the seventh heaven to listen and bless his beloved.
Muslims believe that the month of Ramadan is filled with blessings, heaven knows that Ghana and, indeed, the world, especially was we wait for the verdict in the election petition case at the Supreme Court, need a lot of it right now and it is my fervent hope that everyone can share from the blessings that these fasting and prayers will bring.
Due to the nature of Ramadan, there are some blessings and some simple hopes that Muslims can help Ghanaians fulfill in the remaining days.
Fasting is intended to teach Muslims to reflect and practice self-discipline and self-restraint. It will be great blessings for Ghana if in the coming days, our Muslim public officials can really follow the requirements of Ramadan and truly refrain from looting or wasting the country's treasury they have the privilege and duty of managing for all.
Imagine how blessed we shall be if for the thirty days all the Muslims in the country, from the policemen on our roads to politicians and other public officers from our local governments way up to the executive, decide to fully follow Ramadan and truly refrain from asking and taking bribes.
Imagine what will happen if, because of them Ghanaians of other religious faith would follow suit.
Ramadan is also a time Muslims are asked to remember and reflect on the suffering of the poor. Those Muslims charged with the duty of managing the affairs of the country have the opportunity of individually reflecting on the plight of the poor, they have the challenge of bringing together other Muslims in the same spirit to come up with cogent plans to truly deal with the situation of the poor and the under-privileged.
What a blessing it would be for the country if matters of health, education, unemployment and infrastructures are treated by those truly moved by the spirit of Ramadan.
In the remaining ten days of fasting, (which is a special night) Muslims are also asked to be generous, as a people, one thing Ghanaians, rich
or poor, upper, middle or lower class, can rarely be accused of is tightfistedness, on the contrary the practice is to be generous to a fault.
Unlike elsewhere though, Ghanaians tend to be generous only to individuals, without stopping that, it might just be great if as a people, we start being generous also to causes, institutions and principles.
This country needs its Muslims to start giving more of their time, energy and intelligence to help deal with its many problems and weaknesses.
The country needs people who are willing to serve and to give just, because they believe and because they are generous.
May the almighty Allah guide and protect us all.
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One of the top companies in the world teaching up-and-coming entrepreneurs is CEO Space. It's designed for small business owners who are either early-stage or already running a well-established business looking to meet qualified experts that can provide insight into how to take their enterprise to the next level. On today's show, Richard Kaye, a Director at CEO Space, joins Mark Yuzuik to discuss what CEO Space is all about and how it's helping entrepreneurs grow and make a difference in the world.
Growing, Contributing And Making A Difference Through CEO Space With Richard Kaye
Make sure you subscribe to my podcast so you are alerted of when other podcasts come on. We're always doing it with special guests, powerful people, ways that you can get ahead as well. Email me. Go to GetYourMindSetWithMark.com and it will give you my free book, Creating the Life You Want. Read a chapter a day, grow a little bit at a time. Your life is worth it. I want to thank you for being here. It's special. It's rare that I get this opportunity to interview somebody with the caliber of the expertise in the business of creating businesses, gapping businesses together, and getting your business to the next level where you couldn't do it on your own. If you didn't take your twenty years, what they can do in, imagine, six months to a year. That's what this interview is about. It's something I'm excited about. I've tried for years and years I want to do interviews. I've never had the opportunity. We happened to be stuck on this beautiful boat, Marketing Cruise, and now I trapped him.
I want to introduce to you Richard Kaye. He is a phenomenal man. I've known him for many years and he's been an inspiration in my life. I want to say thank you. He is a big part of CEO Space. I've been there before. What a phenomenal place to be if you're ready to take your life to the next level in all areas. The people you meet there, they are going to blow you away. I want to say, Richard, thanks for being here. Can you tell them all about what it's going to do for their life? What I like about it is it's not about what it's going to do for their life, it's what they can do for other people too. It's all about contribution and giving back. That's what we hone on. It's not what can I take, it's what can we share and give to each other. Take it away. Tell them what you think.
Thanks. We are trapped, if you can call this trapped, in an amazing cruise. We're in Aruba. If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium. No, it's Thursday, it must be Aruba. We are having the time of our lives. We're almost 500 high-level entrepreneurs. Specifically, you asked about CEO Space, the years-long history, Mark, of doing only one thing and that's building businesses. We're not a seminar. In a seminar, you go, you take notes in 6 weeks, 6 months, 6 years, you look at the notes and say, "I remember that." It was an experience. We are 70% transactional. That means 70% of the time, we're building businesses, your business. Anywhere from a napkin idea all the way up through when Joan Gustafson, the Senior Vice President of 3M international, came and you can watch 3M grow.
People learn how to raise capital. Most people don't know how to raise capital. Many people say, "I don't want to give away my business." When you learn it from our Founder, Berny Dohrmann, who is an economist banker, you will own the majority of the company and your investors are there supporting and endorsing you growing their business and wealth as you grow your business. We have created Chicken Soup for the Soul. That got started and birthed at CEO Space. People that most of us cannot reach on a phone become your lifelong friends. Sitting down with Sharon Lechter, for example, who's the real author of Rich Dad Poor Dad or Jack Canfield, and Bob Proctor. These are some high-level players and you get to dine with them. You get to sit down, you and a couple of people at a meal table.
They're not at a day just talking at you. They're sitting and mentoring you. I told you, Mark, a funny story with Michael Gerber, The E-Myth author. After he taught, he was out in the lobby because that's what we do. He's mentoring people. His wife says, "Richard, you've got to stop him." I said, "Why?" She said. "He's 83. He needs his rest." I ask Michael, he said, "I'll be fine." That's our culture. That's how you build a business. Like you and I, we've known each other for years and it wasn't until we sat down, broke bread, and had a meal. That's the key to what we do at CEO Space. We provide lunch and dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and you're sitting with these people two hours at a time. You'd have to be brain dead if you cannot grow a business. We have helped people raise so many billions of dollars. We've stopped counting. What else would you like? You know your audience. What do you feel they would like to know?
The thing is when they come there, what can they expect? When they get there, it's not selling. A lot of people go to an event and it's like, "What am I going to be pitched? What am I going to be selling?" If you get caught selling, it's nice. You gracefully escort them out of the program and you do not let them back in because it's not about that. It's about growing and that's what I love.
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I want to make a distinction about that. Our faculty are not permitted to sell. You will never be pitched from the stage. You come as a member, you can sell anything you want. However, if you come to sell, no one's going to want to play with you. If you come to contribute, you will do beautifully in business. We have three major networking events where you will get to know everyone and everyone will get to know you and that's nice. They will know what you'll do in business. You will know what they do in business. We use a process called See Me Cards. It's an index card. It says, "See me. I'm a contact. I'm a lead. I'm a resource. I know somebody who can help you." I gave an example to you, I believe. Someone was telling me what she's doing in business. I said, "I have a friend who can use your services." I texted her immediately. That's what we do with CEO Space. That's part of the reason we're 70% business building.
Tell them about Make-A-Wish Foundation, Frank.
Frank Shankwitz was an Arizona highway patrolman. If you're old enough to remember CHiPs on television, that's what he did in Arizona. There was a boy who was dying of cancer. I get chills even telling that story. He wants to be a motorcycle cop. I don't remember how he got connected to Frank. Frank went to the Arizona motorcycle. They had a custom uniform made for him. He got his helmet. He was taken on the training course with Frank and this, ladies and gentlemen, was the beginning of Make-A-Wish Foundation but wait, there's more.
There was a young man who was a member of our program, Greg Reid, who one day asked Frank, "Frank, what's your wish?" Frank said, "No one's ever asked me that." He said, "I'd like to see a movie made about Make-A-Wish foundation." That got born at CEO Space. The movie is called Wish Man. As an aside, this little boy, when he died from his cancer, he had a motorcycle escort and a police honor guard at his funeral. Those are the kinds of things. That's an unusual story. When you have a dream and you try and do it your own, it takes forever. You said something profound.
We can help you shorten the timeline from where you are and beyond where you want to be. Someone said, "You will do more networking in one week at CEO Space than you will typically do in six months." He was brilliant and he said, "These are not people who say buy my service." By the way, every one of our faculty members is vetted. We want to make certain that when someone's up on our stage, there are faculty, they are going to deliver what they say they do. If they don't, they are fired. You, as a member, run this thing. You tell us what works and what doesn't work. Thirty-two years, there's got to be something. When I say it's good, that's nice. You've been around when you say that's nice. When Forbes, Inc. and a myriad of the third-party press say, "This is the Business Growth Conference you cannot afford to miss." That's nice.
It's beautiful when you talk about Make-A-Wish. I'm friends with Larry Wilcox who was Jon, and I found out the story. We were at another event, Secret Knock with Greg Reid. I said, "Greg, Frank is going to be here. Let's surprise him because this whole thing started with CHiPs. Let's bring Larry in." I remember the moment and then he started making the movie. Jon, which is Larry, but at that moment he's Jon. When Larry Wilcox, who was Jon from CHiPs, got up there and met Frank, it was a moment that will blow your mind. That's one of the small things. There are many different things that happen, the connections.
CEO Space: You will do more networking in one week at CEO Space than you will typically do in six months.
You can't even imagine when you go there. The people who can connect you. When you have an idea and you have a dream, you go for it. You surround yourself with the people that you know the best people you can. When you open up a door like the CEO Space, you're surrounding yourself with a network of people that are achievers. That's why there are speakers there. Some of the biggest speakers in the world will support this. There's a reason why. It's because it stands for something about growth and contribution. Everybody knows the best way to be fulfilled is to contribute and to give back. When you're going there, you may have something that you have no idea how to grow it. Before you know it, you sit around that table, see me, and you share your dream, now your dream becomes in reality. How did the movie get made because of that? Someone asked the question.
When I used to go to networking groups before I was awakened, it was who's coming in as a patient? Who's going to buy someone's insurance? Who's going to buy a car? When you turn your life around, inside-out and upside-down, you ask the question differently, what do you do and how may we serve you? The world opens up to you. I want to invite you. I haven't set this up because it's on a cruise but I would like to provide your audience with a gift. I'll tell you what the gift is. Keynote talks from people, not like, but including Bob Proctor, Les Brown, and Mark Victor Hansen. Free keynotes. These are not pitches nor come-ons. These are sessions they taught at CEO Space. Ladies and gentlemen, to get that go to CEOSpaceAmerica.com.
On the contact page, say you were referred by Mark and I will automatically send that stuff to you. It may take you a while. You fill out the contact form and mention Mark. It's an invitation. You will learn. It's almost five hours. You will see what happens when you're in the presence. Speaking of Bob Proctor, by the way, Bob says, "CEO Space is not a business growth conference. This is a personal growth conference masquerading as a business." Who do you have to be to sit down and have lunch or dinner with Bob and sit with him in a personal consultation?
By the way, it's free. Not the conference, the consultations. There's a lifetime membership fee. Some of you have heard of Lisa Nichols. When Lisa came to us, she was working a low-paying job in South Central, LA. Her soul said, "I have to be here." She raised the money to come. Jump ahead a few years later. If you know Lisa, you'll know and if you don't, you're about to learn. She's worth over $5 million. She got in the video The Secret because of CEO Space. She's apparently bought her own office building.
My understanding is she's taken her company public. She got a $1 million advance on her book, No Matter What! She doesn't teach with us anymore, Mark. She is traveling all over the world and changing lives. Here's a woman who had to raise the money to come. I could bore your audience, but I won't, forever with stories about people who said, "I can't afford this." Their soul said, "I need to be there." When they did that, their lives changed. I'm going to tell you one more story. There is a young lady. She did not like Swiffer mops. She liked neither the ecology nor the economy. Did I tell you this story?
She went online looking for alternatives. All she found were other people complaining about Swiffer mops. A single mom from Tampa didn't have the money. Somehow, she had a conversation. We don't advertise. This is how people find out about us. She came to CEO Space. Shortening the story. She put a team together, put her business plan together, put her financials together. The product is called the Green Glider. You can find that on the internet at Go Green Glider because someone had the domain. She's been on QVC fourteen times. She's in over 300 Walmarts. On the packaging, it says, "Thank you, CEO Space." Her dream, which she didn't know she had, she just wanted to find something different. Her life's a lot different now.
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That's the whole thing. People have great ideas and they don't know how to implement it because, "I don't know who to go to. I don't have the money." What your brain does is make excuses on why you shouldn't follow through it. When you have the opportunity and you show up somewhere, then your brain sees a different path because there are many different facets of CEO Space. You can't go through them all. Wherever you are in your life, if you have something you're passionate about and you believe in something that you know is going to help and contribute to the economy of the world, other people, whatever that is for you, it doesn't matter what it is. That is the place you bring it to. I get a metaphor. Imagine going be invited to the Shark Tank but there are more than 4 or 5 sharks and you don't get 30 seconds or whatever time they give you. You get to sit down because with 30 seconds, you get nervous.
You don't get your point across within a minute or whatever it is. You can sit down and you get comfortable, you're in a round table with Bob Proctor. Do you know that I study his stuff before every single seminar I do? He's that good. I love him that much. Tony, Bob, Jim, you talk about all these major people out there. They're influencers. They've influenced my life to be a better person. Surrounding yourself with that caliber of people, you will, by default, raise your expectation appreciation. You can't fail unless you show up, go to the pool, fall asleep, get a sunburn, and have to get some aloe vera all over you so you don't show up to the event. Otherwise, you've got to be there. They don't understand the impact. Why is it not publicized? It's because it doesn't need to be. We're not trying to attract the wrong people, we're inviting the right people in. That's what I love.
That's a nice distinction. It's not a seminar where you can go online into your credit card and show up. Every person in attendance is interviewed. We do our best to weed out people who are user takers and we all know those people. If you are a person who lives in contribution and collaboration, this is a home, it's the new tribe. This is one of the reasons that Forbes and Inc. keep raving about us. It's the collaborative process. Virtually every vertical you need, whether it's podcasting or book publication, we have people there who have gotten potential authors or now authors six-figure advances on an idea, an unwritten book. Several years ago, Tony Robbins came, changed his trajectory, and added things to his repertoire of what he was providing. You will meet people who are amazing that you will say, "I can't sit and talk with these people." Yes, you can.
You may even be an introvert and you will find that at our place, you don't have to approach people. They'll come to you because the whole culture is about collaboration and cooperation. We ask you those questions, as I said, "What are you doing? How may I serve you?" We help you fine-tune that. There's a young lady I met here who's got an amazing story of overcoming some tragedies in her life. She says, "I don't have anything to sell." I said, "Great." I said, "You have a story to tell though." She looked at me, she asked, "What is it?" I said, "You're alive talking." She was almost abducted and could have been raped, murdered, and how she escaped. That's a story from people from all walks of life. We have a presence in 150 countries.
The Founder, Berny Dohrmann, he retired from running the company to do his gift, which is nation-building. An economist, investment banker, he understands things that I don't even know are out there that most of us don't. He's out building nations and helping them restructure their debt load so they can thrive and we thrive as a culture at CEO Space. Someone once asked me, "Is it a cult?" Here's what a cult is. A cult is where people generally have regularly scheduled meetings. They dress fairly alike. They have a secret language like the United States Senate. That's a cult and the cult is short for culture. We are a thriving culture. You made an interesting statement. There's no advertising. It's word of mouth.
That's another thing that happens with doing business in the CEO Space tribe. You get to do fun things in doing business. We were at Curacao and we were in Aruba. There are some 480 people here. To give you an idea, ladies and gentlemen, when we asked who here are members of CEO Space, almost 25% of the people raise their hands because it is the culture that goes with you. They are healthy physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and raising their bottom line so you can take better care of yourself and your family by generating more revenue.
That's the whole thing. You've got to take care of yourself and take care of others. If you're going there to make more money, it's probably not the right fit. If you go in there to contribute, to grow, and to make a difference, that's what we're looking for. That's what this whole thing is founded on. It's founded on the gift. It's a gift and the reason Berny retired is that he's got bigger things to do out there and it contributes back to CEO Space. Everything goes back to it. You can imagine the contacts and the connections that you're going to make there when you check it out. You could spend years and years trying to do it by yourself getting frustrated. What if you have the availability to pick up the phone and make that phone call?
CEO Space: If you are a person who lives in contribution and collaboration, CEO Space is a home. It's the new tribe.
People's lives have changed. It's called the Oprah effect. People that have been on Oprah one time, their life is different. People that go on Ellen one time, their lives are different. People that go to CEO Space one time, their life is different because of those connections. It's not how much knowledge you have, it's not how much money you have, it's none of that stuff. It's having the right connections to get your message out there to the right people so we can all grow and that's what this is. We are close in many ways of building an idea. With social media, the ideas become products, success stories, and growth for everybody. That one idea of the tragedy that that woman experienced, by her sharing that idea now through CEO Space, how many other lives has she saved and protected?
That's exactly what we were talking about on the upper deck, wherever that was. Ladies and gentlemen, you're going to want to come on this cruise. She was frustrated because she has a story and didn't even know she had a story. That was exactly my question. If you can change lives or people's lives can be changed because of your story, give them hope. Look at Oprah, she was beaten up, raped, abused, and look at where she is now. You mentioned something. We are not a one-shot and it's done. This is a lifetime membership. You come, you meet family, and it becomes your family. We've had six marriages come through our place. Two weddings were performed onsite. That's the closeness that you develop the friendships there. You talk about a phone call away.
I was sitting with my friend and her daughter. Her daughter suggested there was something that was an infringement of her intellectual property. We're sitting in my dining room. I picked up a phone, and I called a woman named Maria Speth, who is one of the top intellectual property attorneys in the country. We talked for 5 or 10 minutes, no fees, and she counseled us on what to do. That's your family. That's better than having a sister-in-law who is an attorney. There was no angst, nothing. These are the kinds of people you want in your life. You want people who have only one desire and that's to help you thrive. I don't know about you, but I call my core family a typical post-World War II dysfunctional family.
If someone surfaced an idea, what makes you think you can do that? That's not life-producing and not life-giving. At CEO Space, nobody likes criticism even as constructive criticism so we use an expression called plussing. How can I plus that for you from your language? We use a process called SNAP, Super Networking Accelerates Potential. You will learn not an elevator speech because an elevator speech is sometimes your sales. Your SNAP, which you do all week long, is your shtick about what it is that you do and people hand you See Me Cards, and then you go a follow-up. It's nonstop network. We've been described as networking on steroids in a healthy way.
I love the whole concept. I've been a big fan for many years and you're 2 or 3 people away from getting everything you want plus in life. Your imagination will limit you but your opportunity with your relationships will have you grow way past you could ever dream of that you didn't think you can get. Now it's available to you because of that. Now that they know, they don't have to rewind it, how do they get ahold of you? You didn't have to give those gifts. I never asked. That's the caliber of people there. I didn't say, "Richard, what can you do?" It never came up. I said, "How do we get this message to people?" The people that are reading that yearning to want to grow, how do we help and support them? You made that offer. That's the way the whole tribe is. How do they get ahold of you so we can make sure that we give them value, they can grow, and help somebody else as well as themselves?
Thanks for asking that. The website is CEOSpaceAmerica.com. My email address is RKaye@CEOSpaceAmerica.com. If you don't want to fill out the contact form because it says, "How did you find out about us?" put Mark and send an email to me. Write Mark so I know where you found out about us and I'll follow up with you and see how we may serve you. It's true. You didn't ask. You didn't say, "What can you give my audience?" A lot of people do that. This is our culture. We do these five a year. We're doing them in Denton, which is right outside of Texas. It's easy to get to. Anywhere from outside the country, you can fly almost directly to Dallas. I want to thank you for the opportunity to share some of my knowledge. It was an experience. Speaking of that, there's an old expression, "Other people's money," and that's always good. Ladies and gentlemen, I totally ascribe to that, however, other people's knowledge, wisdom, and experience are more profound than using other people's money.
I appreciate you taking the time. I asked if we can do this and you said, "Whenever you want, I'll be there for you." That's the whole message. No matter what, I'll be there for you. That's the slogan. Thank you and make sure you go and check them out. Email Richard and check him out. He is a phenomenal man. It's all about contribution giving but helping you get to the next level. Subscribe to my podcast. I want you to listen to all the different podcasts. Everybody has something else to contribute. GetYourMindSetWithMark.com, email me, get my free book, and I will talk to you soon. God bless you and rock on. Thank you.
Creating the Life that You Want
Richard Kaye
CEO Space
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The E-Myth
Greg Reid
CEOSpaceAmerica.com
Go Green Glider
RKaye@CEOSpaceAmerica.com
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