In workplace many conflicts can escalate due to conflict triangles which end up as victim triangles. These dynamics consist of the alleged perpetrator, victim/target and rescuer/facilitator. If the triangle is negative all become victims of a dispute. With coaching each party can learn processes and skills that lead to clear communication with the other, personal reflection, accountability and healing the rift or conflict. If conflicts are left to worsen then they can escalate and toxicity can expand more conflict, isolation and bullying behaviours. This process is available in workshop for groups to practice. Refer to Facilitating Transformation Conflict.
Moving out of victim consciousness moves all into a new situation of greater harmony with life. Letting go of being a victim means moving towards being a proactive creator of your own outcomes. This is a unique process of parties directly resolving their own conflict. It is a process they can utilise in future situations.
The coach is a facilitator and assists all 2-3 parties (perpetrator, victim/target, rescuer/facilitator) to become clear about how they can enable an escalation of conflict and how they can facilitate their own solutions and resolution through addressing the issues in a proactive process where they take responsibility for the conflict and discover ways to resolve it.
Susan Carew, as the facilitator, works directly with conflict parties keeping them on track with the process, answering any questions and allowing them to work through the conflict until they are completely satisfied. In many processes people look for negotiated settlements, to really dissolve conflict it must be faced in a positive way and then dealt with. This can be used with bullying problems in the cases where those bullying are unaware that they bully, became stressed or are in an unquestioned pattern. If the perpetrator who is bullying is controlling and rigid in their beliefs, refusing to take responsibility and not interested in change then this process will not work for them. It is for those open to change.
This is a combined list for both the perceived perpetrator and the target.
Learning to listen and reflect back to another person.
Learning to speak the truth and understand the process is a part of healing.
Learning to actively listen and the accuracy of understanding in feeding back.
Learning that there is more than one perspective and developing empathy for the other.
Learning about their own beliefs, values and behaviour and how it impacts on others.
Learning to take responsibility for actions, inaction and personal beliefs.
Learning that both can be empowered through clear communication with the aim of resolution.
Learning to no longer live in denial, defensiveness and see conflict as an opportunity to discover one's own power.
Learning that change and conflict leads to understanding, growth, empowerment and happiness.


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The problem with Apple building a car
Christian Zibreg ∙ January 26, 2021
Apple Car rumors have persisted since late 2014, having intensified with a flurry of reports saying Apple held talks with several potential manufacturers lately. Although an Apple Car is unlikely to become a reality before at least 2025, that hasn't stopped fans from dreaming up what an Apple-branded vehicle would feel like. But there's a problem with Apple building a car.
I haven't given it much thought until I read today's insightful edition of the Monday Note column by ex-Apple engineer Jean-Louis Gassée. In it, he posits that costs involved in required distributing and servicing a car might prove prohibitive even for a company of Apple's size.
Here's what immediately jumped out:
This says nothing of the sales and marketing expenditure — after the gross margin — that's required to distribute and service a car. To belabor the obvious, it's one thing to sell and service a $1,000 iPhone or a $2,000 to $5,000 computer. Existing Apple Stores can't diagnose and fix a complicated, heavily regulated product for which the customer has paid upwards of six figures. You would need different facilities, different people, a different culture.
The very thought of Apple building an automobile sounds ridiculous.
Image credit: Apple Car concept courtesy of Top Speed
After all, Apple is a technology company — only it isn't. Apple is a lifestyle company and its brand is perfectly tailored for a mass consumer product like a car.
According to JP Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee's thoughtful write-up, titled "Go Big Or Go Home", the automobile industry's total addressable market is now approaching $2.5 trillion. Compare that figure with the total addressable market for smartphones, which is about $420 billion, and you'll see why Apple might be interested to enter this space.
Apple could employ the same tactics that have turned the iPhone into the most profitable product. As Jean-Louis says, Apple could be "shooting for a minority share of the market but a majority portion of the profits, just the way it does in the 'smaller' smartphone space."
That implies an Apple premium, which is expected if Apple's product strategy in the past decades is any indication. But as independence analyst Horace Dediu observes, we can't have twice the cars, we can't double the price and we cannot make cars twice as profitable easily.
Sounds like a problem in a need of an elegant solution from a certain California firm.
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At Precision's Summer Tree Estates you will find a beautiful golf course community in Crown Point, with Maintenance Free, Full Brick Paired Villas from the low $250s and single family homes from the $300s.
A scenic golf course community, Summer Tree Estates fits a number of lifestyles with single-family homes and paired villas nestled just beyond its picturesque tree-lined borders. You can choose from Precision's semi-custom or full design/build single-family homes starting from the low $300s or maintenance free, paired-villa homes featuring ranch and 2-story plans from the low $250s. Villas feature full-brick exteriors with vinyl accents and can be built with full basements or slab foundations.
Summer Tree Estates is located at 10108 California Street just South of Westfield Southlake Mall on US 30. It is ideally situated between this shopping corridor, where you can access I-65 and downtown Crown Point historic shopping district.
You can access Summer Tree off of I65 either at Rt 30 east or 109th exit east. Exit I65 East – two blocks to Mississippi (the stop light) South approximately three miles to 101st East one mile to Summer Tree Estates / California Street.


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Equal Access Act
Many schools allow students to form clubs, like a drama club or a debate club. Under the law, schools cannot discriminate against student clubs, like Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) for example, simply because they disagree with the message or purpose of a club. This document provides information about the federal Equal Access Act and protections for student clubs.
New ACLU Report Shows Police in Schools Undermine the Education of Washington's Kids
Students, Not Suspects Highlights How School Policing Funnels Youth into School-to-Prison Pipeline
Opening a can of fart spray. Dumping chocolate milk on a classmate. When police are in schools, youthful misbehavior can suddenly become a crime
A new ACLU report exposes how police in Washington's schools funnel youth into the school-to-prison pipeline.
Students Not Suspects: The Need to Reform School Policing in Washington State
A new report that looks at police embedded in Washington state schools. Students, teachers, and school staff deserve safe, quality schools—but this cannot be accomplished by reliance on school policing.
Teens who engage in "sexting" should not be prosecuted as sex offenders
The ACLU of Washington has filed a friend of the court brief in State of Washington v. E.G. asking the state court of appeals to reverse the trial court decision and dismiss E.G.'s conviction. The purpose of Washington's child pornography law is to prevent minors from being sexually exploited or abused for someone else's personal gratification or commercial gain, not to criminalize young people for experimenting with their sexuality. The purpose of Washington's child pornography law is not to criminalize young people for experimenting with their sexuality.
Schools Need to Do Their Homework on Sex Ed
After concerns raised by ACLU of WA and community. A controversial personal relationships speaker withdraws from Kennewick School District event.
Grays Harbor County Policy of Putting Kids in Solitary Confinement Is Unconstitutional, Asserts Teen's Lawsuit
A 16 year-old boy who was repeatedly put into solitary confinement, subjected to filthy conditions, and denied adequate food while in the Grays Harbor County Juvenile Detention Facility is suing Grays Harbor County for violating his constitutional rights.
Restorative Justice Offers a Powerful Alternative to Prisons and Jails
Restorative justice provides an alternative that can help break the cycle of over-incarceration for many offenses. Restorative practices focus on repairing the harm that has been done, rather than simply punishing someone who has committed an offense by locking them up.
Silent protests of the national anthem present a teachable moment for America's schools
Schools must refrain from trampling the free-speech rights of students, but if that's all they do, their work is incomplete. Rather than approach student protests as something simply to be tolerated, schools should embrace the teachable moments they present.
Youth Matters in Sentencing
The ACLU of Washington recently filed friend of the court briefs in three cases urging the Washington Supreme Court to align the law with developments in brain science.


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The Strategic Enterprises Management Agency (SEMA), an agency overlooking governance at state-owned enterprises and reporting to the president, advised against the costly international airport at Mattala. They recommended expansion at the Bandaranayake International Airport and cost-effective upgrades to an existing airstrip in Puttlam instead. All this was overridden by the then government, a senior officer who served at SEMA at the time tells Echelon.
The $210 million Chinese loan-funded Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MIA) in the south of Sri Lanka, 250km from Colombo, has failed to take off since coming into full operation in 2013. Mattala handled 2,984 aircraft and 63,717 passengers serviced by 23 international airlines in 2014. By 2015, traffic grounded to just one daily flight. Even the national carrier SriLankan Airlines suspended flights to the airport because it burned more than jet fuel every time it flew there. In 2008, a year before construction of the Mattala airport began, SEMA prepared a report on the feasibility of turning Sri Lanka into an aviation hub.
Echelon saw the presentation slides based on this report that were shown to the then aviation ministry. It details what needed to be done to achieve hub status—from expanding facilities at the main airport and developing an emergency landing site to end the ground-handling monopoly of government-controlled carrier Sri Lankan Airlines—and includes these words: 'Is a second airport needed (to achieve aviation hub status)?' The answer, which went ignored, was 'No!'.
"There was never a business case for a second international airport," said the SEMA official, asking that his name be withheld. The main airport BIA was adequate to handle Sri Lanka's growing air traffic volumes, provided expansion took place on time. SEMA forecasts annual passenger traffic at the main airport BIA will reach 13 million by 2025 from 4 million in 2004. The main airport has an annual capacity to handle six million passengers and is now stressed handling a growing number from 7.8 million passengers in 2014. The BIA could meet forecast demand as long it expanded its terminals, and widened its runway from 45m to 60m to be able to accommodate bigger planes like Airbus' A380s and Boeing's 747, which cannot land here now. The main airport also needed a second runway. Its single runway handling 25 moves per hour (13 take-offs and 12 landings) is not enough for the kind of traffic expected in 2025. SriLankan Airlines' monopoly in ground handling must be broken to bring down costs to attract more airline services.
SEMA highlighted the need to have an alternate location to redirect flights that cannot land in Katunayake due to bad weather, a major change in schedule or emergencies. They proposed Puttalam in the North-West, 100km from the main airport, half the distance between BIA and Mattala. SEMA proposed Trincomalee and Hambantota as alternate sites for an emergency airstrip too, not fully-fledged international airports, but Puttalam was its pick.
Puttalam already had a runway at Palaviya built by former colonial rulers, the British. SEMA estimated a cost of $40 million to reconstruct the runway, and add a terminal and other basic facilities on par with global aviation standards.
There was a lot more going for Puttalam. It was close to three districts with the highest populations in the country, Colombo, Gampaha and Kurunagala. Existing road and rail networks would connect the Puttalam airstrip to free trade zones in the western, northern and eastern provinces; cultural zones in Anuradhapura and Kandy; and a proposed tourism hotspot in Kalpitiya in the north-west and Trincomalee in the east. The then yet-to-be-completed Colombo-Katunayake Expressway could be extended to Puttalam, cutting commute time between the two airports to under an hour, enabling greater synergies between the two, something not there with Mattala 300km away. The shortest route between the main airport and Mattala via the Southern Expressway takes a little more than two hours. Weather patterns were looked at too. Flights are diverted from Colombo because of heavy rains or mist. Puttalam, located in the dry zone, doesn't have these problems.
The project would have been soft on the environment too. The existing runway meant there was no forest to clear. Wind patterns showed Puttalam already had a 'hot air corridor'. A hot air corridor is created in the upper atmosphere by the constant burning of jet fuel, and Puttalam is located on an established flight path of airlines on the Colombo (BIA) route. This meant migratory bird life will not be disrupted and the birds will not threaten to bring down any planes because they already stayed clear. Aviation ministry officials, after hearing the presentation, wanted Puttalam struck off the report and more research done on Mahinda Rajapaksa's home district Hambantota.
Hambantota had some plus points – it was located in the dry zone and free from the vagaries of Colombo weather. If the airport was built close to the sea port, an opportunity presented itself to develop air-sea logistic operations. To the agency, however, poor road and rail connectivity with the rest of the island was unappealing: it was too far from major tourism destinations and industrial zones. Officials at SEMA waited for meetings that never came with the cabinet and the president, hoping to give their Puttalam idea a fighting chance. What came instead was instruction never to talk about Puttalam again.
Later, the decision to build the airport in Mattala, 30km away from the Hambantota port, would baffle the agency. The distance between the sea and air ports killed synergies because of high land transportation costs, and just like that the air-sea logistics dream died. "We did all the hard work to prepare the report, but it was all for nothing. We could have avoided the messy situation the airport and the country is in today," the ex-SEMA official said.
Sri Lanka ended up with a costly airport that is not making money. The airport made a Rs3.3 billion loss in 2014, down slightly from Rs3.5 billion a year earlier, and 2015 numbers will likely show an airport painted in red. It employs a little more than 500 people to handle just one daily flight serviced by Flydubai and emergency landings from the main airport at Katunayake, 300km away, earlier redirected to Chennai in India or the Maldives. The airport's single 12,000sq.m terminal and one million squarefoot duty free shopping area are mostly deserted. The idle airport's cargo bays recently doubled as a warehouse for a bumper rice harvest.
Many trees and shrubs fell to the Mattala airport, 2,000 acres of them. The site was a designated Elephant Management Area that the government chose to ignore, and today, the main road leading to the airport is constantly invaded by wandering pachyderms. Herds of deer and water buffalo encroach into the almost deserted airport compound and the army is on alert to drive out these invaders. The airport is also smack in the middle of the migratory path of birds that breed and nest in the Kumana sanctuary located further north. The first plane to land at Mattala shattered its windshield when a bird flew into it and another plane was grounded when a peacock flew into one of its engines.
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we are all curious to know who is looking at our Instagram profile. Unfortunately you cannot access this information….
In fact, it's like everything else in life: all you need is the right tools.
And I will show you in this article, step by step, how to know who is viewing your Instagram profile, when and by what means.
See who is looking at my Instagram profile… Why ?
Knowing who is viewing your profile and your Instagram profile has many benefits. Satisfy your own personal curiosity of course, make sure that our "private" photos are indeed "private" and are not seen by potential people you don't want.
identify those who… come back… again… and again… in short, you will have understood me: spot your crushs (I talk to you girls) or your creepys (weird guys), as you wish….
As this blog is not intended to teach technical principles methods, I have prepared for you a short video explaining step by step how to use the online tool I developed to automate the technique. The steps are simple and you shouldn't have any problems reaching your goal!
For those with a more important technical background in computer security, you can satisfy your curiosity with technical details by studying this paper.
Human verification is a mandatory process that prevents robots from automatically retrieving this information (it would be very serious!).
Attention, this service is not free of charge.
In short, if you don't want to pay to know who is viewing your instagram profile, don't forget to cancel your subscription within 3 days so you don't have to pay!
You now know more than 99% of Instagram users, congratulations!
no one expects so much information about them to be available online before they are shown in front of them.
This can teach you a lot about the person, and coupled with data from other social networks (retrieved through my other guides:) you will have a complete picture of that person's life, weaknesses, inspirations, goals… and then you can make good use of that knowledge.
This can be used to calm doubt (infidelity in the couple, suspicion) or to get a head start in a competitive environment (company). In an industrial espionage context, it is certainly one of the best sources of data (after the SMS spy), according to my personal experience.
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EU antitrust regulators say investigating Google's data collection
On Saturday, the 30th of November 2019, the EU Commission said to a press agency that the European Union antitrust watchdogs were probing on whether data collection method of Alphabet Inc.-owned Google LLC., world's No.
1 internet service provider, had been violating EU privacy regulations, pointing towards further calamitous impact for the Silicon Valley giant ahead in the EU as the world's most popular search engine provider had still been in EU anti-trust regulators' spotlight despite record fines over the recent years.
Aside from that, Saturday's (November 30th) comment from the EU Commission had also confirmed that anti-trust watchdogs from both sides of the Atlantic, a raft of countries in the EU including France, Italy, UK and in the United States, were conducting probes on Google's use of personal data.
Besides, an EU spokesman had also added that the EU anti-trust regulators were conducting a probe on how and why it became necessary for Google LLC. to store and use users' personal data, as the EU regulator said to a press agency in an e-mailed statement on Saturday (November 30th), "The Commission has sent out questionnaires as part of a preliminary investigation into Google's practices relating to Google's collection and use of data. The preliminary investigation is ongoing. "


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Author and MNO citizen Leona Hass releases "The Wind Wielder"
MNO citizen Leona Hass' new book follows the journey of
a young girl as she overcomes her past and finds her true
strength. Click here to view a larger version.
Author and Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) citizen Leona Hass marks her debut into the world of fantasy literature with the release of The Wind Wielder, which is published by Xlibris. Drawing on her love of anime and manga, Hass weaves a tale of magic, drama and lesson-filled adventure. Hass is an elementary school teacher who took her own teaching advice, gathered her courage and self-published to show her students that any dream is possible. Hass currently lives with her family in the quiet, rural area in Ontario where she grew up.
The Wind Wielder takes place in a world where certain people are born with the ability to control the natural elements. The protagonist Selene is a seventeen-year-old wind elemental who seeks to uncover the truth behind her repressed memories. Along the way, she meets Jeremy and Lillian both of whom are trapped within a magical barrier. When Selene attempts to rescue them her own past trauma causes her elemental powers to manifest in destructive ways.
Breaking stereotypes in literature, the author has created a unique and strong female character who works through her own weaknesses to build herself up and save those around her. The Wind Wielder also covers pressing issues faced by young people, from sexual assault and bullying to suicide. The book seeks to help readers understand that no matter how dark their past they will always have the strength to overcome if they believe in themselves.
"Being a victim is not always something that is forced upon you from the outside, but sometimes we take on that role ourselves," Hass says. "You can shed that mask and become the strong person you need to be to manifest your dreams."
The Wind Wielder is now available for purchase on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.


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Balanço geral da vida oficial das artes plásticas em 1950
Cordeiro, Waldemar, 1925-1973
Waldemar Cordeiro, one of the major figures in Brazilian visual arts, provides a broad overview of events in that field in the early 1950s, a key decade in the history of the arts in Brazil. Cordeiro lists the exhibitions, courses, and conferences organized by the MAM-SP (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo), the MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo), the arts section at the public library, and the Galeria Domus, an exhibition space in the city that specializes in modern art. The author draws the reader's attention to the efforts made by artists to submit their work to these institutions. He also wonders about the maintenance costs involved in running these institutions. Cordeiro believes that art events presented that year contributed to a new level of visibility that helped to educate the general public in São Paulo, and that is a reminder that the aesthetic and social aspects of art should never be separate from the financial needs of each artist.
The opening of the MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo) in 1947, the MAM-SP (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo) in 1948, and the Bienal Internacional de São Paulo in 1951 were hugely important events that contributed to the education of the general public and its ability to appreciate modern art. This obviously included the education of young artists. The events organized by these institutions greatly increased Brazilian public exposure to international contemporary art, particularly the works produced by the Constructivist and abstract movements. This document is important because it shows the concern of Waldemar Cordeiro about the financial challenges faced by local artists at that time.
The combative painter, designer, landscape painter, and art critic Waldemar Cordeiro (1925–73) was born in Rome, but settled in Brazil shortly after the Second World War. In the late 1940s he began to publish his theories in national newspapers. "O objeto" (1086891) is representative of the sort of ideas Cordeiro was advocating—during that period of profound disagreement concerning the visual arts in Brazil—based on the "concrete aspect" of art in terms of its potential for self reference and the concept of art as a real, totally autonomous object. This prompted discussions of all kinds with contemporary artists and critics, in particular with the poet, journalist, and art critic [José Ribamar] Ferreira Gullar (1930–2016), who endorsed the subjectivity of art, outlining his "Teoria do não-objeto" (1091374) that would subsequently lead to the Neoconcrete movement in Rio de Janeiro.
[As complementary reading on this subject, see other articles by Cordeiro in the ICAA digital archive, as follows: "Ainda o Abstracionismo" (1085351); "Arte concreta semântica" (1110835); "Arteônica" (1110836); "Computer plotter art: primeira mostra na América Latina" (1110487); "Exposição nacional de arte concreta: artes visuais poesia" (1232176); "Novas tendências e nova figuração" (1110840); "Ponto parágrafo na pintura brasileira" (1085281); "Prêmio Leirner de Arte Contemporânea, 1960" (1232976); (untitled) ["Produto direto de uma atitude crítica (…)"] (1087239); "Realismo: 'musa da vingança e da tristeza'" (1110839); "Realismo ao nível da cultura de massa" (1090748); jointly written with Lothar Charoux, Geraldo de Barros, and others, the "ruptura" manifesto (771349), and its manuscript (1232213); "Teoria e prática do concretismo carioca" (1087287); "Todos atentos" (1090623); "Expressionismo fordista" (1110323); and "VII Bienal: 'nova figuração' denuncia à alienação do indivíduo" (1110842)].
Folha da Manhã (São Paulo, Brasil). -- Jan. 14, 1951
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
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Cordeiro, Waldemar. "Balanço geral da vida oficial das artes plásticas em 1950." Folha da Manhã (São Paulo, Brazil), January 14, 1951, 4.
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Neal McDonough (* 13. Februar 1966 in Dorchester, Massachusetts) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, der durch seine Rolle des Lynn 'Buck' Compton in Band of Brothers Bekanntheit erlangte.

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McDonough wuchs in Cape Cod als jüngstes von sechs Kindern auf. Seine Eltern Frank und Kitty McDonough sind beide in Irland geboren. Als er in die High School kam, spielte er in einer Senior-Class-Produktion des Musicals You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown mit und wusste seitdem, dass er Schauspieler werden wollte. Als er sich für die Syracuse University entschied, wurde er von seinem Vater als verrückt bezeichnet. 1988 verließ er die Uni mit einem Bachelor in Fine Arts. Er war schon zu Collegezeiten sportlich aktiv und spielt auch jetzt noch Tennis, Golf und nimmt mit Stars wie Jason Priestley, Denis Leary und David Boreanaz an Benefizveranstaltungen teil.

Karriere
Sein Filmdebüt hatte er 1990 in dem Film Darkman. Sein Durchbruch gelang ihm mit der Miniserie Band of Brothers als Lynn 'Buck' Compton. McDonough, der ein großer Star-Trek-Fan ist, hatte lange den Traum, in einem Star-Trek-Film mitspielen zu können. Dieser Wunsch erfüllte sich 1996, als er in Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt eine Nebenrolle übernahm.

Er wirkte auch in Fernsehproduktionen wie Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI und Profiler mit. In der fünften Staffel der Fernsehserie Desperate Housewives spielte er den Ehemann von Edie Britt, Dave Williams. Des Weiteren schrieb McDonough ein Drehbuch für Ice über den Eishockeyspieler Eddie Shore und arbeitete als Co-Autor von Bill Johnson für Heartbreak Hill.

2012 war er als Mafia-Gangster Robert Quarles in der dritten Staffel von Justified als Gegenspieler von Timothy Olyphant und Walton Goggins zu sehen. Auch spielte er die Rolle des Conrad im 2018 erschienenen Actionfilm Game Over, Man.

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Seine Frau, das südafrikanische Model Ruvè Robertson traf McDonough bei der Ankunft in Großbritannien für die Dreharbeiten von Band of Brothers.  Sie heirateten er 1. Dezember 2003 in einer Kirche in Beverly Hills. Das Paar hat fünf Kinder (* 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011 und 2014).

McDonough ist Katholik und definiert seine Lebenseinstellung so:Gott und meine Familie kommen bei mir an erster Stelle, ich erst an zweiter Stelle. In diesem Sinn lebe ich.Aufgrund seiner religiösen Überzeugung und aus Liebe zu seiner Frau lebt McDonough seine eheliche Treue auch in Filmen und küsst daher auch für die Leinwand keine anderen Frauen. Daher lehnt er ebenfalls die Mitwirkung an sexuell expliziten Filmszenen ab, weshalb er 2010 überraschend von ABC aus der Fernsehserie "Scoundrels" entlassen wurde und dadurch geschätzte Einnahmen von etwa USD 1 Million verlor.

Auszeichnungen
 1991 Dramalogue Award für den besten Schauspieler für seine Rolle in Away Alone
 2000 Award Atlantic City Film Festival für den besten Schauspieler für seine Rolle in A Perfect Little Man
 Nominierung für den Television Critics Association Award für die beste Einzelleistung für seine Darstellung des David McNorris in Boomtown

Filmografie (Auswahl)

Filme
 1990: Darkman
 1992: Das Gift des Zweifels (Cruel Doubt)
 1993: Tragödie von Waco (Ambush in Waco: In the Line of Duty)
 1994: Angels – Engel gibt es wirklich! (Angels in the Outfield)
 1996: Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt (Star Trek: First Contact)
 1997: Lethal Invasion – Attacke der Alien-Viren (Invasion, Fernsehfilm)
 1999: Ravenous – Friss oder stirb (Ravenous)
 1999: A Perfect Little Man
 2001: You're Killing Me
 2002: Minority Report
 2003: Timeline
 2004: Walking Tall – Auf eigene Faust (Walking Tall)
 2006: Jede Sekunde zählt – The Guardian (The Guardian)
 2006: Krumme Geschäfte (The Last Time)
 2006: Flags of Our Fathers
 2007: 88 Minuten (88 Minutes)
 2007: The Hitcher
 2007: Ich weiß, wer mich getötet hat (I Know Who Killed Me)
 2007: Forever Strong
 2007: Machine
 2008: Traitor
 2009: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
 2011: Ticking Clock
 2011: Captain America: The First Avenger
 2012: The Philly Kid – Never Back Down (The Philly Kid)
 2013: Company of Heroes
 2013: The Marine 3: Homefront
 2013: R.E.D. 2 (RED 2)
 2013: Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (Kurzfilm)
 2014: Bad Country
 2014: Falcon Rising
 2015: Der Kaufhaus Cop 2 (Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2)
 2016: Greater
 2017: 1922
 2018: Game Over, Man!
 2020: Sonic the Hedgehog
 2021: Apex
 2021: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

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 1991: Zurück in die Vergangenheit (Quantum Leap, Folge 4x02)
 1995: JAG – Im Auftrag der Ehre (JAG, Gastrolle: Folge 1x04)
 1998: Diagnose: Mord (Diagnosis: Murder, zwei Episoden)
 1999: Just Shoot Me – Redaktion durchgeknipst (Just Shoot Me, Folge 3x22)
 1999: Profiler (Folge 4x06)
 2001: Band of Brothers – Wir waren wie Brüder (Band of Brothers, 8 Folgen)
 2002: Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI (The X-Files, Folgen 9x09–9x10)
 2002–2003: Boomtown (23 Folgen)
 2004–2005: Medical Investigation (20 Folgen)
 2005: Third Watch – Einsatz am Limit (Third Watch, Folge 6x16)
 2007: Tin Man – Kampf um den Smaragd des Lichts (Tin Man, Miniserie, 3 Folgen)
 2007: Traveler (6 Folgen)
 2008–2009: Desperate Housewives (24 Folgen)
 2011: Criminal Intent – Verbrechen im Visier (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Folge 10x02)
 2012: Justified (12 Folgen)
 2012: CSI: NY (Folge 9x04)
 2012:  Perception (Folge 1x04)
 2013: Mob City (6 Folgen)
 2013: CSI: Vegas (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Folge 13x18)
 2014–2016, 2019: Suits (16 Folgen)
 2015: Marvel's Agent Carter (Folge 1x05)
 2015: Public Morals (9 Folgen)
 2015–2016: Arrow (19 Folgen)
 2015, 2021–2022: The Flash (4 Folgen)
 2016–2018, 2020: Legends of Tomorrow (21 Folgen)
 2017: Rogue (5 Folgen)
 2018–2019: Van Helsing (8 Folgen)
 2019: Yellowstone (6 Folgen)
 2019–2020: Project Blue Book (20 Folgen)
 2020: Altered Carbon – Das Unsterblichkeitsprogramm (Altered Carbon, 3 Folgen)
 2020: The 100 (5 Folgen)
 2021: What If…? (Fernsehserie, Folge 1x01, Stimme)
 2021: American Horror Story (4 Folgen)
 2022–2023: 9-1-1: Lone Star (5 Folgen)

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< What makes Swift's enums so powerful and what are enums with associated values? What new Swift API would you most want to see in your projects? >
What do you think are good use cases for enum raw values?
Recorded May 22nd 2020 – watch the full episode on YouTube.
In your experience, what would be good use cases for enum raw values? Would you use enums for feed information?
Paola Mata: I will often use very simple ones like strengths. It's safer than having to use what they called magic or just free floating magic numbers, or just strings all over your code that you could get wrong, you could mistype. And then it just throws everything off. Or I use them for associated values, any classes that I've defined specifically, like my model classes. I tend to use one.
Sometimes you can use a tuple and have like multiple associated values. You can do that. Or if you can somehow use a value that's just related to your initial associated value, that makes things a little easier as far as comparison.
"If you can somehow use a value that's just related to your initial associated value, that makes things a little easier as far as comparison."
Paul Hudson: There are lots of reasons I use raw values. I'm not sure why, but one particular one just sprung into my head, when I'm doing, SpriteKit collisions. You want to use doubling of values for your raw value. So one, two, four, eight, 16, 32, and so forth. So you can add them together to see what collided. And you just want both to say CollisionTypes.Building.rawValue and get out 32. So as you say it avoids that magic number of 32 being stuck in your code. It's not always the number behind the scenes, but it lets you refer to it in a more understandable way.
Let's move on and think about places where enums are great fits for stuff. Now if you want to think about two or three places where enums you think should get more use. Where they are really, really applicable to our code and great ideas to fit into there. Where would you say they are and also where are the wrong places?
Paola Mata: As I mentioned before, basically to avoid having to type it in, if you're using an enum with string value. You're avoiding having to write any string value every single time you call them. When you're trying to be for example there's a set, predefined endpoints that you have that you call by a different name.
Maybe it's like this is the speed and this is whatever the endpoint is. When you're trying to be safe and make sure that you don't end up using unintended or just incorrect values anywhere.
"Whenever something new, like CaseIterable comes along, I think like, 'oh, I've been doing that on my own this whole time.' And having to have hack myself instead of having it available to me in a very nice protocol."
Paul Hudson: So would you actually use enums for actual feed information?
Paola Mata: Maybe not enums, but I might add some variables or some functions to get information based on that case.
Paul Hudson: We've seen Swift evolve enums quite a lot over the years. In particular Swift 4.2 added Robert's CaseIterable code. We have Comparable enums landing in Swift 5.3, which as we speak is a month away from entering beta when WWDC starts. And they're wonderful features to have, that really power up enums and make them more useful going forward. Are there still things you think enums are lacking in Swift, and that should be added in future versions?
Paola Mata: I honestly cannot think of any, but I will say that whenever something new, like CaseIterable comes along, I think like, "oh, I've been doing that on my own this whole time." And having to have hack myself instead of having it available to me in a very nice protocol.
Paul Hudson: You're like, "ah, that's so obvious. I want that straight away."
"Certainly one thing I value is when you are able to take code, you've been using it a long time. And think actually this is reusable code that anyone could use."
Paola Mata: Yes. It's obvious. Something I learned about more recently is using fallthrough so that you go through each enum case and take some action. Because something like that allows us more flexibility; it gives us more power with enums.
Paul Hudson: Certainly one thing I value is when you are able to take code you've been using it a long time, and think actually this is reusable code that anyone could use. And Soroush Khanlou gave a wonderful talk on this. He delivered it a number of times, but I saw it in Pragma in Italy three years ago, called You Deserve Nice Things. And it was basically walking through some of his code library of stuff. Here's how to do this. How to do this. And it's simple methods that make Swift collections nicer to use for example.
And things like allSatisfy(), I first saw it there in his code way before it went into Swift 4.2. Things like count(where:), which it was in his talk, I believe, and then he put it into Swift Evolution. It didn't quite make it through for compiler reasons, but it's been accepted and ready to go in the future. And it's a simple thing, like "count how many items have this property." And of course you can do a filter and account, but it's faster to do it in one run.
So little things that make your life easier, even using your code for a long time to do CaseIterable or whatever it was in your case. Code that everyone else can use is, I think, the genesis of many, many good or great Swift Evolution ideas.
Paola Mata: I tried to look over any currently proposed Swift Evolution specifically for enums, and I didn't see many so that's disappointing. But I think there might've been one or two. I don't know if you're aware of them.
Paul Hudson: So synthesized Comparable enum conformance is 5.3 and that's a pretty nice one. I think they're talking about making frozen enums available to user code, because Frozen is available to Swift internal code but not to us yet. That's possible. Well, I guess that's going to be 5.4 or 5.5 –who knows what in the future?
Thanks for your support, David Arve!


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La sarkinita és un mineral de la classe dels fosfats, que pertany al grup de la wagnerita. Rep el seu nom del grec σάρκιυος sarkinos (fet de carn), al·ludint al seu color vermellós i a la lluïssor grassa.

Característiques
La sarkinita és un fosfat de fórmula química (AsO₄)(OH). Cristal·litza en el sistema monoclínic. La seva duresa a l'escala de Mohs es troba entre 4 i 5. És un mineral isostructural amb la triploidita i la wolfeïta.

Segons la classificació de Nickel-Strunz, la sarkinita pertany a "08.BA: Fosfats, etc. amb anions addicionals, sense H₂O, només amb cations de mida mitjana, (OH, etc.):RO₄ sobre 1:1" juntament amb els següents minerals: ambligonita, montebrasita, tavorita, triplita, zwieselita, triploidita, wagnerita, wolfeïta, stanĕkita, joosteïta, hidroxilwagnerita, arsenowagnerita, holtedahlita, satterlyita, althausita, adamita, eveïta, libethenita, olivenita, zincolibethenita, zincolivenita, auriacusita, paradamita, tarbuttita, barbosalita, hentschelita, latzulita, scorzalita, wilhelmkleinita, trol·leïta, namibita, fosfoel·lenbergerita, urusovita, theoparacelsita, turanita, stoiberita, fingerita, averievita, lipscombita, richel·lita i zinclipscombita.

Formació i jaciments
Va ser descoberta a la mina Harstigen, ubicada a la localitat de Pajsberg, al districte de Persberg del municipi de Filipstad, a Värmland (Suècia). També ha estat descrita a altres indrets de Suècia, a Suïssa, als Estats Units, a Romania, al Kazakhstan, al Japó, a Itàlia, a França i a Àustria.

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Minerals arsenats
Minerals de manganès
Minerals que contenen hidròxid
Minerals descoberts a Filipstad


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Oklahoma man hailed a hero for rescuing woman from high waters
"She looked like she was in trouble, so my first instinct was to make sure she was OK"
Updated: 7:01 AM CDT Aug 24, 2017
Patrina Adger
WEBVTT PATRINA AN EMAIL FROM A GRATEFUL: OKLAHOMAN,SAYING, I WAS ONE OF THE UNLUCKYSOULS WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THEFLASH FLOODING ON THE BROADWAYEXTENSION NEAR NORTHWEST 50TH.THIS PICTURE CAPTURING THEWOMAN'S STALLED CAR SUBMERGED INRISING WATER TUESDAY NIGHT.>> I JUST HAPPENED TO LOOK OVERAS I WAS PASSING HER AND SHE WASJUST KIND OF FLAILING AND ICOULD TELL SHE WAS FREAKING OUTABOUT SOMETHING.PATRINA JUSTIN GOFF AN OU MED: EMPLOYEE, ON HIS WAY HOME FROMWORK, STOPPING TO HELP WHEN SHESAYS NO ONE ELSE WOULD.SHE LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS INTROUBLE SO MY FIRST INSTINCT WASTO GO MAKE SURE SHE WAS OK.PATRINA: THIS AREA A COMMONPLACEFOR FLOODING.BRODY SAYS NO ONE NOTICED HERFLICKERING HEADLIGHTS, .AS TRAFFIC CONTINUED TO DRIVEPAST, SHE WRITES I COULD HAVEDROWNED, HAD IT NOT BEEN FORGOFF. TRUDGING THROUGH WAIST>> THE CAR DOOR ACTUALLYWOULDN'T OPEN.THAT WAS PART OF THE PROBLEM.PATRINA: THE WOMAN WANTS TOTHANK GOFF FOR HIS SELFLESS ACT
An incredible amount of rain Tuesday night created a life-threatening situation for drivers stuck in fast-rising waters in the Oklahoma City metro.A woman said she is alive thanks to someone who saw a person in need and stopped to help.She calls him a hero. He said he's something else. An email from a grateful Oklahoman stated, "I was one of the unlucky souls who was caught in the flash flooding on Broadway Extension and Northwest 50th Street."A picture captured the woman's stalled car submerged in rising water."I just happened to look over as I was passing her and she was just kind of flailing, and I could tell she was freaking out about something," Justin Goff said.Goff, an OU Medical employee, was on his way home from work and he stopped to help the woman when she said no one else would."She looked like she was in trouble, so my first instinct was to make sure she was OK," Goff said.Broadway Extension and Northwest 50th Street is a common area for flooding. Goff said no one noticed her flickering headlights as traffic continued to drive past.The woman wrote, "I could have drowned," had it not been for Goff trudging through waist-deep rushing water to pull her out."The car door actually wouldn't open. That was part of the problem," Goff said. "We pulled her out through the window."The woman wants to thank Goff for his selfless act of bravery, calling him a hero."No. Not in the slightest. I feel like that's something everybody would have done had they noticed the situation," Goff said.
An incredible amount of rain Tuesday night created a life-threatening situation for drivers stuck in fast-rising waters in the Oklahoma City metro.
A woman said she is alive thanks to someone who saw a person in need and stopped to help.
She calls him a hero. He said he's something else. An email from a grateful Oklahoman stated, "I was one of the unlucky souls who was caught in the flash flooding on Broadway Extension and Northwest 50th Street."
A picture captured the woman's stalled car submerged in rising water.
"I just happened to look over as I was passing her and she was just kind of flailing, and I could tell she was freaking out about something," Justin Goff said.
Goff, an OU Medical employee, was on his way home from work and he stopped to help the woman when she said no one else would.
"She looked like she was in trouble, so my first instinct was to make sure she was OK," Goff said.
Broadway Extension and Northwest 50th Street is a common area for flooding. Goff said no one noticed her flickering headlights as traffic continued to drive past.
The woman wrote, "I could have drowned," had it not been for Goff trudging through waist-deep rushing water to pull her out.
"The car door actually wouldn't open. That was part of the problem," Goff said. "We pulled her out through the window."
The woman wants to thank Goff for his selfless act of bravery, calling him a hero.
"No. Not in the slightest. I feel like that's something everybody would have done had they noticed the situation," Goff said.


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In many companies and industries there has been a trend to combine "management" roles in an effort to reduce costs or improve efficiency. Personally, I first noticed this trend with combining project management and functional management roles. The reasoning is that any competent manager should be able to handle the project management duties for their team. As with all management or leadership topics, "it depends" best describes whether that model works.
Team is small. The Scrum guideline of 7 +/- 2 works well. It could go higher if the product/project complexity is low.
Product/project is small and there are few, if any, dependencies between teams.
The manager has adequate talent and interest in both roles.
The team members knows their roles and are reasonably autonomous.
In these cases, the Project/Functional Manager needs to provide some organization and guidance with respect to both the product/project and the professional skills of the team. In small-scale, it is possible to give both roles the skills and attention they need.
Project/Product is complex and requires multiple teams with many dependencies between the teams.
The manager clearly has talent and/or interest that favours one or neither of the roles.
The team members' roles are ambiguous or have several junior members.
The team is not autonomous.
Change influencers need constant attention.
In these cases, trying to do both roles means one or both are being done poorly due to the manager splitting attention. Functional managers are needed to coach the team and guide their professional development while the Project Manager ensures the dependencies/roadblocks are resolved and the project/product is delivered. The more pressure there is from change influencers (external clients or internal stakeholders), the more there is a need to give them dedicated attention. That is why Scrum has the roles of Product Owner and ScrumMaster, where the former focusses on the change influencers, while the other focusses on the team.
Additionally, when the scope and team is sufficiently large and/or complex, the manager needs particular skills to do each of the roles. Project Management is a "technical" management role where scheduling, process, organization and measurement skills are needed. Strong people management skills are needed, but they complement the technical skills. For functional managers, the focus is on people management skills – coaching team members, emotional intelligence, facilitation, mediation, customer service. Technical management skills are still needed, but they complement the people management skills.
Both from my own experience, in a variety of models of both roles, and from watching my peers, I've seen more cases of doing both roles poorly rather than focussing and doing one role well. In addition, the people in these roles may only have the talent and/or interest in one (or neither) of those roles so they wind up completely failing in their area of weakness or lack of interest. For the sake of our projects, our teams and our clients, we need to do a better job of giving them the attention they deserve.
My golden rule of thumb is that you can wear two hats, as long as one hat doesn't validate the other. If you wear multiple hats that validate each other you are jeopardising your role integrity.


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Are silver shoes still acceptable post sparkle season?
Sparkle season is finally over (no offence). I mean, I'm here for Christmas cakes, family parties, champagne on tap and more cheese boards, buffets and selection boxes than you can even begin to imagine. In fact, I'd go as far as to say Christmas is my favourite time of year! However, as much as I … Continue reading Are silver shoes still acceptable post sparkle season?


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import unittest

import numpy as np
import skimage.transform
import torch
from parameterized import parameterized

from monai.data import MetaTensor, set_track_meta
from monai.transforms import Resize
from tests.utils import TEST_NDARRAYS_ALL, NumpyImageTestCase2D, assert_allclose, is_tf32_env, pytorch_after

TEST_CASE_0 = [{"spatial_size": 15}, (6, 10, 15)]

TEST_CASE_1 = [{"spatial_size": 15, "mode": "area"}, (6, 10, 15)]

TEST_CASE_2 = [{"spatial_size": 6, "mode": "trilinear", "align_corners": True}, (2, 4, 6)]

TEST_CASE_3 = [{"spatial_size": 15, "anti_aliasing": True}, (6, 10, 15)]

TEST_CASE_4 = [{"spatial_size": 6, "anti_aliasing": True, "anti_aliasing_sigma": 2.0}, (2, 4, 6)]

diff_t = 0.3 if is_tf32_env() else 0.2

class TestResize(NumpyImageTestCase2D):
    def test_invalid_inputs(self):
        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
            resize = Resize(spatial_size=(128, 128, 3), mode="order")
            resize(self.imt[0])

        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
            resize = Resize(spatial_size=(128,), mode="order")
            resize(self.imt[0])

    @parameterized.expand(
        [
            ((32, -1), "area", True),
            ((32, 32), "area", False),
            ((32, 32, 32), "trilinear", True),
            ((256, 256), "bilinear", False),
            ((256, 256), "nearest-exact" if pytorch_after(1, 11) else "nearest", False),
            ((128, 64), "area", True),  # already in a good shape
        ]
    )
    def test_correct_results(self, spatial_size, mode, anti_aliasing):
        """resize 'spatial_size' and 'mode'"""
        resize = Resize(spatial_size, mode=mode, anti_aliasing=anti_aliasing)
        _order = 0
        if mode.endswith("linear"):
            _order = 1
        if spatial_size == (32, -1):
            spatial_size = (32, 64)

        expected = [
            skimage.transform.resize(
                channel, spatial_size, order=_order, clip=False, preserve_range=False, anti_aliasing=anti_aliasing
            )
            for channel in self.imt[0]
        ]

        expected = np.stack(expected).astype(np.float32)
        for p in TEST_NDARRAYS_ALL:
            im = p(self.imt[0])
            out = resize(im)
            if isinstance(im, MetaTensor):
                im_inv = resize.inverse(out)
                self.assertTrue(not im_inv.applied_operations)
                assert_allclose(im_inv.shape, im.shape)
                assert_allclose(im_inv.affine, im.affine, atol=1e-3, rtol=1e-3)
            if not anti_aliasing:
                assert_allclose(out, expected, type_test=False, atol=0.9)
                return
            # skimage uses reflect padding for anti-aliasing filter.
            # Our implementation reuses GaussianSmooth() as anti-aliasing filter, which uses zero padding instead.
            # Thus their results near the image boundary will be different.
            if isinstance(out, torch.Tensor):
                out = out.cpu().detach().numpy()
            good = np.sum(np.isclose(expected, out, atol=0.9))
            self.assertLessEqual(
                np.abs(good - expected.size) / float(expected.size), diff_t, f"at most {diff_t} percent mismatch "
            )

    @parameterized.expand([TEST_CASE_0, TEST_CASE_1, TEST_CASE_2, TEST_CASE_3, TEST_CASE_4])
    def test_longest_shape(self, input_param, expected_shape):
        input_data = np.random.randint(0, 2, size=[3, 4, 7, 10])
        input_param["size_mode"] = "longest"
        result = Resize(**input_param)(input_data)
        np.testing.assert_allclose(result.shape[1:], expected_shape)

        set_track_meta(False)
        result = Resize(**input_param)(input_data)
        self.assertNotIsInstance(result, MetaTensor)
        np.testing.assert_allclose(result.shape[1:], expected_shape)
        set_track_meta(True)

    def test_longest_infinite_decimals(self):
        resize = Resize(spatial_size=1008, size_mode="longest", mode="bilinear", align_corners=False)
        ret = resize(np.random.randint(0, 2, size=[1, 2544, 3032]))
        self.assertTupleEqual(ret.shape, (1, 846, 1008))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()


The integration of subjects is becoming increasingly more popular with educators, and yet rarely is the idea of linking mathematics and literacy considered. This essay delineates the benefits of integrating children's literature into the elementary mathematics classroom. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (1989) asserts children need to be active constructors of mathematical knowledge, and children's literature presents both problems and methods of solving them in an authentic manner while portraying mathematics in a unique context. Through teachers utilizing children's literature, students build math-to-self connections, freely explore concepts, and gain positive attitudes towards the subject. A new set of mathematical discourse is readily available to students, creating a community of learners. A wide variety of methods to group students and arrange the classroom are also made possible through the integration of math and literature. With regards to choosing the actual literature to use in the curriculum, firm guidelines exist to ensure quality literature is chosen that invites readers while demonstrating accurate mathematics. Teachers should also consider the various forms of literacy on the Internet to maximize their instructional possibilities. The use of children's literature in mathematics has been found to deepen mathematical understanding and increase student achievement as material is integrated across the curriculum. An array of extension activities and assessment measures are also made possible through the connections between the two subjects. Finally, this essay demarcates the process a teacher should take when first considering the use of children's literature in the elementary mathematics classroom.


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Stream Realty Partners Recruits Inland Empire Commercial Real Estate Experts To Grow Industrial Presence, Meet Rising Demand
March 30, 2022 | Greater Los Angeles
Industrial Brokers Stefan Pastor And Brad Yates Join Firm As Senior Vice Presidents
Stream Realty Partners has added two senior commercial real estate experts and their sales team to its Greater Los Angeles operation to focus on the firm's growing industrial portfolio in the Inland Empire.
Stefan Pastor and Brad Yates will join Stream, a national real estate services, development, and investment company, as Senior Vice Presidents, bringing with them three associates to form a five-member sales team. Pastor and Yates bring over 30 years of joint commercial real estate experience. Working for over a decade as senior brokers at Colliers International, their expertise has spanned a variety of service offerings including landlord and tenant representation, land acquisitions, development, and investment sales. In 2021, they transacted over $500 million in sales and leasing activity.
Pastor's 12 years of working in the Inland Empire have helped him gain deep institutional knowledge of the market and its economic drivers. "Over the past few years, we have seen a continued climb of land prices and rents set against limited inventory and low vacancy," he said. "These fundamentals have made the region one of the highest-performing industrial markets in the country, with land acquisition at a premium."
Yates cites the team's proven experience in land assemblages to help developers acquire viable infill sites large enough to build upon. "The scarcity of buildable lots continues to be the number one challenge in the region," he said. "We have managed the most complex transactions imaginable. We have been faced with assembling parcels owned by over two dozen individuals, resolving complicated entitlements, and managing multiple closing dates. But it is always satisfying to find workable solutions for all parties involved to allow a project to move forward."
Martin Pupil, Stream Southern California's Executive Managing Director and Partner, expressed his excitement at Pastor, Yates, and their team joining the company. "I have known and worked with Stefan and Brad for over a decade and consider it a coup that they have decided to join Stream," he said. "Aside from being top professionals, they are genuine and committed–a great cultural fit."
Pastor and Yates said their strong relationship with Pupil and strong track record in the region helped draw them to Stream. The company's unique value proposition and platform, reputation, and success were also a strong attraction, they said.
"Stream has a very strong pulse on the industry given its investment and development activity across major markets, and I admire its ability to remain agile and entrepreneurial through rapid growth," Pastor said. "We also greatly value Stream's transparency, collaboration, and our easy access to the full spectrum of services that can only elevate our ability to drive greater value for our clients and our team. We are all very excited to get down to business and begin."
Senior Associates Ian Armbruster and Trevor Wright and Brokerage Services Coordinator Susana Gurrola will join Pastor and Yates, who will operate out of Stream's new Inland Empire location in Corona, California.


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Microsoft Office and Other Windows Apps Coming to Google Chromebooks
By: Moses Echodu
Google has confirmed that Microsoft Office and other Windows apps will be coming to the Chrome OS platform, which powers the company's Chromebooks.
Google is partnering with Parallels to bring native Microsoft Office applications and other legacy enterprise Windows applications to Chromebooks. In a blog post, Google revealed the new partnership looking at the future of Chrome OS for enterprises.
While Chrome OS has long supported Windows desktop apps that are streamed via the cloud through a Parallels Remote Application Server, this new partnership means the apps will run virtualized on Chromebooks instead. The new feature is set to be available this fall for Chrome Enterprise customers.
Parallels Desktop will be integrated natively into Chrome OS, improving performance and enabling offline access for these applications on Chromebooks. It's a surprising but welcomed move that will mean Chrome OS will be able to support both Android and Windows apps in the future.
Chromebooks to support Windows apps in the near future
This move will give businesses an opportunity to seriously consider Chromebooks as Windows alternatives for certain employees, which would mean that they don't have to make huge investments on business apps to a Chrome OS.
Chromebooks running Chrome OS will soon be able to support Microsoft Windows apps fully thanks to Parallels. (Picture of Chrome OS 60 launcher) – Newslibre
At the moment, Google is not providing a lot of information regarding their partnership with Parallels and said that "more to come on this over the coming months."
The question of whether the features will be available to consumers or just Chromebook Enterprise devices remains to be seen, but the initiative will certainly make it much easier for businesses to adopt Chrome OS instead of traditional Microsoft Windows.
Right now, Chromebook users can access the Android versions of Microsoft Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint from the Google Play Store. It's also possible to access Office Online via the Google Chrome browser too, so it's far from a barren wasteland when it comes to Microsoft apps.
Also read: Technology Is Proving to Be More Dangerous Than Expected and Here's Why
Author: Moses Echodu
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title: "Hello World!"
author: stephenOung
categories: life
excerpt: New website, new year, new goals
tags: [life, OKR]
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date: 2016-12-24T15:39:55-04:00
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New website, new year, new goals. It wasn't until mid this year that I realized that I've always made goals. It was never anything formal, but they were clear and always had a measurable result to determine if I achieved my goal. It wasn't until I was introduced to the concept of OKRs [(Objective and Key Results)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR) at work that I decided to formalize it by writing it down and making them public.

The **tl;dr** of OKRs is to create a set of **objectives** with measurable ambitious **key results** that dictate its achievement; _ambitious_ being the most important aspect for me. In my mind, having an easy goal is not really a goal; it's more a _feel good_ thing. Apart from giving you more focus, goals should be ambitious so that if you even do not achieve it you've made significant improvements.

So that being said, these are my OKRs for 2017 and the results of my OKRs for 2016.

## 2017 OKRs
**Objective:**
Be a better product manager

* Work with partners learn their pain points and scope product requirements
* Bring to market 2 products that address a known market
* To be able to define my product(s) with a 15s pitch
* Operate sprint team(s) with 0 employee turnover until product release

**Objective:**
Be a better athlete

* Compete in at least 4 triathlons
* Place Top 5 in age group in at least one triathlon
* Hit average splits of <1:40min/100m swim, >33km/hr bike, and 4:20min/km run
* Compete in at least 4 fun races with at least the same ranking as previous seasons

**Objective:**
Be a better photographer

* Do at least 5 jobs that could have been paid work
* Have at least one photo published in a known media distributor

**Objective:**
Be a better person

* Read at least 4 non-fiction books
* Go veg 1 day per week

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## 2016 OKRs
**Objective:**
Complete a trialthon

**Key Results:**

* Complete a single Olympic distance Triathlon
* Place Top 5 in the age group
* Hit average splits of <2min/100m swim, >30km/hr bike, and 4:30min/km run

**Results:**

I did not compete in an Olympic distance Triathlon; I raced in the Subaru Guelph Lake II Sprint Triathlon (it wasn't an actual sprint, it was slightly more. 750m Swim, 30km bike, 7.5km run). I ended placing 130 overall and 8th in my age category.

My final time was: 1:52:39. My splits were

* 2:14/100m
* 29.53km/hr
* 4:32/km

**Objective:**
Teach a Non-Swimmer to Swim

**Key Results:**

* Have a non-swimmer be able to swim 1000m non-stop
* Have a non-swimmer be able to compete in a triathlon

**Results:**
Starting in February, I trained a friend to overcome his fear of water. He started off with not being able to submerge his head under water to complete the Guelph Lake II Sprint Triathlon. His final time was: 2:05:29 with the following splits:

* 3:05/100m
* 28.23km/hr
* 4:48/km

**Objective:**
Be a Better Climber

**Key Results:**

* Complete a V5

**Results:**
Not only did I complete a V5, but I also completed 2 and became comfortable projecting V4! I also redid the V5s the following week as proof to myself that it wasn't just a fluke. That was a good day. Unfortunately now that was the end of my climbing since I've moved downtown. When I pick it up again, it will be a long journey again and I'm looking forward to it.

**Objective:**
Be a product manager

**Key Results:**

* Define what it means to be a product manager
* Bring a product to market

**Results:**
I still don't know what a product manager means; it seems very vague and consists of a large gamut of work ranging from customer support to product requirements to development to quality control. Despite not knowing this, I managed to bring the Nymi Companion Device Application to market; I was the initial designer/programmer/tester that built the application in preparation for one of Microsoft's international conferences. I was able to see the product being demoed on stage by a Microsoft speaker.


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VA Shows You Must See This Week: June 5 – June 11
Topics: Angel Dust, Asylum 213, Bandito's, Berries, Big Gorgeous, Broken Beaches, Brown's Island, Cardinal, Cary Street Cafe, Charlie's American Cafe, Colder Planets, Colin Phils, Comrades, Cuzco, Dave Watkins, Deli Kings, Doll Baby, Dumb Waiter, Eaves, evolv, F.R.E.E., feat. MAP Quintet, Firehouse Theatre, Founding Fathers, friday cheers, gallery 5, Gel, Ghost Piss, Glitterer, Gouge Away, Gull, Gumming, Honor Code, ING, Invalids, Kore Rozzik, Ladada, Larrabee/Millner Duo, Mingus Awareness Project, Nervous System, New Turks, Nita Strauss, Piranha Rama, POST RVA Fest, Post Sixty Five, Raging Nathans, Raise Hell Over The Summer, Retrosphere, ROC KANDI, Saint Mingus, shows you must see, shy low, Smoke Break, Spooky Cool, Street Weapon, Talk Me Off, THE BBC, The Broadberry, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Teskey Brothers, The War And Treaty, Toast, Truth Cult, Unity Fight, way shape or form
Saturday, June 8, 7 PM
New Turks (Photo by Sarmistha Talukdar), Gumming, Deli Kings, Ghost Piss, F.R.E.E., ing @ Gallery 5 – $5 in advance/$10 day of show (order tickets HERE)
The arrival of Raw Mom Presents on the Richmond live music scene has made me really happy, mainly because it allows my old pal Rivanna Youngpool to put her personal stamp on some of the shows she puts on at Gallery 5. Years ago, when we were roommates, Rivanna worked hard to make the shows she booked in our living room safe, welcoming, and fun, and to keep the emphasis on community and friendship. Now that she's booking at a real venue, it's nice to see her keeping the vibe alive with an awesome all-local show to celebrate her birthday.
As befitting any birthday party, this one is full of friends, and the headliners in particular are two long-lost friends you'll all want to see. Heavy bass-drum duo New Turks rocked the hell out of Richmond during their four years of existence, but Ethan and Lou stopped making music together back in 2015, and other than one reunion gig a year later, they haven't done a thing since. But just for old times' sake, they will be returning for one night only this Saturday night to headline this show, and that's a birthday gift not just for Rivanna but for the whole city. You won't want to miss this one, because who knows if — not when, IF — they'll ever do it again.
The fun doesn't stop there, as this gig features a highly varied lineup sure to keep your attention throughout the night. Deli Kings have got that Southern-style garage rock on lock, and Ing keep things eclectic and melodic with some charming lo-fi pop. Former Richmonder and eternal friend River Allen will be back in town for the evening with her haunting electro-ambient project, Ghost Piss, and I can't seem to figure anything out about F.R.E.E. except that they are neither a reformed version of Have Heart nor that British band who sang "All Right Now." But with the rest of the bill looking so great, this one is worth taking a chance on. Plus, advance tickets are literally 50% cheaper than the price at the door, so mark your calendar, make your plans, and hit that ticket link now!
Wednesday, June 5, 9 PM
Founding Fathers, Big Gorgeous, Asylum 213 @ Cary Street Cafe – $10
I've heard a lot of synth-based bands over the years, and one thing I can say for sure is that the studio recordings by the majority of them give you no idea what the band could possibly sound like live. That's why it's always refreshing to run across a band that is both synth-heavy and manages to sound on its records like an actual band playing their songs as a unit. Ohio band Founding Fathers, who place the emphasis on synthesizers and programmed beats but also incorporate guitars and live drums into their sound, totally pull this off on their 2018 LP, Mating Rites, and that's a big part of why I think you should go see them tonight at Cary Street Cafe.
The music reminds me somewhat of Future Islands, another synth-based band that works particularly well as a live act, and there are also hints of upbeat early-00s bands like Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand in there. It all adds up to a rocking band that'll keep you dancing throughout the evening — and the world could definitely use more of those, so come out tonight and get familiar with the Founding Fathers. While you're at it, check out the ridiculously fun synth-metal antics of California's Big Gorgeous, who'll give you even more reason to dance around with a big grin on your face. This one's gonna rule.
Thursday, June 6, 9 PM
Raging Nathans, Smoke Break, Talk Me Off @ Bandito's – Free!
Raging Nathans are a band out of time. This band from Dayton Ohio, who are probably tired of hearing about Guided By Voices, have a sound that is in its own way just as anachronistic as that of GBV themselves — only instead of harking back to some alternate-universe lo-fi garage-psych past, Raging Nathans will make any of you old-timers who were there the first time around think of pop-punk's mid-90s heyday. Post-y2k pop-punk tends to follow in the gruffer footsteps of bands like Hot Water Music and Dillinger Four, but on last year's Cheap Fame LP, Raging Nathans bypass all that for some good old Lookout!/Fat Wreck sounds that, while I wasn't looking, seemingly became part of a bygone era.
This Bandito's show is the perfect opportunity for all of us to bring that era back, at least in our own hearts. The fact that the Raging Nathans have released splits with both The Parasites and Jon Cougar Concentration Camp in the past year should let you know that they're on board. And they'll have you pogoing up a storm when they hit the stage on Thursday night. They'll be joined by one of Richmond's great slacker melodic-punk bands, Smoke Break, who may not play another show for six months, so you better get there. And of course, Talk Me Off opens up with a snottier brand of punk, mostly without the pop, to remind us all of our angry teenage days. It's gonna be a whole lot of fun.
Friday, June 7, 6 PM
The War And Treaty, The Teskey Brothers @ Friday Cheers at Brown's Island – $10 (order tickets HERE)
Usually you can expect the bands who play Friday Cheers to be pretty familiar, so I was surprised to see a name I didn't know on the schedule this week: The War And Treaty. I'm glad I dug in, though, because this musical group is one of the most interesting that's come to my attention recently. Specifically, The War And Treaty is a husband-and-wife duo, Michael and Tanya Trotter, who sing together while Michael plays piano and a variety of other musicians add color and depth to their exuberant, soulful songs.
The result, born from Michael's difficult experiences growing up impoverished and joining the military just in time for the Iraq war, is a sound that taps into blues, R&B, folk, gospel, country, and a ton of other American sounds. On their debut album, Healing Tide, Michael and Tanya sing together to chase away the darkness and create a musical force more powerful than any trauma. They pull it off flawlessly, and they're sure to uplift all of Brown's Island this Friday night when they take that Friday Cheers stage and make this whole city their own. Be there ready to sing along — this kind of healing is exactly what we all need.
POST RVA Fest, feat. Comrades, Invalids, Gull, Shy Low, Colin Phils, Dumb Waiter, evolv, Spooky Cool, Cuzco, Post Sixty Five, Eaves, Cardinal, Way Shape Or Form, Dave Watkins, Colder Planets @ The Broadberry – $12 – $18 (order tickets HERE)
Here's an impressive effort that's starting out the right way. Spearheaded by Richmond-via-Korea band Colin Phils, the first ever POST RVA Fest will take over the Broadberry for a full nine hours of music this Saturday. Rather than going too big and biting off more than they can chew (something I know all about), the organizers of POST RVA Fest have mostly stuck with local groups in pulling together this 15-band showcase sure to appeal to anyone who digs epic instrumental post-rock, jazzy technical math-rock, melodic progressive metal, complex guitar-driven indie, and everything in-between — which covers a good deal more ground than you might expect.
Just look at this bill, which is topped by peripatetic former locals Comrades, a heavy trio who combine metalcore, post-rock, emo, indie, and a whole bunch of other genres into their unique, driving sound. New Jersey's Invalids, by contrast, dish out hyperspeed math-rock with emphasis on guitar and drum pyrotechnics that'll have the gear nerds in the audience watching very closely. There are a ton of other amazing bands, mostly from the Richmond area, on the bill, from Gull's indescribable one-man sonic creations and Cardinal's gorgeously complex indie-math-rock to Dumb Waiter's freaky instrumental jazz-metal and Shy Low's Mogwai-style moving instrumental epics. There's so much here, for such a cheap ticket price, and if it all comes together perfectly, it may just be able to draw a loose, disparate group of musically similar local musicians into an actual scene. What could be a greater goal for a show than that? Get your ticket and be a part of it. You won't be sorry.
Sunday, June 9, 7:30 PM
Mingus Awareness Project, feat. MAP Quintet, Larrabee/Millner Duo, Saint Mingus @ Firehouse Theatre – $15 in advance/$20 day of show/$10 for students (order tickets HERE)
This Sunday, if you want to both support a great cause and hear some amazing music you won't hear anywhere else, then the only place you need to go is Firehouse Theatre. There, you'll find local jazz-rock drum legend Brian Jones putting on the 12th edition of his yearly Mingus Awareness Project concerts, which exist to bring attention and support to the cause of curing ALS, the deadly incurable disease that took the life of bass legend Charles Mingus back in 1979. And as part of this charitable goal, Jones will be joining together with a variety of confederates from around the Richmond jazz scene to pay unique tribute to the phenomenal masterpieces of the one and only Mingus.
This time around, those tributes will take three forms, beginning with the MAP Quintet, which matches Jones up with his longtime collaborator, saxophonist JC Kuhl, as well as Virginia jazz powerhouses John D'earth on trumpet, Mike Hawkins on bass, and Calvin Brown (aka Calvin Presents) on piano. Then we'll get a performance from the electric-guitar duo of Adam Larrabee and Jamal Millner, as well as a quintet known as Saint Mingus, which will match Jones with Richmond jazz ambassador Reggie Pace as well as Suzi Fischer (The Big Payback), Giustino Riccio (Bio Ritmo), and Stefan Demetriadis (No BS! Brass). Such an incredibly talented conglomeration of musicians is sure to do justice to Charles Mingus's incredible compositions, and you're going to want to be there to see them do it. Donating to a good cause is just the icing on the cake.
Monday, June 10, 7 PM
Angel Dust, Gouge Away, Glitterer, Truth Cult @ The Camel – $15 (order tickets HERE)
One thing I've learned from my years in the hardcore scene is that, as long as you put a few years into playing hardcore music, the kids will follow you to whatever new thing you do, regardless of how it sounds. Angel Dust is a perfect case in point: while this band features members of Trapped Under Ice, Turnstile, and Mindset, you'd be totally incorrect to expect anything hard or heavy from their brand-new album, Pretty Buff. Instead, this album finds the quintet of tough boys showing their sensitive side and, indeed, getting downright upbeat. And that's not to mention the predominantly-acoustic guitar sound.
All told, Angel Dust's upbeat sound has led to comparisons with groups like the Lemonheads or early Green Day. But despite all that, it's done nothing to chase the hardcore faithful away — and one listen to Pretty Buff is enough to see why. These guys are every bit as good at lovelorn melodies as they are at hard n' heavy mosh-pit anthems. So why not celebrate all of it equally? Join all the HC kids Monday night in doing exactly that at The Camel. And while you're at it, enjoy what's sure to be an incredible set from raging hardcore-punk quartet Gouge Away, who will deliver every bit of vitriol you might have expected from Angel Dust and then some. The bill will also feature Title Fight frontman Ned Russin's electronic side project, Glitterer, and the killer up-and-coming sounds of Baltimore's Truth Cult, a decidedly Swiz-ish group featuring members of Give, Red Death, and more. Every second of this is sure to be outstanding.
Tuesday, June 11, 6 PM
Nita Strauss, Kore Rozzik, THE BBC, Roc Kandi, Retrosphere @ The Canal Club – $17 in advance/$20 day of show (order tickets HERE)
Maybe it's only because I came up in the late 80s era of hair metal's world domination (OK, yeah, that's probably it), but I just love some really ridiculous over the top metal shredding. And as much as I enjoy this kind of thing from veteran masters of the field — Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, you know the ones — it makes me way happier to see someone younger carrying on the tradition. And a woman, at that! Nita Strauss first grabbed attention with her string-bending star turn in all-female Iron Maiden tribute act The Iron Maidens, but she's since graduated to all sorts of original work, from joining Alice Cooper's touring band to scoring video games like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Now she's gone out on her own, releasing her debut solo album, Controlled Chaos, last year and hitting the road on a headlining tour to support it. Keeping with the tradition of shredders past such as Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, Strauss forgoes vocals for this album's anthems, instead using her multilayered melodic leads as color and giving the album's many headbanging riffs more than sufficient texture to keep you smiling and thrashing along. You can do that exact thing at the Canal Club Tuesday night when Strauss's headlining set caps off a night full of shred-tastic adventures. Notorious NYC metal maniacs Kore Rozzik will provide plenty of those, along with several killer locals. Get ready for some serious thrash, y'all — because it's happening.
Elsewhere around the state:
Gel, Honor Code, Nervous System, Street Weapon, Unity Fight @ Charlie's American Cafe – $5
For all you diehards who might be feeling a little deprived by Angel Dust's relentlessly upbeat post-hardcore melodies, rest assured we've still got plenty of straight-ahead no-frills hardcore for ya, and — unsurprisingly enough — it's happening this Friday night in Norfolk. Gel, a recently formed New Jersey band who have only a demo to their name, are coming to town to tear it up. The demo's five songs blow by incredibly fast, and are full of sloppy, out-of-control hardcore riffage with a decidedly maniacal edge. This band seems like a prime candidate for an absolutely explosive live performance, and you're gonna want to be there to see it go down.
Down in the Hampton Roads area, Honor Code are sure to draw just as much attention as the New Jersey headliners — after all, this is their first show in nearly two years. Does that mean this 82-style old school VBHC combo has returned to full time action? Maybe, maybe not, but it does mean you'll have one more chance to circle pit to their legendarily primitive hardcore tuneage — and that's sure to be a blast. The show will also feature local NFKHC up-and-comers Nervous System, as well as brand-new VB bands Street Weapon and Unity Fight, both of whom have names that sound suspiciously randomly generated. However, we can guarantee that both are entirely made up of real flesh-and-blood humans. Pure organic hardcore, coming right up.
LAVA Presents GRILLED OUT, feat. Ladada, Berries, Piranha Rama, Broken Beaches, Doll Baby, Raise Hell Over The Summer @ Toast – $10 in advance/$14 day of show (order tickets HERE)
Memorial Day has come and gone, and at least in Virginia, that means summer has arrived, y'all. And what better way to spend a sunny summer evening than grillin' out and chillin' out with some great tunes? This weekend, LAVA Presents has you covered on both of those scores, as their Saturday evening GRILLED OUT fest will find the Tidewater-area promotional crew hanging out in the Toast parking lot, joined by Handsome Biscuit burgers, Smartmouth Beer, and a whole conglomeration of excellent Virginia musicians.
Ladada are at the top of the bill, and this Norfolk indie group has just the tunes you need for a summer afternoon cookout — they even put a guy floating down a river with a red solo cup in hand on the cover of their recent LP, Heaven On The Rocks, so you know they've got the right idea. The day will also feature delicious indie-pop sounds from VB group Berries, excellently named New York indie-rockers Raise Hell Over The Summer, and some rad RVA sounds from local faves Piranha Rama and Doll Baby. You Richmonders might want to get a crew and roll down with a carful — especially since the tickets are cheaper if you buy them at the group rate! Grab some burgers, rock out to some tunes, and enjoy the summer — it'll be gone before you know it.
Email me if you've got any tips for me about upcoming shows (that take place after the week this column covers -– this week's column has obviously already been written): [email protected]
RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 8/9-8/15
Marilyn Drew Necci | August 9, 2017
Topics: 3:33, Awake At Last, Big Baby, Big Bliss, Big Quiet, Billy Neptune, Bjork Risque, Black Naked Wings, Bonus Roll, Cream Dream, Cruelsifix, DJ Gringo, DJ Harrison, Dr. Millionaire, Drew is a nerd, DRI, Enforced, Flora, Graveside Breakfast, Growl, Kenneka Cook, Mangoux, Marina City, Nic & Wes, ROC KANDI, Serqet, shows you must see, Silver Twin, Sonny Falls, Sorority Boy, Sound Of Music, Stake, strange matter, Sunlord, Suzy, Sweet Knives, The Blue Sky Disaster, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Funeral Portrait, The Smirks
Sunday, August 13, 8 PM
DRI, Sunlord, Cruelsifix, Enforced, 3:33 @ Strange Matter – $15 (order tickets HERE)
Trends in the world of metal come and go (and that's true no matter what some "anti-trendy" metalhead might tell you). However, if the last 35 years are any indication, it appears that thrash is evergreen. Speedy drumming, chunky riffs, harsh vocals, and wailing solos never go out of style. Therefore it can be little surprise that OG thrash speed demons DRI are still going full speed ahead after 35 years. But what's really great is how good they still are! [Read more…] about RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 8/9-8/15