Reiss Nelson has heaped praise on several of the Arsenal under-18 squad who have reached the FA Youth Cup semi-finals.
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Q: AngularJS, radio buttons with getters and setters I am trying to have radio buttons controlling boolean properties of external objects through getters and setters.
In the following example, there are multiple Person, but only one can be happy. One of them is already happy. I want to control which one is happy through radio buttons.
Therefore, I created a template with a radio input, but I can't bind it to person.happy, as I don't have access to this property (suppose Person is a third-party library).
In order to bind something to the input, I created a dumb controller, to provide a default value (the Person value), and propagate changes to the real variable (in short, call the setter). I can't seem to get things right.

var app = angular.module('app', []);

// Person constructor ; happy is a private member
function Person(name, isHappy) {
  var happy = isHappy;
  this.name = name;
  this.getHappy = function() { return happy; }
  this.setHappy = function(value) { happy = value; }
}

// Inject a person list in the scope
app.controller('PeopleCtrl', function($scope) {
  $scope.people = [
    new Person('Alice', true),
    new Person('Bob', false),
    new Person('Carol', false)
  ];
});

// Template to display one person + happiness controller
var humanTemplate = [
  '
',
  '<input type="radio" name="group" ng-model="me.happy" ng-change="me.toggle()" value="{{ !me.happy }}">',
  '{{ person.name }} is {{ me.happy ? "happy" : "sad" }}',
  '
'
].join('');

// Directive to display one person
app.directive('human', function() {
  return {
    restrict: 'E',
    template: humanTemplate,
    scope: {
      person: '='
    },
    controllerAs: 'me',
    controller: function($scope) {
      var me = this;
      me.happy = $scope.person.getHappy();
      me.toggle = function() {
        console.log(me.happy);
        $scope.person.setHappy(me.happy);
      };
    }
  };
});

  <human ng-repeat="p in people" person="p"></human>

I would have thought ngChange would be tied to the checked state on radio and checkboxes (would have been somehow logical), but there are symptoms telling me otherwise:

*

*ngChange is not fired for the previously checked radio

*ngChange is not fired more than once (I got it to fire twice when messing with the input value attribute)

I may be mistaken since I am a beginner, but it looks like ngChange is not what I want.
What do you think would be a good solution for this problem?
Do I need to write a parent controller to manage manually the deactivation of some items when the other get activated?

A: I think (at least what I see from demo) you use radio buttons with different purpose.
Radio buttons works in groups where each button has shared ng-model. In your case human directive has own scope and therefore each radio button has own model a.e. stand-alone, that breaks  radio buttons concept and usage.
Change to  classic checkbox type="checkbox" and everything will work properly
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Disabled 7-year-old girl Chelsea Maldonado dies after fall from window
By DORIAN BLOCK , Oren Yaniv and SAMUEL GOLDSMITH
Instead of watching their daughter open presents on Christmas morning, the parents of little Chelsea Maldonado are planning her funeral.
The autistic, 7-year-old girl, who used a wheelchair and was blind in one eye, lost her battle for life after falling from the fifth floor of her Bronx apartment on Christmas Eve.
She died from her injuries Christmas morning, officials at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell said.
"The family is trying to figure out funeral arrangements," said Roberto Ubiera, a close family friend for 20 years.
Ubiera, who took in the Maldonados when they emigrated from Mexico, said the family spent the day circled around Chelsea's hospital bed, unable to comprehend what had happened.
Chelsea suffered a broken pelvis, collapsed lung and bleeding in her brain, hospital officials said.
It is unclear how she managed to fall from the small bathroom window - partially covered with a safety gate - but police on Thursday said they don't suspect foul play.
Ambar Silverio, the superintendent at the Grandview Place apartment building in Concourse where the family lives, often watched Chelsea after school before her mother came home with her older sister, Michelle, 9.
Silverio said that in recent weeks Chelsea's curiosity and ability to maneuver her body were stronger than ever.
"Since she was learning to walk, she was learning to explore. She had strong arms from using the wheelchair, which would have made her able to boost up," Silverio said.
Silverio said Chelsea's mother, Maria Flores, lost track of her daughter in the apartment on Wednesday evening.
She searched each room and found one of Chelsea's favorite toys - a flashing bicycle light - on the bathroom floor near the window, Silverio said.
Looking up, he said, Flores noticed a torn piece of Chelsea's clothing was stuck on the window guard.
Unable to see out to the dark alley below and fearing the worst, she called police, according to Silverio.
She ran downstairs, yelling for Silverio. The mother's Christmas nightmare came true when she and paramedics found Chelsea in the alley.
Silverio said Flores is a "very good mom. She's very careful with children."
Flores cares for eight children under the age of 9, Silverio said. The Maldonados took in six extended family members after their parents died.
Chelsea's father, Ubaldo Maldonado, works three jobs to pay rent and buy food for all the children, Silverio said.
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Pioneer and Serato join forces to make CDJ-2000nexus work in conjunction with Scratch Live software
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Pioneer announced its collaboration with Serato to ensure compatibility of the latest CDJ-2000nexus professional series multi player with the Scratch Live software. Pioneer's CDJ-2000nexus player (updated with firmware Version 1.13) will work in sync with the Scratch Live software Version 2.5.0 for intuitive DJ performance using music files stored on a computer without the need for a control disc.
In Online Mode, Scratch Live functions will automatically link to the corresponding buttons and keys of the CDJ-2000nexus player when a computer running the software is connected through the players' USB connection. In addition, functions such as tempo adjustment, play/cue and loop can be made without a computer keyboard or mouse.
The built-in color display of the Pioneer CDJ-2000nexus will also indicate detailed track information from the Scratch Live software. Text, album artwork, waveform, cue/loop points and other information of a track will be shown on the CDJ-2000nexus color display, resulting in quicker visual communication and enhanced DJ performance for the user. In addition, checking playback status and selecting tracks can all be done directly on the CDJ player, minimizing the need to browse through a computer screen.
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Tech education company Pluralsight is to hire 150 people over the next three years to staff a new headquarters it will open in Dublin early next year.
The new facility for the firm's European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations will house the company's strategic business operations for the region and support its growing customer base in the Republic.
Pluralsight said the jobs would be across a variety of roles, including sales, marketing, operations, finance and customer support. The company's investment in the region will also bring more than €40 million to Dublin's local economy.
Pluralsight has named Mike Featherstone as the head of business operations of its new EMEA headquarters. Mr Featherstone, who is currently based at Pluralsight's global headquarters in Utah, US, will relocate to Dublin in early 2018.
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Justin Sun is one of the most charismatic individuals in the world of cryptocurrencies today. The TRON Founder has voiced his opinion on a number of issues and debates related to cryptocurrencies. However, not many people are aware that Sun graduated from the Hupan University in China, where he underwent a three year academic program after being handpicked by the founder of the university - Alibaba's Jack Ma.
The Hupan University is one of the most prestigious names in China - and is run by the Jack Ma foundation. Alibaba-owner Jack Ma, one of the most influential names in China (and across the world), who is known for his entrepreneurship as well as for his philanthropy, himself takes a few lectures at the university. TRON's Justin Sun studied under the tutelage of Jack Ma for three years. Justin submitted his graduation thesis, "The Birth of a Decentralized Internet" earlier this year. This thesis talks about his views on the past, present and future of the blockchain technology.
In addition to that, Justin Sun also presented a thesis titled "Reflections and Thoughts on a Four-Year Journey as an Entrepreneur." Here, he talked about his experience of working as an entrepreneur for the past four years. Over the years, the TRON blockchain and cryptocurrency have both become quite popular. Sun made a huge acquisition recently when he acquired BitTorrent in June this year. Sun is the first millennial graduate from this university!
Commenting on the three years that he spent with the Hupan University, Justin Sun commented:
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Home Sponsored Arcmont on lenders leveraging influence to drive ESG
Arcmont on lenders leveraging influence to drive ESG
As credit managers get more sophisticated on ESG, the tools they can use to drive progress in their portfolios are also advancing, says Nathan Brown, chief operating officer at Arcmont Asset Management.
This article is sponsored by Arcmont Asset Management
How have you seen the approach of private credit managers to ESG evolve over the past two years?
ESG is a journey for asset managers, and that's true for credit managers as much as it is across the broader asset management spectrum. That journey starts with understanding what ESG is and what your organisation stands for; truthfully, there were probably still funds a few years ago that didn't know what ESG was.
But then firms move to putting a policy in place, introducing basic screening procedures and doing some qualitative analysis and reporting. Firms then progress, expanding their exclusion policy, producing more detailed analysis and reporting, and eventually integrating ESG throughout the investment process.
Ultimately, ESG should be something managers think about all the way through from due diligence to exit, with the most mature funds using quantitative metrics and encouraging good ESG behaviour among their borrowers by introducing initiatives like margin ratchets on their loans.
People are at different stages on the journey, with some at the beginning and others starting to push the boundaries. In the white paper we have just released in conjunction with KKS Advisors, we classify investors as either initiated, integrated or advanced, based on their progress along the ESG journey.
How far are you along that journey?
At Arcmont, we believe we are a long way along the path. We put our first ESG policy in place back in 2013 so we have had some time to develop our thinking. Now ESG is fully integrated with comprehensive policies including an advanced exclusion policy. We also produce detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis, offer borrowers environmental and social related financial incentives, and give investors comprehensive reporting.
ESG is a fast-evolving landscape, a lot has changed over the last few years in both the public and private markets, with the public markets being more advanced but private markets are now catching up.
How can debt funds be most effective in driving ESG progress within their portfolio companies?
The key word here is engagement, we need to engage with portfolio companies on this. One of the biggest challenges for private credit is that they are not owners of the business, so the sponsor has a lot more control. The lender has to engage with both the management and sponsors.
As a vice-chair of the Alternative Credit Council, I've been involved with their recent work on ESG. One of the things we have been pushing for is a more joined-up approach between credit managers and private equity. Ideally, we should all want the same thing; ultimately, we have a similar set of investors who are pushing for action on ESG, so if we are better aligned, we should be able to make progress faster.
Another challenge that credit funds face in the upper mid-market is with respect to the availability and quality of ESG data. Borrowers typically aren't required to produce the level of data larger public companies make available.
The advantage we have, however, is closer interaction and proximity to borrowers and sponsors. If you're operating in public markets, as an asset manager you can't easily phone up the leaders of the businesses you are lending to for ESG answers, but you can on the private side. So, whilst the data might not be readily produced, the ability to have discussions is there.
The other way to drive ESG progress is by offering financial incentives, which those of us further along the journey are now doing via margin ratchets. At Arcmont we offer borrowers a discount on the margin should they meet pre-agreed environmental or social targets.
What sorts of things is Arcmont currently doing to promote ESG among its borrowers?
We are particularly proud of our Target Improvement Plans. A number of market participants now offer financial incentives via interest rate discounts to encourage their portfolio companies to improve their ESG performance. One option is to set a list of criteria where you say to portfolio companies that if they do these three set things they will get a reduction of maybe five basis points on the margin.
We considered that but we didn't think it was necessarily going to have a meaningful impact for each specific company. So, instead, we decided to come up with a bespoke plan for each of our portfolio companies and – through a collaboration between ourselves, our third-party adviser, the borrower and the private equity sponsor – we devise a bespoke TIP for each specific borrower.
In general, it will consist of three staged environmental or social targets, and as each target is achieved the borrower gets 2.5bps off of the margin on the loan. We like the fact that it is bespoke, it's not generic.
Our TIP focus is always on the environmental or social aspects of ESG, because governance is something that's always been important for us and our investors. Good management teams and sound governance have been an integral part of investing since investing began.
Another key element is our bespoke scoring system, with transparency around the analysis. That allows us to shine a light on issues within the portfolio. We are also working on a standard template for collecting ESG data from our portfolio companies. Not only will this improve our data collection but it will encourage borrowers to look at key ESG metrics, highlighting areas of concern and areas where they can improve.
What are the advantages of Target Improvement Plans?
Because each plan is made up of three progressive targets the borrowers can demonstrate improvement over time. We offer TIPs and margin ratchets on all of our primary originated loans now. The process is hard work because we have to put our heads together and come up with something bespoke to the borrower, but the results should be more meaningful to the company in question. The challenge is finding something that can be impactful but is possible within the constraints the specific company faces.
How do you see the recent rapid advances in ESG practice at debt funds evolving going forward and what do you expect to see in terms of future developments?
There are four principle developments to watch. First, as people move further along the ESG journey, it will not be long before the majority of managers will be focused on quantifiable as well as qualitative metrics. We will also quickly start to see more lenders introducing margin ratchets and more funds with more detailed exclusion policies. We will see fast progress now along that spectrum.
Second, I think we will see – helpfully – more standardisation, particularly in terms of the data that is expected of portfolio companies. We are pushing for a standardised data request form and we hope that is something we can help develop alongside the Alternative Credit Council. If every portfolio company knows the specific metrics every lender is going to be requesting, it will be a lot easier to manage. So, I think we will soon start to see standardisation of data and reporting templates.
The third big theme is climate, which is an area where investors are starting to ask a lot more questions and managers are having to react. Every manager will need a climate policy and needs a good handle on the impact that their operations have on the climate agenda.
Finally, there will be an increasing debate about sustainable outcomes. At the moment, people talk about ESG integration as a way for managers to mitigate ESG risk in order to produce better financial outcomes.
As we move forward, people may become more focused on sustainable outcomes and sustainability will be seen as a measure of performance in itself. Will financial returns be the only metric by which managers are judged? As the ability to measure those sustainability outcomes matures, so that question will come into focus.
For now, the focus is on standardisation of data, and then producing, measuring and analysing that data, and we are currently working with an innovative technology solution provider to help us. It's a fast-evolving space and one we intend to stay at the forefront of. It will be exciting to see where we go from here.
At a fund level, what do LPs expect managers to be doing in their own businesses today?
Basically, LPs expect managers to be doing more. In the same way that the private credit industry has come a long way in the last two years, so too have investor expectations. Geography plays a part in that, with Scandinavian investors really at the forefront of this conversation, followed by other European LPs. There is a perception that US investors are behind, but as the recent AIMA data reveals they are not as behind Europe as some people think.
Integration of ESG across the fund manager is what LPs are most focused on – it is not enough just to have one person with knowledge about ESG, it needs to be fully integrated.
There is a focus among LPs on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and climate change, with climate change almost becoming a topic of its own, particularly in the wake of COP26. Climate change is increasingly important to investors, and we are about to publish our new climate policy, which includes a commitment to go carbon neutral as a manager.
On other issues, like diversity and inclusion within our business, different LPs have different priorities. I would say US investors are far more advanced in their focus on diversity and inclusion, while Europe may be leading the way on the environment but that's just my anecdotal experience.


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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort in- flicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. . . . The prerogatives of the press-essential to our liberty-do not preclude reasonable care and -avoid- ance of casual infliction of injury. . . . They do not confer a license for point- less assault." Next, he condemned the Life article as "a fictionalized version of the Hill incident, deliberately or heedlessly distorted beyond semblance of reality." Finally, he wrote a passion- ate defense of privacy, a defense which, according to Professor Schwartz, was "as broad a statement of that right as any ever made by a member of the hig hest court." Even as a newcomer to the Court, joining it in 1965, Abe Fortas was a strong, confident figure. His first year was a great personal success. Accord- ing to Murphy's biography of Fortas, it got "glowing" reviews: the Times law reporter Fred Graham called the freshman Justice "a promising member of 'the club' " and a man who was fast becoming "a power on the Supreme Court"; Newsweek called him "rookie of the year"; and U. S. News & World Report predicted that he could be "counted among those who will set the tone and style of the Court in the future. " One member of the Court, Hugo Black, violently disagreed. Black, who had worn the liberal mantle on the Court since his appointment by Roose- velt, in 1937, disliked everything about Fortas, and saw him, as Murphy explains, as a "pretender to the throne of leadership" on the Court. Black therefore welcomed the broad scope and the intensity of the F ortas draft opinion in Hill. These weaknesses presented an opportunity to cut F ortas down to size; but for this task Black needed time. During the circulation of draft opinions, F ortas, because of com- ments by his colleagues, found it neces- sary to make changes tempering the language of his first draft opinion for the Court and seeking to answer, in particular, Justice White's challenge to the constitutionality of the New York statute. By adroit maneuvering, Justice Black took advantage of these changes. In what Murphy calls a "pet- ulant" note to Justice F ortas, he in- sisted that because of F ortas's altera- tions he needed extra time-more than the current term allowed-to rewrite the response he was preparing. Black's hostility, together with White's more specific doubts, persuaded F ortas, as the author of the majority opinion, to agree to reargument, and it was sched- uled for the fall term. Meanwhile, Black continued his campaign against Justice F ortas and his draft opinion. To his Court colleagues he said that Fortas's was "the worst First Amend- ment opinion he had seen in a dozen years." He added, according to Mur- phy, that "it would take him all sum- mer to write his dissent,' , which "would be the greatest dissent of his life. " Justice Black's product, an internal memorandum sixteen pages long, was distributed to the Court the day before reargument; it was a blockbuster de- nunciation of Justice F ortas and his pOSI tion. It was, as promised, one of the most forceful statements ever made by Black of his judicial philosophy. He attacked the general idea of the "weighing" approach, which when applied to First Amendment issues dic- tates that in each case the worth to society of freedom of expression must be weighed against the worth of the APRIL 17, 1989 individual rights and values threatened by a particular use of that freedom. Then he attacked the weighing ap- proach as applied to the right of pri- vacy in particular, and castigated Jus- tice F ortas's opinion in terms like these: "After mature reflection I am unable to recall any prior case in this Court that offers a greater threat to freedom of speech and press than this one does, either in the tone and temper of the Court's opinion or in its result- ing holding and judgment." An example of Justice Black's feroc- ity of argument was a contention that Fortas was urging a "general, uncon- ditional, unequivocal 'right to privacy' or 'to be let alone,'" under which, Black argued, "burglars, rapists, rob- bers, murderers and other law violators would be completely immune from all governmental investigations, arrests, trials and punishments." Timed for the eve of reargument, Black's intense lobbying and his pre- reargument memorandum had the in- tended effect. The Court's questioning moved in a direction charted by him and by Justice White. In the first post- reargument vote, on October 21 st, the Court switched from 6-3 for affirm- ance to 7-2 for reversal, with only the Chief Justice still strongly supporting F ortas. Before the case was finally de- cided, Justices Harlan and Clark re- turned to the F ortas side, producing a tie vote of 4-4, and that was resolved, finally, by Justice Stewart's vote to reverse. This deciding fifth vote to reverse was obtained by Brennan's ad- dition of a paragraph expressly leaving open the rules to apply in libel actions by private individuals. Stewart had ear- lier expressed concern for the reputa- tion and feelings of private individuals in a concurring opinion in Rosenblatt v. Baer (1966). He wrote to Brennan the day after he read this addition, saying he was now glad to join in Brennan's opinion. The irony of this struggle is that after all the speculation about how the Court would respond to Richard Nixon, the personal animus that deter- mined the course of the Hill case was not antagonism toward Nixon by any member of the Court. The two Justices who had always detested Nixon's poli- tics-Warren and Fortas-were un- shakable defenders of his position in the Hill case. The central clash in Hill was actually between Hugo Black and Abe Fortas.


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Why Marvel Killed Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron
Avengers: Age of Ultron featured the first death of an Avenger in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver. The speedster gave his life to protect Hawkeye, who was in the middle of saving a child from the titular villain. Since this was also Pietro's MCU debut, audiences were surprised to see him killed off so soon. Although many MCU characters have come back from the dead, there has been little indication that Quicksilver will ever return.
Marvel Studios' Justification For Killing Quicksilver Quicksilver's Death Came as a Huge Shock
When Age of Ultron was initially released, there were a lot of rumors about why Pietro had met his untimely demise. Because the film came out before Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox, some believed the death was a result of issues over the two companies' shared rights to the character. At the time, Fox owned the rights to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. While rights may have been a factor, there's been no official confirmation on the subject.
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Marvel Studios' Justification For Killing Quicksilver
According to various interviews with the president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, and Joss Whedon, writer and director of Age of Ultron, there were a couple of reasons why Quicksilver had to die. Not only did his death subvert viewers' expectations, but it was also supposed to raise the story's stakes by demonstrating that Ultron's actions had lasting consequences. Even though they shot an alternate ending where Pietro was alive at the end, they insisted that the character's death was always a part of the plan, and the other ending was mainly meant to prevent people from spoiling the real ending.
Given these explanations, Pietro's death does make sense. In spite of criticisms about the MCU's inability to let characters stay dead, as well as several fan theories about Quicksilver's return, Pietro still hasn't been resurrected. Conversely, the speedster's death hasn't had quite the emotional impact that it could have had. While Pietro's sacrifice was sad, most fans seem to agree that it would've been more impactful if the audience had more time to get attached to the character. Moreover, Pietro's death has barely been brought up in later films and Disney+ shows, despite him leaving behind his twin sister, Wanda, as well as having Hawkeye name his son Nathaniel Pietro Barton.
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Quicksilver's Death Came as a Huge Shock
As for subverting expectations, Pietro was right: audiences didn't see that coming. Although some believed not every hero would survive the film, many assumed that Quicksilver would live because he was a brand-new character. Instead, most fans predicted Hawkeye would be the one to die since, at the time, Marvel hadn't announced any plans for him to star in his own project.
In fact, the MCU film leaned into this expectation by introducing Clint's secret family, building up his and Pietro's mutual animosity and making him more sympathetic than he had been in previous movies. This made it all the more shocking when Hawkeye survived and Quicksilver died. Regardless of how fans felt about it, Quicksilver's death was definitely a surprising twist.
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Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe to my channel and click the bell, so you don't miss out on any new videos. Well, good day guys. My name's Katrina Burgoyne. I have been a full-time musician. That's my dog right there, Eli, by the way. I've been a full-time musician for over 12 years and being fortunate enough to have three top 10 countries singles in Australia and being nominated for two CMAA Golden Guitar Awards, which is equivalent to the CMA is here in America.
I've been fortunate enough to be able to fund my career as an independent artist, which has led me to move to one of the most competitive cities in the world from music, which is Nashville, Tennessee.
I wanted to share with you some steps on how I made the move happen. As an out of the box thinking and hopefully inspire you to take that leap of faith and do the same thing and take a bet on your music career.
So before moving to Nashville, I strongly recommend growing where you're planted. I came out to Nashville in 2009 and was fortunate enough, the late Rob Potts from Australia introduced me to some of the biggest guys, industry guys in Nashville. So I was having meetings with EMI, I was having meetings with Universal Publishing. At the time Pat Higdon was the president and he suggested, grow where you are planted. And that's something I really took on board. I went back to Australia. This was in 2009 and that's when I released my record, my very first debut record in 2011 that came out.
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A really important step for me moving to Nashville was firstly to come and visit. So I came out here for 90 days and in the 90 days I wrote 70 songs. I remember by the last three weeks of my trip I was so broke. I used to walk six miles to and from Midtown where I'd wrote my songs to where I was staying at the time because I couldn't afford an Uber and I would eat toast for three weeks. Ladies do not try at home. I put on a whole dress size. In that time, I was blessed enough by the last two weeks. I was taking some pretty hardcore publishing meetings and the last week of my trip I headlined at the Bluebird Cafe, which was so exciting.
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Okay, let's talk about funding. So as an independent artist, if you're playing pub gigs or if you're trying to make money off record sales and stuff like that, I decided to think of some out of the books thinking for this. In Australia, I was doing photography. I can't do photography in the US now due to my visa restrictions. However, I had a friend reach out to me. He reached out to me and said, "How much would you charge to photograph my wedding?" And I said to him, "You know what? Why don't we swap time? I really need a record. I would love if you could produce a record for me in exchange." It cost me $350 to produce the product. Then of course, the printing phase.
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My circumstances may be different from my USA residents. However, I made a little checklist to help you make the move to Nashville. I told you how to find a room to rent, how to find an apartment to rent, and some little secrets that I've found. I also have the O-1 requirements and some resources in this checklist as well for my international friends. There is a link below, so go check it out.
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