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Q: Filtering Django admin site by user group i want to filter the objects displayed on the admin site by using Django user groups. Each user is assigned to one or more user groups which represent different categories of articles. Each article falls into one or more categories (the names of the user groups and categories are identical). On the admin site for the Article object, users shall only see articles from categories of which they are a group member. I found a basic approach by overriding get_queryset within ModelAdmin and retrieving a list with the user's group names. But how can i reference the ArticleCategory model within ArticleAdmin to do the comparison with the group names?
models.py
class Article(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200, default=None)

class Category(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50, default=None)

class ArticleCategory(models.Model):
    article = models.ForeignKey(Article, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default=None)
    category = models.ForeignKey(Category, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default=None)
    def __str__ (self):
        return(str(self.article) + " " + str(self.category))
    def natural_key(self):
        return ({'category': self.category})

admin.py
class ArticleAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    model = Article

    def get_queryset(self, request):
        if request.user.is_superuser:
            queryset = Article.objects.all()
        else:
            try:
                l = request.user.groups.values_list('name',flat = True)
                l_as_list = list(l)
                queryset = Article.objects.filter(??? in l_as_list)
            except:
                queryset = Article.objects.none()
        return queryset

admin.site.register(Article, ArticleAdmin)

The following line didn't work:
queryset = Article.objects.filter(articlecategory__category.name in l_as_list)


Youth Sport Trust member schools are holding School Open Days to share an area of best practice and we'd love you to come along. These are an opportunity to network, share experiences with like-minded practitioners and learn from the host school's expertise.
Gwinear Community Primary School has a whole school approach to increasing the quality of PE, school sport and physical activity and this open day is an opportunity to hear how it strives to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour across the school day, as well as engage the wider community beyond the school day. All staff believe in the benefits, they embrace the active culture and would love to share their story with you which will give visitors a chance to see the 'Workout Wednesdays' in action which start at 8.30am.


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Facebook Murder Suspect Has 'Shot And Killed Himself,' Police Say
Published April 18, 2017 at 9:16 AM PDT
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams answers questions during a news conference on Tuesday.
Steve Stephens was spotted this morning by PSP members in Erie County. After a brief pursuit, Stephens shot and killed himself.
— PA State Police (@PAStatePolice) April 18, 2017
A nationwide manhunt for a suspect who allegedly shot an elderly man dead in Cleveland and then uploaded it to Facebook has ended with the man shooting and killing himself in Pennsylvania's Erie County.
"Steve Stephens was spotted this morning by [Pennsylvania State Police] members in Erie County," the state police said on its Twitter account. "After a brief pursuit, Stephens shot and killed himself."
Mayor Jackson: Reward of up to $50,000 from ATF, FBI, Crimestoppers for information leading to the arrest of Steve Stephens.
— Cleveland Police (@CLEpolice) April 17, 2017
Chief Williams: This is now a national search for Steve. We will leave no stone unturned.
Authorities had been offering up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of the 37-year-old Stephens, who was wanted over the apparently random killing of 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. Local, state and federal authorities were involved in the hunt for Stephens, who was said to be driving a white Ford Fusion with a temporary tag.
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said the state police got a tip that the vehicle was in a McDonald's parking lot. Stephens fled when officers arrived and gave chase. Shortly afterward, he took his own life.
/ Cleveland Police via AP
A nationwide manhunt for Steve Stephens, suspected of shooting an elderly man dead in Cleveland and then uploading it to Facebook, has ended with Stephens shooting and killing himself in Pennsylvania's Erie County.
"We are grateful that this has ended," Williams told reporters Tuesday. "We would like to have brought Steve in peacefully, and really talked to him and find out exactly why this happened. Because there might be other people out there in similar situations that we can help by finding out why he did what he did and what drove him to this."
He said authorities will continue the investigation, which remains in the early stages.
During the manhunt, Stephen D. Anthony, special agent in charge of the FBI in Cleveland, said, "There's not a federal agency in the United States that is not involved in some way."
Authorities received more than 400 tips from the public related to Stephens.
Facebook says the suspect allegedly uploaded a video at 11:09 a.m. local time on Sunday declaring his intent to commit murder. A video uploaded two minutes later appears to show him gunning down Godwin.
Eleven minutes after that, according to the social media site, he broadcast a live video of himself confessing to the murder. In a timeline of the events, Facebook says the video of the shooting was visible to the public for more than two hours and was taken down 23 minutes after it was first reported.
"As a result of this terrible series of events, we are reviewing our reporting flows to be sure people can report videos and other material that violates our standards as easily and quickly as possible," Facebook's vice president of global operations, Justin Osofsky, said in a statement Monday evening.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that "our hearts go out to the family and friends of Robert Godwin Sr., and we have a lot of work and we will keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening."
Regarding the chilling video, Williams said Tuesday, "This is something that should not have been shared around the world. Period. ... We can't do this in this country."
As The Two-Way reported, police said that Stephens "claimed to have committed multiple other homicides, which are still not verified."
Authorities said Tuesday that they have not found any additional victims.
The Associated Press reported that Stephens' life "appeared to be unraveling under the weight of gambling debts and trouble with his girlfriend."
He worked as a "vocational specialist involved in preparing youth and young adults ages 16-25 for employment," according to the wire service.

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Stratford Managers Receives Two Canadian HR Reporter Readers' Choice Awards
Stratford Managers Corporation, a management consulting and services firm that helps innovative organizations achieve their ambitions, today announced they are the recipients of two Canadian HR Reporter Readers' Choice Awards for their leadership development workshops. The awards included 'Best Leadership & Team Development' and 'Top Management/Executive Development'.
Canadian HR Reporter and Thomson Reuters unveiled the winners of the 2018 Readers' Choice Awards on July 2, 2018, a listing of the top vendors and suppliers of human resources community across the country. With over 65,000 votes cast, Stratford Managers was recognized in two categories for its leadership development workshops.
The award-winning customized interactive workshops delivered by Stratford Managers help leaders and future leaders identify their personal style, strengths and opportunities for growth while also contributing to an organization's leadership development program.
"Our talent development solutions start with an understanding of how leadership contributes to business success; then we define what it takes for individuals or teams to succeed." said Heather Angel, VP Talent Management and Leadership Development at Stratford Managers. "Our clients are seeing results in their teams and we're humbled that they would recognize our work with two Canadian HR Reporter's Readers' Choice Awards."
The interactive, dynamic training workshops and curriculum can be used to build customized and immersive group training sessions, to increase the capacity of an organization's team. By addressing 28 core leadership competencies, the award-winning workshops can be delivered off-the-shelf or as customized solutions to meet an organization's unique requirements. Some of these competencies include:
-Coaching
-Team Building
-Communication Skills
-Problem Solving and Decision Making
-Conflict Management
-Managing Time and Priorities
-Interviewing
-Goal Setting
-Motivating Others
-Personal Learning and Self-Development
"What makes Stratford Leadership Development so unique and successful is that we extend leadership development further than just a series of workshops to include a broad spectrum of leadership development solutions. Role-based success profiles, 360 feedback, behaviour-based assessments, and coaching are just a few of the tools and methods we can use. " says Dean Fulford, VP and Practice Lead, Leadership Development, at Stratford Managers. "The workshop may only be a half-day or two days in length, but the leadership development continues beyond those immersive workshop sessions. With Stratford Managers you're not just investing in a workshop, you're investing in a leadership development program."
Stratford Managers' leadership development offerings focus on effective talent development through four key areas: "Success in Your Role", "Styles & Behaviours at Work", "Competency Training & Development", and "Talent Development Systems". Their holistic approach to leadership development enables individuals and teams to succeed in their roles.
For questions or more information on Stratford Managers' leadership development offerings please contact Dean Fulford, Leadership Development Practice Lead, Stratford Managers 1-888-553-1428 ext. 120 or dean.fulford@stratfordmanagers.com or Heather Angel, Leadership Development Practice Lead, Stratford Managers 647-222-8009 or heather.angel@stratfordmanagers.com
Download the original press release.
If you're an organization in Ontario there is government funding available to help you bring these award-winning workshops to your organization. Learn more here: www.stratfordmanagers.com/LeadershipDevelopmentFunding


Once you've written your plugin, it's essential that you provide tests that verify its behavior. Writing tests for plugins is for the most part identical to any testing in Rails or Ruby. This section discusses some special issues that must be taken into consideration to test plugins effectively.
The plugin generator creates a test folder in your plugins (which we have happily ignored up to this point). However, the importance of testing your code cannot be overstated. Test-driven development not only can improve the reliability and maintainability of your code, but it can actually help you develop faster.


What have the GHEIST got in store for us now? Something totally unexpected awaits you in the new Comic. Wanna know more?
The new comic, "50 Shades of GHEIST", is now available in the shop for 40 credits.
As ever, you'll also receive a bonus gift of 5 Gold Tokenz alongside it.
In the comic, you'll also meet some new characters who'll add a whole new dimension to Urban Rivals' intricate storyline.
It'll be interesting to see what the upcoming Halloween comic will be like. Maybe we'll see The Slaughterer that was mentioned in True Detective.


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Q: Upload base64 image to the server with Axios and React native Actually we have site which use dropzone.js for uploading image to the server.
I'm working with react native app and need to replicate dropzone js behavior.
I'm trying to send base64 image but request return Multipart requests must contain at least one part.
 saveImages(images) {
    let config = {
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
            'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest'
        }
    };
    images.forEach(img => {
        let imgFormData = `data:${img.mime};base64,${(img.data)}`;
        let blob = this.dataURItoBlob(imgFormData);
        let formData = new FormData(document.forms[0]);
        formData.append('file', blob);
        axios.post(SAVE_IMAGE_URL, formData, config)
            .then(res => console.log(res))
            .catch(err => {
                console.log(err);
                console.log(err.status);
                console.log(err.code);
            })
    });
}

    dataURItoBlob = (dataURI) => {

        let byteString;
        if (dataURI.split(',')[0].indexOf('base64') >= 0)
            byteString = atob(dataURI.split(',')[1]);
        else
            byteString = unescape(dataURI.split(',')[1]);

        let mimeString = dataURI.split(',')[0].split(':')[1].split(';')[0];

        let ia = new Uint8Array(byteString.length);
        for (let i = 0; i < byteString.length; i++) {
            ia[i] = byteString.charCodeAt(i);
        }

        return new Blob([ia], {type:mimeString});
}

A: Fixed with react-native-fetch-blob package
    images.forEach(img => {
        RNFetchBlob.fetch('POST', SAVE_IMAGE_URL, {
            'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'
        }, [
            // element with property `filename` will be transformed into `file` in form data
            {name: 'file', filename: 'file.png', data: img.data}
        ]).then((resp) => {
            console.log(resp);
            // ...
        }).catch((err) => {
            // ...
        })

    })

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Advent and Christmas at Old First!
Jesus the Forgiving Victim Program continues this Sunday, February 11th, at 10AM in the Social Hall. In this session, James Alison introduces two additional images, the Portal and the Embassy, designed to explore a new vision of the church and the world.


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The Quote Diary
Jonathan Swift Quotes
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Albrecht Jung ensures a seamless transition between furniture, walls and switches with its flush-mounted design
by TOPHOTELNEWS Editor | May 23, 2018 | Suppliers
The BEYOND by Geisel in Munich is opposite the Town Hall in the Marienplatz square and, consequently, offers a prominent location in the heart of the city. On foot or with the local public transport – this hotel is the ideal starting place for all the sights.
But the appeal of the BEYOND by Geisel does not just come from its location, it also comes from its stylish design and its cosy atmosphere. The 19 luxurious rooms in this designer hotel are intended to make their users feel at home.
The LS ZERO range from JUNG fits harmoniously into this concept and ensures a seamless transition between furniture, walls and switches with its flush-mounted design. This gives the furnishing concept an inherently consistent design statement. The JUNG KNX system also provides the guests with maximum convenience as, with the F 40 push-button sensors in the LS 990 range, light, blinds and temperature can all be operated intuitively.
JUNG is a premium supplier of modern building technology systems. Switches, sockets, dimmers, monitoring devices and systems for controlling functionality in both private and commercial environments are included in the portfolio of this traditional, medium-sized company.


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HR 8799 b és un planeta extrasolar que es troba a aproximadament 129 anys llum a la constel·lació del Pegàs orbitant l'estrella Lambda Boötis HR 8799. La seva massa és entre 5 i 11 vegades la massa de Júpiter i el seu radi és entre un 10 % i un 30 % major que el de Júpiter. El planeta orbita a una distància mitjana de 68 ua (7 ua des de la vora interior del disc circumestelar que envolta l'estel) del seu estel, la seva excentricitat es desconeix i el seu període orbital és de 460 anys. És el planeta més allunyat conegut del sistema de HR 8799. Juntament amb altres dos planetes que orbiten HR 8799, aquest planeta va ser descobert el 13 de novembre de 2008 per Marois et al., usant el Telescopi Keck i l'observatori Gemini en Hawaii. Aquests planetes van ser descoberts usant la tècnica d'imatge directa.

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Sistema planetari HR 8799
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Marco Rubio Attacked For Not Supporting Trump in New Ad by GOP Primary Opponent
Published July 13, 2016 • Updated on July 13, 2016 at 11:01 am
Senator Marco Rubio is being attacked in a new ad by his Republican primary opponent for not supporting the party's Presidential nominee.
Republican Carlos Beruff is releasing his first attack ad against U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and criticizing him for not supporting presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The developer will spend $1 million a week for at least two weeks on the ad that will air statewide beginning Wednesday.
Beruff is the only major Republican to stay in the race after Rubio decided at the last minute to seek a second term.
The ad begins with an announcer asking, "Why does Marco Rubio refuse to support Donald Trump?'' It then questions whether it's "sour grapes'' over losing to Trump in Florida's presidential primary.
The ad points out that Rubio doesn't agree with Trump on immigration, including a temporary ban on Middle Eastern immigrants.
It ends with Beruff saying he does support Trump.
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A spokeswoman for Rubio's campaign responded to the ad, saying in part:
"Carlos Beruff's love of Charlie Crist is far deeper and more real than his newly professed love of Donald Trump. Switching his allegiance is just like the political insider that Beruff has long been."
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Fr. Arthur Statement - Lists of Credibly Accused Priest
Dear faithful community members,
Yesterday, the Bishop of Dallas, Edward J. Burns, in conjunction with all Texas
bishops of the state's 15 dioceses, released the names of priests with credible
accusations of sexual abuse of minors dating from 1950 to the present. The
list included the assignment histories of these same priests. The histories of
assigned places are not indications of places where credible accusations of
abuse occurred, but rather are their complete histories of assignments.
In particular, it pains me deeply to learn as you did yesterday, that the list of
names included Michael Barone, who spent time in 1995 assigned to the
Catholic Campus Ministry as Chaplain. He was never an employee of Southern
Methodist University (SMU). After speaking with those who have knowledge
of his assignment at the Catholic Center, I learned that Michael Barone spent
only few months with the Ministry in 1995 and the credible accusation against
him did not occur within those few months.
Another name on the list in association with the Catholic Campus Ministry at
SMU is Richard Johnson. Richard Johnson, identified as deceased in 2016, was
not assigned to the Catholic Campus Ministry at SMU. Rather, he filled in for
Masses periodically during 1969. The credible accusations against Richard
Johnson did not occur during his association with the Catholic Campus
Ministry at SMU.
It saddens me to see and hear these stories of sexual abuse of minors yet
again. My heart and prayers are with the victims and their loved ones. But, we
cannot simply be sad. That is not enough! We must resolve to defend the
innocence of the young and to protect them against insidious priests. Bishop
Burns has pledged to us his tireless effort to protecting the youth and
vulnerable among us. He is committed to doing the right thing consistently
and transparently.
As is the protocol for the Diocese of Dallas, if you know of any abuse of a
minor by a member of the clergy, employees, or volunteers connected with
the Catholic Church, please report it first to local law enforcement and then to
the Victims Assistance Coordinator for the Diocese, Barbara Landregan, at
The Diocese of Dallas is committed to investigating any incident of sexual
misconduct, cooperating fully with law enforcement and acting in an open and
transparent manner to address these issues.
Reverend Arthur Unachukwu


Warner Bros. Pictures have announced the official release date for Matt Reeves' upcoming Batman film.
Slated for release on 25 June 2021, The Batman will follow a younger version of Bruce Wayne. This confirms reports that Ben Affleck will not be reprising his role as the Caped Crusader.
Earlier reports alluded to the film focusing on Batman's detective skills and what makes him the World's Greatest Detective.
Solid details as to Bruce Wayne's age in the film, along with potential casting choices have yet to surface. We'll share more as news develops.
Catch up with The Batman film here. Check out the full article on Matt Reeves and his direction for The Batman here.


A developer contracted with a builder to construct two blocks of apartments. In order to do the work within the developer's budget, the builder proposed significant reductions to the quality of the finish, and insisted on power to make change to the specification.
The apartments were built, and many were sold by the developer off-plan, so buyers did not see them until they were finished. The poor finish resulted in leaks, mould and condensation in apartments and in the common parts.
The flat owners had no new home warranties and the developer had gone into administration. They had no contractual relationship with the builder so could not bring a breach of contract claim against it. However, they took the builder to court under defective premises law under which any person taking on work for, or in connection with, the provision of a dwelling must ensure the work is done to an appropriate standard so that the dwelling will be fit for habitation when completed. The work must be done in a workmanlike or professional manner, and with proper materials, according to the standards at the time it was done.
The Court said the term 'dwelling' in this case meant an individual apartment - so it did not include the common parts. However, the work on the common parts was work 'in connection with the provision of a dwelling' (because flat owners had an interest in, and financial responsibility for, the maintenance and repair of the structure and the common parts of the buildings). The builder therefore owed the flat owners a duty of care in respect of it.
The Court said a number of flats in this case were unfit for habitation because of defects in both the common parts and in each apartment. The flat owners were awarded the costs of remedying the defects, a sum representing the blight on the value of apartments and compensation for distress and inconvenience.
Builders and others in the construction industry who are legally entitled to change a developer's specifications should ensure their work will not create a risk of a defective premises claim against them by property owners with whom they have no contractual relationship.


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Dogs can smell everything and more. Even diseases like cancer
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The government wanted demonetisation to combat three problems. None of them seem to have been solved.
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Meghan Markle's estranged father Thomas publishes a personal letter because he was "humiliated" by the media: report
Meke County reports COVID-19 child deaths; ranked second in NC since the pandemic began
Takaya Imamura, who designed Tingle, has retired from Nintendo
As the outbreak continues, China has established a large-scale Covid-19 quarantine camp for 4,000 people
The Atlanta Dream is about to be sold; the source says Kelly Loeffler has no contact with the team
U.S. agency orders Ford to recall 3 million cars on airbags
BREAKING: The Presidential Hall was closed due to the renovation of the Magic Kingdom
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Michigan State Basketball finalist Lorne Bowman (Lorne Bowman) leaves Wisconsin due to "family problems"
November 12, 2020	Sport 2 Views
One of the main prospects of the University of Michigan in college basketball in 2020 has left his team.
The three-star guard Lorne Bowman of the Lake St. Mary's in the Orchard Orchard in Detroit has left Wisconsin because his family affairs have caused him to take leave in October.
According to the Associated Press, Wisconsin coach Greg Garder confirmed the news on Wednesday.
Gard said: "We absolutely support this decision and have helped him and his family continue to find the best way to stay at home."
; "We are still communicating. Just a few days ago, I and His father talked about it."
School officials have not yet stated the nature of Bowman's family problems, but Gad said on Wednesday: "The situation in which he interacts with his family at home has exceeded my initial imagination with him and all of us," the Associated Press reported.
According to Eisen Jackson (Kentucky), Oregon's Jalen Terry and Babyler Scooby Doo's comprehensive 247 sports rankings, Bowman is the fourth most highly rated recruit in Michigan's 2020 class.
Bowman finished third in the Michigan State Basketball Players poll last season. Wisconsin ranked seventh in the top 25 of the season.


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Sweating Songs – Glen Hansard of the Frames
by Andrew Lawless
What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School – or the Economics of Terrorism. Loretta Napoleoni in interview.
Who's to blame? The Fosse Ardeatine and the struggle over memory in modern Italy.
Cinegael Paradiso, The story of a second generation Irish film director. Robert Quinn in interview
The Minotaur – Benjamin Tammuz
The Multi-Culturalist. William Dalrymple in interview with Three Monkeys Online Magazine.
Blair's Wars – The absence of clear political consequences. An interview with John Kampfner.
Women Under Siege – the use of rape as a weapon of war
The Poet of Prose – Jim Crace in interview.
The Ratzinger Report – An introduction to Pope Benedict XVI
The New Turkey -Reflections from Istanbul.
Firing questions at anyone for a half an hour about their motivations and identity is bound to produce contradictions, but an interview with Glen Hansard, chief songwriter from Irish band the Frames, throws up more than its fair share. It's not that he's confused, or indeed confusing. Rather, the context that he and The Frames are working in is bizarre.
We're talking in the bar of a hotel in an out of the way provincial Italian town, a couple of hours before the final gig on an exploratory tour through Europe. "I got that overwhelming feeling that 'I'm too old for this'", laughs Hansard, talking about playing a free televised gig in Milan two nights before. "There are situations that we find ourselves in now," he continues –"that you think a band that's a year old should be doing this, not a band that's been going for a long time. For the want of a better term, we've earned our stripes, we're not apprentices any more, we've moved out of that". And yet, with the worldwide release of their latest album Burn the Maps, they have become precisely that – apprentices, albeit with 14 years experience and a back catalogue of songs that have made them one of Ireland's favourite bands.
The night's gig is lined up in a venue that is to all intents and purposes a huge disco. It's hi-tech and impressive, with video screens aplenty, but a disco nonetheless. It's also host to "British Night", a weekly disco specialising in brit-pop. To book an Irish rock band, with a sound influenced more by Radiohead and Van Morrison than Oasis or Blur, and ask them to play in a room festooned in Union Jacks, would elicit a strong response from an apprentice band. Instead, the Frames sigh and get on with it. A room is a room, and a chance to play is a chance to play.
The band, formed in Dublin in 1990 by Glenn Hansard, then a young songwriter in possession of a recording contract with Island Records. Their first album, Another Love Song failed to set the world alight and the band were unceremoniously dropped (a chain of events shared by a number of Irish bands in the '80s and '90s).
"Another Love Song" says Hansard, openly, "was from a very young man, who took the first record deal that came his way. It happened to be a very bad record deal. They say that boxers and musicians are the two most abused groups in entertainment because all they want to do is go out there and get in the ring and fight, and it's so true. All I wanted was a contract. When I saw the contract it wasn't money I was thinking about. All I saw was a big stage, and loads of people. Me, guitar, song [laughs, wide eyed]. All I saw was the opportunity to go out there and become Bob Dylan, which was what I left school to do. I got out there and made my mistakes! I wanted the guy who produced Surfer Rosa to do the record but I didn't even know his name. I knew the Pixies, and loved the record, but I was never the sort of person who read sleeve covers, or who knew the bass player's name on Harvest by Neil Young. So they said 'we can get the guy who did Doolittle' [Editor's note: Gil Norton], and I thought fine. But all my songs were country songs, or –[correcting himself] not country but folksongs. I grew up on Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Van the Man [Editor's note: Van Morrison], so I was basically doing a very stupid thing first off by wanting to make a rock album as my first album, because I didn't know how to write rock songs. They weren't part of my vocabulary at the time."
Finding themselves dropped, the band licked their wounds and continued writing and gigging. 1995 saw the release of Fitzcarraldo, their second album through Trevor Horn's ZTT label. Prior to signing with Horn another version of the album was released in Ireland – now a collectors item. If Another Love Song was a false start, Fitzcarraldo was a confident return. Songs like Revelate and Monument combined Hansard's poetic sensibilities with an unambiguous harder sound. The band had incorporated rock into its vocabulary. While a fans' favourite, it's an album that Hansard, looking back, is often puzzled by: "When I was younger there was a lot of desperation, it was very anthemic. There was one point, when I hit 31, when I looked back, and I listened to Fitzcarraldo and wondered 'what the hell was I on?' [laughs]. What was I so hungry for? It's funny, as you get older your ambition hones and clears until you eventually realise that all any man really wants is to have children who are proud of them. I think I'm finding my way to that place, where you want a good wife, a nice house. You want to be able to provide good meals etc. I'm not at that point yet, but I like saying it because I know I'm getting there. I know that at some point I'll do it".


Are smartphones and social media destroying our capacity for human connection? New technologies can upend existing social orders, but are equally a product of the conditions—here, late capitalism—in which they are produced. Two divergent approaches offer insight into how cultural and economic contexts shape media practice.
Sherry Turkle. 2015. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. New York: Penguin Press. 436 pages.
Daniel Miller. 2016. Social Media in an English Village. London: University College London Press. 234 pages.
Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang. 2016. How the World Changed Social Media. London: University College London Press. 260 pages.
[Turkle's] diagnoses provide a language for addressing ways smartphones and social media distract many people, offering a "friction-free" engagement that promises freedom from boredom but not from loneliness. And if conversation is what's lost, then conversation can cure, in the tradition of the open-ended conversation of psychoanalytic therapy, the "talking cure." Turkle offers two main approaches to reinstating talk, one concerned with design and the other with practice. She advocates, first, designing technologies that do not exploit human psychological vulnerabilities, such as notifications that demand continual attention. I agree that design could offer a means to redress features that are disruptive, but these features — like the interfaces that enable the "machine zone" — are essential to the business model of most mobile platforms. Redesigning them would entail tech companies relinquishing lucrative revenue streams. On the contrary, a broader critique is required of the social and economic context in which media technologies are produced, such as in Silicon Valley and other elite tech hubs.
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New Delhi, Nov 19: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to "positively" file a report before it on the latest status of foreign nationals, including those from Pakistan, languishing in jails after having served their full sentence.
A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan asked the government to file within four week its report in pursuance to the apex court's May 3 this year order.
"Let Union of India file the report in compliance of order dated May 3, 2017 within a period of four weeks, positively. List the matter after four weeks," IT said.


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Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides Non-Stop Remix Album (estilizado em letras maiúsculas) é o único álbum de remixes da personalidade escocesa atuante na área de produção musical Sophie. Foi o último álbum completo lançado durante a vida de Sophie. Ele apresenta versões alternativas e remixes de músicas do álbum de estúdio de estreia de Sophie, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides, bem como novas músicas, apresentadas como um DJ Mix ininterrupto.

Lançamento
O álbum foi anunciado durante uma entrevista no tapete vermelho do 61º anual Grammy Awards. Em julho de 2019, o álbum de remixes foi lançado como parte de um conjunto exclusivo de 3 CDs limitado a 100 cópias que inclui o álbum de remixes de disco duplo, o álbum Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides original, bem como uma bolsa de mão apresentando sua capa. O álbum de remixes foi lançado mais tarde como dois vídeos no YouTube em 29 de julho, e depois em plataformas digitais e de streaming em 6 de setembro.

Recepção crítica
Matt Moen, da Paper, descreveu o álbum como apresentando "tudo, desde techno pulsante até interpretações de house empoeiradas de glitter e drones de ambiente lustrosos". Eles destacaram "Ponyboy (Faast Boy Remix)", "Faceshopping (Money Mix)", "Whole New World (Doss e Sophie Remix)" e os cinco mixes finais de "Infatuation" como faixas de destaque. Andrew Ryce, do Resident Advisor, escreveu: "O LP oferece catarse através de batidas indisciplinadas, melodias doces e os sons mais retorcidos que SOPHIE pode reunir. Ele traz seus temas de busca, auto-aceitação e identidade diretamente para a pista de dança, de maneiras que é tão espalhafatoso, estranho e inesquecível quanto você esperaria."

Lista de faixas

Quando adicionado às plataformas digitais e de streaming, "Leeds Heaven And Hell" foi renomeado para "Pretending (Glasshouse)" e "Infatuation (The Abyss)" foi escrito incorretamente como "Infutation". Vários erros adicionais foram cometidos quando o álbum foi lançado na Apple Music e iTunes no Reino Unido; o título do álbum foi pontuado incorretamente como "Oil Of Every Pearl's (Un-Insides Non-Stop Remix Album)", e "Faceshopping (Money Mix)" foi simplesmente rotulado como "Faceshopping".

Histórico de lançamento

Álbuns de músicos da Escócia


Join in the fun as Evansburg turns on the Christmas lights, and kicks off the holiday shopping season. Look for deals, get your picture with Santa, and take on a sleigh ride.
The Museum will have their 2nd annual Luminaria which is a beautiful lighting event.
The Legion hosts a small business and Christmas craft show.
Contact Gisele @ 780-727-3868 for more.


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require 'web_blocks/thor/inspect'

module WebBlocks
  module Thor
    class Inspect

      order_desc = "File order based on topological sort of dependency list"
      desc "dependency_order", order_desc
      long_desc order_desc
      method_option :type, :desc => "Any of: \"#{types.keys.join('", "')}\"; default \"all\"."

      def dependency_order

        prepare_blocks!

        type = self.class.type_get_class_from_string options.type

        root.get_file_load_order(type).each do |file|
          say "#{file.resolved_path.to_s}"
        end

      end

    end
  end
end

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Do I Claim Profit Sharing Payouts as Income on Federal Taxes?
By Tom Streissguth
Reviewed by: Ryan Cockerham, CISI Capital Markets and Corporate Finance
SEP IRA Vs. 401(k) Plan
If your employer offers a profit-sharing plan, then you're getting contributions to a savings account based on the company's profits, or some other measure, at the discretion of management. There may be some terms and conditions on when you can withdraw the money, and how long you have to stay in the job to collect the full amount. The IRS is clear on profit-sharing contributions. Unless the profits go into a tax-deferred retirement account, they're taxable compensation.
TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read)
You will need to claim profit sharing payouts on your tax return in most situations. However, you will not be required to do so if these payouts are routed into a tax-deferred retirement account.
Profit-Sharing Basics
Profit-sharing plans and 401(k)s are both savings accounts that employers set up for their employees. But their basic structures are different. Profit-sharing takes contributions only from the employer, while in a 401(k) the employee makes contributions and the employer may match them, based on a percentage of the employee's contribution or salary. As for taxes, the IRS looks at how the account is set up to decide whether the contributions are taxable.
Paying In and Reporting
A "cash plan" is one in which the employee receives direct payment, in the form of cash, check or company stock. These benefits are subject to income tax as ordinary compensation, in the year they're paid. The employer will withhold income taxes at your withholding rate and report these numbers to the IRS either on Form W-2, for regular employees, or a 1099 for independent contractors.
Either way, you must report the income to the IRS. If the employer used a W-2, then he withheld payroll taxes and paid half on his own. With a 1099, you're obligated to pay the full payroll tax rate on the income for Social Security and Medicare.
Contribution Limits
The IRS also sets limits on "qualified" plans, which can be deferred, or combination plans. Employer contributions to these plans max out. As of the 2018 tax year, the IRS set the maximum contribution at 25 percent of all employee compensation or $55,000, whichever is less. In a "deferred plan," the profit-sharing benefit goes into a retirement account, which the employee can only access under certain conditions, such as reaching the age of 59-1/2.
As an employee, you don't report the contribution as taxable income and the money grows tax-free until you take a distribution. With a "combination plan," the employee can defer part of the profit-sharing and accept another part immediately as compensation. The deferred portion grows tax-free until the employee withdraws it. The direct compensation incurs income tax in the year it's paid.
Retirement Distributions
If you're retired and taking distributions from a qualified profit-sharing plan, then the tax treatment is the same as for other qualified plans, such as 401(k)s and IRAs. Taking a distribution before the age of 59-1/2 incurs a 10 percent tax penalty. You must begin distributions by the year you turn 70-1/2, at which time the IRS imposes a required minimum distribution.
Do I Have to Pay Federal Taxes on $3,000 of Self-Employment Income?→
What Does "20 Percent Vested" Mean in a 401(k)?→
What Is a Non-Qualified Pension Plan?→
IRS.gov: Profit Sharing Plans for Small Businesses
IRS: Choosing a Retirement Plan: Profit-Sharing Plan
Investopedia: Profit-Sharing Plan
Founder/president of the innovative reference publisher The Archive LLC, Tom Streissguth has been a self-employed business owner, independent bookseller and freelance author in the school/library market. Holding a bachelor's degree from Yale, Streissguth has published more than 100 works of history, biography, current affairs and geography for young readers.


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How Joseph Nakhla built a foundation for growth
The CEO of Tribe Property Technologies on the power of community, digital transformation and navigating the Cold Front of entrepreneurship.
Joseph Nakhla (Photo by Kai Jacobson for Vancouver Tech Journal)
In the final week of May, Joseph Nakhla, founder and CEO of Tribe Property Technologies Inc., was about to speak on his company's first-quarter earnings call. Jennifer Laidlaw, his marketing VP, spoke ahead of him and ran through a series of statements that surely came from a compliance department, not a marketing department. She had to remind listeners that the discussion would feature forward-looking statements, and these forward-looking statements were "based on management's current views and assumptions," and that the discussion is "qualified in its entirety by the cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements" that was appended to the company's press release which had been released the prior evening after the market closed.
Right before everyone's eyes glossed over, Laidlaw handed the mic over to Nakhla. He sounded confident, maybe even boisterous, and why not? He had good news to share.
A few months ago, Tribe had begun trading on the TSX Venture Exchange. The company's Board of Directors was flush with a slate of industry veterans. The management team had added a new CFO in Jim Defer (surely, the person responsible for those forward-looking statements and the requirement to mention them). Nakhla also highlighted a recent acquisition—his company's sixth—of Gateway Property Management.
Business was good. But you may be wondering, what, exactly, is Nakhla's business? He made sure to remind the call's listeners of this, too. There are at least three things you should know about it.
First, on a basic level, Tribe is a technology company that provides a suite of products and services for building and managing residential communities. They develop solutions to support everyone in a living community—building owners, councils and boards, developers and contractors and tenants.
Second, they make money in three ways: software and service revenue (paid by real estate investors, developers and condo corporations); transactional revenue (from tenants in their communities paying rent, for example), and; through other digital services and partnerships (like selling financial services and other products to people in the communities they manage).
And third, they're objectively on a roll. How fast are they rolling? At the time of that earnings call, Tribe's revenue was up 253% year-over-year.
Reporters and analysts may also have wondered, "What's driving this growth?" On the call, Nakhla said acquisitions played a part. He said Covid-driven digital transformation was a strong contributor, as well. But those are recent catalysts. In business, just like in real estate, nothing gets built without a solid foundation. So for a complete accounting of Tribe's current success, I think you need to broaden your scope of inquiry far beyond last year. You must consider the journey of its founder and the unique mix of insights and experiences he has collected over 30 years in business.
Based on a recent Zoom call I had with Nakhla, I believe decades of curiosity, hard work and an obsession with building community have set the groundwork for the business he is building. And if you really want to understand what has brought him to this moment, it helps to trace the unconventional steps he took to get here.
This story doesn't start on an earnings call—or a Zoom call, where this writing stems from. It begins on a coast, but not one most Vancouverites are likely familiar with.
Alexandria, Egypt (Flo P/Unsplash)
Transcontinental communities and culture
Joseph Nakhla picked up the importance of community and culture at a young age. He was raised in the port city of Alexandria, the third-largest city in Egypt, a place rich in history and where the architecture and cultural characteristics change—from Roman to Ottoman to Christian—depending on what street corner you happen to be standing on.
He grew up in a low-rise that had five families, but only one communal phone. This meant that in order for his family to make calls, they basically had to visit a neighbour. His grandma would call from Canada, but would forget about the six-hour time difference. She'd end up calling one of Nakhla's neighbours at an ungodly hour, thinking they'd just be finishing dinner. However, more often than not she'd catch them in their second cycle of REM sleep.
In the late eighties, his parents moved the family to Canada where they had relatives, and Nakhla remembers his aunt having very specific advice for where they should and shouldn't go. As Nakhla' recalls, "We decided to come to Canada, and then my aunt was like, 'Listen, if you're going to immigrate anywhere, do not go to Quebec. You're gonna freeze.' You might as well go to Vancouver."
It wasn't just the milder winters she wanted Nakhla's family to take advantage of. She had recently attended the 1986 World's Fair—Expo 86—the 54-country extravaganza which saw more than 22 million people flock to the North Shore of Falls Creek. She liked what she saw on the West Coast. "I wasn't there, but that was an incredible coming-out party, right? So everybody was like, 'Oh go to Vancouver, go to Vancouver,'" Nakha said.
Nakhla's family made the transcontinental trip in 1989, ultimately settling in the Surrey community of Newton.
Nakhla's technological revolution
About half a decade later, Nakhla had graduated from the BC Institute of Technology (BCIT) with a diploma in civil and structural engineering. Young and aspiring, he went on to work in a variety of unrelated positions, including a desk job where he was designing sewer systems. "It wasn't the most intriguing thing in the world for me," he has said about the experience. But in a foreshadowing of his approach to product and business building, he also said: "I felt that I was making some kind of a difference… I try as much as I can to build solutions that make people's lives better."
In another job, which directly exposed Nakhla to the revolution happening in the technology industry, he was introduced to two new things: global positioning systems ("which is not very sexy now, because we all have it in our phones") and the Internet.
To the mainstream public, GPS was a brand new technology in the mid 90s. And in the same way that today's executives don't quite know what blockchain really means, but feel they must hire someone who does, businesses back then were doing their best to hire young and smart grads who understood how new technologies worked—or could at least pretend like they did. Nakhla was recruited by one of those businesses.
"I got hired by this really interesting retailer," Nakhla told me, "a hippie guy that says, 'Look, man, everybody keeps calling me about this GPS. I don't know anything about it. I don't want to know anything about it. Do you know? Are you interested in this stuff? You're 21 years old. Come and just take it over in my retail shop because I just need to answer it. I don't think it's here to stay. It's too expensive, not accurate enough. Just figure it out.'"
So Nakhla joined him, "completely wet behind the ears," he said. "And I just wrapped my mind around it… This is '96 right? So I started to learn more and more and I started working directly with the manufacturers to build some cool solutions."
Since GPS technology was too costly, and in some cases not easily accessible for industries to purchase outright, Nakhla started a licensing business—and lucky for him, the demand was coming from utility companies in the Caribbean islands.
"The beautiful thing about an engineering GPS is you can land it on the island, and you can actually get the whole thing surveyed. Right, because it uses satellites," Nakhla explained.
"The reason the Caribbean was of interest is that they used to have power lines, historically, above ground, and then hurricanes would come." The lines would get wiped out. These islands then put all of the utility lines underground. It protected them from catastrophic weather, but also made the lines somewhat invisible. It's not hard to imagine the issues this created. As Nakhla recalls, "Someone would build a new hotel, and they would be digging, and they don't know where the line is because they don't have great maps—so they would cut a line and all of a sudden, Club Med doesn't have electricity for two days. Problem, right?"
It was a problem Nakhla was all too happy to solve. He did that for two and half years. "Then I wanted to double down on my belief in the Internet," he said.
Photo by Kai Jacobson
An education in entrepreneurship
While that part of Nakhla's story highlights the acceleration of his love affair with technology, it also served to kickstart his appreciation for the amount of work—the ups and downs—that go into building successful businesses. It was perfect preparation for the next company he'd help grow for over a decade.
That company was TIO Networks. It was founded by Hamed Shahbazi (now founder and CEO of WELL Health Technologies), and it started out with a modest mandate—"Can we bring the Internet to the masses by way of kiosks and cyber cafes?"—before it evolved and grew to become one of North America's leading cloud-based bill payment processors. It was ultimately acquired in February of 2017 by PayPal for $304 million. "I wore a number of hats and I cut my teeth and learned a lot of great things. I worked with an amazing team and great technology," Nakhla said about the experience. But he also emphasized that it wasn't an overnight success. "That took years."
He takes extra effort to stress that point because he thinks the hard work of company-building is often missed from the majority of stories that get shared on tech sites. He's become sick of scrolling through feeds and only seeing positive news. It's not that he doesn't like good news. Nakhla is a father. He's also a mentor to multiple entrepreneurs. He's pretty sure the realities of what he's been through—the stress, the struggle—is underappreciated by those who might look up to him. He's worried: "I just feel like they're just getting one side of the story. Arguably, the easy side of the story, right?"
It's a topic he's spoken about publicly at length. The speech he gives follows this format.
There's the appeal of entrepreneurship. It could be money or fame, for example. Then once you get into it, there's the warmth of entrepreneurship—the early wins like raising seed funds, shipping your beta product and netting your first sale. "I'm not here to talk to you about that," Nakha told a Vancouver audience back in 2017. No, he wants to talk about what he calls the cold front of entrepreneurship—a metaphor that honours an element of his upbringing.
About 95% of Egypt's population lives in two regions called the Nile Valley and the Delta. They don't really have a choice, because the rest of the country is virtually uninhabitable. It's a desert, remember. Nakhla explains that mornings in the desert are really hot and nights are extremely cold. The temperature can go from thirty-five degrees in the morning to below zero at night. "We call that a cold front," he explained. "The definition of which is basically is a transition zone where cold air mass comes out and literally wipes out hot air."
Day-to-day startup life can be like that, he said. Euphoria displaced by misery. Except growing a startup is a lot less predictable than the desert's hot and cold intervals.
With a startup, the cold part of the front can persist. Hustling can be a grind. A slog. "You wake up. You just closed some financing, you feel an amazing energy. And then you get your butt kicked because the product that you're about to launch fails and you get some bad news or the financing you thought was going to close doesn't close."
Nakhla wants to help entrepreneurs successfully navigate the cold front because he believes that's the difference between the companies that succeed and those that fail.
"There's not a single successful company that's built a product that nobody else has tried. They failed. But why did they fail? That's what you have to be thinking about," he said.
"A lot of the products you use have been tried before. I believe what often happened is that when the cold front hit the founder or the cold front hit the person who really mattered, he or she quit. They didn't have it in them to take that next step." He has four pieces of advice to help founders push through the cold front.
First, he says to be honest with yourself. Second, he cautions against feeling sorry about your situation. "Admit what you could've done better," he said. Third, be clear on your reason, your why. "If it all goes sideways, why would you wake up the next day and do it again? If you can't answer that, you have a problem," he warns. Four, keep your feet moving and wake up the next day with vigour. "Your staff, the people around you are going to get their cue from you that this is going to be okay. It might be all going sideways, but it's going to be okay because he's moving his feet. He's still pushing forward."
He points to his time at TIO as a period that most outsiders view as smooth sailing, but in fact, featured many chapters of choppy waters. "A lot of people say, 'Good for you, you were with TIO. You were part of this journey and success.' But do you know how many times we should have died as an organization?" he asked. "It's not the sexy side of the story, but for somebody developing his or her own repertoire of skill sets, to be a good entrepreneur—they need to hear that."
Digital and social transformation
Joseph Nakhla's ideas do not stop with weather analogies. The cold front is just one of many macro-insights he's picked up along the way that directly impacts the work he is doing today—and fueling Tribe's success.
Nowadays, you cannot pick up Fortune magazine or the business section of the New York Times without reading a CEO or Mckinsey consultant waxing poetic about the virtues of the digitization of businesses. It wasn't always like that, said Nakhla.
"Everybody talks about digital transformation now," Nakhla said. "It was a very different conversation in 2003. What's digital transformation? How much destruction can you really cause? All the things that we believe in now, I lived it in terms of seeing the team execute on it. We were there at the birth of mobility."
Nakhla had one of the first iPhones in Canada, and he questioned how Apple could build a usable phone with essentially no buttons. "That just blew my mind," he said. But then his company, TIO, used the collective innovation happening as a springboard for their business. He was part of a team that delivered one of the first payment engines on a phone.
For him, this was evidence of the speed at which technology can affect and disrupt businesses, "no matter how old the traditional model is."
Over the last two decades, Nakha has also picked up a more comprehensive understanding of how technology impacts consumer expectations as they relate to service delivery.
Incredibly, it still wasn't very long ago that navigating transportation for a night out in Vancouver could be a massive dilemma and planning challenge. But now that we have ridesharing options, we all take it for granted, Nakhla said. The same goes for food delivery, for example. Nakhla says the situation used to be that it was nice if the pizza gets delivered in an hour. "Now you can take your absolute pick of a food type," he said, "and it'll be delivered to you."
"That's not a shock," he added. Of course, it's not. He's in the category of people who have been driving these digital shifts. "But with that expectation, there's inward and external pressure on industries that haven't changed," he said.
Creating room for disruption
New consumer expectations and new technological capabilities combine to set up unlimited opportunities to disrupt staid industries. As to why Nakhla chose to focus on real estate and community living, he said, "I tackled [an industry] that is close to my heart because I love cities, I love the way people live, and connecting communities. If you look at the way property management has been delivered for the last 50 years, there is a great argument that it hasn't changed much. So if it hasn't changed much, what can technology do to play a role there?"
With that realization in the early 2010s, he began to sow the seeds that would grow to become Tribe's predecessor, a startup called Bazinga! Nakhla first had the idea of helping residential stratas communicate more efficiently when a friend of his was having challenges with their condo. "It really just opened the doors for me [and] I began doing more market research on it," he told a reporter in 2013. "As I did, the opportunities seemed to get bigger and bigger." No platform existed for condo and apartment living and he "just got completely obsessed with it."
Bazinga! launched in early 2012 and reportedly took only 30 days from the first demo to secure a paying customer. By early 2013, the startup had major customers including Bosa Properties, Aquilini Development, the Onni Group, Port Capital and Alpha Beta.
As the saying goes, success begets success, and in the case of Bazinga!, this meant the business had to change to accommodate Nakhla's growing ambition. There's a long version and a short version of how Bazinga became Tribe. Here's the short version.
Bazinga! was primarily focused on software in real estate communities. It could be deployed anywhere and operated in British Columbia and Ontario. There were no geographical boundaries or limitations. However, as soon as Nakhla decided to go, as he said, "full suite, inclusive of property management," provincial and municipal regulations came into play.
The Tribe brand was created to use Bazinga!'s tech, while also adding the new property management services. Nakhla kept the Bazinga! name for the initial software solution because the complete solution wasn't yet licensed in every jurisdiction where Bazinga! operated.
However, what happened next forced him to retire the Bazinga! name altogether. Tribe took off so fast to a point where he said, "You know what, let's not fight the brand connectivity problem. Saying, 'Let's kill this thing is a little harsh,' but I said, 'Let's kill Bazinga! and go with the Tribe brand across our suite of products now that we're national. It was a really, really good move.'"
Final forward-looking statements
There is a tip in business writing which says that you should replace adjectives with data. On that recent earnings call, Nakhla chose to heed this advice. While I'm sure he could've said, "Tribe is a promising company and we're showing great potential," he instead let the facts and numbers say as much.
Tribe is a public company with a 190-person team operating in seven markets, he said. It's the sixth-largest condo management company and the sixth-largest rental management company in Canada. The company manages more than 40,000 homes representing about 100,000 people. His team oversees a $200 million annual budget on behalf of their communities. The communities Tribe manages represent around $11.5 billion dollars in assets.
Tribe is seeing 90% adoption of their digital tools in new condo developments.
And yet, for Nakhla, despite his own views on the power of technology—its role in his personal entrepreneurial journey, its role in the success of his previous ventures—he told me that technology is not a silver bullet for what his company is trying to achieve.
"This concept that whiz-bang technology changes the game that we just spoke about," he said. "Well, ride-sharing is only as good as not only the robustness of the technology, but the driver and the experience. We're still people. We're still humans. And in property management, we feel that a lot more because there are a lot of decisions and human touches and opportunities for things to either go right or wrong. The definition of success varies depending on human behaviour."
Technology needs to empower good decisions, he believes. On the idea that innovation like AI—which his company is leveraging in their products—is going to do all the thinking and get things right 100% of the time, he's not sold. "I think it's a little early. I still think human involvement is critical in some of these decisions, at least in our industry."
"It still requires human feel," he said. "This is about homes; it's emotional, it's scary, it's big investments—a lot of dynamics there that technology just can't solve. I think we cannot ignore these things, and nor should we, as technologists, or people that are champions of technology, forget about that component.
"Actually, I think the most successful companies will be ones that are very aware of the importance of that."
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In der Liste der Kulturdenkmale in Zscheila sind die Kulturdenkmale der im Nordosten der Stadt Meißen am rechten Ufer der Elbe gelegenen Gemarkung Zscheila verzeichnet, die bis Februar 2021 vom Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen erfasst wurden (ohne archäologische Kulturdenkmale). Die Anmerkungen sind zu beachten.

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Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
Amy F. Ogata
This book explores how a perception of children as imaginative and "naturally" creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II. I argue that educational toys, playgrounds, the smaller middle-class house, thousands of postwar schools, and children's museums, were designed to cultivate an ideal of imagination in a growing cohort of Baby Boom children. Psychologists avidly studied creativity after 1950, and their research was embraced by the educational toy industry, invoked in parenting guides, taught in school arts classes, and erected in new school ... More
This book explores how a perception of children as imaginative and "naturally" creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II. I argue that educational toys, playgrounds, the smaller middle-class house, thousands of postwar schools, and children's museums, were designed to cultivate an ideal of imagination in a growing cohort of Baby Boom children. Psychologists avidly studied creativity after 1950, and their research was embraced by the educational toy industry, invoked in parenting guides, taught in school arts classes, and erected in new school buildings and museums. Enthusiasm for encouraging creativity in children met and countered Cold War fears of failing competitiveness and the postwar critique of social conformity, becoming an emblem of national revitalization. I describe how a belief in children's capacity for imagination and independent thinking was transformed from an elite concern of the interwar years to a fully consumable and aspirational ideal that has not yet abated. I emphasize the ways that material goods and spaces embodied this abstract social and educational discourse. However, I also argue that things and spaces were not passive receptacles, but material actors that actively transformed a popular understanding of creativity during a crucial period of educational reform, economic expansion, and Cold War anxiety. Historicizing, rather than essentializing, the idea of childhood creativity, reveals how this notion continues to haunt everyday things, the built environment, and American culture.
Keywords: Childhood, Creativity, Cold War, Toys, Playhouse, Playroom, Playground, children's museum, schools, American material culture
Amy F. Ogata, author
Professor of History, University of Southern California
Introduction Object Lessons
1 Constructing Creativity in Postwar America
2 Educational Toys and Creative Playthings
3 Creative Living at home
4 Building Creativity in Postwar Schools
5 Learning Imagination in Art and Science
Epilogue the Legacy of Consuming Creativity


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...on the way to the mosque / final page
[Continued…]
As we talked, another man started to sing ecstatically, while others tapped out an irresistible rhythm on the kitchen's stainless-steel counter.
Scarcely able to stop myself swaying to this somewhat hypnotic music, I asked the sheikh what it was about.
They're praising Allah, he said. All Sufi groups do this.
"You can go on British Airways and I can go on Pakistan Airways, but we are all going to the same place. Daily life makes you blind. This opens your eyes."
I said I was trying to get a taste of Islam.
He approved, said the only way to do that was to try it, and told me a story about the Prophet holding a jar and asking his followers what it contained.
One guessed it was honey, as did a second. But a third actually dipped a finger in and tasted it: "Honey!"
I decided to try fasting, which isn't only done at Ramadan: one of my Sufi brothers had told me he won't touch food or drink during daylight on Mondays and Thursdays – not even water.
I rose early.
I still hadn't mastered the routine for prayer but did my best, remembering what Al-Toma had told me about prayer: "It's not what other people think. It's between you and God."
I ate a bowl of yoghurt, a banana and a slice of toast – and glugged a litre of warm water.
Went back to bed, rose again at seven to get my daughter ready for school, dropped her off, and returned for an hour of desultory typing.
But I wasn't thinking straight, and at exactly 9.42am I decided I would have to break the fast for a coffee.
Managing somehow to restrain myself, I crept back to bed at 9.58 to doze for 90 minutes, and rose, for the third time that day, only marginally refreshed.
After lunchtime prayers, I needed help.
My wife suggested I give up. But that wouldn't do.
I emailed Hilal to say I couldn't imagine how he copes doing this for a month. He sent back a poem on fasting by Rumi, and encouragement. "It's tough when you're doing it for the first time, and only for one day."
(Apparently, it gets easier after four or five days.)
Shortly after, something magical happened.
I stopped feeling hungry, tired and frustrated and became instead terrifically excited at the prospect of my first bite of food, my first sip of water.
Just as, in the mosque, by the physical act of prayer I'd achieved an overpowering sense of humility, so by fasting I'd struggled for self-control and worked up a powerful feeling of gratitude.
It was true what the sheikh said: only by actually trying it would Islam make sense.
Of course, dipping my toes in was never going to be the same as converting properly.
One convert who later gave up on Islam told me he'd been put off after being pressured, at his local mosque, to change his name and adopt Pakistani clothes.
"There's nothing un-Islamic about my name," he said. "And as for my clothes, Islam is supposed to be a universal religion."
He stopped going to mosque and, lacking any wider Muslim support network, gradually lost faith. He felt scared even to speak of this, he said, because the penalty for giving up on Islam, in some countries, is death.
Others who converted and then quit Islam told me they should really have looked into it more beforehand. "I truly believed in Islam at the time," said one, "but the more I learnt, the more I disagreed with."
Specifically, he felt uncomfortable about the different treatment of men and women.
I, too, was troubled by a number of questions. Will the Koran always seem alien to people who don't speak Arabic?
At her north London offices, Sarah Joseph reassured me by stating that she'd not found it necessary to master Arabic (nor to change her name) though she takes care to research the meaning of key passages (and, for the record, she chooses to wear a headscarf).
Trumping even the generosity of Mo and Amina, Joseph gave me a monumentally beautiful copy of the Koran, translated with commentary – and without suggesting that I wash before reading it.
Will mosques ever become, like some churches, places that ordinary Britons wander into for spiritual sustenance and quiet time?
I doubt it: mosques aren't sacred spaces in quite the same way – what matters, so I'm told, is for Muslims to pray together, all pointing towards Mecca – and that could perfectly just as easily happen elsewhere.
What's more, there's the gender divide: if I brought my wife to the mosque we'd be separated – not something we're used to, unless to change at swimming pools.
But is separation so bad?
After living in Pakistan for years, Khan concluded that "Islam is not a religion which subjugates women while elevating men". Who am I to argue?
I've found the practice of Islam surprisingly familiar – energising as a yoga class, meditative as Zen, worshipful as the most happy-clappy Anglicans.
Did I ever feel uncomfortable?
A bit, when I was propelled forward to join the prayers at Regent's Park, and later when I travelled with Al-Toma to Iranian-owned TV studios in west London for a discussion show on converts, only to be left in the lobby because the producers considered me a security risk.
On my last visit to Brent mosque, I bumped into Mo, the Bosnian.
He was delighted to see me, but wanted to know if my frequent reappearances meant I had accepted Islam. Unsure what to reply, I said I was still trying it out.
This seemed to satisfy him.
I left the Islamic centre happy to have been accepted. But as I stood outside, my warm feelings were dashed.
A neighbour – a white man in his forties – opened his window and shouted, hoping I would do him a favour and burn the mosque down.
This story first appeared in The Sunday Times magazine
In at the deep end –
Water polo is like playing chess in a tempest
Being Childish –
How I was inspired by Kent's prolific visionary
Warning: Sew Your Own can change your life


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Aquatic Invasive Species in Alaska
DOC. NOAA. Fisheries.
Avian Influenza Current Situation Summary
DHHS. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Provides situation summaries by type (wild birds, poultry, humans) and location.
BLM Alaska Weeds and Invasives Program
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BLM Wyoming Weeds and Invasives Program
Boating - Permits & Inspections
DOI. NPS. Yellowstone National Park.
If you plan to use your own boat or angler float tube, you'll need a permit and a free Yellowstone aquatic invasive species inspection. You can speed up the inspection process by arriving with a boat that is clean, drained, and dry. Watercraft that arrive dirty or with standing water will be subject to decontamination. Watercraft that cannot be properly decontaminated will be prohibited from launching.
Grand Teton National Park - Prevent Aquatic Nuisance Species
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Have You Seen This Mosquito? Aggressive Mosquito Species Vanishes from Pacific Island (Feb 28, 2018)
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The Asian tiger mosquito can carry dread diseases like Zika, and yellow and dengue fever. After it vanished from Palmyra Atoll, an island in the tropical Pacific, USGS researchers and partners set out to find out why.
Interior Provides $1.5 Million to Combat Invasive Species and Protect Natural Resources in the Insular Areas (Aug 20, 2018)
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Doug Domenech, U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs this week announced $1,488,890 in fiscal year 2018 grants to combat invasive species and protect natural resources in the U.S. Territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as the freely associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau. "Invasive species in the islands are disruptive for both marine and terrestrial resources in the islands, which already face a delicate balance," said Assistant Secretary Domenech. "Secretary Zinke and I are pleased to help control and eradicate invasive species in the islands in order to protect public health, livelihoods, and fragile environments and economies."
New Yup'ik-English Guide to Invasive Species is a First for the Forest Service and a Practical Identification and Prevention Tool for Bush Alaska (Jan 19, 2012)
USDA. FS. Alaska Region.
Partnering with a local Alaskan native community, the U.S. Forest Service has for the first time published a dual language booklet in English and a native Alaskan language, Yup'ik, to help educate the greater community in Southwestern Alaska on invasive species. This publication, Protecting Southwestern Alaska from Invasive Species: A Guide in the English and Yup'ik Languages, aims to explain invasive species concerns unique to Southwestern Alaska, which is home to a large community of the indigenous Yup'ik people.
Screwworm Eradication Program Records
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Sterile Fly Release Programs - Screwworm
USDA. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
USDA Declares New York City Free of the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Oct 10, 2019)
On October 10, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in coordination with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation announced that they have eliminated the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) from the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. "I am proud to say that we have eradicated Asian longhorned beetle from Brooklyn and Queens," said Greg Ibach, USDA's Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. "This officially marks the end of our 23-year long battle with this pest in New York City."
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On behalf of Meals on Wheels America, I'm pleased to inform you that Middletown Senior Center has earned $7,207.91 by participating in the 2018-2019 Subaru Share the Love® Event. We want to thank you and your organization for your participation in the Event. Due to your effort and dedication, this year's campaign has been our biggest success yet!
Something for everyone - don't miss it!
Nutritious meals are served Monday through Friday at noon in a congregate group setting. For seniors, aged 60 and above, there is no charge, but a contribution of $5 is suggested. A fee is charged for those who are not seniors.
Also known as Meals on Wheels, this program delivers a nutritious hot meal to home-bound elderly and disabled individuals who are unable to attend congregate meals due to illness, incapacitation or other factors, like recent surgery.
Eligibility: 60+year old senior or disabled/spouse living with 60+ senior who is home-bound and unable to cook or shop and lacks assistance.
"The Silver Foundation was formed by seniors to support seniors.
This year our theme is Health and Wellness.


Particular thanks to Christi, Sarah and Deborah who sort of made it all possible for me to go this year. Youze guyz rok.
With no further ado, on with ze report.
Thursday is not technically a cruiseday. This is like saying Thanksgiving is not technically a weekend 'cuz it's on a Thursday. Practically all of us did our travelling on Thursday, so it effectively counts as a cruise day.
Me, I got to get on an airplane at 1am and fly all night and then have a TEN HOUR LAYOVER in Portland before actually getting anywhere near LA. This is not generally my idea of a good time, since not only does it take an act of God to let me sleep on a plane, very few airports are interesting enough to keep a soul occupied for ten hours. Guh.
However, through graces that are not mine at all, I flew out on TWA, which is now my favorite airline in the ENTIRE WORLD. At least, for flying redeye out of Anchorage it is. They flew a 757 into Portland, so it was an unheard of 3 hour flight (zoom!) and the plane was so empty I actually was able to snag a whole row of 3 seats and sack out for 2 of those three hours. Then I managed to find one terminal or another in Portland, and more or less managed to sleep until 2 in the afternoon, which was indeed a godsend. I won't regale you with the incredibly strange dreams prompted by conversations going on around me and the incessant loudspeaker which came on to announce every fifteen minutes that abandoned luggage would be searched and seized and thank you for keeping PLX a non-smoking airport.
Eventually I got up and I was puttering around trying to find something edible, and I did some writing, and puttered around some more, and out I came from a store. And standing in front of the store was a woman, and I thought, "Gee, that looks a lot like Lydia." Then I noticed the guy crouched between me and the girl who looked like Lydia. Blue hair to the middle of his back.
Now, look, I don't know that many people with blue hair. I stared for a second and was like, " . . . Fred?"
Flew in to LA without incident, met Sarah at the airport. She was wearing extremely cool boots which were causing her feet to hurt a lot, 'cuz she'd been walking from one bloody end of LAX to the other, and that is a Damned Big Airport. Uh, she was wearing other stuff, too, but the boots were worthy of remarking on. Right, then.
In theory, we were meeting Christi at the airport, but in reality, Christi's flight had gotten all screwed up, so we had no idea at all when she might be coming in, and she'd told us to go ahead to the hotel where we were supposed to be meeting Vonda and Ronda. (Gnerk. I do not seem to have a picture of the twins together. I'll need to rectify this; if anybody has one they'd be willing to submit to my cruise report, plesae email me!) What was I talking about? Oh, Vonda and Ronda. Right. So they'd left us a package at the hotel, so Sarah could host a PWFC (Peter Wingfield Fan Club) meeting, except of course as plans usually do, it went to hell.
For one, we got to the hotel like an hour later than we'd planned, 'cuz I spent NINETY SEVEN YEARS taxiing around the LAX runways in the United jet. Well, ok, it wasn't more than 20 or 25 minutes, but it FELT like ninety seven years. Then we couldn't find the shuttle, then we missed the shuttle by like six seconds, and then, finally, there was no package for us.
Now look, I ask you: is it too great a stretch of the imagination to think that perhaps if someone gives her name as Catie Murphy, that the package left for Catherine Murphy MIGHT JUST BE the right one? Unfortunately -- and this, I admit, is our fault -- we didn't think to ask for a package under Sarah's name, because V&R and said they'd put it under mine and we didn't think they might've put all our names on it. But STILL. SHEESH. Anyway, the PWFC gathering didn't go off, and I don't even know if people were there to try to make it happen but we were late, or if it actually fell apart before that.
*LAUGH* Although Christi squeaked nicely. Ronda, who's an early riser, got up around 6am, and went to use the bathroom, but she got the wrong lightswitch, and turned on the lights in the main bedroom, where VondaLaurieChristiAimee were sleeping. It was only for a moment, but Christi went, "Eee! Eee! Eee!" in this teeny tiny sleepy little voice, causing great hilarity. I actually only woke up to the laughter, but the demonstrations everyone did suggest she sounded much like a very small kitten squeaking at being carried by the nape of the neck. Eee! Eee! Eee!
Most of us, I think, woke up pretty thoroughly while Ronda and Kay got ready to go out. None of us were actually willing to admit it, and mostly everyone stayed in bed until at least 7, but then we gave it up and started to get out of bed. Somewhat to my relief, all eight of us didn't find it necessary to bathe that morning, but I think 5 of us did. I called for more towels. :) And oops, this brings us into Friday.
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The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin are lovely hotels and they have a great location on Crescent Lake. They are independently owned, but in the heart of Walt Disney World. You have access to Extra Magic Hours and are served by Disney transportation (but not Disney's Magical Express to / from the airport) if you stay there. Unfortunately, however, you are not allowed to purchase a Disney Dining Plan; those plans are reserved for guests staying in a Disney owned and operated hotel. Guests staying at the Swan and Dolphin do have to pay for parking if they have a car, and there's a mandatory "resort fee" which covers things like a bottle of water, etc. I recommend calling the Dolphin directly to answer any specific question about the resort and to check on any available discounts. The Swan and Dolphin do offer amazing discounts from time to time, especially to government employees and teachers.