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Tallahassee Community College (TCC) is a state college that is located in Tallahassee, Florida. TCC is a full member of the Florida State Colleges institution and it offers students many educational opportunities. Those who attend this school will be able to pursue several associate's degree programs, bachelor's degree programs, and technical certificates. TCC was originally established in 1966 and the school motto is "the school of choice". It is a school that is all about giving students as many choices as possible in order to enrich their academic experiences. TCC serves nearly 25,000 students and is the top transfer school in the nation to Florida State University and Florida A&M University, offering you many versatile options if you wish to transfer credits.
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Number of Students11,782
Student to Faculty Ratio25:1
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Salerno Boat Show, therefore, returns in the fall. And it does so after having registered, in the two previous editions, almost 35,000 visitors, over 230 exhibitors, who, in 85 percent of the cases, come from the territory of Campania, and about 200 boats involved. These records confirm the centrality of the event, which has as its first aim to give new impetus to the yachting sector, a strategic sector for the growth of the regional and national economy.
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All a dad wants on Father's Day is to spend time with his kids.
One can assume that's what Marco Antonio Muñoz wanted, too, last month when he and his family crossed the Rio Grande to apply for asylum from Honduras, one of the most violent countries in the world.
But soon after, Customs and Border Protection separated him from his wife and 3-year-old son.
The 39-year-old was found dead in his cell the next day.
Thousands of men, women and children from Central America are trekking across a continent, searching for safe harbor after fleeing danger and civil strife not usually seen outside war zones. They're asking for asylum in places like Costa Rica, Mexico and, yes, Texas.
The United States has decided to meet their pleas with a policy of conscious cruelty that, according to Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, is intended to discourage more refugees: Split up the families. Detain them. Let them know they're not welcome.
It won't work. Harsh strategies against huddled masses have been condoned in the past, when most border crossers were working-age Mexican men seeking labor.
But Central American parents will stop at nothing to save their children's lives. Even cruelty in a hostile land, it seems, is better than death and hopelessness at home.
We must find a new policy before this chilling disregard for human life further erodes America's high ground, gnaws another hole into its sacred promise.
The Trump administration is pushing ahead with its zero-tolerance policy. The administration is even building an encampment outside El Paso to house some of the 2,000 children separated from their families over the past six weeks.
Maybe they should have gone with Crystal City, a border town with some experience in this area.
During World War II, thousands of Japanese, Italian and German families were forced from their homes across the United States and were interred at the Crystal City Alien Enemy Detention Facility. At the time, the entire nation was caught up in a frenzy of fear, convinced that their neighbors posed a threat to the war effort. We now know those fears were unfounded — but it should have been obvious at the time, too. In 1983, a Congressional commission found that internment was motivated by "racial prejudice, war hysteria and failure of political leadership," and not by military considerations. The 467-page report also stated that government officials "ignored" recommendations by the FBI and naval intelligence that careful surveillance of suspicious targets would be enough to check espionage, sabotage or fifth column activity.
Today we face a similar conflux of prejudice, hysteria and failure of political leadership driving our response to the humanitarian crisis in Central America. Immigration experts and pediatricians alike are pleading with the federal government to stop taking children from their parents and end a policy of mass detention that began under the Obama administration, and instead embrace policies that we know work.
This means resuscitating and expanding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's family case management program that was shuttered in June 2017. That program proved to be less expensive than detention and had a 99.6 percent appearance rate at immigration court hearings.
It means fully funding our immigration courts, including extensive support staff, so that the hearings take weeks instead of years. Fulfilling the Constitution's promise of due process, speedy trial and effective representation will ensure that asylum seekers receive a fair determination about whether they can stay legally or be sent back.
It also means long-term investment in Central America to help stabilize nations like Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras and calm the chaos that these refugees hope to escape.
If we don't make these changes, however, the history is clear about what will happen. Families will suffer. America's international reputation will weaken. Our children will read about this ignoble moment and wonder why we responded with panic and fear rather than calm and compassion.
Maybe, like those interned at Crystal City, a generation of kids will return decades from now to the abandoned Walmart where they were detained to remember the injustice they endured in a nation they turned to for help.
And they will ask: Why did they let it happen again?


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Canton Symphony Orchestra and Chorus: Redefining 'Inspired'
For the final concert on April 23 in the Canton Symphony Orchestra (CSO) MasterWorks series of the 2015-2016 season, conducting duties were split. Rachel Waddell, CSO Associate Conductor, directed the ensemble in Carl Maria von Weber's Overture to Oberon, and the Ohio premiere of Dreamtime Ancestors by American composer Christopher Theofanidis. Rounding out this eminently spirited program were Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna, and Alexander Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, both works for orchestra and chorus, and both conducted by CSO Chorus Director Britt Cooper.
In Waddell's vivacious rendering of Overture to Oberon, there was charismatic fervor in her conducting style. At once spunky and intimate, it was as if she thoughtfully absorbed every musical passage - whether calm and enchanting, or turbulent – and at the same time seemed to pour every note back into the ensemble. It was a sensibility eagerly reciprocated by the ensemble as it responded with marvelous tonal depth and palpable exuberance.
That same chemistry was all the more apparent after intermission, in the Theofanidis work, a tone poem in three movements, composed in 2015. As Waddell explained in her introductory comments, Dreamtime Ancestors is a reference to Australian aboriginal creation myths. The music is a sweeping episodic journey, as visceral as it is ethereal, symbolizing the fusion of past, present, and future into a single living entity containing the stories and potential energy of all of us.
Indeed, the orchestra was mesmerizing in its suggestions of primordial forces in constant flux and realization. Throughout, there was the sensation of cyclic pulsing, and at times an eerie mood of dissonant imminence. Then, in the second movement, there's an unearthly harmonic emergence, represented by the piercing drone of the strings. Finally, in the movement called "Each Stone Speaks a Poem," there's a sparkling brassy burst, a revelation. The earth's crust is talking. Call it the sound of timelessness.
Certainly not as cosmic in scope as the Theofanidis work, Alexander Borodin's Polovtsian Dances still has a timeless character all of its own. Part of that character is no doubt due to one of its central themes, a lovely melody now instantly familiar to us since being adopted for "Stranger in Paradise," from the 1953 Broadway hit, Kismet. In any event, the performance here, resplendent in orchestral and choral color, was a wild and vigorous end to the evening.
While all of the program selections were surely inspired and inspiring enough, it was the second piece on the program, the wholly – and holy - immersive performance of Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light), that was arguably the most transfixing of the evening. It is a modern work, composed in 1997, that recalls aspects of the traditional Requiem Mass. But there is little if anything of the morbidity that we find in some famous predecessors' Requiems. This cathartic masterpiece is all about Divine light and its power to transform the darkness of grief and sorrow into peace.
There were moments throughout the five movements, played without pause, when Britt Cooper's conducting suggested, interestingly enough, the impassioned and authoritative promptings of an intercessory priest sustaining a superb aural balance between orchestra and singers so that both could soar without one clouding the other. The Canton Symphony Chorus, combined with Walsh University Chamber Singers, pronounced the beautiful polyphonic Latin chants with astonishing clarity and precision, infusing them with genuine solemnity and unfettered joy.
Is it possible for choral magnificence of this kind to transcend the incidentals of its own substance and become something else? Absolutely, though I'm somewhat at a loss for naming it. Suffice to say that whatever we may choose to call such a phenomenon, it wasn't simply great music that we in the audience experienced here. This was a baptism.
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Exploring the crossroads of education and anthropology
Exploring the crossroads of ed…
Rachel Scarpato '08, once a double major, finds a calling in mathematics Twitter
By Shannon Sigafoos
Imagine the following scenario: You just found out your child has lower-than-normal levels of mathematical literacy and may need some type of academic intervention to reach the same skill level as their peers. Now, imagine that their teacher—who is tasked with adjusting to the competency level of more than 20 kids in a traditional classroom setting—stands up in front of the room and rehashes the same basic math skills again and again in an attempt to bring every child in the room up to speed. These situations are often a reality, but they don't have to be. That's where educators like Rachel Scarpato '08 come in.
Scarpato, who once believed math was a personal weak link, now spends her career making sure teachers and other academic professionals have the tools they need to reflect on their own progress—and how helping each other can help their students. We sat down with Scarpato to reflect on her time as a Lafayette student, her transition into the world of academia, and how anthropology and sociology shaped her worldviews.
You were a double major at Lafayette. How did that impact your education?
"I was an American studies and anthropology and sociology double major. I feel like I had sort of grown up in a bubble of privilege, and the thing I appreciate about the degree that I got was that I felt like it gave me a lens to really look at systems and institutions in a different way. It made me question how these systems or institutions are designed to get to the outcome that they're having? So, it was just really eye-opening for me to take courses around race, gender, and family. I wanted to use college as a way to just figure out what I wanted to do, but also to approach the world or see the world differently. And I feel like anthropology and sociology provided that for me."
You worked on an oral history project with Andrea Smith [professor of anthropology].
"That was a big turning point for me, because we were working on a project that was exploring urban renewal in Easton in the 1960s. We did archival research where we would go down to City Hall and sleuth through all of these documents, and then we also did ethnographic research. This was tied to a class that I had taken called Social Memory. The city targeted an area they were going to renew, and they had lots of literature about how the area was blighted and they were going to raze it and build new buildings and reshape the community. This was part of a larger national trend at that time, specifically in smaller cities across the country. In this case, a really diverse, multi-ethnic, multiracial community was targeted. We talked to people who had lived in the community, which was referred to as 'Lebanese town.' And when we heard what the city was saying, and then we talked to the people who lived there, it was like getting two different stories. People were saying the neighborhood was really safe, everyone had their doors open, and people just felt like their neighborhood was thriving and very alive.
To bring it back full circle, I feel like that doing that project was just really eye-opening to see how a state or city government, which is supposed to exist to help people, was actually doing the opposite. This neighborhood was targeted because it was a multi-ethnic, multiracial neighborhood. That lens of looking at systems and looking at systemic oppression is what prompted me to join Teach For America after graduation."
Rachel Scarpato '08 (right) with wife, Jenna, and son, Adrian. The family lives in New Orleans.
Then you made the transition into education—into the math world, in particular. How did that transition happen?
"Teaching [fourth grade] is the hardest job I've ever had. It's incredibly rewarding, but it's also incredibly challenging. How do I guide them? How do I teach them? There are so many things teachers have to juggle at once to help their students become the people that they're meant to be. When I was applying to grad school, I was teaching math—and as that was happening, I felt like, in a way, I was also relearning math. Something that people get wrong about me now in my career is they think I was a math major. In reality, I really struggled in math. I remember sitting in AP calculus in high school, and I had no idea what anyone was talking about. It felt like a different language was being spoken. When I got to Lafayette, I took one required math class, and that was it. It was a surprise to me that when I applied to grad school and took the GRE, my math score was really high. I remember looking at the results and thinking that wasn't right, because not being good at math actually felt like part of my identity. That's how I saw myself. Society told me I was not a math person.
After I got to grad school, I started teaching in New Orleans and moved into a coaching role where I was coaching other math teachers. I learned so much, and I will say that it really reminded me of the power of learning and how we talk about the growth mindset. I was doing math and practicing math every day with my students and with other teachers, and that expanded my mathematical capabilities strictly because I was practicing a lot. So, when I had fourth graders who told me they don't like math or aren't good at math, I don't want them to think that's part of their identity."
How did this experience apply to your role today?
In my most recent role at an education nonprofit, we partner and consult with large districts across the country. My team is still working with Los Angeles Unified, which is the second largest district in the country, and they're piloting a new math curriculum for middle school. It's a really great curriculum and redefines the role of a teacher, which is that you don't have to be standing up in front of the room, rehashing math facts or multiplication tables, to impart knowledge to your students. That's not a good use of your time or theirs. You're effectively setting them back, and they're also not set up to access any kind of STEM career. We're systematically denying kids that opportunity, when we're so focused on remediating skills that they don't have. In my role now, I work with teachers, school leaders, and district leaders to facilitate professional learning. We talk about our own math journeys and what our experiences have been, because it's important to have that mirror up. It's important to discuss where you're coming from as a person. There's a lot of baggage that people bring when it comes to math, and just having a safe space to talk about it openly and kind of shed some of that is really powerful."
What advice would you offer to today's Lafayette students about their own academic and career journeys?
"College is one time in your life where it's just an open space to explore. Take different types of courses, which allows you to see how things are connected. Particularly for anthropology/sociology students, I feel like that was the lens that developed how I looked at the world. I just always felt deeply cared for by professors at Lafayette and really valued by people. I also got some opportunities to do some really cool studies when I was 20 years old, and that really shaped my worldview and how I still approach work and life."
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End of a Era As Terry Gets Set To Leave Chelsea
by Back Of The Net February 11, 2016 May 16, 2016
There has been a dark cloud over Chelsea as late as their fans try to get to grips with the departure of the special One for the second time, Jose Mourinho. Today that could became a little darker when they awoke to hear the news that beloved captain John Terry would be leaving the club as well. The club has revealed that discussions with Terry about his long-term future have been ongoing for some time but they were always reluctant to offer him a new contract. At 35, it would go against their club policy to offer him a new deal preferring to let him leave much like Lampard did two years ago. Terry would have preferred to stay but it was never on the cards so will end his 21 year association with the club at the end of the current season. The news has been greeted with mixed reviews with some devastated and others simply glad he is going.
All change at Chelsea – First Jose, Now John (Image from Emipics)
There are various reasons for why people haven't exactly warmed to John Terry. His off field antics for one which have seen him bed countless women behind his wife's back including teammate Wayne Bridge's girlfriend and mother of his child, Vanessa Perroncel. Then there are his on field antics with Terry accused of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, an act so vile that he was stripped of the England captaincy, charged by the police and banned by the FA. A messy court case followed with Terry eventually acquitted due to the inability of a professional lip reader to identify what was caught on tape. The fact that an eight year old could make out clearly what was mouthed by Terry to Ferdinand made the whole process laughable and led to Anton's cousin Rio Ferdinand publicly slamming the Chelsea captain.
Terry was caught on camera racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand during a game (Image from getty)
Away from all the drama, Terry has become over the years the poster child centre back and a tip of the hat to defenders of the past – a commanding figure marshaling his defence, stern in the challenge and not willing to give up until he game is won. He is a born winner, blooded by Claudio Ranieri but crafted by Jose Mourinho into one of England's best defenders. Since 2000, Terry has been a permanent fixture in the heart of the Chelsea defence so his appointment as captain four years later made perfect sense. It would prove to be an inspired move by new boss Mourinho with Terry going on to become the most successful skipper in the club's rich history winning four Premier League titles. Four FA cups, three league Cups and eventually the champions League. Personal honours also followed with Terry named as UEFA Club defender of the year three times (2005,2008,2009) and in UEFA's team of the year on four occasions. He would also represent England 72 times (34 of which as captain) and played at two World Cups and two European Championships before retiring from international football in September 2012.
Natural born winner – John Terry with the Champions League trophy (image from Getty)
His departure from Chelsea may have come as a surprise to some but at 35 and with little left in the tank; the decision to call time on Terry's spell at the club is hardly unexpected. Once he was one of the first names on the team sheet, Terry has become the question mark with even Jose Mourinho doubting his ability and dropping him to the bench shortly before he was axed. Retirement from the game may be an option but for Terry it isn't on the cards as he looks for one final swan song before hanging up his boots. Despite Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew already jumping the gun in stating his desire to sign Terry, the man himself has no desire to stay in the Premier League and play for another club beside Chelsea. A move to one of the various lucrative leagues like China, Qatar or the US could be on offer whilst it's not out of the realms of possibility that he could go to Italy or Spain as well although his lack of pace could curtail that as an option.
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Q: A simple constrained optimization problem verification I have the following minimization problem:
minimize $F=\frac{2-A\cdot x}{2(1-A.x)}$
s.t  $x_{min}\leq x \leq x_{max}$
Here is my approach with lagrange multiplier:
$L=F+ \phi (x_{min}-x) + \theta (x-x_{max}) $
$\partial{L}/\partial{x}=0$
So, $\frac{A}{2(1-A\cdot X)^2}-\phi+\theta=0$
$x=\frac{1}{A}\left(1-\sqrt{\frac{A}{2(\phi - \theta)}}\right)$
Now, how do I find the value of $(\phi - \theta)$?

A: Why do you think the function is minimised at $x = 2/A$? The numerator is zero, but the function itself can clearly go negative. Doing some rearrangement, we get
$$\begin{eqnarray}\frac{2-Ax}{2(1-Ax)} & = & \frac{1-Ax+1}{2(1-Ax)} \\
& = & \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{2(1-Ax)}\end{eqnarray}$$
Which is clearly just a standard hyperbola with a bit of shifting and scaling going on. In fact, the function is strictly increasing for all $x \neq \frac{1}{A}$, so assuming that the given interval doesn't contain that point, then the minimum of the function will be at $x = x_{max}$.
You can check the logic by graphing it for a particular value of $A$, such as $A = 1$, which I got Wolfram Alpha to do for me here.

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Debbie Rowe Breaks Down During Michael Jackson Tv Chat
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 07 November 2013
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Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe broke down in tears during a taped interview for a U.S. Tv news show recently as she lashed out at those who let the King of Pop die.
The former nurse, who now helps to run a horse ranch in California, agreed to sit down and talk to Entertainment Tonight and she struggled to contain her emotions when she was asked for her thoughts about her former husband's 2009 drug-related death.
Rowe, who is the mother of Jackson's eldest kids Prince Michael and Paris, believes too many people turned their backs on Jackson when he needed their help as his drug dependency spiralled out of control.
Fighting back angry tears, she says, "All the people that claim to be so close to him, not one person tried to stop it... If I know something's wrong, I'm gonna try to stop it."
Rowe admits she would have liked someone to use the media to shine a light on Jackson's problems, adding, "There were more people involved that saw him falling apart. God forbid one of them take out a camera (sic)... and give it (footage) to someone like Entertainment Tonight and stop it. I think they were too selfish."
The former nurse admits she'll always have fond memories of her time with the King of Pop, adding, "He told me my life was gonna change and it did and he's taken such good care of me."
During the candid interview with the reclusive former Mrs. Jackson, which aired on Tv in America on Wednesday (06Nov13), Rowe also opened up about her relationship with her children's guardians, T.J. and family matriarch Katherine, insisting stories about them all not getting along are completely untrue.
She explains, "T.J. is an amazing man. He has an amazing family... I love Mrs. Jackson... We all may not care for her family... but she is my children's grandmother."
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Evaluation of serum leaking enzymes and investigation into new biomarkers for exercise-induced muscle damage.
Kazue Kanda, Kaoru Sugama, Jun Sakuma, Yasuo Kawakami, Katsuhiko Suzuki
School of Sport Sciences
This investigation determined whether existing muscle damage markers and organ damage markers respond to an acute eccentric exercise protocol and are associated with affected muscle symptoms. Nine healthy-young men completed one-leg calf-raise exercise with their right leg on a force plate. They performed 10 sets of 40 repetitions of exercise at 0.5 Hz with a load corresponding to half of their body weight, with 3 min rest between sets. The tenderness of medial gastrocnemius, lateral gastrocnemius and soleus, and the ankle active range of motion (ROM) were assessed before, immediately after, 24 h and 48 h, 72 h, 96 h and 168 h after exercise. Blood and urine were collected pre-exercise and 2 h, 4 h, 24 h, 48 h, 72 h and 96 h post-exercise. Serum was analyzed for creatine kinase (CK), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and aldolase (ALD) activities. We also determined heart-type fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP), intestinal-type fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) and liver-type fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP), neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), interleukin (IL)-17A, IL-23, nerve growth factor (NGF), soluble-Endothelial (sE)-selectin, s-Leukocyte (L)-selectin, s-Platelets (P)-selectin, and 8-isoprostane in plasma and urine. The tenderness of proximal and middle gastrocnemius increased significantly 72 h (p < 0.05, p < 0.01) after exercise. Ankle active ROM in dorsal flexion decreased significantly 48 h (p < 0.05) and 72 h (p < 0.01) after exercise. CK and ALD activities significantly increased at 72 h (p < 0.05) and remained elevated at 96 h (p < 0.01) postexercise compared to pre-exercise values. Also, ALD which showed relatively lower interindividual variability was significantly correlated with tenderness of middle gastrocnemius at 72 h. LDH activity significantly increased 96 h postexercise (p < 0.01), whereas the increase in AST and ALT activities 96 h post-exercise was not significantly different from pre-exercise values. There were no significant changes in FABPs, NGAL, IL-17A, IL-23, NGF, selectins and 8-isoprostanes in plasma and urine. In conclusion, calf-raise exercise induced severe local muscle damage symptoms which were accompanied by increases in both serum CK and ALD activities, but we could not detect any changes in examined markers of organ damage, inflammation and oxidative stress. Further research is needed to determine other more sensitive biomarkers and the underlying mechanisms of exercise-induced muscle damage.
Exercise Immunology Review
Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolase
8-epi-prostaglandin F2alpha
Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins
Creatine Kinase
Selectins
Aspartate Aminotransferases
Articular Range of Motion
Alanine Transaminase
L-Lactate Dehydrogenase
Kanda, K., Sugama, K., Sakuma, J., Kawakami, Y., & Suzuki, K. (2014). Evaluation of serum leaking enzymes and investigation into new biomarkers for exercise-induced muscle damage. Exercise Immunology Review, 20, 39-54.
Evaluation of serum leaking enzymes and investigation into new biomarkers for exercise-induced muscle damage. / Kanda, Kazue; Sugama, Kaoru; Sakuma, Jun; Kawakami, Yasuo; Suzuki, Katsuhiko.
In: Exercise Immunology Review, Vol. 20, 2014, p. 39-54.
Kanda, K, Sugama, K, Sakuma, J, Kawakami, Y & Suzuki, K 2014, 'Evaluation of serum leaking enzymes and investigation into new biomarkers for exercise-induced muscle damage.', Exercise Immunology Review, vol. 20, pp. 39-54.
Kanda K, Sugama K, Sakuma J, Kawakami Y, Suzuki K. Evaluation of serum leaking enzymes and investigation into new biomarkers for exercise-induced muscle damage. Exercise Immunology Review. 2014;20:39-54.
Kanda, Kazue ; Sugama, Kaoru ; Sakuma, Jun ; Kawakami, Yasuo ; Suzuki, Katsuhiko. / Evaluation of serum leaking enzymes and investigation into new biomarkers for exercise-induced muscle damage. In: Exercise Immunology Review. 2014 ; Vol. 20. pp. 39-54.
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There are some good games like Cookie Clicker which will delight the fans. These are all idle games appropriate for spending some idle time.
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I found Ableton Live Lite eight straightforward enough to report a single track with, however as soon as I wished to do anything extra difficult, I could not get anywhere. It as if they've simplified the Interface to such a level, it is not possible to determine how you can do anything, but probably the most primary of duties. The long and the wanting it's that, I simply did not enjoy working with Ableton Live Lite eight.
The goal demo for Animal Jam – which takes place in a fictional interactive universe known as Jamaa, the place children can change into avatars of their favorite animals while they learn about nature, science and ecology – is essentially ladies, ages 7 to 9. That's not an age group that generally has prepared access to a credit card, as they shouldn't, which is why Animal Jam has to get inventive.
Wastes are the undesirable materials present in any atmosphere of human existence. Waste is generated in every human exercise equivalent to domestic activities, industrial activities, and agricultural actions and even in well being and education atmosphere. The amount of waste era in each human activity depends on the level of the operation. Wastes often of various types depend upon their source, they are: strong waste, liquid waste, gaseous waste, hospital waste among others.


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It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work By Jason Fried And David Heinemeier Hansson
By Ben Nadel on October 7, 2018
Tags: Books, Work
I'm a long-time fan of the project-management system, Basecamp. But, more so, I'm a fan of the strongly-opinionated and often controversial co-founders, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH). I've read and quite enjoyed their two earlier books, Remote and Rework. So, when I saw last week that they released a new book, It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work, I immediately picked it up. It's a quick listen - just over 3-hours on audiobook; but, it's absolutely jam-packed with brilliant insights and it clearly demonstrates a profound empathy for both customers and employees. I think it's by far their best book yet. And, one that I would highly recommend to people at all levels of an organization.
It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work is an easy-to-consume collection of philosophies and best practices that Basecamp has put into place over the last 15-years. The audiobook is organized into 68 tracks, each of which is concise and to-the-point. None of it feels superfluous, which makes the entire text feel compelling. In fact, it almost reads like a Zen manual in which each chapter serves to illustrate a single life lesson. A cheesier editor could just have easily titled the book something like, "Zen and the Art of Running a Tech Company."
The topics in the book seem to be, at times, both incredibly instinctive and yet somehow still counter-intuitive. This is because we've been raised in a tech world that has become a caricature of business-as-usual in which every idea "disrupts" an industry or "completely transforms" a paradigm.
There is a certain romantic appeal to it. The hustle; the passion; the vision; the calling; the sacrifice. It's hard to listen to people like Gary Vaynerchuk rant about drive without having the urge to yell, "Fuck yeah!" Which is why it's both difficult and delightful to hear Jason Fried and DHH assertively shout back, "Fuck no!"
Case in point:
Fuck that! How about something really audacious: No targets, no goals. You can absolutely run a great business without a single goal. You don't need something fake to do something real. And, if you must have a goal, how about just staying in business; or, serving your customers well; or, being a delightful place to work. Just because these goals are harder to quantify does not make them any less important. (Track 7)
NOTE: Since I have the audiobook version, all of the quotes in this post are the result of my transcribing what I heard. As such, all punctuation is a best-guess effort to recreate the book's cadence and organization.
Or, in response to leaders who feel like they need to burn the candle at both ends, working harder and longer than anyone else is able to:
No - not a hero! If the only way you can inspire the troops is by a regimen of exhaustion, it's time to look for some deeper substance. Because, what trickles down is less likely to be admiration, but dread and fear instead. A leader who sets an example of self-sacrifice can't help but ask self-sacrifice of others.... Maybe that's a valiant quality on the battlefield; but, it's hardly one in the office. (Track 23)
Is there anyone in the start-up world that has trouble relating to that sentiment at some level? I've worked under people that have boundless energy. I know what it's like to have to accept that you'll never be able to work as hard or love a business as much as your boss does. I've been on calls where I've been told in explicit terms that if "I'm not working 70-hours a week, I'm working at the wrong company."
For me, that kind of environment lead to anxiety; and tears; and to panic attacks; and to prescribed muscle-relaxants. It took something that I felt was a calling (programming) and sucked the passion and the joy out of it. And even though I know the situation was wrong, there's still part of me that will always wonder if I was at fault - if it was my short-coming and inability to cope.
Because, that's what the start-up world has become.
At least, in some places. But, contrast that with Basecamp's thoughts on what makes a good work ethic:
A great work ethic isn't about working whenever you're called upon, it's about doing what you say you're going to do; putting in a fair day's work; respecting the work; respecting the customer; respecting co-workers; not wasting time; not creating unnecessary work for other people; and, not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with. (Track 15)
And, their philosophies on how to manage time and priorities:
If you can't fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not working longer hours.... when you cut out what's unnecessary, you're left with what you need. (Track 11)
These shouldn't have to be; but, I'm sure that for some people, these passages are a wake-up call - a reminder that the start-up world can have humanity. And, that we can do great things without having to lose ourselves in the process.
In an industry where the average company tenure is less than 2-years, more than half of the Basecamp staff has been with the company for more than 5-years. And, with 3-weeks paid vacation, fitness and continuing-education benefits, 30-day sabbaticals, long-weekends all Summer, automatic salary increases, a profit-sharing program, and a low-stress environment, it's not surprising. I think we should all be looking at Basecamp and taking notes. It's easy to write them off as an "exception to the rule"; but it would be more valuable to see what we can learn. Take a look at this book. I promise you, you'll get something out of it.
To close, I just wanted to include a few more passages that struck a chord in me:
You're not very likely to find that key insight or breakthrough idea north of the 14th hour in the day. Creativity, progress, and impact does not yield to brute force. (Track 5)
This is especially true for me because I'm a morning person. I'm at my most creative from like 5AM to Noon. After that, the tasks I work on have to be progressively less challenging. In fact, I wonder what it would be like if all my meetings were in the afternoon, leaving me with a full morning of uninterrupted think time.
You can do big things with small teams. But, it's a whole hell of a lot harder to do small things with big teams. And small things are often all that's necessary. The occasional big thing is great. But, most improvements come as small, incremental steps. Big teams can step right over those small moves. (Track 53)
This hits me like a sock-full-of-quarters. And, the older and more experienced I get, the more this rings true.
Are there exceptions? Of course.... But, 1% occasions like that shouldn't drive policy 99% of the time. (Track 19)
To be honest, I don't even remember what this was referring to. But, it doesn't matter because I think this sentiment applies to all aspects of life. It's easy to let the most limiting factor become the defining factor. Which might make sense in high-stakes situations like flying planes and heart surgery. But, in the vast majority of cases, this reaction does nothing but add cruft and unnecessary "Best Company Practices" documentation.
Whenever executives talk about how their company is really like a big old family, beware. They're usually not referring to how the company is going to protect you no matter what, or love you unconditionally. You know, like healthy families would. Their motive is rather more likely to be a unidirectional form of sacrifice: Yours. Because, by invoking the image of the family, the valor of doing "whatever it takes," naturally follows.... Such a blunt emotional appeal is only needed if someone is trying to make you forget about your rational self-interest.
You don't have to pretend to be a family to be courteous or kind or protective. All those values can be expressed even better in principles, policies, and most important, actions. (Track 22)
I love this passage because it speaks to the importance of policy over ethos. And, that it reminds us that relationships are bidirectional. A few years ago, I considered something similar: we always hear about how "you are a representative of your company" when you are at conferences and trade-shows. But, what if we flipped-that: what if the company and its values were a representative of you? That aspect should be just as important.
If the boss really wants to know what's going on, the answer is embarrassingly obvious: they have to ask. Not vague, self-congratulatory, bullshit questions like, "What can we do even better?" But, the hard ones like, "What's something nobody dares to talk about?" Or, "Are you afraid of anything at work?" Or, "Is there anything you worked on recently that you wished you could do over?" Or, even more specific ones like, "What do you think we could have done differently to help Jane succeed?" Or, "What advice would you give before we start on the big website redesign project?"
Posing real, pointed questions is the only way to convey that it's safe to provide real answers. (Track 25)
100% yes yes yes! I want all of that! I can't stand it when we spend time talking about the things we did right - we all know that part already. I want to dig into the things we did wrong.
And, don't try to justify "Fakations" by saying, "but you can take as much as you want." In our industry, it's become common practice to offer unlimited vacation days. It sounds so appealing. But, peal back the label and it's a pretty rotten practice. Unlimited vacation is a stressful benefit because it's not truly unlimited.... Ambiguity breads anxiety. (Track 36)
For me, the highlight of this statement is that ambiguity breads anxiety. People need structure. People thrive in structure. Never confuse "ambiguity" with "freedom."
If you don't clearly communicate to everyone else why someone was let go, the people who remain at the company will come up with their own story to explain it. Those stories will almost certainly be worse than the real reason. A dismissal opens a vacuum. And, unless you fill that vacuum with facts, it'll quickly fill with rumors, conjecture, anxiety, and fear. If you want to avoid that, you simply have to be honest and clear with everyone about exactly what just happened, even if it's hard. (Track 37)
One of the most fascinating things that Basecamp does is that they clearly articulate - company-wide - why people left and why people were fired. I would love to try this out and see what it's like. I know at work, I often don't know that people were fired until I try to reach out to them on Slack and see that they've been deactivated. It all feels very cloak-and-dagger. I think being more transparent about the whole process would be very helpful.
And, there's so much more. Hopefully some of these passages have piqued your curiosity!
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Q: Property Getter / Setter not part of an interface contract Why getters / setters are not part of interface contract ? By example:
public interface IFoo
{
    int Id { get; }
}

class Foo : IFoo
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
}

Why is it allowed to have setter here even though interface declaration is different ?
The problem I am having here is with immutability. Clients implementing my interface will be allowed to create mutable types which I want to discourage. Am I forced to fall back to using methods and readonly fields ?

A: To implement an Interface you must provide at least the methods it contains.
You are allowed to supply more, (for example to implement another interface).
You can think of the getter/setter pair as methods set_Id(int i) and get_Id().
In fact, that is how they are modeled on the lower levels of the CLI.
So set_Id(int i) is just an additional method provided by the implementer and there is nothing
you can do to prevent him from doing so.

A: Interfaces provides contract. It says that whoever implementing me(the interface) should at least implement all the specifications provided by them.
It doesn't restrict anything, You can implement whatever extra members you wish to provide other than the interface contract specifies, but no less.
Also, c# as a language provides no support for immutability so you have no ways to prevent user from implementing the mutable type.

Am I forced to fall back to using methods and readonly fields ?

I'm not sure what is your question here, because you said Clients implementing my interface will be allowed to create mutable types. Who is the client? Another programmer?
Anyways, readonly is not really readonly. Remember you can always modify them with the reflection gun, it is more powerful than readonly.


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Q: The items from directory are added in a random order but it is created problems in the programme The items in the playlistbox are loaded in random order when a particular song is selected, the wrong song is played.
Tried loading different file codecs
Tried reversing the loading order by using code : playlist.revrse
#Suspected Problematic Code:

playlist = []

def bfolder():
    global filenamepath
    global directory
    global index

    folder = filedialog.askdirectory()
    os.chdir(folder)

    for filename in os.listdir(folder):
        if filename.endswith(".mp3") or filename.endswith(".wav") or filename.endswith("flac") or filename.endswith(".ogg") or filename.endswith(".Mp3") or filename.endswith(".Wav") or filename.endswith(".Flac") or filename.endswith(".Ogg") or filename.endswith(".MP3") or filename.endswith(".WAV") or filename.endswith(".FLAC") or filename.endswith(".OGG"):
            pg.mixer.music.queue(filename)
            filename = os.path.basename(filename)
            index = 0
            playlist.insert(index, filename)
            playlist.reverse()
            playlistbox.insert('end', filename)
            index +=1
        updatelabel()

def updatelabel():
    global index
    global playlist
    v.set(playlist)

#This is probably not required but here is the code used for playbutton:

def play_button():
    global paused

    if paused:
        selected=playlistbox.curselection()
        selected = int(selected[0])
        play= playlist[selected]
        pg.mixer.music.unpause()
        statusbar['text']=os.path.basename(play),"Resumed"
        paused = FALSE
    else:
        try:
            stop_button()
            time.sleep(1)
            selected=playlistbox.curselection()
            selected = int(selected[0])
            play= playlist[selected]
            pg.mixer.music.load(play)
            pg.mixer.music.play()
            statusbar['text'] = "Playing " + ' : ' +
            os.path.basename(play)
            showdetails(play)
        except:
            tkinter.messagebox.showerror("Error","File Doesn't Exist")

The items in the playlistbox are loaded in random order when a particular song is selected, the wrong song is played.
I want to load them in some kind of order, maybe order by name or size or something so that when the song is selected from the playlistbox, the highlighted song is played

A: Many facilities for listing the contents of a directory will return the results in what is known as "directory order".  This isn't necessarily random, but it can be surprising.
What you'll want to do is sort the results of os.listdir() before using those results.  You might find sorted(os.listdir(path)) suits your needs, or you might want to sort by some other criterion.  If you want a more specific sorting, I recommend googling for, say, "python os.listdir sort by size", or whatever meets your particular sorting requirements.


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NT on cyclone watch for Christmas as severe thunderstorm warning issued for Qld
An 'evolving situation' could see a tropical cyclone hit Australia on Christmas Day with forecasters warning its impacts will be felt widely.
Emily Cosenza and Benedict Brook
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Meteorologists are warning of an "evolving situation" across northern Australia as a possible cyclone bubbles up over the Christmas long weekend.
"A tropical cyclone watch has been issued for communities between Point Stewart in the NT, and Kalumburu in the Kimberley, including Darwin and a Tiwi Islands," the Bureau of Meteorology's Jonathan How said on Christmas Eve.
"This is an anticipation of the development of a tropical cyclone off the coast either on Christmas Day or early Boxing Day.
"Damaging winds, heavy squally rain and dangerous conditions are all expected."
If the cyclone does form it will be named "Seth". It could effect Darwin late on Boxing Day or Monday.
"This is an evolving situation. It could grow to include both the NT and possibly Queensland," Mr How said.
Parts of north east Western Australia are also under threat.
A cyclone could cross the NT's border on Christmas Day then spreading through the Territory. Picture: BOM.
A low pressure system intensified overnight as it moved over the Timor Sea, north of Darwin.
Temperatures in the Timor Sea are currently over 30 degrees which is all the fuel the system needs to form.
It will continue to track south towards the WA and NT coastlines on Friday and Saturday.
Authorities have warned it could intensify even further while offshore and had the potential to cross the coast, near Darwin, as a category 1 by late Sunday or Monday.
That category is the weakest type of cyclone but can still produce wind speeds that can cause damage to homes, crops, trees and caravans.
While the potential cyclone is not expected to directly pass over Darwin, the capital city can expect severe wet and windy weather conditions.
Darwin could see 45-60mm of rain on Christmas Day; 70-120mm on Boxing Day and not much less on Monday.
A cyclone watch has been declared for the NT, including Darwin and the Tiwi Islands, and far north WA. Picture: Supplied/BOM
The weather bureau is "closely watching" the weather system.
"We are expecting heavy rainfall of around 200mm over the next four days which also increases the risk of flooding in the region," senior meteorologist Billy Lynch said.
"Tropical systems can intensify quickly and shift direction, so it's a good time to remind Northern Territorians to check their emergency plan and cyclone kits before they go on their Christmas holiday break and to take extra care on the roads."
NT police, fire and emergency services have set up an emergency operations centre to plan for the event.
Regional controller Assistant Commissioner Martin Dole said now was the time for residents living and working in the area to make sure their cyclone plans were finalised.
"Your emergency kits should be stocked and ready. You should determine now where you and your family will take shelter if required to do so," he said.
"Check on your neighbours, particularly any elderly or vulnerable people who may not be aware of the developing situation.
"Heavy rains and gales can be expected, please use all safety precautions and do not attempt to cross any flooded roads or crossings."
A flood watch has also been issued for many river catchments in the Top End from Monday.
A flood watch has also been issued. Picture: Supplied/BOM
A severe thunderstorm warning is also in place for South East Queensland, with heavy rainfall expected for parts of Somerset, Lockyer Valley, Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay council areas.
Heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding, with 52mm recorded in Mt Sylvia, southeast of Toowoomba, in just an hour.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services are urging residents not to drive, walk or ride through floodwaters.
Locals are advised to seek shelter indoors and never under trees and to beware of fallen trees or power lines.
The severe thunderstorm warning is in place for South East Queensland. Picture: Supplied/BOM
The massive volcanic eruption was heard from vast distances and triggered tsunamis. But exactly why it was so big is still a mystery.
Four capitals are set to suffer through multiple severe heatwaves in the coming days with little relief from the humidity and blistering conditions due.
Severe weather is set to smash Australia, but depending where you are it could be either flooding rains or oppressive heat causing all the drama.


I fell in love with Santa Fe the minute I arrived, instantly dazzled by its rich history, a meld of Anglo, Native American, and Hispanic cultures.
Everything was refreshingly different. Unlike most American cities, it had unique architecture, a predominance of Territorial and Pueblo-Spanish styles.
I was fascinated by the contoured adobe walls, the focus of flat roofs, the vigas (beams), and the nichos (small arches in the walls for objects).
I was equally fascinated by the cornucopia of art celebrated almost everywhere I went, and I spent hours marveling at the exhibits at Meow Wolf, Santa Fe Plaza, and Museum of Internation Folk Art.
During my week's vacation, I sampled all sorts of dishes that I had never had before like Posole, New Mexico green chile stew, and stacked red chile enchiladas.
In the evenings, lying in the hotel's hot tub, I would chat with my friends about our trip to the Santa Fe Opera House, where we watched The Marriage of Figaro, or marvel at our experience at The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, or argue about what we liked best at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
In short, I had the time of my life.
I was happy all the time, loved everyone at first sight, struck instant friendships wherever I went, and transformed from an introvert into an extrovert. I also got lost frequently but thought it was hilariously fun.
Every day, I would spring up early from my big comfortable bed and go sit in the balcony to sip tea and catch the sun rising against the lavender sky, painting it a profusion of colors and hues.
When I came home again, I quickly fell out of love with reality, like someone who had just been abandoned by the love of their life. I passively watched my reality crash all around me, splintering the earth and the sky of my little world into shards.
Reality once again morphed back into its muted sounds, dull colors, and boring forms. I had returned to the trite, the familiar, the predictable, and, like a bad case of flu, it took me a week to recover.
The spontaneous, child-like state that I had once enjoyed now disappeared almost as suddenly as it had appeared when I found myself in an unknown and unexplored, where everyone and everything delighted me.
I can't blame my sudden depression on some untoward event that pitched me into psychological turmoil. I just abruptly stopped feeling the love for life that I had relished only a short while ago.
I went back to my regular work, hung out with my friends, and visited my familiar haunts. Everywhere I went, I stared at walls, wondering why there was no art on display.
My brain is wired to notice common objects and recurring events in an environment until everything becomes familiar.
In this way, it successfully edits out reality, freeing up the psychic energy necessary to run the free-wheeling, often random and pointless mental chatter, that makes up my experience of life.
In other words, when I am no longer fascinated by people, things, or events, I resort to interpreting reality rather than fully grokking it.
The mind prefers homeostasis to unpredictability, and the body considers homeostasis necessary for life. Biologically, we need chemical regulation, thermoregulation, and osmoregulation to keep our various physiological systems running optimally.
Still, I'm beginning to wonder if this affection for the ordinary is a good thing.
When we become desensitized to reality, then we become like the prisoners in Plato's allegory about the cave. Since the prisoners were chained together and restrained from turning to look over their shoulders, all they could witness was the cave wall. Behind them was a parapet on which puppeteers performed and behind the parapet, a bright fire. Consequently, all the prisoners saw were the shadows dancing on the wall.
Experientially, desensitization to reality makes us dull and uninteresting to be around and neurotic when left alone too long. Just to convince ourselves that we can fog a mirror, we seem to have a constant need for stimulation from our drinks and our devices.
Culturally, desensitization results in collective stagnation. The only reason that civilization still continues to make progress is that there are always a few mavericks in every age who push the human race forward and who often end up being persecuted for upsetting the status quo.
Galileo, for example, was tried in 1633 by the Roman Inquisition and put under house arrest until he died in 1642. His crime was peering through a telescope and discovering Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto, the four gigantic moons of Jupiter.
If you want to awaken your neglected genius, then you have to do one thing extraordinarily well: ignite your sense of wonder again, the wonder you enjoyed as a child before you were trained to see the world through the eyes of a lonely ego.
Geniuses are creative because they see the world afresh.
Newton's theory of gravity, laws of motion, breakthroughs in optics, and the invention of calculus were developed because he saw the world afresh.
True, these two intellectual giants may have had extraordinary brains, refined nervous systems, and perfect opportunities to birth their discoveries, but the inspiration behind their visionary thinking was an unmitigated sense of wonder and curiosity about the world.
I'd love to end this essay with a prescription on how you can start to see the world anew and begin to find it a rich and fulfilling place to be, but I do not know how to travel that road. I'm still trying to get back to Santa Fe.
What would happen if you didn't need to go on vacation to see the world afresh?
What would happen if you could see the extraordinary in the ordinary?
What would happen if you dared to dream up incredible ideas?
Beneath the surface of the quotidian, there is magic. But to discover it, you have to surrender your constrained adult mind and psychically return to the indefatigable curiosity possessed by the child you once were.
Everywhere you turn, the world is trying to make you conform, behave properly, and be as simple-minded as possible. But at every moment, you still have the freedom to turn your familiar world into something extraordinary by cultivating a fresh perspective about yourself, your life, your world.


Nick Helm is everywhere right now and everywhere should be grateful. A third run of the comedian's hit BBC Three series Uncle has been commissioned. The short film Elephant – which Helm directed, co-wrote and co-starred in with Esther Smith – was nominated for a BAFTA. And his second studio album, Nick Helm Is F*cking Amazing, is released next month.
To celebrate the album launch, Helm is performing a show called All Killer Some Filler at the O2 Forum Kentish Town on 14 April 2016. It will feature all of his musical hits and is billed as the "greatest live event ever attempted".
What's On London will be covering the show and reviewing the album that's released on the same day. In the build-up, Ian Cater met this multi-talented artist to discuss the roots of his success and what fans can hope for in the future.
When I meet Nick Helm at a bar in Soho, I don't know what to expect. Although every comic creates an onstage persona, few are as confrontational as his. And, although it's an act, traces of Helm's forceful creation creep into his other TV performances. But the man I meet is intelligent, grounded, refreshingly honest and – at times – almost bashful about his recent accomplishments.
This stoicism partly stems from the winding route he's taken to the top: writing and performing at the Edinburgh Festival for nearly 20 years, balancing the demands of being a comedian, actor, writer and musician, and having to contend at times with almost crippling pre-performance doubts.
The "but" trails off: a recognition that not everyone will like what he does, either musically or comedically, especially given the ballsy delivery that often accompanies it.
"All comedy's fairly interactive in a way, but mine really relies on the audience going with it," he acknowledges.
"They've got to be able to see that I've got writing on my hand and think 'he's done that deliberately', rather than think I'm being unprofessional. Because my whole act is meant to be unprofessional: that's the joke." On the day we meet, this joke extends to a hole in the middle of his jumper, which he feigns not to have noticed.
Helm plays on the joke throughout his shows, coupling braggadocio with a pained vulnerability whenever the audience doesn't do as he demands. And this is part of the act: despite pre-match nerves, Helm feels at home as soon as the first joke leaves his lips.
Those who first encountered Helm storming onto Russell Howard's Good News in December 2010 find it hard to forget this staged unravelling. Afterwards, Howard described it as "without doubt one of the funniest breakdown's I've ever seen." This is Helm's brilliance: convincing the audience that no matter how unnerved he makes them, the whole process is more traumatic for him.
That may be true. But it's extremely welcome following the success of his excellent 2013 album, Hot 'n' Heavy.
"With Hot 'n' Heavy, we tried to construct some sort of storyline," he explains. "Through the songs, it maps out the beginning and the end of a relationship, so one after the other they all make sense." The tracks also work extremely well in isolation, especially He Makes You Look Fat and Let's Get Married, which viewers enjoyed on BBC Three's Live at the Electric and Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment.
And the style of the new album promises to be more varied, moving from Helm's passion for heavy metal – Alice Cooper is his idol – towards knowing nods at The Beatles, Paul Simon and – enticingly – Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, with the latter role performed by comedian Rachel Parris.
A great deal of thought goes into Helm's work.
That truism also explains the success of Uncle, a very well-crafted sit-com featuring exaggerated but everyday characters most of us can relate to. Helm plays the lead role, struggling musician Andy, flip-flopping between leading his nephew astray and unwittingly teaching him valuable life lessons.
The filming schedule for Uncle means that Helm has to miss Edinburgh for only the third time since 1997. "I'm disappointed about that. The reason why we're filming in the summer is because we can get the kid cheap," he grumbles tongue-in-cheek, falling into his Andy character for a moment.
However, more live shows are en route in the autumn. "Some people don't understand why you do it. They think you just want your name in print, that it must just be an egotistical thing.
Long may that therapy and debate continue. In the meantime, Helm acknowledges that predicting his future is complex.
What's On London wishes Nick Helm all the very best with his preparations for All Killer Some Filler. Tickets are still available for the one-night show on 14 April 2016 at the O2 Forum Kentish Town: www.nick-helm.co.uk/all-killer-some-filler.
Stay tuned for our coverage of the show and the new album, Nick Helm Is F*cking Amazing.
Ian Cater, Chief Features Writer Parris neatly combines her warm brand of self-deprecating stand-up with expertly performed and hilarious songs in Best Laid Plans.


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