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Lions picked eighth in SAC preseason voting
ROCK HILL, S.C. - The Mars Hill women's cross country team was picked to finish in eighth place in the SAC's preseason polling, announced on Wednesday. The Lions also finished in eighth during the 2016 SAC championship race last October.
The defending champions, Queens University, were selected to repeat after a dominant performance in last year's championship race. The Royals are ranked 1st in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Southeast Region Poll and received nine of eleven first-place tallies.
Wingate University and Anderson University picked up the remaining first-place votes and are slated to finish second and third, respectively.
Rounding out the top five are Catawba College and Lenoir-Rhyne University.
The full list of preseason rankings is posted below.
2017 Women's Cross Country Preseason Poll
School (first-place votes) Total
1. Queens (9) 99
2. Wingate (1) 90
3. Anderson (1) 84
4. Catawba 69
5. Lenoir-Rhyne 59
6. Carson-Newman 56
7. Lincoln Memorial 49
8. Mars Hill 36
9. Tusculum 24
10. Coker 21
11. Newberry 14
July 11, 2018 Exciting changes to the Cross Country and Track & Field programs at MHU
February 13, 2018 Mars Hill earns USTFCCCA All-Academic honors for 22nd straight year
November 4, 2017 Mars Hill close out season at Southeast Region Cross Country Championships
October 21, 2017 Lions place 10th at SAC Championship
October 18, 2017 Feeney named SAC Runner of the Week
October 13, 2017 Jones runs personal best, Lions finish 12 at Queen City Invitational
September 29, 2017 Feeney, Burns run personal bests at Royals XC Classic
September 23, 2017 Lions finish fifth at Columbus State Cougar Invitational
September 9, 2017 Feeney notches personal best at Furman Invitational
September 9, 2017 Lions place 15th at Furman Invitational
September 1, 2017 Feeney leads Lions to open 2017-18 campaign
August 30, 2017 Lions picked eighth in SAC preseason voting


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Contentment Is A State Of The Heart, Unaffected By Outward Circumstances.
Contentment is born of the capacity to love impartially, to listen uncritically, to give unconditionally, to forgive unreservedly, to laugh at oneself unaffectedly.
Contentment Is The Realization Of What You Already Have.
Contentment or Happiness derived from material object is nothing but a false belief with fades off as fast as it is felt.
Real Happiness comes from within, as it is the soul that possesses the quality of happiness.
That is what actually brings Real Happiness.
Counteract greed with contentment. If something new comes our way be content, If it passes us by be content.
'It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.


Sturdy caravan shotgun - The Vault Fallout Wiki - Everything you need to know about Fallout 76, Fallout 4, New Vegas and more!
The sturdy caravan shotgun is a unique weapon added by the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Courier's Stash, or the pre-order Caravan Pack.
The caravan shotgun is a short shotgun in which one barrel is mounted on top of the other, also known as an 'over/under' shotgun. The iron sight is a screw which holds the action release lever to the receiver.
Despite its rough appearance, this caravan shotgun is extremely durable, with more than twice the item health of a normal caravan shotgun, hence the name. It also does slightly more damage, but is significantly less accurate. The caravan shotgun uses a screw as an iron sight. The raised off-center piece is the release allowing the gun to break and be reloaded.
Caravan shotgun, the common variant.
Cass' caravan shotgun, a unique non-playable caravan shotgun used by Rose of Sharon Cassidy. It has higher stats than the regular caravan shotgun and uses companion ammunition.
Originally, the only way to acquire this weapon was by redeeming the code that came with the pre-order exclusive Caravan Pack. It can now also be acquired by purchasing the add-on Courier's Stash.
PC PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 This weapon is not affected by the Shotgun Surgeon or And Stay Back perks.
PC PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Damage done with the sturdy caravan shotgun is not counted towards the I've Got Shotgun or the Gun Runners' Arsenal Ne Ne Ne Ne... challenges.
First person view of the sturdy caravan shotgun.
The sturdy caravan shotgun while aiming down the sights.
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Wrongful Death and Survival Action For Failure to Advise Parents of Presence of Mass in Daughter's Adrenal Gland - July 2020
Wrongful Death and Survival Action For Failure to Advise Parents of Presence of Mass in Daughter's Adrenal Gland
Lawsuit Against Johns Hopkins Hospital | July 20, 2020
On July 20, 2020, WVFO attorney Chris Norman filed a medical malpractice claim on behalf of the estate of a young child who died as a result of the failure to advise her parents of the presence of a mass on her adrenal gland shortly after her birth.
The complaint alleges that two days after her birth, an abdominal ultrasound was performed, which was significant for a 4mm cystic mass in the baby's right adrenal gland. The history and physical note completed by the nurse on August 9, 2016 specifically documented the presence of a possible neuroblastoma. The parents were not informed of the adrenal cyst, the potential that it could represent neuroblastoma, or the need for follow up. The baby's newborn course was otherwise benign, and she was discharged after only five days. The internal Johns Hopkins discharge summary notes the finding of the adrenal cyst and the recommendation for a follow up abdominal ultrasound to be completed one-week post discharge to be arranged by a primary care physician, but, the records do not suggest that the parents were informed of this. Moreover, the presence of the adrenal cyst and the need for follow up does not appear on the "Problems" list, or the "Patient Active Problem List" contained within the discharge summary. When listing the "Discharge Instructions" that were supposedly "reviewed with mother", the presence of the adrenal cyst, the potential that that cyst represented neuroblastoma, and the need for a follow up ultrasound was not included. The discharge instructions and after visit summary, which were reviewed with the baby's mother and signed by her at the time of discharge, are completely devoid of any mention of the adrenal cyst, the concern for neuroblastoma, or the need for a follow up abdominal ultrasound to monitor the adrenal mass. As a result of the Defendants' failure to inform the parents of the imaging findings, the potential that the mass identified was neuroblastoma, and the need for follow up, no follow up was conducted to monitor this potentially cancerous mass. Approximately two years later, on July 31, 2018, an abdominal imaging study reported to show liver and spleen enlargement and displacement, and the child was rushed to Johns Hopkins Hospital. An abdominal ultrasound revealed the presence of a large abdominal mass in the right upper quadrant that was noted to be suspicious for neuroblastoma. Upon further evaluation, the providers at Johns Hopkins Hospital noted that the abdominal tumor originated in her right adrenal gland (the same location as the cyst that was identified during her newborn admission, but never followed up on). By that time, her primary right adrenal gland tumor had grown from 4 mm at the time of its diagnosis during her newborn admission to 14 cm. Ultimately, the child was found to have cancer in her abdomen, her lymph nodes, her upper chest and neck, her skull, orbits, pelvis, spine, and left femur. She was treated for the cancer for several months, however, in May of 2019, she presented to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with malaise, vomiting, and fever. Her cancer had progressed and she went on to develop hypovolemic shock secondary to intraabdominal venous oozing and related ascites from her intraabdominal metastases. She acutely decompensated. She passed away on June 3, 2019.
The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that the defendants negligently failed to advise the child's parents of the existence of the mass and the need for follow-up care to address the development of neuroblastoma, and that this negligence ultimately caused the child's death.
The action is pending in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland.
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Though the United States is eligible to participate in the program, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) said the decision to subsidize student computers and enroll in the program is best left to individual states.
The program aims to provide governments around the world with inexpensive versions of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system and other educational programs for students to use on laptops or other mobile computers they can use both at home and at school. It's another progression in the growing movement toward one-to-one computing worldwide.
Microsoft has structured its program so that all nations considered lower- or middle-income countries by the World Bank's gross national income (GNI) index are eligible automatically. Countries that fall into the high-income bracket under the GNI index are eligible to purchase the $3 Student Innovation Suite only if Microsoft currently has a Partners in Learning agreement in place with them; the United States is one such country.
Though ED is aware of the initiative, it believes the decision to participate should be left to each state, a department spokesman said.
To qualify, governments must supply computers meant for students' personal use, regardless of their manufacturer. The computers need not be new, Microsoft said, as long as they can run Windows XP. That means countries such as New Zealand, whose ambitious and ground-breaking Computers in Homes project aims to supply all New Zealand families who are socially and economically disadvantaged with a refurbished computer, an internet connection, relevant training, and technical support, also could be eligible.
Microsoft has not yet decided on a method of distributing the software, as the logistics of distribution vary country by country. According to Woodman, Microsoft will use the next few months leading up to the release of the suite to different nations to work out these details on a country-by-country basis.
In the days since the announcement was made April 19, a number of governments reportedly have contacted Microsoft and expressed interest in being a part of the initiative. Microsoft is working on getting as much information as possible to these governments to help them evaluate whether or not the suite is appropriate for them.
With the recent announcement by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) founder Nicholas Negroponte that each of the initiative's low-cost laptops will cost $175 and be capable of running Windows as well as the Linux operating system, Microsoft's new initiative could have a huge effect in getting the company's operating system into the hands of students in developing countries.
In another expansion of its Unlimited Potential program, Microsoft has pledged to open 90 new "innovation centers" in countries around the world. The Redmond, Wash.-based company already has opened 110 of the centers, which offer classes and access to technology for academics, local startup software companies, and other groups.
In addition, the company said it designed a web site to help graduating engineering students in India get additional training and find jobs, a model it might extend in other countries if successful. The site reportedly will go online by the end of the year.
To qualify, governments must supply computers meant for students' personal use, regardless of their manufacturer. The computers need not be new, Microsoft said, as long as they can run Windows XP.
Microsoft has not yet decided on a method of distributing the software, as the logistics of distribution vary from government to government. According to Woodman, Microsoft will use the next few months leading up to the release of the suite to work out these details on a case-by-case basis.
With the recent announcement by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) founder Nicholas Negroponte that each of the initiative's low-cost laptops will be capable of running Windows as well as the Linux operating system (see story, page 12), Microsoft's new initiative could have a huge effect in getting the company's operating system into the hands of students in developing countries.


Question: My colleague and I will become equal owners of a new limited liability company we are creating. My colleague will be contributing cash and I will be rendering services in return for our ownership interests. Are there any tax consequences?
Answer: The tax aspects of any business arrangement must be carefully considered at the time of formation. You raise a question frequently posed in the creation of a limited liability company ("LLC").
Property contributions to an LLC are generally not taxed to the contributing member. This tax-free treatment is available whether the contributed property consists of cash, other liquid assets or non-liquid assets such as real estate. Where LLC interests are issued in return for services rendered, however, the contributing member is generally taxed on the value of the membership (e.g., ownership) interest received. Ifyou proceed with your new venture as planned and the two of you equally share in all LLC cash distributions, one-half of the LLC value will be taxable to you upon formation.
Ifyou are willing to alter the economics of your arrangement, you can avoid the recognition of income at the time you receiveyour membership interest. Instead of receiving a full 50% membership interest in the LLC, you can receive a 50% profits interest which need not be taxable to you. While the allocation of LLC profits will be taxed toyou as they will be to your colleague, your receipt of the profits interest at the time of formation need not be a taxable event.
To illustrate the distinction, assume your colleague contributes $100,000 of cash to the LLC and you agree to render services for a full 50% membership interest in the company. If the LLC Operating Agreement entitles you to share equally in all distributions including those made upon liquidation, as a full member you would receive $50,000 if the company liquidates following formation. As a result, you would have to report $50,000 of ordinary income in the tax year the company is formed. Having received a capital interest in the LLC, you are taxed at the time of formation even though the company has yet to report any profits.
This tax consequence can be avoided if instead the LLC Operating Agreement provides that upon liquidation, proceeds are first distributed to members based on the capital contributions made to the company. This means that upon the LLC's liquidation, your colleague would receive the first $100,000 of cash available for distribution with the balance distributable to the two of you in equal shares. You would of course still be sharing in one-half of all the profits generated by the company. In this case, you would be the owner of a profits interest in the LLC and would not be taxed on the receipt of your profits interest.
There are some circumstances where profits interests received in LLCs can be taxed at the time of issuance. In most cases, however, your objective of avoiding tax on formation can be avoided if the LLC Operating Agreement is carefully crafted to distinguish between the different types of interests being issued, the capital interest to your colleague and the profits interest to you. To further establish the non-taxable nature of your profits interest, a safe harbor election can be made by the LLC on the LLC's initial tax return to take advantage of the tax savings opportunity.
In today's business world, most contributors of cash to business ventures want their capital back first before service providers receive payment, whether on liquidation or otherwise. If you are willing to modify the arrangement in this matter, you can accomplish a meaningful tax savings.
The Tax Corner addresses various tax, estate, asset protection and other business matters. Should you have any questions regarding the subject matter, you may contact Bruce at (312) 648-2300 or send an e-mail to bruce.bell@sfnr.com.
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It's not antisocial to want to go out camping and enjoy some peace and quiet. In this video Dorrie has some tips to help you visit campgrounds when they're going to be a little less crowded.
I know you never get bored when you go camping, but just in case the unthinkable should happen, here's a cool game you can play (beer in hand optional for the 21+ crowd). It's called ladder golf (some people call it Blongoball) and it can provide hours of entertainment.


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New global publications sign on to News Showcase
The events of this past year have proven that providing access to diverse, high-quality news sources is more important than ever. Whether it's information about COVID-19, the latest environmental story or reporting on governments around the world, people are looking for the news that affects their lives.
Our investment of $1 billion over the next three years towards news partnerships and for Google News Showcase helps support publications to produce, distribute and explain essential information to users in new ways. News Showcase panels give publishers the ability to tell important news stories together with context and links to additional stories. Panels also feature recognizable branding so users can easily find and identify trusted news organizations.
Since we announced Google News Showcase last year, we've signed agreements with nearly 450 publications across a dozen countries, the majority of which are local and regional. Our news partners include Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Libération in France, El Cronista and La Gaceta in Argentina, TAG24 and Sächsische Zeitung in Germany, and Jornal do Commercio, a regional newspaper from Pernambuco in Brazil.
Today we're announcing a new global deal with Reuters for News Showcase. Their in-depth coverage from 2,500 journalists around the world is indispensable and another example of the quality news content News Showcase is bringing to users.
These new partners are in addition to the existing News Showcase publications that are live in Brazil and Germany, and have already created tens of thousands of panels which have been seen by millions of users across Google News and Discover on Android and iOS.
A collection of News Showcase panels from our partners in Brazil and Germany.
Local news organizations have always been critical in keeping people informed, and that is more true now than ever before amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With News Showcase, we want to ensure that local news publishers play a strong role in our product. These outlets, with their deep coverage of local events, schools, crime and government, are a cornerstone of well-informed and functioning communities. Ensuring users around the world have access to high-quality local news is of tremendous importance, and it's one of the areas where we're heavily investing for 2021.
While access to quality content is essential, so too is ensuring that the news industry can develop sustainable business models. That's why we're working closely with a number of News Showcase partners to pay to provide users free access to select paywalled stories. This feature will give users the opportunity to get to know content they might not otherwise have access to. In addition, it will enable publishers to develop their own relationships with users and incentivize them to become a subscriber.
We've worked directly with our news partners to get feedback on this feature so that it integrates easily into their paywalls, ensuring that it works for both them and their users. "Working with Google has been great for our entire team, from the newsroom to our development team, and we believe that we will see exciting results with the new ability to show our users additional access to paywalled content," says Cândido Henrique Silva, executive editor of O TEMPO, a national news outlet in Brazil.
The extended access feature will be live in the News Showcase product in the next couple of months.
2021 will be a year of major investment in News Showcase as we expand to other markets and build more features, creating a great news experience for users around the globe. We are committed to doing this alongside news publishers as we play our part in developing a better future for quality journalism.
Google News Showcase expands to help readers and publishers
We're making updates to the Google News Showcase product as well as signing on more global partners.
Source: The Official Google Blog
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged Google News Initiative, News on January 20, 2021 by Brad Bender.
News Brief: December Updates from the Google News Initiative
2020 was a year no one expected, and journalists all over the world responded to upheaval by keeping their communities informed. As we closed out the year, Latin American newsrooms demonstrated how technology can make journalism more accessible, and we supported new programs to sustain local and independent journalism.
Digitizing 80 years of history
Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM) is the largest Mexican print media company and the largest newspaper company in Latin America. Using Google Cloud's AI technology, OEM was able to digitize their newspaper and photo archive and create new sources of reader revenue. This process also allowed employees, the news agency, subscribers to the newspaper and researchers to digitally access the cultural heritage of their newspaper and its more than 80 years of documenting history. Included in this archive were several local newspapers, which allow broader access to the more rural and provincial history of Mexico, as well as a record of global events from a Mexican perspective.
Providing guidance for newsroom mergers through the Public Media Mergers Project
In December, our Public Media Mergers Project concluded its year-long research into mergers between public media groups and independent digital news sites – a rising trend across the country. The project was led by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and supported by a partnership between the Public Media Venture Group and the Google News Initiative. We've published the Public Media Mergers Playbook to guide public media stations and independent local digital newsrooms through the process of considering and then managing a newsroom merger. We hope this asset encourages more small digital newsrooms and public media stations to explore the possibilities of joining forces to better serve their communities. For more insights on the research, check out Dr. Elizabeth Hansen's recap of the project, and read the playbook today.
Bringing Latin American journalists together for GNI Summit Hispanoamérica 2020
We hosted the first regional GNI Summitfor Spanish-Speaking Latin America, bringing together over 550 participants from more than 300 newsrooms and 18 countries. Newsrooms from across the region discussed their work with the GNI to build sustainable business models and combat other challenges facing the news industry.
Supporting NewsMatch, a resource for independent journalism
The Google News Initiative contributed $750,000 to NewsMatch, a program which brings together individual donors, foundations and corporate philanthropists to build fundraising capabilities and inspire giving to members of the Institute for Nonprofit News, a growing network of independent newsrooms that are nonprofit, nonpartisan and dedicated to public service. As part of its partnership, the GNI will provide added support to the participating 266 newsrooms: every organization that raises $11,500 from its audience will receive an equal matching gift from NewsMatch and a $2,500 "GNI Bonus" totaling $14,000. GNI funding will also give an award to newsrooms that bring on 100 first-time donors during the campaign cycle, from November 1 to December 31. As part of the GNI partnership with NewsMatch, all participating newsrooms will receive coaching and personalized support across GNI tools and training, including News Consumer Insights and the GNI Digital Growth Program.
Twenty-five journalists who care deeply about the future of local news
Twenty-five journalists from around the Americas will spend two months focusing on product thinking in the newsroom through a program with News Catalyst and Newmark J-School. The program is designed to teach journalists in small to midsize local news organizations to build, launch and grow news products that serve audiences' needs.
That's all for December - follow along on social and our newsletter for more updates.
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged Google News Initiative, News on January 14, 2021 by Kai Ridenoure.
An open fund for projects debunking vaccine misinformation
The uncertainty and developing nature of the coronavirus pandemic continues to generate related misinformation. Fact-checkers have been hard at work debunking falsehoods online, with nearly 10,000 fact checks about the pandemic currently showing up across our products.
The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is exacerbating a perennial problem of misinformation about immunization. To support additional debunking efforts, the Google News Initiative is launching a COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund worth up to $3 million.
While the COVID-19 infodemic has been global in nature, misinformation has also been used to target specific populations. Some of the available research also suggests that the audiences coming across misinformation and those seeking fact checks don't necessarily overlap.
For this reason, the Open Fund is accepting applications from projects that aim to broaden the audience of fact checks, particularly with those who may be disproportionately affected by misinformation in mind.
The fund is global and open to news organizations of every size that have a proven track record in fact-checking and debunking activities, or partner with an organization with such recognition.
We will prioritize collaborative projects with an interdisciplinary team and clear ways to measure success. For example, eligible applications might include a partnership between an established fact-checking project and a media outlet with deep roots in a specific community, or a collaborative technology platform for journalists and doctors to jointly source misinformation and publish fact checks.
A global team of Googlers will review applications. The jury that will choose grantees is composed by the following:
Theresa Amobi, Senior Lecturer, University of Lagos
Ludovic Blecher, Head of Innovation, Google News Initiative
Renee DiResta, Technical Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observer
Susannah Eliott, CEO, Australian Science Media Centre
Gagandeep Kang, Head of the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Christian Medical College
Alexios Mantzarlis, News and Information Credibility Lead, Google
Syed Nazakat, Founder & CEO, Data Leads
Ifeoma Ozoma, Founder and Principal, Earthseed
Baybars Örsek, Director, International Fact-Checking Network
Andy Pattison, manager of digital solutions, World Health Organization
Angela Pimenta, Director of Operations, Projor
Amy Pisani, Executive Director, Vaccinate Your Family
Yamil Velez, Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Brian Yau, Promotion & Engagement Lead, Vaccine Safety Net at WHO
The Open Fund builds on support the GNI has provided to news efforts fighting pandemic misinformation in April and December of last year. We expect that selected projects will benefit from research the GNI is supporting into the formats, headlines and sources that are most effective in correcting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Finally, we continue to make high quality, authoritative information about vaccines available in our products. We are continuing to expand the number of countries with information panels on authorized vaccines in Google Search, and we continue to surface fact checks across Google by using ClaimReview. We expanded the features in which users come across fact checks in 2020—in the COVID-19 Google News topic in the U.S., on Google News on mobile in Brazil and in Google Images globally.
Please visit the Open Fund's website to read more about eligibility criteria and find out how to apply.
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged COVID-19, Google News Initiative, News on January 12, 2021 by Alexios Mantzarlis.
A road map to guide digital news startups
Over the past nine months, we've been working with LION Publishers and UNC's Hussman School of Journalism and Media to study the choices news startups face in establishing and growing their companies. Through our research with nearly 300 digital journalism entrepreneurs in North America, we've learned that many wrestle with the same questions, but lack reliable support systems to overcome these obstacles.
Even when emerging outlets are successful in building a quality product and community of readers, they often face a stumbling block when it comes to monetizing their journalism. In fact, just one in five of the news founders we surveyed consider their company to be financially sustainable. And for many digital news startups, financial footing remains precarious for years, as they delay long-term planning and view survival as success.
With this in mind, the Google News Initiative is launching a global program to help guide independent entrepreneurs as they build digital news startups. Today we're opening applications for the GNI Startups Lab in North America, a six-month experience that will provide a group of news founders with coaching and capital to evolve their news products and accelerate their companies on the path to sustainability.
This program builds on our GNI Startups Lab in Brazil, which is currently contributing to the growth of 10 early stage digital news businesses through training, mentorship and peer learning. Next year, we will introduce global extensions of the program available to news entrepreneurs in Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Developed in partnership with LION, the GNI Startups Lab in North America will address the common questions news startups navigate when evolving their companies, as well as each participant's individual path to growth. Founders will develop a deeper understanding of their audience, create short- and long-term strategy and budget plans, evolve team structures and strengthen business models, with the goal of building loyal readers and recurring revenue over time.
The lab will accept up to 12 news entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Canada, who have been producing original journalism for at least six months and want guidance on how to further develop their recently launched news product. Applicants should be focused on producing journalism for a geographically based community, or covering a single topic area. We are especially interested in entrepreneurs who have identified a need to better serve or elevate voices in underrepresented communities.
During the application process, news founders will be asked to outline the challenges they face, and what they believe is required in order for their company to become sustainable. This could range from establishing a new revenue stream, such as a membership model, to implementing a technology solution, like a content management system, to increase newsroom efficiency. Throughout the program, participants will receive coaching and financial support to make progress toward their specific goal and start on a path to long-term growth.
The GNI Startups Lab follows our eight-week bootcamp with LION, which recently guided 24 news entrepreneurs as they turned their starting idea into a publicly available news product, or evolved their existing offering. From an outlet seeking to provide deep investigative reporting on the criminal justice system, to a publication looking to unearth the inequities in the news industry itself, these projects shine a light on the range of possibilities for founders to meet the information needs of readers in new ways.
News entrepreneurs, who care deeply about serving their communities, play an important role in shaping the future of digital journalism. Alongside our global partners, we aim to share what is learned in the form of playbooks, tools and webinars, so those lessons can serve as a road map for future news founders to build sustainable businesses.
If you're a news founder interested in the GNI Startups Lab in North America, please apply via the application form by January 21, 2021.
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged Google News Initiative, News on December 17, 2020 by Ben Monnie.
These 33 projects tackle diversity in local news
Today we are announcing an important list of projects selected for the second round of the Google News Initiative's North American Innovation Challenge. The challenges are meant to encourage a spirit of experimenting, and quite simply, trying new things. It is especially important this year to tackle innovative ideas, and the 33 projects we're funding look at diversity, equity and inclusion through many different lenses, all focused around the communities they serve.
The Innovation Challenge received 215 applications from the US and Canada, and will fund 33 projects totaling $5.9 million.
We selected Ryerson University in Canada for JeRI: The Journalism Representation Index, an AI-powered tool that scores the institutional power of sources cited in news stories. "In this time of great change it's really important as journalists that we ensure the stories we report on reflect a diversity of voices," says Asmaa Malik, Associate professor at Ryerson University. "With JERI our hope is that we can rebuild trust with readers and offer them transparency into the process."
Our team selected The Houston Defender for their efforts in business transformation. Sonny Messiah-Jiles, the Defender's CEO, says the Innovation Challenge "opens the doors of opportunity for us to combat undercapitalization, limited access to new technology and resources and expand our training of our staff. We're striving to make sure we arrive where our audience wants us to be."
The Educational Video Center in New York pitched an idea to develop the infrastructure to distribute and monetize youth-produced documentary films from EVC's digitized archive of over 200 short films. "Youth voices are underrepresented in mainstream media and important news stories are not being told," says Ambreen Quresh, the group's executive director. "To address this EVC will create the first of its kind B2B video licensing platform for mainstream media to acquire youth-produced documentary shorts and clips."
Other recipients include Vox Media, which is creating a comprehensive, inclusive open-sourced style guide and editing resources designed to recognize bias in storytelling. The Local Media Foundation is creating Word in Black, a national news collaborative that is powered by 10 of the leading Black publishers. Save the Black Press, a project from Black Voice News in California, will create a data access portal, content discovery platform and resource support model for generating revenue and innovating content at black news organizations.
Industry leaders joined Google in selecting winners. "As one of four external participants on the jury, I appreciated the emphasis on local media outlets that can easily be overlooked nationally but who are vital in serving local communities and truly know the landscape and are invested in solutions," says Donna Ladd, editor and co-founder of the Mississippi Free Press andJackson Free Press.
You can read the full list of the successful recipients on our website. We extend our sincerest thanks to everyone who took the time to apply to this challenge.
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged Diversity and Inclusion, Google News Initiative, News on December 15, 2020 by LaToya Drake.
Where nonprofit news and business intersect
Some people might think of the nonprofit news field as a slow-moving, foundation-funded industry. While this picture might have held up a decade ago, today nonprofit newsrooms are bucking the typical reliance on grants and donations and growing into strategically funded enterprises—fueled by dollars from individual donors and local and national businesses.
Take, for example, statewide nonprofit news outlets like the Texas Tribune and NJ Spotlight, which in 2019grew earned revenue to 37 percent and 33 percent of their overall business, respectively. We've seen that this growth is consistent across smaller metro news organizations, too.
Indeed, according to the 2020 Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) Index, now more than 40 percent of nonprofit newsrooms have created four or more different revenue streams to fund their high-quality, nonpartisan journalism. Out of these revenue streams, INN identified earned revenue, such as advertising, event sponsorship and sponsored content, as a major area for development across the nonprofit news field.
That growth opportunity brought the Google News Initiative and INN together to analyze how nonprofit newsrooms can build earned revenue models and identify best practices to help others succeed. Today, we're thrilled to share a new contribution to the field: the Nonprofit News Guide to Earned Revenue. This guide combines lessons learned from several nonprofit news organizations, and was designed to be used and reused by leaders and staff to grow and retain revenue from earned sources.
The GNI-INN partnership comes as dramatic revenue losses sweep across the journalism industry, with tens of thousands of jobs cut just since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The decline in advertising is a big part of that picture. From April 2019 to April 2020, Pew Research Center reported a 42 percent revenue loss in advertising for newspapers, a revenue stream that largely fuels traditional media organizations.
In the same time period, however, INN gained about 65 nonprofit newsrooms as members and existing members profiled by our research became more financially sustainable.
So how can nonprofit newsrooms continue to increase earned revenue during this industry decline? Here are the guide's top takeaways to act on now:
Sell solutions. Identify needs and offer solutions for partners. News outlets that had success with earned revenue figured out how to align their financial goals with the interests of their community members, including local business owners. For example, the San Antonio Report created a business membership that offers an opportunity for companies to underwrite relevant content and receive recognition without placing advertisements.
View local businesses as partners and allies. Relationships with sponsors and prospects aren't transactional. Newsrooms should foster a connection with them. Just as nonprofit journalism is service-oriented, so are these partnerships. Take for example Madison365, which created a program promoting its mission of producing coverage specifically for communities of color to find potential sponsors who support that goal.
Get the tech stack right. Even the best people and strategies can fall short with a weak foundation. In the guide, we review the basic tools newsrooms should consider, such as content management systems, ad servers and virtual event technology, and discuss how these systems should work together in a way where data collected now can be cleanly imported into a more advanced tech stack down the road.
Develop (and improve!) an efficient work flow. Nonprofit news organizations are often small and scrappy—they work smarter, not harder. For example, we look at NJ Spotlight's process for deciding which sales to chase, and which to let go. Here's how it works: Log all interactions with clients and categorize each prospect with either a "90" (likely to convert, so drop everything to make this sale), 50 (possible to convert, spend some time here), or 10 (remember this contact, but move on for now).
INN is putting this guide's best practices to work as the core curriculum of the GNI Sponsorship Lab. Launched in October, the six-month program is providing coaching to support a diverse group of eight nonprofit publishers as they develop and improve their earned revenue streams over time.
We hope this guide helps nonprofit newsrooms make decisions, prioritize staff time and resources and chart ambitious new business plans in the year ahead. Above all, newsrooms can use this guide to identify the growth opportunity rooted in earned revenue and take action today.
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged Google News Initiative, News on December 10, 2020 by Fran Scarlett.
The benefits of AMP
In 2015, the mobile web was not in a good place. An analysis of more than 10,000 mobile web domains showed that the average load time for mobile sites was 19 seconds over 3G connections. As a result, new proprietary mobile web formats arose as companies that distributed content looked for new ways to keep their products compelling and asked publishers to use them.
Publishers, who were already strapped for resources, told us they'd be unable to keep up with a pattern of each company inventing their own new format. After discussions with European publishers, we partnered with the industry to build a new format—one that was based on the web and that would work for a wide variety of platforms. It would preserve the publisher's freedom to choose their own tools (such as content management systems, analytics, video players and advertising platforms), keep their own unique page designs, host the content on their own servers and monetize the way they wanted either with paywalls, ads or both. It would be open-source and extensible so that new capabilities could be introduced by anyone, platform and publisher alike. And that's how the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, or AMP, was created.
We strongly believe AMP has played a positive role in reversing the trends that made it so difficult for publishers to achieve great user experiences at the time. The AMP Project's evolution over the last five years, from enhancing product capabilities to joining the OpenJS Foundation, has helped us continue to collaborate with the news industry and deliver meaningful value to publishers. But there are several misconceptions about AMP, and we want to set the record straight.
AMP pages are open and exist well beyond Google.
First, we want to clarify exactly how AMP works. AMP pages are not locked into Google products and behave just like any other page on the open web. They can be visited directly, linked to and crawled, and are used by a wide variety of search engines. (Bing, Google and Yahoo Japan! all link to AMP pages.) Social platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest also use the format to direct their users to a reliably fast and smooth loading experience.
Additionally, AMP pages do not divert traffic away from other websites to benefit Google. When it comes to news, we drive more than 24 billion clicks a month to news sites. And each visit is an opportunity for a publisher to show ads or convert a casual reader into a loyal subscriber.
Publishers have control over the aspects of their AMP pages.
With AMP, the publisher controls almost every aspect, from content presentation to the underlying monetization strategy of their page. Publishers also decide how they want to show up on Google; they decide the length of the short summary (called a snippet) of their content and can add or remove images or videos. There are no license fees for AMP and all traffic data goes directly to the publisher. Publishers can collect the same data as with any other web page by using most of the standard tools available, and today 80 analytics providers support AMP.
Although Google collects and uses additional data in order to be able to present AMP documents, we do so only for the purposes of operating the Google AMP Cache and AMP Viewer. The data from the Google AMP Cache allows us to record documents requested from it and validate that the cache is functioning normally. Data from the AMP Viewer allows us to optimize the viewing experience of pages displayed. x
AMP gives publishers the same ability to build direct relationships with readers as any web page. In collaboration with publishers and 3P paywall providers, project contributors designed a solution to allow publishers to integrate AMP into their existing subscriptions strategies without compromising on page speed or user experience. Contributors are also constantly adding functionality to bring interactive features to AMP articles that allow publishers to further engage with their audience.
AMP supports 240 different ad networks and provides publishers with flexibility to choose how they want to monetize. As AMP was intentionally designed to ensure users have high-quality experiences, there are some user-focused rules that guide how content and advertising work on the page. For example, this includes what kind of ads can appear and how they show up to avoid slow load times. AMP also does not support popup ads because they are intrusive and create a negative user experience.
AMP is not a ranking factor for Google Search results.
When it comes to ranking in Google Search results, AMP pages are treated just like any other HTML page on the web. AMP has never been a ranking factor in organic search results on Google. At the moment, only pages built using AMP can be included in the Top Stories Carousel feature in Google Search to ensure users could easily find fast-loading pages and swipe from story to story. But this is changing.
We recently announced a change, opening up this feature to any content that meets the Google News content policies starting in May 2021. We will prioritize pages with great page experience, whether implemented using AMP or any other web technology, as we rank the results.
AMP is an open project led by many.
AMP is an open-source initiative started five years ago at Google along with other tech companies and members of the web community. More than 1,000 developers around the world, many from companies like Twitter, Pinterest, Yahoo and Bing, contribute time and resources to improve AMP.
In 2018 AMP launched a new governance model, transitioning the project's ownership to the OpenJS Foundation a year later. These changes have helped open development of AMP to more publishers via AMP's Advisory Committee and Technical Steering Committee. Today anyone can join an AMP working group to help shape the future of the project.
Google supports a vibrant and healthy open web.
From our funding of open-source projects that are vital to the sustainability of the web, to our most recent efforts around Core Web Vitals, which provide unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to delivering a great user experience, we are committed to supporting a vibrant and healthy open web.
We build technology that provides helpful experiences for users, delivers value to publishers and creators and helps the wider web. AMP is a key part of our commitment to these values and is a product we're constantly working to improve with the wider online community.
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged Google News Initiative, News, Search on December 4, 2020 by Rudy Galfi.
If it feels hard to keep up with the news these days, you're not alone. Our commitment to helping people find quality news is one of the reasons we launched Google News Showcase in October. This new online experience was announced as part of our $1 billion investment in news and is a way to contribute to the overall sustainability of our news partners around the world.
Today, we're announcing a number of new updates to News Showcase that will make it even more useful to news publishers and users alike.
First, we'll soon start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers. Paywalls are a crucial part of some publishers' revenue strategies. To support that goal, we'll pay participating partners to provide limited access to paywalled content for News Showcase users. In return, users will register with the news publisher, providing a way for the publisher to build a relationship with readers.
An example of how the paywall experience may look.
It's also now easier for people to find even more valuable content from the news organizations they trust; a new type of News Showcase panel includes a list of important articles selected daily by their favorite publishers. For example, if a user follows a news outlet that covers their local news, they will see daily updates on the most important local stories, selected by that newsroom. Relevant publications, both national and local, will also now be shown within the For You feed, plus in a dedicated area to discover new News Showcase publications within Newsstand on Google News.
An example of the new News Showcase panels from suggested publications.
On top of these updates to improve News Showcase, we're bringing quality news content to even more people. News Showcase has expanded to Google News on iOS and it will be coming to news.google.com and Discover soon. News Showcase metrics will soon appear in Search Console so publishers will have more data to better understand which articles and topics users are responding to.
More publications signing on
Since first launching News Showcase two months ago, the number of publications from around the world which have signed on has nearly doubled. There are now close to 400 news publications in countries such as Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, U.K. and Australia, and conversations are underway in a number of other countries. New partners include publications such as Le Monde, Courrier International, L'Obs, Le Figaro, Libération and L'Express in France, and Página12, La Gaceta and El Día in Argentina.
Our media partners in Germany and Brazil, the two countries currently live with News Showcase, have already seen strong reader engagement. "News Showcase is a very important project to amplify our digital presence," says José Roberto de Toledo, Executive Editor of piauí, a national monthly magazine in Brazil. "On one side, it offers a new and important channel for more people to get to know the content that is produced by the magazine. On the other side, it gives us financial conditions to invest even more on content production, to amplify our offerings. All together, we hope to increase the relevance and influence of piauí."
News Showcase is also helping publishers reach new audiences. "News Showcase provides more opportunities for VRM's market-leading regional news portals to provide our users with relevant news from their areas," says Peter Neumann, Chief Digital Officer of VRM, a regional newspaper group in Germany. "The product has opened up new target groups for our journalism, reaching younger audiences who read our news offerings more frequently and actively than others. The easy discoverability and more attractive presentation of News Showcase panels helps a lot in this respect."
As 2020 comes to a close, it is heartening to witness the progress of News Showcase and the enthusiasm from both publishers and readers around the world. We will continue to engage and incorporate feedback as we build out features and grow the product to add to the future sustainability of our news partners.
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged Google News Initiative, News on December 2, 2020 by Alex Cox.
Digital transformation for Black and Latino publishers
Even before we were all hit with the devastation of COVID-19, the newspaper industry saw the writing on the wall: It's crucial to embrace a "digital first" business priority to remain financially sustainable. The persistent global pandemic coupled with the preexisting conditions of poverty, social inequalities and racial injustice in America's minority communities have now accelerated the digital business challenges that many Black- and Latino-owned newspapers across the U.S. and Canada already faced.
The widening digital divide and technology gap overwhelmingly affect our more than 200 Black-owned member publications in the U.S., many of which are multi-generational and family-owned. Advertising continues to be a lifeblood of both local and national newspapers. And digital advertising is irreversibly changing how news companies become profitable and sustainable, and publishers need the trained staffing and requisite technology infrastructure to compete.
It's in this timely context that the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) have joined together with the Google News Initiative to launch the GNI Ad Transformation Lab. This much-needed program will directly support Black- and Latino-owned news organizations and publishers focused on serving underrepresented communities in the U.S. and Canada. Over the course of six months, we aim to help the participating publishers advance their digital maturity and build the digital advertising capabilities required to achieve business growth today.
Through extensive analytical and technical support, the lab will provide personalized coaching to address each organization's digital business transformation. Participating publishers will develop and clarify their digital content and distribution strategy, optimize their websites, improve their digital advertising and programmatic capabilities, and act on these improvements to attract more advertisers and generate incremental revenue over time.
I am personally and professionally enthusiastic about the GNI Ad Transformation Lab because I have witnessed too many times how Black- and Latino-owned news publishers in particular are overlooked and undervalued by major advertisers. One of the reasons is because these publications often struggle to keep up with the technical demands and constantly evolving pace of digital advertising.
In partnering with the NAHP, whose members span the country, with a concentration in areas of large Latino populations, we've seen a need to bring this type of support to our communities. And they say it's crucial to provide professional development that focuses on adopting new advertising technology. "Increased digital revenue will help expand audiences, build capacity and further the recognition and usage of Latino publications," says Fanny Miller, NAHP's president.
It is not a question of competence. It is an issue of the pace and process of migration and transformation from solely print advertising to "digital first" businesses that produce viable profits. That's why this program is committed to helping publishers create sustainable digital advertising revenue streams and business practices.
Applications for the GNI Ad Transformation Lab open today and will close on December 7th at 11:59 PM EST. We encourage Black- and Latino-owned news organizations and publishers focused on serving underrepresented communities in North America to apply.
As the program progresses, we will share lessons learned with the broader minority community of publishers. The GNI will also compile the best practices into playbooks, interactive exercises and virtual workshops and incorporate the resources into the company's ongoing Digital Growth Program, available to all publishers for free online.
We look forward to supporting Black- and Latino-owned news publishers to navigate the challenges of digital transformation, and evolve their advertising offerings for national brands and agencies. These publishers can then strategically reinvest these additional revenue streams to keep them at the cutting edge of industry innovations and market advances in the growing digital advertising space.
It's imperative that we sustain the trusted newspapers embedded and connected in Black and Latino communities. If we don't tell our story, who will?
This entry was posted in Official Google Blog and tagged Google News Initiative, News on November 19, 2020 by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr..
Setting the Record Straight on Google and Canadian News Publishers.
Last month, News Media Canada released a report attacking Google for the decline of their business and demanding that we pay for the inclusion of news results in Google Search. While we encourage the current discussion about how news can thrive in a digital world, there have been a number of assertions made by News Media Canada's report which are either unfounded or incorrect. And we'd like to set the record straight.
The disruption of the newspaper business model was not caused by Google.
The emergence of the Internet, not Google, disrupted the news industry. Decades ago, non-news content like classifieds, fashion and lifestyle content accounted for the lion's share of legacy media's revenue. Classifieds alone accounted for roughly 30%. But the Internet introduced new websites and services which pulled audiences away from newspapers and this impacted their revenue. The Internet changed our behaviours and it changed the business model of publishers well before Google was founded, making it more difficult to earn revenue from just news alone. This was the evolution of the marketplace for information, and not due to any one company.
Digital advertising dollars are not controlled by Google.
Google does not set ad prices. Advertising rates are driven by real-time auctions run by many different companies that allow the market to establish appropriate pricing. Businesses ultimately set the amount they are willing to pay for an ad. This has been a boon to small businesses who historically could not afford print advertising. Last year alone, Google's search and advertising products helped generate $23 billion in annual economic activity for over 500,000 businesses in Canada - the equivalent of 1.1 percent of Canada's entire GDP.
Our advertising platforms allow publishers of all sizes to make money online.
News Media Canada claims that as much as half of the revenue from display advertising is kept by advertising technology providers. We can't speak for the many other companies in this space, but that is not the case for Google. Even when marketers and publishers choose to use our advertising tools, publishers receive most of the money. In fact in 2019, when advertisers used our products to buy ads programmatically from publishers on Google Ad Manager, publishers kept over 69% of the revenue. And publishers keep even more of the revenue when they sell directly to advertisers using our platform.
Google is not stealing news publishers' content.
News Media Canada has accused us of "stealing" news content, but how Google Search connects people with news articles is no different than the way we connect you to any other website online. We don't provide the content, just a link and sometimes a small extract of the article to give users a preview. And news organizations can opt-out of being included, keep the links but remove the previews, and more. This is how other search engines and the Internet at large works. While publishers receive traffic from many different sources, we sent more than 5 billion visits to Canadian news publishers last year - at no charge - helping publishers make money by showing their own ads to those visitors or converting people into new paying subscribers. This traffic drove an estimated $500 million worth of value.
News Media Canada's proposal would undermine Google Search for Canadians.
To maintain the trust of our users, we make many changes to our algorithms to address security issues and defend against bad actors who try to "game" Google Search rankings. News Media Canada is proposing that Google give news publishers a sneak peak of changes to our algorithm, thus enabling them to influence our search results to secure preferred placement of links to their content regardless of what our users want. We don't do this for anyone. Their proposal also would slow the rollout of important security updates to products because we'd have to provide publishers with 28 days' notice of algorithm changes - putting the security and integrity of Search at risk. News Media Canada's demands would give them an unfair advantage over every other site on the Internet and undermine trust in Google Search.
Google supports publisher diversity -- big, small, old and new.
We build products to highlight local content and original reporting. We send traffic to more than 2,000 Canadian news sites. We offer tools like Subscribe with Google to better enable subscription sales. We launched the Google News Initiative where we have trained over 1,000 Canadian journalists on how to adapt to the digital age. In addition, we've launched a $1 billion news funding program which will license content directly from publishers around the world.
Google believes there is a way forward.
While some legacy media have struggled because they have been slow to adapt their businesses to the Internet economy, other publishers are leading with innovation. The Globe & Mail is a global leader in digital journalism, sweeping industry awards with a thriving and growing digital news offering. Village Media is a digital-only news publisher, reinventing local news, operating dozens of profitable sites across Canada to become a popular news source for Canadian communities. No, the news business is not the same as it was decades ago. Innovative Canadians are making it better.
We remain focused on achieving a solution that is fair to all, that protects the way Search works for the millions of Canadians and local businesses who use it every day. We will continue to build innovative partnerships and drive towards sustainable solutions with publishers. We are optimistic about the future and inspired by innovation in Canadian journalism. We will continue to work together towards a proud future for Canadian journalism.
Posted by Sabrina Geremia, Vice President, Google Canada
Source: Official Google Canada Blog
This entry was posted in Google Canada Blog and tagged News on November 17, 2020 by Aaron Brindle.


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In light of the anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue earlier this month, we're sharing some organizations that are stepping up and supporting those affected by this tragedy.
You can donate to this GoFundMe Certified Charity campaign, that is collecting donations directly for the TOL congregation.
Donate directly to the Tree of Life synagogue.
Donate to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, who provide assistance and services to various Jewish communities in the Pittsburgh area.
Donate to Women Against Gun Violence, a nonprofit that works with gun violence survivors and prominent legislators to create legal change towards gun violence in America, as well as offering various programs to help those affected.
Our entire studio stands with those targeted by this latest act of hate. We are with you and we grieve with you.
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Jafar Abbas
Jafar Abbas writes poetry and prose both in Urdu and English, and computer software in several other languages. A collection of his English poems Feast of Stones was published sometime ago. Mr. Abbas holds master's degrees in Information Science and Computer Science and is currently working on several interesting projects, a couple of them pertaining to the Urdu language.
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Fawzia Afzal-Khan is a Professor of English at Montclair State University. She is the author of Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel and coauthor of The PreOccupation of Postcolonial Studies. She is a prize-winning poet and is currently working on a memoir entitled Sahelian: Growing Up With Girlfriends, Pakistani Style. Trained in North Indo-Pakistani vocal classical music, she also performs with her musical ensemble East Meets West in and around Manhattan.
Saniya Ansari
Saniya Ansari is a Pakistani/Canadian who works in New York for Zee TV. She hosts the program NRIs on Zee Network for a global audience. The program features South Asian individuals who have made important contributions to their fields of activity.
Sobia Aslam
Sobia Aslam holds a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently working in Lahore in a credit rating agency as an in-house editor and media affairs manager. Sobia also writes regularly for Dawn and other English dailies of Pakistan, as well as several online magazines. She loves eating, writing and sleeping, and occasionally likes to try her hand at cooking!
Sohail Aslam
Sohail Aslam is originally from Lahore, where he studied at the Forman Christian College. He came to the United States in 1971, where he completed his degree in engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. A quiet and amiable person, Suhail enjoys boating, fishing, and hunting, and also likes listening to music, especially albums of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Ashraf Faruqi
Pasbaan's alter-ego, Ashraf Faruqi is your fearless editor/publisher. He comes from an illustrious family of scholars. Ashraf is a graduate from Duke University and is a dedicated lover of Urdu language and literature. He is active in the Urdu Majlis - a popular literary organization in the Triangle area.
Rubina Firdaus
Rubina hails from Hyderabad, India. She recently completed her Masters in Electrical engineering from North Carolina State university. When she is not designing (or eating) chips or writing her diary, she writes articles for Mehraab. She is fiercely proud of her heritage of nawabs, kebabs, sher-o-shairi, and software engineers. She lives in Cary with her software engineer husband Ishraq.
A. S. Ghazali
Mr. Abdul Sattar Ghazali is a distinguished journalist. He has worked as an Assistant Editor for the daily Dawn and as the editor-in-chief of the Kuwait TV English News. Mr. Ghazali is the author of several books: Islamic Pakistan: Illusions & Reality, Hegemony of the Ruling Elite in Pakistan, Islam & the West in the Post-Cold War Era, and Islam and Modernism.
Amena Hassan
Amena Hassan is a freelance writer and researcher and began writing at the age of five. Born and brought up in London, England, she went to high school and college in North Carolina, where her family eventually moved. She hopes to attend graduate school in either Creative Writing or Journalism in the coming years.
Rakhshi Khan
Dr. Rakhshi Khan is one of the editors of Mehraab. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry and is now working towards an MD. She lives in Greenville with her husband Kamran and son Sameer.
Carla Petievich
Carla Petievich teaches History and directs the Women's Studies Program at Montclair State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Urdu from the University of British Columbia (1986) and has taught at a number of universities in North America. She is currently completing a book of annotated translations from Indo-Muslim poetry in the feminine voice (Punjabi and Urdu).
Sumaira Salim
Sumaira Saleem grew up and received her education in England. She is a CPA and assists her husband in running their Internet hosting company localweb.com. She lives in Cary with her husband Ahsan Salim and daughter Aamna.
Afroz Taj
Dr. Afroz Taj is Assistant Professor in the Hindi-Urdu Language Program at North Carolina State University. Also, he is the Director of the South-East Asia Consortium. As an organizer of many cultural events, Prof. Taj is a well known figure in the Triangle Area.


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SAY WHAT ??? In Prensa Latina they voted for a Nicaraguan MLB pitcher but NO CUBAN
December 21, 2021 by Rodolfo Scott
By Jerry Díaz / @ Jerryto94
Prensa Latina conducts an annual poll to award the Best Athlete of both genders and the Best Team of the Year. The vote counted with 103 media in which each one named one candidate per category.
According to a publication of the medium itself the winner among women was Yulimar Rojas with 73 votes. The Venezuelan won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics with a giant jump of 15.67 meters, setting a world record for the discipline. Other athletes who received votes Elaine Thompson, three-time champion of Tokyo in 100, 200 and 4 × 100 meters of Athletics and Marileidy Paulino, double runner-up in the summer event.
In the case of the teams, the winner was Argentina, champion of the Copa América held in the summer. The duo of Serguei Torres and Fernando Dayán took some votes for their Olympic championship, the same happened with the Brazilian under 23 team.
In the case of male athletes, the winner was Mijaín López. The champion from Pinar del Río for the 4th time in the Olympic Games surpassed Leo Messi, an Argentine footballer who won the Copa América and personally his 7th Ballon d'Or.
According to Prensa Latina's own note, other outstanding athletes with votes were Richard Carapaz, champion in cycling in Tokyo, boxers also champions under the five rings Julio César La Cruz and Andy Cruz, in addition to the Nicaraguan pitcher of the New York Yankees Jonathan Loáisiga .
All those mentioned have merits, they had a good 2021, in this case the important thing is not whether they voted for one or the other. What is important is the repeated tendency of the official Cuban media to ignore athletes who do not compete under the yoke of INDER.
It is highly striking to see Jonathan Loáisiga on the list, who had a great season with the Yankees, there is no doubt, and not to read anywhere the name of Raisel Iglesias, who was the 2nd best reliever in the American League only behind the Australian Liam Hendriks.
Suppose that a Nicaraguan media voted for Loáisiga, although the note does not say so, it seems quite obvious. Why are there no votes for Yuli Gurriel, Yordan Álvarez, Randy Arozarena, Jorge Soler, Ariel Miranda, Yordenis Ugás or Pedro Pablo Pichardo? Do you know what these six athletes have in common? They are all Cubans, they all had a successful 2021 and they are all free from the chains of INDER, they all decided not to join that organization.
Gurriel was American League Champion Bat, Yordan Championship Series MVP, Randy Rookie of the Year on the same circuit, Soler was Major League Baseball World Series MVP, Ariel Miranda MVP and KBO Best Pitcher, Ugás defeated Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision and Pichardo was Olympic champion in Men's Triple Jump.
It is striking that no official media has paid attention to these feats and yes to that of the athletes who compete for INDER. Everyone is proud of Cuba, but the trend of these media is petty. Not because it is repeated and common, it ceases to be reportable, even if they do so for 62 thousand millennia, it will continue to be poorly done.
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Cuba by the Numbers
Moshe Adler / TruthdigContributor
Fidel Castro recently told The Atlantic that the Cuban model does not work anymore, not even for Cuba. But according to statistics collected by none other than the CIA, the Cuban model has actually worked very well.
Cubans do much better than the citizens of all their neighboring Caribbean and Central American states by all kinds of measures. The Cuban government spends much more on education, and a Cuban child therefore can expect to get a much better education, and for several years longer, than a child in any of Cuba's neighboring countries. A Cuban citizen can expect to live longer. Cuba's GDP per capita is higher than it is in seven of its nine neighbors. Cuban workers also fare better than their brethren in the U.S. because, while the GDP per capita in the U.S. is significantly higher, Cubans, until this month, have enjoyed universal job security and virtually no unemployment. How can Castro and the CIA see things so differently? (Countries with fewer than 350,000 people were excluded from the table below.)
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employment rate 2009 Life Expectancy School Life Expectancy Education Expenditure % of GDP GDP Per Capita
Guatemala 13,276,517 3.2% (2005) 70.3 10 2.6% $5,100
Cuba 11,451,652 1.7% 77.45 16 9.1% $9,700
Dominican Republic 9,650,054 15.0% 73.7 12 3.6% $8,300
Haiti 9,035,536 N/A 60.78 N/A 1.4% $1,300
Honduras 7,833,696 3.0% 70.45 11 3.8% $4,100
El Salvador 7,185,218 7.2% 72.3 12 3.1% $7,200
Nicaragua 5,891,199 8.2% 71.5 11 3.1% $2,800
Costa Rica 4,253,877 7.8% 74.96 12 4.9% $10,900
Panama 3,360,474 7.0% 77.25 13 3.8% $12,100
Jamaica 2,825,928 12.9% 73.53 12 5.3% $8,400
USA 307,212,123 9.3% 78.11 16 5.3% $46,000
Source: CIA World Factbook.
Castro and the CIA have vastly different perspectives. While the CIA's task is to gauge the well-being of ordinary citizens in any given country, it appears that Castro and the Cuban leadership have been lending their ears to the complaints of the Cuban managerial class. Earlier in September, Cuba announced that half a million workers in its economy are redundant and would be offered alternative jobs in different occupations. If they refuse to accept these they will be fired, and they will have to find employment in the private sector. Unemployment benefits will be limited to three months.
Half a million workers constitute about 10 percent of the Cuban labor force, a percentage figure roughly equal to the rate of unemployment in the U.S. Thus, if these workers are indeed redundant, then Cuba's unemployment rate is the same as the rate that currently prevails in the U.S., with one key difference. In Cuba these workers go to work every day and earn full pay and they and their families enjoy all the material and psychological benefits that come from being employed with a steady pay check. Is it really better to inflict on these workers the fate of unemployed workers in the U.S.? Apparently Cuban managers think so.
The first indication that Cuba was starting to shift to a managerial worldview came in 2008, when Raul Castro announced the end of egalitarian pay and its replacement with "productivity"-based pay. Because production is carried out by teams, measuring the productivity of each worker or manager is impossible. (See "Is Cuba Done With Equality?") What productivity-based pay really means is high pay for managers and low pay for workers. But why would workers agree to such a division of the products that their teams have produced if they have job security and a guaranteed right to work? Better to make them thankful to have a job, which is precisely what the mass firing of workers in Cuba will accomplish. The directive from the government to managers is to fire workers who are unproductive or whose pay is higher than their productivity. In other words, worker, you owe your job and pay to your manager.
The Cuban government has shifted to the managerial worldview, and so have American newspapers. Both The New York Times and The Washington Post accompanied their news articles about this shift with photographs of Cuban taxi drivers hanging out or sleeping, as if this is what most Cuban workers do.
According to the CIA, 19 percent of Cubans work in industry, while according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the U.S. this rate is only 17 percent. The biggest difference in employment between the countries is in agriculture and in the occupations of workers who provide services. Cuban agriculture is less mechanized, and therefore 20 percent of Cubans work in agriculture, whereas in the U.S. the share of agricultural workers is only 1 percent. And there is no doubt that some workers who in the U.S. would have worked for Wall Street or law firms are doctors or health care workers in Cuba. Cuba has made medical care one of its most important export industries. In fact, Cuba pays for its oil by sending medical personnel to take care of Venezuela's poor. Cuban medical personnel are also known for their work in Africa.
The ascendancy of the managerial class that has swept the rest of the world since President Ronald Reagan assumed office has finally reached Cuba. What to do about it is a question that the whole world now must grapple with.
This article is based on Moshe Adler's book, "Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal," 2010, The New Press.
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Q: Найти значение в DataTable (c# winforms sv2010 net4) На форме есть Datagridview1 с разными типами колонок: Combobox, TextBox (определены заранее). После запуска формы в Datagridview1 по кнопке "Добавить строку" добавляются строки (по одной). В коде "btn_AddRow_Click" в колонку DatagridviewCombobox загружается список значений из таблицы access "СПИСОК" из колонки1 "Название". В таблице access "СПИСОК" всего 4-ре колонки (пример ниже).
Название|Описание|Ед1|Ед2
аа|111|555|444
бб|222|222|777

Вопрос: Как после выбора значения из списка в DataGridViewComboBox (в добавленной строке в Datagridview1 это Column1), например, выбрано "аа", в DatagridviewTextBox (в Datagridview1 это Column2) вывести значение "111".
private void btn_AddRow_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int index = Datagridview1.Rows.Count;
            index++;
            Datagridview1.Rows.Add();

            int nRowIndex = Datagridview1.Rows.Count - 1;

            string connStr = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="c:\1.mdb";
            string query = "";
            query = "SELECT * FROM СПИСОК";
            OleDbConnection cn = new OleDbConnection(connStr);
            OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(query, cn);
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            da.Fill(dt);

            ArrayList StringList = new ArrayList();
            foreach (DataRow item in dt.Rows)
            {
                StringList.Add(item["Название"].ToString());
            }

            DataGridViewComboBoxCell Col = (DataGridViewComboBoxCell)Datagridview1.Rows[nRowIndex].Cells["Column1"];
            Col.Items.Clear();
            Col.DataSource = StringList;
        }

Получается так:(но как определить номер строки(вместо Rows[0]))?
private void Datagridview1_CellValueChanged(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
        {
            string connStr = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="c:\1.mdb";
            string query = "";
            query = "SELECT * FROM СПИСОК";
            OleDbConnection cn = new OleDbConnection(connStr);
            OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(query, cn);
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            da.Fill(dt);

            if (Datagridview1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells["Column1"].Value != null)
            {
                if (Datagridview1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells["Column1"].Value.ToString().Length != 0)
                {
string S = dt.Rows[0]["Описание"].ToString();
                Datagridview1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells["Column2"].Value = S.ToString();
                }
            }
}

A: ComboBox cb;
DataGridViewCell currentCell;

private void Datagridview1_CellEndEdit(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
        {
            if (cb != null)
            {
                cb.SelectionChangeCommitted -= new EventHandler(cb_SelectionChangeCommitted);
            }
        }

        private void Datagridview1_EditingControlShowing(object sender, DataGridViewEditingControlShowingEventArgs e)
        {
            if (Datagridview1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex == 1)
            {
                if (e.Control is ComboBox)
                {
                    cb = (ComboBox)e.Control;
                    if (cb != null)
                    {
                        cb.SelectionChangeCommitted += new EventHandler(cb_SelectionChangeCommitted);
                    }
                    currentCell = Datagridview1.CurrentCell;
                }
            }
        }

        void cb_SelectionChangeCommitted(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string connStr = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="1.mdb";
            string query = "";
            query = "SELECT * FROM СПИСОК";
            OleDbConnection cn = new OleDbConnection(connStr);
            OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(query, cn);
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            da.Fill(dt);

            DataRow[] findRow = dt.Select("Название = '" + cb.Text + "'");
            Datagridview1[currentCell.ColumnIndex + 1, currentCell.RowIndex].Value = findRow[0]["Описание"].ToString();
        }

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Jesus (p.b.u.h.) in the eyes of Islam is one of the five Arch prophets: Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammed (p.b.u.t.) . He is not the son of the God or God. Jesus was not crucified, he disappeared. He is among us but lives in the heaven. He told his followers to follow the prophet of Islam, Muhammed (s.a.w.). Muslims honor and glorify Jesus. They celebrate his birth day not with wine and pork, but with fasting. They believe that none of the prophets of God drank wine or ate pork. If there is any differences between what is called sin in Islam and Christianity is due to the misinterpretation or intrapolation in the Bible. It is necessary to do research on these opinions. If there is a Judgement day, and there is hell and heaven, it is worth getting a second opinion. If Muslims are right, then upon the Holy Quran no religion will be accepted except Islam in the day of judgement. If you are prejudice on your family religion, it will not be an excuse to be forgiven. If you are reading this material, it means that God has given you a chance for salvation. I advice you to accept his message and do the research. It is too late when you are dead!
*** No basis in the Old Testament for Trinity or "God-incarnate".
*** No conclusive statement by Jesus in the New Testament claiming to be God.
*** 5 major grounds for claimed divinity.
1. What was said about him Many were defied without claim on their part. Insufficient ground for such a serious matter. Other earty witnesses did not share the notion of defication.
2a) What was attributed to Jesus as claim of divinity: none conclusive. 1. The way, the truth (JOH 14:6): applies to every prophet in his time.
3. Seeing Him is like seeing the father (JOH. 14:9): Means knowing as God can not be seen. He was a representative of God on the Earth. (EXO 33:20, JOH 1:18, 5:37, 14:7).
JOH 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
4. Before Abraham I am (JOH 8:58): All existed in the eternal knowledge of Allah.
6. Was called son of God: So was Adam (LUK 3:38), Abraham (JER 31:9), Jacob (EXO 4:22), David (SA2 7:14), Solomon (CH1 22:10). More than one prophet was called "first born" (eg. Abraham, Jacob, David). See for example (PSA 89:27). "Begotten" was used for David in (PSA 2:7). "Only Son" is not used literally in the Bible (GEN 22: 2). "Sons of God" was also used (GEN 6:2, DEU 14:1, HOS 1:10).
CH1 22:10 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
7. Called God "Father" and "Abba" : Said also my Father and your Father (JOH 20: 17). Others may call God "Abba" (ROM 8: 15, GAL 4:6).
KI2 13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
10. Was called Lord: Term does not mean necessarily God. Used in the N.T. to mean "teacher" or "master".
13. Said that all authority was given to him: He who gave authority is Greater (ie. His God).
14. Was called "my Lord and my God" (JOH 20: 28): Could have been an expression of excitement or "you are God-like". Distinction between "Lord" and "God" is made in (CO1 8: 6).
CO1 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
15. Jews tried to stone him for blasphemy (JOH 10: 29-33): Jews were trying to indict him "by hook or by crook", regardless of what he said. They may have considered him a false "Messiah". Jesus' answer was revealing (JOH 10:34). In (PSA 82:6), humans are called gods, allegorically, Moses was sent as "God" to the pharoah (EXO 7:1). Means representative of God.
EXO 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
1. Did nothing on his own authority (JOH 5:30, 14:31, MAT 20: 23).
2. Spoke not of his own authority (JOH 14: 10, 8: 28-29).
4. Was tempted (MAT 4: 1-11): But God can not be tempted (JAMES 1:13).
MAT 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered.
6. Was subject to change (LUK 2: 21, 52): But God is immutable.
8. Prayed to God (MAR 14: 32, LUK 5: 16).
MAR 14:32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.
10. Made a distinction between himself and the father (MAT 23: 8-10).
MAT 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.MAT 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
2. Fed the multitudes ( KI2 4: 17, 44).
KI2 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
KI2 4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
3. Walked on water: Similar to Moses (EXO 14: 22).
EXO 14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
4. Healed the lepers and blind: So did others (KI1 5: 14, 6: 17, 20, ACTS 3: 7, 5: 15).
KI2 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
KI2 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
KI2 6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
5. Brought the dead to life: So did others (KI1 17: 22, KI2 4: 34, 13: 21, EZE 37: 1-14).
KI1 17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
KI2 4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
KI2 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
6. Cast the devils: Said others can too (MAT 7: 22, 12: 27, LUK 11: 19).
7. Rose from the dead: So did others (eg. EZE 37: 1-14).
Verses are in No. 5.
8. Ascended to heavens: So did other prophets (GEN 5: 24, HEB 11: 5, KI2 2: 11-12). This seems to be inconsistent with (JOH 3: 13).
KI2 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
KI2 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
(DEU 24: 16), (EZE 18: 20) and (MAT 7: 2).
(PSA 30: 5,15: 22-23), (Mat 9: 13).
3. Sacrifices by Israelites or by Abraham are irrelevant to the concept of the "crucified God".
4. Who died on the cross? God never dies and the death of one man can not atone for all mankind.
2. Difference between plausible but not fully understood matters and self-contradictory and untenable positions (eg. that the finite and the infinite become united).
3. Why accept man's interpretations if Jesus never claimed to be God or divine in plain words? Where did this "mystery" come from?
1. O.T. warns against associating others with God in His divine attributes.
2. Jesus confirmed the same and called the "Father" as "My God" (JOH 20: 17).
3. Only through the last revelation (the Qur'an) can confusion be removed and pure monotheism be restored.
LUK 9:8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.
Mark 1:12,13 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
John 11:53,54 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death. Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
The "obituary" of the "late" and lamented "God"?!
MAT 2:2 "The King of the Jews".
JOH 1:49, 12:13 "The King of Israel"


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