I'm glad I at least went for an hour walk this morning, there was so much delicious food (as always) and so much sitting down all day. That's what lunches with great friends are meant to be like, right? Life is too short to eat boring and say no to these gatherings, because 'there's nothing there you can eat'. You need to live today, because tomorrow is never promised. Let all your friends and family know today how much you love having them in your life. Today is here, tomorrow is in the unknown.
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Sounds like the best lunch ever – and the pics are fab. Thank you for posting this!
It sounds like you had a wonderful day- those kinds of days are the best!


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Mit Suchmaschinen-Spamming (engl. Search Engine Spamming) (auch Index-Spamming, Spamdexing, Linkspamming) wird versucht, über Einträge in eigenen oder fremden Webseiten die Bewertungs-Algorithmen von Suchmaschinen positiv zu beeinflussen. Das Ziel ist, beim Suchmaschinenranking auf eine Suchworteingabe hin auf den vordersten Plätzen zu erscheinen.

Zum Suchmaschinen-Spamming zählen:

 alle Versuche, eine Webseite unter einem Stichwort zu listen, ohne dass die Seite sich mit dem betreffenden Thema beschäftigt (siehe auch Google-Bombe)
 alle Versuche, unter einem Suchbegriff bewusst viele Mehrfachlistungen zu erzielen
 irreführende Hyperlinks zu einer Webseite, die keinerlei Informationen zu dem eingegebenen Suchbegriff enthalten

Dadurch wird ein natürlich wirkender Besucherstrom erzeugt, der Werbeeinnahmen ermöglicht und/oder Webstatistiken wie Alexa oder Google Analytics beeinflusst.

Begriff
Suchmaschinen-Spamming bei Google bezeichnet man auch als Google-Spamming. Der speziellere Begriff Googleating (sprich: "Google-ating") wird dann verwendet, wenn Webseiten nur zu dem Zweck kreiert werden, die Linkstruktur maßgeblich zugunsten bestimmter Webpages zu beeinflussen, um dadurch einen hohen PageRank zu erzielen.

Methoden
Spammer bauen ihre Optimierungsmethoden auf den Such- und Bewertungsstrategien der erfolgreichen Suchmaschinen auf, um die von ihnen erstellten oder betreuten Internetseiten in den Ergebnislisten der Suchmaschinen nach vorne zu bringen. Die meisten Spam-Seiten werden dabei gezielt für die weltweit am häufigsten genutzten Suchmaschinen Google, Yahoo und Bing manipuliert.

Suchwortdichte
Die Suchwortdichte und die Suchwortprominenz auf der Zielseite fließt, wenn auch nicht als alleiniger Faktor, in viele Bewertungsalgorithmen ein.

Methoden:
 das Unterbringen von vielen Keywords in den alt-Attributen (Alternativtexten) der Bilder
 die Verwendung mehrerer Title-Tags, um Schlüsselbegriffe an prominenter Stelle unterzubringen
 das Schreiben von Text in der Hintergrundfarbe ("versteckter Text", Hidden Text), so dass der Text nur für Suchmaschinen, nicht aber für den Internet-Surfer auf dem Bildschirm erkennbar ist
 das Einfügen von versteckten Texten mit unzähligen Keywords auch außerhalb des sichtbaren Seitenbereiches, in durch Stylesheets unsichtbar gemachten Seitenbereichen oder in Bereichen unterhalb von Grafiken
 mit Brückenseiten (Doorway Pages) oder Cloaking werden Suchmaschinen andere optimierte Seiteninhalte angeboten als die, die ein menschlicher Betrachter zu sehen bekommt.
 Scraper Sites kopieren den Inhalt anderer Seiten
 die Nutzung von Artikelverzeichnissen oder Content Farmen
 Sybil Attack ist die Erzeugung zahlreicher, sich seriös gebender Seiten (Diskussionsforen, Blogs, Beratungsseiten etc.) auf unterschiedlichen Domains und, nachdem diese Seiten ein gutes Ranking erhalten haben, Nutzung dieser unverdächtigen Seiten zur Förderung der eigentlichen, kommerziellen Website durch viele hinzugefügte Links oder Werbung

Das Meta-Element keywords wurde ursprünglich gezielt für Suchmaschinen eingeführt, hat aber aufgrund starken Missbrauchs an Bedeutung verloren.

Backlinks
Rückverweise (engl. Backlinks) und Linkpopularität werden in der Regel von Suchmaschinen zur Bewertung einbezogen. Durch die zusätzlichen Links erhöht sich die Bewertung.

So wird versucht, auf eigenen Linkfarmen oder auch fremden Webseiten Hyperlinks auf das beworbene Angebot zu setzen.
Diese Links werden oft versteckt eingebaut, zum Beispiel mit Hilfe von winzigen, transparenten Ein-Pixel-Grafiken.

Social Media ermöglicht auch unautorisierten Nutzern, Inhalte zu hinterlassen.

 Blogspam
 Die Kommentar- und Trackbackfunktionen von Blogs und Gästebüchern werden genutzt, um Links und Texte zu hinterlassen, die meist nichts mit dem eigentlichen Inhalt zu tun haben, aber kommerzielle Seiten bewerben.
 Wikispam
 Ähnlich den Blog-Kommentaren kann bei Wikis der gesamte Seiteninhalt verändert werden.
 Social-Bookmark-Spam
 Social-Bookmark-Services sind Plattformen, die es einzelnen Usern ermöglichen, die eigenen Favoriten online abzuspeichern und nach Wunsch mit anderen Benutzern zu teilen. Bekannte Social-Bookmark-Plattformen sind Mister Wong und del.icio.us. Spammer versuchen, durch hinzufügen von Links (Favoriten) mehr Backlinks für die eigenen Projekte zu erhalten. Seit einiger Zeit kann der Tausch von Social-Bookmark-Links beobachtet werden. Mit der Zunahme des Missbrauchs haben die meisten Social-Bookmark-Plattformen die ausgehenden Links mit dem Hyperlink-Attribut rel="nofollow" versehen.
  Forenspam
 Durch das Setzen von Links in Forenbeiträgen wird versucht, das eigene Ranking zu verbessern.

Negative Suchmaschinen-Optimierung
Negative Suchmaschinen-Optimierung (auch Google Bowling) ist der Versuch, durch kurzfristige Erzeugung von Tausenden verdächtiger Links, die alle auf die gleichen Webseiten von Mitbewerbern verweisen, die Suchmaschinen zur Abwertung der betreffenden Seiten zu veranlassen, und so indirekt die eigene Seite aufzuwerten.

Gegenmaßnahmen

CAPTCHA-Einsatz zur Behinderung von Spambots.

Durch das Hyperlink-Attribut nofollow, das Suchmaschinen davon abhält, solche Links für die Bewertung zu nutzen, versucht zum Beispiel die deutschsprachige Wikipedia, das Setzen derartiger Links sinnlos zu machen.

Interne Spam-Filter in Blogs und Wikis, die über Wortfilter oder die IP-Herkunft DNS-based Blackhole List Spam erkennen und aussortieren oder zum Moderieren vorschlagen. Wortfilter suchen nach kommerziell üblichen Begriffen und URLs. Spam-Filter gibt es auch als externe Dienste, wie z. B. Akismet.

Maßnahmen der Suchmaschinen

Etliche dieser Manipulationstechniken werden bereits von den Suchmaschinen erkannt. Ist eine Internetseite, die auf die beschriebene Art und Weise massiv manipuliert wurde, von den Suchmaschinenbetreibern entdeckt worden, steht den Suchmaschinenbetreibern eine Reihe von Gegenmaßnahmen zur Verfügung:
 Anpassung des Sortieralgorithmus
 Verschiebung der Seiten in der Ergebnisliste nach hinten
 Entfernung der Seiten aus dem Index
 Ausschluss einzelner IP-Adressen, ganzer IP-Bereiche oder Domains aus dem Index

Spam oder Optimierung?
Alle Manipulationen, die dazu dienen, nicht-relevante Ergebnisse in den Suchmaschinen zu erzwingen, sind Spam. So ist jeder, der Internetseiten mit der alleinigen Absicht untereinander verlinkt, die Position einer bestimmten Internetseite zu verbessern, die zum Suchbegriff keine relevantesten Informationen liefert, ein Spammer. Die Anpassung von Seiten an die Sortieralgorithmen von Suchmaschinen mit dem Ziel, die Position bei Suchbegriffen zu verbessern, bezeichnet man als Suchmaschinenoptimierung – dies beinhaltet die Optimierung für relevante Begriffe ebenso wie für irrelevante.

Die Übergänge von der relevanten Optimierung zum Suchmaschinen-Spamming sind aber oft fließend. Für Microsoft sind keine genauen Grenzziehungen zwischen Suchmaschinenoptimierungstechniken und Spammer-Aktivitäten möglich. Google fielen etliche SEO-Dienstleister auf, deren Praktiken inakzeptabel sind, und mahnt deshalb zur Vorsicht.

Von Seiten der professionellen Suchmaschinenoptimierer wird versucht, zwischen legalen (white hat) und illegalen (black hat) Optimierungstechniken, also Spamming, zu unterscheiden, um sich von den schwarzen Schafen der Branche abzugrenzen. Die Verwender illegaler Optimierungstechniken behaupten allerdings, dass es bei Suchmaschinenoptimierern kein ethisches Handeln gebe, denn jede ihrer Handlungen ziele bewusst darauf ab, die Ergebnisseiten der Suchmaschinen zu manipulieren. Für sie zähle nur der kommerzielle Erfolg und dieser drücke sich darin aus, ob eine Seite vor der ihrer Konkurrenten gelistet ist.

Im Kapitel über käufliches Spamdexing schreibt Wally Wang, dass solche "Berater" ihre Arbeit Suchmaschinenoptimierung nennen, und eine schnelle Suche fördere unter dem Suchbegriff SEO Hunderte von Firmen zutage, die entgeltlich Hilfe bei der Verbesserung der Platzierung einer Kunden-Webseite in den Suchmaschinenergebnissen anbieten. Dabei gebe es einige, die legale Techniken einsetzen, aber auch andere, die grenzwertige bzw. illegale Methoden verwenden. Und Daniel Koch schreibt: "Die meisten kommerziell erfolgreichen Webseiten verdanken ihren Erfolg ausschließlich einer guten Platzierung in den Suchmaschinen. Kein Wunder also, dass Webseitenbetreiber immer wieder durch zweifelhafte Methoden versuchen, ihr Ranking zu verbessern."

In aktuellen Studien wird davon ausgegangen, dass jeder vierte Suchtreffer eine Spam-Seite ist. Erwin Lammenett bemerkt zur Branche: "In Ermangelung von hinreichend interessantem und aktuellem Content haben findige Suchmaschinen-Optimierer Methoden entwickelt, um Suchmaschinen das Vorhandensein von Content und dessen Verlinkung von anderen Seiten vorzugaukeln. Aus juristischer und moralischer Sicht sind diese Methoden heute kritisch zu sehen und dem Spamming zuzuordnen." Laut David George nehmen manche der "skrupellosen" kommerziellen Optimierer durch ihre "aggressiven" Strategien sogar in Kauf, dass Kundenseiten aus dem Index der Suchmaschinen gelöscht werden, und sie scheuen auch nicht davor zurück, die Seiten ihrer Kunden dazu zu missbrauchen, ihrer eigenen Seite oder den Seiten anderer Kunden über versteckte Links "Traffic" zuzuleiten.

Weblinks
 Google Spam-Report
 Yahoo! Spam-Report
 MSN Spam-Report
 Gericht: Googlefilter rechtlich zulässig. heise.de

Einzelnachweise

Suchmaschinenoptimierung

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Men's Basketball: Q & A With 2022 Jordan Guest
by Greg Levinsky
By: Greg Levinsky
Boston University Men's Basketball added three recruits for the class of 2022 this week in California natives Fletcher Tynen, Garrett Pascoe and Jordan Guest. The trio inked their National Letters of Intent to commit to the Terriers.
The six-foot-eight Guest is about to start his senior season at Rancho Santa Margarita High School in California and took the time for an interview the day after signing his NLI.
Greg Levinsky: When did you first come in contact with BU and how did you foster a relationship the coaching staff?
Jordan Guest: I started talking to Boston University during this past summer. We kind of started our relationship a little late. They were one of the last several schools to start talking to me and didn't offer me for quite some time. I first started talking to coach [Curtis] Wilson. He was really interested in me and would come out to all my games. Then at one point they said they needed me and Coach Jones started to text me and took over the recruiting. As soon as I started getting back into high school basketball they flew down to my high school a couple of times. I feel like the effort the coaching staff put in helped make my decision.
GL: Describe your game, do you model the way you play after anyone specifically?
JG: I've been told I play a lot like Kevin Love. Not like the Cavaliers Kevin Love, but the Timberwolves Kevin Love. I can rebound, pass, space the floor and I really have a high motor, which I think a lot of coaches respect and admire. I want to be kind of a version of Kevin Love, but expand my game more outside on the perimeter. I definitely would say one of my strengths is rebounding.
GL: What other schools were on your radar and what put BU over the top?
JG: There were quite a few schools. Santa Clara, UC Davis, Utah State, Lehigh, Hartford, Elon, Columbia, Dartmouth, Vermont, American and most of those were offers too. The city of Boston caught my eye in the visit. The visit and the coaches really helped make my decision. Also the academics of Boston really did help. I talked to a lot of high academic schools but I thought Boston would be the best fit for me academically and athletically.
GL: Did you go on a visit here to BU? Can you take us behind the scenes as to how that goes?
JG: We did a lot. It was a very packed couple of days. When I got there, we went on a tour, went on a couple of tours to see the city. I went to the dorms and saw all the sports facilities, the weight room, the student centers and everything. I spent a lot of time with the team and saw a live practice. I actually got to play pickup with the team on my second visit and I got to see the competitiveness and really liked the drive the team had. Then I had a sit-down with the coach and we talked about basketball, and he really knew what he was doing.
GL: What is it like already knowing where you will be next year, does it change the way you'll prepare for your senior season of high school hoops?
JG: It's not going to make me less motivated to play hard in high school. I still want to win a conference championship and a state championship. We're a Division 1 high level team and I'm going to try to be in the best shape that I can be before I get into college because I know, at Boston, that's something that they take very seriously. That's something I definitely look forward to working at.
GL: Are you familiar with anyone currently on the team, or do you know any of the other recruits from California?
JG: I do know Fletcher Tynen very well. He's a good guy and we were on the same AAU team in 7th and 8th grade. I've played him in high school, both with him and against him in club and AAU. He's a really good competitor and I think he's going to do really well. Fletcher does everything, a bit of a jack of all trades. I think he's going to be a very good asset to the team. I also know Garrett Pascoe, I've seen him play and watched him. He seems like he's very important to the team as well. On the team right now, Max Mahoney was my mentor on my visit. He was the one I was with the whole time. Him, Tyler [Scanlon], I also talked to Javante [McCoy] and Walter [Whyte] a lot. I'm really excited to be playing with them.
GL: When was your first dunk and how did it happen?
JG: My first dunk was in 7th grade. It was actually off an inbound pass. The ball was on the baseline and we ran a play that the University of Arizona ran when Aaron Gordon was there. It was a back screen and I'd loop around, kind of go in a circle and then go jump up and dunk it. I had never tried it in a game and we got it. I have it on video and it was one of the coolest, funnest moments of my life.
GL: If you make it to the NCAA Tournament with BU, what team would you want to upset and why?
JG: That's easy USC. USC for sure because it's a local school. I would love to beat any #1 seed. I don't care who it is, I just want to upset somebody.
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Nita Housenga says:
Great interview! Could you possibly email me a copy of the interview you did with Jordan Guest. He is my grandson.
Thanks, Nita Housenga
Greg Levinsky says:
Yes, send me an email glevinsk@bu.edu
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Japan tourism falling behind expectations
By Allison Schaefers aschaefers@staradvertiser.com
"(Japan visitors) are the ones who really shop. The downturn impacts some Hawaii retailers quite a bit."
Tina Yamaki
President, Retail Merchants of Hawaii
CRAIG T. KOJIMA/CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
"By the end of 2023 we should be at 50% or more recovered."
Eric Takahata
Hawaii Tourism Japan managing director
Visitors from Japan to Hawaii are only about 18% recovered from pre-pandemic times, sparking concern that what was once the islands' largest international market will drag down the state's tourism economy into 2023. Read more
Visitors from Japan to Hawaii are only about 18% recovered from pre-pandemic times, sparking concern that what was once the islands' largest international market will drag down the state's tourism economy into 2023.
Japan arrivals in October were up dramatically from the 1,842 that came in October 2021, according to the latest tourism statistics released Monday by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. However, visitors to Hawaii from Japan in October were down nearly 82% from October 2019 and about 88% for the first 10 months of 2022 compared with that pre-pandemic year.
There were 24,339 visitors to Hawaii from Japan in October, compared with 134,557 visitors in October 2019. Through the first 10 months of 2022, there were 134,873 visitors from Japan, compared with more than 1.3 million visitors during the first 10 months of 2019.
Japan's tourism recovery has been disappointing even though Japan significantly eased COVID-19-related border controls in September and eliminated its arrivals cap Oct. 11.
Other markets are doing much better, especially visitors from the mainland to Hawaii, which were up double digits from the same month in 2019. DBEDT reported that 757,182 visitors arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in October, representing a 95.1% recovery from the same month in 2019.
Continued lackluster tourism performance from Japan presents some risk to Hawaii's economy. University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization Executive Director Carl Bonham said the organization had anticipated that arrivals from Japan would return to 50% of their 2019 volume during the first quarter of 2023.
Bonham said UHERO now expects that by the end of this quarter, tourism from Japan will have recovered to about 25% of the same time period in 2019. By the end of the first quarter, he said, it's anticipated to be back to 30% or 35% of 2019.
"It's important that (the Japan) sector recover. But I think the way that we wrote the last report probably overstated the importance," he said.
On the flip side, Bonham said UHERO's last forecast underplayed the strength of U.S. tourism to Hawaii and improvements from other markets, including Canada. Other factors also have improved since UHERO's last forecast, which could help offset the weakness from the lack of Japanese spending, he said.
"The jobs recovery, the declining unemployment rate, both point to a stronger Hawaii economy that makes us more resilient, and the U.S. economy is certainly stronger than we were expecting," Bonham said.
Hawaii tourism Japan Managing Director Eric Takahata said high fuel surcharges, unfavorable exchange rates, inflation and increasing prices have caused Japanese visitors to fall short of Hawaii's earlier tourism forecasts.
Takahata said the fuel surcharges are coming down from a peak of $700 or $800 per person, and the yen-to-dollar exchange rate has come down from a peak 152 about three weeks ago to 138 on Tuesday.
Paul Brewbaker, principal of TZ Economics, said the impact of unfavorable yen rates and higher prices, especially for Hawaii hotel rooms, cannot be ignored.
Brewbaker said the average daily room rate paid for a Hawaii hotel room in October went up to $338 from $255 in October 2019. However, he said the price for a Hawaii room rate in yen in October went up 80% from October 2019 when adjusted for the average October yen rate of 147.
Brewbaker said aviation fuel also is more expensive for travelers from Japan because they have to pay higher fuel surcharge costs.
"Just getting on the plane, not to mention getting into your room, is costing you a lot more," he said.
Takahata said fourth-quarter travel subsidies from the Japanese government to stimulate domestic travel also have dampened demand for travel abroad.
Takahata said concerns about COVID-19 are still an issue for some travelers, especially since Japan just reopened.
In April there were high hopes for a Japan rebound after Japan Association of Travel Agents Chair Hiroyuki Takahashi said that he expected to see Japanese visitors return to Hawaii this year at 40% of the pre-pandemic 2019 level and that visitor arrivals would be back to normal by 2023. Now, Takahata said, even UHERO's more moderated forecast will be hard to reach.
"By first quarter we expect to be 30% or more recovered with continued improvement. By the end of 2023 we should be at 50% or more recovered," he said.
Tara Shimooka, spokesperson for Hawaiian Airlines, said the carrier has seen demand begin to recover, but the Japan market still has a long way to go.
"We have seen increased U.S. point-of-sale activity for our Japan flights since Japan's reopening to international tourism in October and a more gradual pickup in bookings from Japan — still below historical levels," Shimooka said.
She said Hawaiian is operating at about half of its seat capacity compared with November 2019. It currently offers 21 weekly flights between Honolulu and Tokyo's Haneda and Narita airports and Osaka's Kansai Airport.
"We intend to bring back our flights to Sapporo and Fukuoka in 2023," she said.
Tina Yamaki, president of the Retail Merchants of Hawaii, said the slow return of visitors from Japan has hurt retailers.
"They are the ones who really shop," Yamaki said. "The downturn impacts some Hawaii retailers quite a bit. Some retailers have closed. Others have reduced hours or the number of days that they are open."
Yamaki said that in the past Hawaii retailers looked forward to the Honolulu Marathon because participants brought their families, who would shop while the participants were training or recovering.
"We're hearing that there are not as many families coming this year as in the past," she said.
Dr. Jim Barahal, chief executive officer of the Honolulu Marathon Association, said Japan is normally the marathon's largest market with about 17,000 entries. However, he noted that there were only 5,200 entries from Japan this year.
Still, Tetsuya (Ted) Kubo, president and CEO of JTB Hawaii Inc., said he expects that the Honolulu Festival, which returns the weekend of March 10-12 for the first time since the pandemic, will serve as a catalyst to increase travel interest from Japan throughout the rest of 2023.
"The festival will include the spectacular Nagaoka Fireworks show over Waikiki Beach, the grand parade through Waikiki and many free cultural activities and performance for both residents and visitors to enjoy," Kubo said. "What's also encouraging is that we have seen an increase the past two weeks in future bookings beyond the first quarter of next year and are confident this trend will continue."
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Q: Can I forward the request from Kong server to my own servlet? I added my api to Kong like
curl -i -X POST \
 --url http://localhost:8001/apis/ \
 --data 'name=nirmal2' \
 --data 'target_url=http://localhost:8080/switch/apikongcall.do' \
 --data 'public_dns=mockbin10.com'

targer url is my servlet running on apache tomcat
When I am trying to verify whether kong is hitting my servlet like
curl -i -X GET \
 --url http://localhost:9023/ \
 --header 'Host: mockbin10.com'

It can not recognize the resource.
Should'nt it hit my servlet?

A: In your last command, are you sure the Kong API port is running on 9023 ?
By default it runs on 8000:
Try with:
curl -i -X GET \
 --url http://localhost:8000/ \
 --header 'Host: mockbin10.com'

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Welcome to Day 2 of my Birthday Giveaway! You'll love today's prizes, as they're the right companion when you're out of ideas for what to cook or don't have time.
First of all, the cookbook will give you ideas, but if you still don't have the time and mood for it, or want an easy fix, OllyBars are you new best friend.
On top of that Together MultiVitamins are there to help out when you feel you're not getting around to sourcing all your nutrients from your diet and need a temporary boost. They're also made only from natural ingredients and have a great philosophy.
It's my birthdaaaaay! And I'm so happy that I can share some of my favourite things with you! Like…cake – wait 'till you see it below!
Take a look at the giveaway details and I'll see you around social media today!
In the past few years, I've started celebrating my birthday with friends some weeks before and after the actual day as we're all scattered across the world. I love a good celebration and I love gifts.
This year I thought I'd do something different for a change and throw a GIVEAWAY PARTY, because, why not?!
On July 18th you'll get the first email with instructions on how to enter the giveaway and win points which will add to extra entries, meaning extra chances of winning.
There will be 3 days of giveaways, each day with a new prize to win and lots of opportunities to enter. Take a look at some of the prizes in store for you to win plus a whole bunch of them added as a surprise each day. Woop! Woop!
Someone asked me the other day what sort of breakfast should they have pre-workout and I thought this is the best way to kick off the new series of the Second Nature Breakfast Show!
This pre-workout vegan breakfast with Oat Chia Pudding is good for you whether you're vegan, vegetarian or "fooditarian"(yes, I just made that one up!). Hecks, even if you're not going to work out, but need some energy to sustain a long day – start with this and a green smoothie and you're sorted till late lunch.
I often get asked about the tools I use in my kitchen as well as blenders and juicers. These are my top kitchen essential choices and most of them get used every day.


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Billionaire Ransom
The movie Billionaire Ransom (aka Take Down): trailer, clips, photos, soundtrack, news and much more!
Billionaire Ransom Movie Trailer
Check out this new trailer of Billionaire Ransom (previously titled Take Down), the upcoming action adventure thriller movie directed by Jim Gillespie:
A place to reform the children of the world's elite.
To stay alive enemies must become allies
"Students at a reforming school for rebellious rich kids take matters into their own hands after the campus is taken hostage by a group of criminals.
An action thriller of monetary proportions, BILLIONAIRE RANSOM follows a group of over-privileged, out-of-control young adults who have been sent by their frustrated, billionaire parents to a tough-love wilderness school on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. Kyle (Jeremy Sumpter) and Amy (Phoebe Tonkin) find themselves in this group as a last opportunity for them to take responsibility for their own lives and abandon their reckless ways, or risk being disinherited. Suddenly, a group of mercenaries led by Billy Speck (Ed Westwick) invade the island and hold the privileged lot hostage for the largest ransom in history: one billion dollars. When Kyle learns they are all to be killed even if the ransom is paid, their wilderness survival training is the only hope of outwitting the mercenaries and staying alive. "
Do you think the brats will make it out alive? Or are you betting on the criminals?
Anyway, there's also a brand new poster:
Outthink. Outmaneuver. Outlive.
The film is starring Jeremy Sumpter, Ed Westwick, Phoebe Tonkin, Dominic Sherwood, Sebastian Koch, Elliot Knight, and Hari Dhillon.
Release date: August 19th, 2016 (in theaters and on VOD).
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Take Down Movie Trailer
You may watch below an international trailer of Take Down, the upcoming action thriller movie directed by Jim Gillespie based on a script by Alexander Ignon and starring Ed Westwick, Jeremy Sumpter,Phoebe Tonkin, and Sebastian Koch:
To stay alive enemies must become alliesPlot synopsis:
"The film is a thriller focused on the wayward sons and daughters of international billionaires, who have been sent by their frustrated parents to an exclusive, tough-love boot camp on a remote island, where they will be taught basic survival skills in the hope it will teach them to take responsibility for their lives. When they are taken hostage and held for a billion dollar ransom by a group of sophisticated kidnappers, the young captives suddenly need every bit of their brief training to survive."
There's also a teaser poster:
TAKLE DOWN
Rich, spoiled, hunted!
Would you send your kids to that remote island?
The film has yet to get an official release date.
Stay tuned with us for more details about the movie Take Down!


Sadly, no plans for Western release have been announced.
Thought a Ni no Kuni animated movie was a common sense idea? So did developer Level 5, and as reported by Anime News Network, they've teamed up with Warner Bros. Japan and animation studio OLM (who've produced the countless Pokémon films) to make that dream a reality this summer. While fans may be disappointed Studio Ghibli — the legendary Japanese animation studio that provided character designs and animated cutscenes for the game series — didn't handle the film's production, two key Ghibli figures involved with both Ni no Kuni games are participating: Yoshiyuki Momose (Only Yesterday storyboarder/Ni no Kuni animation director) as director, and Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away/Ni no Kuni music) as composer. Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino is also reprising his role as scriptwriter/executive producer.
As seen above, this Ni no Kuni movie won't retell the adventures of Oliver or King Evan, but instead follows a new protagonist named Yu. Alongside his best friend Haru and childhood friend Kotona, the trio warps back and forth between their world and Ni no Kuni, and must make "the ultimate choice" upon Kotona's life-threatening peril. Kento Yamazaki, who played the eccentric L in the Japanese live-action Death Note film, will voice Yu.
Do you think this Ni no Kuni movie will do the JRPG games justice? Will it ever leave Japan? Let us know in the comments below!


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Workers' compensation changes to affect contractual indemnities
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On 14 June 2016, the Queensland Parliament introduced the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation (National Injury Insurance Scheme) Amendment Bill 2016 (Qld) (Bill).
The Bill is part of a broader social reform which includes the establishment of the National Injury Insurance Scheme for Queenslanders, to commence from 1 July 2016.
The Bill proposes to restore the original policy intent of the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) (WCRA) and provide certainty to stakeholders after recent Court decisions have interpreted certain provisions of the WCRA in ways that could adversely affect the operation of the scheme.
If passed, the legislation will prevent employers from securing cover under their workers' compensation insurance policies for contractual indemnities they have given to third parties for damages payable to workers. In the first reading speech for the Bill, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations said:
'The Bill prevents the contractual transfer of liability for injury costs from principal contractors or host employers to employers with a workers' compensation insurance policy such as subcontractors or labour hire employers and clarifies that an insurer will not be liable to indemnify an employer for a liability to pay damages incurred by a third party contractor under a contractual arrangement.'
The Amendments and indemnities
The relevant sections of the Bill that will impact contractual liabilities are:
Clause 5: which proposes to amend the 'Meaning of Damages' in Section 10 of the WCRA to say:
'(4) Further, a reference in subsection (1) to the liability of an employer does not include a liability to pay damages, for injury sustained by a worker, arising from an indemnity granted by the employer to another person for the other person's legal liability to pay damages to the worker for the injury.'
And Clause 31: which will amend Chapter 5 of the WCRA as follows:
'236B Liability of contributors
(1) This section applies to an agreement between an employer and another person under which the employer indemnifies the other person for any legal liability of the person to pay damages for injury sustained by a worker.
(2) The agreement does not prevent the insurer from adding the other person as a contributor under section 278A in relation to the employer's liability or the insurer's liability for the worker's injury.
(3) The agreement is void to the extent it provides for the employer, or has the effect of requiring the employer, to indemnify the other person for any contribution claim made by the insurer against the other person.
(4) In this section-
damages includes damages under a legal liability existing independently of this Act, whether or not within the meaning of section 10.'
These amendments will mean that WorkCover Queensland will only be liable to indemnify an employer to the extent of the employer's legal liability to the worker for damages under the WCRA. So, if an employer agrees to indemnify another party for damages beyond its legal liability under the WCRA, the workers' compensation policy will not extend to cover those damages.
The changes may result in some employers exposed to liabilities for which they hold no insurance. However, in many claims, the addition of Section 236B(3) will allow contribution claims to be made by WorkCover, with third parties constrained in their ability to enforce indemnities against employers. What is unclear from the Bill and the WCRA, is whether an employer could secure cover for their liability to indemnify another party for 'compensation' under the WCRA (as opposed to 'damages'). Also, the new Section 236B(3) may not operate to defeat actions in contract against employers by third parties (e.g. for breach of warranty or, for breach of an obligation to insure).
The industries that are most likely to be affected by the changes include: construction; mining; resources; and, transport. With these amendments, and the extension of the unfair contract terms regime to small businesses later this year, employers may wish to consider updating their service agreements to limit the risks to their business and follow current developments in the law.
The changes may see a rise in the number of employers requiring independent legal representation in common law claims. An employer who has agreed to indemnify another party may require independent legal advice about their contractual obligations, rights under the WCRA, the worker's entitlements to damages under multiple regimes, apportionment and costs.
The Parliament has nominated the Finance and Administration Committee to consider the Bill. To read the Bill in full, click here. To read the Queensland Parliament's first reading speech, click here.
BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION for advice and information about a workers' compensation or contractual indemnity dispute, by calling (07) 3067 3025 or contact us online.
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San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown yesterday extended his vision of a revitalized public transit system, visualizing buses equipped with earsplitting alarms and shuttle vans that would pick up passengers at their front doors.
For the second day in a row, Brown zeroed in on the much-maligned Municipal Railway, this time telling a meeting of the Senior Action Network that the system is wasting time and money by routinely running nearly empty buses.
"We could pick up that rider, deliver the rider to where the rider needs to go at a cost far less than rolling empty coaches back and forth," said Brown.
The mayor said he has repeatedly seen buses on the 38 Geary line -- which runs from downtown to the ocean -- roll virtually vacant for miles. During the predawn hours, in particular, only the bus driver is riding the stretch from 48th Avenue to 20th Avenue, he said.
The solution, Brown said, is to shut down the largely unused portion of the route in favor of "a super shuttle" to at least take the rider to a more heavily used place along the line.
"It would be cool if I could pick up the telephone and call the appropriate number, and within 10 to 12 minutes there was a super shuttle thing that said 'Muni' on the side at my door," said Brown. "We would save a tremendous amount of money and it would be far more efficient . . . and far safer."
Brown said he has studied the idea and is convinced that it would be a more cost-effective way to run the system, but he had no figures or data yesterday to bolster his claim.
The mayor, who made safety on Muni the centerpiece of his election campaign, also proposed junking the buses' silent alarms and refitting the fleet with ear- splitting systems that would summon help when needed.
"Get the alarm that makes the maximum amount of noise and attracts the maximum amount of attention," said Brown. "I suspect that anybody doing anything bad on the bus would be so shocked by the noise -- and everybody's eyes focused on the bus -- that almost instantly they would cease doing what they are doing."
The proposal comes a day after Brown suggested eliminating fares on buses altogether, primarily to protect drivers from a growing number of passengers who refuse to pay.
Brown admitted that he had not completely flushed out the fare-free plan yet, but he said he was encouraged by the city's Chamber of Commerce, which has embraced the notion of a separate financing source for mass transit.
"I haven't seen what they want to do, but I am delighted that they have finally come to the reality that we need a dedicated source of revenue" for Muni, Brown said. "If we can figure out some way for all of us in the city to make a contribution to (Muni) and thereby get the right to ride Muni at any time, we would increase ridership . . . and have no robberies as a result of the Muni fare box."
Seattle has a fare-free system for its downtown corridor. In Austin, Texas, the Capitol Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently halted a similar citywide program after 15 months of chaos.
"We had kids skipping school because the no-fare system allowed them to ride wherever they wanted to go," said spokeswoman Polly Munguia. "Homeless people would ride all day long, especially in inclement weather. We had hygiene problems . . . We even had problems with people stealing something, then hopping on the bus to get away."
Brown, nonetheless, is unfazed. "Someone said, 'This is just another one of Willie Brown's harebrained ideas.' But at least I have ideas. I'm full of ideas," he said.


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Hopefully the count will remain steady as workers move forward in this recovery period. In the mean time hurricane stories continue to emerge. It's hard not to facepalm over a few things (like the crazy New Yorker who jetski'ed in the East River as the storm worsened), stare agape at monstrous — and eerily fitting — circumstances (such as flood waters unearthing coffins in Crisfield, MD, on the eve of Halloween) or weep empathetically at the profound tragedies some folks have suffered (like the Staten Island mother whose young sons were ripped out of her arms by the swirling flood waters).
It's a look at tech, yes, but surprisingly it's also a look at the nature of people, and what they do when they're suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances with — and without — their technology.
Naturally Twitter and Facebook were swamped with updates from survivors and messages offering support and help. That's partly due to the fact that many people — even some suffering power outages — still had a data connection. In fact, quite a few reported that cellular networks were their only means of communication after the lights went out. Apparently, with 25 percent of the cell towers in Sandy's path taken out by the storm, three-quarters were still operational. Landlines fared even better — and may become the primary communications tool, if the cell carriers' back-up generators run out of fuel before their local power grid gets restored.
This one is among my all-time favorites: Cell phones became a lifeline of online connectivity to get updates, send messages to loved ones or other activities. The only problem is, for people in blacked out neighborhoods, battery charge-ups quickly became a scarce commodity. It was in this context that the photo above was taken. Snapped in Hoboken, NJ, which was absolutely pummeled by Sandy, the image shows what happened when one resident discovered that electricity was miraculously running in his home. Sure, they're just surge protectors and wires hanging off a gate, but what we're really looking at is how one act of kindness can make an impact on an entire neighborhood. It's a great reminder that, even in the worst of times, we can always find ways to help each other out.
Emily Rahimi may look like the girl next door, but behind that pleasant countenance beats the heart of a hero. Rahimi, the FDNY's social media manager, single-handedly manned the department's Twitter account (via @FDNY) for 24 straight hours, acting as a one-woman emergency social communications team. If you're thinking, "What's the big deal about sending some Tweets?", let me fill you in: This was the worst hurricane the region has ever seen, and — working from Monday straight into Tuesday morning — she feverishly pushed out critical advisories for the city, broadcasted updates from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, responded to and relayed distress messages from people who couldn't get through to 911 emergency services, and kept a cool head through it all, to offer support just when these disaster victims needed it the most. There's no telling how many countless New Yorkers she helped or even saved, and there's no doubt that the city owes this epic Twitter master a debt of gratitude.
Bloomberg isn't the only one broaching the topic. The New York Times published two pieces, one titled, "Are Humans to Blame? Science Is Out" and the other, an op-ed, "Will Climate Get Some Respect Now?", while Foreign Policy ran "We Are All Venetians Now," about the matter of our rising oceans. Certainly, the ferocity and destruction of Hurricane Sandy is impossible to ignore — not that other regions haven't had their share of catastrophic weather events (mad respect, Katrina survivors) — but this recent event has galvanized the world's attention anew to the topic of climate change. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, one thing's for sure: Climate change has just been pushed into the spotlight again.
In what has to be the most delusional piece of news surrounding this whole mess, a pro-Syrian government group actually issued a statement on Facebook claiming that the "heroic Iranian regime" was responsible for Hurricane Sandy. CNN translated the Facebook posting by News Network of the Syrian Armed Forces thusly: "Sources confirmed to us that Hurricane Sandy that is slamming the U.S. was set off by highly advanced technologies developed by the heroic Iranian regime that supports the resistance, with coordination of our resistive Syrian regime." Apparently it alludes to some sort of super secret tech that was unleashed to serve as punishment for those who attack and destabilize Syria.
The key mantra of data specialists is "redundancy, redundancy, redundancy." That's why the pros have automatic system redundancies in place to protect critical data in the event of a catastrophic event. But none of that does any good if there's nothing to power the whole process, as Peer 1 Hosting's 17th floor data center found out after Con Ed killed Lower Manhattan's electricity and the flood breached the building. Says Computerworld, the company's "rooftop generator couldn't access the 20,000-gallon fuel tank in the flooded basement. Its pumping system was disabled by storm waters…" Yikes. The data loss would've been severe, if not for the gumption and hard work of a team of people who passed buckets of fuel, one by one, up the stairs to the generator. The workers rolled up their sleeves and, positioned on each landing, ran the buckets up the steps to the workers at the next landing — and so on — in order to keep the facility running. It's one thing to bail out your own basement, but it's quite another to show this level of professional dedication. No corporate retreat could ever buy that kind of teamwork.
These are just a few of the stories that have emerged, and there are many, many more that have and will come pouring out as the flood waters recede and the damage is surveyed. The learning lesson is clear nonetheless: Technology can be a powerful tool, but it also has its boundaries. What's unlimited, however, is the human will — in all its insane, strong, generous or heroic glory.


What is a Birthday Letter?
Saying happy birthday is easy when it comes to texting or carrying out telephonic conversation. The difficulty arises when you want to convey your gratitude by means of writing a birthday letter. If you want to make your near and dear ones feel happy, then writing a birthday letter can be an amazing idea. It adds a personal touch to your birthday wishes.
You should write the letter in such a way that it reveals your true emotions. Birthdays are special because to celebrate the life of your loved one or a friend. It is a common idea to gift the birthday card. Writing a birthday letter can be a great idea because it can allow you to express your personal feelings in and out. In other words, it can be said that such letter writing can give you the room to express your inner feelings.
The birthday message that you want to convey via such letter should be clear and understandable. You can start such letter by giving your warm wishes and can also add a little humour to it. If you are trying to add some humour then insure that it is within the context of your friendship. Say no to superfluous praise because exaggerating your emotions cannot make the reader feel happy. After giving warm wishes you can add a small section in your letter that describes your history with the birthday girl or the birthday boy.
You can go to the flashback in such letters to describe your relationship with the reader. The birthday letter is all about making the reader feel happy about his or her existence in your life.
How to Mention Birthday Wishes in the Birthday Letters?
In the starting of the letter itself, you can congratulate your loved ones on their birthday.
If your relationship with the reader is extremely friendly, then you can add some humour in context with the age of the reader.
You can also add a line that describes, how well they have aged.
Your letter will look genuine when you convey a direct birthday statement expressing your wishes.
In order to give a personalized touch to your letter, you can share your few personal moments with that reader.
Whom you are writing this birthday letter? Depending on the answer to this question you can select the formal or informal tone of a letter.
The tone of the letter also depend on the age of the reader. If the letter is written to express your feelings for a kid, then you can use the story format to express your wishes.
It is important for you to show your excitement while writing a birthday party letter. In order to show your enthusiasm, make use of good words rather than using lifeless or dull words.
Have you selected any birthday party theme? If yes, then inform about the theme in your birthday party invitation letter. Encourage your guest to attend the function and follow the theme. This can make your birthday party fun-loving and exciting.
The birthday party invitation letter should always have a formal tone. If you are writing a different birthday party letter for your friends and siblings, then you can make use of an informal tone.
Even in the birthday party invitation letter, you can add humour to make it look exciting. In such letters, you can make use of funky fonts. If it is a surprise birthday party invitation, then you can make use of mismatched letters.
After your surprise birthday party is done, don't hesitate to write a thank-you birthday letter. Writing such a letter is the good way to express your gratitude. Start such letter writing with a proper salutation and further you can keep a casual tone of the letter. Show your gratitude by thanking a reader to attend your birthday party. Be thankful to the reader for bringing amazing present or gift item for you. If you want to add the personal touch to your thank you birthday letter then it is advisable to give a hand written letter.
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The lightweight TROPICAL 1MM steamer offers just the right amount of protection for fun in the tropics. Delivering optimal comfort and flexibility for warm water divers, the suit features Everflex styling and 1mm neoprene with stretch fabric, plus a plush torso lining and anti-abrasion panels on shoulders, seat and knees. Offering the perfect level of full-body protection without bulkiness, its design and construction makes it super affordable for tropical diving or any watersport activity.
Thumb loops and feet stirrups prevent ride-up when worn beneath a wetsuit.


Recently I have acquired an additional desktop machine on my desk and quickly saw the potential to expand the amount of screen real estate at my disposal (you can never have enough screens). So imagine I have a laptop physically connected to two screens and a desktop PC, with one screen connected, on the same desk. I want to be able to seamlessly control that desktop PC with my main keyboard and mouse that it physically connected to my laptop. That way I get to have three screens and twice the processing power. Remote Desktop tools of course are not useful here as we can already see the desktop PC's monitor and we don't want to control the PC through a window on the laptop. Instead we need Software KVM Applications (in fact without the V for Video as we can see the screen). These work by sending your keyboard and mouse movements over a network connection to the additional PC. They also transfer your clipboard contents so you can copy paste easily between the machines.
First I tried Synergy from http://synergy-foss.org/ which is fairly unique as it's a cross platform offering that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux which is incredibly powerful if you have a mixed environment. I tried the latest stable build which was 1.3.6. I found it functional but basic and not that robust. The Synergy client would stop running on on several occasions (usually after locking/unlocking the PC). The UI is also very basic. That said it did the job and I have since found that the UI has been completely overhauled for the current BETA version. Whilst I don't think it is quiet solid enough yet it looks to be a big player in this space and there is no doubting that for those with a mixed environment it is great.
In the end I decided on InputDirector, found at http://www.inputdirector.com/. This is a Windows only offering but is more mature than Synergy with a host of additional options. It is easy to configure with one PC being the master and one being the slave. You can right click the icon in the system tray and choose to enable/disable it and also to lock/shutdown the Master and Slave PC's, which I find useful when I want to lock both PCs in one go. The best feature though is it's stability as I have not found one issue with it yet and am surprised how effortlessly it handles the docking/undocking of my laptop which is acting as Master. Once the laptop is docked a message pops up on the system tray to notify me that master and slave are in communication again and all is well.


I have a problem with the debugger. When I try to start the debugger, it crashes with an error.
/home/build/gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update/src/gdb/gdb/cp-namespace.c:343: internal-error: cp_search_static_and_baseclasses: Assertion `name[prefix_len + 1] == ':'' failed.
I have the same problem: GDB server internal error with similar text to previous message.
Encountered a Socket Error, Exiting..
O.S. is Win 10 with McAfee 's firewall.
The firmware is loaded in the target (stm32f103) and I can run de program using "ST link utility", and see messages on the SW0 console.
This project with this board and this probe worked "before".
I had a similar problem in Eclipse with GDB crashing. I had some old breakpoints active in the eclipse workspace. After removal of these breakpoints from other projects the issue was resolved.


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Chutzpah Festival February 15 – March 15
Posted by Richard Wolak | Feb 6, 2018 | Culture, Dance, Music, Theatre | 0 |
Awe-inspiring dance, extraordinary theatre, hilarious comedy and globally-celebrated music highlight this year's festival with world-class performances and workshops by international, Canadian and local artists from February 15 to March 15, 2018.
An eagerly anticipated and annual highlight of Greater Vancouver's dance season is the Chutzpah! Festival's Dance Series. The 2018 Festival presents some of the most sought-after contemporary choreographers in the world. This year's performances again offer high calibre, challenging and gorgeous dance delivering innovative and spell-binding work. Highlights include Israeli company Roy Assaf Dance in its Chutzpah! debut with a program of intricate and nuanced works, Six Years Later and The Hill. Assaf is praised as one of the most sought-after choreographic voices today (Israel); Canadian premiere of Open by Ezralow Dance, a creative home for internationally renowned Daniel Ezralow's expansive and eclectic body of work known for its explosive physicality, originality and humour (USA); a Chutzpah! first and North American Premiere of choreographer Michele Merola's MM Contemporary Dance performing inventive and provocative choreographies of two twentieth century universally-known musical scores Maurice Ravel's Bolero and Igor Stravinski's The Rite of Spring (Italy) – presented with the Italian Cultural Centre; as well as an exciting Dance Double-Bill and Chutzpah! International Cultural Exchange featuring critically-acclaimed companies Machol Shalem Dance House from Israel in Black Label, a journey told through the eyes of Ethiopian-Israeli Iskias, an outstanding dancer, formerly with Batsheva and Bulgaria's Derida Company in F 63.9, a duet exploring when love is not an infatuation, but a problem that requires a solution, choreographed by award-winning Jivko Jeliazkov.
Chutzpah! is excited to present the World Premiere of Salomé: Woman of Valor, a multi-disciplinary show created by Frank London, esteemed composer and bandleader of Grammy-winning superstars The Klezmatics and Adeena Karasick, Canadian poet and performance artist. Their new work seamlessly blends live music, text, video and dance.
Chutzpah! Is also known for presenting outstanding internationally-celebrated music, including leading world music pioneers. The rich global landscape of music presented this year showcases some of the world's most exciting musical performers. Highlights include; the return of Festival favourite, singer/songwriter and musician Idan Raichel performing his celebrated Piano-Songs, a rare chance to see this Israeli global music icon in such an intimate setting at the Norman Rothstein Theatre; blurring jazz, rock, mariachi, metal, funk and hip hop, Mexico's Troker; World-class vocalist Perla Batalla, a long-time singer and touring band member with the legendary Leonard Cohen, brings her special concert In The House of Cohen to Chutzpah! this year. Her tribute to the music of her friend and mentor, reveals the timelessness of Cohen's art through Perla Batalla's signature cross-cultural style; Uri Gurvich Quartet featuring this internationally-acclaimed jazz saxophonist and composer (Israel/USA); local multi-talented Barbara Adler (Canada) makes her festival debut concert in a double-bill with musician/poet Jake Klar (USA); Toronto's Beyond the Pale has been making its distinctive brand of boundary-busting Eurofolk fusion for nearly 20 years. Their music traverses a vast and exotic musical landscape and their stellar musicianship, meticulous dynamics, adventurous compositions, and inventive arrangements of traditional material make them one of the country's most innovative acoustic ensembles (Canada).
Chutzpah!'s theatre and comedy lineup is always at its best.
A theatre highlight includes Michael Rubenfeld's We Keep Coming Back, a work deconstructing Polish, Jewish narratives that premiered in Krakow, Poland in 2016. Incorporating video and archival materials this is an extraordinary theatrical experience revealing the truth of a Polish – Jewish reality that keeps changing and is near impossible to contain. This powerful production is charged with interactions, unexpected humour, the shadows of war and the promise of writing a new narrative.
Chutzpah! 2018 presents two of Canada's most revered comedic artists and New Zealand's only Jewish comic; The former celebrated host and creator of CBC's Wiretap, humourist Jonathan Goldstein returns with an evening of new adventures and stories. He also has a new podcast for Gimlet Media, Heavyweight, which has been listed as one of 'the best' by Itunes, The Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian and other publications. A frequent contributor to NPR's This American Life and The New York Times Magazine, with essays published by the New York Times, National Post and GQ Magazine, Jonathan Goldstein's signature brand of wry, self-deprecating humour is Canadian to the core; another Chutzpah! first is the presentation of numerous Gemini, Canadian Comedy and Canadian Screen Award-winning Mary Walsh who brings her new show to the festival stage. Her performance will feature some of her best comedic bits and most popular characters from Dancing With Rage, CODCO and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, along with up-to-the-minute political satire; Rounding out our comedic theatrical programming is New Zealander Deb Filler's internationally lauded one-woman show
I Did It My Way In Yiddish (In English)! entertaining us with a brilliant evening of stories and songs that audiences won't forget. Travel along with Deb Filler as she journeys around the world on this jam-packed music-filled show, with just a guitar and a raft of loveable characters she creates.
Celebrating our 18th year, Chutzpah!'s Artistic & Managing Director, Mary-Louise Albert says "Over the years, the Festival has established a reputation for introducing a balance of both new and exciting critically acclaimed artists to Vancouver audiences as well as the return of some Festival favourites. This year will be no exception with a program that offers a unique opportunity to see and hear exceptional dance, music, comedy and theatre from Canada and around the world. An important part of Chutzpah! are creation residencies, workshops and other outreach activities that use the talent of our artists to strengthen our connection within the community and foster cultural understanding. There's so much to experience at Chutzpah! 2018, and we invite everyone to immerse themselves in the depth and breadth of the amazing performances in store."
Single tickets for Chutzpah! are $24 to $55 (+ gst/sc) and can be purchased online at chutzpahfestival.com, by phone at 604-257-5145 or in-person starting January 15th at the on-site Chutzpah! Box Office at the Jewish Community Centre, 950 West 41st Avenue, just 2 blocks west of the Oakridge Skytrain Station.
Chutzi Packs are also available for only $98: see 4 different shows of your choice (excluding Idan Raichel's Piano-Songs Concert & Mary Walsh) and back this year is a special 5-Show Dance Pack for only $120.
*Please note: during the Festival, the onsite Chutzpah! Box Office is open from 12 noon to one hour after the last show on all show days.
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West Side Story February 4-9
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Welcome readers to another Dango News Café Review! This time we made the visit to the Urusei Yatsura 40th Anniversary Cafe (うる星やつらカフェ) held at the Ikebukuro location of THE GUEST CAFE & DINER.
Dango News visits and reviews limited time pop-up cafe celebrating Gudetama's 5th anniversary in Ikebukuro. We tried out the entire menu!
Dango News visits and reviews limited time Card Captor Sakura pop-up café titled 'Sakura Fantasy Café' in Harajuku as decided by our Twitter followers via a poll!
We visited Japanese Tea House Hello Kitty Saryo (はろうきてぃ茶寮) which is a permanent café open all year themed to Hello Kitty. This café & shop has two locations in Japan located in Kyoto (京都二寧坂) & Enoshima (江ノ島). We visited the Enoshima location for this review and visited on May 23, 2018.
Dango News reviews limited time pop-up collaboration cafe for Japanese artist/illustrator Itsuki Yu (いつきゆう). We visited the Tokyo Jiyugaoka location on May 29, 2018 and this is our review of our experience!
Dango News reviews limited time pop-up cafe for popular K-pop boy group: Seventeen Café at their Shinjuku location as they celebrate Japan debut and the release of their first Japan mini album titled: We Make You that is set to release May 30, 2018.
Our review of the Card Captor Sakura: Clear Cards collaboration café with Animate Café April 2018.
Our review of the No Game No Life -Zero- collaboration café with Princess Cafe February 2018.
Our review of our visit to artist & illustrator Itsuki Yu's collaboration Alice café from the summer of 2017.


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The Last Mixed Tape is proud to premiere the brand new music video for Brass Phantoms single 'Waiting Up'.
'Waiting Up' finds Brass Phantoms opening the scope of their music. Entering more certain bombastic territory the group's latest single offers a grander take on their post-punk roots with a sound and production that is truly ambitious.
And Brass Phantoms certainly exceed their own ambitious with 'Waiting Up' the turbulent music created by four-piece is given a clear hook with the choruses taking centre stage every time they come round. A confident new direction.
Click below to watch the music video for 'Waiting Up' by Brass Phantoms. The single itself is out now via Spotify.
Video was recorded and produced by Alan McCarthy at Park Studios.


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Raising Money on Facebook With "Causes"
Comments: 6 Philanthropy January 2, 2008
My friend Josh Sommer, a junior at Duke University, is featured in a great article titled Patient Leads Fight for His Life in the Charlotte News & Observer. Josh has an inspiring life story. A couple years ago he was diagnosed with chordoma, a rare bone cancer with low survival rates. Instead of waiting around for scientists to make progress on a potential cure, Josh has jumped into the fray to try to save his own life. He and his mom launched the Chordoma Foundation to promote research of potential cures and galvanize the research community. He works 30 hours a week in Duke labs with professors who have agreed to study the problem.
A few weeks ago, Josh raised $4,200 over three days for his foundation on Facebook "Causes". By securing the most individual donations within a 24 hour period, he won Facebook's $1k prize. About 1,300 people (mostly college students – like me) contributed small amounts of money to the cause. Talk about micro-philanthropy!
This is a fantastic testament to the power of social networks to organize friends from all over the world in a short period of time in support of a philanthropic cause. Josh told me after he raised the money that he's learned some things about fundraising and Facebook: a) people will donate for their friends – the actual cause doesn't really matter, b) it's gotta be painless and convenient, c) the internet doesn't inspire large donations, d) word spreads fast on Facebook…. All good lessons.
The internet has allowed young people to do things not possible even 10 years ago — start businesses, join ageless communities, raise money. Or, in the case of Josh, the opportunity to try to save his own life.
My favorite part about my college speaking tour in April was meeting hundreds of amazingly motivated students like Josh. At Duke, I spoke at a special program where a dozen students have dinner with an invited speaker, and I met Josh, Jeremy Welch, Breck Yuntis, and David Snider. All great guys who I'm sure will do big things in the coming years.
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6 Responses to Raising Money on Facebook With "Causes"
Mold causes cancer? Are you sure you got that bit of info right?
Otherwise, looks like good coverage — thanks!
Vince Williams says:
@"Mold causes cancer? Are you sure you got that bit of info right?"
Chronic exposure to toxins like mold spores breathed in the air can weaken the immune system.
Jeremy Welch says:
Vince is correct about mold spores weakening the immune system.
However, Josh has told me on more than one occasion that he is fairly certain there is no direct link between his mold related health issues and the tumor.
Martha Retallick says:
Ben, when's your next college speaking tour? I had the pleasure of hearing you at the University of Arizona, and hope you come this way again.
Ben Casnocha says:
Post updated – I deleted the incorrect bit about mold.
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Social network sites are really a very helpful link for those people who into fundraising to help people. Social Network also help other sites in promoting their own websites.
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The Walking Dead Just Cast Two Major Characters From The Comics
By Patrick Phillips/July 28, 2021 1:49 pm EST
The end is seriously nigh for AMC's "The Walking Dead." The long-running zombie drama is officially set to kick off its eleventh and final season in a matter of weeks. The series clearly has a lot of narrative ground to cover in the home stretch, as matters took a turn for the worse for Team Alexandria as season 10 came to a close — even after the gang survived the truly brutal war with The Whisperers.
After being kept largely in the dark about Season 11, we finally got a look at what's ahead for the Alexandrians via the full Season 11 trailer AMC dropped during San Diego Comic-Con's recent virtual event. That trailer largely kept to the subway tunnel scene teased a couple of weeks back. The full trailer also ended by confirming (via a brilliant VHS orientation-style video clip) the masked guards who captured Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Princess (Paola Lázaro), Ezekiel (Kahry Payton), and Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura) late in Season 10 were, in fact, minions of The Commonwealth.
That clip also confirmed not just the arrival of one of "The Walking Dead" comics' iconic characters, but the actor who will portray them. We've also learned who's been cast as the boss, aka the last of "The Walking Dead" big bads. Here's who will play Lance Hornsby and Pamela Milton in Season 11 of "The Walking Dead."
Josh Hamilton will appear as the Commonwealth's number 2 Lance Hornsby
The character welcoming all comers to The Commonwealth in that trailer was Lance Hornsby, known to fans of "The Walking Dead" comics as the smarmy, prideful second in command of the gated community. And yes, the face of the man portraying Hornsby in the trailer will no doubt be most familiar to film and television fans who err on the side of indie fare. It belongs to the great Josh Hamilton, who may actually be the most egregiously underrated actor of this, or any era.
Hamilton has been in the acting game for decades, cultivating a staggering list of credits that include 90s staples "With Honors," and Noah Baumbach's "Kicking and Screaming," and dozens of other celebrated projects like "The Bourne Identity," "Margaret," "J. Edgar," "The Meyerwitz Stories," and Bo Burnham's beloved coming-of-age drama, "Eight Grade." Hamilton is no stranger to the small screen either, having appeared in "Sex and the City," "American Horror Story," "Madame Secretary," "Ray Donavan," and Netflix's "13 Reasons Why." Hamilton is arguably one of the biggest gets "The Walking Dead" casting team has ever delivered, and his presence alone elevates Season 11 to must-see status even for those not exceedingly well-steeped in the show's lore. Just like the rest of you, we cannot wait to see what the actor brings to such a complex character.
Laila Robins will portray Commonwealth Governer Pamela Milton
Fans of "The Walking Dead" source material know that the duplicitous, politicking Lance Hornsby is far from the worst of The Commonwealth's leadership team. His boss, Pamela Milton, is lining up to be one of Season 11's biggest bad, with her status as the Governor of The Commonwealth understandably putting her at odds with the folks from Alexandria. Like most leaders in "The Walking Dead" realm, however, Milton is mostly just trying to do what's best for herself and her people. In the books, she makes some very damning decisions, and it is her own son Sebastian who eventually kills Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln on the show).
However things play out on "The Walking Dead," viewers will be more than familiar with the actor playing Milton, as she's been a mainstay on screens big and small for a few decades. Laila Robins got her big break playing Steve Martin's wife in the 1980s classic, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," and she has since racked up an impressive list of credits, with highlights including stints on lauded HBO series "The Sopranos," "In Treatment," and "Bored to Death," and a memorable ark on Showtime's "Homeland." Of late, she's turned heads on both Amazon Studio's "The Boys," and NBC's "The Blacklist," and will no doubt bring some seriously dodgy energy to her upcoming role on "The Walking Dead."


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#pragma once

#include "Constants.hpp"
#include "Geometry2d/Point.hpp"
#include "time.hpp"

#include <cmath>
#include <deque>
#include <QString>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <vector>
#include <QtWidgets>
#include <memory>

const static bool THROW_DEBUG_EXCEPTIONS = true;

inline void debugLog(const std::string& e) { std::cerr << e << std::endl; }

inline void debugLog(const std::exception& e) {
    std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
}

inline void debugLogIf(const std::string& e, bool condition) {
    if (condition) {
        debugLog(e);
    }
}

template <class T,
          typename std::enable_if<std::is_base_of<std::exception, T>::value,
                                  int>::type = 0>
inline void debugThrow(const T& e) {
    debugLog(e);
    if (THROW_DEBUG_EXCEPTIONS) {
        throw e;
    }
}

inline void debugThrow(const std::string& string) {
    debugThrow(std::runtime_error(string));
}

inline void debugThrowIf(const std::string& string, bool condition) {
    if (condition) {
        debugThrow(std::runtime_error(string));
    }
}

/**
 * @brief Restricts the given angle to be between pi and -pi
 *
 * @param a An angle in radians
 * @return An equivalent angle in radians restricted to [-pi, pi]
 */
static inline float fixAngleRadians(float a) {
    a = remainder(a, 2 * M_PI);
    while (a < -M_PI) a += 2.0 * M_PI;
    while (a > M_PI) a -= 2.0 * M_PI;
    return a;
}

/** Checks whether or not the given ball is in the defense area. */
static inline bool ballIsInGoalieBox(Geometry2d::Point point) {
    Geometry2d::Point topRight = Geometry2d::Point(
        Field_Dimensions::Current_Dimensions.PenaltyLongDist() / 2,
        Field_Dimensions::Current_Dimensions.PenaltyShortDist());

    Geometry2d::Point bottomLeft = Geometry2d::Point(
        Field_Dimensions::Current_Dimensions.PenaltyLongDist() / 2, 0);

    Geometry2d::Rect defenseArea = Geometry2d::Rect(topRight, bottomLeft);

    return defenseArea.containsPoint(point);
}

static Geometry2d::Point fromOursToTheirs(Geometry2d::Point& pt) {
    Geometry2d::Point c;
    c.y() = Field_Dimensions::Current_Dimensions.Length() - pt.y();
    c.x() = -pt.x();

    return c;
}

static bool ballIsInTheirGoalieBox(Geometry2d::Point& pt) {
    Geometry2d::Point converted = fromOursToTheirs(pt);
    return ballIsInGoalieBox(converted);
}

// Removes all entries in a std::map which associate to the given value.
template <class Map_Type, class Data_Type>
void map_remove(Map_Type& map, Data_Type& value) {
    typename Map_Type::iterator i = map.begin();
    while (i != map.end()) {
        typename Map_Type::iterator next = i;
        ++next;

        if (i->second == value) {
            map.erase(i);
        }

        i = next;
    }
}

// If <key> exists in <map>, returns map[key].
// If not, returns 0.
template <typename Map>
typename Map::mapped_type map_lookup(const Map& map,
                                     typename Map::key_type key) {
    typename Map::const_iterator i = map.find(key);
    if (i != map.end()) {
        return i->second;
    } else {
        return 0;
    }
}

/**
 * A basic FIR filter of variable type with float coeffs
 *
 * Note, coefficients will be normalized so that inputs
 * will always be scaled appropriately
 */
template <typename T>
class FIRFilter {
public:
    typedef std::vector<float> Coeffs;

    FIRFilter(const T& zero, size_t nrTaps) : _zero(zero) {
        if (nrTaps == 0)
            throw std::invalid_argument(
                "FIR Filter: number of taps must be greater than zero");

        // initialize
        _taps.assign(nrTaps, _zero);
        _coeffs.assign(nrTaps, 0.0f);
        _coeffs[0] = 1.0;
    }

    T filter(const T& x) {
        _taps.push_front(x);
        _taps.pop_back();

        T y = _zero;
        for (size_t i = 0; i < _taps.size(); ++i)
            y += _taps.at(i) * _coeffs.at(i);

        return y;
    }

    /** reinitializes the coeffs and taps to new values */
    void setCoeffs(const Coeffs& coeffs) {
        size_t nrTaps = coeffs.size();
        if (nrTaps == 0)
            throw std::invalid_argument(
                "FIR Filter: number of coeffs must be greater than zero");

        _taps.assign(nrTaps, _zero);
        _coeffs.assign(nrTaps, 0.0);

        // find the normalizer
        float normalizer = 0.0;
        for (size_t i = 0; i < coeffs.size(); ++i) normalizer += coeffs.at(i);

        // set the normalized coefficients
        for (size_t i = 0; i < coeffs.size(); ++i)
            _coeffs[i] = coeffs.at(i) / normalizer;
    }

protected:
    T _zero;
    std::deque<T> _taps;
    Coeffs _coeffs;
};

// An output iterator which throws an exception when it's used. This is used for
// example to determine if the output of set_difference would be non-empty
// without calculating all of it.
template <typename T>
class ExceptionIterator
    : public std::iterator<std::output_iterator_tag, void, void, void, void> {
public:
    ExceptionIterator& operator=(const T& value) { throw std::exception(); }

    ExceptionIterator& operator*() { return *this; }

    ExceptionIterator& operator++() { return *this; }

    ExceptionIterator& operator++(int) { return *this; }
};

// Sets str to the name of a class.
// Use it like this:
// 	Object *obj = new Object();
// 	QString name = typeName(typeid(*obj));
// The returned name is in the usual C++ format: "Namespace::Namespace::Class"
QString typeName(const std::type_info& info);

// Like typeName, but only returns the final class name part.
QString className(const std::type_info& info);

/// Returns the absolute path to the 'run' directory
QDir ApplicationRunDirectory();

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Rainbow Pages: The new interactive website promoting visibility, findability and safety for queer people
By Laura Di Sciascio / December 26, 2022
Rainbow Pages is your new queer version of Yellow Pages & Tripadvisor online. There, you will be able to find organisations, professionals, entrepreneurs, and artists who are part of the LGBT+ community or who are LGBT+-friendly and committed to inclusion in the workplace and environment.
I had the opportunity to discuss this new platform with Britt Jent, coordinator of the project and also the founder of Match Belgium, an LGBTQ+ organisation that aims to empower, inspire and support women, trans, non-binary people, and people of colour in their personal lives and professional development. All their friends and allies are always welcome.
How did you come up with the idea to create this online platform? What exactly made you realise we needed this kind of tool?
Britt: "With the Match team we felt the need to create something like a guide where you could directly find all information about queer (and queer-friendly) organisations, professionals, practitioners, places, etc… basically places and people you could go to without being afraid of being discriminated. Actually, there were multiple factors that drove us to create this platform. But it mainly started from the experiences and needs of the Match community: two of our engineers wanted to empower other queer self-employed technicians, also because they encountered discrimination when they hired previous technicians to work at their place. Plus, the idea came from those LGBT Facebook groups. I regularly saw people asking things in there like "do you know where I could find a good queer hairdresser or a queer therapist, etc…?". Most of the time many people would respond and share their tips but one of the main problems for me was that not everyone could get access to those information if they were not already part of these groups.
The empowerment aspect was also something that regularly came back from our community. If queer people have the possibility to buy a service from the community and give money directly to other queer people, that's how we can have a concrete impact and empower each other.
As mentioned before, there are also other reasons such as safety for instance which makes queer people want to work with other queer people. When you need to invite someone to your place, of course, you want to feel safe.
In general, regarding the whole Match philosophy, I found networking a very activist tool. If you can give people a job or give people important positions where they can have a real impact on decisions making, that's how you can make changes happen."
What kind of challenges did you face when building the platform?
Britt: "During the creation process, we worked with the think tank models. We gathered people from the community who didn't especially know each other, different kinds of people, with diverse backgrounds, etc… In this way, people could give concrete feedback and remarks on the project. Of course, we can never guarantee that something, in this case, the platform, is 100% safe but we try to make it as safe as possible for the community. And it is actually with those think tanks processes that we realised we needed to further reflect on the safety aspect of the platform, for instance how we could make sure there aren't fake accounts, etc…
But the interactivity aspect has definitely been one of the main demands from the community, so it's not just a website but people can also contact each other directly. And in the end, I think that interactivity has been one of our main challenges when building the website."
How many people are working behind this project?
Britt: "At the beginning, we had two engineers, but now we're working with one website builder, Zahra Eljadid, a very talented visual artist. We're also working with Linde and Hind who are doing more of the concept developments and I am coordinating. But with these think tanks processes, it does feel like everyone contributed to the project. And then we have of course the Match team helping us with event planning, as it is the case for our launch party on the 28th of December. Match is up until now, only managed by volunteers, which I do think is important to mention. We really want to point out that it is a living platform, it is built by the community and for the community and we also hope that others give their feedback so that everyone can work together in a constructive way to build this platform.
We also collaborate with other organisations to build the platform. For instance one of our partners is UTSOPI. We really wanted to collaborate with them to find a way to also make the platform friendly for the sex-worker community. So there will also be something for organisations who are specialized regarding the sex-workers community, they will also be able to mention it in their profile for instance."
So the platform mainly aims to help the LGBT community but do you think it can also benefit other organisations or structures which are not necessarily LGBTQ+? If yes, how?
Britt: "That's definitely also part of the idea, yes. You have organisations or structures which want to be more inclusive, they want to make a change but sometimes they don't know how to do it. That's why we will also add trainings and workshops that firms or individuals can book and those will always be given by people of the Match community. Another important thing is that Rainbow Pages will also be a place where organisations and firms can post vacancies. So we're really trying to be a bridge between people and organisations that want to make a change. And then, for queer people, people with disability, people of colours, and people out of the norms it can also be reassuring to know that they're applying to work in a place that aims to be a safer space for them, where they will be judged for their capacities and experiences and not for how they look or who they are.
So in a way, Rainbow Pages will be a new channel, the missing link between those people."
At what scale do you want to expand the platform?
Britt: "We will start with Belgium. It's actually the first platform of this kind in Europe. There are already similar platforms existing worldwide but rather oriented towards specific sectors. There are organisations such as BlackOwnedBelgium who created something alike but with Rainbow Pages we're trying to bring everyone together. We really don't want to compete with other platforms but rather try to support each other. We tried to do a lot of research about other existing platforms also outside of Europe. In Lebanon I know there is a similar platform but specifically for health workers for instance, in South Africa, there is another one more focused on women artists. So we really tried to learn from them and create something interesting and special for Belgium."
What would you say are your long-term goals or wishes with this project?
Britt: "I would say we see Rainbow Pages as a tool for our mission with Match that is trying to get more different people at the decision table. Why do we want to do that? Because we believe that if industries are more inclusive and have more diversity within their employees, the decision-making processes will be different, policies will be made and created in a way that you think of everyone in society and that's how we think we can dismantle the expectations and the norms.
I'd also like to mention that we started Match in 2018 and we're really proud to see how the community grew up. Recently we've been rewarded with the VOEM emancipation prize, an award for people or organizations that selflessly work for a solidary, inclusive, and sustainable society. It has really been an extra motivation to continue all the hard work."
On Wednesday 28th of December, Match organises their Rainbow Pages' official launch from 6 pm to 11.30 pm at SHAME Gallery, a queer art gallery in Sablon. There will first be a presentation about Rainbow Pages, you will also be able to register on the platform during the event, and then there will be cocktails, DJs, etc. The perfect excuse between Christmas and New Year to come together, because this period can also be spent with your chosen family. 😉
If you would like to give feedback or contribute in a way or another to Rainbow Pages don't hesitate to reach them on social media, Instagram: @matchbelgium or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matchbelgium . Registration on the platform as an organization or professional is free of charge!
If you want to know more about Match and their global objectives, check out their short video made by volunteers:
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There is a Chinese character called 'Ting' which reminds us that listening is a respectful, wholehearted, focused, present and meaning – making experience.
A curious way of showing up in our conversations and life to open the doorway to discovery, exploration and connection.
Living through 2021 has been different in so many ways. We're almost half – way through the year and the change waves keep rolling in. This has been a long haul, and reminded us that there's never been a more important time to listen.
To listen to our emotions, our loved ones, our colleagues and our communities.
This week alone I've practiced 'Ting' with coach colleagues in Singapore, Melbourne and Nairobi who have been swept back into varying forms of lockdown.
I sense a general weariness ~ the kind of mental, physical and emotional tiredness that comes from being 'on alert' for so long, and uncertain for so long. From navigating complex strategies and rapidly changing business models. From wondering when you're going to be able to plan a celebration, a family reunion, and for many, to see your children again.
History has taught us that change is hard.
Our brain is hardwired to dislike uncertainty, and as Michael Miller says in his article, people would literally rather know something bad is definitely going to happen than face uncertainty.
I keep imagining the shifts taking place around the world as people start truly listening to their feelings and their situations. Wellbeing is declining in marginalized communities, and loneliness is increasing. A generation of backpackers have had their wings clipped.
As some countries navigate their return to 'office work', David Rock from the Neuroleadership Institute reminds us that listening to the experiences of the past year will help us to find a different and better way of working.
Forging a path through change on this scale is going to require Ting on a vast scale.
It's time to really listen, to help people feel respected, heard, understood, wholeheartedly supported and cared for as they lean into what is to come next.