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You've made the decision to begin searching for a private school for your child. With 25 percent of all the elementary and secondary schools in the nation listed as private or independent, where do you begin? A good place to start is understanding the different types of private schools.
Independent vs Private Schools
Although "private school" and "independent school" are often used interchangeably the two are different. Usually a private school is part of a larger organization such as a church or religious community. In contrast an independent school is just that, independent of other organizations with its own board of governors or trustees. What they have in common, is that both are funded with tuition, fees and donations.
Private School Grade Levels
Most private schools are divided by grade levels. Students in kindergarten through grade five attend an elementary school, while those in grades six through eight go to a middle school. Junior high is a variation of that idea since is serves students in grades seven through nine. Private high schools are for students in grades nine through 12 or freshmen through seniors. College Prep are just that: schools with a heavy emphasis on academics which prepare a student to go to college.
Day Schools/Country Day Schools
Day or Country Day schools are private schools which students attend during the day and then go home at night. Usually Country Day Schools are located in the country or suburbs.
When many people think of a private school, they think of boarding schools. Although only one type of private school, boarding schools where students live in dorms or halls on campus, are the stereotypical independent school portrayed in movies or books. A residential school, where students live on campus Monday through Friday or all week long, these institutions offer students a highly structured day with set times for classes meals, athletics, study and recreation. Most American boarding schools are for students in high school. The con of going to a boarding school is being away from home and having the faculty and advisers making some daily decisions usually left to parents. Being away from home is also an argument for boarding school since it allows students to exert their independence and build confidence. Some parents also like the daily supervision their child will receive.
Special Needs Schools
Special needs private schools serve a wide range of students. Some are geared for those with learning or physical disabilities, while others focus on those with emotional needs. Still others offer students who are extremely bright an atmosphere where they can blossom or those who want to focus on one talent – a place where they can hone their ability. Searches for these types of institutions are very specific and should be done with the needs of your child in mind.
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Chongqing is launching a blockchain alliance and public service platform
by wEcZAfTxH1 April 20, 2020, 2:07 am 1.2k Views
A new blockchain innovation alliance backed by the Chongqing government announced the rollout of its "Chongqing Swiftchain" public service platform at its opening ceremony on Tuesday.
Why it matters: The alliance will tap the expertise of heavy hitters including Inspur, IBM, Alibaba, Ziguang, Huawei, and Baidu, according to the official announcement, pushing Chongqing, a municipality in southwest China, to the forefront of an industry that is high on China's priority list.
Beyond the big names, the alliance also incorporates more than 100 other companies and research institutes. Inspur Group is currently slated to chair the alliance.
Inspur Group's IBS platform is also the basis for Chongqing Swiftchain, a common platform intended to provide (in Chinese) blockchain engine and development services for the technology.
Details: The alliance says it is China's first blockchain alliance directly backed by a provincial-level government, and builds on Chongqing's existing efforts to make the municipality a hub for the technology.
The entity will be based in the locality's Yuzhong District, where the Chongqing Blockchain Industry Innovation Base has already been operating for three years.
Yuzhong District is already cultivating (in Chinese) a digital economy demonstration zone, and plans to carry out pilot demonstrations in smart cities, healthcare, and other fields.
The alliance intends for Chongqing Swiftchain to lay the foundation for future blockchain technology development, as well as help to standardize and coordinate the technology's implementation.
The alliance aims for the public platform to facilitate 1,000 patent applications and drive enterprises to create over RMB 5 billion RMB in value over the next five years, Zhang Fan, vice-president of Inspur, was cited in a Chinese news report as saying.
Context: Chongqing's blockchain ambitions are part of a larger government-led push to make China a global leader in blockchain technology.
China's senior leadership has been eager to encourage the adoption of blockchain technology throughout the country, with officials all the way up to Xi Jinping himself calling for the country to "seize the opportunity" in this burgeoning field.
Alliance aside, the Chongqing municipal government is also developing a set of "Industrial Park Development Coordination Measures" that will allow companies to claim subsidies of up to RMB 3 million or awards of RMB 500,000 to 1 million for their blockchain research.
Shaun Ee is a Yenching Scholar working at the intersection of geopolitics, tech, and national security. Before moving to Beijing, he was assistant director at the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft…
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What is a freight company?
So what is a freight company exactly? A freight company is a company that specialises in one of the areas involved with the moving (or 'forwarding') of freight, or cargo, from one place to another. These companies are divided into several variant sections. There are international freight forwarders who ship goods internationally from country to country and domestic freight forwarders who ship goods within a single country.
There are a number of different methods of shipping goods; either by air, road, sea, or rail. Obviously there are different costs and factors involved with all of these means of transportation and it is up to the freight company to inform the customer. Some companies offer multi-modal solutions, which means that they offer more than one service, in many cases air and sea and in other cases air, sea, and road. The most common multi-modal way of shipping is referred to as inter-modal meaning truck pickup to rail to truck delivery. The main reason for multi-modal shipping is that generally that some forms of transport, namely shipping, rail and air, are unable to do exact pickup and delivery while other means of transport, such as road, is unable to cross the distances that shipping, rail and air can. Multi-modality is a vital component of modern freight. Another influence is cost, often it is cheaper to use multi-modal means of transport. A third factor is the nature of the item being shipped. If it is a time critical item then using a faster means of shipping, such as air, over other slower but cheaper means, such as sea, are preferable.
In other words, the shipping method is by evaluating three factors: time, cost, and product characteristics. While shipping by sea could take longer than shipping by air, the latter is generally more expensive. Shipping by rail could also be complemented by piggybacking the freight onto a truck so it can be delivered to the receiver.
There are literally thousands of different freight companies in business worldwide, many of which are members of certain organisations. Such organisations include the IATA (International Air Transport Association), TIA (Transportation Intermediaries Association) the BIFA (British International Freight Association), or the FTA (Freight Transport Association) and various or other regional organisations. It pays to choose a freight company that belongs to one or all of these organisations as this is the best way of ensuring that they will deliver a certain standard or service.
If you want to get the best results from your freighting experience then you need to find a reputable company and you need to consider the modality of your shipping. Obviously if your item needs to be somewhere fast then you will need to consider air freight as it is the quickest over long distances but if you are more concerned about cost then you are more likely to choose a cheaper alternative such as sea freight.


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In our artistically-starved age where the likes of Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Banksy have more than convalidated the notion of "This is art 'cause I say so", a retrospective about John William Waterhouse at the Royal Academy was to me too great an opportunity to miss ( all the above is purely subjective by the way...).
The place was packed, so I ended up leaving Gabriel and Steven at the bar, as the rooms were too crowded to be navigated with a stroller the size of a small 4x4. I felt a little guilty for about 4 seconds. I was finally husband-and-child-free to enjoy the company of my secret lover.
Oh how I enjoyed the whole experience!
The low lighting, the smell of the old canvases, the perfect shine of the glossed surfaces of the paintings.
I didn't remember how vibrant Waterhouse's green is and how enthralling. If you get close enough to one of his canvases and if you get as engrossed in them as I usually do, I guarantee you can almost smell the grass, the leaves, the flowers, the intoxicating scent of his beautiful women.
Born in Rome in 1849 from english parents, both of them painters and relocated to Italy to pursue their passion ( how hippy is that by the way?), Waterhouse is mistakenly considered as one of the most prolific exponents of the Pre- Raphaelite movement, when he is in fact a Neoclassical painter.
Because his material and subjects of choice are usually taken from medieval and classical mythology, the wider public is led to this conclusion.
We can safely say that this is one of his trademarks: Waterhouse's painted ladies are stunning.
After closer observation though, I came to realize that there is a recurrence of facial features which led me to think that maybe, rather than real life models, his tragic and dark heroines were an idealised version of woman. Perhaps betraying a certain snobbery in his part. I love him.
In an era that saw the likes of Lizzie Siddal becoming the official muse and face of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and, un-officially, Britain's first Supermodel (take this Tyra...), Waterhouse went on to imagine an array of beautiful and dangerous women: Nymphs, Syrens, Mermaids, Witches and Enchantresses. In their realm, the man is almost always the willing victim of their dark, inescapable powers. We can find examples of this in paitings like " La belle dame sans merci" and "Hylas and the Nimphs", in wich Waterhouse captures the exquisite moment of man's capitulation. Whether he is falling victim of the bewitching eyes of an apparently defenceless damsel, or about to be dragged to the murky depths of a pond by alluring Nimphs.
Waterhouse is drawn to the dark side of femininity, to its mysticism and supernatural qualities. Quite a distance from the real social standing of women in the Victorian age, when they were trapped in the very fabric of society, by marriage, status and etiquette.
There is another woman in his production though. She is no man-eater of sort, she is a vanquished heroine facing a gloomy end; she is a woman under a curse.
In paintings like "Mariamne" and, more prominently "The Lady of Shalott", Waterhouse, using the tennysonian poem as a subject platform, goes to expose another more truthful reality: the woman trapped in a destiny she has no control over. In "the Lady of Shalott" (from the famous tennysonian poem..) she dared to love and now she must die, in "Mariamne" she is victim of an injust verdict and the dark machinations of a masculine world. She walks towards her doom, looking back at her enemies, defiant, but, nevertheless, defeated.
Waterhouse gives us a woman, permanently trapped in a tragic dichotomy: prey/predator, where the driving force is her misticism-infused sexuality.
Once she is a beautiful dangerous dark angel, that promises to reward us with delights for the price of one single kiss, that very kiss that will seal forever our fate as her victims. It's last century's "femme fatale".
Then she becomes a dark heroine tied to her tragic fate, a woman that disappears, consumed by her own audacity.
Darkness permeates all of Waterhouse paintings, a watery, deep darkness, the darkness of a longing heart that is never appeased, the darkness of a veiled danger, of an old fairytale.
As with most of other Pre-Raphaelite painters, Waterhouse's work is, for the most part, privately owned, making therefore very difficult putting together an exhibition of decent scale, that's why I jumped at the chance to visit the Royal Academy in september '09 and was thrilled by the number of pieces on show there and by the huge turnout of visitors.
I am a devote fan to this master's work, to his love for antiquarianism, his love for detail and the hypnotic beauty of his women.
I hope my little one will grow up to appreciate art as much as I do, as long as is not Tracey Emin's. She just made a big deal out of her messy bed.
In the meantime, I can only brainwash him.... And drag Steven around.
do you remember? "tutti cazzi....."
Tata che ricordi.... Ma erano in fondo "tutti cazzi".. No? Sto ridendo che non ci vedo neanche piú..... Io e l'arte moderna proprio nun se piamo.... Allora come adesso... Tutti cazzi.


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Washington – The Senate on March 26 passed an amendment that would support a worker's right to earn paid sick leave.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) sponsored the amendment – which is related to the Healthy Families Act (S. 497) – as part of the Senate fiscal year 2016 budget resolution. The amendment passed in a bipartisan vote of 61-39.
The budget resolution passed March 27 in a 52-46 vote, but it is not binding.
About 43 million U.S. workers lack access to paid sick leave, forcing them to choose between working while ill or foregoing a paycheck, according to the National Partnership for Women & Families. Proponents of paid sick leave claim that providing such leave to workers can help reduce the spread of contagious illnesses in the workplace, boost productivity and lower health care costs.
The Healthy Families Act would allow workers to accrue up to seven sick days every year to be used for when they or a family member are ill. The legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate.


The Philippines has been named by Forbes magazine as one of the 5 top tourist destinations in Asia.
Forbes' "The 5 Spots In Asia That Are Booming With Tourists In 2018" cited the Philippines with its improved connectivity and infrastructure as a top draw for international travellers.
Forbes writer Carol Ramoran-Malasig noted the new international connections that are opening up the country's top tourist draws such as Cebu and Davao, with Qatar Airways' new regular flights from Doha in addition to its flights from European cities such as Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich.
With recent improvements in local infrastructure, top tourist destinations are now being served by domestic airports with frequent flights to and from the country's major cities, the article notes.
"Whatever challenges we may have in any market, it is encouraging to see that the Philippines' total tourism figures still continue to grow, which is a strong indication of a global interest for travelling to the Philippines and experiencing the fun on our shores," Tourism Representative Margarita Valdes said.
The Philippines reported a 10.96% growth in tourism arrivals for 2017. That translates to 6.6 million tourists, with over 675,000 of them coming from Europe –a 7.3 % increase from the year before.
Philippine tourism even bested the average tourism growth of Asia and the Pacific which is at six percent and Southeast Asia at eight percent according to the latest United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) World Tourism Barometer, reported the Department of Tourism release sent to GNP.
The Philippines topped the Forbes list for top Asian spots for tourists, ahead of Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Korea.


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Folio Literary Management, LLC, has merged with The Literary Group International. The two literary agencies joined on July 1. With the combination, Frank Weimann, president of LGI, will become senior v-p and director of operations at Folio. Katherine Latshaw and Jeff Silberman will both continue with their titles as agents. The combined company will go under the Folio name.
Folio was founded in 2006 and its clients include Andrew Morton, Garth Stein and 2013 Pulitzer finalist Eowyn Ivey. The Literary Group was founded in 1986 and its clients include Gregg Allman, Jenni Rivera, Georgina Bloomberg and Nancy Grace.


When the news broke yesterday morning that ESPN commentator Stuart Scott had lost his battle with cancer I once again found myself in a funk. The news hit me hard, but only partly because I was a huge fan. Yes, he brought us the classic home run call of "boo-yah" and when a guy like M.J. drained a game winning shot he'd remind us all that the player was "cooler than the other side of the pillow." These calls stuck with us as sports fans and became part of the sports vernacular.
But while I was sad about his death because he was a great television reporter, I was even more upset that he died at such a young age — around my age. Stuart Scott and I are less than a year apart in age and while it's always sad when someone dies young, since my own brush with death a few years ago these deaths seem to hit me harder. I don't know Stuart Scott and he didn't have a heart attack, but I feel a closeness to him and other people who die young. And not just celebrities. I have the same reaction whenever I hear about someone my age dying.
I get really sad when people my age die; in fact, yesterday I was depressed for most of the day. I thought about his two girls and how they've been left without a dad. I thought about all the friends he had at ESPN and around the world. Man, 49 years is not enough time on this planet.
I'm sure everyone who knew Stuart Scott or who was a fan of Stuart Scott felt the loss yesterday, and I'm not suggesting I feel it more because of my own experiences. Plenty of people have survived devastating diseases and believe me many of them have had it far worse than me. I think it's just that each time someone like Stuart Scott doesn't make it I am reminded that I almost didn't make it and that starts me off on the "woe is me" stuff. I know I have been extremely positive about my heart attack publicly, and for the most part I have remained positive in my personal life as well, but that doesn't mean I don't have freak out moments about almost dying and it seems to be more prevalent at times when someone my age dies. If my wife is reading this right now I know exactly what she's thinking: shut up and quit whining. You want to change places with someone who is actually suffering? There are millions of people who'd trade places with you.
I need to remember that line whenever I'm feeling bad about my circumstances. Intellectually I get it, but sometimes it's tough. The good news is, the sadness usually only lasts a short while. Which brings me back to Stuart Scott. He was one of those horrible cases. He suffered through seven years with cancer, including multiple surgeries and chemotherapy. I chose to share the old photo of Stuart in this blog post because that's how I will always remember him, not as the frail man he became over the past few years as a he battled the disease.
So while my initial reaction to Scott's passing was sadness, today I woke up with a renewed spirit to live my life to the fullest. Not all of us get a second chance.


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Founded in 2021 by a team with over 25 years experience of the Asian Data Centre market, Evolution's management team has a proven track record of developing, capitalising, and operating large scale colocation facilities built over +25 years' experience in the Asian Data Centre market.
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Enabling our customers by delivering digital infrastructure growth in emerging markets with high-quality, large-scale, sustainable data centres.
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In everything we do, challenge the norms. Be brave, drive for constant innovation. Push ourselves individually and collectively to achieve more, everyday.
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Be a driver, not a passenger. Sitting in the back of the car you may have some great views, but you aren't in control of where we are heading.
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As co-founder and CEO, Darren's role is to ensure Evolution Data Centres delivers on its strategic vision to become the next-generation leading pan-Asian data centre platform, delivering digital growth, reliably and sustainably, into high growth markets. Darren founded Evolution because he believed that customers deserved a greater choice of sustainable data centre infrastructure in Asia.
Darren has been in Asia for 10 years and he has worked in all aspects of the digital infrastructure ecosystem, including telco, data centre and artificial intelligence. Based in Singapore Darren was the MD for Asia for IO Data Centres (a next-generation, modular data centre operator), where he led the business to net cash flow positive and ultimately to a successful exit.
With his co-founder, and leadership team, Darren is passionate about workplace culture. He aspires for Evolution to be a company where everyone makes an active contribution and is accountable. Darren's mantra is to enjoy the journey, rather than being obsessed with reaching the destination.
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Ed's role as Chief Investment Officer is to drive Evolution's investment program while developing and managing relationships with capital and strategic partners. Ed co-founded Evolution due to his conviction that underserved Southeast Asian markets are set to become the next frontier of data centre growth in Asia, as well as the attraction of addressing the tremendous challenge of sustainability in the industry.
Ed was previously an investment banker to the digital infrastructure and renewable power sectors in Asia. In his role as Head of Asian TMT Investment Banking at ING, he has advised several digital infrastructure businesses on fundraising, M&A and capital strategy in emerging markets, including winning Infrastructure Investor's 2020 "Digital Infrastructure Deal of the Year in Asia Pacific". Since moving to Asia a decade ago, he has advised clients on more than 30 corporate finance transactions across Asia, including renewable power companies operating across geothermal, solar and wind.
Ed is a Civil Engineering graduate and has been fascinated throughout his career by sustainable solutions to infrastructure development challenges in growth markets. Ed's personal sustainability pledge is to reduce his carbon footprint by going meat and dairy free three days a week.
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A common symptom in Huntington's disease (HD), a fatal disease of the brain, is the development of depression. Until now, the reasons why there is an increased incidence of depression in HD were unclear.
A study undertaken by Dr Terence Pang, A/Prof. Anthony Hannan and colleagues, of the Florey Neuroscience Institutes in Melbourne, has shown for the first time a genetic link between depression and HD in an animal model.
The study has further shown that anti-depressant drugs and a regime of physical and mental activity through environmental enrichment alters the receptors in the brain and actually stops depression like behaviours in female mice.
Dr Pang went on to explain that the implications of this research are broader than depression in HD alone. "We think we have identified this as a model of broader relevance to depression in the general community, but this idea needs to be tested with further research.
The new data on key molecules associated with depression, presented in our paper, may also be informative with respect to the development of new anti-depressant drugs," Dr Pang said.
This research paper by Dr Pang and colleagues titled 'Altered serotonin receptor expression is associated with depression-related behaviour in the R6/1 transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease' will be published by Oxford University Press in the February issue of the international journal Human Molecular Genetics.


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Сергі́й Микола́йович Пу́щенко ( 28 червня 1960 р., Дніпропетровська область —  2 березня 2022 р., м. Васильків, Київська область) — український графік і живописець, культуролог. Заслужений діяч мистецтв України. Загинув у ніч проти 2 березня 2022 року в бою з російською диверсійною групою в місті Васильків Київської області (див. також Російське вторгнення в Україну 2022 року).

Життєпис

Народився на Дніпропетровщині. Змалку багато малював, любив читати, мріяв ілюструвати книжки. Після Володимирівської десятирічки закінчив Дніпропетровське художнє училище (відділення живопису), а згодом — Український поліграфічний інститут ім. Івана Федорова у Львові. Здобув фах художника-графіка, оформлювача книжкової друкованої продукції, художнього редактора, після чого працював у видавництві «Прапор» (Харків) художнім редактором, оформлював книжки. Згодом — на творчій роботі. Мистецькі твори автора є в численних приватних колекціях та музеях України, серед них такі: Гуляйпільський краєзнавчий музей (м. Гуляй-поле, 1 олійне полотно); Музей історії запорозького козацтва (Острів Хортиця, місто Запоріжжя, 5 олійних полотен); Національний історико-культурний заповідник «Гетьманська столиця» (Палац Розумовського, м. Батурин, 1 олійне полотно); Національний історико-археологічний заповідник «Кам'яна Могила» (м. Мелітополь, 23 олійних полотна з серії «Художник і час»); Рівненський обласний краєзнавчий музей (м. Рівне, 1 графічна робота); Черкаський обласний художній музей (м. Черкаси, 1 олійне полотно); Національний музей літератури України (м. Київ, 3 олійних полотна); Національний музей історії України (м. Київ, 2 олійних полотна).

Сергій Пущенко (друг Художник) від весни 2015 року тривалий час перебував у зоні проведення бойових дій під час російської збройної агресії проти України. Написав серію портретів вояків 5-го окремого батальйону Добровольчого українського корпусу «Правого сектора» та 5-го окремого батальйону Української добровольчої армії. Згодом став активним волонтером.

Жив у Харкові. Похований 5 березня 2022 року на кладовищі «Молодіжному» в Рівному.

Творчий доробок
Автор понад 900 картин: пейзажі, портрети, натюрморти. Основна тема творчості пов'язана з українським козацтвом. Він автор серії полотен «Козацькому роду — нема переводу». У художніх роботах поетично відображено народних героїв, історію, природу та побут України.

У 2015—2018 роках під час війни з російськими окупантами створив з натури галерею живописних і графічних портретів українських воїнів-добровольців (113 робіт розміром 80х60 см та 7 етюдів); 106 портретів увійшли до авторської книги-альбому «Портрети добровольців на війні», виданої обмеженим накладом у квітні 2018 року письменницьким видавництвом «Майдан» (Харків).

З жовтня 2017 по квітень 2018 року відбулося 10 персональних виставок в Україні. У Національному музеї літератури України (м. Київ) виставка «Портрети добровольців на війні» (живопис, графіка), 110 мистецьких творів, тривала з 13.10.2017 по 03.11.2017 р., її відвідали 8280 осіб; виставка «Дітям про Івана Сірка: народження і перші сім днів життя козака Івана Сірка» (живопис), тривала з 06.11.2017 по 20.11.2017, відвідали 5696 осіб. Останню виставку експонували також у Національному музеї історії України (м. Київ) 2018 року. Виставку «Портрети добровольців на війні» показано в обласних організаціях Національної спілки художників України — Івано-Франківській (з 21.11.2017 по 03.12.2017) і Тернопільській (з 04.12.2017 по 22.12.2017), Культурно-мистецькому центрі «Львівський палац мистецтв» (м. Львів, з 16.01.2018 по 28.01.2018), Рівненському обласному краєзнавчому музеї (м. Рівне, з 29.01.2018 по 18.02.2018, відвідали 2030 осіб), Черкаському обласному художньому музеї (м. Черкаси, з 20.02.2018 по 11.03.2018), у приміщенні Верховної Ради України (м. Київ, з 15.05.2018 по 25.05.2018), Харківському національному університеті будівництва та архітектури (м. Харків, з 21.11.2018 по 01.12.2018).

Автор літературно-художнього проєкту, дизайну та 50 фотографічних мистецьких творів-колажів у книзі Тараса Шевченка «Кобзар» з підзаголовком «Фронтовий кобзар» (Харків: Майдан, 2020). Проєкт поєднав поезію Кобзаря з документалізованим сьогоденням — боротьбою українського народу у війні з російськими окупантами. «Фронтовий кобзар» презентовано в Києві, Львові, Чернігові (2020), Херсоні, Тернополі та в Городку Львівської області (2021).

Художник тривалий час співпрацював з ДУ «Інститут загальної та невідкладної хірургії ім. В. Т. Зайцева НАМН України»: дизайн серії медичних книг з технологій хірургічного лікування (автор і упорядник видань — академік НАМН України В. В. Бойко). До 13 книг серії увійшли понад 1100 авторських малюнків анатомії людини, техніки оперативних втручань та різноманітних схем алгоритмів лікування.

Художній стиль

Громадська діяльність
Член Національної спілки журналістів України, Харківського обласного об'єднання Всеукраїнського товариства «Просвіта» ім. Тараса Шевченка, ГО «Спадщина», ГО «Об'єднання добровольців». Як член громадської організації сучасного українського козацтва належав до Покровської сотні Харківського козацького Слобідського полку.

Нагороди, відзнаки
 Орден «За мужність» III ступеня (06.06.2022, посмертно)
 Почесне звання «Заслужений діяч мистецтв України» (22.01.2019)
 Орден «Козацький хрест з двома мечами» (2003)
 Пам'ятний знак «Гвардія революції» (2004)
 Медаль «За жертовність і любов до України» (29.09.2016)
 Орден «Бойовий волонтер України» (06.03.2017)
 Медаль «Сильному духом» (12.09.2017)
 Пам'ятний знак «Патріот України» (12.10.2017)
 Орден «Лицарський хрест добровольця» (14.02.2017)
 Премія імені Богдана Хмельницького за краще висвітлення військової тематики у творах літератури та мистецтва (2018)
 Переможець у творчому конкурсі НСЖУ в номінації «Журналістська акція» (червень 2018)
 Пам'ятний знак «Під проводом Архистратига Михаїла» (12.10.2018)
 Медаль Гетьмана Івана Мазепи (14.03.2021)
 Грамоти Національної спілки журналістів України, громадських організацій та місцевих органів влади

Примітки

Джерела та література
 Межівщина: історія та сьогодення Історія окремих населених пунктів Межівського району. — Межова, 2013. — 260 с.: іл.

 У бою під Васильковим загинув Сергій Пущенко - автор «Фронтового кобзаря»

Посилання

 «Загинув як герой»: харківський художник Сергій Пущенко на фронті малював портрети добровольців. www.radiosvoboda.org. 22 серпня 2022.

Випускники Української академії друкарства
Українські художники
Українські портретисти
Українські графіки
Члени НСЖУ
Волонтери АТО
померли у Василькові
Учасники боїв за Київ

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Vincent Fernandez (born 31 January 1975) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, Fernandez began his career with Paris Saint-Germain. He was loaned to LB Châteauroux to experience first-team football and when he returned to PSG, he became sub for Bernard Lama, and then Dominique Casagrande. The 1997–98 season was one of his best, because even though he did not play much in the championship, he still won two cups, playing in both the Coupe de la Ligue final and the Coupe de France final against Bordeaux and Lens respectively. In 1998 FC Sochaux, who had recently reached Ligue 1, offered him a place, which he took up and kept until Teddy Richert convinced him to play for RC Strasbourg. He played there for two years, but did not manage to shine, so he moved to the Ligue 2 side Châteauroux. He played for the club as starting goalkeeper for 8 years.

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Q: VS-Code curious behaviour: Can't drop text dragged from browser into editor. Why is this? My co-worker showed me a peculiar behaviour in VS-Code recently; when he tried to drag a code-snippet from the browser window into his editor, the editor changed it's opacity so it darkens completely, and you cannot drop the text into the editor.
I tried to replicate this in my editor and I got the same behaviour except that mine didn't fully darken, it just changed the opacity to something like 0.5 - but I couldn't drop the text either.
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This is clearly not a huge issue as you can just copy and paste as usual, but I'm still curious to know what the reason may be for this, and if there is some setting to turn it off.
Thankful for any VS-Code guru that has any explanation for this behaviour!

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HELENA – The people of Montana won the right to vote on I-166 this November when in a 6 to 1 decision Montana's Supreme Court rejected an attempt by opponents to remove it from the ballot.
The suit was brought by a newly formed group called Montanans Opposed to I-166 as well as State Sen. Dave Lewis and Billings businessman and former Republican legislative candidate Phil Lilleberg, represented by Chris Gallus and James Brown.
In 2010, Mr. Gallus represented the payday and car title lending industry in two similar lawsuits filed to remove I-164 – an initiative to limit interest rates on these type of loans - from the ballot. Both of those lawsuits also failed.
Mr. Brown is an attorney for American Tradition Partnership, the group that challenged the Montana Corrupt Practices Act, and is challenging other Montana campaign finance laws in an effort to eliminate contribution limits, disclosure requirements, and campaign finance reporting.
The lawsuit alleged that the ballot language and the initiative itself do not comply with Montana laws and, therefore, I-166 should not be allowed to appear on the November ballot. However, opponents declined to participate in the process that allows opponents to weigh in with the Attorney General during approval of a proposed initiative.
The lawsuit brought by opponents was filed against the Montana Attorney General and the Montana Secretary of State. However, Jon Motl, representing Stand with Montanans: Corporations Aren't People – Ban Corporate Campaign Spending, filed an amicus brief with the Court, defending against the challenge to I-166.
I-166 qualified easily for the November ballot. Though Montana law requires 24,337 valid signatures as well as signatures from 5% of voters in 34 legislative districts, the petition to place I-166 on the ballot received 32,112 valid signatures and qualified in 61 of Montana's 100 legislative districts.
8/10 I-166 Lawsuit Rejected http://t.co/pb6UtzT2 via @STANDwMONTANANS Good news !!!!
BREAKING: Effort to block anti-Citizens United measure from MT ballot fails in court! http://t.co/5YGcPU6d Score one for the good guys.
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Top 10 shows of 2016 (overall and new)
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HitFix.com, now known as UpRoxx, has just released its fifth annual survey of the year's Top 10 best new and overall TV programs.
Your friendly content provider again is among the 59 critics contributing this year. Our respective lists are fairly in sync, particularly among the new shows. But there's one notable exception. I again listed HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher among my Top 10 overall best programs -- in the No. 10 spot. There seemed little doubt I'd be the only one. And I was.
The feeling here is that Maher just doesn't get enough credit for being the pathfinder in this genre, dating back to his Politically Incorrect late nighter for ABC, which eventually got canceled because it became too politically incorrect. But TBS' Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is the flavor of 2016. And while I listed it among my Top 10 newcomers, I left it off the overall list in favor of Real Time.
Eight of my Top 10 new shows also made the consensus list. The only exceptions were FX's Baskets, which placed 18th among all critics, and AMC's The Night Manager, which was 28th.
On the overall Top 10 list, I had five series in common with fellow critics. Besides Real Time, the ones that didn't make the national cut were HBO's The Night Of (No. 13); ABC's American Crime (No. 18); Netflix's The Crown (No. 19); and Netflix's Orange Is the New Black (No. 31 despite a very strong rebound season).
Curiously, one critic had four first-year series among his overall Top 10. But none of those four made his list of 10 best new series. That just doesn't compute. Oh well, it's an imprecise art.
By any measure, FX dominated the survey, with Atlanta ranking as the consensus best new program and The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story the top overall show. Again, it's a little odd that Atlanta would outpoint O. J. in the new program category, but rank behind it in the No. 3 position on the overall Top 10 list.
OK, here are our respective choices.
Top 10 New Programs
1. The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
2. The Crown (Netflix)
3. The Night Of (HBO)
4. This Is Us (NBC)
5. Atlanta (FX)
6. Westworld (HBO)
7. The Night Manager (AMC)
8. Stranger Things (Netflix)
9. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)
10. Baskets (FX)
National List:
2. The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX)
4. Better Things (FX)
6. Insecure (HBO)
9. The Crown (Netfllx)
10. The Night Of (HBO)
Top 10 Overall Programs
1. Game of Thrones (HBO)
2. The Americans (FX)
3. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX)
4. Veep (HBO)
6. Rectify (Sundance TV)
7. American Crime (ABC)
8. Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
10. Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
National List
4. 30 for 30 -- O.J.: Made in America (ESPN)
7. Bojack Horseman (Netflix)
9. Better Call Saul (AMC)
10. Rectify (Sundance TV)
Top 10 TV shows of 2015 (overall and new)
Better Call Saul and Season 2 of Fargo are my tree toppers.
HitFix.com's fourth annual Television Critics poll is newly posted, with your friendly content provider again among the 53 know-it-alls asked to list their Top 10 overall and new programs for 2015.
This is an increasingly vexing task, given the wealth of drama and comedy series on broadcast, cable and streaming services. In the end, my No. 1 shows in both categories -- Season 2 of FX's Fargo and AMC's new Better Call Saul -- finished atop the aggregate list as well.
On the flip side, I was the only one to vote for BBC America's The Last Kingdom as one of the year's Top 10 newcomers. Two other picks barely missed, with HBO's Show Me a Hero and ABC's American Crime tying for 12th place on the freshman class list.
In all, 97 shows made at least one critic's Top 10 list in the overall category and 63 received votes as newcomers.
One more caveat before posting both the unclebarky.com and national lists. I likely would have included Season 2 of Amazon Prime's Transparent, which ranked 5th among my Top 10 new series last year. But Season 2 began streaming after HitFix's deadline for submissions. And Amazon didn't answer my request for early screeners, which is unusual for them.
OK, here are the lists.
Top 10 Overall Programs (my list)
1. Fargo, Season 2 (FX)
4. Mad Men (AMC)
5. Louie (FX)
6. Master of None (Netflix)
7. Show Me a Hero (HBO)
10. You're the Worst (FXX)
Top 10 Overall Programs (HitFix list)
1. Fargo, Season 2
2. The Americans
4. Transparent (Amazon Prime)
5. Better Call Saul
7. The Leftovers (HBO)
8. Mr. Robot (USA)
9. The Jinx (HBO)
10. Veep
Top 10 New Programs (my list)
2. Master of None
3. Show Me a Hero
4. The Jinx
6. Jessica Jones (Netflix)
7. Empire (Fox)
9. The Last Kingdom (BBC America)
10. Supergirl (CBS)
Top 10 New Programs (HitFix list)
3. Mr. Robot
4. Unreal (Lifetime)
5. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
6. Jessica Jones
7. Catastrophe (Amazon Prime)
7. (tie) Empire
10. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW)
Top 10 iconic TV characters whose portayers have never won an Emmy award
The 67th annual prime time Emmy nominations will be announced on Thursday, July 16th. Jon Hamm is likely to again be among the nominees for his portrayal of Don Draper on Mad Men.
This would be his last chance, though. And he's never won. So where does Hamm fit among his acting peers who likewise have never won the big prize for what ended up being iconic roles? Here's our Top 10 countdown, with the proviso that half of the snubbed are otherwise good enough to be members of the Academy of Television Arts & Science's Hall of Fame. Members of the Academy also pick the annual Emmy winners.
10. DESI ARNAZ -- He co-starred as Ricky Ricardo with real-life wife Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy, television's first classic comedy series. She won just one acting Emmy in five tries while her second banana, Vivian Vance, ended up one for four. William Frawley, the other member of I Love Lucy's featured foursome, received five nominations but came away empty-handed. As for Desi, not a single nomination during the show's seven-season run. He is, however, in the TV Hall of Fame after being inducted in 1990. Ball was a member of 1984's charter class. Vance and Frawley were both posthumously inducted in 2012.
9. ANGELA LANSBURY -- She starred as mystery novelist turned amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher for 12 seasons on CBS' very popular Murder, She Wrote. Nominated in each of those seasons, she never won. Add nominations for six other performances and that's 0 for 18 -- an all-time record for Emmy futility. But Lansbury also is a member of the TV Hall of Fame. She was inducted in 1996.
8. SHERMAN HEMSLEY -- His bombastic George Jefferson called the tunes and set the tone for CBS' The Jeffersons. He received a lone nomination for the role in 1984 but didn't leave a winner. Isabel Sanford, who played George's long-suffering wife, Louise, received seven nominations for the role -- and won once. Unlike Sanford, though, Hemsley's in the TV Hall of Fame after a 2012 induction.
7. DAVID JANSSEN -- His signature TV role, Dr. Richard Kimble in ABC's The Fugitive, earned him three Emmy nominations but no wins. And it's way too late now. Janssen died in 1980 at the age of 48. He's yet to be anointed as a TV Hall of Famer.
6. JON HAMM -- As Mad Men's Don Draper, he's been nominated in all seven years of eligibility. Alas, Hamm also has lost as many times. An Emmy nod later this month would represent his last crack as one of TV's all-time classic leading men. Be kind, Academy. Be kind.
5. JASON ALEXANDER -- He's weathered seven nominations as Seinfeld second banana George Costanza. That's more than any other member of the core cast, but Alexander never got a statue. He joins Jerry Seinfeld in that club, but the show's namesake received fewer nominations and, in truth, wasn't much of an actor. Alexander's fellow supporting player, Michael Richards, has three acting Emmys for Seinfeld, while Julia Louis-Dreyfus won one. She's the only one of the four in the TV Hall of Fame, though. That's right -- ahead of Jerry.
4. LARRY HAGMAN -- Dallas wasn't an Emmy caliber series, but Hagman certainly was a classic character as J.R. Ewing. There simply would have been no show without him. But Hagman received just two acting nominations during the series' initial long run on CBS and recent reprise on TNT. Nor is he in the TV Hall of Fame. Dallas' only acting win, in 1980, went to Barbara Bel Geddes as J.R.'s mom, Miss Ellie.
3. ANDY GRIFFITH -- He was never even nominated as Sheriff Andy Taylor, mainstay of The Andy Griffith Show. But co-star Don Knotts, as bumbling deputy Barney Fife, won not one, not two, but five acting Emmys. At least Griffith deservedly is in the TV Hall of Fame, via the 1991 class of inductees. Knotts has yet to be enshrined, but deserves to be.
2. JACKIE GLEASON -- Loudmouth, short-tempered Ralph Kramden of The Honeymooners is one of TV's all-time great physically comedic characters. But Gleason never won an Emmy for his pitch-perfect portrayal. As with The Andy Griffith Show, however, his principal second banana did. Art Carney hauled in five Emmys as loopy Ed Norton. And Audrey Meadows won a statue for her performance as Kramden's put-upon wife, Alice. Both Gleason and Carney are in the TV Hall of Fame. Gleason got there first, back in 1986. Carney followed in 2004.
1. JAMES ARNESS -- Gunsmoke, the most popular and longest-running Western series in TV history, found Arness in the saddle and on the streets of Dodge City for 20 TV seasons as Marshal Matt Dillon. He received three acting nominations, but never won an Emmy. Supporting players Dennis Weaver, as deputy Chester Goode, and Milburn Stone, as Dr. Galen "Doc" Adams, each won one Emmy, though, while Amanda Blake ("Miss Kitty") got a lone nomination. Gunsmoke, which ran from 1955 to 1975, ranked in prime-time's Top 10 for 13 of its 20 seasons. But Arness, who died in 2011, never got a statue and is yet to be enshrined in the TV Hall of Fame. A shame on both counts.
Top 10 TV series of 2013 -- and Top 10 new ones
It's been a big year for high-quality TV series and an even bigger one for first-timers.
That's why hitfix.com asked more than 50 of the nation's TV writers, including your friendly content provider, to compile two Top 10 lists for the website's second annual survey.
The categories are Top 10 shows for 2013 and the year's 10 best new shows. Here are my lists, with the consensus hitfix.com choices posted below each compilation.
MY TOP 10 TV SERIES
1. Breaking Bad (AMC)
3. Masters of Sex (Showtime)
5. Justified (FX)
8. House of Cards (Netflix)
9. The Middle (ABC)
10. Homeland (Showime)
Hitfix Consensus List: 1. Breaking Bad; 2. Orange is the New Black; 3. Game of Thrones; 4. The Good Wife (CBS); 5. Masters of Sex; 6. Mad Men; 7. The Americans; 8. House of Cards; 9. Broadchurch (BBC America); 10. Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel
My Top 10 New Series
1. Masters of Sex
4. House of Cards
5. Broadchurch
6. Rectify (Sundance Channel)
7. The Returned (Sundance Channel)
8. Getting On (HBO)
9. Vikings (History)
10. Legit (FX)
Hitfix Consensus List: 1. Orange is the New Black; 2. Masters of Sex; 3. The Americans; 4. Broadchurch; 5. Orphan Black (BBC America); 6. House of Cards; 7. The Returned; 8. Rectify; 9. Top of the Lake; 10. Sleepy Hollow (Fox)
Top 10 odd/intriguing facts from the original CBS Dallas series
My first summer in Dallas turned out to be blazing hot on two fronts -- the then record-setting string of 100 degree days and the worldwide guessing game over "Who Shot J.R.?" on the cliffhanger night of March 21, 1980.
Because of a Screen Actors Guild strike, the answer would have to wait until the night of Nov. 21, 1980, when Dallas set an all-time ratings record that held until the M*A*S*H finale broke it on Feb. 28, 1983.
But these are pretty well-known facts about the most popular serial drama in TV history. As TNT prepares to fire up its new Dallas series on Wednesday, June 13th, here's a top 10 list of odds and ends that you'll likely be reading about for the first time. Reference points are my personal experiences and the extraordinarily comprehensive 25 Years of Dallas book by Barbara A. Curran.
10. Victoria Principal is conspicuously absent from TNT's Dallas re-do, which marks the full-blown returns of Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy in addition to recurring cameos by Ken Kercheval, Charlene Tilton and Steve Kanaly.
In fact, Principal has made just one return to an official Dallas project since leaving the series after the May 15, 1987 episode. She participated in CBS' Nov. 7, 2004 Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork, made for the network by Henry "The Fonz" Winkler's production company.
In a telephone interview back then, Principal said she had distanced herself from Dallas because "I felt confined by the role of Pam Ewing . . . It was necessary for me to leave in order to have a career."
She hadn't returned to the city in 17 years. "I really did not fully appreciate what was going to happen to me emotionally when I agreed to do the reunion," she said. "When we landed, I wanted to drive through the city. And I was startled to find myself crying. I didn't know that I had missed Dallas. I didn't know that the skyline was so firmly imprinted in my heart . . . Most of the cast knows I'm not a weepy person, but I cried at the drop of a hat. It was just a flood of wonderment and memories. And finally for me, something I didn't know that I needed. Which was closure."
9. Jim Davis, who played patriarch Jock Ewing, died in his sleep on April 26, 1981 at age 65. Larry Hagman was unable to attend his beloved TV daddy's funeral when his plane was detained by a London airport strike.
8. Hagman's second liver is now more than 16 years old. Without a transplant he would have died. On location at Southfork Ranch in March 1996 for the CBS movie Dallas: J.R. Returns, he pronounced himself clean, sober and ready to celebrate the six-month anniversary of his $350,000 surgery.
"See those little white capsules? A hundred bucks apiece!" he exclaimed before downing another handful of his mandatory medication.
Hagman estimated that his pills alone cost $90,000 annually, and are paid for by the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild.
"But there are lots of little ancillary things that you have pick up," he noted. "I guess it costs me about 10 grand a year, tops. What do poor people do that don't have any coverage? I mean, they just die, I guess."
7. A then unknown Brad Pitt guest-starred in four episodes during Season 10 as frisky teenager Randy. Here's a clip of him getting a talking-to from ranch foreman Ray Krebbs:
6. Dallas, originally billed as a five-part miniseries, premiered on the night of April 2, 1978 opposite two Sunday night movies, Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter on ABC and Love's Dark Ride on NBC. The latter was a made-for-TV throwaway about an advertising advertiser who sought to rebuild his life after being blinded in a gun accident. The principal stars were Cliff Potts, Jane Seymour and Carrie Snodgress.
5. Hagman's strikingly candid 2001 autobiography, Hello Darlin', reveals that he took his first LSD trip with singer David Crosby. And he liked it very much.
"You lose your ego" while on acid, he told me during a stop in Dallas to promote the book. "It led me into having no fear of death, because you've been there, done that on LSD. And it ain't so bad. Matter of fact, it's wonderful."
4. Only two cast members stayed with the original Dallas series for its entire 356-episode run -- Hagman and Ken Kercheval, who has a recurring role in the TNT re-do as the oft-beaten but never bowed Cliff Barnes.
"Cliff loses, but Cliff is not a loser," Kercheval insisted during one of the show's two-month summer sojourns in Dallas. "He is the most resilient human being in the world. To take the punishment that this guy has taken, and be willing to come back and face the most formidable foe on television. That's not a loser -- not in my book!"
3. Linda Gray and Dallas' late executive producer, Leonard Katzman, often didn't see eye to eye on the show's treatment of women.
Katzman lamented the direction of the 1985-86 season, which he sat out because of creative differences with co-executive producer Philip Capice.
"J.R. was totally dominated by every woman in the show," he told me in an interview. "He walked around with his hat in his hand and said, 'Yes ma'am.' Strong men don't necessarily mean weak women, but I certainly don't think we can have any of our men dominated by the women."
Gray, whose Sue Ellen was a besotted mess in Dallas' formative seasons, returned fire when offered the chance.
"Dallas has always been a male-oriented show, and yes, I was dissatisfied when our producer said it was a show about strong men, " she said. "My problem with Sue Ellen was that she had become a victim. She drank, had an affair, sobered up and then drank and had another affair. Meanwhile, all of the women in the world were struggling to drop that image and get out of that perpetual hamster-in-a-cage role.
"Even though we were doing make-believe on Dallas, there came a time for me when I was bored with that role. I told them that, and I met with a little resistance. But they made some changes, and Sue Ellen was no longer a one-note character."
2. With filming pushed back by another actors' strike, the original Dallas shot its last on-location scene in Dallas at the Million Dollar Saloon in November, 1988. It was for Season 11, with the final two seasons shot entirely in Los Angeles.
Hagman's J.R. mostly was called on to ogle a topless dancer who shook her hardware in close proximity during multiple "takes." Duffy had the day off, but showed up anyway to twit his old pal from a balcony on what a "giving" actor he'd become for these particular scenes. Hagman seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself, as did the crew. Subtitled "The Switch," the episode eventually aired on Feb. 3, 1989.
1. In that crazy "Who Shot J.R.?" summer of 1980, Hagman and his wife Maj hosted a mega-gaggle of TV writers at their beachfront Malibu home. It proved to be a night for the ages, with Hagman rushing out to save a Texas flag from a close encounter with a fire pit during one of the rare times he could extricate himself from an air-tight circle of questioners.
Later in the evening, next door neighbor Burgess Meredith offered the use of his toilets after the Hagmans' commodes began suffering from over-use. It's now a long time ago, but still a very easy night to remember. "Who shot J.R.'s septic tank?" Sometimes those lead sentences just write themselves.
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MTSU basketball ranked for the first time in school history
For the first time in school history, MTSU's men's basketball has been ranked in the Top 25.
MTSU basketball ranked for the first time in school history For the first time in school history, MTSU's men's basketball has been ranked in the Top 25. Check out this story on dnj.com: http://on.dnj.com/2mx5N3t
Aldo Giovanni Amato, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee Published 12:04 p.m. CT March 6, 2017 | Updated 4:11 p.m. CT March 6, 2017
PHOTOS: MTSU men's basketball tops FAU on senior day
MTSU's Reggie Upshaw Jr. (30) is surprised by his brother Chase Upshaw during the the senior day recognition before the game against Florida Atlantic on Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
MTSU's Antwain Johnson (2) goes up for a shot as Florida Atlantic's Frank Booker (11) guards him on Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
MTSU's Reggie Upshaw Jr. (30) moves around the court as Florida Atlantic's Adonis Filer (0) guards him on Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
MTSU's JaCorey Williams (22) goes up for a shot as Florida Atlantic's Ronald Delph (33) guards him on Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
MTSU's JaCorey Williams(22) goes up for a shot between Florida Atlantic's Jeantal Cylla (1) and Adonis Filer (0) on Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
MTSU's Giddy Potts (20) goes up for a shot under the basket during the game against Florida Atlantic on Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
MTSU's Regie Upshaw Jr. (30) goes up for a shot as Florida Atlantic's Jeantal Cylla (1) guards him on Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
MTSU's Giddy Potts (20) goes up for a three-point-shot during the game against Florida Atlantic on Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
Reggie Upshaw (right) and his brother Gage embrace before Saturday's game against FAU. Aldo Amato/DNJ
MTSU Men beat Florida Atlantic 93-59 on senior night and the last season home game Saturday, March 4, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ
After being snubbed on Conference USA's first and second teams, standout guard Giddy Potts (20) could be playing with a chip on his shoulder. HELEN COMER / File / DNJ
MTSU standout forward JaCorey Williams (22) returns home to Birmingham for the second time in two weeks. HELEN COMER/DNJ
Giddy Potts and the Blue Raiders entered the USA Today Coaches Poll on Monday.(Photo: HELEN COMER / File / DNJ)Buy Photo
MURFREESBORO — The MTSU men's basketball team is ranked in the Top 25 for the first time in school history.
The Blue Raiders (27-4,17-1 Conference USA) were ranked No. 25 in the USA Today Coaches Poll on Monday following their regular-season finale Saturday.
MTSU, which got 20 points in the poll last week, moved up four spots after receiving 30 this week.
"I am just awfully proud of the work these guys have put in," coach Kermit Davis said. "It's great for the Middle Tennessee brand, the fans and this university."
Other coaches who vote in the weekly poll must've heard Davis after Saturday's win over Florida Atlantic when Davis said he'd "give anything for MTSU to be ranked."
Kermit: "I'd give anything for our school and our team to get ranked this week. That'd be really cool for our players."
— Aldo Amato (@Aldo_Amato) March 5, 2017
"Just to be ranked in the last regular-season poll by these coaches that have seen your whole body of work means something," Davis said on Monday. "For a guy like me (who) has been invested for 15 years and see how much our program has grown.
"I am just so proud for our university."
Although this is the first time MTSU has been ranked in the Top 25, the Blue Raiders have picked up votes since early December in both the USA Today Coaches and AP Top 25 polls.
MTSU picked up 28 points in the AP Top 25 released Monday, which would put it 26th in the country.
Earlier in the season, Davis said he'd like for MTSU to become the next Butler, VCU or Gonzaga, a mid-major program that is constantly on the national scene.
Davis said that Monday's ranking was only a step toward that goal, but an important step nonetheless.
"It's another great step to gain national recognition," Davis said. "It's a good feeling and another step towards where we want to go."
MTSU won the Conference USA regular-season title outright last week ahead of its conference tournament, which begins Thursday in Birmingham, Ala.
The Blue Raiders won the conference tournament last year, advanced to the NCAA Tournament and shocked No. 2-seeded Michigan State in the program's biggest win.
After Saturday's win over FAU, MTSU set a C-USA men's basketball mark for most conference wins in a single season and placed three players (JaCorey Williams, Giddy Potts and Reggie Upshaw) on all-conference lists.
No. 25 MTSU (27-4, 17-1 C-USA) vs. WKU or UTSA
When: 11:30 a.m. Thursday
Where: Legacy Arena (Birmingham, Ala.)
Lady Raiders notch 13th consecutive win over FIU
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Oakland football players learn a lot about recruiting process
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Brain gain: An MBA no longer enough to land the perfect job back in Africa
In the 1980s and 1990s millions of skilled Africans went abroad in search of greener pastures. At the time the continent was largely characterised by disease, poverty, war and dictatorship. In recent years, a reverse of the brain drain has been happening with some Africans starting to troop back home.
Nonnie Wanjihia is glad to be back in Kenya after spending many years abroad.
Veronica Anam-Waiyaki, a partner at Human Capital Synergies Africa (HCA), a Kenya-based human resources company, attributes the exodus to the economic troubles in developed economies at a time that Africa's future is looking brighter than ever.
"Many times when I talk to candidates… they say they want to come back home. These are people who are extremely experienced. They have had quite a bit of education; some have been to Ivy League schools and have lived abroad for years. One thing that could be attracting them is the economic opportunities and the fact that Africa is now seen as the next frontier, yet they are seeing their opportunities in the US and Europe somewhat dwindling," she says.
A 2012 survey by pan-African private equity firm Jacana Partners showed 70% of Africans studying towards an MBA at leading Western business schools were willing to return to Africa to work after graduation.
"If you ever put an advert on LinkedIn you will get so many people applying from across the world. Recently we put in an advert for a French speaking Kenyan internal auditor. It was [a] very unusual [job posting] but we were bombarded with applications. That is how I know that people are looking for jobs," says Anam-Waiyaki.
However, she explains that finding a job back home can be "very hard" depending on one's area of expertise.
"If you come back home with an MBA you will find many other people with the same qualification and even PhDs in business. You need to have something that is a notch above everyone else. I know people who have come back home to look for jobs and within a year or two they have gone back abroad because they did not necessarily plan their entry back into the country well enough."
She adds that gone are the days when having academic qualifications from a university in the west was a guarantee to get a job.
"During my days that was the case. You came home with an MBA and people were scrambling to get you but within five years of my return almost everyone has an MBA. So you lose that bargaining power. You need to come back with a plan [and] with added value. There are some new specialities that are coming up that we don't have here so if you have one of those qualifications possibly you will find a job quickly," says Anam-Waiyaki.
The transition is not easy
Nonnie Wanjihia is the executive director of the East Africa Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EAVCA). Wanjihia studied law at the University of Bristol in England and lived abroad for a total of nine years.
She decided to come back to Kenya in 2011 because she felt "homesick" and was tired of living far away from her family. Wanjihia explains that she did not make arrangements before relocating, adding that once back in Kenya finding a job "was very frustrating". Wanjihia had worked in London for three years.
"It took me two months to get a job. What was frustrating was the uncertainty; not knowing when I would get back into employment. It is quite difficult and you really have to be patient because it does take a while before one gets a job, but in the end you land on your feet."
Even after finding a job, Wanjihia had to take a pay cut from what she was earning in London.
"I moved home, so essentially I saved on rent and in that sense I think I was lucky. Some people take even half the pay they were getting abroad while a few are able to get the same amount here," says Wanjihia.
Martin Kiarie, co-founder of digital marketing agency Bean Interactive, left his whole family in the UK and moved back to Kenya to start his business. Although he was optimistic about the opportunities back home, Kiarie says the transition was hard.
"I had a job at the Royal Bank of Scotland. I was offered a job at Microsoft and I turned it down to come and start a business here. It was very hard. I was earning comfortable money in the UK and I came back to start a new business… I have always taken a long-term approach so I am not really moved by short-term salary gains. I think the potential in Kenya and Africa is huge," says Kiarie.
Don't return for the pay cheque
Wanjihia explains that fitting into the workplace can be tricky, especially if one has spent many years abroad. Although her new colleagues at work were friendly and understanding, small things made life difficult.
"[Things] like sending an email and not getting a timely response and language barriers because my Swahili was not up to scratch, made it difficult. It is such small things that make you want to bang your head in frustration."
However, Wanjihia says she is glad to be back, despite the challenges. "I am so happy to be home. I can't imagine leaving."
Kiarie says in the long-term the sacrifices one has to make are worthwhile. Living in developed countries, he says, gives one exposure and opens the mind to new things, but coming home eventually is important because "Africa is hungry for innovative ideas" and value-centric businesses. He explains that one should not be put off by short-term tradeoffs like a pay cut and the difficulties of fitting in.
Whether or not coming back home is worth the effort depends on one's motivation, notes Anam-Waiyaki.
"Of course you have people who say they never want to come back home but there are also people who are passionate about their country and want to come and contribute to development. So in that sense, yes it is worth it. You may be getting lower pay but hopefully you can see the results of what you are contributing to your country," she says.
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Wisconsin State Journal: Local tech startups to pilot projects for the U.S. Air Force
Two local advanced-technology companies — Rapid Imaging and Holos — have signed initial contracts with the U.S. Air Force — and each one could hold much bigger prospects if the government likes their work.
Rapid Imaging, Middleton, provides augmented-reality (AR) technology. That means it can overlay information over a live video. For example, it can add mapping features to a location where video is being streamed.
RAPID IMAGING
"Wherever that camera is looking, we bring in geographic information, like roads and streets, or maybe it's the perimeter of the base they're protecting that gets overlaid in real time," CEO David Geisler said.
"Like in football, how they superimpose the down line — we do that for the battlefield," he said. Read the full story here.


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NSEL Case – An Ad Hoc for the Complete Annihilation Of Jignesh Shah
By diazS
The whole world was taken by storm when a major crisis broke out at Jignesh Shah's NSEL. A substantial amount of Rs 5600 crore was lost in the crisis. Many brokers and investors lost their money, and NSEL was barred from launching any new contracts resulting in its abrupt shutdown. Right after the crisis went public, many officials of NSEL and FTIL including Jignesh Shah, the founder of Financial Technologies India Limited (FTIL), came under the radar of suspicion of various investigative agencies.
After the investigation started, many officials were detained by the CBI. Even though no hard evidence was found against Jignesh Shah, he was interrogated multiple times. The first generation entrepreneur had complete faith in the judicial system of the country and offered complete cooperation with the authorities to track down the money.
On 7th May, Jignesh Shah was summoned by the Economic Wings Officer and taken into custody under the grounds of non-cooperation. The sudden decision was very shocking for the Indian media and it spread like a drop of oil in a pool. Even after his complete cooperation and help to track down the money, he was taken into custody. Later, it was disclosed that the order for arresting Jignesh Shah was delivered by some higher official.
This was not the first attack on Jignesh Shah. He and his initiatives have long been targeted by politicians and corrupt officials for their vested interests. With path-breaking initiatives, Jignesh Shah distributed the power from the hands of the few and ended the monopoly in the market. Since then, he is facing a continuous 'Saga of Injustice'. His exchanges MCX and FTIL were raided but, nothing was found. FTIL was forbidden from having a strategic stake in exchanges, and MCX-SX was refused to launch equity and debt market segments. Also, FTIL was banned from launching trades in USD-INR contracts. Heavy commodity transaction tax was also imposed on trading of gold and metals in which an FTIL subsidiary was a leading organization.
Coming to a conclusion with so many loose ends is not possible. But, the prejudices and involvement of higher authorities are directing towards a propaganda that has been weaved to bring down Jignesh Shah and his global empire.
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Queen Sheba, a charming Ethiopian restaurant on Broadway @17th. Ethiopian food is more communal than almost any other type of ethnic food. The hallmark of Ethiopian cuisine consists of sharing food on one giant plate and using enjera a spongy, sour, pliable flat bread to scoop up the various shared dishes. enjera is the common thread of almost every meal for Ethiopia's middle and upper classes. Prepared much as it was 1,000 years ago, enjera is both an eating utensil and a palette for other foods to lie on. It lines the giant plate, soaking up the sauces and spices of the various dishes piled on top. The eating of this lining or "tablecloth" signifies that the meal is officially over, completing the communal Ethiopian dining experience. "Subscribers Choice Awards" Zion Taddese and her brother Eskinder opened Queen Sheba Restaurant on Howe Avenue in August of 2003 and have recently move their location to 1704 Broadway downtown Sacramento which is a larger restaurant that allows them to serve more customers. Together, the siblings offer friendly and attentive service along with spicy, flavorful dishes that follow the traditions of Ethiopian dining. You can enjoy, the famed honey wine, tej, which Ethiopians often make themselves, with a unique taste that complements the spices in the food. Combination plates on the menu, allow you to sample different dishes arranged symmetrically on a giant plate. Dishes such as Gomen, a dish of cooked spinach, collard greens, onions and garlic. Gomen may remind you of collards in soul-food cooking. Then experience, miser kik wot (wot meaning "stew"), a satisfying, mild-flavored dish made with lentils and spices. In the combination you will find two similar-tasting dishes, doro wot and gored gored. Doro wot is a popular dish with chicken leg and hard-boiled egg, served on a dark bed of simmered vegetables and spices. It has the color, consistency and heat of a fiery chili. Doro wot is of the chicken family, the gored gored has cubes of beef in a similar mixture, spiced in Ethiopian fashion, with berbere. Berbere, a mix of at least a dozen spices, including paprika, ginger, cardamom, hot chilies and turmeric, giving Ethiopian foods their distinct flavors.
In addition to these we have many Vegetarian and Vegan dishes for you to enjoy. You'll end your dining experience eating the large "tablecloth" Enjera, which is soaked with the sauces and spices of the various dishes. Finish with coffee, coffee drinking has a great significance in Ethiopia. Ceremonial in nature, beans are freshly roasted, ground and brewed and then served in tiny cups with sugar but no milk. Drink three cupfuls for a blessing. The flavors and customs of Ethiopian dining will provide you with the experience of food from the "cradle of civilization".


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I was in Galway for a few hours today to see the moon…more about that in another post but while I was there I took a walk to my old stomping ground of Woodquay where my Nan lived.
It's strange because the house looks the same from the front and although there's now an extension at the back the landing window where the stray cats used to congregate still looks much the same.
The alleyway at the back looks smaller than I remember. I used to play ball down there and hop across the back wall to another girls house. I also used to visit a girl called Clare who lived at number 10 – until my Nan found out she wasn't catholic and put a stop to our friendship.
As I walked down the road I could almost hear echoes of my Nan. She used to go round the house saying 'Maw, Paw Kettle' – and spit on the range. I've no idea why she did it. I could hear the drunken family gatherings where everyone would sing Spancil Hill and someone usually ended up crying – not me either. I could picture us hanging out of the bedroom window the day we lost my Nan, lost as in lost – not lost as in died, we were meant to be going out for the day and my Nan was going to Mass (as usual). Only she didn't come home. Hours later we heard the religious procession coming down the road and there she was at the front leading it!
I could see my dad the day he fell through the scullery roof and landed in the sink as my Nan was washing up. He saved the Sacred Heart picture from smashing as he caught it on the way down. I don't think she ever recovered.
I remember the many times Bishop Eamon Casey used to visit the house. He'd always be given a substantial amount of money or a whole salmon….random. My Nan thought the world of him.
Walking further down the road I walked past the B&B which used to belong to Grealish family. They were one of the first in the area with a telephone and we used to have to phone them to talk to my Nan. I remember many a happy day in their house listening to music; Fade to Grey by Visage and Games without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel spring to mind.
I carried on walking and saw what used to be known as the 'huckster' shop. It was owned by a man called Danny and his son. They were lovely people and I'd often be down there getting the 'messages' (shopping).
I walked around Nuns' Island. I had no idea it was right in the city. I used to spend time with the family who looked after the nuns, I remember watching hurling and GAA with them. The Poor Clare convent is there, I remember watching the sisters behind a gate in the church, I was told they weren't allowed to speak and I thought it was very sad. My mother used to contact the Poor Clares for everything; exams coming up, illness in the family, good intentions – you name it the Poor Clares were asked to pray for it.
I remember my dad driving down the Headford Road singing Buffalo Solider. I remember taking long trips to Connemara to see various cousins and wondering why they only had a one-roomed cottage. We used to go to a hotel with Brother David – for years I thought he was actually my brother. He always used to bring me gigantic boxes of chocolates with pretty pictures on the front.
It's strange the things that you remember when you walk back down memory lane.