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Fallout Continues For Jason Aldean Following His Wife's Transphobic Remarks
The backlash is continuing for country star Jason Aldean after his wife, Brittany Kerr Aldean, made a series of transphobic remarks on Instagram. Many big names have spoken out against Brittany, and it looks like Aldean is suffering the consequences. Here's what's happened so far.
It all started with a makeup video Brittany posted to Instagram. "I'd really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life," she captioned the video. Aldean chimed in on the comments, "Lmao!! Im glad they didn't too, cause you and I wouldn't have worked out."
Many country stars blasted Brittany for her comments, including Maren Morris and Cassadee Pope. "You'd think celebs with beauty brands would see the positives in including LGBTQ+ people in their messaging," Pope wrote on Instagram. "But instead here we are, hearing someone compare their 'tomboy phase' to someone wanting to transition. Real nice."
Morris also added her two cents, writing, "It's so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie." The social media dust-up is also affecting Brittany's husband.
Jason Aldean Suffers The Consequences
The GreenRoom PR, the country star's public relations firm of 17 years, just dropped him as a client. Tyne Parrish, co-owner of the company, stated, "Music has always been and remains The GreenRoom's core focus, so we had to make the difficult decision after 17 years to step away from representing Jason."
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"We aren't the best people for the gig anymore, but will always be big fans of his music—he is one of the greatest live entertainers in country music," Parrish concluded. All this bad press doesn't seem to be slowing Brittany down, though.
Brittany Claims Her 'Words Have Been Taken Out Of Context'
She has shared a series of statements to Instagram, with one saying her "words have been taken out of context over the last week." Brittany also hit back at the comments Pope made in an Instagram story.
In addition to the post, Brittany also shared a lengthy story tagging Cassadee Pope and attacking gender-affirming care, as well as the parents of trans youths. Brittany's transphobic comments seem to already had have one negative effect on her husband's career, but only time will tell if this social media storm will do any more damage to Aldean's music career.
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This mortgage trick can help condo buyers and sellers save big on taxes
October 28, 2014 - 1:59pm
By Virginia K. Smith
It's hard to believe that condo buyers or sellers would ever skip a chance to save money on a deal for an apartment, but a classic trick—one that investors often use in the world of commercial real estate—is still flying under the radar of everyday New Yorkers.
Sometimes called a splitter, it's officially known as a Purchase Consolidation Extension and Modification Agreement, or Purchase CEMA. It works like this: if the seller is still paying off her mortgage, and the buyer needs to get a mortgage himself, the buyer can take on the seller's loan, potentially saving both sides thousands of dollars in transaction taxes. It can also be a smart card to play in negotiations—a way for the parties to cut costs without the seller lowering the price.
So why isn't everyone doing it? Well, it's a complicated, lawyer-intensive transaction and it only works in certain situations. "It is a little bit more work for everybody but overall there's a large amount of savings," explains Larry Trinkwald, an attorney with real estate law firm Katz & Matz.
Check out our primer, below, and see if it's right for you:
HOW MUCH CAN I SAVE?
Normally, buyers have to pay a state tax on the full dollar figure of any mortgage, known as a mortgage recording tax. With a CEMA, however, a buyer is only required to pay the tax on the so-called "new money," the funds that they borrow from the bank, and not the portion that they take on from the seller.
For instance, if you're buying a $1 million dollar property and taking out an $800,000 mortgage, you'd be taxed on the full amount of the loan at a rate of 1.925 percent, totaling $15,400. (For sales under $500,000, the mortgage recording tax rate is 1.8 percent.) But if the seller assigns you their $300,000 mortgage, you'd only pay taxes on the remainder of your financing—$500,000—reducing your bill to $9,625, a savings of nearly $6,000.
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Meanwhile, the seller will save on a portion of their New York state transfer tax, too, via something called a "continuing lien reduction." Jerry Feeney, a real estate attorney who regularly works out CEMAs for clients, explains this as such: if you're the seller assigning off your $300,000 mortgage on a $1 million property, instead of paying transfer tax on the full sale price, you'll only pay taxes on $700,000, or the sale price minus the amount of the mortgage that's getting handed over to the buyer. State transfer tax amounts to $2 per every $500 of the apartment's value, says Feeney. So to calculate your potential savings, just figure out what the tax would have been on the value of your mortgage by dividing it by 500 and multiplying it by 2. For the $300,000 loan, that'd be $1,200. For the final sale, your transfer taxes will come to $2,800 instead of $4,000. Since the savings are so much more significant on the buyer's side, buyers will often offer to throw some of the saved money the seller's way to coax them into a deal.
WHO CAN DO IT?
At a minimum, both parties must have a mortgage—so no all-cash buyers and no sellers who've paid off their home loans.
Beyond that, the arrangement is most common in new construction condos where the building's developer (the sponsor) sells off portions of the loan it used to build the project (the underlying mortgage) to buyers. This is also easier because the developer already has a legal team in place to handle the "splitter."
It also depends on how big each party's mortgage is. Fees for lawyers, banks, and so on can get high (more on this later). "Usually a mortgage of over $400,000 is when this deal starts to be worthwhile, otherwise the fees just eat up the savings," says Feeney.
Also, CEMAs are a non-starter in co-ops, where, because of the structure of ownership, mortgage recording taxes don't apply. They do work with single-family houses, however.
HOW DO I SET IT UP?
"The first step in all this is to make sure that the seller wants to do this," says Corey M. Gindi, a real estate attorney with AGMB. Because of all the different factors involved, "it's not necessarily a known quantity at the negotiation stage if it will work and what the savings will be," says Feeney. Still, float the idea with the seller early on, he suggests, and when you first go into contract, have a written stipulation that both parties will cooperate.
If you're buying a sponsor unit, you may want to bypass the listing broker, says broker Mike Akerly of the Aguayo team at Halstead Property Development Marketing, since they may not know much about these deals. (Indeed, brokers we chatted with on the subject had heard of CEMAs, but never actually helped facilitate them.) Instead, take your query to the development's project manager, who may well have instructions from the sponsor to set up a CEMA if a buyer requests one.
After that, you'll have to find out if both your bank and the seller's accept this type of deal, and whether documentation on the apartment known as the chain of assignments is available and accurate. There are more problems with this than you'd think. For example, Feeney tells us, if the sellers had a CEMA from the prior owner, they'll need the complete chain of assignments "duly executed and recorded" in order to support the new mortgage. If everything's a go, you'll sign a little extra paperwork at the closing, and walk away with a new apartment and extra money in the bank.
WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES?
Unfortunately, there are plenty. Some banks won't assign mortgages, and plenty of real estate lawyers hesitate to dive into the extra paperwork. "[CEMAs] are a pain in the ass to do, so people don't want to," says Feeney. "Lawyers have a lot on their plate and this is one more moving part to worry about." If this is something you're interested in pursuing, consider your lawyer's stance on CEMAs before you commit to hiring him or her.
And then there are the fees. Lawyers will charge extra for the service, generally between $600 and $800, according to Feeney. The seller's lender (and sometimes the lender's lawyer) will charge fees on top of that. The total cost will generally add up to a few thousand dollars (hence why you'd only want to do this when there are big ticket savings at stake). "The buyer will pretty much always reimburse the seller for fees on their end, and this factors into early negotiations," Katz & Matz's Trinkwald says.
Between securing information, permission, and extra paperwork from banks, a CEMA can also add around six weeks of extra time to a deal, not exactly appealing if both parties are looking to close in a hurry. To work around this, Feeney advises, your attorney should submit all requests for paperwork as soon as you go into contract, so that by the time closing rolls around, your splitter—if it's successful—will be a done deal.
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Paul Casey expects he can take his form to the BMW PGA Championship after winning his third title.
The Englishman made a round of 66 to clinch victory.
Casey birdied the 16th and 17th holes at a dramatic finale to finish one shot at Bernd Ritthammer, Matthias Schwab and Bob MacIntyre.
It's Casey first win on European soil since the KLM Open in 2014 but his attention has turned into the PGA Championship.
"I'm very excited, I love that golf course," said Casey. "I've got two successes about there [he won the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth in 2006].
"You speak about the European Open and viewing it as a child; Wentworth is the place it started for me"
Casey started the last one stroke behind Ritthammer and MacIntyre but pulled apparent on the home stretch with all both the sixth and fifth birdies.
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Q: I have all negatives in (some) of my folds in cross validation. Seeking best way to calculate AUC using R in this scenario? Problem
The title explains my problem. I cannot calculate AUC as things currently stand because some of my data sets have only negatives. I have three possible solutions and I need input from more experienced statisticians. I am still a learner and my research has not revealed to me an appropriate methodology to address this issue.
Further Details
I am doing k fold cross validation in R where k = 1. I have 12 independent data sets (which recorded the same observations). Therefore, I will have a fold that looks like this which will give me problems:
training: 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 testing: 4
I've got some R code to calculate the AUC. Given the above, I use the training for my trainingDataSet. The testingDataSet is comprised of data set 4.
model<-glm(a ~ b + c + d, family = binomial(link = 'logit'), data = trainingDataSet)

p <- predict(model, newdata=testingDataSet, type="response")

pr <- prediction(p, testingDataSet$a)

The error it gives is as follows:
Error in prediction(p, testingDataSet$a) :
  Number of classes is not equal to 2.
ROCR currently supports only evaluation of binary classification tasks.

This is because my testingData only has negative numbers. I'll provide the following R code to show you. Please see:
testingDataSet$a.
> unique(testingDataSet$a)
[1] 0

Perhaps a more robust way to show you is to show you the entire training set variable we are trying to predict for:
> testingDataSet$a
 [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Thus, we have a training set that is comprised of all negatives. I have another fold that is similar.
Question
I have three solutions that I believe can solve the issues I am facing. Clearly, the last two proposed solutions I think are very poor solutions, but some I have read in data science forums and included them here to be thorough. That said, I feel they are very ill advised.

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*Throw out k cross validation for k = 1 and k = 2. I have two datasets that have all negatives. I need testing and training validations that have both negatives and positives. I can then choose k = 3 and k = 4 for instance.

*Remove the datasets that have all negative results. (Bad idea)

*Compute AUC as 5.0 when given a data set with all negative results. (Bad idea)
This is the first time I have encountered this problem. I deeply appreciate your mentorship and assistance to a learner and what is considered best practice in this scenario. I think I have found it above, but definitely open to further suggestions or more formal statistical methodology here that I am not aware of. Thank you for your time and for reading this question.

A: A couple things...
AUC (generally) provides a measure of prediction accuracy when comparing a continuous prediction (say, probability between 0 and 1) to a binary response (true 0 or 1), which I assume is what you have going on here. The closer to 1 and 0 that your model predicts for true 1s and 0s, respectively, the higher the AUC. A random model results in AUC = 0.5 (not 5.0).
Generally we would refer to "k" as the number of folds in your validation (so you can't really validate with k=1). You actually seem to have k=14, and you're witholding 1 fold at a time (which is typical).
More information on your actual data would be useful. As is, I can only speak in generalities.
The problem...
AUC works by comparing (at a full breadth of thresholds) the false positive (FP) rate with the true positive (TP) rate. If your threshold is 0, all predictions will = 1, all true 1s will be TPs, but all true 0s will be FPs. With a threshold of 1, all predictions will = 0, and the opposite outcome will occur.
In order to calculate this balance of TP and FP, AUC requires at least one of each true binary value (0 or 1), otherwise it has no data on one of the two: FP or TP. So you can't run the test with only a single unique value of truth. So you need to figure out a different way of defining your folds. But how do you do that?
Without any decent information on exactly what you're measuring, it's impossible to say for sure. One thing is certain: you need the folds to be independent. In other words, you can't just randomly assign your data into folds and expect an unbiased validation. Issues of data structure and autocorrelation will make this validation overly-optimistic (you'll think your model is better than it is). You call your folds "independent", but if you have underlying structure in your predictors, you model may still be overfit, which will also bias your validations.
The solution...
One simple strategy would be to group folds together, ensuring that you have at least one (preferably more) of each true response (0 and 1) in each fold. The closer to equal prevalence you have (equal 0s and 1s), the more reliable the AUC will be (I believe, but check on that).
There is no hard-and-fast rule about how many folds you should use (i.e. the ideal value of k). Hastie et al (2009) and Kohavi (1995) have discussed this. Ideally, you want folds 1) to be [as] independent [as possible], 2) to contain enough data to make reasonable validations, and 3) to not force the model to extrapolate (i.e. in predictor space) when predicting to the withheld data (unless you specifically want to test this).
When grouping folds together, to maintain as much independence as possible, you'll want the most similar folds to be grouped together. This will maximise the independence between the training and testing data (see Roberts et al 2016). By this, I don't mean the most similar data values. I mean the most similar in quality (e.g. similar location, same experimental units, similar time, etc.). It's impossible to say specifically, as you've given no information on your data.
Without a better understanding of your actual analysis, that's about all the help I can offer.
Hastie, T. et al. 2009. "The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction." Springer Verlag.
Kohavi, R. 1995. "A study of cross-validation and bootstrap for accuracy estimation and model selection." The Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artifical Intelligence. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 1137-1143.
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New Delhi: The country's exports of finished steel fell 37.3 per cent to 5.15 million tonne (MT) in the April-January period of the current financial year, according to official data.
The country had exported 8.22 MT of finished steel during the corresponding period a year ago, the Joint Plant Committee (JPC) said in its latest report.
The imports of the total finished steel grew 1.5 per cent to 6.55 MT during April-January of 2018-18, compared with 6.45 MT in the year-ago period.
During January this year, the exports stood at 0.47 MT, down by 22.8 per cent from 0.61 MT in January, it said.
"India was a net importer of total finished steel in April-January 2018-19 and imports stood at 0.638 MT in January 2019, up by 79.2 per cent over January 2018," the JPC said.
Production of the total finished steel, the JPC said, grew 4.4 per cent to 109.18 MT from 104.56 MT in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.
In January, the production of finished steel at 11.58 MT was up by 1.8 per cent over January 2018.
During April-January 2018-19, "India's consumption of the total finished steel saw a growth of 7.8 per cent at 79.96 MT over the same period of last year, under the influence of a rising indigenous supply side. Consumption stood at 8.411 MT in January 2019, up by 6. per cent over January 2018," the JPC said. India has set a target of ramping up its steel production capacity and per-capita steel consumption to 300 MT and 160 kg, respectively, by 2030-31.


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Q: Generate a random integer within a given range AND is even ONLY I am having trouble generating this code which I'm sure I'm just in a coder's block or something because it seems as though it should be easy but can't get it for the life of me.
I have a program which needs random numbers generated within a certain range which is to represent money. The stipulation is that the money need be in between 2 and 200 and represent only even dollars only so $2, $4, $6...so on. I have done extensive searching online which yield a bounty of code to represent random numbers in a range in java but not the part about being only even.
Any ideas?

A: If you wanted to be clever, you could make sure the least significant bit of the number is not set:
int num = (new Random().nextInt(199) & ~1) + 2;

This will ensure that the number is always even.
Thanks Eyal Shneider and Omaha

Marcelo's comment from the OP is the correct answer, though.
Get a number between 1-100, and multiple by 2:
int num = (new Random().nextInt(100) + 1) * 2;

A: int rand = new Random.nextInt(200);
int result = 2;
while(result < rand) {
    result += 2;
}
return result;

(I'd make it recursive but I've got to go meet my wife for dinner.)


I have bought ThinkPad X1 Yoga and installed Ubuntu 16.04. All works, except LTE modem (Sierra EM7455).
So, when all patches for support this modek will be released to the Linux Kernel?
I'm not a Linux user nor expert anything Linux related.
But, let me inform you Linux kernel starting at 3.8+ comes with new "CDC MBIM" driver. MBIM capabilities are enough to support modern LTE modems w/out manufacturer's drivers.
So, google a bit, I hope you'll find a solution.
The final part of the EM7455 Linux driver support is going in Linux v4.7 which will be released in a couple of weeks. It will also be backported to the currently maintained stable kernels, so you should eventually get it through Ubuntu kernel updates.
In addition to that driver fix, you will also need the absolutely latest version (v1.6) of ModemManager, which also requires recent versions of libqmi (v1.16) and libmbim (v1.14). The reason for this is that the Lenovo version of the EM7455 is configured with a feature we know as "FCC Auth". It is designed to keep the radio off until the OS has told the modem it is OK to enable it. In Linux, the support for doing this automatically was added in ModemManager v1.6. Which isn't quite ready yet. It is currently at v1.6-rc4 (also known as v1.5.993).
These newest versions of ModemManager, libqmi and libmbim are available in Debian sid (unstable) now. This usually means that they are also availble in Ubuntu, but you might have to wait for the next release before they are default.
I can testify that it works. I am happily using an X1 Carbon in Debian sid, with a fully functional EM7455. I am not using a Debian kernel at the moment though, but a self-built v4.7-rc7. This should not be necessary in a couple of weeks, as I expect Debian sid will move to 4.7 as soon as it is released.
what maximum data speed did you achieve using x1c and em7455? Did the network mode LTE-A work actually during the tests?
what maximum data speed did you achieve using x1c and em7455? Did the network mode LTE-A work actually during the tests? What can you say about USB 3.0 support in the x1c m.2 slot with em7455 installed?
10+20 MHz, in theory, allow to achieve the speed about to 220 Mbps. You tested and mentioned 130 Mbps. Such difference is very significant if it's caused by the USB interface.
At the end of July I hope to get em7455 and use it in the x220 and, later, test in the x1c gen3. But unfortunately I don't watch cellular networks with LTE-A support in my area. So, there will be tests regarding USB support only.
Don't worry about the "TX channel". That's a typo. It is RX.
It varies of course, depending on both the signal and other users. But the absolute max seems to be 130 Mbits/s. I don't actually know what the limiting factor is. Which is why I had high hopes of finally testing with USB3 to eliminate that variable.
If you don't want to wait, you can use the EM7455 modem in Ubuntu 16.04 right now, by upgrading to the respective versions of libqmi (1.16.0), libmbim (1.14.0), and modemmanager (1.6.0) from Yakkety Yak. There is no need to patch the kernel as long as you're on the latest 16.04 kernel, as the latest kernel already includes the necessary kernel patch.


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Q: How to calculate brightness in RGB or HSL color space? I wonder how can I calculate brightness in RGB or HSL color space?
What is the formula of brightness?
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how can I get the brightness of this color


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Freedom Is Worth the Risk
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Elmer Davis discusses the importance of intellectual freedom to freedom and progress, and some of the difficulties that can come with such freedom.
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And now, This I Believe, a series of living philosophies presented in the hope they may help to strengthen and enrich your life. Here is Edward R. Murrow.
This I Believe. My good friend and colleague, Elmer Davis, once said that the business of the radio commentator is a job of adult education. Throughout his distinguished career, he has done just that. Three Peabody awards attest only in part to his accomplishments. Hear now his beliefs.
The philosopher George Santayana, at the age of eighty-eight, admits that things no longer seemed so simple to him as they did fifty years ago. Even those of us who have not reached Mr. Santayana's age must share that feeling; but we must act by
the best light we have, hoping that the light will grow brighter--and we have reason to hope it will, so long as men remain free to think. The most important thing in the world, I believe, is the freedom of the mind. All progress, and all other freedoms, spring from that. It is a dangerous freedom, but this is a dangerous world. You can't think right without running the risk of thinking wrong; but for any evils that may come from thinking, the cure is more thinking. Over much of the world, at present, the freedom of mind is suppressed. We have got to preserve it here, despite the efforts of very earnest men to suppress it--men who say, and perhaps believe, that they are actuated by patriotism, but who are doing their best to destroy the liberties which above all are what the United States of America has meant, to its people and to humanity.
This is perhaps a less personal statement than most of those in this series. If so, it is because a man of my age, in his relation to himself, runs mostly on momentum; and it is a little difficult to look back and figure out what gave him the push, or the various pushes. What he has to consider now is what he can contribute to the present, or the future, as a member of a very peculiar species--possibly even a unique species--which has immense capacities for both good and evil, as it has amply demonstrated during its recorded history. That history to date is--barring some unpredictable cosmic disaster--the barest beginning of what may lie ahead of us. But we happen to live in one of the turning points of history--by no means the first, as it will not be the last; and the future of mankind will be more than usually affected by what we do in this generation.
What should we do? Well, first of all and above all, preserve freedom, and extend it if we can. Beyond that, I don't know how better to define our business than to say that we should try to promote an increase of decency. Decency in the sense of respect for other people; of taking no advantage; of never saying, "This man must be miserable in order that I may be comfortable." This is not as easy as it looks; it's impossible to exist without hurting somebody, however unintentionally. But there are limits. I do not believe that human life is accurately represented by Viggeland's famous sculptured column in Oslo, of people climbing over one another and trampling one another down. The Nazis, when they occupied Norway, greatly admired that sculpture. They would. But the rest of us can do better than that; many men and women in every age have done better, and are doing it still.
The Scottish scientist J. B. S. Haldane once said that the people who can make a positive contribution to human progress are few; that most of us have to be satisfied with merely staving off the inroads of chaos. That is a hard enough job--especially in these times, when those inroads are more threatening than they have been for a long time past. But if we can stave them off, and keep the field clear for the creative intelligence, we can feel that we've done our part toward helping the human race get ahead.
That was commentator Elmer Davis, former head of the OWI, author and playwright, whose life has been guided by the principles of the freedom of the mind.
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The goal is to add fault tolerance to an existing LVM volume or to move a file system on an LVM device from one SAN disk to different SAN disk.
For this procedure an additional disk is needed for each leg of the mirror, plus space for the mirror log device. It is usually best to have a dedicated disk for each leg of the mirror and the mirror log.
Add the additional devices to the volume group containing the pre-existing volume to be mirrored.
The chmod utility relies on the chmod() system call (see man 2 chmod). So you could do this with a few lines of C, or just about any other language that has a wrapper around it (which would be most of them). Very few *nix systems are going to lack a C compiler and a perl interpreter; most linux distros require the later to work.
Backup script to automate gzipped/compressed backups of both databases and website directory content.
Data movement between replicas can be synchronous or asynchronous, with Enterprise Edition allowing up to three replicas (including the primary) as synchronous. An availability group has one fully read/write copy of the database which is on the primary replica, while all secondary replicas cannot receive transactions directly from end users or applications.
Free Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solution. StarWind VSAN Free provides an ample set of virtualization tools for admins, developers, and IT geeks who have the skills necessary to maintain virtualization infrastructures.
VSAN free product is designed for production purposes, POC (Proof of Concept), or test and development.
StarWind Virtual SAN is a virtual shared storagethat comes in two scenarios -for vSphere and for Hyper-V. StarWind eliminates any need for a SAN or NAS or other physical shared storage. StarWind VSAN for Hyper-V installs on top of virtualized or bare metal servers, whereas StarWind VSAN for vSphere comes as a pre-packaged Linux VM. The software "mirrors" internal storage between hypervisor servers to create a fault-tolerant shared storage pool. It integrates into an operating system or hypervisor for performance and simplicity of use.
This seems to also be how you *delete* the existing recovery drive (which is 300-some megabytes) from the PC. This seems to be necessary in order to extend the Window OS system partition?


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Ча́ко (Saltatricula multicolor) — вид горобцеподібних птахів родини саякових (Thraupidae). Мешкає в Південній Америці  .

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Довжина птаха становить 18 см, вага 25 г. Верхня частина тіла піщано-коричнева, за очима широкі білі смуги, на обличчі чорна "маска". Хвіст відносно довгий, східчастий, крайні стернові пера мають білі края. Центральна частина горла біла, бічні сторони шиї і грудей сірі, боки рожевувато-коричневі. У самців очі карі, дзьоб зверху сірий, знизу жовтий, лапи сірі. У молодих птахів дзьоб чорнуватий з тьмяно-жовтими краями.

Поширення і екологія
Чако мешкають на південному сході Болівії (схід Санта-Крусу, Чукісака, Тариха), на заході Парагваю (на захід від річки Парагвай), на півночі Аргентини (на схід від передгір'їв Анд, на південь до Сан-Луїсу) та на північному заходу Уругваю, трапляються на крайньому південному заходу бразильського штату Ріу-Гранді-ду-Сул (Уругваяна). Вони живуть в сухих чагарнихкових заростях та на узліссях сухих тропічних лісів регіону Гран-Чако. Зустрічаються парами або невеликими зграйками, на висоті до 600 м над рівнем моря. Часто приєднуються до змішаних зграй птахів разом з вогнистими червоночубиками. Живляться переважно насінням, шукають їжу на землі.

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Саякові
Птахи, описані 1860
Птахи Болівії
Птахи Аргентини
Птахи Парагваю
Птахи Уругваю

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In this video for the Caring Society, Summer Bisson — one of the students from the first-ever school to do Project of Heart (Elizabeth Wyn Wood Alternate Site, in Ottawa) –talks about what reconciliation means to her and the day her class went to court to see Cindy Blackstock make the case for Indigenous children across Canada who were – and still are — being denied access to services and quality of life other Canadians take for granted".
A wonderful story from yesterday's Regina Leader-Post, with video featuring survivor Eugene Arcand and Charlene Bearhead from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Teaching about the Residential School Era is still not a mandatory part of the Saskatchewan K-12 curriculum but thanks to the events of the day, 1500 students and teachers went home having experienced a crash course on Canada's hidden history. The Faculty of Education at the University of Regina organized the day's events and Project of Heart was also on the program; students decorated tiles as witness pieces.
Our thanks go out to Dean of Education Jennifer Tupper for taking the lead in organization a superb day of Truth and Reconciliation!


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August 5, 2011 By AMK
Ashton Carter named as new deputy secretary of Defense
The Obama administration named Ashton Carter as the next deputy secretary of Defense, giving an official who has already presided over hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of military-related spending cuts the power to help shape the coming era of Pentagon austerity.
Carter, a mild-mannered physicist and former Harvard professor, currently serves as the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer. National Journal reported last week that he was the front-runner to succeed William Lynn as the Defense Department's second highest-ranking official.
If confirmed for his new post, Carter will face the difficult task of mediating between the White House and congressional leaders, who are looking to slice defense spending as part of broad push to close the nation's yawning budget deficit, and the Pentagon's senior military and civilian leadership, who are anxious to protect cherished weapons programs – and the overall size of the armed forces themselves – from being placed on the chopping block.
The deficit-reduction deal reached this week to avoid a potentially catastrophic debt default calls for $350 billion in defense cuts over the next 10 years as part of an agreement to reduce federal discretionary spending by $900 billion over that same time period. The legislation doesn't mandate cuts of that size – congressional appropriators will largely retain the power to slice or preserve defense spending as they see fit – but Carter and other senior Pentagon officials acknowledge that significant spending reductions are coming to the Defense Department after a decade of runaway growth.
"We're not going to have the ever-increasing budgets of the post-September 11 decade," Carter told a group of Pentagon contractors and logistics personnel in a late June speech. "This is going to feel very different to a group of government and industry managers and congressional overseers who have grown accustomed to a circumstance where they could always reach for money when they encountered a managerial or technical problem or a difficult choice. Those days are gone, for all of us."
Tuesday's announcement caps a meteoric rise for Carter, whose appointment as the Pentagon's top weapons buyer two years ago was questioned by lawmakers who noted that he had no background in acquisitions or in managing large organizations. Skeptics like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questioned how well Carter would be able to oversee the department's sprawling purchasing arm, which spends roughly $400 billion a year on goods and services.
But Carter quickly forged a close relationship with then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates in working to scrap underperforming systems and free up money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The two men scrapped dozens of futuristic programs that were over budget and behind schedule, in part to free up more money for drones, surveillance blimps, and equipment earmarked for Iraq and Afghanistan. In June 2009, Carter canceled the Army's $200 billion Future Combat System initiative, which envisioned building a new generation of armored vehicles linked by advanced communications equipment. He also helped Gates halt new purchases of Lockheed Martin's costly F-22 Raptor fighter and wind down the troubled effort to build a new fleet of presidential helicopters. All told, they cut roughly $300 billion worth of programs.
Carter will now be charged with working with Gates's successor, Secretary Leon Panetta, to identify even deeper cuts and then sell them to skeptical lawmakers. Many contractors expect him to reduce the military's planned purchase of 2,500 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the most expensive weapons program in history. The cost-per-plane has soared by more than 90 percent, from $69 million to $133 million, even as technical problems have marred the program. Carter has also signaled that he may limit spending on the Army's next-generation ground combat vehicle (an armored truck meant to replace the iconic Bradley fighting vehicle) or the Marines' V-22 Osprey (a tilt-wing aircraft meant to take off like a helicopter and fly like a plane).
Carter has tried to soften the sting of the coming cutbacks, which will be the most severe since the end of the Cold War. He wants to limit how often his department "moves the goalposts" by demanding that defense firms add new technical capabilities to their weapons systems – a process that slows programs down and significantly increases their costs. He has also implemented new "share line" agreements, which allow contractors who bring programs in under budget to keep some of the money they saved the government.
Still, Carter – and whoever is named to replace him as the department's acquisitions chief – is virtually certain to face sustained political pushback from emboldened congressional Republicans who want to preserve as much Pentagon spending as possible. Gates, a Republican and George W. Bush administration holdover, had given Carter political cover on Capitol Hill. It's far from clear whether Panetta, who has a far more partisan reputation, will be able to shield his new No. 2 in quite the same way.
— by Yochi J. Dreazen – National Journal – August 2, 2011 at http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=48416&dcn=e_gvet
Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, AT&L, budget cuts, deficit reduction, DoD, spending


Samsung now has more than 1.5 million unique weekly users for its Smart TV platform – an increase of 50 per cent over the past nine months.
A spokesman for Samsung said: "There has been a significant shift in the way people consume content in the UK. This change has helped the remarkable growth in users of the Samsung Smart Hub this year and shows that people are engaging with the content we have to offer more than ever before.
The Samsung Smart Hub provides access to catch-up TV from BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5, as well as UHD 4K content from partners such as Netflix.
Samsung said it will also soon be offering Amazon Instant Video as well as selected world cinema from MUBI and Curzon Hone Cinema.


For most of us, spending nearly two months in freezing darkness sounds terrifying. The Finns, however, seem to love this time of the year. One municipality in Finnish Lapland, Enontekiö, loves it so much that they want to share the experience of polar night, or "kaamos" in finnish, through their live camera feed "Polar Night Live" for the whole world. In Enontekiö, the sun rises again on the 8th of January 2019, so there's plenty of time to admire the beauty of darkness.
So what can you expect to see, then? Even though it's nearly pitch black in Lapland, December and January are the best months for aurora hunters. Enontekiö has positioned their webcam so that you might just be lucky enough to spot the phenomenon in the northern sky. But there's more to it than just darkness, stars and occasional aurora: between two dark periods each day when the sun sets completely below the horizon, the sky reveals beautiful colors in different shades of blue, magenta and violet. This is often referred to as "the blue moment".
Why would anyone do such a thing?
Against all odds, the people in Enontekiö are among the happiest in Finland, enjoying every season in the middle of serene nature. If you ask them about polar night, or "kaamos", they would most likely answer that it's such a beautiful time of the year when everything seems calm and the nature is in hibernation. This is also the reason why Enontekiö wanted to share this rare beauty with the world - even the ones who aren't able to travel there. Travel industry is an important source of income in Enontekiö along with reindeer herding. However, these two are in perfect balance as the people value and respect their surroundings and nature. For centuries, the Lappish people have lived off the nature and could not survive without it, hence the sustainable way of living.
Even though travel industry is a significant source of income in Lapland, the high season is rather short between January and May. The webcam is one way to show people around the world what they're actually missing when they only travel during the high season. Enontekiö is a remarkable place in Lapland with huge seasonal differences. For travellers, experiencing polar night is as impressive as enjoying 24 hours of sunlight in the summer during the midnight sun period. But the most impressive thing is definitely seeing how happy the people are - day and night.
The webcam is now live and you can find the live feed on Enontekiö's site here.
Enontekiö is a municipality located in Finnish Lapland on the border of Sweden and Norway. It's the 3rd largest municipality in Finland and very sparsely populated. Over 60% of Finland's fells are within Enontekiö's borders, as well as all fells that are over 1000 meters tall. Enontekiö is well-known for its wilderness and large areas of untouched nature. Tourism and travel industry are a significant source of income in Enontekiö.


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2023 Plenary Speakers
"Transforming Community and Government with Sociological Imagination"
How can sociological imagination be applicable and useful to community engagement and local government work? In this plenary presentation, Dr. Esther Hio-Tong Castillo will speak about her own development of sociological thinking and how her sociological imagination has informed her work in community building and local government partnership. She will give examples of how she turned sociological ideas into collective actions on the ground.
Dr. Castillo is a community builder, storyteller, and advocate working on issues around health equity, mental health, and racial justice across marginalized communities in Philadelphia. Her cross-sector collaborative work with community-based organizations, health agencies, and government departments directly led to a successful COVID-19 vaccine campaign that helped over 5,000 Chinese immigrants with limited English proficiency get vaccinated in Philadelphia. Dr. Castillo is one of the leading voices in speaking against anti-Asian hate in Philadelphia. In 2021, she won the Good Pitch Local Philadelphia competition and used the grant awarded to produce a short documentary "Feeling Asian American" to spread awareness about the persistent but unseen racism faced by Asian Americans. She also co-founded Blasian Solidarity with fellow community organizers and inspired many across the nonprofit and government sectors to collaborate and partner with the local Black and Asian communities. Currently, she serves as the Director of Racial Equity Storytelling and Community Impact at the Office of Community, Empowerment, and Opportunity in the City of Philadelphia, where she leads the integration of racial equity into governmental operations and community engagement.
"Black Feminist Sociology and the Tradition of Intellectual Activism"
Carolette Norwood is professor and department head of sociology and criminology at Howard University. Dr. Norwood is a Black feminist sociologist whose research explores the implications of violence (structural, spatial, and interpersonal) at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and space on reproductive and sexual health injustice for Black women. Dr. Norwood's funded research on Black women's economic mobility and reproductive (in)justice in Cincinnati collectively informs her first book project tentatively titled, Jim Crow Geographies: Mapping the Intersections of Poverty, Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Urbane Space. Dr. Norwood's work also explores the simultaneity and particularities of feminism(s) in the African diaspora within and across geographical and global contexts.
Dr. Norwood earned a PhD in sociology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Université de Montreal in African demography. She earned an MA in liberal arts with a concentration in African American studies and BA degrees in sociology and French from Louisiana State University. Dr. Norwood's work is published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, Journal of Black Psychology, The American Journal of Public Health, The American Journal of Health Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of International Women's Studies, Development in Practice, Sociology Compass, Societies, etc. Her work has been generously funded by the National Institute of Health, Ohio Policy Evaluation Network, Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, the Greater Cincinnati Women's Fund, and summer 2022, Dr. Norwood was newly named, an Urban Institute and Goldman Sachs funded scholar for the One Million Black Women: Closing the Wealth Gap research project.


GOALKEEPER Ross Turner has penned non-contract terms with the Reds and he has been given squad number 18.
Manager Nicky Law is mindful of the need for experience this season and explained: "Ross has agreed to come on board again. He will do a couple of days a week coaching with Dan Lowson and will also back him up.
"That doesn't mean we are still not looking for another keeper, but we have to be careful. It would perhaps be difficult going with a young rookie although there is still an opportunity to do that."


National elections get all the hype and glory, but there is still action is on the down ballot. The problem is, with all the attention on the big name politicians on the national stage, how does someone running in a state, county, or city election run a digital campaign when they are likely running the whole show themselves?
Progressives, we got crushed in 2016. Yes, Russia and Cambridge Analytica played their parts. However, as we watch the investigations into corruption and malfeasance unfold, those 2018 midterm elections are coming up fast. If we do not up our game, the same thing could happen again.
Here's the good news: we can utilize the same platforms they did with brutal efficacy to counter-balance their tactics without ever crossing the line into black hat, or even grey hat, tactics.
The Facebook advertising platform is C-H-E-A-P cheap.
As of this writing, $150,000 is what Facebook confirmed that Russia's 'ad buy' cost to sway the 2016 election for Trump. As we learn more, that number will rise, but even if it doubles, it is truly remarkable.
With the right training, grassroots progressive campaigns can use some of the very same tactics that got Trump elected. What's more is that this can be done without ever putting out unethical or untruthful content.
In the old days a campaign came down to get out the vote efforts. The successful candidate was the one that put together a team that could energize their people enough to break them out of their daily routines and make their way to the ballot box.
Digital media is changing the rules.
If you aren't taking the time to tailor the right message to the right demographic, you're behind the curve.
Imagine running for a city council office and being able to craft a message directly to military personnel–or even veterans– in your city, putting it on video, and placing it right in front of their eyes within minutes.
Then you can turn around and do the same thing for small business owners, low income households, families with young children, and so on.
Or how about fundraising for an animal rescue? Would it be helpful to be able to send a targeted video to people you knew had been browsing profiles of available cats?
Of course it would! How much do you think a simple message along these lines would increase donations: "Even if you can't adopt or foster right now, your five dollar donation can help Mr. Twinkles with his injections so he can find his forever home!" Double?
If you're a bootstrapped nonprofit scrambling to raise funds or the underdog in a local election there's a good chance your competition isn't aware these tools exist. Even if they are aware, though, they probably do not have an inkling of just how powerful they really are.
How do I know this? I have been studying these techniques from entrepreneurs that have made millions of dollars though them. Yet, if you comb through case studies published by preeminent digital campaign agencies like Revolution Messaging you will see a lot of focus on emerging technologies and innovation.
Here's the thing: I'm talking about tried and true digital marketing methods that can literally cost you pennies.
Results from a recent video campaign experiment I ran with a total ad spend of less than $30 (ideally you'd want to spend $10-$20 per day).
The right mix of platforms can be different for each campaign, but all of the above provide something that is really key to all of this: analytics.
Analytics gives you the power to quickly see what's working and what's not. They help you decide when to scale up, and when to kill an ad. If there is one thing that makes digital marketing more advantageous than traditional marketing, it has to be the level of analytics you can look at on any given campaign.
The entire Facebook platform is designed to put content in front of users that want to see it. A message crafted for a specific audience is not itself unethical in any way unless you are deliberately misleading it.
I firmly believe that in the digital realm it is possible to fight fire with fire without crossing the line. If we really believe that our message has the power of truth behind it, then we should be eager to engage in a fair fight once we know the lay of the land.
Progressives are still playing catch up when it comes to these tactics and strategies, but once we start employing them effectively, we are going to win.


Meet Tyler Bennett, Athletic Trainer at AVHS. He routinely visits our area schools, and on SATURDAY MORNINGS during football season he provides a walk-in SPORTS CLINIC here at Meade District Hospital from 9am-11am.
The SATURDAY MORNING SPORTS CLINIC is available to athletes that attend our contracted schools which include Meade, Southwestern Heights, South Gray and Fowler.
If you're an athlete of these schools and you're experiencing pain, swelling, loss of motion, numbness or tingling stop by the Sports Clinic. Tyler will be able to provide injury assessments, including SWAY concussion assessments.
Diagnostic imaging or other services are available at AVHS if ordered by your provider.
We're proud to offer these services to our area athletes!


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Lately I have been really thinking about what kind of business person I want to be. My son has made it into high school and is happily building his independence and does not need me around as much. As he grows I have more time and room in my life for my business. To date I have, it turns out, been a freelancer who moved into solopreneur. I have built businesses that are growing without me, so I have also been an entrepreneur.
Freelancer: Get hired on a project basis for specific task.
Entrepreneur: If you get hit by a bus your business will still happily chug along without you and/or your personality.
So, yes to build your business and revenue you can publish e-books on your expertise, give your personal accounts of success and failures and generate endless "Top 5" posts.. but in order to build something bigger than yourself and your personality you have to think bigger, more global, push further than just your social media nose.
What are you really passionate about? Narrow it down to a laser focus.
For me it's creating situations and environments that enforce and promote connecting people and building community. That's why I produce events.
What is the bigger issue you are addressing?
This one took some thinking and we decided it has to be a focus on advocacy with an eye towards all human rights organizations.
What human problem are you addressing?
When was the last time you went to a networking event and actually found a lasting connection AND had fun? Networking … just the word can send chills.
How are you disrupting the status quo?
For us it's by bringing back the power of high quality hospitality, superior customer service for our clients as well as participants and treating every participant as an individual VIP.
Once you have YOUR answers to these, you will have a road map to your entrepreneurial business and true success.
He reminded us that people are not computers and that in order for us to function at our optimal potential we need to – ready for it … REST. The essential message was that if we all treated ourselves more like professional athletes, balancing stress – rest, focusing on a healthier diet and sleep for 7-8 hours a night not only would we be more effective and productive, but happier too.
None of this is new information. It has all been said many, many times. The attack on our attention from email, conference calls and a constant pressure to work more hours is actually reducing our productivity and is making us very unhappy.
So, my holiday message to you is this, take advantage of a world that has slowed just a hint and put down your smart phones for 72 hours. Enjoy your families and get some very well deserved rest.
A few years ago I was involved with a network marketing company which was an excellent business school. Among the many things I learned, in addition to not being a very good salesperson, is that to be successful you must always be coachable.
This does not mean just to being open to criticism. Which if constructive, can be very helpful. Staying aware of areas you may need improving, being humble and asking for help. Also, acting on the guidance you have asked for. Read books, articles and posts in your area and stay current.
We are all skilled at what we do and all of us have areas that could be polished.
Find a mentor, an actual business coach or buy a colleague you admire a drink and nourish your success by keeping fresh perspectives streaming in.
I read the term Solopreneur for the first time this week. It really stuck me. I have been either freelance or an entrepreneur my whole life and it was only this week when another writer had elegantly described it – it is very lonely out here.
Not that I don't have excellent collaborators and employees. I do. I think I have the best kept secrets around, but when it comes to making the big decisions and the hard decisions for the Company at large.. It's me, my dog Edi in the club chair, pondering. This week it hit me like a ton of bricks. I need advisors and mentors. I need help.
Clearly I am not alone in this either. We women are at a serious disadvantage in this arena. Woman to woman mentoring is few and far between. Numerous studies show that there is a deep need for it but a equally as deep lack of it. Evidence is in a resurgence of women's social clubs for professional women like Running In Heels and The Wing. Here you can network, find like minded business owners and share notes, or just get your hair done before an important meeting. There are also countless meetings, summitts and conferences. These are great for finding that someone, but there is a lot of noise to go through first and I need someone fast.
Looking through my own network I can see quite a few men who I both admire and trust with the experience I would like to draw on. I started looking for the women in my network. Now maybe it's me and my issues, but I really only found one or two. Triple A Studios is a woman owned and operated business focusing increasingly on social issues. Not that a collective of men wouldn't be valuable, for balance, a woman's input will be crucial to help fortify our culture and pedagogy.
So, today as I head out to a lunch meeting with a perspective mentor (he doesn't know I am going to ask him yet so, shh), I will have to keep thinking about who my female support will be.
Anyone looking for an ambitious mentee?
There are a couple of personality types that, even I, cannot seem to find a path to symbiosis. Mostly these are due to either cultural bias or prejudice, and not really the personality itself, just it's affectations, but some personalities just don't mix. Believe me in these cases the feeling is very mutual.
In our business it is vital to get along with everyone you can. Event production, hospitality are all about the client, their guests and making them happy. So… what do you do?
The best solution I have found is to try and minimize direct contact with this person, use an intermediary if at all possible. When you do have to communicate directly, keep it professional, simple, clear and precise. Plan out what you will say beforehand so you are not improvising and possibly make the situation worse. Remember to breath. This person is temporary in your life. At some point the job will end.
Do not bad mouth this person to your crew or express publicly your real feelings anywhere near the event. It's unprofessional and it will not help you, infact it will only hurt you. Save the bitching and venting for your partner or BFF when you either finish the job or at least get back to your room.
In this instance it is good that we are project based businesses!
Balancing emotional connections and measurable results in your events.
Something that is being lost in the top "whatever" lists, shortcut tips and the motivation to measure every outcome is that we as event professionals are HOSTS. Yes, I said it. We host events above manage, produce or coordinate. Our field of study is in the school of Hospitality after all.
The participants are our guests and it is our primary job to provide them with not only a measurable experience, but as Andrea Driessen (@nomoreboring) says, a meaningful and memorable experience.
The more the event environment is one of inclusiveness and comfort for guests the more they will be able to absorb the purpose and content of the meeting or conference. Your audience has taken time out of their busy lives, away from familiar comforts and family. This is especially true of those meetings that are required of them like sales meetings. Hotels and other venues are often labyrinth like and alien. Coworkers are not usually the preferred "hang-out buddy" and often there are large numbers of strangers. An uneasiness is natural. It has to be our priority to anticipate and have everything in place to help reduce or eliminate this.
A warm and sincere greeting.
This is not only a greeter at the door, think bigger than that.
Use the guest's name. Anticipation and fulfillment of each guest's needs.
Personalized materials, noted room preferences, meal requirements etc. go a long way.
Again, go bigger than just a greeter at the exit.
Guests who leave a meeting feeling cared for, inspired and valued will return next year gladly and tell their friends. That's something you can measure!
It important just to start.. I had breakfast with one of my favorite people, Amy, the other day and after patiently waiting for me to finish describing all the things I was doing BEFORE I started going after new clients, she smiled and said, "why not just start?" Isn't it a girl issue to wait until everything is perfect before we go after what we want? We tweak, fluff, jooj, stress and pick. However, we actually don't go after what it is we are fussing about.
It is a proven fact that this is a very common affliction for women in particular. Being right and perfect is nonsense and needs to be surgically removed from our heads – NOW! This affects a lot of us, the anxiety of being exposed and "out there" can be palpable to all walks of life.
Mistakes will happen. It's part of life. Double posting is something I end up doing often cause some setting is on when it should be off and spelling errors?!? .. god knows I have loads of those.
Get it out there.. do it now. Life is messy, humans are messier.
Your audience is waiting for you. Get your message to them before they think you are not coming.
#Networking – Where do I go?
Find a group or organization that offers valuable information and potential connections.
If it's 4 or higher, start planning your outfit. Even if there is a 40% chance you might meet someone who says something that inspires you it's worth giving it a try.
Is the host a friend/contact/work associate?
If yes.. You are going for sure.
Not by a mass email promotion, but did someone say, "Hey Aryn, come to my event."?
Always go where you are invited. It's a good policy that will reap huge benefits.
Is it in a venue or neighborhood that interests you?
Being in the events business, I like to see and experience different venues and neighborhoods. I use the event as an excuse to scout.
MeetUp offers a wide variety of groups, everything from professional book clubs to lawyer's play racquetball. These tend to be free, but check your specific ones for details.
Another great out of the box option is Toastmasters. It sounds crazy, but dedicated professionals are always looking to better themselves, and this is one of the places those people go.
Professional organizations are usually formed around the idea of networking, it's their mission to get you connected. Reach out to them directly or search their websites for information. Depending on the costs, it may or may not be worth joining. See if the events/education opportunities look interesting to you first.
In the events world, we joined a few: Meeting Professionals International (MPI), Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) and the International Live Events Association (ILEA). These memberships are not cheap, so you will have to weigh the benefits for you. Then the key is to actually go to the events they offer.
Industry meetings and conferences can be a great place meet new connections and clients. Again these can be costly both in time and resources so choose wisely.
How big is the event? If you are comfortable standing out in a convention center filled with people, bigger is better. If you are someone, like us, who likes smaller, more intimate workshops and discussions that's the one for you.
Is Networking built in? In either case above, look at the agenda. If it is wall to wall keynote speakers and lecture style breakouts, there won't be a lot of time for meet and greet.
Are the speakers and subjects a fit for you and what you are looking for?
Some other ideas are; your local business district offices like ours – WHBID, Small business bureaus, your local Departments of Commerce and our favorite, start your own group on Facebook, LinkedIn or MeetUp and see who shows up.
Tip: Once you find an event, look and see who is speaking and/or attending. Look them up on LinkedIn or Twitter before the event (not in a stalkery way). Pull out some details and facts about their work to have conversation starters. Reaching out to them directly also can be great and arrange to have a drink/coffee together there.
Take a professional development class. This is a great way to meet peers, if not potential clients. There are many resources for this. Most universities have continuing education courses and most professional organizations either host classes or can point you in the right direction. Again, these can be costly, so make sure it is something you really want and /or need to do.
Our next networking post we will get you ready for your first event.
It's who you know and have built relationships with more than anything else that gets you where you are and where you want to be. Expanding that base in a meaningful way is not easy. No, it is not enough just to have 1000+ connections on LinkedIn. In comes the Networking Event.
I hate them, love them, hate them, love them… Some people excel at them. I do not. There have been times when I could muster being "on" and then they were fun. Most often it is a struggle just to convince myself to sign-up, muchless go.
Meet-Ups, professional associations and schools all offer opportunities to connect with new people. They all require time, effort and sometimes money. Both time and effort are extremely valuable, they are your most precious asset. Choosing which event or gathering to go to can be as stressful as walking in that room of strangers. Take my list above and add your personal touch and use it as a guide. Sometimes a quick supportive nudge from your friend or partner helps too.
Bottom Line: Pick your networking wisely and try to have fun!
As a daughter of a union organizer, how my crew and my employees are treated is very important to me. It is not just a moral or integrity issue with me, it is also a quality issue.
A crew that is well paid, fed, had a decent turn around in a habitable hotel and feels they are respected; work harder, give more and are more willing to go that extra bit to make sure your event, project, whatever is perfect. They also are more likely to be loyal.. not just to the person who hired them, but to the brand they are working for. Collaboration and teamwork are what make a great event. All parties working together for the common goal.
In the recent past I worked with a client that insisted on treating all of us like the "hired help". While some of this was cultural, all of it was unnecessary. This behavior made all our jobs much harder. The effect this had on the morale was palpable and it was difficult getting to the goal line. The event went off smoothly and the client in the end was happy, but at a cost.
For those out there who's management style looks more like a Feudal System.. a word of warning, your employees, crew or whomever you rely on to keep you at the top, will take their pound and when the invaders come.. you will be standing alone.
Bottom Line: It's the 21st Century and "Team" is the ruling philosophy.


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Place of birth Belfast, Co Antrim, Ireland
Occupation Orderly
Address 31 Kennedy Street, Maylands, Western Australia
Height 5' 3.5"
Next of kin Wife, Mrs Lucy Hardie, 31 Kennedy Street, Maylands, Western Australia
Previous military service Nil
Enlistment date 26 June 1916
Place of enlistment Perth, Western Australia
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on 9 November 1916
Unit from Nominal Roll Australian Army Veterinary Hospital
cemetery records Plaque in Western Australia Garden of Remembrance
Discharge date 8 September 1919
Embarked Fremantle, 9 November 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 10 January 1917.
Proceeded overseas to France, 25 April 1917; taken on strength, 44th Bn, 22 May 1917.
Wounded in action, 31 July 1917 (gun shot wound, head), and admitted to 11th Australian Field Ambulance; transferred same to 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station; to 32nd Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, 1 August 1917; to 1st Convalescent Depot, Boulogne, 14 August 1917; marched into 3rd Australian General Base Depot, Havre, 22 August 1917.
Transferred to Australian Veterinary Hospital, Calais, 25 October 1917.
On leave to England, 3 July 1918; rejoined unit from leave, 19 July 1918.
Marched out to England, 21 February 1919.
Commenced return to Australia from Devonport on board HT 'Sardinia', 19 April 1919; disembarked Fremantle, 28 May 1919; discharged, 8 September 1919.
Date of death 2 June 1951


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Conf/CfP - Mind the Gap: The Artist in Culture Studies, 2 – 3 November 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
November 02, 2015 - November 03, 2015
Mind the Gap: The Artist in Culture Studies
5th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies
School of Human Sciences – Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon
2nd – 3rd November 2015
Deadline for paper proposals: 15th July 2015
The present conference aims to discuss the artist both as subject and object of study in the disciplinary field of culture studies.
Artists share with anthropologists a concern for the politics of representation, in the sense of the formulation of knowledge of the world. We will seek to understand the meaning of that common interest. Since the 1990s, a challenging wave of art events has occurred that evinces significant similarities with anthropology in its theorizations of cultural difference and representational practices.
In his seminal essay "The Artist as Ethnographer?"(1995), Hal Foster observes that postmodern deconstruction has made art into a field of social anthropology, introducing the "ethnographic turn in contemporary art".
Is there a real difference between the practices of the ethnographer and the artist?
Is that an artificial position and are they truly similar?
This conference endeavours to bring together doctoral students and post-docs working within disciplines that relate to the study of culture (arts, humanities and social sciences), and seeks to establish a forum for stimulating debate.
Contributions are welcome on the topics listed below, amongst others:
§ The artist ethnographer;
§ The artist / critic;
§ The artist /academic;
§ The artist in culture studies;
§ Research in the arts;
§ Power and politics of representational practices;
§ Art and anthropology;
§ Dominant and emerging artistic practices;
§ Translation and interpretation of works of art;
§ Canon and innovation;
§ Archive and knowledge;
§ Documentary and research;
§ Ethnography and museums today.
§ Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck College, University of London)
§ Jean-François Chougnet (Director of the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille)
§ Isabel Capeloa Gil (Vice-Rector at UCP/Director of The Lisbon Consortium Programme)
§ Ruth Rosengarthen (Artist / Writer / Curator, Research Associate at University of Johannesburg)
Riddle of the Sphinx (1977) by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, joining in this way the celebration of the 40th birthday of the seminal text "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".
Prof. Isabel Capeloa Gil will make the opening remarks to this special screening.
Deadline for submissions: 15th July 2015
Speakers should be prepared for a twenty minute presentation in English, followed by discussion. Please send a 300-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note (100 words) to mindthegapconference2015@gmail.com by July 15th 2015. Proposals should list paper title, name, institutional affiliation and contact details. Successful applicants will be notified byJuly 31st 2015. Please note there is a conference registration fee of 50€ due by October 1st 2015.
The Graduate Conference in Culture Studies is an annual meeting organized by Doctoral students of the Programme in Culture Studies "The Lisbon Consortium", based at the School of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal.
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Sofia Costa Pessoa
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The Real Pandora
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox
At this point, I'd be willing to bet that virtually everyone reading this saw Avatar, a movie that came out back in 2009. I'm sure that many of you have fallen in love with the plight of the Na'vi against the greedy humans. I remember that, after it came out, there were news reports of many people who desperately wanted to go to Pandora and live in the same beautiful landscape that the Na'vi did. Well, do I have some news for you. You can go to Pandora!
However, it might not be exactly what you expected it to be. Nevertheless, you can indeed visit...assuming you have a few spare years and a spacecraft up your sleeve.
A PLACE UNLIKE ANY OTHER:
But I would like to begin by having a look at the image that goes along with this article. If you glance at the image, it has a representation of Pandora, which is a moon orbiting its host planet, Polyphemus. The planet that Pandora is orbiting looks like Jupiter, although a different colour (obviously). For the sake of ease, I'm going to just assume that, because it looks like Jupiter, it's about the same size and composition, (it even has the Great Red [blue] Spot!).
Avatar Concept Art by Seth Engstrom (Larger Image)
Thinking about this logically, neither this planet nor its moon can be inside of our solar system (obviously). But if it was actually Jupiter, then the moon would just be a frozen rock, due to its distance from our sun. As it turns out, in the movie, it is orbiting Alpha Centauri A. It is also mentioned in the movie that the gravity is lower on Pandora as well. Through some further research, I found that it is about 20% lower, as the moon is not much smaller than the Earth (this is a BIG moon).
So far, we have learned that Pandora is a moon slightly smaller than the Earth, it orbits a gas giant called Polyphemus which, in turn, orbits Alpha Centauri A. We know that Alpha Centauri is about 4.2 light years away, and that it's about a 7 year trip to there on the humans ships... clearly they're FAR more advanced that we are now. In the beginning, however, I did say that we could go to Pandora with a spacecraft and a few spare years, and I was not lying; it's just *another* Pandora that we can get to, not the one orbiting Alpha Centauri. And unfortunately, the Pandora used in the movie Avatar is far from the reality of the real Pandora--which exists in our solar system right now.
Drum roll please...
I present to you all... PANDORA!
Image Credit: NASA
Probably not what you all were expecting to see. In all seriousness, it looks like nothing more than a giant 84 km (52 miles) across pitted potato that orbits around Saturn. Yes peoples, meet the Lord of the Fries!
The reason for the name is quite simple, a good majority of the moons and planets that have been named within our solar system come from ancient mythology from several different cultures. Although we're typically accustomed to the Ancient Roman mythology that was used for all the planets and a good number of the moons (Saturn itself has approximately 60 of them), there is so much stuff to name out there that we've had to delve into other mythologies for more names.
Some of you out there may be sighing and be getting ready to slay me for getting your hopes up about going to the lush green world of Pandora where Na'vi are plentiful... Be assured that, although you may not be able to visit the imaginary moon, you can visit the giant potato in our solar system. The original Pandora! And that's still something to be excited about.


Say you ran out of make-up remover, what is your alternative?
OILS! Coconut Oil and Olive Oil work great to remove make-up quickly.
Take a cotton ball and pour some oil on to it just a little less than you would with the make-up remover.
Do the same as you would with the make-up remover, when taking your make-up off.
You may need 2-4 cotton balls, but it removers make-up better than a make-up remover.
Except… when you are done, make sure to wash your face with warm water and face wash.
Coconut Oil and Olive Oil even take waterproof make-up off.
Not only is this a natural alternative, but this will make your face feel nourished and moisturized.


How to use the learning needs analysis excel? It's really simple.
Step 1: use the excel base for the interviews. Training plan isn't something you invent yourself - the content is created by others. Plan the sessions with each department's managers and/or key people. Use different sheets for different interviews.
Step 2: use the excel for the summary. Categorise the content from previous excel into various topics: soft skills, technical skills, management skills, conferences etc. You can add as many as you like relevant to your company.
Step 3: use the same excel (summary) again but sheet 2 for a summary - or you can call it a draft training plan if you'd like. List the most popular needs and topics.
Voila! Now go and start creating your training strategy. Remember that training isn't all about classrooms but also work shadowing, mentoring, covision, coaching, hackathons, new challenging tasks, projects and much more.
Be smart, be fun, be beneficial for both - the business and the people.