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How Technology is Currently Changing the Entertainment Industry
April 6, 2017 by Australian Women Online
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The impact of technology has been profound in almost every walk of life. Apart from making our life easier with several inventions, technology has also assisted in improving the quality of life. The entertainment industry has been one of the key benefactors of technology. The massive progress made in several facets of the entertainment industry has purely been down to technology.
Here are some of the ways the entertainment industry has been impacted by technology:
Changing the World of Movies
The film industry happens to be incredibly popular around the world. Hollywood alone made annual revenues of $10 billion each year from 2009 to 2015. While the essence of the movie industry remains a good script and great acting, technology has improved the way content is made and delivered. Some would even go as far as saying that technology has improved the marketability of movies.
In terms of making the content, technology has enabled filmmakers to bring their ideas to life much more than in the past. Cameras have become less cumbersome to handle and this has enabled filmmakers to capture new shots that would have been otherwise possible with bulky cameras. The quality of the content has also seen a sizable jump, with digital cameras helping to replace the older film roll cameras. These digital cameras not only provide the ability to shoot content in 1080p or 4K resolution, but they also bring new technologies like IMAX to the plate.
Apart from sight, sound has also seen a remarkable improvement. Filmmakers are now able to provide realistic sound effects to a situation thanks to the employment of several new speaker technologies, which make recorded sound as good as a live content.
Impact on Casinos and Gambling Sector
Casinos have been a major form of entertainment for several decades. These casinos have been growing bigger and bigger, as they took advantage of their worldwide popularity. The super casinos are not without their problem. Apart from the sizable investment in time and money to run the business, the super casinos are also not a quick and easy way of providing entertainment. Players have to spend significant chunks of the time and money in order to visit a casino and play the games. Thankfully, technology has once again come to the rescue and has transformed the industry with the trend of online casinos.
Australia has seen the growth of several super casinos of late, but there has been an even bigger proliferation on the Internet. Several online Australian casino options are being seen as a better option rather than visiting a physical casino, as they allow players access to games 24 x 7. Further, there are no associated costs like staying at a hotel or travelling to the casino. It also helps players focus on the daily life, as games do not take more than a few minutes to liven up the day.
Prevention of Piracy and Better Marketing in Music Sector
The music sector was faced with rampant piracy issues a few years ago. Most of the content was marketed through CDs, which were incredibly popular during the turn-of-the-century. It was a medium created because of growing technology. However, it almost put the industry on collapse. One of the major factors behind the rampant piracy was the higher price of audio CDs, while users were also unable to make choices. Once pirated music copies became available on the Internet, there was a rapid decline in CD sales.
Technology has come to the rescue of the music sector by promoting the digital medium. Rather than promote music on CDs, the way forward seemed to be the availability of content on the Internet. Rather than as a pirated version, the availability of official options enticed customers into buying single tracks or the entire album on the Internet. The lack of copyright issues meant that it soon became the best way forward. While technology can be criticised for causing piracy issues in the first place, it did not take a few years for the problem to die down.
Improvement of Media Availability
The improvement in capturing media is well and good, but the idea of delivering media to the users was still stuck with an idea that was several decades old. The situation is once again best explained with regard to the movie industry where the availability of high definition movies was hindered by the age-old tradition of having to visit a theatre in order to catch the movies. Technology has enabled Internet streaming, which has in turn led to the rise of options like Netflix. These are seen as the online theatres, and they provide a huge collection of movies to watch. The consumer gets the advantage of a huge reduction in prices, convenience of watching a movie at home, and much more.
Technology has truly transformed the way the entertainment industry has gone about its business. It will truly impact this environment in ways the human mind cannot yet conceive, and this will have enormous impacts on the way we work as well, since new jobs can be created when new technology emerges. At this point, some people say that the smartphone will die, others say virtual reality will become a true phenomenon, while scientists are afraid of AI. We just have to wait and see for ourselves what will happen.
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RISE PARTNERS CLOSES ON EASLEY'S TOWN N' COUNTRY SHOPPING DEVELOPMENT WITH PLANS FOR NEW IMPROVEMENTS
CONTACT: Robin Derryberry
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (April 2, 2019) — Rise Partners, an investment group focused on shopping center acquisitions, redevelopments and ground-up development, today announced its purchase of the Town N' Country Shopping Center in Easley, S.C. This is Rise Partners third acquisition of 2019.
"We are extremely excited to acquire this established shopping center from the Nalley family," said Greg Wilson, with Rise Partners. "Bud Nalley originally developed the Town N' Country Shopping Plaza in 1968 and it has remained a focal point of the community since that time thanks to the Nalley family. We look forward to working with the city to renovate the center to ensure Town N' Country continues to thrive in the Easley market."
The 280,000 square foot shopping center is currently anchored by Belk, Hobby Lobby and Staples. The former JCPenney building will be redeveloped to create several new retail spaces to be occupied by national retailers to be named at a later date, which will complement the existing tenants.
"As a former resident of the Upstate and Clemson Alumnus, I am very excited that Rise Partners will be joining the Easley community with the acquisition of Town N' Country Shopping Center," said Matt Phillips, with Rise Partners. "We are eager to start our planned improvements of such an important shopping center to the local community."
For leasing information contact Wes Thurmond at the Providence Group at 704-644-4595.
To learn more about Rise Partners, visit: www.RisePartners.net or find them on LinkedIn, Rise Partners.
RISE PARTNERS ACQUIRES VACANT KMART PROPERTY IN CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE
RISE PARTNERS ACQUIRES VACANT KMART PROPERTY IN CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE:
Construction to Begin Immediately with Five National Retailers Slated to Open by Late Fall
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (March 4, 2019) — Rise Partners, an investment group focused on shopping center acquisitions, redevelopments and ground-up development, announced its purchase of the vacant Kmart property on Madison Street, a 95,000 square foot shopping center located in Clarksville, Tenn. This is Rise Partners third acquisition and is a solid fit to its strategy of acquiring premium location redevelopment opportunities. The project is scheduled to be completed this fall, in time for holiday shopping.
"We are very excited to be new members of the Clarksville community," said Matt Phillips, with Rise Partners. "This area of Clarksville has tremendous potential and the retailers and restaurants we will bring to the project will be an exciting addition to the community."
"This announcement is a tremendous example of the value the Economic Development Council and its partners place on creating incentive models that attract redevelopment of existing buildings. This vacant home of the former Madison Street Kmart will now create new economic growth, add additional tax revenue to the community and greatly enhance our quality of life," said Jeff Truitt, CEO of the Clarksville-Montgomery County EDC. "This investment by Rise Partners is exciting news for our ever growing community as it means new jobs, new development and more choices for our citizens."
Construction will begin immediately to subdivide the now-vacant 85,000 square foot building that was formerly Kmart to create five new retail spaces. Rise Partners noted the spaces will be occupied by retailers that will be announced soon. In addition, the vacant fuel center will be replaced with restaurant and retail space.
"This is a prime commercial location so it's great that this corner will return to full productivity, both in terms of service to residents and as a sales-tax generator," said Joe Pitts, Clarksville Mayor. "More quality retail and more dining options are always in demand in Clarksville and I think this project is a great fit for our community."
"This project is an important turn around for the Exit 11 area. It's been three years since the closing of the Kmart store, which is in a highly visible stretch of road," said Jim Durrett, Montgomery County Mayor. "I'm appreciative of the work that has gone into securing new businesses and jobs and I'm especially thrilled for the residents in that area who will soon have more shopping and restaurant choices. It's a great benefit to our entire community."
Phillips added, "There are few communities that provide the type of engagement and support we've received on this project. We are truly grateful for the leadership by local government leaders."
Those interested in leasing information are encouraged to contact Gary Shanks at The Shopping Center Group by calling 615-259-0200 or gary.shanks@tscg.com.
To learn more about the company, visit: www.RisePartners.net or find them on LinkedIn, Rise Partners.
RISE PARTNERS CLOSES ON MARYLAND ACQUISITION
Chattanooga, TN. (Feb. 20, 2019) — Rise Partners, an investment group focused on shopping center acquisitions, redevelopments and ground-up development, today announced its purchase of Easton Marketplace, a 126,650 square foot shopping center located in Easton, Maryland. This is Rise Partners second acquisition and is a solid fit to its strategy of buying premium location redevelopment opportunities.
"Easton Marketplace provided us with an excellent chance to enter a market with high barriers to entry, that has the added benefit of serving a large second home market, with additional drive-through traffic from the Washington D.C. metro en route to the Atlantic beaches," said Greg Wilson, a Rise partner. "We are excited about working with retailers and the city of Easton to take this center to the next level."
A redevelopment beginning this fall will subdivide a now-vacant 33,000 square foot former JCPenney building to create two new tenant spaces, which will be occupied by well-known national retailers. The project will complement the existing tenants, which include Weis Markets and shadow anchors Lowes and Kohls.
"Easton is such a beautiful and historic community with easy access to Washington DC and Baltimore. We are all excited to spend time there working to enhance Easton Marketplaces' longstanding position within the market," said Rise partner Geoff Smith. "
Andy Stape and Vito Lupo, of KLNB Retail Investment Sales Group, represented the seller.
RISE PARTNERS LAUNCHES IN CHATTANOOGA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RISE PARTNERS LAUNCHES IN CHATTANOOGA, CLOSES ON FIRST ACQUISITION
Firm Focuses on Development, Redevelopment, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures Chattanooga, TENN. (July 9, 2018) — Real estate investors Geoff Smith, Matt Phillips and Jay Wiseman have formed Rise Partners, a company focused on shopping center acquisitions, redevelopments and ground-up developments. The group brings significant experience, market knowledge and retailer relationships to bear in seeking value add opportunities in southern markets. Combined, Smith and Phillips have over 10 million square feet of development and redevelopment experience across 12 states, coupled with exceptional tenant relationships. Wiseman brings $7 billion of acquisition experience to round out a team capable of executing a variety of real estate strategies. "I'm very excited about the team we have assembled here at Rise and the future of our company," said Smith. "We have a unique opportunity to both make a difference in the communities where we invest, while providing strong, sustainable returns for our investors." Rise Partners closed on their first acquisition on June 27, purchasing Jackson Plaza, a 350,000 SF shopping center, located in Cookeville, Tenn. A redevelopment beginning this fall will subdivide a now-vacant 80,000 square foot former Sears building to create two new tenant spaces to be occupied by well-known national retailers. The project will complement the existing tenants, which include Belk, TJ Maxx, Old Navy, Dunham's Sports, Food Lion, Books a Million and Petco. "We are excited about what the future holds for our growing portfolio," said Phillips. "Our success can only be attributable to the long-term relationships we have and partners who've placed their trust in our abilities. We're grateful for the foundation they've set for our new company and look forward to putting them to work regionally."
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Berlin to ease restrictions on nightclubs this week
The city's club commission previously said that clubbing wouldn't be back to normal until 2022
Thursday, June 17, 2021 - 13:17
Berlin is set to ease coronavirus restrictions on its nightclubs this week.
Following successful trial events and research in the German capital, Berlin's clubs will open their doors from the 18th June, with up to 10 people from five different households permitted to dance outside at 250-capacity events. Attendees will be required to provide a negative COVID-19 test and wear masks while on the dancefloor. Clubs have remained shuttered in the capital since Spring 2020, after they briefly reopened with strict social distancing and no dancing rules.
Earlier this year, the Berlin Club Commission (BCC) unveiled a six-point plan to reopen the city's venues, which included a run of pilot events with rapid COVID-19 testing, as well as a central information hub for clubs that will share hygiene concept recommendations and current regulations.
Elsewhere, the curfew on alcohol sales in restaurants, bars and clubs in Berlin between 12PM and 5AM, which was first introduced in October, has been lifted.
In January this year, Pamela Schobeß, chairman of the BCC, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur that she is anticipating a period of two years before clubs in Berlin can continue normal programming. She added that the city's nightlife institutes were "the first to be closed and the last to be allowed to reopen," and kick-starting the clubbing economy "cannot go from zero to one hundred" without the continued support of federal and state governments.
Last June, the German government announced they had committed €150 million to the country's live music industry as part of broader plans to kickstart the economy amid the pandemic. The new scheme from the German government entitled Neustart Kultur, which translates to restart culture, will see the funds injected into the country's live music and events industry, and comes as part of the government's broader €1 billion plan to rebuild cultural and entertainment businesses.
In a new book published earlier this year, photographer Marie Staggat and jouralist Timo Stein visited over 40 of Berlin's clubs between April and December 2020, interviewing everyone from club managers to bartenders, and talent bookers, to toilet attendants, while capturing images of the empty spaces.
Read our feature on Berlin clubbing and the impact of COVID-19 here.
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Stunning iconic Frida Kahlo show at the V&A Museum
art exhibitions fashion exhibition Frida Kahlo Iconic women V&A Museum
The stunning iconic Frida Kahlo show at the V&A Museum, Frida Kahlo – Making Herself Up opens on June 16th and runs till November 4th 2018.
The show has an emphasis on how Frida fashioned her identity against the struggle she had with bad health due to Polio in her childhood and a devastating near fatal bus crash when she was just 18 years old which weakened her spine for ever.
One of the most recognised and significant artists of the 20th Century this is the first exhibition outside Mexico to display her clothes and intimate possessions which had been sealed after her death in 1954 in her family home known as The Blue House by her husband Diego Riviera.
Finally opened up in 2004, this exhibition shows personal letter, medicine bottles, cosmetics, the corsets she was forced to wear after the terrible crash and jewellery, much of which she strung together from Pre-Columbian beads herself but most of all a startling display of outfits that most of us have only ever glimpsed in the many black and white photographs of Frida or in her own self portraits.
The Mexico of her youth flourished in the 1920's and 30's after the Mexican revolution and attracted many foreign artists, writers, photographers and film makers. Included in the exhibition are photographs by Edward Weston and Tina Modotti taken in the 1920's that changed the perception of Mexico abroad.
Frida's enthusiastic adoption of traditional dress was a desire to embrace the national identity even changing her birthdate from 1907 to 1910 to coincide with the year of the revolution. This lifetime embrace of the traditional dress as well as her unconventional life led to such a strong identity you could almost say she was one of the first personalities to become a brand in her own right against all the odds. Alongside the Mexican clothing items she also mix and matched with clothing from Guatemala, China, Europe and the USA making an eclectic personal style.
A million fashion shoots have been shot as an homage to her image and here it is a revelation to see her actual garments and possessions in real life as well as appreciate her strength and feminist approach in adversity.
Frida Kahlo – Making herself up at the V&A Museum was sponsored by Grosvenor Britain and Ireland, Aeromexico, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and GRoW @Annenberg.
Self portrait of iconic Frida Kahlo from 1933 when she and Diego riviera were living in the US shows her unconventional appearance for the time.
As Frida got older her health deteriorated and by the 1940's she was wearing corsets to support her spine most of the time similar to this
Vintage cosmetic items owned by Frida Kahlo were discovered in a sealed bathroom in her old family home in 2004
Plaster cast were modelled directly on Frida's body, she wore them for weeks at a time and kept them afterwards perhaps because she decorated them
There is a good selection of Frida Kahlo's striking jewellery
Typical Frida Kahlo outfits include rebozos a traditional Mexican shawl
Mexican long skirts with flounces are known as enaguas and holanes
Tabard square tops are known as huipiles, from Frida Kahlo – Making Herself Up at the V&A Museum till November
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Chicago: John Catanzara must RESIGN!
The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is playing a dangerous game with the lives of Black and brown people.
The president of Chicago's FOP, John Catanzara, wrote a letter to Trump requesting federal agents to intervene and "bring civility back to the streets of Chicago." Three days later, Trump announced the expansion of Operation Legend and that federal troops will be arriving in Chicago to "restore peace and order." He referenced the Chicago FOP's letter to help justify his clear abuse of authority and escalation of violence.
The rollout of Operation Legend is nothing more than an attempt resist police accountability, block change, and send a chilling message to activists who rightfully protest state-sanctioned violence. Worst of all, it's a dog whistle to the violent white supremacists in Trump's base that crave violence against protesters and Black and brown people.
Now, because of growing public outrage, Trump is beginning to walk back some his dangerous rhetoric -- claiming that federal troops are in Chicago solely to fight crime, not to crack down on protesters. However, his allies in the FOP (and other police unions) are blaming a rise in violent crime on an "anti-police" sentiment," a direct response and mischaracterization of recent calls to reform policing. Catanzara's inflammatory remarks gave Trump the green light to usher in federal troops into Chicago and cities across the country.
As long as Chicago's political leaders remain silent about the role of police unions inciting violence in Black and brown communities then the police will continue to operate with impunity. That is why, in partnership with Police Unions Exposed, we are calling on public officials in Chicago to hold the police union president, John Catanzara, accountable. This behavior cannot go unchecked.
Sign the petition: Demand Chicago officials denounce John Catanzara!
Below is the letter that we will send to Chicago's mayor and city officials.
Dear Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chicago City Council members, Chicago Police Chief David Brown, and other civic leaders,
Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) went around city official to invite Donald Trump's violent, unaccountable federal troops to the city. I'm calling on you to publicly denounce the FOP and refuse to negotiate with them on any aspect of police accountability or reform, until they reverse course.


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Political and Social Conventions in Jacques Demy's 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'
By Frankie Kanatas on March 15, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )
By 1964, Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut had redefined cinematic language and captivated audiences with their feature debuts, transporting a new wave of subversive filmmaking into the mainstream. In the wake of their success, Jacques Demy, a filmmaker from the seacoast town of Nantes, had finally struck his golden goose with the innovative operetta The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and his newfound recognition granted him the freedom to direct the equally successful spiritual sequel The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). Demy continued to release films in the subsequent years, however they were panned by international audiences, causing his name to fall into obscurity. Passionately, his wife and fellow La Nouvelle Vague filmmaker, Agnès Varda, posthumously restored his important cinematic contributions, reinstituting them into the public consciousness.
Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg initially establishes itself as a conventional narrative about two possessed lovers, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) and Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve), who are separated by the Algerian War. However, like all La Nouvelle Vague masterworks, Demy eclipses the traditional formal and compositional elements of Hollywood musicals to create a wayward melody of social and political malaise. While the target audience may be charmed by the film's visual vibrancy and recitative sung dialogue on first viewing, subsequent viewings reveal its complexities that are deeply entrenched in the socio-political climate of the late 50s/early 60s.
Demy intentionally employs the Algerian War as the backdrop for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Geneviève and Guy's romance begins in "November 1957," a significant month in United Nations history, as they denounced the increased attacks and torture employed against military personnel and civilians. Although the conflict itself is rarely mentioned, it imposes upon the characters' lives and influences their behaviour within the narrative. The war imperializes the couple's hyper-idealized dreams of getting married and conceiving a child, thrusting them into a reality of heartache and suffering. Guy's return from the front lines represents how war metamorphizes a man. The boyish wonder has vanished from his eyes and been altered by bitter resentment as he recognizes "there is [was] no danger," and that he was fighting in an ineffective war. Once retired, Guy engages in empty affairs with prostitutes — an impotent attempt to recapture his strayed love. The war's influence is also symbolized through Geneviève, as she is conscripted by her mother to abandon Guy and accept her fate, deluding herself into believing that perhaps their relationship wouldn't have lasted. While other films from the French New Wave have spoken of the Algerian War (most notably Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7), few have addressed it in such a profound manner, depicting the process of transformation at the hands of the conflict.
In The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, class structure is constructed through Geneviève's unduly protective mother, Madame Emery (Anne Vernon), and her first love, Guy. Emery represents a Machiavellian character who aspires rapid social ascension for her daughter. Her financial strife leads her to the suave businessman Roland Cassard (Marc Michel), whom she glorifies as the model man that can offer her daughter physical and emotional security. Once Guy gets drafted, Emery initiates a relationship with Cassard, considering it to be the only alternative for Geneviève to assimilate and avoid being ostracized by society for having premarital sex and falling pregnant. Despite her ineptitude, Emery sincerely loves her daughter and wants to safeguard a pleasant future. In contrast, Guy represents an unhurried social climb. Once he completes his call of duty and tends to his Aunt Élise, he can pursue an entrepreneurial career as a mechanic and move up in social class. When Guy reunites with Geneviève at his gas station during the Epilogue, the societal division is aggrandized. Geneviève has escalated to the upper echelon of society, adorned in a fur coat and pearl earrings, whereas Guy remains stagnant in the middle class. Through the figures of Madame Emery and Guy, Demy exposes the endemic influence of social hierarchy in post-war France and its impact on marriage.
Like popular musicals of the past and present, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg appropriates gay culture. There are discreet, homosexual gestures throughout the film, such as a sailor waiting for his client under a lamp post. This image has become archetypal in Queer Cinema and was replicated 18 years later in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle. Much like The Wizard of Oz, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg features no explicitly homosexual characters, yet the film communicates to the universal queer experience, serving as a testament to Demy's bisexuality. Guy and Geneviève's forbidden love echoes the adversity of same sex couples, as the characters endure shame and are compelled to hide their meetings from their guardians. These hyper-realistic circumstances are surely understood by modern viewers that have also been compelled by societal norms to keep facets of their life hidden. Demy, as the only French New Wave member who identified as bisexual (as far as I'm aware), explores homosexuality in a subdued manner that would pass the censor board.
Fifty-three years after initial release, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg continues to be a formally and contextually innovative French New Wave production; a film that has influenced contemporary directors such as Barry Jenkins, Damien Chazelle and Joachim Trier.
Frankie Kanatas is a freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia. His previous writings have been featured at Black Circle Film, and he can be contacted at frankiekana000@gmail.com.
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Women are the reservoir of moral force, love and compassion – Vidya Jain
An International e-dialogue was organized by Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti on June 13, 2020 on "Increasing visibility of women in conflict resolution, negotiations and mediation". Dr. Vidya Jain, former SG APPRA & Convener, Nonviolence Commission, IPRA (International Peace Research Association); Dr. Bernedette Muthien, Facilitator, Researcher and Poet in South Africa founder of African Peace Research Association; Prof. Matt Meyer, Co-Secretary General, IPRA; Prof. Janet Gerson, (Peace Educator) Education Director, International Institute on Peace Education and Ms. Dinah Lakehal, Programme Officer, Global Network of Women Peace-builders were the key speakers. Dr. Vedabhyas Kundu, Programme Officer, GSDS moderated the session. The e-dialogue underlined that voice of women and their rights are equally important. 105 participants from different countries, which included academics, writers, social activists, pioneer of women movement in the USA, youth from different universities and others.
Beginning the session with his welcome address, Shri Dipanker Shri Gyan spoke on the patriarchy society and domestic issue in a day to day life of women, focussing on the need to increase the visibility of women in this era. While speaking about society that has recognized male as mediators, he said that even in the most conflict zones, it is women who have come to the forefront for restoration of peace dialogues.
In her address Dr. Vidya Jain spoke on how the role of women has emerged from traditional era to modern era also emphasizing the issue of sexual harassment against women and the need to address them during this hour. She said that through non-violence, "We can build bridges of understanding and reconciliation. With peace in our minds and souls, we can build our common future", adding, "The need today is to actively think, analyze and participate in several transnational alliances to create a culture of peace".
While terming 'patriarchy as a bigger virus than Coronavirus', Dr. Jain said that masculinity is more toxic than COVID-19 and said that of all the inequalities in terms of caste, class, race, religion, "The most comprehensive and pervasive of all inequalities is of gender. These profound inequalities extend to every aspect of life, nutrition, education, livelihood, leisure, etc within homes and at work places".
Calling "Women as the reservoir of moral force, love and compassion", Dr. Jain said that women can be very good at persuasion and negotiation. "These qualities were redefined and remodeled by Mahatma Gandhi who in fact desired universalisation of these so-called womanly traits of care, compassion and patience", and added that "Gandhi constructs a new woman who has compassion and courage; who is caring, but firm and who has the moral force to protect any attempt made on her chastity and honour. He creates a woman as powerful as Kali and Durga who by her own resolute will fight for her future".
Dr. Bernadette Muthein spoke on the violence against women and how they are battling it each day. She also emphasized on cultural, social, political violence against women. "As an individual we all need to make a community for women that provide them quick redressal to their problems", she said. Addressing issues ranging from conflict, peace and violence, she highlighted both structural violence, direct violence as well as cultural violence. She said, "These concepts of peace by our favourite peace gurus were previously used by, among others, Martin Luther King in his 1953 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", in which he wrote about "negative peace which is the absence of tension" and "positive peace which is the presence of justice." Even earlier, Jane Addams' Newer Ideals of Peace of 1907 speaks to this topic".
She also dealt with sex and gender in details and further underlined the segmenting role of state vs community and called for understanding the role played by what she called, 'ordinary women who are battling life in the open amidst challenging circumstances and working towards peaceful reconciliation. She said, "It is these ordinary women on the Cape Flats, dodging gangster bullets eking subsistence, women mediating between the army supposed to combat gangsterism, but sometimes abusing residents, between deadly gangs who are in economic and power struggles variously, between extractive religious leaders who care only about enriching themselves rather than supporting the community, communities dealing with a pandemic like covid19, combating poverty inequality and unemployment. These, as Betty Reardon has pointed out, are our everyday heroes or sheroes, our ordinary peacemakers, these women struggling for survival among so much unspeakable violence. It is they who deserve the accolades, the salaries and benefits, the peace prizes and cash, the support and celebration. For, it is these usually unsung women who comprise the state, who comprise the international, who populate the planet, who need us the most".
In conclusion, Dr. Bernedette said, "When violence is perpetrated, not only the victim of violence suffers. The perpetrator is brutalised before committing violence and through their very acts of violence. Witnesses to the violence also suffer of vicarious trauma. So, all of society suffers when violence is perpetrated. No one is immune from violence. Yet everyone benefits from peace". She further quoted what President Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso once said: "We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or because of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the triumph of the revolution. Women hold up half the sky."
Prof. Matt Meyer emphasized on Gandhian studies as women peace builder, and constructing institutions for women for their growth and more participation and women leaderships. "Women in conflict resolution of view from the invisible eyes" stated with various case studies the role of women in peace building and reiterated the necessity of what he said, "How to truly increase visibility in more than simply a tokenistic manner". Referring to Smt. Ela Gandhi granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi and former African National Congressmen and Member of Parliament, Prof. Matt said that Mahatma Gandhi believed that working at grassroots "Trains one in democracy to consult to value opinions of the people not to have a judgment not to make up your mind in drawing-room or something else to go out to the community and experience what the community is experiencing to work with them to listen to what they are saying that is the one way we can really make a difference to empower of communities and educate them", for this would enable people to govern and empower women with skills and much greater opportunities.
Further referring to the African liberation movements, Prof. Meyer said, "All the research all the scientific evidence accumulated especially over the last decades points to the clear and simple fact that women peace-builders engaged at all levels of conflict resolution negotiation mediation and building alternative institutions and constructive programs". He also spoke about the significant contribution of Mozambican Leader Graça Machel in Minister of Education of her own post independence Mozambique and as in some ways the key mobilizer of a global consciousness around the right of children and youth to not be conscripted, to not be engaged and to not be forced into armed conflict. So looking at women and of course looking at women and children and youth has been a center point of Graca's leadership which even the United Nations took cognizance of in its outlook at conflict and violence and war.
Prof. Meyer also shared stories of women leaders – from Ana Garcia, who's intellectual work on BRICKS the new sub imperialist sub-regional Brazil Russia India China and South Africa; to some of the work of indigenous women and women leaders in Mexico the Zapatistas and others to stories of women from Kashmir to a new cutting edge network developing of people from occupied territories sharing resources and stories the women of occupied West Papua and Western Sahara – who are leading new generations of new movements looking at the connections between means and ends advocating tactics of civil resistance in the face of structural institutional interpersonal and all forms of violence. He also specifically mentioned about Dr. Betty Reardon, who taught him that his job as peace researcher and activists was not just to resolve conflict "but rather to foment creative conflict especially for the empowerment of young women and for an end to the war against the earth known as the climate crisis". He also shared his inputs on the movement in the US against the death of a Black citizen and called for many other women to push towards visibility and also to actual power for urgent positive social political and environmental change.
Dr. Janet Gerson, spoke upon the motto of conflict resolution and how we can overcome this in a more harmonic way without dominating other person's view. She called upon people to join peace initiatives as a nonviolent peace builder and join the community of global civil society peace-builders. She spoke her role as a woman, how she was raised to be, what she termed as 'good wife' and how to be 'beautiful and graceful' and she had t refused to be the property of a man and therefore, "We thousands and thousands of women actually disrupted this view by working together by helping each other in communication in conversation we could talk about our feelings our thoughts and we could strategize for actions and we could support each other in those actions and in that way we opened up the place for women in many dimensions", adding, "We practiced dialogue, community building and we practiced thinking together and learning from and with each other in relation to challenging the problems that we were facing and worked for conflict resolution".
Dr. Janet further emphasized on rewriting stories of conflict and reframing conflicting dialogues. She said, "The idea was how can we be nonviolent and work out problems without dominating, yelling, pounding, eliminating the other person's view; how can we or I would say conflict resolution is a practice of rewriting the story of a conflict, to reframe one person or one group or one community against another – me against you and him against or her – we reframe the story through discussion and dialogue and open listening and identifying what we have in common and how we're interconnected and bring our resourcefulness, our limits and our capacities to challenge the existing conflicting situations to dialogue and mediation".
She also mentioned about Dr. Betty Reardon who she said has been very active in challenging the idea that only governments can speak and has been instrumental in shaping policies related to human rights issue at the United Nations and the treaty called the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women that came into force. While reiterating the fact that many battles have been won at international platforms on ensuring security for women against any form of violence, Prof. Jane said that "These are not battles that are simply won, these are not conflicts that are simply resolved, but their ongoing struggles that take constant vigilance… they take the skills of community building, of dialogue, negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution and at the UN level the global international or global civil society level they take deliberation in using all those skills for policy negotiation, policy formulation and decision-making and strategy organizing to move forward".
Dr. Dinah Lakehal , programme officer ,global network of peace builders said that gender inequality is the key driver of conflict, if we think of changing others then that change must come from within and this will happen by building women stronger be it politically, structurally, culturally, economically, so that future generations won't have to experience these conflicts and inequality that they have been part of and much more involvement if women in peace building processes, sustainable peace has to be inclusive of our diversities and communities.
Dr. Dinah while speaking of her global network of woman peace builders said that her organization is an international coalition of more than 100 women's rights organizations and civil society from over 40 different countries who are experienced in conflict or humanitarian crises we work to build equal resilient and peaceful commune and we work with the UN with governments other international organizations. She pointed out that while the UN this year is celebrating its 75th anniversary, 75 years ago the UN was tasked with promoting international peace and security along with human rights and development. But "It was only 20 years ago after the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325 on women and peace and security that it was formally recognized that women experienced war and conflict differently; that conflict had an inordinate impact on women on young women and on girls; that it exacerbated gender inequalities across the board and in every way possible by excluding and marginalizing women socially, politically, economically, culturally; that sexual violence and rape was used as a tool of war; that there were higher rates of illiteracy for women and girls with increasing numbers in forced and child marriages; that there are over representations of women and girls in refugee and international and internally displaced populations to name a few of the outsized impacts of conflict that that women face".
She also said that while the Security Council is the body that adopted 1325, "It was actually a product of women led civil society organizations who have been championing this long before the Security Council adopted it on paper and while the Security Council sits in the comfortable chairs and chambers, it's really grassroots women's rights or organizations and civil society who are breathing life into these (WPS) women peace and security resolutions; it's local women who are translating the resolutions into necessary actions on the ground who are using them as instruments to demand participation and leadership and decision-making and conflict prevention and peace building so that future generations will not experience the war and conflict and inequality that they themselves experienced".
Dr. Dinah further lamented that the work of grassroots women's rights organizations and peace building organizations is not sufficiently recognized or supported by governments by international organizations including the UN by the media and sometimes even by academics. She said, "We now have more and more evidence of the link between gender inequality and conflict", adding, "Gender inequality is one of the key drivers of conflict and at the same time gender equality is a key driving force of peace. We have overwhelming empirical evidence that women's participation and peace processes have a positive impact on peace and security and on the durability of peace agreements. Sustainable peace has to be inclusive and reflect the needs and priorities and realities of the diversity of participation of women from all sectors".
She concluded by pointing the necessity to look beyond just numbers and the physical presence of women in the room and said, "Instead we have to define meaningful participation as direct substantive and formal inclusion of diverse women in positions of power that can influence the outcome of negotiations and other processes as well as their implementation", and added that "Enabling meaningful participation requires valuing and legitimizing the work of diverse women and creating and safeguarding the opportunities for them to speak for themselves rather than to be spoken for consultations and that women must be given the opportunity to set and shape agendas and experience the tangible benefits of their engagement meaningful participation".
Founder and director of the Peace Education Center and Peace Education Graduate Degree Program at Teachers College, Columbia University Dr. Betty Reardon, a leader in peace education and a scholar in human rights education and a mentor to many leading women activists, shared her experiences on the occasion and expressed her hope and delight on one of the first ground-level was within the church movement which she said, "Like all institutions was infected with patriarchy". She further added, "It is wonderful to see the depth and variety of positions and the richness of substance of young women who are doing the work of 1325 to the young women who are in our streets during these past weeks and to the young women who brought the climate crisis to the conscious of the whole world".
The international E-dialogue concluded with a poem on "Peace" by Ms. Rumana from Pakistan on Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King.
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Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics Workshop
50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2012
13 July 2012	Jeju Island, Korea
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Until recently, research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has focused predominantly on propositional aspects of meaning. For example, semantic role labeling, question answering or text mining tasks aim at extracting information of the type ``who does what, when and where''. However, understanding language involves also processing Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning (EPAM), such as factuality, uncertainty, or subjectivity, since the same propositional meaning can be presented in a diversity of statements. While some work on phenomena like subjectivity has been carried out in the context of sentiment processing, other phenomena like the detection of sarcasm have received less attention.
By proposing this workshop we aim at bringing together scientists working on EPAM from any area related to computational language learning and processing. By EPAM we understand aspects of meaning that cannot be captured with a propositional representation such as the output of semantic role labelers.
For instance, the meaning of the sentence in Example (1) can be represented with the proposition ADD(earthquake,further threats to the global economy), whereas representing the meaning of the sentences in Example (2) requires additional mechanisms, despite the fact that all sentences share a propositional meaning.
The earthquake adds further threats to the global economy.
Does the earthquake add further threats to the global economy?
The earthquake adds further threats to the global economy, doesn't it?
The earthquake does not add further threats to the global economy.
The earthquake will never add further threats to the global economy.
The earthquake will probably add further threats to the global economy.
Who could (possibly) think the earthquake adds further threats to the global economy?
The earthquake might have added further threats to the global economy.
The last analysis show that the earthquake will add further threats to the global economy.
It is expected that the earthquake will add further threats to the global economy.
It has been denied that the earthquake adds further threats to the global economy.
Some of the sentences above could also be combined in a paragraph such as (3), which shows that the same event can be presented from different perspectives, at different points in time and with different extra-propositional meanings.
The main question 6 months ago was whether the earthquake would add further threats to the global economy. Some days after the earthquake the authorities were convinced that it would be possible to minimize the impact of the earthquake. Most economists didn't share this view and predicted a high economic impact of the earthquake. However, a recent study about the earthquake's effect has shown that, although the earthquake might have added further threats to the global economy, its negative impact can be controlled by applying the right measures.
While the area of EPAM comprises a broad range of phenomena, this workshop will focus mainly on the aspects related to modality understood in a general sense (modalities, hedging, certainty, factuality), negation, attitude, and irony/sarcasm. Since many of these phenomena cannot be adequately modeled without taking (discourse) context into account, the workshop also touches on discourse phenomena in so far as they relate to extra-propositional aspects of meaning.
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Fred has conducted extensive policy reviews, advised and acted in insurance disputes in all major classes of general and life insurance over a 40-year career in insurance law, 20 of them spent in the industry as an insurance company Claims Manager and General Counsel.
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ANZ Banking Group: Fred advises the client on various matters including captive insurance and reinsurance related matters, disputed claims, policy wording analysis and negotiation, and regulatory issues. Fred has advised ANZ on numerous matters: Conducted successful major reinsurance claim litigation on behalf of the Bank, resulting in a recovery in excess of A$114 million from local and overseas reinsurers.
Also acted for OnePath (ANZ Wealth) in the successful recovery of a substantial insurance payout in respect of settled liabilities of a superannuation trustee and its administration manager, toward participating employer members of a group life insurance and benefits managed investment facility, arising from incorrect allocation of contributions to investment settings.
National Australia Bank: Fred has acted for and advised the client on professional indemnity claims, product development, lenders mortgage insurance and reinsurance matters.
UniSuper Ltd and UniSuper Management Ltd: Fred advised and acted for this major industry superannuation trustee, in connection with a protracted and substantial insurance dispute arising out of a major systems upgrade. Has also carried out Efficacy Reviews of UniSuper's Trustee Liability and related insurance programmes and assisted the Manger and its insurance brokers with the negotiation of more favourable terms of coverage.
REST Superannuation: Fred has conducted Efficacy Reviews of the Trustee's and Manager's insurance programmes, for Trustees' Liability, Professional Indemnity, Directors' and Officers' Liability and Crime cover, and advised in connection with actual and potential claims under those contracts.
Orica Group Ltd: Fred advises and acts for the company and its Singapore captive insurer on captive insurance and reinsurance-related matters, product liability, ISR and marine claims, regulatory matters, political risk and alternative risk transfer. Fred has conducted successful Admiralty litigation on behalf of the insured against overseas marine charterers liability insurers, resulting in a substantial recovery. He has also carried out an extensive restructuring of the Group's insurance arrangements, by portfolio transfer under Division 3A of Part III of the Insurance Act, coupled with a complex novation of offshore reinsurance and retrocession contracts.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Fred has conducted specialised insurance product development and negotiation on Political Risk insurance-related matters.
TRUenergy Ltd: Fred has advised and acted for the company in connection with a substantial material damage and business interruption claim under its ISR insurance, arising from the flooding of its open cut coal mine.
AIA Australia Limited: Fred has advised this major Australian life insurer in connection with regulatory, compliance and product development issues. He has also advised and acted for it in the Australian aspects of the global restructuring of the AIA and related life insurance business, by AIG Inc.
Progressive Direct: Fred acts for and advises a leading US specialist motor vehicle insurer, in relation to regulatory, compliance, product-development matters and portfolio transfer.
ANZ Banking Group: Fred has conducted successful major reinsurance claim litigation for the bank, resulting in a recovery in excess of A$114 million from local and overseas reinsurers.
Orica Group Limited: Fred has conducted successful Admiralty litigation on behalf of the insured against overseas marine charterers liability insurers, resulting in a substantial recovery.
OnePath (ANZ Wealth): Fred acted for OnePath in the successful recovery of a substantial insurance payout in respect of settled liabilities of a superannuation trustee and its administration manager, toward participating employer members of a group life insurance and benefits managed investment facility, arising from incorrect allocation of contributions to investment settings.
Idameneo (No. 789) Limited: Fred advised Idameneo (No. 789) Limited. in relation to its entitlements under its Excess Liability (Workers Compensation) Reinsurance Policy.
Transurban Citylink litigation: Fred advised and acted for one of the project professional indemnity insurers in litigation over issues involving the Burnley Tunnel.
Ash Wednesday bushfires: Fred was extensively involved in major insurance claim litigation and dispute resolution arising out of the bushfire losses.
Product Liability class actions: Fred was extensively involved in resolving class actions involving breast implants, intra-uterine devices and other products.
Fred has extensive experience in negotiating, drafting and settling the terms of political risk insurance for offshore projects and operations as detailed below.
Fred has extensive experience advising Government clients on the insurance provisions and procurement of major infrastructure and development projects as outlined below.
Hydro-Electric Corporation of Tasmania: Fred has conducted specialised insurance reviews of a number of the Corporation's policies and has advised in connection with its insurance procurement and the insurance aspects of several of its major projects.


Schmoopiness alert! Read on at your own risk!
I'll share a little background info about these pictures. The inspiration came about because of a Free*Style reader, actually. Last night, I met up with Ash at Heart Cupcakes for that most glorious of sales and G happened to be along. (In reality, I dragged him along because he has an uber computer and can use hover tips to seek out the freebies like lightning, lol.) I introduced G to Ash and I made some remark about my relationship with my fellow. Someone behind us chuckled and grinned. When asked about her grin, she simply said, "I read the blog and I feel like I know you all." It tickled me that someone actually payed attention to my epic saga-esque text around my pictures and links of freebies.
So, in case someone is paying attention, I will give a quick rl update and say that I finally had to fly back across the U.S. to go home and end the best two week vacation of my life with The G Man. I miss him desperately and one of the things we like to do in SL together is take pictures. Shooting these made me feel just a little closer to him, and I couldn't help but keep up the "vacation" vibe in the Numidia sim.
You're all gagging, right? Lol...I would be too. I have no idea how I got so schmoopy. And I promise, I'll be featuring more of your pictures and less schmoopfests when I get my head on straight. But on with the freebies!
One of my favorite people that I've met in SL is Raeva Ashley. She's a really cool, sweet chick and always has time to say hello to me if I stop by her shop. I ran into her today at the Cassiopeia Carnival around her shop there and she was just putting out two new dollarbie dresses. This one is called "Summer" and she's retiring it, so you best hop over to any of her locations to snag it before it's gone! The Candy House hair is available for $0L. The "Hibiscus Hair Pin" from Accessories by Eolande was free by virtue of winning a $75L gift certificate from one of the lucky chairs. The Rio Bella Wedge shoes are by Armidi (not free).
Before I describe G's outfits, I must disclose that these are his freebie finds that he worked hard to discover, lest he get cranky if it appears that I am taking all of the credit. He knows I love searching for great freebies, so he started getting into it too. G has on a tux from Vindi Vindaloo that is available for free at the much-blogged German Fashion Expo at Vanity Universe. His glasses are free at Lucky Card. Non-free items include his Abyss skin and Philotic Energy hair. The "More than Words" pose is by !Meya! ($250L).
This is "Marlena," Raeva's latest creation and yup - it's only $1L and it's so festive and fun for summer. The "Lady" bangles are free from Talisman, and the sculpted heart choker came from a lucky chair there. The "Sultry" version of Tuli's "Emily" skin in "Tanned" just came out today and there couldn't be more juicy red lip glossed lips in SL. The Sn@tch "Nail Candy" in "Blood" ($200L for the fatpack of 38 colors) perfectly matched the rose in my hair from SiniStyle that was $100L for two versions (with and without a skull) that change colors.
G has on a dollarbie tux from the previously-blogged and outright amazing Izumiya. The "Cover" pose is by Lost Angel Poses ($200L).
This dress is so unbelievably gorgeous and I was incredibly fortunate to get it from a lucky chair at Here Comes Trouble. It comes with two different colors and shoes. The "Kelly" skin is a dollarbie from Di Chantilly in-store. There is also a box of six skins right outside for $15L. The gray pearls are a dollarbie from Al Jewels. The flower in my hair is another color of the one shown above by Eolande and was also free from using a gift certificate from the lucky chair. (Can you tell I stalk them?) The "Marisella II" hair is by ETD (not free).
G has on a really nice free skin from Gaslights Emporium. His tux with tails is free from MIA and the top hat is also free, available at Curio Obscura. The "Emo Kiss" pose is by Long Awkward Pose ($100L).
You've survived the schmoopfest. YAY! Time for me to try to sleep.
Awwwww swooon, you guys make me wanna PUKE LOL!
I hope you're back together with G soon.
I've been looking for the lucky chair at HCT but can't find it (did get some 1L hair though!).
Can you give us a hint as to where it is pls?
aw, yall are such a sweet pair. it almost makes me wanna wander out of my slspinster box.
Awww! Maybe it's because i'm in a soppy mood myself because of my sl wedding yesterday, but just, oh the cuteness!


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One of our amplifier wiring kits will come with everything you need to wire your amp in properly, including basic power and ground cables. On top of these basic requirements, you'll need to make sure that the wiring kit you buy is appropriate for the amp you're connecting. 1800W and 2500W kits are the most popular, but we sell kits up to 4000W.
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TALENTED WILDCATS RUN TO TOP THREE FINISH IN NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Ben Joseph and Shane Dempsey provided a great deal of spark to the Arizona attack and defense in the team's second straight run to the top three.
June 14- Arizona has completed another strong run at this year's Collegiate Rugby Championship, going 4-1 on the weekend and finishing third in the nationally televised event.
The Wildcats opened pool play with the newly-turned varsity Army, with the Black Knights returning to the CRC after a two year hiatus. Thanks to some
dogged defense and two tries each by Tyler Sousley
and Shane Dempsey, the 20-0 victory for the Cats
started their weekend off on the right foot.
In game two, Arizona took on another service academy,
matching up with Navy in what was a defensive
struggle early. Leading 5-0 at half, two more tries from
Sousley gave him three for the game and the Wildcats
a 17-0 victory to move to 2-0.
Arizona and Saint Joseph's entered the final match of
pool play at 2-0, with the pool decider a rematch
of last year's Hawks victory over the Wildcats.
Ben Joseph emerged as the man of the match,
dotting down twice and playing fantastic defense to
stake the Wildcats to a 14-5 victory and clinch both the pool and a spot in the Cup Quarterfinals for the second straight year. "We were thrilled to go 3-0 and most importantly, thrilled to only give up 5 points on the day" said Head Coach Sean Duffy.
Seeded 3rd overall and matched up with Life University in the Quarterfinals, the Wildcats jumped out to an early lead on a try from Sousley before the Running Eagles responded to make it 7-5 at halftime. The first deficit of the weekend for the Wildcats was extended in the second half to 12-5 setting up the final minutes. Thanks to some patient play and composure from the young Wildcats, Arizona maintained possession in the final minute and worked their way down the field where Shane Dempsey bulled over the try line for the game-tying score, forcing extra time. With momentum firmly back on the Wildcats' side, more fantastic defense led to a Sousley linebreak, a Kyle Rogers quick tap, and a try by Jonah Eldridge in the right corner to win the game 17-12 and punch their ticket to the Cup Semifinals.
In the Cup Semifinal, Arizona took on 2015 champion Cal, and the Bears jumped to an early lead over the Wildcats before a Matt Rogers try, the first of the CRC by the Freshman. Despite great effort, Arizona was overwhelmed by the veteran Bears, losing 38-5 to finish top three in the event for the second straight year.
For Coach Duffy and the Wildcats, the top three finish marks another great sign for the program that had quite a bit going on around the on-field action. "While we're disappointed to lose in the Semifinals, we're continuing to make strides, going 3-0 in pool play and making strides towards our goals" said Coach Duffy "in addition, it was a fantastic weekend for the program, with William David Sitton and Steve Gray both being inducted into the US Rugby Hall of Fame and scores of alumni making the long trip to Philly to cheer on both our past and current Wildcats. I'd like to thank all of them for attending, especially the Sitton and Gray families." With Rugby's inclusion in the 2016 Olympics, this year's CRC broke attendance records, with over 22,000 fans coming through to see 24 of the nation's best teams.
The CRC marks the end of an exciting year of Arizona Rugby, with a top eight finish in D1A and a top three finish in the CRC laying down a marker for the future of a squad that returns 90% of its roster next Fall.
Game 1 vs Army
Tries: Sousley (2), Dempsey (2)
Conv: Dempsey- 0/4
Game 2 vs Navy
Tries: Sousley (3)
Game 3 vs Saint Joseph's
Tries: Joseph (2)
Cup QF vs Life
Tries: Sousley, Dempsey, Eldridge
Cup SF vs Cal
Tries: M. Rogers- 1/1
Conv: M. Rogers- 0/1
Cesar Davila and Bryce Mantell end the year with another exciting run on national television.


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This dataset contains information on 'Tree Montgomery' which is a new program to plant shade trees for free. Please note that only planted and completed trees are included. The Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is looking for places to plant, especially in yards of single family homes, parking lots, and multi-family communities. We're also targeting areas where there is a lot of development, little tree canopy, or a real need for shade. The County will install shade trees and give them some after care; all for free. When installed, the trees will be 10 to 12 feet tall and will eventually be more than 50 feet tall, providing you with decades of shade. Funding for 'Tree Montgomery' is provided through the Tree Canopy Law.
This dataset contains information on the Noise complaints initiated by citizens through 311 or web form.


Climate change is causing unprecedented changes in the Earth's regions of snow and ice, portents of profound, dramatic change for ecosystems and societies around the world, according to a joint report released by The World Bank and The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) November 4.
Stabilizing and preserving the cryosphere merits inclusion as a global imperative, the report authors stress. Leadership – in the form of explicit and sustained guidance, direction, support and incentives – is needed across markets, industries, the government, private and public sectors if there is any chance of this objective being realized, however.
The effects of climate change are being seen and felt disproportionately in the Earth's cryosphere, whether it's Arctic sea ice, Antarctic ice shelves, the Greenland ice sheet, the Alaskan coast or the freshwater glaciers of the Andes, Rockies and Himalayas. Moreover, "rapid changes in the cryosphere observed during the first decade of this century are continuing or accelerating," according to the report.
Methane emissions from thawing permafrost alone could increase atmospheric carbon "as much as 5-30% by the end of this century if current cryosphere warming is not slowed," they warn.
Implementing the 14 measures recommended in the report by 2030 "could slow warming in the Arctic by more than a full degree by 2050, resulting in up to 40 percent reduced loss of summer sea ice and 25 percent reduced loss of springtime snow cover compared to the baseline," however.
Rapidly scaling up just four cleaner cooking solutions alone could save as many as 1 million human lives a year. Reducing diesel emissions in transportation can prevent 340,000 deaths Achieving a 50% reduction in open field and forest burning could avoid 190,000 deaths from air pollution, according to the report.
Of potentially profound significance for coastal regions and populations, "rates of sea-level rise might be significantly slowed by 2050, with a potential near-leveling-off in rates before the end of the century if SLCP measures are combined with CO2 emissions held to 450ppm.


HCG or human chorionic gonadotropin is a hormone found in pregnant woman. It is considered to be the reason why women still gain strength after having a division of food consumption with their babies. According to Dr. Simeons, the solution is also a remedy for weight gain and obesity. The hormone is said to be responsible for suppressing appetite and causing instant weight loss, specifically when matched with a very low calorie diet.
HCG diet is a plan you need to follow in association with your ingestion of HCG diet drops. Basically, it will be a replacement of your current weight loss plan. However, the diet will already incorporate the use of hormonal drops. In addition to this, HCG diet plan requires a very low calorie restriction. The calorie limit may range from 500 to 1800 calories every day. However, the studies suggest that you will lose more weight by settling with 500-calorie daily.
Many people doubt the safety of HCG diet drops. However, you need to be reminded that if you use homeopathic type of HCG solution, you will be protected from adverse side effects. According to studies, there are no known side effects or complications brought by dropping HCG sublingually or under the tongue.
HCG diet drops eliminate the disadvantage of injections. Many people complained about the side effects of injections. According to experts, HCG injections are often doubted for they can cause serious side effects, especially when taken at large amounts. In addition to this, having HCG drops instead of injections free you from needle fear or prickling pain every time you treat yourself with the hormone.
In addition to this, HCG diet drops are budget-wise remedies. Instead of paying thousands of dollars for injections, the drops will give you a lower investment to take regard of.
There is a great reason why HCG diet drops work quicker than normal weight loss solutions. This is due to the loading phase associated with the diet. By following the fat reserves requirement, which involves the phase you need to load up with tons of fatty foods, you will be able to push your body to lose excess fats. The less hungry you feel during the diet, the more it will work and adapt in your system. In addition to this, the loading phase gets rid of unnecessary cravings that often damage your diet.
It is all about commitment to get real results from HCG diet drops. You need to take the drops for several days to make it work and maximize your fat loss. In addition to this, you have to stick with the diet plan to ensure that you will let your body adapt to a new eating pattern HCG is trying to apply in it.
The given facts above will let you understand that HCG diet drops are safe and effective when used correctly.


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Q: Dynamic number of columns in SQL Server Is it possible to convert this

Name
Id

Name1
1

Name1
2

Name2
3

Name2
4

Name2
5

Name3
6

into something like this?

Name1
Name2
Name3

1
3
6

2
4

5

The number of columns depends on the number of unique names.

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 SELECT
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      *
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       )  as t
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   max(  Id )
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        [Name1],
        [Name2],
        [Name3])
        )AS pivot_table;

If you want it dynamic
DECLARE @sql AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE @colnames AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
--Get distinct values of the PIVOT Column
SET @colnames = STUFF((SELECT distinct ',' + QUOTENAME(Name)
FROM  SHELL_CHEM_TEST.dbo.Table1
ORDER BY 1
FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)')
,1,1,'')

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(
select ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY [Name] ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) AS rn, *
from  Table1
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Missouri prepares to execute man for killing officer in 2005
KBIA | By Associated Press
Published November 29, 2022 at 7:06 AM CST
A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, though his lawyers are seeking to have the lethal injection halted.
Kevin Johnson's attorneys don't deny that he killed Police Officer William McEntee in 2005, but contend in an appeal before the Missouri Supreme Court that he was sentenced to death in part because he is Black.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined a stay request last week, and Gov. Mike Parson on Monday announced he would not grant clemency.
Johnson would be the second Missouri man put to death in 2022 and the 17th nationally.


Crime author Val McDermid has launched the Blether campaign, searching for real-life stories from the people of Scotland, to be published on the Scottish Book Trust's website.
The word 'Blether' was definted by the Scotsman as "a lengthy chat between friends.But when applied to a person, blether is also a term for a gossip, a chatterbox, or someone who talks a lot of nonsense."
A Year of Conversation 2019 is a collaborative project in Scotland designed to celebrate, initiate and explore conversation through the arts.
Author and editor Nikesh Shukla has also contributed a story, alongside Leila Aboulela, winner the Saltire Fiction Book of Year 2018, short story writer Chris McQueer, as well as actress Jane McCarry.
The submitted stories will be published in a weekly digital issue, available to read online via Scottish Book Trust's website. A selection of the stories will also be published in a physical book for Book Week Scotland– a week long, national celebration of books and reading. This year's Book Week Scotland takes place between 18th and 24th November with a number of workshops, visit the website for more information or to book a place on a workshop.
The Blether writing campaign is open for submissions from today until 5th June. Writers should submit their work, in any form – story, poem, comic strip, play or letter – of up to 1,000 words, in English, Gaelic or Scots.


Gain insight into what's going on for your parents and understand how they are most affecting you at this time. Then receive advice for improving this situation and find out what the future holds for all three of you.
FATHER'S BACKGROUND: Why does my father act as he does?
MOTHER'S BACKGROUND: What past issues are affecting my mother today?
YOUR LIFE: What impact is the relationship with my parents having upon me now?
ADVICE: Is there anything I could do to improve mine or my parents' situation?
FATHER'S FUTURE: How would my father respond if I took the advice from the cards?
MOTHER'S FUTURE: How might my mother's life develop if I follow the advice given?
OUTCOME: What is the likely final outcome for me?