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Rural Internet Options in Louisiana and Mississippi
The lack of high-speed Internet options for rural residents of Louisiana and Mississippi was a problem before the pandemic. COVID-19 lockdowns and library closures have made clear what people living outside the city limits already knew: high-speed internet is an essential utility, and not enough people have it.
The Scope of the Internet Access Issue: the Rural-Urban Broadband Divide
The pandemic has deepened what is referred to as the Rural-Urban Broadband Divide—a disparity that leaves millions of Americans behind. The reason why this divide exists in the first place is multipronged, but the main issue is that laying fiber optic cable lines is not profitable for for-profit utility companies to build.
Construction of internet cable is time-consuming and difficult. When homes are close together, internet service providers are happy to make this investment, but in rural areas where locations are fewer and miles apart, it can be much more difficult.
As a result, rural communities in Louisiana and Mississippi suffer from a lack of high-speed internet every day. Imagine not being able to attend school online, hop on a Zoom call, place an online order, or send a business invoice. Mississippi and Louisiana have some of the lowest rates of rural broadband access in the country.
Both Louisiana and Mississippi are receiving funds from the following federal grant and loan programs to bolster broadband infrastructure.
FCC Rural Digital Opportunity Fund
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund in August 2019 to bring high-speed internet to rural areas of our country. The program has provided $4.7 billion in funding to bring broadband to 2.7 million locations so far.
In January and March 2022, the FCC announced that additional rounds of funding will be released to more unserved areas of the country as well as locations that had defaulted bids during Phase I and Phase II of the initial launch of the program.
FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program
"The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.
The benefit provides a discount of up to $30 per month toward internet service for eligible households and up to $75 per month for households on qualifying Tribal lands. Eligible households can also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from participating providers if they contribute more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase price.
"The Affordable Connectivity Program is limited to one monthly service discount and one device discount per household."
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is awarding grants to expand broadband infrastructure to twelve states and Guam. NTIA's Broadband Infrastructure Program is funded by the Consolidated Appropriations Act signed in 2021.
USDA ReConnect
Funded through the CARES Act of 2020, USDA's ReConnect program provides grants, loans, and grant/loan combinations to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to build broadband and fuel long-term economic development in rural areas.
Governor John Bel Edwards applauds the recent developments in state and federal broadband infrastructure funding. He said the broadband networks will "serve to connect the unconnected, bring digital inclusion and equity to our residents, and allow our rural communities to be competitive in the 21st Century." Below are some programs being implemented. Governor Edwards has also established the Broadband for Everyone in Louisiana Commission to facilitate the process of building broadband for all residents.
Louisiana is adding broadband through the Rural Opportunity Fund. The FCC has published a list of the winning bidders, the number of locations they will serve, and the amount of each bid for Phase I.
NTIA
The Acadiana Planning Commission, covering Acadia Parish, Evangline Parish, and St. Landry Parish, was awarded $29,940,612. The Acadiana Regional Public/Private Partnership for the Deployment of a Fiber to the Home Network in the Rural Underserved Areas of Acadiana project is a last-mile broadband deployment designed to bring qualifying broadband to 22,196 unserved households.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Louisiana on March 21st to raise awareness of the digital divide as well as announce the NTIA funding.
GUMBO Program
Louisiana's Office of Broadband Development & Connectivity (ConnectLA)'s grant program, Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities, or GUMBO, is helping build rural broadband. The ISP contract winners for the first round of funding have been announced.
USDA ReConnect Program
The USDA ReConnect program provides grants, loans, and grant/loan combinations to ISPs to build broadband to fuel long-term economic development in rural areas through the CARES Act.
Star Telephone Company received two ReConnect awards to build high-speed broadband infrastructure in Iberville, Pointe Coupee, and St. Landry Parishes. These awards are a 50 percent grant/50 percent loan.
Funding Round
2019 2,609 $15,525,694 Creates or improves connectivity for 2,609 rural households, 16 pre-subscribed farms, 13 educational facilities, 2 healthcare centers, and 8 critical community facilities spread over 100.26 square miles. Iberville
2020 1,472 $12,321,244 This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy fiber-to-the-premises broadband service in rural Louisiana. The funded service areas include 1,472 households, 5 educational facilities, and 2 essential community facilities spread over 191.64 square miles. Rapides
Mississippi is also adding broadband through the Rural Opportunity Fund. The FCC has published a list of the winning bidders, the number of locations they will serve, and the amount of each bid for Phase I.
In February, Mississippi received an NTIA award for $32,696,322. This grant is a last-mile and middle-mile broadband deployment across the entire state of Mississippi. It consists of ten unique projects that are designed to bring qualifying broadband to a total of 12,487 unserved households across ten counties.
Governor Tate Reeves said the following about the NTIA grant. "When Mississippi Public Utilities Staff approached us about whether a grant application should be submitted, I knew we absolutely had to proceed. Mississippi received the second-highest award total out of any state – a testament to the strength of our application and proof positive just how important these 10 projects are to not only Mississippi but to our country. My administration will continue to leverage every tool at our disposal to ensure all Mississippians, regardless of where they live, have access to the full breadth of benefits technology has to offer."
The following entities will be funded through the Mississippi Public Service Commission:
Bay Springs Smith County Smith County $5,507,845.20
Bruce Telephone Calhoun County $7,625,076.17
C Spire Issaquena Issaquena County $894,780.00
C Spire Madison County Madison County $625,500.00
CableSouth Media 3 Collins Covington County $1,755,000.00
Franklin Telephone Lincoln County $5,326,250.40
MaxxSouth New Albany Benton/Union County $3,072,303.78
MaxxSouth Pontotoc Pontotoc County $1,693,345.18
Uplink Coahoma Coahoma County $4,859,330.58
We Connect Calhoun County Calhoun County $1,336,901.24
Two ISPs received 100% grants in the 2020 funding round to build high-speed broadband infrastructure in Mississippi.
Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association 878 $16,091,872 This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy a fiber-to-the-home network in rural Mississippi. The funded service areas include 878 households and nine essential community facilities spread over 474.74 square miles. Yalobusha
Tallahatchie
Bay Springs Telephone Company 2,037 $4,692,817 This Rural Development investment will be used to deploy fiber-to-the-premises broadband service in rural Mississippi. The funded service areas include 2,037 households, five educational facilities, seven essential community facilities, and two healthcare facilities spread over 96.71 square miles. Jasper
Mississippi Electric Cooperatives Broadband COVID-19 Grant Program
Electric co-ops are now allowed to provide broadband thanks to a law passed by the Mississippi legislature in 2019. The Mississippi Electric Cooperatives Broadband COVID-19 Grant Program awarded money to ISPs to build broadband in areas unserved or underserved by broadband. You can view all the providers and their award amounts at the Mississippi Public Service Commission.
Broadband is Coming
While broadband may not have reached your particular parcel of rural land in Louisiana or Mississippi, the federal government as well as the government leaders of Louisiana and Mississippi are actively identifying unserved areas and allocating funds to bring broadband to you. To keep up with broadband providers in your area, visit the NTIA's Broadband Availability Map.
At Southern AgCredit, we look forward to seeing all of our rural borrower-owners enjoy broadband on their farms, hunting camps, country homes, and more. For more information on financing your property in the country, contact a Southern AgCredit office near you.


SAN FRANCISCO, January 31, 2019 – Studiomaca Corporation (NYSE:MCK) today reported that revenues for the third quarter ended December 31, 2018, were $56.2 billion, up 5% compared to $53.6 billion a year ago, and also up 5% on a constant currency basis. On the basis of U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), third-quarter earnings per diluted share from continuing operations was $2.41, compared to earnings per diluted share of $4.32 a year ago. Prior year GAAP earnings per diluted share included a net tax benefit of approximately $1.78 per diluted share driven by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
For the first nine months of the fiscal year, Studiomaca generated cash from operations of $141 million, and invested $405 million internally, resulting in negative free cash flow of $264 million, which was in line with the company's expectations. During the first nine months of the fiscal year, Studiomaca also paid $866 million for acquisitions, repurchased approximately $1.4 billion of its common stock, paid $216 million in dividends and the company ended the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $1.8 billion.
Studiomaca now expects Adjusted Earnings per diluted share of $13.45 to $13.65 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, from the previous range of $13.20 to $13.80 per diluted share.
Studiomaca does not provide forward-looking guidance on a GAAP basis as the company is unable to provide a quantitative reconciliation of this forward-looking non-GAAP measure to the most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP measure without unreasonable effort, as items are inherently uncertain and depend on various factors, many of which are beyond the company's control.
The company has scheduled a conference call for today, Thursday, January 31st, at 5:00 PM ET. The dial-in number for individuals wishing to participate on the call is 323-794-2588. Craig Mercer, senior vice president, Investor Relations, is the leader of the call, and the password to join the call is 'Studiomaca'. A telephonic replay of this conference call will be available for five calendar days. For individuals wishing to listen to the replay, the dial-in number is 719-457-0820 and the pass code is 9871695. An archive of the conference call will also be available on the company's Investor Relations website at .
Studiomaca separately reports financial results on the basis of Adjusted Earnings. Adjusted Earnings is a non-GAAP financial measure defined as GAAP income from continuing operations, excluding amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, acquisition-related expenses and adjustments, LIFO inventory-related adjustments, gains from antitrust legal settlements, restructuring and asset impairment charges, and other adjustments. A reconciliation of Studiomaca's GAAP financial results to Adjusted Earnings is provided in Schedules 2 and 3 of the financial statement tables included with this release.
The company does not provide forward-looking guidance on a GAAP basis prospectively as Studiomaca is unable to provide a quantitative reconciliation of this forward-looking non-GAAP measure to the most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP measure, without unreasonable effort, because Studiomaca cannot reliably forecast LIFO inventory-related adjustments, gains from antitrust legal settlements, restructuring and asset impairment charges, and other adjustments, which are difficult to predict and estimate. These items are inherently uncertain and depend on various factors, many of which are beyond the company's control, and as such, any associated estimate and its impact on GAAP performance could vary materially.
Studiomaca also presents its financial results on a constant currency basis. The company conducts business worldwide in local currencies, including the Euro, British pound and Canadian dollar. As a result, the comparability of the financial results reported in U.S. dollars can be affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Constant currency information is presented to provide a framework for assessing how the company's business performed excluding the effect of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. The supplemental constant currency information of the company's GAAP financial results and Adjusted Earnings (Non-GAAP) is provided in Schedule 3 of the financial statement tables included with this release.
Studiomaca also provides free cash flow, a non-GAAP measure. Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less property acquisitions and capitalized software expenditures, as outlined in the company's condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.
Tables and full-text of earnings release also available for viewing and download in PDF format: Studiomaca Reports Fiscal 2019 Third-Quarter Results (PDF, 443 KB).


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Gardenia Studios are located in Nidri the biggest and most organized tourist center of Lefkas island, 50 meters from the sea.
Our friends and guest that visit us for many years they would tell you our studios are located at one of the most beatiful areas that offers the best holidays, the quietness eve at the high season but the same time the easy and fast access to anything you might need.
All the studios can host 2 – 4 guest and have: Kitchen, refrigerator, television, bathroom, air condition, balconies.


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The Marshall Thundering Herd. The Bowling Green Falcons. The University of Detroit Titans. The Eastern Michigan Eagles.
If you look at the top 100 players in the 2016 NCAA recruiting class, you can count on one hand the number who committed to Mid-major schools like the ones above. The major conferences are grabbing talent seemingly at will, and heck, Duke may have landed the top two picks in the next NBA draft.
Yet there is more Mid-major alum in the Association today than ever. The reigning back-to-back MVP Steph Curry went to Davidson. Portland's backcourt duo of Damian Lillard and C. J. McCollum went to Weber State and Lehigh. Want wing scoring? Gordon Hayward went to Butler. Shot blocking? Hassan Whiteside patrolled the paint for the Marshall Thundering Herd. Long, athletic wings your thing? Enter Kawhi Leonard and Paul George who were California dreaming at San Diego State and Fresno State.
Maybe handling swarms of defenders in college helped Steph Curry to get his shot off even quicker. Maybe Steve Nash's court vision was heightened at Santa Clara having to pass through walls, being the focal point of every opposing D. Maybe Larry Bird's infamous chip on his shoulder was born of being consistently doubled and doubted at Indiana State.
Gonzaga and Wichita State have had sustained success and coverage so we'll forego them here.
If you don't know the Rhode Island Rams, you will soon.
This long, athletic, wily squad had a productive season last year, but injuries derailed their chances at an at-large bid to the big dance. They are returning tons of talent and will be challenging for a six seed or better in the NCAA tournament. Driving the success for Rhode Island will be slippery lefty EC Matthews. After as stellar sophomore campaign where he averaged 17 points a game, a right knee injury red-shirted him his entire junior campaign.
Matthews will almost certainly be the focal point of an offense that remained fairly efficient in his absence. He's a versatile offensive guard, using great footwork, head fakes, and changes of speed to keep defenders off balance; this arsenal allows himself to get looks in the midrange where he does the bulk of his damage. The lefty is an extremely capable three-point shooter off the catch, forcing defenders to make difficult decisions when he gets the ball swung to him. Rhode Island ain't messing around this season.
Using a redshirt transfer year to improve your game, your body, and your maturity worked beautifully for Tyler Cavanaugh.
After playing his first two seasons at Wake Forest (Tim Duncan and Chris Paul's alma mater), the 6'9" 230 pound Cavanaugh decided to play for the Colonials of George Washington University. His growth in production was outstanding. Developing all elements of his play, he skyrocketed from averaging 8.8 points and 3.8 rebounds as a sophomore to 16.8 and 7.6 as a junior. He also developed a deadly 3-point stroke, knocking down 41.7% of his triples on 3.3 attempts per game. A legitimate Stretch Four with good size, he is the kind of forward modern NBA teams look to stockpile. I fully expect the Atlantic 10 Conference to be the best conference outside of the Power 5.
Another power forward with shooting range that will get NBA looks is Valparaiso's Alec Peters.
He's 6'9" with a cold-blooded 43.8% three point stroke and a simple, but effective, post-up game. After freshman and sophomore campaigns where he played some small forward, he developed low post skills and started to play exclusively at power forward. The ability to slide down and lay in a simple drop step or baby hook may look like a simple adjustment, but the offensive diversity was huge for a guy who's ability to drain corner threes was no secret to anyone nationwide. To add to his repertoire, Peters can put the ball on the floor, where he seems to always drive with purpose and never get out of control; a rare gift for a power forward.
A possible x-factor for Peters is his fierce loyalty; put on display this summer when he made a decision that shocked the college basketball world. A fast study, he was a three year graduate of his program, granting Alec the once in a blue moon gift to transfer to any program in the country without having to redshirt a year. Despite the opportunity to play anywhere, he decided to stay put with the Crusaders. At the next level, whether he is the primary option in your offense or a role player spacing the floor, he will fit in a lot of scenarios and NBA execs are taking notes.
San Diego State's Malik Pope is a tantalizing NBA draft prospect that is far too intriguing not to spotlight. Coming out of high school, he courted offers from Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, and UCLA before deciding to play for the Aztecs of the Mountain West conference.
What won't jump off the page about this springy small forward is the 7.3 points and 5 rebounds he averaged as a sophomore. But his cartoonish body proportions will; Pope stands at 6'8" without shoes, good size for a small forward. But what really stands out is his condor-like 7'2" wingspan. This tremendous length allows Pope to be disruptive in passing lanes defensively, and to finish over defenders when he attacks the hoop. He's shown the ability to knock down threes at an efficient rate and exercises good shot selection.
If this sounds like deja vu, its because Pope has a lot in common with Aztec alumni Kawhi Leonard. After two years not living up to the hype, Malik Pope is poised for a breakout year. Even if he only shows minor improvement, his physical gifts could be enough for an NBA team to take a flyer in the second round.
Last but not least, there is Nevada Wolf Pack's Cam Oliver.
He's a muscular 6'8" 230 pound workhorse of a power forward in the Kenneth Faried mold. After a dominant freshman campaign where he averaged 13.4 points and 9.1 rebounds, he entered his name for the NBA draft and withdrew to return to Nevada.
Oliver plays even bigger than his frame, evidenced by his 9.1 rebounds a game, and even more by his eye popping 2.6 blocks. Expect tons of activity around both hoops when he's on the floor, whether it is keeping a possession alive on offense, or swatting away layups on the back end.
He's a Stretch Four by any means, but Cam shoots enough jump shots to keep defenders honest, converting on 32.8% behind the arc, an impressive clip for a freshman forward. Although playing on a mediocre squad, he checks tons of boxes and his tireless effort, serviceable shooting, shot blocking, and rebounding ability.
Cam Oliver will play at the next level, like a few darlings who came before him.
"Sons Of Naismith" is a regular column on NCAA ball from a Canadian perspective.
Superhero movies generally fill several major character archetypes. Most have a hero and a villain. In mediocre movies, the hero is inherently likeable and the villain is often one dimensionally bad. Think Deadpool's Ajax, the sadistic mutant who disfigured Deadpool for laughs. Ajax wasn't particularly interesting and it was satisfying to see him defeated. On the other hand, some villains are engaging to the point of viewers wanting them to stay alive just to face the hero another day. Batman's Joker has always been very adept at filling this role.
In recent times, we have been introduced to a new kind of superhero movie: that of the anti-hero. Catwoman was terrible (sorry Halle Berry fans), but nonetheless a good example of the genre. Deadpool was definitely an anti-hero with his mercenary ways and foul language. Even Batman toyed with the anti-hero thing. It's trendy, ok?
With the rise of the anti-hero, there naturally has to be a contrasting force. Sure, you can just be badder than the anti-hero (Deadpool/Ajax) but you can also be an… anti-villain! Wikipedia tells me that's already a thing, and it's called a sympathetic villain. Whatever. Moving forward.
Now, everyone knows that superhero movies and their archetypes are basically an exaggerated microcosm of everyday life. All these archetypes exist in our politics, our justice systems, and most prominently: sports. Sports are where the anti-hero/sympathetic villain personas really come into play. It's easy to make a comic book villain one-dimensional, but it's a lot harder when it's a real person. Kevin Durant is currently the NBA's most prominent anti-hero. People love to hate him, but deep down, you know his heart, head, and shooting stroke are in the right place.
Draymond Green on the other hand, is a straight villain through and through. He accepts that persona and uses it to his personal advantage, much like the Joker. Being a villain suits him, and if anything, the hatred he receives from fans feeds his energy, making him even more unstoppable. Being a smaller power forward, having a reputation as a man who will do anything is a blessing/curse only Green could bear.
Before this turns into a bad Buzzfeed article, I'd like to direct your attention towards a very unique origin story that has been developing in front of our very eyes for the last year. Our protagonist of the hour's name is Grayson Allen and he is nearing a pretty important phase of development. But first: let's set the stage.
Two years and three months ago, a fresh-faced kid from Jacksonville, Florida took the floor for Duke University. He averaged 4.4 points and 9 minutes a game–not bad for a freshman, especially one on a basketball powerhouse like Duke. The kid was good. Then, in the span of one national championship game, the kid became great.
One might remember the 2014-15 Duke Blue Devils for a variety of reasons, all of them in the first year of their college careers. Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones were the freshmen to watch. Allen was the prodigal odd man out, coming off the bench behind his heavily discussed teammates to little fanfare. Then, the 2015 NCAA championship happened.
He scored 16 points, a season high for him in a game in which Okafor was contained to just 10 points by Wisconsin senior Frank Kaminsky. Despite his newfound success, he chose to be the only one in the freshman Duke trio to remain; both Jones and Okafor declared for the NBA draft following the season.
The next year, he came back as a leader. He claimed so many accolades, they can't even fit them on one page on the Duke website. It was mostly a good season, except for one little issue: Allen had been reprimanded on two separate occasions for deliberate tripping. Not a great look for a team's star player. Regardless, he apologized, expressed his regret, and moved on–or so it seemed. Once again, he put off declaring for the NBA draft.
This year was supposed to be his year. He was projected as Sports Illustrated's Player of the year and was exceeding expectations by the time December hit. Averaging 16 points a game and leading his team in assists, Allen was a key part of Duke's success.
He proceeded to sob his way through his postgame interview like me when Rita died in Dexter (still not okay, thanks for asking). His intensity and immense lack of emotional composure caught fans off guard. Takes ranged from the predictable "he's a baby" and "there's no crying in basketball" to deep think pieces about potential mental illness.
That brings us more or less back to the present. Coach Mike Krzyzewski threw his star guard an "indefinite suspension" and stripped him of his captaincy. The suspension lasted one Duke loss, before Allen was re-instated, just in time for ACC play.
Regardless of your take on the effectiveness of his punishment, one cannot deny that Allen is at a key point of his career. If we're talking superhero origin stories, Allen is about to become either an anti-hero or the least sympathetic sympathetic villain of all time.
Should he repent for the tripping and proceed to finish his college career in a clean fashion, he will be known as the troubled Duke player who reformed himself for the good of his team. Obviously, critics will still deem him dirty, but every anti-hero has their critics.
If he trips again, he will be forced to own it. He will have to accept and own the reputation Draymond-style, or his intensity will be his own downfall. You saw him in post-game interviews. He mentally will not be able to withstand his own nature. He's always been his own harshest critic and never before have we seen such a conflicted villain.
Duke will take on Boston College on Saturday. Only time will tell if Allen has chosen his path. As all superhero fans know… there's always a sequel. To be continued.


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Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels and Country Dances. London 1775 & 1776
Country dance: Duple minor longways.
A1 1-4 1st and 2nd couples set to partners, then cross over (½ gypsy).
A2 1-4 1st and 2nd couples set to partners, then cross back (½ gypsy).
B1 1-4 Circle left
5-8 All back to back with partner
B2 1-4 1s cross and cast (while 2s lead up), 1s two hand turn ½ way
5-8 4 changes of a circular hey
'In the Island of Otaheite where Love is the Chief Occupation, the favourite, nay almost the Sole Luxury of the inhabitants; both the bodies and souls of the women are moulded into the utmost perfection…'
Joseph Banks, naturalist on HMS Endeavour
When Europeans first arrived in Tahiti, they thought they had found paradise. The British explorer, Samuel Wallis, captain of HMS Dolphin, was sent into the Pacfic to search for the fabled Southern Continent. After months at sea and with provisions running low, he was overjoyed to find an island with a delightful climate, an abundance of fresh food, pure water, and a warm welcome (after some initial misunderstandings).
Queen Oberea welcoming Captain Samuel Wallis to Tahiti.
The crew returned to England with tales of their marvelous adventures, including stories of scantily clad women and the sexual freedoms they enjoyed.
Then we plow'd the South Ocean, such land to discover
As amongst other nations has made such a pother
We found it, my boys, and with joy it be told.
We've the pleasure ourselves the tidings to bring.
As may welcome us home to our country and King.
For wood, water, fruit, and provision well stor'd
Such an isle as King George's the world can't afford.
For to each of thee islands great Wallis gave name,
Which will e'er be recorded in annals of fame.
We'd the fortune to find them, and homeward to bring
These tidings as tribute to country and King.
Song of the Dolphin's crew, sung in the inns and taverns of London
Less than ten months after Wallis claimed Tahiti for King George, a French expedition lead by Commodore Bougainville arrived (1768). In a traditional welcoming ceremony, a beautiful young women lowered her garments to reveal her naked body, an action the classically-educated Frenchmen immediately equated with images of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love (Venus, in Roman mythology). Bougainville was so taken with this striking similarity that he named the island New Cythera, after the Greek island where the young goddess Aphrodite had emerged from the sea.
Aphrodite (aka Venus), Goddess of love, beauty and sexuality. Art in eighteenth-century Europe was dominated by neo-classical themes – the goddess of love was a popular image. Painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau.
The French expedition remained for several weeks enjoying the hospitality of the Tahitians, including the entertainments provided by the arioi, an elite group dedicated to the arts. As part of the cultural exchange, the Tahitians performed their songs, plays and dances, and were in turn feted with a shipboard concert with flutes, base-viols, and violins, and a spectacle of fireworks.
On returning to France, a captivating and splendid vision of Tahitian society was portrayed – a place where gentle people lived in blissful innocence, free from the corruption of civilisation. Commerson, the naturalist on the expedition, described Tahiti as an Island of Love with gorgeous, beguiling women. His account was widely circulated and caused a sensation throughout Europe when it was published in 1771.
The homecoming of Captain Wallis to England with news of Tahiti came at a serendipitous time for Lieutenant James Cook. The Royal Society had arranged for Cook to travel into the Pacific to observe the Transit of Venus, but an appropriate location had not been identified. Tahiti was the perfect site.
Some of the crew from Dolphin were keen to travel again to the island, and glowing accounts of the exotic paradise attracted more men to sign on for the voyage. Within two months, the Endeavour set sail on Cook's first voyage to the South Seas. On arrival in Tahiti, the crew were once more entranced by the hospitality of the islanders.
While Wallis had named the island for King George, and Bougainville for Cythera, Cook asked the inhabitants what name they used. It was initially spelt Otaheiti, before being corrected to Tahiti as the European's understanding of the language improved.
During the three months spent on the island, the virile young Joseph Banks enjoyed the sexual favours offered to him and wrote enthusiastically about his encounters. Cook had a more sober approach to these amorous adventures, staying loyal to his wife, Elizabeth at home in Mile End. He attempted to protect the native women from exploitation by his men, issuing a set of rules to control their behaviour. It was also imperative to restrict the trade in metal, particularly nails, which the men used as gifts to their lovers. The Dolphin had suffered from the crew removing nails to trade for sex, to such an extent that the ship was in danger of falling apart. Cook ensured this fate did not befall the Endeavour.
Back in England, the stories of romantic liaisons where further embellished and sensationalised, particularly with the account of the darling of high society, Joseph Banks. When Hawkesworth's official account of the Pacific explorations (Byron, Wallis, and Cook) was published in 1773, it was criticised for drawing undue attention to the sexual customs of the South Sea Islanders. Perhaps this was a factor in the three volume set becoming one of the most popular publications of the eighteenth century.
Reflecting the popularity of Cook's journal, in 1804 the French artist Jean Gabriel Charvet created a romantic view of Tahiti in panoramic wallpaper, Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (The Savages of the South Pacific).
The combined accounts of Wallis, Bougainville, Banks, and Cook portrayed Tahiti as an idyllic paradise and this vivid image continues to spark the popular imagination – a beautiful island where life is easy, delicious food is plentiful, and dusky maidens frolic in the waves.
As with any significant theme in eighteenth century society, a dance was devised to celebrate and capitalise on its popularity. The dance Island of Love was published three times between 1775 and 1776.
Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels and Country Dances. London 1775
Baker, S. (2002). The Ship: retracing Cook's Endeavour voyage. London: BBC Worldwide Ltd
Druett, J. (2011). Tupaia : Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger.
Gascoigne, J. (2007). Captain Cook : voyager between worlds. London ; New York: Hambledon Continuum.
Hetherington, M., & National Library of Australia. (2001). Cook & Omai : the cult of the South Seas. Canberra: National Library of Australia.
Keller, R. M. (2006). Dance Figures Index: English Country Dances, 1650-1833. from The Colonial Music Institute https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/DFIE/Index.htm
Salmond, A. (2003). The Trial of the Cannibal Dog. Captain Cook in the South Seas
London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books.
Salmond, A. (2011). Aphrodite's island : the European discovery of Tahiti. Berkeley, Calif. ; London: University of California Press.
Wills, K. L. (2018). Fancy, Spectacle, and the Materiality of the Romantic Imagination in Pacific Exploration Culture. UC Riverside.
This resource was created on the lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people.
We pay our respects to their elders past and present.
Sovereignty was never ceded.
Header credits:
1. Portrait of Captain Cook by Nathaniel Dance-Holland [Public domain] 2. A jig on board by Cruikshank. Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
3. View of the South Seas by John Cleveley the Younger [Public domain]
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The reissues (15) - Charity
After nine books (if you exclude Winter), with Charity Len Deighton brought the curtain down on - according to The Times - "one of the great literary achievements of British fiction." Having dealt in the first trilogy with the knowledge that his wife is a defector, only to discover in the second trilogy that Fiona's defection was in fact the greatest infiltration success of London Central and he was the crucial - unwitting - pawn in this most elaborate of espionage chess games, Charity rounds of the Samson story.
Bernard is still working for Frank Harrington in Berlin but increasingly caught up in the machinations of his brother-in-law George Kosinzki who is supporting the growing Catholic church movement in Communist Poland. Samson is increasingly anxious to find the truth about the defection of his wife and the death of her sister during the mission to exfiltrate her. A meeting with a former colleague, Jim Prettyman, reveals that he was responsible for hiring the hit man who killed Tessa, Fiona's sister. What is worse, Bernard realises there is no future for him and girlfriend Gloria, who is now carving a career for herself in London Central and sharing a bed with Bret Rensellaer.
Bret holds an inquiry in to Tessa's murder which uncovers that Silas was solely responsible for Tessa's death, and had gone to great, murderous lengths to keep the operation secret by trying to murder various of Bernard's contacts and friends who'd been forced to become involved. Betrayed by the department that now seeks to repay his loyalty, Bernard asks Fiona and their children to join him in Berlin, his true home.
The new introduction
What's most interesting in this new introduction is that Len explains his "obsession" with Berlin, which I've always maintained is one of the central 'characters' in the books, because the city and its inhabitants is so wonderfully described that the reader totally understand the mixed feelings Bernard has about the city and its people. That sentiment too is understood by Deighton:
"Berlin is like an ever-present character in my Bernard Samson books. It hovers over the action like a storm cloud even when the action moves to a different locale. But Berlin has no speaking part. It is the action and the inter-action that must always dominate stories of the type that I write. Berlin is the backdrop but the people who strut and posture on the stage together create a mood of drama, farce, horror or knockabout horror that must be maintained through all the stories. When I wrote Winter, a story of Berlin the first half of the twentieth century, and the prelude to the Bernard Samson stories, the ghosts danced in my head.
As a historian, Deighton tells the reader that he has had a fascination for all things German for many decades, and displays his grasp of the strategic imperatives which drove the development of Berlin - and Germany - from peasant economy to economic powerhouse in just over a century and a half. Across three pages, Deighton displays his knowledge of Berlin's history to explain its role in the ups - and many downs - of German culture from the Kaiser time right up to the fall of the Wall. Berlin is a city of contradictions - cultural centre drawing in people from all across central Europe, yet one which is dominated by the German army, to the extent that in the nineteenth century revenues from one particular toll gate went straight to the German army. Makes for fascinating reading for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics that have created this most tumultuous of cultures.
There is an interesting part of the introduction in which Deighton seeks to respond to critics' descriptions of the novels and their classification as spy thriller. Despite his apparent Prophet status in understanding the structure forces that eventually brought down the wall - the Catholic and Lutheran churches - and reflecting them in the heart of his novel, Deighton insists the stories are not political thrillers. They are, Len insists, comedy dramas about love and marriage, of a man with two women in his life.
The new cover
The spine motif - torn up plane tickets spelling out BERNARD SAMSON - is complete with this book, and the total effect when all nine books are place side to side is very pleasing. Arnold Schwartzman explains the front cover image - of Samson's image behind a push-bell directory - is to suggest Samson as the 'third man' of the story, an unreliable narrator; it also suggests the third book, of the third charity. The best image is on the back: a Russian ashtray on which lies a lit cigarette with lipstick, hinting at Fiona's central role in this whole drama.
The quality of thinking that has gone into all nine of the covers of this triple trilogy is immense, and I think that Schwartzman's design deserve consideration alongside Ray Hawkey's original covers for the trilogy.
Posted by Deighton Dossier at Friday, November 25, 2011
Labels: Arnold Schwartzman, design, Reissues
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The men's 10 metre running target mixed competition at the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia was held on 27 September at the Jakabaring International Shooting Range.

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Jean-Louis Raymond is sculptor, ceramist, photographer and musician. He taught sculpture until 2012 at ESBA TALM, where he notably directed an Experimental Research Unit :"Résonances, from sensible to sense", around the symbolic expression of sound in the public space.
He is part of the "Collectif ROTBG : free laboratory of experimental musical research and sound performances by the sea", of which he is the initiator.


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Streetkids United Series
Women with a Mission Series
Streetkids United II - The Girls From Rio
A Film and Music Entertainment and JaJa Film Productions production in co-production with Total Entertainment
Director: Maria Clara
Producers: Jamillah van der Hulst, Conrad Alleblas, Mike Downey & Sam Taylor
Executive Producers: Stephen Daldry & Beeban Kidron
Duration: 52 minutes & 77 minutes
Premiere: 2015 (World: Pula, Croatia)
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Streetkids United II – The Girls From Rio is a documentary film about a life-changing experience for a group of girls from the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, the Favela Street Girls, who are chosen to represent Brazil during the Street Child World Cup 2014. The girls, who have faced crime, violence and social problems during their lives, and their coaches work hard to become a winning team. Their journey to the unknown finally rewards them with much more.
From the 27th of March to the 5th of April 2014, ahead of the FIFA World Cup, the second ever Street Child World Cup took place in Rio de Janeiro. The Street Child World Cup united teams of street children, girls and boys, from up to 19 countries, drawing from a network of outstanding projects, all campaigning for the rights of street children. This ensured that street children's voices were heard and that they had the chance to play in the festival of football.
Streetkids United II – The Girls From Rio is the sequel to Streetkids United and the prequel to Streetkids United 3 – The Road To Moscow.
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Don McKee & Gary Rambo – KS Don & Gary fished pumpkin lizards and spinner baits in 20 ft of water. They had 40 bass including a nice 8.2 lber. Guide Armando, Jr.
This entry was posted in Lake El Salto Fishing Reports on April 28, 2010 by rondb.


Chain Solutions provides smart home technology to homes and offices in Sabah. Smart homes can be connected to the internet and be controlled with any internet enable devices, such smart phones, tablets and computers. Safe and with security enabled, your home can be programed for modern convenience yet be energy saving.
Smart Home Systems are affordable and available in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah today.
Chain Solutions Malaysia is a Sabah company with world-wide connections to state-of-the-art smart home technology. They are part of a network of smart home technology company in Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, India and Netherlands.


In the course of tasting the Pitijopos the first time around the most expressive mosto at the first time of asking was one from way down in Chiclana, to the South of Jerez, and a specific pago called Finca Matalian, only 7km from the sea, owned by Primitivo Collantes.
I would recommend anyone to do the same. These are beautifully made, under-rated wines and an excellent opportunity to taste the finos and amontillado alongside the related white wine. It is fascinating to see the difference the flor makes, eating away all that fruit and glycerine and exposing an extremely mineral frame, and equally intriguing to see how the oxidation of the amontillado (probably my favourite and one of the most drinkable wines around) creates the illusion of bringing the fruit back.
And there is more to come. This isn't the full list – there is another sweet sherry and another Moscatel that I haven't got to yet, and while theViña Matalian was fermented in Inox but there is also now a related white wine – the Socaire – that has been fermented and aged 12 months in an old sherry cask. I will report back on that shortly and the others in due course. It is also said that Don Primitivo has planted a couple of hectares of "Uva Rey".
How would you personally describe the terroir of the Primitiva Collantes vineyard? Of the flor of the bodegas there?


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Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Tuesday Feb 4, 2014 7:34 AM
By Michael O'Brien, NBC News
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner says there's "nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline," and that it's time to build it.
"Complex? You think the Keystone Pipeline is complex?!" Boehner responded to a questioner. "It's been under study for five years! We build pipelines in America every day. Do you realize there are 200,000 miles of pipelines in the United States?"
The speaker went on: "And the only reason the president's involved in the Keystone Pipeline is because it crosses an international boundary. Listen, we can build it. There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline -- it's time to build it."
Boehner said the president had no excuse at this point to not give the pipeline the go-ahead after the State Department released a report on Friday indicating the project would have a minimal impact on the environment.
Republicans have long pushed for construction of the project, which enjoys some measure of Democratic support as well. The GOP is considering conditioning an extension of the debt limit on approval of the project by Obama.
The White House, though, has said that it has no timetable for a final decision on the project.


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"The group's core concept is creativity outside the box, without limitations, synthesis".
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Millions watch the group's songs on Youtube, they get into Itunes and Shazam top charts, Burito group received or was nominated for numerous Russian musical awards.
At the concert, the lead singer will sing his popular hits and offbeat versions to impress the viewers.


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CWJJ Episode 39: A Look at 2021
Steve Allen: The ROI of PSMS Leadership, Element 1
CWJJ Episode 40: Jim Kunkle
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Thursday, Jan. 14th – Jim Kunkle joins the show this week to share about AMPP.
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Jim Schauer: [0:09] Good morning, LinkedIn community. Welcome to this year's 2021 second episode of "Coffee with Jim & James." Before we get started. I have to tell a quick story during the holidays. You normally dream about sugar plums dancing in your head.
[0:25] Well in our household with the wife being a mace coatings inspector our dreams are a little bit different. So James I have to tell you last night instead of dreaming about the normal stuff. I was so excited for this episode lated. I was almost ready for this amped up for this episode. Come on guys.
James Cross: [0:49] That'll make sense later.
Jim S.: [0:50] It will make sense later.
James: [0:53] Very soon.
Jim S.: [0:53] At this point, let me bring my partner in James to join the conversation James. How are you this fine and beautiful?
James: [1:00] Happy New Year. And we made it now. Everything's supposed to change right 2020 is over. That's what I think. That's how that everybody thought right, we're seven days in it's not looking good after this week now.
[1:16] We won't get into that Jimmy. I am well I am we are not cancelled. Apparently the rumors are not true. Not true. I think the competitors might have put those. It's a new year, but Coffee with Jim & James is back and we are excited about our guest today and works.
Jim S.: [1:39] Absolutely let me let me bring in our guest today joining us from the SSPC the man the myth the legend. Mr. Jim Kunkle Jim. Welcome to the show this morning.
Jim Kunkle: [1:52] Jim and James. Thank you. I'm very appreciative that you have me on today.
Jim S.: [1:56] That's good to here.
James: [1:57] Jimkunkel.com, right?
Jim K.: [2:01] Actually the website doesn't exist anymore. But you can reach my email address at [email protected]
James: [2:10] Perfect. Perfect.
Jim S.: [2:12] Jim, would you give us a high‑level view of who you are what you've been doing a little, you know, a little elevator speech if you would please.
Jim K.: [2:22] Yeah, my my background related to the the coatings industry with I came from working in the steel industry in the service center side and fabrication involved in powder coating.
[2:34] About eight years ago, the Society for Protective Coatings, or SSPC as it's known in the industry, had hired me to do business development work related to the owners specification firms engineering firms to help incorporate contractor and blast and paint shop certifications that we offer to the industry globally.
[2:56] Primarily I did a lot of work initially with the oil and gas industry. I'm very familiar with the industry, you know, its ups and downs and it's pain points and things like that.
[3:07] Currently actually yesterday was the launch of a brand‑new organization where NACE International which is basically a corrosion society that's been around since the 30s and SSPC we've been around since 1950. We've merged our organizations together and we're now called the Association for Materials Protection and Performance, or AMPP, A‑M‑P‑P, as it's going to be known moving forward.
James: [3:35] I see what you did there Jim you were amped for it.
Jim K.: [3:40] I was amped.
James: [3:41] In full disclosure Jim. We are, you know, we're recording this on the seventh. So that announcement came out on the sixth. There's a good chance, you know, this episode's a little old by now.
[3:53] I saw that on LinkedIn actually yesterday saw the announcement come across about AMPP and actually I put two and two together right then because I remember you mentioning that and kind of the pre‑show workup and I put two and two together and was like, oh, man, that's going to be perfect timing. So couldn't be happier with you being on today talk a little bit about that.
[4:19] So so you mentioned AMPP. You want to talk a little bit about the focus of the mission of AMPP itself and and your continued involvement there?
Jim K.: [4:34] Yeah, no problem at all. So the industry when you're looking at the the global corrosion and protective coatings industry when it comes to industrial coatings both SSPC and NACE International are very well known.
[4:47] In looking at what both organizations do is we primarily think about it we're protecting preserving steel substrates other substrates related to the effects of corrosion and things that will wear and tear on on substrates.
[5:03] For the organization AMPP, we have to really think into the future and we talked about material protection and preservation because when you look at for example, a coating, a coating can be in your cell phone, it's on a lot of different appliances. Even you have microbial coatings that go on to protect against, you know, bacteria is and other types of you know, obviously pathogens and things like that.
[5:29] So coatings are so broad and across so many different industries same thing when it comes to corrosion. There's different forms of corrosion. It's not just primarily like steel and concrete but a lot of other different types of substrates that are out there.
[5:43] So the organization is really looking at OK, you know, we've got over 70 75 years of history related to corrosion and protective coatings. What's the next evolution of this combined organization?
[5:55] That's why the aspect of looking at materials and engineering related to taking care of any type of corrosion issues, you know stuff like that, you know, looking at maintenance and planning and stuff like that.
[6:09] In the oil and gas industry. If you have any type of downtime, it could cost millions and millions of dollars. So if we can work with the industry to help preserve and protect materials and substrates and things like that boy. We could really be a very important partner globally with multiple different industries and a lot of different sectors when it comes to transportation or manufacturing or research or you know, any type of industry.
James: [6:38] For sure.
Jim S.: [6:40] I was just going to say on a note of that. I can't remember the last numbers like of NACE but I think there was like 39,000 40,000 members worldwide something astronomical like that you guys are and Sure about the SSPC and I apologize for that that I don't but probably combine your well over into the 50 or 60,000 member range. Is that correct?
Jim K.: [7:02] That's definitely correct SSPC has roughly about 10,000 members in the unique thing was when we were looking at the you know, how you know when the mapping was going out to see how to both organizations kind of like overlay on top of each other. Would there be a lot of you know would we be cannibalizing things and things like that?
[7:20] Well, we found was that there was not that much of of a seem like a we had a very unique memberships. So when we pull it together, it really added plus than take away and it was just it's absolutely a perfect merger of these two organizations that was attempted some years ago in the past. It didn't work. This time. It made so much more sense.
[7:44] And the other thing too is both organizations do have competition from other organizations. I mean, we're we have a non‑profit. You know, we're a 501(c)(6) and a 501(c)(3). So, you know, we do have competition out there, you know, you got big names like ISO that also offer standards and other types of programs and accreditations that you know can be competition for our new organization.
Jim S.: [8:10] Interesting interesting. Let me I'm looking for your perspective on something because it is, you know, I joke around at the beginning of the episode being a little wacky but being serious, so my wife has been in the coatings business for 20 years and I hear just day in and day out since we're in the same office space quote‑unquote. I hear a lot of it.
[8:33] In your world dealing with corrosion protective coatings items like that, especially during the COVID time, you know engineers working with them projects needed to get done like you set up a project. There's a delay we're talking millions of dollars.
[8:49] What has COVID done in that respect or what have you seen? How has it affected you all and then what do you think 2021 is going to bring in regard to that? Have there been any leaps or you know anything anyway that it's working easier on your side?
Jim K.: [9:07] Well, we all remember we went into March of 2020 and brakes hit hard and the brakes were we've got to make sure that we can address the spread of the COVID‑19 pandemic, and a lot of businesses really had to make quick adjustments.
[9:26] That definitely impacted the contractors when it related to the industrial coating side, where now all of a sudden they had to create new protocols and new safety programs related to testing of work crews what happens if someone becomes infected the other thing is travel policies.
[9:47] For the first time in the coatings industry you started to see that now you have a COVID specialist that would be part of the health and safety part of a contractor's operation.
[9:59] They also had to work that in conjunction with for example, if you're doing projects at Exxon Mobil or Chevron or whoever it might be now, they have a policy when it comes to visitors who come into the plant. They have to be tested if they tested positive they have to have an isolation period.
[10:17] The interesting thing with it it was that it did impact early in the spring company started to adjust but project still had to be done. So the industry when it comes to contractors subcontractors were hit with slowness some had slowed down some were OK, depending on again what their customer was.
[10:38] Because a lot of times if you're working in a, you know hospital facility or or you're doing you know floor coatings in a prisons prison system or institutional, you know, they have certain types of policies and regulations regarding health and safety that as a contractor you're going to be in compliance with that type of a customer.
[10:56] When it came for example, the oil and gas or some of the other work related to industries. They had a really make quick adjustments. Now the contractors have made adjustments, but that also caused extra cost insurance there has to be extra insurance relating to business interruption and things like that.
[11:15] Going into 2021. This stuff is all been kind of baked into a lot of what needs to be done. Corrosion continues to happen coating projects have to happen. It doesn't matter if the oil industries and a boom and a bust the coding project still have to go on now.
[11:31] They might be prioritized differently because of obviously issues related to capital availability and things like that for project money, but it also gives an opportunity for a lot of companies to look at maybe some maintenance painting to delay the inevitable, you know complete re‑coating of a particular section of pipeline or inside a facility an operation.
[11:53] The industry has adjusted to it. SSPC. I can speak on the SSPC side, you know, we took a hit early regarding the training and the professional certifications the class stuff that we would do. We had quickly evolved into what we would call instructor and lead virtual classes.
[12:12] Then do practical where we actually have to sometimes go on site to do practical instrumentation testing, do that after when lockdowns and and restriction. Starting to get low eased up. We also move quickly to take what we could take from a classroom. That doesn't require you really to be in a classroom. Put it online.
[12:33] SSPC, we made a quick adjustment. We got stuff online. We did virtual‑led instructors. We ended the year relatively and great shape. Where before going into this. We you know, if we didn't do anything we would have been probably in a in a little bit of a little bit of a tight situation when it comes to revenues.
[12:51] Again, as a nonprofit organization, you know, we're relied a lot on revenues that were bringing in to not only pay like my salary and sustain but also to sustain the organization so our members our corporate members the industry really really came through for us and I greatly appreciate the industry that I work in because of support.
James: [13:16] Amen to that. I think we can all scream that from the rooftops Jim. You mentioned I mean you talked about how the contractors pivoted in and during COVID‑19 You know, I think us three on this on the show today had to do something similar.
[13:38] I learned a little bit more about you and Jim came to me and said, you know, I've got a group, you know, possible guests and I started to dig in a little bit we saw obviously that you kind of started a YouTube channel. This past year similar to our story.
[13:58] You want to talk to people a little bit about you know, what your focus is with the channel what you know what your vision is and how what launched you you know down this path similar to how Jim and I are find ourselves today?
Jim K.: [14:14] So really what launched everything I'm a very my biggest platform that I really love and cherish is LinkedIn. LinkedIn has been absolutely a godsend for me both as a business development manager, but also too is I don't want to say I'm an influencer but people do reach out to me for questions and for assistance.
[14:36] Maybe I don't have the answer but I can at least get them to the person or get that answer from somebody else to get to them and through the process going into 2019. I started doing some little type of videos and people said wow, I really like that. Putting a lot of good content a lot of great information.
[14:56] So then going into January 2020. I decided to go ahead and launch a YouTube channel. And if you go back and watch like my initial videos, I mean, they're really poorly edited their horrific, but my quality when it comes to editing and production skills got better over the year.
[15:13] The biggest lift for me was when I went to the World of Concrete in Las Vegas and I would do a daily, you know, I would take my breaks because I was exhibiting their I would take my breaks and use my brakes to go around and interview different companies regarding technologies for you know, preparing concrete working on coatings and things like that.
[15:34] I would put those out there every day and tag in through LinkedIn to World of Concrete. I was getting 400 500 800 hits that night and it's a rush you're like, oh my God, I can't believe I've got like 20 subscribers to my YouTube channel, and I'm getting you know, 800 whatever hits on this stuff.
[15:54] So what I decided to do is I got to go and keep doing this. So I started doing "Global Topic" in the Global Topic is basically a 15 to 20 minute interview. We talked about topics and corrosion protective coatings. And I interview people really industry experts on different topics and things like that.
[16:12] In addition to that I decided to do what's called "Two‑Minute Lessons." So I do to these two minute video lessons on technical topics and I primarily focus on LinkedIn because LinkedIn has really although I'm only have about 660 subscribers to my channel through this the first year LinkedIn, the views have been 17 18,000.
[16:37] The amount of views through just even the LinkedIn viewer has been an outstanding and my network has grown the outreach for people coming to me asking me for question. You ask me questions or wanting to connect with me has been awesome.
[16:51] I know it. Benefited me as a business development manager. I know it benefited the Society for Protective Coatings. And I know what I'm doing is going to benefit AMPP. I know it will because again people want technical content. They want to understand they want to be able to talk about these technical topics.
[17:12] So through the whole year. I did 60 just Global Topic episodes and I think with the Two‑Minute Lessons, I think around 135 of those and and so going into 2021. I've stepped up my game when it came to I took almost three weeks off at the end of the year and I brushed up on editing skills interviewing skills recording skills.
[17:36] And now I'm making a leap into IGTV related to Instagram and I'm looking obviously to really expand on what I do on LinkedIn. I do a quiz question every day and people respond to those and just the amount of responses I get are absolutely outstanding.
[17:56] This morning. I change my profile for my job position to represent obviously reflect AMPP and I think I've got like a couple hundred people congratulating me. They're asking me why did you change? Why did you leave SSPC? Some literally posting that NACE plus SSPC equals AMPP so people understand that I have not left the Society for Protective Coatings. I've evolved with the organization into the new the organization, which is AMPP.
[18:26] I appreciate, again, like I say my network if it wasn't for LinkedIn and my connections I wouldn't be where I am today. And I'm so proud of the connections. I'm proud of the platform and this the abilities and the opportunities that it brings to anybody who uses LinkedIn.
James: [18:45] Amen. There was two things. I was going to bring up one was you mentioned something about go back and watch some of the first ones and how funny they are Jim and I actually had a brainstorming session a few days ago. I think it was Monday. Maybe when we got back from the holidays.
[19:05] We watch the first one together kind of streamed it and it's very eye‑opening to what you know, this whole thing has become so definitely can understand that.
[19:20] The other thing is man the LinkedIn community has been fantastic. What a great group coupled with our respective industries specifically and the overlap man. Just you could not ask for better people to be involved with for sure.
Jim K.: [19:39] The thing with the to with LinkedIn for example LinkedIn, you know some time ago when the Oilfield Connections was started by Sarge Summers now, I know Sarge four years from for me, he's been an inspiration for me both as a professional and spiritually as well.
[19:57] The thing with it was when I started connecting with the members of Oilfield Connections, and then some of the other any other industry related oil and gas industry related organizations that professional networking has been amazing for me.
[20:11] As a business development person if I am looking at a particular company to try to get a contact to the talk to them. I can reach out to these different network connections that I have and be able able to get a better referral than I would if I was just cold calling by finding a name on LinkedIn.
Jim S.: [20:29] Yep, and I'll say I mean just look at this you and I met on LinkedIn because of your quiz. I thought your quiz was great. It was funny and I gave some smart aleck response. Like if I have a question about a career you ask the question. What do you do in this say I said, well I call my wife a clock spring at her eye and she tells me the answer.
[20:49] You gave like a haha back and then all of a sudden just started having a conversation and boom away it goes and and it really is. I know James that I feel the same way you do it. It's absolutely wonderful in the energy industry is riddled laden with relationships. I mean, that's what it's based on.
[21:07] You mentioning Sarge I haven't seen Sarge in so many years. I've seen them on LinkedIn, but I remember he had a couple meetings in Houston two three four years ago and he's a great guy.
Jim K.: [21:18] Definitely definitely and you know, the other thing the other aspect of LinkedIn is that when you're a professional, it doesn't matter if you're an engineer, if you're a salesperson, if you're you know, what it doesn't matter what your position is, but if you're a professional you have to embrace LinkedIn for example, and you have to really be able to work it.
[21:39] What I mean by that is you have to read the post to people put like share them comment on them. Make sure you're posting on there, you know reach out to different contacts if contacts reach out to you connect with them. As you never know where you may be you're in an industry, like oil gas. Obviously, there's there are people looking for positions.
[22:00] I tell people listen I might not be the person who can get you hired. But put your put your resume out there on LinkedIn post it and I will support that now, what does that do? Well, you know, I've got a connections network and those people connected to me are connected to other people. So it's a multiplying effect. Yeah. Exactly. It's a multiplying effect.
James: [22:23] Jim, we teach a class usually once a year about how to how to be better at LinkedIn. Right and everybody wants this cheat sheet or you know, what do I do? What do I do? How do I gain and and honestly, what do we tell them? We're like just go out there and be real it's social there's no cheatsheet interact with people engage with people and create content.
[22:49] That's that's all it boils down to yourself and it just when you add in the element of business people tend to freak out a little bit, you know and don't don't want to say too much here don't want to bring this up but man it's been a phenomenal engine for so so many folks. I'm glad to see somebody else doing it. Mr. Schauer, you want to hit him with the last one?
Jim S.: [23:15] I got one final question for you Jim. This is a hard one. OK. So prepare yourself. I can see the sweat forming on your brow, right now. Do you love what you do?
Jim K.: [23:30] Absolutely. Every day I enjoy my life. I would never trade it for a trillion dollars or whatever. Whatever numbers come out of Congress, but I would highly recommend people go out of your comfort zone.
[23:48] People have said to me. Hey, you know, you're talking in front of crowds of sometimes, you know, 10 people, a hundred people a thousand people. You're putting yourself out there on the Internet. You're putting yourself on YouTube LinkedIn everything like that.
[24:01] You got to get out your comfort zone. The reason why is you discover who you are and you do discover that you're braver than what you thought you were and you're willing to take chances to make opportunities happen.
Jim S.: [24:13] Be brave.
James: [24:15] That's where the magic happens man was when things get a little uncomfortable.
Jim S.: [24:19] James. I almost thought we had the first shortest answer to do you love what you do going into that.
James: [24:26] It scared me.
Jim K.: [24:26] Well, you got to be you got to be careful with me because as my wife will attest I'd like to talk and I don't stop so you have to be careful with me. Yeah, sometimes you have to ask me those yes or no questions to keep me a little bit quieter than normal.
James: [24:44] Man, you did great today Jim. You've been awesome guests. Thank you so much for coming on talking about AMPP. We will link everything up. Hopefully listen. Our networks need to be in Jim's networks and Jim's networks need to be our networks. It's a huge gift when we can have folks on that get that part. So thank you sir. Jimmy Schauer, I'll let you bring it home.
Jim S.: [25:17] I will get us out in a timely matter. Again. Thank you Jim for joining us a was very informative. It was great to have a new friend. It's great to spend some time with you, please LinkedIn Community. Follow Jim, follow AMPP, follow Coffee with Jim & James to please hit the follow button.
[25:38] I know that if you have any questions to hit Jim up, if you would like to be a guest on Coffee with Jim & James hit James or I up and for the first time in the history of Coffee with Jim & James, we have all Jim and James's on it today. So we made history today.
[25:54] Until next week, we do appreciate you each and every time tuning in. We appreciate it so much. So, thank you. Until next week, be safe. Have a great week, and we will see you very soon. Bye‑bye.


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Writing love letters to her seven failed relationships was cathartic and a learning experience for author Kamala Chambers. She made each letter, and it's subsequent learned wisdom, into a chapter in her book Road to Love. Listen to discover how writing made her a better person.
According to Kamala, writing has helped her become a better person. She reflects on where she's at, and can dissect some things that are tumbling around in her head. And she can get clear on what's really going on.
Usually, we're not upset about things for the reasons we think we are, and writing unpacks all of that.
When you're vulnerable, when you put yourself out there, there's a kind of softening towards you. People understand you more, and are more open with you.
Keeping a journal can be someone's saving grace because it helps us to understand the dialogue within. And you can look back on your past journaling, and really tap into what you were feeling at the time. It's like having access to a past you.
Love letters are probably the most intimate form of writing there is. You can write about everything from when you first fell in love to where one of you broke the other's heart. When we fall in love and when we're in love and when we fall out of love, these are the times in our lives where we grow and develop and learn so much. Writing a love letter to someone you used to be in a relationship with can be amazingly cathartic – because you get to say all of the things you wished you'd said, all the things you wished you'd known. And most of the time, you won't even feel like you need to send it.
Welcome to Stacy's Journal! In this segment, I let you peek into my journal as I share my thoughts on a topic or resilience resource. Let's talk about journals here. Kamala mentioned that keeping a journal can be someone's saving grace because it helps us understand the dialogue within. I never understood that until I started writing myself. It really is miraculous! I encourage everyone to start journaling. When I first started, I had a few doubts. I started during an extremely troubling time in my life. I thought, gee, I'm just going to write negative things. I don't want that to be a reflection of who I am. In fact, I started and stopped several times. But…once I realized that just because I write about all the terrible things that happen in my life, doesn't mean I'm a terrible person, or that I have a bad personality. It actually helped me clear my head of those negative thoughts. It freed me to see the situation that I was in for what it was. Something that I could handle. When you're stressed, angry, frustrated, sad, or really any emotion, writing down your feelings and writing down the situation will bring you clarity. It puts the situation in the proper place in your mind. So, yes, I really advocate for journaling. I've put a couple of journals that I recommend in the shownotes.
That's all we have for today. Next week, we'll interview Manny Wolfe who, as a child, survived one of the 10 most violent cities in America. So if you've had some tough life circumstances yourself, or are going through a tough situation right now, you might want to stay tuned for that. I love interacting with our listeners on social media. We're on Pinterest, Facebook and just about anywhere you can hold a great virtual conversation.
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For over 10 years, Kamala Chambers has mentored entrepreneurs and coaches. She's an online launch strategist, award winning coach, best-selling author, podcast host of two hit shows (Thriving Launch & Lasting Love Connection), intimacy coach, and creator of Launch School. By the age of 20, Kamala was a lead instructor at Earth Walk Institute of Healing Arts, owned her own business, had traveled with a video production company, and had hitch-hiked across 3 provinces, 12 countries, and 20 states. Her online business success allows her the freedom to travel the world and vacation at her self-built eco-home on the beautiful San Juan Islands.


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This section is, of course, devoted to Inspiration. It is an ever expanding collection of quotations that I've pulled together. There is a personal bias to this collection. They relate to who we are as human beings and our quest for intimacy. After all, that's what Coconut Sundae Afternoons is all about.
Please peruse at your leisure. Any of them can be easily downloaded to your computer, pad, or smart phone.
As I've been collecting them I watched and felt them make a welcomed difference to things that I'd been struggling with.
What has always looked like "struggles" to me have become opportunities for altering who I am being in the world, and this alters my world view. Which is the journey I've been on these last 30 years.
Use them as you will. Some may jump out for you. Most likely these will be related to "struggles" that you are being run by. When we hear the voice of someone else that serves us better than the voices that have been running our lives, we then have a choice. We can begin to favor the new voices that we hear or stick with the old familiar ones. The choice is, as always, up to us.
If our path is an ongoing journey, then every step along the way we have choices to make. Like driving from L.A. to New York City, certain choice will move us along our path and some will have us driving in old, very familiar circles.
The most powerful thing I've learned in life is that I always have choice, and it's up to me to become aware of choices and make the one that seems to serve me the best. Perhaps it may turn out that choice wasn't the best. Good, then I get to make another choice.
Mastery is delicious journey, not a destination. Pain, joy, exhilaration, hurt and all the rest of the feelings and emotions are the guideposts of the journey. Of course one could always choose to curl up under the guidepost and fret and moan. Or not. It's always a choice.
I've heard Inspiration defined as "Being filled with the breath of God." That's what it feels like to me when I'm truly inspired. You may want to replace "God" with "Spirit" or "The Wisdom of the Universe" or whatever it may be that allows you to hear it better.
Below is the Merriam-Webster dictionary's take on Inspiration.
3a : the quality or state of being inspired.
Whatever definition works for any particular instance, the essence of Inspiration to me it that it helps me to get a better, more supportive grasp on this wild and crazy thing we call life.
On the left navigation bar are links to pages of Inspirational "posters".
Enjoy. Perhaps there are some new choices (and voices) available on these pages.


There are THOUSANDS of fathers facing the same devious lies in family courts when golddiggers and their crooked lawyers manufacture utterly ridiculous lies to fleece unsuspecting men.
Lisa Hayden-Johnson has been jailed for three years and three months after putting her son through years of unnecessary medical treatment. But how did she use his fake illness to dupe doctors, meet the prime minister and rub shoulders with royalty? Lisa Hayden-Johnson attracted sympathy and admiration in equal measure.
She seemed to be living every mother's nightmare. Her child, born prematurely, was battling a life-threatening allergy which left him unable to eat. She was stoically coping with this cruel twist of fate, struggling to make her son as happy as possible. But it was all a lie.
If her goal was to attract attention, she succeeded – appearing on GMTV and selling her story to magazines. Hayden-Johnson even took her son to collect a Children of Courage award at Downing Street where they met the then prime minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie.
The boy, who believed he was ill, was also introduced to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. In reality, Hayden-Johnson had forced her son into a wheelchair, fed him through a tube and let doctors, taken in by her deception, operate on the child despite the fact that there was nothing wrong with him. And she managed to keep the fabrication from her family, including her husband.
The 35-year-old from Brixham, South Devon, has been sentenced at Exeter Crown Court after she pleaded guilty to child cruelty and perverting the course of justice in October 2009. Hayden-Johnson appeared to thrive on the attention that was lavished upon her and her son, who has not been named for legal reasons. And the lies were lucrative.
She amassed £130,000 in benefits after claiming £20,000 a year in disability living allowance over a six-and-a-half year period.
Meanwhile, dozens of children's charities gave her freebies including a new car and a cruise in Tenerife. She even received free X Factor tickets. The lies began when the boy was born prematurely in 2001 and given a tube for feeding. He made a recovery but his mother, perhaps seeking more of the attention lavished upon her by sympathetic well-wishers, insisted that this was not the case.
For about six years she continued to lie about her son's health, insisting that he was allergic to nearly all food, had cerebral palsy and cystic fibrosis, even though medics could not find any symptoms. She also told doctors the child had diabetes and spiked his urine samples with glucose in order to fool tests. Doctors, friends, family and even the boy's father believed the child was unable to eat or swallow food.
And the youngster was taken to school in a wheelchair fitted with oxygen bottles. Doctors eventually performed surgery to fit a feeding tube directly into the then four-year-old child's stomach after he began losing large amounts of weight, because of a lack of nutrition.
Meanwhile, she became well known in Brixham where members of the community rallied round to provide whatever help and support they could. But the woman's lies were not only about her child. She also fabricated her qualifications to gain a job as a nurse. And in 2007, when medics insisted that detailed tests should be carried out on her son, Hayden-Johnson claimed she had been sexually assaulted in a bid to cancel the hospital visit.
The fantasist also harmed herself in a bid to make the fictitious attack seem authentic. She only admitted that this was a lie when police said they were about to arrest someone. Her fantasy life finally began to unravel when a paediatrician raised the alarm after reviewing her son's medical files and became suspicious that his health problems had gone on for so long without a clear diagnosis. Hayden-Johnson was eventually arrested in October 2007.
He pointed out that this had gone on for "a sustained period of time" during which she had "been calculating" and lied. Det Con Uren revealed that police seized a computer from the woman's house and found a video showing her son eating a roast dinner with Yorkshire pudding at a pub and running without the aid of oxygen or a pump. The boy, who is now eight, lives in another part of the country where he is recovering from the wounds left from an illness he never had.
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has once again accused the United States of playing God. But this time it's Haiti's disastrous earthquake that he thinks the U.S. was behind. Spanish newspaper ABC quotes Chavez as saying that the U.S. navy launched a weapon capable of inducing a powerful earthquake off the shore of Haiti. He adds that this time it was only a drill and the final target is … destroying and taking over Iran.


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Directors Of Central Intelligence As Leaders Of The U.S. Intelligence Community, 1946–2005
Douglas F. Garthoff
President Harry Truman created the job of director of central intelligence (DCI) in 1946 so that he and other senior administration officials could turn to one person for foreign intelligence briefings. The DCI was the head of the Central Intelligence Group until 1947, when he became the director of the newly created Central Intelligence Agency.
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President Harry Truman created the job of director of central intelligence (DCI) in 1946 so that he and other senior administration officials could turn to one person for foreign intelligence briefings. The DCI was the head of the Central Intelligence Group until 1947, when he became the director of the newly created Central Intelligence Agency. This book profiles each DCI and explains how they performed in their community role, that of enhancing cooperation among the many parts of the nation's intelligence community and reporting foreign intelligence to the president. The book also discusses the evolving expectations that U.S. presidents through George W. Bush placed on their foreign intelligence chiefs.
Although head of the CIA, the DCI was never a true national intelligence chief with control over the government's many arms that collect and analyze foreign intelligence. This limitation conformed to President Truman's wishes because he was wary of creating a powerful and all-knowing intelligence chief in a democratic society. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress and President Bush decided to alter the position of DCI by creating a new director of national intelligence position with more oversight and coordination of the government's myriad programs. Thus this book ends with Porter Goss in 2005, the last DCI.
Douglas Garthoff's book is a unique and important study of the nation's top intelligence official over a roughly fifty-year period. His work provides the detailed historical framework that is essential for all future studies of how the U.S. intelligence community has been and will be managed.


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Home News International News Khaled Nezzar: Gaid Salah Wants to Eliminate All Opposition Figures
Khaled Nezzar: Gaid Salah Wants to Eliminate All Opposition Figures
"Gaid Salah is trying to eliminate all those who not only make shade against him but also likely to oppose his boundless ambitions," the former Algerian Minister of Defense said.
Gaid Salah, Algerian army chief
Rabat – Khaled Nezzar, the Former Algerian defense minister has directly attacked Algerian military chief Gaid Salah in a publication he shared in Algerian news outlet Algerie Part.
Nezzar also spoke about the purge of Algerian military officers led by Gaid Salah throughout the months of crisis in Algeria.
The popular movement in Algeria emerged after former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term as the head of state. The decision caused frustration among citizens, who had been calling for Bouteflika and his allies, including Gaid Salah, to step down from power.
While several officials surrendered to the demands of Algerian citizens, Gaid Salah is still determined that a dialogue could help end the crisis. Salah is intent on keeping controlling Algeria's army.
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Algerian protests, however, are persisting in their protests for a democratic country, and the removal of all elements of the Bouteflika regime from power.
"Gaid Salah prides himself on having a double cap and believes he can afford anything. This arises from a sick mind that should be reduced at all costs and quickly," Nezzar wrote.
Nezzar explained that his accusations against Gaid Salah have no political objectives. "My retirement in 1993 shows my complete disinterest in power. It is not now, and at my age, that I would seek to play any political role," said Nezzar.
He added that he refuses to live the last days of his life without denouncing the way his country is "being abused."
Nezzar also spoke about the beginning of Salah's military career.
"His career was quite ordinary."
In the 70s in Tindouf, Nezzar said that he discovered that Salah was blamed by colonel Mohamed Salah Yahiaoui for abandoning troops without support during the Amgala I battle. The battle between Algeria and Morocco took place on January 27, 1976, in the oasis of Western Sahara, 260 kilometers west of the border with Algeria.
"Poor soldier, Gaid Salah will be discredited sooner or later. He retained his position thanks to his political loyalty, which he believed he had acquired from Bouteflika," Nezzar said.
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Michigan's own Smokestack has seen plenty of smoke filled bars and clubs as they've grown into a touring rock band . But where they differ from many up-and-coming Jambands is that these four guys are equally comfortable playing funked-out jazz standards or intricate neo-classical instrumentals. For Smokestack, music is a way of life, and each style breathes unique energy into its original sound. Members of the band have studied under such legends as Roy Haynes, Rufus Reid, Terry Lynne Carrington, John Clayton, Dennis Wilson, and Matt Michaels as well as played in Latin, bluegrass, funk, and jazz bands. Despite Smokestack's dedication to the art of improvisation, they place equal attention on song writing and lyrical content.
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