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Little Johnny and the eel
Little Johnny was 12 years old and like other boys his age rather curious. He had been hearing quite a bit about 'courting' from the older boys, and he wondered what it was and how it was done. One day he took his question to his mother, who became rather flustered. Instead of explaining things to Johnny, she told him to hide behind the curtains one night and watch his older sister and her boyfriend.
This he did. The following morning, Johnny described everything to his mother. 'Sis and her boyfriend sat and talked for a while, then he turned off most of the lights. Then he started kissing and hugging her. I figured Sis must be getting sick, because her face started looking funny. He must have thought so too, because he put his hand inside her blouse to feel her heart, just the way the doctor would. Except he's not as smart as the doctor because he seemed to have trouble finding her heart. 'I guess he was getting sick too, because pretty soon both of them started panting and more...
Eel Sex
Little Johnny was 7 years old and like other boys his age rather curious. He had been hearing quite a bit about 'courting' from the older boys, and he wondered what it was and how it was done. One day he took his question mother, who became rather flustered. Instead of explaining things to Johnny, she told him to hide behind the curtains one night and watch his older sister
and her boyfriend. This he did. The following morning, Johnny described EVERYTHING to his mother. "
Sis and her boyfriend sat and talked for a while, then he turned off most of the lights. Then he started kissing and hugging her. I figured 'Sis must be getting sick, because her face started looking funny. He must have thought so too, because he put his hand inside her blouse to feel her heart, just the way the doctor would. Except he's not as smart as the doctor because he seemed to have trouble finding her heart. I guess he was getting sick too, because pretty soon both of them started panting
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A preacher went to his church office on Monday morning and discovered a dead mule in the church yard. He called the police. Since there did not appear to be any foul play, the police referred the preacher to the health department. They said since there was no health threat that he should call the sanitation department. The sanitation manager said he could not pick up the mule without authorization from the mayor. Now the preacher knew the mayor and was not to eager to call him. The mayor had a bad temper and was generally hard to deal with, but the preacher called him anyway. The mayor did not disappoint. He immediately began to rant and rave at the pastor and finally said, "Why did you call me anyway? Isn't it your job to bury the dead?" The preacher paused for a brief prayer and asked the Lord to direct his response. He was led to say, "Yes, Mayor, it is my job to bury the dead, but I always like to notify the next of kin first.
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Martha's way: Use a meat baster to "squeeze" your pancake batter onto the hot griddle and you'll get perfectly shape pancakes every time.
My way: Buy the precooked kind you nuke in the microwave for 30 seconds. The hard part is getting them out of the plastic bag.
Martha's way: To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in thebag with the potatoes.
My way: Buy Hungry Jack mashed potato mix and keep it in the pantry for up to a year.
Martha's way: To prevent egg shells from cracking, add a pinch of salt to the water before hard boiling.
My way: Who cares if they crack, aren't you going to take the shells off anyway?
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Start SIP of ₹2500 at the age of 25, You will have around 47.5 lakhs in your account
by AdminPosted on November 29, 2022 November 29, 2022
Start SIP of ₹2500 at the age of 25, You will have around 47.5 lakhs in your account, Investment Tips: Most of the youth start earning at the age of 22-25 years. When earning starts, a big question comes in their mind that when to start investing and how much money is required to be deposited. Investment discussion is incomplete without timing. How early you start investing is more important than how much you invest. Starting investing only 5 years ago, your returns are close to double. Responsibilities are also less in the beginning of career. In such a situation, if investment is started in time, then tomorrow will shine like the sun. You will not even know and you will become a millionaire in no time.
Will get 40 lakhs on SIP of Rs 2500
5 years more investment doubles the return
What is the minimum amount required to be saved?
Those earning 30 thousand can do SIP of 2500
SIP is the best way for long term investment. In the long term, it gives you the benefit of compounding, as well as reduces the risk. Let the age of "A" be 25 years. Depositing Rs 2500 every month is not a big deal. A return of 12% per annum is also possible in mutual funds. According to SIP Calculator, if "A" does SIP of Rs.2500 every month for the next 25 years, the net return will be Rs.47.5 lakhs. During this, the total amount of investment will be only 7.5 lakh rupees, on which a return of about 40 lakh will be received.
How important time duration is for investment can be gauged from the fact that if "A" invests for 30 years, his net return will be Rs.88.24 lakhs. During 30 years, he will deposit a total of Rs 9 lakh, on which he will get a return of 79.2 lakh. It is clearly understood from this calculation that by increasing the time duration to just 5 years, the returns almost double.
Now the question arises that how much you should invest. In the world of financial management, it has been decided on the basis of 50/30/20 rule. According to financial experts, limit all your essential expenses to 50% of your income. Spend 30 per cent on things other than necessities. This includes expenses like foreign trip, buying a car. Save at least 20 percent in any case. However, there should be more focus on savings.
If you earn 30 thousand rupees every month, then definitely save at least 6000 rupees and invest in different places. In this, if you do an SIP of Rs 2500 in a mutual fund, then at the age of 50 you will get Rs 47 lakh and at the age of 55 you will get around Rs 89 lakh.
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Central African Republic became independent on 13 Aug. 1960, after having been one of the 4 territories of French Equatorial Africa (under the name of Ubangi Shari) and from 1 Dec. 1958 a member state of the French Community. A new Constitution was adopted by a special congress of the Mouvement pour l'évolution sociale de l'Afrique noire on 4 Dec. 1976. It provided for the country to be a parliamentary democracy and to be known as the Central African Empire. President Bokassa became Emperor Bokassa I. The Emperor was overthrown in a coup on 20–21 Sept. 1979 and the empire was abolished. On 15 March 1981 David Dacko was re-elected President but Army Chief General André Kolingba took power in a bloodless coup on 1 Sept. 1981 at the head of a Military Committee for National Recovery (CMRN), which held supreme power until 21 Sept. 1985 when President Kolingba dissolved it and initiated a return towards constitutional rule.


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'Threw Him Under the Bus': NY Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger Laments Bennet's Ouster
INSIDE THE CIVIL WAR
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The 39-year-old Times boss now oversees a newspaper in crisis—and his leadership has never been under such intense scrutiny.
Lloyd Grove
Updated Jun. 13, 2020 5:30PM ET / Published Jun. 13, 2020 4:17AM ET
Sometimes even a mild-mannered vegetarian like Arthur Gregg Sulzberger can feel obliged to spill blood.
For Sulzberger, better known as A.G., the past 10 days—in which he tried to quell an unprecedented staff revolt at The New York Times over a bellicose, racially toxic op-ed by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, and essentially fired his editorial page editor, James Bennet—have amounted to both his most searing crucible and the defining moment of his young tenure as publisher of the 169-year-old newspaper.
"I really lament the loss of a talent that I respect and admire more than you could know," Sulzberger, 39, told The Daily Beast about Bennet's abrupt forced resignation this past Sunday—a mere four days after Bennet's deputy Jim Dao and a junior editor, former Weekly Standard staffer Adam Rubenstein, published Cotton's online screed. It was jarringly titled "Send in the Troops," a polemic in which the Donald Trump-loving Republican demanded that the U.S. military be deployed in response to widespread protests against police brutality.
"But at the end of the day, the most important thing, when you have these crises, is: Can you show up on Monday morning and lead the team out of it," Sulzberger added. "I really regret that the answer we all got [for Bennet] was 'no.'"
Sulzberger offered no further on-the-record comment about a debacle that has raised questions among journalists both inside and outside the Times about his leadership of the paper, provoked a public outcry and a larger-than-usual number of subscription cancellations, and challenged the Times' commitment to publishing unpopular and even unpalatable opinions.
"I really lament the loss of a talent that I respect and admire more than you could know."
— A.G. Sulzberger on James Bennet
Bennet's dismissal even alarmed—of all people—rocker Sean Ono Lennon. "This is the end for you guys," John Lennon's younger son tweeted in what might have been the unkindest cut of all. "Firing someone for allowing different opinions in your paper means you are no longer a real news paper [sic]. It's been fun. You had a good run. The best in fact. R.I.P."
Critics of A.G. Sulzberger's handling of the crisis cited his confusing response to the uproar. The morning after the Cotton article went online June 3rd and prompted a staff mutiny, he sent a letter to employees that seemed to support Bennet's initial defense of the piece—namely, as Bennet wrote on June 4, that "the public would be better equipped to push back if it heard the argument and had the chance to respond to the reasoning… Readers who might be inclined to oppose Cotton's position need to be fully aware of it, and reckon with it, if they hope to defeat it."
In his own letter on that morning, A.G. wrote: "I believe in the principle of openness to a range of opinions, even those we may disagree with, and this piece was published in that spirit."
Yet barely five hours later, Sulzberger and the Times whipsawed staffers with a head-spinning about-face.
"We've examined the piece and the process leading up to its publication," the paper's spokeswoman, Eileen Murphy, said in a statement. "This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards. As a result, we're planning to examine both short-term and long-term changes, to include expanding our fact-checking operation and reducing the number of Op-Eds we publish."
In an internal Slack message, Sulzberger announced: "Given that this is not the first lapse"—a reference to various unwelcome and embarrassing controversies on Bennet's watch—"the Opinion department will also be taking several initial steps to reduce the likelihood of something like this happening again."
By most accounts, at the time he wrote his initial apparent defense, A.G. had been unaware of the—surprising to many—lapse that Bennet had failed to read Cotton's article before it was published.
During a virtual town hall on Friday—conducted online because of the coronavirus pandemic—Sulzberger argued that his initial defense was simply meant to be a "placeholder" until he could learn the specifics of how the Times came to publish the op-ed.
"It has been a moment of a lot of pain and anguish," he told staffers during the town hall. "And I've heard from so many of you how this op-ed and this moment added to that."
By some accounts, the controversy also exposed a profound rift inside the Times along generational, cultural and ideological lines.
In a series of widely criticized social media posts—apparently live-tweeted during a private meeting between Bennet and his editorial and opinion staff—right-leaning opinion editor Bari Weiss caricatured the divide as a "civil war" between "the (mostly young) 'wokes' " who allegedly seek to quash uncomfortable ideas and "the (mostly 40+) liberals" who honor the values of free speech. (During the combative town hall last Friday, one questioner asked if Weiss will be fired; the answer was no, although bosses were said to be evaluating her social media conduct.)
A.G. Sulzberger, who joined the Times as a metro reporter in 2009 after working for the Providence Journal and The Oregonian, was an associate editor in early 2016 when his father, former publisher and current New York Times Co. Chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., dismissed longtime editorial director Andrew Rosenthal and recruited Bennet to helm the Times' influential Opinion department.
Bennet—who had worked at the Times as a White House and foreign correspondent and successfully ran The Atlantic magazine for a decade—racked up a decidedly mixed record over the past four years.
With A.G.'s enthusiastic backing, he went on a hiring spree for both the editorial board—which formulates the Times' official positions on issues of the day—and the Op-Ed department and stable of columnists, recruiting such disparate voices as conservative contrarians Weiss and Bret Stephens (who, in a Friday column, lamented that the paper "caving" to the "mob" only further empowered Cotton), and liberal writers Michelle Goldberg, Jamelle Bouie, and Mara Gay.
During last Friday's town hall, a clearly shaken Bennet fell on his sword and apologized repeatedly for the Cotton column—which had prompted more than 800 Times journalists to sign an open letter to management arguing that it had endangered the lives of the paper's black reporters; he revealed that the Times had been publishing, online and in print, an astonishing 120 opinion pieces per week. Sulzberger told the staff that number will be significantly reduced as part of a "reimagining" of the Opinion department.
"They fostered a culture of innovation, broadened the range of voices we publish and pushed us into new formats like video, graphics and audio," A.G. wrote in his Sunday memo announcing Bennet's resignation and the departure of Jim Dao to an undefined role in the newsroom. "I'm grateful for their many contributions."
However, Bennet also presided over a series of unfortunate events—notably the February 2018 hiring and immediate firing of tech journalist Quinn Norton (after social media critics pointed out that she had tweeted bigoted and racist slurs and was pals with a neo-Nazi), and an ongoing defamation lawsuit from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin over a June 2017 editorial in which Bennet had inserted phrases that inaccurately linked her to the 2011 mass-shooting that wounded then-U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona.
"Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we've experienced in recent years," A.G. wrote in the memo. "James and I agreed that it would take a new team to lead the department through a period of considerable change."
Bennet declined to discuss his defenestration. "I'm just not talking at all about this," he texted The Daily Beast. Until recently, the 54-year-old Bennet was widely considered a top candidate to succeed Executive Editor Dean Baquet—who, if tradition prevails, will step aside by September 2022 when he turns 66. "I'm still trying to sort through the whole thing myself, as you might expect," Bennet added.
While Bennet was well-liked at the Times and widely considered a talented journalist and "a good man," as one insider put it, a member of the opinion staff told The Daily Beast: "It's a very painful time, and none of this had anything to do with personal animus toward James. That doesn't mean it wasn't the right thing to do"—namely, his resignation—"but there was no joy."
"I was shocked that A.G. didn't accept any responsibility himself for the circumstances that surrounded this particular controversy."
— Prominent journalist and friend of Bennet's
Yet A.G., who comes across as an empathetic boss trying clean up a mess made by others, should be held largely accountable for the circumstances that led to the latest troubles, especially the business imperative to churn out massive amounts of content under demanding time pressures to keep readers engaged, said a prominent journalist who asked not to be further identified.
"I was shocked that A.G. didn't accept any responsibility himself for the circumstances that surrounded this particular controversy," this person told The Daily Beast. "The editorial pages and the op-ed pages traditionally report to the publisher… The publisher is supposed to be shaping the strategy of the editorial and opinion pages. That's always been the fun of owning a newspaper."
Under Sulzberger, "there has been a heavy investment in the growth of opinion at the Times," the journalist continued, noting that Bennet is a friend. "That was something that A.G. wanted and approved, because it drives their subscription strategy. New York Times readers like to read opinions—especially opinions that align with their own—and they increasingly don't like to read opinions that don't align with their own."
It's the publisher, not the editor, who sets goals for subscription sign-ups, the journalist noted. "That is a business strategy. That is what the subscriber loop feedback is telling them. It's great that they've achieved this sustainability by moving away from advertising to subscriptions"—around six million Times subscribers to date, including almost a million who pay for the ink-on-paper edition—"but let's be clear, they're following their audience and looking at what their audience reads the longest and where they feel emotionally attached to the Times file. And opinion is one of the areas where that data lights up…
"So to call out the Tom Cotton op-ed, as stupid and offensive as it may have been, as some kind of lapse of judgment, it just doesn't add up. You would expect a leader like A.G. to share some of the responsibility for this. Instead, he threw James under the bus."
When the younger Sulzberger's father handed off the publisher's duties in January 2018, A.G. became the sixth member of his family to hold the job since his great-great grandfather, Adolph Ochs, bought a controlling interest in the newspaper for $75,000 in 1896; he's likely to remain publisher for the next quarter century. In the next couple of years he will make such hugely consequential personnel decisions as choosing Bennet's replacement (he's named Katie Kingsbury as an interim opinion chief through the November election) and picking the next executive editor to lead the Times newsroom.
Among the candidates touted to succeed Dean Baquet are A.G.'s cousin, assistant managing editor Sam Dolnick (who has overseen the Times' expansion into video and audio presentations), and Baquet's No.2, managing editor Joseph Kahn.
According to Times staffers, A.G. has impressed colleagues and employees with his lack of pretension, his appetite for hard work, and his journalism chops. "He's a better reporter than his father or his grandfather," said a longtime Times insider, referring to the late Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger, a tough ex-Marine who was publisher from 1963 to 1992.
A.G. has also proved his willingness to rattle cages and upset traditions, as with his famous 2014 in-house innovation report—which somehow was obtained by BuzzFeed and published in full—that concluded that the Times was lagging severely behind the media industry in its digital and video capabilities. "It was more than 100 pages long. I quickly realized its findings and criticisms were devastating," then-executive editor Jill Abramson wrote in Merchants of Truth, a book about—among other issues—her firing from the Times, a headline-making dumpster fire of a controversy orchestrated by A.G.'s father.
Seven months after he became publisher in July 2018, Sulzberger demonstrated backbone when he lectured President Trump about the dangers of his anti-news media rhetoric during a meeting at the White House.
That incident was a triumph; the current one, less so.
By one knowledgeable account, Sulzberger agrees with the insight of former BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith, now the Times media columnist, that it's OK to make people angry, just don't do it by accident.
In other words, it's one thing to choose to stride into controversy with eyes open, but it's quite another to stumble into it. The Cotton column was an example of the latter. It was such an explosive moment, and the opinion team was so traumatized, Sulzberger believed, that it was difficult to fathom how Bennet would be able to project the necessary confidence to rally his staffers, lead them through the storm, get them safely back out again, and then preside over the changes necessary to fix what was broken in the op-ed process.
While some at the Times claim that Sulzberger had reacted to the controversy by seeking Bennet's resignation to appease the mob out of panic—a frequent interpretation of any quick decision made under piercing scrutiny and massive public outcry—those familiar with his thinking said Sulzberger prides himself on a streak of stubbornness that makes him averse to bowing to outside pressures; instead he tried, in conversations with Bennet and others, to methodically analyze the situation and figure out the way forward.
Among those who advised A.G. to cut Bennet loose, by some accounts, was newsroom leader Baquet, who didn't respond to a request for comment.
"Over the last week he acquitted himself really well," Times Co. chief executive Mark Thompson told The Daily Beast. "He is decisive but also thoughtful and he listens carefully to advice before reaching a conclusion. He's also a tough customer—he has repeatedly stood up to Donald Trump, and I thought that last week, despite the difficult and painful circumstances, he calmly and methodically got to the bottom of what had happened."
Thompson added: "I couldn't feel more disheartened by the loss of James Bennet, who is such an original and creative editor. So where we ended up is incredibly sad. Nonetheless I think the process A.G. went through is hard to fault. It led to painful consequences but was clear-cut. That to me is what a publisher has to do."
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Нума́нция или Нума́нсия (, ) — исчезнувшее поселение кельтиберов, расположенное на холме Муэла (cerro de la Muela) в месте слияния рек Тела и Дуэро, в 7 км к северу от нынешнего города Сория, в муниципалитете Гаррай (Испания).

История
В Нуманции, согласно античным авторам (Страбону, Плинию, Аппиану и др.), жило кельтиберское племя пелендонов, позднее изгнанное ареваками. По археологическим данным, город возник в ранний бронзовый век (около 700 года до н. э.), в VI—V веках были возведены городские стены. Главным занятием населения Нуманции было скотоводство, а также торговля его продуктами (в частности, шерстью); из ремёсел хорошо была развита керамика.

В 154 году до н. э. Нуманция стала объектом экспансии римлян, стремившихся подчинить своей власти ещё не завоёванные области Пиренейского полуострова. В Нумантийской войне, длившейся около 20 лет, ареваки и союзные с ними племена поначалу нанесли римлянам несколько тяжёлых поражений и вынудили снять осаду города. В 134 году до н. э. против нумантийцев была послана армия Сципиона Эмилиана Африканского (приёмного внука более знаменитого полководца), насчитывавшая, по сведениям Аппиана, около 20 тысяч римских солдат и до 40 тысяч войска союзников (главным образом нумидийцев под началом царя Югурты). Силы нумантийцев оценивались в 4 тысячи воинов.

Сципион снова осадил город, построив вокруг него семь укреплённых лагерей, а затем объединив их рвом и защитной стеной, отрезав осажденных жителей от реки. Осада продолжалась восемь (по другим данным — пятнадцать) месяцев, в течение которых Нуманцию охватили мор и голод; римские историки похвально отзываются о мужестве жителей города, продолжавших отчаянное сопротивление. Римский полководец отверг предложение нумантийских вождей о сдаче, посчитав их условия (сохранение нумантийцам жизни и свободы) завышенными и требуя полной капитуляции. Летом 133 года до н. э. нумантийцы, доведённые до отчаяния, подожгли город и начали убивать друг друга, не желая становиться рабами римлянам. Сципион вступил в уже опустошённый город, где уцелело всего несколько сотен жителей. За взятие Нуманции он был удостоен триумфа и прозвания «Нумантийский». По данным раскопок, город вскоре после разрушения был вновь отстроен и продолжал существовать и в эпоху римского владычества над Испанией, и при вестготах, окончательно исчезнув после VI века н. э.

В новое время развалины Нуманции обнаружены в 1860 году; с 1906 года и по нынешний день ведутся регулярные археологические раскопки. Находки поступают в Нумантийский музей Сории.

В испанской культуре
 В эпоху Возрождения в Испании усиливается интерес к древнему прошлому страны; оборона Нумансии, известная уже в то время по римским источникам и подвергшаяся сильной мифологизации, становится символом героизма, самопожертвования и национальной славы. Известность приобретает романс о Нумансии, приписываемый Хуану де Тимонеда (примерно 1520—1583). Примерно в 1585 году написана и поставлена пьеса Сервантеса «Нумансия» (опубликованная лишь в 1784 году) — самое знаменитое литературное изображение осады города.
 Национальный миф о Нумансии получил новое развитие во время наполеоновского нашествия и гражданской войны, став одной из наиболее характерных частей испанского национализма.
 «Нумантийцами» называли себя участники тайного общества, организованного поэтом Хосе де Эспронседа.
 Город Нумансиа-де-ла-Сагра получил своё название после взятия его солдатами-франкистами из созданного в Сории элитного «отряда нумантийцев» (batallón de numantinos).

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Sabathia solid in Yankees victory
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Kristie Rieken The Associated Press
New York Yankees relief pitcher Andrew Miller delivers in the ninth inning against the Houston Astros Tuesday in Houston. The Yankees won 6-3.Eric Christian Smith — The Associated Press
HOUSTON >> CC Sabathia allowed just two runs in 6 2/3 innings to get back on track after a tough stretch and help the New York Yankees to a 6-3 win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.
Sabathia (6-8) allowed four hits and struck out five to pick up his first win since June 16 after going 0-4 and allowing 31 runs — 29 earned — combined in his past six starts.
Things didn't look good early on Tuesday night when he allowed a solo home run to Marwin Gonzalez in the first inning. But he settled in after that, allowing only one single over the next five innings.
The Yankees built a five-run lead thanks in part to a two-run triple by Aaron Hicks by the time Evan Gattis homered to start Houston's seventh and cut it to 6-2. Sabathia was lifted after a two-out single by Carlos Gomez in that inning.


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Body Of Portland Woman Missing In Hawaii Found On Beach
Written By Jeff Mays , Contributing Writer
Jeff Mays is a contributing writer for NewsOne, specializing in news about missing persons, via the Black and Missing Foundation.
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Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention.
NewsOne has partnered with the Black and Missing Foundation and TV One to focus on the crisis of missing African Americans.
To be a part of the solution, NewsOne will profile a missing person weekly and provide tips about how to keep your loved ones safe and what to do if someone goes missing, while TV One's newest show, "Find Our Missing," hosted by award-winning actress S. Epatha Merkerson, tells these stories in visual form.
The body of Ivanice Harris, the Portland woman who went missing in Hawaii while celebrating her birthday, was found nude on a beach Monday.
RELATED: Portland Woman Goes Missing in Hawaii While Celebrating Birthday
Harris, who was in Waikiki celebrating her 29th birthday, was last seen by her friends last Thursday outside of a bar speaking with a man. Harris worked as a traveling escort and advertised in various online publications, reports The Oregonian. Jillian Gibides, one of the women Harris was traveling with, also reportedly told a local Hawaii newspaper that Harris worked as a prostitute.
The Oregonian reports:
Harris has a criminal record in Oregon for theft and tampering with evidence but no prostitution convictions. But both Harris and Gibides have an extensive footprint on escort websites. While early reports about her disappearance indicated that Harris was simply vacationing in Hawaii, she and Gibides appeared in a joint ad on May 11th marketing their services together in Waikiki Beach. Both women had posted previous escort ads in Hawaii over the last year, including one in April 2012 in which Harris explicitly stated money "exchanged is strictly for my quality time."
Police in Hawaii declined to confirm whether Harris was working as an escort. Harris' family confirmed her death on a Facebook page they set up to help find her. They are also seeking financial help to bring Harris' body home.
Ivanice's body was the body found in Hawaii yesterday. Ivanice's family would like to THANK everyone for their support throughout these last five days and would also like time to be in peace alone w/ no calls, texts, emails, or visits at this moment. They truly are appreciative of everyones outpouring of support NATIONWIDE.
Harris' remains were found in a brushy area on a beach in Wai'anae, which is a 50-minute drive from the bar where she was last seen alive. Honolulu homicide detectives are investigating the case. No cause of death has been determined and police have not named any suspects.
Natalie Wilson, co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation, said Harris had family and friends who loved her.
"Our thoughts and our prayers go out to her family. She did not deserve this. She has a mother and sister who were looking for her. Whatever her profession does not negate the fact that she was missing," said Wilson. "Sex trafficking is a big issue here in the United States."
According to a study from Shared Hope International, the average age that minor children in America enter the sex trade is 12 to 14 years old. Many of the victims are runaway girls who have suffered sexual abuse as a child.
"So by the time that they're Ivy's age, they really feel that they lack any choices to do anything else. They don't have any job skills; they don't have any formal education or training," Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery Executive Director Kathryn Xian told KHON 2.
Pimps lead the women to believe that they will protect them and that they will be safe but nothing could be further from the truth.
"It's highly violent. It places the girl and woman at risk on a daily basis for sex assault, physical violence and emotional, spiritual, and mental trauma," Xian said.
Wilson said Harris' case should serve as a warning. More and more, Wilson said, the Black and Missing Foundation is dealing with young girls who run away from home only to end up being sex trafficked.
"If Ms. Harris was an escort, we want this to be an example to our young girls and women that this is a dangerous occupation," said Wilson.
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Marah - If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry - Yep Roc Records
Since their 1998 debut "Let's Cut The Crap And Hook Up Later On Tonight", the Philly-based band Marah have won fans across the world with their eclectic, rootsy rock & roll. Fronted by the Bielanko Brothers - singer/songwriter/guitarist/banjoist Dave and guitarist/vocalist/harmonica player Serge, they also count as their fans author Nick Hornby, Bruce Springsteen (who played guitar and sang on their 2002 release Float Away With the Friday Night Gods) and Steve Earle (who signed the band to his label and released the band's 2000 release Kids In Philly).
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PREVIEW: Aldershot Town v Leyton Orient
Orient will be looking to end a run of three straight defeats, following the 2-1 home loss to Hartlepool United last Saturday.
Jobi McAnuff opened the scoring in front of the BT Sport cameras in the 19th minute but Jonathan Franks equalised on the stroke of half-time before Rhys Oates headed home in the 47th minute to claim all three points for the visitors.
Aldershot Town have started the season well, sitting top of the National League with six wins, two draws and three defeats.
The Shots welcome the O's on the back of a 1-0 win away to Gateshead, with Fabien Robert scoring the only goal of the game in the 83rd minute.
Gary Waddock's men finished in 5th place last season, losing 5-2 on aggregate to Tranmere Rovers in the play-off semi-finals.
Craig Clay was forced off in Saturday's defeat to Hartlepool with a tight hamstring but the midfielder is expected to feature at the Recreation Ground, and could be joined by winger James Dayton and defender Josh Coulson.
New loan signing James Brophy will also be hoping to be involved in the matchday squad, having completed his move from Swindon Town on Thursday.
The O's will definitely be without central defender George Elokobi, who is due to undergo surgery on the hamstring injury suffered in the defeat to Boreham Wood, while Charlie Lee remains a long-term absentee following a serious knee injury.
IN THE BUILD UP
Head Coach Steve Davis ahead of tomorrow's encounter – here.
Goalkeeper Charlie Grainger previews this weekend's clash – here.
The Club has sold 454 tickets ahead of tomorrow's trip to Aldershot Town.
Terrace tickets will be available for supporters to purchase from Aldershot turnstiles tomorrow, with prices as follows:
Adults £17
(Over 65, Military personnel ID required, Student 16-21 ID required)
Under 18 £5
Under 11s are free with a full paying adult only
Supporters collecting tickets at the Recreation Ground tomorrow will be able to do so at the Ticket Office on the High Street.
Can't make the game? Follow live updates through the official Twitter feed, or listen to audio commentary from Dulcet Dave on Ozone.
Audio commentary will be available through the match centre which will appear at the top of the leytonorient.com homepage tomorrow morning, with commentary starting 30 minutes before kick-off.
Match report and reaction following the game will appear on leytonorient.com.
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We caught up with Pete Smith, Stoke City reporter for Stoke on Trent Live, to preview this Sunday's third round clash at the Bet365 Stadium. Peter, Stoke are almost half way through the season now, is there a positive outlook…
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Music of Frozen 2: Into the Unknown
written by thatsit November 4, 2019
Frozen was a phenomenal hit with both critics and audiences, as it garnered huge box office numbers and a few Academy Award wins. Though Walt Disney Studios rarely follows up their features with a sequel, directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee believed there was still some story left to tell. And some more music to sing. But matching or even exceeding the award-winning "Let It Go" will not be an easy task.
Luckily, Bobby and Kristen-Anderson Lopez are also coming back to write new songs for the highly anticipated sequel. But what exactly goes into making a song? How sure are the writers and story team that it is the right song? And what does a song need to look good on screen?
Well, That's It LA, along with their fellow journalists, learned a lot about that during a sneak preview of Frozen 2. Check out just a few of the things that we learned about what goes into a song like "Into The Unknown.
In order for a film like Frozen 2 to work, Lee knew that she would have to bring back Bobby and Kristen-Anderson Lopez as the sequel's songwriters. "We made a pact. When we connected with Bobby and Kristen, we were just about a year out and didn't know that it would be picked up by later generations," Lee said. "We are still naive in that sense. But we made a pact that we would build the second one in the same way as the first, and not let that pressure into the story room because every song has to come from the story, just like it did before, and every moment has to be true. "
The creative team worked together to ground themselves as well as the story because if they didn't, it wouldn't feel authentic. So if they were ever to stray, they knew that they could always come back to the love of the characters that they share with the audience. "We wanted to tell more story and the audience wanted to know more, and that propelled us and kept us going," Buck said.
Music and songs are two essential pieces to Frozen 2. Lee confirms that "Into The Unknown" is just one of seven original songs that will be featured in the film. She also said that each of the leads will have at least one song, but Elsa will have two.
While the presentation could not get into all of the songs, it did break down the mechanics of "Into The Unknown." Sung by Idina Menzel, the musical sequence centers on Elsa (Menzel) who is responding to a distant voice that only she can hear. At times she refuses to acknowledge that she can hear it, but it is hard to resist the siren sound as it could help give her the answers she needs about her ice powers.
During this sequence, audiences will see Elsa wear a nightgown. This fashion choice will prove to be important for not only the character but how the sequence itself flows. The Visual Development team is largely responsible for inspiring and supporting the story, as well as trying to infuse as much narrative as they can into the film and in animation. "In everything that you see, we're trying to infuse a little bit of information to help the audience process the story and try to support the journey that we're building," visual development artist Brittney Lee said. "For a character like Elsa, costume and hair design are important because she's very complex and constantly evolving, so we are really trying to help that journey along through what she is wearing, trying to infuse narrative in her costuming form the very beginning."
Lee talked about how the color choices would have a subconscious effect on the way that we see Elsa. She referred to the color palette in Elsa's nightgown. Created by her ice powers, the nightgown stays on the cool side of the color spectrum because if they went with warm colors, the audience would know that something is wrong.
So they went with a magenta and violet hue, which would not only reflect the conflict that Elsa feels but in the song as well. "She's a little bit reserved, at least to begin with, and so a darker deeper hue hopefully helps to support that," Lee said.
While the song is called "Into The Unknown" a large part of what we will see from the sequence feels familiar. For instance, a portion of the sequence takes place within the castle walls. In it, very rich and has deep dark hues, and it's very cozy. That sense of warmth and welcoming is also established during the game night sequence were audiences see Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven play a friendly game of charades.
This will help the audience feel comfortable with the scene and reacquaint them with the characters they know. But animators decided to switch things up for Elsa's braids because they felt that audiences already knew who she was.
So even though we know these characters, the locations, and the songs, visual development artists make sure to utilize every square inch of the frame, which means every single aspect of the film, including the smallest details, are looked at. This means every strand of hair and thread in a sequin is not overlooked.
Frozen 2's head story artist Normand Lemay describes "Into The Unknown" as the film's "I want song." Where "Let It Go" was about Elsa freeing herself, "Into The Unknown" will see the ice queen question everything she knows about her powers and the reluctance she has to learn more about them. She is also at a vulnerable stage in her life, and she tells her friends and the audience that she's not quite sure if she is where she's meant to be.
"It's about her inner conflicts," he said. "It's about that back and forth. These deep questions are inside her that she doesn't have an answer for. In fact, this voice is trying to let her get them out, so I used a lot of self-reflection visuals, like mirrors or water. She's pacing into the hallway still questioning herself."
Though the siren voice is a character that remains largely unseen, the audience will know that it is a very real thing since the camera will act as an "invisible eye" that will follow Elsa's movements. This invisible being continues to call out to Elsa to a point where the queen has to leave the castle, go to the fjords, and travel as far north as she can.
But these musical sequences aren't just added for the sake of making a sequel like Frozen 2 look good. There is a purpose behind it. There is a story to tell, so to speak. For musical sequences like "Into The Unknown," the goal is to inform the audience how one character gets from one point and how they will be changed by the end of it. And of course, they make it an entertaining watch.
So animators have to work together with the writers, directors, and story team to come up with pages to get a sense of the storytelling component. Once that is figured out, it is then sent to Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez will write the music and process a rough demo.
Working together with the effects team, animators start to visualize how to keep the audience fully engaged by using Elsa's ice magic in a variety of ways. Rather than create simple snowflakes or large ice castles, Elsa's ice magic is used like a theme park light show, here the ice takes on a life of its own. It simply foreshadows the kind of person Elsa will be when she exits the shadows and goes further "Into The Unknown."
Though Frozen 2 is largely a CGI animated film, Disney still utilizes traditional 2D drawings in order to assist with the choreograph the style and the motion. And by using the Houdini animation package, animators can take a look at all of the elements, figure out how they can bring them to the screen, and recreate some of those visuals and bring them alive.
Then it is up to animation supervisors Justin Sklar and Michael Woodside to figure out how to bring the final character acting and performances to the frame. By using the live-action performances, whether it is on a booth or a stage, and combining it with Disney animation, they put together a sequence that feels refreshing and magical.
But there is also a certain degree of realism in these films. And a lot of that can be seen in how the characters breathe. Sklar, Woodside, and their fellow animators worked with vocal coaches to learn about the breathing techniques that singers and performers put into their bodies. It's through these lessons that they learned how breathing generates power and energy. And the differences between a low breath and a high breath.
"It comes from closer to your stomach," Sklar said. "It's about inflating your ribs and not moving a whole lot of your body. Not introducing a whole bunch of tension into your body because once you've introduced tension, you sing worse."
"It's super important for us to see Elsa push through these massive notes that Idina is hitting, but equally important for us is that anticipation and the setup with the inhale because we feel like that ends up making everything feel a little bit bigger in large part because breathing is about showing effort and when you show effort, you can show something that feels, again, vulnerable," Sklar said. He added that this helps support the idea that "something impossible is happening."
We will see a lot of that exercised through some of the big belting songs like "Into The Unknown," where Elsa song will "end in something like a high breath which involves a lot more chest, a lot more shoulders, a lot more tension."
Examples of low breath will be heard as Elsa expresses forms of indecisiveness during "Into The Unknown." However, that will all change for Elsa towards the end of the song as she finally decides what she must do.
Frozen 2 opens in theaters on November 22, 2019.
Music of Frozen 2: Into the Unknown was last modified: November 4th, 2019 by thatsit
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Towards a rebirth of freedom: activism on social networks, part 1 (DRAFT)
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Revised version posted at Pam's House Blend and (under a different title, and minus the introduction ) Open Left.
Thanks to Pam for encouraging me to post on the Blend, where I'm a regular reader and occasional commenter. For the last month or so, I've been heavily involved as one of the organizers of Get FISA Right, which started as a protest group on my.barackobama.com and quickly spread to the blogosphere, Facebook, the getFISAright.net message boards, MySpace, and yes, even the mainstream media with coverage by Time, CNN, the New York Times, NPR, and elsewhere.
The FISA battle's far from over. The July 9 Senate vote on the "FISA Amendment Act" permits warrantless wiretaps with virtually no oversight and grants telecom companies immunity for any illegal actions they may have taken at the Bush administration's request. Fortunately, the ACLU immediately filed suit on behalf of plaintiffs including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, SEIU, Naomi Klein, and The Nation. EFF is preparing a lawsuit as well, and so the issue will remain alive into the next administration and Congress. Get FISA Right's strategy-in-progress sketches how we intend to take advantage of this time to influence this debate, and the discussions and poll in our What is your vision for the future of Get FISA Right? thread chart a likely path towards a more general focus on civil liberties issues.
The experiences from Get FISA Right and other social network activism campaigns are much more broadly applicable. As Cheryl Contee says, a lot of people "aren't as concerned about, say, FISA or impeachment. They want jobs" — or an end to wars and institutionalized violence, voting rights, affordable food, different commencement speakers, marriage equality ….We did a fairly good job of taking notes as we were going, and so hopefully there's a lot for people to build on; still, there's much more to be said.
Along with my significant other Deborah Pierce and brother Greg, I'm working on a book about social networks called Tales from the Net, and the current working subtitle for our chapter on online activism is "Towards a rebirth of freedom", from an inspiring talk Chip Pitts gave describing his vision for Get FISA Right's future. Deborah and I lived in the Castro for a decade and still hang out there, and so for me "freedom" starts with marriage equality, an inclusive ENDA, Pride, Folsom, and Pink Saturday every bit as much as it starts with privacy, the First and Fourth Amendments and the rule of law.
So I hope Blenders will forgive me for picking up the story in midstream as I start cross-posting here from OpenLeft. Dawn Teo's Networked Obama FISA Group Takes Fight Forward on The Huffington Post gives the history of the first two weeks; today's post follows Aviva's Netroots 2.0: Crashing the cable gates from last Monday.
If you're one of the thousands of voters angry over the Democrats' cave on domestic spying and telecom amnesty, a new online grassroots movement is now making it easy to buy a local ad on MSNBC, CNN and several other networks, for less money than you'd think.
The Fight FISA on TV! campaign we're doing in partnership with SaysMe.tv got some major momentum when Sarah Lai Stirand's Opposed to Wiretap Amensty? Run a TV Ad for Six Bucks on Wired's Threat Level got picked up by Slashdot. [Credit where credit is due: Jack and Jill Politics was had covered the ad a day earlier. Looks like they're not as popular with Slashdot readers as Wired is. Who would have guessed?] We're over 3,000 views of the two versions of the video on YouTube ([1], [2]), well on the way to our goal of 10,000-20,000 by September 2, and at least dozen ads have been placed already. OK, nobody's plunked down for the four-figure prices for placements like Fox News in New York yet, but SaysMe.tv's going to be introducing the ability for people to pool their contributions for these pricier placements … I bet we'll get some premium placements by the end of the month.
And although it's less flashy, our work to influence the platform is also going well. jawboneblue's leading the effort to get our language adopted as part of the Netroots platform, where our Get FISA Right plank has now merged with various others into the highest-ranked civil liberties plank. We've also gotten our position, and in many cases our exact language, adopted in the Obama campaign's in-person "listening" meetings in at least five states; Thomas Nephew's "Listening to America" hears "Get FISA Right" on newsrackblog.com is a particularly good writeup. Once again, our timing's perfect: the existence of these new channels for grassroots influence is tailor-made for groups like Get FISA Right, and our members continue to be great at finding effective ways to work with them.
It's interesting reading different people's perspectives on the ad campaign and more generally on Get FISA Right. A few I found particularly thought-provoking:
Dr. Dog's* Heh! Right Observation, Wrong Venue on Third Pipe puts the ad in the context of campaign finance reform.
Nancy Scola's The Revolution? Televised, At Least a Little on techPresident looks at us in conjunction with MoveOn's new ad for MTV and ComedyCentral
Anne Juel Jørgensen's Can FISA Guide Us to the Future of Web 2.0 politics? uses our experiences to wrap up a class on "Digital Campaigns" — including citing blog posts by Carlo Scanella and Micah Sifry, an excellent example of how writing the history as we go makes it easier for others to build on what we've done.
Andrew McClure's Using MyBo to organize against Proposition 8 (the California state proposition to eliminate marriage equality) takes up Barack Obama's invitation to progressives to follow our lead and organize on my.barackobama.com.**
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It's also interesting to look at who is and isn't picking up the story. Sites at the intersection of technology and politics are all over the story: techPresident, with Nancy Scola's regular updates in her Daily Digests as well as Carlo's and Micah's posts; Wired's Threat Level with an article by Ryan Singel as well as two from Sarah; for that matter, Jack and Jill Politics is known among other things for the Clinton Attacks Obama wiki. Ditto for people: danah boyd foregrounds political issues a lot more than most other social computing bloggers; Julian Sanchez is a contributing editor at Reason as well as writing for Ars Technica; Dawn Teo is a social networking expert as well as a Off the Bus columnist; Ari Melber is The Nation's Net Movement reporter; and the pseudonymous "I don't believe in imaginary property", who submitted the most recent Slashdot story, presumably has a political bone or two in his or her body as well.
On the other hand pure technology sites, the "web 2.0" bloggers have largely passed the story by — ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Robert Scoble, etc. We also don't seem to have gotten any attention from traditional civil liberties organizations like the ACLU or EFF, or the "internet in society" crowd like the Berkman Center. Similarly, while we got some great support from some corners of the progressive blogosphere in the ramp-up to the vote, and there continues to be substantial discussion of FISA there (Glenn Greenwald's excellent interview with Daniel Ellsberg, for example), we got relatively less coverage in the broader political blogosphere than the mainstream media; and thus far as far as I know we still haven't gotten a major link on the ad campaign from the "big blogs" like dKos, FDL, or TPM yet — despite being in Wired, Slashdot, and NPR.
One of the things I suspect is going on here is that from a pure numbers standpoint, we pale in comparison to MoveOn or Facebook. Also, our approaches to social networks and to advertising are foreign to a lot of political activists — and to bloggers more generally. So in some sense the patterns of coverage aren't that surprising. The encouraging thing is that it points to ways in which it should be fairly easy to do a lot better moving forward, for example by reaching out more in a more organized fashion to the technology and civil liberties communities.
These patterns also really highlight the importance of the sites at the intersections. Despite limited coverage by "the usual suspects", we still got our story out via the blogosphere — and into the MSM.
All of these things are good to think about as the platform work winds down and we continue to focus promoting the ad and video. The initial results are very encouraging, with our first wave of promotion getting solid coverage — and a lot of learning of course; putting my web strategy hat*** back on briefly and analyzing a week's worth of statistics reveals all kinds of opportunities for improvement, small changes that can significantly increase how many people watch the video — and how many of the people who see the idea join us and/or pay to put ads on cable. With the ad available in Seattle, Washington DC, and elsewhere in mid-August, it'll be time to crank things up, taking a local focus in various cities (go Darcy Burner!) and trying to get some "web 2.0" as well as mainstream TV coverage (presumably Keith Olbermann will be interested). In parallel, with all of this, we're working on our organization and infrastructure, and refining our strategy. It's almost like we're building a movement or something.
I was talking with a reporter last week who asked me what I thought the chances were for some real changes in the FISA legislation next year. Of course there are a huge numbers of unknowns at this point, but overall I'm very optimistic. There was significant progress between February and July, and I'm not just talking about the Senate votes: the Strange Bedfellows libertarian/progressive coalition is huge, as is the infrastructure developed by Blue America and the shared experiences we all have in working together. Get FISA RIght burst onto the scene relatively late and while I think we helped a lot in the last week, we were hampered by technology limitations and most of our media coverage came after the vote. If we can help keep the story in the headlines, and do our bit in reframing media coverage, that can make a big difference.****
And who knows how we'll evolve, but with six months to deepen connections with members, grow our base, improve communications, address our infrastructure, and continue to learn more effective ways of using social networking technologies I think it's very possible we'll contribute even more to a victory next year.
* apparently a rare exception to "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog"
** Mike Stark's Salon article Why progressives should keep organizing on MyBarackObama.com from a week earlier goes into more detail on this
*** a trendy little chapeau, really
**** speaking of which: civil liberties are not a partisan issue!!!!! We can disagree with our candidate on an issue and still support him!!!!! etc.
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Thomas Nephew | 31-Jul-08 at 1:00 pm | Permalink
Very interesting post — and an honor to be among the people you link to. For my part, I really like the way all of the folks comprising getFisaRight.net (I guess that's me, too) never quit and the way it's turned into a genuine phenomenon of its own. I find it helps my state of mind and outlook to *do* something that seems focused and well-planned, and thank you and the others at getfisaright for helping set that up.
While I'll definitely vote for him in November, I remain a bit "on the outside looking in" re Obama — the FISA turnabout is part of a series of things for me, though definitely the biggest one.
But I do give him and his campaign big applause and credit for the "Listening to America" events. It was like a demonstration where the people you were talking to and about *had* to listen to you. It was very satisfying to get pretty universal agreement to the getfisaright point — I think any of them would have "flown", I just needed to pick one because of limited time with lots of other people and agendas.
Sorry to go on at such length. Thanks for the post, and for all you're doing.
jon | 02-Aug-08 at 6:28 pm | Permalink
Thomas, great point about how the Get FISA Right folks, including all of us, didn't quit after the disappointment of the July 9 vote. It was interesting watching the email list in the aftermath as sadness and anger started turning to determination. It's not just us, of course; the Strange Bedfellows full-page Washington Post ad after the House vote sent the same message: we're not going away, and we're demanding accountability.
I'm also very impressed with the "Listening to America" events … of course, we'll see how much of this actually feeds into the platform. Still, it's real dialog, and that's something we haven't seen a lot of in politics at the national level. Similarly, the Obama campaign's encouragement of our use of my.barackobama.com to challenge him is a promising sign as well … it says to me that the vision of "change" isn't just rhetoric, that while it may be imperfect, it's very real.
Thanks for posting, and thanks for all you're doing!
Dr. Dog | 03-Aug-08 at 6:30 pm | Permalink
Jon, Dog here. Arf. By the way you are one of the few who pick up on the reason I use the moniker.
Here is my rationale as to why I don't think the pure Tech and Social Blogs don't see the Net-TV juncture. Both believe that traditional TV mediums are passe'. Long term they probably are. To be replaced by TVoIP. But for at least the next 10 years broadcast TV is still viable. A little snobbery might be in play as well. Its more hip to be a internet pure play than anything else.
But go watch late night infomercials. The spots that are run are a internet-TV play. From start to finish the website is displayed. I seen several that don't even use an 800 number just order via the web. So the guerrilla marketers see the potential here.
Your org is on the cutting edge here.
Dog, I think you're right on target about how techies get so hung up on TVoIP and IPTV that they miss the huge possibilities of the existing medium. There really is a lot of elitism in terms of how a lot of folks look at "old media" (not just in terms of hipness but also market valuations).
And informercials — like gambling and "adult entertainment" — tend to be on the cutting edge. Glad that we can join them 🙂
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Introduce yourselves, what are your names and rolls in thegroup?
OnPlanetZu: Thanks, Nick. OnPlanetZu music is produced and created by 'Fader Master' Cori Jacobs, who doubles as our onstage dj, DJ Fader. He brings us that OPZ sound quality. For live shows, we like to make the music as full as possible. So I have recruited the guys from my rock band, BAZERK. These guys know how to blast the energy and feed the hype. Fred Funk lays down the funky grooves and the drum beat. Randy Wilde Brings in low bottom wobble with his bass. Dave DeLuna fills in the guitar tracks. I am Zu, the originator of OnPlanetZu. I write the songs and keep the vocals hype building, so the crowd keeps dancing.
OnPlanetZu: I started OnPlanetZu in the summer of 2012 as a result of a trial remix of a BAZERK track for an indie label. The electro-rock sound struck home with me and I decided to make it official and see where it led. Since our debut song, 'Speakers', there has been no looking back. When 'Speakers' video came out and quickly got over 100k hits, we knew we had something. It has just been a matter of having fun and creating outside the box ever since. As far as our live performances, we didn't want to be a group who just stood onstage tweaking nobs. We wanted our music to be an entertaining experience. We love the way the live instruments sound on top of our electronic tracks. It was easy to pull my other musicians in and create something really unique.
MuzicNotez Crew: How did you come up with the name OnPlanetZu?
OnPlanetZu: Ha. Well my name is Zu, so it stems from that. But it goes far beyond that. On the Planet of Zu, it is like there's this constant rush of creative power and musical possibility that is anxious to express itself. Planet Zu feeds off of the culmination of each person's energy and spiritual form and motivates us to return that creative energy to the people. It is a place between time and space, a state of mind. On our Planet, everything is possible through music. Therefor… OnPlanetZu!
OnPlanetZu: Thats a good question. At an early age, I was really inspired by Prince and George Clinton because they are so outrageous and did their own thing. Sly and the family stone, Ohio Players and Rick James were my background funk foundation. Then I got into hip hop: Run DMC, KRSOne, Busta Rhmes, Wu-Tang, Public Enemy, etc. As far as electronic influences, there are some undeniable influences in our musical style: Bassnectar, Skrillex, The Prodigy. I've always really enjoyed Rage Against The Machine, Flava Flav, Chili Peppers, all these hyper dudes. That's where I get all my hyper energy and intensity from.
OnPlanetZu: The greatest concert I performed was definitely doing Prince's birthday bash when he was in LA and owned the club, Purple Rain. Prince came backstage and told me he didn't know what it was, but to keep goin cuz I had it. Then he gave me some pointers on how I could grow the versatility of my sound. I was like whaaaa?! That was early on and had a strong influence on my musical career.
The best concert was George Clinton during his Mothership Connection Tour. It was outrageous: costumes, gimmicks, stage props, things I had never seen before, because I was so young and still a baby in the music scene. He became a large influence in my style after that.
OnPlanetZu: Well, I don't want to come off preachy in my lyrics. That gets annoying. Yet, mostly my music is about a spiritual life journey, and putting it into words so that they don't come off preachy but can reach each person individually through energy and spirit. I use a lot of analogies and metaphors. Lots of association to music and letting go and enjoying what is.
As far as a musical career, we want to create our own path toward being able to help other unique indie artists; so that they can know that they can do it. It takes a lot of hard work. But there is support out there. We want to be some of that support.
MuzicNotez Crew: How does your musical style and originality make you unique? What do you do that makes you stand out?
OnPlanetZu: Everything we do is completely original, it comes from thoughts and ideas from inside the brain of Zu. I hear this sound or hook in my head, take it to Cori, then we manifest it in real life-no samples. Cori is the mastermind interpreter, man. I walk into his studio saying, "Aye man, I got this idea it sounds like…" then I start making all these contorted noises and rhythms. He will listen for a while then be all, "Yeah, yeah! whooo, That's great! I'm feelin' that" he twists some nobs, slides some faders, and gives me a freakishly accurate replication of what I had in my head. Then we work from there. We don't use any trendy loops, no trendy beats. It is all completely original sounds, loops, and beats- there it goes!
MuzicNotez Crew: How do you approach creating a new track? What's your writing style like?
OnPlanetZu: I spend a lot of quiet time alone with my thoughts. I try to just sit and listen. 1,000 things go through the musical database in my mind, but when one hits me, I pick it out. I can be somewhere and it just blasts me. Then I have to hurry up and get it down on my phone or into my stereo. I have to just hurry and get it out before it leaves. I start with a tempo, usually based off the energy I'm feeling throughout the day, then the bass line, then the melody and the verse. Sometimes its a hook that just jumps into my head and I build everything around that. There is so much in this head, man. I just gotta sit quiet and let the right stuff present itself or else its overwhelming.
MuzicNotez Crew: You recently released a new album, how would you describe this release?
OnPlanetZu: Adventures of Yo Mama is high energy. Its electronic, its hip hop-rock, right in your face- real aggressive. And its got tons of bass. Its not just your standard genre styles that you would expect to hear, but each turn and layer in the music can switch up style or layer multiple styles at any time. This keeps the listener awake, and keeps the music entertaining. It was a lot of fun to create.
MuzicNotez Crew: You say that you've had your share of rejection from the industry. This is a very similar problem with all indie's. How has this motivated you moving forward?
OnPlanetZu: You can say that again! The rejection has been motivating because I know in my gut that we've got something that people will want to hear. That motivation and determination not to compromise my style has led us to this label that we've got now, a label who feels the same way I felt about my music; and he has had a similar musical journey. Skee-Lo lets me do what I want and puts out the product without wanting to rearrange it and change it. He respects me as an artist, as do I him. There will be some very hot collaborations coming up in the near future.
OnPlanetZu: We are working on getting a tour scheduled, and are also focused on getting music pitched in movies and film. Another crazy video is on its way, and another OPZ album will surface sooner than some might expect. We are going ham on everybody so that they know who OnPlanetZu is. This year, we will be releasing joint efforts with artists like Skee-Lo, Redman, Darcy Donavan, Galilee, and have some of our tracks remixed and released through the dubstep gang over at Cleopatra Records. That's just the near future of OPZ. One collaboration track that we did with Galilee and Supa, 'Feels Like Friday-Turn Me Up,' will be placed in Asylum Film's upcoming "The Bachelor Party." We are really honored to have been invited to open the after-party for the 'West Coast Icons and Legends Awards' on June 23. It will be aired on BET and other TV channels, it will be OnPlanetZu's first red carpet related performance. This is a really exciting event for us.


Thanks to the Fourth of July long weekend, I got a chance to crunch the numbers on my trading blog and list the lessons I've learned. Take a look!
Phew! I didn't think I'd end up in the black for Q2 but it looks like I escaped with a teensy gain. It's not much but I'd still chalk this up as a solid improvement over my Q1 2017 performance.
I was off to a rough start in April as I tried to chase a breakdown on AUD/NZD and failed to lock profits in before the reversal occurred. A similar scenario happened on the very next setup that I took, so I made the necessary adjustments and was able to catch some decent gains on that one.
From there, I shifted to a more short-term approach in managing my open positions by monitoring economic reports more regularly and closing early if I thought the fundamental story was changing. This allowed me to go on a four-trade winning streak until mid-June!
Around that time, I was getting comfortable with the risk-off market environment as geopolitical tensions seemed here to stay. However, it was also then that risk sentiment had a huge shift spurred by changing central bank rhetoric. Higher-yielding commodity currencies appeared to bottom out from their dive but I was still trying to hop in those longer-term downtrends. Ack!
Looking back, I now realize how stubborn I've been about those trend setups when reversal signals had been popping up. As you can see from my last three setups, I took one short position after another on the Aussie, Kiwi, and Loonie since I thought that the rallies were merely retracements.
To my credit, though, I was able to trim my losses on those positions instead of letting the pairs hit my full stops. Also, I put a smaller position on the line for USD/CAD since I was already wary of the BOC's hawkish vibes back then.
All in all, I still think that I've made some decent progress in the past three months and it's just that I've managed to catch the tail end of the trends at the end of the quarter. My win ratio is pretty decent at 50% and I'm proud to say that my average gain is *slightly* higher than my average loss.
My main takeaway is that I should continue to keep close tabs on headlines and changing fundamentals for the commodity currencies while being quick about making the necessary adjustments. It looks like my decisions to exit early, whether by locking in profits or cutting losses, has kept my account afloat AND has been able to keep my confidence intact.
Moving forward, I think we'll see more of the same market conditions for the next few months since a lot of the moves could be headline-driven. Risk appetite could be tossed around by themes like Brexit, Trump, and central bank biases so I'll be on the lookout for any big shifts that might happen again.


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Dr. Leslie Wickman is more than a scientist, but a believer who explains that modern science reveals a creator.
Having a conversation regarding the intersection of faith and science with a rocket scientist, and corporate astronaut is remarkable. Dr. Leslie Wickman is more than a scientist--she's a believer who explains science does reveal God, and how faith and science can coexist. We want to believe that there is something greater than ourselves, and that there is a bigger plan. Wickman affirms that modern science does reveal there is a bigger picture that starts with our vast universe.
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Here are the four arguments made regarding science and God. There is the cosmological argument which says there is a cause and effect. So there must have been a creator. The ontological argument says we have the idea in us there is a God, so God is the cause. The anthropological argument points to the universal absolute moral values because people have experienced God, hence he exists. The teleological is the argument regarding order and design, so there had to be creator.
"When I look at what science tells us about the existence of God, what I'm looking for is what evidence we have that suggests that God is the best explanation," Wickman said. "There has been a growing body of evidence accumulating for the big bang model of the universe, which basically says there was a beginning to all of this. At that beginning, space, matter, time came into existence." In Genesis God created the heavens and the earth, and the big bang model tell us that in fact there was a beginning. "People of faith might cringe because it sounds naturalistic, but the reality is that the big bang model is God friendly."
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Astronomical discoveries show a vast universe that is beautifully woven, and consistently points us to an orderly and consistent creator. Before the big bang model there was the steady state model that holds that the universe has always existed. Many scientists and philosophers were comfortable with this because it didn't necessitate any casual explanation. "When evidence started mounting for the big bang, it made a lot of people uncomfortable in the sense that now we have to deal with this beginning. Obviously, if there was a beginning there had to be a beginner or a cause for it."
The Goldilocks Principle
Just look at the earth. The temperature, the water, and the vast lands, and how they are all interdependent on each other. The earth's finely tuned characteristics, as complex as it is, make the planet habitable for creation. The Goldilocks principle is the observation that something must fall into certain narrow ranges instead of extremes. The earth's distance from the sun, its size, atmosphere, magnetic field, 24-hour rotation, and the axial tilt that gives us the four seasons are perfect. This is just a small sample list, but there are dozens of parameters that need to happen for the earth to be just right for us.
Getting the earth so finely-tuned requires a creator. "Some people have tried to calculate the probability of getting it all just right and have come up with roughly one chance in 10^250th power." It's like picking one specific atom from a myriad of universes, and statisticians would say that it's all but impossible, unless it's rigged, Wickman explained. Meaning, it was designed for life by a creator. "The fact that the universe is ordered by consistent physical laws that we can study and understand is remarkable."
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Wickman said she would be surprised if life did not exsist on other planets. "I'd be a little surprised if we are the only intelligent beings God ever created apart from heaven. It would be really arrogant of us to think that we're the only ones." The universe is a really big place, and a possible multiverse is immeasurably bigger, so "I'm not threatened at all by the idea of a multiverse." But there always seems to be a period of an adjustment that the faith community has to go through, whenever there is a new scientific discovery. Hundreds of years ago, natural philosophers believed the earth was at the center of everything. "The thought of the unknown scares people."
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Tusshar Kapoor (born 20 November 1976 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is an Indian actor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor and brother of Ekta Kapoor. He studied at the University of Michigan and graduated with a MBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. Tushar made his debut with Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai alongside Kareena Kapoor in 2001. The next two years followed with a list of box office flops, although he was noted for acting alongside his father in the teen slasher film Kucch To Hai (2003). He was recognized for his role as a shy boy who gains the ability to become invisible in Gayab (2004).[2] Kapoor appeared in comic roles in Golmaal (2006) and Golmaal Returns (2008) and Golmaal 3 (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tusshar Kapoor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Lavorò per il governo degli Stati Uniti come agente commerciale in Angola e nello Stato Libero del Congo. Durante questo periodo, si arruolò volontario al comando di un'unità dell'Artiglieria belga durante una campagna volta a combattere gli schiavisti nell'est del Paese. Rimase al servizio del governo degli Stati Uniti durante tutti questo periodo e fu successivamente nominato Console a Zanzibar. In questa veste, fu chiamato a fungere da intermediario tra gli schieramenti combattenti nella Guerra anglo-zanzibariana. Dopo la conclusione del suo distacco di tre anni, Mohun tornò in Congo per la ricerca di minerali e, in seguito, lavorò con le autorità belghe.

La sua impresa più ambiziosa fu una spedizione di tre anni, a partire dal 1898, per creare una linea telegrafica dal lago Tanganica a Boyoma. Trascorse anche un soggiorno in Sudafrica prima di tornare in Congo per riformare lAnglo-Belgian India Rubber Company per conto di Leopoldo II del Belgio. Mohun affermò di essere il primo americano ad aver attraversato il continente africano, un primato attribuito di solito a Henry Morton Stanley.

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