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#WCW- Meet make-up artist Shinayde Meyerson
Today's #WC shout out goes to a Cape Town based make-up artist, Shinayde Meyerson. Check out her story and her handles below.
Shinayde Meyerson on Instagram
Where are you from and where do you currently live?
"I'm from Jozi and I live in ǁHui!gaeb (Cape Town)"
Cape Town or Jozi? Name one reason why.
"Jozi – it's home"
"I'm turning 24"
When did you know that you wanted to become a makeup artist?
"When I fell into the industry! I really had no idea that's where my life was headed."
Do you freelance?
"I freelance, and I work for MAC."
What are some of the biggest challenges that you face as independent artist?
"It's a bit of a risk for me to rely completely on freelancing."
How do you find work?
I find work through word-of-mouth a lot, but also social media/colleagues/general networking."
When you first started out, how and where did you learn how to charge for your services?
"I was lucky enough to work with experienced, tenured artists who advised me on rates."
What is some of the advice you wish you had received at the beginning of your career?
"I wish someone told me to work on my hair game too! I focused solely on makeup for 5 years and I'm now learning more about hair and including it into my work."
What have been some of your standout moments in your career so far?
"The first time I worked S.A Menswear independently was amazing. I felt proud to be asked to do makeup surrounded by the best of the best at 22. I've also been lucky enough to attend many spectacular master-classes by incredible artists like Einat Dan."
Who would you work with 10x over if you had the choice?
"I would work with Frances Marais all the time – I really love her work-style and vibe."
Where did you study?
"I am a self-taught makeup artist. I studied Fine Art through UNISA but didn't finish as I was becoming very busy with working as a makeup artist, I had to make a decision that would benefit me in the future. So I chose experience. I'm currently completing a hairstyling course at Head To Toe (makeup and hairstyling school)."
Which type of work between editorial and events is your favourite to do?
"I love working fashion week events; I love the energy that happens backstage. But, I also love having creative freedom on shoots, or even just for fun. To be honest I'm all good as long as I've got a brush in my hand."
If people want to get some tips, watch a tutorial or follow you, where can they find you?
"You can find my makeup page on Instagram @_shinayde or my Facebook page GLIT makeup artistry."
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Wed., January 15, 2020
Cyclones used subs early and often in win over Oklahoma
Iowa State guard Terrence Lewis works for a layup against Florida A&M on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames. (Matthew Putney/Associated Press)
AMES — Iowa State's beginning to the Big 12 portion of its schedule hasn't been an easy one.
Three of the five games have been or will be on the road, one of the two home games was against then-No. 3 Kansas and the final two road games are against ranked opponents.
Iowa State's game on Wednesday is against No. 2 Baylor in Waco, Texas.
Baylor beat Kansas in Lawrence handily Saturday, 67-55. The Bears' only loss this season was on a neutral court to Washington in their second game of the season.
In Saturday's convincing win against Oklahoma, Iowa State Coach Steve Prohm changed his starting lineup and went to his bench early and often. It's a recipe that worked for the Cyclones in that game and it's a recipe he's hoping will continue to work.
"I want to handle (this) like we did the other night where we're going to sub and give these guys confidence to play and go with what's working," Prohm said. "I want to stretch our bench out and give them confidence so we can stay fresher and compete better. The other night against Oklahoma we just competed so much better and our energy was great.
"We want to feed off of what we did the other night. If the bench goes in and plays well, then we'll roll with that, if not, then we'll go back to the beginning and go from there."
That's different from what Prohm has done in the past. In his first four years at Iowa State, he played only seven, maybe eight, guys. But all but one of those teams had four, five or, in the case of the 2015-16 team, six future NBA players and another two or three European league players on them.
He didn't need to have a deep bench because his starters were so good.
Kansas Coach Bill Self said Iowa State has had the best talent in the league, besides Kansas, in recent years.
ISU's Tyrese Haliburton is a sure-fire NBA player and he'll be the constant in Iowa State's lineup. But Prohm recognizes he needs to have a deeper bench, not just to keep guys fresher but because he can roll with different lineups depending on who Iowa State is playing.
Against Oklahoma, a team without any true post players, Iowa State went small and had success. Baylor, on the other hand, is a big, physical team that likes to put pressure on opponents defensively.
"Every game is going to be so different — do we need physicality, do we need defense, do we need to spread the floor and move as fast as we can?" Prohm said. "Guys have to buy into that and when they do, it makes things easier to coach. But the main thing is having a deeper bench does is it gives us a chance to be successful."
Solomon Young was the person George Conditt replaced in the starting lineup on Saturday. While he was obviously disappointed, Prohm said Young played with the most energy he had all season and Prohm wants him to keep it up against Baylor.
"He really responded well and this is a game against Baylor where we're going to need his physicality and size against (Freddie) Gillespie, (Tristan) Clark and (Mark) Vitale," Prohm said.
Because of Baylor's ball pressure, and because of the defensive pressure that's focused on Haliburton anyway, off-ball movement will be key against the Bears.
Iowa State's best back-cutter is substitute Terrence Lewis.
"Teams are loading up on me, doubling me and making me pass and making other guys beat them," Haliburton said. "We did well the other night and the longer that goes on, the more confidence the other guys are going to get.
"Terrence is probably the best back-cutter we have on this team. He can really space the floor and shoot really well. He plays best with someone like me on the court who is drawing defenders to get him open looks. He's helping a lot and he'll continue to help."
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Play 3NT E -100 4.5 17 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 2 W 140 10 38 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 3NT E 600 18 69 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 3NT E 600 18 69 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 4 E 100 19.5 75 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 4 E 100 19.5 75 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 4 E -150 8.5 33 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 4 E -450 1.5 6 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 3 E -200 7 27 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 4 E -150 8.5 33 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 3 W 50 13 50 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 4 E 50 13 50 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 4 E 50 13 50 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 3 W -50 13 50 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 4 E 450 24.5 94 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 4 E -50 13 50 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 3 E 200 19 73 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 4 E -50 13 50 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 4 E 150 17.5 67 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 4 E -100 6.5 25 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 4 E -100 6.5 25 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 4 E 150 17.5 67 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 4 S -100 17.5 67 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 4 S -200 5.5 21 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 4 S -200 5.5 21 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 4 N -100 17.5 67 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 4 S -100 17.5 67 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 4 S -100 17.5 67 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 3 S 140 25.5 98 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 4x S -200 5.5 21 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 4x S -200 5.5 21 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 3 S -140 0.5 2 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 4 N 100 8.5 33 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 4x S 200 20.5 79 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 4 S 100 8.5 33 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 4x S 200 20.5 79 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 4 S 100 8.5 33 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 4 S 100 8.5 33 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 4 S 200 20.5 79 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 4 S 200 20.5 79 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 4 S 480 18.5 71 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 4 S 450 6.5 25 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 4 S 450 6.5 25 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 4 N 450 6.5 25 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 4 S 450 6.5 25 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 4 S 480 18.5 71 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 4 N 480 18.5 71 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 4 S 480 18.5 71 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 4 S 450 6.5 25 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 4 N -450 19.5 75 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 4 S -480 7.5 29 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 4 S -450 19.5 75 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 4 S -450 19.5 75 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 4 S -480 7.5 29 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 4 S -480 7.5 29 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 4 N -480 7.5 29 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 4 S -450 19.5 75 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 4 S -450 19.5 75 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 2 E -140 3.5 14 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 4 E 200 24 92 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 2 E -140 3.5 14 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 2 E -110 10 39 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 3 E 200 24 92 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 2 W 100 18.5 71 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 2 E -140 3.5 14 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 2 E -110 10 39 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 3 E 100 18.5 71 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 2 E 110 16 61 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 2 E 110 16 61 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 3 E -200 2 8 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 3 E -100 7.5 29 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 2 W -100 7.5 29 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 2 E 140 22.5 86 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 2 E 140 22.5 86 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 4 E -200 2 8 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 2 E 140 22.5 86 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 6 W -980 12 46 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 3NT E -520 18.5 71 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 6 W -980 12 46 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 6NT E -1020 2 8 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 6NT E -1020 2 8 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 4 E -510 23 89 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 3NT E -520 18.5 71 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 3NT E -520 18.5 71 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 3NT E -520 18.5 71 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 6NT E 1020 24 92 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 3NT E 520 7.5 29 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 6NT E 1020 24 92 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 3NT E 520 7.5 29 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 4 E 510 3 11 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 6 W 980 14 54 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 3NT E 520 7.5 29 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 3NT E 520 7.5 29 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 6 W 980 14 54 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 4 S 420 15.5 60 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 4 S -50 3 12 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 4 N 450 24 92 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 4 S -50 3 12 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 4 S -50 3 12 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 4 S 420 15.5 60 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 2 E 100 7 27 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 4 S 450 24 92 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 4 S -50 3 12 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 4 S 50 23 88 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 4 S 50 23 88 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 4 S -420 10.5 40 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 4 S -420 10.5 40 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 2 E -100 19 73 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 4 S 50 23 88 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 4 S -450 2 8 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 4 N -450 2 8 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 4 S 50 23 88 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 2 W -140 11.5 44 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 2NT N -300 0 0 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 3 W -140 11.5 44 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 2 W -140 11.5 44 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 2 W -140 11.5 44 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 2 W -140 11.5 44 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 3 E -140 11.5 44 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 1NT W -150 2 8 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 2 W -140 11.5 44 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 2 W 140 14.5 56 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 2 W 140 14.5 56 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 2 W 140 14.5 56 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 2 W 140 14.5 56 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 3 E 140 14.5 56 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 2NT N 300 26 100 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 1NT W 150 24 92 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 3 W 140 14.5 56 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 2 W 140 14.5 56 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 6 S -50 4.5 17 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 5 N 480 17.5 67 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 6 N -50 4.5 17 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 4 N 480 17.5 67 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 4 N 510 21.5 83 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 5 N 450 11.5 44 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 6 N -50 4.5 17 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 4 N 450 11.5 44 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 6 N 980 24 92 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 4 N -510 4.5 17 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 6 N -980 2 8 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 5 N -450 14.5 56 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 6 S 50 21.5 83 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 6 N 50 21.5 83 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 5 N -480 8.5 33 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 4 N -450 14.5 56 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 6 N 50 21.5 83 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 4 N -480 8.5 33 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 2 N -50 11 42 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 2 N -50 11 42 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 3 S 130 18 69 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 2 W -110 3.5 14 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 3 N 170 23.5 90 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 4x N -100 7.5 29 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 3 N 130 18 69 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 2 N -50 11 42 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 3 W -110 3.5 14 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 3 N -170 2.5 10 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 4x N 100 18.5 71 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 2 N 50 15 58 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 3 N -130 8 31 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 2 N 50 15 58 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 2 N 50 15 58 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 3 S -130 8 31 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 3 W 110 22.5 86 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 2 W 110 22.5 86 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 4 W 100 19 73 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 2 W -170 2.5 10 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 3 W 100 19 73 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 3 W -170 2.5 10 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 3 W -170 2.5 10 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 3 W -140 8.5 33 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 4 E 100 19 73 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 3 W -170 2.5 10 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 4 W 100 19 73 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 3 W 170 23.5 90 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 3 W 140 17.5 67 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 4 W -100 7 27 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 4 E -100 7 27 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 2 W 170 23.5 90 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 3 W 170 23.5 90 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 3 W -100 7 27 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 4 W -100 7 27 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 3 W 170 23.5 90 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 3 S -50 13 50 1-Benson Ho-Kenneth Leon vs.
Play 3 S -50 13 50 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 3 N -50 13 50 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play PASS 18.5 71 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 2 S 110 24 92 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 2 W -110 3.5 14 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 3 E 100 22 85 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 2 W -110 3.5 14 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 3 S -50 13 50 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 2 S -110 2 8 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 2 W 110 22.5 86 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 3 S 50 13 50 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 3 E -100 4 15 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 3 S 50 13 50 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 2 W 110 22.5 86 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 3 N 50 13 50 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 3 S 50 13 50 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play PASS 7.5 29 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 1NT W 50 18.5 71 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 1NT W 150 24.5 94 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 3 E 150 24.5 94 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 2 W 50 18.5 71 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 2NT W 100 22.5 87 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 2 N -200 2.5 10 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 1NT W -150 6 23 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 1NT W 50 18.5 71 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 1NT W -120 8 31 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 2NT W -100 3.5 13 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 2 N 200 23.5 90 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 1NT W -50 7.5 29 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 1NT W 150 20 77 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 1NT W -150 1.5 6 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 1NT W -50 7.5 29 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 3 E -150 1.5 6 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 1NT W 120 18 69 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 2 W -50 7.5 29 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 6 W 300 26 100 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 4 W -650 5 19 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 4 W -620 10.5 40 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 4 W -650 5 19 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 6 E -1430 0 0 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 4 E -620 10.5 40 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 5 E 100 16.5 64 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 6 E 200 23 89 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 4 W -650 5 19 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 6 E 1430 26 100 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 4 E 620 15.5 60 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 6 W -300 0 0 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 5 E -100 9.5 36 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 4 W 650 21 81 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 6 E -200 3 11 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 4 W 620 15.5 60 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 4 W 650 21 81 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 4 W 650 21 81 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 3NT W -400 4.69 18 2-Roxann Maloney-Michael Lewis vs.
Play 3NT W 100 21.31 82 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 3NT W 50 15.08 58 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 3NT W 50 15.08 58 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 3NT W 150 23.38 90 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 3NT E 50 15.08 58 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 2x S -500 0.02 1 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 3NT W 50 15.08 58 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 3NT W 50 15.08 58 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 3NT W -150 2.62 10 2-David Hogan-Joanna Gleason vs.
Play 3NT E -50 10.92 42 4-Stuart Treworgy-Hoda Baron vs.
Play 3NT W 400 21.31 82 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 2x S 500 25.98 99 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 3NT W -100 4.69 18 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 3NT W -50 10.92 42 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 3NT W -50 10.92 42 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 3NT W -50 10.92 42 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 3NT W -50 10.92 42 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 6NT W 50 22 85 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 3NT W -430 8.5 33 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 3NT W -430 8.5 33 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 3NT W -400 17.5 67 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 3NT E -430 8.5 33 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 3NT W -430 8.5 33 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 3NT W -400 17.5 67 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 3NT W -460 1 4 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 3NT W 100 25 96 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 3NT W 400 8.5 33 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 3NT E 430 17.5 67 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 3NT W 430 17.5 67 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 6NT W -50 4 15 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 3NT W 400 8.5 33 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 3NT W 430 17.5 67 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 3NT W 460 25 96 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 3NT W 430 17.5 67 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.
Play 3NT W -100 1 4 11-Marek Kawka-Maria Kawka vs.
Play 4 N 420 19 73 3-Mark Aquino-Andrew Chesterton vs.
Play 4 N -50 1 4 4-Nancy Keller-Sarah Widhu vs.
Play 3 N 170 10 39 5-Patricia Kent-Elaine Capobianco vs.
Play 3 N 170 10 39 6-Ronald Briggs-Ashok Rao vs.
Play 4 N 420 19 73 7-Pinhas Romik-Peter Winkler vs.
Play 2 N 170 10 39 8-Catherine Branch-William Everett vs.
Play 4 N 420 19 73 9-Ru Hong Terajewicz-Alix Taylor vs.
Play 4x N 590 25 96 10-Louis DiOrio-Lucia Enica vs.
Play 3 N 140 4 15 11-Shirley Derrah-Robert Derrah vs.
Play 3 N -170 16 61 1-Arlene Seguin-Albert Seguin Jr vs.
Play 4 N -420 7 27 3-Adam Grossack-Laurence Lebowitz vs.
Play 2 N -170 16 61 5-Marguerite Levin-David Levin vs.
Play 4 N -420 7 27 6-Daniel Jablonski-R Muggia vs.
Play 4 N -420 7 27 7-Arnold Berman-Steven Groag vs.
Play 4 N 50 25 96 8-Karen Kupersmith-Peter Buonfiglio vs.
Play 4x N -590 1 4 9-Maya Alela-Jonathan Forde vs.
Play 3 N -170 16 61 10-Syed Kausar Amjad-Sabrina Miles vs.


To seek Members views on Norfolk County Council's proposed route options for the Norwich Western Link.
Cabinet considered and approved their preference to support Option D only (with the Easton prong) based on the benefits to transport access from villages in the north east of the District.
Route Options C and D be recommended as these routes provide the greatest benefit in transport capacity terms of the options presented when considered against the forecast cost.
It is considered that the high forecast traffic carrying capacity indicates that options C and D will result in the least amount of traffic using other rural routes. The delivery of the scheme is also of key importance to Breckland and it is important that this is highlighted to Norfolk County Council as part of the consultation process.
1) Members endorse route options C and D as the preferred routes in its response to the Western Link Consultation.
2) Members endorse one of the alternative route options as the basis of the Council's response to the Western Link Consultation.


A new temporary events offer for original summer receptions.
To gather around culinary innovations and a turnkey concept for a new way to experience the Seine.
A seasonal turnkey package enabling you to fully benefit from the magic of Yachts de Paris and gourmet cuisine by Lenôtre.
A carefully designed party format, a package offering expertise and the know-how of our teams, as ever.
A new decor, redesigned in an Art Deco spirit in collaboration with Pierre Frey, and new menu : chef Guy Krenzer, "Meilleur Ouvrier de France", unveils flavors above all and momentary pleasures.
Discover Cymbeline's show with Yachts de Paris !
To its great pleasure, Yachts de Paris hosted, on April 1st, the Cymbeline show.
The collection was revealed for the first time within the prestigous Salons Nework.
Yachts de Paris' team are so proud of having participated as a partner in this very chic, smart & up-to-date event, and to have contributed in a way in its success !


This particular online game is not in English and that is perhaps the most difficult thing about the game. The sketchy graphics, the interesting song and music and the cute characters of the game makes the game a special one. Manage the bird choir by using the mouse to make the appropriate clicks. Earn as many scores as possible.


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FIGHT GAME RIVALS - Video game feat. Alistair Overeem and Semmy Schilt !
You know what we lack on Windows Phone? A good strategy turn-based fighting game. Yeah, never thought of it, did you? Luckily, "Fight Game: Rivals" seems likely to fill that roll. From Dutch based Khaeon Studios, the game is a MMA style with fairly impressive graphics and seemingly rich player content.
What's really kind of neat is how the fighting styles and even fighters themselves are based on real life e.g. the studio worked with experts to replicate as much as they can.
Prove yourself in underground fighting tournaments all over the world to earn the chance to go toe to toe with world-famous martial art champions like Alistair Overeem and Sem Schilt!
Striking visuals with highly detailed environments and characters
Unlock a large variety of unique moves, skills and abilities with detailed animations throughout your fighting career
Genre-bending 'strategy, turn-based, fighting game', optimized for mobile devices and touch screen operated game-play
Earn 20 unique Xbox LIVE Achievements
"With Fight Game: Rivals; here is your chance to become the king of kings amongst tournament fighters around the world! Fight the opposition on distinct locations in Europe, Asia and America and unlock a wide variety of devastating attacks and skills. Grow ever stronger, prove yourself in fighting tournaments all over the world and get ready to face the elite of combat sports, world-famous martial arts champions Sem Schilt and Alistair Overeem, and become the new champion!"
The game is exclusive to Windows Phone 7 for the first 3 months and looks to drop "mid September"/Q3 in the Marketplace. From the graphics, new style of gameplay and overall detail, we're pretty excited about trying this one.
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I'm from Japan and studying at perth. I took the trail for the senators U-18, also made the final but couldn't pass. Looking for a team or group I can play , during my stay. Willing to play games and want to apply for the domestic. Looking to hear from you.
Looking to pick up a sport on a weeknight (Monday to Thursday). Have played a couple of seasons a few years ago. Will be a little rusty but reliable team member. Prefer a social team around Mooroolbark (Kilsyth, Chirnside Park, Croydon, Rimgwood, Bayswater).
I'm looking for basketbal team.
Looking for a domestic team to be part of. Been playing basketball for 5 years now looking for a mildly competitive league. Prefer weeknights 6ft tall love to make some mates.
Played the game nearly my whole life and after a good number of years away, have got a bunch of guys who all played at Premier League level and put a team in the new SAABL league. Looking for a couple more guys who can play a bit to help fill our roster for upcoming winter 2019 season. Hit me up if you're keen. We play Saturday afternoons and have a scrimmage & shoot around on Tuesday nights.
Used to play in college but haven't played much recently. I love this sport!
Hello, I've been playing basketball for the last 10 years and am currently playing in Keilor but I'm looking for a team closer to home. Looking for games near Greensborough, Eltham or Macleod. Happy to fill in or join a team.
Hi im 21 years old wanting to play for a team and i started playing basketball when i was 7 years old and i have been in a lot of teams in philippines and i actually played for dandenong saints and i havent been playing for like a month and wanted to go back on playing again.


Client was involved in an argument with ex-husband related to child visitation issues. Client contacted Corrigan who put together the entire history of the relationship and the context of the incident. Corrigan was also quickly in contact with the complaining witness to verify accuracy and his feelings as well as to discuss the possibility of the complaining witness submitting an affidavit of nonprosecution. Corrigan secured an ANP from the complaining witness and submitted it with a full case-history to the County Attorney and convinced them to reject the case and agree to an expunction before client was even entitled. The arrest was expunged on July 25, 2012.
Client had stage 3 ovarian cancer and was due for a hysterectomy in 2 weeks. She was driving to California to see old friends, possibly for the last time. She was pulled over in Canton, Texas and found that she had 7 warrants out of Hunt County for hot checks from 6 years before. She was taken to jail with "No Bond" being set. She could be stuck there for as many as 10 days before Hunt County was required to come get her. Her mother hired Corrigan who went to work getting the holds lifted, driving over 200 miles in one afternoon going from court to court. Corrigan got 3 of the cases dismissed and time-served on the rest. Corrigan also communicated with the nurse at the Van Zandt County Jail to check on the comfort and health of his client.
Client threatened his sister's boyfriend in reaction to family violence committed by the victim. Prosecutor would not dismiss the case initially, but did so after Corrigan set the case for trial.
Client wrote a bad check to an employee over $500. Developing client's background and circumstances, Corrigan convinced the County Attorney to drop the case if the client paid restitution.
Client is arrested in his college dorm room for marijuana possession. Corrigan explained the back story of the client, his family, and his roommate's involvement in drugs. With completion of a drug offender education course and a clean UA, Corrigan got the case dismissed. The case is eligible for expunction.
Client took his father's shotgun and engaged in a drive-by shooting in Hunt County. Father did not know who had taken the gun and called the police. Corrigan represented client in both counties. He convinced Hunt County to give probation and Collin County that no further action was needed, so the case was dismissed.
Client was a 17 year old high school senior who sold Xanax to a fellow student on campus. That student took the drugs and ended up in the emergency room. Client was identified and expelled from school permanently (and not allowed to attend any public school in the State of Texas). Attorney Corrigan got Client into drug offender education and gathered references on the young man's behalf. In the end, Attorney Corrigan convinced the D.A. to drop the case altogether. Client is on his way to college and is eligible for an expunction on the arrest.
Client discharged a firearm at a habitation and the prosecutor initially offered prison time. An investigation of the case and subpoena of police records by Corrigan revealed that Greenville PD had run narcotics search warrants on the house in question. Corrigan also marshaled character references and referred client to counseling. Eventually, Corrigan convinced the DA to give probation with county jail work release as a condition. Client was also charged with Theft Firearm in Collin County that Corrigan got dismissed.


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Fabric Faceoff: Tencel vs Linen
by Akhil | Feb 13, 2019
Over the last several years, one question we find echoed over and over by our clients is, which is the best green fabric? There are a lot of factors and circumstances that make one fabric greener or better than the other, but we decided (tongue firmly in cheek) the best way was to have an old-fashioned tournament.
We picked 8 of the best, so here we are at last, Green Story's #FabricFaceoff . Over the next 3 weeks, we'll pit 8 eco-fabrics against each other, to see which can truly claim the title of the best green fabric. It's winner take all! The fabrics are Tencel, linen, rPET, bamboo, cork, recycled wool, organic cotton, and hemp. The final result will be announced on March 5th via Instagram live. Save the date!
The rules of the competition
We broke it down into 5 categories, a mix of environmental issues, consumer and manufacturer needs and unique fabric qualities. Each category is scored on a 5 point scale with 5 being best.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions: Every fabric gives off CO2 from its production, but the best green materials strive to bring this to a minimum —some even to be CO2 negative (due to carbon sequestration).
Water consumption: Fabrics can use up to 3,000 liters per 1 kg of material (!), so the less water needed, the higher green materials will score.
Cost: Being green and buying green is the main goal. But we must also be realistic. You can't spend all your budget on the material, and your customers will not spend their life savings on a t-shirt. So finding the right balance between being sustainable and affordable will make sure green materials are here to stay.
Availability: Green materials are wonderful, but they must also be accessible. The possibility of local production, easy access to facilities offering these materials (and no long waiting lists), and brands offering these materials needs to be addressed.
Other: Each material is unique and has different sustainable qualities. This category allows each material to bring its top additional assets to the table, to make for a fairer comparison.
Introducing the competitors for round 1: Tencel & Linen
Here are our first competitors, and it's a tough one. Both darlings of the eco-fashion space.
Lenzing's darling, Tencel has been an ecofabric of choice for a lot of up and coming eco-fashion designers. While it's popularity is relatively new, it was invented by Lenzing AG in Germany about 40 years ago. Tencel is the brand name of lyocell. This material belongs to the cellulose family of fibers that comes from the pulp of trees and crops and is comparable to viscose and modal.
Linen is a more ancient material. A natural fiber made from flax plants. It is one of the oldest used materials and is mostly used in the summer months and hot climates as it's lightweight, breathable and moisture-wicking. It's also more ubiquitous than Tencel.
Here's how they score.
1. CO2 Emissions:
Tencel was invented with sustainability in mind so production processes and facilities are designed for low CO2 emissions and energy use. Linen, while better than most conventional alternatives, still has an energy intensive fiber production, giving off slightly more CO2 emissions.
Our score: Tencel – 5 | Linen – 4
Winner: Tencel
2. Water Consumption:
Tencel's production process has a revolutionary closed-loop system that is extremely water-efficient, being able to capture, recycle and reuse 99.5% of water and solvents. However, trees needed for pulp require a fair amount of water to grow. Linen comes in strong on this front as flax plants need very little water and overall beating Tencel water needs by 20%.
Winner: Linen
3. Cost:
Linen is pricier than most natural fibers as its more difficult to produce, requires more manual labour, and breaks apart quicker when weaved. Compared to other natural fibers, it's often been dubbed a 'luxury fabric'. Even with its higher price though, linen is still cheaper than Tencel. Tencel may be technologically advanced, but that also means higher prices.
4. Availability:
Having only been invented four decades ago, Tencel is still growing and is not as readily available as its competitor. However, Lenzing is establishing production sites in China, Indonesia and the United States (outside of its main plant in Austria). Linen has been around worldwide since the beginning of civilization (30,000 BC as per some records) and is a staple for many brands.
5. Other:
Linen production needs slightly less energy than Tencel and does not use chemicals in its yarn production stage. However, the sustainability of Tencel is better guaranteed than linen. While linen comes from many sources and its impact can vary, Lenzing guarantees Tencel is made from guaranteed sustainability harvested trees and has a closed-loop production process. That means that 99.5% of (non-toxic) chemicals used get recycled and reused which means practically no waste and no need for new solvents.
Tencel is also more versatile than linen, having a softer feel and wider variety of uses. It's also better able to replicate a cotton- like material and is easier to care for as linen is wrinkle-prone and stiff. Tencel is also extremely strong (even when wet) and is more durable than linen.
Our score: Tencel – 4.5 | Linen – 3
1st round winner:
This was really close as you'll see from the score below. We went back and forth between the team on linen and Tencel. While linen beats Tencel in more categories, Tencel edged it through its design for sustainability and greater versatility. It's now in the semi's and will face the winner of tomorrow's face off: bamboo or recycled PET.
Final score: Tencel – 20.5 | Linen – 20
And to prove how close it was, our wonderful audience went the other way! We'd love to hear your comments on this. Head on over to our Instagram to weigh in.
Round 2 Faceoff results are on Friday, which do you think will win?
Want to learn more about green fabrics and sustainability in fashion? Check out our blog and free ebooks!


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Behind the Scenes: Seeking female voices on stage
/ Saturday, October 10, 2015
Each year, American Theatre magazine compiles lists of the most produced plays and the most-produced playwrights in regional theaters for the upcoming season.
Three of the plays and even more of the playwrights will be represented in the Sarasota area this year. (The lists exclude plays by William Shakespeare.)
Stephanie Gularte was hired in 2015 as the producing artistic director of American Stage in St. Petersburg. She was a co-founder and longtime artistic director of Capital Stage in Sacramento, California. Photo provided by American Stage
Topping both lists is Ayad Akhtar and his play "Disgraced," which will be part of the Asolo Repertory Theatre's season. Florida Studio Theatre will produce the third-most popular play on the list, John Patrick Shanley's "Outside Mullingar." Shanley's work, including other plays, is scheduled for 13 different productions next season.
And Urbanite Theatre has playwright Aaron Posner's "Stupid F — g Bird," a riff on Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull."
But there's something missing from the list - a strong representation of female playwrights.
There are just four women among the 20 most-produced playwrights and two are on the list of most produced plays (Laura Eason's "Sex with Strangers" and Anne Washburn's "Mr. Burns, a post-electric play," which will be part of the freeFall Theatre season).
The four most-produced women this season are Eason, Sarah Ruhl, Lauren Gunderson and Dominique Morisseau.
This gender imbalance has become a major concern in the theater world, and should be for audiences. When the Manhattan Theatre club announced a season of plays mostly by white men, there was an uproar. Area artistic leaders also are concerned, though that may not be reflected in the shows being presented this season.
"We are telling stories and if all the stories we tell come from a very narrow demographic representation of our world then we are repeating and reinforcing a similar perspective over and over again, and that's an unhealthy thing for our culture," said Stephanie Gularte, who is in her first year as producing artistic director of American Stage. The St. Petersburg company's season includes Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel" and Amy Herzog's "4000 Miles."
Richard Hopkins, Artistic Director of Florida Studio Theater. BRIAN BRAUN PHOTO/PROVIDED BY FST
There are no women writers represented among the four plays in Florida Studio Theatre's mainstage season, but artistic director Richard Hopkins said he takes a longer view.
"We don't change the world in one season, so there might be a season with few women playwrights, and another with more," he said.
Daniel Capote, left, and Nikole Williams in a scene from Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel" at American Stage, one of two plays by female writers on the theater's 2015-16 season schedule. CHAD JACOBS PHOTO/AMERICAN STAGE
Between the 2004-05 and 2014-15 seasons, about 48 percent of the 116 shows produced on all FST stages (including cabaret and children's productions) were written or developed by female playwrights. But it has been five years since female playwrights were featured in the theater's mainstage seasons, with Nottage's "Ruined" and Sherry Glaser's "Family Secrets" in 2010.
A bigger concern he said is that there are fewer women submitting scripts for consideration.
"About 25 percent are coming from women, and that's interesting when women make up a little more than 50 percent of the population," Hopkins said. "We're befuddled about it."
Lauryn Sasso, dramaturg at Asolo Repertory Theatre, said, "Working with female playwrights, encouraging their voices, promoting their perspectives and making them an integral part of the scope of what we do is always an important part of the discussions at Asolo Rep each season."
This season, however, only one show, "Josephine," is co-written by a woman.
Lauryn Sasso is the Literary Manager and Dramaturg for Asolo Repertory Theatre. DANIEL KELLY PHOTO/PROVIDED BY ASOLO REP
Sasso noted that the theater is working with female writers all the time, producing shows in its Unplugged series and helping their plays find a home on stage.
Hopkins said he doesn't believe he judges plays differently when reading scripts by men or women. He may not always even know who the author is.
"It's important that we're making opportunities for women more available. That goes to the bigger view on this," he said. "We need to tell everybody's story. There are a lot of people in America whose stories are not being told. It's not only gender-based and race-based, but class-based."
Being aware of the issue is the first step toward addressing it.
Contact Jay Handelman at jay.handelman@heraldtribune.com. Keep up with entertainment coverage at ticketsarasota.com. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram @jayhandelman
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Jacob Gaboury published "Becoming NULL: Queer relations in the excluded middle" in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.
This article investigates how computational media have come to shape the form and function of identity in contemporary society, suggesting that these technologies have conscripted users into systems of compulsory identification with or as a set of discrete categories for the purpose of value extraction largely divorced from or in direct contradiction with a radical politics of difference. The author suggests we must begin to imagine how queer theory and queer life might rearticulate themselves in ways that engage with and within technical systems, that is, to imagine a queer technics that is explicitly situated within the logic of information. Taking up this task, the essay proposes a queer politics of subtraction through an investigation of the now ubiquitous relational database management system known as SQL, suggesting its use of the NULL marker opens space for a queer indeterminacy.
You can read this fantastic article here and here!


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The Publication Policies
"The Oriental Studies" (Shodoznavstvo) is a peer-reviewed journal (collection of scholarly papers) published by the A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The collection was established in 1997 in Kyiv initially within the framework of the «Library of the journal "The World of the Orient"» and subsequently became an independent scholarly periodical edition. Young oriental scholars, as well as experienced researchers publish their works on its pages. In total, more than 80 issues have been published till now.
The aim of the collection is to promote the development of Oriental studies in Ukraine and the integration of Ukrainian and world Oriental studies through the publication of the latest works of national and foreign authors.
The mission of the collection is to disseminate the results of contemporary academic research on current issues of history, culture and religion of Asian and African countries of all historical periods, Eastern languages and literatures, Orientalistic historiography, source-critical studies and museum studies. Priority is given to the various aspects of the history of the Ancient Near East civilizations and nomadic cultural communities of the Eurasian steppe from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Interdisciplinary, religious and ethnological studies, translations from ancient and modern Eastern languages, reviews of monographs, and reports on professional scientific events and conferences are also welcome.
Publications in "The Oriental Studies" are included in such electronic bibliographic databases as "Online Egyptological Bibliography" (University of Oxford, http://oeb.griffith.ox.ac.uk/default.aspx) and "Bibliographia Iranica" (https://www.biblioiranica.info/) and are referenced in Scopus, ERIHPLUS, Google Scholar, Slavic Humanities Index.
ISSN 2415-8712 (Online), ISSN 1682-671X (Print)
Certificate of state registration: КВ №15900-4372 ПР (08.10.2009)
Professional registration at the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine: Approved by the Resolution of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine Presidium of 10.03.2010 № 1-05/2, of 01.07.2010 № 1-05/5
Included in the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine – Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine № 886 from 02.07.2020. Specialty 032 – History and Archaeology (category "A")
Collection of scholarly papers "The Oriental Studies" publishes papers on the following fields:
• 07.00.02 – World History;
• 07.00.05 – Ethnology;
• 07.00.06 – Historiography, Source-Critical Studies and Special Historical Disciplines;
• 09.00.11 – Religious Studies;
• 26.00.05 – Museum Studies. Monument Studies.
Papers are grouped under the following headings:
History;
Source-Critical Studies and Historiography;
Languages and Literatures;
Modern East;
Translations;
From the History of Oriental Studies;
Sacred Texts of the Orient;
Scholarly Life.
The collection is published twice a year.
The approximate volume of each issue is 180–200 pp.
Languages of publication: Ukrainian and English.
All papers submitted to the Editorial of the collection are subject to double peer-review.
The Editorial informs the authors if the paper has been rejected or accepted for publication.
Publication in the collection is free of charge for authors.
The Editorial board does not always share the position of the authors.


Those who fail to remember history are not only doomed to repeat it, but they also miss out on all the best historical memes available on the internet. Despite how boring everyone seems to find history class, hilarious historical memes and medieval reactions turn up in every corner of the internet. Just like the empires and colonizers of old, funny history memes manage to insert themselves into everything whether they were invited or not. Memes involving history, much like history according to Tumblr, thrive by imbuing the old with the new. A medieval painting with resolution worse than an old Simpsons episode suddenly becomes a DaVinci by simply adding some text referencing pop culture. People may not always identify with history, but they definitely respond to the jokes in these hilarious history memes.


The earliest Anderson in my tree, so far, is James who was born about 1811 and described, at the time of his marriage in 1845, as a flax dresser. I wrote about him in week 115 of my blogs (click here).
Clan Anderson has been around for hundreds of years.
The surname originated in France about 1100 AD and the Normans brought it to Scotland one hundred and fifty years later.
There is no single location where The Clan began. There could be any number of reasons for this and probably the main one being that with the origin of the name was "son - or servant - or follower - of Andrew"; Andrew being the patron saint of Scotland.
The Anderson crest consists of a strap and buckle encircling an oak tree. The oak tree rests on the "wreath", which for the Andersons is a twisted strand of red and silver threads. The wreath has six loops, with silver and red in an alternating pattern. Silver is the first loop on the left side, and red is the last loop on the right side.
The Anderson Ancient tartan is predominantly light blue, red, black and white.
The Anderson Tartan is unique among all of the Scottish tartans, because it is the only tartan to have seven colors. All other tartans have six or less. Because of this, the Anderson tartan must be woven on a special loom. The colors are primarily a rich blue with yellow, green and red in the plaid.
These are blogs about my ancestors or potential ancestors. They include people from both my adopted and birth trees. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I do writing them. Please 'like' if you do.


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UBS Group's (UBS) Bid Dismissed in U.S. Government Lawsuit
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On Tuesday, a federal judge rescinded the bid filed by Swiss Bank UBS Group AG (UBS - Free Report) to dismiss a U.S. government lawsuit. The Department of Justice (DoJ) has sued the bank for making investors suffer "catastrophic" losses in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) sold prior to the 2008 financial crisis.
Per U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie in Brooklyn, NY, the DoJ has accused UBS Group for intentionally defrauding investors who purchased securities backed by subprime and other risky loans worth more than $41 billion (£31.96 billion) in 40 offerings from 2005 through 2007.
Further, accusing the bank, the Justice Department has opined that the loans were securitized despite the knowledge of "severely deteriorating" underwriting standards of lenders. Notably, Countrywide Home Loans, American Home Mortgage, Fremont Investment & Loan, IndyMac and New Century were among the now-defunct lenders.
UBS Group's lawyer has refrained from commenting on the decision.
Though no specified damages were disclosed by the government in the November 2018 lawsuit, investors "lost many billions of dollars, with substantially more in losses projected during the remaining life of the deals," it noted.
Per the DoJ, UBS Group's act has violated a 1989 law which makes the bank viable for civil penalties as much as the losses suffered by others due to such violation. However, no merits were decided by Brodie for the government's case.
Banks across the globe have been facing heightening scrutiny for their business practices. Many of these firms have paid billions of dollars as fines and compensation to settle lawsuits and probes. Several investors have lost their hard-earned money as a result of such business malpractices.
Various global banks, including Citigroup (C - Free Report) , Goldman Sachs (GS - Free Report) and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (RBS - Free Report) , have resolved claims in lawsuits over RMBS. Such settlements help restore investors' confidence in law-enforcement agencies. Moreover, it reduces the existing litigation burden of banks.
UBS Group AG currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). Shares of the company have gained around 1.7% over the last six months, as against the 1.1% decline recorded by the industry. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
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How The Man Utd Board Feels About Mourinho After Brighton Defeat
By Vikram Gupta | August 21, 2018
Reuters/Andrew Couldridge
The new season might have begun with a win for Jose Mourinho and co., but this weekend's loss to Brighton has made the opening day seem like a thing that happened ages ago.
Manchester United had an underwhelming transfer window to begin with, and further rumours regarding unrest in the dressing room have only made things go from bad to worse.
Faithfuls of Old Trafford have slowly started to believe that Mourinho might not be the man to bring their club back to the top in England, but the board does not agree yet.
As per the reports in The Guardian, the Portuguese still has his future secured at the club, as he is trusted by the men taking the big decisions behind the scenes.
Reason Why Woodward Visited Man Utd's Dressing Room After Brighton Loss
The board and its members are aware of the fact that the manager is currently dealing with a squad that consists of a number of players coming back from an exhausting World Cup run.
Along with that problem, injuries have been troubling the players so far, with Alexis Sanchez being the latest one to miss out due to a niggle he picked up in training.
REVEALED: The Manager Who Is Favorite To Replace Jose Mourinho
Jose has signed a deal with the Red Devils that runs till 2020, and if the sources are accurate, he will not be leaving anytime before that.
However, the pressure to win against Spurs next weekend will certainly be playing in the mind of Mourinho, and failure to live up to that task might bring about some unexpected, but inevitable consequences.
Here's what the United boss had to say in a recent conference: "We have big and multi-functional coaching staff, and I think we are more the head coach than the manager. That is the way I think football is going."
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Instagram has become the modern-day billboard for brand marketing. Keep your followers engaged and in-the-know through the Instagram story feature. The posted story only lasts 24 hours, but the impact leaves a lasting effect on viewers. The best way to get started with Instagram stories for your brand is by simple experimentation. Get creative; don't just tell a story, tell a lifestyle!
This is a powerful tool. Interactive stories, exciting images, or entertaining clips engage Instagram audiences. Become innovative and change the layout of stories in order to keep viewers interested day to day. Leave followers guessing what the next story will be promoting! Stories are a straightforward and free way to shift follower engagement from simply liking a post to voluntarily interacting with the brand.
Related: What Are Instagram Stories?
One way to keep audiences alert is by sending them on a journey via product promotion. Post multiple stories at once, all featuring items for a specific event, time of year, or new product line. As a viewer clicks through the stories, they find an item that speaks to them. They personally identify with the item, strengthening the possibility of a full customer conversion.
Take advantage of this opportunity to interact with followers. One of the newest updates to the Instagram story is the poll stickers. This allows the viewer to directly be a part of your advertisement. Letting your audience tap on an answer or pick their favorite option is the strongest way to make a follower feel connected to the brand.
Live Stories: You can post live stories at events, the office, a new launch.
Link: Try to put a direct link on the story. A few ideas include: linking to other brands that your company sells, to various channels of your website, to a brand's Instagram influencers.
Polls: Start to ask what products and services customers want.
Video Stories: Show a "how to" for one of your products, making customers realize a need for the item.


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A weekly philosophical diary from Kelvin Clayton, philosopher and Green Party Councillor (on Dorset Council & Bridport Town Council).
Are you sitting comfortably?
April 29, 2018 / greenthinkingweb
We all like a good story, don't we. Whether its reading a novel, watching a film, or being absorbed in a drama on television, there's just something about a well told story that's deeply satisfying. But have you ever considered just how integral story telling is to our life? Or the degree to which stories control us?
We all have stories we tell, stories concerning our lives, stories that provide the structures from which we derive the meaning and purpose of our lives. We have, for example, the story we tell at a job interview, or the story we tell when we go on a date for the first time with a potential new partner. These tend to use highly selective aspects of our lives, deliberately edited to place us in the best possible light, constructed to get us the job we want or impress the person sitting opposite. But there are also the stories we tell our selves, the stories through which we make sense of our numerous life events, through which these often disparate events are woven into a coherent narrative that makes sense, that has a story line that is going somewhere.
In these all these stories we feature as a subject, a subject partly based on fact, but a subject that is also part fiction. I mean, let's be brutally honest about this, we revise, edit, polish, round the corners, remove the ugly bits from the events of our life. To use a well quoted journalistic phrase, 'why let the truth get in the way of a good story?' We don't do this because we are inherently bad, or because we set out to deceive (though on the job interview or first date this may be the case), we do it because we have a need to make sense of the constant stream of experiences life throws at us – and life is just too complex for us to make sense of it 'as it is'.
But who is the author of this story? Who is doing the editing and re-writing? Who selects what to include and what to leave out? And, further, what is the relationship between author and subject? This, I believe, is a very ambiguous relationship, not least because the subject is both created by, and in turn creates, the author.
To make this relationship even more ambiguous, the subject-author is not the only writer of our life story; the subject-author is also subjected to the meanings and structures of the dominant social narrative – a larger, mostly silent background story from which we absorb our place in the world and create our take on life's meaning and purpose. Our various roles only have meaning against this backdrop, through a comparison with the roles of others. We make sense of our own lives by differentiating them from those of others.
This ghostly background story structure exerts a huge influence on us as the subject-author of our own life story, an influence that is particularly noticeable when we are faced with the need for fundamental social change. Take our dominant economic narrative for example, the story that supplies us with the role of being good consumers and the goal of measuring the success of our life by the amount of wealth we have created. We may reason that in order to mitigate the worst effects of man-made climate change we need to consume less stuff, take fewer flights, and measure success by non-monetary means. But making these changes often involves a fundamental change in our role as a subject within this all pervasive economic story, and this makes us feel emotionally ill at ease. For many of us the necessary changes just feel wrong, and they often feel to be against common-sense. This is because our own personal stories are so deeply embedded within this all pervasive economic story that this grand-narrative has become, quite literally, common-sense.
So, how do we start to loosen the strangle hold these social narratives have over us? How do we achieve a sufficient degree of freedom for our ability to reason such that we can escape the tyranny of this so called common-sense? I will end with just three suggestions: We try very hard to bring this ghostly background into into the sunlit foreground by talking about the role of stories in our lives at every opportunity. We become accustomed to thinking of our lives as narratives which we author and feature in as the main character. Next, we simply accept what I call the paradox of necessary fiction – that all these stories, whilst based on actual events, are, nevertheless, fictions – but that they are totally necessary fictions in as far as we need the meaning and purpose they supply to our lives. And third, that we try to break the 'common-sense' spell through the prodigious use of comedy and satire – invaluable tools in exposing the absurdities of life.
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U.S. CIO VanRoekel talks startups, savings, new tech in Iowa visit
Steven VanRoekel, the United States' new Chief Information Officer, made the rounds at his old stomping grounds on Monday.
VanRoekel, who grew up in Cherokee, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University, returned to his alma mater to give a talk and also visited StartupCity Des Moines, a downtown technology startup incubator, during a visit to central Iowa.
Just the second person to hold the position of U.S. CIO, VanRoekel took over the post in August after stints with the U.S. …
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Just the second person to hold the position of U.S. CIO, VanRoekel took over the post in August after stints with the U.S. Agency for International Development and Federal Communications Commission. He also spent 15 years in various roles at Microsoft.
VanRoekel drew from those past experiences and looked ahead to future endeavors during his visit Monday. Silicon Prairie News wasn't able to attend VanRoekel's talks, but we've compiled a healthy roundup of other outlets' recaps of his visit. A few of the highlights:
A Des Moines Regsiter recap of VanRoekel's visit touched on his discussion of startups:
"Anytime I'm in a city, I want to meet the startups," he said. "I want to meet the entrepreneurs who are pushing the boundaries of technology. At the end of the day, they are the growth engines of the economy."
VanRoekel told ISU students that he compares his work with the government with that at Microsoft because both have to consider operations and new investments in their budgets. However, the government doesn't take depreciation into account when it invests in new technology and outdated systems can remain in place, he said.
A post on the StartupCity blog provided additional insight into startup-centric talk from the CIO:
VanRoekel says he is taking a "lean-startup approach to government." He's no stranger to startups; his wife is a co-founder of Expedia and Zillow, and he worked for 15 years at Microsoft Corporation, including three years as a speech and strategy assistant to Bill Gates.
$80 billion budget
VanRoekel sits at the helm of a department with an $80 billion budget, and he's well aware of the impact that can have. Again, from The Register:
"At $80 billion, we have a market effect," he said. "We have to always be cognizant of that and think hard about what we build or what we buy and the things we do."
New endeavors
VanRoekel discussed his efforts to help usher the government into the 21st century. Among the latest is PortfolioStat, a program rolled out Friday that requires information technology reviews at all federal government agencies in an attempt to find wasteful and inefficient investments.
The StartupCity blog has more on VanRoekel's push for efficiency in innovation:
His mantra is "innovate with less," which means eliminating redundancies through consolidation and sharing. For example, when VanRoekel arrived in D.C., the Department of Agriculture had 21 different email systems. "They couldn't even send an email to all of their employees," he said. "They now have one, and it's cloud based and one-third of the cost."
For more on VanRoekel's visit, check out complete coverage from other outlets.
"U.S. data chief rolls out plan for nation's info systems" – Des Moines Register (advance story)
"US CIO visits StartupCity" – StartupCity Des Moines blog
"U.S.'s IT guy works to save money, invest in technology" – Des Moines Register
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A ripe and fruity melange of SUPERFOOD Saskatoon berries (native to Canada), red and black currants, raisins, and wild blueberries.
Aroma: Ripe, fruity scent; grapey.
Palate: Full and strong with a wine-like finish.
Fruit teas (tisanes) are a much healthier alternative to the sugary drinks on the market these days; they are all-natural, caffeine-free, and have no added sweeteners.