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Michael O'Brien's Liberal leadership under threat as Matthew Guy makes his move
Factional politics
By Paul Sakkal
Updated September 6, 2021 — 7.46am first published September 5, 2021 — 9.00pm
Victoria could have a new opposition leader within days as former Liberal leader Matthew Guy seeks the support of colleagues to topple leader Michael O'Brien in a party room coup his supporters are proposing to call as early as Tuesday.
Mr Guy has been considering a return to the leadership for a number of months but has consistently and publicly denied he would seek the job he held between 2014 and 2018, culminating in a devastating election defeat to Premier Daniel Andrews.
Leadership tussle: Michael O'Brien, Brad Battin and Matthew Guy. Credit:Darrian Traynor, Daniel Pockett, Eddie Jim
Four Liberal Party sources, speaking anonymously to reveal internal party affairs, said the former leader had begun calling Liberal MPs on Sunday to seek their support to win back the leadership of the ailing state party. Sunday was the first time Mr Guy has told colleagues outside his inner circle that he intends to run.
Mr Guy's camp has been hoping in recent days that Mr O'Brien would voluntarily stand aside, a party source said.
Mr O'Brien fended off a leadership challenge from backbencher Brad Battin earlier this year after Mr Guy and his supporters voted against the rebel group. However, since that challenge, followers of Mr Guy and Mr Battin have put behind them a period of personal animosity in the attempt to improve the Coalition's political prospects by removing Mr O'Brien.
Parliament is set to sit this week after a weeks-long break. However, it is not clear whether a full party room meeting will be able to be held due to density limits. Opposition MPs have sought advice from Parliament's presiding officers to determine whether the full party room of 31 MPs can meet in the same room on Tuesday.
If the party room meeting cannot be held, party sources say Mr Guy's supporters are determined to find any way to conduct the leadership spill. The state election is due to be held in November next year.
The party is effectively split into three groups. One coalesces around Mr O'Brien and includes key backers Kim Wells and Gary Blackwood. The second includes Tim Smith and James Newbury, who support Mr Guy's return. The third group, which brought on the March coup attempt, is led by Ryan Smith, Richard Riordan and Brad Battin.
The latter two groupings have managed over winter to reconcile strong personal differences and the leadership team of a potential Guy-led opposition will include members of the Battin group.
The imminent challenge comes after a heated party meeting last week when Liberal MPs aired anger at being excluded from decision-making over the party's policies.
The party held a strategy day on Friday and one senior member of the Parliamentary team said research presented by the Liberals' head office showed the party was in a "solid" position to win the next election under Mr O'Brien.
"We have research to back it, advertising to prosecute it," the source said. "The worst thing we could do is blow ourselves up by putting egos and factions ahead of Victorians when they need us more than ever."
However, a senior party source familiar with the briefing said the characterisation that Mr O'Brien was in a promising electoral position was the "greatest load of bullsh.. I've ever heard in my life".
"There is no research that backs this. In fact, there is a significant amount [of research] showing Michael O'Brien is a net positive for Daniel Andrews," the source said.
Polling by the Resolve Political Monitor last month showed Labor in an election-winning position, even though its primary was three points lower than it was at the 2018 poll. The poll showed the opposition had failed to capitalise on the repeated lockdowns over the past 18 months and remained on the same primary vote of 35 per cent that it recorded at the 2018 election.
Mr Guy is seen by supporters to have better political instincts and cut-through than Mr O'Brien. Some MPs think the former leader, who was heavily defeated in the 2018 poll, has more energy in front of the camera, an attribute that is crucial for relevance-deprived oppositions who have struggled to achieve success across the country during the pandemic.
However, Mr Guy will probably come under scrutiny for his rezoning decisions as planning minister in the previous Liberal government, as well as the infamous "lobster with a mobster" scandal sparked by his dining with an alleged mafia leader.
Mr O'Brien begun contacting MPs to shore up support on Sunday evening.
Neither Mr Guy nor his supporters were returning calls from The Age on Sunday night.
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Paul Sakkal is a Victorian political reporter for The Age.Connect via Twitter or email.


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Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme at Books by Proxy. Join us every Friday as we pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe. You can find a list of upcoming topics at Lynn's Books.
This week's topic is:
This week's Friday Face-Off challenge topic is Gothic, and I had more than a few thoughts come up, but I don't think I've ever looked too much at editions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (and frankly, I don't think I really see special editions of it much??), so I thought it would the perfect pick. I also love Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and recently (finally) got around to a re-read this past week, so it's also perfect timing! Now, let's check out some of these covers, because I have a feeling there will be some interesting ones.
2008 Arabic | 1982 US Mass Market | 2015 US Wisehouse Classics
2007 Polish | 1994 US Penguin | ???
2004 Arabic | 2019 Spanish | 2012 Arabic
2015 US Penguin Classics | 2011 Russian | 1983 US Illustrated Classics
1991 US Vintage | 2014 Turkish | 2003 French
2018 Romanian | 2019 Turkish | 2015 Portuguese
2015 Turkish | 1999 Italian | 2002 Portuguese
2007 US | 2004 Spanish | 2007 Finnish
My choice(s):
There are so many covers to choose from, and this isn't half of them! I feel really drawn to these Turkish and Romanian editions because they seem to capture the darkness and duality that are the most present themes. I'd love to own copies of these editions!
What cover(s) do you like the most?
Posted by Jordan @ForeverLostinLiterature at 2:00 AM
Labels: dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, ffo, gothic, robert louis stevenson, the friday face-off
Angela October 29, 2021 at 4:44 AM
Wow, these are all quite different! The 2014 Turkish one stands out to me, just because it's so colorful, not that it necessarily matches the tone of the book!
Jordan @ForeverLostinLiterature October 29, 2021 at 7:10 AM
I know, such a variety! I don't understand where that Turkish cover came from, but I agree it stands out a lot. It'd be a great cover for another book, haha. :)
Tammy Sparks October 29, 2021 at 6:15 AM
I love the 2019 Turkish cover the best, but what's up with the 2014 Turkish cover, lol?
Right?? I can't quite understand where that cover design came from, haha.
Greg October 29, 2021 at 3:30 PM
I've never read that story! And what a mix of covers. I think my favorite might be the one from Romania, but Also the Portuguese one, maybe because of the green beaker.
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Q: Change the column name in an ABAP report I'm trying to change a name of a column using cl_salv_table.
So far I have:
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  gr_column = gr_columns->get_column( columnname = 'EBELP' ). " <=== SHORT DUMP
  gr_column->set_long_text( value = 'TESTE' ).

  lo_alv_toolbar = o_alv->get_functions( ).
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But when I run the program I always get a dump:

Access using a 'ZERO' object reference is not possible.

Can somebody help me please? Thanks

A: Try this one!
DATA : cl_columns TYPE REF TO cl_salv_columns,
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cl_columns = o_alv->get_columns( ).
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"Modern Family" Remains Hilarious Even in a Subpar Season	Review
by Lex Walker
It says a lot about a sitcom in its prime when even a lesser season is miles above what similar shows are achieving with their contrived jokes and series premises that were thin right from the start. Modern Family's fourth season might not be the series at its best, but each episode still delivers strong laughs and the elements that make the show great continue to bear the weight of the rest of the show. Presently, Modern Family really has no peers when it comes to the contemporary sitcom, as the rest are either bland (The Middle), stale (How I Met Your Mother), neutered (Community), dead (Happy Endings), or an (excellent but) acquired taste (Parks and Recreation). Modern Family remains one of the few shows where you can turn on a random episode and pick up the gist of the familial relationships while still getting 90% of the jokes thanks to sharp writing and fantastic performances. Usually a show this broad sacrifices comedy for that universal appeal, but Modern Family attains the best of both worlds.
Despite being a sitcom, where overarching storylines are usually eschewed in favor of episodic simplicity so viewers won't get lost if they miss a week, Modern Family has always worked in some longer term plot lines relevant to the ongoing evolution of a family unit. The two pertinent ones left hanging from the third season related to Gloria's (Sofia Vergara) discovery that she's pregnant just as Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) have their attempt at a second adoption fall through. While the former story evolves with Sofia's struggle to reconcile her changing body with her perception of her body image and the birth of the child and how that affects Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Gloria's lives, the failed adoption plot line peters out as Cam and Mitch move on and their daughter Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) becomes increasingly ornery and stubborn in as many amusing ways as the writers could dream up. Meanwile, Claire (Julie Bowen) and Phil (Ty Burrell) chant the "Only five more years" mantra as they wait for their youngest daughter Alex (Ariel Winter) and their son Luke (Nolan Gould) to graduate high school, only to have their hope for freedom dashed on the rocks as their oldest daughter Haley (Sarah Hyland) gets expelled from college and returns home to live with them.
Call it careful planning or contract-informed storytelling, but Haley's dropping out of college saves the series from having to deal with featuring Haley solely as a distant Skype presence on a laptop screen. At least it makes sense for the character considering her obsession with popularity and disdain for most educational obligations. What it really does, though, is keep the Dunphy household as the best of the show's three family dynamics. The bickering of the three Dunphy kids still supplies a steady stream of laughs, but the best jokes come from the goldmine that is Julie Bowen's look of skepticism and Ty Burrell's boundless enthusiasm and optimism towards maintaining his "cool dad" image. When the two of them collide, Modern Family has some of its best moments. That they're punctuated with brief moments of brilliance like the "I can't believe you're that stupid" glares from Ariel Winter, the simultaneously dumb but hilarious comments of Sarah Hyland, or the increasingly manipulative actions and unexpectedly loaded comments from Nolan Gould, just make the Dunphy household that much better.
The addition of a new baby helps to freshen up the stories happening in Jay and Gloria's home, but it can't completely offset the staleness of the one-note joke that is their marital premise (older man marries younger bombshell wife whose command of English and shrill voice result in lots of ESL punchlines). It was a joke that was wearing thin by the second and third seasons, but here it feels altogether worn out. It still works every now and then, but mostly it's just not bearing the same comedic fruit it once did. In the fourth season, Jay and Gloria are at their best when they're paired off with members of their extended family, and the writers seem to catch onto this midway through the season.
That places Cam and Mitchell's household as the show's second-best source of humor, and for the most part it's as strong as ever. Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson play well off one another, and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons only gets better the older she gets, but the writing for this trio just isn't as original or witty as it used to be. Stories tend to fall back on the overused formula of Mitch's cynicism hurting Cam's feelings and the two of them reconciling by the episode's end. It gets a bit predictable, but luckily the circumstances of the formula are still funny enough (like having to convince Lily the tooth fairy gave her too much money by accident) that it all works, just not as well as it used to.
One thing that becomes noticeable is that very few storylines ever cross Ty Burrell with Eric Stonestreet. We get stories that involve Phil with just about everyone else, but very little has been developed in terms of character dynamics between Phil and Cam. Claire and Mitch cross over with one another's significant others constantly, but never Phil and Cam. It's the one relationship Modern Family has yet to really develop in any meaningful way.
Modern Family is still the funniest sitcom on network television, but its fourth season wasn't a highlight or the series. It's still worth watching all the way through and revisiting though. After all, a series that started as incredibly funny and gets a little bit worse is still really funny, and that's more than can be said for Two and a Half Men or Mike & Molly.
Blu-ray Bonus Features
The set is padded with plenty of extras including an excellent 10-minute long blooper reel, deleted scenes, audio commentaries, a clip show on the theme of "A Modern Family Guide to Parenting", a brief run-through of a day on set with Eric Stonestreet (which is always strange considering he's very little like his character), and featurettes on the show's writers and the addition of Jay and Gloria's child.
"Modern Family: The Complete Fourth Season" is on sale September 24, 2013 and is not rated. Comedy. Directed by Jason Winer, Michael Spiller. Written by Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd. Starring Ariel Winter, Aubrey Anderson Emmons, Ed ONeill, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen, Nolan Gould, Rico Rodriguez, Sarah Hyland, Sofia Vergara, Ty Burrell.
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Utility Safety and Success: Point Five Seconds to Success
Have you ever thought about what makes your NFL team so successful, or in some cases unsuccessful? It likely has a lot to do with how quickly the quarterback gets rid of the football.
Feb 2nd, 2016
By Matt Forck, CSP & JLW
It might sound obvious, but a deep look into the numbers provides some interesting insights. On average, it takes 2.9 seconds for NFL defenses to get to your favorite quarterback -- and your not so favorite ones, too. So, simple math says that if a quarterback can get rid of the football in less than 2.9 seconds, his chances of getting sacked are much less.
In fact, the data shows that quarterbacks who, on average, get rid of the football fast, get sacked less and their teams win more often compared to teams that have slower average times. It likely won't surprise you that the best quarterback, and one of the winningest NFL teams in the last decade, leads the league in release time. Through the first three games of 2015, Pro Football Focus (PFF) reports that New England's Tom Brady has the fastest release time in the NFL, 2.09 seconds. Jared Dubin reports on PFF data, "Before 2015, the quickest anyone had averaged before throwing the football was Peyton Manning's 2.24 seconds last season."
But, getting rid of the football quickly doesn't start when the center releases the football to the quarterback and someone clicks the stop watch to record the time. It starts with the coaching staff and the play call. Then, the offensive line must analyze the defensive front and make blocking assignments. As this is happening, the quarterback is looking over the defensive alignment and making sure the play called will be effective and, if not, there is an adjustment. This means the most effective teams, and quarterbacks, in the league know exactly what they want to do with the ball before the play starts. And, they have a high degree of confidence that the play will work. The best offenses will execute this play in less than 2.25 seconds -- this means the defensive line has zero chance of making a play on the quarterback. Less successful teams will take just a half second longer (point five seconds longer).
It seems hard to believe that football games are won or lost on point five seconds, the difference between getting rid of the football in about 2.25 seconds or 2.75 seconds. It also seems hard to believe that this has anything to do withworker safety…but it does.
There is no doubt that in safety sensitive work ones' life can change in a split second -- the same 'point five' we have been talking about with football and quarterbacks. Just like the pocket can cave-in around the quarterback quickly -- the conditions around our workers can change in a split second, too. On a football team, every player needs to know his role and execute his responsibility. Our teams need to do the same. Before we start work (the quarterback takes the snap) our teams need to look at the situation. Analyze hazards. Communicate conditions. Follow the rules and wear the right PPE. We need to start each job with confidence that we will execute our work safely…no quarterback sacks!
If we do that, we won't need to worry about that point five. We will be prepared and we will execute safely. In short, we can win…just like those successful football teams.
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Admin Identity with LeeAnne Rimel and J. Steadman
By Mike Gerholdt | December 23, 2021
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On this episode of the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we bring on Principal Admin Evangelist LeeAnne Rimel and Lead Admin Evangelist J. Steadman to discuss identifying as a Salesforce Admin.
You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with LeeAnne Rimel and J. Steadman.
Becoming a Salesforce Admin
The title of Salesforce Admin can often be hard-earned. LeeAnne had to lobby for the title to make sure her instance got the support it needed. "At that point in my career, I really didn't know that there were other names that the people who managed the Salesforce instances were called," she says. Even today, "a lot of employers don't know how to ask for a Salesforce Administrator and a lot of Salesforce Administrators don't know if people know what they do"
"I printed out the certificate I got after my cert and hung it on the outside of my cube," J. says, "and I got a lot of really strange looks." They were so proud of getting their certification that they would tell anyone who listened. There was a lot of pride around being a Salesforce Admin, but also a lot of ambiguity around what that title actually meant.
Hybrid titles and how the ecosystem is changing
Some admins use hybrid titles like "declarative developer" or "citizen developer" or even "admineloper." The desire is to express that admins do things above and beyond what people think a typical system administrator is capable of. You're building flows and custom objects and fields, but you're still the Salesforce Administrator.
"There was a point in time when we had to make modifications and additions to how we talked about Salesforce Administrators in order to translate it to the type of work that was happening in the technology hiring ecosystem," LeeAnne says. But now, the unique skillset that admins have calls for a greater sense of community around the role, and a larger view of what admins do in general.
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Mike: Welcome to the Salesforce Admins Podcast, where we talk about product, community, and career to help you become an awesome admin. This week, we're switching it up a little bit. I am talking with Principal Admin Evangelist, LeeAnne Rimel, and Lead Admin Evangelist, J. Steadman about identifying as a Salesforce Admin, really putting that in your job title, assuming that identity and all the different variations and terms that seem to be out there. So, it's a fun podcast, I love our discussion. Let's get LeeAnne and J. on the podcast. So LeeAnne and J., welcome to the podcast.
LeeAnne Rimel: Thanks so much for having us.
J. Steadman: Yeah, thank you.
Mike: It's been a while since we've chatted, J., I feel like it's been an episode.
J. Steadman: That's probably true.
Mike: Probably true. One thing to talk about, so we've delved deep into a few different topics in the month of December, and I'm hoping everybody enjoys these podcasts while they put up some holiday decorations or something, maybe make some party mix. But one thing that I had always come up on my radar and I know LeeAnne it's come up on your radar and J as well, because you do a lot of volunteering with Pathfinders is the term Salesforce Admin, and how we see it pop up in different pieces of content. So I know the term has always been pretty close to me. I've always identified that way and never really chose to use a different nomenclature, but I would love to get your thoughts on that as we kick off this discussion.
LeeAnne Rimel: Yeah. That's a big question, right? What does Salesforce Admin mean? I know my own personal history with the name. I became a Salesforce Admin, that was something I really aspired to. About 14 years ago, I was working for Kaiser Permanente and I was doing database work, and I was really trying to take over our Salesforce instance basically. And I had to lobby to get my title changed, to be the Salesforce Admin, so I owned our Salesforce instance and I could guide it and make decisions about it and advocate for budget that we needed to fix it. And so it was interesting for me when I joined Salesforce because I didn't really know that there was other names that people called the people who manage Salesforce instances at that point in my career.
And so I feel like one of the things when we work with the admin community is we really spend a lot of time sometimes sifting through the different names and the different language that people use to talk about the job duties and the role and the individuals who manage and implement Salesforce, right? So that's a little bit of my, I guess, background with that job title or label or whatever we want to call it. And to me it's always been a little bit interesting, I think, probably because part of my own history was that I really wanted that role, and I really was so proud to build that into my career. So I was a little surprised and had to understand more when I saw that, that's… I think a lot of employers don't know how to ask for a Salesforce Administrator and a lot of people out there don't know if they say Salesforce Administrator, if people will know what they do.
And so Mike, and I know we've spent a lot of time talking and working on this, how do we help everyone know what Salesforce Admins do and how do we help people understand what the job does both on the hiring and the job candidate side?
J. Steadman: Yeah, on my side of things, I had a very similar experience to you, LeeAnne, when I became a Salesforce Admin, this would be, I think, 2012 I accidentally admin-ed myself, and I really fell in love with it. I really sought out that title of Salesforce Administrator and surprised people at work by going out and getting my credential. And I printed out the certificate that I got after I passed my cert and I hung it on the outside of my cube, not the inside of my cube, and I got a lot of really strange looks. Very small company and people were like, "What are you doing?" And I was like, "Well, let me tell you," and I would explain it to them. And it was really, really exciting, right?
I think as I consider the title, Salesforce Administrator and our awesome admin community, and I think through other terms that I've seen float around in various places, what I think I often see is people or the intent… We see phrases like declarative developer or Mike, I think you were telling me about you saw a portmanteau of admin and developer that was admineloper or something like that.
Mike: Yeah. I've seen that pop up in a few presentations, admineloper.
J. Steadman: Yeah, I think the intention is less about… And this is just my gut, right? I don't have any hard data on this, but I think… my gut tells me that system administrator is a title that has existed for a very long time before Salesforce came around, right? And I think people are… they want to differentiate themselves and they want to indicate that the skillset that they have may go deeper than what a traditional system administrator does.
And so some of these other terms pop up here and there, but I think what's unique about Salesforce and Salesforce administration is that a Salesforce Administrator is an individual who is doing declarative development. That's the thing that you're doing, building flows, right? But you're still the Salesforce Administrator. You're building custom objects in fields, but you're still the Salesforce Administrator. You are meeting with the business and gathering requirements, but you are still the Salesforce Administrator. And it makes me consider what is a Salesforce Administrator and why do we like this title? Why do we hold onto this title? And for me, at least being a person who has only recently joined the team about six months ago here in the evangelist group, there's community, Salesforce Administrators unite. If I were to say that, the Power Rangers Voltron around a bunch of people would suddenly rush into the room and we'd be able to solve an awesome problem. But if I were to say admineloper unite, I'm not sure that I'd have that same community that would respond.
So for me at least, I have talked about things like declarative development in the past to differentiate the way in which I develop business logic, which is through declarative tools, and yet I remain a Salesforce Administrator. And I think that the power of our community and the breadth of what we do, that's what defines us as Salesforce Admins.
LeeAnne Rimel: So two things jump out to me from that J., one, I had to look up what portmanteau was. Thank you for adding a new word for [crosstalk].
J. Steadman: It is a combination of two words. Yeah.
LeeAnne Rimel: Well, I now know this because I dictionary.com-ed it really quick. And from what you're covering, is how that importance of having that common shared language. And it almost feels like sometimes there was a point in time when we had to make modifications and additions to how we talked about Salesforce administrators in order to translate it to the type of work that was happening out in the technology hiring ecosystem. I think we felt like we had to add things maybe to our resume or to our title or how we described ourselves to maybe when there wasn't as big of a Salesforce ecosystem, there wasn't as many admins, there wasn't as many customer companies. And then now on the flip side of that, it becomes more important to use that common language so that we can leverage the power of the community and connecting with others, and accessing those best practices, those recommendations, that community element of what are those duties in my job? What are those things that I should be doing? What are those skills I should be developing? What type of roles should I be looking for?
Where language should change as the landscape changes, and so maybe where it did at times make sense 10 years ago to say, "Yes, I do a lot of declarative development or I'm a citizen developer on Salesforce," or whatever language you're using, it's like now employers know what they're looking for, for the most part with Salesforce Admins. They know what a Salesforce Admin is for the most part, they know what that job is, so now it becomes more important to rationalize and update our language.
J. Steadman: Yeah, I agree. And I think it's interesting when we look at the work that admins do, right? We build reports and dashboards, we can modify the objects and fields, again, the schema, we build business logic, we maintain pages, we manage users, we make sure that our data is clean. And most of the time when I see folks starting to waffle around the title admin, it's usually when we're playing around with that business logic piece. And it feels to me like there's this implicit belief out there perhaps that if I'm touching business logic, that must mean that I am thinking like a developer or I am doing developer work. And while configuration in this way is in fact development, it's well within the purview of the Salesforce administrator. And to anyone who's listening that has strong feelings about things being done in an org, I'm talking about doing things the right way, of course. There is a right way and a right solution to choose, and declarative solutions are not always the right tool to choose, but it is possible to have well built, well configured, declarative business logic.
LeeAnne Rimel: Well, and I would say actually that should always be evaluated first.
J. Steadman: Yes, of course. Upfront you want to say, "Hey, we have this business challenge or this business objective or this requirement." And then hopefully at our business, we have established what we would consider to be our design standards. And we have determined which solutions are appropriate, given the requirements. And then we go ahead and we design and we build those solutions and then of course they get deployed. And yet no one that I'm aware of is really concerned about calling themselves a data scientist or an analyst if they're building reports and dashboards. This name differentiation that I tend to see usually orients itself around folks that are touching business logic.
And it's interesting because one of the things that I've been most drawn to is I've grown through the past nine or 10 years on the platform is this ability to bridge communication and organizations between Salesforce Admins and Salesforce developers. Realizing that we're all part of the same larger team, or we're all on the spectrum or the rainbow of doing stuff on the platform together. And I'm curious if either you or Mike, have thoughts about this. What feels to me like an implied division where, "Yes, I can modify the data structure. Yes, I can design solutions. Yes, I can modify pages and give a better user experience and design things well for my users, but if I touch logic, then I have to make sure I'm telling people that I'm doing something different." Where do you think that comes from? Is that something that you see as well? Is that something that I'm finding just in my own anecdotal experience?
LeeAnne Rimel: I don't know that I've seen… I don't know that I've seen as much of that, as much of the hesitation to embrace the business analysis piece as an admin. I feel like what I encounter or in my experience working with admins more often is that… Well, I'm thinking about these experiences with admins and this compulsion to feel like they need to sometimes adjust their title in order to feel legitimate in the work that they're doing. To me, I feel like that's what it boils down to, right? No matter what the subject matter area is, it feels like sometimes there's times that Salesforce administrators feel like they need to add a lot of asterisks or a lot of addendums to their title in order to feel comfortable occupying the space that a Salesforce administrator occupies.
And I don't know if those pressures come from… There's rampant, toxic elitism in the tech industry, there just is. It's just reality, it's not unique to Salesforce, it's not unique to developers, it's not unique to… It's just there. And we talk a lot about imposter syndrome and toxic elitism. And so I don't know what those forces are that make people feel sometimes like they need to claim some different language in order to feel valid or comfortable doing that work. To me, it comes down to feeling empowered to do the work that you're doing and to not feel like you have to. Because also at the end of the day, a title's a title. It's to embrace the work that you're doing, to embrace the community that you're a part of.
And I always found the admin… And people used to talk about admin to developer, admineloper and all of that. And I was an admin who coded, but personally, I never had any interest in becoming a full-time developer. My personal opinion is that the declarative platform is just incredibly, incredibly important for Salesforce and for the community. And you can be a really, really good admin without knowing how to code. I think you cannot be a good developer without knowing how to do declarative work. I've seen a lot of really messy orgs when people tried to go code first. It's like, "Oh."
J. Steadman: Cosigned. Yeah, me too.
LeeAnne Rimel: "Tell me more about your entirely custom built forecasting platform because you didn't know we had a forecasting…" I don't know, so I think some of it is just leaning… It's that comfort. How do we remove some of that or mitigate some of that toxic elitism that comes with the language that we use and who deserves to be in what space, and where do Salesforce Admins belong?
Mike: I think one of the things running LeeAnne off of what I heard from you, there's a few things that I took from what you and J. said. I think the name differentiations seem to be caught up in the admin world often around the task that the admin does or tasks, right? And so I was trying to think of another industry where more than one word exists for… And I think title's different than identity, but for an identity.
And we say adminelopers like, "Well, I'm really an admin that writes some code." So you're an admin, right? Or J., you said build a lot. You could call yourself a builder, but it's often encompassing. So often I have to identify myself as a Salesforce Admin first and then also attach all of the tasks that I do. I'm a Salesforce Admin business intelligence analyst, I have to tack on all of the things that I have to do, whereas I'm sitting back and I'm thinking like, "So why don't airplane pilots do that?" Because you walk up, go to an airport, talk to somebody, they could introduce themselves, "I'm an airplane pilot." They don't tack on all of the tasks that they do.
J. Steadman: And I also navigate.
Mike: Yeah, and I also…
LeeAnne Rimel: I like to land.
Mike: Yeah. Well that's exactly what I was… LeeAnne you took my example, but-
LeeAnne Rimel: I'm sorry.
Mike: … nobody says, "I'm an airplane pilot takeoff specialist." No, they just, "I'm a pilot." There's tasks that I do, and I'm wondering if it's because it's such a new identity in the space because we don't talk about developers in the same manner.
J. Steadman: I think it's important too to… You have introduced a new concept here in the conversation. Not only is it a new identity, but the technology that we work with, the Salesforce platform is something that is continually evolving, growing and changing in ways that are unique. So you could be a Salesforce administrator and the stuff you could be using, maybe messaging like Slack, integrations like MuleSoft, data analytics like Tableau or Tableau CRM, or core platform where you're making custom applications, a mobile application. You could be an admin, that's only doing reporting. You could be an admin that's only doing user management. I've met admins that are doing all of these things or any combination thereof, not to even begin… What about the various clouds that we have? Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, right? There's so much stuff and that hasn't always been the case.
I think maybe I'm suddenly like chaining us to a really heavy load to lift, but it makes sense then that sometimes people would feel a little bit… If what we have to do is communicate what it is that we do with our title, which we often do in short conversations with folks, and communicate to them that they can trust us. We have to establish trust with the people that we talk to in our business, our stakeholders, our users, it can be important to convey to them the things that they need to hear. And so it falls to folks like us, Mike you, LeeAnne you, and myself and Jen and the rest of the broader admins relations team. Part of the burden is we got to make sure that it's really nice and easy to convey some of those things, which excites me about some of the work that has been done recently on the team.
We previewed some of this content at Dreamforce where we talked about admin skills and the responsibilities. We've got the great Essential Habits series that has been around for a very long time, Mike, with the work that you've done. And I think in the way that I'm sitting and looking at it, it's important for us to make sure that admins understand very clearly that, "Hey, if you write some code, great, you can still be an admin. Hey, are you using Flow Builder all the time? Great. You can still be an admin." The idea that you're using a developer's mind as opposed to a builder's like, "Yo, you're doing business logic [crosstalk] in the platform, that to me sounds like admin, good job." And that one should be proud of those things.
LeeAnne Rimel: Yeah. I think you gave a really S overview there, J., and something that really sticks out to me is that sense of you're not using a developer's mind or you're not using… this is encompassing of the role of Salesforce admin, of the identity of Salesforce admin. And I think, I know I'm a broken record with this stuff, but I feel like a lot of it comes… To me, I feel like a lot of it comes back to some of the forces out there around tech language and around the language of who is technical that's… If you want me to go off on a total rant, someone will say that someone isn't technical because they don't code, because what does technical mean? It means you use a tool to accomplish a task. That's what it means. And so when we gatekeep words like that, I think some of the residual effects is that it makes people second guess some of the titles out there, second guess themselves and their legitimacy in claiming some of those titles and what it means for them.
Whereas I feel very strongly like if you can build something with a tool, then you are technical. You might be a marketing expert in building a complex email campaign. You might be building out a bunch of automation for your social channels as a social media professional, that means you're technical. And so I think the more that we move away from gatekeeping some of the words that are out there, I think that makes it feel safer for people to really embrace and feel like, J. you said pride, and I feel that really deeply, feel pride around their accomplishments as a Salesforce Admin, for example.
J. Steadman: I imagine these bubbles floating above all admins, right? And they are the various responsibilities that they have at work. And everyone has different bubbles colored in. One bubble is reports and dashboards, one bubble is data cleansing, one bubble is integration specialist. You can go on and on and on about the various core responsibilities they may have in a day-to-day. But when I look back at my previous work life as an admin and the various titles that businesses can give to that role, but I was working as an admin. I had a peer who had full access to production and who was entirely responsible for interacting with our users there, but I was his peer and I didn't even have access to production. My entire life was in our low environments and doing discovery and building things, using Flow Builder, using Process Builder at the time.
And those are two very different things. If somebody at that org had asked me to build a report for them, I would've had to scratch my head and be like, "Can you tell me more about what you're trying to do?" And I bring this up to say, no matter how many bubbles you have filled in, no matter what your core responsibilities are, no matter what cloud you might be working in, you are a Salesforce Admin. Our platform, it's like an ocean of stuff. And maybe when we're trying to differentiate ourselves, we focus more on the conversation about what our, "Hey, this is a responsibility I have. I'm a Salesforce Admin at X, and I am in charge of A, B, C and D."
Mike: I like that. LeeAnne, your concept of technology and the level of technology in terms of the tool that we use, I think is very interesting because I love to equate things. And I'm thinking back to when the printing press was invented. And if you look at probably most of the history books throughout the world, it's referred to as a technological advance. But if I were to give somebody a printing press, somebody a typewriter, and somebody a computer, who's the most technical? And it depends on the decade or the era that they're in, but all of them arguably, you could have somebody behind it, who's an editor. And it doesn't change the fact that they know how to edit. The way they edit changes, but all of them are proficient in the tool and the capability of the tool to use it.
And I bring that up because they're extreme examples, right? You go back 10 years ago with Salesforce and to automate something, you had workflows on the declarative side. On the code side, of course you could have wrote triggers. I forget when S-Controls were finally put to rest, but you had different tools.
LeeAnne Rimel: RIP S-Controls.
Mike: Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact that you knew how to do something, right? The way that an editor edits a document meant and prints it doesn't change that they're an editor.
LeeAnne Rimel: I agree. And I think a way language changes and we have to… The purpose of language is for us to be able to communicate with one another and have shared understanding. And I feel like a good barometer or a good self test because there might be people out there that are like, "Well, I'm going to be out here talking about admins and I'm not sure the right language to use, or I want to talk to the entire technical community and what's the language that I should use?" And a lot of my opinion on this or I would say, where I feel like I learned a lot was… Actually there's a woman named April Wensel and she's on Twitter. We'll make sure to include her Twitter link in the show notes.
And she founded this organization called Compassionate Coding. And so she's out here talking a ton about just building compassion into our practice as technologists and everything that we do. And what does that look like? What does that look like in presentations? What does that look like in the communities that we seek to create? And what does that look like in language?
And this was years ago, I'll try to find the thread, I honestly don't know if I'll be able to find it, but she actually did a thread talking about the gate keeping around the language, when we say who's technical. And it was really interesting because I think a good gut check is always, "Why am I modifying language in this way? Why am I using this language? Am I using it to call people into this conversation and to include them to participate or to help them feel like they belong or to notify them that they're in the right place. You found your technical community, because I'm talking about Flow Builder for example, right? Are we choosing our words to call people in and to be compassionate or are we not doing that? Are we doing it for… Maybe we're being absent-minded and we're not really thinking about, we're not being intentional with our language or maybe we're doing it to make sure another community feels special quote unquote.
I think it's just important if you're out here and maybe you write about Salesforce admins or you create content for Salesforce admins, I think, thinking through that exercise of compassion of, am I using, and am I making conscious decisions to include members of the community or am I… And I think what's tough is there's a lot of unintentional and the intent is not malicious, the intent is often just absent-mindedness or just ingrained toxic elitism. But a lot of times, if we don't think about it consciously, we do create exclusive language that doesn't call people in.
And so, I don't know, that's a lot of… I highly recommend looking up April, but I think that we can, as Salesforce Admins, think about how we build that into our language. Are we seeking to include people, to help people find a language for their job, for their duties, for their identity, for their community? Or are we creating language that might make people feel like they don't belong?
J. Steadman: LeeAnne, are you familiar with crabs in a bucket?
LeeAnne Rimel: I have seen crabs in a bucket in real life because I'm from the San Juan, but I feel like you're talking about something else.
J. Steadman: Just in general, the idea of throwing the crabs in-
LeeAnne Rimel: I have put crabs into a bucket before, but I feel like you're talking about something more specific than that.
J. Steadman: Yeah. So I ask because I certainly don't want to explain something or review a concept that's already been discussed. So there are two things based on what you're saying, LeeAnne that really occurred to me as being important. The first is we've mentioned technical a number of times, so I dictionary-ed technical because I just want to make sure that we're all drawing from the same definition. And this is mostly for folks in the audience, let's demystify the word technical for a minute, because you'll get people saying, "Hey, are you technical?" Or you'll hear in passing, that person is slash is not technical. So when we say, "Hey, I'm technical," the definition of the word technical is relating to a particular subject, art, or craft or its techniques requiring special knowledge to be understood. That's where it ends. So there's nothing in the definition that's like must be able to use the command line.
LeeAnne Rimel: It's just passion.
J. Steadman: Knowing how stuff works and being able to use it or explain it well. That's the definition of the word technical. When I bring up crabs in a bucket, I think that this is really important because it pertains to some of the gatekeeping or the toxic elitism that you've you've raised here.
So there's a natural behavior, and I haven't actually tested this because it sounds cruel to me, but to my understanding or at least the legend or the myth goes, if you take a crab and you put it in a bucket and it tries to get out, and if it can hook a leg over the edge, it'll get out. There won't be any problems. If you put a couple of crabs in a bucket, and one of them tries to get out, if the first crab that's in the bucket has previously failed, it will actually grab the second crab and pull it back from getting out of the bucket. This behavior will continue if you add more crabs to the point where people like crabs will actually yank each other's legs off. And what they do is they enforce everyone to stay inside the bucket. You can't get out because I tried to get out and I couldn't.
This is apparently a thing that really happens in life, and I think it's a great metaphor for people that have experienced difficulty, challenges or adversity where they believe, "Well, I had to go through A, B and C to get where I am today. Therefore, other people must as well, or it is not valid." And I empathize deeply with that point of view. I went to college and I stupidly racked up way too much college loan debt. If somebody else were to tell me that they got to go to college for free, the initial response that I used to have was like, "Oh really?" That isn't right. But the fact of the matter is if somebody could go through college and not have to pay any dollars at all, that's great for them. And just because it didn't happen to me, that's all right.
And I think that this applies to our jobs as well. And I think we need to be really, really cautious about saying, "10 years ago, this is a thing that could only be done by writing code." Therefore, if it's done in a different way, now it is somehow intrinsically less valuable. I just don't think that's true, and I think we have to challenge ourselves to find those moments and ask ourselves, "Am I actually responding to this situation, because I went through adversity in the past, and I think that one must go through adversity in order to thrive? Can I actually celebrate? Or can we totally flip the model on its head, and can we be a crab that helps other crabs out of the bucket?" Because at the end of the day, I don't think the crabs really want to be in the bucket. I don't think the bucket ends up… That's not good outcome for the crabs. I think the finale is probably a pot somewhere and then someone's belly-
Mike: And [crosstalk].
J. Steadman: So that's crabs in a bucket.
LeeAnne Rimel: I appreciate that explanation. I definitely will always remember that now, and now I wish that when I had actually been crabbing and put crabs in a bucket, I paid closer attention, because I don't feel like I remember this, but I appreciate learning about it. And I think it's a really good point. I think it's thinking about how do we revisit, be in that growth mindset where we're constantly updating our knowledge of the platform, our knowledge of what's possible and a career path, our knowledge and our perception of what roles do. Because I think just as I've been in this ecosystem for 14 years and you both have been in this ecosystem a really long time as well, and the growth and the change in the ecosystem is just… and in the role is just massive. So we have to be constantly updating how we think about it.
Mike: I think so J., listening to your crabs in a bucket scenario, and LeeAnne you're familiar with this, what I heard was the hero's journey, which is really hard to unlearn. I'm not saying we can't unlearn it, I'm not poo-pooing on the idea, but to your example, J, of going to college and racking up a lot of debt versus somebody that went to college and didn't rack up a lot of debt, congrats for them. What's hard for the person that went to college, racked up a lot of debt, paid it off and has a great job is they feel they somehow earned it more. Have you ever heard that they paid their dues?
J. Steadman: Yep, hundred percent.
Mike: Paid your dues, right?
J. Steadman: A hundred percent.
Mike: And that is so ingrained into every storytelling system built, right? The hero goes on a journey, something happens, they have to go into the special world, they have to learn something and they have to come back. They have to-
J. Steadman: There must be conflict.
Mike: There's got to be conflict, they have to come back, they have to defeat that. And then they bring with them the solution. They had to earn that solution.
LeeAnne Rimel: This is where we come back to leading with compassion.
Mike: Yep.
J. Steadman: Yeah.
LeeAnne Rimel: Because I think that, for me reading about this compassionate coding was life changing because it really caused… I think examining, everyone has a different journey to get to where they are, everyone has a different breadth of expertise. Someone might be in their first year as an admin and they might have a huge amount of expertise in other areas, maybe they manage a restaurant. So maybe they know a ton about POS systems and different types of supply chain planning for food products. Everyone has… And I think that that whole leading them with compassion piece and respecting and honoring that we all have these really different backgrounds and different things that were probably difficult for us to learn, or to overcome. And trying to always center on that, I think, helps mitigate a lot of those complicated feelings around wondering who deserves to be where, because I think a lot of times it's what it boils down to is if we spend time thinking about who deserves to be where, who worked harder to be in this conference room that I'm in?
J. Steadman: And this is something… So I've got a kid and she's not even two, she'll be two in January. And when I look at her, and her experience might not be all experiences, and she's my only kid, so kid two might be different if we have kid two, but she certainly isn't sitting there going like, "How hard am I working compared to the person sitting over there?" She's just like, "Hey, can I have a good time? Hey, can you have a good time?" And I think this idea of like, I need to compare how hard I've worked to how hard you've worked, and then look at the outcomes of how hard we've worked, and is it the same? And if it's not the same, that's not right. I don't know. There's something in that that seems forced upon me.
If we're a part of a community, if you are successful, fantastic. If I am successful, fantastic. No matter how hard we've had to work to get there. I think sometimes because we've suffered, we look at somebody who hasn't, and we think, "I got dealt a really bad hand. And it really bums me out that that happened to me. And it would've been so much easier for me if I hadn't been dealt this bad hand." And so we start to become angry. And speaking as a person who's gone through my fair share of downs, I totally understand that point of view. And I think it's our responsibility to look at ourselves and say, "Hey, I'm having this reaction right now. What is this reaction?"
And I'm going to use a totally ludicrous example. I listen to a lot of music, and I used to be a musician professionally, and I listen to a lot of music that's coming out right now. Because one thing I never wanted to do was be a person that was stuck on the bands that I loved when I was in high school, which coincidentally, I still am, but I also want to love modern music. And I want that to be true forever, which means that I've got to face down trends. And sometimes, I'll hear a song and I won't just dislike it. It'll be doing something musically that just makes me angry like, "What is this?" And I make it a point to myself to stop and say, "What is it about this song that is grinding your gears?" And I'll actually take that song and put it on repeat over and over and over again for a day. I once listened to Corey Feldman's album-
Mike: Oh, wow.
J. Steadman: … Angelic 2 the Core on repeat for an entire week.
LeeAnne Rimel: It's like auditory self-flagellation.
J. Steadman: Yeah, so I could understand. And I have to be honest with you, it truly is just a terrible, terrible album, but I did this for a week so that I could understand. And you know what? Sometimes you're right not to like something, but a lot of times, especially when it's new stuff or changes, it's because of this thing that you're bringing up the end, this idea of, "Well, I understand music to be," and then you insert your own definition. And the thing that makes me angry, calls itself music, but it's doing something different, and that's not right. And so I encourage everyone that's listening when you're looking at any term that defines anything in your reality, because we are going deep on this podcast. I think it's important to ask yourself, "What is it that's making me angry about this?" And rather than spending your time expressing the anger, hopping on social and talking about the differences between generations, which is a very common thing that I see, that's a good example of it. Instead of doing that, ask your self, why it is causing you discomfort or anger or frustration?
And I think in exploring that, I think that you'll find something more valuable than the expression of anger itself. I find anger or frustration, that's an opportunity to better understand yourself and hopefully come to a place of improvement.
Mike: I like that. That's really cool. I don't want to end on the subject of anger, but I feel like we're in that realm. I'll give you this. Can each of you share a final thought for Salesforce Admins?
LeeAnne Rimel: Sure. I will say, having been in this ecosystem for a long time and being a Salesforce Admin myself, I think this is a really amazing and growing role in ecosystem, and the job duties are expanding and growing and getting more interesting and more flexible. And I would encourage everyone out there to embrace it, to embrace their Salesforce Admin role, and lean into that community. We love meeting new people in the community. So very selfishly, I love seeing more admins in the community, and seeing what they're working on, and seeing the things that they're sharing with other admins. And I'll just reiterate what I said before, if you're out there talking to admins, talking to the community, if you're someone in a role where you're helping create content and communications for admins, I would ask that you just think about, what does it mean to call people in? And how can we actively, with any role that we're working, with our developers, with our architects, with our trailblazers, with our admins, how are we really perpetuating this inclusive community and calling people in and really using thoughtful language with compassion?
J. Steadman: I think my final consideration following up after LeeAnne's amazing wisdom here is when you find yourself running to a different word, stop and explore, ask yourself why, and find the real reason, and if it's a good reason, great stick with it. And if it's not a great reason, then change. And I can promise too, that myself and the other folks that are here in the Admin Relations team, we are constantly examining the things that you're responsible for as admins. And we are trying to ensure that we are defining that role well in ways that employers and companies and other admins can see, and that definition will evolve and change over time. And we'll do our best work to try and support you and make sure that you don't have to go out of your way to justify the work that you do. And instead that the title can bring with it, the things that you do.
Mike: That was very cool. I'm glad both of you had the opportunity to spend the time with us today, to chat about the admin ever changing admin identity.
J. Steadman: Thank you, Mike.
LeeAnne Rimel: Thanks for having us. This was fun.
Mike: So I enjoyed that conversation with LeeAnne and J. We'll be sure to put the link to April's Twitter on the show notes. And of course, if you want to learn more about all things Salesforce admin, go to admin.salesforce.com to find more resources. We've got some pod in the Trailhead store. Really cool swag, I like it. I drink my coffee every morning out of that podcast mug, of course we'll include the link in the show notes. You can stay up to date with us on Salesforce admins on social, we are at @SalesforceAdmns, no i on Twitter. Of course, you can follow my co-host Gillian, she is @gilliankbruce. I am @mikegerholdt and I will also put LeeAnne and J.'s Twitter on there as well so you can give them a follow.
And with that, I want to remind you next week is our admin retro episode for December so we're looking back at everything content-wise for December. Also, the last podcast for 2021 so we're going to bid 2021 adieu and get ready for 2022. So with that stay safe, stay awesome, and stay tuned for the next episode. We'll see you in the cloud.
Mike Gerholdt
Mike Gerholdt is the Senior Director of Salesforce Admin Evangelism at Salesforce. He leads a group of World-class Admin Evangelists who are helping Salesforce Admins realize their dreams by being technology leaders and advancing their careers.
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Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio Demolished in LA
by Julie Musbach
BroadwayWorld.com Feb. 13, 2019
In 1979 stage and screen star Debbie Reynolds founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which remained operational for decades to follow. Stars such as Bette Midler, Michael Jackson, and Mariah Carey all rehearsed there. Now, according to TMZ, the building has unfortunately been demolished.
Reynolds' son Todd Fisher had allegedly planned to turn the building into a museum commemorating his mother, but the building was sold at auction before it could be done.
For images and video of the demolition, visit TMZ here.
Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, entertainer, businesswoman, film historian, humanitarian and a noted former collector of film memorabilia. Her breakout role was the portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film "Three Little Words", for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
However, it was her first leading role in 1952 at age 19, as Kathy Selden in "Singin' in the Rain," that set her on the path to fame. By the mid-1950s, she was a major star. Other notable successes include "The Affairs of Dobie Gillis," "Susan Slept Here," "Bundle of Joy," for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, "The Catered Affair," and and "Tammy and the Bachelor," in which her rendering of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the music charts.
She starred in "How the West Was Won," and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." Her performance as Molly Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other notable films include "The Singing Nun," "Divorce American Style," "What's the Matter with Helen?," "Mother (1996 Golden Globe nomination)," and "In & Out."
In 1973 Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical "Irene" and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. In 1969 she starred in her own television show, "The Debbie Reynolds Show," for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in "A Gift of Love" and an Emmy Award for playing Grace's mother Bobbi on "Will & Grace."
In 1988 she released her autobiography titled, "Debbie: My Life." In 2013, she released an updated version titled "Unsinkable: A Memoir."
Reynolds died after suffering a stroke, one day after the passing of her daughter Carrie Fisher.
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Syrian Refugee Arrested for Murder of Teenage Girl in Vancouver
Discussion in 'The War Room' started by Orgasmo, Sep 10, 2018.
Orgasmo Silver Belt
I'm especially hard hit by this case, since it happened just 10 blocks from where I live. I jog in that park from time to time.
This was one of those "refugees" Trudeau brought in. Funny how these "random acts" keep coming up around these savages. He probably suffered a case of "Islamic sexual emergency" and decided to target a young girl that couldn't fight back. As a Liberal Party member, I hope the Liberals get annihilated next election so that cuck serves as a horrible warning on how not to act as Prime Minister. This shit is hitting too close to home.
SURREY, B.C. -- A man has been charged with murder in the death of 13-year-old Marrisa Shen, whose body was found in a Metro Vancouver park in July 2017. RCMP Supt. Donna Richardson, who is in charge of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said 28-year-old Ibrahim Ali is accused of first-degree murder. Shen's body was found in a wooded area of Central Park in Burnaby just hours after she had left home at 6 p.m. on July 18, 2017.
"We still believe this crime was a random act, meaning that Marrisa did not know the suspect and vice versa," Richardson said at a news conference on Monday.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/murder-charge-laid-in-death-of-13-year-old-b-c-girl-1.4087093
Orgasmo, Sep 10, 2018
Jesus H. Sherdog My likes died for your sins Platinum Member
Kingdom of Hawai`i
Very sad. Horrible.
Jesus H. Sherdog, Sep 10, 2018
Bamboozled Banned Banned
Grinding in the Film Room
If only there was a way to prevent this.
Bamboozled, Sep 10, 2018
HereticBD Plutonium Belt
In the hearts and minds of everyone
Get the checkbook out, Trudeau.
HereticBD, Sep 10, 2018
Ayin Black Belt
I have read two articles about this and not seen any reference to this person being a refugee or anything other than a resident of that area. Is that information in the above article and i'm just not seeing it?
Ayin, Sep 10, 2018
Ayin said: ↑
"Ali came to Canada 17 months ago from Syria as a refugee, according to IHIT. The officer in charge of the investigation said they did not know whether he came in as a government or privately sponsored refugee."
https://vancouversun.com/news/local...update-in-murder-of-burnaby-teen-marrisa-shen
Another source:
https://www.burnabynow.com/news/bre...murder-of-13-year-old-marrisa-shen-1.23426091
flashNsmash when it rains...
i don't think it is, it's in this one though
https://nationalpost.com/news/local...shen/wcm/89c766fd-3e74-4b90-9b56-72fd17015250
flashNsmash, Sep 10, 2018
Thank you. Seems there is more info on him in more local sources, and less in national ones.
You won't find it on CBC since their editors have a hard on for Trudeau. It's all fun and games when you read about these refugee sexual assaults in Europe, but when it arrives at your doorstep literally, it fucking sucks bad.
Hognoxious Green Belt
He's a good boy and had plans to go to college.
Hognoxious, Sep 10, 2018
dammit i was really banking on this guy paying income tax for the next 50 years so we can retire
permanent residency in less than 18 months?? what is the actual threshold?
Limit Smasher Brown Belt
The authorities should do to him what would be done back in Syria. Bury him up to his neck in the dirt and throw rocks at his head until he dies.
Limit Smasher, Sep 10, 2018
Hard To Tell Banned Banned
Well you can expect plenty more of this as you take in more of these people. But what you also have to remember is that this is what lots of people vote for.
Just wait until these men are in large enough numbers and emboldened enough by your weakness and pandering that they form actual rape gangs that systematically target young non-Muslim girls.
Hard To Tell, Sep 10, 2018
tonni POTY 2020 Banned
Poor girl.
tonni, Sep 10, 2018
Deleted member 509215 Guest
These refugees at it again... Jesus. These people need to be erased not integrated into the west.
Deleted member 509215, Sep 10, 2018
The ScorpioN "GET OVER HERE!" Banned
Netherrealm
flashNsmash said: ↑
Probably took the express lane.
Those votes aren't gonna cast themselves. At least not yet.
The ScorpioN, Sep 10, 2018
The ScorpioN said: ↑
1 year to go!
KnightTemplar Green(Goblin)Belt Platinum Member
Orgasmo said: ↑
Shit-bags like this make me want to go Full Frank Castle
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Philopotamus é um género de insetos da família Philopotamidae.

O género foi descrito em 1829 por Stephens.

Este género possui distribuição cosmopolita.

Espécie:

 Philopotamus montanus (Donovan 1813)

Trichoptera

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OAT gene
ornithine aminotransferase
The OAT gene provides instructions for making the enzyme ornithine aminotransferase. This enzyme is active in the energy-producing centers of cells (mitochondria), where it helps break down a molecule called ornithine. Ornithine is involved in the urea cycle, which processes excess nitrogen (in the form of ammonia) that is generated when protein is broken down by the body.
In addition to its role in the urea cycle, ornithine participates in several reactions that help ensure the proper balance of protein building blocks (amino acids) in the body. This balance is important because a specific sequence of amino acids is required to build each of the many different proteins needed for the body's functions. The ornithine aminotransferase enzyme helps convert ornithine into another molecule called pyrroline-5-carboxylate (P5C). P5C can be converted into the amino acids glutamate and proline.
Gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina
More than 60 OAT gene mutations have been found to cause gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina (often shortened to gyrate atrophy). These mutations result in a reduced amount of functional ornithine aminotransferase enzyme. A shortage of this enzyme impedes the conversion of ornithine into P5C. As a result, excess ornithine accumulates in the blood (hyperornithinemia), and less P5C than normal is produced. It is not clear how these changes result in progressive vision loss and the other features sometimes associated with gyrate atrophy. Researchers have suggested that a deficiency of P5C may interfere with the function of the retina, the specialized light-sensitive tissue that lines the back of the eye. It has also been proposed that excess ornithine may suppress the production of a molecule called creatine. Creatine is needed for many tissues in the body to store and use energy properly. It is involved in providing energy for muscle contraction, and it is also important in nervous system functioning.
Cytogenetic Location: 10q26.13, which is the long (q) arm of chromosome 10 at position 26.13
Molecular Location: base pairs 124,397,303 to 124,418,976 on chromosome 10 (Homo sapiens Updated Annotation Release 109.20190607, GRCh38.p13) (NCBI)
DKFZp781A11155
HOGA
OAT_HUMAN
ornithine aminotransferase (gyrate atrophy)
ornithine aminotransferase precursor
Educational Resources (1 link)
Biochemistry (fifth edition, 2002): Human Beings Can Synthesize Some Amino Acids but Must Obtain Others from the Diet
Tests of OAT
Mashima YG, Weleber RG, Kennaway NG, Inana G. Genotype-phenotype correlation of a pyridoxine-responsive form of gyrate atrophy. Ophthalmic Genet. 1999 Dec;20(4):219-24.
Mitchell GA, Brody LC, Looney J, Steel G, Suchanek M, Dowling C, Der Kaloustian V, Kaiser-Kupfer M, Valle D. An initiator codon mutation in ornithine-delta-aminotransferase causing gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina. J Clin Invest. 1988 Feb;81(2):630-3.
Ohkubo Y, Ueta A, Ito T, Sumi S, Yamada M, Ozawa K, Togari H. Vitamin B6-responsive ornithine aminotransferase deficiency with a novel mutation G237D. Tohoku J Exp Med. 2005 Apr;205(4):335-42.
Peltola KE, Näntö-Salonen K, Heinonen OJ, Jääskeläinen S, Heinänen K, Simell O, Nikoskelainen E. Ophthalmologic heterogeneity in subjects with gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina harboring the L402P mutation of ornithine aminotransferase. Ophthalmology. 2001 Apr;108(4):721-9.
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Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) stars in Joshua Harmon's new play as Sherri, an admissions tutor at an elite private school, trying to encourage diversity in the student body alongside her husband, the school's principal (Andrew Woodall).
When their son Charlie (Ben Edelman) is deferred for a place at Yale, the university he's long dreamt of attending – seemingly meaning he may get a place later on – their liberal ideals regarding race and privilege are put under scrutiny. This is centred on the fact that Charlie's friend Perry, who is similarly qualified and is mixed race is given a place, and their assumption that this is due to the fact he 'ticks more boxes'. Underlying prejudices that the family has assumed they are immune to surface. Harmon explores these, along with the tension between notionally held beliefs, and the tendency to make an exception out of oneself when it comes to putting ideas into practice.
The framework these ideas are discussed in – the American college system and applications process – does not fully translate in the UK. However, the broader concepts regarding liberal or leftie people failing to sufficiently question their own privilege and prejudices, and the idea of places in institutions reserved for people of colour are shared concepts enough to make the discussion relatable.
The play is largely composed of arguments, and there are a series of monologues with escalating crescendos of bitterness and rage. Ben Edelman's performance was particularly impressive, and at times it was surprising he didn't faint from lack of breath! The spitting anger felt reminiscent of the kind of unbridled belligerence you might find on Twitter, and helped underscore the self-interest masquerading as objectivity in his anger.
However, what is initially compelling becomes somewhat wearing. The play runs straight through the full hour and 40 minutes without an interval, and given the tension and aggression consistent throughout this becomes a little tiring. The series of monologues often come across as just that, giving the play a lack of cohesion. Furthermore, scenes starring Margot Leicester as an older, outdated administrator struggling to understand Sherri's vision for a diverse range of students in the school prospectus don't contribute all that much by way of exposition or insight.
With race, and opportunities for people of colour as the central focus of Admissions, it's hard not to notice that there are no people of colour in the production. Perhaps this is a deliberate decision, an element of satire, or a way to underscore the issue, but it can't help but rankle.
Theatre that challenges our assumptions is undoubtedly valuable. Harmon's play is indeed thought-provoking but lacks polish. Some enthusiastic performances made it a fairly compelling watch, but its potential was not fully realised.


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Levi Esses is all in
by Daniel Murphy, Jul 31, 2015
One look at Levi and you would think he's been a Jet for life, though he just joined the Newman family in January. Rarely seen decked-out in anything other than a Newman-emblazoned stocking cap, a crimson and navy tie or even a Newman sweater vest—the man certainly looks the part. Of course, Levi's car sports a Newman license plate. Newman's newest dean of students has honed his expertise through a variety of experiences at other institutions and couldn't wait to bring his ideas, energy and school spirit to Wichita.
Born in Denver and raised in Littleton, Colo., Levi is a sports fanatic. Growing up his father had season tickets to the Denver Broncos. At the time, Levi had no idea that he would have a highly successful athletic career himself. A three sport athlete through high school (football, basketball and baseball), Levi loves the lessons and values that athletics teach.
"Communication, teamwork, integrity. We develop these skills in sports and can take them with us into our careers," he said.
Levi was eventually offered an athletic scholarship for football at Bethany College, playing under Ted Kessinger, a College Football Hall of Fame coach, who had quite an impact on Levi. He specifically remembers one quote from Kessinger and recalls it frequently: "Hug your loved ones and take the Lord with you."
While attending Bethany, Levi had quite a vibrant campus life. He served as a resident assistant, student body president, editor of the yearbook, and president of math and physics clubs. To say he was involved on campus would be an understatement, and it was during his time at Bethany that he realized he wanted to work in higher education as a career.
Levi worked in Residence Life and Student Life at his alma mater, Bethany, as well as Kansas State University-Salina before becoming dean of students at Newman. While enjoying all of his previous jobs, Levi says he was especially drawn to Newman's mission and his connection to the Catholic faith. Since coming to Newman, Levi has been impressed with the maturity of Newman students, who he feels want to make the community a better place.
"The students here are so mature; they have a sense of community bigger
than themselves. You don't find that at every institution."
Levi has gotten a chance to know students first-hand as fellow community members…and neighbors! His wife Janice is the head softball coach at Bethany; having achieved more than 350 wins when Levi accepted the job, she was not in a situation to leave their home in Lindsborg, so for the time being, Levi has decided to live on campus. Living on campus has presented Levi with some unique opportunities as a new dean. He attends sporting events, goes to Mass, meets with students individually, attends special events on campus and even eats with students in the dining center.
In the meantime, Levi is working hard to make some positive changes and additions on campus to student life and residence life programming. Newman's new student orientation is getting a face-lift. Levi also hopes to introduce StrengthsFinder, an award-winning program designed to highlight five areas of expertise for each individual, to the Newman community. The StrengthsFinder program offers suggestions for personal development and actions for each individual's five strengths. A StrengthsFinder enthusiast, Levi's strengths are activator, developer, positivity, responsibility and futuristic. A quick Google search can explain each of these in detail, but the bottom line is that Levi is a person who gets things done.
During his free time, Levi enjoys golf, slow pitch softball (which he plays with his wife) and Twitter. In fact, Levi has a healthy Twitter addiction! Levi hopes to top 1,000 followers by the end of 2015. Follow him on Twitter at @LeviEsses to read more about his day-to-day life as dean
of students!
Published July 31, 2015 By Daniel Murphy
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Asylum is usually granted to non-citizens who are already in the United States and who, because of the circumstances, are unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin. When the person receives the asylum, they can live, study and work in the country and one year later apply for permanent residence or Green card.
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