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Phoenix Coyotes Should be Heading Home with Hardware
May 29, 2012 May 26, 2012 by Jeff Ponder
Shane Doan and the Phoenix Coyotes will not have a representative at the 2012 NHL Awards Show
Who says that you can't win Coach or GM of the Year multiple times?
Since its inception in the 1973-74 season, the Jack Adams Award, given to the best head coach in the regular season, has only seen five coaches win the honor multiple times (Scotty Bowman, Pat Burns, Jacques Demers, Jacques Lemaire and Pat Quinn). Of those five coaches, only one has won it multiple times while with the same organization (Jacques Demers, 1986-87 and 1987-88 with the Detroit Red Wings).
The General Manager of the Year Award was created in 2010 and has only had two recipients, each only receiving the honor once (Phoenix's Don Maloney and Vancouver's Mike Gillis).
GM Don Maloney and Head Coach Dave Tippett, both of the Phoenix Coyotes organization, made a strong case this season to join an elite group of hockey minds.
Maloney had quite the full plate heading into the summer of 2011. Fresh off a quick four-game sweep to the Red Wings in the 2011 Western Conference Quarterfinals, Maloney had eight players that were set to be free-agents on July 1. Most notably, goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov and top-defenseman Keith Yandle were set to receive a big pay increase whether it would be with the Coyotes or one of the other 29 NHL teams. To make things worse, the Coyotes were heading into their third summer without a clear-cut team owner (reportedly, the NHL had been paying the team's bills since December 2008).
Bryzgalov had made it very aware that he wanted a large raise from his $4.25 million cap-hit, so Maloney traded his rights to the Philadelphia Flyers for a 2012 third-round draft selection and forward Matt Clackson. The Coyotes were without a starting goaltender heading into the free-agent period.
Moving Bryzgalov freed up money to bring back Keith Yandle; he happily inked a five-year, $26.25 million contract extension.
Keith Yandle posted a team-best 22:20 ice-time-per-game (Icon SMI)
With his budget in mind, Maloney turned to Head Coach Dave Tippett for whom he wanted as his starting netminder. As it was, the free-agent pool offered Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Tomas Vokoun, Jose Theodore and Ray Emery as the front-runners of potential NHL starters. Tippett, along with advice from Goalie Coach Sean Burke, requested Maloney bring in an old friend instead.
Goaltender Mike Smith, coming off a four-year stint with the Tampa Bay Lightning organization in which he bounced back and forth between the Lightning and AHL affiliate Norfolk Admirals, was Tippett's suggestion. Smith had played for Tippett in Dallas before being traded and the coach liked what he saw from him. Maloney signed Smith to a two-year, $4 million contract. It was a gamble but Tippett never gave Maloney a reason to not believe in his assessment of potential.
He was right to not question him this time, either.
Smith went on to post a league-wide 7th best GAA (2.21) and a 3rd best save percentage (.930), while also accumulating the 3rd most shutouts (8) and the 4th most wins (38).
Smith was not the only bright spot for the Coyotes. Radim Vrbata, a journeyman of five different NHL clubs, including two different stints with the Coyotes, found his scoring touch much later than most NHL players. At the age of 30, Vrbata surpassed his career-high in goals by 8, totaling 35 tallies on the season. This was the first time that a Coyote has finished in the top-15 goal-scorers since Jeremy Roenick did in 1999-2000.
Mike Smith was one of the biggest surprises of the 2011-12 regular season. (Ric Tapia/Icon SMI)
With all of the question marks and criticism in Phoenix, the Coyotes finished the 2011-12 season with 2.37 goals-against-per-game, which was 5th best in the NHL. More importantly, the Coyotes clinched their first Pacific Division Title in franchise history, dating back to their heritage as the Winnipeg Jets. They finished with 97 points, earning the third seed in the Western Conference.
After all of this unbelievable success, the Coyotes did not have one finalist for any of the 11 awards that are voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers Association, the NHL Broadcasters Association, NHL GMs and the NHL Players Association.
It is a league-wide accepted fact that the awards handed to coaches and GMs have a high degree of expectation involved; meaning that if a team far exceeds their expectations, the coach and GM stand a good chance of receiving metal at the NHL Awards Show. The Coyotes reached the 90-point plateau and was involved in the NHL post-season for the third straight season. When taking just their past success into consideration, expectations were barely exceeded.
With the turmoil of the off-season and the belief that the Coyotes just could not keep up their brilliant success a third straight time, the expectations lowered for the Coyotes.
The Bleacher Report suggested that the Phoenix Coyotes would not only finish last in the Pacific Division, but dead-last in the Western Conference.
The Hockey News reported that the loss of Bryzgalov will trounce the team to 14th in the West. They also added this tidbit about Head Coach Dave Tippett: "If he can get this team to the post-season it'll be a Jack Adams-worthy season."
ESPN picked who they believed would win each division; only San Jose and Los Angeles made the cut with 8 "experts."
Brian Cazeneuve of Sports Illustrated suggested that the Phoenix Coyotes will be the biggest disappointment in the NHL because they are "no longer going to surprise their opponents this season."
I could keep going, but I think you get my point.
The Coyotes did exceed expectations and stunned the entire league. I believe this to be as big of a surprise season as it was in 2009-10, when Tippett and Maloney both walked away with hardware at the end of the season.
Jeff Ponder
I am a former NHL media member and reporter for the St. Louis Blues, working for various media outlets. Currently, I am an NHL News Writer and Editor for The Hockey Writers. I live in St. Louis and work as a freelance copywriter in numerous industries.
Categories Arizona Coyotes Tags Dave Tippett, Don Maloney, Ilya Bryzgalov, Jacques Demers, Jacques Lemaire, Jeremy Roenick, Jose Theodore, Keith Yandle, Mike Gillis, Mike Smith, Pat Burns, Pat Quinn, Radim Vrbata, Scotty Bowman, Shane Doan, Tomas Vokoun


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برنامج اصلاح السياسات والتشريعات
اصدارات برنامج اصلاح السياسات والتشريعات
اخبار برنامج اصلاح السياسات والتشريعات
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اخبار برنامج تنمية القدرات
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برنامج الدراسات والبحوث
اخبار برنامج الدراسات والبحوث
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الصحافة المصرية زمن الثورة: بين محبرة النظام و رصاصه
في ذكرى 71 للإعلان العالمي لحقوق الانسان: مسلسل محاكمات الرأي يتواصل في ظل نظام السيسي!
Transitional justice interrupted: Tunisia, Libya, and lessons still to be learned
مُتاح أيضًا بـ: English (الإنجليزية)
Ruben CarranzaSenior Expert, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Just days after massive nationwide protests that began in the impoverished interior towns of Tunisia forced its dictator Ben Ali into exile, massive protests broke out in Egypt, leading to the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
Ten months later, Libya's leader of 42 years and the one who had ruled the longest among the authoritarian leaders that fell in that period, was ignominiously killed. The term 'Arab Spring' signifies a season of growth and renewal. Instead, the season began with anti-dictatorship revolutions that promised political change and social transformation. But ended, with one exception, in renewed repression or a descent into armed conflict. There are several important factors and differences in context that can explain why transitional justice (TJ, for brevity) processes advanced in Tunisia but stalled elsewhere in the region including in Libya. This discussion is limited and will focus only on some of the overlaps and differences in the two processes, including what drove them forward and what might interrupt them.
Driven by grievances over unemployment, marginalization, corruption and political repression, the overthrow of dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya created expectations that those long-standing grievances would finally be addressed, if not resolved, by post-authoritarian governments.
This did not happen, With the exception of Tunisia, the countries that emerged from Arab Spring revolutions, even those in which long-entrenched authoritarian rulers were ousted, instead descended into violent, deadly and continuing repression in the case of Egypt and still ongoing war in the cases of Yemen, Syria, and Libya. Moreover, the resulting instability, continuing conflict, the spread of military weaponry and lack of credible governance in Libya has led to instability beyond the country and affected neighboring countries in the region, including Mali and Niger. One point that has been made about transitional justice that bears borrowing is this:
"Transitional justice policies in the Arab world, in both their definitions and their forms, are likely to take a trajectory distinct from their predecessors in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Every context is unique and thus requires a distinct set of mechanisms to address existing needs (and) while most traditional transitional justice literature conceives of a context in which transitional justice is thought of as a remedy for the period after repression and conflict…the time to discuss, consider, and conceive of transitional justice can occur even during ongoing repression and conflict."
With the exception of Tunisia, the countries that emerged from Arab Spring revolutions, even those in which long-entrenched authoritarian rulers were ousted, instead descended into violent, deadly and continuing repression
War and humanitarian needs before the pursuit of transitional justice
One consequence for countries like Syria and Yemen in which war has replaced protest is that conflict-related crime being committed in these wars to have overshadowed demands for accountability involving earlier human rights violations as well as large-scale corruption and marginalization from the pre-war dictatorship period. In Syria, for example, this has meant a focus on documenting conflict-related crimes and violations of human rights involving the Assad government, regional States, non-State armed groups, and powerful non-regional States such as Russia, Turkey, and even the United States. This has correspondingly meant little to no documentation or effort to find the truth around human rights abuses under Assad's father or prior to the war – grievances that drove the revolution that should not be forgotten whatever might be the outcome of the ongoing conflict.
A second consequence for transitional justice as a result of revolutions turning into prolonged conflict is the need to prioritize responses to humanitarian needs, given their scale and the vulnerability of many victims, such as children and refugees. The situation in Yemen is an obvious example, where Saudi Arabian missile strikes using US and UK-supplied weapons have killed tens of thousands of civilians and denied millions of Yemenis access to food and health care. Setting the stage for investigating and prosecuting these war crimes and crimes against humanity is important, but this should not be done at the expense of ignoring the expectations of victims and citizens who have the right to truth and to reparation for the violence and denial of basic economic and social rights they are now suffering. In ICTJ's experience elsewhere, documenting the wartime conduct of armed groups and their criminal responsibility will not be what victims and citizens consider of utmost importance; rather, they might prioritize truth and reparations. When those rights begin to be fulfilled, they will seek justice for the harms and losses they suffered.
In Libya particularly, this should also mean linking the root causes of continuing conflict and violence to the sectarian and identity-based tensions that were suppressed by the Libyan State under Gaddafi
A third implication is that justice and accountability initiatives for victims of individual human rights violations and for groups targeted for collective punishment by former (and in the case of Syria, current) authoritarian regimes have been sidelined by the focus on prosecuting individuals for conflict-related crimes. This makes it less likely that human rights violations that were the subject of Arab Spring grievances would be examined and acknowledged through truth-seeking and reparations measures. This is not suggesting that victims of more recent conflict-related crimes in Syria, Yemen or Libya do not deserve justice and accountability; but this means that an examination of both the root causes of sectarian division, the record of authoritarian rule and the impact of foreign military intervention in these countries will likely be put off if not altogether set aside in favor of documenting crimes committed during the conflict. Moreover, the focus on documenting crimes as such will — given the nature of what is being documented — privilege prosecutions of perpetrators as a transitional justice mechanism in terms of funding, international community attention and Western media coverage.
A transitional justice agenda for Syria, Yemen and Libya should therefore consciously make clear that these countries are both post-authoritarian and, perhaps eventually, post-conflict. What does this mean for Libya? It means that there should be an effort to broaden both the understanding of what parts of a country's multiple experiences with authoritarianism, conflict and political upheavals TJ can address. This also means that there should also be an effort to ensure that technical assistance, funding and the design of documentation, the focus of assessments of ongoing and possible TJ initiatives, and technical assistance for TJ, in general, should ensure that the right to truth, the right to reparation and, where timely, institutional reforms, are not put off or given lesser priority than prosecutions.
In Libya particularly, this should also mean linking the root causes of continuing conflict and violence to the sectarian and identity-based tensions that were suppressed by the Libyan State under Gaddafi, exploited by foreign State and non-State interventions and now used by different armed groups to justify their existence and conduct. While waiting for the fragile peace in Libya to be consolidated and for a settlement of the violent disputes over political power, it may also be possible to explore transitional justice processes that can support the consolidation of peace, political settlement and ultimately, co-existence within its fractured society.
Tunisia's transitional justice process, on the other hand, moved forward despite challenges and interruptions posed by distrust between secular and Islamist groups, and attempts by the former dictator and his allies to achieve impunity. What Libya can learn from Tunisia is the ways by which civil society engagement, the involvement of victims groups and locally-driven initiatives can help overcome challenges and consolidate steps already taken.
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The overlaps and differences in the Tunisian and Libyan transitions
It is important to emphasize that despite the characterization of the Arab Spring as a regional event, there are inherent, significant differences between the Tunisian and Libyan contexts [as there are among the countries that underwent transitions in that period] that help account for why transitional justice has advanced in Tunisia but not in Libya – or elsewhere in the region. Tunisia, in the words of ICTJ's former Tunisia country program director, "remains the only flower of the Arab Spring." The demography, history and even geography of Tunisia, as well as social movements that confronted dictatorship even prior to the Arab Spring, were built around organized workers and marginalized communities in its poorest governorates and neighborhoods. The large percentage of young, unemployed, but educated and social-media savvy citizens was arguably the most decisive factor in winning a revolution that had been in the making since 2008.
The country's first post-dictatorship president has one of the clearest explanations for why the transition in Tunisia did not degenerate into armed conflict as it did in Libya and elsewhere in the region. "Tunisians, " according to former president Moncef Marzouki, "are neither smarter nor more peaceful or tolerant than other Arabs or any human beings." He says:
"Fortunately the population of Tunisia is much more homogeneous than that of the neighboring countries. Made of 99% of Arab Moslem Sunnis. The middle class represents a large proportion of the society. Our military is professional, has no history of being involved in economic activity or in politics. Civil society is strong, vigilant and yet responsible, inflexible and yet peaceful. Most importantly, secular and Islamist opponents to the dictatorship have learned to go beyond their disagreement and work together at least since the late 1990s. It's easy to understand that reaching a political consensus is much less probable in countries where you have an extremely heterogeneous population like Syria; or in countries where you have a military institution deeply involved in politics and economy like in Egypt; or in societies without a strong civil society like in Yemen or Libya."
Libya and Tunisia were ruled by authoritarian regimes for most of their post-independence history. Those authoritarian regimes relied on what has been described as the "mutually-reinforcing" abuses of repression and corruption to maintain power. Both Ben Ali and Gaddafi cast themselves as rulers protecting their countries from radical Islamists. But their versions of secularism manifested in different (and initially, even opposing) ways. Ben Ali presented himself as a pro-Western successor to the equally authoritarian Habib Bourguiba, firmly on the side of Western countries that ignored his regime's corruption as long as he pursued a common counter-terrorism agenda. Gaddafi, on the other hand, portrayed himself as a believer in Nasserite-style socialism and as a supporter [and funder] of national liberation movements that were hostile to Western governments. As one comparison of Ben Ali and Gaddafi put it:
"Tunisia watchers could see that Ben Ali was the darling of the western embassies. Well known to the French and American militaries, he was someone the diplomats believed could be trusted to maintain Tunisia's secular, pro-western policies and keep the country out of the orbit of its dangerous, larger neighbor, Gaddafi's Libya."
That Gaddafi, like Ben Ali, eventually worked with Western counter-terrorism efforts against Al Qaeda, and openly courted Western leaders such as Tony Blair, Nicholas Sarkozy, and Silvio Berlusconi showed that self-interest and his regime's continuity in power through his son was more important than his supposed ideological preferences. Unlike Gaddafi's single-party rule, Ben Ali's regime held elections in which other political parties could, in theory, participate [even if Ben Ali would always win]. These elections gave Tunisian opposition activists, labor organizers and Islamist opponents of the regime the experience of challenging dictatorship and the opportunity to openly organize even under repressive conditions, experiences and opportunity that Libyans did not have under Gaddafi's rule.
The presence and role of civil society in articulating grievances
The impact of Ben Ali's State-capture-based corruption, the inequality and rural marginalization caused by World Bank-supported economic policies and his violent suppression of both the Islamist movement and leftist labor agitation within the national labor union UGTT eventually combined into a common set of grievances that primed the revolution. These grievances have been largely reflected in the design of transitional justice mechanisms in Tunisia. On the other hand, because Gaddafi initially and generously shared oil wealth with the population, it was often said that Libya "enjoy(ed) a relatively high standard of living by African standards."But this did not last and like other rulers in the region's oil-rich kingdoms, the trade-off to the relative fulfillment of economic and social rights was the surrender of political and civil rights.
Moreover, as Juan Cole points out, Gaddafi "became vindictive against tribes in the east and in the southwest that had crossed him politically, depriving them of their fair share in the country's resources." Cole says that in the decade before Gaddafi's ouster, "Extreme corruption and the rise of post-Soviet-style oligarchs, including Qaddafi and his sons discouraged investment and blighted the economy. Workers were strictly controlled and unable to collectively bargain for improvements in their conditions. There was much more poverty and poor infrastructure in Libya than there should have been in an oil state."
Tunisian former president
Hence, while working-class and poor communities among the two countries' populations had in common grievances involving corruption, political repression and increasing marginalization, the presence of a relatively experienced, organized and working-class-led civil society in Tunisia made a difference, both during the events leading to the transition and in the process of determining what transitional justice would look like in the country. The revolution in Tunisia was made possible by working-class and youth-led movements honed in the ways of challenging a dictatorship. The grievances they shared – corruption, unemployment, and the repression of both Islamists and left-wing activists – made it possible to design a transitional justice agenda that would address those larger society-wide grievances as well as different individual and collective experiences of pain, loss and injustice. These movements and the post-dictatorship political parties that they are linked to were the foundations for civil society engagement once transitional justice policy-making was underway in Tunisia.
The process and outcomes of transitional justice policymaking
By comparison, as the scholar Gilbert Achar points out, "in countries like Syria or Libya, due to extremely dictatorial governments, there were no preexisting autonomous organized groups, whether political or even social." Whether or not the transition in Libya would have turned out differently had there been no months of sustained airstrikes by Western forces will always be a matter of speculation. But the combination of Gaddafi's militarized response and the foreign military backing for the armed movements against his regime changed the revolution. It transformed different tribal groups that were coalescing into a broad but peaceful movement into one in which the same people were characterized as thuwars – rebel fighters in a war.
Tunisia's process was marked by meaningful civil society engagement. The earliest TJ measures were ad hoc and short-term responses to immediate needs of victims and ways to quell rising expectations. A Ministry of Human Rights and Transitional Justice was created. Urgent reparations measures were offered. In 2011, one of three ad hoc commissions created was a 'National Fact-Finding Commission to look at violations committed during the revolution. This commission reported 338 dead and 2147 injured.
Of all the countries that went through transitions in the Arab Spring, only Tunisia succeeded in creating a functioning truth commission, the Instance Verité et Dignité or IVD. The 2013 organic law that created the IVD or the Truth and Dignity Commission was a product of wide-ranging, public debates over what a Tunisian transitional justice approach should be. The law governing transitional justice was passed by an elected parliament, but not until after an official national dialogue was carried out across the country. The dialogue process was a deliberate, democratic and, novel exercise for a country that had just emerged from years of dictatorship. The commission itself was constituted through a flawed but nonetheless significantly consultative process. Even with the internal disputes and external challenges it went through, the IVD gathered over 60,000 statements and conducted several public hearings. As of this writing, the IVD is set to release its final report.
In contrast, Libya's earliest attempts at transitional justice policymaking under the un-elected National Transitional Council (NTC), were characterized by "the lack of transparency, the question of legitimacy (and) fears that the laws served the interests of specific groups (such as protecting members of the NTC from future prosecution and appeasing militia groups)" According to former ICTJ expert Marieke Wierda, "unlike in Tunisia, there was no broad public consultation on the law (Law 17), despite the importance of the social issues at stake." Subsequent changes to the law in 2013 (Law 28) by the elected General National Council (GNC) led to improvements, such as a Fact-Finding and Reconciliation Committee that more closely resembled a truth commission. Despite these changes, the FFRC has remained non-functional and "there was no known activity by the commission during the year (2018)."
the features of the UN-sponsored Misrata-Tawergha reparations-for-return agreement underline the problematic way reconciliation is framed in Libya
Aside from the IVD, Tunisia's TJ law creates several institutions that are envisioned to carry on the transitional justice process after the IVD submits its report. The law creates specialized criminal chambers to hear and try criminal cases referred by the IVD. In Libya, criminal prosecutions are focused on cases now pending at the International Criminal Court (ICC) involving crimes committed during the conflict. The Tunisia and Libya transitional justice laws vest the IVD and FFRC respectively with power to calculate the amount of compensation for victims, alongside other forms of reparation. The two laws also create a fund from which the compensation payments will be made. The focus on compensation and the apparent preference for a judicial approach to compensation suggests that the attitude toward reparation in both countries (and perhaps across the region) is still tied to the payment of money – which can create problems in the long-term in countries where competition over victimization exists.
While the revolutions in both countries were driven by corruption as a grievance, the Libyan law only contains a brief provision "encouraging the returning of illicitly-gained public funds" which, if returned "voluntarily" will extinguish criminal proceedings. While the Tunisia version creates a more complex arbitration process, the idea is the same: a negotiated outcome in which the return of stolen assets can extinguish liability. In Tunisia, and as it should in Libya, this raises questions around the transparency of the arbitration process. Already, a so-called "administrative reconciliation law" was passed in Tunisia granting amnesties to government officials who were complicit in corruption under Ben Ali but who claim to not have profited from it. ICTJ has criticized that law, along with the civil society and youth groups that once carried the revolution. The Libyan equivalent has not yet run into the same problems simply because it hasn't been implemented. But because these blanket amnesties can interrupt (or even end) transitional justice, it will be important for Tunisians to step across ideological and sectarian boundaries and oppose impunity.
Both Tunisian and Libyan efforts at transitional justice policymaking have recognized distinct grievances that were emblematic of each country's transition. For Tunisia, the marginalization of regions that were excluded by Ben Ali's economic and social policies and targeted for repression because they were bastions of Islamist or left-wing opposition is articulated as a distinct grievance. In Libya, the displacement of civilians is regarded as a specific violation requiring transitional justice policymaking. The treatment of displacement as a subject of transitional justice is important; if it is taken seriously in Libya, it may help offset the implications of the UN-sponsored Misrata-Tawergha agreement in which the people Misrata – seen as anti-Gaddafi — are to be given compensation before the displaced people of Tawergha, seen as pro-Gaddafi, can leave internal displacement camps and return to their original communities. Because this effectively makes a trade-off between the right to reparations and the right of displaced persons to return, it is problematic.
What can interrupt transitional justice?
While both the Tunisian and Libyan laws mention reconciliation, the Tunisian process highlights dignity more than reconciliation while the Libyan law not only states "(its) objective is to reach national reconciliation" but also refers to "community reconciliation." These different emphases reflect the contexts of the two countries and how their transitions unfolded. Unlike Libya, Tunisia's divisions are not tribal but more religious and ideological. Nonetheless, those divisions led to an early distrust of the transitional justice process among secular activists, who saw it as one that would favor the many Islamists, who were victims of human rights violations. These divisions have interrupted transitional justice in Tunisia a number of times, creating tension and even instances of political violence. If there are issues that could interrupt the pursuit of transitional justice in Tunisia, it would be any of two possibilities: the possibility of sectarian and secular groups escalating these tensions and, equally problematic, the possibility of an amnesty for corruption and human rights violations that could seriously undermine the process itself.
On the other hand, the features of the UN-sponsored Misrata-Tawergha reparations-for-return agreement underline the problematic way reconciliation is framed in Libya. The agreement is supposed to "achieve and consolidate reconciliation, peace and social harmony between Misrata and Tawergha." In the process, however, it may legitimize the extraction of vengeance in what should be a transitional justice process that avoids it. As discussed at the beginning of this paper, the shift from protest to war led to the de-prioritization of transitional justice measures dealing with the 42 years of Gaddafi's rule and an emphasis on war crimes, crimes against humanity and human rights violations committed during the 9 months of armed conflict. This kind of paradigm shift during a transition has been a subject of reflection within ICTJ: "in delicate transitional moments, political forces can easily sideline or quash victims' demands for justice, while formulaic approaches, sometimes championed by the international community, can overwhelm weak institutions and lead to very limited results."
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Bridal shop fulfills dream woman shared with her late mother
By KATHY PIERRE, Anderson Independent-MailMarch 11, 2019
ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Allie Walker's shared dream with her mother, Susan, almost didn't come to fruition.
Around Thanksgiving 2016, Walker and her mom started talking seriously about the logistics of opening their own bridal boutique.
But two weeks later, Susan Walker died of a heart attack at 60.
Since her mom's death, there have been a few times when Walker considered giving up on the shared dream, like when two different buildings she was in the early stages of buying were quickly sold. But she kept going.
"Because I know if I used her as an excuse not to do it, she would be really upset," Walker said of her mother. "If I used the building getting sold out from under me as an excuse, she would be like, 'You know better. Knock on another door.'"
On Feb. 25, Walker opened Katharine Marie Weddings in a temporary location on East Greenville Street until her permanent location on Benson Street downtown is renovated.
Walker, 29, was born and raised in Anderson and never imagined opening a business here, but she said she's seen the city change so much over the years that she changed her mind.
"I think seeing what could be in downtown, it just always kind of felt like that's where it needed to be," Walker said. "People think you have to go to Greenville to have this Pinterest-worthy wedding, and you don't even have to leave downtown Anderson.
"They think they want that Greenville experience or even Atlanta — when I worked at a bridal shop there, we'd have brides from Anderson ... because they want to go to Atlanta and get a hotel room and go do something fun," she said. "But you can do that here in Anderson and still get that upscale experience."
Shelby Clardy, manager at the Bleckley Inn, said she's excited for Walker's shop to open downtown.
"We're looking forward to sending our brides to Allie's boutique," she said.
Walker said she always wanted to be involved in the fashion world. She spent some time after graduating from the University of Georgia applying for fashion jobs in New York City while trying to convince her mom to move forward on opening their own shop.
She also worked for two years as a bridal stylist in Atlanta to make sure that's what she really wanted to do.
Having a bridal shop seems to run in the family. Walker's grandmother's aunt, Katharine Reed, ran a bridal shop on McDuffie Street more than 30 years ago.
That's where the Katharine in the store name comes from. Marie was Susan Walker's middle name.
Katharine Marie offers both wedding planning and wedding dresses, which combines what Walker says are the two aspects she enjoys most. The gowns she carries range in price from $1,500 to $3,600.
Walker said she will donate a portion of each of her sales to Haven of Rest in Anderson and Humanity and Hope United Foundation. The three veils she carries now are handmade by Polished Pearl, a company that employs survivors of trafficking in Moldova and India.
She hopes everyone is comfortable visiting the boutique, whether it is the temporary location or the future. She said people can expect the same amount of service in both locations.
She said she's heard horror stories from brides about their dress-shopping experiences, and she plans to have her store minimize the main stressors: family opinions, body image and budget.
She carries sample sizes from 6 to 20, and can order up to a size 32. She has a color-coded pricing system to keep brides from feeling ashamed of their budgets, and she plans to talk privately with brides ahead of time to understand the family dynamics at play with the fitting.
"It can be a memorable day and not a disaster," Walker said.
After her mother died, Walker went back to her job in Atlanta. She remembers the first time a mother and daughter came into the shop and had a touching moment like the one she imagined she would have dress shopping for her own wedding.
"I walked away, and was like, 'Can I do this?'" Walker said. "Am I going to cry at every appointment when a mom and daughter are really sweet? And I might, who knows? But at the same point, you can't let grief push you away from your dream. You can only let it push you toward it."
Walker hopes her downtown store location will be open by June and plans to hold a charity bridal fashion show as her grand-opening event.


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170,000 pcs of production volume per month; R&D team of structural/electrical/optical engineers; ISO9001 by SGS quality Control System; BSCI standard to human and environment care.
Keep the promise; Focus on what you do; Respect the truth; Create something new.
Establish Strategic relations of cooperation with SHARP and adjust marketing strategy.
New Workshop, 2500 ㎡ and 80 people Enter into Australia market.
It's a young team, all the team members are born after 1990s. Open-minded, enthusiastic and creative are the features of this generation. As the pioneers of the company, we focus on customer service and marketing research for current and future.
Our engineers are working in lighting field for over 10 years including mechanical and electrical part. They grow up with Norming and always keep an eye on the latest lighting technology, it makes them respond to the market and customers' need very quickly.
Be serious when it comes to QC system, our QC team is serious on what are they doing. Know the standard very well, skillful at the testing equipment and being strict on quality control from incoming material to finished product.
Standardize process is the key factor to make our production team effective. From SMT, DIP, assembly, aging to package, every worker in the production chain is well-trained before they start working. With the help of PIE(Process Integration Engineer) and QC team, our production team is growing up more effective and healthier.
Our warehouse is well organized by following ISO 9001 standard. There are separated zones for incoming raw material, raw material, finished products and sensitive electrical components. By this way, we find a easy and effective way to support production team for production and sales team for shipment.


It's not news that The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Kyle Richards is a die-hard dog person. (This is the woman whose only Christmas wish was for a fifth dog, after all.) But in a throwback picture that Kyle recently posted to Instagram (she found it while cleaning out her closet), it's clear that she's had a love of animals since a young age.
In the beautiful photo, Kyle smiles broadly alongside her sister, Kim Richards, their mother Kathleen (the spitting image of Kyle!), and an insanely happy looking white poodle.
Could they be any cuter?! With a family history like that, it's no wonder that Kyle turned out to be the animal enthusiast she is today!


The ZWO ASI290MM comes with a back-illuminated, 6.46mm diagonal size (type 1/2.8") Square Pixel Array Monochrome CMOS Image Sensor with IMPROVED VISIBLE LIGHT and NEAR INFRARED SENSITIVITY that supports 1080p.
Sony has developed the approx. 2.13M effective pixel back-illuminated CMOS image sensors IMX290LQR and IMX291LQR with improved sensitivity in the visible-light and near infrared light regions for industrial applications.
A new 2.9 µm-square unit pixel has been developed that combines a back-illuminated structure with technology for improving near infrared sensitivity to further enhance picture quality at low illumination while at the same time realizing Full HD cameras for industrial applications. This realizes two or more times the sensitivity in the visible-light region and three or more times the sensitivity in the near infrared light region than that of the existing Sony product (IMX236LQJ).
The result is extremely low read noise, an amazing 1e at 30dB gain and high sensitivity especially in the near IR range.
The characteristics of this camera suggest that with its very high sensitivity, low noise, small pixel sizes, comparatively high resolution and very high framerate this camera might become our lead planetary imager.
It is not meant to compete with an ASI174, ASI178 or ASI185 as those are more suited for a more versatile task when imaging larger objects; i.e. the ASI174 is excellent for imaging the Sun, the Moon and other larger objects or well suited for planets when used with very large telescopes, however the ASI290 will work very well with smaller telescopes when imaging really tiny objects like Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus, etc or maybe even small DSOs.
The ASI290MM camera comes with USB3.0 connection that gives you the opportunity to use it with newer laptops and is backward compatible with USB2.0. High framerates are not a guarantee for excellent images, but certainly helpful if other circumstances are given and especially helpful for the weather conditions of the average UK sky. There is no USB 2.0 version of this camera as that simply won't be enough to use the camera's possible high framerate, plus, for the same reason, we would really recommend to use it with USB3.0 compatible hardware as that's the only way to achieve very high framerates...Never-the-less it is backward compatible with USB2.0 computers where a lower framerate can be achieved.
Due to the high IR sensitivity and the various ways that this camera can be used, IR cut-off fiter is not built in so we would also recommend to buy it separately as well.
It comes with an AUTOGUIDER PORT just as many other ZWO cameras, so when you don't use it for imaging, you may use it for guiding in combination with another deep sky imaging camera!
This camera will mostly be used for imaging planets, but it can also be used for imaging small deep sky objects up to a certain level as it supports up to 2000 seconds exposure time.
Long time exposure up to 2000s!


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Persons wishing their grandchildren to maintain Dutch passports should apparently discourage voters in the Netherlands from backing either VVD or SP (see Saturday paper) during the Second Chamber of Parliament elections next March. Both parties want to adapt the Kingdom Charter to create a Commonwealth with Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten.
The liberal democratic VVD of Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the three Caribbean countries must agree to an independent status, while the currently opposition Socialist Party (SP) wants to replace the existing kingdom with cooperation on the basis of mutual respect and agreements on mutual support in the execution of government tasks. Exactly what to make of all that is anybody's guess, but it stands to reason that in a looser constitutional structure the future Dutch and consequently European Union (EU) citizenship for islanders is likely to become an issue eventually.
Not that the other main parties are crystal clear about in their intentions, but at least Christian democratic CDA, the democrats of D66 and Christian Union (CU) emphasise the importance of good relations within the kingdom. Their point of departure is to improve ties, rather than to – figuratively speaking – create more distance.
That doesn't mean they want to go easy on the islands. To the contrary, good governance and strong law enforcement are considered very important and efforts to promote such are bound to continue regardless of who form the next government in The Hague.
Still, there is a difference between wanting to ensure basic rights in the former colonies and doing so but with ultimately driving them away in mind. Given the choice, most Dutch Caribbean people would probably prefer the former at this point.


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University Students Share Their Thoughts on the Term "Publizen"
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Ewha Voice
By Shim Keum-jo
Do you like revealing yourself and your private life through photos and video clips on a website or blog? Think good, a popular university magazine found that eight out of ten college students considered themselves as a publizen, a newly coined word consisting of publicity and citizen.
This seems to be a trend spreading quickly among college students. But is it? The Ewha Voice listens to what students have to say about publizen.
Rhee Kang-soo (Yonsei University, 4) who has an average of 100 visitors every day to his blog does not really consider himself as a publizen. "Out of 100, I would give myself 30 points as a publizen. I don't really reveal my personal information,"says Rhee.
Regarding the term publizen, Rhee believes that it is not a new notion but an old one merely packaged differently. He says, "From the past, people liked to record their lives. Whether it was in the form of drawing on the cave walls or keeping a journal, the fundamental idea is the same. The great development of mass media and technology has made it easier for people to record their lives in forms of pictures and video clips. I guess this is the reason why such word as publizen is around."
Roh Young-joo (Politics & Diplomacy, 3) who has an average of 50 to 80 visitors a day to her blog does not seem to consider herself a publizen either. "I don't reveal my photos to everyone but only to the people I am close with. So, I don't see myself as a publizen. But if the scope of the term publizen includes revealing your photos of your everyday life to your friends, then I guess I do consider myself a publizen."Roh believes the reason for people wanting to reveal themselves on the Internet is the suppressed ego. "I think people have different sides that they want to show, yet they are afraid of what others will think of them if they do so in real life. With cyberspace, people can explore their other sides. Also with some audience, they would feel their existence,"says Roh.
David McIlwain (University of New South Wales, 3), an exchange student, who considers himself as the complete opposite of a publizen says that this trend is also common in Australia, especially among Asian students. He says, "The Internet offers an opportunity for social networking between people. They can share experiences with others yet within the shadow and without being forced to give more than what they have decided to give. I guess that is why the trend is becoming popular."Comparing the situation back home with Korea, McIlwain thinks the reason why it is more widely spread in Korea is the strong Internet culture and shy personality of Asians for social exchange. "If you don't have a presence in the Internet, I don't think you have a social identity. You can't resist it in Korea,"he adds.
All the students interviewed seemed unfamiliar with the term publizen. However, they seemed to have a clear understanding of the trend.
Regardless of whether it is a new trend spreading quickly among students or not, the old and basic human desire for a sense of existence seems to be intricately woven into this trend.
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One of the places I am really excited to visit is the Taling Chan Floating Market in Bangkok. It is located on the Khlong Chak Phra canal in Bangkok. Vendors sell their wares (fruit, vegetables, orchids, fish, etc.) from their boats and will bring it to you. Who needs Pizza Hut!? All I can say is gimme!!
As I mentioned earlier, I love fruit and veggies, however I have a special place in my heart for carbs (what girl doesn't?!) I never understood the whole chocoholic thing, give me a slice of bread or a slice of pie and I am the happiest girl in the world.
One of the things I am looking forward to the most while on our trip is eating some of my favorite foods in the places where they hail from. One of the foods on the top of that list would have to be naan bread. Our local tandoor makes some AMAZING naan. I love the crisp yet tender texture, and the richness from the ghee that is typically brushed over it. When we go to the tandoor we can't really see them make the naan, and I want to learn how to make it since I already know how to eat it! I am partial to the to the Kashmiri naan, its like the Indian version of the poptart, but better.
I am excited to see them made in person and eat them until I can no longer button my pants. lead you are going to have to roll me out of India!
In my introduction post, I went on and on about how I love food but completely forgot to mention how I love volunteering. I think it is very important for me to help individuals that are less fortunate than myself, think of it almost as a duty. I think the whole mentality of service was drilled into me when I was a Girl Scout, and I haven't shaken it. So I volunteer at work sponsered events and I am an assistant Girl Scout leader. So when I came across this post on apartment therapy today, mye eyes lit up. We could volunteer on our trip! Volunteer globalization here I come! I checked out Globe Aware and they have programs during our trip in places we were interested in visiting. I would be hard pressed to pick just one and would want to volunteer at all of them. I am sure lead would veto it, it can be expensive but what an experience! I will have to make sure I pack my work gloves.


#heyguys #itsme #again is both the character name and the title of these digital performances. What began as a silly little Snapchat post on 14 March 2017 turned into a yearlong commitment to regularly communicate with the public. I shared video messages as often as possible via my social media networks. As the incrementally-embodied persona continued to develop and feel right to me, I decided to definitely commit to the whole goofy year. After the year passed, I edited the saved recordings into the compilation above.


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Flexible organic field effect transistors (OFETs) are a promising class of flexible nonvolatile memories. However, fabrication of flexible OFET devices that offer low-voltage and high-speed operation remains a challenge. Here, we report a flexible OFET memory unit based on a novel gate stack consisting of pentacene as a semiconducting channel, poly(α-methylstyrene) as a charge-trapping layer, and amorphous Al2O3 as a charge-blocking layer, deposited sequentially on an Au-coated flexible muscovite substrate. The optimized flexible OFET structure has excellent electrical performance and mechanical flexibility, with an operating voltage as low as −4 V, an operating speed as fast as 100 μs, the largest memory window (1.73 V) provided +6 V, 100 μs program and −4 V, 100 μs erase pulses, a retention time far longer than 104 s, and program–erase endurance greatly exceeding 3000 cycles. The device can endure at least 5000 bending–unbending cycles. Of all flexible OFET nonvolatile memories reported to date, this OFET device offers the best overall electrical and mechanical properties and is extremely promising for future applications in flexible, lightweight, low-power, and high-speed nonvolatile memories.


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How Corporates are Responding to the Dollar Shave Club Deal
Posted by Tim Beyers on 8/9/16 9:00 AM
Unilever's $1 billion buyout of Dollar Shave Club proves that successful innovation comes in many forms. Sometimes, all you need is a great business idea, a strong team, and the willingness to follow-through.
And yes, it helps when you launch with a video that goes viral and which has since been viewed over 23 million times.
Smart marketing and packaging combined with a great price -- as little as $3 a month for good but basic razor blades -- allowed Dollar Shave Club to actively challenge entrenched brands such as Gillette and Schick.
Unilever could pay a premium for Dollar Shave Club, or watch the company go to a competitor like Procter & Gamble. In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru said the company had no choice but to act. "It's worse to have [Dollar Shave Club] in P&G's hands than for you to not spring an extra hundred million to get it yourself."
Founders may be rightly energized by the Dollar Shave Club drama. Four years of fast growth followed by a billion-dollar buyout is the stuff of which entrepreneurial dreams are made. "When I saw DSC's early numbers, I immediately knew they were on to something big," writes Venrock partner David Pakman in a blog post about the deal. (Venrock was an early investor in Dollar Shave Club.)
Every entrepreneur wants to believe they're also onto something big. Some, like Dollar Shave Club, actually are -- and for corporate incumbents that's a scary proposition as they're the targets that startups aim to disrupt.
Corporations can either respond by fostering more innovation internally, or, as Unilever did, pay a premium to acquire disruptors after they've proven themselves. Prefer to innovate? Corporate venturing has become an increasingly attractive option.
Building a Startup On the Inside
Put simply, corporate venturing is what big companies do when they want to back startups that could help their business. Think of it like R&D. Entrepreneurs use some corporate and VC money to develop a breakthrough, only to be acquired by one of the early investors -- usually a corporate venturer -- before the breakthrough goes mainstream. With Dollar Shave Club, Unilever never had that opportunity.
In the IT sector, Intel, Alphabet, and Salesforce.com are the biggest corporate venturers in terms of the number of deals, while China's Tencent, Microsoft, and Salesforce are the biggest when it comes to total deal value. All told, corporate venturers have inked 558 deals worth $37.2 billion in total capital since June 2015, according to Global Corporate Venturing (GCV), a trade publication that tracks how and where big companies invest.
Some corporates are inoculating against disruptors like Dollar Shave Club by starting their own incubators and accelerators. According to GCV founder James Mawson, a joint research project with Kauffmann Fellows recently identified 106 in-house corporate accelerators, up 20 percent over the past year.
"There are also many more independent accelerators working widely with corporations, and many in-house corporate accelerators under the radar, keeping a low profile in the public domain," Mawson said in an email interview.
Integrating Disruptive Models Pays Off
The rise of accelerators indicates that corporations are more interested in disrupting their own operations by funding startups they can acquire on the cheap than they are in being disrupted by an outsider that's become a threat that must be consumed -- whatever the price.
Either way, corporations are betting that they can integrate acquired businesses quickly, and that's not always true. As Mawson puts it, while Dollar Shave Club brings a different business model to Unilever and "that type of strategic or disruption optionality is always highly prized" there's going to be "integration and cultural challenges" that come with adding Dollar Shave Club to the Unilever portfolio. General Motors faces the same issue with its own $1 billion deal for Cruise Automation, whose technology could one day make self-driving cars a reality.
So is it worth it? Are corporate venturing and accelerators useful antidotes to startup disruption? The majors players in IT think so.
"From private equity-style roll-ups to accelerators and partnering, through R&D and M&A, and from seed to pre-IPO and Pipes, the variety and interest in how to deal with a corporation's main strategic challenge is impressive," Mawson says. "The best corporations are not leaving any stone unturned but the challenge remains the same -- sourcing and identifying the best entrepreneurs and ideas and then helping them succeed is difficult."
Perhaps, but imagine if Unilever had incubated Dollar Shave Club in its earliest days. Imagine if there was a built-in buyout arrangement. Maybe Dollar Shave Club wouldn't have generated as much buzz or grown as fast with that sort of safety net, but all the same business advantages -- the smart marketing and engaged customer base, for example -- would still have been there for the taking. And the price tag to acquire Dollar Shave Club probably would have been a lot less than $1 billion.
As the Dollar Shave Club example shows, corporate innovation requires an investment, but nothing compared to the cost of sitting back and having to make expensive acquisitions at a point when it's too late to engage promising startups.
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Q: group articles by day in django I'm trying to group articles in each day, image blow will show you how it looks like now

I have 3 records that have their date on top right of them, but as you can see each one of them is separated, I want to show record on this date in one group and tomorrow if I added more records shows on that date group,
my codes:
Models.py:
class Form(models.Model):

food_type = models.ForeignKey(FoodTypes, blank=False, null=True, on_delete=CASCADE)

calorie = models.CharField(max_length=50)

protein = models.ForeignKey(Protein, blank=False, null=True, on_delete=CASCADE)

carbohydrate = models.ForeignKey(Carbohydrate, blank=False, null=True, on_delete=CASCADE)

drinks = models.ForeignKey(Drinks, blank=False, null=True, on_delete=CASCADE)

fruits = models.CharField(max_length=50)
note = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True)

date = models.DateField(default=datetime.date.today)

views.py:
def requests(request):
lists = Form.objects.all().order_by('-date')
context = {
    'lists': lists
}
return render(request, 'form/requests_list.html', context)

template file:
    {% for lists in lists %}

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A: You can try using the {% ifchanged %} tag as mentioned in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3986324/4151233
Following code is not tested:
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Although the majority of dirt bikes are not deemed street legal, many insurance providers offer a diverse smattering of policies to insure your off-roading motorbike. Many times an insurance package can be customized to fit your dirt bike riding needs.
How is Dirt Bike Insurance Different than Motorcycle Insurance?
Dirt bikes and motorcycles are two distinct types of insurance policies. A liability policy for a street legal motorbike. Liability coverage is designed to cover on-road mishaps. Since not considered street legal, insuring a dirt bike requires obtaining coverage that fits your needs better.
Coverage for a dirt bike requires the consideration of some special conditions.
trailer or transportation utility. Insurance covering the vehicle itself will not provide protection if the thief decides to take your whole rig.
Fire Protection: While your bike may not burst into flames out on the trail, it may be damaged by a fire in your garage or some other location. An event of this kind may be covered by your homeowners or renters insurance but take care to be sure.
traveling to your off-road adventure and back to the house.
If you off-road competitively, you may be glad to hear that many companies offer motocross-specific insurance policies.
After you come to a decision as to basic coverages, there are many other riders available to provide you even more protections.
Cover Your Custom Accessories: If you have added custom features to your bike, this coverage will reimburse not only the book value but the value of your aftermarket accessories as well.
Comprehensive Coverage: This policy type is universal in its scope, providing protection against a multitude of calamities including vandalism, fire, and, theft. Beyond these protections, such policies may provide replacement for damage caused by "acts of God" such as tornados, floods or hail.
Collision Coverage: Just as with an on-road policy, this coverage pays if you collide with something off-road, like trees or fence posts.
Roadside Assistance: Believe it or not, there are policies available to help pull you out of messes you've gotten yourself into like misjudging how deep that mud really was or breaking down in the middle of nowhere.
As more and more providers are insuring dirt bikes, it makes good financial sense to compare quotes and get yourself covered. Check out a bunch because the greater the number of companies you research, the greater the chance you'll find a policy that meets both your needs and budget.


«Это дождь? Или жизнь отражается в лицах?
Это боль. По тому, что никак не случится.
Никогда. Никогда не найдя исцеленья.
Снова - погожий осенний денёк.
Сегодня в теме - музыка Э. Грига.
символ ожидания и тоски, бесконечной верности и вечной любви.
«Никогда. Не почувствовать нежности взгляда.
Не беда. Кто-то всё же окажется рядом.
В суете. Раздражая дежурной улыбкой.
В теме - живопись Чешского художника, который нынче живёт и творит в Канаде.
"Frantisek Strouhal was born in Moravia from a family of painters and artists. He currently lives in western Canada. As a creator of exquisite mixed media artwork, which he has titled "Art Embracing Awareness", he is internationally admired for his flawless use of traditional 19th century techniques combined with his unique contemporary yet timeless artistic vision.
The human form is essential to Strouhal's art work which he describes as "the most universal symbol of beauty that can stir and satisfy the mind and heart."Art Embracing Awareness" embodies the purpose of my work. One of its essential aspect explores thoughts and inspirations of an existential nature and investigates the interaction and harmony between the spiritual and the physical world. My work exists to connect with others in contemplation, and peace. It is not static, but invites interaction. Changing with the light, it maneuvers through various conditions imparting distinctive messages at different times. Texture also plays the important role of portraying the energy and strength which emanate from beneath the surface of the subjects.
My sincere hope is that my artwork and personal stories will engage the viewer to experience a ray of serenity.
The oil print process, whose origins go back to the mid-nineteenth century, works on the same principle as lithographic printing, which is that oil and water don't mix. The prints are made on paper with a thick gelatin layer that has been sensitized with ammonium dichromate. Exposure using a negative for contact-printing leads to hardening of the dichromated gelatin, in direct relation of the amount of light received. After the paper is washed and dried, it gets soaked in water again. Lithography oil based ink is applied to the paper and sticks to the areas with the hardened gelatine, but the water-swollen areas of the paper repel the ink. The non-mixing character of oil and water results in a coloring of the exposed parts of the print, creating a positive image. The ink application requires considerable skill, and as a result no two prints are alike.
2014 "Envisioning Women", Sydney & Gertrude Zack Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
«Я иду. Только чтобы успеть до заката.
Будет ночь. Понимаешь, она виновата.
Не судьба. Просыпаться от меццо дыханья.


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Wessel Marais B.Sc., M.Sc. (1929-2013) was a South African botanist and plant collector.

Wessel was born in Colesberg, Northern Cape Province, on 28 December 1929, the youngest of the ten children of Barend Pieter Marais, the last blacksmith and wagon builder of Colesberg, who was of French Huguenot descent. He studied at Pretoria University (1947-1951) where he obtained an M.Sc. in Botany for the thesis 'A Morphological study of an indigenous species of rice, Oryza barthii A. Chev.'. He then (1952) joined the National Herbarium (PRE) where he undertook fieldwork during an internship in Kruger National Park and in Namibia. From 1953 to 1955 he was director of the Albany Museum Herbarium (GRA) in Grahamstown, where he studied South African Cruciferae for the Flora of Southern Africa. He carried out collecting trips to the Southwestern Cape Province, Natal, Lesotho, the Transkei, Pondoland, Griqualand East and other localities. He collected over 1,500 specimens jointly with Van der Schijff in the Kruger National Park and with Bernard de Winter in northern S.W. Africa.

He was the South African Liaison Officer at Kew Gardens (1957-1965). He then worked in the nursery trade before joining the permanent staff at the Herbarium, Kew, in 1968, initially as Senior Scientific Officer and later Principal Scientific Officer. In 1970 he became Curator of Petaloid Monocots.

At Kew he contributed to and edited the Flore des Mascareignes; he wrote the account for Tulipa for the Flora of Turkey and Romulaea for Flora Europaea. He collected in Turkey and Réunion.

One of his more unusual contributions was the identification of Pilea peperomioides, the 'Chinese Money Plant', and he kept a plant on the window sill of his office.

He took early retirement from Kew in 1986 because of arthritis. He lived in Lasvaux, Cazillac in France where he died, 27 January 2013, in a care home in Martel, Lot.

Crotalaria damarensis Engl. var. maraisiana Torre, Heliophila maraisiana Al-Shehbaz & Mummenhoff, and Polyscias maraisiana Lowry & G.M.Plunkett were named after him.

Selected publications
 The Proposed flora of Southern Africa. (1958). Marais, Wessel. Memorias da Sociedade Broteriana. Coimbra 13:51-52.
 Notes on South African Cruciferae. Marais, W. (1966). Bothalia 9:97-112
 New and interesting records of African plants: Cruciferae: a new combination in Silicularia. (1969). Marais, Wessel. Bothalia, 10:70.
 Cruciferae. In L.E. Codd, B.D. Winter, D.J.B. Killick & H.B. Rycroft (Editors). (1970). Flora of Southern Africa 13:1-118
 Taxonomic Notes on Romulea (Iridaceae) from the Mediterranean Region. (1975). Kew Bulletin, 30(4), 707-708.
 A New Mascarene Sesuvium (Aizoaceae). Marais, W. (1978). Kew Bulletin, 32(2), 483-483.
 A New Combination in Nesogenes (Dicrastylidaceae). Marais, W. (1979). Kew Bulletin, 33(3), 420-420.
 Savannosiphon gen. nov., a segregate of Lapeirousia (Iridaceae - ixioideae). (1979). Goldblatt, Peter; Marais, Wessel. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 66:845-850
 Notes on Tulipa (Liliaceae). Marais, W. (1980). Kew Bulletin, 35(2), 257–259.
 A New Species of Pleurostylia (Celastraceae) from Rodrigues. Marais, W. (1981). Kew Bulletin, 36(2), 229–230.
 Notes on Mascarene Araliaceae. Marais, W. (1984). Kew Bulletin 39: 809-816
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Park Consult | Could the law on parking charge notices change this year?
In a Court of Appeal hearing earlier this year, Beavis had argued that an £85 private parking charge notice, which had been issued by ParkingEye for overstaying a limited period of free parking wasn't comparative to the loss incurred by the firm, but the Court of Appeal ruled against Mr Beavis, deeming the £85 to be reasonable. However, clarification wasn't given on what constitutes an unreasonable fine, leaving some uncertainty on the law in this regard and the Court of Appeal granted Mr Beavis permission to appeal its judgement.
If the Supreme Court moves to overturn the Court of Appeal judgement, a new precedent would be created that could alter how private parking charge notices are issued and set limits on the charges, potentially retrospectively.
The consequences of such a ruling would have a huge impact on the car parking industry and the management of private car parks, which in recent years has seen a drive for a low-cost/ no-cost service to landowners offset by the operators ability to generate revenue through the issuing and payment of private parking charge notices.
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Shakespeare never allows the supernatural to take the upper hand in the dramatic action of his tragedies. Shakespeare's tragic world is essentially the human world in which man initiates actions and pursues them to their true end; they suffer for their own deed that issues out of their own characters. But Shakespeare thus makes an efficient use of the supernatural to add extra significance to the meaning of his plays. The appearance of the three witches in Macbeth and of the ghost of Hamlet's father in Hamlet are two brilliant examples of the use of supernatural in his plays. These supernatural elements add an extra dimension of mystery and fear. The world we live in is not wholly intelligible to us. There are mysterious forces working and shaping our destiny when the ghost arrives from the other world. He comes bursting the frame of mortal understanding; he comes as a traveler from that country "from whose bourn no traveller returns." The knowledge, the secret that the ghost brings with it not only puts Hamlet into a whirlwind of emotional response, it also denotes that something is rotten behind the happy and prosperous facade of the Danish Court. How murder has been committed and a betrayal of the worst kind has taken place.
The ghost is also structurally important in the play because real actions start with the ghost's revelation of the secret to Hamlet. It is the commandment of the ghost to take revenge against Claudius that makes Hamlet put on "antique disposition" to plan the play within the play and to seek an opportunity to execute his task of revenge. The ghost reappears in the scene with Hamlet's mother. Hamlet has been delaying in taking his revenge and the ghost reappears to remind him of his neglected duty.
The Elizabethan audience had a mixed attitude towards ghosts. They neither disbelieved their existence nor did they take them as a reality. The opening scene of Hamlet is one of the most striking openings in Shakespeare's dramas. The whole world is asleep at midnight; only three watchmen are keeping watch in darkness and awaiting the arrival of a ghost with frightened hearts. The sense is a mystery and ominous overtakes the characters on the stage, as well as the audience critics, are almost unanimous in praising the creation of the atmosphere of uncertainty, suspense mystery, and fear in the opening scene.
The ghost is thus an integral part of the structural design of the play. It provides the hero with the motive for revenge and thus initiates the tragic action. The ghost is indispensable from the point of view of the plot which hinges on the secret revealed by it to Hamlet. The impact of its appearance on Hamlet's mind is tremendous. Hamlet's known world is certainly usurped by the mysterious world of the dead. Hamlet immediately resolves to carry out the ghost's order. But as the days pass we find Hamlet in a despondent mood, as he finds this task of killing a murderer irksome.
The second appearance of the ghost takes place in Act-III, Scene- IV, when Hamlet is talking to his mother in her chamber. This time it is visible only to Hamlet, while Hamlet's mother feels surprised to see Hamlet gazing at nothing. In the first appearance, it was visible to Marcellus, Bernardo, Horatio, and Hamlet. So it had an objective existence, it was not just a figment of Hamlet's imagination. But in the second appearance, it seems to be a hallucination of his guilty conscience. His conscience comes in the form of the ghost urging and spurring him to take revenge.
Shakespeare makes the ghost plausible to the audience by humanizing it. It is significant that after the closet scene, it does not appear again. By this time Hamlet has got the complete proof of Claudius's guilt, this problem of "to be or not to be" is resolved. The ghost as an initiator and supporter of an action becomes redundant.


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Червоная Дача () — посёлок в Драбовском районе Черкасской области Украины.

Население по переписи 2001 года составляло 28 человек. Почтовый индекс — 19820. Телефонный код — 4738.

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What Does it Mean for Cancer Research When Results Can't Be Reproduced?
Getting a successful outcome from a cancer-research study is just one step of a very long process. Key in that journey to providing assistance for cancer patients is replication — that the research can be conducted again, with the same results.
If replication fails, does that mean success is out of reach? That's a question researchers are trying to answer.
The issue was recently tackled by the Center for Open Science. After seeing a trend of cancer research not being able to be replicated, COS undertook its own study. So far, researchers completed five of 50 replication attempts, and found three of the studies showed markedly different results from the originals.
Of those, two had already progressed to the point where scientists were testing the experiments on people, instead of lab animals, a multi-million-dollar undertaking.
While there's no firm answer yet on what could be causing the studies to lack agreement, what is clear is that more research is needed to ensure that studies aiming to provide assistance for cancer patients are making the most of researchers' resources.


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James H. Stronge, Ph.D., is the Heritage Professor in the Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership Area at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. His research interests include policy and practice related to teacher quality, and teacher and administrator evaluation. He has worked with numerous school districts and other educational organizations to design and implement evaluation systems for teachers, administrators, and support personnel. His work on effective teachers focuses on how to identify effective teachers and how to enhance teacher effectiveness. Dr. Stronge has presented his research at conferences such as American Educational Research Association and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, conducted workshops for national and state organizations, and worked with local school districts. He has been a teacher, counselor, and district-level administrator. His doctorate is in the area of educational administration and planning from the University of Alabama. University of Alabama
Ginny Tonneson, Ph.D., serves as Vice President of Stronge and Associates. Ginny has leveraged her extensive education, professional development, and program management expertise from her 20 years of service in the U.S. Air Force to conduct business operations, training, and technical development in support of the Stronge Teacher and Leader Effectiveness System. In this capacity, she works with international, state and regional education agencies as well as individual school districts. Ginny has taught at the elementary through graduate levels and has been a higher education administrator. She has presented at national-, state-, and local-level conferences in the areas of leadership, mathematics, and gifted education. Her current areas of research interest include teacher leadership and teacher effectiveness. Her work has been published in both books and peer-reviewed journals. Ginny received her doctoral degree in Educational Policy, Planning and Leadership from the College of William and Mary.
Xianxuan Xu, Ph.D., received her doctorate from the College of William and Mary's Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership Program. Currently, Dr. Xu is working as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate for a state-wide teacher evaluation project which is funded by the Virginia Department of Education and based at the College of William and Mary. Her research interests are teacher effectiveness, professional development, and teacher and principal evaluation. Dr. Xu's research also focuses on international comparative analyses of teacher qualities in the United States and China. She has presented findings of her research on U.S.-China teacher effectiveness and teacher evaluation at national conferences, such as American Educational Research Association, University Council for Educational Administration, and National Evaluation Institute. She is also the contributing author to Effective Teachers = Student Achievement: What the Research Says authored by James H. Stronge and published by Eye on Education in 2010.
Matthew Tonneson, M.E.S.E., is the Chief Technology Officer of Stronge and Associates. He is responsible for designing, developing and building the digital components of the company, from video production to web development and back-end management. In addition to his duties, Matt manages a team of controllers responsible for real-time command and control of assets in an operational environment--as a side job! Prior to joining Stronge and Associates, Matt was an Executive Officer in the U.S. Air Force and a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Lauri M. Leeper, Ph.D., is the Director of Instructional Design and Development. She is also a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and works with several state agencies and school districts on teacher and administrator evaluation systems. She is a former middle school and elementary school teacher, and library media specialist and has taught up through the graduate level. She has presented at national-, state-, and local-level conferences on topics including closing the achievement gap, effective schools, information literacy, problem-based learning, and curriculum design. Her research interests include effective reading comprehension instruction, teacher effectiveness, teacher/administrator evaluation, and teacher leadership. Lauri received her doctoral degree in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership from the College of William and Mary.
Mary Wallen is the Director of Project Planning. She has over 38 years of educational experience in an urban public school district in Virginia, serving in positions ranging from that of a classroom teacher to a central office administrator. Her classroom experience included both regular and gifted education in an elementary setting. After 15 years of teaching in the classroom, she spent the next three years as a "teacher trainer" providing professional development to teachers in grades pre-K through 12. Mary then became an elementary school administrator, serving as the principal of two elementary schools for the next 20 years. In her last role with the district she was a Leadership Coach, providing guidance and support to principals of Title I schools. Mary received her B.S. from Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts and her MA. Ed. from the College of William and Mary.
Nancy Richmond, Ed.D., is New Jersey Coordinator for the Stronge Teacher and Leader Evaluation models in the Garden State. Following a 34-year career in public education, Nancy was a member of the Senior Staff at the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors' Association. As a public educator in New Jersey, Nancy served as teacher, reading specialist, and elementary principal. In 1998 she was named National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and in 1993 the school where she was principal was named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Nancy co-authored a book on school leadership entitled, Learning to Lead: Ten Stories for Principals, and has been a featured writer for Principal Magazine. She has presented on numerous occasions at state, national, and international conventions. Nancy earned the Ed.D. in organizational leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Carol Pollack is the Stronge & Associates Arizona Coordinator. She has 32 years of educational experience in Arizona. She has held the positions of high school teacher, department chair, high school assistant principal, high school principal and central office administrator. She also serves as adjunct faculty for Arizona State University. She has presented at Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and has currently led the teacher and leader evaluation process for her district providing training and professional development for teachers and administrators. Carol Pollack received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and a Masters of Education in Educational Leadership both from Northern Arizona University.
Rachel Previs Ball, Ed.D., currently services as a principal of a primary school in a Virginia school district while also working on special projects for Stronge & Associates. She received her undergraduate, master's, and doctorate degrees from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her dissertation addressed Virginia principals' knowledge of classroom assessment and support of assessment for learning practices. She is a graduate of the School University Research Network's Principal Academy, where she completed a two-year action research project that focused on providing formative observation feedback to teachers regarding student engagement. Her participation in this research and academy led to presentations at national conferences as well as a co-authored article in JSD: The Learning Forward Journal. As part of the S&A team, Rachel has worked with the Virginia Department of Education to develop a guidance tool that supports the issues of chronic absenteeism and student behavior in Virginia's public schools.
Joanne Kerekes joined Stronge & Associates in April 2019 as the New Jersey Stronge Coordinator. During her 43 years in education, Joanne served as teacher, unit leader, staff developer, principal, and assistant superintendent. Joanne was honored to receive the Rutgers Graduate School of Education Distinguished Alumni Service Award, the NJ Music Educators Administrator of the Year Award, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Principal Fellowship. Joanne has authored articles for Leadership in Crisis and the Middle School Journal and her work in supervision was featured in the ASCD production of Portfolios for Practicing Teachers. Joanne has extensive presentation experience, including moderating at the AASA/NJASA /NJPSA Women's Leadership Conference, facilitating at the Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement Equity Conference, and being the keynote speaker for NJASL and Rutgers Ed Camp. As an early adopter of the Stronge Evaluation System and member of the Achieve New Jersey Advisory Committee, Joanne brings a wealth of expertise as an experienced practitioner and trainer to the job.
Kate Wolfe Maxlow has worked as a teacher, an instructional coach, and a professional learning coordinator in Virginia school districts, with a focus on aligned and engaging instruction. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in History and from the College of William and Mary with a Master's in Elementary Education. Through her work with Stronge & Associates, she has traveled the country to train educators on topics such as teacher evaluation, creating more valid and reliable assessments, and providing evidence-based feedback. In her work with the Virginia Department of Education, she helped to create an Academic Review system for districts to self-assess their alignment between the written, taught, and assessed curriculum. She was the lead author on the book, 20 Formative Assessment Strategies that Work (2017, Routledge), which featured a start-to-finish guide for practical and engaging activities to assess student understanding.
Matthew Certo, Ed.D., serves as a Stronge & Associates trainer in New Jersey. He has 26 years of service in education in both public and private schools in New York and in New Jersey. His professional work began in N.Y.C. as an elementary and middle school teacher, while he completed his graduate fellowship at Fordham University's Graduate School of Education. After completing his doctoral work in Educational Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University, he served as a teacher, coach, supervisor, testing coordinator, assistant principal and principal at several high schools throughout Northern Jersey's Hudson, Passaic and Bergen counties. With the goal of improving academic instruction and student achievement, Matt has infused the educational research of Dr. Stronge (Qualities of Effective Teachers, 2020) and others into observations and professional development opportunities for his staff throughout his career.
April Gonzalez joined Stronge and Associates in August 2019 as a trainer. During her 32 years in education, April served in the South Brunswick School District, her alma mater, as an English teacher, English and Social Studies Supervisor, Assistant Principal of Academic Leadership, and a principal of an elementary school. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Montclair State University with a major in English and Psychology and attended graduate school at Marygrove and The College of New Jersey. Throughout her career, April has provided professional development on various topics, district-wide, and served as a lead trainer for mentors of novice teachers. She has presented numerous workshops at conventions for the National Council for Teachers of English and the Conference of English Leadership. She has served as an editor for authors and contributed chapters for texts on differentiated instruction. Given her K-12 experience, as well as leadership in professional learning, Mrs. Gonzalez brings expertise and enthusiasm to the role of trainer.
Rick Chromey joined Stronge and Associates in July 2019 as a trainer. His broad experiences throughout his 38 years in public education in New Jersey are a welcome asset to the Stronge and Associates Team. Early in his career, Rick taught at the elementary and middle school levels and served as a Team leader. He began his administrative career in 2001 when he became an elementary school principal. Rick went on serve as Director of Assessment, Director of Human Resources, and as Assistant Superintendent where he evaluated and supported school leaders using the Stronge Teacher and Leader Effectiveness System. He was a Geraldine R. Dodge Grant Recipient and was selected to serve on the Curriculum Advisory Committee for the National Middle School Association. Rick earned his Master's Degree in Educational Leadership from the College of New Jersey.
Natalie Lacatena, Ph.D., joined Stronge and Associates in August 2019 in the role of trainer. During her 30 years of service in education, she served as a teacher, administrator, and Central Office member and currently serves as the Assistant Superintendent of Education for the Fair Lawn School District, New Jersey. In this capacity, one of her primary responsibilities is the oversight and delivery of teacher professional development, including the annual training of new teachers, educational specialists, and district leaders in the Stronge Performance Evaluation System. Natalie received her doctorate from Montclair State University's Teacher Education and Teacher Development program, and her research interests include teacher beliefs and inclusive education.
Bill Connolly joined the New Jersey team in August 2019 as a trainer. In his 32nd year in education, Bill has served as a high school English teacher, coach, adviser, NJ secondary literacy specialist, and as a supervisor in K-12 and 9-12 districts. He currently serves as the Director of Curriculum of the Rancocas Valley Regional High School District, where he oversees the evaluation system, professional development, and the mentoring program. He is fortunate to collaborate with a talented team of teachers and administrators on the integration of the district's curriculum, instruction, and assessment systems. Bill has evaluated teachers and supervisors using the Stronge TEPES and LEPES systems and believes strongly in the value and applicability of the standards, as well as the reflective and conversational components of the Stronge system.
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Lisa Ann Gable, age 57, of Plymouth, WI, passed away on Friday (November 16, 2018) unexpectedly at her home.
She was born on November 10, 1961 in Galesburg, Illinois, a daughter of the late Jesse and Murel (Arie) Young.
Lisa attended Henderson Grove Grade School in Henderson Grove, Illinois and graduated from Galesburg Senior High School.
Lisa attended the University of Wisconsin Madison for nursing.
On August 28, 1982, she married Curtis Robert Gable at St. Peters Lutheran Church in Richford, Wisconsin.
Lisa worked for various outside sales for a number of years.
She enjoyed doing arts and crafts, participated in the Kindness Rock Project in town, and loved spending time with her dog, Aeris.
Survivors include her three children: Ryan (Laura) Young and their children: Jesse, Lucas, Dylan, and Noah Young all of Elkhart Lake; Lauren (John) Rose and their son: Dakota Rose all of Peshtigo; and Benjamin (Holly) Gable of Burke, VA; and One sister: Loretta (Lawrence "Larry") Hayes of Galesburg, IL.
Lisa is also survived by many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
She is preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Jesse Jr. "Pete" and Lyle Young.
Following Lisa's wishes, cremation has taken place and a celebration of life will be held on Wednesday (Nov. 21) at Suchon Funeral Home in Plymouth. Friends and family may gather at the funeral home from 3:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M on Wednesday.
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