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Lakers Recap: Jordan Clarkson Helps L.A. Salvage Road Trip With 100-93 Win Over Suns
Lakers News: Lonzo Ball Has No Complaints About Sitting In 4th Quarter Of Win Vs. Suns
Eric Avakian
The Los Angeles Lakers landed in Arizona and were attempting to salvage their four-game road trip with a victory over Phoenix Suns. They came close in a clash with the Milwaukee Bucks, where Lonzo Ball become the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double. However, he took no pride in the accomplishment, stating that the only thing that matters was winning the contest.
That kind of demeanor is something that head coach Luke Walton hopes his entire team will pick up, going up against another up and coming team in the Western Conference. The battle between the two Pacific Division foes also had another twist, with Jay Triano named the interim head coach in lieu of the Earl Watson firing.
The Suns have also hit their own bumpy road of late, ending a five-game losing streak during their previous game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Triano started out the contest with Tyler Ulis, Devin Booker, T.J. Warren, Marquese Chriss, and Tyson Chandler. The Lakers countered with their usual lineup of Lonzo Ball, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma, and Brook Lopez.
First Quarter:
Coming into the game, the Lakers coaching staff had been displeased with the number of turnovers per game, as the Lakers attempt to clean up their mental mistakes. Los Angeles attempted to exploit the height difference at the point guard position, with the 6'6″ Ball starting in the post against the 5'10" Ulis.
However, in the last game of a week-long road trip, the Lakers started off a bit sluggish from the field. A few quick turnovers gave the Suns some transition opportunities, with Booker starting off hot from the field. They fell down 9-0, until the team responded with a bit of a run of their own. Lopez got things going with a bucket in the paint, while Ball followed with an easy lay-up for his first bucket of the night.
Los Angeles then capped off their own 9-0 run with a Caldwell-Pope three-pointer, a game that would go on to feature plenty of runs. Both teams decided to place rather tall lineups into the game, with Andrew Bogut, Julius Randle, Dragan Bender, and Alex Len all checking in within a matter of a minute.
That gave the second unit of the Lakers a boost defensively, with Bogut claiming five rebounds a help-side block during his time in the game. Caldwell-Pope's second three-pointer of the game tied the game 19-19, as he called for the ball wide open in transition.
The Lakers were able to hold on for a 21-20 lead to end the first quarter, thanks to a solid defensive end to the quarter. Booker led the way for the Suns with nine points, showing off that deadly shooting touch.
Second Quarter:
Jordan Clarkson was also able to make an immediate impact to start off the second quarter, getting five straight points and giving the Lakers a 29-23 lead. He was then able to hit a difficult lay-up navigating around Len, finishing with his left hand.
The game then turned into a marathon of sorts, as both teams suddenly drastically increased the pace of play. The track meet did get sloppy, as both teams each made a few blunders that turned into lost possessions. Los Angeles found themselves lost in transition matchups, with Booker nailing a wide-open three from the corner.
Clarkson personally accepted the challenge of leading his team in the second quarter, nailing another mid-range jump shot to give him 14 straight points halfway through the second quarter. However, Booker was just as hot as his counterpart, swishing another three-pointer over the outstretched hand of Kuzma. As the Lakers shifted more towards containing him, the Suns were able to spread the wealth and find their teammates to build a 39-33 lead.
The Lakers were able to bring the deficit down to a point with a Kuzma three-pointer on a beautiful possession filled with plenty of ball rotations. This game was a back-and-forth contest from the getgo, with both teams trying to notch their sixth win of the season.
Caldwell-Pope's third three-pointer of the first half tied the game at 41 points apiece, with 11 points to pair alongside Clarkson's strong first half. A last-second shot from Booker driving down the lane gave the Suns a 44-43 lead going into halftime. He was the offensive juggernaut for Phoenix, scoring 22 points, while Caldwell-Pope finished with 11 points, five rebounds, and three assists.
Third Quarter:
Just like he did in the first half, Caldwell-Pope was able to start off the second half confident with his shot. He knocked down his fourth three-pointer of the game, followed by a Lopez three that gave Los Angeles the 49-46 lead.
Ball then got in on the scoring by using some strength to take Ulis all the way to the rim, followed by an assist to Lopez in the paint for the easy basket. Lopez would go on to hit a pair of nice post moves in the paint, while Ball nailed an impressive 31-foot stepback three-pointer to bring the Lakers within three(64-61).
The Lakers certainly were trying to show more grit defensively in the second half, starting from Caldwell-Pope. He was able to strip Josh Jackson on a dribble, diving for the ball and deflecting it to Corey Brewer for the open dunk. However, the main defensive concern continued to be how to effectively contain Booker, as he reached 29 points on the night with three minutes still left in the quarter.
Bender was also having a career night alongside Booker's strong performance, reaching a career-high on two free throws after a scary fall in the paint. Luckily for him, Randle's body was able to cushion the blow midflight, as he took a few minutes to gather himself.
Brewer was able to get his second field goal of the night on a driving lefty lay-up over the interior of the Suns, while Clarkson followed in Brewer's footsteps with a lay-up that gave the Lakers a 74-73 lead at the end of three. Los Angeles ended the quarter on a 9-3 run to retake the lead, setting the stage for an interesting final quarter.
Fourth Quarter:
Clarkson got the Lakers started off with another mid-range jump shot, while Randle gave his team a four-point lead on a straightaway three via a great screen by Bogut. The Australia native was truly impacting the paint in his limited minutes, emphatically swatting Mike James' shot attempt at the rim.
The teams would continue this see-saw type matchup, with both teams failing to create a sizable lead. Ingram was able to use a Bogut screen to curl around Chandler for a driving dunk, while Brewer finished one of his patented acrobatic lay-ups for an 85-81 lead.
A Booker mid-range shot cut the lead in half, but Ingram was able to find Kuzma wide open for a three-pointer on the left wing. Walton had to have been pleased with his team's defensive approach to start the fourth, including some spectacular defense from Brewer.
With the task of face-guarding Booker, he was able to force a bad pass, a get clean strip, and tie Chandler up for a jump-ball. However, Booker got the last laugh on that play by nailing a desperation three. Kuzma was able to match Booker with his second three of the quarter, giving Los Angeles the 94-88 lead with less than four minutes remaining.
The Lakers were then able to force to horrendous shots from the Suns, translating to a Clarkson lay-up and a 10-point lead. With the comfortable lead, the Lakers just needed to finish the game smart, as Clarkson, Brewer, Ingram, Kuzma, and Lopez finished out the contest.
A pair of free throws from the Suns brought the lead down to seven, with just under a minute remaining. Things got a little heated when Booker missed a three near the Lakers bench, only to walk up to the opposing team having to be separated. The Lakers would go on to close out a 100-93 victory, limiting the Suns to just 20 points in two of the four quarters(1st and 4th).
Clarkson finished the game with a season-high 25 points, shooting 11-for-19 from the floor. Caldwell-Pope also chipped in 15 points, nine rebounds, three assists, and two steals. Booker finished with a game-high 36 points, but went ice cold from the floor to end the game. The Lakers salvaged the end of their road trip with a victory, now returning to the confines of home.
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Chapter 9 of my forthcoming book opens with quotes from an infamous April 2011 BBC interview with RIM's co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, in which he ends the interview abruptly after the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones presses him to answer questions about RIM's "arguments with the Indian government and various other governments in the Middle East" over those governments' desire to gain access to Blackberry messages and e-mails. In August 2010, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia threatened to ban BlackBerry services until RIM agreed to allow a satisfactory level of government access to communications sent through RIM devices within the country. India soon followed suit with its own demands for access. Late last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that RIM has set up a facility in Mumbai "to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services." The report further quotes a RIM statement which says that "we believe the government of India is now applying its security policy in a consistent manner to all handset makers and service providers in India, which means that RIM should not be singled out any more than any other provider."
There is a larger problem, however. When it comes to censorship in India, the hardworking folks at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore recently concluded that the Indian government is violating not only Indian laws but also the Indian Constitution in the way it handles censorship demands to companies. What are the chances, then, that the Indian government is not violating its citizens' rights in similar ways when it comes to demands for user information to RIM and other mobile service providers? CIS's Pranesh Prakash compared Google's most recent Transparency Report, which reveals the number of content removal and user data requests made between January and June 2011 by the Indian government, and compared that information with an official response to CIS queries on content removal and blocking by the Ministry of Communications & Information Department of Information Technology. Prakash's conclusion:
...it would seem that law enforcement agencies are operating outside the bounds set up under the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, as also the Information Technology Act, when they send requests for removal of content to companies like Google. While a company might comply with it because it appears to them to violate their own terms of service (which generally include a wide clause about content being in accordance with all local laws), community guidelines, etc., it would appear that it is not required under the law to do so if the order itself is not legal. However, anecdotal evidence has it that most companies comply with such 'requests' even when they are not under any legal obligation to do so. This way the intention of Parliament in enacting s.69A of the IT Act—to regulate government censorship of the Internet and bring it within the bounds laid down in the Constitution—is defeated.
As I reported in the book, in April 2011, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology issued new rules under which Internet companies are expected to remove within thirty-six hours any content regulators designated as "grossly harmful," "harassing," or "ethnically objectionable." Indian free speech advocates have vowed to challenge the rules' constitutionality. Google publicly protested the rules in a statement warning that "if Internet platforms are held liable for third party content, it would lead to self-censorship and reduce the free flow of information." As Prakash put it then, "The Indian Constitution limits how much the government can regulate citizens' fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression. Any measure afoul of the constitution is invalid."
More details about surveillance and censorship in India can be found in the India-focused chapter of a new book, Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace, produced by the Open Net Initiative, coming out in December from MIT Press. The India chapter is not currently available online but I discuss India's issues in a related chapter titled "Corporate Accountability in Networked Asia" (The Citizenlab, one of ONI's partners, has made that chapter, along with all of Part I of the book, available online here.) I wrote it late last year and it went into production before the new April 2011 rules came out (academic presses take a long time), but I think the larger point remains very relevant. I compare the role played by companies in facilitating government censorship and surveillance in China to the role of companies in two Asian democracies: South Korea and India. I argue that "efforts to hold companies accountable for free speech and privacy in authoritarian countries like China will face an uphill battle unless companies in Asia's democracies are pushed by domestic civil society actors to defend and protect user rights in a more robust manner than is currently the case."
The first step is for companies to follow Google's lead in being more transparent about how they respond to government demands. Then civil society organizations in democracies, like India's CIS, will be equipped and empowered with the information they need to push their governments to stop using companies as an opaque and unaccountable extension of state power. RIM can and must recognize that by being evasive with the public it is standing firmly on the wrong side of history.
Here is the video of Lazaridis' interview:

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This feature (Application Profiles) will only be available to CommCare users with an Advanced Plan or higher. For more details, see the CommCare Software Plan page.
Application profiles let you control which languages (and any multimedia for these languages) are installed on a phone. You can create multiple application profiles for your application that allow you to install different languages to different phones. Future application updates will also only download multimedia and text for the application profile originally installed on the phone. Application profiles can reduce the installation size for applications that support a large number of languages or regions.
At the top of the left hand side of the project space, click on the title of the project you are working on to see the main project page. On the project page for your application, you will see two tabs - "Versions" and "Application Profiles." Use the "Application Profiles" tab to create new profiles. For a given profile, specify the name, which languages you want to install on the phone, and the default language.
Once you have defined an application profile and saved, you can choose which profile to use when installing an application. You will select from profiles you created in the drop menu labeled "Application Profile"
Note: You must create a new version of the application and refresh the page in order to use any new application profiles.


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The micro USB port may be dirty. Use a cotton swab to gently clean and remove any debris that might have accumulated.
The outlet or USB power source may not be working. Try another power source.
The micro USB cable may be faulty. Try another micro USB cable (easily available at most stores).


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87:7 Except as Allah wills: For He knoweth what is manifest and what is hidden.
87:8 And We will make it easy for thee (to follow) the simple (Path).
87:9 Therefore give admonition in case the admonition profits (the hearer).
87:13 In which they will then neither die nor live.
87:15 And glorify the name of their Guardian-Lord, and (lift their hearts) in prayer.
87:17 But the Hereafter is better and more enduring.
87:19 The Books of Abraham and Moses.


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20 Years' Service Announcement – Dave Hulbert
by Chris Mitchele | Mar 10, 2016 | Service Announcement | 0 comments
Toronto, December 20th 2015–ITC Systems would like to congratulate and thank Dave Hulbert for successfully completing 20 years of service. Dave is the Director of Sales at ITC Systems, an invaluable member of the ITC Systems family. He began his career with us as the Manager of the Canadian operations in 1996 and over the years with hard work and dedication has managed many positions which landed him in his current position. His role in the company has included Operations Manager, Website designer, Marketing Manager, Sales Representative, Sales & Marketing Manager and now Director of Sales for the company.
"Dave has helped the company grow through his quiet determination, dedication to the customer and loyalty to ITC Systems and his fellow employees", says Cam Richardson, CEO. "He has really helped me out over the years and has taken each new position offered and made a success out of it".
Dave manages a territory that is the largest and one of the most demanding on behalf of the company and always puts the customer's interest first. He is also a member of the Key management group at the company and is relied upon to provide insight, that the company uses to grow their business and products. He is one of the Team that the rest of the employees looks to for information and support.
Dave has received ITC Systems' High Point Award, for highest sales increase year over year 5 times and the Most Valuable Player award once over the years. On behalf of all the employees, suppliers and customers, ITC Systems would like to thank Dave for all his contributions and his continued dedication. "I look forward to celebrating with Dave on his 20th year", says Mr. Richardson.
ITC Systems provides card-based transaction control solutions to schools, libraries and other organizations in North America and around the world. The company provides products and services focused on campus ID card privilege control, access control, and copy and print control; it also offers card-related products and services for food service, laundry and other institution-wide sectors. ITC Systems maintains a large dealer network throughout North America and internationally, and it is the industry's dominant Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). Founded in 1989, ITC Systems works with organizations in the U.S. and Canada through its primary offices in St. Louis and Toronto.
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Curious about many things but not fanatical about anything, Dr. Nathalie van Meurs (D.Phil. Cross Cultural Psychology) likes to explore matters related to identity, cultural values, belonging and how to live well in a complex, globalised world.
E-conference "Negotiating Identities"
Navigating a complex, globalised world
ID Research - general, Opinion, Research
Not one, or none, but all.
The column below was first published in De Psycholoog – Dutch magazine for Psychology December 2015 under the title: Niet een of geen maar allemaal. A PDF of the Dutch version can be found here: PSY1512_WisselColumn.
You do not come across it often as a specific direction within a faculty and the annual congress is small. In 1972, a group of academics in social psychology and anthropology established the international association for cross-cultural psychology. Cross-cultural psychologists are mainly concerned with whether psychological findings have universal validity.
For example: if a psychologist used the Christmas story to measure a child's thinking level through his or her ability to recount details, is it unfair to apply this in a country where Christmas isn't celebrated? Or are we comparing apples and oranges when we measure the spatial understanding of two groups and one group, as Marshall H. Segall and colleagues describe so beautifully, grew up in a 'carpented world', and the other group only knows the plains and round huts in the Kalahari Desert?
Our findings are time and context bound. Much of our thinking and doing is uncharted territory and this is what makes psychology an exciting science. A recent meta-analysis shows that the balance of 'nature versus nurture' is about 50/50, but this relationship may change with the development of better and more culturally intelligent research methods.
For, how 'Western' is the diagnosis that people outside of Europe and America are more prone to go with the opinion of a group that deliberately gives the wrong answer (i.e., they don't think for themselves) of Simon Ash's famous
experiment on conformity? As Bond and Smith suggested: maybe this concerns a different phenomenon and collectivists find loss of face more important than being right
"Gestalt psychology is THE psychology, according to supporters (Duijker, 1959, p.191) and is a matter of identity and distinction. But why? Psychology has to do with communication within all views; not just about what we measure, but also how we share our knowledge with the world. And we can do better if we try to explain the chaos together. We should perhaps reconsider why Japanese students are deemed to be superior at mathematics since they only need to learn ten words (43 four-ten-three and 14 is ten-four versus the Dutch three-and-forty and fourteen)? What psychology do we use to explain a phenomenon – communication, social, neuro,
or …?
That's the lesson, according to cross-cultural psychologists; if we diagnose, we must be aware of our own perspective. The lenses with which we observe are not neutral. As Ramses Shaffy sang: "Sing, fight, cry, pray, laugh, work and admire, not without us." But in the world of Psychology nobody escapes the chaotic context. In this we are one.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/articles/2015/05/depth-look-historys-largest-genetictwin-
Bond, R. & Smith, P.B. (1996). Culture and conformity: a meta-analysis of studies using Asch's (1952b
1956) line judgement task. Psychological Bulletin, 119(1), 111-137.
ID Research - general, Opinion, Research, Review of events
Oh that's why?
Cross cultural management is the ability to handle issues between people from different backgrounds effectively. In our current globalised environment, any individual with responsibility over or for others, i.e., a leader and decision maker, would do well to take heed of the cultural differences that exist but it can be a minefield . We are never neutral, and all that we perceive is through a filter coloured by our cultural background.
However, it is also often ignored by people in leadership roles because the benefits of training can be difficult to translate into a hard cost-benefit analysis and it goes against the general idea that we live in a global village, where modern people think similarly and where there is no need for understanding cultural differences.
In this report, I summarise the knowledge that I have taught to (MBA) students and researched over the years as an expert in Cross Cultural Management and Psychology. The report was developed with the aim to inform decision makers in businesses and organisations, who work in an international context. Since it is impossible to track who reads my blog, journal articles, chapters and lecture notes, I wrote this report for you, which I hope you will read but also actually use. I genuinely believe in 'Evidence Based Management', which is essentially the idea that people should manage by gaining some evidence to back up their decisions. So, if this report is useful to you and you implemented some of it in your working life, all I ask is for you to put that in writing and send this to me via n.van-meurs@mdx.ac.uk
Identity Research for impact
ID Research - general, Research
Under organizational wings
How the universal need for certainty in nations under socio-economic stress can be satisfied by greater formalization within organizations.
Addressing debates about a) the negative correlations between cultural values and practices and b) the controversial effect of formalization and bureaucracy on organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB), we developed a cross-level theory specifying that formalization at the organizational level buffers negative effects of uncertainty at the nation-level on OCB of individuals. Drawing upon organizational and psychological literature, we argue that a universal need for certainty in nations characterized by high levels of uncertainty can be satisfied by greater formalization within organizations. A three-level hierarchical linear modelling analysis of data from 7,537 employees in 267 organizations across 17 countries supported our hypotheses. In nations with greater levels of uncertainty practices, formalization is positively associated with voice OCB. Our theory and findings open new avenues for re-addressing the debate around negative correlations between cultural values and practices and offers new insights into the complex role of bureaucracy in a global context.
This paper is accepted for the IACM conference in Leiden, The Netherlands July 2014
ID Research - general
Inspire in class.
In order to prepare students as a well-rounded global business professionals, the content of the degree BA International Business that I lead develops competencies to enable students to be effective in a global business context, exploring a variety of international business issues. They will also learn the fundamentals of marketing, human resource management, economics, operations management and accounting. Most of these modules use standard textbooks, seminar activities such as case study analysis and assessment such as presentations. We try to make it interesting with visuals such as videos. I am currently working on next year's curriculum and lecture content.
Below are three examples of TED talks. TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". Lecturers use videos in class to raise a question to be discussed in seminars or in course work.
Typical TED talk for first year students: What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine.
Topics: Statistics, Economics, globalisation, technology, human resources
Typical questions: How are wealth and a washing machine connected to globalisation? How can statistics help the international manager? How would you, as a student, manage without a washing machine?
Typical TED talk for second year students: What makes a good idea? What is a theory or model? How do we know a global leader's X Factor? Simon Sinek talks about leadership in action.
Topics: Multi-National Corporations, values and beliefs, leadership, management and human behaviour
Typical questions: How do we know business practices work? How can we recruit the best people? What is the evidence for the recipe for success?
Typical TED talk for final year students: How can we keep our global supply chains honest? Van Heerden makes the business case for fair labour.
Topics: Rule based vs. Consequence based decision making, cross cultural management, ethics, strategy.
Typical questions: Do companies have a corporate social responsibility? Do you agree with the speaker? Why/Why not?
In the end, I aim to provide students with the critical tools and mindset to analyse and identify responses to such questions. The class environment is a great context to explore perspectives of management, which is very important in the global environment.
Controversial HRM Practices in the Context of Developing Countries
We are working on a study that examined employees' perception of ethically controversial Human Resources Management (HRM) practices in the context of multinational companies (MNCs) that operate in developing countries and emerging economies (DCEEs). We tested the predictive validity of individuals' ethical reasoning as well as their cultural values in terms of ethically controversial practices.
We used self-administered questionnaires from employees working in Turkey and Romania (N=290) that contained various HRM practices to measure perception with regard to ethicality of these practices. Results revealed an endorsement of ethically controversial HRM implementation, including nepotism, in both Turkey and Romania. Additionally, the impact of values (mainly collectivism) was stronger than ethical ideologies of relativism and idealism in predicting individuals' decisions on ethically controversial practices.
The practical implications for managers are to take into consideration that there is a subjective interpretation of appropriateness of HRM practices. It can be a challenge for any, especially experienced, HR manager to 'unlearn' certain norms that motivate decisions, which, in turn, affect people directly. This study shows that an imposition of 'Western' interpretation of inappropriateness, i.e., in terms of nepotism, internal priority, age and performance bias, may be perceived differently by employees in DCEEs. Becoming aware of the cultural (more so than ideological) background of managers' employees may help in understanding these differences.
A focused read for busy people
I developed a report that summarises the knowledge that I acquired over the years and have taught to (MBA) students as a researcher in Cross Cultural Management and Psychology. The report was developed with the aim to inform decision makers in businesses and organisations, who work in an international context. The Financial Times, in fact, stated recently that cross cultural management is a core aspect of leadership and management development. It's available to you at no cost because a) it is important to build a bridge between the 'real world' and academic work as we face a challenging globalised future and b) research needs to have a practical impact.
In terms of globalisation and our future, you are no doubt aware that the world's regions and countries are mapped according to wealth (e.g., GNP), systems (i.e., political, economical and legal), and development (e.g., infrastructure, level of education). Indices and statistics of these concepts provide us with information about the differences that exist globally between countries. Governments, global organisations (e.g., Worldbank), and multi-national corporations (MNCs) may use it before deciding on investment, aid, and collaborations.
At the individual level, we learn about cultural differences between people through travel, the media and day-to-day living, working, and interaction in a multicultural environment. People vary in terms of what they value and how they do things. We may inform ourselves about the how, what and where of people foreign to us out of necessity or out of interest of the anthropological aspects of (modern) human life.
For some time, knowing the do's and don'ts often sufficed for any substantial intercultural interaction. In the professional realm, cross cultural training before or during intercultural assignments, projects or mergers usually provided a 'toolbox' of these do's and don'ts, such as how to greet, what (not) to discuss over dinner, and when to expect a definitive offer on a deal. However, due to globalisation, organisations function within diverse contexts across continents and the modern person has mixed identities (ethnic, national, religious), with x-number of years of experience abroad. This means that a simple do's and don'ts list is not enough.
Successful interaction requires intercultural insight. This constitutes the know-how as mentioned above but, moreover, it requires the ability to interpret the situation presented to us by being aware of our cultural lenses and keeping the other's perspective in mind. It is an updated kind of toolbox, which is adapted to 21st Century working life.
This briefing will address the three core aspects of effective intercultural engagement: Know-How, Cultural Self-Awareness, and Perspective. Each section will describe some important research in an accessible way, illustrated by practical examples. The briefing concludes with advise that can be implemented immediately. Check out the link on the top menu above or click here: Identity Research for Impact – A review for practitioners
Welcome to the Identity Research Blog
From the first e-conference back in May 2007, we've now arrived at a blog for this website – to review and report on issues, news, and events related to Identity and research.
Nathalie van Meurs, D.Phil.
The original Identity Research website was set up by me, Dr. Nathalie van Meurs. It hosted the E-Congress on Negotiating Identities on the 15-16th May, 2007 and remained a source of information about negotiating social identities in a variety of contexts until February 2010, when it was revamped into a blog.
I set up this website for the purpose of bringing together people from the academic community, business, the Arts, media, sport and government to discuss the idea how we can successfully be multitudes, because nobody is just a nationality, religion, gender, job, political affiliation, or interest group.
I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Cross Cultural Management and the research leader for the Business and Management department at Middlesex University Business School in London.
For the past two years, I worked as a Research Fellow at the Open University, U.K. exploring (organisational) culture and Person-Organisation Fit. Before this, I lectured Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Psychology and Empirical Methods at the University of Oxford Brookes.
I gained my Ph.D. from the University of Sussex looking at the relationship between cultural values, conflict management strategies, communication styles and success ratings of negotiations between Dutch and British managers.
I am interested in both research and applied aspects of intercultural interaction and identity. Areas of interest are: cultural intelligence, cultural values and conflict management, cross cultural education, and 'person-nation fit' (i.e., is there value congruence between the individual and the nation). I have been working as a consultant .
Do get in touch if you would like to discuss my research or consultancy work: n.van-meurs (at) mdx.ac.uk.


LinkedIn is a business networking tool that works well for a couple of things. For starters, it's good for staying in touch with people. You keep track of who you know and what they're up to. Secondly, it works well for recruiting.
Some time ago, LinkedIn released LinkedIn Answers, which allows you to pose questions to people within your network or a greater audience. At first I didn't pay any attention to the functionality, but I started receiving questions from people.
What is the best RSS reader for a Blackberry?
How would you implement a staff-wide networking program?
What would you like to be able to see and do on a local community website?
Jobster.com: Has anyone used this site and if so, what do you think of it?
You're not obligated to answer, but if you have an answer, it takes all of 2 minutes to reply. I believe all the answers are made public, and a discussion can ensue.
I've asked 2 questions recently, and in both cases I received very quick and good responses.
It amazes me how quickly people respond. I'm certain had I emailed all of the contacts and asked the same questions, the response would have been slower. Why? Because people tend to ignore mass emails, or feel overwhelmed by email to start (which I completely understand!) And although your LinkedIn questions will get sent to people via email (they receive a notification), somehow it feels different, it doesn't feel like a mass email (or email at all), and so people respond.
LinkedIn Answers works great for referrals.
It took approximately 2 minutes to submit the question, and I received 15+ responses in less than an hour.
LinkedIn scored big-time with this feature. It's useful and sticky. Plus, it's fun.
You've hit the nail on the head with your "somehow it feels different" comment.
It makes good social network, look flickr!
It's also not like the other social networks, it's way more professional and more serious — which is what I really like because you need that environment when you're looking for real serious answers that's going to affect your work or your career directly.
I personally think that LinkedIn is the best social network out there. I don't need MySpace to find new friends, but I need a good tool to manage my contacts, and LinkedIn is just that.
I wonder how long till Facebook implements a similar feature?
I've used LinkedIn answers a dozen times already and I'm amazed at the quality and speed I get answers back. I've answered some questions as well, to give back to the community. When I ask myself a very specific business question, I turn to LinkedIn answers instead of searching Google as it becomes more efficient time-wise.
I have used LinkedIn Answers to get an answer oto a question I was having a difficult time answering. I received some great answers with references to back up what was being said. I have also started answering some of the questions.
Hi Roger – I don't answer a lot of questions that come to me unless they're from my specific contacts. I think that's where the real value is – but it means having a big network.
When I get an email from LinkedIn with a question from a contact, I definitely pause, take a look and see if I can provide any insight.
Hi Roger – I don't answer a lot of questions that come to me unless they're from my specific contacts. I think that's where the real value is – but it means having a big network.


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In 2004, the idea for My Pet Chicken was hatched when owner Traci Torres and her husband, Derek Sasaki, complete novices, set out to raise a few backyard chickens. After a year of reading every how-to book they could get their hands on, they successfully started their own flock, but they wanted to make it easier for aspiring chicken owners by putting free how-to information on the web and offering some unique products and services.
The website, first launched in 2005, contained valuable information for backyarders, and grew to include such best-of-breed resources as the free e-book, The My Pet Chicken Guide to Chicken Care, and the totally unique "Which Chicken?" breed selector tool.
In 2006, the Company launched a full complement of backyard chicken products and announced the sale of baby chicks in quantities as low as three: an industry first. It now boasts over 500 products for sale and ever-expanding free content, including the new Chicken Help area — a database of answers to chicken questions, searchable by keyword or category, and another free e-book, The My Pet Chicken Guide to Incubation and Hatching.
My Pet Chicken continues to lead the way in the urban chicken space, serving tens of millions of page views per year on its web site. The media has taken notice: My Pet Chicken has been mentioned in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, New Yorker Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The L.A. Times, and countless others, and has appeared on such television shows as The Martha Stewart Show, Bloomberg TV, ABC News Nightline, and The Today Show and made the 2012 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies.
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French Baccalaureate (FB) or the Option International du Baccalaureat (OIB) with a minimum of 12 overall. For courses that require a specific subject at A Level, we will require grade 12.
We can accept grade 10 of the FB or grade 10 of the OIB for English Language and Maths GCSE equivalents.


A bent shaft canoe paddle, reinforced and protected, made for weeklong or full day trips on fast-flowing water.
The Cruiser Plus 11 bent shaft premium canoe paddle is built for power and durability. It has a stiff, strong shaft and a beefed-up blade so you can move more water with each stroke and pull a ton of gear.
The Cruiser Plus 11 is crafted of basswood and roasted basswood. The blade has a wrap of 4 oz. fiberglass to protect it for years to come, and it is fully-edged in Bending Branches' Rockgard® protection. The ovalized, 18-Laminate shaft is stiff, strong, and more durable than solid basswood shafts. With a Classic Palm Grip, the Cruiser Plus 11 is easy to hold, comfortable, and warm on the hands.
The Cruiser Plus is a bent shaft paddle (11°) and is available in lengths of 48 inches to 54 inches (in 2-inch increments). It is hand-crafted in Osceola, Wisconsin.


The recipe card for The Sojourn would read something like "take the teleporting challenges of Portal, add a pinch of wordless narrative across vast, breathtaking landscapes a la Journey, then wrap in the bright, 3D graphics of The Witness." But Shifting Tides' first-person adventure doesn't just cherry pick from some of the best recent puzzlers. The challenges, like in LUNA all based loosely around the theme of light and dark, have their own unique conceits too. The demo I tested out introduced teleporting elements using mystic statues, combined with the ability to move between parallel light and dark worlds to make hidden platforms appear. Later on I was also juggling having to trigger singing statues to get across to certain areas, as well as teleport my way safely through magic gates. It'll be interesting to see how all these elements come together in later chapters. The brief sneak peek of a much later level I was given showed larger "hub worlds" of several puzzles you could pick from, meaning the somewhat linear structure of the demo will likely open up as you progress through the game.
There'll be roughly 15 hours of gameplay to get your teeth into, with a narrative amongst all of the puzzling telling the journey of life from birth to death. And if that weren't enough, you'll be able to come back to completed puzzles and, much like the shrines in Zelda: Breath of the Wild, complete harder variations of the same challenge – another compelling ingredient to add to a game already shaping up to be a recipe for puzzling greatness.
The Sojourn will be launching on both PC and consoles somewhere around June of this year.
Jessica De Troije and her fellow developers at college needed over one thousand downloads of their student gaming project We Were Here to pass their assignment. Instead it ended up with well over one million, as well as nominations for the Dutch Game Awards and the Independent Game Festival and the eventual formation of Total Mayhem Games. The secrets to such success (apart from plenty of hard work, naturally) are the same simple elements that De Troije (2D artist for the game) now hopes will translate into even bigger recognition for the third title in the series (and second commercial installment), We Were Here Together. You see, unlike the scores of online multiplayer games that see players griefing each other and competing to be the best individually, this is a purely cooperative online puzzle game meant for two people, where if you don't communicate clearly, and nicely, you aren't going to get very much done.
Whilst previous games saw you starting off inside the Arctic's fearsome Castle Rock trying to find your way out, this time you begin outside the Castle at base camp, trying to find your way in to answer a distress signal from your friends. Like its predecessors, with the use of a PC-compatible microphone you can talk to your partner through a walkie talkie (with pleasing crackling sound effects). Every puzzle – whether tuning radio signals or hunting for hidden keys to unlock the next area – will need communication to solve. And whilst this time around you and your partner will begin together, swapping advice and ideas for puzzle solutions, later in the game you'll become separated and need to be the eyes and ears for each other, filling your buddy in on what you can see and hear, and vice versa. According to members of Total Mayhem at Rezzed, with We Were Here Together the team have finally got the budget to make the game they always wanted to make, running at least double the length of previous incarnations at roughly seven hours.
We Were Here Together will be released in September or October this year on Steam, with the potential of an Xbox port later on.
When the BBC calls, asking you to create a game based around its hugely popular ocean documentary series Blue Planet, you promptly say yes and do a little dance (once you've hung up). At least, that's what I imagine the team at E-Line Media (of beautiful BAFTA-winning puzzle-platformer Never Alone fame) did, but maybe they're much more restrained individuals than I. A much different sort of game than their debut project, Beyond Blue uses footage and research from the critically acclaimed nature series, but tells its own story set in the near future. You play Mirai, the lead on a newly formed ocean research team tasked with using hi-tech gadgets to explore the deep blue and its myriad mysterious residents further than anyone else has ever before.
The underwater realm you swim through in third-person is gorgeous: huge humpback whales drift past the camera, tiny angelfish dash alongside and bright coral sways to the ocean's rhythm. In the demo I played, I was tasked with scanning audio signals of the nearby fishy inhabitants and locating a lost tracker. It was a relatively simple task used mainly as a ploy to show off the huge area teeming with sea life, but later levels will look to introduce more nuanced gameplay, including being able to deploy drones that can be piloted from a first-person perspective. Whilst taking scenes and inspiration from Blue Planet, Beyond Blue keeps the realistic 3D graphics more videogame-like than filmic in feel.
Catching up with E-Line's Steve Zimmerman at Rezzed, it sounds to me as if there will also be the opportunity to watch mini-documentaries in between gameplay chapters, featuring real life scientists who provided research for Blue Planet, sharing their insights on some of the creatures you've just met and scenes you've experienced. If you've been waiting for a game you can secretly narrate in a faux Sir David Attenborough voice, Beyond Blue will be released near the end of August this year on PC and all consoles.
Not content with taking 750,000 words of text based on Jules Verne and turning it into an entertaining, absorbing adventure, now inkle, the developers behind 2014's 80 Days, are trying their luck at creating an entire playable language for players to decode and decipher in Heaven's Vault. As sassy, headstrong archaeologist Aliya Elasra, it's up to you to search for a missing roboticist in a strange alternate universe called the Nebula. You're joined on your adventure by mechanical companion Six – so called, the developers tell me, because Aliya has already managed to go through five robotic assistants before this one.
As for the deciphering element, which sees Aliya reading symbols off ancient shrines and artefacts, this I'm told will come into play as you progress through the adventure, intriguingly opening and closing up different narrative paths depending on whether you've got your translation right or not. The made-up language, which is completely pictorial, is based on Ancient Egyptian and Chinese writing. You'll be given several words which could be the correct translation for each glyph, but just like in a crossword, if you select the wrong answer you won't automatically be told straight away – it'll only be through discovering other words that you'll realise the need to go back and replace your original submission. In fact, Laura Dilloway, the Lead Environment Artist of Heaven's Vault, wonderfully referred to it as the "Guitar Hero of languages" in my chat with her at Rezzed, in that it allows you to feel like you're translating something but without all the inaccuracies and issues that come with real life translation. Throw in hand-drawn 2D art within expansive 3D environments and Heaven's Vault is shaping up to be another unique, intelligent title from inkle – a rare find Aliya herself would be intrigued by.
There isn't much longer to wait for Heaven's Vault, as the game will be out on the 16th of April for PC and PS4.
I left Rezzed feeling pretty upbeat about the state of adventures and independent games in general. It was great to see so many developers pushing their productions that extra mile, and the crowds of people responding positively to that sentiment. Dave, Jessica and Dan's talk on the genre's future didn't shy away from the fact that small teams are still facing immense pressures to stay afloat, let alone put out something special. However, they're also proof that it can be done, and in the case of recent games like Gilbert's Unavowed, sometimes with unprecedented success. Along with attending the panel discussion, I also caught up with Dave for a one-on-one chat. To learn more about that unexpected success, as well as the new title they're working on – a sequel to 2015's Technobablyon –stay tuned to Adventure Gamers in the next few days.


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Up to the late 1990s, the web browser used by the bulk of Windows users was invariably Internet Explorer while Netscape played the second fiddle. The scene was relatively identical post 2000 but emergence of Firefox and later Google Chrome changed the scenario. The new open source rivals incorporated features that caught fancy of users fast and their user base went on increasing drastically. Microsoft was a bit late in responding to the changes in the segment and the successors to ageing IE 6 did not stop erosion in the user base.
zebNet Internet Explorer Backup 2012 is the backup solution for users that easily want to back up and recover their entire Internet Explorer profile. Highlighted features #Fast and reliable backup and recovery #Self-restoring backup files #Backup reserve copies #Backup to any FTP server #Scheduled backups on a regular basis #Data migration between different computers #And many many more.
Allows you to quickly and easily generate custom internet explorer toolbars for your website or search engine. Lets you change your toolbar as much as you like. Easy to use..
Dutch Duck Utilities for Internet Explorer is a utility to manage your History, Favorites, and Cookies. History Explorer allows you to print, sort, group or search your history, and to remove individual sites from your history without erasing your entire history. With Favorites Explorer yo can print, search, delete and edit your favorites, export them to a text file, and import favorites from other computers. With Cookies Explorer you can search your cookies, see what is actually in a cookie, and delete cookies that you do not like.
Recover passwords to web sites saved in Microsoft Internet Explorer (in local password list), as well as AutoComplete strings (form fields). Can also reset Content Advisor Passwords. IE versions from 3 to 6 are supported..
ABC Amber Internet Explorer Converter is a useful free tool that allows you to convert your collection of Internet Explorer bookmarks into a single PDF, CHM or HTML file. The converted file has the contents with bookmarks and hyperlinks. As all "ABC Amber" products, it's really easy as ABC and powerful as Amber. Partial Features List: - reads Internet Explorer's bookmarks; - exports bookmarks to PDF (Adobe Acrobat doesn't need to be installed), CHM and HTML formats; generates contents with bookmarks and hyperlinks in the output file; - easy to use and easy to set up; - supports multiple CHM and PDF export options (document information, 40/128 bits PDF encryption, advanced PDF security options, page size, page orientation and page margins, resolution mode, compression mode, viewer options); - multiple language support; - more.
IE Pal will allow you to more efficiently use your time when browsing the Internet, by adding some useful functions to your installation of IE -Quickly hide all IE windows through shortcut keyboard keys (an excellent privacy tool). This is a privacy feature. Unlike the CLOSE all windows command, this simply places all windows into STEALTH mode (Windows AND taskbar icon), whereby you may again display them (they remain active.... just hidden from view). This is a handy feature to have if you must quickly hide all IE windows from view and then again redisplay them when the moment is again right.
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"Password Recovery Engine for Internet Explorer" (IEPRE) recovers Internet Explorer passwords and logins to web sites and also deletes and restores the Internet Explorer Content Advisor password. If you want to see logins and passwords to web sites you visit use IEPRE. The software has an easy-to-use interface. In order to recover logins and passwords to web sites, you do not have to perform any complicated operations. Just open the program IEPRE and you will see all logins and passwords to sites stored on your computer.
This toolbar allows to receive the WHOIS information about current page in Internet Explorer. For ordinary users this toolbar will be useful as a tool that allows to get the additional information about current page (IP, country, organization). For developers the source code of this toolbar will be useful as framework for their own application that need to perform the WHOIS functionality..
Internet Explorer Lockdown - This simple, but powerful program will enable you to lock down Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) or higher preventing users from undesired access to Internet Explorer settings and websites. Customize browser buttons, toolbars, and menus. Perfect for home use (parental controls), businesses, training kiosks, schools, libraries, internet cafes, hotels, museums, and a host of other areas that require restricted use of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer Lockdown Features: o Runs Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) or higher as a locked down kiosk type interface o Prevents history deletion (so history can be tracked) o Prevents "InPrivate" (incognito) browsing o Allows for many Internet Explorer customizations not available through the Internet Explorer interface.
The Speak Logic Information Analysis for Internet Explorer enables users to analyze information and communications in Internet Explorer. While reading a website or webpage, if a user identifies information that's needed to be analyzed, the user can analyze that information or flag it to analyze it later. The Speak Logic Information Analysis for Internet Explorer enables users to manage information. For instance, information can be analyzed, information can be flagged for analysis, information can be applied as feedback, and information can be provided as feedback and more.
Holiday Spirit For Your IE browser. Get the holiday spirit whenever you're online with the Christmas browser theme. You'll enjoy: A very merry theme Holiday music from AccuRadio.com Quick links to Christmas recipes, shopping deals and more!! These themes are free and built for Internet Explorer and Firefox! PRIVACY: We respect your privacy. We do track some data - but it's only numbers. We follow the total number of active themes, clicks on the extension buttons and themes using our search partners.
Celebrate the fall harvest, family and the things we're thankful for. We've gathered some great sites into the toolbar from online games and holiday history, to the recipes you'll need to wow the family. Explore the links, enjoy the theme! These themes are free and built for Internet Explorer and Firefox! PRIVACY: We respect your privacy. We do track some data - but it's only numbers. We follow the total number of active themes, clicks on the extension buttons and themes using our search partners.


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Today - Cloudy with a high of 60 °F (15.6 °C). Winds from SW to WSW at 7 to 8 mph (11.3 to 12.9 kph).
Tonight - Clear with a 25% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 2 to 9 mph (3.2 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 49 °F (9.4 °C).


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Q: Website does not scale down for mobile screens I am making a web for desktop, tablet and mobile screens. For this I am using css media queries. When I test my website on desktop browser and when I scale my web bowser down then it does change its layout when it reaches to max-width 740px as mentioned in css. But the problem is when I test this on my mobile then it does not change its layout to fit mobile screens.
I am using 12 columns layout system and using less css. Please help me why it does not change its layout on mobile phones to fit mobile screens.
Here is my css or less css to be precise
html, body {
height: 100%;
//overflow: hidden;
}

body {
min-width: 360px;
background-color: #ffffff;

#page {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    overflow: auto;
}

.right {
    position: relative;
    right: 0;
}

// Extend column system (from defaults/layout.css)
.row {
    clear: both;

    > .container {
        max-width: 1024px;
        margin: 0 auto;
        padding: 0 2% 0 2%;

        .container {
            max-width: 100%;
            padding-left: 0;
            padding-right: 0;

            &.one {
                width: 8%;
            }
            &.two {
                width: 16%;
            }
            &.three {
                width: 25%;
            }
            &.four {
                width: 33%;
            }
            &.five {
                width: 41%;
            }
            &.six {
                width: 50%;
            }
            &.seven {
                width: 58%;
            }
            &.eight {
                width: 66%;
            }
            &.nine {
                width: 75%;
            }
            &.ten {
                width: 83%;
            }
            &.eleven {
                width: 91%;
            }
            &.twelve {
                width: 100%;
            }

        }
    }
}

}

/*Collapse columns*/
@media only screen and (max-width: 740px) {

.column, .column.one, .column.two, .column.three, .column.four, .column.five, .column.six, .column.eight, .column.nine, .column.ten, .column.eleven, .column.twelve,
.column.close-right, .column.one.close-right, .column.two.close-right, .column.three.close-right, .column.four.close-right, .column.five.close-right, .column.six.close-right, .column.eight.close-right, .column.nine.close-right, .column.ten.close-right, .column.eleven.close-right, .column.twelve.close-right {
    //width: auto;
    //float: none;
    //clear: both;
    margin-right: 0;
}

.column.third {
    display: none;
}

.column.second {
    width: 77%;
}

.column.first {
    //min-width: 180px;
}

}

A: Try adding this to the top of your HTML page:
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>

That should let the mobile browser know that the page you be rendered at the size of your device/browser, instead of faking the screen size of a desktop computer (and thus confusing your media queries).

A: http://www.allenpike.com/2010/choosing-a-viewport-for-ipad-sites/

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) - A woman said her Northland apartment complex forced her to remove her American flag. Kerry White lives at The Cordillera Ranch apartments near shoal creek parkway and highway 152.
White said she purchased the flag for Memorial Day weekend. On Thursday, she said she came home from work with a notice on her door from management that said if she didn't remove the flag they will dispose of it. The notice said her lease indicates storage is not allowed on decks.
"I just didn't understand what their problem was with having an American flag to support our troops," she told FOX 4. "It's our country, support our country, support our troops, they go out and they fight for our country and they defend us so why wouldn't we want to fly an American flag to support them?"
FOX 4 spent hours on Friday trying to get answers from the apartment complex management. When we called the first time, an employee said they could not comment. After FOX 4 called a second time asking for a manager staff gave us a number but the manager never called us back. Texts were also not returned. Then, staff said we had to call their New York office and that office never called FOX 4 back either.
White said the notice management left her makes her angry.
"That says the only problem on my balcony is my American flag, I don't understand how an American flag is a problem," she told FOX 4 on Friday.
White said she is considering getting an attorney to help her fight the complex. She said she temporarily removed the flag because the notice said staff would dispose of it if she didn't.


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Les Moonves Escapes CBS Board Meeting Unscathed Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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Les Moonves, the embattled CBS Corp. chief executive, will live to see another day at the company following sexual misconduct allegations, the board of directors announced Monday afternoon.
In a statement, the company said its board "is in the process of selecting outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation. No other action was taken on this matter at today's board meeting."
CBS additionally announced its annual shareholders meeting — previously scheduled for Aug. 10 — will be postponed to a later date. It is the second time CBS delayed this year's meeting. The first came back in May after the Moonves-led company sued controlling shareholder Shari Redstone and National Amusements in an effort to block a merger with Viacom.
CBS did not announce a new date for the shareholders meeting, but said the board would publicly disclose it, along with the time and location.
Moonves, the 68-year-old titan of CBS and mass media, was accused of sexual misconduct by six women, according to a Ronan Farrow report in the New Yorker on Friday.
In a statement to the magazine, Moonves said: "I recognize that there were times decades ago when I may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances. Those were mistakes, and I regret them immensely. But I always understood and respected — and abided by the principle — that 'no' means 'no,' and I have never misused my position to harm or hinder anyone's career."


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"BLOW YOUR MIND WITH THE HEAD SHOP ALBUM!" screams a commercial ad in New York's Screw magazine in 1969. Here's the CD reissue from the mastertape, including bios, photos and 7 bonus tracks. The album was produced and arranged by Milan, aka Rick Rodell, and Max Ellen, both professionals in the music business. The band had garagy roots and evolved from Household Sponge to The Head Shop. Milan´s project that time was Licorice Schtik. Both outfits released a 45 record, which are the 4 bonus tracks on this CD.
This New York psychedelic underground project has its unique sound: soulful vocals, flying Hammond organ, fuzzy bass, distorted lead guitars, lots of percussive and weird rhythm instruments plus several unexpected stereo experiments. A highlight for sure is their haunted interpretation of Bobby Hebb´s "Sunny"! Conceptional, but also musically there are some parallels to Joe Meek and a major influence are The Beatles´ rawer and experimental period, not just because of the coverversion of "Revolution".
Larry Coryell features as "wailing" guest musician on the track "I Feel Love Comin´ On". "Listen with the Third Ear" and this album with its 9 musical chapters will lead you into new musical and audiophile dimensions of psychedelic and progressive (garage) music.


Senior Band - The APHS Senior Concert Band will reconvene this Thurday, February 9 at 7:00 am in the music room. Please check your google drive as our latest chart's MP3 has been shared with you.
Also, if you stil have sheet music from last semester, please bring it to rehearsal and return to Mr. Neufeld.


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Set in the 80's, we see Gal Gadot's eagerly awaited return in the title role of Wonder Woman. This time, the follow up to the hit 2017 film sees our hero face not one, but two new foes in what's tipped to be another critical success. In this new era, Diana is back with new friends and enemies, and more strikingly, a new suit of armour. The Amazonian warrior trades her WWI armour for the majestic Golden Eagle Armour.
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Wiedemannia azurea is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae.

References

Wiedemannia
Insects described in 1951
Diptera of Europe

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Song of the Day: Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission
Jacob Webb
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today's song, featured on the Afternoon Show with Cheryl Waters, is "Farewell Transmission" by Songs: Ohia from the 2013 album The Magnolia Electric Co. (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) on Secretly Canadian.
Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission (MP3)
Equally indebted to '70s singer/songwriters, outlaw country, southern rock, and lo-fi, Jason Molina's work as Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. presented him as one of the most unique songwriters of the 2000s. Molina's musical career began in his native Ohio, where his first songs as Songs: Ohia began taking shape. His penchant for alternative country-leaning trends within indie rock circles won him underground respect, but it wasn't until 2003's Magnolia Electric Co. that Molina found a focused style and a fairly constant band to back him up. The same year, Molina began operating under two monikers: his solo work would be released by his birth name, while his band work would be released under Magnolia Electric Co. Molina continued to record and tour with both outfits until late 2009, when he abruptly cancelled his European tour with Will Johnson three days before it was to begin, citing "present health issues". Two years later, Molina's family posted a note to his website explaining that he had sought treatment for alcoholism across the past year, something Molina would confirm the next year in another note. Tragically, Jason Molina died of alcohol abuse-related organ failure on March 16th in Indianapolis. He was 39. His final release in his lifetime was the spare set of previously unreleased tunes Autumn Bird Songs in 2012.
As an opening statement to one of his strongest albums, "Farewell Transmission" is stunning, but as an epitaph, it is even more harrowing. Clocking in at over seven minutes, the song gives Molina plenty of time to stretch out musically, running through multiple verses "Tangled Up In Blue"-style. As he traverses through the dark narrative, Molina is augmented by backing singers, guitarists, ragged drums, but at the end of the song, no one has outshone him. There are a number of lyrics that could be quoted as a thematic summation of "Farewell Transmission", but the final line pays Molina a darkly fitting tribute: "Long dark blues/listen".
At the time of his death, Molina was working with his label on a series of archival projects, so keep an eye on the label's page to hear about any of those future releases. For now, watch the video for the track "A Little At A Time":
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Hamsa necklaces are offered and sold all around the world as ones of the most famous protective talismans, that more than a million men and women love wearing. They wear the Hamsa necklaces with the belief of being protected against the "Evil Eye" as well as being blessed in their daily routines, feeling luckier than usual. Apart from the Hamsa Hand symbol on these necklaces, there are ones that also have engraved on them other symbols that help to drive away negative energy and emotions. For example, such ones are quotations from sacred sources or images of an eye.
If you care for somebody and want to find a unique and special way how to show that to this person, then buying a Hamsa necklace and giving it as a gift is the perfect way to do so. At Ester Shahaf you can find many different designs of Hamsa necklaces that you would love, because each one of them has been personally crafted by a renowned Israeli artist.


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Q: Why wasn't the diamond operator implemented when generics were introduced? With Java 7 they finally implemented the diamond operator which lets you omit the repetition on initialization when working with generics.
E.g. List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
This looks pretty convenient as it avoids writing "useless" code. It seems so useful that I'm curious why wasn't this implemented when generics were introduced.

A: It is a question similar to asking "why was the cordless ever developed? Why didn't we just develop the cell phone instead?". The answer is "necessity is the mother of invention". When generics were designed the necessity was to design a programming construct that did what generics so successfully did. Now the necessity was to maximize developer productivity, hence the invention of the diamond operator.


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Q: semifinite projection Let $M$ be von Neumann algebra, $p$ be semiefinite projection and $q$ be projection in $M$ such that $Z(q)=Z(p)$.
( $p$ is semifinite projection if every nonzero subprojection of $p$ contains a nonzero finite subprojection)
I want to show that $q$ is semifinite.
I have proved it by generalized comparability theorem but I have a simple problem.
Proof:

$0 \neq q_{1}\leq q \Longrightarrow \exists z \in P(Z(M)):
q_{1}z\lesssim pz \   , \  (1-z)p\lesssim (1-z)q_{1}$
Since $p$ is finite, $q_1 z$ is also.
If $0\neq q_1 z$ then $0 \neq q_{1}z\leq q_{1}\leq q$ and $q_{1}z$ is finite.
Q: What should I do, If  $q_{1}z=0$?


Today we launched ExtraHop Reveal(x) security analytics, a new product intended to increase visibility into critical assets and automate investigations for security teams at any scale. This product is built to address a persistent challenge that costs security programs a great deal of money and wasted time.
Most security teams initiate investigations by navigating an alert cannon of individual events or anomalies—they are drowning in alerts. Tools like SIEM laboriously reconstruct and correlate event sequences from separate sources such as logs, endpoint snapshots, and network flows. Unfortunately, the data quality, timeliness, accuracy, and fidelity of these sources vary widely, requiring analysts to fill in gaps manually, collect fresh data ad hoc, or leave crucial clues out of consideration. The enterprise environment is also in flux: BYOD, rogue devices, and shadow IT undermine the accuracy of data sets and conclusions. Garbage data in means garbage conclusions out. Who has time for this?
Behavioral Analytics To The Rescue... Right?
Enter behavioral analytics. This capability, largely dependent on advances in machine learning and AI, theoretically improves data relevance by showing changes in the context of specific data types, including users, entities, and network communications. Through heuristics and machine learning, behavioral analytics tools can refine their perceptions over time. This sounds promising, but practical realities such as deployment complexity, processing limits, licensing, data sources, and data storage costs have made behavioral analytics largely inaccessible, except to the most sophisticated organizations.
So security operations teams face two problems: garbage data and impractical analytics.
I'm proud to announce that ExtraHop Reveal(x) introduces a different class of data and a different approach to advanced behavioral analytics to help meet these challenges. We use the transaction-level visibility and authenticity of wire data as the data source to drive insights. Reveal(x) correlates transactions and behaviors across critical data-center assets. This focus on critical assets helps make analytics practical – the most attention (human, compute, storage) is devoted to the most important stuff. Its important to note that this analysis is done in real-time, processing these events as they occur so that insights are delivered in time to make a difference.
Reveal(x) then uses enterprise-proven anomaly detection to monitor changes over time leveraging machine learning. Only when something meaningful happens on a critical asset do we fire an alert, and that alert appears with the full context and evidence needed for a confident evaluation of risk and impact. This means that early investigation steps are done automatically for the user, which can dramatically reduce investigation times.
For instance, a common attack might start with malware downloaded onto a corporate laptop from an email or a website. The laptop itself may not be that important, but it provides a hideout and a user account for the attacker, who escalates their privilege access, compromises other corporate systems and extracts valuable data. This attack sequence happens in a targeted attack, but similar behavior patterns also appear in ransomware, botnets, worms, and insider threats.
During this attack, the typical enterprise would have preventative controls that would kick off a barrage of independent alerts from an endpoint (compromised host), a sandbox (convicted malware), and a database or file server (unusual access). Some alerts might go to individual operational teams, others to the SOC. No one would track internal reconnaissance such as scans and brute force login attempts, and no one team would have full visibility into the correlation between all the alerts, even if they're part of the same attack.
ExtraHop Reveal(x) changes this dynamic by assembling a complete picture of the activities within the internal, or East-West, network. In addition to flagging the activity itself, Reveal(x) tells the analyst the role, relationships, and threat impact in the context of an attack. A live map can visually represent the activities and show communication types and sequences. Concrete evidence includes the behavior that was exhibited, the metrics captured, and which systems were involved. With a click or two, the analyst can get all the way to the relevant packet to see the truth.
Analysts in the SOC finally have the insights they need to triage, scope, contain, and dispose of incidents in record time.
Now, lets make the problem harder. What if instead of an infected laptop, the suspicious communications were encrypted within the microservices of an application hosted in AWS? Typical systems wont provide any visibility here, but with ExtraHop Reveal(x), the same focus and complete picture applies. The SOC analyst would be alerted that something was going wrong with a business-critical application and get the detail required to evaluate and act.
Part of making this advanced analysis practical for more organizations comes from the way we have automated key processes to have the machines do more analytics before the people get involved. Auto-discovery and classification takes care of asset inventorying. The wire data model associates protocols, applications, and devices/users with network communications as a complete transaction. The cloud-based anomaly detection reflects the brains of our data scientists, whove built a machine learning system that keeps detections updated without supervision, including adapting as new behaviors are gleaned throughout the system. And the user interface links up activity type with potential impact (such as lateral movement or exfiltration) to help analysts understand scope and priority.
Standard - Ideal for Sec Ops teams with an emerging security program and incident response, the package includes network security analytics, Machine learning-driven anomaly detection, automatic detection and classification of critical assets, and threat investigation capabilities.
Premium - For mature security programs with Integrated Platforms (e.g., SIEM) and encryption, Premium includes everything in the Standard plan, plus SSL decryption capabilities and ExtraHop's Open Data Stream for integration and automation with existing security products and workflows.
Ultra - For sophisticated programs with forensic and demanding compliance requirements, Ultra includes full packet capture for smart forensics and investigative capabilities, as well as monthly Security Atlas Reports.
With wire data capturing the entire transaction as forensic-quality data and advanced anomaly detection showing each relationship, security teams can focus on protecting their most critical assets rather than filtering through the alert queue and chasing false positives. To quote one customer: "The visibility is addictive."


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package br.ufrj.ppgi.greco.expedit.tese.commons.clock;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class SimulatedClock extends Thread implements Clock {

	//
	// Statics constants

	public static final double SPEED_SLOW = 0.5;
	public static final double SPEED_NORMAL = 1.0;
	public static final double SPEED_DOUBLE = 2.0;
	public static final double SPEED_MINUTE = 60.0;
	public static final double SPEED_HOUR = 3600.0;
	public static final double SPEED_DAY = 24.0 * SPEED_HOUR;
	public static final double SPEED_WEEK = 7 * SPEED_DAY;
	public static final double SPEED_MONTH = 30 * SPEED_DAY;

	public static final long desiredSleepTime = 50; // ms

	////

	private Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
	private final Date finalDate;
	private final long finalTime;
	private double speedRate;	// segundos simulados / segundos reais
	private float iterationAverageTime = 0;
	private long iterations = 0;
	private long iterationSleepTime = desiredSleepTime;
	private boolean finishThread = false;

	public SimulatedClock(Date startDate, Date finalDate) {
		this.c.setTime(startDate);
		this.finalDate = finalDate;
		this.finalTime = 0;
		initSpeedRate();
	}

	public SimulatedClock(Date startDate, int realDuration) {
		this.c.setTime(startDate);
		this.finalDate = null;
		this.finalTime = System.currentTimeMillis() + 1000 * realDuration;
		initSpeedRate();
	}

//	public SimulatedClock() {
//		// Define data final
//		c.set(2011, Calendar.OCTOBER, 30, 23, 59, 59);
//		finalDate = c.getTime();
//		finalTime = 0;
//
//		// Define data inicial
//		c.set(1997, Calendar.JANUARY, 01, 00, 00, 00);	// specific date
//		c.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
//		//c.setTime(new Date());		// current date
//
//		initSpeedRate();
//	}

	private void initSpeedRate() {
		this.speedRate = 3600 * 72;	// 3 dias / segundo
	}

	/**
	 * Sleeps for 50 ms and computes the exact time elapsed, in milliseconds
	 * @return the exact time elapsed sleeping
	 */
	private long sleep() {
		long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
		try {
			Thread.sleep(iterationSleepTime);
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		long deltaTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
		iterationAverageTime += (deltaTime - iterationAverageTime) / ++iterations;	// long-running average

		if (iterationAverageTime > desiredSleepTime) iterationSleepTime--;
		else if (iterationAverageTime < desiredSleepTime) iterationSleepTime++;

		if (iterationSleepTime < 0) iterationSleepTime = 0;

		return deltaTime;
	}

	/**
	 *     Real                        Simulado
	 *  =======            ====================
	 *     1  s                   speedRate  (s)
	 *  1000 ms            1000 * speedRate (ms)
	 *  elapsedTime (ms)      simulatedIncrement = 1000 * speedRate * elapsedTime / 1000 ms
	 *                                           = speedRate * elapsedTime
	 *
	 * @param elapsedTime
	 * @return o tempo atual da simulacao
	 */
	private synchronized Date increaseAndGet(long elapsedTime) {
		long simulatedIncrement =  (long) (speedRate * elapsedTime);
		c.add(Calendar.SECOND,      (int) (simulatedIncrement / 1000));
		c.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, (int) (simulatedIncrement % 1000));
		return c.getTime();
	}

	@Override
	public void run() {
		if (finalDate == null) {
			while (System.currentTimeMillis() < finalTime && !finishThread) {
				increaseAndGet(sleep());
			}
		}
		else {
			while (increaseAndGet(sleep()).before(finalDate) && !finishThread) { }
		}
	}

	public void finish() {
		finishThread = true;
	}

	//
	// Getters and Setters
	//

	@Override
	public synchronized Date getCurrentDate() {
		return c.getTime();
	}

	@Override
	public synchronized long getCurrentTime() {
		return c.getTimeInMillis();
	}

	public synchronized void setSpeedRate(double speedRate) {
		this.speedRate = speedRate;
	}

	public synchronized double getSpeedRate() {
		return speedRate;
	}

	public float getIteractionAverageTime() {
		return iterationAverageTime;
	}

	public long getIteractions() {
		return iterations;
	}

	public long getIterationSleepTime() {
		return iterationSleepTime;
	}
}

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EE&K was selected to design a new $300 million intermodal transit center, to be located north of the University of Houston-Downtown and Interstate 10. The center is destined to become the main hub for many of the services offered by Houston's Metro, serving as the starting and ending point for bus routes, rail lines, bus rapid-transit lines and commuter rail. The ultimate goal is to take as many cars off the road as possible, creating a regional ripple effect that will enhance Houston's transit situation.
The new transit center also is intended to attract new growth and activity, helping to transform the broader neighborhood into a thriving urban district. The commuter rails and the LRT will make the area accessible from all parts of the city and many of the improvements planned—including pedestrian friendly sidewalks, a park along the White Oak Bayou and a new market — will infuse new life and vitality into the area.
The redevelopment of the industrial area around the proposed Intermodal Station of Houston envisions a vibrant, mixed-use and walkable community seamlessly built around the Station. A variety of public spaces and amenities are designed to blend transportation, retail with housing, recreational and cultural activities.


On 2 – 3 September 2015 the entire potato chain will be covered in Kain, near Tournai, Doornik.
Farmers, growers and producers looking to enhance their sorting process efficiency should head to Potato Europe next month, where TOMRA Sorting Food will be demonstrating its Field Potato Sorter.
This unique open-air event is being held September 2-3, 2015, on Rue de Mourcourt 2 near Kain, Belgium with the TOMRA team located at booth T78.
The Field Potato Sorter (FPS) is a sensor based food sorting machine for unwashed potatoes, removing large soil clumps, stones and other foreign material at the earliest opportunity in the sorting process. The state-of-the-art system offers growers significantly reduced labour and storage cost and ensures a smoother, more efficient sort further down the production line, increasing product quality and yield.
The FPS is unique - it's the first successful optical sorting solution in the industry for all types of unwashed potatoes. The machine is fitted with TOMRA's BSI (Biometric Signature Identification) technology which identifies and compares the physical characteristics of good product and defects, and sorts based on these clear patterns.
Steve Raskin, sales director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), says: "Visitors to Potato Europe will be able to get a sense of the superior abilities of the Field Potato Sorter compared to standard mechanical sorting systems.
TOMRA Sorting Food is a leading provider of sensor-based food sorting machines and processing technology for the fresh and processed food industries. Its cutting edge innovations help processors meet exacting food safety regulations and make for a smart business investment, ensuring an efficient production line operation, optimising throughput and yield, whilst minimising downtime and labour costs.
Using a variety of sensors, which go far beyond the common use of colour cameras, the sorters can detect the smallest defect or foreign material. Near Infra-Red (NIR) spectroscopy enables an analysis of the molecular structure of a product whilst x-rays, fluorescent lighting and lasers measure the elemental composition of objects. The internal composition and surface structure of objects can also be analysed to determine good or bad produce.
The Potato Europe official website.


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Q: can i pass the value for IAwaitable I have a bot application where i have the below method, which i want to call explicitly in specific case rather than waiting for user input. i have the context object but how can i pass the true here
//Method code
private async Task ReadItemName(IDialogContext context, IAwaitable<true> result)
{
  //
}

//Calling method: ReadItemName(context, true);
something like this but it does not accept true, but i want to pass iAwaitable type?

A: You can use AwaitableFromItem<T>:
ReadItemName(context, new AwaitableFromItem(true));

See doc here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.bot.builder.dialogs.awaitablefromitem-1?view=botbuilder-dotnet-3.0


Waterford Living History Society, which incorporates Waterford Vikings, is a self-funded, voluntary group of history enthusiasts who engage in re-enactment of historical eras, especially Waterford's Viking period.
The group started in March 2011 and now has approximately 30 members, with an age range from 20's to 70's. A certain number are qualified to fight with authentic or reproduced metal weapons or have developed a craft or other skill, or both. Others are training to work on costumes and weapons as all members provide their own personal, authentic, clothing, weapons, craft tools etc.
Waterford Living History Society have attended numerous events in their first year together including helping the Mayor switch on the Christmas lights, partaking in the Spraoi weekend celebrations, the Harvest Festival and their most ambitious project being the re-enactment of the Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife for Heritage week.
The inspiration for the group was the development of the Viking Triangle. For the Waterford Living History Society contribute to the amimation of the history of Waterford to those that visit the city.


It's not always true, but for the most part, women love shopping and bringing their man along with them. Even though they know damn well how much we hate it. We have some great shots here of just how much men loath shopping with their significant others.
Knowing what you want, going in to the store and finding it then straight to the register to pay for, then exiting said store, that is ONE thing! However women for some reason enjoy the browsing feature of shopping, sometimes going into a store for tens of minutes only to come out with nothing. This guy has been through it several times and know where the massage chairs are like the back of his hand!