We caught up with Mohale Mashigo, who is part of a number of panel discussions including "My Creative Lives" and "Talking Feminism" at the Open Book Festival currently taking place in Cape Town.
My government name is Kgomotso Carol Mashigo. I was born in Soweto, to a storyteller and a reader and I used to write sweet valley high fan-fiction in high school. I'm also a singer, song writer. I am now also a person who builds libraries for schools and currently working on my first library for a school that I volunteer at. I'm also an author and my pen name is Mohale Mashigo. Mohale is my mom's maiden name and because she didn't become the world famous actress she wanted to be, I thought if I did something that would get my name out there, I would include her maiden name.
Part of your book "The Yearning" is set in Cape Town. How does it feel to come here to talk about trauma and healing at Open Book Festival?
When I started writing the book, I was working in advertising and I wasn't very happy in advertising. So, I started writing a story about a woman from Soweto (like me) living in Cape Town. I had no idea what the story would become. It is interesting to come back now, have people ask questions and interact with the story in a different way. I didn't really think lots of people would read the book. And now that many people have read the book, it has forced me to go back to my intentions with the book, why certain things happened and how I feel about things. So it's nice to have to be drawn back into when I was first writing it.
Zakes Mda said you tell your story 'with charming lucidity, disarming characterisation, subversive wisdom and subtle humour." How do you think you tell your story?
Firstly, I laughed when Zakes Mda sent that quote to my publisher and I said "What does that mean? Can you say it in plain English?". Because I would've preferred it if he had said "She wrote a good story". But you know, he's a writer so he went crazy with it. I think I wrote a story that no one has ever read before but I still think it's atypically South African story. I wrote this story because I'd never found a story like this one, so I wrote it.
When you say you've written a story that has never been told before, what do you mean?
In school, I read as many books as I could but it wasn't until I read [Alice Walker's] The Colour Purple that I came across the first book that had black people in it. There were many other books I read after that were written by African writers but I felt as though a story like The Yearning was missing. So, I wrote it because I wanted black people to see themselves in literature.
The yearning is about this woman who's got a seemingly perfect life. Then things start falling apart and she feels like she's losing her mind. But she also knows its got to do with her father's murderer. There are many of those things in typically black South African families where someone's gone missing. People usually say it was only political people that were killed, but it happened to ordinary people, sometimes people would get stabbed in a train and were never seen again. So, we need to talk about the bad stuff and how it affects young people now in the new South Africa.
To a young writer, how do you get your creative writing read in a digital space?
It's always good to start your writing on digital platforms so that by the time you publish, you have an audience and a fan base that has been following your work from the beginning. In the digital age, we have so many opportunities to get our work out there till we are eventually paid for it. You can easily start a Tumblr account and release short stories to a mass, international audience. All the digital spaces have a community that is interested in the same things you are interested in. Author of Salt, Nayyirah Waheed, started on Tumblr and by the time she had a book out, she had a community of people waiting for it. There is a literary magazine called Prufrock where you can publish anything in any language. There are so many avenues where you can publish.
How do you earn money from your writing? And how would you advise other writers to earn money from their craft?
I work at a radio station at night and get royalties for my book. But I mean that's a process so you need to have a stable job as a writer till your writing is eventually sought-after and does well enough to sustain you. Also, writing for different publications helps. Books don't do that well in South Africa because people don't want to read something written by one of us. People say South Africans don't read, but they do, just not South African books. J.K Rowling could easily sell a million copies here, but not a South African.
What mistakes have you made in your journey? How would you advise young writers to avoid the same challenges?
Our media has not created a reading culture that's big enough for people to know what's happening with our authors. Magazines have a tiny section on book reviews and a tinier section for a review on a South African book. In book stores there is a small shelf that says African Fiction. Out of so many countries and so many authors in Africa, how can you have a small shelf for local books? Even on radio, they never review or let people know about books that are available. There are also a few blogs that review South African and African books only. This is why we don't do well.


Trace: • Welcome to the Aesedra and Fels Wiki!
Welcome to the Aesedra and Fels Wiki!
This is my third attempt at a wiki that covers the worlds where most of my fantasy fiction takes place: Aesedra and Fels. A little while ago, I decided I would join the two worlds together, that is, link them via fiction, although they are very much different in character. Aesedra isn't a world per se, it's an empire on the world of Cauix, though most folk there aren't even aware their planet has a "proper" name and just call it the Earth or "world" in their own tongue.
Fels is an honest-to-goodness planet complete with seas and everything! It even has a moon! Aesedra has a couple in Pellaan and Mattaan but they are small and difficult to see and many cultures are unaware of them.
Fels is decidedly the more weirder of the two locales, as the effects of the Collision are felt far more there than in Aesedra, which has a more traditional heroic fantasy setting, although set in a pseudo-Renaissance era for the most part. Aesedra, additionally, has some very long standing customs and religious practices that preclude the practice of magic (or even the mention of the word). Oh, magic exists in a way, through the agency of alchemy) and it's a wonderful place (yes, I do say so) but it doesn't have Fels' sheer, utter oddball nature.
There's two books based in Fels, and several in Aesedra I'm writing, and these (the Fels ones) are covered in the bibliography though the information seriously needs updating. I talk about the Aesedran stories over on my personal blog here and it's a bit more current. There you will several short stories that are based in the Fels milieu, particularly in and around Fenstre on the southern Three Rivers littoral.
I have based some of the article layouts on what can found at this fine place.


One of the oldest online dating sites, Matchmaker started in 1996. Unlike some sites that cater to literally everyone, Matchmaker has a clear and serious mission – to help singles over the age of 35 find lasting love.
It's free to join and you'll have access to some features immediately, including search and limited messaging. Creating a profile is easy, too. Just fill out basic information about yourself (age, gender, location) then a little about what you're looking for. There's also a section where you can free write, which eliminates the factual aspect of surveys and quizzes.
Unlike other sites, Matchmaker doesn't create connections based on personality or your interaction (liking other profiles). Instead, they use a "scientific matching system" that uses what you've written on your profile to find matches based on 50 attributes.
Matchmaker has some benefits. It's easy to set up a profile, and not very expensive to join. However, with only 10 million active users, fewer people use the site compared to its competitors. Some people have also wondered how many of those users are truly active. People report being set up with matches who have a deleted profile, or getting "messages" when they have a free membership, but when they sign up for the paid membership the messages and reply, no one responds.
Some people found people on the site who were just looking for money as well. However, every dating site runs the risk of a few bad apples. It's important to use your best judgment and make sure you never send personal information (or money) to anyone you meet online.
Probably the biggest problem with the site is their lack of customer service. Avalanche, LLC owns Matchmaker, and they aren't accredited by the BBB and have an F rating, which gives you some hint of the kind of service you can expect from the company in general.
Matchmaker.com caters to helping singles over the age of 35 find lasting love.
If customer support is important to you, Matchmaker definitely isn't a good option. That being said, it seems like dating on Matchmaker itself is a mixed bag. It's not that great, but it isn't that bad either. As far as dating sites go, Matchmaker seems about average. If you want a more reliable service then it might be worth it to spend a few extra dollars and go elsewhere.
Have you had an experience with this company? Please share your Matchmaker.com reviews below.


Here is a list of the Free style definitions.
Indicates the execution of the first variation of the base move, while simultaneously turning your upper body counter clockwise. (be sure not to rotate past a point of cancellation nullifying your own effectiveness) Follow up with a left vertical punch to your opponent's face while simultaneously executing a right sliding check down and onto your opponent's left arm. As your opponent backs up execute a left drag right front snap ball kick to his groin.
[QUOTE=dubljay]Here is a list of the Free style definitions.
your example has a 'd' but there's no definition for it.
I appologize for that, I thought I had accounted for all the ones in the example.
The "d" signifies a step drag.
so dk would be a drag kick.
This thread was started almost a year ago, and could defitiely be useful to many people on the site.
Does anyone have the entire list they could post on here?
I have quite a bit of the blue blet, some of the orange belt from the journals given to me by my insturctor. Given some time I could post them. There are quite a few so it may take a while.
B = base move - in the Yellow Belt chart, the base move consists of two variations. from a left stance: (a) = left hooking grab, pulling diagonally down and to the left, with a right vertical punch to the opponent's face; and (b) = left hooking grab, pulling diagonally down and to the left with a right uppercut punch to opponent's ribcage.
puling horizontally to the left with a right uppercut to your opponent's ribs.
K = kick; in this belt level, its a front leg front snap kick.
H = heel of palm; in this case its the checking, or right hand, that is used.
ls = leg sweep; spinning left stiff-leg sweep.
RL = right to left; your right leg is forward is facing your opponent's left leg forward.
Is this an official part of the parker system or something else? it looks cool.
Many Kenpo Schools use them as part of the official curriculum.
I am pretty sure they are in Infinite Insights 5, although they are not discussed nearly as in depth as the Self-Defense Techniques.
In our school, they are not part of the curriculum.
As I was reading the techniques from Rob's posting, the base move instruction of "Left hooking grab, pulling diagonally down" didn't seem to make sense to me. The "Left hooking Grab" is used with the Left-to-Left stance. If we were running these freestyle techniques in a Right-to-Right stance, the base move would be a "Right hooking grab, pulling diagonally down".
The move is executed with my forward hand, grabbing his forward hand, and pulling his hand across his centerline and down. This will help nullify his rear weapon, so that I may step in to execute the strike with my rear weapon.
Gawd, I hated this convention. I was horrible at math (still am), and algebra haunted my nightmares for more years than I care to count. This method reminded me of algebra, and all the horrible angst I had associated with it got attached to this annotation method. I much prefer something that requires less of a code-breaker sheet..."punch the guy in da head, then kick him in the nutz"
I really wish this scripting method would just drive off a cliff and get it over with.
my list wouldn't look like any of these.
At one point I actually tried to learn these, then said "screw it" and came up with 10 "go to" combos. There is a pretty good reason why this isn't taught in many schools, somone could take a mid-level technique, call it "blitzing mace" and everyone would be happy. Instead we have this gobbledygook.
Wow; that's pretty harsh. They are just equations for the self defense techs. Are you saying they can all be boiled down too?
As a training tool the AK naming conventions are pretty good (much better than the Tracy ones that I mostly use), they give a mnemonic that gets people on the same page quickly. Contrast that to the freestyle nomenclature, where only the most obsessive of kenpo geeks are going to remember tskB5aPhKbk. You can't even say it, you have to read it. So I find them as a method of transmitting practical knowledge fairly useless. I'd rather my guys be out there banging than puzzling over a piece of paper trying to decipher which version of a tech we are on.
Not that anyone is doing this, but you could always include the algebra with the tech name upon introduction. So, defensivly we may call something "Prancing Tiger" and offensivly its "jsdiuhvsrhnv1rqui"(I just hit the keys) That way you are always concious of the ambiguity between offense and defense.


Spring is in the air, and for the avid traveller the warmer weather signals the time to visit Phu Quoc, Vietnam's lush paradise. In collaboration with leading Vietnamese fashion house Do Manh Cuong, JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay has launched a "Stay in Style" experience inspired by the colors of the Spring season. Guests can also immerse themselves in the local culture through a weekly street market, offering them an opportunity to embrace the art, culture and food of Vietnam.
A legendary creation by Bill Bensley, JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay celebrates a mythical university through its larger-than-life design detail. From the Alice in Wonderland-inspired Chanterelle – Spa by JW to the "faculty-themed" villas, the fantastical narrative, paired with a pristine location, creates a luxury escape like no other.
Every Friday from 6-10pm, the resort's main thoroughfare, Rue de Lamarck, will transform into "Lamarck Walking Street Night Market," a colourful gathering of live food stalls, street performers and cultural presentations that represent Phu Quoc's Bai Kem community.
At the Lamarck Night Market, JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay guests will be able to sample local delicacies, experience local art forms and observe performers in action, including fire dance, close up magic show, live jazz and music band. A 20% discount at all dining and spa outlets will also be offered from 6 pm – 10:30 pm. An authentic experience of a quaint Vietnamese street, Lamarck Night Market – available to all visitors and residents of Phu Quoc – is set to become a must-visit attraction on the island.
Visitors from outside can also experience the vibrancy and variety of the street market by paying an entrance fee of VND 200,000. By presenting the entrance ticket, they will receive a welcome "elixir" from the JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay Department of Chemistry served in a test tube or beaker. They can spend the evening at the resort and enjoy all the fun that the night market has to offer, as well as the special 20% discount at all dining and spa outlets.
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Who will be on the project with me?
the intercultural experience for everyone involved.
advantage, as it gives you the chance to better interact with local people.
bag and should be prepared, in some cases, for very basic standards of living.
Generally you will work up to 7 hours a day with evenings and weekends free.
usually last between one to six months.
hosts, providing food and accommodation for the volunteers.
Concordia is a member of the Alliance of European Voluntary Organisations and Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS).
(Caroline Dudley, on a construction project in Kenya).
walks up and down the mountain were hard; and the work was worthwhile.
some amazing people. I have some fantastic memories that I will always cherish.


It's Justin Bieber calling 911 from his luxury sports car.
911 Operator: 911 emergency, what are you reporting?
Bieber: Hello, I have like, five cars following me.
Bieber said he was being followed by three cars, all driven by paparazzi.
Bieber: They're being very dangerous, swerving around other cars trying to get to me.
Bieber made the call after he was pulled over by police for allegedly speeding on a Los Angeles freeway.
The man who called the cops on Bieber was Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine.
"When I say this car passed me at approximately 100 miles an hour, that's not an exaggeration. It was flying by," said Zine.
Zine knows what he's talking about—he's a former LAPD motorcycle officer.
"If I was still on a police motorcycle, chasing him, endangering my life, I would have arrested him. This was clearly disregard for everyone on the road," said Zine.
Bieber was actually cited for going 80 miles an hour. After he was ticketed, he got back on the road—but the paparazzi continued to follow him.
Bieber: Before I was driving fast so that I could try to get away from them.
There was also a bizarre moment during the call, when Bieber gave a phony name to the 911 operator.
911 Operator: And what's your name?
911 Operator: What's your last name?
In case you're wondering where he came up with that, Johnson is the name of his pet boa constrictor.
And there was another notable interchange.
911 Operator: What type of car are you in?
Bieber: I'm in a Fisker.
911 Operator: What kind of car is that?
Who could blame the operator for not knowing what a Fisker was?
Bieber received the $120,000 Fisker Karma as an 18th birthday present from his manager on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Bieber customized it with chrome plating.
And Bieber's manager says Bieber wasn't driving that fast, and the councilman who called 911 is just "looking for a headline."
"If his people want to cover for him, maybe they should protect him, instead of pointing the finger at me, a public figure who's trying to protect the public," said Zine.


Also, please don't feel bad if you weren't able to watch any. This is meant to be cheerleading, not shaming.
And here is a little poll to get an idea how how many silents total you've been able to see.
I am looking forward to reading your answers!
So far this year, I've watched Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933), The Three-Sided Mirror (1927), Lazybones (1925) and Faces of Children (1925).
Watched the Silent Ozu Family Comedy set, consisting of I WAS BORN, BUT…, TOKYO CHORUS and PASSING FANCY, the Silent Garbo set, consisting of FLESH AND THE DEVIL, THE MYSTERIOUS LADY and THE TEMPTRESS and the ALICE HOWELL COLLECTION – a dozen hilarious shorts.
The big parade, safety last, the kid, the show (1927), the cossacks, the merry widow, monte cristo (1922), love (1927), flesh and the devil.
I think im gonna start an harold lloyd + harry langdon cycle soon !
Silent era is just so good !
Do you know if there is a netflix like for the silent movies ? Or at least classic old movies ?
There was. Filmstruck was killed by ATT, Fandor just had its plug pulled.
Sadly, none. Between college, work, and health issues, I'm pooped.
Thanks for answering but I would really appreciate not attacking particular companies in the comments. My policy on grey market distributors was highlighted in a previous post and I prefer to keep my dealings with them civil. I appreciate the help!
I revisited Dr. Mabuse (1922) after more than a few years. I watched it twice, the second time with David Kalat's terrific commentary. I also saw Monte Cristo (1922) with John Gilbert. Not a great film but an entertaining one. Gilbert was in fine form and Emmett Flynn was a more competent director than I imagined he would be, he kept the novel's impossible plot from getting too muddled. I saw Criterion's release of Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927), and Valentino in Moran of the Lady Letty. I made my way through a good chunk of Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers set. My Library has the DVD version so it's missing some of the blu-ray content. My favorite film on the set was Weber's Sunshine Molly. She was quite good in the part, I'm sorry we only have the 40 minute fragment.
The best story I have for 2019 is getting to see "Street Angel" at MoMa with my father during a trip to NYC last week. Hadn't seen it before, and seeing it with an audience added a lot to the experience.
Look for the Criterion Channel's new streaming service. Starts Monday, April 8.
I find the Criterion Collection, while admirable, does tend to put forth the rather tired notion of canon with the big slapstick comedians and Asian and European art films making up the bulk of its silent titles.
Yeah, creating a canon of great world cinema, similar to the canon of great literature, has been one of Criterion's goals for decades. I can't complain because they offer so many great movies. But after you've seen the designated "canon," you have to do your own exploring.
Flicker Alley offers streaming video on demand, on its website. Not a lot of movies, last time I looked, but what's there is choice.
But the issue is that Criterion's rather narrow selection of silent films doesn't really qualify it to be the "Netflix of silent films" as a dedicated viewer can work through their offerings in a week or two.
Alas, YouTube is awash with pirates and poor scores. That's why I do not provide links to content not uploaded by collectors I know personally or by archives.
Could you share those real / legal links ? Because YouTube is like à jungle to me, i dont know where exactly to look at for those quality copies.
I do whenever I review films available in that format.
I've seen a few, but the ones that stood out to my (courtesy of Silent Sunday Nights) were Rex Ingram's The Magician (which was a wild ride and I enjoyed watching Paul Wegener devour the scenery) and Sadie Thompson (Gloria freaking nailed it, what an amazing performance – Lionel Barrymore came off as too sleezy from the beginning, I thought, I never thought this guy had a scrap of good intentions, which actually could have given him some nuance). Too bad about the missing footage.


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Best Companies to Partner with As an Independent?
I'd love to get some input on best companies to partner with as an Independent. I'll need both life insurance and financial services. Do any of them actually give you leads?
The answer is.....maybe. Or more succinctly...it depends. I'm fine tuning my agency and it's working. The key is, this/these, forums. The guru's here are pregnant with good stuff. You'll save so much time and the info will help you make the best choice for your career. I have some cool stuff on my website via my signature. I also believe, very heavily, on positive thoughts, 'cause, this life can be a tough one sometimes. Cheers!
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Email Security for the Healthcare Industry: Time for a Checkup?
See where healthcare cybersecurity is falling short.
Any regular reader of Mimecast's Cyber Resilience Insights blog site has likely come across my quarterly Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) blogs. These blogs summarize and draw conclusions from our aggregated ESRA test results that we have accumulated.
Up until now, however, I have not analyzed the test results from the point of view of any particular industry. With this blog I provide analysis pulled specifically from ESRA tests of healthcare organizations and compare those results to the entire set of ESRA data.
What do you think I found? Are healthcare organizations better or worse protected from email-borne threats when compared with a large cross section of other industries? Read on to find out!
How does the ESRA work?
The healthcare analysis is pulled from the same aggregate data set that we published in the December 2018 ESRA release.
In an ESRA test the Mimecast service reinspects a participating organization's emails that were deemed safe by their incumbent email security system. This is based on actual inbound email traffic into that organization, not on crafted or test email. It doesn't get much more "real" than that! Mimecast runs this test over a period of time, usually between a week and a month at each participating organization.
A Mimecast ESRA test passively inspects and records the results of real emails that have been delivered to an organization's employees and determines if they are legitimate or unwanted (spam, phishing, impersonations, or contain malware). In security terms an ESRA test is a false negative hunting initiative, where the Mimecast email security service inspects delivered emails looking for those unwanted ones that have passed through their existing email security net and landed at the organization. The latest report from December can be found here.
What do the results say about healthcare cybersecurity?
Are healthcare organizations better or worse protected against email-borne threats than the rest of the tested organizations? Perhaps they are more attacked than the average organization, and this would explain their higher rate of false positives?
My sense, based on this testing and my own educated guess based on years of security experience, is that healthcare organizations are no more or less attacked via email than other organizations, but that their email security defenses, for whatever reason, are lagging behind the others—although a 11.7% false negative rate for the entire test pool is nothing to be proud of!
Here's an action plan: those healthcare organizations that have not conducted a serious review of their email focused security controls in the last year or two should make doing so a high priority! Both attackers and email security best practices have moved far over the past few years. It is important that the defenders in healthcare do the same.


If there's one thing you will get told when planning a wedding, it's how important it is to get a good florist on board and to do so as early as possible in the wedding planning process. Foliage plays a large part in the overall scheme of a wedding and springtime is the perfect season to experiment with vibrant colours, textures and avant-garde arrangements.
Hanging herbs. Photo: Leo Patrone.
Photo: via Apples Under My Bed.
Herb bouquets. Photo: via Almost Makes Perfect.
Green with Envy flower wall. Photo: White Luxe.
Winery ceremony. Photo: White Luxe.
Photo: via Pop and Scott.
Photo: Jonathan Wherrett & Luisa Brimble.
Native vase. Photo: Clementine Davey.
Photo: Katrina Gilbert Weddings and Events.
Test tube installation. Photo: Pani Jurek.
We couldn't agree more. Nothing turns heads, transforms spaces or makes a bigger impact than a verdant array of freshly picked peonies or hydrangeas. As spring and the Australian wedding season approaches us again, we're reconsidering traditional flower arrangements to bring you multiple, sensory floral experiences.
While you're busy thinking of ways to garnish your nuptial roast dinner with rosemary or adding a hint of mint to your signature reception cocktail, we encourage you to think about incorporating herbs in to your matrimonial botanicals too. From the pretty textured fronds to the inviting perfume, parsley flowers, sage and time make beautiful foliage additions with a difference.
Beautiful blooms are no longer restricted to our banquet tables and bouquets, flowers are now also on our walls. Family run business White Luxe have perforated the niche market in Melbourne with their opulent Green with Envy silk flower wall. "My sister was getting married towards the end of the last year and we wanted to try and do something really different. We wanted something a little bit fun for her wedding, something to take photos in front of and that's how White Luxe started," Giulia says. Impelled by the hype surrounding by Kim Kardashian's nuptial floor-to-ceiling white flower backdrop, White Luxe have continued to bring exposure to the trend, designing glamorous floral features for various style bloggers and social media mavens.
Enthralled by woodlands and nature's frailty we look to natural foraged blooms for table décor and bouquet inspiration. A combination of exposed stems, blenched branches, vines and green foliage account for a 'just picked out of the garden' aesthetic. Wedding bouquets have come undone, quite literally and tightly wound arrangements in uniform colour and species are becoming beautifully nonchalant and unstructured. We love nothing more than a beautiful, bold arbor decorated in native Australian blooms.
Hanging birch foliage, magnolia chandeliers and suspended hybrid tea roses en masse are among our favourite hovering blooms. So raw and beautifully animated, a ceiling decorated with sprawling greenery above a crisp ceramic table scape can define the colour story of your entire event. Inspired by the whimsicality of a secret garden in full blossom, we can't go passed an amalgamation of romantic hued garlands free falling overhead to create an intimate ceiling panorama.
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Home Africa Live "Swarms big as cities": UN chief says locust fight must intensify
"Swarms big as cities": UN chief says locust fight must intensify
FILE PHOTO: A desert locust is seen feeding on a plantation in a grazing land on the outskirt of Dusamareb in Galmudug region, Somalia December 22, 2019. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A desert locust is seen feeding on a plantation in a grazing land in Somalia. December 22, 2019. (REUTERS/Feisal Omar)
The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for intensified international efforts to deal with a locust outbreak that has affected large parts of the African continent.
"The UN has issued an urgent appeal for assistance. I ask the international community to respond with speed and generosity to ensure an effective response and control the infestation while we still have the chance," Guterres said on the sidelines of the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the AU in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Tuesday disclosed that the Horn of Africa (HoR) region is the worst desert locust affected area from the three hot-spots of threatening locust activity globally.
According to the FAO, the increasing desert locust swarms in Ethiopia and Somalia have continued to migrate into Kenya, where they spread to 14 northern, central and southwest counties, reaching within 200 km of northeast Uganda and southeast South Sudan.
Guterres said the locust swarms affecting many parts of Africa are unprecedented in size and scope, with climate change playing a big part in aggravating the locust crisis.
"Today locust swarms are as big as major cities and it's getting worse by the day. There is also a link between climate change and the unprecedented locust crisis plaguing Ethiopia and East Africa.
"Warmer seas mean more cyclones generating the perfect breeding ground for locusts," said the UN Secretary General.
The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria), which is considered as the most dangerous of the nearly one dozen species of locusts, is a major food security peril in desert areas across 20 countries, stretching from west Africa all the way to India, covering nearly 16 million square kilometers, according to the UN.
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Marilyn Pharis Raped, Murdered by Alien; Family Remembers Her as 'Gentle'
Published on August 12th, 2015
Blog, crime
Even in the aftermath of 64-year-old Santa Maria, California, resident Marilyn Pharis' brutal death at the hands of 29-year-old illegal alien Victor Aureliano Martinez Ramirez and his 20-year-old accomplice Jose Villagomez, an American citizen, but likely anchor baby, political correctness endures.
In his news conference regarding Air Force veteran Pharis' mid-morning sexual assault, strangulation and eventual death caused by repeated hammer blows to her head, Santa Maria Police Department Commander Kendall Greene said:
Santa Maria Police Chief says 'Blood Trail' from Marilyn Pharis'
murder leads to Obama, Brown.
We have a citizen that lost her life; it's serious. When you look at it, we don't care what the circumstances were. We're going to do what we need to do to get our facts and bring this individual to justice. If there are extenuating circumstances that arise as a result of that, that he's an undocumented immigrant, then we will let the proper authorities address those issues when they present themselves.
Notice Greene's references to "circumstances," "undocumented immigrant" and "proper authorities." The circumstances are that Santa Maria is a sanctuary city with a 70 percent Hispanic population. Martinez Ramirez is an alien who had been arrested six times in the last 15 months, most recently for drug possession. And the "proper authorities" are nowhere to be found. President Obama authorized the Department of Homeland Security to release criminal aliens, and Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Trust Act which converted California into a sanctuary state. Neither Brown nor Obama commented on Kate Steinle's death in sanctuary city San Francisco, and it's improbable that either will acknowledge Pharis' murder.
Ironically and despite protests from the pro-immigration lobby, last month Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened a Santa Maria office. The local ICE office promised but failed to "focus on sensible, effective immigration enforcement that prioritizes individuals who present the greatest risk to our communities."
Unlike Commander Greene, Santa Maria Police Chief Ralph Martin spoke the plain truth. Said Martin:
…I am not remiss to say that from Washington, D.C. to Sacramento there's a blood trail leading to the bedroom of Marilyn Pharis.
See Martin's press conference and a news report here.
Pharis' family described Marilyn as "gentle" and "strong," words that often describe illegal immigrants' victims, and will sadly be used over and again as long as Obama refuses to protect Americans against an alien crime wave. As Martin said, the problem "starts at the top" with President Obama and will not get fixed until it changes at the top and "reaches the lower level."
crime, criminal aliens, undocumented, victims of illegal immigration
Talk about Unsustainable: 1.24 Million Immigrants Annually!
Number of Stay-at-Home Young Adults Continues Increasing
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import kieker.common.exception.RecordInstantiationException;
import kieker.common.record.factory.IRecordFactory;
import kieker.common.record.io.IValueDeserializer;

/**
 * @author Felix Eichhorst
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 * @since 1.14
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public final class BeforeSentRemoteEventFactory implements IRecordFactory<BeforeSentRemoteEvent> {

	@Override
	public BeforeSentRemoteEvent create(final IValueDeserializer deserializer) throws RecordInstantiationException {
		return new BeforeSentRemoteEvent(deserializer);
	}

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	public String[] getValueNames() {
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	}

	@Override
	public Class<?>[] getValueTypes() {
		return BeforeSentRemoteEvent.TYPES; // NOPMD
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The story of Dean and JoJo encourages and engages people to protect and save animals and the environment.


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Bon Adriel Aseniero. STRATOS: The Design of Visualization to Support Decision-making in Software Release Planning. Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, December, 2014.
Huron, Samuel, Carpendale, Sheelagh, Thudt, Alice, Tang, Anthony and Mauerer, Michael. Constructive Visualization. In In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. (honorable mention award). (New York, NY, USA), ACM, pages 433-442, 2014.
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About infantile spasms
Our December warrior – Jack – treating medication resistant epilepsy with the ketogenic diet
Hello, I'm Jack's mum, Nichole. This is the story of our little boy's past year.
This time twelve months ago he and I were halfway through a very difficult nine days stay in hospital. Jack's dad, my partner Jason, wasn't allowed to stay in the hospital with us, but joined us every evening for a few hours after work for much needed hugs!
Jack had to have many tests during that week; an EEG, ECG, lumbar puncture, MRI, X-ray and repeated blood and urine tests. It was an extremely worrying time for us, filled with many tears as we watched our little seven month old baby hooked up to machines, especially when he was put under general anaesthetic, feeling helpless not knowing what was wrong with him.
Then the news came, we were told Jack's brain showed the abnormal electrical activity and hypsarrhythmia of West Syndrome/Infantile Spasms – a type of infant epilepsy. We were shocked, scared, and like most people had never heard of the condition. We got straight onto Google, researching and reading everything about it that we could find, that led us to find UKIST. The charity has been invaluable to us to learn, to ask questions and to connect with other families on this same path.
Jack was straight away started on a high-dose combination of the two most commonly used anti-epileptic drugs, which both had a good success rate when used in conjunction with each other. Although initially we did see results with these drugs, the side-effects were tough on Jack's little body. Jack's personality completely changed, he no longer smiled or laughed, he no longer kicked his legs about, his body lost tone and became floppy. The steroid made his blood pressure too high, so he had to have another medication to keep it in check. It also made him immunocompromised, which meant we spent many months indoors away from family and friends to protect him. As the country was starting to open back up again, as Covid restrictions were being lifted, we were back into isolation for a different reason. Jack's weight ballooned, he had an insatiable appetite, sleepless nights, and he was thoroughly miserable. Jack did two rounds of the steroid treatment, with the second round leading to medication toxicity making his seizures increase in severity, and he became very poorly as a result.
To backtrack a little, the thing that led Jack being admitted to hospital initially was that he had been doing some unusual movements. His arms would sometimes fling outwards, and he would look startled. We felt that he wasn't meeting the 'typical' milestones for a baby of his age, he didn't often make eye contact with us and had no interest in toys. Also on the day of admission, Jack's eyes had started to do a ticking motion up and down. In the weeks prior when we brought up these concerns with our GP, he reassured us that babies are all individual and develop at different rates, with him being a low birth weight and being born early, that he would catch up in his own time and that the unusual arm movements was retention of the Moro-reflex.
When Jack was eventually discharged from hospital, we were so happy and relieved to be back home (and in our own bed!) if not a little daunted with our new normal of giving medication round the clock and monitoring seizures, without the help of the wonderful NHS nurses, whom I'd become so reliant upon for their care and support during those nine days. However, on day three being back at home hit us hard. Early that morning, Jason and I woke to Jack having a tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure. It was the most frightening thing to witness happen to our little boy, Jack had never had a seizure like that before, so we had no idea what was happening to him or if he would come out of it. His eyes rolled back, his body was stiff and jerking continuously during what felt like the longest thirteen minutes of our lives. We were doing our best to comfort Jack, holding him and talking to him to reassure him…and ourselves. When Jack came round, the ambulance still hadn't arrived (Covid was badly affecting the emergency ambulance services during that time), so we hurriedly made our way back to hospital. Jack was given rescue medicine to go home with should he ever have a seizure lasting longer than five minutes in the future. Jack has had many tonic-clonics over this past year, and has unfortunately developed several different seizure types too.
Jack has been on different combinations of AEDs (anti-epileptic drugs) to gain seizure control, but this hasn't happened yet – we remain hopeful! Because of this Jack's epilepsy is classified as drug-resistant. He is still on three AEDs, and in the process of slowly weaning two of them.
Jack recently started on the Ketogenic diet, which is a treatment for drug resistant epilepsy, and has had a 75% decrease in seizure activity! He was having around 150 each day when he started the diet, so we are thrilled with his progress, and with further adjustments, we are hopeful to see further reductions. I do a twice daily blood test on Jack to check that his ketone and glucose levels are within range. He is so brave and handles it like a pro! Alongside epilepsy, Jack has hypotonia and developmental delay. Like most babies with epilepsy, it is especially hard to learn and retain new skills at a 'typical' rate, as the seizures disrupt normal brain activity, and make Jack very sleepy and irritable.
Jack has a large team of medical professionals helping him both in and out of hospital, and has physio, speech and language therapy, and occupational therapy sessions, which he is responding well to. Jack sleeps nightly with a SATS monitor as he has a risk of SUDEP (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy). This monitors the oxygen in his blood, and his pulse, which will sound an alarm if these levels go above or below his normal range. We were kindly gifted this monitor by the charity Daisy Garland, who support children with drug resistant epilepsy.
The results of Jack's whole genome sequencing genetics test came back recently as clear. This means a genetic cause hasn't been found at this time, but as genetic testing is an evolving science, a genetic cause may be found down the line.
Although we would love to find a cure for Jack's seizures, the main thing we want is for Jack to be happy, when he smiles and laughs he lights up the room. He is our little hero and we love him beyond measure. Despite his challenges, that no little person should have to go through, his cheeky, loving and headstrong character shines through.
Thank you to UKIST, Daisy Garland and the NHS for all of your advice, care and support. We will be forever grateful."
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Our November warrior Nell – finding therapies to unlock her potential.
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Our October warrior – Gene
UKIST family day at the Childrens' Adventure Farm Trust
Our September warrior Callum – starting school after an IS diagnosis
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Top plastic polluter Senegal pledges to clean up its act
For more than 10 years Senegalese eco-warrior Modou Fall (the 'a' pronounced like it is in stallion) has been fighting to change people's habit of throwing plastic waste out into the streets with no concern for its effect on the environment.
Covering himself in used plastic bags he regularly visits schools and teaches children about the importance of rejecting the use of plastic and explains to them that it all ends up in the ocean and kills wildlife.
For him saving the planet and the oceans from plastic pollution starts very young and at home.
"All the disasters you see around the world, it is a lack of willingness. People need to know that the state can't do everything because is is not the authorities that bring all of this (waste) here, it's the people. It is their place of work, it is their dumping ground, it's here they do just whatever," said Fall.
Environmental group Greenpeace says it is not enough to rely on individuals to keep the environment clean. They want the government to impose a total ban on single use plastic and packaging.
Greenpeace say pollution from this waste "has reached a critical level" and figures from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows the equivalent of a plastic truck enters our oceans every minute.
At stake in Senegal is the fact that the government did ban the single use plastic bags of less than 30 microns in 2015.
Yet it continues to be an integral part of the urban landscape flying around in the streets of major cities in Senegal, entangled in bushes and littering the beaches and coastline of Dakar.
They are widely used by small vendors, sandwich shops and street canteens, markets and even the supermarket vegetable and cheese counters.
Environment Minister Abdou Karim Sall admitted this month that the government had failed to apply the law.
After a month of talking to citizens about the law and the harmful effects of plastic, police officers will start going to shops and handing out fines of up to $85 to those that are still handing out thin plastic bags.
Figures in Our World in Data compiled by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser show that Senegal produced over 250,000 tons of mismanaged plastic waste in 2010, making it the 21st biggest ocean polluter in the world, among richer, more populous countries such as the United States or India.
The figure is expected to rise three-fold by 2025, according to researchers.
"There was a delay when the law was voted, a delay given to importers, a delay given to producers but also to everyone in the industry, the resellers and so on. But we have deemed necessary to speak to the people, to make them aware of the negative impact of plastic on our environment," said Sall.
This contrasts with Kenya, Rwanda and Cape Verde, which have imposed severe restrictions on the use or manufacture of single-use plastics. Senegal is amongst those countries that in reality rely on voluntary systems to the use of flimsy plastics.
Africa is leading the charge against plastic pollution, with 34 countries adopting restrictions on plastic bags.
In 2017, Kenya imposed one of the world's toughest bans on plastic bags, with charges of up to four years in prison or $40,000 in fines for producing, selling or even using them.
But the lack of enforcement by Senegalese authorities of its own law has left citizens fending for themselves. And the lack of a strict policy on plastic means large businesses continue to use plastic wrapping which they would not be allowed to do in some of the other countries they operate in.
French supermarket chains Auchan and Carrefour operate in Senegal. Legislation in France prohibits them from giving plastic bags to their customers. But they are still available at the counters of the Senegal shops.
Auchan's head of communication in Senegal, Assietou Drame (pronounced Dramay), says the company works within the legislation of the 17 countries they operate in but insist they don't freely dispense the bags in Senegal – they charge for them.
Drame says Auchan plans to pilot the use of brown recycled paper bags they call 'Kraft' by the end of the year. But to begin with, customers will continue to have a choice between paper and plastic.
"We have a project to always offer an alternative for our clients, we want to put in place the 'Kraft' bag project (paper bags). So today the objective is to try in selected stores within Dakar to completely eliminate the sale of plastic bags and to offer our clients the 'Kraft' bag in order for them to shop in a cleaner way," Drame said.
Auchan's competitor, Carrefour, which operates in Senegal, Cameroon and Ivory Coast, says it gives out textile bags in its Dakar stores but stocks have momentarily run out.
The owner of Copa Cabana bar and restaurant in Dakar's Virage neighbourhood, Babacar Thiaw, (pronounced like the Italian Ciao- TchAw) does not want to wait. He is preparing to be 'zero-waste' by September investing in a new coffee machine that doesn't use capsules, he has already substituted plastic straws with metal ones and will soon buy a water fountain for use with glass bottles and get sugar in bulk to replace individually wrapped paper sachets.
Thiaw is one of several people and organisations that have come together at neighbourhood level for 'set setal', the Wolof language name for cleanup operations which regularly take place on beaches and streets.
Thiaw believes that if businesses wait for the government to take appropriate action, change will never happen.
He says the view from his restaurant every morning is as a testimony to people's total lack of interest in saving the environment.
"Look at the beach how beautiful it is, but at 1 pm, 2 pm, you come back and it looks like a dumping ground because people bring their products and their plastic and they just throw it anywhere," he said.
"The law to ban plastic was voted in 2015 but until now it has had no effect at all, nothing concrete has been done. People talk about laws and everything but I feel that those who vote the laws, do they really understand what is happening on the ground?" he said.
Sciencedirect.com says at the global level, best estimates suggest that approximately 80 percent of ocean plastics come from land-based sources, and the remaining 20 percent from marine sources such as fishing activity and including fishing lines, nets and ropes.
The most well-known example of large plastic accumulations in surface waters is the so-called 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' (GPGP).
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Pradyumna, Priyanka Chincholi, Prasanna, Vinaya gowda are in the star cast of Jai Hanuman Serial. We have updated that udaya television launching a new kannada devotional serial named Jai hanumaan from next monday onward. every monday to friday at 7.30 p.m is the telecast timing of this show, serial maaya is now airing at this time slot. Udaya bringing the story of lord hanuman to the kannadiga television viewers. This serial is made up with huge budget, 50 more episodes already filmed. Bukkapattana Vaasu is the director of the show, Bala Suresh written the Dialogues.
Child Hanuman – Pradyumna playing the younger role of lord hanuman in udaya tv kannada television serial.
Anjana – Priyanka Chincholi, she is very popular among television viewers. Hara Hara mahadeva is one of the popular serial from Actress Priyanka Chincholi. She is now playing another important character in udaya tv devotional series.
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Linked stories, set on a Minnesota Indian reservation, won the Flannery O'Connor Award.
A friend of mine, tasked with collecting victim impact statements from a family on the Red Cliff reservation, was chided by one of the victim's family members for the paucity of forms. What about this person and that one, this woman and that man? They were all the victim's aunts and uncles, all her cousins -- all her family.
This sense of a Chippewa (the European rendering of Ojibwe) community as a family -- not just extended but immediate -- pervades Linda LeGarde Grover's book of connected stories about the imaginary Mozhay Point Indian Reservation and allotment lands of the Ojibwe situated a few hours north of Duluth. These people are all one family in a sense that is at once as simple as blood and as complex as myth.
Grover situates us with her first story, "The Dance Boots," narrated by Artense, whose purpose in life is, she believes, "to learn by rote and remember by heart." What she is learning is imparted by her Aunt Shirley, whose purpose was to remember by heart and teach by rote. Artense understands that Shirley had "watched and listened to what was going on all around her all of her life, that she had saved and cared for what she had received of others' lives, and that she didn't want the story buried with her when she died."
What Shirley passes on, the "rhythm and pattern of repeating and echoing, re-echoing and returning," makes up both the substance and the form of the stories that follow. As we weave in and out of lives and times, the "I" that emerges here and there reminds us of how these stories have been transmitted from one generation to the next, in the end creating one vast but finely detailed tapestry of the life and history of a community.
These stories reach back to the time of Ojibwe children being forcibly placed in first a Catholic missionary school, then an Indian school; and they travel through the 20th century to a recent bingo night on the reservation. Early on, Maggie remembers being punished by a nun, because "This is what happens to girls who talk like savages. Next time you'll remember English." But as the stories full of such indignities and oppression unfold, in English, the Ojibwe words spring forth again and again, not to be silenced.
Just as Aunt Shirley gives Artense the lives of this community, a host of voices to be reclaimed and preserved, she passes on her dance boots. Sculpted to the shape of Shirley's slender feet, the boots soon soften and fit themselves to Artense's steps. She enters the powwow circle to dance her part, taking her place in the story that she, and this collection, eloquently tell.


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Fun: Firefox 2 now available on floppies!
Just what you've been waiting for: the Firefox for Windows installer available in 5¼" and 3½" floppy disks.
– SpreadFirefox
Howto: Upload Your External IP While Behind a Router
A very interesting howto written by Dr.Small, which might come handy to a lot of people, or perhaps some time in future.
I run into all kinds of predicaments when operating from behind a router, and one of them is, to be able to record my External (or WAN) IP, while behind it.
I am going to explain to you, how I succeeded in doing it, so you may do the same, if you are in the same ditch, and are like me, and run a ssh server or so. When you leave the computer, and you haven't checked your WAN IP for days, (if you have a dynamic IP), it tends to change.
So first off, here is a list of things you will need for this project:
Expect. A simple little application. I'll explain how to get it, in a second.
A external or secondary website, which you have FTP access to.
So, let's start off and get the necessary things we need, while we are at it.
Complete HowTo
Video: Asus EeePC and KDE4 RC2
Trolltech developer showing off the neat effects you can get with KDE4 on a low end system
Related: Trolltech and KDE collaborate on Phonon
BBC's iPlayer – Now With Mac and Linux Support
A streaming version of the British Broadcasting Corporation's iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
BBC iPlayer (formerly known as iMP, Integrated Media Player, Interactive Media Player, and MyBBCPlayer) is a website and computer program being developed by the BBC to extend its existing RealPlayer-based "Radio Player" and other streamed video clip content.
But …. it is not available to all internet users. Most of the content in UK only, well at least for now.
New ATI Radeon HD 3850 and HD 3870
Last month AMD introduced the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series as "enthusiast gaming performance for the masses" through the Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon HD 3870, which are both sub-$250 graphics cards. While rudimentary, the Catalyst 7.11 Linux driver (also released last month), supports these two RV670 GPUs with better support coming through the Catalyst 7.12 Linux driver this month. To see how well these two PCI Express 2.0 graphics cards are able to perform under Linux, ASUS had sent out their EAH3850 TOP and EAH3870 TOP. We have tested both of these graphics cards using Ubuntu 7.10 and have compared the results to other products using the fglrx driver, including the ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB. These are the world's first Linux benchmarks of these new mainstream ATI graphics processors.
The ATI Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 are designed to be affordable GPUs and direct competition for NVIDIA's recently released GeForce 8800GT, which we should be showcasing here under Linux shortly. These two ATI graphics cards use the RV670 core and are built using a 55nm TSMC process, which results in a smaller die size and a more energy efficient graphics processor. However, as this is an "RV" GPU, it does have a reduction in memory bandwidth and the internal ring bus compared to the flagship Radeon HD 2900XT.
Asus Radeon HD3870:
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Dual Dual-Link DVI
HDCP Supported
Complete Review
Related: Using HDMI With ATI Radeon HD Linux Drivers
Adobe to Open Source Messaging Protocols
Adobe Systems today announced it will release the remoting and messaging technologies used in Flex, Flash and other Adobe products as open source projects. Because the technologies are fairly mature, Adobe isn't so much looking for help from the open source community as it is looking to get its technology into more hands.
Adobe intends to release the remoting and HTTP-based messaging technologies in its LiveCycle Data Services ES along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification under the named BlazeDS. They will be made available as public betas under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) v3 and downloadable from Adobe Labs
The Action Message Format (AMF3) is a binary data protocol specification used in a variety of Adobe products, including Flash, which is used on almost every computer due to its availability on Linux and Mac OS in addition to Windows.
Adobe said BlazeDS will allow developers to add data connectivity to rich Internet applications (RIAs) (define), such as its Flex and AIR client technologies, for real-time collaboration and data-push capabilities. It will also allow RIAs to easily connect back to server applications ranging from Java apps to Adobe ColdFusion components. >>>>>


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title: You Have No Friends in Silicon Valley
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In the last episode, Richard Hendricks was about to release the latest version of Pied Piper. He asked his friends to have a look at the Beta and give him feedback. Richard, if you are reading this, don't release yet! Heed my advice!

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## Your competitor
![gavin-belson](2016-06-08-richard-do-not-trust-your-friends/gavin-belson.jpg "Your competitor")
He does not have your best interests in mind. He will try to reverse engineer any kind of beta you release, he will take any idea you have and use it for his own platform. Not your best choice.

## The nice one
![jared](2016-06-08-richard-do-not-trust-your-friends/jared.jpg "The nice friend")
Some of your friends are nice, and that's good, but if you're looking for honest feedback, it's not the best choice. He will try to spare your feelings, and because he knows how much effort you put into your product, he will only tell you good things.

## Your developer
![danesh](2016-06-08-richard-do-not-trust-your-friends/danesh.jpeg "Your developer")
He does his best, but he's seen your application 100 times, so he knows it by heart. And after a look he will overlook many parts of the application. He's in the position of judge and defendant, and it's really hard to be critical when you're in this spot.

## Your boss
![monica](2016-06-08-richard-do-not-trust-your-friends/monica.jpg "Your boss")
Even if she has the best interests of the company in mind, it will also be hard for her to give you honest feedback. She might have a deadline, some commitments to her investors or she may be in the position to force a release even if she doesn't like your product. She is in a tough spot too.

## Other developers
![moss](2016-06-08-richard-do-not-trust-your-friends/moss.jpg "Other developers")
If you want to reach a lot of people and you are not targeting a niche.
You need feedback from real user, people who do not have the technical background to understand your product out of the box.
It's a little bit like art, art should be universal and not for a small part of the population who get all the necessary reference to understand art.
So does a software, you should not have a computer degree to understand what an application is doing.

So Richard make sure real people will give you feedback otherwise your platform will only please a small fraction of the people (episode season 3 episode 09) and you do not want to hire people to run your platform.

# This is a job for a pro

If your business is really important, maybe it's time to hire a QA person. No time or money for that? Why not try [crowd testing?](https://test.io)

![crowd](2016-06-08-richard-do-not-trust-your-friends/crowd.png "Crowd")

Professional testers will give you honest feedback because they get paid for it, and they won't be afraid to hurt your feelings, either. Most importantly they'll tell you everything that can go wrong before your next customer does!
[crowd](2016-06-08-richard-do-not-trust-your-friends/crowd.png "the crowd")

So, please, Richard. Take my advice. Just try one round with some pros, because I really want to see Pied Piper succeed for once. It has been three seasons, you're fighting against the entire world, and I want to see a happy ending.

We're here to help!


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Capital Video's King Street Porn Shop Set to Open Soon
December 8, 2007 email@tunnel7.com
The Republican reports yesterday that Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop on King Street is set to open soon. Northampton Building Commissioner Anthony L. Patillo issued a certificate of occupancy. Patillo expects to return to the store this coming week to verify that its stock conforms to the city's adult-use zoning laws. These laws specify that Capital Video may not have more than 1,000 square feet of adult material on display, since the store is located within 500 feet of homes. There can be no porn viewing booths. The sexual content of Amazing.net's signage is also regulated (PDF). Citzens may report violations to Mr. Patillo's office.
NoPornNorthampton is encouraging potential employees to refuse to work for Capital Video. On December 1 it launched a series of ads in the employment classifieds section of the Daily Hampshire Gazette:
Full Text of Springfield's Decision to Revoke Capital Video's Viewing Booth Entertainment License
…the testimony shows repeated and persistent evidence of illegal activity and complicity and reckless disregard of Capital Video's management over a long period of time which is sufficient to constitute a nuisance.
Rick Porras, Capital Video Executive, Would Rather You Not Know He Is a Pornographer (explicit language)
We can understand that if you're promoting your ability to maximize sales, you might not want it known that you were maximizing sales of
A Caning for Miss Granger
My Daughter's Fucking Blackzilla
Hot Pho King Asians
Please Help Me Pay For College #18: Graduation Ass Of 2007
Ass 2 Mouth #11
Broken China Dolls
Mexicunts #5
Ashley Blue Aka Filthy Whore
Barely Legal: School Girls #3
"These sweet and oh-so-studious school girls can't wait to have their perky titties peaky titties and most holes corrupted!"
…Considering the role of porn in domestic abuse and child molestation, you might not be proud of some of the magazines sold by Capital Video, which include such material as:
Magazine: World of Black Bondage
Article: ONCE A Slave…
"Because this babe has a submissive personality and a heart-shaped behind, she makes the perfect slave. Be that as it may, she got the notion into her pretty head that she wanted to play dom.
"Well, her man quickly disabused her of the idea that she could dominate him. He got rough, took away her leather paddle, threw her onto the bed and tied her into a series of strict positions."
Photo Caption: "The look in her eyes tells us that she would like this bondage session to end pretty soon. Forget it, girl!"
Photo Caption: "Her Master has told her, 'Don't you dare move.' She's finding that immobility is in itself a form of torture."
Photo Caption: "Because her body is beginning to ache, she writhes on the carpet. It makes watching her even more arousing."
Photo Caption: "Tied to the post, Tracy takes a fearful whipping."
Story: My Father, The Hero
First He Protected Me, Then He Porked Me!
Story: Getting Gooey With Uncle Louie
His Huge Cock Made Me A Woman!
Story: Portrait Of A Hot Pussy
My Brother Painted Me Nude, Then We Got Lewd!
Story: Two On A Tool
I Gave Both Of My Daughters A Good Fuck!
Any feelings of discomfort or embarrassment would be completely understandable. Fortunately, there is a simple way to ease them. Quit. Today.
Capital Video's "Victoria's Secret Standard": Not Compatible with Northampton's Signage Regulations
In December [2006], Capital Video initially proposed a bondage display for the outside of their porn shop at 135 King Street. When some Northampton Planning Board members objected at the Capital Video Site Plan Review on December 14, Capital Video attorney Michael Pill withdrew the display and verbally asserted the company would instead adhere to a "Victoria's Secret" standard.
The problem is, this standard is vague, loose, changing, and itself might well violate Northampton's site plan approval criteria (PDF), which state that:
No signs, text, graphics, pictures, publications, videotapes, CDs, DVDs, movies, covers, merchandise or other objects, implements, items or advertising, depicting, describing sexual conduct or sexual excitement as defined in MGL Chpt. 272, §31 shall be displayed in the windows or on any building or be visible to the public from the street, pedestrian sidewalks, walkways, or bikepaths or from other areas outside such establishments.
For an example of a Victoria's Secret store display, here is a 2005 report from Newsweek:
At the Tyson's Corner mall in northern Virginia last week, just a quick escalator ride from Oliver Owl's toddler playground and three doors down from Gap Kids, four beautiful plastic women shared an intimate moment in the brand new Victoria's Secret store. One of the mannequins, impossibly thin and blonde and dressed in microscopic panties and garters, crawled across a countertop on all fours toward her disheveled and reclining brunette partner, she of the bra with convenient nipple cutouts. Below them, in plain view of anyone walking past the store, two thong-sporting dream women spooned on a black leather bed, their perfect synthetic derrieres aligned side-by-side. A window display revealed a scantily-clad beauty draped in heavy ropes and teetering on five-inch stiletto heels, her arms straight up in the air, wrists entwined…
Here are more pictures of the store display mentioned in the Newsweek article. This display, almost certainly not in compliance with current Northampton signage regulations, is an example of how Northampton's Planning Board was hasty in approving Capital Video's Site Plan. Capital Video has not demonstrated that it knows what it means to comply with Northampton's laws.
Potential Nuisance Claims Against Capital Video
…"[I]n the appropriate case recovery will be permitted under the law of nuisance for an interference with visual aesthetic sensibilities," where the offending object or display is such as would inconvenience or annoy the average person, not just a particularly sensitive neighbor. Hay v. Stevens, 271 Or. 16, 20 (1975) (finding a wire boundary fence between the parties' property not a nuisance because it served a useful purpose). [emphasis added]
In Bloss v. Paris Township, 380 Mich. 466 (1968), the town enjoined as a public nuisance defendant's operation of an outdoor drive-in theater in such a manner that pictures which related to sex and human anatomy and were not appropriate for minors were viewable by children on public streets, on residential properties, and in private homes without the consent of property owners and parents. The Supreme Court of Michigan rejected defendant's freedom of speech and press claims under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, saying that the constitutional right to free expression does not encompass forcing one's speech on an unwilling audience, in violation of their property rights. Bloss, p. 471. [emphasis added]
…Courts are especially sympathetic to a nuisance claim when it appears that defendant deliberately designed the advertising display in a way that would annoy plaintiff, beyond what is necessary for defendant's business purposes.
Capital Video Attorney Michael Pill: Fickle Defender of Free Speech
Capital Video Attorney Michael Pill has tried to portray himself as a First Amendment hero, suggesting that legal restrictions on porn shops are impermissible infringements on freedom of speech. However, not so long ago he was on the other side of the argument, trying to use the law to impede people from practicing their religions, arguably far more worthy endeavors than the one he advocates for today. As we wrote back in October,
[I]n 1998 he represented homeowners who sought to block Amherst's multiracial Hope Community Church from building a new sanctuary, on the grounds that it would attract too much traffic. ("Plan to build church stymied", Sunday Republican, April 5, 1998, p. A17.) This litigation cost the church hundreds of thousands of dollars over five years.
Similarly, in 1996, Dr. Pill represented an Amherst couple who wanted to force their next-door neighbor to take down a tepee in her backyard, which she used for meditation, New Age therapy and spiritual drumming. ("Tepee neighbors resume ban effort", Springfield Union-News, April 9, 1996, p. B1; "Zoning board rules tepee can stay", Union-News, April 12, 1996, p. B4.)
Dr. Pill well knows the First Amendment is not absolute, and that other interests should be considered to get the optimal result for the community.
A Hostile Work Environment: The Porn Sections of Movie Gallery Video Stores
…My employment of several years with Movie Gallery has been most enjoyable with few exceptions. Working in a management position has allowed me to mature and grow as a young female employee… One of the exceptions to me enjoying my employment is the back room adult entertainment. The stores that have these, that I have worked in open me and the other workers up to a variety of negative, vulgar, embarrassing remarks and come-ons from customers. The stores without the back rooms are so pleasant because we do not have to endure this kind of harassment…
I never in my life had been so verbally abused, names that I couldn't help be shocked by and found myself not keeping with the "customers always right" policies. Retaliating back verbally in my own self defense…
Improv Resource Center: True Porn Clerk Stories (explicit language)
…The "Little White Chicks, Big Black Monster Dicks" (note intriguing combination of race and fetish) series has some of the most offensive cover art I've ever seen, not because of the sexual content but because it's incredibly racist. The little white chicks look at you demurely over their shoulders while surrounded by scowling African-American men. The men are repeatedly referred to as "monsters" ("monster dicks" itself doesn't bother me because it merely implies that said dicks are monstrously large, but referring to men themselves as monsters is another story) and their faces are actually mounted on cartoon animal bodies. There's no way in hell you could put that cover on, say, a book and not get your store burnt down…
Sometimes people get animalistic about the tapes. For the real addicts (I'm convinced that porn is like alcohol: some people can stop at just one every now and then, some people just binge on weekends, and some people get genuinely, horribly addicted) the reptilian brain kicks in. They hit the magic portion of the tape and they're done. They pop out the tape and slam in another one, and the next day the stack comes back, unrewound and covered in goo…
The Anime section is the one that really makes me cringe… Sure, all the boxes claim that all the characters are at least 18, but a lot of them are clearly drawn to look about 12. And there's a lot of raping. Not just run-of-the-mill raping, either – we're talking about triple-penetration rape by demons…
The most common fetish, if you can call something so common a fetish, is for borderline jailbait. This is true of both straight and gay porn. The gay series to watch are Eighteen Today, Just 18 and Gay and First Time Tryers. The straight series are Bring 'Em Young, Barely Legal, and, horrifyingly, Faces with Braces…
A lot of fetishizing has to do with unwitting or unwilling participants, and that runs pretty hard up against my "whatever floats your boat" policy…
I don't understand the need to degrade someone. But that need is definitely, sadly out there. One of our best-renting titles of long standing is called Grudge Fuck.* It rents right back out as soon as we can replace the tag. Every time…
Rocco's Animal Trainer series, I'm told, traditionally ends with Rocco fucking a woman up the ass while he shoves her head into a toilet and flushes…
It doesn't look like the women on porn boxes are having that much fun. They're always being bent or twisted into uncomfortable positions, or trying to avoid sperm being shot directly into their eyes. The fact that the men watching want to see as much as possible means that the women don't seem to be getting touched much. They're just getting poled by some guy who's apparently deliberately avoiding their erogenous zones. Whee…
Like Mr. Buddy, [Mr. Hazy has] spent literally thousands of dollars in rentals. He's like clockwork – in, six hardcore porn videos and then back again within a day or at most two.
…Mr. Hazy is definitely not pirating. As I mentioned, Wednesday and Friday are New Porn Days and he has to hit them because he has seen all of our other straight videos. I'll type that again: He has seen all of our straight videos. Try though we do to rotate the stock, we just can't keep up.
That, my friends, is why I feel comfortable using the phrase "porn addiction".
Mr. Hazy isn't the only one that's finished off the store. There are several customers that have seen everything we carry, or at least everything that floats their particular boats. That's why I loathe New Porn Days. We don't get the new stock out until at least 4 or 5 o' clock at the earliest – sometimes we don't even receive the shipment until then – but people start calling at about 10 in the morning and the frequency of the calls and intensity of the whining only increase as the day goes on…
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Dream Big 57 My Interview with Filmmaker and Director Extraordinaire's Will Allman, and Brandon Shelton (Special YouTube Edition)
Rose Marie Machario
Today I had the pleasure of interviewing, not one, but two of the greatest filmmakers in Knoxville, Will Allman, and Brandon Shelton. In case you may not already know, Will Allman is the director, and producer of Dream Big, and without him my show would not go on. He is also a very talented writer, filmmaker, and director of his new movie, Something's In The Woods, which is coming out soon. I have a very small part in the film, which is quite exciting, you won't want to miss it. And I also had the pleasure of working with Brandon Shelton on a new project recently, and if you'd like to find out more about his latest film watch the video below.
In a world full of make-believe, it is film and television that brings it to life. Whether you've written the script, or are playing a role, you must follow the directors vision. Let your imagination be your guide, and always Dream Big.


Venezuela is already deep in an economic crisis.
The state-run oil company PDVSA is the country'smain source of revenue.
Military officials recently took over PDVSA and it's losing tens of thousands of workers.
The decline of Venezuela's oil production for the foreseeable future has been assumed, and to a large extent, already priced into the market. However, an acceleration in the rate of decline is possible, and a few recent developments raise the odds that such a disaster will become a reality.
The worker exodus has grown so bad that the company has in some cases refused to process resignations. Those higher up are no less unhappy. Reuters says that General Quevedo "quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank-and-file."
The loss of both top level engineers and managers as well as workers on the ground ensure the oil production losses will continue. Reuters reports that some rigs in the Orinoco Belt, where PDVSA produces heavy oil, are only operating "intermittently for lack of crews."
Moreover, the situation at the company's refineries are arguably worse. Fires are breaking out because they are falling apart and they no longer even have the staff to run them properly. Even ports are reducing operations because of a lack of workers.
But the problems don't stop there. PDVSA only accounts for about half of the nation's oil production on its own. The rest comes from joint ventures with international oil companies. Production at the joint ventures has eroded at a much slower pace than operations run solely by PDVSA.
Yet, the Venezuelan government is in danger of sparking steeper losses from joint venture operations. On Tuesday, Chevron said that two of its workers were arrested in Venezuela. Chevron has not fled the country even as its peers have packed up and departed, but the detainment of the oil company's workers could very well lead the oil major into rethinking its operations. "Chevron has been one of the more steadfast participants in Venezuela, having stuck around through some of the most challenging times over the past two years," Mara Roberts Duque, a BMI Research analyst, told Bloomberg. "These arrests will likely encourage them to turn away from Venezuela in a more definitive manner."
Reuters says that Venezuelan intelligence "burst into the Petropiar joint venture's office" and arrested two workers. The arrests appear to be the first to directly hit an international company operating in the country.
"Oil industry companies would do well to be cautious and stop assuming that good relations with PDVSA can last forever due to a common interest in pumping oil," Raul Gallegos, associate director with the consultancy Control Risks, and author of Crude Nation, a book about how oil ruined the Venezuelan economy, said in an interview with Reuters. "The level of corruption in PDVSA, especially under a military administration, can and will trump production logic."
It isn't necessarily that the few remaining international oil companies in Venezuela will immediately withdraw their personnel. But at some point the costs of operating become too high. Companies like Chevron and others have long been frustrated with lack of payment. Reuters reports that they are now also increasingly aggravated by PDVSA's chief Miguel Quevedo, who refused to enact reforms to stop the decimation of the country's oil and refining facilities.
Ultimately, President Maduro's grip on the nation will become increasingly shaky. Utterly dependent on oil exports for revenues, the resources available to Maduro are vanishing.