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Whatever Happened to: Sunshine Anderson
August 27, 2010Edward Bowsermusic, Whatever Happened to6
I think I've mentioned this before on Georgia Mae, but your boy doesn't really have a great track record in predicting the music industry's next stars.
Back in 1996, I figured Ginuwine would go back to cleaning stables after his "Pony" ride was over. Even though he clearly had talent, I thought that single was just too gimmicky. He proved me wrong and went on to have a pretty solid run.
The next year, I expected Tracey Lee to be among rap's elite but, uh, that didn't quite work out. I bet 90% of y'all think he's the lady who makes frozen cheesecakes.
Another artist who seemed poised for greatness was Sunshine Anderson. Let's look back on her career.
Sunshine came into the game in the early 2000's, managed by R&B's Aunt Esther, Macy Gray, and was signed to Soulife records. For you trivia buffs out there, that was also the early home of scruffy soulman Anthony Hamilton.
In summer 2001, Sunshine's debut single "Heard It All Before" exploded on the scene. It was essentially a loud lady telling off her boyfriend – always a winning combination. The song reached #3 on the R&B charts and was inescapable that summer. Its success pushed her album Your Woman to gold status.
You know, I think this is the perfect example of why iTunes is hurting album sales. If "Heard It All Before" was released in 2010, iTunes single sales would be through the roof and that ringtone would be blaring at every hair salon and nail shop in America, but the album itself would be collecting dust at FYE. In 2001, if you wanted the single, I guess you had to cop that album.
It's not that the album was bad, however. In fact, I preferred the second single over its more popular counterpart. "Lunch Or Dinner" didn't make as big a splash but I really enjoyed the earnest lyrics and laid-back groove. It's pretty underrated.
Sunshine parted ways with Macy Gray and later teamed up with Beyonce's rollin' stone of a papa, Mathew Knowles, on his label, Music World Entertainment. In 2007 she released her sophomore effort, Sunshine At Midnight. The first single should have been named "Heard It All Before, But Here It Is Again." Don't get me wrong, I like "Something I Wanna Give You" – it's in my iPod rotation – but Sunshine is back to dogging out her no-good dude. Why is she still messing around with scrubs? And we never find out what she wants to "give" the guy. Probably a hard time, as always.
The follow-up singles, "Force of Nature" and "Wear The Crown" didn't measure up despite her very solid vocals. Maybe she should have stuck to rolling her neck at a her boyfriends.
Sunshine has since faded into the background.
Should She Come Back?: Sunshine is now married and a mother so she might not be in a rush to return to the crowded music scene. But if she did she'd be warmly welcomed – by the VH1 Soul/Centric set, at least. She might not have had the blockbuster career that I predicted but she remains entertaining – as long as she has a man to yell at.
Beauty April 10, 2016 at 11:38 am
Her music just isn't good. She has a few "Heard It All Before" songs that sound like they have the same melody. Her singing is boring on the songs they give her, other than her hit. I blame this all on production. It's a shame she hasn't gotten anywhere far. I thought for sure she would blow up too.
tee August 11, 2016 at 9:25 am
I love her CD your woman especially Being away and where have you been Also like crazy love Don't have her other Cd's but will pick them up
Terry Thigpen May 3, 2017 at 1:00 am
Love hear and all of hear music
Tracy June 11, 2018 at 7:25 pm
I would really like to see Sunshine Anderson with her production team no rush take time y she home wit family but to make an Incredible Comeback for American Hair n Nail Salons too.
Carlie Adams September 29, 2018 at 11:11 pm
I really appreciate sunshine Anderson coming out showing Columbia SC some love love love lady need more like you sincerely Carlie Adams
Where Are They Now : Sunshine Anderson | Media 1 Radio

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Elia Viviani
Sam Bennett
Ireland's Sam Bennett must settle for second place at stage 13 of Giro d'Italia in sprint finish
The Bora-Hansgrohe rider has won two stages of this year's race.
By AFP Friday 18 May 2018, 5:28 PM
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Image: Eurosport UK Twitter Page.
IRELAND'S SAM BENNETT had to settle for second place in the 13th stage of the Giro d'Italia, just 24 hours after claiming his second stage victory of this year's race.
Italy's Elia Viviani of the Quick Step team won the stage in a sprint finish to mark his third success of the event this year.
The 29-year-old Viviani had struggled on Thursday but hit back for his fourth stage success in total after back-to-back successes in Tel Aviv and Eilat in Israel.
Wearing the points leader's jersey, Viviani produced a late burst of acceleration in the dying metres to finish ahead of Bennett in a dramatic push for the finishing line.
Bennett became the first Irishman to win a Giro d'Italia stage since 1987 on Friday after he powered to victory in the seventh stage of the race.
The Bora-Hansgrohe rider claimed the 12th stage yesterday after breaking away in the final 400 metres on the Imola motor racing circuit.
"He's in winning ways again!"
Victory for @eliaviviani on Stage 13 💪 #Giro101 pic.twitter.com/GSY1qMIhNB
— Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) May 18, 2018
Dutch rider Danny Van Poppel took third place ahead of Italy's Sacha Modolo on Friday.
The 180km stage from Ferrare and Nervesa della Battaglia suited the sprinters covering flat roads of the eastern Po Valley.
Britain's Simon Yates (Mitchelton) holds the leader's pink jersey on the eve of a gruelling mountain stage to the summit of Monte Zoncolan.
© – AFP 2018
Additional reporting by Sinéad Farrell
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Oct 27, 2020 10 min read Newsletter
Dollar-lenda Est
EAEU dreams of de-dollarization aren't the brightest notion...
In the waning days before the election, the Trump administration is doing a great deal to further lock in its trajectory for US-China relations. The State Department has authorized a potential $2.4 billion sale of Harpoon anti-ship missile systems to Taiwan and just signed a Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) with the Indian government to formally deepen defense ties. China's transition to a registration system for IPOs rather than one requiring regulatory approval has triggered a new wave of them as investors flee to certainty, assuming that China's economic performance is sign of more growth to come. They'll be in for a nasty shock when they realize just how much debt is now needed to generate a single % point of growth in the Chinese economy and how weak external demand looks…
The government is now working out how much regional debt to forgive for credits offered to realize investment projects. As of now, the idea is to calculate debt forgiveness based off of expected federal tax revenues for the last budget year and then mandate that the amounts forgiven be used to invest into infrastructure that would support said investment projects. MinFin is demanding that special legal vehicles be created for the realization of new projects under the scheme "to simplify accounting," but anyone who knows the vagaries of the Russian legal system knows that in practice, that would create another legal rent that will privilege whoever has the best access to administrative resources in a region. Mishustin's warning that by 2025, infrastructure investment will fall short of Russia's needs by $124 billion, and that gap will only grow. At least there's an impetus to get money sunk into projects.
Business investment's recovery is in question given the overall economic climate, and the Duma's Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-term Forecasting breakdown shows that recoveries are uneven:
Title: Dynamics of the Component Index of Investment Activity, seasonally-adjusted
Purple = Manufacture of machines and appliances for the domestic market Beige/Green = Supply (production + net imports) of construction materials Blue = Import of machines and appliances
Domestic manufacturing is slightly up thanks to a weaker ruble and the fall in foreign currency earnings from exports. But the underlying supply and demand dynamics don't hint at better news in 4Q. September stats had investment down 4.2% in year-on-year terms and down 7.6% in 2Q per data from Rosstat (there are delays in the data release it seems). My question is how is this possible? Most likely, the answer is simple: investment has been so weak outside of extractives that there wasn't as much to fall, bigger companies are propping it up, and the investment climate broadly was pretty grim last year too.
Payments using QR-codes using the Faster Payments System rose 214% between September and October per the Central Bank. Seems that Russians like the ease of payment and minimal transfer costs regardless of which banks hold their accounts. The system is doing its job - lowering transaction costs and improving financial services in a manner that supports consumers. It's a rare unmitigated success story, and one that undoubtedly will help lift consumption in the aggregate in the coming years by improving financial inclusion.
The State Council is now laying out its plan as the formal institutional go-between for the federal center and regional governments coordinating policies to achieve that National Goals for 2030 into a unified national policy plan. It's notable that they intend to try and soften MinFin's demands on regional budgets and spending oversight while business is eager to see the moratorium on some regulatory inspections extended through 2021 as well as subsidized SME loans expanded. Given the council's new and only just been legally stood up this year, the fact that it's oversight powers are being expanded to include federal norms, regulatory acts, anything that touches on budget revenues suggests that it's a more serious option for a potential post-Putin managed transition scenario (but little point in reading the tealeaves further than that at this point).
Russia confirmed a record 320 deaths from COVID-19 for October 26 and 17,347 new confirmed cases. The real story is that the numbers are not being driven by Moscow and its wide array of commuter towns. The following shows total number of cases since March in a time series:
Though Moscow's measures may have a positive impact on the caseload, the aggregate increase is now a story about regions that often have fewer jobs that can be done remotely and nowhere near the same capacity to manage and enforce lockdown procedures as in Moscow. It's also clearly a risk for the stability of the regime's political cadres in the regions if people aren't careful. Yesterday, Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin briefed Putin that 38 Duma deputies have been infected, 1 was in critical condition and care, and 1 had died. The governors of Irkutsk and Kemerovo oblasts reportedly are infected and recovering at home, though they feel fine for now. Failures of public policy can become serious personnel problems quickly if this wave isn't brought under better control soon. Just ask the health minister from Rostov oblast Tatiana Bykovskaya who was forced to resign after a scandal involved botched treatment for 13 patients infected with COVID who died. Russian leaders aren't the healthiest bunch at the best of times. Rospotrebnadzor has instituted a nationwide mask-wearing regime this morning for places of mass gatherings and heavy foot traffic. Hopefully it helps.
Que Dollar-es
Looks like some in Moscow are are hoping to take the next step working out their de-dollarization strategy between China and the Eurasian Economic Union in a quixotic attempt to reduce their exposure to US sanctions and financial power, exchange rate volatility, and to divide Europe from the US. On its face, it'd be a big development and a risk for US economic power, but it's clearly a political puff piece aimed at pleasing an audience. Still, it's worth taking a dive in given that China accounts for about a third of global commodities demand.
First, let's note just how few foreign businesses want to use the RMB in their own transactions. The RMB came in 5th among world currencies for use in international transactions for August at a whopping 1.97%, actually near a 1% decrease from 5 years ago:
Until there's true capital control liberalization in China and evidence that the PBoC really wants to let the currency float, the mix of lower levels of currency liquidity and politicization of the exchange rate, while offering some stability, isn't going to be a draw. The argument mentioned in the piece - that de-dollarizing would somehow reduce exchange volatility exposure - is nonsensical. What they're really saying is that China's exchange rate is politically determined and heavily managed, but the management of the exchange rate would become impossible if the RMB were to truly internationalize and the US dollar is relatively steady when it enters periods of appreciation or depreciation against other leading currencies. Most importantly, the economic factors and policy inputs driving the value of dollar are accessible and pretty much transparent. Given investors have dropped their interest in Russian sovereign debt, it's hard to imagine someone in a boardroom anywhere in Europe thinking "damn, if only we'd held more in rubles."
Currency internationalization and commodities markets are deeply intertwined. The dollar's increased prominence after the collapse of Bretton Woods in 1971-73 was aided greatly by the Saudi agreement to invoice oil exports in US dollars in 1974 and the internationalization of Arab banks managing currency transfers between foreign national currencies into dollars, which would then be recycled through imports of USD-denominated arms, purchases of US treasury bills, foreign investments, sit in foreign banks, and in many cases help manage a fixed exchange rate pegged to the dollar. Until the shale revolution, the US was the world's leading oil importer, which obviously reinforced the use of the dollar for invoicing. One would expect that shifts in commodity prices and currency invoicing could, in theory, shift the balance of the internationalization of currencies. This is a projection used in a Business Insider piece from 2017 since I had trouble finding a quick hit on China's net share of commodity demand for the world's biggest commodities, but this gives you a good visual sense of its pull on the market:
The US dollar's draw, however, is secure because of its liquidity and the confidence that the Federal Reserve has built up with businesses, investors, and markets as a lender of last resort. This year, foreign issuers have issued over $1.2 trillion in dollar-denominated debt. Russia's not even willing to take a bigger risk issuing its own sovereign debts. Any increase in ruble-use is likely to be driven by country's dependent on commodities in Central Asia looking for a deeper financial market nearby with a currency that tracks similarly in exchange. But every change in currency invoicing for commodities is bound to then lead to new transactions costs and currency risks for banks, businesses, and consumers. From the World bank on the contribution of permanent and temporary shocks vs. business cycles and medium-term investment cycles to commodity price variations:
It's not that clear given the image came out a bit too small, but the larger takeaway is that permanent shocks can have a huge long-run impact on price variation (ostensibly creating greater price stability). Interestingly, crude oil is more affected by such a situation than natural gas per the World Bank study. But nickel, platinum, urea, zinc, and natural rubber all come closer to natural gas than crude oil in terms of the structure of what creates price variation. Price variations always interplay with exchange rates, which it should be noted that Goldman Sachs thinks is looking like a bull commodities market for 2021 thanks to inflation fears (not sure what kind of inflation they have in mind…) and a weaker US dollar given the Fed's massive monetary easing. I'm less convinced than the guys who get paid to handle the transactions they're promising will materialize, but hey, that's just me.
The structure of push-pull factors for a bull market seem to be changing in real time due to real resource constraints, unexpected shifts in consumer preferences, and more. Massive expansions of mining investment are needed - Wood Mackenzie estimates that $1 trillion will be needed for metals production by 2035. I think they're selling it short, and don't have anyway of knowing just how crazy this market could look in a few years time, but that's a good snapshot, and also worth noting that it's a much, much smaller total than you'd see for oil & gas investment forecasts. If de-shoring production chains from China becomes more of a business reality for firms trying to relocate their export capacity - most businesses aren't going to give up on trying to sell end products to Chinese consumers - there could be even less space for the RMB to feasibly challenge dollar dominance as production dependent on commodities becomes less concentrated on the Chinese market and its relative share of commodity demand declines, leading to a greater heterogeneity of producing markets and national currencies. It's also going to face some new 'permanent shocks' that are only now becoming apparent. Automation could well end up being the next frontier for commodity input costs, but that's for another day.
Talking up de-dollarization is a sign that the domestic markets that should be promoting ruble or national currency use aren't looking so hot for business. The EAEU portfolio in Moscow is a mess ever since Anton Siluanov took it from Igor Shuvalov. Don't expect any breakthroughs any time soon.
C2 It
Looks like Rosneft's cutting its max production outlook for Vostok Oil from 100 million tons annually to 50 million tons annually (about 1 million barrels per day) in a clear sign that they've oversold the field's reserve potential and have to signal intent to work within OPEC+ parameters potentially for years and years. Still, it's an insanely big undertaking and one that conceivably could replace the aged production base in Western Siberia. But if the tax breaks development entails exceed those for depleted fields, it's just going to end up hurting revenues and lead to another showdown at high noon with MinFin looking to increase the tax burden while cross-subsidizing investments into the Northern Sea Route - Rosneft wants 30 million tons of oil annually to transit the route once the field reaches peak production.
There's a new push on from MinPrirody to rework its geological exploration strategy to handle mine depletions and greenfield investments. The sector is convinced there's about to be a bunch of budget money wasted without helping anyone. Neither of these two stories is much a surprise. But they're a matter of great concern when unpacking the geography of investment into commodities production globally. Take oil. Per IEA estimates, net investment into oil production is still significant, particularly since more of this money is going into efficiency improvements even if cost cutting opportunities are more limited than in 2015-2016:
Russia's higher net costs are managed with a weaker exchange rate and preferential access to credit, but the new priority commodities in the metals/mining sector, like oil & gas, are affected by seam quality, distance to market, and more. Lower fuel costs for transport also reduce the relative price differential spread on a netback basis for any importer. Russia's been pretty bad at managing geological exploration for a very long time, constantly going back and forth between trying to get companies to foot the bill and the state to do more. That's going to matter a great deal more in the next decade with an uncertain demand outlook for oil and rising metals and mineral demand.


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Q: Using request_started signal for a particular request Is it possible to restrict the request_started signal to run for a particular request? I have browsed around the web and only seem to find it being triggered for each request that is made.

A: You can filter based on the information found in environ. This is the same information that is used to create the request object. However, the signal itself is sent before the request is even created.
def callback(sender, environ, **kwargs):
    if environ['PATH_INFO'] == '/your/url':
        print('Your code here')

request_started.connect(callback)

A: No, you can't get request_started triggered only for a particular request, but you can "early exit" from the signal handler for other.
You can use the PATH_INFO variable and do "standard Django request processing stuff" for route parsing and getting more info about the application, view & etc executing in the request.
There is a working example (for my test project env & urls of course).
from django.core.signals import request_started
from django.urls import resolve, Resolver404

def callback(sender, environ, **kwargs):
    if not 'PATH_INFO' in environ:
        return

    path = environ['PATH_INFO']
    try:
        match = resolve(path)
    except Resolver404:
        return

    if match.url_name == 'stores_storecategory_history':
        from pprint import pprint
        pprint(match.__dict__)

request_started.connect(callback)

Which is executed only on the url route pattern and I can do whatever I want in the handler.
web_1            | {'_func_path': 'reversion.admin.history_view',
web_1            |  'app_name': 'admin',
web_1            |  'app_names': ['admin'],
web_1            |  'args': (),
web_1            |  'func': <function VersionAdmin.history_view at 0x7f522292b9d0>,
web_1            |  'kwargs': {'object_id': '1586'},
web_1            |  'namespace': 'admin',
web_1            |  'namespaces': ['admin'],
web_1            |  'route': 'admin/stores/storecategory/<path:object_id>/history/',
web_1            |  'url_name': 'stores_storecategory_history',
web_1            |  'view_name': 'admin:stores_storecategory_history'}

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Since 2010, Bell Let's Talk is a charitable program dedicated to the promotion and support of mental health across Canada. Bell has committed more than $62 million to support a wide range of mental health organizations, large and small, from coast to coast focusing on anti-stigma, care and access, workplace mental health and research. The Bell Mental Health initiative supports an extensive range of programs to enhance mental health in every aspect of Canadian life.
One of the key pillars of Bell's Mental Health Initiative is anti-stigma. As part of Bell's efforts to reduce the stigma of mental illness, the Bell Let's Talk awareness campaign is engaging Canadians in a dialogue around mental health. With Olympian Clara Hughes front and centre once again, the fourth annual Bell Let's Talk Day campaign features a national multi-media campaign that culminates on January 28, 2014. Joining Clara in the Bell Let's Talk campaign again this year are Atlantic Canada's Seamus O'Regan, Québec spokespeople Stefie Shock and Michel Mpambara and new ambassadors, former NHL star Joé Juneau, CFL veteran Shea Emry, musicians Robb Nash and Matthew Good, and stand-up comic Kevin Breel. Together, the Bell Let's Talk team will be working to encourage Canadians to join them in the growing conversation about mental health.
On Bell Let's Talk Day, Bell will contribute $.05 to mental health related initiatives for every text message sent, mobile call and long distance call made by Bell and Bell Aliant customers, every tweet using #BellLetsTalk, and every Facebook share of the Bell Let's Talk Day image. Recognizing that simply talking makes a significant impact to help end the stigma of mental illness, the campaign encourages people to "start the conversation" about mental health and engage in dialogue with friends, family and co-workers.


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CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL: Now with Shaw open wifi available to all patrons! All beverages purchased at the Concert Hall can now be consumed inside the theatre as well as the lobby. Food may be consumed in the lobby only.
RUN TIME: 1 Hour, 57 mins.
Rediscover the magic of your childhood with Nutcracker. As the clock strikes midnight the adventure of a lifetime begins. Before the final curtain falls, Clara will battle the evil Mouse King, fall in love with her dashing Nutcracker prince and find herself on a storybook journey that will take her into the heart of a timeless fairytale.
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Students to Put on First Annual Fashion Show
Ashley Boutte, Staff Writer
For years fashion students have wanted to host their own fashion show and this year Morgan Calhoun is making that dream a reality.
This year will be the first annual fashion show entitled EveryWear. The current fashion students are planning and organizing the show that will be held in the auditorium, and on top of that, they are creating their own original designs.
"They've been working on it all year," Calhoun said. "The kids say some of them have been working on it for three years because they're bringing in their designs from fashion one, two and then fashion three this year. It's a very tedious process."
Calhoun said the things that the students learned through their past years in the class are now coming into play as they design their own outfits. Through the fashion classes, they have been taught how to create their own patterns, perfect their individual techniques, and keep their eyes open as they learn about the different world of fashion.
"I've learned that there's a whole different aspect [to fashion] that I never knew was there," fashion three student and senior Madison Ribeiro said, "Like I thought a collar was a collar and then I learned there's like 700 different collars. Well, that's an exaggeration."
With the knowledge they have acquired over the past years of being in the program, the students are now able to transform their sketches into clothing they, and others, can wear.
"We start off with basic measurements of someone's body," Calhoun said, "Then we try to make sure their garments are going to fit after the construction. It's not easy for everyone for sure."
The challenge of designing and making the outfits is exhilarating to some and to others is just one of the many obstacles to making fashion. The effort they put out, however, is worth it.
"I've been sewing since I was like five," Katlin Truss said, "I've always really liked to do that so when I found out they had a fashion class I took it. And I kind of just fell in love with it."
Others did not start as early and have different motivations for remaining in the class and answering the call of fashion.
"I got into fashion around when I was in ninth grade," Ribeiro said, "I wanted to make something that would help people find themselves and one of the ways I found was through fashion."
Similar to how each student has a different story to their introduction to the fashion world, they also use different sources as their inspiration for the outfits they will display on the night of the Fashion Show.
"I work at a museum and one of the artist have a picture up that was titled 'Gold'," Ribeiro said, "It was of a young woman that was holding a picture frame that was gold and then sticking her head out. And it was inside the same picture frame that she was holding. And I've gotten the idea that I would do the same thing but with Vincent Van Gogh. I would use the gold skirt as the pop-out. Then the picture would "pop-out" and that's why I call it the "pop-skirt".
Another design that will be featured at the EveryWear fashion show was inspired by the environment.
"Right now I'm working on FCCLA, which is going to be in the show," Truss said, "It's the 'Recycle and Redesign' so I'm doing trash that's in the ocean. My inspiration for that was a seagull stuck in trash so my dress is made out of plastic bags and feathers and it's going to be covered in all sorts of trash."
Even for those who are not able to participate by designing or creating the outfits, Calhoun wants to involve different students from around the school. The Cosmetology class will do the hair and makeup and other students will also have the opportunity to participate.
"I really want to get everyone involved," Calhoun said, "The students construct garments that are made for themselves which is why we are accepting all shapes and sizes and not a particular model form. We're going to try to match those [outfits] with students who are interested because maybe my fashion designers don't want to be featured in the show. Maybe they're shy or whatever but their designs are awesome."
The first annual EveryWear fashion show will be on March 7, 2016 at 7:00pm. The show cost $3 for a Klein student and $5 for a non student.
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Joshua E. Johnson_Lewis	• Feb 1, 2017 at 4:28 pm
Hi I'm really interested in being apart of the fashion show in march but my mom is really busy during the day of tryouts right after school and i was wondering will there be another fiting days?
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How One Can Create a Winning Social Media Marketing Strategy?
In the past, social media was not considered a viable option for marketing a business. However, over the years, the idea of social media marketing has changed as the industry has matured. Social media websites such as Facebook and Instagram are a great option for brands to have fun and see a nice impact on the company's bottom line. To be successful, you must learn how to use social media websites in tandem with your other business strategies.
As the premier digital marketing firm in Charleston, South Carolina, we want to help you understand how to create a profitable marketing strategy. In this article, we will discuss creating goals to solve business challenges, using social media to add value to your business, the importance of developing business opportunities provided by social media, engaging potential customers, and the benefit of tracking your business as well as your competitors.
What is the Importance of Creating Goals to Solve Business Challenges?
Setting goals is essential to any marketing or business strategy. With social media, there is a range of capabilities that can be used to find your objectives. Consider what online challenges you face right now. Have you found that the traffic on your website has dropped? Has your customer loyalty waned? Do you need to build a stronger and more positive brand reputation? Do people need to be aware that your product or service exists? You can use these challenges as a way to set goals to be successful.
Take for example low website traffic. Lower traffic means fewer customers and a decrease in profits. To fight low website traffic, your team that focuses on social media needs to consider focusing their goals towards creating links that take consumers directly to your website and can be done via social media posts on your pages. When you link to useful content and subpages, you can use your website and brand as a resource instead of just another option within your company. This can lead to an increase in traffic plus revenues in the long run.
How Can I Use Social Media Networks to Add Value to My Business?
There are several social media networks available but not everyone will work to help you reach the objectives of your brand. Focus on the networks that can help to build your brand. For example, as a restaurant owner, Facebook is a quality network in which to use. Facebook offers you the option to set up menus, add photos of new menu items and engage with your followers to let them know about specials, new additions, upcoming events, etc. With Facebook, you can fully create brand awareness with a quality social media campaign.
If you choose to use Facebook, you should anticipate a change in your consumer engagement as well as traffic flow, both at your website plus within your restaurant business. Should you decide to use Twitter, you will have the ability to post a tweet but nothing else and this limits your marketing. While you should use multiple social media channels, finding the added value networks will help your business to become more successful in the long run.
What is the Value of Creating Engaging Social Media Marketing Content?
Anyone can post on social media but, as a business, you want your content to be engaging and relevant. You should post status updates, photos, notes, posts, etc. to engage the consumer. You want your potential clients to look forward to your posts and take part in the conversation. When they do, you will develop a loyal following and your posts will be shared and talked about which leads to more followers, traffic flow, and sales. Engaging content establishes you as a leader in the industry.
Another way to establish expertise in your industry is to add videos to your website to provide an inside look at your business. You can also create quality infographics to show consumers what you offer enticed them to try your products or services.
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Because social media is now an integral part of any business, you want to learn how to find business opportunities that are available via such networks. Consider brand mentions. You can get high quality leads with brand mentions and engage with potential customers who mention your brand, thus, creating a relationship and a client who can be your brand advocate.
You can also find more business opportunities by tracking your competitors. Research what your competitors are offering and create strategies to on your business's website to create familiarity with your brand. This offers a wonderful opportunity to illustrate the differences between your business and competitors.
How Can I Engage Potential Clients Through Social Media Marketing?
One of the most important steps to social media marketing engaging with your potential customers. If someone comments on a post, photo or writes on your Facebook wall, comment back. From Twitter to Instagram and Facebook, you must engage with potential clients to become a top performing brand. If customers feel ignored, they will patronize other business with the same type of product.
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By utilizing the above suggestions, you will be able to gauge what is working and what needs to be altered. Your social media team should be using analytics to pinpoint what is working and what you need to do differently. Find out what is driving traffic to your website, creating overall revenues and conversions.
Once you have a social media marketing strategy that produces results, build on the success. Through website analytics, you will discover what is driving traffic to your website and expand upon it.
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Guideline of procedures for the identification, immediate assistance and referral of children in street situations
Publisher: OSCE Mission Albania
Guideline of procedures for the identification, immediate assistance and referral of children in street situationst was developed with the support of the OSCE Presence in Albania, under the guidance of Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth.
CPC Webinar: Making the Invisible Visible: Counting Children on the Streets in Malawi
The CPC Network is organising a webinar on the subject of assessing the number of children in street situation.
The CPC Learning Network and the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) will be hosting a webinar on January 30th, 2015 at 10:30am EST/ 7:30am PST. Drs.
National Study on Children in Street Situation in Albania
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The Study on Children in Street Situation in Albania is conducted in the framework of Social Services Reform as the first national qualitative and quantitative assessment of children in street situation carried out in Albania, providing a baseline...
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The report starts with a brief summary of what has been reported on the exploitation of children in begging and criminal activities in the four countries. It proceeds then to discuss selected elements of the legal framework concerning child...
Regional Report on Child Begging
Publisher: Save The Children
Early 2011, Save the Children Norway SEE together with four members of the South East Europe Children's Rights Ombudspersons' Network: Provincial Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Ombudsman for Children of the Republika Srpska, Om
Street Children: A Mapping & Gapping Review of the Literature 2000 to 2010
This paper presents a unique Literature Review of international research studies about street children published during the decade from 2000 to 2010. Studies have been collected and mapped into 12 thematic sections, drawing on more than 400 papers...
State of the World's Street Children: Research
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Observation Report: Exploitation of Albanian Children in Street Situation in Kosovo
Publisher: Terre des hommes
After the 1999 Kosovo war, a new phenomenon was noticed: Albanian children in street situations moving from Albania to Kosovo. These children and their families, who migrate to Kosovo mainly for begging or collecting metal face challenging socio-...
Street Children Stories
Each street child has its own destiny and its own story. The following stories sent by Member Organizations of the European Federation for Street Children (EFSC), illustrate such destinies giving a voice to these children who are often invisible....


Karan apprehending something like "achcha chalta hoon duya o mein yaad rakhna" but alas Kangana started after finishing a press conference :" hum to chale pardesi hum pardesi ho gaye" She has got call from Hollywood.
Kangana we liked your acting in Rangoon. The girl from such background act n behave like the way u exactly enacted. Its unfortunate the movie did not do well in Box Office.


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Insights by Stanford Business › Lean Startup and Design Thinking: Getting the Best Out of Both
Lean Startup and Design Thinking: Getting the Best Out of Both
How to create a customer-centric venture.
September 20, 2016|by Marina Krakovsky
Too many entrepreneurs try to build customer-friendly startups without actually meeting their customers. They'd rather analyze competitors and fiddle with spreadsheets. | REUTERS/Charles Plateau
In the world of entrepreneurial incubation, design thinking, a user-centered way to conceive and create a successful product, is often compared and contrasted with the lean startup approach, which is more engineering-based and quantitative. The two methods are far from mutually exclusive, however, as both seek to effectively serve customers' needs through a systematic, low-risk path to innovating in the face of uncertainty.
To explore the places where design thinking and lean startup intersect, we organized a conversation between two faculty members who help run the Stanford Graduate School of Business Startup Garage, where students design and test new ventures. Stefanos Zenios, the Stanford GSB Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Entrepreneurship, joined lecturer Matthew Glickman, founder of BabyCenter and Merced Systems to discuss the science of startups.
Stefanos Zenios: Every startup is a series of hypotheses — about who's a customer, what makes your product or service attractive to these customers, and so on. Lean startup provides a rigorous framework that you use to prove or disprove as many of these hypotheses as possible at as low a cost as possible. An interesting question is how do you generate the hypothesis? If you have not already identified the user need through your own pain point — having experienced the need firsthand — how would you discover that need? Design thinking gives you a methodology to do that. There's an interplay. For example, in design thinking you develop a prototype that you use to get feedback — that's very qualitative — and lean startup makes it more rigorous, so you don't end up convincing yourself that the feedback is positive feedback.
Matt Glickman: I echo that. We start the class with design thinking, which is more inquiry-based and open-ended. It forces you to put yourself in the customer's shoes. BabyCenter, which is still the leading site for pregnant women and new parents, was started by two guys without kids — so we needed to go out and try to understand what it's like to be a pregnant woman. We talked to lots of people and started to intuit that the real problem was that they don't know what's coming up next in their pregnancy and their needs change frequently.There was no target customer who said, "Boy, wouldn't it be great if I could get highly personalized week-by-week information!" But by developing intimacy with the customers, we were able to come up with the insight that with the internet you can personalize down to the week of pregnancy and give people exactly what they need to know. That ended up being the core insight that we built a whole business around. We developed a set of features, and it turned out that baby-naming and personalized information — two of the 20 things we tried — were the ones that really moved the needle. You want to build a "minimal viable product," see what's working, and double down on those.
Zenios: Matt makes a couple great points. Defining the customer problem comes from patient, sustained interactions with the customer over time, because you don't know when that insight is going to come. When DoorDash started, the innovators didn't know what problem they wanted to address, only that they wanted to help small business owners. [DoorDash, a Startup Garage success, is an online service that delivers meals directly from restaurants to customers. It was launched in 2013 by four Stanford students.] The first weekend of the class they spoke to 60 business owners of many kinds. One was a lady who had a small shop that was making macaroons. Her macaroons were extremely popular, and by talking to her and her customers, the team found out that the customers wanted to be able to place the order and have it delivered to their offices. That became the DoorDash idea — except in the end, they focused not on macaroons but restaurants.
If the data invalidates your hypothesis, you keep some elements fixed and change other elements. But how do you know what to pivot to? The guiding principle is deeper customer understanding.
Stefanos Zenios
Glickman: A lot of people come to the class with anxiety that they don't have an idea yet. But we show that you have to go down a lot of alleys to see what underlying problem you're trying to solve. And you do this experientially, sometimes by just picking a group you want to serve and learning what their problems are. The greatest correlation to success in the class is with how many interviews they do. MBA students are uncomfortable with it at first — they'd rather analyze competitors and work on spreadsheets and pricing. But in all startups, there's a combination of thinking and doing. It's like the Roosevelt quote [points to an inspirational Teddy Roosevelt poster in Zenios' office]: You have to be in the arena, getting dust and sweat on yourself.
Zenios: For many students, the mind-set is "I want to make this hypothesis work," whereas we want to teach the mind-set, "I want to discover if this hypothesis is not valid — and if it's not valid, why it's not valid." And again, this is where the interplay between lean startup and design thinking is valuable. We had a class team whose original hypothesis was to put educational materials on the web that would teach people how to cook diabetic-healthy meals. The team's first experiment was what we call a "concierge" version of that business — walking the customer through a planned service in person, before developing what will ultimately be a software implementation of that service. So the students ran an ad on Craigslist, announcing that that they were offering a class to diabetic patients on how to cook healthy meals, and at the end they'd give them a package of supplies for cooking for the next week. They did the training and gave them the package, and they asked, "Would you be willing to sign up a week from today to get another box of supplies?" "No." "Why not?" "I like the social aspect of this, so I want to come back for additional recipes and meeting with these people."
So the hypothesis changed because they had delivered the product manually — and through that personal connection with the diabetic patients, they heard, "No, I prefer something else." The concept of the "concierge minimal viable product"— a product with enough features to gather meaningful feedback — was developed as way to discover a solution that's less expensive than writing all the code for an actual software product. And from a design-thinking perspective, you're the concierge, and when you deliver the service, you get to know your customer.
Glickman: All entrepreneurs say they're customer-friendly, but businesses don't usually get to know the customer this well. One idea that's counterintuitive is to put in the minimum amount of effort to get the maximum learning. If you want to test delivering food to homes, how can you do that without spending three weeks actually delivering food to homes? One way is to build a web page to see if people will click on it. An even simpler way is to place keyword ads around "delivery." As an entrepreneur, you repeat that process again and again, so doing it more cheaply allows you to do more iterations.
Zenios: This goes back to another element of lean startup: the notion of the pivot. If the data invalidates your hypothesis, you keep some elements fixed and change other elements. But how do you know what to pivot to? The guiding principle is deeper customer understanding, like in the example with the diabetes team. So that's how design thinking and lean startup interact: The empathy you gain through design thinking helps you identify possible pivots.
Glickman: A common pivot we see is around health care: Students want to do something for patients, and as they develop their idea, they realize that it's the insurance companies that pay for this service, so they need to pivot one part of the business by thinking about the needs of who's paying. Sometimes they'll end up deciding that they're not interested in selling to health plans or that they don't even want to be entrepreneurs, and those are important discoveries. They've still learned a systematic innovation process that they can apply elsewhere. We do see a lot of nonprofit teams, which is great, and I think there are applications in government, too. As an example, I would love for a team to look at ride-sharing — like what Lyft and Uber have done — and see how you use that to help solve public transportation problems in San Francisco. Perhaps you can integrate ride-sharing with bus systems.
Zenios: This process for gaining deep customer understanding helps large companies as well, because they thrive on processes. For example, Intuit has identified a small team of innovation catalysts — they go on "innovation safaris" with customers to do observation and prototyping and testing. The team then uses the feedback from these safaris to decide which features and which products to design and launch. Since starting to do this, the company has increased the number of new features added to products 100-fold per year. Citrix does something similar, integrating lean startup with design thinking. When I give these examples to executives, they say, "Thanks, you gave me a template." It's not creating an R&D lab — it's a small group of people with day jobs who have the freedom to go on these innovation safaris.
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Bringing Bankless Banking to East Africa
Tanzania's Benjamin Fernandes took his Stanford MBA and went home.
A Different Kind of Funding Bias
Latino-owned businesses struggle with discrimination when it comes to securing financing. A Stanford GSB initiative is trying to help.
Un Tipo de Prejuicio Diferente en el Financiamiento
Las empresas de latinos enfrentan discriminación cuando se trata de obtener financiamiento. Una iniciativa de Stanford GSB está tratando de ayudar.
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Acne is a skin condition causing pimples, white heads, and spots on body. Acne is more prominent on face, however, can occur on neck, chest, shoulders, back, and arms. It starts in puberty, due to hormonal changes, activating oil producing sebaceous glands in body.
Acne may occur in adults as well as young. It is not a fatal condition, however, can leave scars which might lead to psychological issues like stress and anxiety. Besides hormonal changes, acne can be caused due to other factors including genetics, climate, diet, and skin type. It varies from mild, moderate to severe forms. There are multiple medical as well as natural remedies available to treat acne.
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Medical treatment options are available, but, they can also cause some side effects such as dryness in skin, nose bleedings, and mood swings. Also, people undergoing acne treatment are suggested not to intake vitamin supplements, in order to avoid toxicity reactions. In order to avoid the treatment side effects, individuals can try some natural remedies which are equally beneficial and does not cause any harmful effects.


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LeBron Kills Another Coach as 'Space Jam 2' Changes Directors
By Sean Facey | Jul 16 2019
Los Angeles Lakers Introduce Anthony Davis | Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
LeBron James' legacy of driving away coaches isn't limited to just basketball.
Terry Nance, the director of the NBA superstar and aspiring Hollywood actor's pet project, "Space Jam 2," has been given the boot. Malcolm D. Lee will take his place.
Malcolm D. Lee has joined Space Jam 2 as the film's new director, replacing Terence Nance: https://t.co/pNMOVIx1el pic.twitter.com/OMb5mVBp4H
— Complex (@Complex) July 16, 2019
Nance reportedly had some creative differences with both Warner Bros. and James' SpringHill Entertainment. Ultimately, both parties were able to agree on one thing: that a split was necessary. Of course, that shouldn't distract from the fact that this is another type of coach that simply wasn't able to coalesce with LBJ.
From Cleveland to Los Angeles, LeBron has a history of sending coaches packing, the most recent being Luke Walton. Before that, of course, who could forget the sad saga of David Blatt?
Malcolm D. Lee Takes Over As Director On 'Space Jam 2' https://t.co/x4KlZ49bXf pic.twitter.com/7buP0AEip0
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 16, 2019
There's plenty of anticipation surround this movie, which is scheduled to release in summer 2021. It has plenty of hype to live up to considering it's the sequel to Michael Jordan's iconic original "Space Jam" (a movie that is often remembered fondly despite being verifiably bad).
Hopefully, the anticipation doesn't turn out to be all for naught, but a change in directors at the outset of production doesn't inspire much confidence at the moment-- even if it isn't all that out of character for the star of the movie.


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We employ more than 3,100 people, including a medical staff of nearly 500 physicians.
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Kent General and Milford Memorial Hospitals, Emergency, Outpatient, and Sleep Care centers distributed throughout the service area make up the Bayhealth system.
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Family Medicine Job in Dover, DE.
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Q: Changing an attribute value after copy Given the following XML example file :
<root>
    <list number="123">
        <element>
            <name value="Name1"/>
            <line value="Line 1 :"/>
        </element>
        <element>
            <name value="Name1"/>
            <line value="Line 1 :"/>
        </element>
    </list>
</root>

I want to create an XSL file allowing me to replace each occurrence of Line 1 : with Line 1 : 123, the 123 coming from the list node's attribute, number.
I have the following XSL file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="element">
        <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
        <xsl:if test="@value='Line 1 :'">
            <xsl:attribute name="type">
                <xsl:value-of select="root/list[@number]"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

but the transformation fails and returns something like "Attributes and namespaces nodes cannot be added to the parent element after a text, comment, pi, or sub-element node has already been added".
Any idea about what is wrong with this XSL ?

A: Actually, the error message you get:

Attributes and namespaces nodes cannot be added to the parent element after a text, comment, pi, or sub-element node has already been added

explains the problem very well already. Your template matching element looks like this
<xsl:template match="element">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    <xsl:if test="@value='Line 1 :'">
        <xsl:attribute name="type">

The first instruction inside it:
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>

copies the element element with all its content. This includes child elements, text nodes, attributes and so on.
It is one of the rules of XSLT that once certain kinds of nodes are added to an element node, you cannot add more attribute nodes. But this is exactly what you are trying to do with
<xsl:attribute name="type">

which constructs an attribute node.
You do not actually need to xsl:copy-of the whole content of the element element, because you have an identity template in place that will copy everything anyway by default.
Only intervene in the exact spot that you would like to change. In this case, it is the value attribute of the line element - so write a template that matches exactly that.

I think what you need is the following. If not, please show the XML output you expect instead of describing it. I have assumed that there could be multiple list elements with varying number attributes.
XSLT Stylesheet
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="element/line/@value">
        <xsl:attribute name="value">
            <xsl:value-of select="concat(., ' ', ../../../@number)"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

XML Output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
   <list number="123">
      <element>
         <name value="Name1"/>
         <line value="Line 1 : 123"/>
      </element>
      <element>
         <name value="Name1"/>
         <line value="Line 1 : 123"/>
      </element>
   </list>
</root>

EDIT

A more concise requirement would be : given any XML file, how can I concatenate any attribute value inside that is equal to "Line 1 :" with the 123 from the number above ? I assume that would need more than one template...

No, this would only be a small modification. Change the second template to:
<xsl:template match="list//@*[. = 'Line 1 :']">
    <xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat(., ' ', ancestor::list[1]/@number)"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>


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Climate Lobbying Overview: Eurometaux appears to have a broadly negative position on climate change policy in the EU but has become somewhat more positive since 2018 in its top-line messaging on climate ambition and the energy transition. The association has highly strategic engagement with climate policy, with notable negative lobbying on the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and the EU's proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Eurometaux seems to broadly support climate action in its top-line messaging but with several conditions. In a joint letter to EU policymakers, signed by the Director General Guy Thiran in September 2020, the association supported increased efforts to reduce emissions in the EU but advocated that the EU's Climate Law should take into account investment cycles and companies' global competitiveness. The Director General stated support for an updated EU Industrial Strategy in May 2021, but in the same month signed a joint letter to EU policymakers suggesting that the Fit for 55 package should incorporate measures to preserve European companies' competitiveness and stressing the risk of carbon leakage. In response to an EU public consultation in November 2020, Eurometaux advocated for new regulatory instruments to finance and reward negative emissions.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Eurometaux does not appear to support ambitious climate policy in the EU. In November 2020, in response to an EU public consultation, the association suggested that increasing the 2030 Climate Target to 55% would negatively impact competitiveness and raise costs for industry. Eurometaux did not support reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to align its ambition with the EU's recently increased 2030 target in November 2020 in response to an EU public consultation. It opposed a rebasing mechanism and supported using auction revenues to compensate companies for indirect costs. On the association's corporate website, accessed in July 2021, Eurometaux stated support for keeping the EU ETS benchmark for free allocation of allowances at 97% and for full compensation for direct and indirect costs. In response to an EU public consultation in April 2020, Eurometaux stated preference for existing carbon leakage protection measures in the EU ETS over a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), but advocated that, in the case of a CBAM being implemented, it should accompany current free allocation of emissions allowances and indirect cost compensation in the EU ETS. The association has also consistently opposed the inclusion of indirect emissions in the CBAM in leadership messaging and directly to policymakers in 2020-21.
In a white paper published in September 2020, Eurometaux supported the EU's Renovation Wave initiative. The Director General Guy Thiran was supportive of measures to support Power Purchase Agreements in the EU in May 2021, but in a joint position paper in December 2020 the association advocated for exemptions for industry from renewable energy levies and supporting capping aid for renewable energies.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Eurometaux appears to support the transition of the energy mix with some exceptions. In July 2021, the Director General was supportive of the decarbonization of the metals industry with carbon-free electricity and advocated for a framework for renewable hydrogen. However, in response to an EU consultation in April 2020, Eurometaux supported the continuation of exemptions from energy taxes in the reform of the Energy Taxation Directive.


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Surf Curse Plays A High Energy, Sold-Out Show at Rough Trade NYC (with Teen Body and Dirt Buyer)
Early this October, Surf Curse played a sold-out show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, NY. The band was supported by Teen Body and Dirt Buyer.
Two Door Cinema Club Plays a Vibrant, Energetic Show at The Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC
Two Door Cinema Club hit New York City with a powerfully energetic show at The Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom this past month. The band was accompanied by Overcoats, a badass, electronic-pop duo from New York.
Wallows play two sold out, hometown shows at The Fonda Theatre in LA (with Slow Hollows)
After a few months of touring, Wallows finally made it home to play two sold-out nights at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. Similarly, attending night one was a homecoming of my own, as it was my first show back in LA after a grueling couple of months in New York. It was a great experience to see the band for the first time at a hometown show, especially since their music has always reminded me of California. Supported by Slow Hollows, Wallows played an incredible show filled with exciting moments and explosive energy. Continue Reading
Bad Suns turn Brooklyn Steel into a house party, complete with balloons and crowd surfing (with Carlie Hanson)
Whenever an L.A. band rolls into town, I get a strong urge to go and see them perform. It's like a part of me desires the connection in order to curb the homesickness I occasionally get. Los Angeles natives, Bad Suns, performed at Brooklyn Steel in New York last Thursday. They began touring early this April to promote their new record, Mystic Truth, which was released on March 22. What was so great about the show was the energy that was radiated from the stage. I felt like I was at home. Continue Reading
"Sad boy meets raver" Yoshi Flower performs at Elsewhere Zone One (with Rebounder and KennyHoopla)
Yoshi Flower performed at Elsewhere Zone One in Brooklyn, NY this past weekend, supported by Rebounder, and KennyHoopla. Continue Reading
Soccer Mommy sells out two nights at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (with Ratboys)
Soccer Mommy played two sold-out shows at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn earlier this December, with support from indie rock band Ratboys. Continue Reading
Kodaline play New York's Irving Plaza in support of their third album, "Politics of Living"
Kodaline performed at Irving Plaza in New York City after several shows along the East coast. With the recent release of their record Politics of Living, the band has been on a staggering rise to fame. As a follower of the band since 2013, I was super excited to hear that they were releasing a third album. Continue Reading
Young The Giant continue their national tour in support of "Mirror Masters" with a show at Brooklyn Steel
Young the Giant (YTG) set out on their 2018 North American tour in late October. With the recent release of their new album Mirror Masters, there has been a great deal of buzz and anticipation in regards to the tour, merch, and everything in between. Continue Reading
The Neighbourhood make up for slow openers in Brooklyn with an exciting show of confidence and smooth vocals
Photos by Pamela Wang, words by Ava Scott
People must have waited hours to get in the venue first, hoping to get those center barricade spots to see The Neighbourhood. Though I was an hour early to the venue, I was one of the last people to enter when doors opened at 7:00pm. I wonder if those people who had waited all day for their perfect places were disappointed that they had to wait there through not one but two opening acts before The Neighbourhood came on. Continue Reading
Slow Hollows, Crosslegged and Stevie Wolf bring soulful, rich sounds to Brooklyn's Baby's All Right
Drained after a long week, I sat on the bus thinking about the next four hours and what was to come. The facts: Slow Hollows was playing at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn, NY. Doors, 8 pm. On the bus, the silence was peaceful yet deafening. Just me, a woman in her mid-thirties or early forties, and the bus driver. 7 pm on a Friday night. En route, a wave of nerves hit me. I had not been to a show in over two months. The silence persisted and continued to linger up until I arrived at the venue. I was home. Continue Reading
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Running out onto Suncorp Stadium in front of 50,000 (mostly) hostile fans isn't intimidating; asking the greatest rugby league coach for permission to break ranks before you've even played an NRL game, now that's intimidating.
Rookie Titans half Ashley Taylor is in position to bring to an end the season of the club that identified and nurtured him from 14 years of age, just 14 months after Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett agreed to grant Taylor an early release from his contract.
Taylor went on to make his NRL debut with the Broncos against the Storm in front of a crowd of 44,000 in Round 26 last season but doesn't hide his burning ambition to bring them undone on Friday night.
"There's going to be a massive crowd there and I'm just looking forward to getting out there in Titans colours and sticking it to them at their home ground," said Taylor, who was named Holden Cup Player of the Year whilst playing for the Broncos last season.
He has passed every NRL test with flying colours this season and is a raging hot favourite to be named Dally M Rookie of the Year but it could have been a very different year had he not mustered the courage to approach Bennett asking for a favour.
With Ben Hunt and Anthony Milford in the throes of guiding Brisbane to the 2015 Grand Final, Taylor – and Bennett – knew that opportunities would likely be rare in first grade and the master coach gave his blessing for the 20-year-old to find an NRL opportunity elsewhere.
"It was very tough and something that I never thought I wanted to do but I had to do it to better my career and this is where I am now.
Milford has sprung to life in recent weeks with the type of form that electrified the Telstra Premiership in the early rounds while Titans coach Neil Henry believes Hunt is edging ever closer to his best football.
"Very dangerous runner of the ball whereas Hunt's been a little bit quiet but I think he's got his running game back. Both kick the ball well and support well.
Having spent two seasons training with the first grade squad Taylor has run more opposed sessions against Hunt and Milford than he'd care to remember and knows better than most the threat they each bring.
"They're great players. Milford's very elusive with the ball and Ben Hunt is starting to find some form the last few weeks heading into the finals so we've just got to watch out for anything," said Taylor.
"[Hunt's] running game was one of the best last year and this year he's just lacked that a bit but I'm sure he's going to bring his A game this week.


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Personally and professionally, Chris Trice exemplifies what a driver is.
Chris Trice is an exceptionally good truck driver. But he is also an uncommonly good person.
Delivering tires and automotive parts with exemplary levels of service and safety for Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations for the past several years as a contract driver with CPC Logistics, Trice was chosen as an NPTC National Driver All-Star last year. While he obviously brings many top-notch professional skills to a difficult job, his personal qualities are the true keys of his success.
Bob Boyich, CTP, vice president of sales and marketing for CPC Logistics, spent an entire day with Trice making a half-dozen deliveries to stores in Tennessee and Kentucky, some with only a few tires; others with close to 100 tires. "Even at 5 a.m., Chris could not have been more pleasant and accommodating. His pretrip inspection and paperwork were perfect," Boyich says. "Moving down the highway, Chris was a steady and courteous hand, ever watching his mirrors while allowing himself plenty of 'cushion' with other vehicles on the road."
When they arrived at the first stop, Boyich was impressed with the cheerful reception. Watching Trice flawlessly unload tires from the truck and graciously interact with the customer, Boyich could see why. "There is an artwork and skill to unloading tires and Chris is the master," he says. "Each tire he pulled down and subsequently sent rolling down the trailer went straight down the center and directly to the receiver — not an easy feat."
In his personal life, Trice makes an equally impressive statement. He is actively engaged as a leader in his church and a volunteer in his community. He has gone on a mission trip with his church to Africa and has delivered food and water supplies to flood victims in the South following devastating hurricanes.
Ron Tartt, CTP, private fleet manager for Bridgestone, describes Trice as a quality person behind the wheel. "As a driver, Chris endears himself to people. People see so much more than a driver in uniform. He is an ambassador for Bridgestone and CPC Logistics. He is consistent in his values, aiming to please our customers, with a strong determination to do a hard job well while showing sincere interest in the well-being of others."
How and why did Trice pick truck driving as his chosen career? "My father was a commercial bus driver for many years and a good role model for me," he says. "I enjoy driving, which is about one-third of my job. The rest is customer service and interpersonal relationships with people at the store where I make my deliveries."
What is the one key secret of his success? "I would say patience," he adds. "The biggest change I've seen since I began truck driving 16 years ago is the pace of life is faster and faster. People are impatient and must live each moment in the 'passing' lane. I have learned over time that patience is the most important skill needed as both a driver and customer service representative. You need patience to stay safe on the road full of impatient drivers. Patience is also helpful in serving customers."
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What If Rabbis Were Kung Fu Fighting?
By DIEP TRAN
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"Sometimes there's friendly arguments between these sagely figures that turn very violent."
A new physical theatre piece turns the Talmud into a butt-kicking adventure
What do an ancient Jewish holy book and Chinese kung fu flicks have in common? More than you might realize according to writer and director Jesse Freedman. "A couple of years ago, I was watching a kung fu movie and I thought, this reminds me of the Talmud!" he recalls. That unexpected epiphany planted the seed for The Talmud, Freedman's new theatrical romp at Brooklyn's The Doxsee, which fuses the title text and martial arts tropes with modern dance and projections. Produced by Meta-Phys Ed., which Freedman cofounded in 2011, The Talmud encapsulates the company's mission to "create original performance works that explore the relationship between religion, spirituality, culture and politics."
Raised in a Jewish household, Freedman grew up listening to stories from the Talmud. Although it's essentially a collection of Jewish laws with annotations and opinions from thousands of rabbis, it also features figures with seemingly superhuman powers, such as a rebbe who can jump a mile. With The Talmud, Freedman wanted to find a way to dramatize the text's intellectual battles so they'd be as exhilarating as the physical ones.
"People tend to shy away from all the legal code," Freedman explains, but he found "the rhetorical virtuosity of how these people make their arguments," fascinating. "Sometimes it's comic and they're trying to one-up each other," he says. "Sometimes there's friendly arguments between these sagely figures that turn very violent."
Lucie Allouche, Zixin Liu and Hui-Shan Yong in 'The Talmud' at The Exponential Festival
That's where the kung fu comes in. According to Freedman, in martial arts movies there's typically a challenger to the status quo who initiates a fight. That mirrors how arguments are structured in the Talmud. "It's usually an unnamed person in an academy who asks a question that challenges the Mishnah," he explains. "Then other people respond."
Admittedly, Freedman's concept is easier to grasp in action than in description. That's what actor Jae Woo discovered while working on the show. "I had a very tough time understanding what the hell I was saying or doing for the first half of the rehearsal process," says the Korean-American actor with a chuckle. But it all made sense once they added the choreography, which was devised by Freedman and the four-member cast. "The movement carries the energy of what the text is trying to say," Woo explains. Although the actors don't do any actual kung fu, a mix of modern dance and hip-hop is used to simulate one-on-one fights as well as all-out brawls.
During the show's development process, Freeman identified additional parallels between his source inspirations. Both the Talmud and kung fu are "oral traditions that were transmitted from teacher-student/master-disciple over many generations," he says. They also explore the issue of invasion and displacement, and how to keep the culture going. As Freeman puts it, stories of "our temple or our monastery has just been destroyed. We are now in exile and we have to reinvent the tradition and keep it alive."
Woo has found these commonalities compelling as well as illuminating. (And he's not alone -- there are reasons the Talmud has become a bestseller in South Korea.) "I often think that conversation and confrontation are the keys for us to enlighten each other and to enhance our understanding of what is right and wrong," Woo says. Like the rabbis who debated the meaning of the laws for centuries, "what's important isn't finding the truth, it's the pursuit of the truth. Through that, our knowledge of the world we live in only expands."
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Top image: The workshop cast of The Talmud at The Exponential Festival this past January. Photos by Jenny Sharp.


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India expresses serious concern over Pakistan getting AWACS from US
At the best of times the arms race between India and Pakistan is governed by a competitive hysteria: each side cries itself hoarse about the perceived threat from the military acquisitions of its rival.
Ramindar Singh
UPDATED: February 19, 2014 16:21 IST
At the best of times the arms race between India and Pakistan is governed by a competitive hysteria; each side cries itself hoarse about the perceived threat from the military acquisitions of its rival. But never before did the balance of fire-power come so close to being upset as with the recent announcement that:
the US would loan and eventually sell Pakistan some sophisticated AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft;
Pakistan may get a large number of M 1 tanks, the latest in the US armoury;
Pakistan had asked for 80 more F 16 aircraft of the advanced C version and an aircraft carrier; and more ominously,
the disclosure by an American newspaper, quoting secret US intelligence documents that Pakistan, having successfully tested the triggering device used for nuclear detonations, was only "two screw driver turns" from having a fully assembled nuclear bomb.
The most expected of these developments was the one on the nuclear front. The ominous military intent behind Pakistan's nuclear programme has, for some time, been clear to the world, so the news of the testing of the trigger came as no great surprise. The more worrying news, in the short term, concerned the expected arrival in south Asian skies of the AWACS - a force multiplier which radically alters the balance of power in the air and consequently on the ground. The Government made it clear that it took this development very seriously.
The Ministry of External Affairs called in the US Ambassador John Gunther Dean and told him so. In Washington the Indian Ambassador P.K. Kaul carried a similar message to the Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger who started the whole controversy in October by announcing, two days after he left Delhi, that he was convinced Pakistan needed the AWACS to monitor air intrusions from the north. Back home in Delhi Natwar Singh, minister of state for external affairs, told Parliament that the Government's fears had "not been allayed" by US protestations that the AWACS deal was only at an exploratory stage.
He said the mind boggling capability of the AWACS would make a qualitative difference to the country's security environment. While cautioning against a panic reaction, Singh said: "We will consult our friends (and) keep our powder dry". And Arun Singh, minister of state for defence, made the point equally bluntly to Robert Aldridge the visiting secretary of the US Air Force, who called on him in Delhi late last fortnight.
The plane's capabilities are truly awesome. Cruising at a height of 30,000 feet along the Indian border, the AWACS, a versatile spy-in-the-sky. can rip the veil of operational secrecy off three-fourths of the Indian Air Force's (IAF) main operational commands - Western and South-Western. According to present indications , the E-3 A AWACS planned to be flown over Pakistan is basically an electronic surveillance station mounted on a Boeing 707 jetliner.
Its most distinctive feature is a huge, rotating frisbee-like dish mounted on the rear fuselage. The dish contains a bristling array of antennae which allows controllers seated at 17 video consoles inside the aircraft to radar-scan the airspace below, around and above it up to distances of 700 km. During a war, the Pakistani AWACS would detect and track almost every single aircraft getting airborne from the IAF's forward bases. And controllers in the AWACS can warn their own aircraft of approaching IAF planes and eventually guide them into firing positions behind these planes.
The electronic counter measure (ECM) capability aboard the AWACS allows its user to jam radar frequencies and communications of the enemy radar. All this can prove decisive in a war and the outcome would "be almost disastrous for the nation without (an AWACS). An AWACS capability would provide Pakistan with a quantum qualitative superiority over the IAF, navy and army", says Air Commodore Jasjit Singh, deputy director of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses.
Military planners see a grim lesson in the losses that the Syrian army and air force suffered against an AWACS (Hawk-eye) aided Israeli Air Force in June 1982. The Israelis first knocked out the Syrian Air Force (shooting down 80 Syrian planes against the loss of only one of their own) and smashed hundreds of tanks of the Syrian 1st and 3rd armoured divisions. Our mechanised divisions are equally vulnerable to air attacks, says a seasoned IAF pilot. "One sale of four AWACS planes to Pakistan will nullify our Rs 8,000 crore defence budget. We will be naked to their surveillance."
The M1 Tank: exaggerated threat
But other air force officials warn that there's no cause for panic, "AWACS is not the end of the world for the IAF but its presence up in the sky would definitely reduce operational and tactical flexibility, and decrease its options." said a senior official. The IAF would find it more difficult to fly deep-strike missions inside Pakistan and would probably have to limit its sorties to bases no deeper than 100 km inside Pakistan. This is why an AWACS is called a force multiplier; by limiting the effectiveness of the IAF, it increases the effectiveness of the Pakistan Air Force by a similar factor.
What's more, the attrition rate of the IAF could increase by as much as 30 per cent. "We will have to accept greater aircraft losses if we have to send up a large number of fighters to shoot down the AWACS. " The war for control of the skies will be fought around the AWACS.
Assuming that the US will allow AWACS planes to be deployed along the Indian border, what can India do to counter the threat? The immediate option that suggests itself is placement of Sam 5 missiles about 60 to 70 km behind the border. With a range of about 200 km, these missiles will ensure that the AWACS remains at least 150 km behind Pakistani lines.
The other option is to get the MiG 31, the two seat Mach 3 intercepter which flies at heights up to 60,000 to 80,000 feet, hasaradar with a 200-km range and missiles which can be fired at unseen targets 70 km away. The IAF argues that a MiG 31 could streak in at Mach 3 speed at a height of 60,000 feet, fire its missile and pull away before the AWACS' fighter escort can climb from 30,000 feet to intercept it. Pakistan will have to dedicate up to two squadrons of fighters to protect the AWACS.
The MiG 31 was offered to India by the Soviets two years ago, but at that time the IAF was more keen on acquiring the MiG 29, whose first squadrons are likely to be formed by early next year. The MiG 31, experts say, has been developed as the Soviet response to the AWACS. As an interim response to the threat posed by Pakistan's proposed acquisition of AWACS capability, the IAF will, most probably, equip itself with a couple of squadrons of the MiG 31 and also get some SAM 5s. These demands are bound to be raised during the forthcoming visit to India of the Soviet supremo Mikhail Gorbachev. Another possible option is to get the Soviet version of AWACS, an Il 76 aircraft fitted with a circular radoine similar to the one on the E-3A. At the same time the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is in the process of testing out an HS 748 Avro as a flying platform for a desi version of the AWACS which could be flying in four years, if all goes according to plan. The plane's cruising speed, altitude ceiling and area coverage is bound to be much less than that of the E-3A, but once the indigenous technology passes the test it can easily be mounted onto a larger aircraft like the Airbus. The DRDO is now likely to get the Rs 300-crore it has been demanding to develop the plane.
Of course the actual deployment of US-owned AWACS planes along Pakistan's lndia border is yet far away, and the sale of such planes to Pakistan as mooted by Weinberger, even farther. Both these proposals will have to cross the obstacle of Congressional approval and this could take at least a year, now that the Democrats have a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. It is also open to debate, says one lobby in the Defence Ministry, whether the US will allow the AWACS to be flown along the Indian border in case of a war between Pakistan and India.
An opposing point of view, however, holds that the AWACS deal is part of a larger US plan to involve Pakistan in the Central Command and its defence concerns in the Persian Gulf. One aim of the US in sending AWACS planes into Pakistan, say experts, could be to peer into the Tashkent region where the Soviet Air Force has located a large number of its training establishments. As a quid pro quo Pakistan will eventually get its own AWACS which it can use against India.
As far as the prospect of Pakistan receiving the M 1 tanks is concerned, Indian defence officials are not unduly worried. The M I is a good tank but it enjoys no great superiority over the Russian T 72 which has laser range-finders, and in fact, boasts of a more powerful 125 mm gun compared to the M 1's 105 mm gun. Even the Main Battle Tank (MBT) under development in India matches up to the M 1 fairly well and the programme will continue unchanged, say DRDO scientists.
The Pakistani demand on the other hand for the F-16C looks sinister because this version can provide Pakistan with a delivery system for the nuclear bomb it is on the verge of assembling, (see box). An AWACS in the air will ensure that the F-16Cs get through. India's initial reaction to all this, said a seasoned diplomat, would be to try to prevent the sale of this hardware from going through, especially the AWACS. A diplomatic offensive is already underway and a Democrat-controlled Congress in the US may be more inclined to listen to India's protests than Reagan's hawkish hardliners. But till a decision is finally taken, the decibel level of the debate on the rearming of the subcontinent is bound to register another hysterical upswing.