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Domestic abuse is viewed as a crime that is perpetrated against the most vulnerable people in our society — individuals who cannot defend themselves and who are afraid to ask for help. Because of this, domestic violence charges are aggressively prosecuted.
Read further to find out what constitutes domestic violence in New Mexico and why domestic violence charges are so serious.
What Constitutes Domestic Violence in New Mexico?
To put it simply, domestic violence is assault and battery against a "household member," such as a spouse, former spouse, parent, present or former stepparent, present or former parent-in-law, grandparent, grandparent-in-law, a co-parent of a child or a person with whom a person has had a continuing personal relationship.
The penalties for domestic violence can be severe and range from up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $500, (or both) for a petty misdemeanor, to three years in prison and a fine up to $5,000 for a third-degree felony charge. In addition, New Mexico requires mandatory domestic violence counseling for anyone convicted of an offense.
Even a first conviction for domestic violence is a serious matter. A conviction will become part of your criminal record and lead to harsher penalties for any subsequent domestic violence offenses.
A third offense can be charged as a fourth-degree felony and is subject to up to 18 months in prison and a fine of up to $5000, with all subsequent offenses potentially being charged as third-degree felonies.
If you are convicted of a felony, you will forfeit certain civil rights, such as the right to vote, hold public office, or own a gun. In addition, you will face the loss of your professional licenses and certifications and find it more difficult to secure employment or housing.
What makes domestic violence charges both complicated to prosecute and defend is the fact that accusations of domestic violence are usually highly motivated by emotions and it is not uncommon for the victim, the alleged perpetrator, and witnesses to each have a different account of what actually took place.
So law enforcement is left to use its own discretion in deciding who to arrest and charge with domestic violence, based only on who it believes is telling the most compelling story and/or whose injuries look worse.
For these reasons, if you have been accused of domestic violence, you should waste no time in contacting an experienced New Mexico criminal attorney who has experience in defending people who have been unfairly charged with domestic violence in Albuquerque and who can handle your case with discretion and achieve the best results for you and your family.
Contact New Mexico Criminal Law Offices (505-375-4767) today to protect your family life and stability. Every side has a story and it is extremely important that your side be heard.


TINY PRETTY THINGS digs beneath the practiced poise of a cutthroat Manhattan ballet academy, where three young protagonists all fight for prima position while navigating secrets, lies, and the pressure that comes with being prodigies.
Free-spirited new girl Giselle just wants to dance – but the very act might kill her. Upper East Side-bred Bette lives in the all-encompassing shadow of her ballet star sister, but the weight of family expectations brings out a dangerous edge in her. Perfectionist June forever stands in the wings as an understudy, but now she's willing to do whatever it takes – even push someone out the way – to take the stage.
In a world where every other dancer is both friend and foe, the girls have formed the tenuous bond that comes with being the best of the best. But when New York City Ballet Conservatory newbie Giselle is cast as the lead in The Nutcracker – opposite Bette's longtime love Alec – the competition turns deadly.


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The PTI Guy
Going Deep into the Platform Tennis Index
Demain Johnston
APTA Board Member Demian Johnston is a data nerd beyond all repair. He believes in and encourages the transparency of shared data, "not only for the benefit of APTA members nationwide but because the transparency helps improve the data quality of the match data on which the PTI ratings are calculated."
Johnston created The PTI Guy YouTube series as a passionate enthusiast, independent of the APTA. "First, I don't want the APTA to have another obligation; the PTI Algorithm Committee has a full plate. Second, I'm a novice doing this on zero budget. Third, I fear a lot of the criticisms of PTI are based on misunderstandings or misconceptions. I want to address those as an enthusiast, not as some sort of advocate. As long as the reception to the videos is constructive, I'll probably keep making them. I can even imagine a set of videos that get a little edgy. I think we all know some players who take some of this stuff too seriously."
Johnston is cautiously optimistic: "The reception to the introduction of PTI has been overwhelming. Clearly, players are paying attention. Most of the response has been curiosity and encouragement. But many people have expressed criticism and concern about how PTI is used on their teams, at their clubs, and in their leagues. Many of the criticisms are reasonable, but there are occasionally some strong egos that don't like a number next to their name. The PTI system is meant to help league administrators and tournament directors have an objective measure of match performance. With that, they can organize divisions, teams, guidelines, and events to provide a variety of competitive matches to a wider range of ability levels."
Johnston is especially excited to see PTI as a tool that is being used to bring the tournament experience to intermediate and beginner players. "Traditionally most tournaments have focused on nationally ranked players and the top league players. Too often intermediate and beginner players shy away from participating in tournaments for fear of not being good enough. Nobody enjoys a 6-0, 6-0 match. It's exciting to see Turbo Paddle in Chicago, the Summit Series in New Jersey, Crest Hollow CC tournaments in Long Island, and an increasing number of mini tournaments popping up across the country based on PTI numbers, up into the 65s."
Each of the first four PTI Guy videos ends with these words of wisdom: "Remember PTI is a reflection of performance, not a goal. The goal is to enjoy the great game of platform tennis."
Want to be notified when a new The PTI Guy video is posted? Subscribe and use the YouTube Notifications preferences to do so. The PTI Guy videos may also be found on many APTA League websites.

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West of Loathing - Original Video Game Soundtrack
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Ship to Shore PhonoCo. is proud to announce the release of Ryan Ike's soundtrack to West Of Loathing, considered by many to be one of the best games of 2017, on vinyl and audio cassette for the first time!
West Of Loathing is a unique RPG from Asymmetric Publications, the studio that brought the long-running Kingdom Of Loathing to many a PC's web browser nearly 20 years ago. A unique comedy-western RPG with a heavy emphasis on the comedy, Ike's score captures the soul of the spaghetti western soundtrack and brings it to the 21st century, managing to maintain the feel of the old west (circa 1960s Italy) without completely referencing the famous movie scores that one would immediately think of. It's a callback AND an original, and it's all kinds of wonderful.
The album is available to pre-order now on a limited edition clear vinyl with white & black splatter, and also on audio cassette, and features new artwork by the exceptionally talented Drew Wise, so level up your moxie and holster your deputized pistol, because the West Of Loathing soundtrack is mandatory listening to all you Cow Punchers, Beanslingers and Snake Oilers out there… whether you can do a silly walk or not!
1. What in Tarnation
2. West of Loathing (Main Theme)
3. A Cave is a Sideways Hole
4. Better Luck Next Time, Pilgrim
5. The Quick and the Undead (Spooky)
6. Draw!
7. Sit Fer a Spell
8. El Vibrato Fanfare
9. Newfangled Contraptions
Side B
1. Dirtwater Jam Band
2. Fastest Pointer Finger in the West
3. Misbehave (In this Cave)
4. The Sticks-For-Hands Rag
5. This Song is Public Domain
6. The Quick and the Undead (Scary)
7. These Boots Were Made for Moseyin'
8. Please Buy Our Game (Trailer)
9. Panic! South of 'Frisco


CARTM, no longer operates the Manzanita transfer station owned by Tillamook County. We urge you to take your solid waste and recycling to CARTM's former location when County employees reopen it in mid-January 2019. To learn about service dates and hours, please call 503 368-7764 or visit http://www.co.tillamook.or.us/gov/SolidWaste/Default.htm.
Thank you for supporting CARTM during the 20 years we operated the transfer station. Please check this site to learn how we plan to continue inspiring our community reduce waste. If you have questions or suggestions about our situation or future and wanted added to our contact list, please call our new phone number, 503-812-4901 or email info@cartm.org.
Are you in need of some great art? Or, do you have art that doesn't fit your decor any more? CARTM is here for you!
Instead of soliciting new artworks made from repurposed materials for our Trash Art Show, this year we are finding new homes for quality already-made-art. Sales of donated art support our recycling and reuse programs.
1. Donate your 'pre-owned' framed, ready to hang original paintings and collage, signed artist prints, ceramics and sculpture. No photographs, please! Volunteers will be on hand at CARTM on May 6 and 13 from 10 to 4, and at the Pine Grove Community House on May 17 from 2 to 5 to accept your donations. Commissions will be considered for high-value pieces.
2. Buy a ticket to the Opening Party on May 18 from 5 to 8 pm, at the Pine Grove. In addition to delicious bites from Julie Barker at Buttercup, wine, beer and other beverages, you have first 'dibs' on the artwork! Tickets are $30, available now at the CARTM cashier and from your friendly CARTM board members.
3. Come to the show Saturday, May 19 from 10 to 5, or Sunday, May 20 from 10 to 3, and choose from a wide variety of artworks in all price ranges. Proceeds from art sales will be shared with the Pine Grove Community House in support of its community-oriented mission!
Many thanks to Starfish Vacation Rentals and Dave Leach & Hans Tonjes, brokers at Living Room Realty, without whose support we could not produce this event.
Remember four years ago when the Chinese "Green Fence" was put up? It was a virtual wall constructed to prevent mixed and contaminated recyclable materials from entering China. For many years, China has been the world's biggest buyer of recyclable materials – no other country comes close. This "fence" radically changed what we were able to recycle in our community. Without a place to send mixed 'rigid' #6 and #7 plastic for recycling, CARTM had to stop collecting it.
Fast forward to February 2017, when China announced "The National Sword." The government no longer wants to import used packaging. Although CARTM customers rigorously sort their recycling to prevent contamination, we are affected again. After October 1, CARTM can no longer accept the following packaging: #1 clamshells, #4 and #5 plastic, and plastic caps and lids. Other materials may be affected in the future.
Traditionally conscious consumers have trained themselves to look for containers with the #4 or #5 labels on packaging of yogurt, sour cream, crumbled cheeses, salsas and prepackaged grab and go food items in. These buying decisions were often made knowing that the packaging could be recycled. Not anymore. Until a new market opens – and we are searching for one – these items must be landfilled.
Tillamook County's mobile recycling trailer, which travels around the county collecting recycling, will also stop accepting these items.
This latest blow to the recycling world means that consumers have an opportunity to make their voices heard by contacting the companies whose products they enjoy and regularly purchase.
CARTM will continue to accept plastics that do have a recyclable value. Those are: #2 frosty milk jugs, #1 bottles, #2 colored bottles and 10¢ deposit soda and water bottles.
Almost everything created in this world can become something new many times before it is discarded forever.
CARTM Recycling promotes sustainable living and artistic expression through the creative re-use of materials. We collect our community's 'discards' and sort it into reusable items, recyclable materials and finally, trash. We make the good stuff available to become new again — as art, as building materials or furniture and as raw materials for new packaging.
As a community we take responsibility for the waste we generate.
Visionary neighbors created CARTM in 1996 to handle the solid waste we generate as locally as possible so that as a community we take responsibility for what we produce and introduce in our region. We continue to work conscientiously to reduce waste.
CARTM taps deeply into the need to do something creative and positive about the waste generated in our own neighborhood; therefore support for CARTM crosses traditional boundaries. Tillamook County provides space for our facilities and Master Gardeners volunteer to manage our landscaping. Local businesses contribute money for operations and bring cans, bottles, cardboard, paper and construction materials for volunteers to bundle for recycling. Residents bring out-of-town guests to shop in the re-use store while they recycle household waste, and Nehalem Bay State Park campers and coast tourists wander in to see what we're about. Local artists lead and attend our famed Trash Art Workshops and show their creations at the annual Trash Art Show. Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality permits our operations. The City of Manzanita approved our site plans in 1998 and 2007. Our local city governments are very supportive of CARTM's mission, and consider us a local gem.
It is important to us to include everyone to achieve success. Every CARTM program is open without bias to all members of our community — residents, second homeowners and visitors. We do not track the age, ethnic, disability, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status of our staff, volunteers or customers. We each can contribute to sustainability!


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New Ideas for a Do-Something Congress No. 5: Make Rural America's "Higher Education Deserts" Bloom
By Anne Kim / 2.26.2019
As many as 41 million Americans live in "higher education deserts" – at least half an hour's drive from the nearest college or university and with limited access to community college. Many of these deserts are in rural America, which is one reason so much of rural America is less prosperous than it deserves to be.
The lack of higher education access means fewer opportunities for going back to school or improving skills. A less educated workforce in turn means communities have a tougher time attracting businesses and creating new jobs.
Congress should work to eradicate higher education deserts. In particular, it can encourage new models of higher education – such as "higher education centers" and virtual colleges – that can fill this gap and bring more opportunity to workers and their communities. Rural higher education innovation grants are one potential way to help states pilot new approaches.
THE CHALLENGE: HIGHER EDUCATION "DESERTS" ARE HANDICAPPING RURAL AMERICA
For millions of Americans, distance is as big or bigger a barrier to higher education access as finances. According to the Urban Institute, nearly one in five American adults—as many as 41 million people—lives twenty-five miles or more from the nearest college or university, or in areas where a single community college is the only source of broad-access public higher education within that distance. Three million of the Americans in these so-called "higher education deserts" also lack broadband internet, which means they are cut off from online education opportunities as well (1).
Rural students have lower rates of college-going and completion.
More than four in five people in higher education deserts – 82 percent – live in rural areas. This could be one reason why fewer rural Americans attend or finish college.
In 2016, 61 percent of rural public school seniors went on to college the following year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse, compared to 67 percent for suburban students (2). Only 20 percent of rural young adults between 25 and 34 have four-year degrees, says the USDA's Economic Research Service, compared to 37 percent of young adults in urban areas (3). Moreover, the urban-rural gap in college degree attainment is growing. From 2000 to 2015, the share of college-educated adults rose by 7-points in urban locales compared to 4-points in rural areas.
Less-educated rural areas are falling behind while better educated cities leap ahead.
With more and more jobs demanding ever higher levels of skill, disparities in access to higher education are translating to vast disparities in the distribution of jobs and opportunity throughout the United States, including a widening urban-rural divide. Wealthy urban areas are getting richer, while rural areas are increasingly lagging.
The Economic Innovation Group (EIG), for instance, reports that of the 6.8 million net new jobs created between 2000 and 2015, 6.5 million were created in the top 20 percent of zip codes, which were predominantly urban (4). These prosperous, job-creating zip codes are also the best-educated. EIG further finds that 43 percent of residents in the top 10 percent of zip codes has a bachelor's degree or better, compared to just 11 percent in the bottom 10 percent. While a four-year degree is of course not a prerequisite for a good living, the heavy concentration of highly-educated workers is indicative of the imbalance in economic opportunities between rural and urban areas.
Most of the nation's least educated and most impoverished counties are rural.
If education and prosperity are linked, so conversely are poverty and the lack of educational attainment.
Out of 467 U.S. counties identified by the USDA as "low education" counties – places where 20 percent or more of the population has less than a high school diploma – 79 percent are rural (5). These counties tend to be clustered in the rural South, Appalachia, along the Texas border and in Native American reservations and also suffer from higher rates of poverty, child poverty and unemployment.
THE GOAL: ERADICATE HIGHER EDUCATION DESERTS AND ENSURE EVERY RURAL AMERICAN HAS HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS
Better access to higher education in rural areas, especially for the many millions of "nontraditional" students who are now increasingly the norm (6), can help close the gulf in opportunity between urban and rural areas. Greater opportunities for convenient, affordable higher education would allow more rural Americans to finish their degrees or pursue occupational credentials, qualifying them for higher-skilled, better-paid jobs. Rural students would also benefit by not being forced to leave home for school – not only lowering costs for students but potentially slowing or even reversing the population declines plaguing rural areas. Institutions of higher education can also serve as engines of economic development in the communities they serve. They can work with businesses to turn out the skilled talent they need and provide research or other support.
THE PLAN: CREATE RURAL HIGHER EDUCATION INNOVATION GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE NEW MODELS OF HIGHER EDUCATION REACHING RURAL AMERICA
While it's unrealistic to establish a new college, community college or university in every rural area that needs one, emerging models for delivering higher education potentially offer a creative, cost-effective and effective alternative. These new models can also expand the ability of workers to obtain high-quality occupational credentials, which in many instances are likely to be more practical, affordable and desirable than pursuing a two-year or four-year degree.
Some states, such as Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland, are pioneering new approaches, such as "higher education centers" and virtual colleges, that use technology to broaden students' options for both traditional college education and occupational training (7). The Northern Pennsylvania Regional College, for instance, operates six different "hubs" scattered throughout the 7,000 square miles it serves, plus numerous "classrooms" using borrowed space from local high schools, public libraries and other community buildings. In addition to conferring its own degrees, it provides the infrastructure for other accredited institutions to extend their reach through "blended" offerings combining virtual and in-person teaching.
Similarly, Virginia's five higher education centers provide physical infrastructure for colleges and community colleges offering classes as well as occupational training in fields such as welding, mechatronics and IT certification. In Maryland, the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center offers specific courses from ten different institutions, including Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland. Though relatively new, these institutions are already establishing a track record of success. In South Boston, Virginia, for instance, the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center worked with more than 30 area industries and entrepreneurs in 2017, developed customized training for nearly 150 workers in local companies and placed 173 students into new jobs (8).
Congress should encourage all states to make rural higher education a priority and help more states experiment with new models for accessing higher education in remote areas. One way to do this is to provide seed money in the form of Rural Higher Education Innovation Grants so that states can stand up pilots, evaluate the effectiveness of new models and scale up promising approaches. These grants moreover do not need to be large – the Pennsylvania legislature initially appropriated just $1.2 million to launch what is now NPRC.
As a start, Congress should set aside $10 million in competitive grant funding for states. Funding for these grants could come from an earmark of the money collected from the 1.4 percent excise tax on large university endowments included in the 2017 tax legislation (9).


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Australia's largest airport solar installation achieves practical completion
Australian engineering, procurement and construction firm, Epho Pty Ltd, announced that the 5.725MW solar system for Brisbane Airport Corporation in Australia has now officially come online. Whilst Australia's largest commercial and industrial solar system has been operational since end of 2018, Epho Pty Ltd, which was reponsible for the project design and construction, announced on May 10 that the systems reached practical completion including all approvals from authorities.
Epho collaborated with Chinese solar PV manufacturer, Trina Solar, and Shakra Energy, Epho's development partner.
Trina Solar provided the panels, which have an anti-glare coating that meets the requirements of aviation regulators, for five of the six sites.
© Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd. Brisbane Airport.
Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) is invested $11m in the solar PV project across six sites on the airport.
The largest rooftop solar panel installation at an Australian airport and the largest commercial rooftop solar system in the Southern Hemisphere.
A 6MW system, consisting of about 22,000 panels spanning an area of 36,000 square metres or more than twice the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Brisbane Airport's International Terminal alone will support 1.8 MW with about 6,500 panels covering more than 22,000 square metres.
The solar system accounts for 18 percent of BAC's direct electricity consumption, or six percent of total consumption, further complementing the savings being made through air conditioning control optimisation, lighting control upgrades and LED technology within BAC buildings, car parks and street lighting.
The solar energy generated per year at BAC is equivalent to powering over 1,700 Australian homes for a year, with carbon offset equal to planting over 50,000 trees or taking 1,500 cars off the road each year.
Epho's Senior Project Manager Axel La Toison said:
"The 20,937 solar panels used in this project were spread across six sites at the airport – some were ground mounted solar panels and others were rooftop mounted. If you lay the 20,937 solar panels flat, they take up more than twice the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Brisbane Airport is the most challenging project we have done, but it puts us in good stead for other airport and large commercial & industrial solar projects in the future as we have experience dealing with the various authorities."
One of the unique requirements that airports have is for the solar panels to have minimal glare.
La Toison commented:
"In this instance, we came up with solutions that were in line with international best practices. This instilled confidence in the Australian civil aviation authority, because they knew we were committed to safety on all matters regarding the installation. We chose Trina Solar as our main module supplier because they are known for providing high-quality modules. Trina Solar also helped us significantly in the bidding process. Trina Solar has a proven track record and investment-grade bankability."
Epho's Managing Director Dr Oliver Hartley said:
"This 5.725MW installation is the largest airport solar deployment in Australia and shows that Australia is truly at the forefront globally of such large-scale commercial installations."
Brisbane Airport's energy consumption peaks during the day when the solar installation is also performing at its peak output.
Dr Hartley commented:
"This is another reason why solar energy is a natural choice for airports and other commercial and industrial enterprises."
Trina Solar's country Sales Manager, Govind Kant said:
"Solar energy is very worthwhile for airports, because adopting solar is in line with the worldwide push, by organizations such as Airports Council International, to reduce airports' carbon footprint. Airports can reduce their dependence on the electricity grid considerably because they generally have a lot of land and rooftop space where solar panels can be installed."
Govind Kant added that Epho did its own quality assurance tests of the product, prior to installation, and was very pleased with the results, as the Trina Solar panels clearly met the high standards required.
Source: Press Release by Trina Solar and Brisbane Airport website.
Photo Creidt: © Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd. Brisbane Airport captured on 3 November, 2018. Work on the airport's second runway began in 2012, and is set to open in 2020.
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Q: has_many through a has_one I have two models, Conversation and Message, and one concern Conversible. A Conversible has one Conversation and a Conversation has many Message's. I'd like to set up Conversible so I can call messages on my Conversible and it will return the Message's for its Conversation. Here's what I have so far:
module Conversible
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do
    has_one :conversation, as: :conversible dependent: :destroy
    has_many :messages, through: :conversation
  end
end

class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :conversation
end

class Conversation < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :conversible, polymorphic: true
  has_many :messages, dependent: :destroy
end

Unfortunately, this doesn't work. I can call conversible.messages, but it always returns an empty relation, even when conversible.conversation.messages returns a relation with its Message's.
What am I missing?

A: looks like you don't need Conversible module:
class Conversation < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :conversible, polymorphic: true
  has_many :messages, dependent: :destroy
end

class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :conversation
end

and then if you need some relation for Conversation you could write:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :conversations, as: :conversible
end

or you could try something like:
module Conversible
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included
    has_one :conversations, as: :conversible
    has_many :messages, through: :conversations
  end
end

and then:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Conversible
end

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Q: Best Way to Initialize Class Variables in Unity After a few years of C++, I'm diving into a different language (C#) with Unity.  I'm doing my first class assignment.  My professor has some variables declared as private, but she is initializing them instantly upon declaration.  In C++, we wouldn't never initialize a private data member in the private block, but in a constructor.  From what I read, we are not to use constructors in classes that are derived from MonoBehaviour.  So my question is:
Is it ok to initialize the private objects (Strings, ints, etc.) in upon declaration in a class in C#?  Or is this something we shouldn't do, like in C++, and they should be initialized elsewhere?

A: I don't thing there is a straight answer to your question, rather good practices.
First thing first, C# automatically give a default value to common types (int > 0, char > 0 ('\0'), float 0.0f, null for a reference type, ...) so you do not need to initialise those unless you've a specific behaviour which involves a specific initial value (like, giving maximum value to an int intended for a function returning a min value).
This property extends to structures (a struct containing an int and a string will automatically be initialized to 0 and null for those fields).
For reference types, and on a general manner, anything which requires custom allocation/initialisation, I usually do all of that, if possible, in constructor because, eh, that's what they are made for, making your object ready to use for extern users.
In case of Unity, initializing should also be good in Start().
Your professor way is of course acceptable. Some more piece of information :
Initialization - Stack Overflow

A: Yeah it's really okay, but it's also possible to initialize it in the Start() method if they implements MonoBehaviour


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Who are the best candidate for face lift?
Home - Facial Plastic Surgery - Facelift in San Francisco - Are You the Best Face Lift Candidate?
A facelift yields the best results on men and women who feel that their face no longer reflects the youth and vitality that they are truly feeling inside. Good skin elasticity is one of the important qualities that helps define a good candidate, and Dr. Mosser can determine this during a consultation.
What to consider prior to getting face lift procedure?
Do you have any medical conditions that could impair healing from facelift surgery?
Facelift incisions often begin at the hairline near the temples and extend around the ear, ending in the lower scalp. The tissue under the face, jowls, and neck may be repositioned and fat may be redistributed from these areas. The skin is then re-draped over the raised contours and the excess skin is trimmed away. A second incision under the chin may be necessary to tighten the muscles and tissue of the neck.
When the large incisions of a facelift aren't required to achieve your goals, a mini-facelift (also called a partial facelift, an omega lift or an S-lift) may be all that is necessary, with shorter incisions than a traditional facelift. A device called an endoscope repositions tissues from these incisions and raises the mid-facial muscles.
Skin resurfacing procedures may be performed in conjunction with your facelift surgery—or as a separate procedure afterward. These refine and improve skin tone and texture.
The incision lines from a face lift are well concealed within the hairline and in the natural contours of the hair and ears. Once they've healed, they're virtually unnoticeable without very close inspection.
Immediately after facelift surgery a bandage will gently enshroud your face to minimize swelling and bruising. Dr. Mosser may place a small tube near the incision sites to drain any excess fluid that may collect under the skin.
Caring for the facelift incision sites.
Taking medications to aid healing and reduce the potential for infection after your facelift surgery.
Specific things to be aware of concerning the surgical site.
You will experience swelling and perhaps some numbness immediately after surgery. Facial movements may be restricted and your skin will look bruised. These conditions are normal, and Dr. Mosser will work with you to control any pain through medication.
Most face lift incisions will heal within one week. You can return to normal activity, including work, within two to four weeks. Healing will continue as swelling dissipates and your incision lines refine. During this period, you should practice diligent sun protection whenever you venture outdoors.
It can take several months for the swelling to completely subside and up to six months for incision lines to diminish. Aging will begin reasserting itself, of course, but as long as you maintain sun protection and a healthy lifestyle, you can expect your youthful appearance to last for years. At any time after your procedure, you can address your questions to Dr. Mosser at his San Francisco facial plastic surgery office.


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Chief editorial writer and a columnist at The Independent.
Are There Ways to Stabilise UK-Russia Relations?
There are two quick and cynical responses to what has become over the past decade an almost eternal question: how can relations between the UK and Russia be, if not improved, then at least stabilised. The first would be to observe that relations have, in fact, been quite stable for most of that time - stable at a rock-bottom setting of very bad, verging on non-existent. The second would be to suggest that maybe both sides like it that way, or at least that it suits their interests.
Coronavirus Under Brexit – British Strategy of Response to the Crisis
Just as Boris Johnson's election victory had seemed to bring welcome clarity, Coronavirus swept into muddy the waters again. But it also illustrated the risks for the UK of being a medium-sized country alone, writes Valdai Club expert Mary Dejevsky. The EU's collective response to the virus may have left much to be desired, though there has been more medical and economic cooperation than it often appeared. But the response of the US hardly offered any attractive alternative model.
Leadership in the Time of Crisis - The UK Difference
The UK, like most of its immediate European neighbours, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, is at a standstill in most aspects of normal life. Parliament is about to pass emergency legislation that will restrict civil liberties more than at any time since the Second World War - to almost no objection from Opposition MPs or the population at large.
Could the UK Change Its Russia Policy?
For all the frost, however, it should not necesarily be concluded that there is no hope at all of any change. As demonstrated by his handling of the Brexit negotiations and how he set about "selling" his deal to his Conservative colleagues, Boris Johnson is a master of saying one thing with great conviction to please a crucial constituency, then proceeding to do something a little - or even a lot - different.
The UK's Fine Foreign Policy Line Post-Brexit
Few can have imagined that what might be called London's transatlantic dilemma would pose itself so sharply so soon - in fact even before the UK had formally left the EU. Nor that it would take so many forms.
What the UK Election Result Means
There appears to be some discussion in government circles about how far policy should be reorientated away from Europe and towards the rest of the world. Topics include how far the potential for increased trade should outweigh other considerations, whether naval power should be boosted in view of the rise of China, and how far the Commonwealth and international organisations should be seen as forums for the UK to exploit existing connections.
What the UK's General Election Means for Brexit and Much Else
Referendums do not fit well with the UK's Parliamentary system, at least not when the result goes against government policy and the will of the majority in Parliament.
Brexit: When Political Parties Start to Dissolve
Whether the process will go further, to the point where the UK perhaps develops a wider spread of smaller parties on German lines, is likely to depend on two factors: how strong traditional loyalties to Labour and the Conservatives remain, and whether - as a longer-term consequence of the current parliamentary stalemate - the UK might one day switch to a proportional electoral system.
G7 Summit in Biarritz: Who Will Sigh with Relief?
With such unpredictable characters as Boris Johnson and Donald Trump attending, drama within the meeting halls cannot be ruled out. In the event that all passes off quietly and according to plan, it will not only be President Macron who will sigh with relief.
What Would a Boris Prime Ministership Mean?
It would be fair to say that Boris Johnson divides opinion – at home, in the UK, that is. People tend to be adamantly for or against him becoming Prime Minister.
Is a tech war the biggest threat or it is exaggerated?
Has globalisation a future or not?
Chief editorial writer and a columnist at The Independent


Host environment is often an overlooked hurdle that needs to be understood in order to have successful therapies without the need for chronic immunosuppression. Many clinical trials for T1D patients are utilizing immunomodulation therapies that may favor T regulatory (Treg) expansion and temper Teff responses, but their efficacy has been limited in magnitude and duration. Tolerance induction protocols in transplant setting also require therapies that favor Treg expansion/stimulation, while inhibiting alloreactive Teff responses. Our past studies have addressed key questions of how to develop strategies that facilitate long-term engraftment and function of Treg therapeutic infusions. Treg immunotherapy in autoimmune setting poses more challenges given chronic inflammation could create a non-supportive environment for Treg engraftment and persistence. Recent studies by others showed that Treg depletion releases bio-available IL-2 resulting in NK subset producing IFN and initiates diabetic lesions in NOD mice, exemplifies the need to consider the role NKs play in disease progression and how alterations in NK subsets are contributing to the rebounding environment in development of novel therapies for T1D.
T regulatory cells (Tregs) inhibit self and allogeneic immune responses making these cells attractive for novel cell-based therapy approaches to promote tolerance and control autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Currently, Treg therapy is hindered by the inability to generate sufficient number of cells to inhibit desired immune response(s) and achieve stable Treg engraftment. We have recently identified critical factors for successful adoptive Treg cell therapy: 1) generation of peripheral space for engraftment/persistence of infused Tregs, 2) overcoming competition from endogenous Tregs, 3) provision of IL-2 to support survival/proliferation of adoptively transferred Tregs and 4) availability of relevant antigens. Despite this understanding, Treg engraftment is still hampered in diabetic compared to prediabetic NOD mice. This is likely related to an altered immune compartment following immunomodulation that cannot fully support the Treg compartment in these diabetic mice and continues to represent an obstacle to successful Treg therapy. The interplay of adaptive and innate immune system is often overlooked and the role natural killer (NK) cells in this interplay have only recently been appreciated. NK cells play important roles in immune defense, surveillance, and homeostasis. However, NK subsets remain poorly understood in mice. Furthermore, there are conflicting reports involving NK cells in T1D, as well as other autoimmune models, which could be related to the poor understanding of functional NK subsets in mice. The challenge is to resolve the inflammatory roles of NK cells with their regulatory roles in autoimmunity. One of the primary goals of the lab is to identify NK functional subsets with effector and regulatory properties using the NOD mouse model. This research is designed to test the hypothesis that in conditions of autoimmunity, NK cells are inflammatory, which may promote unfavorable environment for Treg cells. To examine our hypothesis, we aim to define which NK cell subset(s) are activated or altered in the autoimmune setting using the NOD mouse model of spontaneous autoimmune diabetes and investigate whether treating NOD mice with immunomodulation, which depletes T-cells including Tregs, leads to different representation of NK subsets during disease progression. These studies would help determine the role of NK cells in conditions of autoimmunity and will allow for the development of improved strategies for the treatment of T1D where the interplay innate and adaptive immunity has been underappreciated in the design of novel combinatorial therapies.


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Technology changes overnight; a new Smartphone has been announced on Kickstarter named Jelly which has been stated as the world smallest 4G phone. Surprisingly, it runs on Android 7.0 Nougat! While the big smartphone manufacturers have been following the trend of developing larger smartphones for the users, Unihertz, the developers of Jelly seem to be taking a different path.
Talking about the features of Jelly, it offers a 2.45-inch display, 1GB RAM, dual SIM support, micro SD card, removable battery, and many other impressive features – at a very affordable cost of $109. There is another Jelly Pro version offering twice the RAM and which is costlier than base model of Jelly smartphone. The pro model would cost you $125. Both the models have 240 x 432 resolution display at 201 PPI, quad-core 1.1GHz Cortex A53 processor, and 950mAh battery. The developers believe that the battery has the capability to last for three days in normal use. The smartphone comes in three color variants such as Sky Blue, Space Black and Pearl White.
The Shanghai-based developer of Jelly is currently raising funds from the very popular crowd-funding platform Kickstarter. With an initial $30,000 goal, the company has till date surpassed the milestone and has went on to acquire $845,000 pledged from close to 8,000 backers! In fact, it was reported that the company crossed its goal in just 57 minutes! If those stats aren't impressive, then we don't know what is.
The basic idea behind Jelly is very attractive and innovative; this is a phone meant for everyone. It could act as your secondary smartphone in quite a number of situations where it becomes inconvenient to carry your big chunky smartphone with you. With very interesting features and being high on innovation, Jelly has the capability to set new trends in the market.
Anyone interested to own such a smartphone can order it at a discount of $30 and can claim it at $79 right now. The release of the Jelly smartphone has been set in the month of August. Yes, it may not be an ideal phone for watching videos and playing games but it would be easy to carry and use one-handed, unlike the flagship devices of 6-inch screens. Both the Jelly and Jelly Pro feature a 8MP rear camera and 2MP front camera for those occasional snaps.
It would serve as a great smartphone for communication such as calls and messages. The phone would give access to Google Playstore, which means managing apps would be simple. Surely people see it to be very handy, as generally today, smartphones have become heavy and inconvenient to hold one handed. Customers can also get the extra battery for $9 and a case for $10.
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Statement from Don Brash re request for privacy
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 1:41 pm
Press Release: New Zealand National Party
Don Brash MP
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Statement from Don Brash
National Party Leader Don Brash advised today that he and Mrs Brash have been having some difficulties in their marriage and as a result he has taken leave for a couple of days to spend time with his family.
"Je Lan and I are working through these difficulties, and we are both committed to making our marriage work.
"As people will understand, this is a very difficult time for me and my family. I ask that the media respect our need for privacy."
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In general, when people think about Work In Process (WIP), an operation with an assembly line comes to mind. Certainly the image of an assembly line is accurate as far as it goes, but not all WIP scenarios are the kinds of tangible products and processes people normally think of. With WIP and creativity in mind, it is interesting to speculate how RFID might be used in current election operations to make them better. So let's see how this technology might be utilized.
It can be a challenge explaining the differences between certain types of RFID tags and labels. To help individuals understand more easily we have created our RFID Product Comparison Guides .
Our RFID Comparison Guides are broken down into three RFID product families: Universal RFID Tags, Access Control RFID Products, and our Standard RFID tags and labels.
One of the most common uses of RFID tags has been in commercial agriculture. RFID, however, is being used in all sorts of animal based venues and for all sorts of purposes to promote health and ecology.
RFID identification tags help preserve businesses by securing its assets and its relationships within the business and the world at large. It is one source of security for those in the trenches of the commercial world.


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Chapter #5 - Protection against Pegasus
Every year, governments, law enforcement agencies, militaries, and corporations invest billions of dollars into building and buying malicious spyware--software designed to silently infiltrate a user's device and allow attackers to view the contents without detection.
This year, the Pegasus Project revealed that users of this kind of spyware, known as Pegasus and built by the NSO group, had targeted the phones that belong to thousands of people in more than 50 countries, including business executives, politicians, journalists, and human rights activists.
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Roger Dingledine is president and co-founder of the Tor Project, a nonprofit that develops free and open source software to protect people from tracking, censorship, and surveillance online. He works with journalists and activists on many continents to help them understand and defend against the threats they face. Roger was chosen by the MIT Technology Review as one of its top 35 innovators under 35, he co-authored the Tor design paper that won the Usenix Security "Test of Time" award, and he has been recognized by Foreign Policy magazine as one of its top 100 global thinkers.
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Likhita works as a Researcher and Adviser for Amnesty International's Technology and Human Rights Programme. At present, she is involved in researching targeted surveillance and internet shutdowns. She has researched online hate speech against women and minority populations in India. Previously, she also researched and exposed challenges faced by human rights defenders in India and worked extensively on hate crimes in the country. Likhita holds a master's degree in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po.
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John Scott-Railton is a Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab (at The University of Toronto). His work focuses on technological threats in civil society, including targeted malware operations, cyber militias, and online disinformation. His greatest hits include a collaboration with colleague Bill Marczak that uncovered the first iPhone zero-day and remote jailbreak seen in the wild, as well as the use of Pegasus spyware to human rights defenders, journalists, and opposition figures in Mexico, the UAE, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. Other investigations with Citizen Lab colleagues include the first report of ISIS-led malware operations, and China's "Great Cannon," the Government of China's nation-scale DDoS attack. John has also investigated Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns, and the manipulation of news aggregators such as Google News. John has been a fellow at Google Ideas and Jigsaw at Alphabet. He graduated with a University of Chicago and a Masters from the University of Michigan. He is completing a Ph.D. at UCLA. Previously he founded The Voices Projects, collaborative information feeds that bypassed internet shutdowns in Libya and Egypt. John's work has been covered by Time Magazine, BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, and the New York Times.
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Hair is located on the second floor of the main store.
In other news, The All-Stars Fashion Fest is coming soon! Dilly Dolls, along with other awesome designers, will be taking up 9 full sims to benefit Relay for Life, so start saving up for nine days of fun and shopping!
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When God moves in a church, there are outward signs of what is occurring in the hearts and lives of those we're pouring into. And one of the most obvious, is tearful responses to the truth that is given in it's many forms. Have the kleenex handy!
When God is moving, or about to move in a church, He breaks the ground with new spiritual talent. God understands His church needs leaders and workers to hold the Kingdom harvest that He is about to unleash.
So watch and listen closely for others God is "planting" among you, even if they sound or look different than what you wanted or expected.
The fire and passion that accompanies a "God Vision" brings the sacrifice of time to the equation. There's generally not the option (nor should it be) to pay and staff all the work that needs to be done in a growing church.
Enthusiaism creates buy in to the point others are willing to serve and give of their time sacrificially because they see the manifestation of their labor not just the desired outcome.


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Guardian Life Insurance Company is a mutual life insurance company that merged with Berkshire Life Insurance Company in 2001 to increase its share of the disability income insurance market. Today, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America is a major player in the area of premium disability insurance products, which includes Group LTD policies (which are generally covered under ERISA) and private individual disability insurance.
Don't confuse Guardian Disability Insurance with Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies. They are two separate and distinct entities.
Guardian is known for offering a graded premium structure so that policy owners can select the level of coverage that suits their needs. When you see this option by disability companies selling to mid-market policy owners, it is a way to minimize costs for employees who purchase disability insurance as part of their employee benefits plan. For Guardian policy owners, the graded premium structure works for ultra-high income earners who may be insuring a lifestyle that depends upon a six-figure monthly income.
In the Individual disability insurance market, Guardian offers a comprehensive series of products including two well known ones, Provider Plus and the Provider Plus Limited. Provider Plus Limited is a less expensive policy than the Provider Plus, but offers the terms and provisions of a quality policy.
Both policies offer own occupation provisions, if the policy owner has limited their occupation solely to the performance of the material duties of their specific profession. Language specific to own occupation is a feature of this disability insurance policy, which is rare among disability insurance policies. The policies are also non-cancellable and guaranteed renewable to age 65 or 67, as long as premiums are paid on time. They are portable, which means that they can be taken with the owner if they change employers.
Another feature with a difference is the Residual Benefit Rider available on certain policies. If the policy owner suffers a loss of 15% or more of your income, Guardian will provide a benefit. Most disability insurance companies pay only at a 20% loss of income. This could be a significant feature to consider.
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Back up generators can supply emergency power to help keep important equipment running in a power outage.
It is very handy to know how much power certain appliances need as you do not want to blow up your generator especially when you need it the most.
The chart below contains examples of household appliances you can power with a portable generator. 1000 Watts = 1KvA.
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I believe traditional wealth management is broken – but I have a vision for the future standard of financial advice, and I am incredibly lucky to have found two partners who share that vision. Before I tell you how and why I joined Single Point, let me tell you a little about how I found my passion for financial planning.
I consider myself fortunate that I stumbled into my future career path at a relatively young age. As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison I majored in a CFP® Board registered program at a time when financial planning was emerging as the preferred core component of the financial advisory relationship. What I learned in my undergraduate coursework, and the subsequent years to follow, is that each client's financial situation is an intricate puzzle and every decision has a cascading effect on other areas of the client's financial picture.
I loved the analytical components of financial planning, but what ultimately made me realize this is the career I wanted to pursue was a suggested reading from my professor during an estate planning course at UW-Madison. The book, titled "Beyond the Grave" by Gerald and Jeffrey Condon, delved into the psychological and emotional aspects of leaving and inheriting money. In reading this book I realized that the planning relationship is about more than numbers, and that delivering the best results requires an empathetic advisor who has an innate understanding of the emotional stakes at-play which are unique to each client and family. There is no greater honor than being entrusted to help make meaningful decisions around accumulating or dispersing wealth and being able to provide peace of mind through decision and implementation support.
After graduating I immersed myself in the industry and landed with a nationally recognized firm where I gained valuable experience working with and learning from some of the best planners in the country. During that time I pursued the CFP® designation and, at age 25, became one of the youngest designees in the country. More recently, I worked for a firm structured as a multi-family office where I advised ultra-high net worth clientele on various financial planning disciplines with a focus around multi-generational wealth transfer strategies. I am thankful for these experiences as I learned an immense amount about planning and the advisory relationship in both roles and those opportunities ignited my interest in the broader industry.
In my quest to acquire more industry knowledge I learned quite a lot about the different channels of financial advice. Each channel held themselves out as the 'best' option, but all I saw at every turn was an inherent conflict of interest accentuated by sales personnel who were only concerned with getting new assets in the door to bill on with little regard to how those clients would be serviced. I wanted to break the mold of a model that I saw as outdated and provide an alternative to those who want to partner with an advisor to broaden the conversation beyond their investment portfolio in a truly all-inclusive, conflict-free relationship.
As Shaun referenced in his introductory blog, we initially met several years ago through an FPA pro-bono initiative. The first time we met outside of the pro-bono setting, we talked at length about our respective firms and our philosophies around the financial advisory business. I learned about his partnership with Rene and their vision for the growth of Single Point Partners. I distinctly recall speaking to my father after Shaun and I met saying, "I could see myself working with him down the road".
Fast forward to several months later, Shaun and Rene approached me about the opportunity to be a Personal CFO at Single Point Partners. In meeting with them, I was immediately impressed with their core values and ideologies, client-centric service model, fee structure, and thoughtfulness in answering the five pages worth of questions I had prepared. What intrigued me was the opportunity to have a seat at the table and an imprint in shaping a young firm to reflect what I see as the only way to provide unbiased financial advice. But in the end what sold me on the opportunity were the people I would be building that vision with. I wanted to be a part of the mission to transition Single Point from a practice to a business that disrupts the traditional wealth management model.
I joined Shaun, Rene, and Susan at Single Point because I believe in challenging the status quo of the wealth advisory business. I believe we have created a unique value proposition focused on attentive service and thorough advice in a day and age where most focus on scalability and profitability. I believe that every client we work with deserves the best advice and client experience. I believe in full transparency and a relationship built on mutual trust and respect. I believe in simplifying even the most complex wealth concepts because every client deserves to understand why I make a recommendation and how the strategy helps them achieve their goals. Above all else, I believe Single Point Partners is at the forefront of a much-needed industry revolution.
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Can you truly love another if you don't love yourself?
I was genuinely puzzled by this question, but over time, I've come to understand that we can't give what we don't have. Said another way, choosing love occurs from the inside out.
Loving oneself includes "self-care" like massages, quality time with loved ones, and sleep. We can learn to love ourselves through our relationship with God, a contemplative practice, therapy, or resilience that reveals our strength of heart through challenges.
But however we come to it, truly loving yourself means being your own steady, compassionate friend.
We must love ourselves first, and to love ourselves, we must be willing to see all of who we are – from the most celebrated strengths to the muck in dark, dusty corners. We must be willing to be with everything we find and bring love to it, if even for a moment.
Love is an intimate action. It's not a declaration, though it may start as that.
What have I learned about myself so far this year?
What am I not willing to see about myself?
In which relationships do I come forward and in which do I hide?
For what would I like to acknowledge or champion myself?
Perhaps there are other questions that may be revealed to you.
Then, create some time to fill your tanks. Go for a walk in nature, meditate and pray, or take a courageous action towards what matters most.
From this place of self-nourishment, show up to your date or to your evening alone time. Notice how the time you carved out earlier in the day affects you.
Because isn't it the truth? Whether you're being showered with gifts and taken to a 5-star restaurant or you're cuddling up in bed with a book on Valentine's Day, today is one of 365 this year in which we can build a sustainable and lasting love; and a love that sustains must start within.


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Viceland, Still Struggling After Four Years, Quietly Changes Its Name to Vice TV
An expanded hour-long live news series will return with the rebrand
The network formerly known as Viceland is now called Vice TV, but the company is trying to downplay the name change. VICE
Vice News Tonight, the nightly news program from Vice Media, will return to television on March 4 at 8 p.m. as an hour-long live news series, but the show won't air on Viceland. Instead, it will be broadcast on Vice TV, the newly rebranded version of the Viceland cable network.
In a press release Thursday, the company announced that Vice News Tonight, which had previously aired in a half-hour pre-taped format on Viceland, would now air in an expanded format on Vice TV. There was no indication of the name change in the release, and the company wouldn't say anything on the record about the rebrand.
The unexpected, unexplained name change is the latest unusual move from the unconventional cable channel formerly known as Viceland. The channel first premiered to basic cable in February 2016 as a joint venture between the digital media company Vice Media and A+E Networks—and made quite a splash.
At the time, Vice founder and then-CEO Shane Smith famously told The Hollywood Reporter, "12 months from now we'll be on the cover of Time magazine as the guys who brought millennials back to TV" with the network's programming line-up of irreverent reality series and documentaries. On the advertising side, Viceland had plans to run fewer ads and focus on native advertising opportunities.
Overall, though, the channel now known as Vice TV has struggled to catch on and never found its footing. The property brought in meager ratings following its launch and in the years since, and has seen a number of changes, reboots and restarts.
In 2018, its most buzzed-about show Desus and Mero hopped to Showtime. The following year, the network reconfigured its primetime lineup around a two-hour nightly live show, Vice Live—only to pull the plug a month and a half later.
Last August, the cable channel reportedly trimmed staff in a move to further streamline operations and get the company on a path toward profitability. (Those staff cuts came several months after Vice Media laid off about 10% of its workforce.)
Update: The company noted that Vice News has just hired more than 20 new staffers for its reporting and production teams.
In terms of prestige, Vice News Tonight has been something of a bright spot for the company, twice bringing in a record number of Emmy nominations when the daily newscast aired on HBO. But after seven years on the premium cable channel, HBO nonetheless decided not to renew the program last year.
The show relocated to Viceland in August, landing a primetime spot before getting the expanded hour-long live slot announced this week. (Meanwhile, Vice's weekly news series that also ran on HBO, Vice, will return to TV March 29, now airing on Showtime.)
In December, Vice Media president of global news and entertainment Jesse Angelo told the Hollywood Reporter that the channel was undergoing "an evolution, not a revolution" as it continued its pivot toward news content and away from lifestyle and entertainment programming.
The quiet rebrand for Viceland comes less than a year after Vice's digital properties went under a rebrand of their own. During that change, standalone brands like Motherboard and Noisey were brought under the vice.com umbrella as dedicated verticals, and other sections including Broadly, Vice Sports and Waypoint were retired. At the time, Vice said the move would help give advertisers a more unified offering and would help streamline the editorial structure of the company.


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Q: Django Filtering A Blog Based on Tags I'm trying to filter my blog based on tags. I've managed to work out how to display all the tags, however now I want the user to have the ability to click on a tag and bring up a filter list of blog posts based on that tag.
I'm getting an error:
ValueError invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'testtag'

url.py
urlpatterns = [
    # Examples: /blogs
    url(r'^tags$', 'blog.views.tags', name='tags'),
    url(r'^tags/(?P<blog_tagslug>[\w-]+)$', 'blog.views.tagslist', name='tagslist'),

views.py
def tags(request):
    blog_obj = Tag.objects.all()
    paginator = Paginator(blog_obj, 5)

    page = request.GET.get('page')

    try:
        blog_list = paginator.page(page)
    except PageNotAnInteger:
        # If page is not an integer, deliver first page.
        blog_list = paginator.page(1)
    except EmptyPage:
        # If page is out of range (e.g. 9999), deliver last page of results.
        blog_list = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)

    template_hash = {'blog_list':blog_list}
    return render(request,'blog/tags.html', template_hash)

def tagslist(request, blog_tagslug):
    #blog = Blog.objects.get(pk=blog_id)
    #blog = Tag.objects.all().filter(tagslug=blog_tagslug)
    blog = Blog.objects.all().filter(tags=blog_tagslug)

    paginator = Paginator(blog, 2)

    page = request.GET.get('page')

    try:
        blog_list = paginator.page(page)
    except PageNotAnInteger:
        # If page is not an integer, deliver first page.
        blog_list = paginator.page(1)
    except EmptyPage:
        # If page is out of range (e.g. 9999), deliver last page of results.
        blog_list = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)

    template_hash = {'blog_list':blog_list}
    return render(request,'blog/index.html', template_hash)

tags.html (works fine)

All Tags

{% if blog_list %}

    {% for blog in blog_list %}
        {{ blog.image.thumbnail.url }}

{{ blog.tagslug }}

        {{ blog.tags.all|join:", " }}

    {% endfor %}

{% else %}

No blogs are available.

{% endif %}

        {% if blog_list.has_previous %}
            previous
        {% endif %}

            Page {{ blog_list.number }} of {{ blog_list.paginator.num_pages }}.

        {% if blog_list.has_next %}
            next
        {% endif %}

tagslist.html (doesn't work gets error)

Blog Index

{% if blog_list %}

    {% for blog in blog_list %}
        {{ blog.image.thumbnail.url }}

{{ blog.blog_title }}

        {{ blog.tags.all|join:", " }}

    {% endfor %}

{% else %}

No blogs are available.

{% endif %}

        {% if blog_list.has_previous %}
            previous
        {% endif %}

            Page {{ blog_list.number }} of {{ blog_list.paginator.num_pages }}.

        {% if blog_list.has_next %}
            next
        {% endif %}

models.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.conf import settings

# Create your models here.

class Image(models.Model):
     name = models.CharField(max_length = 255)
     image = models.ImageField(upload_to="%Y/%m/%d",max_length=500,blank=True,null=True)
     thumbnail = models.ImageField(upload_to="%Y/%m/%d",max_length=500,blank=True,null=True)

     def __str__(self):
        return self.name

class Tag(models.Model):
    tagslug = models.SlugField(max_length=200, unique=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.tagslug

class Author(models.Model):
    authorname = models.CharField(max_length=200, null=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.authorname

class Blog(models.Model):
    blog_title = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    author = models.ForeignKey(Author)
    image = models.ForeignKey(Image)
    blog_content = models.TextField()
    slug = models.SlugField(max_length=200, unique=True)
    publish = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    tags = models.ManyToManyField(Tag)
    user_id = models.ForeignKey(User)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.blog_title

class Comment(models.Model):
    comment_content = models.TextField()
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    blog_id = models.ForeignKey(Blog)
    user_id = models.ForeignKey(User)

    def __str__(self):
        return '{0}, {1}'.format(self.comment_content, self.created)

A: The problem is that tags expect a list of Tag objects whereas you pass a string. You should filter blogs by tag's slug as follows:
blog = Blog.objects.all().filter(tags__tagslug=blog_tagslug)


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Man stabbed woman, then swung her son by his legs and smashed the baby's head against the walls
By Floyd Levinson Crime May 13, 2021
A mother and her baby boy made an astonishing recovery after being put through an absolute nightmare. Both the mother and baby were rescued after neighbors saw a kitchen knife, covered in blood, lying outside the house.
"We moved round to the front of the house and looked through the letter box," a neighbor said."The lady was lying in blood on the floor and we called the police."
"The woman was lying in blood on the floor to the side of the door in the corner," another local said. "A broken kitchen knife with blood on it was lying on the door mat…"
When police arrived at the house in Tipton, UK, they found Aamer trying to shield himself using the seven-month-old baby, who was badly injured from being smashed into the bedroom walls. Aamer tried to avoid being arrested, but the police managed to Taser him and take him into custody.
As details of the case came out, it was revealed that Aamer, a drug-crazed thug, had stabbed the 37-year-old mother repeatedly and left her unconscious in a pool of her own blood. Aamer then grabbed her son and swung him with his legs, letting the baby's head bang against the walls.
Soon after the police arrived at the scene, the mother and baby were rushed to the hospital.
"They brought the baby out first through the front door then carried the woman out through the back on a stretcher. She was in a bad way," one neighbor said.
The baby was in critical condition with head injuries, whereas the mother suffered stab wounds on her face, hands, and thigh. She was left with a fractured hand as well after the attack that took place in May 2020.
As investigations went on, Aamer was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and was found to be a regular cannabis user.
"This was dreadful incident with mother and son suffering terrible injuries, but remarkably the little boy has made an astonishing recovery, although he will still need to be monitored as he grows, to determine if there are any lasting effects," said Detective Constable Deb Bullman, from West Midlands Police Public Protection Unit. "His mother still has physical and mental scars for which she is receiving on-going support. Domestic abuse remains a key priority for us."
Talking about how the force has seen a spike in domestic abuse cases, the officer went on to say, "Since the start of the pandemic last year we have seen an increase of 17 percent in domestic-related incidents, but we have not reduced our response to victims. The force responds to more than 200 incidents per day and we remain committed to catching perpetrators."
"We urge anyone who is not feeling safe in their own home to seek help," Bullman added. About a year after the brutal attack, Aamer was sentenced to 12 years in prison. However, this was reduced to eight years after he pleaded guilty on a lesser charge. Following his release, Aamer will also serve four years on license.


The Orwells had been making music videos of their famously insane stage show, and decided they wanted a narrative for a change. I wrote and directed this, had a lot of fun making it, and the band had a good laugh trying something different. But this also had write-ups in Rolling Stone, Spin, Billboard, Pitchfork, and Consequence Of Sound among a number of publications.


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The Business of Sport
Why businesses need sport sponsorships to be fit for the future
Sporting chance: Nuala Walsh discusses business sponsorship in sport
8 May 2017 • 10:30am
Jim White
Sport has become an integral part of the company's marketing policy, but relationships begin long before the logo is printed on the front of a jersey.
Dating back to 1888, The British & Irish Lions have set out to challenge the great rugby nations of the Southern Hemisphere. The task; the finest players from the British Isles undertake when they set off for the rugby heartlands of New Zealand, South Africa or Australia has long been regarded as among the toughest assignments in sport.
Courage, commitment, creativity: the scarlet Lions jersey has come to embody the finest of competitive precepts. And when Sam Warburton leads out the Lions for the first test against the All Blacks in Eden Park, Auckland on 24th June, there on the legendary shirtfront will be the logo of Standard Life Investments.
For Standard Life Investments, this is an enormously significant partnership, one which has been many years in the making. As Nuala Walsh, the company's Global Head of Marketing and Client Relations, explains:
"The British & Irish Lions represent the pinnacle in team based achievement. They also have unique heritage and an emotional bind that supporters buy into. However fierce the competition, there is huge respect between the players. For us there could be no better fit."
The association with the Lions is not the only sporting connection the company has made. Standard Life Investments also backs The Ryder Cup, the biennial tournament between the top golfers of Europe and the United States. Standard Life has, too, a long-established relationship with Andy Murray, recently voted by readers of The Telegraph as the greatest ever British sports person. Sport, according to Ms Walsh "has the ability to reach a mass market in ways that other entities just simply cannot."
The statistics bear out her assertion. When a picture of a player in a Lions jersey appears on the front page of a newspaper this June, complete with Standard Life Investments branding, the suggestion from publishing sources is that it would cost more than £80,000 in advertising space purchase to achieve similar levels of exposure. And that is just one photograph.
Which is why sport has become such an integral part of the company's marketing policy. And as Standard Life Investments' sporting portfolio has grown in scale and reach, Ms Walsh has developed an unparalleled sense of how to make such associations work for both parties: the sponsor and the sport. Relationships begin, she says, long before the logo is printed on the front of a jersey.
"We think about sport sponsorship less in generic terms but more in terms of strategic and cultural fit. It is not about the sport per se but about what it represents. We have selected partnerships because of what they represent as individual properties as well as the general association that elite performance characterises. For example, The Ryder Cup is one of the few competitive events that transcends golf and plays to people's sense of identity. Few other sponsorships offer this. It appeals to both non-golfers as well as golf enthusiasts."
The Lions and The Ryder Cup share one significant quality: they are sporting properties whose value is enhanced by rarity. The Ryder Cup is played every other year, the Lions tour every four years and both dominate the national conversation in the months building up to being staged. When the action gets underway, the interest goes off the scale.
Here is an indication of the reach: since 2016, the Ryder Cup and the Lions have generated between them more than 110 million social impressions, 16 million videos with Standard Life Investments branding have been viewed, in total more than 41 million people reached.
"Our partnerships are intentionally synergistic," says Ms Walsh. "As they happen in different years, we use them to fuel each other and build authenticity in the sports space. Our content strategy then enables us to prolong engagement and serve different messaging."
Strategy is the key word. Standard Life Investments did not come to align with their chosen sports by chance. Ms Walsh's advice to any company is that research pays off.
"Audience fit matters - when we surveyed Telegraph readers and asked them which sports an investment brand should seek to be associated with, they scored golf and rugby as joint number one with tennis next so we feel confident these are the right sports for us," she says.
"Everything we do starts with the consumer. You can have the best creative, product or activation idea but if it's not connected to a palpable need, then it will negate returns."
Though she adds that there is more to proper alignment than merely choosing which sport tallies best with your customers' interests.
"As important are the right events within these sports. For instance, The Ryder Cup is unique in golf because of its team based format and the global nature of the event," she says.
"Ultimately, our investment business exists to reach clients and deliver the performance they expect. To do that in a globally competitive environment, the standard is constantly rising. As a result, the sponsorships we are linked to must also represent that high benchmark and fulfil commercial and ethical obligations."
This is a crucial caveat. While delivering unparalleled engagement and reach, some sport can also undeniably convey inappropriate and undermining messages. Whether it be drug-cheats, rule manipulators or those whose language in the heat of the contest requires the addition of an X certificate to any broadcast, brands can be tarnished by association with those who, in the pursuit of competitive advantage challenge the boundaries of integrity.
"There is always a degree of risk attached to elite sport where fierce competition can be pushed too far," Ms Walsh admits. "But in golf, rugby and tennis the culture and behaviour of participants is high, and this links to our own philosophy of always adopting a high code of conduct and doing what is right for our clients."
Take the relationship the company has with the Wimbledon champion. Ms Walsh suggests he exudes a potent symbolism which tallies perfectly with her company's values of commitment to excellence and teamwork.
"We have a partnership with Andy Murray who represents the essence of delivering potential. As well as talent, hard work, and perseverance, having the right team behind you is also essential to unlocking potential."
For the benefit of those attending the Telegraph Business of Sport 2017 conference, Ms Walsh has distilled her experience into a five point plan. Any company seeking to make an association with a sport should ask itself the following questions, she says.
Does this fit with our brand ethos?
Does it deliver profile and associations that will build our brand globally?
Is it relevant and engaging for our clients and our people?
Does it represent value for money vs. other marketing vehicles?
Is this a long term strategic partnership?
These are questions, she adds, that should come as no surprise to sporting bodies.
"Businesses and rights holders have objectives in common and both need to understand that better," she suggests.
In particular there needs to be a mutual recognition of issues like the delivery of Return on Investment, Consumer/Fanbase Management, Risk and Reputation Management, Performance and Talent Management and Ethical Standards and Governance. Her advice to sports seeking a long-term partnership with a corporate backer is this:
"Understand our business, industry and client base. Avoid a vanilla set of rights such as branding rights and hospitality packages. These are given. Of more interest is how to work together to engage audiences."
Here, she says, things are constantly evolving. Once the only issue was putting a company name to an event. Now the opportunities are far more extensive and exciting, embracing the changing manner in which sport is consumed. Not least via social media.
"Content management is the new frontier for sponsorship and a complex and data-rich landscape," she says. "There is a need to invest in understanding how best to promote content and achieve saliency without saturation. We believe in focusing on the medium as well as on the stories we tell."
The value of an investment is not guaranteed and can go down as well as up. An investor may get back less than they invested.
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Q: FlexiGrid "No Items", response clearly shows data Table is visible, looks fine, column headers show up, but after a split second of "processing, please wait..."  the status goes to "No Items".  Inspecting the response in the DOM shows the data is being returned properly from the web service, formatted as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<MyDataClass xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
  <Page>1</Page>
  <Rows>
    <MyDataRow>
      <request_id>13073</request_id>
      <status>501</status>
      <req_by_user_id>herbjm</req_by_user_id>
    </MyDataRow>
    ...
    ....
  </Rows>
</MyDataClass>

Here is the flexigrid javascript in question:
$('#report').flexigrid({
    url: 'reportdata.asmx/rptPendingServerRequestsFlexi',
    dataType: 'xml',
    colModel: [
        { display: 'ID', name: 'request_id', width: 40, sortable: true, align: 'center' },
        { display: 'Status', name: 'status', width: 180, sortable: true, align: 'left' },
        { display: 'Requested By', name: 'req_by_user_id', width: 120, sortable: true, align: 'left' }
    ],
    searchitems: [
        { display: 'ID', name: 'request_id' },
        { display: 'Status', name: 'status', isdefault: true },
        { display: 'Requested By', name: 'req_by_user_id' }
    ],
    sortname: "request_id",
    sortorder: "desc",
    usepager: false,
    title: 'Server Requests',
    useRp: false,
    rp: 30,
    showTableToggleBtn: false,
    singleSelect: true
});

And for bonus points, how can I show the footer even if paging is diabled?
UPDATE: I inspected the DOM for the flexigrid demo and here is how their returned XML is formatted:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rows>
    <page>1</page>
    <total>239</total>
    <row id='1'>
        <cell>1</cell>
        <cell>501</cell>
        <cell>Steve</cell>
    </row>
    <row id='2'>
        <cell>2</cell>
        <cell>501</cell>
        <cell>Fred</cell>
    </row>
</rows>

I'm guessing that's why it's not working?  To see how I'm building the response, please see this question: vb.net return json object with multiple types?

A: According to various information I have found here and a couple of other locations, flexigrid requires the XML to have specific format:
rows - the row definition
  page - the current page number
  total - the total count of rows in this collection
  row - the row, with a unique property called id
    cell - each row must contain cells in the order that they are displayed on the grid

Since the MyDataClass was generated as a result of your previous question, here are updated versions of those classes that will produce the desired output:
<XmlType("rows")> _
Public Class MyDataClass

    <XmlElement("page")> _
    Public Property Page As Integer

    <XmlElement("total")> _
    Public ReadOnly Property Total As Integer
        Get
            If Me.Rows IsNot Nothing Then
                Return Me.Rows.Count
            Else
                Return 0
            End If
        End Get
    End Property
    <XmlElement("row")> _
    Public Property Rows As List(Of MyDataRow)

    ' Parameterless constructor to support serialization.
    Public Sub New()
        Me.Rows = New List(Of MyDataRow)
    End Sub
    Public Sub New(wPage As Integer, ds As DataSet)
        Me.New()

        Me.Page = wPage

        For Each oRow As DataRow In ds.Tables(0).Rows
            Dim oMyRow As New MyDataRow

            oMyRow.Id = CInt(oRow("id"))
            oMyRow.Name = CStr(oRow("Name"))

            Me.Rows.Add(oMyRow)
        Next

    End Sub
End Class

<XmlType("row")> _
Public Class MyDataRow
    <XmlAttribute("id")> _
    Public Property Id As Integer

    Private m_cCells As List(Of MyDataCell)

    <XmlIgnore()> _
    Public WriteOnly Property Name As String
        Set(value As String)
            Me.AddCell("Name", value)
        End Set
    End Property

    <XmlElement("cell")> _
    Public ReadOnly Property Cells As List(Of MyDataCell)
        Get
            Return m_cCells
        End Get
    End Property

    ' Parameterless constructor to support serialization
    Public Sub New()
        m_cCells = New List(Of MyDataCell)
    End Sub

    Public Sub AddCell(sCellName As String, sCellValue As String)
        m_cCells.Add(New MyDataCell(sCellName, sCellValue))
    End Sub
End Class

Public Class MyDataCell
    <XmlIgnore()> _
    Public Property Name As String
    <XmlText()> _
    Public Property Value As String

    ' Parameterless constructor to support serialization
    Public Sub New()

    End Sub
    Public Sub New(sCellName As String, sCellValue As String)
        Me.New()
        Me.Name = sCellName
        Me.Value = sCellValue
    End Sub
End Class

A: Guys have a look of this demo of flexiuigrid
http://flexidemo.ranjitjena.com/