#RiseUpOctober took to the streets of New York City for "3 Days of Mass Resistance" at the end of last week, culminating in a giant march through Manhattan on Saturday. Instead of focusing on the campaign and bringing attention to the problems it was trying to highlight, the media and police in New York have sweepingly devoted all their attention towards the participation of Quentin Tarantino and the subsequent boycott of his films by New York's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
Last week, Randolph Holder, a 33-year old African American NYPD police officer, was murdered after responding to a 911 call in East Harlem, according to the New York Post. His death marked the fourth time the department lost one of their own while on duty since last Christmas. Therefore, the march was criticized through the frame of coming just days after an officer was murdered.
The Officer Down Memorial Page logs the number of police killed in the line of duty across the country. That number currently sits at 101, with Holder being the latest. The Counted, a project by the Guardian, currently lists 936 people who have been killed by police in the United States.
The New York Post ran with the headline "Protesters flip off NYPD days after cop slay," along with a photo of one protester flipping off a detail officer in front of a Bed Bath & Beyond. The Post's article also includes a quote from Tarantino, in which he says that the killing of Holder was also a tragedy.
But it must be stressed that Tarantino's involvement is not important at all. He is just one body with a larger voice due to his privilege as a celebrity. Covering him and Lynch shows just how painfully unfocused the media is when covering #BlackLivesMatter and #RiseUpOctober protests. The voices of two white men are being elevated over the passionate, peaceful voices of hundreds if not thousands of black protesters.
Fox News, The Guardian, TIME, Vanity Fair, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, NBC News, Deadline, Washington Times, Daily Caller, Mic, The Independent and, according to Google News "213 more articles," all focus on Tarantino.
On Friday, protesters successfully shut down access to Rikers Island for a short time before arrests were made. RT reported that "a dozen" were arrested during the action, which aimed to bring attention to the horrible treatment of inmates at the correctional facility.
Other than RT, a search reveals that only News 12 Bronx also reported the action, which came days after a federal judge called for the implementation of intense reform of the facility's operations. U.S. District Judge Loretta Swain approved a monitoring system, 7,800 cameras, body cameras, and better training and oversight to make sure inmates were being treated morally.
According to RT, police started making arrests around 6 p.m., with protesters taking to Twitter to let those following know that the arrests were violent.
But that shouldn't be the focal point, either.
If the stories weren't about Tarantino, they were about the arrests; not about the amount of people who showed up or the pain that family members, who were both attended spoke, wish no one else should have to endure. In fact, most stories seem to gloss over the point that during the three days, 100 members of families who have lost loved ones had the courage to speak, march, and protest.
When the media focuses exclusively on violence and celebrities, ordinary people lose their voice. Thousands marched, but only eleven were worthy of a passing mention in many media outlets. As long as this continues to be the case, those who do not already have the megaphone of celebrity status will be forced to choose between violence and violent arrests or continued public ignorance of the issues that threaten their communities. Nothing good can come of this.
Carl Dix and Dr. Cornel West posted on the #RiseUpOctober website stating that the movement must continue.
The spirit of Rise Up must go forward—— and that spirit needs to be made manifest in STRUGGLE and ORGANIZATION. Be out there on November 22, the anniversary of Tamir Rice's murder. Be out there November 27, to actively boycott Black Friday. Be out there December 3, one year after the cops who murdered Eric Garner were exonerated. Be out there, making a powerful force of the voices of the relatives of those murdered by police.
Inspired to do something? We've found people who are working on this that could use your help!
Description: Organization site for the #RiseUpOctober demonstrations. Volunteer, educate yourself, or donate.
Description: The Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) exists to stop the slow genocide of mass incarceration and all its consequences; racial profiling, a legal system that disproportionately impacts Blacks and Latinos, the police murder of our children, the criminalization of a generation, discrimination, widespread torture in prisons and treating those formerly incarcerated as less than full human beings.
Ethan Long is a journalist based out of Boston, MA.


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Q: Lottery exam question I am studying a past examination paper however I do not have the answers to this paper so I can't check if I am right or wrong. I have just reached a section on combinatorics and counting and I have come across a few troubling questions.
The lottery rules state that you choose five different numbers in the range 1 to 53 and write them in an order of your choice on an entry form.

Question a) asks : On a lottery day, a machine selects ten balls from a sphere containing 53 balls numbered 1 to 53 and arranges them in a row. How many different outcomes can this process have? (write answer to 2 significant figures in scientific notation)

My answer to this was $53 \choose 10$ which is $1.9 \times 10^{10}$
I used choose (binomial coefficient) because the order doesnt matter and there not repetitions.
part b) to this question however, Im not sure how to calculate:

Part (b) asks : You win prize 1 if the first five balls selected by the machine match the five numbers you chose, and are arranged in the order you wrote them on your entry form. In how many of the outcomes of part (a) do you win prize 1? (You can write your answer in scientific notification and to 2 significant figures)'

I started by calculating the number of permutations you can actually have of choosing 5 lottery numbers which was 53!. My problem from here is that I don't know where else to start calculating and I'm really not sure if I have even started to calculate this in the right way? Please could someone explain to me the best way of doing this in as much detail as they can so that I can learn from this?

A: In part (a) the order does matter: this is indicated by the statement that the balls are arranged in a row. If they're in a row, they automatically have an order. Thus, the correct answer is
$$53\cdot52\cdot\ldots\cdot44=\frac{53!}{43!}=\binom{53}{10}\cdot 10!\approx 7.1\times 10^{16}\;.$$
For (b), we'll count the winning outcomes. There is only one winning choice for the first ball. In fact, there's only one winning choice for each of the first five balls. The sixth ball drawn can be any of the remaining $53-5=48$ balls, the seventh can be any of the $47$ balls still left, and so on, so there are
$$1^5\cdot48\cdot47\cdot46\cdot45\cdot44=205,476,480$$
winning outcomes.

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NIH funds research to explore a cell communication process
Posted by: Exosome RNA Administrator in Grants-Funding, Headlines August 14, 2013	0
Researchers will investigate the emerging field of extracellular RNA and its role in human health conditions
The National Institutes of Health announced today it will award $17 million this year for 24 research projects designed to improve scientists' understanding of a newly discovered type of cell-to-cell communication based on extracellular (outside the cell) RNA, also called exRNA. Through these awards, scientists will explore basic exRNA biology and develop tools and technologies that apply new knowledge about exRNA to the research, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. To unlock the potential of this new scientific field, the awarded research projects will address conditions in which exRNA could play a role, including many types of cancer, bone marrow disorders, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.
The collaborative, cross-cutting Extracellular RNA Communication program is supported by the NIH Common Fund and led by a trans-NIH team that includes the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS); National Cancer Institute (NCI); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
Extracellular RNAs, or ExRNAs, travel in body fluids including fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, urine, and blood. Credit: NIH Common Fund. View larger.
"We have a tremendous opportunity to explore a recently discovered novel way that cells communicate," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "Expanding our understanding of this emerging scientific field could help us determine the role extracellular RNA plays in health and disease, and unlocking its mysteries may provide our nation's scientists with new tools to better diagnose and treat a wide range of diseases."
Scientists think exRNA can regulate many functions in the body and may have an important role in a variety of diseases, but they still know very little about basic exRNA biology. Most RNA works inside cells to translate genes into proteins that are necessary for organisms to function. Other types of RNA control which proteins and the amount of those proteins the cells make. Until recently, scientists believed RNA worked mostly inside the cell that produced it. Now, recent findings show cells can release RNA in the form of exRNA to travel through body fluids and affect other cells. ExRNA can act as a signaling molecule, communicating with other cells and carrying information from cell to cell throughout the body.
Researchers hope to use some kinds of exRNA as biomarkers, or indicators of the presence, absence or stage of a disease. These biomarkers may enable scientists to understand and diagnose diseases earlier and more effectively. Scientists also will use exRNA to develop molecular treatments for diseases.
"To harness exRNA's enormous potential for diagnostics and therapeutics in a broad range of diseases, we first need to understand more about different types of exRNA, how cells make and release it, how it travels through the body, how it targets and affects specific cells, and how the amount and type of exRNA can change in disease," said James Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, which oversees the NIH Common Fund. "Awards in this exciting new field will help advance our collective understanding of exRNA communication and will enable research in many biomedical research fields."
Multidisciplinary teams of investigators will carry out research projects in a number of critical scientific areas. NCATS will administer 18 awards through which researchers will develop biomarkers from exRNA and design new ways to use exRNA in treatments. NCI will oversee five projects that address how cells make and release exRNA (biogenesis), how and where exRNA travels through body fluids to other cells (biodistribution), how cells take in exRNA that is traveling through body fluids (uptake), and how exRNA changes the function of cells (effector functions). NIDA will support a project to develop a Data Management and Resource Repository that will house all of the data generated by these projects, including a public ExRNA Atlas website to serve as a community-wide resource for exRNA research standards, protocols, data, tools and technology. Scientists working on these projects will form an ExRNA Consortium to collaborate, share information, and spread knowledge to the larger scientific community and public.
"NCATS develops, demonstrates and disseminates new technologies that catalyze improvements in human health" said NCATS Director Christopher P. Austin, M.D. "These awards epitomize that mission, delving into a brand new area of science to discover new targets for interventions, diagnostics, biomarkers and therapeutics — all of which will speed the path from discovery to improved health."
The 24 awards are milestone-driven cooperative agreements. Individual projects will be supported for up to five years, except for the Data Management and Resource Repository, which could be supported longer. To learn more about the research projects, visit http://commonfund.nih.gov/exrna/fundedresearch.
Later this year, NIH plans to issue a request for applications to develop an exRNA reference profile, which is a catalog of the types of exRNA found in various body fluids from healthy humans. NHLBI will lead this effort to enable studies on how exRNA profiles of people with diseases differ from those of healthy people.
For more information about the ExRNA Communication program, visit http://commonfund.nih.gov/exrna.
The NIH Common Fund encourages collaboration and supports a series of exceptionally high-impact, trans-NIH programs. Common Fund programs are designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single NIH Institute or Center could tackle alone, but that the agency as a whole can address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research. Additional information about the NIH Common Fund can be found at http://commonfund.nih.gov.
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is a distinctly different entity in the research ecosystem. Rather than targeting a particular disease or fundamental science, NCATS focuses on what is common across diseases and the translational process. The Center emphasizes innovation and deliverables, relying on the power of data and new technologies to develop, demonstrate and disseminate improvements in translational science that bring about tangible improvements in human health. For more information, visit www.ncats.nih.gov.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) leads the National Cancer Program and the NIH effort to dramatically reduce the prevalence of cancer and improve the lives of cancer patients and their families through research into prevention and cancer biology, the development of new interventions, and the training and mentoring of new researchers. For more information about cancer, please visit the NCI website at http://www.cancer.gov or call NCI's Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).
About the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Part of the NIH, the NHLBI plans, conducts, and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disorders. The Institute also administers national health education campaigns on women and heart disease, healthy weight for children, and other topics. NHLBI press releases and other materials are available online at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIDA supports most of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. The Institute carries out a large variety of programs to inform policy and improve practice. Fact sheets on the health effects of drugs of abuse and information on NIDA research and other activities can be found on the NIDA home page at www.drugabuse.gov, which now is compatible with your smartphone, iPad or tablet.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is the nation's leading funder of research on the brain and nervous system. The NINDS mission is to reduce the burden of neurological disease — a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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UAB researcher wins grant to develop the first exosomes-facilitated targeted therapy for neuroendocrine cancers
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation awards $766,000 to Carmine Inc to test use of extracellular vesicles in its non-viral gene therapy program
Binghamton researcher awarded $2.4M to develop liquid biopsy of solitary pulmonary nodule with extracellular vesicles
"New innovator" awarded $2.2M to develop cephalopod-inspired methods and technologies for controlling cell-to-cell communication
Therapeutic Solutions International Utilizes Mesenchymal Stem Cell Exosomes to Effectively Suppress Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Production
Researchers developing stable cell line for production of exosomes for vaccine development

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Episode 7: Daveed and Cameron
Member of CAC Board of Directors
Actor, Writer, Rapper, and Producer
Cameron Schmidt-Temple
College Adviser Fellow
Nicole Hurd: Hi everybody! Welcome back to the Knowledge for College podcast. I have two very special people with me today. As you know, this is the College Advising Corps' podcast to bring light and love into the world, to bring some practical advice into the world, and to amplify voices. I can't imagine two better voices to amplify than the two gentlemen we have on today.
Real quickly, when I was thinking about how to introduce them and what we want to talk about today, I was thinking about—since we're in an election year—when did I get the courage to start using my voice? These two gentlemen have a lot of courage and use their voice in ways that inspire me. I will tell you, it's been a hard COVID year, and I will tell you, I would not have made it through the summer without Daveed. He was my Zoom partner and kept a lot of light and love going on in my life this summer. And whenever I feel like I can't do something, I think of Cam because Cam inspires me all the time. So, you're about to meet two people who inspire me.
Again, I thought about when I started using my voice. It was in fifth grade. It was before these two gentlemen were born actually. 1980 election. I remember this: in my fifth-grade class, I had to be one of the two candidates. I will not tell you which one it was, but I had to stand up and be that candidate. And I think there were like 30 kids in my class and I got 29 votes and I knew that I could use my voice. So, this all started in fifth grade for me.
But I want to ask these two great men, when did they start using their voice? So, everybody welcome to Daveed and Cam, our two Advising Corps family members. Thanks for both of you for joining us today.
Daveed, when did you start using your voice?
Daveed Diggs: A pretty similar story. In fourth grade, I think. I don't even know when that was. That would have been '91, '92? My teacher, Ms. Angemen, I still remember, used to make everybody in the class memorize and recite these poems once a week. So once a week, she would hand out a poem. Everybody had to memorize it. Then everybody had to recite the same poem. Incredibly useful exercise for my life as it would turn out, but so boring to listen to 30 kids recite the same poem. And one time I just decided I was going to act it out.
I don't even remember what that meant, and I don't remember what poem it was, but I got up and I did something while I was saying it and everybody laughed when I wanted them to laugh. I was a very shy kid and so I don't know what really possessed me to do this, but it was the most powerful I'd ever felt because it was causing effect. I wanted a thing to happen and I did this thing and it happened to a bunch of people all at once. And I still remember what that feels like, and that's still kind of the reason I've been chasing this, the reason I still do that.
Nicole Hurd: So Cam, you're an adviser. You're in your second year. It takes a lot of courage to be an adviser. You're calling, texting families and parents and students. When did you start using your voice, Cam?
Cam: Honestly, for me, I feel like that's still in development, right? That's still in progress. I think we're still trying to find the confidence every day to make sure that we can use our voice as much as possible.
I think that the thing that makes me think of one of the first times… I was pretty introverted all the way up probably until community college. And I remember in community college, that's really when I started learning about just issues going on in life. I think for a long time I was very much in this place of life is just life, it is what it is. I haven't been outside of my own community so I don't really know too much else, and I started to really learn about inequities and stuff like that.
Shout out to the Umoja Program at DVC. We watched 13th, the documentary, and that really didn't come out that long ago, right? And so again, it's a development process. But me and a group of people watched 13th, and from that conversation we all had a circle and we kind of debriefed about the film. And from that conversation came the founding of this club called the Men of Color Association at DVC.
And so, I think for me that was one of the first times where I kind of went from "What am I doing with my life?" and kind of very much thinking on this individualistic level to what does my community need and what do other folks need for us all to succeed. And so, I was the vice president of that club, co-founder of that club, and then went on to do more activist-like stuff throughout my life and trying to do the same thing now. So I think that was probably the point in my life that actually got me probably to where I am today.
Nicole Hurd: Cam, that's incredibly inspiring. I'll use this word for myself, but I think all three of us now have confessed we've been introverted. I was a very shy, awkward kid and did not want to be kind of out there, but then like you said, I got to see people react to this voice and I thought, "Wow, I better use this."
Daveed, you're at a point now where a lot of people are listening to your voice. So again, you've got decisions to make about when you use it. You obviously made a decision to join the College Advising Corps family. How do you think about using your voice now that you know that people are listening? Has it changed at all?
Daveed Diggs: It's really interesting hearing Cam talk about sort of his journey with becoming a public-facing person. Cam's an activist first and an artist by extension of that, right? Because you have to be in order to stand up in front of people and move them. And I'm the other way around. I'm an artist first and happened to have like an activist sensibility in some way or happened to have realized that some of what I do can be useful towards activist purposes. But the complication about that is that my voice is sort of intimately tied up with my career, and so there are all kinds of… Right now, I'm at a point where I am very fortunate; I'm sort of in rarified artist air where I can pick and choose things that I do. I don't have to say yes to anything that hands me a check. The flip side of that is that now it means something when I say yes to something, right?
So, it gets complicated because the fact that I am supporting something says something. Enough people listen to what I'm saying now that having my voice or name attached to something means something. And I get a lot of offers from a lot of places in those directions and some of them are offering tons of money. So, it's always like a balancing act of: What am I sacrificing in order to support this thing? What is the thing I'm supporting actually promote? And then what am I getting back from it? And what does that do for my family? Or what does that allow me to do in the future?
Something like College Advising Corps is an easy yes because our goals line up so much and because I'm a product of a lot of people who are the same kind of carrying forward thinking and encouraging of students that you are, Nicole. So, it was a really easy thing to get behind an organization that I believe in and where I can see all of the good that it's doing. CAC is one of the things that lending my voice to is sort of a no-brainer in any way that I can be useful because I think the organization is doing great work and so I only get positive things back from that, right?
Nicole Hurd: So Cam, let's talk about your story and using your voice. Now you're actually actively talking to advisers, talking to families. I know you've got an event this evening with families. What do you want them to hear in this time of disruption? What do you want them to take away from you as you think about using your voice for this college access work and thinking about advancing opportunity for thousands of young people?
Cam: [00:09:57] Yeah, that's a super deep question. Especially for parents and students, one of the biggest things I try to convey is that their student and the students themselves, they have an enormous amount of potential, and I think that's because we just don't get that messaging all the time from a lot of different places. And it's actually crazy how much faces will light up or just be surprised when you tell them, "Oh, you can go to college," or not even necessarily just college, but just, "You have the potential to do so much," because I just don't think that they necessarily hear those things as much, right?
And for parents, it's great for them to hear, "I am here for your student. Parents or guardians, I am the person who is advocating for them." [It's] more than just they're on my roster. I very much care about each one of these students.
And so I think especially in a time like this when we're talking about pandemic, we're talking about the Movement for Black Lives, and we're talking about just things coming up and finally having the systems of oppression actually being put to the forefront because of all of the backlash that it's actually getting from certain administrations, right?
I think that that is very good to hear right now. It's like, "Okay, there is somebody in my child's life," or, "There's somebody in my life that believes in me and that very much is rooting for me." But it's not only "rooting for me," but it's "going to push me to do this thing that I want to do," and it's "making me believe I can do." Because they know they have the potential. It's just, are they confident enough to continue with it and to actually go for it? So yeah, that's the messages that I really want them to hear.
Nicole Hurd: Cam, this is why when I want to be inspired, I think about you and Daveed. Because you both just… The light and love, you can just feel it radiating from both of you.
And I want to point this out: I do think place matters. I'm a big believer that place matters and it's not a coincidence that both of you are from the Bay Area. I frankly claim the Bay Area because I was born there and then my parents made the tragic decision to leave. I will claim the Bay whenever I can. But there's something very Bay about both of you in terms of, I think there's a sense that Bay people tend to be brilliant and humble at the same time. They tend to have this incredible ability to change the world and there's just something to it. There's also a lot of gentrification, a lot of important things going on in the Bay Area. And so Cam, you're in Antioch doing this advising. Daveed, I know your heart is still very much in the Bay Area.
Can you both talk about why this work matters and also, what the Bay Area, what does place mean to both of you? What does home mean to both of you?
Daveed, you want to go first?
Daveed Diggs: I mean, I think that thing that I certainly recognize in Cam—I say this all the time about the Bay Area—that virtuosity is treated as commonplace. That's what I grew up around. I grew up around like people who are still the most incredible artists and thinkers in the world as far as I'm concerned. And it was always just like, "Yeah, that's how you supposed to be. You're from here. This is what you do. Of course you're great at it."
I cite a good friend of mine, Ambrose Akinmusire, all the time, who is inarguably one of the greatest trumpet players in the world. Won the Monk Competition at 29 years old, signed to Blue Note, and he's now composing for our TV show actually, which I'm so thrilled about. But he told me 10 years ago, 15 years ago, maybe. I was hanging out with him and I was like, "I hope to be as good at anything one day as you are at playing the trumpet." And he said, "Aim higher." He was like, "I'm good at playing the trumpet because I practice playing the trumpet all the time. I'm supposed to be good at this, you know?"
And that's Bay shit to me. That's like, if this is what you do, you should do it great. And so, I grew up around a lot of people who did what they did really, really well and didn't expect anything back from that. That's just what you do. And I think that permeates through everything. So yeah, that sense of place for me is a really important one.
And what's interesting about it in response to gentrification is it becomes sort of a memory play, right? Like the Oakland that I grew up in doesn't exist anymore except in my head, but it's so important in my head. And there's a set of core values that exist, that exude from it, that I think a lot of us of my generation are hoping to figure out ways to pump back into the Oakland that exists now and to kind of recreate at least the energy and spirit and feeling of protection that the Oakland we grew up in offered.
So yeah, I'm mostly interested to hear kind of how Cam thinks about this as someone a little bit younger than me. And also, the way that communities have played out in the Bay Area—I don't know where your peoples are from, Cam—but everybody I know in Antioch used to live in Oakland.
Cam: That's how it goes.
Daveed Diggs: Right? Because you end up moving out to the outskirts. So now those communities that we didn't go out to very much, that actually is where the cultural centers are and where it's sort of the heart of this kind of Bay Area that I grew up in is now moved out to places like Antioch.
Cam: Yeah, definitely. And I can definitely attest to that. I grew up in the flatlands of Oakland. I grew up in East Oakland before moving out right there in 2008, when so many other people came out to Antioch, right? And I think, just to go back to Nicole's point, to both of your points really, it's so much genuine but so much unapologeticness that comes with this and that's something that I will always embody. There's very much a balance between like living this quote, unquote, professional lifestyle, but also maintaining yourself and people knowing, "Yeah, he's from Oakland." You know what I'm saying? That's something that we're always going to feel because of that unapologetic-ness, but also trying to be as genuine as possible and just help as many people as possible.
The legacy of Oakland is that I think. And the Bay Area really. And so, it's crazy to me because I have so many friends out here and I grew up with so many people out here. Grandmas. My grandma still lives in Oakland. We have people out there. But Antioch and Pittsburg and those kinds of things are very much starting to look at what like old Oakland, what old Richmond, look like.
But nevertheless, like we said, those things don't leave you. Those days don't leave your parents. Those things don't leave the people around you. So, it's a legacy that you carry, but it's also a legacy that you put into your work. We see that every day with Daveed as an artist, right? He's super unapologetic about where I am from. You're gonna know where I'm from, right? I'm the same way. You're going to know exactly.
And I do that with my students. You're going to know exactly where I come from and the communities that I come from. Because professionalism to me, I put that to the side because at the end of the day, it's a real connection. And you need to know where I'm from in order for us to connect, because you need to know that I've been where you've been. I am you really in reality, right? So, I think that plays a part in our lives, in our work, and those things aren't separated. They're very much the same thing.
Daveed Diggs: I'm just going to piggyback on that right quick. That's super important I think for young people. It was for me, and I find this in the work I do with young people too. Like an acknowledgement and a deep desire to understand where they are from and to value that, 'cause your world especially if you're… We couldn't afford to go on long family trips or vacations or anything when I was a kid, so my world was relatively small. 'Til I started running track, I never traveled really outside of the Bay Area.
So, valuing a place that you are from is super important. And the thing about the Bay Area is, all the rappers who I admired were from the city, the same city that I lived in, and I didn't know that they weren't as famous as everybody else. 'Cause there was like this… You know what I'm saying? So, I was totally starstruck trying to talk to the Gift of Gab in Amoeba Records every Tuesday 'cause he was also at the record store every Tuesday. You know what I'm saying? I didn't know that that guy wasn't as famous as Jay-Z. You couldn't tell me that. I listened to his music way more.
I know, Cam, you've got a lot of great artists at your school too. I know this because I've been watching the dailies and stuff. And supporting those scenes, those kinds of creative movements that take place from a young age in a particular place and honoring those as if they are the biggest thing in the world. I find that kind of thing really important. And particularly for young people, because you have to value the beginnings of it.
I was talking to Ethan Hawke the other day, and he's been famous for a long time, right? He was talking about some of the mistakes he made when he was younger, when he was like 18 and in the public eye. And we were talking about this sort of necessary hubris in a certain way, as a young person doing whatever you're doing. You're only going to keep doing it if you get some sort of positive reinforcement for it and if you think that it at least has the potential to be really great, whatever that is.
And so, I find it really important to encourage that for young people. Whether or not it's great right now, the potential for greatness is there and that's what keeps you going. Then a few years later, you can add in the humility that comes along with that. The world has no problem crushing your dreams. We don't need to assist in that. The actual more difficult thing is to realize that the dream is what keeps you working at the thing and that's what actually makes you great at the thing, right?
Nicole Hurd: Part of this podcast is to give advice to students and advisers and lift them up. And so Daveed and Cam, as we get short on time here, let's talk about what's the one thing you want—2020 has been a difficult year—what's the one thing that you would say to a student right now or to an adviser right now to lift them up?
Daveed Diggs: I would say that your success in making it through this moment, it's going to put a ton of perspective on things later in life. It is unprecedented what we're going through, I think. Everything's going to be different after it, but because of your unique positioning in it being a student right now, being someone who is sort of trying to figure things out and coming into their own right now, you're actually going to be more equipped to deal with the future than I think the rest of us are. Because that's what this time in your life is. It is about developing tools for the future. I've already developed my tools and they are irrelevant for the moment that we're in. Whereas you're creating a brand-new toolbox in a way that we haven't seen before.
So, I hope you are encouraged by that. It sounds exhausting but the flip of that is that really, those of us who are older are going to be turning to you for advice I think, if we're smart. We're going to be looking to you to tell us how to really navigate the future of things, because we didn't learn how to. We didn't come up in this time. We didn't know how to deal with it. And you did.
Metacognition is a term I learned in college. That's a very Brown University-ass term that is not really worth getting into but think about what you're thinking. Pay attention to the different ways that you are thinking right now and sort of just take note of them because I'm going to be mining them from you in the near future. I need to know how you think right now. It's important.
Cam: Yeah, and I'll piggyback off of that. Perseverance right now is definitely what we all want to see. I think, like Daveed said, getting through this moment is going to… Really, if you can get through this right now, you're going to be able to get through anything.
At the same time, I also want to give the message of take care of yourself. Do not fall into this capitalistic thing of "I have to be grinding all the time. I have to always be working. I have to be ultra-productive." Please take care of yourselves because what we are going through right now is not normal. And so as long as you can get through the day, as long as you can get through the week and be okay, then that is okay. Everything else after that comes second.
That does not mean that those things don't have consequences. Of course, as an adviser and as a person and as a person of color, I want to tell everybody: do the best that you can because we're already in this place of… It's already harder. You know what I'm saying? It's already harder for people like us, for young people, for people of color, et cetera. But at the same time, I cannot say, "Don't take care of yourself." And if doing ultra-productiveness means you're not taking care of yourself, that's second. You're human first.
So, do as much as you can. And after that, we'll get it all later. 2021, 2022. We'll make up for it hopefully, but just take care of yourself right now and get through the year, get through these times.
Nicole Hurd: Cam, that was beautiful. Let me just close by saying this is why I want everybody to spend some time with the two of you. One way to get through this is self-care. The other is just to rely on each other, right? To lean on each other. I will confess that Daveed's phone will show you that I lean on him way too much 'cause I'm blowing up his phone all the time. And Cam, again, you're one of those people that keeps me going. So, I'm glad that the rest of the podcast world, the rest of the College Advising Corps world gets to spend some time with the two of you because you two are the reason why I do what I do.
So, thank you for the light and love you bring. Thank you for spending some time on this podcast. Any final goodbye you want to say as we wind down here?
Daveed Diggs: Thank you everybody for listening. Students and advisers, keep doing the thing. It inspires me and we need you out there, so thank you. As always, just thank you. And Cam in particular, thank you. It's incredible watching your work from afar. I think you know because you keep doing it, but the real world-like difference that you're making in the lives of a lot of people, it's really inspirational.
Thank you for doing it and for putting it on for the Bay and for helping keep our kids safe.
Cam: Most definitely. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate all y'all do. And I appreciate all my advisers out there, all my students. Like I said, keep pushing. Keep pushing through these times. We'll get through them together.
Nicole Hurd: All right. Well, until next time. Thank you both so much. Please follow us and please check us out at collegeadvisingcorp.org.
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Post-Cold War Europe: The Loss of Stability and the Emergence of the Extreme Right.
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In October 1986, after months of personal correspondence, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland to discuss the reduction of conventional forces in Europe as well as the possibility of a nuclear-free world. Although no concrete guidelines were worked out, a marked change in the attitudes of the two great superpowers was readily apparent. In addition to Gorbachevs continued willingness to make fundamental changes in the Soviet Union, this summit showed that President Reagan was now ready to deliver a parallel revolution in international relations Walker, 1993, p. 295 and abandon the arms build-up mandated by the Reagan Doctrine.
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*POSTWAR OPERATIONS
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A group of engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow have designed and launched a speak-to-tweet service for citizens and travelers stuck in Egypt this weekend.
The service allows users to send tweets by Skype or telephone by leaving a voicemail on one of three international phone numbers. You and I can watch these tweets by going to Twitter and following the hashtag #egypt.
"Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.


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Nigeria: Chasing Ghosts And Finding Failure
October 6, 2014: The government believes that the main reason Boko Haram has not been defeated yet is because of continued support for the Islamic terrorists from some clergy and politicians in the northeast. Some of this cooperation is a side effect of the corruption that has long been a prominent feature of political life throughout the country. Politicians will basically deal with anyone, including criminals, if it is in their interest to do so.
In the last month the army has concentrated its efforts in the vicinity of the towns of Konduga, Damboa and Benisheik in Borno State. This was in response to Boko Haram gunmen more frequently raiding around the state capital, Maiduguri. The raiding of towns and villages, which sometimes involved randomly killing civilians and always going after soldiers and police, had depopulated many areas around the capital. About half the four million people in Borno state are now living in or very near the capital. A growing number of people in Maiduguri fear this is a prelude to an effort to take the city, or at least establish Boko Haram in the city again. This is the city where Boko Haram began and there would be some symbolism if Boko Haram could take control. The government responded by replacing a lot of the senior army and police commanders in the northeast and telling the new guys that failure is not an option. This appears to have worked, although Boko Haram has helped by angering so many of the locals with their random killings. Moreover, in the few areas where Boko Haram has been able to settle down their rule has not been much more palatable. Refugees from these areas tell of capricious and cruel rules imposed on civilians and Boko Haram disdain for the suffering their presence causes. This is a typical pattern with Islamic extremist groups, who eventually turn the population they claim to be serving against them. The Boko Haram are correct in accusing the current government as corrupt and inept, but it is becoming clear that Islamic radicalism is not a better alternative. The heavy combat losses Boko Haram has suffered in the last month appears to have demoralized many of their gunmen, who are increasingly surrendering, sometimes with their weapons. Meanwhile Boko Haram appears to have told its men to flee army operations in Borno and shift attacks to neighboring Adamawa State.
Christian leaders in the north, especially senior Roman Catholic clergy, dispute government claims that Boko Haram controls no territory. Catholic leaders say that there at least 25 towns in Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa States that are under Boko Haram control according to Christians living (or recently fled from) there. The Christian clergy accuse the government of ignoring the true seriousness of the security situation in the northeast.
In southeastern Niger the number of Nigerian refugees from Boko Haram violence has grown from 37,000 to over 100,000 in the last year. It appears that nearly 400,000 people in the northeast have fled their homes so far this year to escape Boko Haram. The government believes that Boko Haram violence has killed 13,000 people since 2009.
Secret (or at least unpublicized) negotiations to swap sixteen (the number varies) imprisoned Boko Haram leaders for the 220 schoolgirls kidnapped in the northeast last April have apparently failed because of disagreements within Boko Haram and doubts that Boko Haram actually has control over the 220 girls they claim to hold. It is believed that the captive girls have been dispersed and that no one in Boko Haram really knows where they all are at this point.
Another casualty of the Boko Haram violence in the northeast is economic activity in Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa States. These states are in a semi-desert region that contains only twelve million people, which is only seven percent of Nigerians. A third of the people in the three northeastern states have had their lives disrupted by the Boko Haram violence and the military response. Most of the violence is in Borno state, where 27 counties (including the state capital Maiduguri) have Boko Haram activity. In Adamawa state it's only six counties and in Yobe state it's only five. Thus 71 percent of the counties troubled by Boko Haram are in Borno. The constant raids by Boko Haram and the resulting use of numerous checkpoints on the main roads by soldiers and police have seriously hurt the local economy. Worse, a major new economic activity, producing oil from the new fields discovered in Lake Chad, have been delayed because the companies doing this work will not risk the safety of their employees in the area until Boko Haram is dealt with. This oil (at least three billion barrels, worth over $300 billion) would be a boom to the historically poor northeast.
October 4, 2014: Boko Haram put a video on the Internet showing the wreckage of an air force jet (a two seat Alpha jet armed for ground attack) that crashed in the northeast on September 11th. Boko Haram claims to have shot it down but the air force denies that. The video also shows a man (identified as the pilot) being beheaded. The other pilot in the Alpha jet was apparently killed on September 11th. The air force first denied that the man being killed in the video was the pilot. But friends of the missing pilot confirmed that the beheaded man in the video was the pilot. After that the air force said it would avenge the death of the pilot with more air raids against Boko Haram.
October 3, 2014: In the northeast (Adamawa State) hundreds of Boko Haram gunmen have taken control of several villages in the Michika area, looting and then destroying over 500 buildings and terrorizing the local civilians. The people there complain that this has been going on since early September and no soldiers or police have showed up. Over 10,000 people have fled to the state capital (Yola).
September 28, 2014: Cameroon announced that over 300 Boko Haram members had surrendered in the northeast over the past three weeks and asked for asylum. The Islamic terrorists surrendered large quantities of weapons and ammunition. Across the border in northeastern Nigeria the army has been attacking any Boko Haram it can find in Borno State and apparently chasing some of the Islamic terrorists into Cameroon. Many of those who recently surrendered in Cameroon were identified as having been operating on both sides of the border for months.
September 27, 2014: In the northeast (Borno state) clashes with Boko Haram in the last three days have left at least 40 of the Islamic terrorists dead along with eleven soldiers (plus three who are missing). Most of these clashes took place in Konduga, Damboa and Benisheik as troops search for Boko Haram men and their camps.
September 25, 2014: The army recently claimed to have killed the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, or at least the man who appeared on a recent Internet video claiming to be Abubakar Shekau. The army claims to have killed Shekau several times in the last year and it is believed that "Abubakar Shekau" is either the generic name Boko Haram gives to whoever is in charge or that a series of different men have appeared in Boko Haram videos claiming to be Abubakar Shekau.
September 24, 2014: In the northeast (Borno state) Boko Haram gunmen on motorcycles rode through the two towns (Shaffa and Shindiffu) killing 19 and wounding many more. These attacks concentrated on Christians and ten churches were also burned down. Elsewhere in Borno soldiers stopped a truck carrying fifty young men and after questioning discovered that they were Boko Haram members fleeing a recent defeat by soldiers. Their leaders had been killed and these recent recruits dropped their weapons and fled.
One of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the northeast last April was found wandering around in Adamawa state. She was traumatized and unable to answer questions about her captivity or how she escaped.
September 23, 2014: In the northeast (Borno state) 135 Boko Haram men surrendered near Konduga, where the army has been searching for Boko Haram camps.
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Over VNĐ10 trillion raised from G-bonds in February
The Government mobilised more than VNĐ10 trillion (US$440.5 million) through six G-bond auctions in February. - Photo baodautu.vn
HÀ NỘI — The Government mobilised more than VNĐ10 trillion (US$440.5 million) through six G-bond auctions in February, down 48 per cent against the previous month.
According to Hà Nội Stock Exchange, which organised the auctions, 85 per cent of the bonds on offer were sold out.
The coupon rates of five-year term bonds and seven-year term bonds were 3.05 per cent and 3.4 per cent, respectively. Successful bidders of 10-year term bonds would enjoy an interest rate of 4-4.35 per cent per year, while the coupon rate of 15-year term bonds ranged from 4.4-4.5 per cent.
Compared to January, the annual interest rates of five-year, seven-year, 10-year and 15-year bonds fell 1.25, 0.95, 0.38 and 0.1 percentage points, respectively.
On the secondary market, the total volume of G-bonds sold by the outright method reached over 645 million, worth VNĐ73.9 trillion ($3.25 billion), down 37 per cent in value from January.
Trading volume through repurchase agreements (repos) was more than 806 million bonds valued at VNĐ83.8 trillion ($3.86 billion), decreasing 29 per cent in value from January.
Foreign investors also made outright purchases of more than VNĐ4.3 trillion ($189.2 million) and outright sale transactions of more than VNĐ4 trillion ($176 million). They made repo buys of over VNĐD207 billion ($9.1 million) and repo sales of over VNĐ205 billion ($9.02 million).
Early this year, the State Treasury had issued Letter No.420/KBNN-QLNQ on the plan for G-bond issuance for the first quarter of 2018. Accordingly, the total expected issuance amount for the quarter is VNĐ45 trillion, of which 10-year and 15-year bonds will account for VNĐ11 trillion each, 30-year bonds will make up VNĐ8 trillion and five-year, seven-year and 20-year bonds will represent VNĐ5 trillion each.
The value of G-bonds issued in 2018 is estimated at some VNĐ180 trillion ($7.93 billion), with the focus being on long-term maturity and keeping the interest rate at low levels.
According to reports of the Ministry of Finance, G-bonds worth VNĐ159.9 trillion ($7.04 billion), with an average maturity of 13.52 years (up 4.81 years against 2016), were issued last year.
The bonds had an average interest rate of some 6.07 per cent per year, down 0.2 percentage points against 2016. — VNS
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@AriEngelPoker has a 8.2 million to 1.2 million lead, and he puts pressure on by moving all in preflop to put @JakeBazeley at risk, and Bazeley calls off his stack.
Bazeley adds a gutter straight draw on the flop, but Engel takes the lead on the turn.
The river eliminated Bazeley in second place, a $102,647 cash.
@AriEngelPoker has had the best of it in the early goings of the heads-up match against @JakeBazeley (above, file photo) for the Season XIII @HPTPoker Championship, opening a better than 4-1 chiplead.
Bazeley now moves all in preflop for 1,265,000 and Engel makes the call to put Bazeley at risk to bring the tournament to a close.
That was all but over pretty quick on the flop, the board running out and Engel's chiplead is down to 7.3 million to 2.5 million.
Gary @MowsPoker Herstein leads the Season XIII @HPTPoker Player of the Year race, and earns the title if @JakeBazeley defeats @AriEngelPoker heads-up now in the final tournament of the season.
Engel claims the title by defeating Bazeley.
There's a #TeamGary hashtag floating around, most likely coming from Chicago where Herstein is sitting with friends, watching the livestream and sweating the result.
@AriEngelPoker (above) and @JakeBazeley (below) are set to battle it out heads-up for the @HPTPoker season championship. The winner receives $162,154 with $102,647 to the runner-up.
With a victory, Engel secures the Season XIII Player of the Year award and with it, entries in to six HPT Main Events (plus hotel accommodations) in Season XIV. Engel finishes 4th in the POY if Bazeley wins. Bazeley is not in the running for Player of the Year.
Bazeley has a 5.4 million to 4 million chiplead to start heads-up play.
Niel @fly4444 Mittelman moves all in preflop for about 1.6 million and @JakeBazeley makes the call to put Mittelman at risk.
Bazeley takes the lead on the flop, adds two pair with the on the turn.
The river eliminates Mittelman in 3rd place, a $68,737 cash, Bazeley moving to about 5 million.
The heads-up match between Bazeley and Ari Engel starts soon.
Engel absolutely crushes the flop, the board running out and Patel is eliminated in 4th place, cashing for $47,940.
Neil Patel opens for 290,000, @AriEngelPoker moves all in and Patel calls, having Engel's 1.875 million covered.
Both players hit their kickers on the flop, the board running out and Engel doubles to 3.75 million and the chiplead, leaving Patel with about 700,000.


Guys I've been riding for just over a year now and I got a question for the more experienced ones out thr.. My wife and I were riding two up this evening and it was the first time since getting the Corbin seat for the VFR she has been on it. She loves how much more comfortable it is and really enjoys the back rest addition I added. Now one issue. I feel as if the bike is much harder to control heading into a slow right or left hand turn. Also when I'm coming to a stop the bike feels much more unstable. Is this due to her now riding totally straight up? She no longer leans forward onto me but rather sits straight up and holds on to the grab handles on the sides of the VFR. Thanks in advance for your responses.
Sounds like she is upsetting your center of gravity. Does she have the tendency to steer the bike from the back? My guess is she is probably the culprit.
Could she be doing this with he feet? I did tell her to please sit firmly with her feet so she stops sliding down on me and crushing my B^LLS. I wonder if she was pushing down too hard and moving the bike.. Can this happen?
Confidence is the key. She needs to be able to lean with you when you take corners also. That is something she will have to build with you.
Straight up has raised your center of gravity and changed the geometry of the bike. Get her to put the back in your back or get her her own bike.
And what he said too. She needs to lean with you, she wont fall off unless drunk.
It's possible because if she is too far forward it's a little more difficult to control the bike especially when your thinking of your nuts being crushed and its like schmidie is saying the more she rides with you the more she will become more comfortable. Explain to her and have her actually move the bike from side to side with her hips while riding, somewhere safe and at a lower speed of course, to get a better feel for what she is doing from the back.


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Added a new examples directory with a basic runthrough on how to use the various features in PDB2PQR.
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US Stock FED EX: Monthly and weekly uptrend, new demand zones.
US Stock NVIDIA is rallying strongly on monthly, weekly and daily and providing lots of potential long trades. Monthly demand lower at 63.17 is a strong imbalance to lean on if daily demand zones start being removed but in the meantime there are levels on the weekly and daily that could provide some near term long opportunities so try to lean on nice looking levels with great departure and basing and you will get the correct risk reward no problem.


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Loftus Peak featured in the AFR: How four funds beat virus crash
The below is an extract from Tony Boyd's article 'How four funds beat virus crash' which was originally published to the Australian Financial Review on 25/04/20. For the full article, please click here.
The idea for this column was simple – find four fund managers who did well during the coronavirus crash in February and March while delivering on the promises they made to investors.
Doing well was defined as being in the top percentile of returns in the category or cohort that applied to each fund. Delivering on promises refers to the decisions taken by each fund manager to meet their stated objectives.
To get an idea of the volatility in March and in the March quarter, the best- and worst-performing funds from the 430 in the Australian Fund Monitors database were plus 38.29 per cent and minus 77.28 per cent in March, and plus 64.38 per cent and minus 87.07 per cent in the March quarter.
Four fund managers who have performed well during COVID-19
Loftus Peak
Former Macquarie Group media analyst Alex Pollak has an impressive track record in fund management over seven years, thanks to a strategy of backing the companies at the forefront of digital disruption.
Pollak believes the coronavirus will accelerate the trend towards the destruction of traditional business models in retail, transport, communications, energy and banking.
The big tech stocks, which are the core holdings in the Loftus Peak Global Disruption Fund, proved to be safe investments during the crisis-driven market volatility.
Pollak says Apple, Netflix, Amazon and Tencent have highly adapted competitive strategies and they will do even better as people adopt new behaviours around work practices, entertainment and shopping.
He says the Loftus Peak investment strategy can be summed up with a word his team invented – "cloudification", which refers to the use of cloud computing to make the digital economy work at scale.
Pollak operates the fund within a handful of risk parameters, including a limit on its exposure to any [high-risk] stocks to 1.5 per cent of assets.
He says this means it does not mind if a company goes broke but that is unlikely given his preference for those with strong cash flow, successful business models and sound balance sheets.
In line with international fund managers operating with largely unhedged portfolios, the fund benefited from a 5 per cent decline in the Australian dollar in March.


The Wall Street Journal has posted an interesting interview with John Biaggi, director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival being held in New York City June 16-30. I'd never heard of of this event before, but the more I read about it, the more I like it.
Tricky, complicated questions of morality and social justice often don't make for a summer blockbuster. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival takes those tangled themes and strings them together in a week of screenings, conversations and talk backs.


Wait, did I just commit to hosting this shower?
The to-do list is long and it can be daunting.
Ever get a case of hoster's remorse? Am I the only one this happens to?
But, herein lies the problem. I actually love hosting parties…..especially for an honored guest. Moreover, once I get my head around the fact that I am hosting this gathering, I figure I may as well approach it from a mutually beneficial angle. More on that in a bit.
With so many moving parts, it can be a bit overwhelming to plan, host and execute the perfect shower. If only there was a cheat sheet of some sort to help the celebration stay on point! Well, perhaps there is. While this does not cover every possibility, here are 5 tips for hosting a fabulous shower or party in your home which will hopefully make things go a bit smoother for you.
Get Personal – Their favorite food, their favorite beverage, their favorite activities. This is a time to honor the bride-to-be for an entire evening. Who is their favorite musician? Have some of their music on hand. Fun trivia centered around the bride and groom connects all guests to the one person in the room they all know. And the bride will be thankful you cared enough to hone in on these intimate details for her shower.
Pick a Theme – For example, if the bride-to-be loves traveling, you can serve food and drinks which hail from her favorite destination. Parting gifts can reflect this as well. If her favorite destination is Italy, have each guest's name custom added in Italian to a lovely candle keepsake.
Memory Lane – Many of your guests may not know one another. This is a perfect time for each of them to share a favorite story or memory of your special guest. Be sure and set aside some time for this activity. You, your guests, and the bride will be glad you did.
Upgrade the Decor – Like most of you, my plate is beyond full. Come to think of it, I actually need a second plate. Therefore, when I take on this type of responsibility, I want to take a look around my home and find one or two components that need a little improvement. Do we need new wine glasses, cocktail glasses or throw pillows (always)? If so, this is the perfect time to make these types of purchases. As a result, I've upgraded decor elements and I have my best foot forward for my honored guest.
Time is of the Essence – From mailing the invitations (at least one month in advance), to gift opening (try not to let it linger too long), keeping the shower moving along will be appreciated by all in attendance.
Below, you will find a few images of a bridal shower which I hosted recently.
For personal touches, I used several bright colored flowers to coordinate with the flowers chosen for the upcoming fall wedding.
You can see another cake I decorated with flowers here and below. Click the image to shop my favorite cake stand.
I also styled a champagne bar because the bride (and her mom) love champagne.
I included fruit for added color. It also adds a subtle flavorful addition. The bubbly subtly infuses the berries and provides a delicious treat at the bottom of the flute.
Get the look of my bar cart below. Each image is a clickable link.
The bride wanted a star theme, so I added stars in a few places without overdoing it.
I love the soft glow of the star lights.
Here, I added them to the bar cart with small star ornaments and cute straws. So simple! I actually found edible stars, but I could not manage to get a good picture. Next time for sure!
A good way to tie everything together is with favors.
The gold flute favors added the perfect touch to the bottles.
I hope you found some ideas for your next party.
I love hosting parties. Especially for special occasions.
I love decor and improving aspects within my home.
And I love not having hoster's remorse.
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Jen this is so beautiful and that cake is wow! Classy and simple but really stunning! Great job!
Thank you Summer! It was such a fun shower!
Thank you so much Kelley! I hope you had fun last night at your party! Can't wait to see!!!


Should we introduce the system of Yellow card and Red card for the parliamentarians?
The last parliamentary session was a complete wash out, with constant disruptions, shouting and ruckus ( to put it most mildly), which should make us hang our heads in shame. Many important bills were kept hanging, budget was passed without discussion.
Are these the honourable parliamentarians we sent to look after our national interests, discussing the way forward for progress, harmony, peace, prosperity of our country and our people? But for these respectable MPs, any other adult group elsewhere would have been named and shamed as hooligans. They wasted an entire session of parliament without discussing anything worthwhile, but tried to score browny points for their own personal and political gains!
What did Mother India and her children, us - the Indian citizens, got out of it?
Could we not then change the system of parliamentary function?
Suppose an MP behaves badly and constantly disrupts the functioning of the parliament, then he should be shown a yellow card, as a warning as in football, and after two yellow card warnings be sent out of the Loksabha or Rajyasabha ( so too in Vidhansabhas). S/He or they, the whole lot (if the entire party is involved), be then asked to sit in an adjacent room in the Parliament, where they still have the full access to and hear what is going on in the central legislative assembly, but can not disrupt the proceedings and are even allowed to vote from there or voice their opinions, with TV, earphones and microphone. The person may even be allowed to come in to express his or her view, when their turn comes, in a peaceful manner and if the person is willing to participate peacefully then one can return to the central assembly and take part as usual. On the other hand if even in the outside room they create ruckus, breakdown furniture, fixture, the TV, mike, benches and don't allow others to take part in or interfere with them which prevents them from following what is going on inside, then the MP gets a red card and becomes automatically suspended, till he pays the fine for disruptions and breakages and the money is deducted from his salary. And this should go on his record.
Lastly those who have not contributed positively for the welfare of the nation but have only disrupted the ongoing sessions would lose permanent pension. This would prevent any disruption and the work would happen. And the entire proceeding should continuously be available to the nation, so that the people would know what kind of work the MPs are doing. And MPs who try to divide the nation and citizens in the name of religion, caste, geography and deliberately spew venom should be blacklisted.
May be some form of scorecard of their performance in the parliament would motivate them to work positively.