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9 Awesome Podcasts Hosted by Badass Entrepreneurial Women
Editor 23 December 2015
Get inspired. Get motivated. Get listening.
By Lorraine Sanders (Journalist & Podcast Host, Spirit of 608)
Fresh off a 6-month stint at a startup, I was exhausted and wondering what to do next.
As I pondered what to throw myself into next, I did what anyone who'd been working full-time, commuting two hours a day and trying to manage life with two kids under the age of five would do with so much glorious free time: I created a serious to-do list of all the errands and chores I'd neglected and started chipping away at it. Plus, I finally had time to work out, walk my dog (a lot), clean out junk drawers and make mid-week store runs.
As I did all this stuff, I was pretty much always listening to a podcast. But here's the thing: While it's easy to find podcasts (just scroll through the iTunes New & Noteworthy section for a sea of featured podcasts), finding podcasts you actually love listening to is hard. So I was constantly searching for next shows to fall in love with – or at least feel pretty crushy about.
These are the podcasts I subscribe to and listen to regularly. Each show below taught, inspired and motivated me – albeit in entirely different ways. If you're on an entrepreneurial journey or aspire to be someday soon, shows like these are a goldmine. I owe every single one of the shows listed below a huge debt, whether they've helped me digest how-tos on marketing tools, reminded me to give my own health and wellness enough of a footprint in the rest of my life's landscape or just made me feel like I can keep plugging away at my dream project regardless of how difficult it is or how discouraged I am in the moment.
I hope they'll do the same for you.
1. The Lively Show
Tune into this weekly show hosted by Jess Lively for her inspiring chats with guests that range from prominent bloggers and creative entrepreneurs to health and wellness experts and best-selling authors such as Elizabeth Gilbert.
The idea of living with more intention in your life is a common thread that runs as a kind of subtext to the mostly hour-long conversations, but each show keeps its primary focus on the guest's path through life and the advice or ideas the guest can offer listeners looking for ways to live better, healthier, more fulfilling lives. While Lively's approach is fresh-scrubbed and full of positivity, she doesn't shy away from being real about her own struggles with eating disorders, work-life balance and divorce.
As a result, her guests are often willing to share pieces of their own lives that make you feel like you're overhearing the kind of conversation you'd ordinarily need to be in the same room to be a part of.
2. GirlBoss Radio
Podcasting network Panoply just launched this podcast in October. With Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso at the helm, the show brings the #girlboss ethos to your ears.
Weekly episodes feature high-profile, cool-girl guests such as actress Charlize Theron, YouTuber Grace Helbig and author Sloane Crosley. Amoruso chats with guests about their paths to success and challenges along the way. For fans of Amoruso's unconventional path to business building, the show's also a window into her world.
3. Kate's Take: the EOFire Audio Blog
Part of Entrepreneur On Fire network, this twice-weekly show is full of host Kate Erickson's quick, easy-to-digest productivity hacks and practical suggestions. She covers how to best approach, organize and systematize the many processes that face business owners, solopreneurs and startup founders.
From planning content to working with virtual team members and growing your company's audience, Erickson's shows strike a balance between offering up expert information and keeping advice broad enough to be useful regardless of industry or niche.
4. Glambition Radio
At first, I didn't think I'd like this show, just based on the name alone (judgy me). But don't let the name or show promo images featuring host Ali Brown's perfectly-styled blonde hair and pearly-white teeth throw you. Brown, a longtime business coach to high-earning women, is an excellent interviewer, and she's got an uncanny way of being polished and simultaneously ultra-familiar with her guests.
Her conversations with female entrepreneurs such as Hint Water CEO Kara Goldin, Stella & Dot's Jessica Herrin and author Kim Kiyosaki go below the surface and dig into the personal and professional milestones, challenges and live events that have led to their success. Brown keeps it authentic with a frank sense of humor and bits about her own life experiences, from her early entrepreneurial struggles to her more recent run-ins with the drama of raising toddler twins. With entrepreneurship as a backdrop, Brown delivers a show that's more motivational and inspiring than it is process-focused – and that's part of the appeal.
5. That's So Retrograde
When you need a humor break that may very well also lead you to try a new vitamin supplement or give the latest L.A. fitness trend a try, head for this show hosted by Elizabeth Kott and Stephanie Simbari.
While they frequently masquerade as clueless California girls just trying to figure things out, they're actually anything but. Both entrepreneurs in their own right – Kott has a fashion startup and Simbari is an actress and comedian – they get frank about topics most people won't talk about unless they've had several drinks (underarm odor and poop commentary, for example.) These women take deep dives into topics you're unlikely to find everywhere else (metaphysical workouts, anyone?) Guests range from Los Angeles wellness experts to the hosts' celebrity pals such as Ashley Tisdale and Olivia Thirlby.
6. Brand Ambition
Aimed at emerging entrepreneurs, this podcast mixes interview-driven episodes and short, practical tip-based shows from host and branding coach Valerie Howard. Guests include experts from the media, web design and marketing worlds delivering advice on building a cohesive brand for your company from its earliest days.
7. The Game Changer Podcast
Guests who've done things a little differently than the pack and created lives they're proud to say they love living are the common thread on this show hosted by serial entrepreneur Lane Kennedy. The conversations are kept casual and conversational, but Kennedy's interest in the pivotal moments in guests' personal and professional lives means there's plenty of fodder for reflection about your own life and career path. That guests bring a wide variety of backgrounds and types of businesses to the show keep things interesting from week to week.
8. Happier with Gretchen Rubin
The podcast of best-selling author Gretchen Rubin, this show continues her investigation into happiness and habits, subjects she's explored in-depth in her books "The Happiness Project" and "Better than Before." Rubin's sister and TV writer Elizabeth Craft is the co-host.
The audience for Happier is really for anyone who's better trying to understand themselves and others. Rubin's ongoing look at different personality types, how they respond to the world and what habits may be easier or harder for them to incorporate into their lives is valuable food for thought for anyone in the midst of building a team – or trying to get along with one.
9. Amy Porterfield
Social media strategist and online marketing expert Amy Porterfield's show is a no-brainer when you're searching for practical, easy-to-digest action plans for tackling product launches, Facebook marketing, sales promotions, webinars, email list building and audience growth.
While she does the occasional interview-based show with business experts from the online marketing landscape, most shows are tightly focused how-to plans give insight into her own process. Even if you're building an entirely different kind of business, her wisdom and experience promoting content and building audiences willing to engage with that content is worth a listen when you're in growth mode.
These podcasts inspired the answer to that "what next?" question after startup life. This fall, I launched the Spirit of 608 podcast. On my show, I feature women at the intersection of fashion, entrepreneurship, sustainability + tech. It's a space I call F.E.S.T., and as I often say on the 'cast, I believe it's the future of fashion. Many listeners are early stage startup founders. I aim to be be informative, but inspiring and motivating for anyone on the entrepreneurial grind. I invite you to give Spirit of 608 a listen!
About the guest blogger: Lorraine Sanders is a longtime fashion business journalist and the founder of the Spirit of 608 podcast featuring badass women building businesses at the intersection of fashion, entrepreneurship, sustainability and tech. Find the show and listen on iTunes or Stitcher Radio. Follow her on Twitter at @lorrainesanders and @spiritof608.
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Why British GP on same day as WC, Wimbledon finals: Hamilton
Silverstone (England), July 12 (TIWN) Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton is unhappy with the fact that the British Grand Prix is being held on the same day as the final of the ICC World Cup and men's final at the Wimbledon.
The Mercedes driver said he "didn't understand why they put the race on the same day as all these big events". "It [the British GP] is such a special event and it needs all the attention," he said. "A lot of people will be switching between channels on Sunday. "We all try to do the country proud and I am just going to try to do my bit." Hamilton is bidding for a record sixth British Grand Prix victory, to move him clear of the mark he currently holds with Jim Clark and Alain Prost. The five-time world champion has won the race four times in the past five years and starts the weekend as strong favourite on a track that is expected to suit his Mercedes car.

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I visited a coffee house near our hotel by coincidence.
with many opera singer's pictures.
And of course it was full by opera music all the time.
I asked the owner " Is this La traviata ? "
But I knew from the way he talked that he was full of passion about Opera.
La traviata at that time.
I noticed he had very good handwriting.
Now that piece of paper has become my treasure.
I have it displayed in my room in a memorial frame.
This house is called "Peter's Operncafe Harauer"
I found out later it's very famous in Wien.
Do you know what they are ?
My sister-in-law sent me them. They are peas and flatfish.
Her hobby is doing patchworks. She has a masterly skill.
でべら is well-known for delicious dry fish in Onomichi.
My mother-in-law used to send us them very often.
I thought at that time I had never eaten such a delicious dry foods.
They will go abroad soon.
to the shrine to pray for good fortune.
I went to 泉殿 shrine with my daughter.
The atmosphere of the shrine made me feel refreshed. I liked it.
After paying homage I bought みくじ.
I noticed that the elegant elderly lady selling みくじwas our teacher's wife.
a student there. But he already passed away several years ago.
I like this kind of the unexpected happy meeting.
I discovered a bird's footprint on the ground.
They pay homage to the shrine, too.
I went to Festival Hall which was renewed last spring to hear New Year Concert by Symphonie-Orchester der Volksoper Wien with my friend.
When my daughter was in London, we visited Wien and stayed for 4 days at the center of the city.
I was intent on buying them so I asked my daughter to go with me.
But this concert was very boring. I realized it was held for only tourists.
There were many sightseeing buses around the hall.
Individual audience goers were very few. I was very disappointed.
"The Marriage of Figaro" by MOZALT.
Every thing about it was good.
I remembered that concert during this orchestra.
I'll write about them next time.
But, the friend I've been waiting for has finally come today.
I put some orange on the birdbath for メジロ.
Please come back to my yard and bring some of your friends.
The Ishikiri Shrine is located at the base of Ikoma mountain.
This was our first ever time there, but it was too busy to visit properly.
then separated from each other.
My husband wanted to go to another place nearby.
I came back home after drinking coffee alone at the tearoom nearby.
I learned that I shouldn't go to a popular shrine on New Year's Day.


At the recent annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Alanna Nobbs kindly presented me with a gift copy of a collection of essays (edited by her) by the important Australian scholar of early Christianity and its Roman-era setting, Edwin A. Judge, Jerusalem and Athens: Cultural Transformation in Late Antiquity (WUNT 265; Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010).
I'm pleased to have the volume, and I'm grateful to Alanna for editing it. Judge is the sort of scholar who has produced a goodly number of important essays over many decades now, rather than books, and perhaps partially because of this his work may not be as well known as it ought to be. But I have yet to read an essay by Judge that didn't make me realize how much there was to learn, and how impressively Judge is able to make incisive analyses about anything he engages.
Judge first came to notice in NT circles back in the (late) 70s through his little pioneering monograph, The Social Pattern of Christian Groups in the First Century (London: Tyndale Press, 1960). The book sat little noticed it appears for a number of years, essentially because it was ahead of its time in focusing on aspects of the social characteristics of early Christianity in the context of Roman-era social structures. By the 70s, however, when some NT scholars had begun to catch onto the topic, Judge's work came into some of the recognition that it deserved, e.g., in A. J. Malherbe's book, Social Aspects of Early Christianity (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977).
That pioneering 1960 study, along with several other essays relating to early Christianity, were brought together by David Scholer a few years ago: E. A. Judge, Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge, ed. David Scholer (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008). This earlier collection will richly repay readers, perhaps especially students gearing up for serious work in Christian Origins.
In addition to his own scholarly output, Judge was the founding father of the study of Ancient History in Macquarie University (which now is probably the leading Australian venue for this subject). The project he inaugurated, to prepare a full edited catalogue of documentary texts referring to Christians/Christianity from ancient Egypt, is now nearing publication. This will be a further monument to his leadership and inspirtation of others.
Judge is a very modest man, and may well find it embarrassing for me to praise him in public like this. But I am unrepentant. He deserves it, richly. And anyone seriously interested in the Roman world and especially the place of Christianity in it is advised herewith to make acquaintance with Judge's ample body of work.
I asked 'Santa Claus' for the larger Harrison/Judge volume this Christmas; and I noticed the Nobbs/Judge volume at that time. You wouldn't happen to know if this more recent volume shares essays with the Harrison/Judge volume? I wasn't sure if some had been regurgitated or if it was entirely new. If you couldn't tell, I'm happily seeking to gobble up writing by Prof. Judge!
I don't have the earlier big volume. Maybe some reader can respond??
I remember on one of my first international conferences, incidentally an SBL Meeting in Edinburgh, I gave a paper on P.Oxy 34.2684 (= Greg.-Aland P78), which I suggested was probably an amulet. I had made small replicas of the tiny papyrus which I distributed along with the handouts. In one of the breaks, in the cafeteria, this modest old gentleman walked up to me and told me that he had unfortunately missed my presentation, but apparently his colleagues had shown him those fake amulets and he very much wanted one. I handed it to him. As he introduced himself as Edwin Judge I realized that I had just referred to his essay, "The Magical Use of Scripture," in Perspectives on Language and Text: Essays and Poems in Honor of Francis I. Andersen's Sixtieth Birthday (ed. Edgar W. Conrad and Edward G. Newing; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1987), 339-49, which was very important in the preparation of this paper.
Thank you for highlighting Judge, who really is an impressive scholar and whom it is humbling and challenging to read. In addition to the two volumes you mention (edited by Scholer and Nobbs respectively), there is of course also a third volume of collected essays (that dwarfs the other two in size, with 44 essays): J. R. Harrison, ed., The First Christians in the Roman World: Augustan and New Testament Studies (Mohr Siebeck, 2008), 786 pp. Lots there of interest to NT specialists!
Because on amazon.com it is priced at $197.50.


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I'm the type of person who likes to root for the underdog. So when Samsung first came up with their answer (Samsung Droid Charge) to Apple's Iphone, I was all over it. That purchase was years ago, and represents the last time I will likely purchase a product from (or recommend to my family, friends and networks) a Samsung product. It wasn't that the phone was horrible, but it did have more than one major bug for me. I understand that products can have bugs, but that is why I expect support when I need it.
When Samsung was unable to repair my phone (phone was only a few months old), they referred me to their website, where they would offer to buy back the phone from me. I didn't know what to expect because I had paid $400 for my phone only months earlier. Needless to say, I was horrified, when I submitted my product info. on their website as instructed, and learned they were offering me $50 to buy it back from me. This is Samsung telling me that they do not value me as a customer. More importantly (to their detriment), Samsung is telling me they do not need me to endorse their brand to my family, my friends and to my networks.
Thinking of buying the new Galaxy S5? I would tell you based on my personal experience you will be better off with the new HTC One.


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import { expect } from 'chai';
import * as Rx from '../../src/internal/Rx';
import { hot, cold, expectObservable, expectSubscriptions } from '../helpers/marble-testing';

declare function asDiagram(arg: string): Function;

declare const rxTestScheduler: Rx.TestScheduler;
const Observable = Rx.Observable;
const queueScheduler = Rx.Scheduler.queue;

/** @test {merge} */
describe('Observable.prototype.merge', () => {
  asDiagram('merge')('should handle merging two hot observables', () => {
    const e1 =    hot('--a-----b-----c----|');
    const e1subs =    '^                  !';
    const e2 =    hot('-----d-----e-----f---|');
    const e2subs =    '^                    !';
    const expected =  '--a--d--b--e--c--f---|';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge a source with a second', (done) => {
    const a = Observable.of(1, 2, 3);
    const b = Observable.of(4, 5, 6, 7, 8);
    const r = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8];

    a.merge(b).subscribe((val) => {
      expect(val).to.equal(r.shift());
    }, (x) => {
      done(new Error('should not be called'));
    }, () => {
      done();
    });
  });

  it('should merge an immediately-scheduled source with an immediately-scheduled second', (done) => {
    const a = Observable.of<number>(1, 2, 3, queueScheduler);
    const b = Observable.of<number>(4, 5, 6, 7, 8, queueScheduler);
    const r = [1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8];

    a.merge(b, queueScheduler).subscribe((val) => {
      expect(val).to.equal(r.shift());
    }, (x) => {
      done(new Error('should not be called'));
    }, () => {
      done();
    });
  });

  it('should merge cold and cold', () => {
    const e1 =  cold('---a-----b-----c----|');
    const e1subs =   '^                   !';
    const e2 =  cold('------x-----y-----z----|');
    const e2subs =   '^                      !';
    const expected = '---a--x--b--y--c--z----|';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge hot and hot', () => {
    const e1 =  hot('---a---^-b-----c----|');
    const e1subs =         '^            !';
    const e2 =  hot('-----x-^----y-----z----|');
    const e2subs =         '^               !';
    const expected =       '--b--y--c--z----|';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge hot and cold', () => {
    const e1 =  hot('---a-^---b-----c----|');
    const e1subs =       '^              !';
    const e2 =  cold(    '--x-----y-----z----|');
    const e2subs =       '^                  !';
    const expected =     '--x-b---y-c---z----|';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge parallel emissions', () => {
    const e1 =   hot('---a----b----c----|');
    const e1subs =   '^                 !';
    const e2 =   hot('---x----y----z----|');
    const e2subs =   '^                 !';
    const expected = '---(ax)-(by)-(cz)-|';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should allow unsubscribing explicitly and early', () => {
    const e1 =    hot('--a-----b-----c----|  ');
    const e1subs =    '^         !           ';
    const e2 =    hot('-----d-----e-----f---|');
    const e2subs =    '^         !           ';
    const expected =  '--a--d--b--           ';
    const unsub =     '          !           ';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result, unsub).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should not break unsubscription chains when result is unsubscribed explicitly', () => {
    const e1 =    hot('--a-----b-----c----|  ');
    const e1subs =    '^         !           ';
    const e2 =    hot('-----d-----e-----f---|');
    const e2subs =    '^         !           ';
    const expected =  '--a--d--b--           ';
    const unsub =     '          !           ';

    const result = e1
      .map((x) => x)
      .merge(e2, rxTestScheduler)
      .map((x) => x);

    expectObservable(result, unsub).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge empty and empty', () => {
    const e1 = cold('|');
    const e1subs = '(^!)';
    const e2 = cold('|');
    const e2subs = '(^!)';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe('|');
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge three empties', () => {
    const e1 = cold('|');
    const e1subs = '(^!)';
    const e2 = cold('|');
    const e2subs = '(^!)';
    const e3 = cold('|');
    const e3subs = '(^!)';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, e3, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe('|');
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e3.subscriptions).toBe(e3subs);
  });

  it('should merge never and empty', () => {
    const e1 = cold('-');
    const e1subs =  '^';
    const e2 = cold('|');
    const e2subs =  '(^!)';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe('-');
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge never and never', () => {
    const e1 = cold('-');
    const e1subs =  '^';
    const e2 = cold('-');
    const e2subs =  '^';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe('-');
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge empty and throw', () => {
    const e1 = cold('|');
    const e1subs =  '(^!)';
    const e2 = cold('#');
    const e2subs =  '(^!)';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe('#');
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge hot and throw', () => {
    const e1 = hot( '--a--b--c--|');
    const e1subs =  '(^!)';
    const e2 = cold('#');
    const e2subs =  '(^!)';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe('#');
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge never and throw', () => {
    const e1 = cold('-');
    const e1subs =  '(^!)';
    const e2 = cold('#');
    const e2subs =  '(^!)';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe('#');
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge empty and eventual error', () => {
    const e1 = cold(  '|');
    const e1subs =    '(^!)    ';
    const e2 =    hot('-------#');
    const e2subs =    '^      !';
    const expected =  '-------#';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge hot and error', () => {
    const e1 =   hot('--a--b--c--|');
    const e1subs =   '^      !    ';
    const e2 =   hot('-------#    ');
    const e2subs =   '^      !    ';
    const expected = '--a--b-#    ';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });

  it('should merge never and error', () => {
    const e1 = hot(   '-');
    const e1subs =    '^      !';
    const e2 =    hot('-------#');
    const e2subs =    '^      !';
    const expected =  '-------#';

    const result = e1.merge(e2, rxTestScheduler);

    expectObservable(result).toBe(expected);
    expectSubscriptions(e1.subscriptions).toBe(e1subs);
    expectSubscriptions(e2.subscriptions).toBe(e2subs);
  });
});

describe('Observable.prototype.mergeAll', () => {
  it('should merge two observables', (done) => {
    const a = Observable.of(1, 2, 3);
    const b = Observable.of(4, 5, 6, 7, 8);
    const r = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8];

    Observable.of(a, b).mergeAll().subscribe((val) => {
      expect(val).to.equal(r.shift());
    }, null, done);
  });

  it('should merge two immediately-scheduled observables', (done) => {
    const a = Observable.of<number>(1, 2, 3, queueScheduler);
    const b = Observable.of<number>(4, 5, 6, 7, 8, queueScheduler);
    const r = [1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8];

    Observable.of(a, b, queueScheduler).mergeAll().subscribe((val) => {
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Home » Senkhane v Morie and Others (LC/APN/161/2014) [2014] LSHC 99 (08 December 2014);
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LC/APN/161/2014
'MALIPUO SENKHANE APPLICANT
MAKHAKHE MORIE 1ST RESPONDENT
PHILEMON NAMANE 2ND RESPONDENT
LEFU KIBI 3RD RESPONDENT
NONYANE MONYAMANE 4TH RESPONDENT
THABA-TSEKA URBAN COUNCIL 5TH RESPONDENT
CHIEF NTAOTE NTAOTE 6TH RESPONDENT
MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT 7TH RESPONDENT
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 8 DECEMBER 2014
Preliminary objection in terms of Rule 66 (2)(b) of Land Court Rules – dispute over a field having been previously brought and decided in the Local Court – principles of the res judicata and its applicability – held that res judicata applicable and therefore application struck off.
Florio v. Minister of Interior And Another LAC (1990-94) 446
Sechele v. Sechele LAC (1985-1989) 297
Erasmus and Van Loggernenberg Jones and Buckle, The Civil Practice of The Magistrates' Courts In South Africa Vol. II 8th Edition (Juta)
RULING ON OBJECTION: RES JUDICATA
[1] The applicant sues the 1st Respondent over a field which the latter has been using since 1967. The cause of action is alleged refusal by the 1st Respondent to return the field to the Applicant as it had been loaned to him. The 1st Respondent objects to the institution of these proceedings on the plea of res judicata in terms of Rule 66 (2)(b) of the Land Court Rules, 2012.
[2] To substantiate this plea, the 1st Respondent answers that:
"4.1 RES JUDICATA
This matter has already been decided by a court to (sic) competent jurisdiction in CC/174/1987, in the matter between Makhakhe Mokolatsie/Morie (Plaintiff in the case) and Montšo Senkhane. It was decided in Thaba-Tseka Local Court.
Montšo Senkhane is the immediate brother in law to the Plaintiff; 'Malipuo Senkhane (sic); through one Mphejone (sic) Senkhane; and in that case court decided that the same field belong (sic) to the Plaintiff (1st Defendant in this case)."
[3] It is significant that reference to CC/174/1987 is also made by the applicant in her originating application and, in amplification thereof, she annexes as "MS2" a court record which reads as follows:
"CC: 174/87
LEKHOTLENG LA THABA-TSEKA LOCAL LE LUTSENG SETŠENG SA LONA KA LA 26/10/87
Before Court President S.M. Tsiu
Plaintiff MAKHAKHE MOKOLATSIE of Chief
Ntaote
Defendant MONTŠO SENKHANE of Chief Ntaote
Claim: Ploughing Plaintiff's field without consent.
Judgment delivered on 26th /10/1987
Judgment entered in favour of Plaintiff, Defendants are ordered to refrain from using the said field since it belongs to the Plaintiff and ordered to pay M26.00 as costs. This judgment should be executed before 30 days expires (sic).
Court President S.M. Tsiu
26th/10/1987
I confirm that this is true and original copy."
[4] The defendants referred to in "MS2" above are all mentioned in the Civil Case Register (annexed as "MS3") as being Montšo Senkhane, Mphejane, Marou and Mabilikoe.
[5] In the originating application, the applicant pleads that she is the wife of Mphejane Senkhane who is now late. Mphejane, her late husband, was the eldest son of the late Hanyane Senkhane. As such, she is the daughter-in-law of Hanyane Senkhane.
[6] The applicant pleads further that she and the 1st respondent belong to related families. The family of the latter is senior to that of hers. The field in dispute is part of two which belong to the estate of her late father-in-law. It was loaned to 1st respondent to use for providing food for minor children in the Senkhane family.
[7] For purposes of the plea of res judicata, it suffices that the late husband of the applicant, that is Mphejane, was one of the defendants in CC/174/87 concerned with a claim to the same field and decided in favour of the applicant therein who is the 1st respondent herein.
[8] In Florio v. Minister of The Interior And Another LAC (1990-94) 446 @ 462 H-463 A, the Court of Appeal quotes the requirements of res judicata enunciated in Jones and Buckle Vol. II 8th Edition thus:
"?Where a party pleads that a point in issue is already res judicata because of an earlier judgment in personam, he must show –
that there has already been a prior judgment;
by a competent court;
in which the parties were the same; and
the same point was in issue.'
Under the heading 'A prior judgment' the learned authors go on to say:
'There must have been prior litigation or legal proceedings culminating in a final judgment on a decision which has a final effect between the parties based on the merits of the point in issue.'"
[9] In regards to the requirement of the same parties, the learned authors comment (at p. 191) as follows:
"Unless the judgment is between the same parties, or is a judgment in rem, it is res inter alios acta, and cannot support a plea of res judicata. A judgment binds not only the parties themselves, but also their privies, i.e. persons deriving their interest in title through or from the parties".
[10] A further comment is that:
"In determining whether the point has already been decided between the parties, in a manner sufficient to satisfy a plea of res judicata, a distinction must at the outset be drawn between judgments in rem and judgments in personam. If the judgment which it is contended constitutes a bar to the second action was a judgment in rem (i.e. affecting either the status of a person, or his property), and if it concerned persons domiciled or property situated within the jurisdiction of the court, it is conclusive against all the world in respect of what the judgment settles as to the status of such person or property, or as to the right or title to the latter, and as to whatever disposition it makes in regard to the disposition of the property… To determine whether a judgment was in rem or merely in personam, the issues raised in the pleadings must be looked at, and the judgment analyzed to ascertain exactly what decision was given."
[11] In casu, "MS2" and "MS3" contain the identity of the parties, a summary of the case and judgment in the court a quo. There are no pleadings annexed thereto because I was told from the Bar by both counsel that the full record is untraceable. But the claim pleaded was apparently for an interdict which was granted on the basis that the field in dispute "belongs to the Plaintiff" who is the 1st respondent herein. Therefore, this judicial determination as to whom the field belongs must have been legitimately or rationally pronounced in the course of determining who has right or title to the field deserving of protection by way of interdictory relief. (See Sechele v. Sechele LAC (1985-1989) 297 @ 305 B-C)
[12] In this Court, the 1st respondent is being sued on the basis of the contention that the Senkhane family's title to the said field was never revoked and subsequently re-allocated to the 1st Respondent. It was loaned to him and now refuses to return it back. Hence the prayer "Declaring any document purporting to have allocated the field subject matter hereof to the 1st Respondent to be invalid." In short, the suggestion is that the 1st respondent has no title to the field.
[13] But as I understand "MS2" and "MS3", they constitute a judgment in rem settling the status of the field and as to who has a right or title to it. Therefore, it is conclusive against all the world. The issue of right or title to the said field cannot then be re-opened for litigation again. It has been finally settled by a court of competent jurisdiction in a case in which the applicant's husband was a party.
[14] I then come to the conclusion that the preliminary objection of res judicata is well taken on behalf of the 1st respondent. This application is, therefore, struck out with costs in terms of Rule 67 (2) of the Land Court Rules, 2012.
For the Applicants: L.E. Molapo
For the Respondents: L.B. Nthimo
https://lesotholii.org/ls/judgment/high-court-land-division/2014/99/Senkhane%20Malipuo%20v%20Morie%20Makhakhe%20n%20Ors%2012%2014.pdf


WOODBRIDGE - As a freshman in the Greater Middlesex Conference bowling final, Mackenzie Keane remained cool and kept her head — but she lost a thumb. The East Brunswick rookie's interchangeable plastic thumb fell out midway through the stepladder championship against South River's Eleni Feggulis.
There was a five-minute delay as a worker at Majestic Lanes went behind the pins to look for it.
Instead of mentally unraveling, Keane showed her poise and immediately rolled a strike after the break.
The South River senior took an early lead after two frames, but Keane rallied with eight consecutive strikes for a 244-209 win. She became the second East Brunswick girl to capture an Individual GMC title. Morgan Brown, a three-time finalist, won the championship in the 2009-10 season. Feggulis is the first South River girl bowler to reach the final.
It's not like Keane came out of nowhere. In the team tryouts, she was scoring in the 200s. Keane has continued to develop and meshes right in with East Brunswick, the defending GMC team champions.
It's one thing to have the technique and physical attributes down. It's another to not get frazzled on the big stage. After Tuesday's qualifying series, Keane emerged as the No. 2 seed, and Feggulis earned the top-seed.
Enter a fan-friendly, high-intensity stepladder with the top five seeds competing in single elimination games. Fifth-seeded Amanda Medvetz of Carteret advanced with a 229-198 win over fourth-seeded Yoana Hyman-Cruz (J.P. Stevens) and a 200-157 win over No. 3 Eliza Abreu (Woodbridge). In the semifinal, Keane threw seven strikes to open the matchup en route to a 268-167 win over Medvetz.
With the drama building, Keane left the far left pin standing on her eighth roll. She said she bowled a 300 game before, but it wasn't in a sanctioned match.
Before the final, Brehm spoke with Keane, reminding her that it's as much a mental test and to stay level-headed. Feggulis, who finished fourth in last season's tournament, rolled two strikes to begin the game, while Keane produced a pair of nines.
Once again, Keane and her coach had a conversation.
Keane said the chat helped to keep her calm. She also found her line and went with it. Enter eight straight strikes. Feggulis showed guts, finishing with five strikes in a row before the final frame to remain close. Keane, though, was just too tough. Too good.
Not even the thumb mishap affected her.
Keane started bowling when she was 11, getting her first ball from her grandfather. She noted she always gives credit back to him. More recently, Keane was inspired by attending last season's GMC Championships and seeing the Bears' Daniel Lenk capture the boys title. Now, her name is on the championship list.
Oh, and she'll be in the mix for another three seasons.


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Where else can you find a podcast that gives the same respect to Bowfinger & After The Wedding? That's exactly what I thought. You can't.
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Dallas Hallam & Patrick Horvath's Entrance is a horror film about a recent Los Angeles transplant ("Suzy") who cant find her groove/footing in her new west coast surroundings. While that sounds like a standard plot that's been told a million times, this is a unique horror film with multiple layers & double meanings. The first layer is the slow-burn story of a woman being stalked by a violent mysterious figure. This basic idea is nothing new. Horvath & Hallam just kind of turn things up a bit and use the horror genre as a vessel to get a deeper point across. This is actually the second layer of Entrance. The politics within the film double as a sort of commentary on the harassment that women often have to deal with. In this climate of "post-horror" nonsense, a lot of horror films aren't given the credit they deserve beyond gore & jump scares from critics who don't fully understand/respect the horror genre. Entrance is incredibly personal. Co-director Patrick Horvath revealed to me that some of the genesis of Entrance came from very real life stories & experiences from the women involved in the movie both directly and indirectly...
That was definitely our main intention though, essentially the heightened fear of the day-to-day experience of a woman...
A lot of those scenarios came from Suziey, Karen and Dallas' wife Michelle. I mean, you know, sans serial killer. - Patrick Horvath
All the scenes of Suzy walking down the street alone passing by male pedestrians is reminiscent of the infamous street harassment video that went viral a few years ago (for those that don't know or remember – a "social justice warrior" strapped a hidden camera on himself and followed a paid women/model around and recorded all the harassing comments & gestures she endured throughout the day). While the video (shown below) is quite different than Entrance, they both still share some of the same strands of DNA (that street harassment video also has layers of race baiting and questionable editing, but at the end of the day, some men can be pretty disgusting and disrespectful to women and I guess that's the ultimate point).
Entrance highlights the realism of the harassment that women deal with. I often hear my lady and her female friends talk about the potential dangers & fears of walking to and/or from a train station late at night or, depending on their moods, how uncomfortable they (sometimes) feels next to men or groups of men when they're alone (even if the men they are around aren't even conscious of them or have any kind of bad intentions).
Note the number of times we see Suzy walking alone with tight/protective boy language with an unknown man behind or next to her.
Suzy walking alone with tight/defensive body language
And look - I'm a large man that lives in crowded-ass New York City. A lot of men end up being in close proximity to women with absolutely no bad intentions. Some places are crowded and there's nothing that can be done about it. And some people don't always grasp the idea of personal space. But there is a physically intimidating presence some men do intentionally use around women.
In my opinion, Dallas Hallam & Patrick Horvath travelled down the same path as films like Peeping Tom, Psycho, & When A Stranger Calls kind of created but then they went a bit further and added some necessary social commentary. The violence against women in the aforementioned films are obvious but it just kind of stops there for some people. There are certainly knowledgeable critics who have called out violence against women on the big screen long before it became popular, but those people are still outnumbered by audiences who seem to get off on violence against women. Entrance makes it clear that empty violence against women (on & off film) is a serious problem that is often fetishized.
I don't want to turn this review in to an ironic twist of a male critic (…me) forcefully urging other women to see this, but it is an important film that I strongly recommend to women who take a special interest in female safety, feminism and/or violence against women (especially in film). There's also something kind of refreshing about the fact that two male directors seem to "get it" when it comes to that kind of stuff.
The only potentially challenging thing about Entrance is that a lot of it is very (intentionally) mundane. A lot of people hate "boring". Personally, I love boring when it's done right (like in the case of Entrance). But the boredom in Entrance takes on a kind of metta level because a big part of the film is an exercise in boredom and the mundane day to day life some of us live in. Much like Michael Haneke's The 7th Continent, the boring and the mundane is part of what makes Entrance truly horrific. Monsters, Zombies and murderous stalkers are certainly scary, but not as scary as loneliness, depression, living your life set to an alarm clock, living pay check to pay check or not finding your footing in a new city. These are some of the things that our protagonist deals with in Entrance. To be honest, Entrance is a horror film for mature adults with a good attention span and an equal appreciation for horror & experimental film.
I think this movie might be off-putting to others because it's so real & relatable (just like Haneke's 7th Continent). We wake up every day and go to work, get frustrated, dream of things we'll never attain and find disappointment in our commutes to & from work in real life. Movies are an escape for a lot of people. Why would you want to spend the few hours of free time you have watching sad/scary elements of your real life on TV? So Entrance isn't for everyone (sorry to the filmmakers if I've discouraged viewers). But that's what makes it special at the same time. The folks who "get it" will appreciate Entrance to the utmost.
How often do you see a modern horror film compared to the work of Michael Haneke? And Haneke is my own comparison. Some of you may find this hard to believe but The Dardenne Brothers (and their Belgian elder Chantal Akerman) played a part in the inspiration of Entrance.
That summer when we conceived it [Entrance], Lorna's Silence came out and it also happened to be when Zombie's Halloween 2 came out.
We were lamenting how a slasher film would be a lot more interesting as a Dardenne film, and so it went. - Patrick Horvath
Entrance / Lorna's Silence
Subconscious shades of Chantal Akerman (left) in Entrance (Right)
But all artsy references aside, this is a film directed by a team responsible for The Pact 2 & one of the stories in Southbound (two projects that came after Entrance, but still). So they understand horror. Entrance is a breath of fresh air within the horror genre and shows that Hallam & Horvath have the chops to step outside of the traditional horror tropes. Or...they have the chops to take traditional horror tropes and deconstruct them in to something new & fresh.
And if you're looking for a co-sign from within the world of horror then look no further than Stephen King...
This is a very interesting low-budget? almost no-budget? film. Suzy (Suziey Block) is a pretty young barista living a barely middle-class life in Los Angeles. She has a roommate and a lovely dog named Darryl. For the first 60 minutes of this scant 84-minute movie, we see her going through her routine, almost the same every day. It becomes clear that she is disconnected from any real, vital life but perhaps too emotionally numb to be lonely…although she senses something is wrong. She brings a fella home from a bar and stares blankly up at the ceiling as he makes love to her. No distaste, no disgust, also no excitement or pleasure.
Little by little, we realize that something is VERY wrong with Suzy's life. Her dog goes missing, and this becomes the emotional center of the movie. I was deeply moved by her halting efforts to get him back and by her breakthrough sadness. There's no movie music, the actors are not professional, and for long stretches, nothing seems to be happening. But my anxiety built up almost to Blair Witch Project levels. You know something awful is going to happen, and there comes a point when you wish it would, so you could relax. Finally it does. I was really astounded by how much the filmmakers (Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath) did with so little, especially when Horvath's only other picture was a slasher job called Die-ner (Get It?) -Stephen King
It really is worth the wait if you sit through the first major chunk of Entrance because there are plenty of entertaining elements to counter the experimental qualities that some may not be used to. Whats also great is that this is a fun second viewing because you want to go back and see if you missed any small/minor details.
But at the end of the day, the very real depression & loneliness in Entrance is what makes it a horror film in my eyes.
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We're back with a new super fun episode!
This week we delve in to the non-Killer Of Sheep work of Charles Burnett, Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, Miami Connection and so much more.
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THE CINEMA OF MARINA DE VAN TOLD THROUGH IMAGES & STILLS
Marina De Van is a director/writer/actress that walks along her own unique path. With five feature films and a handful of shorts under her belt she has not only made a dent in the art house world (The New French Extremity scene to be specific), but has also carved out her own little niche and breathed life back in to genres like Body Horror and the Psychological Thriller (I consider her feature debut In My Skin to be one of the best films of the last decade).
Marina De Van is an important female voice in modern film. While filmmakers like Catherine Breillat tackle the subject of sex & sexuality among women (especially young women) and Claire Denis focuses on the (sometimes) taboos of interracial relationships often told from the perspectives of (white) women, De Van focuses on sanity, repressed memories and the female psyche.
Her films are defiant & challenging. Why is it that when a male director gives us an unflinching (yet tasteful) look at sexuality, blood & violence it's ok, but when a woman does it, it causes a mini-uproar? Films like History Of Violence & Eastern Promises (Cronenberg) & Bug (William Friedken) are met with generally open arms while In My Skin (De Van), Trouble Every Day (Denis) & Anatomy Of Hell (Breillat) were all met with initial hostility & pushback. These are the kinds of questions that come about when discussing her work.
Marina De Van isn't exactly a household name but just about all of her movies are available on every major streaming platform. Hopefully this piece will inspire some of you to seek out her work and get familiar.
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN / FEMALE LEADS
Mental illness affects us all. It doesn't specify according to gender. However Marina De Van focuses on mental illness among women. Her films are very "female-centric" and there's a lot of estrogen in the cinematic universe of Marina De Van. Who knows hormones & the mindstate of women more than a woman herself? That's not to say a man couldn't direct a film about mental illness as it pertains to women but wouldn't you want to see a woman do that first?
Now that we're in an era where folks are pushing for female filmmakers now more than ever, perhaps Marina De Van should be considered a varsity-letterman in that movement...
In My Skin
Dark Touch
Le Petit Poucet
8 Women (directed by Francois Ozon but written by Marina De Van)
See The Sea (directed by Francois Ozon but written by Marina De Van)
Bien Sous Tous Rapports
L'Epicerie
with that being said...
TRUAMATIC EVENTS & TRIGGERS
In her feature film debut (In My Skin) we see our main (female) character develop a newfound fascination with cutting & self-mutilation after she takes a nasty fall at a party (the fall just triggers something dark that was already inside her).
In Don't Look Back we see a woman struggle with a split personality disorder brought on by something triggered from her past. Dark Touch is an allegory for child abuse (the child in this case happens to be a little girl) while Alias deals with a woman struggling from an unknown tragic event that stopped her modeling career...
LONELINESS & DEPRESSION (mostly among women but with a few exceptions)
The traumatic events from the above category often leads to depression and characters isolating themselves from others...
Psy-Show
Marina De Van doesn't shy away from showing the beauty that is the female body. While a lot of female filmmakers avoid gratuitous nudity & "eye candy", De Van embraces the female form (In My Skin almost doubles as an excuse for her to show off her own beautiful body).
And because we're seeing the female body through the lens of a woman, it ends up being tasteful...
See The Sea
BLOOD & BODY HORROR
I'm sure De Van would dismiss the idea of being labeled as a "horror director", but a large majority of her films feature blood, murder, mutilation and the occasional supernatural character.
She's also one of the leading voices in the current body horror genre although you'd never know that because most cinephiles with an opinion on said genre cant get past David Cronenberg. But almost everyone one of Marina De Van's films features gruesome body transformations (Don't Look Back), body dismorphia (Le Petit Poucet) or severe self-mutilation (In My Skin).
TRANSFORMATION/METAMORPHOSIS/SURROGATES…
Characters in movies starting out one way then changing in to someone/something new is hardly unique. But in the word of Marina De Van it's incredibly drastic and sometimes jarring. In See The Sea we watch a character take the place of someone after violently murdering them. At the start of In My Skin we watch a relatively happy person slowly change to a darker version of herself. In the appropriately titled Alias we see our main character ditch a party by making her housekeeper take her place (no one notices). And Don't Look Back is about a character with multiple personalities disorder.
See The Sea (a new mother takes the place of the original mother at the end of the movie)
two different versions of our protagonist in In My SKin
transformation in Don't Look Back
switching identities in Alias
DARK LIGHTING
I'm not sure if this is intentional or not but what makes De Van's films work so well is that a large majority of her work is lit very darkly which adds to the mysterious ambiance. Marina De Van works almost exclusively within the horror & psychological thriller genres so dark color palettes & nighttime settings only enhance the scary/uncertain mood...
VISUAL SIMILARITIES & (POSSIBLE) INFLUENCES ON MARINA DE VAN
Crash (David Cronenberg)/ In My Skin
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel) / In My Skin
Bladerunner (Ridley Scott) / In My Skin
Repulsion (Roman Polanski) / Don't Look Back
Altered States / Dont Look Back
RECURRING SHOTS: MIRRORS & SELF-REFLECTION
See The Sea (directed by Francois Ozon but written & starring Marina De Van)
SPYING & VOYEURISM
Horror, Psychological thrillers & The New French Extremity are the common genres that are associated with Marina De Van but she also dips her toes in to the neo-noir genre. We often find the characters in De Van's films creeping on others (La Promenade) or spying in an effort to uncover the truth (Don't Look Back).
CRITICISM OF (SOME) MEN
This one is a little complicated...
While she isn't calling out all men on their bullshit, De Van certainly shines a spotlight on the very real (negative) characteristics that do exist in some men.
The men in the films of Marina De Van are often monsters (Le Petit Poucet), aggressive (Dark Touch), aloof (Don't Look Back), weak & pathetic (Psy-Show) or aggressive & self-centered (Marina De Van's boyfriend in In My Skin is so self-absorbed that he isn't supportive of his girlfriend who is clearly suffering from severe mental illness).
Criminal Lovers (a film about a male sexual abuser inspired by a poem written by Marina De Van)
THE PRESENCE OF CHILDREN
The idea of "the past" is an overlooked element in the cinematic universe of Marina De Van. It's easy to forget when you're dealing with body mutilation & extreme violence but flashbacks (Don't Look Back), repressed memories (Dark Touch) and the past (Le Petit Poucet) are key elements within her work and they are usually manifested through the children in her films...
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THE CINEMA OF MARINA DE VAN TOLD THROUGH IMAGES & ...
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University of Michigan Teaches Digital Etiquette to Middle School Students
From cyberbullying to phishing, graduate students are helping middle schooler students learn how to be safe online.
For students pursuing a master's degree at University of Michigan's School of Education, learning where technology fits in the classroom goes hand in hand with teaching students how to treat each other online.
Since 2013, Liz Kolb, a clinical assistant professor of education technologies at Michigan, has been sending her students to Scarlett Middle School in Ann Arbor to teach digital citizenship.
EdTech and ISTE have noted that instilling a sense of digital citizenship is a key first step to improving cybersecurity overall.
ISTE's Standards for Students 2016 defines digital citizens as students who "recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical."
If that's the case, the question becomes: How are universities preparing future teachers to train students in digital citizenship best practices? When Kolb found out that Michigan wasn't engaged in this sort of education, she took matters into her own hands.
"It all started when my student teachers were coming to me with stories about their students doing things that were unsafe with digital tools," says Kolb. "I realized on our end that we were not doing a very good job at preparing them for having complex conversations about what is safe, kind and responsible online."
Initially, Kolb's student teachers worked with just a few classes at Scarlett, including Sal Barrientes's English class, but eventually the school decided to expand the program to all its students.
"Any day, somewhere in our building, our kids are using technology," Barrientes says. "There's no way we can avoid it, so we need to teach all of our students to be safer online."
Kolb — a former K–12 technology coordinator — worked with Barrientes and other teachers to develop the program as it is today.
Creating a Win-Win Digital Etiquette Program
Scarlett's program is tailored for each grade and addresses privacy, security, phishing, copyright infringement, online reputation and cyberbullying.
To the lay the foundation for what students should be doing, Kolb says it was important for the program to start before they got their hands on any technology. Also, she guaranteed that all of the middle schooler students were able to work with a student teacher by creating small teams.
"Our teachers get a chance to learn how to teach this in a safe environment, and the middle schoolers get to have these conversations with adults who aren't that much older than they are," Kolb says. "If a college student says, 'I don't do this because it's not kind or safe,' that might make them think differently."
Kolb and Barrientes say both groups of students had overwhelmingly positive reactions to participating in the program.
"Many of the graduate students are nervous about working with older students, but they end up understanding that they can have really deep and rich conversations with middle schoolers and they can make an impact quickly," Kolb says.
In a video Michigan created about the program, student teacher Amanda Kortz says the experience was helpful because she not only got hands-on experience working with educational technology, but also learned how to evaluate ed tech.
"We're challenged to think critically about whether the technology is helpful in the classroom," says Kortz.
Barrientes says Scarlett students are grateful that the school is taking the time to have these conversations with them, and that they've ultimately learned a lot about empathy in particular.
"The biggest lesson I've learned is to think about how other people feel before I say or post something," says middle school student Anthony Stewart in the Michigan video.
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Sun's out, fun's out! It's officially summer (well, in three days) and that means it's a perfect time to be outdoors. Whether you plan on going for a morning run, afternoon swim, or an evening stroll, there are many benefits of being in the sun. One, in particular, is that it causes your body to accumulate Vitamin D.
Vitamin D is important for your body because it promotes calcium absorption and bone mineralization. This means that sun exposure keeps your bones strong and healthy, especially if you combine it with exercise. Another just as important feature of Vitamin D is that it helps your body maintain high levels of serotonin, the chemical that keeps you happy!
If you have read the news in the past few years, you probably have seen that too much sun exposure is bad for your skin because high UV ray exposure may lead to skin cancer. Before you lather up in sunscreen (read our blog post about sunscreen here), make sure to at least give your skin some exposure to the sun.
Use the color of your skin to generally determine how much sun exposure you need each day. If you have fair skin, you should aim for about 15 minutes of sun exposure per day. If you have darker skin, you should aim for a little more sun exposure. The darker your skin, the more sun you want as it takes longer to create the recommended amount of Vitamin D.
Getting summer sun is super easy and has such great health benefits.
Always remember, Vitamin D = happy mind + healthy bones!


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Q: What is the difference between image generation and image stripping in Smalltalk? I read often of an "Image Generation" process in Smalltalk. The process seems to refer creating an image from scratch, from inside a Smalltalk.
But there is also a "Strip" process, which seems to involve removing objects to deploy a runtime.
What is the difference between both? There is any Smalltalk which supports image generation?

A: Term image generation often refers to process which starts from default vanilla image as shipped with installation, and loading of all code into it that is necessary for some project. This is done periodically during development to ensure that all code actually loads and works in the default image without problems.
Stripping is process that is (sometimes) done before deployment, from the image that contains all necessary code for the project, some of unused classes and methods are "stripped out" from the image. This is done to make deployed image smaller, or less dependent of external shared libraries, or for security reasons, or licensing reasons. For instance stripping might remove many classes related to the UI for the headless server. Or it might remove compiler to prevent user to change the code. In any case stripping is not exact science, since it is difficult to determine what can be removed and what not.
So with image generation you end up with the image that is larger than the one you have started with, and with stripping you end up with smaller image.

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The Tamil Nadu board is all set to declare its TN class 10 results 2014 today on 23 May 2014 at around 10 am. The results will be available on the official website of Tamil Nadu Directorate of Government Examination. Or else Jagranjosh team has lessened your work load to get your result updats and thus candidates who have appeared in the examination can easily check their TN SSLC result 2014 updates by clicking on the link below. https://www.jagranjosh.com/results/2014-tamilnadu-sslc-10th-44657. Students can also get their SSLC results 2014 Tamilnadu Board updates via SMS. Candidates can get their Tamilnadu SSLC Results 2014 mark sheets after the board releases it.
This year the Tamil Nadu Board of Education conducted the Class 10 examination in the month of March and April. The exams were started on 26 March 2014 and it ended on 09 April 2014. The reports states that about 10, 38,876 regular candidates and about 74,647 private candidates appeared in the TN Class 10 examination this year. The exam was held at 3,179 centers across the state.
According to Tamil Nadu Directorate of Government Examination official, a total of about 10, 51,062 students appeared in the examination last year.
Students can also get their results by sending 'TNBOARD <registration no>, <DOB in DD/MM/YYYY format> to 09282232585. The facility will be available post 10 a.m. on Friday.
According to a press release from BSNL, their subscribers can register by sending 'SSLC <space> <registration number> to 53576.
The sender will get an acknowledgement confirming their registration, and will receive the result once it is declared by the directorate.
Students can also find out results from their schools, national informatics centres at the district collector's offices, and district and branch libraries.
A press release said private candidates' results will not be available online, and would have to be obtained through respective examination centres.
In the year 1910 the Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education was established. The board works under the Department of Education, Government of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu Board prospects various objectives like to provide free and compulsory education for all the kids so that the basic amenities in schools can be improved.
The team at jagranjosh.com extends their best wishes to all the students who appeared in the Tamil Nadu Board of 10th and 12th exams 2014.


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Which female artist has the best selling album?
What is not a real location in Washington State?
Facts provided by Cheapskate (#1) and H.P. Shivcraft (#5).
There are no lists that include "6: Why Do I Have To Poop All Of The Sudden?". You can add this episode to a new or existing list.


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Introducing: The Plan A Infographics
ARTICLE PUBLISHED: July 02, 2019
This is the first of our new infographic section on the Plan A Academy where our data team shares some of the most interesting insights they come across in their journey through climate data, designed by our artists in-house.
Tracing back as far as – let's say Galileo – communicating science to the public has been a challenging issue for scientists. Their findings are sometimes scary, often groundbreaking and always complicated – especially when it comes to climate change. This has not made for fertile grounds for science communication.
The media, as one of the main communication platform between the public, its leaders and expert voices in the field, has a share of responsibility. Improper coverage or oversimplification of research has created a gap between the reality of research and the perception of its findings. Of course, darker forces have been at play, financing disinformation and downplaying certain studies to sway the public opinion's mind.
Nonetheless, even the most honest of scientists face the delicate balance between simplification and precision. The very phenomena they are trying to describe requires high-level jargon and daunting calculations. The high level of complexity coupled with oftentimes cryptic visualisations results in readers shying away from the actual information. The attempt to provide the reader with more information becomes counterproductive and one more person puzzled goes away from an article more doubtful than before its read.
This new series was triggered by an article called "A harmonised dataset of greenhouse gas emissions inventories from cities under the EU Covenant of Mayors initiative". That is just the title. We were struck by the number of interesting facts and figures, but flabbergasted by the complexity of the read. We decided to do something about it and extract the most essential data stories hiding in research papers, satellite data, ground level research or any other scientific material that needs to be shared and understood in the briefest delays. We are proud to present the Plan A Infographics!
THE POTENTIAL OF DATA
Nowadays, data is fundamental to all steps of science. New ways to gather large amounts of information (the infamous "big data") and deal with it have opened new possibilities for climate research. This new type of science does not present well like scientific public demonstrations of old. Complex predictive models, data correlation and anomalies, or advanced chemical analysis are more common than a public display to the face of the world. With the new capabilities in both gathering and processing data, humanity is equipped to understand and fight climate change. This example from the FAO's Global Forest Assessment shows the flow of data and how it can be represented to convey meaning to humans that don't like Excel.
Plan A, as a data-driven company, leverages climate data and analytics to address the gaps in climate finance. There is an indispensable need to bring information of climate change consequences to each and every last individual in a medium that can be understood. Open-source and publicly available relevant data should be fully tapped to empower each community to create a successful sustainable transition.
SPOTLIGHTS ON REALITY
Scientific measures, reliable numbers and data-driven approaches are needed now more than ever to understand planetary boundaries, fight and beat climate change. Leveraging the gigantic amounts of data we gather – be it from satellites, cities, experiments or modelisation – is one of the make-or-break challenges of sustainability. We now live in a time of such complexity that making sense of this intricate world is a step of its own. Even units are hard to understand. What is a tonne of carbon? what does a Terawatt even mean? Data visualisation such as the one below provides human references to better measure what the impact of a product. In our upcoming long form of this infographics, you will discover how fast fashion is consuming the world's resource and piling up in our tips.
What is missing then from climate communication to a) convey accurately the situation and b) to successfully create action for sustainability? One thing is certain, people have changed, and so has science. Can the structures in-between them also take new, more adapted forms? Thankfully, a new wave of journalism has emerged, carried by talented designers and coders, more likely to add meaning to numbers and plots. This is the rise of data visualisation.
Climate science and research must empower the public to take action. We identified the need for transforming data-heavy plots and research studies into eye-friendly and pleasing-to-look-at infographics. The emergence of data visualization tools in recent years has given data geeks more flexibility in communicating their studies and results. In that sense, the recent publication of the "first Black Hole Picture" is a total success. This picture is actually a visualisation of hundreds of thousands of operations aggregated by a supercomputer and a PhD student. Two different stories, two different impacts. Stay tuned for more eye-pleasing, jaw-dropping and most importantly, thought-striking data visualisations!
Discover the full infographic explaining the highlights of the research paper on EU cities discussed in the previous section. This is the first of our new infographic section on the Plan A Academy where our data team shares some of the most interesting insights they come across in their journey through climate data. Send your suggestions to [email protected] if you think we should visualise a particular piece of data!
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When Brandon and I got married almost 10 years ago, we had a combined debt of roughly $125,000. Most of that was school loans. About two years later, we bought a house for $52,000. When we were struggling to find jobs in the area and then ended up moving to a different state, we racked up about $6,000 on the credit card (credit card interest rates are evil! Avoid a balance on your card at all costs! Or, better yet, cut your cards up like we did). And then we had a baby who ended up being very sick for a while and I had complications related to birth which resulted in medical bills totaling around $20,000. We were struggling just to make the minimum payments each month. We were drowning. We had to do something. And so, we needed to get creative and we knew holding a few garage sales or reducing our budget in some areas (we had already slashed everything we possibly could) was not going to work. Here's what we did instead.
One of Brandon's school loans (his highest balance) was at a whopping 9.6% interest which is extremely high for a school loan. The amount of that loan was right around $80,000 which meant the monthly payments on a 30 year loan were near $700/month. School loans can be hard to refinance, especially if you have no collateral. Still, lenders which much rather have your loan than have you making your payments to one of their competitors so it's worth looking into. If you have a mortgage, car payment, or another payment that involves collateral, it is much easier to refinance.
Call around and explain that you have a loan with so-and-so, you've been paying on time, and you're looking for a better interest rate and you're wondering what they can offer you. Call a bunch of competitors and write down the interest rate, how many years the loan would be for, and the monthly payment of that loan to see who can give you the lowest interest rate. Then call everyone else back, including your current lender, and tell them that so-and-so has offered you such-and-such an interest rate and ask them if they are willing to beat that. Repeat this process and keep making those calls until you have gotten the absolute lowest interest rate you can and then lock in your new loan at your new rate, paying off the original loan if you switch lenders.
This is similar to #1. Sometimes it is hard to get refinanced through traditional lenders, especially if your credit score isn't great or if the loan has no collateral attached. If you know someone with cash to spare, you might consider approaching them about a loan at a lower interest rate but make sure there is legal paperwork to protect both your and them. Also, take into consideration if you want to risk changing the dynamic of the relationship by entering into a business deal with them. You'll lower your interest rate and they'll be able to collect some passive income. Win-win! With a lower interest rate, you will have a lower monthly payment or you could shorten the term of your loan and have it paid off faster instead.
We were able to get lower interest rate on our credit card and paid it off as fast as we could and stopped using our credit card long before that. With Brandon's loan, we were able to get an interest rate of 3.5% (down from 9.6%) and we shortened the term to 15 years. Even with shortening the term, our monthly payment is now less than $500 a month. We took $200 off our monthly payment and we'll pay off the loan in half the time!
3) Call your medical offices!
Did you know that medical bills do not collect interest? And medical billers are willing to work with you to set up a monthly payment plan to help you pay off your bills. Every medical service is different about their policies but they all are extremely helpful and will work with you to come up with a plan. The first thing I did when the ER, doctor, home care, and hospital bills started showing up was call the number on the bill and explain that I could not afford to pay the bill all at once and asked if I could set up a payment plan. They were all friendly and helpful and I received a bill from each place every month with the minimum amount due and paid on time. No interest. No negative affect on my credit. No collection agencies.
We have never counted on receiving a tax refund and we never make any plans for any possible refunds we might receive. Sometimes that check has been almost nothing and other times it has been surprisingly substantial. When these substantial checks come in, it is oh so tempting to run out and buy something we have been saving for or use it to get something we would never otherwise be able to afford for ourselves or the kids, or splurge on a family vacation. Instead, we've already agreed to place that check in savings or towards paying something off until we are debt free. No, it's not as fun, but the payoff will be huge when we are debt free and can do as we please. This year we paid off the remaining balance on my school loan and the rest went into savings. Last year the entire check went into savings (good thing because a month later I totaled our van and we had a few other unexpected expenses pop up, too. Instead of having to use a credit card, we were able to use our savings and stay on track towards becoming debt free). The year before that, we paid off the remaining balances on our medical bills that we had already been aggressively paying down.
Passive income is a payment that comes in with little to no work on your part. This could be interest you collect on money you loaned to a friend, rent you collect from a property you own, or royalties from a book you wrote, for example. Currently, we are focusing on passive income from rental properties. We were lucky enough to kind of stumble into becoming landlords when we had to move and were unable to sell our house. If you currently own your own home, you could look into finding a way to rent it out. Have you been thinking about moving and buying a different house? Instead of selling your current house when you move, consider renting it. Of course, you would want to research the rental market in your area to see if it's a logical area to invest in. We are currently living in an area that is prime for investing in rental properties so it makes sense to focus on this for now. You could also consider renting out a portion of your house while you live there (do you live near a college?) or maybe rent out a portion of your garage or pole barn for people to use as storage. If you would like to learn more about passive income and investments, Rich Dad, Poor Dad is an excellent place to start.
Trust me, it is all easier said than done. We have had to say no to a lot of things we wish we could have said yes to. We also get a lot of sideways and confused looks from people for some of our financial decisions (owning two houses while paying rent for the one we live in, for example), but it is all worth it when you look at the big picture and reach your goal of debt freedom. We are sooooo close to being debt free and then we will be able to say yes to so much more than we ever dreamed of before we started our war on debt.
What about you? What are some creative things you've done to reduce your debt or save money? What are you looking forward to saying yes to when you are finally debt free?


You've made the decision to become a homeowner – congratulations! That's a big step! Now that you're ready, let's look at some of your most burning home buying questions. We'll tackle three this week and three more next week.
Q: Should I buy a resale house or build my own?
A: That depends on a lot of factors and it mostly boils down to being a personal choice. If you're ready to move in right away, a resale is your best bet. Resale homes are great because they usually have all the window coverings in place (which can be quite expensive), some have a pool already installed, and many have nice upgraded features that the previous homeowners added. There tends to be a little more wiggle room on price negotiation here as well, as the seller is anxious to sell.
If you have some time and want brand new, consider different builders in the neighborhoods you're interested in. There are quite a few differences in quality and craftsmanship, so don't just go for the one you've seen on TV. Look at different elevations and structural options and think about life changes coming down the road. You never know how long you might be in your home, so make sure it's built to grow with you.
If you do decide to go with new construction, be prepared for delays and a longer timetable than you originally plan for. Building a new home can take an average of six months, sometimes longer. In any home build, there will be unforeseen delays, so the more you can be prepared for that, the better. See if your builder has any incentives to take advantage of, and plan for "startup" expenses like major appliances, landscaping, and window coverings.
Q: Should I get financing in advance?
Getting pre-approved for a mortgage loan is one of the first things you should do, even before you begin house hunting. It is important to know how much house you can afford so you can narrow down your search right off the bat. You wouldn't want to fall in love with your dream home only to find out it costs double what your bank will lend you. When you make an offer on a house, that will include how you plan to pay for it, so having everything lined up in advance makes the entire process much smoother.
Earnest money is the relatively small amount of money you will put down when you initiate a contract to buy a house. It can be anywhere from a couple thousand dollars to ten or twenty thousand, depending on the price of the home, and it must be money you have on hand (as in, not from your mortgage loan). It tells the seller or builder that you're serious about buying that home and begins the homebuying process. This earnest money will be applied to the sale price at closing.
Check back next week for three more commonly asked questions by first-time buyers!