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Shawn Antoine II's "Showtime" To Be Aired On Magic's Johnson Aspire Network Tuesday, May 26th.
Shawn Antoine II is a Harlem bred award winning filmmaker on the rise. The New York City native has quickly built an impressive resume that includes graduating from The University of Rhode Island, working as an apprentice with NBC's hit show "The Blacklist", being named "Best New Director" by the Hip-Hop Film Festival and having his latest film "Showtime" be selected for 47 film festivals.
On Tuesday, May 26th "Showtime" will be making it's national television debut on Magic Johnson's Aspire TV Network as part of Urban Indie Film Block. I got the chance to speak with Shawn (who happens to be a long time friend) about Showtime, it's soundtrack, his inspirations and much more. Check out our conversation below.
Shawn's journey as a film director began 5 years ago with a film titled "The Movement" .
Shawn's first officially released film
The film highlighted the Black Lives Matter Movement in New York City. Shawn's directing style is directly influenced by his upbringing in Harlem.
"Harlem in itself is another world, my directing style is creating worlds that exist in the inner city providing a new perspective on things. On Showtime, I show what these kids go through when they leave the train. Bringing people on a new journey that they don't know much about."
Shawn however wasn't always interested in directing. His first love was sports, football in particular. Sports not only pushed Shawn to take on leadership roles that he states correlates to directing but gave him an early start in video editing by hooking up teammates highlight tapes.
Inspired by New York City filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee ,& Darren Aronofsky. Shawn took on the mantra "Inform and Inspire" through his films. He has done just that, directing 9 short films and producing 2 having his most recent film "Showtime" be selected for 47 film festivals and earning him Best Director by the Hip Hop Film Festival.
"It feels good a lot of work went into the project and it's great that a black run film festival was the first to award me on the film"
Shawn Antoine on winning Best Director
Showtime was created to tell the story of the tens of thousands of NYC youth that perform on New York City's public transportation daily.
"People come across tens and thousands of these kids performing a day but don't really know their stories so I wanted to show what trials and tribulations they go through on a daily basis".
Airing on Magic Johnson's Aspire TV Network means a lot to Shawn because it gives black filmmakers a chance to showcase their art which doesn't happen often.
It's dope Magic is an idol both as an athlete and entrepreneur. He's giving black filmmakers a chance to showcase their art which doesn't happen. For him to partner with Mcdonadls is a blessing. We're definitely becoming more skilled and more eyes are on everyone looking to see who's next
One of the things that makes Showtime such a great watch is it's authenticity. Not only was the film based off of everyday life in New York City, the actors and soundtrack embody the Big Apple to the fullest. The films soundtrack features music from emerging acts such as Sabu Bu Dahbi & Asylum Records signee Hass Irv as well as production from Remi on the Roxx & Rico ReekRhythm Welch.
"I really wanted to make sure the artist came from NYC. The music goes along with the dance form and the music represents the style of the dance".
ReekRhythm who doubles as a music producer and owner of Harlem based Sonice Branding Company "A Rhythm By ReekRhythm LLC" said it was an honor to provide to Showtime because it genuinely captured the essence of NYC underground urban dance music.
"I fully believe that Litefeet is the next bboy or breaking movement. Not only does it emulate breaking, it derives from the same source (Harlem & The Bronx). Like breaking & bboying litefeet can't be faked, you know when you see genuine and practiced litefeet when you see and hear it. It's a distinct sound and emotion."
Emerging producer and Bronx native Remi On The Rox was also happy to contribute to a film that harps on NYC culture.
"It was a great experience that I was apart of something so cultural for NYC. Growing up in NYC, subway dancing is apart of our commute and I feel that it isn't spoken about enough or bought into the light . For the most part , everyone likes a good train performance from tourist to native New Yorkers. I'm glad Shawn did a film shedding light on such an unspoken art and I'm honored to collaborate with him on his vision."
With Showtime airing on such a huge platform more attention & expectations are naturally going to gravitate towards Shawn. In the future we can expect more projects and some short films that will be produced by the filmmaker .
Shouting out Joel Leech the main star who plays Darius as well as everybody that was involved due to the collaborative effort. Shawn also dropped off some advice for directors on the rise:
"Know the story you're talking about, make sure it's a story you know. The more you film the more confident you'll get. Nobody gets it the first time."
Showtime will be airing this Tuesday May 26th via Aspire TV be sure to check the Aspire TV link below for more details and be sure to check out Shawn' website below to see what he has in the works.
https://aspire.tv/episodes/for-love-and-life/
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Contents Bind Us Together With Love! Bind us together with Love! Ephesians-4:1-5 Song Lyrics Bind us together, Lord, bind us together With cords that cannot be broken Bind us together Lord, bind us together Lord Bind us together with loveThere is only one GodThere is only one King There is only one bodyThat is why we can sing Bind us together, Lord, bind us together With cords that cannot be broken Bind us together Lord, bind us together Lord Bind us together with love There is only one God There is only one King There is only one body That is why we can sing Bind us together, Lord, bind us together With cords that cannot be broken Bind us together Lord, bind us together Lord Bind us together with loveBind us together with Love Jesus is building His Church!
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Michael Bully Herbig founds herbX medienproduktion gmbh for the development and production of entertainment programs.
May 24, the first of six seasons (with 15 shows each) of the TV comedy show "bullyparade" is first broadcast on ProSieben, a German TV network. The comedy short film "Easy Bully" is nominated for the Golden Rose of Montreux. The radio show "Bullys Late Light Show" goes on air on the Radio Energy Network.
Kick-off for herbX tonstudios. The studio quickly establishes itself as the point of contact for radio commercials and radio productions. "bullyparade" receives its first nomination for the Golden Rose of Montreux.
Simultaneously, with the start of season 2, "bullyparade" goes into the next round.
In January, Michael Bully Herbig establishes the film production company herbX film gmbh, and the company starts to work on its first cinema project "Manitou's Shoe". In the same year, the post-production company Xframe gmbh is founded together with the cutter Alexander Dittner – and not only herbX productions get their finishing touches in the AVID cutting rooms! While the second season of "bullyparade" receives another nomination for the Golden Rose of Montreux, season three is broadcast on TV. For the first time, herbX tonstudios are in charge of the sound design and audio processing for a cinema film: "Erkan & Stefan", a production by Hofman&Voges. More productions follow suit. In the coming years, sound and music for all projects of herbX medienproduktion and of herbX film are edited and finished at the studio. Other external productions complete the list, such as the cinema films "Soloalbum", "Die Wolke", "Es ist ein Elch entsprungen", "Stellungswechsel" or "Die wilden Kerle 1-5".
In April, filming of "Manitou's Shoe" starts. At the same time, "Erkan and Stefan", the first movie directed by Bully, becomes a huge box office success and registers a total admission count of 1.2 million. The fourth season of "bullyparade" is broadcast and receives its first nomination for the German Film Award.
In 2001, "bullyparade" is again nominated for the German Film Award. Season 5, again broadcast by ProSieben, turns out to be just as successful as its predecessor. July 19 is opening day for "Manitou's Shoe". A true sensation: as early as day one, the comedy film breaks all records, registering a total of 250,000 cinemagoers. After the first weekend, total admissions had risen to 2.5 million. In total, 11.7 million people are drawn to the cinemas to see Michael Bully Herbig's western spoof, and the blockbuster became the most successful German film, and in Austria the most successful film, of all time! In Austria, the film even beats "Titanic", which had so far been the world's most successful motion picture.
"bullyparade" sees its third nomination for the Golden Rose of Montreux while season 6, the last season of "bullyparade" is aired. Bully holds a 13-week vote among the comedy show's audience, allowing them to pick the theme for his next feature film. The show's fans vote for "Dreamship Surprise". "Manitou's Shoe" receives numerous awards, including three German Film Awards. Due to the movie's extraordinary popularity, German cinemas see a re-release of the western comedy including a new prologue dedicated to the new version. Fans of the movie are thrilled to be presented with "Manitou's Shoe – Extra Large".
In April, shooting starts for the "Dreamship Surprise – Period 1" feature film. "Bully & Rick", a comedy show, is under development for ProSieben.
Spring sees the start of the shoot for the first season of the comedy show "Bully & Rick". On March 7, "Manitou's Shoe" is first aired on German TV. With a total viewing rate of 12 million people, the movie's TV premiere on the German TV network ProSieben is a huge success, and ProSieben registers the best movie broadcast market share in the network's history. With a sensational opening on July 22, "Dreamship Surprise – Period 1" goes down in German cinema history. With a crowd of more than 650,000 pouring into German cinemas on day one, Michael Bully Herbig not only beats his own record, seeing as the science fiction comedy's release turns out to be the most successful opening of all times for a German production. Just under 9.2 million cinemagoers are drawn to theaters, making "Dreamship Surprise – Period 1" both "cinema hit of the year" and one of the most successful German feature films of all times, second only to "Manitou's Shoe". Marking position two, "Space Taxi", one of the songs from the movie, almost tops the German Single Charts and receives the Comet music award. "Dreamship Surprise – Period 1" receives several awards, including a Bambi Award in the award category "Film National". In fall, first preparations for "Lissi and the Wild Emperor" are started. The first season (13 episodes) of "Bully & Rick", an attention-to-detail TV comedy show, is first aired on September 13.
Alexander Dittner takes over 100% of Xframe gmbh. In October, "Bully & Rick" is awarded the German Comedy Award in the "Best Sketch Show" category. For their work on "Dreamship Surprise – Period 1", the herbX studio's sound experts are nominated for the German Film Award in the category of "Best Sound Design". For "Lissi and the Wild Emperor", herbX film and Michael Bully Herbig start work on their first CGI-animated movie. Total production time is 2-3 years, and, in cooperation with Scanline, a VFX company, a dedicated animation studio is set up for the production of the movie.
Production of the 2nd season of "Bully & Rick" with a total shooting time of 80 days starts. herbX tonstudios is in charge of sound editing for "Hui Buh – the Castle Ghost", a Rat Pack production directed by Sebastian Niemann. The CGI movie "Lissi and the Wild Emperor" is in its second year of production. The second season of the "Bully & Rick" TV show is first broadcast on September 18. In 2007, again being nominated for the German Comedy Award, the show is awarded the WDR Eins Live Krone as "Best Comedy Show".
After a total production time of two years, the animated movie "Lissi and the Wild Emperor" is released to German cinemas, recording the best box office results out of all German movies 2007. The 4D cinema motion ride "Lissi and the Wild Emperor" becomes a highly popular attraction at Bavaria Filmstadt. After almost 10 years of successful sound studio work, Michael Bully Herbig withdraws from the sound business. The herbX tonstudios are sold, their new name now being Wavefront Studios. Within the framework of further restructuring measures, herbX medienproduktion gmbh merges with herbX film gmbh. Script development for "Vicky the Viking", a new feature film, starts.
"Lissi and the Wild Emperor" is nominated for the German Film Award in the "Best Film Score" category, and receives several awards, including the Bavarian Film Award. In early May, the first episode of the six-episode TV show "Bully sucht die starken Männer" is aired, the world's first TV show dedicated to finding actors for leading characters of a cinema film. August 5 sees the start of shooting for the feature film "Vicky the Viking". On December 7, the musical version of "Manitou's Shoe" makes its world premiere at Berlin's Theater of the West (Theater des Westens).
Post-production work for "Vicky the Viking" takes until mid-2009. Michael Bully Herbig's adventure comedy film, first released to theaters on September 9, draws 5 million visitors, thus becoming the most successful German cinema film of the year.
"Vicky the Viking" is nominated for the German Film Award for "Best Production Design" ("Bestes Szenenbild"), "Best Sound" ("Beste Tongestaltung"), "Best Make-up"("Bestes Maskenbild") and "Best Film Score" ("Beste Filmmusik"), and, among other distinctions, is awarded two Bavarian Film Awards. In August, herbX film gmbh moves into its new offices on the premises of Bavaria Filmgelände. herbX film becomes co-producer of the Senator/deutschfilm production "Goethe!" directed by Philipp Stölzl and released to cinemas on October 14. On October 12, shooting starts for the Bavaria Film production "Hotel Lux" directed by Leander Haußmann and starring Michael Bully Herbig. herbX film is co-producer.
On June 11, "Bullyversum" opens its gates on the premises of Bavaria Filmstadt. Bullyversum is a surprising and interactive discovery journey through the productions of herbX film and Bully's works. Michael Bully Herbig stars in Helmut Dietl's "Zettl". Shooting ends on July 8. herbX film is co-producer. "Hotel Lux", a cinema film released to German cinemas on September 28, receives two awards at the Rome Festival, including an award for the "Best Film Score".
"Hotel Lux" receives the Bavarian Film Award and is nominated for the German Film Awards ("Best Camera", "Best Production Design" und "Best Make-up"). On January 31, Helmut Dietl's cinema film "Zettl" has its premiere with Michael Bully Herbig starring as the film's protagonist.
Principle photography for feature "Buddy" begins March 4th. The six-part sitcom "Bully makes Buddy" for ProSieben starts November 18. Just like classic US sitcoms, this show was filmed in front of a live studio audience. The comedy "Buddy" is released December 25th. herbX film produced this romantic comedy with Warner Bros. as co-producers. Bully not only wrote the screenplay himself, but also produced and directed the film and starred in this new comedy that will not only make you laugh, but also tug at your heartstrings.
"Buddy" is awarded at the Austrian Filmpreis, category: Best Director. herbX film starts development of new project "The Balloon"
"BULLYPARADE – Der Film" , the book is finalised and preproduction begins. Michael Bully Herbig supports Rat Pack Filmproduktion as creative producer for "Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver"
Principle photography of "BULLYPARADE – Der Film" starts in March. herbX film acquires the German remake rights for "Nightcrossing".
August 17th is the opening night for "Bullyparade – Der Film". Right on time for the 20th anniversary of the popular tv-series "bullyparade", this movie conquers the big screens and is number one of the German film charts for four consecutive weeks. The tv mini-series "Bullyparade – The Story" is aired on Sat1 in September. herbX film is producing the thriller "Ballon" in collaboration with STUDIOCANAL and SevenPictures. It is the story of one of the most spectacular flights over the East German border in a handmade hot-air-ballon.
Just a few weeks after it´s world premiere the thriller "Balloon" has been sold to numerous countries around the world. In Europe these are countries such as Benelux States, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and other East-European countries. In North America so far distribution rights for Canada have been acquired, and in Asia "Balloon" can be seen in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, as well as in Australia. herbX joins Studio Babelsberg as co producer of the movie "Traumfabrik".

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The President of the National Council for Women, Maya Morsi, said that African women face many difficulties and challenges in their lives on an ongoing basis, pointing out that the world must pay attention to them and work in their favour to give them all their rights and to help them realise their dreams and ambitions.
Morsi stressed during her speech at the African ministerial consultative meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, that gender equality and women's empowerment in all areas are essential in the African continent, pointing out that Egypt is moving toward the strategy of empowering women in sustainable development 2030.
She explained that President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi launched a year for women and since then the state took the direction toward the development and empowerment of Egyptian women.
Furthermore, Morsi mentioned that Egyptian women are living their golden age currently under the patronage and attention of the present political leadership, which acknowledges the role of Egyptian women, pointing out that Egyptian women represent 25% of the Egyptian government.


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27 Indiana charities receive $2,356,900.00 Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust grants
(Indianapolis) – The Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust presented $2,356,900 in grants to 27 Indiana charities Friday, July 19. More than 70 guests representing the nonprofit organizations attended the check presentation at the Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center, 1920 W. Morris Street.
"Today's grant recipients share a common thread of excellence in fulfilling their commitments to this community and state," said Harriet M. Ivey, president and chief executive officer of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. "Grants range from $15,000 to $200,000 and represent every area of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust's program interests, which are helping people in need, protecting animals and nature, and enriching community life," Ivey added.
This is the Trust's second funding round for the year 2002. Since the Trust began making grants in 1998, it has committed $34,341,958 to 226 nonprofit organizations in Indiana.
Nina Pulliam passed away in March of 1997. At her direction, upon her death, her assets were placed into an irrevocable charitable trust to support the causes she loved in her home states of Arizona and Indiana.
"Year 2002 marks our fifth year of a 50-year life for Trust operations. We will be a part of this community for 45 more years and in perpetuity through the legacy of your work that we are supporting today," Trustee Chairman Frank E. Russell stated to the Indiana agency representatives attending.
"The Trust's funding interests center around Nina's passions, continuing to support the things she loved and adding to the quality of life for all Hoosiers," said Carol Peden Schatt, Trustee and niece of Mrs. Pulliam.
Trustee Nancy Russell updated the audience about the Trust's Nina Mason Pulliam Legacy Scholars program to underwrite scholarships for nontraditional college students at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Ivy Tech State College, Indianapolis Campus.
Each year the Trust is sponsoring a new cohort of five students at IUPUI and 12 students at Ivy Tech. The second cohort of 17 Nina Scholars begins classes in the fall 2002 semester. More information about the Nina Scholars program may be found on the Trust's web site.
The Trust also makes grants in Arizona and had approximately $350 million in assets as of April 30, 2002.
The next deadline for Preliminary Applications is Sept. 13, 2002.
Applications may be obtained by writing to the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, 135 N. Pennsylvania Street, Suite 1200, Indianapolis, IN 46204; or by calling 317-231-6075; or through the Application page on our web site.
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HYDROGYN: New Album Artwork, Track Listing Revealed
Ashland, Kentucky based hard-rock/metal group HYDROGYN, which now consists of Julie Westlake (vocals), Jeff Westlake (guitar), Jeff Young (guitar; ex-MEGADETH), Joe Migz (drums), and James Lomenzo (bass; ex-MEGADETH, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, WHITE LION), has completed work on its new album, "Judgement", for a late 2010 release via an as-yet-undetermined record label. The CD was produced by Jeff Westlake and Jeff Young, except the song "Right Thing Now", which was produced by Michael Wagener and Jeff Westlake. It was mixed by Jeff Westlake, except "Right Thing Now", which was mixed by Michael Wagener, Jeff Westlake and Julie Westlake.
"Judgement" track listing:
01. Medicate
02. Big Star (feat. Doug Pinnick)
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04. Alone
05. Rusted Love
06. Gold Dust Woman
07. New Messiah
08. Drowning
09. Right Thing Now
10. Lost Reality
Doug Pinnick of KING'S X contributed bass and vocals to the song "Big Star", which is described by Young as "more straight-ahead — maybe if you think of uptempo AC/DC or THE CULT's 'Electric' (1987)-era stuff meets KING'S X. That's the general vibe of 'Big Star' — which is actually a vocal duet. Mr. Doug comes in on selected trade-off lines with Julie, especially in the chorus and the bridge and over the end.
"The song is basically a tale of the difficulties of becoming a professional musician. Actually, it's more difficult now than it's ever been. It's about that long quest; for some it happens, and for others it never happens.
"There's a line in the song that actually references Fuse TV; I don't know if you're aware of this channel, but it's basically the only true music video channel left in America. Actually, the original line referenced MTV and I had to remind Julie that they don't play music videos anymore. (laughs) So, we changed that recurring line to reference Fuse TV. The ever-hot Mistress Juliya VJs on that channel and is one of the hostesses."
Regarding how Doug Pinnick come to contribute bass and vocals to a HYDROGYN tune, Young said, "We're all huge fans of KING'S X, particularly Jeff Westlake and myself," Young explained. "And we're all friends with Michael Wagener, who produced the last two KING'S X albums (2005's 'Ogre Tones' and 2008's 'XV'). Michael connected us with Doug and he was definitely down for it. We sent him the basic track right away, and he loved 'Big Star'. Initially, we only asked him to contribute vocals, but the more I thought about it... Remember, James Lomenzo is playing on every track on 'Judgment'. I went back to James and said, 'We should probably have Doug play bass on this, which will make the whole thing a little bit of a bigger guest spot.' Also a major KING'S X fan, J-Lo was all about that. I asked Doug, and he was totally down for contributing the bass part. He laid his part down and it just sits in the track so well. His groove is amazing and it just really helped to lift 'Big Star' to exactly where it needs to be."
With such a capable, weighty vocalist as Doug Pinnick, many possible avenues can be potentially explored. However, which avenue did Pinnick choose to explore on this specific outing?
"It's classic Doug," Young said. "We told him we wanted his trademark vocal stylings but his vocals are actually a little punchier. He actually roughed it up a little bit here and there, so it's the best of Doug Pinnick with a little tougher attitude. He does some nice little harmonies around Julie and their voices blend very well. There's this two-part harmony he threw in the bridge where we didn't even tell him to sing a line but he added it in there just for fun and it came out really great. It's kind of that bluesy, real simple two-part 'BEATLES-type' harmony. He and Julie also throw down a wailing sustained scream over the end, kind of reminiscent of his ad-libs in 'Over My Head' (from 1989's 'Gretchen Goes to Nebraska')."
A new video blog in which Young, Jeff and Julie discuss the forthcoming album, "Judgement", can be viewed below.
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Every person, place or thing is identified with a name, without which we would not be able to communicate or understand one another.
There are four types of nouns: Common Nouns, Proper Nouns, Abstract Nouns and Collective Nouns.
The Staff (of teachers) was unanimous in its decision.
Many accepted lists of collective nouns are available, but it is exciting to try to create your own. These will not be found in books e.g. a chatter of staff members, a bumble of bees, a waddle of ducks.


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June, The U. S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
January 18, Jefferson asks Congress for funds for an expedition to explore the Mississippi River and beyond in search of a route to the Pacific.
Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Maine immediately gives right to vote and education to all male citizens. The compromise also prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30'N lat. (southern boundary of Missouri). The 36°30' proviso held until 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
Compromise of 1850 admits California as free state but Fugitive Slave Law enacted.
May, the remaining four of the eleven Confederate states secede.
October 28, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
December 11, Hitler declares war on U.S.
Lunch counter sit ins begin in South (beginning of "Civil Rights Movement"
Soviets launch dogs and mice into space and bring them back alive.
Oswald shot by Jack Ruby - country "stunned" Lyndon Johnson becomes President.
Race Riots in Watts area of L.A.
US Submarine sinks, 99 die.
President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday"


In this video, I show you how to create a Windows Web App in Microsoft Azure. Windows Web App. We go through the Azure Portal, and see how form fields get filled in. If you can't afford to create resources in Azure, but want to see how it's done in 2018, this is the video for you.
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A certain farmer had become old and ready to pass his farm down to one of his two sons. When he brought his sons together to speak about it, he told them: The farm will go to the younger son.
The older son was furious! "What are you talking about?!" he fumed.
The father sat patiently, thinking.
Most people only do what they are asked, doing only the minimum requirement. They need specific instructions on most things they do.
Conversely, those who become successful are anxiously engaged in a good cause. They don't need to be managed in all things. They don't just do the job, they do it right and complete. They also influence the direction for how certain ideas and projects go.
Most importantly, those who become successful initiate. They reach out to people, ask questions, make recommendations, offer to help, and pitch their ideas.
Being successful requires being proactive and not waiting for life to come to you. It means you're on offense, not defense. You're active, not passive.
In every organization, there are a select few employees who would be difficult to replace. For the most part, most people are like the older son in the story.Most people could be easily replaced. Most people are passive and reactive.They require specific instructions. They need to be governed and managed in all things.
Initiation always involves some degree of risk. You're putting yourself out there and there is a chance you could fail.
Conversely, doing only what you're told entails no risk and carries no responsibility. It's playing safe.
Are you an initiator? You absolutely can be.
But if not, one thing is for certain: Life isn't going to wait for you.


After a visit to Dramanti Espresso in the city, heading to the Wynnum shop was on the must-do list. A word of warning, it is a little more difficult to locate than it's city sibling. There is a driveway off Tingal Rd that is directly opposite Edith St, and there you will find a park and see the Dramanti Artisan Roaster umbrella, and the doorway to a great suburban coffee experience. Inside we are greeted to an industrial yet cosy feel and more laid back than the city cafe – the odd train going past adds to the industrial feel – and the silhouette of Dragan on the door is an artistic link between the two. Looking down the cafe, you notice the coffee sacks and small 8kg roaster directly ahead of you. There is something pleasurable about drinking coffee at the roasting source. Plans are afoot to get another smaller roaster for specialty coffee beans … keep a lookout for that!
We had a good chat about coffee in the hopper and how to best to drink it. We were keen to try the house blend – 19 20 20 (inspired by the Grates) – big fans! Coffee beat music and we went with the recommendation of the LaBamba which was a blend of Sumatran and Brazilain (which reportedly adds sweetness on the palette), and best served black. Sounded good! "How about a doppio?" we asked. "It would be awesome as a doppio," was reply. And it was – great crema, subtle aroma, definite sweetness from the Brazilian, and great coffee punch at the end. The barista created the masterpiece on a La Marzocco Strada, which he thought was a top class coffee machine. It was such a great coffee, it was hard to go past the same choice. So it was another LaBamba doppio – yummo!
What a great coffee option for the bayside! This is a great place to visit on the way back from a stroll along the Esplanade, on a beautiful winter's day, or just because you enjoy coffee and happen to be in Wynnum. Actually, the coffee is the real reason you need to visit! Great staff who know their stuff and clearly love to chat about all things coffee.
Our host at the Campos cupping course told us this estate is the best coffee producer in Australia.
We give an enthusiastic 9 beans!


Liberal candidate for MPP Eleanor McMahon and cycling legend Steve Bauer at her nomination meeting on January 30, 2014.
All signs point to a spring election in the province.
This is exciting for a few reasons.
Eleanor McMahon is one of those cycling-friendly candidates, and she's running for the Liberals. Her nomination was announced on January 30, 2014, at the Burlington Central Library.
McMahon, who has had a long career in politics – she was press secretary for Chrétien and is founder of Share the Road cycling coalition which has lobbied provincial parliament for safer cycling, just to name a couple of highlights – is now officially taking it Queen's Park. But first she has to unseat Conservative incumbent Jane McKenna. Burlington has voted Conservative provincially since 1943.
We at dandyhorse magazine have every faith that McMahon can and will move a progressive agenda forward that will include cycling. After seeing her in action over the last many years in the cycling community, developing important initiatives like "Greg's Law" and a 3-foot safe passing law (set to be finalized at Queen's Park this year), the Ontario Bike Summit, and the Youth Bike Summit, and also moving forward Ontario's first cycling strategy in years – we are looking forward to a spring election and hope the residents of Burlington are looking for a straight shooter who gets results.
And, as you can see from the 100-plus crowd at her nomination meeting in the Burlington on Thursday night there are a lot of other people looking forward to working with her too. The Right Honourable John Turner was among her supporters.
Former prime minister, John Turner, congratulates Eleanor McMahon on her nomination.
Premier Kathleen Wynne welcomed McMahon into the Liberal fold, along with transportation minister Glen Murray and minister of municipal affairs, Linda Jeffrey. Murray was one of the star parliamentarians at the inaugural Youth Bike Summit, organized by McMahon's Share the Road coalition last year. If the attendees are any indication, it sure looks like McMahon has the right ministers supporting her to move a cycling agenda forward in the province.
McMahon says cycling is a positive activity that can contribute to healthier communities all across the province. To that end she'll be helping to organize at least five regional Bike Summits this year, in places like Ingersoll and Thunder Bay, as well as adding eight university summits into the mix for 2014.
McMahon says, key to moving the active transportation agenda forward is recognizing that cycling issues are not partisan issues. She's worked with Conservatives (Norm Miller on the 3-foot passing law) and NDPers (Cheri DiNovo on "Greg's Law") to get results.
So do we, Eleanor, so do we.
dandyhorse magazine will present our special bike plan election issue in June. Stayed tuned to the dandyBLOG and @dandyhorse on Twitter and Dandyhorse Magazine on Facebook for more news.
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again." ~ Henri Cartier Bresson. Simon Wilson has devoted his career to chasing the vanishing. An award-winning photojournalist based in Hamilton, Ontario, Wilson's work has appeared in major international publications ranging from The Washington Post, The Times of London, The Globe & Mail, Macleans and the Toronto Star. For over 20 years, this sought after photojournalist has honed his skills at catching not just a record of the moment, but the essence of it.


>There's something odd about Today's New Band, Play People, that has proven difficult to quite pin down. They sound so surprisingly polished and confident for a virtually unknown band that I wondered initially if I'd missed a class in the Rock 'n' Pop 101 course that I took all those years ago, and they had just passed me by.
Their songs shine and glisten. Oh What A Life is weary and reflective, yet chimes and rings lushly throughout. Just Don't is punctuated with a Morse-code stab, and is a perfect example of how a good chord change can loosen the most knotted muscles in your neck as your brain is distracted by the sheer luxury of sound.
Something about Play People's songs remind me of The Boo Radleys' less frantic moments, which is high praise, I suppose. Delicate, coy and lovely, their songs are packed with naive charm. They're a bit like a quick glimpse inside a shy teenage boy's head, except without being bombarded with thousands of guiltily memorised images of Page 3 Lovely "Keeley, 22, from Bromley".
Even without her considerable charms (note to self – must stop using dreadful Sun-style puns right away) to tempt you, Play People are an understated example of lovely songcraft – as un-rock 'n' roll as that sounds – and as such should be heard by more people, so check out their tunes here!
P.S. – Happy 18th Birthday to ANBAD's now not-so-little sister Phoebe!
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Jailed Catalan leader says verdict risks criminalizing all dissent
SANT JOAN DE VILATORRADA, Spain (Reuters) - In condemning Catalan separatist leaders to long prison terms, Spanish authorities have set a precedent that risks criminalizing any form of dissent against the state, one of the leaders said.
FILE PHOTO: Pro-independence activists gather during a protest in Barcelona, Spain, October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Jon Nazca -/File Photo
Civil rights activist Jordi Cuixart and eight others were last week convicted of sedition over their failed 2017 independence bid and jailed for up to 13 years, terms that convulsed Spain's political landscape and added new impetus to the secessionist movement. He was imprisoned for nine years.
"I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence," he told Reuters on Wednesday in an interview from prison.
Cuixart said he remained in favor of Catalan independence and would support another referendum on it, but he criticized the rioting that has marred some of the demonstrations held daily in Barcelona since the leaders were sentenced.
He also accused Spain's government of neglecting the option of dialogue to resolve Catalonia's political crisis. Acting Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has consistently refused to discuss any move by the region toward independence.
Cuixart chairs Omnium Cultural, an organization founded in 1961 to defend Catalan culture under the Franco dictatorship, when public use of the Catalan language was banned.
He does not represent a political party. Seven of the nine leaders were active politically in autumn 2017, when they and others defied courts by organizing an independence referendum.
Cuixart, 44, was convicted of sedition for ignoring court orders by leading a protest against a police operation designed to halt the referendum.
The Constitutional Court had declared the plebiscite, and a subsequent declaration of independence, illegal.
'A NONSENSE'
In its ruling on Cuixart's case, the Supreme Court said protest or dissent "can never justify the unequivocal commission of criminal acts" and found him guilty of sedition as part of an uprising against legal orders through a "tumultuous and collective disobedience accompanied by resistance or force".
He labeled his sentencing "an atrocity and a nonsense", saying he had carried out a peaceful act of civil disobedience.
He also drew parallels between Catalonia's protest movement and the environmental activism of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and the London-based Extinction Rebellion movement.
"Anything against the state's interests, through a non-violent action, is susceptible to be considered sedition," he said through an intercom from behind a glass wall.
Cuixart was speaking from Lledoners prison in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, about an hour's drive north of Barcelona, where he and six other secessionist leaders are serving their sentences.
Cuixart has been in jail since October 2017 when he and another rights activist - Jordi Sanchez - were detained pending trial following a court appearance.
Cuixart added his voice to calls from others in the independence movement for the jailed leaders, whom he called political prisoners, to be amnestied.
Swiss-based human right group International Commission of Jurists has called the Supreme Court ruling "a serious interference with the exercise of freedom of expression, association and assembly".
Cuixart praised independence supporters' refusal to accept the sentences without protest. But he condemned the rioting, in which demonstrators battled police, torched cars and set up burning barricades, introducing a darker element to a previously largely peaceful protest movement.
Reporting by Joan Faus; editing by John Stonestreet


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skroll down and fetch the manual.
The P-43 had a larger contribution than many know. It helped in the development of one of the best fighters of the war, the P-47. I too would like to see the Lancer make it into PF. Very nice looking bird for obvious reasons.
The Republic P-43 Lancer was an American single seat fighter aircraft of the Second World War, entering service in early 1941. It was armed with four .50 inch calibre machine-guns and carried six 20 lb. Bombs. A Pratt and Whitney R-1830-57 Twin Wasp radial engine of 1200 hp provided a top speed of 356 mph and a range of 1046 km.
THIS would be a good opponent for the A6M-5 Zero.
"The P-43 had a larger contribution than many know. It helped in the development of one of the best fighters of the war, the P-47."
The P-43 itself wasn't very successful, and essentially it was only ordered by the USAAC as they knew that the development from it, the P-47 _was_ going to be something special. Given the precarious nature of some of the US aircraft manufacturers after the depression (the B17 came close to bankrupting Boeing) they needed to throw Republic a bone to keep them going whilst they made the improvements necessary to make the P-47. And just as well they did!
it seems like some of you who posted here hasnâ´t read the big text on the P-43 I linked.
you really should because it is the best there is on this fighter,almost every other text you will find on it are historically incorrect.
SO DONâ´T FORGET TO DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE TEXT.
It looks like a baby P-47!
http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gifOne problem with the P-43 was that it did not have proper Self Sealing Fuel Tanks.
And that alone is a big Problem in Combat.


Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) responded on Monday to the devastating fire that ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, but her choice of words caused some outrage among many.
It was Omar's assertion that the holy cathedral's significance lies in the "art and architecture" that rubbed many people of faith the wrong way.
"Well, the 'architecture' that the art was housed in is a cathedral. While Biblically Christ is wherever His people are, Notre Dame is a significant and storied icon of faith," Dana Loesch responded.
Radio host Joe Walsh challenged Omar to acknowledge that the Notre Dame Cathedral is a house of worship.
President Donald Trump was asked on Monday if he had any regrets about harshly criticizing Omar for her 9/11 remarks.
He continued: "She has been very disrespectful to this country. She has been very disrespectful, frankly, to Israel. She is somebody that doesn't really understand, I think, life. ... It's unfortunate. She's got a way about her that is very bad, I think, for our country."


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T20 2018 - The Fixtures Are Out
T20 2018 - The Fixtures Are Out - And as Northamptonshire seek to replicate prior year success having reached and won the finals twice previously they start next year's campaign with a home fixture against Leicester Foxes on Wednesday July 4th, before entertain Notts Outlaws two days later at Wantage Road on Friday July 6th
The Steelbacks then go on to play home games against Derbyshire Falcons on July 19th, Worcestershire Rapids on Friday 27th July, Birmingham Bears on Sunday August 5th, Durham Jets on Friday August 10th, before playing their final home group match against Yorkshire Vikings on Thursday August 16th, a game whoch could prove to be pivotal.
The T20 competition will take place over 7 weeks with the top 4 from both the North and South groups qualifying for the quarter finals, which will be played on four consecutive evenings from August 23-26, with the winners of the four matches then earning their places at Finals Day on September 15 which will of course be played at the same venue as always at Edgbaston.
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Artist Talk with Alexis Rockman
Join Rockman as he discusses his multi-faceted four-year project, The Great Lakes Cycle. He'll discuss the work itself and share insight on his process of exploring the past, present, and future of the Great Lakes. He hopes that this work will create wider awareness of ecological issues and inspire visitors to play a larger role in protecting our environments and preserving precious resources of future generations. A Q&A session and time in the gallery with the artist follows.
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ABOUT ALEXIS ROCKMAN
Born in 1962, Rockman was raised in New York City. As a child, he explored Central Park, watched early nature documentaries on television, and frequented the Museum of Natural History, where his mother worked for anthropologist Margaret Mead. This led to an interest in drawing animals and their environments. Rockman pursued art at the Rhode Island School of Design and Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, and gained early recognition in the mid-1980s for his eerie bio-botanical scenes. The scope of his imagery expanded as he explored historical and contemporary artistic expression and mined the vernacular and practice of scientific representation. Driven by an intense curiosity about the natural world and an ambition to explore the pressing questions of our times, Rockman has been recognized for his impressive artistic range and for the intensity of his commitment to the environment and its preservation.
Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle is organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum, with support generously provided by the Wege Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Frey Foundation, and LaFontsee Galleries and Framing.
The Urgency of The Great Lakes Cycle
This fall, WAM is proud to present Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle. Organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) in Michigan, the exhibition features an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper by New York–based artist Alexis Rockman. In a state bound by Lake Superior and part of a region contiguous to Lake Michigan, Minnesotans are keenly aware of the importance, robustness, and fragility of these shining, open waters. The Great Lakes are one of the world's great…
Artist Feature: Jim Denomie
Jim Denomie was a University of Minnesota art student when he began the work of re-claiming his tribal heritage and re-connecting with his Native identity. Nearly twenty years later, he is nationally known for his humorous, critical depictions of United States history and religion. His paintings address colonization, assimilation, white washing, and other violences that the Native population has suffered at the hands of Western European colonizers. Denomie currently lives in Franconia, MN while his work resides in collections all over Minnesota and throughout…
Jim Denomie was a University of Minnesota art student when he began the work of re-claiming his tribal heritage and re-connecting with his Native identity. Nearly twenty years later, he is nationally known for his humorous, critical depictions of United States history and religion. His paintings address colonization, assimilation, white washing, and other violences that the Native population has suffered at the hands of Western European colonizers. Denomie currently lives in Franconia, MN while his work resides in collections all over Minnesota and throughout the…


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Kurt Benirschke (1924-)
Kurt Benirschke studied cells, placentas, and endangered species in Germany and the US during the twentieth century. Benirschke was professor at the University of California in San Diego, California, and a director of the research department at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California. He also helped form the research department of the San Diego Zoo and its sister organization, the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942- )
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard studied how genes control embryonic development in flies and in fish in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the 1970s, Nusslein-Volhard focused her career on studying the genetic control of development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In 1988, Nusslein-Volhard identified the first described morphogen, a protein coded by the gene bicoid in flies. In 1995, along with Eric F. Wieschaus and Edward B.
Pope Gregory XIV (1535-1591)
Pope Gregory XIV, born Nicolo Sfondrati, reversed the bull of Pope Sixtus V, Effraenatum, under which an abortion at any time of gestation can be punished by excommunication. He supported the Aristotelian distinction between an "animated" and "unanimated" fetus, making abortion of an unanimated fetus punishable by lesser means. This decision contributed to the historical debates within the Roman Catholic Church on when a fetus has a soul, and when abortion was punishable by excommunication.
Lennart Nilsson (1922- )
Lennart Nilsson is a world-renowned photojournalist recognized for his exploratory images of the inside of the human body. Throughout his career, Nilsson has received a great deal of publicity for his images documenting the human reproductive system and the morphology of viruses. His photography was the first to capture early human development and the developmental stages of embryos and fetuses. These images have helped shape the way the public visualizes development.
Subject: People, Outreach, Reproduction
Father Frank Pavone (1959- )
Father Frank Pavone, a key proponent of the Roman Catholic Church's pro-life movement, has devoted his life's work to ending abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, and other techniques and procedures that he believes threaten human life from conception to death. His contributions to the pro-life movement include founding a new religious order called the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life and participating in high-profile protests and television interviews for the pro-life cause.
Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)
Pope Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, marked his contribution to the abortion debate by removing the distinction between an "animated" and "unanimated" fetus from Catholic doctrine, and established the edict that a human should be protected starting from the moment of conception onward. This proclamation made abortion at any time of gestation punishable by excommunication. Pope Pius IX's decision became Canon Law of the Catholic Church.
Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
Pope John Paul II's views on abortion and embryology have been very influential to the Roman Catholic Church. He strictly forbade abortion and other threats to what he regarded as early human life in his encyclical entitled "Evangelium Vitae," meaning the "Gospel of Life." His authority on moral and social issues was highly regarded during his lifetime.
Pope Sixtus V (1520-1590)
Known for dropping a long-held distinction in the Catholic Church between the animated and unanimated fetus, Felice Peretti was born in Grottamare, Italy, in 1521, son of a Dalmatian gardener. In his early years, Peretti worked as a swineherd, but soon became involved in the local Minorite convent in Montalto, where he served as a novice at the age of twelve. He went on to study in Montalto, Ferrara, and Bologna, continuing his devotion to religious life, and in 1547 Peretti was ordained as priest in the city of Siena.
Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, has been crucial to the clarification of Roman Catholic views on embryos and abortion in recent history. His 1968 encyclical "Humanae Vitae" spoke to the regulation of birth through various methods of contraception and sterilization. This encyclical, a result of Church hesitancy to initiate widespread discussion of the issue in a council of the Synod of Bishops, led to much controversy in the Church but established a firm Catholic position on the issues of birth control and family planning.
Pope Innocent XI (1611-1689)
Pope Innocent XI, born Benedetto Odescalchi, made considerable contributions to the Roman Catholic approach to embryology by condemning several propositions on liberal moral theology in 1679, including two related to abortion and ensoulment. His rejection of these principles strengthened the Church's stance against abortion and for the idea of "hominization," meaning the presence of human qualities before birth.
Margaret (Peggy) Goldwater (1909–1985)
Margaret Goldwater advocated for birth control and reproductive rights in the United States during the twentieth century. Goldwater was a socialite and philanthropist and was married to Barry Goldwater, US Senator from Arizona. She spent much of her life working to further the women's reproductive rights movement, which sought to expand women's legal, social, and physical access to reproductive healthcare, including contraception and abortions.
Subject: People, Reproduction, Outreach
Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)
During the twentieth century, Austin Bradford Hill researched diseases and their causes in England and developed the Bradford Hill criteria, which comprise the minimal requirements that must be met for a causal relationship to be established between a factor and a disease. Hill also suggested that researchers should randomize clinical trials to evaluate the effects of a drug or treatment by monitoring large groups of people.
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
Emma Goldman was a traveling public speaker and writer known for her anarchist political views as well as her opinions on contraception and birth limiting in the late nineteenth century in the United States. Goldman identified as an anarchist, which she explained as being part of an ideology in which people use violence to provoke or demand social and political change. Goldman was involved in many anarchist social groups and published the anarchist magazine Mother Earth.
Oliver Allison Ryder III (1946– )
Oliver Allison Ryder studied chromosomal evolution and endangered species in efforts for wildlife conservation and preservation at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California. Throughout his career, Ryder studied breeding patterns of endangered species. He collected and preserved cells, tissues, and DNA from endangered and extinct species to store in the San Diego Frozen Zoo, a center for genetic research and development in San Diego, California.
Maurice Ralph Hilleman (1919–2005)
Maurice Ralph Hilleman developed vaccines at the Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research in West Point, Pennsylvania, during the twentieth century. Over the course of his career at Merck, Hilleman created over forty vaccines, making him one of the most prolific developers of vaccine in the twentieth century. Of the fourteen vaccines commonly given to children in the US by 2015, Hilleman was responsible for eight of them. Hilleman's most widely used vaccine was his measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1787-1869)
Jan Evangelista Purkyne, also called Johannes or Johann Evangelist Purkinje, studied cells in the cerebellum, fibers of the heart, subjective visual phenomenon, and germinal vesicle, in eastern Europe during the early nineteenth century. His investigations provided insights into various mechanisms and structures of the human body. Purkyne introduced techniques for decalcification of bones and teeth, embedding of tissue specimens, and eye examinations.
Theodora (Theo) Emily Colborn (1927-2014)
Theodora Colborn studied how chemicals affect organisms as they develop and reproduce during the twentieth and twenty first centuries in the US. By the 1940s, researchers had reported that chemicals from agricultural and industrial processes affected how wild organisms developed, but in 1991, Colborn organized the Wingspread Conference in Racine, Wisconsin, at which a group of scientists classed these chemicals as environmentally harmful substances. Colborn and her colleagues called those chemicals endocrine disruptors, as they mimic or block the body's endocrine system.
Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004)
Edward B. Lewis studied embryonic development in Drosophila, including the discovery of the cis-trans test for recessive genes, and the identification of the bithorax complex and its role in development in Drosophila. He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus for work on genetic control of early embryonic development.
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (1834-1914)
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann studied how the traits of organisms developed and evolved in a variety of organisms, mostly insects and aquatic animals, in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Weismann proposed the theory of the continuity of germ-plasm, a theory of heredity. Weismann postulated that germ-plasm was the hereditary material in cells, and parents transmitted to their offspring only the germ-plasm present in germ-cells (sperm and egg cells) rather than somatic or body cells.
Katharina Dorothea Dalton (1916–2004)
Katharina Dorothea Dalton was a physician in England in the twentieth century who defined premenstrual syndrome (PMS) as a cluster of symptoms suspected to begin one to two weeks before menstruation and disappear upon the onset of a new menstrual cycle. Prior to Dalton, there was little research on pre-menstrual issues and those that existed linked the problem to excessive water retention or estrogen. Dalton hypothesized that PMS resulted from a deficiency in the hormone progesterone and advocated for hormone replacement therapy to lessen the symptoms of the syndrome.
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (1872-1947)
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett advocated for social reform in the United States in the early twentieth century, particularly regarding sex education and women's rights to access contraception. Dennett authored several publications on sex education and birth control laws. She also worked to repeal the Comstock Act, a federal law that made it illegal to distribute obscene materials through the US Postal Services.


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SOLA Giving Day: The Grand Opera House of the South
by: Tracy Wirtz
Posted: May 8, 2019 / 03:55 PM CDT / Updated: May 8, 2019 / 04:03 PM CDT
The Grand Opera House of the South is participating in South Louisiana Giving Day for a specific reason and with a specific goal in mind.
Executive Director Kim Gielen Gattle says the organization is hoping to raise $46,000 to install a third row of lights for stage performances.
When the opera house was renovated in early 2000s, this particular feature was not part of the plan. Since then, they have managed to attract large musical groups such as the Air Force Band who require the additional lighting. The performers must bring in or rent lighting for the performances.
Often times, these sorts of events are offered at no charge to the public.
The Grand Opera House of the South in historic downtown Crowley was originally completed in 1901 and remains one of a small group of second story opera houses in the world. When it was restored, as many of the original features as possible were retained or replicated. The opera house seats approximately 300 people.
To find out more about The Grand Opera House of the South or to see their schedule, visit thegrandoperahouse.org. If you'd like to make a contribution to help them reach their goal, visit southlouisianagivingday.org.
NEW IBERIA, La. (Iberia Council on Aging)- Celebrate National Hot Dog Month by purchasing a Hot Dog for Seniors' Dinner. The event will be held on, Thursday, August 1, 2019. The meal comes with a hot dog with chili, chips, cookie and a canned drink. It cost $6.00 and can be paid to the Iberia Council on Aging.
Your purchase and/or donation will help Iberia Council on Aging feed a Senior:
The boil advisory for the Prairie Ronde Water System in the Whiteville Area, placed on Monday, has been lifted.
That includes 16907 Highway 182 North to Cotton Patch, Sonnier, WPA, Sylvester, Melvin, White Chapel, Gold Dust Loop, Highway 29, and Highway 106.
LAKE CHARLES, La.– On July 10, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office deputies received complaint in regard to indecent behavior with a 9-year-old girl. Upon investigation it was found that between the dates of June 17-22 and July 1-7, Khalil D. Tyler, 23, of Lake Charles, had inappropriate sexual contact with the girl on numerous occasions. Tyler confirmed the allegations.
Tyler was booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center on July 18.
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Q: IN Query in Cassandra Where clause I have a Scylla cluster with 3 Nodes and 1 Table created with the below Query
CREATE TABLE id_features (
    id int PRIMARY KEY,
    id_feature_1 int,
    id_feature_2 int,

)

I am issuing below query from the application
SELECT * FROM  id_features where id in (1,2,3,4...120);
The query can have a maximum of 120 ids.
Will this Query contact all 3 nodes based on the token value of id`s to fetch data for 120 ids in the worst case?
Or only 1 node will be contacted to fetch the data for all the ids and multiple nodes are used only for high availability
Do the replication factor, consistency level, and load balancing policy will play any role in deciding the node?

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Will this Query contact all 3 nodes based on the token value of ids to fetch data
Do the replication factor, consistency level, and load balancing policy will play any role in deciding the node?

It very much depends on things like replication factor (RF), query consistency, and load balancing policy.  Specifically, if RF < number of nodes, then multiple nodes will be contacted, based on the hashed token value of id and the nodes primarily assigned to those token ranges.
But, given this statement:

Or only 1 node will be contacted to fetch the data for all the ids and multiple nodes are used only for high availability

...I get the sense that RF=3 in this case.
If the app is configured to use the (default) TokenAwarePolicy then yes, for single-key queries only, requests can be sent to the individual nodes.
But in this case, the query is using the IN operator.  Based on the 120 potential entries, the query cannot determine a single node to send the query.  In that case, the TokenAwarePolicy simply acts as a pass-through for its child policy (DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy), and it will pick a node at LOCAL distance to be the "coordinator."  The coordinator node will then take on the additional tasks of routing replica requests and compiling the result set.
As to whether or not non-primary replicas are utilized in query plans, the answer is again "it depends."  While the load balancing policies differ in implementation, in general all of them compute query plans which:

*

*are different for each query, in order to balance the load across the cluster;

*only contain hosts that are known to be able to process queries, i.e. neither ignored nor down;

*favor local hosts over remote ones.

Taken from: https://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/java-driver/3.6/manual/load_balancing/#query-plan
So in a scenario where RF = number of nodes, a single node sometimes may be used to return all requested replicas.
Pro-tip:
Try not to use the IN operator with a list of 120 partition key entries.  That is forcing Cassandra to perform random reads, where it really excels at sequential reads.  If that's a query the app really needs to do, try:

*

*Building a new table to better support that query pattern.

*Not exceed double-digits of entries for IN.

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Blackstone sells Valad Europe to Australia's Cromwell
By Richard Lowe2015-01-27T14:57:00+00:00
Blackstone has sold Valad Europe to Australia's Cromwell Property Group, four years after buying its parent company, Valad Property Group.
Cromwell, an Australian real estate investment trust (REIT), is buying the fund management business for €145m, having raised €150m from investors through a convertible bond issue.
The deal marks a return to Australian ownership, four years after Blackstone bought Australian listed Valad Property Group and spun out the European arm.
Cromwell has entered into a conditional share purchase agreement with Blackstone Real Estate Partners VI, which is the majority owner, and Valad Europe's management, which also own a stake. It is subject to UK and Guernsey regulatory approval.
Valad Europe specialises in value-added real estate strategies across Europe, with €5.3bn assets under management in 24 mandates and funds.
In the past four months, Valad Europe revealed it received two separate mandates to invest €500m in European real estate on behalf of an unnamed investor.
Cromwell CEO Paul Weightman said: "The acquisition of Valad Europe presents the opportunity to acquire a successful, value add property funds management platform with scale across a number of geographies and sectors.
"The business is a strong cultural fit with Cromwell, is complementary to our existing funds management operations, and furthers our strategy to increase the earnings contribution from funds management to approximately 20%."
Cromwell Property Group
Valad Europe
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Valad Europe to build €500m real estate portfolio in Netherlands
Investor completes first deal, paying Unibail-Rodamco €140m for six assets
Valad to build €500m central European portfolio for investor
Partnership makes first investment in Prague for retail strategy
Valad core-plus fund diverts strategy towards France
European Diversified Fund to allocate €250m following capital injection


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Are we not paying enough attention to trucks when it comes to their greenhouse gas emissions?
When we talk about greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, often the focus is on overall emissions without considering the contribution of different vehicle types. For example, when we look at the trend in emissions from the transportation section since 1990, we see a 42% increase (from 122 Mt in 1990 to 173 Mt in 2015) as expected since the number of vehicles has increased as the population has increased.
With the announcement of Tesla Semi and other electric trucks, it is time to seriously start looking at these other types of vehicles.
But, if we dig a little more, we see that emissions from passenger cars have DECREASED since 1990. This is despite a greater number of vehicle on Canada's roads. So, what is contributing to the increase in transportation-related emissions? It turns out that emissions from passenger light trucks and freight trucks has been increasing.
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Dear Ministers Garneau and Bains, I commend and thank you for appointing an advisory group to recommend policies on zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) in Canada. Since transportation accounts for a quarter of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada, developing evidence-based policies that could lead to a meaningfully greater share of ZEVs on Canada's roads would facilitate reduction in GHG emissions and could help us to meet our international commitments. There are several policy tools that could be deployed to increase the number of ZEVs. These include providing incentives to potential buyers, helping build a electric vehicle charging network, and a ZEV mandate. Many provinces already provide incentives for buying ZEVs and funding to development of a network of charging stations. However, without a ZEV mandate these policies will have limited success. Research from Simon Fraser University suggests the current supply of electric vehicles will not lead to a market share that will lead to significant emissions reductions. A balanced and flexible ZEV mandate with a target of 10% and 70% of new vehicles sales by 2020 and 2030 would lead to a significant reduction of emissions from the transport sector. In addition, an Ecofiscal Commission report suggests that a ZEV mandate could be a cost-effective measure to achieve this reduction. To this end, I urge the Federal government to develop and implement an evidence-based, balanced and flexible nationwide ZEV mandate with a goal of increasing ZEV sales to 10% and 70% by 2020 and 2030. Thank you for your time and consideration, Yours Sincerely, (your name)
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petition: Parents against Grandparents Rights!
We have got to stop this Grandparents Rights it is totally infringing on our fundamental right to raise our children how we see fit! Causing emotional problems to our children. Join me on this petition!!
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This petition is to promote the Restoration of Parental Rights and preserving the fit parent's rights to make child-rearing decisions free of third party interference and government intrusion. I hope to find people in the same situation as our family and to gather as much useful information to help fight goverment intrusion as to who we see fit to be around our children. Sometimes bad people are grandparents and the court system should not have the right to overrule a parents decision as to who we think should be around our children!
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Over the next few weeks, I am going to be blogging a recap of the textual analysis project I pursued this year. I made an initial foray into describing how I was starting the project last fall, but I quickly became immersed in methodological and technical questions that shifted the tools and goals of my exploration. In the midst of this exploration, I wasn't quite sure I was getting anywhere meaningful–hence the non-blogging–but now looking back over my course of learning and experimentation, I can see that I do have a few things to share.
This post follows directly from the first one, in which I introduced Louis Kaplan's Bibliography of American Autobiographies and the beginnings of figuring out what a corpus of immigrant autobiography might look like.
Happily for me, the index to Kaplan's bibliography includes an entry for "immigrant," broken down by country of origin and date range of publication. After a first pass through to figure out which of these were already available in text format from Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and HathiTrust, I went back through to simply make a list of all the entries.
The point, here, is to figure out how (by the imperfect, preliminary measure of this one bibliography) my corpus compares to the archive of the published. As well, to see how the genre of "US immigrant autobiography" as something closer to a "whole" aligns with the more canonical selections with which we are already familiar.
My full text corpus turned out to be 55 titles. Most of these are in Kaplan; a few are added based on texts I knew or found cited in other scholars' works.
Kaplan's listing of US immigrant autobiography contains 411 titles. A couple of quick graphs can help us see how that list breaks up in terms of date published and country of origin.
These graphs begin to tell us a couple of important things about the historical reality and limitations of what know about US immigrant autobiography. 1) While the US immigrant autobiography in literary studies is typically thought of as an early 20th century genre, Kaplan's work suggests that the most prolific era for the genre slightly preceded that in the late 19th century. 2) While the most canonical texts for literary studies focus on Russian (and especially Jewish) and Italian writers, the most prolific writers of this genre according to Kaplan's work were English and German.
Taken together, these two divergences reminds us that what is typically studied as US immigrant autobiography reflects a relatively narrow historical and political framework of immigration: the early 20th century influxes of "new" immigrants, as defined by the Dillingham Commission, from southern and eastern Europe, whose settlement in urban areas and linguistic diversity challenged established narratives of land settlement and assimilation.
It also reminds us that our count of immigrant autobiography is always going to reflect an operational definition of "immigrant." Kaplan's is biographical and quite literal: if you were born outside of the US and wrote a book about your life while you were in it, you wrote an immigrant autobiography. We don't typically think of English immigrants, but they meet this definition. Overall, this relatively straightforward counting exercise made me tighten my own definition of immigrant–someone born outside of the US whose autobiography pointedly considers physical movement and questions of social belonging between national spaces. To create a more comprehensive archive and corpus of such texts, I will surely have to move well beyond a single bibliography.


This post is a guide for those wishing to understand how to enhance their performance on a bike by improving their aerodynamics. I have included some of the science and many of the insights we have gained from wind tunnel testing of cyclists. There is no need to buy expensive kit, indeed you can go 10 minutes quicker in your next 100 mile sportive just by changing what you wear.
As well as the aerodynamic resistance, a cyclist's power also needs to overcome the rolling resistance of the tyres. Although I won't consider it in detail, it's worth having a look at how rolling resistance and aerodynamic resistance compare. The good thing about rolling resistance is that reducing it is simply an equipment choice (weight loss is important too – see Nutrition off the Bike: Feast or Famine? Carb or Cow?), and there are data published to help us choose, e.g. www.bicyclerollingresistance.com. Using data for the best and worst performing tyres from this site we can plot an upper and lower bound for the power required to overcome the rolling resistance alongside the aerodynamic drag for a standard road bike drop handlebar position.
Comparison of power to overcome the rolling resistance of 'fast' tyres (PR(lower)) and 'slow tyres (PR(upper)), and the aerodynamic resistance of a comfortable drop handlebar position (PA). The total power using average tyres is also shown (PA+R) as is the extra power required due to a drivetrain of low (93%) and high (98%) efficiency (Ptotal(low) and Ptotal(high)).
Clearly it's worth choosing good tyres but, at higher speeds, aerodynamics is by far the most important consideration. Finally the efficiency of the drivetrain needs to be taken into account. We need to divide the power by between 0.93 and 0.98 depending on how well the drivetrain is running (run-in chain, not 'crossing' the chain, etc.). In summary, at 30 mph, rolling resistance accounts for ~33-67 W of power required, drivetrain efficiency for ~12-45 W and aerodynamics for ~543 W. The rest of this post will look at how much variation there is (and therefore possibilities for reduction) in this aerodynamic component of the required power.
How do aerodynamics affect speed and power?
where ρ is the air density, V the velocity of the air (i.e. the speed of the cyclist plus any head wind), CD is the drag coefficient, and S is area (the frontal area of the cyclist and bike). Sometimes, quite understandably, A is used to denote area. In aerospace engineering we use S, so I'm sticking with that.
To increase our speed we need to make P bigger by doing more training, but this post is about increasing speed by making the bottom of the fraction smaller.
Unfortunately we can't do much about the air density, ρ, except choose to ride on a day when it is hot and the atmospheric pressure is low (density is proportional to pressure and inversely proportional to temperature). Riding at a record UK low of 926 mb (31st January 1902, Aberdeen) compared to the record high of 1054 mb (26th January 1884, Ochtertyre) would result in an increase in V of approximately 4.5%, assuming all other factors remained constant. Moving from freezing conditions to 30°C increases V by approximately 3.5%.
Of course such favourable conditions would be the same for everyone, except for an individual record attempt, which is why there was so much talk about air pressure in the build up to Sir Bradley Wiggins's hour record (which he rode at an unfavourable 1030 mb).
The frontal area, S, and drag coefficient, CD, are particular to the rider and their equipment. That is, we can control and optimise these quantities.
It is easy to get confused about the effect of CD and S on the aerodynamic drag, and so the required power. CD is a property of a body's shape and surface finish. A large truck may have a lower CD than a convertible sports car; it is long and thin and has various drag reducing fairings, whereas the sports car has a windscreen sticking up into the airflow, fancy spoilers, etc. However, when the much bigger S is taken into account, the actual drag of the truck is higher.
Fine-tuning reductions in CDS through changes in position is very rider-dependent. The variety of time-trialling positions adopted by the top riders is not just down to some riders not having the opportunity (or not taking the opportunity) to use a wind tunnel. Riders' body shape and style leads to, e.g. flat, wide forearms being better for some while the angled, close-elbow 'praying mantis' position being better for others. Although I will consider the benefits of optimising position in a future post, for now we will concentrate on more profound changes in position, clothing and equipment, the results of which will be applicable to most riders.
We calculated the power for a range of positions, clothing and equipment using the R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel at the University of Southampton. This is the facility where UK Sport and Scott Drawer's 'Secret Squirrel Club', with the University, made all those marginal gains for UK cyclists in the build up to the Beijing and London Olympics.
The power we measure is that required to overcome the drag of the air pushing the cyclist and bike backwards. Note that it does not include the power required to turn the wheels, so we cannot fully assess wheel aerodynamic performance with the setup used to obtain the data for this post.
The test subject is me: height 183 cm, weight 67 kg. The default 'road' bike is my Specialized S-Works Roubaix XL with Shimano Ultegra Di-2, Fulcrum Racing 5LG CX wheels with 25 mm Michelin Lithion 2 tyres and a 750 ml bottle in a down-tube cage.
The test bike. It's not supposed to be a super aero machine – just a bike.
I cycle the short distance to the tunnel (with a rucksack full of kit options that arrived from Zepnat the day before). The rig that holds the bike to the force balance is all ready and my bike is quickly installed. The rig is like a very narrow set of rollers, but the bike is held front and rear by its wheel axles like a turbo trainer. Unlike rollers, the front roller is driven by a delicate cable, which means brakes are contraband – a rule reinforced by the large 'NO BRAKES' message being projected on the floor in front of me as I mount the bike.
As the tunnel starts, the noise and rush of air is a little intimidating and escalates rather rapidly, resulting in a slight panic that perhaps something's gone wrong, the whole thing's out of control and I'm about to be blended. Soon the feeling is one of slight smugness that I'm in a wind tunnel going really fast. Michael (the student getting his degree with the data we're collecting) gradually ramps up the speed from 20 to 47 miles per hour, taking 30 seconds of force data at each speed, for a range of everyday cycling positions: on the hoods, drops, standing with hands on the hoods, and a standing sprinting position with hands on the drops. The idea is to test `normal' positions, so on the hoods I'm in a relaxed position you might adopt on a club run, rather than crouched over the bars, getting as low as possible.
The tunnel speed is projected onto the floor in front of me so that I can try and match my wheel speed to it. At the fastest setting of 47 miles per hour ('Chris Hoy speed' the tunnel manager calls it), it's hard to stay relaxed; I'm hanging on to the bars to stop myself being dragged off the bike.
As well as the four positions, we methodically work our way through a number of configurations representing potential kit choices for races/sportives. These configurations are detailed in table 1.
A number of tests were performed for each configuration at each speed. Minor changes in position, sensitivity of the measurement equipment, etc. mean that no two tests produce the same result. The results in the table are average values and are only reported if the probability that the measured difference between configurations was due to experimental errors is less than 5%, i.e. we are 95% confident that the result is due to the change we made to the configuration.
Table 1: day 1 test data (% difference are relative to baseline drops positions and only reported if statistically significant).
To a certain extent the numbers speak for themselves, but I will summarise the findings below and look at how we can interpret them.
The largest changes we see in the drag data relate to changes in position. With a 10% increase in power required in the sprint position, you need to think twice before getting out of the saddle. This is relative to a 'comfortable' position on the drops, so compared to a tucked, finishing straight position, the penalty for standing up would be greater. One would normally only be en danceur on a slow climb when drag is less of a consideration. However, battling in to a stiff headwind, the 36% increase in drag will certainly make a difference.
As well as assessing different positions, we wanted to look at the effect of some simple clothing and accessory choices. The first question we had was: does carrying a bottle make a difference? Working against gravity uphill it surely does, but as far as aerodynamics go, the data wasn't convincing; while we often measured a lower drag with no bottle and cage, the results are not significant.
The British Cycling team like to cover the vents on their helmets, and more and more pros are doing the same. So, does it make any difference? We tried out the Lazer Helium Aeroshell and it's a resounding yes, with a 3% reduction in power.
Do you really need to wear a skinsuit?
Although yet to be de rigueur at café stops, skinsuits are ubiquitous in time trials and becoming more and more popular in road races. Is wearing one for a sportive worth the inevitable jibes? That may depend on how beach-ready your body is, but the power savings are considerable at 8% in the standard drop handlebar position.
So how much faster can I go?
Let's say you're riding with your hands on your hoods at 16 mph. Referring to table 1, your CDS=0.38 (actually that's my CDS, but for this relative analysis my results will be indicative of gains you can make). From the figure below, reading off 16 mph on the horizontal axes, we see at the reference CDS=0.38 (the horizontal dashed line) the colour scale indicates 16mph too. Now, let's say you decided to ride out of the saddle on the hoods. From table 1 we use CDS=0.48. At the same reference speed, moving up to 0.48 on the vertical axis, we see the colour scale indicates ~14.5 mph. This is the speed you would drop to riding in this position at the same power. If you decided to ride on the drops in a skinsuit, at CDS=0.32, we see your speed would increase to over 17 mph. Not bad!
Potential speed gains due to changes in CDS (for a constant power).
In the next figure you can see the implications on the time taken for a 100 mile ride. At the on-the-hoods speed of 16 mph, this is going to take you 6 1/4 hours. For the above change from CDS=0.38 to CDS=0.32, the time saving over 100 miles is around half and hour. Time to take in a café stop! But would you go into a café wearing a skinsuit?
Time to ride 100 miles due to changes in CDS (for a constant power).
In the next post I'll look at some more clothing, positions and equipment (including a time-trial bike). You might also be interested in Aerodynamics: the Sagan position.