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Atasever, M., & Bozkurt, Y. (2015). Effect of Different Photoperiod Regimes on Sperm Quality, Fecundity and Fertilization in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Turk. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 15, 517–523.
Abstract: The present study was carried out to determine effect of different photoperiod regimes on sperm quality parameters,
ovulation/spermiation time and hatchery performance of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) broodstock. The designation
was done as combination of different long and short photoperiod regimes such as: 18L:6D and 18D:6L (group I); 14L:10D
and 14D:10L (group II) and natural lighting (control group). All treatments were carried out as three replications at each
group.
As a result, the highest mean spermatozoa motility (83.0±2.1 %) and motility period (67.2±6.3 s) were determined in
control group. It was determined that the longest ovulation was occured in female rainbow trout broodstock at 265 days in
group I. Although the highest mean absolute egg productivity was determined as 3654.7±298.3 eggs/fish in group I, the
highest mean relative egg productivity was determined as 137.3±24.5 eggs/kg in control group. Furthermore, the highest mean
egg diameter (4.6±0.1 mm) and fertilization rate (87.0±2.5 %) were determined in control group. Statistical analyses revealed
that spermatozoa motility, spermatozoa motility period and spermatozoa density positively correlated with fertilization rate in
all photoperiod regimes (P>0.05). On the other hand, semen volume and semen pH negatively correlated with fertilization rate
in all photoperiod regimes (P>0.05). It is interesting to note that only statistically important positive correlation was
determined between relative fecundity and fertilization rate in 18L:6D/18D:6L photoperiod regime (r=0.452, P<0.05).
Consequently, results revealed that combined long and short artificial photoperiod regimes can advance ovulation and
spermiation and also can effect gamete quality and hatchery performance of rainbow trout during out-of-season spawning.
Keywords: animals, fish, photoperiod, sperm, ovulation, fertilization, Oncorhynchus mykiss
Bharti, N., Tatem, A. J., Ferrari, M. J., Grais, R. F., Djibo, A., & Grenfell, B. T. (2011). Explaining seasonal fluctuations of measles in Niger using nighttime lights imagery. Science, 334(6061), 1424–1427.
Abstract: Measles epidemics in West Africa cause a significant proportion of vaccine-preventable childhood mortality. Epidemics are strongly seasonal, but the drivers of these fluctuations are poorly understood, which limits the predictability of outbreaks and the dynamic response to immunization. We show that measles seasonality can be explained by spatiotemporal changes in population density, which we measure by quantifying anthropogenic light from satellite imagery. We find that measles transmission and population density are highly correlated for three cities in Niger. With dynamic epidemic models, we demonstrate that measures of population density are essential for predicting epidemic progression at the city level and improving intervention strategies. In addition to epidemiological applications, the ability to measure fine-scale changes in population density has implications for public health, crisis management, and economic development.
Keywords: Remote Sensing; Human Health; Cities; Emigration and Immigration; Epidemics; *Epidemiologic Methods; Humans; Light; Measles/*epidemiology/transmission; Niger/epidemiology; *Population Density; Remote Sensing Technology; *Seasons; Spacecraft
Elvidge, C., Zhizhin, M., Hsu, F. - C., & Baugh, K. (2013). VIIRS Nightfire: Satellite Pyrometry at Night. Remote Sensing, 5(9), 4423–4449.
Abstract: The Nightfire algorithm detects and characterizes sub-pixel hot sources using multispectral data collected globally, each night, by the Suomi National Polar Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The spectral bands utilized span visible, near-infrared (NIR), short-wave infrared (SWIR), and mid-wave infrared (MWIR). The primary detection band is in the SWIR, centered at 1.6 μm. Without solar input, the SWIR spectral band records sensor noise, punctuated by high radiant emissions associated with gas flares, biomass burning, volcanoes, and industrial sites such as steel mills. Planck curve fitting of the hot source radiances yields temperature (K) and emission scaling factor (ESF). Additional calculations are done to estimate source size (m2), radiant heat intensity (W/m2), and radiant heat (MW). Use of the sensor noise limited M7, M8, and M10 spectral bands at night reduce scene background effects, which are widely reported for fire algorithms based on MWIR and long-wave infrared. High atmospheric transmissivity in the M10 spectral band reduces atmospheric effects on temperature and radiant heat retrievals. Nightfire retrieved temperature estimates for sub-pixel hot sources ranging from 600 to 6,000 K. An intercomparison study of biomass burning in Sumatra from June 2013 found Nightfire radiant heat (MW) to be highly correlated to Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Fire Radiative Power (MW).
Keywords: SNPP; VIIRS; fire detection; gas flaring; biomass burning; fossil fuel carbon emissions
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Fonken, L. K., Lieberman, R. A., Weil, Z. M., & Nelson, R. J. (2013). Dim light at night exaggerates weight gain and inflammation associated with a high-fat diet in male mice. Endocrinology, 154(10), 3817–3825.
Abstract: Elevated nighttime light exposure is associated with symptoms of metabolic syndrome. In industrialized societies, high-fat diet (HFD) and exposure to light at night (LAN) often cooccur and may contribute to the increasing obesity epidemic. Thus, we hypothesized that dim LAN (dLAN) would provoke additional and sustained body mass gain in mice on a HFD. Male mice were housed in either a standard light/dark cycle or dLAN and fed either chow or HFD. Exposure to dLAN and HFD increase weight gain, reduce glucose tolerance, and alter insulin secretion as compared with light/dark cycle and chow, respectively. The effects of dLAN and HFD appear additive, because mice exposed to dLAN that were fed HFD display the greatest increases in body mass. Exposure to both dLAN and HFD also change the timing of food intake and increase TNFalpha and MAC1 gene expression in white adipose tissue after 4 experimental weeks. Changes in MAC1 gene expression occur more rapidly due to HFD as compared with dLAN; after 5 days of experimental conditions, mice fed HFD already increase MAC1 gene expression in white adipose tissue. HFD also elevates microglia activation in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus and hypothalamic TNFalpha, IL-6, and Ikbkb gene expression. Microglia activation is increased by dLAN, but only among chow-fed mice and dLAN does not affect inflammatory gene expression. These results suggest that dLAN exaggerates weight gain and peripheral inflammation associated with HFD.
Keywords: Adipose Tissue, White/*immunology/metabolism/pathology; Animals; Antigens, CD11b/biosynthesis/genetics/metabolism; Appetite Regulation/*radiation effects; Arcuate Nucleus/*immunology/metabolism/pathology; Behavior, Animal/radiation effects; Circadian Rhythm; Cytokines/biosynthesis/genetics/metabolism; Diet, High-Fat/*adverse effects; Feeding Behavior/radiation effects; Gene Expression Regulation; Glucose Intolerance/etiology/immunology/metabolism/pathology; I-kappa B Kinase/biosynthesis/genetics/metabolism; Insulin Resistance; Lighting/*adverse effects; Male; Mice; Microglia/immunology/metabolism/pathology; Nerve Tissue Proteins/biosynthesis/genetics/metabolism; Obesity/*etiology/immunology/metabolism/pathology; Random Allocation; *Weight Gain
http://alandb.darksky.org/show.php?record=93
Gaughan, A. E., Oda, T., Sorichetta, A., Stevens, F. R., Bondarenko, M., Bun, R., Krauser, L., Yetman, G., & Nghiem, S. V. (2019). Evaluating nighttime lights and population distribution as proxies for mapping anthropogenic CO2 emission in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Environmental Research Communications, 1(9), 091006.
Abstract: Tracking spatiotemporal changes in GHG emissions is key to successful implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). And while emission inventories often provide a robust tool to track emission trends at the country level, subnational emission estimates are often not reported or reports vary in robustness as the estimates are often dependent on the spatial modeling approach and ancillary data used to disaggregate the emission inventories. Assessing the errors and uncertainties of the subnational emission estimates is fundamentally challenging due to the lack of physical measurements at the subnational level. To begin addressing the current performance of modeled gridded CO2 emissions, this study compares two common proxies used to disaggregate CO2 emission estimates. We use a known gridded CO2 model based on satellite-observed nighttime light (NTL) data (Open Source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO2, ODIAC) and a gridded population dataset driven by a set of ancillary geospatial data. We examine the association at multiple spatial scales of these two datasets for three countries in Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and characterize the spatiotemporal similarities and differences for 2000, 2005, and 2010. We specifically highlight areas of potential uncertainty in the ODIAC model, which relies on the single use of NTL data for disaggregation of the non-point emissions estimates. Results show, over time, how a NTL-based emissions disaggregation tends to concentrate CO2 estimates in different ways than population-based estimates at the subnational level. We discuss important considerations in the disconnect between the two modeled datasets and argue that the spatial differences between data products can be useful to identify areas affected by the errors and uncertainties associated with the NTL-based downscaling in a region with uneven urbanization rates.
Keywords: Remote Sensing; greenhouse gas emissions; GHG; Asia; Vietnam; Cambodia; Laos; nighttime light


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Ivanka Trump accompanies Vice President Pence during local stop to applaud economic boom
July 28, 2019 Business
Historic City News photojournalist Michael Boen traveled from St Augustine to attend a press conference in Jacksonville Friday promoting the non-profit, Operation New Hope. A delegation visited Northeast Florida sites this week that highlighted the area's economic boom.
Graduates of the organization's "Ready4Work" program that assists convicted felons about to reenter the workforce, had the opportunity to speak about their experiences before a panel of high-level leaders that included Governor Ron DeSantis, Vice President Mike Pence, and Presidential Advisor and First Daughter, Ivanka Trump.
"God bless you both," Pence told Charlotte Smith and Daniel McArthur after they talked about opportunities they discovered after completing the program. "This is a ready-to-work program that has really set the pace. It is a model; not only in Florida but for the United States."
Founder of the Springfield "Operation New Hope", Kevin Gay, described their program as work training for former prisoners. Training former inmates matches one goal of President Donald Trump's "Pledge to the American Worker" initiative, which emphasizes retraining to help workers find opportunities in a growing economy. The Trump administration reports that employers have pledged to connect 12-million workers to good jobs.
Gay told the vice president that Operation New Hope, which has trained ex-inmates for 20 years, is benefitting from long-term shifts in attitudes among government agencies and employers. That change has led to more training opportunities, he said, such as a 40-hour warehouse logistics course offered through the University of North Florida.
Fourth Judicial District State Attorney, Melissa Nelson, reported that recidivism among Operation New Hope graduates is only one-third the rate for other inmates released from Florida prisons.
The Trump administration wants America to be "the worst place in the world" to be caught committing serious crimes, Vice President Pence remarked. "But we also want America to be the best place in the world, once you do your time, to get a second chance."
"This is in the interests of the communities," Ivanka Trump explained during the roundtable talk. "It benefits former inmates, their families and the people living around them. It's just the right thing to do."
Photo credits: © 2019 Historic City News photographer Michael Boen

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During a project kick-off meeting, my design team was in a discussion with a client when various mental models clashed in the room: "Why should we do that?" "What is journey mapping?" "Why do you need to mention man-hours for doing card sorting explicitly in the UX-effort estimation sheet—and, seriously, what is that?" It became quite evident that it was difficult for our client to understand the meaning and value of UX research. Of course, it would be rather ludicrous for the team to request that the client read about the benefits of UX research. But it became clear that everyone on the project needed a common language and a shared philosophy.
Should your design team dedicate time to UX research—despite the stakeholders and project manager thinking otherwise? How could you convince them of the return on investment (ROI) your client would generate by doing UX research? All too often, when these types of questions arise, teams sacrifice the value that a generative user-research phase would add. Many people think a research phase would be a waste of time and money. However, they are unaware of how user research impacts product strategy—from the conception of an idea to the delivery of the product. To change the mindset of your stakeholders from being naysayers to being advocates for user research, you must help them understand how research can add value to their product and that learnings from user research are an indispensable asset to a product team.
The discipline of UX research encompasses both generative user research and evaluative UX research. Generative user research is key and should constitute a full-fledged discovery phase, during which you can discover and analyze users' behavior, needs, and motivations to contribute context and insights to product strategy and design. By using various user-research techniques during this phase, you can better understand users and their needs, which, in turn, helps your team to identify product requirements.
There are many methods of UX research and analysis that you can apply throughout the phases of the product-development cycle—such as competitive analysis, focus groups, surveys, contextual inquiry, card sorting, journey mapping, the creation of personas and scenarios, participatory design, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, and evaluative UX research methods such as A/B testing, design critiques, eyetracking, and usability testing. Each of these UX-research methods has its benefits and drawbacks. They are useful in achieving different goals. So choosing the right UX-research methods depends on your project's requirements and constraints. Applying the appropriate UX-research techniques within the constraints of your project's practical parameters is of paramount importance in ensuring a high-quality research plan.
User research provides an essential foundation for design strategy.
I think you'll find this story instructive. Earlier in my career, I worked on a project for which the client had early on fixed a deadline on which the product had to go live. Development had to be done from scratch, there were few user stories, and the project's scope was unclear. When the UX design team reviewed the Scope of Work (SOW), they were was taken aback when they realized there was no mention of user research. So they asked the Project Manager to persuade the client to add user research to the UX-effort estimation sheet. However, the client was not convinced. So, without doing any research, the team got down to business and completed all necessary tasks in the nick of time. The product launched into the market. After a seemingly successful product release, the client was quick to throw a party to celebrate with the entire team. But, within just two days, the Support team had logged significant issues. A few days later, some high-profile, potential customers refused to buy the product.
During a retrospective, upper management tried to find the root cause of this failure. After nearly a week, they concluded that skipping user research had been a fatal error. The product did not satisfy the users' needs and expectations. At this point, the client's doubts regarding the importance of user research evaporated into thin air.
User research provides an essential foundation for design strategy. It helps you to create an optimal product for users. Most importantly, you'll have the data to back your strategy and design decisions.
User research also helps you to identify early adopters who would use your product. To launch your first version of a product, you must find people who would want to buy and use it. User research helps you to discover people who can give you valuable contextual feedback on your product. How might you go about finding these early adopters? As an example, if I were working in the gaming industry, I would first try to find Facebook Gaming groups. Then, I would go to other online media such as LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Craigslist to find other early adopters.
User research should always precede UX strategy because it helps eliminate unwarranted assumptions from the design process.
User research is the initial stage and one of the most significant activities of a product-design cycle. All of your team's hard work, time, and money will be for naught if you end up making something that nobody wants to use. User research should always precede UX strategy because it helps eliminate unwarranted assumptions from the design process. It also helps you to find the right people to enable you to move your product forward, make any necessary changes, and continue iterating on your product design.
Skipping the user-research stage—because of time constraints or for any other reason—can have serious repercussions for companies. Is it possible to create a product if you do not know what problem it will solve for users?
One of the key reasons why most products fail is because companies did not invest time and money in user research. They started off with a feature list or an idea, but did not take the time to understand the problems users would face when using the product.
If time is so tight that you cannot do UX research before the launch of a product, do it post launch, then quickly fix the issues you discover….
Time seems to fly by on a project, especially with agile development methods being so prevalent these days. If you miss a deadline by even a whisker, things can turn ugly. If time is so tight that you cannot do UX research before the launch of a product, do it post launch, then quickly fix the issues you discover as the project progresses.
If a stakeholder or client isn't allowing you time to plan for research, be smart and analyze whatever research data is already available. Be prepared to run usability tests and make adjustments to the design later on.
Lean UX helps you to avoid assumptions about users' needs.
Adopt a Lean UX approach and launch a minimum viable product. You can build and test your design, ensuring that, if the design fails, it doesn't cost the company a fortune.
Lean UX helps you to avoid assumptions about users' needs. Each user need should map to a feature, so the success of each feature is measurable. Prototype and test each feature quickly with users—doing testing as frequently as every week or two.
How does Lean UX differ from conventional UX methods? When practicing Lean UX, you form a hypothesis about what solution might work for users, develop and deliver that solution in the form of a minimum viable product (MVP), then instead of assuming that what you've built is the right solution, you find the quickest way to validate or invalidate your hypothesis.
The goal is to make things people want to use and design products that are usable. You can achieve this goal either by learning from your mistakes and quickly iterating your designs or by validating your designs in use by users. For Lean UX to yield a productive output, an immense level of teamwork is necessary across the whole product team.
Practice User Experience in a Lean Startup environment.
Recognize that Lean UX is not just for designers. It's for everyone making product decisions.
Validate your hypotheses and assumptions.
Work with cross-functional teams, comprising Engineering, Design, and Product Management.
Create preliminary design deliverables only for the sake of communication. Don't concentrate on creating pixel-perfect designs for every feature enhancement.
When you do guerrilla research, operate as if a formal research phase is underway.
Skipping user research because of a lack of time and budget can gradually set a dangerous precedent within your organization—often resulting in usability disasters. To avoid such situations, do some guerrilla research with a minimal number of users. Hopefully, your project manager will see its value and want to pursue more such activities. There is always the possibility of doing some quick research, but it requires tight collaboration and ample whiteboard space. When you do guerrilla research, operate as if a formal research phase is underway.
informative—Talking to users provides much greater insights than compiling research documents without knowing users.
time savings and cost effectiveness—Time is a very important factor in determining the success or failure of a product team or a design effort. If you complete your tasks just in the nick of time and get the desired results, your team will applaud your performance. Otherwise, you'll be reprimanded. Guerrilla research does not require any formal interviews or brainstorming sessions, which makes it instantly appealing. You can have informal discussions with any users who are available and do your analysis sitting in a coffee shop. You don't need to follow any particular process, which really cuts down on the time the research takes. In this way, you can target much larger groups of users and get valuable results quickly. Most importantly, you can also save a lot of money by using this technique.
no need for impromptu planning—In guerrilla research, you don't need any planning. This helps projects move faster and still be more effective. Guerrilla research aids in your making decisions and reduces the risk of launching a product. You can use this type of research to answer specific questions that come up during your design phase, as soon as they are asked.
uncertain and erratic—This type of user research is informal and somewhat more erratic than formal lab studies.
trivial results—Because this is an informal method of research and you do not follow any process or template in doing the research, the results that you derive from the research may be a bit dicey or inconsequential.
A product is successful when it helps users easily achieve all their desired tasks. But what happens if—even though your team builds a product within the prescribed timeline—the product gets a lukewarm response from users at launch, and there are almost no buyers? Who is responsible for such a failure? The whole product team, but UX designers often take the most flak if they failed to do any user research at the beginning of the project. Such disasters can be averted by doing user research within the necessary timeframe. Skipping the user-research phase creates problems for stakeholders.
Minimum viable research (MVR) means doing just enough research to learn what you need to learn during the research stage. Once you've gathered enough detailed information, you can conclude the research stage. The learnings from this research are useful during the UX-design process, but you do not need to spend much time on research.
In this method, a few UX experts examine a user interface to gauge its compliance with a checklist of heuristics.
Heuristics are sets of best practices and guidelines that help you to identify problem areas and potential opportunities—for example, the heuristics that usability guru Jakob Nielsen defined. A heuristic evaluation is an assessment of a digital experience that identifies usability issues. This method often comes into play when adding new features to an existing feature set. In this method, a few UX experts examine a user interface to gauge its compliance with a checklist of heuristics. The timely usage of this evaluation method can help avert post-production disasters. Nielsen created his ten heuristic guidelines way back in the early 1990s. Since then, they have been in wide use by UX experts. By using this method, you can uncover usability problems early and fix them during the design phase. This method can also help suggest the best corrective measures to UX designers.
quick, inexpensive feedback—Heuristic evaluation provides feedback to the design team, quickly and inexpensively.
collated feedback—It lets you collate experts feedback early in the design cycle.
identified usability problems—Choosing the correct heuristics can help you to identify usability problems, which UX designers can fix during the design phase.
increased client trust—By increasing your client's understanding of the usability best practices that are embodied in the heuristics that were the basis for your review, you'll also foster their trust.
usability testing—You can use heuristic evaluation in combination with usability testing.
need for usability specialists—Only skilled usability specialists can conduct heuristic evaluations.
need for multiple specialists—Conducting a heuristic evaluation requires more than one usability specialist to get reliable results.
An expert review is a UX-research method in which a usability expert evaluates the quality and usability of an application or service based on his experience. The usability expert identifies and analyzes problems and recommends solutions for them. This method saves a lot of time and money. While following a heuristic-evaluation checklist can seem a bit rigid, an expert review is a more flexible method that allows you to focus more on users' needs rather than just assessing usability based on a checklist.
When using this method, you should generate an expert-review deliverable, which is important in ensuring that UX designers take the usability expert's findings into consideration during design. While written documents take more time to create and read, they provide detailed information and recommendations. Product teams can use this deliverable as a checklist for necessary design modifications. This method also lets you rank your findings by severity and frequency.
If there's not enough time to do user research, you can create some hypothetical personas, basing them on reasonable assumptions about your audience that you can make from existing data.
Typically, personas are profiles of imaginary users that are based on user-research data and act as surrogates for real users during design. Each persona represents an example of a type of user or a role of someone who might use your product or service. While you should normally base personas on data about your actual audience that you've derived from user research, if there's not enough time to do user research, you can create some hypothetical personas, basing them on reasonable assumptions about your audience that you can make from existing data. Hypothetical personas should represent typical users and be believable, but not stereotypical. Later on, whenever the opportunity arises, do some user research and thoroughly review and refine your assumptions.
team alignment—The team can focus on users' goals and needs, which become pivotal in making requirements and design decisions.
well-defined scope—It is easier to calculate the scope of your design effort when referring to personas.
easier design decisions—Personas make it easier to resolve differences and discrepancies when making design decisions.
focused design decisions—Personas help focus design decisions on critical tasks.
quality checks—In agile, planning and development occur in sprints during which it is helpful to have quality checks. Design deliverables should closely map to your personas. If there is a gap in supporting a persona's expected behavior, it is easy to see that there is an underlying problem.
reduced scope creep—Personas helps prevent scope creep because they make it easier to identify critical tasks.
inability to think like users—For team members who are not capable of empathizing with users, personas can be difficult to understand.
inaccurate assumptions—Personas should accurately portray the motivations and frustrations of particular types of users. Thus, by not basing personas on research, you run the risk of their becoming stereotypes and introduce a greater likelihood of product failure.
It's highly unlikely that you'll get the extraordinary designs that everyone is seeking when you design something on the fly, after skipping the user-research phase.
If a project does not include a formal user-research phase, you can review relevant published research and other prior studies and draw inferences and deductions that may apply to your users. But make it crystal clear to your stakeholders that greater back-end effort is necessary. It's highly unlikely that you'll get the extraordinary designs that everyone is seeking when you design something on the fly, after skipping the user-research phase.
If your goal is to create a top-notch user experience for your product, doing user research is just as important as designing your product's visual identity and interactions. It doesn't matter how great your product or site looks or how seamless its interactions are, if people are not able to perform their desired tasks efficiently.
Unfortunately, user research does not always get its due attention. Even though user research is necessary to identify problems and establish the facts you need to design optimal solutions, it's still sometimes difficult to convince clients to include research as a separate effort in the Scope of Work. Plus, it's often the first activity that gets removed from a design effort when a team faces a time crunch or budgetary constraints.
It is a tragedy that the software industry is not cognizant of the value of UX research in devising brilliant, unique solutions to the problems we confront in product design. In my opinion, UX research is no longer optional. We must conduct UX research to ensure seamless, valuable user experiences or submit to inevitable product failure.
Well done Apurvo. Really useful insight.
You mentioned that as soon as the failure of the product was apparent the client realized they missed out on user research as a critical element. Unfortunately, in many cases, this is not the conclusion that clients end up with.
From my experience many of these clients are used to outdated ways of working where a Business Analyst does all the scoping without research and the Designer creates the wireframes. Then when products fail it doesn't even cross their minds that lack of research was the cause. All they will do is try to fix it again and again until the project is either shelved or improved to a level where it has value and people get used to it.
But, Ziv all the time and money that is being spent on fixing the stuff could have been saved if UX Research was carried out. The actual development phase can begin on time if we apply the UX Research findings in the design phase.


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- How do our sins affect our relationship with God?
- What is the relevance of the Old Testament to our faith?
- What does Jesus actually have to say about grace?
Without watering down the Bible's true message of grace, Michael Brown gives you the facts, demonstrating the dangers of this seductive message and showing you how to keep from being taken in.


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Canal Street Market offers a blueprint for revitalizing retail
By Jessica Schiffer
Canal Street Market, a multi-vendor retail and dining concept straddling the border of Manhattan's SoHo and Chinatown, presents a potential solution for the struggling retail market, which has lost ample foot traffic amidst the e-commerce boom. Of the twenty-six retail vendors that are in the space at any given time, eight are anchor vendors — staying on for three months to a year — while the rest rotate out regularly, including at least a few that are added at the start of each month.
The vendors cross categories, from jewelry to florists, and are set up alongside a permanent coffee shop and nouveau magazine stand (featuring independent pubs like Space and Buffalo) run by Office Coffee. Anchors — all small, local businesses — include Sorelle jewelry and Mast Brothers chocolate.
Located on a particularly bustling strip of Canal Street, the market stands as a clean break amongst the crowded souvenir and T-shirt shops for which the area is known. That was intentional, according to founder Philip Chong and creative director Dasha Faires. "I think the draw to Canal Street is the juxtaposition [here] — the craziness outside versus the cool offices and retail spaces that exist inside," said Philip. "From the get-go, we were excited about bringing in something new to the neighborhood that would play off what's going on outside."
Canal Street Market (Photo by Matt Johnson)
The partners both know the area well. Chong owns a real estate agency called HRCE, located right upstairs, and had owned the space previously when it was a crowded flea market. Faires worked nearby at the fashion brand Veda as sales director for four years before leaving last year to seek out a more creative role. Last July, the two met through friends in the area and began plotting the market — which Chong had initially envisioned as a pure food hall. Faires came on board to build out the retail side.
That 6,000-square-foot area opened in December and has quickly become a respite for fashionable crowds seeking refuge from the hubbub outside. It has a minimalist, airy feel, featuring bleached wood floors and white walls, with congruent signage and furniture across vendor stations.
The food hall is still in the works, due to the added logistics that come with food production, and is slated to open in late spring or early summer. It will be a darker, more intimate space, with 11 vendors ranging from Nom Wah to Fresh & Co, and unlike in the retail space, each vendor will do their own build-out.
The market offers more than a place to shop and snack — there's also a large open space in the back where regular events are held. "It's not only important for each of these vendors to [make] day-to-day transactions," said Philip. "We also wanted them to use the back area to host events, take meetings or just chill." And so far, they've made good use of it. Events have included Record Magazine's Issue 2 launch party and a Kickstarter campaign kickoff for Keap Candles. Outside companies like Manila Social Club, a local French-meets-Filipino restaurant, have also thrown events.
In addition, the space provides up-and-coming artists like Stef Halmos and Melissa Godoy Nieto with an opportunity to show their work.
Vendors have been more than pleased with the results of setting up shop in the market. Leo Lei, the founder of Leibal, a company that sells minimalist furniture and watches, notes that CSM provided him a less precarious opportunity to bring his digital-only brand offline. "[It offers] the perfect middle ground in allowing smaller brands such as ourselves to have a retail location without risking the entire business on a long-term lease," he said. And it has paid off: "Aside from being able to meet with online customers and fans of Leibal in person, a huge benefit for us has been the opportunity to test the market with a variety of products," he said, adding that he rotates his collection weekly. What's more, Lei has bonded with other local designers and shop owners, some of whom he's now collaborating with on future projects.
Jill Lindsey, who owns boutiques in her name in Fort Greene and Malibu, is equally enthusiastic about the market, noting that it gives the brands she curates more exposure than usual. "We always receive emails and comments from people who live in Manhattan who would like to shop with us but never come to Brooklyn, so we came to them," she said.
"I think the reason people have been excited about this model and responded to it now is that it's almost the complete opposite of everything that's happening in retail, where everything's online," explained Dasha, of the market's success so far. "This is more experiential and immersive. A lot of the people working in the booths are the actual owners of these companies, so customers are getting to actually speak to the person who makes or sources the products."
But they understand the value of a digital presence in today's world, too, and to coincide with their Instagram presence, an online platform is in the works (the details of which are still vague).
Other plans include the incorporation of more tech products — an effort to appeal more to male consumers and also a response to feedback the market has received about what the area was lacking — as well as media integrations. The first of those launches next week with Man Repeller, which will be turning the market's back area into a community hub for its readers and selling branded merchandise on the weekends. In April, Man Repeller will pass the torch to working-girl blog Passerbuys, and in May, the space will be dedicated to Design Week with "a notable curator and media partner" the team couldn't yet discuss.
While New York City has seen a rise in food halls over the last few years, a retail market of this caliber is still rare — Chelsea Market is comparable, but requires brands to rent out much larger spaces and offers no intentional rotation with which to entice customers. Canal Street Market provides a welcome blueprint for smaller, online-only brands who want to dip their toes in the uncertain brick and mortar world without too much commitment.


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Amalgamated Sugar has over a century of heritage that has led us into a bright future
The Ogden Sugar Company is incorporated in Ogden, Utah with a plant built the following year.
The Logan Sugar Company is founded.
Ogden Sugar and Logan Sugar consolidate to form The Amalgamated Sugar Company. Four days later, Amalgamated Sugar acquires the Oregon Sugar Company.
Amalgamated Sugar constructs a new factory in Twin Falls, Idaho. This facility is the oldest of our factories still in operation today.
Another factory is built in Paul, Idaho and begins operation. This factory is known as the Mini-Cassia factory, and is still in operation today.
Amalgamated boasts production at eight factories – 5 in Utah and 3 in Idaho – with a combined capacity of 5,100 tons of sugarbeets a year. Utah (Ogden, Logan, Lewiston, Brigham City, Smithfield) and Idaho (Burley, Twin Falls, Paul)
Amalgamated Sugar acquires the White Satin trademark to use for marketing.
The first issue of The Sugarbeet, a Company agronomic and industry news publication is published after being discontinued during the Great Depression. The magazine is still in publication today.
The Nyssa, Oregon factory is built.
Amalgamated Sugar starts manufacturing and selling its first feed products to sheep and cattle farms in the Twin Falls and Nyssa areas.
Amalgamated Sugar erects a large illuminated sign in Portland, Oregon featuring the words "White Satin Sugar". The sign still stands today, though it no longer displays White Satin Sugar.
The Nampa, Idaho factory is built and begins operations.
A distribution and liquid sugar facility is built in Portland, Oregon in order to better service the Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington markets. This facility is still in operation today.
A beet seed development laboratory is built next to the factory in Nyssa, Oregon.
Amalgamated Sugar is recognized as the second largest sugar beet refiner in the United States.
Sugarbeet growers come together to form the Snake River Sugar Company (a cooperative) to buy and operate Amalgamated Sugar.
Amalgamated Research Inc. (ARi) is purchased to continue research efforts for equipment and machinery used in the sugar production process.
Amalgamated Sugar begins to market and sell sugar through National Sugar Marketing.
Snake River Sugar Company and The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC combine to create one grower-owned cooperative, now called Amalgamated Sugar Company.
Today, the Twin Falls, Paul, and Nampa factories remain in operation, producing a total of up to 2.2 billion pounds of sugar each year.


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Jewelrycraft 2 is a magic mod where you can create jewelry and wear them. They render on the player and is Multiplayer compatible. You can also add objects to the pieces of jewelry as modifiers. Depending on what modifier was used different jewelry have different effects, each coming with both a positive value and a negative value. There are also certain actions that, when done, grant you Curse Points. One you have gained your first points you will have a curse upon you, some good, some bad. The more curse points you have, the more active curses you can have at once. The mod has its own inventory, so you don't have to worry about having the jewelry occupy space in your actual inventory.
Spoiler (click to show) Whenever the player attacks a peaceful creature it has a random chance of lowering its maximum health by half a heart, gains one half of a black heart and gains 10 curse points each time. A mask is also rendered on the players face as a visual representation for the curse.


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Alex Gibney is a documentary film director and producer, known for tackling formidable subjects such as the NSA and the Church of Scientology. In 2007, he won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for Taxi to the Dark Side, which told the story of an Afghan taxi driver who was inexplicably killed by American soldiers. More recently, he gained attention for a series of high-profile films: Going Clear, about Scientology, which HBO produced and aired; The Man in the Machine, about Steve Jobs; and Zero Days, about cyberwarfare. Gibney is currently slated to direct his first narrative feature film, a political thriller based on a true story about Vietnam War activists and the FBI.
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Owning a private jet puts you in a category of special privilege, but customizing the interior of a $358M Boeing 747-8 (which can carry 450 passengers commercially) simply because you can, takes luxury to the next, downright absurd level.
That's exactly what was requested of custom jet design firm Greenpoint Technologies, and after three long years of work, it was recently completed.
Although photos of the jet's actual interior and any info on its owner are being withheld by Greenpoint, they have released a handful of conceptual renderings that illustrate what it could look like. And if they're anywhere close to the real thing, it may have a dining room, two huge lounges, a master suite, guest bedroom, and office.
Just think about that next time the tray table is digging into your knees.


Missouri is a state defined by its geography. No state is more synonymous with its waterways than the Show Me State. The Mississippi and Missouri rivers define the eastern and a portion of the western borders of the state. Mark Twain, one of Missouri's most famous residents, took his pen name from a cry often heard on riverboats.
Fittingly, Missouri's casino scene is entirely based on its rivers. Missourians have the option of playing their favorite games at 13 riverboats along these two waterways. The laws also allow for artificial moats or bodies of water, which has allowed for some rather reaching interpretations of what constitutes a riverboat. However, declining casino revenue in Missouri is causing concern for decision-makers in the state.
Like many states, Missouri does not expressly codify whether online gambling is permitted. As such, online gambling exists in a sort of gray area.
Missourians can access some of the offshore sites available (though not all – the Merge network is notably restricted). But because Missouri law is so specific to riverboat gambling, it is a dodgy enterprise to try to use these sites. At any point, the powers that be could decide that the current law covers and prohibits online gambling and crack down on players. Some of the state's lawmakers have made negative comments toward online gambling, so tread lightly.
All the expected social casino options are available in Missouri. Double Down, Zynga, Slotomania, and Big Fish all operate through Facebook or mobile devices. Missourians can also play the MyVegas app. This allows them to earn actual casino comps at MGM properties. Though no MGM properties exist in Missouri, it's still nice to have the option to earn real rewards.
Finally, as with all Penn National properties, they offer a free option to try out their slot machines online. This utility is strictly for entertainment. However it can provide players with a sneak preview of the games they'll find at Argosy or Hollywood casinos.
Missouri's first movement into gaming occurred with the legalization of charitable gambling in 1980, which allowed the debut of bingo halls and raffles in the state. Then, in 1986 voters adopted the state lottery with a 70 percent approval rating. Gaming's popularity was accelerating in the Show Me State, and in 1992 the first gaming law was approved to allow riverboat gambling.
However, this law was eventually struck down by state courts as improper because changes to the notion of "games of chance" could only be done by amending the state constitution. For many ballot initiatives, a loss in court spells the end of the push for the measure. But Missouri remained undaunted and two years later, in 1994, the Missouri Riverboat Gambling Amendment passed a referendum with 54 percent of the vote.
The amendment permitted the legislature to allow operators on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to offer all manner of slot machines, table games, poker, and other games of chance. A subsequent amendment in 1998 allowed for the possibility of creating artificial moats or ponds to support riverboat play. This has created the odd situation of buildings with fake smokestacks and other accoutrements nominally being called riverboats, even though they are not seaworthy in any sense. Often, the water upon which they rest is little more than a shallow pool or pond. Operators have even poked fun at this distinction, going so far (in one case) of proudly filling the moat with an open fire hydrant.
However, the lawmakers in the state have shown no desire to check this sort of hubris. Although some residents are grumbling about this use of a loophole in the birthplace of Mark Twain. Nevertheless, Missouri enjoys the services of 13 riverboat casinos, including locations directly in the middle of its largest cities.
Kansas City, Missouri's largest, has two casinos within its limits and two more in suburban areas. St. Louis, the second largest, also has two casinos in its city proper and two others not far away. Three of the other properties hug the eastern border of Missouri and allow access to residents of southwestern Illinois (including Springfield), western Kentucky, western Tennessee (including Memphis), and northeastern Arkansas. A final location, Isle of Capri Boonville, resides on the east-west bend of the Missouri River. This location cuts through the waistline of the state and serves central Missourians, including residents of Columbia, Missouri's fifth largest city.
Most of the main operators in Missouri are known for operating other regional casinos, outside of the typical locales (like Las Vegas or Atlantic City). Pinnacle Entertainment owns and operates the two largest casinos in the state under its Ameristar brand. Its Kansas City location features 140,000 square feet of gaming space, with 2,200 slot machines, 66 table games, and a 16-table poker room. The St. Louis location is only slightly smaller. It has 130,000 square feet of casino to use and its poker room is actually three tables larger. Both Ameristar properties are scheduled to host tournaments on the Heartland Poker Tour. The St. Louis location hosted two events in 2017.
Interestingly enough, it is illegal for someone to identify themselves as a "professional player" in the state of Missouri. The statute defines a professional player as someone who gambles for their livelihood or derives 20 percent or more of their income in any one year of the last five from gambling. This statute might have some implications beyond in-state gambling, too, however, because of the uncertainty associated with a Missouri resident scoring a big win, either at slots, table games, or poker tournaments.
The 2017 fiscal year disclosure shows an overall reduction in state casino revenues of 2.5 percent from the previous year. Furthermore, the contribution from gambling revenue to education (one of the selling points of legalizing gambling in many states) seems to be no better than the adjustments expected from inflation.
Several education officials in the state chafe at the idea that education in Missouri is tied to the fortunes of the gaming industry, especially since schools are still suffering budget shortfalls. The proliferation of nearby casinos is also hurting the Missouri properties' bottom lines.
That said, there is no reason to suspect that Missouri casinos are going away. Late in 2016, Inner Circle Investments announced its intention to open a casino and expo center in St. Joseph. While a reduction in revenue did occur in the last year, the pullback followed a 7 percent increase in revenue from 2015 to 2016. So, Missouri's casino market, 11th largest in the US, should be fine. It will continue to offer options to residents and visitors alike. Below is a list of all the Missouri casinos.


MILLBURY, Mass.-- The wife of a Millbury, Massachusetts police officer is accused of faking a robbery and vandalizing the couple's own home, CBS Boston reports.
Police say on October 17 Maria Daly reported a burglary at the family home, saying jewelry and money had been stolen. She also reportedly said her house was tagged with graffiti that appeared to reference the Black Lives Matter movement.
According to Millbury Police Chief Donald Desorcy, investigators have determined the entire account was false.
The chief says Daly's husband, Officer Daniel Daly, was not involved in the deception and has been exonerated.
It's a story generating a lot of reaction in town.
Maria Daly faces charges of filing a false police report and misleading a police investigation.


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Ramsey, Attorney General Cooper Say No to Annexation Bills, and Norris Stands Down
by Jackson Baker
Norris tries to laugh it off.
It wasn't a good day for Mark Norris in Nashville. As usual, the Republican state Senate Majority Leader from Collierville had the last word in Thursday morning's end-of-week Senate session, and this time, prior to calling for adjournment on Monday, he had to eat a little crow. It turned out to be the first portion of a multi-course meal that was served to him throughout the day.
Thursday morning's nibble came in the form of a segue to a request made by state Senator Charlotte Burks (D-Monterey), who told the Chair of the day that she wanted to withdraw her sponsorship of Senate Bill 3059, which, as captioned, would seem to prohibit various county officials in Tennessee from getting paid for assorted "special services. "
Said Burks, smiling self-effacingly, "This is a bad bill that I accepted and didn't look at real well. So I would like to withdraw it."
That was followed by Norris, who donned a sheep-eating grin of his own as he referenced the jam he'd gotten himself into with Senate Bills 3702 and 3703, measures that would disrupt the delicate equilibrium created by Public Chapter 1101 of 1998. That peacemaking bill had been passed to provide a modus vivendi on urban annexations statewide, and especially for Shelby County, which had just gone through the "Toy Towns" scare of 1997
The two proposed new bills — which he'd co-sponsored with a pair of fellow Shelby County Republicans, state Representatives Curry Todd and Ron Lollar — would abruptly remove the Gray's Creek/Fisherville area in eastern Shelby County from Memphis' annexation reserve and make the City's annexations anywhere else subject to referenda of the affected populations.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and the City Council had reacted angrily by setting in motion an ordinance for the immediate annexation of Gray's Creek/Fisherville. At the moment both the bills and the ordinance were in a state of mutual suspended animation — loaded pistols aimed and cocked as a showdown loomed.
"Senator Burks, I empathize with you," said Norris now. And he tilted his eyes upward to take in the Senate galleries as well as the cameras which, as he knew, were transmitting live images to such interested onlookers in Tennessee as might be looking in online. "Those tuning in to Civics 101 today," he said, by way of acknowledging the audience.
And then he addressed himself to the current status of SBs 3702 and 3703. Quoting a headline in "today's publication down in West Tennessee" (i.e., The Commercial Appeal) as saying the bills "remain alive," Norris demurred. "I don't think I said that. I think I said they're on life support." Alluding to the fact that he had requested a ruling on the two bills' constitutionality from state Attorney General Robert Cooper, Norris said, "They need to stay on the desk until the Pony Express from the A.G.'s office gets here. So, Charlotte, I understand how you feel."
Whereupon he moved that the Senate adjourn for the weekend.
Meanwhile, various state government notables were in attendance at the annual meeting of the Tennessee Press Association, which is where Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey, the Senate Speaker and Norris' immediate superior, served him his second course in absentia.
In a Q-and-A session, Ramsey was asked about the ongoing standoff between Norris and his two House confederates, on one hand, and Memphis city government, on the other, regarding the two annexation bills.
Ramsey, who rarely minces his words when he differs from Governor Bill Haslam, his superior, declined to do so now in relation to Norris, his lieutenant: "I think Public Chapter 1101 is working well as it is right now. I know that Sen. Norris has pressures — I understand very well — from constituents that want to amend that. But I saw the annexation wars up front and first-hand in the early and mid-'90s, and most of that's stopped, not only in my area but all across the state after that because they put some reasonable restrictions on annexation and I think we're all reluctant to revisit that any more."
A gentle rebuff from the Majority Leader, but a rebuff all the same. Ramsey would continue: "He's had a lot of petitions from that area. But I don't think he's moving forward with it. He's not moving forward with it. He introduced the bill because he thought it was the right thing to do at the time, but I'm sure that he's not going to move it now."
Ouch! A veritable cease-and-desist order from the Speaker. That was closely followed by the long-awaited opinion from Attorney General Cooper, which pronounced the bills "constitutionally suspect" because of their limited ad hoc application to a single county and municipality.
In other words: Dinner is served!
And that in turn was followed up by Norris, who'd finally had enough crow and, seemingly reluctantly, pushed himself away from a table which he himself had laid. He withdrew the two bills, but not without one last attempt at self-extenuation.
"Citizens in these communities want their voices to be heard, which was the impetus for filing the legislation," he said in a written statement. "Although we felt this would likely be the outcome, it was important enough to our constituents to file the bills and get the Attorney General's opinion."
There's a curious footnote to that claim, made by Norris regarding the alleged importuning of himself, Todd, and Lollar by Fisherville citizens demanding the passage of the controversial and now defunct legislation.
On Tuesday, as the Memphis City Council readied to pass what would be the first reading of three required ones of the annexation ordinance regarding Gray's Creek, a delegation of citizens from the Fisherville community had pleaded with Council members to desist. Sympathetically but firmly, various Council members pointed out that they had not wanted to annex Gray's Creek but that the state had forced their hand.
In the course of what, all things considered, was a good-natured colloquy, Councilman Bill Boyd addressed John Bogan, president of the Fisherville Civic Club and the man widely regarded as the source of agitation for Fisherville's protection from annexation, asking Bogan point blank if he had urged Norris, Todd, and Lollar to sponsor the two annexation bills.
Bogan was unequivocal. He had not. He had not spoken to the legislators about any such thing and had known nothing about the bills. But he would try to find out what had happened, he promised the councilman.
Nor did anybody else from the Fisherville delegation that day own up to any pressure on behalf of the two bills.
Which is to say, an already muddled scenario becomes curiouser and curiouser. Presumably, truth will eventually out, and, in the meanwhile the Council is expected to follow through on a pledge made Tuesday to withdraw the Gray's Creek annexation ordinance as soon as Messrs. Norris, Todd, and Lollar stood down on their bills.
Unaffected by all this is a parallel effort by Norris — his continued resolve to pass legislation affecting the potential transfer of school buildings from the authority of the Uniform Shelby County School Board to that of the several breakaway municipal school districts that are in the process of being formed in the suburbs.
But that, as they say, is another story.


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Arrest in stabbing of Nicki Minaj tour members
One man arrested in connection with double stabbing of two members of Nicki Minaj crew.
Arrest in stabbing of Nicki Minaj tour members One man arrested in connection with double stabbing of two members of Nicki Minaj crew. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1BnJwr5
AP Published 4:32 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2015 | Updated 4:46 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2015
Nicki Minaj backstage at Marc Jacobs fashion show during NY Fashion Week on Feb. 19.(Photo: Jamie McCarthy, Getty Images for Marc Jacobs)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man has been arrested in connection with the stabbings of two members of rapper Nicki Minaj's tour crew, one of whom died.
Authorities say 31-year-old Pierce Boykin was arrested Monday on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and related offenses.
It wasn't immediately clear if investigators were looking for other suspects.
The double stabbing last Wednesday left 29-year-old Devon Pickett dead and a second member of Minaj's tour, who is reported to be 27, severely wounded.
The wounded crew member, identified by TMZ and by Minaj on her Twitter feed as Eric Parker, remains in critical condition.
Nicki Minaj crew member stabbed to death
Police say the stabbing occurred outside a bar after the victims argued with a man inside.
According to Minaj, the crew members had arrived in Philadelphia only two days earlier to rehearse for a tour.
She retweeted a story from the website of the local NBC affiliate, which said the violence began around 2 a.m. Wednesday inside Che Bar & Grill, and then spread into the street along Stenton Avenue in Philadelphia's West Oak Lane neighborhood.
The assailant, according to police, was last seen driving away in a gray Buick LeSabre.
Neither Boykin nor an attorney for him could be reached Tuesday to comment on the charges.
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Selected Reviews for Limited Partnership
Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter
"A remarkably poignant chronicle of the devotion of these two men for 40 years… Miller and his editors have kept the story hurtling forward right up to the rousing if bittersweet conclusion. It helps if a documentary has compelling subjects, and Adams and Sullivan certainly hold the camera. But the skill of the filmmakers socks the story home."
Andrew Travers, Aspen Times Weekly
"The passage of time is a powerful force in the film as it follows the couple from their 20s into their 60s. With their love story at its center, "Limited Partnership" becomes less a polemic about gay marriage and more a universal tale about devotion through good times and bad, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health."
Anita Katz, The San Francisco Examiner
"The documentary serves as a relevant LGBT-rights history lesson and is equally a poignant love story. Adams and Sullivan… come across as unsung civil-rights pioneers and inspiring examples of enduring love."
Briege McGarrity, Independent Film Quarterly
"A compelling human rights documentary… The insightful and honest commentary…. and… the archival footage and photographs documenting their storied relationship gives Limited Partnership a wonderful flow and cohesion. Limited Partnership enjoyed a well-deserved standing ovation after its World Premiere at the prestigious Los Angeles Film Festival. One of the year's best documentaries."
Jill Dale, Splash Magazines
"Limited Partnership tells this story so beautifully and with such poignancy that might make even fundamentalists reconsider gay rights. This indignant and poignant new documentary… offers a lot of insight into the ideology and psychology, as well as the rapidly changing landscape, of homophobia and the struggles of marriage equality."


We need a stronger pan-European civic involvement in our responses to the current crises in Europe. Sustainable reactions to these challenges can only emerge from Europe-wide debates on a common European approach. But access to information is crucial if we want to "europeanise" the debates. To this end it needs a source where European citizens can find information and assess positions and actions of all the member states in the most pressing crises. The ECFR's Flash Scorecard will provide this.
The influx of refugees has also brought a flood of misconceptions. Mistrust between member states has led to unilateral decisions on borders which are damaging the European project. There is a need for clear facts about the situation across Europe to help citizens and policy makers come up with solutions.
The same applies to other crises. Member states drift apart and it becomes more difficult to cut through conflicting statements and get a picture of the member states' actions and positions.
We want European citizens to have a single source of information on the different member states' approaches in the main crises in Europe - especially the refugee crisis and the eurocrisis - providing clear and understandable information and thereby leading to a more informed debate and more understanding between citizens across borders. We envisage the Flash Scorecards to be the starting point for civic influence and engagement in combating European crises.
ECFR will use its EU-wide 28 researcher network to provide three Flash Scorecards on the extent to which member states are pulling their weight on the crises facing the EU and its cohesion. For each Flash Scorecard, our national researchers will activate their networks among the policymaking community in their member state. We will decide on the topics closer to the date to ensure that they are relevant at that time. We will then present this unique data online in a practical, visual and impactful way.
The publication of the Scorecards and their findings will be used to bring together the public with political decision-makers in order to enable a fruitful exchange. These events could be envisaged as well with a special focus on a young audience, e.g. from schools and universities.
The target of this project is any EU citizen interested in the facts around the crises Europe is facing, especially the eurocrisis and the refugee crisis, as well as policy makers and experts.
The information the Flash Scorecards can provide is unique, as an information space to access concentrated and comparative information on the reactions of all EU member states on one topic in this form does not exist so far.
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Miami Dolphins Brian Flores Feature
Brian Flores' rise from a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn to head coach of the Miami Dolphins is an amazing story...
There's just some elements of that story that haven't been given their proper due.
Flores didn't have it easy as one of five sons of Honduran immigrants struggling to make ends meet but determined to give their children better opportunities. Most importantly, what Flores and his four brothers got from their parents — Raul and Maria — was love, support and a great set of values, a foundation that would lead Brian to where he is today.
"My parents immigrated here in the '70s and they came here to build a better life for me, my brothers and my entire family," Flores said during his introductory press conference. "My parents, my uncles, my aunts, we spent a lot of time to where maybe we didn't have a lot of money, but we were rich in love and that's for sure."
Flores became Dolphins head coach after helping the New England Patriots win another Super Bowl title with a 13-3 victory against the Los Angeles Rams, brilliantly wrapping up his first season as defensive play-caller for Bill Belichick.
Before doing so, he interviewed for four head-coaching openings around the NFL, a clear testament to the respect he has earned through the years.
As he prepared for the Super Bowl, Flores was front and center for a different kind of interview, the ones with media members looking for him to explain his meteoric rise since he first entered the NFL some 15 years ago as a scouting assistant.
"I would start with the people I've been fortunate to be around," Flores said. "So, first, my parents. I've got two great parents, my mom, my dad. They're strong, confident, they instilled core values in me that I keep with me today: integrity, honor, character, doing things the right way, being honest, telling the truth, working hard. Working hard, that's kind of been my mantra, my mood my entire life."
Those core values Flores learned at an early age have served him well every step of the way, from Poly Prep in Brooklyn, to Boston College, to his time with the Patriots.
Combine that foundation with a sharp mind, and you've got a winning combination, the kind that leads someone to become a head coach at 37 years old.
"He worked his way up the ladder," Dolphins General Manager Chris Grier said. "Nothing was given to him. From his upbringing, as you guys have all read the story, through Boston College, and then working his way up at New England working under one of the greatest coaches in football and having worked with him (Bill Belichick), I know how challenging and hard that can be and it brings out the best in you and Brian thrived."
Getting Into Football
Flores discovered football at the age of 12 through his uncle, who was a fireman in New York and played on the Fire Department team.
Flores began playing youth football and was good at it. Very good. So good that he caught the attention of Dino Mangiero, a former NFL nose guard who was coaching at Brooklyn's Poly Prep Country Day. Through a program that allowed Mangiero to admit a number of athletes from low-income backgrounds, Flores ended up at Poly Prep.
"From the day I met him, you knew he was special," Mangiero said. "He sat there, 13-year-old kid, sits there and is staring at you and absorbing every word you're saying. He's an A student and he's the best football player in his little league. These guys don't come around very often."
With Flores playing running back and defensive back, Poly Prep didn't lose a game during his time there. It would begin a pattern of consistent winning for Flores that's continued to his time in the NFL.
While he obviously was a great player, Flores also impressed Mangiero with his maturity and his leadership. He tells the story of Flores interrupting his teammates while they were complaining about the coaches and telling them they needed to trust them.
"That was very impressive to me," Mangiero said. "That's an example of Brian's leadership. It takes courage because sometimes it's not popular. He did that all through his junior and senior years and everybody looked up to him as a leader at Poly Prep.
"He came with this really great value system that was instilled in him at an early age. His mom is just a terrific lady. His dad was like a merchant marine; he was on a ship for eight months. He wasn't around a lot. So Brian had to take the leadership in the family and the mom always believed in higher education. Absolutely, he got that core and that foundation from his family. Brian's two brothers played for me, Danny and Luis. They were the same way, very respectful, very hard-working. The mom and dad instilled that into them. They got a chance in this country to really do something special and really took advantage because all three of them are doing really well."
Flores and Mangiero developed such a bond that Flores said during Super Bowl week he doesn't make a big decision without talking to his old coach. And Mangiero made it a point to fly from New Jersey to be there for Flores' press conference in Davie on Monday.
One of the first big decisions with which Mangiero helped Flores was choosing a college, and it was Boston College that got the nod.
Flores earned four letters at BC and during that time (2000-03), the winning continued. In those four years, BC was 32-18, including a 4-0 record in bowl games. Flores was a key contributor on special teams as a junior, then played a hybrid linebacker/safety role as a senior.
Again, it didn't take him long to impress his coach with his intangibles.
"He really had good football knowledge," said Tom O'Brien, who coached 10 years at Boston College and six more at North Carolina State. "He was also really smart in the classroom. He's one of those guys that got it all. He got both the football smarts and the school smarts. It's very rare. Sometimes you get people like that in football. He played a heck of a lot for us his redshirt junior year and kind of really blossomed his senior year for us. He was second on the team in tackles his senior year, and pass breakups, hurries, sacks, the whole thing. He had an ability when he played that nickel back, hybrid linebacker spot for us out there to see the field. With this study, he had great anticipation and he made a lot of plays for us."
One of his best friends on the team was guard Augie Hoffmann, who is now the head coach at Saint Joseph Regional High School in New Jersey.
As fate would have it, two of the players Hoffmann has coached are twins Jason and Devin McCourty, two key members of the New England secondary this season.
"He's a genuine, genuine human being," Hoffmann said. "We come from totally different backgrounds, but we clicked right away. You could just tell by the way he treats people, his friends being his extended family, just how important they are to him. My mom and dad absolutely adore him. They love him. They've loved him since we were in college. You could just tell that people are drawn to him. He's very magnetic. People want to be around him because of the type of person that he is.
"It's his dedication to doing things the right way. He never cut corners. He always did things the right way. He's always been a guy that's been level, never too high, never too low. That's what made him a great player, and that's what's making him a great coach."
Once his playing days at Boston College were over, it was time for Flores to decide on his future.
Hoffmann, O'Brien and Mangiero all said he would have been a success in any field he would have pursued, but Flores told Mangiero that football was what he wanted to do.
So Flores wrote a letter to all 32 NFL teams.
"I just told them I was a graduate of BC, gave them a little bit of my background, I had a master's," Flores recalled. "I remember this like it was yesterday, I felt like football was the only thing that leveled the playing field for me. I got an opportunity, I could do a few different things, and I wanted to stay with the game.
"I said I would work for free. They called me back. They didn't ask me to work for free, which I thought was great. I didn't make a lot, but at the same time, I had been poor my whole life, so what I made, I felt like I was rich. So it was a win-win situation, for them, for me. I really enjoyed that time. Again, everyone's big on money. To me it was about the process, it was about learning, it was about trying to improve. And it's still that way for me."
The Patriots gave Flores his first NFL job in 2004 with the title of scouting assistant, which entailed more than anything a whole lot of "go-fering." But Flores showed his customary work ethic, did what he was told, and constantly asked questions.
And he continued to make a good impression.
After two years, he became a pro scout for the Patriots. Flores then began envisioning a future where he would become a general manager.
That all changed after the Patriots' quest for a perfect 2007 season ended with a Super Bowl loss against the New York Giants.
"It really felt like I wanted to make more of an impact, I wanted to have more of an impact on the games, on wins and losses, so I asked if I could go down to coaching," Flores said. "I talked to Bill and there was a position open and I just kind of came into it. I started on special teams, I was on special teams for two years, I was on offense for a year, that's quality control, just breaking down tape on offense, defense, and I kind of fell in love with coaching, just to be around players and just really get to make an impact."
Connecting As A Coach
The qualities Flores had shown at every stop continued to serve him well as an assistant coach with New England, as he developed close relationships with his players.
As he continued to prove himself, his responsibilities on Belichick's staff grew, first moving to safeties coach in 2012 and then linebackers coach in 2016. When Matt Patricia left to become head coach of the Detroit Lions last offseason, Flores got the call to make the calls on defense — even though he didn't get the title of defensive coordinator.
"I think Flo definitely brought a lot of aggressiveness," linebacker Don'ta Hightower said during Super Bowl week. "He's a great coach. He definitely demands the best out of his players. Ever since I've known Flo, him being the secondary coach, him moving to linebacker and DC, he's definitely just pushed and wanted the best out of everybody. He's just very demanding in that aspect."
Several of his New England players talked about Flores' impact not just as a coach but as a man.
One of those was Matt Slater, who went from wondering whether he would last in the NFL to being a Pro Bowl regular as a special teams player.
"Early in my career, I really struggled with confidence and figuring out whether or not I belonged in this league," Slater said. "This man was the first coach that really gave me the faith and confidence that I could play, that I belonged. He challenged me as a player. He believed in me, even when I didn't believe in myself."
Flores said the thought of becoming a head coach started crossing his mind in 2014, the year the Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks to win the second of four Super Bowl titles during Flores' time with the team.
It was Flores who was credited for sending Malcolm Butler into the game in the final minute, just in time for Butler to come up with a game-clinching interception at the goal line.
Even though he interviewed for four teams, Flores said he was in no hurry to become a head coach. Yes, it was a goal, but he was willing to wait a little longer if the circumstances weren't right.
With the Dolphins, he feels those circumstances are what they need to be.
Based on how he got here, the Dolphins got someone who will put in the work and do it the right way.
"He's a very bright, intelligent football coach who cares about people," Mangiero said. "That's what I think is the secret to his success. Like we said from day one, he's going to outwork you. He's going to outwork everybody because he understands at the end of the day putting in the hard work is going to pay off."
It's a lesson Flores learned at a very young age.
Yes, his childhood was challenging in a lot of ways. It also was fulfilling in many ways and, ultimately, it led him to where he is today.


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Nat King Cole's daughter and long-lost granddaughter reunite as shocking family secret unfolds
By Sherryl Connelly
Apr 05, 2014 | 11:00 PM
Carole 'Cookie' Cole (right) is seen with Caroline Clarke, the daughter she put up for adoption in 1964. The two reunited in 2002. (courtesy caroline clarke)
At 37, Caroline Clarke was a successful journalist and happily married mother of two who thought she knew everything she needed to know about her life. Then, in a stunning moment, she discovered her grandfather was the unforgettable Nat King Cole.
Almost as shocking was the realization that as a teenager, she'd unsuspectingly spent a night under the luxurious roof of her biological grandmother's penthouse apartment at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Boston, as a guest of the daughter of the late, beloved singer. The girl, in truth her aunt, was one of her best friends in college.
Clarke suddenly remembered the odd questions that Cole's imperious widow, Maria, had asked her unwitting 17-year-old self that night. When was her birthday? What was the name of the Manhattan hospital where she was born? Had she been adopted immediately as an infant?
Cole had her reasons, as Clarke, now host of the syndicated TV show "Black Enterprise Business Report," would learn in pursuing the hard-to-believe but entirely true story she tells in "Postcards from Cookie: A Memoir of Motherhood, Miracles and a Whole Lot of Mail."
Clarke uncovered that on Christmas Day 1964 she had been born into Hollywood royalty, but her identity was a shameful secret that could only be kept by placing the baby in the arms of strangers. Later, she came to understand that her grandmother, a fierce guardian of the family's reputation, wouldn't risk her husband's career being tarnished by the scandal of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
Clarke didn't credit a word of the tale when she first heard it. Black families didn't give up their babies in that era, she lectured the social worker at the Upper East Side agency that had handled the adoption — particularly when they had the means to support them.
Cookie Cole was forced to give up her daughter because the family didn't want the shame of an out-of-wedlock child. (George Mattson/new york daily news)
The woman at the prestigious Spence-Chapin Adoption Services had been supplying personal details about Clarke's biological mother — though not her name. Clarke's mother had regaled the staff with tales of life with her show-business parents, who traveled the world.
"Do you have any way of verifying this story?" Clarke demanded to know. "It sounds pretty far-fetched, don't you think? You're painting a picture of very serious wealth here. These are black people. In 1964. Maids, mansions, chauffeurs, prep schools, and debutante balls . . . what are the chances that this is all true?"
In fact, at the time the Coles lived in a 20-room mansion in Los Angeles' swanky Hancock Park, where they regularly threw lavish, celebrity-studded parties in a guesthouse fitted out with a grand piano. The children were sent upstairs to play with elaborate dollhouses or entertain themselves at the soda fountain.
By then, Nat King Cole had established himself as one of the most recognizable voices in American music with hits like his signature "Unforgettable," "Mona Lisa" and "The Christmas Song." He was the first black man to host, and own, a television show: "The Nat King Cole Show" on NBC. Cole was a huge star and, when it came to race, barreled through some major barriers.
But Clarke would also learn of the call her biological mother, Cole's oldest daughter, Carole, would make to that Hancock Park mansion from a pay phone at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital the day after her baby was born. She begged to be allowed to keep her child.
'I lost my baby in December. I lost my father in February. I lost my soul,' Cookie wrote in her journal. (George Mattson/new york daily news)
Carole — nicknamed Cookie — was refused, but she still wouldn't sign the papers surrendering her infant daughter for adoption even though it meant she had to return to the painfully named Washington Square Home for Friendless Girls where she had been shipped cross-country to live out her pregnancy in secrecy.
It was there that Carole, listening to the radio while making her bed, heard the news report that her 45-year-old father was dying. Nat King Cole was in the final stages of lung cancer. Carole signed the papers and rushed home, where Nat would die on Feb. 15, 1965.
"I lost my baby in December. I lost my father in February. I lost my soul," she would write in her journal.
The baby, whom she had named Gretchen, went home to Wilson Ave. in the Bronx with a loving couple — Robert and Vera Clarke, who called her Caroline. Her mother taught high school and her father was a chemistry professor at the City University of New York.
She was an only child, but it was a happy childhood marked by huge festive dinners with a large extended family. Summers were spent at her uncle's home in Sag Harbor, L.I., where she met her husband-to-be, John Graves, at the age of 7.
Clarke, in fact, married into a prestigious family that owned Black Enterprise, a media company that encourages African-American entrepreneurship. She had two children, Veronica, 7, and Carter, 4, and her life felt complete when recurring joint pain prompted her to track down her genetic background in 2002.
Oddly, as a young woman she had simply never been interested in learning about her biological parents, and wasn't now. She only wanted the facts that pertained to her health and so had every reason to expect the interview at Spence-Chapin would be routine. Instead, she came away in shock, puzzling through the details that had landed on her.
The shock intensified on the drive home when she was hit by another realization.
"My mouth goes dry and tears flood my eyes as I hear a frantic voice rising: 'Oh, my God.'
"I pull the car screeching to the curb as I realize that the voice is mine. My head is shaking. 'No!' I'm now yelling. 'No-no-no!' I cup my hands over my mouth to stifle my cries as I struggle to fit the pieces together and, simultaneously, push them away.
"I can't be right. This can't be true . . . this can't be happening."
A thunderbolt recognition followed.
"I know this family!"
She not only knew them, but she knew them well.
During her undergraduate years at Smith College she had become close friends with a woman at Amherst College, introduced by their boyfriends. Timolin Cole had always tried to play down the advantages she and her twin sister, Casey, enjoyed as a result of their privileged backgrounds. Nevertheless, she drove a new BMW and had a "golden Hollywood vibe" that stood out.
Cookie (right) is seen playing with her father and sister Natalie. (courtesy caroline clarke)
Though Timmie, as she was known, was rigorously discreet about her famous family, in the course of their 20-year friendship Clarke had become aware that she had a much older sister Carole — who acted on TV in "Sanford and Son" and movies like "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." She had also once given up a baby.
Carole herself had been adopted after her mother, Maria's sister, had died young. Maria hadn't wanted to take the child in, but Nat had insisted. Later, Nat had visited Carole at the Washington Square Park home and promised she'd never have to give up another baby. Maria never made an appearance.
Carole had grown up close to her younger sister Natalie, who went on to become a major star. Timmie and Casey, much younger, had grown up at a remove that was more than a matter of relative ages. Maria, a difficult woman who demanded absolute control, liked to keep her children apart and at odds.
Timmie would later admit that she suspected the truth about Clarke and had confided in her own mother, who had kept what she knew from Carole. It was to her friend that Clarke first reached out, getting Carole's number under a ruse. Then she made the call.
"My name is Caroline Clarke. I was born on Christmas Day in 1964 in Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and I was adopted by a wonderful family," she started off.
"If none of this means anything to you, or if you don't want me to continue, I'll . . ."
Carole interrupted in a tremulous voice.
"This means everything to me," Carole exhaled, before describing the pain that had never eased after unwillingly giving up her daughter.
Mother and daughter had seven years together before Carole died of cancer in 2009. At the end, Clarke's aunt Natalie called, urging her to come fast, saying, "She's waiting for you, honey. Get here." Clarke writes that she actually felt her mother's passing while on the plane. She glanced at her watch in that moment, and the timing was later confirmed.
There were ups and downs in their relationship, and disclosures. Cookie told her that her biological father was a white Jewish man she met in college and never told about the pregnancy. While her adopted parents knew this fact, they lied and told her that her biological father was black. While Clarke was at first furious, she accepted that her parents wanted to spare her the stigma of being raised biracial in a more punishing era.
The enveloping love Cookie and Caroline felt for each other saw them through. Perhaps the most moving, magical moment of all came early when Carole, who ran King Cole Productions throughout her life, welcomed her daughter and her still young family into her home in Tarzana, Calif.
There was a party attended not only by Carole's two grown sons but the extended Cole family and friends. As the day-long affair faded to a close, she and her children were presented with a cake decorated with their picture.
At that moment, her uncle, Nat's baby brother, the jazz musician, Freddie Cole, stepped to her side and began to sing in a voice eerily like his brother's, "Welcome home, welcome home, we've been waiting for you..."
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from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist

from cinderclient import exceptions as cinderclient
from glanceclient.common import exceptions as glanceclient
from heatclient import exc as heatclient
from keystoneclient import exceptions as keystoneclient
from neutronclient.common import exceptions as neutronclient
from novaclient import exceptions as novaclient
from swiftclient import client as swiftclient

UNAUTHORIZED = (keystoneclient.Unauthorized,
                keystoneclient.Forbidden,
                cinderclient.Unauthorized,
                cinderclient.Forbidden,
                novaclient.Unauthorized,
                novaclient.Forbidden,
                glanceclient.Unauthorized,
                neutronclient.Unauthorized,
                neutronclient.Forbidden,
                heatclient.HTTPUnauthorized,
                heatclient.HTTPForbidden)

NOT_FOUND = (keystoneclient.NotFound,
             cinderclient.NotFound,
             novaclient.NotFound,
             glanceclient.NotFound,
             neutronclient.NetworkNotFoundClient,
             neutronclient.PortNotFoundClient,
             heatclient.HTTPNotFound,
             # FIXME: this exception and the related import should be replaced
             #        by the one thrown by the tuskar api client
             ObjectDoesNotExist)

# NOTE(gabriel): This is very broad, and may need to be dialed in.
RECOVERABLE = (keystoneclient.ClientException,
               # AuthorizationFailure is raised when Keystone is "unavailable".
               keystoneclient.AuthorizationFailure,
               cinderclient.ClientException,
               novaclient.ClientException,
               glanceclient.ClientException,
               # NOTE(amotoki): Neutron exceptions other than the first one
               # are recoverable in many cases (e.g., NetworkInUse is not
               # raised once VMs which use the network are terminated).
               neutronclient.NeutronClientException,
               neutronclient.NetworkInUseClient,
               neutronclient.PortInUseClient,
               neutronclient.AlreadyAttachedClient,
               neutronclient.StateInvalidClient,
               swiftclient.ClientException,
               heatclient.HTTPException)

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