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Khalid - an American singer and songwriter who reached No. 2 on the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart in July 2016, and his debut single, "Location", peaked at number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum - born on Wednesday February 11th 1998, in Fort Stewart, Georgia, United States.
Khalid has powerful personality, and possesses great potential for success, but this power is delicate and conditioned by a strong commitment of his to his ideals and vision, which must be used to inspire others to join him in his dream. He must learn to effectively bring together the necessary elements - people, ideas and resources - to realize his goals. This undertaking can be quite complex and multi-layered, so Robinson must also learn to surrender to the larger cause that he serves, and to understand that the final result may be quite different from his original vision. But with such faith and commitment, Khalid will make an enduring impact on the world.
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On June 22, her 14-year-old brother, Jacob Lorentson, pulled her out of the pool, and her mother and a neighbor performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency workers arrived.
"You would have never known anything had happened two days before," said Jacob, describing how his sister had splashed in the bath and played with other children at her cousin's baptism just days after the accident.
"If anything, she was a little more energetic than normal," he said.
According to family members, Sarah had been briefly left unattended on the deck of the family's Eldersburg home about 5:30 p.m. June 22. She wandered through an unlocked gate and entered the family pool. But with the next-door neighbor's lawn mower running, Sarah's mother, Stacy Lorentson, didn't hear anything as she worked in her garden nearby.
Jacob said he went outside about five minutes later, couldn't find his sister, and both he and his mother ran straight to the pool.
Jacob jumped in the pool and pulled his sister out. Stacy Lorentson and a neighbor performed CPR. Sarah, who repeatedly vomited water, had started to breathe again by the time emergency medical technicians from the Sykesville-Freedom District Fire Department arrived, family members said.
As his mother worked to resuscitate his sister, Jacob called 911.
"She's alive. She's crying. She's crying. She's OK," Jacob said, describing his sister's condition in the call with the 911 dispatcher. "She's blue, but she's breathing."
Sykesville paramedics Eddie Godwin and Casie Carpini soon arrived at the home on Gibbons Road. As a precaution, Sarah was transported by helicopter to the emergency room of Johns Hopkins Children's Center, where she remained overnight.
Godwin and Carpini commended Jacob for rescuing his sister and calling 911 without panicking. Members of the Sykesville Fire Department also praised Stacy Lorentson, 36, for administering CPR.
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The Silent Pain and a Policy Change: An Exposé on the Pain That Besets Us
by Hyrum Edwards
Submitted to Affirmation following The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint's reversal of their November 2015 policy changes that prohibited children of LGBTQ parents from being blessed and baptized and characterized members of the church entering into same-sex marriages as apostates. These changes became known within the LGBTQ Mormon community as the "exclusion policy," "policy of exclusion," or "PoX." The day after the reversal of this policy was announced, Nathan Kitchen, President of Affirmation, invited anyone willing to and share their authentic feelings and all their stories of grief, anger, relief, sadness, happiness, confusion, whatever they may be that surround the rescinding this policy. "As President of Affirmation, I want to be sure Affirmation does not hide you or your stories as we move forward," wrote Kitchen in his invitation. If you have reactions or a story to share about the reversal of the exclusion policy, please send to submissions@affirmation.org. You can also read other stories and reactions to the reversal of the exclusion policy.
Recently, I received an email from Affirmation, inquiring after my opinions of the new 180° degree turn on the doctrines of the church regarding the November 2015 policy. It asked me how I felt about this issue. While I did think about this issue in the context of my life, I also thought about others. People around me rallied about, saying, "My soul takes a breath for your community." At first, I was glad. This seemed to be a great step of progress towards a goal which allowed members of all sexual orientations and gender identities to worship on an equal basis and bask in the love of Christ. Many questions were created in my mind, but after a great amount of meditating upon the matter, I came to realize how I REALLY feel about this policy change.
The members of the church, myself included, don't like to admit the screw ups of the leadership. While I would usually prefer to express such opinion in more proper words, I don't feel that this is the time to be sweet and submissive.
We see in our American history one consistent pattern: that whenever a certain group is subjugated by a privileged majority (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants being the prime example of privilege) that subjugated group has found the courage to speak out. But they must do so with dignity and with care. They must bend over backwards to be peaceful and kind about the blatant violence and hatred around them. Take Martin Luther King, Jr., as a prime example. We now respect him because of how dignified he was when a state government of pure, unadulterated white supremacy threw him in jail. When he marched on Washington, he was hated by many of his white Southern counterparts. But he persisted with pure, Christlike care for all people; violent white supremacists included. He had to bend over backwards to be peaceful so that the media who was bent on the side of the privileged elite wouldn't pinhole him to be a violent "n" word. I have never EVER met one church member (and I've met many) who has disrespect for the beauty and grace that MLK was. So let's take a look at how the church stands with the Civil Rights movement. Here's a clear hint: this will shock you.
So our gospel has a clear, central tenant which places an emphasis on free agency. This means that no one should feel obligated to be forced into a certain path or way. Clearly, in the War in Heaven, Satan is illustrated to be a being of darkness; not by some inherency of evil without explanation, but because of a clear, unabashed claim that the choices of people on earth shouldn't be obligated to make choices for themselves, on the basis that they should all have a chance at salvation. Let's look at the Brigham Young University of the 1960s to see how much the church's institutions have been behind free agency in all its forms.
As we all are aware of, the Vietnam War was an incredibly controversial move of Nixon's and Johnson's policies. But whether you are for it or against it, I think we should all agree that in any political movement or era, people should have the right to freely express how they feel. This clearly stated First Amendment right was under clear attack in the '60s, and the church's institutions, instead of being a flag-bearer of human rights in the pursuit of free speech, attempted to suppress the right of students to freely express their opinions of the war. In the words of a Deseret News article, the president of the university in the era of protests was "determined" to prevent protests from happening.
Never mind that students at Cal-Berkeley were peacefully resisting the force of the police for 32 hours, resisting the hands of the law which wanted to destroy their right to expression. Never mind that many innocent civilians in Southeast Asia were being bombed without the permission of Congress. Never mind, that young men who wouldn't get drafted with the caveat of going to college got a clear ticket of privilege above the young men who desired to not get drafted, but weren't economically able to pay for college, so they had to step into the battlegrounds that they felt personally against fighting in because of their low stance on the ladder of economic privilege.
Never mind that our church is centered around free agency.
And, also in the 20th century, church leaders openly stated over the General Conference soapbox that your skin color determined your behavior in the preexistence. That is disgusting. You or I or anyone else should NEVER stand by a belief in a loving Heavenly Father who places all of his beautiful beloved children along a color gradient of best to worst. We are told now that we shouldn't judge other people, but in the same breath, told we have an obligation to bring others up because we are members of the church. Has the church really helped bring racial and sexual minorities "up?" And I am constantly told that I should righteously judge other people, but righteous judgement often comes out to be me judging other people to the standards I have set for myself. That isn't righteousness – that is self-righteousness, judging others on the basis that I am somehow purer or better than them. And that belief leads to prejudice. And a loving God has never, does never, nor will ever stand by prejudice.
Do you think judging your beloved brothers and sisters on a color gradient exemplifies the merciful judgement Christ would exemplify to you with his meekness and humility?
And yet, I digress. The saddest part to me is that I felt guilty writing this. I have been taught to think that any critique of the church's institution is wrong. That in mocking the church, I am mocking God. I am not mocking anything. I am expressing how I feel, and I hope you all respect that right more than many prominent members of the church respected the right to freedom of expression in the '60s.
I relate to how the figureheads of the Civil Rights movement felt when they so bravely advocated for their rights. Somehow, I am similar to them. Because I am expected to be soft and subtle or else I am the angry homosexual who is against a sacred institution. Sounds like the people who pin-holed MLK and his counterparts to be advocates of some infamous "black power." Similarly, now people resist social expressions such as pride parades because they are "flaunting sexuality." If you interpret the peaceful expression of your own identity as "flaunting," please never go to a church gathering again. Please, refuse to go to a parade that is all about how awesome your country is on some conspicuous July 4th. Please, refuse to go to any celebration regarding your ethnic or religious identity, because all of these gatherings have one thing in common with a Pride parade: you are celebrating something you were previously forced to suppress. In religious meetings, you are often times commemorating the pain that you can overcome because of some other being that suffered more than you have to discover truth. And in an Independence Day parade, you are celebrating the freedom that another country across the pond suppressed, and you are now celebrating the freedom you have.
So my community wants to celebrate the freedom we now have that was previously suppressed. Got a problem with that?
Nowadays, many people justify the choices of the church to disallow blacks to have the priesthood on the basis of "trials of faith." They tell me Book of Mormon scriptures and Bible scriptures that articulately express this line of thought, and for many years, I believed the same.
But I will not stand by this line of logic because it infers that privileged groups don't need trials. We (the white race) have already written a constitution which places African-Americans at the lovely 60% of a full human being. We have already created a system of privilege which doesn't welcome diversity in all its forms, because immigrants will only bring drugs into our country (please know I am being sarcastic in that statement).
So we white privileged folk don't deserve trials of faith, because we're busy causing it for other people?
It makes perfect sense that the dis-allowance of blacks to receive the priesthood was a move of white supremacy. Plain and simple. End of sentence. I will not defend that. I refuse to defend that.
And yet, when moves like the 1978 policy change were made in the church, people were thrilled. Policy changes like these were liberating certain groups and removed barriers to public acceptance of the church. But what people don't like to admit is that the removal of these policies came with a refusal to admit privilege. The church doesn't want to admit to white supremacy; that phrase reeks of KKK fires and burning African-American church spires. While the church has certainly never been a part of anything this evil, the hatred against racial minorities is a commonality across all the examples stated, despite the varying levels of prejudice each group carries. The church has caused our brothers and sisters of racial minorities pain. I cannot support their refusal to admit to that.
But when a line of belief has been made for many years, the removal of a policy is a drop in the goblet of justice which should be a cup that runneth over. People will still hold prejudice. People will still face obstacles in many forms. The dagger of discrimination still penetrates deep into the souls of those who have been discriminated against, even if that discrimination ends in formal policy or procedure.
To fully illustrate how I feel, I'll give you an analogy. Let's say you're kidnapped. You are taken captive and held hostage, and that person holding you hostage finally releases you. "Aren't you glad we released you from captivity?" "We know this will help you have more family unity and less divergence in that regard – we feel this will help you feel better, and help you feel more included in living your truth."
This is clearly an extreme example, but your lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, intersex, and asexual peers have been victims of emotional captivity from the church. We have been told we are perverts. We have been told by President Kimball that if we were good people, we wouldn't want to be this way. We have cried ourselves to sleep, contemplated suicide, woken up, gone to school to hear homophobic comments that are largely fed by the rhetoric heard in religious settings, go to church to be spiritually fed and then feel spiritually stricken, and then we start over.
Thank you[?] Is this a time for me to appreciate that you have caused a shocking rate of suicides for LGBTQIA+ youth in Utah, because you have finally come to your senses and done a little good? Is it time for me, as a human in bondage to the homophobic reality that the church has provided for me, to thank the church so much for untying a part of the chain, even though I am still chained to the hatred that surrounds me? Am I expected to be grateful for the absence of pain because an organization that has caused it is now trying to stop? Should I thank a stabber because they remove the dagger?
I am a gay teen of 17 years who has scars of deep trauma. I don't know if they will go away – I hope they will. I am a civil rights advocate, who refuses to deify religious leaders to a level of perfection they aren't at. I refuse to believe that a loving God would want me to experience the prejudice that I have, often times because of rhetoric carelessly spewed to a captive audience at General Conference.
The true cost of discipleship is showing grace to those who "revile" you. It is turning the other cheek when people throw the fireballs of hatred, ready to burn your emotional strength to cinders. The true cost is, showing compassion when people just don't understand, people who deify themselves on the basis that they are living their lives better than you because of their ignorance. The true cost of discipleship is hard. At times, it seems 0.000001 micrometers away from impossible. But the true cost of discipleship is worth it to me. I don't expect others to follow the religious path that I have, but for me, the cost of being a true peacemaker in the pursuit of feeling Christ's charity and mercy for others is worth it.
The cost of discipleship is speaking up about the wrong surrounding you, even when many people refuse to accept it is happening.
To the leaders of the church – I feel charity for you. I understand that it isn't a simple issue. But I also understand that many of the lies that you have been fed regarding what it means to be a sexual minority are convoluted, and I invite you all to the table where we can discuss. Where you can tell me how you feel, and I can reciprocate. Where we can feel charity for each other; where I can discuss my scars, and you can witness the challenge to your authority, and consider the ideas those challenges pose. Where we can both re-humanize each other from the dehumanization we may feel of another seemingly opposing group. Because we aren't against each other. We both want to make the world a better place.
I invite you, any religious or non-religious person who has misunderstood, every person who has understood, and especially all leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to the table of justice. Christ invited us to that table 2,000 years ago. So now, let's eat, where no one need fear. Where we can unite in our cause of helping other people, to help create a better world for everyone, sexual minorities included. Let us never forget the pain that the November policy caused; let us be meek and kneel at the altar of repentance if we refused to recognize the pain that this has caused.
Thank you for reading this. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. It is an incredibly hard pursuit to be LGBTQIA+ with a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints upbringing or as a present member. I am always happy to talk.
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3 thoughts on "The Silent Pain and a Policy Change: An Exposé on the Pain That Besets Us"
Chrissta Hinze says:
I love you Hyrum!
Michael Haehnel says:
Hyrum,
You captured so much and expressed it so clearly. I will email you. Thank you for your comments.
Amy Sowards says:
Well said, Hyrum! I love you so much!!
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Q: Why wont doubles multiply? (Java) I am trying to create Pong, and am making the physics for the ball.
I have the following code:
public Ball(Pong pong) {
        random = new Random();
        this.x = pong.width / 2 - this.width / 2;
        this.y = pong.height / 2 - this.height / 2;

        this.pong = pong;

        this.motionX = 2.0;

        this.motionY = random.nextDouble();
        while (this.motionY > 0.7) {
            this.motionY = random.nextDouble();
            System.out.println(motionY);
        }

        multiplier = 8 / this.motionX;
        System.out.println(motionX);
        this.motionX = multiplier * motionX;
        System.out.println(motionX);
        this.motionY *= multiplier;

}

public void update(Paddle paddle1, Paddle paddle2) {
    this.x += this.motionX;
    this.y += this.motionY;

}

public void render(Graphics2D g) {

    Graphics2D gg = (Graphics2D) g;

    g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
    Ellipse2D.Double shape = new Ellipse2D.Double(x, y, width, height);
    g.fill(shape);
}

In the Ball method, I have set motionX to 2.0. Later on in the method I times motionX by multiplier, so I can make all ball speeds the same. However, what should be 2.0 * 8.0 (16.0) it comes out with 8.0. This happens with every number.
Any ideas what is wrong?

A: Your multiplier is not 8... it is 8 divided by motionX so of course if you multiply back by motionX it is going to cancel out the denominator. Here is what you are doing :
x = 2
m = 8 / x
x = m * x = 8 / x * x = 8

A: But
this.motionX = 2.0;
then
multiplier = 8 / this.motionX;
then
this.motionX = multiplier * motionX;
it's looks like motionX is an 8 to me.

A: Solution to my (silly) error:
I was dividing a number and then multiplying it back.
Solution to my physics problem (making the ball go left and right on the table):
Changed the Ball method to this:
public Ball(Pong pong) {
        random = new Random();
        this.x = pong.width / 2 - this.width / 2;
        this.y = pong.height / 2 - this.height / 2;

        this.pong = pong;

        this.motionX = random.nextInt(3) -1;
        while (motionX == 0) {
            this.motionX = random.nextInt(3) -1;
        }

        System.out.println(motionX);

 this.motionY = random.nextDouble();
    while (this.motionY > 0.7) {
        this.motionY = random.nextDouble();
        System.out.println(motionY);
    }

    multiplier = 8.0 / this.motionX;
    if (this.motionX < 0) {
        this.motionX = -(multiplier * motionX);
    }
    else {
        this.motionX = multiplier * motionX;
    }

    this.motionY *= multiplier;

}

I firstly made sure that the motionX could not be 0 (otherwise the ball would not move left or right).
I then added that if the original motionX was negative, it multiplied by the multiplier and then changed to a negative.
Thanks for help :)

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El Plan Inca fue un instrumento de racionalización del desarrollo implementado por la dictadura militar del autoproclamado Gobierno Revolucionario de la Fuerza Armada en Perú, a partir del Sistema Nacional de Planificación.
Estaba liderado por el general de división, Juan Velasco Alvarado en ese entonces presidente de facto durante la dictadura, asesorado por el COAP (Comité de Oficiales Asesores de la Presidencia).

Fue dado a conocer el 28 de julio de 1974 con ocasión del 153.º aniversario de la Independencia Nacional del Perú.

Meta
En el plazo de veinte años, el plan Inca debía conseguir «la integración de la población, su distribución en todo el espacio económico de país y lograr el ingreso per cápita sea no menos del actual». Estos objetivos debían alcanzarse en un ámbito netamente peruano; por ello el gobierno declaraba su identidad: «Ni capitalista, ni marxista-leninista». Se puso en práctica la autogestión socialista y ―como forma de Gobierno― la democracia popular. En la práctica, tuvo una economía de transición al socialismo; hizo esfuerzos de acercamiento hacia los países comunistas.

Principales realizaciones

Más cerca de Goethe ― «En el principio era la acción»―, los conductores ejecutaron las siguientes acciones:
 Toma de Talara (9 de octubre de 1968) y recuperación de los yacimientos petrolíferos.
 Planificación y restructuración del aparato estatal.
 Banco Central de Reserva: ente regulador del crédito nacional.
 Fortalecimiento del Banco de la Nación.
 El 24 de julio de 1969 se creó la empresa Petroperú (Petróleos del Perú).
 Estatización de la banca comercial privada.
 El 2 de noviembre de 1969 se aprobó la Ley general de Minería. Luego se fundó la empresa Minero Perú.

Referencias

Véase también
 Juan Velasco Alvarado
 Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas

Gobierno Revolucionario de la Fuerza Armada
Perú en 1974
Perú en 1975
Velasquismo

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Or can you?
You likely know exactly what you need to do to succeed in the world of apartment building investment, but perhaps you aren't making forward progress toward your aspirations. Today's guest explores the psychology of what holds us back and offers actionable techniques to help you take control of your life! Rob Dial is a performance coach and speaker who has inspired tens of thousands of people – from college students to NFL superstars – to develop a clear purpose and then establish the habits that lead to success. He believes that leaders are not born, but groomed, and he is committed to teaching others how to become the best version of themselves.
Rob's forte is understanding the human brain and how to hack it to get past the fears and limiting beliefs that are holding you back. Through his work with MWFMotivation, he seeks to help you dig deep and discover what you were put on earth to do. Today he describes the design of the human brain and explains how to employ that understanding to get clear on the 'pain' you are running from as well as the 'pleasure' you are working toward. Get ready to be inspired as Rob coaches you to shift your mindset and truly show up in the world.


text: Q: I m trying to use ant media flutter sdk but playing screen is empty I download and runned ant media sdk for flutter. i wrote my streaming link. after that when i click play its routing playing screen but screen is white. Can anybody help me ?


The Epoxy RFID Access Control Key fob combine the RFID technology with good looking like cartoon figure or any shape customized and practical key fob housings.
The Feature is that logo with epoxy printing,which can protect the logo color more durable and brighter.They can easily be hung on channeling key chain for easy carrying.The key fob encompasses RFID technology with the ability to customize to a customer's specifications.
The Epoxy logo printing keyfob can be used as the hotel key card,identify,tracking,event ticket,etc.


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The status button defines terms from within the delivery report OR you can visit the Announcement and Auto-Alert Delivery Definitions support article.
Direct message any recipient from this panel by clicking on the direct message icon next to his/her name.
(Admins only) View specific announcement delivery data by visiting Dashboard - Announcements - Details and click the Delivery Stats and/or Export button. See Announcement Delivery Details.


This year, I'm a bit surprised to realize that I'm really well organized for the holidays already. Somehow, once I finished teaching for the season, I just launched into Christmas planning & got the basics done quickly. I want to have a fun, maybe even a bit relaxing, holiday season this year, rather than worrying if that online order is going to arrive in time, or spending hours in line at various attractions around the city.
Minimize the gifts. I don't have a long shopping list, since we've already cut back on who we exchange gifts with over the years. One year, we decided that we weren't going to buy gifts to most of the extended family & friends anymore, we'd donate the equivalent amount of money to charity instead. Basically I only buy for children: four nieces & nephews, plus our two kids. I try to keep the gifts for our own kids fairly simple--though I admit in past years I've usually gone over budget a bit. Using the old rhyme helps keep me focused: "Something they want, something they need, something to wear, & something to read".
Another way we minimize the influx of stuff is talking with my family about what to give the kids. I talk with my sisters about what my kids would like or need & they give me ideas for their children, so our gifts to them are less likely to end up just taking up space somewhere. The grandparents tend to give money, which we spend on things like museum & gallery memberships. It's great to be able to go to places like Science World whenever we want & stay for a short time if the kids aren't up for longer, rather than wanting to make it "worth it" if we've paid for tickets just that day.
Quality over Quantity. I admit I'm no minimalist--my house is full of stuff & I visit dollar stores way more than I'd like to admit. However, I really try to restrain myself at Christmas. Part of me wants to buy one of everything in the store & decorate the tree in a different theme each year, or cover our outdoor trees in giant baubles, or wrap the entire house in lights. I'm also reeeeeeally tempted to get myself one of those fake white trees--I've just always secretly loved them. But I know if I buy the tempting cheap stuff, it'll break or just look awful by next year, so it isn't worth it.
DIY is a lot of work, but so worth it. I know not everybody is into making stuff, but if you are--make your own gifts &/or holiday decorations. This also ties in with quality over quantity. I've seen SO MANY DIY tutorials on YouTube that produce an end product that is unique, but no better quality than crap from the dollar store. The awesome thing about making your own decorations, is that you can make them heirloom quality. You can make them washable, durable, or at least recyclable.
I try to make one big project per year that can be used in future years too. I've made a wreath that holds holiday cards, a massive felt board (wall hanging, really) Christmas countdown calendar (which could also double as a Christmas tree if we were travelling, I figure), plus upcycling some ceramic Value Village knick-knacks into a Christmas village.
Plan, plan, plan. As soon as November rolls around, I start collecting a list of holiday themed things to do as a family. Some of those will be events or festivals, like the ones in my post "12 Holiday Events to Bike to in Vancouver", but many will be simple things we do at home, like baking cookies, or watching a classic holiday movie. For some of the events that only happen on one day or during one week, I put them into my Google Calendar so we don't miss out, but I don't plan what we're going to do down to the minute.
This year I created a set of "cards" with activities from my above list on each that I'll keep hidden away somewhere. I'll decide which activity we'll do the following day & put it into the pocket in the countdown bunting for the kids to open the next morning. So the kids will have a bit of structure & know what they're going to do a little ahead of time, but there will be flexibility in case of bad weather, illness, or if something even more fun comes up.
If you're looking for more ideas on keeping Christmas simple & green, check out my list of "Ten Ways to Have a Greener Christmas" from last year.


The key to driving results isn't solely based on aesthetically pleasing dashboards; it's a combination of truly well-designed and defined dashboards, and a team that knows how to take action upon the data/metrics that follow.
The three principles of good dashboard design to drive better results.
How a culture of transparency and elevated accountability can enable your management team.
The ease of creating and using custom dashboards in AchieveIt's platform.


Marist lost nine of last 12 games, is 3-7 in MAAC, 1-3 on road, losing by 9-1-13 points. Canisius won 75-72 at Marist Jan 3, their 7th win in last eight series games. Marist is 3-7 despite shooting 39.2% on arc in league games. Canisius won four of its last five games; they're 6-3 in MAAC, winning last two home games, by 14-5 points. Griffins are 8-4 vs teams ranked outside top 200. Red Foxes lost their last three visits here, by 15-33-24 points. Last six years, Marist is 29-21-1 as a road underdog; Griffins are 7-3-1 in last 11 games as a home favorite, 2-1 this year.


LDCs are countries with poverty, human resource weakness, and economic vulnerability. Which conditions and criteria are reviewed by a UN and Social Council (ECOSOC) committee every three years. In International trade LDCs get some tariff and market access facilities.
market access initiatives, which could be beneficial to exporters, importers and people handling customs related issues in Bangladesh, as well as other LDCs and other areas of the world especially related to Canada Economy.
Bangladesh can be treated as an exemplary country in the LDCs and Canada as an exemplary first world country, who provides similar (not same) facilities to the LDCs.
There is a global consensus that economic development & growth can help to decease poverty. Starting from February, 2002, Canada government was exploring the idea to give greater access to their economy. Which would reduce poverty among the poorest countries. Promote investment and development; enhance economic development through reduced trade barriers and greater market access to Canada economy.
Note:Please read the second part of the article also for easy understanding.
Firstly , thanks for read the article and visit our Supply Chain Management blog.
You are correct that so many business related issues are intertwined due to cross-functional drivers of Supply Chain e.g.,Information,Sourcing and Pricing.
Our next article is "Market Access Initiative for the less developed countries (LDC) and related Issues: A Canada perspective (Part-2)", you are cordially welcome to read this also.


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Doc or crock: 6 recent "documentaries" that have been accused of being fake
Alex McLevy,
Josh Modell,
A.A. Dowd,
and Drew Toal
Dozens and dozens of documentaries hit theaters every year, and few are ever subjected to any kind of serious scrutiny about their authenticity. (If it calls itself real, it must be, right?) Every once in a while, however, a supposedly non-fiction film weathers charges of fraudulence—and not in the Herzogian oh-we-re-staged-a-conversation-or-two kind of way, but in the James Frey or Stephen Glass we-just-made-this-shit-up kind of way. Below, we've singled out six recent films that presented themselves, at least initially, as bona fide documentaries, but eventually had their veracity challenged. We've also revealed—or just taken a good guess—whether each is fact or disguised fiction.
1. Catfish (2010)
There's definitely something fishy going on in Catfish, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's twisty Sundance documentary about the perils of Internet dating. Directors Joost and Schulman chronicle the budding online romance between Manhattan photographer Nev (Schulman's brother) and Michigan artist Megan. When certain inconsistencies arise in Megan's story, Nev and the two filmmakers decide to play amateur detective. Relativity sold the film as a shocking thriller, prompting charges of false advertising, but Catfish's biggest detractors insist the hoodwink goes deeper than a misleading trailer. Why, one might reasonably ask, would anyone start making a movie about something as mundane as a Facebook relationship? Surely they couldn't have possibly guessed that the normal courtship they were documenting would end in such an abnormal way? Joost and Schulman insist to this day that their film is legit, but the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Either way, Catfish proved successful enough to spawn an MTV reality spinoff, which has provoked its own share of skeptical responses.
Doc or crock? Doc, though there's surely more to the story than what the filmmakers show us. Maybe they recreated the early scenes of blossoming romance once things started getting interesting, or realized what was up from the start and simply played dumb for the sake of the movie. [A.A. Dowd]
2. Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010)
Banksy must have had the biggest laugh of his life when Exit Through The Gift Shop was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. And while the street artist still maintains—sort of—that it actually is a documentary, anyone with a mild understanding of his sense of humor should seriously doubt that. The film documents a budding street artist named Thierry Guetta, who's interested in filming Banksy and other street artists, but who—by essentially making shitty, more commercial versions of Banksy and Andy Warhol works—ends up more famous than Banksy himself. Guetta's silliness is one giveaway, as are some interviews Banksy gave in the wake of the film's release, including one in which he claims that Guetta's art sells for double what his does. But look closely: The character of Mr. Brainwash is just another Banksy comment on the world of art and artifice, but he's not going to beat you over the head with it.
Doc or crock? Crock, though many remain convinced of its veracity. [Josh Modell]
3. Unknown White Male (2005)
Sometimes a great story just lands in your lap. Anyway, that's what Rupert Murray would have us believe. Sometime around 2004, the British director began capturing on video the bizarre experiences of Doug Bruce, an old friend who claims to have emerged from a New York subway train one afternoon with no intact memories; everything from his name to his family to his entire collection of experiences had mysteriously vanished from his mind. Unknown White Male, the subsequent film about his recovery process, garnered acclaim when it premiered at Sundance. It also quickly became the subject of heavy skepticism, with critics pointing to both the ultra-rare nature of Doug's form of amnesia—his is basically the most dramatic long-lasting memory loss on record—and the lack of any discernible cause of his condition. Furthermore, Murray is suspiciously there from almost the very start of Bruce's ordeal, filming events one might reasonably assume he'd just heard about. Everyone involved vehemently denies that the film is a hoax, though naturally they would. Alternative explanation: Bruce, whom no one appears to have followed up with in the years since the film's release, just faked the whole thing.
Doc or crock? Probable crock. Much as we'd like to give Bruce the benefit of the doubt, there are just too many holes in his story. Sometimes if something seems stranger than fiction, it might just be fiction. [A.A. Dowd]
4. American Teen (2008)
Nanette Burstein (On The Ropes, The Kid Stays In The Picture) tails five Indiana high-school seniors as they experience personal and academic turbulence on the cusp of adulthood. The film intentionally assigns The Breakfast Club-like roles to each kid—the jock, the geek, the rebel, the queen bee, and the heartthrob—and follows the narrative arc of each of its subjects' lives. It captures every "big moment" like a fly on the wall—which turned out to be the problem. Burstein and her film were criticized in venues as diverse as Ain't It Cool News and Los Angeles Times for what was seen as manipulative, deceptive filmmaking. The IMDB message board for the film is filled with alleged students from the school, accusing the filmmakers of everything from pre-planned scenes to re-staging events that had already occurred. Reenactments aren't a fundamental no-no of documentary cinema—just ask Errol Morris—but Burstein avows that not a single frame of shot footage is anything but purely authentic.
Doc or crock? Doc, just barely. For all its heightened drama and Real World-style editing, the movie doesn't seem to have made anything up, per se. And teens have been inventing emotional arcs for themselves long before Burstein's cameras showed up. [Alex McCown]
5. I'm Still Here (2010)
We wanted to believe that Joaquin Phoenix had gone off the deep end in 2009—that he was sick of Hollywood and was going to try his hand at a hip-hop career. When disastrous-seeming things happened, including an infamous Letterman appearance, no one was quite ready to declare the whole thing a hoax. Phoenix and his director/brother-in-law Casey Affleck kept up the ruse that I'm Still Here was indeed a document of an actor's downfall into hookers, drugs, and self-parody. The early reviews—in spite of the listing of a "cast" at the end—wouldn't come out and make a judgment, though Affleck eventually did, shortly after the movie hit theaters. The director told Roger Ebert at the time: "The reason it was made without comment and with Joaquin in character when in public was because the media plays a role in the film and the media would not have played their role as well as they did had it been acknowledged that Joaquin was only performing." He's right, and he played us perfectly. Too bad the quite-enjoyable end result didn't make much of a splash.
Doc or crock? Crock, fully acknowledged by its creators. [Josh Modell]
6. Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives (2013)
Discovery Channel's perennial Shark Week extravaganza is arguably America's most widely celebrated secular holiday. Despite the statistical improbability of being killed by a shark, the sight of a dorsal fin cutting through the water is enough to send many folks far, far from the ocean (or really any freshwater bodies that great whites somehow implausibly made their way into). Still, after a few years of regular Shark Week programming, the shock value started to slip. In 2013, the Discovery Channel ran a "documentary" called Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives. A bunch of "experts" who presumably moonlight on Ancient Aliens explained why this massive dinosaur nightmare fish could possibly maybe be still alive and hungry for humans somewhere in the ocean. What they didn't bother to explain so well was that the special was a work of complete fiction. Besides a weird disclaimer flashed across the screen at the speed of a Cialis commercial, Discovery didn't give much of a hint to its overly credulous audience that it had gotten into the drama game. While the network eventually apologized for any confusion, Megalodon still ranks as the top-rated Shark Week program of all time. Lesson learned.
Doc or crock? Total crock—or is it? (Cue Jaws theme.) [Drew Toal]


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import * as React from "react";

import TooltipContent from "../tooltip-content";

import { curveMonotone } from "d3-shape";
import { scaleLinear, scaleTime } from "d3-scale";
import { numeralFormatting } from "../utilities";

export const semioticLineChart = (
  data: Array<Object>,
  schema: Object,
  options: Object
) => {
  let lineData;

  const {
    chart,
    selectedMetrics,
    lineType,
    metrics,
    primaryKey,
    colors
  } = options;

  const { timeseriesSort } = chart;

  const sortType =
    timeseriesSort === "array-order"
      ? "integer"
      : schema.fields.find(p => p.name === timeseriesSort).type;

  const formatting =
    sortType === "datetime"
      ? d => d.toLocaleString().split(",")[0]
      : numeralFormatting;

  const xScale = sortType === "datetime" ? scaleTime() : scaleLinear();

  lineData = metrics
    .map((d, i) => {
      const metricData =
        timeseriesSort === "array-order"
          ? data
          : data.sort((a, b) => a[timeseriesSort] - b[timeseriesSort]);
      return {
        color: colors[i % colors.length],
        label: d.name,
        type: d.type,
        coordinates: metricData.map((p, q) => ({
          value: p[d.name],
          x: timeseriesSort === "array-order" ? q : p[timeseriesSort],
          label: d.name,
          color: colors[i % colors.length],
          originalData: p
        }))
      };
    })
    .filter(
      d =>
        selectedMetrics.length === 0 || selectedMetrics.find(p => p === d.label)
    );

  return {
    lineType: { type: lineType, interpolator: curveMonotone },
    lines: lineData,
    xScaleType: xScale,
    renderKey: (d: Object, i: number) => {
      return d.coordinates ? `line-${d.label}` : `linepoint=${d.label}-${i}`;
    },
    lineStyle: (d: Object) => ({
      fill: lineType === "line" ? "none" : d.color,
      stroke: d.color,
      fillOpacity: 0.75
    }),
    pointStyle: (d: Object) => {
      return {
        fill: d.color,
        fillOpacity: 0.75
      };
    },
    axes: [
      { orient: "left", tickFormat: numeralFormatting },
      {
        orient: "bottom",
        ticks: 5,
        tickFormat: (d: any) => {
          const label = formatting(d);
          const rotation = label.length > 4 ? "45" : "0";
          const textAnchor = label.length > 4 ? "start" : "middle";
          return (
            <text transform={`rotate(${rotation})`} textAnchor={textAnchor}>
              {label}
            </text>
          );
        }
      }
    ],
    hoverAnnotation: true,
    xAccessor: "x",
    yAccessor: "value",
    showLinePoints: lineType === "line",
    margin: {
      top: 20,
      right: 200,
      bottom: sortType === "datetime" ? 80 : 40,
      left: 50
    },
    legend: {
      title: "Legend",
      position: "right",
      width: 200,
      legendGroups: [
        {
          label: "",
          styleFn: (d: Object) => ({ fill: d.color }),
          items: lineData
        }
      ]
    },
    tooltipContent: (d: Object) => {
      return (
        <TooltipContent>

{d.parentLine && d.parentLine.label}

{(d.value && d.value.toLocaleString()) || d.value}

            {timeseriesSort}: {formatting(d.x)}

          {primaryKey.map((k, ki) => (
            <p key={`key-${ki}`}>
              {k}:{" "}
              {(d.originalData[k].toString && d.originalData[k].toString()) ||
                d.originalData[k]}

          ))}
        </TooltipContent>
      );
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};

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Tiger Global
SAIF Partners
Deals platform Little raises $50 million from Paytm, others
Along with Paytm, a large "undisclosed investor", SAIF Partners and Tiger Global participated in the round, it said in a statement.PTI | July 29, 2015, 16:43 IST
The fourth round of funding will be used to strengthen the company's logistics, technology platform, experience centres and marketing efforts.
MUMBAI: Founders of online clothing and accessories shopping platform Zovi, Manish Chopra and Satish Mani today said they have raised $50 million (about Rs 315 crore) in funding led by Paytm and will launch a mobile-only online to offline (O2O) marketplace for deals called Little.
Along with Paytm, a large "undisclosed investor", SAIF Partners and Tiger Global participated in the round, it said in a statement.
Little targets to be India's largest consumer lifestyle deals marketplace, it said.
In partnership with Paytm, Little will power the deals platform on Paytm and enable seamless payments when a customer bags a deal, it added.
Little will use the funds to build a robust merchant ecosystem in the country, hire senior-level talent and build new technology to focus on the Indian O2O market, which is expected to be worth USD 64 billion by 2016, according to industry estimates.
The Little application will offer over 50,000 live deals across 11 cities by March 2016. The company is already 400 people strong with strengths in technology, product and operations and expects to build a 1000 person team by March 2016, it said.
The app aims to be both a discovery platform for lifestyle consumers and a sales channel for merchants, providing a supply of real-time hyper-local deals to customers across services like, restaurants, movies, hotels, salons, gyms, spas and other services while creating a hassle free platform for merchants to market their services.
Little expects to hit a gross merchandise value (GMV) run rate of USD 170 million, by March 2016, it said.
"With Little, we aim to offer a real time, personalised and location-based marketplace which can offer contextual and purposeful deals as it learns one's usage habits," Manish Chopra, chief executive and co-founder of Little said.
Chopra along with co-founder Satish Mani will continue to build Zovi as a fashion brand with focus on men's fashion, marketing it on popular online marketplaces, as well as Zovi.com, they said
Tags : Industry, Tiger Global, SAIF Partners, PayTM, Funding


Ziegler M and Uthicke S (2011) Photosynthetic plasticity of endosymbionts in larger benthic coral reef Foraminifera. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 407: 70-80.
Larger benthic Foraminifera (LBF) are ecologically important coral reef protists that harbour a large diversity of symbionts from at least four algal phyla. In this study the photosynthetic plasticity of different endosymbiontic algae found within LBF was investigated using pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) fluorometry. Maximum quantum efficiencies of photosystem II (F-v/F-m) obtained from foraminiferal specimens directly after field collection indicated several pronounced differences between species containing endosymbionts from different algal phyla and, to a lesser extent, also varied between species that contain the same phyla of endosymbiontic algae. Foraminiferal species retaining functional chloroplasts and rhodophyte-bearing species had distinctly lower F-v/F-m, than LBF with dinoflagellates, diatoms or chlorophytes. A laboratory experiment was conducted over 48 h exposing species occurring in high- (photophilic), medium- and low-light (sciaphilic) environments to three manipulated light levels. Photophysiological responses were monitored by measuring F-v/F-m at regular intervals and rapid light curves (RLCs) at the end of the experiment. This experiment demonstrated oscillation of maximum quantum efficiencies according to the light-dark cycle. Changes in the shape of the RLCs (e.g., higher alpha and lower E-k under low light conditions) indicated that photosynthetic plasticity allows LBF to acclimatise rapidly (<48 h) to different light conditions. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


Speaker Biography: Among the pantheon of great writers is E.L. Doctorow, who is this year's recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Doctorow is the author of acclaimed novels such as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel and City of God. Among his many honors are the National Book Award (World's Fair), three National Book Critics Circle Awards (Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March), the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the National Humanities Medal. Doctorow's novels are notable for their chronicling of myth and their intersection with history. His newest novel is Andrew's Brain (Random House), which USA Today said was "too compelling to put down."


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CAGS (Croydon Area Gay Society) is a social and support group for gay men and lesbians in and around Croydon, with a very active tennis group. For more information see the CAGS web site.
CHE (The Campaign for Homosexual Equality) is long-established campaigning organisation working to change the attitudes and laws that make life difficult for homosexual and bisexual people in England and Wales. For more information see the CHE web site.
3F is the Central London Group of OneBodyOneFaith (previously the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement). The group meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month for discussion, prayer, friendship and food at St.Botolph's Church, Aldgate, EC3N 1AB. For more information see the 3F web site.
SLG (South London Gays) is a friendly social group for gay people in the South London area, with a variety of social events, and monthly meetings with guest speakers at the Bread & Roses pub in Clapham. For more information see the SLG web site.
SLAGO is a member of theConsortium of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Voluntary and Community Organisations.


Episode 117 – Thorn and Thyst from Lagging Balls – Behind the Avatar!
Leeta chats with Thorn and Thyst from Lagging Balls podcast about what makes this World of Warcraft couple tick, how they got into podcasting and much, much more.
You can find Lagging Balls podcast on iTunes and Stitcher Radio.
Posted in Podcast. Tags: Warcraft Gaming WoW on March 12, 2016 by leetawow.