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Harris Corp., L3 Technologies to Merge to Create a Global Defense Technology Leader
Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies, Inc., have agreed this week to combine in an all stock merger of equals to create a global defense technology leader, focused on developing differentiated and mission critical solutions for customers around the world.
An increase in defense spending under President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress is driving contractors to pursue mergers so they have more scale to bid on bigger projects, including everything from upgrading computer systems to space exploration, according to a Reuters report.
Under the terms of the merger agreement — published on the L3 website at l3t.com — which was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, L3 shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 1.30 shares of Harris common stock for each share of L3 common stock, consistent with the 60-trading day average exchange ratio of the two companies. Upon completion of the merger, Harris shareholders will own approximately 54 percent and L3 shareholders will own approximately 46 percent of the combined company on a fully diluted basis.
The combined company, L3 Harris Technologies, Inc., will be the sixth largest defense company in the U.S. and a top 10 defense company globally, with approximately 48,000 employees and customers in more than 100 countries. For calendar year 2018, the combined company is expected to generate net revenue of approximately $16 billion, EBIT of $2.4 billion and free cash flow of $1.9 billion, according to the press release.
Harris Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer William M. Brown said, "This transaction extends our position as a premier global defense technology company that unlocks additional growth opportunities and generates value for our customers, employees and shareholders. Combining our complementary franchises and extensive technology portfolios will enable us to accelerate innovation to better serve our customers, deliver significant operating synergies and produce strong free cash flow, which we will deploy to drive shareholder value. Integration planning is already underway, and from our extensive experience with integration, we are confident in our ability to realize $500 million of annual gross cost synergies and $3 billion of free cash flow by year 3."
L3 Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Christopher E. Kubasik stated, "This merger creates greater benefits and growth opportunities than either company could have achieved alone. The companies were on similar growth trajectories and this combination accelerates the journey to becoming a more agile, integrated and innovative non-traditional 6th Prime focused on investing in important, next-generation technologies. L3 Harris Technologies will possess a wealth of technologies and a talented and engaged workforce. By unleashing this potential, we will strengthen our core franchises, expand into new and adjacent markets and enhance our global presence."
The combined portfolio brings depth and balance of relationships across a wide range of customers, in both the U.S. and international markets. Increased scale will enable the combined company to be more cost competitive, expand capabilities to provide end-to-end solutions across multiple domains of air, sea, land, space and cyber, enhance leadership in RF and spectrum technologies and establish a leading platform-agnostic supplier and integrator.
Shared Culture of Innovation
Both L3 and Harris are technology driven organizations with significant R&D investment and a combined workforce of approximately 22,500 engineers and scientists. The combined company plans to accelerate investment in select technologies to expand leadership in key strategic domains including national security. By leveraging a common operating philosophy of continuous improvement and operational excellence, L3 Harris Technologies will continue to drive operating margin improvement.
L3 Harris Technologies will be headquartered in Melbourne, Florida and led by a highly experienced and proven leadership team that reflects the strengths and capabilities of both companies and will share equally in the integration process.
The combined company's Board of Directors will have 12 members, consisting of six directors from each company. William M. Brown will serve as chairman and chief executive officer, and Christopher E. Kubasik will serve as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer for the first two years following the closing of the transaction. For the third year, Brown will transition to executive chairman and Kubasik to chief executive officer, after which Kubasik will become chairman and chief executive officer. Additional senior leadership positions for L3 Harris Technologies will be determined at a later date.
The merger is expected to close in mid-calendar year 2019, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory approvals and approval by the shareholders of each company.
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How to support learning in this digital era
According to a number of recent reports, learning has emerged as one of the top challenges in human capital.
'Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere', goes a Chinese proverb. This is very much applicable and significant in today's scenario. With the changing times and continuous development in technology, upskilling the workforce is not just a 'tick in the box' activity anymore, but has become a real business need!
According to recent industry reports, the gap between India's talent demand and supply in 2021 is expected to be around 140,000 in niche technology skills, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics. The 22nd Annual CEO survey by PwC also suggests that 55 per cent of CEOs felt that limited availability of essential skills does not allow them to innovate in business processes.
Reading these stats and reports, it is very much understandable that investing in upgrading the skills of our employees is the way to go forward and is the key to stay relevant in the market.
Another challenge in learning and development (L&D) is the upcoming generation, that is, Gen Z!
We can refer to a number of studies and researches, which say that Generation Z wants to learn and upgrade their skills for career advancement. According to a Delloite survey, more than 40 per cent of Gen Z consider on-the-job learning to be more valuable than what is taught in universities as workplace skills.
Looking at these numbers, we can say that the coming generation expects a lot from their employers. So, it is the responsibility of the L&D experts to fulfil these and engage with their future workforce. Apart from this, we all know that the traditional methods of classroom learning and training will not suffice for this generation. Organisations need to really adapt and look at a digital transformation of their learning initiatives to support learning in the digital era.
HRKatha, in association with Sumtotal Skillsoft, has come up with this whitepaper titled 'Building a Future-Ready Learning Organisation for the Road Ahead' which discusses ways in which companies can leverage the benefits of a learning management system (LMS) platform, digitise their learning processes and use them more effectively, leading to tangible business results.
Several CHROs and heads of L&D departments of various organisations, have shared their expertise and insights with HRKatha, about how they are digitally transforming the learning culture in their respective organisations.
Richard Lobo, EVP, Infosys; Mahesh Padala, head – learning & organisational development, KEC; Emmanuel David, director HR, Tata Management Training Centre and Adarsh Mishra, director & CHRO, Panasonic India, have shared their valuable views and experiences for this whitepaper.
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A former Louisville recruit, and now Ohio State freshman has reportedly confirmed reports that escorts were provided to players.
Buckeyes freshman JaQuan Lyle spoke with an NCAA investigator this week about his recruiting visit to Louisville in June 2013 and confirmed some of the allegations involving paid escorts during his trip to the school, according to CBS Sports.
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A strategic location, advanced transportation networks, and a strong workforce draw logistics companies worldwide to the Gateway Region, from major e-commerce distributors to medical devices, groceries and all industries in between.
Seaports, airports, railroads, and a population of almost 1.5 million are all inside the workforce area
Proximity to Port of Virginia for international shipping
41 percent of the U.S. population is within a day's drive
Shovel-ready sites and existing high-bay distribution space with direct interstate access and rail siding are available
There are over 100 trucking companies with more than 21,000 trucks based in the metropolitan area
Norfolk Southern and CSX operate intersecting Class 1 rail services locally, with half of Virginia's total truck-railcar intermodal facilities
UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service operate major hubs in the area and provide third-party logistics (3PL) services, along with expertise concentrated at the UPS Freight national headquarters
U.S. military logistics training and operations cluster includes Army Logistics University at Fort Lee and the Defense Supply Center Richmond, concentrating much of the Army's logistics and contracting personnel and expertise in the area
Foreign trade zone status in many parts of the region lowers import/export costs
The workforce area counts more nearly 50,000 employees in the Logistics and Distribution and boosts specializations or competitive advantages in Logistics and Distribution industry-sectors.
A minimum of 20 percent of the employed labor force in the cluster works in the Warehousing and Storage industry-sector.
Top Industry-Sectors
Industry (NAICS) Workforce Area Employment Location Quotient
General Warehousing and Storage (493110) 11,292 2.17
Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers (425120) 2,481 0.98
General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload (484121) 2,549 0.87
General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Less than Truckload (484122) 2,130 1.58
Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers (423830) 1,683 1.04
Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers (424210) 1,305 1.15
Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers (493120) 1,184 1.03
Total, All Logistics and Distribution Cluster 50,253 –
Note: A Location Quotient (LQ) is a statistical measure indicating the industrial specialization of a region compared to a larger geographic area (the nation in this case). By formula, the LQ measures the region's industry share of total employment to the nation's share of total employment for the same industry. An LQ greater than 1.00 indicates that the region has a higher industry concentration than the nation. Source: JobsEQ, Second Quarter of 2019 (preliminary data excluded).
Sample Occupations
Occupation Title (SOC)
Workforce Area Average Annual Wage
National Average Annual Wage
Workforce Area Employment
Workforce Area Extended Employment
Transportation, Storage & Distribution Managers (11-3071) $103,900 $102,900 490 20,346
Logisticians (13-1081) $77,000 $78,700 969 n/a
Heavy & Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers (53-3032) $41,600 $45,600 10,127 6,664
Laborers and Freight, Stock & Material Movers, Hand (53-7062) $28,700 $30,900 14,715 n/a
Packers & Packagers, Hand (53-7064) $22,900 $26,500 3,132 7,408
Note: Employment extended includes trainable persons currently employed in occupations with similar skills than the specified occupation. Source: JobsEQ, Second Quarter of 2018 (preliminary data excluded).
Amazon.com E-commerce fulfillment 3,800
Defense Logistics Agency Defense supplies contracting 2,318
United Parcel Service (UPS) Mail & 3PL 2,490
Walmart Department store distribution 545
Food Lion Grocery distribution 500
Standard Motor Products Distribution Center 400
Goya Food Distribution 60
Source: Virginia's Gateway Region's internal database, 2018.
Virginia State University: Offers a degree in Logistics and Industrial Technology which prepares workforce skill sets in supply chain, distribution and transportation fields, with approximately 50 enrolled annually.
Community College Workforce Alliance (CCWA): Offers certifications such as Production and Inventory Management, and other relevant logistics courses ranging from operations management to truck driving, preparing individuals for a career in transportation, distribution or logistics. CCWA also delivers custom-designed instruction and training programs for companies, tailoring training according to companies' specific occupational needs and utilizing regional expertise to teach the classes. Classes give consideration to special company processes, practices and culture, ultimately crafting a company-specific workforce.
Virginia Commonwealth University: Offers a master's program in Supply Chain Management. This program partners with Fort Lee's logistics expertise and local businesses expertise to explore global supply chain strategies.
John Tyler Community College: Offers Logistics Specialization Virginia Colleges and Universities: Additional programs in the state produce graduates that live and work in the region, with degrees and certificates in Managerial Economics and Logistics, Business Management, Supply-Chain Management, Process Engineering and more.
Government and defense logistics concentration: The Department of Defense designated Fort Lee as the global logistics center for the U.S. Army's worldwide operations, doubling the installation's population and footprint between 2006-2012 to enhance training and operative functions related to logistics. The post contributes approximately 400 of the over 600 military exits per year in the workforce area, offering a significant workforce advantage for local companies, with at least 50% of these veterans having specialized training in logistics and order fulfillment and heavy equipment operation. The region also enjoys proximity to major U.S. defense centers in Hampton Roads, Virginia and the Washington, D.C. area. Learn more about military presence in the region
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems (CCALS): R&D center is a collaboration among Virginia universities, the Port of Virginia, and industry partners like Logistics Management Resources and LMI. Research focuses on modeling and simulation and intellectual property, along with workforce development impact on local logistics workforce, adds to the region's status as a center of excellence in logistics.


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Jamie Bell biography
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Date of Birth: March 14, 1986
Born in Billingham, England, Jamie Bell comes from a family of dancers, including his grandmother, mother, aunt and sister. When he was small, he would stand outside the door of his sister's dance practices and go through the dance steps along with the class. At six, he began taking lessons himself, starting with tap, after telling his mother that he could do the steps better than some of the girls in his sister's class. Although Jamie at first hid the fact that he was taking dance lessons, by the time he was eight, people found out and he was teased at school. However, he says, "It gave me more determination to prove it wasn't just for girls. It was for boys too."
When he was nine, Jamie decided to try acting as well and landed several roles over the next few years in local stage productions. In 1999, auditions were being held for the lead role a new film called Billy Elliot , the story of a boy who wants to become a ballet dancer, but meets with his family's disappointment. More than 2,000 boys tried out for the role, but Jamie landed it, and when the film came out in 2000, he became an instant star. For his performance, he won numerous awards around the world, including the Best Actor award at the 2001 British Academy Awards, beating out Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks, Michael Douglas and Geoffrey Rush.
After Billy Elliot (2000), Jamie concentrated on schoolwork, but after finishing some important exams at age 16, he returned to the big screen in Deathwatch (2002), and followed that up with the role of Smike in the newest adaptation of Charles Dicken's classic novel, Nicholas Nickleby (2002). He won a Young Artist Award for his performance in the feature film Undertow (2004), then was chosen by director Peter Jackson to play a supporting role as young sailor Jimmy in the blockbuster King Kong (2005). Impressed with his work, Jackson again cast Bell as the title lead in his animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011), a joint venture with iconic director Steven Spielberg.
Bell played Joey Cassidy in the thriller Man on a Ledge (2012), and starred as Ben Grimm / The Thing in Fantastic Four (2015). In the biopic Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), he played the romantic lead opposite Annette Bening, as a young actor who falls in love with an older Hollywood actress whose star is waning.
He gave a critically acclaimed performance as Elton John's writing partner, Bernie Taupin, alongside Taron Egerton in the biopic Rocketman (2019).
Jamie's favorite type of dancing is tap, for which he has won many awards at various competitions. However, he says he prefers being a professional actor to being a professional dancer.
When Jamie was small, he had an interest in hockey until he was taken to see a game up close and was put off by the violence. He currently is a big baseball fan and collects major league team shirts. In his spare time Jamie likes reading, writing and playing computer games.
Jamie, who was previously married to Evan Rachel Wood, married actress Kate Mara in July 2017.
Jamie Bell Filmography
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2018)
6 Days (2017)
Filth (2014)
Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2014)
Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2014)
Nymphomaniac: Volumes I and II (2014)
Man on a Ledge (2012)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
The Eagle (2011)
Dear Wendy (2006)
Undertow (2004)
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A Child's Garden (2002)
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
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Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White, FBA (10 August 1911 – 1November 1993) was a British academic and ancient historian. He was a fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford and President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. His most important works include a study of Roman citizenship based on his doctoral thesis, a treatment of the New Testament from the point of view of Roman law and society, and a commentary on the letters of Pliny the Younger.

Biography
Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White was born on 10 August 1911. His father, H. N. Sherwin-White, was a solicitor employed by the London County Council. From 1923 to 1930 he was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, apart from one year in which ill health forced him to study independently at home. He won a scholarship to the School's "sister foundation" St John's College, Oxford, where he began the Literae Humaniores course in 1930. His tutor in ancient history was Hugh Last, whose interest in Roman administrative history influenced the direction of his student's later scholarship. Sherwin-White achieved first-class honours in both sets of Oxford examinations, the preliminary Honour Moderations and the more important Finals which he sat in 1934.

Sherwin-White started work the same year on his doctoral thesis, on Roman citizenship. In 1935, he was awarded the Derby Scholarship and Arnold Historical Essay Prize. In 1936, he married Marie Leonora Downes. He was also selected ahead of older competitors to succeed to Last's fellowship at St John's College, despite not yet having a doctorate – this may have been on Last's recommendation. His thesis was submitted in 1937, and the examiners M. Cary and R. Syme commended its "maturity of judgement such as one hardly dares to expect from a young scholar". Sherwin-White declined to accept the actual doctorate, preferring to remain known as "Mr", but he revised the thesis for publication as The Roman Citizenship (1939). It came to be regarded as "a classic of modern historical writing on Rome".

Sherwin-White's poor eyesight kept him from active service during World War II, but the President of St John's wrote to the Director of Naval Intelligence to recommend him for a post, and he was commissioned on 4 December 1941 as a Temporary Sub-Lieutenant. He helped to edit some of the Admiralty's series of geographical handbooks, acquiring detailed geographical knowledge that he displayed in subsequent scholarship including a 1944 article about the historical geography of Algeria.

Sherwin-White returned after the War to teaching at St John's, where he also served as "Keeper of the Groves" responsible for the college garden. Outside recognition came in 1956 with his election as a fellow of the British Academy. He produced a school textbook, Ancient Rome (1959), as well as more advanced works including Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament (1963), identified retrospectively by the Roman historian Fergus Millar as "[t]he most stimulating and original" of his postwar works. Arising from his studies of Roman law and administration, this indicated "his conviction of the essential historicity of the narratives in the New Testament", especially in the critique he mounted in his closing pages against "form-criticism of the extremer sort".

Sherwin-White's Oxford career was not interrupted by his family's move in 1963 to a cottage near Fyfield, Oxfordshire. The year 1966 saw the publication of a work "at least eighteen years" in the making: his historical and social commentary on the letters of Pliny the Younger, the first such work ever compiled and one not yet superseded. In Millar's assessment, it "combined immense erudition, percipience and sharpness of vision with a curious slapdashness about small details"; these errors were keenly hunted down by contemporary reviewers. In the same year Sherwin-White became Reader in Ancient History.  Although he was a potential choice to succeed Ronald Syme as Camden Professor of Ancient History in 1970, this role went to Peter Brunt. Sherwin-White did serve as President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies between 1974 and 1977, and his Roman Foreign Policy in the East (1983) appeared four years into his retirement. He died on 1 November 1993 at Fyfield, survived by his wife and two children.

Publications

Books
 The Roman Citizenship (Oxford, 1939, revised 1973).
 Ancient Rome (London, 1959, revised 1978).
 Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament (Oxford, 1963, based on the Sarum Lectures for 1960–1961).
 The Letters of Pliny: A Historical and Social Commentary (Oxford, 1966).
 Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome (Cambridge, 1967, based on the J. H. Gray lectures for 1966).
 Fifty Letters of Pliny (London, 1967, revised 1969).
 Roman Foreign Policy in the East (Norman, 1984).

Selected articles
 "Geographical Factors in Roman Algeria". The Journal of Roman Studies 34 (1944): 1–10.
 "Violence in Roman Politics". The Journal of Roman Studies 46 (1956): 1–9.
 Review of R. Syme, Tacitus. The Journal of Roman Studies 49 (1959): 140–146.
 "The Roman Citizenship: A Survey of Its Development into a World Franchise". Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 1.2 (1972): 23–58.

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This week saw President Donald Trump pull the US out of the Paris Agreement, which aimed to set targets for many countries around the world to meet in terms of emissions, in order to help the environment. Microsoft has expressed disappointment at Trump's decision to pull out.
Email spam plagues email users on a daily basis – constantly – but Microsoft has a program that little know about, called the Spam Fighters program, it aims to help develop its Smartscreen system on Outlook.com to detect if an email is spam or not, by asking recipients to vote on whether they perceive it to be spam.
To help users of Bing discover videos that they may be interested in, Microsoft is opening up a beta of a new Bing Video Feed, which is a curated feed of videos from around the internet, from sites such as YouTube, Dailymotion and others.
Microsoft has officially confirmed that Microsoft Rewards is now available in the UK and, has also said that it is coming to other European countries, including France and Germany but, also Canada.
That's it for this week – we'll be back next week with more Microsoft news!


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Has Permian Productivity Peaked? – Analysis
June 3, 2017 OilPrice.com 0 Comments
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The U.S. shale industry might have just received a huge windfall with the nine-month extension of the OPEC cuts. Shale output was already expected to come roaring back this year, but the extension of the cuts provides even more room in the market for shale drillers to step into.
The sky is the limit, it seems. However, there are growing signs that the U.S. shale industry could be reaching the end of the low-hanging fruit. Or, more specifically, drilling costs are starting to rise and the enormous leaps in production that can be obtained by simply adding more rigs also appears to be running into some trouble.
According to the EIA's Drilling Productivity Report, productivity (as opposed to absolute production) is set to fall next month in the Permian Basin. In other words, the average rig will only be able to produce an estimated 630 barrels per day of initial production from a new well, down 10 b/d from the 640 b/d that such a rig might have produced in May. That is convoluted way of saying that the ever-increasing returns on throwing more rigs at the problem might be hitting a ceiling.
This is a very notable development – it is the first time that the EIA predicts falling well productivity per rig since it began tracking the data several years ago. Still, because the rig count has increased so much, there will still be more production coming out of the Permian. It's just that as drillers gobble up all the best spots to drill, it will become more and more difficult to find easy pickings.
Moreover, simply drilling the wells is only one part of the equation. As Collin Eaton of Fuel Fix notes, companies are drilling wells at a faster pace than contractors can frac them. The shortage of completion crews means that the backlog of drilled but uncompleted wells (DUCs) has shot up over the past year, rising by more than 60 percent to 1,995 in April 2017 from a year earlier.
The strain on contractors means that drilling costs will also rise. Oilfield service companies bore the brunt of the market downturn over the past three years, forced to slash their rates because of the lack of work. Oil producers have consistently and repeatedly boasted about their "efficiency gains," but much of the cost-savings came from soaking service companies.
That could be at an end. The rise in drilling activity means that oilfield service companies finally have more leverage to hike their prices. The results could be an upswing in costs for producers. Service costs could jump by 20 percent this year, according to an estimate from S&P Global Platts.
But it isn't all rosy for service companies either. Fuel Fix notes that they have to rebuild their rig fleets after scrapping so many during the last few years. Also, finding enough people to return to work after savagely cutting payrolls will be a challenge.
The West Texas Permian Basin. Credit: National Energy Technology Laboratory – US Department of Energy
Overall, however, production is still expected to increase. Generous financing from Wall Street will ensure that capital is not a limiting factor. Consequently, the shale industry will continue to shower West Texas with money, rigs and people. Oil will flow in larger volumes this year and probably next year, barring another downturn. The Permian, for instance, is still expected to add more than 70,000 bpd of additional output between May and June.
Also, OPEC's determination to prevent another downturn in prices provides some certainty to shale drillers. OPEC is erasing some of the risk for drillers to deploy resources in the Permian. On an annual basis, the EIA estimates that U.S. oil production will average 9.3 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2017 and a staggering 10.0 mb/d in 2018.
But if well productivity has peaked, the marginal barrel will be a bit trickier to produce next year than it was in, say, late 2016.
Source: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Has-Permian-Productivity-Peaked.html
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Childish Gambino on Sunday took home the Grammy for Song of the Year - honoring best songwriting for his politically charged This Is America, whose graphic music video carried a strong message on gun violence and racism.
Upon the video's release, social media lit up with comments over its intense allusions to oppression of black people and America's all-too-common mass shootings.
This Is America juxtaposes an up-tempo rhythm, layered with church hymns and Afrobeats with a heavier, more foreboding bassline in what is perhaps a metaphor for mainstream America's perception of black culture and the much darker undertones of its often more brutal reality.
The artiste's win is his first in a major Grammy category and fourth overall, after his hit Redbone won the prize for Best Traditional R&B Performance last year. Childish Gambino has notched 12 career Grammy nominations.
As an actor and producer, the California-born performer has garnered critical acclaim for his surrealist comedy-drama television series Atlanta in which he stars.


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I'd Rather Kiss a Wookiee
Han and Leia's Love Story Through a MeToo Lens
February 26, 2019 February 26, 2019 Mia McCullough	1 Comment	#metoo, C3PO, Carrie Fisher, Chewbacca, George Lucas, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Return Of The Jedi, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back
Princess Leia doesn't like Han Solo when she first meets him. If his rugged good looks attract her, she hides it well. To George Lucas' credit, Princess Leia is a badass. She may be the only femme in his entire Universe for the first two films, but she can fire a blaster, come up with good ideas, and take care of herself. But she doesn't like Han. She accuses him of cutting off their escape route, and rebukes and insults him constantly. She's more than a little classist, but since she's a princess, that's not shocking.
Han has conflicting thoughts about Leia: "Either I'm going to kill her or I'm starting to like her." Murderous intentions or affection? What's the message there? If you want to throttle someone, that's a sign that you're attracted to them? This sounds like a recipe for domestic violence. But we're not supposed to worry that Han is serious. We're supposed to laugh off this suggestion of violence against women, to be invested in his burgeoning feelings. And we are. The trope goes, "Man wants woman, man wins woman over." We're not supposed to care what the woman wants, or even trust her to know what she wants. It's high time we think about it.
The original Star Wars trilogy is part of Generation X's social DNA. It's arguably shaped our generation more than any other films. But given our ongoing shift in consent culture, I was curious to look back at the messaging in the defining trilogy for Generation X.
We grew up watching Leia and Han fall in love. How did that affect the way we think about love and courtship? And what do those scenes look like through the lens of the MeToo Movement?
A Man-Centered Galaxy Far, Far Away
Han and Leia hug when they don't die in the garbage compactor. But Han quickly undercuts that with, "If we can avoid any more female advice." Leia reverts to her imperious attitude, telling Han, "You do what I tell you," and calling Chewbacca a walking carpet. "No reward is worth this," says Han. Nowhere does she reciprocate Han's interest. She continues to hold him in disdain. But because Lucas shot the film from the male point of view, he asks the audience to judge that disdain and root for Han.
When Han and Leia get to the Millennium Falcon, Han finally gets to show off a bit. Standard courtship posturing: show the girl how talented/ strong/ smart you are. Leia responds with, "You captain this thing? You're braver than I thought." and "He certainly has courage." But his mercenary attitude doesn't impress her. She says, "If money's all you love then that's what you'll receive," and, "I wonder if he really cares about anything or anybody."
These are the first hints that Leia is invested in who Han is, not just what he can do for the resistance. It's a far cry from a declaration of love, though. Han does save their lives several time. The overriding messages are "showing off for girls makes them like you," and "recklessness has rewards."
Then the film sets up the classic love triangle between the girl, the good boy, and the bad boy. Luke asks, "What do you think of her?" "Trying not to, kid." Then Han suggests, "You think a princess and a guy like me…?" Luke comes back with a flat out, "No."
At this moment, in 1977 many of us took sides and began rooting for one of these men to win Leia's affections. There's a three-way hug among them after the final battle, reinforcing the love-fest-triangle. During the medal ceremony, they stand in a literal and figurative triangle on the steps. Leia smiles at both men. When she gives Han his medal he winks at her as if to say, "You're the real prize." Our culture, in general, has used entertainment to position women as prizes instead of people, and this moment reinforces that pernicious idea.
Han Solo, Sexual Harasser?
In The Empire Strikes Back, the messaging gets really alarming regarding consent. At the top of the film, the hostility between Han and Leia has been rekindled. Han is outta there. He's got debts to pay, enough with this resisting. Leia feels angry and disappointed. He tells her that this is because she has feelings for him, not because she wants his help to beat the Empire. She's cold and only cares about the cause.
Never mind that she might be preoccupied with how the Empire destroyed her planet and all its people. No, according to Han, she must be using the deaths of her people to subvert her feelings for him. Then he tells her, "You could use a good kiss," a PG way of saying she needs a good fuck. She responds by revenge-kissing Luke, playing into the love triangle again.
Shortly thereafter, Han literally manhandles Leia off of Hoth and onto the Millennium Falcon, directing her around by her upper arm which is both aggressive and intimate. This is how headstrong women leaders must be dealt with: force. While on the Falcon she tells him to let go of her twice and he doesn't listen. When she gives herself a minor injury and Han massages her hand, she says, "Stop that," twice. He doesn't.
She pulls away. He says, "You're trembling." She insists she's not, but she's being cornered by a much larger human. He asks her why she's afraid. So he can tell she's afraid, but does he back off? No, he pins her against a wall and kisses her. The music swells telling us, This is a good kiss, not a rapey kiss. I watch that moment and think, "That's where all those frat boys learned that move." C3P0 interrupts them and Leia dashes away the moment Han turns his back. The scene plays like a how-to manual for sexual harassment.
In this male-helmed fantasy, of course Leia falls for Han once he forces himself on her. An excellent message to be sending to boys and girls alike. People can convince themselves that she really loved him all along, but seriously, NOWHERE does she indicate any affection for him. All of her hugs and gratitude can logically stem from Han helping to save them and the galaxy. When he has her pinned against the wall, right before the kiss, she protests with, "I happen to like nice men." He says, "I am a nice man," and then plants one on her as she tells him he's not.
Newsflash, Han, nice men don't pin unwilling women against a wall and force kisses on them. Thanks, George Lucas, for telling us all that this is what romance looks like. No wonder women get into situations where they think they're supposed to be turned on by being cornered and coerced, but somehow they're not. We've been force-fed this fantasy since before puberty.
Throughout the rest of The Empire Strikes Back there are various chaste kisses on the cheek and forehead, going both ways, until the consensual kiss before the carbon freezing, accented with the classic. "I love you"–"I know," repartee. Lucas and his team redeem themselves a bit by flipping that obnoxious exchange in The Return of the Jedi.
The Placating Princess
In Return of the Jedi, Han and Leia act lovey-dovey throughout, the non-consensual, non-cue-reading courtship having worked out 100% for Han. There's a brief flare up of love-triangle jealousy when Luke and Leia sneak off so Luke can tell her he's her brother. It's the perfect way to save face: You don't have to friend-zone me for that bad boy, I'm your brother! And then Leia has to soothe Han's jealousy with the revelation. Because men deserve to be placated. Their feelings are paramount. Who cares that you just learned Darth Vader is your father and you have Jedi potential? It's a woman's duty to make that man feel like a man.
Jabba's den contains a few more female characters thus relieving us of the notion that Leia is the only woman in the galaxy. Unfortunately, all the femme characters are entertainment or concubines or both. And poor Carrie Fisher felt incredibly uncomfortable in that ridiculous costume.
Slave Leia, not exactly progressive.
I'm not trying to ruin the films for everyone. Really, I'm not. I still love them and their cheesy goodness. And I don't blame George Lucas for every non-consensual sexual encounter of a generation. But I do think it's essential that we look at the messaging we internalized here and in the other films of our youth.
My husband, on the other hand, was happy to ruin Return of the Jedi for me. When Han and Leia were embracing at the end of the film, he gave a dismissive wave to the TV and said, "Ok, you two run off and make Adam Driver now."
*shudder*
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Mia McCullough
Mia McCullough is a playwright and filmmaker. Her plays have been seen around the country at various theatres including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Red Fern Theatre, Stage Left Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists. Season One of her web series The Haven is available on OTV/ www.weareo.tv and her book Transforming Reality, on the creative writing process, is available on www.lulu.com.
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Did you really have to throw in that cruel jab about Adam Driver's physical appearance? This article was so informative and great until you resorted to mocking someone's looks.


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Q: VideoJS currentTime() always returning 0 I'm using videoJs to load a video into an admin
platform built in react. I set up the player here :
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and lastly i'm trying to get the current time of the video that is playing in this method
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the problem is that the player.currentTime() call is always returning 0. The other two getCurrentTime's for Vimeo and Youtube work fine. what is the reason behind this? I tried to give enough context around this problem so that you would be able to figure it out.
Thanks for your help in advance!

A: The problem is getCurrentTime() returns a promise so you need to access the value of the time when the promise is resolved as a callback to the Promise's .then() function.
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Q: Is the Scalar Product Definition in my book wrong? In Rainer Kress'es book "linear integral equations" (2nd edition) on page 9 it says

Definition 1.19 Let X be a complex (or real) linear space. Then a function $(\cdot , \cdot): \rightarrow X \times X \rightarrow \mathbb{C}\; (or \mathbb{R})$ with the properties.
  (H1) $(\varphi, \varphi) \geq 0 $ (positivity)
  [...].
  for all $\varphi \in X$ is called a Scalar product.

Now, if the mapping goes from $X\times X$ to $\mathbb{C}$, we might have to compare imaginary numbers with the > relation, which is not possible to my knowledge.
Is this a mistake in the book, or did I miss something?
Edit: pardon my formatting, I'm typing this on my phone
Clarification
Why do we map $X \times X \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ in the first place if we implicitly assume it is real anyway. I find this confusing.
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My confusion came from, that I thought of a mapping to be a  Scalar product which turned out it was not.

A: It is correct, because the only elements of $\mathbb C$ for which the relation $\geq$ is defined are real numbers. Therefore, the statement $$z\in\mathbb C\land z \geq 0$$ is equivalent to the statement $$z\in\mathbb R \land z\geq 0.$$

We do not implicitly assume that the mapping is real. We only assume that $(\phi, \phi)$ is real for all values of $\phi$, not that $(\phi, \psi)$ is real for all values of $\phi,\psi$.
For example, the mapping $$(.,.):\mathbb C^2\to \mathbb C\\ (z,w)\mapsto z\cdot \overline w$$
is a scalar product, and $(z,z)$ is always real, however $(i,1)$ is not real.

A: Without context, it is difficult to say if there may have been a mistake. However, if done correctly, one of the other properties of $(\cdot, \cdot)$ will be the fact that $(\phi, \psi) = \overline{(\psi,\phi)}$, where the line denotes complex conjugation. In particular, you have that $(\phi,\phi) = \overline{(\phi,\phi)}$ and thus $(\phi, \phi)$ is always real.
Alternatively, for complex numbers $\alpha$, you could interpret $\alpha \geq 0$ as meaning "$\alpha$ is real, and furthermore $\alpha \geq 0$".

A: It follows implicitly that $(\phi,\phi)$ must be a real number and be $\ge 0$ at the same time. This is implicit here. Wikipedia is a bit more explicit.

A: A scalar product is, as the name implies, a product whose result is a scalar. If X is a complex linear space, then the space of scalars will be the complex numbers, so the scalar product will map to the complex numbers. So the codomain of the scalar product will be the set of complex numbers, even though the range will be positive real numbers for a vector with itself.


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The Biden administration on Thursday announced that qualifying migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela will be able to qualify for temporary parole in the United States for up to two years.
Migrants who "cannot establish a legal basis to remain will be removed or returned to Mexico, which will accept returns of 30,000 individuals per month," the Department of Homeland Security said. This policy already applied for Venezuelans, but is being expanded to include Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans.
The process for migrants from the four countries to come to the United States will be "streamlined" so they do not have "to make the dangerous journey to the border," officials said. This will allow 30,000 people to be paroled into the United States each month for two years at a time, where they will be able to reside legally and work. The parole program is already in place for Venezuelans.
Migrants interested in living and working in the U.S. will be approved "on a case-by-case basis" and required to "pass rigorous biometric and biographic national security and public safety screening and vetting; have a supporter in the United States who commits to providing financial and other support; and complete vaccinations and other public health requirements," the agency said.
The new requirements come after U.S. Border Patrol Agents encountered a record of 2.4 million migrants last fiscal year.
President Joe Biden is expected to speak about border security on Thursday ahead of a planned visit to the border.
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I have been a passionate advocate of human rights since the first grade, when I insisted that girls as well as boys be allowed to play flag football during recess. After graduating from the University of Redlands, I spent four years working in advocacy and development with different community organizations in Australia, West Africa, and the United States. Since returning to California almost two years ago, I have had the opportunity to gain on-the-ground experience as a health educator and medical assistant at Planned Parenthood. In this position, I have been inspired by the potential of evidence-based medical information to empower individuals to take action and engage their right to health.
I first heard about Breast Cancer Action while taking a class on the biology of human cancer at University of California Berkeley Extension. During the class, I was shocked to learn for the first time that over half of the women diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States have no known risk factors and that there is increasing scientific evidence of the role of involuntary environmental exposures. However, I was even more amazed to learn about how little major health organizations were doing to improve prevention and address systemic inequalities related to breast cancer.
I decided to join the Community Leaders for Change because I want to connect my community to information on the systemic issues that are the root cause of the breast cancer epidemic and counter the current focus on individual risk and mammography screening. Additionally, I feel more young women should participate in Breast Cancer Action as future stakeholders of this epidemic.
I believe working to prevent breast cancer before it starts is equally, if not more important, than working to find a cure. This will require not only looking at the many factors that contribute to the causes of breast cancer, but also making systemic changes in the way we travel, farm, generate energy, make things, regulate industries, and allow corporations to do business.
My goal as a Community Leader is to build informed support in my community for broader public health interventions to end the breast cancer epidemic and inspire women from underserved populations and women in their 20's and 30's to take action.
While cancer can seem simply impossible to rein in and stop, we know this is not true. However, only by taking action together can we can make substantial changes and progress towards a solution.


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Issues & Trends>Sustainability
Ahold to join CIW 'Fair Food' program
Jon Springer | Jul 29, 2015
Ahold USA said Wednesday it has joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program, and that it is committed to buying tomatoes only from growers meeting the CIW's labor standards and paying a "penny-per-pound" premium on tomato orders to fund farm worker wage increases.
Ahold, which operates 776 supermarkets in 14 states, is the first major U.S. conventional supermarket chain to join the program. It said its participation would increase the number of U.S. grocery stores carrying Fair Food tomatoes by 75%.
Whole Foods Market, Wal-Mart Stores, The Fresh Market and Trader Joe's are also members of the Fair Food program. The CIW has conducted a campaign urging companies to participate, notably Publix Super Markets. Publix has declined to join, saying it did want to be drawn into a labor dispute between its suppliers and their employees.
Ahold said joining the movement was an "important next step" in an ongoing commitment to responsible retailing.
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I have customers that are constantly asking about my highly coveted word flow keyboard. With the size of devices getting bigger and bigger, especially since iPhone for some reason seems to resist swipe in their software. There needs to be a one handed swiping feature. I have both swift and word flow. Either integrate it into swift or dump swift and bring back word flow.
Just as email, we should be able to access SMS also through any device.
SMS Organizer no working properly in Asus Zenfone 5Z(Android Pie), I am unable to receive SMS, mainly OTP. some times it is very late to receive SMS. at the same time if i switch to default android SMS app(Stock app), everything seems fine without any issues.
I do not want reminders from SMS Organizer for payments and such. I am fine tracking them without those reminders. There are two ways to enable users for tackle the SMS Organizer reminders. (1) Disable Reminders (2) An option to "Mark All Reminders Read". Thank you!
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Hawke's Bay players Zac Guildford and Ryan Tongia have been hailed as community heroes after halting an alleged shoplifter in Napier on Tuesday.
The players were enjoying lunch with injured team-mate Chris Eaton when they noticed an alleged thief sprinting out of a shop, laden with clothes.
Guildford and Tongia chased after the alleged offender, with a eye-witness telling OneNews they managed to catch the alleged offender "200 metres down the street".
"Ryan grabbed the offender and walked him back to some security guards and the police took over," the witness said.


LEWIS' "Defining Journalism in a Post-Truth World" event series has been awarded a Platinum MarCom Award from the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals (AMCP). The campaign won in the Communications/PR, Special Event category.
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LEWIS was recognized for its successful media panel event series addressing how the fake news phenomenon has potential to impact brand stories and more. Events hosted across seven markets resulted in engrossing conversations, features in top-tier news outlets, post-event recaps content, market research resulting in a widely shared white paper, and further thought leadership in the communications industry.


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Cidade Velha, Cape Verde
Regional secretariat
Southern Europe and Mediterranean
Administrative status
Seat of the Ribeira Grande de Santiago municipality
Protected area / Photos / News / Contact
Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande
Historical function
First colonial city built by Europeans in the tropics
Location and site
The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Velha in the late 18th century, was the first European colonial outpost in the tropics. Located in the south of the island of Santiago, the town features some of the original street layout impressive remains including two churches, a royal fortress and Pillory Square with its ornate 16th century marble pillar.
Registration criteria
Criterion (ii): The monuments, the remains are still present in Ribeira Grande, its maritime and agro-urban landscapes testify of its important role in international exchanges associated to the development of the European colonial domination towards Africa and America and the birth of the Atlantic triangular trade. They testify to the organization of the first intercontinental maritime trade, and more particularly to Ribeira Grande's hub function in the acclimatisation and the spreading among the temperate and tropical areas, between the various continents.
Criterion (iii): The urban, maritime and landscape site of Ribeira Grande has provided an outstanding testimony of the origins and development for close to three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade of modern times and its dominant relations. It is a major place of its commercial organization and early experience of the enhancement of the slave system of a colonial territory. Human mixings and the meeting of African and European cultures gave birth to the first creole society.
Criterion (vi): Ribeira Grande is directly linked to the tangible manifestations of the history of enslavement and the slave trade of African people, to its major cultural and economic consequences. Ribeira Grande was the cradle of a first metis creole society. The creole culture then spread through the Atlantic by adapting to the various colonial contexts of the Caribbean and America. Its forms affect more particularly the arts, the social and religious customs, the beliefs, the pharmacopoela, and culinary traditions. Ribeira Grande is a major initial link of intangible heritage shared by Africa, the Americas and Europe.
Historical reference
Cidade Velha, the historic centre of Ribeira Grande, has an outstanding universal value: the foundation of Ribeira Grande/Cidade Velha represents an important milestone in the expansion of Europe, which took place at the end of the XVth Century, towards Africa and the Atlantic spaces. Ribeira Grande was then, from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century, a key port of call of the Portuguese colonization and its administration. It was an outstanding international sea trade route, between the African routes and those of the Cape, Brazil, and the Caribbean. It brought an early picture of the transcontinental geopolitical visions. Its island location that is isolated but close to the African costs made it an essential platform of the Atlantic trade of modern times. A place of concentration of enslaved persons favouring inhuman practices, Ribeira Grande was also an outstanding multicultural meeting place that was the foundation of the first Creole society. The Ribeira Grande Valley experienced new forms of colonial agriculture, on the borderline of temperate and tropical climates. It became a platform of acclimatisation and the spreading of vegetal species throughout the world.
Cidade Velha (Cape Verde) celebrates its 11th anniversary of the declaration of World Heritage City
Mayors&Heritage: Dr. Manuel Monteiro de Pina, Mayor of Cidade Velha (Cabo Verde)
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Mässlingsvaccinet är ett vaccin som mycket effektivt förhindrar smitta av mässlingen. Efter en dos är barn immuna till en hög grad: 85 % av barn över nio månaders ålder, och 95 % av barn över tolv månaders ålder när vaccinet gavs. Nästan alla som inte utvecklar immunitet efter en dos utvecklar det sedan vid den andra dosen. Då vaccinationsgraden i en befolkning är över 93 % sker typisk sett inga utbrott av sjukdomen (se flockimmunitet); dessvärre kan de uppstå om vaccinationsgraden sjunker. Vaccinet är effektivt under många år. Det är i dagslägen inte helt klart ifall vaccinet blir mindre effektivt över tid. Vaccinet kan även förhindra sjukdom om det ges inom ett par dagar från exponering till virus.

Vaccinet är i allmänhet säkert, även för de som har en HIV-infektion. Biverkningar är vanligen milda och varar under kort tid. De innefattar bland annat smärta vid injektionsstället eller lätt feber. Anafylaxi har påvisats i ungefär en på hundra tusen individer. Risken för Guillian-Barrés syndrom, autism och inflammatorisk tarmsjukdom är inte förhöjda.

Vaccinet finns tillgängligt både på egen hand och i kombination med andra vaccin såsom rubellavaccin, påssjukevaccin, och vattkoppsvaccin (även kallade MPR-vaccin och MMRV-vaccin). Vaccinet har lika bra effekt oavsett beredning. Världshälsoorganisationen rekommenderar att vaccinet ges vid nio månaders ålder i de områden där sjukdomen är vanlig. I områden där mässlingen är mycket ovanligt är det rimligt att vaccinet ges vid tolv månaders ålder. Vaccinet administreras som ett levande vaccin. Det kommer som ett torkad pulver som behöver blandas innan det ges antingen precis under huden eller i en muskel. Det går att verifiera effekten av vaccinet genom att analysera blodprov.

Ungefär 85 % av alla världens barn hade fått vaccinet år 2013. År 2008 erbjöd åtminstone 192 länder två doser. Vaccinet introducerades först 1963. Kombinationen mässlingen-påssjuka-röda hund (measles-mumps-rubella - MMR) kom först ut på marknaden 1971. Vattkoppsvaccinet lades till år 2005 och gav upphov till MMRV-vaccinet. Vaccinet finns på Världshälsoorganisationens lista över essentiella läkemedel, som innefattar de mest nödvändiga läkemedlet för ett grundläggande sjukvårdssystem. Vaccinet är inte särskilt dyrt.

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The recent shoe-throwing at U.S. president, George W. Bush, at an Iraqi news conference has became hot talk worldwide especially in Arabian countries. The journalist who threw the shoes, Muntazer al-Zaidi, has become an instant sensation in the Arab world. He was hailed by many Iraqis as a national hero but at the same time blasted by the government and others as a barbarian. Political bickering aside, this "unprecedented" incident has inspired a spate of internet games where the gamers throw shoes at the moving target of President George W. Bush.
One of the popular shoes-throwing games is "Sock and Awe". As highlighted in the site, the objective is: "Hit President Bush in the face with your shoes! Do it". Gamers are given 30 seconds to hit Bush with footwear as many times as they can. Once they have hit Bush, the president's face will turn purple and look very funny. Players also can notice the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, hiding at a corner and peeping in on the incident. The number of hits on Bush's face will be recorded and the site will update the total score.
Another similar game is bushbash.flashgressive.de. This site uses the same background where the shoes incident happened. Gamers will throw shoes to the moving target and the score will be recorded as well. Besides the above said, gamers also can find the similar games at Bushgame, kast_sko and Bushoes.
Millions of shoes have since hit the President after the games were launched.


SOUTH DADE XPRESS-READY FOR ACTION!!!
It's March and that means it is time for youth track and field, right here on Generation Nexxt.
The festivities shot off this past Saturday with the Coconut Grove Track Club Hornets Invitational (AAU) at Curtis Park located in Miami.
These young athletes were pumped and ready to finally measure their speed up against someone else besides their own teammates. Fort Lauderdale Track Club wore all green with assembled hot pink, bright orange and yellow Nikes as well as knee high socks. South Dade Xpress looked like they were ready to burn up the track sporting their teal and black flamed unis.
South Dade Head Coach, Amir Rasul, Sr. and their top athlete, Amir Rasul Jr. took the track with game faces on. In the 2011 AAU Junior Olympic Games, Amir Rasul Jr. finished with a record-breaking time of 11.15 in the Sub-Youth Boys 100 Meter Dash and 22.39 in the Sub-Youth Boys 200 Meter. Amir Jr. was also awarded the Joel Ferrell Award for the Most Outstanding Male Athlete in the Jr. Olympic Games in Louisiana. "It comes from his mom, she was a sprinter and she ran way back and it comes from her side of family," said Coach Rasul. "We have worked on developing what I called a quick twitch muscle." Making the right food choices also has a positive effect on Amir's success. "I don't drink soda and I haven't had McDonalds in over 10 months. All stuff like that is cut off," stated Amir Jr.
Amir's teammates had a part in last year's Jr. Olympics as well. Symone Mason brought home the silver medal for the midget girls 100m and 200-meter sprints. Symone also is a record holder at the 2011 ESPN RISE/Disney Club Championship in the 200 Meter sprint. Also, Twanisha Terry received the bronze medal in the 2011 AAU Jr. Olympics midget girls 200-meter sprint.
This past Saturday was really considered pre-season meet and most teams used this type of meet to work out all the kinks. South Dade Xpress treated this invitational as if it they were at the Jr. Olympics. Amir Rasul, Jr. placed first in the 200 and 400-meter sprints while Twanisha Terry placed first in the girls 200-meter. Fellow teammate Mira Rasul placed 3rd in the 400 meter.
The Bantom crew over all finished with the fastest times for South DDE Xpress. Shane McDonald finished 1st in the 1500m and 2nd in the 800m. Jayden McBurrows placed 2nd in the 200m and Brian Creton finished 1st in the 200m with a time of 26.5 and 1st in the 400m. Rashad Smith ran a 1.07 in the 400m and Dwight Crews placed 3rd in the 200m and 2nd in the 400m.
Katiylin Todd finished first in the youth girls 400m and Arianna James finished 1st in the intermediate 200m. Coach Crews said, "Rahya Anderson stunned the team when she finished 1st in the Sub-Midget girls 3000m because this is her first year running track."
The competition breaks open next Saturday at the Miami Gardens Xpress Track Meet (AAU) at the Betty T Ferguson Complex in Miami Gardens.


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Q: Prevent compiling a package from amongst several packages in a netbeans project How to prevent compiling a package from amongst several packages in a netbeans based web app project?
Actually there are certain classes within that package that are uncompilable & they actually are responsible for not any of the other packages in project, making it to ../target/classes/ folder. While building the project I saw that the packages were compiled however there are no class files in the ../target/classes/ folder. However if I remove the uncompilable package, all the other packages successfully make it to ../target/classes/ folder.

A: This is covered in the NetBeans FAQ in the question: "Can I exclude some classes or packages from compilation"

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*Goto Project Properties

*Select the "Sources" node in the left hand tree

*Click on Include/Excludes in the lower left corner

*Specify which files to exclude in the lower input field.

A: I dont about netbeans.. but in eclipse you an add an exclusion filter on the src directory. I am pretty sure you could do the same in netbeans too. And I think netbeans creates ant build file for the project, you could try modifying that file.


In the past the New York Jets Green & White Scrimmage played as a real game. In 2015, head coach Todd Bowles is approaching it differently.
Under Rex Ryan the New York Jets held their annual Green & White Scrimmage every weekend prior to the start of the preseason. This event brought fans the first taste of real game action of the new campaign.
Under new head coach Todd Bowles, it's going to be handled a little differently.
Instead of an actual scrimmage, the event will be treated more as a "practice." There will be full 11 on 11 team functions, but positions will also break out into individuals (position groupings) like regular practice routinely sees.
There won't even be full contact tonight at MetLife Stadium, at 7 PM ET for this free admission event.
With Antonio Allen and Dee Miliner recently going down in the secondary with injuries, perhaps Bowles is thinking of getting to the first preseason game with a clean bill of health.


ADRA's national manager for Emergency Management Kevin Munro has flown in to coordinate ADRA's response.
"A number of pre-positioned supplies including chainsaws and generators are ready to be deployed immediately," Mr Munro said.
ADRA will work closely with local Seventh-day Adventist churches to provide whatever assistance is needed.
Winds of 180km/h were recorded in the Whitsundays last night. The Category 4 tropical cyclone is expected to make landfall between Ayr and Midge Point around noon. It's the largest cyclone to make landfall in Australia since Yasi devastated the Townsville area in 2011.
"Local residents are preparing well to mitigate this disaster, but we're all bracing for the worst case scenario."
Charlene Luzuk, Northern Australia Conference ADRA director, has been deployed to Ayr to provide local support at the impact zone.
"ADRA has connections with some local networks and the Seventh-day Adventist Church Conference has existing partnerships, which will support a quick and effective response," Mr Munro said.
The Riverside Convention Centre and Ayr Adventist church are ready to be used as evacuation centres if required, where ADRA will have a presence through its network of volunteers.
"Local residents are preparing well to mitigate this disaster, but we're all bracing for the worst case scenario," Mr Munro said.