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Begrudged
There is one thing that I can't stand but have no choice but to begrudge the existence of the level of ignorance floating around on many social media platforms. In this day and age when information is at our finger tips; the amount of disinformation, distorted views and propaganda run prominent. I suppose the fractions of the Cabool, Government, religious organizations wouldn't have it any other way; it keeps the majority of people in the dark.
Now the thing that got me shaking my head was an interaction with L.D one of my friends on social media. From time to time she posts a lot of stuff and the majority of it is from a distorted perspective. It makes her remarks on certain things obvious that she is ignorant when it comes to that particular subject she commenting on.
This particular one is concerning an article (click here for article) that the site "TheGrio.com" posted. It was concerning the announcement that Actor Mike Henry is stepping down as the voice behind the character "Cleveland" from the cartoon show "The Simpsons" who was spun off into his own cartoon called "The Cleveland Show."
L.D's remark or should I say opinion on this announcement was:
Well comedy is comedy and its sad that black people can play white people but white people are not allowed to play black people. Very boring now. I still think its funny back in the early days of acting women didnt act! Men played all female roles! Rats and nuts that we cant get a white person to spend time thinking how black people have to live!
L.D was citing the time period in England during the Renaissance when acting was an exclusively male profession; where female characters were played by male actors. L.D also speaks of the modern climate saying that black actors can play white characters; but white actors can't play black characters. I find that to be utter nonsense.
The brief discussion begins with True_George calling out L.D's distorted fallacy:
TG: You go far as mentioning that men actors used to play woman roles in the early days of acting. But skip over that whites used to play black characters in the early days of film, perhaps right up to the 60's. Black-faced white actors, and in variety shows… They even voiced black cartoon characters. It wasn't because they lacked black actors it was racist practices..
L.D: You know I don't think there were a lot of black actors to start and want to act back then. The few that did got stressed out over the jobs. So there was only white actors until more blacks were interested.
T.G: There were plenty of black actors; as well as singers and musicians. Blacks were segregated out of movies, Hollywood was racist from inception. Blacks had their own movie productions going on for a time period. If you don't believe a little research will absolve me.
Well right now I'm still waiting for L.D to tell me what her research yielded. That's if she takes up the challenge. I don't believe she will; most people on social media just want to say what they think. Even if the expressed opinion is ignorance of the subject; nor an observation of what is actually taking place.
The problem with having a sensible debate on social media platforms is that many feel their opinions are iron clad and they take offense when information and facts implies otherwise. Arguments, flaming and even threats of violence take over.
Yeah, it is a natural response that a person will be defensive after what they believed actually has no merit. Resistance to the new information will be put up; this means that you may be getting through because he is comparing the new information with the old before the new information passes the critical factor; it has to be scrutinized.
If you get no feedback or pushback; it means your attempt to provide the new information or to correct the distorted ignorance has failed.
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The mission of the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) is to ensure that every learner has access to a world‐class education system that academically prepares children and adults to succeed as productive citizens. Further, the Department seeks to establish a culture that is committed to improving opportunities throughout the commonwealth by ensuring that technical support, resources, and optimal learning environments are available for all students, whether children or adults.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) oversees all of the state's public school districts, the public charter schools, public cyber charter schools, Career and Technology Centers/Vocational Technical schools, public Intermediate Units, the education of youth in State Juvenile Correctional Institutions, Head Starts and publicly funded preschools, and community colleges. PDE also oversees policies related to public, academic, and school libraries, and the State Library of Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education compiles and analyzes a wide variety of data about attendance, graduation rates, schools and school districts, student progress, transportation, and other information. Just a few of them are listed below, but click here to go to the PDE website for the full listing of available information.


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Sojourn to Mexico with beautiful destinations full of magic, colour and warmth. Mexico offers new experiences with a different flavour, adventure and a history that will enchant you. An exciting fusion of modern and ancient, Mexico offers its visitors a playground of diverse holiday adventures. Explore the heights of jungle-shrouded mountains, venture across cacti-spotted deserts, discover endless horizons from a sun-drenched coastline, or delve into cities that blend the modern, colonial and ancient... all the while enjoying the warm hospitality and great climate for which Mexico is justifiably famous.
Mexico sits at the southern end of North America, with the northern part being quite desert-like and the southern part mountainous jungle where you'll find Maya and Aztec ruins. Amazing sites can be found in the most populated cities of Mexico City, Oaxaca and Merida, and the more well-known holidays hotspots of Cancun, Acapulco and Los Cabos.
Places in Mexico
Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo
Puerto Vallarta & Riviera Nayarit
Mexico's history spans back to around 1200BC with the first known society, the Olmecs, settling near what is now Veracruz. By 300BC villages based on agriculture and hunting were thriving, with around 10,000 Zapotec people living in Monte Alban. Between 100BC and 700AD Teotihuacan was constructed near what is now Mexico City. The Mayans civilization thrived between 250 and 900AD. The Toltecs, Aztecs and Spanish followed and so continued years of discovery, wars, traditions, invasions and growth.
It is now a country rich in culture, with archaeological sites, museums, ancient architecture, traditions, colonial buildings and cathedrals in abundance. Mexicans celebrate their history and culture with religious fiestas, concerts, dance recitals and theatre performances.
With such geographical diversity and a range of climates, Mexico abounds with natural wonders. In the north of the country there are deserts, high mountain forests, and coastlines with unparalleled biodiversity. In the central part, there are large mountain ranges with volcanoes, and to the south you will find jungle areas with most of the archaeological sites.
Among the most important must-see's are the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, near Tulum in Riviera Maya, and the six national parks in the state of Chiapas. Explore the biosphere of the Sea of Cortes, off Los Cabos, in Baja California Sur; the stunning Copper Canyon near Chihuahua; Basaltic Prisms, rock formations carved by water over millions of years, located near Pichuca, an hour and a half from Mexico City; and the black turtles of Playa Maruata, Michoacan, around 4 hours from Zihuatanejo.
With such a diverse landscape and climate, Mexico presents so many opportunities to get out and explore these amazing landscapes. Mountain biking, hiking and rock climbing are some ways to experience the mountains and volcanoes, while kayaking, rafting or skydiving, and hot air ballooning will have you experiencing the great outdoors. Along the coast there is surfing, fishing and scuba diving. For the diver there are also underwater caves and underground rivers to discover.
Must-Do Experiences
Mexico offers so much variety and amazing experiences, the must-do list is quite long. For history and culture Chichen Itza and Palenque Ruins are just two fascinating archaeological sites that must be explored. Palacia Nacional, a grandiose colonial palace, and Museo Frida Kahlo are both must-sees if you are visiting Mexico City. Land's End in Cabo San Lucas is natural gem to explore. If you are wanting beaches, Playa Zicatela in Puerto Escondido offers 3km of beach with cafes, restaurants and great surfing, and . Party on at Coco Bongo in Cancun. The list goes on.
Spanish is the official language of Mexico, although a further 63 Native American languages are recognised.
Mexico's official currency is the Mexican peso (MXN). The US dollar (USD) is also widely accepted.
Mexico is 16 hours behind AEST and 14 hours behind Western Standard Time (WST). Daylight Saving Time is observed from April to October.
For visa, passport, health and security advice for Australian Travellers, visit the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website: www.smartraveller.gov.au. Register your details online so you're easier to contact in case of an emergency.
It is customary to leave a tip to thank waiters, valets, gas station employees, bellboys and other service providers. At restaurants, bars and coffee shops, it is customary to leave 10% of the total amount of the bill; if the service was very good, you may wish to leave up to 15%. Some restaurants and bars include the tip in the final bill, so be sure to check this in order not to overpay. Not tipping is frowned upon.
Hello, how are you? Hola, cómo le va?
Yes sir Si Señor
Cheers, thank you very much! Vale; muchas gracias
Where is the bathroom? ¿Dónde queda el baño?
Another beer, please Otra cerveza, por favour
I'll have scrambled eggs for breakfast, please Huevos revueltos para desayuno, por favour
Where are the Mariachis? ¿Dónde están los mariachis?
I need an ATM Necesito efectivo
When is Happy Hour? ¿Cuando empieza el happy hour?
Do I have to eat the worm? ¿Tengo que tragar el gusano?
Mexico has two seasons, the rainy season (May to October) and the dry season (November to April), although the northern states are mostly unaffected by the rainy season. The weather in Mexico is as varied as its geography, there are tropical forests, arid deserts,fertile valleys and snow covered mountains. It is best to avoid the hurricane season from to June to October in the Yucatan Peninsula. During the spring break the beachside areas of Cancun and Puerto Vallarta draw the party crowds and are very busy. November can be a good time to travel if you want to avoid the crowds and get a good deal. The rainy season has just ended and the temperatures are getting a bit cooler.
Explore Mexico City Year round
Scuba Diving November to March
Snorkelling with Whale Sharks May to September
Rafting June to November
Enjoying the beach October to May
Climbing & Mountaineering November to March
Mexico has an efficient, comfortable and reasonably priced bus network so is a great option for moving around the country. Services are fairly frequest on the main routes. Alternatively more than 60 Mexican cities have airports and they can be good value on the longer journeys.
If you plan on spending most of your time in the one city, local transport options should cover your needs.
Tacos and guacamole! What more could you want. Beyond these classics, there are rich and various culinary traditions in Mexico. Assault your senses with the tastes, smells and textures of traditional Mexican dishes such as mole and salsas, or get adventurous with some more exotic options like maguey worms, ants and fried grasshoppers.
Sample the regional cuisines of Yacatan and Oaxaca. In Mexico City try a range of the traditional options or international gastronomy. Endless options to tempt and tantilise your tastebuds.
In Mexico you will find everything from exclusive shopping malls with international brands, to shops selling fine crafts and even curio markets.
Find beautiful wooden, iron and silver handicrafts in the Historic Centre of Mexico City, more silver in Taxco, Guerrero where almost everyone in town is engaged in the manufacture of rings, earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets etc, black clay objects made in Oaxaca, musical instruments made in Paracho, Michoacan, leather goods and high quality handicrafts manufactured in Guanajuato, or the talavera work produced in Cholula, Puebla, using the same techniques from the sixteenth century and colourful handicrafts made by indigenous people like the Huichol Indians.
You may well need to pack an extra suitcase for some unique take home memories of your trip.
What you need to pack will depend on where you go and when you go.
For beach towns pack your beach gear. Do take some sleeves and long pants/skirts to protect against sun, mosquitoes and for evenings. Dress more conservatively when visiting churches or if you are spending time in non-beach towns. A jumper or warm jacket is a good idea if visiting cooler inland areas and also for travelling on buses and planes.
Adventure in Mexico
Check out some of the fun to be had in Mexico
The official name for Mexico is the United Mexican States and it is the 11th most populated country in the world with around 117 million people (as on Jul12).
Mexico has something for everyone, from relaxed beach breaks, spectacular natural wonders to explore, fascinating cities and a rich history.
Swim with dolphins in Cancun, explore underground rivers in Riviera Maya, visit the walled city of Tulum, emerse yourself in the magic of Chichen Itza, scuba dive in Cozumel, do some deep sea fishing in Ixtapa, tour a tequila factory in Mazatlan or visit the beautiful Arch of Cabo San Lucas at sunrise for an incredible experience.

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I wish I had time to read every book on this list, I really do! But, it's time to thin down my list of books "to be read." If you see any that are so wonderful that it would be a terrible, terrible mistake to take them off my list, let me know in the comments and I'll consider adding them back on. You know what's funny? I was looking at one of my first "Did Not Finish" lists from several years ago, and I did finally get around to reading at least 4 or 5 of them, so you just never know.


Eric Hobsbawm, a lifelong socialist and one of Britain's most eminent historians, has died at the age of 95, his daughter said Monday.
Julia Hobsbawm said her father died overnight at a London hospital. He had been suffering from pneumonia.
The late British historian A.J.P. Taylor said Hobsbawm's work was distinguished by precise explanations of what happened and his interest in ordinary people.
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was born June 9, 1917, in Alexandria, Egypt. His father was British, descended from artisans from Poland and Russia, and his mother's family were cultured, middle-class Viennese.
The family moved to Vienna when he was two. Following the deaths of his father and then his mother, he moved to Berlin in 1931 to live with relatives, and joined the Socialist Schoolboys.
"In Germany there wasn't any alternative left," he said in an interview with Maya Jaggi published in The Guardian newspaper in 2002.
As a student in Berlin, Hobsbawm informed his schoolmaster that he was a communist and that a revolution was needed.
In 1933, he moved to London, where he found life boring.
Britons "didn't grasp this extraordinary end of the world atmosphere, but in Berlin you had it, and you thought you had to do something about it," Hobsbawm said.
During World War II, Hobsbawm was assigned to an engineering unit which introduced him, for the first time, to the working class.
"I didn't know much about the British working class, in spite of being a communist. But actually to live and work among them, I thought they were good eggs," he said in a BBC radio interview in 1995.
"But alas, they were not democrats. They did not believe they were as good as the next man," he said.
The same year he published "The Jazz Scene," using the pseudonym Francis Newton, and writing about jazz continued to be an outlet.
"He defined the term 'intellectual polymath,'" Ms. Julia Hobsbawm said, adding that she'd asked him last week what advice he would give his grandchildren.
"I belonged to the generation tied by an unbreakable umbilical cord to hope of the world revolution and of its original home, the October Revolution, however skeptical or critical of the" Soviet Union, he wrote.
But in an interview on the BBC's "Desert Island Discs" in 1995, Hobsbawm said he had been disillusioned by a visit to the Soviet Union shortly after the death of Josef Stalin in 1953.
"I still believed in the movement, but I had stopped being a militant for a very long time. As it were, from about 1956 I carefully recycled myself as a sympathizer rather than a militant," he told the BBC.
In 1998, he was made a Companion of Honor, a rare award for a historian, placing him in the ranks of luminaries Stephen Hawking, Doris Lessing and Sir Ian McKellan. It is limited to 65 living people at any one time.


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The Bronx Defenders' Statement in Response to President Obama's announcement on Executive Immigration Action
Contact: Jennifer Friedman, The Bronx Defenders, 718-508-3408 or JenniferF@bronxdefenders.org
Last night, families around the Bronx held their breath as the President announced sweeping changes that will expand work authorization and protect millions of immigrants from deportation.
At The Bronx Defenders—and for the families we represent—the announcement was met with a mix of great excitement and deep disappointment. The Bronx is a borough of immigrants, and countless families here have been ripped apart by deportation. Our hopes for the new policies announced by the President are high.
The Bronx, however, is one of the most over-policed areas in the country. Tens of thousands of Bronx residents—particularly Bronx residents of color, including immigrants—have criminal records because of minor conduct that goes unprosecuted in more affluent communities. Without money for bail and facing a drastically overburdened court system, many low-income Bronx residents accept guilty pleas and jail sentences to hasten their release. Many who have been convicted have served jail sentences, completed programs, and paid court fees and fines. They are ready to return to their families and contribute to their communities, but in most cases they will not qualify for relief under the new policy.
For instance, the new forms of relief from deportation that were extended to parents of U.S. citizen children or permanent residents will not be available to parents with certain misdemeanor convictions, including those who have a single conviction for Driving Under the Influence, or any offense for which they were sentenced to 90 days or more in jail, as well as other offenses.
"This policy will exclude many hard-working immigrants who are also important members of our community—many of whom may have lived in the United States for decades, have strong ties to the community, and whose deportation would devastate their families," explained Bronx Defenders Director of Immigration Advocacy Jennifer Friedman. "We are also concerned that many immigrants could expose themselves to deportation if they apply for the new relief despite minor convictions that make them ineligible."
"We welcome the Administration's decision to amend the priority categories for deportation, but we strongly urge the President to reconsider making noncitizens with even misdemeanor convictions a top priority for deportation. Because of over-policing in the Bronx and low income communities of color around the country, this policy will lead to the banishment of tens of thousands of longtime residents and the permanent separation of as many families."
The Bronx Defenders calls on the Administration to recognize that the nation's already harsh immigration laws do not affect everyone equally and to consider the interests of all of our community members, including the children and families of immigrants accused or convicted of crimes, in setting enforcement priorities.
Over-policing and economic factors that lead people into the criminal justice system disproportionately affect the Bronx and communities like the Bronx. Immigration law already provides extremely broad provisions for the deportation of noncitizens with criminal convictions, even for minor convictions or for individuals who have shown rehabilitation. There is no need for further criminal enforcement mechanisms. Our focus should be on paving a road for stability and work authorization for as many long-time community members as possible.
Finally, for those who believe they may qualify for a new immigration benefit under tonight's announcement, we offer this advice: consult with a qualified lawyer or legal services organization before submitting an application. We strongly encourage anyone who has ever been arrested or ticketed for any offense—no matter how minor, and even if it was dismissed—to seek expert legal advice from a reputable immigration lawyer who thoroughly understands the immigration consequences of criminal justice contact before applying for these or any other immigration benefits.
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November 29, 2018 — For the scores of migratory and nesting bird species in Connecticut to survive and thrive, the state's cities and suburbs must create, maintain, and improve their local habitats in everything from small neighborhood parks to larger nature preserves.
A PDF of the report is here.
Connecticut State of the Birds drew the attention of media statewide. Click here for links.
Titled "In Cities and Suburbs: A Fresh Look at How Birds Are Surviving in Connecticut," the report shows how the most heavily-developed areas are crucial to the survival of the state's and the region's birds. Some of the most vulnerable species nest in Connecticut's cities, and research shows that city parks are more important to migrating birds than previously known. This is the 13th annual version of Connecticut State of the Birds.
Flocks of shorebirds are common sights near the state's cities. Photo by Julian Hough.
"The health of birds and of the natural areas they use is linked to the ecological health of the state's cities and suburbs," said Patrick Comins, Connecticut Audubon's executive director. "Because of this juxtaposition of wildlife and humans, Connecticut has the highest percentage of areas where high quality wildlife habitat is intermixed with developed areas in the U.S.
Cities are essential to Peregrine Falcons, which nest on buildings and bridges. Photo by Paul Fusco.
The report recommends several ways to protect habitats locally, including passing the federal Recovering America's Wildlife Act to redirect federal funds to the states for conservation planning and implementation; expanding a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Program in which local partners maintain designated habitat areas in cities; and increasing the use of Motus Wildlife Tracking System to help researchers follow when and where migratory birds travel.
The report includes articles by researcher and Pulitzer-nominated author Scott Weidensaul; Robert Klee, the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; Chad Seewagen, executive director of the Great Hollow Nature Preserve in New Fairfield; Chelsi Burns and Shaun Roche of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Laura Saucier of the Connecticut DEEP.
A center-spread map demonstrates the importance of urban areas by showing nine of the state's largest cities and nine birds of conservation concern that nest within their borders. The map was created by Julian Hough using data from the first year of the Connecticut Bird Atlas project (the subject of last year's State of the Birds report); Hough and Paul Fusco designed the report, which was edited by Connecticut Audubon staff.
Raptors like these Red-tailed Hawks nest in Connecticut's cities. Photo by Paul Fusco.
Connecticut's city birds: not just pigeons. Birds of conservation concern live in several of the state's largest cities, the report shows. Peregrine Falcons, for example, emerged from near-extinction and now nest in Waterbury and regularly perch in the old Union Station clock tower there, and on bridges in and around New London. Yellow-crowned Night Herons nest in neighborhood trees and haunt the marshes of Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, and New Haven. Great Horned Owls can be seen or heard in Hartford, Groton, Waterbury, New Haven, and Stamford. And Bald Eagles continue to astonish residents of New Haven, Norwich, Norwalk, and Hartford.
City parks: more than bird stopovers. It's long been known that migrating birds use city parks to rest and feed. But that's not because these sometimes noisy or contaminated green spaces are ideal bird habitat. Rather, writes report author Chad Seewagen, parks and similar spots are often the only places for birds to find food and rest in a sea of blacktop. In his research, Seewagen documented that city stopover sites can be high quality bird habitat when it comes to one key measure—feeding. Seewagen measured the rate at which birds gain body mass during their stay in two particular locations, the Bronx Zoo and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. He found that birds refueling there put on fat at the same rate as their counterparts outside the city. Research in other cities showed the same. For Connecticut, this means there is the potential for migrating birds to find what they need right in the middle of metropolitan areas.
Connecticut's urban bird successes. One way the report recommends cities can help birds is by creating green spaces designed for birds, butterflies, native plants, and people. Chelsi Burns and Shaun Roche of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service write that New Haven, for example, boasts more than two dozen such places ranging from parks totalling hundreds of acres to modestly-sized schoolyards. Hartford and Waterbury are prime locations for similar efforts, the report recommends, as are coastal areas in eastern Connecticut.
New technology shows that birds are closer to us than we probably thought. What we know about birds in cities is increasing due in part to the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, which combines miniaturized radio transmitters known as nanotags with a network of receivers. An article by Pulitzer-nominated author Scott Weidensaul describes how researchers are using this technology to gain more information and greater insight into bird migration.
Based in Fairfield, Connecticut Audubon Society is the state's original and independent Audubon society. It has seven centers and 20 sanctuaries covering more than 3,000 acres; an EcoTravel program in Essex; and an award-winning outdoor conservation education program, Science in Nature.
Piping Plovers on urban beaches often need wire exclosures to keep predators away. Photo by Paul Fusco.


Photographer David Goldblatt was a subtle yet incisive witness to South Africa's tumultuous system of apartheid. Produced in collaboration with the photographer before his passing in June, this retrospective will present images from two photobooks that defined his liberal-humanist method: On the Mines (1973), an investigation into the extensive capital and labor involved in digging for gold, and In Boksburg (1982), a dispassionate account of "legislated whiteness" in a conservative mining town adjoining Johannesburg. In the late 1990s, Goldblatt began documenting the vestigial traces of blue-asbestos mining in South Africa and Australia. The lesser-known color photographs that resulted from this project will be shown here alongside unseen material from his personal archive, as well as two series of portraits, "Particulars," ca. 1975, sensual close-ups that reflect his enthusiasm for British photojournalist Bill Brandt, and "Ex Offenders at the Scene of Crime," 2008–16, a sociological inquiry Goldblatt shot in South Africa and England.


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The full cost of this challenge is £2,705.00. You will be required to pay the registration fee of £475.00 at the time of booking and the final balance of £2,230.00 which is due 8 weeks before departure (24/12/2016). You will receive fundraising advice and sponsorship forms and be asked to raise as much as you can for your nominated charity. As you have covered the full cost of the challenge, 100% of this fundraising will be retained by your nominated charity.
You will be required to pay the registration fee of £475.00 at the time of booking and raise a minimum amount of sponsorship, £4,550.00 for your nominated charity. You should send your sponsorship money to your nominated charity as you raise it. At least 80% of the minimum sponsorship required (£3,640.00) must be sent to the charity 10 weeks before departure (by 10/12/2016), and the remaining 20% (£910.00) within 4 weeks of completing the challenge (by 24/03/2017). If you have raised the necessary funds, your nominated charity will then pay the balance of your expedition costs (which will not exceed 49% of the minimum sponsorship target). The charity benefits by keeping the remaining sponsorship money and every pound over and above that you raise.
You will be required to pay the registration fee of £475.00 at the time of booking, and 8 weeks before departure (24/12/2016) you will be required to pay a second contribution of £475.00 towards your challenge costs. You will also need to raise a minimum amount of sponsorship, £3,580.00 for your nominated charity. You should send your sponsorship money to the charity as you raise it. At least 80% of the minimum sponsorship required (£2,864.00) must be sent to the charity 10 weeks before departure (by 10/12/2016), and the remaining 20% (£716.00) within 4 weeks of completing the challenge (by 24/03/2017). If you have raised the necessary funds, your nominated charity will then pay the balance of your expedition costs (which will not exceed 49% of the minimum sponsorship target). The charity benefits by keeping the remaining sponsorship money and every pound over and above that you raise.
You will need to send your sponsorship money to the charity as you raise it. At least 80% of the minimum sponsorship required must be sent to the charity 10 weeks before departure (by 10/12/2016), and the remaining 20% within 4 weeks of completing the challenge (by 24/03/2017). If you have raised the necessary funds, the charity will then pay the balance of your challenge costs. The charity benefits by keeping the remaining sponsorship money and every pound over and above that you raise.
The costs and sponsorship levels on our website are based on a minimum of 8 participants. We can run this trip with 6-8 people, but there will be a small group supplement of £75.00. This is payable by your charity if you book under the Minimum Sponsorship or Flexi options, and by yourself if you choose the Self Funder option. We will notify you 12 weeks before departure if this is necessary.


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'The Gifted' Just Deepened Its X-Men Ties In A Major Way
By Jamie Lovett - November 7, 2017 05:13 pm EST
Last night's episode of The Gifted, "got your siX," once again referenced the X-Men and deepened the show's connection to Marvel's premier mutant superhero team in some exciting ways.
SPOILERS for The Gifted episode six, "got your siX," follow.
Up until now, we've known that the X-Men, the Brotherhood of Mutants, and even the Mutant Liberation Front exist in the world of The Gifted. We also knew that at least the X-Men and the Brotherhood had at some point gone missing. The Mutant Underground, which includes Polaris, Thunderbird, and Eclipse among its members, exists as a separate group concerned with providing mutants with a mean of escaping persecution by the anti-mutant government.
Up until now, it has seemed that the X-Men and the Mutant Underground have operated independently of one another. The 7/15 incident led to the enactment of strict anti-mutant laws, which led to the formation of the Mutant Underground shortly before the X-Men disappeared. However, last night revealed that the X-Men may have been more connected to the Mutant Underground than fans thought.
In the episode "got your siX," Thunderbird has a conversation with Dreamer he questions whether the X-Men made a mistake in choosing him to be a part of the Underground. This is the first indication we've had that the X-Men were involved with choosing the group's roster.
The conversation also revealed that the X-Men warned the Mutant Underground that a war was coming before they mysteriously vanished and that the group did not say whether mutants would win the war. This could mean that the X-Men didn't simply vanish but somehow knew that they'd be away from the public for a time and helped form the Mutant Underground to make sure that mutants had someone to turn to once they were gone.
Being the harbingers of war is a bit out of character for the X-Men. Usually its Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants who are ready for a war between humans and mutants. Perhaps, in the style of "Days of Future Past," the X-Men received a warning from the future telling them about the coming war. The message they gave the underground would then not be a pessimistic assessment of human-mutant relations but a statement of the fact of the matter.
If this was true it would also show more influence on The Gifted from the classic "Days of Future Past" X-Men story, which fits nicely with the arrival of the Hounds and could be another clue that Rachel Summers is coming to the show.
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Figlio minore del Principe Karl Philipp Schwarzenberg, vincitore della Battaglia di Lipsia contro Napoleone Bonaparte del 1813, per parte di sua madre era discendente del feldmaresciallo imperiale di origini italiane Scipione Guidi di Bagno. Edmund iniziò la propria carriera militare nel 1822 come cadetto nel Reggimento di fanteria "Conte Colloredo N° 33" dove, in virtù anche dei meriti e della fama del padre, fece una carriera che in breve tempo lo portò a rivestire tutti i gradi di ufficiale inferiore e superiore dell'esercito austriaco. Nel 1836 fu nominato colonnello comandante del Reggimento corazzieri "Barone Mengen N° 4" e nel 1844, dopo essere stato promosso generale maggiore, entrò far parte del consiglio aulico di guerra. La rivoluzione del 1848 lo vide comandante di Brigata, una delle tre,  del 38º reggimento Brescia di stanza a Brescia da cui evacuò a seguito del trattatado con il municipio locale firmato in palazzo Cigola. Militò quindi nell'armata del feldmaresciallo Josef Radetzky in Italia, dove, nell'ambito della prima guerra d'indipendenza italiana, si distinse ottenendo l'Ordine di Leopoldo, la Croce Ferrea di 1ª classe e la Croce al merito militare. Per gli scontri a Porta Vigentina, davanti a Milano, gli sarà successivamente concessa (153ª promozione del 23 luglio 1849) la croce di cavaliere dell'Ordine militare di Maria Teresa.

Promosso luogotenente feldmaresciallo, nel maggio del 1849 fu destinato a comandare il 3º Corpo d'armata in Ungheria contro gli insorti magiari, ma un colpo apoplettico lo costrinse ad abbandonare per lungo tempo il servizio attivo.

Ristabilitosi dopo avere seguito le cure idroterapiche di Gräfenberg, ebbe alcuni comandi importanti tra cui quello provvisorio della 4ª Armata a Leopoli in Galizia.

Nel 1856 divenne comandante del 3º Corpo d'Armata a Vienna. Tale Corpo sarà inviato di rinforzo alle truppe austriache in Italia all'inizio del 1859. Nel giugno di quell'anno, nel corso della seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana, Schwarzenberg prese parte alle sanguinosissime battaglie di Magenta e di Solferino e San Martino in conseguenza delle quali gli austriaci, usciti sconfitti, persero la Lombardia. Dopo questi fatti fu a capo del 2º Corpo d'Armata e comandante generale dell'Alta Austria, di Salisburgo e della Marca di Stiria. Nel novembre del 1860 dovette però abbandonare per motivi di salute ogni ruolo attivo nell'esercito. L'imperatore Francesco Giuseppe, tuttavia, volle ricompensare ancora una volta il fedele principe, nominandolo tenente-capitano della sua Prima guardia del corpo degli Arcieri, nella quale passerà capitano effettivo nel 1867 dopo la morte del precedente comandante, il feldmaresciallo Wratislaw.

In occasione dell'inaugurazione a Vienna il 20 ottobre 1867 del monumento che celebrava le glorie del padre contro Napoleone, l'imperatore nominò il principe Edmund feldmaresciallo, il grado più elevato dell'esercito austriaco.

Morì il 17 novembre 1873 nel Castello di Worlik, in Boemia, proprietà della sua famiglia da diverse generazioni. Ultimo dei figli del vincitore di Lipsia, rimase celibe.

Edmund Schwarzenberg, oltre ad essere stato insignito di alcune onorificenze estere, era cavaliere del Toson d'oro, Gran Croce dell'Ordine Imperiale di Leopoldo, detentore della Corona ferrea di 1ª classe e della Croce al merito militare, oltre al citato Ordine di Maria Teresa. Dal 1849 era titolare del 10º Reggimento corazzieri (ex 2° Dragoni e futuro 15° Ussari) dapprima come secondo colonnello poi (nel 1868) come primo colonnello proprietario.

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Bibliografia
  Constantin Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich, Vienna, 1877, Vol. 33, pp. 36–39 (versione online)

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By Renier D.
Filipino culture is a melting pot of Spanish and American history with other Asian tradition mixed in. As a Filipino, I'm proud of rich heritage, but at times I still struggle with where I fit in and I know I'm not the only one. I grew up in the capital of the Philippines called Manila. I was born and raised there up until I was about 17 years old and then I came here to immigrate. When I first got here they hand over me a form and there's a section that made me check off a checkbox asking if am I Asian or am I Pacific Islander I said: "I'm a Filipino I don't know where I fit in in this".
In Filipino-American culture, sometimes we end up assimilating a lot. like American accent which is making the accent even more worst, refusing to eat the native food or even not speaking our own language in public and I see it a lot in people that I have met in the past. These are the thing that wasn't exactly accepted well by people because people would often comment like "Ooh what are you eating" or "where are you from?" and people aren't aware what would a person feel when they've been asked with these questions.
African-American has fought their right in society, people are aware of it and respected that. No one would use the "N' word or humiliate an African-American decent in public. Advertising, Movies, The media as a whole is also aware of this and they are very careful of what to say or show in the public now. As far as history goes Filipino-Americans has been getting the same treatment as other minorities in the United States. Zoot Suit Riot, Filipino-Americans is also one of the attack targets against minorities, similar to Latino, African-American, Native American experiences so why Filipino-Americans still forgot and invisible.
Racial prejudice, it does still happen to Filipino Americans even today. I think it's really important to think about the ways in which race and racism change over time. often times people will say "No one's burning down your house, no one's doing this and everything must be okay.." that is one way to look at it but the manifestation of racism changed over time so if we look back in time we can see really painful experiences specifically, anti-bully racism. In the early 1930s during the great depression, Filipino farm workers were run out of town, in all parts of California like Watsonville. They were beaten, they were subject of all sort of racism that had to do with labor competition, romantic competition because white farmers did not like Filipino farmers dancing with white women... and If we look at that and we think of all the ways in which Filipino as seen as others as racially different, as savage those things may not have seen today. But, it's very important to know for our society to realize that there are other racial minorities still experiencing racial prejudice and discrimination and hopefully we can start to respect each other as a society.
There are hate crimes that occur all the time in all sort of locals, just because you didn't experience racism doesn't mean all other Filipinos don't. Study of Dr. Alvarez found that 98% of all Filipino Americans in the United States somehow experienced racial discrimination at least once. We can also think about something called racial microaggression, again racism doesn't mean you're getting the deck in the face all the time or killed. There are little things for example when I first attended Santa Barbara City College someone came up to me and asked me if I speak English... so, I know that a lot of Filipino Americans are still experiencing this in a day to day basis.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2017). Anti-Filipino sentiment
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Nadal K, (2017). Author of #DearFilipinoAmericans. Dear Filipino Americans, Let's Talk About Charlottesville.
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Guillermo E, (2017). In a Trumpulent America, Filipinos and white supremacy
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A Limousine is one heck of a luxurious car. Maybe branded as the most luxurious type of car ever made, with its long body and six sophisticated looking doors, making us think as if it is a sin if we only call it as a car. Limousine cars are occasionally used if someone is going on a luxury party or wants to have a luxury ride in the heart of the city by night. This is because a limousine car is particularly bought or rented for luxury. However, this car has more practical uses than just that. Particularly when you want to go to the airport because you have to catch up to your flight, there are many limo rental nowadays that offers that kind of service. And guess what? Travelling to the airport with a limo has never been better. Here are some of the benefits why travelling is a lot better when hiring a limousine car.
The first thing is reliability. As a traveller myself, I can say that one of my greatest fears is not being able to catch up to my flight. When you hire a limousine service, you are always assured that you will arrive on the airport 30 minutes earlier from your flight to ensure an on-time drop off. This is for the reason that limousine service providers will also be able to track your scheduled flights to ensure that there will be no delays. Limousine service providers are also known for their efficiency. Due to the fact that most of the limo service providers now focus on corporate transportation, they have trained professionals who are experts in navigating through traffic patterns that can give you an efficient transport service.
Limousine service providers are also known for their productivity. Time is money. That is one of the most common mantra in our fast tracked generation today. Especially for corporate travellers, who need to check their emails, answer phone calls from work and many other important activities. Because of limousine service providers, corporate travellers can do this kind of stuff comfortably while someone transports them, navigating them through the traffic with a luxurious vehicle. Furthermore, limousine service providers are also able to give you an economic ride. This for the reason that there are so many aspects you need to consider while navigating through the traffic of the city. There can be high parking fees, you can get stuck in traffic, or you can get lost as while driving that can cost more money and can waste more time than you think. When you hire a limousine service, you can do all the important things you want without minding about the time or the traffic because the chauffeur can always give you a smooth ride and can get you to your destination on time.
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When deciding to prepay your fixed rate CMBS debt, whether through yield maintenance or defeasance, most borrowers have questions. Here are a few of the more common ones, but if you have others, or just want to talk to a defeasance expert, don't hesitate to contact us.
Defeasance is the process through which a borrower is released from the obligations of its debt. The borrower purchases a portfolio of government bonds as replacement collateral to secure the debt and to generate the cash flows required to meet the future obligations of the debt. The future obligations of the debt include both the remaining principal and future interest owed on the loan.
The defeasance bonds are owned by a newly-created entity called a Successor Borrower. The Successor Borrower also assumes the debt obligations from the original borrower. A Securities Intermediary holds the bonds in a restricted account and sends the income from the bonds to the loan servicer to meet the debt obligations. An independent Accountant reviews the transaction and certifies that the bond portfolio is sufficient to satisfy the debt.
The defeasance process is coordinated by the Defeasance Consultant and takes 30–45 days. The borrower begins the process by submitting a notice of intent and defeasance deposit to the Loan Servicer. The Loan Servicer will prepare legal documents for the borrower to review and execute and will also request due diligence documents from the borrower. Once the documents are finalized, the defeasance can close.
The closing takes place in escrow over 2 to 3 days. On the first day of the closing process, the borrower locks in the price of the bonds and commits to purchasing them. The borrower funds escrow the day before the final closing date. On the final closing date, the bonds are delivered to the Securities Intermediary bank and funds are disbursed from escrow to purchase the bonds. The defeasance closes simultaneously with the underlying refinance or sale of the property.
What is Chatham's role in a defeasance?
As an independent, expert advisor, Chatham acts as the borrower's Defeasance Consultant. Chatham provides cost estimates, advises the borrower on how to navigate the defeasance process, engages the other parties to the defeasance, and ensures that the defeasance is executed in a timely and cost effective manner. Chatham can also purchase the defeasance bonds and, if allowed by the loan documents, establish the Successor Borrower entity that will assume the original borrower's loan.
The role of Defeasance Consultant is unique because it is the only party with expert knowledge of the entire process that also acts as an advocate for the borrower.
Chatham's goal as defeasance consultant is to simplify the defeasance process so that our clients can focus on the underlying real estate transaction.
What is residual value and where does it come from?
Residual value is cash in the defeasance account that is not pledged to make the loan payments. Residual value comes from two different sources: float value and prepayment value.
Float value accrues gradually over the remaining life of the defeased loan. It arises from small timing mismatches between the incoming cash receipts from the matured bonds and the outgoing loan payments. Cash sits in the defeasance account for short periods of time, where it earns interest at money market rates. The float value is released to the Successor Borrower when the loan is paid off.
Prepayment value arises when provisions in the loan documents require the defeasance bonds to provide for all remaining loan payments through the loan's maturity date but still allow the loan to be paid off on the early open prepayment date. The Successor Borrower will pay off the principal balance of the defeased loan on the early open prepayment date. When the loan is paid off, the remaining bonds in the defeasance account are released to the Successor Borrower, who then immediately sells them on the market. The difference between the sale price of the released bonds and cost to pay off the defeased loan is the prepayment value.
Chatham pioneered the concept of sharing residual value with the original borrower. Since the year 2000, we have returned more than $100 million in residual value to our clients. Chatham gives borrowers the option to receive this value on either the defeasance transaction closing date or the early open prepayment date. As part of Chatham's continuing commitment to transparency, we always disclose the total amount of residual value earned and the exact terms of our sharing arrangements.
What is the overall defeasance timeline?
We recommend allowing at least 30 days to complete the defeasance process. If Rating Agency review is required, our recommendation is to allow 45 days to complete the process.
Once the defeasance process has started, the closing date is flexible and can be changed without penalty until the defeasance bonds are purchased.
In most cases, the Loan Servicer will waive any notice period and will also waive any requirement that the defeasance close on a loan payment date.
More information on the defeasance timeline is available within Chatham's Defeasance Best Practices.
How accurate is my estimate?
The Securities Cost shown on your estimate is the current market price of the defeasance bonds. Bond prices change constantly, so estimates that are compiled a few minutes apart may show different costs. Costs will very likely change between the time of the estimate and the time of the defeasance closing. The Sensitivity, or DV01, indicates how much the Securities Cost will change for every basis point change in yield rates. If rates go up, the Securities Cost will go down, and vice versa. At closing, Chatham attempts to purchase the lowest-cost portfolio of bonds by holding a competitive auction (when allowed by the loan documents).
The Third Party Fees shown on your estimate are set independently by the respective parties, who reserve their right to change their fees. Any estimate of these fees is based on fee schedules and past experience.
How does defeasance compare with Yield Maintenance?
Both yield maintenance and defeasance allow borrowers to unencumber the underlying real estate asset. However, from a legal and economic perspective, the two processes are fundamentally different. Yield maintenance is the actual prepayment of the loan, while defeasance entails a substitution of collateral and an assumption of the loan by the Successor Borrower.
A yield maintenance prepayment usually consists of two portions: the loan's unpaid principal balance and a prepayment penalty. The prepayment penalty typically is determined by calculating the Present Value of the remaining loan payments, with a discount factor equal to the current yield on the U.S. Treasury that matures closest to the loan's maturity date. The only transaction fee is a small processing fee to the Loan Servicer.
In contrast, the cost of defeasance is determined by the price of a portfolio of bonds that are sufficient to provide for the remaining loan payments, plus transaction fees to several third parties.
For borrowers, yield maintenance is generally simpler and less time-consuming than defeasance.
How can I completely avoid defeasance in the future?
For new loans under negotiation, Chatham can advise on borrower-friendly defeasance and prepayment language.
At loan origination, defeasance can be avoided completely by electing a yield maintenance prepayment penalty instead of defeasance or by taking out a floating-rate loan instead of a fixed-rate loan.
For floating-rate loans, Chatham offers strategies for interest rate risk management. Learn more about our interest rate hedging services.


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Q: How do I do a Rails style before_filter with Google App Engine? The app is setup as a basic WSGI application. I'm just trying to call a function before the requestHandler is run.
I would like something very much like the way before_filter works in Rails.
Thanks.

A: I would use decorators, it's not exactly the same as before_filter in rails, but maybe good enough for you:
def before_filter(fn):
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        return fn(self)
    return inner_function

class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):

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    def get(self):
        self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
        self.response.out.write('Hello, webapp World!')

A: You can install your "before" as WSGI middleware -- App Engine uses WSGI, like just about every web framework and server in Python these days.  Here's an example -- it's doing things after the handler runs, but it's even easier to do them before... in any case, your middleware "wraps" the WSGI application that's the actual app;-), so of course you can do things before, after, or instead;-).
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UniSafe®/PPP was tested by scientists at Environmental Monitoring Associates, Inc. of Nashua, NH, an independent laboratory services company. EMA's lab results measured reductions of the most common classes of pathogens on employee work apparel, including bacteria, yeasts, and molds-all recognized as sources of dangerous contamination in the consumer food supply chain. EMA's analysis demonstrates that UniSafe℠ processing kills virtually all organisms tested.
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Perfect Dress + Bag for Brunch!
Good morning and happy Friday! So last Sunday I went to brunch at Liberty Kitchen in the Heights for an early birthday celebration for my good friend Maritza. We had some delicious food, yummy mimosas and some much needed girl time! She is leaving for Europe this weekend so we celebrated early…take me with you Ritz! 🙂 After brunch we headed over to Buchanan's Native Plants, which of course was a great photo op spot!
I wore this beautiful wrap dress with high low hem! I loved it when I saw it on the rack and liked the way it fit when I tried it on. It's a very comfortable wrap dress that can be adjusted and it has pockets! Who doesn't love a dress with pockets?! I guess I just can't seem to stay away from this color and the floral print is just perfect! I love the color blush in case you haven't noticed! If this is not your color they have three other colors available.
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Second City Assembly
A modular apartment factory is set to touch down in Chicago
By Jonathan Hilburg (@jhilburg) • March 12, 2018
A modular apartment factory is set to touch down in Chicago. The modular units for Carmel Place in NYC under construction. (Courtesy nARCHITECTS)
Chicago-based general contractors Skender are getting into the modular manufacturing game, with an announcement that they will be building a factory on Chicago's southwest side that can crank out hotel rooms and entire apartments.
Skender is going all in on the new factory and modular fabrication startup, which they claim will put 100 people to work (an impressive number, as Skender only has 300 employees), and is using the opportunity to shift towards a design-build model. The company has bought out local firm Ingenious Architecture and will use the 10-person studio to guide the design and manufacturing of the modular units. Tim Swanson, formerly the head of CannonDesign's Chicago office, will be joining as Skender's chief design officer, Kevin Bredeson has been named the chief technology officer, and the company is hunting for a CEO to lead its factory. The move represents a huge expansion in scope for Skender, which has also changed its name from Skender Construction as part of the new direction the company is pursuing.
"We are asking new questions," said Skender President and Partner Justin Brown in a statement. "Why can't we apply sophisticated design principles to modular manufacturing? How can we eliminate weather delays by bringing large parts of the process indoors? How can we significantly boost productivity without sacrificing quality?"
Skender is expecting to roll full apartments, hotel rooms, and pieces of both multi-family residences and healthcare buildings off its new assembly line. Everything can be fabricated at the factory by tradespeople, from cabinets to light fixtures to units that have been pre-wired and set up for plumbing, then shipped to the potential construction site and unloaded via crane. Besides being able to construct modular buildings from the ground up (similar to New York's Carmel Place), Skender plans to use the factory to work on both the interior and exteriors of its projects simultaneously, and standardize production.
To say that modular architecture has had its ups and downs in recent years would be an understatement. While the world's largest modular hotel, the Stephen B. Jacobs Group-designed CitizenM, is nearly complete in New York, the industry is still smarting from the bruising battle it took to complete 461 Dean Street in Brooklyn. The Pacific Park tower eventually became the world's tallest modular building, but was mired in lawsuits between Skanska and developer Forest City Ratner until the latter cut their losses and sold their modular manufacturing factory to architect Roger Krulak and his company, FullStack Modular.
It remains to be seen if Skender can make the model work for them, but their smaller scope should help. If all goes as planned, Skender expects to pick a site for the factory in the coming months and to begin production in the fourth quarter of this year.
Jonathan Hilburg (@jhilburg)
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S4 E67 | eXpert Tease on building the foundation of talent technology with Madeline Laurano
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Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 0:00
Welcome to the CXR channel, our premier podcast for talent acquisition and talent management. Listen in as the CXR community discusses a wide range of topics focused on attracting, engaging and retaining the best talent. We're glad you're here.
Chris Hoyt 0:16
Hello, and welcome to another edition of CareerXroads hosted expert tees. I'm Chris Hoty president of CXR. And you're joining us for the next few minutes to hear from an industry leader or practitioner who will share with you one lesson one how to one milestone that they've actually found worthy of your time. So we do these in quick conversations that are typically no more than about 10 minutes and touch on any number of topics such as diversity, inclusion, ethics, and hiring, recruiting, automation, and tech, and a number of other areas that actually were identified by nearly 150 talent leaders from multinational corporations. Each week, you can listen in live and participate with questions and live chat or you can find any of these episodes on our website at CXR.works, our CareerXroads podcast or in our new YouTube channel youtube.com/careerxroads. Now if you're with us live, you have the ability to ask a question at any time through the session. And if we have the chance, we'll try to answer it. If we do run out of time, or if there are additional questions that come in or you think of later, you can find us over at the open and public exchange that's hosted by CXR. And that's at www.CXR.works/talenttalks. So with all of that being said, let's get started with today's guest Madeline Laurano. Madeline is a very well respected industry analyst and founder of Aptitude Research. Welcome to the show, Madeline.
Thank you, Chris. I'm thrilled to be here.
So, Madeline, on our topic today is around building the foundation of talent technology within an organization. So throwing you right on the spot, given your experience and expertise, what's something that you want our listeners to understand about their existing or future tech stacks?
Yes, it's so important. We just did this big research study, in partnership with V. Murray. But it's all around this foundation, it's around thinking about, what do we need to consider in our TA tech stack, before we even make this investment. So many companies are excited for new technology. There's so much especially in this this year that we've had, we found 44% of companies are investing in new technology, which is exciting. But oftentimes you don't have the foundation in place. And the foundation is really integration. So thinking about how are you going to have a strategy around integration work with IT? Think about, you know, an open API strategy and how you're gonna work with your providers? How are you going to think about data management? So really having quality of quality data with data or starting with? How are you going to maintain that data, clean up that data, everything that goes into that? And then the final piece is automation? You know, I think it's a big topic. I know, it's a big topic that we talked a lot about, but how do we think about really a strategic approach for automation? And you know, something, I think that's near and dear to Gerry's heart, which is automation for the candidate? Why are we just thinking about moving someone along efficiently? How does this benefit the candidate?
And so how does somebody go about sort of putting something like this together? Is, is there a template? Is there a roadmap? Is it you just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks? I mean, what do you advise there?
Yeah, so I would say it really starts with three things, we found three things in a very strong foundation. And the three things are start early. Don't wait until after you've been invested in technology during the implementation process after implementation start even before you're thinking about technology to put a strategy in place for integration, your data management, and then your automation. The second piece is identify the KPIs, what drives success, what's important to your stakeholders? What's important to IT? You know, one in three companies said that IT views talent acquisition technology is low priority. That's really a big frustration. When you think about integration and data management, how do we build this relationship earlier in the process and understand what those KPIs are? And then the final piece is establishing ownership. What's the responsibility of IT? What's the responsibility of TA and HR? And then what's the responsibility of our vendors? They have to be responsible for some of these aspects, too. And oftentimes, you know, we're just kind of blaming IT, instead of turning to the vendor and saying, what are you doing to help solve this?
Yeah, it's interesting. You mentioned integration as being sort of a focal point out front. I can't tell you how many times we have seen some pretty impressive tech stacks that seem sort of hobbled together sort of just sort of pasted and stuck and working and all of them reliant on every single one of them working perfectly. I mean, what what would be a big watch out for someone who's maybe already in a very complicated tech stack has already got a solution in play that, you know, this front end piece relies on this back end piece that relies on this vendor that relies on this API, like, what are they supposed to do at this point?
Yeah, it's such a good question. And it comes up all the time, right. I think I was doing a call with a company and they said, our systems do not work together. We've got all these these great technologies. If they don't work together, we can't make sense of the data. So I think it's really thinking about open API's. I mean, it sounds like an obvious thing to think about. But you really have to think about providers that do have that open API strategy. And then you have to get really granular when you're investing in new technology on asking questions. Is this an API rest model? You know, are these bi directional API's? What what's the process? And I'd say the the final piece that I would really dig deep in is ask other companies. If you're investing in new technology, you have a tech stack in place, and talk to your peers, this industry is so amazing, because people share their experiences. That's not true in other industries. And you know, what you've built with the colloquium is so impressive, because that's an opportunity for people to ask each other, you know, how does this work? I'm just I'm looking at this new technology for the first time, how does it integrate with with what I have in place, and they and you can learn so much from that?
Well, I think that's another good point, too, you know, and again, I hit, you know, be stuck on integrations. But the topic that keeps coming up in some of our meetings, and when we look at other vendors in the space is platform fatigue, right, giving recruiters or giving leaders or giving users just yet another place to go login and manage are API's the solution to that? Or should should leaders be looking at, you know, vendors that actually have more of a robust suite of offerings?
Yeah, it's a that's a great question. It's, you know, I think the ideal situation is you're managing less vendors, right? You don't have to think about 10 different relationships with vendors, the ideal situation is you have less vendors to manage the challenges, do they have the depth and functionality to do what you need them to do? And if they can do both, I don't think you have to sacrifice in an ideal world, one for the other depth and functionality for integration, you should be able to get both with the way that these companies are going. But if that's not the case, you're going to have to go for an integration strategy model.
Yeah, yeah, we've got it. And we think that's great. And we've got an interesting comment. That's already come in, in the chat. But with regards to pilots. Now, if I'm a TA leader, and I've got five technologies that I'm considering, or augmenting right, moving into, how do I go about asking for a pilot? Like, I mean, do I just ask for a pilot? I mean, how do I go about standing up for myself and saying, I got to try before I buy?
I love the idea of a pilot. So I love this question. And I think the pilot is a really smart thing to think about. I think a lot of large companies are doing that. Right? You can go to smaller providers and say, we want to test this out. And they're gonna say yes, because especially with everyone that's probably on this call today, your large companies, you've got great brands, you are sophisticated ta leaders, they're going to want to do a pilot with you, I absolutely think you should ask, I think where I would caution and be a little hesitant, is running too many pilots at the same time. There's a couple examples of companies that have done that, where they almost do like a pilot hackathon, where they kind of bring in a bunch of vendors and say, we're going to run some pilots, and we're going to run like five pilots at the same time. That's a lot. That's still a lot to manage, you're not going to see the results, you know, really be very judicious that if you're running a pilot, this is something you're you're pretty far down the path with
Five pilots at the same time. Sounds so exhausting,
I don't even want I don't even want to think about it. Yeah. So another piece that I want to touch base on sort of quickly, before we wrap up is the accountability factor, right, measuring the results? Like how how does someone know if they're tech stack is a success? And you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But how do they know if what they're doing is is the best for them? And whether or not they should look on or look to add something to it or remove something from it? Yeah.
So to me the number one, the number one thing is adoption? Are people using this. And it sounds so simple, and so basic, but it's so often not the case, right? Especially if we look at like the recruitment marketing space in the CRM space, companies are investing in this technology, and then they're not able to adopt it because it's complex, and they don't have the skills internally. We found that only 2% of companies are adopting all the capabilities of their recruiting and marketing platforms. So that's, that's quite an investment and then not to see that adoption.
Wait, wait, I want to make sure that right, only 2% are at full adoption. Is that what's going on?
Yeah, of all the capabilities. And I think it's, you know, it's there's two parts to that, right, because a lot of these providers offer so much companies don't need everything. So that's one piece of it. But the other piece is it's just too complicated, or a lot of users to really get the most out of,
Do you think that it's because organizations are buying a vendor that does A to Z, and the organization actually wants like A to F.
I think that's part of it. And I think even if they did want a to z, the training and the change management that would needs to take place isn't getting provided from the vendor and the organization really has to think about where that's going to come from.
Chris Hoyt 10:06
Oh my God change management and tech rollout and adoption could be a whole nother that's a one hour webinar. Well Madeline, thank you so much for your insights today. We really appreciate the quick chat.
Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 10:18
Thank you. Thanks for having me.
Awesome. So next week, I've got Nick Bailey in the hot seat to address the age old question and challenge around whether to build or buy the talent that you need to be successful. Nick is obviously a longtime friend, a member of CareerXroads, and is the VP of talent acquisition at Equinox and always fun to have on the show, I think. I think the last time he joined us may have been in an Uncorked session and we crushed a few bottles of Justin Isosceles. Anyhow, he'll be back with us on December 3 at 1pm Eastern and you're not going to want to miss it But until then, we hope we see everyone online at www.cxr.works/talenttalks Thanks everybody.
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Q: PUT and DELETE route is not showing in laravel route list on apiResource I added apiResource routes in my api.php file. Although it shows all the resourceful routes for product/category, it is not showing the routes for PUT and DELETE methods in the case of products routes.
Showing 404 not found error.
Any help?

A: You can solve the missing parameter names using the parameters method.
Route::prefix('products')->group(function() {
    Route::apiResource('/', \App\Http\Controllers\ProductController::class)
        ->parameters(['' => 'product']);
    Route::apiResource('/categories', \App\Http\Controllers\CategoryController::class);
});

That should give you the following:

Note that it is a convention to make your resources plural rather than singular.

A: You can accomplish a lot using scoped nested resources and shallow nesting:
Route::apiResource('products', ProductController::class);
Route::apiResource('products.categories', ProductCategoryController::class);

Route::apiResource('products', ProductController::class);
Route::apiResource('products.categories', ProductCategoryController::class)->shallow();


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Patriots Offseason Coverage
Patriots Film Room
You shouldn't count out Patriots WR DeAndre Carter
The small receiver could have a big impact in 2016.
By Rich Hill@PP_Rich_Hill May 31, 2016, 11:38am EDT
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I'm guilty of violating the headline. I've counted out Carter. Whenever I rank the Patriots wide receivers, I put him at the very, very end, behind the likes of Aaron Dobson, Devin Lucien, and Chris Harper.
Maybe I shouldn't.
ESPN's Mike Reiss has labeled Carter as a dark horse to watch out for this offseason as someone "who will make a surprise run at roster spots," and called him "a spark plug slot receiver."
Who is Carter?
Bernd broke down his history here, but I thought he was worth a deep dive of his own. After all, Reiss puts Carter in the same dark horse category as running back D.J. Foster, for whom I have an unabashed crush.
When we first look at Carter, it's his unparalleled athleticism that jumps off the charts, and I'm not just hyping him up. Even when you adjust for his smaller height and weight (5'8 1/2, 185 lbs), he comes up as above average in everything.
He has a respectable 4.44 second 40 yard dash, but it's his 1.45 second 10 yard split that turns heads. The 5'8, 175 lbs Dri Archer posted a 4.26 second 40 yard dash, but he took 1.49 seconds for his 10 yard split. Julian Edelman's 10 yard split was 1.52 seconds. Carter is fast.
In fact, "a more athletic version of Edelman" might actually be the best way to describe Carter, as Carter is faster, quicker, stronger, and more explosive almost across the board.
WR Carter Edelman
Ht. 5'8 1/2 5'10 1/2
Wt. 185 195
40 yd 4.44 4.52
Bench 17 14
Vert 38.5 36.5
Broad 126 123
Shuttle 3.80 3.92
3 Cone 6.64 6.62
Jon Moore of Rotoviz compiled a list of the top height-deficient receiver prospects in college to compare how Carter stacked up from an athletic standpoint, and discovered that Carter bested the likes of Tavon Austin, Odell Beckham Jr., Brandin Cooks, and Percy Harvin.
Moore also discovered that Carter was one of three players- along with Emmanuel Sanders and Donnie Avery- to be above average in every combine test, from a weight-adjusted measure, and that Carter is an extremely young prospect with a lot of room for growth and upside.
And beyond just the measurables, he can play.
Carter collected 99 receptions for 1,321 yards and 17 touchdowns in his final season in college, after grabbing 64 receptions for 934 yards and 14 touchdowns as a junior. He's still only 23 years old.
So don't count out Carter just yet. He could surprise everyone with a solid camp and could find his way onto the active roster, especially if a player like Danny Amendola starts his season on the Physically Unable to Perform list.
Maybe he'll be a great spark plug for the Patriots offense that's already full of energy.


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Q: Trigger for inserting/updating columns is not working in Oracle I have created a trigger in Oracle. What I want to this, whether a new row is inserted or any existing row is updated I want to Insert/Update particular column based on some conditions respectively.
Below is my trigger for the same, but it's giving me some error.
create or replace TRIGGER TRG_UPD_RRSOC_ZONAL_NAME
BEFORE UPDATE ON TBL_RRSOC_STORE_INFO
FOR EACH ROW
 BEGIN
 IF NEW.SLP_ZONAL_HEAD_NAME = 'ABC' then ZONE_NAME = 'North';
 IF NEW.SLP_ZONAL_HEAD_NAME = 'XYZ 'then ZONE_NAME = 'South';
END;

What is wrong, as I am getting error as:

Error(4,48): PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "=" when expecting one of the following:     := . ( @ % ;

A: Assuming zone_name is a column in the TBL_RRSOC_STORE_INFO table, it sounds like you want something like this.  Note that

*

*References to the :new pseudorecord need to be prefixed with the colon :,

*The assignment operator is := not =,

*If you want to change the value of the zone_name column, you'd assign a value to :new.zone_name

*An IF statement needs an END IF.  You could use ELSIF branches as well rather than duplicating the `IF statements.

So the trigger body would be something like this
BEGIN
 IF :NEW.SLP_ZONAL_HEAD_NAME = 'ABC' then :new.ZONE_NAME := 'North'; end if;
 IF :NEW.SLP_ZONAL_HEAD_NAME = 'XYZ' then :new.ZONE_NAME := 'South'; end if;
END;

Or more concisely, use a case statement rather than a series of IF statements
BEGIN
  :new.zone_name := case :NEW.SLP_ZONAL_HEAD_NAME
                         when 'ABC' then 'North'
                         when 'XYZ' then 'South'
                      end;
END;


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The Distant Unknown
OCAT, Shanghai, China, 5 June – 8 August 2016
Ben Rivers, Isaac Julien, Susan Philipsz, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson
OCAT Shanghai is honoured to present The Distant Unknown – Contemporary Art from Britain on 4 June 2016. It is an exhibition featuring contemporary artists from the UK. The curator Jiang Jiehong invites five British artists to initiate a dialogue that explores the notion and our understandings of 'distance' through video, photography, sculpture, sound and installations. In this exhibition, artists reassess the concept of 'distance' from a variety of perspectives. Isaac Julien's five-screen installation that set up in the centre of the space, comments on the essence of creation and creativity to lead viewers into an unknown space. Cornelia Parker's photography and cast copper sculptures chase down the ephemeral minor details of memory, life, and history that solidify these fleeting moments into a permanent, physical state. Katie Paterson manipulates two basic human senses of sight and smell to unbind viewers from the reality of geography and allow them to voyage into outer space and experience the universe beyond the ordinary reaches of our spatial perception. Susan Philipsz investigates sound to sculpt an alternate form of occupying empty space. Finally, Ben Rivers' film takes us into a 'distant paradise' and examines the intimate, everyday life of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
With the main theme of The Distant Unknown, this exhibition illuminates how distance can induce intense sensory perceptions and disorientations. The idea of distance can be understood in terms of a 'near or far dichotomy', or as an intimate or expansive space. In the exhibition, the artworks invite us to reflect on these conceptual manifestations of distance from the geographical to the abstract, from the accessible to the inaccessible, from the real to the imagined, and from time to space. Consequently, distance can also be considered in how it is able to create a sense of unknowing or unfamiliarity that ultimately compels viewers to contemplate on (and perhaps doubt) our existence, interaction with, and place in the world.
Rather than an introductory survey show, OCAT Shanghai is proud to present the first thematic exhibition of contemporary British art in China by inviting five British artists to respond to the curatorial idea. The Distant Unknown aims to bridge Chinese audience and British art, which is no longer in the distance and unknown, and more importantly, to urge us to reflect the notion of 'distance' in our everyday life. We travel – from one place to another, from the local to the world and beyond, and from the familiar to the uncharted. We travel – for life, for love, or, in a rather luxurious manner, simply for our own curiosity. We understand distance – physical space, short or long, that is created by our journeys; we can feel the distance of being away; and we believe that distance can somehow provide a sense of freedom or conversely anxiety, can build a particular aesthetic or generate a desire to be closer and more intimate.
Distance separates, and simultaneously connects, two places. In general, short distances have always been an everyday experience – from home to school, to work, to shop, to dine – as we walk, cycle and drive. No matter how short, bridging the distance requires effort, especially during the urban rush hour, but it does not necessarily evoke the feeling of being at another place, numbed as we are by the assurance of our arrival, the familiarity of our routes and destinations, and the regularity of these daily exercises. On the other hand, in travelling to a different city or to somewhere overseas, greater distance is made more detectable, particularly when we land in new places where we have never been. In the early 20th century, air travel began to make our globe smaller, and long-haul flights can even be a relaxed experience nowadays. Therefore we fly, and we fly more often. When travel becomes regular, a long distance seems to be shorter and the other place is no longer 'other'. We do not sense the destination as being 'far' from the point of origin; instead, we are aware of being 'early' or 'ate', when we are reminded by time difference, if not jetlag. We can travel even further into space by resisting the laws of gravity in order to explore the universe. When the first spaceflight, Apollo 11, landed on the moon on 21st July 1969, the American Neil Armstrong became the first man to step onto the lunar surface and make a distance immeasurable, describing 'one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind'.
The advent of the Internet since the digital revolution has led to our economy and daily lives becoming based on information computerisation. The Internet seems to be omniscient, and able to diminish the distance between us by providing possibilities of instant contact through numerous ways of online communications that are verbal or visual, and may even be virtually haptic in the future. Paradoxically, in such a new age, with all of its advanced technologies, distance is reinvented. And at the same time, the convenience of obtaining information only assures us of how much we do not know.
The Distant Unknown encompasses the 'nearby' and the 'remote', geographically, astronomically and culturally, the 'knowable' and the 'unknowable', and at the same time it points to an uncertainty with regard to the existence of things in and of themselves – the real and the imaginary. On the one hand, this uncertainty arises out of an awareness regarding the limit of what we know or what we can comprehend. On the other hand, positively, The Distant Unknown contains the power to valorize and to stimulate our curiosity, reaching to a world beyond our visual and perceptual observations, bodily experiences and intellectual understandings. It can become a reason for our ignorance, a rationale for incredulity, or a prompt for departure on a creative journey; and ultimately it can be extended as a reflection on the provisional nature of knowledge.
www.shanghai.ocat.org


Spoiler, don't read any further if you haven't seen the film.
Overall? Very pretty movie. I saw it in 3D (really no other option) and was really impressed with the effects and the animation. The 3D leant to the realism and helped immerse you in the movie.