1. Recognize You're in One - Ask yourself if you're feeling bored, unmotivated, listless or stuck. Because of my task-oriented, nose-to-the-grindstone personality, it sometimes takes me a while to become aware that I'm in an overloaded work rut. Once we're aware of our rut status, change can begin.
2. Pray - Ask God to help you get back on track. Whether we need a break, divine motivation, or direction, we need the Holy Spirit's power to grant discernment and show us the next step.
3. Rethink Your Priorities - In today's multi-tasking world it's easy to allow less important things rise to the top of our do-lists, causing everything else to shift. A wise woman uses wisdom, seeks balance, and asks God to establish her priorities--every day.
4. Create a Plan - Relax! It doesn't have to be an elaborate, 10-page, alphabetized document. But sometimes, just honestly writing down a couple of prayerfully considered simple steps and goals can help us get on track--and keep us there.
5. Reach Out - Nothing puts a fresh light on things and encourages us like meeting with a friend to share our hearts. Laughing, relaxing, and discussing the issues we find most challenging with someone we trust and respect will stimulate and relieve us. Just hearing another person's perspective is often all that's needed to get us moving.
6. Give Yourself Permission - Whether you need a day off, a lighter work load, the opportunity to pursue a fresh idea, or a self kick in the pants, allow yourself to do what you feel is necessary to help you move in the right direction. It's okay. Really.
7. Spend Time Worshiping - Never underestimate the power of God's presence at a time like this. I've been amazed at the difference time with the Lord makes when I'm stuck in a rut. When we put on the garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness (see Isaiah 61:3), our entire countenance and perspective are transformed.
How about you? Have you felt like you're in a rut lately? Do you think you need more of a break or a kick in the pants?
Are you a mind reader? I had finally recognized that I'm in a rut last week and determined that I need to spend more time reading scripture. Like daily.
I wish I could say I needed a break but I think I needed a kick in the pants. And reading your post today is the kindest "kick" I could have received.
I'm a creature of habit so getting into ruts is super easy for me. The things is -- I like lots of my ruts :) Guess I find comfort and contentment in the normalcy of routine.
Realization of the rut is the key for me! Prayer and worship, just sweet time in His presence pulls me out of that mirey clay and gives me a new place to stand and a new song in my heart.
Julie, so true! It is easy to get into a rut and miss out on the excitement of really walking intimately with Christ. Love this practical plan to find a way out of the rut!


HE IS THE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFFHe is a major figure in national and international affairs. He plays high-stakes political power games with the FBI and the CIA. He is responsible for many lives—and many deaths.The President of the United States trusts his friendship and advice above all others. He is everything to those who surround him—player and pawn, friend and enemy, husband and father.He's also an alien being from a far world, from another existence, and he has set his own agenda for the future of OUR world.He is an alien ... and yet,he is only too human.
He is a major figure in national and international affairs. He plays high-stakes political power games with the FBI and the CIA. He is responsible for many lives—and many deaths.
The President of the United States trusts his friendship and advice above all others. He is everything to those who surround him—player and pawn, friend and enemy, husband and father.
He's also an alien being from a far world, from another existence, and he has set his own agenda for the future of OUR world.
he is only too human.


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Howard Vetting Process Questioned After Suspending Football Coach
Mark F. Gray
By Mark F. Gray, AFRO Staff Writer, [email protected]
Howard University football coach Ron Prince has been placed on administrative leave, while he is under an internal investigation regarding verbal abuse and intimidation of players. Director of Football Operations Aaron Kelton is serving as the interim coach until further notice, according to a University statement.
The investigation began after the allegations were first reported by the Black college sports website HBCU Gameday in October. The website was contacted by representatives of Howard football players, who accused Prince of being verbally abusive and intimidating to them. Some parents accused Prince of sending players home without treatment for injuries and that there was an "atmosphere of intimidation" because they were being threatened by the loss of scholarships.
Meanwhile, the onfield product disintegrated from its hopes of being a contender in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference into a season that has become one of the worst in school history. At the start of the season, Howard was picked fourth by the MEAC coaches and sports information directors. Since the season kicked off, the Bison have given up more than 50 points five times including a 79-0 loss to the University of Maryland and the record is 1-9 after five consecutive losses.
Howard University football coach Ron Prince (center) is on administrative leave, as an internal investigation of verbal abuse and intimidation of players continues. (Courtesy Photo)
Problems first became noticeable once Howard opened their home schedule against Bethune Cookman on Sept. 29, when starting quarterback and national player of the year candidate Caylin Newton was mysteriously absent from the lineup. Newton, brother of Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, announced to the team he would be leaving the program less than 24 hours before kickoff.
Newton would later explain on Twitter, "coming to Howard was the best decision I ever made in my life," but he would be leaving the program after finishing the requirements for his bachelor's degree with two years of eligibility left to play and would make himself available for other schools through the NCAA transfer portal. Seventeen Bison players have reportedly left the program through entering the portal after Prince's arrival last December.
While there has been no evidence of any physical confrontations between Prince and his players, sources privately told the AFRO they've heard intimidating language that went beyond addressing their onfield performance and he "lost" the team with those constant threats. Players were privately recording tirades by Prince on their phones and supposedly made them available to the university along with the letter that went public. There are also questions about why it took so long for Howard to make this decision given there has been no additional information provided since what was originally released.
A group of former players are believed to have forced the hand of the administration to remove Prince after supposedly hearing the recordings and after a column was published on ESPN's Undefeated website. People who are close to the program also don't believe Howard administrators weren't diligent in the vetting process, which would have been exposed the coach's past issues with players at both the college and pro level. Another source with connections to the program told the AFRO that Howard officials met with Prince once without truly evaluating his track record and decided to hire him after meeting him Atlanta.
He had been an offensive analyst at the University of Michigan and worked in the NFL with the Detroit Lions before coming to Howard. Prince had also worked as the offensive coordinator at Rutgers and the head coach at Kansas State from 2006 to 2008. According to NFL beat reporters in Detroit, Prince's style was referred to as "grating" by several members of the Lions offensive line, who didn't respond to what has been referred to as an "abrasive" style before he was fired.
An NFL source, speaking privately, also told the AFRO that it wasn't surprising the situation at Howard didn't work because he wasn't well-regarded for the work he did in Detroit last year due to his rigid style. The source also said he wasn't surprised the relationship didn't work with Newton because Prince would never change his offense to suit his best player.

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The statue erected across from the Charging Bull seems more like a cynical advertising ploy than ever.
Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl, a four-foot statue of a young girl, defiantly looks up at Arturo DiModica's iconic Wall Street Charging Bull sculpture in New York City. Fearless Girl was installed for International Women's Day in March to draw attention to the gender pay gap and lack of gender diversity on corporate boards in the financial sector. Courtesy of Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
The financial firm behind Fearless Girl, the bronze statue controversially installed on Wall Street opposite Charging Bull as a symbol supporting gender equality, has paid $5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that 300 women and 15 black employees were paid less than their white and male peers.
According to a US federal audit, State Street Corporation, the parent company of financial firm State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which orchestrated the Fearless Girl campaign with advertising corporation McCann, discriminated against senior-level employees. State Street denies wrongdoing, Bloomberg has reported.
Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue stands facing Arturo Di Modica's iconic Charging Bull sculpture as tourists take pictures. Di Modica alleges that Fearless Girl infringes upon his copyright, distorts his artistic message, and should be moved elsewhere. Courtesy of Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images.
Fearless Girl was an immediate viral success on social media, riding the wave of feminist sentiment from the post-inauguration Women's March when it was installed on March 8, International Women's Day. But the motives behind the statue soon came into question.
The sculpture was initially accompanied by a plaque that read "KNOW THE POWER OF WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP/SHE MAKES A DIFFERENCE." The "SHE" in question, however, turned out not to be the diminutive girl facing down the big bad bull, but the SSGA Gender Diversity Index, an exchange-traded fund that bears the ticker symbol "SHE." The plaque was later removed following backlash alleging that Fearless Girl was a calculated ad, not the inspirational artwork it had first seemed.
Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl. Courtesy of Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images.
Say what you will about Fearless Girl and its authenticity—or lack thereof—but the statue's message stems from a very real issue. The systemic issues allegedly faced by women at the very company that sought to highlight women's rights with the sculpture are in themselves evidence that Fearless Girl has something important to say. It is unfortunate that State Street's actions speak louder than words.
Upon the statue's initial installation, Hyperallergic found that McCann's leadership was only 27 percent female, and SSGA's was even lower, at 18 percent.
Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl, a four-foot statue of a young girl, defiantly looks up at Arturo Di Modica's iconic Wall Street Charging Bull sculpture in New York City. Fearless Girl was installed for International Women's Day in March to draw attention to the gender pay gap and lack of gender diversity on corporate boards in the financial sector. Courtesy of Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
The news of the settlement came on the eve of the season premiere of the CW's Supergirl, featuring an apparent homage to the statue. According to comicbook/dc, the show's title character was honored for saving the city with a statue, titled Girl of Steel, of her springing into action, sporting a similarly brave and defiant look as Fearless Girl.


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New S.F. Muni ads go high-brow with Palestinian poetry
By Arno Rosenfeld | March 11, 2016
Transit users in San Francisco this month will bear witness to a fresh tactic in the long-running advertising campaigns that alternately have sought to attack and defend Israel. The new ads, according to their promoters, seek to highlight Palestinian culture and nationhood rather than the conflict presented in past campaigns.
The Palestine Advocacy Project, in its second campaign in the Bay Area, has spent $10,000 to place a series of 183 posters on Muni lightrail and buses that feature images of life in the West Bank and Gaza along with poetry from Mahmoud Darwish. Darwish, who died in 2008, is widely considered the Palestinian national poet.
Mahmoud Darwish
"We wanted to show a little snippet of what Palestinian identity consists of," said Clare Maxwell, a Palestine Advocacy Project board member. The website of the Massachusetts-based organization says it "creates public media and education campaigns that expose Americans to the Palestinian struggle and advocate for an end to Israeli human rights abuses."
The campaign, which runs through March, features seven posters with different poems and excerpts of poems by Darwish. Some could be interpreted as critiques of Israel. For example, an excerpt from "To My Mother" appears with a photograph of a middle-age woman:
"I am old / Give me back the stars of childhood / That I may chart the homeward quest/ Back with the migrant birds, / Back to your awaiting nest."
Others have a more direct message, such as an excerpt from "Passport," which addresses the Israeli government's efforts to revoke Darwish's Israeli citizenship while he was studying abroad during the 1970s.
For those unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the poems do not impart an explicitly political message. Yet Bay Area advocates for Israel who know of the Palestine Advocacy Project and its campaigns in Dallas, Boston and other cities — where ads have accused Israel of stealing land and called for ending U.S. military aid to Israel — say the delivery has changed but the underlying message has not.
"It's nothing new," said Andy David, Israeli consul general for the Pacific Northwest in San Francisco. David added that "the use of soft language, the use of art, the poems and a well-known, respected Palestinian poet [is] poisonous."
One of the campaign posters on San Francisco Muni lightrail
David said the content of the advertisements was irrelevant because the broader goal of the Palestine Advocacy Project is "the destruction of Israel."
Maxwell disputed that perception, saying the organization supports yet does not actively participate in the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel.
The website does, however, take official positions against "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing" perpetrated by Israel.
"They're trying to enter through the door, through the window, through the chimney. They're trying to dig under the floor," David said. "The goal is not to publish poetry on buses — that's a means to a goal."
David did not have a comment on the poetry itself. "I'm not a critic giving grades to Mahmoud Darwish," he said, while acknowledging that Darwish is a celebrity among his people. "If somebody's respected, he's respected."
Darwish was born in 1942 in the Palestinian Arab village of al-Birweh, east of Haifa. After its residents fled or were expelled during Israel's 1948 War of Independence, Darwish went to Lebanon with his family before returning to Israel and gaining citizenship in the mid-1990s.
He was a political activist as a young poet, joining the Israeli Communist Party after high school. In 1970 he left to study in the Soviet Union before moving to Cairo. Darwish also was active in the Palestine Liberation Organization, directing the PLO research center, serving as an editor of the group's monthly journal and serving on its executive committee before resigning his position in opposition to the Oslo accord.
Mahmoud Darwish's "To My Mother" on Muni car
But despite his affiliations with the Palestinian nationalist and militant group that went on to become the Palestinian Authority, Darwish's politics were more nuanced and pragmatic. In an interview with the Israeli daily Haaretz a year before his death, Darwish criticized Hamas' control as a "catastrophe" and emphasized the willingness of Palestinians to accept a two-state solution.
"The Palestinian people is not seeking to liberate Palestine," he told Haaretz. "The Palestinians want to lead a normal life on 22 percent of what they think is their homeland."
The Palestine Advocacy Project's long-term goal, according to Maxwell, is an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. Cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia ban political advertising on their public transit systems, and the organization has been looking for alternative ways to express its message, she said.
"We're trying to do things that can get around the ban," Maxwell said. "As a young organization, we're still figuring out what people will respond to."
The group changed its name last year from Ads Against Apartheid "as a way to, you know, brand ourselves with a more positive name," Maxwell explained.
The nonprofit organization is funded by Itisapartheid Inc., another Massachusetts nonprofit critical of Israel whose website features posters with such messages as "Killing (children) is not self-defense" and encourages people to spray-paint their messages in public places.
"These ads may not be as overtly political as the other campaigns, but the end goal is the same," said Johanna Wilder, associate director of StandWithUs Northern California, a pro-Israel advocacy group, commenting on the poetry campaign. "This is part of the boycott movement against Israel, whose goal is to isolate the only Jewish state and deny the Jewish connection to the State of Israel."
StandWithUs, a national group that has run its own transit and billboard campaigns in the Bay Area and around the country, announced in a press release that it would respond to the ads with its own campaign on San Francisco transit in the coming weeks, focusing on "Israel's craving for and rejected offers for peace," according to the statement. It will be the group's eighth such campaign since 2011.
Arno Rosenfeld
Arno Rosenfeld is a reporter at the Forward. He is a former J. intern and has worked as a correspondent for JTA and The Times of Israel.
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Helmut Deutsch ranks among the finest, most successful and in-demand song recital accompanists of the world. He was born in Vienna, where he studied at the Conservatory, the Music Academy and the University. He was awarded the Composition Prize of Vienna in 1965 and appointed professor at the age of twenty-four. Although he has performed with leading instrumentalists as a chamber musician, he has concentrated primarily on accompanying in song recitals. At the beginning of his career he worked with the soprano Irmgard Seefried, but the most important singer of his early years was Hermann Prey, whom he accompanied as a permanent partner for twelve years. Subsequently he has worked with many of the most important recital singers and played in the world's major music centres. His collaborations with Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau and Michael Volle are currently among his most important.
Deutsch has recorded more than a hundred CDs. In recent years the development of young talent has been especially close to his heart. After his professorship in Vienna he continued his teaching primarily in Munich at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, where he worked as a professor of song interpretation for 28 years. In addition he is a visiting professor at various other universities and is sought-after for an increasing number of masterclasses in Europe and the Far East. The young Swiss tenor Mauro Peter was one of his last students in Munich and has become one of his favourite recital partners.


I have been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award! I would like to thank Nadine, Diamond, and Cecily for the nomination :). These ladies have some fantastic blogs, be sure to pay them a visit.
1. I am all about sleep. I can sleep whenever and wherever lol.
2. Law and Order SVU is my all time favorite show.
3. I love greek and roman mythology.
4. I would love to visit Greece someday <3.
5. I don't really like chocolate that much.
6. I thoroughly enjoy techno and think it should be played more often lol.
Also, I know I have seriously been slacking on posts, my life has just gotten unexpectedly hectic :/. I will be stepping my game up for October though, including a giveaway for birthday month!
Hahahaha I am COMPLETELY with you on your first random fact!! And thanks for the nomination!!
lol! sleep really can't be beat. you're very welcome, love your blog!!


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The seamless and automated connection results in a real-time view of key business performance indicators. Shared clients can intelligently manage financial data, staff performance, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction (HHCAHPS), CMS Home Health Compare scores and home care benchmarks – all from one dashboard.
The enhanced and fully automatic data interface powers SHPSolutions™, a unique and proprietary set of management reports that deliver actionable and current data so providers can take immediate corrective action where needed and navigate the constantly changing and challenging documentation and payment regulations.
Founded in 1996, Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) is driven by a passion to help clients improve business performance, clinical outcomes, and patient satisfaction through the use of real-time, web-based reporting. SHP, based in Santa Barbara, California, is an award-winning innovator of decision support solutions (SHPSolutions™), providing services to 5,000 clients nationwide. Analysis of industry trends can be found at Barbara's Blog. For more information, visit www.SHPdata.com or call (805) 963-9446.
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Labor takes the axe to Adelaide Oval heritage
The Adelaide City Council initially refused the Government's proposal to cut down the trees, but was overruled by the Development Assessment Commission last week.
"The Weatherill Labor Government has overridden the Council's decision and the wishes of the public of whom they were elected to represent," Ms Sanderon said.
"The axing of these trees today is 105 years of South Australian heritage that has been demolished for car parking.
"What is the point in having a community land management plan if the Government completely ignores the wishes of the community?
"I have also requested copies of the arborist's reports, but Infrastructure Minister Conlon will not release them. Why won't he release them if he has nothing to hide?"


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Rob Smith has been playing golf for more than 40 years and been a contributing editor for Golf Monthly for over ten years, specialising in course reviews and travel. He has now played more than 1,170 different courses in almost 50 countries. Despite lockdowns and travel restrictions in 2021, he still managed to play 80 different courses during the year, 43 of them for the first time. This included 21 in 13 days on a trip to East Lothian in October. One of Rob's primary roles is helping to prepare the Top 100 and Next 100 Courses of the UK&I, of which he has played all but nine. During the 2021-22 review period, Rob has played 34 of the Golf Monthly Top 200. He is a member of Tandridge Golf Club in Surrey where his handicap hovers around 16. You can contact him at r.smith896@btinternet.com.
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25 Fake Nancy Drew Book Covers That Are Even Better Than the Originals
By Mac McCann | October 8, 2019 | 1 Comment
What's that Nancy Drew? The Secret at Shadow Ranch was that crop circles aren't created by aliens but just bored artists? Just like these fake book covers that parody the originals? Fascinating!
It turns out there's more mysteries to solve, so the CW gave Nancy Drew her own new show on the CW. On October 9, you can tune in to see Kennedy McMann uncover a season's worth of mysteries in Horseshoe Bay, Maine. Nancy will go head-to-ethereal-mist with ghosts and evildoers as she reminds us that that there's more to be scared of in Maine that getting food poisoning from a lobster roll.
Image courtesy of The CW
Who Is Nancy Drew?
Nancy Drew is a fictional teenage detective and the title character of best-selling series of 175 books that were first published in 1930 and ghostwritten under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
Between World War I and World War II, Americans were hungry for detective fiction. Cheap pulp fiction magazines and authors like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler delivered. Edward Stratemeyer saw that the genre might appeal to the YA market as well and tapped into America's voracious appetite with the launch of the Hardy Boys series in the 1927.
Following its success, Stratemeyer launched the Nancy Drew series three years later in 1930. The series has since sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, well beyond Fifty Shades. You could say they took a spanking. Or that we need more coffee. Really, either.
Since there's nothing we love more than a good procedural show — ok, and tequila — we collected these fake Nancy Drew book covers from Funny or Die and other sources to celebrate the launch of the new detective series. Pick up the real ones at your favorite independent bookstore or Amazon.
25 Fake Nancy Drew Book Covers
1. Don't get him started on almonds.
(Read the original: The Thirteenth Pearl, 1979)
2. We really hope that's recycled toilet paper. Think of the planet!
(Read the original: The Clue of the Dancing Puppet, 1962)
3. It had one job.
(Read the original: The Clue in the Crossword Cipher, 1967)
4. Ok, that's it. You're not driving anymore.
(Read the original: The Secret at Shadow Ranch, 1931)
5. It's so hard to tell Congressmen apart these days.
(Read the original: The Clue of the Broken Locket, 1934)
6. It had lots of rough ideas.
(Read the original: The Witch Tree Symbol, 1955)
7. Not Again.
(Read the original: The Message in the Hollow Oak, 1935)
8. Well, at least they're not starting at 8am. Unlike Bob and Dave and their kitchen renovation that's been going on since March.
(Read the original: The Sign of the Twisted Candles, 1933)
9. If only they were soundproof.
(Read the original: The Clue in the Crumbling Wall, 1945)
10. Except, on Wednesdays. Only Wednesdays.
(Read the original: The Mystery of the Tolling Bell, 1946)
11. Its Netflix special is coming any day now.
(Read the original: The Whispering Statue, 1937)
12. This littering problem has really gotten out of control.
(Read the original: Dangerous Games, 1991)
13. Unlike the last one, which was made of glued together feathers. We're never putting our dog Mr. Pringles in charge of making a ladder again.
(Read the original: The Clue of the Tapping Heels, 1939)
14. Please, call her a cougar.
(Read the original: The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion, 1941)
15. It happened somewhere around the 15th season of The Bachelor.
(Read the original: The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes, 1964)
16. Why they still publish these when the Internet exists is the real mystery.
(Read the original: The Secret of the Old Clock, 1930)
17. Kohl's. We're guessing Kohl's.
(Read the original: The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, 1954)
18. Florida Man, where have you taken us?!
(Read the original: (Read the original: Mystery of Crocodile Island, 1978)
19. Florida, we're outta here. But not before we find out what she has to say.
(Read the original: Password to Larkspur Lane, 1933)
20. Ah, the days before YouTube.
21. At long last, we found them.
(Read the original: The Secret in the Old Attic, 1944)
22. And put them right where they belonged.
23. Those bracelets didn't age well.
24. It's good practice for the family photo we'll take later!
(Read the original: The Clue in the Old Stagecoach, 1960)
25. Seriously, how have you not figured out how to play by now?
(Read the original: The Ghost of Blackwood Hall, 1948)
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Google Messages: the application of the S21 to the colors of OneUI also works on Pixels
Samsung is deploying the Google Messages app instead of Samsung Messages on the Galaxy S21. This decision is related to Samsung's willingness to help Google deploy RCS enriched SMS technology. The problem is that the design of OneUI, the Samsung overlay, has a lot of personality and that the normal design of Google Messages was too uncanny in the OneUI interface.
Google has therefore decided to implement the design language of Samsung smartphones in a special version of its messaging application. The changes are subtle, but immediately identifiable by the regulars of the brand's smartphones. A fairly large header with the word "Messages" is present above the search field, with a bonus count of unread messages.
WANT THE ONEUI LOOK OF GOOGLE POSTS ON YOUR PIXEL? IT'S POSSIBLE!
This section does not normally exist in the classic version of Google Messages. Its interest is to bring the list of messages closer to your thumb to simplify navigation, especially on large formats. There are other less noticeable additions. For example, the text accent color in the dark mode is a bright white, while the color is rather gray on the standard version.
This is the first time we've seen Google adapt to an overlay of a competing manufacturer. Our colleagues from 9to5Google claim in any case that it is also possible to use this application on Pixel smartphones, and even apparently other smartphone models like the Huawei P30 Pro, however sometimes with some additional manipulations.
The application is in the form of an APKS file and you will need a special application like Split APKs Installer to install it. Of course, this keeps a limited interest, and it is likely that Google will block the application on other smartphone models in a future update.
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Q: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/places/microsoft.graph.room Api is not giving updated data I am Using Microsoft Graph to fetch list of rooms available for a tenant.
As per Documentation, List Palace Api (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/place-list?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http) should be used for this.
Now, I am facing problem with getting updated data using List Places api.
I have added few rooms to the tenant but those are not reflected as part of response for List places api.
However, findRooms api which is in Beta gives the updated response.
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/places/microsoft.graph.room (Production version)
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/findRooms (Beta version)
Since, I will be using this api in production I cannot use Beta version Apis.
Please suggest. Thanks in advance.
Update: List Places api is returning updated response after approx 12 hours

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Q: get the tag name and id of a child node I have an html that looks like this

tab 1

tab 2

tab 3

tab 1 contents

tab 2 contents

tab 3 contents

What I need to do is make this code dynamic because the number of tabs is not fixed.
What I have done so far is this

Create an element for

Create an element for div
Append(appendChild) the div element to tabs
Now Im stuck with the part of getting the tag name and id name of the child nodes of tag..
I need to add the new entry to the list.
How will I do that?
i thought of using getElementsByName but that would mean that I need to add a name attribute to the ul. Im not sure if that was a good idea so I Im thinking of other possible ways to do it. Please help. thanks

A: Adding a tab looks like it should be something done as a function rather than inline, so you could write it like this
                                 // i is the last id
var addTab = (function (tab_root, nav_root, i) { // IIFE to create closure
    return function (title, contents) {
        var li, a, div, j;
        // get id
        j = ++i; // I put it in it's own var to avoid race conditions
        // create nav
        li = document.createElement('li');
        a = document.createElement('a');
        a.setAttribute('href', '#tabs-' + j);
        if (title) a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(title));
        li.appendChild(a);
        // create tab
        div =  document.createElement('div');
        if (contents) div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(contents));
        // append to document
        tab_root.appendChild(div);
        nav_root.appendChild(li);
        return {tab: div, nav: a, id: j};
    }
}(document.getElementById('tabs'), document.getElementById('ul_id'), 3)());
// invoke IIFE with initials i.e. id 3 for 3 tabs existing

now
addTab('tab 4', 'tab 4 contents');

An Object is returned with properties tab, nav and id. This lets you do more work with the different parts as required.


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Union Theological Seminary i New York er et uafhængig eksamensgodkendt teologisk universitet, beliggende på Manhattan, mellem Claremont Avenue og Broadway, 120th til 122nd Streets. Seminariet blev grundlagt i 1836 under Den presbyterianske Kirke, og er nu knyttet til det nærliggende Columbia University.

Bygningens murstens- og limstensfacade i engelsk-gotisk stil er tegnet af Francis R. Allen (1844-1931), og inkluderer tårnet, som har lighedspunkter med tårnet på Durham Cathedral.

Teologer
 Paul Tillich (1886–1965), tysk-amerikansk teolog og kristen eksistentialistisk filosof.
 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), luthersk præst og teolog, og deltager i modstandsbevægelsen mod nazismen, studerede efter sin eksamen i Tyskland et år på UTS.

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Metro, anglicky Creep, slovensky Hrôza v metre , je německo-britský hororový film roku 2004 natočený režisérem Christopherem Smithem. Jedná se o hororový film natočený v podzemním prostředí.

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Hlavní hrdinkou příběhu je Kate (Franka Potente), která se po firemním večírku snaží dostat na schůzku s Georgyem Cloonyem. Protože nemůže sehnat taxi, rozhodne se jet metrem. Když ovšem mírně opilá čeká na vlak, spadne jí hlava a jakmile se probudí, zjistí, že je v metru sama. Ať se podívá kamkoliv, nikde ani živáčka. Rozhodne se odejít, ale metro je však zamčené. Náhle přijíždí vlak a Kate nastoupí. Ve vlaku je jedinou cestující. Poté, co vlak však zastaví, objeví v něm kolegu z práce, který se jí pokusí znásilnit. Než se mu to ale podaří, něco neznámého ho vytáhne ze soupravy ven a zabije. Kate po kolejích utíká zpátky do stanice. Snaží se zavolat na policii, ale mobil nemá zde signál a telefony jsou odpojeny. Poprosí o pomoc bezdomovce přebývající zde. Ti ovšem při pokusu pomoct jí zahynou. Když zavolá hlídače, tak i ten je zavražděn. V metru je tedy úplně sama a jediné, co jí zbývá je se za každou cenu dostat ven. Utíká po kolejích, odkud se dostane do kanalizace. Zde objeví tajný vchod do podzemních laboratoří. Zjišťuje, že zde žije onen vrah, vyšinutý blázen, který se snaží stát doktorem stejně jako jeho otec a proto vraždí všechny lidi, kteří se zde objevují. A potom si na nich zkouší své bizarní pokusy s lékařskými nástroji. Kate zde osvobodí jednoho dělníka a utíká s ním zpátky do stanice. Vrah je jim však v patách a zabije jejího komplice. Kate však stihne vraha hodit pod vlak, který právě přijíždí do stanice. Zjišťuje že, když vlak jede do stanice, tak tím pádem je metro už otevřené a jsou zde lidi. Na stanici je tak zubožená, že si lidi myslí, že je žebračka a dávají jí peníze.

Obsazení
 Franka Potente .......... Kate
 Kelly Scott ............. Mandy
 Vas Blackwood ........... George
 Jeremy Sheffield ........ Guy
 Ken Campbell ............ Arthur
 Joe Anderson ............ Male Model
 Kathryn Gilfeather ...... Dívka
 Grant Ibbs .............. Muž

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Matt Westin, Rahn Anthoni, Ed Roman, More Win At 5th Annual IMEA Awards
Michael Stover June 18, 2018	Press Release Leave a comment
MTS Management Group is proud to announce that they, and their artists, were winners at the 5th Annual International Music and Entertainment Association (IMEA) Awards. First-time nominees, Matt Westin and Rahn Anthoni were named Country Male Artist of the Year and R&B/Soul Artist of the Year, respectively. Ed Roman, a previous IMEA Award Winner, took home the honors for Best Adult Contemporary Song, "The Way She Goes." Previous client, represented by MTS during the nomination period, Cherish Lee won for Best Country Song, "Tequila Cowgirl." MTS Management Group was named Management Company of the Year, an honor they have won twice, previously.
Rahn Anthoni, who was in attendance and presented several awards said, "We won, Special Needs Community, and believe I gave a shout out to my kids….R&B Artist of The Year 2018, with I'll Trust You!!! Please believe me when I tell you, all I have is radio jocks and fans, who trust in what this movement is about. If it wasn't for all of you, I would not have been on that platform to speak about The Special Needs Community."
The ceremony, hosted by IMEA Chairman, Colt Chambers, was held this past Saturday, June 16, 2018. at Paramount Arts Center in Ashland, Kentucky. A full list of winners will be available on the IMEA site at www.imeaawards.com.
Nominees were selected, from nominee submissions, by an anonymous Nominating Committee, comprised of industry pros. Winners in each category are determined by the Voting Committee and a weighted fan vote. The IMEA Awards are presented annually by the International Music and Entertainment Association (IMEA). IMEA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and serving as an advocate to individuals and organizations within the performing arts and entertainment industries. The IMEA Awards were developed to honor and recognize the best in independent music and entertainment, internationally. For more information, visit http://www.imeaonline.com.
Founded in 2010 by Award-winning songwriter, musician and producer, Michael Stover. A music industry veteran of over 30 years, Michael is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, with a degree specializing in the Music and Video business. Michael has used that education to gain a wealth of experience within the industry: from retail music manager and DJ, to two-time Billboard Magazine Contest winning songwriter, performer and chart-topping producer, and finally, award-winning artist manager, publicist, promoter and label president. In just 8 years, MTS Records has released 33 Top 40 New Music Weekly country chart singles, including TWELVE #1s and 8 Top 85 Music Row chart singles.
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Ghost Photo Causes Internet Sensation
Chris Capps October 6, 2010
A ghost photographed by a tourist in Oxford has been making the rounds around the internet after being snapped by one ghost hunter fortunate to have gotten what appears to be a fully bodied apparition on film. The spectral figure has generated quite a bit of buzz for ghost tours in Oxford as well as haunts in general. And while it may look like an out of focus person at first glance, take a look at the lower half of the figure and you'll understand why it has been such a sensation.
The figure appeared in a photograph after Sue Tomlinson embarked on her journey. And after snapping the picture she looked down at the camera and noticed something peculiar. Subsequent pictures taken in the area didn't show anything unusual other than the eerily beautiful architecture located around the area. Sue, in an interview with the Oxford Mail, said she was eager to get home that night to see what the picture looked like when shown on her larger computer screen. She wasn't disappointed.
The figure appears to be in period dress at the torso with dark hair or a dark hat and one arm extended out in front of it. But that's where the picture takes a strange turn. Tracing the garments hanging from the arm of the spectral figure down to where the legs should be there is nothing but a transparent blur. Only a little further than that the legs don't show up at all, instead disappearing halfway down the midsection. Unlike so many orb photographs or spectral smoke-like apparitions, the figure in the photograph is almost entirely unable to distinguish from a human aside from the missing legs.
Sue had been taking a local tour with Bill Ritchie who was surprised to receive the image in an email later that week.
The photograph is reminiscent of a photograph taken earlier this year in Winchelsea at the Barwon Park ghost tour. The photograph in this case clearly showed a girl staring into the camera. Unfortunately, the Barwon Park incident turned out to be nothing more than a hoax. But really the former did appear to be just a photograph of a person as opposed to an actual mysterious apparition as what appears in this latest case. Let's hope this new photo doesn't turn out to be nothing more than a hoax.
Ghost photography has gotten more troubled in recent years with the ease of access to programs such as photoshop. Older images often relied on conventional objects being photographed or a few easy to spot tricks, but with the advent of image editing technology, newer images will be virtually impossible to prove as genuine, although several hoaxers will eagerly come forward to show off their work after their particular photograph becomes popular. But imaging experts know how to sharpen the line between genuine anomalous phenomena and simple hoaxes. Thus far no such experts have published their findings on the recently developed Tomlinson photo.
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Absolute Zero is out this Friday April 12.


Hotel Riu Palace Macao is located in holiday area Punta Cana on the Dominican Republic's eastern coast. The hotel is part of RIU Resort with four sister hotels and is situated on the beautiful Playa Arena Gorda beach, which stretches for 26 km. The colourful Caribbean Street is 200 m away and offers the following shared facilities: gym, hairdresser, jeweler's, chemist's, photo studio, a variety of shops, Pacha discotheque. The small town of El Cortecito (approx. 10 min. by car) has several restaurants and beach bars. The shopping centre is 2 km away.
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"Shopping Bags (She Got from You)"
File:Shopping bags.gif
Single by De La Soul
from the album The Grind Date
12" single
Sanctuary Urban
K. Mercer, D. Jolicoeur, V. Mason, O. Jackson Jr., D. West
Madlib, Dave West
De La Soul singles chronology
"Shoomp/Much More"
(2003) "Shopping Bags (She Got from You)"
(2004) "Rock Co.Kane Flow"
"Shopping Bags (She Got from You)" is the first official single to be released by De La Soul, from their seventh studio album, The Grind Date. The song was a diatribe about gold-diggers, and was produced by California-based producer, Madlib. The B-Side to the single, was the song "The Grind Date", produced by Supa Dave West, and featuring samples from "Nous Sommes Du Soleil" by Yes.
When released, BET refused to play the video to "Shopping Bags (She Got from You)", claiming that De La Soul were no longer relevant to their audience. BET's actions outraged many, who felt that the television network was outright disrespecting one of hip hop's legendary groups. BET remained unyielding and in 2005 gave North Carolina group Little Brother, the same dubious honor, this time citing their reason for not playing the video to "Lovin' It" as it being "too intelligent for their audience". The network, however, relented upon this decision some several months afterwards.
The music video starts with a reporter interviewing a woman with several shopping bags. The reporter asks her where she got the bags from. The woman points to her boyfriend, who shrugs. The music video then shows several scenes of women on shopping sprees while their partners fall unconscious after their credit cards are taken from them.
"Shopping Bags (She Got From You) (Album Version)" - 3:57
"The Grind Date (Dirty Version)" - 3:23
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What's All the Fuss About Summer Internships Anyway?
Summer's winding down, which means a lot of us are well into our summer internships. Do you love it? Great! Hate it? Even better! Have no idea what you're doing there in the first place? Well, there's a method to the madness about internships (and no, it isn't solely to build your resume). CM's got the scoop on what the big deal about internships is and what they will teach you about yourself and your desired industry.
If an internship teaches us anything, it's how a company runs and how to properly fit ourselves inside that running machine. As interns, we have ample opportunities to observe how our bosses and their co-workers communicate, proper desk etiquette in an office environment and how professionals deal with issues within a company.
Lafayette College senior Drew Friedman has had mostly poorly structured internships, but doesn't believe bad internships are for nothing. "They have taught me how to be more patient, and to pick my battles," he said. So whether we are simply running errands for our bosses or actually sitting in at meetings, our presence alone teaches us a great deal.
University of Maryland senior Samantha Colin has had a different internship every year since freshman year. "I've scrubbed floors with Clorox wipes and my bare hands and stared at excel media grids until my eyeballs had holes burnt into them," she said. "But I've learned to respect my seniors because everyone has to start somewhere." Playing Annie for the summer unknowingly teaches you more than how to be an efficient cleaner.
As a senior journalism major, I've dedicated three whole years of my life to this field. But what if I graduate college, start my career in journalism, and realize it isn't for me? Internships exist, in part, to avoid this travesty. According to Friedman, internships give us real life experience that, to him, are more important than school. "The only way to get a true sense of what you enjoy and what you are good at is by going out and doing it," Friedman said.
But it's not just the job type you should be concerned with. There are plenty of qualities that set a company apart−its size, structure, culture, goals, etc. Colin said she has worked at world-renowned international corporate companies, startups by millennials, medium-sized creative PR agencies and everything in between. "But what I've learned most through internships, aside from how to navigate the communication world, is that unless the company's culture aligns with your values, the partnership will never work," she said.
Size matters too. University of Maryland graduate Natalie Rup has three internships under her belt. One at a small agency, one at a large agency, and now she is at a medium sized agency. It took three long summers for her to find her happy medium. Some people work better on their own while others work better in teams, and it takes an internship experience to teach you what kind you are. Rup finally found what she wanted at the mid-sized agency. "You get close to your team, work closely with everyone and people take the time to teach you things," she said.
When you're on your 10 zillionth coffee run and you think you can't file one more paper without losing your mind, put a smile on your face and ask your boss if she would like another cup of coffee. After you complete an internship you want a company to say, "Wow, this is the best damn intern I've ever had." This is important whether you want a job at this company or you want to run for the hills at 5 p.m. on your last day.
"Internships open up a network of people for your career," Colin said. People talk. And when they do talk, you better hope it's positively about you. The people you meet at one internship can introduce you to another company you never knew existed and is more of a perfect fit for you. And when said company asks about you, the company you slaved over for two months will say they're lucky to have you. So yes, all those hours of corporate hazing are worth it.


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Vevo works better as YouTube duet than solo act
Harmonic diversion
10 August 2016 By Samantha Acriche
The music-video service owned by Sony and Universal struck a deal to stream Warner artists too. It's a big step that could help Vevo pursue ambitions of breaking away from Google's site to compete with the likes of Spotify. The result may be more Art Garfunkel than Paul Simon.
Source: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
The YouTube Space LA in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles, California, United States October 21, 2015.
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Vevo statement
Vevo and Warner Music said on Aug. 2 they had struck a licensing agreement that gives the digital music-video service access to artists including Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and Madonna.
On July 14, Vevo announced a "company-wide reboot" to reinvent itself as a one-stop shop for music-related video material. The company rolled out new programming for its app, which Chief Executive Erik Huggers plans to make into a subscription service. The company hopes to run independently of YouTube.
Vevo was started in 2009 by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. Minority shareholders include Abu Dhabi Media and Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube.


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Letter from Monaco
Divorce in the land of the super rich
In a pretty principality, it can get ugly.
By	Dana Kennedy
Guests leave the Hotel des Iles Borromees for the wedding ceremony of Pierre Casiragh | Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images
MONTE CARLO — The little courthouse resembling an ice cream cake perches high atop the Mediterranean just a few hundred yards from the royal palace. It looks like another Instagram-ready shot from the world's most photogenic principality, a beautiful blur of pastel villas, chic beach clubs and gleaming, million-dollar yachts on a shimmering port.
But don't be mistaken. It can get ugly at this pretty court which often handles big personalities with lots of money. Divorce laws in the principality are intended to protect the super-wealthy, ensuring that they don't lose their assets in case of a split. And matrimonial laws do not favor women in Monte Carlo.
"Let's put it this way," said Judd Burstein, a high-powered New York lawyer who is trying to move a current Monaco divorce case to New York. "If a rich man married a poor woman in Monaco and all she owned at the time of the marriage was a horse, she'd be left like Lady Godiva when the marriage ended. Naked with a horse. The guy would get everything."
Monaco has no laws governing separation of assets, and the only wealth that is divided in a divorce is that which was commonly created. The advisory website Monaco Wealth Management says the laws are designed to keep out "gold diggers."
Lainie Crane, an American woman in her 60s who's lived in Monaco for more than 35 years, says wives still end up with the short end of the stick when they go to court.
"They don't know to say, 'hey honey-bunny can I have my own checking account or can you put my name on the deed?' By the time the s*** hits the fan, it's too late" — Lainie Crane
"The women who marry these rich guys are not the brightest — they think their youth and beauty will last forever," she said. "They don't know to say, 'hey honey-bunny can I have my own checking account or can you put my name on the deed?' By the time the s*** hits the fan, it's too late. They're supposed to get half — but half of what? These guys keep a little something in HSBC. But the rest is in Turks and Caicos or Guernsey."
As rough as divorce can be on women with ties to Monaco, it can be a challenge in other European countries where a wide variety of rules govern matrimonial break-ups.
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Monaco lies just a few kilometers from Italy, where the process until recently could take up to ten years. For one thing, courts mandated a three-year separation period for "reflection and possible reconsideration" on mutual petitions. But that recently changed, possibly with "considerable socio-economic implications." A leading Catholic daily reportedly bemoaned the changes under the headline: "Shortened divorce, an uncivilized goal." Further south in Malta, it wasn't even possible to get a divorce until five years ago and the country still has some of the most restrictive laws in Europe.
The EU's Brussels II convention was meant to harmonize divorce laws so that a divorce filed in one country would be accepted in another. But the 2001 convention, which holds that the first court to process the divorce is the one to hold jurisdiction, may have had the unintended effect of highlighting differences between countries, leading to 'divorce tourism' with couples filing in countries with quicker, cheaper or more generous terms for divorce.
General view of Monaco taken on June 13, 2011 in Monaco | Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images
For example, if you head to Romania, divorce is cheap and quick, and lawyers have found a way around the provision that one needs to be a resident. Romanian courts also recognize de facto separation, so divorce proceedings are fairly straightforward if the couple can convince the court that the spouses have already been living separately for six months.
Bucharest, however, can't top London, which is known as the divorce capital of the world. An investigation by the Times a few years ago found that, when huge sums of money were at stake, around half of divorce cases involved international couples. While getting divorced in the U.K. is both expensive and arduous, it is generally preferred by financially weaker spouses who may gain more there than elsewhere. British courts often award former spouses, particularly wives, with maintenance for life. Family law firm Pannone describe British laws as too "wife-friendly."
Which is why some British women who find themselves living in Monaco with their husbands try to find a way to get back to the U.K. if a divorce is in the offing.
Camilla, a 41-year-old British national, lived in Monaco with her British banker husband and their three children. When Camilla discovered that her husband was having an affair, she knew she wanted to file for divorce — but not in Monaco.
"I told him the kids were unhappy at their school in Monaco and that we should move back to the U.K.," said Camilla, who spoke on condition that her last name not be used. "He believed me, so we packed up and moved back."
Within six months, Camilla had filed for divorce in London, getting a better deal than would have been possible in Monaco where divorce law dictates that all the deeds and bank accounts remain with the person whose name they were under before marriage. Courts are known to be stingy with alimony, believing in the individual's capacity to "bounce back."
"Justice belongs to the spouse with the most money here," said Elisabetta Agusta, a 66-year-old Austrian national who was married to a wealthy Italian count. Her divorce, she said, took 17 years to wend through the courts in Monaco and Milan, and when it was over, she was left with almost nothing. "The men just think, 'how do I get rid of my wife without giving her any money.' If you're naïve as I was, God help you."
"Justice belongs to the spouse with the most money here" — Elisabetta Agusta
Last fall, Maurice Amon, 65, heir to a multi-million dollar Swiss banknote ink fortune, filed for divorce from Tracey Hejailan-Amon in Monaco where the couple owns a $40 million home. In response, his wife hired Burstein, who represented Donald Trump in his divorce from Ivana in 1992, in a bid to move divorce proceedings to New York.
Hejailan-Amon, then 39, had met Amon at a New Year's Eve party in Gstaad, not long after her marriage had ended. The couple were eventually married in Hong Kong and reportedly maintained homes in London, Paris, Gstaad, Monaco, and New York during their eight-year marriage.
"I wasn't seeking out a bank account when I married Maurice," said Hejailan-Amon, adding that she was devastated when her husband sent her an email in October worded like a business transaction, informing her that he had just filed for divorce in Monaco. The email came after Amon had quietly taken $25 million in artwork from the couple's Fifth Avenue apartment, which he had placed in her name, Burstein said.
A couple watches the Grand Prix of Monaco | Gero Breloer/EPA
It's not the first contentious divorce for either. Hejailan-Amon, who is originally from California, was previously married to a Saudi businessman and fought a five-year battle to get her two children out of the Kingdom.
Amon, for his part, graced the pages of the New York tabloids in 2005 under headlines such as "DIVORCE OF HEADSPLITTING NASTINESS" when he separated from his former wife Roberta. The couple had split their time between Switzerland and the U.S. and Roberta, like Hejailan-Amon, fought to have the divorce heard in Manhattan.
Amon's lawyer, Peter Bronstein, who also represented his client during his divorce from his previous wife, has called Hejailan-Amon a "gold-digger" who can't show she's lived in New York for the required two years needed to start a divorce action there. Photos of her overflowing shoe closet in Monaco were splashed all over the media after Bronstein filed the pictures in court to show she maintained her residence there.
Burstein, though, says he can prove the Amons spent a lot of time in New York and that Amon's claim of being a resident of Monaco was just a way to evade taxes.
Though a Monaco law introduced in 2007 was meant to even the playing field among couples, there are still laws on the books that allow a spouse to take back any gifts or "donations" made during the marriage — like the estimated $70 million in jewelry Maurice gave his wife.
A New York judge has said he will rule on whether or not Hejailan-Amon can move her divorce case to Manhattan this month.
"We built a life together," says Hejailan-Amon. "My two kids loved him and I thought he loved them. Maurice didn't want me to work but I contributed to the marriage. I decorated our homes," she said. "I'm not a gold digger and I married Maurice for love."
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American Experience: Walt Disney
PBS // Unrated // September 15, 2015
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Review by Randy Miller III | posted September 3, 2015 | E-mail the Author
He only lived for 65 years and 10 days...but in that brief window, American icon Walt Disney accomplished more than most could in several lifetimes. A sensitive but strong-willed young man, Disney was wildly ambitious from an early age and owned his own animation studio ("Laugh-O-Gram") by the age of 20. From founding The Walt Disney Company with his older brother Roy to redefining the concept of amusement parks, he rarely stood still before lung cancer cut his life short in 1966. Along the way, Disney won more Academy Awards than any other person in history and achieved an unparalleled level of name recognition. American Experience: Walt Disney, set to premiere in two parts on September 14-15 on PBS, takes an exhaustive four-hour look at the business mogul's life and times.
As expected, few stones are left unturned during this warts-and-all documentary: it reveals a man who often retreated to his own bubble of creativity and approval, had a strained relationship with an unsupportive father and, at times, refused to acknowledge his own employees. Constantly in search of new and exciting ways to advance animation through technology (including multi-plane images, the complete marriage of sound and visuals, broadening story-driven cartoons into full-length productions, and more), Disney also helped to pioneer the concept of merchandising to children...which, among other facets of his career, has continued to sharply divide critics and customers alike. More than a dozen colleagues and other figures are on hand to offer their first and second-hand experiences, including biographers Neal Gabler and Steven Watts, animators Floyd Norman and Don Lusk, journalist Ron Suskind, historians Sarah Nilson and Richard Schickel, UVA associate professor Carmenita Higginbotham, ink-and-painter Ruthie Tompson, designer Rolly Crump, Disney Imagineering's International Ambassador Marty Sklar, and more.
Each half of this two-part production ("1901-1941" and "1941-1966") runs just under two hours; highlights along the way include Walt's early ambitions, selling cartoon shorts, "Alice in Cartoonland", canned beans and bankruptcy, Hollywood in the 1920s, working with Roy and Ub Iwerks, marrying Lillian (his first and only wife), life in Marceline MO, creating Mickey and "Steamboat Willie", losing his first child, being snubbed at the 1938 Oscars, building a luxurious new studio, going public, office politics and union attempts, firing Art Babbitt in 1941, facing picket lines, the death of his parents, box office trouble, social context and Song of the South, competition from United Productions of America, testifying before HUAC, live-action films and documentaries, developing Disneyland, brand-building and freedom from bankers, the success of Mary Poppins (Walt's first and only "Best Picture" nomination), critical backlash during the 1960s, dreaming of EPCOT, health problems and, of course, his ongoing legacy.
Viewers are also treated to a wealth of rare and never-before-seen photos and footage, and the bulk of Disney's massive output during Walt's life is glimpsed as well (including Song of the South, which will most likely never earn an official DVD or Blu-ray release around these parts). Narrated by American Experience regular Oliver Platt, Walt Disney is an awfully ambitious undertaking whose reach doesn't exceed its grasp. It's accessible and entertaining, digging deep enough to satisfy those looking for more than your average white-washed biopic while avoiding the easy jabs that most are willing to throw at the omnipresent corporation (myself included). Though PBS' DVD doesn't offer much support, consider this two-part documentary a worthy effort for casual fans and die-hards alike.
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Video & Audio Quality
Presented in its original 1.78:1 aspect ratio, American Experience: Walt Disney looks decent with a few reservations. Recent interviews are clean with good image detail, while older 1.33:1 film clips (presented in color and black-and-white) are obviously rougher around the edges. Unfortunately, this footage is almost universally cropped to fill the 16x9 frame, which means that their native flaws are amplified even further. Highlights from vintage Disney productions---including Snow White, Bambi,, Cinderella, and about two dozen others---are not cropped and of good quality as well, while lesser-known films like Song of the South are understandably not as polished. Digital imperfections such as jagged lines and slight compression artifacts were occasionally spotted along the way, which may be partially due to this four-hour film being crammed on a single DVD. Unfortunately, there's no Blu-ray option.
DISCLAIMER: This review's compressed screen captures are strictly decorative and do not represent DVD's native 480p resolution.
The default Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track is our only choice and serves up the exact level of quality you'd expect from any decades-spanning documentary with a decent budget. New interviews sound crisp and clear; even older recordings (usually limited to audio) are of reasonably good quality considering their age. Joel Goodman's original music is mixed well and, along with a few moments of subtle ambient noise and tasteful additions to silent filmed footage, serves as one of the few instances of surround activity. Overall, there's nothing to complain about here.
Menu Design, Presentation & Packaging
The plain-wrap menu designs don't take advantage of Walt Disney's deep library of visuals, but at least they're easy to navigate and load quickly. Separate play options are included for both parts, as well as individual chapter selection menus and a set-up interface for the optional English subtitles. This one-disc release arrives in a standard keepcase and includes one promotional insert for related PBS titles. Unfortunately, there are no bonus features.
American Experience: Walt Disney is a refreshingly warts-and-all examination of an American icon. Spanning almost all six decades of his life and loaded with mountains of rare archival footage and photos, it's also punctuated by interviews with more than a dozen of Walt's colleagues and film historians. Balancing his personal and professional lives with skill (although they intersect almost constantly), it's evenly paced and uses time wisely with few exceptions. Unfortunately, PBS' DVD package doesn't offer much in the way of support: all four hours are crammed on a single disc, and the lack of a Blu-ray (and no bonus features) makes the notion of "just watch it on TV in a few weeks" more attractive than ever. Still, if you're dead-set on owning an official copy, here it is. Mildly Recommended.
Randy Miller III is an affable office monkey by day and film reviewer by night. He also does freelance design work, teaches art classes and runs a website or two. In his limited free time, Randy also enjoys slacking off, juggling HD DVDs and writing in third person.
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Monsignor Guido Marini se je rodil 31. januarja 1965 v italijanskem mestu Genova. Duhovniško posvečenje je prejel 4. februarja 1989. Posvetil ga je kardinal Giovanni Canestri. Leta 2007 je na Papeški luteranski univerzi diplomiral iz kanonskega in civilnega pravo, istega leta pa Papeški salezijanski univerzi iz psihologije komunikacije. Med letoma 1988 in 2003 je bil tajnik genovskega nadškofa, med letoma 2004 in 2007 duhovni direktor semenišča v Genovi, med letoma 2005 in 2007 pa kancler tamkajšnje nadškofije.

Vodja papeških bogoslužij
Papež Benedikt XVI. ga je 1. oktobra 2007 imenoval za vodjo papeških bogoslužij, nov petletni mandat pa mu je podelil tudi leta 2012, leta 2017 pa še Papež Frančišek. Slednji ga je 19. februarja 2014 imenoval tudi v Kongregacijo za vzhodne cerkve. Njegovo ceremonialno delovanje je zaznamovala predvsem obnovitev nekaterih papeških ceremonialov, med njimi t. i. "benediktinska ureditev", ki ureja postavitev sveč in razpela na oltarju.

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Bulgarian grain producers continue to protest, the Chairman of the National association of grain producers in Bulgaria Krasimir Avramov said.
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NB Power does not permit the initiation of a multiple metered Account that sums two or more Metering Points. For all new Customers, each Metering Point is a separate Account. If an existing multiple metered Premises requires a new service, reconnection or upgrade for any reason (including a change in ownership), each meter will be billed as a separate Customer Account.
When new buildings are constructed for services which combine a business operation and a Dwelling, owners must provide for the installation of separate meters. When major alterations are made to buildings or the wiring of buildings already containing combined service, owners must provide for the installation of separate meters.
If, in the opinion of NB Power, metering is not practical and usage of electricity is uniform and can be easily estimated, customers may be provided unmetered service. In such cases, no metering device is employed to record either the Demand or Energy.
Every bill for metered service will show the last date the meter was read, the number of days in the Billing Period, the number of kilowatt hours (and the demand, if any), and will identify the appropriate Rate Category.
NB Power will assist Customers in checking the amounts indicated on their bills when requested to do so.
If there are changes in NB Power's rate schedules, bills will be prorated over the number of days remaining in the Billing Period during which the change is effective. In succeeding Billing Periods, these changes will be effective for the entire Billing Period.
If a Billing Period is shorter or longer than the normal Billing Period as a result of disconnection, a New connection, or change in the meter reading schedule, the bill (including service charge, demand charge, energy charge, and all Rental Facilities charges) is prorated over the number of days in the Billing Period.
NB Power normally reads the Customer's meter every Billing Period. An exception is Residential Service to seasonal Customers, where consumption is estimated at zero for the months in which the meters cannot be read.
An estimated bill may be issued for any Billing Period in which any of the following has occurred:
NB Power has taken appropriate and reasonable measures to read a Customer's meter but cannot gain access to read the meter;
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Circumstances beyond NB Power's control make an actual meter reading very difficult.
Estimated bills are payable in all respects as if they were based on actual meter readings.
The Customer will inform NB Power regarding the use of the service. Based on this information, NB Power then establishes the applicable Rate Category.
Any customer whose use of service changes such that the Customer is subject to a different Rate Category will notify NB Power of this change. NB Power will then determine the applicable Rate Category and backbill or refund the Customer as appropriate subject to the provisions of the Electricity Act.
All bills for service are due when rendered and are subject to a late payment charge when payments are received after the date specified on the bill. The late payment charge is calculated on the amount unpaid as of the date of the next billing except for large industrial Customers.
For large industrial Customers, the late payment charge is calculated on any amount unpaid 30 days from the date of issue of the bill and is computed from this issue date to the date of receipt of payment.
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If the test results indicate that meter accuracy is not within allowable limits as set out in the above Act, the Customer's Account will be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
If the test results indicate that meter accuracy is within allowable limits and the Customer initiated the request, the Customer will be charged a service call fee specified under Section O - Fees and Charges, Service Call Fees. If the test results indicate that meter accuracy is within allowable limits and NB Power initiated the request, no service call fee will be charged.
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The Harmonized Sales Tax applies to all rates and charges in sections N, O-1 and O-2 with the exception of Late Payment Charges in section O-1.
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Q: Arranging global/static objects sequentially in memory In C++, is it possible to force the compiler to arrange a series of global or static objects in a sequential memory position?  Or is this the default behavior?  For example, if I write…
MyClass g_first ("first");
MyClass g_second ("second");
MyClass g_third ("third");

… will these objects occupy a continuous chunk of memory, or is the compiler free to place them anywhere in the address space?

A: The compiler can do as it pleases when it comes to placing static objects in memory; if you want better control over how your globals are placed, you should consider writing a struct that encompasses all of them. That will guarantee that your objects will all be packed in a sequential and predictable order.

A: Placing specific variables or group of variables into a memory segment is not a standard feature of the compiler.
But some compiler supports special methods to do this. Especially in embedded systems. For example in Keil, I guess you at at operator to place a particular variable.

A: The way to force objects to be in a contiguous piece of memory is to put them into an array.
If you use the built-in array type, the only way they can be initialized is their default constructors (although you can change their values later):
MyClass my_globals[3];

If you use a dynamic array (called std::vector in C++), you are more flexible:
namespace {
  typedef std::vector<MyClass> my_globals_type;

  my_globals_type init_my_globals()
  {
    my_globals_type globals;
    globals.push_back(MyClass("first"));
    globals.push_back(MyClass("second"));
    globals.push_back(MyClass("third"));
    return globals;
  }

  my_globals_type my_globals = init_my_globals();
}

Note that global variables are usually frowned upon. And rightly so.

A: Yes, some compilers now contain optimizations that will automatically do something like this for you:
e.g.
Automatic pool allocation: improving performance by controlling data structure layout in the heap
Restructuring field layouts for embedded memory systems
MPADS: memory-pooling-assisted data splitting


Private equity giant KKR & Co LP has announced its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire website operator Internet Brands Inc from Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity. The $1.1bn deal will be completed using funds from KKR's North America XI PE fund. Although no expected completion date has been announced the transaction is still subject to customary closing conditions.
In a joint statement announcing the deal, KKR said it was acquiring the Internet Brands business in partnership with Internet Brands chief executive Bob Brisco and the Internet Brands management team, who will hold a minority stake in the company and will continue to run the business once the deal has been completed. By acquiring Internet Brands, KKR is continuing the PE ownership of the company. Fellow PE firms Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity purchased the Internet Brands business in 2010 for $640m.
KKR hopes to help Internet Brands develop and expand its services. Currently the company, which operates a number of websites including Lawyers.com, CarsDirect and ApartmentRatings.com, generates the majority of its revenue via online advertising. The Internet Brands website receives more than 100 million visits per month, so is ideally placed to generate extensive online advertising revenues.
Despite the company's reliance on internet advertising, Internet Brands, based in El Segundo, California, has recently begun to branch out into other areas. Of late, the company has expanded its operations into the 'software as a service' industry, providing companies with software to accomplish certain tasks. The firm's Autodata Solutions business, just one of its new units, provides services to companies in the automotive trade, including Toyota Motor Corporation, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Group LLC.
Internet Brands was founded in 1998 as CarsDirect, however the company rebranded when it began to move into other business areas. The firm manages websites across four distinct business areas including the automotive, health, legal and home and travel industries. The company was taken public in 2007 but was acquired by Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity just three years later. In a statement announcing the deal, Mr Brisco noted his company, which has around 1600 employees, was "delighted to be partnering with KKR at this important juncture in our business, when we have dramatically expanded our client solutions portfolio and our growth in key areas is accelerating".
Outside of the technology industry, KKR has completed a number of other acquisitions across a diverse group of sectors. Indeed, a number of the firm's most recent acquisitions point to KKR's portfolio diversification plans. In late May, KKR announced it had agreed to acquire Singapore-based Goodpack Ltd, the world's largest maker of intermediate bulk containers, for $1.11bn.
The sale of its stake in Internet Brands at the beginning of June represented the second major asset sale for PE firm Hellman & Friedman in less than a week. On 29 May, the group also agreed to sell Sheridan Healthcare to Amsurg Corporation for around $2.35bn.


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Jubilee House now breeding ground for criminals – Sammy Gyamfi
The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has launched a scathing attack on the Presidency, saying it has become a breeding ground for "sophisticated thieves".
He said all manner of stealing appears to be going on at the seat of government, the Jubilee House.
"They steal fertilizer, they steal excavators, they steal oil, they steal everything."
He stated these on Monday, August 30 when he addressed journalists in Accra to respond to the stiff challenge mounted by the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, following former president John Mahama's allegations of corruption against the current government.
Sammy Gyamfi said Mr Mahama "echoed the sentiments of the vast majority of Ghanaians who feel scandalized by the unbridled corruption and plain thievery that has become the hallmark of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP government".
"The alarming case of corruption under this government is such that Ghanaians cannot wait to exact act accountability by voting out the NPP after their eight-year tenure in 2024."
It was on the back of this that he said the Presidency has lost its credibility as a result of "criminal" activities of presidential staff.
"Never in the history of Ghana have we had such sophisticated thieves at the Presidency and in government," he stressed.
"No wonder the presidency has today become a breeding ground for criminals under their watch."
'Breaking the 8′
On the recent mantra of the NPP to "break the eight", that is to win the 2024 elections, Sammy Gyamfi said it is only a ploy by the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government who need that win "to help them perpetuate this regime of corruption, naked thievery, ostentation and impunity".
He said if the mandate of the government is renewed in 2024, the public purse will be further subjected to abuse.
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