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Families of NAS Pensacola fallen receive Purple Hearts as base marks grim anniversary
Jim Little
Almost exactly one year after the attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola, the families of the three slain sailors received the Purple Heart medals that were posthumously awarded to them in the weeks after the shooting.
The Naval Aviation Schools Command held three identical ceremonies Friday afternoon at the National Naval Aviation Museum for the families of Naval Aircrewman 3rd Class Cameron Walters, Naval Aircrewman 3rd Class Mohammed Haitham and Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson.
"I cannot pretend to fully understand the pain, confusion, anger and grief that you have experienced at his unexpected and seemingly senseless loss," said Cmdr. Michael Lofgren, executive officer of Naval Aviation Schools Command, during his speech to all three families. "Indeed, it is senseless in many respects. You have been robbed of him by the cowardly act of a villain guided by a vile vicious ideology. There is no ceremony, remembrance or memorial that will change that fact."
\The shooting Dec. 6, 2019, was carried out by a Royal Saudi Air Force officer who was attending flight school at NAS Pensacola. The gunman was killed by Escambia County Sheriff's Office deputies after he fatally shot the three sailors and wounded eight civilians and military personnel at Building 633 on the base.
In the weeks following the attack, the U.S. Department of Justice declared it an act of terrorism, and the military personnel wounded and killed in the attack were awarded the Purple Heart. The Purple Heart is awarded to military members who are injured or killed in combat, through an act of terrorism or by friendly fire. It is the oldest award in the U.S. military, dating back to the Revolutionary War.
Cameron Scott Walters: 'He was the team motivator': NAS Pensacola shooting victim Cameron Walters impacted many
Joshua Kaleb Watson: Pensacola NAS shooting victim 'saved countless lives with his own'
Mohammed "Mo" Haitham: Youngest victim in NAS Pensacola shooting stood up to bullies, 'wanted to help people'
The families of the three sailors killed in the Pensacola attack were scheduled to receive the medals in March, but the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the ceremonies. Friday's ceremonies were closed to the public and the media because of COVID-19 but were streamed online.
"Conflict and sacrifice are not what is expected to occur here in Pensacola at Naval Aviation Schools Command," Lofgren said. "It is a schoolhouse where young, aspiring warriors come to learn the craft of doing our nation's business from the air. However, in these times, the war zone is no longer limited to battlefields. It all too often finds its way to sanctuaries, where it is least expected."
Lofgren said the story of the sacrifice made by Walters, Haitham and Watson will be shared with all future naval aviation students.
"(Their) legacy will impact every single young man and woman who enters Building 633 and views (their) memorial on their way to beginning a career in naval aviation," Lofgren said.
Earlier Friday morning, the one-year anniversary of the attack was marked with a memorial and wreath-laying service at the chapel at NAS Pensacola.
Rear Adm. Pete Garvin, commander of the Naval Education and Training Command, spoke before family members of those killed and wounded during the ceremony, which was also closed to the public but streamed online.
During his remarks, Garvin noted the strong connection between Pensacola and the Navy.
NAS Pensacola heals from tragedy, stands resilient a year after terrorist attack Official: FBI finds link between NAS Pensacola gunman, al-Qaida NAS Pensacola attack officially an 'act of terrorism' by lone gunman FBI completes search for evidence in NAS Pensacola shooting, turns building back over to Navy Four confirmed dead at NAS Pensacola, including shooter identified as Saudi national
"Here in Pensacola, in the 'Cradle of Naval Aviation,' we are a family with an unshakeable foundation, a family that stands the test of time and is unwavering in our defense of the Constitution and the country whose course it directs," Garvin said.
The names of the eight injured — Ensign Kristy Lehmer, Ensign Brianna Thomas, Airman Ryan Blackwell, Airman George Johnson, Jessica Pickett, Capt. Charles Hogue, Deputy Matthew Tinch and Deputy Jonathan Glass — were read aloud.
Then the names of Watson, Haitham and Walters were read and a bell was rung following each of the three names to mark their passing one year ago.
"There was a lot of blood": NAS Pensacola attack was the call the ECSO chief deputy never thought would come
Darkest day: DeSantis: Responders showed 'bravery and grit' in NAS Pensacola's 'darkest day'
A memorial wreath was then placed at the center of the chapel while "Amazing Grace" was played on the bagpipes.
Garvin called the attack at NAS Pensacola a "cowardly act of terrorism."
"We can never know what will be demanded of us on any given day," Garvin said. "And no one could've foreseen what would've been demanded on Dec. 6, but these men answered the call. With their heroic acts, they saved lives by sacrificing their own."
Jim Little can be reached at jwlittle@pnj.com and 850-208-9827.


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Box of Kittens annual Boxing Day party tradition continues but this time they've teamed up with breakandenter to bring back one of Toronto's and one of their, most beloved DJs, Prosumer!
Were you there when the former Panorama Bar resident kicked out over 4 fours of house, techno, soul and disco in a sweaty Eastside loft? Or when he and Potion Records co-founder Murat Tepeli went B2B at the Black Box in one of the final parties in that incredible space?
If so, you already know the magic that Achim Brandenburg brings to a dance floor and if not, you are about to find out. Meet us under the mirrorball and lets make some holiday memories together..


Before the start of winter some weather pundits were predicting colder than normal temperatures and at least average precipitation (snowfall). To date, the Gaylord area has received about 105.1 inches of snowfall and has about 8 inches on the ground. Last year at this time we had received 126 inches and 15 inches of the fluffy stuff was on the ground. It still may be possible, although probably not likely, that the total snowfall could reach 154.5 inches (which was the total amount we received last season through the end of March).
When a friend of the family learned I was moving to Gaylord back in 1977 he said to me, "I hope you like snow because once it starts it usually snows every day."
It's true that winters can stretch out in northern Michigan. Even this winter season our first snowfall came back on Oct. 7 when we got 2 inches. It's always a toss-up whether there will be snow on the ground for Halloween. More snow came in October on the 26th and 27th when another 5.6 and 3.7 inches fell on the area.
Then there was a long snow drought and as Christmas approached, we wondered whether we'd have a white Christmas.
Things were looking good as snow came just in the nick of time. We received 3.3 inches on Dec. 20, 3.4 inches the next day, and another 5.5 inches on Christmas Day, making it easy for Santa to land his sleigh while delivering to the area. From there it seems like winter has gone downhill as long warm spells reduced and eliminated much of the area's snow cover, which partially returned this week when 7.1 inches of snow was dropped on Thursday.
I'm giving up on winter and focusing on the start of spring in 25 days on March 20.
Instead of receiving seed catalogs - which are probably arriving at many households - I've been receiving travel brochures with great adventures and places to see. Many of these are in southern states being considered for possible spring vacations. The idea would be to get a jump on warm weather by traveling to where it's warmer and where grass is already green and flowers are beginning to bloom.
Some favorite southern destinations include Charleston, S.C.; Williamsburg, Va.; Savannah, Ga.; North Carolina's Outer Banks. Being considered this year is a trip to Kentucky and Bluegrass territory. Besides beautiful country, there appear to be hundreds of antique and collectible shops and many historic spots to visit.
Favorite summer vacation spots include Wisconsin's Spring Green area and Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from Drummond Island on the east to Iron Wood on Wisconsin's border.
And one of the best summer destinations is the Gaylord area, whether you're a golfer wanting to experience the Golf Mecca, or a nature lover who just wants to enjoy the lakes, rivers and vastness of our northern forests. One of the benefits of living and working in northern Michigan is the sense of being on vacation much of the time. After work is over, you're already on vacation. You don't need to drive three to four hours to get here. In my mind, summer is already here!


Car radios, subwoofers, sunroof, heated seats, dog guard, long-distance headlights, cruise control, dice in the windscreen, sun shading, caravan mirrors – the list of car accessories is endless.
And whether you need them mounted, repaired or dismantled, you need a garage that knows what it's doing. You'll find them on Autobutler, all reviewed by our users.
All garages on Autobutler are required to comply to a strict repair agreement, and they are assessed by the toughest judges: customers – which means that you can read reviews and ratings before deciding to accept a quote.


Storage tank manufacturer Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger is preparing a vertical storage tank to be shipped to one of our clients in Texas. The 168″ id x 312″ hi API 650 Carbon Steel Vertical Tank is equipped with a ladder, handrails, and a platform. Our client in Texas plans on using the tank to store coco oil.
Bendel can provide high quality custom fabricated above-ground single wall vertical storage tanks up to 186" diameter and 75,000 gallon capacity. Our vertical storage tanks are designed, built and tested to meet industry standards per UL-142, NFPA-22, API-650, API-620, API-12F or ASME.
Tank bottoms may be self supporting which include flat and false sloped designs or elevated by legs or skirts with dished or conical bottom designs. Roof options may be open, flat, dished or conical. We can provide UL-142 labeled single-wall or double-wall tanks to a maximum height of 35' and 40,000 gallon capacity or a larger capacity using one of the other standards listed above.
To learn more about Bendel's custom fabricated vertical storage tanks, contact our Charlotte headquarters at 866-596-5112 or email us. Or, if you are located in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, or Arkansas, contact Fred Weissbach in our Gulf Coast office at 832-436-4626 or email Fred. We look forward to showing you why this client and so many others continue to rely Bendel for their vertical storage tank needs!


Walt Koken and Clare Milliner have been playing music together for a long time, and both have a ton of tunes stored away in their memory, Clare's collection of notebooks, and in a variety of recorded media. Both are accomplished fiddlers, Walt's a great banjo player, and they have even been known to break out in song every now and then.
It was a great day for traditional fiddlers and those interested in American folk music when Clare and Walt decided to transcribe and edit their notes into The Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes. The book contains transcriptions of over 1400 fiddle tunes, including written notation for "how that particular fiddler played that tune on that particular day," sources, alternate versions, and lots more great information.
During our interview, Clare tells some great stories about the tunes you'll hear her and Walt play. And don't miss Walt talking about what got him started with this kind of music when he played in bands such as The Highwoods String Band and The Fat City String Band.
They also talked about Larry Warren's Slippery Hill website (slippery-hill.com), where Larry has researched and posted source recordings for the Milliner-Koken collection and for many of the other important collections of American old-time fiddling.
Currently, Walt and Clare play in The Orpheus Supertones with Pete Peterson, Kellie Allen, and Hilary Dirlam. All the Supertones share their music graciously and willingly and host some of the best music sessions in the Delaware Valley. In addition, Walt, Clare, Pete, and Kellie appeared last year on WVUD for a July 4 jam during the Roots program. All the Supertones are official Good Guys ™–promoting traditional music wherever they go!
For more information about Walt and Clare's music and to order some of their recordings or the Collection of American Fiddle Tunes, visit Mudthumper Music.
Milliner-Koken Collection Interview (illustrated with three fiddle tunes!) (Recorded 11/03/13; original broadcast date: 01/21/14; host: Mandorichard). 29:59, 28.8 MB.


We work mostly in Bellingham and its surrounding areas.
It all starts with a phone call or email. We set up a time to meet and work out a design for your property. You bring your ideas and we can give you ours. From there we will provide you with an estimate. We sell you the lights and they are yours to keep. We schedule a day to hang your lights with a guaranteed professional finish.
You enjoy the lights over the holidays and when you are ready we will come back and take them down and package them up so they are organized and ready for the next season. When the next season rolls around we'll give you a call. One less thing to think about!
Yes. 100%. Our success depends on your satisfaction, and we'll make changes if you desire them. We are interested in building long-lasting customer relationships, and will gladly provide references per your request. There are things that can happen to lights for a variety of reasons, including wind, rain, and other unforeseen circumstances. If this occurs, our professional staff will return to troubleshoot whatever problem exists quickly and efficiently.
There is no "set" answer to this question. The cost of our service depends on several things, including the number of light strings you'd like to hang, the size of the display you want built and how long it will take us to put your display together. Generally, our prices range from as little as $210 to as high as several thousand dollars for large residential or commercial displays.
If you contact us, we will come out to your home or place of business and consult with you on what type of display you desire. Based upon what you'd like done, we'll put a quote together for you. An important fact to remember is that we'll work within any budget, as our success is based partially on our service-oriented flexibility. If the cost is acceptable, we'll schedule a time to take care of the work.
Do you take the holiday lights down at the end of the season?
Yes. Taking down the displays is part of our service, and it's included in the quote we provide for you before we start work. We begin taking lights down early January and continue to do so through the third week of January. We also organize your supplies in bins so that you can easily access them the following year.
We can do either. If we are going to use your lights and supplies, we ask that you have enough to complete the job and that the strands are not tangled when we arrive to put your display together. If you don't have lights, or don't have enough, we have a full inventory for you to peruse and will work with your choice. The same goes for supplies. We'll work with your existing extension cords, etc., but will happily provide ours if you need them.
However, due to the inability to guarantee your lights, any repair or service calls outside the scope of the hanging and take down, will have an additional charge. With the purchase of our lights, service and repairs calls are free.


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Each year, the team at Tigerpaw helps thousands of business owners streamline their processes, empower their workforce, and grow their companies. Since Tigerpaw was the first business automation solution on the market, we offer valuable insight. We also offer transparency and blatant honesty. We know that not every professional services automation (PSA) software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform or remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool is right for everyone. But we are confident that Tigerpaw will meet and exceed the needs for your business and we support the need to evaluate all available options.
Not one to shy away from the competition, we've compiled a list of eight other business automation software tools for technology service small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Autotask is a cloud-based only, end-to-end software PSA platform for IT services products (ITSP) and MSPs. Autotask users report that the solution has strong real-time asset management and service data.
Autotask recently merged with Datto, a web-based RMM designed for small- and medium-sized businesses.
ConnectWise offers both web-based and on-premise platforms that specialize in managed services provider (MSP) solutions. Instead of an all-in-one offering, ConnectWise customers choose from individual, specialized products to get the most out of the platform for their business. This model has proven effective for businesses with less than 6 employees that require limited solutions. For larger businesses, however, it can be costly subscribing to multiple platforms.
ConnectWise also has its own in-house RMM program after acquiring LabTech in recent years.
Continuum is a RMM software that allows MSPs to back up servers, desktops, on-premise and cloud-based endpoints. The RMM features include reporting, patch management, client communication and endpoint protection. Continuum is subscription-based and offers a free trial.
Datto is a web-based platform that provides ransomware protection, data recovery, SaaS backup and managed networking services. Datto is typically used by SMBs.
Datto recently merged with Autotask, attempting to expand into the PSA software market by merging with an already existing platform.
One of the more well-known ERP companies on the market, ECi offers a wide range of services. Its flagship product, e-automate, is the most widely-used ERP platform in the office equipment space. This platform features integrations to almost every product dealers prefer to use while running their managed print businesses, including GreatAmerica Financial Services, Compass Sales Solutions and Supplies Network. While plentiful, most features and integrations come at an add-on price, making ECi quite costly over time.
Over the years, ECi has acquired ERP competitors, such as La Crosse and OMD, and metered-billing service providers FMAudit and PrintFleet. The combination of those acquisitions and its many integrations have led to a static monopoly of sorts for ECi.
Recently acquired by Konica Minolta, MWA Intelligence's Forza ERP platform offers solutions for accounting, inventory, purchasing, service, reporting and customer management. Forza is built on the SAP framework, which tends to inflate pricing for the end user.
Like ECi, Forza is specially designed for the imaging channel, but Forza is much newer and more innovative than ECi. Still, companies outside the managed print industry most likely will not find everything they need in a business automation solution with Forza.
Kaseya was originally just an independent RMM that integrated with most of the top PSAs. The company then decided to develop its own simple, cloud-based PSA designed for their existing customers who specialize in MSP and IT management.
While Kaseya's PSA handles billing, accounting and project management, the platform is much simpler and lighter on features than PSA powerhouses like ConnectWise and Autotask that have been around for years. That can be a strength or weakness depending on your unique business needs.
Oracle Netsuite is a cloud-based, all-in-one PSA and ERP solution that specializes in project management, accounting, billing, timesheet management and expense management. While very comprehensive, Oracle Netsuite is geared more toward large companies and corporations, especially because the extravagant cost of such a platform makes it hard for an SMB to see much return on investment (ROI).
Regardless of your industry, finding the right business automation solution is important for the success of your SMB. If you're curious about Tigerpaw and how we can help streamline your business, be sure to stop by our main website for additional details.
Not sure which tools to be looking for? Download our PSA Checklist for Technology Service SMBs.


The Dairy Council of California approached our good friend and wonderful art director & designer Emily Kimbro to create a brochure for them. And lucky for me, Emily asked if we'd help come up with some photos for her project.
We shot a whole bunch of stuff, but some of my favorites (as usual) will never see the print press. So I get to share them here. I'm a fan of moody splashes of milk flying across the studio, but maybe moody doesn't sell milk?
However the images at the bottom are ingredients for making chai, swirling around in simmering milk. Those did make the cut, and are some of my favorites (best smelling) from the day.
Now that that's done, and I have ten more gallons of milk… if I only had a good recipe for milk steak….
Austin has gone from a town exploding with micro breweries to a town full of micro distilleries. And they are damn good too! So for Tribeza's nightlife issue Robin and I pitched the idea of highlighting local booze distillers.
After the magazine went for the story I managed to convince them to let me do portraits. Anyone who is familiar with my work isn't familiar with my portraiture, because there isn't any! I do however have a passion for the classic styles of Yousuf Karsh and am a fan of contemporaries such as Nigel Perry. It's something I hold in high regard.
For this project I wanted to create traditional portraits that would be flattering to these artisans and their brands, and then create a matching still life that flows in layout. The color, light, environment and mood should all match. Each still life features a cocktail, and I was concerned with the quality of the drinks, so I decided to make them myself. For weeks I diligently drank my fill and fine tuned these recipes. It was quite the sacrifice!
Also, this issue featured a 'still life portrait' of Austin drink aficionado David Alan, AKA The Tipsy Texan. There just isn't enough of this in the world. Photos of people through objects. I love it. I want to see more of it!
I have a very soft spot in my heart for Austin based brands, so when the Ampersand Agency asked me to work on the Spirit of Texas rum account I wanted to make something really special. And when I tried their Pecan Street rum I was inspired.
To me these images reflect the gritty old urban Austin that my studio resides in (that 100 year old brick wall is in my studio), and our high brow dining scene served out of trailers under pecan trees strung with lights (I eat my own cooking under said trees in my back yard).
This is the Austin I love, and the place I want to stay. So belly up to the bar.
Texas Monthly – Another Cover!
Our pals at Texas Monthly asked for some help on their 'Mexican Food' cover. And if that wasn't great enough, they asked me to shoot eight different beers for them. That meant I had to buy eight six packs. And lucky me, they wanted to make some changes. So we bough eight more. Anyone like Corona?
A couple years back Robin & I did a food shoot with art director/designer Josh Kramer (http://joshuakramer.com/). It sparked a whole slew of food 'studdies' we've made since. When Rare magazine (who features an artist in each issue) was working on their food issue they asked us to help out. We handed over a bunch of old stuff and made a few new images just for the heck of it. The image they used for the cover is a shot Josh doodled right here in my humble little studio. It's one of my favorites.
My homies at Spirit magazine were looking for an excuse to have us make an exploded image for them. Along came a Sandwich package. Problem solved. We worked with the people from 'Wichcraft' in New York who coached us in making the perfect BLT. And pounds and pounds of fancy deli meats showed up at my studio. Our assistant Bill ate well that night.
I was shooting some food for Texas Monthly last week and decided to give them some extra options. Poor Lindsay from The Butler Brothers stopped by to pick up some prints and ended up with a giant camera in her face. I pretty much grabbed any poor soul that wandered into my studio and exploited them. Here are the exploits.


Hai Au has been working for Vietinbank since 2011 with various management roles such as Project Manager of Treasury Mx.3 Implementation project, Head of Operational Risk Management, Head of Organization Restructuring Project Management Office and currently Head of Market Risk Management. Prior to that, Hai Au has spent 3 years with Deutsche Bank – Risk Management Advisory group with mission to support restructuring enterprise risk management framework for a Vietnamese bank. Hai Au started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers Vietnam in 2001 in financial audit, IT & System assurance, and Business Performance Consulting.
He has MA in Information Management, member of Association of Certified Charted Accountant UK( ACCA), and being a Certified Internal Auditor.
The Chairman Nam Pham left North Vietnam in 1980 and travelled to England where he was involved in every aspect of the garment industry meeting and working with many colourful characters. In a relatively short time he established a CMP factory in London and began to build his customer base. He then quickly developed his own network of CMP factories and built direct links with fabric mills and accessory factories to reduce costs. He began to recruit talented design and technical people around him and purchased a substantial office premises in London that is still the Headquarters of the organization today.
Not content with building a successful business in the UK he decided to expand his operations to Vietnam where he opened his first factory complex in the late nineties. Currently the Group has 5 in-house factories from North to South Vietnam operating with Vietnamese and International staff.
Mr. Nam Pham is still directly involved in the company today with plans for more expansion and innovation.
Paul Smith, Executive Chairman of Harvey Nash Outsourcing , Chairman of Nash Tech, Board Member of Roehampton University, Board Member of UKASEAN Business Council and Vice Chairman, Vietnam-UK Network. Paul who has been with Harvey Nash for 14 years, founded three software businesses, subsequently acquired by international technology companies prior to founding Harvey Nash Outsourcing, who now employ over 2500 English and Japanese speaking software developers and 2000 BPO staff in Vietnam. He served as a main board member with a number of UK Stock exchange listed companies, as a non-executive Director of FPT Software, a Vietnamese technology business, venture capital and private equity organisations. Paul recently received an important award for outstanding services to Vietnam's trade and culture, an award for services to Vietnam's ICT and software industry and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce Medal for his contribution to Vietnams growth.. He has chaired a number of trade missions to Vietnam on behalf of UKTI and London Chamber and is a regular speaker on Vietnam business opportunities for the UK government.
Paul trained as a painter and graphic designer, studied Business at Portsmouth University before moving into technology and business management.
Louis has been COO of Standard Chartered's Group Treasury since returning to London in November 2013. Prior to that he spent three years as the bank's CEO for Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos, based in Ho Chi Minh City. His responsibilities included: developing strategy, building regulatory, government and client relationships, and driving the Bank's performance in Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos. He joined Standard Chartered in London in 2004, working in Group Corporate Development, which undertakes the bank's own acquisitions, divestments and other inorganic initiatives.
Rachel Hill has been working in Asian equity markets since 1984. Over her career, she has worked for a variety of financial institutions including Vickers da Costa, HSBC James Capel, Banque Indosuez, and now Dragon Capital. Rachel is a graduate of Cambridge University; she sits on the management committee of Dragon Capital Group, and is CEO of the European marketing operation.


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Here's to those who speak the truth and are not believed
This is the year of rage
Deux Furieuses, the agit punk duo from the UK recently signed to Xtra Mile Recordings, storm the stage in the video for "Year of Rage" clad in all black attire while wielding red flags. The furious duo is comprised of Ros (guitar/vocals) & Vas (drums/vocals) is taking European radio by storm with their unabashed, unflinching views of the cultural climate. "Year of Rage" is the first track off their second LP, My War is Your War, released in October 2019. "Rage" was quickly chosen by Radio X's John Kennedy's as his X-Posure Big One.
The title track takes the year of rage theory to another level, an unapologetically catchy protest song that Ros sings with crisp yet fluttery vocals with a nod to Delores O'Riordan's ethereal voice as she sang about those damn Zombies. Ros' voice posses a mesmerizing, almost shamanic quality as she scratches out skeletal but punishing riffs alongside Vas's stony drumming. The duo makes noise.
War is the follow up to their 2016 debut, Tracks of Wire. the LP centered around 2 tracks that detailed their frustration with the music industry and cultural hypocrisy. "Are We Sexy Enough" roughs up the A&R dudes with accusations so direct they lacerate on impact:
THEY'LL RAPE YOU IF YOU'RE DRUNK
THEY'LL RAPE YOU AS A GANG
THEY'LL RAPE YOU IN THE ARMY TO A MAN
THEY'LL RAPE YOU UNDER ORDER
THEY'LL RAPE BECAUSE THEY CAN
CONTROL YOU ENOUGH
ARE YOU DAMAGED ENOUGH?
ARE YOU SEXY ENOUGH?
"Can We Talk About This" similarly comes at you with bright, unruffled vocal stylings riding shotgun with the post punk revery of ripe guitar playing and angry drum blowing past any and all borders and facades. It's as avant garde as it is direct, a combination rarely seen on this end of the agit-punk spectrum and one that makes much more sense when we get into their rich, wide range of influences, from PJ Harvey to German expressionism.
Let's get to know Deux Furiuses a little better, shall we?
We met when Ros moved down to London from Glasgow and advertised for a "Rock N Roll Freak" drummer. We had been moving in similar circles and knew the same people from certain bands so it's strange we had never met before as Vas had gigged in Glasgow and Ros had gigged in London loads so we may have been at the same gig at some point but not known it!
I hear themes in your music that are so relevant to the current climate regarding femininity, masculinity, gender fluidity. Also I hear the cry against aggression against women. The song that stuck with me was off your Tracks of Wire album "Are We Sexy Enough?". That packs a punch. How did the lyrics come about?
We always wanted to be free of gender stereotypes and to just be creative musicians. We have had to fight in the music business to be taken on our own terms in the way that male musicians are. They can choose to use their sexuality or not, and it is usually enough for them to just look cool and play their instrument fully clothed. With female musicians it has always been expected that you are there as eye candy. So while we support women who do wish to express themselves in this way, we should be free to not express ourselves this way and still get a platform. That's why we loved bands like The Breeders or early PJ Harvey.
"Are We Sexy Enough?" came about because our publishing company A&R woman advised us we needed to be more sexy in order to get a record label. We were thinking about the contradiction of encouraging girls growing up to make themselves attractive to men, but not so attractive that you could be punished for giving the wrong signals. Society tries to teach girls how to walk this line and some of us resist.
The songs on My War is Your War rip with fierce intensity. "Year of Rage" comes right at you. "Thorns" hit home with me. Did you get any backlash from your new label for the honesty implied in these offerings.
Thank you, actually we didn't. When we emailed the new album mixes to Charlie Caplowe, owner of Xtra Mile Recordings, we did wonder if they might be put off but he replied saying it "sounded really strong with powerful lyrics". Then when Xtra Mile announced our signing he said we had made a "huge and poignant new album". They are a great label who miraculously seem to get what we are doing. They had heard the first album so probably knew what they were in for!
What is your song writing process like?
Ros writes the songs on guitar at home with lyrics developing at the same time as the initial chords, riffs and melodies, and then we arrange the final song structure together in the rehearsal room as Vas develops her drum part. The lyrics or the beat may change later as we demo the songs and experiment.
I am very into duos lately. How does it work between the two of you? Do you both share vocals?
There is nowhere to hide as a duo and we enjoy the creative, sonic and performing challenges this brings. It pushes us to think differently when working on our parts and we push each other too. We experiment a lot to find parts that work with each other, sometimes against each other but always keeping in mind the essence of the song and the dynamics for live performance. Ros uses a Marshall stack which gives us bottom end power and we don't miss bass. There is also the extra advantage of fitting ourselves and equipment in one car. Ros is the main vocalist with Vas on occasional backing duties.
How was it working with PJ Harvey's associations? She is an inspiration of mine going back many years.
PJ Harvey has consistently been a musical hero to us and Rob Ellis's drumming, particularly on Dry, was a huge inspiration to Vas. Rob producing us was a dream come true. We were nervous at first but once in the studio we just knuckled down and got on with it. He constantly surprises whether with his choice of sounds, percussion parts or subtle melodic lines that add texture and atmosphere to the tracks. He is very musical with attention to detail and punk in attitude at the same time.
We met Polly Harvey at a Patti Smith gig in London and she was very gracious. We talked about the songs she had contributed to Marianne Faithful's Before The Poison album. Rob, who had also played on the album, reprised his piano part from "No Child of Mine" on our track "Dream for Change" on the Tracks of Wire album which was pretty special.
We wanted to continue the relationship with him on the second album and he really added to the title track "My War is Your War" which was very minimal when we first played it to him. He added a floor tom loop which really works behind Vas's drum part. On "Words of Warning" he distorted one tom which makes the whole track sound disturbing.
What artists or bands are you listening to at the moment?
The Murder Capital, Xylouris White, Black Flower, Body/Head, Nick Cave, Idles, Esya, Petrol Girls
Does a genre of art resonate with your aesthetic? I feel that minimalist deconstruction vibe.
We are minimal in our instrumentation and visual presentation. Our stage set up is the two of us in black, with only a drum kit and amp set at an angle. Before recording the album Ros visited Berlin's stunning Jewish Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind with its striking empty concrete "voids" built into the architecture. In the memory void, 'Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves)' by Menashe Kadishman, 10,000 faces of open mouths cut from iron lie on the ground and echo as you tread over them. Art that makes you think in it's empty spaces.
Also expressive, visceral art like German Expressionism. Ros also visited Die Brucke museum in Berlin. There is a comment on society and a visceral impact in the work of Kirchner, Francis Bacon, Egon Shiele. Tracey Emin and her early work with its personal female perspective. 'My Bed' is the most rock 'n' roll artwork of the 90's to equal PJ Harvey. This was a scene from her life at the time but the woman for once is not lying on the bed but out of the frame considering what she sees. Yoko Ono's 'Cut Piece' where she had sat on the floor fully dressed and invited the audience to cut off her clothes with scissors.
Now a fun fact about the band. It doesn't have to be music related.
DF HQ was recently overrun by cats and kittens that were all moving in from Vas's street. Thankfully with the help of Cats Protection they have now been neutered and the kittens re-homed. But not before the kittens tried out all the instruments lying around!
Let the kittens jam.
Tina Romano
Black Flower, Body/Head, Charlie Caplowe, Delores O'Riordan, Deux Furieuses, Egon Shiele, Esya, Francis Bacon, Idles, John Kennedy, Marianne Faithful, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Petrol Girls, PJ Harvey, Rob Ellis, The Breeders, The Murder Capital, Tracey Emin, Xtra Mile Recordings, Xylouris White, Yoko Ono
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Q: What is the template or framework used to get the sidebar at beta.atmospherejs.com? This site is responsive and really fast for the effects
What is the template or framework used to get the sidebar at beta.atmospherejs.com ?

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IT is good to read about the pioneers of science, their trials and their triumphs. Even it is good for the student who has to "grind" up facts about scientific worthies and serve them up hot to a voracious examiner; albeit in such a case it smacks strongly of "turning old heroes into unworthy potions," as Sir Thomas Browne remarks in discussing the medicinal virtues of mummies. At any rate, such a student would get some of the facts about his heroes pleasantly enough in reading what Sir William Ramsay has to say in the present volume concerning Boyle and Cavendish, Davy and Graham, Black, Kelvin, and Berthelot.
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that synthesizes information from the collaboration between U.S. and Dutch agencies regarding infrastructure resilience. Both countries have been testing climate change resilience tools and have incorporated subject matter experts in climate adaptation, asset management, emergency management, and other fields. This report focuses on the climate vulnerability analysis of the Dutch project that may be useful for application in the U.S.


People sometimes come to work with me because they want to improve their ability to communicate with others. In this post, I share a bit about how I use music to enhance communication and communication skills.
We all have an inner critic. In this post, I share some ideas for how to manage that inner voice of self-judgment that can prevent your greater growth & development.
Creativity benefits us in many ways, but sometimes we feel "stuck" & aren't able to create. In this post, I talk about creativity & share ways to begin creating.
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The Tiara Club
where laughter, sarcasm, and gaming meet
Stream Updates - More Fun For You!
One of the reasons I've focused on streaming over creating videos specifically for YouTube is that I love the interactive element that comes with it. Comments on videos are nice but I really enjoy being able to have a conversation, share reactions in real time, and develop a feeling of camaraderie over everything from silly games to life events. Because a big part of the experience is interaction, I've started adding some cool things to my stream to make it more fun and immersive for you guys. I want you to have a good time too!
Viewer Reward Points
I've wanted a way to say thank you to people who are regular viewers and support what I do by sharing my content with their social circles. After all, bringing more eyes to what I produce grows our community and furthers our plans for world domination!
I've started using a service called Revlo, which is a fancy bot that essentially tracks viewer loyalty on Twitch. If you watch the stream while logged in to Twitch, it keeps track of when you're on my page and awards you points ("rupees" in my channel, because Zelda) based on how long you're there. It also gives you the option to connect your Twitter and YouTube to your Revlo profile and it'll award bonus points each week for following/subscribing to my accounts. You can also earn bonus points for hosting (an extra point for every viewer you bring) and for donating (ten for every dollar). All these points are redeemable for a variety of rewards like access to the Patreon Discord server, a discount on shirts, and more! Head to revlo.co/rt_lozelda to see how many rupees you have, check out the leaderboard, and see all the stuff you can cash in for.
I took some time creating all of the alerts that pop up on my stream because I love celebrating all the ways people support my content and I want to make sure they know I genuinely appreciate it. Because of the way social media works, Twitter is an incredibly effective way to share the fun of the stream with people who are both watching it and not. Everything from announcing the stream is live to quoting ridiculous things that have been said to fan art to just saying hi, it's all a part of the experience. Despite being a part of the experience, it exists somewhat separately. Nobody watching the stream has any idea what's happening on Twitter that's relevant unless they're actively tracking it themselves though, which always made it feel a little weird to me. Not anymore!
I've implemented a tool call "Tweet Alerts" which will allow tweets that meet certain criteria to show up on the stream. Right now the tool is limited to displaying tweets I favorite or ones that contain certain hashtags, but they're working on expanding its functionality, adding new ways to trigger them to show up, alert sounds (right now they just appear with no fanfare), and self-moderation, but it's a good start! Right now, tweeting #TiaraClub AND mentioning me in the same tweet will make it show up, and on Thursdays #TiaraThursday while tagging me will also be active. I'm sure more will get added as time goes on, but we're going to test it out with these.
Donor Ticker
Eyeballs are the most important currency for content creation, but I wouldn't be able to do what I do without the super kind generosity of some of my viewers who help support my endeavors financially. Patreon backers get constant recognition, but people who donate directly during a stream get a singular fanfare for something like ten seconds (I think that's how long my longest alert animation is) and I feel like that's not really adequate. I feel like they deserve a little more on-screen recognition and praise. I'll be implementing some sort of ticker or table (still playing with the format) that shows and thanks recent and top donators. Because gosh darnit you guys deserve all the love you can get.
We're going to try all of these things out for a few weeks and see how they go. They may get tweaked, updated, or removed depending on how you guys like them as we get used to them popping up and stuff. I'm looking into some other ways to add fun stuff to the streams in the future too. I always want to try to make it better for you guys! Once things get rolling with these updates, I'd love feedback from you on what you think of them.
See you in the streams!
KaijuMoose
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Well then, Tiara Club. We have much ahead of us. Let's do this.
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Through its varied schedule of temporary exhibits and special events, the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery contributes to the cultural life of Foggy Bottom and the George Washington University. An educational gallery located on the second floor of the Media and Public Affairs Building, the Brady Art Gallery is the professional showcase for art at GW. Four to six exhibitions are featured each year and include University-related shows and Permanent Collection exhibitions, as well as shows of historical and contemporary significance, often with a focus on the Washington area.
The Brady Art Gallery has exhibited the work of internationally-known artists such as Cory Arcangel, Michael Craig-Martin, Gene Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Barbara Hepworth, Hans Hofmann, Gabriel Orozco, Robert Rauchenberg, and Sean Scully. The Gallery continues to search for exceptional work to present to the GW and Washington, DC community. The gallery also administers the University's Permanent Collection, which includes important paintings, sculptures, graphics, textiles, ceramics, historic furnishings, and photographs.


We're excited to announce that a point update for Motel and Hotel Munzees will go into effect at 00:01 MHQ on Thursday September 6, 2018. The point system for all Captures, Deploys and CapOns been increased as well as a decrease on the radius required between Motel/Hotel deploys.
In addition all Motel and Hotel Rooms currently occupied by "inactive" players (have had no account activity in 365 or more days) will be archived. We expect this will effect many Munzees and open new rooms to be owned by current active players! Please note that currently there is no increase in the point systems for Virtual Resorts or Timeshare Munzees.
In order to help you take advantage of these new points and radius reductions we've put together a quick sale. Use discount code GetRooms at checkout in order to receive 25% off Physical Hotel, Physical Motel, or 50 count Micro Generic stickers. The micro generic stickers are great for those of you with motel and hotel credits to use! This discount code is only good through Friday at 23:59 MHQ time. This is a great opportunity for this month's Clan Wars requirements, so make the most of this update AND sale!
*To be transparent and perfectly honest, the point updates are our interpretation based on translating code language to math and/or English. The Destination Munzee point system is very intricate and a bit tough to explain from the blog writer's perspective. Please let us know if there are areas that need to be explained more thoroughly. We are 100% certain you will get MORE points after this update though! Feel free to help us fill this in correctly. Thank you for your understanding!
There will be additional prizes (maybe even something new) and generic sticker sales. This is a month for physical gameplay and physical (credit) rewards. Munzee On!
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40 Milligrammes d'amour par jour est un film français réalisé par Charles Meurisse et sorti en 2005.

Synopsis
À 35 ans, Karine n'a jamais vécu d'histoire sentimentale. Elle est sélectionnée pour essayer le premier patch diffuseur d'amour à raison de 40 mg par jour. Cette instillation va-t-elle s'avérer efficace ?

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 Titre : 40 Milligrammes d'amour par jour
 Réalisation : Charles Meurisse
 Scénario : Carole Greep
 Assistants-réalisation : Christophe Delmas, Yann Le Borgne, Tessa Louise-Salomé, Loïc Gaillard
 Décors : Jérémy Streliski
 Costumes : Charlotte Terrasse
 Maquillages : Nadine Boucher, Stéphanie Hassan
 Photographie : Christophe Debraize-Bois
 Son : Nicolas Basselin
 Montage : Cédric Coussy, Nathalie Hubert
 Musique : Sébastien Escobar
 Chanson : Besoin d'amour, paroles de Luc Plamondon et musique de Michel Berger (de l'opéra-rock Starmania), interprétée par France Gall
 Pays d'origine :
 Production : Fabrice Goldstein, Antoine Rein
 Directrice de production : Marianne Germain
 Sociétés de production : Karé Productions (France), École supérieure d'études cinématographiques (France), France 3, CNC (France), Procirep (France), Angoa-Agicoa (France)
 Société de distribution : Agence du court métrage (France)
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue de tournage : français
 Format : 35 mm — couleur — 1.85:1 — son Dolby SR
 Genre : comédie romantique
 Durée : 17 minutes
 Dates de sortie :  juin 2005 en compétition au Festival Court 18 de Paris,  dans les salles
  Classification CNC : tous publics (visa  délivré le )

Distribution
 Axelle Laffont : Karine
 Serge Hazanavicius : Pierre
 Xavier Letourneur : le médecin
 Fabienne Galloux : Patricia
 Bruno Chapelle : Stéphane
 Yvan Cariou : le collègue

Distinctions

Récompenses
  Festival Court 18 2005  (Paris) :
 Prix Court
 Prix d'interprétation (ex æquo) à Axelle Laffont
  Festival Espoirs en 35 mm 2006 (Mulhouse) : Prix du public / Prix IRCOS
  Festival des Nations /  2006 (Ebensee) : Ours d'argent

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film français sorti en 2005
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Comédie romantique française
Film produit par Fabrice Goldstein

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Prima Construction is a Calgary based home builder – renovator specializing in bathroom, basement, kitchen remodeling, renovations and construction. Manuel Morales, President of Prima Construction, oversees each project and is meticulous with each and every stage of our clients' projects. They are quickly becoming a sought after renovator on those seeking to turn their homes into their dream homes.
We worked closely with Jesse L'Heureux, Manuel and Diana Morales, from Prima Construction, on building out descriptive, helpful content to help them develop and grow their brand online. We at Search Optimized worked on the redesigned of their site to ensure it was architecturally built with a strong foundation for search and the content and calls to action on-page were useful and usable for their web visitors with the end goal of improving their online presence. We provided search engine optimization (SEO), keyword research, content recommendations, social media marketing and training with online publishing best practices. Ultimately our focus was to generate leads and enable Prima Construction's team to be effective with future blogging, social networking and successful in the promotion of their services across all forums online – such as Houzz, Linkedin, Google + and Facebook. At Search Optimized Inc., we pride ourselves in empowering our clients to take their online success to new heights under their control.
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Professionals with a graduate degree may earn nearly twice the salary in their fields as someone who only has a Bachelor's degree, and obtaining an advanced degree allows graduates to learn more about their chosen field, practice their craft and network with peers. Competition for many graduate programs is fierce, however. For instance, the University of North Carolina accepts only about one-third of applicants. Creating the most effective curriculum vitae, or CV, for your application may give you the edge needed to be part of the accepted group at your chosen school.
Type your name and contact information, including address, phone and email, at the top of the CV. As you would for a resume, use an email address that reflects a professional persona, such as one that uses your name. Consider placing this information in a header for the document so it appears on every page of your CV.
Create an education section that lists your degrees obtained, schools attended and dates. If you received merit scholarships, you may want to include those in this section to emphasize your academic prowess. Place the information in reverse chronological order, beginning with the most recent.
Develop a section for academic projects that highlights research, presentations, publications, internships and any coursework applicable to the graduate program you are applying for. Use bullets to format this section, and place the details in reverse chronological order.
Write a section for your employment history. Give positions, employers and dates in reverse chronological order. Include only two or three phrases with each position to emphasize how the experience makes you a suitable candidate for graduate school.
List community projects and extra-curricular campus activities in another section. Include activities that illustrate your skills in organizing, leading and managing, along with any other skills that show you will be successful in graduate work.
Add other sections for information appropriate for the school you wish to attend, such as accolades, memberships, certifications or other skills such as languages.
Organize the CV so the most relevant information appears first. If you just graduated, the education portion should probably be at the top. If you have extensive or prestigious work history since graduating, the employment section might come first. Use bold, italics and different font sizes to clearly differentiate the sections and information on the CV to create an attractive, consistent easy-to-read document.
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Competition or opportunity: Here's how Virginia tech execs feel about Amazon HQ2 coming to NoVa
A year after the tech giant announced that its second HQ would be coming to Northern Virginia, this reporter spoke to a handful of tech leaders from different Commonwealth regions. In sum: They're ready.
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It's been almost exactly a year since Amazon announced that its second headquarters would be coming to Northern Virginia.
With this expansion, the tech giant promised to bring 25,000 full-time jobs over a 12-year period, $2.5 billion in Amazon investment and four million square feet of energy-efficient office space.
We've already discussed how surrounding universities are preparing for Amazon's arrival, and how this could potentially affect the DMV tech workforce as a whole. We've heard from educators, investors and executives on how Amazon's expansion could affect the D.C. area.
But what about farther out in Virginia?
As part of the Virginia Rural and Small Metro Technology Tour organized by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership last month, this reporter got to speak with executives from tech companies a few hours down the road headquartered in different parts of Virginia. I asked them two questions:
How do you feel about Amazon HQ2 coming to NoVa?
With this expansion, do you anticipate competition in retaining tech talent for your company?
Tobias Dengel, CEO of Charlottesville, Virginia-based software development company WillowTree, expressed that he was excited about Amazon bringing some tech attention to Northern Virginia and the D.C. area because it will help his company gain more clients, too.
With a high quality of life, proximity to universities and short commutes to work, Dengel thinks the younger tech workforce will be more attracted to Charlottesville as NoVa gets more crowded.
"We have to hire and retain great talent, and keep that talent happy," Dengel said about his company attracting software engineers. "We have to offer them a great place to live and to work."
WillowTree develops apps and software for brands such as Fox Sports, PepsiCo, Time Warner, Wyndam Hotels and more. With another office in Durham, North Carolina, the company started out in 2009 building apps with a three-person team. WillowTree has grown to a team of 405 employees, 268 of which work in the Virginia region. The company is working on opening a larger office in April 2020 that will accommodate up to 500 employees at a time.
"In theory, we compete with the D.C. market for talent," Dengel said after he shared he gets asked a lot about his sentiments toward Amazon moving in. He said the company's hope is that tech workers will get tired of the long commutes throughout the NoVa and D.C. area and decide to move to Charlottesville.
"It's not like you can go to a large metropolitan area and buy your workforce. We've been here for 13 years and we have a pretty solid workforce and we can expand on that."
Kirk Lortz, CGI
Executives at CGI, a high-end business and consulting firm with an office in Lebanon, Virginia, are confident the company's ties with local educational institutions and ability to outsource its IT talent will be appealing to Amazon.
CGI works on fostering relationships with middle schools and high schools to raise awareness about tech careers at a young age. Kirk Lortz, director of consulting at CGI, said the company is trying to push on high schools to include some more tech programming in the curriculum or after school. Since CGI also has running partnerships with local Virginia universities and colleges, this reporter specifically asked Lortz if the company was worried about any recruitment competition there.
Lortz mentioned that since Amazon pays most of its attention to "high-end schools" like Virginia Tech, it's not keen on the tech talent pool coming out of institutions like The University of Virginia's College at Wise, East Tennessee State University and Radford University. These are the universities CGI works with.
"They're obviously looking for very smart people and it's not that they're not here, but they're very selective about where they go," he said.
Nonetheless, Amazon's expansion to NoVa could mean good things for CGI. Locally, the company still has an office in Fairfax, Virginia, for employees to support its federal clients closely. CGI has 365 employees between its Lebanon and Fairfax offices.
"I'm very excited that Amazon is coming to Northern Virginia. I think that there are possibilities for partnerships with CGI and Amazon," Lortz said. "They've committed 25,000 jobs, that's a lot of jobs that are going to put a lot of stress on the very tax infrastructure of Northern Virginia."
Lortz said he see's this opportunity as a win-win for CGI in hopes that the company can help relieve some of that stress by providing some of those IT resources remotely in Lebanon.
"It's not like you can go to a large metropolitan area, and go out and buy your workforce. You just cannot do that," Lortz said. "We've been here for 13 years and we have a pretty solid workforce and we can expand on that."
"We've made a commitment internally to align ourselves with AWS."
Brian Lubin, 1901 Group
Brian Lubin, SVP at the 1901 Group in Blacksburg, Virginia, has been with the 10-year-old company for eight years. 1901 Group is an enterprise IT management service provider with all federal government agency customers. The company's enterprise IT operations center is in Blacksburg and houses a team of about 250 people, but 1901 Group's headquarters is actually in Reston, Virginia, where it has nearly 100 more employees. The company also has a data center in Ashburn, Virginia, in an area coined Data Center Alley.
As for Amazon, Lubin feels like the tech giant's move could help it gain local clients who are focused on migrating their legacy data center and applications to the cloud.
"We have about 100 people who are [Amazon Web Services] certified," Lubin said. "We've made a commitment internally to align ourselves with AWS."
As far as recruitment efforts, 1901 Group brings in "a lot of Virginia Tech grads" and hosts internship programs, Lubin shared, and the company specifically partners with the Commonwealth to receive a grant to cover half of its Virginia Tech intern wages. 1901 Group also works with Radford University and New River Community College, plus smaller liberal arts schools to attract tech talent.
Last November, the IT services provider also made a commitment to invest $4 million into expanding its Blacksburg and Reston offices, and in turn will receive funding for the project from the Virginia Jobs Investment Program to expand on its hiring plans. Indeed, Lubin said the company isn't worried about the tech workforce competition with Amazon.
Overall, these companies seem prepared for Amazon's move into NoVa, but is Amazon ready for them?
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WNY Public Health Alliance, state Public Health Association talk concussion management
Tue, Jul 31st 2018 12:35 pm
On July 12, the Western New York Public Health Alliance and the New York State Public Health Association collaborated to host the first symposium in a series of symposiums on brain health with the topic of concussion management. This free event was held at Holiday Valley Resort in Ellicottville and was open to the public. Organizers said 100 attendees attended, representing all eight counties of Western New York, including school coaches, trainers and nurses, along with county employees and other interested participants.
The symposium included four different speakers, with the first one being Mark Kelso, formerly a safety with the Buffalo Bills, who transitioned to a career coaching and training. His years of experience as a player and as a coach were shared with the audience with a special focus on concussions. Kelso was able to engage the audience with his stories about being one of the first NFL players to address concussion issues with helmet design changes. He brought examples of the helmets to demonstrate the changes made to protect the player from concussions.
The second speaker was Todd Nelson, assistant director of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. Nelson talked about how the NYSPHSAA is addressing concussions in all high school sports. He described the changes in regulations and made specific recommendations for school systems that would help them become more concussion aware and responsive.
After lunch, the Symposium transitioned to more of a medical perspective on concussions. The next speaker was Dr. Ryan Krzyzanowicz, a clinical associate professor and program director for the master of science in athletic training at the University at Buffalo. Krzyzaniak discussed the role of the athletic trainer in concussion management and gave an overview of signs and symptoms that trainers look for when working with athletes.
The final speaker of the day was Dr. John Leddy, professor of clinical orthopedics and rehabilitation sciences at the UB Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Leddy went into detail on the physiology of concussions and provided the audience with an understanding of recovery protocols. These included the latest research on how soon people who have suffered a concussion can return to both regular activities and games.
The second symposium on brain health will focus on dementia-related topics and will be held this fall.
The Western New York Public Health Alliance is a not-for-profit organization comprised of the health commissioners/public health directors and other community public health leaders from the eight counties of Western New York. Its mission is to support collaboration across WNY to further public health initiatives and priorities. As part of this mission, the WNYPHA works to provide health education and information to prevent disease and improve population health.
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Women's Volleyball Triumph with 7th Consecutive Win
September 21, 2016 1:34 pm by RYAN MORIK
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The women's volleyball team won their 16th consecutive set on Tuesday night, and their seventh match in a row, with a victory over William Paterson on Tuesday.
The Roadrunners improved to 11-3 on the season and earned a win in their first NJAC matchup of the season.
Head coach Robert Pichardo has given his team a lot of praise over the last week of matches.
"[We're] keeping the consistency that we are working in practice," said Pichardo. "Having the set streak is great, because we are able to see our potential and say 'you know what? We can do this.'"
In the first set, the Pioneers gave Ramapo a run for their money, with the Roadrunners hitting just .180 in the set. However, they took the set 25-19, followed by 25-14 and 25-13 victories in the second and third sets, respectively.
Larysa Iwaskiw led the game with 25 kills, 11 of them in the first set.
She, like Pichardo, said that the hard work in practice is paying off on the court.
"We have been working really hard in practice on serve receive and defense, which is allowing us to get better passes to the setters and spreading our offense," said the junior outside hitter. "We are also staying mentally tough and focusing on playing our game and getting the job done."
Pichardo added that the chemistry on the team is great.
"It is great to see the chemistry that we have and being able to continue the same level of consistency and discipline," he said.
The team lost key pieces from last year, including setter Kaitlin Mac Iver, but Pichardo said he has a lot of options that he can use on the court.
Pichardo has used senior outside hitter Rachel Selmore, and freshman Kate Shirkey often as a setter. They had 22 and 21 assists yesterday, respectively.
"It's a good problem to have," he said.
Even though it is a different look for the Roadrunners this year, Iwaskiw said the team has stayed positive – which is easy to do on a seven-game winning streak.
"Everyone has stepped it up to make the team the best it can be," said Iwaskiw. "No matter what position everyone is put in, we do a great job of working hard and supporting each other."
The Roadrunners hit .318 as a team, with 52 kills on 132 attempts. Freshman Samantha Main led the Roadrunners with three blocks, while sophomore Kristen Behrens led the team with 17 digs.
The Roadrunners will take on eight-time defending NJAC champions Stockton next week after a three-game road trip.
"Stockton is always great every year, but if we continue to work hard in practice and over the weekend I think we will see great results in the future," said Iwaskiw.
Before they face Stockton, the Roadrunners are in action tonight as they travel to to NJCU for their second straight NJAC matchup.
rmorik@ramapo.edu
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The 1 Question You Need to Ask About Your Social Media Content in 2018
No matter how cutthroat the social media landscape becomes, focusing on this one thing will ensure you survive and thrive.
By Dakota ShaneCo-founder, Copy Buffs@DakotaShane_Nun
We all have seen, firsthand, how fast social media moves. With each passing year, it seems new platforms arise, old trends die out, and best practices become outdated. While 2018 will be no different in terms of change, by asking yourself the following question, you'll put your brand in a terrific position to "win" in the game of social media:
Is my brand building community on social media?
The days where consistency and high quality content almost guaranteed a loyal following are long behind us. If you aren't building community on social media, your brand will fall behind faster than ever before in 2018.
The Rise of the Algorithm on Social Media
The catalyst here has been the rise and rule of social media algorithms. Simply put, the algorithm tailors a platform's news feed based mostly on engagement rather than general chronology.
The algorithm is a natural progression and reaction to the increased volume of content across social media. Social media apps need to maximize the amount of time users spend on their platforms in order to maximize advertising dollars, and the algorithm is the most efficient way to do that.
Due to the success of the algorithm, it's likely organic reach on social media will only continue to decrease over time. So, what's the answer then? Well, the easiest way to ensure others remain highly engaged with your content is to build a community of loyal followers.
How to Build Community on Social Media
1. Start a Facebook Group.
Facebook's primary mechanism for building community is Facebook Groups. Facebook has also been explicit in sharing that one of their main objectives going forward is to encourage community building on their network. For this reason alone, starting a Facebook Group centered around your brand's interests wouldn't be a bad idea.
Keep in mind that your Facebook Group doesn't have to be directly linked to your business. For instance, if you own a pizzeria in Jacksonville called Grandma Jo's Pizza, your Facebook Group wouldn't have to be (and shouldn't be) named "Grandma Jo's Pizza". Instead, consider a title like, "Pizza Lovers of Jacksonville" or something along those lines.
2. Give your community members a name.
Giving the members of your audience a label will, whether consciously or subconsciously, reinforce the existence of the community your company is building. Additionally, it'll allow your customers to know they're a part of a movement, a club, as opposed to them just exchanging money for goods.
Musicians like Justin Bieber use this practice by calling his fans, "Beliebers", while brands like Starbucks do it in a more subtle way by catering to their "Gold members" within their rewards program.
3. Show your audience some love and recognition.
The point of having a community is to facilitate relationships between the members. Customers and community members alike want to know you appreciate their time and money, so make sure you show them some love. Here's a few ways to do it:
Post user-generated content (photos customers took while at your business, etc.) to your social media channels.
Showcase and commend fans who are doing wonderful things in the community (military service, volunteers, non-profit organizers, and more).
Have a weekly segment where you publish a top-rated testimonial or comment on your social media to get followers actively engaged in your content.
The list goes on and on here, but the important thing is to make sure your customers know they're being recognized by you as the company.
4. Start a meetup.
Nothing beats face-to-face, human interaction when it comes to building relationships, and a meetup is an ideal medium for you to begin making those connections possible. Much like a Facebook Group, your meetup doesn't have to be directly affiliated with your company. In fact, starting a local meetup in conjunction with your Facebook Group, "Pizza Lovers of Jacksonville" (to continue with the above example) would be a seamless way to build community both virtually and online.
By building a loyal core of fans around the mission your brand has, you'll be in a terrific position to overcome the algorithm on social media. Going into 2018, ask yourself whether or not you're taking the necessary steps to build community on social. When it comes to marketing, it could be very well be one of the most important questions you ask yourself this year.
Published on: Dec 8, 2017


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ORICA-SCOTT women head to Melbourne looking for victories in the final Australian summer races
Straight from winning the team classification at the recent Santos Women's Tour, ORICA-SCOTT are back in action this week in the third edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.
The team will also race in an inaugural criterium race, the Towards Zero Race Melbourne, which takes place a couple of days earlier.
The 63.3kilometre circuit race is the latest addition to the ever growing Australian summer calendar and will this year will fall on Australia day around the world-famous Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit in Melbourne.
The new criterium is likely to have a great atmosphere, large crowds and an impressive line-up with it being just two days prior to the UCI category Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.
"To have an event of this stature in the centre of Melbourne and on Australia day is great for us and for the sport," explained sport director Martin Barras. "With the quality of the teams it is going to be a great spectacle and a great opportunity for women's cycling."
ORICA-SCOTT will bring a team of five-riders with a mix of both power and speed in newly crowned Australian Road Race Champion Katrin Garfoot, Dutch star Annemiek van Vleuten and youngster Jenelle Crooks, all fresh from their recent team success at the Santos Women's Tour.
The trio will be joined by former Australian champion Gracie Elvin and former criterium champion Sarah Roy, making it a diverse and capable team.
"We will look for opportunities in the criterium race and try to be aggressive," Barras continued. "We have seen from the recent Santos Women's Tour that there are sprinter in top form in this early part of the season, so we will work to make it a hard race, however if it does come down to a sprint then we will have an option."
The race consists of 12laps of a 5.3kilometre circuit and with fast criterium racing in the legs after the Michelton Bay Cycling Classic and the recent Santos Women's Tour, the in-form squad are confident and ready for the challenge.
Two days later on Saturday 28th, the riders return to Geelong for the third edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and will add the 2016 defending champion, Amanda Spratt, to their stellar roster.
Spratt recently took out a stage win and the overall victory at the Santos Women's Tour and is very much looking forward to returning to this event as the defending champion, with a strong and motivated team around her.
"It is a race that I love and I know that I am in great shape coming off the Santos Women's Tour," Spratt explained. "We have had a very successful month, we have shown in all the racing that the team is fit and strong at the moment."
"I really love the course, it has a little bit of everything and it is very much like a classic race in a lot of ways.
"If the wind is blowing then the first part of the race can be really hard and then the finale is always hard with all the hills, so I am really looking forward to it and will try to defend my 2016 victory."
ORICA-SCOTT riders:
Jenelle Crooks (AUS 21)
Grace Elvin (AUS 27)
Katrin Garfoot (AUS 34)
Sarah Roy (AUS 30 )
Amanda Spratt (AUS 29) *Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race only
Annemeik van Vleuten (NED 33)
Thursday 26th January:
Towards Zero Race Melbourne, 63.6kilometres
Saturday 28th January:
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, 113kilometres


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Book: One Night of Song
One Night of Song
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As it happens, I have a friend who hints, sometimes, that he can call up spirits from the vasty deep.
Or at least one spirit-a tiny one, with strictly limited powers. He talks about it sometimes but only after he has reached his fourth scotch and soda. It's a delicate point of equilibrium-three and he knows nothing about spirits (the supernatural kind); five and he falls asleep.
I thought he had reached the right level that evening, so I said, "Do you remember that spirit of yours, George?"
"Eh?" said George, looking at his drink as though he wondered why that should require remembering.
"Not your drink," I said. "The little spirit about two centimeters high, whom you once told me you had managed to call up from some other place of existence. The one with the paranatural powers."
"Ah," said George. "Azazel. Not his name, of course. Couldn't pronounce his real name, I suppose, but that's what I call him. I remember him."
"Do you use him much?"
"No. Dangerous. It's too dangerous. There's always the temptation to play with power. I'm careful myself; deuced careful. As you know, I have a high standard of ethics. That's why I felt called upon to help a friend once. The damage that did! Dreadful! Doesn't bear thinking of."
"What happened?"
"I suppose I ought to get it off my chest," said George, thoughtfully. "It tends to fester-"
I was a good deal younger then (said George) and in those days women made up an important part of one's life. It seems silly now, looking back on it, but I distinctly remember thinking, back in those days, that it made much difference which woman.
Actually, you reach in the grab bag and whichever comes out, it's much the same, but in those days- I had a friend, Mortenson-Andrew Mortenson. I don't think you know him. I haven't seen much of him myself in recent years.
The point is, he was soppy about a woman, a particular woman. She was an angel, he said. He couldn't live without her. She was the only one in the universe and without her the world was crumbled bacon bits dipped in axle grease. You know the way lovers talk.
The trouble was she threw him over finally and apparently did so in a particularly cruel manner and without regard for his selfesteem. She had humiliated him thoroughly, taking up with another right in front of him, snapping her fingers under his nostrils and laughing heartlessly at his tears.
I don't mean that literally. I'm just trying to give the impression he gave me. He sat here drinking with me, here in this very room. My heart bled for him and I said,"I'm sorry, Mortenson, but you mustn't take on so. When you stop to think of it clearly, she's only a woman. If you look out in the street, there are lots of them passing by."
He said, bitterly, "I intend a womanless existence from now on, old man-except for my wife, of course, whom, every now and then, I can't avoid. It's just that I'd like to do something in return to this woman."
"To your wife?" I said.
"No, no, why should I like to do something to my wife? I'm talking about doing something for this woman who threw me over so heartlessly."
"Like what?"
"Damned if I know," said he.
"Maybe I can help," I said, for my heart was still bleeding for him."I can make use of a spirit with quite extraordinary powers. A small spirit, of course"-I held my finger and thumb up less than an inch apart so that he was sure to get the idea-"who can only do so much."
I told him about Azazel and, of course, he believed me. I've often noticed that I carry conviction when I tell a tale. Now when you tell a story, old man, the air of disbelief that descends upon the room is thick enough to cut with a chain saw, but it's not that way with me. There's nothing like a reputation for probity and an air of honest directness.
His eyes glittered as I told him. He said could he arrange to give her something that I would ask for.
"If it's presentable, old man. I hope you have nothing in your mind like making her smell bad or having a toad drop out of her mouth when she talks."
"Of course not," he said, revolted. "What do you take me for? She gave me two happy years, on and off, and I want to make an adequate return. You say your spirit has only limited power?"
"He is a small thing," I said, holding up my thumb and forefinger again.
"Could he give her a perfect voice? For a time, anyway. At least for one performance."
"I'll ask him." Mortenson's suggestion sounded the gentlemanly thing to do. His ex-mistress sang cantatas at the local church, if that's the proper term. In those days I had quite an ear for music and would frequently go to these things (taking care to dodge the collection box, of course). I rather enjoyed hearing her sing and the audience seemed to absorb it politely enough. I thought at the time that her morals didn't quite suit the surroundings, but Mortenson said they made allowances for sopranos.
So I consulted Azazel. He was quite willing to help; none of this nonsense, you know, of demanding my soul in exchange. I remember I once asked Azazel if he wanted my soul and he didn't even know what it was. He asked me what I meant and it turned out I didn't know what it was, either. It's just that he's such a little fellow in his own universe that it gives him a feeling of great success to be able to throw his weight around in our universe. He likes to help out.
He said he could manage three hours and Mortenson said that would be perfect when I gave him the news. We picked a night when she was going to be singing Bach or Handel or one of those old piano-bangers, and was going to have a long and impressive solo.
Mortenson went to the church that night and, of course, I went too. I felt responsible for what was going to happen and I thought I had better oversee the situation.
Mortenson said, gloomily, "I attended the rehearsals. She was just singing the same way she always did; you know, as though she had a tail and someone was stepping on it."
That wasn't the way he used to describe her voice. The music of the spheres, he said on a number of occasions, and it was all uphill from there. Of course, though, he had been thrown over, which does warp a man's judgment.
I fixed him with a censorious eye. "That's no way to talk of a woman you're trying to bestow a great gift upon."
"That's just it. I want her voice to be perfect. Really perfect. And I now see-now that the mists of love have cleared from my eyes-that she has a long way to go. Do you think your spirit can handle it?"
"The change isn't time to start till 8:15 P.M." A stab of suspicion went through me. "You hadn't been hoping to use up the perfection on the rehearsal and then disappoint the audience?"
"You have it all wrong," he said
They got started a little early and when she got up in her white dress to sing it was 8:14 by my old pocket watch which is never off by more than two seconds. She wasn't one of your peewee sopranos; she was built on a generous scale, leaving lots of room for the kind of resonance you need when you reach for that high note and drown out the orchestra. Whenever she drew in a few gallons of breath with which to manipulate it all, I could see what Mortenson saw in her, allowing for several layers of textile material.
She started at her usual level and then at 8:15 precisely, it was as though another voice had been added. I saw her give a little jump as though she didn't believe what she heard, and one hand, which was held to her diaphragm, seemed to vibrate.
Her voice soared. It was as though she had become an organ in perfect pitch. Each note was perfect, a note invented freshly at that moment, besides which all other notes of the same pitch and quality were imperfect copies.
Each note hit squarely with just the proper vibrato, if that's the word, swelling or diminishing with enormous power and control.
And she got better with each note. The organist wasn't looking at the music, he was looking at her, and -- I can't swear to it -but I think he stopped playing. If he were playing, I wouldn't have heard him anyway. There was no way in which you could hear anything while she was singing. Anything else but her.
The look of surprise had vanished from her face, and there was a look of exaltation there instead. She had put down the music she had been holding; she didn't need it. Her voice was singing by itself and she didn't need to control or direct it. The conductor was rigid and everyone else in the chorus seemed dumbfounded.
The solo ended at last and the chorus sounded in what was a whisper, as though they were all ashamed of their voices and distressed to turn them loose in the same church on the same night.
For the rest of the program it was all her. When she sang, it was all that was heard even if every other voice was sounding. When she didn't sing, it was as though we were sitting in the dark, and we couldn't bear the absence of light.
And when it was over-well, you don't applaud in church, but they did then. Everyone in the church stood up as though they had been yanked to their feet by a single marionette string, and they applauded and applauded, and it was clear they would applaud all night unless she sang again.
She did sing again; her voice alone, with the organ whispering hesitantly in the background; with the spotlight on her; with no one else in the chorus visible.
Effortless. You have no idea how effortless it was. I wrenched my ears away from the sound to try to watch her breathing, to catch her taking in breath, to wonder how long a note could be held at full volume with only one pair of lungs to supply the air.
But it had to end and it was over. Even the applause was over. It was only then that I became aware that, next to me, Mortenson had been sitting with his eyes glittering, with his whole being absorbed in her singing. It was only then that I began to gather what had happened.
I am, after all, as straight as a Euclidean line and have no deviousness in me, so I couldn't be expected to see what he was after. You, on the other hand, who are so crooked you can run up a spiral staircase without making any turns, can see at a glance what he was after.
She had sung perfectly-but she would never sing perfectly again.
It was as though she were blind from birth, and for just three hours could see-see all there was to see, all the colors and shapes and wonders that surround us all and that we pay no attention to because we're so used to it. Suppose you could see it all in its full glory for just three hours-and then be blind again!
You could stand your blindness if you knew nothing else. But to know something else briefly and then return to blindness? No one could stand that.
That woman has never sung again, of course. But that's only part of it. The real tragedy was to us, to the member of the audience.
We had perfect music for three hours, perfect music. Do you think we could ever again bear to listen to anything elss than that?
I've been as good as tone-deaf ever since. Recently, I went to one of those rock festivals that are so popular these days, just to test myself out. You won't believe me, but I couldn't make out one tune. It was all noise to me.
My only consolation is that Mortenson, who listened most eagerly and with the most concentration, is worse off than anyone in that audience. He wears earplugs at all times. He can't stand any sound above a whisper.
Serves him right!
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