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Q: Angularjs toggle div visibility I am trying to toggle a div text on click of a button. I tried taking a scope variable and toggeling classname based on the variable. Where am I making the mistake here
<button ng-click="toggle()">test</button>

  hello test

function ctrl($scope) {
  $scope.state = vis;
  $scope.toggle = function() {
    state = !state;
  };
}

.vis {
  display: none;
}

A: You can simplify this a lot like so
<button ng-click="showDiv = !showDiv">test </button>

    hello test

Fiddle example
Unless you need the specific ng-class to toggle in which case you can do something like
<button ng-click="showDiv = !showDiv">test </button>

    hello test

Fiddle example
(just make sure you're using a newer version of angular for this)

A: Another approach...
Use ng-switch  You can toggle through multiple divs without the css hassle...

var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[]);

function MyCtrl($scope) {

}

 <button ng-click="showDiv = !showDiv">test </button>

  hello you

  hello me

A: I have changed your directive..
html
    <button ng-click="toggle()">test </button>

    hello test

Controller
function ctrl($scope) {

    $scope.toggle = function () {
      $scope.state = !$scope.state;
    }; }

see complete code here
http://jsfiddle.net/nw5ndzrt/345/

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Q: Is it possible to add additional parameters to event methods? I have event method eventManager_ServiceFound then inside that method there is event assigned to the method eventManager_ServiceResolved and I would like to pass to that method some additional parameters from method eventManager_ServiceFound.
Something like:
static void eventManager_ServiceResolved(parameters which are already there, string domain(form eventManager_ServiceFound)).
How the code looks:
  public static void ScanService() {
            try {
                service = new DNSSDService();
                eventManager = new DNSSDEventManager();
                eventManager.ServiceFound += new _IDNSSDEvents_ServiceFoundEventHandler(eventManager_ServiceFound);

                browse = service.Browse(0, 0, "_axis-video._tcp", null, eventManager);
            } catch (Exception e) {

                Console.WriteLine("--------------------EXCEPTION-----------------");
                Console.WriteLine(e);
                Console.WriteLine("--------------------EXCEPTION-----------------");
            }
        }

        static void eventManager_ServiceFound(DNSSDService browser, DNSSDFlags flags, uint ifIndex, string serviceName, string regtype, string domain) {
            try {
                Console.WriteLine("---------------- eventManager_ServiceFound------------------------");
                Console.WriteLine("browser: " + browser + "\nDNSSDFlags " + flags + "\nifIndex " + ifIndex + "\nserviceName: " + serviceName + "\nregtype: " + regtype + "\ndomain: " + domain);
                Console.WriteLine("----------------------------------------");

                //   DNSSDService service2 = new DNSSDService();
                eventManager.ServiceResolved += new _IDNSSDEvents_ServiceResolvedEventHandler(eventManager_ServiceResolved);
                browser.Resolve(flags, ifIndex, serviceName, regtype, domain, eventManager);
            } catch (Exception e) {

                Console.WriteLine("--------------------EXCEPTION--------eventManager_ServiceFound---------");
                Console.WriteLine(e);
                Console.WriteLine("--------------------EXCEPTION-----------------");
            }
        }

        private static void eventManager_ServiceResolved(DNSSDService service, DNSSDFlags flags, uint ifIndex, string fullname, string hostname, ushort port, TXTRecord record) {
            try {
                Console.WriteLine("-------------------eventManager_ServiceResolved---------------------");
                Console.WriteLine("DNSSDService " + service + "\nDNSSDFlags " + flags + "\nifindex " + ifIndex + "\nfullname " + fullname + "hostname " + hostname + "\nport " + port + "\nrecord " + record);
                var str = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(record.GetValueForKey("macaddress"));
                Console.WriteLine("mac " + str);
                Console.WriteLine("----------------------------------------");

                //    DNSSDService service2 = new DNSSDService();
                eventManager.AddressFound += new _IDNSSDEvents_AddressFoundEventHandler(eventManager_AddressFound);
                DNSSDAddressFamily family = new DNSSDAddressFamily();
                service.GetAddrInfo(flags, ifIndex, family, hostname, eventManager);
            } catch (Exception e) {

                Console.WriteLine("--------------------EXCEPTION--------eventManager_ServiceResolved---------");
                Console.WriteLine(e);
                Console.WriteLine("--------------------EXCEPTION-----------------");
            }
        }

EDIT:
   eventManager.ServiceResolved += new _IDNSSDEvents_ServiceResolvedEventHandler(eventManager_ServiceResolved);//how to convert this line into this one below
            eventManager.ServiceResolved += (x, y, z) => eventManager_ServiceResolved(x, y, z, a, b, c);
            browser.Resolve(flags, ifIndex, serviceName, regtype, domain, eventManager);

EDIT2:
There will be only one fire of service resolved for one fire of service found. But there will be many service found fires

A: Use a lambda:
eventManager.ServiceResolved += (x, y, z) => eventManager_ServiceResolved(x, y, z, a, b, c);


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Cochise County prosecutor may charge supervisors who have not certified election results
KAWC | By Howard Fischer
Ariana Drehsler
People wait in line to vote early on Election Day 2020 in Tombstone, Ariz., in Cochise County. The county's Republican-led leadership has voted to delay certifying its 2022 election results, despite a state deadline on Monday.
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX -- The top Cochise County, Ariz. prosecutor said he may bring charges against members of the board of supervisors who have refused to certify the results of the general election.
Brian McIntyre told Capitol Media Services he already was looking at what crimes may have committed before former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard and former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley wrote to him urging him to act. McIntyre gave no indication how quickly he will make a decision.
Goddard and Romley sent an identical message to Attorney General Mark Brnovich who also would have the power to bring charges against the supervisors.
"We received the letter and decline to comment at this time,'' said spokeswoman Brittni Thomason.
This comes as a judge will hear arguments Thursday on whether he should order the board -- or at least the two members who voted against meeting last Monday's deadline to formally canvass the results -- to comply. And failure of Republicans Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby to obey the court order could result in a contempt citation.
But the two former prosecutors in their message made it clear they believe something more is appropriate when, as they contend, the two supervisors deliberately ignored the requirement in Arizona law that counties certify their election results no later than 20 days after the election. That date this year was last Monday, Nov. 28.
That deadline is set in law to pave the way for the state canvass which is supposed to occur on the fourth Monday following the election, which would be this coming Monday, Dec. 5.
There is a bit of wiggle room in that date, with the Election Code saying that can be postponed "day to day'' if any county canvass is missing -- but with a final deadline of Dec. 8.
"We believe deeply that the rule of law dictates that public officials be held accountable when they refuse to comply with their legal obligations -- all the more so when those officials' actions threaten to undo the proper administration of elections, disenfranchise thousands of voters, and potentially even alter the results of some races,'' wrote Democrat Goddard and Republican Romley.
Those last points refer to the threat by state Elections Director Kori Lorick to go ahead with the state canvass -- but without the 47,284 votes cast by Cochise County residents. And without those, Republican Tom Horne would lose the race for state schools chief to Democrat Kathy Hoffman and Kristen Engle, the Democratic candidate for the CD 6 rate would have more votes than Republican Juan Ciscomani.
In refusing to certify the vote this past Monday the two Republican supervisors said they had questions about whether the machines used to tally the paper ballots had been properly certified.
That came despite the fact that Lorick had written to them a week earlier telling the board the claims "are derived from baseless conspiracies about Arizona's equipment certification process.'' And she detailed how the machines "remain in compliance with state and federal requirements.''
Despite that, Crosby said Monday he wants more information both from the secretary of state's office and others. Judd went along even though he offered no evidence that the equipment did not meet legal requirements.
Only Ann English, who chairs the board, refused to vote for a delay.
"Arizona law provides no applicable legal grounds for county supervisors to refuse to comply with their legal duty to certify results by the statutory deadline,'' the two former prosecutors wrote.
As far as the excuse offered, Goddard and Romley called them "false and thoroughly discredited claims.''
More to the point, they said even if the claims were true "that would still not provide a legal justification for Supervisors Crosby and Judd to ignore their non-discretionary duty to certify the election results.''
Goddard and Romley even laid out for McIntyre and Brnovich what charges they could bring.
The most serious is a section of the law which says any person who knowingly refuses to perform a duty required in the Election Code is guilty of a Class 6 felony. That carries a presumptive sentence of a year in state prison.
A separate statute says any public officer who knowingly fails to perform a duty in connection with elections "in the manner prescribed by law'' is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. Violators are subject to up to 30 days in jail, though these kind of cases can often wind up instead with a fine which can be up to $500.
There was no immediate response from either Crosby or Judd to messages left with their offices and on their cell phones.
English, however, commented on the chaos that the actions of her colleagues has created.
"I feel like I am in the middle of a tornado that keeps staying in place and I cannot get out safely,'' she told Capitol Media Services. "I have no control of the tornado, only my actions.''
English said it is "scary to think'' what will be the result when all this is over. But she said that has to be the focus of the board.
"We will still have a county to govern and constituents needing our services,'' English said. "I pray we will be up to the task.''
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The CW announces full season orders of The Secret Circle, Ringer and Hart of Dixie
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Full season orders for three of The CW's new shows is fantastic news. Are you ready for more Hart of Dixie, Ringer and The Secret Circle?
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Cheers are in order for three new CW series that are getting full season orders: Hart of Dixie, Ringer and The Secret Circle.
CW President Mark Pedowitz announced the big news Wednesday (Oct. 12), which is sure to have fans doing the full-season happy dance.
Pedowitz said in a statement, "We believe in the creative strength of these dramas, and by giving them back nine orders we can give our audience the chance to enjoy complete seasons of all three of them."
He added, "With compelling storylines, engaging characters and tremendous buzz we firmly believe Hart of Dixie, Ringer and The Secret Circle can become signature series for The CW, the kind of top-notch shows that are synonymous with our brand."
The Hart of Dixie airs on Mondays and stars Rachel Bilson, formerly of The O.C., while Ringer airs on Tuesdays and features former Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar.
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A Guardian Angel
Raul is solved from certain death by his guardian angel.
The Conductor: Part 1
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Dark Passages Character Introduction
by Tapete
Rated: ASR · Serial · Horror/Scary · #757497
this is my 1rst entry for the Dark Passages Campfire of the Horror Group.
Created: September 28th, 2003 at 5:19pm
Modified: December 20th, 2005 at 11:20am
Genres: Horror/Scary, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
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The headlights of the car illuminated the sign standing in the middle of the street. Apparently the road was closed.
"How strange? I didn't heard nothing about it being under construction. At least not on this weekend."
Mark Sherwood was coming from a conference held in a hotel about three hours away from home. After recieving a promotion, one of his new responsibilities was to attend to all that boring stuff. Even thou it all started on a Friday, very early in the morning, what made it ok, was that he didn't had to spend a dime. It was all included in the package. Even the hotel room. On Sunday, just after the conference, instead of packing all his stuff, he decided to stay for a couple of more hours at his room, enjoying the company of the beautiful woman who promoted him. It was 2:00am and the perfect excuse for her to be late that nitht, was going to be that the conference delayed a little bit more. She knew that her husband would buy it all, like he always did. For Mark, it was all a game. He wasn't in love with her, and all he wanted was to take advantage of all the privileges that she had around the company. After kissing her goodbye, he got into his car and drove away.
It was almost 5:00 am when he arrived to the detour. The sign that was blocking the road, pointed to the left side of the street. It was old, rusted, and full of holes. It seemed like it had been shot like a million of times. Even thou it was a little strange, he didn't had other option, but to follow the arrow. A whole hour of driving was still ahead of him, and even thou he felt tired, he went on. As he pressed the accelerator, the lights reflecting on the sign began to dime little by little with each turn of the wheel, but for some strange reason, they didn't illuminated the road. Instead, all they could reveal was a bunch of trees, that seemed to hug like skeletons in the darkness. For Mark, it was impossible to believe that there was a sign pointing into a direction where there was no road. As he was getting closer, he felt how the car stepped out of the main street, to end up into a bumpy road. As he went on, he saw as if the trees were moving backwards to reveal him the road. Mark thought that what he saw was just a part of his imagination playing tricks on him.
"I'm just to tired to be driving. Maybe I had too much to drink."
The road was hard to distinguish and it was extremely dark. Because of this, all the branches of the trees looked like rotten arms reaching out. Even thou he had to turn on the high beams, he continued the ride through the dusty road. Mark decided to turn on the radio to keep his mind occupied. he didn't wanted to fall asleep. After about 15 minutes later, the radio began to mal function until it didn't work at all. He tried to search for another station, but it was all in vane.
"Damned! I left the CD's at home."
Soon the exhaustion began to beat him, until he was divagating between Morpheus and the real world. Minutes later, a scream coming out of the speakers of the car, brought him back to reality. As soon as he opened his eyes he saw a silhouette standing right in the middle of the road. Trying to evader it, he made a sudden turn to the right. At that same moment, another scream was heard, but this time, coming out of the opened mouth of Mark, as he noticed the huge tree standing a few seconds away from the car...
"Where am I?" - asked Mark, realizing that he didn't know where he was. It was such a dark place. The only light that brightened the scene was the one entering between the pieces of wood that covered the windows. The light seemed to be dirty with all the dust that it carried. He was laying down over a wooden bench, like one of those that are found inside of a church. He realized that he was right, as soon as he saw a big cross hanging by two chains incrusted on the wall. There was an altar in front of it, illuminated by the light that entered through one of those holes. Mark noticed that the cross was made out of steel. It looked just like the sign in the middle of the road. Old, rusted, and full of holes. It was also surrounded by pieces of wire. Wondering about what he saw, he got up from the bench and walked towards it, to have a better look. When he reached the altar, that was also made of steel, he noticed that it was full of stains, that looked exactly like dried blood. As he moved towards the cross, he realized that what he though as wire, was in fact barb wire, with pieces of fabric and skin attached to different parts of it. Horrified by what he saw, he turned around, but instead of running, he couldn't even move a muscle. His heart was bitting so fast that it felt as it was going to explode out of his chest. There was a person, sitting on a bench, facing down into his knees. It appeared to be praying. Mark thought that he was completly alone. Since he woke up, he didn't saw nobody else. He didn't even heard someone coming in. The church appeared to be abandoned, and he could sworn that he didn't noticed a person sitting on that bench before, while he was walking towards the altar minutes ago. In search of an answer, he began to talk from where he was standing.
"Oh my god! You scared the hell out of me. Can you help me? I don't have a clue of where I am. I can't even recall how I ended up in this place. Excuse me, can you help me?" - he asked, but the person didn't replied. As he approached the bench, he realized that the person was indeed a man. His clothes were old and dirty. Mark stood right beside him and said -
"Excuse me, I need help. Can you tell me where I am? - but again there was no answer. Trying to capture the attention of the man, he extended his arm to touch his shoulder.
"Sir- are you ok---"
At that same moment, the man fell into the floor. Mark tried to scream, but no sound came out of his mouth. Only two holes were seen where the eyes were supposed to be. On his mouth, a silent scream was frozen in time. A scream just like the one trying to come out of Mark's mouth...
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Q: Unable to perform any kind of operation on MircoSD card I have a 8 GB SDcard that look like this in gparted:

My goal is to have a single 8 GB partition on the SDcard.
When I try to perform any operation (delete partition, create new partition, change format, etc) its successful but nothing changes.

Gparted shows that all operations are successful:

But when I click Close it will reload the device and show the same partition table as before.
I also ran "sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M" which showed no error but the partitions are still there.
One more strange thing is that if mount one of the partitions (eg sdb1) add or delete any files, eject/unmount and remount. The changes are gone (no files added or removed). The same thing happens when I access the 1GB FAT32 partition on a Windows PC.
Is there any way the SDcard could be locked to prevent all those changes?
Is there a way to solve this or do i need a new SDcard?


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"Wholesome Simulator" Ciel Fledge Gets Autumn Release Date
2019-07-09 | By Bogdan Robert Mateș
Publisher PQube and Indonesian developer Studio Namaapa today announced Ciel Fledge, a "wholesome simulator" in which players oversee the raising of an adopted daughter in a futuristic world where humanity has sought refuge from an alien attack in cities built in the sky.
The title has a planned release date of Autumn 2019 and is headed to both the PC, via Steam, and Nintendo Switch.
Ciel Fledge Release Date
Ciel Fledge tasks players with taking care of their adopted daughter until she reaches adulthood. To that extent, they will have to schedule various activities that help her grow as part of her daily routine. This includes stuff like attending classes and meeting up with friends. As she performs activities, her skills will start developing.
Players can make different choices, like rewarding her with a bigger allowance or scolding her for skipping classes. These interactions, alongside the result of her activities, will end up changing her into a unique character with a personality, skills, and relationships of her own.
Although Ciel Fledge lands on the peaceful side of video games, it's not entirely devoid of "battles". Certain activities, like heading to the Earth's surface in order to scavenge items, will require engaging in match-three puzzle battles in order to successfully see them through. You can see more of the game in its announcement trailer below or by visiting its Steam page.
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Making complex structures out of nanoparticles or polymers, be they for photonic computing or solar cells, typically involves a lot of expensive and time-consuming trial and error in the lab. Theorists hope to simplify the process by developing computer models that will generate recipes that always come out right, but so far, the ones that they've made have been too complex to realize in the lab. Now, in the hope of making these algorithms useful to chemists, computer scientists at Microsoft have simplified a model that creates recipes for self-assembling materials.
"If you have in mind a form or shape, the model will tell you how to get it," says Henry Cohn, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, who led the work with MIT assistant professor of mathematics Abhinav Kumar.
The new Microsoft models, described this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are intended to speed the design of new self-assembled structures. Using trial and error, materials scientists have employed nanoparticles to make structures on what's called the mesoscale. These ordered arrangements of nanoscale particles can have remarkable optical, electrical, and other properties but are difficult to create. "Theory there is sorely lacking," says Mila Boncheva, a senior scientist at Firmenich, in Geneva, who played an important role in early research on this kind of self-assembly at Harvard University. "What people are currently doing in design is mostly trial and error based on common sense." The theoretical model is aimed at helping materials scientists figure out much more quickly what the right materials and conditions are for self-assembly of a given structure.


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package com.mapbox.api.directions.v5.models;

import com.mapbox.core.TestUtils;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;

public class CongestionTest extends TestUtils {

  @Test
  public void sanity() {
    assertNotNull(getDefault());
  }

  @Test
  public void testSerializable() throws Exception {
    Congestion congestion = getDefault();
    byte[] serialized = TestUtils.serialize(congestion);

    assertEquals(congestion, deserialize(serialized, Congestion.class));
  }

  @Test
  public void jsonComparingDefaultCongestion() {
    Congestion congestion = getDefault();
    String json = congestion.toJson();

    Congestion fromJson = Congestion.fromJson(json);

    assertEquals(congestion, fromJson);
  }

  @Test
  public void jsonComparingCustomCongestion() {
    Congestion congestion = Congestion.builder().value(10).build();
    String json = congestion.toJson();

    Congestion fromJson = Congestion.fromJson(json);

    assertEquals(congestion, fromJson);
  }

  private Congestion getDefault() {
    return Congestion.builder()
      .value(5)
      .build();
  }
}


Lets you charge small electronic devices such as cell phones, MP3 players and tablets using your vehicle's battery or other external battery such as the Freedom or C-100 CPAP Battery.
Features a three-prong plug and two 5V (1A and 2.1A) USB ports.
Use to charge the Freedom or C-100 CPAP Battery in a vehicle. The vehicle does not need to be running during the charging process; however, when charging any electronic device or external battery in a vehicle, it is recommended that the vehicle be running during the charging process to prevent draining the vehicle's battery.
Allows the Freedom or C-100 CPAP Batteries to power certain PAP devices including ResMed S8, Fisher & Paykel ICON, Transcend, 3B Medical, and Apex Medical models.
Soft Start Technology (SST) gradually and safely ramps up the output voltage to start difficult motorized loads and protects sensitive appliance circuits. Turbo cooling fan prevents thermal runaway and extends the life of the inverter by keeping it cool.


The parabolic studs of the Hedgehog™ Fairway Protector do reduce contact with the soil surface by over 75%, gliding over the fairway and leaving little or no impression. This eliminates damage to fairways and allows many clubs to lift trolley bans.
THE HEDGEHOG™ FAIRWAY PROTECTOR EASILY FITS MOST HAND-PULL TROLLEYS.


(Bloomberg) -- India's economy showed conflicting signs of a recovery in a climate clouded by uncertainty ahead of a general election beginning next month.
Overall activity in February picked up slightly from the previous month, according to a slew of high-frequency indicators compiled by Bloomberg News to measure 'animal spirits' -- a term coined by British economist John Maynard Keynes to refer to investors' confidence in taking action. However, subdued exports growth, a sharp drop in imports and waning output prices signaled the economy is performing below its potential.
Teetering economic activity will give the central bank's Monetary Policy Committee, headed by Governor Shaktikanta Das, a reason to deliver on expectations for a back-to-back interest rate cut in April. The panel lowered rates in February in the face of subdued inflation and flagging investments, and data since then suggests Asia's third-largest economy could do with some more stimulus.
Economic growth slowed to 6.6 percent in the quarter to December as political uncertainty ahead of a national vote in April and May compounded challenges posed by weak domestic demand and a global slowdown.
The seasonally adjusted Nikkei India Composite PMI Index edged up to 53.8 in February from 53.6 in January. The upturn in new work for the services sector was domestically driven, and so was activity in manufacturing. Inflationary pressures were subdued, with the rate of price gains for the services sector softening to a level below the average of the survey's near 13-1/2 year history.
Exports growth was tardy, slowing to 2.4 percent year-on-year in February from 3.7 percent in January, while the 5.4 percent drop in imports was the worst since August 2016.
Consumer demand remained sluggish, with auto sales declining from a year ago. Sridhar V, a partner at Grant Thornton India LLP, attributed this to higher costs of loans, slowing industrial output and moderate economic activity ahead of the elections.
The severity of the slowdown may have prompted the Indian unit of Suzuki Motor Corp. to cut production in March, the Business Standard newspaper reported Monday. A spokesperson for the company declined to comment on the matter, the newspaper said.
Demand for bank loans grew at 14.4 percent in February from a year ago, although slowing slightly from levels seen in January, according to Reserve Bank of India data.
The Citi India Financial Conditions Index, a liquidity indicator, showed a slight drop in February, with overall conditions pretty tight, thus undermining consumption.
Growth in India's core infrastructure sector, which constitutes 40 percent of total industrial production, slowed to a 19-month low of 1.8 percent in January as electricity generation and production of refinery products contracted.
As a result, industrial production slowed too. The index rose 1.7 percent in January from a year earlier with capital goods output contracting 3.2 percent from a year earlier. Data for both indicators are reported with a one-month lag.


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Hear 'n Aid war ein Benefiz-Musikprojekt, das 1985 maßgeblich auf Initiative des amerikanischen Heavy-Metal-Sängers Ronnie James Dio entstand. Die ursprüngliche Idee wird allerdings seinen Bandkollegen Jimmy Bain und Vinnie Appice zugeschrieben. Ziel war, nach dem Vorbild des Band-Aid-Projektes um Bob Geldof (1984), ein vergleichbares Musikprojekt in der Metal-Szene zu etablieren, dessen Gewinne für die Hunger- und Entwicklungshilfe gespendet werden sollten.

Dios Angaben zufolge soll das Projekt innerhalb eines Jahres eine Million US-Dollar eingebracht haben.

Produktion
Um ihr Ziel zu erreichen, beschlossen die Musiker, eine Schallplatte zu veröffentlichen, die auch ein speziell für diesen Zweck geschriebenes Musikstück enthalten sollte. Während in Europa zahlreiche Popmusiker unter der Führung von Bob Geldof als Band Aid mit Do They Know It's Christmas? bereits im November 1984 in Aktion getreten waren, reagierte die Musikwelt in den USA erst im Januar 1985, als USA for Africa aus einer Idee von Harry Belafonte hervorging. Da neben der Popmusik zu dieser Zeit auch Hardrock und Heavy Metal recht angesagt waren, entstand die Idee, auch mit Künstlern dieser Genres zu helfen.

Am 20. und 21. Mai 1985 nahmen daher 40 prominente Musiker der Heavy-Metal-Szene im A&M Records-Studio in Hollywood das Lied Stars auf. Der Song war von den Dio-Musikern Vivian Campbell, Jimmy Bain und Ronnie James Dio geschrieben worden und enthält Gesangs- und Leadgitarrenbeiträge zahlreicher anderer prominenter Musiker, der Chor wurde von allen beteiligten Musikern gemeinsam eingesungen.

Das Ergebnis sollte sofort nach Fertigstellung veröffentlicht werden, aufgrund von Verzögerungen erschien die Platte jedoch erst ab dem 1. Januar 1986 im Handel. Neben der Single wurde auch ein Album mit dem Titel Hear 'n Aid - An All-Star Album For Famine Relief veröffentlicht, das neben Stars auch die für den guten Zweck gestifteten Lieder von anderen Künstlern enthielt.

Ausgaben
 Stars – 7" single
 Stars – 12" single
 Hear 'n Aid – The Sessions (VHS-Video)
 diverse Fanartikel (Shirts, Poster usw.)

Hear 'n Aid
 Hear 'n Aid – Stars
 Accept – Up to the Limit (live)
 Motörhead – On the Road (live)
 Rush – Distant Early Warning (live)
 Kiss – Heaven's on Fire (live)
 Jimi Hendrix – Can You See Me
 Dio – Hungry for Heaven (live)
 Y&T – Go for the Throat
 Scorpions – The Zoo (live)

Nachfolgeprojekt
Das von Dio geplante Folgeprojekt Children of the Night zur Unterstützung von zuhause weggelaufener Kinder kam niemals zustande. Das dafür vorgesehene Lied Throw Away Children wurde 2002 auf dem Dio-Album Killing the Dragon veröffentlicht.

Quellen

Musikprojekt
Benefizprojekt

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Now Then Magazine
A Magazine for
Indie Trade
Open Doors: Countering the hostile environment
by Now Then Sheffield
in 143, February 2020
ASSIST volunteer and client chatting in the Peace Gardens. Credit: Chelsea Pike.
"With the bus pass [that ASSIST provides], you can stay on the bus all day. You can relax for a few hours on the bus and keep warm. This is important. The new buses with chargers are very good."
The people ASSIST supports are destitute, without the right to work, housing or state welfare support. That means finding ways to survive, like spending all day on the bus. One of the ways ASSIST helps is by providing a safe place to sleep, including by organising hosting placements. Right now there are about 40 households across the city opening their doors and welcoming asylum seekers into their homes.
Steph and Jeremy are two such hosts. For them it was a simple choice: "We had the space. It was appealing because it felt like something very practical and hands-on. It's easy to give £10 a month, but you kind of forget about it and don't know where it goes. This felt like a contribution that you could make - a big contribution to one person."
ASSIST volunteers host guests on weekends when our night shelter is closed or for a few months whilst clients are waiting for a space in an ASSIST house.
Hosting placements sometimes bring difficulties. They involve all the power imbalances of living in someone else's house, with the added baggage of living with someone who lives securely in this country when you don't, who may well have access to food, work and family life, without thinking, when you don't. Perhaps you don't speak the same language comfortably. Perhaps the host lives in a part of town you don't know.
Hosts want to show people a warm welcome
It can also be pretty hard for volunteers to see first-hand the impact of our government's immigration system (although nowhere near as hard as for the people themselves, of course). As Steph says, "Not everyone gets granted leave to remain and that's quite difficult to manage when you've become friends with somebody. That's the reality of the system."
Despite all of this, hosting can work really well. Even if guests and hosts don't have much in common, providing a safe place to sleep is the most important thing. It gives people the security to be able to focus on planning their next steps, which often means making a fresh claim for asylum. Knowing they have somewhere comfortable to stay each night is one less thing to worry about.
And there are some amazing stories of friendship. Majdi*, a client who was hosted for a couple of months by a family in Pitsmoor, said: "Alex and Jim* are like my family, like my family home. I was happy and comfortable there. Even though I am now living in an ASSIST house, I sometimes still miss them."
Anthony, a guest who stayed with a couple in Walkley, said it was hard at first, but in comparison to the night shelter "there was so much more freedom". A week in, Anthony and his hosts discovered they had another common language and this led to a much closer friendship. "We'd talk about my family. Only downside was, they didn't have a TV. I follow football and every time I wanted to watch a match I had to go into town!"
I've had the pleasure of meeting a lot of ASSIST hosts. I've lost count of the number of people who tell me they volunteer as a direct response to the Home Office's 'hostile environment' policy, which is designed to make life as hard as possible for those without leave to remain in the belief that this will make them leave the country voluntarily. Hosts want to show people a warm welcome, provide an environment of respect and hospitality, and give them some dignity in the face of an inhumane immigration system.
Hannah Brock Womack
With thanks to Paulina Gonzalez Salas Duhne, who interviewed Steph and Jeremy.
*Some names have been changed for this article.
If you're interested in getting involved in hosting for ASSIST, get in touch on Twitter @ASSISTSheffield or by email.
Next article in issue 143
Dry February
Far beyond Dry January and Sober October, there's a growing trend for choosing non-alcoholic and low-ABV drinks. There are many reasons why …
Alcoholism is a family illness
Alcoholism can have a devastating impact on the mental health and wellbeing of family and friends, particularly during a pandemic. But there is help out there, says Al-Anon member Sarah.
Red Deer falls victim to third lockdown as pubs struggle across Sheffield
The manager of a city-centre institution has handed in his notice, citing "incredibly difficult trading conditions" caused by the pandemic.
Consultation opens on future budget as Council Tax set to rise by nearly 4%
Councillors have called on the government to reverse a decade of cuts and fund essential services properly.
ADIRA hosts second Black Mental Health Live event
Black Mental Health Live Unmuted will explore young people's takes on intersectional topics like masculinity and LGBTQ+ issues, in association with Sheffield Flourish and SHSC, this Thursday.
Covid testing centres in Sheffield 'open seven days a week'
Sheffield's six testing centres at Meadowhall, Sharrow, Darnall, Burngreave and Upperthorpe are operational, with Hillsborough centre moving to site of former Hazlebarrow Primary School from Monday.
Independent, high-quality citizen journalism since 2008.


The McCriollo turned out to be about the same as an EggMcMuffin except on a decent chewy/crispy split bun. The name translates to "McCreole," which may make more sense in Puerto Rico, but sounded like wishful marketing to my ear. Nothing about this sandwich tasted "creole." Then again, I'm kind of defensive since Creole culture spawned one of the world's top three sandwiches in the muffuletta.
Versus an EggMcMuffin, the McCriollo sports the beefier roll-style bun, and tastes much the same. The cheese and egg disc tasted identical. The ham tasted blander than the McMuffin's bolder Canadian Bacon. Big ups to Canada for winning a rare spiciness decision versus Latin America. I feel confident saying this now: Canadian bacon is better than plain ol' ham.
Sides are important, of course, and with any McDonald's #1 combo, your best bet is a coffee and hash browns. It's classic. If you're anti-caffeine for some strange reason, OJ is an acceptable alternative. The Puerto Rican hash browns tasted more like butter than corn than I'm used to, but that could easily be due to a mental prejudice against U.S. corn over-use. I have no idea -- and couldn't find any information about -- corn consumption in Puerto Rico during my brief research of the topic. So I'll go ahead and assume that Puerto Rican McDonalds use less corn in their preparations, whether that's correct or not.
Verdict? Who cares? It's an EggMcMuffin on a roll instead of an English muffin. If there's a lesson to be learned here, it's that Puerto Rico is ripe for an English muffin invasion. Once the good people of the enchanted isle find out how much butter an E.M. can hold, perhaps they'll come around.
Of minor note, the receipt listed the McCriollo as a McJamon. It seems whoever's in charge of breakfast marketing for Puerto Rico decided "Creole" was more appealling than "ham," and rightly so.
Your work here is important. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Glad to have you back. Thought we'd lost you, there.
Great review - sounds delicious to me. I'm more of a fan of rolls than English muffins anyway. I'm intrigued by the buttery-tasting hash brown though...I'm sure you're correct in the fact that Puerto Rican McDonalds uses less corn in their preparation. It just has to be so.
Your encouragement is a shot in the arm as I work through the backlog of unposted entries and catch up on the latest sandwich happenings.
I'm sure I speak for all your fans when I say that I'm eager to read all those back-logged posts.


An award winning mum of three from Northwich, Cheshire has raised £3,000 to say thank you for the care her children receive at Crewe based Leighton Hospital.
Rachael King, who's three children all have epilepsy, organised a 14 mile group walk from Northwich to Leighton Hospital to raise funds for MCH Charity, West Midlands Ambulance Service and Epilepsy Action.
Since her children were born Rachael and her husband have done lots of fundraising for MCH Charity and with this latest donation have raised a total of almost £10,000 as well as donating a television for children's out-patients, an IPad and a 'bubble machine'. Alongside her tireless fundraising Rachael won an Epilepsy Action 'Speaking Out' award earlier this year for using her Facebook page '3 little epilepsy warriors' to share advice with other parents of children with the condition. She has also featured in a BBC Three clip called '5 things to know if you love someone with epilepsy'.


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Book Summary: "The Origin and Evolution of Cultures" by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
Title: The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
Author: Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson
The authors continue their research on the relationship between human biology, culture and learning. "Not By Genes Alone" is much accessible to a general audience, but this summary is worth reading.
If you would like to learn more about cultural evolution, read my book From Poverty to Progress: How Humans Invented Progress, and How We Can Keep It Going.
Culture is critical to understanding human behavior and evolution.
Culture is not separate from biology; culture is part of human biology.
Other books by the same author:
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Principles of Human Ecology
Why Copy Others?
The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage
"Over the last 30 years, we have worked to develop a theory and supporting evidence to account for the evolution of the human capacity for culture and how this capacity leads to distinctive evolutionary patterns…"
"Our research can be summarized by five propositions:
Culture is information that people acquire from others by teaching, imitation, and other forms of social learning. On a scale unknown in any other species, people acquire skills, beliefs, and values from the people around them, and these strongly affect behavior…
Culture change should be modeled as a Darwinian evolutionary process…
Culture is part of human biology. The capacities that allow us to acquire culture are evolved components of human psychology, and the contents of cultures are deeply intertwined with many aspects or our biology. What we learn, what we feel, how we think, and how we remember are all shaped by the architecture of human minds and bodies shaped over the millennia by the ongoing action of organic evolution. As a result, much cultural variation can be understood in terms of human evolutionary history.
Culture makes human evolution very different from the evolution of other organisms. Humans, unlike any other living creature, have cumulative cultural adaptation. Humans learn things from others, improve those things, transmit them to the next generation, where they are improved again, and so on, leading the rapid cultural evolution of superbly designed adaptations to particular environments… This opens the door to the spread of "maladaptive" ideas, ideas that would never evolve in a nonculture organism.
Genes and culture coevolve. Because culture creates durable changes in human behavior, human genes evolve in a culturally constructed environment. This environment, in turn, generates selection on genes… Much of what human organic evolution has been about is the coevolution of capacities for culture and cultural traditions."
Think of culture as a pool of information, mainly stored in the brains of a population of people. This information gets transmitted from one brain to another by various social learning processes. We define culture as follows: Culture is information capable of affecting individuals' behavior that they acquire from other members of their species by teaching, imitation, and other forms of social transmission. By "information", we mean any individual attribute that is acquired or modified by social learning and affects behavior.
"human-style social learning creates a novel evolutionary trade-off. Social learning allows human populations to accumulate reservoirs of adaptive information over many generations, leading to the cumulative cultural evolution of highly adaptive behaviors and technology. Because this process is much faster than genetic evolution, it allows populations to evolve (culturally) adaptations to local environments… However, the same psychological mechanisms that create this benefit necessarily come with a built-in cost. To get the benefits of social learning, human have to be credulous, for the most part accepting the ways that they observe in their society as sensible and proper, but such credulity opens human minds to the spread of maladaptive beliefs. The problem is one of information costs. The advantage of culture is that individuals don't have to invent everything for themselves."
"The human species is a spectacular evolutionary anomaly, and we ought to expect that the evolutionary system behind it is anomalous as well."
"Ecological-Evolutionary Theory" by Gerhard Lenski
"Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology" by Nolan and Lenski
"Principles of Human Ecology" by Peter Richerson et al
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Linked IN is a very interesting online community where you can connect to other business people based on common associations, industry, education, etc. It's hard to describe but free to setup, so check it out.
Take a look at my profile on Linked In and become a connection of mine.


Princeton author and journalist Chris Hedges has won a major victory in his effort to protect civil liberties and constitutional rights, with a federal judge ruling in his favor yesterday and striking down clauses of the National Defense Authorization Act as unconstitutional.
A portion of the act that was signed by Obama at the end of last year grants the government the power to put U.S. citizens in military detention indefinitely and without any recourse in civil courts. Hedges and other journalists and activists, including Noam Chomsky, promptly challenged the law in a federal lawsuit. Hedges was represented by Princeton lawyers Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer.
The suit argued that the law, which allowed for the detention of anyone with "substantial supported ties" to al-Qaeda, the Taliban or other "associated forces" was so broad that it infringed on their own first-amendment rights as writers, activists and journalists. Hedges, for example, interviews people with ties to terrorist groups in the Middle East in his capacity as an investigative reporter.
U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest said yesterday that Hedges and the other plaintiffs in the case had a reasonable fear that they could be subject to detention.
In her 112-page ruling, Forrest acknowledged the importance of the government's efforts to safeguard the country from terrorism, but said the act is overly broad and vague. She said the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits and law curtailing free speech, and that the Fifth Amendment requires that individuals understand what conduct could warrant to criminal or civil penalties.
The government argued that the issue is not the court's business and that courts could consider individual habeas corpus petitions from prisoners who have been detained.
The government is expected to appeal the ruling, and Hedges had vowed to keep fighting if that happens.


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Politics|Joe Biden's Role in '90s Crime Law Could Haunt Any Presidential Bid
Joe Biden's Role in '90s Crime Law Could Haunt Any Presidential Bid
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., center, in 1994 as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, during a debate on the crime bill.CreditCreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times
By Nicholas Fandos
WASHINGTON — When Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1987, a few months ahead of his first and ultimately unsuccessful presidential campaign, he told aides his goal was to enact legislation that would take a comprehensive approach to reducing crime.
As the ranking minority member of the committee since 1981, Mr. Biden had helped pass two bills establishing mandatory minimums for drug offenses. But as chairman, facing high violent crime rates, a crack cocaine epidemic, and accusations by Republicans that his party was soft on crime, Mr. Biden wanted holistic reform.
The effort, which defined much of his time as committee chairman, culminated in the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, a sweeping, bipartisan bill that touched nearly every aspect of American law enforcement that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
More than two decades later, that legislation is once again the subject of fierce debate — this time, as a bipartisan coalition of activists and lawmakers seeks to undo the era of mass incarceration they say the 1994 crime bill helped create.
The rapid shift in mood that those efforts reflect — a reaction to falling crime rates and a renewed attention to issues of racial injustice — could prove one of many hurdles for Mr. Biden if he decides to become a candidate for president.
Already, in the 2016 presidential race, criminal justice has commanded a level of attention unseen since the 1990s and has compelled both Republicans and Democrats to have something new to say about it. For Mr. Biden to win support from the young voters who were critical to President Obama's election victories, according to activists like Jeremy Haile, he will need to show his views have evolved.
"Any Democrat that is interested in gaining support among the current electorate, particularly the progressive civil rights communities, is going to have to say that previous tough-on-crime policies were a mistake," said Mr. Haile, federal advocacy counsel at the Sentencing Project.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who in a sense faces the same challenge, addressed the issue in her first major policy speech as a candidate in April. Amid violent protests and riots in Baltimore, Mrs. Clinton made an emotional appeal to overhaul an "out-of-balance" criminal justice system and end "the era of mass incarceration."
Who Is Running for President?
Donald J. Trump officially accepted the Republican party's nomination on July 22. Hillary Clinton was officially nominated on July 26 at the Democratic Convention.
A representative for the vice president said in a statement that Mr. Biden had always opposed certain "elements of the law — like the three-strikes measure — that he did not think would function as their proponents intended." And he felt that other parts of the law, like relief from mandatory minimum sentences for certain first-time nonviolent drug offenders, should have gone further, the representative said.
The vice president's office also said Mr. Biden had played a "critical" role in the Obama administration's continuing efforts to overhaul the system, meeting with members of Congress and participating in "high-level staff discussions."
In a sign of the shifting mood, former President Bill Clinton, who long viewed the crime legislation as a major achievement of his administration, told the national convention of the N.A.A.C.P. in July that it in fact went too far in toughening sentencing standards and thus contributed to mass incarceration, a once controversial term now widely used.
"I signed a bill that made the problem worse," Mr. Clinton said. "And I want to admit it."
Despite reservations, Mr. Biden, who has served as the Obama administration's unofficial liaison to the law enforcement community, has not only stood by the 1994 legislation, but has also frequently taken credit for it. As recently as this spring, in an essay on community policing for a book of bipartisan reform proposals put together by the Brennan Center for Justice, Mr. Biden referred to the legislation as the "1994 Biden Crime Bill."
Mr. Clinton wrote in a foreword to the book that "our nation has too many people in prison and for too long — we have overshot the mark." Mr. Biden, in contrast, stressed the success of the bill's community policing measures, which he said had achieved their goals before funding was cut.
And in an interview with Time magazine in February 2014, he said, "I am not only the guy who did the crime bill and the drug czar, but I'm also the guy who spent years when I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee and chairman of [the Senate Foreign Relations Committee] trying to change drug policy relative to cocaine, for example, crack and powder."
Activists say it would take an acknowledgment by Mr. Biden similar to Mr. and Mrs. Clinton's to begin to get the ear of the young minority voters so crucial to Mr. Obama's coalition.
"Many of us who grew up in the black community in the '90s," said Patrisse Cullors, a political organizer and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, "we witnessed the wave in which the policies that came from both federal government but also local government tore our families apart."
"I think that any person coming to office who was really a part of that is going to have to deal with a large amount of criticism from those who were affected by this policy," she said.
Just as important, Ms. Cullors said, is for candidates to offer concrete proposals to roll back policies that have contributed to racial disparities in the criminal justice system and replace them with new ones "that are about valuing black life."
Those are very different terms from those that filled the national conversation during Mr. Biden's tenure as Judiciary Committee chairman from 1987 to 1995, a period when Democrats fought hard to revise a caricature of the party as soft on crime.
The 1994 crime bill provided tens of billions of dollars to put thousands of additional police on the streets, build new prisons, increase border protection, and fund crime prevention programs. It included several measures — including the Violence Against Women Act and a federal ban on certain assault weapons — that remain popular among many Democrats.
But it also eliminated Pell Grants for prison inmates, criminalized gang membership, contained $9.7 billion in funding for new prisons, established a three-strikes provision that mandated life sentences for people with two or more prior convictions found to have committed a violent felony, and gave states incentives to lengthen sentences. These measures, many experts now say, helped give the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Today, about 2.2 million Americans are locked up in federal and state prisons and local jails, twice as many as when Mr. Clinton took office.
Aides from Mr. Biden's time on the Judiciary Committee said that he had to make compromises, including on sentencing disparities between cases involving powder cocaine and those involving crack cocaine, which disproportionately affected African-Americans, to ensure the passage of otherwise good legislation. They also said that by the time the 1994 bill was drafted, Mr. Biden had come to oppose mandatory minimum sentencing.
In 2007, during his last presidential bid, Mr. Biden introduced legislation that would have eased that disparity. The following year he offered another bill that aimed to confront systematic racial inequities. Neither measure passed, though another Biden-backed bill that provided increased resources to ease former offenders' re-entry into the community, the Second Chance Act, was enacted around the same time.
Brittany Packnett, a St. Louis-based activist who is a member of Mr. Obama's 21st Century Policing task force, said that when she and other activists met with Mr. Biden and other White House officials last December, it was apparent that the vice president understood the urgency of the issue.
"People at their best always evolve," Ms. Packnett said. "But we need to be told the story of that evolution. This needs to be clarified for us such that any plan that he puts forward addressing this would be seen as believable."
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: In New Climate, '94 Crime Bill Could Cloud a Biden Bid for President. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe
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A Southampton-based boat renovator has been jailed for claiming £1.7m in VAT repayments after his company had folded.
Christopher Rogers (pictured above) was a director and shareholder in MSC (Europe) Ltd, which changed its name to Akasia Ltd in May 2010 and ceased trading shortly afterwards.
However, the 50-year-old continued to claim VAT repayments to support his lavish lifestyle, including buying a Mercedes and a yacht, HM Revenue & Customs reports.
What's more, Rogers had not paid any income tax on his £125,000 annual salary since 2008, meaning he personally owed the Revenue more than £63,000. He was finally arrested by HMRC in September 2013.
Rogers was sentenced to serve two consecutive terms totalling five and a half years at Southampton Crown Court yesterday (May 18) and banned from being a company director for ten years.
John Cooper, assistant director of criminal investigation at HMRC, said: "Rogers used the cash to prop up his other failing businesses and contributed nothing to the public purse for years; shamelessly expecting taxpayers to fund a lifestyle that most people can only dream of.


Preface: If you know teachers looking for work in Canada, please share this article with them. It could be just what they need.
Canada. It's a big country. 30 million people means plenty of schools. And that means plenty of teaching positions, right?
At Athona, we know that's not the case. Teaching in Canada is so over-subscribed, there are 4,000 too many entering the workplace – every year. Five years after graduating, 37% of teachers still haven't found full-time work.
Good news for Canadian teachers: Under the Guaranteed Work Scheme, we can get you a teaching job in the UK. A lengthy spell of teaching in our green and pleasant land would put you head and shoulders above the competition. Does that sound good?
The key is the Tier 5 visa, which allows Canadians to work in the UK under the Youth Mobility Scheme. This enables applicants to pursue teaching roles in the UK – and do so for up to 2 years. This would be almost impossible for a brand new teacher back in Canada.
Apply 3 months before you travel.
Best of all, you do not require a sponsor.
The application process itself is entirely online, and the form can be found here.
Detailed information about the UK visa application is available here.
There are some areas to consider. For example, applications are made online, and payment (£255) is made up front online as well.
But that's not all: an appointment at a visa application centre must be booked, during which supporting documents are viewed and fingerprints are taken.
If you are a Canadian and have succeeded in your application: congratulations, we look forward to your stay.
So what happens now? Talk to us. We will find you a job before you have even started packing your bag. Your CV will become infinitely more attractive. Your teaching career will take off – and things will never be the same again.
Can we help your teaching dreams come true? Talk to our education team today on (+44)01277 245840 or email bijal.patel@athona.com and get your career moving – to the United Kingdom.
Athona is planning a visit to Canada in early 2016. Get in touch if you'd like to meet us, or if you know qualified teachers in Canada who may be interested in speaking to us.


Y'all -- my grandfather once asked my mom if she got her fashion inspiration from a bag of skittles. She took it as a compliment. She is a fan of color. She was way ahead of trend with color blocking and neon and pops of accents long before anyone said it was cool. She's never needed pantone to tell her what color is in. She's got color down. She is known for it. Ask anyone. And of course, there is absolutely no black allowed at her funeral. I love this about her.
So when I think about gifts for my mom this mother's day, I think of course in terms of color. Her favorite? Lime green. Bright and unusual, it is the perfect color for her non-shy-never-met-a-stranger self. But mixed with her love of color her style is classy and chic with pops of funk. So when I was introduced to Spartina 449 just a few weeks ago, I knew I was gonna be in the right place for Mother's day gift shopping. And whatever your mother's style is, I know you'll find Spartina perfect for her too (or yourself!).
And to make shopping easier and more fun, when you make a $35 style purchase you get to pick between two free charms, and free shipping on orders $150+.
I received a gift in exchange for this post, but all opinions are my own.
Your mom sounds like a wonderful and vibrant woman. I love that. Very you!


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Truly understanding who your best potential sponsors are, is a vital part of creating profitable and purposeful partnerships. This knowledge not only helps you create better benefits for partners, it reduces the risk of rejection (because you are no longer 'hoping' that they will see an alignment) and ultimately, it helps you focus your, already limited, time and energy on the parts that will fast track your success with sponsors.
But sometimes, in our time pressured, resource-poor non-profit world, we throw the doors open to send a proposal or make contact with brands before we've taken the time to fully understand how this could work, where the alignment between their core business and your core mission lies and whether there are real opportunities for mutual success.
That's where creating an Ideal Sponsor Avatar is a vital part of the process.
Join me in this 90 minute webinar, as we not only work through the process of understanding your sponsors, but step into their shoes and see the world of sponsorship through their lens.
What is an Ideal Sponsor Avatar and why do you need it?
Understanding your sponsor's needs and goals is essential more creating successful, sustainable partnerships.
How to create and craft your Ideal Sponsor Avatar.
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An Ideal Sponsor Avatar worksheet to give you absolute clarity on who your ideal sponsors are and where the perfect alignment lies.


This is well worth a look, Musicthoughts.com click here. Plenty of good advice and wisdom.
Posted in Curriculum, education, improvisation, jazz, Jazz blog, jazz improvisation, jazz musician, learning jazz, learning tools, Music practice, Practice and tagged as music education, Practice.


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Q: What are the advantages of roller compaction granulation compared to traditional wet granulation?
Granulation is a process in which primary powder particles adhere to each other, resulting in larger, homogeneous, multiparticle entities called granules. In wet granulation, manufacturers add a liquid binder to the powder blend and then dry the mixture, causing the primary particles to bind together and form granules. However, the use of liquids and high drying temperatures makes wet granulation unsuitable as a manufacturing method for some moisture- or heat-sensitive blends or blends with low melting points.
Q: What is the best way to clean tablet compression tooling?
Punches and dies are a big investment that you should protect by careful handling and thorough cleaning. Dirty tooling is the chief cause of tablet-press failure, and clean tooling is critical to producing consistent, high-quality tablets. Clean punches and dies are essential to maintaining the integrity and efficiency of your tooling. Excessively worn or improperly maintained tools can create downstream production difficulties and a perception of poor quality for the consumer.
This article discusses the safety, product stability, and consumer convenience benefits of blister packaging for solid oral dosage pharmaceutical products.
Invented in the early 1960s and heralded for its convenience and security, the blister pack was designed to improve medication compliance. Indeed, for the birth-control pill, which became the first pharmaceutical product to leverage the blister-pack format, patient compliance was critical. For the pill to be effective in preventing pregnancy, Schering (now Bayer) needed a packaging format that made it easy for consumers to administer doses regularly over a set period of time. The development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and copolymers with good thermoforming capabilities, along with tempered aluminum foil as a lidding material, helped make commercialization of the blister pack possible .
More than 50 years later, the blister pack is becoming increasingly popular as a packaging format perfectly suited for today's security-minded consumers and regulators. Blister packaging not only works well with track-and-trace and serialization protocols but also helps with anti-counterfeiting efforts. And the blister pack remains the best packaging format for improving patient compliance, whether for an over-the-counter (OTC) pain reliever or a groundbreaking clinical-trial medication.
For more information on this topic, you can read the article "Blister packaging: Benefits, trends, and innovations," by Tom Egan, PMMI. You can also find articles listed under "Packaging" in Tablets & Capsules' Article Archive.
FDA issues draft Guidance on quality considerations for continuous manufacturing.
FDA issues draft Guidance on bioavailability studies for NDAs or INDs.
FDA issues draft Guidance on developing nicotine replacement therapy drug products.
FDA issues draft Guidance on assessing the effects of food on drugs in INDs and NDAs.
FDA approves Lonsurf (trifluridine/tipiracil) for previously treated adenocarcinoma.
Azelis acquires Chemroy Canada Holdings.
NSF International to provide pre-assessment audits for new GRMA standards.
To find more information about equipment suppliers at the Tablets & Capsules website, click here.
Interphex April 2-4 in New York, NY.
Cardiovascular Physiology, Pharmacology, and Safety online course April 3-May 29.
Regulatory Education for Industry (REdI): Generic Drug Forum April 3-4 in College Park, MD.
Tablet Compression Training April 9 in Holbrook, NY and Cypress, CA.
Storage and Flow of Bulk Solids in Hoppers, Bins, and Silos April 9-11 in Salina, KS.
Solid Dose Manufacturing and Troubleshooting April 9-12 in Cleveland, OH.
Pharmintech 2019 April 10-12 in Bologna, Italy.
Granulation, Tabletting, and Capsule Technology April 15-18 in New Brunswick, NJ.
Intro to Tablet Press Operations April 25 in Cypress, CA.
Process Enhancement through Quality-by-Design April 25-26 in Iselin, NJ.
CPhI North America April 30-May 2 in Chicago, IL.
Excipient World Conference and Expo May 6-8 in National Harbor, MD.
Granulation and Compression Workshop May 7 in Salt Lake City, UT.
Encapsulation May 7-9 in Cleveland, OH.
Cannabis Tablets: Common Issues, Tips, and Solutions May 8-9 in Cypress, CA.
To find more events and continuing education opportunities at the Tablets & Capsules website, click here.
Send your feedback or questions to Peggy Wright at pwright@cscpub.com.


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Ian Glazer is an international leader in identity, having held key positions in multi-national corporations advising them on the development of identity strategies. Ian is no stranger to higher education and its challenges in the support of research and education in a global context, having participated in Internet2 meetings in the past. Most recently, Ian has been providing thought leadership about the maturing of identity, identity practice, standards, and professional development. Ian will speak on "The Changing Face/Fate of Identity" at Global Summit, sharing important insights with the our community as it grows its trust and identity practices and defines future needs.
Keynote Speaker Ian Glazer
Ian Glazer is the Senior Director for Identity, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include leading the product management team, product strategy and identity standards work. Prior to that, he was a research vice president and agenda manager on the Identity and Privacy Strategies team at Gartner where he oversaw the team's research. He is the founder and Chair of the Kantara Initiative Identity Professionals Discussion Group and was a founding member of the Management Council and Board of Directors for the US Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG). During his decade plus time in the identity industry he has co-authored a patent on federated user provisioning, co-authored the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) Version 2 specification, contributed to the System for Cross Domain Identity Management (SCIM) Version 2 specification, and is a noted blogger, speaker, and photographer of his socks.


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CD interview 2: Alexandra Gardner and Ariel Marx
This post is the second in the series of mini interviews I will be doing with all of the composers and performers featured on my upcoming CD. Find out more information about that project and how YOU can help me make it happen here: http://bit.ly/2negR1Z
There are also some clips from a live performance in this video so please have a listen
Last week I introduced two composers who wrote two unaccompanied trumpet pieces that will featured on my CD. Today I am very excited to introduce Alex Gardner and Ariel Marx, both who wrote pieces for this CD featuring electronics.
How did you first get into music and composition?
Alex:I grew up playing piano and singing in my school chorus, so I've always been into music, and I love all kinds of music. But I didn't start composing until college—I signed up for an electronic music course my freshman year, and became completely obsessed with making my own sounds. I was hooked from day one!
Ariel: Born to musical parents, I fell in love with music at a very young age listening my mother and father sing and play guitar and piano. There's video evidence of me "composing" at a very young age, constantly singing about everything that came to my mind. Another way I feel in love with music was how it helped tell stories in film. One thing led to another, and I pursued my masters in composition at NYU with a concentration in Scoring for Film and Multimedia.
What was your inspiration for this piece?
Alex: Ituri was inspired by the following quote, from an unknown author, which I found (completely by accident) on a scrap of paper lying in the street in Baltimore, Maryland:
"When bad times befell the inhabitants of the Ituri forest in Central Africa, they assumed that their misfortune was due to the fact that the benevolent forest, which usually provided for all their needs, had accidentally fallen asleep. At that point, the leaders of the group would dig up the sacred horns buried underground, and blow on them for days and nights on end, in an attempt to wake up the forest, thus restoring the good times."
Ariel: This past year a dear friend introduced me to audio NASA released called "Celestial Music" — a recording of sound waves emitted from several stars and planets. This inspired me to create a piece using this audio, as well as trumpet and electric guitar.
What is new /exciting/ upcoming for you / currently working on?
Alex: I am currently writing a new piece for saxophone quartet with electronics, and I look forward to a composer residency with the Seattle Symphony in 2018. I will be composing a new work for the orchestra, as well as leading their Young Composer Workshop, and doing some community-based music-making with LGBTQ youth.
Ariel: I'm currently working on several short films, and have just started a feature film.
Who are your inspiring women heroes? Musical or not, and why?
Alex: I have several, but one of the most important ones is my composition teacher from college, Annea Lockwood. She has led an adventurous and uncompromising life, and is one of the best people I know in the world. Another hero is Pauline Oliveros (speaking of adventurous lives!). I love the way she was always able to shed light on all of life's creative possibilities.
Ariel: Kaija Saariaho for her sonic exploration and imagination, Mary Oliver for her words of wisdom and inspiration, Amelia Earhart for fearlessness determination. What do you think we can do to change the music culture to be more inclusive of women and other less visibly prominent composers and performers? Alex: HUGE question! I think we as artists must do everything possible to "be seen and heard" in the musical world, by serving as good musical citizens and positive role models for all other artists. I think our musical culture is hampered by a general scarcity mindset, and I'd love for it to be more focused on creativity than upon competition. Visible role models as well as a shift in cultural attitude might help attract more young women to the field.
Ariel: Keep active in discovering new musicians and composers, create a team of collaborators that represent all minorities, create, find, and share work (such as creating this album) for and with all of our sisters.
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Repost from Brass Chicks blog: Today's post is written by our very own Kate Amrine who is gearing up for a busy fall semester of teaching and performing. We believe today's post will appeal to all fel