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            <form name="editMaterialForm">

                    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true"></button>

Edit Material

                                <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.name" ng-pattern="/^([\w-]+)$/" required>
                                Material Name

                                <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.repositoryUrl"
                                        ng-pattern="/^(https:\/\/*.+)$/" required>
                                Git URL

                                <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.branch" id="editGitBranch">
                                Branch

                                        <input type="checkbox" class="md-check" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.isPollingForChanges" id="editGitPoll">

                                             Poll for changes

                                        <input type="checkbox" class="md-check" ng-model="pipeConfig.hasCredentials" id="editGitCredentials">

                                             Credentials

                                    <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.username" required>
                                    Username

                                    <input type="password" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.password" required>
                                    Password

                            <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.name">
                            Material Name

                            <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.url">
                            Url

                            <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.projectPath">
                            Project Path

                            <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.domain">
                            Domain

                            <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.username">
                            Username

                            <input type="password" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.password">
                            Password

                                    <input type="checkbox" class="md-check" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.isPollingForChanges" id="editTfsPoll">

                                         Poll for changes

                            <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.name" ng-pattern="/^([\w-]+)$/" required>
                            Material Name

                            <input type="url" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.repositoryUrl" required>
                            Url

                            <input type="text" class="form-control" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.packageId" required>
                            Package

                                    <input type="checkbox" class="md-check" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.isPollingForChanges" id="editNugetPoll">

                                         Poll for changes

                                    <input type="checkbox" class="md-check" ng-model="pipeConfig.material.includePrerelease" id="editNugetPrerelease">

                                         Include Pre-Release

                    <button submit-button type="button" class="btn btn-danger" data-dismiss="modal" ng-disabled="editMaterialForm.$invalid"
                            ng-click="pipeConfig.editMaterial(pipeConfig.material)">Edit Material</button>
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Q: PostOrder Traversal Java I am trying to return a string representation of my tree after a post order traversal but it is giving me the works. Seems like a simple enough code but I can't seem to get it. Debugging isn't of much help either. I lose track of what I'm supposed to be looking at. What is going wrong here?
I know using a string in this sense is bad practice but I was just throwing something together. I could have used a string buffer or something else but now I'm stumped as to why this is not working and would like to figure out the reason.
  public String postOrderTraversal(){
        String answer = "";
        return postOrderTraversal(root, answer);
    }

    private String postOrderTraversal(Node aux, String answer){
        if(aux == null){
            return "";
        }
        else{
            postOrderTraversal(aux.left, answer);
            postOrderTraversal(aux.right, answer);
            answer += aux.data;
        }

        return answer;

    }

A: You are not adding the post-order traversals of the subtrees. You can correct it as
private String postOrderTraversal(Node aux) {
    if(aux == null) return "";
    return postOrderTraversal(aux.left) + postOrderTraversal(aux.right) + aux.data;
}

A: Strings are immutable objects. Just passing the reference won't update the return values. You should try StringBuilder.
public String postOrderTraversal(){
    StringBuilder answer  = new StringBuilder();
    postOrderTraversal(root, answer);
    return answer.toString();
}

private void postOrderTraversal(Node aux, StringBuilder answer){
    if(aux == null){
        return;
    }
    else{
        postOrderTraversal(aux.left, answer);
        postOrderTraversal(aux.right, answer);
        answer.append(aux.data);
    }
}

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package net.iskandar.examples.project_management.domain;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name="EMPLOYEE_ROLES")
public class EmployeeRole extends BaseEntity {

	@ManyToOne(optional=false)
	@JoinColumn(name="EMPLOYEE_ID", nullable=false, updatable=false)
	private Employee employee;

	@ManyToOne(optional=false)
	@JoinColumn(name="ROLE_ID", nullable=false, updatable=false)
	private Role role;

	public Employee getEmployee() {
		return employee;
	}

	public void setEmployee(Employee employee) {
		this.employee = employee;
	}

	public Role getRole() {
		return role;
	}

	public void setRole(Role role) {
		this.role = role;
	}

}


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https://www.barrons.com/articles/nearly-done-rockefeller-collection-sale-reaches-830-million-1526076009
Rockefeller Collection Sale Reaches $832.6 Million
Abby Schultz
Diego Rivera's "The Rivals," 1931, sold for nearly $9.8 million at Christie's Wednesday evening "Art of the Americas" auction. The high estimate was $7 million. Courtesy of Christie's
The sale of Peggy and David Rockefeller's vast collection of paintings, decorative arts, and furniture via six live auctions and several online sales has realized US$832.6 million, exceeding Christie's tempered expectations of a US$500 million sale.
Christie's efforts to bring in a wide swath of buyers from across the world succeeded in raising the money the Rockefeller family hoped for to fund a dozen charitable organizations they had long supported. The Rockefellers had made bequests totaling about US$700 million to organizations ranging from the Museum of Modern Art to the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, which they planned to fund with this sale.
Christie's, which toured items for sale to the auction house's locations across the world, "did a great job of making this a global event—not just an art market event but a nostalgic event for New York society and an interesting event in the philanthropic world," says Evan Beard, U.S. Trust's national art services executive.
A tempered success
Still, the fact that the sale was dominated in the view of some collectors by "yesterday's taste"—from English furniture and porcelain to American art—meant it wasn't a "rip-roaring success," according to Philip Hoffman, chief executive of The Fine Art Group, a global art investment, finance and advisory firm in London. Hoffman also pointed to the fact that high guarantees on some paintings didn't draw competing bids in some cases. Pablo Picasso's Rose Period Fillette à la corbeille fleurie, which sold for US$115 million, including fees, was among those bought by the guarantor. A Christie's spokeswoman says the auction house cannot comment on client relationships.
Willem de Kooning's "Untitled XIX," 1982, an oil and charcoal work on canvas, sold for $14.2 million, above a high estimate of $8 million. Courtesy of Christie's
Auction houses will seek third-party guarantees by wealthy individuals and art dealers to offset some of the risk in a big auction. At Christie's, a guarantee requires a third-party to place an irrevocable bid on a work, committing the guarantor to bid on it, and if no other bids emerge, to buy the lot, according to the auction house.
Nearly a third of the pieces in the Tuesday evening sale of 19th and 20th century art carried guarantees. According to Hoffman, Eugène Delacroix's Tigre jouant avec une tortue, which sold for US$9.9 million, with fees, and Jean-Baptiste-Camilee Corot's Venise, vue du Quai des Esclavons, which sold for US$9 million, with fees, "went to the trade," referring to the guarantors. The Delacroix was estimated to sell for at least US$7 million and the Corot for at least US$8 million.
Smaller items make big impact
In addition to the online auctions, the final total will include the June 12 sale of 19 pieces of Rockefeller jewelry, including a Raymond Yard 5.63-carat rectangular step-up diamond engagement ring that David Rockefeller gave to Peggy McGrath in 1940 when he asked to marry her. Rockefeller withdrew his savings of US$4,000 to buy the ring, which is now expected to sell for between US$80,000 and US$120,000.
There's of course a chance the ring, like a number of items offered for sale this past week, will sail past the estimate. That was the case with items in every Rockefeller auction, from the US$85 million paid for Claude Monet's Nymphéas en fleur, which carried a US$50 million pre-sale estimate, to the Rockefeller money clip featuring an openwork gold plaque depicting Rockefeller Center, which sold for US$75,000, far above its US$1,200 high estimate.
"My sense is the provenance and the Rockefeller cache did more for the lower value works than the masterpieces," says U.S. Trust's Beard. "This is true of most auctions—as you climb the estimate ladder, the provenance has less of an effect."
Yet it's significant that all lots at the six live auctions were sold and that each resulted in totals far above Christie's stated estimates beginning with the marquee event, Tuesday evening's sale of 19th and 20th century art. That auction raised $646.1 million, significantly more than the US$490 million estimate.
The five live auctions that followed were no exception. The Art of the Americas evening sale on Wednesday, featuring paintings by Willem de Kooning, Gilbert Stewart and Diego Rivera, raised US$106.9 million, more than double the US$45 million estimate. Earlier that day, after eight hours of bidding, the first part of the sale of English and European furniture, ceramics, and decorations raised $12.4 million, far more than the US$2.5 million estimate.
Engaging more than just a 'tight group of billionaire art collectors'
The headlines from the Americas sale included a bidding battle for de Kooning's Untitled XIX, an end-of-career work that sold for $14.3 million, far above its US$8 million estimate. The $9.72 million paid for Rivera's The Rivals broke the record for a Latin American artist that had been held by Rivera's wife, Frida Kahlo. Kahlo's Dos desnudos en el bosque (La tierra misma) sold for US$8 million in 2013 at a Christie's auction.
While some Rockefeller works may have been bought at the guarantee level, the sale did succeed in engaging a wide group of buyers beyond the "tight group of billionaire art collectors" who likely drove sales the first night, which was dominated by impressionist and modern works, Beard says.
"My sense is Christie's went into the sale pleased to break even when they did the deal," he says. "But they ended up selling into a very strong market, the Rockefeller provenance probably proved stronger than anticipated and they got quite lucky in the sense there's been this bull market for Picassos and post-impressionist works, and very strong Asian buying."
But Hoffman at The Fine Art Group said the sale suffered from high estimates and the fact it didn't have the big contemporary names—like Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol or Francis Bacon—which have attracted big buyers lately. "The whole of my generation, age 30 to 60, are piling into art from the '50s onward," he says.
Next week, when landmark pieces by Warhol, Rothko, Bacon as well as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock and Richard Diebenkorn go on sale at both Sotheby's and Christie's, it will reveal how much appetite the market has for contemporary art.
The sale of Peggy and David Rockefeller's vast collection of paintings, decorative arts, and furniture via six live auctions and several online sales has realized US$832.

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Fundraising for The Gauchers Association Limited
Jon & Emma's Vitality Big Half page!
We're running to raise money and awareness for The Gauchers Association Limited because it's a great charity and a fantastic cause!
Event: The Vitality Big Half, 10 Mar 2019
The Gauchers Association Limited
We fund & support research to improve the lives of Gaucher patients
On Sunday 10th March we'll be donning our running gear to take part in the Vitality Big Half Marathon!
The race is a newcomer to the UK's running scene, having only launched last year, but it's proved a very popular event (last year's 'Big Half' was won by Sir Mo Farah) and has helped to encourage more people to get into running.
More importantly, though, we're taking part in the 13.1-mile race to raise money and awareness for the Gauchers Association. The charity supports sufferers of Gaucher disease, a genetic disorder that affects 6,000 people around the world.
The charity is one close to Masthaven's heart – CEO Andrew Bloom is a director and treasurer of the Gauchers Association and we have done a number of fundraising events for them in the past, including when Andrew and myself dressed up as the 118 characters for the Great North Run, raising more than £9,000 in the process!
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Jon & Emma
The Gauchers Association was formed in 1991 and is the only registered UK charity providing support to individuals and families affected by Gaucher disease, acting as the centre point for the Gaucher community working alongside medical professionals, scientists and pharmaceutical industry.


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Marco Zappacosta on Thumbtack's evolving business model
Steven Loeb · April 27, 2015 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/3d5b
Thumbtack tried a transaction model, and a subscription fee, before hitting on its intro-based model
While not everyone believes in the power of pivoting, the reality is that some companies have to do it to survive, and it really does sometimes work.
Take Thumbtack, for example. The company currently makes money by having professionals pay to contact customers through Thumbtack credits, which are used by professionals to send quotes to customers. They only pay to quote, and Thumbtack does not charge commission on jobs they complete or future jobs that they book with the same customer and their referrals.
This is not its first business model, though, In fact, it had to try out three different methods before getting it right, one of which was generating $2 million in revenue at the time before it was dropped. Pivoting, in this case, put the company on the track for success.
At Vator's second ever Splash Oakland event this past Thursday, founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta sat down with Vator founder and CEO Bambi Francisco to discuss why the company felt the need to pivot so many times and how it ultimately helped Thumbtack ultimately become successful.
What was the thought process behind a marketplace business model, and why did you make those decisions, Francisco asked him.
"I don't know if it was because we were sort of dumb, or if we weren't sort of seeing things correctly, but it took us three tries to get it right," Zappacosta said.
The company's first attempt involved a fee on every transaction made on the site.
"When we came into it we wanted to monetize the marketplace by charging a transaction fee. You looked at eBay, you looked at these other marketplaces, and that was the sort of 'normal' monetization scheme" he explained. "
The challenge in our case, which made it much harder to pull off, is that these are real world transactions. The plumber is coming to your house, therefore staying in the loop, knowing when they actually came, how much the job closed for, is actually tricky. And that made it hard for us to get in the middle of that."
He also pointed to "an even more fundamental issue," which was the site was "helping customers hire by giving them options," noting that "when you don't charge a professional anything for getting in touch with a customer, they tend to respond to all of them," thereby making the transaction model even more untenable for the site.
Thumbtack them tried a subscription model, charging a $24 monthly fee for customers to use the site.
"The reason we focused on it was it was clear, it was easy to explain, it was easy for the professional to evaluate and it worked. I think at our height we had 12,000 paying subscribers, and $2 or $3 million in recurring revenue," he said. "But the challenge there was that it didn't scale with the activity of the marketplace. If we double the number of customers, doubled the number of dollars we driving to these professionals, we weren't making any more money. And also, in the reverse case, when the professionals went on vacation, or had a bunch of business from past customers, they wanted to turn us off, but with the subscription it was always on."
This resulted in Thumbtack either over-charging, or under-charging, "but never right-charging" the professionals on the site. This all led to the introduction based model it currently has in place.
"We'd done a lot of testing around it, so we felt good about it, but it's still scary to move over a whole population and community over to a new business model. It was super scary, but, thankfully, it worked and was definitely the right thing and it propelled us forward."
Later on, Zappacosta took a question from an audience member, who asked him if having more people on the site made it harder to control the quality of each professional on Thumbtack, to which he responded to by talking about matching up the right customer and professional and how the current model helps make that possible.
"I don't think, actually. more makes it harder to control quality. And I think the challenge is the specificity of each customer's preference. It's not that everybody has the same quality of offers, or the same preferences. It's that everybody has different preferences," he said.
"That's actually what makes this super hard. Because it's more straightforward to create a floor and keep everybody above that. It's actually much harder to find the right pro for each customer, And, at the end of the day, the only real solution is applying a lot data and then intelligence on top of that data."
The intro-based model is also helpful because "it gives the professional all the discretion."
"They see everything the customer wants. The who, the what, the when, the where. And if they feel like they're a good fit, and they can win that job, then they pay Thumbtack to be introduced, which actually increases the quality of the introductions because these professionals are qualifying themselves."
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Thumbtack.com
Joined Vator on September 18, 2009
Thumbtack helps you accomplish the personal projects that are central to your life.
Whether you need to paint your home, learn a new language, or plan your daughter's birthday party, Thumbtack is the easiest and most dependable way to hire the right professional for your projects.
Get started by answering a few questions about your specific needs. Within hours, Thumbtack will introduce you to several available and qualified professionals. Compare custom quotes, reviews, and profiles and hire when you're ready.
By connecting customers like you to the right pros, we enable independent professionals to grow their businesses and do what they love. We're proud that many of our pros have doubled or even tripled the size of their businesses through Thumbtack.
Thumbtack is available nationwide for more than 700 project categories.
Marco Zappacosta
Marco Zappacosta is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Thumbtack.
Today's Entrepreneur: Marco Zappacosta
Marco Zappacosta: I succeeded by not knowing any better
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For me, taking pictures of a sunset has always been challenging. The advice from professional photographers is to be patient and to make sure you do not leave the scene when the sun goes down below the horizon. At that point most people go home, but the best colors come in the few minutes afterwards.
A couple of years ago, we went to Brigantine, NJ to catch the sunset. I walked on the beach, watching the sun go down and took a dozen pictures, most like this one below.
They were okay but not great. I had expected better and more vibrant colors. Disappointed, I packed up, got back to the car where my wife was waiting and we decided to go home. I had to drive to the end of the island, just about 100 ft away, to turn around. By the time I began the turn a red glow coming from the rear window filled the inside of the car. The sky was ablaze in crimson and purple. I rushed to a spot on the back bay of Brigantine and spent the next 15 minutes clicking away for the most beautiful sunset that we had seen in a long time.
Some people who have seen the photo above could not believe the colors and thought I had photoshopped them in. But they are the real colors of that day.
So the next time you take photos of a sunset, don't leave too soon. Linger around even after the sun can no longer be seen. The best may yet to come after that.


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Two Audacious Bets
By Paul Rigg
It is difficult to believe now that the debut album of The Police, released 40 years ago this week, was an outrageous double-bet at the time.
Firstly because Stewart Copeland's brother, Miles, lent the band 1,500 pounds (approx 8,200 pounds in today's currency) to allow them to record music he didn't actually like, and promised a further 2,000 pounds to the studio, apparently on the basis of brotherly love.
And secondly because while The Police's debut album had punk elements in it, it was also tinged with reggae and mellow, even romantic, songs.
In fact many at the time argued strongly that the punk sound was nothing more than a shallow attempt at manipulation; many from the punk fraternity hated the band. As one critic wrote: "For all its surface threat, there's no danger in this music, none of the spontaneity or passion that punk (and reggae) demands… The lack of emotional commitment becomes truly offensive in the minstrel-show Natty Dread accent that Sting puts on for the reggae numbers." In attempting to navigate a 'middle way' between two genres, the band seriously risked alienating fans of both punk and reggae music.
However, as just about everyone now knows, several singles from the album became huge classics, and in 2013 Rolling Stone put the album at number 38 on its list of best debuts of all time. Sting, on bass guitar and vocals, went on to become a superstar. On the other hand, Police's enormously talented rhythm section, comprising Andy Summers on guitar and Stewart Copeland on drums, also became music legends. Miles, it might be presumed, had no reason to regret his early generosity…
Miles Copeland, in fact, played an even more important role in The Police's early success. While it is true that both the album and, in particular, the track Roxanne failed to make an initial impact on the charts, it was he who first saw the potential. The band were initially a bit embarrassed by Roxanne because it was slow and didn't really fit in with the rest of their material. Miles however immediately thought it was outstanding and, incredibly, within 24 hours of hearing it had managed to secure a record deal.
Since then the reggae/tango song about a prostitute, with its impossibly catchy refrain "Roxanne…you don't have to put on the red light", has been hummed uncountable times all over the world. The mix of Sting's strong bassline, on what appears to be a Fender Precision, and Summer's sparse, skanky, guitar chords, with use of an Echoplex, gave the band a huge international hit.
Can't Stand Losing You, about young suicide, was the second single to be released from the album and caused controversy because the cover showed Stewart with a noose around his neck. But in June 1979 it made number 2 in the UK charts. The Police followed this up with another reggae-tinged track, So Lonely, the album's longest song, which reached No. 6 in the UK charts.
Some argue that the remaining tracks on the album are much weaker but they are, at the very least, experimental. Next To You contains a lovely guitar slide solo by Summers; Hole in My Life is complex instrumentally; Peanuts, Born in the 50s and Truth Hits Everybody showcase driving punk rhythms; and Be My Girl-Sally contains possibly the world's first love song to a blow-up doll. The album closer, exotic groover Masoko Tanga, also signals a valient change in mood and direction.
In sum, Outlandos d'Amour bravely crossed musical genres and took risks at a time when punk was in the ascendancy; it is full of energy and ideas. Very few bands produce an album of this variety and richness, and to do it on a debut is, of course, something extra special. As Sting later said of the album's recording: "We were insane in our optimism, and we were never happier."
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The Police - Born In The 50's (Beat Club performance)
The Police - Truth hits everybody - 1978
The Police - So Lonely
The Police - Roxanne
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package org.workcraft.plugins.son.util;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class StepRef extends NodesRef {

    public boolean isReverse() {
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}


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Welcome our new moderators - Gatt and Dan!
Thread title: Welcome our new moderators - Gatt and Dan!
Great, some more active moderators are clearly needed to stomp on all of that spam. If you guys can be charged with generating and leading activity outside of those stupid General Discussion "get to know you" threads, so much the better.
Gatt, I hope you're a more active moderator than you have been poster!
Congratulations on the promotion, now get to work.
We assure you now Oliver any reported post will be dealt with as soon as we receive it.
Oliver, thank you for the kind words and attitude, as well as the rest of you who believe in this community.
One of the main objectives was to build a team that can bring a variety of different things to the table and work as a unit. Not just activity from posting and moderating perspectives, but ability to lead, take charge and help craft ideas into products. I think with the appointments that we had and will have, we are hitting the target and allowing ourselves to stay more productive in the development of other ideas and projects we have on the to-do list.
I was actually thinking the same thing re: Gatt. I know I don't post on a day-to-day basis but I visit every day.. Rarely saw him post in the last few months excluding as of late. But I digress.
Good picks. Best of luck to you both.
Someone was tipping the bottle that night. :P Congrats guys!
She knows, nothing more said.
Good luck Dan and Gatt - looking forward to great things from this community.
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Starting out in the music industry and want to get your music heard?
It's easier said than done but according to DJ Target you have to "find a way to stand out".
"I know it sounds clichéd but something original and isn't on offer from another 100 artists in your area definitely helps," he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
It's just a snippet of the advice he'll be giving to some of the 15,000 budding musicians attending BBC Music's Introducing Live on Thursday.
He also says the key to success in 2018 is to stay true to yourself.
Newsbeat's been chatting to other artists ahead of the event who also say it's important to not follow the crowd.
"Every time I see an artist in trouble or struggling I can tell that someone else is telling them what to do and it doesn't feel authentic," says Halsey.
The singer mastered the tried-and-tested route of YouTube covers to SoundCloud originals followed by a string of pop hits to spur a massive following.
She insists on trusting your gut.
Singer-songwriter Billie Marten, who says BBC Introducing "was the start of it all" for her career, agrees.
She suggests being brave enough to turn down certain offers at the start of your career can help you stand out further along the line.
"There's a tendency, especially for young artists, to pulled and stretched like cheesed into something that is fashionable," she says.
"Not that it happened to me but if I said yes to everything it probably would have.
For Bastille, developing their own style was vital in the early stages of their career.
"Let's say you're building a house," explains keyboard player Kyle Simmons.
Drummer Chris Wood adds that being an all-rounder goes a long way in the music industry.
"Everyone tends to practise what they're good at because it's fun.


From far and from near.
Could it be we can't stop?
With friends, old and new.
With a lot of good food.
And let us set the mood.
are a few surprises in store.
for each one of you!
Thank you so much for another wonderful year of service!
It's hard to believe, and some of my co-workers will want to throttle me for saying this, but there are only 58 days left until Christmas. I know, I know. It's not even Halloween yet and I keep bringing up Christmas. Yes, I'm one of THOSE people. Ask anyone who knows me at all and they'll probably say something about what a Christmas crazed person I am (hi, Susie and Charlie!). They're not wrong. I love basically everything about Christmas. The decorations, the baked goods, shopping for gifts for people, the music, sending out Christmas cards. Yes, I even love cold weather and snow. I blame my grandma, who loves Christmas about as much as it's possible to love a holiday.
In October, the winds of change blow as summer gives way to fall.Trees change colors as the browns and oranges of fall replace the lush green of summer.October also brings the color purple, as the nation remembers victims and survivors during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The 2016 Coats for Kids drive will begin October 12. We will be collecting good, used coats for families in need through November 30. And of course, we'll accept new coats for kids!
It's simple, look in your closets for coats you no longer need -- (all sizes accepted, it's a coat drive focusing on kids, but we are happy to help out adults too). Take them to one of the places listed below and place in the collection barrel. We'll take it from there!
WAND is and has been the cosponsor for the event all 25 year! Thanks for that support!
Corner Cleaning Connections, 1154 E. Prairie Ave.
Autumn is my favorite time of year, not because of colorful leaves and pumpkin-spice lattes (although they are pretty awesome), but because it's back-to-school time!During the school year, I provide teen dating violence education to teens in high schools, middle schools, colleges, youth-serving agencies, and church groups.Within classroom and group settings, I teach learning activities and lead conversations about what makes a good dating relationship.Working with teens is challenging, thought-provoking, often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and never dull, but I love it because I get to make a difference in young people's lives.
Yes, we're counting the days till Christmas!
It's hard to believe, but as of this blog post, there are only 128 days until Christmas. Yes, you read that right. 128. The year has gone by very quickly and it's approaching the time of year for the Christmas Baskets Program.
This year the preliminary work for the program began again in June, and already we've seen quite a few donations of things – from toiletries for hygiene bags, to toys for kids, to large donations of brand new books, to stockings and blankets and jewelry.
We've also been busy recruiting new agencies to work with in order to help as many people as we can. This year I'm excited to announce we'll be working with the Girl Scouts, Boys and Girls Club, the Cancer Care Center, the Special Olympics, and the YMCA. We'll be providing these agencies with referrals for their clients and patients to receive baskets and we're very excited to be doing so.
My name is Addie Smith and I am the new employment and life skills specialist here at Dove, Inc. I work within the Homeward Bound Transitional Housing and Supportive Services program where I teach life skills and jobs club classes. I also co-supervise a Job Training Program that consists of four positions that are filled by clients in the Transitional Housing program. Two positions are janitorial based at our Homeward Bound Facility and the Domestic Violence Shelter. The other two positions are focused on lawn care and building maintenance and clients perform all the landscaping at our facility and the apartments we own.
Being fresh out of college, I experienced the struggles that life sometimes throws at you and trying to navigate solutions to those issues has helped me to teach my life skills classes as well as learn with the clients as I go.
This month has an air of celebration about it.Celebrating our nation's independence, celebrating 46 years of Dove's work in central Illinois, and having - after a year-long stalemate - a partial state budget.Indeed, we have plenty to celebrate.
I've gotten a lot of questions about the state budget since its passage Thursday, most of which I cannot answer. The state budget is both a saving grace and a daunting challenge to our future. So when I am asked these questions, my mind draws from the text of The Gospel According to Mark 12:13-17.


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Posted on June 7, 2018 by Zella
NoHoManhattan June Fine Art
Here's the NoHoManhattan June Fine Art
This month NoHo is overflowing with exceptional fine art exhibits – retrospective, politically charged, naturalist, expressionist, contemporary, historical …NoHoManhattan June Fine Art is a feast for the senses.
We'll start with a Pop-Up evocative of the art scene NoHo portrayed in the 70's.
space-ship opens an innovative pop-up exhibitiion titled Inscape/Escape: From One to Many at 319 Bowery (the remodelled former Amatto Opera space) from June 8 thru June 17. It features three multi-disciplinary up-and-coming artists: Braulio Amado, Yetunde Olagbaju and Muzae Sesay.
Opening night, June 8th will feature DJ Nasty Nigel to add to the experience. Along with the exhibition, space-ship has educational initiatives and public programming in the form of free artist talks, curatorial talks and performances open to the community in an effort to encourage dialogue and engagement with creatives to expand the meaning of art, culture, equity and justice.
June 8 – 17, 2018, 10am – 8:00pm
Plant from the Grove by the River 5. 84X60″
Aicon Gallery
35 Great Jones St.
Rajan Krishnan – A Retrospective
Rajan Krishnan's art has almost always centered around the natural environments in which he's found himself. Whether these be the idyllic landscapes of his childhood memories, before rampant urbanization began its sprawl outwards from the city centers of India, or more current scenes of environmental degradation and urban decay, the balance (or imbalance) between humanity and its habitats has remained the primary focus of his work.
Through May 17 – June 23, 2018
Josh Smith Watermelons
Eva Presenhuber
39 Great Jones Street
For this exhibition Josh Smith shows a set of paintings depicting Watermelons. Particularly, the paintings are of split-watermelons or more specifically the open face of a cut watermelon. In art history, this big contrasting fruit has been depicted countless times in all sorts of ways. Sometimes as an element, and sometimes it is the whole painting. In the case of the paintings Josh Smith will be showing, the melon covers the whole panel.
Gallerie Zurcher
33 Bleecker St.
Lynn Umlauf
Lynn Umlauf was born into a family of artists. She moved to New York in 1966-67, and first started showing in Italy. Her first New York show was with the Hal Bromm Gallery, and her first museum inclusion was with the 1975 Whitney Biennial. Her work has increasingly taken the form of large, onsite installations. She also prowls the Italian countryside, making improvisatory drawings that are closely connected to sculptures. Her method consists in using sanded and impregnated paper with pastel, watercolor or acrylic medium and often glued on free shaped canvases, which lends a handmade quality close to fresco. The result evokes analogies to shields and masks of primitive societies. ArtSpace
May 14 – June 30, 2018
Barton Lidicé Beneš, Lethal Weapons: Silencer, 1994. Courtesy of the estate of Barton Lidicé Beneš and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.
LaMama Galleria
Gallery Hours: Thursday to Sunday 1 to 7PM, or by appointment
Cell Count brings together artist who grapple with the discursive and material histories that underpin HIV criminalization in order to unpack and re-configure the metaphors and assumptions that enable the punishment an incarceration of people living with HIV. Seeking to place HIV criminalization in a broader context, Cell Count suggests that these laws are not unique to the AIDS epidemic but instead echo a long history of medically sanctioned violence and incarceration in the United States.
Matthew Stone – Neophyte
The Hole Gallery
In the fourth solo show from British artist Matthew Stone, The Hole presents over twenty new works filling all galleries for NEOPHYTE.
"Newly planted"; the evocative etymology of the word neophyte, means someone entirely new to a subject, skill or calling.
By photographing paint strokes made on glass and working in various 3D software, the artist is able to sculpt bodies together in three dimensions using layers of these painted marks. Stone's figures inhabit a shared world; defined by a grey infinity floor, proliferating petals of paint and a raw linen void as backdrop. In this mode of painting, brushstrokes respond as objects within their virtual environment rather than purely as illusionistic marks existing to suggest space.
Naoya Hatakeyama, Atmos
Grey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime
This exhibit explores contemporary painting, photography, sculpture, and video through the lens of influential English art critic and social thinker John Ruskin (1819–1900), who argued that the artist's principal responsibility is "truth to nature." For Ruskin, this "truth" was more than just a technical representation of the natural world on canvas but also a depiction of it as experienced by humankind. In Landscapes after Ruskin, guest curator and artist Joel Sternfeld examines how, in a world overwhelmed by industrial development and environmental uncertainty, contemporary artists are discovering new beauties and terrors associated with nature and, in so doing, invoking an updated sense of the sublime.
April 17 to July 7, 2018
Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett, Whispering Pines 10, 2018 (still). Digital video and web series in progress. Courtesy the artists
The New Museum
First Look: Whispering Pines
This is an online-only exhibition.VIEW WORK
In this internet soap opera, a quest for enlightenment leads only to new-age kitsch.
A collaboration between artist Shana Moulton and composer Nick Hallett, Whispering Pines 10 (2018) is a continuation of Moulton's celebrated video series by the same name, and features a performance by the artist as her alter ego, Cynthia. The website offers a new format for Moulton's premise: an episodic internet soap opera, with original music and libretto by Hallett.
Whispering Pines 10 is a Creative Capital Project. Major support for First Look is provided by the Neeson / Edlis Artist Commissions Fund
Tagged Aicon Gallery, Braulio Amado, Cell Count, Eva Presenhuber, Gallerie Zurcher, Grey Art Gallery, John Ruskin, Josh Smith, LaMama Galleria, Lynn Umlauf, Matthew Stone, Muzae Sesay, Rajan Krishnan, space-ship.org, The Hole Gallery, Yetunde Olagbaju


Create your own music or test out the included tunes! This fun and user-friendly gadget lets you write your own songs using the blank staves and play them back on your own personal music box crank. A great gift to get those creative juices flowing.
Whether the musician in your life is a pianist, a guitarist, or an all-around music lover, this beautiful silver-plated locket is sure to inspire peace and romance. Comes with an 18" chain and loose-hanging treble-clef charm.
Stay warm, fashionable, and functional with these cozy fingerless gloves. Comfortable and cut above the second knuckle, you can use these for practice in cold rehearsal rooms, or use every day to express your musical side.
A light, cozy, and soft scarf perfect for the coolest autumn days.
Get that cool cat in your life jazzed up with the cutest adjustable collar in town.
If there were ever a reason to keep that landline, this fun grand piano phone is it. Features touch-tone keyboard numbers with a pleasant ring and a sleek, hidden handset.
Keep track of rehearsal times with a cute treble clef wall clock that can blend into many styles of decor.
This 3-pack of light, soft, music-themed socks will be sure to keep your toes comfy as they slide off your piano pedals.
This plush Beethoven doll is perfect for lightening up that moody musician in your life. More available dolls include Mozart, Bach, and more!
A cute accessory for any gender! This skinny necktie measures 2" wide and 57" long, and is 100% polyester. Quite versatile!
Also cute for any gender! This bow tie comes pre-tied with an adjustable neck band (bow measures 4 1/2 inches wide).
Sturdy overhanging door hooks perfect for a musician's bathroom, or find another crafty use for these versatile organizers.
A very comfortable and inspiring plush pillow for any music lover's home. 18" x 13" with tapestry cover.
Play with your style while expressing your love of the keys. Very flexible and perfect for just about any pianist - one size fits most!
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For the last century and a half there has been a concerted effort from the kingdom of darkness to further blind men (see II Cor 4:4) to the true nature of GOD by picturing HIM as some doting old grandfatherly type who dodders about hoping that someone will aid HIM in HIS honorable quest to rescue men from their problems and anxieties. HE is pictured as ONE who is trying HIS best to get men to listen to HIM and HE is yet wringing HIS hands in despair as they turn a deaf ear to HIS overtures. This is the culture of "Smile, God loves you".
Most "preachers" emphasize the "love of GOD" without properly declaring the "GOD who loves". In doing so they present a caricature of HIM and leave men with the impression that HE loves everyone in the same fashion and is basically powerless to make this love known unto them without human aid and their willingness to receive it.
HE is HOLY and set apart from men and will not even look upon sin, which all men are found enslaved to by nature. "God is angry with the wicked every day." (Psa 7:11) HE "will not at all acquit the wicked" (Nah 1:3) HE "will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." (Exo 34:7) This understanding of who the True and Living GOD is, is in stark contrast to the maudlin familiarity that is manifested in the conversation of most who claim to be the followers of CHRIST, who think nothing of addressing HIM as if he was their buddy.
The "goodness of GOD" is displayed as we are brought to understand HIS holiness and hatred of every evil way. The Psalmist said, "If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." (Psa 130:3-4) If the modern "soothsayers" are correct this passage of scripture would make no sense.
We often hear some of the modern "mud daubers" (see Ezek.13:9-19) say that GOD has a sense of humor and then they go on to regale us with entertaining stories and anecdotes, purporting that the LORD is ready to yuk it up with men. Or at the very least to be a good sport about allowing them to engage in all sorts of foolishness which they might call "worship".
This "laughter" which is spoken of has nothing at all to do with any light hearted merriment but rather is an expression of derision or contempt which is visited upon the stiff necked rebel as well as the proud religionists who go about to establish their own righteousness. The Hebrew word that is translated as "derision" in Ps.59:8 is also translated as "mock" in Prov.1:26, and as "laugh" in Job 9:23. The LORD of Glory is not a jokester nor can we discover anywhere in the scriptures that HE would set forth HIMSELF in this light.
HE has trod the winepress alone and now declares that HIS "own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me." (Isa 63:5) HE is now enthroned as a CONQUEROR who shall laugh at the calamity that befalls those who do not worship HIM in SPIRIT and TRUTH.


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