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Student Spotlight – Teresa Xu
February 24, 2021 /in Students /by pearlina boc
Meet third-year undergraduate researcher Teresa Xu!
Teresa majors in Art History and minors in Anthropology and Digital Humanities and is in our Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP). The title of her project is "Intercultural Museum Display: an Investigation on Tangibility." She hopes that her project can bring a new way of seeing intercultural exhibitions or help museums to deal with the problematic magic of tactility. Her best piece of advice is to enjoy the learning experience and find the stance you want to take.
I took an Art History class called "Art and Empire" which examined the creation of art through the lens of imperialism. There was a museum accident at the Franklin Museum in which a man accidentally snapped off a thumb of a 2000-year-old terracotta warrior on loan from China, and I connected this incident with the remaining effects of postcolonialism and became interested in museum exhibitions, especially the contextualization of intercultural ones.
My focus has primarily been on current art historical scholarship: books, magazines, and other scholars' research. I have a rudimentary idea about how we can use replicas to better design intercultural exhibitions. I will design a short questionnaire and collect answers from the public to learn how people's opinions about using replicas in museums change before and after understanding their cultural context. The questionnaire will be conducted in both Chinese and English to see how different cultural communities will perceive the replicas differently.
Even though I was not able to visit the museums I planned to use as case studies in person, the pandemic has allowed me to see so many more digital exhibitions and see other directions future museums can take. Exhibitions and art media will no longer be restricted by the limit of physical spaces. We can expect new forms of representation that may transcend time and space in the near future.
Don't feel rushed or obligated to have research experience just because other people are doing it. Enjoy the learning experience and find the stance you want to take. It doesn't have to be something that has never been done before. Start with what you like.
I hope my research can bring about a new way of seeing intercultural exhibitions and/or help museums deal with the problematic magic of tactility. Sometimes people just want to touch the marble sculpture, become closer to the cave painting, sit on the fragile wooden chair that is over 200 years old just because of the beauty of these objects. But museums visits are not only about sightseeing. We need museums to not only provide the artifacts, but also the stories behind them so that visitors can find their own relevance. Otherwise, what museums are displaying are just lifeless gravestones of what has already been killed by history and ourselves.
Student Spotlight – Ngoc Nguyen
February 9, 2021 /in Students /by pearlina boc
Meet fourth-year undergraduate researcher Ngoc Nguyen!
Ngoc majors in International Development Studies, Asian American Studies, and Sociology and is in our Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program (URSP). The title of her project is "Hidden in Plain Sight: On the Legal and Grassroots Organizing against Thai Labor Trafficking in the United States," which focuses on the role of grassroots organizing in the El Monte case by exploring questions regarding labor laws and rights of immigrant communities. She hopes that her project will bring light to challenges that the Thai community experiences and promote effective change.
Coming from a low-income immigrant family and seeing my parents being exploited by the unjust labor system as they work long hours with low wages have inspired me to pursue an education to learn about immigration and labor law and advocate for the rights of immigrant communities. Although I have always wanted to research immigration and labor law, I did not know what topic I want to pursue until I met my faculty mentor, Professor Jennifer Chun, who suggested that I learn about the El Monte Thai Garment worker case.
Interning for the Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) has taught me about the case and the role that non-profit organizations such as the Thai CDC played in the case. I was extremely inspired by the ways in which grassroots organizations, activists, and community members came together in the mid-1990s to demand justice for the workers and create systemic changes. This experience led me to research this case for my senior project. Through this project, I focus on the role of grassroots organizing in the El Monte case by exploring the following questions: How did grassroots organizations, lawyers, and community members come together to advocate for the workers? How was the coalition formed and what role did each organization play? What strategies did these organizations use to advocate against state violence and to demand justice for the workers?
The most exciting part of my research has been getting the opportunity to research archival materials about the El Monte case and talking to community organizers who were involved in the labor movement in the 1990s!
I never would have expected to grow this much through this process! Not only have I been able to meet and listen to stories of amazing community organizers, but I have also become more inspired to pursue a career in the legal field. Learning about immigration and labor organizing has helped me realize who I want to be, what kind of activist I want to become in the future, and how pursuing a law degree can help me achieve my aspirations.
I would advise students to challenge themselves, go out of their comfort zone, and actively pursue opportunities. As a first-generation college student, I struggled to navigate UCLA and find opportunities to pursue research. However, talking to my professors, friends, and mentors has helped me narrow down my research and apply to opportunities.
I hope that my project will bring light to challenges that the Thai community experiences that continue to remain hidden in mainstream discourse and promote integral dialogues about how grassroots organizing can advocate for effective change.
Student Spotlight – J.W. Clark
January 25, 2021 /in Students /by alice lee
Meet fourth-year undergraduate researcher J.W. Clark!
J.W. majors in Musicology with a minor in Philosophy and is in our Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program. The title of their project is "Voicing the Fox: The Zoopolitics of (Re)presenting Vulpine Bodies," which draws on a number of disciplines including literary studies and critical theory, biosemiotics and behavioral ethology, and analytical philosophy and art history.
During my first quarter at UCLA as a new transfer student, I was lucky enough to be able to attend my first academic conference – the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society. The first panel of the weekend that I attended was titled "Plants and Animals"; at the time, the panel's content struck me as incredibly peculiar for musicological work, with such papers as "Becoming-Tree: Heine, Grieg, Sibelius, and Musical Arboreality" (Daniel Grimley) and "Of Donkeys, Dogs, and Schubert: The Sonic as a Meeting Place for Species" (Knar Abrahamyan). While the "cultural animal studies" have generated some worthwhile work in the humanities within the past few decades, at many institutions such approaches are still viewed by traditional musicologists as "fringe" topics, at least with regard to music scholarship. But hearing these rigorous papers at a high-profile national conference made me realize that nothing was really off-limits when it came to scholarship. The whole conference for me was like that; that weekend also marked the start of my serious engagement with feminist, queer, and critical race theory – all of the "New Musicology" – approaches to music scholarship, though nothing stuck with me quite as persistently as that first panel. I ended up picking up a copy of Rachel Mundy's Animal Musicalities at the book expo on my way out, and from there I really began thinking in earnest about the "animal turn" and how I could bring that more into musicological discourse. I then wrote a course paper in the spring as a kind of test-run for this kind of approach, where I looked at Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen and how animal representation was operating there with regard to the opera's libretto, score, and staging techniques. I really liked engaging with that line of inquiry and started getting into posthumanist/animal studies scholarship at around the same time, and that more or less laid the groundwork for my current project.
The sheer breadth of work I have had to dialogue with has introduced me to countless new fields and subfields of which I had little or no prior knowledge of beforehand. "Animal studies" is far from a unified area of research; particularly given the lack of existing music scholarship on my topic, I've been drawing on everything from literary studies and critical theory, to biosemiotics and behavioral ethology, to analytical philosophy and art history. It's been an immensely rewarding process.
I continue to be caught off-guard by the depth and pervasiveness of hegemony in the form of human exceptionalism; every time I think I've gotten to the bottom, something else comes along – a new comparison I hadn't thought of, a nuanced apprehension of a certain relationship – and forces me to reevaluate what I think I know all over again. Getting "outside" anthropomorphisms is impossible given our status as humans, but at times it becomes incredibly easy to forget that that they exist. This is particularly the case when working with nonhuman animal representations in our artistic and cultural artefacts, given they are overwhelmingly ubiquitous in day-to-day life. This project has required a constant reimagination of what it would truly mean to relate to other species in a mutually respectful way.
A lot of people (myself included) tend to stress initially over finding a line of inquiry that hasn't been done before – because there is so much scholarship out there, it often seems like there is nothing meaningful you can contribute to your given field, especially as an undergrad. Don't worry about coming up with something uniquely "original" – reflect on what you're already interested in and connect those existing strands to your discipline and to each other. In my opinion, the most exciting and productive scholarship emerges from individuals who employ their field to work for them, rather than imposing limits on their work to fit rigid disciplinary boundaries. At base, research, reading, and just expanding your horizons in general allows you to better and more rewardingly reterritorialize what you already have.
I'd like to push everyone who comes in contact with me and my work to scrutinize the habitual ways in which they navigate the world. We, as humans, have continued to orchestrate a horrifying genocide of mind-numbing proportions against those we have deemed to be "subhuman." Most egregiously (though the least acknowledged) has been the violent subjugation of countless other animals, but comparable strategies have been and continue to be deployed against marginalized groups within our own species. Despite a popular conception to the contrary, music-making, and art general, is inherently political, and thus cannot be separated from such acts. Following Susan McHugh's call to investigate how "forms of representation matter to the development of theories of species life" in her work on animal fictions, I hope to impress upon people the importance of critiquing how we look at, listen to, and talk about others.
Student Spotlight – Ivana Dama
December 14, 2020 /in Students /by Veronica Kimaz
Meet fourth-year undergraduate researcher Ivana Dama!
Ivana majors in Design Media Arts with a minor in Digital Humanities and is in our Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program. The title of her research project is "Music Map."
Before coming to UCLA, I never thought that the School of Arts and Architecture would be a great place for research. I believed that only scientists did research projects. I soon realized that most of professors were conducting research in the art field, and I got inspired to change my art practice approach. My work became an ongoing experiment in which I wasn't only focused on the final project; the process became an important aspect of my work. During my second year, I became a member of the Art|Sci Center at UCLA, where I was able to work closely with scientists on research-based art projects.
My project is called a Music Map, and my goal is to explore untraditional ways to play an instrument. The users will be able to create a musical composition by changing their geographic location. The most exciting part of my project is testing the application and applying that knowledge to my research paper. Another exciting moment was in the initial stage of the process, when I searched for similar projects and experiments done in the past. It is fascinating to realize how many similar technologies were used for different purposes.
The biggest surprise in my research project was a public interest in my work. Many people offered to test my application, and I was really grateful for that. When we are so focused on our projects, it is essential to hear different opinions and fresh perspectives on the same subject. As I'm moving forward with my research, I'm surprised each day with the Undergraduate Research Center's generous support.
My biggest advice for all UCLA students interested in research is not to be afraid to ask for help or advice. Even though most of our professors and mentors seem busy, they are almost always interested in hearing new research ideas and projects in their fields. I was positively surprised by the incredible feedback I got from many of my previous professors.
My goal is to create an open-source application that will enable anyone to generate a musical composition. For centuries, only skilled people could play an instrument, and I'm hoping to change that. This application will allow UCLA to have a site-specific interactive map application with dynamic audio sources, users as audio sources, pervasive/ubiquitous games, and social networks.
Student Spotlight – Liv Slaby
December 7, 2020 /in Students /by Veronica Kimaz
Meet fourth-year undergraduate researcher Liv Slaby!
Liv majors in Musicology and is in our Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program.
I'm pursuing a graduate degree in dramatic writing, so I knew I wanted my Musicology capstone project to be a creative piece. I constructed a plot that draws on several of my academic interests and takes place in an almost-underwater San Francisco in 2199. Two Earth-born college hockey players, hoping to move to Mars after graduation, find that their climb to the championships is complicated by the arrival of a new Martian teammate who reveals that the colony is no longer habitable. This project cites queer theory and literature as well as New Queer Cinema, which I use with sound and voice studies scholarship to explore queer, female, and non-binary embodiment in the context of sports and audio drama. I also employ science fiction techniques to explore the interpersonal and environmental concerns of my characters.
I've enjoyed reading, watching, and listening to the diverse scholarly and creative texts that comprise my bibliography. I've been influenced by the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Todd Haynes, Jack Halberstam, Timothy Morton, Samuel R. Delany, and Nina Eidsheim. Exploring the possibilities of sound as a dramatic medium is something I didn't foresee myself doing as a writer, but it's been fascinating getting to know my characters in the context of how their voices and sonic environments will embody them in listeners' imaginations.
When I applied for URSP, I thought I'd spend the year writing the script for a staged theatrical piece. However, due to the impact of social distancing on theatrical practice, I decided it would be more pragmatic to explore ideas of isolation, disorientation, and uncertain futures through an auditory medium. Now, I'll finish the (shorter) script this winter and spend much of the year recording and producing the piece so I can present a fully realized audio drama at Undergraduate Research Week in May.
I recommend working with a mentor or project advisors with whom you connect and feel comfortable sharing your first drafts and half-formed ideas. Writing isn't easy with only your own head as a sounding board, and it's helpful to have a mentor who keeps your timeline on track and is available for you to discuss and develop your ideas through conversation.
I hope that I will encourage listeners to be aware of the assumptions they make about the "locations" of the voices, including demographic information like race, gender, and age. In our predominantly visual society, I aim to draw attention to sound's multisensory forms and potential for interpersonal connection. By dealing with embodiment in a disembodied medium, I hope to illuminate the ways we orient ourselves to our own bodies and to entities we perceive as others, and to explore compassion through sonic perception.
Student Spotlight – Angela Rey
November 23, 2020 /in Students /by Veronica Kimaz
Meet fourth-year undergraduate researcher Angela Rey!
Angela majors in Global Jazz Studies and is in our Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program. The title of her research project is "Osos Unidos."
I became inspired to put together this project because of the initial culture shock I experienced transferring into UCLA from a community college. At my community college in the Bay Area, I had access to a Latinx resource center, an Asian resource center, a Filipinx resource center, a Pacific Islander resource center, and more. Outside of community college, I was also involved with the musical community that existed at SFSU and other colleges throughout the Bay Area, where there were also abundant resources for students of specific demographics. When I transferred to UCLA in the fall of 2019, I was in shock for many reasons, but one thing that stuck with me throughout my first year was that there was no fully established or fully funded Black or Latinx resource center. As the nation's #1 public university, UCLA can do better, and I know that it is part of the students' responsibility to uphold that elite title. So, I took it into my own hands to put together this project. Because UCLA announced this past summer that they will create a Black Resource Center (in response to the national attention surrounding the case of George Floyd), I will be focusing on establishing Osos Unidos, a Latinx resource center. I will also hold the school accountable for the promise that they made regarding the Black Resource Center.
The most exciting aspect of my research is learning about student, alumni, faculty, and staff involvement with the Latinx population on campus, especially from those who are already in my social circle whose engagement or excitement about engagement was not previously known to me. Seeing all these people around me is encouraging and their support in my project makes me feel more part of a community.
It is surprising to me how much more difficult it is to reach out to others during COVID-19. I initially assumed people would be spending more time online and have fewer physical barriers to meet, since remote discussion is more accessible than the alternative. I didn't take into account how much screen time everyone is trying to manage and how "Zoomed out" people are getting. Because my research project revolves around creating a physical space on campus, being away from it and the UCLA student, alumni, faculty, and staff body has created a barrier. However, I've learned that time management and consistency is key to the progression of this project.
Researching is an incredibly rewarding task. It is not easy, but time management and team development are what will define the success of your project. Do not be afraid to ask for help; just because you are the researcher does not mean others can't support you.
I hope that creating the Osos Unidos Resource Center will unify the Latinx population at UCLA, create a stronger Latinx community in LA, and set an example for other schools to provide the resources needed for all students to succeed in and outside of the classroom.
Student Spotlight – Caleb Kealoha
April 10, 2020 /in Students /by Veronica Kimaz
Meet fourth-year undergraduate researcher Caleb Kealoha!
Caleb majors in Psychology and is in our Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program. The title of his research project is "We are (not) in Synch: Inter-brain Synchrony during Interpersonal Conflict."
In my first quarter as a transfer student at UCLA, I took a social psychology course with Dr. Matthew Lieberman. I quickly became enamored with this area of psychology, as I realized that I think about the world like a social psychologist. Wanting to learn more, I frequently attended Dr. Lieberman's office hours and delved into the literature he recommended. Over time, he helped me develop my research interests and introduced me to the field of social neuroscience, a growing branch of social psychology that intersects with cognitive psychology and neuroscience. With Dr. Lieberman's help, I have investigated a topic of research I find important: interpersonal conflict. My honors thesis project uses neuroimaging to identify the neural signatures of interpersonal conflict within face-to-face interaction.
Overseeing a research project from beginning to end has been a rewarding experience. Each step in the research process brings about a new challenge, and finding ways to overcome these challenges can be a very engaging process. The most exciting aspect of my research has been building the skills and knowledge that will help me succeed as a researcher in the field of social neuroscience. Also, getting to interface with our neuroimaging equipment—functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)—has been really cool!
I was surprised to find that successful researchers are jacks-of-all-trades. One minute you may play the role of a theorizer, connecting premise to premise to form a logical argument in support of the research question you are investigating. In the next moment, you might take on the role of a leader, managing a team of research assistants as they follow complex protocols to acquire data. In the same day, you might adopt the role of a writer or a public speaker, illustrating your work and conveying its importance to a broad audience. Navigating the research process feels like a constant interchange between different responsibilities, which I find enjoyable and have grown to love.
Take time to reflect on what drives you. Ask yourself, "What do I enjoy doing? What do I enjoy thinking about? Is there something in the world I want to know more about or fix? Is there a question I've always had that I haven't seen anyone find an answer to?" Use these questions to guide the types of research opportunities you pursue. Research is a fun and fulfilling experience when you care about what you are researching! Instead of pursuing research for the sake of just having done research, pursue research that aligns with what you are passionate about and motivated by.
With my honors thesis project, I aim to find a reliable neural signature for interpersonal conflict, in hopes of using this neural signature in the verification and improvement of current conflict interventions and in the development of future conflict resolution strategies. In the future, my goal is to continue conducting research in social neuroscience that can be translated into increased understanding and collaboration between people of all identities and walks of life. UCLA has been integral to my development as a researcher, and I intend to represent UCLA as I continue forward with my aspirations in research.
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Heritage Church, a long time supporter and partner of Lifebuilders in many regards, has recently provided Lifebuilders with huge wall maps of the community that we serve. These four feet by six feet aerial maps clearly illustrate the neighborhood we have been called to serve. These maps will provide us the ability to show our community impact to existing and future funders of this work.Thank you Heritage Church. Looking forward to seeing you on June 27th.
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This year was a very busy year to me… probably the busiest year I've ever lived. I don't know if many of you are aware of, but I work full time during the day and at night I go to university. Last year I started working part-time, so I had much more free time, but since March of this year I've been working full time.
As you can see, it features Okiura, also known as the coolest guy out there Debt Collector.
But here it is ! I confess Syaoran is not the kind of character I would make a layout with, so believe me, it was a challenge XD But I think the latest events of Tsubasa (with all those Syaorans) inspired me to do it.
The main pic, as you know, is from the cover of volume 9 and the sketches were taken from the first Character Guide.
March is X's month. It was on March 24th that the first chapter came out and it was on that same day that X's last chapter was published.
So, celebrating it's 14 years of serialization and moaning over 3 years of it's hiatus, I did this X layout (again). Apart from that, I'm also celebrating X's appearance on Tsubasa ! Although I have to say that this layout was in stock way before I could possible imagine that the next world would be X's world.
It started with a joke, I was only playing around with Photoshop and some new effects I had just learned, I could no way imagine it would turn out in a real layout. I was just going and going and I started to really like what I was doing.
The idea here was to create a VERY X-ish image (it's totally based on the X drawings) with all the elements being "real" except for Kamui, the dragons and the feathers (I tried to search for real feathers but they looked awful). The Tokyo Tower is real, the Tokyo's Governmental Building is real, the gears are real as well as everything else (I did the Big Dipper constellation and the paper with the pentagram by myself so you can consider them by being "real" too XD).
There are 3 tarot cards in it, The Sun, Judgement and The World, which are the 3 remaining X tarot cards.
This has got to be one of my favorites layouts (if not the one), I really really liked it. I loved everything in it, and it gave me a lot of work to make it.
I made a wallpaper version of it (1024×768) to those interested, I hope you like it.


I love changing my hair colour. I discovered hair dye when I was 14 and every summer I had my hair as bright as it could be. When I left school, I was totally in my element and changed it every few weeks. When I was pregnant with C, I dyed my hair brown as I obviously couldn't bleach it like I used to then when he was born, I found that I didn't really have the time to faff around with dye. Fast forward two years and I now have two children. I still don't really have a lot of time but I was desperate to feel more like me again and not just 'mummy'.
Red was my go-to colour. It was the colour my hair was when I first met Chris and that is what he said attracted him to me. In order to feel more like me again, I receive some OSMO hair products; Color Psycho Wild Rouge (£7.95), Color Psycho Color Tamer (£7.95) and Colour Protector (£6.95).
The Wild Rouge is, as the name suggests, a red. It's so easy to use as there is no mixing involved, just squeeze from the tube and off you go. However, I mixed my Color Tamer with it. The purpose of the Color Tamer is to tame the wild bright colour into a pastel effect. I still wanted mine relatively bright so I only added half of the tamer to the full tube of Color Psycho.
The colour needs to be applied to wet hair and I saw it start to take almost instantly. Once my hair was fully covered, I waited around 30 minutes before washing it off (recommended time is 15-30 min). My hair is shoulder-length and it was covered fully with plenty of dye left over.
Excuse the mess - Chris did the dye job and got it everywhere!
After washing, I was stunned by how bright it was. The roots look amazing. I wish that the bleach had taken on all of my hair to give that same brightness but I am so pleased with how it turned out.
Bleaching doesn't agree with my hair and it did feel a tiny bit straw-like afterwards. I've been spraying the Color Protector onto my hair before drying. It's a leave-in conditioner specifically for coloured hair. I do feel like it's helping to soften the damaged areas from the bleaching but it also contains the OSMO Anti-fade system to elongate colour. It smells beautiful too!
The Color Psycho dyes are available in 7 different colours. I'm so pleased with the results that I'll definitely be purchasing a different colour once I'm sick of this one!
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While athletic style has been making waves for a few seasons, athleisure is clearly enjoying a moment in the spotlight. As we settle into Summer 2017, sporty chic is dominating the runways and also causing a sensation on the city sidewalks. With loose silhouettes, casual fabrics and laidback detailing completing the trend, we've curated a few easy ways to rock athleisure this season.
If you want to sport athleisure with a hint of femininity, look no further than Dolce Gabbana. Try slipping into a pale pink athletic T-shirt paired with matching volleyball shorts. While this outfit may instantly bring the high school gym uniform to mind, the pastel colour scheme is a reinvented take on athletic dressing. Add a pair of embellished sunglasses, black and white strappy sandals and a funky checkered handbag.
Try stepping out in a simple navy blue tank dress with a sheer mid-length hem (as spotted at Boss). Finish your style with flat sandals for a casual feel, and accessorize with a punchy yellow pleather handbag. With primary colours being a perfect look for summertime, an inspired outfit can bring you from the beach to your favourite patio.
If bright hues aren't quite for you, turning to basic black and white is also another way to rock the athletic fashion trend. Take your cues from Dior, and slip into a fitted white sleeveless blouse with strategic side cut-outs. Style your look with cropped black leggings or form-fitting capri pants, pointed toe flats and an ultra thin collar necklace for a finishing touch.


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Iona University Statement on Diversity
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Iona University strives to be a diverse community of learners and scholars dedicated to academic excellence in the tradition of the Christian Brothers and American Catholic higher education. We commit ourselves to education within the rich heritage of these legacies, especially intellectual inquiry and the values of justice, peace and service. Inherent in the Mission of Iona University is a commitment to diversity.
Therefore, the University seeks to promote, embrace and celebrate an open and inclusive environment for those of multiple backgrounds and differences including but not confined to age, lifestyle, national or ethnic origin, race, creed, color, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, affectional preference, gender identity, citizenship status, disability or socio-economic background. A goal of Iona University is to foster an understanding, appreciation, and valuing of diversity. It holds that diversity should permeate all areas and aspects of Iona University in ways that demonstrate its institutional commitment to multicultural diversity.
As an inclusive institution, Iona University welcomes its faculty, student body, administration, staff and alumni associations to learn, grow and share their worldviews in a constructive manner. We recognize that diversity enriches the educational environment by fostering respect for differences, stimulating innovative teaching and learning, and preparing students to live and work in a global society.
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When I was a Freshman :: Channing Frye
By: Simon
Name: Channing Frye
High School: St. Mary's High School(Phoenix, AZ)
Freshman Year: 1998-1999
Before he was on the hottest team in the NBA, Channing Frye was just another tall, awkward 15-year-old freshman at St. Mary's High School in Phoenix, AZ. We caught up with the 6-10 forward at the EA NBA Live Summer Camp in Vancouver, Canada last summer and chatted about what he was like back in the day!
Simon: What were you like back then?
Channing Frye: I was about 210 pounds, 6'10", awkward, could barely dunk. I wasn't even going to make my Varsity team until somebody got hurt. I mean I was shy, but at the same time I was really open with my friends, it was just a different environment. I lived in Chandler (AZ), so I had to drive 20 minutes to school so I didn't really know anybody.
Simon: What was a typical outfit you would wear?
Channing Frye: I wore a uniform everyday to school. But outside of school? FUBU was hot and like Miller's Outpost. And what else? And One! Remember? And One was tight!
Simon: Did you play any other sports?
Channing Frye: No, nobody would let me (laughs).
Simon: What TV shows did you watch?
Channing Frye: Man what did I watch back then? I think American Gladiators was still on. I used to watch cartoons back in the day, like the old Batman. I can't really remember, I wasn't really an inside kid. I was an outside dude, I was always doing something outside, as hot as it was.
Simon: What was your favorite class?
Channing Frye: History was the coolest class.
Simon: And your least favorite class?
Channing Frye: Oh math! Math is terrible, I fear math!
Simon: Describe the friends you had as a freshman.
Channing Frye: Two of my boys I met in second grade and one I met in seventh (grade) so we all went to three different high schools. So when we came back home from school we would meet up at my house, and just kick it like that. And we always used to do cool stuff like play WCW vs. NWO on Nintendo 64. James Bond, when it first came out, we used to play that for hours and hours. Just my boys, man, they're different, they're like me, but they're different. So we always got along together, we never really had a lot of money. So we'd go to Virgin Records and listen to the CD's for about two hours just to get out of the house. Then go to the movies and chill, go to the Krispy Kreme and get the sample.
Simon: Were you a ladies man?
Channing Frye: No, to be honest. I had a girlfriend from pretty much sophomore year of high school to freshman year of college. I was pretty much on lockdown. In college I kind of did my thing here and there, but other than that no.
Simon: What was it like having a girlfriend?
Channing Frye: I definitely took care of her for what we had. We tried to take care of each other and split the dinners and stuff like that.
Simon: Did seniors pick on you?
Channing Frye: Oh yeah the seniors picked on me. They kind of picked on me because I was really shy and skinny. Most of them were football players.
Simon: When was the last time you broke out your yearbook?
Channing Frye: Oh man, heck yes! Sometimes I go an call the numbers and be like, 'hey this is Channing' (laughs). But everyone has pretty much moved on, it's so funny. It's been six or seven years. It's so funny to see everybody from high school and junior high and just die laughing from the stories from back in the day. It's awesome!
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Mow Cop, Biddulph, Kidsgrove, Audley, Tunstall, Milton, Silverdale, Werrington, Keele, Longton, Balwins Gate, Wedgwood, Blythe Bridge, Barlaston and Stone.
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Arsène Lux, né le  à Rombas (Moselle), est un homme politique et haut fonctionnaire français.

Biographie

Carrière militaire (1957-1975)
Arsène Lux a été officier de l'Armée de terre de 1957 à 1975 et a été déployé en Algérie et en Allemagne. Il a fait partie du  d'artillerie parachutiste et du  étranger de parachutistes ( REP). Il a fini sa carrière militaire comme moniteur parachutiste et chuteur opérationnel à l'École des troupes aéroportées.

Carrière de haut fonctionnaire (1975-1988)
Il commence sa carrière administrative en tant que Sous-préfet et Directeur de cabinet du préfet de Dordogne entre 1975 et 1977, puis Directeur de cabinet du préfet de Languedoc-Roussillon entre 1977 et 1979. Enfin en 1979, il est Secrétaire Général Adjoint des Alpes-Maritimes.

De 1980 à 1981, il est le directeur de cabinet du Directeur Général de la Police Nationale.

En 1981, il devient Chef de service, Adjoint au Directeur Général du Service de documentation extérieure et de contre-espionnage (SDECE), Pierre Marion. Il dirige une cellule « Prospection », appelée aussi « Plan, prospective et évaluation », qui est chargée d'élaborer des synthèses pour le gouvernement. La cellule deviendra plus tard la « Direction de la stratégie » après que le SDECE soit remplacé par la Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure (DGSE) le .

De 1983 à 1984, il est le Directeur de Cabinet du Directeur Général de l'Administration au Ministère de l'Intérieur.

En 1985, il est Chef du service de la politique foncière de la Ville de Paris.

Par décret du , Arsène Lux, préfet hors cadre, est nommé Directeur de l'Administration pénitentiaire, rattaché au Ministère de la Justice. Il participe à l'élaboration de la loi Chalandon, qui lance la construction de  places pénitentiaires. Le , il est remplacé par le préfet François Bonnelle.

Il devient alors le Préfet délégué de la Préfecture de police des Bouches-du-Rhône jusqu'en 1988. Il sera Préfet hors cadre (c'est-à-dire sans fonction) jusqu'à la fin de l'année 1988.

Carrière politique (1992-2014)
Il se lance dans la politique en se présentant aux élections cantonales françaises de 1992 dans le canton de Seuil-d'Argonne en Meuse, qu'il remporte.

Le , il est élu député de la  de la Meuse pour le temps d'un mandat qui prend fin en .

Le , il devient maire de Verdun. Il conservera son poste de premier magistrat pendant 19 ans. Le , il perd l'élection municipale face au candidat socialiste Samuel Hazard, qui lui avait déjà ravi son poste de conseiller général du canton de Verdun-Ouest en . Il perd aussi la présidence de la communauté de communes de Verdun le .

Le , il annonce qu'il se retire de la vie politique.

Distinctions
 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
 Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite
 Croix de la Valeur militaire, 2 citations : Division et Brigade
 Chevalier du Mérite Agricole

Détail des fonctions et des mandats

Mandats parlementaires
 Assemblée nationale
  -  : Député de la  de la Meuse ( législature)

Mandats locaux
 Conseil général
 1992 - 1995 : Conseiller général du canton de Seuil-d'Argonne
  -  : Conseiller général du canton de Verdun-Ouest

 Intercommunalité
  -  : Président de la Communauté de communes de Verdun

 Mairie
  -  : Maire de Verdun
  -  : Maire de Verdun
  -  : Maire de Verdun

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Canton de Verdun-Ouest
 Conseil général de la Meuse
 Deuxième circonscription de la Meuse
 Liste des députés de la Meuse
 Liste des maires de Verdun

Liens externes

 Biographie détaillée
 Article de l'Express sur Arsène Lux

Notes et références

Conseiller général de la Meuse
Député de la Meuse
Député de la Xe législature de la Ve République
Maire de Verdun
Naissance en juillet 1935
Naissance en Moselle
Naissance à Rombas
Personnalité du Rassemblement pour la France
Personnalité du Rassemblement pour la République
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Titulaire de la croix de la Valeur militaire

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We will start by looking in detail at the virtual Object.Equals method. This provides the most important mechanism for equality checking in .NET, since it is the means by which any type can tell what equality means for itself. We will see how out of the box this method gives you reference equality for most reference types but value equality for all value types.
We will also compare it with the static method Object.Equals() which is of same name which is more robust when the scenario is that instances to be checked for equality can be null.
We will also see how we can guarantee that the equality check is done on the reference of instances not the values of the instances using the static Object.ReferenceEquals method.
After reading this post hopefully we will have a good understanding what equality means in .NET.
As we discussed above as well that in .NET, there are a number of ways to compare equality, but the most fundamental way .NET provides for this purpose is the virtual Object.Equals() method defined in the System.Object type.
To see this method in action, we will create a class which represents a kind of person. The only thing our class contains is a string field containing the name of the person and a constructor that enforces to set the value of the name field.
Now, we will write the Main method to use this type.
As we can see in Main, we are creating two instances of Person class passing different value as parameter to the constructor, and then on the next line we are checking for equality using the Object.Equals method. The equal method returns a Boolean, it returns true if both items are equals and false if they are not equal, we are writing the result of the equality comparison on the console to see what it outputs.
You would hope from the code that the two instances are not equal as "Ehsan Sajjad" and "Ahsan Sajjad"are not equal. They have different sequence of characters, and of course if we run the code, we will see false as output on the console. So Equals() appears to be working right here and if you notice, we didn't have to do anything in our Person class definition to achieve this. The Equals method is provided by System.Object so it is automatically available on all types, because all types ultimately derive from System.Object.
By the way, Some readers might be looking at this code and thinking that the line p1.Equals(p2) is not what we write normally for checking equality, if we want to check for equality, we just write this p1 == p2, but the point here is we need to understand how equality works in .NET and the starting point for that is the Equals method.
If you write == in your code, you are using the C# equality operator and that is a very nice syntactical convenience C# language provides to make the code more readable but it is not really part of the .NET Framework. .NET has no concept of operators, it works with methods. If we want to understand how equality works in .NET, then we need to start with the things that .NET Framework understands. So we will only be using .NET methods in this post for most of the code.
Now, let's get back to code, we will declare another instance of Person in the Main program.
This also returns false, these two instances p1 and p3 are not equal and the reason is the base Object.Equals method evaluates reference equality, its implementation tests whether two variables refers to the same instance, in this case, it is obvious to us and that p1 and p3 have exactly the same value, both instances contains the same data but Equals method does not care about that, it cares only about that they are same or different instances, so it returns false telling us that they are not equal.
As we discussed earlier in this post and in the previous post as well, Equals is a virtual method in Object type which means that we can override it, if we want the Equals method to compare the values of the Person instances, we can override the Equals method and can define our own implementation for how to compare two Person instances for equality, there is nothing unusual in this, Equals is a normal virtual method, we are not going to override it yet though, if you want to stick to good coding practices, you need to do few other things when you override Object.Equals method, we will see later how to do that, for this post we will just stick to what Microsoft has given us out of the box.
In this program, we initialize a string and store its reference in s1, then we create another variable s2 which contains the same value but we initialize s2 by creating a copy of the value s1 has, string.Copy method's name is pretty descriptive, it creates and returns the copy of the string and then we are using Equals method to compare them.
You can see that we are casting argument of Equals method explicitly to object type that obviously you would not want to do in the production code, the reason we have done that here is to make sure that implementation of override of Object.Equals() is called, as string defines multiple Equals method and one of them is strongly type to string, i.e., it takes string as parameter, if we didn't cast it to object, then the compiler would have considered the strongly typed method a better parameter when resolving overloads and would have called that one, that is obviously better when we are normally programming and both methods will actually do the same thing, but we explicitly wanted to show how the object.Equals override behaves, so we needed to cast parameter to object to tell the compiler to avoid strongly typed overload and use the object type override.
If we run the above code, we will see that it returns true. The override provided by Microsoft for string type compares the contents of the two string instances to check whether they contain exactly the same characters in the same sequence and returns true if they are, otherwise returns false, even if they are not the same instance.
There are not many Microsoft defined reference types for which Microsoft has overridden Equals method to compare values, apart from String type, two others types that you must be aware of are Delegate and Tuple, calling Equals on these two will also compare the values. These are the exceptional ones. All other reference types Equals will always do Reference equality check.
Now we will see how Equals method works for value types, we will be using the same example that we used at the start of the post (Person class) but we will change it to struct instead of class for seeing the behavior in case of value type.
What you think will happen now if we run the same program again, as we know struct is stored on the stack, they don't have references normally unless we box them, that's why they are called value type not reference type.
So as we know, the implementation of Object.Equals do the reference comparison in case of reference types but in this case you might think that comparing references does not makes sense as struct is a value type.
So let's run the program and see what it prints on the console.
You can see that this time the result is different, for the second case it is saying that both instances are equal, it is exactly the result you would expect if you were to compare the values of both p1 and p3 instances of Person to see if they were equal and that is actually happening in this case, but if we look at the Person type definition, we have not added any code for overriding the Equals method of Object class, which means there is nothing written in this type to tell the framework how to compare the values of instances of Person type to see if they are equal.
.NET already knows all that, it knows how to do that, .NET Framework has figured out without any effort from us how to tell p1 and p3 have equal values or not, how that is happening. What is actually happening is that as you may already know, all struct types inherits from System.ValueType which ultimately derives from System.Object.
System.ValueType itself overrides the System.Object Equals method, and what the override does is that it traverses all the fields in the value type and call Equals against each one until it either finds any field value that is different or all fields are traversed, if all the fields turn out to be equal, then it figures out that these two value type instances are equal. In other words, value types override the Equals method implementation and says that both instances are equal if every field in them has the same value which is quite sensible. In the above example, our Person type has only one field in it which is the backing field for the Name property which is of type string and we already know that calling Equals on string compares values and the above results of our program proves what we are stating here. That's how .NET provides the behavior of Equals method for value types very nicely.
Unfortunately, this convenience provided by .NET Framework comes with a price. The way System.ValueType Equals implementation works is by using Reflection. Of course, it has to if we think about it. As System.ValueType is a base type and it does not know about how you will derive from it, so the only way to find out what fields in our defined type (in this case Person) has is to do it using Reflection which means that performance would be bad.
The recommended way is to override the Equals method for your own value types. We will see later how to provide that in a way that it runs faster, in fact you will see that Microsoft has done that for many of the built-in value types that comes with the framework which we use every day in our code.
If we compile this and run, it returns false and it should and makes perfect sense because it is obvious that null is not equal to non-null instance and this is the principle of Equality in .NET that Null should never evaluate as equal to Non-Null value.
Now we are good to go without worrying about whether either of the instance references is null, you can test it by running with both scenarios and you will see it works fine, and of course it would return false if one of the reference variables is null.
You will see that it returns true in this case, in .NET, null is always equal to null, so testing whether null is equal to null should always evaluate to true.
return x.Equals(y); // Safe as we know x != null.
If first checks if both parameters refer to the same instance i.e. what == operator will do, this check will evaluate to true causing method to return true if both the parameters are null, the next if block will return false if one of the parameters is null and other one is not, finally if control reaches the else block, then we know that both parameters point to some instance, so we will just call the virtual Equals method.
This means that the static Equals method will always give the same result as the virtual method except that it checks for null first, as static method call the virtual method, if we override the virtual Equals method, our override will automatically be picked by the static method, that's important as we want both static virtual methods to behave consistently.
ReferenceEquals serves a slightly different purpose from the two Equals method which we have discussed above. It exists for those situations where we specifically want to determine whether the two variables refer to the same instance. You may have question in mind that Equals method also checks reference equality, then why a separate method.
Those two methods do check reference equality, but they are not guaranteed to do so, because the virtual Equals method can be overridden to compare values of the instance not the reference.
So, ReferenceEquals will give the same result as Equals for types that have not overridden the Equals method. For example, take the Person class example which we used above. But it's possible to have different results for types that have overridden the Equals method. For example, the String class.
If we run this example, we will see that the first Equals call returns true just as before, but the ReferenceEquals method call returns false, and why is that?
It is telling that both string variables are different instances even though they contain the same data as String type overrides Equals method to compare the value of two instances, not the reference.
We know that in C#, static methods cannot be overridden which means you can never change the behavior of ReferenceEquals method which makes sense because it always needs to do the reference comparison.
We learned how .NET provides the types equality implementation out of the box.
We saw that few methods are defined by the .NET Framework on the Object class which are available for all types.
By default, the virtual Object.Equals method does reference equality for reference types and value equality for value types by using reflection which is a performance overhead for value types.
Any type can override Object.Equals method to change the logic of how it checks for equality, e.g., String, Delegate and Tuple do this for providing value equality, even though these are reference types.
Object provides a static Equals method which can be used when there is a chance that one or both of the parameters can be null, other than that, it behaves identical to the virtual Object.Equals method.
There is also a static ReferenceEquals method which provides a guaranteed way to check for reference equality.


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July 6, 2021 - By Erik Huberman
Mr. Wonderful Shares the 3 Key Components to Great Startup Pitches with Hawke Media
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Kevin O'Leary is known for his role as the shrewd investor "Mr. Wonderful" on ABC's hit series, Shark Tank, where hopeful entrepreneurs pitch their businesses for a chance to secure capital from Kevin and a panel of investors. Now, Kevin is bringing that pitching experience directly to the public.
Kevin O'Leary has joined forces with my FinTech partner StartEngine — the largest equity crowdfunding platform in the U.S. that has raised over $350M for hundreds of startups from thousands of everyday investors. Alongside Hawke Media and a number of known sponsors, Mr. Wonderful and StartEngine host a new pitch competition open to all founders ready to take their turn at pitching this shark.
Five finalists will pitch Mr. O'Leary live for a shot to hear what he thinks of their business, and the winner will receive a grant of $25K and over $40K worth of in-kind services from the sponsors. Founders can submit pitch applications at www.startengine.com/shark .
As one of the world's most interesting investors with the larger-than-life persona to back it up, I took some time to chat with Mr. Wonderful about his roots as an entrepreneur and his advice for people trying to start a business.
Let's start at the beginning. How did you become an entrepreneur? From what I've read, it seems like you've had it in you from a very young age.
I've had the drive to be an entrepreneur ever since I was a teenager. I got fired once, from a job at an ice cream parlor, and I knew then and there that I never wanted to have a boss again. I wanted to set my own priorities.
Why do you believe it's so important to be honest with entrepreneurs about their business plans?
Being an entrepreneur is a long and lonely road. I've done it. It consumes your life, and I owe it to entrepreneurs to be honest with them. If I see a fundamental flaw in a business idea, I'm going to point out that flaw before an entrepreneur dedicates years of their life to something that won't ultimately succeed. I think it's more respectful to the entrepreneur than giving false praise and guiding them down the wrong path.
Have you ever had a time when one of your business ideas failed, and has it shaped the way you interact with other entrepreneurs?
Absolutely. I think failure is a foundational experience for any entrepreneur. In fact, if an entrepreneur hasn't failed, I often won't invest in them. Experiencing failure is a powerful motivating factor. Many entrepreneurs need to feel the sting of failure, and without it, many entrepreneurs are naive about just how hard it is to build a successful business.
What are the qualities you look for in a business when you make an investment? What makes an investment stand out?
I have seen thousands of startup pitches, and there are three components to a great pitch.
The founder can describe the business in 90 seconds.
The founder can prove they are the right one to execute the business model.
They know their numbers, from their gross margins to the number of competitors on the market. If a pitch has those three things, then they've got my attention.
How do you decide when to build a new business, and what does a successful plan to do so look like?
I think it's important to keep in mind the problem you are trying to solve. If your business doesn't help people by solving a problem for them, whether they know they have a problem or not, then you've got nothing. Once you know, or believe with conviction, that your business addresses a real need that people have, it's time to build.
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How did you get involved with the StartEngine live pitch competition?
I came across StartEngine last year just as we were entering lockdown, and I was drawn to the platform immediately. The idea that startups can raise funding directly from their constituents and their customers and bypass venture capital funding entirely is brilliant. I've been encouraging the companies in my portfolio to leverage equity crowdfunding, and I became StartEngine's Strategic Advisor as well so I could have more exposure to this space.
Will you be just as tough during the live pitch competition as you are on Shark Tank? What can viewers expect?
This pitch competition is a bit different and is closer to a lightning round than what I do on Shark Tank. On the show, they edit our conversation down into a few minutes, but in reality, we have quite a bit of time to learn about the idea and dig into the business. This pitch competition is just a few minutes per company, so you'll be getting my gut reaction to these elevator pitches. StartEngine does a great job of bringing a lot of variety to the competition, so I never know what I'm going to get.
Do you have any other advice for entrepreneurs trying to make it out there right now, especially during this crazy year we're having?
Change brings opportunity, and a lot has changed in the past year. I think today is a great time to start a business, but I also think it is a difficult time to raise funding, so entrepreneurs need to be particularly mindful of their runway and what debt they take on, if any.
Catch Kevin "Mr. Wonderful" O'Leary on the next installment of StartEngine's Shark Pitch competition on July 7, 2021, 9am PT / 12 pm ET. All founders are welcome to apply to pitch by visiting www.startengine.com/shark .
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A few months ago (or maybe last year), I posted my fave playlist and now I am here to share with you my updated one! My songs taste changes almost every time, sometimes when I am at the mall and I hear a very catchy song all I do is turn on Shazam on my phone and wait for the result.. and BAM I have a new favorite song added to my playlist!
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Trump Says He Twice 'Strongly Pressed' Putin on US Election Meddling
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he twice "strongly pressed" Russian President Vladimir Putin about Russia's meddling in last year's U.S. election and it was now time to "move forward in working constructively" with Moscow.
In a string of Twitter comments after returning to Washington from the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Trump noted that Putin vehemently denied any role in interfering in the election and that he and the Russian leader "discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded and safe."
Key Republican lawmakers, however, immediately ridiculed Trump's idea of working with the Russians on a cybersecurity pact. Senator Lindsey Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that it was "not the dumbest idea I've ever heard, but it's pretty close."
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in Kyiv that Russian interference in the November election remains an impediment to better relations between the two countries. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus told Fox News that Trump "absolutely did not believe" Putin's denial of the election meddling.
Trump said in one tweet that he had "already given my opinion" on the election interference. He apparently was referring to the assessment he offered last week at a news conference in Warsaw, where he said, "I think it was Russia and I think it could have been other people and other countries. Could have been a lot of people [who] interfered."
Trump is facing months of investigations of allegations that his campaign colluded with Russian officials to help him win the White House and that he possibly obstructed justice by firing James Comey, then the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, while he was leading the agency's Russia investigation.
Numerous congressional probes are underway, as is a criminal investigation headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, another former FBI chief.
'A great success'
Trump called the summit of the leaders of the world's largest economies "a great success for the U.S.," saying he had "explained that the U.S. must fix the many bad trade deals it has made" and that its deals would be reworked.
He made no mention of the European Union's major trade deal with Japan announced last week, or that the other 19 countries at the summit voiced their opposition to Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 international accord reached in Paris to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years.
Trump claimed as a success his agreement with Putin on a negotiated cease-fire in parts of Syria that he said would save lives in Syria's unending six-year civil war for control of the Middle Eastern country.
'Fake news'
But in his tweets, the U.S. leader also returned to two of his favorite themes, attacking the mainstream U.S. news media and opposition Democrats.
He said "Fake News" had overstated the number of American intelligence agencies that had concluded that Russia meddled in the election to boost Trump's chances of defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state, saying it was 17 when it was actually four.
Trump, as he did overseas, questioned why his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, did "NOTHING when he had info" about the Russian election interference in August, three months before the election.
Weeks after the voting, Obama, in response to Moscow's election interference, expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian compounds that the U.S. said had been used for intelligence gathering.
Trump said he and Putin did not discuss the sanctions and that "nothing will be done" about them until "problems" with Russia's military involvement in Ukraine and Syria "are solved."
Trump also claimed that the FBI and Central Intelligence Agency were rebuffed 13 times in seeking to examine computers at the Democratic National Committee that were hacked into by Russian interests.
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks subsequently released thousands of emails of Clinton's campaign chief John Podesta, many of them showing embarrassing behind-the-scenes efforts by Democratic operatives to help Clinton win the party's presidential nomination.
Clinton has blamed the almost daily release of the emails in the weeks leading up to the election as one reason why she lost, even as national polls said she would win.
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"Pay to Cum" is the debut single from the band Bad Brains, self-released in June 1980 on the band's Bad Brain Records. The single was recorded in New York City by Jimi Quidd at his Dots Studios. This reissue marks the first release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records label imprint. In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains' recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing. Indie Exclusive pressed on black and white (half and half) color vinyl, limited to 700 copies, and only available at independent record stores.
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Pay To Cum! [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Black/White Vinyl Single]
Artist: Bad Brains
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Our very first production was a low budget, collaborative "readers theater" style production comprised a tight ensemble playing numerous roles; from talking objects and animals to human and cartoon characters. "Readers theater" is a concept which invites all actors to share in the dialoque, often together like a chorus, or individually, using single words or phrases. The effect was imaginative, fantastical and delighted audiences of all ages.
"An absurd, comical, poetic-adventure for the whole family"


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Tag: trade in services
Posted on 3 January 2021 3 January 2021
The UK and the EU: all change, or is it?
At 23:00 on 31 December 2020, the UK withdrew from the European single market. This ended the transition period which followed the UK's departure from the EU on 31 January 2020. But, with the Trade and Cooperation Agreement ('the deal') signed on 30 December, it was agreed that there would be no tariffs or quotas on trade in goods between the UK and the EU.
So what are the new economic relations between the EU and the UK and how will they impact on the UK economy? What new restrictions are there on trade in goods and on the movement of labour and capital? How is trade in services, including financial services, affected? What new agreements, such as on fishing, will replace previous agreements?
What will happen to trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland? What will happen to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
What will happen to regulations over standards of traded products and their production? Will the UK government be able to provide subsidies or other types of support for goods or services exported to the EU? How will disputes about standards and support to companies be resolved?
How will trade with non-EU countries change? If the EU has trade agreements with such countries, do these agreements now apply to trade between the UK and such countries? How free is the UK now to negotiate new trade agreements with non-EU countries? How will the UK's negotiating strength be affected by its withdrawal from the EU?
Rather than listing the changes here, follow the links below to the articles and assess the nature of the changes and then attempt the questions. The articles represent a balance of views.
What is clear is that these are all big issues and are likely to have a significant impact on the UK economy. Most economists argue that the net effect will be negative on trade and economic growth, but there is huge uncertainty about the magnitude of the effects. Much will depend on how arrangements between the UK and the EU develop over the coming months and years.
Brexit deal explained: What will be the impact of UK's agreement with EU?
Sky News, Ed Conway (24/12/20)
Brexit deal: What is in it?
BBC News, Chris Morris (28/12/20)
Brexit: What are the key points of the deal?
BBC News, Tom Edgington (30/12/20)
Brexit trade deal explained: the key parts of the landmark agreement
Financial Times (25/12/20)
The key details of the Brexit deal summarised, from trade to fishing
The Telegraph, James Crisp and Gordon Rayner (3/1/21)
Committees, visas and climate change: Brexit experts' verdicts on the deal details
The Guardian, Lisa O'Carroll (28/12/20)
The left must stop mourning Brexit – and start seeing its huge potential
The Guardian, Larry Elliott (31/12/20)
The Guardian view on Britain out of the EU: a treasure island for rentiers
The Guardian, Editorial (27/12/20)
Brexit Is Finally Done, but It Already Seems Out of Date
New York Times, Mark Landler (30/12/20)
Towards a modern UK-EU trade relationship
Best for Britain, David Henig (28/12/20)
Brexit Is a New World Businesses Still Need to Figure Out
Bloomberg, Deirdre Hipwell, Craig Trudell, and Dara Doyle (1/1/21)
UK and EU documents
Agreements reached between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Union
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street (31/12/20)
The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: summary and implementation
House of Commons Library, Research Briefing, Stefano Fella et al (30/12/20)
Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and The European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part
European Commission (31/12/20)
Questions & Answers: EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: A new relationship, with big changes – Brochure
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: A new relationship, with big changes – Overview of consequences and benefits
Summarise the main features of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and how the UK's new relationship with the EU differs from being a member.
What are the potential economic benefits from being outside the EU?
What are the economic drawbacks for the UK from having left the EU, albeit with the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement?
On balance, do you think that the UK will gain or lose economically from having left the EU? Explain your answer.
Tags: Tagsbalance of trade, Brexit, EU, factor movements, free trade, frictions in trade, quotas, tariffs, trade, Trade and Cooperation Agreement, trade in servicesPosted in: CategoriesEconomics 10e: Ch 23, Economics for Business: 8e Ch 24, Economics for Business: 8e Ch 25, Essential Economics for Business: Ch 12, Essentials of Economics: 8e Ch 14, Podcasts and VideosAuthored by: John Sloman
Posted on 26 August 2007 1 October 2010
Holiday at home?
In complete contrast to the holidaying habits of the Blair family, Gordon Brown chose to take his holiday this year in Weymouth on the Dorset Coast. Is he setting us a good example? Should we all be holidaying at home to support the UK economy? In the article below, David Smith looks at the impact of holidaying abroad on the UK balance of payments.
Holiday at home and do your bit for Blighty Times Online (26/8/07)
1. Examine the impact of growing overseas travel on the UK balance of payments.
2. Assess the impact of a reduced tourism deficit on the rest of the UK economy.
3. Discuss policies that the government could adopt to help encourage a reduction in the balance of payments deficit on tourism.
Tags: Tagsbalance of payments, tourism, trade in servicesPosted in: CategoriesEconomics 10e: Ch 20, Economics 10e: Ch 25, Economics for Business: 8e Ch 11, Essentials of Economics: 8e Ch 15Authored by: pearson


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Pinecrest, Art Basel, Miami, Bruce Munro
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Pinecrest, Florida
He has inaugurated 6000 different colored flowers in a Pinecrest park, installed with the help of volunteers
His work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection, Buckinghamshire; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Known for his light installations, he beautifies from today until June 2022 the nights of Pinecrest Gardens Park in Miami (Florida) with a work made with 6,000 glass spheres illuminated with fiber optics.
The Bruce Munro: Forest and Field of Light exhibition and included in the Art Basel Miami Beach fair event schedule features two installations to bring the gardens to life at night with brilliant colors.
This is the artist's first opportunity to create an outdoor piece for a tropical forest setting and he is satisfied with the result.
Each exhibition space is unique and the size of the space does not matter, but the concept and passion of people for art.
In Pinecrest I found that passion for art and that human warmth (…) and that is why I hope that this exhibition inspires a little hope and joy to all who visit these beautiful gardens
The two installations created by Munro are very different.
Field of Light is situated around a lake, the surface of which is fully illuminated by gently changing red, yellow, blue and white light waves, while the sinuous and exotic Forest of Light is hidden deep within the Lower Garden ( Lower garden).
For me, light is a means of expression and a conduit for sharing thoughts, feelings, and life experiences with others.
During the tour, visitors can walk along a path surrounded by illuminated stems from which they access from the gardens to the natural jungle that surrounds them.
Immersed in tropical splendor, the lighting is reflected in the streams that surround Tortuga Island.
For Munro, the most important thing is to generate emotions through light, beyond creating a majestic and impressive work to behold.
The work begins as a sketch in 1992 as he travels to Uluru through the Red Desert in central Australia.
That trip changes my life completely.
The artist begins to dream of a field of lights that flourishes under the night sky, like the desert after a rain.
The difficulties of life as a single person in a foreign country and then the arrival of the family then get in the way.
He cannot execute the piece until 10 years later when he creates the first field of light – with 50,000 illuminated glass spheres – in the field behind his family's home in Wiltshire, England.
This is a very important job, because it gives me the opportunity to work as an artist full time for the last 20 years.
From there, Munro exhibits work around the world such as Denmark, Scotland, Mexico and South Korea.
2016, he returns to the same space that inspires him, Uluru, to present his installation.
Munro assures that life has many positive sides and that negative artistic manifestations are ephemeral, since the news and news are responsible for darkening our mornings daily.
I think art has a great way of acting as a behavior to develop a way to help people express their problems without hitting them.
Miami, 4 dic 2021 Agencia (EFE)
https://www.pinecrestgardens.org/fine-art/bruce-munro-forest-and-field-of-light
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Bruce Munro, Pinecrest, Art Basel Miami
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