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CARRIE RICKEY
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By now, we all know that it takes a village to raise a child. Less well-known is that it takes an army of women to raise consciousness about how Hollywood's gender and race imbalance—both in front of the camera and behind it—is inimical to equal employment, pay, and representation.
Largely due to the efforts of activist female filmmakers including Allison Anders, Ava DuVernay and Maria Giese, agenda-driven academics such as Martha Lauzen and Stacy Smith (all five pictured above), and institutions such as The Bunche Center at UCLA, inclusion has been a critical and still unresolved factor for the past two decades in the Hollywood movie equation.
Sadly, as these women warriors, guerrilla girls and inclusion revolutionaries challenge and shake up the Hollywood establishment, exclusion remains the norm. Because of Lauzen's tenacity, we know that for the past 20 years the percentage of female directors has wavered between 5 and 11 percent. Because of Smith's diligence, we know the ratio of males to females on screen is stuck between 3:1 and 2.5:1 (In 1991, Rodney Mitchell, then the diversity officer at the Screen Actors Guild, told me that by his Guild's numbers, the onscreen male:female ratio was roughly 2.35:1. 26 years later, Smith's 2007 study of the percentage of women who have speaking roles on screen likewise shows a 2.35:1 ratio.)
I have written about this issue since 1984. To borrow a line from Manohla Dargis, I feel like a broken record broken record broken record. Why does the needle seem to be stuck?
Because it's easier to point to womens' successes in the industry as positive signs of change—Kathryn Bigelow wins a best director Oscar for "The Hurt Locker" (2008)! Patty Jenkins directs the superheroine movie, "Wonder Woman" (2017)! Ava DuVernay makes a girl-centered fantasy, "A Wrinkle in Time" (2018)!—than to make permanent structural change in the industry. Just because good things are being made and honored by women in Hollywood doesn't mean the problem of systemic gender bias in the industry has been solved.
And because beleaguered Hollywood, fighting the rise of streaming services that eat at its theatrical profits and the horrific charges of sexual predation that eat at its soul, historically uses these other issues to push inclusion back on the back burner. This, even though predation is a symptom of the power and gender imbalance the activists have sought to rectify. (While I want to celebrate the stories of the change agents who blazed the trail for #TimesUp, the legal fund dedicated to fighting workplace harassment across the board, and while the work of The Bunche Center is hugely important, I will focus here on those women and institutions who have done the most for female representation.)
Since 1998, Martha Lauzen, professor at San Diego State University, and head of the Center for Women in Television and Film, has published the annual Celluloid Ceiling report tracking film employment, the 'Boxed In' report, that does the same for women's employment in TV, and 'It's a Man's World,' tracking representation of women on the big and small screens.
In the 1990s, she read newspaper articles about how women were doing better in film and TV. The reports were anecdotal—they were about the unicorns, or exceptions—and had no correlation with what she was seeing on the big and small screens, and in the credits.
"I started conducting research on an annual basis to accurately document women's underemployment, and to build industry awareness," she wrote in an email. It didn't occur to her that it would take decades to build momentum and "for the demographics of the country to help push it along." The Center tracks employment for women in all areas behind the camera, from cinematographer to screenwriter. (Lauzen was the first to provide statistics showing how a woman director boosts the number of women on the set: on films with exclusively male directors, women accounted for only 15% of editors and 5% of cinematographers. On films with female directors, the percentages of women editors rose to 35%, and cinematographers to 26%.)
It seemed clear, she said, "that the data was essential to keep the conversation going." She coined the term "gender inertia" to describe how the numbers of women on and behind the screen have failed to rise substantially over the past two decades.
Not only has the data she collected kept the conversation going, organizations including the ACLU and the California State Assembly cite the Center's findings as continuing evidence of chronic and consistent gender bias in Hollywood.
In 1999, Allison Anders, the gifted filmmaker of "Gas Food Lodging" (1992) and "Grace of My Heart" (1996) had it with Hollywood's double-standard. Why did her male peers have career momentum? Even after a flop, they were offered another movie. Why, if Anders or another woman had a success, was it a "fluke"?
She wanted answers—and solutions. She emailed sister filmmakers and sympathetic journalists. And, in April 2000, the Women Filmmakers' Summit took place at the late, lamented Miramar Hotel in Santa Barbara, described by film historian Cari Beauchamp in a recent article as "run-down, but still vibrant."
There were established directors at Miramar, like Martha Coolidge ("Valley Girl," "Real Genius," "Rambling Rose"), and also newcomers, like Patricia Cardoso and Gurinder Chadha, who within a few years respectively would make Real Women Have Curves and Bend it Like Beckham. After a "venting" session, the assembled concluded that it wasn't personal, only business, and that the business was tilted in men's favor. After their common goal of gender equality, they named themselves "50/50." In the years since, the women who were there continue to network, gaining strength and strategy from each other.
A handful of Miramar alumna collaborated with the Guerrilla Girls, the feminist collective that stages humorous interventions such as billboards and posters—to highlight gender inequality. As "Kathe Kollwitz," nom de guerre of a GG co-founder, said in a recent email, "We knew Hollywood was bad, but it wasn't until looking at statistics like Martha Lauzen's that we realized it was even worse than the art world!"
For the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Miramar alumna and the Guerilla Girls targeted companies without movies by female filmmakers up for distribution. The activists identified the companies with stickers that read, "THESE DISTRIBUTORS DON'T KNOW HOW TO PICK UP WOMEN."
The following year, "those directors helped fund a billboard, "The Anatomically Correct Oscar."
The billboard had a caricature of the statuette with a caption—"He's White & Male—just like the guys who win!" and the facts that only 3% of the acting awards had gone to people of color, and Best Director had never gone to a woman. My favorite among the Guerrilla Girls actions was a 2006 billboard on Sunset Boulevard during Oscars month. It showed a Queen Kong, a gorilla in a red gown, mad and manacled, with the datapoints that female filmmakers directed only 7 percent of the films of 2005 and that only three women had ever received best director nominations. A handful of Hollywood execs, male and female, have told me they nearly had car crashes driving past the sign while reading it. The Guerrilla Girls have updated these billboards and exhibited them around the world. In 2016, they updated many of the signs during the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and put them of the streets of Minneapolis.
A year after the Guerrilla Girls' "anatomically correct" billboard appeared in 2002, Stacy Smith joined the faculty of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
She is the founding director of The Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative (MDSC), which in 2017 rebranded itself as The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
Smith and her colleagues took an intersectional approach to the analysis of 800 films made between 2007 and 2015. Their findings included: That women are only 30% of those on screen, and when they are their characters are hypersexualized by skimpy clothing and nudity; That the representation of non-white characters consistently is lower onscreen than the percentages of African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans in the general population; That when an African American is in the director's chair the percentage of black characters climbs from 10% to 39%; That when men are in the director's chair the number of women onscreen is roughly 30% and when women are the percentage of women onscreen rises to 41%. Smith calls the disproportionately low numbers of non-whites and women onscreen an "epidemic of invisibility."
Smith, like Lauzen, is increasingly concerned with finding solutions to the seemingly intractable problem of onscreen underrepresentation of women, non-whites and gender nonbinaries. In a 2016 TED Talk, Smith suggested three ways to improve the numbers of women and nonwhites on and behind the screen. One of the suggestions was the "inclusion rider" that Frances McDormand talked about in her Oscar acceptance speech. Namely, a stipulation that actors and actresses can ask (or demand) to have inserted into their contracts, which would require a certain level of inclusion among a film's cast and crew.
Maria Giese was hardly the first female filmmaker to note that the Hollywood playing field was not exactly level. But she may be the first who described that field as "vertical." After receiving her MFA in film production from UCLA in 1994, and making two indies, "When Saturday Comes" (1996) and "Hunger" (2001, pictured above), she found it increasingly challenging to get another feature made.
The numbers were against her. Between 2000 and 2001 The percentage female directors dropped from 11% in to 6%. Giese was frustrated. She thought of "Norma Rae," "Erin Brockovich" and "Nine to Five." She knew that Hollywood relished making movies about women who triumph over the odds. But when it came to helping female filmmakers triumph over the odds in Hollywood's own clubby universe, the industry was less interested.
By 2011, she was broke and angry. She studied the data gathered by Lauzen and Smith and collected her own. She studied case law and brought her files to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission in 2013. The EEOC needed more data. Giese took her files to the ACLU which conducted an independent investigation. In May 2015, the ACLU wrote an extraordinary 15-page letter to the EEOC that concluded, "the statistics and anecdotal evidence we have gathered points to systemic discrimination."
The EEOC does not comment on investigations. Before it sues employers for noncompliance, it mediates employment discrimination. According to Deadline Hollywood's David Robb in February 2017, the EEOC was working on mediation. From leaks to which I have been privy, I understand that mediation efforts are in progress.
The rest of us work towards inclusion. Ava DuVernay just does it. In 2010, the year she completed "I Will Follow," her first feature film, she also founded AFFRM (now ARRAY), a collaborative that brings black-themed and female-themed art films to cities across the country. Thus far, 15 independent films—including "I Will Follow" and DuVernay's "Middle of Nowhere"—have found audiences. The result: 15 films with mostly non-white and female stories, actors and crews got distribution via DuVernay's insistence on inclusion.
In 2016, when she was named creator, writer and producer of the episodic cable series "Queen Sugar," DuVernay announced that the director of each episode would be a woman. When reporters questioned this, she responded, "If 'Game of Thrones' can have three seasons of all male directors, why can't we have three of all female directors?" The result: Women who needed more credits to get into the Directors Guild and to get more work, earned both via DuVernay's insistence on inclusion.
In 2017, when named director of "A Wrinkle in Time," DuVernay cast the Murry family as multiracial: White dad, black mom, one biracial child and the other of Asian heritage. The result: A family that looks more like America than the ones we see in most movies and television.
In 1980, the year I began reviewing films for the Village Voice, the percentage of women directing films was .05%. You read that right: ½ of 1%. Twenty years later, in 2000, it was 11%. I admit, I was optimistic. But in 2017, the number is still 11 %. This, despite the agents of social change I celebrate here. Who would have thought that in Hollywood change is geological?
These women and institutions are doing great work not only in keeping the conversation going, but in keeping Hollywood's feet to the fire. Still, I wonder, could we do better?
And I think, each of the inclusion warriors is doing better than her best. They've given Hollywood the longitudinal data and a snapshot of each year for the past 20 years. They've crunched the data so Hollywood knows to the dollar that movies with women and by women make money. They have schooled Hollywood so it knows that when it holds up a mirror to America, it reflects back as too male and too pale.
And I think, Hollywood, we've done our job. Now do yours.
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Beyond official rules and regulations, federal agencies sometimes exert influence through unofficial administrative tools. Wielded without the ordinary checks and balances of official actions that lawmakers put in place, these powers can be used to pressure individuals and companies to surrender their rights without due process. What are the real-world examples of agencies using coercive power to affect companies, employees, and consumers and how can these practices be avoided in the future?


Happy Navratri messages, wishes and images and what are the 2018 colours?
The Hindu festival is Navratri has begun and will last for a total of 10 days and nine nights.
It runs from 10 to 18 October this year, and will end on Dussehra, or Vijayadashami, which celebrates the victory of good over evil.
Each day people will worship the goddess Durga in one of her nine forms, and dress in a different colour each day (different rituals are set for the days).
Durga is considered to be the mother goddess, and there will be large celebrations across the Hindu community – particularly in Gujarat and Mumbai.
If you want to share the excitement with Hindu friends and family this Navratri, here are a few ways to wish them well.
This is the Navratri festival this year!: ऐसा नवरात्र उत्सव इस साल हो! aisa navaraatr utsav is saal ho!
Be joyful and happy, as lord Durga blesses us this Navratri. The Festival will sure be filled with sheer and fun. A lovely day for Everyone. Happy Navratri!
May Navratri Ma fulfill all your dreams and bring happiness in your life.
May this day be as bright as the beginning sunshine. To celebrate Durga Puja with warm smiles. Double the fun with exciting treats. As we take the festivity to the streets.
May Maa Durga Durgatinashini bring joy to you and your loved ones. May the Divine blessings of Maa Durga be with you always Happy Days Puja. Happy Navratri.
May the blessings of Goddess Durga always be upon you and may she guide you in whatever you do in life. Happy Navratri!
May Goddess Durga rid you of all the problems in life. This Navratri onwards, may there only be happiness in your life. Wishing you a happy Navratri.
Wishing you plenty of peace and prosperity on the joyous occasion of Navratri.
A very Happy Navratri to one and all!!!
Each day of Navratri the Goddess Durga is worshipped in each of her nine forms with each day having a different ritual associated with it.
The day Navratri begins is marked by the ritual Ghatasthapana which is performed to invoke the energy of the Goddess Durga.
The goddess is worshipped on this day as Shailputri is an incarnation of the Goddess Pravati, her name meaning 'Daughter of the Mountain' which represents nature and purity.
As Navratri starts on a Wednesday this year the colour to wear for this day is royal blue.
The goddess is worshipped as Brahmacharini who is the unmarried form of the Goddess Parvati.
She undertook great penance to get Lord Shiva to marry her and she is associated with pious strictness.
The colour for this day is yellow.
On this day the goddess is worshipped as the married form of Goddess Parvati: Chandraghanta. The name is derived from the half-moon on her forehead, which looks like a bell.
The colour for this day is green.
The goddess is worshipped as Kushmanda, who lived in side the sun and is believed to have created the universe, giving it light and energy.
The colour to wear on this day is grey.
The goddess is worshipped on this day in the form Skandamta the mother of Kartikey.
The goddess is worshipped as Katyayani, which is the form of Goddess Parvati that morphs into to fight and destroy the buffalo demon Mahishasura and this day represents the warrior form of the goddess.
The colour to be worn is white.
The goddess is worshipped in the Kalaratri form, or the dark night.
She is the form of the goddess that is fierce and represents the protection from all troubles, and the colour for this day is red.
The form of the goddess worshipped on this day of Navratri is Mahagauri which is the younger version of Shailputri who had fair and perfect complexion.
She represents beauty, grace and the cleansing of sins. The colour to wear to worship this day is sky blue.
Goddess Durga is worshipped as Siddhidatri who embodies all eight siddhis – the supernatural powers.
She granted Lord Shiva the powers when he worshipped her and it is believed that she will also bestow them onto her devotees. The colour people wear for this day is pink.
On the final day of Navratri people wear any bright and colourful clothing.


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Q: Oracle SQL PLS-00049: bad bind variable on Trigger I'm getting this error i try to fix it without success, i have controlled the table that i use to to this trigger but it doesn't work.
this is the code,
create or replace TRIGGER INSERISCITURNO
 instead of insert on VistaTurno  for each row
  declare
 ok boolean;
  begin
         ok := false;
  for i in (select a.Giocatore from AVATAR a where a.Partita = :new.Partita ) loop
  if (:new.Giocatore = i.Giocatore) then
    insert into TURNO(CodTurno, NumTurno, Partita, Giocatore) values (:new.CodTurno, :new.NumTurno, :new.Partita, :new.Giocatore);
      AggiornaSituazioneGiocatore(:new.Giocatore, :new.CodTurno, :new.Partita);
      ok := true;
    end if;
    end loop;

    if(ok = false) then
    dbms_output.put_line('Il giocatore è in partita, inserimento fallito!');
    end if;
end;

they give me this error on compilation,
Errore(8,68): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.PARTITA'
Errore(9,11): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.GIOCATORE'
Errore(10,75): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.CODTURNO'
Errore(10,90): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.NUMTURNO'
Errore(10,105): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.PARTITA'
Errore(10,119): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.GIOCATORE'
Errore(11,39): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.GIOCATORE'
Errore(11,55): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.CODTURNO'
Errore(11,70): PLS-00049: bad bind variable 'NEW.PARTITA'

pls, can someone help me? i think the syntax is good.
add VistaTurno
 CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW VISTATURNO (
     "CODTURNO", "NUMTURNO", "PARTITA", "GIOCATORE"
 ) AS
 select * from TURNO;

and this is the Turno
create table TURNO (
CodTurno integer primary key ,
NumTurno integer not null ,
Partita integer,
Giocatore integer
);

alter table TURNO
add constraint  v4 check  (NumTurno > 0);

alter table TURNO
add constraint  fk1 FOREIGN KEY (Partita) REFERENCES PARTITA(CodPartita);

alter table TURNO
 add constraint  fk2 FOREIGN KEY (Giocatore) REFERENCES
  GIOCATORE(CodGiocatore);

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A council by-election held in Havering, east London on Thursday of last week has highlighted the danger posed by the fascist British National Party (BNP) – and underlined the importance of the Love Music Hate Racism carnival to be held in April.
The BNP held a seat in Gooshays ward with 865 votes, some 38 percent of the vote. Labour came second with 741 votes, or 33 percent. Turnout was 23 percent.
"The racism whipped up in the media has helped the Nazis – and there is now a danger that they can gain enough votes to grab seats on the London assembly this May," said Weyman Bennett, joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism.
That is why the Love Music Hate Racism carnival on 27 April in Victoria Park, east London, is so important. It will attract tens of thousands – and is the ideal platform for getting an anti-Nazi message out to millions across the city.
The Gooshays by-election was triggered by the resignation of the BNP's sole councillor in Havering, Alan Bailey, who topped the poll in the ward in May 2006. It is unusual for the BNP to successfully defend a seat when one of its councillors resigns.
The May 2006 poll involved choosing all three councillors in the ward, making a direct comparison with last week's  by-election difficult.
But the figures suggest that the Nazi vote has risen at the expense of the Tories, while the Labour vote has stayed more or less static.


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Since I'm back from the London trip and a seminar weekend right after, I've been running behind the clock. I have stacks of posts that need editing, my blog roll keeps growing in numbers. The blog needs a redo on the layout. I've started a Mode Plus facebook page. I'm learning more and more technical and the practical stuff behind blogging. I think I seriously need an assistant. Or a time-management course. I can be so chaotic sometimes.
out of the house and interact with others.
Approximately 8 months ago I started blogging at the exact same place.It was a day before my birthday and I remember it as if it was yesterday. I wanted to start an adventure and to do something close to my heart. I'm so happy I made that decision, not really knowing for sure that I would pass the 5 readers.I'm happy you log in to read, to browse, to comment. I truly appreciate each one of you: new, old, curvy, not-so curvy, I love you all.
Isn't it strange sometimes how life throws you curves balls? You can either dodge and hide. Or you choose to stand straight, take the blow and face the unknown. Ladies, let's start the week standing straight or at least try. I'll give you a hand if you need too.
Enough philosophical talk let's zoom in the outfit. So this was day two of the seminar and I decided to give the neutral palette a bit of spice by rocking the rust welovecolors tights.
It's a shame the camera can't really capture the vibrance of the color(I so want a new camera). The belt is actually the handle of my satchel (here). I packed light and forgot to bring a belt, so I had to improvise. I'm not all that crazy about the outfit (those outfits exists). To my surprise I got quit some compliments that day. So I decided to put in on the blog after all. You can never tell how others will perceive you. It's all in the eyes of the beholder. What do you think?


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JAMES W. CHIPMAN
Contesting your property tax assessment in court
Real Estate Tax Attorney,
Property Assessments,
Appeal Process,
Property Tax Appeal Board
A board of review decision can also be appealed directly to a circuit court. It's an option that taxpayers often overlook!
By James W. Chipman
Boards of review don't have the final say about property tax assessments, however they're a necessary stop in the appeal process. Taxpayers who are unhappy with their board decision have two options: appeal to the state Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB) as described in my Aug. 24, Sept. 12 and Nov. 27 blogs; or, file a tax objection complaint in the circuit court. You cannot file appeals in both venues. The good news is that taxpayers who miss the 30-day filing deadline for taking an appeal to the PTAB still have time to pursue the tax objection remedy.
Filing a tax objection complaint, the lesser known of the two alternatives, involves a formalized legal process that's full of conditions, requirements and deadlines that make it a potential minefield for inexperienced taxpayers or attorneys. While tax objection cases are more common in Cook County than elsewhere in the state, here's what a taxpayer can expect if they choose this remedy.
Before going to court
Prior to filing a tax objection complaint, the taxpayer must pay the entire tax due on the property* on time and have filed an appeal with the board of review at the appropriate time**. Once these requirements are met and a complaint is filed, 100% of the taxes are considered paid under protest.
The court process
The process begins when a complaint is filed in the circuit court of the county where the property is located. The complaint must specify the reasons why the assessment is excessive. Any number of factual and legal arguments can be made, but in most cases, it's about whether the fair market value of the property is accurate. The county collector or treasurer is named as a defendant but is not required to file a response to the complaint. The state's attorney, who acts as legal counsel for the county, generally represents the collector. A tax objection case is subject to rules of practice and procedure, including discovery. This means each party can subpoena documents and witnesses.
Taxpayers face an uphill battle. When a case goes to trial, there's a rebuttable presumption that the property assessment is correct and legal and taxpayers must overcome this presumed correctness by clear and convincing evidence.*** That's the highest burden of proof in a civil matter. A judge sitting without a jury hears the case de novo, or anew, and will make one of the following rulings:
Confirm the assessment.
Grant a reduction and order a refund, in which case the taxpayer is entitled to interest.
Or, in certain instances, increase an assessment if it's felt the evidence tendered by the taxing body is superior to that filed by the taxpayer.
After the court's ruling
The taxpayer or the collector can appeal an adverse ruling through the court system just like in any other civil matter.**** However, with any court appeal, there are strict time limits and procedural rules that govern the process.
Taxpayers have choices when it comes to appealing their property tax assessments. Going to court is one worth considering as it can actually result in a faster decision being made than if the case had been appealed to the PTAB.
If you want to learn whether filing a tax objection complaint may be your best alternative, please contact Donald T. Rubin at DTRubin@GCT.law or 312.696.2641.
*35 ILCS 200/23-5 (The process is different in Cook County – see 35 ILCS 200/23-5 & 23-10)
**35 ILCS 200/23-10
***35 ILCS 200/23-15(b)(2)
****35 ILCS 200/23-15(c)


A month and a half ago Amy and I embarked on another ambitious trip, cruising from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Papeete, Tahiti. The thirty-four-day cruise named the "Kon-Tiki Explorer" follows the route of Thor Heyerdahl's famous expedition to sail from the west coast of South America to Polynesia.
Boarding the MS Massdam in Fort Lauderdale conjured some serious déjà vu because the ship is so similar to the MS Volendam, the cruise liner that we traveled on just before we were married. We had just enough time to settle into our stateroom, grab a celebratory drink, and watch as the ship left port and into the open sea. The voyage was officially underway!
After two days at sea, our first port of call was Santa Marta, Columbia. Santa Marta is one of Columbia's primary shipping ports. In recent years it has emerged as a tourist destination because it is smaller and less crowded than neighboring Barranquilla and Cartagena.
We had limited time in Santa Marta, so we joined a tour to Tyrona National Park. The national park hosts one of the most beautiful coastlines in Columbia. In addition, it's part of the ancestral home of the Tairona people, which have inhabited this area for millennia.
After spending much of the day at the park we walked into Santa Marta. We headed down the boardwalk and watched the boats in the harbor.
Anticipating a flood of tourists from the ship, many local merchants had set up tables in Bolivar Square. We found Kogi artisans who are direct descendants of the Tairona people. The women of the tribes are known for weaving traditional bags made with beautiful tapestries.
Before we knew it, the day was over and we were back on the ship heading to our next port of call, the San Blas Islands of Panama!


As a part of the flushing program, Indiana American Water will temporarily change the disinfectant used in the water treatment process to support a system wide flushing of the Muncie district. Indiana American Water's Muncie system will be using chlorine rather than chloramines during this time period, the release stated.
The water main flushing will be performed by Indiana American Water crews. They will be working out of trucks identified with the company logo. All employees will also have photo ID badges.


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Two themes in 2011: Higher property taxes, fewer jobs in local government
Minnesota Public Radio takes a look back at the year and finds two trends in how communities across the state are wrestling with budgets. Property taxes, which have been rising for more than a decade, continue to go up as local governments try to make up for losses in state aid. Many municipalities are also cutting into their own budgets and payrolls to find savings on the other end.
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Bemidji woman sought by authorities trying to ensure her safety
Regis Corp. announces 290 job cuts across U.S., Canada
The Minneapolis-based company has been making major changes to its business model.
Busch is giving Minnesotans $1 off beer for every inch of snow that falls
Erm...this seems like a bad business move.
Despite more state aid, local governments pointed toward property tax hikes
Home values fall, property taxes rise; homeowners ask "What gives?"
The Legislature's decision to replace the homestead tax credit with a market value exception saved the state money ... by shifting the cost onto local property taxes. That's the main ingredient in a mix of factors pushing up property tax bills around the region.
ND voters embrace their property taxes
Voters in North Dakoka -- flush with oil boom money and enjoying the lowest unemployment in the nation -- had the chance Tuesday to become the first state to cast off property taxes. But in the end, voters decided to keep the $800 million a year the taxes raise.
Report shows Minnesota property taxes rising fastest outside the Twin Cities
Property taxes are up all over Minnesota this year. But while the Twin Cities area deals with hikes of a little over 3 percent, the increases approach 9 percent in the rest of the state. Some of the biggest increases are in Duluth and on the Iron Range.
Ely residents hit with dramatic tax hikes confront city leaders
Some homeowners say their property taxes are going up 40 or even 60 percent. Much of that increase comes after the state government cut the Market Value Homestead Credit, and Ely officials say they need to raise taxes to make up for cuts in Local Government Aid
Property tax increases will likely mean higher rents next year
Recent changes to the state's property tax rules are increasing taxes on apartment owners, and many of them may pass those costs on to their tenants. High demand and few vacancies aren't helping the situation for renters.
Property-tax warnings hit record high in Hennepin County
The number of delinquent taxpayers in Hennepin County has dropped, but more taxpayers are at risk of losing their properties to pay off their tax bills. Hundreds of property owners owe the county nearly $43 million in back taxes and penalties. The Star Tribune reports the county sent out a record 931 notices last year warning owners the deadline to redeem their properties was about to expire.
Property tax statements bring new round of political acrimony
DFL lawmakers say higher property tax bills appearing in mailboxes show that Republicans were not honest when they claimed to have balanced the state's budget without raising taxes. But the current political clamor over taxes is likely just a warm-up for next year, which happens to be an election year.


Willard has released his 2011 taxes. In order to get his tax rate up, he declined the deduction for his Mormon required contribution, otherwise his rate would be under the 13% he claimed earlier that he was paying. This is less than the Self Employment Tax that every small businessman has to pay even before the income tax kicks in.
To keep his rate above the 10% he was required to pay given his religious contributions he purposely overpaid $500,000 in taxes. Something he derided as stupid in an interview earlier this year, he said he wouldn't be fit to President if he paid more than required. The one thing he's said that's true, he's not.
For the median American worker $500,000 represents more than 20 years of take home pay. Just a modest rate of interest on the money would be more than the average American makes. This includes all of the 47% who Mitt thinks are beneath contempt.
In reality Mittens can take the deduction on next year's taxes whether he becomes President or not, so the accounting slight of hand cost him nothing.
Queen Ann is getting really snippy with the press that dares to ask her anything but softball questions, "Just stop it...." The questions are only going to get less appropriate for her highness.
Rachel Maddow pointed out that he always can ammend his 2011 return and add all those contributions and lower his tax rate to 8% regardless if he wins or not. With his past actions in mind he most likely will do the same.
Shi%&*#$ is right we have been stupid for a long time, allowing such a$$h@l=$ win elections, aaaahhhh the horror the horror!
Hopefully we as Americans are starting to wake up!


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Protesters shut down Auckland as Canada's trade minister signs the TPP
Brent Patterson
Civil Liberties Watch
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As Canadian trade minister Chrystia Freeland signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Auckland yesterday, more than 1,000 people shut down the central part of the city in protest against the deal.
The New Zealand Herald reports, "Central Auckland grounded to a halt as trade ministers signed the TPP. All streets around Sky City Convention Centre [where the TPP was being signed] and motorway on and off ramps leading to the central business district were blocked by protesters." The BBC adds, "In the lead up to Thursday's signing, the streets around Auckland's central business district were disrupted by groups blocking access to the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Police clashed with some protesters, who have widely claimed the deal will benefit big business rather than workers."
And a Reuters report in the Globe and Mail's coverage of the signing notes, "There is wide spread grassroots opposition to the TPP in many countries. Opponents have criticized the secrecy surrounding TPP talks, raised concerns about reduced access to things like affordable medicines, and a clause which allows foreign investors the right to sue if they feel their profits have been impacted by a law or policy in the host country. In New Zealand on Thursday more than 1,000 protesters caused traffic disruptions in and around Auckland and police said a large number of police have been deployed."
The Council of Canadians expresses solidarity with those who protested yesterday.
While the Trudeau government says signing the TPP is not the same as ratifying it into law, their "public consultation" email responses show they are clearly defending it.
They say:"Our government supports free trade -- it will help to open markets to Canadian goods and services, grow Canadian businesses, create good-paying jobs, and provide choice to Canadian consumers."
We say: A study by Tufts University found that the TPP will cost Canada 58,000 jobs and increase income inequality. An EKOS poll in October 2015 found that 61 per cent of Canadians believe the TPP will mean job losses in Canada, with just 24 per cent disagreeing with that statement.
They say: "With respect to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), the TPP will not impair the ability of Canada or its partners to regulate and legislate in areas such as the environment, culture, safety, health and conservation. Our experience under the NAFTA demonstrates that neither our investment protection rules nor the ISDS mechanism constrain any level of government from regulating in the public interest."
We say: Canada has been subject to 35-plus NAFTA investor-state claims since the deal came into force on Jan. 1, 1994. Sixty three per cent of those claims have involved challenges to environmental protection or resource management measures.
Drug patents
They say: "Regarding drug patents, the TPP affirms the World Trade Organization Doha Declaration on the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement and Public Health to ensure access to life-saving medicines in public health emergencies."
We say: The TPP establishes for highly profitable transnational pharmaceutical corporations a five-year minimum period of exclusive rights to sell expensive life-saving bioligics. In her comments on the TPP, the director-general of the World Health Organization has stated, "If these agreements open trade yet close the door to affordable medicines we have to ask the question: is this really progress at all."
They say: "With regards to bovine growth hormone (rBST), Health Canada has determined, in 1999, that rBST does not pose a health risk to humans. There is no scientific basis for restricting trade in milk or dairy products from trading partners that have approved rBST. ...All food products, both domestic and imported, must meet Canada's robust health and safety regulation."
We say: It's illegal in Canada to administer BGH to cows to boost their milk production, whereas in the United States there is no such restriction. The TPP opens up 3.25 per cent of the Canadian dairy market to milk imports that could be tainted with BGH. There is no plan to separate or label this milk. An Environics poll in July 2015 found that 87 per cent of Canadians were either very or somewhat concerned about the TPP lowering Canadian food safety and quality standards.
To e-mail the government about the TPP, send your questions and comments to [email protected]. To send a letter to the prime minister to demand a real public consultation, please click on our action alert here.
Photos: Twitter photos of yesterday's protests against the TPP in Auckland.
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UPDATED: Student dies in apparent suicide
College student Amanda Hu died in her home on the 4000 block of Sansom Street late Sunday night in an apparent suicide, according to a police report. She was 20 years old.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/09/police-investigating-death-4000-block-sansom
Through Penn history, racial tensions laid bare
T h e crowd grew by the hundreds, accumulating outside of Penn President Sheldon Hackney's campus house, the protesters chanting for him to come out and meet them face to face. It was April 1992, and students had stormed down Walnut Street alongside Philadelphia residents to call for an end to the racial discrimination that had plagued the country for centuries. Like countless others across the nation, the protest erupted after the brutal beating of a black man named Rodney King.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/09/through-penn-history-racial-tensions-laid-bare
Friends and teammates remember 2014 grad
(07/31/14 9:59pm)
Joseph Grosso, a 2014 Penn graduate and former Quakers linebacker, died Wednesday while lobster diving off the coast of Pompano Beach, Florida.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/07/friends-and-teammates-remember-2014-penn-grad-who-died-wednesday-in-lobster-diving-accident
Recent grad dies while diving off Florida coast
A 2014 Penn graduate and former Quakers linebacker reportedly died while lobster diving on Wednesday in Pompano Beach, Florida.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/07/joseph-grosso-death
Penn researchers develop technology to improve computer networks
From research to startup, a Penn team is hoping to improve computer software by taking humans out of the equation.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/07/gencore-computer-science-efficiency
Penn to pilot app that will change the way your phone organizes its contacts
A Penn grad is trying to make your phone contacts more Humin-centric.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/07/humin-app
Senior design project turned startup helps keep you awake
(06/25/14 10:07pm)
Throw your coffee away, because one Penn senior design project will soon hit the streets to help you perform daily tasks with optimal efficiency.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/06/vigo-startup
Wharton MBA grads create app to streamline hospital communication
Two recent Penn graduates are helping physicians quickly communicate with colleagues.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/06/seratis-app
Summer financial aid changes limit student opportunities
Some students cannot afford to participate in Penn's summer programs this year as a result of changes in Student Financial Services' summer aid practices.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/summer-financial-aid-changes-limit-student-opportunities
Hiding from yourself: the struggle to open up about mental illness
It took five suicides in 12 months for students to start speaking out about their experiences with mental illness. In blog posts, Daily Pennsylvanian op-eds, student groups, UA committee meetings and more, students made it obvious that mental health is an important and widespread concern.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/hiding-from-yourself-the-struggle-to-open-up-about-mental-illness
Woman sues Penn, driver over 38th and Spruce crash
The driver of a car involved in an accident that injured three Penn students is bringing the University and another driver to court for alleged negligence.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/arbitration-lawsuit-filed-over-accident-at-38th-and-spruce-streets
Crime Log: April 11 - April 17
Homicide:
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/crime-log-april-11-april-17-2014
Prosecutor's office releases motive, details in Tuesday morning homicide
The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has released a possible motive and more details in the homicide that occurred near 40th and Spruce streets early Tuesday morning.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/police-release-motive-in-homocide-case
Suspect in Copabanana shooting charged with murder
Corey Gaynor, a 26-year-old man, was charged Tuesday evening with murder for the homicide he allegedly committed near 40th and Spruce streets early Tuesday morning.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/suspect-in-copabanana-shooting-charged-with-murder
Division of Public Safety explains response to shooting at 40th and Spruce streets
After Tuesday morning's shooting near 40th and Spruce streets, administrators described their efforts to keep students safe around the time of the incident.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/division-of-public-safety-explains-response-to-shooting
Twenty-two students taken to the hospital for excessive Flinging
Twenty-two Penn students were taken to the hospital over Spring Fling weekend for alcohol-related reasons, according to the Division of Public Safety.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/22-alcohol-transports-over-fling-weekend
Liquor police issue 35 citations this Fling
The Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement gave out a total of 35 citations to 24 people in and around Penn's campus between Thursday and Saturday evening, according to BLCE Sergeant Dan Steele , commander of the Philadelphia District Office.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/blce-issues-35-citations-at-spring-fling-2014
Crime Log: March 28–April 3
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/crime-log-march-24-april-3
March sees 'record-breaking' crime statistics compared to last year
This March saw record-breaking increases in certain types of crime, according to Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush .
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/record-breaking-crime-statistics-for-march-2014
Students rally against domestic and sexual violence
Over a hundred students marched beside one another last night, holding signs and shouting to everyone who could hear: "Break the silence, end the violence!"
https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/take-back-the-night-spring-2014


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Women can learn to inject themselves with the new subcutaneous formulation of DMPA. Some women like self-injection better than injections by health workers. Self-injection may save women time and money.
Research finds that 3 months after one-on-one training most women can competently give themselves their next injection. Women who inject themselves seem to be as likely to keep using injectable contraceptives as women who get their injections in clinics.
WHO recommends making self-injection an option where appropriate information and training are made available, referral links to a health care provider are strong, and women who self-inject are monitored and followed up. In addition, safe storage of injection devices at home and their safe disposal are important.


Join us for a monthly acroyoga class San Clemente's hip surf hostel space!
This month we are getting so basic! We will learn and fine-tune some basic, foundational acroyoga poses.
No experience or partner is required for this class. We will be working in groups of 2 or more.
Please bring water, a mat and an openness to learn, share and create!
We get started at 8:00pm for a 90 minute class. Feel free to hang out afterward with all your new friends!
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Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity (Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities #16) (Hardcover)
By Philip V. Bohlman
Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi-all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe's historical longue dur e. Drawing upon three decades of research in European sacred music, Philip V. Bohlman calls for a reexamination of European modernity in the twenty-first century, a modernity shaped no less by canonic religious and musical practices than by the proliferation of belief systems that today more than ever respond to the diverse belief systems that engender the New Europe. In contrast to most studies of sacred musical practice in European history, with their emphasis on the musical repertories and ecclesiastical practices at the center of society, Bohlman turns our attention to individual and marginalized communities and to the collectives of believers to whose lives meaning accrues upon sounding the sacred together. In the historical chapters that open Revival and Reconciliation, Bohlman examines the genesis of modern history in the convergence and conflict that lie at the heart of the Abrahamic faiths-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Critical to the meaning of these religions to Europe, Bohlman argues, has been their capacity to mobilize both sacred journey and social action, which enter the everyday lives of Europeans through folk religion, pilgrimage, and politics, the subjects of the second half of his study. The closing sections then cross the threshold from history into modernity, above all that of the New Europe, with its return to religion through revival and reconciliation. Based on an extensive ethnographic engagement with the sacred landscapes and sites of conflict in twenty-first-century Europe, Bohlman calls in his final chapters for new ways of hearing the silenced voices and the full chorus of sacred music in our contemporary world. Ethnomusicologists from different traditions as well as scholars of religious studies and the history of modern Europe will find Revival and Reconciliation a fascinating exploration of the connections between sacred music and the role it plays in the formations of the modern self.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Publication Date: June 7th, 2013
Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
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Why would you need to organise? After all, You Only Live Once, don't you? Why not just do whatever you feel like? Follow your passions, every passion! Do things if you want, what you want, whenever you want and wherever you want.
Do people think you're a Jack or Jill of all trades? They don't know the real you. Are you starting up passions and projects, whenever they come up in your head? So what? Are you getting nowhere because you're not finishing anything you started? Don't care. You Only Live Once!
You Only Live Once, is the perfect excuse to do what you feel like doing at this moment, even if you know that you shouldn't be doing this. You give in on a short term desire and you will deal with the consequences later.
Is that the meaning of YOLO? I don't think so! It isn't to go, smoke, drink, spend all your money and make an idiot of yourself. That is just burning the candle at both ends at the same time and it's plain stupid.
But You Only Live Once, so you might as well do something with your life that matters. YOLO means that your time is limited and that you had better use it well. That's where the word 'organisation' comes up.
We, multi-potentialites, want to do a lot of different things, don't we? Being curious, we want to explore, travel around, learn and get a lot of experiences in the time we've been given.
All good reasons to get organised. After all, You Only Live Once!
← Is your day-to-day work keeping you from working on your passions and projects?
Don't have too many regrets. Life is also a learning process. I didn't know at 20 what I know now and there are some things I probably would have done differently too if I knew back then what I know now. The good news is that at any point in time, you can make a plan and organise your life the way you want.


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Exclusive: Coventry City star opens up on his departure
The out of contract Sky Blues star has spoken exclusively to CoventryLive about why he's leaving the club he holds so dear
Andy Turner
Tom Davies has opened up on how hard it is to leave Coventry City – the club that has given him the best moments of his career so far.
The popular centre-half says he would love to have been able to play 300-odd games for the Sky Blues .
Instead, he's now looking for a new club.
Speaking exclusively to CoventryLive he explained why manager Mark Robins has granted him his "wish" by letting him go and play football, just days after indicating that he was ready to trigger an option in his contract to keep him for a third year.
"All the lads' chats with the manager were scheduled for Monday and I just assumed I'd be in then but on Friday morning, just before training, the manager called me to his office," revealed Davies.
"He said to me that he's granting me my wish, which is to go and play football.
Tom Davies celebrates a Sky Blues victory
"He said we have a good relationship, that he has got on really well with me and that he loves me around the place but he said he understands my situation that I want to play games, so he said he's going to let me do that.
"So it was a bit of a bombshell but it seems that it's going to be good for everyone."
Asked to explain what changed the manager's thinking, the 27-year-old defender said: "We spoke before the Shrewsbury game and he said he was going to take up my option of a third year but said that if another player came in then he might change his mind and let me go.
"I don't think he wanted to leave himself short of centre-halves, especially with Jordan Willis looking like he's going, so it was an option to keep me if no-one else was coming in.
"I don't know if that's changed.
"I can only presume that they have someone lined up because he said he's going to let me go.
"But it's allowing me to go and play football, and that's what I want to do so I can't really complain."
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So did he ask to leave?
"No," he insisted.
"When the manager told me I'd be staying for another year I got my head around that.
"He said he wanted me to knuckle down and come back strong in pre-season and show him why I should be in his team, and I had every intention of doing that.
"I did have a conversation with him about playing time but I do understand that I can't demand playing time."
Coventry City manager Mark Robins held one on one meetings with his players this week
Davies has been limited to 50 senior games in all competitions, exactly 25 in each of the two years he's been at the Ricoh Arena.
He added: "I know I am not entitled to play but because of the two years I have had here and not played as much as I wanted to, I just felt that maybe it's not going to work out for me here – that I'm not going to get the 40 plus games a season I want.
"So we had that conversation but there was no hint of me of dropping in a transfer request or anything because I do enjoy it here.
"The best outcome would be playing at Coventry week in and week out because of how much I have enjoyed it but if that's not going to happen then it's best that I move on, which is what I am going to be doing now."
Left out at Doncaster
Asked why he didn't travel to Doncaster for the last match of the season, he said: "The manager said that because I was going he was going to do something a bit different.
"It's a tough one because I wanted to play and have a farewell game but the manager wanted to put a bit of youth on the bench. He's obviously looking to the future and, to be fair, he has given a lot of young lads game time, and that's all credit to him.
"Declan Drysdale was obviously on the bench at the weekend and that was his decision and I have got no gripes with that because he's the manager, so that's a pill I had to swallow and I had the weekend packing up my flat instead."
Tom Davies slides in on a tackle against Doncaster at the Ricoh Arena but didn't travel for the return fixture at the Keepmoat Stadium on Saturday
As for whether he has any hard feelings, Davies said: "None at all.
"The manager said he understands my situation. I know I have no divine right for game time but he said that because we always got on so well he feels he has to do the right thing by me and let me go and play.
"Although I wanted to finish my career here and play 300 games for Coventry, it's just not going to work out.
"I thanked the gaffer for bringing me here. It has given me two of the most enjoyable years of my career as a player, so I can't thank him enough for that.
"We had a nice hug on Sunday at the awards night when he told me to go and enjoy my evening. So it's not something I begrudge him or anything like that.
"I wish him and Coventry all the best for the future."
A huge character in the dressing room with his sense of fun, Davies endeared himself to the fans with his no-nonsense "head it and kick it" approach to defending.
Sky Blues defender Tom Davies has always had a great sense of fun
"I have never had the support that I have had here, both on the pitch and off it," said one of City's founder members of the dressing room Frat pack of ex-Portsmouth players.
"It has been really big for me, particularly after my time at Pompey where it wasn't like that.
"That's why it's so hard for me to leave here because I don't think you get a relationship like this that often.
"It's been really good."
He added: "It helped me when I came that I had mates already here from Portsmouth and it was a young changing room which meant I could make new mates quickly.
"But when you get the support I have had from the fans it makes it that much more special. And that's why the two years have been so good."
Reflecting on his first season when he helped the club to the play-offs, albeit missing out on the second leg of the semi-final and an appearance at Wembley for the final after a retrospective red card in the first leg against Notts County , Davies said: "When I first came in and spoke to the manager he said that we needed to get promoted, so that was the main thing.
Tom Davies and Jack Grimmer celebrate on the open top bus during the parade in Coventry city centre after the Sky Blues secured promotion from League Two
"And we managed to do that, and being part of that was really special.
"Some of the best days I have had in football were the couple of days after the promotion. Even though I wasn't involved at Wembley, which was sad for me, going to the Town Hall and on the open top bus was really good because it showed a fanbase that really took you in.
"That was really special to me."
Asked what was so good about the dressing room last season, he said: "I think because we all had that common goal and were all pulling in the same direction. It was just a nice place to be.
"You'd turn up for training and it would be a happy camp with a lot of people who enjoyed a laugh and a joke.
"Moving away from home to be at Coventry, we were all in the same boat and became really good mates because we spent so much time with each other and had a good laugh."
He added: "There was a lot of change after the promotion, a lot of new faces as well and we took time to gel and you could see that by the way we started the season.
The Sky Blues had a special bond during their promotion campaign
"But then we got to know everyone and became good mates and then we started getting the rewards again.
"And it's going to be hard to leave the new lads as much as it is the ones that got us promotion."
So what next for the defender?
"I spoke to my agent straight away on Friday and he's getting to work on that," he said.
"There are a couple of things but location is a big one for me because I like being up north near my family and stuff like that.
"But I understand it's a short career and you have to make the move that's best for you.
"It's a case of putting it to the back of my mind for a couple of weeks and enjoying myself because it has been a long slog, and then hopefully get something sorted when I get back off a couple of holidays.
"But as I said, Coventry is a great club that will always be special to me and I wish the club and the fans every success."
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In the first inning, Blue's leadoff hitter Amy reached base on a single and eventually scored. Red was able to get out of the inning without further damage and came charging back in the top of the second to claim a 4-1 lead. Christine lead off the inning with a triple to left center, followed by hits from Heather, Morgan, Michelle, Yumi and Jess and a double by Flor. Red took advantage of some walks to tack on two more in the third. Each team scored one run in the fourth, with Shellie from Blue earning an RBI and the first hit of her comeback season, and Rita from Red driving in Yumi from second base. Amy hit and scored again for Blue in the next inning after stealing second and third, and after five the score stood 7-4 in favor of Red. Red got some more swings in the top of the sixth and took advantage of a few walks to take a commanding lead and held Blue scoreless in the bottom of the inning to win 16-4.
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Q: Python function call not runing correcly from thread I'm having some trouble getting this to work, i'm trying to append GUI texts to a window that allready exists, i'm using the python interpreter for autodesk maya, i attach here part of the host script where i check for multiple connections and try to add the text for each connection.
The problem comes when calling the interpHostData() function from inside the while loop inside the thread, it dosnt add anything to the window;
But whenever i call the function by itself outside of a thread it works correctly.
If anyone has a clue on how can i fix this i would apreciate it, thanks in advance.
def hostUpdate():
    global socketHost
    global clientL
    clientL=[]
    cmds.text('mt1',e=1,l='Update Process Started...')
    while 1:
        connectionMain,addressMain=socketHost.accept()
        cmds.text('mt1',e=1,l='Connected with: %s'%str(addressMain))
        #----------Different Thread for each connection
        tid=thr.start_new_thread(hostRecieve,(connectionMain,addressMain))
        clientL.append([connectionMain,addressMain,tid])
        cmds.text('mt1',e=1,l='Thread started with: %s'%str(addressMain))

def hostRecieve(connI,addrI):
    global clientL
    cmds.text('mt1',e=1,l='Recieve Process Started...')
    while 1: #------------------------------------Loop to keep listening for connections
        try:
            cmData=connI.recv(4096)
            interpHostData(cmData) #--------------IF I CALL FROM HERE DOSN'T WORK
        except:
            for cl in clientL:
                if connI==cl[0]:
                    clientL.remove(cl)
            cmds.text('mt1',e=1,l='Disconnected from %s'%str(addrI))
            break

def interpHostData(cmDataC):
    global cliLayout
    tplD=cmDataC.split(',')
    if tplD[0]=='0':
        cID=tplD[2]
        cmds.setParent(cliLayout)
        cmds.text(cID+'_1',l=tplD[1])
        cmds.text(cID+'_2',l=tplD[3])
        cmds.text(cID+'_3',l=tplD[4])
        cmds.text(cID+'_4',l='_')
        cmds.text(cID+'_5',l='_')
        cmds.text(cID+'_6',l='_')
        cmds.text(cID+'_7',l='_')
        cmds.text(cID+'_8',l='_')
        cmds.columnLayout(cID+'_9')
        cmds.progressBar(cID+'_10',h=10)
        cmds.progressBar(cID+'_11',h=10)
        cmds.setParent(cliLayout)
        cmds.text(cID+'_12',l='_')
        cmds.text(cID+'_13',l='Online')

A: You can only run Maya ui commands from the main thread. You can use maya.util.ExcecuteDeferred() to get around this to some degree but it takes extra work and won't be as responsive as a true multi-threaded app.  Longer explanation in this question


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New Name and Expansion in Australia for Elevate's Flexible Resourcing Business
LOS ANGELES – April 13, 2020 – Today, law company Elevate announced that its legacy flexible resourcing businesses, previously known as 'Elevated Lawyers' and 'Halebury', have been integrated and rebranded 'ElevateFlex'; and the ElevateFlex business has significantly expanded its capabilities in Australia.
"This rebranding better describes what we offer our customers and talent," said Matt Todd, VP ElevateFlex. "We help customers navigate the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity presented by COVID, addressing reduced budgets, unpredictable demand, as-needed access to specialist expertise, and supporting employees through furloughs. And we present talent with choice, whether they started their career in-house or in a large law firm- interesting work, with more flexibility."
"The shift to home-working and the economic slow-down present challenges and opportunities," added Halina Kochanowicz, Head of Customer Engagement for ElevateFlex in Australia."We help legal professionals find work, feel part of a team, better integrate work and life, and design a fulfilling career made up of a portfolio of different customer engagements. We offer guidance, tools, and support."
Elevate has assembled a dedicated engagement and recruitment team in Sydney to facilitate the expansion of ElevateFlex, which now operates in the US, UK, Hong Kong, and Australia.
"Elevate already provides a wide range of services to progressive law firms and law departments in the region," commented James Odell, VP and Managing Director for Australia. "Building on last year's acquisition of Cognatio Law in Hong Kong, the success of our collaboration with Ashurst, and the current needs of our customers for flexible solutions, it was appropriate to expand our reach and resources in Australia."
About Elevate
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"We help customers navigate the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity presented by COVID, addressing reduced budgets, unpredictable demand, as-needed access to specialist expertise, and supporting employees through furloughs. And we present talent with choice, whether they started their career in-house or in a large law firm – interesting work, with more flexibility."
Matt Todd
VP ElevateFlex
"Elevate already provides a full range of services to progressive law firms and law departments in the region. Building on last year's acquisition of Cognatio Law in Hong Kong, and the success of our collaboration with Ashurst, it was appropriate to expand our ElevateFlex reach and resources in Australia."
James Odell
VP and Geo Head for Australia
"We help legal professionals find work, feel part of a team, better integrate work and life, and design a fulfilling career made up of a portfolio of different customer engagements. We offer guidance, tools, and support."
Halina Kochanowicz
Head of Customer Engagement Australia for ElevateFlex
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Twitter/ElevateServices


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Mekong Leaders Mostly Mum on Risks Tied to Intense Damming
Sun Narin
Leaders of six countries along the Mekong river - China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam - attend a retreat during the Greater Mekong Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 31, 2018.
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA —
Presented with "frightening" possibilities due to intense damming, the leaders of the Mekong River Commission member countries gave little sign Thursday they had heeded calls to rethink a fundamental water policy for the shared waterway, with the exception of Vietnam.
At the third MRC Summit in Siem Reap, Cambodia, prime ministers of the four member countries that share the river responded to a six-year, comprehensive study by the body's council that warned of severe consequences if all currently planned dams go ahead.
Among the most alarming findings from their modeling was a potential 97 percent loss of sediment flow to the Mekong Delta by 2040 if current development plans proceed in full.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called for a serious response, telling the summit the Mekong's "ecosystem and environment are seriously deteriorating."
"The protracted drought, saline intrusion, the erosion of coast lines and riverbanks and land subsidence, [means] the livelihoods of over 20 million people are under threat," he said.
"Therefore," he added, "we need to take concrete and timely action to ensure that the Mekong Basin Delta will continue to develop and work as a major rice supplier for regional food security as it has been the rice bowl and fishing grounds of the region for hundreds of years."
Scientists at the summit had made it clear there was a "pressing demand" to restructure agriculture methods and embrace increasingly competitive renewable technologies such as wind and solar, he said.
"All these negative signs are more prominent and severe in the Lower Mekong Basin, especially the Mekong Delta, Vietnam in particular," he said.
The 3,600 page study found that summit host Cambodia would also face particularly adverse consequences from continued damming of the river because so many of its people relied on fish as a source of nutrition.
The country's prime minister, Hun Sen, made no reference to hydro power in his opening speech, instead emphasizing "challenges such as population growth, rapid development and the increasing need for for water, food and energy security."
Laos' Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith speaks at the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam summit as part of the Greater Mekong Subregion Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 31, 2018.
Thongloun Sisoulith, the prime minister of Laos, which is building and planning some of the river's most controversial mainstream dams, including the Xayaburi and the Don Sahong, pledged to keep his word and ensure hydropower projects were built sustainably.
Thai junta leader and nominal Prime Minister Prayuth Chan, whose country stood to lose more than half its fish biomass by 2040 in at least two of the study's scenarios, also neglected to make any mention of dams.
He instead focused on greater MRC collaboration in tackling climate change, declaring his country managed water policy effectively.
Earlier in the week scientists, researchers and civil society groups spent two days analyzing the results of the vast MRC council study.
Deemed credible by the U.S. Geological Survey despite a lack of peer review, the study examined a range of different scenarios based on the degrees to which current development plans submitted by riparian countries are implemented.
Climate change and severe drought adjusted scenarios also were modeled.
It found the whole Lower Mekong Basin - the world's most productive fishery - could lose between 39 and 40 percent of its entire fish biomass, some 900,000 tons, worth about $4.3 billion by 2040 if development plans went ahead unchanged. Other recent surveys have put this figure considerably higher.
FILE - Cambodian fishermen catch fish in the middle of Mekong river, near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 7, 2018.
White fish — which designates species that migrate over hundreds of kilometers — would be particularly badly hit and become dominated by invasive species, the researchers found.
"So by 2040 if all the 11 dams installed plus the Chinese [and other] tributary dams, you can see in Thailand, in Laos, all these white fish disappear," So Nam, the MRC Secretariat's Chief Environment Management Officer, said on the sidelines of the summit, later clarifying that minute quantities of white fish might survive in these countries.
Billions had been spent to no avail to try and get rid of invasive species, such as Chinese carp, Indian carp and Tilapia in Australia and the U.S., he warned.
"So it's really a frightening situation, not only from the dam but also from another human activity of stocking introduced species," So said.
Current Mekong development plans would, however, see substantial increases in agricultural profits in countries such as Cambodia, the study found.
Nguyen Thi Ngoc Minh, a specialist at the MRC, said this actually would result in a substantial reduction of projected GDP growth, though, because labor would need to be diverted from higher income industries, such as manufacturing and services.
"It's quite consistent in terms of the potential reduction in the GDP values in Cambodia of, I would say, around 20 percent compared to the baseline," she said.
By 2040 GDP growth potential was predicted to drop by billions of dollars for all member countries except Vietnam.
Hydropower profits were found to exceed fisheries losses though the report's authors themselves said those predictions were based on already outdated price assumptions.
Questions were repeatedly raised by summit participants about the financial viability of hydropower against increasingly cheap solar and wind alternatives.
Thailand recently delayed a decision to purchase power from the Thai-Chinese backed Pak Beng dam on the Mekong Mainstream in Laos - a development some conservationist have called a tipping point for the financial viability of hydropower.
Analyst: The Mekong is a Chance for China to Improve Its Soft Power Footprint
Ongoing Mekong Dam Construction Puts Communities at Serious Risk: Advocates
Mekong Nation Leaders to Hold Summit Amid Concerns About Dams
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In Memoriam Announcements
Tor L. Brekke (1934-2009)
Professor emeritus Tor L. Brekke passed away on March 6, 2009, at his home in Berkeley, CA. Born March 3, 1934, in Kristiansand in southern Norway, he graduated with the degree of Sivilingeniør (MSc) in Mining Engineering from Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim in 1958, and a Ph.D. in Geological Enginering from the same institute in 1963. He started his academic and industry career as a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1960. In 1967 he spent a sabbatical year in Berkeley which led to his being invited to join the faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering as an Associate Professor of Geological Engineering in 1970.
Professor emeritus Tor L. Brekke passed away on March 6, 2009, at his home in Berkeley, CA. Born March 3, 1934, in Kristiansand in southern Norway, he graduated with the degree of Sivilingenior (MSc) in Mining Engineering from Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim in 1958, and a Ph.D. in Geological Enginering from the same institute in 1963. He started his academic and industry career as a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1960. In 1967 he spent a sabbatical year in Berkeley which led to his being invited to join the faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering as an Associate Professor of Geological Engineering in 1970.
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National: National General Strike – Nationwide. No work. No Commerce. Only Human Solidarity. Event page with RSVP is here. Friday 2/17/17 All Day 24-hour protest of the Trump administration's refusal to Honor the Constitution of the United States of America.
UK: National, One Day Without Us (Migrant Support), Monday 2/20/17 12 am UTC through Tuesday 2/21/17 11:59 pm UTC.
KY: Louisville – Protest Mitch McConnell when he Speaks in Louisville Make Mitch Listen, Wednesday 2/22/17 11 am – 1:30 pm, Louisville Marriott East 1903 Embassy Square Blvd.
NY: NYC – Peoples March for Education Justice, Saturday 3/4/17 10 am, Location TBA.
CO: Denver – Women's Day of Service, Saturday 3/25/17 8 am – 8 pm, Locations vary, see event page.
DC: The Ellipse – Trump Tax March – The Ellipse Saturday 4/15/17 10 am, Additional locations posted as they become available.
IL: Chicago – Trump Tax March, Saturday 4/15/17 10 am, Millennium Park, 201 E Randolph St.
AL: Birmingham – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
AL: Huntsville – Rocket City Science March, Saturday 4/22/17, Starting point and meet up location TBA. See also Event Website.
AR: Fayetteville – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 10 am – 1 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
AR: Little Rock – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 1 to 4 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
AZ: Tucson – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 9 am – 4 pm, UA Mall.
CA: Oakland – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
CA: San Diego – March for Science San Diego, Saturday 4/22/17 9 am, Location TBA. See also Event website.
CA: Sacramento – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
CA: San Francisco – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA. See also Event Website.
CA: Yosemite Valley – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
CO: Breckenridge – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 1 pm – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
FL: Gainesville – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
FL: Miami – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
FL: Orlando – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 11 am – 2 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
FL: Pensacola – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
FL: Tallahassee – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
FL: Tampa – St. Petersburg – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
GA: Atlanta – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 10 am – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
HI: March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
IA: Des Moines – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon, Des Moines Capitol.
ID: Moscow – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon to 11:59 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
IL: Chicago – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
KS: Wichita – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
KY: Lexington – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 9 am – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
MA: Boston – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon – 5 pm, Boston Common, Tremont Street.
MI: Detroit – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 1 pm – 4 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
MO: Columbia – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 10 am – 6 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
MO: Springfield – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 9 am – Noon, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
MN: St. Paul – March for Science Minnesota, Saturday 4/22/17 11 am – 2 pm, Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
MT: Billings – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
MT: Bozeman – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
MT: Great Falls – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
MT: Helena – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
MT: Missoula – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
NE: Lincoln – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
NM: Albuquerque – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, 1 pm – 4 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
NY: New York City – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon to 3 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
NY: Rochester – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA. See also the Event Website.
NV: Reno – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
NC: Raleigh – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
OH: Columbus – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
OH: Dayton – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 10 am – 6 pm, Dayton Courthouse Square, Main Street.
OR: Eugene – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
OR: Portland – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 9 am – 5 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
OK: Oklahoma City – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 9 am – 5 pm, Oklahoma State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., OKC.
PA: Philadelphia – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 11 am – 2 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
RI: Providence – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon to 4 pm, Rhode Island State House, 82 Smith Street.
SC: Greenville – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
TN: Knoxville – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
TN: Nashville – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA. Event also has a website.
TX: El Paso – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 11 am – 3 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
TX: Fort Worth – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 9 am – 3 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
TX: Houston – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 11 am – 3 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
WA: Pullman – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon to 11:59 pm, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
WV: Huntington – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 5 pm – 7:30 pm, Huntington City Hall, 800 5th Avenue.
WI: Madison – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon to 11:59 pm, Wisconsin State Capitol, 2 E. Main St.
Australia: Brisbane – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
Australia: Canberra – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 10 am – 1 pm UTC+10, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Australia: Melbourne – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 1 pm – 4 pm UTC +10, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Australia: Sydney – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon – 3 pm UTC+10, Sydney CBD. Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Australia: Townsville – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
South Australia: Adelaide – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
Western Australia: Perth – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
Austria: Vienna – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 2 pm – 6 pm UTC+2, Innere Stadt, Wien, Austria, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Canada: Toronto – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA. See also the Event Website.
France: Paris – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
France: Toulouse – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
Germany: Heidelberg – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
Ireland: Dublin – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
Netherlands: Amsterdam – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon to 4 pm UTC+2, Museumplein, 1071 DJ Amsterdam.
Norway: Oslo – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 5 pm – 7 pm UTC+2, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Norway: Tromsø – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 5 pm – 7 pm UTC+2, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Norway: Trondheim – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 5 pm – 7 pm UTC+2, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Sweden: Gotherburg – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 11 am – 2 pm UTC+2, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Sweden: Stockholm – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon UTC+2, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
Switzerland: Geneva – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17, Time, starting point and meet up location TBA.
UK: London – March for Science, Saturday 4/22/17 Noon – 4 pm UTC +1, Starting point and meet up location TBA.
DC: The National Mall – The Immigrants March, Saturday 5/6/17 10 am – 5 pm.
DC: Undetermined Location – National Pride March, Sunday 6/11/17 10 am – 6 pm, additional details as they become available, Satellite Marches to be posted as well.


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require "acceptd/routes_base"

class Acceptd::CommonRoutes < Acceptd::RoutesBase

  # https://github.com/mongrelion/carlosleon.info/blob/master/articles/angular-sinatra-html5mode.markdown
  get '/*' do
    send_file File.join(settings.public_dir, '/app/acceptd/index.html')
  end

  # get "*" do
  #   status 404
  # end
  #
  # delete "*" do
  #   status 404
  # end
  #
  # not_found do
  #   json_status 404, "Not found"
  # end

  error do
    json_status 500, env['sinatra.error'].message
  end

  private

  def json_status(code, reason)
    status code

    { :status => code, :reason => reason }.to_json
  end

end


Amiyah Scott is a self-made American success story. She currently plays "Cotton" in the director Lee Daniels created musical drama series, "Star," on Fox; but her journey to success has been extraordinary and inspiring. She is the first transgender woman to tape for the Real Housewives of Atlanta, and the third trans to play a major character in a scripted TV drama series. Her immense popularity prompted VH1 to crown her "KING" after reporting that she "is the first transgender model & actress to amass a large social media following on Instagram. Scott has since added the King title to her handles across all social media platforms and her website is named kingamiyahscott.com.
I'm amazing, extremely intelligent and rare. I'm ambitious, charismatic, courageous, and original. I'm aggressive; a leader with a pure heart and a strong mind. I'm classy, yet provocative. Enchanting… I'm perfect. …oh, and I'm humble (lol).
Is it fair to say that you are an actress and an artist who happens to be trans?
How is it playing the role of "Cotton" in Lee Daniels' show, Star on Fox?
It is what dreams are made of.
Do you feel that Hollywood limits your roles based on gender identity?
Yes, but we're trying to change that.
In 2015, you taped four episodes of Bravo's Hit reality series, Real Housewives of Atlanta, but your part did not air. How do you reflect on that experience?
I enjoyed filming and I enjoyed the ladies. What is meant for you is for YOU! Obviously that wasn't for me… scripted prime time television seems to do me justice, though.
It depends. Some days I wake up at 5:00am to arrive on set at 6:30am to film a long day of Star… While other days, I can sleep until 2:00pm and go shopping until my arms can't carry anything else! My schedule is constantly changing, but what remains consistent is that my hair is ALWAYS done… In bed, on set, in a pool or even the late night grocery store run; that wig will be laid, no exception.
How do you see the achievements of the trans community in the last few years and the challenges facing them?
I think we've come a long way and I'm proud of that! Happy for that! But, we have a long way to go.
TEA, Trans Empowerment of America, a non-profit I started to assist and uplift the trans community.
My first book "Memoirs of a Mermaid" will be released in March 2019. It's my baby. I'm so proud of it and excited to finally be telling my full story in my own words.
Read my book and I'll tell you more than one!
For more information about Amiyah Scott, please visit www.kingamiyahscott.com.


text:
/*
 * Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/ligoj/ligoj/blob/master/LICENSE)
 */
package org.ligoj.app.resource.security;

import java.util.Optional;

import javax.cache.annotation.CacheKey;
import javax.cache.annotation.CacheResult;

import org.ligoj.app.iam.IamProvider;
import org.ligoj.app.iam.UserOrg;
import org.ligoj.bootstrap.core.security.RbacUserDetailsService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetails;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

/**
 * Federated user details service resolving the right user name corresponding the authenticated local ID.
 */
@Component
public class FederatedUserDetailsService implements UserDetailsService {

	/**
	 * Federated user details service
	 */
	@Autowired
	protected RbacUserDetailsService federated;

	/**
	 * Resolved IAM providers
	 */
	@Autowired
	protected IamProvider[] iamProvider;

	@Override
	@CacheResult(cacheName = "user-details")
	public UserDetails loadUserByUsername(@CacheKey final String username) {
		return federated.loadUserByUsername(Optional.ofNullable(iamProvider[0].getConfiguration().getUserRepository().findByIdNoCache(username))
				.map(UserOrg::getId).orElse(username));
	}

}


On Saturday, Sony Pictures Classics announced that it had acquired a documentary on legendary singer-songwriter John Prine. Titled John Prine: Hello In There, the film was directed by Zachary Fuhrer and produced by Rolling Stone's Patrick Doyle.
Last year, Prine released a new album, The Tree Of Forgiveness, marking the artist's first album of original music in 13 years. Filming for John Prine: Hello In There began ahead of the record's release, following the country star as he promoted the album, performed at a guest-heavy show at Radio City Music Hall, and was selected for induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. The documentary also features extensive interviews with Prine's friends and peers, as well as younger artists influenced by the prolific musician, including Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell and Margo Price.
Spending time with John Prine over the last year, we've learned that he is just as insightful — and hilarious — in everyday life as he is in his songs. From playing at pubs in western Ireland to the Ryman Auditorium, there is nobody better at spellbinding a room. For the last 50 years, he's been a voice for the overworked, underpaid and forgotten, and our current political times have made his songs even more relevant. He is a Johnny Cash-level talent we are lucky to still have performing, and he was kind enough to let us in on his life: making breakfast at home in Nashville, preparing for the biggest show of his life at Radio City and more.
As John's band members like to say, 'There are two types of people: those who love John Prine and those who haven't heard of him yet.' John's philosophy on life — finding comedy in tragedy — is the heart of the film; his stories a daily reminder that there's always a way to laugh at your own misfortune.
Currently, John Prine: Hello In There is in post-production. Sony Pictures Classics plans to roll out the film with a theatrical release in the future.