If you're running an online business, it's highly likely that you're collecting some form of personal information from your website visitors. But do your visitors know what happens to their data once they've given it to you?
Key takeaway: Whether your business must comply with GDPR or not (odds are it does!), the trend is that privacy regulations are becoming more stringent across the board. Taking simple steps to comply now can prevent you from having to implement an expensive fix down the road.
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast83 for an audio episode, transcript and show notes.
BONUS: Head over to awbfirm.com/course for instant access to our brand new, free masterclass, 3 Legal Protections Your Course Business is Probably Missing, and our legal checklist for course creators (plus you'll be the first to know when new episodes are live).
Your website is the front door to your amazing online course. But if you don't include the right legal documents on your site, it's like leaving your door wide open.
Key takeaway: It's easy to get caught up in how your website looks and what it can do, but every online business owner must make sure the proper legal protections are in place to lay a smart legal foundation for your website, and business.
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast81 for this episode in audio format and a transcript (posted within two days of release date).
BONUS: Head over to www.awbfirm.com/course for instant access to our brand new, free masterclass, 3 Legal Protections Your Course Business is Probably Missing, and our legal checklist for course creators (plus you'll be the first to know when new episodes are live).
If you're an online course creator, you may not even know what you need to worry about when it comes to legal for your business.
Season 4 of the Legal Road Map® podcast is a great place to start. This season, Autumn is alternating solo episodes with interviews of some of the biggest names in the online course world, like Beth McCord, Chris Winfield, Corinne Crabtree, and more.
BONUS: Head over to www.awbfirm.com for instant access to the 10 Step Checklist we use with our million dollar clients, and make sure you've got the legal basics covered for your business (plus be the first to know when new episodes are live).
Legal Road Map® Podcast S3E75 FB Live 86 part 2 – When MUST you register your trademark?
The VIDEO was cut off near the end of my Facebook Live, so this is Part 2 of 2…Please click here to view the first part of Episode 75.
When should you run (not walk) to submit your trademark registration application? There are definitely times when waiting to register a trademark is a huge mistake.
Key takeaway: If your business is up-leveling in a major way, a trademark registration becomes a necessity, not a nice-to-have. Since the registration process is not quick, working with a trusted legal advisor who specializes in trademark law can help you plan ahead.
Legal Road Map® podcast S3E75 – FB Live 86 part 1 – When MUST you register your trademark?
The video recording cut off, so PART TWO is on a separate page. Please click here to access the end of this episode.
Legal Road Map® Podcast S3E74 FB Live 85: Someone registered my TM – what can I do?
Finding out someone else has registered a trademark you're using in your business can really sting. But so long as you started using it first, not all is lost.
Key takeaway: Challenging an application for a trademark that's the same or similar as yours is not an area of legal you want to DIY. Consulting with a trusted legal advisor who specializes in trademark law is the best way to defend your trademark rights and prevent brand or product confusion.
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast74 for a transcript and show notes, and sign up to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit worksheet. You'll learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (you can also sign up there to be the first to know when new episodes are live and receive other legal updates and special offers from the AWB Firm).
Next week is the final episode of Season 3 of the Legal Road Ma® podcast, all about when you must register a trademark.
I'm so excited to bring Season 4 to you – it's all about legal for course creators – so be sure to stay tuned!
Podcast S3E73 FB Live 84 – #Trademarks: Can you own a hashtag TM?
Hashtags are everywhere these days. It may seem appealing to register one that you use in your business as a trademark, but is it even possible?
Key takeaway: It takes some special circumstances to make the time and effort needed to register a hashtag as a trademark worth it. Consulting with a trusted legal advisor ahead of time can help you determine if you're ready to take on the task or not.
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast73 for a transcript and show notes, and sign up to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit worksheet. You'll learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (you can also sign up there to be the first to know when new episodes are live and receive other legal updates and special offers from the AWB Firm).
Did you know that a federally registered trademark isn't the only form of trademark protection available? There are actually three levels of protection in the U.S. trademark system — common law, state law registration, and federal (USPTO) registration.
While common law or state trademarks may work for some businesses, there are some significant downsides to each.
Key takeaway: There are a few different levels of trademark protection offered on the state and federal level, as well on a common law basis. Which one is best for your business depends on multiple factors. It's a good idea to consult with a trusted legal advisor to make sure you're protected in the right ways and places for your business.
Visit awbfirm.com/podcast to sign up to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit worksheet. You'll learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (you can also sign up there to be the first to know when new episodes are live and receive other legal updates and special offers from the AWB Firm).
Podcast S3E71 FB Live 82: Trademarks: What's a TM SEARCH and do I need one?
Registering a trademark is a lengthy, multi-step process, and it can be tempting to skip the first step of running a trademark search before filing that registration application. But I'm sharing all the reasons why skipping the search is a bad idea.
Key takeaway: Whether you start the trademark search process on your own, or work with a lawyer from the very beginning, one thing is for sure: failing to spend a little time and/or money on a trademark search early can be costly down the road.
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast71 for a transcript and show notes, and sign up to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit worksheet. You'll learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (you can also sign up there to be the first to know when new episodes are live and receive other legal updates and special offers from the AWB Firm).
Some trademarks are stronger than others. But unfortunately, for a lot of business owners, they only find out their trademark isn't strong when they're denied when they try to register it with the USPTO. So, what makes a good trademark?
Key takeaway: Choosing a strong trademark doesn't have to be difficult. But to avoid heartache down the road, choosing the right name for your business and products early on is always best practice.
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast70 for a transcript and show notes, and sign up to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit worksheet.
Podcast S3E69 FB Live 80: Trademarks: When should you register?
Whether your business is established and thriving or you haven't even earned your first dollar yet, deciding WHEN you should register your trademark could leave your head spinning.
Key takeaway: Deciding on the right time to register your trademark depends on a lot of different factors in your business. But asking yourself the right questions will help you determine when you should register.
Visit awbfirm.com/podcast69 for show notes and further resources.
Podcast S3E68 FB Live 79: Why should I register a trademark anyway?
Why should I register a trademark anyway?
We talk a lot about trademarks on the podcast, but you may still be wondering why you would ever need to register a trademark in your business.
While it may seem like a hassle, registering a trademark is one of the most valuable protections you can put in place in your business.
Key takeaway: If you're committed to protecting your business for the long haul, a trademark registration should be on your list for 2019.
Key takeaway: Employment laws and ordinances can vary widely not only state to state, but in some cases city to city. It's important to seek out the right kind of advisors (legal, financial, human resources, etc.) to make sure your business is protected when it comes to employment matters.
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast50 for a transcript and show notes, and sign up to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit. You'll learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (you can also sign up there to be the first to know when new episodes are live and receive other legal updates and special offers from the AWB Firm).
Working with a virtual team is a great way to grow your business, but how do you make sure you are properly working with remote contractors?
Key takeaway: It can be tricky to make sure you're working correctly with a virtual or remote independent contractor. This is an area where you definitely want to consult with a trusted attorney to avoid major fines and penalties from getting it wrong.
When are you violating someone else's trademark rights? OR, flip-side, when should you get in touch with someone you think might be infringing your trademark and ask them to change it?
How can you interpret your search results when you type your trademark into the USPTO website?
I received this great question in an online business community, CoCommercial, and realized I've never dug into how lawyers, courts, and the USPTO evaluate when trademarks are too close.
When might you need to evaluate whether one trademark is too similar to another?
Does it matter if one trademark has a few extra words?
When are two logos too similar?
Does it matter if someone copied a trademark intentionally, or by accident?
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast45 to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit. You'll learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (you can also sign up there to be the first to know when new episodes are live and receive other legal updates and special offers from the AWB Firm).
Virtual Chief Operating Officer (COO). business strategist, and project manager Emily Allen and I discussed how a virtual COO can help your business. Learn how you can stop getting distracted by all those shiny objects and actually meet your goals!
We chatted about why PLANNING is so critical to growing your business to seven or eight figures, and why it's so hard for most entrepreneurs to find the time to do it. Emily explained how a good project manager can help you prioritize which projects are going to help you achieve your big goals, and break them down into pieces so you can actually tackle them, or delegate to team members.
And, we talked about tracking project progress and outcomes to be sure you're actually achieving what you set out to do.
Emily shared some of the benefits clients gain from working with a virtual COO or project manager, especially making sure you have the right team members in place and are filling their plates with the right tasks.
We talked about when it makes sense to bring in a project manager or virtual COO — this is not something a new business owner needs, but is critical when moving from six to seven figures.
I gave some insight to the changes I've seen in my own business after just a few weeks of working with Emily, and a few of my own a-ha moments. And Emily talked about some mistakes business owners make trying to scale rapidly on their own without bringing in an experienced business strategist.
Emily Allen is a Virtual COO (Chief Operating Officer) for small to medium-sized woman-owned companies that don't yet require the services of a full-time COO, but have the need for more strategy, more time to work on what they do best, and more structure with systems and processes without giving up more of their time.
Her main focus is on execution. Through working together, she is able to help define/refine the business strategy and provide accountability for execution to the appropriate members of the team.
She ensures that the company's everyday activities run smoothly and that there is a company-wide strategic plan in place to support the vision of the company. Emily brings her experience in business planning and project management from her previous corporate life.
Emily is a wife, mom of 3 kiddos, certified project management professional living in northeastern Wisconsin and loves all things planning and organizing.
Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast44 to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit. You'll learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (you can also sign up there to be the first to know when new episodes are live and receive other legal updates and special offers from the AWB Firm).
Bookkeeper and financial advisor Heather Pranitis from Number Nerd Bookkeeping Solutions and I talked about why you need to know the numbers in your business if you want to scale to seven-figures.
We talked about what numbers you should be keeping your eye on (overhead! profitability!) as you grow. Heather also explained what a bookkeeper can help with, and why it's worth talking with one early in your business, when you're still keeping your own books, to make sure you are set up and recording things correctly.
We also chatted about when is the right time to hire a bookkeeper, and how to find someone who understands YOUR business's revenue streams and systems. Heather stressed how your professional advisors (attorney, CPA, bookkeeper) should work together and be able to talk to each other to support your growing business.
Heather outlined the benefits to working with a bookkeeper, including understanding what your numbers really mean, getting time back by outsourcing bookkeeping, and gaining an outsider's perspective and analysis of your business's finances.
Then we went down the rabbit hole of how it might cost you more in the long run to keep your own books once your revenues reach a certain point, especially if you are using Paypal or Stripe or running payroll.
I'll be interviewing more of my favorite pros in these categories later this month; you don't want to miss it!
Number Nerd Bookkeeping Solutions is a full-service virtual bookkeeping firm that helps individuals and businesses of all sizes get their numbers in order. Number Nerd offers monthly bookkeeping and payroll packages, QuickBooks file reviews, QuickBooks training, accounting software setup, accounting cleanup, and business process consulting services to their clients around the world. Owned and operated by experienced bookkeeper and accounting workflow consultant, Heather Pranitis, Number Nerd excels at delivering customized solutions to bookkeeping challenges, easy-to-read financial reports, and simple answers to tough finance-related questions. The Number Nerd team partners with their clients to improve bookkeeping processes and establish good accounting habits.
Tax advisor and financial strategist Melissa Whaley and I talk about why having a tax pro on your team is essential as you grow your business towards seven- or eight-figures! Learn the benefits of working with a financial advisor, how a pro can save money both short-term and long-term, and some pitfalls of DIY'ing this area of your business.
Melissa also explained the tax advantages to filing taxes as an S corporation, and when a business owner should at least have a consultation with a financial advisor who can help with tax planning.
We even talked about how you can lose the liability protection an LLC or corporation provides for your personal assets if you are commingling personal and business funds (piercing the corporate veil).
This video is information, not legal advice specific to your situation.
This month is all about building your team of professional advisors to reach your seven- and eight-figure business goals. I'm teaching why it's crucial to have a CPA or tax professional, bookkeeper, operations or business manager (COO), financial advisor or CFO, and yes of course a lawyer!, as well as other advisors, on your team.
I'll also be interviewing a few of my favorite pros in these categories later this month, you don't want to miss it!


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Magneettimedia spreads anti-Semitism in Finland
Should we be surprised if anti-Semitism raises its head in Finland alongside anti-Islam, anti-immigration and anti-gay sentiment? Using the same argument as those who spread hate speech against minorities in this country, Magneettimedia, a publication owned by J. Kärkkäinen, claims that an article by anti-Semitic Ted Pike was published to promote public debate.
J. Kärkkäinen is a company based in Ylivieska that develops and owns shopping centers. It is owned by Juha Kärkkäinen, who is editor of Magneettimedia, which advertises the company's products and has a circulation of 366,500.
Read full story (in Finnish) here.
The latest anti-Semitic opinion piece published on Magneettimedia by Pike is headlined, The Great "Raping Rabbis" Cover-Up (Suuri "raiskaavien rabbien" salailu).
He writes: "One of the reasons Jewish control of big media is wrong is that it protects the sins of evil Jews, from Hollywood to New York to Tel Aviv, from being openly subjected to the cleansing effect of truthful analysis and criticism. This morally ghettoizes Jews, shielding them from the oxygen of constructive criticism, a force that functions to bless and mature everyone else."
Using the same arguments as some Perussuomalaiset (PS) politicians, who have been convicted for ethnic agitation, Kärkkäinen claims no wrongdoing and defends Pike's right to express his anti-Semitic views.
"We don't have anything against Jews," he was quoted as saying on YLE. "The aim of these writings is to promote [public] debate in society [about Jews]."
The deputy state prosecutor has filed ethnic agitation charges against J Kärkkäinen's Magneettimediaa for anti-Semitic writings that have appeared in previous issue of the publication.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which hunts former Nazi war criminals and confronts anti-Semitism globally, sent a letter to President Sauli Niinistö expressing its concern over the anti-Semitic writings on Magneettimedia, reports Oulu-based daily Kaleva.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Pike is an extremist who has been engaged for years in an anti-Semitic campaign that denigrates the Jewish religion.
Go to original webpage.
Writes ADL: "To promote his virulent anti-Semitic ideology, Pike often works under the guise of opposing federal hate crimes legislation and upholding free speech and Christian values. He gives interviews to extremist cable TV and Internet radio shows to further disseminate his anti-Semitic views and also links from his organization's Website to various anti-Semitic sites."
While it is clear that anti-Semitism is raising its head in Finland and is directly linked to anti-immigration, anti-Islam and anti-gay sentiment, it's surprising that PS MPs like Jussi Halla-aho, Olli Immonen, Juho Eerola, James Hirvisaari and others are so quiet about the Magneettimedia affair.
Why aren't they defending the publication's anti-Semitic writings as "free speech?"
Tags: anti-Semitism, Finland, hate speech, J. Kärkkäinen, Magneettimedia, Perussuomalaiset, Racism

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Thomas Henning is braced for his OzAsia work to be contentious.
In collaboration with Malaysian theatre makers, TerryandtheCuz, he is premiering a play about Adelaide's founder, Colonel William Light and his father Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang in Malaysia. They were a father-and-son phenomenon in many ways, albeit they spent almost no time together.
It is the family saga of Colonel Light which has intrigued the Australian writer and director, Henning, who will be remembered by Adelaide audiences not only for his The Black Lung Theatre company but also for his involvement as performer and co-writer of Thyestes, one of the most heart-stoppingly brilliant Australian theatre works to feature in an Adelaide Festival of Arts.
Henning, who has specialised in challenging rule-breaking theatre, expects this new work of Light to upset a few historical applecarts when it is performed at Nexus Arts in October.
Today he is on the phone from Malaysia where the work has been in creative development.
"It is less Adelaide-centric than people may expect," he says. "It is primarily about Light's family. On its first development phase here in Kuala Lumpur, after I'd spent eight months researching, it turned out to be a very long book. It ran three to four hours in a reading. No one could really follow it. It was just straight facts."
Thus did the development turn into honing and shaping and prioritising until now, says Henning, it is "culturally rich and fascinating", and down to two hours and 20 minutes with interval.
Henning says the process of researching Light was very demanding.
"I didn't go to old churches and dig up records," he says. "I found everything I needed in the library collections at Flinders, the Mayo and Dutton collections. They were great. Really cool."
Among them, through an archivist he names as Alan Horsnell, he came upon the surprising drawings and diagrams which did not belong to Colonel Light's considerable oeuvre as an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist. These were period illustrations depicting the life of Maria Gandy, Light's famous common-law wife.
"These had the quality of Coles Funny Picture Book illustrations," he enthuses.
And, therein, he discovered that, Maria Gandy, later to become Mrs Mayo, moved around the state "with an entourage of dwarfs." "Yes, dwarfs. Nasty, aloof and spitting dwarfs. They moved around north of Adelaide and into the bush."
But this strange piece of information is not in his OzAsia production. It was post-Light.
"And I couldn't fit it in. There was just too much stuff," laughs Henning.
"Light is principally about Light's family. The first half is Penang and Malacca-centric. The second is Euro-centric, and, of course, it includes the enactment of the laying out of Adelaide, but a decade of fights and struggles is whittled down into a line."
The production looks at the world from Light's inner perspective. It looks at what is perhaps more his world view, and touches on "the values and notions of nationalism".
Its scale has evolved from a broad historic sweep, Light's life was not long, but it was big in terms of historical scope.
As Henning points out, Light left Penang when he was only six to be educated in Britain. He joined the Royal Navy at 13 and then a few years later the British Army. He fought for Spain in The Napoleonic Wars, under the Duke of Wellington and the Peninsular War and in the 1830s he became close to Mohammad Ali, the founder of modern Egypt under the Ottoman Empire, helping to establish an Egyptian navy.
"He watched the rise of empires," says Henning.
His private life was difficult. His first wife, only recorded as E. Perois, was said to have died in tragic circumstances. But nothing is known of her. His marriage to Mary Bennet, the rich "natural" daughter of the Duke of Richmond was rich in travel and art. But she abandoned him and, when he came to South Australia, it was with a "companion", Maria Gandy, who was to care for him in his house at Thebarton. Light had survived serious war wounds and was riven with tuberculosis; hence, his early death aged only 53.
As Henning sees him, despite all the travel and action and his accomplishments (he was reputed to be a skilled people-manager and linguist) he was not really a fulfilled individual.
"In fact, his life was also lonely and drifting." Henning surmises.
The forthcoming production will draw links between the world of father and son. Light's father, Captain Francis Light was the illegitimate son of a Suffolk landowner and a serving girl. In Penang, Francis was to marry Martinha Rozells "according to native custom". She was said to be a princess. Her exact ethnic heritage and position in Malay hierarchy remains a point of debate but she was most definitely Eurasian. It was she and her family who were to somehow lose the considerable fortune Francis Light had established in Penang, a point of disappointment to William when later he sought to recover his inheritance. William Light was their second son.
There are many intriguing threads between the father-and-son narratives, many of which will unravel when the production is premiered at OzAsia.
However, Henning warns and warns again.
It is probably not what Adelaideans are expecting.
"It will be contentious.
"There will be discussion and debate.
"There will be people who want to drum us out of Adelaide."
When: 17, 18 and 19 Oct
Where: Nexus Arts
Bookings: ozasiafestival.com.au


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Johan Mádr (* 31. července 1994 Opočno) je český herec a moderátor.

Vůbec poprvé se na televizních obrazovkách objevil v roce 2012 v roli studenta v seriálu Vyprávěj. Objevil se i v seriálu Ulice. V letech 2020-2021 moderoval Snídani šampionů na Hitrádiu spolu s Ondřejem Havlem. Moderoval pořad Mixxxer na televizní stanici Óčko. Příležitostně hráčem florbalu. Hrál za FBC Dobruška. V letech 2014–2019 moderoval na Fajn Rádiu. Od 6. září 2021 moderuje společně s Ondřejem Havlem Snídani.

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 2012 Vyprávěj, TV seriál
 2014 Ulice, TV seriál (role: Richard Weber)
 2014 Neviditelní, TV seriál

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SHAKESPEARE MADE EASY
Shakespeare in English everyone can understand!
Alan Durband
The Shakespeare Made Easy concept was devised by Alan Durband who wrote twelve titles in the series.
Here is a brief biography:
Alan Durband was born in Liverpool England in June 1927, the only child of ship's carpenter Joseph William Durband.
His mother Edith Durband (née Ashcroft) was particularly ambitious for her son. Even before he was born, she began making sacrifices and saving money from their modest income for the time when she might have to pay for a grammar school education.
In the event, Alan won a scholarship to the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys in Mount Street (since transformed into LIPA, where there is now the Alan Durband Room).
Teaching Career
After gaining an MA in English at Downing College, Cambridge University he returned to the Institute as English master. Here, his most famous pupil was Paul McCartney.
During this period, he produced his first text books, the English Workshop series, and then, for older children, Contemporary English. His play series New Directions featured one-act plays often by new writers, many of whom went on to be household names. They appealed to a great number of schools and colleges, as did his later Playbill, Prompt and Wordplays series. See Other books for details.
In the early sixties, he moved on to the CF Mott College of Education, Prescot where he later became head of English. In 1965, through the League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers, he undertook a one year exchange to Australia where he lectured at the Wagga Wagga Teacher Training College in New South Wales.
In the early seventies, one of his students at CF Mott was having a particularly difficult time on teaching practice, trying to get a tough inner-city class interested in Shakespeare. Each night, Alan provided him with an excerpt from Macbeth translated into modern English. The impact on the pupils was dramatic, and out of that grew Shakespeare Made Easy.
Theater was a passion for Alan Durband and during the early sixties he led a campaign to save Liverpool's 'New Shakespeare' theater. In 1964, he jointly founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in Hope Street where he served for nearly 30 years in an honorary capacity as vice-chair, chair and vice-president.
His Shakespeare Made Easy books were written in Benidorm Spain where in later years Alan and his wife Audrey spent their winters. He would often write sitting on the beach, with Audrey transcribing his work each day onto what now seems a very primitive word processor.
After many years of heart trouble, it was in Spain that Alan Durband died in November 1993 at the age of 66.
Alan Durband commemorative plaque – Everyman Theatre, Liverpool England
In 1997 an event was organised by playwright (and former Writer-in-Residence at CF Mott College of Education) Willy Russell to pay tribute to Alan and to unveil a plaque at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre. Former Everyman actors including Pete Postlethwaite OBE were there, and children's writer Brian Jacques. Many who could not attend sent tributes – including Sir Paul McCartney who wrote that Alan Durband 'was the most important teacher of my school years.' More >
Detail of "A Case History" sculpture, Liverpool England
Alan Durband is commemorated in John King's 1998 sculpture 'A Case History' installed at the junction of Mount Street and Hope Street, Liverpool. The sculpture represents several piles of luggage labelled with 27 names significant in Liverpool's history. (For some reason, Alan Durband's name appears on not one but two cases.)
Henry IV Part One
Shakespeare Made Easy takes the fear out of Shakespeare!
Original and Modern English versions on facing pages!
Makes it easier to comprehend the text!
Includes discussions of the life, work and theater of William Shakespeare for a more rounded appreciation of these classic plays.
Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own.
All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text.
Shakespeare Made Easy books provide the key for what has been a locked door to many students in the past.
And as understanding grows, so an awareness develops of the potential of language as a vehicle for philosophic and moral expression, beauty, and the abidingly memorable.
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Everyday Hero: Eston Mayfield
(Source: KFVS)
By Carly O'Keefe
Updated: Jan. 2, 2019 at 3:50 PM CST
BOLLINGER COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - The holidays are all about spending time with family and sharing a good meal, but for some in the heartland, putting food on the table is more difficult.
This month's Everyday Hero, Eston Mayfield, works to ensure folks in Bollinger County have enough to eat over the holidays and year-round.
"He's the type of person that if you need help -- here's my number, call me," said Bryan Thompson of Bollinger County.
In his younger years, Mayfield was a volunteer firefighter responding to calls for service any time day or night.
Mayfield still works out of an old fire house, but these days he's responding to a different sort of emergency. Now when people call him for help it's because they're threatened by not flames, but hunger.
"You definitely learn that the need is out there," said Mayfield. "And more people need to realize that it's out there and become more aware of their surroundings."
Food insecurity is more of a problem in the Heartland than many people may realize. A five-year Census average shows the poverty rate nationwide between 2013 and 2017 was right around 14.6 percent. In Bollinger County it was much higher at 19.9 percent.
That means nearly one in five families in Bollinger county struggle to put food on the table… That's where Mayfield and his fellow volunteers at the Little Whitewater Baptist Church Food Pantry come to the rescue.
"It's astonishing at what some of these people try to live on month to month. Absolutely astonishing," said Mayfield. "I know there's people out there too proud to ask for food. I know they're out there."
The food pantry started in one room of the Little Whitewater Baptist Church. Mayfield says there were just two families regularly receiving food boxes the church had put together. But when Mayfield took the task over, he made it his mission to let people know if there was a need – the food pantry would meet it.
"I've got 140 names on the grocery list right now, and 75 on the commodity list," said Mayfield. "So that's how much we've grown."
"I think nobody knew the need at first," said Valerie Mayfield, Eston Mayfield's wife and then by word of mouth and by flyers and Eston talking to people, I think the need's been shown that there was a need all along, but perhaps people didn't know where to turn."
Now, they turn to Eston Mayfield and the Little Whitewater Baptist Church Food Pantry. Twice a month Eston Mayfield and his volunteers box up food and distribute it to families in need.
As the food pantry's list grew, the group had to relocate out of the church into the old firehouse next door, but Eston Mayfield says they may need to expand again to meet the growing need.
"They come from all over Bollinger County. All over south of Marble Hill. I think some come from Marquand, but they're still in Bollinger county," said Eston Mayfield. "It just amazes me how much it's grown in four years."
"It seems like they're mainly senior citizens that don't have enough money at the end of the month," said volunteer Jan Mayfield. "So, we feel like we're helping them kind of stretch things out because it's either buy groceries or buy their medicines and go to the doctor."
Thanks to the Mayfields and Little Whitewater Baptist Church Food Pantry, that's a choice they don't have to make.
"I've always known he was good man with a big heart," said Valerie Mayfield. "This just shows how much heart he has to help more than his family. He can help his whole community and anyone who needs it."
"I receive a blessing," said Eston Mayfield. "Just to see them come in and I know they're gonna have something to last them -- It just makes me feel good."
The Little Whitewater Baptist Church Food Pantry gets regular support from local churches, the Patton Lyons Club, and the United Way to help feed the need.
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The aviation market in Middle East is poised for significant, sustained growth, said the chief executive officer of Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the MENA region.
Recently speaking at the fourth annual India and Middle East Low-Cost Carrier Symposium in Mumbai, India, Adel Ali pointed to the projected increase in the Middle East's share of global tourism to 4.4 per cent by 2020, and said that the Middle East will lead world passenger traffic growth, with current travel demand up 18 per cent.
The Air Arabia CEO and board member said: "With three major emerging markets – including China, India and the CIS countries – located right in our backyard, the Middle East is perfectly placed to meet the needs of travelers across this wider region. Each of these areas is currently experiencing sustained increases in passenger traffic, and the Middle East can become the hub for this vast swath of the globe."
He said the sector's expansion is also being driven by deregulation, liberal-isation, economic diversification and sustained growth, and by the region's demographics, including the very large expatriate populations in the Gulf states.
Pointing to the outlook for the low-cost carrier (LCC) segment in particular, Ali said: "While demand is increasing across the sector, the outlook for LCCs is especially bright. Consider that, in North America, LCCs market penetration rate account for roughly 25 per cent of market share; here in the Middle East, LCCs make up just 0.1 per cent of the market. Air Arabia has been able to successfully introduce the LCC model to the region and customise it to meet the needs of travellers here. As a result, regional perceptions of LCCs are changing fast."
Considering the region's geographic advantage, the strength of the region's economies and the demographic trends, he said it was clear the LCC segment here is poised for takeoff. "By meeting the unique needs of customers in the region, Middle East-based low-cost carries can make a huge contribution to both the travel industry and the growth of the region as a whole."
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Tonight's premiere of Justified [FX, Tuesdays, 10/9C] will not be the first time that Elmore Leonard's work has been beautifully adapted for television – but it might well be the most successful one. While previous efforts – Maximum Bob and Karen Cisco – may have been somewhat hamstrung by network Standards & Practices divisions, Justified is on FX, the home of Rescue Me and Archer. And it shows.
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Q: Configure MTU size on Azure PaaS We're running a WCF based API on Windows Azure Web Roles in North Europe. Recently we have had issues with very unstable connections to a client running on AWS US East. A wireshark dump from our Azure instance showed that TCP packets was lost somewhere along the path with several TCP retransmission happening from our Azure instances.
AWS excellent support helped us nail down that this was probably being caused due to the Azure Instances use of Jumbo Frames with fragment sizes > 1500 bytes and the path MTU discovery not working properly. A note is that Usually the connections would get stuck already in the TLS handshake (our API runs over HTTPS) as the TLS Hello package would be around 5000 bytes.
My question is, what is the recommended way to configure the MTU size on Azure PaaS? Running an netsh command on the instances would not be persistent when the cloud fabric relocate instances etc.
Also, have anyone experienced similar issues? I'm worried about degraded network performance to other cloud resources (SQL Azure, Blob Storage, Service Bus) when lowering the MTU from the default.

A: Why don't you set your MTU config on a start-up task?
That would run again on every start/reboot
You can also check if the role wasn't moved, and ignore the script...
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-startup-tasks-common/#detect-that-your-task-has-already-run
Jumbo Frames are not enabled by default, so you can run a PS script on start, and manually enable it.
Get-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -DisplayName "Jumbo Packet" | Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty –RegistryValue "9014"

I hope it helps in some way.

A: Turns out the Azure instances wasn't really sending Jumbo Frames. The packages captured by Wireshark just indicates this because of TCP large Segment Offload. After disabling this, Wireshark indicates properly formatted TCP packets. Our hunt for the lost packages between Azure and AWS continues.


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Secretary - Scott Dickson (Whitecap Resources)
Scott is currently employed by Whitecap Resources working out of the Westward Ho area for the last 14 years, recently adding the Bergen and Bearberry fields to his area of operations. Scott started out operating oil and gas wells in 2005 and is now the Field
Team Lead for his areas. He joined SPOG in 2017 as an industry representative and has recently been elected as Secretary on the Executive board where he is able to meet with landowners and community members to discuss the oilfield activity in the area. "I believe Community is the most important, SPOG gives me the opportunity to build relationships with the people in the area so we can all work together." Scott was born and raised in the Sundre area and currently resides just outside of town with his wife Andrea and three children.
James River Hall board and was responsible for the fundraising of new hall that was built in 2008-2009. I have been a vendor and also managed the Sundre Farmers Market for 7 years. I have been an avid volunteer and board member at the Sundre Museum for approx. 15 years and held the position as President for 2 years. I also was a member and resided on the board for the Prairies to Peaks association.
Currently, I am the president of our local ladies club and the co-chair for SPOG community affairs. I came to SPOG as an interested community member in the late 1990's and became a community rep shortly thereafter. I've held positions on the ND committee, communications committee along with being the community co-chair. I was briefly on the SPOG board about 13-14 years ago. I would like to thank everybody for the opportunity to be on the SPOG board of directors and hope I can contribute in some small capacity.
Municipal Representative -
Bruce Beattie (Mountain View County)
Coming from a background in the cattle, dairy and a more recent partnership in the forage production. Bruce sat on and chaired a variety of Agriculture based organizations such as Alberta Milk Producers, Dairy
Farmers of Canada, and the Dairy Nutrition Council of Alberta. From there, Bruce was elected as the Chairman of the Alberta Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture Council and in 2010 was elected to Mountain View Count Council, Division 4, serving as Reeve and Vice Chair of the Mountain View Senior Housing Authority.
Industry Representative -
Carol Elliott
(Qube)
I have been involved with SPOG for many years as both a producing member and more recently as a service provider member. My roles have been Chairman, Vice Chair, and Environmental Committee Chair.
I grew up on a Ranch in the Sundre area and then worked with Shell for 30 years starting in production and then advancing my career into decommissioning, abandonment, and reclamation. Following retirement from Shell in 2018 I joined a group of Alberta Entrepreneurs and founded Qube technologies Inc. Qube has developed a low-cost environmental IOT device and surveillance platform that improves the accuracy of emissions measurement so industry can effectively reduce emissions and meet regulatory compliance using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
I look forward to being a part of some very exciting new projects being led by Tracey and her team in the future.
Wayne Heikkinen
Community Representative -
Tom Jackson
The Jackson family moved just north of Sundre to what was once was known as the Derbytown district in 1926. Jackson Creek was named after the family, it flows into the Red Deer River 5 miles north of Sundre. Tom grew up on the family farm and continues to own and operate
a cow/calf business. Farming in the Sundre area involves being very close to the oil and gas industry. Tom has 4 children, Jordan, Beau, Elise and Kate. Both of his sons work in the local oilfield area along with helping on the family farm. He also co-owns a local catering company which allows him to meet new people and be fully engaged with the community. Tom has represented the Sundre and area on the Red Deer River Watershed group and is presently on the Agriculture Service Board with Mountain View County.
SPOG Executive Director -
Tracey McCrimmon
Before joining SPOG in January of 2010, Tracey worked in the Oil & Gas Industry for several companies over the past 25 years. Tracey spent most of her years in the oil and gas industry and living in Calgary until 2009 when her and her family and husband, Graham, moved with their
two boys. Her career starting in the land industry and after obtaining her Petroleum Land Management designation, worked as a Surface Landman for several years. This led her into the field of Public Consultation, Aborginal Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement.
Tracey has participated in several synergy stakeholder groups throughout the Province and has served as an Industry Member of SPOG since 2006. She was also the Chairman of the Energy Committee for SASCI (Southern Alberta Communities Initiative) prior to leaving the energy industry. Tracey's commitment and belief in the values of synergy is what has brought her to SPOG as their Executive Director.
Treasurer - Tim Hoven - Municipal Representative (Clearwater County)
Laura Rathgeber
(AGAT Labs)
With over 13 years of experience in the environmental and oil and gas sector and a degree in environmental studies and biology, Laura started her career as an environmental scientist with a small private
firm working on site remediation and reclamation in remote areas around Alberta. After consulting she moved into a business development role with AGAT Laboratories for the environmental division working closely with consultants and oil and gas companies. To further her sales career she also spent some time with Stantec and Newalta on enhancing her knowledge in the environmental compliance and waste management field. Now back with AGAT Laboratories as Vice President, Laura works closely with all divisions in the lab leading the business development strategy across Canada.
Brian Boutin
(AEMA)
Brian joined SPOG as a volunteer in 2008 assisting with the development of SPOG's Mutual Aid emergency management system and training Resident Visit staff. Brian is a field officer for Alberta Emergency Management Agency. "It is a personal belief that mutual aid is the
future and the best way to collect data for response to emergency situations. It's a way to give back." Brian has been around SPOG off and on going back to the early 90's as a Shell employee. "In my opinion, SPOG is the premier mutual aid group in the province - due mainly to it resident visit program. That template and process is second to none." In his spare time Brian volunteers with Neighbourhood Watch and enjoys cruising in his 1954 Chev truck. Brian and his wife Barb have been married for 30 years and have two adult sons.
Duane Papke
Duane was raised on a farm in the Elkton area and graduated from Cremona High School. He guided big game hunters for four years in the Yukon and BC, returning home and attended Olds College in 1975 and took the course in Animal Sciences.
Duane began working in the oilfield industry in 1970 and still is involved in the industry through rentals to contractors and oil companies. Throughout the years he has had sideline business working with tourism in guiding and outfitting in the foothills area in Central Alberta. He has spent many hours on different boards associating his time involved in tourism, municipal affairs, rodeo committees and water resources. Duane enjoys recreation activities such as trail riding in mountains, attending rodeos, curling bonspiels, hiking and producing diamond willow walking sticks.
He has a very sincere responsibility to look after our back country to keep the areas clean and open to all recreation users and industry to be available for future people users. Presently they own land in the Eagle Hill area, enjoying being with their horses and working in his shop on various endeavors.
Councillor Tim Hoven is SPOG's Municipal representative from Clearwater County. He is a 4th generation farmer who resides in the Eckville area. Tim understands the importance of the oil and gas industry for Clearwater
County, and is an advocate for strong relationships between the industry stakeholders and landowners, and between development and environmental stewardship.
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There is a tremendous daily market of discounted bank instruments like SBLC, Bonds, MTN, BG, etc. involving issuing banks and long chains of what are called "exit-buyers", which include huge financial institutions, Pension Funds, etc. in an exclusive Private Placement Program arena.
These activities on the bank side are done as "Off-Balance Sheet Activities", which allow the banks to benefit in many ways. So, what are "Off-Balance Sheet Activities"? Basically, they are contingent liabilities and assets, where the value depends upon the outcome upon which the claim is based, similar to that of an option. These "Off-Balance Sheet Activities" show up on the balance sheet merely as memoranda items. When they cause a cash flow, they will show up as a debit or credit on the balance sheet. Since there is no deposit liability, the bank does not have to consider binding capital constraints.
So, what is the difference between private placement programs and normal trading?
Since all Private Placement Programs involve trading with discounted debt instruments (notes) and can only be done on a private level in order to bypass legal restrictions, these types of trades are different from the highly regulated "normal" trading. Said another way, these Private Placement Programs are done and restricted on a private level only without all of the restrictions that are present in the securities market.
What is "normal trading"? It is what the majority of the public is aware of and is known as the open market (or spot market) under which bids and offers are used to buy and sell discounted instruments. Kind of like an auction.
To play here the traders must have full control of the funds, if they don't, they cannot buy the instruments and sell them to others. Also, there are no arbitrage buy-sell transactions in this market because all players have a clear view of the instrument and its price.
There is also something called a "closed, private market" where an inner circle exists and is made up of a restricted number of "master commitment holders". These are basically trusts with large amounts of money that agree (through contracts) to purchase a specified number of fresh-cut instruments at a set price during a set period of time. Their purpose is to sell these fresh-cut instruments on, so they contract sub-commitment holders, who contract with exit-buyers they find.
Because all of these programs all based on arbitrage buy-sell transactions with preset prices, the traders do not have to be in control of the investor's funds. But in order for a program to start, there has to be enough money behind each buy-sell transaction. That's why the investors are needed. The involved banks and commitment holders are not permitted to trade with their own money unless they have reserved enough funds on the market, and that money belongs to the investors which is never used, and never put at risk.
These Trading Banks can lend out money to the "traders" usually at 1: 1 0 ratio, but under certain conditions, they go as high as 20: 1. That means that if a trader can "reserve" $100M, then the bank can lend out $1 Billion. This is accomplished through a line of credit based on how much money the trader (the commitment holder) has, since the banks don't lend out that much money without collateral.
Any trader that requires he be in control of the investor's fund, is not one of the major players, but rather plays in the open spot market where lots of different instruments are traded.
Now if the trader only has to reserve the client's funds without being in control of those funds, he is participating in this private market of private placement programs.
Since many bankers and others in the financial arena are exposed to the open market but are not allowed into the private market, they find it difficult to believe that a private market exists and that is often the reason they think private placement programs are scams.
As my grand pappy used to say, "Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune"!!!


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The PrimeX Wallet will be an advanced yet user-friendly platform, providing usersanywhere in the world with unified electronic wallets for all of their cryptocurrencyand fiat savings.
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The multi-currency PrimeX Wallet plastic payment card will be issued and shipped free of charge to every investor who has invested more than 3 ETH and complied with our KYC requirements.


Capital Country Truffle Festival. The region celebrates these highly prized gems from late June to early August.
Learn from celebrity chefs and other truffle experts. Join a truffle hunt or simply indulge in the special flavours and intoxicating aromas of the truffle dishes at local restaurants, cafes and wineries. Immerse yourself in the grandeur of this exquisite delicacy with sumptuous truffle degustation dinners at various fine dining restaurants.
Truffles are highly seasonal, so events often happen with short notice.
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One of 2018 buzz words must have been mindfulness. I'm sure you have all come across it more than once over recent years and yet it's still quite a misunderstood by many. While mindfulness seems a very modern phenomena, its roots are as old as the earliest great civilisations of humankind. The foundational idea that by focusing our attention on the present and bringing an attitude of openness and acceptance to whatever is happening, we can reduce our suffering and live fuller and more meaningful lives is nothing new. The big difference is the fact we now have a vast collection of scientific studies to back up this basic concept.
In the past couple of decades, mindfulness-based treatments have been proven to be highly effective in lowering stress and treating anxiety and depression, among a wide range of other conditions. With that in mind, it's undoubtedly a skill we all want to learn so let's dispel some common myths that often hold people back from giving the techniques their full attention.
There's no evidence to suggest that it does. In fact they are very different from one another. Positive thinking is geared towards blocking negative and neutral thoughts & focusing on the positive or happy thoughts. When we practice mindfulness, we are practising being with all mind states – the good, the bad and the neutral.
'Mindfulness Will Cure My Anxiety'.
Unfortunately as with all life there are no certainties. The most challenging aspects of both mindfulness & meditation practice as a therapy, is that you cannot have any expectations. There's no finish line and no absolutes to where the practice will lead you. What I can promise you is that if you're patient and willing to regularly orate then whatever your state of mind, it will improve. You will become more focused, less reactive, calmer and less anxieties but to what level is undeterminable. The more you practice, the greater the benefit.
'Mindfullness Is A Buddhist Pactice'.
No. Yes some Buddhist practice, as do many religious faiths but the practice itself has no religious connections at all.Both mindfulness and meditation are both found in the Abrahamic faiths, Jains, Hindu's and in fact most religious theologies. Today the practice is considered more secular and championed by many well known atheist scientists such as Sam Harris.
When we practice, we are learning to let go of our thoughts and return to the point of focus (such as the breath). Our mind will quickly wander again, and the instruction remains the same: as soon as you realise your mind has gone for a walk, acknowledge this as 'thinking' and bring it back to the focus without any judgement or frustration.
Practicing 'living in the moment' doesn't mean live without consideration to our future consequences of our actions. It simply means paying attention to our experience in the present moment. The past has already happened and can't be changed. The future will be determined by what we do now. Therefore the present moment is the only moment where there is an opportunity to do something different.
Yes you're going to be downing salty water. Let's emphasise that I don't mean table salt that's stripped of minerals, bleached and contains sand and glass. Table salt is a Frankenstein's monster and your body sees it that way, too. Sea Salt are also becoming more and more polluted as the oceans fill up with toxins. "Real Salt", mined from ancient sea beds is the good stuff & I'll recommend you get your pink Himalayan salt ready for you January health kick.
When Himalayan salt dissolves in water, it results in a concentrated, electrically charged matrix of appox. 84 trace minerals in the salt (this value has been shown to vary). The ionic salt and trace minerals nourish each cell in your body.
Reduces muscle cramps by improving minerals and hydration (especially good for hot yoga).
1/2 tea spoon of PHS dissolved in 1 gallon of water (4.5 litres). I make mine in a 2 litre bottle of water so scale the salt down to 1/4 teaspoon. I make 2 bottles, the first with just a salt water mix and the second with fresh lemon or lime.
Fill a glass jar about 1/4 of the way with himalayan salt (or Real Salt or celtic sea salt), either ground or in chunks. Fill the rest of the way with filtered water. Add a plastic lid (not metal!), shake and let sit overnight. You should always have some undissolved salt in the jar, this means the water is fully saturated. Add more salt if needed.
In the morning, take 1 tsp. of sole, mixed into some room temperature water, upon waking. Never use metal utensils with your sole.
Keep refilling your jar with salt and water when it runs low. It lasts indefinitely.


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I have a real treat for you today All Good Fans, I'm home from my local Value Village where I found a copy of The Hobbit on DVD just sitting in a bin! It must be some rough cut which accidentally made its way out of the studio. That's even better than when someone found a rough draft of the Star Wars script in my local library. Its cover doesn't even have the actors, just some of what I assume to be concept art. I'm so excited that I had to start writing this before even watching it. So keep reading and be amongst first to know everything you have wanted to about Peter Jackson's the Hobbit.
This is not Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. Upon watching for ninety seconds I can tell you this is definitely not Peter Jackon's The Hobbit. How embarrassing. I guess I'll just have to review it anyway. Instead keep reading to be amongst the who knows how many to know everything you never knew you wanted to know about Rankin Bass' The Hobbit.
The Hobbit, for those of you who don't know, is the 1937 story about Bilbo Baggins; a reserved fixture of his Hobbit community who one day receives a visit from a wizard and twelve Dwarfs that wish to hire him as their expert treasure hunter (e.g. burglar) on a grand adventure across the land to take back what's their from a powerful dragon. Of course, Mr. Baggins has no need for dragon treasure, knows nothing of burgling nor has ever been on an adventure but he reluctantly joins them anyway and begins his unexpected journey through Middle-Earth. On his journey, Bilbo learns just how great the world is through its fantastic creatures & settings, changing himself from a quiet homebody to an adventurer of legend.
This version of The Hobbit was released as an animated television special in 1977 from the same production company that would later make The Last Unicorn and Thundercats as well as animated by oh, Topcraft! Topcraft was an animation team who's members later formed a new company you may have heard of called Studio Ghibli. I've got to admit, the animation in this is pretty sharp, especially for 1970s television and I generally really like the art direction/character designs they used even if they took some, shall we say, creative liberties in those designs. For example, Gollum looks like a frog with ears and Smaug has a cat for a face. Now it's been a long time since I've read the novel but to be fair, I don't recall it ever specifically saying he DOESN'T have a cat for a face.
But likewise, the plot and dialogue stay surprisingly faithful to the source material with the exception of few omitted sections (such as the part with Beorn) and some plot points streamlined due to time constraints. It really makes me wonder how Peter Jackson intends to stretch this story out into three movies when this one did it in, let me check my DVD, 77 minutes! Even the music uses the actual lyrics from the poems and songs in the novel, which is a nice touch and now that we've brought it up - the music. Oh the music.
The music is, honestly, it's pretty cheesy. So much so that South Park even made references to how goofy it is with their infamous Lemmywinks episode. Try the links to compare and you'll quickly hear what I mean. Otherwise the sound is generally quite good. The cast includes Hans Conried as Thorin Oakenshield, um Otto Preminger as Thranduil and uh John Huston as Gandalf? What?! Alright, it's an excellent if not random collection making the cast and they do a great job portraying the characters, maybe even better than their live-action counterparts. So overall, I like this. I really like this.
I'd recommend it and if you would like to see this version to compare it with the Peter Jackson version, officially coming to theaters on December 14, 2012, then it is available on DVD along with various digital streaming services. Surprisingly, despite the upcoming live-action adaptation however. I unfortunately could find no plans to release this on Bluray, which is a shame because if nothing else this is a fun little adventure that should not be forgotten even if future versions turn out to be even better.
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Q: Bash: Copy n number of files for every year of birth on the filename I have thousands of photos with year of birth in the filename. I need to find and copy at least 100 files for each birthyear, let's say 100 files for birthyear 2000, 100 files for 2001,..., and so on.
Here's the format of the filenames:

35077502_1995-02-01_2012.jpg

2012 is the year the photo is taken, i guess.
Can it be done using bash script?
Thanks

A: #!/bin/bash

IFS=$'\n' years=( $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.jpg' -print0 |
                    sed -zEn 's/^.*_([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])-.*\.jpg/\1/p' |
                    tr '\0' '\n' |
                    sort -u)
                )

for year in "${years[@]}" ; do
  mkdir -p "$year"
  find . -iname "*_${year}-*.jpg" -size +1k -print0 |
    head -z -n 100 |
    xargs -0r cp -t "$year"
done

This constructs an array ($years) containing the unique set of 4-digit years extracted from filenames in the current directory, where the year is preceded by an underscore (_) and followed by a dash (-).  This requires the GNU version of sed for the -z aka --null-data option.
For each year, it first creates a directory for that year if one doesn't already exist, then uses find to list all filenames matching those required pattern that are larger than 1 KB in size.  That list is then  pipe through head to get only the first 100 lines, and then into xargs to copy the files to the appropriate directory.
The filename list is NUL-terminated throughout the entire pipeline so that it works with all valid filenames (i.e. it will not break if spaces, tabs, newlines, or other unusual but perfectly valid characters are in the filenames)
This also requires the GNU version of head (which is standard on Linux), because it uses the -z option (aka --zero-terminated) for NUL-terminated input.  Specifically, it requires a version more recent than 13 Jan 2016.   It also requires GNU cp for the -t (aka --target-directory) option, which allows the target directory to be the first argument rather than the last.
If the files need to be sorted, then sort -z can be inserted between the find and head commands - e.g. find ... -print0 | sort -z ... | head -z ....  This also requires the GNU version of sort.
This assumes that, as indicated in the revision to your question,
the filenames have an underscore followed by the year as the last thing before the .jpg extension.
If the year can appear anywhere in the filename, you may need to use -iname "*${year}*.jpg" (without the underscore and with a second * between the ${year} and the .jpg) but watch out for files where the eight-digit number at the beginning is something like 60420017, which contains 2001 as a substring.
This also assumes that all your files have (case-insensitive) .jpg extensions (and not .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .gif, .png, etc.).  If multiple filename extensions are required, the -iregex option could be used instead of -iname.

A: If there are no nasty things in the filenames you can do
for year in 2000 2001; do
  cp `ls *${year}*.jpg|head -n 100` destination
done

A: With zsh:
for y ({1995..2017}) (cp -- **/*_$y.jpg(.LK+1[1,100]) destination)

*

***/: in any level of sub-directories, sorted alphabetically

*.: regular files only

*LK+1: more than 1KiB in length

*[1,100]: first hundred ones.

(as the sorting order will determine which files are copied, you may want to add the n glob qualifier for the sorting to be numerical).
Or to avoid hard coding the list of years and crawl the directory several times:
typeset -A files n
for f (**/*_<->.jpg(.LK+1)) {
  y=${${f##*_}%.*}
  ((++n[$y] > 100)) || files[$y]+=$f$'\0'
}
for y (${(k)files}) {
  mkdir -p $y && cp -- ${(0)files[$y]} $y
}

(untested)


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Campbell-Mithun-Esty Detroit has split its account management team into two parts. One group will serve the agency's primary client, Chrysler Jeep Eagle. The other will try to find new accounts.
Since its inception, the Detroit office existed only to serve American Motors Jeep-Renault. When Chrysler bought American Motors, the agency's focus turned to the Jeep Eagle division. Now the agency wants to expand its client list.
The agency has consolidated all aspects of the Chrysler account under Thomas Bernardin, an executive vice president. The new-business team will be headed by R. David Eick, also an executive vice president. Mr. Eick previously handled the dealer association portion of the Chrysler account.