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Bring Me the Horizon are a British rock band from Sheffield, Yorkshire. Formed in 2003, the group currently consists of lead vocalist Oliver Sykes, lead guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean, drummer Matt Nicholls and keyboardist Jordan Fish. They are signed to RCA Records globally and Columbia Records exclusively in the US. The style of their early work, including their debut album Count Your Blessings, has primarily been described as deathcore, but they started to adopt a more eclectic style of metalcore on subsequent albums. Furthermore, their latest album That's the Spirit, marked a shift in their sound to less aggressive rock music styles.
Bring Me the Horizon released their debut album Count Your Blessings in 2006. Upon release, the album was met with great polarisation amongst the public and critical disdain. The band began to break away from their controversial sound with Suicide Season (2008), which proved to be a creative, critical and commercial turning point for the band. Bring Me the Horizon then released their third album There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret. In 2010, propelling them to greater international fame, whilst incorporating influences from classical, electronica and pop. Their major label debut, Sempiternal achieved Gold certification in Australia (35,000) and Silver in the United Kingdom (60,000). That's the Spirit debuted at #2 in the UK charts, selling almost 2 times the previous album with 44,300 first week sales. Aside from these five albums, they have also released two extended plays and a live album.
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Sempiternal released: 2013
There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret released: 2010
Suicide Season Cut Up released: 2009
Suicide Season released: 2009
Count Your Blessings released: 2008
Sempiternal
Can You Feel My Heart
The House of Wolves
Empire (Let Them Sing)
Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake
Shadow Moses
And the Snakes Start to Sing
Seen It All Before
Crooked Young
Hospital for Souls
Deathbeds
Sleepwalking (Instrumental)
There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
Crucify Me
It Never Ends
Home Sweet Hole
Alligator Blood
Blessed With a Curse
The Fox and the Wolf
Chelsea Smile (KC Blitz)
Football Season Is Over (After the Night)
The Sadness Will Never End (Skrillex)
Suicide Season Cut Up
The Comedown (Robotsonics)
Chelsea Smile (K C Blitz)
It Was Written in Blood (L'Amour La Morgue)
Death Breath (Toxic Avenger)
Sleep With One Eye Open (Tek-One)
Diamonds Aren't Forever (I Haunt Wizards)
No Need for Introductions, I've Read About Girls Like You on the Backs of Toilet Doors (Benjamin Weinman)
Suicide Season (The Secret Handshake)
Football Season Is Over (Utah Saints)
Sleep With One Eye Open (M. Shawn Crahan)
Chelsea Smile (Travis McCoy)
Suicide Season (Outcry Collective)
Suicide Season
The Comedown
It Was Written in Blood
Death Breath
Football Season Is Over
Sleep With One Eye Open
Diamonds Aren't Forever
The Sadness Will Never End
No Need for Introductions, I've Read About Girls Like You on the Backs of Toilet Doors
Pray for Plagues
Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick
For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only
A Lot Like Vegas
Liquor & Love Lost
(I Used to Make Out with) Medusa
Fifteen Fathoms, Counting
Off the Heezay
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Traitors Never Play Hang-man
This is what the edge of your seat was made for,
Holding on, on your own,
And this,
This is what the back of your hand was made for,
Stolen apologies,
Stolen apologies, you,
You're a traitor to my heart,
You're a traitor to us all,
Forsaken,
We're all movie stars,
(And I'm speaking these words)
(And I'm talking to the mirror)
You're a traitor to us fucking all,
I don't want to kiss anyone,
I don't want to kiss anyone but you,
a British rock band from Sheffield, Yorkshire. Formed in 2003, the group currently consists of lead vocalist Oliver Sykes, lead guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean, drummer Matt Nicholls and keyboardist Jordan Fish. They are signed to RCA Records globally and Columbia Records exclusively in the US. The style of their early work, including their debut album Count Your Blessings, has primarily been described as deathcore, but they started to adopt a more eclectic style of metalcore on subsequent albums. Furthermore, their latest album That's the Spirit, marked a shift in their sound to less aggressive rock music styles.
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Current climate conditions do affect animals as well as people. As a dairy farmer it is very important for you to have a plan for your dairy cattle stress management.
How and when you have a plan, the sooner you can address the symptoms and as well the sooner your cattle can get comfortable and get back to producing milk properly.
To make sure you are doing your best, offer them fresh water at all times and make sure they have extra during the summer, when their body's fluids are leaving them quicker. Using a stress management tool such as a Kestrel Data Logger can help you in knowing when you have condition changes that will be a problem for you. Say for example, the water's temperature throughout the day has increased in tandem with the outside temperatures, and is too warm for the cow's body. This will effect the cow's milk production, so you don't want that happening. An alert setup on the Kestrel data logger will alert you to these changes.
Setting up sprinkler systems over the feeding areas can also help reduce heat stress in your cows. If you have a large operation, you will need to address this issue and install them so that the entire population of cattle can receive the relief from the sprinklers. Watch how the cattle react to high-temperatures. The alerts from the data logger will alert you to climbing danger situations.
You may want to install barn fans so that air will move consistently through the open sides of the building. Some barns are made of concrete so opening the lower level of the barn is not possible. In these cases add the fans above the cattle and this will help resolve the matter.
For barns with sheet metal walls, remove the sides of the metal and install netting in place of the metal. This netting can be lifted to improve air flow during the summer and you can easily lower it during the winter. Another option is to add or increase the ventilation in the roof. When cattle are outside, be sure that they have ample places to shade themselves.
Kestrel manufactures a small monitor device (the Kestrel Drop) which works very well for giving you many different weather related readings that are very useful in managing the heat stress in your cows.
This monitor is a data logger that measures traditional weather parameters of ambient temperature, relative humidity, heat stress index, dew point temperature, as well as Temperature-Humidity Index (THI), a livestock specific heat stress calculation.
The Kestrel DROP allows users to customize logging rates, connections and alerts. Another great feature is that it is dust and waterproof which is absolutely necessary to be able to continually work in harsh farming conditions.
You will be informed of heat conditions in the barn, during transport, or anywhere livestock are housed. This is also well used in with heat stress feedlot cattle management.
Large beef cattle farms today will be using large fenced in acreage to just feed the cattle each day.
The problem today is that the cattle are kept for days during the nice weather season in these feedlot conditions, so without a heat stress monitor you wouldn't know when to move the cattle to a cooler spot.
Other methods for increasing the nutrients the cows get to improve their condition include feeding them more grain, fats and high-quality forage.
Do not forget that when they perspire and pant they lose a lot of water. While drinking water helps replenish moisture, it cannot replace essential minerals. These can be dealt with by increasing potassium levels in the dry food. You will want to increase sodium and magnesium levels slightly.
Cows may experience a decline in rumination when their forage is of high quality. As long as you add buffers, this should correct the problem.
The proper buffers will maintain pH balance and better, more consistent milk production.
The latest developments are focusing on making use of genetics to breed cows that are more resistant to heat.
Already some cattle are more capable of experiencing less heat stress. Genetic studies could make breeding the cows with better tolerance with other cows more common, resulting in animals that are naturally resistant to heat stress.
When the weather is hot and humid always increase the number of feedings. Try feeding them early in the morning or later on at night so that they can eat when temperatures are likely to be more comfortable and will lead to less feed heating which causes spoilage. This also keeps flies to a minimum.
Keep observing the cows as needed to adjust feedings and make any changes to the barn to facilitate cooling. For specialized help, consult with your feed consultant but following the above tips should help your dairy cattle stress management.
As you can see the heat stress in cows can be made a controllable situation using the proper plan. The plan would included dietary planning, and heat management plans for watching and changing where your cattle are currently residing. If it is in an barn situation have one plan. If it is a heat stress feedlot cattle situation have a plan for that.
Move them to a shaded pasture area possibly, but don't just keep them in an open feedlot. The heat stress in the cow feedlot must be maintained, to ensure normal steady milk production from your cows.
So use the tools that are available to help you out. Continue your farming activities but still be alerted to the changes that are happening from minute to minute and hour to hour.
Dairy cattle stress management is to be taken seriously. Discussion of heat stress levels for cows & involving feedlot cattle. Weather tools are helpful and you will find to be irreplaceable once you start using them.


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Anti-nuclear group sounds warning at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway
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ICAN activist and Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow speaks at Oslo City Hall. Photo: Terje Bendiksby / NTB scanpix
The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on Sunday warned mankind's destruction is just one "impulsive tantrum away" as the United States and North Korea exchange warlike threats over the nation's nuclear tests.
"Will it be the end of nuclear weapons, or will it be the end of us?" ICAN head Beatrice Fihn said in a speech after receiving the peace prize on behalf of the anti-nuclear group.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have spiralled as Pyongyang has in recent months increased its number of missiles and nuclear tests. It has exchanged warlike threats with Trump, who has ordered a military show of force.
"The only rational course of action is to cease living under the conditions where our mutual destruction is only one impulsive tantrum away," Fihn added.
ICAN, a coalition of hundreds of NGOs around the world, has worked for a treaty banning nuclear weapons which was adopted in July by 122 countries.
The text was weakened by the absence of the nine nuclear powers among the signatories.
In an apparent snub of the ICAN-backed treaty, the three western nuclear powers -- the US, France and Britain -- broke with tradition by sending second-ranking diplomats rather than their ambassadors to Sunday's ceremony.
Supporters of nuclear weapons argue that they serve as a deterrent for starting a major conflict as it would guarantee mutual destruction for the nations involved.
"They are a madman's gun held permanently to our temple," Fihn said.
"These weapons were supposed to keep us free, but they deny us our freedoms."
ICAN leader Beatrice Fihn speaks at Oslo City Hall during the ceremony. Photo: Terje Bendiksby / NTB scanpix
Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said in her lecture during the ceremony that ICAN's "message resonates with millions of people who perceive that the threat of nuclear war is greater than it has been for a long time, not least due to the situation in North Korea."
Several survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, which killed more than 220,000 people 72 years ago, attended the ceremony in the Oslo City Hall.
One of them, Setsuko Thurlow, received the Nobel on behalf of ICAN jointly with Fihn.
Speaking to AFP ahead of the ceremony, Thurlow recalled the horrific aftermath of the first atomic bomb striking Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 when she was 13 years old.
Thurlow described corpses lying on the ground, the injured and dying calling for help and the survivors looking like "a procession of ghosts".
"The hair was standing up and they were all burned on the skin and their flesh was hanging from their bones," she said.
"Some were carrying their eyeballs. It just was like hell on earth," added the 85-year-old who now lives in Canada and uses a wheelchair.
Although the number of nuclear weapons has dropped since the end of the Cold War, there are still around 15,000 atomic bombs on earth.
"Listen to our testimony. Heed our warning. And know that your actions are consequential," Thurlow said during her speech at the ceremony, referring to the leaders of nuclear-armed nations.
The Nobel prizes in literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and economics are to be awarded later on Sunday at a separate ceremony in Stockholm.
Each prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal and a cheque for 9 million Swedish kronor (900,000 euros).
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Q: Conditional arguments for WP_Query and tax_query depending on if $somevar has a value I've created a new query for a custom post type of 'courses'. Those results are then to be filtered using tax_query, querying 3 custom taxonomies matching 1 or several term ID's. These are passed from a search page.
Here's the code working find up to now:
// Lets emulate the posted ID's from the course search widget
// with some static term ID's for each custom taxonomy.
$search_course_area = array(65, 62);
$search_course_level = array(117); //52 for further filtering
$search_course_mode = array(54, 56);

//Begin a new query
$query = new WP_Query(
    array(
        //Retreive ALL course posts
        'post_type' => 'course',
        'posts_per_page' => '-1',
        //Filter taxonomies by id's passed from course finder widget
        'tax_query' => array(
                //Set the relation condition for the filters in
                //this case we're using AND as it is explicity set
                //by the user when searching
                'relation' => 'AND',
                //First check retreive course-area's based on ID
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'course-area',
                    'field' => 'id',
                    'terms' => $search_course_area
                ),
                //And again for the second taxonomy
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'study-levels',
                    'field' => 'id',
                    'terms' => $search_course_level
                ),
                //Finally check retreive course-level's based on ID
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'course-mode',
                    'field' => 'id',
                    'terms' => $search_course_mode
                ),
        )
    )
);

The thing I'm a little stuck on, is if an array is passed which is empty, this would obviously break the query and return no results.
What would be the cleanest way to tackle this? I could do something like:
if (isset($search_course_area)) {
    echo  "array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'course-area',
                    'field' => 'id',
                    'terms' => $search_course_area
                ),";
};

But I have a feeling that wouldn't be the best way to approach it?
Thanks a lot for your time and any help you can give I really appreciate it!

A: You can define the args outside of the WP_Query instantiation:
<?php
$tax_query = array('relation' => 'AND');
    if (isset($search_course_area))
    {
        $tax_query[] =  array(
                'taxonomy' => 'course-area',
                'field' => 'id',
                'terms' => $search_course_area
            );
    }
    if (isset($search_course_level))
    {
        $tax_query[] =  array(
                'taxonomy' => 'study-levels',
                'field' => 'id',
                'terms' => $search_course_level
            );
    }
    if (isset($search_course_mode))
    {
        $tax_query[] =  array(
                'taxonomy' => 'course-mode',
                'field' => 'id',
                'terms' => $search_course_mode
            );
    }

$query = new WP_Query(
    array(
        //Retreive ALL course posts
        'post_type' => 'course',
        'posts_per_page' => '-1',
        //Filter taxonomies by id's passed from course finder widget
        'tax_query' => $tax_query,
    )
);
?>

A: Just in case if someone is seeing this nowadays, if you have multiple cases within your query instance you should have your variable wrapped by another array.. something like:
$meta_query = array();

if ( 0 == $current_user->ID ) {
    $meta_query[] = array(array(
        'key'     => 'restrito_para_visualizar',
        'value'   => '1',
        'compare' => '!=',
        'type'    => 'CHAR',
    ),
    array(
        'key'     => 'ativo',
        'value'   => '1',
        'compare' => '=',
        'type'    => 'NUMERIC',
    ));
} else {
    $meta_query[] = array(
    array(
        'key'     => 'ativo',
        'value'   => '1',
        'compare' => '=',
        'type'    => 'NUMERIC',
    ));
}

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Hey everyone! I'm an old man now! No longer a teenager, and I feel absolutely no different. I don't really have any birthday plans, we're just going to be stuck in our car driving for two hours, like always. Probably play Magic, like normal.
We had a fun week. On Saturday we went down to Yuma because one of my companions had a baptism. Then immediately after that baptism I Skyped into a baptism for someone that Elder McFarlane and I taught in Phoenix. It was an awesome day.
I don't really have much else to write about. I do have a bunch of pictures this time though.
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I had heard about cake auctions before...and so I thought, as a friend was part of a fundraising event, that perhaps I should donate some goodies and see if I could raise some monies for a medical missions project they have to provide free medical care to people in Cebu, Philippines. I attended the dinner there and it was so much fun to interact with people who were asking about the cakes. It was even more exciting to see people bid! Thanks everyone for your support to this great cause!
See my other post on descriptions on the actual cakes!
Giving IS definitely better than receiving...and I just feel blessed to be able to carry out Sandy's Sweets vision!!!


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Club Dates: Hal Rammel's sound constructions
by Renaldo Migaldi October 29, 1992 August 20, 2021
One afternoon when he was a little boy, Hal Rammel tied a length of strong twine to a flat piece of driftwood he'd been using as a toy boat and began whirling it in circles around his head. To his amazement, the driftwood emitted a low, ominous roar.
"My grandmother came storming out onto the back porch because she was alarmed by the sound," Rammel says. "She wondered what truck had pulled up and was idling back there. And then when she found out that I was doing it, she stopped me before I put my eye out or broke a window. That was an early experience with inventing something and being totally enraptured with a sound. It was also an early experience of what social forces can come down on you when you do those sorts of things."
Rammel had accidentally discovered the bullroarer, an ancient musical instrument that has been used by traditional cultures around the world–particularly the Hopis, Zunis, and Australian aborigines–in religious ceremonies and in rites of passage. His interest in the sonic possibilities of commonplace objects led him years later to begin inventing musical instruments of his own.
Those instruments, which include farm implements and pieces of old wooden furniture fitted with strings, tend to evoke surrealism and American outsider art in the way they shock the eye by placing a common object in an unexpected context. His bibliolin, for instance, is essentially a violin with a hollowed-out book for a body. The snath consists of a single string stretched taut between the ends of the gently curving handle of a scythe; instead of plucking or bowing the string, he taps it with a stick, treating it as a rhythm instrument much like the Brazilian berimbau. "I just wanted to use that piece of wood. I wanted to hold it and play it because it just looked so wonderful."
Rammel grew up in Wisconsin in a family where both parents were artists. There were a lot of art books around the house, and he developed a taste for surrealist painters like Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy. His early interests in drawing, painting, and sculpture were encouraged by his parents. He also took up various conventional instruments in rapid succession, but quickly lost interest in them. Then he encountered the musical saw. It was the first instrument he'd come across that felt like it belonged in his hands and that he felt confident he could learn to play. His first public performance was with the saw.
He still wasn't quite satisfied, and in the mid-70s, after he started attending concerts by the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, he found his interests in sculpture and music merging. "Making instruments just came out of an urge to make things. I had been collecting some odd instruments over the years, and among them were African thumb pianos. So I just had the idea to make one. From that point on I just built instruments when the idea for something occurred to me." Soon he was also working with people like avant-gardists Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith of Birmingham, Alabama, as well as various Chicago-based experimental musicians.
For Rammel, building the instrument is just the beginning of a process in which the materials gradually reveal themselves as a map of sonic possibilities. "Sometimes it is a specific sound that I have in mind to try to explore–or to build something which will allow me to manipulate a certain sound, like bowing a piece of wood. And other times just the form, the visual shape of it, will be the starting point."
Rammel, who's written articles and a book on elements of American folk tradition, sometimes draws ideas for instruments–like his devil's fiddle–from American and European folklore sources. He also works from ideas in various non-Western music traditions; his gopychand is based on a northern Indian instrument. Still other inventions seem to spring directly from his subconscious, such as the triolin, a hand-held instrument played with a bow that has thin metal rods of various lengths arranged in random order around a triangular resonator.
He is sparing in his use of resonators, and his acoustic instruments tend not to project a lot of volume. This forces the audience to be very quiet and reflects his interest in exploring the subtlest variations in a given sound. When performing with other musicians, he prefers to provide evocative embellishments while others lead the way. "It's what Blake called 'the minute particulars'–that attention to detail that I really strive for in my collages and in my music too, because I think there are large things in those details. My pleasure in sound is just those little things, and when those are lost I lose interest."
But Rammel has also invented an electronic instrument with which he can compete with other musicians in an ensemble. The sound palette is an ordinary wooden artist's palette with slender wooden rods of differing lengths inserted around its edges in random order. A few of the rods have rubber bands stretched between them. Rammel plays the rods with a bow, plucks the rubber bands, or taps the palette–sounds that are amplified with a contact microphone and run through an array of electronic effects, including digital delay. "The whole palette becomes a microphone, so any sound I make on the board is picked up and goes into the system. So I can play the rubber bands, or I can hold a glass against it, or I can sing or shout into it." His cassette Music From the Jaws of Sound features music performed exclusively with the sound palette: swooping, churning, slicing sounds that could serve as the sound track for a submarine ride into the unconscious.
When building a new instrument, Rammel deliberately avoids systematic tuning or a scale. When patterns appear by accident, he changes the order of the rods or strings to ensure there will be no easy progressions. "All of my instruments really have a pretty strong will of their own, and you have to meet them halfway or more than halfway to discover the things that they can do. So I like the idea of having this randomness that I can then begin to pick things out of, and finding the music in it. Really it's not so different from that technique that Max Ernst used called frottage, where you do a rubbing of a very textured surface, then look at that and find the images, and then bring out those images."
In his universe, creating an instrument is like creating a small independent world, and playing it is like venturing into that world and seeing its walls open up around you as you enter. "Each instrument opens a door. Each instrument has given me an idea about the next instrument. It's true of new instruments and it's true of new experiences. In that sense it's summoning the future."
Rammel has been running a workshop, Instrument Invention and Sound Exploration, at Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio, showing people how to discover the music in everyday household objects. He, his students, and others will perform on their inventions at 8 PM on Saturday, October 31, at HotHouse, 1565 N. Milwaukee. Tickets are $5; call 235-2334.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/Bruce Powell.
John Corbett, Terri Kapsalis & Hal Rammel
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Teresa and Celso is an unmarried couple trying to survive their mundane elderly life. On the night of their anniversary, they received a phone call from Teresa's estranged husband Benedicto who is ill and asking for care. The couple went out of their way to attend to his needs in the remaining days of his life, even seeking for the forgiveness of his son Chito. The film tells of love, companionship, and forgiveness. It is about moving forward by revisiting the past. It poses that on the twilight of our days, how do we really wait for the sun to set?


There is an investigation going on by federal regulators and private detective services in regards to mortgage insurance kickbacks going back almost 20 years. The investigation is surrounding the banks and lenders requiring private mortgage insurers to get backup insurance from lender-owned reinsurance companies. So basically the insurance was unnecessary and it meant the lenders receiving a payment in lieu of no service. They used the excuse that buyers with less than 20% down payment should have mortgage insurance for the additional risk but was this done only on the segment outlined by the rule is the question.
The consumer financial protection bureau has already settled fines with some of the major companies such as Genworth U.S. Mortgage Insurance who has agreed to pay over $4 million, United Guaranty Corp. agreed to pay $4.5 million as well. Radian Guaranty Inc. has agreed to $3.75 million in penalties and MGIC has agreed to $2.65 million.
The consumer bureau settlement so far has resulted in over 15 million dollars in penalties. However, the investigation into banks and lenders is ongoing and more cases and more penalties could arise. The consumer agency has been investigating for a year and has discovered that each bank has received over 6 billion in kickbacks. Obviously this practice has been going for a long time and most of lenders have been exerting pressure and funneling funds into insurance programs. Most of the companies that settled and are paying a fine refused to admit guilt and are paying penalties to put this behind them. Even as claimed by these lenders and insurers that the insurance was for those buyers with less than 20% down payment, the payments exceeded what was normal for this types of insurance resulting in obvious profits and kickbacks that have warranted the investigation and penalties.
Few months ago homeowners in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Maryland sued HSBC Holdings in US accusing them of taking kickbacks from private mortgage insurers and as a result of a consent order if approved by the court companies will be prohibited from making any new reinsurance agreements with affiliates of lenders for 10 years.


In addition to securing the support of Delegates to the June 2nd Convention, in order to appear as Greens on the Georgia ballot, these partisan candidates are also required to file petitions with signatures representing 5% of the number of voters who are registered and eligible to vote in November's General Election. This ballot access standard is ten times the national average and according to Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News, constitutes the highest barrier to participation in the world, when comparing all countries which conduct contested elections. The filing deadline is in 76 days.
Cynthia McKinney was solid in Congress, and will be again. Good luck with your campaign.
This is Really, Really Good News.


February 2019 marks four years at Oral Arts Dental Lab as an official employee. Before I was officially hired on staff at the lab on February 16, 2015, I was a temporary employee beginning in November of 2014.
My stint at Oral Arts is the longest job that I have ever held down with one company. I will admit, I thought there were times that I would not last. Although there have been great times and frustrating times, I am glad that I did not quit and I stayed with Oral Arts.
I am enjoying the hours running work in between floors in the morning. This position not only allows me to get exercise but it will enable me to gather ideas for the company newsletter, which I work on in the marketing department a few afternoons each month.
The newsletter has received positive feedback from employees at the company. The publication is a great way to bring employees together and, in my opinion, has been my most significant contribution to making the company stronger.
Last December I did my first video interview for the newsletter with the vice president of the company for Oral Arts' year in review. Although I was nervous, I feel that interviewing subjects for Alabama Living helped me in going with the flow for this video interview.
This year my goal at the company is not to let all the distractions on the Shipping and Receiving Department floor in the mornings get to me and to solely focus on my task and drown out the distractions. With the newsletter, my goal is to incorporate more interactive features. I am already doing this by adding picture slideshows with music of company projects or events as well as doing more research pieces into trends within the dental industry.
Next year will not only be my 5th anniversary at Oral Arts, but it will also be the company's 50th anniversary. I thank my co-workers who have helped me to grow and not only become a better employee but being allowed to use my talents to help the company prosper.


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SWIMMING & DIVING RESULTS
Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 29, 2016 – The Washington University in St. Louis swimming and diving programs won a collective 22 events as the women and men picked up victories over DePauw University and Albion College Saturday evening. The women and men both exceeded 200 points scored on their way to victories.
Sophomore Lauren Sapp had an impressive evening as she was victorious in multiple events. She was victorious in the 50-yard freestyle (25.14), 100 butterfly (58.99) while combining efforts with freshman Alex Center and seniors Claire Savage and MariMac Collins in the 400 freestyle relay (3:39.40).
Junior Niamh O'Grady was also victorious in three events as she finished with the top times in the 100 breaststroke (59.26), 100 freestyle (53.53) and teamed up with junior Nicole Zanolli, Center and freshman Stephanie Li in the 200 medley relay (1:50.63).
Senior diver Emily Ramos topped the competition in both the one-meter and three-meter dive with 219.35 and 226.6 scores. Zanolli was first in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:06.85, while Collins won the 500 freestyle (5:20.44). Freshman Catherine Kuhn won the 1650 freestyle with a time of 18:21.31.
The men were led by four first place finishes from senior Michael Lagieski and sophomore Brandon Lum. Lagieski placed first in both the 100 (57.32) and 200 (2:10.75) breaststroke, with the 100's times setting a season best. Lum was atop both butterfly distances of 100 (51.25) and 200 (1:53.37).
Freshman Jerry Chen also set a season best time during his 100 backstroke victory, 52.55. Claiming victory in the 200 backstroke (1:55.04) was freshman Peyton Wilson.
Teaming up for the Bears win in the 400 freestyle relay were freshmen James Hardy and Chase Van Patten, junior TJ Dawson and senior Justin Morrell with a time of 3:12.24. Morell was also victorious individually in the 100 free (47.93).
Also winning individually for the Bears were senior Andrew Ellison in the 1650 free (16:45.46), junior Ross Brown in the 50 free (21.8) and sophomore Kevin Van Cleave (4:16.34).
The WashU men and women return home for a dual meet against the Maroons from the University of Chicago on Saturday Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. Be sure to stay up to date on all your Bears scores and awards by following @WashUBears on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


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Strickland ist ein Fluss in der Western Province von Papua-Neuguinea.

Es ist der längste Nebenfluss des Fly. Seine Quelle liegt im Bismarckgebirge, die Mündung in den Fly südlich des größten Sees Papua-Neuguineas, des Lake Murray.

Es kommt seit 1989 zu Belastungen durch Rückstände der Porgera-Goldmine am Oberlauf in der Provinz Enga.

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1921 — Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball's commissioner.
1947 — Carl Hubbell, Frank Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1953 — Dizzy Dean and Al Simmons are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The baseball writers pass over Joe DiMaggio in his first year of eligibility.
1954 — For the first time in NBA All-Star history, an overtime period is needed. Boston's Bob Cousy scores 10 points in the overtime to give the East a 98-93 victory and Cousy the MVP honors.
1958 — Bob Pettit of St. Louis becomes the first member of the losing team to win the NBA All-Star MVP award, scoring 28 points and grabbing 26 rebounds, even though the East beats the West 130-118.
1969 — Roy Campanella and Stan Musial are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1979 — Terry Bradshaw throws four touchdown passes to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to their third Super Bowl win, a 35-31 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Bradshaw, the game's MVP, completes 17 of 30 passes for 318 yards.
1990 — John McEnroe becomes the first player thrown out of the Australian Open. McEnroe's tantrum comes while leading Mike Pernfors 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, 2-4.
1996 — Karrie Webb becomes the second quickest winner in LPGA Tour history winning the HealthSouth Inaugural at Walt Disney World. Webb, in her second LPGA start, beat Jane Geddes and Martha Nause on the fourth hole of a playoff. Webb finished second in her first LPGA start a week earlier in the Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions.
2005 — Four-time Olympic champion Ole Einar Bjoerndalen wins his 49th career World Cup biathlon, breaking the record for career victories. Bjoerndalen edges fellow Norwegian Frode Andresen in the 10-kilometer sprint event to pass former cross country great Bjorn Daehlie at 48 career wins.
2007 — Lovie Smith becomes the first black head coach to make it to the Super Bowl when his Chicago Bears win the NFC championship. Tony Dungy joins him when his Indianapolis Colts take the AFC title.
2009 — New Jersey Institute of Technology ends its 51-game losing streak, getting 26 points from Jheryl Wilson in a 61-51 victory over Bryant. NJIT had not won since it defeated Longwood on Feb. 19, 2007.
2010 — Los Angeles guard Kobe Bryant becomes the 15th player in NBA history to reach 25,000 career points and the youngest to hit the milestone. Bryant finishes with 31 points in the Lakers' 93-87 loss at Cleveland.
2012 — Notre Dame upsets No. 1 Syracuse 67-58 and hands the Orange their first loss after 20 straight victories. It's the eighth time Notre Dame has beaten a No. 1 team — that ties for fourth-most all-time.
2017 — Adam Hadwin shoots a 13-under 59 in the CareerBuilder Challenge for the ninth sub-60 round in PGA Tour history and the second in 10 days. The 29-year-old Canadian reaches 13 under with a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-4 17th and makes a 3-footer from just off the green for par on the 18th at La Quinta Country Club.
1920 — The New York Yankees announce they will be the first team to wear uniform numbers, according to the player's position in batting order.
1960 — Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15-round split decision to capture the world middleweight boxing title.
1962 — Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson are elected into baseball's Hall of Fame. Robinson, the first black to play in the majors, is also the first to enter the Hall.
1968 — The NBA awards expansion franchises to Milwaukee and Phoenix.
1973 — George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier in the second round in Kingston, Jamaica, to win the world heavyweight title.
1983 — Houston becomes the first NBA team not to score a point in overtime. The Portland Trail Blazers outscore the Rockets 17-0 for a 113-96 victory.
1988 — Mike Tyson knocks out Larry Holmes in the fourth round at Atlantic City to retain his world heavyweight title.
1998 — New York's Pat LaFontaine reaches 1,000 career points, scoring his 19th goal in the Rangers' 4-3 loss to Philadelphia.
2003 — Andy Roddick wins one of the longest matches of the Open era, beating Younes El Aynaoui in a fifth set that ended 21-19 to reach the Australian Open semifinals. The American won 4-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4, 21-19 in a match lasting 4 hours, 59 minutes — the longest men's singles match at the Australian Open since tiebreaker sets were introduced into Grand Slam events in 1971.
2005 — Jockey Russell Baze passes Bill Shoemaker to take second place on the career win list. Russell gets his 8,834th victory aboard Hollow Memoires in the seventh race at Golden Gate Fields.
2006 — The Pittsburgh Steelers are the first team since the 1985 Patriots to win three postseason road games thanks to a 34-17 dismantling of the Denver Broncos in the AFC title game.
2006 — Kobe Bryant scores a staggering 81 points — the second-highest total in NBA history — and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 122-104.
2012 — The New England Patriots beat the Ravens 23-20 in the AFC championship game after Baltimore's Billy Cundiff misses a 32-yard field goal attempt with 11 seconds remaining that would have tied the score.
2012 — New York's Lawrence Tynes kicks a 31-yard field goal in sudden-death overtime and the Giants beat the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 in the NFC championship game.
2016 — David Blatt, the second-year coach who guided Cleveland to the NBA Finals in 2015, is fired despite the Cavaliers holding a 30-11 record. Blatt is the first coach since conferences began in 1970-71 to be fired when his team had the best record in its conference.
1944 — The Detroit Red Wings defeat the New York Rangers 15-0 to set an NHL record for consecutive goals.
1959 — In the NBA All-Star game in Detroit, St. Louis' Bob Pettit and Elgin Baylor of Minneapolis become the first co-winners of the MVP award, leading the West to a 124-108 victory.
1979 — Willie Mays is named on 409 of 432 ballots and elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
1980 — George Gervin of San Antonio scores 55 points in a 144-130 victory over the Indiana Pacers.
1987 — Hana Mandlikova upsets Martina Navratilova 7-5, 7-6 to win the Australian Open.
1988 — Steffi Graf wins the Australian Open with a 6-1, 7-6 victory over Chris Evert.
1993 — Mike Gartner of the New York Rangers sets an NHL record when he reaches 30 goals for the 14th consecutive season. Gartner, with three goals in the Rangers' 8-3 victory over Los Angeles, surpasses Phil Esposito, Bobby Hull and Wayne Gretzky.
2001 — Sam Cassell scores 22 points and the Bucks hit a franchise record 14 3-pointers to beat the Knicks 105-91 and snap New York's NBA-record 33-game streak of holding opponents to under 100 points.
2005 — Jennifer Rodriguez becomes the first American woman in nine years to win the World Sprint Speedskating Championship.
2008 — Baylor, which waited 39 years to get back into the Top 25, plays five overtimes in its first win as a ranked team. Curtis Jerrells scores a career-high 36 points, including 11 in the fifth overtime to lead No. 25 Baylor to a 116-110 win over No. 18 Texas A&M.
2010 — Lindsey Vonn makes it five wins in five downhills this season. Her 30th World Cup victory ties her with Croatia's Janica Kostelic for eighth place on the career list and nearly halfway to Austrian leader Annemarie Moser-Proell's 62 wins.
2011 — Francesca Schiavone wins the longest women's match in Grand Slam history — a 6-4, 1-6, 16-14 victory over Svetlana Kuznetsova that takes 4 hours, 44 minutes at the Australian Open. Schiavone saves six match points, then converts on her third match point in the longest women's match at a major in terms of time in the Open era.
2011 — Aaron Rodgers runs for a touchdown and makes a saving tackle, B.J. Raji returns an interception for a score and Sam Shields has two interceptions to lead the Green Bay Packers to a 21-14 win over the Chicago Bears in the NFC championship game. The Packers, with road wins in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Chicago, become the first NFC No. 6 seed to advance to the Super Bowl.
2011 — The Pittsburgh Steelers advance to their third Super Bowl in six years with a 24-19 victory over the New York Jets.
2012 — Skylar Diggins matches a season high with 27 points and No. 2 Notre Dame routs No. 7 Tennessee 72-44, holding the Lady Vols to their lowest scoring output in modern school history.
2015 — Klay Thompson sets an NBA record for the most points in a quarter, a 37-point third period that powers the Golden State Warriors to a 126-101 victory over the Sacramento Kings. Thompson makes all 13 shots and finishes with a career-high 52 points.
1939 — Eddie Collins, Wee Willie Keeler and George Sisler are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1956 — Bob Pettit of the St. Louis Hawks captures the first of his NBA record four All-Star MVP awards. Pettit leads the West team with 20 points and 24 rebounds in a 108-94 win over the East.
1981 — Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders scores his 50th goal in the 50th game of the season in a 7-3 victory over the Quebec Nordiques.
1982 — Ray Wersching kicks a Super Bowl record-tying four field goals to help the San Francisco 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21.
1986 — Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders scores his 1,000th career point with an assist in a 7-5 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1990 — Winston-Salem State basketball coach Clarence "Big House" Gaines wins his 800th career game, 79-70 over Livingstone.
1998 — The Denver Nuggets end their record-tying, single-season losing streak at 23 games, beating the Los Angeles Clippers 99-81.
1999 — David Duval shoots a 59 to match what is then the best round in PGA Tour history. Duval surges from seven strokes off the pace for a one-stroke victory over Steve Pate in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
2010 — Kelly Kulick becomes the first woman to win a PBA Tour title, beating Chris Barnes in the final of the 45th Tournament of Champions. Kulick outscores Barnes 265-195 to take home the $40,000 first prize and a two-year PBA Tour exemption.
2010 — Peyton Manning throws three touchdown passes and the Indianapolis Colts rally from an 11-point, first-half deficit to beat the New York Jets 30-17 in the AFC championship game.
2010 — The New Orleans Saints make it to their first Super Bowl after battering Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 in overtime on Garrett Hartley's 40-yard field goal.
2012 — Playing his 1,000th match, four-time Australian Open champion Roger Federer advances to his ninth straight semifinal at Melbourne Park with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 win over Juan Martin del Potro. Federer is the seventh man to reach the 1,000 match milestone.
2014 — Carmelo Anthony scores a career-high and franchise-record 62 points, most at the current Madison Square Garden, and the New York Knicks beat the Charlotte Bobcats 125-96.
2015 — Ashley Wagner wins her third U.S. figure skating title, easily beating defending champ Gracie Gold.
2016 — Denver cornerback Bradley Roby picks off Tom Brady's pass on a 2-point try with 12 seconds left to preserve a 20-18 victory for the Broncos over the New England Patriots in the AFC title game.
2016 — Cam Newton throws two touchdowns and runs for two others, and Carolina's big-play defense stifles Arizona's top-ranked offense in a 49-15 romp for the NFC championship.


Over the past day, in total 1,161 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 307 people (92 women and 157 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs, and 854 people (256 women and 436 children) from Jordan via the Nasib CP.
120,164 people (36,076 women and 61,272 children) have passed via the Nasib CP from Jordan.
Since September 30, 2015, in total 460,013 Syrians have returned back to their homes from abroad (124,848 women, 212,064 children).
24 people (women - 6, children - 14) and two vehicles returned to the places of permanent residence in Deir ez-Zor province through the checkpoint al-Salhiyah. Since August 25, 2018, in total, 40,759 people (women – 14,029 children 18,617), 2,341 vehicles and 2,299 heads of cattle.
54 people (women - 12, children - 25), seven vehicles and 31 heads of cattle returned to the places of permanent residence through the Jeleb checkpoint. Since February 19, 2019, in total, 4,552 people (women – 1,131, children - 2,185), 374 vehicles and 3,598 heads of cattle.
No refugees have left the Rukban camp over the past day. Since March 23, 2019, in total 2,284 people (women 580, children 1,142), 85 vehicles have left the area.
. Since March 4, 2018, in total, 44,736 people (women – 14,413, children 20,398), 4,751 vehicles and 54,841 heads of cattle left the Idlib de-escalation zone.
Since September 30, 2015, in total 1,286,394 IDPs have returned back to their homes in the Syrian Arab Republic (388,468 women, 651,441 children). Since January 1, 2019, 17,798 IDPs (5,909 women, 7,675 children).
During the day, restored four houses Hiyat (al-Suwayda province) - two, Fanha (Aleppo province) - one, Karahta (Damascus province) - one, a medical point in the Ithriyah (Raqqa province), a kindergarten in Kreya (al Suwayda province) and power substation in Asharna (Hama province).
Barduna– an excavator, a wheeled crane, two dump trucks, 9 windows, 4 cu m of brick, 7 cu m of cement, 9 tons of building bars, 530 kg of lime and filling, 360m of water pipes, 690m of electric cables, to overhaul seven houses and a medical centre.
Mreyah – a excavator, three dump trucks, a drilling unit, 7 windows, 6 cu m of brick, 8 cu m of cement, 4 tons of building bars, 630kg of lime and filling, 440m of water pipes, 260m of electric cables, to overhaul six houses and a water pump station.
626 power substations (one over the past day), 136 water supply facilities, 177 bakeries (one over the past day), 14,264 industrial enterprises have been put into operation.
Currently, in 345 settlements of the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus, Deir-ez-Zor, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Daraa, al-Suwayda, al-Quneitra, Raqqa, work is underway to overhaul 2,378 houses, 213 schools, 172 kindergartens, 199 bakeries, 248 water pump stations, 205 power substations, 201 medical centres, and 93 places of worship.
No humanitarian actions were held over the past day.
Three civilians including two children received first medical aid in the town of al-Salhiyah (Deir ez-Zor province).
In total, 104,910 Syrians were provided with medical assistance by Russian military medics.
3.5 ha of the territory. They found and defused 42 explosive devices.
In total: 2,042.5ha of the territory, 3,317 buildings and 273.4km of roads. They found and defused 20,159 explosive devices including 5,414 improvised explosive devices.
In the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus and Hama implementing a state program to restore the settlements liberated from the militants. The program consists of three phases: preparation of infrastructure (water supply, electrification), targeted assistance to the population, the return of residents to their homes.
in Hatlah (Deir ez-Zor province) with representatives of the national reconciliation committee to agree on the lists of persons wishing to return to the territory controlled by the government.
in Damascus with representatives of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent on humanitarian affairs.


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Neighbor Spotlight: Sarah Zahner
By Lee Ann Gutowski on January 2018 in Neighbor Spotlight
by Lee Gutowski
Sarah Zahner (pronounced "ZAYner"—and she goes by her last name) was downright giddy to be featured in this space when I asked her if she'd participate. As you will learn—unless you already know Zahner, and in that case, it's no surprise—the woman is an enthusiastic, active community member who's been involved in more neighborhood activities in the 7 years she's lived here than many will even think about undertaking. "Honestly, I've secretly hoped to be asked to do this because I love Riverwest so much," was her two-thumbs-up answer when asked if we could write about her.
Zahner has such a stake in the neighborhood, you'd think she was "from" here. But you'd be wrong—she's really from Philadelphia. Born, raised and educated there through her college years, she came to Milwaukee for a "dream job. I love to travel, and I got this job with CPI—Crisis Prevention Institute—where I was a global professional instructor. I travelled all over, doing 'train-the-trainer' programs. I got to make connections in all these cool places, training trainers in non-violent crisis prevention and trauma-informed care."
"'Human services' is my passion," Zahner states. You'll find, getting to know her, that Zahner is passionate about more than one or two things—she's someone who relishes challenges and just good ol' "doing stuff." In our conversation for this article, she was generous with the word "passion" in the same way she's generous with her time as she attempts to embrace all she can in life.
Speaking of passion, Zahner's love affair with Milwaukee began when she visited a friend she met while doing a two-year Americorps stint after college. Her friend was here attending grad school, and "She lives on the East side, right near Brady and Farwell. I lived in that area for my first year, but found myself constantly going to Riverwest for rad events or community meetings. My first impression of Milwaukee was 'This is Milwaukee?! Blue water? White sand? How could there be such beautiful beaches and water next to skyrises? And how come I never knew about this?' I was this East Coaster getting introduced to the hidden gem of the Midwest."
So, Zahner was introduced to Milwaukee, impressed with it, and moved here to work the dream job, training trainers in over 130 cities across the U.S. and Canada. Somehow, though she was on the road a lot during the six years she spent at CPI, she managed to get deeply involved in the community at home in Riverwest. She volunteered at the Riverwest Co-op. She hung out at Riverwest Film and Video, and when Riverwest Radio (which is run out of the video store) was still only an online presence, she and Sarah Moore (Pink House) had a show called "On Center."
She bowled on a team at the Falcon Bowl. She met other community members through participating in Transition Milwaukee, and she helped organized Power Down Weeks in 2013-2015. As part of those Power Down activities, she also worked on Contra Dances (these are folk dances accompanied by "wooden" and stringed instruments) at Falcon Bowl. These dances were a fun community activity that provided another chance for Riverwesters to connect.
Oh, and Zahner also had a heavy-duty honey collection. "I had between over 100 different honeys at one point. I would have honey-tastings during Power Down," she says. "It was another fun thing to do with neighbors."
Of course, here in Riverwest, the Peoples' Holiday—otherwise known as the Riverwest24 (Hour Bike Race, riverwest24.com)—is for many the most awesome of opportunities to have fun with our neighbors. Turns out, Zahner and her husband, "Long" Jon Glabere, got hitched at the Riverwest24 in 2014. After agreeing to propose to each other on that long-awaited holiday weekend in late July, "We decided we wanted to share our intention with our world. So, with Katie (Maedke-Hall) and Wendy (Mesich), we came up with the idea of having our wedding be a Bonus Checkpoint at the RW24 … Katie and Wendy basically 'magicked' everything!" Zahner still talks about the event with glee.
A relatively "quiet, private wedding with each other and our families" at the All Peoples' Church Community Garden turned into a fun morning of RW24 riders coming by to witness the event. Then Zahner and Jon "rode our bikes to Snail's Crossing, where the Bonus Checkpoint was starting. For two hours, we got married over and over again. Well, we kind of got bored just doing that, so we started doing other stuff. Like, 'Any relationship takes inner work, so let's do a little meditation.' We had people doing the electric slide like at a reception dance; catch the garter, or the bouquet; wedding photos; and we had some do improv best man and maid of honor speeches!"
Zahner tells of meeting people at other events since then, some even out of town, who remember that day, too. "People have said, 'I know you, I was at your wedding!' See, everybody at the Bonus Checkpoint gave us a word, and that was their wedding gift to us. One guy I met somewhere else way later said, 'Yeah, my friend and I were at your wedding at the RW24! I gave you (the word) passion and my friend gave you luck.' It's, funny, I feel like River-
west has seen our relationship unfold," Zahner laughs.
Meanwhile, Zahner had been traveling heavily for work, and wanted to stick closer to home for longer spells. Interested in intentional community environments, she and Jon lived for some months at the Bay View Eco Village. After their time there, they took a road trip to check out intentional communities back East, in her old stomping grounds. During this trip, Zahner and Jon got pregnant. "I realized that I was traveling all over, looking for intentional communities, and I had one the whole time back here in Riverwest. It was always pulling at my heartstrings, and it pulled us back here to settle our family." Zahner enjoys having a close-knit biological family back in Philadelphia, and another close family of friends in Milwaukee.
She worries, though, about people being able to live here sustainably in the future. "My passion is definitely social justice, and I like to work with overlooked and marginalized individuals. I like that Riverwest is a mixed-income area. These areas are going extinct, and I've seen housing prices in Riverwest go up tremendously—both renting and buying. I'd love to ask the community what we can do to control rent, and to keep Riverwest a mixed-income neighborhood. Because having the wealthy live in one area, and to have this separation of people of lower income … that doesn't help build community."
Zahner, Jon and six-month-old Finley now share a first floor Riverwest flat with their friend Kate. Zahner, after getting her Commercial Drivers' License and driving school buses for DBI (at Holton & Keefe) during the last few months of her pregnancy, is now working at The Healing Center at Aurora Sinai. As an advocate coordinator, she works helping people who have experienced sexual assault.


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In some ways, Robin Kahn and Abigail Hastings were destined to live together.
They had met years before in Manhattan, when they were both married. The two women became fast friends, took vacations together, just the two of them, and arranged regular play dates for their kids.
But then, as life went on, they drifted apart. Abigail, a creative writing teacher and playwright, got divorced in 1997 and raised her son in a large loft in New York's artsy SoHo district. Four years ago Robin, a public speaking coach for organizations, also divorced. When that happened, she turned to friends old and new to discuss her circumstances.
After not seeing each other for several years, they met for lunch and talked and laughed and cried. At the end of the meal, as they were saying their good-byes on Broadway, Robin, then 58, mentioned that she didn't know where she'd be living next. Her daughter had just moved 3,000 miles away and after 25 years of marriage she was all alone for the first time in decades.
Abigail, then 55, said her son had recently gone away to college and that she too was living alone in the same large loft apartment.
Robin and Abigail represent a growing trend: two (or more) boomers sharing a household. According to a recent study from Bowling Green State University, more than 1 in 3 people 50 or older are unmarried. Of this group, approximately three times as many women as men find themselves living alone because they divorced, never got married or their partner died.
Many, like Robin and Abigail, live on limited incomes — and with the ever-increasing anxiety that no one will be there to take care of them as they age. As a logical result, these women are establishing their own communal households.
The reasons for the increase in "boomer roomies" boil down to the three "big Cs": cost, companionship and community.
Cost For boomers who find themselves suddenly dependent on one paycheck (or a significantly smaller one), living alone can be prohibitively expensive. Sharing the costs of rent, utilities and food saves them money and can allow them to live in better (and often safer) neighborhoods.
Robin and Abigail, who live in expensive SoHo, readily admit it would be tough to stay there on their own. "Living together, we are able to enjoy the fun stuff we otherwise couldn't," Abigail says. This includes dining at nice restaurants (usually at lunch, which is cheaper), going to the theater (typically discount tickets) and taking dance lessons and yoga classes, all of which improve the quality of their lives. "We wouldn't be very happy without these things," she admits.
Companionship Research shows that solitude can have a negative effect on a person's health. A 2012 study linked loneliness to decreased mobility and an earlier death in people over age 60. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, interviewed 1,600 people and asked whether they felt isolated, left out or lacking in companionship. Their findings: More than 40 percent reported feeling alone, which increased their risk of experiencing physical decline and dying over the course of the six-year study.
Community Women tend to miss the interaction of a family-like atmosphere and be more drawn to joining a community, Greenberg says. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to see this type of arrangement as a sign of weakness and may resent the suggestion that they need help or cannot take care of themselves.
Another thing both Robin and Abigail stress is establishing basic house rules at the outset. The most important is to discuss each other's daily patterns to get a sense of work schedules and habits. This can help create boundaries and allow for ample "me-time" for everyone.
It's essential from the get-go to be clear about financial expectations, like how much each person is to contribute for rent/mortgage, utilities and other household expenses. Anticipate upcoming expenses so there are no surprises, which can be calamitous for someone on a fixed income. And set specific due dates to specify when her share is expected.
Food and mealtime can be a delight or a major headache, so determine how responsibilities will be shared. Some people might prefer to take care of their own daily meals, while some households might rotate who makes dinner so everyone eats together.
Matthew Solan is a frequent contributor to NextAvenue.org.
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Annemieke (or Annemiek) is a Dutch feminine given name. Like Annemarie, it is a combination of the names Anna and Maria, via the hypocorism Mieke. People with the names include:

Annemiek
Anna Mieke Bishop (born 1990), Irish musician
Annemiek Bekkering (born 1991), Dutch competitive sailor
Annemiek Derckx (born 1954), Dutch sprint canoer
Annemiek de Haan (born 1981), Dutch rower
Annemiek Padt-Jansen (1921–2007), Dutch harpist and politician
Annemiek van Vleuten (born 1982), Dutch road cyclist
Annemieke
Annemieke Bes (born 1978), Dutch competitive sailor
 (born 1982), Dutch musical theater performer
Annemieke Fokke (born 1967), Dutch field hockey player
Annemieke Kiesel (born 1979), Dutch footballer
Annemieke Mein (born 1978), Dutch-born Australian textile artist
Annemieke Ruigrok (born 1959), Dutch ambassador to Australia, Hong Kong, etc.
Annemieke Schollaardt (born 1979), Dutch DJ and radio personality
Annemieke Verdoorn (born 1961), Dutch actress

See also
Annemie, a Dutch windmill

Dutch feminine given names


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The Wirehouse Boutique
Practice Management > Building Your Business
By Ellen Uzelac
July 01, 2009 at 04:00 AM Share & Print
The original version of this story was published on Research Magazine
When breakaway broker Robert Sayler defected from Morgan Stanley on a Friday afternoon in the spring of 2008, he left a 14-year wirehouse career behind him. Hours later, the 47-year-old advisor had hung up a new shingle: SeaCrest Wealth Management.
His phone and e-mail systems were up and running. Pens, paper and file folders had been placed neatly in his desk. The just-delivered fridge and coffee maker were at the ready as was a new full-time assistant, supplied — like everything else — by SeaCrest. Health and dental insurance? Check. Trading platform? Check. Equity ownership in the RIA? Double check.
The migration of advisors from wirehouses to the independent channel has given rise to alternative business models — such as SeaCrest and the high-profile upstart HighTower Advisors — that are helping breakaway advisors like Rapid City, S.D.-based Sayler make the leap.
"What you're seeing is a resurgence in financial advisor-centric organizations. The advisor gets all this stuff — they don't have to pick out what color office chair they want. It's all provided by the organization. So they get some of the benefits of independence but they're not getting all of the other responsibilities and the difficulties that come with it," observes Bing Waldert, director at Cerulli Associates. "It eases that jump."
Waldert expects the emerging boutique-style firms will thrive as smaller organizations — not as large national firms.
"You're not going to have a thousand, two thousand or five thousand advisors and retain that small boutique feel. You've ultimately only got space for so many advisors. It's definitely something we're watching," he said.
One other model that's getting a close look by breakaway brokers for much the same reason: the traditional regional firm. Waldert puts RBC Dain Rauscher, Janney Montgomery Scott and Robert W. Baird on his short list.
A new study by TowerGroup expects the big play by breakaway brokers to occur between now and the end of 2010 with between 7,500 and 9,000 advisors, representing up to 14 percent of all wirehouse brokers, considering a switch to an independent model. Up for grabs: $500 billion to $800 billion in client assets. TowerGroup looks for the majority of movement to happen late next year as the markets and the economy stabilize.
The report's author, Sean Cunniff, TowerGroup's research director of brokerage and wealth management, said advisors are defecting for four primary reasons: the desire to gain greater control of their business; the need for enhanced personal wealth; damage to the large-firm business model; and the restructuring of the brokerage business.
At this point, Cunniff believes the independent broker-dealer and RIA models are holding their own — with neither demonstrating dominance. But, with the RIAs gathering assets at a faster rate than their wirehouse counterparts, he does expect the shift toward RIA fee-based business to continue.
As for its appeal to the advisor, the transparent RIA platform has much going for it.
"Obviously, the P&L around running their own RIA for a fee-based part of their business is appealing because they're calling their own shots and capturing all the top-line revenue," notes Chris Winn, principal and co-founder of MainStay Consulting Group and AdvisorAssist, which provides guidance to brokers on the move. "These are key drivers. The critical point is [that] uncertainty like we're seeing today is usually a trigger that prompts people to go down a path they were already thinking of. It basically opens up the window and gets them thinking strategy: What must I do to retain my best clients? What's best for me?"
And increasingly, according to John Shields, Winn's business partner, advisors are asking this key question: Aren't there RIA firms out there I can plug into?
"There's a lot more interest in larger, already established RIA practices," he says. "In the past, because of the nature of the RIA, it hasn't typically been fertile recruiting ground. But now you've got firms looking to establish more of a national presence. With all the new choices emerging, you're seeing additional traffic and discussion."
Back to the Future?
When former Morgan Stanley management executives Ed Sullivan and Rick Sanchez formed Purchase, N.Y.-based SeaCrest Wealth Management in June 2008, they aimed to create a firm that fosters "the spirit of independence" yet allows its advisors "to be part of something."
SeaCrest is actively recruiting brokers from wirehouses, seeking financial advisors with approximately $300 million to $600 million in revenues and anywhere from 10 to 15 years of experience. The advisors — there are now 16 across the country — receive back office support and oversight, complete ownership of their book, no overhead costs, an equity stake in the firm and payout increases of anywhere between 50 percent to 100 percent over what they were getting at the wirehouse. At the moment, the typical SeaCrest advisor does 65 percent to 75 percent of business in fees, the rest in commissions. SeaCrest, meanwhile, takes a percentage of the advisor's revenues.
Sullivan, most recently managing director and executive vice president with Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group, casts the firm as a throwback to better days on Wall Street.
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"Alternatives used to exist in the traditional broker-dealer world, but it's much more limited right now. The marketplace is wide open. We're trying to bring back the boutiques that existed on the Street in the '50s, '60s and '70s. There were older boutiques and a lot of great regional broker-dealers — Tucker Anthony, Advest, those kinds of firms — where the chairman knew all the advisors at the firm," says Sullivan. "Today, wirehouses are … global empires. I think a lot of people are looking for alternatives and we'll fill that niche for some."
SeaCrest, affiliated with Charles Schwab Institutional, hopes to add 40 to 50 advisors a year. Eventually, Sullivan expects the firm to experience an equity event, whether it's an initial public offering or some other form of equity conversion.
Chicago-based HighTower Advisors, launched last fall by former Wall Street titans Philip Purcell and David Pottruck, has a similar business model but its ambitions are focused on superstar brokers — folks like JPMorgan Securities advisor Richard Saperstein who moved his $10 billion book of business to the start-up in May. HighTower chief executive Elliot Weissbluth could not be reached for comment.
Industry expert Chip Roame, managing principal of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, says SeaCrest and HighTower and the firms that will likely follow them are employing the same basic strategy. "It will feel like your firm, but we'll handle all the infrastructure. On top of that, we'll give you a high payout, offer you equity in our company, take this buggy down the road and go public one day. There's huge upside in being a stakeholder," he says. "And if I'm a wirehouse broker, two of my biggest issues they just solved: I didn't want to deal with the operational crap and I did want the equity."
While the concept isn't unique, Roame says the current market environment could push the resurgent business models into positive territory.
As Roame puts it: "Every few years, someone new emerges and is going to swoop up all the breakaway brokers. What is unique is that we've got the perfect storm going on in the wirehouses. We may look back and see that SeaCrest and HighTower succeeded where others have failed. It was a cool offer at exactly the right time."
A Good Fit
SeaCrest Wealth Management's Rapid City office — composed of Robert Sayler and two other former Morgan Stanley advisors — has the distinction of being the first pin on the firm's national map.
After studying other independent alternatives, Sayler says it wasn't a difficult decision to jump on as SeaCrest's inaugural office location.
"It was the best fit. Pretty much for anybody that's spent a career with a wirehouse, the biggest concern involves the regulatory and compliance side of the business. We're used to having our I's dotted and our T's crossed. Folks familiar with doing that are leading this effort," notes Sayler, who has $70 million in assets under management.
The office on Fifth Street has worked out well with a client retention rate hovering at close to 90 percent. Sayler says the technology platform has performed admirably and that Schwab has opened up a world of no-load funds and other products that weren't necessarily available at his previous corporate home. "There's absolutely nothing we're lacking here that we had at Morgan Stanley," adds Sayler, who first investigated the independent channel out of curiosity after watching the wirehouse industry begin to teeter.
And at mid-life, "the excitement of learning more and more about how the business really works, from top to bottom," is a real motivator. The equity ownership, Sayler adds, is "hugely" exciting. "It puts us in the frame of mind that the sky really is the limit."
Across the country, in Purchase, N.Y., former Merrill Lynch broker Charles Winston joined SeaCrest in mid-January. At 43 and with nine years in the industry, Winston has $40 million in assets under management and a keen hunger to see that asset number grow.
Winston left Merrill because he felt the brand had been tarnished, and he said frankly: "I didn't like getting 40 percent of everything I brought in. You do an awful lot of work for not a lot of benefit." The fact that he had four managers over eight years didn't help the equation.
At his asset size, Winston said it would have been foolish to go completely solo. "The group here understands the business inside and out. They ran it, right? This kind of model will be huge — and I think you are going to see new ones develop going forward," he adds. "At least I hope so."
Freelance writer Ellen Uzelac is based in Chestertown, Md.; the former West Coast bureau chief and national correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, can be reached at [email protected]


Kanu (Rishi Kapoor) and Timsi (Neetu Singh) are the prime examples of khullam khulla pyaar karenge love birds.
Kanu (Rishi Kapoor) and Timsi (Neetu Singh) are the prime examples of khullam khulla pyaar karenge love birds. They defy everyone,marry in haste and honeymoon in Kashmir. He runs in the snow to a local chemist shop and,while blushing beetroot red,shyly points to an advertisement of condoms and pockets a few. When they are not prancing in the snow peaks singing Nazron se keh do pyaar mein milne ka mausam aa gaya they are rolling on the bed. They even put up a sign on their hotel room door instructing "Please do not disturb. Hume bhook nahin hai." Really who needs food when love is all around?
But what happens when the honeymoon is over? Doosra Aadmi,produced by Yash Chopra and directed by Ramesh Talwar,takes the story forward from where most Hindi films end. As Kanu and Timsi find out,marriage is not exactly song-and-dance. Kanu's ambition to make an identity distinct from his rich father leads him to start an advertising agency. To make a splash he needs to get Nisha (Rakhee) on board — the whiz kid of the ad world who is described in the film as a "freelancer,moody and talented." With the entry of the ciggie-smoking-whiskey-guzzling beautiful older woman Nisha,Kanu's marriage gets a bit crowded.
Doosra Aadmi owes its genesis to Kabhi Kabhie.
It was during the shooting breaks in Kashmir for Yash Chopra's film that Talwar got talking to Rishi Kapoor. His writer friend Raju Saigal came up with the film's idea and Talwar decided to put on hold the Amitabh Bachchan-Shashi Kapoor film that he was originally planning to make. "I liked the idea that Raju narrated about a young couple's marriage but I felt it sounded like an art film so we got writer Sagar Sarhadi to flesh it outa bit and it was he who added the background of the advertising agency and Rakhee's character," says Talwar.
Rakhee pretty much cast herself in the film since Talwar and Chopra were keen to approach Sharmila Tagore for Nisha's part. "Rakhee was my taash (cards) buddy during the shooting of Daag. She asked me to narrate the subject and told me that if she liked the idea,she would take a make-up test for which she draped the saree in a particular way and perched her goggles on top of her head. I knew we had found our Nisha. Ultimately we never approached Sharmilaji," says Talwar. His distributors were aghast that Talwar had signed "Tapasya ki heroine as the other woman in a film aur usse akele bar mein baitha kar daaru pila rahe ho," but Chopra and Talwar went by their instinct.
Doosra Aadmi's major strength is that it's not a run-of-the-mill love triangle. It treats its characters with indulgent strokes,allowing them to be human and make mistakes. The film's title positions the story from the viewpoint of Nisha's character who is trapped in the past — unable to deal with her fiancé's death — yet it's very much Kanu and Timsi's story. The take is mature even though Rishi and Neetu endearingly bicker like only they can. Rishi walks the tightrope between a young loverboy and a man coming into his own. Neetu also gets her moments and throws a few daggers at her husband when she feels he is cheating on her. In a cute phone cut Rishi calls her "baba jaanu" lovingly and she responds with "hello baba". Talwar recalls that the couple who were dating then,would constantly be fighting and making up on the sets so much so that he had to stall the shooting to bring in some order. "I wouldn't roll the camera and tell them ki tum dono ladte rehte ho main shoot nahin karunga. Dono haath jod kar saamne khade ho jaate thay aur phir shooting hoti thi," he says.
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How happy were you in 2016? Did you have a good life in this past year? In other words, how will you assess your happiness, satisfaction, contentment with life, and subjective well-being, in the past year, 2016?
Below given is a survey that helps you analyze and take stock of your life in 2016, so that you can move on to the next year with a better awareness of yourself and maybe improve and be able to be happier in the next year.
There are 50 statements in the survey given here, and each statement is related to one of the facets of your life. For each of the statements given, assign a number based on the key given below.
I am satisfied with my current income………………..
I am satisfied with the quality of my relationships with my parents ………….
I am satisfied with the quality of my relationship with my spouse ……………..
I am happy that I do not smoke……………..
I am happy that I do not drink ……………….
I am satisfied with my eating habits …………………..
I enjoy my life at home …………………………..
If I have another chance to live, I will choose the same family ………………….
I feel respected by my colleagues ………………..
I did not have many bad experiences in my professional life in 2016 …………..
I have not wasted money on unnecessary purchases this year…………….
I have often been able to make my near and dear ones happy this year…………….
I have helped some people this year …………….
I think that I am becoming a better person year after year……….
I have the freedom to choose what I wear…………..
I have the freedom to choose what I eat …………….
I have the freedom to choose my friends …………..
I feel that my life is meaningful…………..
I feel that I have learnt a lot from the negative experiences I had this year.
All my basic needs are fulfilled ………………….
I feel that I am safe almost all the time ………………….
If I fall ill, there are people who will take care of me …………….
There are people who will call me on the phone at least once in two days………….
I am proud of my family and relatives…………….
I am proud of my friends ……………….
I have many personal achievements ………………….
I have many professional achievements ………………..
I am not stressed out or frustrated most of the time …………….
I think that I am capable of learning new things……….
I am an independent person ……………..
I know that even when I grow old, I will still be independent …………….
I don't bother much about what others think of me ………….
I know that I do my best in everything I do…………….
I have very good friends who share with me their personal matters ………………..
I have a positive approach to life …………………..
How to read your score?
If you have a score of 300 to 350, you have had a very satisfied and happy life this years. You are a person who celebrates life! Kudos to you!
If your score is between 250 and 300, there are some areas you need to work on. You have a good life, but you are a work in progress!
If your score is between 200 and 250, you may be quite undecided about your life, or you may not be able to look at life objectively. Please talk to a friend or a family member, and get their help to get a better grasp of your life.
If your score is between 150 and 200, there may be areas of your life that need to be reconsidered. Such a re-consideration is best done with the help of a counselor or a trusted family member.
If your score is between 100 and 150, you may be leading a rather unhappy, unsatisfied life. Start making changes in the New Year, concentrating on your weakest areas first. Please get help from a psychologist or a counselor. It is not too late to build life anew!
If your score is between 50 and 100, it is very likely that you may be depressed, or have serious adjustment issues. Please visit a counselor or psychologist, to get your life back on track. That will be a good resolution for the New Year 2017.
Here's to a contented, self-aware, satisfied, happy 2017! Let us welcome 2017 with open hearts and arms!
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Many applicants know Minerva is their first choice and choose to take advantage of our Binding Enrollment option. As a Binding Enrollment applicant you will receive your notification within four weeks of completing the admissions process — significantly earlier than those applying without this option. In exchange, you must be committed to attending Minerva if you are admitted.
You can select the Binding Enrollment option in the Admission Center, at any stage of the admissions process, during any admissions cycle. Selecting this option formally designates that Minerva is your top choice and, if admitted, you are prepared to pay your enrollment deposit within 10 days of receiving your admissions notification, and you agree to withdraw any applications to other institutions. Please note that Binding applicants must still adhere to the deadlines specific to the admissions cycle in which they apply.
Though the likelihood of being admitted will not increase by selecting the Binding Enrollment option, an expedited notification allows you to make important decisions about your future, earlier. If admitted, you avoid the hassle and stress of applying to other schools; if not, you have plenty of time to refocus your search.
During an experiential learning event, Roujia Wen, China, Class of 2019, looks out on Berlin, from the Fernsehturm tower.