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LinkedIn CEO: This Is The One Question Every Recruiter Must Ask a Job Candidate
August 20, 2018 by Joel Cheesman News
There have been debates over time on the kind of questions to ask interviewees by interviewers, which will determine whether they are fit for the job in one or all ramifications. The debates just even got interesting, after the latest contribution by Jeff Weiner. In a recent interview with the LinkedIn CEO, he gave an extensive insight into his school of thought on leadership, and he did this by answering a very interesting question.
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The interviewer, CBNC's Adam Bryant, had asked Weiner; "if you could ask a job candidate only one question, and had to make a hiring decision entirely on the basis of the answer, what would the question be?" Everyone was really expecting what Weiner would come up with, and almost immediately, he answered; "What's your ultimate dream job?" Wow, you say? He further corroborate his answer to the question.
According to Weiner, "It's not just changing the world–that's not entirely helpful in that context. It's literally, if you could write down your perfect job, the company, the role, you name it, your job description–what does that look like?"
When asked why he believes this single question is the most important, Weiner said the answer and the specificity it carries will help him get a sense of who the interviewee is. If the candidate is young, then the specifics should be relatively brief, considering the fact that these individuals, at that stage in their career, are just starting.
However, for the ones that have been in the system for so long, he thinks knowing what they really want would be very helpful. "I think once you know what it is you ultimately want, you are that much more capable of manifesting it", Weiner concluded.
Another reason he would go for the same question is because the answer to that simple question will also go a long way in helping him determining how fit and relevant he is for the position over the long term. Weiner explains that it is common for both the hiring manager (on behalf of the company) and the candidate to reach a conclusion on the deal as soon as possible, i.e., whether the candidate takes up the offer or not. Whereas, the point remains that there is more to hiring, in fact, it is just the starting point of a long relationship, hopefully. Thus, it is very important to know how a candidate would thrive in that role he or she wants to take up.
How frequent does interviewees accede to the fact that the job they are currently interviewing for is their dream job? Weiner answered this question by saying that only a few people would make such confession, perhaps because they understand how vital it is for them to be authentic and real at that moment.
How about a response that goes thus; "I want your job, to become the CEO of LinkedIn?" Weiner said he had only encountered such responses a very few times.
However, it is a reply he would love to see people say more often, as he believes such individuals who know what they want and believe in the same course are the right type to coach and mentor, if possible, especially if such capabilities and qualities require to thrive in a CEO role are present in them.
Even at this, Weiner believes such assertions must be for the right reason; he would not be impressed by a candidate who sees the salary, power or other benefits that come with the job as the reason for making such aspirations. The candidates with the right mindset would rather think about the company on a long term, instead of material gains. "To the extent they've looked forward to the day when they can help steer a company, when they can help codify and put a stake in the ground on vision, on mission, on culture and values and strategy, and help bring people along and build incredible teams, and deliver products that help change the lives of the people those products ultimately serve–it's exciting to hear an answer like that," he says.
While the interview was a very interesting one and also an eye-opener, we shouldn't forget the kind of message Weiner has tried to pass across through the same. He has shown himself to be a matured and wise leader, who sees a rather threatening answer as exciting and interesting.
If you were Weiner, and asked the same question, what would your reaction be if a candidate tells you point blank that your job is his or her dream job?
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"She's quick," said Miller. "She lines the pans for all of the muffins we sell, and we sell several thousand a week."
Eselun announced her retirement in 1948 but never stayed away, they explained, and now she works three hours a day, six days a week.
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"It was just a fantastic party," Eselun said Wednesday from her apartment at Leisure World in Seal Beach.
But it was also a retirement party of sorts and she did not much care for that, she said, a trace of her native country still in her voice.
"I was nobody really where I was brought up, and I used to think, 'I'm going to build a home of my own.' The Long Beach Bakery has been my home for the last 56 years, and I don't know what I'm going to do without it. I've given my notice, and I'm going to quit next Friday.
"I hate to do it, but I have to. It's been hard for me to get to the car to come here. When I leave the bakery I can hardly walk.
"If you ask me about (having a) long life, the only thing I'd put my finger on for sure is keeping busy, but there comes a time when you can no longer do that, and that time is now."
This one was a good birthday, "but don't wish me another one," she said with a big laugh and without a trace of sadness.
Leaning forward toward a guest, she elaborated carefully: "It's so hard to say the things that I want you to understand . . . so my story will not sound too silly.
"I have a wonderful family. I love their company," she said. "And if I was to choose a life to live over again, I would choose the one I lived. I appreciate living, but I've had enough of it. It's wonderful doing things I've been doing, but I've been doing them an awful long time. Can you understand that?"
Then, breaking away from the moment, she shows the visitor around her small apartment. She points with pride to her "masterpiece," a large weaving with intricate design hung on the wall. Other weavings cover other walls. Two are backdrops for photographs of her two great-granddaughters.
Black-and-white photos of her son, Albert, in a World War II Army uniform and daughter, Mary, at age 17 are mounted together and displayed prominently.
"Just to look after them was the happiest time of my life," she said. "The birth of my daughter was the happiest day. She was first, before Albert. And I just knew the world was not good enough for her."
It was to celebrate Mary's graduation from the University of California in 1939 that Eselun took her only vacation from the bakery. She sailed to Europe with her daughter, who eventually earned a doctorate in psychology.
"Mary used to say, 'Mother, it's a sin to be as happy as you are.' But when she died (in 1961) that ended, and it's never going to come back. But I can't say I'm unhappy. That's not so either."
Nowhere in her apartment is there a picture of "Tony Ajax," the middleweight wrestler she met the day she stepped off the freighter from Bremen in 1911 and married three years later. "He forced it on me, but I was glad he did." Anthony Eselun died in 1954.
Nor is there a picture of Barbara Eselun.
"I was not as pretty as I would have wanted," she said. "I am a simple person. I do not go to beauty parlors, and I wear what I want. I don't care what others think."
On Wednesday she was wearing sweat pants and a sweat shirt, and she was planning a future she said she doesn't really want, but in which she seemed interested.
"I cannot work at the bakery anymore. I have to learn what to do to replace it."
She will learn to care for the cockatoo a granddaughter gave her, she said. She will weave on a small loom and tend to her yard. And she'll continue to keep pretty much to herself, since her neighbors "are very uninteresting to me."
"Everything is not easy," she said, "but doing things is a pleasure and I will keep on doing things."
She wondered what else she might do with her time and a visitor suggested discussing it with her family.
"I love them," she said quickly, "and I wouldn't interrupt their lives for anything."


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Social Media in Morocco: From Grassroots Activism to Electoral Campaigns
GIGA Focus Middle East
Number 4 | 2022 | ISSN: 1862-3611
The Moroccan elections of September 2021 were unusual for various reasons. As electoral campaigning took place under pandemic circumstances, social media played a role previously unseen and contributed significantly to the unexpected victory of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), a liberal party, against the Justice and Development Party (PJD), an Islamist party.
The use of social media for campaigning purposes is not a completely new phenomenon in Morocco, given its prominent use by numerous social movements in the past. However, social media became a game-changer during the last elections.
Considering the COVID-19 measures imposed, political parties shifted much of their campaigning online. Today, online spaces are no longer exclusively used by grassroots activists but have become increasingly popular among Moroccan political parties.
While political parties converged in resorting to online spaces to compensate for the restrictions on offline campaigns, they diverged in their approaches; additionally, not all parties have the same financial capacity to exploit the full potential of social media. The huge disproportion in resources invested in online platforms was a main contributor to the victory of the RNI and the unexpected electoral wipeout of the PJD.
To ensure equal opportunities for all involved political actors, a more effective legal framework is needed to guarantee the transparency and fair funding of digital electoral campaigns. This can be achieved by strengthening those institutions already in place and developing new ways to monitor the use of online media during elections.
The Elections of 2021 in the Context of COVID-19
The elections for Morocco's House of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwab/Assemblée des Répresentants) of September 2021 were unique in several interrelated respects. Electoral campaigning took place under the constraints established by the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media therefore played a role previously unknown in Morocco and contributed significantly to the unexpected victory of the National Rally of Independents (Rassemblement National des Indépendants, RNI), a liberal party, against the Justice and Development Party (Parti de la Justice et du Développement, PJD), an Islamist party. This is a novel development for Morocco, whose background must be elucidated in order to better understand the connections between future political dynamics and the use of social media in this important country in North Africa.
Parliament and Political Parties in Morocco
The task of the Moroccan House of Representatives is less to set the political agenda and more to implement and execute broader policy visions. It is comprised of 395 representatives belonging to numerous parties with different political orientations from post-independence, Islamic, and socialist backgrounds. Officially defined as a constitutional monarchy, the Kingdom of Morocco places much of its political agenda in the hands of the royal palace. King Mohammed VI appoints key heads of various ministries, including Interior, Religious Affairs, Foreign Affairs, and National Defence. Nonetheless, elections are held regularly, even though the result affects only a segment of the agenda-setting institutions. Citizens are generally aware of this limited room to manoeuvre by elected parties and, therefore, often refrain from voting. According to the official elections website (Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya 2021), the average participation rate in the elections between 2007 and 2016 was around 41 per cent. Voter turnout has been further negatively affected by the pandemic and by bureaucratic obstacles to voting registration, especially as it concerns the Moroccan diaspora. To increase overall turnout, municipal, regional, and legislative elections in 2021 were combined and scheduled to take place on the same day, which led to an increase in voter participation to over 50 per cent (Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya 2021).
Rising and Falling Political Trajectories
Several parties, such as the royalist Authenticity and Modernity Party (Parti Authenticité et Modernité, PAM), the nationalist Independence Party (Istiqlal), the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires, USFP), and the Popular Movement (Mouvement Populaire, MP), actively competed in the elections of September 2021. But, given their leading positions during previous governments, the liberal RNI and the Islamist PJD were the main protagonists of this electoral contest. From its roots as part of the long-standing political opposition, the PJD developed into an Islamist party that not only recognised the superiority of the royal palace but also accepted the Moroccan electoral rules, eventually winning parliamentary elections in 2011 (with 22 per cent of the votes) and in 2016 (with 31 per cent of the votes). In the recent election, the PJD lost almost half of its previous candidates, who decided not to stand in these elections, probably because they felt disappointed by the party's years in government, while almost all other parties augmented their candidate numbers. Different explanations exist for this PJD defeat. Among them are the internal differences between the former prime minister, Saadeddine Othmani, and the current general secretary, Abdelilah Benkirane, which shook the leadership of the Islamist party in 2016. Additionally, general dissatisfaction with the crisis management of the PJD government during the pandemic played a role. This included no or last-minute communication about drastic measures, such as the closing of internal and national borders. Further, the failure to fulfil earlier promises and meet the expectations of the previous electoral campaigns such as the rise in the retirement age, the reversal of wage cuts, and the abolition of teachers' temporary employment contracts contributed to the waning trust in the party. In this respect, decisions made under pressure from the king, such as the normalisation of relations with Israel in 2020, further led to a distancing from the party's ideals on the part of party members and voters alike.
Figure 1. Results of the Elections for the Moroccan House of Representatives, September 2021
Source: Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya 2021.
Note: PPS = Party of Progress and Socialism (Parti du Progrès et du Socialisme); UC = Constitutional Union (Union Constitutionnelle); FFD = Front of Democratic Forces (Front des Forces Démocratiques) ; FGD = Alliance of the Left Federation (Alliance de la Fédération de Gauche).
The RNI, on the other side, turned out to be the big winner of the 2021 parliamentary elections by almost tripling its votes since the previous elections five years earlier. This party is composed of elites, executives from the business sector, and high-profile representatives of the state. The RNI cannot be dissociated from its leader, Aziz Akhannouch, who is the co-founder of the fuel distribution company Afriquia and the second-richest man in the country after King Mohamed VI – and even a personal friend of the king. Akhannouch is not a new political actor: he played a crucial role in the formation of the second PJD government in 2017 as Minister of Agriculture and newly elected head of the RNI (as of 2016).
Figure 2. A Comparison of Election Results between 2016 and 2021
Source: Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya 2021: visualisation by Eleonora Landucci.
Social Media before the Elections
To understand the changing role of social media within Morocco's political landscape, we first need to take a look back. The government in power until September 2021 was formed by the PJD – a conservative-Islamist party that acknowledges the Moroccan monarchy and commits itself to democratic procedures and which was led by Saadeddine Othmani. During his government, several nationwide protest movements emerged in which social media was directly or indirectly involved. In 2016 the Hirak Rif Movement spread throughout the country following a viral video showing a fishmonger being crushed to death in a garbage truck after trying to save his allegedly illegal fish merchandise. Two years later, responding to the increasing prices, unemployment, and corruption, the online boycott of three big consumer brands (Danone, Sidi Ali, and Afriquia) led to political actors reconsidering the role of cyberactivism in Morocco. Social media coverage of these events not only helped to spread the activities of these movements and to polarise the public debate by triggering the direct intervention of the royal palace, but also contributed to diffusing a message already widespread during the Moroccan spring of 2011: that the government is incapable of responding to the population's demands and that the king is the only stable political interlocutor (Mekouar 2018). Considering how useful social media has proven in mobilising for protests and boycotts during the last couple of years, it is no surprise that a leaked draft bill (decree 20.22) on social media regulation caused much outcry among Morocco's civil society in spring 2020. The proposed bill on the criminalisation of consumer boycotts with penalties of up to a year in prison and a fine of up to the equivalent of USD 5,000 stirred anger and was perceived as a threat to the right of freedom of speech. This resulted in a large mobilisation and petition against the bill. With 75 per cent of the population having access to the internet, social media continued to play a significant role in social and political activism in Morocco, especially among the urban youth. The role of social media became even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic when offline protests were almost impossible. The general elections of September 2021 are a prime example of this.
In the pandemic context, the nature of political campaigning had to change because of the measures implemented by the Ministry of Interior. Restricted mobility, quarantine rules, and the discussion of possible election delays impacted the campaigns of all political parties. Moreover, the pandemic situation precluded political rallies and larger gatherings, as the group size for street protests was restricted to 25 people. Yet, in comparison to other contexts in the world, these restrictions can be seen as relatively mild. The lifting of several measures coincided with the abridged two-week election campaigns (the campaign started on 26 August and voting day was 9 September). In addition to that, the remaining measures were often circumvented. Consequently, campaigns on the ground remained a crucial tool, especially in terms of outreach to those in rural regions with less internet access. The possibility of having in-person campaign events was especially relevant for parties such as the PJD that had a great number of local supporters widely mobilised, particularly in larger municipalities.
The Changing Use of Social Media during Electoral Campaigns
As electoral campaigns are communicative events whose aim is to reach, inform, and persuade as many voters as possible, the use of media is at the very heart of any electoral campaign. Traditionally, Moroccan political parties used to depend on the combination of established media and face-to-face encounters in their electoral campaigns. This has changed over the last decade as many political actors started to use social media, especially since the Arab uprisings. Online communication was fostered especially in the last elections and, given the pandemic circumstances, political parties went the extra mile in using social media platforms to reach out to constituencies. In this regard, the strategic use of these platforms plays a significant role in increasing one's visibility, enhancing self-image, and maximising chances of success to gain office. This resulted in the emergence of "digital campaigning," the use of various social media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram in the campaigning process, as a relatively new formal media practice in the context of Moroccan politics – particularly vis-à-vis elections. The question that arises is how these digital campaigns contributed to the victory of the RNI over the PJD.
While all political parties converged in their recourse to online spheres, they clearly diverged in how they used social media in their electoral campaigns. While most of the parties' online campaigns used ordinary tools such as pictures, posts, or live streaming videos that tend to be similar to or even the same as the established materials used by Moroccan parties (e.g. flyers, face-to-face interaction, speeches), they also worked on their communicative strategies and enhanced their online visibility, particularly as the elections approached. Overall, the RNI's campaign was more effective and creative than those of other parties. Aziz Akhannouch was the most visible political candidate on various social media platforms before and during the elections. This success was the outcome of a range of interrelated factors: the RNI's digital campaign was run by professionals, such as the British consultant Richard Bailey, whose strategy included hiring young people, combining online and offline tools, and producing various materials for different social media platforms. As shown in Figure 2, except on Twitter, the RNI outnumbered the PJD in terms of followers and traffic across the three other popular social media platforms in Morocco, namely Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.
Figure 3. The Presence of PJD and RNI on Social Media Platforms
Source: Channels and accounts on the respective social media outlet (accessed 27 January 2022): visualisation by Eleonora Landucci.
Zooming in on the parties' official YouTube channels, there is a clear disparity in their online content in terms of the number of videos, their structure, and their themes. Apart from the fact that the RNI's content outsizes the PJD's, the former is also better organised, more inclusive, and more up to date. For instance, unlike the visual presentation of the PJD's YouTube playlist, the RNI's choice of a vertical format not only gives the impression that the number of videos is much bigger but also allows various thematic playlists to be viewed at once. Furthermore, these playlists are organised into folders that vary according to target, length, and topic: some playlists focus on distinct subjects (e.g. achievements, upcoming projects), while others target specific groups (e.g. women, youth, people with disabilities, artists, Moroccans living abroad). The RNI's playlists are also labelled with catchy titles such as "We promised and we kept our promise," "A story and a commitment," and "What I want for my city." Such a strategic use of social media included the nature of the content produced, the ways in which it was managed, and the use of language to create a more sophisticated image of the party, highlighting values of hard work, effective communication, and trust.
A remarkable approach that exemplifies the superiority of the RNI's online campaign was the creativity the party displayed in producing short videos that were not only suitable for social media, but that also targeted various groups. A good example is a short video which exceeded two million views and mainly addressed first-time voters, encouraging them to vote by explaining the new voting process in a simple, humorous, and casual way (RNI 2021a). Similarly, the party has produced several creative short videos in collaboration with some famous Moroccan actors (RNI 2021b). These videos were in the form of movie clips that reflected daily life interactions, using both Moroccan Arabic and Amazigh languages while encouraging citizens to vote and highlighting the party's vision and logo.
Another innovative strategy that the RNI used was to combine offline and online realms. While the RNI has spent generously on its digital campaign, it has also invested in offline campaigning. Akhannouch's initiative 100 Villes, 100 Jours ("100 Cities, 100 Days") is a significant example. As its name suggests, RNI supporters visited 100 cities to meet citizens, listen to them, and collect their proposals. This initiative has allowed the party to connect with a larger public in various cities while it constituted a rich source of content for its online platforms. A considerable amount of the RNI's online content was born out of this initiative's testimonies from all over the country, which demonstrated the party's wide reach. Moreover, Akhannouch announced the outcomes of the initiatives during an offline event, whose coverage provided extra material for their online campaign. By promoting the RNI's offline activities on social media platforms, the party succeeded in highlighting its ability to communicate with the citizens in a time when its main competitor, the PJD, was suffering from these particular flaws.
One of the most striking indicators of the disparity between the two parties' media use is the resources allocated for their electoral campaigns. The RNI spent generously on advertising, which boosted its online presence and outreach, as more ads for the RNI compared to any other party ran on various websites around election time. This implies that the party might have benefitted from data science to better understand, if not predict, the behaviour of its target audience on common social media portals. Political parties and candidates also varied tremendously in the amount of money spent on their online campaigns. For instance, the RNI allocated USD 252,633 for its digital campaign, USD 10,010 of which was spent just on Aziz Akhannouch's page on the RNI official website. By contrast, the PJD spent a measly USD 851 on its entire official site, only USD 138 of that going to Saadeddine Othmani's page.
Figure 4. Digital Campaign Budgets of the RNI and the PJD
Source: Najdi 2021: visualisation by Lena Richter.
Note: $ = USD.
The RNI's approach to its electoral campaigning reflects its conviction of using the online sphere to mobilise voters and reach out to a larger public. This is a lesson that the RNI's leader must have learnt after the boycott campaign of 2018 which targeted, among others, his own company, Afriquia. The following year, Akhannouch spent generously and hired experts to use the same online tools that were used against his company to prepare for the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2021. Compared to the RNI, the PJD has invested very little in digital campaigning. While the PJD also used social media platforms during the elections, it relied mainly on the "ordinary" expertise of its volunteer members and supporters to produce and promote its digital content (Al-Quwiti 2021).
The Future of Social Media Campaigning in Morocco
The differences in the use of various media during the last elections has proved the power of online campaigning as well as the persistence of its offline counterpart, even in times of crisis. Accordingly, the political actors and parties that invested in both online and offline campaigning were more visible and, therefore, increased their chances of success in the elections. This was a strong contributing factor in the victory of the RNI over the PJD. Overall, Morocco evinced a big change in terms of using social media in the elections, but since the last elections took place under exceptional circumstances, it is difficult to draw comprehensive conclusions about the efficiency of online campaigns in "normal times." Put differently, online campaigning may not remain as central as it was in the last elections; instead, a hybrid approach of online and offline communication is expected to be utilised in the next elections. The specific conditions under which the Moroccan elections of 2021 took place have revealed crucial insights for the organisation of voter mobilisation both offline and online. Today, social media is no longer a tool exclusively used by Morocco's civil society to demand accountability for political decisions. Online campaigning has developed into a powerful avenue that has been increasingly recognised by political parties as crucial to winning elections.
The eager consumption of social media by citizens remains crucial to providing a comprehensive picture of the elections. During the campaign, for instance, some media outlets hosted political debates with various parties' leaders, broadcasting these meetings live on social media. Given the interactive aspect of these platforms, namely the comments section, observers were able to get a better idea of the social media users' opinions not only of the parties' agendas but of the idea of voting and politics in general. Also, during the 2021 elections, social media was present in places where international election observers, who mostly stayed in the areas around Casablanca and Rabat, were absent: social media users were able to bring attention to protests taking place in some regions during the closing of polling stations. This helped to complement and sometimes contradict the prevailing narratives of the elections, which were elsewhere described as "calm, orderly, and transparent" (Council of Europe 2021). Furthermore, even after the elections, social media users kept the politicians on their toes by continuing to remind the public of the winning RNI's promises, which were already criticised for being too ambitious.
Whether in offline or online spheres, citizens' voices constitute an indispensable element in the electoral process. Thus, their right to freedom of speech should not be restricted. This implies that any legal procedure that criminalises consumer boycotts or other forms of online activism should be prevented. The opportunity to express one's viewpoints online might also be attractive to groups within the Moroccan population vulnerable to disenfranchisement: most notably, members of the Moroccan diaspora, along with those who face obstacles in accessing polling stations, such as persons with disabilities.
While the use of social media is no panacea for inequitable access to political participation, it does offer new opportunities. Online campaigns during the 2021 elections were found to be efficient in maximising the visibility and thereby the chances of success of some parties and candidates over others. Moreover, these campaigns might stimulate voter participation among different groups, as a large part of the population can be reached via digital campaigning. Yet, while social media has an almost inherent ability to reach out to certain groups, namely young people, other groups are often excluded.
The power of social media also comes with risks. The huge discrepancies between political parties in terms of their financial capabilities tends to breach the principle of equal chances, which is at the core of democratic elections. Therefore, it is crucial to have legal and institutional frames to guarantee fair electoral campaigns. In this regard, it is a good first step that the High Council of Audiovisual Communication issued new decisions to monitor the electoral campaigns to ensure neutrality and pluralism between political parties in public media (Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle 2021). Nevertheless, in light of the hegemony of some private media outlets over others, more independent institutions, such as the Court of Accounts, should be involved in controlling the public finances, ensuring more transparency, accountability, and thereby re-establishing confidence in politics among the broader public in Morocco.
Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya [Kingdom of Morocco] (2021), Intikhabat [Elections], accessed 15 November 2021.
Al-Quwiti, Sana' (2021), Ja'iha kuruna wa fadha' al-shabab al-mufadhdhal…al-hamalat al-raqmiyya tafridh nafsaha fi al-intikhabat al-maghribiyya [Corona Pandemic and the Favourite Social Space of the Youth … Digital Campaigns Impose Themselves During the Moroccan Elections], Aljazeera, 2 September, accessed 11 November 2021.
Council of Europe (2021), Congress Concludes Electoral Observation Mission in Morocco, 9 September, accessed 10 November 2021.
Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) (2021), Supervision by The HACA of The Electoral Campaign in The Audiovisual Media: Equitable Access for Parties to the Air and Impartial Media Treatment to Preserve Voters' Freedom of Choice, 3 August, accessed 12 November 2021.
Mekouar, Merouan (2018), Beyond the Model Reform Image: Morocco's Politics of Elite Co-Optation, GIGA Focus Middle East, 3, June, accessed 11 November 2021.
Najdi, 'Adil (2021), 'Al-dijital' yafridh nafsahu fi al-intikhabāt al-maghribiyya 2021. Al-'Arabi al-Jadid [The 'Digital' Imposes Itself in the Moroccan Elections 2021], in: The New Arab, 8 September, accessed 12 November 2021.
RNI (2021a), Ila nawi tasawwat, had al vidiyu kay-yashrah kayfiya al-taswit nahar 8 shutanbir … allī ka-takhtālaf 'ala kull al-marrat alli fatu! [To the One Who Intends to Vote, this Video Explains How to Vote on the Day of September 8th...Which is Different From all the Previous Times!], accessed 30 November 2021.
RNI (2021b), Al-halaqa al-ula min kabsula al-fidiraliyya al-wataniyya li-l-fannanin al-tajammuʿiyyin al-khaṣsa bi-tashjiʿ al-muwatinin 'ala al-taswit [The First Episode of the Capsule of the National Federation of Collective Artists Aiming at Encouraging Citizens to Vote], accessed 30 November 2021.
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The Aenova Group has expanded its management team by appointing Mohammad Naraghi, to the position of Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Dr Axel Müller, who had acted as interim CEO since 2015. Dr Naraghi has many years' international experience in the healthcare and life sciences industry. He will be responsible for strategy, marketing and distribution as well as R&D, communications, quality and human resources.
In addition, Marco Robert Gorgas has joined the German firm as Chief Operating Officer. He has many years' pharmaceutical experience and was previously Senior Vice President Global Operations at Stada Arzneimittel. From 1 June 2016, he will be in charge of production and supply chain management at Aenova.
Dr Markus Böning has been Chief Financial Officer of the Aenova Group since August 2015. His responsibilities include finance, controlling, investor relations, IT and procurement.
'With these three managerial personalities, the management team of the Aenova Group is extremely well positioned. We're convinced that the management team will further intensify the Group's integration, control its operations with excellence and further reinforce Aenova's position as a leading partner to the pharmaceuticals industry,' said Stefan Zuschke, Managing Partner at BC Partners and a member of the Supervisory Board.
The key objectives of the Aenova Group in the coming years will be to make further production quality improvements, optimise the production structure and foster sustainable growth in Europe and worldwide.
Dr Naraghi has spent nearly his entire professional life in various international managerial positions in the healthcare and life sciences industry: from 2013 to 2015, he was CEO Germany of the Synlab Group, a leading provider of laboratory services in Europe. Before this he was at the New York Head Office of IBM and responsible as Global Leader Healthcare and Life Sciences for the global service business with pharmaceuticals, medtech/biotech and healthcare customers.
Earlier in his professional career he worked for Dutch pharmaceuticals wholesaler and retailer Mediq, where he was responsible on the Management Board for parts of the European as well as US business. Previously, at Siemens Healthcare, he was the first CEO of the global diagnostics section, Siemens Diagnostics, which he built up following the acquisition of Diagnostic Products Corporation (LA) as well as the diagnostics business of Bayer Healthcare (NY). Previously, as a member of the Global Executive Committee at Siemens Healthcare, he was in charge of Global Business Development.
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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.google.inject.Singleton;
import com.netflix.priam.IConfiguration;
import com.netflix.priam.scheduler.SimpleTimer;
import com.netflix.priam.scheduler.Task;
import com.netflix.priam.scheduler.TaskTimer;

/*
 * This task checks if the Cassandra process is running.
 */
@Singleton
public class CassandraMonitor extends Task{

	public static final String JOBNAME = "CASS_MONITOR_THREAD";
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CassandraMonitor.class);
    private static final AtomicBoolean isCassandraStarted = new AtomicBoolean(false);

    @Inject
    protected CassandraMonitor(IConfiguration config) {
		super(config);
	}

	@Override
	public void execute() throws Exception {

        try
        {
        		//This returns pid for the Cassandra process
        		Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("pgrep -f " + config.getCassProcessName());
        		BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
            String line = input.readLine();
        		if (line != null&& !isCassadraStarted())
        		{
        			//Setting cassandra flag to true
        			isCassandraStarted.set(true);
        		}
        		else if(line  == null&& isCassadraStarted())
        		{
        			//Setting cassandra flag to false
        			isCassandraStarted.set(false);
        		}
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
        		logger.warn("Exception thrown while checking if Cassandra is running or not ", e);
            //Setting Cassandra flag to false
            isCassandraStarted.set(false);
        }

	}

    public static TaskTimer getTimer()
    {
        return new SimpleTimer(JOBNAME, 10L * 1000);
    }

    @Override
    public String getName()
    {
        return JOBNAME;
    }

    public static Boolean isCassadraStarted()
    {
        return isCassandraStarted.get();
    }

    //Added for testing only
    public static void setIsCassadraStarted()
    {
		//Setting cassandra flag to true
		isCassandraStarted.set(true);
	}
}

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Remembering Jean Craighead George
Posted on June 14, 2012 by Free Spirit Author
by Judy Molland
Getting children out into nature has become an overriding passion for many of us in these days of rising childhood obesity rates and the increasing reliance of young people on their electronic devices.
For Jean Craighead George, who died last week at age 92 and was a leading writer of novels about nature for young readers, that passion arose long before modern conditions prompted it. Working from a deep impulse that it was important for children to find themselves in the natural world, and to know how to survive, she grounded her fiction in her own wilderness adventures.
Importantly, not only are her young protagonists at one with nature, but George also tells thrilling stories and fills them with meticulous details drawn from her intimate knowledge of nature. As The St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers puts it well, George is at her best "putting adolescents in nature where they rely on their own ingenuity and learn to listen to and respect nature in order to survive."
My students understood that. When I was teaching in Brooklyn, New York, several years ago, one of my fifth-grade book groups read Julie of the Wolves, George's Newbery Award–winning novel. They fell in love with Julie, or Miyax as she was called in her native tongue. For their book report they acted out a scene where the 13-year-old runaway tries to make friends with a pack of Arctic wolves. The other students in the class were entranced, and the memory of the students' performance still brings tears to my eyes over 15 years later.
That's because George wrote what she knew, having taken a trip to Alaska to study wolves at the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory. She was thrilled when a scientist there taught her how to "talk" to a wolf in its own language, and she became captivated by the sight of a young Eskimo girl standing alone on the tundra: these were the very real beginnings of Julie of the Wolves.
Some other activities to explore with this novel:
make a mural depicting Julie's travels across the Arctic tundra
learn about the Arctic animals (wolves, lemmings, grizzly bears, caribou, seals, wolverines, terns, buntings), and have students present their findings on a PowerPoint
continue the story to find out what happens after Julie returns to her father at the end of the book
Jean Craighead George died of congestive heart failure May 15 at a hospital in Mount Kisco, New York. Born July 2, 1919, in Washington, D.C., she grew up having outdoor adventures with her entomologist father and twin brothers, who were teenage falconers. (Frank and John Craighead later conducted a lengthy survey of grizzly bears that is credited with helping save the species from extinction in the lower 48 states.) After earning bachelor's degrees in science and English, Jean Craighead returned to D.C., where she worked briefly as a newspaper reporter.
In 1944, she married ornithologist John L. George four months after meeting him, and the couple authored a series of animal biographies by the end of the decade. They divorced in 1963. By this time, Ms. George was living in a home in the woods in Chappaqua, New York, where she was to spend the rest of her life. There she raised three children and encouraged them to bring home "wild birds and beasts to have and to contemplate," as she wrote in her 1997 book The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets. Since her three children have all embraced nature, I think she succeeded: her daughter Twig writes books about nature for children; one son, Craig, studies whales; and the other, Luke, is an ornithologist.
Altogether, George wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction titles, which have collectively sold millions of copies. Her two best-known are Julie of the Wolves and the earlier My Side of the Mountain, which tells the story of a boy who runs away from New York to live in the Catskill Mountains. Here's how the novel opens: "I am on my mountain in a tree home that people have passed without ever knowing that I am here. The house is a hemlock six feet in diameter, and must be as old as the mountain itself. I came upon it last summer and dug and burned it out until I made a snug cave on the tree that I now call home." How wonderfully George uses her own deep empathy with nature to pull us into Sam Gribley's world!
Although George is no longer with us, her books will stay hauntingly alive, permeated by her wise and visionary spirit.
What a gift she has left us, and sharing this gift with your children is a perfect way to encourage them to get out into nature. If it's a cold day, or raining, or you just don't feel like stepping out, stay home and savor George's books at home. On a fine day, grab a copy of My Side of the Mountain and read outside. Reconnecting our children with nature has never been more important than it is today, and Jean Craighead George provides a magical way to do that.
Do you have experience sharing George's books with children? Please share your comments below.
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Q: For two Random variables, equal CDF implies equal probability functions I am trying to prove that given two random variables $X,Y$, $F_X=F_Y$ implies $P_X=P_Y$.
I was given a hint to first prove the following corollary:
let $\mathcal{F}$ be a sigma-algebra generated by an algebra $\mathcal{F}_0$, and let $P_1,P_2$ probability functions such that $P_1=P_2$ over $\mathcal{F}_0$. Prove that $P_1=P_2$.
My strategy is to define $A:=\{E\in\mathcal{F} \ | \ P_1(E)=P_2(E)\}$ and show that A is a sigma-algebra. And since $\mathcal{F}_0\subseteq A $ and $\mathcal{F}=\sigma(\mathcal{F}_0)$ we get $\mathcal{F}\subseteq A$.
I just haven't managed to prove that $A$ is closed under countable union.
I would like to say that given $\{ E_i\}_{i\in I}\subseteq A$:
$ P_1(\bigcup E_{i})=P_1(\sqcup E'_{i})=\sum{P1(E'_i)}=\sum{P_2(E'_i)} = \ ... = P_2(\bigcup E_{i}) $
With $E'_i$ being pairwise disjoint ($E'_n:=E_n \setminus E'_{n-1}$)
but obviously I cannot write the third equality like that because I can't assure that the sets $E'_i$ are in fact in $A$.
How can I prove that a union/interection/difference of two sets in $A$ is in $A$?

A: I think you can prove the hint using Dynkin's $\pi$-$\lambda$ Theorem which states that given $P$, a $\pi$-system, and $L$, a $\lambda$-system, if $P \subseteq L$, then $\sigma(P) \subseteq L$.
In the context of the hint you described, $\mathcal{F}_0$ is an algebra and is, in turn, a $\pi$-system, thus all that remains is to check that the set $A$ you defined is a $\lambda$-system and contains $\mathcal{F}_0$ (but the containment is clear by the definition of $A$)
There are three criteria to check for $A$ to be a $\lambda$-system;
$(1)$: $\Omega \in A$, but $\Omega \in \mathcal{F}$ and $P_1(\Omega) = 1 = P_2(\Omega)$.
$(2)$: If $B, C \in A$, $B \subseteq C$ then $C \setminus B \in A$, but $P_1(C\setminus B) = P_1(C) - P_1(B) = P_2(C) - P_2(B) = P_2(C \setminus B)$. Lastly,
$(3)$: If $B_n \in A$ for all $n$, and $B_n \uparrow B$ then $B \in A$, but this follows from continuity of measures, namely,
$$P_1(B) = \lim_{n \to \infty}P_1(B_n) = \lim_{n \to \infty} P_2(B_n) = P_2(B).$$
I think this is enough, because we see that $A$ is a $\lambda$-system containing $\mathcal{F}_0$ and thus application of the $\pi$-$\lambda$ Theorem gives us that $\sigma(\mathcal{F}_0) \subseteq A$.

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Father Kevin Jordan was born in this parish in the hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. His family lived in Alexandra Road until he was two before moving to Kenton where he attended Salvatorian College and St Dominic's Sixth Form College before going to the University of London and qualifying as a vet from the Royal Veterinary College in 1991. After working in Suffolk and Essex he entered Allen Hall (getting to know Canon McGowan, Canon Davis, Fr Mark Anwyll and Fr Allen Morris who taught him) and was ordained a priest in 1999. Since then he has had the immense privilege of witnessing the many ways in which God has worked in the lives of His people among the parishioners of the Cathedral, Enfield, North Harrow and Willesden Green; with staff and pupils in both day and boarding schools; among patients and carers in hospitals and hospices from the beginning of life to its natural end; alongside soldiers and their families; through the lives and stories of those who struggle with addiction. Inspired by these extraordinary people he hopes he can worthily carry their message of faith to you just as his predecessors here have done. Archbishop Terrence Cooke of New York once said, "A priest is called to be a brother who shares the worries and fears and the frailty of the people around him and who brings to them not any great strength and invulnerability of his own, but his joyful trust in the Father who loves him and in Jesus whose priesthood he shares." He says that if he can spend his time here doing that, he shall be very happy indeed.
Father Ben Woodley, was born in 1973 in London and for many years sung as a treble at St John's, Hampstead. From the age of eleven he was educated at the Purcell School, a specialist music school, and then at the Royal College of Music and London University. Underpinning his musical studies was the notion, the intuition that this great language, music, had its true source in Another, in the loving and saving Author of all: Jesus, present in the Blessed Sacrament.
This deep truth eventually led him to be received into the Catholic Church from Anglicanism. In 2011 he started seminary formation for the Priesthood and was sent to the Venerable English College, Rome. The formation in Rome is normally seven years, his' lasted eight; year six (for nine months) was spent as a postulant at the Trappist Cistercian Monastery in Leicestershire, Mount Saint Bernard Abbey. This experience confirmed that his vocation to serve the Lord was utterly rooted, yes, in prayer but also to be lived out in the world, at the service of God's people.
Deacon William Johnstone, was born in Brampton, Cumbria. He was educated at the Cathedral School in Salisbury and the King's School Canterbury before attending Durham University. After a year living in Nice in the South of France, he was accepted for ordination in the Church of England, serving as a curate in Plymouth and Sunderland. However he felt a strong attraction to the Catholic faith and following a retreat with the Carthusians at Parkminster he was received into the Catholic Church in 2001. By this time his family were living in central London and so he applied for priestly formation in the Diocese of Westminster. He was sent to the Venerable English College in Rome where he completed the Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree. Deciding that he needed more time to discern his vocation, he returned to England and alongside working for the St Barnabas Society he also qualified as an archivist. In 2017 he felt a definite call by God to explore the idea of the priesthood again. After a couple of years on pastoral placement in the parishes of the Most Sacred Heart in Ruislip and Holy Cross, Parsons Green, he was ordained to the diaconate in September 2020 in Westminster Cathedral.
Sister Brigid Collins, our Parish Sister, has been associated with the parish for a good number of years now, in fact since she was 16 when she entered the convent of the Sisters of Mercy in Harewood Avenue. Sister Brigid looks after a great range of activities including the Union of Catholic Mothers, Parents and Toddlers' groups, the Youth Mercy Associates (our youth groups)..... the list could go on!
Martin Toyer was appointed Director of Music at the Church of Our Lady in Advent 2014, however, he has been singing and playing at our church since Christmas 1996. As a child, Martin was a chorister in Luton; his first appointment as Director of Music was when he was sixteen years old and he has been directing choirs ever since. Whilst studying at Oxford University, Martin was Organ Scholar and director of the chapel choir at Brasenose College. During his time at university, he performed as soloist, director and ensemble member for many groups around the city. Whilst the liturgy of Our Lady gives Martin plenty of opportunities to indulge in his passions for Bach's organ music, plainchant, and Renaissance polyphony, he also directs Ensemble 42, a small group of musicians who perform solo and ensemble works, exploring all genres of music from plainchant to lieder, from Baroque to modern opera. Martin is also busy as a singer, conductor, and accompanist in London.
Roger Rutuerma is one of our most important team members as he keeps the parish hall, offices and presbytery tidy for visitors and the staff. He has been with the parish for over twenty years now and knows the grounds and facilities very well. He is around the parish on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and we are all very blessed to have Roger amongst us.
Csaba Tarnai helps maintain the parish website. He holds an M.Sc. in computer science and is a certified photographer. He has been with our parish since 2015 when he and his family of five (Chiara, Claudia, Carlo, Caterina) transferred from Pisa to London. In his spare time he enjoys running, swimming, cycling and fitness.
Claudia McHugh is our Parish Administrator. With over 10 years in this role she is one of the most pastoral, knowledgeable, efficient and respected holders of this post in the Archdiocese. For her sins, she has worked with Fr Kevin in a previous parish.
Frances Uchea is our Parish Safeguarding Officer. If you have any concerns or questions regarding Safeguarding contact Frances at stjohnswoodsg@safeguardrcdow.org.uk
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Hawaii's Peace Corps Experience The film traces Hawaii's role in the development of the iconic, but often neglected American institution—the US Peace Corps. It is the untold story of thousands of American volunteers who lived and trained in Hawaii prior to Peace Corps service, and who often settled there after their life changing overseas experiences. The film tells the story of a unique training program developed from 1962-1972, during a decade of protest and social change. During this time more than 7500, primarily young men and women came to Hilo, Hawaii for months of pre-departure training for Peace Corps service in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Volunteers were trained in language and culture, primarily by immigrants from the host countries in which they would serve, in several remote locations throughout Hawaii that resembled rural village life of the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand. The training sites included Waipio Valley on the Big Island and the more remote island of Molokai. The film is a fitting tribute to the contributions of Hawaii residents as the Peace Corps marks its 50th Anniversary and continues to expand in the 21st century.


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Big Agnes Honors End2End Outdoor with Sales Agency of the Year Award
Calvin Bond, Backbone Media
calvin.bond@backbonemedia.net
STEAMBOAT SPRING, Colo.
The Texas-based sales agency drove impressive growth in two key regions for the brand
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 17, 2022) – Big Agnes, the Steamboat-Springs-based outdoor equipment brand, recently announced that End2End Outdoor has won its annual Rep of the Year Award, which celebrates the brand's top-performing sales group. End2End Outdoor's Conner Larsen and Marissa Binkoski are credited for the award, with outstanding performance in the South-Central and Midwest territories.
"This was an incredibly difficult decision as many of our sales groups performed strongly in 2021, but End2End rose to the top," said Craig Hatton, director of North American sales for Big Agnes. "Conner and Marissa took on a whole new territory last year and saw impressive growth across the board. We're thrilled to celebrate their performance after such a stellar year."
Big Agnes' Rep of the Year Award honors the brand's top performing sales group, based on regional growth and overall performance. End2End Outdoor grew the brand's Midwest and South-Central regions by 22% and 30%, respectively, and managed to double bookings for 2022. Larsen, who founded End2End Outdoor in 2017, hired Binkoski in 2021 to focus on the Midwest region. Together, they renewed a multitude of relationships with dealers while selling-in key expansion categories for the brand.
"End2End not only saw high-caliber sales growth, but also stood out as a leader for their strategies and responsiveness," continued Hatton. "We appreciate all the hard work from all of our reps this year and we look forward to another strong year of growth."
About Big Agnes: Named for a peak in the nearby Mt. Zirkel Wilderness, Big Agnes®, Inc. is located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2021. The company produces award-winning sleeping bags, pads, tents, packs, insulated apparel, camp furniture and now backpacks. For more information, visit www.bigagnes.com or call 1-877-554-8975.


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Blog by Lamitak
It is said you can find inspiration everywhere – if you just keep your eyes (and mind) open. For Lamitak, the search for inspiration crosses oceans, forests and skies. Nature might provide the source material, but through the lens of Lamitak, her rich colours and textures are distilled into evocative laminates for the home. How does the magic happen? Find out here.
If you ever wondered how Lamitak comes up with their laminate designs, the answer is here.
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It starts with a road trip, a long road trip. For Lamitak's 2016 catalogue, the team traversed the West coast of the United States exploring states such as Oregon, Nevada, California and Arizona. From the awe-inspiring vivid wave structures of Antelope Canyon to the vast sun-parched plains of Nevada, and the still postcard-like beauty of Yosemite, the influence of each and every location has directly or indirectly influenced the exclusive designs in Lamitak's repertoire of laminates inspired by natural materials.
If you find this location familiar, that's because a picture shot in Antelope Canyon is on the cover of the 2016 Lamitak Portfolio.
"We aim to have more personalised and detailed designs for all our laminates, and the only way to get that is to travel and be inspired at the source. Travel magnifies the scope of inspiration. The new places and different cultures we experience are a rich source of material we draw from in the process of creation. For the current collection, the west coast of the US was chosen for its vast eye-opening landscapes, as well as exciting urban streetscapes," says Jansen Tan, director of product and brand at Lamitak.
The majestic rugged cliffs of Yosemite.
From trees to doors, nothing escapes the keen eye of the Lamitak team.
Travelling without a fixed itinerary, the intrepid travellers stopped where they found interesting places in which to explore. Aside from photographing surfaces and locations they found intriguing, a physical rubbing is sometimes taken for posterity – this influences the surface texture of the final laminate design. "It's rare for a laminate design to be traced directly to one photo or place; the final design is usually a distillation of influences from many sources," explains Jansen.
After spending 30 days in the United States in six states, 220 hours on the road and three helicopter rides, the team sat down to create the laminates you see in the Lamitak Portfolio 2016-2018. Now it's up to you to use these laminates to create your own Inspiring Spaces.
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Careers Features
Laptop inventor Bill Moggridge dies aged 69
Bill Moggridge, the British-born industrial designer credited with the creation of the first laptop computer in 1982, has died of cancer aged 69.
Sophie Curtis September 11, 2012
Until his death, Moggridge was best known for his design of the Grid Compass, the first portable computer with a display that closed over the keyboard. It had a magnesium alloy case and a 6-inch yellow-on-black screen display.
The Compass featured an Intel 8086 processor, a 340-kilobyte magnetic bubble memory, and a 1,200 bit/s modem. It ran its own operating system, known as GriD-OS.
Due to its high retail price of $8,150, the Compass was used mainly by the US military. In 1985, the computer made its way into space, aboard the NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery.
Grid Systems Corp won the patent for the "clamshell" computer design in 1986. Although modern laptops are significantly cheaper, lighter and more powerful than the Compass, contemporary models continue to rely on Moggridge's basic model.
Moggridge co-founded design consultancy firm IDEO in 1991, and also served as a consulting associate professor in the field of design at Stanford University from 1983 to 2010.
In recent years, he helped create and promote a field of study called "interaction design" – the study of how humans interact with computers. His book "Designing Interactions", was published in 2006 and included interviews with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Moggridge was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 at the National Design Awards, in a ceremony at the White House, presided over by First Lady Michelle Obama.
In 2010, Moggridge left IDEO to become director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.
"Beloved by the museum staff and the design community at large, Bill touched the lives of so many through his wise council, boundary-pushing ideas and cheerful camaraderie," said Caroline Baumann, associate director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, in a statement.
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Q: Play 2 JPA Oracle - Extra column 'ebean_intercept' even when ebeanEnabled is set to false in build.scala I'm using JPA in Play 2. In my Build.scala, I have the following:
object ApplicationBuild extends Build {

  val appName = "weasel"
  val appVersion = "1.0-SNAPSHOT"

  val appDependencies = Seq(
    javaCore,
    javaJdbc,
    javaJpa,
    "org.hibernate" % "hibernate-entitymanager" % "4.1.7.Final"
  )

  val main = play.Project(appName, appVersion, appDependencies).settings(
    ebeanEnabled := false
  )
}

A very simple model:
import javax.persistence.*;
@Entity
@Table(name = "event")
public class Event {
    @Id
    @Column(name = "EVENT_NO")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;
    @Column(name = "EVENT_OUTPUT_LOG", length = 250)
    private String message;

    public String getMessage() {
        return message;
    }
    public void setMessage(String message) {
        this.message = message;
    }
}

Standard application.conf config:
db.default.jndiName=DefaultDS
jpa.default=defaultPersistenceUnit
db.default.logStatements=true
# ebean.default="models.*"
evolutionplugin=disabled

When doing a standard select SELECT e FROM Event e I see that it is executing the following query:
select event0_.EVENT_NO as EVENT1_4_,
event0_._ebean_intercept as column2_4_,
event0_.EVENT_OUTPUT_LOG as EVENT3_4_
from EVENT event0_

Why is it doing this? I've told it not to use ebeans. I've done a clean compile aswell...but it didn't change anything.
Thank you in advance.

A: Removing javaEbean dependency from Build.sbt seems to solve the problem. I dont know why play is using ebean in the first place when ebeanEnabled is set to false.

A: Well i had the same problem and i tried removing javaEbean but that resulted in the project not compiling.
I removed the ebean enhacement in the build.sbt ebeanEnabled := false but that didnt work
I removed the line ebean.default="models.* in the application.conf but that didnt work either
Finally i decided to change the name of the package from models to model and that did it, no more selects and null pointers exceptions from non-existent columns.

A: Removing javaEbean dependency from Build.sbt as suggested by @armk7 solved my issue, however after removing dependency I was getting ClassNotFounException for Ebean classes. This was because I didn't run activator clean, so few class files were importing ebean files. If you face the same issue do :-
activator clean
activator reload
activator compile


This park is situated amidst the lush mixed forest of Douglas firs, cedars, hemlocks, and maples. Among its most distinctive attractions are two spectacular waterfalls cascading into the deep pool at the bottom of the canyon. Visitors can enjoy the numerous hiking trails meandering through the forest and along the river, and, in summer, can take a refreshing dip in the crystal-clear pool at the bottom of the lower falls. This park provides a convenient base for exploring the many attractions of the Central Vancouver Island, including the sheltered sandy beaches of Parksville a short distance to the east, and the magnificent trees of the Cathedral Grove at MacMillan Park to the west.
This park is located 8 km southwest of Parksville and can be reached by travelling on Alberni Highway from Parksville towards Port Alberni and turning off at Errington Road.
Operation dates with full fees and services: May 1 - September 30. Campground reservable dates: May 15 - September 8.
Day use only during the winter season; no winter camping is allowed.
The campground offers spacious vehicle accessible campsites set amidst the mature forest.
This park has a large day-use area nestled in a scenic location in the forest. This area provides a viewing platform overlooking the river, as well as access to park trails. Facilities include a large parking lot, picnic shelter, picnic tables, flush toilets, water taps and an information shelter. Day-use Area Vehicle Parking Fee: $1.00 per vehicle / hour to a maximum of $3.00 per vehicle per day.
This park has an adventure playground featuring swings, slides, and climbing apparatus, located in the northeast corner of the campground, between sites 26 and 30.
This park has three kilometres of walking / hiking trails that start from the day-use area and the campground and run through the lush second-growth and old-growth forest of Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock, arbutus and maple. The paths follow the river and lead to the upper and lower falls, crossing the river via two bridges and providing spectacular views of the canyon and waterfalls.
Swimming is allowed in the river below the lower falls. The deep crystal-clear pool is an ideal swimming hole when river levels are low.
A number of viewing stations in the park offer spectacular views of the forest and river canyon.


R. Lizarraga reached first on an error by 2b.
J. Ajamian hit by pitch.
B. Morien walked; J. Ajamian advanced to second; J. Aguilar advanced to third.
O. Chavez reached on a fielder's choice, RBI; B. Morien out at second 2b to ss; J. Ajamian advanced to third; J. Aguilar scored.
G. Ellis advanced to third.
J. Trujillo homered, 2 RBI; J. Medina scored.
R. Lizarraga advanced to second on an error by c.
R. Ortiz advanced to second on a passed ball; R. Lizarraga advanced to third on a passed ball.
R. Ortiz advanced to third on a balk; R. Lizarraga scored on a balk.
R. Brodell singled, RBI; R. Ortiz scored.
I. Amador to p for S. Del.
M. Soto to p for J. Gaytan.
T. Keller hit by pitch; J. Aguilar advanced to second.
J. Gaytan to dh for M. Soto.
G. Ellis walked; S. Knezevich advanced to second.
G. Chaidez singled; G. Ellis advanced to second; S. Knezevich advanced to third.
J. Aguilar singled, RBI; G. Chaidez advanced to second; G. Ellis advanced to third; S. Knezevich scored.
T. Keller reached on a fielder's choice, RBI; J. Aguilar out at second ss unassisted, caught stealing; G. Chaidez advanced to third; G. Ellis scored.
E. Villareal to p for M. Soto.
B. Morien walked, RBI; J. Ajamian advanced to second; T. Keller advanced to third; G. Chaidez scored.
O. Chavez tripled, 3 RBI; B. Morien scored; J. Ajamian scored; T. Keller scored.
R. Brodell tripled, RBI; R. Ortiz scored.
A. Carrillo grounded out to 2b, RBI; R. Brodell scored.
C. Thames pinch hit for A. Keeling.
J. Aguilar singled; G. Ellis advanced to third.
T. Keller walked; J. Aguilar stole second.
O. Klinger to c for C. Thames.
J. Trujillo hit by pitch.
I. Gonzalez to p for E. Villareal.
O. Chavez advanced to third on a balk.
G. Ellis singled, RBI; O. Chavez scored.
O. Klinger singled; G. Chaidez advanced to second.
J. Aguilar singled, advanced to second on the throw, RBI; O. Klinger advanced to third; G. Chaidez scored.
J. Aguilar advanced to third on a wild pitch; O. Klinger scored on a wild pitch.
S. Gonzalez to p for I. Amador.
R. Ortiz advanced to second on a balk.
J. Huertero to p for I. Gonzalez.
G. Chaidez walked; G. Ellis advanced to second; C. Minnick advanced to third.
O. Klinger hit by pitch, RBI; G. Chaidez advanced to second; G. Ellis advanced to third; C. Minnick scored.
D. Moreno to p for J. Huertero.
O. Klinger advanced to second on a wild pitch, advanced to third; G. Chaidez advanced to third on a wild pitch, scored; G. Ellis scored on a wild pitch.
J. Aguilar advanced to second on a wild pitch.
J. Garibay to rf for J. Gaytan.
J. Ajamian flied out to cf, sacrifice fly, RBI; J. Aguilar advanced to third; O. Klinger scored.


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Subsignal
Subsignal, originally intended as a side project, was founded in 2007 by the former Sieges Even members Arno Menses (Vocals) and Markus Steffen (Guitars). The first result of this collaboration was the song "A Wallflower On The Day Of Saint Juliana", which made its way to the 2007 Sieges Even album Paramount under the title "Eyes Wide Open".
After Arno Menses and Markus Steffen left Sieges Even in summer 2008, they were looking for adequate musicians to turn Subsignal into a real and functional band. The first guy to join the new outfit was bass player Ralf Schwager, known for his work with German prog band Dreamscape. The line-up was completed with drummer Roel van Helden, known for his collaboration with Dutch band Sun Caged, and Dreamscape's David Bertok on keyboards.
Subsignal define themselves as a progressive rock band, which is open to different styles and genres (e.g. AOR, metal, etc.). They describe their music as melancholic, innovative, emotional and highly melodic. Arno and Markus aim to tie in with Subsignal to where Sieges Even stopped, with the difference of being more open, musically, and showing a stronger presence on stage.
In April 2009 the band signed a record contract with German label ZYX Records.
Subsignal have recorded their first CD in spring 2009, with producer Kristian Kohlmannnslehner who was also responsible for Sieges Even's Paramount album. The album was entitled Beautiful and Monstrous and contained 10 tracks.
Subsignal played some tours in support of the album with bands like Saga and German krautrock legends Jane, as well as several solo concerts throughout Europe.
The second album, entitled Touchstones, was recorded in early 2011 and was released in October 2011 via ZYX Records. It hit the German Media Control Charts at # 53.
Drummer Roel van Helden left the band for personal reasons in Winter 2011 and was replaced by Danilo Batdorf. Danilo is already featured on the latest Subsignal-release, the DVD 'Out There Must Be Something – Live in Mannheim 2012′ which will be released in November 2012.
Markus Steffen (guitars, additional programming)
Arno Menses (vocals)
David Bertok (keyboards)
Ralf Schwager (bass)
Danilo Batdorf (drums)
Official site: http://www.subsignalband.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/subsignal
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Here's my farewell video of my lovely Vintage V6 Reissued Stratocaster electric guitar! Just sold it and wanted to do a video before I deliver it to the new owner. A week before I sold this, I was in Frankfurt for Musikmesse 2018 and met many great people in the musical instruments industry.
I got my free stuff there too! In this video, I have restrung my Vintage V6 Strat with La Bella Blues Bender B838 strings and used Shnoor IC124 JMEJME 3M guitar cable, RME Babyface PRO, Peavey Revalver 4, Mokafix Audio Cream Tube.
I obtained these strings and cable during Frankfurt Musikmesse 2018 and wanted to give it a try!
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Michael Cimino, Oscar-winning director of 'The Deer Hunter,' reportedly dies at 77
Michael Cimino attending the opening ceremony of Festival Lumiere, a film festival in Lyon, France, on Oct. 13, 2014.
Image: ELSNER FABRICE/SIPA/1410140818 (Sipa via AP Images)
By Yohana Desta 2016-07-02 21:44:25 UTC
Michael Cimino, the Oscar-winning director behind the critically acclaimed The Deer Hunter, has reportedly died. He was 77.
The director's death was announced by Thierry Fremaux, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, on Saturday. Fremaux tweeted the news, sharing that Cimino died peacefully, surrounded by two loved ones.
"We love him too," Fremaux writes.
Michael Cimino est mort, en paix, entouré des siens et de ces deux femmes qui l'aimaient. Nous l'aimions aussi. pic.twitter.com/emPv4nj5cZ
— THIERRY FREMAUX (@THIERRYFREMAUX) July 2, 2016
Cimino's 1978 masterpiece The Deer Hunter starred Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale and more. The Vietnam War drama, which was his second film, won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
His first film was the 1974 crime story Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, which starred Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges as the titular characters. The role earned Bridges his second Oscar nomination.
Cimino directed five features after The Deer Hunter, most notably the 1980 flop Heaven's Gate, a stacked Western with an overblown budget that was notoriously panned by critics.
In a rare interview in 2015, Cimino said he's watched the film, which was restored to his original cut and digitally remastered in 2013 to more favorable reviews, multiple times.
"I'm blown away," he told the Hollywood Reporter. "I've watched it several times now, happily watched it, and I'd watch it again, especially on a big screen, especially the new version."
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