When I first began my sales effectiveness consulting career, I made a list of 20 people as my starting prospect list. They were all people I had established credibility with while working as colleagues.
Jeff was very high on my list. He was previously a general manager for a product division at my former employer. He was now CEO of a successful, high growth company. Better still, his current administrator, Pam, used to be my administrator at one point in time.
I prematurely concluded it should be easy to get on Jeff's calendar.
When I called Pam, she was exuberant while catching up. But when I asked to get on Jeff's calendar, her answer surprised me. She said the earliest she could put me on his calendar was four months away. My brain was racing. I know Jeff had to be busy, but four months? So I asked Pam, "why the long wait?" Her reply, "we have an IPO pending, and Jeff's instructions were to push any meeting requests off that were not directly tied to the IPO". I acknowledged the need to prioritize, and accepted the meeting four months away.
Then I pulled up my favorite search engine.
I was looking for any analysis on the IPO, and I hit the jackpot right away. Not as an investment, mind you, but as fodder for a provocative question. The first analysis I read by a major investment firm summed up the situation. It said that while this particular company had successfully penetrated a lucrative market, it had failed to penetrate other market segments. Their perspective highlighted a significant risk for a major downturn in the value of the stock within 12 months should this problem not be fixed. Given their notoriety and stature in the investment market, it was likely that Jeff knew about their analysis.
Besides Pam, Jeff had also recruited Joe from our former company. Joe was a senior HR executive, who was not known for turning down a free lunch. So I got on Joe's calendar for lunch later in the week.
My plan was risky, but it paid off. Even though Jeff was busy, I figured he had to eat lunch. The size of their company didn't warrant a cafeteria, so I was hoping that Jeff would have to depart through their lobby to get to his car for a bite to eat. I showed up for my 12:15 lunch appointment with Joe at 11:45 to camp out in the lobby. Lucky for me, Jeff's Jaguar was parked in the front of the building.
That's when I got provocative.
I could hear Jeff's foot plant. He stopped, turned to me with a quizzical look on his face and asked, "Is that something you can help us with?" I said, "yes". Jeff sat down on the couch with me for a 10 minute conversation about how I could help his sales team break into other market segments.
As you have undoubtedly heard by now, the Internet gives your prospects' the advantage in shopping for solutions without your involvement. As a result, sales professionals have to challenge the buyer's vision of the problem set to expand their perspective and re-engineer the vision to the seller's advantage. However, I would also add that getting their attention is the first part of the vision re-engineering obstacle.
Develop your provocative question in advance. Start with "what happens if…" and fill in the rest with the unresolved issue. Try it out on a friend first. See if it causes them to want to engage, or to run. If it's too provocative given your rapport with the intended recipient, you can tone it down. Conversely, if it's too mild, you can always add more power to it with the words, "to you". For example, adding to my question for Jeff: "what's the impact to your IPO stock price, and to you, if you can't break into other market segments?" The dagger hits closer to the heart, but requires a lot of existing rapport to pull it off without ruffling feathers. .
Your objective is not to get the answer. It's to get their engagement in a conversation. Jeff never answered my question, nor did I need the answer. But he did engage me in a conversation on the topic and subsequently introduced me to other stakeholders who needed help with the problem.
Finally, Joe popped up promptly at 12:15 in the lobby and we had a nice lunch.
There were four people on the other side of a blind web meeting. As the call unfolded, I knew I had a confused buyer on my hands.
While I rarely run into a confused buyer, my clients experience it on a daily basis. The reason I don't witness it often is that I typically engage the VP of Sales as my first contact. It's rare to find one that is confused about what he or she is trying to achieve and the problems that are contributing to their challenge. On the other hand, most of my client companies sell to IT or some other technical organization where their first point of contact is usually at an implementer level and unaware of the business challenges or objectives for the organization.
Not having clarity on the problem definition would seem bad enough, but then one of the team members dropped a bomb on my lap that my customers also run into every day. He asked if they could spend half a day with me to dig into the depths of our offering. On the surface, a request to engage in a deeper evaluation can sound like there's genuine interest in a solution, but in reality, it's the death spiral of the snake and prey about to begin.
Lacking a cohesive agreement on the problem definition, each stakeholder is likely to prefer a different solution based on their individual perspective, resulting in a chaotic buying process. Further, the invisible problem statement also makes it impossible to develop the value proposition to weigh against other uses for the money, leading to a drawn out process, or more likely, a no decision. When I brought the lack of a cohesive problem definition to their attention, one of the stakeholders recognized the implication and suggested a step to develop the problem definition.
My strategy is to encourage the development of the problem definition by including the ultimate decision maker and myself in the process. If they can't or won't, I will consciously limit my exposure to a potentially huge time sink.
Can you clearly articulate the problem definition and would the buying team agree?
Would the decision maker agree?
If the answer is "no" to either of these questions, be cautious about engaging in an evaluation process unless you have time and money to burn. This unproductive buying behavior is rampant and is the biggest contributor to the common 40% to 60% no decision results most professional sales organizations tolerate.
The challenge of getting to more powerful stakeholders is getting more complex. In the past, a senior level executive would usually decide to take or not take a vendor meeting request based upon recommendations from his or her team. Now, according to a recent poll by DemandGen, 72% of executives said they also check LinkedIn profiles.
Your LinkedIn profile can now make or break your attempts to call higher or wider. Let me explain why.
Imagine trying to sell a car without cleaning it inside or out. What does the buyer see? A car that isn't cared for, perhaps indicating that more important maintenance items like oil changes were neglected as well; ultimately reducing the perception of its true value.
The same thing applies to your LinkedIn profile. Specifically, does your profile look like a resume for a sales person, or does it look like a customer-centric business focused adviser? Does it cause a reader to conclude that you are a potential valuable resource, or does it cause them to hide their wallet or plan how to beat you up for more discount?
A regular part of my role as an embedded sales coach is to help sellers individually learn how to gain access to more powerful stakeholders. This requires developing skills in a number of areas: gaining an understanding of the challenges in the target's business, being able to articulate a value proposition in the customer's terms, and building executive level credibility with lower level contacts by projecting the image of a credible business adviser, not just a technology seller. A well thought out LinkedIn profile can aid your cause.
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Add a short example from a customer that also has credibility in your target market if possible. Include the business issues they were facing, the problems you uncovered and the resulting value they accrued. Use bullets and bold font to draw their attention to the words or descriptions that would most likely cause them to see themselves in your description. You want their unconscious mind to conclude, "wow, he/she really understands my situation".
3. Provide links to valuable information that builds your credibility. You don't have to be the author. Demonstrating that you keep up on and share the latest research can project an image of credibility and value add. Look for white papers, research summaries, SlideShare presentations, and anything that adds to your image as a knowledgeable resource. If you can't find any examples, then substitute quotes from other customers about your ability to deliver value.
For brevity, I'm stopping with a list of three things. These are easy edits that should only take you a few minutes, and they can have a huge impact on your ability to gain access to more important stakeholders. If you want to learn more, there's lots of information posted on Pulse articles about using LinkedIn more effectively, or if you want to have it provided to you in a really engaging format, take a look at Social Selling by Donna McCurley.
Remember, you are in the best position to sculpt the image you want people to see and the conclusions you want them to reach about you. But you have to take action!


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4 4 Chapter 2 Aim 2 Aim The aim of the PhD programme is to attract young research talent to gradually counterbalance the increasing age of academic staff within the humanities. The structure enhancing plan for education and organisation formulated by the universities/faculties forms the framework for this. Two types of PhD position can be applied for, namely standard PhD positions and positions for lecturers who wish to do PhD research. Universities can also decide to allow students who have not completed a two-year research master, but are of a comparable level, to enter the programme. 1 National funding rounds will be organised each year. The Humanities Temporary Task Force and the NWO Humanities Divisional Board evaluate the funding instrument each year and can if necessary and insofar as it is possible within the funding framework then decide to adjust procedures, quotas and/or criteria. 1 Universities decide for themselves whether they wish to expand the definition and include candidates with a 1- year master degree or candidates who are completing their master degree in the procedure or whether they wish to limit candidates to those who are completing a 2-year research master degree.
5 5 Chapter 3 Guidelines for applicants 3 Guidelines for applicants 3.1 Who can apply Applications can only be submitted for PhD students who have been selected by the deans of the faculties involved in Sustainable Humanities, namely: Utrecht University University of Amsterdam University of Groningen Erasmus University Rotterdam VU University Amsterdam Leiden University Radboud University Nijmegen Maastricht University Tilburg University Open University. The person who actually submits the PhD project is the supervisor (beoogd promotor). 2 The second supervisor can act as co-applicant. The number of proposals that can be submitted per faculty is subject to a quota (see Section 3.3 Allocation formula). Each faculty is responsible for organising a pre-selection round to determine which proposals are submitted to NWO. 3.2 What can be applied for Funding can be requested for a standard PhD position (4 years, 1 fte or 5 years, 0.8 fte) or for a PhD position for a lecturer (5 years, 0.5 fte). Universities are free to determine whether they want to include lecturer PhD candidates in their selection procedure. The grants to be awarded for personnel costs are in line with the agreements made between NWO and the universities about this in the Approval for funding of scientific research See for the current salary tables: (in Dutch). Besides personnel costs the budget may only include material costs that are directly related to the research up to a maximum of 5000 (specifications required) for the entire funding period. In addition, a benchfee of 5000 for the entire funding period can be applied for (no specifications needed). The costs for the lecturer part of the combined appointment must be taken from direct government funding. The grants are awarded by NWO; the university is responsible or any additional costs, facilities services and supervision. A written confirmation is needed from the university that states that the PhD candidate will have a lecturer appointment for the whole duration of the project. 2 Professors have to submit the applications since the applicant is the formal point of contact for NWO. If the proposal is awarded funding then correspondence will primarily be sent to the person who is responsible for the financial and research aspects of the project.
6 6 Chapter 3 Guidelines for applicants 3.3 Allocation formula An allocation formula has been devised for the submission of applications. The maximum number of FTEs that may be submitted to NWO for funding each year by the dean of the faculty concerned: University Number of FTEs PhD candidates + lecturer PhD candidates University of Amsterdam 4.5 Utrecht University 4.5 University of Groningen 4.5 Leiden University 4.5 Radboud University Nijmegen 4.5 VU University Amsterdam 4.5 Erasmus University Rotterdam 3 Tilburg University 3 Maastricht University 3 Open University 1 Total 37 FTE No allocation formula applies to the awarding of proposals. If the maximum number of FTEs that may be submitted to NWO is exceeded by a university, a guarantee has to be provided that states that additional funds will be matched for this specific application. If this specific application is being selected for funding, the matching commitment still applies (independent of the total number of projects being financed from that university). In the letter that deans submit to NWO to announce the proposals to be submitted, an annex should be enclosed with a list of applications assessed during the internal faculty pre-selection round. This list is divided into divisions or research schools and also states which proposals satisfied at least the NWO criterion 'Very good' in the dean's opinion. 3.4 When can applications be submitted The Humanities Temporary Task Force and NWO announced the new funding round in November Applications selected by the universities must be submitted to NWO no later March 3, 2016, 14:00 hours (CET). Applications that are submitted after the deadline will not be included in the procedure. 3.5 Preparing an application Download the application template from the electronic application system ISAAC ( or from NWO s website (on the grant page for this programme). Complete the application form. Fill out the general information in your ISAAC account. Save the application form as a pdf file and upload it in ISAAC.
7 7 Chapter 3 Guidelines for applicants 3.6 Submitting an application Applications can only be submitted to NWO by the intended promoter. An application can only be submitted to NWO via the new online application system ISAAC, Applications not submitted via ISAAC will not be considered. A principal applicant must submit his/her application via his/her own ISAAC account. If the principal applicant already has an NWOaccount (former Iris account), then he/she does not need to create a new account to submit an application. If the principal applicant does not have an ISAAC account yet, then this should be created at least one day before the application is submitted to ensure that any registration problems can be resolved on time. When you submit your application to ISAAC you need to enter several additional details online. Make sure you allow enough time for this. For technical questions please contact the ISAAC helpdesk, see Section Specific conditions Testing against formal requirements To be eligible for the assessment procedure the applications must satisfy the formal requirements stated in this brochure. Proposals that do not satisfy these criteria will not be considered further. For each university, only the applications that have been registered by the dean will be accepted insofar as the quota of the faculty concerned has not been exceeded (when the quota is exceeded, a matching commitment is required, see section 3.3 Allocation formula). A dean may allow a candidate to participate in a maximum of two funding rounds. A candidate may not submit more than one proposal per funding round: therefore he/she cannot be nominated by different universities at the same time University selection The internal selection of the candidates and the submission of a limited number of candidates to NWO (see Allocation formula) is the responsibility of the deans of the faculties concerned. They are responsible for ensuring an open and transparent procedure. During the assessment the faculty determines if a PhD proposal fits within the faculty plans, as were submitted to the Humanities Temporary Task Force. For NWO, appropriateness as such is therefore not a condition for submission. However, during the ranking of ex aequo proposals with a good chance of funding the decision-taking body can take the quality and sustainability of the faculty embedding into account (see Section 4.2 Criteria).
11 11 Chapter 5 Contact details and other information 5 Contact details and other information 5.1 Contact The most recent information about the programme can be found on the websites of NWO and the Humanities Temporary Task Force. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research PO Box AK The Hague Contact person: Drs. Rick de Jong T: +31 (0) E: W: W: Contact details Humanities Temporary Task Force Committee Humanities Temporary Task Force f.a.o. Drs. Dennis Smit c/o Achter de Dom JP Utrecht E: W: Technical questions about the electronic application system ISAAC For technical questions about the use of ISAAC please contact the ISAAC helpdesk. Please read the manual first before consulting the helpdesk. The ISAAC helpdesk can be contacted from Monday to Friday between 10:00 and 17:00 hours CET on +31 (0) Unfortunately, not all foreign telecom companies support calling to 0900-numbers. However, you can also submit your question by to You will then receive an answer within two working days.
14 14 Chapter 6 Annex: Guidelines for drawing up an application Website (optional): 2. Co-applicants State the details of any co-applicants here. 3. Title of research proposal 4. Summary Please provide a brief summary (250 words maximum) of the project in English. This should explain the title of the research proposal in greater detail. 5. Resubmitted proposal If a proposal is being resubmitted then please state the year of submission, file number and title of the previous proposal. 6. PhD candidate State last name and initials of the intended PhD candidate or lecturer PhD candidate. 7. Curriculum Vitae PhD candidate Provide the details of the PhD candidate or lecturer PhD candidate according to the headings given below. Additional information, such as date and place of birth, gender, marital status, contact details and pictures of the candidate, should not be included in the file. The cv should not exceed two pages. a) Education List the qualifications obtained and courses followed. You should also state the graduation date for any degrees completed. If a degree relevant to the application has not been completed yet, then a written confirmation with the graduation date should be supplied. N.B. The candidate must have graduated before 1 September b) Honours, prizes, scholarships and grants State any honours, prizes and (travel) grants that have been acquired. c) Relevant academic experience State student assistantships, internships, international activities, board activities, etc. d) Other relevant positions If applicable, state any other relevant positions fulfilled. e) Publications State any publications (co-)authored by the candidate (not more than 10). f) Motivation for doing PhD research Briefly describe the PhD candidate's motivation for doing scientific research and why this person's experience is relevant for carrying out the project proposed. Where possible relate this to the points stated under 7a to 7e. The applicant or the candidate may formulate the motivation (i.e., it can be formulated in third or first-person). This brief explanation may contain a maximum of 300 words. 8. Period of funding State the type of appointment (standard PhD, lecturer PhD), the size of the appointment in fte, the total duration of the project and the intended starting date of the research. 9. Description of the proposed research The maximum permitted size of the text is 2500 words (excluding the list of references). State the total number of words used.
15 15 Chapter 6 Annex: Guidelines for drawing up an application 10. Research field description and code(s) From the site choose one main research field and subfield most relevant to your application. For interdisciplinary applications several research field(s) and/or subfield(s) can be chosen: in this case put the most important first. Provide the description of the main research field and the code and description of the subfield(s) (e.g. Religious studies and theology: Bible studies, History of Christianity). If applicable, provide the same for the second main research field (e.g. Language and literature: Greek and Latin philology and literature). 11. Summary in keywords State 5 keywords that in your opinion best characterise the content of the research proposal. 12. Institutional embedding and supervision Describe the research group that the candidate will be part of and state how the day-to-day supervision of the candidate will be realised. 13. Work programme Specify and phase the work plan for the intended duration of the grant. Please bear in mind that the writing phase for the final publication is a fundamental component of the work programme. Time required for holidays must also be allowed for. You should also allow time for the training and supervision programme. 14. Research budget The grants to be awarded for personnel costs are in line with the agreements made between NWO and the universities about this in the Approval of funding for scientific research The research budget that can be applied for consists of (1) personnel costs, which include a benchfee of 5000 for the entire funding period, and (2) material costs that are directly related to the research up to a maximum of 5000 for the entire funding period. No specifications are needed for the benchfee; clear specifications are needed for the material costs. 15. Summary for non-specialists (in Dutch) Provide a summary for non-specialists about your proposed research (in Dutch). In the event that your proposal is awarded funding, the Humanities Temporary Task Force or NWO Humanities can use this text for publicity purposes. Providing this summary is a compulsory part of your application. This summary should be words long. 16. Summary for newsletters and website (in Dutch) Provide a title and a summary (in Dutch) that, if the application is granted, will be used in the newsletters and on the website. The summary should be words long.
16 16 Chapter 6 Annex: Guidelines for drawing up an application 2. General guidelines and conditions: The NWO regulation on granting and the Agreement on Payment of Costs for Scientific Research are applicable to applications. NWO Code of Conduct regarding Conflict of Interests: The NWO Code of Conduct regarding Conflict of Interests applies to all persons and NWO personnel involved in the assessment and decision-making procedure for this call for proposals. 3. Open Access All scientific publications resulting from research that is funded by grants derived from this Call for proposals are to be immediately (at the time of publication) freely accessible worldwide (Open Access). There are several ways for researchers to publish Open Access. A detailed explanation regarding Open Access can be found on 4. Nagoya Protocol: The Nagoya Protocol became effective on 12 October 2014 and ensures an honest and reasonable distribution of benefits emerging from the use of genetic resources (Access and Benefit Sharing; ABS). Researchers who make use of genetic sources from the Netherlands or abroad for their research should familiarize themselves with the Nagoya Protocol ( NWO assumes that researchers will take all necessary actions with respect to the Nagoya Protocol. 5. Ethical aspects Before submitting an application, you must determine if your proposed research raises ethical questions and therefore needs to be assessed by an ethics review committee. Possible relevant aspects are: - research on animals - informed consent - privacy and data protection - research on human Embryonic Stem Cells - research involving developing countries - biosecurity/dual use Certain research requires a statement of approval from a recognised medical ethics review committee (METC) or an animal experiment committee (DEC). For some research proposals a licence in accordance with the Population Screening Act (WBO) is required. More information on METCs is available at the Central Committee On Research Involving Human Subjects (CCMO), on DECs the Dutch Association for Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees provides information and for the WBO The Health Council of the Netherlands can provide information. NWO subscribes to the Openheid Dierproeven (Freedom of Information on Animal Experiments) and the Biosecurity Code. Applicants must subscribe to and comply with the prevailing codes. A research project can only start when NWO (if applicable) has received a copy of the approving ethical statement and/or Population Screening Act licence. For complex questions related to ethical issues, NWO reserves the right to consult an external adviser. If after consulting the applicant, NWO is of the opinion that an ethical assessment is needed for an application then the applicant is obliged to take the necessary measures for such an assessment. If the applicant fails to obtain the necessary statement of approval from an ethics review committee then the grant shall be immediately withdrawn. Once the project has started then your research must be conducted in an ethically responsible way. If you fail to do this then NWO shall reserve the right to withdraw your grant immediately. Finally, in the application you declare that you have completed the form truthfully and that you satisfy the nationally and internationally accepted standards for scientific conduct as stated in the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice 2012 (Association of Universities in the Netherlands).
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We are happy to be part of the Media Art Biennale WRO 2019 in Wroclaw and to celebrate their 30th anniversary together with them and Empathy Swarm!
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translated from Dutch article "De zieleroerselen van een 'slimme' koelkast" by Thomas van Huut for NRC Handelsblad, the Netherlands' most influential newspaper.


About a month ago, I noticed that they were opening up a road in San Lucas, a little town near us. I mentioned that it would be really nice if we could have some of that lovely black dirt to fill in our backyard. So my husband made a deal with the dump truck drivers. Two loads of rock-less dirt, $100 pesos a load, delivered right to our front door. Awesome.
He and my son spent several days moving the dirt one wheelbarrow at a time. The dirt is still bound together in bit clods yet but we expect once rainy season starts, that will fix itself. We added an apple tree, a lime tree, an avocado tree and a papaya tree to our mini-huerta (orchard). The chickens ate all the leaves off the papaya tree within the hour. Then Lil' pup gnawed the trunk to the ground. So much for that tree.
Since the chickens are always a problem in the backyard no matter how many lectures I give them on not eating the plants, I thought we could make an upstairs porch specifically for plants. Therefore, that was the next project.
My husband and son made steps down to the area that had once been Joey's roof. Then they did one full wall and two half-walls to enclose the area in. The herrero (ironworker) who made the solar panel base made two sets of bars for the front. I think we might get two more for the other side eventually because I'm still not happy with our security updates.
For the roof my husband wanted to put regular laminas (corrugated tin) but I insisted that for the good of the plants we needed the clear ones. Of course, they cost more. So we went to Salvatierra to a lamina warehouse to get them at a reduced rate. We got enough laminas to cover the area of 4 meters x 7 meters for $3000 pesos. Up they went.
Then another load of dirt to fill in the planting area. It's still quite bare as we are waiting for the rainy season to plant more. Although the chickens won't be able to get at these plants, Kitty has decided that this area was made for her exclusive use. She's been laying on my strawberry plant and beneath the grape plant and using the other side as a litter box. This is infuriating to my husband. Now he knows how I feel about the chickens!
The last outdoor updates were the sidewalk from the backdoor to the animal area and the path to the ajibe (water storage area). I've been asking my husband for 10 years to made a walkway so that in the rainy season we can get to one area to another without tromping through the mud which is then tromped through the house. He finally did.
The chickens believe that this is their personal superhighway now. I think it's time to reduce the flock. Chicken soup anyone?
The path to the ajibe he made from pieces of sidewalk that had been dumped in La Yacata. Works for me!
Wow he's a handy guy. I guess a chicken pen is not an option?
The chickens are supposed to stay on the "animal" side of the yard but that just doesn't seem to happen. He swears he's going to reduce the flock and yet we currently have 18 chickens of various sizes. Sigh.


Discussion in 'Mindbody Blogs (was Practitioner's Corner)' started by Back In Control Blog, Mar 26, 2018.
This story is from a woman, who I met at our first Omega workshop in 2013. I was holding the workshop with Dr. Fred Luskin, who is a Stanford psychologist and author of Forgive for Good and also my wife, Babs Yohai, who is a professional dancer and taught simple rhythm to the group. I was not completely sure what to expect at this workshop and was shocked when so many people experienced a profound shift in their outlook and pain. She wasn't one of them and I just figured that the process wasn't for everyone. She was so desperate for a solution that she was basing her post-graduate education on chronic pain. Much to my surprise she broke out of her pain cycle about 10 months later. Here is her story.
A few years ago I had a great deal of stress that landed in my neck and I couldn't find any relief anywhere for more than 18 months. I saw many professionals – Spine Surgeons (no structural issue); Chiropractor (looked like chronic whiplash symptoms), Occupational Therapist (recommended diet changes, flats, exercises, saunas, massages) and Physical Therapist (heat treatments, TENS treatment, exercises, massage) and nothing was working. In fact, when I went to the chiropractor he snapped my neck without asking or explaining prior to doing it and I felt an electric like shock feeling go through my back and for the next 10-12 months I now had not only neck pain but a deep ache going down both arms. My sleep was disrupted, I was tearful, struggling with focus at work, and I didn't want to do anything.
I shared my struggle with Dr. Fred Luskin, who shared Dr. Hanscom's book with me. I started to implement some of his suggestions the first being focusing on improving my sleep. I attended the Omega training shortly after and learned more about the impact of stress and the mind-body connection. I saw others improving before my eyes and yet I found myself being miserable. I could hardly sit through the classes and was edgy and irritable but determined to learn.
It took another few months but by addressing the stress, improving my sleep, and taking glucosamine I have been pain-free for a number of years. What is even better than that is that when I feel the neck muscles tightening from either stress or behaviors (too much computer work) I can focus on getting good sleep, anti-inflammatory diet, add the glucosamine back in, and avoid relapse. In fact, once I recovered I have never reached the same level of pain again.
I have been so impressed with Dr. David's work and insights into the mind-body connection that I have been focusing my PhD studies in Mind Body medicine on chronic pain and stress management. I now share the tools that I have learned and the Back In Control book with every client I work with who struggles with chronic pain.
Thank you Dr. Hanscom for looking out for the greater good and not the bottom dollar. Hospitals and pharmaceuticals would prefer pain management but the DOC (Direct your Own Care) can significantly reduce pain and in some cases even cure without all the negative side effects.


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TEE and trust: assessing the security of Arm's TrustZone
Posted by Ninon Eyrolles
Anti-Piracy | Content Security | Industry Trends & Innovation | Content Protection
Commercial TEE solutions using ARM's TrustZone technology have been used for many years now. Are they enough on their own to guarantee security though?
Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) have been an important part of the industry for over a decade, and the most commercially successful TEEs use ARM's TrustZone. TrustZone technology allows for the partition of a device's System-on-Chip hardware and software into two worlds, the Secure World and the Normal (ie Non-Secure) World.
Theoretically, this provides software designers with a secure space to operate within and ensures that sensitive assets such as financial information or DRM keys are not accessible from the rest of the device.
However, as our recent white paper Security Analysis of TEEs on TrustZone shows, there are weaknesses in relying solely on TrustZone to maintain a secure TEE and DRM providers might find difficulties in relying solely on a TEE implementation to protect their assets.
A full discussion of the issues with supporting evidence is available in the white paper, but here we thought it might be valuable to briefly outline a selection of the recent vulnerabilities that have affected TEE implementations.
Assessing the vulnerabilities
There have been more than several published vulnerabilities on TEE implementations that illustrate the use of bugs in SMC handlers (SMC = Secure Monitor Calls, in charge of switching from the Normal World to the Secure World) and TAs handlers (Trusted Applications) to compromise the Trusted OS.
A lot of attention has been paid to vulnerabilities affecting SMC handlers, mainly because they may enable code execution in the most privileged mode of the processor: the monitor mode.
After having analyzed the format of the TEE image, for instance, Gal Beniamini took a special interest in the SMC opcodes, and realized he could erase the memory in the Trusted OS by issuing an SMC command formatted incorrectly (Beniamini, Exploring Qualcomm's TrustZone implementation, 2015).
Altogether, research on the National Vulnerability Database for 'TEE' yielded 296 results as of 1 June 2020, either listed under the name of the TEE implementation or as 'TrustZone'. Combinations of ARM TrustZone TEE may yield more. Our white paper delves into further detail on Beniamini's example above, as well as others.
Another sector of vulnerabilities regarding TEE implementations is found in Trusted Applications themselves. While they directly only give access to the context of the TA, they can be used to further compromise the system by being chained with vulnerabilities in system calls or drivers.
For example, a complete chain of exploitation in Kinibi from high privilege in the Normal World to code execution in monitor mode (the previously-mentioned highest privileged mode of the processor) was presented at Blackhat in 2019 (see Breaking Samsung's ARM Trustzone). The authors used a stack-based buffer overflow in the command handler of the SEM Trusted Application (little is known about this application except that it performs cryptographic operations) to gain code execution in the Secure World with no privilege, and used several other vulnerabilities to chain exploitation until they gained code execution in the monitor mode.
This exploitation illustrates well how, while one avenue for hacking can be closed off, determined hijackers can still find a way around the new obstacles. At the time of the Blackhat submission, it was possible to place the secure monitor code in unprivileged memory. More recent versions of Kinibi contain a blacklist of addresses that should not be mapped, closing this off. However, the authors found this could be circumvented by erasing all the addresses of the blacklist. This gave the team the possibility to modify a SMC handler and gain code execution in monitor mode.
Over-reliance on TEE
The notion of the security of TEEs has been an important one underpinning much of the secure growth in many mobile computing solutions, from payments to DRM. However, as our paper shows, there are a growing number of vulnerabilities that can be exploited to lead to the compromise of the Trusted OS. This in turn can lead, for example, to surrendering access to the assets of the DRM to third parties and compromising the TEE.
Side-channel vulnerabilities and bugs based on speculative execution, such as Meltdown and Spectre, only serve to exacerbate the problem.
Our headline recommendation, therefore, when it comes to the question how to solve piracy, is not to rely solely on TEEs, but to consider solutions using hardware resources such as keyladders and dedicated secure processors to handle the most critical secrets and decisions in addition to the TEE.
Ninon Eyrolles
Ninon Eyrolles is a security engineer at Viaccess-Orca, joining after completing her PhD in code obfuscation while working at Quarkslab and under the aegis of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Her main subjects of interest revolve around reverse engineering, cryptography, and binary code analysis, and she has made several presentations in both universities and schools to teach about code obfuscation and reverse engineering.
Industry Trends & Innovation Assessing the security of arms trustzone


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"Parashat Masa'ei (say "mah-sah-ey") marks the end of the book of B'midbar (Numbers). As the book closes, we find the people anxiously poised in the east side of the Yarden (Jordan) wanting to finally leave this Wilderness (Heb: midbar) and enter into the promise that HaShem made so long ago with their forefathers.


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Jermyn Street is een straat in de Londense wijk St James's, die vooral bekendstaat als de straat waar winkels bijna uitsluitend gericht zijn op de klassieke herenkleding, wat mede komt doordat er vele beroemde hemdenmakers resideren in deze straat. Naast hemdenmakers zijn er ook herenconfectiekledingwinkels gevestigd als Hackett London en DAKS, schoenmakers als John Lobb en Foster & Son, klassieke kappers als Trumper en Old Taylor en ook is hier Engelands oudste kaaswinkel gevestigd.

Geschiedenis
Jermyn Street werd opgericht door Henry Jermyn, eerste graaf van St Albans, naar wie de straat vernoemd werd en maakte rond 1664 deel uit van de bebouwing van de huidige wijk St James's. De eerste jaren diende de wijk voornamelijk als woonwijk en had Jermyn Street bekende bewoners als John Churchill, eerste hertog van Marlborough, Isaac Newton, William Plunkett, de hertogin van Richmond en de gravin van Northumberland.

Aan het einde van de 18e eeuw stond de straat erom bekend vele buitenlandse revolutionairen te huisvesten. Voorbeelden van verblijfplaatsen waren 'The Gun Tavern' en het 'Grenier's Hotel', dat uitsluitend onderdak bood aan Franse vluchtelingen.
Na ontsnapping uit het Fort van Ham resideerde Napoleon III in het 'Brunswick Hotel' onder de schuilnaam graaf d'Arenberg.

Hoewel hij zelf niet in de straat woonde, siert een standbeeld van dandy Beau Brummell het straatbeeld aan het kruispunt met Piccadilly Arcade, om zo de kledingwaarde van de straat te onderschrijven.

Hemden
De winkels in Jermyn Street verkopen traditiegetrouw hemden en andere benodigdheden voor de gentleman zoals hoeden, schoenen, scheerkwasten, eau de cologne en bretels.

De meeste kleermakers bezitten nog steeds de huizen in de straat en verhuurden in de loop der jaren de kamers boven de winkels aan prominenten als bankier Theodore Rothschild en zijdehandelaar Cesare Salvucci.

Lijst van hemdenmakers
Het merendeel van de hemden uit Jermyn Street wordt elders gefabriceerd, doorgaans in Ierland, en niet langer in de ateliers onder of achter de winkels.

Schoenenwinkels
 John Lobb  (No. 88) (Het betreft hier de schoenen naar maat en confectieschoenen eigendom van Hermès, niet te verwarren met de maatschoenmaker John Lobb in St. James's Street No. 9)
 WS Foster & Son (No. 83)
 Edward Green Shoes (No. 75)
 Crockett & Jones (No. 69)
 Church's (Nos. 108 & 110)
 Tricker's (No. 67)
 Barker Shoes (No. 38)

Andere winkels
Naast hemdenmakers, is Jermyn Street ook de thuisbasis van andere bekende winkels als:
 Beretta -  geweermaker sinds 1526 en leverancier van jacht- en competitiegeweren, -kleding en accessoires (op de hoek van Jermyn en St. James's Street).
 Bates - hoedenmaker (No. 73)
 Floris - parfums, eau de toilette en zeep (No. 89)
 Geo.F. Trumper - gentlemen's kapper (No. 20)
 Paxton & Whitfield - kazen en delicatessen (No. 93)
 Rowley's - restaurant (No. 113)
 Taylor of Old Bond Street - scheer- en huidproducten voor de gentleman (No. 74)

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Q: Webservice Contract First Visual Studio Addin 2008: did someone succeed to install? I've tried to install this
http://www.thinktecture.com/resourcearchive/tools-and-software/wscf
it seems I have to download the vs2005 version first and then update with a file for vs2008.
But the addin failed to install as for me.
Did someone achieve to do so with VS 2008 ?

A: You're right. It looks like it is needed to have VS 2K5 before being able to use this add-in.
I guess the setup for VS 2005 tries to add a toolbar or some menu items, so it launches VS 2005, which of course fails if you don't have it.
Instead of preparing a setup program for VS 2008, the author just provides an updated .addin while for it.
Maybe it is enough to extract the files from the .msi (see the back room tech for a link) and then install the .addin file from the zip of the "2008 version".
If you succeed in doing this with the msi, put then this .addin file in a directory where VS 2008 looks for it (see the list in Tools / options / Environment / Addins Macro security).
Inside the .addin, there is the path to the add-in itself, which must be of course adapted.


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Coronavirus: David Seymour says Govt should skip Medsafe process and approve vaccine for kids
Lana Andelane
Dan Satherley
Jan Tinetti on Newshub Nation. Credits: Video - Newshub Nation; Image - Newshub.
The Government should immediately make plans to vaccinate New Zealand's children against COVID-19, says ACT leader David Seymour, skipping the usual Medsafe approval process.
The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday (local time) gave the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine the thumbs-up for five to 11-year-olds. An advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will convene next week to make a recommendation on the administration of the vaccine, with the CDC director to make the final call.
"New Zealand's children deserve the same protection," Seymour said on Saturday. "[The Government] should say if it's possible before school is rumoured to go back on November 15."
That's when primary school kids are pencilled in to physically return to school - by then it would have been three months since they last stepped in a classroom.
At present, the vaccine is only approved for kids 12 and older. It can't be used until it gets the tick from our own medicines safety agency Medsafe. After the US approved the vaccine for kids aged 12 to 15 earlier this year, it took nearly six weeks for Medsafe to do the same.
Police promise action after 'extremely disappointing' 5000-strong protest, case allegedly escaped MIQ
Expert fears wave of long COVID in young kids if school goes back before they're vaccinated
Seymour says the Government should exempt COVID-19 treatments and technologies from the Medsafe approval process, arguing that if something gets approved by the US, Australia, UK or European Union, it should be deemed safe to use in New Zealand.
"There is no way that Medsafe can replicate what the FDA has done. We don't have enough COVID in the community to test effectiveness and waiting two months to test safety would give no more reassurance than the FDA already offers," Seymour said.
"The idea that Medsafe is waiting for an application, or data, from Pfizer is madness. The Government should overrule them and say it accepts the Food and Drug Administration's findings, and vaccinations for five-to-11-year-olds can start according to the FDA's specification immediately."
A clinical trial of five to 11-year-olds found the Pfizer vaccine was 90.7 percent effective, even with a smaller dose suitable for children. While kids don't fall seriously ill as often as infected adults, it can still be fatal, result in long-term illness and result in a mysterious condition known as MIS-C. They can also act as carriers of the virus and infect others more susceptible to falling gravely ill.
Vaccinated people are about 20 times less likely to pass the virus onto someone else, real-world data has found.
Seymour says beginning the vaccine rollout for young children now would allow time for primary-aged students to get their first dose before schools are slated to return on November 15.
"That would give parents returning their children to school an enormous relief."
Government reveals $15m package to get kids back to school after lockdown
US authorities clear Pfizer vaccine for use in children aged 5 to 11
University of Otago epidemiologist Michael Baker told Newshub Nation on Friday he'd be "much more comfortable if we were already vaccinating five to 11-year-olds before we open schools".
"I am concerned about not so much the acute effects of this infection because children generally do very well - some will unfortunately will still die if they're exposed to it, but it's very rare in children - but the bigger worry I think is long COVID, the chronic effects, which are being detected in children who get this infection.
"I would much prefer that before children are exposed to this virus, they're at least given the opportunity to be vaccinated."
Dr Baker said he hopes Medsafe would make it a priority to assess the trial data to speed up the process.
Associate Minister of Education Jan Tinetti, also appearing on Newshub Nation, said officials in the Ministries of Health and Education have been working together to ensure it's safe even without vaccination.
"This is something that we're trying to work on with some haste so we can come up with solutions that are going to be safe for young people."


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It's been more than a week and I've fallen behind keeping up with this. I could make lots of excuses about how busy I've been, there's the new business, the general looking for work, other writing and it seems at though I'm having a bit of a renaissance when it comes to the media in my life.
It's been a while since I've really clicked with something, apart from Brooklyn Nine Nine, which I do realise I'm very late to the game with, and The Good Place, also late to it, I know. I seem to do that. I don't like things when everyone first starts talking about them but I often like them later, once I've gone back to them.
I've done it with a lot of media in my life.
For me though, since 2016, apart from an excellent season of Shokugeki no Soma and the discovery of The Seven Deadly Sins, I've been hankering for some awesome anime. Something that was really going to resonate with me. It seems as though lots of those things have recently arrived.
I've spent the latter part of this evening watching 'Tsurune' and I'm having some serious nostalgia when watching it. It combines a lot of elements from my favourite sports anime (Hikaru no Go and Yuri on Ice particularly) and it's got a mysterious mentor that's secretly awesome, which is a trope I absolutely cannot resist.
Fairy Tail has also returned for its final season and I've missed it since it was last on in 2015, I started watching The Seven Deadly Sins to get my fix of something similar. Not the magical element, but the heart of it. Anime has this wonderful way of creating shows that have this wonderful heart at the centre. It's hard to put your finger on but its something I don't find in other things I watch. It's just something that anime does better than any other media.
So that's my excuse, except that it's not an excuse. I started up a business so I could spend my days talking to people about things I watch and read and listen to. This is simply an extension of that.
It's how I'll justify it to myself.
I'll try to write again sooner.
Small note about the picture for this post, a friend of mine gave me this many years ago and I legitimately have no idea who created it but it's one of my favourite pieces ever.
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Vintage Vignette - April 2017
Music Makers of the Past
Writer and musician Ana Balka reflects on the virtues of vintage instruments, and goes shopping for them in Bay St. Louis.
- story by Ana Balka, photos by Annamarie Holbrook
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Rogue mandolin, help uke, resonator uke at Magnolia Antiques
I remember the first time I saw the Shoninger upright. It sat with perfect posture behind some end tables and magazine racks, next to a mannequin who wore nothing but a fur coat and the vinyl purse on her handless arm. An older guy had pushed furniture out of the way to accompany a woman singing a hymn. I listened.
"Do you play?" asked the man when they finished.
"No," I answered. "But I'd love to learn."
"You should get that piano," he said. The instrument had a warm but assertive sound, and it was marked at only $250. We agreed that someone must have recently replaced the hammers on the keys, which all worked.
I didn't have the money.
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The woman—the man's sister, it turned out—refrained from rolling her eyes as he insisted I allow him to buy it and pay him back later (perhaps he was in the habit of being wildly generous). I was embarrassed, but eventually accepted and made arrangements to pick it up.
Fifteen years later I still have the piano, and I am no virtuoso. But I love that piano, and I'm forever grateful to the man in the antique store.
I'll admit to being something of a sucker for instruments I see in second-hand stores, especially accordions (also no virtuoso, but they're totally addictive), violins, and guitars. The violin I've used to play in rock bands for years is a 5-string Alvarez electric-acoustic that I found for something like $50 in an antique store in Atlanta.
Shay Sugars of Magnolia Antiques, 200 Main Street, reeled off a veritable philharmonic of used instruments and associated accouterments you can find now in their sprawling display room in Bay St. Louis: A melodica ("It's like a keyboard you blow into"), $65 with carrying case; "Several metronomes, two really good vintage turntables, a vintage accordion, three trombones, some trumpets, and electric guitar, vintage acoustic guitars, a bass guitar..." Shay trails off, then remembers more. "A mandolin and a violin, and harmonicas."
"Also kazoos. Vintage mint. And a lot of vintage sheet music."
"I buy any good instrument that comes into the shop," she says.
A few of the stringed instruments found at Magnolia Antiques
The store is a family affair, with stepdad Jack Schornick picking up many of the instruments from the various estate sales and other places the shop sources its stock from. Violins, guitars, and brass wind instruments are typical finds, so I asked Shay about some of the odder instruments she's seen.
"We had a Merlin," she says. "It's a thin-bodied guitar by Seagull. Supposedly it's got no bad notes, which is great for people like me."
Magnolia Antiques has also come to be known for its unusually large selection of new and used ukuleles. Jack took up the uke habit at some point and, once his growing collection outgrew their house, they decided to start carrying them in the store. Right now there are around 70 of the small, guitar-like instruments in stock including electric, resonator-body (in copper) and bass ukes along with the classic wooden models in all sizes including peanut, soprano, concert, and tenor.
Sylvia Young of Antique Maison Ulman and Tearoom at 317 Ulman Avenue in Bay St. Louis says she and husband and co-owner Ed see many stringed instruments like violins, and the banjo they recently sold. The store currently has some unique offerings like a reenactment bugle — a custom-made replica of the horns used around the time of the Civil War — as well as a 1900 Indian antique brass copper blow horn from World War I.
One dealer in the Youngs' showroom specifically carries different types of horns and stringed instruments.
A custom-made horn at Antique Maison Ulman, photo courtesy Antique Maison
All sorts of people come into Antique Maison looking for musical instruments, and they usually sell quickly, Sylvia says. Not everyone looking for instruments is a musician: "I had a lady come in looking for any type of instrument," Sylvia recalls. "Her father, sons, and grandfather were all musicians, so she has a room that's like a museum in her house."
One of the more unusual instruments they had come through was a melodium, "From the 1800s — it was also a beautiful piece of antique furniture," Sylvia says. "It had a little place to put your candle from back in the days when that's still what they used. We say that's where you put your drinks now."
Whatever your musical taste, and whether you play an instrument or just think you might like to try, I recommend taking note of that lonely accordion in the corner when you're out looking at antiques and vintage items.
While it's rare that someone will step out of thin air and buy an instrument for you as the man in the antique store bought my piano for me, antique stores can yield some unique finds and give you the opportunity to give an old instrument new life.


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Walt Whitman, July 1878.
Walt Whitman, late 1860s.
Walt Whitman, 1881. Whitman called this the "pompous photo."
Walt Whitman, 1881.
Walt Whitman, 1879. With Harold Johnston. This is a cropped version of Kurtz's photo of Whitman with "Kitty" (Katherine Devereux) and "Harry" (Harold Hugh) Johnston. Kitty has been doctored out and a clutch of grass added to Harry's hand. A child said "What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands."
Walt Whitman, 1871. Same image as 43609 which is on a Rockwood mount.
Walt Whitman. From the Walt Whitman Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1: "A Previously Unknown Whitman Photograph: This photograph was taken sometime in the late 1870s or early 1880s. The photographer is unknown. It appears courtesy of the owner, Jeffrey Kraus, and is part of the Jeffrey Kraus Collection. The photo is similar to two taken by Frederick Gutekunst in 1880, though Whitman is wearing a darker hat and a different coat here. The only other photos showing Whitman with a hat as dark as this one are a J. W. Black photo in 1860 and two photos of Whitman with his friend Bill Duckett, taken in 1886."
Walt Whitman, early 1870s.
Walt Whitman. Circa early 1870's.
Walt Whitman. Circa 1867. Written on verso is "Walt Whitman, Poet, was a hack driver in 1861, he drove Abe Lincoln to the Astor House in an open hack in 1861."
Walt Whitman, photo'd from life, Sept., '72, Brooklyn, N.Y. Frontispiece to Two Rivulets, Author's Edition, Camden, NJ, 1876.


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JOURNEY TO JUSTICE
History: Abraham Lincoln and Alice Walker born
February 9, 1944: Alice Walker, novelist and poet, was born to sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia. While at Spelman College, she had a scholarship to study in Paris. She turned it down to go instead to Mississippi, where she joined the civil rights movement. She took depositions of sharecroppers, who like her parents had been thrown off the land, and taught poetry to students at Tougaloo College and Jackson State University, many of them involved in the movement. In 1983, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Color Purple, which has since been adapted in both a movie and a musical. She has remained an activist, saying, "Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet."
February 9, 1995: Astronaut Bernard Harris, a native of Temple, Texas, became the first African American to spacewalk during the second of his two space shuttle flights.
February 10, 1989: Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.
February 11, 1790: The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, composed mostly of Quakers and Mennonites, petitioned Congress for emancipation of all who were enslaved. Benjamin Franklin served as president of the society.
February 12, 1793: The Second Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. The new law enabled the arrests of those who fled slavery and established a $500 fine for anyone who aided them.
February 12, 1809: Abraham Lincoln was born in a small log cabin in Kentucky. He went on to become one of the nation's greatest Presidents, abolishing slavery and guiding the nation through the Civil War.
February 12, 1909: On the centennial of President Abraham Lincoln's birth, African Americans signed a proclamation known as "The Call," leading to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The interracial group was created to safeguard civil, legal, economic, human and political rights of African Americans. The appeal took place in response to continued lynchings and a 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill. Sixty people, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, signed the proclamation.
February 13, 1920: The Negro National League, one of several baseball leagues created for African Americans, was organized by Rube Foster, who became known as "the father of black baseball." He and other team owners had their first meeting at a Kansas City YMCA. Their all-star games attracted as many as 50,000 fans.
February 13, 1946: Army veteran Isaac Woodard was left blind after two police officers in Batesburg, S.C., beat him. A man tried for the crime was acquitted on federal charges.
February 13, 1960: Students began sit-ins in downtown Nashville, Tenn., and in the months that followed, more than 150 were arrested. The home of the students' lawyer was bombed. After three months of sit-ins, six downtown stores desegregated their lunch counters. James Lawson led the students, many of whom became important leaders in the civil rights movement: John Lewis, James Bevel, C.T. Vivian, Diane Nash, Marion Barry and Bernard Lafayette.
February 14, 1879: Blanche Kelso Bruce was the first African American to preside over the U.S. Senate and later the first African American to win any votes at a major party's nominating convention. He became the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate.
February 15, 1851: Shadrach Minkins, living as a free man in Massachusetts, was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act. A group of abolitionists broke into a Boston courthouse and freed Minkins. He made his way to Canada, spending the rest of his life there as a free man.
February 16, 1944: The U.S. Navy began training for its first African-American officers. They became known as "the Golden 13" for their excellence, helping pave the way for President Harry Truman to desegregate the military four years later.
February 17, 1960: Alabama authorities sought to stop the civil rights movement by indicting Martin Luther King Jr. for perjury, claiming he lied about his taxes. Three months later, King went on trial, facing a white judge, a white prosecutor and an all-white jury. The jury acquitted him on all charges.


New Beginnings in the Misadventures of Case!
This is a story about a young man and a young woman and their romantic relationship.
After Case Jones is discharged from the service, he is a civilian again. He knows he must soon land a job, but his Grandmother Iva comes to his rescue and offers him a job at the Greevansville apartments. Case accepts the job with no thought about what he might be getting into.
Soon after Case arrives, he encounters his new co-worker, Angie! Despite their startling introduction, attraction eventually springs between them. Their momentous romance soon takes place, through which they shall experience more than both could have ever imagined.
New Beginnings in the Misadventures of Case! may appeal to readers seeking romantic stories that also touch on the spiritual side.
Don Ford was born in Iowa, but grew up in the state of Colorado by his mother and five sisters. After graduating from Greeley Central High School in 1982 he entered the service and served four years, two of those years in West Germany. After receiving an honorable discharge he moved to Oregon where he learned to cook both American and Chinese cuisine. He now resides in the small town of Clarion, Iowa.


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Emma Watson & Miles Teller Were 'TOO demanding for La La Land'?
They have allegedly hit out at agents for not securing the roles as the musical has seen huge success at the box office as well as scooping a record-equalling 14 Oscar nominations.
The leading roles eventually went to Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, who was apparently keen to team up with her again after Gangster Squad and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Harry Potter star Watson was originally offered the part of Mia in La La Land but "made crazy demands", including wanting rehearsals done in London, according to entertainment website Page Six, citing a source.
The British actress later felt that the movie was not for her, it was claimed.
And the source also said Whiplash actor Teller was offered $4m to star in La La Land but he said he wanted $6m.
The Hollywood insider was reportedly quoted as saying: "Now both Miles and Emma Watson are raising hell with their agents for not securing the roles for them - even though it was the actors' fault for being too demanding."
Another source said of Stone and Teller: "Now that it (La La Land) is winning all the awards, they're freaking out and looking for someone else to blame."
Teller himself has tweeted that Page Six was "reporting" alternative facts.
Watson - best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise - began her negotiations when she was represented by the WME agency, but signed with rival CAA in December.
Other sources insist she stepped away to do Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast film.


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