SummaryCounts: for reporting on contest and geopolitical unit summary vote counts.
VoteCounts: for reporting on contest vote counts.
These entities inherit the attributes and elements of Counts.
Counts provides the capability to filter vote counts by device characteristics or by various types of ballots or write-ins, or to link the counts to a GpUnit entity defined, such as for a country.
If the type of count item is not listed in enumeration CountItemType, use other and include the type in OtherType.
GpUnitId 0 or 1 IDREF Unique identifier for a `GpUnit` element. For associating counts with a geopolitical unit, e.g., a precinct, a county, a township, etc.
IsSuppressedForPrivacy 0 or 1 boolean Boolean to indicate if votes are suppressed for voter privacy, e.g., true or false. Assumed to be false if not present.
Type 0 or 1 CountItemType The type of count being used as a filter on the vote counts, e.g., election day, early voting, etc.
OtherType 0 or 1 string Used when Type is other.


This module provides a game called "AZ", where a word is randomly selected from a dictionary and contestants must guess that word. Each time a word is proposed, the range of possible words is reduced.
trigger string "az" The command to use to start a new AZ game. May be passed a list of dictionaries.
default_lists string all available dictionaries A list of dictionaries from which the random word will be chosen, separated by spaces. Used if "az" is called without any argument.
The recommended way to use this module is to have it loaded at the general configuration level and to disable it only for specific networks.
- the game will be started using the "!az" command.
!az wordlists... Starts a new game using the given wordlists or the default wordlist if none is given. Once the game starts, you may propose words directly to the bot.
!az list or !az lists Displays a list of available wordlists.
!az cancel or !az end or !az stop Stops the current game.
The listing below shows a game (in french) played using Pokemon names from the first generation as the dictionary.
10:51:13 < Erebot> Les listes de mots suivantes sont disponibles : english, french, haddock, pkmn1en & pkmn1fr.
11:06:19 < Erebot> Une nouvelle partie de A-Z commence sur #erebot avec les listes suivantes : pkmn1fr (151 mots).
11:06:40 < Erebot> ah n'existe pas ou n'est pas admissible pour ce jeu.
11:08:49 < Erebot> BINGO ! La réponse était effectivement herbizarre. Félicitations foobar !
11:08:49 < Erebot> La réponse a été trouvée après 8 essais et 1 mots incorrects.
14:50:53 < Erebot> Une nouvelle partie de A-Z commence sur #erebot avec les listes suivantes : pkmn1fr (151 mots).
14:50:56 < Erebot> La partie de A-Z a été arrêtée après 0 essais et 0 mots incorrects. La réponse était roucoups.


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When Will WE Listen? Mark Twain Through the Lenses of Generation Z
Posted on March 7, 2018 by Jocelyn Chadwick
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Duluth Public School District in Minnesota recently decided to drop two novels from their curriculum, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. Jocelyn Chadwick, current President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and a former Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, is both an expert on secondary education in the U.S. and an acclaimed scholar of Mark Twain, having authored The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn. She takes this opportunity to discuss the importance of these controversial texts to contemporary students.
"I use the word nigger, and I don't think much about it. So, I want to read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for myself so that I can understand the history around the word and think about it again for myself." – Student, Capitol Preparatory Magnet School (2017)
That we as adult citizens of the United States of America yet find ourselves seemingly inextricably enmeshed in the morass that is racism continues to be disturbing. Of course, parents and we who educate children, especially English language arts teachers, are not only cognizant of troubling social issues, including racism and America's dark history, but also other isms and the accompanying violence that are increasingly prevalent. Both Minnesota's Michael Cary and Stephan Witherspoon articulated these concerns most recently within the context of students' reading two texts: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird:
"The feedback that we've received is that it makes many students feel uncomfortable," said Michael Cary, director of curriculum and instruction for the district. "Conversations about race are an important topic, and we want to make sure we address those conversations in a way that works well for all of our students."
"Our kids don't need to read the 'N' word in school," Witherspoon said. "They deal with that every day out in the community and in their life. Racism still exists in a very big way."
At present, because of the social and political and economic upheavals our children have and continue to experience, our English language arts classes — PreK-16 — are the places and spaces where our children can explore, question, analyze, and evaluate serious issues, troubling moments, and sensitive topics, particularly, the issue of RACE.
Interestingly, some who would censor such texts as Huck Finn and Mockingbird often overlook what lies at the core of just how such texts foment conversations and thoughts which have populated our children's' minds. Difference and/or the issue of Other permeate students' minds and experiences; ethnicity including race, comprises a portion but decidedly not the whole of challenges and concerns our children encounter and confront every single day as they head out to school, to community activities, to play, to interact on social media, even to interact with family members.
As a life-long educator and Mark Twain scholar who remains in schools across our country from elementary to college, my question always is, Where are the students' voices? I agree with Mr. Cary and Mr. Witherspoon that our nation's children have been surrounded by the dis-comfortable discourse they encounter online, on television, in their communities, and on the streets of America. All too often, our nation's children see, watch, hear, read, sometimes sing to and/or dance to songs with the history-laden and blood-soaked word nigger, or some variant iteration of it.
Rather than our hiding away and pushing down exploration, analysis, research, and open-discussion, our nation's English language arts classrooms are safe spaces that do not, as Freire says "deposit" information into students' minds; rather, today, our ELA classrooms and educators create sustained learning and exploratory opportunities for our students—instructional opportunities where students' voices and perspectives are encouraged and honed for both daily living and college and career. The literature our students experience from fairy and folk tales to sobering fiction and nonfiction — all allow them to peer deeply into life's troubles, challenges, discomforts, decisions and consequences, encountering noble and ignoble individuals and actions, but from a safe distance. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird are no different from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Beloved, Othello, Merchant of Venice or Douglass' Monthly, to cite a very few formative and critical texts. All are sensitive, all controversial, all totally reflective of the world then and now: verisimilitude. And all contain some form of sensitive, historical usage.
Just what are the consequences of our not fighting on behalf of our children to keep these texts in front of our children? For me the answer to my ever-present query emerges with an interesting juxtaposition between Frederick Douglass and Mark Twain. I frequently reference these two speeches:
Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech to the citizens of Rochester, NY "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" and Mark Twain's 1907 speech to The American Society in London on "The Day We Celebrate." I frequently recommend this pairing to teachers and also share myself with students because Douglass and Twain, without conscious intent, literally recreate a rhetorical call and response, using compelling, written prose. Douglass states his ire and the irony of his being asked to address the import fellow Abolitionists (most of whom are white) place on celebrating a national holiday that neither champions him nor his kind. He concludes the sobering and blistering speech with his call:
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh! Had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake. . . . The conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.
55 years after Douglass' speech, Mark Twain would galvanize an audience with his response:
. . . The Fourth of July, and the one which you are celebrating now, born, in Philadelphia on the 4th of July, 1776—that is English too. It is not American. . . . We have, however, one Fourth of July which is absolutely our own and that is the great proclamation issued forty years ago by that great American . . . Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's proclamation, which not only set the black slave free, but set the white man free also. The owner was set free from the burden and offence, that sad condition of things where he was in so many instances a master and owner of slaves he did not want to be. That proclamation set them all free.
Provided even these short excerpts, our students today through their unique lenses hear, see, and reflect quite differently from students of the 20th century: not just equality but equity; not just equity and equality, but both set within an ethical and universal context.
We now exist in an environ where those who should know better regularly give verbal life to such limiting and, yes, racist ideas that if one is not of the specific color, then one cannot write about a different race or ethnicity. Just what does such a stance express to our children of the 21st century? Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Henry James, Harper Lee, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Jacqueline Woodson, Jimmy Santiago Baca—and so many, many more have shown us this position is one devoid not only substance but also and more importantly, such positions lack Equity, Equality, Ethics. Though many of our children may indeed be challenged and constricted by economic class, gender, sexual orientation, educational attainment, religious practice, as well as other social and personal contexts — regardless of ethnicity and because of it — our consciously limiting access to and for them through the literature experienced in ELA classes is faulty logic and incredibly dangerous.
Students today across our country view works like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird quite differently than did we, than did our parents, or even our grandparents. Students today view these works as informative because they find themselves ensconced in the 24/7 turmoil Mr. Cary and Witherspoon cite, across racial lines. The classroom, especially the ELA classroom, provides a safe distance through which our nation's children — all of them — can inquire, examine, and make meaning through their lenses — not ours.
The one and primary caveat about which we ELA educators must remain ever-vigilant: the imperative of better preparing educators who feel they are not wholly prepared for such instruction. We who can help must help. We must help because these books and others like them are important. We dare not censor history, not even its language, for when we do, we sanitize it and our children's Memory fades forever. How can they learn and move forward into their future without sustaining and always holding onto their and our Memory?
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Riske Business: Adam and Heath Discuss the Rocky Series (Round 1)
by Adam Riske
As Heath and I gear up for Creed (coming out in November), we begin our first in a series of discussions about our beloved Rocky franchise.
Adam: How you would rank the series in order from favorite to least favorite?
Heath: Oh, man. That's a tough question, because I think they're all pretty great, even the ones that get crapped on. I guess if I HAD to answer that question because you had a gun to my head -- which is way out of line, so please put it away -- is 1, 3, 4, 6, 2, 5. But the great thing about these movies is that every time I watch them (which is often), I tend to find new things to appreciate about them that I didn't connect with previously. Like part 5: the relationship with his son in that movie really impacted me on my most recent watch. What about you? You have to answer because NOW I HAVE THE GUN. HA HA!
Adam: It's a Nintendo gun...and you just pistol whipped me with it. OW! Not very sly. See what I did there?
I think some of them are great and some are "great" but in a pure cheese way. My ranking would be 1, 2, 6, 3, 5, 4. I totally agree with you about the father-son relationship in Rocky V. That is the best part of the movie besides when Rocky goes "Aye, yo Tommy Gunn. You knock him down. Why don't you try knockin' me down." GO FOR IT! Ugh, I love Rocky V so much. "He took my room!" Rocky V is the one I will defend and stand by as the most underrated of the series. I think having Rocky be down and out and back in the old neighborhood was a fresh take for the series at that point and part V doesn't get enough credit for how great of a parody it is of Don King and the boxing scene of the late '80s and early '90s.
So you put Rocky IV pretty high up there. That's the one I don't like but it is maybe the most '80s movie of all time. Defend part IV. That's the one that's become a cult classic of sorts with movie fans which I don't get at all. Sure it's got a lot of great elements - the montages, Dolph, etc., but it's not a good movie, right? Or am I crazy?
Heath: Okay, so I was all about to explain what makes Rocky IV so watchable and then you ended your question by pointing out the montages, Dolph, etc., and totally take all my talking points away. I think a lot of people probably like Rocky IV ironically these days, but I have a real, genuine love for all that '80s stuff. I think that's what it all boils down to for me: it's the most blatantly excessive entry in the series. You're right that technically it's not a good movie; Dolph Lundgren is a cartoon version of a Russian and the whole "America-vs-Communism" thing is way too on the nose. But I think it's the silliest, tackiest, most in-the-moment of all the Rocky movies, which makes me love it. It's a quintessential '80s movie, and I really love '80s movies. They're so basic: good guy, bad guy, music video soundtrack, triumphant climax, freeze frame!
Plus, Stallone is so passionate in part IV. When he ends the movie by giving a speech about change to an arena full of Russians and gets a standing ovation from lookalike Gorbachev, I really believe Stallone thought that he was making a difference. There's this earnestness, which is sometimes misguided, that permeates all the Rocky movies, and I really NEED to think that it's the essence of Stallone seeping into the things he's writing and directing. I want to believe that he's so blindly optimistic that he thinks he can change the world with a boxing movie. That's one of the reasons I love the dude so much. He's like a family member at this point.
Adam: I'm so glad you brought up Stallone's earnestness, because that's my favorite thing about him as an actor and a filmmaker as well. The moment in the series that brings the house down for me is his speech to his son about "getting back up again" from Rocky Balboa. It gives me the chills; it's so nakedly emotional that it blurs the lines between character and performer. What do you think of Rocky Balboa overall? I don't think the boxing stuff works, but everything around it about Rocky and his son is some of the best stuff in the series.
Heath: I really like Rocky Balboa. I've never questioned the boxing match in Rocky Balboa. Rocky is so stubborn and determined that he will never give up, and Mason "The Line" Dixon is a paper champ who was fed easy opponents. We saw that happen to Rocky in...what, part III? Also, the speech you mentioned about getting back up again is awesome. Life sucks, it's not fair, and you lose more as time goes on. Okay, so now what? What are you going to do about it? The choice is yours. Fantastic.
Adam: Better son: Sage Stallone or Milo Ventimiglia?
Heath: I like Milo Ventimiglia more than I liked Sage in the role, but I feel bad comparing. First, Sage wasn't an actor when he starred as Rocky's son for Rocky V, so he's a little stiff in screen. But then again, you can tell Sly is just nuts about the kid because he's always hugging and kissing on him, which makes the relationship more believable. Milo was able to convey the duality of having pride in his dad but also growing up in his shadow and resenting that. Ultimately I think casting him was a wise decision for the movie. I'm going with Milo.
Adam: I like Milo for a few reasons - 1) He was nice when I met him in person at a Wizard World con 2) He was on Gilmore Girls and 3) He's really great in Rocky Balboa. And yet, I keep finding myself liking Sage more. He had a great Ralph Macchio quality to him and it's a very sweet and unaffected performance. It's really sad that Sage Stallone passed away at such a young age. RIP.
Heath: What's your opinion of Paulie as a character? I know he played a necessary part in the first movie as Adrian's brother, but how do you feel about the character as he exists in all six movies? I've really struggled with his involvement in these stories.
Adam: I want to jump out of my skin every time I see him. He's a dirty crumbum. I don't think he adds much except as a counterpoint to Rocky and Adrian. I think that's his function. He represents "the neighborhood" and Rocky and Adrian are the beacons of light who have good hearts and rise above being defeated by their socioeconomic situation (at least in the first movie). He's what I fear I will grow up to be if I don't get married and just watch movies all the time.
Heath: You don't need to worry about that ever being you. You're really fun to be around and you're generous. Remember you split your taco with me at F This Movie Fest 2015? I don't even think we should explain that. We should just leave it there and let people wonder. I'm just saying, you're no Paulie.
I really don't like Paulie either, and I think that's a shame. I don't feel like there's any sort of a journey over the course of the six movies. I guess he's got a little remorse in Rocky Balboa for the way he's treated Adrian in the past, but he doesn't seem to have learned from any of his mistakes. And look at all the trouble he caused his family in Rocky V! He never even said he was sorry. I get that he's supposed to represent the neighborhood, but he really just represents how to be a total douche.
Adam: What do you think about the Paulie sex robot in Rocky IV?
Heath: '80s Robot says HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULIE.
Adam: Paulie totally f**ked that robot. Read between the lines, Heath.
Heath: So do we think that Paulie put a Fleshlight in the robot? Because now I'm uncomfortable with all the time Rocky's son was spending with it in that movie. "You've got such a deep bellybutton! I can fit a whole candy bar in it!"
Adam: I think Paulie isn't smart enough for a Fleshlight. He probably just came on it. This is getting gross. But let's push this joke even farther. #Paul-E.
Heath: Paulie probably wouldn't even get a tissue for the robot when he was done. He'd be all like "clean yourself up and get outta here. I don't sweat you!" Then he'd throw a Thanksgiving turkey at it and crack open a beer.
Adam: Paulie would probably say "I hope you corrode" and start crying and violently knocking things off of shelves.
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Sol May 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM
Great discussion guys and I'm pumped for more - I got the Rocky boxset around this time last year and marathoned them having caught bits and pieces of most of them before but only REALLY seeing V, and I loved them so much! The timing was good too - just found out a baby was on the way and was preparing to dismantle much of my life at the time (i.e. moving way out of my 'hood and saving more disposable income than spending it) so I was excited but also sort of mourning - Rocky knocked that right outta me and I loved every one of them. I also would have to be violently assaulted to rank them - I guess I can say Rocky is my favourite and Rocky IV is my least favourite, but I might as well be ranking the different flavours of Froot Loops - just pour em in a bowl and I'll stuff them in my face until I pass out on the couch.
Paulie was one of the biggest surprises for me - I always assumed he was Rocky's crusty but benevolent sidekick but he's pretty much a horrible asshole with no redeeming qualities through the whole franchise. And yeah, he totally had some sort of non-consensual robo-sex with that poor robot.
Speaking of robots, I wasn't sure watching Rocky IV if we were supposed to maybe think Dolph was REALLY a robot? I get the metaphor obviously but it almost seemed like the movie was leading us down a more literal path there; i.e. those crazy Reds made a boxing robot! Oh whew, he can bleed, it's just a man! (And what a man!)
Rocky V was my first Rocky and holds a special place in my heart so I've got your back, Adam - definitely the most underrated!
Looking forward to Round 2!
Tim Smedlund May 28, 2015 at 12:03 PM
I really enjoy these discussion style posts guys, always really well done. Also, I am ashamed to report I've never seen a Rocky movie. But the column was really fun! (Am I off the hook now or should I just show myself out?)
Matt Sollenberger May 28, 2015 at 2:27 PM
Good call, Adam: "Why don't you try knocking ME down!?" is a total Exploding Heart Moment for me in Rocky V. Can't wait to read the further installments of this discussion.
Matt Lohr May 28, 2015 at 7:06 PM
From henceforth, every article and podcast on this site must somehow incorporate the phrase "He probably just came on it. " The people demand it!
William L May 28, 2015 at 9:34 PM
Am I the only one that thinks the Balboa Vs Creed rematch from Rocky 2 is the best fight from the series? Its just 15 minutes of non stop excitement and if the Bill Conti score during the fight and the final round dosen't get your heart racing you need to check your pulse.
Grant Malfitano May 31, 2015 at 8:39 PM
I looooove this discussion guys. Been an F Head for some time now and have been patiently waiting for the Rocky series to make its way into a podcast or written piece. I'm a huge Stallone lover and this movie series means so much to me its almost embarrassing...but not really because it's f***ing awesome.
I'm probably closer to Adam in terms of my ranking of them even though rewatching does tend to throw up some changes. Usually it is 1,2,6,3,4,5. But 2 and 6 often switch around depending on my sly mood.
I'd be interested to know how your reactions to the movies have changed over the years. I'm 32 so grew up watching Rocky III and IV over and over and OVER again on VHS taped from TV. Maybe it is because those two in particular, play like almost like cartoons that they were so easy to love as a kid. I mean, come on, Clubber Lang and Ivan Drago are the most cartoonish badass villains ever. I love how entertaining they are and are undoubtedly the most fun in the whole series.
I like that you guys both defend 5 to some degree. It was the first opportunity I had to see a rocky film at the movies, but even then I remember leaving the cinema thinking that something was amiss. Maybe it was the the blank expression my dad had as he wondered what the hell he'd just paid to watch.
I love Rocky Balboa and think that it is a brilliant bookend to the series. I also think that it is a movie Stallone wouldn't have been capable of making in the early 90s. There's real humility in Balboa and you can feel the gratitude that Sly has for the charavter of Rocky and the influence it has had on his life.
God I love Rocky.
I know Patrick isn't the biggest fan but please pretty please how bout a podcast, if not on the series then maybe the ultra fun III and IV?
Adam Riske June 1, 2015 at 9:47 PM
Thanks for commenting. I really enjoyed reading it. I grew up on Rocky V mostly and then saw IV and I in my teens. I didn't catch up with II and III until my early 20s and saw Balboa in theaters. The series really clicked for me when Balboa came out. I just find the series so heartfelt and inspirational that it's become a landmark series for me personally.
Grant Malfitano June 2, 2015 at 7:03 PM
Thanks Adam. I didn't get around to seeing the first Rocky until my teens also. Probably for the best as it's so much more subtle than the 80s installments. I managed to see the premiere of Balboa in Sydney where Stallone was in attendance. I shook his hand, called him Mr Stallone and pretty much never recovered from the high of that night.
What are your expectations like for Creed? It is a good idea, and I'll see anything with Rocky in it. Buuuut Balboa was such a fitting ending part of me wishes he just left it there.
Adam Riske June 2, 2015 at 10:45 PM
That's a cool story about you and Sly. I think Heath and I will get into our thoughts on Creed soon so I'll be brief here but I understand where you are coming from. Then again, Michael B. Jordan is a really charismatic actor and I'm eager to see Rocky as a trainer and mentor again like in Rocky V.


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Adam is a freelance trumpet player and teacher living in Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in trumpet performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music studying under Michael Sachs. His previous teachers include Matthew Ernst, Brent Turney, and Mathew Buchman.
Adam has always had a deep love for music. He began his study of trumpet in 5th grade after a few years of piano lessons. His first trumpet teacher was James Neujahr, who currently serves as Fox Valley Lutheran's director of Instrumental Music at both the middle and high school levels. Mr. Neujahr had a profound impact on Adam and he hopes to show that same passion and encouragement to his own students. Adam became more serious about trumpet in 7th grade and started studying with Ryan Smith at the Lawrence Academy of Music. Adam studied with Ryan from 7th grade to 12th grade. During high school, Adam was very active within the music program. Adam participated in the concert band and jazz band at FVL along with various pit orchestras. Adam was also very active outside of his high school. He participated in many honors programs including the Wisconsin State Honors band. He also served as principal trumpet of the Lawrence Wind Ensemble as well as the Fox Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra where he received the Conductor's award his senior year. Adam also traveled around the country during the summers of his high school years with the competitive marching band - The Lutheran Vanguard of Wisconsin.
During his senior year of high school, Adam decided to go to Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN to pursue a degree in pastoral studies. At MLC, Adam stayed very active in music, taking trumpet lessons with Dr. Brent Nolte and Thomas Beier as well as being part of the MLC Wind Symphony. After one year of study, Adam decided that he really wanted to pursue a career in music. Adam is still a very active musician within the church.
Adam decided to pursue a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. Adam recently graduated in the Spring of 2020 with a B.M. in Trumpet Performance degree under Brent Turney as well as a Jazz Studies Minor under Mathew Buchman. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam decided take a gap year before attending graduate school. During that time he studied with Matthew Ernst, principal trumpet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He also maintained a trumpet studio in Appleton, WI and Stevens Point, WI, in addition to assisting with teaching band lessons at Greenville middle school, as well as playing gigs throughout Wisconsin.
Adam is now living in Cleveland, Ohio pursuing a Master of Music degree in trumpet performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he is studying under Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of The Cleveland Orchestra.
Adam loves playing trumpet and could never see himself doing anything else with his life.


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Let me be the thousandth person to tell you, "What an unusual year 2020 was!" I know you're sick of hearing it, and while I think many of us wish we could put it out of our minds, the chaos and uncertainty have seeped into almost every facet of life. Music has been no exception to this. Live concerts have been decimated, tours have been canceled, venues are struggling to stay afloat. But the thing about musicians – indie musicians in particular – is that we're no strangers to hard times. We survive the three-hour drives to $50 gigs, the rowdy bar crowds that would rather drink to Brown Eyed Girl than listen to original music, and the set times that start at 11:45 pm on Tuesday night. We're perseverance experts. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that even while the industry suffered as a whole, hundreds – if not thousands – of individual musicians created beautiful works of art in this time of crisis.
This is perhaps a good time to introduce myself. My name is Jess Chizuk, and I'm the current owner/operator here at The Ark. I took over for founder Noah Hittner back in June of this year, and I've been settling into the role for the past six months. As an indie musician myself (one half of the Americana/folk duo The Rightly So), I know the challenges that face independent artists all too well. We've been DIY touring full time since 2018, and this year has wreaked absolute havoc on our current and future plans. The Ark has become my sanctuary in a time of crisis – a passion project to pour myself into as the world ground to a full stop. I've always been an avid writer (and blogger – my tour blog is here if you're interested in more free-form aspects of my work), and being able to combine my love of independent music with my writing abilities has been an absolute joy and blessing in this highly turbulent year.
But the music has played on, in spite of it all. In spite of my troubles or yours. The amount of sonic beauty that I've been treated to in this role is unprecedented. Nearly every single work that found its way into my inbox managed to impress and inspire me. I feel very fortunate to have been privy to so much excellent music in such a short time, and for that, I will be permanently grateful.
So, one final and hearty thanks to Noah for his absolute dedication to building and growing this platform. He's left large shoes to fill, and I hope to spend many years working to fulfill his goals for The Ark, while still making things my own. Another thanks to each and every musician I've had the pleasure of working with during my first half a year as a small business owner – you've shown me unprecedented talent and musicianship in a time where so much was taken from the world. Thank you for being one beautiful consistency.
And thank you to you, dear reader – however you came across The Ark. Thanks for riding out 2020 with us. Hopefully, we can now all look forward to a new dawn and a new year, with perhaps a live music renaissance on the horizon.
But for now, take a listen below to some of 2020's highlights – the best of the best. Enjoy our Top 10 Albums and Singles, as well as a handful of honorable mentions. If you're unfamiliar with these artists, go stream their music, buy their albums, and follow their socials – thank them for continuing on with their art the rest of us can enjoy, no matter what each day brings.
Be well, and Happy New Year!
— Jess Chizuk & The Ark of Music team
Megan Bee – Waiting
Ricky Ferranti – Hope
Late for the Train – Plant it or Build It
D.K. Lyons – The Past (Romanticized)
Bittersweet Machines – Disco Volante
Galliano Sommavilla – Welcome to My Side of the World
The Albatross – Birds of Paradise
NuRenaissance – REDD & bluu
Tu P – Agenda
Paul Mark & The Van Dorens – Gravity
Jeremy Parsons – Good Ole Days
Andrey Psyche and Julia Newman – Cupid & Psyche
Madeline Finn – Whippoorwill
TWOFEW – On The Run
Rocky Peter – Fast Lane
Jerome Lee – First Peace After the Rain
The Barbeque Band – Bottles
Katie Belle – Carrousel
Sinistra – Voices of Dawn
Rob Alexander – This Hollywood Road
Tom Rush – Philosopher Kings (single)
Shuntai – Breaking Down the Walls (single)
Don Tocabajo – Ad Gustum (album)
Tyler Suarez – Weird Times (EP)
Spirit of 74 – Spirit of 74 (album)
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As Jonathan noted in a recent post, I am the bearer of a modified version of his pumpkin bread. This modified version is what I like to call "healthy." I'll explain the special definition of "healthy" momentarily, but first it is important to note that this blog, while gooey with homemade-ice cream and greasy with homemade mayonnaise, is actually a pretty healthy, self-contained little universe. Most of my own recipes (you'll see plenty of them soon) are whole-grain, chock full of vegetables, or otherwise nutritious. So, that is why you'll see so many "healthy" treats, starting, of course, with pumpkin bread.
One should note that "healthy" is not the same as healthy. Steamed broccoli is healthy. Reduced-fat muffins are "healthy." Oat bran is healthy. Whole-wheat chocolate chip cookies are "healthy." Get the idea? Now, to make things even more complicated, some "healthy" recipes really are quite nutritious, while others aren't quite as nutritious, but are improvements over other, really unhealthy things. I think that you can decide for yourself whether "healthy" is close to healthy or to unhealthy. However, I am here to guide you taste-wise. If a "healthy" recipe really tastes quite different from the original, you will be amply notified.
Many of my recipes are "healthy" because I have a raging sweet tooth, and couldn't possibly live without delicious treats like pumpkin bread, gelato, and brownies. Especially brownies. When I crave something sweet and home-baked, but haven't necessarily earned the right to indulge myself, "healthy" recipes save the day. I fully advocate the occasional and utter indulgence, but perhaps not every day. Or at least not at every meal.
If you are still skeptical of the idea of "healthy" recipes, and would prefer to just have the honest-to-goodness stuff less frequently, consider this: how incredibly awesome it is to have something home-baked that can serve both as tasty dessert and as hearty breakfast. If this doesn't make the case for "healthy," I don't know what does.
Sift dry ingredients (not sugar) and mix remaining ingredients in a separate bowl. Mix wet into dry ingredients, being careful not to overmix. Pour batter into greased loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45 min., or until tester inserted comes out clean.
Jonathan will be quick to tell you about the time when I made this pumpkin bread way too "healthy." It was basically healthy at that point. It was also rather...spongy? This recipe is the happy medium, and you will hardly be able to tell the difference between it and the original, unless you do a side-by-side taste test. I'll admit that the original is better for dessert. But this is pretty damn good.


May 20, 2014, 4:20 p.m.
Ahead of this week's European Parliament and local elections, UKIP leader Nigel Farage has repeatedly had to defend his party – and himself – against accusations of racism and bigotry. In a recent interview he characterised the source of the attacks as "a political class, clubbing together using their mates in the media and doing anything they can to stop the UKIP charge". Views about UKIP and race have been decidedly mixed in YouGov's recent polling: while most think the party seems to attract people with racist, extreme or odd views, the public disagreed with criticisms that UKIP's campaign adverts were themselves "racist".
The latest YouGov research suggests that when it comes to the news media coverage about UKIP, many British voters agree with Mr Farage's general view. In fact, by 47-13% voters say the news media is biased against UKIP rather than in favour of them. Another 20% say news coverage of UKIP is basically fair and balanced, but the strong overall tilt towards a negative bias is unique to UKIP among the major parties.
Interestingly, the tendency to see coverage as biased against UKIP is largely non-partisan. Majorities of UKIP (77%) and Conservative (53%) supporters take this view, as well as pluralities of Lib Dems (31%) and Labour (40%).
Voters are more likely to say coverage of the Lib Dems is biased against them (23%) than in their favour (9%), but the most common perception is that coverage is basically fair (43%) for the party. "Basically fair and balanced" is also how the largest groups described news coverage of Labour (43%) and the Conservatives (38%).
In addition, the public generally agree with Nigel Farage's own assessment that UKIP is being victimised by "a political class" and "their mates in the media". The majority (54%) of British adults agree with his statement, while only 26% disagree. 20% don't know.
It's unclear what impact the recent media criticisms of Mr Farage and UKIP are having on their prospects for the elections later this week.
YouGov's latest voting intention poll for the European Parliament election has UKIP gaining three points from the previous poll to tie Labour at 27%.


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Hunting: Waterfowl
A Balmy Beginning in Canada
Duck Trek 2011
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba — Snow fell here as early as September last year. But it didn't feel like duck season when Jim Fisher met us at the Winnipeg International Airport.
It seemed more like duck season if you said the temperature in Celsius – 21 degrees, otherwise known as 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
The 2011 Duck Trek would begin in balmy weather, but at least there was an abundance of water. Duck reproduction goes down when the Prairie Pothole region dries up. Just like the precipitation totals here in the past 12 months, in its annual May survey of the breeding grounds, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated a population of almost 46 million ducks, the highest since the survey began in 1955.
It appears to be the best time in modern history to be a duck hunter. But we've all experienced seasons when the weather in the lower 48 states didn't allow us to take advantage of a great waterfowling forecast.
The solution? Go where the ducks are. And this early in the season, that would be Canada.
Fisher had planned a simple, old-fashioned duck hunt: scout for ducks the evening prior to the hunt, take a couple dozen decoys and a dog into the marsh before daylight the next day, then wait for the birds to fly.
Fisher, 43, grew up in Portage La Prairie, pop. 12,728, located 43 miles west of Winnipeg. The town's name is as descriptive as one gets. "Portage" is a French word that means to carry a canoe between waterways. In this case, it's the Assiniboine River and Lake Manitoba, located on the Canada prairie.
Delta Marsh lies on the south end of Lake Manitoba, separated by a wooded ridge. A few thousand years ago, it was a delta formed by the Assiniboine River flowing into Lake Manitoba. The river has since changed course, but the marsh remains.
Delta Marsh typically encompasses about 45,000 acres of interconnected shallow bays lined with cattails and filled with various other types of aquatic vegetation. It may have grown to twice that size this summer, due to runoff from heavy snowmelt and rainfall. It was beginning to recede to its normal level when we arrived.
You can't overstate the importance of Delta Marsh in the modern history of duck hunting. This is where Minneapolis industrialist James Ford Bell, founder of General Mills, came for good duck hunting after his favorite areas in Minnesota began declining. And he started buying land in the marsh.
The Delta Waterfowl Foundation dates its inception to 1911. But it was here, in 1938, when the organization began to fly. Working with the American Wildlife Institute, Bell hired Aldo Leopold to address declining waterfowl populations. Leopold, considered the father of North American conservation, summoned the services of one of his University of Wisconsin graduate students, Al Hochbaum, to spend the months of June through November conducting waterfowl research at facilities Bell provided.
"This is the place I have always dreamed of," Hochbaum reportedly said upon his arrival in Delta Marsh. Hochbaum would become a legendary waterfowl authority before his retirement in 1970.
Delta Marsh also attracted Jimmy Robinson, who would later be proclaimed the "Sportsman of the Century" after his 45-year outdoor writing career, mostly at Sports Afield magazine. Robinson hunted the marsh as a boy. The guests at Robinson's Sports Afield Duck Club Lodge near the marsh included Babe Ruth and Ernest Hemingway. Robinson died in 1986, but his lodge continues to host hunters.
Delta Marsh was also home to Duncan Ducharme, whose hand-carved duck decoys are now treasured by collectors. Ducharme took over for his father as the decoy-maker for James Ford Bell.
So, yes, there's a lot of history here. It was created by the fact that Delta Marsh is one of the world's greatest gathering places for waterfowl. This is their staging area before winter's migration south.
Fisher has some history here too. His great-grandfather once built a "shooting camp" so far back in the marsh that a boat ride was required to get there. Since 1993 Fisher has worked as a biologist for Delta Waterfowl. It's an understatement to say Fisher knows his way around this area.
Fisher prefers to look you in the eyes when he talks to you. That can be a bit unsettling when he's driving and you're sitting in backseat of his twin cab pickup truck. But the gravel roads along this agricultural land are wide and straight. We never veered near a ditch as Fisher guided photographer James Overstreet and me on our scouting trip.
As the sun slid toward the horizon, Fisher found our spot. A group of hunters fired their last shots of the day on the south side of a dirt road where we had stopped. We watched small groups of ducks flitting in and out of the marsh on the north side of the road. It looked like the place to be at sunrise the next day.
Earlier, on our drive into the marsh, we passed through the tiny community of Marquette, which is big enough to have a curling club. Fisher enjoys sliding a stone down a sheet of ice as much as any Canuck. The sport many Americans see only every four years during the Winter Olympics is more popular here than duck hunting. That's good if you're worried about someone beating you to your duck hole the next morning. It's bad if you're concerned about the long-term health of the sport.
"We used to have over half-a-million duck hunters in Canada," Fisher said. "We're down to about 150,000. There are more Americans duck hunting in Saskatchewan than Canadians now."
In other words, if you're counting on a public outcry when the breeding grounds are under attack, you'll have to strain to hear it.
Fisher has been instrumental in promoting Delta Waterfowl's Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) program. At this time, when agricultural land is increasingly valuable, it provides an incentive for Canadian farmers to preserve the wetlands that are the essential part of waterfowl breeding habitat. It's somewhat like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the U.S. – in reverse – where the landowners play a key role in how their land is managed.
Between the continual loss of wetlands and the decreasing number of duck hunters, this appears to be a critical point in the sport's history.
What's a duck hunter to do? Well, at the very least, keep hunting.
We left Portage La Prairie at 5:30 the next morning. No other vehicles were in sight when we stopped at the same spot on the dirt road where we'd watched ducks working over the marsh the previous evening.
It was still too dark to see, but the duck sounds were encouraging. We arrived in plenty of time to walk a couple hundred yards, where the cattails grew thick around an opening in the marsh, and set our decoys before shooting time arrived. Fisher's English Springer Spaniel, Diamond, led the way.
We plunged off the road, through the cattails and into the opening that, thankfully, was devoid of the soft, boot-sucking mud that can turn decoy placement into a comedy routine.
As shooting time approached, a southwest breeze put some movement in the decoys, and eliminated the need for even a light jacket.
Fisher came prepared for an all-species hunt. On lanyards hanging from his neck were a goose flute, a pintail whistle and calls for teal, gadwalls and mallards.
Over the next three hours, Fisher and I would kill 11 ducks. There was hardly a moment when there weren't ducks and/or geese in the air on this unseasonably warm, cloudless day in the Delta Marsh. The daily bag limit here is eight, which would have easily been filled if I had picked up a shotgun a few times between then and the last duck season.
The ducks that came within shooting range appeared as singles or in small groups. Cattails, which stood about eight-feet high, provided cover for several low-flyers that buzzed us before we could shoulder a gun. They always leave you thinking you'll be ready for the next one. But you never are.
Our bag was somewhat typical for this wetland that attracts such a wide variety of waterfowl: three green-winged teal, two blue-winged teal, two redheads, two pintails, a widgeon, and a shoveler, plus a "bonus" snipe.
There wasn't a mallard in the bunch. We did see several groups, but none worked our decoys. Fisher spent an interesting five minutes exchanging four-quack sequences with a mallard hen hidden in the cattails behind us. She sounded like she was practicing her call for later in the season, when she might need it, possibly to hail fellow travelers to an Arkansas flooded timber hole.
We probably could have stayed and filled our limit. But Fisher had something special to show us, and we were eager to see it.
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So, even after the power came back on yesterday, the internet was down for all but about ten minutes (during which time I managed to post the blog and send out the e-mail which I had typed out). Today I was supposed to spend the day with a friend but something came up and he had to cancel, giving me one more day to just relax here at the guesthouse. The internet was up and running again this morning and so, except for a trip down the road for pizza and ice cream, I spent the whole day online catching up on e-mails and blogs just as I had hoped to do yesterday... Have I mentioned lately that God is so good to me?
Tomorrow however, I re-enter Africa so to speak. Many of you will remember Kids Club, where we distributed all those school supplies back in January. Well, tomorrow I will be visiting them once again. In the morning I will be meeting up with my friend Bonny and he will be taking me to see a set of three-year-old triplets that they sponsor (who were just babies the last time I saw them in 2007!) and then we will head to Kids Club in Katanga. I am looking forward to catching up with Bonny, seeing the kids we gave the school bags to once again, and also being able to experience a "normal" week of Kids Club. At the same time however, the thought of it all just makes me feel tired. Please pray that God would give me the energy I need to make it through what looks like it's going to be a busy day and that, even when I feel like I have given all I have to give, that He would fill me once again so that I can pour out His love on all those I come in contact with.


A profession in education and early childhood development may be stimulating, satisfying and rewarding, and gives the chance to affect and shape many lives. Yes, there were periods of great economic progress, between recessions, depressions, and wars; but most of it was generated by the push West after which the expansion into these territories. So lengthy was there was new land to beat or settle, the financial system could develop. It wasn't until the West Coast was pretty well settled that the American economic system began feeling the identical constraints we see right this moment. Due to this ability to broaden, there was a pure safety valve when the economic system went south, people moved West.
In many ways this distinction mirrors that between education and schooling. Education entails transmitting knowledge in manageable lumps so it may be stored and then used so that college students can move checks and have qualifications. Education entails participating with others and the world. It entails being with others in a selected means. Right here I need to explore three elements – being respectful, knowledgeable and smart.
The very notion of a race of those that was; at our beginnings as a country, solely thought-about to be three/5's of a human being, now having equal footing with those that actually believed on this concept of White Supremacy, is a direct challenge to a protracted held social concept. It denied the concept of white supremacy as legit. It's shocking how many individuals still cling to this idea, and can go to excessive lengths to perpetuate it.
Computer Animation – This course will present college students with a fundamental foundation in the principals of multimedia, computer modeling, & animation. Your father or mother remains to be there?? If they're, then they aren't feeling oppressed. It seems you could have surface knowledge of God will destroy you and also you have been being in worry with deep data of not aware and why, so that surface data is oppressing you, plus inward knowledge of past in KH that you don't know why no mates, why to go the assembly, and many others.
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 * This file is part of SolidInvoice project.
 *
 * (c) Pierre du Plessis <open-source@solidworx.co>
 *
 * This source file is subject to the MIT license that is bundled
 * with this source code in the file LICENSE.
 */

namespace SolidInvoice\MailerBundle\Tests\Form\Type\TransportConfig;

use SolidInvoice\CoreBundle\Tests\FormTestCase;
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{
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            'accessSecret' => 'baz',
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}

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As I work on my manuscripts, I have a loose calendar for Patron Updates.
I update Patrons once every two weeks or more on my projects.
I try to include graphics, excerpts, teasers, and/or links once a month of new or current works.
August – September 2019 – New book ideas, novel-in-a-month preview, and NaNoWriMo ideas.


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DEFRA publishes report on UK bird flu case
DEFRA has published an epidemiology report into the avian flu outbreak confirmed on a free range layer unit near Banbury, UK earlier this month, Farmers Weekly reports.
The report concludes that, at the time of writing (11 June), the outbreak is confined to a single premises and there is no evidence of infection in the Protection Zone or of spread to any other premises. However, investigations continue.
It suggests that it is possible that a low pathogenic strain already present on the farm had mutated into the highly pathogenic H7N7 avian flu. Analysis and investigations are continuing and a number of source hypotheses are being considered.
Chief veterinary officer, Nigel Gibbens, said: "The UK is at a constant, but low level of risk of the introduction of avian flu and the report highlights the need for flock owners and poultry vets to remain vigilant for signs of disease, including the possibility of low pathogenic avian flu."
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Zinc is another incredibly durable option, usually lasting for 100 years or more with proper care and installation. Like copper, zinc tends to be a more expensive option, but it offers a variety of benefits. Zinc is 100-percent recyclable and widely available: two factors that contribute to its reputation as one of the most eco-friendly options for metal roofs. Zinc can also take the form of a variety of creative shapes, making it a good option for commercial projects. One of the only downsides of zinc is the chalky finish that it develops over time. You can, however, clean and re-finish zinc roofs to maintain their attractive appearance.
Aluminum roofing is both extremely strong and highly resistant to corrosion. Unlike other metal roofing materials, aluminum resists salt corrosion due to its instant reaction to atmospheric conditions. Aluminum typically costs less than copper or zinc roofs, but it is often more expensive than steel and copper. For this reason, it tends to be applied in a slightly thinner layer, which means it might not be a good fit for regions with high winds or frequent hail.
Galvanized steel, the most common type of steel roofing material, includes an outer layer of zinc to protect the more delicate inner layer of steel from corrosion.
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Infotainment represents the combination of information and entertainment services. ANNAX offers displays and components, which can be used to present travel-related information as well as advertising and entertainment content.
To this category belong the InSeat and InArmchair displays, which are installed directly into the seats or armchairs, respectively. But also ceiling displays can be used for infotainment purposes. The Seat-Audio-Module (SAM) serves as an interface for headphones and allows controlling the volume of presented audio- and video content. It is installed into the armrest between two seats.


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Survey reveals Michigan will dump Dry January
Ehren Wynder
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Over half of Michiganders said they will forgo Dry January in 2021, according to a recent survey.
Rehabs.com, an addiction treatment resource, surveyed 3,000 drinkers across the U.S., which revealed in Michigan, of those who usually mark the start of the year with a Dry January, 53% say it will not be the case in 2021.
New Hampshire emerged as those most averse to a drink-free start of the year with 79% of people saying they will skip Dry January. Hawaii residents are more determined to attempt a healthier start to 2021 with just 23% saying they will skip the month of sobriety.
For those planning on quitting drinking altogether in the new year as a personal resolution, 27% admit that it would not be for health reasons but instead to reduce costs, given that so many people's finances have been negatively affected by the economic effects of the new coronavirus.
For those still determined to push on with Dry January, 19% said they are more likely to go the distance if they have a partner who is also attempting it. Women (24%) are more likely to join their partner in this period of alcohol abstinence as compared to men (14%). Half of the respondents said they will not attempt any New Year's resolutions.
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-- If the ball hits the roof or any building obstructions, it is out of play.
-- If the ball touches the netting behind goal-line extended, it is out of play. If it touches the side-netting but lands in play, it is live. If the ball gets tangled or caught in the netting or drops outside of the boards, it is out of play; the team that touched it last – or caused it to go into the netting – loses the ball.
-- If the ball touches the stick or body of a player in the bench area and remains in-bounds, it will be ruled interference; the ball will be awarded to the opposing team. If a ball goes through an open door or hits a player in the bench doorway, it is a technical foul against the team that left the door open, ball awarded to the opposing team.
-- On substitutions: Lacking a fully marked substitution area, players must be a stick's reach from the boards on the same side of the field as the bench (at midfield) or the back end of the bench before a substitute can come on the field. A player leaving the substitution area – or playing the ball inside of the substitution area – is on the field for the purposes of a too-many-men call.
-- All penalties are time-serving, even if a goal is scored during a slow-whistle situation.
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Facebook could be blocked in Russia next year
Our Foreign Staff
27 September 2017 • 2:04am
Russia will block access to Facebook next year unless the social network complies with a law that requires websites which store the personal data of Russian citizens to do so on Russian servers, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday.
The threat was made by Russia's communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, agencies said, the organisation which blocked access to LinkedIn's website last November in order to comply with a court ruling that found the social networking firm guilty of violating the same data storage law.
That case set a precedent for the way foreign Internet firms operate in Russia and other companies are now under pressure from the regulator to comply with the law, which was approved by President Vladimir Putin in 2014 and entered into force in September 2015.
"Everyone needs to abide by the law," the Interfax news agency cited Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov as telling reporters on Tuesday. "In 2018, everything will be as it should be for sure," he said, referring to Facebook.
"In any case, we will either get the law implemented or the company will cease to work on the territory of the Russian Federation as unfortunately happened to LinkedIn. There can't be any exceptions here."
Russia's presidential election is due to be held on March 18 next year.
The threat came soon after Facebook said it was handing details of 3000 advertisements bought by a Russian agency to Congress as part of an investigations into attempts to swing the US election.
Twitter Inc had already notified Roskomnadzor that it would aim to localise the personal data of its users by the middle of 2018, Zharov said.
"We understand clearly that Facebook has a significant number of users on the territory of the Russian Federation," Zharov was cited as saying. "On the other hand, we understand that this is not a unique service, and that there are other social media."
Asked to comment on the regulator's demands for Facebook to localise the data of its Russian users, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. firm had to comply with the law like everyone else.


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Say "social anxiety" and the first thing that comes to mind might be struggling with big groups of friends, or going to a party where you don't know anyone. But what about how to manage social anxiety at work? You have to show up and put in the hours to get by, but when you're surrounded by colleagues, constantly invited to meetings and potentially moments away from a confrontation at any time, the workplace can feel like a much bigger challenge than even the most intimidating of friend-based interactions.
The workplace is a fundamentally social setting, where you encounter other people, and negotiate their opinions and emotions. Add to it the pressure to perform and you've got the perfect social anxiety storm. And it's not just anxiety. Many mental health conditions are common among UK workers, with 1 in 3 in the workforce experiencing stress and depression as well as anxiety, according to a report by PWC.
And it's certainly nothing to be ashamed about, as Mind's Emma Mamo told Bustle: "These problems can affect anyone - no matter what our line of work. We all have mental health just as we all have physical health, and it fluctuates from good to poor.
"Around one in four people will experience a mental health problem in any given year — such as depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia — and may need extra support at work," she added.
So what can you do the next time you find yourself analysing that interaction with your desk mate over and over from all different angles, or ducking out of work drinks because you fear you'll say the wrong thing? From learning to accept your anxious feelings to arranging a candid chat with your manager, these tips should help.
Even though it can be tempting, trying to suppress your anxiety or wish it away is unlikely to help. If you practise accepting it and seeing it as a normal response to something you find stressful, it'll probably have much less power over you. Clinical psychologist Dr Marla Deibler told Business Insider UK that your anxiety might be trying to tell you something, so don't ignore it. "Everyone experiences anxiety. It is a normal response to stress," she said. "Let it in when it shows up. Practise acceptance rather than trying to push it away (which tends to be futile, resulting in feeling more overwhelmed and less in control), make room for anxiety. It is showing up to try to bring your attention to something."
Even if you don't feel comfortable sharing your worries with your manager just yet, talking to a trusted colleague or friend within your workplace can help create a support network. And once you've spoken to one person, it may make you feel less fearful about confiding in your manager. Mamo explained to Bustle: "Staying silent is one of the worst things people can do and opening up about how [you're] feeling can in turn help [you] feel more relaxed about chatting to [your] manager."
If you have a good relationship with your manager, and feel ready to talk, it's worth setting up a chat with them to share your experiences. Mamo advised Bustle that a private meeting is usually best, "[You] could meet them on a one-to-one basis. Having someone from HR present will make the meeting more formal, and normally wouldn't be necessary in the first instance, but might be useful if previous meetings haven't been fruitful."
Part of accepting your social anxiety can be identifying some of the things that make you feel the most stressed. Thinking about your workplace triggers, whether it's meetings, phone calls, or meeting new people, can help you plan to fight your fears next time. For example, psychologist Kyle MacDonald explained in his blog how to prepare for phone calls if you find them particularly stressful. He wrote: "Make careful notes about what you want to talk about. Prepare for the potential for having to leave a phone message or arrange a more appropriate time to call, and practise making phone calls at home, starting with simple calls to businesses to ask straightforward questions and moving on to more complex issues."
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According to mental health charity Mind, "social relationships are critical for promoting wellbeing and for acting as a buffer against mental ill health for people of all ages." One of the worst things about social anxiety is that it can rob you of the chance to make connections, which can leave you feeling isolated at work. While even small interactions with your colleagues might fill you with dread, the charity suggests small, practical ways to get started, like talking to someone instead of sending an email or putting five minutes aside to find out how someone really is. A recent New York University study found that exposure to triggers of a fear helped reduce that fear. So maybe all those motivational posts on Instagram were right after all, you just have to feel the fear and do it anyway. Just think of practicing small-scale workplace interactions, and trying to work through the anxiety they might cause as step one.
If your social anxiety is making doing your job impossible then it's probably time to seek out a support group or talk to a professional. Both the Anxiety UK and Mind charity websites have information about different types of counselling, as well as resources to help manage mental health conditions.
So take a few deep breaths and remember, you're not alone in feeling anxious, your boss might be more receptive to a chat than you'd think, and that not letting your fear rule you is the way forward. Time to send social anxiety packing. You can do this!


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[Abuse] [Telfair State Prison] [Georgia]
Violent abuse at Georgia Telfair prison
by a Georgia prisoner August 2016 permalink
I'm writing your organization in hopes of raising awareness of my situation. On the date of 9-3-15, I was a inmate at Smith State Prison, where I was assaulted viciously by Derrius Attical; a member of the Cert Team. Somewhere in between the hours of 3 & 5' oclock pm the Cert Team came to H-2, a lock down-segregation unit, with new arrivals. Somehow or another, Cert Team member D. Attical found reason to obtain the keys from the dormitory floor officer to gain access to my room. When the door came open, I was closer to the door than my bunkmate, who was sitting up-right on his bottom bunk. We were both sprayed with pepper spray none the less, but I was beat badly. I think he hit me with the bottom of the pepper spray can, but can not be certain. I & my room mate were temporarily blinded by pepper spray.
When all was said & done, I was covered in my own blood from head to toe, literally. I was escorted to medical by the Cert Team, & sent to the free world hospital, where I received stitches on my right eye brawl, & eye lid; & the left top corner of my upper lip. In total, I received what I think was 8 stitches. But it didn't stop there. As expected I filed my grievance, & awaited disciplinary court, but on the date 9-11-15, exactly 8 days later, I was assaulted again!
On 9-11-15, about 4 something in the early morning, Lieutenant Witfield came to my new cell with a few others & a paint ball gun. They woke me out of my sleep, instructing me to cuff up, & I complied. I was then instructed to get on my knees, & I complied. From there I was pushed on my stomach. I laid there & listened, though the Lieutenant was being very unprofessional and belligerent. As he insulted me, he poked me in the face with the pepper ball gun. Still I remained silent. Some how the lieutenant felt disrespected. He quickly stood from where he once squatted & stomped on the back of my head, causing my chin to slam into the floor & split on contact.
The entire time, a female officer held the camera. I doubt that it was actually recording because of the conduct that the Lieutenant displayed, & the fact that once he was done she causally placed the camera to her side without stopping it from recording. I know this because I was waiting for her to. (Note that I received more stitches 9-11-15)
As I did the first time, I filed my grievance, & awaited to go to disciplinary court, although I did not receive a disciplinary report that time, I had still not been to D.R. Court for the incident on 9-3-15. The day I went to disciplinary investigation, I was acquitted of all charges. But for some strange reason I was forced into a program called Tier II & denied parole, which was set for 9-30-15. I was submitted into the Tier II program for "Assaultive History," which is 1 of 13 reasons a inmate can be subjected to such a thing. This is ironic because I have never been convicted of such a thing. I have been accuse of 4 or 5 different occasions, but I have never been convicted of a violent D.R.
Due to the presumption of innocence, every man is considered innocent until proven guilty in the court of law, & to violate such a thing is to violate a man's Due Process rights. I have hired an attorney on a contingency basis to represent me & my claims against the state, but America needs to be aware of the adversity the prison population endures.
I am just one of many. Throughout my 8 year prison term I have been a witness to many atrocious acts committed by those in authority of me. Many prisoners are not fortunate enough to have outside help and still, many are under educated, & lack the literacy skill to address such dynamic ploys. In conclusion, I hope that your org. is willing to help my raise awareness. I honestly believe that bringing attention to such evil & tyrannical people will halt such violence. Thank you for your time.