Photography prices and devising a photography price list is, arguably, one of the most important tasks when starting a photography business. Set your prices too high you won't win any work and your photography business will fail. Set your prices too low and you will win work but the rewards won't be worth the time and effort you put in. In fact if you set your photography prices too low you may actually find yourself losing money and not being able to survive and make ends meet.
The key to setting photography prices is to set them at a level that is low enough to win work (i.e. encourage potential customers to use you rather than other photographers in your area) but high enough for you to make a profit and make the shoot worth your while. There is a fine line between charging too much and charging too little, but you have to identify it if you want to succeed.
When deciding on photography prices and devising a photography price list the first thing you have to do is find out what the competition are charging. Charge more than the competition and you won't get any work and won't get a chance to show people what you can do, and get more work as a result. It doesn't matter how good a photographer you are, if you charge more than the competition when you first start out (and do not have a reputation or following) your photography business will fail.
When setting your photography prices you have to check out what the photographers in your local area, i.e. the market you are trying to get in to, are charging. Photography prices vary from city to city so setting your charges based on what photographers in other parts of the country charge is a total waste of time. When you first start out local customers are what you will earn money from so make sure you charge the going rate for your local area.
Finding out what local photographers are charging is easy, and all you have to do is get some quotes for different photography services. If you have already started marketing your photography business, touting for work and getting your name around (including on social media) getting quotes from other photographers is going to be a little tricky, especially if the photographers are aware of your intentions.
You can, of course, go incognito and approach the photographers without giving your true identity but the likelihood of you obtaining a detailed pricing structure is pretty small. If you have already started getting yourself out there the best way to get a photography price list from local photographers is to get a friend or acquaintance to get the information/prices for you. If you have yet to start marketing yourself you can get the price list from the local photographers yourself and remain under their radar. The trick is to get in there and get the photography price lists as soon as possible.
There won't be a set price of all types of photography service, and the amount charged will vary from service to service. For example, wedding photography is lucrative and photographers charge far more than they should for wedding photography services. At the other end of the spectrum corporate headshots is a service you can't charge a lot for, even though there is still a lot of work involved. When getting the photography prices from the local photographers you need to get the price charged for the photography services you are going to offer.
Once you have the photography price list from the various local photographers you then need to sit down and critically analyse it. Can you provide the same level of service for the same price? Are the prices charged by the local photographers too low for you to match and actually make money? Can you provide the same services for less?
The ideal situation is when you can provide the same services as your competition for less money. Price is a sensitive issue and since everyone loves a bargain and value for money you will win work if you can undercut the competition and charge less. If you can't match what the competition is charging, i.e. it is not enough to make any money out of the shoot, you will have to think about the photography services you intend to offer and perhaps change them to suit your local market.
As you can see setting photography prices isn't simply plucking figures from the air, and you will have to research the market to see what the going rates are and then see if you can make any money charging the going rate or, ideally make money from charging less than what the photographers in your local area charge for the same photography services.


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Why The Swedes Have Had Enough
Open-door policy: Police organise a trainload of refugees arriving from across the Oresund Bridge at Hyllie station, Malmo, last November (©Johann Nilson/AFP/Getty Images)
In 1999, Frederik, the Crown Prince of Denmark, met Victoria, the Crown Princess of Sweden, 223 feet above the Oresund strait. On the newly-built Oresund Bridge (now made famous by the eponymous crime thriller) in white hard hats they hugged and celebrated the five-mile-long construction that connected their countries. Few things embodied "ever closer union" more clearly. Since its completion, Swedes and Danes have been whisked back and forth between Copenhagen and Malmo as easily as New Jersey commuters crossing the Hudson River to Manhattan.
Only last March, the border between Sweden and Denmark was thought sufficiently meaningless for Copenhagen's mayor Frank Jensen to call for Skane county, the southernmost region of Sweden that includes Malmo, to be rebranded as part of "Greater Copenhagen" to make it "an interesting area to locate your European or Scandinavian HQ". There was some debate over the name, with some preferring the more neutral "Scandinavia Bay Area" but many Swedes saw potential in the idea — roughly equivalent to Dover becoming part of "Greater Calais" — including Dages Industri, Sweden's largest business newspaper.
A year later, these trans-national plans are distant dreams. The migrant crisis means borders are back. When the Swedish government imposed identity checks on the Bridge in January, what had stood for 16 years as a monument to European openness and Scandinavian cooperation became a symbol of a continent creaking from the strain of its newcomers.
These checks mean 30-minute delays during rush hour, with Swedes working in Denmark now having to change trains at Copenhagen airport, where passengers' identity cards are photographed and a hastily-built fence divides the platform for trains to Sweden and the rest of the station. Then, at Hyllie Station, the first stop in Sweden, police board the train and IDs are checked again. When I took this journey in late January, the passengers I spoke to were understanding. Many had shared trains with asylum seekers last year, including those without any documentation. "The government had to do something," said one passenger. And yet, however justifiable the added security, the delays have put on hold the economic integration that these commuters exemplify.
Last year, nowhere in Europe was more generous to refugees than Sweden. Some 160,000 people applied for asylum in the country, more per capita than anywhere else in Europe: 1,575 applicants per 100,000 Swedes. By way of comparison, in Germany there were 520 arrivals for every 100,000 citizens, in Britain just 42. When numbers were at their highest, Sweden took in as many refugees in two weeks as David Cameron has promised to accept from Syria in the five years to 2020.
In November, however, the Swedish government decided it could no longer afford to be so generous. Even after transforming museums, schools and other public buildings into makeshift refugee accommodation, there were no more empty beds. New arrivals slept outside in the Scandinavian winter, triggering an emphatic message from migration minister Morgan Johansson: "Even we have our limits, and now they have been reached." The deputy prime minister, Green party leader Asa Romson, defended the decision to limit numbers with tears in her eyes and a lump in her throat.
Sweden's current crisis has been precipitated by the collision of two national principles. On the one hand, there is the country's commitment to lagom, a guidebook explanation of the national psyche which translates as "just the right amount" and is said to sum up the country's commitment to fairness and all things in moderation. Then there is Sweden's idea of itself as a humanitarian superpower, embodied in generous foreign aid commitments and a liberal refugee policy. So great are the numbers arriving that Sweden has been forced to chose between its humanitarian commitments and its moderating instincts. It has opted for the latter. The largest recipient of Swedish foreign aid this year will be Sweden, with money intended for the needy abroad alleviating the strain on resources at home.
There is little to distinguish a dreary red-brick building in Marsta, near Stockholm's Arlanda airport, from the surrounding office blocks and car showrooms. Yet it is one of the Swedish Migration Agency's reception centres, where thousands of refugees spend their first night in the country. The interior is stark, dreary and clean. Its plainness is disorienting; the map of Sweden on the wall is the only clue as to where you are. Asylum seekers mill about in reception, some losing patience as they struggle to communicate with staff.
Newcomers register with the centre as soon as they arrive. It is often their first point of contact with the Swedish authorities; their fingerprints are taken and they are given a bed and a kit of essentials — a towel, sheets, a blanket, soap, shampoo, loo roll — and asked to wait. Many arrive with no money and almost no possessions. There are 150 beds, which, in spite of the government's various attempts to dissuade more migrants from coming, are all full when I visit. Asylum seekers are supposed to stay at the centre for no longer than a few nights, until the Agency finds them more permanent accommodation. But those there when I visit will be stuck in limbo for several weeks, such is the demand for accommodation in Sweden.
Outside the centre, two Iraqi men suck on cigarettes. They are in Sweden because, as one of them puts it, their country is "not so happy". They tell me of how they made friends on the journey to Sweden and how happy they are to be safe. When I ask them why they travelled all the way to Sweden, rather than stopping in one of the safe countries they passed through, they smile and one says: "Sweden is the friendliest."
Also outside the centre is Freddie, a 19-year-old Ghanaian who came to Sweden two days earlier. Why has he claimed asylum here, I ask. "My grandfather died and my father died too, so I thought I'd come to Europe," he said. "There are more opportunities here. A friend said 'Try Sweden. It is possible there'." He tells me he would like to go to London eventually. "There are many Ghanaians there," he says.
Therein lies the challenge not just for Sweden but for all of Europe: muddled in with those fleeing conflict are those doing what people have always done — leave home in search of prosperity, not just security. Last autumn, British-Somali poet Warsan Shire's "Home" became something of a rallying cry for those who thought every European government should be as generous as Sweden. Benedict Cumberbatch recited part of it on stage after performances of Hamlet at the Barbican. ("Fuck the politicians," he added at one show.) But the poem's opening lines — "No one leaves home/unless home is the mouth of a shark" — are entirely at odds with the motivations of many of those coming to Europe. Doug Sanders, a journalist who has spent considerable time reporting on cross-Mediterranean migration, has written: "The most insidious notion is the one that holds that the Africans on the boats are starving villagers escaping famine and death. In fact, every boat person I've ever met has been ambitious, urban, educated, and, if not middle-class (though a surprising number are, as are an even larger number of Syrian refugees), then far from subsistence peasantry."
When the Swedish government announced that an estimated 80,000 asylum seekers would have their applications rejected, few Swedes had confidence in the authorities' ability to prevent them settling in Sweden or somewhere else in Europe. Seven out of ten of those facing deportation simply vanish.
The open invitations offered by Sweden and Germany, coupled with the collapse of the European border last summer, have helped to create a perverse status quo that rewards those rich and strong enough to survive the journey to Northern Europe, while refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey remain perilous and underfunded. This year, the Swedish government will spend nearly as much on Afghans in Sweden — including a large number of unaccompanied minors — as the Afghan government's entire budget, including defence spending. Well-intentioned policymakers have created a Darwinian process for sorting those they help from those they ignore.
Kent Ekeroth has had enough. "This is the most insane country on the planet — except maybe North Korea," he tells me. Not a tinpot dictatorship or a banana republic. Not a repressive monarchy or a corrupt plutocracy, but inoffensive, bland Sweden. I laugh at his claim but Ekeroth, a 34-year-old member of parliament for the Sweden Democrats, isn't joking. His words jarred with the scene around him when we met in a blandly-decorated café in the Rikstag. Neatly turned out parliamentary officials sip subsidised coffee. Outside, slabs of ice drift downstream, past parliament and towards the Baltic Sea. Stockholm looks affluent, orderly and well looked after. This is the country Ekeroth wants to preserve; it is also the country he thinks has gone mad.
The far-right Sweden Democrats have neo-fascist roots and have long been shunned by the country's mainstream. But they have been the political beneficiaries of discontent among Swedes about the numbers seeking asylum in the country. In 2010, the party won its first members of parliament, passing the 4 per cent threshold needed. Today, it tops the opinion polls. A YouGov survey in late January put the party on 28 per cent, seven points clear of the next most popular party, the governing Social Democrats.
They would not have been able to exploit the migrant crisis — fertile soil for all far-right parties — had it not been for its leader, Jimmie Akesson, a kind of far-right David Cameron who has focused his energy on detoxifying the party's image since he became leader at 26, more than a decade ago. And only the most hardline Sweden Democrat would dispute that there was considerable detoxifying to be done. The party was born from the "Keep Sweden Swedish" party. One of its early leaders, Anders Klarström, had also run the Nordiska rikspartiet, or Nordic Reich Party. The Sweden Democrats had close links with Sweden's White Power music scene as well as Viking rock bands spouting lyrics such as "vad gör ni här era blattesvin", which translates as "what are you doing here, you fucking Paki scum?" Akesson swapped fascistic rock for feel-good pop and the party's old logo, a burning torch, was replaced by a blue and yellow flower. He has avoided raising a clenched fist while saying "keep Sweden Swedish", as one predecessor had done.
For Ekeroth, Akesson's modernisation was a cosmetic process: "We've changed a lot. We've become more professional, but policy-wise we were never extreme. There was never anything racist in our party programme but the picture, the appearance, the media and the professionalism are much better." Ekeroth is Jewish yet he is remarkably unfazed by his party's neo-Nazi roots or its more unsavoury supporters. There are, he says, "a few rotten eggs. It's too important to stop immigration to this country so I don't care. As long as they are kicked out."
When he makes the case for his party, Ekeroth mostly sticks to a formula that will not surprise those familiar with other European far-right parties. Immigration, they say, is costly both economically and culturally; we can't afford an open-door immigration policy, nor do we want one. There is little to distinguish his patter from that of a British UKIP politician. Indeed, the Sweden Democrats sit in the same group as UKIP in the European Parliament.
But is the claim that today's Sweden Democrats promote nationalism of a civic sort convincing? What does Ekeroth want to do about integrating those that are already here? "We want them to go home." When I ask him about those that are Swedish citizens, he admits: "That is a problem." But he goes on to list the various grounds on which his party would like to revoke Swedish citizenship. Ekeroth and his colleagues want "Sweden to remain Swedish."
And when it comes to the downside of immigration, it's the "little things on the tram, on the bus, in the school yard, these things that people think it's too petty to talk about. If there's a bunch of immigrants sitting next to you screaming and shouting or whatever, you feel uncomfortable, you think what the fuck is going on?"
And what does Ekeroth predict for the future of Sweden and its politics? "The Sweden Democrats will continue to grow and strengthen. When it comes to Sweden, I think it is going to crumble fast. This summer is going to be a civil war. You see it now. They are running wild. Rapes and murders and stabbings." It was a fear of this sort of xenophobic politics that created the climate in which Sweden opened its arms to refugees — and shut down criticism of that policy. That a conspiracy of silence existed in Sweden was clear when, after the New Year's Eve violence in Cologne, it emerged that the Swedish police had played down the problem of sexual harassment at a music festival in Stockholm last summer because the perpetrators had primarily been young Afghan men.
Tino Sanandaji, an economist who runs a blog on Sweden's immigration debate, told me: "You do have a serious problem of a racist subculture in Scandinavian culture. Worse than in Britain." The spectre of far-right terrorism in Scandinavia has loomed particularly large since Anders Breivik killed 77 young people at a summer camp in Norway in 2011. Last October, a Swede suspected to have far-right sympathies killed a student and a teacher with a sword on a high-school rampage in Trollhätten, near Gothenburg. But what began as admirable opposition to the ideological backdrop to attacks of this sort has mutated into an un-reflexive anti-racism in which any divergence from bien pensant opinion on immigration is labelled racist. This, of course, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Tell people it is not respectable to say certain things and the respectable will avoid saying them, leaving only the far-Right and creating the illusion of a justification for your censorious instincts.
For his blog, on which he complained about the "unscientific" way in which statistics about immigration were used by the government and the media, Sanandaji has received considerable negative press. "I was provoked because they were just lying," he said. In one case, Sanandaji was stirred to action when Swedish television reported that 40 per cent of Syrian refugees were highly educated. He pointed out, as the broadcaster had failed to, that this 40 per cent included anyone with any education or vocational training after school, including six months in the Syrian army as a mechanic and other basic vocational qualifications. "Readership just exploded," he said, "even though it is poorly written and not well edited or designed. A lot of smart people started saying, what is going on with our media, with our society? What is happening? It feels like a nightmare to them. Suddenly the Swedish media sounds like East Germany."
Sanandaji was born in Iran. He arrived in Sweden with his parents when he was nine. "We came to Sweden as refugees but I would not call myself a real refugee because we did not have grounds for asylum," he said with characteristic bluntness. His background has served as useful body armour in Sweden's increasingly shrill immigration debate. "Because I have brown eyes and I'm an immigrant with a PhD from the University of Chicago, I could write about this and get away with it." What works on blue-eyed Swedes doesn't work on him, he says. "It shuts them up if they threaten to destroy your reputation and call you a Nazi in public. Because Swedes are so sensitive on this issue, it's sort of like McCarthyism: just accuse them of being racist and a lot of them shut up.
"We have this perception that critics of immigration are populists or the unwashed masses and that enlightened people support immigration, but in Sweden today, it is the complete opposite. The more evidence-driven you are, the more well-read you are, the more anti-immigration you are."
So he feels trapped between two uncompromising groups: "Either they are racists — but there are very few of them at the end of the day — or they are pro-immigration. They are the ones with the know-nothingism and they scream and shout and they shut down debate."
If the Swedish establishment is set on defeating the far-Right, it could start by taking seriously the challenge of building a successful, integrated multi-racial society. The elephant in the room in the immigration debate is the socio-economic outcomes of those who have already settled in Sweden. According to Statistics Sweden, 50 per cent of refugees are not in work seven years after arriving in the country. Even after 15 years, 40 per cent are still without a job. The unemployment rate for immigrants is more than two and half times that of native Swedes, the second biggest gap in the OECD. The skills gap between adults born abroad and adults born in Sweden is bigger than anywhere else in the OECD.
A recent documentary, The Swedish Theory of Love, written and directed by Erik Gandini, which explores the problem of loneliness in Swedish society, offers clues to the root of the integration problem. The film is a wide-angle snapshot of a country in which people increasingly live alone, have children alone and die alone, a country in which "help is supplied solely through official channels. You don't cry on someone's shoulder, you fill out a form." Gandini follows officials from a distressingly large government agency dedicated to tracking down the next of kin of those who die alone (one in four Swedes), sometimes discovered long after their death in a flat no one — neighbours, relatives, friends — has thought to call on.
To consider what this society looks like to outsiders "for whom Sweden is seen as a promised land . . . a country worth taking great risks for", he follows Nhela, a Syrian immigrant who teaches Swedish to new arrivals. "Swedes love short answers," she tells a group of bemused students from more gregarious cultures in Africa and the Middle East. She tells them that when a Swede asks, "How are you?" they should just reply, "Fine." She adds: "No need to go on any longer." They should answer questions with a yes or a no — no discussions. Her students tell her they don't see the point of these classes. "I never get to meet any Swedes," they tell her.
One of the victims of Sweden's failed integration policies is Rosengard, a suburb of Malmo built in the 1960s as part of the Miljonprogrammet — the Social Democrat government's drive to build a million new homes in a decade. What was designed as a social democratic utopia has become an economic sinkhole. Eighty-six per cent of Rosengard's residents are immigrants or the children of immigrants. The countries they come from reflect Sweden's generous refugee policy: in 2010, the four largest groups of foreign-born residents were from Iraq, former Yugoslavia, Lebanon and Somalia. Less than half of Rosengard's residents work, crime levels are high, the quality of the housing is deteriorating and educational standards are slipping further behind those of the rest of Malmo.
Local politics in Malmo, the most diverse city in Sweden, have an ugly, ethnic flavour. Ilmar Reepalu, a Social Democrat and mayor from 1994 to 2013, won while repeatedly denying the veracity of reports of anti-Semitic violence, claimed the Sweden Democrats had "infiltrated" the city's Jewish community to turn it against Muslims, and appeared to see Zionism and anti-Semitism as morally equivalent "extremes".
Almgarden, a suburb adjacent to Rosengard, is a Sweden Democrat stronghold filled with ethnic Swedes concerned about their neighbours' problems spilling into their community.
Bejzat Becirov, originally from Macedonia, runs Rosengard's Islamic Centre, which contains the suburb's mosque. He is frustrated by the censorious approach the establishment has taken to the immigration debate. When I meet him in his office at the centre, rebuilt after a mysterious fire one night in 2003, he tells me that he organised a hustings there during the last election campaign and invited candidates from all the major parties, including the Sweden Democrats, to take part. When the other parties refused to attend as long as the Sweden Democrats were there, he had no choice but to retract his invitation to the far-right party. "Parties go up and down," he says, drawing an undulating graph with his finger. "What is more important is that Swedes have a conversation about their different backgrounds. I have no problem debating with politicians from the Sweden Democrats."
The Swedish establishment should learn from Becirov's commitment to engaging with all voices, including the far-Right, which is particularly impressive given that his centre has been the target of several xenophobic attacks — bricks through his windows and pigs' heads dumped in front of the mosque.
The scale of immigration last year and the rise of the Sweden Democrats has forced mainstream Swedish politicans to join the conversation the Swedish people have been having for years. The challenge they now face is swapping platitudinous multiculturalism for robust integration policies which build a successful society that finds more than just a bed for its new arrivals.

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function molality = gsw_molality(SA)

% gsw_molality                                         molality of seawater
%==========================================================================
%
% USAGE:
%  molality  =  gsw_molality(SA)
%
% DESCRIPTION:
%  Calculates the molality of seawater
%
% INPUT:
%  SA  =  Absolute Salinity                                        [ g/kg ]
%
% OUTPUT:
%  molality  =  molality of seawater                             [ mol/kg ]
%
% AUTHOR:
%  Trevor McDougall and Paul Barker        [ help_gsw@csiro.au ]
%
% VERSION NUMBER: 2.0 (28th September, 2010)
%
% REFERENCES:
%  IOC, SCOR and IAPSO, 2010: The international thermodynamic equation of
%   seawater - 2010: Calculation and use of thermodynamic properties.
%   Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Manuals and Guides No. 56,
%   UNESCO (English), 196 pp.  Available from http://www.TEOS-10.org
%
%  The software is available from http://www.TEOS-10.org
%
%==========================================================================

%--------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Check variables and resize if necessary
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if ~(nargin == 1)
   error('gsw_molality:  Requires one input')
end %if

%--------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Start of the calculation
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M_S = 0.0314038218;   % mole-weighted average atomic weight of the elements
                      %                    of sea salt, in units of kg/mol.
[Isalty] = find(SA >= 0);

molality = nan(size(SA));

molality(Isalty) = SA(Isalty)./(M_S*(1000 - SA(Isalty))); % molality of seawater in mol/kg

end

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Nick Moloney completed his first voyage onboard the Open 50, OC1, arriving at the Offshore Challenges base in Cowes, UK last weekend after a five-week refit in northern France.
Moloney and his shore support Richard Watkin, will now work on preparing the boat for the Route du Rhum in November, his prime objective with this Finot-designed 50 footer. "There is a long list of work to do now, to get her race ready – and plenty of learning for me as well – but its great to get out on the water with her, she's a real weapon downwind," commented a motivated Moloney.
Both Nick's 50 footer and Ellen MacArthur's 60ft 'Kingfisher' will be sailing with media and sponsors during Cowes Week, although not joining the racing itself – these solo ocean racing boats are not really designed for around the cans competition!
Following Cowes Week Nick will head off on his 1,000 mile mandatory solo qualifier for the trans-Atlantic Route de Rhum race from St Malo to Guadeloupe. This will be followed by an upgrade to the rigging, and work on the pilot and electronics systems onboard, as well as testing of a couple of new downwind sails. A full sail inventory is dependant on sponsorship.
Two weeks ago Moloney became the first official entry into the 2004 Vendée Globe – his project will be managed by Offshore Challenges, the same team behind Ellen MacArthur's Vendée campaign and ongoing sailing projects. To achieve his third and final goal to sail solo around the globe non-stop – Offshore Challenges have eighth months to secure a sponsor which will then give them substantial time to construct a new Open 60 for the 26,000 mile circumnavigation.


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Who could Rafa Benitez sign and sell in January?
Rafa Benitez hopes that Mike Ashley has seen for himself what needs to be done in the January transfer window.
Ashley saw Leicester City beat Newcastle United 2-0 at St James's Park on Saturday.
It was the second successive game that the club's owner had attended.
The result has left the winless club, which has lost its first four home league games for the first time in its history, in the relegation zone ahead of Saturday's game against Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Newcastle manager Benitez had to sell to buy in the summer after refusing to sign a new deal at the club.
And Benitez – who didn't speak to Ashley after the game – hopes to be given funds in January to strengthen.
I think he knows, because obviously we have been talking with (managing director) Lee Charnley for a while. I think everybody knows.
Asked if Ashley had now seen what needed to be done, Benitez said: "I think he knows, because obviously we have been talking with (managing director) Lee Charnley for a while. I think everybody knows.
"For me, it's not fair now, because the team is not winning, but they are working so hard and they're so close.
"We cannot analyse everything now about January, because the team is doing a great effort.
"It's difficult when you are working so hard and you are doing well, and you still can't get results. It's difficult to keep the confidence high.
"We need to start winning games, and it will change. We had the chances against Leicester, and we did not take them, then we concede a penalty that you can avoid.
There was a protest against Ashley before the game and the 90 minutes was punctuated by chants for Ashley to "get out of our club".
United's fans, however, also got behind their team on a bright afternoon, though the mood inside the stadium darkened in the second half.
"The reality is, if the team is doing well, normally the fans are happier," said Benitez.
Ashley had gone more than a year without attending a game.
"If he wants to be around, that's always good," said Benitez.
Benitez is targeting a run of what he feels are winnable games next month and in December.
"We have two crucial months in November and December when we play a lot of games against teams we can compete against and get results," said Benitez.
Newcastle came through a long winless run last season and finished 10th.
"A lot of teams have bad runs, and we had a long bad one last season," said Benitez. "We were in the bottom five and still we kept working hard and we finished in the top 10.
"It's difficult to say when you keep losing, but it's a long race and we have to carry on.


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S01.E06: REWATCH: Secret Sex
By Bella, July 12, 2014 in Sex And The City [V]
Bella 7.9k
"A guy can just as easily dump you if you f*ck him on the first date as he can if you wait until the tenth." - Samantha
How many of us out there are having sex with people we are ashamed to introduce to our friends? Carrie thinks Mr. Big is keeping her a secret, while Miranda discovers a secret about her new boyfriend. Samantha has never been discreet with anyone she's ever slept with, and Charlotte divulges her past love affair with one of God's chosen people.
I'm not going to be here on Monday to make sure the topic is open, so I'm setting this up now without a lock. If you feel compelled to weigh in before Monday, have at it.
Hanahope 6.9k
So, while I agree with Samantha and Miranda that having sex on the first date doesn't necessarily foreclose a relationship, and I do think Charlotte's "rule" of waiting till the 5th or 6th date isn't required either, having sex on the first date seems to me to be a bit fast. And Carrie's dress was way too provocative. At least wear something that doesn't put the nipples in total display. Big certainly understood the implication and I thought it was a bit 'trashy' for a first date with someone who is clearly of a higher class. But if Carrie wants to play that part, be my guest. Then she has to talk about it, haha.
Mike was shallow and honest. Lol that Libby dumped him. I think its rude when you don't introduce the person you are with, even if you can't remember the other guy's name.
Oh yeah, Charlotte's first sex with a Jew. The precurser to Harry.
And totally rude of Miranda to go snooping through Ted's apartment. She deserved to lose him.
Maherjunkie 1.1k
I thought this was the episode that proved Carrie was a nut. Correct me if I'm wrong-you think a man is ashamed of you because he takes you to a frequent restaurant?
andromeda331 18.5k
Correct me if I'm wrong-you think a man is ashamed of you because he takes you to a frequent restaurant?
Nope, that's exactly what she thought. Most people would assume he just liked the restaurant a lot. Carrie acted crazy. And why? It was was only their second date they didn't know each other well enough for her already to be coming up with crazy ideas like he was ashamed of her. I honestly wouldn't have been offended by the restaurant or not being introduced to someone. Its only the second date.
Inquisitionist 6.0k
I would think it a little odd that someone took me to the same out-of-the-way Chinese restaurant on both of our only two dates. Like most normal people, I'd come right out and ask why, or suggest somewhere else. But of course, that wouldn't be very dramatic or provide the comedic opportunities of Carrie's approach. ;-) I could kinda see how things snowballed after her learning about Mike's motives for taking his "secret sex" partner there, but showing up at Big's apartment drunk to rant about the situation was too much. (Wait, that did happen in this episode, didn't it? Or am I confusing it with another of Carrie's OTT experiences?)
It was either here or the Monogamists eps, I think.
Mozelle 16.5k
I'm going to put it into context. Carrie didn't just automatically jump to that thought. It was after hearing that douche Mike be all, "Oh, yeah. Totally! This is exactly the place you take a girl you don't want anyone to see you with" that got the gears turning in Carrie's mind. It made her look at the situation differently when Big took her there a second time.
Then she got drunk, and nothing good ever comes from anyone getting drunk.
Edited July 16, 2014 by Mozelle
If it was me, stalking me at church would have been her 3rd strike. Or calling me at 3am to stand still with me because I need monogamy after a few dates.
Oh my gosh, yes, Maherjunkie! Carrie morphed into a different person after she got hung up on Big. She had been so "cool" before their first actual date, but became crazy-needy so quickly afterwards. I know the objective was to show that love (or infatuation) can totally discombobulate us, and the exaggeration was for comic effect, but some of the antics would have been very hard to take "in real life."
ShellSeeker 3.0k
Finally watched this episode! I had forgotten just how rather trampy that dress was.
Yeah, as much as Carrie drove me nuts throughout the run of the series, I couldn't roll my eyes too much at this. I've done the same thing -- I think we all have. Over-analyzed every word a guy says, every little look he gives you, every mannerism, and so on, and then driven ourselves nuts. This was relateable crazy Carrie.
I also found it hard to believe that Miranda was so shocked to find the naughty spanking video. Lots of people have fantasies about things they might never actually try or do. As a single woman living in NYC, that couldn't have been a new idea for her. She'd only dated that guy a few times -- way too soon to start sharing deeply personal stuff like that. So I didn't think her teasing that guy about wanting a spanking was a smart move -- or a believable one.
Edited July 25, 2014 by Queasy-bo
Gothish520 10.8k
The Naked dress was all kinds of ridiculous. Don't get me wrong - SJP looked AMAZING in it, but that was far too much skin and nip for a first or second date.
I'm finding Miranda very unlikable in these early episodes. Bringing up the spanking to that guy was dumb. He was obviously pissed that she snooped, and probably a bit embarassed/ashamed.
That being said, I probably would've snooped too. If I found something that truly disturbed me, I would just try to end the relationship in a more natural way. It doesn't seem that she was all that disturbed by the video, just a bit...confused? But teasing him about it was not the way to go.
LemonSoda 1.8k
23 minutes ago, Gothish520 said:
I felt that way about a lot of Carrie's date outfits. Isn't that a bit much for a first date?
Miranda was very harsh early in the series.
I remember being put off by some of their behavior toward sex, how they handled certain situations in the series. In a "why are women in their 30's in NYC acting this way?" type of way. Carrie seemed very prudish despite being a sex columnist. Also how they immaturely handled certain situations. I didn't get it.
10 hours ago, LemonSoda said:
She really was despite her job as a sex columnist. I thought she'd be more fun and/or curious.
12 hours ago, andromeda331 said:
Also less judgmental or shocked by the antics of others. Even telling yourself that she bs'd her way in to the job despite not knowing much doesn't work because her reactions to the situations were too over the top for a manhattan party girl who has been there done that.
1 hour ago, LemonSoda said:
Your very right about that. You'd almost think Carrie was doing another job and somehow ended up or the newspaper she worked at dropped the sex column in her lap when the series began. She really wasn't fun or curious, she was very judgmental and shocked by a lot of what she saw. Had she been anything but a new she really shouldn't have been. She might be surprised by some stuff but not most of it. She lived in NYC and had for many years she would have heard or seen a lot of the stuff she wrote about just from stories club hopping and dating, or from her friends especially Samantha.
5 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:
Absolutely! It was as if she was at a party and someone from a newspaper said "You should write for us". When she would name drop places she used to hang out I would wonder how someone who had spent the 80's and 90's clubbing in NYC could be so shocked. Um you hung out at the Tunnel and CBGB and you're shocked by things mentioned monthly in Cosmo? I never understood that at all. Sometimes I wonder if SJP's refusal for nudity/certain storylines changed the character's character.
7 hours ago, LemonSoda said:
That's a good point! How shocked could you be after hanging out at those clubs?
21 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:
Exactly! Also, I know they're two different shows with different writers but teenage Carrie in The Carrie Diaries showed more maturity and adventure than adult Carrie. It's never been confirmed but I think so much of Carrie's character was diminished by SJP's restrictions.
2 minutes ago, LemonSoda said:
Oh, she definitely was by halfway through the series. I hadn't realized it started sooner then that. But that certainly could explain it. The other three characters are off in the beginning of the series in a way they weren't later on. Almost as if they hadn't completely figured out the characters yet. When they did that made their characters better. Carrie's the only one that ended up becoming worse. Carrie made less sense, her career made less sense given how judgmental and shocked got when it came her job, and how long she's lived NYC, she seems to make all the mistakes when dating Big that almost anyone else would avoid. The stalking, the freaking out at things when they didn't seem to be dating that long. It might have made sense if they were going for someone who's really good at giving advice to others but very bad at taking it or figuring out her own relationships. But that's not really what happens. She had doesn't gain a lot of different interests either. The other girls had interests. They were shown to be competent at their career and really seemed to be doing something they loved. It doesn't really seem like three characters would be developed further, while one really isn't unless someone was restricting it.
I'm into the second season now, and the stuff with Big is confusing, but I sort of get it, maybe? I feel like the show really did not devote a lot of time to developing their relationship - I never saw any scenes where you could really see that they were "in love". So for Carrie to act the way she did from this episode on...I don't know. Questioning why he took her to that restaurant, the ex wife, stalking him and his mother at church, demanding that he tell her she's the One - it felt too soon, and I think they were trying to show us that Big felt it was too soon as well. I guess the show was using the voiceovers to move the relationship along faster than we the viewers had observed. They did only have a half an hour a week to tell four stories, even though Carrie is definitely the protagonist.
Big tried to tell her to slow her roll - but, I do get that it is very hard to do that when you are more advanced in a relationship than your partner is. Many men are perfectly content to move at what seems like a glacial pace in a relationship - they enjoy and value their freedom and aren't in any hurry to commit. If the woman is already mentally "there", it can be torture.
1 hour ago, Gothish520 said:
I agree Carrie and Big never really felt like they "in love". You couldn't really see it. Almost everything Carrie did seem too soon or that she was trying rush their relationship when it looked and felt like they were still in the beginning stages of relationship. If they had added time jumps or said how long they had been together that would have made more sense. It really was all too soon and Carrie just comes off crazy for doing all these things so early in the relationship. She really should have listened when Big told her to slow her roll or tried figure out why she was trying to make the relationship go faster. Was it insecurities? Worried if they slowed down Big would be gone because they were so different and/or worried that he could get any woman he wanted? If they had done that and talked then maybe go back to slowing things down and seeing how things go. The episode where she demands him tell her she's the One. How long have they been dating at that point? Why couldn't she just go on the vacation and have a great time. Who knows? Maybe they would have become closer during the vacation. It happens. Same with when he tells her he's moving to Paris. How long have they been dating? Carrie flips out. I get being upset but their relationship didn't seem to be in the stage where they base their career around each other.
Melancholy 4.1k
Carrie and Big hardly seemed happy together but I did buy their connection/love. SJP really played Carrie's longing for Big even when he was right there. We never saw Big in other contexts but CN gave off that Big was having fun with Carrie removed from his buttoned up corporate WASP cum Batman life. But yeah, Carrie was far ahead of Big and to a far lesser extent, ahead of a typical relationship time table on when she expected certain commitments. She decided to deal with that common frustration by playing the martyr or stalking Big or bullying Big or being a doormat or obsessing about her breakups and not moving onto new relationships- all of the most unhealthy and destructive roles. And she never broke out of that pattern for the whole series and even the movies. Carrie loved Big- but it's not an excuse for how she behaved. Also, Carrie passionately and strongly loved Big but in a very limited and superficial way. It's an odd combo. She thought he was the perfect man- the emblem of her New York dream of desire and glamor, a Daddy who can provide large but so witty and dangerous that any woman running alongside him feels like a W-O-M-A-N. No man could ever compete. But yet, their hearts couldn't bond because Carrie thought he was a bad person. I can't respect a person's romantic love for another if the former thinks the latter is a "bad guy". Blood relations can have that unconditional love but you choose love in romance. Carrie had contradictory impulses where she thought Big was such a dream guy that he needed to be fought over and also such a piece of shit that he needed to be pushed into a relationship because he can't be trusted on his own time table.
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I agree 💯%. If he really likes you he will make you his wifey regardless of weather the sex was good or bad.
Some might say sex on the first date is too soon but if you've been friends for a while then it's not.
Also theirs a good amount of people who do go onto a relationship after sex on the first date like 30% but they won't admit it.
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The Three Proverbial Questions
My experience as a diplomat fueled an unquenchable thirst to understand the complex dynamics of foreign policy and the diverse interactions among nation-states. Comprehension and mastery of international subtleties enhance a nation's ability to direct and manipulate events. History supports this. A few small nation-states have utilized their understanding and mastery of geopolitical dynamics, not only to foster their national interests but to elevate themselves regionally and influence global policies. Japan, Singapore and more recently, Botswana, are examples.
My basic strategic approach as a diplomat took a rather radical twist. Because I was not a "career diplomat," I was not hampered by preconceived notions indoctrinated and acquired in foreign policy institutional training programs.
This allowed outside-of-the-box, unorthodox approaches towards my goal of affecting meaningful awareness and elevation of Liberia's interests. Of course, I remained cognizant of the boundaries of "foreign policy" courtesies and protocols that ought not to be breached. Additionally, I had to ensure that whatever approaches or strategies I pursued were within the "Foreign Policy Framework" of Liberia which, was then and even now, to a large extent, is ambiguous.
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Essentially, formulation and implementation of foreign policy depend upon a multiplicity of factors and dynamics that can be referred to as "building blocks." Three critical building blocks are Domestic/National Agenda, Strategic Geo-Political Considerations and Global Dynamics.
These building blocks are based on several elemental strategic considerations which serve as the cohesive component in binding the building blocks created to accomplish vital national interests.
The critical strategic considerations are concentrated around three cardinal questions:
1. What do we want?
2. What must we do to get what we want?
3. Are we willing and prepared to do what we must do to get what we want?
While these three questions may, on the surface, appear as an overly simplistic approach to something as vitally important as a nation state's foreign policy, careful contextual analysis will indicate that they do form the crux of any relevant foreign policy decision. If one does not know what he wants in any endeavor, it is impossible to discern a direction or purpose to pursue. This eliminates any likelihood of "success" in any framework. Conversely, if one has an inkling of what he wants, he must clearly establish what needs to be done to accomplish that objective; and, by logical extension, he must be willing and prepared to undertake whatever it may take to accomplish the stated objective. The building blocks encompass the following principles.
1. Domestic/National Agenda – National Direction/Vision
A key variable which must be incorporated in the formulation of effective, cutting-edge foreign policy is the National Strategic and Development Vision and Agenda of the Nation-State. A clear, concise, realistic strategic development plan should be the centerpiece and driver of a developing nation state's foreign policy. A good plan should incorporate several key factors. First, the plan should comprise a current development model including the general direction, objectives and sustainability of the nation for security, stability, growth and economic prosperity. Such a plan should focus on remedies to overcome hurdles, impediments and other internal and exogenous factors such as capacity, resources and global influences that could affect outcomes.
The plan must be comprehensive and include a workable strategy for structural initiatives that would ensure reliable and efficient institutions, continuous development and expansion of human capital, strong policies that guarantee consistent wealth creation, savings and investment. To ensure sustainability, the plan must also include schemes for real, rapid and permanent technology transfer; empowerment and participation of all citizens and long-term programs that address the critical matter of backfilling exhaustible resources with renewable replacements.
Finally, and most critically, this development plan must be strongly supported with wide national commitment and strong political will. In the absence of these two critical factors, a development plan will not be worth the paper on which it is written.
2. Strategic Geo-Political Considerations – A Matter of Objective Reflection & Analysis
Any nation-state attempting to formulate effective foreign policy must start by initiating a comprehensive and thorough self-assessment and analysis of its own national strengths and weaknesses. This should incorporate an exhaustive list of the assets, strengths and characteristics that make it attractive to other nation-states in pursuit of their interests. Contrarily, such assessment should include those weaknesses, liabilities, limitations or deficiencies that potentially hinder effective and sustainable relations with other nation-states.
Some of the critical factors that must be incorporated in this crucial assessment include:
a. Geographic Location – Historically, a nation's geographic location was considered strategic predominantly from a military perspective. For example, a nation like Liberia presented strategic value to the Allied Powers in World War II in their attempts to provide logistical support and the movement of men and materiel to the front in the North African Theater. More recently Liberia's geographic location proved strategically important to the United States when its CIA needed a "listening post" and monitoring point for global interstellar communications and intelligence traffic. For many years, up until serious escalation of the Civil War in the 1990s, Liberia hosted a highly classified sophisticated operation in the outskirts of its capital, Monrovia, which met this specific purpose and effectively served the security interest of the United States.
Another excellent example of the value of geographic location in a non-military application is reflected in the scenario of the Government of Guinea's attempts to exploit its vast deposit of iron ore located adjacent to the border with Liberia. Studies conducted by the Government of Guinea indicate that it would be economically unfeasible to construct a rail line covering hundreds of miles from the source to the Port of Conakry. The most favorable option would be the utilization of rail line running from northern Liberia border with Guinea (in close proximity of the deposit) to the Liberian Port of Buchanan on the Atlantic Ocean. Liberia could benefit if such an arrangement was bilaterally consummated, solely because of the advantage of its strategic geographical location.
The matter of the significance of a nation's geographical location, in the foreign policy context, evolved as globalization altered the geopolitical paradigm. The new drivers of this factor spotlight how geographic location facilitates global trade contributes to the fight against global threats (terrorism, drug running, illicit trade, piracy etc.); and promotes the mobility of the world's population.
b. Natural Resource Wealth/Reserves – The strategic value and magnitude of natural resources are basically measured in terms of scarcity and demand. Generally, the higher the global demand for a resource, the better could be the strategic position of the nation that owns (or controls) the resource.
Additionally, some natural resources are scarce but comprise an essential component of highly specialized products – for example, uranium, used in nuclear technology, or coltan, an essential element in the production of mobile phones. By their nature, such resources could strengthen the potential strategic position of nations possessing them.
It is important to note that within today's modern dispensation, the definition of natural resources could transcend the traditional concept of mineral resources in and on the earth (and seas) to include human capacity, intellectual property, and specialized methods and practices.
c. Economic, Social and Political Significance – Economic strength, social motivations and political dispositions are all key variables in determining a nation state's standing in the geopolitical foreign policy arena. Astute architects of effective foreign policy must remain cognizant that nations with weak, dependent and unstable economies or nations with "unorthodox" social/cultural practices (that may be perceived as nonconformist) are generally deemed either "unfit" or "undeserving" of a position in the global geopolitical inner circle. Those that find themselves in the circle despite being deemed "undeserving," are usually there for other strategic reasons. For example, even though Iran is not considered an economic powerhouse, and is generally perceived and portrayed as unconventional in its social and political dispensation, it has been, in many instances, an active participant in important fora because of issues relating to weapons of mass destruction.
Of course, basic tenets of diplomatic protocol dictate the utilization of certain courtesies of "inclusion." However, in reality, key strategic decisions are made by the "real powerbrokers" to serve their own national interests. The classic example is reflected in the structure of the United Nations. The UN is comprised of six organs: The General Assembly, The Security Council, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Secretariat and the International Court of Justice.
Arguably, the Security Council is the most powerful and influential organ within the UN. The structure of the Security Council is a glaring manifestation of a principle I label as "inclusive exclusivity." The general global direction and destiny, as prescribed by the United Nations, is in effect determined by an "Exclusive Five" aka the Permanent Members. The exclusiveness within the Security Council is assured by the provision of diluted powers to the remaining ten members with their Non-Permanent status.
This is the reality of the world. National self-assessment could provide architects of foreign policy a realistic reflection of their nation's global standing and allow them to consider how they could use their country's perceived strengths to leverage and improve their global standing.
3. Global Dynamics – The Art/Science of Exploiting Opportunities "Whenever I come to consider establishing diplomatic relations with another country, I always ask myself two questions. Can this country provide me with capital? Can it give me technology? If the answers to these questions are not 'yes' and 'yes'; I will not establish diplomatic relations with that country." (Lee Kuan Yew)
This landmark statement by President Lee encapsulates the essence of the concept of Development Diplomacy. Intrinsic to this statement is the cardinal principle of foreign policy and diplomacy:
NATIONAL INTEREST!
Development Diplomacy is specifically the art/science of formulating and implementing international relations and foreign policy with particular focus on achieving development initiatives and/or specific national development objectives. The focus of Foreign Service Officers should be squarely on national socio-economic development – increasing exports, attracting FDI and improving the living standards of the nation-state.
Any nation-state, that holds development as its cardinal priority and interest should embrace and construct its foreign policy on a foundation of the principles of Development Diplomacy. Every meaningful aspect of the state's foreign policy engagements should be compelled by the demands of its national development agenda and interests. The most crucial variable to the success of this strategy is the existence of a clear, concise National Development Roadmap which conveys national buy-in, commitment from a wide spectrum of the political leadership and citizens and the solid political will to accomplish its aims and objectives. Additionally, the plan must be understood and well-articulated by the state's designated purveyors in global circles.
Consistent with this approach, a nation-state must consider and initiate strategies to deal with a plethora of complex, multifaceted issues and concepts. One critical challenge lies in deciphering the age-old adage:
"My enemy's enemy is my friend and my enemy's friend is my enemy." This philosophy does not always apply in the case of a state whose foreign policy is driven by its National Development interests. In some instances, "one's friend's enemy does not necessarily have to be one's enemy". The underlying principle is that a state should engage and embrace other states that facilitate its interest which is, in this instance, development. Thus, a nation cannot "please all of its friends all of the time" and should anticipate losing some "battles to win the war." This tactic requires focus, clarity and courage as the end justifies the means.
At the end of the day, a key principle in modern foreign policy dynamics is grasping and effectively utilizing what I describe as a theory of "Use and be Used." In pursuit of military, economic, social, and political interests, nation-states solicit friendships or become allies (depending on their global disposition) in order to build consensus in enforcing certain policies, values or "rights." These dynamic interactions result in some nations being used by others to build the requisite consensus in order to address a critical strategic interest. When the United States of America and Great Britain determined that their interest would be served by the ouster of Muammar Al Gadhafi, the former leader of Libya, they realized that even with their awesome global powers, they needed to pursue a different approach which comprised "using" the members of the African Union (of which Libya is a prominent and influential member) to isolate Mr. Gadhafi.
African nations were urged to sever official diplomatic ties with Libya. In essence, the African states had to concede to being "used" by America and Great Britain in pursuit of their interests. Once this isolation was accomplished followed by a well-orchestrated internal upheaval by disparate groups in Libya, Mr. Gadhafi was toppled and eventually killed in order to satisfy American and British interests. This particular scenario presents an intriguing question. How were those who conceded to being used benefited by their actions?
The aforementioned principles and concepts provided the guiding ideology behind my diplomatic career at the United Nations and the United States of America. All of my official interactions were, to a large extent, driven by this pattern of critical thought.
Lee Kuan Yew, President of Singapore. "Last Address to Commonwealth Leaders." Kuala Lumpur, October 1989.
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By Jeremy Allen
The University of Michigan will roll out its new campuswide Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategic plan during a daylong launch Oct. 6.
President Mark Schlissel spoke enthusiastically about the launch at Thursday's Board of Regents meeting.
View the full schedule of events for the Oct. 6 launch of the DE&I strategic plan.
Oct. 6 kicks off DE&I-related events that will happen all year long. Learn more at the DE&I website.
"The plan is the result of more than a year of hard work by many members of our community. I thank them and all of the faculty, staff and students who provided input throughout the planning process," he said.
The launch will begin with a 9 a.m. opening session on Oct. 6 at the Power Center for the Performing Arts, located on Central Campus. It will be hosted by Vice Provost Rob Sellers, with remarks from Schlissel and Provost Martha Pollack.
During the session, the three will highlight the overall DE&I goals of the university as it moves from planning into the implementation phase of the five-year plan from units across campus.
On the same stage, immediately following the opening session, Laurita Thomas, associate vice president for human resources, will host a 45-minute conversation among planning leads. The group will highlight key parts of the planning process and discuss how their plans came together and how they will continue to evolve based on the input of the university community.
Over the past year, the university — including the 19 schools and colleges, 30 units and the Health System — has supported more than 210 community-engagement opportunities for students, staff and faculty to provide feedback on their visions for a more diverse, equitable and inclusive campus environment. During that time, the units crafted 49 unique plans that reflect the feedback of their constituents.
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The university's central plan drew on the overarching goals of the 49 unit plans and will serve as a representative of the unified and ongoing commitment to create a campus in which people from many backgrounds experience a sense of belonging and have the opportunity not only to be heard, but also to contribute and excel.
Programming will continue at 4 p.m. in the Michigan Union Ballroom when Student Life hosts an event called Live Talk: DE&I Plans and Student Action. The interactive program will allow participants the opportunity to shape the event's discussion around the DE&I topic.
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Robbins, who earned a Ph.D. in communications from Michigan State University, has worked with companies including Microsoft, Toyota, Pepsi and NASA to help implement practices that make workplaces more diverse and inclusive.
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April 18, 2019 in Latest News
Just over a few weeks ago, we found out that an old notebook containing some of Lil Wayne's raps from the Hot Boys era is on the market for $250,000.00. The book, which includes lyrics written by Wayne from when he was 17-years-old, was found in a car that once belonged to Cash Money and it is now being auctioned off through Moments In Time.
According to TMZ, Tunechi has got his attorneys to file a warning letter to the auction company stating the fact that he is the rightful owner of the notepad and he has never agreed to the sale of his pad. In this letter, Tune's attorneys say he "never abandoned his notebook", but just lost it, and even though he is glad it has now been found, he is not happy about it being sold. Weezy claims that the person who found it kept it a secret for all this time, because he wanted to wait for the right opportunity to make money from it.
The founder of Moments In Time, Gary Zimet, reveals that Lil Wayne will have to purchase the notepad from them if he does want it back. Wayne is reportedly fine with doing this, but he's still threatening legal action if they don't stop the sale to the public!
Pic credit: MIA Nights.
Lil Wayne's Lost Handwritten Lyrics From 1999 On Sale For $250,000
March 26, 2019 in Cash Money Records, Latest News
According to TMZ, a notebook containing some of Lil Wayne's raps from the Hot Boys era is on the market for $250,000.00
As any Tunechi fan should know, Tune does not write any of his verses down anymore since he recorded all of his written work on 10,000 Bars aka SQ7.
The person who owns the book, which includes lyrics from "I Feel" and "We On Fire", came across it in 1999 (when Weezy was 17-years-old) from inside a car that used to belong to Cash Money Records.
You can view some pictures of this rare collection after the jump below. You will notice the notepad has a bit of water damage – this is because it was close to being destroyed during Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.
I must also add that reading this news reminds me exactly of the time when Wayne sold his Bugatti but forgot to take out the original version of his Tha Carter V album which then ended up being sold to Martin Shkreli!
LeBron James Reunites Hot Boys At "Beats x NOLA" Event In New Orleans, Lil Wayne Wasn't Feeling The Crowd At First [Videos]
March 1, 2017 in Latest News
On February 18th, Lil Wayne attended the "Beats x NOLA" event during NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana that was hosted by Beats By Dre and LeBron James.
While at the party, Weezy performed live with 2 Chainz, Fat Joe and DJ Khaled. He also reunited with Juvenile, Turk and Mannie Fresh on stage to perform songs like "Bling Bling" and "We On Fire". LeBron even got on the mic to say a few words:
"I don't know if these people fully appreciate what's going on tonight. We got motherfuckin' Hot Boys in this motherfucker right now. I gotta make sure, because this is my party, I gotta make sure that people fully understand what's going on tonight. We got Tunechi, Juvie, Mannie, Turk in here tonight in their backyard in New Orleans. I grew up on these boys right here, I grew up on these boys right here. I had to let y'all know that everything that goes on tonight, you better appreciate the shit, because it may not happen again."
However, it wasn't all good at the start of the show as Tunechi said he wasn't feeling how dead the crowd was and for his manager to not book him for anything else like this in the future:
"I don't know what kind of event they done invited me to, but this look like some kind of ball or something cause y'all ain't moving. Y'all act like y'all got on nice dresses or something, nice shoes. I am the wrong motherfucker to hire for this type of situation, I don't know what they done. I need to talk to my motherfuckin' manager cause I don't know what's going on, they done put me in a R&B situation and I am a real Blood. Anyway ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tunechi, you in my city, I made this motherfucker."
You can check out some clips of Tune from the event after the jump below!


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SEGA Vision No PSP Rival, Just PMP With Java Gaming
By Chris Davies/Updated: Feb. 28, 2019 2:21 am EST
Disappointing news for anyone hoping SEGA would be making a return to portable gaming hardware. The SEGA Vision device tipped last Friday – which was claimed to be a multi-function PMP and games console – is actually a Chinese-made media player with no development connection to SEGA themselves. As for the games, they're basic Java titles similar to that found on a cellphone.Official SEGA statement after the cut
"The Sega Vision is a real device. But it is not intended as a re-entry to the gaming hardware market or a rival to Sony or Nintendo's systems. Sega is committed to remaining a software third party in the videogames industry, but also has several non-games products in the market. The Vision is primarily an MP4 video player with some basic games functionality, and not a new handheld gaming machine." SEGA spokesperson
It seems that SEGA have licenced their name to the PMP, but not made any attempt to revive their hardware arm. Any titles that run on the device are likely to be the same Java games the company makes for cellphones, such as SEGA Rally.
Few hardware details are known about the Vision PMP, but it's said to include a TV tuner, ebook reader and voice recorder along with music and video playback. It's uncertain whether it will even make it to the US or Europe.
[via Joystiq]


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Under the plan TACP will be integrated into the digital products division (DPD), a division of TAIS. The new operation will be located at the current TAIS headquarters in Irvine, Calif. The company said the move was "designed to take full advantage of the ongoing digital convergence in the U.S. market by combining the resources of each company to provide the industry's broadest and strongest range of digital products."
In Irvine, TAIS markets and sells a range of information technology products, including laptop computers, storage devices, telephone systems and industrial camera products in the U.S. The company also recently added its first flash-based digital camcorder.Headquartered in Wayne, N.J., TACP has marketed and sold home entertainment products, including high-definition flat-panel TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, TV/DVD combination products and portable DVD players.Toshiba said the unification will leverage the convergence between PC and TV technologies and will generate synergies in sales, service, marketing and communication activities. The company expects the action to "strengthening Toshiba's overall brand image and increasing brand awareness."
Toshiba said it has closely monitored the evolution in the U.S. market of the convergence between information technology and visual products. "By combining the U.S. operations of two of Toshiba's pivotal businesses, Toshiba will further its market leadership and will be better positioned to offer new products and services to customers," the company said in a statement announcing the move.In the new arrangement, TAIS will market and sell a full line of LED and LCD TVs, T/DVD combination units, Blu-ray Disc players, portable DVD players, and DVD player and recorder products, as well as laptop computers, hard drives, industrial camera products, telecommunication systems and imaging systems."
According to Toshiba, "[t]he Irvine operation is also home to other Toshiba America subsidiaries, including Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS), Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) and Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS). Additionally, the location offers easier access to overseas manufacturing facilities, as well as to Toshiba Corporation which is headquartered in Tokyo.
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