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December 1, 2015 by Emile Deweaver
The most popular show on FOX widens the racial divides in America every Wednesday at 9 p.m. Empire tells the story of Lucious Lyon, a hip-hop music mogul played by Terrence Howard, who's as cold and murderous as a Roman emperor conquering continents.
Some White viewers may not have another frame of reference for marginalized groups struggling to escape poverty. When these viewers contemplate what it is to be a minority in America, they can only draw their knowledge from what they've observed regarding minorities.
That's true even if their observations come from a ridiculous television show. The show's portrayals are a greater disservice to minorities because studies show that viewers of color are in danger of internalizing the negative stereotypes glorified by Empire.
Members of S.Q. Reviews have talked about Empire on the Justice Show (90.7 KALX), a project from the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Many of us feel conflicted about the show.
Though we object to how Empire characterizes minorities, we're grateful that the popular show employs so many actors of color in an industry that historically excluded minorities from central roles.
S.Q. Reviews meets in the lot between the Education Department and the San Quentin News to discuss Empire.
"The last scene was stupid," says Juan Meza. "Why would you put a dead body in the district attorney's car?"
Meza refers to the scene where the district attorney, who is out to bring down Lyons' empire, finds a dead body in her passenger seat and screams. Rahsaan Thomas explains that the dead man is a former witness against Lyons. She hid the fact that he was missing, so that she could execute search warrants under the premise to harass Lyons.
"Now that the D.A. has the body,she can't say he's missing," Thomas says.
"Yeah …" Meza shakes his head. "If it's about that, they could've dropped that body anywhere."
"They could have done that," Thomas says. "But then, it wouldn't have been Empire."
"Exactly!" I shoot forward on my seat. I rant about how irresponsible it is to frame an African-American's struggle against a historically hostile authority with a dead body that reduces a district attorney to hysterics.
"It would be a regular soap, just like Dallas, if they had better writing," says Meza. "I think it's the dialogue. They're stereotyping the way people speak. His kids didn't grow up poor or struggling. They've had the best education money can buy, but two of them talk and act like they're from the hood."
"You're onto something," I say. "Last week, after listening to me for 30 seconds, a well-intentioned volunteer told me that I don't talk like I belong in prison. I thought to myself, 'has diction become the standard of criminality?'"
I then say how I meet many people who think I am the exception to the rule of the kind of people who live in prison. I explain how they don't realize how many people with my same story have transformed themselves.
"My exceptionalism in comparison to other incarcerated Americans revolves around my ambition and articulation, but my drive and diction cannot be the measurement of human worth and redemption; yet for many it is," I say. "I'm angry and impotent, and so, yes, ranting about Empire and the way Lucious' kids talk has become my outlet."
I fear that if nothing is done to change the kind of images that become popular on television, then there is no chance for changing the result of such portrayals in the streets and among viewers.
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DEC 06-JAN 07
ArtSeen In Conversation
Mike Womack with Ben La Rocco
Photo by Ben La Rocco.
On the occasion of Mike Womack's first one-person exhibition at ZieherSmith Gallery on West 25th Street in Chelsea, the Brooklyn Rail's Ben La Rocco visited the artist in his Clinton Hill studio to discuss his work.
Ben La Rocco: Let's start by talking about your past a bit. How did you become an artist? Where did you study?
Mike Womack: I was born in Houston, Texas, and moved to Atlanta when I was ten. In high school, I was always making things—a fly-below-the-radar art kid. I wanted to study art in college but didn't really know about art schools. I was lucky enough to be going to college as it was. My girlfriend did my application and I got into the University of Georgia. Later I was pleased. I studied mostly with a painter by the name of Richard Olson but also a painter named James Herbert who had been in New York for a spell, I believe in the '60s. He made films that are now in museum collections but he really considered himself a painter. There was a little bit of trickling down in terms of knowledge of New York—what people do here. James Herbert told us how to get gallery owners into your studio. He said what he would do is save up his money for six or seven months, pull up front in a limo, dressed in a rented tux, walk in and tell them he has a limo waiting out front and one hour to spare.
Rail: And that worked?
Womack: Surprisingly. I learned many tricks about New York from my professors. It painted a kind of bleak picture of the city. I graduated in '99 with no intention of moving here. I really just wanted to see where the dust settled. Four months later, I was working a lousy job, living with my mom to save money when I was offered work in Utah. I moved there, got a studio where I lived and worked for four years before I began applying to grad schools. It was a very committed thing. I spent excessive hours in my studio because I didn't think my portfolio would get me into any schools. I'm still shocked that it did.
Rail: You've told me that you're a rock climber and your use of anchors to get large, complex, pieces to stay on the wall is impressive. I've noticed a very careful attention to craft in all your work. Where did you pick that up? Are you an autodidact?
Womack: Being a rock climber is what took me to Utah but that doesn't really surface in my work except in an oblique way, in terms of control and trying to maintain a certain level of intensity. I grew up with my mom—it was just me and my mom—and I've often wondered if all my building had something to do with not having a male influence—an unconscious need to make up for the fact that I don't know how to repair a broken lawnmower or work on a carburetor. I always want to know how to do things with my hands. Now, a lot of my studio practice is dictated by buying material, bringing it back to my studio, and learning how to use it.
Rail: That's a really good place to be. I remember an early work of yours: a chair with a pile of bricks on it. You combined the bricks and the chair by drawing the lines of the obscured part of the chair over the brick. I read the piece through quantum theory—on an atomic level, all objects interpenetrate. The delicacy of the lines over the rough bricks heightened the drama of the material interplay. How much does math and science enter into your work?
Womack: That piece is called "Untitled (Chair)." It was the beginning of the work I'm making now. I had never rigorously thought about the conceptual underpinnings of art—how imagery and material relate to content. Once I began to reexamine something as simple as line, so many prospects opened up to me. Mathematics took on a major role in my work. I am interested in math primarily as a mode of thought. It is a concrete way of quantifying, understood by nearly everyone, and yet it lives only in the abstract space of our minds. A math equation that signifies an idea takes you directly to that mental space. It is like being able to hold a chunk of someone's thought. A line is a fixed point moving in a fixed direction in two-dimensional spaces. Up until the chair piece I always considered abstraction to be an aesthetic decision, and I wasn't interested in making decisions based solely on aesthetics. When I understood abstraction's relationship to how we perceive, and its pure accessibility through math, it then meant so much more. There was another dimension to this discovery. At that time I was really struggling with my background—the two places I had lived were fundamentally ideologically grounded cultures—the South and Utah—and I was trying to reconcile my beliefs with these cultures. The thought that something could be abstract and still quantifiable by math or science was very appealing in this regard. I began to understand the enlightenment of abstract thought and found it more desirable than the dogma of faith in a particular aesthetic. I consider "Untitled (Chair)" to be one of my first successful art pieces which is funny because I was trained as a painter and it's sculpture. It's made in the round, but it projects itself, through the drawing, to be attached to the wall. I stacked a 300-lb. cube of bricks on a specially constructed chair bottom. The drawn lines of the chair were left unpainted. I think a lot about the void between our detached thoughts and the real world delivery of thought in speech. Objective truth, if any such thing can be said to exist, lies somewhere in this gulf. The traveling red line drawn by the masking of the brick is the extension of a point in space. I wanted to call attention to that with the most recognizable material object possible. This weighty, cumbersome material that they make buildings from is used to define something with no physical existence—an outline.
Rail: When I saw your installation, "Heat is Not Made of Tiny Hot Things" at Real Art Ways (RAW) in Connecticut, I noticed that you had massed together multiples of ready made forms into organic shapes. I thought of the individual objects as being robbed of their specific forms within these greater accumulations which were, in turn, divested of their respective colors through refraction in the wall of mirrors that you saw when you entered the space. So I thought of it as a gradual process of dematerializing the original object.
Womack: One of the things I want to do is really connect color to object so that I can later play on that connection. When you see a particular color, you associate it with a particular object. I'm trying to do two things at once. I'm trying to let you see color in a pure, two-dimensional way, and at the same time hammer into your head that a particular object is a carrier for that color so that when you see the color, you recognize the materiality of it and at the same time you experience it as a purely visual phenomenon in the mirror wall. With "Heat," the original objects couldn't be transformed so much that they lost their identity.
Rail: You were trying to stress a dichotomy. We naturally associate the color of a thing with the thing itself but, in fact, an object's color has to do with the type of light it reflects—the particles it excludes. Now I'm thinking along the lines of the wave structure of light.
Womack: That has something to do with it. I recently read of the invention of a quantum processor where scientists at MIT and Michigan have a working computational model that is operating on quantum theory. The binary processor can be 1, 0, or both at the same time—very exciting. I am really drawn to the idea that something can be two things at once. When I first started trying to do other things with painting, I was confronted with the idea of local color. Traditionally, local color is a sort of obedience to naturalism, using color as it presents itself atmospherically. Cultural associations dictate what color we think certain objects should be. When you paint a fire engine blue, even if it appears that way due to atmospheric conditions, it becomes difficult to recognize as such. I thought, hey, instead of making a painting which attempts to render objects naturalistically, why don't I use the objects themselves to create painterly space so that their color is absolutely associated with them. So there're several objects I used this way—in "Heat," it was the yellow rope and the blue tarp. Other times I try to get the color of raw material to evoke a painted color—the yellow of wood or the red of brick for example.
Rail: This reminds me of the language of post-painterly abstraction and Greenberg's late writing in which a surface and the color on that surface had to be totally inviolate and uniform, so that the painting references nothing outside of itself. When you talk about the necessity of knowing that a color is associated with a particular object, you're entering into that dialogue but dealing with three-dimensional forms.
Womack: I think my concerns are a bit less esoteric. I really try to toe a line in abstraction, to stay as concrete as possible. I'm gravitating toward a more sculptural methodology and trying to maintain a connection to painting. I use objects that are known to us from American culture. We grew up around them. When I think of red, I think of apples, fire engines, and Radio Flyer wagons, and so on a social level these things become more than just what they are. As soon as I have a hermetically sealed chamber in which to work, I lose myself too quickly. I need something to keep me grounded.
Rail: That brings us to something that you mentioned earlier, which I felt very strongly with "Heat," and that is the role of Pop Art in your work, intermingled with the pure, abstractionist thought.
Womack: As soon as you become interested in objects and their native color, you walk down the cereal aisle and you fall into a trap, right? And so I've been working hard not to be seen as a Pop artist because, man, popular culture makes a lot of bright, colorful things. I'm trying to avoid getting sucked into the 99-cent store and just grabbing everything I can.
Rail: The thinking behind Pop Art and the thinking behind late modernist abstraction certainly were very much opposed to one another. But I feel an artist can pull on whatever they need to as they work. How do you see these different strains of thought relating in your work?
Womack: I think you're asking a question about modernity and postmodernity here…
Rail: Yeah, I guess we're headed there.
Womack: I really subscribe to the tenets of modernism. If pressed, I would consider myself a modernist and not a postmodernist. My heroes are the modernist artists, not the Pop artists.
Rail: Could you name a few of them?
Womack: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and, probably my favorite artist, Philip Guston. He had one foot firmly in the modernist art world, and then they threw him out. He has nothing to do with Pop Art as we know it. I would like to say that it's all one big soup, but I think the historical contexts of these things are too important. I want to pay homage to what's come before me. I'm trading in popular culture to some degree, but I've developed my own take on it and I find beauty in the ideals of modernism. I find them utterly poetic in speaking to humanity's pageant. They are inaccessible though. It requires some education and engagement to consider ideals of beauty apart from empirical reality. So my vision of what the Pop artists rebelled against was not so much the message as the inaccessibility of the message. The large flaw in Pop art is not that they tried to make the message more accessible. They just took what was already accessible and made it the message. So as far as my practice goes, I'd say I'm using postmodern techniques and materials in the service of idealist, modernist thought.
Rail: In terms of what we've been talking about—the relationship of sculpture to painting and late modernism to Pop—does the work of Jessica Stockholder or Tara Donovan have particular draw for you?
Womack: Sure, also Judy Pfaff and Phoebe Washburn. I know that Stockholder and Pfaff were coming from painting. I find it interesting that so many artists were driven toward this non-painting methodology by fielding the answers to painting questions.
Rail: In this light, you have to go the last little leg of the journey and consider Pollock. He was the one who challenged people to enter this space.
Womack: Maybe he did, but purely on an intellectual level. Those were still paintings he was making. You're talking about a metaphysical extension of the gesture. I'd be reluctant to let Pollock enter my thinking too much. But Stockholder totally blew my mind. I recognized immediately that she was making sculpture without giving up painting. It's all about color and the pictorial. I thought, "Wow, you can do that?" There's so much hybridization now, but I think people are finally leaning left or right. Lee Bontecou was dealing with the image, the wall, and a lot of rectilinear designations but she had a real metalsmithing kind of practice that, for me, veers toward sculpture. Someone like Kapoor, whose work deals with color so distinctly, seems to veer more toward painting.
Rail: We're constructing a history of where to set your work. You're about to have a show at ZieherSmith. I'd like to talk about the work you're going to show there and how you see it entering into the art world at this particular moment in which so many different histories are coming together at once.
Womack: I'm a textbook hybrid. I want to have my cake and eat it too.
Rail: Can you tell me about the work as it will appear in its final stage at ZieherSmith?
Womack: Sure. With "Heat," you walked in and saw the reflection of the assemblages first, then, as you turned around, the sculptures themselves. As you moved through the space, your own reflection became visible in the mirrors as you're caught in the crossfire. For the show at ZieherSmith, I will build a wall that will house the mirrors in such a way that your line of sight will be bounced through the wall to the space beyond it, a periscopic situation with multiple angles of sight. When you come in you see a wall of pixilated abstraction like "Heat," but this time the reflected materials are behind the wall. Now you're out of the crossfire. You can then walk around the wall to see the sculpture and enter a refracted image that another viewer might see from the front side of the wall. You'll never see your own reflection.
Rail: This is further into the language of painting. You're first forced to deal with a picture plane before gradually entering the pictorial space that composed the original image. You're inviting people to move bodily into a painterly type of space as Stockholder did.
Womack: I'm trying to fully separate the image from the object. The two are only reunited after the fact, when you pass around the wall. This in turn affects your viewing of the original image. The apparatus for seeing through this wall has become so complicated that I'm just hoping it works. The wall I'm building is so large I can't build it in my studio. I'm ship building in the basement. I'll show up at the beach, put it together and hope it floats. It's 14 feet square, leaning 59 degrees off of center with mirrored nodes inside it. There'll be 2,304 mirrors, all told. Building it in pieces is a great challenge.
Rail: For all our talk about modernism, something in this new installation gives me pause. We're confronted with an image and denied knowledge of where and how it's generated. Then we're given the object of the representation without the image. There's a break implicit in the piece between image and object that lands me thinking along the lines of postmodernism and its fixation on the fiction of representation.
Womack: It makes me think of looking under a microscope and saying: Oh yeah, that's what that's made of? There's an act of discovery in there. From a social perspective it invites you to look beyond the surfaces of what you're seeing.
Rail: When it comes down to it, the separation between object and perceiver was around long before postmodern theory got a hold of it.
Womack: Yeah, It's elemental. Very empirical. All I have is the stimulus coming in and I constitute reality inside my head. How do I know the stimulus that you internalize isn't completely different? So few things lend themselves to scientific understanding. Color wavelength is one—when a ray of light hits your retina and is turned into an electrical impulse that shoots to the optic nerve center in the brain. How do I know something hasn't changed between your grasp of a color and mine?
Ben La Rocco
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Geeks and Nerds….
April 28, 2019	 Odd / Words
Computer fanatics seem to attract pejorative words to describe them. (Now why should that be?). More often than not, they are words previously known in other contexts, but given new strength and life in the computer age. Geek and nerd both come into this category.
The online New Hacker's Dictionary has this graphic description of the computer geek :One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers:
an asocial, malodorous, pasty faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater
From about 1500 up to the beginning of the twentieth century in some dialects,geek (originally from Low German) was used to describe a fool or simple person. It was used in several of Shakespeare's plays and by other literary masters. Its fortunes turned for the worse when it transformed into geek in the American slang of the early years of the twentieth century. As is so often the case with slang words, it seems to have had a variety of meanings.
One of them in general slang is 'man, fellow' — Eric Partridge in his Dictionary of the Underworld suggests that it might be formed from an amalgamation of gee, 'guy' in slang, plus bloke, 'man'.This is unlikely, as the word is principally American, and bloke is essentially British. More convincing is the attribution to carnival slang. Circus performers who took to drugs or alcohol slipped down the jobs available until they reached rock bottom: the job of the geek. Webster's dictionary records its meaning then as being a carnival (wild man'whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake. From such a source the term reached a wider public through William Gresham's novel Nightmare Alley. It was published in 1946 and subsequently made into a film with Tyrone Power.
Yet another sense for geek is recorded by Random House lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, that of'a socially awkward or offensive person who is overly intellectual'.Whichever of these various meanings you take, none is particularly complimentary. Small wonder, then, that it was applied disparagingly to the computer geek from the start of the electronic revolution. By an inverted twist, from about 1990 it has been used by computer people of other computer people as a term of praise. In itself it is quite a common phenomenon to take a term of abuse and use it for self-reference and protest: blacks have called themselves niggers , homosexuals dykes, queers and fags. Many highly respectable Conservatives probably do not realise that Tory was once a term of abuse, used alongside robber, murderer, despicable savage, outlaw, arse and idiot (to name just a few).
Nerd is similar in meaning and equally uncomplimentary. It has been around for a much shorter time, however. The first printed record is in 1950 as the name for a fanciful creature in the children's book If I Ran the Zoo by Dr Seuss: The trouble with this as the likely origin is that it is a very rapid transition from a children's rhyme to a pejorative term, for it is only one year later in 1951 that it is recorded with its slang meaning. There are lots of other attempts to account for it.Variant spellings prevalent at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology in the 1960s were nurd and knurd. The former rhymes with turd and the latter is drunk spelt backwards.Very convenient!
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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes -- en route Cape Town, South Africa
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MR. CARNEY: Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us as we make our way to Cape Town. Here to deliver the world's fastest gaggle is Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor.
MR. RHODES: We'll begin by going to Robben Island. This is the President's second trip to Robben Island but it's his family's first, and it was very important for the President to have the opportunity to bring his family to Robben Island and to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela and all the people who sacrificed by being imprisoned there on behalf of their ideals.
His tour will include the "B Section" courtyard, the recreation room, as well as Nelson Mandela's cell, the Robert Sobukwe House, and the Lime Quarry. The tour guide will be Ahmed Kathrada, who is 83 years old, a former inmate of Robben Island, a notable anti-Apartheid activist. He also led the President's tour in 2006 when he visited Robben Island.
Q Can you spell that?
MR. RHODES: Sure. It's Ahmed -- A-h-m-e-d and then K-a-t-h-r-a-d-a. Obviously, there's a tradition on Robben Island of former inmates giving these tours, which adds even more meaning to the opportunity to be shown where people were imprisoned by those who shared in the sacrifice with Nelson Mandela and so many others.
After that, as you know, we'll be going to visit a community health center run by Desmond Tutu. And of course, Archbishop Tutu was also a very important voice for social justice and in opposition to the Apartheid movement -- before giving the speech in Cape Town.
MR. CARNEY: Anything else?
Q This is the first time for Mrs. Obama and the girls? They were never at Robben Island before?
MR. RHODES: Yes, so last time they visited, they were able to visit with Nelson Mandela but they were not able to make it to Robben Island, so this is the first time for them.
Q Will he be joined by any members of the Mandela family as well on this tour?
MR. CARNEY: Just Mr. Kathrada.
Q Just to follow up on the President's comments on Egypt yesterday -- can you say what kind of contacts you've been having with the Egyptian government regarding safeguarding the embassy and consulates? Are there sort of any military contingencies in place? That kind of stuff.
MR. RHODES: Well, first of all, we've been in touch with all of our contacts in the government -- the political leadership, the military. Those conversations haven't just focused on the security of our facilities -- that's clearly been a top priority for us -- we've also focused on our desire for there to be a peaceful resolution of differences in Egypt, respect for both peaceful protests, also the obligation of the opposition to protest peacefully. We've also been in touch with the opposition as well through our contacts.
In terms of contingencies, we've basically taken the appropriate action to ensure that our embassies and consulates have additional security measures and that our personnel are taking additional security precautions. I do want to just note there was an inaccurate report yesterday that I saw about a military deployment of some kind to Egypt -- that is not the case. We believe we have significant security measures in place and that our civilians who are serving in Egypt can take additional precautions. But we're watching the situation very carefully.
Q Any of this informed by the Inspector General's report on Benghazi? Is there anything done differently because of that?
MR. RHODES: I would have to defer that question to the State Department. What I would say is that we've had significant experience in Egypt with trying to assure security -- for instance, around the protests, some of which turned violent last September in Cairo. So they've been dealing with a very volatile security situation for some time now, and we very regularly review the security posture and the diplomatic posture of our people in Egypt.
Q I know one American was killed -- reported killed in what happened. Has the White House had any kind of contact with the family by any chance? He was a D.C.-area resident.
MR. RHODES: I know that the State Department has been in touch with the family and we're providing all the services that we do in these instances. It was clearly a tragic case, particularly painful to lose a young person. It speaks to how volatile the security situation is there. The President is certainly aware of the loss of that American and shares in the grief that the family has, and we'll let you know if there are any additional contacts to report.
Q Has the President been in touch with Secretary Kerry at all about the Middle East peace process? I know he's extended his stay to talk about it.
MR. RHODES: Well, the President spoke at length with Secretary Kerry before he left for this latest trip to the region. So he fully supports what Secretary Kerry is of course trying to move forward there. And we've been kept regularly updated by Secretary Kerry and his team from the road, and I think it speaks to what high a priority we place on trying to move forward with a peace process that the Secretary of State has invested so much time and energy in this.
Q President and Secretary Kerry haven't chatted recently about it?
MR. RHODES: I'm not aware of them having spoken since -- in the last couple days while he's been there. They did speak again before he left and Secretary Kerry briefed the President on his plans. But I'll let you know if we have any updates on additional conversations.
Q Can I ask you one thing about tomorrow? I think President Bush and, of course, the First Lady -- former First Lady will be in Tanzania. Is there any talk -- have there been any -- well, first of all, would the current President be talking or meeting in any way with President Bush? And/or have there been any discussions about them doing any kind of joint event?
MR. RHODES: I don't -- well, first of all, the First Lady, Michelle Obama, will be participating in the forum that Laura Bush is hosting. So they will appear together. It's an important forum that lifts up the role of women in Africa.
And I think the presence of the Bushes is something that marks I think the bipartisan support for Africa that exists in the United States, and it's a very welcome symbol that they can be there at the same time. We think it sends a very positive message that both political parties in the United States share a commitment to this continent.
In terms of the two Presidents, we'll keep you updated if there are any scheduling updates as to whether or not they'll be at the same place at the same time. I think that's still being worked through.
Q But right now, where does it stand?
MR. RHODES: I'm just not aware that we have anything scheduled at this time. But it may -- there may be something. We'll keep you updated.
Q And has President Obama spoken with Morsi directly? Or is there any high-level -- like Biden, anyone like that -- contact with the Egyptian government that you can read out?
MR. RHODES: There have been a range of high-level contacts. I don't have the fullest to read out to you, but we'll let you know if there's any additional information there.
Thanks, guys.


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Hopping on to British TV screens with fantastic millinery, a peppy jazz soundtrack and the breathless perkiness of a moonshine fuelled Charleston are the FRANKIE DRAKE MYSTERIES.
Shot in Canada and set between the wars in 1920s Toronto - it has quite the eclectic cast, featuring Brits (including Laurence Fox), Canadians and Canadian-Americans. This international cast includes lots of familiar faces to viewers of inoffensively mediocre TV programmes.
The first episode adheres faithfully to the template for similar shows - a breakneck introduction to our eponymous heroine as she jumps headfirst into a precarious situation. Within minutes, Drake (Lauren Lee Smith) has foiled a kidnapping and found herself shoulders deep solving a crime with more red herrings than an Icelandic fishing tug.
Sadly, the show's cracks are visible from the very start. Ms Drake is an independent, unconventional woman at a time when such a thing belonged in PT Barnum's freak show. This aint subtle - Drake goes from avoiding a Best Baby contest to admiring an airshow, to motorbiking across a field in a show of derring do, all in the space of a few minutes.
While our lady detective must repeatedly overcome sexism as well as criminal intent, the Frankie Drake Mysteries otherwise offers up a blithely rose-tinted view of the 1920s. With colour blind casting and apparently no financial insecurity.
Unfortunately this happy-go-lucky tone, peppered with jaunty 20s vernacular like toots and gals - clashes uncomfortably with a plot involving eugenics and other dark deeds which robs the show of any real dramatic tension. There are guns, murders, explosions and an amusingly sedate chase sequence that takes place at a blistering 40mph - but no-one ever seems to be in any jeopardy. We learn surprisingly little of anyone's personal history until the very end - just how did Frankie and Trudy join forces to become female detectives in 20's Toronto?
None of this is helped by the visible budget constraints, or the fact that the first episode to air on these shores appears to be the 8th episode in the series. This probably explains why the pacing seems awkward and we learn little about any of the main characters.
Anyone tuning in to the latest show to cash in on the vogue for Agatha Christie golden age detective stories, not to mention the UK's insatiable appetite for twee murder mysteries will most likely find it an enjoyable romp, full of just-in-time heroics. Sappy scripting and storylines aside, the show has a warm, nostalgic glow and a set of characters that promise to be pleasant, if not cutting edge. It's good natured stuff - think Bugsy Malone crossed with Midsomer Murders and you're almost there.
This isn't for everyone, but if you're a fan of similarly innocent fare such as Australian series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, you may find Frankie Drake's adventures quaintly entertaining.
- Aired on Alibi, January 23 2018 at 21:00.


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Update: Media reports refuted
Tuesday is an off day for players, but that hasn't slowed the flow of news in Foxborough. Two recent reports regarding Patriots star players Terry Glenn and Drew Bledsoe are apparently inaccurate.
The first pertains to an alleged "knockdown, drag-out" argument between Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Drew Bledsoe. Such an event never took place.
In fact, Belichick met with Bledsoe the Monday after the loss to the Rams to inform his quarterback that fill-in Tom Brady would remain the starter for the foreseeable future. Because of schedule changes pertaining to Thanksgiving, that Monday was like a normal Tuesday, meaning players had the day off and were not present.
The closed-door meeting took place in Belichick's office, and the coach never raised his voice. In fact, Bledsoe listened to the news and walked out before returning five minutes later to express his displeasure with the coach's decision. At that time, Bledsoe was indeed agitated and relayed his feelings on the matter, but no shouting match between the two occurred as was reported.
Later Monday night, Bledsoe returned for the weekly quarterback meeting and went about his game preparations along with Tom Brady and Damon Huard. Bledsoe didn't hide his disappointment the following day when he addressed the media and seemed miffed that the coach had changed his mind about allowing a quarterback competition to take place on the practice field during game preparation time.
No meeting scheduled
A high-ranking team official confirmed that owner Robert Kraft has no meeting scheduled with Glenn despite a report that one may be pending. Glenn, who hasn't played in the last six games, was in the spotlight over the weekend when he appeared on WBZ-TV4's Sports Final with Bob Lobel and Steve Burton.
In that interview, Glenn indicated that he no longer cared if he remained a Patriot in the future and had this to say about his absence from the lineup since recording seven catches for 110 yards and a touchdown in the team's 29-26 win over the Chargers on Oct. 14:
"I'm not getting paid and my hamstring hurts … you do the math," Glenn said before cracking a smile that left the intent of his comments up for interpretation. Glenn apparently has been cleared to return to practice this week, which means there had to be an injury that prevented him from being cleared earlier. But how much Glenn's conversations with team trainers and doctors had to do with his absence is impossible to speculate without speaking to those medical officials, who are not permitted to speak to the media about a player's health.
Glenn did not come out and say he was sitting out because of the team's reluctance to pay his signing bonus, which it is withholding in light of his violation of the league's drug policy. There was wording in Glenn's contract that allowed the team to recoup bonus money if the league suspended him, which is what happened. If Glenn violates the drug policy again, the team could lose him for 10 games, which may be why it is reluctant to bend on the money.
Glenn has filed a grievance to force the team to pay him his bonus money, but that won't be heard until after the season. If Glenn admitted to sitting out of the games because of the money, one could only assume that his chances of winning a grievance would be lessened greatly.
One certainty is that he doesn't think he'll be a Patriot for much longer. "I did want to play for them again," he told Burton and Lobel. "That's D-I-D, but I don't think I'll be here next season. I don't care if I'm still on this football team."
That leaves the Patriots with an interesting problem. They own Glenn's right for five more seasons and conceivably at a minimum salary level. If Glenn loses his grievance, he becomes easier to trade, but the Patriots would then have to wonder what kind of value they could get for the player considering his recent troubles with the organization. If Glenn wins the grievance, the Patriots would be back on the hook for a signing bonus they planned to pay originally anyway.
The team also must be concerned that letting Glenn go would create a perception for other players that if unhappy, a player can run his mouth and be given a ticket out the door to resume his career with a fresh start elsewhere – the inmate-running-the-asylum theory.
The team clearly hasn't been distracted by the Glenn saga and, in fact, has performed as well if not better without him than it did last year with him on the field. There's no questioning the player's talent, only his attitude at this point.


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namespace cdc_ft {
namespace {

struct MetricsRecord {
  MetricsRecord(metrics::DeveloperLogEvent dev_log_event,
                metrics::EventType code)
      : dev_log_event(std::move(dev_log_event)), code(code) {}
  metrics::DeveloperLogEvent dev_log_event;
  metrics::EventType code;
};

class MetricsServiceForTesting : public metrics::MetricsService {
 public:
  MetricsServiceForTesting() {
    metrics_records_ = new std::vector<MetricsRecord>();
  }

  ~MetricsServiceForTesting() { delete metrics_records_; }

  void RecordEvent(metrics::DeveloperLogEvent event,
                   metrics::EventType code) const override {
    metrics_records_->push_back(MetricsRecord(std::move(event), code));
  }

  int NumberOfRecordRequests() { return (int)metrics_records_->size(); }

  std::vector<MetricsRecord> GetEventsAndClear() {
    return std::move(*metrics_records_);
  }

 private:
  std::vector<MetricsRecord>* metrics_records_;
};

class MetricsRecorderTest : public ::testing::Test {
 public:
  void SetUp() override { metrics_service_ = new MetricsServiceForTesting(); }

  void TearDown() override { delete metrics_service_; }

 protected:
  MetricsServiceForTesting* metrics_service_;
};

TEST_F(MetricsRecorderTest, SendEventWithMultisessionId) {
  MultiSessionMetricsRecorder target(metrics_service_);
  metrics::DeveloperLogEvent q_evt;
  q_evt.project_id = "proj/id";
  q_evt.organization_id = "org/id";

  target.RecordEvent(std::move(q_evt), metrics::EventType::kMultiSessionStart);
  EXPECT_EQ(metrics_service_->NumberOfRecordRequests(), 1);
  std::vector<MetricsRecord> requests = metrics_service_->GetEventsAndClear();
  EXPECT_EQ(requests[0].code, metrics::EventType::kMultiSessionStart);
  metrics::DeveloperLogEvent expected_evt;
  expected_evt.project_id = "proj/id";
  expected_evt.organization_id = "org/id";
  expected_evt.as_manager_data =
      std::make_unique<metrics::AssetStreamingManagerData>();
  expected_evt.as_manager_data->multisession_id = target.MultiSessionId();
  EXPECT_EQ(requests[0].dev_log_event, expected_evt);
  EXPECT_FALSE(target.MultiSessionId().empty());

  q_evt = metrics::DeveloperLogEvent();
  q_evt.project_id = "proj/id";
  q_evt.organization_id = "org/id";
  target.RecordEvent(std::move(q_evt), metrics::EventType::kMultiSessionStart);
  EXPECT_EQ(metrics_service_->NumberOfRecordRequests(), 1);
  std::vector<MetricsRecord> requests2 = metrics_service_->GetEventsAndClear();
  EXPECT_EQ(requests2[0].code, metrics::EventType::kMultiSessionStart);
  EXPECT_EQ(requests2[0].dev_log_event, requests[0].dev_log_event);

  MultiSessionMetricsRecorder target2(metrics_service_);
  EXPECT_NE(target2.MultiSessionId(), target.MultiSessionId());
}

TEST_F(MetricsRecorderTest, SendEventWithSessionId) {
  SessionMetricsRecorder target(metrics_service_, "id1", "m_proj", "m_org");
  metrics::DeveloperLogEvent q_evt;
  q_evt.project_id = "proj/id";
  q_evt.organization_id = "org/id";

  target.RecordEvent(std::move(q_evt), metrics::EventType::kSessionStart);
  EXPECT_EQ(metrics_service_->NumberOfRecordRequests(), 1);
  std::vector<MetricsRecord> requests = metrics_service_->GetEventsAndClear();
  EXPECT_EQ(requests[0].code, metrics::EventType::kSessionStart);
  metrics::DeveloperLogEvent expected_evt;
  expected_evt.project_id = "m_proj";
  expected_evt.organization_id = "m_org";
  expected_evt.as_manager_data =
      std::make_unique<metrics::AssetStreamingManagerData>();
  expected_evt.as_manager_data->multisession_id = "id1";
  expected_evt.as_manager_data->session_id = target.SessionId();
  EXPECT_EQ(requests[0].dev_log_event, expected_evt);
  EXPECT_FALSE(target.SessionId().empty());

  q_evt = metrics::DeveloperLogEvent();
  q_evt.project_id = "proj/id";
  q_evt.organization_id = "org/id";
  target.RecordEvent(std::move(q_evt), metrics::EventType::kSessionStart);
  EXPECT_EQ(metrics_service_->NumberOfRecordRequests(), 1);
  std::vector<MetricsRecord> requests2 = metrics_service_->GetEventsAndClear();
  EXPECT_EQ(requests2[0].code, metrics::EventType::kSessionStart);
  EXPECT_EQ(requests2[0].dev_log_event, requests[0].dev_log_event);

  SessionMetricsRecorder target2(metrics_service_, "id2", "m_proj", "m_org");
  EXPECT_NE(target2.SessionId(), target.SessionId());
}

}  // namespace
}  // namespace cdc_ft

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Epigenetics has become a hot topic in biology. There are players "above DNA"– some heritable – that may be more important than the genetic code itself.
Several recent science papers try to find evolution in bird brains, genes, and behaviors. Do they succeed?
Regrowing organs and other miracle cures may be coming to a hospital near you, thanks to progress with adult stem cells.
Within the factories of molecular machines that run living cells, including those in the human body, processes occur non-stop that are designed to meet every contingency. Here are just a few examples.
Inspired by the wisdom inherent in living organisms, inventors and engineers are finding bright ideas.
T. Rex, Triceratops and other stars of the age of dinosaurs have made news lately. Here are some recent dinosaur findings.
When completely unrelated animals or plants display the same engineering solution, is it reasonable to assume a blind, unguided process of selection achieved improbable outcomes multiple times? Is calling it "convergent evolution" meaningful? Here are three examples.


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Q: I tried to reproduce the "get-dimensions" script from the Puppeteer website locally And this is what I got when I ran the program.
Running get-dimensions in the terminal
How to get "height:" and "devicescalefactor:" to also print?
Pauls Nodejs repo


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It can be a challenge to sustain viewers once the novelty of a reality TV show wears off. After all, how many times can you watch a trucker drive across snow a la History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers?" Now, in a bid to boost viewer tune-in for such programs, TV networks are increasingly turning to sweepstakes to anchor their marketing efforts.
These campaigns are not simple one-time, generic contests. Instead, they are designed to last throughout the show's season, reward viewers' wish fulfillment, and ignite viral buzz.
The National Geographic Channel, for example, is promoting the second season of the "Ultimate Survivor Alaska" series with a contest that provides a real-life experience from the show.
Every Sunday from January 5 through March 9, the show will air a unique keyword for entrants to submit online. One winner with all of the correct keywords and a guest fly to Alaska to join cast member Dallas Seavey for activities that include dog mushing, outdoor camping, snowshoeing, and learning MacGyver tricks. The winner must also be camera-friendly. He or she will be filmed and likely featured in future promotional campaigns and episodes.
Meanwhile, TLC is promoting the new season of "Cake Boss" with the Bake With The Boss contest running through January 20. One winner will fly to New York City to participate in the "Taste Of NFL" event held during Super Bowl XLVIII. As part of this food festival, Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro will bake alongside the winner, segments of which will be incorporated into future promotional efforts.
The Food Network is ensuring the winner of its reality TV show "Restaurant Express" has at least one customer. As part of the promotion for the "Restaurant Express Las Vegas" TV series, one viewer receives a trip to Las Vegas to eat at the new restaurant opened by the series winner. No word on whether the show's host Robert Irvine will join their meal.
Networks hope these contests emulate the viral success that A&E garnered with last summer's "Duck Dynasty" Camo Cameo contest. The sweepstakes awarded one person who looked most like a Duck Dynasty family member with a walk-on role in an ad supporting the show's fourth season.
Yet the contest's real winner was A&E. Without much paid advertisement, this contest sparked widespread attention in both social and traditional media. Contestants took to social media to solicit votes and local newspaper and news outlets covered local contestants. Ultimately, all of these mentions raised the profile and awareness of "Duck Dynasty," without cost to the network.
Still, there's the question of whether viewers will actually want to win some of these prizes. It's one thing to win a lavish dinner at a reality TV contestant's new restaurant; it's another matter to spend the night camping outdoors in sub-zero temperatures.


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Q: Efficiently validate joins (especially row counts) in SQL (Snowflake) I'm working with multiple CTE joins in Snowflake. How are you validating joins? I'm currently validating with a very manual process, checking 1:1 joins, one at a time. I then look for duplicate values, data quality issues, etc. I query the results a few different ways, interrogating specific ways that the join could be improved, noting all the query result counts and resolving differences. The data I'm currently working with should ideally join with the same row count as the base table. One join returns a slightly smaller result and one returns a slightly larger result. There is surely a more efficient way to chase down the root cause than the manual interrogation I'm currently doing.
What I would like to do:
Find a way to return multiple concurrent analyses for me, for example:

*

*The size of each table prior to joining

*How many rows from each table were included in the join

*How many rows from each table were excluded from the join

*How many rows were used more than once in the "many" portion of a one-to-many join (which I'm currently finding via group by and count(*)>1)

I'm working in Snowflake but I have access to other tools. All ideas welcome.

A: I think you're asking how can you efficiently evaluate a SQL statement to ensure it is returning the correct results. If this is what you are asking then, in my opinion, there is no way of automating this, as every SQL statement is different and I can't imagine how setting up some sort of framework/automation would be more efficient than just manually running the appropriate checks for a specific statement.
Having a process that you logically work through when checking the results obviously makes sense. However, I can't see the point of at least some of the checks that you've listed - as I don't see how the information they would provide tell you much about whether your SQL is correct


Clean Caring Kiwi seeks Pet sitting !
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Roberto Saturnino Moya Sandoval (Havana, 11 de fevereiro de 1965 – Espanha, 21 de maio de 2020) foi um atleta, lançador de disco, nascido em Cuba. Ganhou medalha de bronze nos Jogos Olímpicos de Barcelona, em 1992. Já no final da sua carreira, em 2001, optou pela cidadania espanhola.

Morreu no dia 21 de maio de 2020 na Espanha, aos 55 anos.

Feitos alcançados

Melhores marcas pessoais

Palmarés

Ligações externas
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Lançadores de disco de Cuba
Lançadores de disco de Espanha
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Capitalist workaholic cultures in the non-profit industrial complex
My alleged career in public health, social services, and education in various North American cities has spanned almost a decade and a half. If you take into account work that I did in India prior to and alongside that career in the States and Canada, then that's a good two decades of labor in these sectors that I can claim as a badge of honor and failure in equal proportion. Essentially this was work in various organizations that exist within what INCITE! brilliantly classified as the non-profit industrial complex.
From anecdotal evidence it feels safe to say that a lot, likely the majority, of social justice activist-type people tend to find paid work in social services, health, education, or some combination thereof. Many, like me, thus end up building low-wage careers in the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC from here on out), which for me includes both public and private organizations and those pain-in-the-butt, dual ones. And like me, many also build these careers kicking and screaming because really what other choice is there for so many of us in a capitalist economy?
For the most part we do this to the detriment of our health and personal lives…all in the name of finding a job that at least partially enriches our souls.
I am of the opinion that the major reason for this hit on our well-being is the shitty, pro-capitalist, Jesus-complex-bearing, workaholic culture that exists within vast parts of the NPIC.
This is not nurturing for our society and communities.
Now make no mistake, I'm not dissing the work done by many of the organizations within the NPIC. There is genuinely good work happening with quite a few of these non-profits, whether in subversive manners or not.
But why oh why can't this good work be done without adopting oppressive work cultures?
It is so very rare to find a non-profit that adheres to the simple truth that having a nurturing, caring, anti-capitalist, and anti-perfectionist work culture – based on building egalitarian communities – will in reality benefit the cause in the long run.
I will say this though. I do believe that this self-aggrandizing, oppressive, workaholic mentality is a manifestation of settler-colonial patriarchy. Not only are we better of without it, we must actively fight it for the sake of our children, families, and communities.
Because it's the people we love who suffer the most when we're forced to spend the overwhelming majority of our waking hours selling our labor for sustenance.
I have said it before and will say it again:
Fuck capitalism.
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Q: Sending OkHttp Multipart POST call Request to Alexa Voice Service and getting 204 response code. How to resolve it? I am trying to integrate Alexa with an Android app. I am able to login and get Token from AVS and when I try to send OkHttp Multipart POST call request to AVS with an audio file in request Body, I am getting 204 response code. Can anyone help me in resolving this issue.
Thanks :)
public void uploadFile(File audio, String accessToken)

{

        OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

        try {

            byte[] streamToSend = new byte[(int) audio.length()];

            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(audio);
            fis.read(streamToSend);
            fis.close();

            final MultipartBody requestBody = new MultipartBody.Builder()
                    .setType(MultipartBody.FORM)
                    .addFormDataPart("metadata","metadata",
                            RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8"), generateSpeechMetadata()))
                    .addFormDataPart("audio", "audiorecordtest.pcm",
                            RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/octet-stream"), streamToSend))
                    .build();

            Request request = new Request.Builder()
                    .url("https://avs-alexa-eu.amazon.com/v20160207/events")
                    .addHeader("Authorization","Bearer "+accessToken)
                    .post(requestBody)
                    .build();
            client.newCall(request).enqueue(new Callback() {
                @Override
                public void onFailure(Call call, IOException e) {
                    call.cancel();
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    Log.e("STATUS", "Failed");
                }

                @Override
                public void onResponse(Call call, final Response response) throws IOException {
                    final String myResponse = response.body().string();
                    Log.e("STATUS CODE", String.valueOf(response.code()));
                    if (response.code() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_NO_CONTENT){
                        Log.e("STATUS", " No Content");
                    }
                    else{
                        Log.e("STATUS Successfull!", response.body().toString());

                    }
                }
            });

        }catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
            // Handle the error
        }
    }


Today is day 16 of the Zikode Extension Land Occupation on the East Rand, between Boksburg and Germiston. Many of us are sick after 15 nights on the land. Some of us are still carrying wounds from the brutal police assault on 17 May. Our shacks have been repeatedly destroyed and the building materials burnt or confiscated. Cars used to transport the materials to the occupation have been impounded. We are also facing death threats. Armed men, unknown to us, are looking for our leaders.
In many cases people having been living in the shacks that have been demolished. There is no court order authorising these demolitions and they are therefore illegal and criminal acts by the police and the Municipality. The police are also guilty of abuse and assault. On 17 May when they tried to stop us from moving back to the occupation from the Good Hope settlement they attacked us with rubber bullets, tear gas and bricks. People were attacked while they were running away and hiding. A baby in Good Hope had seriously difficulty breathing as a result of the teargas. Babies have died from teargas in Durban and in Palestine. We could have lost this baby too. When a woman fell as she was running from the police Siyambusa Mpolase, our Deputy Secretary, turned back and ran to help her. He was arrested. The police shouted "This is the dog we have been looking for." They kicked him and beat him with the back of their guns. They then took him to another place, a dark place, in their van. When they got there, they continued to beat him with the back of their guns. After that they took him to the police station.
The police have made it clear to us that they are being instructed to attack us, our homes, and the occupation by Geoffrey Mthembu, the ANC Ward Councillor in the area, and Grant Nkosi, an official from the Gauteng Human Settlements Departments.
ANC leaders in the Good Hope Settlement, including Vusimuzi Geqeza and the Good Hope ANC chairperson Oliver Silele, along with other members of the branch have threatened us. Clear threats have been made against our leaders, including death threats. People in the local ANC have told us that they can pay people to come and kill us. Specific death threats have been made against six of our leaders. On three separate occasions strange men have been asking where they can find Sizwe Mpaxa, our organiser. On Thursday strange men were asking where Luyanda Fitshane, our Deputy Chairperson, stays. This morning three strange men with guns were in Good Hope looking for our chairperson, Mlamli Gomo. They were using a car but we are not sure how many other people were in the car. We have witnesses who can testify to this if they can be given anonymity.
No pro bono law firm has been willing to help us so far. We had to use our own money to get a lawyer for the bail application for Siyambusa. We also used our own money for a lawyer to seek an urgent interdict against the Municipality to stop their illegal evictions. Our application was dismissed on Thursday on the grounds that it was 'not urgent'. We have also had to use our money to buy and transport building materials after each demolition. If anyone is willing to support the occupation with food or with blankets we would appreciate it.
We are tired and many of us are sick. Our children are staying with relatives and friends and this is painful for us. We are running out of money for food. We are living in fear. Yesterday the rich were celebrating Africa Day. We have nothing to celebrate when impoverished people must still pay for land with blood. The same government that wants to us to celebrate Africa Day is sending the police to shoot us when we occupy unused land.
Our women are very strong. They will not turn back. Even when they are sick and coughing with the flu they don't want to turn back. S'fiso Ngcobo was fighting for the same struggle as us when he was assassinated in Durban.
Our oppressors don't want us to be strong. If you raise your voice up, if you organise and act and if they see that you are intelligent they will treat you like a wild animal to be hunted. When we are strong they take us a threat. They promise land but they will not allow us to participate in returning the land to the people. For them democracy does not include people like us. For them our job is to just to obey and to vote.
There is no way that we can go back. If that means that we have to die here then we will die here. We were ready to die when we first occupied the land we remain ready to die.
Our oppressors don't want us to be strong. . .For them our job is to just to obey and to vote.


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Une hémiépiphyte ou plante hémiépiphyte est une plante qui vit en épiphyte pendant une partie de son cycle biologique.
Les graines des plantes hémiépiphytes primaires germent dans la canopée et se développent au début comme des épiphytes.
Elles émettent des racines qui poussent vers le bas et finissent par rencontrer le sol et s'y ancrer.
Les hémiépiphytes secondaires se développent d'abord comme des plantes grimpantes enracinées qui poussent vers le haut à partir du sol de la forêt, mais qui par la suite cessent d'êtres reliées au sol.

Les figuiers étrangleurs sont des hémiépiphytes : ils commencent leur vie comme des épiphytes, puis après avoir établi un contact avec le sol, ils encerclent l'arbre hôte et l'étranglent littéralement. Cela se traduit généralement par la mort de l'arbre hôte, soit par un effet d'annélation, soit par l'effet de la compétition pour la lumière.

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Ford's new SUV will be a global model; will sit above the EcoSport.
Ford has begun work on the next-gen Kuga SUV, which is a popular model for the brand in Europe. The Kuga is also sold as the 'Ford Escape' in the North American market. For those who don't know, the Ford Escape / Kuga sits above the EcoSport in the brand's global line-up.
The Kuga / Escape is one of Ford's mainstream SUVs. The company sold 1,51,000 units of the SUV in 2017 across Europe and slightly fewer in 2018; both years had more than double the volume that was shifted in 2013, after the second-generation car was first launched.
Test mules of the next-gen Kuga have already been spotted across Europe and North America and it is clear that the new SUV will get a curvier look, with styling cues from the latest-gen Ford Focus. However, the big news is, unlike the previous-gen Kuga range, Ford will have two seating configurations for the new model. Apart from the five-seat variant, there will also be a seven-seat version that will join a little later and is likely to be called 'Grand Kuga'.
Closer to home, Ford has begun work on an all-new SUV for India that will share its underpinnings with the next-gen XUV500 and will be built on the same line at Mahindra's Chakan plant.


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Streaming music service Spotify has once again achieved a new milestone by reaching over 4 million paying subscribers, according to Chief Content Officer Ken Parks.
Parks talked about the premium subscription increase, as well as achieving more than 15 million total active Spotify users, at a Global Business Summit on Creative Content in London today, reports The Next Web. For the handful of people who haven't heard about it, Spotify is an ultra-popular music service that lets people share their song library with others and discover new music. It's built on a freemium business model, bringing in both advertising-based and subscription-based revenue.
News of the subscription growth comes after months of continuous improvements and additions to the service, such as its app platform, embeddable play button feature, and access across multiple platforms. More recently, Spotify added unlimited Pandora-like smart radio to its Android app.
The beginning of Spotify's massive growth spurt arguably started last year when the Swedish company first launched in the U.S. Shortly after, it hooked up with social media behemoth Facebook to be one of the first Timeline launch partners. The last time the company reported its subscriber numbers was in late January after crossing the 3 million mark. In less than eight months, it's managed to boost that number by 25 percent.
The steady growth rate is impressive, but Spotify's business model isn't completely free of turbulence. Critics cite the company's extremely high music licensing costs as one reason it may not succeed in the future. Also, indie music labels aren't happy with Spotify's payment structure, and have even removed their music from the service entirely. However for the moment, it appears that both music fans and music labels are pleased with the service.
Spotify has raised around $188 million in funding, and is reportedly seeking a massive new round that could boost the startup's valuation upwards of $3.5 billion.


Most attorneys are more interested in practicing law than in managing the computer systems they rely on to get their work done. That's why more and more law offices are turning to cloud-based IT service management providers to supply the computer support that no modern law practice can do without, but that most lawyers don't want to, and are not equipped to do for themselves.
The term "cloud" basically refers to the delivery of computer services over the internet. Traditionally, law offices have had to purchase their own computers, servers, and licensed software in order to get the applications and data storage they need to run their practice. But in the cloud computing model, software and data all reside on the servers of an IT service management vendor. The concept is called Software as a Service (SaaS), and a growing number of lawyers throughout the country are turning to it.
With SaaS, you access your software applications and data through the internet, using any computer or other device that can support a web browser. Your practice doesn't have to spend capital up front to purchase servers, software licenses, and data storage to run the applications you depend on. Instead, you pay a monthly fee to an IT service management provider who delivers those applications through the internet. In most cases, the vendor also takes full responsibility for managing the practice's IT functions, relieving attorneys and staff of having to spend time and attention on keeping the computer system running.
SaaS can significantly reduce the capital expenditures required to gain needed IT services. For a single monthly fee, the vendor supplies all the server hardware and software needed for your practice's IT setup at no up-front cost to you. This relieves your practice of the obligation of purchasing servers and software licenses, and of hiring IT consultants to set up, maintain, and upgrade your IT infrastructure. Plus, your vendor will be able to remotely diagnose problems and provide fixes on a quick-response 24/7 basis.
All your practice needs to supply for itself are computers or other devices capable of internet access through a browser. And even here you can realize significant savings by investing in what are called "thin client" workstations instead of full-featured computers. Thin clients are cheaper because they don't need large disk drives or sizeable amounts of computer memory, since their only job is to access the internet via a web browser.
Another great feature of this model is that you pay only for the services you actually use during a billing cycle. As your need for IT services changes from month to month, you never find yourself in the position of having to pay for capacity you didn't really need during that period.
We are living in a time of explosive technological change. Hardware and software that were perfectly suited for their functions when purchased, may be quickly outmoded as new features and capabilities become available. Plus, as your practice grows, its own needs may quickly expand beyond what was initially envisioned.
The SaaS model takes the burden of responding to these changes off of you, and places them on the SaaS vendor. A good IT service management provider will be constantly upgrading its hardware and software behind the scenes to take advantage of advances in technology. Plus, the vendor is continually monitoring your usage (usually on a daily basis), so that as your need for services grows (or diminishes), the resources allocated to you can be almost instantaneously adjusted. You and your staff never have to take time and attention away from the practice of law in order to initiate, implement, and test such changes.
With SaaS you can access your applications and data from anywhere in the world simply by logging into your system via an internet-enabled device. It could be your office computer, or the laptop you use at home, or even the smart phone or BlackBerry you take with you while traveling. As long as your device supports an internet browser, you can have immediate access to the same functionality you have while sitting at your desk in the office.
Because your practice's applications and data are centrally housed on your SaaS vendor's servers, all your users can access the same data real time. If several colleagues or staffers are working on the same case, all can collaborate using information that is always up to date, because they are all interacting with the same data on the system.
The biggest concern most lawyers have about using cloud services is that their clients' sensitive data is being stored on someone else's system. How can they be sure that data remains secure when it is not under their immediate control?
Actually, a good IT service management vendor, like TOSS C3, can provide a much higher level of security than most law practices can achieve on their own. That's because, by the very nature of their business the SasS vendor is required to have a level of data security expertise that non-specialists are not likely to possess. If you choose the right vendor, they will be well versed in issues like restricting access only to authorized users, securing your data against hacking through use of encryption and other data security measures, and protecting your data from natural or man-made disasters by replicating it in different off-site locations so that if one repository goes down, the data can be recovered from others.
But what about the Rules Of Ethics concerning maintaining the confidentiality of client data? Although laws regarding storing client data in the cloud are still developing, no state has forbidden the practice, and a number specifically authorize it. The ABA, along with several state bar associations, supports use of cloud services as long as due diligence precautions are taken. The Legal Cloud Computing Association (LCCA) has published a set of security standards to provide guidance for lawyers in meeting cloud computing ethics obligations.


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The City of Kirkland is engaging citizens in planning for Kirkland 2035 with a major update to the Comprehensive Plan. A major part of that exercise is planning for significant growth in jobs and housing, balancing inevitable change with the community's values, and ensuring that Kirkland remains a special place in 2035. New tools are needed to help participants talk about the future. The 10 Minute Neighborhood Analysis is intended to provide a tool to help the community talk about what it means to be livable, walkable, sustainable, connected, and transit-oriented.
Kirkland is one of the most livable cities in America. We are a vibrant, attractive, green and welcoming place to live, work and play. Civic engagement, innovation and diversity are highly valued. We are respectful, fair, and inclusive. We honor our rich heritage while embracing the future. Safe, walkable, bikeable and friendly neighborhoods are connected to each other and to thriving mixed use activity centers, schools, parks and our scenic waterfront. Convenient transit service provides a viable alternative to driving. Diverse and affordable housing is available throughout the city. Kirkland strives to be a model, sustainable city that values preserving and enhancing our natural environment for our enjoyment and future generations.
By measuring those attributes and identifying opportunities for and barriers to walkability, the tool allows the community to talk about how to create and enhance those attributes and remove barriers, which, in turn informs the discussion about Kirkland in 2035.
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Dr. Prescott-Coraggio was appointed an instructor in the Department of Family Medicine in 1997. She also serves as an attending physician at PCOM's Cambria Division.
She received her D.O. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, N.J. in 1994 and completed her internship and residency at PCOM.
In 1994 she received the Sandoz Pharmaceutical Award for Leadership and Scholarship and in 1987 was honored with the Young Citizen's Award from Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey.


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Suspension and debarment are tools used by the government to protect itself from the risks of doing business with contractors it determines lack "present responsibility." In analyzing whether a federal contractor lacks present responsibility, the procuring agency's suspension and debarment officials will analyze the contractor's honesty, integrity, ethics, responsibility, and competence, among other things. Contractors debarred, suspended or proposed for debarment are excluded from competing for or receiving contracts and grants. Given the widespread business impact of these tools, it is imperative that government contractors consult experienced legal counsel both throughout the life of their business in order to avoid a proposed suspension, debarment or proposed debarment and immediately upon notice of such a threatened action.
Our government contracts attorneys work one-on-one with their clients to develop and implement compliance plans to mitigate the risk of a proposed suspension and debarment. We firmly believe legal services are best used as a preventative measure, rather than as a defensive measure. If suspension and debarment have been threatened, our attorneys are experienced in responding to show cause notices, negotiating resolutions with the government participating, in fact, finding proceedings and opposing such actions in court. We understand the devastation that suspensions and debarments have on our clients' companies. At the Federal Practice Group, we work tirelessly to protect our clients' reputations, limit losses and get our clients back in business.
Mr. Hargreaves is an associate attorney with the Federal Practice Group. His practice focuses on government contracts and civil litigation. In this role Mr. Hargreaves counsels and represents government contractors in solicitation reviews, bid protests, terminations, constructive change claims, multiple award schedule contracts, suspension and debarment proceedings, mandatory disclosures, alternative dispute resolution, base debarments, False Claims Act (FCA) action, and other issues under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Contract Disputes Act (CDA).
Prior to joining the Federal Practice Group as an associate attorney, Mr. Hargreaves served as a law clerk for FPG while attending law school. He also served as a legal intern in the chambers of the Honorable Marian Blank Horn at the United States Court of Federal Claims.
Mr. Hargreaves is a graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies, with a focus in World Politics, and a Bachelor of Arts in German. He received his Juris Doctor, with a concentration in Government Procurement, from the George Washington University Law School.
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Ms. Koneru is an Associate with the Federal Practice Group. Her practice is focused on government contracting and complex litigation.
Prior to joining the Federal Practice Group, Ms. Koneru worked at the General Services Administration, Office of General Counsel as a Legal Intern in both the Personal Property Division and Acquisition Policy Division where she researched and drafted memorandum on government contracts related issues, including default termination, CICA stays, and bid protests. She also drafted and amended rules for the agency's internal regulations manual.
Prior to the GSA, Ms. Koneru worked as a legal assistant within the Federal Judicial Center where she researched, compiled, blue-booked, and synthesized sources on shadow banking and Chapter 14 of the Bankruptcy Code for the upcoming Dodd-Frank Report and co-authored Appendix B of the Dodd-Frank Report. Prior to the Federal Judicial Center, Ms. Koneru worked as a Research Assistant at The George Washington University Law School where she researched, coded, and compiled data on wrongful conviction statistics and compensation in the U.S. and assisted in cases within the Public Justice Advocacy Clinic.
Ms. Koneru's other experience includes interning for a D.C. law firm specializing in family and probate law, where she assisted in research and drafted client documents including wills, trusts, power of attorney agreements and litigation documents, including complaints and answers.
Ms. Koneru earned her Juris Doctorate from The George Washington University Law School. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with Minors in Criminal Justice and Public Health from The George Washington University
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Laura Berry is a Senior Counsel at Federal Practice Group with adept experience as a counselor and litigator delivering results when the stakes are high and the issues complex. Her skills in developing a company's litigation strategy, the preparation and defense of witnesses, expert testimony, and expert cross examinations help direct the course of trials to favorable results.
She focuses her practice on complex privacy, consumer protection, commercial, and IP litigation, representing leading business clients in complex and multistate actions and governmental litigation and investigations. She is a national leader in benefit corporation formation and conversion, and related non-profit funding. She is deeply familiar with privacy and cybersecurity litigation, advising clients on the potential impact of civil litigation, mitigating associated risks, and state and federal governmental investigations. Her clients include multinational corporations, government contractors, sports and entertainment, and health care. She consults and assists in the Firm's federal litigation and proceedings across the nation. Ms. Berry is experienced in advocating for U.S. and global clients, effectively representing them in all phases of critical business operations and disputes.
Before joining the Federal Practice Group Ms. Berry formed the first benefit corporation ever, and since then has formed as many as or more benefit corporations than any other attorney in the nation. She also pioneered a ground-breaking relationship between a benefit LLC and a non-profit designed to create a new model for non-profit funding. She has been instrumental in benefit corporation legislative efforts including testifying by invitation before state legislatures and committees, and has been named a B Corp Champion by B Labs.
Ms. Berry has gained international recognition through her thought leadership imparted before the United Nations, Yale Law School, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of State, and other national and international institutions. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, the BBC World News, Bisnow, and other media. Ms. Berry also worked on Capitol Hill for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Ms. Berry is a member of the US-Afghan Women's Council, a public-private partnership established by Presidents George W. Bush and Hamid Karzai that connects the U.S. and Afghan governments, the private sector, and civil society to develop and implement initiatives in support of Afghan women.


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My main personal interest lies in linguistics, literature and the arts and humanities. However, my broad educational background makes me feel confident of my language and translation skills in many other areas. I completed high school in Singapore where I excelled in English and Literature. I graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University, New York, with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and obtained my master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, California. Following that, I did a six-month stint as a writer/reporter with the Palo Alto Weekly, where I wrote in-depth articles on local issues. Last year, I volunteered my translation services to the Jakarta-based Griya Asri magazine when they were experimenting with publishing an English version of their architecture and interior magazine.
I won two writing awards at Cornell University for critical papers I wrote on the works of Henry James and Truman Capote. Earlier this year, I self-published an English collection of essays titled "Mother's Maiden Name?". The book is available for sale on http://www.lulu.com. An English-language essay I wrote was published by Reader's Digest last year.
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I think it was possibly sometime last year, I made a commissioned of shorts with a custom design for the pocket for littlebearries so I want to mention that the pocket idea isn't completely mine :P But I was glad the idea to make a mini skirt with lace edge turned out ^o^! This time it is made for DDII/DDIII/DDS body only.
The teeshirt looks nice with a grey mini skirt too!
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Boreus insulanus is a species of snow scorpionfly in the family Boreidae. It is endemic to Vancouver Island.

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This week's newsletter has our current book competition, interesting articles, and the postponement of Red Zone 6 which was supposed to have been on this weekend.
Thanks to Human Kinetics, we have three books to give away: Running Anatomy, Running Form & Running Flow. This competition is for premium members only and the winners will be drawn on 1 March.
Signing up as a premium member gets you access to competitions like this, event discounts and unlocks additional website features such as location searching and being emailed when new events are added that match your saved searches.
Enter the competition here, check out our current discounts here and find out more about membership here.
Runners World takes a look at the 5K - a running distance that doesn't get enough credit but can be just as hard to train for to run fast as it can be to train for longer distances. Read the article here.
And then following on from the above article, Training Peaks has a list of 5 workouts to help you improve your speed for shorter distances: hill repeats; 50/50 run; pyramid run; fartlek; and a 3K time trial. Check out the article for all the details of these workouts.
Finding it too hot to run outside at the moment and opting for a treadmill workout at the air conditioned gym instead? Then check out this article at triathlete.com for three treadmill workouts, two from top coaches and one from an Ironman World Champion, that can boost your run training.


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Radio BA is a Bosnian commercial radio station, broadcasting from Sarajevo.

Radio BA was founded during 2009 and the station focuses on contemporary pop music, entertainment and local news.
The program is currently broadcast at one frequency (Sarajevo ), estimated number of potential listeners is around 443,685.

Frequencies

 Sarajevo

References

External links
 Official website
 Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Radio BA in Facebook

See also
List of radio stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo
Radio stations established in 2009
Mass media in Sarajevo


I only watch for the halftime show and the commercials. I'll be honest.
And so when the performance of Beyonce, Coldplay and Bruno Mars ends in a stadium filled with a simple message, to believe in love, I have to pause and ask, what is all this excess really about?
Personally, I'm no fan of the Super Bowl. All that hype and excessive spending for what? How many cars are you really going to buy, and is your decision in any way swayed by a cool commercial during the biggest football game of the year?
I hate football. I'm a soccer girl, and a hockey fan, two sports that take grit and can be played in just about any small town around the world. I even question why we are the only country to use the term football to mean something that the rest of the world does not share – are we that arrogant?
Beautiful, incredible storytelling in commercials that, yes, cost millions to make, but impart a message about what matters to all the people watching, right now.
The Jeep commercial with striking black and white portraits of beautiful, lined faces, pulls at the heart, melts you in its authenticity. It won't make me buy a Jeep, but it'll make me love people a little bit more.
All the superstars in all the commercials, dancing to the beat of their new releases, tossing barbs to make us laugh. What is it all for?
A message to believe in love? With Chris Martin's Sanskrit writing on the rainbow-colored clothes and stage to let us know to breathe deeply and be mindful of what matters, avoiding what clearly does not?
All this hippy-speak has penetrated the collective consciousness, and for that I am grateful.
Commercials about finding peace, building community, climbing the heights and facing the challenges. Yes, I'm in. I'll buy into the hype. Tell me more.
I didn't make a nacho dip, and I didn't fry up some wings. I'm in my flannel pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, cuddled into bed with my boys, the volume turned up really loud so I don't miss a beat or a word.
I'll even grant Beyonce her skimpy outfits because I know we still live by a double standard in this world, and I'll overlook it as Bruno Mars' choreographed troop hops in their baggy pants because this message of loving one and all is so important. I'll take it all.
You know what I feel tonight?
I feel content in the notion that we are all well-meaning and aimed at the same profound change.
The human heart seeks only to love and be loved in return. All of this mess that is the swirling craziness of our fast-paced lives is smoky cover over what lies below: a calm, silent meadow walk that ends in a conversation with a person you could love.
And I feel I could love just about anyone.
It's easy when we sit in our locked homes, behind our computer screens and smart phones, to say that the other person did us wrong or a comment in passing truly broke your heart.
It takes only to look straight-on into another person's eyes and see the glimmering heart wavering there, to know that their soul and your soul reside in the same place, to come to some universal understanding.
We are one and the same.
We hurt, we exclaim, we celebrate, we mourn.
We live the same lives, wearing different clothes, dying our hair different colors.
The arguments are the same.
The passionate moments look awfully alike.
A halftime show that ends in this message: believe in love.
Isn't that what it's all about, anyway?
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The crash remains under investigation. The man's name has not been released.
MISSOULA — A man was struck and killed while crossing a street in Missoula early Thursday.
Police tell ABC FOX Montana that two men were crossing Reserve Street at about 4:45 a.m. when one of them was struck by a northbound vehicle. The second pedestrian was not injured.