text:
Mall of Asia Arena
New Frontier Theatre
Philippine Arena
About Manila Concert Junkies
Home » Coldplay Live in Manila » Globe Coldplay » Create your Globe Coldplay story on April 4, 2017
Create your Globe Coldplay story on April 4, 2017
By: itchymel
In: Coldplay Live in Manila Globe Coldplay
Create your Globe Coldplay story on April 4, 2017 itchymel 1:50 PM
The Coldplay fandom in Manila is undeniably huge. Tickets to their April 4, 2017 concert at the MOA Concert Grounds, presented by Globe were sold out in a day, but Globe will give all its customers another chance to watch the most-coveted concert of 2017. By registering to any GoSurf promo or subscribing to any Broadband plan, customers can earn raffle entries to win tickets to Coldplay's "A Head Full of Dreams Tour in Manila". For Globe Broadband customers, every P5 spent on their bill is equivalent to one raffle entry. Forty tickets are up for grabs as 20 lucky customers will win 2 tickets each.
"We know that music is an integral part in every Filipino's lives and Globe is here to elevate your music experience by allowing you to enjoy music in a different perspective. With Globe, you can listen to your favorite artists like Coldplay on Spotify, or catch it via live stream from their L.A. concert on YouTube, or even watch them perform live by joining our raffle promo. We want all our customers to get this chance and experience watching their favorite artists here in Manila, or even abroad," shares Globe Senior Vice President for Consumer Mobile Business, Issa Cabreira.
"This time, by simply registering to any GoSurf promo or subscribing to a Broadband plan, all our customers can get a chance to win tickets to the most-anticipated concert of Coldplay this 2017." Cabreira added.
#GlobeColdplay "Fly-Away Promo" winners, Monique Lim and Cristina Santiago.
Globe takes entertainment to another level. Just recently, Globe awarded two of its loyal customers, Monique Lim and Cristina Santiago, to watch the band perform at the Allianz Stadium in Sydney Australia last December 13, 2016 through Globe's "Fly-Away Promo."
They won a total of Php 230,000.00 worth of prizes which includes a 4-day, 3-night trip to Sydney with round-trip airfares, concert tickets, hotel accommodation, and pocket money.
"I've always been a hardcore Coldplay fan, from Parachutes to A Head Full of Dreams. It just so happened that A Head Full of Dreams is my most favorite amongst their albums. The moment people started screaming and when the show was about to start, I had to pinch myself to feel that I was actually there... about to witness beyond paradise!" shares Lim.
Santiago shares the same fandom as Lim, "When Chris Martin went up the stage for the first time, it was so surreal, that feeling was way over the top. After witnessing and experiencing how their live performances, I will definitely get tickets to their concert here in Manila. We're so grateful that Globe made it possible for us to experience such a magical concert all the way in Australia. This whole experience is definitely one for the books."
Customers can still get a chance to experience paradise and win tickets to the Manila leg of Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams tour by registering to any GoSurf promo or subscribing to a Broadband plan. Learn how to earn raffle entries by visiting www.globe.com.ph/globecoldplay. Follow @enjoyGLOBE (on Twitter) and like Globe Telecom (on Facebook) for updates.
Tags: Coldplay Live in Manila Globe Coldplay
Rico Blanco to IV of Spades: "My long-lost band mates"
Last night, thousands of fans witnessed a show they won't forget as Rico Blanco, former Rivermaya frontman, and IV of Spades - consi...
What happened during the 2 days of Rakrakan Festival 2019?
How would I thought that I'm going to attend a 2-day music festival after I'd gone on a four-month hiatus from the local scene...
A1, O-Town brings a nostalgic night in Manila
'90s boy groups A1 and O-Town at the Mall of Asia Arena was packed to the rafters with adoring fans, who had come to feast their senses with...
Top Japanese idols ARASHI to take Asia by storm
ARASHI, one of Japan's top idols, made their first appearance in Singapore last November 10. All five members - Satoshi Ohno, Sho Sakurai...
Gerald Santos headlines Unlimited, A Concert for a Cause
International stage actor and Pinoy Pride bearer Gerald Santos headlines in one of the biggest concerts for this year, UNLIMITED, A CONC...
ITZY Premiere Showcase tour Itzy? Itzy! in Manila next month
Pinoy MIDZYs, the long wait is over! Get ready to #StanUpTogether with the shiny, edgy, and fiery ITZY as they prepare to conquer Manila wi...
Yeo drops new album, Recovery Channel
Melbourne-based Malaysian-Australian musician and producer Yeo drops his awaited R&B-infused pop album Recovery Channel, taking his uniq...
Things you didn't know about Eric Nam
Eric Nam is a Korean American singer-songwriter based in South Korea. Not to mention that he is also a well-known host in some var...
Avril Lavigne announces Head Above Water world tour in Manila
Hey you! Pop-rock icon Avril Lavigne announced her highly anticipated Head Above Water world tour in Manila on May 20, 2020 at A...
Stuck in a moment during U2's The Joshua Tree Tour in Manila
It took 4 decades when Bono and the rest of the members of U2 held their first concert in the country as part of The Joshua Tree Tour last D...
Blog Archive January (11) December (18) November (15) October (15) September (19) August (15) July (15) June (19) May (16) April (9) March (19) February (15) January (3) December (7) November (5) October (11) September (8) August (4) July (4) June (14) May (9) April (11) March (6) February (11) January (7) December (5) November (13) October (9) September (10) August (3) July (3) June (8) May (7) April (5) March (8) February (1) January (4) December (2) November (4) October (9) August (4) July (8) June (4) May (2) April (5) March (2) February (5) January (6) December (13) November (7) October (4) September (8) August (7) July (5) June (2) May (3) April (4) March (4) February (5) January (3) December (5) November (8) October (4) September (3) August (6) July (6)
VICTON Voice to Alice in Manila on December 21
Engaging into different genres of music, K-pop has been dominating and revolutionizing the music industry, with its different acts and outst...
Manila Concert Junkies
We're a concert and music blog founded by Christian Melanie Lee in 2014. A year later, she decided to form a group of talented contributors and photographers who took a sneak peek on what's happening in the concert scene in Manila. The team shared our insights by blogging about music reviews, concert experiences, and music news that every audiophile wants to read on.
© Copyright Manila Concert Junkies | Design By Free Blogger Templates.


text:
In the USA, the Racquet Club of Philadelphia clubhouse (1907) boasts one of the world's first modern above-ground swimming pools. The first swimming pool to go to sea on an ocean liner was installed on the White Star Line's Adriatic in 1907.
Interest in competitive swimming grew following World War I. Standards improved and training became essential. Home swimming pools became popular in the United States after World War II and the publicity given to swimming sports by Hollywood films like Esther Williams Million Dollar Mermaid made a home pool a desirable status symbol. More than fifty years later, the home or residential swimming pool is ubiquitous and even small nations enjoy a thriving swimming pool industry (e.g. New Zealand pop. 4,116,900 (Source NZ Census 7 March 2006) - holds the record in pools per capita with 65,000 home swimming pools and 125,000 spa pools). A two-storey, white concrete swimming pool building composed of horizontal cubic volumes built in 1959 at the Royal Roads Military College is on the Registry of Historic Places of Canada

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


iolo Antivirus is a lightweight and easy to manage antivirus for your operating system. Its main features include detecting, blocking and removing computer viruses or any other harmful applications.
The task-oriented clean interface allows you to easily access any feature, while constantly working in the background. One of the easiest actions to access from the main window is the scan feature that falls into four basic categories.
Prominently detailed within the software, the scan options primarily start with the continuous activity involving the check of every action you perform on your PC (importing, downloading, accessing any suspicious files, applications or websites).
Secondly, you can run on-demand scanning at any time or schedule recurrent scans from the main window. Although that continuous alerts and validation request may become aggravating at first, it should be mentioned that any initial setting can be edited to fit the user's need.
One of the most useful features when it comes to file scanning is the email messages and attachments scan option featured in the app. When setting this option both for incoming or outgoing messages, the antivirus is able to detect any harmful activity before any damage is done.
Another important feature of iolo Antivirus Keygen is related to handling infected elements after their detection. In this circumstance, there are a variety of choices you can make regarding the malicious content detected on your computer. You can either disinfect the file, if it doesn't involve archived information, place them in quarantine, change their extension to 'INFECTED' so it cannot be activated, or ultimately delete the files.
When using this antivirus application for a longer period of time, iolo Antivirus will provide you with a complete virus protection and disinfection history that reveals details about past detected viruses and their location.
Overall, the merits of this particular antivirus consist in in manageability, all the features and options being very easy to customize so the app follows the particular requests of every user.


Jin-Ho Phark dreams of a day when dentists use their drills a lot less often.
The assistant professor of clinical dentistry aims to change the way future generations of dental professionals think of caries from a condition to be repaired after a cavity has formed to something to be managed during its earliest stages.
Potential early interventions include techniques like resin infiltration and silver diamine fluoride application as well as patient hygiene and diet changes using the Caries Management by Risk Assessment protocol.
Phark's philosophy on treating caries is very much in line with the profession's push toward minimally invasive dentistry.
Phark is already teaching these early intervention techniques in lectures to DDS students and residents in the advanced operative and adhesive dentistry program and hopes to find ways to have it incorporated into the school's curriculum.
This willingness to continually evaluate and innovate the profession is an example of what he hopes to impart in his students.
"I usually encourage my students to ask "Why?" — why things are being done that way and how can they be done better to help us improve the treatment, the flow and the quality of our work," he says.


The mPOS application has been specifically developed as a useful, smart and easy to use cash register for the catering industry. This app can easily be downloaded on a smartphone or tablet and is immediately operational. Carrying a portable POS device and with a payment terminal and compact printer within reach, the waiter thus has a complete POS system at hand. This allows him to serve customers easily and quickly.
You are also be able to use the app to sell tickets. Moreover, it is possible to use the mPOS application as a mobile point of sale in order to relieve the cash register when it's crowded and to sell tickets and articles in external locations outside the infrastructure. Linked to a ticket printer by 3G/4G, the app can for example be an ideal solution for recreational centres that have mobile ice or candy carts during the summer that are not always equipped with the required cables.


Reunion photo of survivors of the 3rd Tenn.
Cavalry Reg. (US) reunion meeting in Knoxville in the late 1890s. The photo was copied by Norman Shaw in the late 1980s from the original owned by Si Keeble, son of one of the survivors. That's Si's dad, Pleasant Keeble, sitting on the first row to the extreme right holding a scroll in his hand. (He looks like Teddy Roosevelt!) Photo courtesy of Norman Shaw and the Keeble family.


text:
Q: How to create a static instance of TelemetryClient for application insights logging in Azure Functions I am trying to implement appinsights logging in my application and I cannot create an instance of TelemetryClient as it is deprecated in .net core apps. Now I am using below method to log data in azure functions.
startup.cs file
public class Startup : FunctionsStartup
    {
        public override void Configure(IFunctionsHostBuilder builder)
        {
            builder.Services.AddApplicationInsightsTelemetry();
        }
    }

In my Function.cs file:
public class Function1
    {

        TelemetryClient _telemetry;

        public Function1(TelemetryClient telemetry)
        {
            _telemetry = telemetry;
        }

        [FunctionName("Function1")]
        public  async Task<IActionResult> Run([HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, "get", "post", Route = null)] HttpRequest req, ILogger log)
        {

            // APPINSIGHTS LOG!
            _telemetry.TrackTrace("Testing the appinsights");
            string name = req.Query["name"];

            string requestBody = await new StreamReader(req.Body).ReadToEndAsync();
            dynamic data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(requestBody);
            name = name ?? data?.name;

            string responseMessage = "This HTTP triggered function executed successfully.";
            return new OkObjectResult(responseMessage);
        }
    }

Using the telemetry like above works without any issues. My question is now that how to use this telemetry object across all over my application so that I can access all the telemetry method without creating multiple instances. In the past I used to create a singleton instance of TelemetryClient and use it across application.
For example, I am using the telemetry object in constructor in another class to log some data.
Student.cs file:
using Microsoft.ApplicationInsights;
private TelemetryClient _telemetryClient;

public Student(TelemetryClient telemetryClient)
    {
        _telemetryClient = telemetryClient;
    }

Inside the method, I am using it like
_telemetryClient.TrackEvent("We are in SQL Server -> Student.cs File");

Do I need to pass this object in constructor in all the class files I need to log or is there any better way to implement this functionality.
I am new to dependency injection and .net core. Please assist.

A: Why don't you use the new method - the ILogger? You can have it injected into each and every function (as shown in your code sample), and then use it to log the events to App Insights. ILogger is easy to use as shown below:
[FunctionName("GetVersion")]
public static async Task<IActionResult> GetVersion(
   [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous, "get", Route = "instance/version")] HttpRequest req,
   ILogger log, ExecutionContext context)
{
    ServerlessVersionModel ver = new ServerlessVersionModel();
    log.LogInformation("[{funcname}] request made", context.FunctionName);
    try
    {
        ver = GetVersions(context,log);
        return new JsonResult(ver);
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        log.LogError("[{funcname}] exception: {exception}.", context.FunctionName, e.Message);
        return new JsonResult(ver);
    }

}

A: I tried for a day to implement what you are describing.  The problem is not to log to application insights.  That is happening.  If you inject a logger in startup.cs and use it in your Azure function, then go to the Application Insights and do a search for a text term that you logged in your program you will see it.   The problem is that you would like to see it appear in the monitor log.
The APPINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATIONKEY is deprecated.  MS says not to use it. OK.
They suggest you use APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING instead.  Here is the problem.  If you look at this connection string it has some internet urls.  These urls are not the same as the one that the ILogger log that is injected into the main Azure function (Run) uses. The urls that MS provides when they create the APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING are not the same as urls the normal ILogger log uses.  Go to application insights and look at the details of two logs: one made with the default logger and one with your logger from startup.cs   Two completely different locations in completely different countries (data centers).
So if you want the logs to appear in the monitor log in the Azure function on the portal I suppose you'll need to figure out the connection string that the ILogger log in Run uses.   Go figure!

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Q: Along With Camera Zoom the rectangles should modify I'm Currently working on my first game in Libgdx.I managed to do a lot but now having a problem
I have set zoom in /out effect to a grid(say 6x7 ). I want the rectangles to size accordingly. i.e. the rectangles size should increase/decrease along with camera zoom ratio.
say .. rectangle is set to(100,100,Width,Height) and camera.zoom =1 (default)
after camera.zoom=0.3  rectangle is set to same position.
i want the rectangle to transform with  zoom ratio. I cant find by how much amount i should transform.
i dint used scene2D . i used gesturelistener for zoom
public boolean zoom(float initialDistance, float distance){
    float ratio = initialDistance / distance;
    camera.zoom= initialScale * ratio;
}

A: You actually do not want to change your Rectangles when your camera zoom changes. Cars and persons or trees also don't change their size when you use the zoom on a real camera.
What you want is to change your input coordinates according to the current zoom level. You can use Camera.unproject(Vector3) for that purpose.
It might look like this:
Camera cam = ...;
Vector3 worldTouchPoint = new Vector3(touchX, touchY, 0);
cam.unproject(worldTouchPoint);

After that you can use worldTouchPoint to check for collisions with your (unmodified) Rectangles.


Alicja Rogalska is an artist living in London and working internationally. Her practice is research-led, interdisciplinary, collaborative and focuses on social structures and the political subtext of the everyday. She mostly works in specific contexts creating situations, performances, videos and installations.
Alicja graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw. She was artist in residence at Museums Quartier in Vienna (2018), IASPIS in Stockholm (2017), MeetFactory in Prague (2016), National University of Colombia in Bogota (2014) and Tate Britain (2011-12), attended the Home Workspace programme at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut (2013-14) and was an Artsadmin Bursary recipient in London (2016-17).
Selected exhibitions include: New Poetics of Labour, Teatro Lido & Grafiformas (Medellín, 2018); Productive Work – what is that supposed to be?, frei_raum Q21, Museums Quartier (Vienna, 2018); For Beyond That Horizon Lies Another Horizon, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (Oldenburg, 2017-18); Gotong Royong. Things We Do Together, CCA U-jazdowski (Warsaw, 2017), Free Play, Västerås Konstmuseum (Västerås, 2017), Dreams and Dramas. Law as Literature, NGBK (Berlin, 2017); Social Design for Social Living, National Gallery (Jakarta, 2016); All Men Become Sisters, Muzeum Sztuki (Łódź, 2016-17); No Need For References, Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna, 2015); Critical Juncture, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Kochi, 2014); A Museum of Immortality, Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2014); IMS Project, Flat Time House (London, 2013); Melancholy In Progress, Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei, 2012); Jour de Fête, The Private Space Gallery / LOOP Festival (Barcelona, 2011); To Look is to Labour, Laden Für Nichts (Leipzig, 2010) and No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern (London, 2010).
A contemporary folk-song on the socio-economic situation of the rural area of Masovia, Poland, known for its rich folk music traditions and the highest unemployment in the country at the time. The song, written in collaboration with villagers and the folk singing group Broniowianki, was presented locally in a series of performances and documented on video, contrasting ethnographic representation (the image) with the people's own view of their situation (the lyrics). The tune was appropriated from a local love song.
Commissioned by Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw for Cięcie/Cut project.


text:
MenuHome Subscribe Archive About Us Contact Us
Nassau County DA Madeline Singas: "It's Not About Being a Man or a Woman; It's about the Work that You Do"
Oscar-winning Director Louie Psihoyos: "I make films to change the world"
Inaugural Fundraiser for the New York Chapter Heritage Greece a Great Success!
The Ronald McDonald House New York Greek Division Celebrates 40 Years of Service
Leadership 100 29th Conference to Convene in Palm Beach
Home > March 2017 > Greek Star Yannis Kotsiras Returns to New York on April 21st For Aktina's Greek Music Journey 2017!
Greek Star Yannis Kotsiras Returns to New York on April 21st For Aktina's Greek Music Journey 2017!
By NEO Magazine on March 17, 2017
Greek leading Greek star Yannis Kotsiras who captivated the audience in his debut personal performance in the U.S., during AKTINA's April 2015 GREEK MUSIC JOURNEY (GMJ) sold out concert, returns to New York by popular demand for yet another memorable performance presented by AKTINA Productions, Inc., and produced by Elena Maroulleti. Yannis Kotsiras will perform on Friday, April 21, 2017 at 8:30pm at New York's landmark theater, The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College on E. 68th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues in Manhattan. Tickets are sold exclusively by the organizers and demand is unprecedented since the concert was officially announced on December 18, 2016 on AKTINA FM when Yannis Kotsiras was a guest on the show.
From AKTINA's GMJ 2015. From left Council Member Costa Constantinides, Elena Maroulleti, President AKTINA and Yannis Kotsiras
This benefit concert for public service media AKTINA FM-WNYE 91.5FM and AKTINA TV-WNYE Channel 25, promises another magical evening at the Kaye with Yannis Kotsiras who returns with a new and remarkable program featuring songs from his distinct and rich personal discography highlighting also songs from his latest hit album "Pseftis Keros" (Lying Time) released in the fall of 2016. He is accompanied by his band featuring the distinguished soloists, Akis Katsoupakis, piano/keyboards, Vangelis Machairas, bouzouki/baglama/tzoura, Kostas Michalos, guitars/vocals, Yiannis Grypaios, bass and Nektarios Gavalas, drums.
Referring to this new musical performance, Elena Maroulleti, the concert's Executive Producer stressed that, "in response to ongoing requests from our fan base to bring back to New York Yannis Kotsiras, we contacted the artist and we are extremely honored and happy that his schedule was open and he is returning for another concert that will truly fascinate once again everyone in attendance. With a career spanning some 30 years, Yannis Kotsiras has an abundance of great and everlasting hits to share with us and certainly he has so much more to share on his second visit on April 21st. We will also have the unique opportunity to enjoy live songs from his latest hit album "Pseftis Keros" which is considered another exceptional masterpiece in his personal discography."
Yannis Kotsiras at AKTINA 's Greek Music Journey Concert 2015, PHOTO: ANASTASSIOS MENTIS
Yannis Kotsiras stands out for his distinct voice and his ability of bringing together the different representative styles of Greek music, including the popular Rembetika (Greek blues) and Laika (popular folk) with which he launched his career in 1990. He also excels for his high energy performances. He is a singer, songwriter and a musician and his main instrument is the guitar that accompanies him in all of his performances. His amazing career is crowned with several platinum and gold records, exceptional collaborations with legendary Greek composers, lyricists and singers, with sold out concerts and thousands of fans around the globe. He has released over 20 personal albums and has appeared as a guest star in over 20 others which feature disparate styles of Greek music such as Laika, Rembetika, Folk, Traditional and Contemporary. In the fall of 2016 Kotsiras released his album "Pseftis Keros" (Lying Time). The album became an instant hit following its release further verifying the great impact of Yannis Kotsiras in Greek music.
To charge tickets call AKTINA at (718) 545-1151 or purchase online at aktinafm.com
For cash purchases please visit TITAN Foods, 25-56 31st Street in Astoria.
About NEO Magazine
NEO Magazine. Established 2005. NEO Magazine is published monthly in New York by Neocorp Media Inc.
America's Number One Philhellene: Bob Menendez
by Philip Christopher* One of the most brilliant US Senators...
Madeline Singas just won reelection to be the Nassau County...
by Kelly Fanarioti Oscar-winning filmmaker Lοuie Psihoyos tries to refute...
The New York Chapter Heritage Greece of the National Hellenic...
The Ronald McDonald House New York's Greek Division held its...
The 29th Annual Leadership 100 Conference will convene February 20-23,...
Historic Times in Washington for Greece and Cyprus
PSEKA and the Coordinated Effort of Hellenes (CEH) expressed appreciation...
Support NEO magazine
Support NEO magazine now!
Copyright © 2005-2019 NEO Magazine.


Winding through the village of Grogan's Mill, the overall design of the Tournament Course promotes the feeling of tranquility, with well-integrated ponds, lakes, natural trees, and pristine landscaping. The Tournament Course serves as host to The Insperity Invitational, considered one of the best venues annually on The Champions Tour.
Bruce William Devlin (born 10 October 1937) is an Australian professional golfer, sportscaster and golf course designer. The main focus of Devlin's career in the past 30 years has been his work as a Golf Course Architect and Designer. Devlin has designed and built more than 150 golf courses throughout the world including Australia, Japan, Scotland, the Bahamas, and the United States. About two-thirds of the golf courses he designed have been in Florida and Texas. Many of these courses have hosted all of the professional golf tours, including: The Houston Open, HealthSouth LPGA Classic, Key Biscayne Golf Classic, and The Nike Cleveland Open.
Robert von Hagge, renowned golf course designer, has created some of the world's most outstanding and award-winning golf courses. After basically growing up on the links due to his father's profession as a golf course architect, becoming a designer was natural fit for von Hagge, whose career began in 1955. Until his death in 2010, von Hagge was a resident of The Woodlands, with his firm still very active in the community, as well as with worldwide design projects.
The Tournament Course clubhouse has been designed to serve as your home away from home. No expense has been spared in creating one of the finest clubhouse facilities anywhere.
The spectacular Members-only dining room offers a picturesque view of the No. 18 green and driving range, as well as opening to an outside desk that features a comfortable lounge area, table seating, a fireplace and a large flat screen TV. The main dining area boasts three large flat screens, a fireplace and a beautiful bar. Whether it's a lunch with friends of the most important client at your firm, the Tournament Course clubhouse is a place where you will be proud to entertain.
Call our Pro Shop to find out more about the Tournament Course.


text:
Netflix Says It's Finally Cracking Down on Password Sharing. Here's What to Know
The streaming service has also launched a profile transfer feature to help those who want to save their settings
By Drew Weisholtz and Anna Kaplan | TODAY • Published January 24, 2023
Attention all Netflix freeloaders: The streaming service is cracking down on password sharing after working on a way to limit users from accessing accounts that don't belong to their household.
About 100 million users are expected to be impacted by the change, according to the company, which will roll out by the end of March.
"This will not be a universally popular move, so there will be current members that are unhappy with this move," Gregory K. Peters, COO and chief product officer, said on Netflix's Jan. 19 investor call. "But then generally ... we'll see folks come on as new subscribers, essentially borrowers creating their accounts or incremental monetization."
Netflix ran "test runs" in countries like Peru, Costa Rica and Chile, where users outside of the primary household of the account had to create sub-accounts for about $2 to $3. The company has not shared how much the additional cost will run in the U.S.
Get Connecticut local news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NBC Connecticut newsletters.
Alternatively, users can also transfer their profiles to entirely new accounts and keep their personalized recommendations, the company said.
Heidi Chung, Variety's intelligence platform media analyst and correspondent, said on TODAY the changes are "about getting subscriber growth back on track for the company."
news Jan 19
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings Is Giving Up His CEO Role
Netflix Nov 2, 2022
Netflix Is Rolling Out Its $7 Ad-Supported Tier. Here's How to Change Your Plan
Netflix Oct 21, 2022
Netflix Is Cracking Down on Password Sharing. How That Could Affect Your Account
"When you pass on these kinds of price increases or these extra fees to consumers, it's not a popular move," Chung said. "Netflix held off as long as they could before they ultimately had to do that."
Netflix announced the two features as a way to "monetize account sharing" in a letter to shareholders in October 2022, and said the changes would roll out in early 2023.
"People move. Families grow. Relationships end. But throughout these life changes, your Netflix experience should stay the same," the streaming service announced Oct. 17.
"To transfer a profile, go to the 'Transfer Profile' option when you hover over your profile icon in the dropdown menu on the homepage — then simply follow the instructions. You can always turn off Profile Transfer in your account settings at any time," Netflix said at the time.
Chung said Netflix likely won't be the last streaming service to crack down on password sharing, as the industry grows more competitive with streamers like Hulu, Apple TV, HBO Max and Disney Plus entering the industry in recent years.
"A lot of Americans are tightening their belts, and customers. And companies are also doing that as well," Chung said.
Well, maybe Netflix would be happy about making more money. The streaming service recently announced a test that would charge account holders for sharing their Netflix passwords with other people, and social media was up in arms pretty quickly. The company says raising its revenue with the new fee will allow for more premium content, NBC News youth and internet culture reporter Kalhan Rosenblatt explains.
Netflix also unveiled a new ad-supported plan in November, in which subscribers can pay less than its traditional commercial-free model. That runs $6.99 per month, three dollars less than the service's basic ad-free plan.
The move came after Netflix announced in July it had lost roughly one million subscribers in the previous quarter.
This story originally appeared on TODAY.com. More from TODAY:
Seven Nonalcoholic Wines That Taste Good
Four Healthy Eating Patterns
Why Are Eggs So Expensive
Copyright Today Digital Originals
I-91 South in Norwalk Congested After Crash


text:
The city name is invalid.
The state name is invalid.
Why Tix4Cause?
Festival/Tour
Musical/Play
Fairs/Festivals
Donate Tickets
Thu May 13 2021 At 7:30 PM
3701 Mt. Vernon Ave,
When you purchase, we donate 50% of our earnings to our Featured Cause above.
Want to benefit a different cause?
Create an account or log in to benefit a cause of your choice.
We stand behind you 100%
When buying tickets on our site, we safeguard your transaction.
You will receive a 100% refund for your tickets if:
(1) Verified proof must be provided in letter form from the venue. Written or stamped "voids" do not constitute verified proof.
100% Worry-Free Guarantee
We are a resale marketplace, not the ticket seller.
Your seats are together unless otherwise noted.
Prices are set by third-party sellers and may be above or below face value.
Questions on your order? Call Customer Service at 866.459.9233
ROD MORGENSTEIN
and Jelly Jam. He has also done session work with Jordan Rudess including his ventures with the Rudess/Morgenstein Project. He also toured with Jazz isRod Morgenstein (born April 19, 1953) is an American drummer and music educator. He is best known for his work with the rock band Winger and with the jazz fusion band Dixie Dregs.He also played with Fiona, Platypus, the Steve Morse Band, and Jelly Jam. He has also done session work with Jordan Rudess including his ventures with the Rudess/Morgenstein Project. He also toured with Jazz is Dead. He has also been awarded Modern Drummer 's "Best Progressive Rock Drummer" five years (1986-'90), "Best All-Around Drummer" (1999) and was inducted into magazine's Honor Roll.He is currently a professor, teaching percussion at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Morgenstein continues to tour with the band Winger. He has also been a columnist for Modern Drummer magazine. Rod is known for his versatility of playing many styles of music.
ZZ-KC - ZZ Top Tribute
7:00 PM, Madlife Stage & Studios, Woodstock, GA,
8:00 PM, Venetian Theatre At the Venetian Hotel Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV,
7:30 PM, Fallsview Casino's Entertainment Centre, Niagara Falls, ON,
7:00 PM, South Okanagan Events Centre, Penticton, BC,
ZZ Top & Willie Nelson
3:30 AM, Providence Medical Center Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, KS,
7:00 PM, SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon, SK,
7:00 PM, Enmax Centre, Lethbridge, AB,
7:00 PM, Place Bell, Laval, QC,
7:30 PM, Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB,
ZZ Top & Cheap Trick
7:00 PM, Mile One Centre, St. John's, NL,
3:30 AM, Scotiabank Centre, Halifax, NS,
7:00 PM, Sandman Centre, Kamloops, BC,
7:00 PM, Abbotsford Centre, Abbotsford, BC,
9:00 PM, River Cree Casino, Enoch, AB,
Please provide an email address that you'd like associated with your account
Note: You can set your password and select your cause after you purchase.
3Order Review
Join the crowd. Be the change.
Interested in donating tickets?
Tix4Cause also provides individuals and companies the ability to donate tickets to benefit a cause member of their choice. These tickets are offered exclusively by our cause members through Tix4Cause, with 100% of the purchase price going to the member.
Shop with confidence. You'll receive a 100% refund if:
Your tickets are invalid
You do not receive them in time for the event
Your event was cancelled and not rescheduled
You are buying tickets from a third party; Tix4Cause is not the ticket seller. Prices are set by sellers and may be above face value.
© 2019 Tix4Cause, LLC All Rights Reserved Terms & ConditionsPrivacy Policy


text:
Jeannette Marianne Lewin (ur. 27 lutego 1972) – holenderska hokeistka na trawie. Brązowa medalistka olimpijska z Atlanty.

Zawody w 1996 były jej drugimi igrzyskami olimpijskimi (debiutowała w 1992), Holenderki zajęły trzecie miejsce. W turnieju rozegrała osiem spotkań (1 gol). Łącznie w reprezentacji Holandii wystąpiła w 114 meczach i strzeliła 12 bramek (1990-1998). Występowała w pomocy. W 1998 zdobyła srebro na mistrzostwach świata. Jej mąż Leo Klein Gebbink także był medalistą olimpijskim.

Przypisy

Holenderscy hokeiści na trawie
Medaliści Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1996
Urodzeni w 1972

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


On Second Thought for Wednesday, May 23, 2018.
Syria is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis in years. The United Nations estimates some 5.6 million Syrians have fled their country in search of a safer place to live. President Trump capped the number of refugees allowed in the United States last year. The U.S. admitted close to 28,000 refugees in 2017, a dramatic reduction from 93,000 people allowed in the year before. Khawla al-Abdullah arrived in Atlanta two years ago. She's originally from Aleppo, Syria.Al-Abdullah told us bout her journey to the U.S. Paedia Mixon joined the conversation. Mixon is CEO of New American Pathways, an Atlanta-based organization that helps refugees with their resettlement in Georgia.
Singer and songwriter Matthew Sweet got his start in the Athens, Georgia, music scene in the 1980s. His star rose in the 90s with hits like 100% Fun, Altered Beast and Blue Sky on Mars. Sweet's drive to creative music hasn't slowed down. "I can't believe how old I am that I still get to do what I do," Sweet told us. "When people ask me what advice you have for people starting out, I would always say you have to love doing music most of all. It needs to be something you do in the absence of success." Sweet's latest album, "Tomorrow's Daughter," came out last week. He returns to Georgia for a show at 8 p.m. at Atlanta's Terminal West. He shared with us two songs off the new album: Lady Frankenstein and Girl with Cat.
After writing his New York Times op-ed, "Dear White America," George Yancy received hundreds of hateful messages. Yancy, an Emory University professor of philosophy, knew that his letter was controversial, but he says he never thought he would receive literal death threats.
This past April, he released his newest book, "Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America."
Singer and songwriter Matthew Sweet got his start in the Athens, Georgia, music scene in the 1980s. His star rose in the 90s with hits like 100% Fun, Altered Beast and Blue Sky on Mars. Sweet's drive to creative music hasn't slowed down.
Syria is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis in years.
The United Nations estimates some 5.6 million Syrians have fled their country in search of a safer place to live. President Trump capped the number of refugees allowed in the United States last year. The U.S. admitted close to 28,000 refugees in 2017, a dramatic reduction from 93,000 people allowed in the year before.
Khawla al-Abdullah arrived in Atlanta two years ago. She's originally from Aleppo, Syria.


text:
In another life, I worked in schools as a special education teacher and administrator. I gathered stories for thirty-five years, and as a writer, I wanted to recapture my classroom days so that readers would land in the scene and see a flicker of universal truth. But as a teacher with a longstanding commitment to confidentiality, sharing my insider's view was sticky.
I was a newcomer to memoir, and I faced the usual hurdles. I had an imperfect memory and was still developing my craft. But in addition to juggling voice, scene, structure and imagery, I wrestled with divulging personal attributes. Advice from the sages of creative non-fiction – don't add or embellish, don't deceive – was not particularly helpful here. The discussion about naming real people usually focuses on possible fall-out from family and friends. Writers of memoir are urged towards honesty and disclosure. Yet I had a moral and legal obligation to protect the privacy of my former students and their families. How do teachers (and nurses, psychologists and social workers) write about their working life while respecting professional obligations?
"Writers of memoir are urged towards honesty and disclosure. Yet I had a moral and legal obligation to protect the privacy of my former students and their families."
In my first published story about a student, I was able to get the family's permission to use their son's name. "Lessons from my Favourite Student" recounted my experience teaching a child with Down syndrome. Mark, now in his forties, loved having his story appear in his community newspaper. His parents, both teachers, were thrilled that their son was the subject of a teacher's fond memories.
But as I dug deeper and began writing about vulnerable students, difficult parents or my floundering efforts as a young teacher, the dilemma of what to divulge and what to keep hidden soon emerged. Were pseudonyms enough? Was it okay to change physical features, like hair colour or age, to hide a child's identity? Were fictitious locales and made-up school names sometimes necessary? I wanted to remain faithful to what happened, but I was walking a tightrope between revelation and secrecy.
Altering names was an immediate decision. What did it matter if an eight-year-old student was called Matthew or Jake? As a story developed and I imagined someone – a parent, a colleague, a former student now an adult – reading what I'd written, I realized I had to avoid causing hurt. I had a responsibility to safeguard privacy. While presenting authentic details about people and what they said, I needed to keep my characters anonymous.
If the child is in grade one rather than two, if she's blonde not brunette, if the family has three kids, not four – do these tiny changes undermine the truth of what happened? No. Since I taught fewer than seven students a year in my Special Ed. classes, will naming the school make identities too obvious? Sometimes. If I write about the boy with autism who hated parachute games – the flapping cloth, the descent of the dark billowing shape – and confessed he threw out his sneakers to avoid gym class, should I modify parts of the scene? No. I don't want to obscure any precious moments of insight or connection. To ensure confidentiality, should I use the disguise of a composite character? Never. This would dishonour the individuality of the people who came into my life.
A few months ago, I had lunch with a former colleague who thought she recognized a troubled boy in one of my stories. "I presume he was one of ours," said Kathy. She pushed me for details, but I just smiled. As she reached for her coffee, she added, "Well, it doesn't really matter, does it? We knew so many students like him. Too many. And you've captured what it was like for us."
For many years, a village of special children taught me how to be a better teacher and a better human being, and I'm deeply grateful. Now I'm a writer. I don't change facts for the sake of art. I try to write the truth while avoiding betrayal. I hope no one can say for sure who "Michael," "Jimmy" or "Tina" are, or where they went to school. They deserve privacy. But when I write about how our paths crossed, I hope my readers will recognize every one of their souls.
Karen Zey is a writer and full-time student of life who treasures her past career in special education. Her stories and essays have appeared in Artsforum Magazine, Gazette Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Hippocampus Magazine, Prick of the Spindle and The Globe and Mail. Karen lives in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, and is currently working on a school-based memoir.
July 17, 2015 April 18, 2016 5 Commentsclassroom, confidentiality, creative non-fiction, memoir, non-fiction, privacy, School, special education, teacher, Writer, writing
5 thoughts on "A Memoirist's Dilemma: Telling the Truth Without Betrayal by Karen Zey"
Interesting article and debate; even as a writer of fiction I often face this question, since so much of my real life makes it into my books. I often resort to name-changing and disguise, but I fear the real folk would recognize themselves. Perhaps it matters less, since it's fiction and not memoir, not sure. Thanks for your perspective.
Mike Andberg says:
Crystal, I so relate to what you are saying. I, too, was a teacher, for twelve years. Ten years after teaching high school art, I discovered the satisfaction writing brings. Memoir seemed my biggest focus and my classroom experiences naturally came to the book in time. I've used no student names, ever. Perhaps it's in leaving actual names out that allows the writer to flesh out the specifics any reader wants to explore, must explore. It's worked for me so far. But I'm still fairly new to what memoir writing requires. In the end, truth is key. I've so enjoyed reading your perspective on these matters! Thanks for sharing.
Pingback: Achal Rathore
Pingback: Writers on Writing: Voices of the Quebec Writers' Federation by Cheri Lucas Rowlands – spiderskar
Pingback: Writers on Writing: Voices of the Quebec Writers' Federation – fashion
Previous Previous post: Hadassah Arms and Other Quandaries: Translating Cultures by Anna Leventhal
Next Next post: A Café of One's Own by Deborah Murray


text:
None of this matters with Nina Waring
Images: Chris Loutfy
Nina Waring is a cyclist, weightlifter/athlete and artist. Currently creating work based out of a studio in Marrickville, Sydney.
Nina tells us it was around 15 when she started training. 'Initially it was dumb stuff like running on a treadmill for like an hour, but eventually someone pulled me aside and asked if I wanted help with moving into more strength based training, and I went from there.' Cycling had been around since being a kid as well, 'mainly a mongoose BMX', but riding longer distance became more prominent within the last four years. 'I started getting bored at the gym at about the 5 year mark and just wanted to spend more time outside in the sun. It's easy to rack up km's when you're just enjoying some fresh air'.
Nina says' 'strength training gave me a new love for my body and the way I was built. Plus it was fun, so why wouldn't I want to pursue it.' She says she liked lifting heavy stuff, liked feeling strong, and liked looking strong.'
Good Sport caught up with Nina to chat about the connections of music through training and creating art all with the sound of Nuraphones.
What is your mantra?
'None of this matters.'
Overthinking and overhyping yourself can cause you to lose focus. I usually make the lifts I attempt, and if I don't, it doesn't matter anyway. I can always try again. I try not to put too much pressure on myself. It's just weightlifting. You gotta really let your mental blocks go before you can properly progress, I reckon. Sometimes I listen to really chill music when I lift just to switch the mentality. If you're always doing something in a certain mindset then you're gonna burn out, so it's important to lift when you're mad and when you're chilled out. Happy or sad, whatever – Get it done. But if it sucks, it doesn't matter. Try again next time. Enjoy the process.
Are you training for anything at the moment. What are your current goals?
I try not to train for competition. I've got a lot on at the moment with work, my art practice and cycling; and if I compete in anything, I have to start making sacrifices. I've started doing some gymnastics training so ideally I'd like a muscle up and a skin the cat, but I'm probably aiming for 140kg squat at the end of next year (2019).
What does lifting/training mean to you and why?
It's the only way I can really clear my head and work on letting off steam, but I like my training to be done by 8am. It's an essential part of my life but when it's over, it's over. Cycling is different because it's as much a transport thing as it is something I enjoy. But yeah, ultimately, I like being strong. I like feeling capable of doing things. I have a great team that I train with and my gym is a great community so I feel like no matter what I'm doing I'll be enjoying myself. I love the community aspect of training as much as I love the actual exercise. I'm really lucky to be in a place where I'm able to have those relationships.
What is your ultimate post training meal?
Toasted ham and cheese sandwich or an egg and bacon roll. I just love bread, honestly. I'm on the hunt for Sydney's best bacon and egg. So far Cafe Kentaro is the lead, even though their bacon is technically thick cut ham.
Best track to lift to…
Edge – Rezz
Song that reminds you of being a kid…
She wants to move – N.E.R.D
Tune to chill too…
I have a full playlist. The first song I added was We – Mac Miller ft. Cee Lo Green. I'd have to say that I've had many tranquil Sunday mornings with that playing.
Best track to listen to with friends…
When I come around – Dom Kennedy. Heard it for the first time through one of my best mates in a car travelling down one of Melbourne's highways as the sun was setting. It always reminds me of that memory.
Album to listen to when making new works…
Original Pirate Material – the Streets
You're going for a PB lift, what song is playing…
Take Me – Korn or Bring it Back – Limp Bizkit.
Sunday ride in good weather, what is the soundtrack…
Regardless of whatever chill music I listen to on a Sunday, T Shirt Weather In the Manor – Kano is always the first song.
Can you explain a bit about your artwork?
I try to make work that I want to look at. I like seeing work that makes you feel something visceral, and makes you reference something you wouldn't typically consider art, as art. I do a lot of work with cars and dogs mostly because I think the work that goes into them is pure craftsmanship and I don't think there's enough commentary on the fine art aspect. A well groomed, well trained pit bull has the same dedicated owner as a Subaru WRX STI, and entails the same aesthetic consideration as someone covered in tattoos. It's all art, you just have to look at it in a new context.
What are you working on at the moment, do you have any shows coming up?
I'm moving towards organising a group show with me and two of my mates, Hugo Rose and Sam Stephenson, towards the end of the year. I'm honestly just trying to do some new things this year, explore the limits of what I can do.


This ebook explores the belief of human cognition as a chance-seeking method. It deals novel insights approximately the best way to deal with a few concerns relating selection making and challenge fixing.
This e-book is a collaborative attempt from 3 workshops held over the past 3 years, all regarding important individuals to the vine-copula method. study and purposes in vines were growing to be speedily and there's now a becoming have to collate uncomplicated effects, and standardize terminology and techniques.
Realizing facts in Psychology with SPSS seventh variation, bargains scholars a depended on, uncomplicated, and interesting method of studying the best way to perform statistical analyses and use SPSS with self assurance. finished and functional, the textual content is organised by means of brief, obtainable chapters, making it the correct textual content for undergraduate psychology scholars desiring to become familiar with statistics at school or independently.
L - ms(n-*/2c}]). 6) (Batxhelet, 1965, reproduced by permission, @) 1999 -41nt~ic,m Institute of Biological Sciences). For large K ? 21), B + < =3 K - y -to ( K - 2 ) , N(0,I). Hence for large K , M ( / ! L , K ) jK C - ' / * ( 8 -p) + X ( 0 , l), K, -# 30. 64). ricmornients. 30),w e have hf(/d, K ) N WN(/6,A(K,)), K -# OC. ioxi for large K, Kent (1978) hm shown that the approximation holds to a higher order in K . 24) p, A ( K ) )denotc the densities of the von Miscs where f v ~ ~ (p,. hc? approximating wrapped normal distribution IV,V[p, A ( K ) ) ,respectively.
It turns out that the appropriate way of constructing sumiary statistics for circular data is to regard points on the circle as unit vectors in the plane. and then to take polnr coordixiatw of the sample Inem of t h e e vectors. ive1y. The idea, of 'multiplying angles by p' (for p = 1,2?.. 4. e. the circle of unit radius centred at the origin). h direr:tions - as arigles a i d as unit complex numbers. Choose an initial direction and an orientation for the unit circle. d by a11 arigle 8 or equivalently by a unit complex number z.
1) Extcnding this notion, we define the pth trigonometric moment about the m u darectdora for p = 1,2, . 4) where 8, arid Rp denote the sample rnaari dirm%ionmid sample xxieim resiiltmt length of @ I , . . ,p&. 6) that mI = R. 1) play an important role in the theory of distributions on the circle. ,x,, on the line with sample mean f. The line can be wrapped onto the circle to give angles ?. Bi 3= 11 + mi mod 2n, i = 1,. . ,n. e3 + o(e5), 1 = 1 - ,e2 2! 1 + _e4 + o(es) 4! 10)of trigonometric moments of concentrated distributioris 0x1 the circle motivate the itsf!


What is the best age to start training my puppy?
Your dog must be at least 14 weeks old to take classes at Dog Zone. The younger the dog, the easier it will be for you to train. However, if you have an older dog, it's not too late to start. Contact us to discuss your options.
We need help on some issues at home. Will your trainers to come to our home to work with us?
Yes. For private lessons, we can work with specific behavioral problems and confidence building either at your home or at our Dog Zone facility.
Our 4-week group training classes start at $80. Our board & train program and private lessons vary in cost depending on what your dog needs. Please give us a call to discuss your options.
What are the benefits of sending my dog to Day Camp?
What do the dogs do at Day Camp?
Campers arrive full of energy and looking for their favorite friend to play with.
Campers play inside on our fully-matted play area or outside in the fenced-in play area. Campers join play groups according to size and degree of play.
Lunch time for some campers and rest period for everyone. We like to allow campers time to digest their meal before going back to lots of play. We turn the music on and lay out blankets for campers to snuggle up on for a snooze.
Afternoon playtime. We groom any campers whose owners request it for their canine friend. We like campers to have most of the day to romp and play before getting cleaned up to go home.
Time for camp staff to start cleaning up. Dog Zone gets to be very hairy during the daytime.
How old does my dog have to be to attend Day Camp?
Dog Zone accepts suitable dogs from the age of 8 weeks through to adulthood.
My dog is getting older and doesn't have as much energy. Can I still bring him to Day Camp?
Of course! We pair dogs with similar size and energy levels together for a playtime that is both fun and safe for all the dogs. If you have any special concerns about your particular dog, please let us know during the evaluation, and we will be happy to accommodate.
My dog attends Day Camp all day. Do I have to schedule a separate appointment if I want her groomed?
We section off time at the end, during Day Camp, for dogs to be groomed at the request of the owner.


I'm the proud daughter of a Mexican couple. My mom and dad are happy and my family is… I guess we're okay. Yeah. But, my mother is a teacher and one of her students claimed that she was sexually assaulted by another teacher. So now they're going to sue my mom because the parents said that she "failed to report" the incident. BUT the student told HER parents not my mom. My mother didn't know anything! And this past year has been, weird and difficult. Ever since I entered middle school I've been very anxious and I've never had a slight ounce of positive self esteem. I hate myself, I literally think the most horrible things and it's so hard to talk to new people. I'm not self diagnosing myself with anxiety but I once told my parents about being anxious and in Hispanic culture, we are hard-working, respectful, strong people. So they're like "Don't be ridiculous… Stop being so sensitive" And I just dealt with it. Lately I've been trying to lose weight because that will make me feel more comfortable because what I'm mostly conscious about is my weight. But my mother doesn't understand that, I try to limit portions and eat healthy portions and foods and she's like "STOP STARVING YOURSELF! this is why you get headaches". So I don't know, my mom is going through hard things, I'm trying to become a better person and nothing has changed… And I feel so embarrassed at school because I'm usually not noticed by teachers but my mother told them about what is going on with the assault and now they just keep asking me if I'm okay and I know that they're trying to help but it's embarrassing. I just feel confused, ashamed, worried, and misunderstood.
Having too many problems can make you feel alone and overwhelmed. You are strong for tolerating people who don't understand you and for enduring your issues even though being a teenager is stressful enough.
The problem might be that you're not the only one going through problems. Everyone around you is as well. It might help to try to piece the situation together and see the bigger picture. You can try writing your thoughts and feelings in a daily journal. Writing may be helpful because you'll be bringing ideas together with words which makes it easier to piece the situation together.
Even though no one understands you, you're problems still matter. You can head to the Teen Central website and click the Learn tab then read about any issues you may have. You may also want to explore the other tabs. If you need to speak to someone, you can click the Help tab then call one of the hotlines.
You can express your feelings through creative activities. It's easier to calm down once you let your feelings out. You can try drawing, painting, playing a musical instrument or listening to music.
Sometimes life is meant to be challenging since this is usually how people learn and grow. Spirituality might help you understand this. You can go to the Teen Central website and click the Learn tab then Spirituality if you'd like. Spiritual techniques such as prayer, meditation and yoga may calm your symptoms of anxiety and help other issues. You may also attend church if you feel comfortable doing so.
If necessary, you could benefit from speaking to a trusted therapist, school counselor or other mental health professional. The right person will listen to your problems and give you simple steps to solve them.
Be positive. You can repeat positive affirmations to yourself to rid your mind of negativity. Do this every day to gain peace of mind.
You can find something positive to focus on to ignore the world around you. Try reading a book, watching a humorous movie or growing a garden or potted plant.
Actions speak louder than words. Sometimes it's wiser to speak less to get your point across.
Not taking care of your health can take a serious toll on your mind, body and spirit. You can eat healthier and exercise without losing too much weight. You can ask someone to make sure you don't eat too little or become overly thin. Yoga can also be good exercise. Join a team sport if you're social or try bike riding if you're a more quiet person. Be careful that you don't become unhealthy due to anorexia because this is often a problem for teens.
Gain positive self-esteem by learning to love yourself as you are. Be brave enough to be yourself without caring what others think. If no one likes it, remain positive and do the things you enjoy even more. You can see it as life challenging you to be your better self.
You can focus on doing positive activities like volunteering. Rather than letting life bring you down, let it make you a better person. Some ways to volunteer include helping animals at a pet shelter, doing things for the environment or helping children learn to read at your local library, among other things. Volunteering is a selfless act and will help you be a better person.
You can try being more responsible to become a better person. This will give you more control over your own life and the ability to get things done in a healthy way. Responsibilities include getting a part-time job, doing chores or committing to getting good grades in school so you can have a better future. You may also adopt a pet from an animal shelter to take care of.
By enduring your problems and never giving up, you'll eventually learn to solve them and come out on top. You can research people who've beat serious issues like homelessness, eating disorders, disabilities and others. Think about famous actors, artists, scientists, humanitarians or activists.
How can you make a commitment to yourself to become a better person?
How can being a better person make your life better?
How can you help improve the lives of others by becoming a better person?


You've got a new product and you're ready to launch. Investing your hopes and dreams on a new product can be emotionally and physically exhausting, to say the least, but if you do it right, the rewards can be huge.
Those odds aren't very reassuring, but the fact of the matter is that there are a ton of great ideas out there. It's the execution that can truly make or break your success.
Your product launch is the first time consumers can catch a glimpse of what you're selling. It's the first impression wherein a lifetime relationship is built on between your business and the customer. Blow this, and you may lose their trust forever.
One of the biggest ways you can blow your product launch is to fail to adequately prepare for it. In many cases, companies are so focused on designing, tweaking, creating, and manufacturing new products that they postpone the hard work of getting ready to market them until too late in the game. That will end your launch before it's even started.
There is a right and a wrong way to run a successful product launch.
We can dance around the subject all day, but knowing exactly what to do is what you came here for. Let's get down to business to review some of the biggest factors that play into your product launch's success.
Wrong: Most of the money in your budget is spent on product design and creation, and you don't spend much time on market research. You don't have a marketing schedule in place to build interest and grow awareness.
Right: You adequately prepare by allocating money for creation as well as selling, launching, and marketing the product. You spend ample time pinning down your target market, defining your product's place in that market, and ensuring that there's a need for your product there.
We aren't saying that a well-crafted product isn't essential, because – yes- it absolutely is. What we're saying here is that many companies invest all or most of their budget in the product creation, but when you throw all of that money into the product, you're left with a well-made product and no money to market it to anyone. Thus, it's dead in the water.
Make sure that you know who your target market is and how your product fits in there. An interesting product or a product in a new category is great, but it's going to have a hard time selling when your audience either has no need for it or isn't educated enough in the niche field to purchase it. The end goal here is sales, and that 'big picture' can become foggy in the process.
The basic question is this: Who will buy your product and at what price?
The way you build up your product launch can largely determine the success of the launch itself. Have a social media posting schedule in place and a list of email connections who you're keeping in the loop. Get everyone hyped for your big event so you can hit the ground running as soon as your product is launched.
Wrong: You set up a website for ordering, but you haven't taken the time to do a trial run. You don't have confirmation pages, quick checkout processes, or landing pages set up.
Right: Your website is constructed in a way that leads customers to purchasing, and you have a campaign in place that not only initiates sales but also fosters further relations with your customers. Your payment system is speedy and accurate and integrates with common online payment processors.
It's difficult to sell a product on a webpage full of glitches, and your customers will quickly lose trust in your company if they purchase something and then receive no follow up about a payment being processed or their items getting shipped. At the same time, whichever payment processing system you choose should help to initiate further sales as well. We recommend PayKickstart because it's compatible with many common online processing systems, and you can keep track of sales as well on your business end. For future purchases, your customers won't have to re-enter their information either, as it will already be in the system.
Wrong: Your product is out the door, but you don't have a follow-up system in place. You haven't planned who will operate customer service.
Right: You continue to connect with customers (including visitors who didn't actually purchase your product) in the hopes of garnering future sales. Your customer service is up and ready to handle any issues, should they arise, and you have a system in place to monitor glitches or other issues as your business grows. You're ready for fast expansion.
You're not looking to just sell a product and end it there. Fostering the relationship after your launch can help reel in those visitors who didn't buy the first time and can help to upsell your current customers to bigger and better things too.
Because you're using PayKickstart as your payment system, you're able to quickly upsell products. Their information is already stored, and with a single click, customers can opt for other products in your arsenal as well.
Continue your drip emails to your segmented audiences (learn more <<HERE>>), and capture lost sales after the initial launch.
Allow PR enough time to do their job. If you're selling the next 'biggest and best' thing, you're going to need more than a week to promote it.
Have a clear, compelling message. If you aren't clear about what you're selling, your customers won't understand either. They're looking to address a need, and if they don't understand your product or what it represents, then they certainly won't be needing it anytime soon.
Make sure you have an engaging spokesperson. You need a face to the product, so whoever is tasked with doing a majority of the speaking should be engaging enough to sell.
You can also check out Harvard Business Review for more tips <<HERE>>. Essentially, the best marketers plan ahead of time and make sure that their product sold before the launch ever happens. They have systems in place to handle the launch itself and to follow up for future sales.
You tell us: Have you had a recent product launch? What did you do to ensure its success?


text:
Metabolus – rodzaj ptaka z rodziny monarek (Monarchidae).

Występowanie
Rodzaj obejmuje gatunki występujące na Karolinach i Marianach.

Morfologia
Długość ciała 15–20 cm.

Systematyka

Etymologia
Nazwa rodzajowa pochodzi od greckiego słowa  metabolos – "zmienny" ( metabolē – "zmiana").

Gatunek typowy
Muscicapa rugensis Hombron & Jacquinot

Podział systematyczny
Do rodzaju należą następujące gatunki:
 Metabolus takatsukasae – monarka białorzytna
 Metabolus godeffroyi – monarka czarnogłowa
 Metabolus rugensis – monarka biała

Przypisy

Monarki


text:
You are at:Home»Smart News»Qualcomm initiative to save Nigerian infants
Qualcomm initiative to save Nigerian infants
Vecna Cares, InStrat, Etisalat, Nigeria's National Primary Health Care Development Agency and Evidence for Action collaborate to improve mother and child health
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Qualcomm has announced that its Wireless Reach initiative members have teamed up to develop and deploy a wireless, electronic medical record (EMR) system for midwives, to help reduce infant deaths in Nigeria.
The EMR system will be deployed to clinics throughout three states within Nigeria's National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), bringing a paperless, mobile patient registry to midwives throughout rural Nigeria.
Currently, NPHCDA midwives record patient data in paper notebooks and Regional Health Officers travel to the clinics to review the reports for accuracy. To lighten this burden and increase accuracies and efficiencies, this Wireless Reach-funded project features a cloud-based electronic medical record system.
The system is based on Vecna Cares' CliniPAK software and 3G-enabled tablets powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processors to streamline and automate the in-field data capture and reporting process and help improve health outcomes.
The CliniPAK 360 Mobile Health Application project uses the accelerated adoption rate of mobile technologies in Nigeria and aligns with NPHCDA's strategy of integrating mobile technology into its field-based health management network.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country. It also has maternal and infant mortality rates that are among the world's highest. The US Central Intelligence Agency estimates in The World Factbook that Nigeria experienced approximately 630 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2010 and approximately 73 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2013. In comparison, the maternal death rate in developed countries is approximately nine per 100,000.
As part of the project, each midwife uses a tablet to record patient data at the point of care. The data is transmitted wirelessly via Etisalat's 3G mobile network to the CliniPAK central server, which aggregates and synchronises the data with clinic-based CliniPAK units.
The system supports midwives as they interact with patients by alerting them to risk factors and red flags based on information assembled at the point of care. The system also allows clinicians and midwives to more closely track at-risk patients and make timely, more informed, decisions about patient care.
In addition, policy leaders at NPHCDA will also have access to the data and use the pilot project to establish the foundation for their entire medical record system.
The project's pilot phase is currently underway in seven NPHCDA clinics in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). InStrat Global Health Solutions serves as the local programme manager with responsibility for technology implementation, training and support, and has closely monitored the evolution of the project while also preparing to implement the project in two additional states in February.
Qualcomm's Wireless Reach initiative includes: Vecna Cares Charitable Trust, the non-profit arm of Vecna Technologies; InStrat Global Health Solutions, a turnkey health care solutions provider; Etisalat, a Nigerian telecommunications operator; Nigeria's NPHCDA, a part of the Federal Ministry of Health; and Evidence for Action, a campaign to ensure Africa's mothers and babies survive pregnancy and childbirth.
The goal of this programme is to improve health outcomes, reduce maternal and infant mortality rates, enable faster response to public health threats and facilitate better coordination of health resources. All project collaborators hope the project will grow and replicate to locations throughout Nigeria upon completion of the pilot.


There are 9 Skating Rinks in or near Ashton, South Dakota SD.
Hockey Rink is located approximately 101 miles from Ashton. They're one of the best on the market. Their current phone number is (605) 223-3174.
Jamestown Park & Recreation is located approximately 132 miles from Ashton. If you need a good Skating Rink near Ashton, contact Jamestown Park & Recreation. You can call them at (701) 252-3939.
John L Wilson Arena is located approximately 132 miles from Ashton. Contact information: 1009 7th St NE. Need to give John L Wilson Arena a call? (701) 252-3939.
LARSON ICE CTR is located approximately 98 miles from Ashton. Contact information: 924 32ND ST S. You can call them at (605) 692-6090.
Larson Ice Ctr is located approximately 99 miles from Ashton. Looking for a good Skating Rink? Check out Larson Ice Ctr at 213 22ND Ave S. Their phone number is (605) 692-6090.
Mitchell Activity Ctr is located approximately 92 miles from Ashton. We recommend their services. You can call them at (605) 995-8456.
Odde Ice Arena is located approximately 33 miles from Ashton. Regarded as one of the best Skating Rinks in Ashton area, Odde Ice Arena is located at 400 24TH Ave NW. Need to give Odde Ice Arena a call? (605) 626-7108.
Skate Away is located approximately 32 miles from Ashton. If you need a good Skating Rink near Ashton, contact Skate Away. Call them at (605) 225-1199.
Watertown Ice Arena Expo Ctr is located approximately 68 miles from Ashton. A friendly Skating Rink. Contact them at (605) 882-6266.


text:
The Growing Importance of Data Protection in Public International Law
Written by Kriangsak Kittichaisaree and Christopher Kuner
Globalization and borderless electronic communication has brought huge benefits to individuals. At the same time, the increased exploitation of personal data by the private sector and reported intelligence gathering of personal data via the Internet have caused widespread international concern. The recent appointment by the UN Human Rights Council of a Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy in the summer of 2015, and the adoption on 18 December 2013 by the UN General Assembly of a resolution on "the right to privacy in the digital age", demonstrate the growing international interest in data protection rights.
There is a growing need for legal rules protecting the processing of personally-identifiable data, known as data protection, to be anchored more firmly in public international law. The increasing number of regulatory conflicts caused by differing national and regional conceptions of data protection, as illustrated by the judgment of 6 October 2015 of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Maximillian Schrems, should be a wake-up call to the international community in this regard.
Indeed, data protection at the international level remains fragmented and weak, creating risks for individuals and problems for international organizations (such as UN entities and international humanitarian organizations), many of which process large amounts of personal data.
Issues under public international law
Data protection law subjects the processing of personal data to defined legal rules, in order to protect the rights of individuals and the interests of society. It is closely related to the right to privacy and intersects with it in many ways, but has its own identity. For example, some data covered by data protection law may not by themselves be particularly "private", but when combined may serve to identify an individual, with a resultant impact on his or her privacy, family life, freedom of expression, and other important interests.
Data protection law is rooted in international human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) that protect the right to private life, family life, the home, and correspondence. In particular, the ICCPR has been interpreted by the UN Human Rights Commission (General Comment 16) to include certain data protection guarantees. The only UN instrument dealing specifically with data protection is the set of non-binding UN Guidelines for the regulation of computerized personal data files, dating from 1990. The international treaty in this field with the most States Parties is Council of Europe Convention 108, while a number of other international organizations (such as APEC, the OECD, ECOWAS, and the Organisation of American States) have adopted data protection instruments, most of which are non-binding
Over 100 countries have now enacted data protection laws, many of which have been influenced by EU Directive 95/46. EU law also includes the right to data protection at the constitutional level (for example, in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights), and the European Court of Human Rights has construed Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights to include data protection.
Despite all this, the status of data protection in public international law remains uncertain because of a number of factors:
–International human rights treaties like the ICCPR do not specifically mention data protection, and their provisions on the protection of private life are formulated so broadly that they do not provide much guidance in determining the details of data protection rights.
–Most of the other international instruments that deal specifically with data protection are either regional rather than global or are not legally binding.
–Differences in cultural and legal perceptions of privacy means there is a lack of international consensus about basic questions, such as the distinction between privacy (i.e., protection of an individual's personal sphere) and data protection (i.e., restrictions on processing data relating to an identifiable individual), and the purposes and ultimate aims of data protection (e.g., ensuring fairness in data processing, control or informational self-determination, protecting the liberty of the individual, rectifying power imbalances in data processing, etc.).
–There is considerable fragmentation concerning data protection in national and regional legal systems. This can be seen, for example, in the distinction between the fundamental rights approach in EU law and the consumer protection approach in the United States. Besides, few countries agree with the US position that international law does not prohibit unauthorized "passive intelligence gathering activity" of copying data as long as such activity does not involves commercial or industrial espionage or the destruction or manipulation of data.
The fragmented international legal framework for data protection led the UN International Law Commission to conclude in 2006 that "the international binding and non-binding instruments, as well as the national legislation adopted by States, and judicial decisions reveal a number of core principles" of data protection, but that it is an area "in which State practice is not yet extensive or fully developed".
The current situation is unsatisfactory, since it fails to present a clear normative basis for the recognition of data protection at an international level
Avenues for future international development of data protection law
Greater recognition of data protection in international law presents challenges to define how such a right arises and what its content is. The fact that in many legal systems there is no clear differentiation between data protection and privacy will make it difficult to reach an internationally-accepted definition of data protection as a distinct right. Another problem relates to the politicization of data protection law. As scholars such as Koskenniemi and Raz have argued, human rights are reflections of the moral or political views of their proponents, and data protection is an area where legal language is often used to clothe what are in essence political arguments.
Two main options present themselves for further development of data protection law at the international level. The first would be to draft an international agreement dealing with data protection. This would have the advantage of providing a clear and uniform legal framework. However, a number of important issues make this unlikely or infeasible in the new future. No international organization currently seems to have the combination of global scope, mandate to produce international treaties, and expertise in data protection law that would be needed. Experience has shown that legal harmonization initiatives are difficult enough even in technical areas of the law, and that they can be much more so in areas where there are profound cultural differences between states. A treaty-based solution is unlikely by itself to provide an adequate way forward given the fast-moving nature of data protection law.
However, the negotiation of an international treaty could still bring benefits in terms of states discussing and learning more about the differences between their approaches to data protection. This suggests that states and international organizations should begin to investigate the options for such a treaty, even if its conclusion is a long way off.
The second option would be to regard data protection as an area of fragmentation in international law where "no homogenous, hierarchical meta-system is realistically available", to use the terminology of the 2006 report of the International Law Commission on fragmentation of international law (p. 249). This would allow different approaches to data protection to develop naturally, with international cooperation producing interfaces that allow them to gradually grow closer together over time. For example, using the experience of UNCITRAL, an international model law on data protection could be adopted that states could implement voluntarily at a national level, and which would provide a common internationalized starting point for national and regional legislation.
The work of international bodies and institutions in adopting their own internal data protection policies could play a key role by providing a valuable body of experience as to how international rules on data protection can operate in practice. In May 2015 the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees issued its own data protection policy, and other international organizations are currently working on similar policies, which could provide a vehicle for the progressive development of data protection law at the international level.
Work is needed to anchor data protection more firmly in public international law. The globalization of society and the pervasiveness of electronic communications make it imperative that data protection rights be applicable and enforceable at an international level.
Conclusion of a binding international treaty would face uncertain prospects, given the cultural differences and the lack of an international body with expertise in data protection to coordinate the work. The fragmentation of the law makes it more feasible to examine ways of allowing existing data protection regimes to interact and grow together over time.
States and international organizations should thus work on dual tracks by both beginning discussions on an international legal framework for data protection, while at the same time finding ways for existing frameworks to co-exist and interact.
Right To Privacy/Family Life
Laura | Dutch law firm AMS Advocaten says
Data protection get more and more important! Even more now that certain governments have extended data retention laws.
Kriangsak Kittichaisaree and Christopher Kuner
Kriangsak Kittichaisaree is a member of the International Law Commission and Chairman of the ILC Working Group on the Obligation to Extradite or Prosecute (aut dedere aut judicare). He…


Thanks for choosing several of my photos to illustrate this piece on the Expedia (@Expedia) viewfinder blog.
I chose my favorite of the 7 they used above. It's of "Carrera De Tacones", High Heel Race, Madrid Pride, Calle Pelayo, from 2015. Madrid, Spain celebrates its 40th year of Pride festivals this year. In 2015 it celebrated 10 years of marriage equality. High heel races are slightly different in Madrid than they are in the United States – oh the cobblestones!
In this century, it's definitely "As Washington, DC goes, so goes the nation," but I suppose we look to inspiration from the world 🙂 . And a great one it is, where everyone is respected and represented. The Rest of the photos they chose are below. Enjoy.
Peace, love, and understanding are what make these LGBTQ-friendly cities so fun. Party hop for Pride or visit any time, these places are always welcoming.


text:
The terrible world of Orphan in the style of Limbo
Independent studio Windy Hill Studios has published a release trailer of eerie action by Orphan. Players will visit the forests, valleys, and mountains of the dying world, which captured the army of alien aliens. The hero uses weapons and rapid movement to defeat powerful enemies, each of which has a vulnerability. Developers from Windy Hill at the creation of the game focused on the atmosphere, visual style and on immersing the player in the gameplay. At the same time, they were inspired by the classic games of the genre: Another World, Blackthorne, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey, Journey to Silius and, of course, Limbo.
Financing for the development of Orphan studio was received at Kickstarter. The game can be played in 5-10 hours, but the creators promise replayability. More details about the game will be told at PAX West 2018. The game is scheduled for release on October 31 on Steam on PC. Later there will be versions for PS4 and PC.
Tags: game like Limbo, Kickstarter, Limbo, Orphan, PAX West 2018, PC, PS4, Windy Hill Studios
Previous In Warhammer: Vermintide 2 on the PC offer to play for free on Steam
Next Explore the halls of the mind. Twin Mirror


Someone took the purple ribbons down in the middle of the night. It wasn't anyone who put them up, it wasn't the city (unless they work overtime). It was most likely some crabby person who got sick of being reminded of the fact that an innocent little girl died for no apparent reason. It was probably someone who didn't want to think of unpleasant things during the holiday season. Whoever it was, I hope they never have to meet this mean Mama Bear who will tell them how heartless it is to take down something that is meaningful to a little boy who lost his sister and best friend.
Those ribbons. My son said that they made him feel like people cared. They made him feel like people still remembered Brooke. While I knew they had to come down one day, I felt that we should at least have some say in when they did. I even thought that perhaps it would haven been therapeutic for us to remove a few ourselves. Maybe with a some of the same good people who put them up. But that will never happen because some coward took them down in the dark. And that person probably doesn't even know us.
Those ribbons were put up to show us how much people cared about Brooke, and continue to care about our family. I still see ribbons on those trees, and I always will. But I see more. I see kindness in the faces of our friends and neighbors. To me, it's like they are all wearing big purple ribbons. Forever.


The company's Terms of Service states: You may not "test the vulnerability of any Hidrate system or breach any security or authentication measures." This makes it difficult for experts to test for vulnerabilities.
The app lets you keep an eye on your friends' drinking habits as well as track the location of your water bottle. Aside from weird people tracking you wherever you drink, having your friends shame you for not drinking enough water seems like an anxiety we don't need to introduce into the world.


text:
R&D Institutes / JARA/ FANUC
FANUC founder Dr. Seiuemon Inaba passed away
Oct 07, 2020 — Dr. Seiuemon Inaba, founder and honorary chairman of FANUC, passed away on October 2, 2020, at the age of 95. He significantly contributed to the development of the robot industry not only in Japan but also in the world.
Dr. Seiuemon Inaba, founder and honorary chairman of FANUC, passed away on October 2, 2020, at the age of 95. He significantly contributed to the development of the robot industry not only in Japan but also in the world.
Seiuemon Inaba has graduated from the University of Tokyo with an engineering degree and joined FUJITSU Ltd. in 1946. In 1956, he developed the first numerical control (NC). In 1972, he became Executive Director of Fujitsu Fanuc, which had been founded as a spinoff of Fujitsu (later to be renamed FANUC Corporation). FANUC is developing and producing industrial robots since 1974. Dr. Inaba stepped down as president in 1995.
Please join us in offering heartfelt condolences to his family. He will be missed dearly.
ARENA2036: Creating the Automobile Production of the Future
Soft Tissue Robotics


"Art is the right context for educating about the experience of being a citizen of the world," says Phil Cantor, founder of the World Citizens' Café in Framingham, Massachusetts.
The Café's monthly gatherings at the city's Amazing Things Arts Center offer a welcoming atmosphere in which people from diverse backgrounds can interact and celebrate the oneness of humanity.
In April, the Café, in collaboration with Artists Building Capacity as World Citizens, hosted the workshop "Passports for Peace" by artist Jeannie Hunt with the goal of making art a means of fostering fellowship and elevating the tone of discussion about unity. The group of 14 participants ranged in age from 10 to 70 and featured cultural connections with Australia, Brazil, China, France, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Japan, Norway, Pakistan, Romania, Turkey, and the United States.
Participants began by generating a list of the principles, values, attitudes, and behaviors that contribute to world citizenship. They then each created a personal "Passport to Peace". Facilitator Jeannie Hunt supplied a variety of materials with which they could create passport contents in a collage-like way, or draw their own in a series of drawing exercises. They were also invited to design a "moral compass" for their passport using a compass rose and small virtues tickets from which they could choose those on which they would like to focus.
1. What would it look like if this principle were fully developed in the world?
2. What would have to change to get us there?
A fifth topic, service and action, was intended as "homework", i.e. what kinds of new behaviors participants could practice in the future, based on their learning in the experience of the workshop.
Another participant, who is also an art therapist, expressed appreciation for how the workshop's structured approach was able to reach those from a wide range of ages and backgrounds.
Artist and workshop presenter Jeannie Hunt of Northampton, MA, offers bookmaking workshops for children, teachers, and artists in such settings as library programs, classroom visits, and artist-in-residence and community-arts projects. A Creative Teaching Partner with the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she also works in her local community in the Interfaith Arts Project, promoting the arts as a way of building bridges between people of diverse faith traditions.
This entry was posted in 2015, News and Events and tagged Jeannie Hunt, unity in diversity, World Citizens' Cafe, world citizenship. Bookmark the permalink.


text:
USM gets $5 million boost to build new arts center in Portland
The donation from the Crewe Foundation would support the construction of a building with a recital hall and an art gallery.
By Bob KeyesStaff Writer
An architect's rendering of the arts center, as it would look from the campus green. Photos courtesy of University of Southern Maine
Alan Kaschub, director of the School of Music at the University of Southern Maine, looks forward to the day he can start feeling nostalgic about Corthell Hall, the historic and longtime home of the music school. For now, the often-renovated 1878 building remains mostly a source of frustration.
"It's a beautiful building, but it's not a purpose-built building," Kaschub said. "There is a lot of sound leakage between rooms. We have a one-person elevator that we have to use to move all of our equipment – and we travel a lot. When we play at Merrill Auditorium, every piece of percussion needs to be loaded basically one at a time. And every piano in Corthell has to be carried up the stairs."
On Tuesday, USM announced it has received a $5 million gift from the Crewe Foundation to support construction of a future Center for the Arts on the Portland campus, which would include both a recital hall and visual art gallery. Construction of the single-story building could begin in 2023, with a construction budget of $38 million-$40 million depending on final design and material costs, said USM President Glenn Cummings. It's the largest gift ever given by the Crewe Foundation, and among the largest gifts the university has received.
An architectural concept of the performance hall in a potential arts center on USM's Portland campus.
The Crewe Foundation celebrates the legacy of the late songwriter and producer Bob Crewe. His brother Dan Crewe, who lives in Cumberland and co-founded the foundation, has been an ardent supporter of the USM School of Music since moving to Maine in 1991. Several years ago, the foundation pledged $3 million for an arts center on the Gorham campus, but withdrew that funding when the project fell through.
In preserving his brother's legacy, Dan Crewe wants to complete the picture of the legendary songwriter
The new arts center is still in the early planning stages, and must be authorized by the University of Maine System trustees, as well as the city of Portland. Construction is contingent on continued fundraising, Cummings said. It is part of a master plan for the Portland campus that includes a $100 million dorm and student center currently under construction.
Construction on dorm, student center brings transformation to USM Portland campus
"We are hoping Dan's gift will motivate, inspire and excite others to move forward so we can reach our goal," Cummings said.
As envisioned now, the arts center would include a 200-seat recital hall, rehearsal rooms and studios, as well as an art gallery and the home of the Kate Cheney Chappell Center for Books Arts. The arts center, if built, would be between Bedford and Falmouth streets.
An architect's rendering of the art gallery in the Center for the Arts.
Dan Crewe said he has been "blown away" by the quality of musicians at the School of Music and has tried to enhance the program by investing in scholarships and other programs. But he said Corthell Hall, which is on the Gorham campus, was inadequate for the quality of the USM arts programs, and that their consistent success "is a recognition of excellence in the face of absurd lack. I don't want to make it sound too dramatic, but it's incredible what they pull off and what they are able to do consistently. It's a big issue. All of the programs involved in the arts writ large have been trying to subsist in the same space for too long. It's been a juggling act, and they deserve better."
A Chinese snow lilac in front of Corthell Hall in the arboretum at USM's Gorham campus in 2004. Staff photo by Jack Milton
Kaschub said the School of Music could nearly double its enrollment by moving most of its programming to Portland. It has about 150 students now.
"We are in many ways USM's best-kept secret because of our location," he said. "We have a great many fans who come out to Gorham to see our stuff and have followed us for years, but it's going to be easier to become a fan of the USM School of Music when we are in Portland. It will be easier to recruit students. We want to make this a destination place."
The USM School of Music offers 14 degree and certificate programs and hosts at least 12 performance ensembles each semester.
"Our graduates have gone on to win Grammy Awards, perform at the Metropolitan Opera, attract hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube as music educators and influencers, and serve in elite national music ensembles," Cummings said in a statement. "In fact, School of Music alumni have won the Maine Outstanding New Music Educator of the Year Award every year for the past five straight years."
Take a look around the new Children's Museum and Theatre, opening Thursday
Special Tony Awards given to 2 shows, 1 advocacy nonprofit
Postcard from Maine
Sign up and we'll help you stay connected to Vacationland by sending our twice-a-month newsletter to your inbox.
Browse more in Lifestyle


text:
in: Story Arcs, 2001 Story Arc Debuts, Earth-616, X-Men Story Arcs
E is for Extinction
Reality and Participants
Earth-616
X-Mansion, Genosha, Ecuador
X-Men (Professor X, Beast, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Wolverine)
Cassandra Nova, Master Mold
Comic Volume(s)
New X-Men Vol 1
New X-Men #114
(July, 2001)
(September, 2001)
4.1 Footnotes
As a new generation of mutants begins maturing across the globe, a long-lost Master Mold A.I. and Sentinels production facility in the jungles of Ecuador is uncovered by a mysterious woman called Cassandra Nova. She uses the last surviving relative of Bolivar Trask to gain control of the wild sentinels and send several to demolish and level the mutant nation of Genosha, before being subdued by Cyclops and Wolverine.[1]
Miraculously, teacher Emma Frost survives the attack by way of a new Secondary Mutation. At the X-Mansion, Beast investigates the biological origins of the powerful enemy they have just captured, while also revealing the possibility of mankind's genetic extinction within the next few generations. When Cassandra suddenly overcomes her imprisonment and effortlessly strolls her way to to Cerebra (in order to take over Professor X's mind), Emma Frost deftly snaps her neck, followed by the professor firing five bullets through the being's regenerating body.[2]
In the aftermath of the attack, Emma Frost joins the X-Men, Scott and Jean explore the tensions in their relationship, and the professor officially outs himself as a mutant on national television. With more students entering the school and protesters massing outside the gates, Professor X makes the radical decision to leave the school and re-unite with Empress Lilandra. While investigating the DNA of Cassandra Nova's body, however, Dr. McCoy discovers that she shares the exact same DNA with Charles Xavier. The professor reveals that he is actually possessed by the Cassandra Nova entity (Nova switched bodies with Xavier before Emma snapped the Nova body's neck), and mentally tortures Beast before forcing a new student, Beak, to severely beat him with an aluminum baseball bat, leaving Beast in a coma and Beak catatonic.[3]
After the story arc ends, Cassandra Nova is in possession of the professor's body, and she leaves Earth to lay waste to the Shi'ar Imperium.[4]
3 minor appearance(s) of E is for Extinction
7 mentions of E is for Extinction
4 article(s) related to E is for Extinction
↑ New X-Men #114
Like this? Let us know!
2001 Story Arc Debuts
X-Men Story Arcs
3 Celestials