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Mugwump Interviews
The Burning City: An Interview with Brian Diemar of MMII
MMII propaganda poster (source)
I first heard the name Brian Diemar a few months ago, when I was looking around for information about Stephen Bier, formerly known as Madonna Wayne Gacy, or simply "Pogo." He was the keyboard player for Marilyn Manson and seemed to have disappeared from public view since he left the group in 2007. Until a few months ago, the latest update on Pogo's Wikipedia page said that he was "now a photographer." So that was that.
Except that he had been making and producing music the entire time. And his major collaborator is Brian Diemar. Brian is a veteran lead guitar player and producer. Just prior to meeting Pogo he had left the band AM Conspiracy, a group he had formed with Jason Jones, the former lead singer of Drowning Pool. Pogo and Brian first collaborated by producing other bands under the name Faultline Productions. Shortly afterward, they began their collaboration with Hoss, a drummer who had played with the Exies and Mondo Generator. Together, the trio are MMII (pronounced "em em eye eye"). They also have several side projects where they work with other musicians and experiment with different styles. The first two side projects are "and then..." and Life in Exile. All three groups have demos available on their Facebook pages. Albums from all three projects are going to be released this fall.
Early this year, Diemar moved from LA to Mobile, Alabama, buying a seven and a half acre farm. The farm not only serves as a domicile but also as the headquarters for Burning City Frontiers, a studio and record label that will not only release the debut MMII album and side projects, but will also put out several other musical groups. Not content to limit the label to industrial or electronic influenced bands, they will be releasing everything from rock to country to gospel groups, in short, anything they think is good. Burning City is partnered with THC: Music and Rocket Science Ventures, two excellent indie labels that are distributed by RED Sony. When Burning City Frontiers launches this fall, we could be looking at one of the most exciting indie music movements to come along in quite a while. If nothing else, it will certainly be one of the most unique.
So how are things down where you are?
Diemar: We love it here.
Yeah, I used to live not too far from there. Birmingham.
Diemar: It's a little different from LA.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Diemar: But, you know, Pogo's from Florida, my family's from here, so, we're used to it.
So you're from Alabama?
Diemar: I'm from Chicago but my family's been down here for a long time.
Pogo's in Florida right now?
Diemar: Yeah, that's where he's from. The Ft Lauderdale area.
Is he gonna come to the studio to do the vocals?
Diemar: Yeah, yeah. When we're ready to finish he'll be coming out here. Same thing with Hoss.
Do you know when that'll be?
Diemar: Probably the next three or four weeks.
Oh, wow, so pretty soon.
Diemar: Yeah, we've got the label launch in the fall, so we have to prepare. We've got one of the side projects done, another one getting done, then the MMII stuff will be done. Then we have at least three bands we're releasing.
And then that's gonna all be out when the label launches?
Diemar: Yeah.
Diemar: Yeah, we're gonna drop a bomb and see what happens.
So you've got a lot of work to do!
Diemar: Yeah, well, you know, this whole business thing is new territory for us. I'm used to having everything taken care of.
When did you and Pogo meet each other?
Diemar: We've been friends for a long time. We were introduced through a mutual friend who was a tech for me and who was also Pogo's tech for many years. And he was like, "You guys need to meet." We became really good friends. And when he left Manson we started working together.
Was it right after he left the band?
One of many mysterious MMII logos (source)
Diemar: No, we didn't start working together until two years, maybe a year and a half after he left.
That was in 2007?
Diemar: Yeah. So, yeah, about 2008. It was about a year or so. We were just hanging around, listening to music all the time. And then I had my other band, AM Conspiracy, which was with Jason Jones, who was the lead singer of Drowning Pool. And I wanted to bring Pogo into it. So we were gonna do that but decided to let go of that band.
You were on the first EP and that was it, right?
Diemar: I did all the music for the entire album. We didn't really put out an entire EP. A lot of crap went on, with label stuff. I did all the music and Jason did all the lyrics. AM Conspiracy bascially was me and him.
Was it after you left AM Conspiracy that you started Faultline Productions?
Diemar: Yeah, we threw that together. We started producing some bands, working on our own stuff. And we got along so great we said, "Maybe we outta keep doing this for real."
Was it just a sort of informal thing?
Diemar: It was kind of informal.
But it wasn't a business or anything?
Diemar: No, we wanted to. Yeah, we had these grand ideas but we were still feeling out the waters. He was still in the middle of the whole Manson suit. And being burned as bad as he was burned, and you know, I had just come out of the AM Conspiracy thing and I felt like I needed to feel everything out too. But the one thing we both have in common is that we're brutally honest and fair. So it works out great.
Yeah, I definitely noticed that about Pogo's Facebook page!
Diemar: He's honest to a fault. He tells it like it its. He's kind, he's fair, but sometimes people mistake his honesty for being mean (laughs). He's also so damn smart. His intelligence is far above mine, anyone else I know.
When did Hoss come into this?
Diemar: Probably about a year after me and Pogo were working together. He was playing with Mondo Generator. We were introduced to him. He's one of the best drummers we've ever played with. I mean, I don't know if you listen to Mondo's stuff, but it's just heavy, heavy, punk rock.
Are all the drum tracks [on the demos streaming on the fan page] going to be replaced with live drums?
Diemar: Most likely, yes. And when Hoss does take one of our tracks, he makes it his own and takes it to a whole nother level.
So, basically the demos that are up for MMII is just a small taste of what we're gonna get?
Diemar: Yeah, absolutely.
So you've got this studio now and you've got a label that you're gonna release all this stuff on, Burning City Frontiers.
Diemar: Yeah, and we go through THC: Music/Rocket Science Ventures, which is a RED Sony label.
Cool. So there's going to be some good distribution for these albums.
Diemar: I hope so, yeah! I mean, we're doing everything from rock to electronica to metal. We're doing country and gospel, blues. We don't believe in genres. I mean good music is good music, whatever it is.
Do you think having all these different genres is going to cause a branding issue?
Diemar: I don't think so. What we want to be known for is putting out good music, whatever the genre. I would hate to be pigeonholed into, you know, "All they put out is Industrial music" or "All they put out is Metal music." We listen to so many different things.
I don't think people are too interested in one genre anymore.
Diemar: Good music is good music, whatever. You could listen to a country record and then put on a metal record. There are no rules. And the way the music business is these days, there are no more rules at all.
Do you use the phrase "Cooperation over Competition over Corporation for the People" as a sort of [ethical] guide?
Diemar: We live it. Pogo came up with that. And if you'll notice, if you capitalize the first letter of each word, what they spell out (laughs).
Yeah, I see that!
Diemar: So, we're a collective, basically. We're artists running a label that's artist driven. And everything we do is fair and equal.
How does that work out in day to day practical sorts of ways?
Diemar: We'd like to make a buck, but not at the expense of the artist. Bottom line is the artist. We're not taking their publishing, we're not taking their merchandising.....So, basically we're putting out a product, taking a percentage of that. We're not gonna own the record. We're just licencing it for the cycle of the record. Once it's over, the rights revert back to the artists.
Wow, that is pretty radical.
Diemar: Yeah, and we're not signing multiple deals, either. And we can do singles, EPs, full CDs, whatever. We can do whatever we want.
Is one of the reasons you moved from LA to Mobile that it would save you on costs for this ambitious project?
Diemar: I kind of got sick of LA, you know, I had been there so long. And, yeah, the cost of living here is awesome (laughs).
Do you start a new band when you want to explore new musical styles?
Diemar: No, with me and Pogo, with MMII, there's four or five different styles. There's some heavy things that are Manson, Nails influenced stuff. The first track we did was more of a modern take on Delta blues, then we have more Melvins type heavy stuff. Grinding. And we have some total electronic stuff. Some old-school industrial kind of electronica. And then we have a track that's more folky-electronic. So, just kinda jumpin' genres. It's all kinda cohesive. It's all us, the same musicians, the same electronic, heavy, industrial, dark stuff. So it's all cohesive. And, a lot of cool different guests. Some cool 80's people on it. Some of Pogo's friends. Special guest people that I think people will be very excited about. I know we are.
Cool. Yeah, I'm really excited about all this too.
Diemar: Yeah, you know with the whole lawsuit and all this crap, for years, Pogo couldn't do anything. He was basically on a gag order.
Well, I wish you luck, man.
Diemar: Appreciate it.
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Location: Fremont, California
Mood: thoughtful
Music: CSPAN BBC Election Coverage
Watching the Returns Come In
One advantage to being eight hours behind the UK is being able to watch the UK election returns coming in without staying up all night. (Although, given how slowly some numbers are arriving, I may be speaking too soon.) C-SPAN is carrying the BBC election coverage, and I must say that I like the British coverage a lot more than the American coverage of our own elections. People seem to feel more free to speak their minds, and don't coach every single word as if it were finely polished by focus groups in advance. And I like the fact that the BBC are willing to admit that all that they think they can say with confidence from their exit-polling data is that it will be a hung parliament (no party will have a majority), but that they can't say with any certainty what the actual counts will be. Very refreshing for their honesty.
But the way this election is turning out shows what a bad idea first-past-the-post voting is when there are more than two significant parties. The BBC don't help by using the word "majority" to describe the spread between the first and second-place candidates, even when it's clear that the winner had as much as two-thirds of the voters selecting a different candidate. I think instant runoff voting would have made a big difference here, although I admit it probably means some of the fringe right-wing, isolationist, racist parties would have picked up a fair bit more first-place votes as well. But that's not such a bad thing, either, as when one of the lower-placed parties' candidates dropped, you'd be able to see exactly where the other parties' support is coming from, and that seems valuable to me.
However, I doubt that IRV will be implemented, since everyone seems to be saying that some sort of proportional representation is more likely, assuming any sort of represenation reform happens at all.
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Throughout the book we've attempted to provide as much statistical background as possible without letting it get too overwhelming. In this appendix we review some fundamental statistical concepts and provide pointers to chapters where the concepts are covered in greater detail. If you've never had an introductory statistics class or don't remember basic concepts such as measuring central tendency and variability, then you can use this appendix for a quick review.
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Real Talk 15th June 2018 by Helen O'Neill
Derry Girls' Nicola Coughlan Called Out A Theatre Critic Who Keeps Commenting On Her Body In Reviews
Just rude.
The nation fell in love with Nicola Coughlan as the hilarious Clare on Derry Girls.
Now, the actress is playing Joyce Emily in a play called The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a production that has received rave reviews from a number of critics.
However, one reviewer felt the need to comment on Nicola's weight – and as it turns out, he's done it multiple times.
Philip Fisher of the British Theatre Guide referred to Nicola's character in Miss Jean Brodie as an "overweight little girl" in his article about the play. And in another show that Nicola was in last year, the same critic referred to her as a "fat girl", despite the fact that it had no relevance to the review.
Nicola didn't take this lying down, and ripped into him on Twitter:
Hi @BritTheatreGuid, for the second time your reviewer Philip Fisher has come to see a show I'm in, and as part of reviewing the show he has also reviewed my body.
How can you continue to support this? pic.twitter.com/Rtd7mVBmSA
— Nicola Coughlan (@nicolacoughlan) June 14, 2018
Philip Fisher, I know you are a theatre reviewer and your body had no relevance to your job but maybe you'd like me to cruelly review it for you and post it online?
I was in a show called Jess and Joe Forever @traversetheatre last August which he came to see and his opening sentence was "Jess is a fat girl"
My weight has no relevance to either the performance I gave in that or in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Nicola also mentioned another review by the same writer in which he appears to make light of a rape scene:
As a side note, his review of Low Level Panic @OrangeTreeThtr describes a rape scene and he actress in it in this way pic.twitter.com/HvXNnS9KTj
The British Theatre Guide has since apologised to Nicola, saying that the reviewer now "accepts that it is not acceptable to use such descriptions in a review."
Nicola, we apologise unreservedly for the offence caused by the wording of this review. The offending words have been removed. While the reviewer may not have intended to offend, he accepts that it is not acceptable to use such descriptions in a review and not BTG policy.
— British TheatreGuide (@BritTheatreGuid) June 14, 2018
Nicola said she was "disappointed" by the publication, and the critic would not be welcome to review any more of her shows.
Philip Fisher, I know you are a theatre reviewer and your body had no relevance to your job but maybe you'd like me to cruelly review it for you and post it online? Let me state this clearly, he is not welcome to review any show I am in from now until forever. And I plan to be in a lot of damn shows.
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Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out and Other Strange Excursions is a collection of dark fantasy short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by W. Paul Ganley in November 1985. An electronic edition was published by Necon E-Books in December 2012 as no. 20 of its Necon Classic Horror series. The copyright statement of the Necon edition states that it "incorporates the author's final revisions and should be regarded as definitive."

Summary
The collection consists of nineteen early works of the author; three tales about legendary madman Tom O'Bedlam followed by two in the far future setting of his novel The Shattered Goddess and collection Echoes of the Goddess and thirteen other stories (one a collaboration with John Gregory Betancourt) and a poem. Most of the pieces were originally published from 1973-1985 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies; the remainder are original to the collection.

Contents
 "Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out" (from Fantastic v. 26, no. 3, September 1977)
 "Raving Lunacy" (from Amazing Stories v. 55, no. 2, July 1981)
 "Continued Lunacy" (from Amazing Science Fiction v. 56, no. 5, March 1983)
 "The Story of a Dadar" (from Amazing Science Fiction Stories v. 56, no. 1, June 1982)
 "A Lantern Maker of Ai Hanlo" (from Amazing Stories v. 58, no. 2, July 1984)
 "The Story of Obbok" (from Whispers no. 2, December 1973)
 "The Outcast" [poem] (from Eerie Country no. 4, 1980)
 "The Pretenses of Hinyar" (from Amra v. 2, no. 69, January 1981)
 "The Story of the Brown Man" (from Fantasy Crosswinds no. 1, January 1977)
 "The Last of the Shadow Titans" (from Amazing Stories v. 59, no. 2, July 1985)
 "The Stranger from Baal-Ad-Theon"
 "The Bermuda Triangle Explained"
 "The Adventure in the House of Phaon"
 "The Last Child of Masferigon" (with John Gregory Betancourt)
 "A Vision of Rembathene" (from Fantasy Crossroads no. 10/11, March 1977)
 "Jungle Eyes" (from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine v. 5, no. 2, May/June 1985)
 "Sunrise" (from Pulpsmith, Winter 1983)
 "The Game of Sand and Fire" (revised from "A Part of the Game" from The Dragon no. 51, 1981)
 "The Wings of the White Bird" (from Myrddin no. 4, 1978)

Reception
The collection was reviewed by William F. Touponce in Fantasy Review, June 1986, Neal Wilgus in Science Fiction Review, Winter 1986, John Gregory Betancourt in Fantasy Book, March 1987, and Stefan Dziemianowicz in Crypt of Cthulhu no. 48, St. John's Eve 1987.

References

1985 short story collections
Short story collections by Darrell Schweitzer
Fantasy short story collections

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Anyway, his webinar is awesome. Be sure to get the slides, watch the replay, and read the questions follow up.
Watching it you'll get a better understanding of defending against SQL injection.
When running on Windows, changing the current user is called impersionation.
The functions ImpersonateLoggedOnUser and RevertToSelf the in the Windows API (e.g. when using Delphi or C++) also requiring LogonUser and CloseHandle as mentioned by Chris Baldwin on Delphi3000.com.
On the iSeries, there is only one way, as everything goes through the same API: use QSYGETPH (Get Profile Handle) to verify a username/password combination and obtain a handle to the authentication token, then use QWTSETP (Set Profile Handle) to change the user currently signed on, as for instance mentioned by Colin Williams directing to the CHGCURUSR tool on FreeRpgTools.com and an article on Swapping AS/400 User Profiles by Shannon O'Donnel that comes with source code.
On the iSeries, when you are done, you should use QSYRLSPH (Release Profile Handle) when done impersonating, and you need to get the handle from the original user profile if you want to return to it.
Note that on both Windows ans iSeries, impersonation within a process/thread will make it run in the new context, but the process still keeps the identity of the user that started the process.
If you want to change that, then on both you need to start a new process from the impersonated thread.
In Windows, you can combine the impersionation and the creation of a new process by using the CreateProcessWithLogonW function (as mentioned at the Old New Thing by Raymond Chan). I've yet to find an equivalent on the iSeries.


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Q: ArcPy: ERROR 000584: Implementation of this Tool's Validate is invalid. Failed to execute (LayerToKML) I am writing a script that takes all shapefiles within a folder, defines a coordinate system for them, then reprojects that coordinate system to WGS84, then finally converts the reprojected layer to KMZ file format. This is done so I can have an easier time passing data to be represented in Google Earth Pro. I am running this script in ArcGIS Pro.
This is the script.
import arcpy
import os

#set workspace environment
arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/data"

#set the output folder
output_folder = "C:/data/test"

#Use the ListFiles method to identify all shapefiles in workspace
layers = [layer for layer in arcpy.ListFiles("*.shp*") if not layer.endswith(".sr.lock" or ".shp.xml")]

#Loop through the list
for layer in layers:
    try:
        print(f"Processing {layer}...")

        # Define coordinate system
        arcpy.DefineProjection_management(layer, 26949)

        # Define the output file for the reprojected shapefile
        shapefile_name = os.path.splitext(layer)[0]
        output_shapefile = os.path.join(output_folder, f"{shapefile_name}_reprojected.shp")

        # Delete output shapefile if it already exists
        if arcpy.Exists(output_shapefile):
            arcpy.Delete_management(output_shapefile)

        # Reproject the shapefiles
        arcpy.Project_management(layer, output_shapefile, 4326)

        print(f"Successfully reprojected {layer} to {output_shapefile}")

        # Check that output shapefile was created successfully
        if not arcpy.Exists(output_shapefile):
            raise Exception(f"Failed to create {output_shapefile}")

        # Define the output path for the KMZ file
        output_kmz = os.path.join(output_folder, f"{shapefile_name}.kmz")

        # Delete output KMZ file if it already exists
        if arcpy.Exists(output_kmz):
            arcpy.Delete_management(output_kmz)

        # Convert the reprojected shapefile to KMZ format
        arcpy.conversion.LayerToKML(output_shapefile, output_kmz)

        print(f"Successfully converted {output_shapefile} to {output_kmz}")

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Failed to process {layer}: {str(e)}")

The error that occurs is the following:

Processing airports.shp...
Successfully reprojected airports.shp to C:/data/Test\airports_reprojected.shp
Failed to process airports.shp: Failed to execute. Parameters are not valid.
ERROR 000584: Implementation of this Tool's Validate is invalid.
Failed to execute (LayerToKML).

Indicating there is something wrong with the execution of the LayerToKML tool. If I try manually input airports_reprojected.shp to the LayerToKML tool the script works. So I am not sure where I'm wrong.

A: This is a good example of why you need to be reading the help file for the tool, especially the parameter section. It clearly states that the data type of the first parameter is a Feature Layer.
In your code you are providing a Feature Class, the source data, not a layer object.
You can use the Make Feature Layer tool to convert a Feature Class into a Feature Layer.

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Q: Any recommendation on tools for doing translations / localization in .NET? We have made use of Passolo for a number of years, but it's kind of clunky and overpriced.
It's got to be able to handle winforms and WPF....
Are there any open source alternatives?

A: Your question could use some clarification as to exactly what aspects of translation / localization you need help with.  Do you need help extracting strings from code?  Tracking down improper use of non-localizable String.Formats in code (i.e. mm/dd/yyyy vs. dd/mm/yyyy)?  Help managing all the resources once you've extracted them?  Help managing the actual translation process while working with translators?
There are many aspects to consider.  That having been said, some tools I am currently evaluating are:
Multi-Language Add-In for Visual Studio
http://www.jollans.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=multilangvsnet
Sisulizer
http://www.sisulizer.com/
RGreatEx (requires Resharper, which we use)
http://www.safedevelop.com
I also got a lot out of reading ".NET Internationalization" by Guy Smith-Ferrier, ISBN 0-321-34138-4.  He provides some downloadable tools of his own design.

A: Coincidentally I saw this on MS Channel 9 this morning - Babylon.NET http://www.redpin.eu/
Sadly I can't vouch for it as I haven't used it, but looks like a reasonable alternative to Passolo (well, at least it's cheaper).


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Wood, T 2017 "Papua New Guinea election results: trends and patterns 1972-2012," Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper 55, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra.
You can download this publication at SSRN.
If you just want some brief highlights, keep reading below.
Elections have become increasingly busy contests in most of Papua New Guinea. 73 candidates stood in the Chimbu Provincial constituency in 2012. Not all constituencies are the same though. In 2012 only 8 candidates stood in one constituency. However, even in constituencies with comparatively few candidates, candidate numbers have usually increased over time. Figure 1 shows the minimum, median and maximum number of candidates per constituency for every general election since independence.
As candidate numbers have gone up, the percentage of votes won by winning candidates has fallen in Papua New Guinea. In 2002, Bani Hiovo won the Northern Provincial seat by winning won just under 6 per cent of the votes cast. The introduction of limited preferential voting after 2002 has increased winning candidate vote shares somewhat, but even with the new system, as Figure 2 shows, some candidates have been able win elections with very low vote shares. Figure 2 also shows just how much variation can be found around the Papua New Guinea. In 2012, one MP won with 75 per cent of (after preference) votes cast; another won, after preference allocations, with just 16 per cent of the votes cast in their constituency. As a general rule, constituencies with the highest numbers of candidates have also been the constituencies with the lowest winning candidate vote shares, although there are exceptions.
Although candidate numbers have gone up, and winning candidate vote shares have come down, there has not been an equivalent trend in the proportion of sitting MPs who have lost their seats at each election. The number has fluctuated, but turnover rates have not changed in a systematic way. Figure 3 shows estimated turnover rates for each general election since 1977.
As might be expected given such high turnover rates, there are few long-serving MPs. A small number of MPs have stayed in parliament a long time, but they are the exception rather than the norm. In the 2012 parliament, fewer than 5 per cent of MPs had served four or more terms. Figure 4 shows estimated composition of parliaments by MPs' time in office.
In the 2012 election three women MPs were elected. This was the best result for women candidates since 1977. However, 3 MPs is still only 2.7 per cent of all MPs, and elections remain dominated by men. In 2012, just 4 per cent of candidates were women. As Figure 5 shows, on average, in each of PNG's regions, women candidates won lower vote shares than men in 2012. This reflects the challenges women candidates face. On the other hand, 2012 showed that strong women candidates can sometimes win elections in PNG.
The PNG Election Database website is published by the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. For queries, email devpolicy@anu.edu.au.


This chapter discusses horizontal cooperation agreements between competitors. There may be circumstances in which competitors cooperate with one another in a way that delivers economic benefits, not just for themselves but for consumer welfare as well. After a discussion of joint ventures, the chapter discusses the application of Article 101 to horizontal cooperation agreements. It refers, in particular, to the European Commission's Guidelines on Horizontal Cooperation Agreements and discusses, in turn, information exchange, research and development agreements, production agreements, purchasing agreements, commercialisation agreements, standardisation agreements and other cases of permissible horizontal cooperation. It concludes with a brief look at the treatment of horizontal cooperation agreements under UK competition law.


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Book Review: The Sour Faced Moon: Rohini Lall
By Privy Trifles April 15, 2014
• ISBN – 978-9383562305
• Genre: Fiction
• Publishers: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltdc
• Price: Rs. 153/- (P.S: I received the book from the publisher as a gift!)
Oscillating between the families of Imroz Agha Khan, who resents his prosperous Afghan forefathers and his perennial outsider status in his own homeland and Danielle Anderson, who returns to seek refuge in the truth and dreams she had so abruptly fled from twelve years ago.
A story spanning three generations with malleability of rules as people try to break the bondage they have created all on their own. Rohini Lall s debut novel, THE SOUR FACED MOON is the saga of intertwining cultures and generations.
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Rohini Lall was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar and lives in Delhi. She has been an avid reader since a very early age and has a keen interest in classic literature, modern fiction, and poetry. She is interested in art, travelling and is a movie buff. The Sour Faced Moon is her first book. She can be reached at rohininlall@outlook.com
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I loved the title of the book – pretty innovative, quirky and of course enticing a reader as it piques your interest. Though I feel the cover design could have been a bit more elaborative and detailed in terms of grabbing the reader's attention.
For a debutant the author has done an exceptional job here. I simply loved the detailing done by the author, the emotions, the narrative, the flow – all deserve thumbs up for a first timer's attempt.
The author has written the story exceptionally well dealing with human emotions beautifully. Yes the story line is touching and a little bit melodramatic but it never feels suffocating with the same old stuff. You are actually curious to read and know what's in store ahead.
I would say please don't go by the cover page or the fact that it is a debut novel. It is a wonderful read and surely a must read just for the beauty it has in terms of story and strong narrative.
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Giuliano da Sangallo initially started the construction of the sacristy in 1489 in the form of an eight-sided figure and was finished by Antonio del Pollailo "Cronaca". Inside of the sacristy you can admire the crucifix by Michelangelo as well as the full beauty of Michelangelo's early work as a Renaissance sculptor. Michelangelo was a guest at Santo Spirito at the age of 17. During his stay he he was presented the opportunity to dissect corpses from the hospital of the monastery. This was the beginning of his anatomy studies. He was able to learn every detail about the human body, which is visible in his work.
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Incidental Take And Our Arctic Ocean
Written by League Staff, June 25th, 2015
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service recently issued Shell Oil an "incidental harassment authorization," giving the company permission to harass thousands of whales and seals if it is allowed to move forward with exploratory drilling this summer. But what exactly does this mean for the marine life of the Arctic?
Simply put, granting this permit will expose Arctic marine mammals – including more than 1,000 bowhead whales (an endangered species), more than 1,600 beluga whales and more than 25,000 ringed seals (listed as threatened) – to damaging acoustic activity from actions including exploratory drilling, seismic testing and icebreaking. Seismic testing alone can cause temporary and permanent hearing loss, abandonment of habitat, disruption of mating and feeding, beach strandings and even death. Whales in particular need their hearing to survive, as it is critical for mothers and their calves to call out to each other as they migrate. Sadly, the simple truth might be that a deaf whale is a dead whale.
And let's not forget – casting a long shadow over all of this is a U.S. Department of the Interior estimate that there is a 75 percent chance of one or more major oil spills occurring if drilling and production move forward in the Chukchi Sea.
Once it reaches the Arctic, Shell will be required to monitor areas where loud activities will be taking place, and the company has argued that the animals will just avoid these areas and the sound won't be a problem. That's an extremely weak justification, however, especially when considering that avoiding historic breeding and feeding grounds could lower the number of whale calves being born, and how successful they are in the wild.
In short – just because Shell's Arctic fleet isn't physically running the whales down doesn't mean it won't be doing extensive damage. And Shell already doesn't have a stellar track record in the Arctic. In 2012, a series of mishaps included a fire aboard the drillship Noble Discoverer, the grounding of the drill rig Kulluk, and numerous safety and environmental violations resulting in Noble Drilling LLC, the operator of the Discoverer and the Kulluk, pleading guilty to eight felony charges and being hit with $12.2 million in fines.
For a full timeline of Shell's history in the arctic, please see our updated timeline of Shell's Arctic mishaps.
Shell's drilling in the Arctic this summer is not a foregone conclusion. There are still several permits that they need to secure, including a similar harassment privilege from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that deals with polar bears and walrus. There is still time to tell President Obama to put an end to this Arctic madness, and stop Shell in its tracks.
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With Grant's whisky we show you the third part of the 2018 marketing campaigns for spirits. It's "Good Things Start With Three".
This short 30-second advertisemen by Grant's explains what the number three means to them. Relating that at Grant's "they believe that all good things start with three". It certainly is for the whisky distillery. Grant's Triple Wood whisky has been aged in three different types of wood, for a fine and delicate taste: virgin oak barrels, American oak and spare Bourbon in its blend.
But who is behind the creation of this Grant's marketing campaign? The Mattr Media agency in London, is the creative responsible, and have been responsible for creating advertisements for other alcohol brands such as Guinness beer. The advertising was directed by Josh Hine.
The advertising was launched specifically for television in South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon and Tanzania.


For 50 years, Barry Halper has built a baseball memorabilia empire so vast that his 984 historic uniforms move on dry cleaning racks for viewing in his New Jersey house. He has tens of thousands of items, including a baseball signed by Joe and Norma Jean DiMaggio, the contract that sold Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees, an autographed 1936 Lou Gehrig uniform, two rare Honus Wagner tobacco cards and Shoeless Joe Jackson's 1919 White Sox uniform.
But yesterday, after unsuccessfully seeking a home to showcase the collection without selling it, he announced that he had hired Lazard, Freres & Company to find a buyer for everything. According to the investment banking house, the Halper collection is worth $40 million.
The $40 million appraisal was done by Christie's Fine Art Auctioneers.
Lazard is hoping that substantial bids will come from theme park companies, Las Vegas complexes or a baseball team with room to display the nostalgic wooden, leather, cardboard, paper and horsehide assemblage.
''We don't know who will come out of the woodwork,'' Halper said.
He insisted that he will not auction it piecemeal. ''I couldn't, and have parts of it all over the country,'' he said.
Halper, 57, said that he was not selling the collection because he needed the cash. But he said that he worried about the estate taxes that would burden his family if he died without selling it first.
A longtime minority owner of the Yankees, Halper began collecting as a child in Newark, with 1948 Bowman cards.
He added to it with player autographs culled from Newark Bears players at Ruppert Stadium.
McCosky and Novikoff were former major leaguers then playing in the minors.
Ruth's widow, Claire, gave him a banjo autographed by her late husband and the bat Ruth leaned on in his final appearance at Yankee Stadium in 1948. Other items are from the family of Alexander Cartwright, widely acknowledged as the founder of baseball; Stan Musial's Rochester Red Wings jacket; Mickey Mantle's No. 6 uniform in his rookie year, and Ty Cobb's autographed Philadelphia Athletics uniform.
If his home is emptied of a collection that was his passion, would he start again? ''Only to add to it if it goes somewhere else,'' he said, adding that he expected to be a consultant to whomever or whatever acquires his life's work.


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AlixPartners expands human capital advisory offering
Global consulting firm AlixPartners has launched a new practice which aims at helping companies recruit the right leaders for executive roles and manage their human capital transitions. The unit – named the 'Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness' practice – will initially start its operations in the US, but if successful, envisages expanding its operations into other markets within the firm's footprint.
In its early years, AlixPartners traditionally focused on consultancy segments within the financial advisory landscape, with an emphasis on corporate turnaround and restructuring. Over the past 4+ decades – AlixPartners was founded in 1981 in Boston – the consultancy has grown into one of the leading consulting firms of the globe*, with currently over 1,200 professionals in the US, EMEA, South America and Asia. Besides the growth in size, the firm has also enlarged its service portfolio, expanding its traditional financial advisory heritage to include strategy consulting, performance improvement, information management and disputes & litigation services.
On the back of the firm's growth track, the firm has now unveiled plans to further expand its suite of services, pushing deeper into the leadership and human capital marketplace. According to AlixPartners, its new 'Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness' unit will combine behavioural science and business strategy to "help executives manage change in themselves and in their organisations." Ted Bililies, who joined the firm in 2013 after spending 10 years at CEO-assessment firm ghSMART and heads the new practice, explains: "The selection of a new executive leader for an organisation is a critical decision that requires a stable framework for success. We combine a highly sophisticated analytical approach with the latest in cognitive science and extensive business experience to provide management, boards and owners a very high level of confidence in their ultimate decision making."
In addition to leadership assessment and selection, the new practice will offer propositions aimed at transforming cultures, implementing talent management strategies, organisational design, M&A culture integration and change management.
Existing capabilities
Although the service offering is new, the Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness practice will not be built up from the ground. The service area bundles several management, operations and human capital expertise that the firm already possessed in-house, with the difference that they now have been bundled into an integrated offering, supporting a more coordinated go-to-market approach. The team consists of several "experts with extensive behavioral science and business backgrounds," says Bililies, including senior-level directors Rob Elsey and Dan Fisher. Elsey joined the firm's Dallas office in 2014, after spending more than six years with the Center for Creative Leadership, while Fisher previously worked for New York-based HR consultancy Fisher Rock Consulting, and joined AlixPartners last year as well, based in New York.
Fred Crawford, CEO of AlixPartners, states that he is confident the new practice will be able to compete with the traditional HR consulting players and grow its footprint in the coming months. "Our professionals bring wide-ranging experience in both cognitive science and business, as well as the speed, common sense and results orientation that are the hallmarks of AlixPartners. Ted and his team add a compelling new dimension to AlixPartners' service offering for clients looking to create and maximize value in today's low-growth world."
* A few months ago AlixPartners was named one of the 25 most prestigious management consulting firms in Europe.
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Эстигарри́бия () — испанская фамилия баскского происхождения. Известные носители:
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American and French, born Germany, 1891-1976
Oil paint, with frottage, wiping, and scraping, on tan wove paper, laid down on cardboard
Signed recto, lower right, in brush and gray oil paint: "max ernst"; inscribed verso, upper left, in pen and black ballpoint pen: "Jan Hubert/5688"; lower right, in pen and black ballpoint pen: "34063 Cologne"; sticker verso: "DU /1701"
23 × 31.7 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Werke: 1929–1938 (Menil Foundation/DuMont Buchverlag, 1979), p. 346, no. 2230.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 209, cat. 156 (ill.).
Cologne, Galerie Der Spiegel, "Max Ernst: Neun Bilder," 1961.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, "Max Ernst," Feb. 17-Apr. 29, 1979, p. 308, cat. 249; also Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May 10–July 15, 1979.
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1900–1945, "Künstler in Deutschland: Individualismus und Tradition," Sept. 18–Nov. 9, 1986.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, June 17–Aug. 16, 1992, cat. 48, pl. 151.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 209, cat. 156 (ill.).
Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, by 1961. Galerie Thomas Borgmann, Cologne. Galerie Dieter Brusberg, Hanover, by 1979 [Spies 1979]. Sold, Christie's, London, Mar. 30, 1987, lot 35, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Spies 2230
The Beautiful Season, 1925
Gray Spots, July 1934
Vasily Kandinsky
Composition, 1940
Falstaff, 1940
Related to Pen VIII, April, 30, 1939
Cyclamens, 1931
Victoria Hutson Huntley
Lilies, 1931
Escape Route, 1940
Louise Dunn Yochim
Trees, 1936
Maurice Yochim
Pangs of Hunger, 1936
"Kol Nidre", 1936


Other performers include Ellie Goulding, Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, and The Weeknd.
The 58th Annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 15, and will feature an exciting lineup of live music.
Announced acts so far include Diplo and Skrillex's supergroup Jack Ü performing alongside Justin Bieber—so bet on hearing "Where Are Ü Now." The trio are nominated for Best Dance Recording for the track.
Meanwhile Diplo is up for Producer of the Year, Non Classical, and Jack Ü are also up for Best Dance/Electronic Album for their eponymous LP.
The evening will also include performances by Ellie Goulding, Adele, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, and Lady Gaga performing a tribute to David Bowie.


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use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider as LaravelServiceProvider;
use Marchie\LaravelQueueAzureRestarter\Console\EnqueueFlagCommand;
use Marchie\LaravelQueueAzureRestarter\Console\CheckQueueCommand;
use Marchie\LaravelQueueAzureRestarter\Console\TestKuduCommand;
use Marchie\LaravelQueueAzureRestarter\Helpers\FlagHelper;
use Marchie\LaravelQueueAzureRestarter\Helpers\KuduHelper;

class ServiceProvider extends LaravelServiceProvider {

    /**
     * Indicates if loading of the provider is deferred.
     *
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    public function boot() {
        $configPath = __DIR__ . '/../config/laravel-queue-azure-restarter.php';

        $this->publishes([$configPath => config_path('laravel-queue-azure-restarter.php')]);
    }

    /**
     * Register the service provider.
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    public function register() {
        $configPath = __DIR__ . '/../config/laravel-queue-azure-restarter.php';
        $this->mergeConfigFrom($configPath, 'laravel-queue-azure-restarter');
        $this->registerHelpers();
        $this->registerCommands();
    }

    /**
     * Get the services provided by the provider.
     *
     * @return array
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    public function provides()
    {
        return [
            'command.queue.flag',
            'command.queue.check',
            'command.kudu.test',
            'Marchie\LaravelQueueAzureRestarter\Helpers\FlagHelper',
            'Marchie\LaravelQueueAzureRestarter\Helpers\KuduHelper'
        ];
    }

    private function registerHelpers()
    {
        $this->app->bind('Marchie\LaravelAzureQueueRestarter\FlagHelper', function ($app) {
            return new FlagHelper(
                $app->make('Illuminate\Queue\QueueManager')
            );
        });

        $this->app->bind('Marchie\LaravelAzureQueueRestarter\KuduHelper', function ($app) {
            return new KuduHelper(
                $app->make('GuzzleHttp\Client')
            );
        });
    }

    private function registerCommands()
    {
        $this->app['command.queue.flag'] = $this->app->share(
            function ($app) {
                return new EnqueueFlagCommand(
                    $app['queue']
                );
            }
        );

        $this->app['command.queue.check'] = $this->app->share(
            function ($app) {
                return new CheckQueueCommand(
                    $app['Illuminate\Contracts\Cache\Repository'],
                    $app['Carbon\Carbon'],
                    $app['log'],
                    $app['Marchie\LaravelAzureQueueRestarter\FlagHelper'],
                    $app['Marchie\LaravelAzureQueueRestarter\KuduHelper'],
                    $app['queue']
                );
            }
        );

        $this->app['command.kudu.test'] = $this->app->share(
            function ($app) {
                return new TestKuduCommand(
                    $app['Marchie\LaravelAzureQueueRestarter\KuduHelper']
                );
            }
        );

        $this->commands('command.queue.flag', 'command.queue.check', 'command.kudu.test');
    }
}


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This celebration is considered the second-most popular and internationally-known of the carnivals, with Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is the number one, of course.
Sitges is a seaside resort near Barcelona and it's famous for its vibrant gay nightlife so naturally it's going to have a great pride celebration. The carnival attracts more than 250,000 people to Sitges over 7 days with amazing parades, shows and parties. The city's laidback vibe means that Sitges is a great destination for all holidaymakers, not just those celebrating their right to sexual freedom!
Every March, the people of the Valencia region of Spain get ready to welcome in the spring with street festivals to both commemorate Saint Joseph (Mary's husband) and celebrate the traditions of their homeland.The word 'Falla' derives from the word 'Fax' which means 'Torch' in Latin, which makes sense as the festival revolves around a spectacular show of pyrotechnics. Ninots (large puppets or dolls) are created over the course of the year and then placed upon foundations of firecracker-filled cardboard. These are then set alight and paraded through the streets.
This is the most bizarre festival we've ever heard about. It is a traditional Spanish holiday dating back to 1620 that celebrates the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Burgos, Northern Spain. During the act known as El Salto del Colacho, or 'The Devil's Jump', men dressed as the devil in red and yellow jumpsuits leap over babies born during the 12 months since the last celebration who lie on mattresses in the street… Risky, dangerous and a bit weird, you may say. But if you want to see something that none of your friends have, then this festival of Spanish culture is for you.
This is that one where everyone takes to the streets in white t-shirts and celebrates the Rioja region's beautiful wines… by throwing them all over each other and having wine-drinking competitions.
This all night beach party, celebrated up and down the coast of Andalucia, is all about fire and water and is where young and old congregate to build fires and enjoy the shortest night of the year. According to tradition, you must jump over the fires three times to be cleansed and purified… yikes!
Yes that's right this water fight of epic proportions is named the 'festival of water and ham'… 20,000 people with buckets of water fresh from the Alpujarras mountains with some lovely Spanish cured meats thrown in there for good measure. It adds an unusual twist to the annual festival of San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Baptist).
This is the most popular festival in Spain, hands down. But also the most controversial. The practice involves people running in front of a small group of cattle of the Toro Bravo breed that have been let loose on a sectioned-off area of streets in Pamplona. Many people see the festivities as irresponsible on the behalf of the people and cruel to the bulls involved.
Basically a massive food fight, this festival centres on throwing tons of over-ripe tomatoes at each other in the streets. Prior to 2013 anywhere from 40,000 to 50,000 (reported to be 50,000 in 2012) people crammed into this huge , greatly expanding Bunol's normal 9,000 person population. Since 2013 official ticketing has been in place limiting the number of participants to just 20,000 lucky people.
Since its creation in 1953 it has established itself as one of the most important cinema festivals in the world. It has hosted many important events in cinema history, such as the European premier of Star Wars. Besides this, San Sebastián is a stunning city set in a valley, with two fantastic beaches, beautiful traditional Spanish architecture, and a towering statue of Jesus blessing the city from a large hill jutting out to sea –similar to Christ the Redeemer.
At the end of November, the wine cellars of Tenerife throw open their doors for the tasting of the new wines… and to celebrate Saint Andrew, of course. We especially like the sound of this one.
Choose a villa in Spain.


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Family seeks answers in '97 homicide
By Alexis Stevens, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The sister of a man killed more than 14 years ago says she still doesn't know what happened to her brother. And she knows nothing about the man accused of killing him.
"I've never heard of him," Nikhol Cook Caine told the AJC. "His name doesn't ring a bell. I've looked at his picture, and I don't recognize him. I know nothing about him."
While the arrest of a suspect, Jermaine Carter, this week is a relief, Caine said Thursday night she still has many questions about what led to her brother's death.
"Maybe someone who knew him back then will help give us some answers," Caine said.
It was November 1997 when James Cook, 20, left his Ponce de Leon Avenue home in his black Corvette to run errands. His girlfriend and infant son, Jordan, would never see him again, nor would his grandparents and sister.
Caine, then 17, said her brother's girlfriend called her to tell her Cook hadn't returned home. Cook and his girlfriend hadn't had a fight, and there was no reason to think he would run away, Caine said. The family called police and waited, hoping Cook would return.
"It was unimaginable," Caine said. "It was a lot of confusion. We couldn't even think he was dead. He had to have run off or something."
It would be more than four years before a man would come forward with crucial information for Atlanta police. And it was 2009 before remains found were positively identified as belonging to Cook.
"He's been missing since the day he left his home in 1997," Detective Vincent Velazquez told Channel 2 Action News.
Cook's family never knew of the person who gave information in 2002, Caine said. But as the months and weeks passed, the horrific reality set in, she said.
"After five or six years, it's like, 'OK, he's not coming back,'" Caine said.
Caine said the death of her mother when she was 10 years old and James was 13 had made the siblings very close. When their mother died, the two lived with their grandparents, Caine said. Losing her brother as a teenager came as a complete shock, and no one had an explanation for it.
The first major break in the case came early in 2002, when an informant told police he knew Cook had been killed, Velazquez said. Police have interviewed the informant several times, including after Cook's remains were found.
In January 2009, two people hunting near the Fulton County Airport-Charlie Brown Field called police after finding what they believed to be a skull. Investigators uncovered more remains at the site, including a class ring containing the name "James Cook," Velazquez said.
When her brother's Westlake High School ring was found, Caine said she knew for sure he was gone. She was asked to submit DNA samples to the medical examiner's office, which she did.
It would be more than a year before DNA testing confirmed that the remains were Cook's.
"We didn't know for so long," Caine said. "We weren't able to have a memorial for him until 2010."
Cook's son, now 14, never had the chance to know his father.
Atlanta police have a man in custody, Velazquez said Wednesday. Jermaine Carter, who also goes by the name Jermaine Thomas, was arrested in Texas and extradited to Atlanta. He has been charged with murder for allegedly killing Cook and is being held in the Atlanta jail.
But the case isn't wrapped up. Investigators are hoping to find the suspect's then-girlfriend, who they hope may have more information about the death. It's possible Carter's girlfriend in 1997 was present for the crime or arrived at the suspected crime scene shortly after.
"We're not suspecting her of committing any crimes at this point, but we're still digging," Velazquez said.
The details provided by the informant have been consistent with findings in the investigation, according to the police.
"The information and details he's provided have helped us," Velazquez said. "It's not the only evidence we have, but it's helped us."
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-8477.
Alexis Stevens
Alexis Stevens is a member of the Crime and Public Safety team.
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The catch of the day was in the spirit of charity during the seventh annual Barred Surf Perch Fishing Tournament at Oxnard Beach Park.
The catch of the day was in the spirit of charity during the seventh annual Barred Surf Perch Fishing Tournament at Oxnard Beach Park on Saturday, when all the fishermen's winnings went to three local nonprofits.
"I've done this for five years already," said Lou Arboleda, who won $500 for the heaviest single perch at 12.8 ounces.
Last year, his team won second place and $300 for the two heaviest perches combined, as well as third place and $200 for the three heaviest perches combined.
"I came out here today for support," Arboleda said of the cause, in which all proceeds benefited FOOD Share, Project Understanding and the Visayan Association of Ventura County, presenter of the annual fishing tournament.
The Visayan Association of Ventura County, a Filipino group named after a region in the Philippines, has been in existence for more than three decades.
"These people are very passionate about charitable work," said Sam Mina, of Ventura, Saturday's fishing coordinator and one of the association's board members.
The association supports causes around the globe, he said, including raising money for water filters in schools in the Philippines where children previously had to drink water from a river. The group also donated funds for relief efforts after the hurricane in Puerto Rico, as well as flooding in Houston.
"We also have a group in the Philippines that takes care of foster children," Mina said.
In support of the nonprofit's overall mission, the association has partnered with local groups such as FOOD Share, and most recently Project Understanding, to give them more power to help others.
"They have given us sort of a voice because they're really well-known, and part of our mission is to partner with other groups so that we can relieve the suffering of the underprivileged and people that don't have the funds or wherewithal to survive," Mina said.
The annual fishing tournament was initially launched at the suggestion of a local fisherman who wanted to use the sport as a catalyst for a fundraiser.
Saturday's event at Oxnard Beach Park drew dozens of people who gathered for the picnic, which offered free food for guests as well as a raffle for prizes donated by local establishments and merchants.
The fishermen had started gathering around 6 a.m. in hopes of hooking a barred perch, which is the most prevalent in the area and considered the easiest to catch.
Port Hueneme resident Kevin Brannon, founder of the Reel Anglers Fishing Show, was on site donating his time and resources, including fishing poles and tackle boxes for anyone who wanted to fish but didn't have the gear.
After returning from their fishing excursion just off the shore, the anglers took their catches to be weighed by volunteers with FOOD Share.
As FOOD Share continues to feed nearly 75,000 people each month in Ventura County, every donation, including the fish caught at the tournament, goes toward feeding the community's hungry neighbors, said Monica White, president and CEO.


text:
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Talk_date = "2019-11-12"
Title = "The Ultimate Guide to Complicated Systems"
Type = "talk"
Speakers = ["jennifer-davis"]
+++

Building and maintaining distributed systems is hard. Industry tools and recommended practices are evolving at ever-increasing velocity. New platform choices reduce infrastructure management and add operational complexity obscuring the value of operation skills. Often, bureaucratic decisions drive practices and tool choices. Jennifer Davis explores cultivating your path enabling technical and strategic direction with sustainable engineering practices.


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title: Background Opacity
localeTitle: Opacidade de fundo
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## Opacidade de fundo

A propriedade opacidade especifica a opacidade / transparência de um elemento, ou seja, o grau em que o conteúdo por trás do elemento é visível.

A propriedade de opacidade pode levar um valor de 0,0 a 1,0. Quanto menor o valor, mais transparente:

Encontre mais detalhes [aqui](https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_transparency.asp)

Você pode escolher até que ponto deseja tornar o elemento transparente. Você precisa adicionar a seguinte propriedade CSS para obter os níveis de transparência.

**Totalmente opaco**

```css
.class-name {
  opacity:1;
 }

 OR

 .class-name {
  opacity:1.0;
 }
```

**Translúcido**

```css
.class-name {
  opacity:0.5;
 }
 Opacity value can be anything between 0 and 1;
```

**Transparente**

```css
.class-name {
  opacity:0;
 }

 OR

 .class-name {
  opacity:0.0;
 }
```

Alternativamente, você pode usar um valor rgba transparente como este: \`\` \`css

.nome da classe{ cor de fundo: rgba (0,0,0, 0,5); } \`\` \` O exemplo acima define o plano de fundo como preto com 50% de opacidade. O último valor de um valor rgba é o valor alfa. Um valor alfa de 1 é igual a 100% e 0,5 (0,5 para curto) é de 50%. Usamos esse método para adicionar transparência a um elemento sem afetar o conteúdo interno.

[Um exemplo codepen para mostrar intervalos de opacidade em segundo plano](https://codepen.io/lvcoulter/full/dVrwmK/)

#### Mais Informações:

Para mais informações, visite [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/opacity) [Propriedade CSS de Opacidade no CSS-Tricks](https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/o/opacity/)

Suporte do navegador: [caniuse](https://caniuse.com/#search=opacity)


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Danny started with HFF in October 2002. Before that, he was a vice president at Divaris Real Estate, Inc., where his responsibilities included investment sales and business development. At Divaris, he was instrumental in expanding the Investment Sale Division's focus to include the entire Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Despite buying a DSLR camera, I have no videography background or knowledge what so ever.
We are now launching a game, and would like to create a devlog. This is apparently an excellent way to market your up-coming product. Are there any channels on YouTube that really well explains the basics of editing for absolute beginners? Any takes on how time consuming it would be to obtain a level which would allow me to create devlog vids?


The Rhode Island Instructional Leadership Academy (RIILA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, created in 2005 to serve as the professional development arm of the Rhode Island Association of School Principals.
The Academy's mission is to develop and support Rhode Island school leaders in building strong school learning communities that foster high achievement for all students. The Academy's vision is to provide collaborative professional development experiences for Rhode Island school leaders to enhance student achievement and close achievement gaps within and between schools.
Meetings are held monthly 4:00pm - 5:30pm.


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Toronto-based Spin Master opened the doors to the Batcave to kick off the new year.
The company partnered with Entertainment Earth (EE) to debut a Batman-heavy lineup of action figures, vehicles, and role-play items as the first wave of toys to be released under the DC Comics license that it acquired in 2018.
Spin Master's DC Comics collection is unique in that it's geared toward both kids and collectors with a variety of popular characters in several scales at an affordable price point. Initial shipments will include a holographic "First Edition" sticker on product packaging.
The company infused elements of the surprise reveal trend into its packaging for the core 4-inch action figure range. Kids can open three secret boxes to reveal accessories and weapons for each hero, sidekick, and villain in the line. Figures include up to 11 points of articulation.
Additional items include a 2-in-1 Batmobile/Batboat transforming vehicle, a Batcycle vehicle with Batman and Clayface figures, a line of 12-inch action figures, a deluxe 12-inch Rapid-Change Utility Belt Batman, a voice-changing mask, electronic lights-and-sounds gauntlets, and a collection of blind bagged 2-inch figurines.
Spin Master's first wave of DC Comics products are shipping to retail now.
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This little girl is set to take over the pop violin genre.
Young children with remarkable talent for music always blow me away. And I like the fact that most of them, unlike many adults, know how to cope with the stage fright if they even have it.
Karolina Protsenko is a nine-year-old prodigy that plays the violin like no other kid her age that we know of. Her recent performance took our breath away. Moving to the rhythm of the famous "Despacito," she caught the attention of the passersby of Santa Monica who couldn't help but stop and enjoy the performance.
This exceptionally talented and stylish young girl made the onlookers' day leaving them with a smile on their face.
Happy to be given the chance to witness something this extraordinary, they filled her bucket with money.
And as a real star in the making, she ended her show by treating the crowd with a smile and a bow, holding her instrument under her arm.
Karolina runs a YouTube channel where she posts videos of her performances that are followed by 100,000 people.
"I am Karolina Protsenko," reads the description of her YouTube channel.
She does exactly that. Gives the world a bit of magic through her performances of covers of some of the most popular songs such as Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" and Maroon 5's "Girls Like You." So she is definitely not a classical musician but is using her instrument to create a violin music blended with pop elements. Needless to say, the final result is a real treat for the ear. If you don't believe us, you can check her channel and take a look at the number of performances she has shared there.
This is not the first time, however, for us to come across this newly created genre of music knows as pop violin.
Many agree how Karolina is a mini version of Stirling. One person says: "Props to her for doing this with Lindsey Stirling moves…amazing!" We've heard of Stirling and her unique music after she took the stage of the fifth season of America's Got Talent. It's fun how the judges of one of the greatest music talent shows didn't really see it in her. They made it clear that her music was fine, but it didn't impress them a great deal.
"You're not untalented, but you're not good enough, I don't think, to get away with flying through the air and trying to play the violin at the same time," said judge Piers Morgan.
Later, Stirling became a world famous YouTube sensation. She created new kind of music and it was enchanting to listen and to watch.
Her style is distinctive. She manages to blend electronic and classical elements in original music and covers. Her performances are vibrant, and full of energy that is easily transferred to the crowed, so her shows are one-of-a-kind.
Stirling has around 2 million subscribers and has released five albums. Some of the names she worked with are Pete Hollens and the most famous acapella group Pentatonix.
She's not mad at the judges for turning her down because it made her more determined to achieve greater things.
Now, years after she became a very successful star, she got invited to be part of the show once again, the season for the "Champions," but she politely refused the invitation to get back on the stage of America's Got Talent.
As for Karolina, we believe she'll become a world sensation just like Stirling because she has a spark that shows her confidence and her love of performing.
It touched ours as well. She is a unique young lady that is on the right track.


From Great Friends to Amazing Pupus. From Mai Tais to Martinis. From Pina Coladas to Cuba Libres. The Hawaii Yacht Club Bar, both upstairs and downstairs, offers a wealth of wholesome goodness! Large screen TVs, cool breezes, zillion-dollar views (among the best on the south coast of Oahu), extremely reasonably-priced drinks, live entertainment every week, popcorn, or anything you'd like from HYC's very own restaurant, the Galley By The Sea.


Due to the closure of the Victoria Tavern, we regret to announce that the SoHo Street Market is cancelled for the season.
Our market was scheduled to take place at the tavern this summer on Tuesday evenings. We were ready for business and had a great deal of community interest in this project and regret that we must take this step now that our location has been lost.
SoHo is located in a food desert. Food deserts are spaces in urban centres where residents experience physical and economic barriers in accessing healthy food. Our market would have assisted our residents in obtaining fresh fruit and vegetables close to home, as well as providing a community hub.
We hope to return next year and would welcome any input or assistance for our 2017 season.


iPhone Charging station: Vertical Charging Station Compatible iPhone X/8, iPhone 7, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s/ iPhone 6s, iPhone 6, iPhone5/5s.(Phone or charging cable not included). Perfectly suitable for 4.7 inches-iPhone. But it might me slightly unstable with 5.5 inches-iPhone.
Space-saving Design: Small volume, light weight, reasonable design helps maximize the use of space. Efficiently organize and charge for iPhone and Apple watch. The non-slip pad on the bottom enhances the stability of the whole unit. The anti-scratch Silicone protect for Apple Watch and iPhone from scratching.
Easy to assemble and use: Just Installing the original charging cable and watch Magnetic Charger. 4 kinds of silicone cushion are designed to make it works just fine with or without a case, which means you do not have to take the case off when charging for your iPhone. Hands-free interaction like Face Time or Skype.
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Q: converting nested maps in clojure I have a nested map which looks something like this:
{"a" {:points 2} "b" {:points 7} "c" {:points 1} "d" {:points 3}}

And I would like to turn it into a sequence of a maps in order to sort (with sort-by) and print it afterwards.
({:name "a" :points 2}
 {:name "b" :points 7}
 {:name "c" :points 1}
 {:name "d" :points 3})

From the documentation I figured that I will need something like postwalk but I can't wrap my head around it.

A: (sort-by :name
         (map #(conj {:name (key %)}
                      (val %))
              {"a" {:points 2}
               "b" {:points 7}
               "c" {:points 1}
               "d" {:points 3}}))

-> ({:points 2, :name "a"}
    {:points 7, :name "b"}
    {:points 1, :name "c"}
    {:points 3, :name "d"})

A: If your goal is to print it in sorted order, why not simply put it into a sorted map? (into (sorted-map) m).

A: I'd suggest something like:
(sort-by :name
  (for [[n m] my-map]
    (into m {:name n})))

This makes use of a few handy techniques:

*

*Destructuring to break my-map into [key value] pairs

*The fact that you already have maps in the values, so you can use into to add to them

*A for comprehension to build the list

*sort-by to sort the final results