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What The Sandlot Can Teach Us About Defending Freedom This Independence Day
By Marissa Mayer Posted on: | July 03, 2018
I recently watched the classic film The Sandlot for probably the fifteenth time, and it got me thinking about the Fourth of July—Independence Day.
Baseball, barbeques, fireworks, freedom… Good ol' Americana.
Take this scene for example:
I won't lie—it made me nostalgic for those simpler times—when the greatest threat was a neighborhood dog holding hostage a baseball signed by Babe Ruth.
It's hard not to read today's news and wonder if we've become trapped in Wonderland, wandering around like Alice in an alternate reality of chaos. Some days you might even wish it was all a crazy dream and hope that you'll soon wake up from the madness of what our world has become. I do.
That's the problem though, isn't it? A lot of times we hope that the things that are scary, challenging, or completely bonkers will simply go away if we ignore them. But that's not the way the world works.
The Bible tells us that we will have trouble in this world (John 16:33). The pessimist in us may dwell on that fact, but as with the rest of the Gospel message, Jesus follows up that warning with good news, "…take courage; I have overcome the world."
This is an incredible message of hope for all of us, but it's also a call to action. Jesus says, "take courage!" Courage isn't an abstract emotion or feeling—it's taking action despite the fear.
You see, freedom requires sacrifice—and sacrifice requires courage.
It took courage for the original colonies to stand up to British oppression and declare independence in 1776. It also took the sacrifice of thousands of lives for the U.S. to win that independence.
It takes the courage and sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of men and women in the military today to continue to defend that freedom.
And it took courage for Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez to challenge The Beast on its own turf, where baseballs go to die.
But Benny was willing to sacrifice what seemed to him like certain death to do something great—to retrieve the lost ball. Without his bravery (and a pep talk from The Babe himself), the Sandlot would have always lived in fear of The Beast, and they would have surrendered a lot more baseballs too.
The reality is that if you want to change the status quo, you have to take action. That's what inspires me the most about our Alliance Defending Freedom clients—the courage of their convictions.
Last month, the Supreme Court delivered some incredible victories for freedom. And it all started with courage—courage to stand up and say, "I will not give up my freedom without a fight."
It took courage for Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips to stand for his faith in the face of death threats, intimidation, boycotts, and punishment from the government. Jack and his family sacrificed years of their lives to fight this legal battle, and last month the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a victory.
But the victory wasn't just for Jack. Not only did the High Court reverse the government's decision to punish Jack for living and working consistently with his religious beliefs about marriage, but the justices also condemned the government's hostility towards his faith. In America, the government is supposed to protect our religious freedom, not punish us for exercising it. This is a victory for us all.
It also took courage for pro-life pregnancy centers to stand up to the California government that was infringing on their freedom of speech. I don't have to tell you how absurd—how un-American—it is to try to force pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise for abortion. But that's what California did.
The Supreme Court issued a strong rebuke to that when it ruled in favor of these pregnancy centers in the case of NIFLA v. Becerra. In a concurring opinion, Justice Kennedy wrote: "Governments must not be allowed to force persons to express a message contrary to their deepest convictions. Freedom of speech secures freedom of thought and belief. [California's] law imperils those liberties." What a win for freedom!
And finally, you better believe it took courage for floral artist Barronelle Stutzman to stand calmly and firmly as the State of Washington and the ACLU came after her and tried to make an example out of her. They've threatened this sweet grandmother with financial ruin. They've assaulted her character and her professional reputation. And they've done all of this because she acted consistently with her faith and declined to participate in a longtime customer's same-sex wedding.
But because of her resolve and the victory for Jack at the Supreme Court, Barronelle now has the chance for redemption in the Washington courts. The Supreme Court has asked them to reconsider her case. This is great news!
Every victory we achieve for these courageous souls is a victory for your freedom too. But none of these wins would have been possible without action.
If we truly want to protect freedom—freedom of the people, freedom from government overreach and tyranny—we must be willing to take action when it really counts.
As The Great Bambino told Benny, "Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either 'cause they're too scared...or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes."
So take courage, friends. Don't settle for the sidelines. Freedom is at stake.
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The popular actress who recently turned a year older, took to her Instagram to share these photos of her stunning look last night, in this shimmering black gown from Fab Klosets, an online boutique.
The fairly transparent outfit which showcased her pants and bra have got people talking on social media.
"Find a girl who's bad enough to get everybody's attention but loyal enough to only want u" she captioned the photos.
Some social media fundamentalists and puritans have questioned the rationale behind the seductive dress which could exposed her to molestation and abuse.


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TIE/COMMUNICATIONS FIRES 100 EMPLOYEES
MICROSOFT REORGANISES FOR TIGHTER PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
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AMDAHL SHARES TAKE A TUMBLE ON EARNINGS OUTLOOK, BUT MANY ANALYSTS SAY IT's OVERDONE
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Amdahl Corp shares took a purler Wednesday, plunging $5 to $40 on the American Stock Exchange after S G Warburg's David Wu and Gartner Securities' Stephen Cohen lowered their estimates for the company's 1988 outturn. Wu changed his recommendation on the stock to a hold from a buy, and cut his forecast for 1988 to […]
Amdahl Corp shares took a purler Wednesday, plunging $5 to $40 on the American Stock Exchange after S G Warburg's David Wu and Gartner Securities' Stephen Cohen lowered their estimates for the company's 1988 outturn. Wu changed his recommendation on the stock to a hold from a buy, and cut his forecast for 1988 to $4 a share from $4.20, and for 1989 to $4.90 from $5.20, saying that he expected a slowdown in orders for the company's IBM compatible mainframes. But several other analysts insisted that investors over-reacted to the bearish views, and insisted that the mainframe maker should rebound strongly in the fourth quarter. Kidder Peabody analyst William Easterbrook confirmed that Amdahl is warning analysts that foreign sales, representing about 44% of the total in 1987, will be weak – but should still be slightly higher in 1988, he said. Amdahl has told analysts to expect third-quarter earnings to be about $1.00 a share, similar to the second quarter and up from the year-earlier figure of 71 cents. Easterbrook described Wednesday's plunge as a gross over-reaction. As far as I'm concerned, this is a momentary pause for Amdahl, he added. Europe is always slow in the summertime, said Jay Stephens, analyst with Dean Witter, but no one expected it to affect earnings that much. Jeff Canin, an analyst with Hambrecht & Quist, said that despite the weakness in Europe, business was still strong in the US. Amdahl is beginning to ship its top-performance 5990 mainframe, and should continue to benefit from the new product in the coming quarter, Easterbrook said. It also is expected to announce a response to IBM's Enterprise Systems Architecture shortly. And another potential plus is the gestating agreement for Fujitsu Ltd, Amdahl's 44.7% shareholder, to market some Amdahl machine models in Japan, because there is a hiatus in the IBM compatibility of its own top-end M-780 mainframes.
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Entrance hallway with wooden flooring leading through to the bright lounge with spotlighting and large storage cupboard. Modern fitted kitchen with wooden flooring, access to garden, floor and wall mounted units, integrated gas hob, oven and extractor with washing machine and fridge/freezer included. Family bathroom with bath, heated towel rail, WC and WHB. Bedroom 1 is a double room.
Landing, bedroom 2 is a single room and bedroom 3 is a double room. Bathroom with corner shower unit, WC and WHB.
All bedrooms have wooden flooring.
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Агломерация Портленда или Большой Портленд () — межрегиональная агломерация в американских штатах Орегон и Вашингтон с центром в городе Портленд в Орегоне. Административно-бюджетное управление США идентифицирует агломерацию как статистический район Портленд-Ванкувер-Хиллсборо, и это понятие используется Бюро переписей США и другими государственными организациями. Агломерация включает в себя округа Клакамас, Колумбия, Малтнома, Вашингтон и Ямхилл в Орегоне, а также округа Кларк и Скамейния в Вашингтоне. Население агломерации оценивалось в 2017 году в 2 753 168 человек.

Орегонская часть агломерации является крупнейшим центром урбанизации штата, в то время как вашингтонская часть является третьим по величине центром урбанизации после Сиэтла (агломерация Сиэтла включает города Такома и Эверетт) и Спокана. Части агломерации находятся под управлением Metro — непосредственно избираемого регионального правительства, которое, помимо прочего, отвечает за планирование землепользования в регионе.

Демография

По данным переписи 2010 года в агломерации насчитывалось 2 226 009 человек, 867 794 домашних хозяйства и 551 008 семей. Расовый состав агломерации был следующим:

 Белые: 81,0 % (неиспаноязычные белые: 76,3 %)
 Латиноамериканцы (любой расы): 10,9 %
 Американцы азиатского происхождения: 5,7 %
 Афроамериканцы: 2,9 %
 Коренные американцы: 0,9 %
 Тихоокеанийцы: 0,5 %
 Две или более расы: 4,1 %
 Другие расы: 4,9 %

В 2010 году медианный доход домашнего хозяйства составлял 53 078 долларов, а медианный доход на семью — 64 290 долларов. Доход на душу населения составил 27 451 долларов США.

На 2010 год агломерация занимала 23-е место по населению в США. 1 789 580 человек проживает в Орегоне (46,7 % населения штата), а остальные 436 429 человек — в Вашингтоне (6,7 % населения штата). Агломерация включает округа Малтнома, Вашингтон, Клакамас, Колумбия и Ямхилл в Орегоне, а также округа Кларк и Скамейния в Вашингтоне. В агломерацию входит сам город Портленд, а также соседние города: Ванкувер, Бивертон, Грешем, Хилсборо, Милуоки, Лейк-Освего, Орегон-Сити, Фэрвью, Вуд-Виллидж, Траутдейл, Туалатин, Тайгард, Уэст-Линн, Батл-Граунд, Камас и Уошугал .

По оценкам 2015 года население статистического района Портленд-Ванкувер-Хиллсборо агломерации составляло 3 110 906 человек, что делало его 18-м по населению статистическим районом в стране.

Транспорт
Основными автомагистралями агломерации являются I-84 и I-5 — одни из главных шоссе на северо-западе США . К другим важным дорогам относятся I-205, US 26, US 30, SR 14 и OR-217, соединяющая US-26 и I-5 на штата. Трассы US-26 и US-30 ведут к побережье Орегона. Трасса SR-500 ведёт от I-5 до дороги SR-503.

Система общественных перевозок в орегонской части агломерации в основном поддерживается компанией TriMet. Кроме неё услуги предоставляют компании Sandy Area Metro, Canby Area Transit, South Metro Area Regional Transit и C-Tran.

Крупные аэропорты
 Портлендский международный аэропорт
 Аэропорт Портленд-Хиллсборо
 Аэропорт Сейлем
 Аэропорт Портленд-Траутдейл

Основные железные дороги
 Станция Портленд-Юнион Амтрак
 Coast Starlight 11/14 .
 Empire Builder 27/28

Спорт
В агломерации базируются ряд профессиональных и полупрофессиональных спортивных команд, включая Портленд Трэйл Блэйзерс из НБА, Портленд Тимберс из MLS и Портленд Торнс из Национальной женской футбольной лиги.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт агломерации Портленда

Портленд
Портленд (Орегон)
Городские агломерации США

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Dutch Defend Nuclear Sharing in New York
In a surprising statement this morning at the disarmament committee of the NPT Review Conference, the Dutch Delegation defended nuclear sharing practices. Ambassador Henk Cor van der Kwast said "Some have raised the issue of nuclear sharing. This issue was addressed when the NPT was negotiated. At that time basing arrangements existed and were made clear to negotiating delegations and were made public." Unfortunately, this is not accurate.
In February 1969, six months after the NPT signing ceremony, the then deputy director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), Adrian Fisher, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Questions on the Draft Non-Proliferation Treaty asked by US Allies together with Answers given by the United States "were made available to key members of the ENDC [Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee]. They have now been made available to all members of the UN, and an indication that this is the way the United States proposed to proceed. There has been no indication of objections.".
At the most, the Questions and Answers were shown to a limited number of nations prior to the opening of the Treaty for signature. Although, they were published later in the volumes on US Senate hearings on ratification of the NPT, many countries may not have been made aware of these interpretations before agreeing to the Treaty. Therefore they would have been unable utilise this information in the negotiations, or to consent or object to the interpretation. The suggestion that this issue was addressed at the time of negotiation is a false re-interpretation of history.
The outcome documents from previous NPTs, notably the 1985 outcome document, specifically reject the claim that nuclear sharing is acceptable. Belgian, Dutch, German, and Italian pilots continue to train to accept command and control of nuclear weapons, to drop nuclear bombs. That acceptance of control, regardless of arrangements put into place before this treaty entered into force, are a direct violation of both articles I and II of the treaty. It is also unfortunate that the Dutch are attempting to justify a policy that clearly contradicts the 2010 agreement under Action 1 of the consensus outcome "All States parties commit to pursue policies that are fully compatible with the Treaty and the objective of achieving a world without nuclear weapons."
The Dutch public has overwhelming rejected nuclear weapons in repeated opinion polls, and the Dutch parliament has repeatedly agreed on motions to reduce Dutch reliance on nuclear weapons, it's time for the government to listen.
Additional comments by Wilbert van der Zeijden:
In addition to the comments of Susi Snyder, I would like to add two points myself on the surprising Dutch attempt to defend its nuclear sharing practices.
The main argument the Dutch statement offers, that nuclear sharing is not in violation of articles I and II of the NPT because "basing arrangements existed and were made clear to negotiating delegations and were made public" rests on a very static interpretation of the NPT. Most experts, as well as diplomats recognise that the NPT is a deliberately vague and short set of Articles that requires continuous evaluation, and review. Hence these Review Conferences. It is usually considered a strong feature of the NPT: It allows the Treaty to remain relevant and applicable to a changed context. And the context has changed. This is not the bipolar world of 1970 but a world in which only the US still deploys nuclear weapons on the territories of others. The five year review cycle is meant to review the Treaty and shape a common understanding of the implications of the various articles. So, in stead of hiding behind a questionable understanding of what the interpretation may have been of Articles I and II in 1970, the Dutch should recognise that many (not "some") countries raise the issue that in the current context, US deployments of nuclear bombs in Europe should no longer be regarded as being in line with Articles I and II of the Treaty. Ignoring this in favour of an 1970 interpretation undermines the flexibility and therefore the applicability of this Treaty.
The Dutch Statement says that "Weapons assigned to NATO remain under national control of a nuclear weapon state at all times and are never transferred". This is either completely new policy or – more likely – not true. In times of nuclear war these B61 bombs will be transferred to Dutch, Belgian, German and Italian pilots and crews who will hang them under the wings of Dutch, Belgian, German and Italian planes and drop them on targets. The total explosive power transferred to these non-nuclear weapon states is enough to cause between 160 and 200 nuclear explosions the size of Hiroshima, or bigger. The Dutch, Belgian, German and Italian crews are trained routinely to use nuclear weapons and as such preparing and practicing for what is explicitly prohibited under articles I and II of the NPT. Many countries are telling the Dutch their interpretation of Articles I and II is no longer an acceptable . It is – as my colleague Susi already concluded – time that the Dutch government listens.


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With Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, and the detention of the last German Reich government in Schleswig-Holstein shortly thereafter, government power ceased to exist in Germany. In accordance with Allied resolutions in place since 1944, government power was taken over by the Commanders-in-Chief of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France. Although the country was divided into occupation zones, the idea of a unified Germany was preserved: decisions on "the chief questions affecting Germany as a whole" were to be made by the Allied Control Council, and these sorts of decisions needed to be unanimous.
(1) In the period when Germany is carrying out the basic requirements of unconditional surrender, supreme authority in Germany will be exercised, on instructions from their Governments, by the British, United States, Soviet and French Commanders-in-Chief, each in his own zone of occupation, and also jointly, in matters affecting Germany as a whole. The four Commanders-in-Chief will together constitute the Control Council. Each Commander-in-Chief will be assisted by a Political Adviser.
(2) The Control Council, whose decisions shall be unanimous, will ensure appropriate uniformity of action by the Commanders-in-Chief in their respective zones of occupation and will reach agreed decisions on the chief questions affecting Germany as a whole.
Military; Naval; Air; Transport; Political; Economic; Finance; Reparation, Deliveries and Restitution; Internal Affairs and Communications; Legal; Prisoners of War and Displaced Persons; Man-power.
There will be four heads of each Division, one designated by each Power. The staffs of the Division may include civilian as well as military personnel, and may also in special cases include nationals of other United Nations appointed in a personal capacity.
(4) The functions of the Coordinating Committee and of the Control Staff will be to advise the Control Council, to carry out the Council's decisions and to transmit them to the appropriate German organs, and to supervise and control the day-to-day activities of the latter.
(7) The administration of the "Greater Berlin" area will be directed by an Inter-Allied Governing Authority, which will operate under the general direction of the Control Council, and will consist of four Commandants, each of whom will serve in rotation as Chief Commandant. They will be assisted by a technical staff which will supervise and control the activities of the local German organs.
(8) The arrangements outlined above will operate during the period of occupation following German surrender, when Germany is carrying out the basic requirements of unconditional surrender. Arrangements for the subsequent period will be the subject of a separate agreement.
Source: Statement by the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Provisional Government of the French Republic on Control Machinery in Germany (June 5, 1945), in Selected Documents on Germany and the Question of Berlin, 1944-1961. London, HMSO, 1961, Cmnd. 1552, 43-44; reprinted in C.C. Schweitzer et al., eds., Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994. Basic Documents. Providence, RI, and Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 1995, pp. 8-9.


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Q: Checkbox and Radio button problems with asp.net core I am trying to develop an online examination tool for my work. I have a class that defines an exam that contains a list of Questions, a class for Question that contains a list of Answers, and a class for Answer. I have a view model that pulls out the list of questions and passes it to the view as well as an array of ints to hold the value of the answer for each question. In the view, I loop through the questions, and in each question I loop through each possible answer. For multiple choice, this is easy. I just use:
<input asp-for="SelectedAnswer[q]" type="radio" value="@a" />@Model.Questions[q].answers[a].AnswerText

This works great, it passes the SelectedAnswer int array back the the controller on submit and I can do whatever I want with it. My problem comes down to if the question requires a checkboxlist for multiple right answers. I obviously cant use the same int array to post back the answer, so I hought about creating a second bool array for each of the checkboxes in a question and send that back. But this only really works for one question as each new question overrides the bool array on postback.
What I am trying to figure out is how to do this where I have different types of questions that can be displayed on a single page, and sent back to a controller when the submit button is pressed for processing.
Maybe I need a better view model? I am not sure where to go next with this.
I can provide any of the code required, I just didnt want to fill up the entire page with code.
My view:
@model DSCA_Exams.Models.ExamViewModels.ExamViewModel
<form asp-action="Exam_Results">

        @for (int q = 0; q < Model.Questions.Count(); q++)
        {

@Model.Questions[q].QuestionText

                    @for (int a = 0; a < Model.Questions[q].answers.Count(); a++)
                    {

                            @if (Model.Questions[q].QuestionType == 0)
                            {
                                <input asp-for="SelectedAnswer[q]" type="radio" value="@a" />@Model.Questions[q].answers[a].AnswerText
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                <input asp-for="@Model.isSelected[a]"  />@Model.Questions[q].answers[a].AnswerText
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                    }

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        <input type="submit" value="Grade Test" class="btn btn-default" />

</form>

A: Use view models and preserve the object graph. For example:
public class QuestionViewModel
{
    public string QuestionText { get; set; }
    public List<AnswerViewModel> Answers { get; set; }
    public List<int> SelectedAnswers { get; set; }
    ...
}

Then, in your view:
@for (var i = 0; i < Model.Questions.Count; i++)
{

@Model.Questions[i].QuestionText

    @for (var j = 0; j < Model.Questions[i].Answers.Count; j++)
    {

            <input asp-for="Questions[i].SelectedAnswers" type="radio" value="@Model.Questions[i].Answers[j].Id" />
            @Model.Questions[i].Answers[j].AnswerText

    }
}

Then, when you post, the modelbinder will be able to preserve the object graph and you can inspect the SelectAnswers property of each question.

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Omnicom Group, a communications holding company, owning such PR firms as Porter Novelli, Ketchum, and FleishmanHillard, just reported Q1 2016 information, including organic PR revenues declined by 0.9%. During that time, their PR revenues totaled $318.8 million. But the company went through a major transition during the first quarter, moving Karen van Bergen, former Porter Novelli CEO to global leader for Omnicom.
FleishmanHillard, Omnicom's largest PR agency, reported a minor decline in revenue, but followed up by saying, "we enjoyed significant operational improvement during the quarter." FH also recently lost their CMO, Stephanie Marchesi.
Omnicom holds companies in four divisions, PR, advertising, CRM, and specialty communications. Their PR division is lagging the farthest behind, but Omnicom's worldwide revenue including all divisions for the first quarter was $3.5 billion.
Steinreich Communications Group Inc., a New Jersey International PR firm acquired McNeill Communications, the sixth largest North Carolina PR firm this week. Both firms specialize in representing the home furnishings industry. Combined, they have 50+ clients in that industry.
CEO and founder of McNeill, Karen McNeill becomes a Sr. VP at Steinreich Communications and general manager at the High Point, NC office along with all the current members of her staff. Ellyn Small, Sr. VP remains general manager of Steinreich's New Jersey office, overseeing the current home furnishings practice.
Some of the clients McNeill brings to the mix include Durham Furniture, Norwalk Furniture, American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame Foundation Inc., Fine Furniture Design, Bunakara and the High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau. Steinreich Communications was founded in 2003 and has offices in New York, New Jersey,Washington, Los Angeles, High Point, London, Frankfurt, and Tel Aviv.
W2O Group, a San Francisco-based PR firm, founded in 2001 just reported their 2015 annual growth numbers, and they did it again. Every year since their inception, they've seen double-digit annual percentage growth. For 2015, it was 15 percent. For the past seven years, that's translated to an average growth of $11 million per year.
W2O is ranked by O'Dwyers and PR Week as one of the top five independent PR firms. They specialize in digital communications integrating proprietary analytics, they also work with clients primarily in the health care, entertainment, technology, and food and beverage sectors. Some of their clients include Visa, Lap-Band, HP, and Hershey's.
Early in 2015, U.S. legal PR specialists Infinite PR and London-based legal PR specialists Spada united to form Infinite Spada with offices in New York, San Francisco, and London. Jamie Diaferia founded Infinite in 2001, and Gavin Ingham Brooke founded Spada in the mid-1990s.


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Build your career and build your personal brand
In today's busy workplaces, it is hard to get noticed. How do you build your career to develop your capabilities and make sure that decision-makers appreciate your talents? The fourth article in a five-part series on how companies and individuals can stand out in a competitive marketplace
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Mar 23, 2017 11:03a.m.
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By Bennett Voyles
For better and worse, business careers used to be less uncertain than they are today. The rungs up the corporate ladder were clearer, the outcomes less extreme.
Today, people change jobs much more often. A recent study by LinkedIn found that while the average Gen X college graduate (1986-1990) had two jobs in the first 10 years out of college, Young Millennials (2006-2010 graduates) are on track to change jobs up to four times by the time they hit age 32. At the same time, the average manager now has roughly 11 direct reports, according to a recent Deloitte study, up from about five in the 1980s—which arguably translates into fewer mentors and less opportunity for upward mobility.
Bigger departments, more turnover, and more internal flux means that your boss probably has a lot less time to get to know you than he once did. If you want to get ahead, coaches and other talent management experts say, you can't wait for your boss to nurture you. Instead, you need to invest more time both developing your own capabilities and making sure decision-makers appreciate your talents and see your potential.
How do you ensure you get the chances you deserve?
For Edward Hess, professor of Business Administration and Batten executive-in-residence at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, the key to a successful career is to become an expert in one specialty and, once you have learned that, to broaden it. "As you grow, you can develop expertise in different areas," he says. "The result can be multiple areas of expertise."
Hess's own career is a good illustration of this approach: a 30-plus year veteran of the corporate world, he studied law at the University of Virginia and New York University, held a series of executive positions in the energy business and private equity, and, finally, segued into a successful academic career.
Peter Drucker, the influential management thinker, also believed that active effort made the individual shine, according to a specialist in his thinking. "Based on my 30 years of study into Drucker's work, I believe that individual knowledge workers can avoid the 'commodity trap' by steadily and consciously differentiating themselves not only from colleagues and co-workers, but also from people elsewhere who do similar work," says Bruce Rosenstein, author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way.
Look for opportunities outside your current role. If a new skill is being taught at your firm, sign up to learn it, advises Carol Kivler, a New Jersey-based executive coach. Volunteer, she says—outside committees and projects can "provide opportunities to network and meet others around the organisation."
Make yourself useful to your superiors, advises Prasad Kaipa, an executive coach and author who divides his time between India and the US. "If you want to break out, see what you can do to make life easier for your boss. If that does not get you noticed, see what needs to be done by your department or division and take the lead in getting it done and share the credit with your manager," he says.
Your demeanour also matters, particularly if the department is in flux—as many corporate departments often are these days. When organisational changes are being made, stay positive, suggests Kivler. "[D]on't fall into the 'complaining pit' like others do," she advises.
Thinking through your ambition ahead of time can also be a helpful way to focus on which skills you would like to develop in order to stand out from the pack. "Prepare yourself for the next job by imagining yourself to be in the next job," Kaipa suggests. "If you were to be promoted, if you were to get the job you wanted, how would you add value to it—once you imagine the details of what you need to do to become successful in the next job, start acting on them and bridging the gaps between who you can be and who you are."
Sometimes, what helps you shine may not even be directly related to the job. One way that Drucker won notice was through deep and extensive reading outside management. Every three years, he would pick a new specialty to study—becoming, for instance, such an expert in Japanese art that he even co-wrote a book on the subject in 1980. Not only did this avid pursuit of hobbies keep his mind active well into his 90s, but in the case of Japanese art, the avocation also helped make him a beloved figure to generations of Japanese managers.
Another way to stand out, coaches say, is to better understand how others see you—to clarify your "personal brand".
This can be challenging for several reasons. Perhaps the biggest is that people often don't understand their own value. Rosenstein says that Drucker believed few people really understand their own talents. "Most people think they know what they are good at," Drucker once wrote. "They are usually wrong." Typically, Drucker said, they tend to be either too critical or not critical enough.
To gain more perspective on your strengths, Dorie Clark, a consultant and author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future, suggests asking the opinion of people who know you well, even getting friends and co-workers to hold focus groups about you. One technique she likes: ask your friends and associates to come up with three adjectives they would use to describe you.
Many people also face special challenges in being seen for who they really are. Women and ethnic minorities in particular are frequently pigeonholed into particular roles. Kaipa, who was born in India and had to overcome some discrimination in his American career, says that you shouldn't try to fight a stereotype directly but instead, demonstrate that you are capable of more. "Fighting only increases the perception people hold about you," he advises. "But if they are surprised by you in a positive way, then they unconsciously see you beyond the stereotype."
Of course, thinking too much about how you measure up against others can be limiting too. Often, we hold ourselves back by imagining personal deficiencies before anybody else has gotten around to thinking about us at all—the self-imposed mental boundaries the poet William Blake called "mind-forg'd manacles".
"Focus on learning and being the best you can be without focusing too much on how you compare to others," Hess says. "Your biggest competition is yourself—overcoming complacency… ego, defensiveness, insecurities, fear of failing or looking bad."
Part 1: The way to win market competition now
Part 2: How to create your product differentiation strategy
Part 3: Building a brand identity to create a high-value company
[This article has been reproduced with permission from CKGSB Knowledge, the online research journal of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), China's leading independent business school. For more articles on China business strategy, please visit CKGSB Knowledge.]
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const fs = require('fs');
const exec = require('child_process').exec;
const helpers = require('yeoman-test');
const assert = require('yeoman-assert');

const util = require('./support/util');
const defaultAnswers = require('./support/defaultPromptAnswers');
const promptOptions = require("../generators/app/promptOptions");
const defaultInit = require('./support/defaultInit');
const initTest = require('./support/initTest');

const answers = Object.assign({},defaultAnswers, {
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  "language": promptOptions.language.TypeScript,
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describe('Local NPM module + TypeScript', function () {

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  before(function(done) {
    const that = this;
    this.app = helpers
      .run(require.resolve('../generators/app'))
      .withGenerators([[helpers.createDummyGenerator(),require.resolve('../generators/class')]])
      .withOptions({
        'skip-welcome-message': true,
        'skip-message': true,
        'skip-install': false
      })
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  describe('check files', function() {
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        'app/scripts/app.ts',
        'package.json',
        'tsconfig.json',
        'webpack.config.js',
        'node_modules/yfiles/yfiles.js',
        'node_modules/yfiles/typings/yfiles-api-ts43.d.ts'
      ]);
      assert.noFile([
        'bower.json',
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        'jsconfig.json',
        'app/styles/yfiles.css',
        'app/scripts/license.json',
        'app/typings/yfiles-api-umd-ts43-vscode.d.ts',
        'app/typings/yfiles-api-umd-ts43-webstorm.d.ts',
        'app/typings/yfiles-api-modules-ts43-vscode.d.ts',
        'app/typings/yfiles-api-modules-ts43-webstorm.d.ts',
        'Gruntfile.js',
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      ]);
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    it('created the bundles and sourcemaps', function() {
      assert.file([
        'app/dist/app.js',
        'app/dist/app.js.map',
        'app/dist/lib.js'
      ]);
    });

    it('uses webpack 4', function() {
      assert.fileContent('package.json', /"webpack": "\^?4/)
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    it('runs', function (done) {
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      exec('npm run production', {cwd: dir.cwd}, function(error, stdout, stderr) {
        assert.ok(error === null, "Production build failed: "+error);
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Ambassador Natalia Gherman has led a distinguished diplomatic career, having served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister, and Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova. Among her accomplishments, she was Chief Negotiator on the Moldova–EU Association Agreement, and she also led in negotiations which resulted in Moldova being the first Eastern European country to establish a visa-free regime with the European Union. Now, she is an official candidate in the 2016 United Nations Secretary-General selection.
You would be the first United Nations (UN) Secretary-General (SG) who is female, the first SG from your region, Eastern Europe, and the first from your country, Moldova. How would this background influence your agenda and leadership as United Nations Secretary General?
If I am to be the first woman and the first Eastern European as the UN Secretary General, it will be, above all, a great honor for me! I will approach the job with utmost responsibility to deliver on the expectations of the world's citizens. The UN from my point of view still remains to be the best expression of commitment of humanity for collective action for better living for all the citizens of the world. It's important that the selection process for the SG of the UN is based on meritocracy and professionalism, as well as on real gender balance and fair geographical representation. If I am the first woman on the job, then it will be proof of our commitment to real gender equality. The UN should lead the Member States and other organizations by this good example.
In the 70 years of the UN's existence, there has never been a female SG, nor was there a SG from Eastern Europe. It's our region's turn to present a professional, competent candidate. The principal of geographical rotation, even if it is not written, has been duly respected in all those years by the broader membership of the organization, so I think it will be only fair to expect the next SG to be from Eastern Europe.
Our region deserves it—in the last 25 years we've been showing by example that change is possible: for our countries, for our peoples, for our institutions. We became young, developing democracies due to the historical transformations that engulfed our region about two decades ago. We proved by our own example that it is possible to build democratic, functional states from scratch, building the institutions that serve the citizens in an accountable manner, transforming our economies from centrally-planned to market-oriented economies, and putting human rights and human dignity at the center of all our policies. We did this, we developed the most important standards, we learned how to respect the values and principles enshrined in the Charter of the UN, and we stand very firmly for democracy, freedom, and dignity. I think this is the right time that one of us from Eastern Europe leads the United Nations organization.
As UN SG, how would you ensure that all minorities—not only gender but also religious, ethnic, sexual, linguistic, and others—are protected under the auspices of the UN?
Whether we are talking about peace, or about sustainable development, we will be guided by an all-embracive slogan: we will leave no one behind. Leaving no one behind means including, informing, and empowering all the categories of people in our society to feel ownership over processes that are important for them.
Neither peace nor progress is sustainable in the absence of basic human rights. Therefore, I am determined to ensure that the respect of human rights is at the core of UN activities and programs. I will put people at the heart of all our actions, and would aim to protect and ensure the rights of absolutely all categories of people represented in our societies. I am determined to advocate for the inclusiveness and indivisibility of human rights, starting of course with the right to peaceful existence, to education, to access to health services, to employment opportunities, access to representation. For example, I would ensure that development programs are designed so that policymakers and practitioners put the lives of absolutely all categories of persons at the core of planning processes.
It's also very important that when we mediate or negotiate the peace processes in different parts and different regions of the world, we have to guarantee the voice of the minorities at the negotiation table so that peace efforts really become sustainable.
Moldova is the only country from the Eastern Partnership which has a visa-free regime with the EU. At the same time, given its history, Moldova has traditional ties with the countries from the former Soviet Union, including Russia. How could this background—being part of the East and experience in dealing with the West—help you as a SG to deal with the current challenges in the relationships between the West and Russia?
As Foreign Minister of Moldova, I had only diplomacy and dialogue on which I could rely as I helped my small nation establish a place for itself in global affairs. I like to think we were successful. I know firsthand the risks that geopolitical tensions pose to developing democracies. My perspective is unique and allows me to identify where the common ground exists between parties when others can only see the differences that keep them apart.
I believe I demonstrated this ability while playing a role in the extremely complicated issue of Transnistria, which presents many of the typical features of intractable conflicts compounded with a geopolitical dimension. While negotiating on behalf of my country in this issue, I also negotiated the EU-Moldova Association Agreement. The international community needs to continue finding common ground if we aim to tackle the challenges of growing inequality, extreme poverty, failing state institutions, lack of good governance, and various humanitarian crises. My experience at the national level has provided me with the direct experience in tackling most of these questions.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed an ambitious development agenda. However, you have strongly expressed your intention to prioritize SDG 16. Why are you highlighting this goal, and what specific steps would you take to support member states in fighting corruption and ensuring rule of law?
I specifically indicated in my Vision Statement when I became a candidate for UN SG that I would tackle the implementation of the SDG agenda in a holistic, all-embracive way, but that I would try to focus the implementation effort through the prism of Goal 16, which calls for Institutions at the Service of Citizens, Rule of Law, and Good Governance. I firmly believe there will be no eradication of poverty, no sustainable effort to ensure quality education, health, mitigating the effects of climate change, or empowerment of women, if we do not approach all those goals through the point of view of rule of law, good governance, and eradication of corruption from all levels of our societies. In fact, I contributed to formulation of Goal 16 since, for the past 2 years. I conducted inter-governmental consultations at the global level on articulating the substance and the contents of Goal 16, culminating in Chisinau, when we hosted the UN global meeting on responsible institutions and rule of law. The Chisinau Declaration, the outcome of this meeting, was an important contribution to what is now Goal 16.
It of course will have to start with the UN, which should lead by example and demonstrate a model for Member States to follow. If I'm the next SG, I will make sure that a zero-tolerance policy is applied to waste, mismanagement, abuse, and corruption inside the UN organization. For that particular purpose, I would make sure that there is a very strong internal oversight department inside the Secretariat of the UN, and there is a proper awareness campaign conducted throughout the UN system. I'm planning to also establish a Focal Point on Corruption within the system, and introduce very tough disciplinary measures in cases of corruption detected in the system—I know very well how to detect corruption, having experience from my national environment.
For our long-term vision, I would aim to domesticate this agenda in national environments. Unfortunately, no society is immune from that scourge, but it takes a clear experience and ability to identify it and fight against it. Here the attitude of the citizens, the people, is of great help, because if it starts at the grassroots level, then you can rely on the assistance of all the stakeholders. From there, I believe it is about best practices and lessons learned that need to be broadly shared throughout the UN membership. It's about the legislative framework which works best in many of our countries. It's about those countries who have advanced on this issue sharing experience and expertise with those who are still struggling, and about making sure that the UN works as the best catalytical platform for such efforts at the service of the Member States themselves.
More needs to be done, but I'm absolutely sure that change is possible even in this very challenging area. Rule of law and good governance are challenging for all of our countries. I can only reiterate that without placing overwhelming importance on rule of law, it could be much more difficult to progress on all other areas.
Many of the problems we face, like climate change and international migration flows, transcend borders and demand international response and cooperation. How would you better encourage, motivate, and incentivize Member States to meet their respective responsibilities in addressing global challenges?
The SG of the UN is first and foremost the guardian of the Charter of the UN—the values and principles still as valued today as they were at the moment of creation of the organization—and it is of paramount importance for the SG to advocate for those values continuously by addressing the Member States. First of all, I would advocate in favor of stronger implementation of a lot of international agreements and instruments that have been created and have been inspired by the provisions of the Charter. In this particular field, I believe in the power of persuasion and diplomacy. I would demonstrate that solving global challenges will be a win-win situation for everybody, starting with governments and then making sure that partnership with the civil society and private sector will benefit those standards of norms of the international provisions as well.
I would work even harder on consolidating those partnerships with governments, but also create better partnerships with the civil societies in each Member State and with the international financial institutions who are our traditional partners. We especially need to work closer with the private sector, which ultimately brings us additional resources to obtain our goals. They also bring technology and they bring innovation, and I want very much for the UN to be open to positive transformation and innovation. I also think we have to be much more clear and well-structured with consolidating partnerships with regional organizations. They are the best partners of the UN, and it has to be a relationship based on complementarity, not fragmentation.
If asked and motivated by the UN, these sectors can focus on such important issues facing us as global pandemics, refugee crises, global migration, and even the specific situations in the most vulnerable and fragile states. I think we can forge such partnerships for the next years to come, and unite all the efforts globally to attain our common objectives.
You have now been active in diplomacy for over 2 decades. Based on your 25 years of experience, what trends and changes do you foresee in the next 2 decades to come?
We all recognize nowadays that, this time, we don't have any right to fail on implementing the tasks we set for ourselves, particularly last year when the historical agreements on climate change and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development were concluded by the members of the UN. That understanding—that we don't have the right to fail because future generations expect us to succeed and provide a better life for them—must motivate us in the next 2 decades to come. I am sure that this understanding will motivate all of us to engage in this common endeavor.
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Pre-festival events will occur on Friday, April 25, 2014 with the beginning of jamming during the day and the Live Country Auction that night. The festival is held in the North Georgia mountain town of Dahlonega, GA.
The event fills the historic downtown square with bluegrass and old time music (on the mainstage and around the jam circle), a juried artists market, workshops, festival food, and much more. The sounds of traditional music can be heard everywhere around the site as hundreds of jammers gather on sidewalks and lawns day and night to play fiddles, banjos, mandolins, basses and many other traditional instruments. The Bear on the Square festival is dedicated to the celebration and preservation of the culture of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
If you like fiddles, guitars, banjos and good old-fashioned mountain music, you'll love the Bear on the Square Mountain Festival. There will be plenty of food vendors as well as a marketplace section for shopping.


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T.D. TTB–78, New Requirements Regarding Processed Tobacco and Roll-Your-Own Tobacco (06/22/09). Also see correction in T.D. TTB–80 and extension of the packaging use-up period in T.D. TTB–81.
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Q: Combining importance sampling with enumeration for estimating expected value I have a Monte Carlo simulation which, given an initial state, does some random stuff and outputs a scalar. Let this output be the random variable $Y$. The simulation takes place on an $K$x$K$ grid, such as below with $K=4$:

(0, 0)
(0, 1)
(0, 2)
(0, 3)

(1, 0)
(1, 1)
(1, 2)
(1, 3)

(2, 0)
(2, 1)
(2, 2)
(2, 3)

(3, 0)
(3, 1)
(3, 2)
(3, 3)

States are identified by their (row, col) indices starting from top left.
My goal in this setup is to estimate $E[Y]$ over all the states. I have some prior information about the simulation that says the variance in the value of $Y$ is larger for states that are closer to the bottom right corner. Therefore, when performing simulations to estimate $E[Y]$, I want to bias my sampling of initial states towards this bottom right corner.
Let the row and column indices of a state $s$ be accessed via the notation $s.r$ and $s.c$, respectively, and let $S$ be the entire set of states. I could construct a probability distribution to sample from that achieves my goal as follows, using the sum of the state row and column to bias sampling towards the bottom right:
$g(s) = \frac{s.r + s.c}{\sum_{s' \in S}{s'.r + s'.c}}$
This distribution $g$ is the biased distribution I use for importance sampling.
The ''true'' distribution (let's call it $f$) is simply a uniform distribution over $S$.
Because I can't do an infinite number of simulations, I have a budget of $m$ simulations that I can perform to estimate $E[Y]$.
At this point, I could just perform $m$ simulations, then perform the importance correction to give me my estimate.
But here's the extra complication! I also need to guarantee that each $s \in S$ is selected as the initial state at least once. By just doing pure importance sampling, I am at the mercy of the biased distribution $g$: it is possible that, in my $m$ trials, not all the states will be sampled from $g$.
So, I am currently performing a two step procedure for estimating $E[Y]$, and am not sure if it is correct, or if there are alternatives. Currently, I actually perform $n = \vert S \vert + m$ trials, composed of selecting each state in $S$ once (guaranteeing that every state is selected), then doing $m$ rounds of importance sampling.
When calculating $E[Y]$, I'm treating the first $\vert S \vert$ samples of $Y$ as having weight 1, and the other $m$ samples are given their importance corrected weights, i.e. $\frac{f(s)}{g(s)}$. Then I just take a weighted average of these results, i.e. for $i = 1 \ldots n$, where $Y_i$ and $w_i$ denote the $i^{th}$ output of the simulation, and weight of the output respectively:
$E[Y] = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n}{Y_i \cdot w_i}}{\sum_{i=1}^{n}{w_i}}$
In my head, I thought of it like I was actually estimating $E[Y]$ in two separate manners and then combining them in a weighted average, the first estimate has weight $\vert S \vert$, and the second estimate has a weighting equal to the sum of the $m$ importance correction weights. Is this thinking correct? If so, can you tell me why, i.e. appeal to relevant mathematical laws? If not, why not?


Except I wasn't. I switched to exclusive pumping instead. As a biologist by training, I strongly believe in the health benefits of breast milk and didn't want to deprive TaoTao of the right to it. It's a hell of a lot more work, exclusively pumping, but luckily we had a four-person army to divide and conquer the task. My mother-in-law washed the 30+ bottle parts every day, my father-in-law cooked nutritious meals three times a day to increase my supply, my husband changed TaoTao's diapers and fed her every three hours, while I pumped every two hours around the clock. We did that for 6 months.
There are millions of new moms who struggle like I did, but who don't have the help I had. The national rate for exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months in the US, where I live, was only 22.3% in 2016, which means that over 3 million moms stopped breastfeeding earlier than recommended by the American Association of Pediatrics. The Indian national rate for exclusive breastfeeding between 0 to 5 months is better – 55% in 2016. But regardless of where you live – breastfeeding is hard. Ask any new mom around you, and she will tell you how painful it is if the baby latches incorrectly, how hard it is to maintain a pumping schedule and good milk supply after returning to work, and how inconvenient it is to travel anywhere while breastfeeding. Although breast milk is promoted as "liquid gold," we mothers are certainly not treated as "gold producers." Instead, mothers are frequently the objects of public shame for exposing their breasts to feed their screaming infants. And it doesn't help that family guests seem to care more about the well-being of the baby than the mother.
All venting aside, I started to think about why the lactation industry is not making enough innovations for new moms while there are so many new technologies and products for the baby. A major reason is that a baby's problems, such as crying, are easy for everyone to talk about and for a dad to experience and understand. Breastfeeding problems are not. They are private and hard to talk about, and difficult for people who haven't breastfed themselves to understand. When I was so engorged that I had to ask my husband for help, I didn't feel beautiful showing him my extremely large breasts, and he definitely couldn't understand how painful it was. Similarly, I never spoke to my male boss about the pumping room feeling like a dungeon or the inconvenience of traveling while pumping. Most moms just endure such pains and inconveniences.
And because the engineering industry is currently dominated by men who are not able to understand their female customers' struggles, how could they develop new products for them that are both functional and user-friendly? Did you know the most popular breast pump was developed by a male engineer? No wonder it doesn't provide a good user experience! When women aren't adequately represented in traditionally male-dominated sectors like STEM, women's user experiences get overlooked, especially when the matter at hand is as private and specific to women as breastfeeding. All of this means women get saddled with less-than-perfect products that don't really take their needs into account.
What about start-ups? Well, having talked to a couple of venture capitalists (VCs), I actually did hear their arguments: "This market does not provide the desired ROI (Return On Investment) for us, to be worth our while." This is primarily because developing new mom tech, such as a breast pump, requires at least a couple million dollars of upfront investment for conducting R&D, setting up manufacturing, getting FDA clearance, and establishing sales and marketing channels. Getting insurance agencies to cover the cost of the breast pump is another huge hurdle; it all adds up to at least three years to recoup the initial investment. And when the alternative is funding the next Instagram, which could scale up in the next year, it's very rational for any VC to say "No, thank you" to promising mom tech.
For the few mom tech start-ups lucky enough to obtain that initial VC funding, their products will be too expensive for most consumers in order to meet their investors' demand for an immediate return.
So are we hopeless and helpless? Absolutely not. Change might be slow but it's on the way. MIT recently organized a Breast Pump Hackathon that called for inclusive design which would be more affordable to low-income families and change in policy to extend paid maternity leave. A few promising start-ups, bootstrapped by frustrated moms and dads, are bridging the gap in the industry.
But we need all moms to stand at the forefront of this revolution by sharing breastfeeding stories (the good, the bad and the ugly). It's also vital that we raise awareness with anyone willing to listen – employers, spouses, neighbors, social media followers, policymakers, and even male engineers. Breastfeeding may seem like a private topic, but the only way we can improve the experience for our daughters is by talking about it and innovating. Just like the TimesUp movement has provided a platform of solidarity for women to demand more representation in the making of and the focus of films, we need suffering new moms to collectively voice their pain and demand the same of tech innovators in order to bring about change in this sector.
Juan Chen is a mom and entrepreneur based in Boston. After experiencing breastfeeding and pumping challenges, she founded LacTeck to create lactation technologies, like the Pump2Baby bottle, that make breastfeeding easier. She graduated from MIT with an MBA in 2014. In her spare time, she loves going to the New England Aquarium with her 3 year old daughter TaoTao and friends.


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How Amazon's The Peripheral Cast Members Were Discovered
October 20, 2022 • by Jan Stromsodd
Have you been able to catch any episodes of The Peripheral yet?
In a television world dominated by fantasy juggernauts (Amazon's Rings of Power and HBO's spinoff of GOT – House of the Dragon), The Peripheral has managed to gain some hype ahead of its premiere date of October 21, 2022, due to its unique brand of grounded science fiction – something sorely lacking in the television space at the moment.
Chloe Grace Moretz and Gary Carr in utilitarian looks seem to have a good time on the set of The Peripheral while filming in New York City on July 18, 2022 (Credit: Jose Perez / INSTARimages / Cover Images)
The show is based on a novel by author William Gibson, which was originally published in 2014. The book is not surprisingly an editor's pick on Amazon, which first announced that it had purchased the rights to adapt the novel into a show back in 2019, and that's when they initially began to search for young stars to fill out the cast.
The series showrunner is Scott B. Smith, who is perhaps most renowned for his novel A Simple Plan, which was itself turned into a film directed by Sam Raimi in 1998.
Gary Carr, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Jack Reynor attend "The Peripheral" red carpet premiere and screening at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on October 11, 2022, in Los Angeles, California (Credit: Jeffrey Mayer / Media Punch / INSTARimages / Cover Images)
The show centers around Flynne Fisher, a young woman who lives in the Southern United States. In an alternative version of the near future, Fisher works in her small town at a 3-D print shop but makes additional income by playing virtual reality games for mysterious wealthy clients.
She begins to slowly realize that one of the video games she plays is actually the real future – 70 years into the future, in fact.
1. How Chloe Grace Moretz Was Cast as Flynne Fisher
Flynne Fisher is portrayed by Chloe Grace Moretz, a young star who (up until this point) is perhaps most renowned for her work in the late 2000s to 2010s. She was born in 1997 and hails from Atlanta, Georgia.
She began her acting career very young, after being inspired by her older brother Trevor, whose acting ambitions caused the family to relocate to New York City in 2002.
Chloë Grace Moretz as Flynne Fisher and Gary Carr as Wilf Netherton in the American science fiction streaming television series The Peripheral (Credit: Amazon)
Her first major acting role came in 2005 at the age of eight when she appeared in the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror. Her next major role (and perhaps her most famous) came as the vigilante Hit-Girl in 2010's Kick-Ass.
This role garnered controversy due to Moretz's young age, coupled with the violence and profanity that the role commanded. In the same year, she starred as the vampire Abby in Let Me In, which was another role she became synonymous with.
In 2011 she famously starred in Martin Scorsese's Hugo, where she played the adored role of Isabelle.
Female cast members Alexandra Billings, Chloë Grace Moretz, T'Nia Miller, and Adelind Horan promote their new Amazon series, The Peripheral (Credit: Jeffrey Mayer / Media Punch / INSTARimages / Cover Images)
Since that time, however, she has appeared in smaller Hollywood productions that have failed to gain as much traction as her earlier work.
The casting directors of The Peripheral definitely noticed her talent onscreen, which is why they decided to give her a chance and give her the role of Flynne in The Peripheral. At the premiere of her new show held at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, she looked stunning in Louis Vuitton.
2. How Jack Reynor Was Cast as Burton Fischer
Jack Reynor stars opposite Chloe Grace Moretz as Burton Fischer, Flynne's older brother. Burton originally works as a virtual video game player but gives the job up to his younger sister as he leaves their small town to protest a religious extremist group.
Born in 1992 in Longmont, Colorado, he relocated to Ireland at the age of 2. Jack Reynor initially found success in the Irish cinema industry when he starred as Richard Karlsen in What Richard Did, which was released in 2012.
Florence Pugh as Dani Ardor and Jack Reynor as Christian Hughes in the 2019 folk horror film Midsommar (Credit: A24)
He followed up this success by appearing in multiple high-profile Hollywood films. The American-Irish actor starred as an Irish race car driver in the 2014 American science fiction action film Transformers: Age of Extinction and went fully nude as Ari Aster in the 2019 psychological horror film Midsommar.
We're sure this recent string of successful roles caught the eyes of The Peripheral's casting directors, who decided to cast Reynor in the main role of Burton Fisher.
3. How Gary Carr Was Cast as Wilf Netherton
English actor Gary Carr portrays the role of Wilf Netherton in The Peripheral, an English publicist who lives in London during the 22nd century.
Carr was born in London in 1986 and seemed destined to pursue a career in performance after training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 2005 to 2008.
Gary Carr as American Jazz singer Jack Ross, Lily James Rose MacClare, and Allen Leech Tom Branson in the ITV historical drama Downton Abbey (Credit: ITV)
Up until this point, Carr has only managed to act in British production for the BBC and ITV, as well as acting on stage for the Royal National Theatre. He is best known for his performance as police officer Fidel Best in the BBC television series Death in Paradise, in which he starred from 2011 to 2014.
Although audiences stateside are sure to have limited exposure to Mr. Carr up until this point, the casting directors of The Peripheral were definitely looking in the right place when they stumbled across the promising British actor.
We believe that this role will certainly be a breakthrough role for Gary Carr, and we're sure to see him in even more American productions in the future.
4. How Eli Goree Was Cast as Conner
How about a Canadian to round out the cast of this hot new show? Eli Goree was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1994 and began his acting career as a child starring in Sesame Park (the Canadian version of Sesame Street).
Eli Goree portrays Conner, a man recruited to help with the situation within the peripheral world, in Amazon's The Peripheral (Credit: Amazon)
After pursuing a brief career as a freelance journalist, he returned to acting when he was cast as Malik in the Global TV series Da Kink in My Hair.
This kickstarted his career, as he gained consistent work in the television industry, with his most notable role being Wells Jaha in The CW's science fiction show The 100.
Eli Goree starred as Cassius Clay in Regina King's biographical drama film 2020 American drama film One Night in Miami… (Credit: Amazon Studios)
Eli is set to portray the character of Conner, a close friend of Flynne's brother, Burton. This young Canadian star's best days are definitely ahead of him and were certain that this role will help to propel his already solid career even further.
In conclusion, we're excited to see what twists and turns this show has in store for us, and we can't wait to see it finally premiere on Amazon Prime on October 21st, 2022. This young cast looks very promising, and we're optimistic that with their talents combined, this show is a surefire hit.
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I want to pull data from web page using web query in Excel. The problem is that when I put a web address into "excel browser" (www.olx.pl), I get an error message.
I think so too, thanks for help guys.
Woj, from your original discussion and your clarification it seems to me that the problem is actually with the website (www.olx.pl) which is not recognising modern browsers for what they are.
The best solution would be to contact their webmaster and explain the problem so that they can fix their broken site, rather than you working around its limitations.
I should add some info more precisely to clarify.
I want use Excel to pull some data from this site from 1st post (www.olx.pl - its something like ebay market place, to compare quantity of listed items day-by-day to keep track of items which I'm looking for) At next step I wanted extract pulled data using Excels functions but I hit wall at 1st step - pulling data (quering web). I used Excel's Data --> From Web and in opened "New Web Query" window I pasted url. At this moment I must say that at this moment FF is opened don't play any role - because Excel's functionality allow pulling / querying data from web even if you DON"T have any FF/Chrome/Safari computer.(so I think it was little confusing for you Jan F. :) So from begining - we can run Excel's web query when ALL browsers are closed.
ha14's 1st post is going in good direction but don't touch real problem. It solves FF's acting issue and show how to change as what FF is recognized by web servers side. The main and top question is how and where can we change this behaviour for Excel to be recognized as lets say IE11 or FF33 etc ?? I think that this posr clarified more deeply the main problem :) Its not in FF configuration , its in Excel's config problem and we should find option like FF's "about:config" but in Excel. where it is buried ?
Excel should be using the IE engine and it's Internet Options.
click Start and type "Internet options" in the search box, that should get you there.
However, to the best of my knowledge you will need a third-party add-on to change the user agent sent by IE and I am not sure a web query from Excel will actually make use of add-ons.
I didn't quite follow all the different angles of your question so I will answer them separated.
If you try to load web data using Excel and it gives you an error please state that error.
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42 Faith, by Ed Henry
Last weekend, I finished 42 Faith: The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story by Ed Henry. In all honesty, I wasn't sure how I'd feel about this book, going into it. I don't consider myself a religious individual, and the thought of a book — even one about baseball — trying to shove faith down its readers' throats was not an appealing possibility. But I'm glad I gave the book a shot in spite of my hesitation, because it really didn't do that at all. Yes, it talked about religion quite a bit, but more from an objective, this-is-how-religion-factored-into-these-events kind of approach.
This book isn't just about Jackie Robinson, but just as much about Branch Rickey and about the rest of the Brooklyn Dodgers team during Robinson's time with them. It serves a biographical purpose when it comes to the lives of both Robinson and Rickey, while also, of course, highlighting the role of religion and faith for both men, both in their everyday lives and in the steps they took in breaking baseball's color barrier.
His religious convictions, Henry writes, are a big part of what prompted Branch Rickey in his determination to bring a black player into the big leagues. Based on his research, Henry insists that Rickey was not as certain about his decision to break the color barrier as history now suggests, but rather his faith provided him with the resolve to move forward with the undertaking. And it was Robinson's faith that sustained him through the slings and arrows flung at him on the diamond, even as he kept his promise to Rickey not to fight back.
The scope of the book doesn't stop with these two men. Most notably, Henry also takes a long look at Ralph Branca, a devout Catholic and good friend to Jackie Robinson on the Brooklyn Dodgers team. Branca, fans might recall, also happens to be the pitcher who gave up the "Shot Heard Round to the World" to Bobby Thomson in the 1951 National League pennant race. Ed Henry delves into the role Branca's religious beliefs played in his friendship with Robinson and in how he responded to the aftermath of the 1951 pennant race.
Ed Henry references Robinson's unpublished memoirs to a great extent in this book. In his research, he also drew from previously uncovered sermons and traveled to perform interviews with Robinson's and Rickey's family and friends. Overall, I'd say this book is worth the read. True, it is another Jackie Robinson book in an already-large collection of Jackie Robinson books, but I think that Ed Henry does a great job looking at this story from a different angle, even talking about faith and religion without getting preachy.