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Aftermath Of Tb Joshua Visit To South Sudan: Us Government, Pope Francis, Archbishop Of Canterbury Speak Out
By Ihechukwu Njoku
Merely hours after the visit of prominent Nigerian cleric TB Joshua to South Sudan, international dignitaries have spoken out with renewed fervour about the imperative need for peace in the East African nation.
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, sent out a tweet in the early hours of Wednesday 13thNovember 2019, shortly after the Nigerian pastor's late-night departure from Juba.
"The U.S. will re-evaluate its relationship with the Government of South Sudan and work to take action,"he wrote, insisting that peace was compulsory for the world's youngest nation.
Hours later, a group of US Senators – including Cory Booker and Marco Rubio – called for Pompeo to appoint a Special Envoy to "engage the region and help coordinate Western partners in pressing both parties to find a viable way forward."
On Thursday 7thNovember 2019, President Salva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar held a meeting in Uganda where they agreed to extend the deadline to form a unity government for an additional 100 days.
Tuesday 12thNovember 2019 – the day a unity government was supposed to be formed – ended up being a day of prayer as TB Joshua arrived in the nation and led President Salva Kiir and his cabinet in prayer for South Sudan's peace at the Presidential Palace.
In addition to the reactions from the US Government, Pope Francis – who famously kissed the feet of the rival South Sudanese leaders in the Vatican City – met with the Archbishop of Canterbury, expressing plans to visit South Sudan together.
"We discussed our shared passion for peace in South Sudan and agreed that if the political situation permits the creation of a transitional government of national unity, it is our intention to visit together,"Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted.
South Sudanese have been vocal on social media since, expressing hope that TB Joshua's visit may finally yield fruit in the ongoing peace negotiations in South Sudan and thus an end to the suffering meted on its people by the instability.
"Peace has no price," Joshua told the crowd he addressed – in a message broadcast live on televised on the state-owned television (SSBC) – stressing that South Sudan's leaders must "overcome their differences"
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Lead Like Leo: Lessons From 'The West Wing'
Those taking the reins in Washington could benefit from binge-watching the classic political drama.
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Homebound by the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans are bingeing on TV shows like never before. New streaming service subscriptions are up more than 70%, and it seems like everyone is hooked on something. For me, it's an old favorite, "The West Wing," which originally ran nearly two decades ago but still gives me hope for the future. Watching a functional White House staffed by smart, compassionate, patriotic people—fictional though it may be—is not only chicken soup for my inside-the-beltway soul, it's a master class in leadership I hope real-life West Wingers will take to heart.
I've been a senior executive in a federal agency and a major city and run a large county. This time through the series, I find myself less compelled by the policy debates and national security crises and more attuned to the internal dynamics of the White House team, a collection of idealistic, competitive overachievers who somehow work together to solve the biggest problems imaginable.
For me, the heart and soul of "The West Wing" team is not President Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen). It's his chief of staff, Leo McGarry (the late John Spencer). At the center of a daily swirl of surprises, missteps, and lose-lose decisions, Leo was who everyone looked to for the way over, around or through. He could be grumpy and no-nonsense, but the twinkle in his eye and his purse-lipped smile betrayed his humanity. Other than his complete failure to model work-life balance – he told his wife that his job was more important than his marriage – Leo was everything a leader should be. Courageous, empathetic, loyal, and focused.
Here's a viewer's guide to the lessons he left us on what it means to lead.
Read The Gatekeepers, Chris Whipple's insightful book about White House chiefs of staff, and you come to appreciate that what sets the good ones apart is their ability to tell the president what he doesn't want to hear.
One of the most pivotal conversations in "The West Wing's" seven-year run is an Oval Office heart-to-heart between Leo and the president a year into the administration (Season 1, Episode 19, "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet"). The president's approval ratings have dropped and the staff feels stifled by what it sees as Bartlet's "play it safe" politics. Leo appeals to the president to stop dangling his feet in the water and take more chances, to be the kind of president he aspired to be.
I've found in my career that the hard conversations become easier when you realize that a good leader is also a good follower. "Managing up" is the term of art for getting to know what your boss cares about, how they communicate, their decision-making process, their sense of identity.
As budget director for the City of Baltimore during the Great Recession, bringing the mayor bad news became routine. I figured out quickly that she had little patience for numbers. She wanted to hear the stories behind the numbers – what they meant to real people – and solutions to make the most of scarce dollars. My stories moved the mayor to make tough calls that balanced budgets.
Knowing the boss prepares us to be persuasive, and preparation is scientifically proven to reduce fear.
Fans of "The West Wing" are sure to remember Leo's "man in a hole" story (Season 2, Episode 10, "Noel"). A recovering alcoholic and drug addict, Leo understood better than most the demons we try our best to hide.
When his deputy, Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford), is showing signs of PTSD after recovering from a gunshot wound, Leo arranges for him to talk to a therapist and then offers him this parable:
This guy's walking down a street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep, he can't get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, "Hey you, can you help me out?" The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up "Father, I'm down in this hole, can you help me out?" The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. "Hey Joe, it's me, can you help me out?" And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, "Are you stupid? Now we're both down here." The friend says, "Yeah, but I've been down here before, and I know the way out."
After a pause, Leo tells Josh, "Long as I got a job, you got a job, you understand?"
Josh's trauma was no secret to his colleagues, but people can carry emotional loads that are harder to see. Leo's lesson is that the best leaders get past "How are you doing?" to discover the needs of their people and give them help. Sharing your own vulnerabilities – fears, uncertainties, limitations – makes it safe for others to do the same.
The most effective teams have an unbreakable bond of trust, friendship and loyalty to each other. That doesn't mean they always get along; it means they can be brutally honest without fear of retribution, float off-the-wall ideas and have them taken seriously, and make mistakes – even big ones – that don't get them fired.
Leo establishes this bond in the very first episode of the show, convincing the president to keep Josh when it seems like the whole world is calling for his head (Season 1, Episode 1, "Pilot"). At one point or another, Leo protects every member of his team from the worst consequences of a screw up, most more than once. He is a father figure, mentor and teacher, and his loyalty is returned in kind.
I have lived the experience of making a mistake and finding myself sacrificed instead of shielded. Watching a team take a hit for one of its own literally brings tears to my eyes.
All the emotional intelligence in the world won't move a team in the right direction if the leader lacks strategic focus.
In 1999, the year "The West Wing" premiered, I was working at the White House Office of Management and Budget. I'll never forget how one of my colleagues described our work. "It's like you're a tennis player with a hundred different colored balls coming at you," he said. "You're only supposed to hit the yellow ones, but you're color blind."
Leo saw his job as making sure the urgent didn't crowd out the important, exhorting his team at the end of one especially hairy day, "We're not going to stop, soften, detour, postpone, circumvent, obfuscate, or trade a single one of our goals to allow for whatever extracurricular nonsense is coming our way in the next days, weeks, or months." (Season 2, Episode 21, "18th and Potomac")
I'll never forget how one of my colleagues described our work. 'It's like you're a tennis player with a hundred different colored balls coming at you,' he said. 'You're only supposed to hit the yellow ones, but you're color blind.'
Staying focused on goals requires having them, being clear about your purpose. One of my early leadership lessons came from the powerful chair of the Michigan House Taxation Committee, who I interned for in high school. "Leadership is setting the agenda," he told me simply. Leo knew this.
With a year to go in Bartlet's second term, Leo senses that the team is content to coast to the finish line. So he gathers everyone around a white board and writes "365 days" at the top (Season 6, Episode 12, "365 Days"). "That's how much time we have left," he tells them. "What do you want to do with it?" The ideas start flying – "finally get serious about health care," "a new approach to Latin America," "it's time to talk about race" – as the camera fades out.
To the thousands of men and women who will soon be asked to serve in leadership roles at the White House and Cabinet departments, not to mention statehouses and city halls: The secrets to your success won't be found in any briefing book. The personal qualities you bring to the job, and the way you inspire and guide your team, will be your imprint. You could do a lot worse than to follow Leo McGarry's example.
Andrew Kleine is the author of City on the Line: How Baltimore Transformed Its Budget to Beat the Great Recession and Deliver Outcomes (Rowman & Littlefield). He has served as budget director for the City of Baltimore and Chief Administrative Officer for Montgomery County, Maryland. His Twitter handle is @awkleine
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The General Assembly meets each year, beginning on the second Wednesday in January for 60 days in even-numbered years and for 30 days in odd-numbered years. They meet again in April for a reconvened veto session typically for one day.
There are 100 members of the House of Delegates and 40 members of the Senate of Virginia. Delegates serve two-year terms and Senators serve four year terms.
Information about the Virginia General Assembly can be found on the Virginia General Assembly website. More information about elections can be found on the Virginia State Board of Elections website.
First, a member of the General Assembly must introduce the legislation. Bills are typically heard in subcommittee, then committee, then the full Senate or House and then the process repeats in the other chamber. In order for a bill to become law, it must pass both the House and Senate chambers and then signed by the Governor. For a more information on this process, click here.
Prior to General Assembly session (usually mid-late December) the Governor introduces his proposed budget. Virginia's budget is a biennial budget, covering two fiscal years. Each fiscal year starts July 1 and ends June 30. The Governor's Budget begins the budget process.
At the beginning of General Assembly session, legislators submit amendments to the Governor's proposed budget, which are then reviewed the House Appropriations Committee or the Senate Finance Committee. Budget amendments are not assigned bill numbers, but are proposed amendments to the budget bill itself. Budget amendments have item numbers within the budget bill.
House budget amendments will first be handled by the House Appropriations Committee and their 11 subcommittees. Senate budget amendments will first be handled by the Senate Finance Committee and their 7 subcommittees. There is a series of dates established for the discussion and narrowing of the budget amendments which are designated at the start of the General Assembly session. The chart below oulines the series of steps required for finalizing the state budget.
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Five Spiritual Laws I Live By
by on November 6, 2013
by Kurt Hunter
Samhain is a time of both celebration and communion, of thanksgiving and of reflection. It's a perfect time to examine our own lives and seek guidance from beyond the veil about how things are proceeding for us. It's a time of endings and of beginnings. We sacrifice the things we carry that will not serve us or are too costly a personal burden to bring through the darkness. Then, come Imbolc, we emerge from that darkness in a hopefully lighter, more purified, place, ready to once again put what we've ruminated on into practice on the Earth and see if these seeds take root and grow.
I think if we sat down and thought about it for a bit, most of us could come up with a handful of self-identified spiritual "laws" that we try to guide our behavior and outlook by. Many books and articles have been written on this subject. They are all very much instructions on how to live a richer and more spiritually connected life. They're supposed to bring us clarity of purpose, alignment with the Divine Source, or peace of mind. While we might not always live up to our own standards, they do give us a "bar" to aim for. They should also be something that can be shared with others, and even if others frame their particular laws in a different fashion, I think they should be able to be communicated in a way that is understood. If we can't communicate them to others, how can we truly understand them for ourselves?
I have chosen to carry five critical laws with me. Like many gifts of the Goddess, five is an often repeated number. Five is the number of the four elements united by spirit. Five is the union of the Three who are One (Triple Goddess) and the Two who are One (Dual God). Five are the points on the Witch's Pentagram, one of our most sacred and protective symbols. When I allow myself to be guided by these laws, I feel I am being the most genuine and true Witch I can be. When I get away from these laws, I know that the burdens and distractions of mortal life have separated me from eternal spirit and I probably need to figure out where I am and what it is I'm really doing. You may choose other numbers, but the exact number is not as important as the fact that you can quantify your guidance in a way that lets you measure yourself in a way that is both loving and exacting. A way this is not too hot, not too cold, not too many, not too few but — like Goldilocks finding the home of the three bears — "just right" for you.
These are the laws that have worked for me:
1. Have compassion of heart, cunning of mind, and curiosity of spirit
This has some definite similarities to the Temple of Witchcraft's Three Rays of Love, Wisdom and Power. That compassion represents love is a self-evident. Cunning and wisdom are often thought of synonymous as well. But how is curiosity an expression of power? I think that it is of the spirit, the seeking out of the unknown, and by extension the willingness to change and be challenged by your exploration. Curiosity of spirit is the impetus behind the change-work I choose to do, whether on myself or acting outwardly in the Universe. Truly both of these things are a part of the same thing. Curiosity says "What if…"? Then it emboldens us to take the steps to make those changes that need doing. How many people do you know who are not guided by a sense of curiosity? Who live in their own completely safe and known boxes of life and don't ever voyage into dangerous territory? Only seekers find, and when you find something, you might be able to bring it out of potential and into the reality of life.
2. Practice authenticity, but be open to change, which is eternal
Be Yourself, but acknowledge that the Self is on a journey of transformation and enlightenment. Who I am today isn't the same person as who I was yesterday. Practicing authenticity means more than simply being honest in our dealings with others. It focuses on the intention of genuinely being ourselves and knowing that we can exist without subsuming or being subsumed by another. I don't have to always be at my best, most grounded, or perfectly aligned in all my dealings. But authenticity requires that I at least give it a shot. I make the attempt to not hide from myself or from others.
3. Seek out the Mysteries
Are you starting to see that these laws are all slightly different ways of saying very much the same thing? This is another reinforcement of the importance of curiosity, integration and transformation. Dive bravely into the river of your own life. It's filled with wonders and dangers that will delight and terrify you. Our lives are our greatest gift of opportunity for spiritual evolution. It is the crucible in which we burn away all that does not serve, and add all that serves us better. "The Mysteries" are a mystical way of referring to all these opportunities collectively. While no one has the exact same experience, we all share common source material since we have all — by definition — emanated from the same Source. We walk together, but we take the steps on our own. Though we can be supported in our quest for the Mysteries, no one can actually come to them for us but us.
4. Protect those of the Craft, your sisters and brothers, who are favored by the Gods
Essentially a rewritten version of one of the Ordaines found in several Traditions' Books of Shadows, this law is important because of the principle of "spiritual solidarity." We recognize that ours is a path of service to our communities and to each other. We see that each of us is a conduit for the love, wisdom and power of the Gods (whoever They may be to us). By aiding others, we allow ourselves the gift of receiving aid when we need it. We also recognize that ours is a world where the Witch is not always warmly welcomed, especially not by those who do not seek out the Mysteries. Be authentically the Witch. This doesn't mean you have to be "out of the broom closet" publicly, or even use that word to self-identify as I do. I consider this an ethical obligation to battle prejudice and persecution. If we all cover one another, to some degree, then we are all the more free for it.
5. Know Thyself, and more than that, Share Thyself with others
"Know Thyself" is the commonly known inscription at the Temple of Delphi in Ancient Greece. It has been adopted by many mystical Traditions as a Charge to better understand ourselves — our thoughts, our feelings, our spiritual reality, and ultimately, our Higher Purpose. This is the bedrock principle upon which many a spiritual practice has been built. But this isn't the end of it. It's just the start of it. We are living in an Age (of Aquarius) where it becomes necessary for us to reach out to others and collectively share our wisdom and experiences for the good of all. If we are all mirrors for each other, then a piece of me reflects a piece of you. My own Truth may help to inform yours. It doesn't dictate yours, but neither is it divorced from yours. Sharing isn't forcing another to take; it is merely offering to give. It may be accepted freely, or refused equally as freely, but don't keep your wisdom hidden so tightly that none may see it: "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." How much better, then, if we all light candles as we spin through the night on our solitary-yet-unified journey?
What are your own "spiritual laws" then? Samhain is upon us, and use this time to dig deeply, reach further and uncover a guiding principle or principles that can light your way throughout the rest of the year.
Kurt Hunter is Georgian elder and NROOGD red cord who has been working in the Craft for over 25 years. He is High Priest of ElvenOak Coven in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and is currently a student in the ministerial seminary of the Temple of Witchcraft. Kurt works as a professional counselor and clinical supervisor and enjoys stone collecting, gardening, photography and gaming. He lives in Portland, OR and can be reached at kurthuntertow@gmail.com
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Q: Using Intermediate Value Theorem for continuous functions Let $f: [0,1] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be continuous with $f(1)=f(0)$. Prove that if $h\in \left(0,\frac{1}{2}\right)$ is not of the form $\frac{1}{n}$, then there does not necessarily exist $|x-y|=h$ satisfying $f(x)=f(y)$. Provide an example that illustrates this using $h=\frac{2}{5}$.
So I was given the hint that I can use a modified $sin$ function, however I'm not really sure how I would go about that. Preferably, an example not using that would be great.
My thoughts so far are that I use a proof by contradiction saying that $\exists$ $x,y\in[0,1]$ such that $f(x)=f(0)$ and $|x-y|=h$. And I need to get to the point where $h=\frac{1}{n}$, which would create the contradiction (I assume that's the endpoint?). However, how would I use $h=\frac{2}{5}$ to prove that? Is it trivial in that $h=\frac{1}{n}$ is false? Also, it isn't given that $n\in \mathbb{N}$, so maybe I shouldn't assume that?

A: What would it take to modify $\sin x$ to make it satisfy $f(0) = f(1)$? Well, $\sin 0 = \sin \pi$, so how about
$$f(x) = \sin \left(\pi x\right)\,\text{?}$$
Now you just need to show that $$\sin \left(\pi x\right) \ne \sin \left(\pi x + \frac {2\pi}5\right)$$ for any $x \in [0, \frac 35]$, or equivalently, $$\sin x \ne \sin \left(x + \frac {2\pi}5\right)$$ for any $x \in [0, \frac{3\pi}5]$.
A little trig should give you a formula in the tangent satisfied by any $x$ for which the above is true. Show that the only solutions fall outside of $[0, \frac{3\pi}5]$ and you are done.

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Those unstable populations of virtual environments and cities…
By rolandlegrand | October 13, 2010 - 11:49 pm | October 13, 2010 art, augmented reality, education, events, games, mobile, real time
It is said that in a few decades time 80 percent of world population will live in cities. Those cities will depend on a superstructure of networked technology in order to provide food, water, energy and communication. The Impakt Festival 2010 Matrix City in Utrecht, the Netherlands, will discuss
(…) both the growing dependency of urban societies on their technological superstructures as well as the phenomena of massive online virtual environments with their unstable population and continuous reformulation of their own raison d'etre. This connects to the physicality of real-urbanism that loses its own purpose and function without networked technology, and to virtual environments that are losing their purpose without the physicality of human presence.
Interesting thought, "virtual environments with their unstable population and continuous reformulation of their own raison d'etre." The organizers continue:
Virtual flight depicts the slow movement from the autonomous exclusive realm of virtual worlds, toward something that is more connected to real world physicality. During the last 5 years, we witness a stagnation in the development of virtual worlds. World of Warcraft with its "hack and slash" concept still dominates online worlds, while Second Life remains lost in defining the purpose for its own existence. This stagnation shows how technological, virtual platforms are dependent on a meaningful raison d'etre for individual participation, and that the massive euphoria around virtual online worlds from the mid 2000s ended in ontological dead-end, mostly because it didn't take into account the complexities of social laws. More and more examples point currently to fusions between virtual environments and "real" social events, where the virtual framework is mirroring offline realities.
The conference about Superstructural Dependencies takes place on Friday October 15.
I won't be able to attend but the ideas expressed in the announcement are fascinating. Augmented reality, location-based networks and games, alternate reality games (very interesting Wikipedia entry!) are ways to mix virtual and physical realities. All those genres can be 'for entertainment only', and/or have commercial, educational and transformative purposes.
(hat tip to Bruce Sterling who mentions this event on Beyond the Beyond and comments on it).
Tagged cities, mixed realities
Gaming in the cloud is great news for immersive journalism
By rolandlegrand | October 10, 2010 - 6:52 pm | October 10, 2010 education, games, journalism, mobile, opensim, real time, second life, social media, software development, virtual worlds
I love playing Pocket Legends from Spacetime Studios on my iPad (my avatar is the courageous but clumsy Wilbear). The game has all the characteristics of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft: quests, group action, contests between players and player groups etc. It's pretty good graphically speaking, but don't expect the actual World of Warcraft graphical wizardry.
But then again, this game may get some competition very soon, maybe from World of Warcraft itself and from even more high-end games. Dusan Writer mentions the Gaikai cloud service which may do just that: enabling players to immerse themselves in pc- and console games right in their browsers. Which also means enabling the game companies to reach potential customers without awkward downloads or distributing physical stuff: one click on almost any device as long as there's a decent broadband connection. Yay for cloud computing!
Now, this is a real revolution for the gaming industry. Giving players and potential players direct and effortless access to the games also helps the game developers and designers to instantly analyze how people react to the games. Of course, it's bad news for those living from the physical distribution of games – even though it may take some time before that distribution will be extinct (we've the same conversations about print news media of course).
Talking about news media: this development would eliminate yet another hurdle for using immersive journalism techniques. Now we had examples of immersive journalism in Second Life such as this project about the Guantanamo detention center:
Another immersive project by Nonny de la Peña, Cap&Trade:
Other possibilities for journalism include talk shows with a virtual audience, inviting people who would be difficult to get (or rather expensive) in the physical world (Metanomics is a nice example, they'll have Noam Chomsky on October 12). Or you could simply convene a meeting with community members for an open-ended discussion, more immersive than when using a traditional text chat (have a look at the We Are the Network meetings in Second Life, but there are many other examples).
The problem: not many members of my newspaper community for instance are ready to download the Second Life client, and those willing to do so could run into problems because their computers are relatively low-end or because they are behind some corporate firewall. All those problems could be solved if projects such as Gaikai really succeed in bringing Second Life, OpenSim, Blue Mars (working with another company, Otoy) on any device, anytime and anywhere (always assuming there is decent broadband!). There is also OnLive – which is already up and running in the contiguous US – but which seems to need a limited download (which can be too much asked for office environments).
Once virtual environments are accessible in one click the mainstream audience could unlock easily the possibilities for immersive journalism and immersive storytelling. It will give journalists and storytellers new possibilities to interact with their communities and will make methodologies used in software development even more relevant so as to keep up with news stories and the requirements of the community. This in turn could inspire citizen-journalists or non-professional storytellers to go deeper and create content themselves, knowing that there is a big and relevant community out there to explore their work.
Message to journalism institutes: this makes 'serious gaming' and virtual environments even more relevant for your student-journalists. Help them to explore content, network and business opportunities of this development!
Tagged blue mars, gaikai, immersive journalism, onlive, opensim, otoy, pocket legends, spacetime studios, world of warcraft
In the face of adversity, collaborate even more (and even smarter)
By rolandlegrand | October 4, 2010 - 11:42 pm | October 4, 2010 augmented reality, education, games, journalism, mobile, open source, opensim, second life, social media, software development, telecom, virtual worlds
It was quite an evening, during which I tried to do some multitasking and so doing got some weird connections between ideas I'm working on.
I was attending the Metanomics show in Second Life, where professor Robert Bloomfield provided an overview of how economies are not dissimilar to game mechanics, and gave his take on what this means to the future of research (more about this in a later post).
While attending the show, I noticed there was dismay among members of the educational community. Not because of what Bloomfield was saying, but because of an announcement on the official Second Life blog, which seems to indicate that prices for many non-profits and educational projects will go up (currently such projects get discounts). Also have a look at the comments on the official blog post.
The New York Times via ReadWriteWeb quotes research by KZero, saying that the number of virtual world users breaks 1 billion, roughly half under age 15. In fact, it's about registrations, not necessarily about active users, but still it's an impressive number. The second largest group is 15 to 25 year olds, which increased by 15 million to hit 288 million accounts.
I was also reading Gamasutra (the art & business of making games) where Matt Christian posted an introduction to Agile and Scrum development. Scrum is an iterative, incremental methodology for project management often seen in agile software development, as explains Wikipedia. Christian explains how "Scrum creates a bottleneck (in a good way!) between management and the development team in order to keep the development team focused on the current piece of work."
Finally, Robert Hernandez at the Online Journalism Review has a post about how to use geolocation paired up with augmented reality in journalism. He is working on media projects using tools such as Whrrl and stickybits.
So on the one hand there is this challenge of new generations of people familiar with games and virtual environments, there is this whole revolution of ubiquitous mobile computing power which gives us stuff like geo-locational services combined with social networks and games and augmented reality, on the other hand there is an educational system struggling for decent financing at a time of financial crisis.
Gaming and especially massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG) are very interesting for research but also for studying how virtual communities work. Those 'virtual' communities tend to become very real, as companies outsource and collaborate with each other over the whole planet, meaning that people have to communicate and get on speaking terms disregarding geographical and cultural distances. Either people entering the workforce will be familiar with these environments, or they will suffer the consequences as they have to face the consequences of globalization without being able to use new media and virtual communities in a way which benefits them personally.
There are many educators and non-profit people (and also for profit people by the way) trying to spread the word, to convince older people to take these things seriously, to guide the young in their experiences of gaming, virtual worlds and augmented reality. There are many obstacles, as the new forces are disruptive and people often react in shock and denial. There is also a lack of proven business models for the most innovative projects (yay for augmented reality, but then again, even in the West only a minority has sophisticated smartphones and decent mobile broadband connections).
So traditionally educators, non-profits and people wanting to experiment ask for discounts and free rides. Sometimes companies will accept this because the hope it will ultimately be beneficial to the company, sometimes they won't accept it because finally they are private companies and have shareholders who want a decent return on investment and don't want to wait too long for that to happen.
All of which means that even more clever project management and collaboration is needed. Maybe more things can be done in Second Life, if we collaborate even more. Or maybe the technological challenges of open source projects such as OpenSim can be dealt with because the challenges can be tackled easily in collaboration with others.
Social media such as wikis, forums, virtual meeting places, blogs etc combined with open source, open transparent development projects and clever methodologies such as Scrum empower small nimble groups to innovate faster than established companies. Most importantly, in trying to do so and in self-educating ourselves through the achievements and inevitable failures, we'll be better prepared to live in a globalized economy.
Tagged agile, metanomics, scrum, stickybits, whrrl
Metanomics innovates once again, adds meet-ups, gets celebrity-guests
By rolandlegrand | October 1, 2010 - 12:39 am | October 1, 2010 chat, education, games, journalism, machinima, second life, social media
The Second Life show Metanomics is about to start a new season, and is innovating once again. In fact, Metanomics would be a great research topic for communication and media students, as it demonstrates key principles of new media.
Metanomics is owned and operated by Remedy Communications which also owns the blog Dusan Writer's Metaverse.
Dusan Writer, in "real life" Doug Thompson and owner of Remedy, explains on his blog: "Metanomics provides insight into the changes in governance, economics, policy, enterprise, education and the nature of work facilitated by newer technologies. Guests have included authors, researchers, technologists, professionals, theorists and government policy makers and recently celebrated 100 episodes."
In fact, Metanomics does many things. It is a gathering in Second Life, where people backchat while the host, professor Robert Bloomfield, interviews the guests and takes up questions from the backchat. Treet.tv video streams the show on the Metanomics website, where the episodes are also archived. People who cannot join 'in-world' can participate in the backchat from the site.
This season another element will be added: a series of local meet-ups timed to show days. The first live meet-up will be held at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. The audience will watch and participate in a Metanomics broadcast followed by discussion and networking.
Metanomics is a great example of how to immerse a global audience in an intellectual show, using web chat, virtual chat, video, blog texts providing context, transcripts, virtual community meetings and now also interaction in the physical world.
Join us at 12pm PST on October 4th at 12:00 p.m. PST/SLT in-world, when the usual host, professor Bloomfield, will this time be the guest and talk about Real World Lessons from Virtual Worlds, a subject which interests me, being a financial journalist, a lot: "Can virtual worlds provide insight into economic behavior? Does playing a game equate with how we interact in the physical world? What would a system look like that would let us test assumptions about how governments, companies and individuals act?"
I also have a background in philosophy, so I'm equally exited about the show on October 12th, featuring professor Noam Chomsky. Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.
Tagged doug thompson, metanomics, noam chomsky, remedy communications, robert bloomfield, virtual communities
MMORPGs show us the future of media
By rolandlegrand | September 29, 2010 - 11:13 pm | September 29, 2010 chat, design, education, games, journalism, mobile, real time, social media
Tomorrow I have the opportunity to facilitate a seminar for journalism students. Preparing the seminar I was surprised how strongly virtual worlds and gaming influence me. No, I don't believe people will routinely watch and read the news in a World of Warcraft setting, dressed up as Orcs or Trolls. But yes, there is a more subtle but very fundamental influence with implications for the whole media ecosystem.
First I'll talk about social media. I think it's still useful to explain the social media ecosystem, mentioning immersive environments/virtual worlds as a way to organize small groups of very interested people, in order to get inspiration and feedback. Blogs, forums and chats are no marginal activities in a newsroom – they're rapidly becoming core business.
This understanding of social media is just a first step towards gaining insights regarding the major changes taking place in the media. The second part of my presentation will be about the future of media, which sounds rather cliché, but then again, the participants in the seminar are that future.
In a MindMeister map I focus on two compelling aspects which hopefully point out the major change vectors: the social dimension and the real-time interaction. Both aspects lead to engagement of the people formerly known as the audience and thus to the relevance of the media operation.
It really does help to have even a minimal gaming experience. I used to play World of Warcraft for a while and these days I'm getting addicted to a very nice MMO on the iPad: Pocket Legends. The social interaction on forums, blogs and Facebook pages is fun, but what is really exhilirating is participating in a raid, fighting monsters in small groups.
What one experiences is the mental state of flow. Applications of this principle, even for serious news media, are obvious: just compare the action during a chat session with asynchronous commenting, or observe what happens when a comment has to be approved by moderators before it can appear (however, I am strongly in favor of real-time curation and moderation).
In the concept map I try to point out many other similarities between massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGS) and developments in the news media. This has important consequences for the business model and the management style of news media companies. Agile and Scrum suddenly become relevant for newsrooms. Openness of the development and of news production and curating process become crucial. Fast iteration of tools and design elements will become the norm. Theories about 'the end of management (as we know it)' become applicable (media more becoming like movie production, with teams which may get together and disband in function of projects and personal interests).
An example of this: the Liquid News project.
Other examples: have a look at crowdSPRING for design services or eLancer which also includes news-writing (thank you Dusan Writer for mentioning those services in an email-conversation). I don't think my message for the students will be a pessimistic one. Maybe it will get harder to find a job at big mainstream media companies, but the media ecosystem is expanding. What is needed is an understanding of the many different components of that landscape and entrepreneurial talent.
The MindMeister map is a wiki-map, so feel free to add stuff.
Tagged agile, business models, liquidnews, pocket legends, scrum, world of warcraft


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Holidaying has become a trend in many families and planning well in advance is necessary to avoid any problems during travel. Choosing the destination of your choice is of immense importance while travel. Planning a trip requires considerable amount of energy and knowledge in the details surrounding it. It involves taking care of aspects like flight tickets, hotel bookings at best hotels, local transport, food and shopping.
To make a good choice of destinations, you can check online for travel websites who give ample choices of destinations and also indicate the right time to visit such a place.
Then you have to decide the duration of travel. How long you will be away from home and suitable arrangements have to be made like taking care of your pets, if any, informing those around that you will be away.
Decide on your budget as travel involves costs. You have to de research on your costs of travel to the selected place of destination. You have to decide the style you need to adopt during travel, for example, the choice of hotels. You need to decide the kind of hotels you like to stay. They could be luxury hotels, cheap rate hotels or best hotels depending upon your affordability. Hotels always account to the largest portion of travel funds.
If you are budgeting your trip, you need to book your flights and hotel rooms well in advance. If you opt for off season time for travel, you can check to see if good discounts on hotels and sightseeing activities are available. Most probably, many hotels offer fabulous discounts during off season to attract visitors.
If you want to save money on travel, it is wise to secure a travel credit card. This helps you to earn bonuses and help redeem points for free flight travel and stays at hotel. They help you to travel in a very economical way. Change over to no-fee ATM card from banks that do not charge fees for cash withdrawal like Charles Schwab.
Book early so that you get the flight you desired. Make sure you have not paid a lot for your ticket by going through sites for cheap fares like momondo, Google Flights, Skyscanner, Vayama. Booking two months in advance helps to avail of best deals.
Signing up for hotel credit cards help you get free rooms sometimes. Marriot and Starwood`s AMEX are some which help you get benefits through points bonus.
Hotel metasearch engines have become popular as it provides efficient ways to find affordable accommodation. Metasearch engine helps to search multiple sites at once to find out which provider is offering the lowest price for best value or deals for the stay in the hotels. Examples are Kayak, TripAdvisor, Trivago.
Other best hotel booking sites that offer discounted rates for accommodation are Agoda, Hotels.com, Startbooking.com etc.
It will be better to call the hotel directly and check on the prices. To book rooms, it is best to go for cancelable rate. But not many hotels provide this option of cancelable rate. This means you book a hotel room at a rate and then monitor the prices of other nearby hotels and compare. If you find others at a lesser rate, then you can cancel this room and book where you find it cheaper. While booking, you need not pay anything and for cancelling too. You need to check out websites that give information on hotel with cancelable rates.
Search for travel websites which can give you deals, offers, and discounts on hotel stays and on other facilities.
I am a digital marketer, blogger who loves traveling, adventure, nature.


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WASHINGTON — The five missing Marines who were aboard the KC-130J tanker plane that collided midair with an F/A-18 fighter off the coast of Japan last week ranged from young corporals early in their service to a veteran pilot, who was the executive officer of their Japan-based squadron. On Tuesday, they were declared dead, ending days of searching for them.
One of the fallen was 21 year old Cpl. Daniel Baker of Tremont, Illinois.
A sense of adventure called Cpl. Daniel Baker into the Marines in 2016.
But the quiet Marine crewmaster, whom friends said stood out with his blond hair and country drawl, had other plans.
For the past four days, the Baker family in Tremont, Illinois, waited with desperate hope that Daniel and four other missing crewmembers would be found alive after their KC-130J Hercules refueling aircraft collided with an F/A-18 fighter jet Thursday off the coast of Japan.
On Tuesday, the Marines announced they were calling off the search, saying all five crewmembers were dead. The Bakers were notified of Daniel's death, said longtime family friend Matt Miller, who was asked by the family to speak on their behalf.
News spread quickly among the 2,200 residents of the town in central Illinois. Tremont High School, where Baker graduated in 2015 and his younger sister is now a student, held a moment of silence Saturday night at their home basketball game.
For those who knew Baker, the world lost a little of its kindness Thursday. The Baker family released a statement recounting stories from his family and friends. Nearly all described his enormous compassion –— a person who was always willing to offer friendship, host church youth group parties or listen if someone needed to talk.
He had the ability to reach out to the people around him and bring them in as friends regardless of their background, one friend said. In his quiet way, he touched the lives of many.
When Baker stopped by the school a few months ago while on home leave, Hinman said he was struck by how eloquently the young Marine spoke about his work.
Tremont High School had another home game scheduled Tuesday night. Hinman said the community would once again stand in silence, this time in full-on grief.
More at Stars & Stripes.


"The silence of God is at the will of God.
The silence of God can be an answer to a prayer.
The silence of God can be thunderous in effect.
The silence of God can teach wisdom.
The silence of God can cause an echo in the spirit.
The silence of God can signify the absence of consent.
The silence of God brings holiness to the silent.
The silence of God does not ask a question.
The silence of God does not require repetition.
The silence of God does not demand a response.
The silence of God varies in its purpose.
The silence of God may be heard without acceptance.
The silence of God may be blamed for rebellion.
The silence of God may indicate agreement with the Word.
The silence of God may only slowly dawn.
The silence of God can be broken.
The silence of God can come as a rebuke.
The silence of God can indicate restraint.
The silence of God can be a time of reflection.


Abstract: This is the first study on parasite fauna of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 in Turkish waters. Mussel samples were collected monthly at 3 sampling stations on the coast of Sinop on the Black Sea in the period between August 2012 and July 2013. A total of 1740 mussels were examined for parasites using standard parasitological investigation procedures. The parasites identified included the following: 2 protozoans, Nematopsis legeri (32.12%) and Peniculistoma mytili (6.72%); 1 turbellarian, Urastoma cyprinae (6.32%); 1 trematode, Parvatrema duboisi (4.54%); and 1 polychaeta, Polydora ciliata (2.24%). All identified species are illustrated in figures and constitute new records of Turkish parasite fauna.


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SEC Proposes to Amend Form 13F Reporting Thresholds for Institutional Investment Managers
By Scott H. Moss, Bettina C. Elstroth, Daniel C. Porco, and Manas Kumar
The SEC proposes to raise the Form 13F reporting threshold from $100 million to $3.5 billion.
Under this new reporting threshold, smaller managers will no longer be subject to reporting requirements and attendant compliance costs.
Smaller managers may become subject to increased market pressure to compensate for this loss of transparency.
On July 10, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed to raise the Form 13F reporting threshold for institutional investment managers from $100 million to $3.5 billion (the Proposal). Currently, investment managers must file quarterly reports if they have investment discretion over public equity securities with an aggregate fair market value of at least $100 million. This reporting threshold has not been adjusted since the adoption of Form 13F in 1975.
According to the SEC, the intent of Section 13(f) and Form 13F is to ensure that the SEC can adequately monitor larger institutional managers' influence and impact on the U.S. equity market using data collected from the filed Form 13Fs. However, the value of the market has grown from $1.1 trillion in 1978 to $35.6 trillion today, with no corresponding increase in the reporting threshold. The SEC believes that raising the reporting threshold from $100 million to $3.5 billion will preserve the original intent of Section 13(f), which was to monitor larger institutional managers, while alleviating the reporting burden and attendant compliance costs on smaller managers. "The new threshold would retain disclosure of over 90% of the dollar value of the holdings data currently reported while eliminating the Form 13F filing requirement and its attendant costs for the nearly 90% of filers that are smaller managers," the SEC stated in its press release.
In addition to raising the reporting threshold, the SEC proposes to (a) direct its staff to review the reporting threshold every five years and recommend an appropriate adjustment, if necessary; and (b) eliminate the omission threshold (which permits an investment manager to omit holdings worth less than 10,000 shares (or less than $200,000 principal amount of convertible debt securities) and less than $200,000 aggregate fair market value). The Proposal also seeks to amend the process for requesting confidential treatment of information contained in Form 13F disclosures. Currently, managers can request to temporarily withhold disclosure on the basis that such disclosure would be premature and likely result in substantial harm to the manager's competitive position. The Proposal would require managers seeking confidential treatment to demonstrate that the information is both customarily and actually kept private by the manager, and to show how the release of the information could cause harm to the manager.
If the Proposal is ultimately adopted by the SEC, institutional investment managers with investment discretion covering less than $3.5 billion in public equity securities will no longer be required to file Form 13Fs. Larger investment managers who meet or exceed the reporting threshold will continue to file and will have to provide further information in return for confidential treatment.
The Proposal anticipates that the increased reporting threshold may save smaller investment managers compliance costs and indirect costs associated with "front-running" and "copycatting" arising from public access to Form 13F. The SEC estimates that the nonreporting smaller investment managers may save $68.1 million to $136 million per year, in the aggregate.
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Q: ASP.NET MVC4 - How can I emulate an HTTP POST request (HttpRequestMessage) so I can debug locally w/o having to rely on a third party device? Here's the scenario: We have an iOS app that makes an HTTP POST request to my .NET Web API.  The method that is invoked is PostPicture (below):
// POST api/blah
    [HttpPost]
    public string PostPicture(HttpRequestMessage msg)
    {
        HttpContext context = HttpContext.Current;
        etc...

As you can see, this method takes in an HttpRequestMessage.  The issue I'm having is I constantly have to rely on the iOS app to make the call just to be able to pass in the HttpRequestMessage to test my .NET code.
I had the iOS developer send me the HTTP POST contents that the device (iOS) is sending to my Web API.  He sent it in a text document.
Question: Is there any way to take those raw contents and basically emulate an HTTP POST request with these contents (and of course create an HttpRequestObject based on those contents) within my code?
Here's the HTTP POST contents that he sent me:
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  "imageCount" : "3",\
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A: You could use Fiddler to simulate a request easily using The Composer.
NOTE: The request this developer sent you looks like some RTF file rather than an actual HTTP request. You might familiarize himself that an HTTP request contains 2 parts: HTTP headers and body payload that you will need in order to perform an HTTP request.

A: You can use the HttpClient class in .NET 4.0 and 4.5.


Full Limits of Stripe Bass!
Captain James checked in. Solid day on the water! We had full limits of stripe bass and nearly a fish per rod on the halibut. The overall grade on the buts were nice. Fish to 25 pounds.
We have some availability this upcoming week.


Whether you are a beginner or a scuba dive pro, diving the waters of São Vicente is an unforgettable experience.
Thanks to its crystal clear waters and impressive range of tropical fish, including angelfish, parrot fish, turtles, groupers, moray eels, manta rays, barracudas and sharks, your diving experience will be unforgettable. Although not yet a fully developed activity in Cape Verde, scuba diving has great potential and we can guarantee an excellent adventure.
You can dive with a PADI certified Dive Master. You will be in safe hands, ready to explore the relatively unknown waters. The trip includes two dives.


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Arrow Gets An Additional Episode
By Russ Burlingame - September 6, 2017 11:00 pm EDT
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Get Ready! 2nd Annual Jokara-Micheaux Film Festival Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend
Blakely, GA " The Second Annual Jokara-Micheaux Film Festival will be held on Labor Day Weekend, Thursday, August 30 " Sunday, September 2 with an exciting line-up of independent films, symposiums and a special day long Block Party on the Blakely Court Square. This year's films and speakers will focus on film that can make a positive impact on society and provide valuable cultural insights to all viewers, young and old alike.
The new festival website, www.swgafestival.com provides information for film submissions, sponsorship and volunteer opportunities as well as updates on the event's program.
The schedule includes special events where festival-goers will meet and mingle with film industry professionals, and enjoy video film screenings, guest speakers, musical entertainment and attend a Black-Tie Gala to be held in the Jokara-Micheaux Production Studio in Colquitt, Ga on Saturday evening, September 1.
Hosted by the non-profit organizations Early County 2055 and Henny Penny Video/TV Productions, Inc., as well as the Southwest Georgia Film Commission, the film festival will take place at venues in Blakely and Colquitt.
"This year we are building on the momentum that Jokara-Micheaux Film Festival began last summer," said Ralph Wilcox, the founder of the festival and director of the Southwest Georgia Film Commission. "We are deeply grateful for the support we have received from the communities in the region. Our mission -- to promote southwest Georgia as an emerging market for the movie, television and film industries " is becoming a reality. Our vision is for southwest Georgia to become home to a thriving film industry business, like other successful areas in North Carolina and Louisiana."
Admission is free to many of the activities including the Block Party on the Blakely Court Square on Saturday, September 1. Other special events have a nominal fee.
Barton Rice, executive director of Early County 2055, the nonprofit corporation created by the Charles and Catherine B. Rice Foundation, says the film festival is a strong venue to showcase southwest Georgia to potential investors.
"Early County 2055 is proud to be a sponsor and host of this year's Jokara-Micheaux Film Festival," he said. "We have a great fan base and our local leadership is behind and involved in this economic revitalization effort in Early County. We see enormous progress and thank the local residents for their input and loyalty."
Whether you are a novice filmmaker, producer, director, writer, editor, actor, graphic artist, below-the-line or above-the-line production support, this festival is a great way to meet peers and showcase your work. And if you are an educator, student, movie watcher, television viewer, or just a festival lover, this is the place to be on Labor Day weekend, 2007!
"I encourage people who are attending the Film Festival and Blakely Court Square Block Party on Labor Day weekend to take in the full experience of the festival and the community," Rice said.
Go to www.swgafestival.com for additional information or contact:
Southwest Georgia Film Commission
263 Phillips Road
Colquitt, GA 39837
Sponsors of the festival include: The Charles and Catherin B. Rice Foundation, Atlanta, GA.; Georgia Trend Magazine, LS Power Development, LLC, Net PEO, Quail Country Lodge.
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It was the same even at our home but now, most of the goodies are outsourced. I miss all that commotion in the kitchen when the goodies were prepared before festivals.
Pesaru pappu murukulu look are super crunchy.
Kudos ! I normally never make any kind of farsan at home , except chivda ! This is a very interesting recipe , the chakli looks tempting and very crunchy !
I have used roasted moong dal powder in murukku, but this method is so new. With addition of peanuts, this must be brimming with flavour..
wow thats an amazing recipe by your anuty, the chaklis looks delicious, nice and crispy .. you have made them so perfect harini.
I really wish I could get to munch on these right now Harini!..the murukkus look so inviting and crispy..I love the peanut taste in the savory dishes, I am sure kids will love these snacks!
I am bookmarking these murrukkus recipe. I buy in bulk from reliance mart. This is out favourite time pass snack at home. Even my kids are crazy for them. Really came out beautifully.
Am keeping myself from deep fried beauties and now you are tempting to make some. Interesting combination for murukus Harini, love that addition of peanuts here.
Wow adding peanuts and moong dal in the murukku seems like a nice and healthy idea.
Wow, yummy murukkus. I agree some recipes have to be tried exactly to the T... Bookmarking this one.
oh wow harini, this murukku must be so flavorsome!!! bursting with peanut flavor in every bite!!
Adding soaked and ground moong dal along with roasted peanut powder sounds absolutely delicious. Chakli look very crispy and addictive.
Love the idea of adding peanuts...must have added a lovely texture and flavour! Have to try this asap. Bookmarking!


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Rioja, the most famous wine region of Spain, uses winemaking techniques from Bordeaux. In the 1850s the French tried to bring "international varietals" to Rioja, and they have all but died out. In Rioja, Tempranillo and Viura are the royal pair, and they reside almost exclusively in Spain. Please enjoy these distinctly Spanish wines!
Refreshing notes of citrus and white flowers with a pleasant, lingering finish.
Honeyed yellow apple and tropoical fruit, white flower and brioche. Marilyn Monroe, not Audrey Hepburn.
Ripe and fruity with hints of American oak giving the wine an herbaciousness that's distinctly Spanish.
This is a quintessential modern-style Rioja… dark currant, cedar, tobacco, sage, dill, dark cherry and vanilla.
Silky and elegant with mouth watering acidity mellowed by twelve years of bottle age. Perfect wine with most foods.
Ripe red cranberry with note sof pencil shavings and an oddly pleasant sanguinal quality.
Crisp and clean with hints of beach pebble minerality, tropical fruits, and lemon.
Tropical fruit with a hint of petrol and a touch of sweetness. A phenomenal accompaniment to spicy tapas!
A rich medium bodied wine driven by lemon and cream with a hint of beach-sand minerality.
Medium to light with fresh pear, white flowers, and a beach sand minerality.
Rich yellow apple with tart acidity, lightly oaked…mmmmmm, yum!
Full and generous with grilled pineapple and smoked papaya with balanced acidity.
Full and mineral driven with intense notes of wet sidewalk, flint, and white flowers. Hints of ripe lemon.
Delicate raspberry with Bright Acidity and a wonderful dose of volcanic minerality.
Earthy forrest floor with subtle dark berries and beautiful tannic structure.
Blackberry and bramble with excellent tannis structure and mouth watering acidity. Young, lively, and elegant.
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Boney Kapoor, the popular producer in Bollywood film industry is all set to produce his next film in Tamil. He is going to remake Pink in Tamil with Ajith playing the lead role. Meanwhile, he opened up on the MeToo movement and the allegations that were made against Raj Kumar Hirani by a woman who was part of the film Sanju.
The woman in discussion alleged that the star filmmaker abused her more than once last year while working for the film Sanju. While Raju Hirani openly refuted the allegations, he is getting support from within the film industry. Boney Kapoor is also one among those who is now openly supporting Raju in the issue.
"Hirani is a very good man and he will never do something like this. I have no belief in the allegations made." said Boney Kapoor and extended his support to the filmmaker.


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Classics Restored
See superb restorations of cinema classics including a Béla Tarr masterpiece, a German Expressionist horror, and a documentary about the man who famously chalked 'Eternity' on Sydney's streets.
The story of Arthur Stace, who famously chalked the word 'Eternity' on Sydney's streets. A brand-new restoration, courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive, of Lawrence Johnston's award-winning documentary.
The Golem: How He Came Into the World
A restored 1920 classic of German Expressionist horror – one of the silent era's most haunting films – with a new live score performed by Lucrecia Dalt.
Sátántangó
Béla Tarr's black-and-white masterpiece unfolds in a desolate village visited by a messiah-like figure. Don't miss this magnificent restoration of this iconic work.
Fri 7 at 10:00am Dendy Opera Quays Cinema 1
Wed 12 at 6:45pm Event Cinemas George St 9
Thu 13 at 10:00am State Theatre
Sat 15 at 10:30am Dendy Opera Quays Cinema 3
Sat 15 at 3:00pm Art Gallery of New South Wales


Inclined trays of roller tracks, set at levels in the storage bays, allow goods to roll under gravity down dedicated lanes within the trays, from the loading to the picking face. By using Storemax live storage systems, order picking times are reduced and errors minimised, as not only are items presented precisely at the picking face, but also effective management of the throughput and stock levels of goods can be easily maintained.
Carton flow racking provides an excellent, labour and space-efficient method of 'first-in, first-out' storage, particularly in areas handling and using fast moving product lines, for example assembly, packing and despatch.


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Invest or regret? An empirical investigation into funding dynamics during the final days of equity crowdfunding campaigns
Nguyen, T., Dr Joe Cox & Dr Judith Rich, 1 Oct 2019, In : Journal of Corporate Finance. 58, p. 784-803
Do photos help or hinder field experiments of discrimination?
Dr Judith Rich, Aug 2018, In : International Journal of Manpower. 39, 4, p. 502-518
Do field experiments on labor and housing markets overstate discrimination? A re-examination of the evidence
Neumark, D. & Dr Judith Rich, 26 Feb 2018, In : Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
An experimental investigation of age discrimination in hiring in the English labour market
Riach, P. & Dr Judith Rich, 2010, In : Annals of Economics and Statistics. 99/100, p. 169-169 1 p.
Measuring discrimination: what do field experiments of markets tell us?
Dr Judith Rich, 2010, Making Equality Count: Irish and International Research Measuring Equality and Discrimination. Bond, L., McGinnity, F. & Russell, H. (eds.). Dublin: Liffey Press, p. 48-63 16 p.
Employment outcomes of graduates: the case of Universiti Utara, Malaysia
Dr Judith Rich, Lim, H. & Harris, M., Sep 2008, In : Asian Economic Journal. 22, 3, p. 321-341 21 p.
Why has occupational sex segregation in Turkey increased since 1975?
Dr Judith Rich & Palaz, S., 2008, In : Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations. 22, 1, p. 185-218 34 p.
Riach, P. & Dr Judith Rich, Sep 2007, Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labour, 34 p.
Fishing for discrimination
Riach, P. & Dr Judith Rich, Dec 2004, In : Review of Social Economy. 62, 4, p. 465-486 22 p.
Deceptive field experiments of discrimination: are they ethical?
Riach, P. & Dr Judith Rich, Aug 2004, In : Kyklos: International Review of Social Sciences. 57, 3, p. 457-470 14 p.
Field experiments of discrimination in the market place
Riach, P. & Dr Judith Rich, Nov 2002, In : Economic Journal. 112, 483, p. 480-518 39 p.
Wage fixing behaviour of managers in Australia
Dr Judith Rich & Teicher, J., Jun 2002, In : British Journal of Industrial Relations. 40, 2, p. 177-195 19 p.


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India vs Bangladesh: Fact vs fiction
SANJU VERMA
By Sanju Verma (Economist, National spokesperson of BJP & Author of "Truth & Dare — The Modi Dynamic")
IMF's recent projection that Bangladesh's nominal GDP per capita is expected to exceed India's in 2020 created a furore. First and foremost, comparing India to Bangladesh is like comparing apples with oranges. India's nominal GDP is $2.94 trillion, while in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, it is $10.51 trillion. India, under the Modi government, became the 6th largest economy in 2019, overtaking France and the 5th largest, after surpassing the UK in February 2020. Comparable figures for Bangladesh are merely a GDP of $348bn and $861bn in nominal and PPP terms. Moody's has projected 10.6% real GDP growth and a 4% retail inflation for India for FY22, in a massive thumbs up to Modinomics. Goldman Sachs predicts real GDP growth of 15.7%, while Fitch predicts a 9.9% growth for India in FY22. Modi's wily critics fail to recognise that while IMF predicts a growth of 8.8% for FY22 for India, it estimates Bangladesh GDP to grow by a mere 4.4%.
With covid-19 derailing all large economies, IMF has predicted a fall in India's nominal GDP per capita from $2100 in 2019 to $1880 in 2020 while forecasting Bangladesh's to rise to $1890 in 2020. What Modi's critics do not mention is that India's GDP in PPP terms in 2019 was 11 times greater than that of Bangladesh. IMF's GDP per capita (in PPP terms) for India in 2020,is pegged at $6,284 compared to Bangladesh's at $5,139. In effect, in terms of PPP per capita, despite the pandemic, India's number will be 22.28% higher than Bangladesh.
India's exports last year stood at $322bn, in terms of FOB, while imports stood at $617 billion, on CIF basis. What this implies is India's overall annual trade (exports + imports) at $939 billion is 2.7 times higher than the entire economy of Bangladesh. India's apparel exports are expected to touch $300 billion by 2024-25, resulting in a tripling of the country's market share globally from 5% to 15% cent. A lion's share (71.27%) of Bangladesh's total exports of just $40.53 billion on the contrary is limited to only 10 countries. Again, of this $40.53 billion, $25.53 billion came from apparel goods, which means Bangladesh is in a highly precarious situation. India exports approximately 7,500 commodities to about 192 countries. According to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Bangladesh is experiencing unprecedented shocks, due to covid. It is estimated that Bangladeshi RMG workers lost US$500 million in wages from March to June 2020. The Institute of Labour Studies also estimated that 1,915 garment factories were closed rendering 324,684 workers unemployed. The Modi government's financial and socially inclusive schemes have reached out to those who need state support. As of June 2020, the Modi government released Rs 895 crore for 59.23 lakh EPFO account holder employees. The Indian government also released the first instalment of PM-KISAN (Rs 16,394 crore) and transferred it to 8.19 crore farmers. The government also disbursed Rs 20,344 crore to women Jan Dhan account holders till June 2020 and also released Rs 2,814 crore to about 2.81 crore old age persons, widows and disabled persons. Also, 2.3 crore Building & Construction workers have so far received support amounting to Rs 4,313 crore.
According to the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), 164 million have joined as new poor in the country. In sharp contrast, over 75 million people have been lifted from poverty by the Modi government with Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana. Around 42 lakh farmers were paid Rs 73,500 crore, towards MSP for wheat in the Rabi season.
A recent survey conducted by the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research (ICDDR) in Bangladesh found that during the lockdown, 91% of sample families considered themselves to be financially unstable. On the other hand, the Modi government transferred Rs 8,488 crore into bank accounts of PM Ujjwala Yojana beneficiaries. An estimated 80% of workers in the informal sector in Bangladesh have become unemployed. The Bangladesh economy is also currently facing the prospect of plummeting remittances. In contrast, India received $20 billion worth of FDI in between April-June 2020. Migrant remittances constitute about 9% of Bangladesh GDP.
In light of ample proof provided above, comparing a behemoth like India with a much smaller nation like Bangladesh is pure harakiri. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, per capita GDP of India surged from Rs 83,091 in 2014-15 to Rs 1,08,620 in 2019-20,a solid increase of 30.7%. Under Congress led UPA 2, it had risen by a far smaller,19.8%. The icing on the cake is the fact that the Modi government has used the Covid pandemic to unleash big bang reforms.
Sanju Verma (Economist, National spokesperson of BJP & Author of "Truth & Dare — The Modi Dynamic")
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Q: How to pass Material-UI FlatButton CSS into other Button component I'm using a loading button object in my website (https://github.com/mathieudutour/react-progress-button), and I'm trying to pass the Material-UI FlatButton CSS into it so that it looks the same as the FlatButton. However, I'm not sure how to do this.
import ProgressButton from 'react-progress-button'

const App = React.createClass({
  getInitialState () {
    return {
      buttonState: ''
    }
  },

  render () {
    return (

        <ProgressButton onClick={this.handleClick} state={this.state.buttonState}
style={//flat button CSS goes here.....}>
          Go!
        </ProgressButton>

    )
  },

  handleClick () {
    this.setState({buttonState: 'loading'})
    // make asynchronous call
    setTimeout(() => {
      this.setState({buttonState: 'success'})
    }, 3000)
  }
})

Thanks for your help.

A: You can create an invisible flat button and get the style by using something like:
<FlatButton id="mock1"/>
let flatButtonStyle = window.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('mock1'));

Then assign it to <ProgressButton>. You might have to modify the CSS style object a bit since it is returning you all the computed styles.
<ProgressButton onClick={this.handleClick} state={this.state.buttonState} style={this.flatButtonStyle}>

For example in your code
    import ProgressButton from 'react-progress-button'
const App = React.createClass({
  getInitialState () {
    return {
      buttonState: ''
    }
  },

  render () {
    let flatButtonStyle = window.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('mock1'));
    return (

        <FlatButton id="mock1"/>
        <ProgressButton onClick={this.handleClick} state={this.state.buttonState}
style={this.flatButtonStyle}>
          Go!
        </ProgressButton>

    )
  },

  handleClick () {
    this.setState({buttonState: 'loading'})
    // make asynchronous call
    setTimeout(() => {
      this.setState({buttonState: 'success'})
    }, 3000)
  }
})

This should give you a roughly idea. You have to modify the code a little bit to make it work.


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News & Features 13 Dec, 2022
Rancid Announce EU/UK 2023 Tour
Today, East Bay punk rockers Rancid have announced they will be coming back to Europe and the UK next year June to play a run of festival and headline shows.
The tour will be kicking off on June 2nd in Rimini, Italy at Slam Dunk, followed by shows in Slovenia, Austria, Poland, Scandinavia, Germany, Spain, Belgium, UK, The Netherlands and Czech Republic. Tickets will go on sale Friday Dec 16 at 10:00 AM local via https://www.rancidrancid.com/tour
Support on the UK headline shows will be The Bronx and label mates Grade 2.
UK DATES 2023
June 20, 2023 - London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton
June 21, 2023 - Manchester, UK - O2 Victoria Warehouse
Emerging from the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century. Back in 1991, after the demise of their much beloved and still influential first band, Operation Ivy, founding members Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar) and Matt Freeman (bass, vocals) decided to do the impossible -- start an even better band. Thus, Rancid. Signing with Epitaph Records, the band released their first album, "Rancid," in 1993. Shortly thereafter, Lars Frederiksen (vocals, guitar) joined the band. The result, in 1994, was "Let's Go."
In 1995, Rancid released the classic platinum-selling "...And Out Come The Wolves." They followed with the even more ambitious "Life Won't Wait" in 1998, and in 2000, Rancid released another album entitled "Rancid," just to see if anyone was paying attention. After "Indestructible" in 2003, Branden Steineckert (drums) joined to solidify Rancid's current line-up. They subsequently released the albums "Let The Dominos Fall" (2009), "Honor Is All We Know" (2014), and "Trouble Maker" (2017).
Through it all, Rancid has remained fiercely independent, never losing their loyalty to community or each other. Their music confronts political and social issues, while balancing personal tales of love, loss, and heartbreak with attitude. Rancid gives their listeners a community where everyone can belong. By carrying on the traditions and spirit of the original punk rock bands that came before, Rancid has become a legend an inspiration to punk bands that have come after. They are the living embodiment of East Bay punk. And if you don't know all this by now -- you're not playing their music loud enough! See ya in the pit.
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