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Current: 27th Annual CSCST Conference review
27th Annual CSCST Conference review
This year's virtual 27th Annual CSCST Conference boasted about 100 delegates across 35 talks and 33 posters on the topic of Sustainable Energy and Manufacturing the Future.
The Society of Chemical Industry SCI Chinese UK Group and The Chinese Society of Chemical Science and Technology in the UK (CSCST-UK) held their 27th Joint Annual Conference on the 11th to 12th September 2020. The event was held online.
The theme of the event was Sustainable Energy and Manufacturing the Future. About 100 speakers and delegates from the UK, China, Germany, Poland Switzerland and Japan attended. There were 35 talks and 33 posters during the two-day conference, with lots of discussions and exchanging of ideas during the Q&A sessions. The discussions and talks were wide ranging covering renewable energy, green chemical processes, catalysis, advanced materials, batteries, fuel cells and digital technologies for manufacturing.
Dr Xiaolei Fan, Chairman of CSCST-UK, along with the conference chair Dr Chunfei Wu (Queen's University Belfast) opened up the proceedings. This was followed by the Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Warwick; Professor Sai Gu, who gave the first plenary talk titled "Transformation for A Century Old Chemical Engineering". Professor Jun Huang from The University of Sydney, Australia gave the second plenary talk on his research on catalytic conversion in green chemical process, bio-refining, CO2 conversion and hydrogen production.
SCI's Partnerships Executive, Bryony Parker, gave the SCI talk and introduced various career development, networking, scholarship and awards opportunities as SCI members. Dr Weiping Wu, Chairman of SCI Chinese UK group reviewed the historical SCI-CSCST partnership and encouraged all to become SCI members also thanking SCI for its support.
Dr Xiaolei Fan announced winners of the best SCI-CSCST presentations. The winner of the 27th SCI-CSCST 2020 Oral Presentation awards were Dr Josh Bailey from University College London (1st Place Oral), Mr Yaolin Wang from the University of Liverpool (2nd Place Oral), Miss Rui Wang from Tianjin University (3rd Place Oral). The winners of the 27th SCI-CSCST 2020 Poster Awards are Dr Kailong Liu from the University of Warwick (1st pace Poster), Mr Shuming Zhang from Queen's University Belfast (2nd pace Poster), Mr Yucheng Wang from the Northumbria University (3rd pace Poster Award).
Dr Xiaolei Fan also reviewed the recent development of CSCST, the new website, the joint effort to fight COVID-19, the outreach of CSCST with The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC) and GCCCD (Gesellschaft Chinesischer Chemiker und Chemieingenieure in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e. V.).
The next CSCST conference which will be held at the University of Glasgow in 2021. Further information on the application procedure will be released in early 2021.
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Owning Land
Poultry Houses: Solid Wall or Curtain?
John Alumbaugh
Ventilation and temperature management are key components in the production of healthy broiler chickens. That's why in the last several years, poultry farmers have taken steps to improve their chicken houses for better poultry production. Chicken houses have gone from including a couple of fans and drop curtains to today's setup with multiple fans, cool cells, vent doors, and curtains or solid walls.
These additions have certainly improved ventilation systems and temperature management. But when it comes to using curtains or solid walls, which one is better for poultry production? There is a divergence of opinion among farmers on this question.
There are some chicken farmers who prefer drop curtains to solid walls. The biggest benefit of using curtains is that they can drop in an emergency such as a power failure due to a generator malfunction. However, curtains are less efficient in the use of costly propane.
Solid Wall
Solid walls save on fuel costs and provide more efficient airflow. However, unlike curtains, they can compound problems during a power failure accompanied by a generator malfunction.
Some farmers have "walled up" the north side of the broiler houses, leaving the south side with curtains. Some integrators, such as Tyson and Sanderson, prefer solid walls over curtains and may require them for a farm to qualify for top pay from the company.
Have more questions about poultry houses? Feel free to reach out to me at JAlumbaugh@NationalLand.com.
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John Alumbaugh joined National Land Realty in 2019. John has 15 years of experience in the real estate industry, working in the niche market of poultry farms. He has a rural/farming background, having grown up on a farm where he and his family raised cotton, soybeans, corn, watermelons and cantaloupes, hogs, chickens, cattle, and horses. John previously worked with Picket Fences Realty as Broker/Owner for 13 years and spent two years at BrokerSouth Real Estate. He has a master's degree from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in church education and choral music, as well as a bachelor's degree from Excelsior University. He is involved in several organizations including the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Mississippi Association of Realtors, Agriculture Industrial Commercial Real Estate (ACI) Jackson MS, Mississippi Poultry Association (MPA) and Oak Forest Baptist Church. When he's not helping clients, you can find him directing music at his church, which he has been doing for over 40 years. John and his wife, Joni, have a son, Jacob, and a Dachshund named Maggie. View John's Listings and Reviews on NationalLand.com
The Landowner's Guide to Prescribed Burns
October 6, 2021 by Mark Anderson
Fires are an important force shaping forests across much of the United States. Prehistoric fires molded our plant communities and helped create the vast Longleaf Pine forests of the South. In modern times, fire used under controlled and careful conditions is an excellent tool for forest managers and landowners to keep their land healthy. Prescribed …
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Protect Your Recreational Land Investment
September 7, 2021 by Marshall McCraw
As more people purchase rural land to escape crowded cities or establish a recreational property to enjoy with their friends and family, they are faced with a new set of challenges that comes with rural land ownership. After a good land professional has helped you find and purchase the perfect recreational property, your focus quickly …
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Blues' O'Reilly nets short-handed winner after obscure call
NHL Headlines
Ovechkin's hat trick gets Caps by Devils
Stone stars in return, DeBoer wins debut
Jackets win, Carolina D Hamilton injured
Halak sharp as Bruins end Penguins' run
Markstrom stops 34, Canucks top Coyotes
Kreider scores late, Rangers edge Isles
Tkachuk lifts Flames over Leafs in SO
Kovalchuk's pair back Price's 40 saves
Parise, Suter goals carry Wild by Tampa
Grubauer blanks Sharks in Avs' win
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
By JOE HARRIS
ST. LOUIS (AP) After the St. Louis Blues caught the short end of the stick on an obscure NHL rule, Ryan O'Reilly bailed them out with a breakaway winner.
O'Reilly scored a short-handed goal 2:05 into overtime to lift St. Louis over the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Friday night.
O'Reilly's forehand finish was memorable, but the buzz postgame was about the call that put the Blues on the penalty kill to begin with.
Vladimir Tarasenko was called for playing with illegal equipment after picking up teammate Colton Parayko's stick. Blues interim coach Craig Berube said the penalty was called because the 6-foot-6 Parayko has an exemption to the NHL's stick length rule. The 6-foot Tarasenko does not.
"If it was somebody else's stick, say it was (Jaden Schwartz's) stick, he could pick it up and use it," Berube said.
O'Reilly scored 34 seconds later after being sprung by a pass from Robert Bortuzzo. That eased St. Louis' frustration after the surprising penalty call.
"I had no idea," O'Reilly said of the rule. "I think our whole bench had no idea, but with the win tonight I don't think we care. We got it done."
Parayko scored twice and Ivan Barbashev also had a goal for the Blues, who won for the third time in four games. Jake Allen made 39 saves including several game-savers late in the third and in overtime.
J.T. Compher had a goal and an assist, and Sven Andrighetto and Matt Calvert also scored for the Avalanche, who dropped their third straight game. Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves, but lost for the first time in his last 10 starts.
Avalanche coach Jared Bednar felt his team left a point on the table.
"We've got our best players on the ice on a 4-3 power play and we give up a breakaway," Bednar said. "It should be us putting a dagger through them and getting two points. It has to be. We have to better than that. The decision we make with the puck there, it cost us the game so that's it."
Parayko put St. Louis ahead 3-2 with 9 minutes left in the third. It was the second career two-goal game for Parayko, the other coming on Oct. 13, 2015 at Calgary.
Compher's power-play goal tied it with 6:50 left.
Parayko gave the Blues a 1-0 lead at 3:24 of the first period with his second goal in four games on a one-timer from just inside the blue line.
Andrighetto tied it on a breakaway at 5:42 of the first. It was his first goal in eight games.
Calvert gave the Avalanche a 2-1 lead at 9:48 of the first, beating Allen between the legs on a wrap-around for his fourth goal of the season.
Barbashev tied it with 40 seconds left in the first. Jay Bouwmeester set it up with a perfect pass through the crease to a streaking Barbashev who tipped it in.
"I just kind of threw it at the net so it was a good play by him because there really wasn't anything else," Bouwmeester said. "Go to the net and look what happens."
NOTES: The Blues signed F Alexei Toropchenko to a three-year, entry level contract. The 19-year-old from Moscow was drafted in the fourth round (113th overall) in the 2017 draft. ... Avalanche RW Mikko Rantanen extended his points streak to 13 games with an assist on Compher's goal and is tied with Washington's Alex Ovechkin for the longest active streak in the league. ... The Blues scratched D Joel Edmundson and LW Zach Sanford. ... The Avalanche scratched D Mark Alt and D Alexander Kerfoot.
Colorado: hosts Dallas on Saturday.
St. Louis: hosts Calgary on Sunday.
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Jack & Sarah
Roger Ebert May 31, 1996
We begin with the presence of Richard E. Grant. He smiles but is somehow shifty. He doesn't seem like a leading man in a comedy about raising a baby. He isn't smooth, dependable and cuddly. He is, in fact, edgy and short-tempered,and appallingly self-centered. No Hollywood casting director would think twice before rejecting him for the lead in "Jack & Sarah." That is why he makes such an interesting choice, and why the movie rises above its formula origins to become perversely interesting.
You may have seen Grant before, although his name may not come immediately to mind. He was the co-star of "Withnail & I" (1987), as a desperately bitter, angry, unemployed actor. In "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" (1989), his misery was so great that it produced a boil on his shoulder that eventually developed a mind of its own. In "The Player," "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "The Age of Innocence," he played varieties of ominous twits. Not, in other words, the kind of warm-hearted, Hugh Grantish, Dudley Moorish, Richard Dreyfussian lead you would expect in a movie about a selfish egotist who learns to love.
Why is Grant not the expected choice? His face is too long. His eyes are too frank. His mouth is too wry. These are, of course, excellent attributes for an actor, and will give him longevity; Richard Grant will be playing intriguing roles long after Hugh Grant has been consigned to kindly godfathers. But they are not qualities we associate with fuzzy parent figures.
Grant has, in fact, received some negative reviews for this film--mostly, I think, because he forces viewers to come to terms with him, instead of allowing them to settle into a comfortable cocoon of mindless sitcom reassurance. His presence forces the movie to be about something other than its cliches, which are many, and by the end I had become involved in his character's struggle to become a nice person.
Grant plays Jack, a London lawyer who snarls at the workmen rehabbing his home, gets into an ill-advised fight with someone clamping his car (or, as we say here, getting the Denver Boot) and is so intense and competitive that during a natural childbirth class with his pregnant wife (Imogen Stubbs) he goes into sympathetic labor. Soon it is time for the baby to be born, an event he misses, having fallen down the stairs and gone unconscious to the hospital in the same ambulance as his wife.
It is not betraying too much of the plot, I hope, to reveal that Sarah dies in childbirth. This happens very early on, as a setup for the central plot, which involves Jack's struggle to become a good parent, love his little daughter Sarah, and transform himself into an acceptable human being.
He is assisted in this struggle by Amy (Samantha Mathis), an American working as a waitress in London; he rescues her from her restaurant and hires her to be Sarah's nanny. And he is helped by William (Ian McKellen), an alcoholic derelict who cleans himself up nicely and more or less appoints himself the household butler. Assorted grandparents also come into the picture, particularly those wonderful actresses Judi Dench, as his mother, and Eileen Atkins, as his stepmother. They dote on little Sarah, and hope Jack will become a good father--if such a thing is possible.
If you muse a bit on the characters I've described, you will no doubt be able to fashion a very good guess about what eventually happens. That's why Richard Grant is so important to the movie. The screenplay, by Tim Sullivan (who also directs), is straight off the assembly line. But by casting against type, by finding an actor whose very presence insists he is not to be disregarded, the movie works in spite of its conventions. Grant makes general scenes into particular ones, and adds suspense by generating doubt about whether his character will respond according to formula. "Jack & Sarah" is almost perverse in the way it backs into its cheerful outcome; first the heart transplant, then the heart.
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Jack & Sarah (1996)
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Dead! have dropped their erratically animated new video.
It's for new track 'Enough Enough Enough' and the band said they, "wanted to go for something loud and colourful" for the video.
"'Enough Enough Enough' is a simple rock song, all we needed was a video to show you how we work live and a chance for us to get on your screen and up in your face. Due to the events of the night before we may have forgotten to sleep... but at least you can see that we'd actually had enough!"
Dead! will be playing a London show on April 28 and will also be performing at Download festival in June.


I'll be out at my Pop-Up Store in Soho, NYC at 115 Prince St. Thursday to Sunday 10:00 - 6:00. Stop on by to see some new work.
Always entertained by what passes by my Pop-Up store in Soho. I'll be out today to Sunday.
I'm out in Soho at my Pop-Up shop this summer at 115 Prince St. in NYC, working Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 6:00 and 7:00 on the weekends. I have some new prints !
"Do you have a Lemon" ?
At least once a week at my Pop-Up Store at 115 Prince Street in Soho, in New York City, I get asked, "Do you have a Lemon?" Now I can finally say....."Yes we have Lemons" ! It took a while to find the perfect Lemon and here it is ! It will be coming soon to the website.
The Pop-up shop is growing !
The Pop-up shop is growing now featuring 22x24" canvas prints that can be stretched on 18x18" frames. Come on out for a visit, I'm at 115 Prince St. in Soho, NYC to see some new work !


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Reviewed: Lonesome Lies Before Us by Don Lee
by Tom Lawton | Dec 2, 2017
While Lee's depictions of carpet-laying and hotel room tidying are, top notch, can his novel about an aspiring guitarist trapped in a dead end job learn to sing?
In the 21st century, few artistic avenues seem as easy to break into as music. You've got a guitar, a couple of songs and an empty hat? Go perform in the park or the subway and make a few bucks. Bam, you're a professional musician though, of course, only on the smallest of scales. It's when one tries to move up to the next level that the great disillusionment arises. There are an awful lot of fine musicians out there who never progress beyond the subway-platform-for-change level or, worse, make a go of it briefly only to wind up back at the bottom.
Yadin Park, chief protagonist of Lonesome Lies Before Us, is one of the latter, a talented singer and guitarist who blanched at the first stirrings of success and now, years later, is stuck in what he fears is a dead-end job, with what is possibly a dead-end relationship and facing the rapidly dwindling opportunity to record one last album of his songs.
Lee gets right many little details. His depictions of carpet-laying and hotel room tidying are, I imagine, unparalleled in American letters and I mean that sincerely. Unless one gives it some thought, one doesn't really know how thorough the process for cleaning a first-class hotel room truly is. Along the same lines, his depiction of the carpet business, from piles and styles to the medical conditions that come from working with them – especially something called "prepatellar bursitis", which made me wince – is spot-on. His truly revolting passage on the vicissitudes of zit-popping has to be the apex of that genre.
What I don't get though, at least not often, is a sense of music. Yadin's is described by genre, the instruments and recording devices he uses to create it are mentioned, sometimes in overwhelming detail but nothing about these passages, if you'll forgive the unintended pun, sings. It's a tall order I realize but if one is going to write about music, the reader really needs to somehow hear it. The whole thing seems rather too clinical. The sole exception to this is when Yadin and former bandmate Mallory, who's having her own artistic crisis, briefly get together to record. Lee's description of them singing to each other in Yadin's shabby little home studio brings to mind nothing so much as Johnny Cash and June Carter in their early days.
Credit is due for Lee's willingness to show his characters as true to themselves. They are at times stupid and unlikeable. They are at times decent, generous and forgiving, a lot like real human beings and because so, the reader wants to root for them, not matter what trajectory they appear to be on. Will one have an affair that will transform their life? Will one find their way back on to the artistic track they lost years earlier? Will one find redemption and lost love through their music? The answers, while not exactly surprising, ring true; there are no clean answers or easy resolutions here.
Don Lee's clean, plain prose properly conveys the thoughts and actions of his characters, who are not very bright. They're carpet installers and chambermaids primarily due to their own mistakes and lyrical flights wouldn't suit them. When Lee does elevate his language and style, it's because the character has had something of a revelation as Yadin does when he finds his long sought personal form of prayer. It comes in an unexpected form and that may be the true idea behind Loneliness Lies Before Us, the notion that each of us has a yearning and a convoluted path towards a fulfillment that we may never reach.


Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) is one of the most outstanding German Baroque composers and was an influential musical force in the first half of the 18th century. After initial success as a musician in Leipzig, in 1712 he was appointed the city director of music and Kapellmeister in Frankfurt am Main. He gained widespread international fame by 1737/38 at the latest by performing several concerts in Paris. Of his over 1,400 extant sacred cantatas, the maestro composed at least 54 for bass solo.
The L'arpa festante chamber orchestra, which has already earned international critical acclaim for its Splendid Harmony album featuring works by Schütz pupils, has now made a recording with bass-baritone and Telemann expert Klaus Mertens of further undiscovered sacred cantatas for bass solo with period instruments.
Discovered in archives, some of these cantatas were reconstructed for the recording. The opening chorus and the cantata "All's Glück und Ungelücke" for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, the communion cantata "Fliehethin, ihr bösen Tage" and "Soll ich nicht von Jammer sagen," as well as the cantata "Vater unser im Himmelreich," an exegesis of the first stanza of Martin Luther's hymn of the same name, are world premiere recordings. The cantata "Herr! erhöre meine Stimme" was also recorded for the first time for this release and stands out for the remarkable dramatic suspense which builds up and is only resolved in the third movement. The album is rounded out with further Telemann works: two quartets for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo, the Sonata in F major and the Concerto in E minor.


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Minneapolis Community Leaders and MPD Talk Public Safety at LHENA Forum
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Wedge resident & volunteer LHENA board member
The Man Up Club hosts an event at the site of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis in June 2020. (The Man Up Club/Facebook)
Grassroots democracy is not easy. The work is rooted in community and empowers people to take leadership into their own communities. It requires passion, commitment and courage. And sometimes, it can get messy. That's what happens when there are big problems to solve.
Here in Minneapolis, we have some pressing issues. Crime is up. Gun violence is up. Public morale is down. Citizens are concerned. As neighborhood leaders, we do not want to wait for something to turn the tide. We want to push momentum forward in productive ways that help us identify the priorities and figure out ways we can all work together to address them. On Oct. 21, the Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Neighborhood Association (LHENA) hosted a public safety forum with boots-on-the-ground community leaders in Minneapolis. The conversation was on Zoom and Facebook, and participants included:
Korey Dean, The Man Up Club
Lisa Clemons, A Mother's Love Initiative
Raeisha Williams, Guns Down Love Up
Charles Caine, Brothers Empowered
Chief Medaria Arradondo, Minneapolis Police Department (MPD)
Inspector Amelia Huffman, Fifth Precinct, MPD
"The main thing that we have been addressing and can address as an organization is mentorship. Bring back that village mentality."
Korey Dean is the founder and executive director of The Man Up Club, a mentor-leadership organization that launched in 2012 and mentors young Black males between the ages of 12 and 24. The nonoprofit organization teaches life skills, social skills and academic discipline and has three goals: "to get our young black males to graduate from high school, to keep them out of the prison pipeline, and then to either go on to college or develop a trade or career after high school."
Dean was joined by some young men from the Man Up Club who are focused on career development, education and jobs. One of them spoke about what life is like right now being a young Black male in the Twin Cities.
"It's pretty hard," he said. "Trying to find a job kind of gets hard."
Another young man said, "Honestly, life in the inner city right now is pretty hard. As we all know, the whole topic of this meeting is crime, and I've lost a lot of people to gun violence. To process that and realize that you've lost a friend, or a family member, or whatever the case is, it's a situation that could have been prevented if we just took certain policies serious. It's hard to overcome, but in the end, if we all work together, and come up with a solution, I am pretty sure it won't last forever."
The people closest to the problems often have the best ideas for solutions. But too often the voices of those most impacted by crime and gun violence are not heard. We need to start listening to the community and stop making decisions without them. This is how we can begin to change the narrative.
Charles Caine, center, and friends enjoy giving back to the community with Brothers Empowered. (Brothers Empowered)
Charles Caine is the founder of Brothers Empowered, a self-funded community mentorship organization based in Minneapolis that started in 2014. He explained how he was able to make an immediate impact in the community.
"One of the reasons why we were able to make an instant impact is having men who were rooted, grounded in the community, stable-minded men, sound-minded men, pillars in the community," Caine said. "So our goal was to create pillars within the community. We saw that every successful community had men who were pillars in the community that were giving back or had commitments in that community, whether it was business, whether it was with family, whether it was religion, there were pillars in the community. We were suffering because we didn't have enough men who were sound-minded in the community. So that was the mission and motive of Brothers Empowered. Create sound-minded Black leaders in the community."
Caine gave his thoughts on the safety situation. "There are so many factors. It's an economic issue, job, housing, drug and chemical dependency issue. We have a large rate of homeless teens in this country. The educational and economic gap between Black and white is one of the worst in the nation. The main thing that we have been addressing and can address as an organization is mentorship. Bring back that village mentality. That uncle mentality. I'm a product of a mentor. So I know that it works personally. When I was a young man growing up in North Minneapolis, there was a guy that I'm sure you know, V.J. Smith, before he even started Mad Dads, he took me under his wing. He would take me lunch, show me colleges, spend time with me. That meant a lot. That helped to impact my life as a young man."
"When you operate in silos, all the other violence gets to skate through, all the young people that need your help, they slip through the cracks because we're not working together in a unified effort."
Lisa Clemons, center back in hat, at A Mother's Love event. (Lisa Clemons/Facebook)
Lisa Clemons is a longtime Minneapolis community activist and organizer and former MPD officer. She started A Mother's Love in 2014 to bring back the village and has a team composed of women and men that reflects the communities they serve.
"It was really hard to get started because I don't think people are used to having a woman with boots on the ground," Clemons said. "It was hard to get the women involved. But I need the community to know that the women needed a voice, not to just speak on their daughters, but to speak on their sons. Because 70 percent of households, many in North Minneapolis, are headed by a single Black mom. So we don't just mother daughters. We mother sons also. That's no dig on my African-American brothers, because they are in this fight with us."
Clemons deals with a lot of the violence in the community, and that's what she talks most about, the violence in the community. "We try to mentor also," added Clemons. "The problem is the division of the mentorship. We all operate in silos. When you operate in silos, all the other violence gets to skate through, all the young people that need your help, they slip through the cracks because we're not working together in a unified effort."
Clemons is all about solutions to the violence, and that's where we all have to be focused on now. Getting all of the community mentorship groups to work together will be key.
Raeisha Williams, front and center, with Guns Down Love Up activists at Minneapolis City Hall. (Facebook)
"(Chief Arradondo) came up to me in humanity, in kindness. He spoke to me in a respectful manner, said, 'Whatever you need, let me know. I'm here for you.' And that's the difference between community policing and white supremacists who get on the police force and are racist and already have racist views and interactions with Black people."
Raeisha Williams is an activist with Guns Down Love Up, which was started in 2019, and like all of the other organizations on the panel, she is doing the work on the ground.
"There are so many reasons why gun violence is so prominent, not just one," she said. "So it's being able to have multiple groups. Many different organizations. Many different neighborhood associations taking responsibility for it and stepping up and trying to create solutions."
She has experienced the violence firsthand and lived the journey with community harm. Her brother, Tyrone Williams, a community activist and racial justice activist, was murdered in front of her mother's house. She and her family gained a better understanding of what losing a loved one means. Guns Down Love Up focuses on three areas: prevention, intervention and restorative justice.
"We are a small group, all volunteers, very underfunded. We can't do everything," said Williams. "That's why we like partnering with other organizations like Lisa Clemons, Brothers Empowered, and the Man Up Club. Chief Rondo even attended a few events. We're all collectively doing the work. Even if we work in different areas. The ultimate goal is to create solutions for gun violence."
Korey Dean speaks to Man Up Club members. (The Man Up Club/Facebook)
"One group, one police department cannot do it all. There is not one solution to all of the issues and problems that created gun violence."
Korey Dean from the Man Up Club raised another important point. Besides the need to bring back the village approach and get outside silos, there is a third layer to the problem of gun violence — money.
"I think one of the greatest issues that we face when it comes to gun violence, and even programming, is funding," Dean said. "All of these organizations that are on this call right now are underfunded. That's a big issue. In order to make long-term, sustainable change, you have to have long-term sustainable funding. That people can see the value. Wherever you put your dollars at, I think that's where you put your value at. And if there are no dollars in the inner city, then there is no value in the inner city.
"When you talk to a lot of these organizations, the issues are mounting issues as far as violence, but the resources are scarce. Now let me quantify that. The resources that are scarce in the community, they're not scarce in the city. And they're not scarce in the state. But the funneling process to get those dollars to grassroots organizations that need them on the ground that's something that we have to systematically fix so that those funds can flow down because the work that we are doing, though it may be illuminated, it needs to be effective and impactful. In order to make it impactful, we have to start getting into the six-figure numbers where we can provide them adequate resources outside of school and outside of their homes."
The Minneapolis Police Department has a 150-year history in Minneapolis. The current backlash against the MPD (and against policing across the United States) did not start with the George Floyd killing on Memorial Day. The MPD (and policing in the U.S.) has earned that over a long history. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo is doing his best to lead the MPD in these unstable times. We invited the police to be part of this panel because we believe they should be part of this conversation, and we want to discuss ways we all can work together toward public safety in the community.
"Every young person got to see themselves 20 years from now."
Chief Arradondo, a fifth-generation Minnesotan, joined the MPD in 1989 as a patrol officer. In 2017, he became the 53rd chief of the Minneapolis Police Department and the city's first African-American police chief (he also is Latino of Colombian descent). Chief Arradondo has great respect for the work grassroots community organizations do. He knew and worked with the other speakers on this panel before he became chief and has collaborated with their organizations.
"This work is too great and the time is too short. One organization cannot do it alone," said Chief Arradondo. "The police department will never be able to solve many of the society issues that we are plagued with at times. Community safety, I believe, is a part of an ecosystem. Policing is just one piece of that. But it really relies upon all of that."
The chief echoed the need for mentorship. "We need more mentorship. Absolutely. We are going to need everybody. It's an all hands on deck to really try to address this trauma that is impacting our communities. I am committed to continuing to support, be an ally, with the important work all of the leaders on the call are doing and will continue to do that."
A community member, Bill Rodriguez had a question for the chief about staffing levels. Rodriguez runs a Facebook group called Operation Safety Now and has proposed a 60-day plan to address the spikes in crime and violence. The chief expressed concerns about staffing levels.
"We are at a critical juncture right now with public safety," said the chief. "Yes, we have mutual aid agreements, and I will have to continue to rely upon our mutual aid partners, whether that's Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, Metro Transit Police Department, U of M, and others. … What part of the city am I focused on? All four corners. And I will move heaven and earth to make sure all of our communities are safe. But I am going to need resources for that.
"[W]e need good public safety. I don't want police officers out there harming our community. We will not break the law to enforce the law. But I need resources. And again it's a village mentality. I need the work of Guns Down Love Up. I need the work of Mr. Dean's group. I need the work of Mr. Caine to do what he's doing. And Miss Raeisha. We all need to work together in this ecosystem. Resources are depleted and diminishing rapidly. … I will utilize and take as many resources as I can to keep our city safe. I will continue to operate in the narrative that is both and. We need more public safety resources. At the same time, I want to support the work [of community organizations.] Those groups need to be funded as well."
Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo with The Man Up Club. (The Man Up Club)
The chief was asked about the Black community's relationship with the police and the harm that has been caused and whether their lives matter. "Yes, their lives absolutely matter," said Chief Arradondo. "There is a reason why I decided 31 years to work back in the community that nurtured me and gave me an opportunity. I'm from Minneapolis. I was born and raised in North Minneapolis when we called it the projects. But grew up as a child in South Minneapolis. We have to, we have to see each other as necessary. These young kings that are sitting around Mr. Dean, their lives do matter. And the sanctity of life matters. And anytime a life is taken, particularly when a child is taken from our community, that impacts all of us. I am tired of going to funerals. I need to make sure that we are doing everything we can so that our men and women just truly understand their importance. What is occurring today cannot be their normal for tomorrow. That pain is real, and I hear from it.
"So one of the things I do personally is I make sure I am in conversations with these young kings that Mr. Dean has surrounded by him. I also go out to our prisons. I know there is trauma that affects people along the way and journeys. I am not trying to increase our prison system here in Minnesota. My job is not to keep Sheriff Hutchinson's jail full. If there is any way possible to give our young men an opportunity and restore hope in their lives, I want to make sure I can do that the best way I can. At the same time, we have to hold our communities accountability for violence and harm. I want to make sure our officers truly can see and interact and engage with our young men and women. Their lives absolutely do matter. So I will continue to work toward that each and every day. I have an obligation to them. So I will continue to be dedicated to that."
"The way violence is distributed across the city is very unequal."
Raeisha Williams recounted a story of when she had her first personal encounter with Chief Arradondo. It was during the Jamar Clark protests when they were occupying the Fourth Precinct in 2015. "He came up to me not knowing me. He came up to me in humanity, in kindness. He spoke to me in a respectful manner, said, 'Whatever you need, let me know. I'm here for you.' And that's the difference between community policing and white supremacists who get on the police force and are racist and already have racist views and interactions with Black people."
Williams posed a key question about the police: "How do we clean house? I'm glad that all of the officers who have stepped down, have stepped down. Sometimes, it has to be really, really uncomfortable before it gets better. I'm happy that Rondo is in the position that he is in. We as activists and community members asked for Rondo. We haven't had a Black police officer who was a police chief ever, who was from the Twin Cities, born and raised. That goes to the pipeline, when you talk about youth. North Minneapolis, North High, Henry, Washburn, all of our community schools should have a pipeline to policing. So that if our young people in our communities want to be police officers, like Lisa Clemons and Rondo, they have an opportunity to do that. Because when you police your own community, you treat them with more dignity, respect and humanity. Because you see your mom, your aunt, your cousin in them.
"Our police force is less than 3 percent of local police officers who are residents. Can you imagine 90 percent of Blaine's officers being Black men from North Minneapolis, going in to get those jobs, get those pensions, and then not even spend the money in Blaine. Could you imagine that? And could you imagine all of these Black officers murdering white Blaine residents? And they don't live there, they're not from the community. If it happened once, there would be a total different outcry. And this goes to systemic racism and how it's embedded in the policing. So it's not that all police officers are bad.
"And trust me, I hold all officers accountable as an activist who's always been on the front line calling them out. I've called Rondo out. But I also believe that if I have, for instance, when my brother was murdered, who can I call? Who can I call? If I don't have the police to call, there is no other department, there is no other way to get that justice. I need police officers to show up respectful, treat me with humanity and dignity, and stop killing us, and stop profiling us. But that's a bigger issue. It's getting rid of white supremacy in the police force. Cleaning house and bringing in officers. It's not going to be the National Guard. White supremacy is all through there. It's about bringing in real people who want to do real policing and community work."
Lisa Clemons made a keen observation, "The real sign of a true leader is when you piss off other cops. So that's what Chief Arradondo does by making reforms and changes. He pisses off other cops. That's a good thing. What he does not have is the support of a city council. You can't ask for somebody to make reforms and then not support them in the efforts to make reforms. I am very proud of everything Raeisha said on here. What I love about her is that no matter how she feels about cops, she supports this chief. We all stand behind this chief. We all expect the changes to come that involve us in those changes."
Clemons also defended Deputy Chief Art Knight, who was demoted to lieutenant by Chief Aradondo for telling the Oct. 18 edition of Minneapolis Star Tribune, "If we keep employing the same tactics, you're going to keep getting the same white boys." Knight was referring to the way the MPD recruits, trains and promotes people of color and women on the force.
The punishment, Clemons believes, was much too harsh. "Regardless of what anybody feels about him using the word 'white boy' or 'white officer' or 'white cop,' we all knew what his message was. And that is, if you are serious about diversity in the Minneapolis Police Department, there are routes that you need to take to get that diversity into the Minneapolis Police Department. So I stand behind him. … We all knew exactly what he meant. The message got lost in one word, and that's 'boy.'"
"Housing impacts everything we do in terms of true community safety."
Clemons had more words that need to be heard.
"We keep ignoring that Black women and Black daughters are being killed out in these streets, too. That a lot of the fights that happen between our Black men involves our Black women and our Black daughters and Black mothers," said Clemons. "Every time we have this conversation, our whole focus is one-sided. And I'll tell you what I say and most of you have heard it. You save the mother, you save the child. Seventy percent of mothers are single heads of households. You save the father, because you have to work on them both at the same time, not separately. You save the father, you save the family. Once you start saving whole families, you save communities. Now until we remember that, and when we talk about funding I'm telling you what's real, this work is not easy.
"Change is not going to come with you nickel and diming everybody. And then taking money from the police department and saying we're going to defund you and put this money into this and I want somebody to raise their hand on here and tell me where that defunded money from the police department went in helping us make change in the community. I get real tired about talking about this. I get emotional about this. I stand with this police chief on everything he trying to do. He make me mad at times. But I stand with this man on everything he do, everything he represents. I hope Chief Knight don't leave the Minneapolis Police Department. I stand with him on everything he says and everything he does. If you want change in the community, the city council members, they got to go. They are impeding the work that we all need to be doing together in a joint effort to save these lives. This is no longer in the containment zone of North Minneapolis. This is city-wide and moving to the suburbs."
Lisa Clemons said she has not gotten any city funding because she did not want to wear the orange shirt of the violence interruptors in Minneapolis. They are paid employees of the city's Office of Violence Prevention, and the violence interrupters program launched in September 2020 as part of the MinneapolUS Strategic Outreach Initiative. Clemons said she spent six years building her brand and did not want to build a brand for the city council for a check.
Raeisha Williams also called out the city council when it comes to funding. "They're playing games. They don't want to give the money to real groups. You may not like me. You may not like the way I move. But the difference is I am creating solutions and real change in my community. We have to get over I don't like her. Or it's a political game. Because we are losing lives. We are losing our children's lives."
In July 2020, the Minneapolis City Council approved moving $1.1 million from the MPD to the city's office of violence prevention. Williams questioned why the city council would create a group and give them all of the money when other groups were established and already doing positive work. When talking about funding, Williams cited that move, "I'm not offended that we didn't get funded. That's OK. And I'm not offended one group over me got funded. That's also OK. But you can't give $1.5 million toward one group and expect them to do all the work. That's what we talked about earlier. It should have been multiple groups doing multiple different solution work and activities in the community. One group, one police department cannot do it all. There is not one solution to all of the issues and problems that created gun violence. So when we talk about funding, make it equitable and get out of the politics."
Charles Caine added, "We have been self-funded for six years. I'm on Broadway and Emerson right now where we fed, we gave away $25,000 meals throughout April through August throughout the whole quarantine. One of our passions is giving back. Giving back. Period. Because it becomes bigger than just yourself. As men, young and old, we have a duty in the foundation to give back."
He's also not surprised about the lack of funding. "I'm not surprised we're underfunded or overlooked. Because we're a volunteer-based organization. Everybody in our program do it from their heart. We have fed over a 100,000 people in six years. We've given backpacks, bikes, done community peacekeeping. And most of this is volunteer based. This is what we do. If you want to make a change, give the money to those who are doing the work from their heart. Those who are really out here doing the work and it ain't about no money.
"We don't need money in Brothers Empowered. We don't need the state, the city, the county, the grant money in Brothers Empowered to do what we do. We have been doing it six years. Self-funded. We have created businesses. Like Honor Roll Athletics. Which is part of our business management training program for the youth in our program. We're teaching them how to run and manage businesses. We have a youth advisory board that make decisions on Honor Roll Athletics. And a portion of the proceeds go back to the organization, which is rooted in the community so it goes back to the community.
"We have started up different other businesses. Power to Win, essential oils. We have started other businesses. We have created a video and audio production company. We're looking into expanding into other businesses, which is connected to our business training and management program teaching the youth how to become entrepreneurs. Because all these dudes that are out here on these streets, with all this time on their hands, being an entrepreneur means you create and have control of your time, you do what you want to do. And these young people, it's all about control of their own time, doing what they want to do. Why put that energy into being on the corner, where you're making the salary of a McDonald's employee, $30,000, $20,000 a year. That ain't no money, if you're out here a corner boy. You're gonna be the one that's gonna take the body and gonna go to jail and gonna be making 15 cents an hour, after taxes 8 cents.
"So we're teaching them how to run and manage a business and create their own lane, so that they can utilize those entrepreneurial skills into something productive. If I can get them busy into doing something they enjoy doing, whether it's fashion, music, video, whether it's culinary, whether it's automotive, whatever, then that takes their time away from these knuckleheads. Because every young person got to see themselves 20 years from now. And the problem is, these youngsters don't see themselves two years from now. They want to go visit their homies in jail. They want to go with their homeboy and brother that was shot last year or last month. That's the problem. They have developed a combatant mentality, a do-or-die mentality. And they're too young to have that mentality.
"I'm not surprised that organizations that have been out here doing the work don't get funded. … The system don't really want to see no real change. They don't want to see no real change. So there is always going to be a band-aid on the sore, on the cut. … I'm not into politics like that. I don't chase the funds like that. The system don't really want us to see change in our community. But we have to do, I'm speaking to Lisa, Raeisha and everybody else that is about this, we have to make change on ourselves. And then the system will run and beg us to take their money."
MPD Fifth Precinct Inspector Amelia Huffman, far left, with Deputy Chief of Patrol Kathy Waite, Fourth Precinct Inspector Kelvin Pulphus and Commander of the Training Unit Katie Blackwell. (Minneapolis Police Department/Facebook)
Inspector Amelia Huffman of the Fifth Precinct, whom Chief Arradondo praised as a great leader, patiently waited for more than an hour on the call before she got a chance to speak.
"The situation here in the Fifth Precinct is substantially different from what folks are working with in the Fourth Precinct in North Minneapolis or in the Third Precinct on the east side of 35W," Inspector Huffman said. "When you look at the spike in violence that has happened this year and the incredible rise we have seen in shootings, it is really unevenly distributed across the city. Seven percent of the shooting victims this year have been in the Fifth Precinct, and the vast majority of the rest of the shooting victims have been in the Third Precinct and the Fourth Precinct. The way violence is distributed across the city is very unequal.
"When you look at violence in the Fifth Precinct here, it is very clear that it is also unequally distributed here. Whittier, Lowry Hill East and Stevens Square are the three most crime-burdened neighborhoods in the Fifth Precinct of the 20 neighborhoods that make up Southwest Minneapolis. That includes both property crimes and violent crimes. So even though our share of violent crimes is much smaller than some of the other precincts are contending with, we have violent crime hot spots in this precinct. Pretty stably over the last 10 years, we've had three primarily violent hot spots. One is in Uptown at Lake and Hennepin and Lake and Lagoon. One is at Lake and Pillsbury and the other is at Franklin and Nicolett.
"In the past, we have had beat officers working in those areas, we have had extra focused patrol resources, we've had a community response team to work on some neighborhood complaints to work with businesses, neighborhood organizations. As the chief mentioned, as the department grows smaller, and as we become much more one-dimensional, our ability to staff those kind of positions is shrinking as well. We have lost those resources. Next year, we will not be able to staff those kind of positions. We will have fewer investigators here at the precinct. We will have no beat officers here at the precinct. We also will not have a community response team. With our own precinct resources, we will not have the ability to do plainclothe investigations to follow up on neighborhood complaints about problem properties, drug activity, street-level, low-level violence, those kind of projects and work we used to do in the past will have to be shared among citywide resources. Just in a snapshot, that's what we're looking at here in the fifth precinct right now and going into next year. "
We need to have an ecosystem of public safety. One of the problems is we have lost a lot of trust in one part of that ecosystem, the Minneapolis Police Department. How do we heal that lack of trust? How do we get more effective accountability? What could change the game for this year and for the next five years?
The speakers shared their ideas for reforms. Lisa Clemons would like to see boots-on-the-ground organizations and police working in a strong partnership. "Getting to know each other. Our wants and unwants. Likes and dislikes. Things we agree on. People would be shocked how much we have in common. Put biases at the door. Want to have real conversations with cops and our youth with no holds barred. Real conversations in a room with just them to talk to each other. Without anybody getting angry about it. I would like to start building bridges between the police department and the community. Real bridges."
Marchers at the Godflow urban youth rally in Minneapolis in August 2020. (The Man Up Club/Facebook)
This type of relational building can lead to transformative justice. First, we have to rethink what's possible and ask: How? How do we prevent and stop violence and harm without creating more violence and harm? How do we transform a society in which harm is endemic to build a culture where violence becomes unthinkable? Small everyday acts of accountability and relationship building can lead to a cultural shift away from harm.
Charles Caine shared his thoughts on police. "Yes, we need to hire a lot more officers and have them be a part of the community. There should be commanding officers, lieutenants, that are from the community. That are working in that department. Because you have the heart of the community. You live there. When you live somewhere, there is more of an investment. Have more officers residing in the community where they work. Doesn't matter what color they are. If they reside in that community for 5-10 years, you are a part of that community.
"I also believe those officers should be working hand-in-hand with their neighborhood associations. Those officers should be a direct liaison that are working with the neighborhood associations that deals with complaints. I believe the neighborhood association should deal with the complaints. Neighborhood associations are open to anybody. There should be more exposure of neighborhood associations to get residents and community leaders into part of neighborhood associations and crime and safety division of neighborhood associations to deal with those complaints. A lot of those officers are complained and all they do is switch them. "
Caine supports Chief Arradondo and created a new tagline. "Rocking with Chief Rondo. This is something bigger than Chief Rondo. This is something that has been in existence for years upon years. He can't make an instant change. I definitely rock with him. We don't have deep a relationship, but I have researched and learned a lot about him."
How do we transform accountability and give it back to the community? LHENA residents shared some ideas at a community public safety workshop at Mueller Park on Oct. 10, and Chief Rondo is open to listening to the community.
"I am supportive of police oversight," he said. "We have a mechanism right now through the office police conduct review. Years before that, we had an interaction of that civilian review authority. Never a perfect system. Any sort of mechanism where we can have some community oversight is important."
But one of the biggest problems we still have to address is the housing issue. "Housing impacts everything we do in terms of true community safety," Chief Arradondo said.
Community is more important than ever. People want to get more engaged in public safety in a much more deeper level than what we have been. Thanks to technology, we now have the ability to talk to each other across different parts of the city.
LHENA plans to do more forums on public safety and use these conversations to create solutions. The idea is to create a community ecosystem that connects all of the community mentorship and leadership groups doing great, positive work with boots on the ground. We want to create a mobilized community force so everyone is connected, working together instead of in silos, to increase the peace and create more opportunities and justice for all.
If you are interested in collaborating with us on this initiative, please contact LHENA president Alicia Gibson at gibson.alicia@gmail.com and LHENA board member Eric Ortiz at erictortiz@gmail.com.
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Miomir Kecmanovic: Bio, Age, Height
Serbian professional tennis player Miomir Kecmanovic competes on the ATP Tour. He has won two Challenger titles, one singles title, and one doubles title in the ATP. At age 6, the Belgrade native started playing tennis. Kecmanovic is connected to IMG Academy, an American preparatory boarding school and training facility for athletes.
Miomir also achieved a career-high 38 victories in 2022, winning the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the third rounds of Roland Garros. Kecmanovic reached his highest singles position of world No. 27 on January 16, 2023. He reached his highest ranking in the world, 161, on September 16, 2019. Professional coaches including Miro Hrvatin, David Nalbandian, and Johan Ortegren have worked with Kecmanovic.
1 What is the Net Worth Miomir Kecmanovic?
2 Relationship History
3 Kecmanovic is sponsored by Nike and Dunlop
4 Parents
5 Quick Wiki
6 Information on the Family Back ground
8 Interesting Facts
What is the Net Worth Miomir Kecmanovic?
Since becoming a professional in 2017, Kecmanovic has won numerous awards. He has amassed huge financial gains in addition to winning games. The majority of Kecmanovic's gains come from playing tennis professionally. Additionally, he has worked with certain companies that may have paid him considerably. Miomir is thought to have a net worth of more than $2 million when all of his sources of income are taken into account.
Kecmanovic's salary has increased throughout the years, and since he is still playing professionally, we can be certain that it will continue to improve in the years to come. Regarding his winnings, Kemanovic has competed in numerous competitions and has earned a total of $4,154,842.
In 2017, Miomir earned $2,381 in doubles and $44,482 in singles. The following year, he won more money, taking home $132,001. Kecmanovic received a staggering $1,560,836 in 2023.
In a committed relationship with his stunning girlfriend Katarina Drazic, Kecmanovic is already taken. For more than three years, the couple has shared a girlfriend and boyfriend relationship. We are unable to reveal when the tennis player started dating Katarina because he has kept details about his romantic relationships private.
But on April 3, 2019, Kecmanovic published the first picture on Instagram with his girlfriend. Therefore, it can be assumed that they started dating in 2019. If I could reach up and hold a star for each time you've made me smile, the entire sky would be in the palm of my hand, Miomir stated while sharing the photo with a red heart emoji.
Additionally, Kecmanovic and Drazic shared in the 2020 New Year's festivities. The athlete tweeted a photo from their trip to Dubai Marina. The same year, the couple spent Valentine's Day in Antarctica where they took a camel ride. Kecmanovic and Drazic visited Siddhartha Lounge Dubai for the New Year of 2021. In addition, it appears that Kecmanovic's girlfriend attends Chicago State University. She is active on Instagram and is known by the handle @katarinadrazic_.
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Kecmanovic is sponsored by Nike and Dunlop
A few sportswear companies that sponsor the professional tennis player have worked with him. Kecmanovic has a sponsorship agreement with Nike for apparel and footwear. He's wearing Nike Court Zoom NXT All court shoes. Tennis player Kimberly Birrell has also collaborated with Nike.
Kecmanovic also has a contract with Dunlop, a different company. In 2021, Kecmanovic and Dunlop agreed to a contract. He thus makes use of their racquet. Kecmanovic plays with strings made of Dunlop Explosive Spin on a Dunlop SX 300 racquet. He primarily carries a Dunlop SX Racket Bag, and both of his bags are from the same manufacturer.
Kecmanovic previously had a contract with Dunlop and was using Babolat racquets.
Dragutin Kecmanovic and Maja Pavlov gave birth to Miomir Kecmanovic. His mother and father are both doctors, thus they come from various backgrounds. Despite this, they have helped their child throughout his entire career.
Therefore, Dragutin and Maja have a significant impact on Miomir's tennis career. His parents are surgeons, and they specialize in general and abdominal surgery. The existence of Kecmanovic's siblings is unknown.
Quick Wiki
Full or real name Miomir Kecmanović
Nick name Kecmanovic
Profession Serbian professional tennis player
Height in feet inches 6 feet 0 inch
weight in Kg (approx) 75 kg
Body fitness Unknown
age 24 years (as of 2023)
Birth place Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Nationality Serbian
Salary US$1,959,872
Net worth $2 million USD
father name Dragutin Kecmanović
mother name Maja Pavlov
brother Unknown
girlfriend Not known
girlfriend Profession Not known
twitter address Twitter open
Hobbies Listenning to Music, playing tennis
Does he like smoke Unknown
Does he drinking alcohol N/A
Favourite animals Unknown
Favourite animals Bird
Favourite colors Gray
Favourite games Tennis
Favorite tennis player Roger Federer
Information on the Family Back ground
The tennis player from Serbia comes from a sporting family. General of the Yugoslav People's Army Jovan Pavlov was his maternal grandfather. Miomir began playing tennis with his grandfather when he was 6 years old. Additionally, Prof. Kecmanovic, after whom Miomir was named, was Kecmanovic's paternal grandfather.
In addition, Miomir's paternal grandfather was instrumental in containing the smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia in 1972. Kecmanovic's major role models as a child were Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer. He moved to Florida with his aunt Tanja when he was 13 years old.
Tanja attends IMG Academy to become a psychologist. Along with helping Kecmanovic, his aunt serves as his manager.
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Starting with his early career, Kecmanovic participated in the 2016 Junior US Open. He played singles and advanced to the final, where he lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime. Kecmanovic additionally represented Serbia in the 2016 Davis Cup.
In 2017, Kecmanovic finally made the transition to professionalism and won his first singles ITF pro circuit championship in Sunrise, Florida, the US. He participated in the Miami Masters as a wildcard in March of that year, where he upset Henri Laaksonen, the 22nd seed and world No. 117.
Kecmanovic has also participated in prestigious competitions including the Australian Open 4R (2022), French Open 3R (2022), Wimbledon 3R (2022), and US 2R. (2019, 2020, 2022).
Kecmanovic's performances have helped him build a respectable fan base. He has amassed over 40k followers on Instagram, where we can find him as @miomirk. Miomir updated his Instagram account with information about his lifestyle. Here are some additional details regarding a tennis professional.
Miomir has a height of 6 feet 0 inches (183 cm or 1.83 m).
Kecmanovic's nickname is Misha.
He speaks English, German and Serbian.
His favorite surface is hard, a shot is a forehand, and the tournament is Wimbledon.
While not playing tennis, Kecmanovic enjoys golf, basketball, watching movies, and reading books.
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Mitigating Cyber Risk at Home
February 22nd, 2021 by Daniel Hoffman, Shawnee Delaney, | 0 Comments
Cipher Brief Expert Daniel N. Hoffman is a retired clandestine services officer and former Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency. His combined 30 years of government service included high-level overseas and domestic positions at the CIA. Hoff man is an advisor to Vaillance Group.
Shawnee Delaney was a clandestine officer and former Detachment Chief for the Defense Intelligence Agency and IT Specialist for the Department of Homeland Security for 10 years. She is a subject matter expert on insider threat and is the CEO of Vaillance Group.
OPINION — If there is one thing we have learned from doing business during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the great benefits but also associated risks, of relying on cyberspace. A force multiplier for free expression and commerce, cyberspace is also an unregulated playing field subjected to exploitation from adversaries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea as well as criminals and terrorists.
Now more than ever, organizations are recognizing that no matter what technical controls and policies they have in place, it is the human threat (both internal and external) that is their greatest vulnerability. While use of the internet enables companies to get work done, it also leaves them and their employees vulnerable to exploitation.
The shift from working in an office, with security measures long in place, to a home environment has highlighted a new set of security risks to businesses including the use of personal unprotected devices, a general lack of cyber hygiene, and an ignorance of the vulnerabilities employees pose to their companies.
When we served in the U.S. Intelligence Community, being in the incident response phase – or "to the right of boom" – of a counterterrorism operation meant we had not collected enough of the disparate intelligence or perhaps did not analyze it properly in order to prevent an attack. In most cases, terrorists, like hackers, conduct reconnaissance before mounting an attack. Failing to detect enemy reconnaissance and learn about the threat, allows the attacker to enjoy the element of surprise.
For this reason, cyber savvy companies should focus on prevention during the pre-attack phase. But the first thing they should do is assume they will be (or already have been) successfully hacked and prepare accordingly. This also applies to the human threat – or insider threat.
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By combining both technical and non-technical methods, organizations will have more effective prevention and incident response when something does occur. Incident response entails mitigating damage from the attack as well as taking preemptive measures and correlating learning from previous attempted attacks.
Using a customized dashboard to integrate evolving events and data, incident response begins with "ingesting" the threat with a security incident management tool. Response continues by escalating the notification by automatically characterizing the incident, assessing the threat, and directing the response. The best platform reduces response time to seconds, with basic triage completed before a human becomes directly involved.
Businesses can effectively reduce the attack space, mitigate risk and conduct more timely and effective incident response by securing servers and routers,
using firewalls and sophisticated web codes, and rigorously applying both patches and back-up protocols.
Far better, of course, is to preempt and eliminate threats in the "left of boom" pre-incident response phase to prevent the enemy from having an opportunity to change, steal, or destroy data. Again, there are proven technical controls to mitigate these scenarios, but businesses tend to skip over the non-technical methods of prevention. Considering the threat of cyber attack as only an IT challenge with technical solutions risks neglecting threats resulting from (what our FBI colleagues like to call) the "skin behind the keyboard."
We learned from our experience in counterintelligence, the importance of protecting against the insider threat. This results from both unwitting employees who require training to appreciate and defend against the dangers to which they are subjected as well as malicious employees with ill intent. Applying the "need to know" principle with access controls and using technology to conduct regular security checks reduces the attack space. Cross connecting human resources, IT, and security to conduct on-board vetting and follow up engagement with employees has the additional benefit of creating a powerful ethos of security within the company, on which all employees recognize their livelihood depends.
A good strategy to protect the data, money and reputation on which commercial success relies should focus on three key elements:
Social media bumps and social engineering. Ensure employees are aware of solicitation via social media and networking sites; never share confidential information about your business, passwords, or documents without verifying who is requesting it and why.
Implement a robust training program. This must focus on enhancing employee awareness, including red flag indicators, the importance of engaging colleagues that appear to be suffering from new stressors, and reporting procedures to report concerns.
Make yourself a hard target. This may be accomplished by using a layered approach of technology controls to include, mandatory VPN to ensure endpoint integrity, network and sensitive file encryption, role-based access controls, a built-in firewall with strong anti-virus technology; and a clear separation between home and work networks.
The hacker's mission to exploit, modify, or steal data most often depends on an individual opening a malicious attachment, clicking on a link, or falling for some other ruse, which allows the hacker protected access. We must be as focused as the attacker is on the human element. Organizations must recognize that ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away and their own employees are their greatest asset and what they should invest in protecting.
Noting the chaos, which would ensue if nefarious hackers simultaneously turned all of the traffic lights green in Manhattan, former Estonian President and Cipher Brief Expert Toomas Hendrik Ilves eloquently framed the challenge as building a capability-based strategy because however expansive our imagination might be, our enemies will always be steps ahead of us in choosing their targets.
Only with the best preparation and defensive measures can we reduce our risk of operating in cyberspace, which Cipher Brief Expert Michael Hayden, the former director of both the CIA and NSA, has compared to swimming in shark-infested waters, where even the dolphins are a threat.
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Kinky Fashion
By Ella Alexander 9 August 2012
FASHION is having a kinky moment - Anja Rubik is launching an erotica magazine; last week, Lily Donaldson unveiled a fetish-inspired film for SHOWSTUDIO.COM - off the back of its recent Selling Sex exhibition; and everyone is addicted to Fifty Shades of Grey. It's just only Victoria Beckham who is brave enough to admit it.
SEE BECKHAM'S FIFTY SHADES CONFESSION
In fact, talk of the cult book being made into a film has reached fever pitch - with a roll call of Hollywood stars being linked to its lead roles, from Angelina Jolie and Michael Fassbender to Emma Watson - the only one who has publicly dismissed the claims. To date, the sex-fuelled novel has sold 40 million copies - so there is little doubt that the cinema version will be an instant hit.
For the first time perhaps ever in British history, the fashion world is wildly excited about lingerie - the opening of the UK's flagship Victoria's Secret store is unarguably one of the most anticipated fashion events in London this year. Over 2,000 people click on our hub story about the boutique's launch each day - all keen to know when they can buy the label's skimpy, playful lingerie on British soil.
SEE THE LATEST ON THE VICTORIA'S SECRET STORE
Fashion has long been inspired by erotica (just look to Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2011-12's kinky uniforms and McQueen's bondage straps for examples), but never before has it been quite so obvious. We'll just let Beckham do the talking.
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Carstensz Pyramid team 100% summit success!
Our Carstensz Pyramid team reached the summit and has now returned to Bali today, after a helicopter flight early this morning from the base camp. The weather over the last 48 hours since we got down from the summit has been very stormy, so we were laying low at our base camp until the storm passed and the clouds and rain cleared up for a brief window to let the helicopter fly in. Most of the kitchen and dining tents in the base camp were destroyed in the wind storm, but our personal tents held up fine throughout the storm, thanks to the great engineering from Mountain Hardwear for our Trango 3 tents!
The climb was an epic day on the tallest peak in Australasia, a rock pyramid jutting out of the surrounding jungle landscape. We departed before dawn, climbing up the route over varying degrees of steepness on sustained slopes until we reached the summit ridge. We then traversed the ridge to the famous "abyss" crossing, where we tip toed across a wire cable to the other side. That wasn't the crux, as there were a couple more challenging crossings where we literally had to leap across to the other side! We lucked out with great weather the whole day and reached the top around 9 AM, then began the long series of rappels back down to base camp. This has truly been an epic adventure! We are all now on our way home after a wonderful time in Indonesia, climbing one of the world's "7 summits"!
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Carstensz Pyramid weather delays return flight
Carstensz Pyramid weather has our climbing team positioned at base camp for another day. Garrett checks in below via satellite phone and relays that George and Audrey are enjoying the adventure while they wait for their return helicopter flight. Pictures coming soon!
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Carstensz Pyramid climbers make safe descent from the summit
Garrett checks in with the Carstensz Pyramid team after a safe descent from the summit yesterday. Currently our team is socked in at base camp waiting for suitable weather to fly back to Timika and then to Bali. Stay tuned!
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Carstensz Pyramid team reaches the summit at 4,884m / 16,024ft!
Follow our progress on this real-time tracking map
Carstensz Pyramid team reaches the summit at 4,884m / 16,024ft! Listen to the audio dispatch below as Garrett checks in from the summit. Reports of variable cloud cover and stable climbing conditions. Way to go team!
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Autumn 2017 Carstensz Pyramid expedition has launched!!
Our autumn 2017 Carstensz Pyramid expedition has launched!! Our team flew by helicopter and arrived safely at Yellow Valley base camp today. Listen in below for a audio dispatch from Garrett and climbers Audrey and George as they prepare for the ascent. Onward and upward!
After a few days patiently waiting for the sky to clear we are off to the mountain! Carstensz Pyramid here we come!
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Autumn 2017 Carstensz Pyramid expedition has launched!
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Carstensz Pyramid team still waiting in Timika
Once the expedition gets underway, follow our progress on this real-time tracking map.
Hello and greetings from Timika, the island of Papua. While on standby for the last couple of days waiting for good weather to fly into the base camp of Carstensz Pyramid, we have made the most of our time here by visiting some nice restaurants and touring the town & surrounding areas. Our climbing team is very eager to get to the mountain and begin climbing, however, we must wait for good flying conditions. So we are playing the waiting game, keeping our spirits up, and anticipating with positive hopes for a flight in the next day or two. As soon as we are able to fly to the base camp we will be poised to make our climb of the famed Carstensz Pyramid rock wall!
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Carstensz Pyramid Team in Timika, preparing to fly to Carstensz base camp
Greetings from the town of Timika, on the Island of Papua. We arrived yesterday here from Bali and went to the immigration office to get our permits. Then we enjoyed some nice dinner here before checking our equipment and preparing for today's helicopter flight to Carstensz Pyramid, assuming good weather and flyable conditions. We will fly about 45 minutes over the jungle to the base camp at about 14,000′, and once there plan to settle into our base camp. We are very excited to get to the mountain and start climbing!
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Carstensz Pyramid expedition team arrives in Bali
The Carstensz Pyramid expedition team made it to Bali yesterday and we've been preparing for our flight to Timika on the Island of Papua very early tomorrow. Bali is a fine tourist destination indeed, and a great "base" for us to operate our Carstensz Pyramid program from.
Bali is an Indonesian island known for its forested volcanic mountains, iconic rice paddies, beaches and coral reefs. The island is home to religious sites such as cliffside Uluwatu Temple. To the south, the beachside city of Kuta has lively bars, while Seminyak, Sanur and Nusa Dua are popular resort towns. The island is also known for its yoga and meditation retreats.
Once we arrive in Timika we will transfer to the hotel and then check in with the immigration department for clearance, then the next morning our plan is to fly by helicopter to Carstensz Pyramid base camp. Upon arrival at base camp we will settle in and go for an acclimatization hike to the base of the route. Assuming the weather is decent, we may go for the summit on October 15th, but we have a few extra days just in case! We are very much looking forward to this rock climbing objective at 16,000 feet!
About 145,000 people on the Indonesian island of Bali have left their homes around Mount Agung, a volcano that is showing signs it could erupt, officials said on Friday.The 9,944-foot volcano, the highest mountain on Bali, last erupted in the early 1960s
Garden features in our hotel
Flora and Fauna in Bali. Bali has an interesting collection of animal and plant life. The rice terraces are the most common sight everyday in Bali, particularly in the heavily populated and extravagantly fertile south. Balinese gardens are a delight.
A jukung or canoe also known as cadik is a small wooden Indonesian outrigger canoe. It is a traditional fishing boat in this region.
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Carstensz Pyramid expedition team set for departure
Our 2017 Carstensz Pyramid expedition team is departing North America tomorrow to head to Bali, and from there to the Island of Papua to begin our climb of this fabled peak.
Carstensz Pyramid, as one of the most exotic climbing objectives in the "7 Summits", is located in Western Papua and is comprised of limestone which rises abruptly from the surrounding rainforest. The highest point on Australasia, this very remote peak is an engaging challenge both in getting to the base of the climb and also in the ascent itself! Not many climbers venture to this mysterious and unfrequented mountain, that has glaciers surrounding the rock pyramid that towers above the jungle below.
Our ascent will involve a classic rock climb along with some very intriguing cultural experiences along the way, a journey through unknown landscapes in a remote part of the world, and of course a notable achievement in reaching the top of this exotic peak. This uncommon adventure will surely challenge us as climbers and explorers, but the rewards for venturing into this obscure region will surely be well worth the arduous journey! Myself, along with 2 good climbing friends will be arriving in Bali on October 11th, and then we hope to reach the island of Papua on October 13th or 14th, from there the real adventure begins!
-Garrett Madison
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Influence of vegetation and soil types on the wheatbelt termite, Drepanotermes tamminensis (Hill), in the Western Australian wheatbelt
H. C. Park, J. D. Majer, R. J. Hobbs
A survey of the distribution and density of mounds of the harvester termite, Drepanotermes tamminensis (Hill), was carried out in the Durokoppin Nature Reserve, Western Australia in 1990. Vegetation and, to a lesser extent, soil type, appear to be important factors in determining density and distribution of termite mounds within the Reserve. A more detailed study of mounds in Wandoo (Eucalyptus capillosa) woodland and Casuarina (Allocasuarina campestris) shrubland indicated that the total number and size of mounds were significantly higher in the woodland than in the shrubland. The total wet weight biomass of D. tamminensis was calculated as 3.74 gm-2 (37.4 kg ha-1) in the woodland and 1.69 gm-2 (16.9 kg ha-1) in the shrubland. Thus, of the two favored habitats, Wandoo woodland appears to be more optimal for this termite species than the Casuarina shrubland.
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Park, H. C., Majer, J. D., & Hobbs, R. J. (1994). Influence of vegetation and soil types on the wheatbelt termite, Drepanotermes tamminensis (Hill), in the Western Australian wheatbelt. Ecological Research, 9(2), 151-158. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02347490
Park, H. C. ; Majer, J. D. ; Hobbs, R. J. / Influence of vegetation and soil types on the wheatbelt termite, Drepanotermes tamminensis (Hill), in the Western Australian wheatbelt. In: Ecological Research. 1994 ; Vol. 9, No. 2. pp. 151-158.
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