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Pac-12's Week 2 Cannibal Routine May Prove Costly
Posted by RJ Abeytia on January 11th, 2018
The Pac-12's Cannibalization hit full swing this week as once again the road proved significantly difficult for even the best teams in the conference. The first week of Pac-12 play saw six of the 10 games finish with margins of 10 points or more. In the second week, only four of 10 games ended with such margins, and two of those included California, which is really only an approximation of a Pac-12 team on most nights this year. Arizona State and Arizona, the conference's clear upper tier at this point, dropped from sixth and 19th in the RPI, respectively, to 14th and 24th. They weren't the biggest losers this past week, however, as Utah, in getting swept by those two schools in Salt Lake City, went from 35th to 63rd. That's going from fringe NCAA Tournament status to deep in the heart of NIT City.
One of the more problematic teams over the course of the Pac-12 season could be Stanford. The Cardinal enjoyed a miraculous home sweep of the Bruins and Trojans last weekend, and vaulted from 214th to 154th in the RPI as a result. The Bruins and Trojans correspondingly dropped from 40 and 44th to 46th and 56th, respectively, after their Maples heartbreaks. The Stanford problem is that with the Cardinal now playing with its healthiest possible roster (Kezie Okpala and Dorian Pickens have returned while Marcus Sheffield will take a medical redshirt), they are a much tougher team. But because their cumulative performance to date (8-8 overall, the aforementioned +200 RPI) has been so underwhelming, beating Stanford isn't going to do much for teams' resumes. Conversely, losses — even if they're more understandable now — are still going to sting.
| pac 12 | Tagged: arizona, arizona state, bruins, buffaloes, cardinal, colorado, Dorian Pickens, joe lunardi, kezie okpala, stanford, sun devils, ucla, usc, utah, utes, wildcats
Chicago Basketball Needs Chris Collins
Posted by Chris Hatfield on October 27th, 2017
Chris Collins probably has traces of Lake Michigan running through his blood. I mean, it wouldn't be suprising. After all, the Northwestern head coach, once a Bulls ballboy, is about as Chicago as it gets. He's also one of college basketball's hottest names. In my view, the Wildcats and he are a heavenly pair. It just feels like it needs to be this way. "We are working hard every day to make this a program Chicago can be proud of," Collins told the Northwestern fan base in a promo that aired a few days after he was hired.
Chris Collins and Chicago Wear Each Other Very Well (USA Today Images)
The city must protect him. He must protect his commitment. The fate of the known universe depends on it. Maybe that's a bit excessive, but man, it's quite important. It was more apparent than ever last season. Collins delivered Evanston what it hadn't had in 78 years, not even once — an NCAA Tournament appearance. He then took it a step further. He actually won a game by defeating Vanderbilt in the First Round. After that, his Wildcats came within a few plays of defeating eventual national runner-up, Gonzaga.
| big ten, feature, microsites | Tagged: big ten, chicago basketball, chris collins, duke, hot coaching names, job openings, ncaa, northwestern, wildcats
How Tournament-Proof Are the Nation's Top Five Offenses?
Posted by RJ Abeytia on February 18th, 2017
This year multiple coaches across the country have conceded publicly that a team's offense is the biggest factor in its ability to maintain a defense. "Defense wins championships" may still be a treasured maxim, but the truth is that offense is the fuel in college basketball. The question then becomes one of how vulnerable the best offenses in college basketball are to a one-game slump? Since only a single bad night is all it takes to be sent home from the NCAA Tournament, it's worth investigating the nation's top five offenses to set some criteria for evaluating the rest of the field. Per KenPom, here are the top five offenses nationally based on adjusted offensive efficiency, along with their corresponding adjusted tempo.
Team Adj. ORtg Adj. Tempo
1. UCLA 124.5 14.1 (6)
2. Oklahoma State 123.9 16.5 (91)
3. North Carolina 122.2 15 (16)
4. Gonzaga 122.2 15.7 (33)
5. Villanova 121.7 18.8 (314)
As the tempo column shows, teams can play at both warp speed (UCLA, North Carolina, Gonzaga) or at a relative crawl (Villanova) and still be extremely effective. That said, to the extent that the game slows somewhat in the NCAA Tournament, it is reasonable to suggest that some of these teams may face more trouble than others. The Bruins, Tar Heels and Bulldogs all use a healthy dose of tempo when they play. This is not to say that any of those three teams cannot also win a low-possession game, but their opponents would certainly be better-suited to impose a slowdown game on them to the extent possible. Villanova has already proven its favored pace can win championships. The next question then becomes which of the faster teams are most poised to handle a grind-it-out half-court game?
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Not Every Big 12 Team Has Elevated Itself in Non-Conference Play
Posted by Drew Andrews on December 9th, 2016
The Big 12 has gotten off to a very good start in non-conference play, with several teams already notching important wins for Selection Sunday and the league sitting in the top spot in Ken Pomeroy's conference ratings and second in the RPI. West Virginia beat Virginia in Charlottesville; Kansas knocked off Duke in the Champions Classic; and Baylor owns six top 100 wins including those over Louisville, Xavier and Oregon. As well as those three teams have represented the conference nationally, another trio of Big 12 schools — Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Texas Tech — are still looking for a signature win.
Oklahoma State's Best Win Came Against a Struggling Georgetown Program (USA Today Images)
Oklahoma State has started the season on a scoring tear. As expected, Jawun Evans leads the team in usage but he hasn't had to go it alone. Phil Forte and Jeffrey Carroll are both top 100 offensive players nationally who can help Evans carry the scoring load. The concern for when the Cowboys get to conference play will be about how an already shaky defense can hold up against stronger competition. North Carolina scored 107 points in a blowout win in Maui, and, while the Cowboys rank fourth nationally in steal rate, that gambling style of defense has led to a surplus of open looks from three-point range (opponents are making 39.2 percent of their threes against the Pokes). A talent advantage has mostly masked these deficiencies to this point, but Big 12 play is likely to expose Oklahoma State if Brad Underwood doesn't improve his defense.
| big 12, microsites | Tagged: aaron ross, anthony livingston, big 12, bruce weber, chris bear, cowboys, Jawun Evans, kansas state, keenan evans, oklahoma state, Red Raiders, texas tech, wildcats
Is Northwestern Finally Breaking Through?
Posted by Jim Root on November 30th, 2016
It's nearly impossible to talk about Northwestern basketball without mentioning its ignominious streak of missing the NCAA Tournament in every year since the event's inception. While that dishonor receives nowhere near the public interest that north side of Chicago neighbor Cubs' 107-year World Series drought gets, it's a similar marker of futility. Wait — what's that? The Cubs did what this year? Well, I'll be darned… so can another long Windy City sports dry spell be snapped this year? Early indicators look good.
Bryant McIntosh looks like an all-conference lead guard, both scoring and distributing the basketball. (AP)
The outlook at this point is relatively positive, as head coach Chris Collins did an excellent job of fixing last year's primary problem — an incredibly weak non-conference schedule (334th nationally, per both KenPom's ranking system and ESPN's RPI formula). The Wildcats have already played a road game at Butler (L), neutral site games against Texas (W) and Notre Dame (L), and beat Wake Forest at home in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge earlier this week. A win at Butler or against the Irish would have been massively helpful for Northwestern's at-large cause, but a vastly improved non-conference strength of schedule already puts Collins' team ahead of last year's resume. As it's not even December yet, there's still work to do. Northwestern cannot afford a loss in its five remaining non-conference home games against shaky-to-very-bad foes, and a December 17 date with Dayton at the United Center in Chicago looms as the team's last chance to provide substance to its ledger. That game against the Flyers will present the Wildcats with the odd situation of having an interior advantage, something that they are unlikely to experience during the Big Ten grinder. Read the rest of this entry »
| big ten, feature, microsites | Tagged: basketball, chicago basketball, chris collins, collins, mcintosh, northwestern, NW, Scottie Lindsey, vic law, wildcats
Best YouTube Moments in Oregon State Basketball: The Nominees
Posted by Connor Pelton (@ConnorPelton28) on February 10th, 2014
Last month we introduced our new project, which is centered around determining the top YouTube moment in Pac-12 basketball history. We continue the nomination portion with Oregon State.
[ed note: These are just the top moments we could find on YouTube, which has a vast number and array of videos, but we won't be able to cover the entire 99 years of the conference.]
We open with perhaps the most explosive dunk in Beavers basketball history, courtesy of shooting guard Jared Cunningham. With three minutes left in the opening week of conference play, Oregon State was hanging onto a two-point lead against vaunted Arizona. Getting a running start from the three-point line, Cunningham read Joe Burton's missed jumper perfectly, rising over a pair of Wildcats and one of his own teammates to slam the ball home one-handed. If you were watching the game live, you'll remember how officials just stopped the game for a good 20 seconds because no one was quite sure what they just witnessed. There was no foul or timeout called, everyone just stopped playing. I thought that was pretty cool. If the Beavers wouldn't have pulled the upset, then the play would have just been remembered as a nice moment in an otherwise tough loss. But the offense continued to thrive down the stretch, and by the end of the night the Beavers were tied atop the league standings and owned the #6 play of the day on SportsCenter.
| microsites, pac 12 | Tagged: arizona, basketball, beaver, chris stephens, Jared Cunningham, Joe burton, jumper, oregon state, pac-12, roeland schaftenaar, sasa cuic, shooting guard, videos, wildcats, youtube
Night Line: Even in an Off Night, Freshman Arcidiacono Impresses During Villanova Victory
Posted by EJacoby on November 16th, 2012
Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @EJacobyRTC on Twitter. Night Line runs on weeknights during the season, highlighting a major storyline development from that day's games.
In what can only be characterized as a chaotic game, Villanova used overtime on Thursday night to defeat Purdue, 89-81, in the second semifinal of the 2kSports Classic in Madison Square Garden. The two teams combined to commit 55 fouls and both shot under 40% from the field in a game that was equal parts sloppy and entertaining due to the back-and-forth play between two young teams. One consistent throughout the night, however, was the playmaking ability displayed by the Wildcats' freshman starting point guard Ryan Arcidiacono. The 6'3″ guard played the worst game of his early Villanova career yet still scored 18 points with six assists and led all players with 39 minutes played. Missed shots and over-aggressive turnovers plagued him for much of the night, yet he easily made up for his mistakes with complete control of the 'Nova offense and clutch free throws down the stretch. Like all young players, Arcidiacono will suffer some growing pains but it looks like Jay Wright has found a keeper and a future Big East star in his new point guard.
Freshman guard Ryan Arcidiacono has complete command of the Villanova offense (U.S. Presswire)
The rookie guard shot just 3-14 from the field on Thursday while committing seven turnovers, several of which led to easy scores for Purdue in transition. But Arcidiacono's mistakes were a function of his aggressive mentality, relentlessly seeking to attack weak spots in the defense and create scoring opportunities for himself or his teammates. There's simply a buzz when the rookie has the ball in his hands, like something good is going to happen for his Wildcats. 'Arch,' as coach Wright calls him, has tremendous dribbling skills and one-on-one ability with the ball while constantly keeping his head up to find open teammates when the defense sends help to contain his drives. He has deep range on his shot that keeps defenders honest and good size at 6'3″ to finish in traffic near the rim. His shots weren't falling on Thursday – he didn't convert a single field goal in the second half after shooting 3-4 in the first – but he still put pressure on the Boilermakers throughout the night with his command of the offense. And, most importantly on this night, Arch is a fantastic free-throw shooter who rarely misses at the line. He shot 9-10 from the stripe and it was the freshman's two clutch freebies with 44 seconds to play in regulation that tied the game at 75-75 and sent this one into overtime, where 'Nova took control in the extra session.
| night line, Regular Features, rtc analysis | Tagged: 2ksports classic, alabama, boilermakers, jay wright, purdue, ryan arcidiacono, villanova, wildcats
Alex Len's Coming Out Party Nearly Spoils Kentucky's Title Defense Debut
Posted by EJacoby on November 9th, 2012
Evan Jacoby is a correspondent for RTC and a regular contributor. He filed this report from the Kentucky-Maryland game tonight in Brooklyn. You can find him @EJacobyRTC on Twitter.
We assumed it was nearly impossible for Kentucky to repeat the kind of immediate, dominant success it had last season with a brand new crop of young players this year. For the first half of their season-opening game against Maryland on Friday night, though, the Wildcats came out on fire and efficient on both ends en route to opening a 15-point lead just minutes into the second half in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. But it didn't take long for the inconsistency, poor decision-making, and defensive mistakes that are typical of freshmen players to crop up for John Calipari's team, which opened the door for Maryland to make a run in front of a very pro-Terrapin crowd. Led by emerging sophomore center Alex Len, the Terps went on a 15-0 second half run and eventually took the lead before seesawing to a tough, 72-69 loss. Len was the catalyst on both ends for Maryland's near-upset, as the sophomore seven-footer finished with 23 points, 12 rebounds, and four blocks — all game-highs. He shot 10-18 from the field and committed zero turnovers. Despite failing to capitalize with a monster non-conference victory, Maryland and its fans must feel confident about this season's outlook on the heels of Len's dominant opening performance.
Alex Len nearly led his Maryland team to a big-time upset win over Kentucky on Friday night (Maryland 247 Sports photo)
The big sophomore showed flashes of greatness last season for Maryland, but he did not put together any dominant performances that could propel Mark Turgeon's team to big wins. The center from the Ukraine recorded six total games in double-figure scoring last year, and none after February 4. He averaged 4.1 points per game in his final 10 games and amassed just one double-double all season. Tonight was a completely different story, as Len looked much more polished in the paint with offensive moves, finishes at the rim, rebounding prowess, and strong defensive positioning. Len turned national consensus #1 recruit Nerlens Noel of Kentucky into an afterthought, dominating the freshman in the paint as well as beating him down the floor in transition on multiple occasions. Noel had just four points on 2-6 shooting to match his nine rebounds and three blocks. If not for the unlikely late-game heroics of former Kentucky walk-on Jarrod Polson, who scored 10 points tonight after recording a total of seven previous points in his career, the Terps could have left Barclays Center with a defining victory.
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Unibrow & Other CBB Entrants Are Snubbed But Watford Wins at the ESPYs
Posted by EJacoby on July 12th, 2012
Last night were the ESPYs, and somehow, neither of the #15 over #2 shockers during last year's NCAA Tournament won ESPN's award for "Best Upset" of the year, and Anthony Davis' epic season wasn't even enough to win over voters in the "Best NCAA Male" category. Not even legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was rewarded for breaking Bob Knight's all-time wins record. In general, college hoops was vastly overlooked during Wednesday's 2012 ESPY Awards, but one shining moment came in the form of Indiana forward Christian Watford's wild shot to beat Kentucky back in December. "Watford For The Win!" was crowned with the "Best Play" award from the past year in sports; a very deserving honor for one of the defining moments of the 2011-12 college hoops season. ESPN announcer Dan Shulman's call on Watford's game-winner over the top-ranked Wildcats sticks as one of the great broadcasting moments in recent memory, as does Dick Vitale's incomparable reaction and IU head coach Tom Crean's shocked celebration. It's hard to find a singular more significant or lasting moment than that one, as Watford beat out a field of 31 other nominees through a lengthy tournament vote. Unfortunately, John Calipari, Anthony Davis, Kentucky, Coach K, the final Border War, Lehigh, and Norfolk State were unable to seize any hardware against their considerably thinner fields of competition.
Watford's buzzer-beating three-point shot marked the official return of Hoosiers basketball. One of our sport's bluebloods, Indiana had struggled at the bottom of the Big Ten for several years, and the victory over UK symbolized a resurgence. Indiana quickly jumped into the top 15 of the polls and stayed there much of the season, eventually making a run to the Sweet Sixteen before falling to those same Wildcats in a rematch not played in the friendly confines of Bloomington. But Watford's shot isn't forgotten for Hoosiers or Wildcats fans, both of whom were heavily invested in that December game as part of a longstanding border rivalry (which was sadly not renewed for 2012-13), nor the entire world of college hoops, which sent off an explosion of posts and tweets on social media across the country.
| awards, commentary | Tagged: anthony davis, christian watford, coach k, duke, espn, ESPY Awards, hoosiers, indiana, kansas, kentucky, lehigh, missouri, norfolk state, wildcats
Is Calipari Protecting His Home Court Winning Streak? Kentucky's 12-13 Schedule Says So
John Calipari has yet to lose a home game as Kentucky's head coach, and Tuesday's release of the Wildcats' non-conference home schedule suggests that he's looking to keep it that way. Since Coach Cal became the Kentucky coach prior to the 2009-10 season, his team is 51-0 in Rupp Arena – the only team in the country not to have lost at home during that period. It's a special distinction to have the nation's most dominant home court, but do we need to keep praising the pristine record when his team is scheduling cupcakes specifically to uphold the winning streak? Not only has Calipari publicly clamored to avoid difficult road games against a resurgent program such as Indiana, but he's also now starving the Big Blue Nation of any meaningful non-conference home competition. It's no secret that the coach's bottom line is to give his team the best chance at a #1 NCAA Tournament seed, but an undefeated home record won't seem as special if it's extended without much in the way of legitimate resistance. A home game or two against an elite non-conference foe wouldn't hurt the bottom line and would also give UK fans a deserving treat, but they'll have to wait at least another year before that happens.
Look for Kentucky to pile up easy wins next year to extend the home winning streak (AP Photo)
UK's schedule includes snooze-fests against opponents like Lafayette, Samford, Lipscomb, and Eastern Michigan, all of which finished with sub-.500 records last season in poor conferences. These teams have no chance to give the Wildcats a contest on any floor, let alone at home (remember: Billy Gillispie now coaches at Texas Tech). The same goes for the Portland Pilots of the WCC, they of a 7-24 overall record last season. Morehead State loses three starters from an 18-15 team, so don't expect the Eagles to put up any kind of fight, either. Long Island? The Blackbirds made the NCAA Tournament last year – but as a #16-seed after winning the NEC, a conference ranked 24th in RPI. Marshall showcases a talented player in DeAndre Kane but not much else with a team that finished 9-7 in Conference USA last season. That leaves Baylor – the squad that UK defeated handily in last year's Elite Eight and the one team that can at least provide a watchable contest. Still, the Bears lost three forwards to the NBA Draft this year and will struggle to replace that size next season. It'll be a surprise if Baylor is less than a double-digit underdog in Rupp Arena against the defending National Champions.
| commentary | Tagged: baylor, home winning streak, john calipari, kentucky, non-conference schedule, wildcats
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Document 21
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Afro-Americans - Economic conditions 183
Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas 166
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School integration 114
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Bible, O.T. 90
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MMFR-INP, Montgomery to Memphis Film Research Files, In Private Hands 12
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Draft, ''The Montgomery Story,'' Address at the Forty-Seventh Annual Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Mother to Son
The Negro?s Complaint
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''The Montgomery Story,'' Address at the forty-seventh annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
labc-MiU, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
''Pro and Con, Alabama's Bus Boycott: What It's All About''
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Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward)
Engelhardt, Sam
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Warren, Earl
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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Butcher, Margaret Just
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In Friendship
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Lord, I Can't Turn Back
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Headline News : RT : August 6, 2017 3:00am-3:30am EDT
there is no friendship between the united states and russia between putin and trouble even when the russian the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction the new sanctions low gives congress the power them to block the president from easing sanctions of moscow as we mentioned donald trump who branded the legislation comes to choose if you put trying to break what's happening in washington. i guess no president would like to be. shoes right now times really are getting tough as they can get for the president you know being america's top man in charge but at the same tommy think of it not being able to exercise his power and even worse being cornered into making the decisions he doesn't want to make just to keep order and as we've been hearing from the white house spokesperson who's been explaining that very signature under that sanctions bill the president signed that countering america's adversaries through sanctions act congress has encroached on the power of the preside
there is no friendship between the united states and russia between putin and trouble even when the russian the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction the new sanctions low gives congress the power them to block the president from easing sanctions of moscow as we mentioned donald trump who branded the legislation comes to choose if you put trying to break what's happening in...
certainly doesn't benefit you know peace in the world between europe and russia even when russia and the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction in a tweet president congress for the current state of u.s. russia relations describing them as not an all time low but the u.s. state department pointed the finger a moscow in a lengthy exchange with reporters over the russian prime minister's reaction he announces the end of any hope for improvement is it. is that what the end is at the end we are two nuclear superpowers. an economic declaration of war against the russian federation is it is it an economic declaration of war and. was it an economic declaration of war i blushing federation if that is what russia is saying you know russia certainly entitled to say that the russians hate these sanctions the president says yes i do the president agrees with them that it's bad piece of legislation well people are not also hold on one second the president signed a bill after all of this
certainly doesn't benefit you know peace in the world between europe and russia even when russia and the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction in a tweet president congress for the current state of u.s. russia relations describing them as not an all time low but the u.s. state department pointed the finger a moscow in a lengthy exchange with reporters over the russian prime...
Headline News : RT : August 2, 2017 1:00pm-1:30pm EDT
the united states and russia between putin and trump i think that is tragic you know even when russia and the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other directions there are literally anxious to see this because they think the interests of the various countries that in fall whether it's syria whether it's iran and these various areas. they don't if they allow us to be friendly with russia that it will undermine their goals in the middle east so this puts donald trump in a difficult situation one thing he said during his election campaign was that he would be the man calling each and every shot from the white house another thing he said was he wanted close will friendly relations with russia is a both of those are being thwarted just how frustrated will he be. well he's really very frustrated but it also goes to show that you know you know the intellectual community the people who design policy are actually outside of washington so if you have people preaching socialism or people preac
the united states and russia between putin and trump i think that is tragic you know even when russia and the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other directions there are literally anxious to see this because they think the interests of the various countries that in fall whether it's syria whether it's iran and these various areas. they don't if they allow us to be friendly with russia that...
Cross Talk : RT : August 2, 2017 5:29am-6:01am EDT
why doesn't the world accepted north korea will be a nuclear power. the soviet union than russia was china adversaries why can't we live without and mitigate its negative potential ok recognize the country as a nuclear power and go from there i mean i think that is one of the only ways out it's not the best solution i don't see any good solutions to this but the worst solution would be war ok go ahead on three. i actually think that the war is accepting the fact that north korea is a nuclear power not except to the us were authority in the us and in the west actually north korea we keep talking about the north korean regime and how dangerous it is i don't see it as dangerous and i don't really think if you talk to people here in the middle east if you talk to people in latin america or if you talk to even people in asia they see it as something but it dangerous again it's something that this it's a big hype that. chicago or in los angeles or far away from north korea anyway and you know you see this look i know people walk all over the nation philippines. you know thailand based in t
why doesn't the world accepted north korea will be a nuclear power. the soviet union than russia was china adversaries why can't we live without and mitigate its negative potential ok recognize the country as a nuclear power and go from there i mean i think that is one of the only ways out it's not the best solution i don't see any good solutions to this but the worst solution would be war ok go ahead on three. i actually think that the war is accepting the fact that north korea is a nuclear...
Watching the Hawks : RT : August 11, 2017 9:29pm-10:02pm EDT
had a relatively good relationship with russia and the countries of the former soviet union at the time nine eleven hadn't happened yet and the rise of violent extremism was not something that was on anyone's radar screen so we were able to declassify a lot of information that would have been more difficult to classify in the eighty's or even a decade after we did our work but i do think there's too much class classification i think presidential standards about what should be classified need to be reviewed very carefully to make sure that over classification doesn't occur because if you're a researcher and you're trying to get a copy of a document that's been classified you have to use a freedom of information act you might get something but it's going to be heavily redacted it's probably not going to help you understand the situation very well even though the information clearly could be released. one final question for you to be and we've got about five minutes left but as a senior federal judge you know have you encountered issues with your classification in your courtrooms that
had a relatively good relationship with russia and the countries of the former soviet union at the time nine eleven hadn't happened yet and the rise of violent extremism was not something that was on anyone's radar screen so we were able to declassify a lot of information that would have been more difficult to classify in the eighty's or even a decade after we did our work but i do think there's too much class classification i think presidential standards about what should be classified need...
News Weekly : RT : August 6, 2017 5:00am-5:30am EDT
determined almost obsessed with making sure that there is no friendship between the united states and russia between putin and trump even when the russian the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction. do sanctions low gives congress the power to block the president from easing sanctions and as we mentioned that's donald trump who did the legislation comes to change trying to break what's happening in washington. i guess no president would like to be. shoes right now times really are getting tough as they can get for the president you know being america's top man in charge but at the same tommy think of it not being able to exercise his power and even worse being cornered into making the decisions he doesn't want to make just to keep order and as we've been hearing from the white house spokesperson who's been explaining that very signature under that sanctions bill president signed that countering america's adversaries sanctions act congress has encroached on the power of the pres
determined almost obsessed with making sure that there is no friendship between the united states and russia between putin and trump even when the russian the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction. do sanctions low gives congress the power to block the president from easing sanctions and as we mentioned that's donald trump who did the legislation comes to change trying to break...
you know peace in the world between europe and russia even when russia and the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction in a tweet president trump blame congress for the current state of u.s. russia relations describing them as a low but the u.s. state department pointed the finger at moscow in a lengthy exchange with reporters over the russian prime minister's reaction he announces the end of any hope for improvement is it. is that what the entrance is at the end we are two nuclear superpowers. an economic declaration of war against the russian federation is it is it an economic declaration of war. was it an economic declaration of war i blush and federation if that is what russia is saying you know russia certainly entitled to say that the russians hate these sanctions the president as you first did you know this president agrees with them that it's bad piece of legislation well people argue that also hold on one second the president signed a bill after all this are you s
you know peace in the world between europe and russia even when russia and the soviet union existed we actually were quite willing you know when necessary to talk and work out some problems but now we're moving in the other direction in a tweet president trump blame congress for the current state of u.s. russia relations describing them as a low but the u.s. state department pointed the finger at moscow in a lengthy exchange with reporters over the russian prime minister's reaction he...
Russia Today Programming : RT : August 28, 2017 2:00pm-4:01pm EDT
korea will be a nuclear power. the soviet union than russia was china adversaries why can't we live without and mitigate its negative potential ok recognize the country as a nuclear power and go from there i mean i think that is one of the only ways out it's not the best solution i don't see any good solutions to this but the worst solution would be war ok go ahead on the way. i actually think that the walt is accepting the fact that the north korea is a nuclear power not except to the us were authority in the us and in the west north korea we keep talking about the north korean regime and how dangerous it is i don't see it as dangerous and i don't really think if you talk to people here in the middle east if you talk to people in latin america or if you talk to even people in asia they see it as something but it dangerous again it's something that this it's a big hype that. chicago or in los angeles or far away from north korea anyway and you know you see this look i know people walk all over the nation philippines. you know thailand based in thailand partially nobody even think ab
korea will be a nuclear power. the soviet union than russia was china adversaries why can't we live without and mitigate its negative potential ok recognize the country as a nuclear power and go from there i mean i think that is one of the only ways out it's not the best solution i don't see any good solutions to this but the worst solution would be war ok go ahead on the way. i actually think that the walt is accepting the fact that the north korea is a nuclear power not except to the us were...


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GQ India: Madame Gandhi's "Waiting for Me" is the art the world needs right now
The LA-based artist and activist's latest music video radiates warmth and further builds out her vision of a world running on freedom and solidarity.
Photos by Sajna Sivan
February 2020 saw Kiran aka Madame Gandhi touring India in turbo mode. After a smashing performance at the VH1 Supersonic Festival in Pune, she flew into Mumbai and headed straight for the GQ x Raymond Co-Lab party, for a quick few selfies with Canadian rapper SVDP and Yanchan. A day later, she played a DJ-drumming set at Soho House before heading to the outskirts of Mumbai to shoot a music video. Next, she flew to Bengaluru for a gig at Foxtrot, and finally returned to the US to close out the 2020 Vision Stadium Tour with Oprah. Basically, mad momentum, till the pandemic hit.
"I have been at my studio in Downtown LA for the past three months," says the music producer, drummer, artist and activist, reflecting on that fever dream we used to call normal life. "I've been spending my time protesting for black lives in Downtown LA, performing and DJing virtually over zoom calls, and participating in IG Live discussions about gender liberation during pride month." Not to mention giving TED Talks and hosting an NPR Tiny Desk Concert from what seems to be her bedroom draped in fluorescent light.
In all of this, she appears decked head-to-toe in neon orange or yellow, her hair braided and wound away from her face; occasionally there's a palo santo stick in sight; and she's almost always accompanied by her "ambient and peaceful" OP-Z electronic synth and the darburka she brought back from a trip to the Middle East.
Gandhi has also had the unique experience of working remotely on the edit of that music video she shot in Mumbai. "Waiting For Me", out now, is a song of protest and display of solidarity rolled into one. The song, the last off her latest EP Visions to get a music video release, is "an anthem about moving from oppressive environments into liberating environments; questioning society's most problematic norms; and valuing freedom, love energy, fashion as self-expression, and feminine and queer voices."
It also traverses a spectrum of surrealism. The film begins by depicting a class of 10 girls in dull grey school uniforms marching robotically up, down and within the dull grey concrete of a building under construction. Through this garb of conformity, there are shots of neon – a sock here, a ribbon there – denoting an innate, undercover desire.
Halfway through the video, they walk out of this rigid, structured, sedated existence and into a forest. Here, they break out of their belts, ties and pigtails, and let nature (and the designers Kanika Karvinkop of NoBorders and Indrakshi Pattanaik) take over; even as Madame Gandhi utters low-pitch over skittering drum beats: "I won't take in what they feed us, run away in my Adidas."
"I grew up in Mumbai between 1997-2000 and attended the St. Anne's school," writes Gandhi, "where we had a very strict uniform from head to toe. In my music video, you follow the story of 10 girls moving from individualistic, restrictive and problematic environments to unified, joyful, free nature environments. We are all in the collective protesting joyfully with drums, wearing colors that keep us all together in the same palette while each person has their own take on that self-expression. The story is about questioning environments that do not work for us and designing the alternative."
The cast includes, among others, queer activist and artist Priyanka Pauly; the trans activist Shanthi Muniswamy who "I did a project with in Bangalore last year"; Angel Georgina Konthoujam, an activist who represents the Meitei people of Manipur. "Each of the 10 cast members is a gifted artist in their own right and I wanted to feel the solidarity with each of them both on and off screen. It was a mutually loving and supportive environment, which meant a lot to me."
It's not a coincidence that the music video arrived on the last day of June, as Pride Month comes to a close. Madame Gandhi, who has also toured drumming for M.I.A and Thievery Corporation, believes it is her mission to celebrate gender liberation. There is consistent evidence of this: Whether it was the voluntary free-bleeding London Marathon run or the queer femme-focused music video for "See Me Thru".
"To me, the queer community understands that gender is constructed to keep some people in positions of power, and other people not. It is the bravery of the members of the LGBTQIA+ community that reminds everyone to celebrate their most authentic self."
This year is significant for Madame Gandhi for more reasons than one. "I think one of the biggest shifts I am seeing this year is more attention paid to history," she says. "In India, folks are recognizing how multiple expressions of gender existed in a pre-colonial time, and that the gender binary is a Western construct that needs to be dismantled because it is associated with power and privilege. In the US, there is a larger celebration of black trans female leaders like Marsha P Johnson who led the protests at the Stonewall Inn in NYC which started the global pride movement as we recognize it today."
"There has historically been less intersectional support of these different liberation movements," she continues, "and so it feels powerful to see that this year, because there is so much global unrest, we are realizing the power of reinforcing these different movements collectively, rather than tearing each other down."
The road to this 21st century ideal of an intersectional world isn't easy, and to find the harmony in it is an artist's job — at least for now. And who better than Madame Gandhi to draw it out, seeing as she is determined to use her art to re-imagine the world as the one she wants to live in. "When I go inward to share what I truly think and believe, that is when I connect and resonate with my audience most, and am able to actually add something unique and valuable to conversations around activism."
She also demonstrates that intersectionality in this excellent mixtape she made for GQ India in honour of Pride — featuring songs and avant garde videos from Canadian rappers Cartel Madras; American R&B songstress Raveena; British electronic musician Leo Kalyan, Malaysian queer pop star Alextbh, and a spoken word performance by Alok Vaid-Menon, among others. "It's a diverse selection, vast in scope, and like everything else she does, anchored by a simple message: "None of us are free until all of us are free."
Listen to Madame Gandhi's Playlist for Pride Here!
By Nidhi Gupta for GQ India
ImagePosted in MusicTagged GQ India, New Music Video, own your voice, pride month, the future is female, waiting for meBy Madame Gandhi
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Lorna Simpson Maps the Complex Galaxies of Black Women's Hair
The artist's new book of collages incorporates magazine clippings, watercolor, and geological formations.
An interior shot from artist Lorna Simpson's new book of collagesChronicle Books
"Black women's heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves," poet and professor Elizabeth Alexander writes in her introduction to Lorna Simpson Collages, a new book of that artist's work. Much of Simpson's career has been dedicated to documenting the specificity and breadth of black womanhood, and this collection continues in that vein. Black women's hair, that fraught matter, is not simply the inspiration for this set of collages; it is the subject.
Simpson has long exhumed the ghosts of American history through her presentation of modern subjects, and the collection grants new life to images taken from magazines by layering them with multimedia flourishes and with consumer copy. Simpson's own artist statement reflects the thorny sources she pulled from: It's composed, she notes, entirely of "phrases culled from the advertising that originally accompanied many of the images that appear within the collages."
That Simpson would have a facility with integrating found images isn't surprising; while the artist gravitates toward photo-based mediums, she's also painted, drawn, directed, and sculpted. She's used wigs as props, her own body as a subject. She's familiarized herself with the smoky allure of charcoal. Simpson's work is distinctive, the patterns of her photography and collages often immediately recognizable. Simpson's images operate in concert with the texts that frequently share their plane—her art is a study in meticulous harmony.
From its first pages, Lorna Simpson Collages sets forth the artist's multidisciplinary lens. Alexander's preface, "Of the black & boisterous hair," draws its title from Pulitzer Prize–winner Gwendolyn Brooks's 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen. The collection traces the life of Annie, an "ordinary," which is to say largely forgotten, black girl as she experiences the epic journey from childhood to the landmine-studded province of womanhood. Annie Allen's centerpiece, "The Anniad," consists of 43 stanzas of meandering text; its title is a riff on Virgil's The Aeneid. In both deference to and defiance of Latin conventions, Brooks casts her protagonist as a classical hero. In doing so, Brooks insists that Annie is a being whose adventures—localized though they may be—are worthy of close inspection, that the lessons therein telegraph truths about the entire universe. The poem's opening lines foreground the neglect of its starry-eyed hero:
Think of sweet and chocolate,
Left folly or to fate,
Whom the higher gods forgot,
Whom the lower gods berate;
Physical and underfed
Fancying on the featherbed
What was never and is not.
Alexander's introduction pulls from several stanzas later, when Brooks presents some of the most striking building blocks of her Annie:
Think of thaumaturgic lass
Looking in her looking-glass
At the unembroidered brown;
Printing bastard roses there;
Then emotionally aware
Of the black and boisterous hair,
Taming all that anger down.
Like that of Annie, writes Alexander, the hair Simpson "paints has a mind of its own. It is sinuous and cloudy and fully alive." Alexander's marriage of the two forms—Brooks's poetry and Simpson's visual art—illuminates the aesthetic and thematic threads that connect the women's creative pursuits. Put plainly, Simpson's collages do for black women's (and men's) hair what Brooks's poetry does for the liminal space in which a black girl becomes a black woman. Simpson's eye magnifies her subjects with curiosity and tenderness; her hand doesn't flinch as she catalogs shifts in hair, clothing, social strata. Collages of women greet the viewer with piercing eyes; with their hair manipulated beyond the colloquial definition of natural, the women's faces take center stage. Simpson's subjects observe even as they are studied. She focuses her attention on the mundane; in the process, she excavates the sublime.
To begin some of her recent work with found images, Simpson dove into her personal archives of Ebony and Jet magazines, with her grandmother's being the first she turned to for inspiration. "The Jet and Ebony magazines are of course, as an American, on the East Coast, really familiar to me—African American thought and point of view over a series of decades," Simpson told Frieze earlier this year, ahead of "Lorna Simpson: Unanswerable," her exhibit at London's Hauser & Wirth, which featured paintings, collages, and sculptures. "That's been a really interesting and fertile ground for me to play with in terms of the work, an interesting marker of time and politics."
Both Ebony and Jet have long showcased the entanglement of consumerism and black (women's) beauty; advertisers looking to target this specific demographic could place their "miracle" products alongside articles detailing issues of grave importance to the community. Simpson's artist statement culls its language directly from these advertisements, lingering on the conflicting descriptions—"Colonial Cascade," "Dome of Curls," "Black Pearl," "Around-the-clock Loveliness," "Naturally difficult hair"—that have lived in the magazines' pages for years. The resulting collages render image and politics inseparable, arranging on one page what the magazines attempted to silo.
After Alexander's and Simpson's tandem theses, the book is divided into four sections: Earth & Sky, Ebony, Jet, and Riunite & Ice. The collages themselves take multiple forms: In each, a black man or (more often) woman is depicted with hair replaced by some billowing foreign matter. In one from the "Earth & Sky" section, a Nefertiti-like coif is constructed with the iron-mineral stone haematite. In another, from "Ebony," sharp cerulean watercolor drops create a bright, smoke-like billow above a woman's head. Multimedia in the literal sense, the collages also focus on the artistic potential of black hair itself: Coils and kinks grow up, not down; black hair is itself sculptural.
A sense of experimentation clearly infuses the work. "In working with the collages, they're almost like a way for my subconscious to kind of play," Simpson noted in her Frieze interview. "I find it very satisfying that there are all these kinds of subtle things that start to happen in the collages that are built over time, this kind of ever-evolving group of imagery, transforming themselves somewhat subsconsciously." For Simpson, that has often meant dramatizing the ugliest parts of the social fabric by intentionally beautifying the people who bear its heaviest burdens.
In playing with both convention and context in this way, Simpson draws attention to the artifice around her, and occasionally within her own work. The performances—both Simpson's and that of her subjects—are lively, layered. They are at once true, in the sense that they are real works subject to the real intentions of their real creator, and also inherent falsifications. The collages are, by their very nature, subject to the same demands of capitalism as the advertisements, and magazines, Simpson pulls from to assemble them. Still, the book resists leaning too heavily into social critique and obscuring those pictured in the process. The smartest trick of Collages isn't that Simpson forces us to examine her subjects' phantasmagoric tresses. It's that the follicular mysticism directs our gaze somewhere else entirely: toward the women's faces.
Hannah Giorgis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers culture.


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Nintendo, Institute of Play start STEAM pilot
The two companies have teamed up to bring Nintendo Labo and Switch consoles to elementary schools across the US, teaching kids about programming.
By Jane Hobson
Gaming giant Nintendo and New York's Institute of Play are partnering to bring Nintendo Labo: Variety Kits and Nintendo Switch systems into elementary schools nationwide in an effort to strengthen kids' STEAM (science, technology, art and math) skills.
Nintendo Labo, which launched earlier this year, uses modular sheets of cardboard compatible with the Switch console and its Joy-Con controllers to create DIY experiences for kids with motion cameras. With the tech, they can build everything from a playable piano that detects which keys are pressed and translates them into musical notes heard through the console, to a motorbike with cardboard handlebars that can be driven on screen.
Currently running in schools in the greater New York area, the pilot program is projected to reach 2,000 students ages eight to 11 during the 2018/2019 school year. Both companies have brought in a team of educators, researchers, game designers and school leaders to build a curriculum and Teacher Guide, which will be available for free later this year for anyone who wants to incorporate Nintendo Labo into classrooms or homes.
Once the pilot is complete at the end of March 2019, it will be expanded to run in at least 100 additional schools across the US. Schools that wish to participate can apply online.
North of the border, Nintendo has similarly partnered with education outreach program Actua to get Canadian youth involved in STEM through Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Labo.
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BOOKKEEPER, CPA, CONTROLLER, CFO? WHAT DO I NEED?
Selecting the right financial professionals for your company depends on your size, scope, and ambition.
No matter how exciting your company's product or service may be, in the end, someone needs to crunch the numbers. A business poised for growth needs a team of highly skilled professionals ready to steward your financials. But what are the roles, which does your company actually need and how do you choose the "right" financial professionals? The short answer: it depends.
Even just starting out, a company needs to understand its numbers. What is your actual cash flow? What products or customers return the greatest profit? What's the fastest way to grow those figures?
Some think they can pay a bookkeeper the bare minimum and expect him or her to function as a "cheap" Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Others hire a CFO right out of the gate to run everyday accounting operations or expect a certified public accountant (CPA) who does yearly taxes to act as a strategic advisor. Often, none of these solutions ultimately give the business what it needs – and can lead to an unnecessary waste of time and resources.
If it's helpful, envision your company as the newest team in the NFL. In order to make it to the Super Bowl of financial management, you need a complement of talent that fits your size and ambitions.
The bookkeeper (or in some cases, staff accountant) is typically a more junior staff member. They take direction from higher-ups in the organization and keep the day-to-day accounting functions of the company running smoothly. These can include accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP), reconciliation of bank accounts, invoice payment, and proper filing and classification of transactions. They keep an eye on what's come before to make sure the books are balanced.
Your team is sunk without an effective defensive line. All it takes is a few missed payments or an improperly maintained ledger for debt collection to break through and sack the quarterback. As your business grows, however, you may soon see the limit to their abilities and capacity. A three-employee shop is a very different animal than one with 30.
Many companies also enlist the services of a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), who assists with general financial upkeep and plays a crucial role during tax season. But many businesses don't see their CPA as a strategic partner, and furthermore, don't pay them for that level of effort. They bring them in to kick the tax ball through the IRS uprights in spectacular fashion but leave valuable expertise untapped on the sideline.
The controller (or "comptroller" in non-profit or government circles) serves a more senior role, most likely in companies that sit in the $1M-$200M league. They oversee accounting for the entire company and establish processes and best practices for the bookkeeper and other staff. They manage the entire financial process – from budgets and forecasts to interpretation and analysis.
Your quarterback calls the plays and, with a smooth and steady hand, moves the team down the field to score. As your company grows (and prepares for the big game) you may need to invest in this role.
The financial voice of the C-Suite, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is the trusted numbers guru in the room when the owner, the CEO, or other senior leadership discuss the company's economic past, present, and future. A forward-looking visionary, the CFO implements a higher level of strategy, which can include long-term financial modeling, complex analysis of trends, and insight into capital expenditures, debt management, and investments. They ensure your accounting department runs efficiently, with the proper technology and know-how to maximize profit.
With day-to-day operations in the hands of the bookkeeper or controller, the CFO is free to look ahead to new opportunities. They turn insights into action, a band of individual players into a winning team.
At the end of the day, reach for the 30,000-foot view and assess your accounting function objectively. Move at a pace that fits your growth. If your company marches at a more moderate pace, a bookkeeper and CPA team may fit the bill. If the stars are within your grasp, it may be time to invest in a controller or CFO – or a strategic advisor who serves as one.


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At 2,684 lbs. displacement with a portable fuel tank, at 90 HP, the boats projected speed is 30 knots.
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Do you want to know the top three activities that are guaranteed to improve your writing?
But that doesn't mean that you should write seriously.
In fact, the more you can make your daily writing discipline like some wild and crazy joyride, the faster you'll get to where you want that writing to go.
unless, of course, you kill off a character or two — but still.
PROMPT: Create a new folder. Label it Sandbox, Jukebox, or Xbox(whatever kind of fun you kids are into these days). Then noodle around — catch one of the voices inside of your head and see where s/he goes, create a crazy recipe, or write about wacky neuro-geeks who do think brain surgery is fun. Throw these daily bits into the digital file. Give yourself a couple of months of this and you'll see — something wonderful this way comes!


As with all mainstream schools, we have a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO). They, along with your child's Form Tutor, Stage Leader and Subject Teachers will be able to discuss your child's needs with you and the support for learning that we are providing to meet their needs, and what expectations the school has for your child's progress. Your first point of call should be your child's Form Tutor.


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All schools in Lagos must use Yoruba on Wednesdays – Government
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Lagos and the promotion of our indigenous language
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Ambode signs bill making Yoruba usage and teaching compulsory in schools
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Hanazuki Games
It is only on our website that you get to find and play Hanazuki Games, which is a category of games which so far can only be found here, so take advantage of the fact that you are here, and try the games out, since we have no doubt at all you will have no regrets in doing so!
The Hanazuki Games category was created in 29.09.2017 and from there we added more than 5 games for boys and girls that are interested in gaming online. These games were voted in total 34 times and the best game from Hanazuki Games it's Hanazuki Puzzle.
We recommend you to play the latest game added in this category on 12.10.2018 which it's Hanazuki Memory.
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Hanazuki Memory
We have worked quite hard these past few days on the Hanazuki Games category, and we are glad for it since we believe that each game was a great experience for you to...
Hanazuki Puzzle
In the Hanazuki Games category from our website we do not believe that puzzle games have been added before, so we are very happy that right now we get the opportunity...
Hanazuki Coloring
The Hanazuki Games category from our website has never had coloring games in it before, and no other websites have had such games based on this show before also, so...
Hanazuki Differences
It has been quite some time since we have last brought our visitors any new Hanazuki Games, so it is our great pleasure that right now we can share with you all the...
Hanazuki Mood Tracker
Hanazuki Games is one brand new category of games, which can also be called Hanazuki Full of Treasures Games, which we have just created for our website, where we are...
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Hanazuki Games, or Hanazuki Full of Treasures Games is yet another fantastic category of games created for www.friv-games-today.com, and not only that, but it is a category of games which has first been created on our website, meaning nowhere else can you find Hanazuki Games, at least at the moment of the writing, as we have made sure that we were the first ones to create the category. As you know from prior categories, here on our website we always do our best to make sure that we have as many diverse categories as possible, so we look towards all sorts of content for inspiration. In these days, if you have a show, you do not necessarily need to go to a television network, since the internet is a great platform to share your work on, which is what happened with Hanazuki: Full of Treasures, which is an animated series based on a series of toys from Hasbro, which found it's home on Youtube, where it is without a doubt one of the most watched children's shows, with fans from all over the world. Well, up until we created the Hanazuki Games category, these fans did not have the chance to play games with their favorite characters, so of course we are happy that we got to offer them these games, just like we are sure that we have made the fans of the show really happy, since they can finally play together with these characters! A second season is set to air in 2017, a third season is also going to be produced, and not only that, but a feature-film has been announced as well, meaning the franchise is really picking up, and it is going to stay with us for quite some time. We are glad, becasue that also means that in time, more and more online Hanazuki Games are going to show up, games which you will certainly be able to find first on our website, because we are always making sure to be up to date with the world of online games. Now, although the reach of this show is pretty big, we have no doubt that not all of you currently on this page have heard about this show or seen it, so we invite you to keep on reading this description, because from it you are going to be able to learn what the show is about, and when we are done with that, we are also going to tell you what kinds of games we currently have on this page. The show is set in a fictional galaxy, where Big Bad is a cloud that drains the life and colour from anything it touches. The galaxy is protected by Moonflowers, plant-like children who use their emotional states to save the places that have been affected by the Big Bad. Hanazuki, the title character, is a newly-born Moonflower, so of course, in the first episodes of the show, we see Hanazuki learning about her job as a moonflower, so that she can become better and better at bringing joy to the moons she travels to. Of course, there are moonflowers which have failed to save their moon, and Hanazuki gets to meet them in the show, and help them do their jobs better. As you can tell from this short description that we have given you about the show, it is focused on teaching children about their moods and feelings, so as they get better in touch with them, which is very important for children to learn, and it is quite difficult for many of them, so it is very important that such a show exists. Hanazku Mood Tracker is the name of the first ever game we have added in the category, and it is a quiz game which allows you to find out what your mood is today, depending on how you answer the questions that you are given. Doesn't it sound really interesting? Well, it certainly is, and in the future, we are going to make sure that all sorts of new games are going to be added to this page, games which you will hopefully find and play, and have a great time doing so. Well, now that we have put you up to date with the show and the category, even if you had no prior knowledge about it before reading this description, you should now definitely check out these Hanazuki Games, and do not forget to tell us in the comments what you think about each of them. When you are done playing Hanazuki Games, remember that our website has hundreds of categories, each one more fun than the other one, so you are definitely going to be able to find games to your liking, with just a quick search.


Satou Tenshou is a Japanese animator, formerly belonging to Studio Wanpack, now a member of White Fox.
His favourite anime are Sennen Joyuu, Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gyakushuu no Char and Onegai Teacher. His nickname is MacGuyver.
Having only served as animator since Gad Guard he has shown to be proficient at displaying flowing stuff and its linework as well as excelling at storyboarding and portraying a good sense of camera action.


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The trainees from 12 public libraries in Zambia who attended the first round of EIFL-LIAZ training in Zambia in February 2018, with their trainers.
In 2018, EIFL entered into a partnership with the Library and Information Association of Zambia (LIAZ) for a national initiative that will build digital technology and professional skills of public library staff to enable them to initiate new public library services that use technology to meet community needs.
The initiative targets 12 public and community libraries in Zambia that are already equipped with computers and the internet. Two librarians from each of the 12 public libraries (a total of 24) will take part in the training.
The training is organized by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) and LIAZ.
Module 1: Advanced information and communication technology (ICT) skills for public librarians.
Module 3: Developing and managing new public library services, including community needs assessment, writing funding proposals, service design, new service implementation and impact assessment.
Module 4: Communications and advocacy, including how to publicize new services in communities and advocate for resources to fund and sustain new services.
Gaps of at least a month between training sessions enable librarians to return to their libraries to integrate new knowledge and skills into their daily workflows. During these breaks, the librarians also develop action plans for introduction of innovative public library services that use ICT. The plans are shared and discussed. during training.
In February 2018, 24 public librarians from 12 libraries completed a skills course in advanced ICT (Module 1). The librarians learnt training skills so that they can provide computer and internet training in their communities.
In May 2018, 24 public librarians from 12 public libraries completed training in internet searching, e-resources and new service development ( Modules 2 and 3).
In October 2018, 24 public librarians from 12 public libraries completed training in communications and advocacy, and 'Social Learning Circles for Online Learners' (Modules 4 & 5).
At the end of the training, EIFL invited public libraries that attended the training to apply for small grants to implement innovative services that use ICT to serve their communities. A total of three grants will be awarded - watch our website for details.
The Zambian training is part of a major public library capacity building initiative for public librarians in Africa. After successfully piloting national training for public librarians in Ghana in 2014, EIFL-PLIP adapted the curriculum and methodology to meet the needs of public librarians in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
Read Public librarians in Africa ready for action after training, EIFL-PLIP Impact Manager Ugne Lipeikaite's blog about the results of EIFL's capacity building initiatives in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.
LIAZ is extremely happy to partner with EIFL in this project. Times have changed, computers and the internet have become essential information tools, and Zambian librarians need new skills to use this technology to provide better services.
Velenasi Mwale Munsanje, former President of LIAZ , who is coordinating EIFL's capacity building initiative in Zambia.


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Flat Ferrule, squared ended. Lots of color capacity, easy maneuveraility.
Also called a flat. Flat ferrule, square-ended. Lots of color capacity, easy maneuveraility.
Brush has a pointed tip with long hair. Used for outlining, scrolling, long continuous strokes, delicate lettering and highlighting.
Brush has a round ferrule. Holds a large volume of paint and is used for details, washes and thin to thick lines.
Used for laying stripes of various sizes, especially in banding techniques.
Oval shape in round ferrule. Used for lightly blending colors, obscuring brush marks, laying in large areas of color and moving dry color for dry grounding.
Brush has a pointed tip.
Used to 'stipple' color to blend two or more colors without actually mixing the colors. The brush is also used in landscape painting for foliage, grass and other effects.
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