Job Purpose / Objective: The Senior Field Coordinator leads IRCs response in the Kakuma Field Site and is responsible for supporting, coordinating and supervising timely and high-quality program implementation, with a specific focus in ensuring effective functionality of all the support functions of the program.
The Senior Field Coordinator provides supervision and leadership to both program and operational teams in the field site, ensuring adherence to agreed work plans and reporting schedules as well as full compliance to IRC's policies in the areas of Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Security and ICT.
The Senior Field Coordinator will be responsible for grant management and reporting.
The Senior Field Coordinator will be responsible for direct supervision and monitoring Human Resources, Administration, Logistics, Finance and all program functions to ensure strict compliance to all IRC procedures/policies.
The Senior Field Coordinator will oversee day to day management of Staff Safety and security during all phases of field operations.
The Senior Field Coordinator works in close coordination with the Country Director, Deputy Director Programs, Technical Coordinators, Finance Controller, Senior HR Coordinator and SC Coordinator to ensure that programmatic and operational strategies are implemented in the field site.
The Senior Field Coordinator will from time to time represent the IRC Kakuma program in various coordination forums.
The Senior Field Coordinator reports to the Deputy Director Operations and will be responsible for the following.
Oversee the day-to-day implementation of all programs in the field site, providing constructive supervision to the program managers to implement, monitor and evaluate work plans and monitoring &evaluation mechanisms as agreed with the Deputy Director Programs.
In close collaboration with relevant Technical Coordinator(s), lead the field-based teams in the development of new proposals and initiatives for the Kakuma field site in accordance with the country program strategic plan and IRC program framework.
Participate in the development of budgets for program proposals in conjunction with the grants and finance departments.
In close coordination with the Grants department and the relevant Technical Coordinator(s), lead field-level Grants Opening, Mid-Term and Closing meetings.
Lead review of Budget vs. Actual expenditure on a monthly basis with staff, ensuring timely and accurate feedback to the relevant Technical Coordinator(s) and the Grants, Finance and Supply Chain departments.
In collaboration with the Technical Coordinator(s) address any over/under expenditure issues through jointly developed corrective plans.
Ensure that all project activities are consistent with established best practices and IRC's Program Framework principles.
Ensure all staff in the field site know and understand IRCs Global and in-country HR Policies and the IRC Way Standards for professional Conduct.
Document and address breaches of policy and disciplinary issues in coordination with the Senior HR Coordinator in a professional manner and in line with the letter and spirit of the relevant policy.
Ensure the Performance Management cycle is implemented and documented timely for all staff in the field site.
Ensure feedback from technical coordinators is sought and incorporated in performance management cycles of program managers and heads of department, including but not limited to technical performance and capacity building needs.
Provide direct supervision to the field site's HR lead, ensuring recruitment, staff orientation, and payroll preparation, leave management and exit management processes are carried out timely and in line with relevant policies and procedures.
Ensure that staff have capacity development plans in place based on documented capacity needs assessments exercise.
In close coordination with the Finance department, lead the development and management of annual, comprehensive and inclusive field operating budgets.
Ensure proper financial, supply chain and ICT management systems and control mechanisms are in place and adhered to in line with the IRC's global and in-country finance and supply chain policies.
Provide supervision and leadership to the field site's finance and supply chain teams.
Review and ensure timely submission of monthly and annual finance and supply chain reports from the field site as required.
Act as IRCs Security Focal Point for the field site.
Ensure all staff in the field site know and understand IRC Kakuma's security regulations; Document and address breaches of policy and disciplinary issues in coordination with the Security Manager.
Monitor the Kakuma security situation, attend security meetings and inform the Security Manager, and SMT where appropriate, of developments through submission of accurate weekly and –where needed- ad-hoc security and incident reports.
Participate in the review and update of the country Security Management Plan.
Assist the Security Manager in developing field specific Contingency Plans, Medevac, Evacuation Plans and SOPs.
Assist the Security Manager with developing training plans for staff and conducting trainings.
Represent the IRC with local government authorities (administrative, sectoral and security officials), non-state actors, UN agencies, NGOs, and donors at the field site level. Engage and or delegate to program staff for sector representation as appropriate.
Upon request by the Senior Management Team, organize and facilitate field visits for stakeholders interested in IRC's Kakuma response.
Strategic Leadership in effective program design and implementation, grant compliance with key focus on the IRC Country Strategic Plan and the IRC Global Program Framework.
Effective representation of the IRC in key forums (GoK, Partners, stake holder, donor) articulating IRC programming, country strategies and seeking to strengthen coordination/partnerships.
Continuously monitoring and analysis of the Humanitarian situation/context of Turkana County to inform on strategic design of the IRC programming.
Continuously monitoring and analyzing the safety and security situation within the County that would inform on development of contextual Advisories and SOPs that would ensure staff safety during all IRC operations.
Graduate degree in Development Studies, International Relations or similar OR relevant technical qualification (Health, Engineering, Livelihood, Gender etc) preferred.
At least 5 years experience of implementing multi-sectorial humanitarian relief or development projects in Africa or similar context preferred.
Experience of working in complex emergency settings implementing and managing either Primary Health, WASH, GBV, Livelihoods, Nutrition or HIV/AIDS programs in emergency or refugee settings.
Good security management skills preferred.
Good working knowledge of computer software: MS Word, Excel & email applications required; MS Access, Project & GIS preferred.


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Q: Find the matched nodes in a tree with python I have some data as:
nodes = [
    {'name': 'N1', 'id': 1, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': None},
    {'name': 'N2', 'id': 2, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 1},
    {'name': 'N3', 'id': 3, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 1},
    {'name': 'N4', 'id': 4, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 1},
    {'name': 'N5', 'id': 5, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 1},
    {'name': 'N6', 'id': 6, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 2},
    {'name': 'N7', 'id': 7, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 2},
    {'name': 'N8', 'id': 8, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 3},
    {'name': 'N9', 'id': 9, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 4},
    {'name': 'N10', 'id': 10, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 6},
    {'name': 'N11', 'id': 11, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 6},
    {'name': 'N12', 'id': 12, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 7},
    {'name': 'N13', 'id': 13, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 7},
    {'name': 'N14', 'id': 14, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 9},
    {'name': 'N15', 'id': 15, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 9},
    {'name': 'N16', 'id': 16, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 9},
    {'name': 'N17', 'id': 16, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 15},
]

# data maybe in different sequence
import random
random.shuffle(nodes)

I draw a picture for it as below:

I want to find the children nodes of N1 which color is 'red', it should stop when find a 'red' node in a path, which means, when it reaches to N3,  it will not continue to check N8,  Similarly, it will stop at N9 and not check N14, N15, N16 and N17.
so my expected nodes are:
expected_nodes = ['N3', 'N5', 'N7', 'N9', 'N10']

How can I do this in python?

A: I'd recommend representing each node as an object of a node class; to do this, you can either make use of a dedicated library for graphs/trees, such as networkx or anytree, or implement your own Node class. Here is my attempt at this.
Edit: if you want to work with your current dictionary format, e.g. because your data is already encoded like this and you don't want to migrate it, I recommend either @A Rather Long Name's or @blhsing's solution. I've also added my own approach at the end of this answer.
Note: I have assumed that by wanting to find "all red children of a node" you don't want to include the start node itself; but this can be easily modified.

Using a custom class
Class Node
Here I'll define the class Node as follows. A couple of important remarks: first, I implemented Nodes with information pointing to children instead of parents; second, the properties for each node are just the string name, the string color, and the tuple children.
from typing import ClassVar, Collection, Iterable, Tuple

class Node:
    COLORS: ClassVar[Collection[str]] = ('grey', 'red')  # Allowed colors

    def __init__(self, name: str, color: str):
        self._name = name
        self.color = color
        self._children = ()  # Initialize as empty tuple

    @property
    def name(self) -> str:
        return self._name

    @property
    def color(self) -> str:
        return self._color

    @color.setter
    def color(self, color: str):
        """Make sure it's one of the allowed colors"""
        if color not in Node.COLORS:
            raise ValueError(f"{color} is not a valid color")
        self._color = color

    @property
    def children(self) -> Tuple['Node', ...]:
        return self._children

    @children.setter
    def children(self, children: Iterable['Node']):
        """Make sure children are nodes"""
        if not all(isinstance(c, Node) for c in children):
            raise TypeError("children must be of type Node")
        self._children = tuple(children)

    def __repr__(self):
        """For 'printing' node to stdout"""
        return f"Node(name={repr(self.name)}, color={repr(self._color)})"

    def find_first_red_children(self) -> Iterable['Node']:
        """Collect, for each path rooted here, the first red node that can be reached"""
        result = []
        for child in self.children:
            if child.color == 'red':
                result.append(child)
            else:
                result.extend(child.find_first_red_children())  # Recursive call

        return result

Initialization
You can either initialize each node one by one, e.g.
...
N2 = Node('N2', 'grey')
N2.children = (N6, N7)
...

or programmatically from the dictionary you have. Using the nodes list defined in the question, you could do
node_objects = {n['id']: Node(n['name'], n['color']) for n in nodes}
for node in nodes:
    if (parent_id := node['parent_id']) is not None:
        node_objects[parent_id].children += (node_objects[node['id']],)

(the code below assumes this is what you've done). Note that this is O(n) in time complexity.

Test run
If we run
red_nodes = node_objects[1].find_first_red_children()
print(red_nodes)

the output is
[Node(name='N10', color='red'), Node(name='N7', color='red'), Node(name='N3', color='red'), Node(name='N9', color='red'), Node(name='N5', color='red')]

which is what we wanted. Note the "left-to-right" ordering due to DFS.

Algorithm for finding red children
The algorithm is defined in the find_first_red_children method of class Node:
def find_first_red_children(self) -> Iterable['Node']:
    """Collect, for each path rooted here, the first red node that can be reached"""
    result = []
    for child in self.children:
        if child.color == 'red':
            result.append(child)
        else:
            result.extend(child.find_first_red_children())  # Recursive call

    return result

It is a Depth-First Search (DFS) implementation. Its time complexity is O(n), where n is the number of nodes.
Note that since the "migration" from the raw dictionary format to Node objects is linear, this whole approach from start to finish is also O(n), which is better than most other answers here.

Working directly on the dictionary
If you decide to keep the dictionary format you used, you can use the following function:
def find_first_red_children(node_list, start_node_id):
    # Get the start node
    if len(start_nodes := [n for n in node_list if n["id"] == start_node_id]) != 1:
        raise ValueError(f"Zero or more than one node with id {start_node_id}")
    start_node = start_nodes[0]

    # BFS
    result = []
    # Ordered dictionary of (id: node) of nodes at the current tree level:
    to_explore = OrderedDict({start_node['id']: start_node})
    while len(to_explore) > 0:
        children = [n for n in node_list if n['parent_id'] in to_explore]
        to_explore.clear()
        for n in children:
            if n['color'] == 'red':
                result.append(n)
            else:
                to_explore[n['id']] = n

    return result

This is an iterative Breadth-First Search approach. It doesn't require prior sorting, but it does involve iterating over the whole list of nodes for every level; still, if the height of the tree is very small in comparison to the number of nodes, it will be faster. In fact, a solution that requires previous sorting, like @A Rather Long Name's, would be O(n*log(n)), while this is O(h*n), where n is the number of nodes and h is the height of the tree. Besides, sorting is useful if the node ID, or name, or some other attribute, is monotonically increasing with the tree level, but this might not be the case.
If we run
print([n['name'] for n in find_first_red_children(nodes, start_node_id=1)])

we get ['N3', 'N5', 'N7', 'N9', 'N10'].

A: Here's how it would be done. Note that you might want to include your own try next time.
nodes = sorted(nodes, key=lambda x: x['id'])
blocked = []
res = []

for node in nodes:
    parent = node['parent_id']

    # If parent is blocked,
    if parent in blocked:
        blocked.append(node['id']) # Block the node

    # Otherwise, if node is red,
    elif node['color'] == 'red':
        blocked.append(node['id']) # Block the node
        res.append(node['name'])   # And add to the result

print(res) # ['N3', 'N5', 'N7', 'N9', 'N10']

A: A recursive approach:
def r(nodes, p=None):
    o = []
    for n in nodes:
        if n['parent_id'] == p:
            if n['color'] == 'red':
                o.append(n['name'])
            else:
                o += r(nodes, n['id'])
    return o
print(r(nodes))

This outputs:
['N10', 'N7', 'N3', 'N9', 'N5']

A: this might work:
>>> nodes = [
...     {'name': 'N1', 'id': 1, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': None},
...     {'name': 'N2', 'id': 2, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 1},
...     {'name': 'N3', 'id': 3, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 1},
...     {'name': 'N4', 'id': 4, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 1},
...     {'name': 'N5', 'id': 5, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 1},
...     {'name': 'N6', 'id': 6, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 2},
...     {'name': 'N7', 'id': 7, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 2},
...     {'name': 'N8', 'id': 8, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 3},
...     {'name': 'N9', 'id': 9, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 4},
...     {'name': 'N10', 'id': 10, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 6},
...     {'name': 'N11', 'id': 11, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 6},
...     {'name': 'N12', 'id': 12, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 7},
...     {'name': 'N13', 'id': 13, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 7},
...     {'name': 'N14', 'id': 14, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 9},
...     {'name': 'N15', 'id': 15, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 9},
...     {'name': 'N16', 'id': 16, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 9},
... ]
>>> reds = [i for i in range(len(nodes)) if nodes[i]['color'] == 'red']
>>> reds
[2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14]
>>> idx = [i for i in reds if nodes[nodes[i]['parent_id']-1]['color'] == 'grey']
>>> idx
[2, 4, 6, 8, 9]
>>> expected_nodes = [nodes[i]['name'] for i in idx]
>>> expected_nodes
['N3', 'N5', 'N7', 'N9', 'N10']

A: Another recursive approach would be this:
nodeList = []

def adjacent(nodes, node):
    return [child for child in nodes if child['parent_id']==node['id'] and not child['id']==node['id']]

def reds(nodes, node):
    global nodeList
    if node['color']=='red':
        nodeList.append(node['name'])
        return
    else:
        children = adjacent(nodes, node)
        for child in children:
            reds(nodes, child)

reds(nodes, nodes[0])
print(nodeList)

Output:
['N10', 'N7', 'N3', 'N9', 'N5']

It searches from left to right until it finds a red colored node and stop.

A: You can try the below code :
    def find_nodes(id_list,input_list):
        new_list = []
        for items in id_list:
            parent_list = list(filter(lambda x : x["parent_id"] == items["id"],input_list))
            for dict_items in parent_list:
                if(dict_items["color"] == "red"):
                    print(dict_items["name"])
                else:
                    new_list.append(dict_items)
        if(len(new_list) > 0):
            find_nodes(new_list,input_list)

    if __name__ == '__main__' :
        input_list = []
        my_list = [
            {'name': 'N1', 'id': 1, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': None},
            {'name': 'N2', 'id': 2, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 1},
            {'name': 'N3', 'id': 3, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 1},
            {'name': 'N4', 'id': 4, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 1},
            {'name': 'N5', 'id': 5, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 1},
            {'name': 'N6', 'id': 6, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 2},
            {'name': 'N7', 'id': 7, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 2},
            {'name': 'N8', 'id': 8, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 3},
            {'name': 'N9', 'id': 9, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 4},
            {'name': 'N10', 'id': 10, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 6},
            {'name': 'N11', 'id': 11, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 6},
            {'name': 'N12', 'id': 12, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 7},
            {'name': 'N13', 'id': 13, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 7},
            {'name': 'N14', 'id': 14, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 9},
            {'name': 'N15', 'id': 15, 'color': 'red', 'parent_id': 9},
            {'name': 'N16', 'id': 16, 'color': 'grey', 'parent_id': 9},
        ]

        input_list = list(filter(lambda x : x["parent_id"] == None,my_list))
        find_nodes(input_list,my_list)

A: You can first create a tree to store the data, and then implement a custom generator function to find the first level of red nodes:
class Tree:
  def __init__(self, args = [None, None, None]):
    self.id, self.name, self.color = args
    self.children = []
  def __contains__(self, _d:dict) -> bool:
    if not self.children and self.id != _d['parent_id']:
       return False
    return True if self.id == _d['parent_id'] else any(_d in i for i in self.children)
  def __iter__(self):
    if self.color == 'red':
      yield self.name
    else:
      for i in self.children:
        yield from i
  def insert_row(self, _row:dict) -> None:
    if _row['parent_id'] is None:
      self.__dict__.update(_row)
    else:
      if self.id == _row['parent_id']:
        self.children.append(Tree(args = [_row[i] for i in ['id', 'name', 'color']]))
      else:
         for i in self.children:
           if _row in i:
             i.insert_row(_row)
  def __repr__(self):
    return f'Tree({self.id}, {self.children})'

t = Tree()
for node in sorted(nodes, key=lambda x:x['id']):
  t.insert_row(node)

print([i for i in t])

Output:
['N10', 'N7', 'N3', 'N9', 'N5']

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On July 9, 2011, Al Bennett served as a judge for a non-title bout between Paul Williams and Erislandy Lara in a ballroom at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Since then, the only scoring he has done has been while watching boxing on television.
That will change Saturday night when Bennett, 66, returns to ringside to serve as a judge for a seven-bout card at Schuetzen Park in North Bergen, N.J. It ends a lengthy indefinite suspension imposed by then-New Jersey boxing commissioner Aaron Davis after controversy erupted following the Williams-Lara bout. Davis was replaced by Larry Hazzard last month, a restructuring that likely benefited Bennett's reinstatement.
A judge since 1986, Bennett had worked 25 title fights when he was assigned to Williams-Lara, the main event of an HBO After Dark telecast. Williams was awarded a majority decision that night, causing a public outcry by media and fans who thought Lara had won. Bennett scored the bout a 114-114 draw, while Donald Givens and Hilton Whitaker III had Williams winning 116-114 and 115-114.
Four days later in an unprecedented move, Davis placed all three judges on indefinite suspension, saying he was "unsatisfied with the scoring of the contest." Davis required all three judges to undergo additional training before consideration for reinstatement. Givens, age 77 at the time, retired. Whitaker was reinstated in October 2012, and has been active scoring bouts in New Jersey and North Carolina, according to boxrec.com.
Bennett, the most seasoned of the three judges, made several attempts to get reinstated after attending two seminars and passing the standardized test administered by the Association of Boxing Commissions. But he remained on indefinite suspension until two weeks ago, when he re-applied, paid his $75 fee and received his reinstatement by mail.
Bennett, of Avenel, N.J., said he believes he was being blackballed by Davis because he did an exclusive interview with The Post in May 2012, where he called the length of the suspension "unfair" and criticized Davis for crumbling under public pressure.
"I think it was personal because I was the only one really fighting back," Bennett said.
He has tried to maintain his skills by scoring fights off the television and comparing his results with the official judges at ringside. He's hoping the suspension won't keep him from getting future work.
Judges have continued to face scrutiny since that night. Nevada judge C.J. Ross took a leave of absence after scoring a draw in Floyd Mayweather's victory over Canelo Alvarez in September 2013. More recently, Chris Algieri captured the WBO junior welterweight title last June at Barclays Center with a majority decision, where one judge had it one-sided for Ruslan Provodnikov, 117-109, while the other two judges saw it 114-112 for Algieri. HBO's unofficial scorer and long-time judge Steve Weisfeld had hit 117-109 for Provodnikov.
Scoring always will be subjective which is why Bennett never felt he should have been suspended, especially for three years.


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      extend ActiveSupport::Concern

      included do
        accepts_nested_attributes_for :translations
      end
    end
  end
end

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Ballroom dancers say immigration clampdown hurting business
by: SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press
In this Oct. 7, 2019, photo, dance instructor Ned Pavlovic, a native of Serbia, teaches his student Rouhy Yazdani, a native of Iran who now lives in Milford, Conn., some ballroom dance moves at the Fred Astaire Dance studio in Orange, Conn. Owners of Ballroom dance studios including the Fred Astaire studio say the immigration clampdown has made it even more difficult to find qualified instructors. The small business owners, U.S. dance studio chains and immigration attorneys say there's greater backlogs for visa applications and an overall increase in evidence requests, including for redundant and unnecessary documents. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)
ORANGE, Conn. (AP) — When no Americans replied to her ads seeking a dance instructor, studio owner Chris Sabourin looked overseas. But she was stymied again by a federal tightening of visa application rules she and others contend is hampering the ballroom dance industry.
Sabourin had to eventually give up after a year and thousands of dollars trying to hire a top ballroom dancer from Greece to teach at her Fred Astaire studio in Orange, Connecticut, only to have the woman detained at New York's Kennedy Airport and sent back home.
"It would just be nice to know why we're having such a hard time," Sabourin said. "It's affecting our business, definitely."
With a steady interest in learning iconic dances like the foxtrot and tango, fueled in part by "Dancing with the Stars," studio owners like Sabourin say their efforts to hire professional instructors are hampered without overseas help.
The owners, national representatives of the Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire dance studio chains, and attorneys describe greater backlogs for visa applications and an overall increase in evidence requests, including for redundant information and unnecessary documents.
Immigration lawyers contend President Donald Trump's administration has erected an "invisible wall" of hurdles that has made it difficult for all kinds of U.S. industries, from ballroom dance to STEM fields, to hire foreign workers for jobs they've had a difficult time filling with qualified Americans.
A review of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services data released in January by the American Immigration Lawyers Association found that average case processing time surged by 46% from fiscal year 2016, the last full year of the prior administration, to fiscal year 2018 — from 6.5 months to 9.48 months.
In congressional testimony provided in July, the association's president, Marketa Lindt, said USCIS's overall backlog of delayed cases exceeded 5.69 million this past fiscal year, a 69% increase over fiscal year 2014.
Meanwhile, federal records reviewed by The Associated Press show a slight uptick since 2017 in initial denials of O-1 visa applications from individuals with "extraordinary ability or achievement" — the visa that many of the foreign dancers seek — as well as for O-1 visa applicants who were given a second chance to meet eligibility requirements.
Representatives of the dance industry say they've seen the processing times for those nonimmigrant visas, which allow the dancers to work in the U.S. for up to three years, increase from weeks to months, with uncertainty the application will be approved.
In one case, a dancer approved to work at a Fred Astaire studio in Southbury, Connecticut, was later denied at the American consulate in his home country of Ecuador, one of the last steps in the process.
Jose Zuquilanda, 23, had hoped to compete, train, teach, dance and learn how to run a business at a Fred Astaire studio in Southbury, Connecticut.
Zuquilanda, who has visited the U.S. dozens of times on tourist visas, successfully obtained an O-1 visa but later was denied both that visa and his tourist visa at the consulate.
"They are not only harming his career, they're harming the Fred Astaire studio," said his mother, Liliana Serrano, who lives in Connecticut.
"I think these particular professionals, these artists, are falling into this area where USCIS and immigration services are just making it increasingly difficult to come here legally," said Hartford, Connecticut, immigration attorney Erin O'Neil-Baker, who represents about 10 New England dance studios sponsoring foreign, professional ballroom dancers. "Even if you're an expert in your field, even if you have extraordinary ability, to stay here, they make it difficult."
Immigration attorneys point to the "Buy American and Hire American" executive order Trump signed in April 2017 as one reason for delays. The order was intended to create higher wages and employment rates for U.S. workers by "rigorously enforcing and administering" immigration laws.
"Across the board, across all types of applications at USCIS, we have observed a significant uptick in the increase in case processing time," said Diane Rish, associate director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
The Government Accountability Office told members of Congress in late May it plans to investigate the report's findings.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for tighter immigration controls, said that he empathizes with small business owners but that they shouldn't blame federal immigration policy for their labor recruitment problems.
"It's one thing if you're talking about world-renowned nuclear physicists, where there's a handful of people on the planet who have an ability and we want them here. Everybody gets that," he said. "Dance instructors? I'm sorry. That's something for the market to deal with. If they can't find people at dance programs in college to entice to be teachers, well, maybe we need fewer dance schools. This is a supply and demand issue."
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State said there has "been no policy change" regarding the O-1 visas specifically.
But Michael Wildes, an immigration attorney for first lady Melania Trump and her family, argued in an op-ed in The Hill that immigration lawyers for fashion designers, models and photographers have "experienced an unprecedented level of push-back from immigration authorities."
He warned of "widespread disenfranchisement" among talented and creative people who decide to forgo the U.S. and opt for Paris or Beijing. Dance studio owners indeed said red tape can discourage prospective instructors and lead them to give up on the U.S.
"They can't wait that long," said John Gates, vice president of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios.
Wayne Smith, executive vice president of Arthur Murray Dance Centers, said, it can be expensive for his company's dance studio owners to hire attorneys who understand immigration law.
"This is all the time, currently now. It's just become a very difficult problem," Smith said. "For them to invest that kind of money into it, it's not really worth it to them in the long run."
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's legal team for his Senate impeachment trial will include a pair of well-known attorneys who have vigorously defended Trump on television and played roles in some of the most consequential legal dramas in recent history.
Among those joining White House counsel Pat Cipollone and longtime Trump attorney Jay Sekulow on the defense team will be former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated former President Bill Clinton.
by ELANA SCHOR, Associated Press / Jan 17, 2020
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In the eight years since he became a pastor at First Immanuel Baptist Church, Todd Johnson says he's seen his congregation's politics make a subtle shift.
The Philadelphia church, which recently hosted a Donald Trump campaign event reaching out to black voters, has "more people now who are more open to voting for someone other than a Democrat," Johnson said.
by SARA BURNETT, Associated Press / Jan 17, 2020
CHICAGO (AP) — Days after President Donald Trump killed an Iranian general and said he was sending more soldiers to the Middle East, about 100 protesters stood on a pedestrian bridge over Chicago's Lake Shore Drive with an illuminated sign that read "No War in Iran."
Some 200 people marched in the bitter cold near Boston, while a few dozen people demonstrated on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall and at similarly sized gatherings across the U.S.
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The Olympic Games here in London are well under way and is the talk of the town, and I would imagine on peoples minds all over the world. The retail world is showing their support to the Team Great Britain with these eye catching windows.
I love the humorous take in these Gieves & Hawkes windows in Sloane Square.
Ted Bakers windows are always full of humour.
One of the biggest trends from the catwalk for this season was florals, and it shows in the windows around London. It is a trend that comes back year after year, but somehow this year it seems fresher than ever. Here I have a collection of images that shows just how boldly retailers have approached this trend.
Zara, Oxford Street. Bright florals are very effective with the use of twinning with mannequins with similar outfits and poses.
Joseph, Fulham Road. I walk past this shop daily and I'm really liking their windows. In this one they've managed to put a lot of florals into the same window: full floral outfit, the vinyl on the glass and the background with printed roses. But it works and I can't wait to see what Joseph do next in these windows!


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Madonna's on the November cover of Bazaar, and inside, there's an essay she's written about herself, as she looks back on a 30-year career, starting with the years before she became famous.
Of her high school days, Madonna writes:
…Growing up in a suburb in the Midwest was all I needed to understand that the world was divided into two categories: people who followed the status quo and played it safe, and people who threw convention out the window and danced to the beat of a different drum. I hurled myself into the second category, and soon discovered that being a rebel and not conforming doesn't make you very popular. In fact, it does the opposite. You are viewed as a suspicious character. A troublemaker. Someone dangerous.
When you're 15, this can feel a little uncomfortable. Teenagers want to fit in on one hand and be rebellious on the other. Drinking beer and smoking weed in the parking lot of my high school was not my idea of being rebellious, because that's what everybody did. And I never wanted to do what everybody did. I thought it was cooler to not shave my legs or under my arms. I mean, why did God give us hair there anyways? Why didn't guys have to shave there? Why was it accepted in Europe but not in America? No one could answer my questions in a satisfactory manner, so I pushed the envelope even further. I refused to wear makeup and tied scarves around my head like a Russian peasant. I did the opposite of what all the other girls were doing, and I turned myself into a real man repeller. I dared people to like me and my nonconformity.
Since she was marching to the beat of her own drummer, in the late '70s, she moved to New York, where she felt she could "become a REAL artist," and express herself in a "city of nonconformists." It was a rough, rude awakening:
New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.
Horrifying. Still, she found fuel, energy, the drive to move forward:
And all the homeless people on the street. This wasn't anything I prepared for in Rochester, Michigan. Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going. Sometimes I would play the victim and cry in my shoe box of a bedroom with a window that faced a wall, watching the pigeons shit on my windowsill. And I wondered if it was all worth it, but then I would pull myself together and look at a postcard of Frida Kahlo taped to my wall, and the sight of her mustache consoled me. Because she was an artist who didn't care what people thought. I admired her. She was daring. People gave her a hard time. Life gave her a hard time. If she could do it, then so could I.
The 55-year-old also touches on her marriages, her adoptions and Kabbalah; the entire piece is worth your while.
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Shantha Gamage is a Professor in Physics attached to the Department of Physics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Geophysics at Tohoku University, Japan under the Japanese Government Monbukagakusho scholarship program. He earned his B.Sc. Special Degree in Physics from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in 1995 with First Class honors. His current research interests are on Solid-Earth Geophysics, Seismology, Geothermal Energy and Wave propagation. His recent publications are based on Subduction zone earthquakes, Seismic activity of onshore and offshore of Sri Lanka & Sumatra Subduction zone, Crustal structure of offshore Sri Lanka and Acoustic properties of Waves". He has been serving as an academic staff member at the Department of Physics, USJ since 1997. Prof. Gamage is a Fellow of Institute of Physics, Sri Lanka (IPSL) and life member of Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the current president of IPSL.
Crustal Structure Of Mannar Sub Basin - Sri Lanka Using 2D Gravity Modeling
Estimating Sedimentary Thickness of Lanka Basin using Digitized Scanned Seismic Sections
Development of Sodium Copper Phosphate Cathode for Sodium Ion Battery
The commercial viability of producing urea by utilizing natural gas discovered in the marginal reservoir Dorado
Subsurface structure of the offshore Trincomalee, NE of Sri Lanka
Recognition of Vowels for Sri Lankan Traditional Pirith Chanting Using Formant Variation
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Zhejiang experts find virus in tears
By Ma Zhenhuan in Hangzhou | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-02-28 18:08
Scientists in East China's Zhejiang province have detected novel coronavirus in the tears and conjunctival secretions of an infected patient, according to an announcement from Zhejiang University on Friday.
The announcement revealed that a team of researchers from the university's First Affiliated Hospital led by Shen Ye, an ophthalmology professor, have confirmed that a sample of a patient's tears and conjunctival secretions tested positive for the virus, signaling another new possible way for the contagion to spread.
The research results were published in the Journal of Medical Virology on Wednesday.
The team conducted research on 30 confirmed cases received by the hospital from Jan 26 to Feb 2. The first six samples of tears and conjunctival secretions extracted from patients all tested negative, but these doctors continued with the research by extending observation periods and looking for patients with typical symptoms.
Eventually, they noticed that a patient was diagnosed with conjunctivitis in his left eye after being hospitalized and began to study if there was any relation between the eye ailment and the virus.
After three nucleic acid tests, doctors detected novel coronavirus in the tears and conjunctival secretions of the patient's left eye while the test result on the sample from the right eye was negative.
It can be concluded that the conjunctivitis is related to the virus and there's a risk that the virus could be transmitted through eye secretions, Shen said.
The research team at Zhejiang University will continue with the study to find out how the virus leads to conjunctivitis and whether the virus is able to exploit weaknesses in the immune system, according to the professor.
Shen suggested that given the research findings, it is now imperative for doctors to wear goggles, aside from facial masks, while conducting check-ups on suspected coronavirus patients.
In another development, the Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province announced on Thursday it detected the novel coronavirus in a patient's saliva.
Qin Jirong contributed to this story.
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I love the simplicity of this happy poem as well as the complexity of the photo. Excellent post.
Beautiful choice for the challenge Laura – hope it's long melted by now!
Thanks Tina! Yes, pretty much melted and the temps are finally warming up some. I love the beauty winter brings but ready for spring to arrive.
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Destination Ireland – Your Essential Vacation Planner
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From its vibrant capital in Dublin to its majestic coastal landscapes in the west, Ireland offers some of the most epic travel experiences and views in Europe. Golfing fanatics will rejoice over courses that have been virtually untouched for the past year, and in the best shape for your post-COVID golf trips. While most will defer to a summer visit, Ireland truly shines during the early fall and late spring, so now may be an excellent time to plan your trip to the Emerald Isle!
Beginning July 19th, 2021 for non-EU travelers with proof of vaccination, no testing or quarantine are necessary. If a visitor lacks proof of immunization, they will need to do the following: present evidence of a negative PCR test result within seventy-two hours before arrival into the country, self-quarantine and undergo post-arrival testing.
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Eastern Ireland: Dublin and Kilkenny
As Ireland's capital and most populated city, Dublin should be at the top of your list when it comes to Eastern Ireland exploration. This is a city best explored on foot, with cobbled streets and narrow lanes connecting every sight in the city. Dublin may be well known for attractions such as the Jameson Distillery and the Guinness Storehouse, but there is so much more to discover.
Dublin is a vibrant city with abundant nightlife, festivals, and rich history. A mix of modern and medieval makes this city an excellent place for all travelers visiting Ireland. Finding your own slice of Dublin is part of its charm.
Are you interested in learning how Irish people have influenced the world around us? Check out the Irish Immigration Museum called EPIC to dive deeper into the Irish influence on innovation and history.
Is shopping more your speed? Dublin is a haven for off-the-beaten-path shops you won't find anywhere else. For example, it is home to one of three women in the world who handcraft leather gloves – Paula Rowan who Vogue featured with Madonna sporting her creations on her world tour!
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Located between Trinity College and St. Stephen's Green, The Westbury Hotel earned the number one spot for hotels in Ireland by Condé Nast Traveler 2020 Readers' Choice Awards. While the decor and architecture alone exude a sense of elegance and sophistication, this hotel is also home to a stunning privately-owned art collection and it's fine dining spot Wilde.
Another top resting place, The Shelbourne, has set the standard for luxury hospitality in Ireland for almost two hundred years. Housed in an 1824 building and perfectly positioned in the city center on the Northside of iconic St. Stephen's Green, The Shelbourne is well positioned to access all that Dublin has to offer. While you are there, we recommend indulging in the art of afternoon tea at the famed Lord Mayor's Lounge.
Located about an hour from Dublin, Ballyfin Demesne offers privacy and discretion like no other, with only twenty bedrooms on the expansive 614 acre estate. This five-star luxury retreat is perfect for those who long to embrace the Irish countryside in style. Enjoy the residents-only estate with activities such as archery, horseback riding and falconry or journey through time with a horse-drawn-carriage guided tour that navigates the pathways of the estate.
WHO SHOULD GO
Young Couples, History Buffs, Art Lovers, Golfers
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Southeast Ireland is home to the medieval town of Kilkenny. The city boasts many well-preserved churches and monasteries interwoven with deep religious roots, and rich history. Home to the 12th century Kilkenny Castle and Ireland's Medieval Mile, Kilkenny should be on your list to get a glimpse at the best of historic Ireland.
With this city located only an hour and a half from Dublin, Kilkenny is a perfect place to stop and explore as you travel through the Irish countryside and while you are there, you must stop for a stroll around Kilkenny Castle and its fairytale grounds.
The Mount Juliet Estate is known as Kilkenny's most acclaimed country Estate, though it was a family home until 1989. The famed thirty-two bedroom Georgian Manor House is known for its luxury as well as the ninety-three bedroom Hunter's yard. A stay here includes round-the-clock butler services, access to the Jack Nicklaus designed Parkland course, a Michelin Star Restaurant, and outdoor activities like riding and archery.
Golfers, Historians, Romance-Seeking Couples
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Southern Ireland: Cork & Cobh
The second-largest city in Ireland, Cork, boasts a vibrant culture and a rivalry with Dublin. Located 30 minutes east of Cork, Cobh is a little town easily reachable by train or car. As a seaside town with one of the largest natural harbors in the world, and home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise ports, tourism is a significant driver to the area. Although Cobh is quite walkable, be prepared to traverse steep hills!
The shopping scene in Cork includes a mix of modern and local, which is mainly symbolic of the city itself. A bustling metropolis, Cork is a city center much like Dublin, with a unique twist. Do not miss the English Market which draws tourists and locals alike for delicious locally-produced ingredients and the best people watching. To taste authentic Cork, take the opportunity to sample some local food favorites, such as crubeens, tripe, or drisheen.
Thinking of checking out a museum while in Cork? How about The Butter Museum? Get a look at Cork's buttery history, and learn about the modern success of Kerrygold butter.
For the active set, check out Sheep's Head Way in West Cork where you can pick from one of over twenty-five looping trails.
In Cobh, one of the city's most iconic features is The West View which is a collection of colorful houses constructed in 1850. Cobh's seaside status also makes it a highly renowned area for seafood restaurants.
Hayfield Manor is within walking distance to attractions like the English Market and St Patrick's Street and offers incredible five-star luxury. It hosts one of Cork's finest restaurants – Orchids- which overlooks its beautiful private gardens. Opt for room packages which include a full Irish breakfast and four-course dinner.
Just outside of Cork you'll find the Cliff House Hotel – a thirty-nine room luxury boutique situated in the southeast of Ireland, perched above Ardmore Bay. With an eye to modern Irish design, it merges seamlessly with its gorgeous cliffside scenery. Picturesque views of the Atlantic, coupled with Michelin star restuaurant, a destination spa, The Well, fashion this to be an ideal seaside retreat.
Foodies, Culture Seekers, Salty Dogs
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Right on the shores of the River Shannon is the third largest city in Ireland, lovely Limerick. Overlooking the river is the historic King John's Castle, which has stood watch over the city for over a thousand years. Limerick is an ideal easy-going city to explore the extensive history of Ireland. Try an Irish coffee at the place it first originated!
Embrace the cultural heart of Limerick at one of the oldest markets in Ireland, the Milk Market. The market features vibrant music interwoven with colorful art and artisan foods that make for a perfect Limerick afternoon. Afterward, catch an exciting game of rugby at Thomond Park Stadium. Limerick is also home to a carefully curated art collection at the Hunt Museum featuring works by Picasso, Gaugin, and Renoir. Retire to the paths along the River Shannon and watch the city lights shine off the water at the end of the day.
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Located between Southern Ireland and Galway, the lavish Adare Manor is home to Limerick's first Michelin star restaurant and offers 840 acres of serenity and indulgence. Golfers will thoroughly enjoy the newly renovated golf course that has garnered acclaim from top players and will even host the 2027 Ryder Cup. Additionally, guests are allotted one included estate activity per person, from fishing to archery, paddle tennis to gun dog trials, the options are many.
Historians, Golf Enthusiasts, Mountain Bikers
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Recently named one of Europe's Capitals of Culture for 2020, Galway is an essential stop on your Irish journey. Not only is this city a great place to catch some Irish music, but it also boasts some of the best dining in all of Ireland. Galway will capture your heart with its rustic beauty and lively character. And if you are looking to visit the Cliffs of Moher, the Aran Islands, or some of Ireland's expansive national parks, Galway is the perfect waypoint. They host an international oyster festival in September – one of the many excellent reasons to visit Ireland during autumn.
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Seaside walks on the promenade, castle exploration, and thriving culture will captivate all those who venture through Galway. The Salthill Promenade is the perfect spot to catch the sunset over the bay after a day of city exploration.
If you are looking to soak up some of Ireland's panoramic landscape views, the beautiful Aran Islands are a short ferry ride away from Galway. Within the city, you'll find a variety of shops, entertainment, and architecture. Don't forget to stop by the Spanish arch for that iconic Galway photo-op.
Hotel Glenlo Abbey perfectly captures the essence of old-world Ireland mixed with modern charm. This lakeside retreat offer amenities that will delight all and is just a five-minute jaunt away from the city center. If you are craving relaxation, enjoy an afternoon picnic or catch a movie in the Abbey movie theater. This hotel is home to a 9 hole Championship golf course and two original carriage cars from the Orient Express that have been restored and converted into a remarkably unique restaurant – The Pullman.
Adventurers, Nature Lovers, Gourmands
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Northern Ireland: Belfast and Derry
Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. It is the birthplace of the famed RMS Titanic and thus, the Titanic Belfast Museum. Due to increasing tourism in recent years, the city has divided itself into several cultural quarters. Belfast is still highly divided among Catholic and Protestant lines, seen throughout the city expressed in street art and flags. During a time of increasing turbulence between the two sides, the 'Peace walls' were constructed and are now adorned with cultural symbolism and art.
Fun fact: Northern Ireland is part of the UK which means the pound sterling is the legal currency here while the republic of Ireland (i.e., Dublin) uses Euros.
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Belfast offers everything from nature to history, culture to education, and exudes an air of authenticity that is often missing in larger tourist cities. Home to the Linen Hall Library, which houses books as old as the 14th century, literary lovers will rejoice in a visit to this centuries-old library.
At the top of the list for Belfast luxury is the historic Culloden Estate and Spa constructed in 1876. While this beautiful property has cultivated an air of tranquility and seclusion, it has the added advantage of being just ten minutes from the center of Belfast! After a day of exploring the city, relax over a a traditional Afternoon Tea in the Drawing Room, pamper yourself in its Espa Spa and during the summer, or sip a glass of Bollinger champagne on the lawn alongside the 'Bolly Bus'.
Photo cred: @cullodenestate
Derry, officially Londonderry, the second-largest city in Northern Ireland, is home to the last wholly intact walled city in Ireland, with walls built between 1613-1619 which vary in height from twelve to up to thirty-five feet high. Derry was also the site of the tragic Bloody Sunday events in 1972. Fans of the Netflix show Derry Girls will find this city familiar, with filming locations around every corner.
Small yet scenic, Derry is a highly walkable city that offers visitors a place to enjoy Northern Ireland's extensive history. With walls that form a mile-long loop circling the old town, the promenade on the top of the wall is enjoyed from dawn till dusk and is a popular local hotspot. Twelve murals spanning a three hundred yard stretch memorialize the Bloody Sunday events and are an enduring reminder of the recent history that has come to pass here. Other tourist landmarks not to miss- St. Columb's Cathedral, The Guildhall, The Tower Museum, and the iconic Peace Bridge
Perfectly positioned within the historic city walls in the heart of Derry City's Cathedral Quarter is the exquisite Bishop's Gate Hotel. Erected in 1899, this thirty-one room luxury boutique hotel which features a champagne bar, library, and ballroom combines classic luxury with contemporary desires.
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Lena Headey Also Isn't a Fan of How Cersei Bit the Dust on Game of Thrones
How Rob Corddry Became Hollywood's Most Lovable Asshole
In the last decade, Corddry has established himself as the best at being a dick. Offscreen, though, he's a real Boy Scout kinda guy. (Technically, an Eagle Scout.) Which makes you wonder: how did he become Hollywood's most in-demand, exuberant jerk? We spent a night in the woods with him to find out.
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Rob Corddry and I are driving along Platte Clove Road in upstate-ish New York, struggling to locate the Catskills property where he, an actor and proud Eagle Scout, and I, a candy-ass camping virgin, will pitch a tent and spend the night in the great outdoors. He's telling me how not to die.
"Stick to the path. Common sense stuff. People get cocky because they feel immortal," the 46-year-old says while riding shotgun in my rented Nissan Altima, dressed in his dadly royal blue t-shirt, dark Levi's, and navy Adidas. "Don't bring your struggles with mortality into the woods. You see it when the grass is growing up through the sidewalks: Nature fucking wins."
That seems a little intense for a "camping" trip I booked on Tentrr, a campsite reservation app whose name, when spoken, sounds like everyone's favorite hook-up app. ("You think that's going to be good or bad for them?" Corddry jokes. "Yeah, I was trying to fuck this girl, but I booked a campsite.") First, though, we've got to find the place. Google Maps tells me to pull into a driveway flanked with wooden posts bearing "Keep Out" and "No Hunting or Trespassing" signs.
"This is not it. Definitely not it. We'll get raped here," Corddry says. He pauses. Less than an hour ago he'd explained the complications of telling a rape joke—that even though he no longer has the "Fuck you, anything can be funny" sense of humor he once did, he thinks even the worst stuff can be funny if it's smart and original. These are the dueling halves of Rob Corddry, a guy who's aware of what's problematic, but has built a career on playing characters who revel in problematic.
"Awesome rape joke," he says, to no one in particular.
Rob Corddry the actor did not arrive fully formed, despite it seeming so. He toiled in something of an acting bardo—random television commercials, improv and sketch comedy, even a tour with the National Shakespeare Company—for years before his breakout moment in 2002. That's when he joined The Daily Show as a correspondent alongside Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, and Ed Helms. He played Stewart's pedantic, sardonic foil, alternating dumb humor (pretending he's from "Macaca" for a punchline about it being located next to "Ya-pee-pee") with field pieces where he'd wield effusive, fake sympathy for bad people to expose their self-righteous absurdity. (One Corddry Daily Show line presented without context: "Most espresso drinkers don't have retarded children—and don't like them!")
Since leaving The Daily Show in 2006, he's worked hard to cultivate the role of Hollywood's most lovable asshole. As a vehemently xenophobic, racist Homeland Security agent in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay; as a horny, misogynistic hedonist in Hot Tub Time Machine; as a blood-spattered doctor-clown in Adult Swim's Children's Hospital, for which he's won two Emmy's (as the writer and the star). And now, in maybe his highest profile role ever, as conniving, impotent sports agent Joe Krutel opposite The Rock—literally the world's most beloved human—in HBO's Ballers (it's third season starts Sunday, July 23rd).
It's an 11-year run of premium-grade dickishness that makes you wonder: Is Rob Corddry himself a dick, or is he just really good at playing one?
Turns out the road we're looking for is three minutes back the way we came, two dirt tracks curling through green overgrowth to our campsite. Once we arrive, we set off to gather kindling in the nearby woods (like true outdoorsmen, we bought our logs at the nearest convenience store). Corddry wears black-rimmed glasses, a thin layer of salt-and-pepper stubble, and the all-gray crop-circle hair formation of a man still fighting the good fight. He said he knew when he started losing his hair that he'd never be a leading man. He has a splay-footed, belly-first walk, and a tattoo on his right calf of a hedgehog that he let his then-seven-year-old daughter ink onto him. The baldness and his electric-expressive eyebrows amplify his smile, and wood—not the woods, but, you know, pieces of a tree—makes him smile a lot. Driving around the Massachusetts neighborhood where he grew up, Corddry's dad would occasionally stop to ogle timber. "Every time we'd pass a woodpile, he'd be like, 'Maaan, that's, like, two cord right there! Seasoned wood! That's for rich people!'" Corddry, who's used to camping in barren, dusty California, will describe the wood here in the Catskills as "fucking great" and "fast-burning" and "so good."
Then it comes time to make the fire.
"You have matches right? I'm not rubbing two sticks together," he declares. "I could probably work it out. I know one guy in my Boy Scout troop who got smoke once."
Sounds like he was a legend, I say.
"No. He was a fucking loser for sitting there for six hours."
Corrdry grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, a heavily Irish- and Italian-Catholic suburb about fifteen minutes south of Boston. His mom harbored an anti-Irish-Catholic prejudice, an ironic intolerance: she disliked that so many in Southie seemed okay being racist. Turns out he's almost 100% Irish on her side, though he didn't know that until his wife made him take a 23andMe genetic test recently. But at the time, being non-religious in such a homogenous place just left him confused.
"In second grade, this kid goes, 'You're not Catholic?! Then whaht ah ya?'" Corrdry remembers with his most wicked Boston accent. "'Are yah Jewish?' And I was like, 'Yeah, I guess so. I'm Jewish.'" (It's important to note here that Corddry is not Jewish, and didn't meet someone who was until college.) "Then this second-grade kid goes, 'Well, I hate Jews. But I like you.'"
I tell Corddry that maybe he cured a young Bostonian of anti-Semitism. Corddry laughs. "No, he's probably beating on a Jew now, going, 'There's only wan ah you I've evah liked, and he's in the Haht Tahb Time Machine!'"
Growing up as a not-aggressive, not-Catholic guy around rough-and-tumble Southies created tension for a kid who "just wanted everybody to like me." Corddry has a distinct memory of sitting in his mom's car in a rainstorm across the street from a first-grade friend's birthday party, crying, too scared to go in. He never did; his mom drove him home. "I had no name for it, but at times I had almost crippling social anxiety," he says. "It wasn't until I was married and had someone I was fully comfortable with that I realized: Oh, I have trouble with people. Comedy is a defense against that. It's purely that."
Corddry says most of his adult friends are from his childhood Boy Scout troop. He considers himself a champion for his experience, but not necessarily for the organization—his sister and his mom are both gay, and in the mid-90's he sent the Boy Scouts an angry letter rejecting his Eagle Scout badge. "[I was] like, 'How dare you! How could you be the supposed example for men and shun these people?'" He says it was his way of telling his mother that he accepted her. He never heard back.
"I still consider myself an Eagle Scout," he tells me, hands full of twigs, heading back to camp to start a fire with his bare hands (and a box of matches).
In the stone-lined fire pit in the middle of the field, Corddry meticulously arranges the kindling into a small teepee—better for cooking than the alternative "log cabin" formation, he explains. Once he gets it going (with matches, but no paper, he points out proudly), he stands around like a doting father, a shovel for poking the logs in his right hand, beer in his left. He doesn't help me set up my tent—"Gosh, I'm watching the fire here. I wish I could help."—but tells me I'm doing great even though I am not doing great. I have to be told "your tent is the gray thing," because I'm trying to put poles in the yellow part, which is a nylon rain cover that's not actually the tent. By the time I finally turn my tent into a tent, Corddry's fire is rising skyward and he's cooing with the pleasure of a satisfied pyro.
"This is fucking great!" he says. "LOOK AT THOSE COALS!"
While consuming Budweiser and tallboys of the local, creatively named Mountain Brew Light and staring into a roaring fire that's keeping the mosquitoes mostly at bay, Corddry tells stories. During the eight years between moving to New York in 1994 and catching his break at the Daily Show, he took a series of meaningless jobs, then got fired from many of them for flagrant apathy. (It helped that he could collect unemployment to the tune of $350 or so.)
It was there in New York that a friend confronted him about his asshole tendencies. "He turned to me and he was like, 'Sometimes you can be really mean,'" says Corddry. "And I thank him to this day. He made me really need to understand my own sense of humor. 'Cause everybody in Boston is mean. It's a blatant way of showing affection there. 'Fahck you' is 'I love you.'"
He channeled his self-aware Masshole humor into his Daily Show correspondent character, which he admits he mostly copied from Colbert. ("That's good life advice for anything.") He continued doing improv, too, until a day when he was double-booked for an improv show and a Daily Show hit. As Corddry remembers, Stephen Colbert got in his face to say: "This is your show. This is the show. You got it. You don't have to do that. That's done."
Corddry went west to L.A. in 2006 to star in a Fox show, The Winner, that lasted six episodes. He's been a moon waxing and waning in the Hollywood universe since, surviving enough humbling experiences and bagging enough solid roles to foster equal parts gratitude and self-respect. Take, for instance, the time he met with an executive at Judd Apatow's company, as Apatow was rapidly ascending to midas-touch status.
"[The executive] was like, 'We love you. We think you'd really fit in here. We want to get you in a movie. But with us, you have to climb the ladder. Sort of like Jonah Hill did.'
"I was like, 'Fuck you! Shove your movies up your ass. I paid my dues, motherfucker.' And then I auditioned for 40-Year-Old Virgin, and didn't get it. And who got it? I love to see this. It was Jane Lynch."
I ask if always playing the friend bothers him.
"Actors complaining in general is infuriating to me. But typecasting? The stress is on casting. You're working, motherfucker! I will play the best friend for the rest of my life, as long as I can play shades of that color wheel." He says that when you're the lead, "you're just a sounding board against which more interesting, funny, or crazy characters bounce off of. I want to be the guy that makes the audience go 'Fuck him!'' or 'Yeah, listen to him!'"
The story of Rob Corddry is the story of a guy who's just trying to figure out where he belongs. Maybe as a not-really-Jewish boy in an Irish-Catholic town. Maybe losing a role that eventually goes to Jane Lynch. Maybe as the best friend that makes you say "Fuck him!" but also "Yeah, listen to him!" He says it was liberating when he realized he didn't have to make everyone like him. But if he's so damn likable (and he is), it's because, both onscreen and off, he wears the vulnerability of a guy still worried if anyone does.
In his 20's, Corddry realized that he couldn't shut off the sarcasm. "I'm a politician selling myself, always wanting to get people to elect me into the scope of people they like." He is both the guy roasting you, and the guy who knows that he's being a dick for roasting you; who makes a rape joke reflexively, but knows right away that it might look bad. He learned early that being offensive was less lonely than not having anyone to offend. "It's instinct at this point," he says. "It's what I've been doing my whole life. It was a way to get along with everybody."
"Maybe I'm just like I was in high school," he says right before telling me that Apatow story. "Still wandering around from group to group and not part of any of 'em."
As we stare into a fire, cloud cover hiding the promised stars, we hear demonic yodeling somewhere off in the distance. "Are there coyotes around here?" Corddry asks, as if the guy who had to be told "the gray thing is your tent" might be an expert on Catskills fauna. I venture, based on the Planet Earth episodes I've watched, that the demon yodelers sound like monkeys. "Yeah, chimps," Corddry says in agreement. "Catskill chimpanzees. They're the worst."
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The Nutritional Science option, a B.S. degree program, integrates nutritional science, biology, chemistry, physics and human anatomy/physiology. The basic science foundation upon which this curriculum is built prepares students for earning the M.S. or Ph.D. degree at Tuskegee University or other institutions in either applied community nutrition or nutritional biochemistry. A common freshman year is shared with Food Science majors. During the sophomore year, students take courses in specialized areas of nutrition and related sciences. Most graduates have career opportunities as nutritionists in governmental and non-governmental organizations, public health facilities or in the food industry. Individuals with advanced degrees may elect to work at a college/university in teaching or research, in the private sector, or with a branch of government.


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91 Sauce Brings Hot Hip Hop Beats From Florida
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Rising hip hop star 91 Sauce is ready to take the world by storm with his unique music. His latest single "Trouble" is ready to change the way people see hip hop. 91 Sauce has taken old school hip hop sounds and remastered them into something fresh.
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91 Sauce has been making music for ten years. He wants to take his music to the next level as well as his performance. The artist was raised with his sisters and a working single mother. As the only boy, 91 Sauce felt he had to take care of his family. His drive to make music is a desire to break a generational curse. 91 Sauce wants to prosper along with helping his family. He is quickly taking over streaming services with his outstanding music. 91 Sauce hopes to grow his fanbase and give his fans music that will get them talking. Make sure to check out 91 Sauce and his dope beats today.
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Chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, nuts, or chopped candy bars (Snickers, Butterfinger, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, Heath Bars) or any other goodie the birthday boy or girl likes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare three round cake pans by greasing sides and bottom with butter and dusting with flour.
Mix flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, beat eggs and set aside. In mixer, beat butter and sugars until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla until mixed well. Add in dry mixture alternately with sour cream until mixed well. Stir in nuts.
Bake about 26 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack for ten minutes then invert on rack and allow to cool completely. While cooling, make Butter Cream Frosting, adding ½ cup cocoa powder for a delicious chocolate frosting. Frost layers, sprinkling each layer with desired candy or mixture. Frost outside of cake, topping with more candy and refrigerate until time to serve.
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In the United Kingdom and in Australia, a bay platform is a dead-end railway platform at a railway station that has through lines. It is normal for bay platforms to be shorter than their associated through platforms.

Overview

Bay and island platforms are so named because they resemble the eponymous geographic features.

Examples of stations with bay platforms include Carlisle railway station, Ryde Pier Head railway station, Nottingham railway station (pictured), which has a bay platform inset into one of its platform islands; and the San Francisco International Airport BART Station which has three bay platforms, two of which are in use. Chicago's CTA O'Hare Airport Station features a bay platform with one track on the bay and a track on each side of the platform. Millennium Station in Chicago has several bay platforms for the South Shore Line and Metra. The Hoboken Terminal and 33rd Street Station on the PATH train line have bay platforms. Ferry Avenue on the PATCO Speedline also has a bay platform. In the New York City Subway, however, such platforms are thought of as side or island platforms connected at the ends, rather than bay platforms.

Trains which use a bay platform have to reverse direction and depart in the direction from which they arrived.

Dock platforms

Dock platforms are similar to bay platforms in geometry but are generally shorter and used to unload freight.

References

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O'Grady on Charlton Clash
Reds striker Chris O'Grady spoke to the press ahead of Saturday's visit of Charlton to Oakwell.
The forward says last season's 6-0 defeat is perfect motivation to get things off to a winning start.
"It was a catalyst to spur us on and allowed us to do what we did," said O'Grady. "We'll use it as our motivation this time.
"I know they've had a bad start like us but it's all about us. We'll go into this like any other game, give them the respect they deserve like any other game."
O'Grady and his team-mates may not have found the net yet, but he insists they won't reach for the panic button.
"I'm just wanting to give what I gave last season and I believe I'm doing that so far," he continued. "It's not quite panned out so far.
"Goals will come with that and results will come with that.
"Hopefully we'll be looking back in a month's time and this little period will show that it does take time to sort of find your feet again.
"We have the same players we did last season, so i believe we can score goals.
"I've been playing the game long enough to know what it's like as a striker when things aren't going so well. It's important not go get too down.
"We've had three games without scoring a goal but it can turn around just as quick."
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Plans for the upcoming America's Cup boat races have improved, but the jury's still out on whether San Francisco's shoreline and Bay ecosystem will receive all the protections they need. After the America's Cup Final Environmental Impact Report was released last week, Baykeeper and our partners on the Environmental Council are now reviewing the plans to assess improvements from previous drafts.
The Environmental Council was formed to work with the City to achieve a green and sustainable sailing event and shoreline development. Several Council organizations were pleased that the final environmental impact report addressed significant air pollution concerns. If the report's measures are fully funded, the city of San Francisco is likely to see some lasting health benefits and improved air quality from this project.
Baykeeper is still analyzing the water quality plans, but we are concerned that the Port of San Francisco is attempting to wiggle out of its own green-building requirements.
Members of the Environmental Council have worked cooperatively with City staff for the past ten months to identify and address the expected impacts of the event. The Council has met with City staff multiple times and provided more than150 pages of technical input from experts in natural resources, bay ecology and habitat, transportation and neighborhood and historic resources.
How neighborhoods adjacent to the waterfront will be shielded from the crowds, trash and noise impacts of the races.
Whether America's Cup backers will be granted potential long-term development rights promised by the City.
The environmental impact report is required by law, and must be certified by the San Francisco Planning Commission before America's Cup backers can begin construction and other race preparation. The report is expected to go before the commission December 15.


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Q: angularjs wrong locale time I am struggling with a complete mystery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have 2 AngularJS apps using the very same base (Angular 1.5.6)
I created a directive embedding a DatePicker. This directive is used in both apps. It enable user to eiter pick a date, either input it directly.
In one of the apps, if I do console.log(myDate) i get :  Date {Thu Apr 16 1964 02:00:00 GMT+0100}
In the other one I get :  Date {Thu Apr 16 1964 02:00:00 GMT+0200}
Aditionnaly this behaviour is found in Firefox AND Chrome, so I guess my second application is setting the timezone somewhere....
I can't understand at all why the locale time is different. Is it possible it comes from some secret conf on the 2nd app ?
For information I am using angular locale function in both.

Thank you very much to the one who can successfully resolve that complete mystery !
Regards.
EDIT: Here is the directive I am using:
.directive('fmkDateOrUpdate', ['$timeout', function($timeout) {
    return {
        restrict : 'E',
        scope : {
            titre : "@",
            enModification : "=",
            modele : "=",
            idValue  : "@?",
            classCss  : "@?",
            fullDate : "@?",
            textByDefault : "@?"
        },
        replace : false,
        transclude : true,
        template :  "
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                    "
{{titre}} :
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                    "
{{ modele | date:'dd/MM/yyyy' }}
" +
                    "
{{ modele  | date:'dd/MM/yyyy à HH:mm'}}
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                    "
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                    "
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                    "
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                    "               <input placeholder='{{textByDefault}}' ng-click=\"open($event, 'opened')\" type='text' class='form-control check-valid-date' uib-datepicker-popup='{{format}}' show-weeks='false' ng-model='$parent.modele' is-open='opened' datepicker-options='dateOptions'  close-text='Close' id='{{idValue}}'/>" +
                    "
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                    "
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                    "
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                    "
",
        link: function($scope, $element) {
            var element = $element[0].querySelector('input');
            element.addEventListener('click', function() {
                $timeout(function() {
                    element.focus();
                });
            });
        }
    };
}])

And there is the usage of this directive :
<fmk-date-or-update titre="Date de naissance"
    modele="personne.dateNaissance"
    en-modification="enModification()" class="">
</fmk-date-or-update>

EDIT 2 :
This is coming from the  of my 2nd application. The myDate object is linked by the ng-model object... I still don't get it