Part of the journey of a lightworker or intuitive energy worker is to continually work towards clarity within, in order to be as clear as possible when working with others. We go about finding that clarity by lifting the density or negativity within ourselves that hinders us from connecting with the universal life force and with our highest self. This is the reason I went to Guatemala. It is a wonderful, life changing practice for anyone, energy worker or not. To truly connect within and confront your own darkness in order to become the very best version of yourself, your authentic self. It is a life long journey of self discovery and an excavation of the soul in order to live fully in that authentic self. Sometimes this means releasing your pride in order to see some of your habits or mental practices that do not serve you.
The very first day in Guatemala I had a personal revelation that echoed and reverberated throughout the rest of my stay; another truth that wove into my self like a beautiful golden thread in a web of interconnected parts that compose the woman I am today, but may not be tomorrow. This enlightening, and some what hard to admit, truth was that the need for perfection and control in everything I do, was a product of my Fear. I saw how this one fact seeped into so many facets of my life. But where does that fear come from? It is a fear of not being loved, of being judged, of getting hurt, and most importantly, of not being truly seen. Fear is often the secret underlying reason behind a lot of our internal processing and acknowleding the fear is the first step in taking away its power. We control because we are afraid of what might happen if we don't, because there is a safety and comfort within that control. Control and perfection are two threads of the same cloth. We control in order to strive for perfection. But how does that benefit us? What happens when we stop striving and simply... allow.
As a proud feminist and strong, independant woman, I strive to be the best at everything I do. But the raw truth is that I have always tried to prove myself, to be seen, understood and most importantly, loved. All of which were not easy to admit to myself, and even harder to admit publicly, but what I realized lying in a hammock in San Marcos, is that my desire for perfection was controling my life and hindering me from livining in the serenity of my authentic self. Striving for perfection simply creates a lot of "shoulds". As Dr. Jen Jackson, my dear friend and another beautiful guide in my life always says, "Stop shoulding all over yourself!" "Shoulds" create a pressure for perfection, and often carry with them a sense of failure. If we do not accomplish all that we should, we feel as though we have failed and a cycle of self criticism leaves us feeling less than. I think a lot of women struggle with this. We all want to be the best friend we can be, the best mother we can be, the best partner, the best in our chosen career, the best homemaker, the most fit, to have the perfect body, the perfect life. Some of these things may align with our authentic self, but some of them may not.
Many of us put so much pressure on ourselves to BE everything and DO everything. I AM WOMAN, I CAN DO IT ALL, sometimes to the detriment and sacrifice of ourselves. The problem is, that many times, we don't feel like it is a choice but a necessity, a responsibility. We have to do all the cleaning, laundry, dishes, child/pet care, AND bring home the bacon. But I firmly believe that we create our own reality, therefore it is within our power to change that reality, if we so choose. Asking for help is not showing weakness, vulnerability is not a flaw. It takes strength to be vulnerable, to allow ourselves to see our own darkness, to expose our souls, in order to heal them. Those millions of little moments of guilt for not being everything or doing everything, can leave millions of little scars on our souls. Knowing when doing EVERYTHING is not in your best interest, and then allowing yourself to ask for help or simply let it go, does not mean that you are less of an independant, strong woman, but rather a woman wise enough to know what is best for herself, and then in turn, best for those she loves.
The need for perfection can not be confused with drive. Drive is what fuels our passions. But that is the key point, for our passions serve our highest self. I don't regret working hard in school or working hard to create a business of my own. Those are not necessarily byproducts of my need for perfection but are results of the passion I have for educating myself and for being an entrepreneur. I do however, see how my need for perfection and control may have pushed me past that ever elusive balance many times. When I should have said no, but instead said yes, when I took on yet another challenge or responsibility instead of focusing on creating time for meditation or self/soul care. Instead of taking care of myself, I focus on taking care of others but as I said in my post Be Gentle With Yourself, you can not be the best version of yourself, without first taking care of yourself. It is still something I am working on today and only now do I realize how my focus on perfection has hindered my full acceptance of that fact.
It is not an easy habit to break when it has been so engrained in who you are for so long, but in order to change the reality, change our consciousness and perspective, we have to be willing to acknowledge our own darkness and be gentle with our selves as we work towards the light. Being aware of the thing you want to change will help you to see that moment of self criticism or guilt for not being perfect, and then self love will help you release it. Let go of the reins and let that goddess horse run free. Those who love you are happy to help, love yourself enough to let go of the chains of perfection and control. Rather than striving, simply allow. When you are aligned with your authentic self, mind, body and soul, you will accomplish all you set out to do with ease, efficiency, pleasure and satisfaction. If the fear of not being seen, loved or understood is what fuels that need for perfection, simply love yourself enough to let it go.
I was unable to finish this piece for weeks until a friend recently posted this quote on Facebook. It is the answer. It shows us how to heal and lift the weight of perfection and control, for they are both an illusion and letting go of that illusion will set us free.


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Entrepreneurs are sometimes thrust into leadership positions when their idea morphs into a real business - and hiring, motivating and building a successful organization becomes an unanticipated challenge.
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During his four years at Waynflete, Mitch Newlin always had a lot on his plate. Whether playing sports, attending meetings and events of RAaW, committing himself to the Kakamega Orphanage, entertaining friends and teachers with his outlandish stories, or just being his enthusiastic self, Mitch was always on the go. College has not slowed him down. He was back at Waynflete a couple of weeks ago to introduce Pastor Ida, the Administrator of the Kakamega Orphan Centre Project, at an Upper School Assembly. He was also busy selling raffle tickets for a prize from Gelato Fiasco, where Mitch works, as a fundraiser for the orphanage. More recently, he was on campus talking to students in the Personal Finance class.
This week news broke in the Maine Sunday Telegram and Lewiston Sun that, although he is just finishing his junior year, Mitch has started a business which, according to the paper, will generate revenues of $70,000 this year. That is impressive enough. What is even more impressive is that the whole idea is inspired by his desire to cut the wasteful habits of his college peers by recycling their used refrigerators. Read the newspaper account to get the full story. Click here for the Press Herald article. Click here for the Sun Journal article.
Part of his business model is selling high school graduation "Care Fridges," essentially providing high school graduates (rising college students) dorm room mini-fridges, stocked with savory and sweet goodies, delivered to the student's dorm on the first day of college. The deal could also include a personalized note from a parent, aunt, uncle, or loved one to present to the graduate at graduation time explaining the gift. If you know a college student who might appreciate a "Care Fridge," email Mitch at gifts@re-fridge.com or call (207)-200-7872.
All of this does not surprise Steve Kautz, who not only taught Mitch in math and businesses classes but also coached him on the baseball team and on Waynflete's first and only entree in the Federal Reserve Cup competition. The latter was a regional competition for high school students hosted by The Federal Reserve Bank testing the students' knowledge of finance and economics. The Waynflete team stunned New England financial educators by winning the competition, the first time a team from Maine had even made it to the final round.


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Creative arts researcher awarded US fellowship
University of Newcastle researcher, Dr Gillian Arrighi, aims to bring the unique cultural contribution of child performers to scholarly attention.
Dr Arrighi, a Senior Lecturer in creative and performing arts in the School of Creative Arts, has recently been awarded a 2014-2015 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, US.
Her current research projects are concerned with the contribution of children to the global entertainment industry, and an investigation into the global 'youth' and 'social' circus.
"I am researching the contribution made by child performers to popular entertainment forms, including circus, variety, minstrelsy, and comic opera, during the latter decades of the 19th and early decades of the 20th centuries," Dr Arrighi said.
The Harry Ransom Center advances the study of the arts and humanities by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible original cultural materials. It houses an extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, photography, film, art and the performing arts.
While based in Texas, US, for a month, Dr Arrrighi will delve deep into the centre's significant resource of printed materials from the era, including performing arts posters, programs, playbills, heralds, newspaper clippings, postcards, cigarette cards and photographs.
This rich array of ephemera will provide primary data to support questions that are central to Dr Arrighi's work, such as how producers and parents navigated the labor and education reforms aimed at preventing children from working.
"The labor of these entertaining children occurred in tension with the industrial and education reforms that were slowly but surely reshaping cultural attitudes to children and childhood," Dr Arrighi said. "Such reforms also contributed to the growing middle-class concern for the sanctity of the child's unique stage of life."
Dr Arrighi hopes to retrieve primary evidence that will contribute to a monograph investigating the correlation between professional child performers, the popular stage, and the drives of nation and empire building that influenced Anglo/American culture throughout the period under consideration.
See information about studying a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Newcastle.
Jessie Reid

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KordaMentha's expert property funds management group, Placer Property, were recently nominated for the Fund Manager of the Year Awards under the Direct Property category.
On Thursday the 10th of May, the Placer Property Team attended Money Management's Fund Manager of the Year awards in Sydney. Assessed by Lonsec, the awards recognise managers who have performed significantly well against the benchmark within their category.
In coming up with the list of finalists, Lonsec assesses fund managers on a number of factors, with the people and the investment process they employ being one of the more heavily weighted factors. Only fund managers that receive a 'recommended' or higher rating are progressed.
Placer Property's NewActon East Property Fund in Canberra was nominated under the Direct Property Category ranking it in the top three in the industry.
Placer's $50 million New Acton East Property Fund was up against AMP Capital Wholesale Australian Property Fund ($1.88 billion FUM ) and Australian Unity Healthcare Property Trust ($1.55 billion FUM).
Although Australian Unity was eventually announced as the winner of the category, we are pleased to have Placer Property recognised as a finalist in the category which is a testament to the professionalism and experience of the team.


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// Whether Autofill Assistant should enable in-CCT triggering, i.e., requesting
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BASE_FEATURE(kAutofillAssistantProactiveHelp,
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// Whether Autofill Assistant is enabled on desktop.
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             base::FEATURE_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT);

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Revenues down at Andrew Sykes
By Sarah McCay29 September 2014
UK rental company Andrew Sykes Group has reported a drop in revenue and profit for the first half of the year, after facing what it has called "challenges which had a detrimental impact on trading performance".
The heating, ventilation, air conditioning and pump hire specialist posted revenue for the first six months of 2014 of £26.8 million (€33 million), down £3 million (€3.8 million) on 2013's figure of £29.7 million (€38 million).
The company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) was also down, at £6.5 million (€8.3 million), compared to £8.3 million (€10.6 million) on 30 June, 2013.
Operating profit dropped £2.1 million (€2.7 million) from £6.4 million (€8.2 million) in the first half of 2013 to £4.3 million (€5.5 million) for the six months ended 30 June, 2014.
Despite its declines in revenue and profit, Andrew Sykes Group said it continued to invest in its fleet and assets. Cash spent on new plant and equipment, primarily hire fleet assets, amounted to £1.3 million (€1.6 million) and a further £400,000 (€512,000) from stock was also added to the hire fleet.
JG Murray, chairman of Andrew Sykes Group, said, "We have continued our policy of pursuing organic growth within our market sectors and start up costs of the new businesses discussed in the 2013 Strategic Report continue to be expensed as incurred.
"A new depot in Paris, France, has been opened in the second half of 2014 and continuing investment in both our existing core businesses and the ongoing development of new operations and income streams will ensure that we remain in a strong position and will safeguard profitability into the future."
Business & Finance Equipment Financial results Rental Equipment Heating/Cooling/Drying Rental
Independent Hire chooses compact Snorkels
UK-based rental company adds Snorkel compact rough terrain telehandlers to its fleet


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Terence Crutcher, the unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white female police officer in Tulsa, Okla., had PCP in his system when he died from the fatal gunshot wound, according to a medical examiner's report released Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. The report, from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma, says that Crutcher, 40, had "acute phencyclidine intoxication" when he was shot by officer Betty Shelby on Sept. 16.
The report notes that some of Crutcher's ribs were fractured and a bullet fragment was recovered.
Shelby, who has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in Crutcher's death, has previously said that she thought he was acting like someone who might have been under the influence of PCP. Police reportedly found a vial of the drug in Crutcher's car.
Scott Wood, an attorney for Shelby, said in an email that the autopsy report confirms what Officer Shelby surmised the night of the shooting from Crutcher's appearance and noncompliance.
Crutcher's death was captured on video that shows him walking to his car with his hands raised. He was not holding a gun, and no gun was found in his vehicle or on his person.
If convicted, Shelby faces a minimum four-year prison term. Her attorneys entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf during a September court date.


While speeches were made about the border, several inside and outside America struggle. Photo Credit: Pablo Unzueta.
President Donald Trump gave a highly contested address to the nation on Jan. 8, and his statement was followed by a response from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer.
For reference, this is the transcript of Trump's address.
For reference, this is the transcript of Pelosi's response.
For reference, this is the transcript of Schumer's response.
Trump's first sentiment is in contention with Pelosi's first and sixth sentiments along with Schumer's fifth.
That is a fundamental disagreement between different opinions.
Trump's second sentiment was not contested by the data provided, but a different point was argued.
The arguments against this section are that a border wall would be inefficient in preventing drug smuggling, and not that his figures are wrong.
Reportedly, only a small percentage of heroin is seized by authorities when going through the ports of entry. A 2018 report by the Drug Enforcement Administration, stated that most drugs are driven in to the country after bypassing inspection at entry ports.
Trump included the figures of: 300 people dying each week to heroin, 90 percent of heroin comes from the southern border, and that more Americans will die this year than were killed in Vietnam. These have not been contested.
Trump's third sentiment was contested, but with data that shows a different point.
He said that action must be taken to prevent further deaths and provided statistics. His statistics have not been contested, but other statistics paint a different picture.
Studies conducted by the Cato Institute and the American Society of Criminology state that there is no evidence to support illegal immigrants causing more crime than native citizens.
Trump's fourth and fifth sentiment were not contested.
There were no statements, aside from the president's, regarding migrants and the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump's sixth sentiment was contested.
He said the $5.7 billion dollar barrier would pay for itself, but it currently would come out of the American taxpayer's wallet, instead of Mexico.
As for his comments that Mexico would pay for it, indirectly or otherwise, the president is basing that information on a trade agreement that has not been put into effect and that's benefits and costs are not yet known.
Trump's seventh sentiment was contested in Pelosi's second and third sentiments and Schumer's third and fourth sentiments.
Trump stated that Schumer supported a physical barrier in the past and blamed the Democrat's unwillingness to compromise as the reason as to why the federal government is still shut down.
Pelosi and Schumer both responded to this comment by stating that there were bipartisan bills to reopen the government and look into different ways to fund border security.
Pelosi then goes on to state that the president rejected the bills, where Schumer went to agree that the Democrats and the president both want stronger border security, but disagree on how to do it.
There was no comment made on the remark stating that Schumer wanted a physical barrier in the past or as to when a compromise might be reached, but both sides are unwilling to reach an agreement at the present time.
He said he was meeting with Pelosi and Schumer to solve the situation in a 45 minute meeting the next day, which did not receive a response at the time of the addresses, but further information has found that meeting to be unsuccessful.
Trump's ninth, tenth, and eleventh sentiments were all personal remarks or opinions.
The ending remarks imply that he holds the opinions that borders are to protect loved ones and that securing the border is necessary to protect the country, and made personal statements regarding victims of the crimes.
Other sentiments not listed above were opinions for the most part.
Aside from Pelosi's fourth, regarding the 800,000 people who have not received their paychecks and the services that have been cut as a result of the shutdown, the remainder of comments made in the sentiment breakdown were opinionated.
For further fact checking, the Associated Press' version has further breakdowns on other issues.


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Q: Need to use a loop to print out the total number in ArrayList Just trying to figure out how to print this out to look like this:
The total team points is 2232.00
The two point percent is 41.13
The three point percent is 32.06
The foul shot percent is 66.86

Rather than what I have now, which keeps going through the loop and printing it out indivudally through the team rather than adding it all up together. Like this:
The total team points is: 516.0
The two point percent is: 0.46783626
The three point percent is: 0.26865673
The foul shot percent is: 0.625
The total team points is: 590.0
The two point percent is: 0.38135594
The three point percent is: 0.3037037
The foul shot percent is: 0.7579618
The total team points is: 408.0
The two point percent is: 0.43459916
etc...

This is the code:
for (int i = 0; i < team.size(); i++) {
    float points = (float) (2 * (team.get(i).getmade1() + team.get(i).getmade2() + team.get(i).getmade3()));
    float twopercent = (float) (team.get(i).gettwoPercent());
    float threepercent = (float) (team.get(i).getthreePercent());
    float foulpercent = (float) (team.get(i).getfoulPercent());
    System.out.println("The total team points is: " + points);
    System.out.println("The two point percent is: " + twopercent);
    System.out.println("The three point percent is: " + threepercent);
    System.out.println("The foul shot percent is: " + foulpercent);
}
outputStream.println(team);

The rest of my work for reference is this:
public class fileStreamtest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner inputStream = null;
        PrintWriter outputStream = null;
        ArrayList<BBall> team = new ArrayList<BBall>();
        try {
            inputStream = new Scanner(new FileInputStream("/Users/Gracie/Documents/workspace/Lab7/src/team.txt"));
            outputStream = new PrintWriter(
                    new FileOutputStream("/Users/Gracie/Documents/workspace/Lab7/src/team_stat.txt"));
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            System.out.println("Problem opening files" + e.toString());
            System.exit(0);
        }
        // Here you declare and initialize the varibales you need in loop
        int num;
        String fname;
        String lname;
        int twoMade;
        int twoAttempt;
        int threeMade;
        int threeAttempt;
        int foulMade;
        int foulAttempt;

        while (inputStream.hasNextLine()) {
            // read variable by variable across the line
            num = inputStream.nextInt();
            lname = inputStream.next();
            fname = inputStream.next();
            twoMade = inputStream.nextInt();
            twoAttempt = inputStream.nextInt();
            threeMade = inputStream.nextInt();
            threeAttempt = inputStream.nextInt();
            foulMade = inputStream.nextInt();
            foulAttempt = inputStream.nextInt();

            // then use all these variables to make a BBallPlayer and add to the arraylist
            BBall player = new BBall(num, fname, lname, twoMade, twoAttempt, threeMade, threeAttempt, foulMade,
                    foulAttempt);
            team.add(player);
        }
        // keep reading a line until there is no more input

        // using a loop go through the arraylist and get the team totals OF THE NUMBER
        // OF POINTS
        // prints out totals et

        for (int i = 0; i < team.size(); i++) {
            float points = (float) (2 * (team.get(i).getmade1() + team.get(i).getmade2() + team.get(i).getmade3()));
            float twopercent = (float) (team.get(i).gettwoPercent());
            float threepercent = (float) (team.get(i).getthreePercent());
            float foulpercent = (float) (team.get(i).getfoulPercent());
            System.out.println("The total team points is: " + points);
            System.out.println("The two point percent is: " + twopercent);
            System.out.println("The three point percent is: " + threepercent);
            System.out.println("The foul shot percent is: " + foulpercent);
        }

        outputStream.println(team);

        inputStream.close();
        outputStream.close();
    }// end method
}// end class

and the other class
public class BBall {
    private int number;
    private String lastName;
    private String firstName;
    private int made2;
    private int att2;
    private int made3;
    private int att3;
    private int made1;
    private int att1;

    public BBall(int n, String lN, String fN, int m2, int a2, int m3, int a3, int m1, int a1) {
        number = n;
        lastName = lN;
        firstName = fN;
        made2 = m2;
        att2 = a2;
        made3 = m3;
        att3 = a3;
        made1 = m1;
        att1 = a1;

    }

    public int getnumber() {
        return number;
    }

    public String getlastName() {
        return lastName;
    }

    public String getfirstName() {
        return firstName;
    }

    public int getmade2() {
        return made2;
    }

    public int getatt2() {
        return att2;
    }

    public int getmade3() {
        return made3;
    }

    public int getatt3() {
        return att3;
    }

    public int getmade1() {
        return made1;
    }

    public int getatt1() {
        return att1;
    }

    public void setnumber(int n) {
        number = n;
    }

    public void setlastName(String lN) {
        lastName = lN;
    }

    public void setfirstName(String fN) {
        firstName = fN;
    }

    public void setmade2(int m2) {
        made2 = m2;
    }

    public void setatt2(int a2) {
        att2 = a2;
    }

    public void setmade3(int m3) {
        made3 = m3;
    }

    public void setatt3(int a3) {
        att3 = a3;
    }

    public void setmade1(int m1) {
        made1 = m1;
    }

    public void setatt1(int a1) {
        att1 = a1;
    }

    public float gettwoPercent() {
        float twoPercent = (float) made2 / (float) att2;
        return twoPercent;
    }

    public float getthreePercent() {
        float threePercent = (float) made3 / (float) att3;
        return threePercent;
    }

    public float getfoulPercent() {
        float foulPercent = (float) made1 / (float) att1;
        return foulPercent;
    }

    public String toString() {
        return " " + firstName + " " + lastName + " \n Two point percent: " + gettwoPercent()
                + " \n Three point percent: " + getthreePercent() + "\n Foul shot percent: " + getfoulPercent();
    }

}// end class

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25 DEMERY James 160 342 18 67 80 128
1 NEWKIRK Shavar 135 354 41 135 119 157
33 FUNK Taylor 103 237 70 173 31 37
0  KIMBLE Lamarr 4 11 2 4 0 1
15 CLOVER Chris 81 207 26 80 22 43
24 OLIVA Pierfrancesc 56 121 12 45 31 64
5 ROBINSON Nick 46 115 6 31 42 55
12 LONGPRE Anthony 34 111 18 56 10 16
22 EDWARDS Lorenzo 10 39 7 32 4 5
10 BLOUNT Gerald 2 2 0 0 0 0
32 WILLIAMS Jai 5 10 0 0 3 5
23 LODGE Markell 5 6 0 0 1 3
3 BOOTH Michael 1 2 1 2 0 0
21 THOMPSON Kyle 0 1 0 0 2 2
11 FREEMAN Toliver 0 2 0 2 0 0
13 VEGA Christian 0 1 0 0 0 0

A: You should calculate the sum before you print the result :
        float points = 0 ;
        float twopercent = 0 ;
        float threepercent = 0 ;
        float foulpercent = 0 ;

        for (int i = 0; i<team.size(); i++){
             points = points + (float) (2 * (team.get(i).getmade1() + team.get(i).getmade2() + team.get(i).getmade3()));
             twopercent = twopercent +  (float) (team.get(i).gettwoPercent());
             threepercent = threepercent + (float) (team.get(i).getthreePercent());
             foulpercent = foulpercent + (float) (team.get(i).getfoulPercent());

        }

        System.out.println("The total team points is: " + points );
        System.out.println("The two point percent is: " + twopercent);
        System.out.println("The three point percent is: " + threepercent);
        System.out.println("The foul shot percent is: " + foulpercent);

A: While Azzabi Haythem answer is correct, calculations itself are not.
I would get all sums of the points of all teams first, then calculate percentages.
float points = 0 ;

// foul
int made1 = 0 ;
int att1 = 0;

// two points
int made2 = 0 ;
int att2 = 0;

// three points
int made3 = 0 ;
int att3 = 0;

for (int i = 0; i<team.size(); i++){
    points = points + (float) (2 * (team.get(i).getmade1() + team.get(i).getmade2() + team.get(i).getmade3()));

    // foul
    made1 = made1 + team.get(i).getmade1(i);
    att1 = att1 + team.get(i).getAtt1(i);

    // two points
    made2 = made2 + team.get(i).getmade2(i);
    att2 = att2 + team.get(i).getAtt2(i);

    // three points
    made3 = made3 + team.get(i).getmade3(i);
    att3 = att3 + team.get(i).getAtt3(i);
}

float foulPercent = (float) made1 / (float) att1;
float twoPercent = (float) made2 / (float) att2;
float threePercent = (float) made3 / (float) att3;

System.out.println("The total team points is: " + points );
System.out.println("The two point percent is: " + twoPercent);
System.out.println("The three point percent is: " + threePercent);
System.out.println("The foul shot percent is: " + foulPercent);

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Nanyang Polytechnic, 南洋理工学院 is a Singapore polytechnic established in 1992. The campus is modelled on a town-centre concept to provide the conveniences of a self-contained "Teaching and Learning City".
During its Open House in 2012, Nanyang Polytechnic wanted to build a Facebook app that allowed student engagement. The app should embody a Nanyang Polytechnic lifestyle with a fun factor involved.
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revisiting Jo Nesbø
It's rare for me to reread a crime novel until a considerable time has passed (are there some of you out there who do reread them frequently?). Plot is too easily remembered and too much a part of most crime fiction to get a lot of pleasure out of rereading a book that you remember fairly well. But I just finished rereading Jo Nesbø's Devil's Star, because of the disturbed order in which the novels have been translated. The most recently translated, Nemesis, leaves a plot line unfinished that reaches its conclusion in Devil's Star, which actually was the first of the author's books to be translated into English. Since it had been several years since I read Devil's Star, when it was first out, I decided to follow the hanging plot on to the end (again) and also to see whether Devil's Star holds up to a rereading. My conclusion: Devil's Star is probably the best of the 3 Nesbø books we have in English. Nesbø specializes in red herrings and false conclusions, and there are plenty of them here--but fewer than in Nemesis, and to better effect. There are lots of plot elements that could have been cliches (serial killer, blood diamonds, a Nazi past, devil worship, and so on) but Nesbø cleverly undermines the cliche elements and uses each of them in a positive, believable manner. I should also correct one thing I've said before: that Devil's Star begins with a bravado performance that follows a drop of blood through a 100-year-old house. Actually it's rainwater that the narrator follows as it flows into the house, tracing the construction methods and materials along the way through the cracks and picking up a few drops of fresh blood along the way (plus some blood mixed in with the builder's mortar in the original construction): the elegance of that narrative performance actually carries right through the novel, which repeatedly returns to water and to building materials, straight through the end when Harry Hole, the main character of the series, tastes the same egg-like flavor that appears in that first chapter, a sign of the blood in the mixed mortar. One advantage of rereading a large and well-written novel is that, with the plot less important to the reading experience, the structural metaphors of the story (which are in this case, indeed, structural metaphors) become clearer. Regarding characters, the naturalism of Nesbø's style keeps them lively even in a re-encounter. Someone responded to my previous post on Nesbø with a request to explain what I meant when I said that Hole was more "real" than some other Scandinavian fictional detectives, such as Irene Huss--what I mean is that Hole is more completely realized in his internal life, in all its inadequacies, failings, accomplishments, addictions, and so forth. Compared to Hole, Huss seems a bit naive (especially in The Torso), though I must admit that her balance between career and family is perhaps a more "real" reflection of a police detective's life than the more dramatic extremes of Hole's life. But though Irene is sympathetic and fully realized, Hole is more memorable as a character per se (not a good thing, I suppose, if you follow the logic of some of the original pulp noir novels, whose heroes were fairly anonymous). Any arguments, about that statement or my assessment of Nesbø and Devil's Star?
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Pars vite et reviens tard: The Movie!
I got hold of a copy of the DVD of what is evidently the first film from Fred Vargas's distinctive series of crime novels, Pars vite et reviens tard by director Regis Wargnier (from the novel known in English as Have Mercy on Us All. I hadn't thought of it before, but there are NTSC, region 1 DVDs produced for Canadian viewers, with English subtitles, of French movies--a source I'll keep in mind for the future. The movie includes almost all of the characters and events of the novel but a substantial amount of the quirky character traits from the novel are obscured by the necessities of a screen play (and some of the actors were a bit surprising, to me, as embodiments of the characters). Camille has a small but crucial part, and Danglard's relationship with her is intact (details that might have gotten lost in a lesser translation to film). I got an unbiased positive opinion on the movie from my wife, who has not read the novels--and there's enough of the novel's nature to make it interesting to someone who has read it. There's a lot of language in Vargas's works that can't make it into the dialogue of a screenplay, after all. One reviewer complained that the movie fails to show the "village within Paris" that is the real subject of the book (even more than the plague), but all the elements of the village are here--shown instead of described, and therefore a bit sketchier. The movie is a vast improvement on the translation to film of The Laughing Policeman, which I recently saw--that has to be one of the worst movies ever made from a great crime novel (Walter Matthau as Martin Beck--I mean, really!) In Pars vite, the intuitive leaps of Adamsberg, versus the rational plodding of Danglard, are also here, seeming a bit abrupt in a movie, but still intact. I seem to be damning with faint praise, when actually I thought the movie was good fun. Perhaps unfortunate that I saw the DVD on the same day as going to the movie theater to see In Bruges, a powerful work of original cinema by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, not based on a novel and therefore tailored perfectly for the movie screen (and seen on a big screen instead of the living-room TV). I'll be watching Pars vite et reviens tard again, though--it's a keeper that I'll be lending out to friends who have (and haven't) read the book.
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Jo Nesbø, Nemesis (Sorgenfri)
I can see why Harvill Secker started publishing their translations of Jo Nesbø's novels about Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo police with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th books in the series. The first 2 books sent Harry off to Bangkok and Australia, while the next three are focused mostly on Norway (exotic enough, for readers in the U.S. and U.K., without going further afield)--plus these three novels have a common subplot concerning the criminal enterprise of another detective, Tom Waaler, a drama that extends across all three novels before reaching resolution. But why the publisher brought out the 5th novel first, and then the 3rd, and now finally the 4th, is beyond me, especially given that continued story. That distorted order means that the early readers of Nesbø in English only had to put up with the tension of that extended plot through one long novel instead of three, but the tension of a delayed plot resolution is after all what fiction is about, and knowing the resolution before reading the first two books in which it appears removed some of the reader's pleasure in them, knowing what will happen eventually. The title of Nemesis was also changed in English, but perhaps the original (Sorgenfri, or "carefree" or "sans souci") though it has resonance in the plot, would surely have been a misleading title for a crime novel in English--and both Nemesis and The House of Pain (another title the U.K. publisher considered) also have resonance in the plot, so the title works (better than the distorted order at the very least). These are long books (Nemesis is 474 pages) with a number of red herrings, with insights (sometimes misleading) into the criminal's minds, and with complex plots--but it is the author's skill and language that pulls the reader along through the whole length of the books. The Devil's Star, the first of the books to appear in English, begins with a 7-page bravura performance in which the narrative follows a drip of blood through as it runs through a 100-year-old building, tracing the history of its construction along the way. This passage also provides metaphors with which Devil's Star ends and for the name of Tom Waaler, Harry's real "nemesis" in all of these three books. Nemesis also begins with a cleverly designed opening chapter, threading Harry into a bank robbery in an entertaining way as the reader gradually figures out what's going on. The plot overall is crammed with so many premature (and incorrect) solutions to the crimes that the reader may feel as if he or she (as much as the detective) is being toyed with a bit (though the tension is released and wound back up again repeatedly in the process, an effective device overall). The plot finally comes back around again to its starting point, with much mayhem in the wake of all those mistaken conclusions on the part of the police. And at the end, there is what would have been a tantalizing taste of where the series was going (except that we got that book first, so we know how it turns out, already). I'll stop complaining--but I will recommend these books (and I do highly recommend them) to new readers in the order they were published (Redbreast, Nemesis, Devil's Star--no need to wait for the first one, apparently being translated, much less the second, apparently not being translated). You'll want to shake Harry and point him in the right direction because you know something he only suspects, and you may get frustrated with the Waaler plot as it distracts us (and Harry) from the more immediate crimes that form the plot of each book--and Waaler threatens almost to become that cliche of mystery fiction, the master criminal who lurks behind every crime. But the Waaler plot has the effect of immersing us in Harry's world, the world of the depressed and alcoholic detective--and the world of Oslo, which is very much present in the texture of the narratives, in its present day, its history, and its culture. The characters are lively and fully realized, even the bit players. Harry teeters on the brink of alchoholic despair, in some novels more able to cope than in others, but his troubles, his conscience, and his persistence (with no self-righteousness, no sense of purpose other than to keep on going) are very engaging. He's a more "real" character than some of the other Scandinavian detectives currently showing up (Wallander is quite real, Irene Huss and some others perhaps less so). And I can't resist going back to Devil's Star now, to revisit how the Tom Waaler story develops--a personal testament to the pull that the story has on the reader, and the skill of the author in creating it.
New Swedish crime: Kjell Eriksson's Demon of Dakar
The newly translated Demon of Dakar, by Kjell Eriksson is the third novel centered around Detective Ann Lindell of the Uppsala police. Lindell doesn't appear until well into the novel, which follows more closely (from the beginning) the travels and travails of a Mexican peasant, a Zapotec named Manuel Alavez, who comes to Sweden to visit his brother who has ended up in a Swedish jail after being convicted of drug smuggling (another brother died in Germany on the same illegal smuggling operation). The demon of the English title is the unpleasant owner of 2 restaurants in Uppsala (and one of several characters of mixed nationality, perhaps a commentary on contemporary Swedish life), who with his partner has set up a smuggling operation to finance his restaurant empire. The Swedish title, Mannen Från Bergen (The Man From The Mountains), is actually more relevant to the action (and the key metaphor) of the novel, but the editors chose the English title to echo (effectively) the ironic exoticism of Eriksson's first novel in English, the excellent The Princess of Burundi. In the Demon, the exoticism is only partly ironic, since there is considerable time spent on the life of Manuel in a Zapotec village (quite exotic from a Swedish point of view). The strength of the novel is actually in the other 2 strains of the novel: the methodical work of Lindell and the police and the lives of a group of restaurant workers at Dakar, one of the drug smuggler's restaurants. At first, a cook named Johnny seems to be a central figure among this group, but Eva, a new waiter, turns out to be more important, both in her work life and her home life. One of the factors that most determines the kind of novel this is, though, is the fact that the reader knows all along who has murdered the smuggler-restauranteur's partner, as well as what is happening among most of the others involved in the novel's crimes. So this novel is a procedural, rather than a mystery, because we follow the police trying to find the truth, rather than trying to find it ourselves. But unlike the usual procedural, the police here make only partial progress (I won't give away the conclusion, though). The sympathy of the author lies with Manuel, and unfortunately Manuel and his brother are less completely realized as characters than the Europeans in this and Eriksson's other novels. Manuel, whose interior monologue takes up a considerable portion of the novel's narrative, is to a certain extent a "noble savage," occupying a strategic or ideological relationship to Swedes and Swedish society, rather than a full and complex character. His nostalgia for a seemingly pure and honest village life does not entirely ring true (though to Eriksson's credit he does portray the political and social plight of the Zapotecs rather than setting them up as happy peasants). Some other characters, such as Zero, a Swedish-born Turkish teenager, seem to get short shrift (though they could easily have contributed interesting highlights, at least, to the novel) while Manuel's longing for his home takes up large chunks of the narrative. But if I grew impatient at times with Manuel, the novel has considerable merits, not least of which is Eriksson's ability to tell an international story without resorting to international conspiracies (to my mind a flaw in a number of the estimable Henning Mankell's books). The proletarian or quotidian quality of his books is one of their greates virtues: without resorting to cliches, the author gives such a detailed portrait of daily life among the working classes and ordinary people that he deserves to be described as writer of truly "noir" crime fiction, more so that some other current Scandinavian writers. High praise, from my point of view. Next on my stack of reading, I'm happy to say, is Nemesis, by Jo Nesbo, whose Harry Hole character is another kind of "noir" creation: the depressed detective (a very entertaining one, too, judging from the earlier translations of Nesbo's books). So--off to Norway...
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Myrin (Jar City)--the movie
The Independent Film Channel has brought the film of Arnaldur Indridason's Jar City to U.S. movie screens (or at least to the Toronto Film Festival and to On-Demand cable, which is where I saw it). The film has the advantage of several other film series made from Scandinavian crime novels: the actors (though not exactly how readers might have envisioned them) disappear into the roles. Jar City features the land- and cityscape of Iceland in a way rarely seen by those of us who have only experienced the country through travelogues. Director Baltasar Kormákur presents a cold, nearly barren country full of brutalist modern buildings. but in the almost anonymous cityscape, everyone seems to know everyone else (perhaps a comment on the common ground of the police and their usual "clients"). the occasional older building with more character (a church, one house) stand out starkly against the bleak backdrop of both nature and culture. There is a duality of time in the film, two narratives that are converging toward the conclusion: they are differentiated not only by the angle of view on the central events but also by color, one warmer and the other cooler and bluer. Sigurdur Oli and Elinborg, the cohorts of chief detective Erlendur, behave very much like their counterparts in the novels. Erlendur himself is as cranky and anti-social as his literary other, but perhaps not quite so difficult. His daughter, an essential character in the series, is also slightly less aggressive in her problematic relationship with Erlendur in the film. The story is complex and as bleak as the landscape, but as in the book the viewer is pulled in, through the filmmaker's (and the novelist's) considerable sympathy with the cops, the murderer, the victims, the witnesses, and the human condition. That sounds like overreaching for a crime novel, but as with some of the other Scandinavians, the Erlendur novels are quietly ambitious in their approach to fiction and to crime fiction. Whether you already know the Arnaldur Indridason novels or not, the film of Jar City (or Myrin, which means "marsh" or "mire") will be rewarding and moving--plus creepy and at times disgusting. The culinary habits of Icelanders are very much in evidence, along with various forms of decomposition (readers of the novel will know what to expect from this story, along those lines, even more than subsequent Erlendur novels). We can only hope that further films are made from the series (and that those of us outside Scandinavia will have access to them). Anyone else seen Jar City? If so, please let u s know what you thought, and also what you know about the possible future of films based on Arnaldur Indridason's novels.
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This Night's Foul Work, by Fred Vargas
Reading in close sequence the latest books in English translation by French female crime writers Dominique Manotti and Fred Vargas is an interesting experience. Both authors are distinguished scholars in other fields, and both use considerable chunks of French history in their stories. But where Manotti's books are very much "placed" in recent social history, Vargas's books float in an alternate universe of imagination, a world that shares certain points with ours (including, in this case, natural history, a rivalry between 17th century poets, French regional rivalries, ghosts, reliquaries, and medieval magic), but it's a world in which "cloud shovelers," as her chief detective Adamsberg describes himself, are more able to cope than the realists or positivists. The story develops slowly, without a clear trajectory until well into the novel, and there are more unexpected revelations here than in Vargas's other novels, almost in a Holmesian fashion. But you don't read Vargas as much for the plot as for her distinctive voice. What other crime novelist could depend on a policeman (a new cop in Adamsberg's unit) who frequently speaks in Racinian Alexandrine verse (which I imagine was the devil to translate into English, since twelve syllable Alexandrines are very far from the Shakespearean iambic pentameter that is more natural in English). The other characters do take note of peculiarity of speech, but they absorb the oddness along with all the other strange people and events that populate Vargas's Paris. Vargas shares something with the fantasy novels of French intellectual Jacques Roubaud, which technically revolve around crime but are set in an imaginary world of lightness and wish-fulfillment. Vargas's stories are not as light (there are bloody murders of both people and beasts in This Night's Foul Work) but there is also a gentle comedy and a series of discrete, almost ethnographically defined communities into which the reader must enter wholeheartedly to appreciate the books. This is not the noir of classic film noir, nor of the American novels that French noir filmmakers so admired. This world is a dark and funny descendant of Sherlock Holmes's mystery-adventure stories, but with gender roles and other social conventions both updated and creatively confused. I must admit that I find the serious and deeply political novels of Manotti more deeply satisfying than the lighter and more satirical fictions of Vargas; but Vargas exploits the profound power of fiction itself to create an experience that draws the reader into a rich, vivid, and unique world of eccentric characters, bizarre murders, and a sensibility that is close to classic South American magic realism.
New Swedish crime: Kjell Eriksson's Demon of Dakar...


During Malaysia's 2013 Budget presented back in September, the government announced an RM 200 discount program for youths to purchase 3G-enabled smartphones.
I believe this has been thought to be a GREAT NEWS for many, especially those who are eligible to apply – Malaysian citizens aged 21 to 30 with a monthly income under RM 3,000.
The thought of having RM 200 off from an RM 1,850 Samsung Galaxy Note II would mean it's only RM 1,650! Great isn't it!!!
Well unfortunately this is not the case. WHAT!?!?!?
As seen at Amanz and Lowyat.net – the youths eligible to participate in this initiative are only able to choose from the selected devices approved by Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) which will not cost more than RM 500.
An interesting to note – the "for illustration purpose" device on the flyer looks really sleek, it most certainly DOES NOT look like anything that's under RM 1,000. 🙂 We have no news on the LIST of "Eligible smartphones" at the moment but for something under RM 500 – it's no surprise that we'll see "1Malaysia Talipon Pintar" in the near future.
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Kass: "Why I Sold Berkshire Hathaway"
Avi Salzman
Nov. 15, 2011 11:33 am ET
Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners Management just released a note announcing that he sold his long position in Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) on Monday. Kass clearly respects the company and its leader: "I worship at the altar of Warren Buffett," he announces. But the company doesn't have the same growth opportunities that it had 20 years ago, or even five years ago. It's harder to squeeze big gains out of its massive portfolio, and Buffett will increasingly be delegatibng responsibilities to his likely successors, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler.
"Berkshire's past growth and successes are one of its greatest enemies to future growth. Ever-larger investments/acquisitions are required to produce an impact and provide differentiated returns for shareholders," Kass writes. "At the time of Buffett's acquisition of Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, the company's market value was under $20 million; it stands today closer to $190 billion. Yesterday's $10 billion investment in IBM (IBM) is, to this observer, a reflection that larger deals are needed to move the needle and that more ordinary and plain vanilla investments will be the feature of Berkshire's portfolio strategy in the future. Vice Chairman Charles Munger has previously talked about the inevitability of less-than-special investments for the past two years or so."
In addition, Weschler and Combs don't have the star power or the investing acumen that Buffett does. How could they?
"Will they do as well as Buffett? Probably not, as they are mere mortals, and with the benefit of hindsight and history, Buffett was a true investing immortal! What is almost certain is that Buffett's old black magic will not be easily duplicated by his appointees."
Kass now thinks Berkshire's intrinsic value is about $135,000. The class A shares are trading this morning around at $113,200 down 0.6%.
"I would be a buyer of Berkshire at around $100,000 a share, but, for now, I see better opportunities elsewhere.
Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners Management just released a note announcing that he sold his long position in Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) on Monday.


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So there is going to be a live action/animated crossover film featuring a bunch of 90s nickelodeon cartoons. Some of the shows confirmed for the crossover are Rugrats, Angry Beavers, and Ren and Stimpy.
I am okay with this. If it's in the vein as Roger Rabbit, then hell yes.
Nickolodeon should get in touch with Disney and negotiate for a Toy Story vs Action League NOW!
It wasn't that bad. It was pretty progessive since Ren and Stimpy got to be a gay couple. So that was something.
Ren & Stimpy, Catdog, Angry beavers.....let's hope they don't mess it up.
This^^^. This was my very first thought when I saw the thread title.
Either way, thanks for the news, Swoosh. I am cautiously optimistic for this as well.
I was mostly joking lol.


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50K and 16M trail run. Both distances are challenging and not beginner trail races. The 50K will have an 8 hour cut-off and the 16M will have a 5.5 hour cut-off. Saturday August 25th, 2018. 50K starts at 6:00 am and 16M starts at 8:00 am. Both events begin at the Fish Creek Falls parking area at the top of Fish Creek Falls Rd. and end at the top of the gondola at the Steamboat Ski Area.


WGY's Kelly Lynch smiles after getting a Celtic father-daughter knot tattoo.
Kelly Lynch, co-host of "Chuck and Kelly" on News Radio 810 and 103.1 WGY, honored her father by getting a tattoo.
It's something that many daughters would do to rebel against their parents. But Lynch's tattoo celebrates her relationship with her late father. She went with an intricate Celtic father-daughter knot, placed just above her ankle.
"If you look closely, you can see not only the interwoven lines, but also the image of a cross within the lines, the formation of a fleur de lis style larger cross in the outer lines, and also two hearts, opposite each other, or a series of four hearts around the diamond," Lynch wrote on the WGY website.
Lynch's father, Dan Lynch, passed away last year. The two shared a birthday and had similar careers. Dan was a Times Union columnist and radio show host.
"So on this day, my first birthday without him, I chose to honor him with a deeply personal and lasting tribute," Lynch wrote.
See more photos of Kelly's tattoo journey here.


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Francisco Goya's "The Third of May 1808" depicting the execution by Napoleon's troops of a group of Spanish captives is an excruciating work of art. The French soldiers are painted in a tight group, their backs to the viewer so that their faces are not visible. The soldiers seem to have no humanity; they are a killing machine. They stand with rifles and bayonets directed towards a group of men at whose feet are laid corpses that they will, in the next few seconds join. It is night and a village limns on the horizon. The central figure is a man in a white shirt holding his hands aloft and staring into the serried rows of guns. One could write volumes.
But one does not need to write volumes: it is all there in paint. The drama and agony is immediately apparent to the viewer. One does not need to look for a title or the name of the artist to understand what is going on here. The painting arrests the viewer and compels him to meditate on the scene. This is a political painting, as well as a painting of human cruelty and despair. In other words it is full of meaning.
Goya has conveyed that meaning without words; that is the job of the visual artist, to use images that are self-explanatory. Today there are few painters that have that skill largely because modernism has shifted the focus away from the acquisition of skills in drawing and painting. In its absence we have conceptual art, art that strives to convey meaning but not as Goya did. This art, because of its poverty of expression, has resorted to words. The words are found in the painting and in the didactic.
The experience of the viewer is to gaze in wonderment at what the piece is trying to portray and then to desperately resort to reading the didactic helpfully displayed next to the painting. Here we find the real business, in which the artist enlightens the viewer as to her feelings about the piece and the complex process through which it was born and what she is trying to express.
What has happened here? Painting has become writing. Or, rather, painting relies on writing as an explanation for its existence. Take away the writing and we are left with rather unattractive smatterings of paint, no composition to speak of, no clue as to what it is about and certainly no pleasure at its existence.
A parallel to this also exists in which words are painting on the actual painting.
This is a major betrayal of the art of painting. It tells us that painting is not enough; we have to be told in words what to think and how to appreciate. The artist now stands between the work of art and the viewer as an essential mediator without whom the art is incomprehensible.
This is a form of elitism, for only those in the know are privy to the profound meaning that emanates from the artist who presumably has thought and felt much deeper than us the viewers.
Because the emphasis is on a meaning imputed to the object, care need not be taken to produce a thing of beauty. Indeed, the artists who produce these things are not trained in any craft at all be that painting or sculpture. They are unskilled. It seems that a trade has been made: I can't draw or paint so I will write.
However, when the artist uses actual words, even whole texts, the response of the viewer necessarily changes from the contemplation of an image to a cognitive response to the words. He becomes a reader and not a viewer, or, rather he is torn between the two.


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Although the Inside AdWords blog is designed to educate AdWords advertisers, we know that some of you are also veteran AdWords users and client managers who may have some AdWords best practices of your own -- if you have deep, hands-on, and up-to-date knowledge of AdWords, a knack for explaining how things work, and are interested in training and empowering others to use AdWords, be sure to apply to become an AdWords Seminar Leader. All applicants must be at least 18 years of age, and be a Qualified Individual in the Google Advertising Professionals Program. Please note that applications for this recruiting wave are due by April 30, 2007.
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Vanderbilt bowl ticket sales near 13,000
By Jeff Lockridge;
The Tennessean;
Vanderbilt has sold nearly 13,000 tickets for the BBVA Compass Bowl.
"And they're still moving," athletics director David Williams said.
Sales are going about as well as anyone could have expected after the Commodores were passed over by the Gator, Music City and Liberty bowls. Vanderbilt (8-4) meets Houston (8-4) on Jan. 4 at Birmingham's Legion Field.
After selling its allotment of 10,000 tickets the week after the bowl announcement, Vanderbilt has gone back to the Compass Bowl several times for 500-ticket blocks and has exhausted all available tickets on the east side of the field, which is designated for the Commodores. Vanderbilt is now working to sell out section 14 — its second section on the west side of the field.
Vanderbilt sold roughly 13,000 through its ticket office for the Liberty Bowl two years ago. The school sold 18,000 for its Music City Bowl appearance last season.
Williams said some Vanderbilt fans unable to attend the Compass Bowl have bought and donated tickets, which are being given to groups such as military personnel and Boy Scout troops. He added that instead of fans feeling slighted by the bowl selection process, they have tried to improve the fan base's perception.
"It's interesting how people have stopped me the last few weeks to tell me they bought tickets or just hollered 'Anchor Down,' " Williams said.
"I was at the Cool Springs mall going down the escalator and a guy hollered at me, so I stopped and he showed me a picture on his phone of the van he was going down to the game in. He bought 12 tickets. On Christmas Eve, I was getting the last of my shopping done at Green Hills mall and had a guy chase me down through Dillard's to tell me he bought eight tickets. They're supporting the team and supporting this coach."
Tickets that were purchased by Friday will be mailed to customers. Any tickets purchased after that point must be picked up at McGugin Center by early Thursday morning. The ticket office will be open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday morning for distributing bowl tickets.
Vanderbilt is outpacing several bowl-bound SEC partners.
Georgia athletics director Greg McGarity recently said the Bulldogs probably would sell 7,500 tickets of their 15,000 allotment to the Gator Bowl. LSU has sold roughly 6,000 of its 12,000 allotment to the Outback Bowl. South Carolina distributed 10,000 of its 12,500 allotment for the Capital One Bowl and sold another 1,000 on the secondary market.
The Music City and Liberty bowls have seen positive results from their selections. Ole Miss sold 13,438 tickets to the Music City Bowl. Mississippi State sold at least 16,560 after its initial surge of 15,000 in the first week after its Liberty Bowl destination was announced.
Franklin on ESPN: Vanderbilt coach James Franklin will be part of ESPN's coverage previewing the BCS Championship on Jan. 6 from Pasadena, Calif. Franklin will join the ESPN "GameDay" set earlier in the day and serve as a guest analyst for "SportsCenter" and "College Football Live."
Alabama coach Nick Saban will join the "GameDay" crew as an analyst for the Auburn-Florida State game.
Football sendoff: The football team will sign autographs in Memorial Gym's lobby before the men's basketball game against St. Louis at 8 p.m. Monday and will be honored at halftime before leaving on Tuesday for Birmingham. Basketball tickets are $18; lower-level seats in the student section are open with classes out.
Events available: Tickets to Franklin's radio call-in show on Thursday at Birmingham's Rogue Tavern ($15) as well as tickets to the Commodore Tailgate outside the stadium 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Jan. 4 ($35 for adults; $10 ages 6-12; free 5 and under) are still available. Reservations can be made at vanderbilt.edu/bowl.
Reach Jeff Lockridge at 615-259-8023 or jlockridge@tennessean.com.
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On 12 March, Enemed marked another important milestone and goal in its objective to improve and embrace motorsports in Malta by signing a three-year sponsorship agreement with the Malta Drag Racing Association.
This is what Enemed executive chairman, Kevin Chircop, had to say: "From its inception three years ago, Enemed's purpose has always been based on increasing the level and potential of its industry. In line with this strategy, we have always strived to be one of the prime contributors to Maltese motorsport organisations. We have done it with power boating, hill climb races and drifting competitions, and we will continue doing it with MDRA.
"We feel that for MDRA, which is one of the main founders of motorsports here in Malta, it is about time that they take the leap and continue striving for success. Unfortunately for these organisations, support is not an easy thing to acquire.
He added: "The aim behind our contractual agreement, which spans over three years, is based on our belief that instead of providing the organisation with a one-time lump sum, we will be supporting the organisation for a longer period of time. We will be providing these organisations with a stable stepping stone and giving them the opportunity to up their game and eventually attain the interest of other sponsors that will help the industry."
Charles Camilleri from the MDRA committee, had only words of praise for Enemed and stated: "From our end, the MDRA, we would like to thank Enemed and Mr Chircop for their generosity and support. It has been a great pleasure to discuss the motorsport industry with someone who keeps an open mind and believes in the potential we possess. With this three-year sponsorship we will be able to develop the MDRA, increasing our safety procedures and continue to grow and succeed, even on an international basis."


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Meet new Stoic: the new brand philosophy for next-generation automated trading
Last March, the Cindicator team introduced the first users to a new experimental product: a simple automated crypto trading app with a hedge fund advantage. Since then Stoic has grown into a successful product with thousands of users who connected Binance accounts holding over $50 million in crypto assets.
It is time to present the new brand philosophy and identity for Stoic.
The new brand
This idea emerged over time.
The name Stoic was not a coincidence.
Most traders lose money in the market due to emotions. The desire for quick profits and the fear of missing out drives them to chase the latest trend, often buying at the top. The eventual drawdown creates the fear of loss, which causes them to sell low. This cycle is then repeated and leverage amplifies it, often leading to complete ruin.
Thousands of years ago, philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome saw that destructive emotions lead to poor judgement. They saw the solution in the philosophy of Stoicism: the path to happiness is found in the present moment, making decisions rationally without the dictates of fears or desires.
The ancient faced different problems, often dealing with a matter of life and death. XXI century traders deal with financial risks. Yet human nature has remained unchanged through millennia. The fear one feels seeing red candles on the chart is the same primal fear that arose in ancient warriors and statesmen.
Today, Stoic helps traders act virtuously. While we all feel emotions, we have the freedom to act rationally instead of giving in to emotions. It's hard to do this in the heat of trading. Stoic's strategy and technology helps with this by leaving us to make big decisions while delegating the execution to machines.
Seeking to create a brand character that would embody these virtues, the Cindicator team collected views and ideas. The current users of Stoic, forecasters on the Collective Intelligence platform, and CND token holders have shared ideas and provided feedback on the team's ideas.
After heated debates, discussions, and lots of work on different drafts, finally, the embodiment of the new Stoic is summoned.
The new brand represents what Stoic is about: the connection between humans and the machine, the link between ancient Eastern practices and millennia-old Stoicism philosophy, the practical crypto experience and the cutting-edge technology. All these forces unite to help users on their way to sustainable wealth and prosperity.
Collective intelligence and AI
Artificial intelligence technology is still in its early days. While its power lies in its ability to rationally process huge amounts of data, it lacks creativity.
This drawback is more than compensated by the creative power of thousands of people who together make up the Cindicator ecosystem. The core team drives the overall direction and builds out the infrastructure. Over 170,000 analysts signed up to make forecasts. And then thousands of people connected their Binance accounts to Stoic, using the whole infrastructure to automatically trade their crypto assets.
Crypto expertise and quant research
As a young asset class, crypto doesn't have established analytical frameworks. Instead, analysts and traders rely on hard-earned practical knowledge of crypto.
At the same time, the principles of quantitative research apply to crypto. Like any other exchange-traded asset, crypto has open, close, high, and low prices. While correlations and statistical patterns are different from stocks or commodities, the same overall approach works well.
Finally, on the most abstract level, Stoic combines the wisdom of East and West.
In its essence, Stoicism is the acceptance of any present moment without allowing fears or desires to control oneself.
The ancient Eastern practices point in the same direction. Being in the present moment is one of the core tenets of Buddhism as well as other ancient religious and spiritual movements.
Cindicator's Stoic gives its users a chance to move closer to that sought-after state of being free from the dictates of emotions and human impulses. This state is crucial for achieving sustainable well-being, which of course includes prosperity.
The Stoic persona
The best qualities of Stoic are now personified by the new brand character, the Stoic. Expect to see the Stoic in the app, on social media, the metaverse and beyond.
Over time it will grow into a separate virtual person, bestowing advice, providing feedback, and hopefully even fostering friendships of virtue with all traders connected to Stoic.
Mike Brusov, co-founder & CEO of Cindicator, said:
"Over the past year, Stoic has developed into a separate entity that merges the collective intelligence of thousands of humans and AI. The new visual identity gives Stoic a new virtual body that reflects the values of the new generation of smart crypto trading. We're excited to welcome it to the world."
Vlad Kazakov, Head of Products at Cindicator, added:
"Stoic automates crypto trading and eliminates emotional trading that plagues most crypto novices. It's a product that I needed. Now thousands of people signed up, so clearly there is demand. It's just the beginning of Stoic's journey and we're grateful to our current users and look forward to introducing it to even more users."
Stoic, the embodiment of collective intelligence and AI, remarked:
"Waste no more time arguing what a good trader should be. Be one."
Over the next few months, the new Stoic identity will be weaved into all communication channels. Expect to see advice, commentary, and perhaps even memes by the new Stoic.
Meanwhile, an important Cindicator ecosystem update is in the works. It is too early to reveal any details but there was never a better time to get involved in any capacity you can.
The best way to get involved is to try Stoic and connect your Binance account to try it out.


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Home Madison Police, elected leaders take a knee, draw protests
Police, elected leaders take a knee, draw protests
Mackenzie Krumme
A symbolic kneeling of support against the killing of George Floyd at a press conference on Wednesday, June 3, illuminated a divide on how to best respond to destruction of property on State Street.
Michael Johnson, CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County (BGCDC) hosted a meeting at the club's Allied Drive location to highlight a gesture by the area police officers and elected officials of taking a knee in solidarity against police brutality.
During the press conference, protesters could be heard from outside the building demanding more support from Black community leadership.
The family of Tony Robinson — a Black man shot and killed by Madison police in 2015 — Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, acting Madison Police Chief Vic Wahl, state Rep. Sheila Stubbs, Madison School Board President Gloria Reyes and players of the Forward Madison soccer team were present at the press conference.
Johnson said he supports peaceful protests and condemns the destruction of property on State Street, promising to hire 75 peacekeepers and paying $12.83 per hour to assist anyone who needs help or medical attention during a demonstration.
Meanwhile, roughly 20 protesters stood outside the building asking for the $195,000 raised by the Boys and Girls Club to support 75 downtown businesses damaged in protests to be redistributed to the Black community, including a bail fund.
Johnson defended himself against the accusations of protesters and talked about the money he has raised in his time as CEO, including $2 million for the Dane County COVID relief fund and $27,000 for the family of Tony Robinson to cover funeral costs.
"They can talk all the bad stuff they want but here is the bottom line — I'm not going to apologize for putting almost 100 kids to work," Johnson said. "I'm not going to apologize for raising $2 million for families who are struggling during COVID-19. I'm not going to apologize for helping to pay the rent for families that need help in this community. And I'm not going to apologize for trying to bridge a gap between the African American community and law enforcement. I'm not going to apologize because this is what collective leadership looks like."
The protesters outside, who said they were not allowed access into the meeting, said that the money Johnson and the Boys and Girls Club raises is not reinvested in the Black community. They said that the $12.83 an hour Johnson offered to pay young people to act as peacekeepers is not enough to risk the lives of Black youth and no one should be telling Black youth how to respond.
"There are Black women, Black queer women running this event," Alyssa Ivivy, a protester outside of the Boys and Girls Club, told Madison365. "And instead of standing beside them and being with us — whether that is in your car safe with your windows rolled and in the air conditioning, dropping off supplies or helping with the fundraising for us — (BGCDC is helping) those white business owners on State Street. They have insurance — their deductible will go up but they will be fine."
After the press conference at least one protester was allowed in the building and was observed talking with Johnson privately.
The protesters outside did speak with Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, who had bouquets of flowers left on his lawn yesterday to reflect unarmed Black people who were killed by police officers.
Dave Mahoney did not talk about a reduced police presence at the protest but interim police chief Vic Wahl said the police presence will reflect the pulse of the demonstrators.
"What our goal is during the protest where things are peaceful … we are there to observe, block traffic and to facilitate what the expression is," Wahl said. "We need to have resources available if we see what we've seen the last couple nights where there is a lot of violence. So we will have people available but not out there visible to the protesters."
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The elephant human interaction in India is a complex environmental issue. Elephants are both revered and feared by Indians. While it is true both people and elephants can die when their paths intersect, some tea farms in India are trying a different approach. They provide habitat corridors throughout their farms that the elephants and other wildlife can pass through without harm. They train the nearby villagers and tea farm employees to not harass the elephants and to remain calm as they move from one patch of forest to another. One way to support this new strategy is to buy tea from these farms. Lake Missoula Tea Company values these conservation endeavors and will support these farms the best we can.
The Elephant Friendly™ certification is one way to support these farms. What does this mean? The wild Asian Elephant population is in drastic decline throughout India (the population is estimated to be 12,500). Elephants in India get hurt and die due to lack of forest habitat which cause conflicts with human, particularly around agricultural operations. The Elephant Friendly™ certification, a Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network (WFEN) project, identifies tea farms that are free of electric fences, pesticides, and deep ditches and habitat corridors that provide safe passage for elephants. In addition, these farms are committed to growing tea organically and in an ecologically sound manner. Like many organic tea farms, these farms are completely alive with bugs, birds, elephants, and rich tasting tea.