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The music industry in the 1980's was subject to major advancements in technology in both the instruments that were played, plus the methods of recording in the studios. With all of the progress that had been made within the different genres in previous decades the acts of the 1980s were able to take their music into different areas and refine certain ideas.
This was certainly the case with a number of bands that had started out in the punk era yet during the new decade were able to evolve into something a little more different. One of the biggest selling rock bands has been U2. Formed in 1976 in Dublin the band achieved much of its success during the 1980s particularly with the album "The Joshua Tree" which turned them into international stars.
Duran Duran started out as a New Romantic band in 1977. They then evolved into a mixture of new wave and syncpop. The 80s were ideal as the group loved glamorous videos and this was the time where the technology really advanced in this particular area. The band were one of the best-selling groups in this decade. The group that sold numerous singles in the 1980s were UB40 and like Duran Duran they hailed from Birmingham. The band had more than 50 records in the UK singles chart. They managed to combine reggae music with pop and proved to be globally popular selling more than 70 million records.
The music videos had a real impact on the industry during this time and the artists that were able to adapt the better were the ones who achieved the greatest success. Michael Jackson had already tasted success in the 1970s when he joined the rest of his family the Jackson 5. The 1980s saw Jackson develop his solo career. He was able to combine fashion, dance and music into becoming one of the best-selling artists of all time. He was tailor made for the screen and the costs for some of his videos went over 1 million dollars. His album "Thriller" became the world's best-selling album in a year, with 68 million copies sold.
Another star who benefited from the videos was Madonna. She combined producing music that sold millions of copies with a successful acting career that saw her star in "Desperately Playing Susan" and "Evita". She released 5 singles from her first album "Madonna" and she continued to sell numerous records during this period. Prince was also successful during the 1980's. His unique music was a mixture of funk, psychedelia, new wave and pop, and his music was epitomized by the electric nature of it. He a flamboyant dresser and used personal make-up to enhance his performance both on stage and in videos.
He sold many records during the decade. His best-selling albums were "Prince" and "Dirty Mind" and many of his hit singles were typified by the mixture of different genres that he was able to combine into making the track. The 1980s was the decade when Whitney Houston shot to prominence. In her career she has sold over 200 million records, which is more than any other female artist. Her first two albums "Whitney Houston" and "Whitney" were both released in the 1980s and both reached number 1 in the albums chart.
There were also several new rock bands that first appeared in this decade. Guns 'n' Roses, Bon Jovi and Iron Maiden. They were offshoots of the rock music that had been popular in the early 1970s but they managed to capture a large base of fans and sell many records. The music of the 1980s as able to mix different genres for artists to produce their own unique sounds. The growing popularity of the video managed to make stars out of some performers, and a lot of them would take a lot of time in producing the right type of video for their music.
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'Future Innovators' five years later: Times change, and so have these kids' views on tech and science
The 2015 GeekWire "Future Innovators" during 2020 Zoom calls, clockwise from top left, Tanner, Rebecca, Marcus and Annabelle. (GeekWire Photos)
Five years ago, budding 11-year-old Seattle scientist Rebecca Yeung was launching a homemade spacecraft high above Earth. The exploits with her sister gained the pair widespread publicity and a chance to meet President Obama at a White House science fair.
The experiences left Rebecca with a wide-eyed enthusiasm about science and technology.
In 2015, she joined geeky kids from across the Seattle region in a series of videos and an on-stage panel at that year's GeekWire Summit. We talked about their views on science, technology, what was important in their lives at the time, and their aspirations for the years ahead.
We called them our "Future Innovators," and the goal was to get a glimpse of the future by talking directly to some of the young people who would help to shape it.
"Everyone was excited about science and the way the world was going," said Rebecca, now 16. "Since that time, obviously, a lot of things have changed in our country. But this year, especially, has revealed that maybe not everything was as hopeful and perfect as we thought it was at the time."
Five years after we first heard their insights about technology, science, gadgets and geekdom, GeekWire's "Future Innovators" don't look or sound like little kids anymore. Their views are also evolving considerably — shaped not just by their additional years on the planet, but by the rapidly changing circumstances in the world around them.
We couldn't get everyone together in person for a five-year reunion, so we caught up recently with Rebecca, Tanner Stark, Annabelle Kisky, and Marcus Bathum on Zoom calls. We came away with a better understanding of how some kids today view technological advances, remote learning during a pandemic, growing up with climate change, social media, self-driving cars and more.
Check out the video above for some of the highlights from our 2015 and 2020 discussions, and keep reading for more of what each "Future Innovator" thinks about the world now and what's ahead.
Tanner Tanner Stark at age 5 in 2015, left, and on a Zoom call in 2020 at age 11. (GeekWire Photos)
This kid cracked us up in 2015 when he told us he didn't yet work for Microsoft because he was "just 5." Now an 11-year-old fifth grader, Tanner still doesn't work for Microsoft, but he may well be on his way based on how much he seems to have changed in five years.
He said he watches the YouTube video from the Summit every day to get inspiration, even though he admits to being a little embarrassed by some of his answers as our youngest Future Innovator.
Tanner is home schooling now and while he misses the social aspect of in-person school, he said remote learning is better because at home you don't have to line up and wait for everyone to be quiet.
"Now that I'm older and I know what life's supposed to be like," Tanner said, gearing up to crack us up once again, "I personally want to become a popular TikToker. If that career gets me somewhere, maybe I might move on to Microsoft."
Tanner said maybe he'll be able to create the Xbox Infinity S. Or something like that.
Tanner Stark at the 2015 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo)
Tanner didn't have a phone in 2015, much less a presence on TikTok, the popular video-sharing app. But now he uses a hand-me-down device from his mom and spends his time watching videos "with over 1 million views" to find viral inspiration. The morning we spoke, he posted a video of himself doing the dishes for his six followers.
Here are a few more insights from 2020 Tanner:
Life during a pandemic: "Personally, this COVID social distancing thing is getting really hard for a lot of families and even children. Parents aren't able to have a job which means they can't afford food sometimes. And for kids it's maybe not depressing, but disappointing that you can't go see your friends." Space travel: "That's pretty dang cool that we're going back to the moon. I think we can learn a lot from that — go collect moon rocks or some hypersonic-gizmo something-or-other drone. … If they do find water or some kind of living creature up in space, that would be a huge thing." Favorite thing about technology: "How you can have extremely good internet anywhere … unless you have the phone that I have." Rebecca Rebecca Yeung at age 10 in 2015, left, and on a Zoom call in 2020 at age 16. (GeekWire Photos)
Five years ago, Rebecca dropped the biggest applause line at the GeekWire Summit when she told a room full of techies that her main lesson learned from launching weather balloons to the edge of space with her sister was, "don't speculate, rely on data."
While it seemed at the time that Rebecca, with her love of physics and chemistry, was destined for a career in aerospace or something similar, the 16-year-old 10th grader at Seattle's Lakeside School seems happily undecided these days.
"I think that we're taught a lot when we're younger that we can only grow up to be one thing, but I've realized over time that that's not true," she said. "I'm interested in several different things and have no idea where I'll plan to go, but I want it to be something that I believe will help other people and makes me happy."
School has gotten busier for Rebecca and her younger sister Kimberly, so they've retired from launching any new Loki Lego Launcher missions. The family turned its attention to building tiny houses to help address some of the crisis around homelessness in Seattle. And Rebecca's outlook in general has been altered with a more mature understanding of the state of the world.
Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung with their spacecraft, in a field near Tokio, in Adams County, Wash., in July 2016. (Photo courtesy of Yeung family)
"I think it goes without saying that this year was a very trying year for everybody," she said. "But I'm actually pretty optimistic about it. Because I think that, like we saw this year with the protests in social justice movements, that as a society and country, we are ready to improve things and try and make things better."
Here are a few more insights from 2020 Rebecca:
Screen time: "I'm on a screen pretty much all the time now, especially with remote school. I also spend a lot of time connecting with friends and family online. I do use social media every day and it's a pretty big part of my life now, especially to try and stay connected to people I'm not living with and can't see every day." Will we go to the moon or Mars? "I'm not sure. I think that the science and innovation is out there for us to do it. I don't know whether people who make decisions about it will decide that's where we want to focus." Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook: "On the one hand I really want to recognize these tech giants, as they're called, have done a lot for our society and having that much innovation in one place is consistently leading to better, more convenient things for people. On the other hand, when you have these giant companies and a considerably small number of people at the top making decisions that affect so many of our lives, there's room for problems there." Annabelle Annabelle Kisky at age 10 in 2015, left, and on a Zoom call in 2020 at age 16. (GeekWire Photos)
Annabelle is a 16-year-old 10th grader now who is doing independent study at home, with plans to get a jump on things and enter Running Start next fall. She's interested in psychology.
"I'm not really sure how I found that as something I want to pursue," she said. "But I am interested in it because I just think it's really cool to try and understand how people work, how social connections come into that."
Annabelle seemed to have a read on things as a younger kid, literally, when we handed her an old Walkman cassette player five years ago to see if she knew what it was and she correctly said, "It's a Walkman" … because the name was on the device.
When it comes to tech she's using the most these days, Annabelle spends a lot of time talking to friends on the app Discord.
"It lets me play games and socialize with my friends no matter where we are in the world, and makes this whole quarantine a lot more bearable," she said.
The "Future Innovators" panel at the GeekWire Summit in 2015. (GeekWire Photo)
Although her schooling routine hasn't changed during the pandemic, Annabelle does miss going to museums such as the Museum of Pop Culture, Pacific Science Center, The Museum of Flight, Living Computers: Museum + Labs and more. She misses seeing the exhibits close up and messing with hands-on interactive elements.
"I'm a very hands-on learner. I like to learn by doing," she said. "Before COVID, we were always on the go. Most every day had a 'field trip' of some sort. I struggle to keep engaged when I can look but not touch or read but not experience."
Here are a few more insights from 2020 Annabelle:
News consumption: "It feels like every morning I wake up and there's more bad news. The good news is it means that our communication technology has gotten to the point where anyone can get the news almost instantly. But that's also kind of a bad thing because now you hear all of the bad news all at once. It's sort of a lot to process when it just keeps coming." Space travel: "I'm not sure how long it will be before we send humans to Mars. Because we've sent rovers and stuff before, but trying to support a human is a lot different than a robot." Tech the world could use now: "Cleaner forms of transportation. There are already things like electric cars, but they aren't as widespread as they should be." Marcus Marcus Bathum at age 9 in 2015, left, and on a Zoom call in 2020 at age 14. (GeekWire Photos)
As improvisational as jazz music can be, it's just not the same over Zoom, at least as far as Marcus is concerned. Playing in his school's jazz band is one of the things he misses most about in-person school during the pandemic.
"Playing band over a computer screen and recording is just not the same as getting to actually play with other people," said the 14-year-old West Seattle High School freshman, who plays both trombone and baritone sax.
When Marcus was 9, his favorite technology at the time was the smartphone, mainly because he could play "Minecraft" on the device. Marcus doesn't really play the popular world-building game anymore, but he's still into phones and computers, and the Microsoft Surface, which he uses to do his schoolwork.
Like Annabelle, Marcus is taking an interest in the professions around mental health and the science around why people act the way they do or what triggers certain emotions. He might want to become a psychiatrist or therapist.
Marcus Bathum talks to GeekWire's John Cook at the 2015 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo)
Here are a few more insights from 2020 Marcus:
Political change: "I'm hopeful because I believe with Biden in charge things could be a lot better. I also don't really believe that too many things are going to get done. I don't know if stuff like universal health care will be achieved or real change [around] global warming and climate change." Self-driving cars: "I'm real excited to start driving — theoretically by the summer I should be. I'm hopeful for self-driving cars. I feel like there's a lot of people who are going to be really supportive of that and a lot of people are just not going to trust it." Social media: "I have an Instagram account. That's really the only social media I get into, but I try not to go on it too much because I know I'll get addicted to it and keep scrolling my feed. Some of my friends use Twitter. I don't think any of my friends use Facebook … my parents do."
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When a boy named Max finds a limp, frozen Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle washed up on the shores of Cape Cod, it appears to be dead. But maybe not. Award-winning author Karthryn Lasky and photographer Christopher G. Knight take young readers on a riveting tour that begins on the icy shores of Cape Cod, where expert teams attempt to revive a Kemp's Ridley, and ends on the warm beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, where turtles of this rare breed are born and may return to lay eggs of their own.
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Better and Faster Search Engines
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Ola Agren, a Ph.D. candidate at Umea University in Sweden, has developed an algorithm that will make search engines faster and return more relevant results. Search engines on the Internet often use an algorithm that assigns higher or lower values to features of Web pages based on a search of all pages available on the Internet, while Agren's algorithm ranks pages based on each relevant starting page, including those directly or indirectly linked to by the starting page.
Agren's algorithm calculates a normalized mean value of the relevance of the various pages, with those linked from several different pages receiving a higher value than those found only once. Agren says that pages are found faster this way. He says the algorithm can go through a database and rank Web pages in 158 seconds, compared with more than seven days for ordinary standard algorithms.
Agren also studied the relevance of hits in the top 10 lists for his algorithm and two variants of the algorithm used by Google, and although there was some overlapping, they were never completely identical. "The users in the study found that the search engine I developed is better than the others in more than 60 percent of cases," Agren says.
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Philanthropist Kris Tompkins continues conservation efforts started with her late husband
Following the sudden death of her philanthropist husband late last year, Kris Tompkins, the US conservationist and former CEO of outdoor clothing brand Patagonia Inc, has begun talks with Chilean government over the donation of a vast nature reserve in southern Chile.
Tompkins is the widow of North Face founder and Esprit co-founder Doug Tompkins, who died in December in a kayaking accident. The well-known adventurer invested around $375 million in South American conservation efforts, particularly in Chile and Argentina.
Lay of the land: the conservation philanthropists saving ecosystems across the globe
For all the attention climate receives, another environmental crisis – the sixth great extinction – receives relatively less airtime. Jessica Tasman-Jones met with philanthropists seeking to protect and restore the balance of nature – from the Scottish Highlands to Patagonia
This article appeared in the Autumn issue of CampdenFO. Not long after the magazine went to print Doug Tompkins, whose foundation is mentioned in the text and whose wife, Kris, was interviewed for the article, died suddenly in a kayaking accident. Despite being a serial entrepreneur (he founded The North Face and co-founded Esprit), his philanthropy and commitment to conservation is one of the greatest legacies he leaves behind.


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Egyptian Transport Minister Hisham Arafat said on Friday that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's upcoming visit to Russia aims to enhance cooperation between the two countries in the transportation field.
In an interview with Russia Today, Arafat said that an agreement between Egypt and a Russian-Hungarian consortium to produce 1,300 train vehicles at a cost of one billion euros has been finalized.
He noted that the Russian company participating in the consortium is one of the biggest train manufacturers in the world.
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The Russian-Hungarian consortium has been hired to help Egypt establish a local manufacturing line at the National Organisation for Military Production, according to Arafat.
The first batch of the carriages will be manufactured in Russia and will be a model for the other batches later.
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Genuine Craftsmanship and International Sponsoring
SEILER Pianoforte ranks among Europe's largest piano factories and exports its grand and upright pianos to over fifth different countries on all five continents.
SEILER was in the founding family's hands for five generations and was established in 1849 by pianist and craftsman Eduard Seiler in the Silesian town of Liegritz. Recently, SEILER has become a member of Samick Music Corporation.
As early as in the 1870s, SEILER won first prizes for its pianos – including those awarded in Vienna and Moscow – and in the following years was to become a purveyor to the German and Russian Imperial Courts and to the Italian Royal Family. Countless prices in Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan, Melbourne, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago testify to the esteem in which SEILER's instruments were held all over the globe.
At the end of World War II in 1945, SEILER lost its factory in eastern Germany. However, the fourth generation of the Seiler family under Steffen Seiler went on to rebuild the company in Bavaria in West Germany. Steffen Seiler risked his life at the end of the war when everything was collapsing around him to preserve the scale designs, plate designs and measurements to assure there would be a future company.
In the international marketplace SEILER stands for a corporate philosophy resting on five pillars reflected in the terms: Quality, Artistic Craftsmanship, Innovativeness, Price/Performance Ratio, and Tonal Beauty.
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Madeline Sweeney calls (01:09, 12 May 2009)
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United Airlines Flight 93 Timeline (14:56, 22 January 2010)
Odigo (13:31, 25 January 2010)
Amanda Keller (14:09, 25 January 2010)
Andrews Air Force Base (04:23, 26 January 2010)
Ariel Sharon (12:12, 26 January 2010)
4000 Israelis (02:52, 31 January 2010)
The Passengers (04:50, 31 January 2010)
Bob Graham on 9-11 funding (04:56, 31 January 2010)
Intercept time (03:23, 3 February 2010)
August 6 PDB (12:16, 3 February 2010)
General Mahmoud Ahmad dismissed (14:44, 3 February 2010)
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Zim workers saved by cost-cutting (13:02, 3 April 2010)
Bin Laden and Brzezinski (15:26, 3 April 2010)
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South Florida was hub for hijackers from around the world (13:18, 1 July 2010)
Pentagon searchers encounter grisly scenes (14:28, 7 July 2010)
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Bob Kerrey (15:20, 5 August 2010)
Flight 93 families divided (14:28, 24 September 2010)
Carlyle Group (06:10, 11 November 2010)
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Recycled Steel (14:31, 3 March 2011)
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The Eleventh Day (11:15, 25 July 2011)
Renee May calls (13:52, 9 April 2012)
Cheney in charge of NORAD (11:47, 27 June 2012)
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FBI doubts over hijacker identities (12:50, 27 June 2012)
Flight School Dropouts (12:55, 27 June 2012)
Identifying the Hijackers (13:02, 27 June 2012)
No hijackers on the passenger manifests (13:20, 27 June 2012)
Personal Effects and the Crash-Proof Passport (13:23, 27 June 2012)
John Ashcroft and commercial flights (13:34, 27 June 2012)
Pentagon Officials (13:46, 27 June 2012)
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9/11 flight passenger numbers (10:37, 28 June 2012)
N591UA and N612UA (10:48, 28 June 2012)
Social Security Death Index (10:51, 28 June 2012)
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Satam al-Suqami (10:54, 29 June 2012)
Marwan al-Shehhi (10:55, 29 June 2012)
Fayez Banihammad (10:57, 29 June 2012)
Saeed al-Ghamdi (10:59, 29 June 2012)
Ahmed al-Nami (11:00, 29 June 2012)
Able Danger (11:41, 29 June 2012)
Salem al-Hazmi still alive? (12:01, 29 June 2012)
Mohamed Atta still alive? (13:16, 29 June 2012)
FBI hides 84 Pentagon videos (13:47, 29 June 2012)
Hijacking Drill (13:59, 29 June 2012)
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Abdulaziz al-Omari still alive? (01:33, 30 June 2012)
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Cellphone calls faked (01:43, 30 June 2012)
War Games (12:17, 1 July 2012)
W199I (12:26, 1 July 2012)
Bin Laden met the CIA (12:44, 1 July 2012)
Payne Stewart (13:24, 1 July 2012)
Mahmoud Ahmad funds the attacks (13:29, 1 July 2012)
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Joseph Biden (13:36, 1 July 2012)
Hijackers DNA profiles (15:32, 1 July 2012)
Jeb Bush (07:59, 2 July 2012)
Goldman Sachs warning (08:05, 2 July 2012)
Attack on Wall Street (08:20, 2 July 2012)
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Waleed al-Shehri arrives early (08:26, 2 July 2012)
NORADs first story (15:22, 3 July 2012)
Manual for a Raid (15:27, 3 July 2012)
Robert Baer (13:42, 4 July 2012)
Mayo Shattuck III (13:45, 4 July 2012)
Rajaa Gulum Abbas (14:48, 4 July 2012)
False blips (15:01, 4 July 2012)
Fake bin Laden audio tape (15:03, 4 July 2012)
Bin Laden trained and funded by the CIA (15:08, 4 July 2012)
Ahmed al-Nami still alive? (15:10, 4 July 2012)
Hijackers trained by US military? (11:47, 5 July 2012)
Israeli Art Students (11:49, 5 July 2012)
Willie Brown (11:53, 5 July 2012)
Randy Glass (12:13, 5 July 2012)
Bush-bin Laden family links (13:34, 5 July 2012)
Mohand al-Shehri still alive? (13:38, 5 July 2012)
Wail al-Shehri still alive? (13:39, 5 July 2012)
Atta, alcohol, strip clubs and drugs (08:42, 6 July 2012)
American Airlines Flight 11 Crash Evidence (09:38, 6 July 2012)
American Airlines Flight 11 Passengers (09:41, 6 July 2012)
Atta and Abramoff (09:52, 6 July 2012)
Bin Laden interview 21st October 2001 (09:55, 6 July 2012)
Danielle OBrien (09:58, 6 July 2012)
Mohamed Atta Timeline (12:37, 6 July 2012)
Al Qaeda does not exist (13:41, 6 July 2012)
Bin Laden CIA links (13:42, 6 July 2012)
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Dick Cheney at the PEOC (13:56, 6 July 2012)
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Khalid al-Mihdhar still alive? (01:37, 7 July 2012)
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Michael Tuohey (01:30, 9 July 2012)
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ISI funding of the attacks (14:34, 10 August 2012)
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The Usual Suspects (07:01, 24 May 2014)
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American Airlines Flight 587 (00:16, 25 May 2014)
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Waleed al-Shehri (10:12, 29 May 2014)
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Bomb in the building (21:59, 31 May 2014)
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Fort Worth is the most recommended city to visit in the US state of Texas. It is located deep in the heart of Prairies & Lakes region in north central part of the Texas. Home to over seven-hundred thousand individuals, Fort Worth is the fifth largest in the state and a major part of the Dallas/Fort Worth-Arlington metroplex. The city attracts over several million visitors from all around the world for its stunning western culture; it was once a home to cowboys and outlaws; the city is also nicknamed as the Cowboy town or Cowtown. Fort Worth embraces its traditional architecture as well as the Western heritage. The city is named after first American ship USS Fort Worth.
In the late 19th century, the Cowboys used the Chisolm Trail to move the cattle from the ranch to Texas; Chisolm Trail is also located in the heart of Fort Worth and the city has been a significant trading post. Today, the Fort Worth is one of the top modern cities of Texas, with internationally recognized museum like Kimbell Art Museum and National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame, Universities like Texas Wesleyan University, Texas Christian University, and multinational corporations including the Radio Shack, American Airlines, and Bell Helicopter. Fort Worth is best to explore in any season; immerse yourself in this magnificent cowboy town with many festivals, rodeo performances, and historic sites.
What to visit in Fort Worth?
Fort Worth Zoo: It is a must visit destination of the city. It was established in the early 1900s with few bears, rabbits, peacock, and a lion. Today, it has become the most enticing museum of the nation; housing over seven thousand exotic and native animals with over four hundred different species. Fort Worth Zoo covers sixty-four acres of land area with a wide place for visitors to have a fun time with breathtaking wildlife exhibits. Besides the wildlife sightseeing, the zoo also offers a variety of eateries, parks, and attractions including the Asian Falls, Raptor Canyon, Museum of Living Art, and more. Fort Worth Zoo is opened for the visitors throughout the week from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM.
Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District: There is no other place than Fort Worth Stockyards that showcases the true and rich culture of western heritage. Fort Worth Stockyards District is home to the original historic wooden corrals, brick walkways, and true western heritage, and the Stockyards Championship Rodeo event in Cowtown Coliseum of Stockyards, as well as the Fort Worth Herd Twice Daily Cattle Drive throughout the day, captivate the visitors. From authentic cowboy bars to eateries, Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District tells everything about the historic livestock industry of Texas.
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame: It is western history museum which was built to honor the persons who took part in supporting the western lifestyle and showed excellence in business. Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame houses some of the original horse and mule barns, as well as the bricks, columns, catwalks, cinder blocks, and metal doors that are originally architected. It is one of the must-visit places in Fort Worth and it is opened for the visitors from late morning until the late evening.


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Northern Trust Declares Quarterly Dividends on Common and Preferred Stock
Business Wire April 23, 2019
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS), holding company of The Northern Trust Company, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.60 per share on its common stock ($1.66-2/3 par value), payable on July 1, 2019, to holders of record at 5:00 p.m., Chicago time, on June 14, 2019.
Northern Trust Corporation also declared a cash dividend of $365.625 per share of its Series C non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock (resulting in a distribution of $0.365625 per depositary share), payable on July 1, 2019, to holders of record at 5:00 p.m., Chicago time, on June 15, 2019.
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Thames River Murders is a bestseller!
I was absolutely thrilled to learn that The Thames River Murders hit the USA Today Bestseller list! Thank you for supporting this series–I have worked very hard to get it this far!
I am researching and pre-writing The Alexandria Affair, which I will have up for pre-order as soon as I am able (I can only have pre-orders 90 days in advance with most vendors). I am still working out my schedule for next year, but I will have another Capt. Lacey (more if I'm able) and another Kat Holloway story.
My cover designer is working the covers for The Alexandria Affair and Kat's book, A Dollop of Death. More info on both of these books when I have it.
I have seriously cut back on books I owe my publisher (two a year now, not four to six!), so I now have more time to write mysteries! Precisely what I wanted when I began this whole writing venture!
Again, thank you for sticking with Captain Lacey and the series in all its ups and downs!


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March 12, 2009 | Judicial Watch
Millions Of Tax Dollars To Preserve Kennedy Legacy
Nearly one-third of the $126 million that Massachusetts is getting from the recently passed federal spending bill will go to preserve the legacy of the state's infamous political family.
The Kennedy legacy will be largely funded with U.S. tax dollars thanks to an array of earmarks inserted—and signed into law by President "Change"—into the $410 billion spending package aimed at stimulating the ailing economy.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will the biggest chunk—$22 million—and the new Edward Kennedy Institute for the Senate will get nearly $6 million. Five million will go towards a new gateway for a downtown Boston park system named after Kennedy's mother, Rose, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School will get $143,000 for equipment.
This means that more than one out of every five tax dollars that the state is getting in this bill will go directly to preserve the so-called Kennedy legacy. The family's most prominent living member, Senate fixture Edward Kennedy, has actually done a great job of contributing to the cause.
Kennedy's storied political career features several scandals, but none bigger than the despicable death of his mistress (Mary Jo Kopechne) nearly four decades ago. Kennedy recklessly drove off a bridge and into a pond in Chappaquiddick, east of Martha's Vineyard, and let the 28-year-old Kopechne drown to save himself. Kennedy had been drinking and had an expired license.
He later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a crime but only got a slap on the hand, a two-month suspended jail sentence. Many believe he escaped justice, which is why the tragedy at Chappaquiddick has been called the most brilliant cover-up ever achieved in a nation where investigative procedures are well developed.


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La riserva naturale di Gaplaňgyr è situata sul bordo meridionale dell'altopiano di Ustyurt nella provincia di Daşoguz, nel nord del Turkmenistan. Si estende su una superficie di oltre 8000 km² e comprende due aree che godono di protezione integrale, le riserve di Sarygamyş e di Şasenem.

Kaplankyr significa «altopiano dei ghepardi», ma questi grandi felini sono ormai scomparsi da tutto il territorio di Ustyurt. Tra i grandi mammiferi ancora presenti nella riserva vi sono l'urial del Transcaspio, la gazzella gozzuta, il tasso del miele e l'asino selvatico asiatico, reintrodotto qui negli anni ottanta. In inverno giungono qui per trascorrere la stagione nella riserva le saighe provenienti dalle steppe del Transcaspio. Complessivamente, la riserva ospita 26 specie di mammiferi e 147 specie di uccelli.

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Collegamenti esterni
 Nature Reserves of Turkmenistan.
 Place that cheetahs once inhabited.

Gaplaňgyr

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Poison gas and prison camps bring home the true horror of war to Indiana Jones in this powerful, dramatic film. As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy learns firsthand the savagery of warfare while participating in the Battle of the Somme. Almost succumbing to despair as his life becomes an endless round of artillery barrages, nerve gas attacks and decaying corpses, Indy fears that death will be his only way out. Then he is captured by the Germans and confined to a POW camp where he and fellow prisoner Charles de Gaulle hatch a daring scheme to win their freedom in true "Great Escape" style.
Often remembered as one of the most tragic and pointless battles of WWI, the Battle of the Somme ended with over 1 million casualties and an allied territory gain of approximately seven miles. However, the tragedy of the battle and the great losses spark interest to this day.
Brown, Malcolm. The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme. London: Pan Books, 2002.
Laffin, John. The Western Front Illustrated: 1914-1918. Gloucestershire:Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2001.
Sheffield, Gary. The Somme. London:Cassell, 2004.
British poet and activist who served in WWI. Nicknamed "Mad Jack" by his comrades on the front for his "manic" and brave actions, Sassoon remains one of the quintessential war poets. After losing a close friend in the war, Sassoon turned his writing talents to anti-war prose and poetry. Sassoon's writings endure to this day and have timeless meaning for war veterans of any generation.
Barker, Pat. Regeneration. New york: Penguin Group, 1993.
Sassoon, Siegfried. Collected Poems 1908-1956. London: Faber and Faber, 1947.
British poet, novelist, and critic who served in WWI. Perhaps best known for his World War I memoir Good-bye to All That and the historical novel I, Claudius, Graves is remembered as one of the best writers to emerge from WWI.
Graves, Robert. Goodbye to All That. New York: Anchor Books, 1957.
Seymour, Miranda. Robert Graves: Life on the Edge. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
Remembered for his love and dedication to "his" France, the controversial and revered Charles de Gaulle began his well-known career as a French soldier during WWI. He later declared himself leader of Free France throughout the Nazi occupation of France in WWII. Following WWII, De Gaulle emerged as a hero and later became the President of France.
Cook, Don. Charles De Gaulle: A Biography. New York: The Putnam Publishing Group, 1983.
Jackson, Julian. De Gaulle. London: Haus Publishing Limited, 2003.
Below you will find information about each documentary that supplements Trenches of Hell.
Begun in July of 1916, the devastating Battle of the Somme was a turning point in warfare, demarking the modern combat arena in horrific carnage. Unseasoned and poorly trained British soldiers vastly overestimated the tenacity of German forces. Despite a solid week of bombardment where over a million artillery shells rained down upon German fortifications, they stood ready for the British advance. More British soldiers died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme than any other day in the history of British warfare. As the battle slogged on, troops effectively fought within an open graveyard, as there was no time to bury the multitude of the dead. As attrition wound down the 141-day conflict, almost 420,000 British soldiers lay dead, along with 200,000 French, and nearly half-a-million Germans, and all for a questionable purpose. Produced and Written by Adam Sternberg.
He was a soldier's soldier, decorated for bravery by the British government and respected by the men in his battalion. But war had taken its toll on Siegfried Sassoon, and he felt a deep resentment against his country's military campaign. Sassoon returned from the trenches of hell in World War I to fight another battle in the halls of government back home. His resentment took the form of poetry: searing indictments that ran counter to popular opinion. This is the story of how one man's poetry and his protest against World War I shined a light of truth on the subject of war forever framed that conflict in the memory of his country. Produced and Written by David O'Dell.
Writer Robert Graves took many unpredictable turns on his fascinating journey through life. Though Graves would describe himself first and foremost as a poet, he was a man of enormous literary talent who wrote more than 150 books. He was eccentric, brilliant, and visionary and his vivid imagination was fueled by a volatile mixture of emotional highs and catastrophic lows. His most memorable works emerged when the world around him was falling apart. At the peak of his writing career, Graves attempted to unravel the mystery of his creative process. That effort took him on a journey across time and culture through which he envisioned a mythical female muse that he called the White Goddess. Produced and Written by David O'Dell and Betsy Bayha.
In France's darkest hours of World War II, a lone French voice emanated from BBC radio in an attempt to rally free French forces to resist the power of invading Germany. Recognizing his value as an ally, Winston Churchill acknowledged de Gaulle as the French leader despite the fact that a national government still existed in France. As he was forced to the sidelines of Allied Command decisions, de Gaulle led military campaigns defending France's colonies, building his reputation. Despite this, he was excluded from Normandy operations. He nonetheless accompanied US forces with great theatricality as they arrived in Paris, and was soon elected head of the French government. Years after his retirement, the French people turned to de Gaulle for guidance during the Algerian crisis, but his mythic position as the face of France would end during the social upheaval of the 1960s. Produced and Written by Karena O'Riordan.
Below are current event articles that relate to events, topics, and people found in Trenches of Hell.
It is believed that John McCrae wrote the famous poem 'In Flanders Fields' during the evening of May 3rd 1915 – after carrying out a funeral service for a friend during the Second Battle of Ypres. John McCrae was a Canadian doctor, and is reported to have written the poem while sitting in the back of an ambulance near a battlefield casualty station just north of Ypres.
Two enemy soldiers face each other, arms outstretched and about to shake hands. This touching new statue captures one of the most incredible and moving moments in the history of warfare. It was carved in memory of the Christmas Day truce of 1914 when British and German soldiers left their trenches and put their bloody conflict to one side to enjoy a spontaneous football match in no-man's land.
Nearly a century after they died in battle, the remains of unidentified Canadian soldiers who fought in the First World War are still being found in Europe.
Today the Department of National Defence released the names of four who died during the Battle of Amiens in August 1918.
Their resting place was discovered in 2006 by then 14-year-old Fabien Demeusere, while digging in his back garden in Hallu, France, 120 kilometres north of Paris.
History remembers trench warfare as wasteful, futile, and uninspired, but in reality it was a deeply thought-out system that underwent constant revision. Here's how it worked during World War I.
Top image: A painting by Captain Kenneth Keith Forbes shows a Canadian 6-inch howitzer supporting British troops in the attack on Thiepval on 16 July 1916 during the Somme offensive. Via Canadian Artillery in Action.
It was around this time 100 years ago that the mobile battlefield along the Western Front ground to a screeching halt — a 440 mile stretch that barely moved in the ensuing four years.
During World War I, No Man's Land was both an actual and a metaphorical space. It separated the front lines of the opposing armies and was perhaps the only location where enemy troops could meet without hostility. It was in No Man's Land that the spontaneous Christmas truce of December 1914 took place and where opposing troops might unofficially agree to safely remove their wounded comrades, or even sunbathe on the first days of spring.
Everyone knows about the horrors of life in the trenches of the First World War, but it's only recently that the anxieties of people back home in Britain have started to be talked about.
At long last, those feelings are being aired more widely, thanks to a new anthology of letters written, at the time, to The Daily Telegraph. The message these missives impart is of a nation that was desperate to provide support, of any kind, to our brave boys fighting on just the other side of the Channel.
The United States had entered the war with high hopes and dreams—aiming to make the world "safe for democracy" as President Woodrow Wilson would proclaim, but by the 1920s there were strong feelings that the U.S. should never have gotten itself involved in the byzantine affairs of the European powers. Isolationist sentiments grew across the country especially after the rejection of the Versailles Treaty by the U.S. Congress in 1920. These feelings of bitterness and disappointment found their fullest expression in the literature of the day, written by members of what has become known as the "Lost Generation," most notably John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.


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A look at areas expected to see a mix of rain and snow (in pink), snow showers (light blue), and snow (blue) from an Alberta Clipper system on Sunday, Nov. 28. Photo Credit: AccuWeather
A look at a widespread area where 1 to 3 inches of snowfall accumulation (in light blue) is expected through Monday, Nov. 29, with some pockets of 3 to 6 inches predicted (darker blue). Photo Credit: AccuWeather
The wind-chill factor will make it feel like it's in the single digits and teens throughout the region on Saturday, Nov. 27. Photo Credit: AccuWeather
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A widespread storm at the end of Thanksgiving weekend from a Clipper system moving from west to east could be the first of several snowmakers in the Northeast in the days to come, according to a new report.
"These storms tend to organize over the western provinces of Canada and are dubbed Alberta clippers due to their fast movement and origin," AccuWeather says.
The time frame for the first clipper system taking aim on the region is Sunday night, Nov. 28 into the early overnight hours before skies begin to clear prior to dawn on Monday, Nov. 29.
For a look at areas expected to see a mix of rain and snow (in pink), snow showers (light blue), and snow (blue) from the system, see the first image above.
Click on the second image above for a look at the widespread area farther north and inland where 1 to 3 inches of snowfall accumulation (in light blue) is expected through Monday, with some pockets of 3 to 6 inches predicted (darker blue).
Saturday, Nov. 27 will be sunny with a high temperature near 40 and the overnight low in the mid 20s. The wind-chill factor will make it feel like it's in the single digits and teens for much of the region on Saturday. (Click on the third image above.)
Sunday, Nov. 28 will be mostly sunny with a high temperature in the low 40s with a slight chance of shower or snow showers in the late morning into the early afternoon prior to the arrival of the Clipper system.
Monday will be mostly sunny and cold with a high temperature in the upper 30s.
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How many small business are there in the U.S?
What's consider Small Business? How many employees?
How many of those employers are non-profit and Government?
How many of those small business background screen their candidates?
How much those companies spend on the hiring process?
How long do employees of small business stay in the job? What's the turn over for small business?
Can you provide the source for the answers?
Here are some articles below that may help in your research. Sources are linked in the articles. In addition, for statistics on small business, you might want to use the government's small business administration website. For HR and employment statistics you might consider going to the Society for Human Resources website. Links are below.
Good luck to you on your project.


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Q: How to add annotations to the reified class in Clojure? I need to create a class which implements an interface and also has an annotation, and later pass an instance of this class to some API implemented in Java.
With Clojure, I could reify the interface and get an instance like this:
(reify MyInterface (method1 [this] ...))

However, reify doesn't seem to accept annotations. How may I work around this?

A: First of all reify returns an object not a class. If you need to generate a class with annotations, you will need to use gen-class as shown below (the example shows adding a Deprecated annotation to the class):
(gen-class :name ^{java.lang.Deprecated true} MyClass
   ...)

Also, you can use deftype:
(deftype ^{java.lang.Deprecated true} MyClass
  ...)

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Tá an trí mhilliúnú tvuít Ghaeilge seolta ar Twitter, tráth a bhfuil tús á chur leis an bhfeachtas #TrasnaNadTonnta den tríú bliain.
Cuireadh tús inniu leis an bhfeachtas a bhfuil faoi daoine ar fud an domhain a spreagadh chun an Ghaeilge a úsáid ar Twitter, agus bhí an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar ar na daoine ba thúisce a chuir tvuít amach leis an haischlib #TrasnaNadTonnta.
Idir an dá linn, d'fhógair an saineolaí ar úsáid na Gaeilge ar na meáin shóisialta Kevin Scannell gur seoladh an trí mhilliúnú tvuít Ghaeilge riamh ag an deireadh seachtaine.
An tuairisceoir raidió Aindriú de Paor a seol an trí mhilliúnú tvuít Ghaeilge a bhain le tuairisc dá chuid do RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.
Mí Lúnasa 2017 a seoladh an dá mhilliúnú tvuít i nGaeilge agus mí Aibreán 2015 a seoladh an milliúnú tvuít.
Ba in 2006 a seoladh an chéad ghiolc i nGaeilge ar Twitter, cúpla mí i ndiaidh bhunú an tsuímh. Ba í an t-úsáideoir @aine a chuir an chéad ghiolc sin amach mí Nollag na bliana sin.
Beifear ag súil le cur go mór le líon na dtvuíteanna Gaeilge le linn an fheachtais #TrasnaNadTonnta a bheidh ar siúl go dtí Dé hAoine.
Fondúireacht Ollscoil Éireann Cheanada a chuir tús leis an bhfeachtas 'Trasna na dTonnta' agus tá Conradh na Gaeilge agus an Coimisiún Fulbright ag tacú leis chomh maith.
Táthar ag súil go seolfar tvuít Ghaeilge as 100 tír mar chuid d'fheachtas na bliana seo.
10,663 tvúit ó bhreis is 80 tír a seoladh mar chuid d'fheachtas #TrasnaNadTonnta anuraidh.
Tá 100 ambasadóir ag glacadh páirt sa bhfeachtas, ón Spáinn go dtí an tSeapáin. Beidh John Prendergast, atá ag cur faoi in Indiana, Meiriceá faoi láthair, ina ambasadóir #TrasnaNadTonnta agusbé i gceannas ar an gcuntas Twitter @Ireland don tseachtain.
Dúirt duine de lucht an fheachtais John Prendergast, teagascóir Gaeilge le Fulbright in Indiana, Meiriceá gur léiriú #TrasnaNadTonnta ar "an grá a bhíonn ag daoine dár dteanga uasal mórthimpeall na cruinne".
"Nasctar daoine a bhfuil Gaeilge acu ón Afraic le foghlaimeoirí Gaeilge ón Rúis agus cruthaítear pobal beo ar líne, áit gur féidir ár bhféiniúlacht agus ár gcultúr a cheiliúradh," a dúirt an teagascóir Gaeilge.
Dúirt Aodhán Ó Deá, Stiúrthóir Forbartha Chonradh na Gaeilge gur díol suntais é go raibh Twitter féin ag tacú leis an bhfeachtas i mbliana agus gur "fianaise dhoshéanta í #TrasnaNadTonnta ar bheocht agus ar neart na Gaeilge ar leibhéal idirnáisiúnta".
Ba é Aire Stáit na Gaeltachta Seán Kyne a sheol #TrasnaNadTonnta i gCeannáras Twitter i mBaile Átha Cliath inniu.


Experts voiced approval of a new agreement between the United States and China that aims to control fentanyl smuggling into the U.S. black market, but they warned against expecting a quick impact on the drug's skyrocketing death toll.
Trump and some U.S. politicians are describing the deal in sweeping terms, issuing statements that China plans to completely control the substance, said Bryce Pardo, an associate policy researcher at the Rand Corp. The Chinese, by contrast, have said they're going to enforce existing regulations. Both appear to be playing to powerful domestic interests.
"Within that, there might be some middle ground," Pardo said.
According to data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl and its synthetic cousins caused 28,466 fatal overdoses in 2017, about 60 percent of the 47,600 U.S. opioid overdose deaths.
That was a 47 percent increase from 2016 and nearly triple the number of fentanyl-related deaths recorded in 2015. Provisional numbers for the first four months of 2018 indicate a possible plateau in overdose deaths from all drugs, but it is too early to rely on that data, experts said.
The United States and China have worked toward cooperation on stemming the flow of illegal fentanyl since the Obama administration, with modest steps taken along the way.
In August, as Congress was considering legislation to curb fentanyl smuggling through the mail, Trump tweeted that China's illicit fentanyl fuels the U.S. opioid epidemic.
"It is outrageous that Poisonous Synthetic Heroin Fentanyl comes pouring into the U.S. Postal System from China. We can, and must, END THIS NOW!" the president tweeted. China rejected the assertion. The legislation ultimately was approved and Trump signed it into law.
Pharmaceutical fentanyl, for which precursor chemicals are imported mainly from China, is a legal synthesized drug used for the intense pain of end-stage cancer and for surgery. Illegal fentanyl is also synthesized chemically, and may have hundreds of analogues — versions that differ very slightly from the original to avoid running afoul of laws.
That's why a crackdown or ban on the entire class could help the abuse crisis significantly.
The primary complication for any effort in China, several experts said, is that chemicals for legal fentanyl are produced in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of legitimate pharmaceutical plants and imported to the United States by drug companies. Rooting out illegal clandestine labs is much easier than finding diversion by rogue operators in approved facilities, they said.
In China, as in the United States, pharmaceutical companies wield enormous power, even if Beijing's authoritarian government could crack down heavily if it chooses to. The industry generates revenue and jobs that are an important part of the Chinese economy.
"For them to shut down an entire legal pharmaceutical company comes with many, many problems," said Felbab-Brown, the Brookings researcher.
Yet many who follow the issue were encouraged that Washington and Beijing managed to reach any agreement on the issue as the two countries spar over tariffs and trade.
Kathleen J. Frydl, a historian and author of "The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973," said the Trump administration might have used the trade conflict to pressure Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Tom Synan, the chief of police in Newtown, Ohio, was hopeful that cooperation with China could help ease the burden on local governments, which have been left to deal with the drug crisis by arming first responders with the fast-acting overdose antidote naloxone.
But others feared that success in China could just move the fentanyl production problem to India, which also has a large pharmaceutical manufacturing sector, or to Mexico, where cartels smuggle the drug into the United States along with heroin. An illicit Indian fentanyl lab was shut down earlier this year, said Pardo, the Rand researcher.


https://t.co/2vq5kWY4tX Six-week series to help you free your mind from over-thinking or self-limiting beliefs, allowing yourself to 'be in the moment'. Think about your performance as a coach/manager flowing naturally and effortlessly, inspiring your athletes to be outstanding.
Taking care of our sports coaches! When coaches get stressed and anxious, you can limit your natural creativity and resilience and your performance goes down. I am delighted to launch a new online course today - https://t.co/UwNYD996YA Looking after yr inner genius! Happy Easter.
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Darryl Eugene "D. J." Strawberry Jr. (born June 15, 1985) is an American-born naturalized Cameroonian professional basketball player for Zamalek SC of the Egyptian Basketball Super League. He is the son of former Major League Baseball player Darryl Strawberry.

High school career
While living in Corona, California, Strawberry attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana. During Strawberry's senior year at Mater Dei, he defended future NBA superstar LeBron James in a nationally televised matchup against St. Vincent–St. Mary High School of Akron, Ohio. Strawberry was lauded for his efforts, which included holding James to a 33% shooting performance (8 for 24 from the field), and 0 for 8 from beyond the three-point line).

Considered a four-star recruit by 247Sports.com, Strawberry was listed as the No. 15 shooting guard and the No. 84 player in the nation in 2003.

College career
Strawberry assumed the role of a swingman for the Maryland Terrapins, and he was much valued for his on-the-ball defense. He averaged nearly 2 steals per game, leading his team in that category. He was also valued for his off-the-bench intensity; it is felt that Maryland's absence from the 2005 NCAA tournament was due in no small part to a season-ending ACL injury Strawberry suffered in mid-January of that year.

While he was primarily a swingman, a lack of depth pressed Strawberry into the role of point guard during his junior year. He had various degrees of success in this new role, leading the team in both assists (4.0) and turnovers per game (2.9).

Strawberry received Honorable Mention All-ACC Freshman honors. During his junior year, he received Honorable Mention All-ACC Defensive Team honors, becoming the eighth player in Maryland history to lead the team in both steals and assists. In his senior season, Strawberry was voted to second team All-ACC.

Professional career
Strawberry was drafted by the Phoenix Suns with the 59th selection in the 2007 NBA draft. He was signed on August 28, 2007 to a two-year contract.

NBA D-League
On December 18, 2007, it was announced he was assigned to the Albuquerque Thunderbirds of the NBA D-League. He was named Performer of the Week for the week ending January 6. Strawberry was recalled to the Suns in place of another rookie, Alando Tucker, on January 10, 2008.

2008–09 season
On August 25, 2008, he was traded to the Houston Rockets for Sean Singletary, but was waived on October 24. Six days later, he signed with the Italian club Fortitudo Bologna for the rest of the season.

In April, 2009, he suffered a meniscus injury to his left knee, ending his season in Italy. He then returned to the United States for surgery, and in July, 2009 he began a 6-month program in Los Angeles.

2009–present
In January 2010, Strawberry joined the Reno Bighorns of the NBA D-League.

In July 2010, Strawberry joined the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2010 NBA summer league. On September 17, 2010, he was signed by the New Orleans Hornets to a non-guaranteed one-year deal. However, he was later waived by the Hornets on October 20. Afterwards, Strawberry re-signed with the Reno Bighorns. On January 18, 2011, he signed with Lietuvos rytas of Lithuania until the end of the 2010–11 season.

On August 26, 2011, Strawberry signed a two-year deal with the Israeli club Hapoel Migdal. After one season in which he averaged 15.6 points in the Israeli League, he parted ways with Hapoel on June 25, 2012.

On September 20, 2012, Strawberry signed with the Croatian club Cibona. On June 22, 2013, Strawberry signed with the Capitanes de Arecibo of Puerto Rico for the 2013 BSN season. On July 12, 2013, he re-signed with Cibona. On December 25, 2013, he was released by Cibona due to financial problems of the club. Two days later, he signed with Pau-Lacq-Orthez of France for the rest of the season.

On June 27, 2014, he signed with Piratas de Quebradillas of Puerto Rico for the 2014 BSN season. On July 2, 2014, he signed a one-year deal with Pınar Karşıyaka of the Turkish Basketball League.

On July 2, 2015, he signed a two-year contract with the Greek club and EuroLeague powerhouse Olympiacos. After one season, he parted ways with Olympiacos.

On July 22, 2016, Strawberry signed with Turkish club Beşiktaş for the 2016–17 season. On July 3, 2017, he re-signed with Beşiktaş for one more season.

On July 29, 2018, Strawberry signed a one-year deal with Herbalife Gran Canaria of the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague.

On October 31, 2019, he has signed with Orléans Loiret Basket of the French Pro A.

In June 2020 he signed for one term at Liga ACB team UCAM Murcia. Strawberry parted ways with the team on June 30, 2021.

He re-joined Orléans Loiret Basket on December 6, 2021.

On January 30, 2022, Strawberry signed with Zamalek SC of the Egyptian Basketball Super League. On February 12, he made his debut for the team when he recorded 5 points and 3 rebounds against Burgos in the 2022 FIBA Intercontinental Cup semifinal.

Cameroon national team
In 2017, Strawberry was cleared to play with the senior men's Cameroon national basketball team.

NBA career statistics

Regular season

|-
| align="left" | 2007–08
| align="left" | Phoenix
| 33 || 0 || 8.2 || .315 || .240 || .474 || .8 || .9 || .4 || .2 || 2.2
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| align="left" | Career
| align="left" |
| 33 || 0 || 8.2 || .315 || .240 || .474 || .8 || .9 || .4 || .1 || 2.2

Playoffs

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| align="left" | 2007–08
| align="left" | Phoenix
| 1 || 0 || 5.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 1.0 || .0 || .0 || .0 || .0
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" |
| 1 || 0 || 5.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 1.0 || .0 || .0 || .0 || .0

References

External links
 Euroleague.net Profile
 DraftExpress.com profile
 Greek Basket League Profile
 Italian League Profile
 FIBA.com profile
 Eurobasket.com profile
 NBA.com Profile
 ESPN.com profile
 NBA.com draft prospect profile
 Maryland Terrapins bio
 TBLStat.net Profile

1985 births
Living people
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American sportspeople
ABA League players
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Croatia
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Greece
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Lithuania
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from New York City
Basketball players from California
BC Rytas players
Beşiktaş men's basketball players
Cameroonian men's basketball players
Cameroonian expatriate basketball people in Spain
CB Gran Canaria players
CB Murcia players
Élan Béarnais players
Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna players
Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. players
Karşıyaka basketball players
KK Cibona players
Liga ACB players
Maryland Terrapins men's basketball players
Olympiacos B.C. players
Orléans Loiret Basket players
People with acquired Cameroonian citizenship
Naturalized citizens of Cameroon
Phoenix Suns draft picks
Phoenix Suns players
Piratas de Quebradillas players
Point guards
Reno Bighorns players
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Sportspeople from Corona, California
Zamalek SC basketball players


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Q: How to convert an array of integers to an integer I have a ruby array that looks like this:
[nil, 3, 4, 2]

I would like to convert it to an integer, like so:
342
Is this possible, if so, how can I go about doing this?

A: Yes.
[nil, 3, 4, 2].inject(0){|x, d| d ? (x * 10) + d : x}
# => 342

A: [nil, 3, 4, 2].join.to_i
#=> 342

A: when you can not simply follow operation precedence and ruby becomes lispy -))
a = [nil, 3, 5, 5]
a.each_with_index.inject(0) { |s, e| s+(e[0].to_i)*(10**(a.length-1-e[1])) }
#=> 355

below lines are more a-la-ruby synonyms. thanks to @Stefan for guidance.
a.reverse.each_with_index.inject(0) { |s, (i, e)| s + i.to_i * 10 ** e }
a.reverse_each.with_index.inject(0) { |s, (i, e)| s + i.to_i * 10 ** e }

above snippet simply multiplies every element with powers of 10 and sums them.


So you can basically see I can't run any "new" games on it. I have no complaints much, but since SC2 is coming soon and Im going to Uni I thought Id ask for a new one. Anywayz, so I went and checked out some of the stuff around this island (Yes Bahrain is a tiny island that you cannot see even if you look at the world map with a giant magnifying glass lol) and I found 2 laptops that I thought might be good.
- One had a Nvidia geforce 9200m gs 256mb, while the other had Radeon 3450 HD 256mb.
The one with the geforce was a compaq, while the other was a dell studio 15 with a Radeon.
So my question is, which graphic card do you think is more powerful and what does its extent reach?
Well first of all I would say avoid Vista if at all possible, I am running a rig with an OC quad at 3.6Ghz and 8GB of RAM and vista is still a pain and consumes a ridiculous amount of resources. Just for the sake of Direct X 10 depending on what happens with SC2 you might want to consider dual booting (having multiple operating systems) which you can find several guides for online. As far as the graphics card goes they both are more of an entry level option because they are in a laptop after all and we dont want it melting . Personally I am an Nvidia fan and based on the little bit of reading I have done it will probably go farther gaming wise than the Radeon you listed. Id say look at some reviews online about both of them and then keep other features of the laptop in mind and make the decision for yourself.
Depending on the game the 3450 is a bit better but neither are going to run new games in anything other than lowest detail. The 3450 also has newer DirectX support.
The only game I am really concerned about is SC2, so I am buying this new laptop technically for it. But since the specs are not officially out, then I dunno what to do.
Ask for the laptop when sc2 is released. Safer that way. Laptops aren't too good for games.
So what? Why would you need a strong graphics card for university? If anything, buy a netbook for university for superior mobility, but your old laptop suffices easily. Even my 800MHz laptop can do anything I need for my studies.
The ATI 3450 is the better graphics chip. It could run most new games at low to medium settings. The ATI 3650 is probably a better choice. The Nvidia 9600GT is even faster, but it's defective.
I would say the 3450 would be enough because you are going off to college. I bought a laptop with a good graphics card right before I go to university, but I don't use it at all. I don't play any graphics intensive games and I'm still behind in work.


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The AMS has Divested From the Fossil Fuel Industry
Written by Jumphost on September 23, 2019 . Posted in News.
The Alma Mater Society of Queen's University (AMS) has divested itself of all holdings in companies that produce, transport, and dispense fossil fuels.
"This past March, the City of Kingston became the first municipality in Ontario to declare a climate emergency," AMS President Auston Pierce said. "As members of this community and of the generation who will be most impacted by climate change, we felt a duty to answer this call and do whatever we can to address the climate crisis."
According to the City's official climate projections—which draw on 40 peer-reviewed studies—Kingston's average annual temperature could rise by 3.3°C above the historical mean by the 2050s. It also forecasts that this change will result in increased "heat stress, extreme winds, intense rain, ice storms, and more outbreaks like Lyme disease." Furthermore, higher precipitation levels are likely to increase both the frequency and severity of flooding events, particularly in the University District and other neighborhoods adjacent to Lake Ontario, which could have a devastating effect on infrastructure and student housing.
"These impacts need to be put in a global context, particularly regarding places without the resources to create resilient infrastructures," Pierce said.
"Each of us has a stake in this issue, whether we like it or not, and that comes with a moral responsibility to act," he said. "We must confront the climate crisis systematically and courageously, because we don't have any other option. Both the private and public sectors have to appreciate the breadth of change that needs to happen, and it cannot succeed without the energy sector moving toward more sustainable and renewable development."
The process of divestiture was completed on September 23. AMS Vice-President (Operations) Jessica Dahanayake described it as "seamless."
"The AMS has been restructuring over the past few months as we adapt to the challenges presented by the Student Choice Initiative," she said. "Most recently, this has involved consolidating our financial services into a single provider."
To provide consistency in program offerings and enable major projects deemed to be in the long-term interest of students, the AMS manages student money in a series of funds. The residual value of these individual funds—which had been separately managed until this week's change—is invested in financial markets in order to generate a return for students.
"So, this was a perfect opportunity to change the composition of our assets," Dahanayake said. "Furthermore, we will see savings from reduced management fees under this new strategy, and I don't foresee any adverse effects on the overall returns generated by those funds."
AMS Vice-President (University Affairs) William Greene expressed gratitude to generations of student leaders whose advocacy inspired this change.
"We have been meeting with student groups who are very passionate about fighting the climate crisis, especially Queen's Backing Action on Climate Change (QBACC), who have spent many years lobbying for decisive action," Greene said. "As a member-driven organization, it is important that we amplify the voices of students who are trying to create change."
Greene hopes that the AMS can set an example as the first student government in Ontario to completely divest itself of financial interest in the oil and gas sector. He promises that there is more to come.
"This is one of many steps we will be taking this year toward cultivating a more sustainable campus community," he said. "We are currently reviewing all our operations and advocacy efforts to figure out how we can have an even bigger impact."
Auston Pierce hopes that students can celebrate this divestment as a point of pride and a step in the right direction. He added that they should not expect it to interfere with their campus experience or personal goals.
"We recognize the prominence of oil and gas companies in Canada's economy and that many of the students we represent would like to work in this industry in the future," he said. "We feel that it is important to engage with the Canadian energy sector, who will need to be a part of any lasting change that will transition us to a more environmentally-conscious society. Our decision to divest is intended to serve as a message that young people want to see action. We want to demonstrate to our peers that your voices matter, that your future matters, and that action on climate change can come from anywhere. We need to continue to have difficult conversations and make difficult choices because our future depends on it."
Please direct all media inquiries to Brendan Robson, AMS Director of Communications, at
or (613) 533-6000 x 75850
Alma Mater Society (AMS) – http://www.myams.org
The central undergraduate student government at Queen's University, the AMS represents over 18,000 students and is the oldest student government in Canada. There are over 1,000 student volunteers and 700 paid staff.


Physical Therapy: Safety Net - FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
While having successfully managed to forge something of a sound and name for himself to date with a handful of remixes and re-edits, Physical Therapy's own productions have been some time coming. Now with his debut EP Safety Net, released via the ever-boundary defying Hippos In Tanks label, we finally get to see a glimpse of how he applies his ideas to original material.
The result could be compared to, say, a meeting between Pictureplane and The Avalanches. Safety Net's fantastically camp artwork serves as a hint to what follows; pop culture melodrama and naivety lavishly mixed with a genuine desire to create new and challenging pop music.
Physical Therapy's music is indeed challenging, but this predominantly comes from his use of overt musical reference points, (e.g. instantly recognisable tropes of familiar genres) but doing so in quite disparate layers. This can swing into the dangerous territory of quite superficial experiments, but at its best creates some good, if admittedly improvable, results.
Opener 'Record Sales' fitfully shuffles through its brief 3 and a half minutes, '80s piano, guitar and oboe looping in sunbursts behind a chopped, fidgeting, cymbal-heavy breakbeat at house tempo. Aside from some slightly stale phrases in the percussion arrangement, it is absorbingly skewed and warm. 'Drone On' also starts promisingly, offbeat vocal yelps cutting through a rhythmically tense introduction with a surprisingly successful guest vocal contribution by Jamie Krasner. However, this is entirely upset by a drop into straightforward drum & bass, the mix suddenly plunged into saturation and overbearing filter sweeps.
Another quite aggravating dilemma occurs with 'Mind You', walking as it does a tight-rope between infuriating near-novelty sample collage (military radio chatter, mariachi guitar and horn, laser blasts) and something more serene and beautiful, both a slow and fast-forwarded march snare beneath serene crystalline pads bringing to mind DJ Shadow's '6 Days'.
Happily, Safety Net seems to hit its stride by 'Do It Alone', which takes on breakbeat house reminiscent of the mid-90s, mashed through the typically twisted imagination of any artist invited to be part of the Hippos In Tanks aesthetic. Here classic snare chops are much more successfully applied around harmonised, soulful vocals and choir and an odd total structure, allowing the track to ride high as strange, dreamy, gospel jungle.
'Outro' is also a strong number, loose, pulverized loops slipping and sliding around a 6/8 feel, snares and vocal wails highlighting its actual 4/4 groove. There is something semi-conscious to it, like being steered through a large cloud of hazy activity, like DJ Olive's Bodega taking place in a desert rather than New York.
At this stage in his productions Physical Therapy's best material seems to be when he either leaves behind the recognisable references, or hangs them together as something unsettled and without unnecessary embellishment. While some of Safety Net gets carried away with itself, other areas show what Physical Therapy can, and hopefully will continue to achieve when cutting loose the eccentricity and making some more focused editorial decisions.


You're busy. You dream about having a house that actually feels like a home instead of like a chaotic mess in which you can't find a single solitary thing. But when you think about starting to manage it, you come up with twenty seven reasons why it's not the right time.
You have little ones underfoot.
The stuff's not all yours.
You have gifts from others, sentimental items, and all the guilt that comes along with considering getting rid of them.
You just don't know where to begin.
I've made most of those same excuses myself, and I've helped others navigate through them to create the kind of home they've dreamed of, too!
So I know it's possible for you to have the home you crave, friend.
And I'm here to give you the hope, encouragement, and tools you need to overcome the overwhelm and clear out the clutter!
Once you've done that, we'll move onto cleaning, organizing, and more so you can have a home you really love!


Income differentials do not work well in central, decision-making organisations. An income differential ideally accords with realised potential, ideas, and new ways of doing things - the property most corporations effectively eliminate (as well disenfranchise) from employees, though it is employees' greatest potential contribution.
Current income distribution in corporations accords with people's positions in the hierarchy of command. This rewards command-and-control type behaviour, rather than behaviour permitting free expression of potential and ideas (and related improvements to productivity).
Rewards from ideas should not be co-opted, but they are in corporations with central decision-making. When central management earns more than workers this sends a signal that it is position, not contribution, that matters.
If everyone is performing and contributing equal effort (though in different roles and by different means) they should be rewarded equally, but organisations' performance management systems contradict this.
With recognition that fulfilment without harm is for everyone there is a shift to earnings shared more evenly, which arises partially in concert, and partially as a consequence, of changes in organisation responsibility, information sharing, decision-making, and ownership.
Recognition is peer driven in open, non-controlled systems, so without the abuse or individual error of closed systems.
Attempting to measure the financial value of ideas in an organisation and equating it to compensation is unwise. If financial compensation is tied to ideas this incentive warps open information systems and the feedback in them. Rather, ideas are shared just as earnings are shared.
In organisations where all people are free to realise their potential, ideas and proceeds are shared evenly. People share ideas so all can grow them and share in that growth. No one should earn twice that of another.
Eventually organisations could become voluntary, with open entry-and-exit participation, in which all participants earn relatively evenly regardless of their form of contribution. The purpose of people working and organising together is to facilitate their fulfilment and enable others.
With understanding of the common purpose the primary reason for participating is the fulfilment people find in contributing.
Need is met by people seeing a need (having it also) and distributing their solutions. Great incomes are unnecessary to the creation or distribution of a solution if people have a base income. The system still requires communication and markets to signal what is going on and what is needed to be done, but people are willing to contribute for fulfilment more than finances.
There is a difference between the effort contributed and the effect. CEO's would say the effect from their efforts is many times greater than the effect from others efforts. Thus they are worth more. But their effects are not greater, just different.
While financial viability is important and profit welcome these are not the purpose of common purpose organisations or their members. The focus for members is not how much can they earn but in what ways can they best contribute.
In common purpose organisations, half of earnings are shared evenly and half returned directly to the shared base income, which raises all incomes.
The tie to the shared base income means that all incomes are linked. The tie to the shared base income means that profit is not an individual motivation, but a collective one. By this, the profit motivation is subordinated to the motivation of fulfilment via the best contributions people can make.


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