Both material and figurative walls are shaping our present. Now is the time for the arts and humanities to intervene with critical reflection and compassion into spaces of 'crisis'.
Pebble poetry. Photo: Agnes WoolleyThe turmoil surrounding the presidential election in America has shaken the world: fear, terror, uncertainty and despair are some of the feelings generated by this new political turn, or what Cornel West has called a 'catastrophe'. Significantly, we are reminded that '27 years after the Berlin Wall fell, Europe wakes up to a U.S. president-elect promising one of his own'.
Yet, another wall has already been erected in Calais, allegedly to 'stop refugees trying to board lorries to UK', while the Calais jungle in France has been shut down and evacuated, leaving many destitute and numerous unaccompanied children in limbo. As we witness the triumph of populism, racism and bigotry translated into a proliferation of frontiers and divisions, Gloria Anzaldúa's words from nearly three decades ago painfully resonate with our present times, which seem deaf to the harrowing cry of history: 'the US-Mexican border es una herida abierta (an open wound) where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. […] Tension grips the inhabitants of the borderlands like a virus. Ambivalence and unrest reside there and death is no stranger'. The wall promised by Trump announces a curb on migration which will exponentially exacerbate already adverse and violent international migration politics and practices and, ultimately, disseminate fear.
Nobel laurate Toni Morrison's reflections in the New Yorker on this new political turn talk precisely of fear: 'So scary are the consequences of a collapse of white privilege that many Americans have flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenceless as strength. These people are not so much angry as terrified, with the kind of terror that makes knees tremble'. Yet Morrison elsewhere reminds us that while the 'world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art'. In times of war and conflicts, the arts and humanities have played a vital role in enabling the healing process amongst communities, cultures and societies. As Gayatri Spivak says, the humanities 'are the healthcare system of cultures' and our work acquires an even more meaningful role in these times.
Are we living through a period of crisis? It's a term that has been used ubiquitously to describe current levels of migration and displacement. But what is the nature of the crisis we, in the West, are facing? Perhaps what's going on is not so much a 'refugee crisis', but a crisis of values: a critical moment in our understanding of what we value as a society. This crisis of values has immobilised nation-states and intergovernmental bodies whose responses to current levels of migration in and around Europe's borders has been increased militarisation and border controls, shady refugee exchange deals, and a reluctance to welcome refugees. Zygmunt Bauman has called this a 'crisis of humanity' in his recent commentary Strangers at Our Door.
So, how can the arts and humanities help us in a crisis? Political theorist Wendy Brown makes the case for the importance of criticism and critical thinking at times of crisis. She notes the tendency to divide theory from practice by dismissing theorising as unnecessary at times of crisis. People say: "now's not the time for theorising; we need action". But, she says, the original Greek term – Krisis – describes a moment when urgent deliberation is required, when critique itself is urgent, or, from the same root 'critical'. This sense still persists in medicine, when we say someone is in a 'critical condition'. We also talk about a time being a 'critical moment'. This sense of critical decision-making also extends to refugees themselves and the critical, often life-threatening, decisions they are making daily. Now, is perhaps a critical moment – one where urgent deliberation about Europe's approach to refugees is required.
The inaugural event of the network engaged with the issue of 'crisis' and raised a number of other important questions: How can we enable productive collaborations on the issue of forced migration?; Who are the intended audiences of the artistic practices by or about refugees?; How can we create a third space for dialogue about refugees that is not political or personal, but social?
Our aim was to share knowledge, skills and experience in the area of forced migration and we heard from academics, arts practitioners, and those who work in the voluntary sector. We gained valuable context in the form of the historical legacy of colonialism from Roger Bromley, who argued that a sense of history is a vital component of our response to crisis, and Neelam Srivastava raised important questions about contemporary and historical practices of commemoration for refugees, showing a clip from Dagmawi Yimer's 2013 film Asmat/Names. Taking us into the mechanics of seeking asylum, Anthony Good and Carolina Albuerne spoke from their research and practice with asylum claimants, exposing the inadequacies of current systems for applying for asylum and raising crucial questions like: how can we get better at facilitating refugees to speak for themselves? What constitutes self-representation? And how can we be better advocates with a sense of our own positioning? Kristin Shirling, who has been working with Good Chance theatre in the Calais 'Jungle', voiced her strong support for the role of the arts in situations of crisis, arguing that when one is dehumanised, a place to 'be a human being' is vitally important. Detention Action's Jerome Phelps's discussion of the spatialisation of power worked across scholarly and practice-based approaches to forced migration by grounding his comments in the campaign against the UK Government's detention estate.
An evening of poetry and film at Keele Hall (which, incidentally, had a brief incarnation as a refugee camp during WWII) forged connections between the arts and the ideas and questions that had arisen during the day. We heard from poets James Sheard, Saradha Soobrayen and Robert Hampson and the audience were encouraged to participate through 'Pebble Poetry'. Pebbles inscribed with words, phrases and thoughts from participants enabled mutual sharing and reflection on the meaning of welcome, arrival and displacement. Poetry was a means to collectively address the challenges of our present and to think about how our world is offering, or failing to offer, 'refuge'. The pebbles will travel from Keele to Naples in Italy and to London – our next scheduled events – ultimately building a shore to safety and offering a welcome written in stone.
Our project is fuelled by a renewed energy in these increasingly challenging times. As Toni Morrison insists: 'this is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal'.
Read extract from 'Sounds Like Root Shock': a poetic inquiry into the depopulation of the Chagos Archipelago by Saradha Soobrayen.


Join the Peppers on a whole new adventure! This sequel to the Five Little Peppers is just as delightful as the first — and will teach your family good character and good attitudes.
The Five Little Peppers are Back!
Join the Pepper Family in a whole new adventure.
and an ill-tempered old woman's heart is changed.
the Peppers stay gracious, forgiving, and most of all, joyful! They are good friends for our children to have!
Listen to the first chapter of the first Five Little Peppers here.
Haven't heard the audio book yet, but we have the original books and my kids love them.


Soon after her successful treatment, MacDonald founded The Pink Fund expressly to provide short-term financial assistance to women — and men — whose breast cancer diagnoses have left them struggling to keep up with basic expenses such as health insurance premiums, rent or a car payment. It has given away $1.8 million to 1,700 applicants across the country since 2006.
You can read more about how MacDonald took the nonprofit from her kitchen table in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to becoming one of the organizations in the Ford Warriors in Pink Family in this 2013 Q&A. At that time, a part-time associate was spreading the basic message of The Pink Fund's mission on social media.
Jeanine Wilson's W Media Group in Basking Ridge, N.J., assumed responsibility for all communications and marketing a couple of years ago after one of her employees, who was herself undergoing breast cancer treatment, learned about The Pink Fund from a social worker. Social media has become a key component of its fundraising and awareness efforts since then, although Wilson says that mixing online content with real-world events is where the real magic happens.
Take for example, the pink profile picture frame Facebook has activated for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
And that represents success, she says, because people are absorbing the "Real Help Now" message that's embedded in the frame and differentiates the nonprofit from other organizations. Plus, they are reading the comments posted to its Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts, particularly those from a younger demographic than usual. "Comments such as, 'they helped my mom four years ago when I was in high school and we kept our home because of them,'" Wilson says.
But beyond the online effort, The Pink Fund has been taking printed versions of the frame to events such as "Dancing with the Survivors," where patients in active treatment are paired with professional ballroom dancers for four months in communities across the country. They then dance in a showcase. Local celebrities pose with the frame and the participants -- and those photos, of course, make their way to the social feeds of all involved.
All of the money raised by these events stays within the state unless it's earmarked elsewhere by the donor, by the way. And that means that there are lots of local sponsors also creating events and attention-grabbing content. For example, Freeway Ford in Denver, Co., Friendly Ford in Roselle, Ill., and Royal Oak Ford in Royal Oak, Mich., have their own co-branded campaigns.
Another national partner is Snap-on Tools. For one thing, its funny car team promotes #SocketToBreastCancer, with driver, crew and car all dressed in pink for the month. Then there was the promotion a few weeks ago where Snap-on created a pink tool cabinet instead of its traditional red. It asked its audience to share a post about it, promising to donate $5,000 to The Pink Fund and another charity if 2,000 of them did so.
"We did it in an hour," Wilson recalls.
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operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T > Class Template Reference
This class is used to store pairs of <T*, int64>.
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#include <const_int_ptr_array.h>

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template<typename Integer>

 	ConstIntPtrArray (const std::vector< T * > &ptrs, const std::vector< Integer > &values)

 	Build from 2 vectors. Copy the data internally.

template<typename Integer>

 	ConstIntPtrArray (T *const *ptrs, const Integer *const values, int size)

 	Build from 2 vectors. Copy the data internally.

 	ConstIntPtrArray (std::vector< Cell > *const data)

 	Build from one data vector. Takes ownership of the vector.

std::vector< Cell > * 	Release ()

 	This code releases the ownership of the data into the returned vector.

int 	size () const

 	Size of the array. This is not valid after Release() has been called.

int64 	value (int64 index) const

 	Returns the value at position index.

T * 	ptr (int64 index) const

 	Returns the instance of T* at position index.

std::vector< Cell > * 	Copy () const

 	Returns a copy of the data. Usually used to create a new ConstIntPtrArray.

std::vector< Cell > * 	SortedCopy (bool increasing) const

 	This will create a new data holder with the mapping sorted by values.

std::vector< Cell > * 	SortedCopyAggregateValues (bool increasing, bool remove_zeros) const

 	This will create a new data holder with the mapping sorted by values.

string 	DebugString () const

 	Pretty print.

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struct  	Cell

 	A cell is used to store pairs of <T, int64>.  More...

struct  	CompareValuesGT

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struct  	CompareValuesLT

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template<class T>

 class operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >

This class is used to store pairs of <T*, int64>.

This is useful inside constraints and expressions. The constructors, except the one with the pointer to a vector of cells will copy the data internally and will not take ownership of the data passed in argument. Its goals are:

to unify the construction code across the optimization libraries.

to provide one code to modify these mappings and apply transformations like sorting, aggregating values per pointer, or removing pointers with zero values.

Definition at line 47 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

template<class T>

template<typename Integer>

          operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::ConstIntPtrArray
          (
          const std::vector< T * > &
           ptrs,

          const std::vector< Integer > &
           values

          )
          		 [inline]

Build from 2 vectors. Copy the data internally.

Definition at line 75 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

template<typename Integer>

          operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::ConstIntPtrArray
          (
          T *const *
           ptrs,

          const Integer *const
           values,

          int
           size

          )
          		 [inline]

Build from 2 vectors. Copy the data internally.

Definition at line 86 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

          operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::ConstIntPtrArray
          (
          std::vector< Cell > *const
           data
           )
           [inline, explicit]

Build from one data vector. Takes ownership of the vector.

Definition at line 96 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

Member Function Documentation

template<class T>

          std::vector<Cell>* operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::Release
          (

           )
           [inline]

This code releases the ownership of the data into the returned vector.

After this method is called, data_ points to a null vector.

Definition at line 100 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

          int operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::size
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           )
           const [inline]

Size of the array. This is not valid after Release() has been called.

Definition at line 105 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

          int64 operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::value
          (
          int64
           index
           )
           const [inline]

Returns the value at position index.

Definition at line 111 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

          T* operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::ptr
          (
          int64
           index
           )
           const [inline]

Returns the instance of T* at position index.

This is not valid after Release() has been called.

Definition at line 118 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

          std::vector<Cell>* operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::Copy
          (

           )
           const [inline]

Returns a copy of the data. Usually used to create a new ConstIntPtrArray.

Definition at line 124 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

          std::vector<Cell>* operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::SortedCopy
          (
          bool
           increasing
           )
           const [inline]

This will create a new data holder with the mapping sorted by values.

Definition at line 130 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

          std::vector<Cell>* operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::SortedCopyAggregateValues
          (
          bool
           increasing,

          bool
           remove_zeros

          )
          		 const [inline]

This will create a new data holder with the mapping sorted by values.

Furthermore, it will regroup and sum values attached to the same pointer to T. Finally, it can remove pairs with a value of zero.

Definition at line 140 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

template<class T>

          string operations_research::ConstIntPtrArray< T >::DebugString
          (

           )
           const [inline]

Pretty print.

Definition at line 164 of file const_int_ptr_array.h.

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Carefully spread in the bottom of the pie crust. Bake for 30 minutes at 350*.
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DA's office explains how it uses social media to track violent crime among teens
Brittany Costello
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Child First Network hosted a training with the district attorney's office to show how it uses social media to track who the crime-drivers are in our community. As it turns out, many of them are teenagers.
Colette Bridgewater, a crime analyst with the DA's Crime Strategies Unit, said teens are often the ones using apps like Snapchat to solicit firearms and drugs.
"It's that vicious cycle of that's the kind of attention they're getting, and then other people will emulate it because 'That looks cool' so it's just what makes them a little more dangerous," Bridgewater said.
The Crime Strategies Unit started in 2018 and was designed to target prosecutions.
"Because there are so many referrals that come into the office, not all of them need every single resource thrown at them. But who can we prosecute and spend resources on that will make an effect, or a ripple effect, you know? Is this person driving crime in the community?" Bridgewater said.
On Tuesday, Bridgewater provided resources to the New Mexico Child First Network through an online training.
"The interesting thing is that as a foster parent, as a parent who has foster hard-to-place and at risk youth, I found what Colette's team is doing is groundbreaking," said a speaker with the New Mexico Child First Network.
Bridgewater said they monitor social media for those violent criminals, either to have law enforcement intervene or use the videos as evidence later on. That's what happened in 2020 when an Atrisco Heritage student brought a gun to school. Bridgewater said he was on their radar.
"It's huge. There's actually been detention hearings where a judge has said, 'Because of the videos I've seen, I can't let you walk right now'. It's making a difference slowly. It's such a large market. Its kind of hard to chip away," she said.
That's why knowing what teens are being exposed is important, Bridgewater explained.
"I think for the ones that are hands-on with these kids, too, so the more that they know— the more that they are able to help," she said.

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"Efficient optimization of network protection design with p-cycles" by Hoang Nguyen, Daryoush Habibi et al.
The purpose of this paper is to consider network survivability designs that utilize the p-cycle, and to propose a novel ILP formulation for capacity design based on network fundamental cycles, as well as the available straddling links. Concepts of visible and hidden straddling links—which are essential components of the model presented herein—are also introduced. The proposed model caters for the case of joint optimization of a p-cycle network that can be solved without enumerating p-cycle candidates. In addition, the complexity of the proposed model is much less than any conventional model dealing with large size networks and suitable for the design of networks having multiple quality of protection (MQoP) service classes using mixed protection techniques.


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Matthew 25 (NASB)
1 Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.2 Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,4 but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.5 Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.6 But at midnight there was a shout, Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.7 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.8 The foolish said to the prudent, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.9 But the prudent answered, No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.10 And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.11 Later the other virgins also came, saying, Lord, lord, open up for us.12 But he answered, Truly I say to you, I do not know you.13 Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.14 For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.15 To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey.16 Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents.17 In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more.18 But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his masters money.19 Now after a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.20 The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.21 His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.22 Also the one who had received the two talents came up and said, Master, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more talents.23 His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.24 And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed.25 And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.26 But his master answered and said to him, You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed.27 Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.28 Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.29 For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.30 Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.31 But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.32 All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.34 Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.35 For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;36 naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.37 Then the righteous will answer Him, Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?38 And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?39 When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?40 The King will answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.41 Then He will also say to those on His left, Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;42 for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;43 I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.44 Then they themselves also will answer, Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?45 Then He will answer them, Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.


This is oh-so-cool, I've never thought of making a stencil from a photo like that. And now I want to run into the studio and do it myself. Instead of packing the truck for the show I need to hang. Hahahaha.
well, those are just darling! i would love to know how to make a stencil like that!
thanks for the beautiful inspiration...reminding me i can get in the studio even on days filled with cleaning (blech) and weeding (not as blech, but in this heat and humidity...blech).
Both of them look marvelous to me!
i adore how the last image turned out!
What beautiful pieces. I wouldn't be able to choose a favorite. Found you on The Altered Page, and will be checking back. Your blog is gorgeous and inspiring!


My husband received healing through your ministry. My husband and I had begged God for years to no avail. But when we realized that healing was something we already had, and we decided to stand on the Word, it was only a matter of a few months until the manifestation of my husband's healing began to appear. We not only stood on the Word by saying it to ourselves, we also said it to others.
My husband first became ill in 1970 at the age of forty. The diagnosis was a non-crippling, but extremely painful form of arthritis. During the last five years, my husband had to stay in bed. The only time he got up was to go to the bathroom, see the doctor, or go to the hospital when the pain got so bad that he had to have some relief.
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We began to confess our victory through Jesus. Then we joined a Spirit-filled church in our area. The elders came and anointed my husband with oil and prayed. Even though there was no manifestation of healing, we continued our faith confessions.
Two weeks ago, the pain suddenly left. A few days later, his feet began to lose their numbness. And a week ago, he trimmed a tree in our backyard.
Today he took our car to be serviced. I can't remember the last time he drove a car! He has no pain! Thank God! And thank you for teaching us how to receive what God has for us.
Confession I receive what God has for me by faith. By believing in my heart and speaking with my mouth, I receive salvation, healing, and all the blessings of God.


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In Dgcustomerfirst.com Survey platform, the customers will face some kinds of questionnaires. They will face closed-ended questionnaires and open-ended questionnaires. Firstly, they may rate their satisfaction in closed-ended questionnaires in a range one to five. Then, they may explore their suggestions by answering the open-ended questionnaires. Overall, this survey only spends not more than ten minutes.
Where can The Customers Site Dgcustomerfirst Survey?
To site Dgcustomerfirst com login, the customers should visit www.dgcustomerfirst.com. Firstly, they have to write the website in Google Search engine and find the main website. Before they site Dg customer first.com, they must make sure that their engine has the stable internet connection.
At the first, the customers should make sure themselves that they are not the part of Dollar General's management. In this occasion, they may not become the DG's workers including its family.
Then for the second rule, the customers must be at least 18 years old. In DG' management opinion, 18 years old customers are the best age where they can give the feedback rationally.
It is fortunate that DG's management opens the opportunity to its customers who under 18 years old. In this situation, the under 18 years old customers can give the feedback to their parent or their older siblings.
After that, the customers who take part in Dgcustomerfirst Survey should be the resident of United States. When the winners redeem the reward, maybe the cashier or customer will ask about their identity card.
In the last, to join on Dgcustomerfirst Survey, the customers should make sure that they have the invitation survey number. And, the invitation survey number will be available on the receipt. Often, the date is not more than seven days of shopping. The customers can find its survey invitation number on their las receipt of their last shopping.
Are you the part of qualified customers in Dollar General Customer First Survey guys? After you make sure yourself, you may obey the rules, and maybe you are the grand prize winner. If you have that great opportunity, It is better to invite your friends to enjoy a free meal. Who knows?
Alright, let me make you sure that the prerequisites are not complicated enough. As mentioned above, Dgcustomerfirst is the easy survey portal. Beside of the ease of survey, Dgcustomerfirst Survey offers some prizes to all its customers. How wonderful it is!
The customers should prepare their electronic devices to take part in Dgcustomerfirst.com. Even, the eligible engines should have the stable internet connection. In this occasion, the management has suggested its customers not to access the survey using mobile data. As a reason, this online survey needs the stable internet connection to show the instruction.
Then, for the eligible engines, the customers can prepare their computer, laptop, tablet or Smartphone. DG's management has suggested its customers join in Dgcustomerfirst Survey using a computer to ease the survey activity.
Then, the customer should prepare their last receipt from their last shopping. In this case, the customers should make sure that they still have enough time before the survey invitation number is expired. Besides, on the receipt will appear some information that will be useful in the Dgcustomerfirst Survey portal.
Afterward, the customers need to make sure that they have to understand the basic English or Spanish. As the language instruction, English or Spanish will lead the customers to all questionnaires and directions.
The last, the customers need to for about ten minutes to join in Dgcustomerfirst Survey. Even, DG's management has not suggested dividing the activities in the survey. As a reason, this survey is available in limited-time instruction.
Well, it is your time to join in Dollar General Satisfaction Survey. Let's visit www.dgcustomerfirst.com and leave the feedback there. Best luck!
At first, the customers should visit Dollar General Satisfaction Survey website. Hence, the customers must visit www.dgcustomerfirst.com. They can write that site in their internet search engine. They may use the feature in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, UC Browser, and so on. This feature will lead you to join in the survey.
Then, to open the survey's door, the customers need a key. In this occasion, the key is about the survey invitation number. There are more than ten digits numbers, and the customers should send it.
In this case, this site will ask about their date and hours of their last shopping in Dollar General Store. In a fortune, all the information is available on their last receipt. So that, they must keep the receipt well.
Here we arrived in the important part of Dgcustomerfirst Survey. In this section, the customers will face the first section of questionnaires. Firstly, Dgcustomerfirst Survey will show the customers with a closed-ended questionnaire. Its questionnaire appears in five like-scale. As a result, the customers should rate based on their satisfaction with DG's performance.
In this second section questionnaire, the customers will face an open-ended questionnaire. At that time, there are some descriptive questions which the customers should answer it briefly. In hope, the customers give their feedback or critics rationally based on their experience.
The customers can give their personal information such as complete name, email, and phone numbers. Later, DG's management will inform some information through your contact base.
Lastly, the customers can send the feedback by clicking "Submit" button. This is the last section of the survey activity. But, the customers may not leave their customers directly. Maybe, Dgcustomerfirst Survey chooses you as the winner in this survey. If the customers are lucky, the reward code will appear on their computer' screen.
Then, if the reward code appears on the screen, the customers should write it down to the blank space on their receipt. Then, they may redeem it in their next shopping.
Dgcustomerfirst Survey provides the grand prize $1000 cash to its winner. The winner can redeem the reward in not more than 20 days of surveying. Besides, the winner can redeem the reward in the same store of the winner's last shopping. For example, they may have the opportunity to get a free discount for $2 or $5 in their next shopping. This discount will be useful to decrease the money you spend. How great it is!
You may find problems in your survey. At that time, you may contact the customer service to help you solve your problems. The customer service will be available in work time hours which starts in Monday to Friday.
If you need some information about Dollar General Store, you may contact some link below.
You may send your letter to 100 Mission Ridge Goodlettsville, Tennessee, United States – 37072. You may prepare a postcard with your personal information. In that letter, you may write your questions and suggestions.
You may phone at (615) 855-4000. You must make sure that you call the customer service in Monday to Friday.
You may visit Dollar General main website at www.dollargeneral.com. In this website, you will find some benefits. The benefits are lists of DG's products and prices, DG's career, and DG's locations.
Now, it is your turn to practice the guidelines in Dollar General Customer First Survey. If you are lucky, you will get a grand prize $1000 cash from Dollar General. You may imagine that you can get $1000, you may invite all of your friends to enjoy a free meal. Best Luck!


The Grand Hyatt Muscat is a large property with two wings, four restaurants, and a very nice Grand Club that has plenty of seating both inside and out. Thanks to our diamond membership status, we enjoyed unlimited access to the Grand Club during our stay and we mostly stayed on property so we took full advantage of this during the weekend. The evening spread was more than substantial with warm dishes, cheeses, vegetables, and desserts. They also offered a full selection of spirits, wine, and bottled beer in addition to a large selection of soft drinks. For breakfast, the lounge had a top-notch continental selection of fruits, pastries, cheeses, and yogurts/cereals (but no hot options). The fourth floor lounge was well furnished and warmly decorated. There were two indoor dining areas, one living room with bookshelves and a television, and an outdoor rooftop patio that featured a beautiful view of the mountains and sea. The staff members in the lounge were consistently friendly, helpful, and efficient to clear tables and restock food and drinks.
We dined at the Indonesian inspired poolside restaurant for lunch on Friday and quite enjoyed a relaxing meal while looking over the beach and pool. The food was fresh, the menu offered a nice selection of dishes, but the prices are a bit high for lunch. The menu started around $20 per person without alcohol. It is worth noting that the food and drink on property is expensive even by average hotel standards. Food and beverage at hotel properties in Muscat (not as much outside of the capital) will be higher than average than most of the rest of the region.
The final diamond benefit we were able to enjoy was our Saturday late checkout. Hyatt Gold Passport platinum members can get a 2:00 pm checkout while diamond members can stretch it all the way until 4:00 pm. This has the potential to offer tremendous value especially for maximizing short trips such as ours. Instead of the typical 11:00 am or noon check-out we were able to enjoy another full morning and afternoon at the pool on Saturday and pushed our flight back to 8:30 pm as a result. The original goal was to allow Teo to take a nap prior to checkout but on as is often the case, he had other plans. We checked out at 4:00 pm and hailed a taxi back to the airport.
At the airport, we breezed through security then headed to the Plaza Premium lounge, which we were able to access with our Lounge Club cards that accompany the Ritz Carlton Visa credit card. After a quick check in at reception, we found a quiet corner to set our luggage and park the stroller. By the time we hit the lounge Matteo had fallen asleep in Jen's arms and we laid him down in the stroller to rest. The lounge was not the most updated or glamorous, especially by Middle Eastern standards (we were expecting much worse after reading some horrible reviews online), but it was spacious and offered a great alternative to hanging out in the terminal. The lounge was about 50% full for the two and a half hours we visited and we enjoyed a light dinner and a few drinks before boarding. The Muscat airport is quite old and small, and currently they are in the middle of building a new airport projected to open at the end of 2016. The new airport will have the ability to handle 12 million passengers per year and will offer many more services, amenities, and conveniences in in an attempt to bring it up to par with the neighboring Gulf nations.
We left the lounge and made our way over to our terminal to board our flight back home. As mentioned earlier, MCT is a small airport lacking in jet ways so this meant a short bus ride out to the tarmac to board the flight back to Abu Dhabi. The whole boarding process from Oman Air was efficient and friendly even though it was a relatively late flight and it was completely booked. We boarded and took off on time for a quick 45-minute flight back to Abu Dhabi which actually landed about 10 minutes ahead of schedule. The last leg of our journey ensured that we went to get Jennifer and Teo's entry permits attached to their passports through passport control so that we could complete the residency process. The airport staff was great, and immigration actually went quicker than the standard passport control line since we had a dedicated line to confirm entry visa paperwork. We touched down at about 9:40 and we cleared passport control, picked up the stroller from baggage claim, and grabbed a cab and were still home by 10:20 pm!
All in all, we had a wonderful weekend away in Muscat and could not have had more welcoming hosts than the Omanis. The weather was perfect and the trip could not have been any easier from a logistics standpoint. Oman often tops many lists of "off the beaten path" locations to travel and this is for good reason. The city is relatively small, and feels much more like a large town in contrast to its fellow glitzy, ostentatious, and overwhelmingly big Gulf capital cities. While we did not have much time to explore much of the city, Muscat offers beautiful hiking, diving, snorkeling, and has some beautiful Arabian historical sites to visit. We will definitely want to return to Oman in the future to spend more time exploring this beautiful country and experiencing the authentic Arabian culture.


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Q: Page break after every section The skeleton of my document is:
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\usepackage{amsmath,textcomp,amssymb,geometry,graphicx}

\begin{document}
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\begin{itemize}
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I want each section to be on a separate page. How do I do that?

A: As shown here
If you place each section into its own file and place all the files into the same folder, you can easily determine whether you would like a page break or not between each by using \include{section file} or \input{section file}.
\include{section file} places a page break after each while \input{section file} does not.
\documentclass[notitlepage, 12pt]{article}

\begin{document}

\title{Weekly Homework X}
\author{Tony Stark\\
Foundations of Mathematics}

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A: Here's another option using \sectionbreak from the titlesec package:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleclass{\section}{top}
\newcommand\sectionbreak{\clearpage}

\title{Title}
\author{Author}

\begin{document}
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\section{Test section two}
\section{Test section three}
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\end{document}

A: why
\section*{1.}

rather than
\section{}

In LaTeX it's almost always better to let LaTeX do the numbering.
However in either case
\let\oldsection\section
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will add the page break.

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Fraudster in court over benefit claims
Crewe Magistrates Court.
A Sandbach man who fraudulently claimed almost £3,000 is the latest to face prosecution by the council in a crackdown on benefit cheats.
Alex Bruinsma, of Newfield Street, pleaded guilty at Crewe Magistrates Court to two charges of making false statements in relation to his claims for housing benefit and jobseekers' allowance.
During the hearing on March 25, magistrates heard that the 41-year-old claimed housing benefit and jobseekers' allowance on October 15, 2010, on the basis that he was a single person with no income.
But investigators for Cheshire East Council's benefit fraud team and the Department for Work and Pensions found that Bruinsma was living with his partner. In submitting the false claims, Bruinsma was overpaid benefits totalling £2,987.
Magistrates imposed a community order on Bruinsma to carry out 60 hours of unpaid work and ordered him to pay costs of £350. A compensation order was also granted ordering him to repay the overpaid benefits.
The prosecution was brought by Cheshire East Council's benefit fraud investigation team and legal team.
Cllr Peter Raynes, Cheshire East Council cabinet member in charge of finance, said: "This prosecution is another clear example of this council taking firm action to protect our local communities from those who criminally abuse the benefits system at the expense of honest, hardworking taxpayers.
"This latest court success follows several similar successful prosecutions, which have clawed back tens of thousands of pounds for taxpayers.
"It sends out a clear message that people who try to cheat the system and hard-working taxpayers will be pursued by this council and brought to justice.
"Cheshire East is an enforcing council and benefit fraud will simply not be tolerated. Offenders must be clear that they will be found out and brought before the courts to face justice."
If you think someone is committing benefit fraud, you can call the confidential freephone fraud hotline on 0800 3892787. You don't have to give your name and your call will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Alternatively, you can report suspected fraud via the council's website at www.cheshireeast.gov.uk.


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JD.com to Repurchase Up to $1 Billion Shares
The stock has taken a beating due to sexual assault allegations against its founder and jitters about the U.S.-China trade war.
By Tiffany Ap on December 26, 2018
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HONG KONG — China's second largest e-commerce platform JD.com has unveiled a $1 billion share repurchase program, days after Minneapolis police declined to press sexual assault charges against company founder Richard Liu.
JD.com shares have been pummeled since Liu was accused of raping a 21-year-old female student on Aug. 30. According to a statement from the accuser, the assault occurred after a dinner while Liu was attending a program at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. Liu maintains that the interactions were consensual. He was detained for a few hours by police before being released and allowed to return to China.
On Tuesday, JD.com's shares traded at $19.75, compared to a year peak of $50.59 in January. The stock rallied 5.8 percent last Friday after the news that the investigation had been concluded with no charges filed against Liu.
The company has also been caught up in a broader sell-off in Chinese stocks due to concerns over the U.S.-China trade war. Bellwether companies Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent have all seen their shares slide this year. Tencent, the majority owner of JD.com and the maker of WeChat, has also been hit by regulatory tightening in its video games business, which comprises a large source of its revenue.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman's office said last week about Liu's case that a "thorough investigation" had concluded "there were profound evidentiary problems [that] would have made it highly unlikely that any criminal charge could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt."
"As is the case in many sexual assault incidents, it was a complicated situation," Freeman said. "It is also similar to other sexual assault cases with the suspect maintaining the sex was consensual. As we reviewed surveillance video, text messages, police body camera video and witness statements, it became clear that we could not meet our burden of proof and, therefore, we could not bring charges. Because we do not want to revictimize the young woman, we will not be going into detail."


Today we attended a seminar on Innovation, Design Thinking and the IDEO way. IDEO are a San Francisco based organisation that specialise in designing new concepts for clients and have develop their own methods accordingly. They celebrate the success of succeeding, And learn from their mistakes, perhaps even celebrate a little.
It is better to fail often to succeed quicker.
The Ideo Way is a process to understand the client brief, perform customer research, brainstorm, design concepts, trial and feedback into better products.


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No possibility of mid-term polls in Karnataka: Siddaramaiah
PTI, Jun 24, 2019, 5:01 PM IST
Bengaluru: The ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition coordination committee chief Siddaramaiah Monday ruled out any possibility of mid-term polls to the Karnataka assembly.
"No, there won't be any mid term poll," he told reporters in Mysuru, days after former prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda had sent alarm bells ringing in the Congress after he spoke of such a possibility.
In a sign of growing tensions in the coalition, Gowda last Friday said he has no doubt that there would be mid-term polls to the state assembly, but had backtracked later, saying he had spoken about urban local bodies election.
Gowda had also said he did not know how long the government, headed by his son H D Kumaraswamy, would continue and it was in the hands of the Congress.
Hitting out at state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, Siddaramaiah said the former chief minister was"dreaming" about the collapse of the coalition government and him forming a ministry in the state.
"No one can respond to his (Yeddyurappa's) dreams (of forming government and becoming CM). He has been saying it forseveral times now. Whatever Yeddyurappa has said has notturned out to be true," he said.
Reacting to Siddaramaiah's comments in Bengaluru, Yeddyurappa said he was not dreaming of becoming chief minister as he has been in the post in the past.
"It is you (Siddaramaiah) who is dreaming about becoming chief minister once again and roaming, not me," he said, pointing at the clamour in Congress recently with some leaders seeking Siddaramaiah's return as chief minister again.
The clamour had caused resentment within the ruling coalition, with alliance partner JD(S) leaders and Kumaraswamy not happy about it. Siddaramaiah and his supporters were forced to clarify that their demand was after the next assembly election.
Stating that the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) was dissolved to reorganize the party, Siddaramaiah, who is the Congress Legislature Party leader, said, "We will have new office bearers and it will be a mix of old, new, young and seniors."
In a major move after the rout in the Lok Sabha polls, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Wednesday said it has decided to dissolve the KPCC, while retaining its president and working president. Siddaramaiah, who is in Mysuru, held a series of meetings with party workers and supporters there.
According to sources, the meeting was to discuss about Congress' defeat in Mysuru, Siddaramaiah's home district and Chamarajanagara, where he enjoys considerable influence, as the Varuna assembly segment, currently represented by his son Yatindra, comes under it.
The discussion was also on strengthening his support base in the region, which has deteriorated after Siddaramaiah lost from Chamundeshwari assembly segment during the May 2018 polls and rout in the Lok Sabha polls, the sources added.
The Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) had to be content with one seat each in the Lok Sabha polls, which saw the Modi wave help the BJP bag 25 out of the total 28 seats in the state. One seat was won by a BJP-backed Independent.
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Bipartisan Christian group forms super PAC to oppose Trump
Ad set to run in Pennsylvania takes sharp aim at Trump's claim to a foothold with Christians
Updated: 12:28 PM EDT Oct 13, 2020
By ELANA SCHOR Associated Press
the depth of this job crisis is not attributable to an act of God. As president, I will always protect religious deliberately. Four years of Donald Trump will fundamentally alter the character of this nation, and character is on the ballots. Afternoon we're proudly announcing historic steps to protect the First Amendment, right to pray in public schools and, as reaffirmed, a fundamental truth. All Children born and unborn are made in the holy image of God. Three basic reasons why I'm running for president states the first is to restore the soul of the nation, and the second is to rebuild the back vote of this nation.
A group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith adviser to former President Barack Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Donald Trump in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.Dubbed Not Our Faith, the new super PAC plans to roll out six-figure TV and digital ads focused on Christian voters -- particularly the evangelical and Catholic voters who helped power Trump to victory in 2016. Its first digital ad, set to run in Michigan and Pennsylvania, takes sharp aim at Trump's claim to a foothold with Christians.(Video above: Biden, Trump seek faith-based voter support)The ad, shared with The Associated Press in advance of its release, says Trump "has used Christianity for his own purposes," invoking imagery of the Republican president's photo op outside a historic Washington church amid this summer's racial justice demonstrations. Urging Christians to break from Trump, the ad states that they "don't need Trump to save them. The truth is that Trump needs Christians to save his flailing campaign."That sharp critique of Trump's standing with Christian voters comes as the president looks to evangelicals in particular to help him muscle to reelection over Democratic nominee Joe Biden. While Biden's campaign is mounting a well-organized faith outreach effort, that work largely focuses on an affirmative case for the former vice president rather than the overtly anti-Trump case that the new PAC is making.Among the PAC's advisory council members are Michael Wear, a former faith adviser in Obama's administration and reelection campaign, and Autumn Vandehei, a former aide to onetime Republican Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas. Wear said in an interview that Trump has "in a predatory way attached himself to Christians," asserting that the faith would be "better off" without the president."Trump eked out 2016 with unprecedented support from white evangelicals and, important to note, a really strong showing among Catholics. We're going after all of it," Wear said. "We think Christian support is on the table in this election."Trump and his reelection campaign continue to lean heavily on pitches to Christian voters, with the president asserting the baseless claim that Biden and Democrats are hostile to religion. Republicans are also appealing to voters of faith by claiming that Democrats have unfairly criticized Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett for her Catholicism, although no Democratic senator has yet raised the issue during Barrett's confirmation hearings.Trump's faith adviser and personal pastor, Paula White, is set to appear Tuesday in the battleground state of Ohio at an event for the campaign's evangelical outreach project.Whether Biden backers' bid to peel away evangelical support from Trump is making headway remains to be seen. A survey from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center taken after Trump's contentious church photo op found that 72% of white evangelicals approved of his handling of the job, a level that has remained largely consistent over his presidency.But the new PAC sees room for a wide-ranging connection with Christian voters beyond Trump's white evangelical base. Wear said the project hopes "to reach and appeal to a diverse coalition of Christians … just as we anticipate a diverse coalition of Christians will oppose Donald Trump's reelection."The PAC's advisory council also includes Carolyn Y. Woo, the retired president and CEO of the faith-based humanitarian group Catholic Relief Services, and the Rev. Alvin Love, pastor at Lilydale First Baptist Church-Chicago and chair of faith-based initiatives at the National Baptist Convention.___Associated Press religion coverage receives support from the Lilly Endowment through the Religion News Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
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A group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith adviser to former President Barack Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Donald Trump in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.
Dubbed Not Our Faith, the new super PAC plans to roll out six-figure TV and digital ads focused on Christian voters -- particularly the evangelical and Catholic voters who helped power Trump to victory in 2016. Its first digital ad, set to run in Michigan and Pennsylvania, takes sharp aim at Trump's claim to a foothold with Christians.
(Video above: Biden, Trump seek faith-based voter support)
The ad, shared with The Associated Press in advance of its release, says Trump "has used Christianity for his own purposes," invoking imagery of the Republican president's photo op outside a historic Washington church amid this summer's racial justice demonstrations. Urging Christians to break from Trump, the ad states that they "don't need Trump to save them. The truth is that Trump needs Christians to save his flailing campaign."
That sharp critique of Trump's standing with Christian voters comes as the president looks to evangelicals in particular to help him muscle to reelection over Democratic nominee Joe Biden. While Biden's campaign is mounting a well-organized faith outreach effort, that work largely focuses on an affirmative case for the former vice president rather than the overtly anti-Trump case that the new PAC is making.
In battleground states, Catholics are a pivotal swing vote
Among the PAC's advisory council members are Michael Wear, a former faith adviser in Obama's administration and reelection campaign, and Autumn Vandehei, a former aide to onetime Republican Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas. Wear said in an interview that Trump has "in a predatory way attached himself to Christians," asserting that the faith would be "better off" without the president.
"Trump eked out 2016 with unprecedented support from white evangelicals and, important to note, a really strong showing among Catholics. We're going after all of it," Wear said. "We think Christian support is on the table in this election."
Evangelicals at base of Trump hopes for Pennsylvania repeat
Trump and his reelection campaign continue to lean heavily on pitches to Christian voters, with the president asserting the baseless claim that Biden and Democrats are hostile to religion. Republicans are also appealing to voters of faith by claiming that Democrats have unfairly criticized Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett for her Catholicism, although no Democratic senator has yet raised the issue during Barrett's confirmation hearings.
Trump's faith adviser and personal pastor, Paula White, is set to appear Tuesday in the battleground state of Ohio at an event for the campaign's evangelical outreach project.
Whether Biden backers' bid to peel away evangelical support from Trump is making headway remains to be seen. A survey from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center taken after Trump's contentious church photo op found that 72% of white evangelicals approved of his handling of the job, a level that has remained largely consistent over his presidency.
But the new PAC sees room for a wide-ranging connection with Christian voters beyond Trump's white evangelical base. Wear said the project hopes "to reach and appeal to a diverse coalition of Christians … just as we anticipate a diverse coalition of Christians will oppose Donald Trump's reelection."
The PAC's advisory council also includes Carolyn Y. Woo, the retired president and CEO of the faith-based humanitarian group Catholic Relief Services, and the Rev. Alvin Love, pastor at Lilydale First Baptist Church-Chicago and chair of faith-based initiatives at the National Baptist Convention.
Associated Press religion coverage receives support from the Lilly Endowment through the Religion News Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for this content.


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Exhibition chronicles musician Nick Cave's life, work and loss
Lebanon's famed musician Elias Rahbani dies aged 83
'Sheikh Hasina: On the Right Side of History' exhibition inaugurated in Dhaka
Unique exhibition on Rickshaw in New York
Unique exhibition indeed
Product exhibition held to celebrate first anniversary of Chattogram E-commerce Family
The exhibition has a room dedicated to his son Arthur, who died aged just 15 after accidentally falling off a cliff
Nick Cave. Photo: Collected
Fans of cult musician Nick Cave get to use his typewriter and play his piano at an exhibition that chronicles his life and nearly five-decade artistic career, including the tragic loss of his son in an accident five years ago.
Cave said on Monday, a day after visiting the "Stranger than Kindness" exhibition in Copenhagen, that his wife, former British model Susie Bick, had collected the objects and other memorabilia now on display over 20 years in storage containers.
"There was all this stuff and we started to piece together the idea of an exhibition," the 63-year-old Australian singer, composer and writer told a news conference in Copenhagen's Royal Danish Library that houses the display.
"I am what I am. And I am that person in there (in the exhibition)," said Cave, who also said he did not want the display to be "just about myself but... to have a greater resonance".
Famous for his distinctive baritone voice, sharp suits and dyed-black hair, the 63-year-old Australian gained fame as lead-singer in the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which sang of love, religion and violence across 17 albums. He has also acted and written novels and plays.
Visitors to the exhibition wander through rooms meant to replicate his office, his living room and stages of his life.
The exhibition takes a poignant turn when the visitor reaches a room dedicated to his son Arthur, who died aged just 15 after accidentally falling off a cliff near the English resort of Brighton five years ago.
The room is in darkness and features just the print of a photograph of Cave and his wife.
"It's all about creativity, but then this incident occurs and everything changes," said Cave, who has not spoken in public for five years.
"We think we know who we are, we build ourselves and our identities up... and then something happens. It could be a loss, as in my case. It could be a transgression, a divorce or whatever," said Cave.
The exhibition runs until Feb. 2021.
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Sandy Rufenacht has tracked down former assistants of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and brought his parents along to meetings with Donald Trump to get their sense of his character—all in the name of getting to know a company before he invests.
Throughout his 25-year career, the head of Three Peaks Capital Management has made it his business to know the motivations and personalities of the executives he's investing with, often getting a second opinion. He expects his team to know the inner workings of the business, including potential problems well before they arise. "We should know what a company is going to say before they say it," the 50-year-old investor says.
Rufenacht's investigative zeal fuels two funds he sub-advises for the Aquila Group of Funds, one stock and one bond. The $453 million Aquila Three Peaks Opportunity Growth (ticker: ATGAX), which focuses on about 70 midsize stocks, has averaged a 20% return over the past three years, beating 97% of its mid-cap peers, according to Morningstar. The $178 million Aquila Three Peaks High Income (ATPAX) is a high-yield bond fund whose 4% average return over the past three years puts it in the top third of Morningstar's high-yield bond category.
The two funds share about 75% of the same companies. Ideas for both stem from Rufenacht's intensive debt analysis, a skill he has honed throughout his career. Rufenacht joined a little-known firm called Janus Capital back in 1990. Working out of his backpack and armed with a calculator, Rufenacht impressed senior managers enough to join the team that created the firm's fixed-income business. He helped launch the Janus High-Yield fund, managing it and a short-term bond fund until he left in 2003, racking up impressive performance in that time.
Tom Marsico, the well-known Janus Twenty fund manager who now runs his own firm, remembers Rufenacht as a disciplined and detail-oriented money manager who always had information at the tips of his fingers. While Rufenacht is still a repository of all types of data points, the research doesn't clutter his desk. Rufenacht expects employees' workstations to pose no fire hazards—his own is spotless—and forbids sticky notes, which to him are indicative of something that's not getting done.
Rufenacht stores all research in his head, as he did with auto-part figures and the features of different vehicle models as a kid in rural Nebraska when going with his car-dealer father to auto auctions. Rufenacht sees many similarities between car auctions and bonds. New cars are akin to Treasury bonds, which come with a sticker price, limiting the potential gain. The as-is cars are like many junk bonds, with a question as to whether they can make it down the road. But it's the in-between area that has always interested Rufenacht—the used car with 10,000 miles, or lower-rated but solid firm.
Rufenacht and his team of two analysts and two co-managers dig below the headlines and pro forma presentations at conferences, questioning limousine drivers in Las Vegas to gauge high-end clientele traffic or new moms about their experience at a hospitals' new maternity wing. The fund tends to hold stocks for the long haul; Rufenacht knows many of his companies' management teams since his days at Janus.
Instead of modeling cash flows out 15 years, as was the norm at Janus, Rufenacht and his team focus on the next 12 months in terms of how much free cash flow the company can generate, how that cash may lift some of the debt covenants—or restrictions put on it by bond holders—and what will ultimately be left for equity investors.
While some equity managers steer clear of debt-laden companies, Rufenacht sees leverage as a way to increase a company's potential, if used wisely. That was the case with Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), which used its balance sheet to buy SunGard, a rival financial technology firm, a deal that could boost revenue growth from the mid-single digits to the high singles.
Rufenacht favors companies that use their free cash flow to pay off incremental amounts of debt, and actually likes covenants that require them to do so—a better scenario than companies that see their leverage ratios fall only as a function of earnings rising. TV and online-media measurement company Nielsen Holdings (NLSN) has paid down debt, freeing up cash to reinvest in its business, while also buying back its stock.
The fund balances its conservative names with more aggressive ones, a strategy that has helped it rank in the ninth percentile of its Morningstar category in terms of risk-adjusted returns over the past three years. One of the fund's more aggressive holdings is surgery-center operator AmSurg (AMSG), which took on a hefty amount of debt to fund its $2 billion acquisition of Sheridan Healthcare but there could be opportunity as it starts paying that off, such as direct partnerships with large health-care systems that could boost its growth.
Given that the high-yield bond market is signaling potentially higher defaults and trouble for U.S. economic growth, Rufenacht has been adding to more-stable stocks, including funeral-home operator Service Corp. International (SCI) and packaging company Silgan Holdings (SLGN), which can use its strong balance sheet to buy other companies' divestitures.
Because companies often gorge on debt when the economy is doing well—typically just as rates are headed up—Rufenacht avoids cyclical firms like auto makers, restaurants, and retailers. Instead, for his equity fund he prefers companies with more predictable cash flow and business models such as gaming and entertainment companies; Activision Blizzard (ATVI) and Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF) are top holdings.
When Rufenacht sees trouble signs, he likes to "sell first and ask questions later." He did that last year, selling energy stocks when bond investors demanded higher yields. Right now, he is also wary of health care, an area he's liked in the past. But the sector is often an election-year target, when politicians talk about cost cuts, making it hard to gauge short-term prospects.
Correction: In a previous version of this story, we misstated the firm's name and its Morningstar category.


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Diana in the Bath
Georg Pencz
German, c. 1500-1550
His works are horribly, insistently, uncompromisingly grotesque and repulsive—and that's the perfect reason to spend time with them.
Inside the Exhibition Process
Expanding Perspectives: Finding a Language for Beauty
In this intimately scaled print Georg Pencz depicted the story of Diana and Actaeon from the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses. The hunter Actaeon stumbles upon Diana, Roman goddess of hunting and chastity, and her attendants bathing. Diana punishes Actaeon by splashing him with water from the pool, transforming him into a deer. In this version, Pencz showed Actaeon mid- transformation with a deer-like head and human body. In the background, between the heads of Diana and her attendant, you can see the fate of the doomed son of Aristaeus: he is chased down and ripped apart by his own hounds.
Germany (Artist's nationality)
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Sheet: 4.7 × 7.8 cm (1 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer
Bartsch 91
Landau 79
Hollstein 116
Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony, 1543
Virgil Suspended in a Basket, copy, 1541/1600
Sheltering Strangers, from The Seven Acts of Mercy, c. 1534
Paris and Oenone, from Greek Heroines, c. 1539
Procris, from Greek Heroines, 1539
Death of Lucretia, 1546/47
Artemisia, c. 1539
Virgil the Magician Hanging in the Basket, 1541/42
The Courtesan Punished, from The Story of the Magician Virgil, 1541/42
The Conversion of St. Paul, 1543
The Queen of Sheba Avoiding the Wooden Bridge, c. 1532
The Triumph of Love, plate one from The Triumphs of Petrarch, c. 1539


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Q: Lorenz Equations, embedding and Takens' theorem
Show that observation of $z$ component alone of the Lorenz equations
\begin{align}
\dot x& = \sigma (y-x)\\
\dot y &= x (\rho -z) -y\\
\dot z &= xy-\beta z
\end{align}
does not lead to an embedding. Why does this not violating Takens' Theorem? What modification is required to generate an embedding?

Given the Lorenz equations, how come when I only observe the $z$ component alone i.e: ($\frac{\mathrm{d}z}{\mathrm{d}t} = xy - Bz$), this does not lead to an embedding.  By Whitney's embedding theorem, I need an embedding $Q$ to map from a finite $d$-dimensional attractor $A$ to $\mathbb R^k$ with $k \ge 2d+1$. In this case is $Q$ mapping from 2 dimensions to 1 dimension? Hence $k = 1$, $d = 2$ thus not satisfying $k \ge 2d+1$? How does this not violate Takens' theorem, which states:

If $A$ is a finite-dimensional manifold and $q : A \to \mathbb R$ is differentiable then $v : A \to \mathbb R^k$ where $k > 2d$ is either an embedding or an arbitrarily small differentiable perturbation of $q$ and/or $\tau$ makes $v$ an embedding.

A: You can easily check that if $(x(t), y(t), z(t))$ is a solution of the Lorenz system, then also $(-x(t), -y(t), z(t))$ is a solution. Just observing the $z$ component of a solution does not allow you to distinguish these two solutions. Essentially, the two wings of the attractor "butterfly" get mapped into one.

Stereo pairs for the embedding $\small [u(t-\tau),u(t),u(t+\tau)]$ displayed via differences $\small[u(t),u(t+\tau)-u(t-\tau),u(t+\tau)-2u(t)+u(t-\tau)]$ for $\small u=x,z$ and $\small\tau=0.1$
From the values $$v([x(t),y(t),z(t)])=[z(t),z(t-τ),...,z(t-4τ)]$$ it is thus impossible to determine the sign of the $x$ and $y$ component, there will always be 2 solutions, $v$ is not injective, it is impossible to get an embedding, increasing the number $k$ of components of $v$ or changing $\tau$ will not change that.
In a complete formulation of the theorem you should also find this exclusion of symmetries of the dynamic. This symmetry gets broken if $q(x,y,z)=z$ is slightly perturbed, for instance adding linear terms in the other coordinates with small coefficients.


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Spider-Man: Has MCU Wiped Out Uncle Ben From Existence?
Movies, News
Vasu Sharma
Spider-Man: Far From Home will be the 5th time we see Tom Holland in the MCU. However, it seems like we're not discovering anything about his Uncle Ben than when we started. While we realize that the character existed at some time, there is a hesitance to bring the character in this universe.
It has bewildered many and caused a lot of discussion among purists and long-lasting Spidey fans. All things considered, Uncle Ben is significant to Peter Parker's arc. It was his unfortunate end that enlivened his nephew to become the hero we as a whole love and appreciate. Let's be honest: Without Ben Parker, there would be no Spider-Man.
From one viewpoint, numerous fans are happy that we weren't exposed to another Uncle Ben demise scene in the MCU. We've just seen Uncle Ben die many times over the recent two decades, haven't we?
Why hasn't MCU shown Uncle Ben?
Much like Bruce Wayne's folks being gunned down in Crime Alley, we get it: It was a transformative experience. In any case, as Feige stated, it would be retreading family territory. Truth be told, if you consider Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man and its reviews, one of the criticisms was the manner where they spent such an extensive amount of time reiterating Spidey's origin and his uncle's destiny. In this new film arrangement up until now, Sony and Marvel Studios have chosen to do things somewhat differently.
On account of Uncle Ben, he's been implied in a few different ways. In Homecoming, there were a couple of disposable lines about him. We also saw Peter using his bag – with the initials B.F.P. – in the Far From Home trailer. This affirms he was a piece of the MCU sometime in the distant past, regardless of whether he hasn't been referenced by name.
In any case, we can't shake the inclination that Peter and Aunt May approve of him being no more. It's hard to pinpoint the genuine time period of his demise. In any case, taking from comics and Peter being 15 years old in Spider-Man: Homecoming, his uncle's passing happened a couple of months before we met him in Captain America: Civil War.
See, time heals everything, however, May, particularly, looks all mended up. While she's clearly not quite the same as her comic book version, she has joyfully played with Tony Stark and Happy Hogan on a few events.
Tony and Peter
Furthermore, Peter's role model is not his uncle, but Tony. While it's a fascinating dynamic and bodes well if you think about Peter's affection for science and Tony's accomplishments, it tries too hard to erase Uncle Ben's effect in his life. Until now Marvel has embraced Peter and Tony's relationship more than Peter and Ben.
While change isn't always awful and can revive characters, it feels like Uncle Ben got the short end of the stick here. His impact in Peter and May's life has lessened definitely, as though he's only a reconsideration in the storytellers' eyes. It's completely conceivable this could change in future movies, but for now it's a Ben-less MCU.
Source: CBR
# MCU# Spider Man: Homecoming# spider-man# Spidey# Tom Holland# Tony Stark# Uncle Ben
Vasu Sharma is the Content Head at Animated Times, supervising the Editorial Board at Animated Times. He's 25 years old and has done his master's in journalism from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.
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Thanks, Tigger; welcome back. You've been knowledgable and active about Narconon in Oklahoma for many years.
San Francisco Examiner picks up the story.
The Inspector General's Office of the Department of Mental Health (Oklahoma) wants to hear from victims of Narconon Arrowhead.
They want firsthand accounts, in fact they need them. They will investigate any concerns you have and want to talk to you ASAP!
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Please pass this along to other victims.
A request from the Department of Mental Health of Oklahoma has been made to notify those wishing to contact them about abuses at Narconon. They would like to inform the public that while they are sympathetic to those that believe they have been abused by Narconon, they need to limit calls to those directly regarding the Oklahoma location. They have been inundated with calls regarding abuses at other Narconon locations as well as Arrowhead. We need to keep their phone lines free for those trying to get through that were in fact at Arrowhead. They encourage those that went to other locations to contact that states regulatory agencies.
The CEO of Narconon Arrowhead told the Tulsa World last week the facility offers a "finder's fee" to find drug rehabilitation patients, which he said is a common practice among rehab facilities.
Narconon Arrowhead CEO Gary W. Smith said the facility pays finder's fees to about a dozen interventionists or "field representatives" on a regular basis.
"We're not the only program that does this," Smith said. "It's not an uncommon practice."
Drug addiction counselors and former students of Narconon also confirmed they make tens of thousands every year from finder's fees and more from interventions. All said a finder's fee has no bearing on where they recommend a drug addict go for rehab.
The facility is under investigation following three patient deaths there in less than a year.
An investigation of Narconon by the Tulsa World also found a network of more than 200 websites.


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When placing advertisements for a labor certification application, it is crucial to advertise in the area where the job is located so as to conduct an accurate test of the labor market to determine if there are any workers in the United States who are willing, able, and qualified to fill the position. The work site will also affect the prevailing wage determination that is used. When filing a case for roving employees, it can be tricky to determine the appropriate area where the recruitment should be conducted.
In the Matters of Amsol, Inc. (September 2009), the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) addresses this issue. Amsol, Inc. appealed the Certifying Officer's (CO) rejection of its application on behalf of several employees for whom it sought labor certification. The employer had conducted recruitment in Casper, Wyoming, where its company headquarters is located. The positions for which it was recruiting were not based out of this location, but instead were to be performed at unanticipated client sites across the U.S. The employer admitted that it was unsure of which location it should use to advertise the positions as the regulations are unclear in the case of roving employees. The CO rejected the employer's explanation and concluded that "the Casper job site was a virtual location used to file labor certifications where the test for U.S. worker availability in the technology field would be slim to none."
Since the regulations offer no guidance on the issue of unanticipated job locations, the Board referred to the Field Memorandum issued on May 16, 1994 by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). In eBusiness Applications Solutions, Inc. (December 2006), BALCA held that the Memorandum fills a gap in the statute and implementing regulations" even though it is not a regulation with the full force of law. This Memorandum states that "[a]pplications involving job opportunities which require the Alien beneficiary to work in various locations throughout the U.S. that cannot be anticipated should be filed with the local Employment Service office having jurisdiction over the area in which the employer's main or headquarters office is located."
Although the Board in eBusiness Applications Solutions, Inc. considered the Memorandum to be "a reasonable construction of the regulations given the underlying purpose of the statute," it did not impose what the current panel referred to as an "inflexible mandate about a filing location." The Board in that case was also careful to warn against an employer deliberately choosing a remote location to "avoid recruiting in a more relevant labor market." For instance, BALCA rejected an employer's appeal in the Matter of Paradigm Infotech (June 2007) because the employer chose to recruit for roving IT positions in Erie, Pennsylvania. Although the employer did have an office in Erie, BALCA determined that "a mere business connection with a location, standing alone, does not establish that such a location is the appropriate place to make a labor market test." The ETA Memorandum specifically recommends the use of the employer's main or headquarters office in cases where employees do not have a fixed work site. The Board determined that the use of the Erie location was intended to artificially lower the appropriate prevailing wage for the positions being advertised.
In the instant case, BALCA determined that the employer had submitted sufficient documentation to prove that the Casper location was indeed a viable work site, and not merely being used for the purpose of avoiding good faith recruitment in a different market. Although that office was small, it was the company's first office and its place of incorporation. Furthermore, the employer did not solely test the market in Casper, Wyoming, but also advertised the positions in Computerworld, which is a nationwide trade publication. The issue of the prevailing wage being negatively affected by advertising in a smaller market was put to rest by the fact that the employer was offering a salary that was higher than either the prevailing wage in the Casper location or the prevailing wage at the company's other office in Newark, Delaware. Consequently, the Board vacated the CO's denial of the application.
This case provides helpful criteria for determining the appropriate location to advertise positions for roving employees. The base guideline is to advertise in the area where the employer is headquartered. The location must be a viable work site and not merely a satellite office created for the purpose of filing labor certification applications. In the case of a denial and appeal, the Board may take into consideration how the prevailing wage determination is affected by the choice of work site.
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RUSSIAN MILITARY OBSERVERS POSE FOR A PICTURE IN FRONT OF NORWAY'S F-35
Russia filed the request under the 2011 Vienna Document, which allows participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to inspect each other's bases
The curious photo in this post shows Russian military observers posing in front of an F-35 Lightning II, the latest U.S. stealth fighter.
According to Alert 5 Weblog the three Russian military observers were allowed into Norway's Ørland air base where they had the chance to see the newly-arrived Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35.
Russia filed the request under the 2011 Vienna Document, which allows participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to inspect each other's bases.
As we have recently explained Norway industry plays a key role in the development and production of the F-35. More than a dozen Norwegian companies are helping deliver the F-35, from manufacturing parts to providing services across the program.
Norway's first three F-35A aircraft departed from Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas facility on Nov. 3, 2017, and landed on Norwegian soil that same day at Ørland Air Base. Norway has taken delivery of 10 F-35s to date, three of which are now at Ørland Air Base and seven are stationed at Luke Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona, where Norwegian pilots are conducting training. Norway has plans to purchase up to 52 F-35 aircraft.
"Receiving the first F-35s at Ørland is a major milestone for Norway: it's visible proof of Norway's commitment to the F-35 Program and Norway continues to be one of the strongest partners of the F-35 enterprise," said Vice Admiral Mat Winter, F-35 Program Executive Officer, in a Lockheed Martin news release. "We are really proud to be part of the opportunity to celebrate this exciting time with Norway."
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Ever since we've moved I feel like I haven't got on a good cleaning schedule that's made me feel satisfied. I have my mental schedule that I've had for years.... Monday:( laundry), Tuesday:(bathrooms), Wednesday (dusting), Thursday: (Kitchen), Friday: (Floors). Moving into a new house that you spent the 1st year remodeling, which took up most of your time instead of cleaning, and having a child at that hard age of (almost walking but not quite yet needs to be held a lot more). So with the new baby coming I feel discouraged that I'm never going to get on a good schedule because another big life change is going to happen again....but I'm going to give it my best and make a plan.
Lately cleaning has not been a priority..... I'm going crazy because I feel like it's been like this for 2 years now. I just want to go back to my wee little house in KC and keep it nice and clean. I guess it just takes time to form a relationship with a house. So here goes with my plan with a few additions.....I gain energy with plans and lists....otherwise I just feel overwhelmed!
(This is a pretty easy day for me, so if I have other things I'm behind on I catch up on those. Otherwise the bathrooms must get cleaned this day. Nothing like a good clean bathroom. I added trash to this to this day. Walk around and pick up junk mail, toys you don't want, clothes that are worn or stained, just look and see how much trash you can find, go through that junk drawer. Empty the little trash cans in the bathrooms, bedrooms or office.
By this day things should be picked up, trash should be gone so my goal is to have clean surfaces ready to be dusted. Along with dusting I vacuum furniture and run a lint roller other my lamp shades. I added windows, clean those finger prints on the doors and windows.
Pretty straight forward, I like to take one day and try and deep clean the room I use and abuse the most. I didn't add anything to this day.
I have found that it's hard to clean wood floors with children running around. I have to find a time between naps or something otherwise I have foot prints all over or crying babies from slipping and falling on the wet floors....ohhh the joys of motherhood!!
When I do clean the floors, I like to dust mop under the furniture good, dust the baseboards, vacuum the rugs, then mop.
I like to take this day and decorate something or put a new plant out or hang a new picture....something fun. This is the day I usually treat myself to a blog post too.
In a perfect world this list would get done every week. Just like budgeting you sometimes get thrown off but when you have a plan in tack you can see the light to come back to it. Right now we are off on cleaning but I feeling encouraged to get back.
I know a clean house isn't everything, I've read the quotes "sticky floors means your a good mom"....I just roll my eyes. For me it makes me a crazy mom. I feel like I've relaxed in a lot of areas due to being a mom and have learned to be okay with imperfection but doesn't mean I can't strife for it. My heart just needs to be not so disappointed/surprised when life happens instead of clean house! That's my balance struggle!
XOXO's to all the mommies out there striving to keep it together with the right heart, you are so BRAVE!


Roma are making a push for getting back into the top four places of the Italian Serie A after registering four consecutive wins in all competitions. The international break came at the wrong time for Roma, who need to pick up momentum once again. SPAL were happy to see the international break as it breaks a run of four consecutive losses for the club. Roma were able to get a 6-1 aggregate victory over SPAL in the two matches last season and I would not be surprised to see a win at half-time and full-time for the hosts.
Edin Dzeko scored the opener when SPAL last travelled to the Stadio Olimpico and he has been one of Roma's best players this season with two goals and two assists in the seven league games. Dzeko's form has not slipped even during the international break, as he scored twice for Bosnia in the recent UEFA Nations League game. I would back Edin Dzeko to score anytime.