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Doug Sahm: Family Man & Night of the Living Blues
My friend Charley and I went to see Doug Sahm at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard. Doug was there with his band, The Sir Douglas Quintet. It was the late 60's and I hadn't seen Doug since he'd become famous with his hit record "She's About A Mover." We first met a few years earlier in San Antonio at a club called The Cellar. I was playing drums at The Cellar on weekends in the house band and Doug would come down and sit in.
At that time, Doug was in his T-Bone Walker period complete with sharkskin suit, big hollow-body guitar, pinkie ring and a Cadillac. I found out later that the Cadillac belonged to his mom but how much can you expect from a twenty-two-year-old white blues singer trying to pass as a pimp? You had to cut him a little slack. The man was making an effort.
Years later, seeing him at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go (Doug had just returned from an international tour), it was clear that he was now a man of the world. He wore English Pop clothes, Beatle boots and shoulder-length hair, and he smoked a lot of weed. After the show we talked for a while about the Cellar and the old days back in Texas, then Doug asked if I would be interested in putting together a blues band and moving up to San Francisco.
At the time, I was living in Venice and playing with my friend Charley in a topless bar in a bowling alley near the LA airport. A tough choice indeed but after a minimal amount of soul searching, I chose to give up a promising career in the ever expanding field of adult bowling alley entertainment and instead, follow a crazy dream and a crazy person.
"Let's go!" I said. "This is my ticket out-a this burg!" Doug painted a beautiful picture as he reeled me in on, what was for me, the first in a long line of Doug Sahm catch and release adventures.
"You can come and stay with me," he offered generously. "I've got a place in Monterey, we can rehearse there; I'll get Wayne Talbert up from Houston to play piano. The horn players are already in San Francisco waiting for us. It'll be groovy, man!" I soon realized that Doug didn't really want me to help him put a band together. He had already put a band together! He just needed a drummer. No problem. I'm tha man! A couple weeks later I packed up my drums, loaded up my car, locked up my house and drove up highway 101 to Prunedale, California.
The reality was that Doug didn't live anywhere near Monterey. Doug lived in a little country town east of Salinas, California called Prunedale. There was nothing wrong with Prunedale but it damn sure wasn't Monterey by the sea. There in Prunedale, in a rented house at the top of a wooded hill, Doug lived with his wife Violet, their four kids: Shawn, Dawn, Ginger and Ronny and Violet's mother, Nanny who, to everyone's great joy, did most of the cooking. Her fried eggs were perfect; her cream of wheat was a delicacy and her pork chops with rice and gravy was something you'd want for your last meal. There was also a little poodle-dog named Bourgeois. It was a Norman Rockwell painting -- the all American, working class home and family:
"Well, hand me that lunch bucket, dear. I'm off to Hollywood."
"Goodby, honey. Have a nice day at the rock and roll concert."
"Bring us home a copy of Billboard, daddy!"
As soon as I arrived at the Sir Douglas compound, Doug and I started taking acid. We took acid and wandered around in the woods behind his house. We took acid and played touch football with his kids in the front yard. We smoked weed, drank wine, ate Nanny's cooking and listened to hours of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Horace Silver and Ornette Coleman. I got a crash course in Doug Sahm. His wife, Violet, said it was like having two more kids hanging around the house. "Just what I need!"
One day the kids got poison oak rash all over their faces from playing with the dog. I remember Doug and I, being severely ripped at the time, suspected that each of his precious little children had turned into pigs: Fat, swollen, pink faced, laughing little pigs. It was later confirmed by practically everyone that we were mistaken.
The two youngest, Dawn and Shawn, were hilarious. When they were with Doug, it was like watching the Stooges. Shawn was walking and talking but still in diapers. His sister Dawn was a little older. Doug and I would be in his music room listening to records, doing research: Smoking pipe-loads of weed, sharing a bottle of wine and baby-sitting the two little tykes. As anyone who has ever smoked weed and drank wine while listening to music knows, often there can be, let's say, lulls in the conversation -- very long lulls. Stupors might be a better word. Anyway, we would rise out of these deep and restful meditations to find that Shawn and Dawn had stolen the pipe and the wine and were hiding under our chairs getting loaded. I mean flush faced, bleary eyed, dumb grin loaded.
Doug would pretend to be outraged, leap out of his chair, chase the little bandits all through the house; the kids squealing and laughing and Doug, hot on their heels, yelling, "Gimme that pipe! Gimme that pipe!" Shawn and Dawn loved this. They ran around the walls screaming and laughing until they dropped from exhaustion like puppies. I think I should add here that these two crazed little rug rats have since grown up to be relatively normal human beings. Within reason.
The whole time I was there at Doug's Prunedale Paradise, I never once unpacked my drums, never hit a lick and we never rehearsed one song. We just talked. We talked all day and we talked long into the night about anything and everything. I'm sure that at some point, we must have at least discussed what it would be like if and when we actually got everyone together and played.
Eventually we did just that -- said adios to Prunedale, moved to San Francisco, hooked up with the rest of the players and became a working band. See, it's always good to have a plan ... You can always throw it out later.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING BLUES
Doug booked a gig in San Jose and we all rode down from San Francisco in Doug's big Oldsmobile. The band, Doug, Frank, Pete, Wayne, Jance and myself, all jammed in together with a trunk load of guitars and horns. The rest of the instruments -- piano, drums and amplifiers -- were all cheerfully furnished by the opening band, a naive bunch of kids with no clue as to the amount of damage we could inflict on someone else's equipment.
The band was a group of competent and semi-competent musicians playing old and new rhythm and blues tunes plus some real Neanderthal rock and roll. This is just my opinion but I think a maximum of one eyebrow and very little forehead is required to perform "Woolly Bully" the way Sam The Sham intended. To effortlessly drag one's knuckles is so important to that piece.
The night began innocently enough as we cruised down the highway smoking joints, drinking beer, sipping whiskey and refusing Wayne's constant whining request to stop and pick up some heroin.
"It's not in the budget, Wayne!" In the San Francisco bay area, in the late 60's, the ingesting of recreational drugs was such a common practice that the odds on being arrested were long to say the least. It could happen and did happen but usually you had to be either a rank amateur and/or extremely loaded. I mean incoherent, slobbering, babbling, "put away for your own good" kind of loaded. The cops just didn't have the manpower to deal with every long-haired, tie-dyed, mind fucked love child out prowling the streets at any given time.
So, it was those odds coupled with our own attitude of cool confidence that propelled the band out of San Francisco (first mistake) and down the freeway, south to San Jose (big mistake) where we were pulled over by the local police. (We're fucked.) Obviously all the fun came to a screeching halt there on the side of the road. We set in dead silence, contemplating what life would be like in prison, knowing we each had at least one illegal substance on or about our person. Frozen in the flashing lights of the police car, we looked straight ahead like crash test dummies waiting to hit the wall.
Doug's car had a taillight out and apparently, the San Jose police department was still all hung up in that whole "Traffic Safety" thing, man. And since we were conveniently pulled off the road anyway, could they possibly search the car? Just a little search and seizure? Come on, guys. Help us out.
The two officers were very businesslike, no threats. One was Spanish and the other some sort of Caucasian. We tried to explain (all speaking at once) that we were just your average hard-workin', all American, not afraid to get our hands dirty, blue-collar type musicians. The white cop wanted to vacuum the car right there for drug residue and hopefully throw us all in jail. The Spanish cop took a more hassle free, no paper work type position. After checking the trunk and finding nothing but musical instruments, he said, "Ah, fuck it. Let-um go."
We couldn't believe it! Those words were like music; a heavenly choir, the eleventh commandment: "Ah, fuck it. Let-um go!" It was a powerful moment and we were naturally all a little misty eyed except for the two cops of course. They gave Doug a ticket for the taillight and turned us loose on society. The full wrath of the state had been poised to pounce upon our bony shoulders that night in San Jose and yet there we were, back in the car, heading for the gig as if nothing had happened. It was like jerking a fish out of the water but instead of chopping its head off and ripping its guts out you decide to throw it back. A sobering experience indeed and who needs that? We've got a gig in less than an hour! Let's get loaded!
At the gig, things took a turn for the strange when Wayne and Frank began rolling up joints full of weed, hashish and crumbled up tabs of acid. By the time the band managed to get on stage and start playing, we were in a semi-liquid state. The show was in a small auditorium with about three hundred people standing in front of the stage. They sounded like thousands of screaming monkeys. They looked like thousands of screaming monkeys.
A flash camera went off in my face and my brain suffered a complete white-out. I was sure that someone else was playing the music and that we were just holding the instruments. Jance, the bass player, talked non-stop throughout the first set to no one in particular. It was just as well since no one in particular understood what the hell he was saying anyway. At one point, Wayne lurched over the piano and yelled at me, "I'm not who I think I am!" If I looked at anyone for more than a few seconds, I could see their skeleton right through their skin .... Good times.
Somehow, we managed to make it through that first set. One more to go then we're out of there and back to San Francisco. If we can find San Francisco. The band held a meeting to discuss how we were going to get through the rest of the night and it was unanimously decided that what we needed were more of those delightful, madness-laced hash joints. Huddling together like giggling sheep, we went outside, behind the building where no one would see us light up. The auditorium was on the outskirts of town and quite dark and deserted out there in the back except for one bright light shining down from a high metal cyclone fence.
Being the real pros that we were -- plus never really knowing when to quit -- enabled the band to catch its second wind and finish off those power joints without anyone going into convulsions or swallowing their tongue. We were taking the edge off with a few beers before going back inside for another performance of "Six Idiots In Search Of A Village" when Pete, our trumpet player, happened to spot a pattern of lights shining low in the night sky. The lights were grouped together in a tight formation and appeared to be steadily moving in our direction.
Now, in Pete's case, it wouldn't have mattered much at all whether he was high on drugs or not. Pete just automatically assumed that this unearthly glow in the sky could easily be an alien spacecraft, finally coming to retrieve him and take their lost boy home. Pete wanted to believe this more than anything and he wanted everyone else to believe as well. He never shut up about it. Pete truly was a Stranger In A Strange Land.
"This is it." He said softly, his voice cracking, his dilated pupils expanding. "This is fuckin' it, man!" He began jumping up and down like a little kid. The rest of us, even in our own drug-induced haze, were skeptical of Pete and his steaming pile of Star Trek horseshit scenario. As the lights came closer and lower, our own dim bulbs of rational thought began to flicker.
"It's probably an airplane."
"No way, man!"
"Gotta be a plane."
"That's no plane!"
"It's a plane."
"Are you guys blind?"
"It's coming in for a landing."
"Where?"
The approaching plane turned on its landing lights and we stared into the blinding light like stunned animals. The plane came down lower and closer, its engines screaming. "It's coming right at us." Wayne observed, then he lost it. "It's gonna hit us!" He screamed and began running around in circles like a dog looking for a place to hide. The huge cargo plane roared down over the auditorium and landed on the airstrip behind the high metal cyclone fence in back of us. We were at the far end of the San Jose airport runway and hadn't even noticed.
It took a while to coax Wayne out from under Doug's car then explain to him just what had happened. "Airport?" Wayne asked with childlike wonder.
"Yeah, behind that fence. All those lights way over there, that's an airport. Hey, we were just as surprised as you were. But the important thing now, Wayne, is to put this whole thing behind us, pull ourselves together and get on with our lives. Damn it, man, we've got a show to do!"
I don't remember much about the second set. Pete never showed up on stage. Apparently devastated that his own kind would, after coming all this way, just fly right over him like that without even a wave hello, Pete wandered off, leaving his trumpet in the parking lot, and disappeared for three days. He was finally spotted in Oakland dancing in a Hare Krishna parade.
On stage, the show went on. Doug sounded like he was singing in different keys and languages at the same time. Wayne fell asleep on the piano ... not at the piano but on top of the piano, curled up with his shoes off. I broke several important pieces of the drum set but no one, including myself, seemed to notice any discernible difference in the all around quality of the music. I think the monkeys liked us. They didn't trash the place. The opening band seemed genuinely honored to have their equipment violated by such an odd assortment of professional fools. We even managed to safely make it back to San Francisco before daylight.
Overall, I think, for the band, the gig was yet another wondrous adventure in life's rich pageantry ... for the audience, an unusual night of theater. And the music? Well, from what I can remember, there was some of that too.
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"Give us free!... Uh, again!"
A British abolitionist drama? Yeah, it doesn't sound very appealing. "Amazing Grace" is a hard film to dislike with a cast of top acting talent, respectable production design, and a story that should rightfully be told. Still, director Michael Apted can't get the film out of first gear, and while it's a fine film, it won't grab you in any shape or form.
I would put the period drama "Amazing Grace" into the category of "admirable, but not necessarily engaging."
William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd, "Fantastic Four") is at a crossroads in his life. Torn between devoting his life to God or the government, his decision is made for him when abolitionist activists (including Rufus Sewell) present William with a chance to expose the slave trade. Instilled with a sense of purpose, William begins the process of implementing change, pitting himself up against Parliament (Michael Gambon, Ciaran Hinds) and the derision of others (Toby Jones) to make his voice heard in a world that wants to maintain slavery for as long as it can last.
Just glance at "Grace" and you can spot the level of class. It has Michael Apted (�Coal Miner�s Daughter,� the �Up� series of documentaries) directing, Steven Knight ("Dirty Pretty Things") scripting, and a good chunk of top British talent acting; "Grace" has all the components for, at the very least, a quality night out at the movies. The trouble is, that's exactly what you get.
If I sound harsh, that's because "Grace" is perfectly serviceable PBS-style entertainment and little else. It tackles a barbed slavery subject matter in the same pressed way "Amistad" did, but lacks the vivid bit of Middle Passage horror that salvaged a small portion of Spielberg's misguided film.
Apted approaches the subject without the slightest bit of energy, entrusting the actors to breathe their own life into the script and the subject matter to stun the crowds on its own, which works if you just focus in on the acting. With fine supporting help from Albert Finney and Romola Garai (as Wilberforce's love interest and most impassioned listener), and a full-bodied performance from Gruffudd, the acting is impeccable, wallowing in that upper-class British guilt for maximum stiff-upper-lip and combustible bellow.
Running a glacial two hours in length, "Grace" wears out its welcome as it belabors the subplots to a point of irritability. Apted doesn't get caught up in the period details, he gets lost in Wilberforce's setbacks. The suspense of the voting and the twists of loyalty just aren't enough to power the drama, and as much as the filmmaker tries, "Grace" never manages to get off the ground.
Still, there's little to dislike about "Amazing Grace." History purists will find the details enchanting, period drama fanatics will adore the arm's-length posture of the piece, and the true-life tale is one worth being told. Just make sure to ingest loads of caffeine before watching.


These are original Sebring Stock body rivets. We only have them in yellow but they can easily be repainted to match your car. These were used in both the CitiCar and ComutaCars to attach the top / front / back to the side panels. These are special rivets that split on the inside to prevent to much pressure from being applied to the body panels.


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José Joaquín Esquivel Martínez (ur. 7 stycznia 1998 w Zacatecas) – meksykański piłkarz występujący na pozycji defensywnego pomocnika, reprezentant Meksyku, od 2022 roku zawodnik Necaxy.

Bibliografia

Reprezentanci Meksyku w piłce nożnej
Meksykańscy piłkarze na igrzyskach olimpijskich
Meksykańscy piłkarze na igrzyskach panamerykańskich
Meksykańscy piłkarze na igrzyskach Ameryki Środkowej i Karaibów
Meksykańscy medaliści olimpijscy
Meksykańscy medaliści igrzysk panamerykańskich
Piłkarze Mineros de Zacatecas
Piłkarze CF Pachuca
Piłkarze Lobos BUAP
Piłkarze FC Juárez
Piłkarze Club Necaxa
Piłkarze nożni na Letnich Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 2020
Meksykańscy olimpijczycy (Tokio 2020)
Medaliści Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2020
Piłkarze nożni na Igrzyskach Panamerykańskich 2019
Meksykańscy uczestnicy igrzysk panamerykańskich (Lima 2019)
Medaliści Igrzysk Panamerykańskich 2019
Piłkarze nożni na Igrzyskach Ameryki Środkowej i Karaibów 2018
Meksykańscy uczestnicy igrzysk Ameryki Środkowej i Karaibów (Barranquilla 2018)
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata U-20 w Piłce Nożnej 2017
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw CONCACAF U-20 w Piłce Nożnej 2017
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata U-17 w Piłce Nożnej 2015
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw CONCACAF U-17 w Piłce Nożnej 2015
Ludzie urodzeni w Zacatecas (miasto)
Urodzeni w 1998

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Award-winning editor, Maureen Grant shares her journey with Ryan Reaney (Producer & 2017 WIFT-T Showcase Selection Committee member) and WIFT-T Staff on the making of That's My DJ; the importance of female and queer perspectives in the editing process, and the narrative freedom of web series.
Tell us about the creation of That's My DJ. How was this project conceived/ brought to fruition, and how did you come on board? What attracted you most to the project?
D.W. Waterson, the series creator as well as director / co-writer / co-producer is actually a DJ herself, performing as Hey!DW. She wanted to make work about the spaces she inhabits as a musician, and the series was born. For Season 2, the series shifted focus to Meagan's world as a promoter and her experiences as a queer woman in that space. It was important to D.W. to have a female and queer perspective in the edit suite, so she asked me to be part of it. It's not often that you get the opportunity to help tell queer stories, and also be creatively involved from the script stage to picture lock. It helps us all craft stories that we truly connect with and care about.
That's My DJ is a web series. How is working on this medium different than others?
Editing for a web audience is a bit different in terms of the way people are viewing it; you have a smaller window of time to tell the story and much more competition for attention. Web series are often independent, self or crowd-funded, and there's a lot of freedom in the kinds of stories that get told, which is exciting. If you don't see the content you wish you were seeing – you create it yourself with a team of like-minded people. I love that.
DJ's are mostly thought of as male but this series gives us insight from the female perspective. Was this an important part of its formation, and how were you able to use this perspective to tell a unique narrative?
The world of the series parallels the series creator's own creative spaces. Homebrew, the party that Meagan creates and promotes in Season 2, is the name of D.W.'s monthly party. That experience definitely informs Meagan's story line in Season 2, as she creates the kind of party she wants to be at, invites female talent to be on board, and builds her community.
This episode deals with gay/straight issues but speaks to a universal story of relationships in the contemporary world. Can you speak to how you used these themes to illustrate the difficulties of modern romance?
The truth is that things are complicated, often! What was important to us was to allow the characters to be individuals, not labels, and to tell the story of two people who really connect and for whatever reason, it doesn't last. No matter the outcome, it's a relatable story of lust, love, and heartbreak.
What do you enjoy most about this episode, and like best about the series?
I love so many things about this episode, but I particularly enjoy the opening scene, which is perfectly written and executed. The performances are so strong, and we get to explore the deeper aspects of Meagan and Hannah's ultimately complicated relationship. As far as the series, I admire the way it blends drama, comedy, and music video aesthetics to create a portrait of a music subculture.
I'm editing two feature films right now. I'll take a small break and then we'll see what's next. I love what I do, so I'm always looking forward to the next project. To work with fun, creative people on projects I care about, it doesn't get much better.
Maureen Grant is a film and television editor based in Toronto. With a background in Visual Art as well as Film Production, she brings a strong creative sensibility to the stories she helps craft.
Since her residency at the Canadian Film Centre Editors Lab, she has been nominated for two Canadian Cinema Editors Awards, for the short film Still, and for Ingrid Veninger's feature film He Hated Pigeons. It recently won the Special Jury Prize at the image + nation film festival "for its portrayal of grief, which says so much in saying so little".
The short Your Mother and I which premiered at TIFF was shortlisted for Best Short at the BFI London Film Festival and won Best British Short Film at the London Short Film Festival. The web series That's My DJ, Season 2, of which she edited 5 episodes, recently won Best Editing at the Independent Television Festival (ITVFest).
Maureen is currently editing the indie horror film Pyewacket, and the dark comedy Pretend We're Friends.


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using namespace common::parser;
using namespace std::string_view_literals;
using CharType = common::parser::ParserContext::CharType;

#define CHECK_POS(ctx, row, col) EXPECT_EQ(ctx.Row, row##u); EXPECT_EQ(ctx.Col, col##u)
#define CHECK_CHTYPE(ch, type) EXPECT_EQ(ParserContext::ParseType(ch), CharType::type)

TEST(ParserCtx, CharType)
{
    {
        constexpr auto source = U"0 A\t\n"sv;
        ParserContext context(source);
        ContextReader reader(context);

        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), Digit);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), Blank);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), Normal);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), Blank);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), NewLine);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), End);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), End);
    }
}

TEST(ParserCtx, Reader)
{
    {
        constexpr auto source = U"01\n\r\n"sv;
        ParserContext context(source);
        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
        {
            ContextReader reader(context);
            EXPECT_EQ(reader.PeekNext(), U'0');
            CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
            EXPECT_EQ(reader.PeekNext(), U'0');
            CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
            reader.MoveNext();
            EXPECT_EQ(reader.PeekNext(), U'1');
            CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
            reader.MoveNext();
            EXPECT_EQ(reader.CommitRead(), U"01"sv);
            CHECK_POS(context, 0, 2);
            EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 2u);
        }
        {
            ContextReader reader(context);
            EXPECT_EQ(reader.PeekNext(), U'\n');
            reader.MoveNext();
            EXPECT_EQ(reader.PeekNext(), U'\n');
            reader.MoveNext();
            EXPECT_EQ(reader.CommitRead(), U"\n\r\n"sv);
            CHECK_POS(context, 2, 0);
            EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 5u);
        }
        {
            ContextReader reader(context);
            EXPECT_EQ(reader.PeekNext(), special::CharEnd);
            reader.MoveNext();
            reader.CommitRead();
            CHECK_POS(context, 2, 0);
            EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 5u);
        }
    }
}

TEST(ParserCtx, NewLine)
{
    constexpr auto test = [](std::u32string_view src)
    {
        ParserContext context(src);
        ContextReader reader(context);

        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), Digit);
        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 1);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), NewLine);

        CHECK_POS(context, 1, 0);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), Digit);
        CHECK_POS(context, 1, 1);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), Digit);
        CHECK_POS(context, 1, 2);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), NewLine);

        CHECK_POS(context, 2, 0);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), End);
        CHECK_POS(context, 2, 0);
    };
    test(U"0\n12\n"sv);
    test(U"0\r12\r"sv);
    test(U"0\r\n12\r\n"sv);
}

TEST(ParserCtx, ReadLine)
{
    constexpr auto test = [](std::u32string_view src)
    {
        ParserContext context(src);
        ContextReader reader(context);

        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
        const auto line0 = reader.ReadLine();
        EXPECT_EQ(line0, U"line0"sv);

        CHECK_POS(context, 1, 0);
        const auto line1 = reader.ReadLine();
        EXPECT_EQ(line1, U"line1"sv);

        CHECK_POS(context, 2, 0);
        const auto line2 = reader.ReadLine();
        EXPECT_EQ(line2, U"line2"sv);

        CHECK_POS(context, 2, 5);
        CHECK_CHTYPE(reader.ReadNext(), End);
        CHECK_POS(context, 2, 5);
    };
    test(U"line0\nline1\nline2"sv);
    test(U"line0\rline1\rline2"sv);
    test(U"line0\r\nline1\r\nline2"sv);
}

TEST(ParserCtx, ReadUntil)
{
    const auto source = U"Here\nThere*/"sv;
    {
        ParserContext context(source);
        ContextReader reader(context);

        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
        const auto result = reader.ReadUntil(U"*/");
        EXPECT_EQ(result, U"Here\nThere*/"sv);
        CHECK_POS(context, 1, 7);
    }
    {
        ParserContext context(source);
        ContextReader reader(context);

        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
        const auto result = reader.ReadUntil(U"xx");
        EXPECT_EQ(result, U""sv);
        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
    }
}

constexpr auto CheckIsBlank = [](const char32_t ch)
{
    return ch == U' ' || ch == U'\t';
};
constexpr auto CheckIsWhiteSpace = [](const char32_t ch)
{
    return ch == U' ' || ch == U'\t' || ch == '\r' || ch == '\n';
};
constexpr auto CheckIsNumber = [](const char32_t ch)
{
    return (ch >= U'0' && ch <= U'9') || (ch == U'.' || ch == U'-');
};
TEST(ParserCtx, ReadWhile)
{
    const auto source = U" 123\t456\n789\r\n"sv;
    {
        ParserContext context(source);
        ContextReader reader(context);

        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 0);
        const auto result0 = reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsBlank);
        EXPECT_EQ(result0, U" "sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 1u);
        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 1);

        const auto result1 = reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsNumber);
        EXPECT_EQ(result1, U"123"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 4u);
        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 4);

        const auto result2 = reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsBlank);
        EXPECT_EQ(result2, U"\t"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 5u);
        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 5);

        const auto result3 = reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsNumber);
        EXPECT_EQ(result3, U"456"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 8u);
        CHECK_POS(context, 0, 8);

        const auto result5 = reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsWhiteSpace);
        EXPECT_EQ(result5, U"\n"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 9u);
        CHECK_POS(context, 1, 0);

        const auto result6 = reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsNumber);
        EXPECT_EQ(result6, U"789"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 12u);
        CHECK_POS(context, 1, 3);

        const auto result7 = reader.ReadWhile([](const char32_t ch) { return ch == U'\n'; });
        EXPECT_EQ(result7, U"\r\n"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(context.Index, 14u);
        CHECK_POS(context, 2, 0);
    }
}

TEST(ParserCtx, ParseFunc)
{
    constexpr auto test = [](std::u32string_view src) -> std::pair<std::u32string_view, std::vector<std::u32string_view>>
    {
        std::vector<std::u32string_view> args;
        ParserContext context(src);
        ContextReader reader(context);
        reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsWhiteSpace);
        const auto fname = reader.ReadWhile([](const char32_t ch)
            {
                return !CheckIsWhiteSpace(ch) && U"()'\"<>[]{}/\\,.?|+-*=&^%$#@!~`"sv.find(ch) == std::u32string_view::npos;
            });
        reader.ReadWhile([](const char32_t ch) { return ch != '('; });
        if (reader.ReadNext() == '(')
        {
            while (true)
            {
                reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsWhiteSpace);
                const auto arg = reader.ReadWhile([](const char32_t ch)
                    {
                        return !CheckIsWhiteSpace(ch) && U"),"sv.find(ch) == std::u32string_view::npos;
                    });
                reader.ReadWhile(CheckIsWhiteSpace);
                const auto next = reader.ReadNext();
                switch (next)
                {
                case ')':
                    args.emplace_back(arg);
                    break;
                case ',':
                    args.emplace_back(arg);
                    continue;
                case special::CharEnd:
                    EXPECT_NE((uint32_t)next, (uint32_t)special::CharEnd);
                    return { };
                default:
                    EXPECT_TRUE(false);
                    return {};
                }
                break;
            }
        }
        return { fname, args };
    };
    {
        const auto ret = test(U"func(foo)"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(ret.first, U"func"sv);
        EXPECT_THAT(ret.second, testing::ElementsAre(U"foo"sv));
    }
    {
        const auto ret = test(U" \tfunc(foo)"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(ret.first, U"func"sv);
        EXPECT_THAT(ret.second, testing::ElementsAre(U"foo"sv));
    }
    {
        const auto ret = test(U" \tfunc \t(foo)"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(ret.first, U"func"sv);
        EXPECT_THAT(ret.second, testing::ElementsAre(U"foo"sv));
    }
    {
        const auto ret = test(U" \tfunc \t\n(foo)"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(ret.first, U"func"sv);
        EXPECT_THAT(ret.second, testing::ElementsAre(U"foo"sv));
    }
    {
        const auto ret = test(U" \tfunc \t( \t\nfoo)"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(ret.first, U"func"sv);
        EXPECT_THAT(ret.second, testing::ElementsAre(U"foo"sv));
    }
    {
        const auto ret = test(U" \tfunc \t( \tfoo \t\n)"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(ret.first, U"func"sv);
        EXPECT_THAT(ret.second, testing::ElementsAre(U"foo"sv));
    }
    {
        const auto ret = test(U"func (arg0,arg1)"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(ret.first, U"func"sv);
        EXPECT_THAT(ret.second, testing::ElementsAre(U"arg0"sv, U"arg1"sv));
    }
    {
        const auto ret = test(U"func (arg0,\t\n\targ1)"sv);
        EXPECT_EQ(ret.first, U"func"sv);
        EXPECT_THAT(ret.second, testing::ElementsAre(U"arg0"sv, U"arg1"sv));
    }
}


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Home Entertainment Tyler Perry Has High Hopes for 'Too Close to Home'
Tyler Perry Has High Hopes for 'Too Close to Home'
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Filmmaker, playwright and actor Tyler Perry comments on TLC's first original scripted drama, 'Too Close to Home.'
Filmmaker, playwright and actor Tyler Perry comments on TLC's first original scripted drama, 'Too Close to Home.'
It fascinates Tyler Perry to create programming structured around people and what results from their choices.
The dynamic actor, writer, producer, playwright and director's latest small screen foray, Too Close to Home, is a dramatic series on TLC spanning eight episodes centered around a young woman (Danielle Savre) who abandons her family and trailer park origins for a new life on D.C.'s political scene. She fabricates coming from an affluent background but is forced to relocate back to her small town roots and confront pressing family issues following her sordid, headlining tryst with a reputable politician.
"I wanted to know what would happen if people really got to that level and had to go back to where they came from," questions Perry, sliding inconspicuously into the show's Atlanta premiere. "If you make bad choices, there's going to be hell to pay. Everything is about how do you use your platform or the show without preaching or beating people over the head. She's got this lovely, crazy, insane family, colorful people in the background as all of us have. I just wanted to explore that world and where it goes from here."
Quietly resting his face on his left hand throughout the advanced preview, Perry, synonymous with creating and portraying the girthy, hell-raising, pistol-slanging matriarch, "Madea," got his creative inspiration for Too Close to Home from admiring the work of veteran television producers Aaron Spelling and Norman Lear. The primetime series' ensemble (and predominately white) cast features Heather Locklear, Matt Battaglia, Trisha Rae Stahl, Kelly Sullivan, Brooke Anne Smith and Brock O'Hurn.
The modest, self-assured New Orleans native responsible for producing high-grossing box office smashes such as I Can Do Bad All By Myself, the Why Did I Get Married? series, Daddy's Little Girls, The Family That Preys, For Colored Girls, Good Deeds and Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor wastes no time acknowledging and praising his cast's professionalism and humility.
"It was really phenomenal for me to have people this talented come along," reiterates the blissful NAACP Image award recipient. "I got a chance to work everyday and have a great time."
Perry preps the actors by starting with prayer. During casting, he thinks ingenuity overrides talent. "I look for truth," insists Perry, now seated comfortably on a bar stool. "I don't care if those actors are not incredible. They take me places that blow my mind. I want new faces and people who bring honesty. These actors work their asses off."
The 46-year-old creator, humanitarian and fast-paced showrunner behind House of Payne, Meet the Browns, The Haves and the Have Nots, Love Thy Neighbor and If Loving You is Wrong, watched every program on TLC while he was negotiating Too Close to Home. Perry extracted certain attributes and dramatic elements from each program on the cable network to concoct the series.
Shot entirely on the media mogul's newly developed Ft. McPherson production lot, Perry shares post-screening that he recruited a new cinematographer and constantly renovated numerous sets on the studio's 330 acres (i.e. the Oval Office, trailer park and a farm) to give TLC's first original scripted program more lush production aesthetics.
It was especially important for Perry to be consistent with his previous work by infusing subtle morality plays into Too Close to Home's subject matter. "I took elements from all the shows and put them together in one show," he says seated next to the cast members minus Locklear. "I hope after everything is said and done, everything is all about your choices and the consequences for your choices."
Oprah, Perry's ally and close confidante, he says, is as equally as excited and supportive of Too Close to Home as he is. The humorous thespian and groundbreaking studio owner is not concerned about the race or ethnicity of the performers on any of his programs. He aspires for Too Close to Home, already renewed for a second season, to generate similar fanfare as The Haves and the Have Nots.
Perry additionally hopes viewers can see themselves in the plots but recognizes that Too Close to Home signals another chapter in his creativity. "It's a different cast of characters and different group of people," he says. "If you look at all of my shows, take a minute, study and see all of these are very different people who have their own lives and stories to tell."
This post was written by Christopher A. Daniel, pop cultural critic and music editor for The Burton Wire. He is also a contributing writer for Urban Lux Magazine and Blues & Soul Magazine. Follow Christopher @Journalistorian on Twitter.
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My first time on a farm! It took about 2 hours to get here via bus from Tokyo, but it was worth it. The view was absolutely amazing and the air was so clean and refreshing. The farm is actually quite large, and it took us about 30 minutes just to cover half the ground. Surprisingly, there was also a mini amusement park on the premise! The farm features adorable farm animals such as baby piglets, cows, llamas, alpacas, goats, chickens, bunnies, guineas pigs, as well as an ostrich, haha! Strawberry farms and other fruit green houses are also a main attraction for the farm, although we didn't get a chance to visit them. On the bright side, I did get to taste some fresh ice-cream, which was quite delicious! If you ever get a chance to go to Mother Bokujo, I would definitely recommend going in April though, since they have beautiful flower fields that cover the entire side of the mountain.


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A Review of Literature on Marking Reliability Research
Sarah Maughan, Jo Tisi, Gillian Whitehouse, Newman Burdett
The focus of this review is marking reliability, which is affected by factors relating to the marking process, such as mark scheme design, individual marker behaviours and different marking processes. We review evidence of reliability at both item and whole paper level, as well as reports describing new methods for measuring reliability and new ways of improving the reliability of test and examination results. To this end the report aims to identify the main advances that have been made in improving and quantifying marking reliability. As such, this review of the literature forms part of the Ofqual Quality of Marking Project.
To make meaningful comparisons between findings from the different marking reliability studies, we need to have consensus on the terminology and statistical techniques used for measuring marking reliability.
Features on items and mark schemes can influence marking reliability: for example, the use of clearly specified mark schemes; having lower maximum marks; or clarifying the level of cognitive demands on markers may improve marking reliability.
On-screen marking makes item-level data more easily available; it also allows the marking process to be continuously monitored, which enables early detection and correction of inaccuracy. On-screen marking appears to be as reliable as paper-based marking, even for long answers or essay questions.
Item-level marking where more than one marker contributes to a pupil's overall mark rather than a single marker assessing a whole script is more reliable, because it reduces examiner biases and random errors.


The Property and Evidence Unit is responsible for the storage of all impounded property and evidence submitted by law enforcement personnel of the Davie Police Department. Found items with no ownership are considered abandoned after 90 days and are subject to disposal. Evidentiary items related to crimes other than capital felonies will be disposed of after the final disposition of the courts; as outlined within the Florida State Statutes relating to evidence retention.
We ask that you call in advance to schedule an appointment to ensure the property was processed and is available for release. Appointments are recommended and in some cases required.
When requesting an appointment please include your Davie Police case number. If you do not have your case number, please contact the Records Unit.
Proper photo identification is required for the return of all property. In some cases other documentation may be requested.
If you are unable to retrieve your property in person you may assign another person to retrieve it on your behalf. Some exemptions may apply. It is required that you obtain a notarized letter of authorization. The letter must be addressed to the Davie Police Department Property Unit and include: the case number, the legal name of the person you are granting this authority to, your signature, and an original notary stamp and notary signature.
The return of firearms may require a court order or additional documentation before release. All court orders must be originals/true copies and signed by a judge. Please contact the Property Unit for clarification and/or further instructions.
If you are listed as the owner on the property receipt, present the receipt with the case number on it and a valid photo ID. If you are not listed as the owner, you must present proof of ownership. For public notification a Lost and Found list is posted in the Main Lobby.
If you are listed on the property receipt as the owner, present the property receipt and valid photo identification. If you're not listed as the owner, contact the officer who issued the receipt. The officer must authorize, in writing, the release of the property to you.
Per Florida State Statue 925.11 and 925.12, if the suspect in a felony case is found guilty by jury or if the pled in court, the property must be held until the sentence has been fully served plus 60 days after the conclusion of a proceeding, regardless of who owns the property. If the case is "dismissed" or the suspect was "acquitted" of all charges, the property can be released with written authorization from the detective or officers responsible for the case. A certified copy of a court order can also release property at any time (with an appointment).
All property will be disposed of in the accordance with chapter 705 of the Florida State Statue. The title unclaimed evidence, which is lawfully seized, shall vest permanently in the law enforcement agency 60 days after the concussion of a proceeding. Similarly, found property will be returned to its lawful owner as soon as possible. We do not hold auctions at the police department, all disposed of property is transferred to Property Room, Police Auction Online.


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Home Uncategorized FEMA assistance available to Sibley residents
FEMA assistance available to Sibley residents
SIBLEY — Additional help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is available for those in Sibley affected by the March 2016 floods, and those who have not completed the first step to get that help are being asked to do so.
In a letter to the town last week, the Office of Community Development Disaster Recovery Unit recently launched the Restore Louisiana Homeowner Assistance Program. The program is designed to help those affected by the March 2016 floods rebuild their homes, and state records show that 91 percent of those in Sibley who had flood damage did not complete the survey that could help them get additional assistance.
"Most of those who have a Sibley address were around the lake area," Mayor Jimmy Williams said. "I know people whose houses were totally destroyed that are just now starting to get some money from FEMA. For us, 99 percent of those that didn't get assistance were around the lake area."
To date, only seven have completed the survey.
"Our records show that 82 households in your city [sic] had a FEMA verified loss resulting from the 2016 floods…," according to the letter. "We were recently awarded an additional $51.4 million from Housing and Urban Development as part of the latest disaster assistance appropriation by Congress. With these funds, the Restore Louisiana Task Force has approved expanding the Homeowner Assistance Program to include help for homeowners who had flood insurance at the time of the disaster but still meet the Phase I program requirements (low-to-moderate income families, with an owner who is elderly or has a household member with a disability, whose home is outside the floodplain)."
The program is funded through HUD, and the survey is the first step in order for homeowners to receive assistance, the letter states.
Williams is encouraging those who did not sign up for assistance or complete the survey to do so in order to get help rebuilding.
"There were a lot of people affected by the flood," he said. "It's still available. If someone has a house that hasn't been restored and still has water damage, it can't hurt."
For more information, contact Sibley Town Hall at 377-0345.


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Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you'd rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Very fun video by Matt McInerney -- what it would be like if Quicksilver came to life outside your Mac. I sure like it better than living in a YouTube thread.
Quicksilver in Real Life from Matt McInerney on Vimeo.
As we all learned from Equus, we don't get to choose the things in life that fascinate and repel us, and, in retrospect, if I could have chosen to avoid the avalanche of empty businessspeak I've been exposed to over the past dozen or so years, I certainly would have. Alas, I could not. And, so here I am, alternately repulsed and amused by the twisted patois of nonsense that passes for communication in offices and boardrooms today.
If you share this sad affliction, you may enjoy the pleasures afforded by the Corporate Ipsum Dashboard widget, cleverly (and pointlessly) designed to generate paragraphs and paragraphs of empty insight for your next pitch, presentation, or VC meeting.
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Game result (chess)
O. Kuliy, 1975
K. Farnik, 2176
Valentin Minchev
Correspondence chess 2481
Last move : 1/2-1/2 2007 January 7 19:36:17
[Event "FICGS__CHESS__CLASS_M__000005"]
[White "Yarkov,Evgeny"]
[Black "Minchev,Valentin"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Be7 7.Be3 Be6 8.Qd2 h6 9.N1c3 a6 10.Na3 Bg5 11.Nc2 Bxe3 12.Qxe3 Qg5 13.O-O-O Qxe3+ 14.Nxe3 Nd4 15.Ne2 Nxe2+ 16.Bxe2 Nf6 17.f3 Ke7 18.b3 b5 19.Kb2 b4 20.Ra1 Nd7 21.a3 Rhb8 22.a4 a5 23.Kc2 Rd8 24.Rad1 Nc5 25.h4 g6 26.h5 g5 27.g4 f6 28.Rd2 Rac8 29.Rhd1 Nb7 30.Kb2 Kd7 31.Bd3 Rc6 32.Bc2 Nc5 33.Ka2 Ke7 34.Kb2 1/2-1/2
This is the last move in a Chess game played by V. Minchev at FICGS.
The 6 games most recently played are :
Elo average opponents : 2348
Results : 66 % With white : 66 % With black : 66 %
Valentin Minchev has currently 0 running correspondence chess game(s), won 2, lost 0 and drawn 4 other games against an average elo of 2348, does not play advanced chess (fast time controls), does not play big chess, does not play Go (wei-ch'i, baduk), and does not play poker, finally Valentin finished a total of 6 games and is not playing any game right now.
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Last connection : 2011 January 24
Member # 204
A few other games played recently by Valentin Minchev
Last move : 0-1 2006 November 28 20:43:26
[White "Koch,Christian"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.O-O Bg7 5.Re1 e5 6.Nc3 Nge7 7.d3 O-O 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bxe7 Nxe7 10.a4 d6 11.h3 Kh7 12.Bc4 f5 13.Qe2 Rb8 14.Nd5 Nxd5 15.Bxd5 b6 16.Nd2 Bd7 17.exf5 Rxf5 18.Ne4 Qc7 19.f3 Bf8 20.Nc3 Qd8 21.Qd2 Be7 22.Ne4 Qc7 23.Nc3 Bh4 24.Rf1 Rbf8 25.Be4 R5f7 26.Qe2 Qd8 27.Kh2 Qg5 28.Bd5 Rf5 29.Ne4 Qf4+ 30.Kh1 Bg3 31.Nxg3 Qxg3 32.Qf2 Qxf2 33.Rxf2 Rf4 34.a5 b5 35.c3 g5 36.Kh2 Kg6 37.Kg1 h5 38.Be4+ Kg7 39.d4 exd4 40.cxd4 c4 41.g3 R4f7 42.Kg2 Re7 43.Rh1 h4 44.a6 Kh6 45.g4 Rf4 46.Rd2 Be8 47.Ra1 Kg7 48.d5 Kf6 49.Re2 Bg6 50.Ra5 Bxe4 51.Rxe4 R7xe4 52.fxe4 Rxe4 53.Rxb5 Ke5 54.Rb7 Re3 55.Rxa7 Re2+ 56.Kf3 Rxb2 57.Re7+ Kd4 58.Rd7 Rb6 0-1
Last move : 1/2-1/2 2006 November 7 16:30:11
[White "Minchev,Valentin"]
[Black "Shwimmer,Peter"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 Ke8 10.h3 Be7 11.Bg5 Bxg5 12.Nxg5 h6 13.Nge4 b6 14.Rfd1 Ke7 15.Kh2 g5 16.Ne2 Ke6 17.g4 Kxe5 18.Nd2 Nh4 19.f4+ Kf6 20.Rf1 Kg6 21.Ng3 Re8 22.Rf2 Ba6 23.fxg5 hxg5 24.Nde4 f5 25.gxf5+ Nxf5 26.h4 Nxg3 27.Nxg3 Rf8 28.h5+ Kh7 29.Rxf8 Rxf8 30.Re1 Bc4 31.b3 Bg8 32.c4 b5 33.cxb5 Bd5 34.Re7+ Kh6 35.Kg1 cxb5 36.Rxc7 Rf3 37.Ne2 a6 38.Nc3 Bf7 39.Ne4 g4 40.Rc5 Bxh5 41.Rc6+ Bg6 42.Kg2 Kh5 43.Ng3+ Kg5 44.Rxa6 Rd3 45.Kf2 Rd2+ 46.Ke3 Rd3+ 47.Kf2 Rd7 48.Ne2 Rf7+ 49.Kg3 Rf3+ 50.Kg2 b4 51.Rb6 Re3 52.Kf2 Re4 53.Rd6 Re5 54.Rb6 Bd3 1/2-1/2
Last move : 1/2-1/2 2006 November 2 0:34:23
[Black "Caire,Francois"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 Bg5 12.Nc2 Rb8 13.a4 bxa4 14.Ncb4 Nxb4 15.cxb4 Bd7 16.Bxa6 O-O 17.O-O Bc6 18.Rxa4 Bxa4 19.Qxa4 g6 20.b5 Kh8 21.b6 Rxb6 22.Nxb6 Qxb6 23.Bb5 Qb7 24.b3 Rb8 25.Bc4 Ra8 26.Qb5 Qxb5 27.Bxb5 Ra2 28.Rd1 Bd2 29.g4 Kg7 30.Bc4 1/2-1/2
Last move : 1/2-1/2 2006 August 7 23:4:6
[White "Florea,Mihai"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.N1c3 a6 7.Na3 Be7 8.Nc4 b5 9.Ne3 Nf6 10.g3 h5 11.Bg2 h4 12.O-O Rb8 13.Ncd5 Nxd5 14.Nxd5 Bg5 15.f4 Bh6 16.a4 Ne7 17.axb5 Nxd5 18.Qxd5 hxg3 19.hxg3 Rxb5 1/2-1/2
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The Board seek to establish a Gait and Motion Analysis Lab facility.Gait Analysis involves the study of human motion using the eye and brain of observers, augmented by instrumentation for measurement of body movements, body mechanics, and the activity of muscles. Gait analysis is used to assess, plan and treat individuals with conditions affecting their ability to walk. It is also commonly used in physical therapy and sports biomechanics to identify posture related or movement related problems with people with injuries. A Gait and Motion Lab is typically equipped with state of the art motion analysis system, two ground embedded force platforms and a range of pressure sensing technologies to gather detailed information on movement patterns of a wide variety of patients groups. Expressions of interest are sought from suitably experienced and qualified suppliers to provide the above Gait and Motion Lab.CPV: 33100000.


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Book Review: 'Biloxi,' by Mary Miller
"Biloxi" by Mary Miller. TNS
Laurie Hertzel
Here's my advice: Don't think too much about this book — just enjoy it.
"Biloxi," the fourth book by Mary Miller, is an entertaining, endearing story about a late-middle-aged, morose divorced guy who accidentally acquires a dog.
The dog changes his life (as dogs do). For good? For bad? For more complicated? For all those things.
The morose divorced guy is named Louis McDonald Jr., and he narrates the tale. He lives in Biloxi, Miss., in the same house he shared for years with his now-ex-wife, Ellen, and their daughter, Maxine. But Ellen has left him, Maxine has grown and gone, and Louis is feeling unmoored.
And what a pill Ellen was, at least in Louis' memory. When a friend baked her cookies, Ellen refused to eat them, claiming "the cookies were meant to fatten her up, that they were cookies with bad intent."
As for his daughter, Louis is not estranged from her so much as he is indifferent to her — a far cry from Maxine's childhood, when "she had loved me better than anybody in the world," he says. "She'd reach for my hand, take it and hold it until I couldn't bear it any longer and had to let go."
This is a man who, clearly, is not comfortable with vulnerability.
He thinks, from time to time, about the gun he has stashed in his bedroom. Might he use it on himself? Would anyone care?
And then one morning on his way to pick up his diabetes medication at Walgreens, he finds himself in front of a house festooned with balloons and a sign announcing free dogs.
The next thing he knows, he's putting Layla into his car. She's a border collie, black and white, a bit overweight and prone to gagging, which is why her owner is giving her away. Plus, the guy said, his new wife is allergic.
And the next thing that happens after that is that Louis finds himself singing nonsensical songs to Layla about how her belly smells like corn chips, and buying her too much stuff at PetSmart. Can such a whirlwind romance last?
Miller's charming and funny novel grows complicated in a hilarious sort of way, a way that you don't want to examine too closely, with con men and drunkards, minor story lines that go nowhere, and all kinds of implausible twists and turns.
But the ride is so much fun that you'd be a spoilsport for demanding that it all add up.
Is it possible to change late in life? Is it possible for the hopeless to regain hope? Apparently the answer is yes, if you get a dog.
In the blurbs, critics compare Miller's work to Lorrie Moore, early Ann Beattie and (oddly) Ernest Hemingway. I'd tuck "Biloxi" somewhere between Stewart O'Nan, who writes so knowingly about the small details of a quiet life, and the comic novels of Jonathan Evison. But why compare it to anyone? Miller's good all on her own.
Reading habit
What a noble deed by the ruler of Sharjah to allocate such a lot of money towards enriching Sharjah's libraries with the latest publications. This story made my day.
The creative writing session by authors Ruth Paul and Juliette MacIver at Sharjah Children's Reading Festival must have been very interesting ("NZ authors give tips on creativity," April 20, Gulf Today).
Marlon James' new book is a fantastical epic
'Black Leopard, Red Wolf,' by Marlon James, is an African fantasy epic that could make a 'Game of Throne's'-style TV series
Five books you might like to read
For those who enjoyed Michael Ondaatje's "Warlight," here are a few suggestions for further reading
Czechs go crazy as pop singer Gott turns 80
Hundreds of people from home and abroad queued in steady rain in central Prague on Sunday to buy a "Zero Euro" souvenir banknote depicting Czech pop singer Karel Gott in honour of his 80th birthday.
I'm attacked for taking on Bollywood biggies: Kangana
Bollywood's queen of controversies Kangana Ranaut on Monday said her ugly outburst at a news agency journalist at an event in Mumbai last week happened because she was "fed up" with a section of journalists ganging up against her for speaking up against certain Bollywood biggies such as Hrithik roshan and Karan Johar.
Triveni's newest gallery displays children's art
Triveni Kala Sangam, a major cultural hotspot in the national capital especially known for its terrace cafe, has added its list of galleries, a unique open-air gallery dedicated to children's art.
Cuban singer becomes pioneer of #MeToo movement on island
Since Alfonso's accusations against Cortés on an Internet video programme last month, many Cubans have declared their support for her online, calling her the pioneer of the #MeToo movement in a country where open discussion of violence against women is rare.


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Reyed Mia (Apprentice, DIU)
- In some regards, it's not different at all, and I'll come to that in a second. In other regards, it's vastly different. The machinery that goes into hiring at scale once you achieve critical mass, when you're at 15 people, and you're hiring single-digit people to add to the team, that's something the team can do. When you're at 150 people trying to scale to 300 and you need double the size of the company, at some point you're going to need to have dedicated recruiters. When you're at 300, and you're growing to 3,000, you're going to need sourcers, and then you're going to need people to support them. You're going to need recruiters and schedulers and the apparatus, the machinery behind recruiting at scale is quite substantial.
In that regard that changes. That's very logical. What shouldn't change, but unfortunately does is once you recognize who you are as an organization, your culture, your values, the more you can hire against your culture and values and not compromise, I think the more likely you are to be successful. Where a lot of hyper-growth companies go off the rails is they need to grow from 150 to 300 to keep pace with the competition, to develop that next breakthrough innovation, to hire sales people to fulfill demand, to hire people in G&A functions to be able to support the rest of the organization, and without putting butts in the seats, there may be a fear that it's going to limit the growth of the organization.
What happens inevitably is whereas you set the bar very clearly and explicitly in terms of where you want to hire, who you want to hire, the quality of people, the cultural fit, you start to compromise. For example, you'll see someone. They'll come in and on paper, LinkedIn profile for example, they have great skills, but for whatever reason during the interview process, you got the sense they're not going to be a cultural fit. Where an organization's headed for trouble is when you sit around with your hiring team, your hiring committee, whatever decision making process you have for recruiting, and someone says, "Look at the skills of this person." We interview them.
They're not a cultural fit, but we'll make it work. We'll coach them. There'll be a process of osmosis here. They'll just figure out how we do things. I've talked to folks who have hired in that situation, and they'll tell you that inevitably it did not work out. It actually created a bunch of problems. Where an organization's in a position where it can scale effectively is the next time that conversation is had, it's "Look at the skills of this person. "They're not a cultural fit.
"Let's move on to the next candidate," and when your team is having that conversation without you needing to be in the room, that's when you're onto something, and that's when you can truly scale.
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/jeff-weiner-on-establishing-a-culture-and-a-plan-for-scaling/how-does-hiring-change-as-the-business-scales
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Suga tells G20 Japan will lead green industry
At the G20 summit Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has pledged that Japan will lead the world's green industry to create a favorable cycle for the economy and environment.
Suga attended the second day of the virtual meeting from Sunday night through early Monday morning, Japan time. US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and other leaders also took part.
Suga reiterated Japan's goal of reducing its emissions of greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050. He argued that revolutionary innovations, such as next-generation solar cells, carbon recycling, and hydrogen energy, will hold the key to achieving a green society.
Japan's prime minister also announced plans to offer technical and other forms of assistance to developing countries. The aim is to help the world reduce additional pollution by marine plastic litter to zero by 2050. Volumes of waste from medical equipment and sanitary products have been growing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Leaders' Declaration adopted at the G20 summit commends "Japan's determination" to host the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games next year as "a symbol of humanity's resilience and global unity in overcoming COVID-19." The Games were postponed to 2021.


Protect your door, keep it secure and safe for your family. Along with your door lock and the basic door elements, you increase your security efficiently.
However, though door controlling mechanisms help keep uninvited guests, it is also important to see how we should deal with callers at the door. So, how must one answer a call at the door?
First thing, peer through the door's glazed panel or door viewer (if you have one). Or go to a window where you have a view of the caller. If it's a friendly face then you can open the door.
Door bars. A door security bar or door jammer is a useful and simple security solution that helps protect your home from unwanted entry. Door security bars can be used on nearly any door — including residential exterior and interior doors, hotel room doors, and dorm room doors.
Door chains. A door chain, security chain, or security door chain consists of a small chain attached to the door frame, which attaches to a track on the door for security purposes. It is a type of lock that is often used along with other types of locks to secure a door.
Door closers. Want your doors not to shut or doors that bang – door closers make this possible. Door closers are mechanisms often found at the top of doors that stop them from slamming. But they do more than that! Door closers often allow you to keep the door open too, for when you are moving in or out, or otherwise have high levels of traffic passing through the doorway. Door closers help protect the lock over time, it will also keep the peace as the loud banging of doors is cut to a minimum.
Door viewers and secure vision panels. These are essential items for controlling access at your door if you don't have clear glass. It's so much better to be able to see the caller before you speak to them, let alone answering the door to them.
There are still more of these basic mechanical protection tools which you can properly fit with your door lock to reinforce it. Locksmiths near you like Melbourne City Locksmiths can assist with these security needs.


This delightful Ranch home plan will appeal to those who want no stairs to climb and a split bedroom layout.
With the spacious master suite away from the other bedrooms, pribacy is guaranteed.
Sunlight floods into the bright and airy breakfast nook that is surrounded by windows.
You can also use the formal dining room in the front of the home.
A vaulted ceiling expands the great room with its cozy fireplace.


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Interview with James D Nickel, Author of The Dance of Number
His father's advice when he graduated from high school was to study what he loved, and math was his thing. But by the time he'd finished his university education he'd decided to never open a math book again. He was done with it. With a degree in mathematics he was able to land a job in Ventura, California as a computer analyst and his initial passion for mathematics was never extinguished. Eventually he researched, wrote and published Mathematics: Is God Silent?
I met James Nickel in the late '70s while we were students at Bethany Fellowship Missionary Training Center in Bloomington. I remember his Senior Project even then had to to with mathematics. We've been pretty much in touch ever since. The Dance of Number has been a major undertaking and a long time coming. Hard copies will be available soon on Amazon and at his imprint Sound Mind Press.
EN: You're finally going to see the fruit of your labors with this book. Initially, you anticipated a 2013 release date. Why the five-year delay?
James D. Nickel: First, in late 2013, I decided to rewrite the entire text, the fourth rewrite since I wrote the initial draft in 2001. Why this rewrite? See my answer to Question 4. By doing so, the one text ballooned to four (nearly 2,000 total pages). And, writing a complete solutions manual is equal to writing the text itself. The solutions take up three books, 900 pages total. Second, proofing was a tedious and time-consuming process, taking almost two years.
EN: Briefly summarize The Dance of Number.
JDN: Technically, "The Dance of Number" is a tightly integrated series of four textbooks, designed for completion in four years. I start from the beginning, assuming the student knows nothing but can read with comprehension, i.e., age 11-13. In the first two texts, I teach the rudiments of arithmetic, engaging a speed paradigm that covers the four operations of arithmetic in relationship to integers. Then, I move to the operations with fractions and decimals. While doing this, I introduce many geometric ideas, along with exercises that carefully introduce the student to algebraic syntax. In the final two texts, I explore the world of algebraic syntax and mathematical reasoning, covering all the necessary topics that will prepare the student for PreCalculus/Calculus. I include most of the concepts in the typical Algebra I/II syllabus, along with a significant amount of requisite two- and three-dimensional Geometry, a complete course in Trigonometry, all the methods of mathematical proofs, and even an introduction to Calculus reasoning.
EN: How has the book evolved from your original vision for the project?
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JDN: My original vision that stimulated the writing of the first draft in 2001 was to show the interconnections and interplay of mathematics, starting from Arithmetic and ending with the rudiments of Calculus. I have stayed true to that vision, expanding the material significantly and adding a multiplicity of enrichment ideas.
EN: How have you changed since you first began writing it?
JDN: Indeed, I have changed. When I wrote the first draft in 2001 while working full-time in the computer world, my vision of the nature of God, who God is in His essence, tended to be static and contractual, while being doctrinally correct in form. Beginning in 2011, while teaching mathematics full-time, the Holy Spirit began to lift a multitude of blinders from the heart of my theological vision. Into my heart was planted a sight of the Trinity as a dynamic onto-relational reality, from eternity past the Father loving the Son, the Son loving the Father, all in the communion of the personal Holy Spirit. This self-giving love is so intense that the writers of the New Testament struggled to articulate it. John did the best he could when he talked about mutual indwelling, the Son in the Father and the Father in the Son (John 14:10). Several of the early church fathers coined a word that pointed to the profundity of this interpenetrating and intimate relationship. That word is perichoresis. My contract/performance view of grace as "something" I get – if I do this, God will bless me – or don't get – if I don't perform, watch out, trouble is coming! – turned into an unconditional view of grace as a person – The Triune God loves me with the same love known in His being from eternity. By the vicarious humanity of the Son, the Father has included me in that relationship (John 14:20); and I can, therefore, freely participate in that life, that eternal life (John 17:3), by the Holy Spirit. The call to the obedience of faith, the imperatives of grace, is grounded in the unconditional indicatives of grace, the provision of the Father's love in His Son. It is no longer a matter of me knowing God by my efforts, but of Christ, the Son of the Father, including me in His knowledge of the Father (Matthew 11:25-30). I would, therefore, change the title and theological method of James I. Packer's classic book, Knowing God, where he calls the reader to pull up his bootstraps in the effort to know God, to Participating in the Son's Knowledge of the Father by the Holy Spirit. Faithful to the words of Jesus, rest enveloped my heart when the Spirit opened my eyes to this participatory reality. As I grew in this revelation, I experienced a transformation in the way I looked at people, the world, and mathematics. A complete rewrite, therefore, of my textbook was required!
EN: What would you consider the most significant feature or message in The Dance of Number?
JDN: I write this in the first lesson of the text: "There is a perichoretic structure, a dance, in creation. This dance is the unity behind the diversity of the cosmos, the rational ground of all that exists. This unity exists because all things cohere in Jesus Christ, the Word of the Father, God the Son made flesh (John 1:14), who reveals to us the perichoretic nature, the dance of the dynamism of His relationship to His Father in the Holy Spirit. One aspect of the perichoretic structure of creation is number." Since the onto-relational Trinity created and sustains all things, we should expect to see in creation a revelation of mutual indwelling, a revelation of the dance of perichoresis, all over the place. Therefore, the most significant feature of "The Dance of Number" is exploring the diverse facets of perichoresis both within the structure of mathematics and the perichoretic connection between the ideas of mathematics and the architecture of the physical world. The Triune God has wired creation by His being, by perichoresis, and we are wired for perichoresis by imago Dei.
EN: Why would you say this book is an important addition to mathematics literature?
JDN: From my preceding comments, the exploration of perichoresis makes this textbook series a truly unique addition to mathematics literature. For example, the way I teach the mechanics of doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, i.e., the consistent left-to-right methods employed in Japan and India, reveals perichoretic beauty in two ways. First, there is one underlying principle that interpenetrates all four operations. Second, addition interpenetrates subtraction and multiplication interpenetrates division, not merely because of the nature of inverses, but as the method for performing the respective operations unfolds, place value by place value. Our American right-to-left methods blind us to this beauty.
EN: During the past half-century we've seen great advances in the realm of A.I. Will there be new breakthroughs in math as a result of what A.I. technology is doing?
JDN: I'm not sure, Ed. A.I. is programmatically designed by humans using logic gates; "intelligence" is, therefore, human-given. Computers have come to the aid of mathematicians for decades, revealing, as in the case of fractal geometry, beauty beyond imagination.
EN: You once explained that "Algebra is the language of mathematics and mathematics is the language of science." How was algebra discovered?
JDN: Algebra is a language of generalities. For example, we know that it doesn't matter whether we add 2 to 3 or 3 to 2; we get 5 as the sum both ways. We write this principle as an algebraic equation: a + b = b + a where a and b stand for any number in general. Early civilizations, e.g., Egypt, Babylonia, China, invoked the generalization rule in their commercial transactions, land taxation, and building constructions. They stated rules using rhetoric. When the ancient Greeks inherited the mathematics of the ancient world, they continued the rhetorical expressions. Their focus was primarily on static forms of Geometry, not Algebra. In the third century AD, Diophantus, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, was the first to introduce symbols into the algebraic analysis of the solutions to equations. His algebraic work wasn't the way we do it now for it was part symbol and part rhetoric, called syncopated Algebra. The symbolic Algebra we use now comes from the work of the European mathematicians Viète (1540-1603), Descartes (1596-1650), and Fermat (1607-1665), men who relied on the seminal algebraic work of the medieval scholastic Oresme (1325-1382). This algebraic syntax was not only one of the legs that the Scientific Revolution stood one, but without it, Newton (1643-1727) and Leibniz (1646-1716) could not have invented Calculus, one of the characteristic expressions of the modern Western genius as the historian Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) observed.
James Nickel explains Why I Wrote Mathematics: Is God Silent?
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Juggling being a busy mother to two sets of twins, being a woman in business and a wife, all whilst trying to find that middle ground and a sense of balance, has always been an internal struggle for me. I think it's an ongoing struggle for most millennial mama's who are constantly trying to do it all, while figuring out what works for them.
Whether we are at home with the kids or out in the workforce, we are constantly asking ourselves am I doing enough? Are my children getting enough of my attention? What else can I do to be more present? Questions I'm sure a lot of mothers reading this would have asked themselves. And it's also a question I am constantly asked: "How do you do it all?".
I sometimes find that question a really hard one because this is my life, I just do it. But I know there is so much more to it than that, and that's why I'm here writing this little spiel so I can give you some insight as to how I try to find a balance not just for myself but for my family and how I prioritise my time.
We all know the saying, life is all about balance. But how do we really truly find that balance? For me it's all about the four Ps – planning, preparation, peace and play. I like to know what I'm doing, how I'm going to achieve it and to recognise when everything is getting too much, so I can just stop and take a step back from it all.
When it comes to planning we have a weekly food planner on our wall. I write down all the meals we will eat for the week including breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and plan a shopping list. Whenever I do this I feel so prepared, and when I don't I honestly feel like my life is in shambles. Having that structure, especially, around food, and knowing what to eat and when is such a relief, even more so when you don't have to think about it.
I love the saying, preparation is the key to success, because honestly when I am prepared everything seems to fall into place. I'm less stressed, I know what's going on and I actually get things done. I'm such a procrastinator (another P!), so for me being prepared is really important. I don't plan and prepare for every second of the day but when I have a rough idea of what I'm doing in advance, my life doesn't feel so chaotic. I do little things like prepare an extra batch of food when cooking, or get the kids PJs all ready before they get home so once they've had dinner it's bath time, teeth brushed, books read and bed. It's all about trying to make life that little bit easier.
Then we all need our peace. I know I need to take my own time out, now and then. So take a break, give yourself that time to relax. Maybe it's over a nice cup of tea, running yourself a bath or spending more time doing your makeup – whatever it is, make sure you find those mini breaks for yourself throughout the day.
Last but certainly not least, is the need to play. This is probably the most important thing – knowing when to take a step back and say, no more work. Don't worry about the house chores or the fact that dinner isn't on. Just take the time to get in there and spend time with the kids. When we are spending time together we love playing with our LEGO DUPLO. For me it brings back amazing memories of when I was younger and I would spend hours playing and building. The opportunities to build things seemed endless. Fast forward 20 odd years and I still get the same feelings, it still gets my imagination going and now my kids' imagination. Watching all of our children's minds fizz and tick with excitement as they build, makes my heart sing and honestly I really get into building (sometimes more than them!).
Often all we need to do is sit down for an hour and put our screens away, close the laptop and switch the TV off and just hang out with our kids and play. Moments like building with DUPLO bricks offers us this opportunity to create and connect together. We can learn so much from our babies by simply watching them play. I know I have. I've learnt patience, I've learnt to let go of expectations and to just switch off and completely delve into a project and let my imagination do the thinking for once. When we get the LEGO DUPLO out and it makes that crazy fun sound when being tipped out, I know we are all going to have fun as a family. Seeing their eyes light up when Mummy and Daddy sit down and take time out from our hectic life and just completely focus on them is the best feeling in the world.
As I've learnt from LEGO, play is the most natural way for our kids to learn and is a major part of their development. Play-time helps us parents create special memories with our little ones and gives us the chance to fully connect with them. It doesn't matter if we can't spend hours and hours playing with our kids, as long as we make sure we are fully present in those moments when we play with them, they will feel it back. In turn our kids can feel confident to create and express themselves. And that's a milestone my hubby and I want for our kids.
At the end of the day we are all doing our best, even if you feel like you aren't doing enough, you are! It is so important to take time out to prioritise, nurture and be kind to not just our children but most importantly ourselves. Know and affirm to yourself that you are doing an incredible job, because you are.
This article was written by Zoe Fuimaono who blogs at Blessed in Doubles whilst raising two sets of twins under the age of four.
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time managament is a key tip when you are parent. I manage my time wisely as i am a mum, a student and a teacher so i make sure i use my time wisely when my daughter is in bed.
Also, to-do lists are your friend as they make sure that you are able to remember everything that you need to fit into your time.
Got to say always be prepared with a extra nappy and wipes! The amount times I have thought he is not going to poop while we are out and then guess what he goes and does!! So there is always extra nappies and wipes in my car for those moments!
Try to appreciate all the moments, even difficult ones, because they'll soon be gone!
Take a deep breath – when things get yucky think this too will pass. Take a deep breath and take in the moments of joy that occur all through the day. Focus on the good and don't worry about the hard stuff – when they grow up recalling the fun times is magic.
Do not worry about household chores like cleaning and dusting. Quality play time is more important – painting, drawing, playing with Lego Duplo and singing encourages brain development. Enjoy walking, cycling, going to the library and walking the dog with your children and they will become more sociable happy kids.
Picking which battles are necessary is a parenting tip I'm working on! Some things are silly to get upset about, and leaving it up to them to decide teaches consequences, independence and self – reliance. I'm also finding it helps my son to realise that if I'm not budging on something, that thing is important to obey and respect.
The dishes are not going to run away if you leave them (unfortunately), your children do keep growing and changing make them your first choice (their way more fun too).
Try and get enough sleep if you possibly can! Everything is easier if you don't have to deal with tiredness.
In our house its meal prep. It takes a bit of time to set up but it saves so much time during the week especially at dinner time.
I also love the emphasis to play in this article. It is so easy to find other things to do around the house (there's a never ending to do list) but the kids ars so much settled, and im a lot more relaced when i soend quality time playing with them.
I absolutely agree with all these tips. As a busy Mum of 5 myself, I find the key to success is definitely planning and preparation. Mornings and evenings can often be quite chaotic but we always have a set routine and I make sure I am up early to get everything ready as I hate rushing. I feel so much more calm when everything is done and ready and I have time to breathe.
Water play…no matter what the age of the child, if you wish to give a little calming time and a lot of enjoyment, provide some water play. It's very versatile; can be inside or outside; on hot days or cold. Only takes a little imagination and no expensive props. A three year old may wash some dishes in the sink; a younger child may pour water from one container to another and a baby may just enjoy a bath – all supervised, of course.
Cut a hole in their nappy before putting it on them, then place your kid on the toilet seat. A great way to toilet train.
Get clothes and lunches sorted the night before for a peaceful morning!
At the end of a working day, I really enjoy watching and playing with my kids. (10 months and 3.5 years).
Being organised is helpful. Getting up half an hour earlier than the kids to prep for the day and hang out washing etc to give me more quiet time.
Don't worry about the little stuff such as if the house is clean or if the kids clothes match. Quality, 'mindful/in the moment' time with the kids is the most important thing you can focus on.