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We donated US$ 100.00 through PayPal.
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2009 December 5th: Ubuntu - is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert developers. It contains all the applications you need: a web browser, office suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more. Ubuntu is an open-source alternative to Windows and Office.
2009 November 14th: Memtest86 - is an advanced memory diagnostic tool. Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team, now working at www.canardpc.com. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.
2009 November 14th: SugarCRM - A complete CRM system for businesses of all sizes. Core CRM functionality includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, project mgmt, calendaring and more. Built in PHP, supports MySQL and SQL Server.
2009 October 1st: The Mozilla Foundation - is a non-profit organization that sponsors the Mozilla project and devotes its resources to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet. We do this by supporting the community of Mozilla contributors and by assisting others who are building technologies that benefit users around the world.
2009 October 1st: The GNOME Foundation - The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. GNOME is part of the GNU Project, is Free Software, and developed as Open Source software. The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software.
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Though Anthem failed in its bid to buy Cigna, it clearly hasn't given up on making other acquisitions.
The company announced Wednesday that it has reached a deal to acquire Florida-based Medicare Advantage insurer HealthSun. Anthem will buy HealthSun from a consortium of investors led by Summit Partners, and the financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Anthem said it expects the deal to close by the end of the year—pending regulatory approval—and anticipates that the deal will be "slightly accretive" to the company's earnings in 2018.
With the acquisition, Anthem stands to gain a 4.5-star rated MA insurer that serves 40,000 members in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. HealthSun members receive care through its network of 19 wholly owned primary care and specialty centers, in addition to unaffiliated medical centers chosen for their ability to deliver high-quality care.
With the acquisition, Anthem's affiliated Medicare and Medicaid plans will serve more than 650,000 members in Florida, added Peter D. Haytaian, executive vice president of the company's government business division.
Anthem's deal with HealthSun comes on the heels of two other recent merger announcements from large insurers. UnitedHealth's Optum unit confirmed in late August that it planned to buy the Advisory Board's healthcare consulting and analytics business for $1.3 billion. And in an even bigger deal, Centene announced that it would buy New York-based Fidelis Care for $3.75 billion.


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Preserving Lee Cearnal's op-ed
Houston Chronicle special projects editor (and Vietnam veteran) Lee Cearnal's splendid August 16th op-ed that I blogged about here has already disappeared from the Chron's website. Because I believe that in its entirety, that op-ed is relevant to the question of how well or poorly the media is covering the SwiftVets vs. Kerry debate, as well as to the underlying political debate, and hence within the "fair use" doctrine of copyright law, I'm reproducing it here — on a nonprofit basis purely to further the public interest in these important issues — from Google's cached version, before the op-ed disappears from the internet altogether. If the Chronicle's excellent outside counsel have a different view as to whether the "fair use" doctrine permits this and they want to discuss that subject with me, they can find me via the "about Beldar" link at the top right and follow the link there for my office contact information. (And before they call, they might want to look at this link too, so we can talk about how to educate their client on the difference between the Supreme Court refusing to hear a case and affirming it unanimously.)
Where's my colleagues' interest in Kerry's war records?
Even when he's caught in a lie, media aren't scrutinizing him same way they did Bush
By LEE CEARNAL
The same news media that demanded George W. Bush release his National Guard records — and went over them with a microscope — have shown an appalling lack of interest in John Kerry's military service. And as it turns out, there are far more legitimate questions about the latter than the former.
Kerry has made his four months and 11 days in Vietnam the central theme of his presidential campaign. This is entirely understandable given his 20 years as the Senate's leading dove. He needs the cover that Vietnam can give him.
Just last week, one of his more fatuous claims came a cropper. Beginning in 1979, with an op-ed for the Boston Herald, Kerry has claimed repeatedly that he spent Christmas Eve of 1968 on a secret — and illegal — mission in Cambodia aboard his swift boat.
"On more than one occasion, I, like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, took my patrol boat into Cambodia. In fact, I remember spending Christmas Day of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real. But nowhere in Apocalypse Now did I sense that kind of absurdity."
He repeated the story again in 1986, on the Senate floor: "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared — seared — in me."
He added a fantastic detail in a 2003 Washington Post profile: "A close associate hints: There's a secret compartment in Kerry's briefcase. He carries the black attaché everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.
"'Who told you?' he demanded as he reached inside. 'My friends don't know about this.'
"The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.
" 'My good luck hat,' Kerry said, happy to see it. 'Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia.'
"Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn't complex after all; it was Kerry.
"He smiled and aimed his finger: 'Pow.'"
This story was repeated early this year, in the fawning biography written by a Boston Globe reporter. Problem is, it's not true. His own crewmates say they were not in Cambodia on Christmas Eve. Even Kerry's own diary entry for that day says he was at his base in Sa Dec, 55 miles from the Cambodian border. In his biography of Kerry, Douglas Brinkly quoted the relevant passage: "Visions of sugarplums really do dance through your head and you think of stockings and snow and roast chestnuts and fires with birch logs and all that is good and warm and real. It's Christmas Eve."
With their man caught in a lie, Kerry's handlers last week floated a new version — he was near Cambodia.
"During John Kerry's service in Vietnam, many times he was on or near the Cambodian border and on one occasion crossed into Cambodia at the request of members of a special operations group operating out of Ha Tien.
"On Dec. 24, 1968, Lt. John Kerry and his crew were on patrol in the watery borders between Vietnam and Cambodia deep in enemy territory. In the early afternoon, Kerry's boat, PCF-44, was at Sa Dec and then headed north to the Cambodian border. There, Kerry and his crew along with two other boats were ambushed, taking fire from both sides of the river, and after the firefight were fired upon again. Later that evening during their night patrol they came under friendly fire. . . .
"Kerry's was not the only United States riverboat to respond and inadvertently or responsibly cross the border. In fact, it was this reality that led President Nixon to later invade Cambodia itself in 1970."
This won't fly either.
"Watery borders between Vietnam and Cambodia?" The Mekong River does not form a border between Vietnam and Cambodia.
"Inadvertently?" Strange, considering that his memory of that Christmas Eve 1968 was "seared" into his memory — including the fact that Nixon was lying about U.S. forces' presence there, even though Nixon didn't even take office until mid-January.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Kerry ventured into Cambodia during his abbreviated tour in Vietnam. No orders, no after-action reports, no confirmation from others, nothing.
To have been caught in Cambodia would have been an international embarrassment and a court-martial offense. The border was clearly marked with warnings signs and patrolled by a PT boat to ensure that no allied boats crossed it. (Yes, allied special-ops forces were operating in Cambodia. But they were not inserted there by something as obvious and slow-moving as a swift boat. They were ferried in by helicopter.)
As to the truth of this tale, there is only Kerry's word, which the press seems quite willing to take, to the extent of not reporting on the controversy at all. It is not a trivial matter. Kerry has pimped the story repeatedly in an effort to paint himself as a stand-up eyewitness to events that were both illegal and, in his view, immoral.
And that's not the only issue that reporters are curiously incurious about. At least one of Kerry's Purple Hearts has been challenged by his unit's medical officer, who notes that the wound was barely visible and was treated with a Band-Aid. Some questions should also be asked about his Silver Star: Should shooting a wounded, fleeing Viet Cong in the back — as justifiable as it was as an act of war — be worthy of the nation's third-highest award for courage?
To those of you who say such questions are unseemly, consider that John Kerry's principal claim on the presidency is that he served four months and 11 days in Vietnam. OK, fine. Let's examine the records — all the records, which, unlike Bush and contrary to popular perception, Kerry has not released — and have a debate. We would be if it were George W. Bush. The media would see to it.
Cearnal is the special projects editor at the Chronicle. A former Marine helicopter pilot, he served in Vietnam from mid-1968 through mid-1969. Readers may e-mail him at [email protected].
Update (Sun Sep 5 @ 11:30am): Some folks who've graciously linked to this post have drawn an inference I didn't intend and that would be incorrect. The Houston Chronicle, like the NYT and many other newspapers, puts its articles into a subscription-only archive after a certain number of days. As far as I know, that's what happened to this one. I didn't mean to suggest that the Chron pulled it off their website prematurely because the rest of the editorial staff disagreed with Mr. Cearnal's opinions (although they probably do).
Posted by Beldar at 02:05 AM in Law (2006 & earlier), Mainstream Media, Politics (2006 & earlier), SwiftVets | Permalink
Other weblog posts, if any, whose authors have linked to Preserving Lee Cearnal's op-ed and sent a trackback ping are listed here:
» Fabulous Op-Ed on Christmas in Cambodia from Patterico's Pontifications
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» Why the Astrodome Hotel is a terrible idea from blogHOUSTON
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(1) danny made the following comment | Sep 2, 2004 3:42:47 AM | Permalink
The next step of the blogosphere is to find a way to put enough pressure on msm to do something like this.
(2) Steven Jens made the following comment | Sep 2, 2004 4:49:34 AM | Permalink
I'm pretty solidly on the right -- more libertarian than conservative, but hawkish, and by no means in the middle. Nonetheless, I've generally been skeptical of claims of enormous liberal bias in the press.
I understand that reporters are generally very liberal. Once I even overheard a couple of reporters from the Boston Globe complaining that an editor had requested "balance" in an environmentalist story. "Would he have requested balance in a child-abuse case?" asked one of them.
But I've tended to assume that most of them try to be fair. Their perception is colored by their liberal mindset, sure, and the biggest names (New York Times, Washington Post, the broadcast television networks) are colored by an east-coast urban mindset (which is liberal, especially culturally). But I have generally assumed bias to be unintentional and minor.
My opinion of the press has not been genuflective, mind you. I have read too many newspaper accounts of events I have witnessed to believe that reports are wholesale retellings of reality. I have been misquoted myself -- to be honest, reporters have usually improved on my statements, but sometimes they have changed my meaning -- and I understand that quotation marks don't signify a verbatim quote unless the original was in writing. But I have not generally considered these distortions to be partisan or ideological so much as simplifying and dramatizing.
But, as the first paragraph of the op-ed points out, the difference between the media treatment of the Bush AWOL story -- an allegation with very little evidence behind it, which was contradicted by Bush's honorable discharge even before he released further records -- and the media treatment of the SwiftVets -- ignoring them, then laughing at them, then fighting them -- is substantial and inexplicable. I would love an explanation of why the Bush controversy was more newsworthy than the Kerry controversy. I can't come up with one myself.
Now, some of the SwiftVets allegations amount to conflicting testimony, and can never be proven beyond the credibility of witnesses (Beldar, I'd like to add, has done a fine job of sorting out the various accounts and other evidence, and I hope he has still been able to devote some time to his law practice). And as a resident of Massachusetts who wishes to see my junior Senator lose this race, I would like to see the debate move toward his Senate record, which I consider more relevant and less foggy.
But even if my opinion of Kerry hasn't changed a great deal in the last month -- do people allege that he is self-serving? And that there is gambling at Rick's? -- my opinion of the press has dropped. It has not left much of a crater, as it did not fall from a great height, but it did make an unpleasant thud when it hit bottom.
(3) AMac made the following comment | Sep 2, 2004 11:35:34 AM | Permalink
Cearnal's editorial and Jens' comments immediately above. Both eloquent. Beldar, you have put together a worthwhile and useful web-log. Thanks
(4) dennisw made the following comment | Sep 2, 2004 9:32:01 PM | Permalink
FULL ARTICLE HERE
(5) Pat Curley made the following comment | Sep 2, 2004 10:54:01 PM | Permalink
The Christmas in Cambodia story was the second this year that the media tried very hard to ignore. The other story was Kerry's attendance at a VVAW meeting where the assassination of US Senators was discussed. There were incredible parallels between the two stories; the way they dribbled out over time, the way the first mainstream paper to break the story was the KC Star (both articles were written by Scott Cannon), the way the NY Times managed to bury the story deep in an article on a tangentially related subject, the way the Kerry campaign tried to stonewall hoping that the story would go away.
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Dinesh Sharma believes Rajnath Singh will easily claim victory in Lucknow seat
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The Lucknow seat is with BJP since 1991 when A B Vajpayee won. Image Credit: Twitter(@PIB_India)
Winning the Lucknow seat will be a "cakewalk" for Home Minister Rajnath Singh as the opposition is yet to find a suitable candidate for the seat that was once held by former prime minister A B Vajpayee, according to UP Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma. "As per my information Mira Talwar, Dauji Gupta, SP Singh, Alka Das (wife of former Union minister Akhilesh Das), a railway leader and Jitin Prasada were approached by the SP and Congress but all have refused to contest from this seat," Sharma said.
"A new name (of Poonam Sinha) is doing the rounds now as the opposition candidate. This is because people here are sensitive and have an emotional attachment with BJP candidates", Sharma, who was Lucknow's mayor for 10 years, told PTI in an interview. The opposition, he said, "is unable to find a suitable candidate from this seat held by former PM Atalji, who had emotional connect with people of the state capital. Over half a dozen candidates have refused to contest from here. The seat will be a cakewalk for Rajnathji, who has carried forward development vision of Atalji in this constituency".
The Lucknow seat is with BJP since 1991 when A B Vajpayee won. He broke his own record in 1996 by defeating Raj Babbar (SP) by a margin of 1,18,671 votes. In 1998, SP gave a ticket to Muzaffar Ali, who also tasted defeat and Atal's victory margin rose to 2.16 votes. In 1999, Karan Singh of Congress tried to give a tough fight to Vajpayee but ultimately lost by 1.23 votes. In his last polls in 2004 again he again won by defeating Madu Gupta (SP) by 2.18 lakh votes.
The legacy of Atalji was taken forward by his old associate Lalji Tandon, now serving as Governor in Bihar. He won the 2009 polls by securing 34.93 per cent votes while rival Rita Bahuguna Joshi (then Congress) got 27.93 per cent votes. BSP candidate Akhilesh Das was in third place and SP's Nafisa Ali was at the fourth place.
In 2014, when BJP gave the ticket to Rajnath Singh he broke all records and won by a margin of 5,61,106 votes by defeating his nearest rival Congress candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi (now in BJP). Not only parliamentary polls, but the people of Lucknow also gave their support to BJP is mayoral polls. The Lucknow mayor seat is with BJP for over two decades in which Dr SC Rai and Dinesh Sharma served for ten years each and presently the seat is held by BJP's Sanyukta Bhatia.
Recalling Vajpayee's connect with the people, Sharma said, "When I was contesting for the first time in 2006 Atalji came to campaign for me. At a meeting he was climbing stairs slowly even as people looked on When he reached the dais he said 'you (people) need a person who can walk fast not slowly like me." "Atalji was pointing at me and people understood what he wanted and I won. In my next election, I did not ask any BJP leader to campaign for me. I even did not open election office and never campaigned after 6 pm," Sharma said trying to drive home the point that Lucknow is BJP's stronghold.
"He said Rajnathji has only carried forward Atalji's vision of development and that is why he is widely accepted," he added. The Lucknow constituency will go to polls on May 6 in the fifth phase.
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And it fits into the platform's approach.
Out of the box, the engine lets its users design and apply such components as workflows, permissions to access data, actions users can take, forms and what the system needs to do with data in certain conditions.
But Bpm'online doesn't provide front-end processes or other assets that enable its business customers to capture end user consents for specific use cases, as GDPR requires.
It does enable back-end data management across various channels and for various use cases. Tharp said that a number of channels and use cases are available already, and the platform can add additional ones. There is also the ability to track data so that, for instance, a business can tell an inquiring customer that her data was batch-sent to an ad network.
For many companies, GDPR compliance involves a new executive office, often called the Chief Data Protection Officer and sometimes involving general data security beyond user data. Tharp said that his company is not currently planning to hire for such a position, although it has set up a permanently assigned team of staff personnel dedicated to consumer data protection.


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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - Investigators are trying to figure out what started a fire at the Country Inn and Suites hotel off University Drive Wednesday night.
It happened around 10:40 p.m. Fire officials say two balconies on the second floor caught on fire. It then spread to the third floor damaging two rooms and to the attic. One young hotel guest saw the fire and warned his family.
"I yelled, 'get out of the bed! There's a fire!' So they get out of the bed. My mom comes over to the window looks up and sees the third floor engulfed in flames and she says, 'get of the building just go.'"
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A cutoff upper-level low located just off the central California coast this morning is forecast to move southeastward, and by tomorrow afternoon it will be entering southern California. By Friday afternoon the low will start to shear apart as it lifts northeastward across northern Arizona. By Saturday afternoon it will have opened up and should be located over Nebraska.
As the upper-level storm to our west approaches the area tomorrow and Friday, a dryline is forecast to sharpen up across eastern New Mexico. A Pacific cold front will sweep eastward across the state on Friday.
A few isolated thunderstorms are forecast to pop up this afternoon. Scattered thunderstorms are expected to increase from west to east Thursday into Friday. Some of these thunderstorms may become severe, and produce large hail, damaging thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 60 mph, deadly cloud to ground lightning, and locally heavy rainfall.
Our high temperatures on Thursday are forecast to rise up into the 80's, and near 90 on Friday.
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Dr. Greason is the author of six books, including his two latest, Industrial Segregation and Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History (both Kendall-Hunt Publishers). Other books include Suburban Erasure: How Suburbanization Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press); The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey (The History Press); The Land Speaks (Oxford University Press), The Encyclopedia of Black Comics (Fulcrum); The American Economy (Kendall-Hunt Publishers); and Planning Future Cities (Kendall-Hunt Publishers).
Named one of "Today's Black History Makers" by The Philadelphia Daily News, Dr. Greason has written more than one hundred additional academic articles and essays. His work has appeared on Huffington Post, National Public Radio, and The Atlantic among other popular, professional and scholarly journals.
From 2007-2012, Dr. Greason was an advisor to Building One America, the coalition that designed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009). He also serves as the President of the T. Thomas Fortune Foundation, an organization that saved the National Historic Landmark dedicated to the leading, militant journalist of the nineteenth century and advances his legacy today.
Dr. Greason's digital humanities projects, "The Wakanda Syllabus" and "The Racial Violence Syllabus", produced global responses in the last three years. In the wake of the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, "The Racial Violence Syllabus" attracted over 4 million individual uses, was translated into seven languages, and inspired projects like the Oscar-winning film "BlackKklansman." The 2016 "Wakanda Syllabus" defined Afrofuturism as one of the core themes of media convergence and was a crucial element in the public acclaim that supported Marvel Studios' Oscar-winning feature film, "Black Panther."
Dr. Greason currently writes about the racial wealth gap and the patterns of economic globalization. He graduated from Villanova University in 1995 before completing his doctoral research on suburbanization at Temple University in 2004. His social justice work began with training by Otty Nxumalo, Director-General of KwaZulu-Natal under Nelson Mandela, and has continued through projects with Maya Angelou, Cornel West, Toni Morrison, Desmond Tutu, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Robin D.G. Kelley, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Ken Bain, Dwayne McDuffie, Christopher Priest, Ruha Benjamin, John Jennings, David Blight, James Oliver Horton, Angel David Nieves, and Kim Gallon.
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Ashleigh King is a dynamic entrepreneur with a background in communications and a love for networking and all things media.
She is a passionate podcaster and public speaker based in the North East of England where she heads up AK Creative Consultancy.
The company is a digital marketing agency that offers a full range of services from logo design to public relations, event management, social media and other online promotion. Ashleigh also runs the Flamingo Heights Podcast Studio in Newcastle upon Tyne, where AK Creative is based. This is a welcoming, quirky, space in the creative Ouseburn area of the city with a sound-optimised studio for hire.
While Ashleigh has a colourful personality and fun outlook on life, she is also serious about business, having recently completed a Masters in Administration (MBA) from Newcastle University Business School.
She always wanted to graduate with a Masters degree Newcastle University, a Russell Group institution, where she worked for over a decade. Unfortunately, her time at NUBS coincided with a global pandemic which made studying even more challenging, though Ashleigh is tenacious and would not let the COVID Lockdown deter her.
Ashleigh's dream was graduate in the same hall where Martin Luther King received an honorary doctorate in 1967. Following working on a special project commemorating the 50th anniversary in 2017, this felt even more important.
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This led her to work with various charities and participate in several community-empowerment events including Freedom City 2017. It also led to the launch of Ashleigh's#NurtureYourZest podcast, recorded in studio, where she sought to give people a platform to tell their stories and let their voice be heard.
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COVID-19 was not the only challenge Ashleigh faced in 2020. She also had to come to terms with a surprising diagnosis that she has ADHD. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is not always picked up, especially in women and it was a shock for Ashleigh to find this out in her 30's. It certainly explained many things and today Ashleigh sees it as "a superpower". Through her Chaos, Courage & Creativity Podcast she hopes to create awareness of neurodiversity, especially among women
Just before the start of the pandemic, Ashleigh traveled to attend TEDWomen in Palm Springs, California, to help secure a license for Newcastle University and she co-hosted the annual TEDxNewcastleUniversity 'Imagine A World' conference in April 2021.
Due to lockdown the event had to be delayed by a year and was eventually held virtually on the up and coming Hopin virtual event platform. All the TedxTalks had to be pre-recorded giving Ashleigh a major production challenge, however, she and her team pressed through and the event was attended by 300 delegates from 20 nations with over 2000 messages by chat posted during the LIVE stream.
After the conference Ashleigh worked at Newcastle University Business School where she helped to implement the 'NUBS of It' Podcast.
During Ashleigh's MBA she started working on a 'Learn to Podcast Course'. This is all part of Ashleigh's vision to assist businesspeople, coaches, charities etc to widen their audience via podcasting.
Through Flamingo Heights Podcast Studio, Ashleigh offers a full podcast production service from curation, production, audio and video recording to editing and promotion.
Flamingo Heights also has a resident photographer, Paul Scurrah of Blindsee Photo to capture those much-needed shots to create content that is shareable on social media.
Ashleigh works closely with Tim Lozinski and Alice Smith of TL Multimedia Limited, her trusted production team.
In November 2021 Ashleigh was nominated as a 'Disruptor for Good' in the Northern Power Women Awards. This is in recognition of her efforts to empower other women through, networking, advocating to raise awareness of trauma, and neurodiversity, and leading community events.
Ashleigh is married to Paul King, Co-Founder of Flow Software Solutions and they live in a quirky urban part of town in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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I wanted to gain some school experience because I am considering a career in teaching. I figured that the easiest way to get in touch with schools, is to go through the university placements team as they do it all the time for students. I explained that this placement would count as my "Professional Practice" experience, so that I could do it as part of my course. The experience is also needed for the entry requirements for a PGCE, and so it was a great idea to gain experience and benefit from it in both ways. The experience also counted towards my Bath Spa Award.
I wanted to do the placement for numerous reasons. My main being that I needed the experience to see if I wanted to enter that career. This then opened up numerous other reasons within that reason alone.
Doing a Fine Art degree, I wanted to make sure that as a teacher I could still use my degree, my creativity and artistic practice. Ideally I would love to be able to teach art to others, and from my experience at the Hospice, I know that I want to use art to help people express themselves. Unfortunately, with a lot of research and talking to teachers, there isn't a high demand for art teachers, in fact the demand is very small, and so the chance of me becoming one would be tiny. It also means that I would probably have to teach in a high school, which gives me great anxiety. Therefore, I decided to see about a placement in a primary school, because after-all art is a curriculum subject and a lot of young children learn best by using their hands and being active. And although I would have to teach other subjects, it doesn't mean I can't be creative surely? Therefore I did this placement to see if the statement I just made was true. Can I use my creativeness and artistic practice as a primary school teacher, and most importantly, will I enjoy it.
The Universities placement team arranged a placement at a Primary School in Bath for me and contacted the school for me to arrange this. I had to arrange a DBS check before this, and then finally email the teacher who's class I would be in, to introduce myself and arrange availability. I also took this as an opportunity to let the teacher know about my epilepsy and how this can impact my placement. To which the teacher was very understanding, and was glad I told her in advance.
Overall I spent less than a week on placement. As I'd been on a school placement before, I felt more confident than usual. I was placed in a year six class, which is a year I haven't been with before, and with the time of the year that I joined, it was SATS time, and so I also invigilated.
I found it quite strange working with a year six class, as previous to this I'd worked with a year three class, and there's quite a difference. The children in the year six class didn't seem to need the teachers help as much, they were a lot more independent, however still liked mine and the teachers input. I usually like the children needing me a lot, but it was a nice change to not have to be needed constantly and yet still have interaction with the children.
Helping with the art classes was brilliant, it was great seeing the different levels of artistic talent and the majority of the class all seemed to really enjoy the art lessons. This was great to see as it showed me that kids do love doing art and that I could still use my talents to help teach.
I will say that I found that the older children didn't talk to me as much as the younger ones, and I like creating a bond, however I still really enjoyed helping them, especially around SATS time as I imagine they were pretty stressed!
Over the experience me and the year six teacher spoke often, I found it very easy to speak to her, and I asked about the new curriculum and marking, and what its like being a teacher, and she did say it's completely changed this year, but it didn't put me off.
What I found really interesting was that my teacher said that she had quite a difficult class and yet for the most part, I thought that the class were well behaved, however when I think about it, this is because I'm comparing to my schools in my home town, which are known for bad behaviour as they are in a deprived area, and so it really made me think about the difference an area can have on a child's education, which brought me back to Teach Firsts values about education inequality. If I do decide to do a PGCE I feel really strongly about this issue, and I can say I have experienced the difference. I look forward to more experience within a school within my home town, to fully compare this. I found it quite easy to motivate the children in Bath, and to be honest a lot of them already seemed motivated enough, it was really surprising, and I will be even more surprised if this is the same, in a school in my home town.


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Q: Initialize userChoice. If I set it to zero my program will compile before when I put if(userChoice == 0) it compiles just fine with no errors.  but that is setting the userchoice to constantly deposit no matter if they click the withdrawal button.  I need to figure out how to initialize userChoice as a keyboard input. I've tried userChoice = (); that doesn't work either.
this is the only if statement that works... but then my next if statement if(userChoice ==1) it is still going to deposit.??
int userChoice;

String[] menuItems = {"Deposit", "Withdrawal", "Print Account Information", "Exit"};
int selection;
selection = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null,
      "Please choose an item",
      bankAccount,
      JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION,
      JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,
      null,
      menuItems,
      "Deposit");
System.out.println(selection);

if (userChoice == 0) {
    depositStr = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter your deposit amount: $");
    deposit = Double.parseDouble(depositStr);
    initialBalance = initialBalance + deposit;
    selection = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null, "Please choose an item",
      bankAccount,
      JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION,
      JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,
      null,
      menuItems,
      "Deposit");
  System.out.println(selection);
}

and then i have more else if statements like else if (userChoice ==1) (1 aka withdrawal) ... it never egisters that the person hit 1
I have more if else statements. IT's just hard to keep spacing them by 4 spaces on here. My only compiling issue is that it says var userChoice is not initialized.

A: You seem to be confusing userChoice with selection, which would be the exact same thing in this context. It is always going to deposit because you are never setting the value of userChoice, so if you initialize as 0, it'll always be 0...
JOptionPane.showOptionDialog will return the index of the item that has been selected.
Therefore, you want this structure and remove userChoice
int selection = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(... , menuItems, ...);

System.out.printf("You selected %s at position %d%n", menuItems[selection], selection);

if (selection == 0) {

} else if (selection == 1) {

}

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Q: EasyPHP 16.1.1 unable to start MySQL Firstly, after first run after installation, everything works fine; but now, after hour and restart later, when I start EasyPHP Dashboard, MySQL is not running. When I try to start it, loading circle appears, then page is refreshed and MySQL is still not started - without any message. I erased Error log and directly after try to run, it writes following:
2016-05-21T08:39:32.432081Z 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
2016-05-21T08:39:32.432081Z 0 [Warning] 'NO_ZERO_DATE', 'NO_ZERO_IN_DATE' and 'ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO' sql modes should be used with strict mode. They will be merged with strict mode in a future release.
2016-05-21T08:39:32.432081Z 0 [Warning] 'NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER' sql mode was not set.
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2016-05-21T08:39:32.432081Z 0 [Note] ..\eds-binaries\dbserver\mysql5711x86x160521094439\bin\eds-dbserver.exe (mysqld 5.7.11) starting as process 1732 ...

Do you have any idea, what happens and how to solve it?
EDIT:After a few reinstalls is situation still same. Directly after installation everything works, but after easyphp is closed, MySQL never starts again. Errorlog always says, that mysql is starting process xxxx, but that process never starts.

A: Install MySQL Server separately don't install the MySQL that comes with EasyPHP. And the MySQL service starts at the start of Operating System, you don't need to start the service in EasyPHP.
Please note that if you want to use this installation with phpMyAdmin, you should adjust configuration of phpMyAdmin (likely your MySQL password) or alternatively you can use Database GUI tools like MySQL Workbench.
Hope this helps you. [I am using XAMPP with the same procedure. It works for me]

A: Have you ever installed mysql before ?
You can check in services.msc. If so, open a terminal in administrator and run sc delete mysql. mysql, in the command, must be the name of the service.
Restart, reinstall EasyPHP and it might be solved.


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'I Slept With Over 80 Women' ~ HIV +ve Popular Actor Confesses
To all those who always stay glued to the small screen, his face is familiar. he had a leading rolein popular drama series Cobra where he attained his claim to fame. He rose from zero to hero and vice-versa in a turbulent lifestyle that has seen roses and thorns.
He has had sex with more than EIGHTY women and at one time spent six months in remand prison. He was later acquitted and became a convert and strong Christian.
But like what Jesus said in Luke 7 verse 48, that"Your sins are forgiven", he has since received Christ and regrets all that he did. The man, Jones Matanhire has finally opened up on his shattered life.
"My past is regrettable because I have since parted ways with my wife, kids and relatives.I was one of the people who misused fame and I went wild. I was enjoying life my brother because women would easily love me.
"I came on the limelight in 2002 after being approached by Arnold Shoko from ZBC and he was a producer. We were training together at Body Building Fitness Centre and as a producer he identified me after picking some acting characters in me. After that he took me for auditions with a drama called Cobra in 2002," said Jones.
The talented actor said he started acting while he was in Primary school when he was doing his Grade Six and Seven. He said at the auditions, he met their requirements and he was the most suitable candidate for the role of Joe in the Cobra drama.
"I was acting as Joe and it was a leading role. The Joe was fighting to please a girl. After landing the role Joe, life changed my brother, from zero to hero. We started getting opportunities and shifted from Ghetto to Avenues. The Drama lasted for Six months on TV. I then attained a diploma in Marketing and Istarted working with several companies since I had gained popularity in the country," narrated Jones.
The born-again actor said in April 2011 he left for Zambia where he took part in various plays on teaching about HIV and AIDS. "Life in Zambia was heaven on earth because we could enjoy life, moving in all places but I was missing my family. During that time I had quite a number of sexual activities and I slept with different women. When I came back homeI never took care of the family. I started drinking life a fish and became an irresponsiblehusband leaving the entire burden to my wife," he said.
The self-confessed former womaniser said he returned home in 2012 when things turned up-side-down for him.
"I got tested while I was in Zambia after one of my girlfriends advised me about her pregnancy.She had gone for pregnancy tests and during that time she was tested for HIV and the results were shocking, she was positive. She forced me to get tested but I could not come to terms with the results. After I got tested I came back to Zimbabwe and I kept quiet about the issue. I never told my wife about the issue. I infected her but I regret. I later on received some counselling and it well well," he said.
Asked to explain what got him in jail, Jones saidhis landlord fabricated criminal charges against him.
"My wife had escaped to SA over a debt of US$2,000 and since I had become a burden to her, I failed to pay my rentals. The situation forced me to take my children to Highfield where my mother resides. At that time, my thenlandlord took my property before fabricating criminal charges against me which landed me in remand prison pending my trial. It was alleged that I sodomised my four-year-old son and raped my two daughters aged 10 and 6 on 7 February," he said, and My Zimbabwe published the article (see link at the bottom).
The actor said life in prison was not good at all.
"Life changed from bad to worse. I was in remand prison for five good months. The allegations were never true my brother, (they were) mere allegations meant to tarnish my image, just imagine how I can rape my own children and sodomise my son. I still wonder what she wanted to achieve from that, but I was saved from the jaws of imprisonment. I was facing 10 counts of both charges and she went on to add more charges which were serious. I thank God I am a free man," he revealed.
Matanhire was found NOT guilty after the State failed to prove a case against him beyond reasonable doubt on 14 June after a full trial. Shockingly, lawyers who wanted to represent his famous actor, demanded a whooping US$15,000 to represent him in court and help him get bail. For that reason he failed to acquire the services of a defence counsel. Asked to reveal the total number of women that he has had sex with, Matanhire left this reporter speechless and dumbfounded. "During my peak of popularity I had sex with approximately 80 women, within Harare and Zambia. In 2002 it was so amazing to be on TV. Iabused the fame. To make matters worse I lacked counselling and I failed to handle it properly, leaving me in this mud. I am now a born again Christian with UFIC under the guidance of Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa," he said.
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Dinner after JFK Opening
After the opening for the the three projects, including mine, at John F. Kennedy Airport we went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner in Flushing, Queens, NY.
Jun 09, 2001. Saturday
Dinner after Michael's opening at the Mary Ryan Gallery
Nov 19, 2002. Tuesday
Lucy's Kitchen, Saugerties, NY. 2 of 2
Jack, Joy, me and Catherine were having dinner at Lucy's before going to Christina Tenaglia's opening across the street at Imogen Holloway Gallery. See the previous entry.
Thomas Nozkowski Dinner, 3 of 3
Dinner after Tom's opening at La Luncheonette, NYC. See the previous two entries.
Feb 22, 2013 Friday
Dinner at La Luncheonette after Thomas Nozkowski's opening at Pace Gallery. NYC. See the following two entries.
Dinner after Thomas Nozkowski's opening at Pace Gallery. Dinner was at La luncheonette. See the previous entry and the following entry.
Dinner at Bottino, NYC. 2 of 7
This dinner was to celebrate Sylvia (Sylvia Plimack Mangold) and Bob's (Robert Mangold) 50th wedding anniversary. Also one or both of them had shows opening close to or on this date. See the previous entry and the following five entries.
March 29, 2011 Tuesday
This dinner was to celebrate Sylvia (Sylvia Plimack Mangold) and Bob's (Robert Mangold) 50th wedding anniversary. Also one or both of them had shows opening close to or on this date. See the previous five entries and the following entry.
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Юрисконсултът ( – правовед, юридически съветник) е служител на организация (юридическо лице, едноличен търговец или самоосигуряващо се лице), който следи за съответствието на дейността на субекта на правото с изискванията на закона, като същевременно съблюдава правоотношенията на организацията с другите субекти. Юрисконсултите осъществяват и съдебно представителство, в рамките на съдебния процес.

Институтът на юрисконсулта възниква в римското право с началото на империума при Октавиан Август. В Древен Рим юрисконсултите са експерти на/по закона. Становищата на юрисконсултите под формата на юриспруденция по времето на император Октавиан Август били задължителни за съдилищата, за разлика от днес.

В България съществува професионално сдружение на юрисконсултите под формата на Национален съюз на юрисконсултите, който има за цел и утвърждаване на техния статут, понеже няма политическа воля за това у законодателя.

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Bernard Ilsley - The London Medium - Contact [email protected]
About Bernard Ilsley - Biography
Poetry - Lyrics & Quotes
Private Reading - Past life -The Book, Divinus Spiritus - The CD, Prima Luce or MP3 Down loads - Meditation - Grief - Abundance
Bernard Ilsley - The London Medium - Writer, Producer, Performer & Guru.
Bernard Ilsley (The London Medium) is one of the most gifted psychics this century. His amazing ability enables him not only to see the future, but also to make contact with loved ones, ancient spirits, aliens and angels. Bernard also by means of tapping into your subconscious mind can reveal you're past lives. He appears regularly in the media on Radio and TV where people have seen and heard him in the millions, in both the UK and the USA. He can be contacted through email or phone. Make contact with Bernard today it could change your life for ever! Sign up for news letters here http://eepurl.com/dnw709 Contact [email protected]
Bernard Ilsley The London Medium in the USA 2019
Dear Bernard, I wanted to write to thank you for my previous lives reading. I finished listening to it this lunchtime and I am overwhelmed and cannot thank you enough. I listened very carefully to all that you said, maybe the full impact of which hasn't really sunk in yet. But I had to write to you to thank you from the bottom of my heart. God Bless
Sharon D (UK) 2003
Thank you very much for your kindness and insight. It made a lot of sense all that you said. I really appreciate it. Namaste
Kevin (Ireland)2002
You've been like a knight in shining armour to me over the past 6 or 7 months and I want a great deal to thank you for your help. Without it I don't even know if I would still be here.
Eliza (UK) 2003
Friday can't come soon enough. Looking forward to speaking with you. You have always been spot on with me.. Barb 2018 (New York)
Bernard, thanks soo much for a awesome reading and clarification on my friends suicide. big relief Have a safe trip home and see you next time you in town! Tracey
Tracey Allen (2019)
I saw you many years ago and you were very accurate. I would like another reading.
Ashwinder (UK) 1999
Bernard, I enjoyed your book and have a story for you. My son is a movie producer, entailing many aspects of the business concentrating on special effects. He was working on The Crow when Brandon Lee was accidentally shot and killed. If you should visit with Bruce Lee again he might be comforted knowing that my son and all who were on set that night did everything they could to save Brandon. Thank you for the reading. I was comforted and affirmed. Suzy Coulter
Suzy NY (2019)
Bernard, was tapped in, tuned in, and turned on to his "channels" and Spirit Guides last night at The New Vic Theater! Man, oh man, oh man! He walked onto the stage, visually took in his audience as he said hello, and immediately started doing open clairvoyant readings. He explained later, that he could see bouncing light above people's head's. He received more and more information just hearing the sound if their voice audibly say "yes". The Energy frequencies he receives are so amazing! I have never been in the presence of anything like this in my life. Health and healing, legal counsel, compassion from a mother, brother, father. Answers to lifelong questions, and names he could never know! A Gifted Being, a Receiver. Thank you to you, dear Bernard!
Shelley V (California) 2018
I enjoyed attending the show! It was awesome to see Bernard in action sharing his gifts with the audience! Never have I seen anyone like him before. Thank you Ridgefield Playhouse for hosting the show!
Lisa Erlacher Jovanelly (2019)
Bless your heart - and Dr. Chan. With all my heart I thank you both (and spirit and John ). Just amazing - this time last week my face was so swollen that everyone who saw me said '' tooth/abscess problem''. But you and Dr.Chan said '' soft tissue damage '' and that with healing from Dr. Chan it would recover. Every day Bernard it has been getting better and today it is good. I have told everyone I know about it - So many people tried to get me to go to the doctor / dentist. You said that I didn't need to see a doctor or a dentist - and I didn't. Bless you again for everything and for ''being there''.
Vilna.x. (Derbyshire UK) 10/07/2007
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Elizabeth Ball MD, PhD, MRCOG graduated from Hanover Medical School in 1995. After training in Germany, the UK, France and America she currently works as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Royal London Hospital. Her Clinical interests include pelvic pain and endometriosis, Minimal access surgery and ambulatory Gynaecology. She is the local Principal Investigator of a new multidisciplinary pelvic pain clinic at the Royal London Hospital. She is the Lead Clinician for Research and has a keen interest in under - and postgraduate training, in particular laparoscopic training, which she organises and teaches locally and deanery-wide in novel simulation settings. Her academic expertise includes research into trophoblast invasion and endometriosis as well as educational publications and curricula. She has contributed book chapters on minimal access surgery and peer-reviews for UK and international journals.
Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Pelvic pain, Endometriosis, Fibroids, Trophoblast invasion.
In vivo analysis of trophoblast cell invasion in the human.
Pijnenborg R, Ball E, Bulmer JN, Hanssens M, Robson SC, Vercruysse L.
Methods Mol Med. 2006;122:11-44. Review.
Punch biopsy of the human placental bed.
Robson SC, Simpson H, Ball E, Lyall F, Bulmer JN.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2002 Nov;187(5):1349-55.
Systematic reviews to evaluate causation: an overview of methods and application.
Khan KS, Ball E, Fox CE, Meads C.
Evid Based Med. 2012 Apr 5.
Does pelvic venous congestion syndrome exist and can it be treated?
Ball E, Khan KS, Meads C.
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2012 May;91(5):525-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2012.01368.x. Review.
Equipment failure: causes and consequences in endoscopic gynecologic surgery.
Courdier S, Garbin O, Hummel M, Thoma V, Ball E, Favre R, Wattiez A.
J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2009 Jan-Feb;16(1):28-33. Epub 2008 Nov 11.
Gynaecological laparoscopy: 'see and treat' should be the gold standard.
Ball E, Koh C, Janik G, Davis C.
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Aug;20(4):325-30.
The value of two-step operative laparoscopy with interval pituitary suppression in the treatment of infertility caused by severe endometriosis.
Ball E, Byrne H, Davis C.
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Aug;19(4):303-7. Review.
The role of magnetic resonance imaging in minimal access surgery.
Byrne H, Ball E, Davis C.
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2006 Aug;18(4):369-73. Review.


For decades, yoga has become popular among people. The rise is associated with the tremendous benefits linked to yoga. It is through yoga that you learn how to become more flexible. If you wish to enjoy these health benefits then you should enrol in a yoga class. Here is a breakdown of the aspects to put into consideration when making this decision.
First and foremost, you are encouraged to look at the pricing of the yoga classes. You should realize that there are yoga teachers that will charge you more compared to others. If you are quick to jump on the bandwagon then you may get into a financial dilemma. You should thus make a point to check out the budget for this task. It is through this that you get a chance to check out the difference in the prices. That's not all you get an opportunity of having classes that resonate well with your budget.
Moreover, you should make a point to interrogate the reliability of the yoga lessons. It should be made clear that not all classes will resonate well with your program. Having said this, you are advised to check out the duration and timing of the classes. Here you will be able to balance between work or school and the yoga classes. These classes should seamlessly fit into your program. Additionally, you should avoid making a last-minute assessment of the schedule.
Before enrolling for any yoga class, it is prudent that you evaluate the experience of the yoga teacher. It should be made clear that the level of experience is not the same among the different yoga teachers. During this period, the yoga teacher gets to improve on his or her skills. Moreover, there are new yoga teachers that are venturing in this field. You should that there are other merits of choosing an exposure teacher. Remember, you need to get classes that are worth your dime. Furthermore, you should settle for teachers that have been in this game for over a decade.
You have the moral obligations of assessing the interaction of the teachers with visitors. This is because you need to be attended to at all times. Suprisingly, there are yoga teachers that have no clue on how to handle customers. You should only settle for the crme customer services. There are online platforms that can tell more info about this.
Finally, you should spare some time to evaluate the location of the yoga teachers. Basically, there are teachers that are closer to you compared to others. That is why you will find a variation when it comes to the convenience of the services. It would do no harm if you enrol in yoga classes within your area.


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Nichts als Ärger ist ein Brett- und Kartenspiel mit 52 Zusatzkarten für den Brettspielklassiker Mensch ärgere Dich nicht. Das Kartenset erschien 1999 beim Heidelberger Spieleverlag für 2–6 Spieler von Frank Stark und wendet sich an Mitspieler ab etwa 7 Jahren. 2001 erschien die Erweiterung "Noch mehr Ärger" und 2008 erschien die dritte Erweiterung "Ärger dich schwarz".

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Zusätzlich zum Kartenset benötigt man noch das Original-Mensch-ärgere-Dich-nicht–Spiel. Man beginnt mit den allseits bekannten Regeln für dieses Spiel. Neu ist dabei allerdings, dass auf einem Feld mehrere Figuren stehen können, es also keinen Schlagzwang gibt.

Wer seinen Pöppel gezogen hat, darf nun eine Karte vom Stapel ziehen. Man darf allerdings nie mehr als fünf Karten auf der Hand halten.
Es existieren drei verschiedene Kartenarten:
 Sofort-Karten. Wer eine solche zieht, muss diese sofort laut vorlesen und die Aktion ausführen.
 Jederzeit-Karten. Diese Karten dürfen immer gespielt werden, egal ob man am Zug ist oder nicht. Meist sind es Verteidigungskarten, mit welchen man sich vor Angriffen anderer Spieler schützen kann.
 Normale Karten. Diese können immer nur gespielt werden, wenn man am Zug ist. Entweder man würfelt ganz normal, zieht seine Figur und nimmt sich dann eine Karte vom Nachziehstapel oder man spielt eine Karte aus, führt die entsprechende Aktion aus und zieht keine Karte mehr nach.

Einige Beispiele (Auswahl), was alles durch die Karten geschehen kann:

Mit den Karten aus dem Spiel kann man etwa die Position von Figuren untereinander vertauschen oder auch zusätzliche Spielzüge durchführen. Manche Karten erlauben die Zugweite voranzutreiben (Siebenmeilenstiefel) oder aber auch alle Spielfiguren auf einmal ins Spiel bringen. Die Bombenkarte erlaubt bei einem bestimmten Würfelwurf alle gegnerischen Figuren aus einem bestimmten Spielfeldbereich zurückzuschicken. Bei einer Karte ist es gestattet, andere Spielfiguren zu erschießen, ohne auf ihr Feld zu ziehen oder aber mit seinen Figuren zu ziehen, obwohl man eigentlich noch nicht dran ist. Schließlich ist es gar möglich, ein Unentschieden des Spieles herbeizuführen, wenn bestimmte Voraussetzungen erfüllt sind und man etwa gleichzeitig zwei Pöppel verschiedener Mitspieler ins Ziel schickt.

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Kartenspiel mit speziellem Blatt
Pachisi-Variante
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Improv Nation: Yes, And No
By John Schneider 03/13/2018 03/07/2018
At the end of 2017, Sam Wasson added his book, Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art, to the recent stream of odes to improv. The last few years have seen how-to books, laudatory memoirs, oral histories, and documentaries, but Wasson's book purports to be the first full scale history of the art form. And it's about time — by now, the mythology of improv is so well-known that the subject was crying out for in-depth treatment.
While most comedy fans have encountered stories about improv on podcasts, late night TV, or in comedy memoirs, the subject remains somewhat opaque. The actual experience of performing, or even watching, improv remains relatively uncommon outside of college campuses and major cities. Most people's exposure to the world comes from stories about rundown theaters, confused audiences, and strange teachers. As such, improv stays shrouded in a degree of mystery, the humble origin story for great comedians of today. But that romanticized world of pure creative freedom is one that most of us never get to experience.
Even though Wasson's book endeavors to chart the rise of the art form, he seems too infatuated with its mystery to offer a straightforward account, as if doing so might spoil the magic. Instead, Improv Nation bounces from one richly detailed scene to the next, without ever synthesizing, or offering a coherent analysis of the overall picture. It manages to be a comprehensive, thoroughly researched history of a subject, without ever actually defining what that subject is.
Instead, Wasson justifies his (frankly absurd) claim that improv has surpassed jazz as America's most popular art by invoking a wide array of very famous characters who are connected to improv, however oblique that connection may be. Bill Murray, Amy Poehler, Dustin Hoffman, Stephen Colbert, John Belushi — certainly the tonnage of their fame exceeds the aggregate popularity of all jazz musicians in 2018, right? Although that may be true, it's dubious to what degree those names are evidence of the popularity or success of improv itself, and unclear to what degree improv even contributed to these comedian's fame.
Improv Nation spends hundreds of pages on shows like Saturday Night Live and SCTV (which were never actually improvised), movies like Tootsie (which had an Oscar-nominated screenplay), and the careers of Mike Nichols and Elaine May (who more or less stopped improvising together after 1962). In some cases, this is perfectly acceptable — Wasson paints a compelling portrait of the way improvisation shaped films like The Graduate, and it's certainly fun to read about Elaine May's husband secretly stealing reels of film from the studio. But none of this goes very far toward explaining the success or development of improv as its own art form.
The book is at its best when depicting its least famous subjects, specifically the New Dealers and leftists who stumbled on improv as a way to bring theater to "the people." WPA veteran Viola Spolin, and later her son Paul Sills, developed a series of exercises and theater games, primarily working with children, to bring theater to untrained performers (Spolin didn't like the term "actor"). From these techniques came the Compass Players, the first improvisational theater group, and later Second City.
Crucially, though, these games and techniques were first developed as tools for traditional theater acting, not as a separate art form. Improv, in other words, was not actually meant to be performed in front of an audience. It also wasn't meant to be funny. It was meant to help actors explore characters, or to generate ideas that could later be turned into a script. Indeed, the early "improv" performances that Wasson describes — in which performers would take suggestions from the audience, and then retire backstage and prepare scenes — bear little resemblance to what we consider "improv" today, which generally only refers to "spot" improv, in which performers make up scenes on the spot.
This distinction between formats is important, since it gets at what exactly was "invented" when these players invented improv, but Wasson never delves too deeply into the difference, and is often unclear about what type of improv the various groups he mentions actually performed. Similarly, improv's classification as "comedy" gets only a few lines: "Sills never considered how unleashing one's spontaneous self — the intended result of his workshops — could be so funny. But that's what happens when your personal truth breaks out and blows up the socially acceptable one." Wasson is at times slippery with the distinction between improv and sketch comedy, which won't just anger comedy nerds, but fails to consider that the latter has roots in traditional theater, vaudeville, and commedia dell'arte, and didn't just emerge from performers improvising in the Second City basement.
What Wasson is really interested in is not technique or structure, but personalities. Rather than get bogged down in descriptions of how improv shows have actually evolved through the years, he focuses instead on the performers themselves. So while there are certainly words devoted to the development of the Harold, improv's most durable format, far more are spent documenting celebrity meet cutes and precisely when Mike Nichols and Elaine May were getting along, and when they weren't.
In part, this is to give the story a Hollywood hook, and a narrative through line — although, as the book goes on and personalities keep getting added, the narrative loses focus. But by focusing so strongly on those personalities, Wasson seems to say that they are all the art form really is. The people on stage matter far more than whatever they happen to be doing. Most people who go to improv shows aren't worried about the difference between improv and sketch — they just want to see (or become) the next Steve Carell. And most people don't care about improv because they care about the distinction between short form and long form — they care about it because it's how Tina Fey met Amy Poehler.
"For their predecessors, improvisation had been a layover, a gig; for Fey and Poehler, it was a calling," Wasson writes of their meeting. It doesn't matter to him that both of them also went on to become famous for writing and starring in traditional sitcoms and films, before mostly giving up improv. For him, improv is what matters, because "improv" just refers to whatever pure, commercially unviable art famous people were doing before they sullied themselves with mainstream popularity. Unfortunately, by depicting improv as some mystical thing that precedes success, or runs parallel to it, Wasson undermines his claim that improv itself is a great American art.
Were Wasson to strip away all the nostalgia and the creation myths and famous names, then what exactly would he be left with? If improv is not a great American art, then what is it?
The answer is hidden in Improv Nation, because, for most people, improv is more or less what it was in its early days: a type of training, or school. That's certainly how major improv theaters like UCB, Second City, or the Groundlings market themselves. Like most schools, those theaters will never tire of reminding you of their famous alumni, and enticing students with the chance at the freewheeling, spontaneous creativity described in Improv Nation.
But, as with other schools, if you look closer, you will see other things, too. You will see gatekeepers with capricious and often unfair standards for who gets to advance. You will see big companies with TV production deals, Madison Avenue partnerships, and corporate training sales teams. You will see business models built on unpaid labor, propagated by the idea that only through unpaid labor can performers truly learn the magic of improv. You will see performances dominated by white men, which is not surprising when a theater doesn't pay performers and charges thousands of dollars to complete its curriculum. And you will see the insistence that any problems you encounter are not institutional flaws, but this magical art form's way of challenging you to become great.
None of this, of course, means that improv is not also a great experience that is due for the recognition it is now receiving. It just means that improv is not simply the wondrous, pure art form that Improv Nation depicts. Like all art forms, it has baggage. What makes Wasson's book frustrating is that it includes so many hints that this baggage was there from the start, even if he seems determined not to acknowledge it.
For example, in all of Wasson's meticulously detailed account of the format, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single person of color. This may be unsurprising — the entertainment industry's problems with racial diversity are not exactly a secret — but the book's bare treatment of the subject is certainly startling. For a book whose title purports to be about an "American art," the problems of representation ought to at least be addressed.
And while Improv Nation does a good job of illuminating the crucial role of women like Spolin, May, and Barbara Harris, particularly to the early development of the form, it mostly slides past the skewed gender ratios that have existed throughout improv's history. The book's treatment of Del Close is particularly telling. Close was an early zealot for improv, and a key figure in its development. Along with Charna Halpern, he helped develop the Harold and co-wrote Truth in Comedy, one of the form's founding texts. But when discussing Close's relationship with Halpern, and other women in improv, Wasson doesn't seem to acknowledge that his behavior was abusive: "He was jealous. Del asked Charna to keep her romances away from him, and she complied, but as Charna got serious with one man, Del picked up the scent, and tried to revise their arrangement. No, Del would not share her."
Wasson seems to treat this kind of thing as evidence of Close's mercurial genius, or at worst, the self-destructive actions of a tortured artist. He never seriously explores how such behavior affected others, or set the tone for the improv community. It is not so much that Wasson covers up that community's checkered past, but that he seems to not see anything checkered about it at all.
But this shouldn't be surprising: To this day, the improv community treats Close like a symbol of the mystery that Wasson is so enamored of. UCB hosts an annual marathon in his name in New York City, and images of Close's face cover the walls at all four of their theaters. And based on Wasson's telling, it's easy to see why improvisers might be drawn to someone like Close, a guru who wasn't concerned with traditional success or fame, but somehow became an object of idolatry. It makes sense that they'd see a symbol in a teacher and performer who was domineering, inventive, selfish, collaborative, and unstable. His deification is not particularly surprising.
What is surprising is that Wasson seems to have no interest in pushing past it. His book reflects all the romance and mythology around improv without ever digging deeper into the tensions or challenges underneath. For all his thorough research into the backstories of famous improvisers, his book offers little sense of what improv is like for a typical player, or even a typical audience member. Indeed, it's possible to read Wasson's book and still not understand what actually happens at an improv show. Despite all his breathless endorsements of the art form, Wasson is surprisingly easy to distract with the ephemera surrounding improv. Perhaps he has simply bought into the mythology too much, but it's unfortunate — if improv is as great as Wasson says it is, then it certainly sounds like a real investigation of it would make an interesting book.


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Prison Break Limited Series In Development at Fox
By Michael Ausiello / June 2 2015, 1:45 PM PDT
Prison Break may be getting sprung from television purgatory.
Fox is developing a limited-series revival of its 2005-09 drama series that would re-team stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Details are sketchy, but I hear the reunion project — if it happens — would be similar to last year's 24: Live Another Day in that it would span a dozen or so episodes and feature a closed-ended storyline.
Earlier this year, Miller — who reunited with former TV bro Purcell this past season on The CW's The Flash — told E! News that he "floated the idea" of a Prison Break continuation to Fox and "they seemed to think there was something there." Fox co-chairman Gary Newman acknowledged at the Television Critics Assoc. press tour in January that Prison Break would make "the perfect event series," but added that there were no current plans to bring the Fox River gang back together.
In the meantime, Miller and Purcell are at least guaranteed to reunite for DC's Legends of Tomorrow, premiering midseason on The CW.
Reps for Fox and 20th Century declined to comment.
Thoughts on the prospects of a Prison Break revival? Are you, like us, wondering how the show's EPs will get around the fact that Miller's Michael is, um, dead? Hit the comments!
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David Mitchell joins White Oak Business Capital as Senior Vice President
White Oak Business Capital, Inc. ("WOBC" or White Oak), an affiliate of White Oak Global Advisors, LLC, today announced the appointment of David Mitchell to the role of Senior Vice President and Senior Business Development Officer, responsible for expanding business in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic markets.
"David has over 25 years of commercial banking, asset based lending and government contracting experience, and I have witnessed him successfully build his team's market share during each his most recent appointments," said Kwesi Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, White Oak Business Capital. "We are thrilled to welcome David to the White Oak family. I believe his experience will be valuable to expanding our financing platform and capabilities in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic."
Most recently, Mr. Mitchell served as Senior Partner of Desired Outcomes Capital, LLC, focusing on capital and senior debt advisory services for fast-growing, middle and lower-middle market companies. Prior to his role there, Mr. Mitchell served as Senior Vice President and Market Manager for Bridge Bank, a division of Western Alliance Bank, where he was responsible for leading business development efforts and creating senior debt loan opportunities for the asset-based and technology lending groups in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. Mr. Mitchell has also held roles as Senior Vice President, Head of Marketing and Business Development for Action Capital Corporation, Vice President and Principal Banker for Wells Fargo Business Banking, and Vice President of Commercial Banking for Citizens Trust Bank. Additionally, Mr. Mitchell worked for GE Capital Corporation in the Corporate Leasing, Small Business Capital and SMA lending units.
"White Oak's unique position and product offering make this an exciting opportunity for me," said Mr. Mitchell. "I am looking forward to continuing to help businesses grow as a member of the White Oak team."
Mr. Mitchell graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. in Business Administration and a concentration in Finance. With strong ties to the Atlanta business community, Mr. Mitchell has supported and been a part of numerous organizations providing access to capital for small and middle market companies, including the Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC), the National Contract Management Association (NCMA), and the Commercial Finance Association (CFA).
About White Oak Business Capital, Inc.
In February 2018, White Oak Global Advisors' institutional clients expanded its asset-based lending platform and capabilities to serve new government and factoring clients through the acquisition of Federal National Commercial Credit, Inc. (originally established in 1992 and renamed White Oak Business Capital, Inc. or "WOBC" following the acquisition). WOBC is an industry leader in providing financing solutions for companies that are doing work for the federal government providing government receivable financing, commercial factoring and asset based loans to small and middle-market companies. The Company's expertise in meeting the rigorous requirements demanded by the federal government has translated into WOBC being recognized as a leader in the financing of Federal Government Contractors. The senior leadership team of WOBC comprises Kwesi Rogers and Kysha Pierre-Louis; together with their team, WOBC provides scale to White Oak's asset based lending platform to serve companies that require debt financing in the U.S. and globally that are currently underserved by traditional capital sources.
About White Oak Global Advisors, LLC
White Oak Global Advisors, LLC is a leading global alternative asset manager specializing in originating and providing financing solutions to facilitate the growth, refinancing and recapitalization of small and medium enterprises. Since its inception in 2007, White Oak Global Advisors, LLC's disciplined investment process aims to deliver risk-adjusted investment returns for our investors while establishing long term partnerships with our borrowers. More information can be found at www.whiteoaksf.com.