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California AB 5 in Entertainment, Media and Advertising
By Richard Kopenhefer & Leah Katz* on October 22, 2019
Posted in California Employment Legislation, Employment Agreements, Independent Contractors
As previously reported, Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law AB 5. The controversial law narrowing the classification of independent contractors was aimed at companies like Uber and Lyft. But what does it mean for the entertainment industry?
Assembly Bill (AB) 5 creates a three-pronged test to determine if a person providing services is an independent contractor or an employee.
The first prong (the "A" prong) looks to whether "control" exists in the business relationship. This prong is very similar to the practice prior to AB 5, which was governed by the Borello test. Simply put, if the employer cannot exert control over a service provider, then that provider is not an employee.
The second prong (the "B" prong) is the most controversial. It requires an examination of whether the worker performs work that is outside the regular course of the hiring entity's business, but the test does not define "business." Ordinary meanings of the term "business" are also quite varied, making the application of this provision problematic. If the work is within the regular course of the employer's business, the worker will likely be deemed to be an employee.
The third prong (the "C" prong) requires that the worker is already in business for themselves and works in a customarily independent fashion to be considered an independent contractor.
Ultimately, AB 5 dramatically shifts what services will be considered the work of independent contractors and is anticipated to shift the classification of approximately 2 million independent contractors to employees. This has major implications for employers across the state and would significantly increase the cost of doing business for many companies.
Entertainment Hiring Practices
The entertainment industry frequently hires professionals in independent contractor capacities rather than taking them on as employees – and the workers prefer it this way.
The nature of entertainment work lends itself to individuals working for a variety of employers throughout the year, sometimes even at the same time. Luckily, freelance writers are a noted exception to AB 5, but nearly every other position could be negatively impacted.
For instance, most Schedule F SAG-AFTRA performers are not interested in being considered employees for the studio that hires them. Taking on an independent contractor role offers them more freedom to do work on other projects, as well as being beneficial for tax purposes. In fact, most performers form loanout companies so that they may be considered an employee of the loanout, rather than the studio.
Crew members feel similarly. In fact, many crew members would not accept employment as anything other than an independent contractor.
Employers benefit immensely from this as well, as they do not owe independent contractors overtime or meal penalties and employers do not have to pay traditional payroll taxes on top of the paychecks.
The entertainment guilds do not have language in their collective bargaining agreements requiring any members to be engaged as independent contractors, but considering the interests of their members, they may seek to resist AB 5. All of the Guild agreements contain provisions regarding loanout corporations. They generally state that the collective bargaining agreement applies regardless of the loanout corporation.
Effective Date and Jurisdiction of the Law
The law is currently set to go into effect January 1, 2020.
Under the guidance of the unpublished Sullivan v. Oracle Corporation opinion, AB 5 would likely have jurisdiction over California residents as well as any employees required to perform significant services in California, regardless of their home state. Additionally, even companies that conduct the majority of their business outside of California would still be subject to AB 5 for any worker performing services in California.
However, California companies could employ residents of other states to perform services outside of California and not be restricted by AB 5. For instance, a company producing a film in Georgia would not be limited by AB 5 in hiring Georgia residents as independent contractors. Instead, Georgia law would apply.
What To Do About AB 5
It would be in one's best interest to adjust all independent contractor agreements that are currently being negotiated to include a clause regarding what may occur when AB 5 goes into effect. This clause would include language stating that all payment obligations still apply, that the employer still has a right to all content and services agreed to, and that terms shall only change as necessary to comply with AB 5.
It is important to also be aware of the tax ramifications of misclassification. Both parties are likely to incur a greater tax liability under these laws and it's important for them to understand how that might change when agreeing to provide services.
Everyone should also be aware that noncompliance is likely to result in lawsuits for misclassification. The attorney general, city attorneys and local prosecutors all have the authority to bring claims regarding worker misclassification. The prevalence and ramifications of these claims will have to wait to be seen, but large amounts of costly litigation seem imminent.
*Leah Katz is a intern in Sheppard Mullin's Century City office.
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Richard Kopenhefer
Richard Kopenhefer is a partner in the Labor & Employment Practice Group in the firm's Los Angeles office.
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One more day without a kind word and I'm gonna blow my top!!! The halls of academia are loaded with young scholars doing their thing. I welcome the hustle and bustle in the crowded hallways. Sometimes it's loaded with youthful comings and goings but mostly there is too much "blue" language and hateful speech. I remember those days of being out of the watchful eyes and ears of my mom while I dared to color my language with the sassy four letter words. She would have never caught me with my friends trying to be "grown" by using cuss words. But long gone are those days with this generation in High Schools. They do not fear the authoritarian eye of their teachers glaring at them when they let the f-bombs fly. I'm a staff member who is very tired of their lack of self-censorship!! Come on young scholars bring back a little civility to your communication styles because the real world will not tolerate the language style of your peers. It sort of makes me want a little of the reprimands from my grandmother for this generation of Highschoolers. I summed it up in a poem I wrote way back in 1986, entitled Living Right.
Your grandmomma made me smile. Sad, the lack of civility.


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Most Improved Players lists cannot leave off New Mexico's Cameron Bairstow
By Rob DausterFeb 26, 2014, 1:26 PM EST
On Tuesday night, New Mexico's Cameron Bairstow went for 14 points and 11 boards for No. 25 New Mexico as they used a late-run in the second half to knock off Utah State and keep pace with San Diego State atop the Mountain West standings.
In the past, that would have been considered a great game for the 6-foot-9 Aussie. We're talking about a guy that entered the 2013-2014 season, his senior year, with just two double-doubles to his name and career-highs of 17 points and 11 boards. Putting up 14 and 11 at this point last year might have been considered the best game of his career.
This season?
Bairstow is averaging 20.2 points to go along with 7.3 boards.
You read that right. A senior that started for a team that was a No. 3 seed in the 2013 NCAA tournament is averaging more points in his final season than his career-high was entering the season.
His improvement is even more striking when you watch him play. For his first two years, I remember cracking jokes about how shocked I was that Bairstow was able to dunk. As a junior he was better, especially late in the season, but he was still a slow-footed land-warrior at the power forward spot. His post moves looked mechanical. More than anything, he got by because he was bigger and stronger than most power forwards.
Bairstow is a monster. He went from being a plodding stiff, an afterthought on the Lobos, to being a hulking, long-haired version of Zach Randolph. Think about it like this: Kendall Williams, the reigning Mountain West Player of the Year, is averaging 17.1 points, 4.9 assists and just 2.0 turnovers — numbers that are much better than what he posted a season ago — yet he's not even up for consideration with it comes to repeating as the league's MOP.
That's thanks to Bairstow.
I say all that to say this: With all due respect to the five guys that made this list, if you're naming the nation's five most improved players and you're not including Cameron Bairstow, your list is wrong.
He went from being the matchup that Harvard took advantage of in their upset of New Mexico in the 2013 NCAA tournament to being an all-american this season.
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Im encoding in a batch durning night (720p and 1080p movies from my camera and phone), mainly some home stuff i want to cut and copy out easilly later (thats why i use small GOP of 30 and B-Frames of 2 to get around 1minute keyframe).
I saw some reviews but some of them got small while some got bigger differences and not a single one used MediaCoder with it Segmental Video Encoding feature.
I heard that AMD got worse AVX implementation, kind of half speed or something and Intel should stomp this. Fortunately some reviewers wrote that x265 used around 4 cores on 720p, 6 cores on 1080p streams, around 7-8 on 4k. There is same situation with MediaCoder i think (converted 720p movie to x265 and had around 70% usage on 6 core 5820k).
But when i enable SVE (Segmental Video Encoding), my cpu goes 100% and encoding speed goes up from around x1 to x1.39 so i could assume that having 12 or 16 core Threadripper would give same result even encoding low res streams.
Anyone did some testing and could tell me which cpus would be better?. To be honest i dont think there would be a big diff between my current 5820k and 8700k, but im curious anyway.


Carpets enhance the beauty of a home giving it a sophisticated and plush outlook. While keeping a squeaky clean home is every home maker's dream, children and pets roaming around the home can wreck havoc. Your mug of coffee can take a tumble and drain its content into your Oriental rug. Do you discard your rug or ignore the stain? In this article, we discuss various ways of removing stubborn stains such as chewing gum and candle wax.
Wet cleaning a rug involves using water steam then allowing for significant drying period. On the other hand, dry cleaning a carpet requires running a vacuum cleaner on your mat to soak up the dust and other particles. Dry treatment is popular in the home as you can step on the carpet immediately after.
Cleaning agents – find out if their cleaning agents are environmentally friendly or not. Chemicals used in steam cleaning are harmful to your health, and they may trigger skin irritations or asthmatic reactions.
Costs – in most cases, the cost indicated on the website will be a base fee that does not cover everything you imagined. Find out what the charges include and what they do not include. For instance, will they clean the stairs as well?
Background checks – inviting a group of people to clean your home can pose a set of challenges. You need to be sure that the hired help will remain in the designated areas and will not attempt to steal from you. More importantly, you want your children to be safe from social misfits.
If you choose to do the cleaning yourself, there are simple steps that you can take on a regular basis to maintain the integrity of your carpet.
Shake your carpet every so often in your backyard and away from children. Wear a protective mask when you do this to avoid inhaling dust. Rotate your carpets bi-annually especially rugs placed in high traffic areas like the hallway.
Clean spills right away by blotting the affected area with a damp cloth. Avoid rubbing the rug as it may cause fraying and spread the stain even further.
After drying the carpet, roll up the rug with the pattern facing in and store it in a ventilated space. If you plan to keep the carpet for long, wrap it in a breathable cloth and lock it in a dry place.
Put a damp cloth on the wax stain and run a steam iron over it to soften the wax. Use the piece of cloth to blot the wax and repeat the process until all the wax comes off. Take caution not to damage the carpet with excessive heat.
Apply grease or other non-volatile dry solvent to remove persistent traces of candle wax and blot with a piece of cloth.
Use an alkaline cleaning solution to remove the spotting agent from the rug. Use a spray bottle to apply the alkaline agent and avoid over-wetting the mat.
Inspect the affected area for dye colour from the candle wax. Use a reducing bleach to remove such coloured stains. Gently run a steam iron over the affected area to speed up the process.
Rinse the reducing agent and dry the carpet well.
Apply oil on the gum stuck on the carpet with a cloth and rub gently. Keep adding oil until the gum is completely saturated.
Gently scrape the glue off using a butter knife. Scrape the chewing gum in one direction to avoid damaging the carpet's fibre. Wipe off the stain from the knife to avoid reapplying.
Wash the affected area with dish soap to remove traces of the oil. Dilute a few drops of dish soap with half a cup of water in a bowl and start rubbing the rug. Repeat the process until there are no more traces of oil.
Apply a spot of shaving cream on the wine stain using an old shaving brush.
Allow the mixture to settle.
Take a damp piece of cloth and wipe the shaving cream.
You can also use alternative cleaning agents found in the house such as flour and white vinegar.
Rug cleaning helps to maintain your carpet at all times. Ensure that you have a steady water supply and buy a vacuum with a long power cord, so you do not have to drag the vacuum when cleaning the stairs.


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One awk to rule it all

```bash
#!/bin/bash

# refer : http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ten-awk-tips-tricks-and-pitfalls/
# the entire credit goes to above link & its author
# this gist takes one command at a time & shows the power of awk
# the power of functional awk vs. all those imperative languages.

# below one-liner represents a series of commands separated by unix pipe
# get the first line, filter foo, if found replace foo with bar,
# then translate any small letter characters with capital letters
# finally split it by ' ' & display second field
somecommand \
  | head -n +1 \
  | grep foo \
  | sed 's/foo/bar/' \
  | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' \
  | cut -d ' ' -f 2

# now we do the same stuff using only awk
somecommand \
  | awk 'NR==1 && /foo/ {sub(/foo/,"bar"); print toupper($2)}'

```

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TR7 continues their documentation of the locals at Concrete Waves, featuring Joe Haddon, Josh Rounding, Jake Sparham, George O'Neill, Lola Tambling and many more!
Matt Hunt released his comprehensive edit of the first few months of Newquay's Concrete Waves park! Watch the clip to see ripping from Josh Rounding, Alex Hallford, Jordan Thackeray, Marc Churchill, James Threllfall, Harry While, Adam Moss, Eddie Belvedere, Sam Bosworth, Jake Sparham and too many other locals to mention... See below the main edit for the unedited clips from the pool section!
Here's the final part of Sidewalk's In Search of the Canna Ramp clips, have a read and watch of the rest of the parts here.
Words: Jono Coote. Video: Ryan Gray.
Here's the next TR7 clip from Concrete Waves featuring Jake Sparham, Harry While, Beth Rickard, Andy Gant, Joe Haddon, Matty Page & Div Adam.
Make sure to check out Sidewalk's interview with the park builders + an extra bit of Div here.
TR7 published their first edit from the newly concrete Newquay park. Featuring Josh Rounding, Matt Beer, Div Adam, Jake Sparham and a load more!


A resurgence in rodeo and livestock competitions across the U.S. has young people, in particular, showing an interest due to the possibility of winning scholarships and other cash prizes. Wise Business Plans is offering rodeo and livestock competition organizers and entrepreneurs the marketing and strategic information that can lead to increased profits and business longevity.
Wise Business Plans experienced MBA qualified writers craft every plan, one at a time, taking into account the unique ideas and needs of each client and preparing a plan that will satisfy those ideas and requirements, while also providing professional and personal financial planning.
"We are proud of our work and our clients" success, and we continue to seek ways to improve and further our clients business interests," said Ferriolo.


99th | Victory - Honor God. Make Disciples.
We are Now in San Antonio, Zambales!
We officially launched our church in San Antonio, Zambales on April 7, 2019! We now hold worship services every Sunday at 4:00 p.m. at the Victory San Antonio Center located at the 2nd floor of The Money Tree Building in Brgy. Rizal, San Antonio, Zambales.
Here's how our 99th church outside Metro Manila began.
The idea and burden of planting a church in San Antonio, Zambales came about in 2014. During that time, we were praying and contemplating on where God wants us to plant another church after Subic. To respond to this call, our lead pastors in the area gathered together and prayed for a clear direction from God.
In 2015, while one of our pastors was visiting a friend in San Antonio, God planted a burden in his heart to pray for that municipality. Since then, he—along with other leaders in the area—sought God in prayer, met with several families, and built relationships with people who eventually helped us establish the church. Now, the church is ready to be used by God in ministering to the people of San Antonio and all of Zambales.
San Antonio is a first-class municipality with many young people who need to hear the Gospel and know their identity and destiny in Christ. Thus, we envision that our new church plant in San Antonio will reach the youth and help train them to be radical leaders for Jesus: future leaders who are passionate about honoring God and making disciples.
Knowing that there is still more to be done in this municipality, we are praying for a great harvest among the youth of San Antonio this year. We are also believing for open doors to minister to the locals through our Victory groups, discipleship classes, and other events. We are also excited to see more students come to know Christ through our campus initiatives and the church plants we hope to do in all the towns of this province.
God is, indeed, doing a mighty work in San Antonio, Zambales. Let us join our new church plant in prayer and believe for greater things as more and more people are coming to know Christ in this municipality.
Would you like to attend any of our worship services? Check our directory to find a church near you!


Dunham Hall Theater is a traditional proscenium stage (30'x60'). It seats 380 audience members on a single level. There are 14 electric winch battens over the stage and an easy access catwalk system for lighting. Our lighting board is an ETC Ion with two fader extensions, and we have a wide variety of LED and moving lights, including the newest Luster 2 Source 4Led's. The sound system is controlled by a Soundcraft Expression3 and Qlab 4 for computer control of sound and projection. The stage also features a hydraulic orchestra pit that descends 25 feet to under-stage prop storage. Dunham's stage also has several 'pit' openings to the under-stage that are used for elevators, slides and special effects. The theater also features a dedicated rehearsal room and a newly renovated makeup/dressing room area.


Hi everyone, my name is Raphy, and I've been a gamer for all my life.
My passion for gaming started when my dad got me a Game N' Watch (which was essentially my first console and controller), to which I spent hours pushing for the highest score possible.. Over the years I've tried playing on different gaming consoles, each with their own unique gaming controllers (Although I do wish I got a hand on a Power Glove, lol). I can still remember how each stick or pad felt in my hands and how each had shaped my gaming experiences as I grew older.
As a matter of fact, I remember when playing fighting games more seriously than casual happened to me – I was comfortable with using stock gaming controllers that came with my Xbox 360, but wondered why I couldn't pull of some inputs that well. That all changed when I got my first fighting game joystick (wasn't the big branded one, though). Not only did the inputs work better (with optimized button pressing and joystick motions), but it also brought some nostalgia of playing in video arcades. Oh, and the stick's art was pretty rad, too!
So what's the purpose of this site then?
When it comes to gaming, the choice of controller boils down to 3 factors – comfort, function and design. It's important that the controller you hold doesn't strain your fingers or your grip. It's contours must coincide with the arches and finger positions. It also goes without saying that the darn thing should work when you're playing! And of course, it's design factor should always make you want to admire it and share pictures of it to others.
This site is meant to talk about how these 3 factors are manifested into the cool products that were developed out there. I'd be talking about products, controller customization and even controller modifications. In doing so, I wish to convey to the readers how, in the grand scheme of things, their overall gaming experiences will be remembered by the form, function and fun that was in their hands.
This site welcomes feedback in the hopes of making reviews and content more meaningful. The internet is a wonderful place where people are entitled to their opinion, so if there was anything on this site that you think you'd be able to share or contribute ideas, I would absolutely welcome it!


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Radio Harrow wins Bronze HBA Award
Sunday, 26th March 2017
Radio Harrow is delighted to have won a Bronze Award at the Hospital Broadcasting Association Awards 2017. The Bronze Award in the Best Speech Package category was awarded to Radio Harrow's 'Living with Diabetes' show.
The special 'Living with Diabetes' show was presented by Pierre Petrou, James Byers and Matt Pulford in conversation with Lis Warren from Diabetes UK. The show involved the Type 1 diabetes sufferers speaking openly about what it is like to live with the condition and reflecting on the types of treatment available. 'Living with Diabetes' aired as part of Radio Harrow's 'Best Weekend Ever', a special event in October which showcased the best of the stations' health & well-being focused community radio.
The 'Living with Diabetes' package received positive feedback from the Hospital Broadcasting Association judges, in a statement they said, "the judges agreed this was a very interesting package with a commendable structure and treatment."
Radio Harrow is also proud to have been shortlisted for three awards at the Hospital Broadcasting Association Awards 2017. We received nominations for three categories: Best Station Promotion, Best Speech Package and Best Programme with Multiple Presenters.
Our other shortlisted entries included the promotion of the Radio Harrow Panto 'The Tweeting Beauty' and the 'Saturday Patients' Hour'. Each nomination showcases the variety of broadcasting that Radio Harrow offers.
The 'Saturday Patients' Hour' team submitted an entry for the Best Programme with Multiple Presenters. Each week they showcase songs and stories from the patients at Northwick Park Hospital alongside features which promote health and wellbeing such as the 'Saturday Cookbook'.
In stark contrast our entry for Best Promotion included our 2015 Christmas Radio Panto called 'Tweeting Beauty' which was a light hearted and witty reflection of the playful pantomime. Entirely written and produced by our volunteers, the pantomime provided light relief and entertainment for patients in hospital and the local community.
The station's Programme Manager, Gary Walker said, "it was an honour just to be nominated for these awards, and to win a Bronze is great recognition for the station's health & well-being focused output".
Listen to all of our nominated entries on our Mixcloud below including the full HBA Award winning 'Living with Diabetes' show:
About the Hospital Broadcasting Association
The Hospital Broadcasting Association is the national charity that supports and promotes Hospital Broadcasting in the UK. Each year they showcase the work of hospital radio stations across the UK. The Award ceremony took place on Saturday 25th March in Bolton. For a full list of the other winners and to listen to the entries from other categories head to the Hospital Broadcasting Association website.
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static constexpr size_t kSeed = 242u;

class FastCastRayTest : public ::testing::Test {
 public:
  // Test data params.
  static constexpr double kMean = 0;
  static constexpr double kSigma = 0.05;
  static constexpr int kNumPoints = 1000;
  static constexpr double kRadius = 2.0;
  static constexpr size_t kNumDifferentSpheres = 10u;

 protected:
  virtual void SetUp() {
    std::default_random_engine gen(kSeed);
    std::normal_distribution<double> translation_norm_dist(0.0, 2.0);
    std::normal_distribution<double> angle_dist(0.0,
                                                2.0 * 3.141592653589793238463);
    T_G_C_vector_.clear();
    sphere_points_G_vector_.clear();

    T_G_C_vector_.resize(kNumDifferentSpheres);
    sphere_points_G_vector_.resize(kNumDifferentSpheres);

    for (size_t sphere_idx = 0u; sphere_idx < kNumDifferentSpheres;
         ++sphere_idx) {
      htwfsc_benchmarks::sphere_sim::createSphere(
          kMean, kSigma, kRadius, kNumPoints,
          &(sphere_points_G_vector_[sphere_idx]));

      T_G_C_vector_[sphere_idx].setRandom(translation_norm_dist(gen),
                                          angle_dist(gen));

      // Transform to global frame.
      const voxblox::Transformation& T_G_C = T_G_C_vector_[sphere_idx];
      for (voxblox::Point& point : sphere_points_G_vector_[sphere_idx]) {
        point = T_G_C.transform(point);
      }
    }
  }

  std::vector<voxblox::Pointcloud> sphere_points_G_vector_;
  std::vector<voxblox::Transformation> T_G_C_vector_;

 public:
  EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW
};

TEST_F(FastCastRayTest, CompareToBaseline) {
  std::vector<voxblox::AnyIndex, Eigen::aligned_allocator<voxblox::AnyIndex>> indices_baseline;
  std::vector<voxblox::AnyIndex, Eigen::aligned_allocator<voxblox::AnyIndex>> indices_fast;
  for (size_t sphere_idx = 0u; sphere_idx < kNumDifferentSpheres;
       ++sphere_idx) {
    const voxblox::Point& origin = T_G_C_vector_[sphere_idx].getPosition();

    for (const voxblox::Point& sphere_point : sphere_points_G_vector_[sphere_idx]) {
      indices_baseline.clear();
      voxblox::castRay(origin, sphere_point, &indices_baseline);

      indices_fast.clear();
      voxblox_fast::castRay(origin, sphere_point, &indices_fast);
      ASSERT_EQ(indices_baseline, indices_fast);
    }
  }
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
  google::InitGoogleLogging(argv[0]);

  int result = RUN_ALL_TESTS();

  return result;
}


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Samuel Rodriguez is the President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the world's largest Hispanic Christian organization with 42,000 plus U.S. churches and many additional churches spread throughout the Spanish-speaking diaspora.
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[Press Release] Faith And Education Coalition Congratulates Betsy Devos As U.S. Sec. Of Education
AUSTIN, TX. – Following the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education, the Faith and Education Coalition of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) congratulates Sec. DeVos and calls on her to ensure that all America's children have access to high quality education.
"The Faith and Education Coalition congratulates the newly confirmed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. We share her commitment to high standards and quality education for all children as well as a shared belief that each child has been created in the image of God," said Faith and Education Coalition Executive Director, Dr. Andrea Ramirez.
"We, as people of faith, dedicate to faithfully pray for Sec. DeVos and her staff throughout her term as secretary. As citizens invested in the future of our children, we commit to work at state and local levels to support students to achieve their God-given potential. We are grateful and encouraged that Sec. DeVos has demonstrated a commitment to honor the Imago Dei in each child," Dr. Ramirez added. "We pray this will be the hallmark of her service in the Department of Education. May income, race and zip code no longer determine a child's educational outcome as we work together to provide excellent education options to all students."
The Faith and Education Coalition calls on Sec. DeVos to prioritize education excellence for the more than 50 million students enrolled in public schools, the majority of whom are students of color. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, minority students, when added together, made up the majority of students that year — a shift largely fueled by growth in the number of Hispanic children. At 55 million strong, Hispanics are the largest minority group in the nation. Education tops the list of social concerns for Latinos in America.
"We encourage Sec. DeVos to make high quality public education a top priority in her vision for America's students. Hispanic and minority students will soon take their place as leaders in our nation. Thus, as the Department of Education empowers these children to succeed in the classroom, America will also succeed both economically and socially, as a result of producing millions of skilled students, workers, professionals, and entrepreneurs. We will also succeed in serving as a world leader in education. In short, when minority students win, America wins."
Faith and Education Coalition is an initiative of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC). With 2,568 members representing almost 3,000 local churches in 44 states, the Faith and Education Coalition advocates to ensure every child in America has access to high-quality education.
Website | www.faithandeducation.com
NHCLC/CONEL is the world's largest Hispanic Christian organization. It serves as a representative voice for the more than 100 million Hispanic Evangelicals assembled in over 40,000 U.S. churches and another 500,000 congregations spread throughout the Spanish-speaking diaspora. For additional information, visit www.nhclc.org.


Sauerbraten is one of the most popular dishes in Germany, and is perfect for rustic living. It is basically a roast familiar to what we all have made in the slow cooker, but the difference is with the long marinating time and the unique flavor of the gravy.
You can take elements of this authentic Sauerbraten recipe and implement them into your normal roasting techniques, and will have a whole new twist on a classic dish that can get boring. The trick is patience. You make up the marinade and keep it in the fridge for 3-5 days, turning at least daily. This marinade will make all of the difference, and you can't cheat the process. Here is one note: the marinating process for Sauerbraten works amazing for game, especially venison. Make the marinade as described below, and use it for all of your venison cuts. Now, you can't copy the cooking process unless you have a roast sized piece of meat, but the marinade will do wonders for game meat.
There are three interesting ingredients to Sauerbraten that you may or may not want to use. First, is the raisins. They are optional in the last step, and add if you like. That brings us to mushrooms, which we don't mention in this recipe. We are lucky to have a lot of wild mushrooms near the cabin, and always use mushrooms instead of raisins in the gravy. Finally, the gingersnaps. The gravy for Sauerbraten can be a little sour (by definition), and the gingersnaps cut that and add a wonderful flavor. If you don't like this flavor, just substitute with some other sweet ingredient like honey, brown sugar, etc.
This recipe includes instructions for cooking with a Romertopf / Dutch Oven and a Slow Cooker.


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Niki Xanthou (Rodas, Grecia, 11 de octubre de 1973) es una atleta griega, especializada en la prueba de salto de longitud en la que llegó a ser subcampeona mundial en 1997.

Carrera deportiva

En el Mundial de Atenas 1997 ganó la medalla de plata en el salto de longitud, con un salto de 6.94 metros, tras la rusa Lyudmila Galkina (oro con 7.05 metros) y superando a la italiana Fiona May (bronce con 6.91 metros).

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Atletas de Grecia
Griegas del siglo XX
Saltadores de longitud

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Owner of India Legends at RSWS Season 2, Nikki Daas asks cricket fans to drive societal change for road safety in India
Business News National Press Release
New Delhi (India), September 19: Nikii Daas, model, actress, and serial entrepreneur, who is the franchise owner of the India Legends team led by cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar in the second season of the Road Safety World Series (RSWS), has urged her fans and cricket fans to support the Road Safety league to drive social change in the country toward road safety.
Nikki's India Legends led by Sachin Tendulkar is considered the most powerful team in the RSWS season two. The squad includes the luminaries of the cricketing world such as Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel, S. Badrinath, Stuart Binny, Naman Ojha, Manpreet Gony, Pragyan Ojha, Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Rajesh Pawar, and Rahul Sharma.
Nikii Daas is an Indian model, actress, and beauty queen who has been crowned winner at the Gladrags beauty pageant and later won the title of "Miss Charming" while representing India at the International pageant Best Model of the World in Turkey. Daas is rated as the most beautiful Kingfisher Calendar Girl
"I am thrilled to be a part of the second season of the Road Safety World Series. Sports have my undying adoration and respect. Through this event, we communicate to the public that they must rigorously adhere to road safety regulations for their safety "Nikii Daas said
The Road Safety World Series aims to inspire social change in the country and transform people's attitudes toward road safety. Because cricket is the most popular sport in the country and cricketers are idolized by many, this League will serve as an excellent platform for influencing and changing people's attitudes toward their driving behavior.
Why is road safety important?
In India, one person dies in a road accident every four minutes. Thirty Indians are killed for every hundred people worldwide. It is even more concerning because, according to the World Research Institute, the annual death toll in road accidents will grow to 2.2 million by 2020, with Indians accounting for half of the victims. Every year, over 150000 individuals are killed and over 450000 people are gravely injured in vehicle accidents in our country.
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Q: What causes "O/R Designer validation failed" after minor changes to a .dbml file using Designer? I added some columns to a table using SQL Server Management Studio, and then wanted to reference them in my project in Visual Studio 2010, where it is loaded using Entity Frameworks, which seems not to have a handy feature for simply importing updates from the database.
So I manually added the columns. They were just bit columns like an existing column, so I used cut and paste to duplicate that column, then renamed them and filled in the Storage field to match.
But then when trying to build the project, it would fail with:
O/R Designer validation failed . . . myDB.dbml Error: The operation could not be completed. Unspecified error
The main tips I found about these not-very-helpful error messages, involved restarting Visual Studio. That didn't help me here.
What else can cause (and what can fix) this error?

A: What caused this in my case, was an apparent bug in Visual Studio 2010's visual DBML editor!
That is, the new columns I had added and manually entered correctly, did not get saved correctly. This was somehow invisible even when closing Visual Studio and reloading the editor - there, it appeared correctly.
However, when I looked at the actual .dbml file using Notepad++, I could see that the Storage= values were all still the same as the column I had Cut & Paste from, rather than the correct values I had hand-entered, and that showed in the visual DBML editor!
I notice that the correct columns do not even have a Storage= field, which is probably a clue to what the bug in the editor is.
I deleted the incorrect Storage= fields from the .dbml file using Notepad++, and this solved the build problem.
I also needed to go into the visual designer and just make a random trivial change (I nudged the position of the table in the display) before it would add member variables for the columns I had added, to the auto-generated LINQ .cs file.

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Review Essays
A Century of Miracles
Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410
H. A. Drake
Oxford, England:
, September
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Who won the second battle of El-Alamein in November 1942? The usual response would point to Allied forces under the command of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. But in the Great Lavra on Mount Athos is a painting that suggests a startlingly different answer: it shows German tanks and infantry fleeing, but instead of being chased by Monty's troops, they are running away from a figure in Roman dress riding a camel and attended by a heavenly host. In this alternative version of the battle, the early Christian martyr Saint Menas, whose ancient shrine lay near the battle lines, appeared to Allied and Axis troops alike, inspiring the former and terrifying the latter. This strikingly unfamiliar image of a well-known modern battle brings us close to the world examined by Hal Drake in his new book, which puts miracles—or, more specifically, miracle stories—at the center of a consideration of the century from Constantine's reign to the sack of Rome.
Drake asserts the central importance of miracles early on: "Just as miracles were a way for people to think about and understand their circumstances, so studying these accounts is a way for us to enter into communication with an age that thought very differently about the way that the world worked" (16). He sees the 4thcentury as an age bookended by important imperial miracles associated with significant battles: Constantine's vision before his confrontation with Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge in 312, and the wind that blew against Eugenius's forces at the River Frigidus in 394 in apparent response to Theodosius's cry for a sign of favor from his God. Rather than speculate on the historicity of such occurrences along the lines of solar haloes or katabatic winds—an exercise that "encourages a kind of reductionism" (63)—Drake is altogether more interested in using such stories as a key to unlock understanding of the period's significant religious transformations.
It was in the telling and retelling of miracle stories that these events accumulated their power. This explains Drake's daring choice to begin not with Constantine's heavenly vision, but with Theodosius's heaven-sent wind. As he remarks, no one who heard Ambrose of Milan preach about the latter at Theodosius's funeral could have failed to connect it with Constantine's vision (49); good emperors could be expected to receive God's help. Such insistence on divine help, whether on the pagan or Christian side, risked encouraging a drift toward extremist positions of religious self-righteousness and intolerance. In Drake's reading, however, late Roman emperors could be motivated just as much by a desire for consensus, so that the miracle stories about Constantine obscure the emperor's quest for a more tolerant middle ground. But how does that leave room for a triumphalist narrative of Christianity? Drake (unlike Timothy Barnes, for whom Constantine's mounting intolerance is incontrovertible) sees this as a result of a hijacking of Constantine's miracle by more doctrinaire and uncompromising forces. The trouble begins with Lactantius and Eusebius, narrators of Constantine's miracles and stern advocates of a sort of implacable, Cold War-style ideological conflict between Christianity and its rivals.
Such miraculous retellings form the meat of the book, and show how pagans, Jews, and Christians used the supernatural to make sense of the world in which they lived and the changes they encountered. Many of the miracles, like those of Constantine's mother Helena discovering the True Cross, are ones where sparsely narrated episodes became embellished with ever more elaborate stories, just as a saint's shrine might be encrusted with gold and jewels. Even if, as Drake notes, such stories "were crafted after the fact, when it is always easier to be confident about the outcome of an event" (182), they nevertheless shed light on a century of religious opportunities, marked, on the one hand, by extraordinary fluidity of religious expression and, on the other hand, by increasingly intransigent ideologues seeking to define religious boundaries. For instance, the story about the Jew Judas (not thatJudas, but a fictionalized 4th century one who assisted Helena's discovery of the Cross) opens up for Drake a discussion that highlights the diversity of experience by juxtaposing the solar imagery included matter-of-factly on the floor mosaic of the synagogue at Hammat Tiberias, with the frightening anti-Jewish sentiments of Ambrose and John Chrysostom (123-32). Of course, it was not just Christians who manifested intransigence: the chapter on the miracles of Antony of the desert ascetics offers opportunities to present the much less than flattering portraits of monks offered by pagan intellectuals (149-50).
Throughout, Drake proves himself to be a most congenial guide to the late antique miraculous, pointing out the highlights and inconsistencies, and always helping the reader understand how such apparently implausible stories came to exercise so profound an influence over the historical imagination from the 4th century down to our own day. Ultimately, such was the power of the miraculous in storytelling that not even the sack of Rome by the Goths in 410, which Drake casts as bringing the century of imperial miracles to an abrupt end, could obliterate the taste for such wondrous narratives. As he astutely remarks, "for understanding the change from a pagan Roman Empire to a Christian Roman Empire, miracle stories are just as important as the theological debates that enthral scholars" (113). He therefore manages both to be sympathetic to the miracle narratives that are his raw materials and critical of them as windows onto a remarkable period. Throughout he wears his deep learning lightly, combining careful analysis with elegant prose and wit (one remark about the ecclesiastical historian Rufinus made me laugh out loud in public). Specialists will inevitably find details to dispute, but Drake's audience is plainly broader than that. In fact, if I am ever confronted by anyone who scoffs that the rise of Christianity represents some sort of closing of the Western mind in the face of unreasoning credulity, I will now direct them to Drake so that they can see the wonder and intellectual ferment that such stories actually represent.
About the Reviewer(s):
Mark Humphries is Professor of Ancient History at Swansea University.
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About the Author(s)/Editor(s)/Translator(s):
H. A. Drake is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Constantine and the Bishops.
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miracles, Constantine, pagan, Augustine, Rome, visions of the Cross
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