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Every Product Should Have an Origin Story
Building great products takes teamwork, determination, and a good deal of luck. But at the end of the day, you can't make something truly great without a clear origin story. That may sound strange or even counterintuitive, but if you don't know why your product exists, or the problem that it's meant to solve, then you haven't made something great. And you can't understand a product's "why" unless you appreciate where it comes from.
Last fall I joined Connected as a senior product lead for their sports business. I felt they had the leadership and team to execute on their ambitious mission to help their clients build better products.
This story, however, begins at theScore, the mobile sports application that grew to compete with ESPN and Team Stream for users and revenue worldwide. I spent 15 years there in total, 12 as product lead.
Originally launched as a specialty cable TV channel back in 1997 called "Sportscope," theScore grew out of a sense that the traditional sports broadcasting of that period was no longer giving fans the content they were looking for. Their "panel of experts" formula, consisting of hot takes and sweeping multi-sport coverage, had worked for more than a generation, but when the internet came along and gave fans a voice of their own, the old format began to feel stale. The internet, after all, was fragmenting audiences, allowing fans to gather around individual sports and produce content on their own — content that was specialized, thorough, and impassioned. The internet also broke news instantly, which made TV coverage seem sluggish by comparison.
The internet was fragmenting audiences, allowing fans to gather around individual sports and produce content on their own.
This new fan-driven environment was mostly ignored by the sportscasting establishment, who had grown used to the supply-driven, limited distribution of content available via TV. Yet as sports fans who lived through this period of transition, we had become increasingly dissatisfied with the options on offer, and we decided to try a different approach.
And so, as a reaction against the stagnating world of expert-led sports TV, our programming mission became clear: to make the "voice of the fan" heard. With a ruthless focus on their interests, we developed a detailed, scrolling ticker of scores and odds, a rolling 20 minute loop of game highlights, and a roster of broadcasters who were sports fans first, announcers second. By building out programming that made listening to viewers our top priority, theScore was embraced by a young, enthusiastic audience and achieved rapid growth.
Our success, in other words, had everything to do with our origin story. Growing out of a dissatisfaction with the status quo (we were sports fans ourselves, after all), we had found our "why" and developed a product with a clear purpose.
As the internet came into its own and the user, or more specifically the blogosphere, emerged as the new source of authority, we found ourselves already ahead of the game. We had been promoting "user-generated content" the whole time — long before it became de rigueur in digital.
Growing out of a dissatisfaction with the status quo, we had found our "why" and developed a product with a clear purpose.
Take our program Diamond Surfing, a live event interactive TV show that allowed users to decide what MLB games to watch by voting online, handing the controls to viewers in real time and slicing and dicing live broadcasts into a crowdsourced mixtape of that evening's best moments. theScore's on-air personalities, to offer another example, were the "regular guy" set. They shunned the pontification and traditional play-calling of their peers in favour of real talk and humanized banter, sprinkled with pop culture references and user feedback for good measure. They weren't just talking; they listened.
When mobile finally came on the scene, and distribution powers were put literally in the hands of users, our obsessive fan focus made us ideally suited to take advantage. In 2008, ScoreMobile was one of the first apps submitted for approval to the newly minted Apple App Store. User adoption grew so swiftly that the original broadcast business was sold to Rogers in 2012 and theScore went mobile only. (Our app lives in the App Store Hall of Fame and is one of the top 3 sports apps in the US, having got there without any initial marketing or promotion.) When mobile became the next big platform, theScore's mission, which had grown out of its origin story, had long prepared us to scale.
This was our story, a David and Goliath tale about a Canadian startup that took on the traditional sports media oligopoly in the US and won — all by making a product built by sports fans, for sports fans.
Jonathan is our VP, Product. He began his career as a web developer at theScore and progressed through a series of roles to lead product, engineering, design and QA for sports, e-sports and fantasy with a total mobile reach of 10 million users.
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The idea of a Controlled Burn is simple; create a small fire that you fully control. The assumption is that were you to do nothing, a much larger disaster would occur. In agile, no team likes disruptions; rather, everyone prefers to work like well-oiled machines. This begs the question - can we apply a strategy that looks very similar to firefighters and utilizes controlled disruptions rather than waiting for a full-blown disaster to occur?
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Process biases occur when you process information based on cognitive factors instead of concrete evidence, skewing your perception of reality, even if all the pertinent and necessary data is right in front of you. And in our third installment of You're Wrong & Don't Know It, discover some of the different types of process biases, their impact, and most importantly, how they can be avoided.


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Ghosts haunt American writer, Ed Sieveking's every waking moment. They pursue him mercilessly, striking out at him in his weakest moments. They have driven him to his life of writing ghost novels. When life is incomprehensible, he has concluded, writing through the issue is the way to make sense of it.
In London to research his latest novel Ed meets Deleena, a woman with as many secrets as he has who is living a life infinitely more dangerous. They spend a night together, each trying to escape their past and invent a new future.
Everyone has heard of books described as roller-coaster rides; well, not this one. Opening this book was more like trying to ride a bucking bull than strap myself in to the comparative tameness of a roller-coaster. Every page I turned, it felt like the book was trying to throw me off and I'm not ashamed to admit that it succeeded on more than one occasion. By the end, I wasn't even trying to guess where the book was taking me – I just let it sweep me along.
I've read Darren Shan only once before and, while Lord Loss was a creepy, spine-tingling adventure not to be read at night, its plot wasn't nearly as strong as Lady of the Shades. With Shades, Shan moves solidly into adult territory, mingling ghost story, love story and crime fiction with surprising ease.
Like the book itself, the characters in Shades are impossible to categorise. Like all good crime fiction, none of them can be trusted and nothing is what it seems. This is both one of the most enjoyable and one of the most upsetting things about this read. In one paragraph a character that you love may become one that you don't want know. In the next, the entire world may be turned on its head. It's exhilarating and exhausting; and while I couldn't decide whether it was too far out of my comfort zone, I also couldn't stop reading.
Emotional and physical stakes run high in Shades. Ed walks a thin line between madness and normality; always teetering on the edge of despair. If he succeeds with Deleena, he will have happiness; if he fails it may break him for good. The circles Deleena moves in are dangerous, and if she or Ed slip up it may cost them their lives. There is a lot on the line even before the plot begins twisting.
At times in Shades I felt that Ed was out of character. The book will tell us that he is withdrawn from the world and uncertain around women; I never saw proof of this from his actions. Other characters found him friendly, easy to talk to and the few female characters in the book liked him. These inconsistencies would not have bothered me if the novel's ending had not breached my understanding of Ed's character. It felt like, while Shan had perfected the plot, he hadn't fully developed his characters and I was left a little baffled. This is not to say that I disliked the ending. Knowing what I knew about the characters, I don't think that I could have been happy with another kind of conclusion; but the choice that Ed made jarred with who he was.
The elements of Shades pull together to make an atmosphere thick and dark with secrets. The drear, history-laden backdrop of London lends the perfect stage to play out this tale of love and vengeance. Readers who like their crime with a side of whacky will devour this dark, quirky mystery.
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Welcome to our website! Come and discover a variety of activities here in and around the lovely town of Washington and you will surely find great fishing opportunities in this breathtaking region of Litchfield county that are among the best in the state of Connecticut!
The abundance and variety of activities was one of the reasons for starting our succesful business in this amazing part of the country! We would like to share our experiences here with you.
The Housatonic River Outfitters provide Guided Fishing Trips. They have great, handpicked guides. Whether you choose to fish the Housatonic River, Farmington River, Upper Naugatuck or many of the smaller tributaries and lakes, you will find these guides to be an invaluable resource for learning more about fishing these premier waters. These guides have more than half a century of fishing and guiding experience between them.
They will meet you at the shop, get you outfitted with any equipment you need, help you with your casting or fishing techniques (if needed), supply you with a gourmet meal and then take you out for for your day of fishing.
There's a six-mile stretch of freestone river in northwestern Connecticut that, come October, rivals any trout stream in Montana. Because the six-mile stretch of the Housatonic River above Cornwall Bridge is entirely catch and release, the biggest fish have been lurking, and growing, for years. The state Department of Environmental Protection a few years ago banned trout-killing controlled releases from an upstream dam, restoring the river to a natural-flowing state.
The current is slow, wading is easy, and the fish are swimming, but you'll be shoulder to shoulder with the next guy. Head upstream to Turnip Island, where the river forks, and wade through fast, hip-high water to the far bank. See Tight Lines Guide for more information.
If you want to have fishing fun with your children then check out the Trout Parks. Trout Parks are located in easily accessible areas to enhance trout fishing opportunities for young anglers and novice anglers as well as for those with mobility challenges. The frequent stockings, generally between Opening Day and Memorial Day, will greatly increase an angler's chances of catching a fish, making it a more attractive "fishing hole", particularly to children and families.
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E-80 highway to the exclusion of of Pirot center. Straight at Vojvode Momcila st. to the intersection at Momcilov grad. At the crossroads turn left into Vojvode Misica st. Follow the road over the bridge "Gazela" to the roundabout where you turn left into Nikola Pasic st. 500m from the roundabout, is a Garni hotel Alma.


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For the 27th year, Inprint presents one of the finest reading series in the country, giving Houstonians a chance to hear from and meet some of the world's leading writers. From September through April, 14 renowned authors will come to Houston, many for the first time, sharing their work and insights. Our most thought-provoking season yet, these authors' works address pressing contemporary issues, taking us on a journey around the globe and giving us a literary lens through which to see the world. More information can be found at www.inprinthouston.org.
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The Inprint Studio Series, presented by Inprint in association with the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and Diverseworks, features some of the best young writers in the country, as well as alumni from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and leading local authors. Now in its second season. More information can be found at www.inprinthouston.org.
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In January 2007, Inprint launched a new family reading series, Cool Brains! Inprint Readings for Young People. The series brings the country's most exciting teen and children's authors to Houston for readings and book signings. All readings are free and open to the public. More information can be found at www.inprinthouston.org.
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The Poison Pen Reading Series was started in October of 2006 to offer talented writers a chance to read their work to the patrons of the Poison Girl Bar located on 1641 Westheimer. The readings take place the last Thursday of every month and begin at 8:30 PM. The reading series features fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and dramatic readings from a wide range of authors, both in the University as well as out, both established and beginning writers, and resident as well as visiting authors. This series was begun with small gatherings of devoted listeners but has since ballooned into big appreciative crowds. We schedule two to three writers a month and our readers normally tend to emphasize the big dirty id in their work. The Poison Pen Board consists of Casey Fleming, Greg Oaks, David MacLean, and Scott Repass. Our CEO is Chris Martin. People interested in reading can submit their work to the Poison Girl's Facebook page.


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Robert Downey Jr.'s 10 Best Movies
By Corey Atad. 3 Apr 2020 6:54 AM
It's Robert Downey Jr.'s birthday on April 4. So, to celebrate the iconic actor turning 55, here are the 10 best movies of his career.
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The movie that changed everything.
In 2008, Downey suited up for the role of Tony Stark and and Iron Man, becoming the central hero of Marvel's massively successful "Avengers" series.
He finally hung up the Iron Man suit in 2019's record-breaking "Avengers: Endgame".
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'Iron Man'
'Zodiac'
Downey delivered some of the finest acting of his career as one of the leads in David Fincher's 2007 true-crime masterpiece "Zodiac".
Thea actor played real-life journalist Paul Avery, who reported on the case of the Zodiac killer, which took a serious toll on his career and health.
'Less Than Zero'
In "Less Than Zero", Downey made a critical impression with his performance as a drug-addicted rich kid whose life is going way out of control.
'Tropic Thunder'
Downey received his second Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Ben Stiller's 2008 comedy "Tropic Thunder".
The actor controversially wore blackface for the satirical role as award-seeking Australian actor Kirk Lazarus, who plays an African-American soldier in a fictional Vietnam war film.
'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'
Downey played an amateur detective in Shane Black's 2005 comedy noir "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", a key comeback performance.
The film received plenty of acclaim, as did Downey, launching him into the next phase of his career.
'A Scanner Darkly'
Downey got animated in the unique 2006 sci-fi feature "A Scanner Darkly" from director Richard Linklater.
Downey starred in the film based on a story by Philip K. Dick as one of Keanu Reeves' fast-talking, drug-addicted housemates.
'Wonder Boys'
In 2000's "Wonder Boys", starring Michael Douglas, Downey played eccentric book editor Terry Crabtree.
In the film, Terry has a romantic affair with Tobey Maguire's aspiring writer James Leer.
'Chaplin'
Downey got his first Oscar nomination for playing the iconic silent film star Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough's biopic "Chaplin".
The actor won praise for embodying Chaplin's troubled life and impressive physical comedy.
'Natural Born Killers'
In Oliver Stone's controversial 1994 film "Natural Born Killers", Downey stole the show as the sleazy, self-serving tabloid journalist Wayne Gale, who helps make cult heroes of the film's murderous central couple Mickey and Mallory, played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis.
'Sherlock Holmes'
In 2009, Downey helped bring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective into the 21st century with Guy Ritchie's stylish "Sherlock Holmes".
Downey was paired up with Jude Law as Watson for the hit film that spawned a sequel in 2011.
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Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company ("MLMIC"), the largest underwriter of medical professional liability insurance in New York, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement, pending regulatory and policyholder approval, to be acquired by National Indemnity Company, following the completion of the conversion of MLMIC to a stock company from a mutual company. National Indemnity Company is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., one of the world's leading insurance organizations. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. "Good things are worth waiting for," said Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Mr. Buffett further stated, "MLMIC is a gem of a company that has protected New York's physicians, mid-level providers, hospitals and dentists like no other for over 40 years. We welcome the chance to add them to the Berkshire Hathaway family and enhance their capacity to serve these and other policyholders for many years to come." "We are delighted to partner with such a fine organization. MLMIC has always had strong standing and stability within the challenging New York insurance market, and the arrangement with Berkshire Hathaway will bring policyholders further peace of mind, knowing MLMIC will be able to offer an even higher level of financial security. In addition, MLMIC will be able to expand its offerings, with more customized policy limits, risk‐sharing features and services to groups, facilities and other large accounts," said MLMIC President Robert Menotti, MD. In a letter to policyholders, Menotti said, "Berkshire Hathaway values our operations, board, staff and endorsed partners. Most importantly, Berkshire Hathaway is committed to MLMIC's future success and its ongoing dedication to serving policyholders." Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a Stifel Company, served as financial advisor and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP served as legal counsel to MLMIC in this transaction. Additional information can be found at www.mlmic.com/faq.
Healthcare providers face rising medical professional liability exposures given the recent increase in healthcare-system utilization under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), shifting trends in hiring and employment patterns as well as healthcare delivery models, increased use of electronic platforms and portals, decreasing reimbursements and greater regulatory scrutiny. As such, all those along the medical liability continuum are looking for answers on assessing and mitigating risk, managing litigation, defending claims and altering underwriting processes to address the changing medical liability landscape. That is why you cannot afford to miss American Conference Institute's 2nd National Advanced Forum on Medical Liability - Claims, Coverage and Risk Management on October 27-28, 2016 in New York City. This conference will bring together an impressive faculty of government officials, medical experts, risk managers, insurance professionals and leading plaintiffs' and defense attorneys, who will provide the most up-to-date information on complex medical issues and litigation hurdles, including: • ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS, METADATA, AUDIT TRAILS: Tackling the Unique Malpractice Risks and E-Discovery Challenges • The Latest CYBER THREATS to the Healthcare Industry: PHI Data Breaches, the Recent Alarming Wave of "RANSOMWARE ATTACKS," Growing Cybersecurity Threats to Medical Devices and Beyond • Mitigating Exposure to Rising Healthcare BATCH CLAIMS, and Defending Against Batch Claims Once They Are Brought • CALCULATING DAMAGES in Med Mal Cases, Catastrophic Injury & Life Planning Considerations and USING THE ACA TO MITIGATE FUTURE DAMAGES • HOSPITAL BORNE ILLNESSES & INFECTIOUS DISEASES: What Hospitals Can Do to Mitigate Risks and Avoid Legal Implications • HOSPITAL WORKER MISCLASSIFICATION ISSUES AND OSTENSIBLE AGENCY in Medical Malpractice - What Are the Risks? • Does Saying Sorry Work?: An Industry Discussion of DISCLOSURE AND APOLOGY LAWS and Their Impact on Medical Malpractice • TELEMEDICINE, 3D PRINTING, ROBOTIC SURGERY & OTHER MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENTS - Mitigating Emerging Exposures & Assess These Technologies from an Enterprise Risk Management Perspective • OBSTETRICS: Looking at 2016's Biggest Claims Trends, New & Emerging Risks and What to Expect in the Year Ahead • New Claims Trends Related to the U.S. Pain Crisis: Taking a Look at the Recent PRESCRIPTION OPIOID ABUSE EPIDEMIC and Its Impact on a New Wave of Med Mal Insurance Claims • A to Z of LITIGATING YOUR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASE: An Examination of Each Stage Including Trial Techniques, Lining Up the Right Experts, Using Technology in Trial Presentations, and Beyond Register now by calling: 1-888-224-2480 Or by faxing your registration form to: 1-877-927-1563. You can also register online at www.AmericanConference.com/MedLiability Be sure to also book for the Brain Injury Master Class: Oct. 28; 2-5 p.m.


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Lindgren T (2003), Cabin Air Quality in Commercial Aircraft.Exposure, Symptoms and Signs. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1262. 71 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5631-6. Runeson R, Usefulness of personality scales for identifying risk subjects in suspected "sick buildings". Dissertation for the Degree of Medicine Licentiate in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Faculty of Medicine) presented at Uppsala University, April 2003.
Friis Lennart, Health of Municipal Sewage Workers. Studies of Cancer Incidence, Biomarkers of Carcinogenicity and Genotoxicity, and Self Reported Symptoms, Uppsala Universitet, ISSN 0282-7476, ISBN 91-554-4980-8.
Wahlstedt Kurt, Postal Work - Work Organizational Changes as Tools to Improve Health, Uppsala Universitet, ISSN 0282-7476, ISBN 91-554-4994-8.
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Wålinder Robert, Nasal Reactions and the School Environment, Nasal Patency and Lavage Biomarkers in Relation to Ventilation, Cleaning and Some Indoor air Pollutants, Uppsala Universitet, ISSN 0282-7476, ISBN 91-554-4570-5.
Gerner Björkstén Marianne, Pain in the Neck, Neck and Upper Limb Disorders in Women the Role of Work Related and Other Exposure Factors, Uppsala Universitet, ISSN 0282-7476, ISBN 91-554-4330-3.
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Vaghef Hamid, Maesurement of Primary DNA DAmage in Individual Cells from Humans and Mice Using the Alkaline Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis Assay, Uppsala Universitet, ISSN 0282-7476, ISBN 91-554-4019-3.
Carter Ned, Functional Analyses of Stimuli Influencing Retail Theft, Uppsala Universitet, ISSN 0282-7492, ISBN 91-554-3853-9.
Wieslander Gunilla, Water Based Paints, Occupational Exposure and Some Health Effects, Uppsala Universitet, ISSN 0282-7476, ISBN 91-554-3433-9.
Norbäck Dan, Enviromental Exposures and personal factors related to sick building syndrome, Uppsala Universitet, ISSN 0282-7476, ISBN 91-554-2654-9.
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Classical India Meets Contemporary Jazz on The Alaya Project's Groundbreaking Self-Titled Debut Out August 15
Jun 7, 2022 | The Alaya Project
An album that draws upon the high-energy textures of Shakti and Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock's Headhunter and Return to Forever. A Carnatic groove that is funky and driving.
When our ancestors speak of that delicate balance between tradition and innovation, they are hearing The Alaya Project, a sonic sanctum of crystalized soul! – Hafez Modirzadeh, Professor of Creative/World Music at San Francisco State University
A trio combining classical Carnatic ragas, contemporary jazz and funk, The Alaya Project is forging a beautiful new sound. – Andrew Gilbert, Berkeleyside
The Alaya Project's debut, self-titled, full-length album is the summation of three musicians' long artistic journeys and the beginning of a profound next chapter. The group blends the Carnatic tradition of Indian classical music with contemporary styles of electric jazz, bebop and funk. It is confirmed for release on August 15, 2022.
Featuring award-winning drummer, percussionist and polymath Rohan Krishnamurthy, noted Carnatic saxophonist Prasant Radhakrishnan and Bay Area's prized keyboardist and accordionist Colin Hogan, the Oakland-based band came together in 2017 to play the 50th Anniversary celebration of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at the U.C. Theater in Berkeley. While Krishnamurthy and Radhakrishnan had played Carnatic concerts together since high school, Hogan stepped in to complete the trio for the performance.
The three immediately recognized that the group's Indo-jazz-funk fusion was worth exploring further. Both Krishnamurthy and Radhakrishnan followed the Carnatic tradition of studying under a guru from a young age despite growing up (respectively) in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Phoenix. Their Chennai-based gurus famously performed together for years: Krishnamurthy studied with the mridangam maestro Guruvayur Dorai and Radhakrishnan with Kadri Gopalnath, the trendsetting artist who first adapted the saxophone to Carnatic music. They are now among the most prominent professional Carnatic musicians in the diaspora who push the music's boundaries and bring the tradition to new audiences. Their fusion of traditional and modern, South Asian and American, is best summed up in The Alaya Project.
Part of a musical family that helped found one of the first Balinese gamelan orchestras in the United States, Hogan is a Berkeley native who learned African conga drumming and North Indian tabla from his father. All three bring a unique wealth of experience, knowledge and skill to the group.
Krishnamurthy founded the group and is the artistic director who composes many of the pieces and determines the setlist, but the music is a collaboration between friends.
"We know and respect each other so much personally and artistically, so that leads to a different level of artistic trust," he explains. "I wrote many tunes with Prasant and Colin in mind and plan the sets to highlight their versatility and the range of styles we create. They are such special cross-musical artists, and I try to create structures of improvisation that inspire them to express their individual voices."
The trio's path is atypical of American groups, moving from their primary language in South Asian traditions to Western music forms, and the music reflects that perspective. The bandleader started his studies in third grade on the mridangam pitched hand drum, immersing himself in live concerts of Carnatic music and his parents' vast record collection. Equally exposed to Western styles of music, he became interested in crossover sounds in high school. Further exploration of jazz and experimental styles led to pioneers of progressive Indian fusions like Shakti (he toured the U.S. this spring with one of the band's legendary founders, violinist L. Shankar), Zakir Hussain, Trilok Gurtu, and earlier collaborations with Ravi Shankar and The Beatles.
Radhakrishnan's roots in Carnatic music are equally deep, listening to traditional Indian instruments like flute, vina and vocal music, and applying it to tenor saxophone. As a saxophonist rooted in jazz traditions, he spent time transcribing Sonny Rollins and Hank Mobley while absorbing the ethos of John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley.
"We sort of lived it," explains Krishnamurthy. "We didn't really have a choice that we would bridge the Carnatic tradition with jazz and funk. There was never a moment when I thought that I needed to create this fusion. It just happened naturally. As an Indian American and product of two cultures, I've had to work hard to embrace my duality and tell stories that exist within the hyphen. I think we're finally at a place in our society where the pursuit of self-discovery, lineage, and authenticity are paramount. The next generation of artists are elevating counter-narratives and redefining normalcy on their own terms."
"In a way, rhythm is the oldest universal language, traversing country, culture, and creed. Growing up as a third culture kid in a small Midwestern town, it was always about finding ways to transcreate Indian classical art in a culturally relevant way for new audiences. Nothing could bridge those cultural chasms in such an elemental way like rhythm."
The Alaya Project's base is Carnatic music and it branches out from there, drawing upon the high-energy textures of Shakti and Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock's Headhunter and Return to Forever. The sound is rooted in a Carnatic groove that is funky and driving. There's a lot of complexity and rhythmic patterns, but there is a feel of funk even when the meters are in five, seven, or nine.
Despite the smaller instrumentation of a trio (with guests), the group goes in many directions thanks to the members' influences, training and life experiences. The group is more polylingual than bilingual, with each member playing the role of at least two musicians.
This all comes to the fore on the group's debut studio recording. Primarily a live recording, the trio cut all the tracks during a marathon one-day session with recording engineer Neil Godbole at Airship Laboratories in the Bay. Multiple takes explored different facets of the songs, but there was virtually no need for retakes or overdubs. These were pieces performed many times for concerts in the pre-pandemic days of 2019.
Working and emerging from isolation is now a common COVID era story for musicians, but the session took strategic planning and felt like a gift when it finally happened in 2021. That day in the studio was a celebration, a coming together to create this album, and also symbolically a gesture to move forward from the terror of the pandemic. It's now time to share the fruits of that joyous session.


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North Carolina Police Fired After Using Racial Slurs
Alex Baldridge
Three police officers in North Carolina were fired after they were heard on camera making racist comments, including the use of racial epithets and references to "slaughtering" Black people, police stated.
Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams stated the three officers — Cpl. Jessie Moore, James Gilmore and Kevin Piner would be terminated immediately for misconduct after an internal investigation "uncovered extensive violations" of the department's policies, including its standard of conduct and use of proper language.
The department also released a document containing a detailed summary of its investigation.
"Why are we releasing this information this way and at this time? Because it is the right thing to do," Williams said. "Normally, personnel laws allow only a very small amount of information to be made public. However, in exceptional cases, when it is essential to maintain public confidence in the administration of the City and the Police Department, more information may be released.
"This is the most exceptional and difficult case I have encountered in my career," he added. "We must establish new reforms for policing here at home and throughout this country."
The investigation began as a result of a supervisor's routine inspection of a video from Piner's in-car camera, Williams said.
Approximately 46 minutes and 12 seconds into the footage, Piner speaks with Gilmore from their respective cars. During the conversation, Piner criticized the department, telling Gilmore the agency is concerned with "kneeling down with the Black folks." Gilmore then expresses to his colleague he watched a video on social media about white people bowing down on their knees and "worshipping Blacks," according to the report released by the department.
About an hour and 14 minutes into the video, Piner receives a call from Moore. Shortly into the conversation, Moore refers to a woman he arrested using a racial slur to describe her.
Later in the conversation, Piner tells Moore he feels a civil war is coming and he is "ready," according to the police report. He said he is going to buy a new assault rifle in the next couple of weeks and said society will be close to martial law. Piner also discusses "slaughtering" people, using a racial slur to describe his targets. Moore responded that he would not do that, while Piner stated, "I'm ready."
When interviewed separately, each officer admitted to their voice on the video and did not deny saying any of the things that were heard in the recordings, according to the police report. However, each officer did deny being racist, based on the report.
Williams said he recommends that the officers will not be eligible for rehire in the city and will notify the North Carolina Criminal Justice Training and Standards Commission of their behavior. The commission ultimately determines whether an officer can maintain their state certification.
Cops in North Carolina aren't the only ones throwing around racist slurs on the radio, in LA weeks ago during the start of the George Floyd protests cops were caught discussing putting bounties on minorities slinging around racial slurs for Blacks and Mexicans. There is no information on whether these officers were fired that this reporter was able to find.
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Police are now facing retaliation when they are caught spewing racial slurs or displaying any side of hate towards ethnicities. Just recently two police officers in the states of — Louisiana, and Mississippi, have also been fired and lost their jobs due to the use of racial slurs.
It truly is a sorry state of affairs and shows unequivocally without a doubt that racism is alive and well within law enforcement agencies.
Protests have erupted across the country as protesters have voiced their concern for African American lives, inequality, systematic racism, and the overall issue of police brutality. As a result of the chaos, some people have taken advantage of the situation with riots and looting breaking out in some places which authorities have struggled to contain.
Peaceful protests across the country have been mared by occasional violent clashes between police with several videos of police brutality going viral. As the New York Times reported, authorities have responded to the calls for protests with more excessive force against the protesters. Various videos uploaded online shocked the internet showing officers using batons, tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets against protesters and bystanders alike.
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Alex Baldridge is an activist and freelance journalist from the midwestern United States who was inspired to become a writer after watching the development of the Wikileaks story and the persecution of Julian Assange. Alex is especially interested in topics like surveillance, the rise of automation, foreign policy, prison reform, and the legal system.


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Drug price regulator NPPA seeks to recover Rs 4,551 crore for overcharging
By savita Published On 2016-03-09T11:40:19+05:30 | Updated On 9 March 2016 6:10 AM GMT
New Delhi: Drug price regulator NPPA is trying to recover a whopping Rs 4,551 crore, including interest, from various pharma companies for overcharging as of February this year.
As much as 82 per cent of the total amount is under litigation.
"Since inception of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), there are 1,389 cases as on 29.02.2016 where demand notices have been issued by NPPA to pharmaceutical companies," Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said in a reply to Lok Sabha.
A sum of Rs 4,935.92 crore has been demanded as "overcharged amount including interest whenever updated" out of which Rs 384.91 crore has been realised till February end this year, he added.
"The outstanding amount is Rs 4,551.01 crore as on 29.02.2016 and Rs 3,698.32 crore representing about 82 per cent of the total outstanding amount is under litigation in various High Courts and Supreme Court," Ahir said.
NPPA is actively pursuing the court cases, he added.
NPPA mandate is to fix or revise the prices of controlled bulk drugs, formulations and to enforce prices and availability of the medicines in the country. It has been entrusted with fixation of prices of scheduled drugs under the Drug (Price Control) Order, 1995 (DPCO) 1995 and DPCO 2013.
NPPA also monitors prices of decontrolled drugs in order to keep them at reasonable levels.
Fertilisers Hansraj Gangaram Ahir National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority NPPA
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Q: Python : Can I do front end of django project using HTML / CSS? Hi I am totally new to web development frameworks .I am currently  learning python and django  from  the  Django project tutorial..
My (rather dumb) question is when I am done with the small "poll" website will I be able to modify the front end of this project using HTML/CSS ?
Also, should I use tools like Dreamweaver to do that ? or are there other ways ?

A: Of course you will be able. That is the point of the web frameworks to let you build the whole application including frontend.
You'll get it all once you finish the tutorial. You'll see that Django has very nice templating language that allows you to build a html page according to data you get from your application.
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This result in normal HTML page in the end. And of course you can write any kind of CSS for those pages to get whatever look for your page you like.

A: Yes you can, you'll need to edit the templates in the location specified by TEMPLATE_DIRS. The templates are just html mixed with some python code to fill the content.


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Stoke City F.C. apps for fans on iPhone & iPad
by Marlon Votta September 19, 2011, 12:17
Stoke City fans will are in great spirits since their time in the Premiership has given the team a great chance to show their worthy of competing against all the top football teams. Stoke City Football Club is an English Premier League association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Founded in 1863, they are the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts County.
Stoke's home ground is the Britannia Stadium. Before the stadium was opened in 1997, they previously played at the Victoria Ground, which had been their home ground since 1878. The club's nickname is The Potters, named after the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent and their traditional home kit is a red and white vertically striped shirt with white shorts and white socks. They play in the Premier League after winning promotion in 2008; prior to this Stoke had not participated in top-flight football for twenty-three years. Their first, and to date only, major trophy was won in the 1972 Football League Cup Final, when they beat Chelsea 2—1. The club has won the Football League Trophy on two occasions, firstly in 1992 and most recently in 2000. They have competed in European football twice, in 1972 and 1974; they will compete in Europe for the third time in 2011. Stoke played in their first FA Cup Final in 2011, finishing runners-up to Manchester City; they have also reached three FA Cup semi-finals, firstly in 1899 then consecutively in 1971 and 1972. For Stoke City fans everywhere we have come up with a few apps you might find interesting.
Official Stoke City FC by Perform Group contains all the information a Stoke City supporter requires. With current news, videos and live text commentary of every Premier League game this is a great way for fans to keep informed about all the latest news involving the club. Users will have the opportunity to view live match statistics including player profiles, formations, team line-ups, scores, fixtures and table standings. In addition, a countdown ticker lets you know exactly when the next match is and links to ticket information. For £0.69 through the iTunes App Store, this application contains wallpapers, results, Stoke City store information and more.
Stoke City Sports by Bright Artificial Intelligence Ltd presents all the latest news concerning Stoke City football. This unofficial app allows the user to access news, gossip, results, live scores, line-ups, match stats, and previews. Find out details on head-to-head comparisons, view the league table and top scorers. Available at the App Store for £0.69/$0.99 this application lets fans chat with fellow supporters and opposition fans in the live fan chat room.
Stoke City Fan Chants & Songs by iAppMaker.com is a must have for any die hard Stoke fan. Use this as an alarm, ringtone or just blare chants out of your speakers. Play chants including City Til I Die, We Only Score From A Throw In, Stoke City F.C. and Delilah and irritate other fans with your ringtones. Accessible at the App Store for £0.69/$0.99 this app has great recorded chants by fans for fans.
Stoke City Ringtones 1 By 1st Imp contains six commentaries, specially recorded by Match Of The Days Guy Mowbray. Play them to other fans or set them as ringtones with commentaries including 'The Stoke City fans are celebrating another famous victory',' Stoke City 5 Man Utd 0' and 'Stoke City 5 Liverpool 0' exactly what all Stoke fans want to hear. For £0.69/$0.99, this application is available to download at the App Store.
Stoke fans can get all the information they need with easy to use apps, including great fans chants, ringtones and much more. With Stoke City recently competing in Europe and the FA Cup final, do you feel they are on their way to achieve more and more success? They have shown that the top tier of English football is where they belong.
Written by Marlon Votta
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In just under a quarter-century, Ian McEwan has published nine novels and two short-story collections. The progress of his work certainly can be measured by sensitive literary calipers, but in truth a good old-fashioned thermometer would work just fine. Talk about global warming! McEwan is under the influence of what can only be called a heat wave. From his first novel, The Cement Garden -- impressive and deservedly praised, but a chilly tour de force -- his work has grown ever more passionate, ever richer in emotion and plain human sympathy. All along he has known how to make the reader think and imagine; now he knows how to break your heart.
So here we have Atonement. Where to begin? Whether it is indeed a masterpiece -- as upon first reading I am inclined to think it is -- can be determined only as time permits it to take its place in the vast body of English literature. Certainly it is the finest book yet by a writer of prodigious skills and, at this point in his career, equally prodigious accomplishment. It confirms me in the belief that there is no one now writing fiction in the English language who surpasses McEwan, and perhaps no one who equals him. It tells us -- if his previous three or four books did not already do so -- that an extraordinary literary career is in progress, and leaves us to await with high expectations books as yet unwritten.
Atonement is at once incredibly lucid and forbiddingly dense. Every sentence is pellucid, yet every sentence is fraught with weight. As surely as if he had tied a chain around your waist and wound it through a powerful winch, McEwan pulls you toward the novel's climax and denouement, but there can be no rushing to get there. By way of illustration consider the following paragraph, chosen entirely at random. Robbie Turner is writing a letter to Cecilia Tallis, only minutes after an incident in the garden of the Tallis family's country estate outside London, a place of "timeless, unchanging calm" spoiled only by "the ugliness of the Tallis home -- barely forty years old, bright orange brick, squat, lead-paneled baronial Gothic." It is an incident that will -- in a matter of hours -- forever transform both of them:
"How thin it looked, this self-protective levity. He was like a man with advanced TB pretending to have a cold. He flicked the return lever twice and re-wrote: 'It's hardly an excuse, I know, but lately I seem to be awfully light-headed around you. What was I doing, walking barefoot into your house? And have I ever snapped off the rim of an antique vase before?' He rested his hands on the keys while he confronted the urge to type her name again. 'Cee, I don't think I can blame the heat!' Now jokiness had made way for melodrama, or plaintiveness. The rhetorical questions had a clammy air; the exclamation mark was the first resort of those who shout to make themselves clearer. He forgave this punctuation only in his mother's letters where a row of five indicated a jolly good joke. He turned the drum and typed an 'x.' 'Cecilia, I don't think I can blame the heat.' Now the humor was removed, and an element of self-pity had crept in. The exclamation mark would have to be reinstated. Volume was obviously not its only business."
The remainder of this review -- if not a monograph, or a small book -- could be turned over to an analysis of that paragraph, written as it is with such manifest patience and care, thick as it is with meaning. Instead, move on to the next paragraph, in which Robbie allows his imagination to flourish. He writes another draft of the letter, and in a moment types "before he could stop himself" two sentences that he could never speak, or write, to Cecilia. He pulls the draft out of the typewriter and writes, in longhand, on another sheet of paper, words it is permissible for him to say. The letter is delivered to her: the wrong letter.
Or is it? Words that in 1935 could not be uttered in a genteel English household -- could not even be thought -- have a transformative effect, and scarcely the one Robbie had feared. Two young people fresh out of Cambridge -- the scholarship boy, "only son of a humble cleaning lady," and the elder daughter of the squire for whom his mother works -- find themselves in each other's arms. In the darkness of her father's library, they kiss:
"Daringly, they touched the tips of their tongues, and it was then she made the falling, sighing sound which, he realized later, marked a transformation. . . . The son of Grace and Ernest Turner, the daughter of Emily and Jack Tallis, the childhood friends, the university acquaintances, in a state of expansive, tranquil joy, confronted the momentous change they had achieved. . . . Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can ever quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract."
Ahead of them lies happiness neither had ever fully imagined, yet in a few moments all is taken away. An almost unimaginable betrayal is committed by Cecilia's 13-year-old sister, Briony, a child given to what Cecilia calls "wretched fantasies," an "indignant little girl" who "inhabited an ill-defined space between the nursery and adult worlds which she crossed and re-crossed unpredictably," who "possessed a strange mind and a facility with words." She is a storyteller -- a liar -- and the terrible story she now tells, every word of it a lie, does irreparable harm to Cecilia and Robbie. It separates them for years, then sends them in opposite directions: Robbie to the British Expeditionary Force in northern France and its evacuation to Dunkirk, Cecilia to London and a new life as a nurse, "cut . . . off from her family" by her own adamant choice.
They are apart yet together. "I'm not going to go away," she tells him in the first letter he receives in France. "I'll wait for you. Come back." She tells him this in every letter she writes. The hope of seeing her again, of two weeks with her in a country cottage, is what sustains him through the awful retreat to the English Channel, even when his exhaustion and pain are so great that his mind is numb: "His business was to survive, though he had forgotten why." His memory of her promise to wait is "like a sacred site" to which he returns over and over again.
Meantime there is Briony. Rather than follow Cecilia to Cambridge, she follows her into nursing, into a kind of penance, "a life of strictures, rules, obedience, housework, and a constant fear of disapproval." Cecilia resolutely shuns her, but Briony writes to her sister anyway, seeking a meeting. "She's beginning to get the full grasp of what she did and what she meant," Cecilia writes in a letter to Robbie. "I think she wants to recant." Yet Briony knows the truth: "Whatever skivvying or humble nursing she did, and however well or hard she did it, whatever illumination in tutorial she had relinquished, or lifetime moment on a college lawn, she would never undo the damage. She was unforgivable."
She is a dreadful little monster -- self-deluding, evasive, fanciful, selfish -- yet McEwan portrays her with sympathy and something quite like love. She is, as he is, a writer, a teller of stories. "Wasn't writing a kind of soaring," Briony asks, "an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?" -- and we know that McEwan is asking the same question himself, seeing Briony in himself. This is not literary game-playing but a matter of the deepest urgency, an inquiry into the very heart of the writer and his, or her, imagination. There is also a bold statement, made by McEwan through the imagined voice of the great critic and editor Cyril Connolly. Briony, enraptured by modernism -- "The age of clear answers was over. So was the age of characters and plots. . . . They were quaint devices that belonged to the 19th century" -- writes a story based on the experience of Robbie and Cecilia and sends it to Horizon. Its editor, "CC," replies:
"We found 'Two Figures by a Fountain' arresting enough to read with dedicated attention. . . . However, we wondered whether it owed a little too much to the techniques of Mrs. Woolf. . . . Put the other way round, our attention would have been held even more effectively had there been an underlying pull of simple narrative. Development is required. . . . Your most sophisticated readers might well be up on the latest Bergsonian theories of consciousness, but I'm sure they retain a childlike desire to be told a story, to be held in suspension, to know what happens."
Indeed they do, and this is precisely what McEwan has done for them in Atonement: told a story that reaffirms in every syllable our need for storytelling and its own transformative power. It is a story about class and war and crime and betrayal and penance, about all of which McEwan writes with abundant authority, and it is -- as we realize toward the end -- in and of itself an act of atonement, but above all it is a love story. It has passages so powerful and beautiful they make the heart race -- a long paragraph that begins on page 127 is the one that persists most tenaciously in my own memory -- at the same time that they remind us that nothing except love itself touches us so intimately and forcibly as a good story told exactly right. *
Jonathan Yardley's e-mail address is yardley@twp.com.


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In addition to providing tips for prevention of and recovery from brand safety crises, the report also aims to identify what communities are at risk, specific risk factors and other harmful effects.
75 percent of brands reported at least one brand-unsafe exposure in the past year with 10 percent reporting "regular" exposure and 70 percent say they're taking brand safety seriously or very seriously, yet only 26 percent of brands have started employing solutions within the last two years and 15 percent don't use any at all.
While 44 percent of brands and agencies grapple with brand-unsafe imagery and 32 percent wrestle with brand-unsafe video, only 15 percent use computer vision to scan visual content before placement.
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59 percent of publishers surveyed believe direct relationships are the most effective way to ensure a brand's ads are circulating in the appropriate environments.
Other remedies by publishers include site blacklisting (31 percent), followed by ads.txt (24 percent) and keyword detection (22 percent).
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E-commerce cash-burn may shrink by 67% in 5 years
Sindhu Hariharan
A recent study by management consulting firm RedSeer says that cash-burn in the e-tailing sector is expected to shrink to "one-third of its current rate" by 2023, driven by changes in product category mix, among other reasons.
| TNN | Apr 1, 2019, 09:40AM IST
A significant shift in unit economics is on the cards for the country's e-commerce sector on the back of an expanding catalogue of products sold through the internet.
A recent study by management consulting firm RedSeer says that cash-burn in the e-tailing sector is expected to shrink to "one-third of its current rate" by 2023, driven by changes in product category mix, among other reasons.
"E-tailing as a sector lost $15 for every $100 of GMV (gross merchandise value) in 2018. We expect this to shrink to $12 in 2019 and $5 in 2023," RedSeer's recent note said.
The report expects a fall in the share of mobiles and electronics — a category that fuelled the e-commerce boom — in coming years, and a rise in shares of higher-margin fashion and home need products. The discounts offered by the sector will also likely fall, the report said.
"Under the recent e-commerce FDI norms, the seller base of e-retail platforms is set to expand, and there is larger thrust on smaller sellers compared to large brands," Mrigank Gutgutia, manager, consumer internet, RedSeer Consulting, told TOI.
This changing seller profile is likely to reduce the share of lower-margin smartphones and electronics sold on e-commerce platforms that will then diversify into other higher-margin fashion, FMCG and other categories, Gutgutia added.
Margins in smartphones and electronics have traditionally been in the lower single-digits for e-retailers, leading to higher burn rates for the companies. As platforms house more fashion, FMCG, and home furnishing products, which garner up to 25-35% margins on average, the unit economics will get better, the report predicts.
As well-funded e-commerce players battle to grow their market, they are investing heavily in expanding categories and acquiring customers, setting profitability aside for now.
Commenting on the products mix for e-retail, Hanish Bhatia, senior analyst, devices & ecosystem, Counterpoint Research, told TOI that consumer electronics has clearly been a bright spot for e-commerce in the last few years, with India among countries with "highest percentage of smartphones" sold through online channels.
"As other categories such as FMCG and apparel picks, the share of consumer electronics in total GMV is ought to decline," Bhatia said.
RedSeer Consulting also expects new streams of revenue like digital advertising and financing solutions to play a greater role in e-tailers topline as marketplaces evolve.
"Indian e-retailers may soon go the way of Chinese e-commerce players, and start providing value-add services to its expanding seller base," Gutgutia said.
Finally, the sheer scale of e-tailing in 2023, which RedSeer pegs to the tune of approximate $90 billion, is expected to result in improvement of unit economies by 2023.
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1E-commerce cash-burn may shrink by 67% in 5 years
2Government to come out with national e-commerce policy within 12 months
2Nitin Gadkari proposes an e-commerce platform for MSMEs
2Indian e-commerce rules regressive, Walmart told US government in January: Report
2Amazon, Flipkart and the great Indian e-commerce 'game'
2E-commerce sales from India see 4% growth in Q1 2019: Report
2How this e-commerce major is making fun of Amazon Prime Day sale
2How McDonald's plans to change the way you eat
3Facebook mistakenly deleted Mark Zuckerberg's old posts