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Naomi Haslitt JD'07 named one of "Forty Under 40"
Naomi Haslitt JD'07 named one of "Forty Under 40" by Portland Business Journal
by Sarah Carlson, June 26, 2017
The Portland Business Journal named Naomi Haslitt JD'07 to its annual "Forty Under 40" list of achieving young professionals in early May. Haslitt received her award at a luncheon held last Friday to honor the winners. She was the only person on the list with a Willamette University or Willamette Law education.
Haslitt is a partner at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn in Portland, where she focuses on education and employment law. She has been with the firm for 12 years, two while a Willamette Law student and the last 10 as a practicing attorney. She said her connection to the position there came through Willamette Law's Placement Office.
"I landed at a firm that has allowed me to excel both professionally and personally," she said. "It has provided me a platform and resources to be the best lawyer I can be, and I am able to work in areas that have a direct impact on people, which is invigorating."
Haslitt followed the traditional path from law school to a law firm. She said as a student, she didn't understand the different ways to obtain a legal job, whether that be as a law clerk, in house counsel, corporate lawyer, or other position. She encouraged law students to work hard and think about different paths.
"Don't close doors and think that an opportunity is no longer available to you because it didn't happen in the way you thought it would," she said. "There are probably 10 more ways to get to that goal."
Although Haslitt knew she had been nominated for the PBJ list, she never expected to be named to it. She said she's been provided opportunities to take on challenging matters that have stretched her and her practice, and she gave credit to the support and guidance of great mentors for getting her where she is today.
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Opened in 1883, Willamette University College of Law is the first law school in the Pacific Northwest. The college has a long tradition at the forefront of legal education and is committed to the advancement of knowledge through excellent teaching, scholarship and mentorship. Leading faculty, thriving externship and clinical law programs, ample practical skills courses and a proactive career placement office prepare Willamette law students for today's legal job market. According to statistics compiled by the American Bar Association, Willamette ranks first in the Pacific Northwest for job placement for full-time, long-term, JD-preferred/JD-required jobs for the class of 2014 and first in Oregon for the classes of 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Located across the street from the state capitol complex and the Oregon Supreme Court, the college specializes in law and government, law and business, and dispute resolution.

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artworld ▶ Tributes
The Thin White Duke: David Bowie, 1947-2016
As a tribute to the rock legend, whose death was announced today, artcritical editor DAVID COHEN fished out this interview from his archives, published in The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London on October 1st 1994 under the title 'Bowie Redraws His Life: A Pop Icon on His Maturing Tastes'
Balthus and David Bowie, 1994. Photo: Jean-Francois Schlemmer
"He'll think about paint and he'll think about glue/ what a jolly boring thing to do." So sings David Bowie in his 1971 song "Andy Warhol" on his seminal Hunky Dory album. Recently the rock musician himself has been thinking a great deal about art, but with no signs that he or his fans are getting bored. He is prominent among over forty pop celebrities exhibiting artworks in aid of the charity Warchild, to help set up a music and art therapy centre in Sarajevo. And while his formidable collection of modern art keeps growing, he has even turned his hand to art criticism.
The prestigious journal Modern Painters, whose founder, the late Peter Fuller, was critic of the Sunday Telegraph, usually carries essays by the likes of Richard Wollheim, David Sylvester and Robert Hughes, doyens of high brow art appreciation. When editor Karen Wright invited Bowie to an editorial meeting even the most sceptical members were charmed, especially when he claimed he might be able to set up an interview with the highly elusive Balthus, at 86 the last survivor of the pre-war Ecole de Paris. Balthus and Bowie both live in Switzerland, and made friends at an opening for the painter's young Japanese wife, Setsuko.
"My original intention was just to be the liaison in all this", Bowie tells me. "I gave him a call and proposed a meeting, suggesting I would bring a 'qualified' journalist with me, to which he replied, "Good Heavens, no, I can't stand art journalists. They are always so intellectual. I'd prefer you to do it, dear boy'".
"I haven't been referred to as 'my dear boy' in decades", says Bowie. Asked if he feels a creative affinity with the painter, he says "The common ground we seem to share is the will to work obsessively, and a strong resistance to judgements of our work. Put it out and be damned – quite often, as it happens! Other than that, we are time and worlds apart, which has made for a rather lovely friendship." The exchange, which took place at Balthus's gargantuan eighteenth-century chalet at Rossinière in the Vaud, proceeded at a leisurely and anecdotal pace. In fact it runs to twenty pages, by far the longest article ever run by Modern Painters. Their chatter is charmingly under-edited, leaving Balthus's continental English intact. "Are you still the King of the Cats?", Bowie asks Balthus, alluding to the erotic overtones of the sphinx-like felines that often attend the prepubescent girls in his paintings. "When you get over 86 things change", comes the stoical reply. Setsuko interrupts to offer Swiss chocolates. As a photographer sets up equipment around them, testing his flash, Balthus reveals his remoteness from the world of his young interviewer. "Are you used to photographers?" he asks of the supreme manipulator of self-image and pioneer of rock video, the man who has been Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and the Man Who Fell to Earth.
There is little actual talk of art, but plenty of reminiscence about personalities such as Marlon Brando, with whom Balthus used to lunch in the 1950s, and Rilke (his mother's lover) who championed him when he was still a prodigy. Bowie introduces the subject of English painters, as that is the school he collects. Balthus laments the loss of his friend Bacon, whose paintings he never liked, adding "I have a horror for dear little Freud who I was shocked to hear that he was seventy now. He was a charming young man which I knew when he came to Paris about 30 years ago. I was really shocked by the last thing I saw. So Berlin painting!" And when Bowie enthuses about the romantic landscape strain in British painting, tracing a tradition from Samuel Palmer through Ivon Hitchens and David Bomberg to contemporaries such as Maurice Cockrill, who figures prominently in his collection, Balthus says "Yes, Palmer. I know of him". It is as if Balthus is not so much from a different generation as a different epoch.
David Bowie,Iggy Pop: Portrait of J.O., 1976
Like many of the artists featured in the Warchild exhibition, which opens at Flowers East Gallery on September 28th, Bowie was at an artschool. Brian Eno and Brian Ferry, for instance, studied with Tom Phillips and Richard Hamilton respectively, and have both collaborated with Bowie musically. But he is sanguine on how much art-training influenced his early development: "My own background in so-called art training was limited to four years from the age of 14 on an art course at Tech. This was the innovation of Owen Frampton, to steer 'talented' students through to art school status. But I only had eyes for the saxaphone and life on the motorway. I briefly worked as a junior artist at an advertising agency in London , but was completely hopeless, skiving off to lunchtime R&B gigs or to pour through American imports at HMV."
"Since the beginning of this year", he says, "I have been working almost constantly with Brian Eno on what seems to be a thousand and one different projects." When he was asked to contribute to the charity show, he thought he would just let them have a couple of charcoal sketches from his studio. "I have taken to drawing rather a lot while recording recently, as it seems to stimulate some new ideas in both mediums. But then I thought I'd use this situation as an excuse to experiment with computer collage." While other celebrities have made small works in keeping with the title of the show, "Little pieces by big stars", Bowie has produced a portfolio of 14 prints (in an edition of 14) entitled "We saw the Minotaur" and an additional poster. The strange, menacing figure in "Joni Ve Sadd", a self-portrait perhaps, is made up of tiny computer squares with a tiara of haloes that looks like it has been collaged from one of the occultist publications he collected during his Hollywood years in the mid-1970s. The poster "Minotaur" has a similar 70s look – album cover cum science fiction illustration – with a heavily drawn charcoal figure set against collaged backdrop of what look like mountains from a renaissance painting set within an exotic Moorish arch.
"I would describe them as flashy, faintly topical and vulgar", Bowie admits, and it would indeed be hard to make too great a claim for them. But is Bowie falling prey to the Swan factor? There is an epidemic among celebrities – pace Naomi Campbell's ghost-written novel "Swan" – of thinking that being famous for one thing permits one to do anything. Sylvester Stallone is launching a career as painter, model Elle McPherson as actress, Naomi Campbell not only as novelist but as pop star too. John Lyttle, in the Spectator, debunks the wanna-be renaissance men and women of the mass-media age. "Children, of course, think they can do everything without practice, without preparation, without due thought. Stars, like children, are easily deluded." But Bowie's interest in the visual arts is of a different order, for they have always stimulated his main career, which has as much to do with image and performance as music and lyrics. Justifying the eclecticism of his music he once said "When you are an artist, you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the art forms are the same in the end." But in acquiring those skills he has never lacked modesty and determination. He studied mime with the great Lindsay Kemp, for instance.
His collecting has often related to his creative interests. In the mid-70s he went to Berlin, partly to escape an unhappy time in America but also because of an obsessive interest in Germany of the 1930s. Left-wing friends disavowed him of his infatuation with Nazi regalia and symbolism. Meanwhile he discovered artistic soulmates in the Brücke Museum. "I waded quite heavily into Expressionism", he admits, collecting Heckel (who influenced the title track of his "Heroes" album) and Schmidt-Rottluff. "Not the paintings but the woodblock prints at which I think they excelled." His own drawing style is heavily indebted to expressionism, but as much to the British painter David Bomberg as to the Germans. "I constantly return to his and Lanyon's work. Both in their own ways lift the taut skin of the British character and reveal the stunningly romantic nature underneath. I learn something new from every piece I have."
Bowie has always kept up with music fashion, often, of course, anticipating it. His most recent album, "Black Tie, White Noise" incorporates elements of acid house, for instance. Critic David Buckley has compared him to the Beatles as a brilliant popularizer of avant garde ideas. But in relation to the latest neo-conceptual art he is robustly sceptical. "Recently, I was looking at some work with a well-known European dealer. Part of this display was a video of a young artist chastising himself with a whip. I mentioned to the dealer that the artist didn't seem to be swishing very enthusiastically, to which he anxiously replied 'Oh, I can assure you that in about 20 minutes he really brings up quite a blush on his buttocks'. I forgot to ask the price."
He finds time for at least one avantgarde maverick however. "I had that Damien Hirst in the back of my taxi the other week. Actually it was at dinner. So much bullshit is talked about his work. For me the act of killing a sheep or shark and putting it in a smart box is entirely evocative of the senselessness of most of our actions in this the latter part of the millennium. I don't care if it's art or not, I appreciate it as an expression."
David Bowie in the role of Andy Warhol in Basquiat (1996: dir. Julian Schnabel)
Something Old, Something New: Glitter and Glam at Berry Campbell
Super-Sized and Compromised: Balthus at Gagosian
Cats and Girls: artcritical's Roundtable on Balthus at the Met
"The Balthus of Swingers?" Glenn O'Brien on Walter Robinson
Recent Photography at artcritical
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More articles by David Cohen
Alain Kirili and Vision Festival: First visual artist honored with lifetime achievement award at legendary "free jazz" fixture "He Was Free and Brave": Thomas Nozkowski, 1944-2019 The artcritical Mailing List Featured item from THE LIST: Mark Sheinkman at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
What Painting Might Do: Antoni Tàpies at Nahmad ContemporarySomething Old, Something New: Glitter and Glam at Berry Campbell"The Balthus of Swingers?" Glenn O'Brien on Walter RobinsonCreation Anxieties: Dana Schutz at PetzelRecent Photography at artcriticalCats and Girls: artcritical's Roundtable on Balthus at the MetSuper-Sized and Compromised: Balthus at GagosianJanuary 2012: Michèle C. Cone, Ana Finel-Honigman and Anthony Haden-Guest with moderator David CohenPurloined Destiny: Julian Schnabel's PolaroidsThe Armory Show Modern (Pier 92): A photo journal
Transcendent and Aspirational: Stephen Antonakos, 1926-2013 "With the figure, anything is possible": Nicolas Carone, 1917-2010
Other articles in "Tributes"
"He Was Free and Brave": A Garland of Tributes for Thomas Nozkowski Transformer: Carolee Schneemann in conversation with Richard Klin Postwar: A Revisionist Vision from Munich Expanded Drawing: Dawn Clements, 1958-2018


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U.S. Will Seek Death Penalty In Case Against Boston Bombing Suspect
Federal prosecutors Thursday announced they will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing, accusing him of betraying his adopted country by carrying out a carefully planned terrorist attack without remorse.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to press for Tsarnaev's execution was widely expected. The twin blasts last April killed three people and wounded more than 260, and 17 of the 30 federal charges against Tsarnaev - including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill - carry the possibility of the death penalty.
"The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm compel this decision," Holder said in a statement of just two terse and dispassionate sentences that instantly raised the stakes in one of the most wrenching criminal cases Boston has ever seen.
Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty. No trial date has been set.
In a notice of intent filed in court, federal prosecutors in Boston listed factors they contend justify a sentence of death against Tsarnaev, who moved to the U.S. from Russia about a decade ago.
"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received asylum from the United States; obtained citizenship and enjoyed the freedoms of a United States citizen; and then betrayed his allegiance to the United States by killing and maiming people in the United States," read the notice filed by U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz.
Prosecutors also cited Tsarnaev's "lack of remorse" and allegations that he killed an MIT police officer as well as an 8-year-old boy, a "particularly vulnerable" victim because of his age. They also said Tsarnaev committed the killings after "substantial planning and premeditation."
In addition, they cited his alleged decision to target the Boston Marathon, "an iconic event that draws large crowds of men, women and children to its final stretch, making it especially susceptible to the act and effects of terrorism."
Tsarnaev's lawyers had no immediate comment.
Prosecutors allege Tsarnaev, then 19, and his 26-year-old brother, ethnic Chechens from Russia, built and planted two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the marathon in April to retaliate against the U.S. for its military action in Muslim countries.
The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died in a shootout with police during a getaway attempt days after the bombing. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was wounded but escaped and was later found hiding in a boat parked in a yard in a Boston suburb.
Authorities said he scrawled inside the boat such things as "The US Government is killing our innocent civilians" and "We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all."
Killed in the bombings were: Martin Richard, 8, of Boston; Krystle Campbell, 29, of Medford; and Lu Lingzi, 23, a Boston University graduate student from China. At least 16 others lost limbs. Tsarnaev is also charged in the slaying of the MIT police officer and the carjacking of a motorist during the brothers' getaway attempt.
Campbell's grandmother, Lillian Campbell, said she doesn't think Tsarnaev should live but isn't sure she supports the death penalty, even though she fears he will "end up living like a king" in prison.
"I don't know, because it's not going to bring her back," she said. "I don't even like to discuss it because it makes me so upset. She was my granddaughter and I miss her so much."
Well before the attorney general's decision came down, Tsarnaev's defense team added Judy Clarke, one of the nation's foremost death penalty specialists. The San Diego attorney negotiated plea agreements that saved the lives of such clients as the Unabomber and Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph.
Legal experts have said that court filings suggest the defense will try to save Tsarnaev's life by arguing that he fell under the evil influence of his older brother.
In a statement, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said: "One way or another, based on the evidence, Tsarnaev will die in prison." He did not say whether he supports the decision to seek the death penalty. Patrick opposes capital punishment.
"In each milestone of this case - today's announcement, the trial and every other significant step in the justice process - the people hurt by the marathon bombings and the rest of us so shocked by it will relive that tragedy," he said.
Massachusetts abolished its state death penalty in 1984, and repeated attempts to reinstate it have failed in the Legislature.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which opposes the death penalty in all cases, objected to Holder's decision.
"After the horrible marathon attack, this community rallied around the slogan `Boston Strong,"' said Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU. "Even - and especially in a case like this - that means not letting terrorists or anyone else shake us from staying true to our values."
Since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, 70 death sentences have been imposed, but only three people have been executed, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 2001.
The last federal execution was in 2003, when Gulf War veteran Louis Jones Jr. was put to death for kidnapping 19-year-old Army Pvt. Tracie McBride from a Texas military base, raping her and beating her to death with a tire iron.
Document: U.S. Seeks Death Penalty Against Tsarnaev
Reactions: To Tsarnaev Death Penalty Decision
This article was originally published on January 30, 2014.
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Judgement Is Here In 'Dredd'!
A character like Judge Dredd, like Jonah Hex and the Punisher, are characters that don't have a lot of depth; they just kill and blow stuff up! So why has it been so hard to make a great film based on these characters? Because filmmakers try to make more out of nothing and it just can't be done.
'Dredd' is not only a great film, but it is a movie lifelong Judge Dredd fans can be proud of. From the story, the sets and the costumes, this version is '2000 AD' brought to life.
The story follows a drug war breaking out in a high rise apartment (a block) in Mega City and Judge Dredd and his trainee Judge Anderson are called to the scene. What happens for the next hour or so is a claustrophobic battle where the duo take on hundreds of baddies looking to take out the Judges.
In the role of Dredd is Karl Urban who not only looks the part, but carries himself with the strength, drive cockiness of the character. As far as dialogue, less is more. Playing the psychic Judge Anderson is Olivia Thurlby who is stunning and carries herself quite well in every scene she is in. In the role of the main baddie Ma Ma is Lena Headey who gets better the more desperate she becomes.
'Dredd' has so much going for it! Directed by Pete Travis, the film looked beautiful (dark, dirty and incredible moody) and moved at breakneck speed except for the slow mo scenes showing the effects of someone on the drug 'Slo-Mo'. The story by Alex Garland introduced the characters and setting without slowing down the film. The story may have been simple, but it really worked! The industrial music score by Paul Leonard-Morgan adds another enjoyable level to the film.
'Dredd' will make you forget about the Sylvester Stallone version for a few years back....thank God! This film captured everything we love about the comic and the character. If only we could get this team to make a Jonah Hex film.
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'Naive' dealer stupidly offered drugs to bar manager at city nightclub
Hamza Malik claimed to have found the ecstasy and cocaine in the club's toilets before trying to sell them to the first person he saw
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Leicester's Mosh nightclub
A nightclub goer found himself under arrest for offering to sell drugs to a bar manager working in the premises.
Hamza Malik said he found the class A drugs stash "behind a toilet."
But his excuse was swiftly rejected by the judge who sentenced him at Leicester Crown Court.
Judge Brown said: "I'm satisfied you went into the club with these drugs on you."
Malik, 25, of Evington Lane, Leicester, admitted offering to supply ecstasy and cocaine and possessing them, with intent to supply, on July 21, 2018.
Mosh nightclub
Elizabeth Dodds, prosecuting, said Malik was at Mosh nightclub in St Nicholas Place, in the city centre, when he approached a bar manager at 1am and asked "Do you do coke or MD?"
The bar manager viewed it as an offer to supply him with cocaine or MDMA (ecstasy).
He asked the defendant "Are you selling?" and led him to a quiet spot near the cloakroom - having radioed security.
The door staff searched Malik's pockets and recovered a bag containing 10 deal bags and "white rocks."
Drugs seized
Miss Dodds said the defendant asked a door supervisor why the police were being called when they could just confiscate the drugs and let him go.
Malik then told the same doorman: "You look smug, I'll remember your face."
The drugs amounted to 2.3 grams of 80 percent pure ecstasy and 0.27 grams of cocaine, with a total street value of about £180.
Malik, who was 22 at the time, initially denied the offences and the case was adjourned for a trial but later changed his pleas.
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What the judge said
Judge Brown said: "I don't accept he stumbled across the drugs in the lavatory before approaching the first person he saw to sell them to.
"I'm minded to infer he must have had them on him when he went in."
Sentencing, he told Malik: "You come from a good family and I've read impressive references, not just from relatives but sports groups and faith groups who all speak about a different side of you.
"I take into account your remorse and your barrister has referred to the delay.
"Part of the delay was because you didn't accept your guilt until late in the proceedings but there was a 12 month delay (in charging Malik with the offences) which isn't your responsibility.
"When the police were asking you about this matter you said 'no comment.'
"When they asked for your phone PIN to check if you were dealing in drugs you refused to give it to them.
"It goes against any point you may have had about cooperating with the authorities, as does the lateness of your guilty pleas.
"This has to be custody, it's class A drug dealing in the public domain."
'A real fall from grace'
Jasvir Singh Mann, mitigating, said Malik had no previous convictions and had since kept out of trouble, following several career paths and also suffered from a bout of depression.
He said the defendant's references read like "a very good CV" and the offences were "a real fall from grace."
Mr Mann added: "He's remorseful and genuinely ashamed.
"He's demonstrated that what happened on one night in July 2018 was a serious blip in an otherwise decent life.
"His law-abiding family attend court today and he understands the disgrace he's caused them.
"My instructions are he went to the club and was searched on the way in and then found the drugs stashed behind a toilet and took advantage of the situation.
"He approached a member of staff, which shows the level of his naivety.
"I know his comments (to the door supervisor) were unpleasant and unnecessary."
Judge Brown said: "It was a threat 'I will remember your face,' intended to frighten."
Mr Mann said: "He was only 22 with no experience in such matters."
Malik was jailed for 18 months.
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I decided to try and make the lights "twinkle" by building an array of "Light locations" and selecting randomly those targets to be on or off. I also decided to have two new characters be the twinkly lights. And more colours.
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IOC Takes Action to Protect Autonomy of Sport
IOC president Jacques Rogge urged NOCs and federations to act quickly on the action plan approved at the conference. (ATR)
(ATR) International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge calls on Olympic stakeholders to unite and act quickly to counter threats to the autonomy of the Olympic and sports movement.
"I believe that the spirit of this unity is very important when we face difficulties and we will face difficulties in the future," Rogge said in his concluding remarks at the autonomy of sport conference in Lausanne.
"It's not going to be a honeymoon with the rest of the world and the governments," he said. "I'm sure that we will quickly find this unity where we will act together. United we stand."
Acknowledging the tensions and disagreements between sport and government he has witnessed first hand on trips around the globe, Rogge maintains that the Olympic Movement is "extremely strong" and respected.
Rogge stressed the importance of the work undertaken at the two-day summit and urged the Olympic Movement to act decisively on the resolutions and action plan adopted Tuesday.
"I insist on working extremely fast. We have spoken a lot and it will be discussed with the rest of Olympic Movement and our stakeholders during the [2009] congress," he said.
"But it is time to act now, it's time to be pragmatic and act quickly."
Seven resolutions were approved by representatives from the IOC, national Olympic committees and international federations gathered at the symposium. Nearly 200 delegates attended the meeting.
It was agreed that the Olympic Movement should "cooperate and work together with governments and international institutions within a framework of mutual respect, to make sport and its benefits available to all citizens of the world".
Nearly 200 representatives from the Olympic Movement were gathered at the meeting in Lausanne.
Over the two days of the conference, good governance at all levels of the Olympic Movement was pinpointed as fundamental to preserving the autonomy of sport and protecting it from government interference.
A draft document was presented to the seminar outlining some basic universal principles of good governance of the Olympic Movement.
The document, which extends to seven chapters and includes 37 line items, will now be refined before being posted on the Olympic Congress Extranet. The entire Olympic Movement will then have the chance to pass comment and make contributions before it goes before the 2009 Olympic Congress in Copenhagen for further discussion.
Sports leaders at the meeting also supported plans to develop the 'Olympic and Sports Network' - what Rogge calls a "one-stop shop on public affairs and autonomy" - on the IOC extranet.
The aim is to facilitate the exchange of information and provide a global analysis "which will be used as a basis for future decisions and actions where necessary".
"All NOCs, IFs and national feds will be able to flag their issues on this extranet and it's going to be circulated instantaneously to the rest of the Olympic Movement," Rogge told the meeting.
It will be operational in two weeks time, said Rogge.
An advisory board or so-called "emergency team" will also be established in the coming weeks to trouble-shoot major problems experienced by federations and NOCs.
"In many cases we only have a couple of days or weeks in front of us, we don't have months to solve problems," said Rogge, who made very plain in his remarks his dislike of "heavy formalized structures" for handling such issues.
Gunilla Lindberg, secretary general of the Association of National Olympic Committees, spoke on the final day of the conference.
of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), along with the Association of the International Olympic Winter Sports Federations, Association of Summer Olympic International Federations and the General Association of International Sports Federations are being asked to nominate representatives to the trouble-shooting group.
The group would convene ad hoc teleconferencing or video conferencing sessions to advise federations and NOCs on how to best manage threats to their autonomy.
Also in the coming months, the IOC's international relations commission, chaired by Mario Pescante, will be tasked with better defining autonomy of sport issues and establishing how the Olympic Movement can improve cooperation with governments.
Among the speakers on the final day of the second seminar on autonomy and sport were: Gunilla Lindberg, secretary general of ANOC; FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann; Lassana Palenfo, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa; and Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Sabah, president of the Olympic Council of Asia.
Rogge highlighted the fact that autonomy of sport is one of five themes of the Olympic Congress in Copenhagen next year.
He said it was a matter of urgency that NOCs and IFs get to work on any proposals they wished to present at the congress, suggesting they finalize the texts and submit documents to the IOC for translation before the Beijing Olympics.
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Halloween and rum go together like peanut butter and chocolate--harmonious, satisfying, timeless. Think about it, you never need to ask, "Who likes rum?" because the answer is (obviously) everyone!
So if you instinctively pointed to yourself with your thumbs while shouting, "This guy!" then you are not alone. You already know what this Men's Rum Pirate Costume is all about. Swashbucklers are notorious for their love of the beverage, so you'll look right at home on Halloween when you wear this outfit and sip on your drink of choice with your crew. Of course, you'll also look right at home brandishing a cutlass against your foes on the high seas, too, but sitting back on the ship while enjoying some rum sounds like a much more relaxing time.
There are, in fact, only two ways you could improve upon this near perfect costume. 1) Get yourself a parrot and train it to walk over to the counter and ask the barmaid for a refill for you (super bonus if you can train it to carry the drink back to your seat). And 2) bring your own treasure chest to use as a footrest wherever you go, so you can always be drinking your rum in a leisurely position while still looking totally in character. Other than those two costume hacks, this look is pretty much pure gold with its regal red jacket and blue stretchy pants. Oh, we guess you should also pick yourself a ruffly shirt and a pirate's cap, unless you think you can teach your parrot to shop online for you while you continue sip on your cocktail. We wouldn't put it past you. You're a pirate, after all!


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Heathrow Airport in London.
A strong dollar and a raft of new flights are making a trip to Europe an affordable choice for many Americans this spring and summer.
In fact, airfares are the lowest in three years, according to experts at the airfare tracking app Hopper, and the trend is expected to continue.
Still, research from Hopper and other airfare sites also shows that ticket prices can vary widely due to several factors, such as which European airport you're flying back from, regardless of how far you're actually traveling.
That's because European countries and sometimes individual airports impose different amounts of tax on departing passengers. (The U.S. has airport passenger taxes, too, but they tend not to vary by which airport you're traveling from.) Competition among airlines in European cities is another factor that can drive costs.
Airfare is still likely to take the biggest bite out of your travel budget, so it pays to keep the following strategies in mind when arranging your trip.
Look for Lower-Cost Airports
Many consumers are unaware of passenger taxes at European airports because that cost, as well as other taxes, isn't broken out in the ticket prices shown online.
But they can be substantial. Great Britain, for example, has an air passenger duty, or APD, that has more than doubled since it was introduced in the 1990s.
It currently adds $103 to $223 to the ticket of every passenger who boards a long-distance flight from a U.K. airport depending on the class of service, with the exception of Northern Ireland.
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"It's the highest rate of air-travel tax anywhere in the world, and on some routes can represent up to 50 percent of the total ticket price," says Anders Lindstrom, a spokesman for Norwegian Air, the low-cost carrier.
Germany's air-travel tax is about $40 per person for a trans-Atlantic flight. France levies a charge of about $40 for flyers at its nine largest airports. And Sweden's new aviation tax, enacted last fall, is about $44 for long-distance flyers.
Although the size of the tax isn't the only factor affecting the cost of a plane ticket, avoiding expensive airports can often help you save a substantial amount of money, especially if you're traveling with your family and buying multiple tickets. That's why it's important to shop broadly for flights geographically, and scour as many websites as you can to get the biggest range of fares.
Look for Where the Low-Cost Airlines Fly
Even if you're not flying on discount airlines, their presence in a market helps bring down the prices for everyone.
"The entrance of a low-cost carrier can have a pronounced effect on a market," driving down prices on major airlines by almost 20 percent, says Patrick Surry, chief data science officer at Hopper.
For bargain-minded vacationers headed to the U.K., London's Gatwick airport, which is farther from the capital than Heathrow, is often a better choice because it has flights on Norwegian and other low-cost carriers.
Farther afield, Manchester generally has lower fares than London due to the presence of European low-cost lines that fly there from the U.S., like Thomas Cook Airlines.
Condor and Eurowings may be cheaper than the traditional legacy airlines, and they often fly out of alternative airports like Cologne or Dusseldorf instead of a mega-hub such as Frankfurt.
Consider Creative Routings
A tactic recommended by frequent flyers on the Flyer Talk website is to fly to London, then fly back to the U.S. via another, lower-tax country such as Ireland. It may be less convenient, but the savings can be considerable. Many airline websites feature a multicity booking tab alongside the round-trip and one-way options.
Buying one-way tickets isn't necessarily more expensive, either, according to the research. It depends on where you go and which airline or airlines you're flying.
Flying home to the U.S. via Lisbon or Reykjavik, both destinations where the national carriers offer discounted fares and free stopovers, is a good way to shave dollars off an airfare.
There are other strategies to keep your airfare tab under control:
Pick a slower day of the week: Tuesday and Wednesday are generally the cheapest days to travel, and flights on Sunday are typically the most expensive, according to the website cheapair.com, which analyzed airfares in more than 8,000 markets in its 2018 Annual Airfare Study.
Flying midweek instead of on a weekend will save you an average of $76 per airline ticket, it says.
Look for newly launched routes: When an airline enters a market, it typically offers a promotional rate to generate interest. This summer a number of major U.S. and foreign airlines have new flights across the Atlantic.
Among the more notable ones this summer: American is launching nonstop flights from Philadelphia to Bologna, Italy; Virgin Atlantic is adding service from both Los Angeles and Boston to Manchester, England; Delta is starting service from Boston to Edinburgh, Scotland; and United is flying a seasonal route from Newark to Naples, Italy.
But even more important, says Surry, is to watch where the low-cost champs like Norwegian or Icelandair are flying, because they'll have a greater impact on fares.
Turkish Airlines, he adds, is another low-cost leader to many destinations on the continent, although you'll likely have to change planes in Istanbul, which would be convenient only if you're flying to, say, Athens, or Eastern Europe.
Beware of fees when you redeem awards for free flights: If you plan to cash in your miles for a "free" ticket, you may get an unpleasant surprise: a big bill for the taxes you'd fork over on a paid ticket, according to the Points Guy, a site that evaluates loyalty programs.
Again, this varies by location. If you're flying from London, you'll be walloped by the whole APD. Consider using awards on a flight to a country that doesn't ding passengers so heavily, such as Spain, Italy, or Belgium. You still may have to pay fees but you could save some money.
And last, the best advice for bargain-minded travelers is to be open to alternatives.
"What we recommend above all is flexibility," says Surry. "Instead of sticking to London, Paris, or Rome, look at smaller cities like Prague and Amsterdam."
Barbara Peterson
I write about airlines, hotels, and other topics related to travel and personal finance. My mission: to help you stretch your travel dollars and to get from point A to point B with a minimum of stress. Travel is my passion, so when I'm not writing about it, I'm probably at an airport or on an airplane somewhere. Follow me on Twitter (@Petersonb)
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In the midst of a 40+ date North American tour, French indie-electronic composer and producer CloZee has just released her debut artist album Evasion. The ten track album emanates her signature world bass sound and takes listeners on an international sonic journey, as each track pulls inspiration from different parts of the world, CloZee's life experiences and local sounds from her travels.
Having only shared the title track with fans prior to the album's release, each track on Evasion lends itself to a different cultural sound. CloZee's intentions are to transport listeners to various destinations through her music; to teach them about various cultures through her eyes and ears. CloZee's productions acknowledge that music is a language that we all understand as she designs rising beats and vibrating melodies with a universal dialect.
Evasion's soundscapes range from instrumental tracks like "Chinese Trip," to upbeat tribal-infused tracks like "Our Voices," to "Desert," a song with an Arabian-esque melody and heavy bassline. Though it's packed with incredibly diverse sounds and styles, Evasion is a unified work which blends all cultural influences, genres and instruments into an international work of art.
CloZee's career is on a steady rise after the huge success of her hit singles "Koto," "Red Forest," and "Secret Place," and massive performances at music festivals internationally. Earlier this summer, she was seen performing on the main stage of Electric Forest two weekends in a row, as well as numerous other sets throughout the duration of the festival. CloZee's live sets truly showcase her DJing and curation capabilities as well as showing off her unique taste and world bass style. One of her sets from Electric Forest can be heard here.


ClEP aims at contributing to improved measurement approaches in the context of the national requirements resulting from the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN SDGs. The project focuses on developing a coherent set of energy and climate policy indicators that covers the whole energy chain from energy services to energy supply as well as the three dimensions of sustainable development and thus addresses issues relevant for both, the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN SDGs, especially for the goals "Affordable and Clean Energy" and "Climate Action".
ClEP integrates the energy service based research perspective and measurement approaches for sustainable energy development aiming at developing consistent energy service based indicators and applying them for Austria and selected EU Member States. Sustainable energy indicators will be developed for energy services that are related to three major areas of final energy demand: transport, buildings and manufacturing. These demand-side indicators will be complemented by indicators for sustainable energy supply. The indicators will cover the three dimensions of sustainable development. Especially the social indicators (e.g. quality of life, gender equity and social cohesion) need further development and systematic, crosscutting inclusion into the indicator system, since social sustainability is often marginalized. Synergies and trade-offs between different goals described by the indicators will be assessed. Moreover, a composite index of sustainable energy and climate policy will be specified in order to provide an overall picture of a country's development that can be more easily communicated than the detailed results for the different single indicators.
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Published: 9/5/2019 7:00:24 AM
In her poetry chapbook "Deep Fahrenheit," Gill resident Amy Gordon moves figuratively and literarily from childhood into adulthood. Through a semi-autobiographical display of coming of age and coming to terms with age and death, she maps a psychological and literary path that many readers might find parallel to their own.
As Gordon explains, "I think that my turn of mind, my imagination always comes into play. Sure, there's an autobiography in it, but it's a lens through which I see the world, which is trying to see magic behind the world. Not mystical, exactly, but the possibility of the fantastic maybe. And I respond to things in the world — climate change for one."
Gordon's beginning poem "Field Under Stars" presents us with a woman during feudal times, reflecting on the dominant geocentric theory of the universe of the time: "She understands/for the first time the sun/has no need of her. She doesn't know/men will be scorned and burned at the stake/for saying so."
Gordon explains: "I think that women, working out in the fields, probably intuited that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe, but it took men to state that as fact for that to be believed. ... If you're outside all day working under the sun, you must realize that you're not the center of the universe."
She carries this optimism about the hidden depth of the common person throughout the rest of her poetry. In the poem "If Quest," she interweaves observations about people in service industries — people whose jobs so often make them invisible — with suggestions about their lives, their thoughts, their dreams.
"What do you know? What do you know?/We're all the same and all of us,/all of us, miss someone saying,/How is your little boy?/Are you feeling all right?/I like your tie, I'm scared to die." (Note: Italics are hers.)
This theme is carried through other poems as well, such as "Underwater" in which she portrays her father's persona as split between his surface-level image and his aquatically imagined hidden depths.
"Under the sea Dad loves a mermaid,/seaweed in her hair. Above the sea/he never would have looked at her."
Gordon says that she became an observer by "being the youngest of four in a very verbal family. ... it was a learned way of being, through watching, and you naturally start seeing what is below the surface."
Gordon's poetic process of coming of age includes some of the growing pains of adolescence: first love leading to heartbreak; grappling with the point (lessness) of profanity; rebelling against traditional gender roles; and learning how to find beauty in an imperfect, even dangerous world.
Especially in such moments of finding beauty and meaning in the commonplace, traces of her literary inspirations Pablo Neruda, Donald Hall and Maria Wisł awa Anna Szymborska surface.
As another source of ideas, Gordon cites "private mythology that has to do with being in nature and in the woods as a child, reading a lot of books, and pretending a lot, infused with the Greek idea of metamorphosis and feeling nature as something that is alive."
The poetic journey Gordon guides us through ends with the lyrical "I" just barely coming into her own when she faces the apocalypse in "Sunset." The careful reader will recognize the bitterness of life ending while having so much to live for, along with the sweetness of having had so much. Thus, the recognition of the fragility of and poignancy of life ultimately leads to carpe diem.
After working as a drama teacher at the Bement School for over 30 years, Gordon still puts on a children's play once a year in Gill because, she says, "I like working with kids, and it does give me a chance to be with kids for a little while."
She also has written many children's books for middle-school readers. Asked about her late-in-life turn from children's literature to poetry, she continues, "The children's book publishing world was beginning to feel more like a slog. I sort of lost the joy of it. I was feeling drawn to writing from my more adult side. … I always liked writing poetry. After I retired from Bement, I decided to take it more seriously and go back to school. I got my MFA in 2017."
During a low-residency, 2 ½-year program at Drew University, Gordon wrote most of the poems included in her chapbook: "I learned a lot from going through that program. … I just read all sorts of contemporary poets I never would have read otherwise."
She cites writing teachers Judith Vollmer and Ellen Doré Watson as being particularly influential, and of the latter says, "I would put her up there in terms of who's been important in my poetry life."
Amy Gordon will be reading at Flourish in Turners Falls today at 6:30 p.m., alongside local poets Cindy Snow and Amanda Lou Doster. Admittance is free, light refreshments will be served, and books will be for sale after the reading. Gordon's book can also be purchased at prolificpress.com. To learn more about her and her other projects, visit Gordon's personal website at amyagordon.com.
Nicole Braden-Johnson of Conway is the author of "Unheard Melodies," a monthly poetry column in the local "The Visitor," and has also been published in several literary journals. She is always on the lookout for poetry news and events, and can be reached at bradennicole@gmail.com. Visit her website at unheardmelodiesnkbj.blogspot.com.


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Solidarity and Member-Led Actions Lead to Greater Safety Measures at the City of Berkeley
After a tremendous show of solidarity from their fellow City of Berkeley coworkers, community leaders, and members of other unions, a citywide strike was averted in the late hours of Friday, June 15.
Days leading up to their contract expiration, Berkeley workers held actions almost every day, often drawing hundreds of workers and their families to rallies. From solid waste workers, analysts, parking enforcement officers, clerical staff to librarians and public nurses, workers came out in full force and assembled picket signs in the city hall lobby. They brought together local elected leaders, members from IBEW, AFSCME 3299, Local 1, and IAFF 1277, and fellow SEIU 1021 members from other chapters to join them in a fight for a fair and equitable contract.
Late Friday evening, City administrators and the SEIU 1021 Bargaining Team agreed to a two-year tentative agreement that guarantees fair wage increases, greater safety measures. And a joint labor, management, and community work group to develop an apprenticeship program.
"Berkeley workers came together to fight for improvements in services to the public in this contract," said Rebecca Webb, a Berkeley a customer service representative working in the 311 call center and a member of SEIU Local 1021. "Our city leaders heard our concerns, and I'm encouraged by their willingness to partner with us in coming up with solutions to the problems facing our city."


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As experts in complex crisis approaches, we follow all development in the field of conflict sensitivity, especially those in humanitarian relief contexts. We are specifically involved in the Middle East crises, where conflict sensitivity is a major concern with the increase of access problems and the related difficulties in terms of monitoring and evaluation. The Peace Exchange community is a precious source of information in terms of networking, research and best practices.
What have been some of your most interesting or challenging assignments?We find interest in all assignments that we choose! But to speak more specifically, the work we did for a French medical NGO, in 2016, was very challenging as we supported humanitarian intervention in the field of emergency medicine and surgery in the war affected areas of Iraq, following the Sinjar and Mosul battles. We assessed the needs, developed a strategy, wrote proposals and fundraised. Since then, we have supported the operational follow up, developing a completely new internal procedures manual. We have also been involved in the entire project cycle management, with a strong focus on conflict sensitivity. It has been a rich experience assessing precisely the field situation, analyzing the stakeholders (as the relationships between Yezidi and Arabic communities) and designing humanitarian answers to avoid the emergence of conflict as much as possible.
What trends are you noticing in your area of work?We are facing more and more difficulties related to humanitarian access. Without direct field access, and with more local partnerships for the projects' implementation and with some new emerging modus operandi modalities as the cash based interventions, the questions of M&E and of conflict sensitivity must be seen as central components.
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'We monitor Israel's movements and warn them of any dangerous action': Houthis intel chief
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Head of the Houthi Intelligence and Monitoring Authority, Major General Abdullah Yahya Al-Hakim. (Photo courtesy of Al-Masirah TV)
BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:20 P.M.) – The Intelligence and Monitoring Authority of the Ansarallah Movement of Yemen announced that it is monitoring "all Israeli movements in the region and is following up all its hostile plans against Yemen."
The head of the commission, Major General Abdullah Yahya Al-Hakim, said, during a speech delivered on Wednesday in Sana'a:
"We are in the highest security, military and moral readiness to carry out all kinds of work and tasks to face the various challenges in confronting the aggressors and mercenaries and to confront the occupying Zionist entity, whose actions we monitor all its provocations and what it plans to do acts of criminal aggression."
Al-Hakim said, according to the Ansarallah-affiliated Al-Masirah TV, that "the failure of the aggression against Yemen … is what made the enemy seek the help of the Zionists to intervene more and make some countries fall into the swamp of normalization."
He stressed: "The Zionist entity thinks that in this event it will flex its muscles on the people of faith and wisdom. That is why we tell him that Yemen, its great people and its exceptional leadership do not frighten them by these threats, and our eyes are not oblivious to the Zionist enemy's movements in the region, and it must understand our warnings of any reckless or dangerous actions."
The head of the Ansarallah Intelligence Authority added "the necessity to arm itself with security vigilance, unify efforts and prepare to confront the enemies of God and the enemies of Yemen."
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The new development experience for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Making things worse?
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I finally got in touch with the AL-language and VS Code in the spring of this year. My work is project-based and therefor, when a project ends, my next project should always include the latest Business Central version. In the time of Dynamics NAV the technological change was marginal compared to the latest changes with Business Central. Throughout the years, the .NET-framework was introduced, instead of "find(-)" it was possible (and recommended) to use "findfirst", and the code editor got some updates too (colored syntax highlighting, inspect definitions, collapse code blocks). All in all, they were nice additions but nothing groundbreaking ... ok, the introduction of .NET was a little bit groundbreaking.
Now with the AL-language and VS Code, Microsoft turns C/AL veterans into survivors of a car crash - they used to know how to walk and some things are still similar as before, but they have to learn key skills from scratch again.
Suddenly from the sleepwalking-like ability to support different version with a lifespan of more than 20 years, veterans have to know about version control, Docker, and which AL version you should use.
BUT I LOVE IT!
Finally, after all these Neanderthal-like years, the development of Business Central has been elevated to the level of modern programming languages with improvements like built-in capabilities to support the work of multiple developers in a single project, version control that allows a code history, and easy creation of Business Central instances.
I would also like to use this space to write about how much I love the new coding experience. Fully integrated IntelliSense, optimized to hack code into the editor - yes! But even with experience in Python before, I still forget that the parentheses are inserted automatically and I type them still every time by hand...
I think everyone with some experience in NAV development welcomes the recent changes like a long lost friend.
Going two steps back to go one step forward
It is a lesson of life - where the sun shines, there is a shadow. The possibilities that make working with AL and VS Code so great are a big hurdle for new talent.
I remember my first days with NAV. My manager at the time saw some potential in me, handed me a 120-page introduction into C/AL, and I was more or less ready to roll. The original concept did make it easy to produce quick results, which could be inspected on the screen. It was also very easy to get a glimpse of options within C/Side. It was possible to press CTRL + F4 nearly anywhere and the Properties Dialog showed all available options. Especially for beginners, this overview was very useful. In combination with the names of the options, it was possible to guess with a couple of tries which option needed to change to produce the desired result.
Also, the design of new tables or the creation of new fields was very easy. The graphical user interface made it possible to get a feeling of the possibilities with some clicks around the menu.
Now, with AL and VS Code the experience is like going from Windows back to DOS.
There is a GUI, of course. But the GUI is standardized to cover the needs of programming languages in general. That is why everything related to AL in VS Code has to be controlled using the keyboard.
A person who starts a new project is greeted with an empty screen. All kind of options, properties, attributes, fields, and triggers have to be entered by hand. Unfortunately, VS Code does not provide an overview of which options are available. This means for new talent, that you either need a good relationship with your co-workers to ask a lot of questions or you must go through a lot of documentation until you know what is possible and what is not.
Unfortunately, the official documentation for the AL-language has still some gaps. For example, the easiest way to create a FlowField is by looking up how the property string is generated in C/Side and copy it into VS Code. Also, the new native integration of JSON is a headache because the official documentation does not contain a lot of examples.
This experience could cause frustration, especially for someone without prior knowledge about NAV or programming in general.
There is more to learn now
As mentioned earlier, learning only the programming language of Business Central is not enough anymore. It is necessary to understand the concept of Docker, the different versions of Business Central, and why version control is necessary even when there is only one developer.
Additionally, it is necessary to have knowledge about the general concepts of designing a customization. Whereas it was possible in C/Side to create the structure and design of new tables and fields "on the fly", I recommend for VS Code to design tables in advance using specialized tools (like SQLDBM).
Making things worse: Recruiting new talent
One potential risk for AL and VS Code in the developer community is the sheer number of prerequisites to starting development with a proprietary programming language. New talent could invest the same amount of time to learn a more generalized programming language like C#, Python, or Java. Learning AL is the entry ticket for jobs within the Business Central, whereas C#, Python, or Java is the entry ticket for the rest of the world (Web, Desktop, Machine Learning, Automotive etc.). So, when a fresh graduate stands at a crossroad to select between AL, C#, Python and Java, the direction is determined by the variety of possible jobs.
This relatively low hurdle of C/Side in NAV was easy to jump over for new talent and might also have attracted people who were not interested in programming in the first place. But AL with VS Code puts the hurdle as high as C# and Java.
Now, due to the high entry point for AL and VS Code it may make the already tight job market more difficult than it was before.
Let's wait for the next releases
I do have high hopes that Microsoft will invest further time into the usability of AL in VSCode. An IDE should not disguise the possible options and attributes of its objects. The developer should have an easily accessible overview. The quality of the implementation also dictates if (backend-)developers with a C#, Java, or Python background will consider including AL into their technology stacks.
Finally, an integrated setup approach to easily initialize local development environments would be great. The void due to missing guidance for a recommended setup for a development machine is indeed filled by Freddy Kristiansen's Blog. But not everyone might be aware of this.
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About Hannes Holst
Hannes Holst is a Dynamics NAV/365 Business Central freelancer with more than 13 years of hands-on experience. His involvement covers the full spectrum, including consulting and development of tailor-made modules and gold-certified industry solutions in various industries. He helps companies to prepare the business for future growth by adapting most of the standard functionality of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central into the company's processes.
"I always try to translate the (technical) world of Dynamics NAV and Business Central into a language that everyone can understand. Having all participants on the same level of understanding is a great foundation to create situations in which everyone wins."
Hannes also tries to convey Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning into the world of Dynamics 365 Business Central. Check out his blog for details and keep an eye out for 365 Saturday-events where he holds introduction sessions for Machine Learning.
Hannes has done work for Dynamics NAV and Business Central-projects in Germany, France, Denmark and the USA. Currently he is located in London, UK. In his free time, he studies Japanese and once or twice a year, he likes to run a marathon.
You can find more information about Hannes and his blog on his website http://www.hannesholst.com
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Left Turns On Zuck When He Refuses To Censure Trump For Them
Already under siege by its own far-left employees, Facebook is now facing pressure from another quarter: woke corporations, who are withdrawing ad dollars in the hopes that it will force Mark Zuckerberg to censor President Trump.
The New York Times reports that digital advertisers want less free speech on Facebook, a platform that has already engaged in heavy political censorship.
Via the Times:
"We harshly disagree with how Facebook has approached this," said Mr. Gardideh, the co-founder of Pearmill, a New York marketing agency with a dozen clients, mostly tech start-ups. "For the past couple of years, this problem has become bigger and bigger. These massive platforms have to care about free speech issues to some extent, but Facebook is on the extreme end of not caring."
"I think this is Facebook's time of reckoning," said Dave Morgan, the chief executive of Simulmedia, a company that works with advertisers on targeted television advertising. "It may not be immediate or dramatic, but advertisers have given Facebook a lot of passes and now we are hearing they are saying it will be harder to stand back."
Last week, Braze, a software company in New York, withdrew a Facebook ad campaign it had planned later this summer valued at around $60,000. Its chief marketing officer, Sara Spivey, said Facebook's decision to leave presidential statements untouched factored into the decision.
The left, political elites, and the establishment media have a history of using the advertising industry to pressure Facebook and other social media companies, which depend on it for much of its revenues.
In 2017, just weeks after President Trump's inauguration, the CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a global network for companies involved in digital advertising, told the organization's annual conference that the organization needed to do more to pressure social media companies to tackle "fake news."
"…you have no choice but to accept that what you do matters," said the CEO. "By engineering something, by selling it, by buying it, by deploying it, by working with it, each of us, in some small way, is responsible for it, and for every human and every human institution that depends on it."
In 2018, the CEO made similar remarks, warning that 2018 could be a year of backlash against big tech companies if they did not address "fake news" and "hate" on their platforms.
Author: Allum Bokhari
Source : Breitbart : Woke Capitalism: Advertisers Pressure Facebook to Censor Trump
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You Are Very Consistent
You have developed a style that is your own and you can replicate it every time. Your clients know what to expect from you and you deliver.
You Feel Totally Centered
You feel good about your craft and you are starting to feel a transitional change in the way you operate. It doesn't take thought anymore, you just do.
A Scalpa Is Born
You are doing extremely well, however you feel so found you feel lost. You feel like something is missing, then it clicks, you need to share.
ABSORB ALL THE KNOWLEDGE YOU CAN
There is a difference between you and those who are out there building beside you, you've turned Scalpa. Turning Scalpa can be as epochal as the birth of a first child. With one stroke, everything changes. The term of your life can be divided into two parts, when being an amateur then turning Scalpa. Amateurs play for fun, Scalpa's plays for keeps. To the amateur, the game is his avocation. To Scalpa it's his vocation. The amateur plays part-time, Scalpa is full-time. The amateur is a weekend warrior. The Scalpa is there seven days a week. The word amateur comes from Latin meaning "to love." The conventional interpretation is that the amateur pursues his calling out of love, while the Scalpa does it for game. Not the way I see it. In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough. If they did, they would not pursue it as a sideline, distinct from his "real" vocation. The Scalpa loves it so much they dedicate their life to it. They are committed full-time and breed abundance through deliberate action.
A Scalpa views their work as craft not art. Not because they believe art is devoid of all mystical dimensions. It's actually completely the contrary. They understand that all creative endeavors are magical but they don't dwell on it. They know if they think about that too much, it will paralyze them in the fear of it. They stick to concentrating on the technique and the progression. The Scalpa masters the 'how' and leaves 'what' and 'why' to the universe. They don't wait for inspiration, they act in the anticipation of its apparition. The Scalpa is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration out of the respect for them. They let the universe work their magic, they grant the universe their sphere while they concentrates on theirs. The sign of the amateur is the over glorification of and preoccupation with the mystery and magic. The Scalpa shuts up, they don't talk so much about it, they do their work.
"IT'S NEVER TO LATE TO BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE. YOU CAN CHANGE OR REMAIN THE SAME. THERE ARE NO RULES FOR SUCH A THING."
- Indira Torres | @vlore_pmu
The Scalpa though, they accept money and do their work out of love. They have to love it, otherwise they would never devote their life to it. The Scalpa has learned, however, they know that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make them choke. The seeming detachment of the Scalpa, the cold-blooded character to their demeanor is a compensating device to keep them from loving the game so much that they freeze in action. Playing for the game or adopting the attitude of one who plays for the game lowers the fever. The more you love your art, the more important it's accomplishment is to you, the more you will fear it and the more resistance you will experience facing it. The pay off of playing the game for the game is not the success so much. The pay off is that playing the game for the game produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail mentality, the hard-core, hard-head, hard-hat state of mind that shows up for work despite the rain, snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day. The Scalpa is an infantry, they knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The Scalpa wears combat boots, they look in the mirror and see a militant soldier. Think of yourself as a mercenary or a gun for hire. Make sure to purge your pride and preciousness and play it for the game. Resistance loves pride in preciousness so much. Resistance says, "show me an artist who is too good to take a job Y or assignment X and I'll show you an amateur I can crack like a walnut." Technically the Scalpa plays for the game but in the end they play for the love of it.
A Scalpa stands separate from their instrument, meaning their person, body, voice, talent; the physical, mental, emotional and psychological being they use in their work. They don't identify with this instrument. It is simply what the universe has given them, what they have to work with, they assess it coolly, impersonally, objectively. The Scalpa identifies with their consciousness and their will, not with the matter that their consciousness and will is used to manipulate to serve their art. It's to use your new skills and reach as a tool. Does Madonna walk around the house in cone bras and crazy bustiers? She's too busy planning the big day, the next performance, the next move. Madonna does not identify with "Madonna." Madonna employs "Madonna." You employ a new being called Scalpa, a way to be in the world, a way to attract abundance, but it is not you, it is your tool, it is your instrument.
"ENHANCING MY CLIENTS BEAUTY IS MY GAME."
- Jeann McSwain | @purebeautybyjean