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Para-badminton is a variant of badminton for athletes with a range of physical disabilities. Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the main governing body for para-badminton starting from June 2011. The sport was governed by Para Badminton World Federation (PBWF) until a unanimous decision to join BWF during a meeting in Dortmund in June 2011.

Classification
Players are classified to six different classes determined by BWF:

Wheelchair
 WH1Players in this class are those who have impairment in both lower limbs and trunk function and require wheelchair to play
 WH2Players have impairment in one or both lower limbs and minimal or no impairment of the trunk and also require wheelchair

Standing

 SL3Players have impairment in one or both lower limbs and poor walking/running balance
 SL4Players have impairment in one or both lower limbs and minimal impairment in walking/running balance (better walking/running compared to SL3)
 SU5Players have impairment of the upper limbs.

Short stature

 SH6Players in this class have short stature caused by achondroplasia or other genetic conditions.

Competitions
BWF organizes the bi-annual Para-badminton World Championships in odd numbered years and continental championships in even numbered years. Para-badminton also features in other multi sports events like the Asian Para Games and ASEAN Para Games.

Para-badminton will also feature at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

References

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A free copy of a 24-page local newspaper called the "Community Alliance" landed on my porch today. Fresno has had more than one alternative newspaper competing with its one commercial paper, the Fresno Bee, over the years. Forty years ago it was the staunchly conservative Fresno Guide. Members of the counterculture hated the Guide, so they never picked up the free copies that were thrown onto their lawns, driveways and porches. Little by little, they weathered. By now they're all gone.
I picked up my copy of the Community Alliance. Unlike the Guide, this is a 'progressive' newspaper. It mostly contained locally written articles about people, events and issues in the area, but there were a few pieces about international subjects by diverse writers from outside the community. There is no distinction drawn between news and opinion, something that the right-wing Guide was careful about, I might add.
I'd been warned that almost every issue contains at least one letter or story attacking Israel, and it's not surprising. Our 'progressive' community brings us between one and four films, speakers, panels, or other events devoted to bashing Israel every month. There are dedicated anti-Israel activists in many local organizations — the Center for Nonviolence, Peace Fresno, California State University Fresno, WILPF, the Unitarian Universalist Church, the Islamic Cultural Center, KNXT (the TV station of the Catholic Diocese), etc. — and all of these and others have been sponsors or co-sponsors of such happenings. So how could they miss this opportunity?
This issue has a full-page article calling for us to end Israel's "apartheid and occupation" by boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS). I won't bother much with the content, except to say that it accuses Israel of fascism, apartheid, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, calls the Turkish Mavi Marmara terrorists "human rights activists," and more.
Human rights activist on board the Mavi Marmara
The 'occupation' that the BDS movement opposes is not the occupation of Judea and Samaria that began in 1967. It is the 'occupation' that consists of the continued existence of a Jewish state. BDS will not end until the 'return' of the Arab 'refugees':
An overwhelming majority of organizations have endorsed Palestinian civil society's two calls for boycott, divestment and sactions against Israel and for academic and cultural boycott of Israel — until it ceases to deny Palestinian history, ends the Occupation, ceases discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel, and permits displaced Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. — Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
There are stronger statements in Arabic, which make clear that the goal of BDS is not coexistence, but rather to further what they call the "de-Zionization" of Israel.
What is distressing is that the local Left does not appear to see anything exceptional about this article, or any of the other articles and letters published in the Community Alliance vilifying Israel, or any of the daily diet of lies and slander they are fed from the local alternative radio station KFCF and the Pacifica network.
Many of the people that support these institutions are my friends — the beaming face of one of them shines from an advertisement for his business in the Community Alliance — and many of them really do care about fixing the social problems like homelessness and hunger which are prevalent in our economically strapped region.
I'll go further and say that some of them know that what they read and hear about Israel in the 'progressive' media and in the steady stream of anti-Israel films and speakers is viciously false. Some of them have family members that live in Israel and have been there more than once.
Yet they don't object to the steady stream of distortions, lies, blood libels and propaganda supporting the most murderous of Israel's enemies — people who really do want to commit genocide, like Hamas — that emanate from the media and organizations that they support.
I'll grant that these organizations do good in the local community. I'll grant that the left-wing perspective on local, national and international issues should be heard, no less than the conservative one. But what has happened (for historical reasons that I won't discuss now) is that with respect to Israel, the progressive ideals of self-determination, justice and peace have been warped and changed into their polar opposites.
So what I want to know is why people who know better don't complain about the films and speakers? Why do they allow the anti-Israel activists free rein in local organizations? Why do they continue to buy ads in the Community Alliance and contribute funds to KFCF and Pacifica Radio without protesting their outrageous bias?
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Robman says:
In answer to your question: Because they are cowards.
And, by the way, I think you need to find some new friends, Vic.
Shalom Freedman says:
From reading articles on the attitude of the Fresno media, and community in general I have the impression that they are hysterically and ignorantly anti- Israel.
This being the case I wonder why the general public in the United States (and probably in the Fresno community also) is still so overwhelmingly pro- Israel.
Vic Rosenthal says:
There's a big evangelical Christian community here who are very pro-Israel. There's a small — but loud — extreme left-wing group who hate Israel, there are some conservative Republicans who are pro-Israel, and there are many people who simply don't care enough to learn about the situation.
The Fresno Bee is mainstream liberal and seems to follow the administration line. They carry a balance of liberal and conservative columns, including Victor Davis Hanson, who is both pro-Israel and well-informed. The TV reporters are remarkably ignorant about foreign affairs in general. It's a small market and they aren't paid enough to attract good ones, with a few exceptions.
The Jewish community is divided. Some of the left-wing extremists are Jewish, but so are some of the conservative Republicans.
The reason the US is still pro-Israel is that most evangelical Christians still support Israel, and there are 100+ million of them.
Naturally I write a lot about the people I oppose, but that doesn't make them a majority.
I would add that it isn't only Evangelical Christians who support Israel (the estimates I've seen for this pupulation, however, is only 40 million).
A lot of Americans support Israel by default. They aren't in love with Israel, but their disdain for the Palestinians in particular and the Arabs/Moslems in general is much greater.
The American media is very much against Israel, as is the case throughout much of the world, but probably not as bad here as what we see in places like Europe. I put this down to the effects of all the anti-Israel propaganda that has engulfed Western universities to this end, the same universities that turn out most journalists. Also, the Arabs put a lot of money directly into media organizations.
Here in the U.S., however, many people distrust the media, and this sentiment is becoming particularly strong in the last couple of years, since Obama has become president. Except for FOX, the Wall Street Journal, and talk radio, the rest of the national-level media was squarely in Obama's corner. Now that Obama has turned out to be such a putz, in spite of his ongoing support by the media even now, Americans often take the media spin on anything with a grain of salt, including coverage of Israel.

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How to Fix Kodi Add-on Streaming the Wrong Episode
Having issues with a Kodi add-on streaming the wrong episode or the wrong series? I'll cover the reasons why this happens and some tips to resolve it.
February 25, 2020 by Nathan Kinkead
Why Does The Kodi Add-on Play the Wrong Episode or Series?
Use Play Using Instead of Auto-play
Wait Until After the Episode Airs
Use a Debrid Provider for Higher Quality Links
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Are you having issues with a Kodi add-on streaming the wrong episode or even the wrong series?
Don't worry, there are ways to fix it.
In this post, I'll cover the reasons why this happens and some tips to resolve the problem.
The basis for this post comes from a question from a reader (like you) in the Forum. The gist is this…
Kirsty was watching a new TV show that just started airing. Only the first couple episodes have aired. She watched the first episode just fine, but then when she tried watching the 2nd episode, it would either play the first episode again or it would play an entirely different TV series with the same (or similar) name. She wanted to know how to fix this issue.
There's kind of a lot to unpack in this issue, so I'm writing this post so hopefully I can help others who run into the same problem.
First, I'm going to explain why it does what it does.
These Kodi streaming add-ons are built to scrape the Internet for video links that are available to be streamed by using the TV show name, season number, episode number, and sometimes episode name.
The add-on gets this information by using TVDB which is online database of meta data about every episode of every TV show.
When you find the episode you want to watch, it uses that episode's meta data to send to the scrapers. Scrapers take that data and search for video links. They usually return a bunch of links, but sometimes they are not all accurate.
Reasons why scrapers find the wrong links:
Mislabeled file names on the hosted videos – People make mistakes. Sometimes videos are name inaccurately before being uploaded to hosters. That can result in the wrong video coming up in the scraper's search.
TV show names that are too similar – There are many shows that are named very similar if not identical to another show. For instance, there are many TV shows called "Dracula". The only way they get it right is when the year the show started is in the title of the filename.
Episode is too new – Just because an episode shows up in your Kodi add-on doesn't necessarily mean it's ready to stream. If it's still the same day that the show airs, there probably hasn't been enough time for someone to record it and upload it to a host. As a result if you try watching an episode that hasn't aired yet, you're bound to get links that are not what you're looking for because what you're looking for doesn't exist on the Internet yet.
Because of these reasons, there are some tips for you to fix this issue when you get the wrong episode playing.
Most add-ons ship with auto-play enabled which means you simply select a show and it search for it and starts playing when it finds enough links.
When the wrong episode plays, that just means the first link was wrong. But, you can easily see the whole list of links and try each one for yourself until you find a good one.
To get the list of links instead of auto-playing, open the context menu with your episode highlighted, and select "Play using…"
How to open the context menu? Here are some options depending on how interact with Kodi:
Press the menu button on your remote
Or press the "c" key on your keyboard
Or long-press the link on your touch screen
Once you select "Play using…", the add-on with search for links and then present them to you in a list. Now, you can select each one to try them all out until you find one that works correctly.
This one can be hard, but sometimes you just gotta be patient. Like I mentioned earlier, sometimes the show simply hasn't aired yet or there hasn't been enough time for people to upload to servers to be available to stream.
The amount of time you need to wait varies a lot depending on how popular the show is. Extremely popular shows are usually available to stream within an hour after the show finished airing. But for other less popular shows, you might need to wait until the day after the episode aired.
I've said it over and over again, but subscribing to Real-Debrid or Premiumize is a game-changer for Kodi streaming. The links you get have better accuracy and higher bandwidth (which means less buffering).
Before subscribing to Real-Debrid, I kept auto-play off on my add-ons because I couldn't rely on auto-play to select a good link. But after setting up Real-Debrid, I only use auto-play and rarely ever have issues.
I really hope this post has helped you. If so, please let me know in the comments which part helped you the most.
If you're still having an issue, leave a comment explaining your problem and what you've tried. I like to help.
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Erika Conn says:
How can I get Law & Order on Kodi. All I seem to be able to get is SVU. I hate that show. I used to be able to get the original L&O just fine and binge-watched the whole thing. I then set it aside to give it a break. Now, I want to watch it again but can't get it. Makes no sense.
Nathan Kinkead says:
Which add-on are you using? Are you subscribed to Real-Debrid?
Actually, I just tried it myself. There some free links that didn't work, but then there were lots of premium links, but they were all torrents. So, one of them downloaded to my Real-Debrid cloud and then started to play. Just like you said, it started playing an SVU episode.
I guess there are not as many hosters these days as there used to be, so some shows (especially ones that are 30 years old) are harder to find.
Addons I use are Tempest, Exodus, The Crew, Seren. None of them do the job. So what you're saying is – nothing can be done. I find that so hard to believe. Keep trying. There has to be a solution.
All those add-ons do the same thing, scrape the internet for video links. If those videos aren't hosted anywhere publicly, then there's not much they can do. I would suggest you try the "Play using…" feature under the context menu when highlighting an episode, and then try each link to see if one of them is the one you want.
Ecdolphins says:
If you want to continue using auto play I have found that it is usually the same link that miss plays wrong episodes. If you go into hoster settings and disable the bad hosts then the problem goes away!
I have an old PC, I long hold down mouse & there's no choice for Play Using. There's only Auto Play. So I can't try that. ???
Also I have Premium RD, I have settings for 1080 or usually 720, depends because of the age of my PC, some are too fast for it. I use The Crew, & it deletes many choices when searching & mostly what's left are 1 or 2, 720s & the rest SDs, of the same provider which most always causes the problems of wrong episode. I have toggled my RD from cloud to automatic, but doesn't seem to make a difference.
Can you shed any light?
Vicky, are all of the links showing the wrong episode? Is it an old or obscure show?
Mat Somers says:
After handling the most basic issues, namely temporally changing "Auto-Play" to "Directory" or using "Play as…" as suggested before; and using a paid source for your "sources" like Real-Debrid, my newly discovered, nearly full-proof fix to find the right episodes for older, but popular shows such as "Law and Order" or in my case "House", is to initially start NOT with first episode of the first season, like you mentioned (and I was trying), but instead choose the last episode from the last season!
Most of the incorrect, but similarly named, (or newer shows) will not have have reached episodes in for example the 8th season.
So start with that last episode and choose the first (top) stream result. If it's wrong and plays "Tiny House" or "House of Horrors" instead of "House", stop the show, and choose the next stream.
Carefully watch the number of the stream that the plug-in is trying to start because you will notice if the stream you choose is not fast enough or valid, the plug-in will automatically choose the next one; but eventually you will find a valid stream with your show.
Once found, stop the episode one final time, find the number of the stream that was correct and note the valid provider, (like Kickass or SkyTorrent). You might also note the incorrect provider names and perma-remove them from your provider list so they will never come up in your results again, but remember gone is gone until you add them back, and just because a provider was wrong about one show doesn't necessarily negate their value for other shows/movies.
Anyway, now you should be able to return to the episode you wish to start with, (say Episode 1 of Season 1), chose "Play as" again, and now when you're presented with a list of the streams, you can scroll directly to that source you noted before that was correct and find the right show stream every-time,
Hope this helps ya
AmyInNH says:
A stinker this weekend. Flying blind, so to speak.
10 links, only 1 playing the right show/episode. But being as Exodus handles No Response by auto-advancing to the next link, there's no way to tell which of the 10 was airing the correct episode. And there is nothing given the users to mark episodes as incorrect.
It just shouldn't be this hard.
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"Ideas are so ephemeral, so fleeting, and they fly away never to return."
That is so true. The other night I forgot to put more paper on my nightstand. I woke up with a great idea and nothing to write on. I thought I'd remember it by morning; how could I forget such a great idea, right? Wrong. I forgot. And now I am kicking myself for it.
I love birds, so this book sounds lovely.
Thanks so much for this lovely interview, Kate and Maria (?). It was nice to be intoduced to Kate's books and writing process. Lovely work!
Thankyou for sharing your writing process with us , Kate.
sounds wonderful! Would love to read the story and see the beautiful illustrations. Thank you for sharing.


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Real-time Analytics News Roundup for Week Ending October 18
By Salvatore Salamone | October 18, 2019 with 0 Comments
In the news this week: survey finds businesses still have trouble accessing real-time analytics due to poor access to data and more.
The real-time analytics market is booming. Trying to keep pace with announcements and developments is an overwhelming task. We want to help by providing a summary of some of the items our staff came across each week. Here is a short list of some news from this week:
Exasol released the findings of its 2019 Data Decisions Survey, which found that 57% of organizations have suffered because of slow or poor access to the right data, resulting in an inability to access real-time analytics and inaccurate business intelligence (BI). Of more than 1,000 IT decision-makers surveyed, 80% reported that data guides organizational decision making more than 50% of the time, yet significant performance, security, and forecasting challenges impede the ability to improve data strategy.
See also: Deloitte Report Details Scope of Data Modernization Challenge
Databricks announced Model Registry, a new capability within MLflow, an open-source platform for the machine learning (ML) lifecycle created by Databricks. The new component enables a comprehensive model management process by providing data scientists and engineers a central repository to track, share, and collaborate on machine learning models.
Applitools announced an expansion of its offering to provide comprehensive, end-to-end test automation capabilities for any type of web or mobile applications. Applitools' Visual AI technology combined with its new Ultrafast Grid provides test automation performance including significantly faster test runs, improved detection of bugs, significant reduction in test authoring and maintenance time and effort, faster test results reviewing, elimination of false positives, and more than 50 percent reduction in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Waylay announced that it is partnering with Arm to integrate its IoT automation framework with the Arm® Pelion™ IoT platform, which enables businesses to connect and provision IoT devices, perform remote firmware upgrades, and capture IoT data. By leveraging Waylay's advanced capabilities integrated with Arm Pelion Device Management, businesses can achieve better IoT returns from automation.
Verint Systems announced the release of the latest enhancements to Verint's Knowledge Management ProfessionalTM solution, including patented AI technology and new automation features that create an automated, intelligent, and efficient way to connect people to knowledge, ushering in a new era of "Knowledge Anywhere."
If your company has real-time analytics news, send your announcements to ssalamone@rtinsights.com.
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Salvatore Salamone is a physicist by training who has been writing about science and information technology for more than 30 years. During that time, he has been a senior or executive editor at many industry-leading publications including High Technology, Network World, Byte Magazine, Data Communications, LAN Times, InternetWeek, Bio-IT World, and Lightwave, The Journal of Fiber Optics. He also is the author of three business technology books.
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Customers will be able to enjoy mobile payments and mobile & online ordering features. Plus, they will only have to scan in once when making payments.
The Clover-Spoonity integration will support mobile loyalty and gift cards, as they are natively integrated into the system.
This integration comes at a time when customer satisfaction is more important than ever. After all, according to Alliance Data, almost 63% of Millennials and Gen Z consumers are aware they have many options on the market at their disposal, so a brand must earn their business by establishing a relationship based on loyalty. What's more, approximately 76% of modern consumers only give a brand 2-3 chances before they stop doing business with it altogether.
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Originally from Chicago, Illinois, and referred to as "a guitar legend in the making" as well as being one of "Boston's best composers" through his work with the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Norman Zocher is a long-time New England Conservatory and Berklee College of Music faculty member. He has performed with and recorded a broad range of artists, including Maria Schneider, Muhal Richard Abrams, Oliver Lake, John Medeski, Steve Lacy, Bob Brookmeyer, Esperanza Spalding, Bob Moses, Paul Bley, and Dave Holland. The recordings of the Abby and Norm Group with his wife, fellow Berklee guitar professor Abigail Aronson Zocher, gained him international recognition as a composer and an instrumentalist. Other critically acclaimed albums have featured Zocher with Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, John Patitucci, and Joey Calderazzo. He is a resident composer and guitarist/pedal steel guitarist for the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra.


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No stranger to radio and television, Lionel has had performances and interviews broadcast throughout the world. In 1987 Lionel recorded an album, "Lionel Reekie Sings", under the ODE record label and in December 1996 he released a CD entitled "Starlight" using MIDI accordion with vocals. Lionel has also featured on many other recordings.
On his most recent CD "From Russia With Love", which was recorded in Novosibirsk, Russia with the Siberian Festival Orchestra, Lionel sings well-known songs from popular musicals and movies, such as "Phantom of the Opera", "Les Miserables", "My Fair Lady" and James Bond "From Russia With Love".
While all the recording was completed with the orchestra, conducted by Rustam Dilmukhametov, in Russia, the album was mixed and mastered at Auckland's Stebbing Recording Studios.
After working with some of the top professional musicians in Russia's third largest city, Lionel was invited to travel back to Novosibirsk in January 2013 to appear as the featured artist in concert with the Russian Academic Orchestra, at the Novosibirsk State Philharmonia, also under the baton of Rustam Dilmukhametov.
"Lionel Reekie – From Russia With Love" is available from iTunes, Spotify and PlayMusic.com or email booking@lionelreekie.com for a copy of the CD.


Whoa, sorry little blog. I have neglected you for over a year now.
And I must say that year has been a hectic one! 1 wedding, 2 babies + one in the oven, a breakup, getting a new puppy and a new house (well sort of).
Now 3 of 3 weddings are complete and though they were amazing, I am glad they are done! Our wedding conversions have now turned into baby conversations. Not my babies… I have a little black dog that fills that category, But I am now the proud Aunty of my beautiful niece Frankie and adorable nephew Connor.
In addition to this gorgeous little munchkin we recently got a new puppy. We have always had Blue Heelers in our household so when our old girl Cassie passed in December it was odd not having one around. After searching for a few weeks we finally decided on Memphis (not our name choice but it's growing on me now).
This little terror strikes fear in shoes everywhere! He is a little kleptomaniac who hoards everything he steals in his little bed. Just this morning I was having a shower and when I got out I had discovered my towel had gone missing and all I heard was this little monster galavanting through the house to take it to his nest of things!!! If he wasn't so damn cute he would get in so much trouble!
In a plan to keep my shoes safe from evil puppy, I am building a new house. Well it's so I don't have to live at my parents in a granny flat. That's right, I am becoming an adult! I am shocked too… Just as shocked as I was when I saw the monthly repayments for my loan…. GASP!!!!!
My tiny little home, all 7.5m wide of it, is currently at contract stage… and it's taking too long. If all goes well I will be moving in mid February 2017. That means 7 months of Pinteresting my way through room designs, furniture ideas and interior decoration planning. It also means 7 months to buy everything I need to live in a new home. I seriously did not know how much stuff you need once you move out.
Well I better get back to work… my house isn't going to pay itself off.


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Over the past four years, Patrick Keith has been training with his swimming coach, David Laudati. During this entire period of time, he was not only able to improve on his swimming skills, but he was also able to experience an increase in his self-confidence too. Currently, he aspires to be an Olympic swimmer and according to his mother, he didn't just watch the last summer's Olympics, he studied them.
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"He knows everybody's qualifying times, he knows their personal bests, and he watched all the stories about how they got to where they are. And it's led him to believe that if he focuses really hard and works really hard, that he can do that someday too," stated Annie Keith, his mother.
Patrick has also set goals for himself that he is determined in accomplishing. "I want to flood the crowd with water by my swimming. I want to blow the arena on fire with my speed. I don't want to, I will," he claimed with confidence.
His mother did mention that her 11-year-old son wasn't always so self-assured. "Back when Patrick started swimming, he didn't have a lot of confidence in the sporting world," she recalled. His instructor, David, eventually recommend him to join the swim team. "I saw that he had a lot of energy. I could see that with proper teaching, it would help him relax and it would make life easier for him," said David.
"Within his first year he was helping set team records and then he started setting records on his own, and it just gave him a lot of confidence," stated Annie.
David isn't the typical sort of swimming coach that focus solely on teaching technique. "I would say that the one thing that we work on is building confidence. I think in all sports, if you build the athlete's confidence, they will do much better. When Patrick first started, he wasn't really into a lot of other sports, and now he loves other sports. That's because we started from the ground up and built his confidence so that he felt confident in himself, in not just the pool, but in everyday life." For the full story, you can read it from here.
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In celebration of the centenary of Thelonious Monk's birth, the Nash Composers Coalition debuted ten new arrangements of his music. Spearheaded by Keith Kelly, Jeff Libman, and Russell Schmidt, the Nash Composers Coalition has been created with the intent of offering a more collective, collaborative music making experience, where the players also share their uniquely diverse voices as writers with one another and with the audience at The Nash.
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Reonomy raises $60 million for AI-powered property research tools
Kyle Wiggers@Kyle_L_Wiggers	 November 7, 2019 6:00 AM
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Reonomy, a commercial real estate analytics company headquartered in New York, today announced that it's raised $60 million in series D funding led by Georgian Partners. Existing investors including Sapphire Ventures contributed alongside Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and Citi Ventures, bringing the startup's total capital raised to $128 million following a $30 million series C in June 2018.
CEO Rich Sarkis said the fresh funding will bolster Reonomy's R&D efforts while enabling it to scale its business to Canada, the U.K., and other international markets following "strong" customer demand. "There is no end to the number of individuals, companies and enterprises that have properties at the core of their businesses," said Sarkis. "Despite real estate being the world's largest asset class, the industry has been largely starved of cutting-edge solutions to core business problems because of the opaque nature of property information. We're building a platform that connects the world of property information and empowers a new era of applications to unlock insights and opportunities for everyone."
Reonomy's commercial real estate platform leverages predictive analytics, big data, and unique identifiers to surface property information for individuals, teams, and companies alike. Courtesy partnerships with firms like CoreLogic, Black Knight, and Dun & Bradstreet, it's compiled a database over the course of six years containing more than 50 million properties, 80 million companies, 300 million people, 38 million mortgages, and 68 million property sales.
Reonomy customers can uncover commercial property across 3,100 U.S. markets by location, date of last sale, origination date, owner portfolio, year built, asset type, and over 200 other filters. Asset profiles contain not only renovation details and sales and tax histories, but things like debt histories and opportunity zone statuses. (Opportunity zones are economically distressed communities where new investments are sometimes eligible for preferential tax treatment.) Plus, they're accompanied by insights informed by AI models trained on "billions" of data points, like the likelihood a given property will sell.
From within Reonomy's product suite, customers can also kick off sales and marketing campaigns targeting commercial property owners, which they're able to find by name, phone number, mailing address, or email address. Clicking on an owner's name reveals all associated properties, which can be mapped with access controls to specific users and teams.
"Reonomy has developed a powerful platform to integrate and resolve sources of commercial real estate data into a single, unique identifier for every CRE asset in the United States," said Georgian Partners principal Emily Walsh. "This unique identifier is being leveraged by some of the largest enterprises in the world to tie together their public, proprietary and 3rd party data sources and to create a level of visibility into real estate assets that was previously unattainable."
AI in real estate is a burgeoning segment. In January, Geophy raised $33 million to apply AI to commercial property appraisal. Israel-based Skyline AI, which announced an $18 million funding round in July 2018, uses a proprietary data set to make predictions about property values. Jointer.io, which emerged from stealth early last year, taps AI and blockchain technology to power its primary securities market for commercial properties. And New York-based Cherre leverages artificial intelligence to resolve property data from thousands of public, private, and internal sources in real time.
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Saving the Good Parts: Book Cover Collages by Kevin Sampsell
The inspiration for these book cover collages came from seeing the work of artists like Katrien De Blauwer, Zach Collins, and Lynette Jackson when I first seriously got into collage art early last year. I loved how their collages were often on paper or materials that looked like some kind of artifact that was decaying, discoloring around the edges, or falling apart at the seams. But most of my one hundred or so collages have been on a regular paper backing (I have tended to use black paper to collage or the full scope of a larger image from a magazine).
A couple of months ago I started focusing on old books for my collage materials, instead of the usual magazines (Life, National Geographic, other mid-century favorites). I found a bookstore with a huge section of one dollar used books and quickly realized that it wasn't just the images from them I could use but also the first and last pages, which were often the most faded and ancient-looking parts of the books and sometimes included handwritten notes or names. This realization made me feel like I had tapped into a secret that the aforementioned artists had stashed away: the best place to find beautiful old paper was in beautiful old books.
Some of the more ancient books were literally falling apart and I started to just rip the front and back covers off and use them as my canvases. I like how when you put old (vintage) images on them they seem to blend together there, forming a more complete-looking object. It's like I'm saving the good parts and turning them into something that looks like a mysterious treasure.
Perhaps the fact that these collages are more visually linked to the world of books and since I'm also a publisher and a bookseller at a legendary used book mecca (Powell's Books), I feel like I have an even stronger connection–maybe a sort of implanted nostalgia–to these pieces. Seeing the texture of the paper or the cover materials, even on a computer screen, makes me want to reach out and touch them, especially when I think of what they were like when they were brand new and fresh and coveted.
Kevin Sampsell lives in Portland, Oregon and operates the micro press, Future Tense Books. He writes the collage column, Paper Trumpets, for TheRumpus.net and runs http://kevinsampsellcollages.tumblr.com/. His last book was a novel, This Is Between Us, published by Tin House Books.
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Piper Perabo, Erin Brockovich Join Mark Ruffalo's 'Fight Forever Chemicals' Campaign Tied To New Film 'Dark Waters' Because 'Our Laws Are Failing To Protect Us'
By Brent Furdyk. 18 Dec 2019 4:14 PM
Mark Ruffalo speaks at the Fight Forever Chemicals Campaign kick off event on Capitol Hill on November 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
Mark Ruffalo's new film "Dark Waters" is tackling a serious environmental crisis, and the "Avengers" star is teaming up with the production company behind the film, Participant, to launch the "Fight Forever Chemicals" campaign.
According to a Dec. 18 announcement, Ruffalo will be joined in his efforts by a number of high-profile ambassadors: actress Piper Perabo; consumer advocate Erin Brockovich; author Nathaniel Rich; retired San Francisco firefighter captain Tony Stefani; Professor of Experimental Nuclear Physics at the University of Notre Dame Graham Peaslee; and Water Canary CEO Sonaar Luthra.
In "Dark Waters", Ruffalo stars in the true story of environmental attorney and author Rob Bilott, who placed his career and family at risk when he exposed a huge corporation's dirty secret in order to seek justice for a community that had unknowingly been exposed to deadly chemicals for decades.
"Right now our laws and public institutions are failing to protect us," said Ruffalo in a statement. "I wanted to make 'Dark Waters' to tell an important story about bringing justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals by one of the world's largest and most powerful corporations. By telling these stories we can raise awareness around forever chemicals and work together to demand stronger environmental protections."
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Ruffalo and Bilott travelled to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to launch the campaign, which is intended to "bring the fight against forever chemicals from the margins to the mainstream" in order to demand stronger legislative protection. Forever chemicals, notes the announcement, are "a family of chemicals that do not degrade in the environment and accumulate in humans and animals over time," and have been connected to such serious health problems as infertility and cancer.
"It is imperative that we use what we've learned about forever chemicals over the last 20 years and seize the urgency in identifying lasting solutions to this crisis," added Bilott, author of the new book Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont. "I am looking forward to the film and the book helping accelerate that change."
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"'Dark Waters' personalizes an issue that impacts us all," said David Linde, CEO of Participant. "We're proud to share with audiences this important, beautiful film that has a unique opportunity to raise awareness about a pressing public health issue that impacts most Americans. With this campaign, we aim to ignite and energize audiences in the fight against forever chemicals."
"Dark Waters" premiered on Friday, Nov. 22.
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Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life (2015) is a masterwork in the realist tradition of American writing, showing what can still be done that is new and inspiring more than a century after Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and Henry James. The novel has two major structural features: the relationship among four men who went to college together, as it plays out over time, and the story of one of them, Jude St. Francis, who, from early childhood until the age of fifteen was physically, emotionally, and sexually abused, facts he manages to keep from his friends until its effects on his psyche and behavior can no longer be concealed. The facts of Jude's early life, hard to take and impossible to shake off once you learn them, are dealt out to the reader in much the same way they're revealed to his friends, bit by horrific bit. A good part of the novel's suspense comes from this strategy of gradual revelation, which, though manipulative, is also a blessing, since to have had the terrible history all at once would have been unbearable.
out the kindness in his friends and associates, and expands our concept of the good that human beings are capable of. It seems like we are being asked: Why are men made the way they are, some to do untold damage, and others to act with seemingly limitless compassion? The deeper one goes in the story, the more pressing the question becomes. But the book raises questions that are not just philosophical.
The more we learn about Jude's history, and the more we see how it has wounded him so that he constantly feels the need to damage himself, the less it becomes possible to justify, explain, or even wrap one's mind around such things. Our minds and hearts are forced to accommodate the unthinkable and to feel more pain, outrage, and sorrow on Jude's behalf than we can tolerate. On the other hand, there is the fountain of lovingkindness this suffering evokes in the characters that surround him. Confronted by need such as Jude's, we begin to ask ourselves if we would have been able to respond with the self-sacrifice and faithfulness shown by his friends and associates. The limits of our own altruism begin to look embarrassingly narrow.
So the novel doesn't just tell a story of heroic suffering, and equally heroic response, it models behavior for us and widens our perspectives, moves us to self-scrutiny and a more capacious worldview. Because of its cornucopia of finely drawn social, psychological, and cultural detail—the sushi bars, art openings, and law offices of contemporary Manhattan (it's a realist novel, remember)—we can't dismiss the extremes of good and evil the novel dramatizes or the moral and intellectual challenges it poses: They're rooted too convincingly in our own sense of the way things are.
The novel's social dimension is instructive, too. The friends—who call on each other in emergencies, celebrate one another's achievements, have dinner together, and vacation together— comprise a cross-section of social, cultural, sexual, and racial types. One, a gifted and hard-working-painter, is African-American; he comes from a strongly supportive female dominated household. Another, an architect, has a wealthy, successful black father and a white mother. A third, an actor, is of Scandinavian descent and comes from farmers of modest means in the West; and Jude, a foundling who becomes an expert, highly-paid lawyer, seems to be of mixed race, but no one knows which races or how many. The painter is gay, the architect is straight, the actor is bisexual, and Jude, who has been sexually abused and exploited by men, never gets to find out what he is. But he is adopted by a Jewish law professor and his wife and given many years of loving and expert treatment by his Jewish doctor, who outdoes the Good Samaritan. The setting, New York City, explains the possibility of this kind of social mix, but perhaps not the extent of it. Yanigihara pushes the envelope on all fronts.


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Trade Unions join protest against SodaStream
Members from eight UK trade unions joined the long running weekly picket of SodaStream's only UK shop, EcoStream in Brighton, on Saturday May 3.
Scottish students say "yes" to boycotting Israel
A Palestine solidarity banner in Dundee, Scotland.
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Europe's largest teachers' union endorses Israel boycott call
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Royal Institute of British Architects backs Israel boycott motion
The Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects has voted to call on the International Union Of Architects to exclude the Israeli Association of United Architects over its refusal to oppose Israel's construction of illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.
Abe Hayeem, RIBA member and chair of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, said:
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BBC says no to occupation profiteer G4S after major campaign
A campaign which was joined by notable figures including film directors Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, and novelist Ahdaf Soueif, calling on the BBC not to award a multi-million pound security contract toG4S appears to have been successfu
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UK student union to cancel G4S contract over role in Israeli prisons
The student union at the University of Kent in the southeast of England is to terminate its contract with G4S following an "outcry" over its role in human rights abuses in Palestine, South Africa, the UK and other countries.
G4S provides security and incarceration "servi
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European moves against settlements revive Israel boycott fears
Steps by European companies and governments to restrict business with West Bank settlements are rekindling longstanding fears in Israel of a broader economic boycott over its treatment of the Palestinians.
After facing criticism from activist groups in the Netherlands, Vitens, the Dutch drinking-water company, said this week that it was cutting ties with Mekorot, Israel's national water company, because it had business in the occupied West Bank.
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UK government warns businesses about illegal Israeli settlement enterprise
The UK government has published guidance warning businesses about the problems and risks associated with doing business with illegal Israeli settlements and related activities in occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.
Published on the Israel page of the British Department of Trade and Industry website, the guidance warns that there are "clear risks related to economic and financial activities in the settlements, and we do not encourage or offer support to such activity".
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Israel asks British government to pressure universities to fight BDS
Israel has asked the British government to "lean on universities to prevent their participation in academic boycotts of the country", according to a report in The Times.
In a meeting this week with the UK's Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, Israeli Science Minister Yaakov Peri slammed the academic boycott campaign, and urged Willetts to "to try and put so
Major UK union votes against Trade Union Friends of Israel
LONDON - One of the UK's largest trade unions is to ban its members from visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories on delegations organized by the Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI), a London-based organization supporting cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian workers.
The GMB, which has over 617,000 members from an array of sectors, voted on Thursday at its annual conference in Plymouth to uphold a 2011 decision to "take a lead in driving forward the boycott a


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Binding and Loosing Demons and Two or Three being Gathered – Have we been taking the Bible out of context?
Pushing the Artistic Boundaries? Huh?
What's the Difference Between a Blind Faith and a Solid Rational Faith?
Was Jesus claiming that He was only a frail human, when He called Himself The Son of Man?
Can God create a stone so big that He cannot move it?
Do we get Crowns in Heaven?
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How a 'Sex and the City' cameo for the West Village's Magnolia Bakery launched a cupcake empire
By Nicole Levy
Carrie Bradshaw may be a fictional TV character, but to the "Sex and the City" fans who continue to visit Magnolia Bakery two decades after the show premiered on the small screen, she's still very real.
Byron St. Cyr, former general manager of the original Bleecker Street location where HBO captured Carrie and her friend Miranda chowing down on cupcakes while discussing their love lives in season 3, remembers the first time an international tourist asked him where the sex columnist played by Sarah Jessica Parker lived.
"The way they said it, they didn't mention 'Sex and the City,'" recalled St. Cyr, 37, who started working for Magnolia as a counter person in 2004 (after the series ended) and now manages the Penn Station bakery. "So it took me a minute: 'Oh, Carrie Bradshaw!' That was the first time I realized, this is really, really huge."
Magnolia's tiny West Village shop has since earned itself a reputation — definitively characterized in a 2014 episode of Comedy Central's "Broad City" — as "the last place tourists go before leaving New York City." The sightseer's playbook is this: Buy the exact cupcake that Carrie eats while confessing her crush on Aidan (vanilla cake with pink vanilla buttercream frosting); stroll over to the brownstone on Prince Street where exterior shots of her apartment building were taken; snap your new Facebook profile photo, with cupcake as accessory, on the stoop. For "Sex and the City" fans who can't afford a pair of Manolo Blahniks, "the Magnolia bakery cupcake [is] that affordable experience that Miranda and Carrie had," company Chief Baking Officer Bobbie Lloyd said.
Magnolia Bakery's pastry cases will feature 'Carrie' cupcakes ( vanilla cake topped with pink vanilla buttercream frosting and a sugar daisy) all week long. Photo Credit: Jeff Bachner
But the impact of the bakery's brief "Sex and the City" cameo extends far beyond the popularity of its downtown Manhattan store. Catch up on what's happened since Magnolia's 15 seconds on the small screen below:
What was once a neighborhood store has grown into an international company
The original Magnolia Bakery at 401 Bleecker St. opened its doors in 1996, selling classic American baked goods in a homey setting. The business began its expansion after co-founder Allysa Torey sold it to Steve and Tyra Abrams in 2007. With help from their chief baking officer, the Abrams launched a second Manhattan location a few month before the first "Sex and the City" film hit theaters in May 2008, and that's when things really took off.
"It was craziness for two years," Lloyd, now 60, recalled. "I had the experience of being able to travel when we opened our store in Dubai in February of 2010. … The first two women to enter screamed, 'Oh my god! It's Magnolia Bakery from 'Sex and the City.'" (While the show aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004, it remains in syndication in the U.S. and across Europe, and it's accessible via satellite TV in the United Arab Emirates.)
Magnolia Bakery on Bleecker Street in the West Village, Friday, June 1, 2018. Photo Credit: Jeff Bachner
"I think it's amazing how a TV show can create such a frenzy," St. Cyr said, describing the series as a "springboard" responsible for transforming a small neighborhood bakery into an "international presence.
"I've gotten to meet people from all over the world. … who may know very little English, but they know how to say 'Sex and the City' and Carrie Bradshaw," St. Cyr added. "Now with us opening franchises" — Magnolia has nine stores in the U.S. plus locations in South Korea, Mexico and several Middle Eastern countries — "we're going to them as well, so they can get that little bite of New York elsewhere."
The bakery has made other film and TV appearances
Besides that "Broad City" episode (in which Abbi recovers her lost phone from the hands of a drunken girl at the bakery and chugs a large serving of its signature banana pudding on her way to a supremely disappointing date), Magnolia has enjoyed plenty of moments in the limelight. It takes a star turn in the "Saturday Night Live" digital short "Lazy Sunday," starring cast members Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell ready to "mack on some cupcakes" before their afternoon screening of "The Chronicles of Narnia."
"That was a surprise thing," St. Cyr recalled of the filming process. "It was really shot on the fly and we didn't even know what was happening until afterwards."
Magnolia also was featured in the romantic comedy "Prime," featuring Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep.
Magnolia's environs developed a reputation as a hip shopping district
Designer Marc Jacobs opened the first of several neighborhood shops right around the time "Sex and the City" fans started visiting the West Village in pursuit of cupcakes and photo opportunities, said Lou Matthews, 30, who works as a guide for "'Sex and the City' on Location" bus tours.
Soon, "other designer stores wanted to move in," Matthews explained. It "apparently changed that whole complexion of that part of town."
By 2005, the influx of high fashion had commentators calling Bleecker Street "the new mini-Madison Avenue, focusing on a younger crowd."
Cupcakes became the trendy dessert
Although the craze has since died down a bit in the U.S., the trend had its moment as a worldwide phenomenon in the aughts, and many assign the credit to Magnolia. Its brief appearance on "Sex and the City" not only sparked lines around the bakery, but competing cupcake bakeries around New York and the globe, Matthews said. "Guests on the tour have told me that they now have cupcake shops wherever they're from, and they don't even have a word for 'cupcake.'
"It's not like cupcakes didn't exist before 'Sex and the City,' but they became a thing for adults because of 'Sex and the City,'" said Matthews, who appreciates Carrie's healthy appetite on the show.
Magnolia has slightly tweaked its cupcake recipe
The bakery's original recipe was based on a pound cake, and some customers thought its tight texture made it taste dry.
"People wanted something fluffier, lighter," she said, so that's exactly the change Lloyd and her team made. The flavor itself remains the same and it's still baked with "plenty of butter… that's what makes it good."
Magnolia Bakery general manager Carrie Howell prepared "Carrie" cupcakes on Friday. Photo Credit: Jeff Bachner
Sarah Jessica Parker has returned to Magnolia as an actual customer
Parker, who currently lives with husband Matthew Broderick in a town house on West 11th Street, has made a few purchases at the original bakery as a real, paying customer, St. Cyr said.
"When I first worked there, I do remember meeting her, and I was completely starstruck," St. Cyr recalled. Her order that day: chocolate pudding pie. The fan promised to hold one for her the following day. "It was over 10 years ago, but I will remember that day because she was the nicest person."
Twins Leah (pictured left) and Cara Keep watched cupcakes being frosted at Magnolia Bakery's original Bleecker Street location on Friday. Photo Credit: Jeff Bachner
Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is now running for governor of New York
Nixon, a longtime New Yorker and activist, announced her campaign to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in March.
Lloyd, whose daughter attended Nixon's son's bar mitzvah and who has sat on the same school committees as the actress and political candidate, said she has no idea what might happen during the September primaries, but she wishes her the best.
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Netanyahu to Attend Inauguration of Brazil's New Fascist President
Far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he will be flying to Brazil towards the end of this coming week to attend the inauguration of the newly-elected fascist Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, set to take place on January 1. Speaking at a Likud faction meeting on Monday, December 17, Netanyahu called Brazil a "superpower," and said his visit there will "revolutionize" Brazilian relations with Israel. Netanyahu congratulated Bolsonaro on his electoral victory in October.
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On December 1, a unity meeting was held between the Communist Party of Brazil (Partido Comunista do Brasil, or PC do B) and the Free Homeland Party (Partido Patria Livre, or PPL) in São Paulo. The PPL is a smaller Marxist-Leninist party. The unity project had been announced to the press on November 26 by Luciana Santos,President of the PC do B, and by Sérgio Rubens...
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Two of Brazil's major people's movements released a statement about the country's elections. Read it below:
The election is over, but the fight is just beginning: We hold our heads up resisting for Brazil!
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On October 28, Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. The candidate of fascism, supported by the most conservative sectors of society, and capital won 55.3% of the vote while his rival Fernando Haddad won 44.7%. The impact of these elections will be felt not only in Latin America but in every corner of the world, and in every field. Ahead of this historic election, Peoples Dispatch spoke...
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I have been rockin' the iced coffee lately. My grandmother used to drink iced coffee when I was a kid and I used to cringe at the thought of it. As I have gotten older and way more into coffee, the cold versions of my coffee creations are making me smile and are soooooo refreshing.
What you are seeing in the background is my coffee station. One of the criteria I had in my mind when we were looking for a house was that I needed to have a space for my coffee. I have a burr grinder, whole beans in a glass jar, an espresso machine with high pressure steam and a host of flavored sugar syrups. Every New Year's Day my wife and I with another couple make a trip to Cincinnati to Jungle Jacks mega store where I can buy the syrups for $3 less per bottle!
Everybody knows that saving money is like making money.
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International Coworking Day: 13 years of coworking
For some, 13 is considered an unlucky number, but for us, it's a number to celebrate, as coworking turns 13 today!
When coworking launched in America 13 years ago, it was a slow burner - founder Brad Neuberg reported that no one showed up for the first 2 months - but he persevered, and coworking as we know it today was born.
Indycube itself is eight years old, having started up in the ITV studios in Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff (now a housing estate!) Much like coworking in America, coworking in Wales was slow to get off the ground. Having poured a significant amount of his own savings in to the office space, Mark found that traditional marketing methods did very little. Instead, he kept the lights and the coffee on every day, and spoke to everyone and anyone; eventually, they started to pour in, and Indycube had its first group of members, many of whom are still a part of the community today. (This was beneficial, as Mark was consuming far too much caffeine while he had no one to share with...)
We love coworking because we're a social species - we need other people around us, regardless of industry or sector. It doesn't matter if the bloke sitting opposite you is a graphic designer or a yoga instructor, as long as he's your mate, or if the woman on your left is a writer or a web developer, as long as she's willing to offer you a cuppa.
We'd like to take this birthday celebration to remind everyone that Indycube is a member of the Coworking Visa, a brilliant scheme which allows members of one coworking space to cowork for free from cities all around the world. Many of our members have made use of this scheme over the years, and we've been able to welcome people from all over the world, which is always great.
Coworking and Welsh Communities:
Yesterday, we held an event to coincide with the Eisteddfod in Cardiff Bay - our connector Russell spoke about his passion for communities across Wales, the sustainability and viability of these communities, and the importance of giving back to the rural areas that support our coworking spaces.
The global growth of coworking and the growth of Indycube spaces across Wales and over the border has enabled us to work with rural communities across the UK, becoming part of their networks and sustainability programmes.
Our membership is growing - join us to show your commitment to cooperation and help drive forward our bid for equality in self-employment in the UK.


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The Sports World Responds to Bob Huggins Being Snubbed By the Hall of Fame
Morgantown, West Virginia – Bob Huggins was was again snubbed by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and West Virginians are obviously left baffled by the committee's decision to once again leave him out.
In addition, several prominent people from the world of sports have reacted to the fact that Huggins to the Hall of Fame is an absolute no-brainer.
Seth Davis, a college basketball reporter for CBS Sports, was confused by Huggins not being named a finalist. "I truly don't understand how Bob Huggins isn't even a finalist for the Hall of Fame. This should be a layup."
I truly don't understand how Bob Huggins isn't even a finalist for the Hall of Fame. This should be a layup.
— Seth Davis (@SethDavisHoops) March 10, 2021
Mo Egger, a contributor for The Athletic and host on ESPN1530, said the following: "The exclusion of Bob Huggins is egregious."
The exclusion of Bob Huggins is egregious. https://t.co/o0bcUA93l2
— Mo Egger (@MoEgger1530) March 10, 2021
Legendary sports personality John Feinstein called the Basketball Hall of Fame a "corrupt joke", adding, "No Bob Huggins. What a joke."
Once again, the Hall-of-Fame proves itself a corrupt joke. Only ONE men's college coach among finalists–Jay Wright, who should have gotten in LAST year. No Jim Phelan–again, an absolute crime. No Bob Huggins, no Speedy Morris. What a joke.
— John Feinstein (@JFeinsteinBooks) March 10, 2021
Freelance journalist for The New York Times and Forbes Sports, Adam Zagoria, called the Hall of Fame's decision to exclude Huggins "an embarrassment."
Bob Huggins is 8th all-time in D-1 wins.
It's an embarrassment that he's not in the HOF. https://t.co/SzKStiC0Wh pic.twitter.com/NaI1kTOAGM
— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) March 9, 2021
These are just a few of the big names in sports that spoke out about Bob Huggins not getting the recognition that he's earned. The Basketball Hall of Fame should absolutely make this injustice right by honoring Bob Huggins in the way that he deserves.
Huggins Fuming Again After Loss
It's Time to Have a Real Discussion About Bob Huggins…
Bob Huggins "Frustrated and Humiliated" Following Loss
Do WVU Fans Still Believe in Bob Huggins?


July 2, 2017. Today, Pastor Ryan Showalter preaches from 2 Kings 17. God uses exile to strip us and restore us. He strips away the brokenness and sin, and restores us for His Kingdom. God wants us to discover the real King – Jesus. What needs restoring in your life? For more information about Solid Ground, please visit www.sgbic.com.


Many institutions and teaching environments do not have access to parallel platforms for parallel and distributed computing education. Teaching key concepts such as speedup, efficiency, and load balancing are much more effectively done on a parallel platform. LittleFe is a complete 6 node Beowulf style portable computational cluster which supports shared memory parallelism (OpenMP), distributed memory parallelism (MPI), and GPGPU parallelism.
LittleFe weighs less than 50 pounds, easily and safely travels via checked baggage on the airlines, and sets-up in 10 minutes wherever there is a 110/220 VAC outlet and a wall to project an image on. By leveraging the Bootable Cluster CD project, and its associated curriculum modules, LittleFe makes it possible to have a powerful ready-to-run computational science and HPC educational platform for less than $3,000. The parts list and illustrated assembly instructions are available under the "Resources" tab above.


A video tutorial showing the convertion facilities available for wrapping Scala's Future APIs into Task.
A tutorial on usage of Task.bracket, Cats-Effect's Resource and how that can be used in combination with streaming data types like Observable and Iterant.
This is the second release candidate for Monix 3, version 3.0.0-RC2.
The major theme of this release is compatibility with Cats-Effect 1.0.0.
Unfortunately we are late. See the announcement for the previous RC.
This release is 6 months late because of the work done on Cats-Effect 1.0.0, which involved several iterations of getting the contract of those type classes right and then translating those changes into Monix's implementation. This included a major change in Iterant's encoding and a rewrite of most of its internals, and major changes in Task's internals as well.
I'm the author of Monix and a major contributor to Cats-Effect.
This post describes the relationship between Monix and Cats-Effect, their history and when each should be used.
The 3.0.0 release is near and it's going to be huge. This is the first of the two release candidates planned, see below for the timeline.
improvements across the board to Observable, CancelableFuture, etc.


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David Danda is a native of Hammond, Indiana. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University Law School. Mr. Danda has passed the bar in Louisiana, Arizona, and Georgia. He has lived and worked in Dekalb County for over 26 years since 1979 and has represented clients throughout in the greater Atlanta metro area and throughout Georgia. By associating a local attorney, he has represented clients in other states. Mr. Danda is an active member of his community. His volunteerism includes work at local schools, Homeless Outreach at church and other activities. He is a public speaker and a comic.
For over 28 years Since 1977 David Danda has participated in civil litigation. Mr. Danda works in serious injury and death cases arising out of motor vehicle accidents, "big rig" (18 wheel truck) accidents, aviation accidents, railroad accidents, medical malpractice, property liability (rape and other attacks or slip and fall), defective products (automobile tires and recalled harmful drug cases ~ Baycol / Vioxx), nursing home abuse, dog bite cases and many other injuries. Mr. Danda is an advocate for the innocent injured victim.
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The lawyers at The Danda Law Firm have been helping injured people in Atlanta and throughout Georgia recover their just financial compensation since 1979. Call our office at 770.938.0977 or 800.983.8720.
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When my father's Alzheimer's no longer allowed him to stay home and my mother faced a $7,000.00 a month nursing home bill, I founded Danda Elder Law.
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Mr. Danda helps resolve disputes between attorneys and clients as a volunteer arbitrator for the State Bar of Georgia and is a volunteer in the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism which sponsors the the State Bar of Georgia's Professionalism program at Emory University Law School.
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Mr. Walker received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, and he earned his Juris Doctor of Law degree from Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA. While at Seattle University School of Law, he was a summer associate at Foster, Pepper & Shefelman, PLLC, Seattle, WA, a Philip E. Burton Scholar, and competed in moot court and client counseling competitions. He has clerked with Danda Elder Law, P.C. and has become an associate with the firm.
Mr. Walker is admitted before the Superior Courts of Georgia, a member of the Georgia Bar Association, and an Accredited Veterans Administration attorney.
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