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If I Knew What I Know Now
March Spotlight is Vice Squad.
For those who remember the days of Punk during the 70s, may well remember the band coming to prominence from 1979, when they formed, through the early 80s. They were a frequent addition to John Peel's playlists during those years, and it's how I first became aware of them. The early singles Last Rockers, Resurrection and Stand Strong were firm favourites. Then in 1983 singer Beki Bondage, left the band (to form Ligotage and later Beki And The Bombshells), and while a new singer, Lia, was signed up, the band only continued for a couple more years.
During the mid/late 80s and 90s, Beki continue to gain a small amount of success with her bands, and featured in several of the music magazines (mostly rock) that were also gaining success, such as Kerrang! and Metal Hammer. I even met Beki at a few Marquee gigs around this time, and it was always a pleasure to see her as she always seemed really positive about the music she was making.
Then in 1997 Beki relauched Vice Squad with members of The Bombshells, performing with a more "old school" punk than they had been as Beki and The Bombshells. Since the relaunch, they have now released 9 albums, and their latest planned for a 1st May 2020 launch date. Singles and EPs have been forthcoming from the band at a frequent rate, and it's also great to hear some of these older songs re-recorded for B-sides, with a fresh fire.
While they're still a punk band at their core, their sound has a more edgy rock feel to it. The band provide a tight and solid backing to Beki blistering vocals. I have yet to see them play live, and I sadly missed out seeing them in 2019 due to other commitments, but hopefully I will in the not too distant future. I can imagine their live shows are an intense frenzy from start to finish, with everyone dripping with sweat on the way out.
I used to love the raw angst of the band in the early 80s, and I'm pleased to hear a lot of that frustration and defiance still continuing today. Recent album Cardboard Country, tackles subjects such as tabloids, reality TV, and the wealth and class injustices we still see today. The Angry Youth (pun intended) of 40 years ago, is still angry and rightly so.
The new album, Battle Of Britain is due out soon, and if the recent single releases are anything to go by, it's going to be another classic. I for one am looking forward to hearing it.
80s era favourites; Stand Strong Stand Proud, Out Of Reach, Gutterchild
latest favourites; When You Were 17, You Can't Buy Back The Dead, Ignored To Death, If I Knew What I Know Now
Check out Vice Squad if you're still a punk at heart.
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Home American History Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham Jail
In his letter, Martin Luther King challenged a public statement written by 8 white clergymen who claimed that the de-segregation movement in Alabama was moving too fast.
The statement was titled, "A Call for Unity," and in it the 8 Birmingham area clergymen advised King that the street protests he led against racial segregation were "unwise and untimely." The clergymen agreed that racial injustices existed, but they counseled patience, and argued that implementation of integration should be administered through the judicial system.
Dr. King Strongly Disagreed With the 8 Clergymen
King wrote his letter of response to the 8 clergymen from a cell in the Birmingham City Jail, where he was confined after being arrested during a peaceful demonstration. Dr. King began his letter refuting the clergymen's statement with an almost conciliatory tone, which offered them brief praise. Dr. King noted that he was writing to them in part because their, "criticism was sincere and they were men of genuine good will."
However, in the very next couple of paragraphs, King switches to language that can leave no doubt about the unwavering commitment that he brought to the fight against racial injustice.
Letter From Birmingham Jail is a Logical Yet Poetic Argument
Dr. King's letter is a powerful collection of statements about why he was in Birmingham, the unjust laws that persecuted Negro people in Alabama and the sense of momentum that the civil rights movement was gathering at the time. It is a document full of well thought-out arguments that are logical beyond contention and poetic at the same time. But the magnitude of Dr. King's wisdom becomes especially clear through his uncanny ability to pinpoint the truth through the use of very short statements.
Dr. Martin Luther King Fought Injustice Wherever He Found It
One of the criticisms brought by the clergymen against Dr. King was that he and his followers were outside agitators, who were stirring up trouble in an area that was none of their concern. He answered this charge in a number of ways, but his shortest rebuttal is the most powerful of them all. Dr. King contended that he could not remain idle in Atlanta and be unconcerned by events in Birmingham because, as he put it, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Given the increased facility that we now have for communications around the globe, Dr. King's assertion about the permeating nature of injustice carries even more weight today than it did in 1963.
History Was on Dr. King's Side
Throughout this letter, Dr. King effectively uses historic figures and references to defend his movement. At one point he was criticized by the 8 clergymen for his willingness to break laws that limited his protesting activities and yet, at the same time, he advocated that de-segregation laws should be obeyed. To answer to that charge he drew two parallels from the past. Dr. King reminded the clergymen that all the horrors of the holocaust were "legal" according to Hitler, and conversely, the actions of Hungarian freedom fighters who tried to break the yoke of Soviet occupation in 1956, were "illegal" by the standards set in Moscow.
Dr. King makes other arguments as well, but he gets right to the crux of the matter with, once again, a very short statement. King quotes St. Augustine when he says, "An unjust law is no law at all."
Freedom Was Dr. King's Goal
"An oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever," said Dr. King. The yearning for freedom and equality will eventually turn to action. Progress towards the goal of freedom instills a sense of pride, dignity and direction that gives moral authority to those who follow the cause. Dr. King cites a 72 year old woman who sums it up in a beautiful and profound statement. When asked how she felt after she and her people refused to ride on segregated busses, the old woman said, "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested."

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Satya Nadella is a man with a formidable challenge. Microsoft CEO's predecessor, Steve Ballmer, squandered the company's mobile fortunes. From smartphone platform leader a decade ago, the software-and-services giant is a category also-ran in 2015. Microsoft has no independent mobile platform future. The war is over. There remains this: Making alliances with old enemies to preserve existing territory, while using the foothold to reach into new frontiers.
Made available August 5th, Outlook for Apple Watch is a very smart move and metaphor for what went wrong on Microsoft mobile platforms and what has to go right to preserve and extend the legacy applications stack. While Windows 10 makes its way to Lumia devices, the future is Android and iOS and how the company supports them with contextually meaningful cloud-connected apps and services.
I told you so—and Microsoft over the last 10 years. Seriously, the company should look back at my past writings and make me a future consultant. Because my analysis was right many times over. While I started warning about things to come as long ago as 2004, those writings are gone from the web because the two blogs closed (one as a result of an analyst firm's acquisition and the other after the media organization downsized). Best references must be BetaNews stories starting in 2009. Let's recap using 10.
It's game over now, and Microsoft has lent Google a helping hand in self-destruction...Sync is the glue binding together cloud services and mobile devices...Where is Microsoft's sync strategy? In too many ways, it's stalled. Microsoft sync is scattered across consumer products, although it's more vertically defined in the enterprise. But even enterprise advantages can't make up for what's missing: A cohesive mobile operating system, sync service, and device strategy. Microsoft has mobile pieces in place, but it's a puzzle apart. Other companies are innovating in sync—and delivering real and useful products now—whereas Microsoft makes promises of something better to come.
Google gets sync, and Microsoft didn't but does now. In December 2010, I heralded synchronization as technology of the year. Why is sync so important? Because during the contextual cloud computing era, content matters more than applications or devices and access to it anytime, anywhere, and on anything. Microsoft previously failed because it focused too much on directly preserving its application stack—Windows, Office, Windows Server, and related server software. While technologies like ActiveSync were trendsetting, they too closely tied to the enterprise app stack.
Enormously bigger than that for PCs. For every PC in use there are three cell phones, based on analyst estimates.
Data from the story: Microsoft's operating system share of the U.S. smartphone market fell from about 39 percent in June 2007 to 16.5 percent in December 2009. Meanwhile Apple's platform rose from zero to 25.5 percent during the same time period.
As I explained in the analysis, Microsoft needed its own phone, but shipping then in 2010, with a supporting app store, which Apple and Google already turned to advantage for their platforms.
3. "Microsoft's Stephen Elop moves to Nokia—what a waste", September 2010. Headline is almost explanation enough. The only context that made sense to me was Elop as Microsoft's ambassador for preparing special partnership or even a takeover.
From the story, putting past predictions into future reality, here is why you can't trust analyst crystal balls: "Gartner made a startling forecast about mobile operating systems—Android OS sales would all but catch Nokia's Symbian OS by 2014". Gartner made the prediction the day I posted; Android surpassed Symbian three months later.
Microsoft's and Nokia's responses to the changing mobile market, where Android and iOS became important operating systems in less than three years, is appalling. It's simply outrageous to assert they will cause disruption and act with speed now, given the enormous challenges a major platform switch will entail. Two burning platforms don't make one that's right.
5. "If Windows Phone is No. 2 by 2015, I'll kiss Steve Ballmer's feet", March 2011. A month after the companies cut the deal and another example of trade analyst dumb-foolery, IDC predicted that Microsoft's global smartphone OS share would reach 20.9 percent, placing it behind predicted top-ranked Android but ahead of iOS. You can read the post to find then why I thought the prediction would be wrong now.
Reality check: During first quarter 2015, Microsoft's smartphone OS share was 2.7 percent, according to IDC. Thirty-year-old movie "Back to the Future" got more right about the year 2015 than IDC's four-year forecast.
There's still time for redemption, though. In June 2012, IDC reiterated the No. 2 prediction for 2016, and I pledged to clean Steve Ballmer's toilet, if true.
6. "Nokia does the Windows Phone death dance", April 2012: ""Nokia will lose customers and market share. It's the inevitable consequence of such a massive operating system switch. Timing is terrible". Referring back to the 14-month-old deal: Elop "chucked away the most successful mobile operating system on the planet—with install base that dwarfed Android and iOS. The only thing burning about Symbian and planned successor Meego was the fire Elop set. He burned down the house—no, he nuked the city—in order to build anew".
During first quarter 2012, when the first Windows Phone handsets shipped, Nokia posted a $1.76 billion loss, while sales collapsed by 29 percent annually and 26 percent sequentially. I called Microsoft snd Nokia "misfits" two months later. Fast-forward to summer 2015, and Microsoft ends its fiscal year by writing down $7.6 billion related to the Nokia acquisition, after dismissing Elop. Microsoft's merger and painful platform transition killed Nokia.
7. "Microsoft moves your Office to the cloud", July 2012. Even while Ballmer lame-ducked the company along, the cloud strategy started shifting to something more sensible for embracing anytime, anywhere, on-anything computing and preserving the legacy applications stack. From the analysis: "The software giant is in process of completely reinventing Office for the cloud-connected device era. The new Office is just that—a new office for you to do you work. Your new cubicle is outdoors, or anywhere you want to be". That could be Windows device, Mac, or even iPhone.
A year later, I asserted that "Microsoft shouldn't do Office for Android", and about that I was wrong. Look to the next subhead for reasons why.
8. "Microsoft is cooler than Apple", June 2014: "The winds blow in a fresh direction, if only new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his leadership team can raise the sails and turn the sloop to catch the breeze. Microsoft's devices and services strategy is succeeding". Innovation is a word that isn't applied enough to Big M. But it's deserved during the mid-2010 decade, as synchronization, cloud services, and plethora of compelling contextual apps available for multiple platforms all converge together. That's without mentioning Windows 10's launch in 2015.
Microsoft's efforts to tie the platform to existing strong-hold products like Exchange and Office are more sensible today than four years ago, in part because the platform and the integrated strategy around it has matured. I bought the Nokia Lumia Icon, and to my surprise really enjoy using Windows Phone 8. But I got the phone anticipating Surface Pro 3, purchased day of availability. Like someone choosing iPod and a Mac a decade ago: Product synergy.
Windows 10 and the supporting services and apps are tying together as one but extended across competing platforms. That's a recipe for reinvention and success, but beyond Lumia devices.
I would absolutely recommend Surface Pro 3 before any Mac laptop. Touchscreen, pen, and the utility built around them is exceptional, and Microsoft's supporting cloud services offer amazing anytime, anywhere, on-anything benefits that Apple can't match. Microsoft's catch-up efforts around cloud storage, sync, and supporting services are commendable.
I should sometime soon write a news analysis about "modern" Microsoft. The company is undergoing Renaissance—real reinvention—that mostly is held back by business customers slow to change. Many never will.
Ballmer deserves some credit for setting Nadella on the right path, after stumbling around for a decade lost, chasing Google rather than leaping around it. Windows on phones is a dead-end. Ballmer bungled badly any hope for revival. Recovery is impossible, even as mobility defines the next computing era.
No wait, what he did wrong is much worse. The former CEO ruined one of the company's three major software platforms—Windows on any device. Office and the server remain, supporting the applications stack shooting to cloud services. Windows 10 course corrects somewhat, but to what end? The PC's future is decline before the advancing mobile device horde, where Android and iOS dominate. As Windows' long success shows: Making gains against a platform with enormous market share supported by entrenched apps and loyal customers is nearly impossible. With 96-percent combined smartphone share, according to IDC, Android and iOS are unstoppable.
By the numbers, from Gartner for 2014: Among 2.38 billion devices shipped (PCs, smartphones, and tablets), only 14 percent had Windows compared to 49 percent Android or 11 percent iOS/OS X. The PC's inevitable decline is near certainty, taking along Windows. Foreshadowing: In a report released August 6, Ofcom says "UK now a smartphone society". Two-thirds of adults use smartphones, and one third of Internet users "see their smartphone as the most important device for going online, compared to 30 percent who are still sticking with their laptop".
Office Cloud. While Windows wallows, Microsoft's application platforms are in better form, despite competition from cloud or mobile apps. Much benefit comes from entrenched enterprise adoption. Then there are the habituals. For example, most of the BetaNews staff write stories in Microsoft Word, because it's what they are accustomed. I don't.
The software-and-service giant took great risks taking Office to the cloud, for many reasons. Such as: Internal execution and resistance to how people are accustomed using the software. But, overall, Office 365 is a success that extends the relevancy of the legacy app stack while creating new relevance across more devices than just the PC.
Android and iOS are key part of the broader strategy and demonstrates how necessity is the mother of innovation. If Windows mobile market share wasn't so low, and the future so grim, maybe the company would have kept to its longstanding siloed strategy of primarily favoring its own platforms. Instead, bringing Office and supporting productivity apps to all major platforms is exactly the right approach for the anytime, anywhere, on-anything computing era.
Commercial seats grew 74 percent, and Office 365 is now deployed in four out of five Fortune 500 enterprises, with more than half of that install base using premium workloads. We also added over 50,000 small-and medium-sized business customers each month...We currently have more than 15 million Office 365 consumer subscribers, with new customers signing up at a current pace of nearly one million per month. We also surpassed 150 million downloads of Office mobile to iOS and Android devices.
Based on smartphone subscriptions (2.6 billion globally) that Ericsson released in June, Office 365 could be on 5 percent of all handsets running the operating systems.
Better Together. By my count, Microsoft offers more than about 70 separate apps from the iOS store, with the majority related to content creation or information (yes, there are some games). Unless, I miscounted, the number is a wee bit greater for Android. Additionally, Excel, PowerPoint, One Drive, Outlook, Translator, and Word are among the Microsoft apps supporting Apple Watch.
That puts the company among the top developers on platforms with which it competes. By contrast, I count 55 Google apps for iPhone and none for Apple Watch. For Android: 100. From Apple: 16 for iPhone and 17 for iPad.
When you view everything as a continuum, the use of one thing to encourage the use of another and another, support for rival platforms makes sense. That's how Microsoft preserves the relevancy of products like Office—by moving existing customers to subscription sales, while winning over new users on devices that matter more than PCs.
Microsoft has long had a development philosophy at one time called "better together". The idea being Windows is good but better with Office, which is better with Exchange, which requires Windows Server—and so on. The fundamental characteristics: Better along the enterprise applications stack and best when primarily using Microsoft software or extended services.
Microsoft's colossal failure to succeed in mobile devices should have been disaster, and I'm not fully convinced it isn't averted. But the company adapted better together. By integrating around the cloud as the platform, rather than localized operating systems that the company controls, Microsoft embraces the new while extending the relevancy of the old.
The company fumbled this strategy over the course of a decade, with names like software-as-a-service, before starting to seriously take risks that turned assured obsolescence into a Hollywood-style redemption story.
Apple Watch. The challenge now: How to invade Android and iOS with platforms around which developers can independently create applications or to provide killer applications that users can't live without.
Outlook is one of Microsoft's most valuable assets, whether accessed from device or web browser. Supporting Apple Watch may be a head scratcher for some people, but the sense is clear to me. It's all about maintaining and extending cloud-connected service apps relevancy. Distinguishing this app are features Apple Watch owners using the default messenger will find familiar: Email viewing, canned replies, emojis, and voice-dictated responses.
It's all contextual, by providing what you want where you need it. Needs change with context, You might respond to an email on the golf course that otherwise could be missed or ignored. But your interaction and expectation about capabilities change on phone or PC.
Outlook for Apple Watch represents Microsoft's future. As a broader service, I find Outlook to easily offer better benefits than Gmail, although I'm no fan of Microsoft's cluttered, cumbersome desktop client. Coincidentally, over the weekend, I will decide where to move my domain primarily used for email; migrating from Google Apps. I can put up with Gmail for free, but not if I'm paying. Maybe Microsoft will get my hosting.
Wrapping up, if Microsoft really wants to be disruptive in a way the benefits its interests and that of existing and potential customers, platform invasion must be the browser. Bring forth Edge for Android and iOS. Chrome could use some serious competition on Google's turf. Let Edge cut competitors deep.


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Shun'ichi Kuryu (born 6 December 1958) is a Japanese police bureaucrat who served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in the First and Second Kishida Cabinet.

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Rheinsberg (Österreich: Schloß Rheinsberg) ist eine deutsche Literaturverfilmung von Kurt Hoffmann aus dem Jahr 1967. Sie beruht auf der Erzählung Rheinsberg: Ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte von Kurt Tucholsky.

Handlung
Claire und ihr Freund Wolf, von ihr "Wölfchen" genannt, fahren kurz nach der Jahrhundertwende gemeinsam in den Urlaub. Es geht nach Rheinsberg. Claire will die Reise vor allem nutzen, um sich über ihre Zukunft mit Wölfchen Klarheit zu verschaffen. Ist er der Richtige? Im Gasthauszimmer denkt sie an ihre gemeinsame Vergangenheit zurück:

Die beiden jungen Leute lernen sich bei einem kuriosen Dialog im Berliner Strandbad kennen und treffen sich schon bald heimlich. Wölfchen, von Beruf Journalist, stiehlt sich aus der Redaktion fort, während Claire ohne Wissen ihrer Eltern in einem Café auf ihn wartet. Bald zeigen beide die typischen Symptome der Verliebtheit: Claire und ihre Hausdame Anna kichern herum, sehr zum Missfallen ihres gestrengen Vaters, und Wölfchen kleidet sich adrett und tanzt die Redaktionsflure entlang. Claire geht zweierlei Wagnis ein: Sie verbringt mit Wölfchen ein Wochenende inmitten der Berliner Gesellschaft in der (stark bevölkerten) einsamen Natur. Weiter stellt sie Wölfchen ihren Eltern als neuen Lateinlehrer vor, der ihr in der elterlichen Wohnung Nachhilfe erteilt. Wie die Beziehung weitergehen soll, weiß Claire nun nicht so recht, da das ständige Versteckspielen des guten Rufs wegen nicht die Lösung sein kann. Anna schlägt eine Reise nach Rheinsberg vor; Claire ist begeistert und weiht eine Freundin ein, bei der sie sich nun während ihrer häuslichen Abwesenheit offiziell aufhält. Dann reist sie mit Wölfchen gen Rheinsberg. In Löwenberg steigen beide in die Dampfbahn um.

In Rheinsberg nehmen sich Claire und Wölfchen als Ehepaar ein Zimmer. Die unbeschwerten Tage in Rheinsberg sind voller Fantasie, Übermut und Leichtigkeit. Beide besuchen Ort und Schloss Rheinsberg, gehen rudern, tanzen, einkaufen und auf Kutschfahrt. Zum Ende ihres Aufenthalts schenkt Wölfchen Claire ein Paket, das sie erst bei der Abreise öffnen darf. Das Ende der Ferien nähert sich viel zu schnell, doch Claire ist zufrieden mit allem, was sie mit Wölfchen erlebt hat. Erst im Zug fällt Claire ein, dass sie das Paket im Gasthauszimmer vergessen hat. Wölfchen schwört, sie nie wissen zu lassen, was darin enthalten war, denn "ohne Geheimnisse taugt das ganze Leben nichts". Claire aber ist sicher, dass er es ihr dennoch verraten wird: in einem der schönsten schwachen Momente, die eine Frau ihrem Mann bereiten kann.
Der Dampfzug entschwindet in der Ferne.

Produktion
Rheinsberg entstand nach Motiven der gleichnamigen Novelle von Kurt Tucholsky, die 1912 erschienen war. Hoffmann hatte zuvor bereits 1963 mit Schloß Gripsholm eine Tucholsky-Novelle verfilmt.

Die Szenen in den Berliner Wohnungen von Claire und Wölfchen entstanden im Atelier. Der Film sollte ursprünglich unter anderem einen Besuch im echten Schloss Rheinsberg enthalten. Die DEFA (DDR) sah das Gebäude jedoch in nicht "filmbrauchbarem" Zustand, sodass eine Filmerlaubnis verweigert wurde und die Szenen nun in Mölln, bei Rastatt und auf Schloss Panker, Besitzer ist der Graf von Hessen, in Ostholstein, nahe Lütjenburg, entstanden. Die "sehenswerte" Sonnenuhr und eine weiße Brücke ("Ob es hier Bärens gibt?") im Schlosspark sind unverändert vorhanden.

Ein bedeutender Teil der Außenaufnahmen entstand in Bruchhausen-Vilsen, etwa 35 Kilometer südlich von Bremen. Der Dampfzug in den Anfangs- und Schlussszenen gehört dem Deutschen Eisenbahn-Verein DEV, der seit 1966 auf der Schmalspurstrecke (Spurweite 1000 mm) Bruchhausen-Vilsen – Asendorf die erste deutsche Museumseisenbahn betreibt. Zu sehen sind auch die Vilser St. Cyriakus-Kirche und in deren nächster Umgebung die Straßen Lindenberg und Assessorstraße sowie das Kleidungsgeschäft Vassmer in der Brautstraße (bei Claires Frage nach weißen Wäscheknöpfen wird Wölfchen schamhaft gebeten, das Geschäft zu verlassen). Die Szene am Teich sowie Aufnahmen von Kutschfahrten entstanden rund um die Wehlermühle am Marktplatz, von der 2015 nur mehr die Nebengebäude existieren. Die Syker Kreiszeitung textete im Spätsommer 1967 über Cornelia Froboess und den Schwan vom Mühlenteich: "Conny rief und Tony kam". Rheinsberg erlebte am 21. Dezember 1967 im Berliner Gloria-Palast seine Premiere.

Ehmi Bessel und Werner Hinz, die im Film Claires Eltern spielen, waren auch im realen Leben miteinander verheiratet; Bessels Tochter Dinah Hinz wirkte ebenfalls mit.

Kritik
Das Lexikon des Internationalen Films nannte Rheinsberg eine "nostalgische Komödie nach der gleichnamigen Tucholsky-Novelle, von Kurt Hoffmann mit sicherer Routine inszeniert. Erfolgreiches Unterhaltungskino, ebenso gutherzig wie bieder."
Der Evangelische Filmbeobachter urteilte: "Ein Kostümfilm, der den Zuschauer Werbespots assoziieren läßt. Von einer Postkartenrevue unterscheidet ihn das intelligente Spiel der Hauptdarstellerin und ihre Tucholskyredeweise. Anspruchslose Unterhaltung ab 14."

Auszeichnung
Cornelia Froboess wurde für ihre Darstellung der Claire 1968 mit dem Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis ausgezeichnet.

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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Andrew Mynarski VC School (1111 Machray Avenue, Winnipeg)
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Built in 1954 and opened officially in September 1955, the Andrew Mynarski VC School honours Victoria Cross recipient Andrew Charles Mynarski. It had originally been planned to be named Lord Tweedsmuir School in recognition of the Governor General of Canada from 1935 to 1940. The decision was reversed after great public protest and petitions from Joseph Zuken, Alexander Turk, William J. Sisler, and throngs of veterans and North End citizens. An opening ceremony on 10 November 1955 featured an RCAF fly-by, Mynarski's mother, and five of the six aircrew members from Mynarski's last flight, including Rear Gunner Pat Brophy who Mynarski had saved at the loss of his own life.
The original school building had 15 classrooms, an auditorium, gymnasium, and service rooms. An additional four classrooms were added in 1960-1961 and another addition was made in 1965. The northeast corner of the school lot was sold in 1963 for construction of a community library.
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Miss E. Arnott, J. Derewianko, J. Dorfman, J. A. Hall, F. Hastings, Mrs. J. Jackson, J. Kereluk, Miss I. Koop, Miss J. Miskolcy, J. Mozel, P. Mudrey, R. Romalis, Alexander J. Smaluk
J. Dorfman, D. R. Dougherty, H. Funk, F. Hastings, Mrs. M. Jackson, Cornelius J. Jaenen, J. Kereluk, Miss L. Koop, Miss J. Law, A. Magnusson, Miss J. Miskolcy, J. Mozel, P. Mudery, P. Rooney, E. Simms, Miss G. Sivertson, Miss V. Webber, Miss D. White
Elementary Department: Miss G. Alsop, Miss M. E. Bjornson, H. DeJersey, Donald Taylor "Don" McKinnon. Intermediate Department: J. Dorfman, H. Funk, F. Hastings, Bernice G. Hearn, Cornelius J. Jaenen, Miss J. Law, A. Magnusson, J. Mozel, P. Mudery, P. Rooney, Miss G. Sivertson, Miss V. Webber, Miss D. White
Elementary Department: Miss M. A. ?, Mrs. G. M. Patterson, Miss A. Stech, Miss D. Whyte. Intermediate Department: Miss M. Bjornson, H. DeJersey, Mrs. I. Dackman, H. Funk, F. Ha?, Bernice G. Hearn, Mrs. J. Law, A. Morganson, J. Mozel, P. Mudery, P. Rooney, Miss G. Sivertson, Miss V. Webber
Intermediate Department: Miss S. Bilsk, G. Blou?, H. DeJersey, Dr. M. Golubchuk, F. Hastings, Bernice G. Hearn, J. T. Kragbo, Mrs. J. Law, A. Magnusson, A. O. McConkey, Miss H. McLeod, J. Mozel, P. Mudery, L. S??nema, Miss G. Sivertson, Miss A. Stech, Miss V. Webber, G. G. Weldon
Intermediate Department: Miss S. Bilyk, G. Bloudoff, Miss P. Choslovsky, Miss E. M. Lavender, Miss J. Law, Miss B. Leitch, M. L. Loadman, A. Magnusson, J. Martens, M. M. Lot, J. Mozel, P. Mudery, J. Nolan, M. J. Patterson, Miss M. Pittarsill, J. Rafknelson, M. Shklanka, Miss G. Sivertson, Miss A. Stech, R. D. Thiessen, Miss I. Toews
Intermediate Department: Miss S. Bilyk, A. D. Bradshaw, Miss P. Choskrvsky, Miss L. Dickson, F. Froese, Miss J. Law, Miss B. Leitch, A. Magnusson, J. Martens, M. M'Lot, J. Mozel, J. Nolan, M. J. Patterson, Miss M. Pittareill, Mrs. C. Queen, J. Rafknelson, Miss A. Stech, R. D. Talessen, Miss I. Toews, Miss D. Uman, Lewis E. Walker
Intermediate Department: G. Andrusco, L. Baron, Miss S. Bass, Miss S. Bilyk, Miss J. Gillis, J. Hunt, A. Magnusson, Mrs. P. Marks, J. Martens, E. L. McClinton, E. Melnyk, F. Mikolayenko, D. W. Munro, Miss P. Off, M. J. Patterson, Miss M. Pittarelli, Mrs. N. Poldevin, J. Rafknelson, F. G. Schick, Mrs. S. Souchay, Miss A. Stech, Miss I. Toews
Intermediate Department: G. Andrusco, L. Baron, Ronald Walter Baron, Miss S. Bass, Miss S. Bilyk, H. Fenz, Miss J. Gillis, J. Hunt, Mrs. L. Klysh, A. Magnusson, J. Martens, E. L. McClinton, E. Melnyk, F. Mikolayenko, D. W. Munro, Miss P. Off, M. J. Patterson, Miss M. Pittarelli, J. Rafknelson, T. Ray, Miss A. Stech, Miss I. Toews, Miss M. Wiebe
Intermediate Department: R. Advice, G. Andrusco, L. Baron, Ronald Walter Baron, Miss S. Bilyk, V. Bonin, Mrs. L. Conner, Mrs. E. Davidow, Miss J. Gillis, F. Loewen, A. Magnusson, J. Martens, F. Mikolayenko, M. J. Patterson, Miss M. Pittarelli, J. Rafknelson, S. M. Rizvi, R. Sawchuk, Miss A. Stech, P. Susky, Miss M. Wiebe
Secondary Department: R. Advice, L. Baron, Ronald Walter Baron, V. Bonin, G. Calder, Mrs. J. Carnegie, D. Debrinsky, S. Fossaner, M. Harris, F. Loewen, A. Magnusson, J. Martens, Miss D. Morris, P. Mudery, J. Patterson, Miss M. Pittarelli, R. Sawchuk, Miss N. Schmidt, Miss A. Stech, Miss M. Wiebe
Secondary Department: R. Advice, L. Baron, V. Bonin, G. Calder, Miss B. Deyman, D. Dobrinsky, S. Fossaner, Miss E. Kohut, W. Kollsynyk, F. Loewen, A. Magnusson, J. Martens, P. Mudery, M. Openshaw, Miss M. Piattarelli, C. S. Rosznik, R. P. Sawchuk, Miss N. Schmidt, T. D. Shewan, D. R. Smorang, Miss A. Stech, J. Weber
R. Advice, L. Baron, V. Bonin, D. Dobrinsky, R. J. Dooley, Miss A. Gryz, Miss E. Hayward, F. Loewen, A. Magnusson, J. Martens, Mrs. A. McIntyre, Miss K. E. McKay, P. Mudery, N. Nightingale, Miss M. Paslowski, J. Patterson, W. J. Rhoda, C. S. Rocznik, Miss N. Schmidt, Miss A. Stech, Mrs. F. Waugh, J. Weber, Miss E. Yacula
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Andrew Mynarski VC School (no date)
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Andrew Mynarski VC School (April 2020)
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Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.93557, W97.16453
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Memorable Manitobans: Andrew Charles Mynarski (1916-1944)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Andrew Mynarski Statue (Vimy Ridge Park, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Andrew C. Mynarski VC Plaque (Kildonan Park, Winnipeg)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
School division half-yearly attendance reports, Archives of Manitoba.
"Hero's school open; big crowd attends," Winnipeg Free Press, 11 November 1955, page 3.
"Choice of Principals divides trustees," Winnipeg Free Press, 6 June 1973, page 3.
"Majority like idea of school meal plan," Winnipeg Free Press, 22 October 1974, page 85.
"School to get portrait of war hero Mynarski," Winnipeg Free Press, 21 June 1977, page 3.
"Taxi owner flags Star for new venture," Winnipeg Free Press, 12 July 1989, page 24.
"Principals express concern for students," Winnipeg Free Press Weekly Northern Edition, 19 March 1989, page 4.
"McLean new Principal," Winnipeg Free Press Weekly Northern Edition, 8 July 1990, page 3.
"Division tackes racism 'head-on'," Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1993, page A13.
"Police surround junior high school," Winnipeg Free Press, 20 Oct 1995, page A5.
"Black community honours achievers," Winnipeg Free Press, 1 March 1998, page A2.
"Principal vacancies filled," Winnipeg Free Press, 9 June 2004, page B10.
"Mynarski name was a tough sell," Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 2006, page B3.
"Trans fats banned in schools," Winnipeg Free Press, 23 November 2007, page A6.
Winnipeg School Division: Celebrating One Hundred Fifty Years, 1871-2021 by Winnipeg School Division, 2021.
We thank the Winnipeg School Division, Ethan Sahagun, and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
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What Russia Wants To Do With Ukraine
This article was also posted by DispatchesEurope.com.
There was an article on Russian media a few days ago called What Russia Must Do With Ukraine. It caused a great outrage among Ukrainians, and got great support in Russia. It tells, in no uncertain terms, that Ukraine has no right to exist as a sovereign state, that it's filled by blood-thirsty Nazis who need to be eliminated, and that at least one generation of the Russian terror should pass, before it's considered "denazified".
I understand that this article is a weapon. It's a weapon of terror; it's threatening the people of Ukraine, and it's intensifying the feeling of "us against the whole world", the imperial elitism, the "we're a nation chosen to save the world" complex. It's replacing the inferiority complex the Russian people have felt for so long after the Soviet Union failed and has shown that they were, in fact, poor, oppressed and deceived.
It's way better to be a chosen nation than being fooled by your own government. Of course, the Soviet government was never selected by the people — well, except in 1917, when they "voted" for it via the revolution — but after that there was no choice, no voting, no elections. Still, it was hard to part with this dogma when the Soviet Union broke, and it seems that many people never gave up the hope of getting the empire back.
And now they're fighting for the chance to do that.
The level of atrocity, of senseless cruelty, is what makes people fight for breath. I have been following one writer on Facebook for a long time. Her name is Iryna Govorukha and she's a writer who authored a lot of books. Since the war started, she's been speaking with the witnesses who managed to survive in Ukraine and writing their stories on Facebook. One story, told by a grandmother from Bucha, haunts me. It tells about an old woman who lost her grandson, and her old husband too. The grandson was killed by the Russians because he was sending data about their locations to Ukrainian military forces. Before being killed, he was tortured and mutilated. The grandfather was killed when he went to the Russians with the grandmother to ask for his grandson — he was still alive at the time but held captive. They didn't like that the old man came wearing camouflage pants, so they shot him.
The old woman got the mutilated body of her grandson after Bucha was retaken by Ukrainians. They found him, together with a lot of other dead bodies. He was missing fingers and reproductive organs. She screamed for two days, then she went and cooked borscht and sat waiting. The old man and the grandson would come home soon.
I can't tell this story better than its author, and she tells it in a few short sentences of a Facebook post that packs together many other stories, told by the survivors. Some of them only in a few words, which are even more haunting because they are told in an ordinary way, as if someone was just reiterating the events of the day.
Wars are fruitful soil for the writers, for the artists, because they can express the pain they see and feel in something tangible. They pour it into their stories, their songs, their pictures.
Mural in Kyiv by Alexander (Sasha) Korban, a Ukrainian street artist
The best works of art are often created by people who were in a lot of pain. I know this state too. It's when people tell themselves — I can't change this, and I can't live with this pain, because it's eating me from the inside. I must find an outlet.
And they do.
© Yuriy Zhuravel
But let's talk about the Russian plans for Ukraine again. Although it's not something that a person of sound mind would read, one needs to do it to know the enemy.
However, in addition to the top level people, a significant part of the masses, which are passive Nazis, accomplices of Nazism, are also guilty. They supported and indulged Nazi power. The just punishment for this part of the population is possible only as bearing the inevitable hardships of a just war against the Nazi system, conducted with the utmost care and discretion in relation to civilians.
So you see, the civilians of Ukraine should be punished by "bearing the inevitable hardships of a just war".
Which means — your houses will be bombed and burned and looted, your kids and grandkids and mothers and grandmothers killed or raped or raped and then killed, because you deserve it. And you deserve it because you hate Russia and therefore need to be punished.
© The Telegram channel of the Ukrainian ombudswoman, Luidmyla Denisova
Oh, and the "utmost care and discretion" is I suppose something that the butchers in Bucha overlooked? Or rather, something put into this sentence as an afterthought, to appease the "liberal" minority of Russians who still have some human feelings left? Either way, it wasn't something they applied in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, Izium.
The Western bloggers and influencers are posting a lot of articles now about how the last thing US needs now is helping Ukraine. And I get it. They don't want to get dragged into a war and an economical collapse. But Ukraine is fighting against the country that has three times its population. If Ukraine falls, then what?…
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
It's a partial translation of what Martin Niemöller said, but he was saying it about the German Nazis of WW2.
I can't help thinking though that the German Nazis at least owned their crimes. The Russian imperial Nazis don't. Every crime they commit, they attribute to the Ukrainian military. Only today, there was an attack on the Kramatorsk train station, where a lot of civilians tried to evacuate. Russia immediately claimed that it was Ukrainian forces who did it.
They kill, they rape, they torture, they mutilate. And then they lie at will, without batting an eye.
If the great America thinks that the ocean is too big an obstacle for the crazy imperial ambitions, it's wrong. It wasn't an obstacle before, and if Russia gets its way with Ukraine, then eats up the EU, what's going to be left?
They will come for you.
And there will be no one left to protect you.
Russian Ukraine War
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With hunting seasons approaching, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks would like to remind those that use the Beartooth Wildlife Management Area of the camping rules in place.
Camping is allowed only in designated camping areas (Cottonwood, Lower and Upper Elkhorn and Willow creeks). Overnight camping is not allowed in the Whitetail Prairie addition.
The gate to Elkhorn Creek will close on Sept. 1. Hunters can establish backcountry camps up Elkhorn Creek by getting materials there before Sept. 1.
Occupancy of any camping site, including caches deposited up Elkhorn Creek, is limited to 16 days in a 30-day period. At the end of the 16-day period, camps and cahces must be completely removed from that designated campground.
There will be no motorized access into Elkhorn Creek after Sept. 1.
Campers must register at the check station site and visibly place an identification coupon on their tent, camper or vehicle.
Camping is allowed on federal Bureau of Land Management and adjacent Forest Service lands using those agency rules and regulations.
Camps can not be left unattended for more than 48 hours.
Quiet hours will be in place from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Disorderly conduct is prohibited.
Hunters can now obtain 2018 Block Management Area information from fwp.mt.gov/hunting/hunterAccess/blockman and at any FWP regional office. guides will be shipped out to those who have already ordered one.
In prior years, the Hunting Access Guide and BMA maps were not made available until Aug. 15. FWP was able to move the date up this year since a few BMA properties are open on Aug. 15.
The earlier date for release also gives hunters more time to review the guide before making a BMA reservation, which can be done starting Aug. 22 for areas that accept reservations.
The 2018 BMA Hunting Access Guide is a compilation of all enrolled BMA properties. Hunters must still secure an individual BMA property map and the associated rules prior to hunting. Each region has its own policy regarding distribution of individual BMA maps, and distribution information can be found in each of the regional sections of the 2018 Hunting Access Guide.
On Aug. 15, hunters can find the Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program Projects Access Guide online at fwp.mt.gov.
Printed access guides will be available at FWP headquarters and regional offices later this month. Hunters can also request a copy of the access guide via the FWP website. FWP will begin mailing guides to hunters the week of Aug. 20.
This guide includes project maps that depict boundaries of private lands enrolled in the UGBEP. Once hunters receive permission from landowners to hunt, the maps with access boundaries can be a great tool for hunters to locate UGBEP project areas. The guide also contains information on habitat enhancement work done on public lands, Open fields, habitat management leases, pheasant release sites and the method used to obtain permission in order to hunt upland game birds.
For more information, contact Debbie Hohler at 406-444-5674 or dhohler@mt.gov.
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The property is about three miles north of Great Falls and consists of 321.23 acres of FWP land and 301.53 acres of GFSSC land. The lease is for a three-year period, ending on Oct. 1, 2021, and may be renewable in three-year terms. FWP requests proposals from anyone interested in farming this property to help meet management needs.
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"In the years to come, legal function success will increasingly be measured by the ability to enable new business models and transform laws and regulations into operating procedures. This requires five key shifts in legal's current operating model," says Martin.
Those shifts will ensure legal is effective in the digital age, delivering on imperatives to protect the business while enabling its growth and transformation.
Organizations today must rapidly experiment with new business models while still managing underlying legal risks and protecting core assets (e.g., intellectual property, brand, reputation). Legal departments traditionally proved their value by performing legal work and meeting corporate objectives at a lower cost than outside counsel. Going forward, legal will need scalable solutions, what Gartner calls agile strategic support, moving away from direct advisory support. In 2020, the corporate value of the legal function will be determined by the speed at which legal guidance, adjusted for the business's risk appetite, is built into strategic decision making and made available within operating processes.
To provide this strategic support, legal departments need to deliver real business intelligence. That will mean less time spent on routine work and more on developing insights from legal information. In the process, legal can build more cost-effective capacity within the business to perform what was previously routine legal work — systematizing legal tasks such as contracts, employment issues, advertising and marketing reviews. The opportunity for legal to standardize its work is ripe — 63% of in-house legal work is repeatable, fact-based decisions that involve no subjective judgment or interpretation.
More decentralized decision making means business-unit leaders and employees will have ownership of formerly "legal" decisions. In-house counsel must therefore codify legal judgment to increase the enterprise's ability to perform, learn from and reduce the cost of legally informed decision making. To make this a smooth shift, legal will need to set clear decision rules and parameters that enable business partners to apply legal guidance to their daily workflows and handle issues independently.
In-house legal departments can consider their legal support to be the "product" delivered to business partners. To be valuable, the product must be relevant and easy to execute, just as any product needs to resonate with customers. The product should incorporate scalable solutions directly into business workflows. From there, legal can assess client use patterns to find opportunities to become accessible to a larger majority of users, while redirecting clients appropriately for more complex matters.
Today, more than half of total legal spend goes to outside counsel. To shift the operating model, legal will have to reduce that dependency. To start, legal should bring in new skills, competencies and technologies that will enable the execution of specific sets of legal work. These include analytics, design, project and vendor management. By bringing skills and technologies in-house, legal departments will be positioned to reduce the amount of outside counsel spend over time.
By 2020, the success of legal departments will be gauged by their ability to embed systemized guidance into operations and provide the legal support business partners need to make better decisions at the pace of digital business.
Gartner for Legal and Compliance Leaders can read more about legal and digital transformation in How Corporate Changes Will Impact Legal by 2020.


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Q: Two "Audio codecs" have 100% power usage in PowerTOP - what does this mean? Should I be worried?
My battery power doesn't last long (~1hr), could this be the reason?
How can I fix this (if it has to be fixed at all)?

A: A single session fix that I found is as follows. Go to the Tunables tab. There, one of the options will be : Enable Audio codec power management with the value Bad. Press Enter to change it to Good, and watch as your power consumption drops to a more bearable level
But this fix has to be done every time you reboot. I wish there were a way to make this permanent.

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This past week I had the pleasure of attending an out of town meeting. While I of course learn an immense amount of information about Mass Spectrometry the meeting also afforded me the opportunity to talk to some trainees who will very shortly be entering their first professional position. One person in particular asked me if I had any friendly advice for those starting in their first professional position. This made me realize that there are very likely several people with the same question, so I thought I would share my thoughts.
Don't make changes to anything for the first six months you are on the job. Sit back and observe. There is very likely a very reasonable explanation for something that you would prefer to do another way. You need to realize that things are likely to be different from where you trained and you may be able to learn a better way if you observe. Of course it goes without saying that if you observe something that can harm patient care (e.g., letting a blood gas syringe sit un-analyzed for an hour) then of course you have to intervene!
Don't start a conversation with, "well, when I was at [insert name here] we did it this way…" I think that this is really sound advice. It does in a way fall under the same good advice as above but even if you've been at your first position for two years you shouldn't start a sentence like this. Just don't do it.
Expect to be overloaded! Your workload and expectations in training will not match your workload and expectations in your first job. Once you are in your first position you will likely find that you are busier than you thought possible.
Your first job will NOT be what you expected. Even if you take a position at the same institution as where you trained you will find that there are many aspects of the job that you did not expect. Don't let this disappoint you! It is part of the learning process and in a few months on the job you will have learned more about Chemistry, Medicine and Hospital Administration that you learned in the prior two to three years.
Take time for Family and the things you like to do. Even if you become overworked and tired and deadlines are piling up you still need to take time for family and friends and the activities that you enjoy. Coming back to work fresh after a night off or a weekend will re-energize you and you will be more productive.
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UCLA Communications Board
Publishers of the student-run media at UCLA
Board operations
Student Media operations
Basic Agreement Between ASUCLA Communications Board & ASUCLA Board of Control
2018-19 Meeting Schedule
2015-16 meeting minutes
This section of the UCLA Communications Board Policies & Procedures Manual provides information about the financial principles and operations of the Communications Board and the Student Media.
To foster understanding and trust with the UCLA community, the Communications Board wishes to clearly describe the financial guidelines and operations of the Student Media.
I. Advertising
This document provides the statements comprising the UCLA Communications Board advertising policy.
Statement of Support of the UCLA Student Conduct Code
The UCLA Communications Board fully supports the UCLA Student Conduct Code and will not accept advertisements for activities which are prima facie violations of the UCLA Student Conduct Code.
Statement of Non-Discrimination in Advertising
The UCLA Communications Board fully supports the University of California's policy on non-discrimination. The student media reserves the right to reject or modify advertising portraying disability, age, sex, or sexual orientation. It is the expectation of the Communications Board that the student media will exercise the right fairly and with sensitivity.
Any person believing that any advertising in the student media violates the Board's policy on non-discrimination or the Student Conduct Code should communicate his or her complaints in writing to the Business Manager, (name of student medium), 118 Kerckhoff Hall, Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1641. For assistance with housing discrimination problems, call: UCLA Housing Office (310) 825-4491, or Westside Fair Housing (310) 473-3949.
Statement of Right to Refuse and Revise Advertising
Student Media reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to revise or reject any advertisement or portion thereof. Publication of an advertisement shall not affect its right to revise or reject such advertisements thereafter.
Approved: May 2, 1974
Amended: October 14, 1976
Amended: May 5, 1983
Amended: May 21, 1987
Amended: June 6, 2000
II. Budgets
Budget Authority
Student Media budgets are binding on the Editors-in-Chief, General Managers, and staffs of all Student Media, members and officers of the Board, career employees of the Board charged to the Communications Office and all other persons and organizations connected with the Board or any of its media, unless subsequently changed by Board action.
Any annual budgets or annual budgets changed by Board action are binding as if they were annual budgets. Changed annual budgets shall be submitted to the Operations Committee, before a deadline that the Communications Board establishes, and reviewed and revised by the Committee before being submitted to the Board for its action.
Monthly financial statements shall be furnished to Board members, Editors-in-Chief, and General Managers as soon as they become available at the close of each month's business.
A reasonable number of copies of any budget or any budget request shall be furnished to any interested party. The budgets, financial records and other items of similar nature of the Communications Board are public property, open and available for examination by anyone during the regular working hours of ASUCLA.
Budget Development
As a matter of policy and fiscal prudence budgets must be balanced. All operating budgets in a given fiscal year must be fully budgeted for, and those expenses must be covered by budgeted sales. To the extent permitted by agreements with the University administration, and where otherwise feasible, some net revenue should be budgeted to provide for future major capital expenditures, and to provide adequate financial security against adverse financial results in a given year.
Communications Board policy requires that each student medium cover its controllable expenses. The Board may also require a publication to cover a portion of overhead expenses. Student media which do not cover these expenses for two successive fiscal years are subject to formal evaluation by the Communications Board.
Further Guidelines
In order to foster the development of
student publications which will thrive and continue to develop over time
sound budget development
fair and equitable treatment of the staff
The Communications Board Operations Committee may implement other guidelines for annual budgets.
Student Media budgets are submitted to the Operations Committee no later than 30 days prior to the fiscal year.
The Communications Board annual budget is made available to the Board members twelve (12) days in advance of the Board meetings at which they are expected to vote on it.
Approved: April 17, 1974
Approved: October 17, 1983
Amended: April 5, 1984
Removed from the ByLaws
Amended: February 13, 1986
III. Distribution
The number of copies printed determines, in part, the breadth of the audience reached. Accordingly, the Communications Board establishes a minimum press run to ensure appropriate distribution. The maximum number of copies printed impacts the budget, and because of its significance, is approved by the Communications Board.
The Daily Bruin
The Daily Bruin is published weekdays during the regular school year, except for holidays.
Summer Bruin
Summer Bruin is published one, two or three times a week during the summer academic period.
Newsmagazines
Al-Talib, Fem, Ha'Am, La Gente, Nommo, Pacific Ties, and Ten Percent are published at least once per quarter.
Bruin Life Yearbook
Bruin Life is published annually.
Other publications schedules are determined by the Communications Board.
IV. Photographic expenses
The Communications Board will provide all media staff photographers with insurance for camera equipment. The Board will pay for the cost of the premiums. The insurance will cover the cost of repairing or replacing any camera equipment being used by a Student Media photographer while on assignment. Photographers eligible for this insurance must be paid staff photographers and must have signed the insurance policy forms required. The claimant is responsible for the $250 deductible.
Approved: January 26, 1978; Amended: February 9, 1978; Amended: May 9, 1985
Resale of Photos
Re-sale of Communications Board publication photographs shall be handled by the current Daily Bruin photo editor. The editor is responsible for informing the potential customer of prices and directing the customer to the Daily Bruin cash register to pay for any prints. Once the customer has paid for a print, he/she must furnish the photo editor with the receipt. Then the photo editor is responsible for supplying the customer with the desired print as soon as possible.
Rates will be established by the Media Director each year.
Approved (undated) Amended: May 9, 1985
V. Scholarship Fund
Description: This policy establishes the funding source for scholarships and outlines the general structure of scholarships.
Interest Revenue
Interest revenue generated by Communications Board cash and cash equivalents shall be used to fund scholarships for Student Media participants.
Scholarship Type
There are two classes of scholarships: Permanent and Occasional. Permanent scholarships receive priority in funding. Occasional scholarships, which will be funded every year if possible, will be reduced should interest revenue fail to support program expense.
Scholarship programs and details concerning award amounts and selection of recipients shall be approved by the Communications Board.
The board will review the scholarship program during the annual budget cycle. Interest revenue projections will determine the size and scope of the overall program.
Approved: January 22, 2001
VI. Staff Wages
Description: Wage rates and staffing levels shall be specifically approved by the Communications Board. The Communications Board shall maintain a schedule of all approved classifications, titles, and wage rates.
Staff Stipends
Stipends of Staff Members cannot exceed approved rates. The number of positions may vary within the total amount budgeted for stipends.
All student advertising representatives shall be paid their commissions at Communications Board approved rates on commissioned advertising.
VII. Surplus Revenue
Consideration:
Annual surpluses created by media operations are to be restricted in their use. This policy establishes how the Communications Board shall structure its general fund in which surplus revenue is saved as cash and cash equivalents by indicating how much cash it shall hold in reserve, how much it can commit to development, and how interest revenue generated by the Communications Board general fund shall be used.
The Communications Board general fund of cash and cash equivalents shall be structured according to the following:
Development Funds Cap
This portion of the reserve is available to the Communications Board to use as development capital. All cash and cash equivalents that exceed the Operational Reserve Fund level are available to fund the development of new media and other projects.
This policy does not require the Board to spend these funds, but instead caps the amount of capital available to the Board for these purposes. Expenditure of these funds requires Communications Board approval.
Operational Reserve
This portion of the reserve would fund operations when expense exceeds income or in the event of any emergencies. This Operational Reserve Fund shall be 20% of the annual operational expense budget.
General Fund Interest Policy
Interest from the general fund may be used to fund student scholarships.
© 2014 Communications Board


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Religious parents lose custody of transgender teen for refusing hormone treatment
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A Hamilton County, Ohio, judge took a transgender teen away from her parents on Friday because they refused to allow the 17-year-old to undergo hormone treatments as part of a female-to-male transition.
Judge Sylvia Sieve Hendon awarded custody of the teenager to her grandparents, who will be allowed to make medical decisions for the minor and legally change her name.
The parents objected to the transition procedures because of their religious beliefs and refused to call their daughter by her chosen, male name, court records show.
"It is unfortunate that this case required resolution by the Court as the family would have been best served if this could have been settled within the family after all parties had ample exposure to the reality of the fact that the child truly may be gender-nonconforming and has a legitimate right to pursue life with a different gender identity than the one assigned at birth," Judge Hendon wrote in her decision.
The custody battle lasted more than a year and included interventions by the Hamilton Country Department of Jobs and Family Services and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where the child is being treated.
The parents ultimately agreed to let the minor reside with her grandparents for the remaining months of her adolescence. The child's grandparents will be allowed to pursue transition treatments recommended by the child's doctors after a court-ordered independent psychiatric evaluation.
"Evidence was presented that the parents agree that the child should remain with the maternal grandparents and continue to attend the high school at which the child is excelling both academically and musically," Judge Hendon wrote in the decision. "The child wishes to remain in the care of the grandparents. The grandparents are suitable caregivers and have demonstrated an ability to meet the child's needs."
According to the decision, the legal dispute began in February of 2017 when family services sought temporary custody of the child, alleging parental neglect and abuse.
Those allegations were dropped in subsequent adjudication, but the child was nonetheless placed in the temporary custody of family services and ordered to remain in residence with her grandparents.
Shortly after that, Cincinnati Children's Hospital recommended the 17-year-old undergo hormone therapy at the hospital's Transgender Health Clinic. The parents objected, citing their religious beliefs.
Family services then sought to terminate the temporary custody arrangement and grant full legal custody to the grandparents. Both grandparents filed petitions for full legal custody in December.
The parents initially sought treatment for their daughter's anxiety and depression at the children's hospital, where they were "legitimately surprised and confused" by the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, according to Friday's decision. She had lived as a gender-confirming girl until 2016.
Although they objected to the transition treatments, the parents continued to pay for therapy sessions at the children's hospital.
The parents also said their daughter had threatened to commit suicide if she were forced to return to their home. In medical records admitted during trial, however, the child's doctors said she was not a suicide risk.
Judge Hendon concluded her decision with a plea for legislation that would give the juvenile court a "framework by which it could evaluate a minor petitioner's right to consent to gender therapy."
"What is clear from the testimony presented in this case and the increasing worldwide interest in transgender care is that there is a reasonable expectation that circumstances similar to the one at bar are likely to repeat themselves," she wrote.


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The Modern-Day Epidemic: Loneliness
Bouts of loneliness are inevitable, and I often feel lonely. In the midst of this mindset, I feel like the only person who has ever felt alone. Yet, as solitary as this struggle with loneliness can feel, we all feel it. NPR ran a story on this, "Americans are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Heaviest Burden." While listening to this segment stuck in late night traffic, I realized I rarely feel lonelier than sitting in the car by myself reflecting on my loneliness. To exaggerate this feeling, there are some pretty outstanding numbers from a UCLA study on loneliness in this article. The first being:
54% of 20,000 surveyed, "always or sometimes felt that no one know them well."
This means that 10,800 people surveyed feel misunderstood. By using the phrase "no one," we can assume that people feel misunderstood by even those close to them. What's interesting, though, is we can feel misunderstood whether we actually are or not. I was having a conversation about pedagogy with a friend who practices a seemingly opposing style—I lean toward structure, she leans away. After I was done explaining my view, she said accusingly, "You need to let go. You're obviously frustrated with this, and you're exercising too much control." I was surprised by this since I wasn't frustrated at all. I was also surprised because I think there's a big difference between "structure" and "control"—setting expectations help us find common ground in relationships, especially in classrooms.
Unlike my family, who always misunderstand me. I hadn't been this misunderstood from someone outside my family in a while. My family frequently thinks I'm mad when I'm not; they think I'm going to get mad when I won't. In my family, most paths lead to anger even though I rarely am. But, I don't feel misunderstood like this by my peers often. Usually, though, I don't need a moment of legitimate misunderstanding, like the conversation with my friend above, to feel misunderstood. I'm definitely someone who falls in this percentage closer to "always" than "sometimes."
The next statistic is one I don't necessarily identify with:
56% of those 20,000 either "always or sometimes" felt those around them were "'not necessarily with them.'"
This statistic means that 11,600 people in this group believe the people they're with aren't present, which may point to phone usage and another article by Business Insider, "This is Why Our Phones are Making Us Miserable: Happiness Isn't the Same Thing as Pleasure, and Our Brains Know It." Our phones make us feel good momentarily without any long-lasting effects, and our brains do not confuse short-term pleasure for long-term happiness, which keeps us in a state of dissatisfaction. With the constancy of social media, it's hard to pull away from it—even if we want to—because these "pleasure and reward stressors" end up mirroring addiction. So, unfortunately, the ways to feel distant from someone sitting right next to us are innumerable.
The last statistic crushed me:
Every 2 in 5 studied experienced the following emotions either "sometimes or always":
"'they lack companionship'"
"their 'relationships aren't meaningful'"
"they 'are isolated from others'"
Roughly 8,000 people from the study experienced all or a combination of these three bullet points "sometimes or always." As a "sometimes or always" feeler of these emotions, I'm heartbroken so many others feel these, too. Knowing that young people are impacted with this more than other age groups means this needs our utmost attention. What is our society to do when these numbers grow? At this point, there is a lot of talk, but not a lot of substantial means, to reduce these numbers. So, with the growing adoption of technology in our lives, we can assume these numbers will increase as more and more generations grow up immersed in technology. Then, how can we save our lonely young people from growing up into lonely adults?
We need to invest in mental health by making mindfulness and other mental health strategies a mandatory objective in both health and fitness classes in schools. If we prepared our children to handle the onslaught of emotions we experience growing up instead of leaving them to wade through their emotions alone, many would be less at-risk of feeling like they're drowning. When I was younger, I never remember anyone ever talking about sadness or hurt or anger. I saw these emotions raging through my family, but no one ever addressed them. We just had to deal with it. Even after my dad died, my mom and brother and I would hide our sadness from one another because we didn't know how to handle it. Inevitably, there was no way we could support one another in any real way, which exacerbated my loneliness, and, probably, theirs too.
Ways to combat loneliness feels like an endless search, so I am constantly looking for healthy and healthier coping mechanisms. For this, I'm thankful for the mental health techniques I've learned throughout the years, like hiking and reshaping negative thoughts into positive ones. I'm also thankful for my dog. She keeps me company and forces me to go outside multiple times a day. And, most importantly, she always reminds me someone loves me and needs me, which is often exactly what I need.
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Q: C#: What happens when assigning auto-property? I learned that in C# there is this thing called autoproperty, which ist normally automatically generated by the compiler if i declared a variable like:
public List myList { get; set; }
public class MyClass
{

   private List<int> myList;
   public List<int> MyList
   {
       get
       {
           return this.myList;
       }
       set
       {
           this.myList = value;
       }
   }
}

It lets me access the variable like:
   List<int> a = myInstance.MyList;

So it works like a function, but is called like a normal object.
But what is really assigned on a ? Is there assigned a "deep link" on the object myList or is there assigned something like a "functor" on the get function?
What i mean is, if i work with a, will the get function be called again everytime?
The reason why I'm asking: If I'm using this in a multithreaded case with some locking of the object in the get and set function I don't want to bypass the locking. So if I first assign myList on a and then work with it, it won't be locked anymore? Am I right?

A:
But what is really assigned on a?

The type of a is List<int>, and lists are reference types, so the variable contains a reference to a list. C# doesn't lie to you. The type of the variable is the type of the variable.

it works like a function, but is called like a normal object.

This sentence makes no sense and it indicates to me that you have some misunderstanding of how C# works.  "Objects" are not things that are "called" unless they are delegates. It sounds like you are confusing properties, variables, objects and delegates.  Learn what those things are. It will be difficult to be successful in C# programming if you do not know the correct names of all the parts.
I think what you intended to say is that a property is a member which is accessed like a field, but reads and writes of the property are implemented as calls to member access methods.

What i mean is, if i work with a, will the get function be called again everytime?

You could answer this question for yourself by trying it:
myInstance.MyList = new List<int> { 10, 20, 30 };
List<int> a = myInstance.MyList;
myInstance.MyList = new List<int> { 100, 200, 300 };
Console.WriteLine(a[0]);

If a fetches the property again, it should be 100.  If it does not, it should be 10.  Make a prediction about what will happen, and then try it and see if you were right.

If I'm using this in a multithreaded case with some locking of the object in the get and set function I don't want to bypass the locking. So if I first assign MyList to a and then work with it, it won't be locked anymore? Am I right?

Yes. I will take this opportunity to point out that it is an extremely poor programming practice to make a public interface that exposes an object that must be locked. Better options are:

*

*Do not write multithreaded programs. It's really hard to get them right.

*If you must, do not write multithreaded programs that share memory across threads.

*If you must share memory, use threadsafe collections, always.

A: Properties are just better named List<int> getValue() and setValue(List<int> value) function pair. There are some minor properties:

*

*they appear on reflection

*they can be declared in interfaces/abstract classes

*they are used like a field, except in rare cases (out and ref parameters)

But overall that is all there is to them.
Autoimplement proeprties are the same as manual ones, except the backing field has no name (you could use in your code), so there is 0 chance to accidentally access the backingfield.
One of the most important rules with Properties is to not write the Backing fields, especially in class code. And just lower casing it does not work. I lost track how often I coded so fast, a Upper case did not stick. For reliable naming, append a underscore to the backing field. _MyList and MyList are pretty hard to mix up. MyList and myList are easy to mix up.

A: When you assign myInstance.MyList to a, you call the MyList get Property which copies the reference myList into a. If you then work with a you will be working directly with the List referred to by the private myList. You will only go via the get Property if you actually call it.
This is basically losing the private nature of myList. If you want to force the caller to go via functions which do things like locking then you will have to write functions for the operations you want to allow, like adding to the List, without exposing the actual List to the caller.
There's no need to do this in C# for thread safe operations - you should use the Concurrent Collections which implement these operations for free.


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import _extends from "@babel/runtime/helpers/extends";

function ownKeys(object, enumerableOnly) { var keys = Object.keys(object); if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var symbols = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(object); enumerableOnly && (symbols = symbols.filter(function (sym) { return Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(object, sym).enumerable; })), keys.push.apply(keys, symbols); } return keys; }

function _objectSpread(target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = null != arguments[i] ? arguments[i] : {}; i % 2 ? ownKeys(Object(source), !0).forEach(function (key) { _defineProperty(target, key, source[key]); }) : Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors ? Object.defineProperties(target, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors(source)) : ownKeys(Object(source)).forEach(function (key) { Object.defineProperty(target, key, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(source, key)); }); } return target; }

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { TagList } from './TagList';
const options = [{
  label: 'label1',
  value: 'value1'
}, {
  label: 'label2',
  value: 'value2'
}, {
  label: 'label3',
  value: 'value3'
}, {
  label: 'label11',
  value: 'value11'
}, {
  label: 'label22',
  value: 'value22'
}, {
  label: 'label33',
  value: 'value33'
}, {
  label: 'label111',
  value: 'value111'
}, {
  label: 'label222',
  value: 'value222'
}, {
  label: 'label333',
  value: 'value333'
}];

const Template = args => {
  const [value, setValue] = useState(args.value || []);

  const handleChange = newValue => {
    var _args$onChange;

    setValue(newValue);
    (_args$onChange = args.onChange) === null || _args$onChange === void 0 ? void 0 : _args$onChange.call(args, newValue);
  };

  return React.createElement(TagList, _extends({}, args, {
    value: value,
    onChange: handleChange
  }));
};

export const Basic = Template.bind({});
Basic.args = {
  options,
  value: []
};
export const WithValues = Template.bind({});
WithValues.args = _objectSpread(_objectSpread({}, Basic.args), {}, {
  value: options.map(x => x.value)
});
export default {
  title: 'Filters / Tag List Filter',
  component: TagList,
  argTypes: {
    onChange: {
      action: 'onChange'
    }
  }
};
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As round seventeen draws to a close, its fast becoming apparent who the true contenders are for this year's September Finals series.
Geelong have made their finals hopes all the more precarious, following an airtight defeat by the Crows, 112-97, who accrued an impressive 28 stoppage clearances, 93 marks, eight score involvements, 32 touches with a thumb, 78 touches with a forefinger, sixteen semi-contested disposals, and 12 minutes in possession. The Cats, in turn, were left licking their wounds after another disappointing performance of just 56 tackles, 74 intercept possessions, eleven teeth chipped, 23 Bruce Macavaney impersonations, five golden rings, and a mere two acres on the heatmap.
The next evening, St Kilda eviscerated an already ailing Carlton, blowing the Blues away with their nine uncontested marks, 145 midfield deliveries, 67 underarm handballs and a forward pressure of 31 PSI. This now gives St Kilda an astonishing 1,176 kicks over the past fourteen matches – a telling fact, when compared to Cartlon's 981 handballs over the same period. This match also saw the eating of pies rise by 71%, while the consumption of sausage rolls dropped by 22.4%. The consumption of stadium-brand souvlakis remained at its rate of zero.
In somewhat of an upset, Brisbane brought down the Hawks on the Apple Isle, 60 inside intercept possessions to 58, although the man of the match was undoubtedly Hawthorn's Jaeger O'Meara, with four goals, 27 disposals, six score involvements, nine high tackles, 133 frowns, 19 arm wrestles, 41 flies swatted, sixteen nose hairs pulled, four inoffensive sledges, (three offensive ones) eight touchers, one one-percenter, and 410 metres gained. Tensions were high in this Tasmanian Derby, with the Optus™ SledgeCam recording five "Do you want to start me!?"s, ten "That's not what your mum said"s and two "Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend"s.
Moving through Saturday, Melbourne silenced the Western Bulldogs at home,3.1, 5.6, 8.12, 12.14, 86, to 0.5, 2.6, 4.6, 7.8, 50; and the Suns were initially thought to have defeated Essendon 108-60, but a post-match score review revealed that the Dons had in fact won, 95-51. Meanwhile, in Sydney, GWS pipped the travelling Tigers at the post, 79-77; special mention must go to Giant's star Jeremy Cameron, with an impressive performance of two tickets, five tweets, 410 metres gained walking around the ground, two Great Northern Pale Ales consumed, 32 yawns, and five times mistaken for Canadian comedian, Daniel Levy.
Moving on to Sunday, and West Coast thrashed Collingwood in a shocking 35 point win in Melbourne. Interestingly, West Coast had just 21 stoppage clearances out of their 38% time on in possession during the second quarter by a midfielder while Venus was in retrograde – the first time this has happened since 1994.
A tight, bitterly fought match at Etihad between Sydney and North Melbourne was eventually outwon by the former, 104-98, with an Average Disposal Rate of 378 and a Really Quite Good Disposal Rate of 401. Ziebell scored a hat-trick in the opening quarter, but it was quickly answered by two three-pointers from Ronke, and a golden duck from Lloyd. Franklin was awarded a penalty shot late in the game, in which he scored a match-winning try.
The round finished somewhat anticlimactically in a deflated showdown between Fremantle and Port Adelaide, in which the home team prevailed by nine points. This now brings the Docker's predicted 22 rate up from 4,466 before the match, to 5,001; the previous six matches being 4,581, 4,802, 4,723, 4,934, 3,954, 4,353, stacked against the Power's predicted 22 best, now leaving them on 4,533; and their best predicted 5,323 was 22. In a match that was won or lost on clean ball play, Fremantle was always going to prevail; according to the AFL Match Centre, they scored a contested possession count of 284, compared to Port Adelaide's contested possession count of Telstra's Could Not Load Subscription at this Time.
And that concludes our wrap-up of Round 16. In a season as unpredictable and fluid as this, it can often be difficult to tell the contenders from the pretenders. However, if you study the facts and observe the statistics, you can easily make sense of the chaos – as found in 108% of cases.
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Michael Bisping robbed twice, nearly drowned during Hawaiian vacation
By Adam Guillen Jr. Aug 9, 2017, 9:34am EDT
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What was supposed to be a relaxing and leisurely Hawaiian vacation for Michael Bisping and his family turned into a real nightmare.
According to "The Count," during a recent trip to Maui, his car was broken into on two separate occasions, as thieves got away with some personal belongings.
The current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion took to his "Believe You Me" podcast to spill the juicy details.
"We walked up to the car, and [son] Callum said 'someone smashed the window,'" Bisping said. "I thought he was kidding, 'the little f*ucker,' but lo and behold, [someone] smashed the window," he said as transcribed by MMA Fighting.
"My wife had left her bag in the trunk, [they] smashed the window, grabbed that and all the clothing, of course we were swimming, so I just had a tiny pair of shorts on, my wife was in a bikini. That's kind of how we were dressed. All the clothes, stuff like that, all stolen, including my wallet, everything."
Thank you to the Maui Police Department. After a great day hiking through the Bamboo forest, we eventually got back to the car after getting lost and it almost going dark Only to find that some toe rag had smashed the window of our rental car and stolen my wife's bag with my wallet and our clothes in. The police were great. They came out very quickly, dusted for fingerprints and we went on our way, back to the hotel, all 5 of us, covered in mud and almost naked. Great day, apart from the robbery.
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If that wasn't bad enough, the Bisping clan fell victim to another robbery later on in the day.
"The hire car, we were supposed to take it right back, but you don't want to waste a half a day, taking a f*cking rental car back," Bisping said. "So I've yet to do that. We drive around with a smashed window and we got robbed a second time. My running shoes and stuff like that, I left them in the next day and when we got back the car back, someone had stuck their hand in and taken the running shoes."
An open window is usually an open invitation to the criminal element.
Later in his trip. Bisping says things got even more hectic, as a paddle boarding adventure nearly cost him his life after the weather took a turn for the worse.
"We went out with Kendall Grove and his family," Bisping said. "We went out to the beach, great day. We had kayaks and paddle boards, stuff like that. So we say, let's go out on the paddle boards and go out to that cliff [in the distance]," he recalled.
"The wind's picking up, we better head back," Bisping added. "It's me and my daughter on a paddle board. Balancing on a paddle board is not my forte, let me tell you that. Especially when there's two people on there and the winds are blowing."
To hear Bisping tell it, instead of making progress, he and his daughter were only drifting further and further away.
"We're pretty far out, the cliffs were 200-300 meters away and we're drifting further and further out. I'm like 'holy s*hit,' I don't want to say anything to my daughter but I'm panicking a little bit, you know what I mean?"
Bisping says he then decided to try to pull his daughter -- who was on the board — onto shore, but to no avail. And to make matters worse, two other female swimmers decided to latch on to their board.
"I jump off, my daughter's on the paddle board, we're drifting further and further out to sea," he said. "I'm trying to swim and I'm starting to panic, we're getting nowhere."
Once helped arrived, Bisping, naturally, offered up the room available on the rescue boat to his daughter and the other women. Soon thereafter, "The Count" realized that his pride could've cost him his life.
"Me being a macho d*ckhead, I go 'yeah yeah yeah I'm fine, I'll swim back,' because I assume there's no room for me," Bisping stated. "So they all disappear, go off in the distance and I'm thinking 'I don't f*cking believe this, me, and my ego, rather than just say 'I need help also,' I'm going to drown now."
Eventually, the UFC's 185-pound champion was rescued by lifeguards and the story had a happy ending.
For this guy, as well.


At some point or another, we all have experienced some form of back pain. As I have explained in some of my previous posts, the degree or level of pain that is experienced is subjective to the individual based solely on their own neuro-signature. Simply put, no two people can experience the same quality of pain. That said, from a global perspective on back pain, many who have pain, often feel like they are forever vulnerable to it, once it has happened. This is not the case. In order to #trainthebrain to understand messages received from the low back we must slowly introduce what are called graded exposure exercises to re-educate the brain. When someone initially hurts their back (acute trauma), the typical reaction is to guard and splint the area to avoid any further damage. This may seem like a great survival mechanism, but research has proven that lack of movement to an injured area will prolong the recovery process. The implementation of a backcare plan that consists of controlled, measured movements will assuredly allow you to return to full function in a shorter period of time than weeks of bed rest. Here are 6 simple movements that you should consider doing on a weekly basis to both alleviate and avoid future back issues.
• Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
• As you exhale, contract your abdominal muscles and press the small of your back into the floor.
• Lift your head and shoulders slightly up off the floor as you reach toward your feet with your fingertips.
• Hold for 5 to 10 seconds.
• Relax and return to the starting position.
This simple stretch, sometimes called the cat-cow stretch, gently stretches the muscles of the low back and helps realign the spine and pelvis. It's particularly helpful to ease the pain of a low back strain. Here's how to do it correctly.
• Begin on your hands and knees.
• Slowly round your back, pushing it up toward the ceiling.
• Allow your head to drop forward and curl your pelvis under.
• Hold for 10 seconds. You should feel a gentle stretch in your back.
• Raise your head up and let your pelvis fall forward as your belly reaches down toward the floor.
• Hold the position for 10 seconds, then return to the starting position.
• Repeat about 5 to 10 times.
The prone back extension is a slightly more advanced and intense back stretch. Here's how to safely perform it.
• Begin in a face-down position on the floor.
• Slowly lift your torso up; place your elbows under your shoulders and your hands firmly on the ground. Your lower back will be slightly arched.
• Push into the ground and slowly straighten your elbows to increase the extension in your lower back. Go only as far as comfortable, and stop if you experience any pain. You should feel a comfortable, gentle stretch.
• Hold the position for 15 seconds.
• Repeat 5 to 8 times.
• Begin in a forward lunge position, and drop your left knee to the ground.
• Place your right elbow on the inside of your right knee (not pictured).
• Press your right elbow gently into your right knee and twist your torso to the left.
• Reach your left arm behind you until you feel a gentle stretch in your lower back and right groin.
• Hold the stretch for about 20 to 30 seconds. Release and repeat on the other leg.
You can modify this stretch based on your own anatomy, flexibility, and limitations. Be sure to keep your forward knee over or behind your ankle, not in front of it.
The spinal twist stretch should be done carefully and slowly. In order to avoid overstretching, never force your knees to the ground. Allow your knees to fall only as far as comfortable. Over time you will naturally increase your range of motion in this stretch. Here's how to safely perform the spinal twist stretch.
• Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
• Slowly let your knees fall toward the floor until a gentle stretch is felt in your spine.
• Hold for 10 seconds and return to the starting position.
• Next, allow your knees to slowly fall to the other side until a gentle stretch is felt.
Bringing both knees into the chest is a simple way to release tension in the back and gently stretch the hamstrings. This simple spinal flexion movement is a great way to end a back stretching routine or workout.
• Slowly bring your knees toward your chest and gently grasp your legs just below the kneecap.
• Hold this position for 20 seconds and return to the starting position.
• Rest a few seconds and repeat the stretch several times.


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The Union Minister was speaking to media in Mumbai after BJP launched "Bharat ke Mann ki Baat, Modi ke Saath", a month-long exercise to seek people's suggestions to help it prepare its manifesto for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Terming the allegations as baseless, the Minister said, it will not affect BJP's poll prospects.
Attacking the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal, Piyush Goyal said, there is anarchy like condition in the state. He exuded confidence that Trinamool Congress will be dethroned from power.
On reports of Twitter's CEO and top officials declining to appear before the Parliamentary Committee on IT, Goyal said, the Chairman of Rajya Sabha and the Speaker of Lok Sabha are the authorities who can speak on the matter.
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Twitter officials were summoned over the issue of safeguarding citizens' rights on social media platforms.