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Lunch with Mr. Marketplace
Josh Breinlinger could have easily been a hardware investor. One of his first assignments out of M.I.T., where he graduated with a mechanical engineering degree, was working for a management consulting company, where he was tasked with dreaming up better fryolators for Burger King and helping design armor for army helicopter pilots.
But a college friend convinced Breinlinger to become the fourth employee of the online staffing company oDesk in 2004 (which merged with archrival Elance last year), and he became completely hooked on marketplaces.
In fact, since entering the world of venture capital a few years ago as a venture partner at Sigma West, Breinlinger has made it his mission to seek out the next big marketplace, leading investments in OfferUp, a Seattle-based mobile marketplace that's trying to take on Craiglist; and Contently, a New York startup that's helping companies produce articles that appear on their own websites, in native ad placements, and across social media. (OfferUp will be disclosing the details of a new funding round soon; Contently has raised $12 million, including a $9 million newly closed Series B led by Sigma West.)
Last week, I asked Breinlinger to tell me more about his ideal deal over lunch near Sigma West's San Francisco office, and he offered up both the obvious and unexpected. For example, like every other VC on the planet, Breinlinger looks for high recurring usage. ("It's why Uber is so phenomenal," said Breinlinger, tucking into his lemon grass beef dish. "I use it all the freaking time.")
Also appealing to him: any marketplace that sees irregular usage and that can lock users into a subscription as a result. "Most people want housecleaners to come on a very regular basis and they have a relationship with that provider," he noted. "On the other hand, when it comes to babysitters, it's probably more irregular and as a result, you're never going to have someone on demand, whenever you want."
Breinlinger highlighted the success of Care.com, an online service for hiring nannies and other at-home caregivers that went public a couple of weeks ago. It shares were priced at $17 a piece; today they're trading at $28.
Breinlinger's time at Odesk also helped form some other specific views on what makes marketplaces click. He might not have funded the freelance labor force TaskRabbit, for example, primarily because the "best marketplaces lower costs, and TaskRabbit doesn't meet that criteria for me because I used to be able to pick up my groceries for free [and paying for someone to pick up those items for you] is an added cost."
Breinlinger cares about a startup's Net Promoter Score, a customer satisfaction metric that centers on the question, "On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely would you be to refer X to a friend or colleague?"
And he's exceedingly interested in the value that marketplaces add to relationships after they've made a match between a buyer and a service provider or product. As he told me, "The test we always used at oDesk was, 'Could we find a buyer and a freelancer who have an existing relationship and get them to move their work to the Odesk platform because it would be easier and better for both of them?'"
Breinlinger also said he thinks more marketplaces need to focus on internal feedback systems and a lot less on the "normal" starred feedback systems that are commonplace but wildly imbalanced, in his experience. "There's no incentive for someone to rate someone a one, unless they're really mad for some reason," he noted. Meanwhile "everyone else gets a five."
To learn who is actually good at their job and who isn't, more startups should be building in a lot of internal reviews that include private, anonymous feedback.
"That's how you improve the product. And when you build the system correctly, you can grow as fast as you want."
Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Josh Breinlinger, oDesk, Sigma West


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Trump attends Alabama-LSU game during Louisiana election. How he, other presidents, use sports for politics
WASHINGTON – A prominent politician shows up at a major sports event. Many in the crowd hoot and boo, some delivering shouted insults about his character. The politician just smiles and waves to the fans who are cheering.
That's right: Bill Clinton at the Southern 500 stock car race in 1992.
And Donald Trump at the World Series just two weeks ago, not to mention a long line of other presidents who have mixed politics and sports.
Clinton, then a presidential candidate, laughed off the bombast he encountered that day at the track in Darlington, S.C., reminding reporters of his days as Arkansas governor: "I was booed at an Arkansas football game after I won two-thirds of the state."
Trump's response to his rough treatment at the baseball park: More sporting events with friendlier crowds.
After an appearance last weekend at an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout in New York City, where he heard cheers as well as scattered catcalls, Trump received a loud ovation and few boos at Saturday's college football game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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"Thank you to LSU and Alabama for a great game!" Trump tweeted after the Tigers defeated the Crimson Tide 46-41.
(Trump later tweeted that the "fake news" would "never show" the cheers he received, though they were widely covered.)
Many presidents have enjoyed going to games and welcoming championship teams to the White House, hoping the glow of success will rub off on them.
Trump, in the view of many analysts, has been a little more political with his forays into sports, from attacking football players who knelt at national anthems to promoting his appearance at the LSU game to Bayou State voters.
"The president has made his political career by getting people to think about politics in the terms of sports fandom: Red versus blue, Trump country versus urban centers, winners versus losers, us versus them," said Erin Tarver, author of "The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity."
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Presidents and sports: Politics and culture
Presidents have used sports as a way to identify with the "common man and woman" for as long as there have been sporting events, analysts said. This is especially true when it comes to large communal extravaganzas like major league baseball or football games.
"Sports – especially college football in the South – is a cultural touchstone," said Robert Mann, a mass communications professor at Louisiana State University. "It's a way for politicians to say, 'Hey, I'm just like you.'"
Michael Butterworth, director of the Center for Sports Communication and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, said, "everybody wants to be associated with a winner and presidents have always wanted to do that."
And there's always been an element of politics involved, whether it's the politics of race or the politics of economics.
"It's an illusion to say sports and politics are separate," Butterworth said, though the mix seems more toxic in the Trump era.
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Two years ago, Trump began attacking National Football League players for kneeling during the national anthem. Players and supporters said they knelt to protest racial injustice, and accused Trump of baiting black players in an appeal to his "America First" political base.
"Trump has mobilized sports fandom and its general ethos in his political life long before this," said Tarver, who is an associate professor of philosophy with the Oxford College at Emory University in Atlanta.
Of course, the politics works two ways, Trump supporters said: People booing the president are making political statements of their own.
In the run-up to Saturday's game, Alabama's student government warned its constituents against "disruptive behavior" toward the president. It later amended its statement to affirm "its belief in free speech and the rights of all students to express their opinions."
Meanwhile, critics of the president floated their "Baby Trump" blimp near Bryant-Denny Stadium, named in part for legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
Some football fans in Tuscaloosa seemed to be in the spirit of politics. A member of the crowd who attended ESPN's College GameDay broadcast displayed a sign joking about the impeachment investigation of Trump and LSU's quarterback.
"Joe Burrow is the whistleblower," it said.
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Presidents and sports go way back
In the long relationship between presidents and sports, one president played a key role in making football what it is today: Theodore Roosevelt.
In the days before passing was allowed, football was a game of brutal scrums that produced many deaths. In 1905, Roosevelt warned college administrators they needed to make the game safer or have it face extinction.
That threat led to the creation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which still governs college sports, and approval of the forward pass, the innovation that opened up the game and made it increasingly popular.
John J. Miller, author of "The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football," said it's no surprise that many of Roosevelt's successors would want to get in on the LSU-Alabama game and similar spectacles.
"They're great American events, right?" Miller said. "It's an old thing politicians have always done."
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Roosevelt's immediate successor, William Howard Taft, began the tradition of having the president throw out the opening pitch of the major league baseball season (though Trump has yet to perform this ritual).
Over the years, presidents have sought to link sports to old-school verities like loyalty, patriotism, and family.
After winning the presidency in 1992, Clinton often indulged his passion for college basketball. In 1994, he traveled to Charlotte to watch his home-state Arkansas Razorbacks capture the NCAA title with a win over Duke.
George W. Bush, a former manager general partner of the Texas Rangers, stayed true to baseball during his two terms in office – most famously when he threw out the first pitch at a World Series game in New York City less than two months after 9/11.
Later, Bush jokingly recalled the brotherly advice from New York Yankee star Derek Jeter: "Don't bounce it, they'll boo you." (Bush indeed threw a strike.)
President Barack Obama also took in his share of college basketball games, including ones featuring Oregon State when brother-in-law Craig Robinson coached there. In 2010, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden – and an entourage that included son Hunter Biden – sat in the front row as Georgetown upset Duke.
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Presidents and college football
As unbeaten Alabama and LSU prepare to take the field, Trump won't be the first president to attend a big-time college football contest.
In December of 1969, President Richard Nixon traveled to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to watch Texas play Arkansas in a battle of unbeaten powers. Nixon took along a congressional delegation that included Texas congressman and future president George Herbert Walker Bush.
After Texas rallied to nip Arkansas 15-14, Nixon presented a national championship plaque to the Longhorns – much to the annoyance of also-unbeaten Penn State.
In 1973, with Nixon mired in scandal, Penn State Coach Joe Paterno extracted some rhetorical revenge: "I've wondered how President Nixon could know so little about Watergate in 1973 and so much about college football in 1969."
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This also won't be Trump's first highly publicized college football game.
In January of 2018, Trump attended the championship game between Alabama and Georgia. In December of that year, the Commander-in-Chief appeared at the Army-Navy game, an event he also took in as president-elect in 2016.
A prolific golfer, Trump has also appeared at golf tournaments, including the U.S. Women's Open when it was held at his club in Bedminster, N.J.
When Trump announced he would attend Alabama-LSU, critics joked he was just looking for a crowd that would cheer him. Trump carried both states easily in 2016, and is expected to do so again in 2020.
During a rally Wednesday in Monroe, Louisiana, a state in the midst of a governor's race, Trump made the political connection explicit. He told Louisiana residents to go ahead and vote early so that they could enjoy the football game in peace.
"I said that's the game I want to go to," Trump said. "That will be tremendous. Two great teams. Two great teams."

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Q: Error when updating a custom field in a custom object - Attempt to de-reference a null object Error I am trying to update a field in a custom object and I have stripped back my code to the bare minimum.  I am getting this error on submission when I click the save button.  How do I fix it?

System.NullPointerException: Attempt to de-reference a null object
  Error is in expression '{!save}' in component  in page inputfieldhelloworld: Class.leadershipReadyCon.save: line 24, column 1
Class.leadershipReadyCon.save: line 24, column 1

Here is my APEX Class
public with sharing class leadershipReadyCon {

// After declaring final you can not modify any record.
//public final Leadership_Ready__c myLeadershipReady;

// getter and setter required to access and update record field from page.
public Leadership_Ready__c myLeadershipReady {get;set;}
PageReference ref = new PageReference('&message=hello%20world');

 //Constructor function
public leadershipReadyCon() {
   //Initialize  first to avoid null error.
    Leadership_Ready__c myLeadershipReady  = new Leadership_Ready__c();

    // if there is any record found then it will assign to myLeadershipReady otherwise we have already Initialize it.
     for(Leadership_Ready__c  lr : [SELECT Id, Automated_TP_Status__c FROM Leadership_Ready__c  WHERE Id = :ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('prodId')]){

    }

}// End Constructor function

public PageReference save(){
    update myLeadershipReady;
    ref.setRedirect(true);
    return ref;
}

}

Here is the VFP
<apex:page controller="leadershipReadyCon" tabStyle="Leadership_Ready__c">

<apex:form >

    <apex:pageBlock title="Automated Training Plan Status">
       <!-- You belong to Account Name: <apex:inputField value="{!Leadership_Ready__c.Automated_TP_Status__c}"/>
             Always you your variable not the object as you can see in code below.
           -->
        Your Status: <apex:inputField value="{!myLeadershipReady.Automated_TP_Status__c}" />

        <apex:commandButton action="{!save}" value="save" />
    </apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>

Thank you.

A: You can declared local variable as the same name in the Constructor
Leadership_Ready__c myLeadershipReady  = new Leadership_Ready__c();

That's why during save, class level myLeadershipReady variable is null.
Just corrected the code:
public with sharing class leadershipReadyCon {

    // After declaring final you can not modify any record.
    //public final Leadership_Ready__c myLeadershipReady;

    // getter and setter required to access and update record field from page.
    public Leadership_Ready__c myLeadershipReady {get;set;}
    PageReference ref = new PageReference('&message=hello%20world');

     //Constructor function
    public leadershipReadyCon() {
       //Initialize  first to avoid null error.
        myLeadershipReady  = new Leadership_Ready__c();

        // if there is any record found then it will assign to myLeadershipReady otherwise we have already Initialize it.
         for(Leadership_Ready__c  lr : [SELECT Id, Automated_TP_Status__c
            FROM Leadership_Ready__c
            WHERE Id = :ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('prodId')]){
            myLeadershipReady = lr;
        }

    }// End Constructor function

    public PageReference save(){
        update myLeadershipReady;
        ref.setRedirect(true);
        return ref;
    }

}

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Article by: Richmond Grid - September 11, 2020 September 11, 2020
Jackson Ward Collective, A Hub for Black Entrepreneurship
Jackson Ward has long served as a central hub for creativity, innovation, and collective action. Its residents and business owners define the best of Richmond, showcasing our community's talent and tenacity. And at its core is a long tradition of Black owned entrepreneurship.
On Monday, September 14, Jackson Ward will witness the next phase of its history as The Jackson Ward Collective launches a new incubator designed for Black entrepreneurs to learn, grow and own a business. Rasheeda Creighton, owner of 3Fifty Group; Kelli Lemon, owner of Urban Hang Suite; and Melody Short, co-owner of Richmond Night Market, founded The Jackson Ward Collective in order to re-establish the spirit of Black entrepreneurship and ownership in the City. Leveraging their deep background and expertise as business leaders, the founders will connect Black entrepreneurs, provide professional support and educational resources, drive business growth, build community, and create true equity within the small business landscape throughout the region.
"I'm grateful for the opportunity to be a Founding Member of The Jackson Ward Collective and to be part of the magic these wonderful women are creating for us, by us," says Rabia Kamara, owner of Ruby Scoops, a handcrafted ice cream shop in Richmond this fall. "I am very excited to have finally moved my business to Richmond to open my first brick and mortar. I am elated to not only be back in Richmond a decade after graduating from VCU, but to be Black and in business here is a blessing."
Entrepreneurs, business owners, and other community members interested in connecting Black business owners can join the collective by visiting jacksonwardcollective.com. Member benefits include live Q&A sessions with industry experts, one-on-one mentoring and technical support through community partners, funding and investment opportunities. The collective will support all interested Black-owned businesses in the Richmond region, with a particular emphasis on service-oriented businesses. Owners of businesses offering food services, professional services, and personal care services looking to scale are encouraged to join.
"Funding and programmatic opportunities are often unheard of for many Black entrepreneurs, due in no small part to a lack of access to resources and general unawareness based on individual networks. Through our community partners and grant funding, we will bridge those gaps with direct investments in Black businesses," says Creighton, co-founder of The Jackson Ward Collective.
Community partners and strategic partners joining the Jackson Ward Collective include the Metropolitan Business League, City of Richmond Office of Minority and Business Development, Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity, and Virginia Community Capital.
"The Jackson Ward Collective embodies the vision we have at Virginia Community Capital: to work as partners in building economic vitality in neighborhoods across our footprint. We are proud to be a founding partner and to share our financial expertise with local business owners and emerging entrepreneurs," says Wayne Waldrop, VCC President, Lending & Community Innovation.
Beginning September 14, The Jackson Ward Collective will offer a promotional launch rate of $9.99 a month or $99 a year within the first 30 days of its launch. New members will participate in a welcome call, participate in a resource assessment, and receive a guide to assist in setting up their profile.
To learn more about The Jackson Ward Collective or become a member, sponsor, or partner, contact jacksonwardcollective@gmail.com or call 212-518-4776.
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Last year, we expanded our Social Fire Media team by two people! Both recent college graduates, Katie and Kate have had the opportunity to get their feet wet as digital marketing associates! Katie graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English, with a Focus in Professional and Media Writing in May. Kate graduated from Miami University in Ohio with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing in June.
When you work as hard as we do, you have to play hard too! In 2018, Social Fire Media implemented monthly Fun Days – where we get the chance to step back from work and bond together as a team. These days included out-smarting escape rooms, getting creative with hilarious games, Dave & Buster's excursions, delicious panini days, and more! We're always posting great pictures of our Fun Days on our Facebook page, so be sure to follow us!
The holidays are all about celebrating with friends and family! This year, we had our traditional holiday party at Yard House in King of Prussia. Nick presented the famous SFMmy's, where each member of the team was given an award (and some fantastic SFM #swag).
We also created some new traditions! Kate decorated an ornament for each team member and made our Christmas tree look absolutely fabulous. We rocked some very ugly sweaters and went head-to-head in an all-out gingerbread building extravaganza!
It's our goal to be the experts on everything at Social Fire Media. In 2018, we stepped up to take this initiative further. All members of our team are being cross-trained in areas of service like Google Ads and Facebook Advertising. We are committed to continually growing, learning, and being better every single day!
Looking ahead to the new year, we are committed to expanding our creativity! We are implementing new design software (like InVision Studio and Sketch) that will make tasks such as designing websites smoother. We're always looking for ways to hone our skills as designers.
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Q: HTML/CSS Button Hover shifting everything else away? If I hover over my buttons they shift(?) other elements.
as you can see I already tried to compensate the +4 pixels from the border by subtracting them from the height and the width but the problem remains.
I don't want this. I want it to change appearance without any shifting.
Here a video to visualize my problem
Thank you in advance :)
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.nav-logo-btn {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: white;
  background-color: var(--SoftRed);
  padding: 10px 32px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-weight: 500;
  font-family: "Rubik";
  font-size: 12px;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
}

.nav-logo-btn:hover {
  color: var(--SoftRed);
  background-color: white;
  border: solid 2px;
  padding: 8px 30px;
  transition: all 0.3s;
}

Chrome/Firefox Buttons:
.btn-1, .btn-2 {
  display: inline-block;
  text-decoration: none;
  border-radius: 5px;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 48px;
  height: 48px;
  width: 165px;
  font-size: 14px;
  font-weight: 500;
  transition: all 0.2s;
  position: relative;
}

.btn-1:hover, .btn-2:hover {
  background-color: white;
  border: solid 2px;
  height: 44px;
  width: 161px;
}

.btn-1 {
  background-color: var(--SoftBlue);
  color: white;

}

.btn-2 {
  background-color: #f7f7f7;
  color: #606068;
  box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  left: 50px;
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.btn-1:hover {
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}

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A: Instead of adding 2px border on hover, use box-shadow. It doesn't affect the physical size of elements.
.btn-1:hover, .btn-2:hover {
  background-color: white;
  box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 2px var(--SoftBlue);
  height: 44px;
  width: 161px;
}

A: You should add backface-visibility: hidden; on your header class and it will work

A: Another easy option is to simply change the color of the border on hover instead of adding a border that doesn't exist most of the time.
Consider:

.button {
  display:block;
  float: left;
  margin: 20px;
  background: #dadada;
  padding: 10px 15px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  font-size: 12px;
  font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  cursor:pointer;
  transition: all 0.25s ease;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

.jumpy:hover {
  border: 4px solid blue;
}

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}

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The price of oil has been locked in a seesaw for a month. Since West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude moved above the $50/barrel (b) level on January 9 (which marked a roughly $10 increase from the recent Christmas Eve 2018 market low), it has gone essentially nowhere. It has settled at more than $55/b once; it then fell back Thursday to a level only 28 cents more than where it settled on January 9 and on Friday settled at $52.72, a 2.39% decline for the week. Markets are dealing with a variety of news, both bullish and bearish, on what seems like alternating days. Besides being impacted by general macroeconomic trends – for example, a 1.9% decline Thursday was attributed mostly to a stock market slide that in turn was caused by concern over U.S.-China trade talk delays – oil markets just in the last week have been impacted by a series of offsetting bullish and bearish news items.
Going back to the end of last week, three media agencies reported significant cuts in OPEC output, on either side of 900,000 barrels per day (b/d). That is more than the 800,000 b/d that OPEC agreed to cut beginning in January, a number it agreed to at the group's December meeting. But the 800,000 b/d was coming off a higher base of the group's October output so there is still more to go. But after the cuts, the various agencies estimated that OPEC is about 170,000 b/d or so away from full implementation of the 800,000 b/d targeted reduction.
Venezuela is shaping up to be giving more support to OPEC's efforts than was likely anticipated without having had any plans to do so. It had no cut assigned to it, lumped in with Libya and Iran as the three countries that have so many issues (sanctions, political turmoil) that requesting a cut seemed pointless. But in the past week, there have been a slew of reports regarding Venezuela that are indicating the country could see its output drop 200,000 b/d to 300,000 b/d in a fairly short period, off a January level of 1.1 million b/d, because it is not able to easily find outlets to replace the U.S. buyers it has lost as a result of sanctions against its state oil company PDVSA. Tankers have been backing up in the U.S. Gulf and they've been backing up in Venezuela. (With several different tanker tracking software programs universally used for tankers, those sorts of backups are now easy to track.) The loss of diluent supplies to Venezuela is viewed as a critical loss. Venezuelan crude is "heavy" – some of its grades are more akin to tar than oil – and the light diluent from the U.S. is needed to allow it to move. Those exports are stopping as a result of the sanctions against PDVSA, and with the U.S. so geographically close as well as having plentiful supplies of diluent as a result of the shale boom, replacing it is going to prove difficult.
The program in the Canadian province of Alberta to rein in its output has been reduced by 75,000 b/d off its 350,000 b/d initial cut and is likely to end soon, according to Suncor CEO Steve Williams. The price for heavy oil coming out of Canada relative to benchmark WTI has risen significantly – boosted most recently by cuts in OPEC output and the Venezuelan crisis – and Williams told Bloomberg that the problem now is that the price of Canadian heavy crude is so high that it's becoming uncompetitive.
U.S. distillate inventories are beginning to tighten. In the latest weekly U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) report, the inventory of distillate stocks was reported at 31 days, well below the 10-year average of approximately 37 days for the first week of February. Also, in that same weekly EIA report, gasoline consumption in the U.S. (as measured by its four-week average) was reported as the highest since 2007. This caused prices to spike on Wednesday of this past week. But traders must have begun looking at the bearish side of the ledger because prices came right back down a day later, wiping out almost the entire gain. And when they looked at that side of the ledger, they found.
When OPEC announced its big cut in December, a group of non-OPEC countries led by Russia was going to lend its support with 400,000 b/d of its own cuts. But Russia is reported to have reduced its output by just 42,000 b/d since the start of the year. The expectation was that Russian cuts would be 50,000 b/d per month, which is still relatively minor in a country that produces about 11.4 million b/d. And Russia couldn't even do that.
The dollar is stronger. A stronger greenback generally translates into lower commodity prices, since commodity prices are generally priced against the dollar in most of the world.
—As OPEC continues to reduce its output, legislation designed to punish the organization sailed through a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. What's different this time around – it's gotten through some of the legislative process in prior years – is that the President earlier expressed his support of such legislation. The House Judiciary Committee, on a voice vote, approved the bill known as NOPEC, the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act. It would allow U.S. antitrust law to be brought against OPEC, and its members can be sued. Although Donald Trump in his pre-presidency and campaign days expressed support for such an action, he's now the President who already has shown a significant amount of backing for Saudi Arabia in the wake of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Would he support this legislation now, which Saudi Arabia has opposed vociferously in the past? So far, it isn't scheduled for a vote by the full House much less the Senate.


How does Breathwork help me heal?
To start with, most of us quit breathing the natural way – deeply, from the diaphragm – a long time ago. We breathe shallowly, from the top of the lungs, which stresses the brain because it needs more oxygen than it's getting.
That's why deep breathing calms you down right away: your brain is getting the amount of oxygen it needs to do its job effectively.
But there is more to Breathwork than that.
The special technique used in a Breathwork session will get you out of the analytical left brain and into the right brain, where it is easier to access your subconscious mind and the limiting core beliefs that live there.
As you continue to breathe deeply in this special way, the breath will take you where you need to go to heal your life, your relationships, your finances, your health, and so much more.
Can Breathwork remove toxic substances from my body?
Yes. If you are a former smoker, your lungs still hold nicotine residue. If you have had surgery, even if it was years ago, the anesthetic still lingers in your system.
With the drawing of a deep breath, you are taking in prana, a Sanskrit term for life-force energy, which carries a very high, fine-tuned vibration.
Anything of a lower or denser vibration that you're holding in your body is forced out.
With Breathwork, under the guidance of a trained professional, you can clear the toxic energy caused by prescription and non-prescription drugs, anesthesia, antibiotics, alcohol, anti-depressants, Novocain, marijuana, and so on.
What else can Breathwork clear out?
Breathwork can release physical and emotional trauma experienced throughout your life, along with the negative beliefs that were developed from them – even when you were an infant. As scientific studies have shown, we retain at a cellular level every experience in our lives.
In a Breathwork session, scenes may surface from your past and early childhood that you have forgotten or blocked out because of the pain surrounding them – which is one of the reasons you should only do Breathwork with a trained professional who can help you handle whatever comes up.
Just so you know – buried emotions and memories will only surface when you are emotionally and spiritually ready to deal with them.
At some point while doing Breathwork sessions, you will even remember your birth. People don't typically release their birth memory on the first session, but once in a while this will happen. Or it may be your hundredth session before you release it; sooner or later everyone does. The birth memory is imprinted on a baby's brain, like a hologram.
How does remembering my birth help me?
For most of us, our birth felt traumatic – even life-threatening. That first breath may have been frightening, burning and painful, as the cells in your little baby lungs expanded for the first time to take in air.
"I am abandoned," caused by being separated from Mother too quickly – which can lead to a lifelong pattern of relationships in which you are abandoned, or you abandon others before they can abandon you.
"There is not enough," caused by that first struggle for breath. This can lead to a scarcity mentality that ensures you never have – or feel like you never have, which is just as devastating – enough air, enough choices, enough freedom, enough love, enough money, or enough accomplishments to feel good about yourself.
"People hurt me," if the doctors and nurses were rough. This can lead to a lifelong pattern of abusive relationships, both personally and professionally.
In Breathwork, when you see where your limiting beliefs originated, they begin to spontaneously release and get replaced by the highest truth and wisdom when this process is witnessed by a qualified professional.
This is why even one Breathwork session can be life-changing, because the insights you gain start to create positive changes in every area of your life. As your inner world transforms, your outer world shifts to reflect those changes.
Do all my limiting beliefs come from my birth experience?
No. You form new beliefs as you grow up and experience new people, events and circumstances. As your child-brain develops, it tries to explain to itself why these experiences happened and what they mean about you.
There's just one problem: as a child, you were unable to make rational sense of your experiences until the right and left brain separated. That happened around the age 7 or 8 – what specialists call the Age of Reason.
Yet, your child-brain persisted in forming certain beliefs based on your experiences. If those beliefs felt too painful, they got pushed into the subconscious mind.
Safely hidden beneath your conscious awareness, these beliefs can continue to run your life as an adult until they are seen or sensed; then healed, released, and replaced by a more accurate and compassionate understanding about yourself and your life.
Breathwork is one of the most effective healing techniques I've found for identifying and healing the hidden beliefs and suppressed emotions that sabotage your capacity for abundance, as well as your ability to create and maintain fulfilling relationships.
How does suppressed emotion mess up my life?
Many times, parents and other authority figures, like teachers, don't want children to express feelings because it puts them in touch with their own pain – which their parents taught them to suppress.
As a child, you may have been punished, or someone threatened to take away their love, if you expressed emotions that made an adult uncomfortable – so you made your feelings wrong and suppressed them.
These suppressed feeling never go away. They stay locked in your body at a cellular level and create blocks of energy that cut off life-force, causing stress and, eventually, disease.
As an adult, if you suppress your emotions, they either get stored in your cells (to make trouble later) or they explode out of you – often at an inopportune moment with the wrong person, like taking out your frustration with your partner on your boss or your child.
It doesn't have to be like that. You can attain Emotional Mastery, which empowers you to use your emotional energy to create satisfying relationships, financial security, fulfilling work, excellent health and much more.
Does a Breathwork session ever bring up anything good?
Yes! Laughter, joy, lightness and other wonderful emotions get suppressed along with the less pleasant ones.
These will surface in your Breathwork session as well. You may never have known how good you can feel until you get in touch with those locked-away emotions of joy and happiness that you may have forgotten you could feel.
Laughter in a Breathwork session is also a sign of integration: you may suddenly see how silly a pattern or belief may be and start giggling, or even break into outright hilarity. Laughter is one of the highest forms of healing.
The highest form of healing, of course, is Love – another great feeling you may have lost touch with along the way.
In addition, using Breathwork, you'll be able to make sense of what happened in your life and your feelings about them. This supports you in forming more rational beliefs about your birth and other experiences that you could not understand when you were young.
With Breathwork done by a trained professional, it is possible to move through in a matter of months, what it would take years to work through otherwise if you tried to do it on your own.
The work is cumulative. With every session you do, the healing goes deeper. This can bring you peace of mind as you have never experienced it before.
What can I expect if I do a series of Breathwork sessions?
Bonus: even if you never say a word about the work we're doing to anyone, often the people around you will feel the effects, so your relationships may improve. Whenever you're healed, you're never healed alone.
Typically, around your twelfth session, you will experience yourself going to an even deeper level with these same things. And your healing and growth in consciousness deepens from there.
As you continue to heal yourself, you may find that you're able to allow a certain level of abundance in your life.
As some point, you may seem to plateau out for a while.
Once you integrate this new level of being, your spirit will want more growth, and you'll reach for another level in our work together.
I believe Emotional Mastery is a lifelong process. We'll be working through "stuff" as long as we live.
I find it interesting when I meet someone who says or thinks they've "arrived." This usually means they've dropped back into their egos and are stuck, and they don't realize it.
But when you continue to heal, grow and expand in consciousness, life will continue to get easier and more beautiful.
The good times seem to last longer and come more often, and the lows won't last as long or come as often. The lows are higher than the highs used to be.
You will become more present to each moment of your life.
You will experience a sense of balance and security as you come to trust the process, God and most of all yourself.
You can truly become a Master of your life.
Breathwork is something I plan to use for the rest of my life as a tool for clearing myself physically, mentally, energetically, and emotionally.
I know, from decades of using this process of regeneration, that it will always connect me to the Divine and help me remember my true Self, which is Love – just like you.


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Roddy Darragon (* 31. August 1983 in Annecy) ist ein französischer Skilangläufer.

Darragon startete am 18. Januar 2004 in Nové Město erstmals im Weltcup und erreichte den 30. Platz. Die bisher  beste Weltcupplatzierung erreichte er mit einem vierten Platz ebenfalls in Nove Mesto am 16. Januar 2005. Bei seiner bisher einzigen Weltmeisterschaftsteilnahme 2005 in Oberstdorf erreichte er im Sprint den 35. Platz. Sein größter Erfolg war die Silbermedaille im Sprint (Freistil) bei den Olympischen Winterspielen 2006 in Turin, die zudem die erste olympische Medaille für Frankreich im Skilanglauf war. Bei der nordischen Skiweltmeisterschaft 2007 in Sapporo errang er zusammen mit Cyril Miranda den elften Platz im Teamsprint. Den 38. Platz im Sprint erreichte er bei der nordischen Skiweltmeisterschaft 2009 in Liberec. Bei den Olympischen Winterspielen 2010 in Vancouver belegte er den 31. Platz im Sprint.

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Puri already seems light years ago.
I wanted to thank you and Adyasha for having us at the Z Hotel this time. It always has been a good place for me to write. I am still working on The Man with the Golden Mind, which will be out worldwide in February 2014. Your contribution will be duly noted.
You asked me what I thought about the changes at the hotel.
Now, with the distance of a month or two, here's my two Baht worth.
The restoration has brought both good and bad changes. The Z is obviously very much part of your life and so perhaps it changes along with its owner, as it must. As I grow older, I also appreciate modern bathrooms. I understand your notion that refurbishment was necessary. So, you had to do something and you did most of it well. It is still a beautiful hotel.
The flipside of this is the hike in the room price which is, given your investment, not unreasonable. But of course it changes the Z in the sense that guests who happily spend the new rates are likely to be different from the ones who paid the old room rates. Once again, this is not a criticism as such. Everything must change. The Z will perhaps become more of a hotel and less the windswept romantic film set, the palace of crows and salt and strange people lurking in the hallways, the place where anything really is possible, the place you created in the first place.
Once again, thanks for your hospitality, to you and your family as well as all the staff at the Z.
When in Bangkok next, be sure to drop a line beforehand.


In vitro studies of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) and PI3K inhibitors demonstrate synergy in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Investigators thereby initiated a phase 1/1b clinical trial to evaluate the combination of ibrutinib (BTK inhibitor) and buparlisib (pan-PI3K inhibitor) in relapsed/refractory (RR) NHL.
Eligible patients had RR diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL), or follicular lymphoma (FL) with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status ≤2, and adequate organ function. Oral ibrutinib and buparlisib were given daily on a 28-day cycle. Dose reductions were permitted after cycle 1. Tumor response was examined and based on Lugano Classification; however, complete response (CR) required both positron emission tomography resolution and at least partial response (PR) by computed tomography.
Phase 1 dose escalation was completed with 16 evaluable patients: 7 patients with DLBCL, 6 patients with MCL, and 3 patients with FL. Of the 7 patients with DLBCL, 1 had CR and 1 had stable disease. In the 3 patients with FL, all had stable disease. In the 6 patients with MCL, 4 had CR and 2 had PR. Ten patients discontinued treatment for progression (5 patients with DLBCL, 2 patients with MCL, and 3 patients with FL).
In regard to safety, 50% of patients had a ≥grade 3 related adverse event. Most common related adverse events were hyperglycemia, diarrhea, elevation of total bilirubin, and thrombocytopenia. Cytomegalovirus reactivation was also observed in 4 patients but none required therapy. Neurologic adverse events, including mood changes, depression, anxiety, anemia, and confusion, were observed in 7 patients.
The combination of ibrutinib and buparlisib, while generally well-tolerated, has the predicted toxicities of both BTK and PI3K inhibitors. Particularly, promising efficacy is observed in MCL. The recommended phase 2 dose is ibrutinib 560 mg and buparlisib 100 mg, although dose reductions for tolerability may be necessary for long-term oral therapies and may influence the recommended phase 2 dose.
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The 2019 Black Apple Awards
UCA announces creation of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
byJulia Trupp
WORDS / THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
The University of Central Arkansas has established and launched the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS).
The new college brings together the departments of the colleges of Liberal Arts (English; History; Philosophy and Religion; Political Science; Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology; and Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures) and Fine Arts and Communication (Art and Design; Music; Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing; and the School of Communication).
"This exciting collaboration will result in new opportunities for greater student and faculty success, as well as increased administrative efficiencies and long-term sustainability," said Executive Vice President and Provost Patricia S. Poulter. "Bringing these two highly compatible colleges together will create a more unified approach to the arts and humanities at UCA and will increase opportunities for collaboration between different programs and among students and faculty."
Plans for the new college were first announced to faculty and staff in October 2019, and the new college became effective July 1, 2020. Tom Williams, who prior to July 1 served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts, has been appointed dean of CAHSS. Gayle Seymour, former associate dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication, now serves as associate dean of CAHSS.
All departments and schools are planned to remain intact, and the leadership of these academic units will continue to work together to ensure a seamless transition for UCA students, faculty and staff.
"It's not uncommon to see a college comprised of such departments as these," said Williams. "However, after working with the leadership, faculty and students, I see a unique opportunity to do more than just come together as a college. I see an opportunity to collaborate and challenge ourselves to revitalize what we do in our classrooms and studios and creative production scholarship, to really seize the moment and offer a path forward that highlights the strengths of individual disciplines while linking them together in innovative and useful ways."
With this change, UCA is now home to five colleges — the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; the College of Business; the College of Education; the College of Health and Behavioral Sciences; and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics — along with the Graduate School and the Schedler Honors College.
Fenix Gallery to reopen this month, will follow health and safety guidelines
Walton Arts Center postpones large-scale programming until January 2021, launches Ghost Light Recovery Fund to help cover expenses
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http://juliamtrupp.wordpress.com
When she isn't doing Boss Lady stuff with The Idle Class, you can find Julia Trupp soaking up the arts around Northwest Arkansas, trying out different local coffee shops, doing improv comedy, or indulging in her favorite meal of the day, brunch. Julia graduated from the University of Arkansas with a bachelor's degree in English and journalism and has been telling stories her whole life.
Arkansas Cinema Society taps Oscar-winning producer Evan Hayes for Board
Playing It By Ear: Central AR's underground musicians boldly weather the pandemic
TheatreSquared's "The Half-Life of Marie Curie" extends through mid-January


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Rajasthan: Rescue operation on to save 6-yr-old girl trapped in borewell
TNN | May 20, 2019, 11.02 PM IST
JAIPUR: Rescue work is in progress in Melana village of Baori block of Jodhpur where a six-year-old girl fell into a nearly 350-feet-deep borewell on Monday evening.
The incident happened at around 6.30pm when the girl accidentally fell into the borewell. The villagers told the rescue teams that repair work of the borewell was undergoing when the incident happened.
A team of doctors was called at the spot to provide support to the girl trapped inside the borewell. "We have arranged a pipe, which is more than 300-feet long and thrown it in the borewell. The pipe is connected to oxygen cylinders placed in an ambulance. We are ensuring that the girl should get proper oxygen supply, while disaster relief department teams are making efforts to rescue her," said Dr Balwant Manda, chief medical health officer (CMHO), Jodhpur.
However, the rescue team is slightly worried about health of the girl. "Initially, we were hearing sounds of cry of the girl for the past one hour but now we are not hearing sounds of her cry," said an official involved in rescue work of the girl.
Besides, the rescue team is trying to find out how deep in the borewell the girl is trapped. They are using earth movers to dig a parallel hole to reach to the trapped girl.


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The overarching objective of this policy paper is to provide recommendations to national and local governments on how to address informality in cities. The policy paper focuses on the two main features of urban informality; the informal settlements and the informal sector.
This policy recommendation focuses on the two main features of urban informality: the informal settlements that provide shelter, and the informal sector that provides most employment. Informal settlements arise for a variety of reasons, including rapid urban growth, under- resourced local governments, weak governance, and poor urban policies. While different regions have different challenges, overall the outcomes are similar: spatially inefficient cities , high levels of socio-economic inequality, arising from limited access to land, housing, and basic municipal infrastructure and services. Similarly, the informal economic sector arises from a lack of employment opportunities in the formal sector, prejudice and social exclusion and a misalignment between workforce skills and opportunities.
Informality is a key contributor to successful emerging economies while on the other hand it drives socio-spatial inequality. Understanding and addressing the dynamics of informality is therefore strategic. This policy paper offers local governments a road map towards new urban partnerships between city governments, private sector and citizens, providing the basis for city - wide solutions to static problems.
Informality is well acknowledged at the global level particularly by the post-2015 Global Agendas, especially the 2030 Agenda, Paris Climate Agreement, and the New Urban Agenda. The New Urban Agenda takes cognisance of the role played by the informal settlements and informal livelihoods in cities, basically because the two are interrelated and together encompass vulnerable communities whose future will determine whether member states meet their pledge to "leave no one behind and, indeed, leave no place behind.
However, in the time since these global agendas were adopted, progress has been modest, at best. The Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing-2018, is critical of the fact that the vulnerable continue to be pushed into the informal settlements without secure tenure or basic services, with vulnerable conditions exacerbated by climate change-related disasters. The report notes that "these conditions are unsustainable and amount to violations of multiple human rights."
This position underscores the commitments member states made in the New Urban Agenda through recognition of inclusivity and collective decision making in urban governance as the entry point towards resilient and sustainable human settlements. The agenda advocates for human settlements that fulfil their social function, including the social and ecological function of land, are inclusive and ensure equal rights for women.
Even though informal settlements are typically occupied by the poorest segments of the population, they also house essential service workers such as police, firefighters, teachers, nurses and government workers. Affordability is increasingly an issue not just for the low income but also for the middle class. According to ILO Recommendation 204, the majority of these people are pushed into the informal economy "not by choice but as a consequence of a lack of better opportunities in the formal economy and in the absence of other means of livelihood." The recommendation calls for the gradual transition of workers and economic units from the informal to the formal economy, the protection of existing livelihoods, the creation of enterprises and decent jobs in the formal economy, and the prevention of the in- formalization of formal jobs.
The Paris Agreement on climate change also recognizes the need for "a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs" in order to address the challenges of climate change. The agreement further notes that the actions taken to address climate change must consider human rights particularly those of the "people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, empowerment of women and intergenerational equity." Consequently, the most vulnerable must be shielded from adverse effects of climate change.
Finally, the 2030 agenda has addressed the primary causes of socio-spatial and economic inequality through sustainable development goal one which aims to eradicate extreme poverty, ensure appropriate social protection systems, equal rights to economic resources and basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property. The goal also aims to "build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters." Other SDGs addressing informality include; SDG eight on decent work and economic growth, SDG 10 on reduced inequality and SDG 11 on adequate, safe and affordable housing. These goals intend to safeguard and enhance the wellbeing of the vulnerable.
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GADM database of Global Administrative Areas, http://www.gadm.org/, Version 1 Accessed May 2012.
Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul A. Raschky, Michael J. Tierney (2016). Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance. AidData Working Paper 3, aiddata.org.
This dataset was constructed using financial support from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP150100061 ).
This table contains information about mine location (total and by commodity) for 5,835 African ADM2 units.
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Men's soccer capped an incredible 2017 season by clinching a Sweet Sixteen spot in the NCAA Tournament. Going into the game undefeated and ranked 12th in the nation, the Rangers fell in a 1–0 heartbreaker to Brandeis in the 52nd minute. It was the Rangers' third Sweet Sixteen appearance in program history and the first since 2003.
HALL OF FAME > Five Ranger standouts—including a five-time Coach of the Year—have joined the Drew Athletic Hall of Fame. Men's lacrosse coach Tom Leanos was honored for a 30-year run that includes 255 wins—putting him among the Top 20 winningest NCAA coaches. Inducted alongside him were Courtney Cunningham C'07 (women's basketball/lacrosse), Rick Freedman C'80 (men's basketball), Melissa Smeltzer-Kraft C'07 (women's basketball/softball) and Michael Woessner C'04 (men's soccer).
GOLF > Drew's newest varsity sport—golf— teed up an auspicious start to its inaugural year. Both the men's and women's teams had won a tournament and six athletes had earned Landmark Conference Golfer of the Week titles at the close of the fall schedule.
WOMEN'S SOCCER > Prior to its October 7 game against Juniata, the women's soccer team held a cancer awareness fundraiser, #RainbowForCeleste. The event, which included a number of soccerthemed contests, was held in honor of Celeste Bonura C'05, a former Drew soccer player who is currently battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.


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