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Jackson's Celebrity Used to Change Lives
June 29, 2011 by Michael R. Harris
As a 19-year-old boy with a troubled background, DeSean Jackson came on a San Quentin tour and was shaken to his roots. Now he's a famous 24-year-old pro football player aiming to help kids turn their lives around the way he did.
Five years ago he was a teen in the S.Q.U.I.R.E.S. group who met with San Quentin inmates and saw what wasted lives look like, and he wanted a different future.
At Jackson's latest San Quentin visit, he was the focus of an interview arranged by Leila Steinberg, founder of AIMS, which works with prison inmates, LA juveniles/ gangs and a long-standing supporter of the San Quentin's No More Tears and Real Choices programs. Moderator was Lonnie Morris of the San Quentin Television/Media Center, headed by Larry Schneider. The visitors also met with San Quentin's acting warden, Mike Martel, who is an avid sports fan and supports their work.
Now a running back for the Philadelphia Eagles, Jackson said he reached out to Steinberg because she works with youth and juvenile halls. He said he wants to use his celebrity status to touch lives.
Steinberg met DeSean, then his older brother, former Kansas City Chief Byron Jackson, who helped train his younger brother. "We started making plans and the next thing I knew DeSean calls and says, 'My boy Donovan Warren from the Pittsburgh Steelers wanted to come along and help," Steinberg said.
The day before Steinberg took Warren and the Jackson brothers to McClymonds High School in Oakland.
Warren said: "I wanted to come and connect and 'get on you guys level,' and see what it's about and I'm just happy to be here."
Jackson commented: "I was born and raised in south-central L.A. and I overcame a lot of adversity in my life. Actually I saw two choices I could go over the hurdle or take the easy way and go under it. I did things like stealing and fighting as a kid; I've been shot at, and was a gang-banger. But from all of that I was able to see all the negative things and say I don't want to do that, I want to do something positive. I wanted to be a person who did things for his family."
DIED OF CANCER
Byron is a former NFL player and currently is a film documentarian. "I grew up in D.C.; my dad lived in L.A. He wanted to support me, because he didn't have that support growing up. My dad grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, blue-collar family; he worked in steel mills and drove streetcars. He didn't have the support to pursue sports, which he really loved. Our father died two years ago from pancreatic cancer," he said.
"I went to Kansas City as a developmental player. After playing with Kansas City I got into TV and started working with DeSean and filming him. I was documenting everything he did, "my dad had big visions; he had a lot of dreams of his kids making it to the highest level. And actually being able to see that and capture it was amazing. We are putting together a documentary about this journey. It's quite an amazing journey, it's a journey filled with desire, it's a journey filled with vision, it's a journey filled with dreams…and then seeing DeSean as a little kid and training him when he was little. He had me, he had a team of people around him…they also added that needed support to DeSean," Byron said.
He told his brother, "You're going to affect way more people off the football field and inspire people, you're going to have a voice to talk to people. My father actually got to see his dreams happen."
Steinberg stated "One of the things with DeSean and why we started this journey together, why I wanted him to meet and connect with No More Tears and Real Choices is sometimes we wonder if we really make a difference or if it matters? So when we were in Oakland yesterday we were talking to the kids at McClymonds High School which has a 70 percent dropout rate which sadly, corresponds with the 70 percent recidivism rates in California prisons.
Visiting McClymonds High School, she asked the kids: "Did it make a difference that DeSean actually funded this trip for all of us to come and did it have an effect? The kids were like it truly makes a difference for them to know he was just like them. And that he was as small as he is; they couldn't believe it and that DeSean is as fast as he is."
Warren told the San Quentin group about a boy he knew in high school, a great football player being offered college scholarships. He was a gang member who was involved in a drive-by shooting and wound up in prison for 50 years to life for murder. His brother just got drafted by the Tennessee Titans.
"We're dealing with a generation of babies that were born not wanted, many born addicted. So we're in an unparalleled crisis," Steinberg said.
THEY DON'T WORK
Steinberg said, "I believe that programs such as Scared Straight don't work because kids don't listen to Scared Straight, but when you have Real Choices or when you have a process where someone decides to make the choice, it's really, really different than thinking you're scaring someone into submission."
Discussing his San Quentin visit as a teen, DeSean said, "I have come across a lot of intelligent people and… just because you're in blue I don't put you guys in a box, I'm not looking at you as criminals. You might be in prison, but I know there's something unique about every one of you men in here. And that's what I realize I didn't come here five years ago and leave thinking, 'Man, they were a bad group of guys.' I was really impressed with the intelligence and how smart you guys were."
He also said, "I think you really have to weigh your options. Do you want to be in jail or dead or do you want to be successful and be able to take care of your family? That's something the kids have to ask themselves and when you talk to these kids, you have to weigh out their options to them. You have to let them know this is what you're doing; this is where you're going to end up."
Regarding his main point to kids, DeSean said: "I just want kids to look at me and be able to see that I made it. The biggest thing that I do when I go to high schools and talk to kids (is) I want them to feel I was them; I was sitting in the same seats that they were sitting in, and I was able to make it…I want them to feel like it's possible to make it."
DeSean concluded: 'I don't feel I have anything to teach inmates, but I would love it if I could learn something and the one thing I could say is as long as you're breathing, you still matter…your life is still valuable."
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Though beautiful and interesting, the region of Languedoc-Roussillon is often ignored by travelers. Overshadowed by the surrounding regions, it is a hidden gem in the country, as are the sites that it hides within. One such site is the town of Carcassonne. With a history that goes back more than 2,000 years, the town is incredibly rich in culture. It is also one of the most astonishing medieval towns in France, as its double-walled fortifications are pretty much intact. Carcassonne is known for its 53 watchtowers- a feat few other towns in Europe can claim.
Sitting at the top of a hill, you will be amazed at its beauty, and happy that this UNESCO World Heritage Site is largely ignored by tourists who don't know any better. While you won't be the only foreigner there, you will be able to enjoy the authenticity of the French provinces, and immerse in their way of life.
Visit the fortified city, go to the forts, tour along the vineyards, and enjoy the scenery from a villa. No matter what you choose to do, you are sure to fall in love with Carcassonne.
Located within the Cité Fortress, this Medieval castle is one of the top sites of the city. The castle has been restored, but all restorations have kept true to the original architecture and materials. This means that what you see is almost exactly what people saw hundreds of years ago.
As the largest wine producing region in the entire country, Languedoc is decorated with vineyards. Going to the region without paying a visit to some of them and enjoying the delicious wine they produce, is almost a sin. Join one of several tours that leave from Carcassonne, and take in the sights, fragrances, and tastes of the countryside.
You can't talk about the Middle Ages without mentioning torture. As one of the most impressive Medieval cities in the country, it makes sense that Carcassonne has a museum dedicated to cruelty. See the iron maid and other horrifying torture devices, and learn about practices of the time. You should be warned, however, that it is not for the faint of heart.
The Cité is the fortified town itself. It is the equivalent of historical centers in other southern cities, though significantly larger in size. The Cité is, of course, where most of the charm of Carcassonne lies, and the site that makes the visit worthwhile.
Small and simple, yet wonderfully beautiful, this basilica is well-worth the visit. Its stained-glass windows filter natural light to spread colors throughout the church, and make it quite a sight to behold. Find tranquility and peace here, no matter what you believe in.


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Francis Albert Sinatra born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey later became known as Frank Sinatra and one of the greatest entertainers of his generation. American singers – Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced Frank Sinatra. Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his music that influenced generations of popular vocalists. Sinatra anticipated the decline of big-band instrumental jazz music, and helped establish an enthusiastic climate for popular singers.
One of the songs Frank Sinatra is most known for singing is the hit My Way. Frank Sinatra's career began after he signed his first performing contract, when he was 24. He got his start singing with Tommy Dorsey's band in the 1930's. He then scored his first number one song a little more than a year later, "I'll Never Smile Again". Sinatra's popularity began to rise through airtime as a radio singer during World War II. He soon left Dorsey's band for a solo career that lead him to several hits and great success in the '50s and '60s.
Young At Heart, All the Way, Witchcraft, Strangers in the Night, and that's Life were some of his hit songs. In the 1940s Sinatra embarked on a solo career and became the idol of the "bobby-soxers". They were teenage girls who swooned over his crooning, soft-voiced singing. During this time period he also appeared in many film musicals such as, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), and On the Town (1949). Sinatra is also well respected as a jazz singer.
During the 1950s and 1960s Sinatra also teamed with a number of talented jazz arrangers, including Nelson Riddle, Neal Hefti, Quincy Jones, and Billy May. He produced a number of albums that are now regarded as classic recordings. These recordings include Swing Easy (1955), In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Manansala 2 Songs for Swingin' Lovers (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958), Nice 'N' Easy (1960), and Strangers in the Night (1966). In the 50's, Sinatra was also one of the first to approach albums as cohesive works, instead of collections of singles.
His releases from moody volumes like In The Wee Small Hours, and Only The Lonely to bouncing tunes like Swingin' Session and Come Fly With Me laid the foundation for concept albums. The natural swing feel and jazz-style phrasings of his singing, including his use of dynamics and delayed rhythms, have influenced numerous musicians. Many songs recorded by him, such as All of Me (1952), Come Fly With Me (1958), All The Way (1957), and I've Got You Under My Skin (1956), are still widely performed.
His songs still remain to have the distinctive style when he performed them. During the '50s, his movie career also took off. In 1953 he won an Academy Award for his non-singing performance in From Here to Eternity. He also won an Oscar award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1953 movie From Here to Eternity. He also appeared in classic films like, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Manchurian Candidate and Ocean's 11, which teamed him with the other members of the "Rat Pack," which included Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin.
In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra recorded with the big bands of American jazz musicians Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Frank Sinatra was a soulful crooner that established himself as he branched out into films. After leaving Capitol Records in 1961, Sinatra became one of the first to wear the artist-mogul hat when he founded Reprise Records. Manansala 3 Sinatra enjoyed his most recent chart success in 1993 with the album Frank Sinatra Duets, which debuted on the album charts at number two and featured performances by Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross and Bono.
Other contributors to the album included Barbara Streisand, and Julio Iglesias. The album sequel Duets II (1994) won Sinatra his ninth Grammy Award in 1996. Duets II included collaborations with country-and-western star Willie Nelson, jazz singer Lena Horne, and popular singer and songwriter Neil Diamond. Frank Sinatra, the legendary leader of the "Rat Pack" and arguably the greatest entertainer of this century, died of a heart attack Thursday night, May 14, 1998, in Los Angeles at the age of 82.
Sinatra's approach to song and style has drawn the adoration of modern artists from Bono, the leader of the rock group U2 to the alternative group Hootie and the Blowfish. Over the course of his almost 50 years in show business, Sinatra evolved from pop music's first swoon-inducing teen idol to a respected vocal stylist to an Academy Award-winning actor. Despite his many accomplishments, Sinatra may be best remembered not for what he did, but for how he did it.
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Impala on MapR triggers Read Ahead(RA) threads by default.
It is shown as "mapr::fs::RAThread::runner" when pstack <impalad_pid>.
Below tests are to prove above assumptions.
1. Create several Parquet tables with similar size, but with different columns.
2. Start monitoring script to count the number of RA Threads spawned by each impalad process every 1 minute.
Please see [this article] to understand how to switch the file client firstly.
date;clush -a "pstack \`pgrep impalad\`|grep mapr::fs::RAThread::runner|wc -l"
Note: pstack actually calls gdb which will block the process, so be careful when using it in production.
date;clush -a "jstack \`pgrep impalad\`  |grep \"MapR RA\"|wc -l"
All of below tests are running single concurrent "select * from <table_name> limit 100000" repeatedly, and count the RA Thread number from each impalad process.
Here are the test results to prove each factor.
During this test, we stopped one and two impalad processes separately.
1. The more columns of Parquet tables, more RA threads.
2. The larger the table is, more RA threads.
3. Total number of RA threads dose not change.


Our unique mini-carpet wall charm has been designed with the vivid image of Ganesha, the remover of obstacles. Both ends of the carpet have been finished with an intricate antiqued metal frame. The bottom also features matching antique metal teardrop tassels. This decorative piece would accent well on a door or on the wall.


Yesterday I talked about all the bloggers and bookish people I met. It truly made for an excellent experience. Another major reason for attending, besides being only an hour from my home, was to geek out over all the new books and catching glimpses of some amazing authors.
I didn't attend as many author panels as I wanted (three total) because they conflicted with other things. But it was nice to sit down, rest my feet, and hear about books coming out this year.
The first one I attended was PBS Presents Women of Fiction with Robyn Carr, Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Gayle Forman who has written her first book for adults called Leave Me (Sept. 6), which I picked up for my friend. All three women were so funny, intelligent and had much to say about women's fiction. While I have never read anything by Carr or Phillips, the discussion gave me much to think about regarding Women's Fiction/Chick Lit/ Romance. Their books tend to focus more on the issues of women, self-discovery and friendships – not just romance. Not sure if I'll be picking up any in the near future but it truly was a fun panel.
The second panel I attended was BEA Selects-Literary Fiction. And of the three publishers (Poisoned Pen Press, Cincos Puntos Press and Coach House) I was most interested in Andre Alexis' The Hidden Keys (Oct. 16), which I didn't know was part of his "Quincunx" (5 books?) as well as The Coaster by Erich Wurster (Aug. 2).
I could only stay for a little bit of the Adult Author Buzz Panel and loved hearing Brit Bennett talk about The Mothers (Oct 11) and Nathan Hill discuss The Nix (Aug. 30) – two books I wasn't able to get.
While nervously chatting with George Saunders while he signed Lincoln in the Bardo (Feb. 2017), I found out he is originally from the south suburbs of Chicago (I'm from the north burbs). Another author who I was eager to meet was Jane Hamilton as she signed The Excellent Lombards (April 19) . She was so warm and genuinely interested and when she asked what I liked to read (besides her books) I told her about my fondness for short stories. She took out her personal notecard stationary and wrote down a book she highly recommends called Night at the Fiestas by Kristin Valdez Quade. I thanked her and moved on. The next day at Book Group Speed Dating (more about that tomorrow) and just before leaving my assigned table, I noticed a book across from me that wasn't pitched during the session. It was the book she recommended! Talk about a freaky moment. So of course, I grabbed it.
Any of these look interesting or on your TBR list this year? Now I'll just have to cancel all my holds at the library so I can get started on a few.
Up Next: BEA Part Three : Books not on my radar, the publishers and all the bookish goodies.
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Jane Hamilton is one of those authors I keep meaning to return to. I read The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World back in the 90s and enjoyed them both very much. How cool that you got to meet her!
I'm DYING for Homegoing – have heard nothing but amazingness. What a coincidence re: Fiesta – it's fate!
This all sounds like heaven to me. Can't wait to hear all about the books!
Get reading and reviewing! So many good looking books on your list.


A showreel displaying some of my favourite videos created for MR PORTER'S instagram account. This shows a variety of videos that have all been edited specifically for Instagram. I challenged myself to create engaging video content for a 15 second period, within a square aspect ratio, by using as many different digital assets as possible.
I focused on using interesting transitions, images and editing techniques to keep our videos fresh. I didn't want them just to feel like regurgitated content or simple promos for longer form videos.
Within this framework I felt we had an opportunity to showcase moving image content in a fresh new way why delivering in a way that stayed true to the platform and its user.
In some examples we used still product images and created simple animations, other times we'd shoot exclusive 15 interviews that promoted a longer form videos.
Each video was approached by trying to tell a story from a new angle.


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ICCE/ICCAI 2000 Full & Short Papers (Others).
This document contains the following full and short papers from ICCE/ICCAI 2000 (International Conference on Computers in Education/International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction): (1) "A Code Restructuring Tool To Help Scaffold Novice Programmers" (Stuart Garner); (2) "An Assessment Framework for Information Technology Integrated Instruction" (Chuan-Shih Wang and Chia-Chin Li); (3) "An Authoring Shell with Intelligent Reuse" (Kam W. Li, Jill Slay, and Warren James); (4) "An Educational Application of Integrated Route Information Service on the Internet" (Tun-Wen Pai, Chao-Lin Liu, and Chih-Yao Yang); (5) "Analyses of Cognitive Effects of Collaborative Learning Processes on Students' Computer Programming" (Jun Moriyama); (6) "Design and Implementation of a N-Tiered Heterogeneous Virtual School Administration System" (Huang Gooshyon); (7) "Design and Implementation of a WWW-Based School Official Memorandum System" (Gi-Ping Lee, Yue-Shan Chang, Ching-Chuan Chou); (8) "DIYexamer: A Web-Based Multi-Server Testing System with Dynamic Test Item Acquisition and Discriminability Assessment" (Ying-Dar Lin, Wen-Chun Sun, Chien Chou, Huan-Yun Wei); (9) "Empowering Secondary School Teachers To Effectively Exploit Internet Resources for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning" (Y. T. Yu and B. C. Chiu); (10) "Examining Problems of Student Teachers To Build a Web-Supported Environment" (Shihkuan Hsu and Hsiou-Huai Wang); (11) "Implementing Modern Approaches to Teaching Computer Science: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Jill Slay and Kam W. Li); (12) "Initial Evidence for Representational Guidance of Learning Discourse" (Daniel D. Suthers); (13) "Learning from the Learning of Other Students" (Stuart Garner); (14) "Localization of a Feature Extraction Area for Touch-Type Training Using a Camera" (Masayuki Arai, Hiroyoshi Watanabe, Kenji Oguri, and Shigeo Takei); (15) "Present State and Future Direction of Woman Informatization Education in Korea" (In-Hwan Yoo, Chul-Hyun Lee, Soo-Bum Shin, and Tae-Wuk Lee); (16) "Reflections on Educational Technology from Female Asian Faculty's (FAF) Perspectives" (Doris Lee, Amy S. C. Leh, Mei-Yan Lu, and Mei-Yau Shih); (17) "Space Plan for Effective Educational Software Utilization in Korea" (Soo-Bum Shin, Chul-Hyun Lee, In-Hwan Yoo, and Tae-Wuk Lee); (18) "The Web of the Teacher Professional Development" (Chia-Ling Hsu, Hsiao-Ching She, and Min-Sheng Lin); and (19) "Using Learning Object Meta-Data in a Database of Primary and Secondary School Resources" (Daniel D. Suthers). (MES)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Technology, Instructional Design, Systems Development, Technology Integration, World Wide Web
Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Note: In: Learning Societies in the New Millennium: Creativity, Caring & Commitments. International Conference on Computers in Education/International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction (Taipei, Taiwan, November 21-24, 2000); see IR 020 792. Some figures contain very small and illegible type.


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New Farm Safety campaign
The Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland tasked Genesis with creating a further campaign under the banner of Stop and Think SAFE, a call to farmers in Northern Ireland to adopt safer working practices. As one of the most dangerous professions in NI, farming was responsible for a growing number of fatalities; since 2000, 98 people had died in farming accidents, 14 of them due to lack of visibility. Following on from Genesis' highly successful TV commercial for farm safety which highlighted the 'F' in Think SAFE, i.e. falls, created in 2013, a second TV commercial was required to focus on the 'E' in SAFE, i.e. equipment, in particular, the lack of all-round visibility when driving a tractor.
We created a TV commercial that ran backwards from the future to the present moment, showing how a tragic accident – and its consequences – could be avoided when the farmer stopped and thought safe. In the future, it showed the break-up of the farmer's marriage, his relationship with his wife breaking down, the funeral of their son, then the accident itself, when the farmer accidentally reverses his tractor over his child. All this runs backwards, so that in the end, the accident has not actually happened. In the present, we see the farmer wipe clean his mirror, and in it, he can see the boy behind the tractor. The commercial ends positively – a tragic accident can be avoided if the farmer simply checks what's behind him.
Welcoming the launch of the new advert, Health and Safety Minister Arlene Foster said, 'This is a powerful advertisement with a hard-hitting message that challenges us on an emotional level.' Minister for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) Michelle O'Neill said: 'Farmers have told us that they need to hear powerful safety messages and there is no doubt that this ad delivers.' This is a hugely important campaign for the farming community in NI and Genesis is honoured to be involved. The first round of tracking research will take place later this year.
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Digitization involves standardizing business processes and is associated with cost cutting and operational excellence. In essence, it imposes discipline on business processes that, over the years, were executed by individual heroes in a variety of creative (but not always optimal) ways. SAP, PeopleSoft, and other integrated software packages that burst onto the scene in the 1990s helped lead the way into more digitizing, but it remains a painful process.
Today, companies are confronting something new and different: digital. Digital, of course, is an adjective. It refers to a host of powerful, accessible, and potentially game-changing technologies like social, mobile, cloud, analytics, internet of things, cognitive computing, and biometrics. It also refers to the transformation that companies must undergo to take advantage of the opportunities these technologies create. A digital transformation involves rethinking the company's value proposition, not just its operations. A digital company innovates to deliver enhanced products, services, and customer engagement. Digital is exciting, thrilling — and a bit unnerving!
The problem is this: We have found that many business leaders are thinking of digital as advanced digitization, such as enhancing the customer experience with mobile technologies or implementing internet of things capabilities to improve operations. But "becoming digital" is a totally different exercise from digitizing. Companies today must become digital to compete in a world in which both end consumers and business customers expect products and services to meet their needs on demand across channels. In most industries, digital is already a business imperative. Digitization is an important enabler of digital, but all the digitization in the world won't, on its own, make a business a digital company. I would argue, in fact, that failing to distinguish increased digitization (even radically increased digitization) from a digital transformation could be a fatal mistake.
The benefits of digitization are significant: efficiency, operational excellence, predictability. For all the pain that it entails, digitization is an essential undertaking in companies. Without digitization, companies cannot scale; they cannot absorb the complexity of expanded product portfolios; they cannot personalize services. Disciplined, standardized business processes, where appropriate, ensure the accuracy and security of core transactions and back-office processes. They make data accessible and reliable.
Most companies have grossly underestimated the challenge of digitization. Shedding habits — imposing discipline — has proved to be harder than business leaders imagined. In many cases, leaders have committed to digitization initiatives thinking they are funding new and better technology. Many didn't recognize that digitization requires a commitment to fundamental changes in how people work. Consequently, most digitization efforts cost more — and generate fewer benefits — than anticipated.
Despite more than 20 years of business digitization history, MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) has found that only 28% of established companies have successfully digitized. This is a problem, because companies must be digitized if they hope to become digital. Without digitization, management's attention will be consumed with fixing whatever is going wrong today in a company's operations. There will be no time for innovation. Leaders won't have the resources to invest in a digital transformation or the operational excellence to support their digital value proposition.
To become digital, leaders must articulate a visionary digital value proposition. This value proposition must reassess how digital technologies and information can enhance an organization's existing assets and capabilities to create new customer value. Being digital is not just introducing mobile apps for customers. It is taking advantage of the opportunity to redefine a business — and possibly even an industry.
These are bold strokes. They are risky. But the alternative is to try to succeed in a digital economy with a pre-digital value proposition. That could be the riskiest alternative of all.
To become digital and pursue a digital vision, companies must define their digital offerings. They must embrace information-enriched customer solutions delivered as a seamless, personalized customer experience. Digital offerings are the specific solutions that deliver on a company's digital value proposition. The benefits of a successful digital transformation include growth in revenues and margins, undying customer loyalty, and the ability to attract top talent (and thus continue to grow).
Successful companies in the digital economy will be digital (to provide customer value) and digitized (to provide for scale and efficiency). Although companies still struggle to digitize, what it means and how to do it are now well established. It's just hard to do well. How to be digital, in contrast, is less well established. Defining a value proposition that will attract customers who are actually willing to pay for a given solution is more art than science.
Don't hand off responsibility for your digital transformation to your IT unit. This is a business transformation. If you think IT can make it happen, the game is over!
Do engage IT leaders in defining your vision and mapping your initiatives. Your embedded culture and structures will be your two biggest obstacles to your digital transformation, but your legacy IT systems are more likely a liability than an asset. IT leaders can help establish what's possible.
Bring in professional help. If you wouldn't add a room to your house without consulting an architect, make sure you understand that in trying to coordinate the business components, roles, structures, processes, and systems that will enable you to deliver digital offerings, you need professional business architects. Stop thinking of architecture as an IT issue and engage in developing your business architecture.
Be persistent and patient. Understand that you will need to invest time and money in your digital initiatives just like venture capital companies invest in innovative businesses. The cost savings from digitization were easy to track. The new revenues from digital initiatives probably won't flow in quickly. Track some intermediate metrics like reuse and time to market.
Prepare to co-create with customers. Unless you have Apple cofounder Steve Jobs' gift for anticipating what customers want, you'll need to engage them in the process of defining your offerings. Otherwise, you may never see those new revenues you're counting on.
It will take time to settle on a pattern of digital offerings that bring value to your customers and your business. It will take even longer to identify, build, and reuse business components so that new solutions can be easily configured. And for many companies, there is still much work to be done to ensure that they are sufficiently digitized to support a digital transformation.
In short, your digital transformation will be a long journey. It's important to get started.
Jeanne Ross is principal research scientist for MIT's Center for Information Systems Research. Follow CISR on @mit_cisr.
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Couple of years back, during a discussion with a project manager in-charge of a business process management project, the question about categorizing his project as digital transformation project came up.
While i was sure that there was a difference between digital and digitization, i wasn't comfortable articulating how digital was different from digitization. Thanks to this article i have some sense about it.
Digital is about transforming a business using the digital technologies to deliver new value to customer. Digitization is more about optimizing existing way of doing work and delivering optimized services.
Thanks for this succinct article.
Was part of a discussion just yesterday about digital leadership. After reading this article, it is interesting to look back at the discussion and realize how we weaved back and forth between digital and digitization. Clear definition between the two from this read. Thank you!
Thanks Jeanne for the clear distinctions. I often talk to people about IT is an enabler. When we are discussing digital, we need to consider it as different ways of working. Similar to what you have stated, I encourage people to think about the digital strategy and the digital culture first. I believe we need to initial focus on our people first, maybe even before the customer. There are many thought leaders who have stated that focusing on your team first will naturally ensure a more customer centric approach.
Many time we are quick to assume understanding the difference between both concepts – digitation and digital – and, less caring for precision, start to jump from one to another as they are birds of a feather. Jeanne, you did a great job on distinguishing them, not only in their conceptual nature, but also in their implications.
Agreed upon digitization sets the stage for being digital, it also exposes the richness of future implications, underneath the concept of the later. Being full digital is the next challenge for mankind. It opens a new era to business, education, entrepreneurship, healthcare, computing and technology itself.


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Aesthetica Art Prize 2014
Longplayer Bowl Display shortlisted for 2014 Aesthetica Art Prize 3D Design/Sculpture category
Exhibition at York St Mary's, 4th April – 22nd June, 2014
Organised by Aesthetica Magazine, the international art and culture publication, in partnership with York Museums Trust, the Art Prize is a platform for emerging contemporary artists from across the world to bring their work to a wider audience. Taking place in the exceptional setting of York St Mary's – York Art Gallery's contemporary art space, the exhibition reframes the relationship between the historic and the contemporary by uniting the international rising stars of the art world in a major group show.
Longplayer is one of the four Main Prize finalists. A 1:3 model of the original installation has been made for the exhibition, alongside the audio clip from the 1000 minutes performance.
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At Arcaffé, we select the coffee beans very carefully, quality beans that are rich in flavors and fragrances.
In order to serve you the perfect cup of coffee each and every time, we meticulously maintain and monitor the different production stages from selecting the coffee beans at the plantation, through the blending process to the human factor.
As an integral part of our uncompromising quality approach, we use only selected Arabica coffee beans which are known for their rich flavor and aroma. The beans are grown in "boutique" plantations unique to Arcaffé and are not sold on international coffee markets. The method of growth is measured, precise and carefully supervised by Enrico Meschini himself, the owner of " Arcaffé Italia".
In order to avoid mixing unripe coffee beans with the fine cherry-colored ripened ones, Arcaffè requires and ensures that only the finest beans be picked, by hand and one by one.
Separation of waste from the coffee beans, removal of outermost layers, drying the beans and, finally, stripping off the 'silver' skin that enrobes the coffee bean.
The perfect flavor can only be attained by mixing several types of coffee beans. The blends that are sold by Arcaffé's are a well guarded secret that makes Arcaffé the leading coffee shop chain in Israel.
The beans are roasted for about 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 200-250 degrees. Cooling is done by air in order to preserve the flavor and aroma.
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United for a better childhood
As a society we provide a vital system of support and services to keep children safe and give them the best childhood.
For over 50 years NCB has been driving change throughout this system to make it as effective as possible and to protect the children whose welfare is most at risk.
When we launched our 2018-23 strategy, United for a Better Childhood, the system was already breaking. Since then, the pandemic has stripped away further layers of support to put children more at risk than ever.
We're here to bring people and organisations together to bring about the best for children. By listening to children and young people and taking bold, co-ordinated action we can deliver a better childhood for the UK.
The change we need to see
We need to put an end to the rise of poverty which blights childhoods and holds our children back in so many ways.
We need to tackle the root issues affecting our children's mental health and wellbeing, making sure they get the support they need at the right time.
We need to support our children to get the best start in life, because we know that the early years are the foundation on which their future life chances are built.
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We need education, health and social care services to work together in children's best interests.
How we work to make this happen
In everything we do we focus on five priorities to deliver a better childhood for the UK:
* Influencing legislation, policy and practice to make sure it's based on high quality evidence about what works for children
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* Bringing organisations together to put the best interests of children first
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Protesters who chained themselves around the wheels of buses holding immigration detainees in 2013 have been sentenced to time served.
The group had been found guilty of two misdemeanors: obstruction of a highway and public nuisance.
Justice of the Peace Susan Bacal dismissed the prosecution's request to sentence each protester to 150 hours of community service.
They were arrested Oct. 11, 2013 after spending more than four hours on the floor chained to each other in groups of three around the wheels of two buses taking 70 suspected undocumented immigrants to federal court for Operation Streamline, a fast-track, mass deportation proceeding.
Protesters blocked the westbound Interstate 10 frontage road near 18th Street, stopping the two buses in the roadway. The Tucson Police Department closed the frontage road for several hours and used power tools to cut off the plastic pipes and other materials protesters used to tie themselves to each other.
The group spent about 14 hours in jail the day of their arrest.
Members of the group spoke at Monday's hearing about why they participated in the 2013 incident and their protest against Operation Streamline. Many shed tears while reading their statements sharing stories of the consequences of family separation and the risks of crossing the desert.
For 70-year-old Steve Johnston, one of the protesters, the end of this trial doesn't mean the end of his demonstrations against what he calls "disgusting" policies.
"This is the first, the first trial and hopefully we will have many more until (Operation Streamline) ends," he said.


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Hurricane Joaquin Strengthens as It Approaches Bahamas, US East Coast
Hurricane Joaquin grew into a category 3 storm late Wednesday as it approached the central islands of the Bahamas on a projected track that would take it near the U.S. East Coast by the weekend.
Joaquin is now centered about 215 miles east-northeast of the Central Bahamas, moving toward the southwest near 6 mph (9 km/h).
It is expected to turn tow at the west-northwest on Thursday night and then north on Friday and increase its forward speed, the hurricane center said.
The National Weather Service says the storm could make landfall between North Carolina and southern New Jersey on Sunday and continue north. But forecasters said it is possible the storm, which has strengthened to a Category 3, would head out to sea.
Latest predictions show Joaquin stay off the east coast of the U.S.as it moves north, passing close to Virginia, New Jersey and New York, among other coastal states, by early Tuesday morning.
The strongest Atlantic hurricane of 2015 began to batter the Bahamas on Thursday morning as many in the United States waited to see when, and if, the storm would affect them.
The government of the Bahamas has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the Turks and Caicos Islands. A watch is in effect for the remaining islands as well as the Turks and Caicos and Andros Island.
The pattern has the potential to drop six or more inches of rain in the region near and south of the city, with a few locations south of the city getting a foot of rain over the one-week period, Sosnowski said in a city-specific feature for AccuWeather.com.
We expect additional strengthening during today and tonight and it could easily become a Category 4 storm.
The eye of the storm is expected to pass over eastern islands of the Bahamas overnight.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami says a hurricane warning is in effect for the central and northwestern Bahamas. "There's no question", said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist with the center.
Come Saturday, the storm is expected to bring heavy and torrential rains all along the coast from Charleston to Washington, DC.
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Here i will help you explore some of the most commonly coffee maker types, as well as some coffee makers that are truly for that coffee crazy. I have tried to cover from the the benefits of using different coffee brewers depending on your personal needs.
If you lead a busy life and your always on the go a single cup maker maybe the perfect answer to keep pace to your active lifestyle. There is one cup makers available that deliver a cupful of hot brew a person simply make and take. Most brew quickly through the lid into a thermal mug and shuts off automatically article advertising can actually.
A single cup maker is the ideal gift for commuters, college students, professionals always from the go, newlyweds or if you can java drinker household. Advantages from a single cup espresso maker include a seamless cup of freshly brewed hot coffee in a flash. Excellent for the office or dorm, you can also make warm water for tea, hot chocolate or instant soups. The k-cup coffee system that is caused by Keurig has it's own formula for brewing a fresh single serving . It consists of an single associated with ground beans in a container using a filter built-in.
Thermal coffeemakers are another option as all of us strive to have our brew remain hot and fresh, most of the companies that produce thermal makers advise that you may have up to 4 hours of hot fresh gourmet coffee. I have a thermal maker and household is true that the brew is still warm following a fashion I favor to start again as I like to have fresh java, but my wife loves that.
If you are not as picky as i am think about a a thermal coffee maker is ideal for you. There are a wide variety of options as far as color and size, one within the benefits will be the ability develop and put the crafe in the dinning room table a person entertain your guests.
Space saver coffee makers are an ideal way to make your small kitchen deeper. Most manufactures make an under counter maker that can provide to you more space on your counter tops and there is a great alternative to smaller makers like solitary pilot is a cup makers that we discussed earlier or 4 cup providers. Most all ones have a removable water reservoir filling more advantageous and prevents spills and cleaning the reservoir is much easier. Can perform still get those 10 or 12 cups that you require while keeping your kitchen less jumbled. Excellent for galley kitchens or apartment size kitchens and RV homeowners.
The French press , also referred to a press pot, coffee press, coffee plunger or cafetière, is a brewing device popularized with French. Its operation is easy and can certainly create stronger pot of coffee than some other types of java some of their design. The press pot consists associated with an narrow cylindrical container usually made of glass or clear plastic, equipped with a lid and a "plunger" also made of metal or plastic, which fits tightly in the cylinder and which rrncludes a fine wire or nylon mesh becoming a filter which could be cleaned and reused.
The java is brewed by placing the coffee and water together, leaving to brew for several minutes, then depressing the plunger to trap the grounds at the underside of the container. Because the grounds stay in direct contact with the brewing water and also the grounds are filtered by way of water on a mesh as opposed to a paper filter, java brewed together with French press captures more of the brews flavor and essential oils, most of which are generally trapped inside the paper or wire filters we utilized the drip method of brewing. Ever since the used grounds remain all of the drink after brewing, French pressed coffee should be served immediately so in respect of not become bitter. The same 8-cup French press is actually recognized as expired after 20 - 25 minutes as will be no warmer plate for example many manufacturers.
Beans for replacements in a French press should be the a consistent, coarse grind. The use of some hand coffee grinder or manual coffee grinder provides for a more consistent grind compared with the whirling blade variety of electrical grinders. The ground should a little more coarse than that put to use in a drip coffee filter, as a finer grind will seep through the press filter and into the coffee. A French press is also more portable and all-in-one than other makers. Help to make a great solution to put together a travel maker in such cases as back packing or camping. Despite the name, the French press is not noticeably very popular in France than in other countries. Stressed French households, coffee often prepared by drip brewing, using an electric coffee maker and paper filters.
A vacuum maker brews coffee using two chambers where vapor pressure and vacuum produce brew which is clean, rich and smooth compared with brewing methods. This type of maker can also known as vac pot , siphon or syphon coffee maker and was invented by Loeff of Berlin inside of 1830s. Possess of makers have been used further than century in many parts among the world.
The chamber material could be pyrex, metal or plastic, and the filter both be a glass rod, or a screen from cloth, paper or abs. The Napier Vacuum Machine, presented in 1840, was an early example of such a technique. While vacuum makers are generally to complex for everyday use, they were prized for producing a right brew and were well liked until the very center of the 20th century.
The involving a vacuum coffee maker is to heat water in the smaller vessel of the brewer until the expansion forces the water through a narrow tube into an upper vessel which has the coffee grounds. As soon as the lower vessel has more or less emptied itself and any time has elapsed, the heat is removed and the resulting vacuum will draw the brewed beverage via a strainer back to the lower chamber from which it could be stored. Unit must usually be taken apart to pour into a mug.
An early variation of this specific principle referred to as balance siphon. This variation has the two chambers arranged side by side on a balance like device, with a counterweight related to the heated chamber.
Once the vapor has forced the water out, the counterweight is activated and a spring-loaded snuffer which smothers the flame and allows the initial hot chamber to cool off thus developing a vacuum and causing the brewed coffee to seep in. Thus - as believed by some creating the perfect cup of java.
Turning little drip coffeemaker is a calming ritual for me , because awake climb-out of bed , dress and without a pause I head straight for that maker will be pre-loaded from the night before . Along with a push in the button I feel comfort in knowing that i can keep on with what lays ahead for in conversation with of the day.
Most drip filter makers function the actual world same simple manner: a paper filter sets in a basket (usually plastic) which holds the finely ground, almost powdery bean. Cold water is poured into a chamber where it is heated and poured over the grounds. The brew is quickly extracted into a waiting carafe usually glass or thermal steel will. The process is especially simple, as well as reliable.
Some have proclaimed that automatic drip coffee makers produce "off-tasting" flavors in cup. Towards the gym that people need either to change or modify their coffee grind , don't use reusable filters or should clean the drip maker as documented in the manufacturers directions.
It already been a long time since I have used a manual drip coffee maker but I have limited experience these. I began many years ago to make use of the single cup model as i was generate java drinker in loved ones at the time. If however boil water and measure a tablespoon full of coffee an issue part is done, to talk about funny easily create a great cup using the manual drip method it's certainly great value as might generally reasonably priced. The larger styles can brew 8- 10 cups within a time.
In most cases, the larger type of manual drip comes with a glass carafe, which will be used to offer the cups of coffee. The drip part is a cone shaped basket, when a filter lies. The basket is then filled along with desired regarding grounds. For stronger brew, usually a generous tablespoon per cup is recommended. The basket sits on the carafe or( coffee pot), or on a single mug. The hot water is gradually added to your basket, creating very fresh cup. To be able to to be very patient when adding water, as too much water will flood the drip cone, causing a unwanted mess of grounds and water all your place.
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Community-College Students Succeed at Elite Schools—When They're Admitted
A new report finds that these students graduate from selective colleges at higher rates than first-time freshmen.
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There's a perception, flawed as it may be, that college admissions are a zero-sum game. One student gets in, another loses out. That perception is even more acute when it comes to selective institutions, where the seats are few and the applications from qualified students are plenty.
Once students get into such selective schools—with all of the money, prestige, and support that comes with them—they tend to perform well, stay in school, and graduate. According to a new report from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, that is particularly true of students who transfer from community colleges. The report, released Tuesday, finds that graduation rates of community-college transfers meet or exceed those of students who enroll at selective institutions as first-time freshman. Community-college transfers also graduate at higher rates than students who transfer from other four-year colleges.
Read: What Trump doesn't know about community colleges
But as Jennifer Glynn, the director of research at the foundation, put it, "There is an underrepresentation issue." Selective colleges don't enroll a lot of transfer students. Princeton, for example, recently moved to reinstate its transfer program. The institution hadn't accepted transfers since 1990. The university then offered admission to just 13 transfer students. That low number is not uncommon at private, elite schools like Princeton.
According to the report, 35 public selective colleges together "enroll 4 times as many transfer students as the 140 private selective institutions." That's likely due in part to the low overall enrollment at private institutions, alongside a commitment to a "traditional" college experience, one in which a student graduates from high school and goes directly to live on campus. What makes a traditional experience is changing though. These days, the typical student is likely older, or lives off campus, or has a full-time job, or is going to school part-time, or has a child, or has some combination of any of those traits. And more often, students are starting their higher education at community colleges. In fact, more than 40 percent of all U.S. undergraduates attend community colleges.
Of those community-college students who want to transfer to a four-year college, there are many who might be a good fit for highly selective institutions. (Of course, they could also succeed at a wide range of schools.) However, community-college transfer students make up just 15 percent of all newly enrolling bachelor's-degree students nationwide, and only about 5 percent of enrolling undergraduates at the top 100 schools.
For the students who do ultimately transfer to selective colleges, it's not that there are just a few shining stars skewing the data—say, a couple of community colleges launching dozens and dozens of students to selective institutions. The greatness is everywhere. "Fully 84 percent of the nation's two-year institutions transferred at least one student to a selective four-year institution in fall 2016," the report says.
Read: The case for free community college
Admissions officers are starting to notice, as evidenced by a 2018 National Association for College Admission Counseling report that found that roughly 90 percent of admissions counselors regard transfers as moderately or considerably important to enrollment goals. But it will likely take considerable gumption to push selective colleges to enroll more transfer students, if only because the status quo is so baked in to admissions officers' mind-set. Foundations such as Jack Kent Cooke have been working with colleges to help them enroll and fund transfer students, and organizations such as the American Talent Initiative have been pushing to get more community-college students into these schools. Even still, the mighty few who have large endowments, a working business model, and few empty seats may not feel compelled to enroll more transfer students.
Still, this report shows that if admissions officers will accept them, community-college students are prepared to succeed at any college—even the most selective.
Adam Harris is a staff writer at The Atlantic.


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is a party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. Released in 2005, it is the first handheld game in the Mario Party series, and differs from other titles in that the game is mostly single-player. Mario Party Advance was followed by Mario Party DS for the Nintendo DS in 2007, and was re-released on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2014.

Gameplay

The player can choose from four different Mario characters: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Yoshi. The player drives a car around a party board, similar to those seen in the previous Mario Party games. Depending on the character chosen, the player will start at a different area on the board. The player starts with four Mushrooms. Additional Mushrooms are earned by winning minigames that are played every three turns. The game is over when there are no Mushrooms left. The multiplayer Party Mode that was present in all of the previous Mario Party games is no longer available, and it has been replaced by a new mode called "Shroom City". The aim of the game is to collect all the minigames and "Gaddgets" that were scattered around Shroom City by Bowser, by completing quests assigned to the player by the various inhabitants of Shroom City.

Gaddgets, invented by Professor E. Gadd, are interactive items such as a Morse code generator and a love meter. The game includes over 120 minigames, including Gaddgets. Approximately 12 of the minigames can be played in multiplayer mode, with the use of a Game Link Cable. Certain Gaddgets can also be played in multiplayer mode if players control different buttons on a single Game Boy Advance system. The game also included a paper game board for multiple players that could be played in conjunction with the game cartridge, used by players to roll the dice and to play minigames.

Reception

Mario Party Advance received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.  In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of three sevens and one six for a total of 27 out of 40.

While the game contains a large number of minigames and unlockables, reviewers criticized the game's tendency to punish players based on random chance, rebuked the game for lack of innovation in the minigames, and expressed concerns about the game's limited multiplayer modes. Craig Harris of IGN criticized the game's "incredibly basic and rudimentary graphic and sound presentation", as well as its "slowpaced" single-player mode, its large amount of dialogue, and wrote that most of its minigames "are actually on the bland side, featuring some rudimentary platform challenges or memory games that have been done a billion times before in other games. The 2D environment must have restricted the team's creativity in providing some challenges that are imaginative and fun." Frank Provo of GameSpot called the game's multiplayer modes "fairly limited and poorly organized", but said the single-player mode "is very nicely organized and offers a great deal of variety". Provo praised the "colorful" character sprites, but criticized the game's "bland" backgrounds and some of its minigames.

Kristan Reed of Eurogamer wrote that it was "practically the dictionary definition of awful", noting that "most - if not all - of its hundred odd mini games are among some of the most insultingly undemanding and badly-designed efforts you'll ever see associated with the beloved franchise". Reed said "a typical game within Mario Party Advance is often tedious, badly designed and completely lacking in any endearing qualities at all. [...] Animation is virtually non existent, the tedious chatty exchanges that take place between characters lacks any imagination at all and the whole project just smells like something thrown together to meet a contractual obligation". Karen Chu of 1UP.com wrote, "Though I'm open to new possibilities and reinterpretations of Mario Party, playing this game made me want to just jump on my Gamecube and play the original console versions -- even if I have to play against 3 CPU players because frankly, being the only player on a board game that's advertised as a party is just disheartening."

In 2015, IGN listed the game at the bottom of its list of "Best Mario Party Games", writing, "Mario Party Advance is the black sheep of the Mario Party series. This handheld version forwent the classic style of four players collecting stars and coins in favor of a single player focused mode. The heart of the Mario Party series lies in its multiplayer, so while this new approach brought a few interesting ideas, it never achieved what made all the other games so enticing."

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Ava Adore: The Smashing Pumpkins' masterpiece video
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We must never be apart
For music lovers and nostalgic fans of the 90s, the refrain above will bring back thousands of memories. This is Ava Adore, one of the most famous alternative-rock songs ever made, a milestone in The Smashing Pumpkins discography. A song that stands out immediately for its electronic drums, with a rhythm and a technical essence that could very well dominate and replace every instrument and effect. The listener wouldn't just notice anything.
Aver since the beginning, maybe because of his famous "the world is a vampire" or because of the color of his skin, the image of Billy Corgan is associated with vampires. In the video of the song, he's even closer to that, in a gothic context that crosses various scenes, in the role of one of those evil characters that in the end turn out to be good. Thanks to a long shot, "decorated" by alternations of fast and slow motion, the video won the prize for the "most elegant video" during 1998 edition of the VH1 Fashion Awards.
Unnatural movements, dark tones and cinematographic techniques of various kinds have allowed the Pumpkins to add in their discography a real work worthy of the seventh art: cinema. The merit goes to Dom and Nic, two British directors who since 1994 have had numerous collaborations and jobs. Oasis' D'You Know What I Mean? and David Bowie's Im Afraid of Americans are just some of the best known works of the two directors.
The stylistic choices are inspired by those raw, crude lyrics and by the album itself. The recordings of the album began in 1996 and the absence of Jimmy Chamberlein, the previous drummer, certainly influenced the sound. While the other element that greatly influenced the lyrics was the death of Billy's mother.
From here the style of the band changed, the guitars of the previous albums were used for a more melodic sound accompanied by pianos, acoustic guitars and by that melancholy that never left Billy.
Lovely girl you're the beauty in my world
Without you there aren't reasons left to find
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Texas Tech University's Chess Program director and head coach will begin competing in the U.S. Chess Championship today after being inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.
Grandmaster Alex Onischuk, Texas Tech University's Chess Program director and head coach of the award-winning chess team, the Knight Raiders, has called Lubbock home for the past several years. But he first discovered his passion for chess as a child in a community on the other side of the globe.
The only chess club in town was far from his home, an hour-long trip first by bus, then ferry and finally, by foot. When his parents couldn't take him, his 12-year-old sister would make the journey with him two to three times per week.
At age 16, he placed second in his first major tournament, the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad. Just a few short years later, in 1994 and at the age of 19, Onischuk achieved the highest title in chess, grandmaster.
Today, he will be recognized for those achievements and more as he is inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art.
The induction ceremony will serve as a kickoff to the 2018 U.S. Chess Championship tournament at the Saint Louis Chess Club, where Onischuk will again compete for the crown and his share of $194,000 in potential winnings. Onischuk took second place in the 2017 tournament.
After earning the title of grandmaster in 1994, Onischuk continued to hone his skills before heading to the U.S. in 2001. He spent his collegiate years as captain of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Chess Team, leading it to four consecutive national titles from 2002 to 2006.
In 2012, Onischuk arrived at Texas Tech as head coach of the chess team, which is housed within the Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. He said his time at UMBC as a player helped prepare him for the work he does with the Knight Raiders.
Since arriving at Texas Tech, Onischuk has coached the team to several regional, state and national titles, including a 2015 Pan-American Chess Championship win, the first in the program's history. With the exception of 2013, the team also has qualified every year for the President's Cup, also known as the Final Four of Chess. In 2014, Texas Tech was named Chess College of the Year, and Onischuk was named Grandmaster of the Year.
Woman Grandmaster Carla Heredia, a sports management graduate student from Ecuador, has participated in the Texas Tech chess program for five years. During that time, she had the opportunity to serve as assistant coach within the program while also competing with the Knight Raiders.
Heredia said Onischuk's background as a player helps him train players in a way that allows them to analyze their games and gain feedback to help them progress as players.
But Heredia said Onischuk is more than just a good coach and strong chess player.
In addition to his work in collegiate chess, Onischuk has won about 30 different tournaments in his career and has been rated among the top 100 players in the world for the past 20 years. Between 2004 and 2017, he played more than 100 games for the U.S. National Team, including in the 2006 and 2008 Olympic Games, where his scores helped the team finish with bronze medals. In 2009, his gold-medal performance at the World Team Championship helped the team secure a silver medal.
Onischuk also has competed in the U.S. Championship tournament every year since 2004, taking first place in 2006 and placing in the top three seven other times, including a second-place win in 2017. Of all the tournaments, there is one first-place win that stands out.
Grandmaster Robert Hess, one of Onischuk's teammates on the U.S. National Team and coach of the U.S. Women's Team at the 2016 Olympics, said working with Onischuk, first as a competitor, then as a teammate, was invaluable to his growth as a player and future chess coach.
Hess said Onischuk's preparation for games is meticulous, and coupled with his tremendous understanding of the game, allows him to frequently squeeze a victory from slight advantages.
Hess said without question, Onischuk is worthy of inclusion in the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.
"On a personal level it is moving to see one of my chess mentors inducted; on a professional level, he obviously deserves it," Hess said. "If a U.S. Championship title were not enough, he became one of the handful of American players to ever cross the 2,700-rating threshold, and he represented the U.S in more than a dozen international team events.
Onischuk said he looks forward to continuing the work the Texas Tech Chess Program does on and off campus. Several events and projects are in the works in upcoming months.
On June 6, the chess program will host the Lubbock Chess Open at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion. All players from beginner to expert are welcome to participate. From June 25-29 and July 23-27, the program will host its annual summer chess camps for players ages 7-17.
Onischuk said he hopes to one day establish a chess class at Texas Tech. For now, recruitment of more players and maintaining a high level of success and skill within the program is a top priority.


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Such is the affection for the Disney film franchise that unused vintage toys originally bought for pennies are now changing hands for very large sums of money
'Empire Strikes Back' was first released in 1980 (Photo: Corbis via Getty)
By Chris Newlands
March 12, 2021 6:00 am(Updated March 14, 2021 7:10 am)
I am a Star Wars fan. Admitting this is not particularly cool but the multi- billion-pound franchise, which has deep roots in the UK, has been a constant throughout my life.
I have had a deep fondness of almost everything Star Wars since my mum took me to see Empire Strikes Back, the second instalment of the original Star Wars film trilogy, at the cinema in 1980. In fact, it is one of my earliest childhood memories.
From then on I was hooked and would pester my parents and save up all my pocket money in order to buy toy replicas of the characters that appeared in the films. Han Solo was bought first, followed by Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, Chewbacca and Boba Fett, but more on Boba Fett later.
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I would spend hours recreating battle scenes from the movies, which would involve toys being flung down the stairs, thrown at walls and – in some instances at least – flushed down the toilet.
It turns out, however, that those battles have cost me a lot of money, perhaps tens of thousands of pounds.
Had I not opened any of the boxes and kept the toy replicas on a shelf, my Star Wars collection, which I have since passed on to my 10-year-old daughter, could be worth up to £40,000. Instead, it is worth just a few hundred.
Such is the affection for the Star Wars franchise, which creator George Lucas off-loaded to Disney for $4bn in 2012, that unused vintage toys originally bought for pennies are now changing hands for very large sums of money.
On the set of Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (Photo: Corbis via Getty)
A collection of vintage Star Wars toys found in bin bags in a garage in Worcestershire fetched more than £250,000 at an auction in November last year. Among the pieces put up for sale was an unused Palitoy vinyl cape Jawa toy, which sold for a "world record" £22,000, according to Chris Aston, who ran the auction.
That beat a previous high of £21,000 for a vintage Boba Fett figurine sold in its original box at auction in 2016. As for my exhausted-looking Boba Fett; he is worth, at most, £40.
Nick Dykes, toy auctioneer at Vectis Auctions, which sold the Boba Fett figurine, told i: "Star Wars toys, especially the vintage range of figures and vehicles made between 1977 to 1985, seem to be as popular as ever and always achieve good sale prices.
"Since the franchise was bought by Disney, the market has been revitalised and there has been an influx of new collectors pushing up prices."
Mr Dykes adds that the fact the children who originally bought the toys in the 1980s are now in their 40s or 50s has been a major factor in the price rises. "At that age, collectors seem to have high disposable incomes, which keeps the market buoyant," he said.
Keith Guppy is one such person. The 47-year-old has filled his five-bedroom house in Yeovil with more than 2,000 toys.
He has been gripped by Star Wars fever since his parents bought him an AT AT Walker in 1982, a four-legged vehicle that first appeared in the Empire Strikes Back. His collection is now worth around £80,000 and he says the value of the vintage toys has increased 25 per cent since Disney began making the new Star Wars films more than five years ago.
"I buy toys made between 1977 and 1985. That's where the real money is," he said. If he buys toys related to the newer films, he looks for limited edition items and holds onto them. "They'll make money in time," he adds.
Mr Dykes agrees. "With regards to what items to buy to make money on, well, that all depends on how you buy. But condition is one of the primary factors as high-quality good condition items tend to increase in value. Also doing research on current perceived market values is paramount.
"There are many pitfalls regarding reproduction items so buying from a reputable source is very important."
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A Boba Fett figurine sold by Andy on Etsy (Photo: Andy Poyiadgi)
When Andy's directing work dried up at the start of pandemic last year he set up a shop on Etsy, the online marketplace, to sell some of the original Star Wars toys he had as a child.
"The business is only small-fry, but I love it," he told i. "I do it to keep myself sane. I started out selling my own toys but then began buying scuffed and broken Star Wars figures on eBay too, cleaning them up and then selling them on Etsy. I've only sold 150 and made a small amount of money so far but it's been very satisfying."
In the short time he has been running his store, Andy says he has learnt a few tricks to help him buy the right toys and make them more saleable. "I buy in bulk if I can," he said. "I try and buy a batch of say 20 figures because what you find is one or two of them might end up being particularly valuable.
"It also sounds like a no-brainer but I simply clean the figures up. That helps with the resale value."
Andy says he fell in love with Star Wars toys after watching Return of the Jedi, the third film of original movie trilogy, at the cinema when he was a child.
"It was the films that drew me in – they were my childhood. They were a larger-than-life thing that captivated everyone. But even though the toys were a spin-off from the films, they have their own magic about them and have become almost separate from the movies. I'm a fan and so running my store is a real labour of love."
Email chris.newlands@inews.co.uk or contact the author on Twitter at newlands_chris
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Titanic, The Harry Potter Saga, and Pirates of The Caribbean – These films are among the most successful films ever shown in cinemas. Do you know that these films are also among the topmost expensive films of all time?
1. Pirates of the Caribbean 3
The record holder in the ranking of the most expensive films of all time is the third part of Walt Disney's production "Pirates of the Caribbean" . The part of the series devoured nearly $ 343 million due to weather-related interruptions. With box office earnings of $ 1.1 billion, Disney is now likely to take the high production costs calmly.
2. Cleopatra
The pompous epic, filmed in the 1960s and starring Elizabeth Taylor, cost $ 44 million at the time; today, adjusted for inflation, that would be around $ 340 million. The immense cost was caused by Liz Taylor's repeated illness and the delayed completion of the script and set. 20th Century Fox was on the verge of financial ruin as a production company. It was not until 1966 that the costs could be offset. With a total of 446 million dollars in gross, the monumental film has meanwhile recorded an increase of 100 million dollars.
3. Titanic
The original budget for Titanic was $ 200 million. However, many actors fell ill after filming for hours in cold water. Some performers dropped out and three stuntmen had broken bones. And as if that wasn't enough, a to this day unknown person poisoned the team's food with the designer drug phencyclidine – many members of the team, including Cameron, ended up in the hospital. The cost of the film of $ 294.9 million seems ridiculously low, however, if you consider the gross profit of $ 3.2 billion.
4. Spiderman 3
The most expensive comic book adaptation to date with costs of almost 300 million dollars received only moderate reviews, but Spiderman 3 is likely to have met expectations from the audience. After all, the film made $ 1 billion at the box office.
5. Rapunzel – Respoiled
For the only animated film among the most expensive films, a completely new technique was developed that combined hand-drawn and computer-animated animations in a special way. The difficulties of the technical implementation and the resulting disputes in the team almost let the project fail and the costs rise to 281.7 million. The effort has paid off: Rapunzel grossed 641 million dollars worldwide.
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The sixth part of the successful Harry Potter series grossed almost 1 billion dollars worldwide at a cost of $ 275.3 million. The Half-Blood Prince is the most expensive of all Harry Potter films to date. The Chamber of Secrets, for example, raked in more than eight times the cost at $ 100 million.
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Following these top six most expensive films are Waterworkd (1995), Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (2006), Avatar (2009), The Hobbit (2012), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and John Carter – Between Two Worlds (2012).
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Each night, after the final show ended in the AMC theatre in Santa Monica, Maria Alvarez came to the office. She and her husband had the key to allow themselves in. It was after midnight, and the building had been vacant. Collectively, they washed all of seven auditoriums. They vacuumed the rugs and mopped the floors. They cleaned the bathrooms and restocked the toilet paper. They polished the escalators and scrubbed the glass concession instances. To learn more about cleaning tools, check out quale aspirapolvere.
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They ended after sunrise. On weekends, once the theaters were particularly filthy, they remained later, before 9:30 a.m. Alvarez worked seven days per week. There were no days away, no sick days, no vacations. The day that my son passed away, I asked for the afternoon, and they didn't wish to give it, she said through tears throughout a labor hearing in 2017.
Alvarez washed theatres for 2 and a half a year. She had been paid $300 per week roughly $5 an hour. Filmmakers frequently talk of magic which could occur only in a movie theatre. As ticket sales have stagnated and Netflix has removed, the sector has become more and more protective of their theatrical experience. But claiming that expertise is dependent on employees such as Alvarez, who are underpaid, overworked, and readily expendable.
The significant chains AMC, Regal Entertainment, and Cinemark no more rely on teenaged ushers to maintain the flooring from becoming sticky. Rather, they've turned into a huge immigrant workforce, frequently hired through layers of subcontractors. This arrangement makes it nearly impossible for janitors to produce a living wage.
Alvarez got hurt at work, and a physician recommended a lighter workload. When she made this request in April 2015, she had been terminated. The next year, she registered a California Labor Commission claim for unpaid wages, including overtime. The hearing officer granted $80,000 in back pay and penalties. However, Alvarez couldn't collect. She didn't work right for AMC or its janitorial contractor, ACS Enterprises, which protected them from accountability. Rather, she worked for a few Alfredo Dominguez and Caritina Diaz that hadn't shown up to the hearing.
Even Dominguez and Diaz did not believe her a real worker. In their heads, she had been a builder of AMC Theatres. AMC and ACS did send a lawyer to resist her wage case. In the long run, the firms agreed to pay her $3,500 to go away.
Over the previous eight weeks, Variety has researched wage complaints from film theater janitors throughout the nation, reviewing class-action suits, state labor commission documents, and investigations from the U.S. Department of Labor. A very clear pattern emerged: AMC along with other theatre chains keeps their costs down by relying upon janitorial contractors which use subcontracted labor. Those janitors typically don't have any wage or job protections, toiling on among the lowest rungs of the U.S. labor marketplace.
It's customary for janitors to operate all night. Some employees told variety they had witnessed parents bring their young children to operate, allowing them to sleep on the ground or at the theater seats. To make the job go quicker, some janitors use leaf blowers to clean popcorn and wrappers from the aisles. However, the blowers leave dust around the speakers and displays, and many theaters have prohibited them. Rather, janitors normally go row by row using vacuums. They wipe off the salt on the chairs and wash soda stains from their cup holders.
That is so similar to agricultural employees. They are walking rows how agricultural employees do, says Brandt Milstein, a lawyer who filed a class-action lawsuit in Colorado on behalf of Cinemark janitors. The theatre chains are mostly immune from legal consequences. Since they don't directly apply janitors, they're usually excluded from class-action wage instances. However, some from the janitorial company says the chains are conscious of what is happening and are ultimately accountable.
The theatre businesses are super economical, says one particular firm executive who didn't need to be recognized to protect business associations. A lot of these men, do not care if you utilize slave labor. Based in Leawood, Kan., AMC is the nation's largest theater chain, together with 637 places. Based on interviews and documents obtained by Variety, AMC used to hire over a hundred businesses to offer janitorial service. But a few years ago, the firm embraced a national associate version, finally scaling down to two suppliers nationally: ACS, based in Pomona, Calif., and KBM, based in Hendersonville, Tenn.
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ROCKTON – Old Settlers Days is bringing an award-winning country lineup to Rockton this month.
Keith Anderson and Jamey Johnson — winner of the Academy of Country Music Awards' Song of the Year for "In Color" this year — will perform July 16 and 17, respectively; and the Zac Brown Band — 2009 ACM winner for Top New Vocal Duo or Group and 2009 Country Music Television's Breakthrough Video of the Year for "Chicken Fried" — takes the stage July 19.
For rock fans, cover band Mike and Joe perform July 18.
Local acts will open for the bands each night: Southern Heritage July 16, Jamie Campbell Band July 17, The Undecided and Radio Stars July 18, and Roscoe July 19.
Concerts July 16, 17 and 19 cost $10 in advance or $15 at the gate. July 18's show is free with festival admission: $5 in advance or $7 at the gate. Main-stage music starts at 6 p.m. July 16 and 17, 1 p.m. July 18 and 2 p.m. July 19.
Man dies after being hit by car at fireworks show
ROANOKE — A man was killed Friday night after a woman backing out of a parking spot hit the gas instead of the brake and plowed into a group of people.
Steven Hodel, 60, was pronounced dead at 10:45 p.m. in the emergency room at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. He died of multiple crushing injuries to the chest and pelvis, Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll said.
Hodel was trapped under a car driven by Ruby Kennell, 85, of Roanoke. Kennell was backing out of her parking spot when she saw the group of 10 or so people sitting in lawn chairs along the road.
Kennell attempted to hit the brakes to avoid hitting them, but instead stepped on the gas, speeding into the group.
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PEORIA – A 23-year-old man was in serious condition Monday after being shot in the back during an attempted home invasion.
Police said DeCarlos Wells of Peoria was in serious condition at Methodist Medical Center. The hospital did not release any information on Wells.
According to police, Wells was shot during an attempted home invasion Sunday night just before midnight. A resident of the home, Lonnie Tinsley, 30, told police he was sitting on his porch when two men came around the side of his house. Tinsley said Wells pointed the gun at him and told him to get inside the house.
Tinsley said once inside, he tried to hold the door shut while he was being struck in the head. A woman at the home also reported being struck in the head by one of the suspects' guns during the incident, saying she then grabbed one of her children in the home and went to hide.
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ABINGDON — Abingdon Police responded to a domestic disturbance call Friday night and instead found "seven or eight dead animals" inside, police said.
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CINCINNATI – The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) will present the Jacob E. Davis Volunteer Leadership Award at its Annual Luncheon on Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Award will be presented to Francie and John Pepper. John Pepper is a 1960 graduate of Yale University.
The Jacob E. Davis Volunteer Leadership Award, presented since 1987, recognizes the leadership and generosity of time provided by an individual or couple committed to improving the quality of life in Greater Cincinnati. The Award was named in honor of Jacob E. Davis, GCF's first Governing Board Chair and Volunteer Director from 1978 to 1987.
Francie and John Pepper have a long history of making Greater Cincinnati a better place through corporate and community service. Mr. Pepper spent his 40-year career in various positions at Procter & Gamble, including Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Mrs. Pepper has worked with various organizations benefiting women and children. She has served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati and is currently a board member.
"Francie and John Pepper embody the very spirit of leadership and philanthropy that Jake Davis shared with Greater Cincinnati when he helped to start GCF, the same kind of rich commitment to community that caused us to name this award in Jake's honor," said GCF President/CEO Kathryn Merchant. "Together and separately, around a host of passionate concerns, the Peppers are tirelessly devoted to making our community – and our world – a better place for generations to come."
Both Peppers have been very involved with Cincinnati Youth Collaborative (CYC). Mr. Pepper is a co-founder of the organization and serves on its executive committee. Mrs. Pepper served on CYC's finance committee and was a full-time volunteer for several years.
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