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EU Leaders Send Message To Romania, Bulgaria
| June 16, 2006 12:00 AM EDT
European Union leaders meeting in Brussels today (June 16) sent a message to Romania and Bulgaria, saying the countries have to prove they are making progress fighting piracy, organized crime and corr
European Union leaders meeting in Brussels today (June 16) sent a message to Romania and Bulgaria, saying the countries have to prove they are making progress fighting piracy, organized crime and corruption if they are to join them next year.
The 25 leaders said at the end of the two-day summit that the two Balkan countries had to speed up essential reforms over the summer. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, will give its final recommendation in October on whether they can join on Jan. 1 next year, as originally scheduled.
The two countries have long been warned about their notorious black market in pirate movies and music, and their illegal CD and DVD-making plants.
Both Romania and Bulgaria face heavy cross-border trade in pirated materials, and officials are concerned that customs are not yet up to the task of defending what is supposed to become the EU's external border.
The question of piracy had also been raised by the European Parliament, which warned Romania and Bulgaria last November that they had to clean up the piracy and border controls (Billboard.biz Nov. 23, 2005). The Parliament urged reforms in the judiciary, police and public administration to tackle the problems.
Bulgaria in particular is under pressure to show results in fighting organized crime, introduce anti-fraud and corruption laws, crack down on money laundering and clean up the market in pirate and counterfeit products.
EU officials say Romania, once the worst offender when it came to pirate movies and music, has improved its border controls considerably over the past two years.
However, the EU leaders said in statement that both countries must "step up their efforts to tackle decisively and without delay the remaining issues of concern," adding that they remained convinced that, "with the remaining political will, both countries can overcome the deficits to reach the envisaged date of accession on January 1."

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Editors Choice CHP leader sparks debate with remarks calling July 15 a 'controlled' coup...
CHP leader sparks debate with remarks calling July 15 a 'controlled' coup attempt
CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (C) attracted angry reactions from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım when he said a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 was a "controlled" coup attempt.
Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Monday attracted angry reactions from Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım when he said a failed coup attempt on July 15 was a "controlled" coup attempt.
Speaking to a group of representatives from TV stations in İstanbul, Kılıçdaroğlu said his party has a dossier of evidence showing that the coup attempt was a controlled one.
The military coup attempt on July 15 killed over 240 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement despite the lack of any evidence to that effect.
Erdoğan, who spoke at a rally in the Black Sea province of Rize on Monday, called on Kılıçdaroğlu to reveal the dossier in his hands before a public referendum on July 16 in which a constitutional reform package that will increase Erdoğan's powers will be voted.
"[Kılıçdaroğlu says] July 15 was a controlled coup attempt. If you have a dossier in your hands, reveal it. It will do no good after April 16. Reveal it now," Erdoğan said as he accused Kılıçdaroğlu of lying.
There is widespread controversy about the background of the July 15 coup attempt. Some say Erdoğan had knowledge about the attempt but did not prevent it in order to use it as a pretext for the purge of dissidents. There are also others claiming that Erdoğan was behind the coup attempt himself to launch a massive purge of his critics.
On Sunday, German intelligence expert and author Erich Schmidt-Eenboom said Erdoğan, not the Gülen movement, was behind the failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 based on intelligence reports from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND).
Speaking on a German public broadcaster ZDF program on Sunday, Schmidt-Eenboom said: "According to CIA analyses, the so-called coup attempt was staged by Erdoğan to prevent a real coup. The BND, CIA and other Western intelligence services do not see the slightest evidence showing Gülen instigating the coup attempt."
In the meantime, Prime Minister Yıldırım also responded to Kılıçdaroğlu's remarks about the July 15 coup attempt on Monday and called on him to prove his claim about July 15's being a controlled coup attempt.
Speaking to a group of merchants in Ankara, Yıldırım said: "What does a controlled coup attempt mean? Is not this an insult to our martyrs, is not this hurting their relatives and rekindling their pain? Is this recklessness towards our veterans? Some people plotted this coup, planes dropped bombs and tanks opened fire on people. The person who makes such a claim is responsible for proving it," Yıldırım said. (turkishminute.com) April 3, 2017
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kona Grill, Inc. (NASDAQ: KONA), an American grill and sushi bar, today announced that its Board of Directors appointed Marcus Jundt and Steven Schussler as Co-Chief Executive Officers of the Company.
Marcus Jundt is one of the founders of the Kona Grill concept and previously served as the Company's CEO from 2006 to 2009. Steven Schussler is the founder of several successful concepts, among the most noticeable are Rainforest Café, T-Rex Cafe, Yak & Yeti, The Boathouse, and others. Both Messrs. Jundt and Schussler are currently directors of the Company.
'The Board of Directors believes that the combined leadership and experience of Marcus and Steve will revitalize the Kona Grill brand as we focus on what has made this brand successful over the years,' said Berke Bakay, the Company's Executive Chairman of the Board.
'We thank Jim Kuhn for his time with the Company and wish him well in his future endeavors,' Bakay concluded.
'I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Kona Grill working with the team and wish the Company all the best in the future,' said Jim Kuhn.


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How to Use Webinars to Generate More Leads Lead Generation is often regarded as the most challenging, and costly, aspect of an organization's marketing efforts. But what if there was a way to reach a large and targeting audience, while capturing invaluable information about them? The answer is webinars.


Why does Google Contacts create duplicates when I sync it with my iPhone?
Whenever I sync my iPhone with Google Contacts, Google Contacts generates duplicates, sometimes triplicates of some, but not all. Also, a ";" will be inserted in some contacts.
I've asked the Google Forum, but no replies. Should I just forget it and go back to sync with Outlook?
If you go to your contacts in Gmail, you could select all and click find and merge duplicates. Worked like a charm for me!
I currently do the same thing, Shazz, but I have to do it several times a week as a third of my contacts duplicate everytime the auto iTunes WiFi sync happens.
I experienced the same thing, even after I deleted my old google account on my phone and chose to delete all existing contacts on phone before syncing.
I always thought when they sync, the updated info will automatically override the old ones but they do not, they duplicate instead. Sometimes, the old ones override the new ones, whether the new one is in the google contact or the phone contact.
So when we sync, how do we know google contacts override phone's or the other way round? It's inevitable that we update contacts either on phone or gmail so how do we avoid the above scenarios from happening again?
In the end, I resorted to conventional way - manually.
Thought to share an app which helped me to clear the duplicate contact problem with iOs5. It is called PhoneBook CleanMaster, try it, it should solve the problem in 5 minutes. The best part of it is that you have an option to examine detailed information of each contact before batch delete or merge. There are other apps, none is free. PhoneBook CleanMaster seems work best. It definitely helps when trying to sync with multiple contacts from PC or the Net.
any update on which solution worked?
go to SETTINGS -> Mail,contacts, calendars -> then to your google sync account (the one with the contacts, calendars underneath it) Delete this account. Now follow the steps again to set up a google sync account using exchange, only this time when it asks you if you want to keep your existing numbers or delete them choose delete. As long as you have all you contacts on google, the next time you go into you iphone address book they will re-populate, and you won't have any duplicates.
temporarily utilize Yahoo contacts. Here are the details ( back everything up first).
1. Ensure that all duplicates have been removed from GMail Contacts.
2. Run an iTunes sync between Google and the iPhone, forcing a replacement of all contacts on the iPhone with the Google data (i.e. in iTunes, go to Info / Advanced /Replace information on this iPhone, and check the box for Contacts).
3. Run a sync. There should be no duplicates on the iPhone.
4. On your computer, go to a Yahoo account. Make sure there are no contacts listed. If there are, delete them all.
5. Go back to iTunes, and change the Contacts sync from Google to Yahoo.
6. Run an iTunes sync. All contacts should now be migrated to Yahoo, without duplicates.
7. I don't know if I had to do this, but I ran iTunes sync a few times like this, just to make sure duplicates would not be reintroduced.
8. Run an iTunes sync between Yahoo and the iPhone, forcing a replacement of all contacts on the iPhone with the Yahoo data (i.e. in iTunes, go to Info / Advanced /Replace information on this iPhone, and check the box for Contacts).
9. Go back to iTunes, and change the Contacts sync from Yahoo to Google.
10. Run an iTunes sync between Google and the iPhone (do not force a replacement of any contacts).
it sync via iTunes too.
disable the "Synchronize with MobileMe" option at the top.
trying to make major changes.
contacts entries should be gone.
with MobileMe" option. It may/should warn you that it's deleting many entries.
iCal and Address Book should also be empty.
also have synchronized and will have an empty address book and calendar.
Hi, let us know which method worked for you, or if you still need suggestions.
OK - Well, I can only say this sort of worked. I am begining to wonder if i need to import all my Google contacts to Outlook, then delete ALL the Coogle contacts, then import the contacts from outlook back to Google.
The Yahoo method did not work at all. When I imported into Yaho only 19 of my 300+ contacts made it through -- and I tried this several times.
What seems to be working the best is to fix any issues with the google contacts in the iPhone, then sync with Google. That seems to fix both the contact list in the iPhone AND the contact list on Google.
I was not a subscriber to MobileMe and it is now no longer is around so I could not try that option.
Let me know what you think of just importing into Outlook, fixing everything, deleting everything in Google Contacts and then rebuilding the Google contcat list by importing back from Outlook.
This almost seems like too much work but then, i like a challenge.
This will eliminate all the duplicate values in that excel file. Make sure that it contains all your contacts that you need. Go to google contacts and select all your contacts and delete all. Sync the iphone and it should delete all the contacts on the phone because they are gone on Google. Then go into contacts and import your contacts excel file in which you removed all the duplicates.


What is the State Publishing Institute today? What are the specifics of working as a promotor at a publishing house with long tradition? How to use the legacy of a publishing house? Is there such a thing as "easy" and "difficult" literature in terms of promotion?


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Batman, Spidey, all of you Avengers … would you mind taking a powder for a bit? The full trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's long-awaited The Master just arrived, and forget all the summer movie superheroics we've got gracing the screen right now: This brand of beautifully shot, fully acted, intriguingly wild filmmaking is just what we need. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a dessicated Montgomery Drift alcoholic war veteran drifting through life until he meets up with Philip Seymour Hoffman, the leader of a burgeoning religious moment. Hoffman's intrigued by the utterly unmannered Phoenix and quickly welcomes the stranger into his inner circle; his wife Amy Adams, though, is wary. Also, Landry is in it! Press play already!


What Are The Five Most Dangerous Texas Towns To Live In?
When moving, we often check the crime statistics to to see if where we're thinking about moving to is a safe community. Unfortunately, not all Texas towns are created equal. According to the site Home Security Sheild, who ran the numbers from the FBI Uniform Crime Report, they've come up with the twenty most dangerous cities to live in in Texas. The site took into account the figures from FBI along with other crime statistics like violent crimes, property crimes and other reported crimes.
Of course, the list will stir up some controversy, especially from the residents of these towns, one of which is located in East Texas! Here are the top five most dangerous cities in Texas.
See the complete list of the twenty most dangerous Texas cities along with their crime ratings on the Home Security Shield.


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Three biotech CEOs say it's focused thinking, not gender, that defines them.
Was it or wasn't it a women's panel?
That was a question in the air at a recent Life Sciences Pennsylvania leadership event in King of Prussia. Christopher Molineaux, president and CEO of Life Sciences PA said no.
"We try to show the best talent we have," said Molineaux, who leads the organization that represents the state's biotechs, pharmaceutical companies and more.
Invited to the panel were Sue Dillon, president and CEO of Arō Biotherapeutics Company; Bethany Edwards, co-founder and CEO of LIA Diagnostics; and Gerri Henwood, president and CEO of Recro Pharma, Inc.
The CEOs acknowledged that they navigate a world inhabited by many male colleagues, board members and investors.
"Usually, I'm the only woman in the room," Dillon said.
"I don't think of it as courage. I think of it as determination," Dillon said, who cofounded Arō.
Dillon, who has a Ph.D. in immunology and microbiology, previously worked for several large pharmaceutical companies and oversaw clinical development of blockbuster products for autoimmune disorders.
It took two years to finalize the transfer from Johnson & Johnson, Dillon said. Working for large pharmaceutical companies was a fantastic education, but a small company can turn a laser focus on a promising research direction. Her advice: Get feedback from the external market and know what you're getting.
"You don't want to stay in your own head. You must test the case," she said.
"Hiring is the most important thing we do," Henwood said. In a small company, every hire must be a good one who adds critical competencies. Lean companies can use their small size to their advantage, though. Freed of bureaucracy, "we can go faster and we must," she said.
Edwards, CEO of LIA Diagnostics, knows a thing or two about lean organizations. For a time, her company's staff totaled just two – her and cofounder, Anna Couturier Simpson. The team grew as their company developed an entirely flushable pregnancy test, which in December received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance to be sold over the counter.
Edwards said her education, including a 2014 master's degree in integrated product design from the University of Pennsylvania, enabled her to knit together a multidisciplinary skill set that includes engineering, design and advertising.
Amy Dorfmeister, Sue Dillon, Bethany Edwards and Gerri Henwood take part in a Life Sciences Pennsylvania leadership event in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Edwards said she's "driven by curiosity and an insatiable desire to take an intangible idea and make it a reality." Winning Tech Crunch's Startup Battlefield competition in Berlin was a shot in the arm because strangers were validating LIA's concept.
Everyone loves a success story, but steel yourself for the disappointments, too, the panelists advised. Henwood pointed to her own recent experience when the FDA said it was unable to approve, in its current form, Recro Pharma's new drug application for an intravenous non-opioid pain reliever. Dillon said her young company's journey has been a lesson in uncharted territory. She said she keeps in mind the end game: to offer something completely new to patients.


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Josep Aymerich i Subirachs (la Garriga, 25 de juny del 1889 - 29 d'octubre del 1971) fou un promotor cultural, director de corals i compositor, molt vinculat al seu poble natal de la Garriga.

Inicià els seus estudis musicals amb el mestre Francesc Crusells i continuà la seva formació a l'Escola Municipal de Música de Barcelona. L'any 1906 fou nomenat organista de la parròquia de Sant Esteve de la Garriga, càrrec que ostentà durant quinze anys.

Pel gener de l'any 1913, en un acte organitzat per la Creu Roja local, dirigeix per primera vegada el Cor de l'Aliança de la Garriga, essent-ne director durant tres anys.

L'any 1915 fundà un cor d'homes titulat « El Cançoner Popular» i actua en les caramelles pasquals dels anys successius i del que sorgirà l'any 1919 l'Orfeó Garriguenc, el qual va inaugurar la seva vida pública el 30 de maig del 1920 amb un concert, en el qual intervingué el tenor Emili Vendrell i motivà la presència de l'il·lustre mestre Lluís Millet, director de l'Orfeó Català.

Dirigí també l'escolania parroquial, el cor de les Filles de Maria, el cor barceloní de Cultura Musical Popular Femenina, que havia fundat Narcisa Freixas. Acabada la guerra, Aymerich es casà amb Sofia Freixas Savall (Mont-roig del Camp, Tarragona, 21 de març del 1908 – La Garriga, Barcelona, 19 de desembre del 2002), amb qui mantingué el matrimoni fins a la seva mort. També poc després de la guerra, creà la Capella Parroquial de Música i l'any 1941 el «Quadre Líric» al redós d'un cinema anomenat l'Alhambra.

L'any 1944 reorganitzà l'Orfeó Garriguenc, cor integrat únicament per homes, obtenint els primers premis dels anys 1945, 1946 i 1947 en el Concurs de Caramelles de l'Ametlla del Vallès, i rebent també el premi extraordinari els anys 1948 i 1949.

La seva activitat principal fou la dedicació a la direcció coral, mentre que com a compositor se centrà preferentment en la música religiosa i coral, elevant-se les seves composicions a la xifra d'una seixantena.

Bibliografia
 Diversos autors. Retrats de garriguencs il·lustres (Edicions del garbell, Primera edició). La Garriga (2009).

Directors de cor catalans
Artistes garriguencs
Compositors del Vallès Oriental
Compositors catalans del sud del segle XX

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What if we worked just four days a week?
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A New Zealand estate planning firm adopted a shorter workweek yet paid everyone the same. Could that experiment inform post-pandemic workplaces? (YummyBuum/Bigstock)
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast.
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Andrew Barnes stood before an assembly of his employees and told them that, starting in about a month, everyone would work only four days a week instead of five. He'd keep on paying all of them their full salaries, and they'd keep all their benefits,
Cue the balloon drop and the confetti cannons, right?
"You can see the original announcement, which somebody recorded. The initial response was not rapturous applause," Barnes said. "It was shock and followed by nervous laughter, because what was the catch? There had to be a catch."
This was in 2018, before the pandemic upended the meaning of work for millions. And Barnes' New Zealand company, Perpetual Guardian, wasn't some plucky new startup out to disrupt things.
"The two principal units of my business had been around since the 1880s," Barnes said. "We are very much old school — trust companies are very staid, dull, boring, dependable businesses."
Estate planning is basically synonymous with stability, continuity, doing things the way they've always been done. Barnes' colleagues were skeptical of his plan, to say the least.
"Broadly, every single person on my board, every single member of the leadership team, all thought it was not going to work, and that I was mad," Barnes said.
But very conveniently, he owned a good chunk of the company. "So I said, 'Well, we're going to do it anyway," Barnes said.
And they did. Being a company founder has its perks.
"There was almost no pre-planning, other than me announcing it to the staff one day and saying, 'Right in a month's time, we're going to try this, over to you. How are you going to make it work?'"
The company-wide experiment all started because of a magazine Barnes had read on a flight the previous Christmas.
"I'd read a couple of articles in the U.K. Economist magazine that indicated that the level of productivity, true productivity, in a working day was about three hours," he said. "And what I was trying to work out was why that would be the case. And in fact, what's actually happening in my business."
There wasn't some kind of altruism driving this, or a desire to improve the lives of his workers. It was pure curiosity about something Barnes happened to be in a position to explore.
"If you are only truly productive for three hours a day, you only have to get 45 minutes of additional productivity in each of the four days to make up for that fifth day. And so that was how it started," Barnes said
It made sense, the back-of-the-envelope math, but that didn't mean it would work in the real world. And it had to work — founder or not, Barnes isn't exactly Willy Wonka, the bottom line was first and foremost on his mind.
"At the end of the day, I had private capital shareholders," Barnes said. "If I can't demonstrate that this is delivering at least the same level of productivity, it's a policy that's not going to last very long."
Andrew Barnes is founder of Perpetual Garden, a New Zealand estate planning firm that adopted a shorter workweek — yet paid everyone the same. (courtesy of Andrew Barnes)
Perpetual Guardian put out a press release announcing its plans.
It caught the eye of Jarrod Harr, a professor of human resource management at Auckland University of Technology. He saw an opportunity to do research and asked whether anyone was doing a proper study at Perpetual Guardian.
"They were like, `No, we're not. We wish we were. Are you interested?'" Harr said. "I was like, 'Yeah, for sure.' I think it was about eight or 10 days before they started."
That's skin-of-your-teeth short notice in the world of academia.
"So ironically, I worked every day and night for about seven or eight days because I had to get my paperwork done and get ethics done and ticked off," Harr said.
The type of worker at Perpetual Guardian is precisely the kind that lends itself to something like this quite easily, Harr said: the knowledge worker.
Knowledge workers, found in a lot of white-collar occupations, have great flexibility in terms of how they actually do their jobs, as opposed to, say, a nurse or a barber who physically deals with other people in one designated place, or someone who works in a place that makes things.
"For example, if I had a factory and I ran a conveyor belt of widgets or whatever, and workers are on there, can I actually make them do 20% more work a day? Maybe not," Harr said.
The flexibility of the knowledge worker was important, because Barnes didn't actually tell anyone how to maintain the same level of productivity while working one day less. He just told them to figure it out for themselves. They knew their jobs better than he did, right?
Turns out they did.
Five days become four
Meetings magically shrunk or disappeared all together. Social media use plummeted.
Some workers started using a quiet flag — you put it up at the edge of your desk, and no one breaks your flow to ask about your weekend plans.
Middle managers, who Harr found were the most apprehensive, were surprised when productivity didn't take a hit and things like customer satisfaction actually improved.
The little bits of added efficiency added up, they worked. Key to all this, Harr said, was that efficiency was actually, finally incentivized.
Think about it: In a regular office, your reward for finishing your work early is pretending to work until you can leave. What if you could just leave?
"That's why this works, right?" Barnes said. "It's that we are giving people an employee benefit you can't buy and an employee benefit you can't value. It's beyond value, because we are giving you the gift of time."
His plan was working in a "dollar and cents, keep the shareholders happy" kind of way, that was clear from the metrics Harr kept and the feedback from customers.
Barnes knew it was working in a deeper, unexpected way when he started hearing the stories, one by one, trickling in from employees.
"One of my staff was a grandfather, and he would take two afternoons off a week and he would walk home, and then he would spend his afternoon with his granddaughter and they would have tea together," Barnes said. "And then she would be picked up by his daughter and go home. And when he told the story, he would cry."
Another employee would talk about surprising his daughter during recess, the way she'd sprint the length of the playground into a leaping hug, bewildered by the sight of dad in the middle of the day.
"You think you can pry that guy out of my company now?" Barnes said.
Good luck with bringing your dog to work, or the free espresso machine. What's more precious than what Barnes was offering at Perpetual Guardian? He was paying employees cold hard New Zealand dollars, but he was also paying them in time — priceless, irreplaceable time.
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Now, that's not to say everyone was a fan of this new scheme. There were employees who actually wanted to go back to five days a week — only 3% of them.
Harr thinks maybe those workers didn't yet have families, or didn't have robust social circles. Work life was their social life.
But still, look at the breakdown: 3% against, 97% for. People loved it, overwhelmingly so.
"That's why bizarrely, when we did it, we did the trial and then we went back to five days, just to remind everybody how seriously shit it was, before we went back to the four-day week," Barnes said.
As in: Remember that clock-watching drudgery? We can go back to that if you mess around.
Perpetual Guardian still has a four day work week, but when you first start working there it's five days a week as a kind of reminder.
"Part of it is to reinforce when they go to four days, what this is worth, how valuable this is, and how unusual at the moment it is," Barnes said.
The whole experience, Barnes said, taught him that managers, especially in knowledge work, are thinking of productivity in the wrong way. Their employees don't make clothing or cars, stuff that's easy to count to figure out how productive they are being. They don't physically make anything at all.
Time, hours spent sitting at a desk, could be counted, and so that somehow got stuck as the measure of productivity, he thinks. And Barnes thinks what happened with Perpetual Guardian proves it was a bad metric all along.
What's holding the rest of us back?
Anna Coote, head of social policy at the New Economics Foundation in London, points to John Maynard Keynes — the biggest British economic mind of the 1900s — to explain.
"He predicted that by the 21st century, people would not have to work for more than 15 hours a week," Coote said. "And so he thought that challenge to us all would be how could we best use our leisure time?"
The thing about Keynes was his predictions were very right, very often. For example, some historians credit him with predicting World War II after he analyzed the punishing economic terms imposed on Germany by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
Kudos on that one, but that 15-hour workweek he predicted …
"Well, why was he so spectacularly wrong about that — when he'd been right about a great many other things?" Coote asked.
It's pretty simple, she said: Productivity shot up, while worker pay did not. We can make and do more things faster, but our paychecks don't budge as a result.
Coote and her colleagues have been advocating for a shorter workweek for over a decade. In 2010, she made the case for a 21-hour workweek.
"There was an awful lot of interest, particularly actually on radio programs," Coote said. "And I discovered that this is because an awful lot of people who worked in radio were women, and women often had kids at home and were struggling with what you call a work-life balance."
Coote thinks a shorter workweek can solve all manner of human societal problems. There's the gender lifetime earnings gap tied to motherhood, but also consumerism-driven problems such as climate change.
"It's a sustainable economy, as one that stays within planetary boundaries, that doesn't use natural resources that can't be replaced. And that doesn't, that emits fewer and fewer carbon emissions, so that we can actually survive as a civilization and have an economy at all," Coote said.
Her colleagues advocate an economy that does not measure its success by growth, but by human well-being. It's an economy that would require fewer workers, or would require the same number of workers, working less.
Tough to imagine both parts of that: a company willingly hiring more employees than they need; a politician promising no growth, GDP is staying right where it is.
It all seems kind of far-fetched, but maybe in the same way working from home once seemed far-fetched. Coote said what she's talking about — working less and living better — it's all happened before. Our working hours have become, as she put it, more civilized over time.
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Alberto Castagnetti (3 February 1943, in Verona – 12 October 2009) was an Italian swimming coach and freestyle swimmer.

As a swimmer, Castagnetti won several Italian titles swimming in relays. He swam at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships in Belgrade.

He coached the Italian national swimming team from 1987 until his death from the consequences of a heart operation in October 2009. Notable athletes he coached include Giorgio Lamberti, Domenico Fioravanti and Federica Pellegrini.

He has 4 daughters. They all love swimming and have taken after him

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It was a dark and misty night when Smoke had returned to the same little campsite she'd made for herself in the Shveki. There was a small canopy that consisted of leaves and branches, while a fire sat only a few feet away. Due to the dampness of the nighttime air, the dragoness had quickly been running out of anything dry enough to fuel the fire.
It was times like these that she'd wished she had big beautiful flames that could help keep her warm and illuminated, but alas, all she had was her smoke. Useless, ineffective smoke. Of all the afflictions she could have been born with, of course she'd been born with the one that made her an utter disappointment.
Regardless, Smoke retired to her canopy and attempted to sleep the discomfort away. Such an effort would prove to be fruitless however, as cold chills began to crawl across her bones.
With a bit of resolve, she stood up. She needed to go into town, and possibly purchase some blankets. Assuming, of course anything was still open at this time of night. She stood up, spread her wings, then launched forward and began soaring over the foliage. She'd hoped with all of her heart that someone was still awake to help her in her battle against the moist, cool air.
Haven chuckled, laughing out loud with some guards that were standing at attention outside of the village he was visiting. Giving the guard a rather... Hard pat to the back, nearly sending the soldier flying, Haven had a smile on his face. He had visited all day with the dragons here, and he was just about to leave. He was reassuring everyone that the dam would be built to proved a pool of water, and not just a trickle of water they had now. The sun had set well over an hour ago. His platoon of soldiers staying at guard. Haven gave a dashing grin once more, even under his scars, he was a handsome dragon. Haven turned to leave, before hearing wingbeats. He huffed, his guards immediately on alert. "I thought you said everyone in this village was accounted for." Haven snarled toward the guard he was just talking to.
"Your Majesty!" The village guard said, almost desperately, "All of the dragons are!"
Haven look toward the sound of the wingbeats, standing tall, his wide stance would keep his ground steady if this was an attack of some kind. "Get ready..." Haven roared to his own soldiers, he had come to make sure this village was safe, and he was going to make sure that whatever this new threat was, wouldn't even get close. Haven spread his wings suddenly, giving out a thunderous roar, shaking the trees and making dirt scatter. If anything, the dragon wouldn't even dare think about attacking now. As the wingbeats faltered at the slightest, a dragoness tumbled into view, terror on her face, Haven's mouth open, neck arched back, ready for a breath attack... Haven sputtered, coughing down his smoke, a small puff escaping his open mouth. His tail swung around, the dragon didn't even look like a threat. You told me you accounted for all your dragons!" Haven bellowed, tail slamming the ground, making rocks tumble from the houses. He growled again, fiercely swiveling his head back toward the dragoness. "I almost killed you. You shouldn't be out past curfew being this late at night! And who... Are... You." He said, lowly, voice laced with venom.
The glide over to the village had been somewhat quiet, the wind and the night air providing a peaceful serenade that lulled Smoke into a state of relaxation. Oh how she pined to simply land, curl up, and fall asleep...but she knew the nip in the air would keep her awake. It was perhaps the only thing keeping her awake during her flight.
The eruption of a loud roar made Smoke's wings lock up for a second. Her heart felt like it had jumped into her throat and, for a moment, she thought she would die from fear before whatever had made that noise could actually kill her.
Any sort of relaxation had turned to tense, trembling alertness. As she looked ahead, her eyes took a moment to properly identify a large Xoyan in the distance, one that seemed to be quite ready to attack.
Smoke fretted, thinking that perhaps she'd traveled in their territory one too many times. That perhaps her presence had finally been noted, and was now to be removed. A long list of equally horrible scenarios began to flash through her mind, while she very reluctantly made her way toward the village.
Suddenly, the large Xoyan began loudly shouting his frustration at what looked to be village guards. Upon hearing his voice, and seeing how he commanded with such ferocity, she knew there was only one dragon that possessed both traits and utilized them so effectively.
Smoke's brain felt like it didn't know what to do with her body. Should she keep flying straight? Should she turn and fly away? Was she supposed to just drop to the ground and and hide away in the nearest ditch? Admittedly, that last option was what she wanted to do most.
Ultimately, she had decided to simply land before the enraged king. She hit the ground with a thud, stumbling as she lost her footing for a moment. The king's terrifying roar had chased her basic flying knowledge out of her mind, and left her no better at flying than a weak hatchling.
The gray dragoness gulped and looked up at the dragon who stood before her, his colossal size making her tremble. It truly was him, the ruler of the Xoyans. The one whom she'd dreamed of one day meeting...but certainly not like this. The scowl, mixed with his slow and threatening words drove daggers into Smoke's chest.
"S-Sorry," she finally managed to shake out her words, "Smoke. My name is Smoke." Her head was low and her eyes were filled to the brim with fear. She looked up at him like he was an immortal god, mostly because in her eyes, he was. If he were to try and strike her down, she wouldn't do anything to stop it. As the leader of the Xoyans, his judgement was perhaps the fairest and most justified.
"I am so sorry, Kommandant Haven. I didn't know there was a curfew, please have mercy!"
He registered the small dragon, eyes boring into her. "Smoke..." She said, letting the name tumble off of his tongue. He didn't quite like how the dragoness stuttered, but he didn't blame her. He gave a sneer, his tail whipping through the air, "Smoke. This guard here-" He whacked the village guard toward the female with a mighty swoosh of his tail. The village guard screeched with surprise, trying to brace himself before hitting the ground, and his screech was cut off as his face dug into the dirt. The guard got up, staggering to all fours, horror on his face, a small scratch producing blood along his nose. His eyes instantly looked to the ground, showing full obedience.
Now, Haven was known to be a good King... But even this King had his goods and bads. His training from being on the front lines really shone brightly at times. His rough personality would escape tonight, he was mainly frustrated that he didn't get to kill a dragon tonight. His distaste for bad leadership and guarding capabilities just... Rubbed his scales the wrong way.
Haven's guards stood at full attention, not flinching once as the village guard was thrown to the ground, quite roughly even. The full moon shone on Haven, and his large figure poured a mighty shadow down on the newcomer and village guard. His scales shimmered in the light, reflecting a dark, deep, and soft purple along the wooden wall behind him.
"Y-Yo-Your Majesty I-" The village guard began. Haven snarled a wicked snarl, the King's wings blasting open, sending a gush of air in all directions, his neck arched forward, like a snake spraying venom, "You speak when I tell you to speak." He spat, "Is this one of your village members?" Haven asked, non to politely as he stepped down from the step he was perched on, his talons digging into the ground as if it were butter. He left large footprints. He walked up to the guard and the female who was seemingly begging for her life. She was small, maybe fragile, but every dragon was fragile in his eyes. She showed respect, good thinking for a dragon he almost slaughtered.
The guard finally got a closer look to the dragoness that was before them, his eyes growing wide. If he lied to the King, he'd be killed. If he said this dragon wasn't a dragon he had ever seen before.. He would get them both killed. The village guard gulped, "I-I... I..."
Haven slammed his foot on the ground, trembling it. "Is it a yes or no." His strong accent would reverberate through both of the dragon's skulls as he was standing so close.
The guard took a deep gulp of air again, shaking like a leaf. "No... I... Don't know this dragon..." He looked at Smoke with terror on his face, Haven giving a tremendous roar that would nearly blow their eardrums. The guard reached for Smoke, tears streaming down his face before Haven's teeth were around his neck, blood spurting and sprayed upward. Bones could be heard being snapped, his skull being crushed within the weight of Haven's jaw. Haven lifted his head quickly with a slight angled degree and... Once the guard had a head... And the next... It was gone. Maybe the King could kill someone tonight... Thankfully it wasn't Smoke.
Haven wiped his mouth, breathing a deep sigh as he stood there, almost disappointed. It seemed as if he'd eaten the head of the guard. "That was the Head of Defense here." He said, almost sadly, and mainly to himself but where Smoke stood, she'd hear him. He'd place new guards here, straight from the castle to protect this town, which was filled with drunk, old, and fat dragons. Haven would whip them into shape real quick.
He turned to Smoke, taking a deep breath, "Yes well... What are you? Rouge? I hope you're not a rouge. I just killed about 50 of them last week." He rose both of his crested eyebrows, giving a slight shrug, "What you say next will keep your life."
Most of Smoke's fear came from not knowing how the Kommandant would react to her presence. In addition to that, she absolutely dreaded being given any sort of attention, be it positive or negative. Albeit, at this point should would certainly rather be in a position where he was praising her for something rather than glowering.
The gray dragoness scolded herself. What was she thinking? Of course the Xoyans wouldn't take kindly to a stranger flying in and out of their lands. Smoke only did it because she assumed nobody would really notice nor care what she did, the same as many others in her life.
Regardless, such an assumption might just end up costing her her life.
Much to the dragoness' surprise, one of the guards was struck by the mighty king's tail and pushed roughly forward and onto the ground. She stared at him with wide eyes, observing him for a moment before recognizing his face. She'd seen him before. In fact, she'd stalked him for a little bit when she first discovered the village, keeping notes on his mannerisms and schedule in the journal that was still tied securely to her front leg.
Despite the conclusions some might have drawn with her actions, she certainly didn't feel any affection towards the guard. She was simply enthralled with Xoyans in general, and he happened to pass by when she was looking for one to follow. They'd exchanged a few words when she asked for directions to a local shop, but not much beyond that.
When Smoke's eyes returned to Haven, she was immediately greeted with a majestic sight. The moon had danced off his scales with such grace, reflecting beauty onto the wooden wall behind him and his stoic guards. The figure before her was a mountain of cold judgement. A colossal monument to how insignificant she was in this world.
His body looked indestructible, while his presence carried a weight that made Smoke's legs falter. It felt as though his mere gaze brought a great force down against her back, pushing her down in an attempt to make her lower than the dirt she stood upon.
Thus far, what she felt upon meeting the king was much more powerful than what she'd expected.
Smoke flinched from the air that was pushed forward by the large ruler's wings. The guard had apparently spoken out of turn, and seemed to be being reminded of his place. Even a Stormcaller knew better than to give anything but respect to a Xoyan superior.
That was when Haven had asked if Smoke herself was a village member.
The gray dragoness froze in terror. Why would he ask such a question? What was going to happen depending on the guard's answer? By no means was she a Xoyan, in fact, she never attempted to join their tribe because she knew full well she wasn't strong enough. Only the best dragons deserved to be part of such a group...and that certainly wasn't her.
The guard had stammered, and Haven stamped and shouted in a way that rattled her bones. It was enough to make her lower herself until her underbelly was brushing against the dirt. Her eyes were shut tight as she awaited the final judgement, her heart beating her chest as though it were trying to escape.
"Please, please, please, please…" she murmured under her breath.
The guard presented his answer. Though she couldn't quite see what was happening, Smoke heard a loud roar, and something splattering against the scales on her face. Opening her eyes and looking to the left, she nearly yelped at the now headless corpse that was laying on the ground. Of course she'd learned some time ago that screaming never solved anything, even if she'd seen something traumatizing.
When her grandfather had scarred her with words or weapons, screaming only made things worse. It drew attention to her and provided too much insight into her thoughts. Insead she just stayed silent...as always.
Perhaps the only thing she felt like she'd mistakenly done was look up into Haven's eyes and stare at them for a moment, even after he'd queried her about who she was. She couldn't take her eyes off of him. He was so ruthless and firm with his decisions, both traits that made a ruler great in Smoke's eyes.
"I'm from the Sto--" Smoke's words slowly creaked, until she felt her throat tighten up and a brief fit of coughing escape her. She coughed up small puffs of smoke, while at the same time trying to recompose herself. After about a minute, she stopped coughing and sat with a straight posture.
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Memphis Majorettes and Drummers at the Sophisticated Divas Jamboree
Although there are fall jamborees, the cold winter months are the high point of majorette jamboree season in Memphis. Majorette jamborees exist in other cities, but they are a unique part of Memphis culture, at least in their original incarnation, where drill teams and majorettes worked out routines to beats and grooves provided by a squad of drummers. This concept dates at least as far back as the late 1960's, and at least one such squad, the Klondike Drum and Bugle Corps, was described in a Commercial Appeal article in 1970 as doing a step called the "Moonwalk", long before Michael Jackson became famous for it. Unfortunately, the majorette jamborees I recall from my teenage years are largely a thing of the past, as today's majorettes tend to work out their routine to popular songs on compact discs rather than drums and drummers. However, at the Sophisticated Divas jamboree at the JIFF Center in Downtown Memphis last Saturday, at least three of the competing groups included drummers, so the traditional format is at least hanging on by a thread. The Millennium Madness Drill Team has always included drummers, but this year's squad is larger than what I've seen in the past. The Black Diamonds had a drum squad that competed in one category, and Crump Elementary always has a drum squad and a majorette team. The rest of the competitors were working out to recordings, but I was also impressed with a local dance group known as M-Town Image. A number of reasons have been proposed for why drill teams and majorettes have dispensed with drummers, including lack of money or equipment, lack of interested young men wanting to play, and lack of suitable percussion instructors. In a city where there are far too few wholesome activities for young people, particularly young men, here's hoping that someone steps up to get the young men interested in playing drums, or other musical instruments.
"The Whole Wild Creation": Mardi Gras Indian Practice at Handa Wanda
The Black Indians of New Orleans have always fascinated me. I read about them long before I had ever seen one. Their culture is ancient (perhaps as far back as the 19th century), and fairly secret, although the recording of musical albums shed some light on the otherwise mysterious subculture, and the Indians seem less shy of the cameras and spotlights these days, perhaps recognizing public awareness as a potential ally in helping to preserve the culture.
Certainly, in the old days, I would not have been able to attend an Indian practice. Such events were unpublicized, held in obscure neighborhood bars and generally closed to outsiders unless one was invited. But nowadays, some of the practices are listed on the events boards for WWOZ, Gambit or OffBeat, and one of the early arrivers for the morning's second-line had mentioned that a practice would be going on that night at a club called Handa Wanda, so I knew that I didn't want to be anywhere else.
The Mardi Gras Indians (really a misnomer, since the gangs of Indians exist year-round) are groups of working-class Black men who "mask Indian" and are organized into what they call "gangs" rather than "tribes." At one time, before Hurricane Katrina, there were said to be 25 of these gangs, with names like the Wild Magnolias, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Creole Wild West and so on. They traditionally appeared on Mardi Gras day, and on St. Joseph's Night, a Catholic holiday associated with working men. By the early 1970's, a third holiday had been added called Super Sunday in March, held on different weekends for the Uptown and Downtown tribes, giving them an opportunity to show off their elaborate, homemade costumes. The tradition would seem to be ancient. Earliest references to Black men masquerading as Indians in New Orleans can be found in newspapers from the late 19th century, and through the first five decades of the 20th century, confrontations between these gangs of Indians could occasionally grow violent. Much of the violence began to subside during the 1960's, and the emphasis shifted to beautiful, intricate costumes, and following a protocol of danced combat when gangs meet in the streets.
But Hurricane Katrina had devastated the Indian tradition, much like she devastated every other aspect of New Orleans. Prior to the storm, most Indian gangs had separate practices in their neighborhood bars, but the practice I was attending tonight was billed as a "Unified Indian Practice", meaning a practice at which members of multiple tribes could participate, at least in part perhaps because there are fewer tribes and fewer practices these days. Like all Black Indian activities, the practice began with the singing of "My Indian Red", a song that Indians refer to as a prayer. Its lyrics state "Indians of the nation, the whole wild creation, we won't bow down, on that dirty ground" setting forth the bravery and pride that characterized the tradition's earliest years. After that, there were about five or six drummers on stage, with two bass drums, congas and bongos, and to the insistent rhythm they started, the Indians in the hall began to run through their traditional chants, all of them structured in typical African call-and-response, and including many fragments of an Indian language that is rather mysterious. Such words as "handa wanda, hoo-don-day, two-way-pock-e-way, jockamo fin-na-nay" are all examples of this language that are likely familiar to New Orleans music fans through their incorporation into popular song. Just exactly what these phrases actually mean, however, is something of a mystery. Scholars have suggested links with Spanish or French words, but many of their conclusions are far-fetched, and cannot be proven anyway.
On occasions, the big chief who was presiding over the practice grew annoyed when he didn't feel enough people were singing the words. "You should know these songs. This is the reason a lot of big chiefs don't hold practices anymore," he said. "The culture is dying, and we are trying to keep it alive." But the culture didn't seem dead on this particular night. It seemed as alive as ever. The room had been somewhat chilly before the practice, but it was downright hot now. The drummers' faces were covered with sweat, the Indians in the middle of the room danced and jumped to the rhythm with enthusiasm, and those around the edges of the room and upstairs cheered them on. Aesthetically, it could have been a scene from the Caribbean or even from Africa, but it was actually right in the 3rd Ward of New Orleans, not a block from where our second-line had passed earlier in the afternoon. All too soon, the practice came to an end. If it hadn't, I probably would have remained there all night.
From Zion City to 2nd & Dryades: The Lady Jetsetters Uptown with the Stooges Brass Band
Last year, the Lady Jetsetters second-line had started in the new apartments that replaced the Calliope projects, but this year the starting point was a placed called Ed's Bar in a neighborhood to the north called Zion City, caught in a triangle between Washington Avenue, Earhart Boulevard and South Broad Street. I had never heard of Zion City, but as I walked its streets toward the parade's starting point, I was amazed at how isolated and rural it looked. A lot of houses and buildings were abandoned, and clearly this area had not come back much since the hurricane. But some of the houses were occupied, there were a few churches, and a bicycle repair shop for the neighborhood kids, and a tiny bar tucked between two houses where vendors and second-liners had gathered. Soon some musicians began to appear as well, members of the Stooges Brass Band who had been engaged for the day's events. The weather was warm and pleasant, and as we headed out Washington Avenue, we were already a large group. Like all second-lines, the crowd grew bigger as we proceeded, and the dancers became more exuberant, with young men jumping up on roofs and slamming street signs as we came to intersections. Toward the end of the afternoon, the Stooges began playing a number of crowd favorites, including Deniece Williams' "Cause You Love Me Baby" and Mel Waiters' "Got My Whiskey". Although the parade disbanded at the Foxx II on Washington Avenue, it wasn't all that far away from where we began, and it was easy enough to walk it.
A TBC Brass Band Gig at Midnight in Avondale
After dinner, I had tried to go to the Kermit Ruffins/Rebirth Brass Band show at Tipitina's, but they would not allow me inside because I had camera equipment. And TBC had a gig in Avondale anyway, so I headed out to New Orleans East and checked into my motel room, and by that point it was time to head to the Avondale gig, which started at midnight. The location proved to be another hole-in-the-wall club, this one across the street from a large and busy truckstop on Highway 90. The event was apparently a birthday party, and the little club was packed to overflowing, but somehow or other the crowd parted and TBC made their way inside to play for around 20 minutes or so, then marched back out the door and disbanded outside. By then it was nearly 1 in the morning, and I decided to call it a night.
The TBC Brass Band Parading in the Vieux Carre @TBC_BrassBand
Normally, when I drive into New Orleans, my first order of business is to hit a restaurant and get something to eat, but on this particular Saturday, Darren Towns, my bass-drumming partner from the TBC Brass Band had told me that the band had a gig in the French Quarter at 5 PM, so I came straight off the Causeway and headed into the Treme neighborhood, because there's always free parking available near the Treme Coffeehouse, and when the weather is fairly pleasant and warm, as this day was, the walk is not difficult and rather enjoyable. Unfortunately, I arrived at the museum where the parade was to start a little late, and the band and revelers had already left. I actually had already run into them as I was passing Jackson Square, but I didn't recognize them because the tuba player was playing a green tuba, and I had never seen Bunny from the TBC with a green tuba. Finding everything dead around the Pharmacy Museum, I decided that the band I had seen must have been TBC after all, so following the distant sounds I heard, I caught back up with them on Royal Street. My eye caught Darren's and he smiled, and tourists in the quarter were lining the street and filming. The occasion was actually just a private wedding, but quite a crowd was assembling all the same. We headed around the Supreme Court of Louisiana building and finally ended up at K Paul's Restaurant, where the whole thing came to an end. It was a great way to start a weekend in New Orleans, and Bunny and Darren decided to meet me at Frankie and Johnny's uptown for some seafood.
Devin Crutcher and the 4 Soul Band Live at the Ice Bar in Southwind @IceBarMemphis @DevinCrutch901
Memphis soul singer Devin Crutcher comes from a legendary musical family in Memphis, the family of Stax songwriter Bettye Crutcher, and is probably the most in-demand male singer in the city today. He can be heard at different venues most nights of any week in Memphis, but it is not so common for him to appear with the excellent 4 Soul Band, which my friend Otis Logan is the drummer for. So when I heard that Devin Crutcher would be performing with 4 Soul and some sort of fashion and hair extravaganza at the Ice Bar on a Sunday night, I made plans to be there. 4 Soul is one of the city's best soul and funk bands, and Devin is one of the best singers, so his brief two sets of music were a treat indeed, separated by a brief fashion show.
Otis Logan and the 4 Soul Band at the Kickback at @HiToneMemphis
My homeboy Otis Logan had told me about an event that Devin Steel of K-97 was sponsoring at the Hi-Tone called the Kickback. The party was to feature several DJ's, back by Otis on drums, and Otis' band 4 Soul was supposed to play as well, so I decided to go. The new Hi-Tone on Cleveland seems somewhat smaller than the old Hi-Tone, but it filled up quickly. For most of the evening, Otis was on drums behind several different DJ's, soloing, adding fills and breakdowns and amplifying the grooves. Briefly, the whole 4 Soul Band played behind the DJ's as well. The drum and DJ format is new to Memphis, but the crowd seemed to enjoy themselves.
TBC Brass Band At A Party In Gentilly @TBC_BrassBand
The TBC Brass Band had two gigs on the Sunday night after Thanksgiving, but fortunately, there was enough time between the first one and the second one for my homeboy Darren and I to grab dinner at a new spot in Uptown New Orleans on Freret Street called the Hi Hat. The second gig was at a little hole-in-the-wall club in Gentilly that had a crowd spilling out onto the front lot and the street. This event was apparently also a birthday party, but instead of having the band come inside the tiny club, the decision was made to have them play on the outside and then parade around the neighborhood with the revelers. It was wild, but the whole thing amounted to a little late-night second-line that lasted about 20 minutes. Altogether, it was a lot of fun.
A Birthday Party in New Orleans East with the TBC Brass Band @TBC_BrassBand
At the end of the second-line, my homeboy Darren had to leave out quickly because the To Be Continued Brass Band had a gig at an apartment complex in New Orleans East, and I wanted to go as well, so we headed out there as quickly as we could, and found that it was a birthday party. With the weather so warm, a huge crowd of people came out to the courtyard to dance and party as TBC played. On trombone was Edward "Juicy" Jackson, just back from Southern University in Baton Rouge (the Bayou Classic had been the day before), and it was great to see him. The band played for about a half hour, and then we all headed out.
Parading Uptown with the Lady Buckjumpers and the Stooges and Rebirth Brass Bands
In New Orleans, "buckjumping" is another name for second-lining (in Memphis, it refers to "gangsta walking"), but the term "buckjump" seems to have masculine connotations, and by some accounts, in the earlier days of Black New Orleans culture, it was not common for women to second-line. So, when a group of women started a social aid and pleasure club, they named it the Lady Buckjumpers. Nowadays, they have a men's auxiliary called the Male Buckjumpers, and their uptown New Orleans parade in November featured two brass bands, the Stooges and the Rebirth, and was one of the largest second-lines I have ever seen. Despite being the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the weather was warm and sunny, and there was a decent crowd at the beginning of the parade route, and of course second-lines pick up participants as they proceed. Here and there, exuberant dancers jumped up on power boxes, roofs, porches, and even graves as we passed by a cemetery, while others slammed the street signs as hard as they could, a tradition whose rationale has been lost to time. At each stop along the route, the crowd seemed to grow larger, and at one of them, the Rebirth Brass Band didn't take the break, but rather gathered in a circle and played a haunting rendition of "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday." The act seemed a ritual, probably in honor of fallen musicians. My homeboy Darren from the TBC Brass Band had come with me, and fortunately, he had left his car at one end of the parade, and I had left mine at the other, as this was one of those second-lines that ended several miles away from where it started. At the end of it, I was thoroughly tired, but the pleasant sort of tired, for nobody can really leave a second-line unhappy.
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Midland is a community in Springfield Parish, Kings County in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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See also
List of communities in New Brunswick

Neighbouring communities
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Communities in Kings County, New Brunswick


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Of course, those who inhabit only the digital world shouldn't cackle too loudly: As Fabrice Grinda observes, start-up owners behave just the same way--refusing to sell a dollar of equity as prices drop...right up until they run out of cash.
When will our economy recover? When US homeowners finally wake up and realize that their houses are worth what someone will pay for them (and let this be a lesson to digital entrepreneurs, too).


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How to Schedule Recurring Messages in Slack (2 Methods)
Home > Slack > How to Schedule Recurring Messages in Slack (2 Methods)
In this article, we'll cover two methods you can use to schedule recurring messages in Slack (either to yourself or to teammates):
The first method is natively through Slack's built-in slash commands.
The second method is using Geekbot (our free tool), which is free for teams with 10 or fewer active users.
Note: Geekbot offers a great deal of customization and functionality, which could be well suited for your team's needs. Click here to create a free account.
Method #1: Slack's Built-In Slash Commands
Per this article on Slack's blog, you can easily send recurring messages to yourself at certain dates and times using the /remind command.
Examples of slash commands include:
/remind me to check emails at 2:30 p.m. every weekday.
/remind me to complete a tax analysis on the 15th of every month.
/remind me to send @jennifer an email about the status of the report in two hours.
Then, at the specified time, you'll receive a Slackbot message about the reminder. For example:
You can also use the /remind command to schedule a recurring message to specific teammates (rather than a self-reminder).
For example, Slack's content team uses the #team-editorial channel to run daily meetings every weekday at 9:45 a.m. using the following command:
/remind #team-editorial Hey @editorial-team What's on today? every weekday at 9:45am
This is a great, simple method of sending recurring messages in Slack.
Method #2: Geekbot (Our Free Tool Which Integrates with Slack)
Geekbot (our free tool) lets you run asynchronous standups, retrospectives, polls, surveys (and more) inside Slack.
It offers a great deal of customization and functionality, which could be well suited for your team's needs. We've helped 170,000+ users and teams within GitHub (see case study), Shopify (see case study), Zapier (see case study), and more.
A High-Level Overview: How Geekbot Works
While you could use Geekbot to schedule self-reminders in Slack, its main purpose is to help teams run quick and efficient meetings.
At a high level, with Geekbot, you:
Decide which meeting question(s) you'd like to send in Slack. For example, you could send one question such as, "What's your most important task for today?", or you could send multiple questions, as in the case of a daily standup or retrospective meeting.
Decide to which teammates you'd like to send those questions.
Decide how often to send those questions (e.g., on a one-off basis or on a recurring schedule, such as daily, biweekly, monthly, and so on).
Decide in which Slack channel to post the responses.
At the scheduled time, each meeting participant receives a direct message in Slack, asking them to answer the question(s). In the example below, Kate answers the standard standup questions:
Each teammate's response is posted in your designated Slack channel:
Here, teammates can skim through the responses and either complete the meeting or reply via thread (if a particular response requires their attention).
In the screenshot below, Kate tagged Brandon regarding a specific question that only pertains to them, and they resolved it via a Slack thread without interrupting other team members:
Decide Which Questions You'd Like to Send in Slack
Geekbot offers a wide variety of templates with prefilled questions. However, you can add, delete, or edit questions to your liking.
There are several templates for Scrum meetings. For example, if you select the "Retrospective" template, then Geekbot will default to these questions:
What didn't go so well?
What have you learned?
What still puzzles you?
There are also templates with fun team bonding questions. For example, if you select the "Pizza Toppings" template, then Geekbot will send out a random set of icebreaker questions. There are approximately 200 icebreaker questions in our dataset, including:
What's your favorite food?
These are just two examples of templates you can choose from, and again, you can change the default questions to your liking.
Customize the Schedule
With Geekbot, you have full control over how often the questions are sent in Slack. For example, they could be sent one time only (not recurring), or, they could be sent:
Every weekday.
Weekly on Monday and Friday.
Biweekly on Tuesday.
Every three weeks on a Friday.
First Friday of every month.
Last Friday of every month.
These are just a few examples. No matter how you'd like to schedule the questions, Geekbot gives you the ability to fully customize the options.
In addition, you can schedule questions to be sent in a teammate's local time zone:
This way, no matter which geographical region someone is in (e.g., Barcelona, San Diego, Beijing), they all receive the questions at the same local time(e.g., 9:00 a.m.), rather than at a less appropriate time outside of work hours.
Optional Reminder Notifications
For the sake of example, let's say a teammate was in the middle of a difficult coding task and entered a state of flow.
Then, they received a notification in Slack from Geekbot asking them to answer the meeting questions, but decided to save it until after they were done with their task.
However, it ended up slipping their mind, and they forgot to complete their responses. This commonly happens, especially on days with a frantic schedule.
To avoid this issue, Geekbot gives each teammatethe option toset up reminder notifications:
For example, if someone forgot to complete their responses within two hours, then they could configure Geekbot to send them a reminder notification in Slack.
Or, you could configure a reminder notification to be sent every 30 mins, every two hours, every five hours, and so on.
These are just a few examples, and each teammate can customize the intervals in which they receive reminders. However, again, this feature is completely optional and is turned off by default, so as to not be intrusive.
Easily Find Past Answers via Geekbot's Dashboard
While all the answers are posted in a central Slack channel, you can also view them in Geekbot's dashboard, which is searchable by keyword or date.
On Slack's free plan, messages older than 90 days are hidden, so this feature is especially useful if you'd like to search for answers that are over three months old.
Geekbot's Team Happiness Graph
If you add the question, "How do you feel today?" to your meetings, then Geekbot will analyze the sentiment of the responses, classify them as "Happy", "Unhappy", or "Neutral", and map them on a graph:
The graph is easily digestible and allows you to quickly understand the sentiment of the team.
If, for example, there's an overwhelmingly negative sentiment, then you can identify the issue (e.g., work overload) and work to address it.
Or, if there's a very positive sentiment, then you can also identify the reason (e.g., employees feeling appreciated) and continue or double down on what's working.
Explore Geekbot's Other Features and Functionality
We've covered just a few of Geekbot's key features and functionality. To explore further, feel free to visit our site and view a product tour. We're also happy to answer any questions via live chat.
Geekbot is free for teams with 10 or fewer active users. For large teams, the price is $2.50/active user/month if billed annually, or $3.00/active user/month if billed monthly.
Start a free Geekbot account here.
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A port authority is a governmental or quasi-governmental body that operates ports and other transportation infrastructure.
PA2: The Director's Cut is the second solo studio album by Canadian hip hop producer Marco Polo, released on November 12, 2013 via Soulspazm Records. The first installment of the Port Authority series was released in 2007 under Soulspazm and Rawkus. In May 2013, the second installment of the Newport Authority series, Newport Authority 2, was released for free as a prelude to PA2.
The self-produced album is narrated by New York actor/director Michael Rapaport and features guest appearances from Talib Kweli, Posdnuos, Masta Ace, Kardinal Offishall, Styles P, Lil Fame, Gangrene, MC Eiht, King Tee, Celph Titled, Large Professor, Inspectah Deck, Rah Digga, Slaine, Ill Bill, Organized Konfusion, and The Doppelgangaz among others. Scratches on PA2 are provided by DJ Revolution, DJ Premier, Shylow (of First Division), DJ Linx and DJ Romes.
The album was preceded by one single – "3-O-Clock," an Organized Konfusion reunion track, along with four promotional singles: "G.U.R.U.," a tribute to the late Gang Starr emcee featuring Talib Kweli and DJ Premier, "Astonishing" featuring Large Professor, Inspectah Deck, O.C., Tragedy Khadafi and DJ Revolution, "West Coast Love" featuring MC Eiht, King Tee and DJ Revolution, and "Strange Brew" featuring Gangrene and DJ Romes.


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Cherechiu – gmina w Rumunii, w okręgu Bihor. Obejmuje miejscowości Cherechiu, Cheșereu i Târgușor. W 2011 roku liczyła 2416 mieszkańców.

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Saint Stephen's is a parish of the Anglican Catholic Church, a world-wide denomination of "continuing" Anglicans. By "continuing" we mean Anglican Christians that have "continued" the "faith once delivered." We are often referred to as "conservative", but we are actually not. We are orthodox Christians that believe that which God has revealed since the creation of man has remained the same. Thus, although social norms and customs may change, the Church remains unchanged. A great way to describe us is "An unchanging Church in an ever changing world." That might seem strange in this present day, but our Lord reminds us that although we must live in the world, we are not to conform to it.
As a "traditional" parish, we use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, King James version of the Bible, and 1940 Hymnal as our standards of worship. This means that at any ACC parish you might attend anywhere in the world, the service will be almost identical.
Saint Stephen's is a loving, welcoming community of folks from all walks of life. We are often described as a "spiritual melting pot" as our members originally came from a variety of denominations including Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and many with Jewish backgrounds. What unites us is a desire for Biblical teaching/preaching, traditional liturgical worship, and adherence to solid moral principles.
In addition to Sunday and weekday worship, multiple opportunities for Bible study and other instruction, there are numerous organizations within the parish that offer venues for service and fellowship. These include monthly Men's Dinners and Women's Groups, Cub Scouts, Choir, Altar Guild, Flower Guild, Acolytes and Lay Readers, just to name a few. We also support our foreign missions and the "ARK" our local social service agency.
This site contains multiple pages with further details on our beliefs, style of worship, and contact information. We encourage you to read through our entire site. Chances are, your questions will be answered. We also encourage you to call or stop by the Church office for additional information. Of course, the best way to get to know us is to join us for Sunday worship and fellowship!
We Welcome You to St. Stephen's!


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Pierre Louis Eugène Adam (24 April 1924 – 24 September 2012) was a French cyclist. He was born in Paris. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together with Fernand Decanali, Charles Coste and Serge Blusson.

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She was born in Milan in 1975 and graduated with a master's degree from the Domus Academy in Milan in 2000. Her projects range from bijoux and fashion to lighting and furnishings. She has taken part in various editions of the Salone Satellite. Her experimental Bosco series, seating and rugs with natural leaves and moss, is part of the Dilmos Edizioni collection. Her exhibitions include: the Biennial in Saint Etienne, Inside Amsterdam, the Seoul Design Festival and the Moss gallery in New York. She has a fresh new narrative talent fuelled by naturalistic references.


The Hartree Centre's Alison Kennedy and Michael Gleaves recently returned from presenting at the International Industrial Supercomputing Workshop (link opens in a new window), which took place 22-23 September 2016 at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (link opens in a new window).
The annual gathering of industrial partnership programs from leading high performance computing (HPC) centres around the world provides a unique opportunity for discussion and engagement between geographically diverse organisations with similar goals for industrial collaboration using supercomputing technologies and expertise.
The event allows HPC organisations spanning five continents to share strategies, success stories, technical challenges and discuss best practice with other international centres of expertise in the field. It also promotes and provides opportunities to identify international collaborations.
The 2016 workshop saw a stronger emergence of themes such as the internet of things (IoT) and cognitive computing technologies, within which our own interest and application activities at the Hartree Centre have grown significantly over the last year. Common challenges discussed included sustainability, and difficulty in engaging with and identifying businesses, particularly SMEs, that could benefit from the application of data intensive computing capabilities – although largely the uptake of these technologies was seen to be on the rise.
Michael Gleaves, Deputy Director of the Hartree Centre, presented an overview of the Hartree Centre's current activities and practices. Alison Kennedy, Director of the Hartree Centre, also spoke at the workshop in relation to her role as Chair of the Board of Directors for PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), an organisation whose mission is to enable high impact scientific discovery and engineering research and development across all disciplines, throughout Europe, using world class computing and data management resources.


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The benefits of eating a plant-based diet are becoming widely popular as results show it's better for your health and your waistline. Vegetarians have an easier time today locating restaurants that serve compliant meals thanks to the increase in popularity of meatless meals.
Breakfast is usually the meal that forms the foundation for the rest of the day. For years we've been hearing about the benefits of eating a wholesome breakfast. For vegetarians and vegans, this can be difficult with meat options coming with commonly served breakfast platters and sandwiches.
Between Rounds has options like bagels that could be topped with cream cheese or jam as well as egg and cheese sandwiches that could be compliant for ovo-lacto vegetarians.
When you think of sandwiches, you might be picturing a meaty layers between bread, but there is still a way to eat hearty sandwiches and wraps while skipping the meat.
Between Rounds offers a mediterranean wrap that comes with fresh mozzarella, roasted peppers, lettuce, and tomato drizzled with balsamic vinegar in a spinach wrap.
There is also an American Veggie that has american cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and roasted peppers with Between Rounds' own Vidalia onion and peppercorn dressing inside of a sundried tomato wrap.
Salads are usually a safe bet when you can include compliant ingredients. Between Rounds salads are well rounded and can be customized to meet each customer's specific dietary needs.
A few of those options include a garden salad with mixed field greens and romaine lettuce with tomato, red onion, carrot, red cabbage, and croutons. Or a Caesar salad with romaine lettuce topped with parmesan cheese, croutons, and caesar dressing.
If you're not in the mood for veggies there are also a seasonal fresh fruit cup option available and delicious baked danishes and other sweets to choose from.
Choosing to not eat meat is no longer an inconvenience. With a little customizing, swapping ingredients and knowing what stores offer compliant options, it's easier than ever to forgo meaty options for nutritious veggies instead.
Visit one of our CT locations for fresh, delicious vegetarian menu options for breakfast and lunch today!


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Capitals' Laing diagnosed with swine flu
By Corey Masisak - The Washington Times - Thursday, October 29, 2009
Swine flu is seeping into NHL locker rooms, and the Washington Capitals are now on the list of the teams dealing with the virus.
Forward Quintin Laing was sent home before the team's morning skate Tuesday, and a team spokesman revealed Wednesday that Laing has been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus.
"He's currently at home being treated and is isolated," team spokesman Nate Ewell said. "No one else on the team is currently showing any symptoms. The proper terminology is that he was diagnosed but not tested. He was tested for the seasonal flu. That turned up negative, but he was showing symptoms for H1N1, so he's being treated as such."
Laing was not tested for swine flu, but Ewell said that is common practice because the test is costly. Reports of two other NHL players, Doug Weight of the New York Islanders and Mike Commodore of the Columbus Blue Jackets, having swine flu also came to light Wednesday and brought the number of known cases in the league to five.
There was no official timetable for Laing's return. Tyler Sloan, who is Laing's roommate on the road, has been in contact with Laing's wife, Aimee, and said Laing won't be allowed to rejoin the team for at least five days from the time he got sick.
The Caps had a team meeting before practice Wednesday, and trainer Greg Smith detailed the necessary precautions for the other players. The team wants its players to wash their hands regularly, avoid shaking hands when possible and be cognizant of eating and sleeping properly.
"We're taking all the precautions we can to be hygienic," defenseman Brian Pothier said. "I don't think as a team we're sitting here as a team panicking that other guys are going to get it. I think we just have to take care of ourselves, and if you get it, just take care of it."
Sloan, who filled in for Laing on Tuesday against Philadelphia, is taking flu medication as a precaution but pronounced himself healthy Wednesday.
"I'm not too concerned or worried about it," he said. "Everyone has been very careful. I've been pretty careful - washing my hands, drinking hot liquids, gargling with Listerine - anything to keep me clear."
Some of the Caps know all too well that a teamwide bout with the flu can be a hazardous situation. The Caps got off to a surprising start during the 2006-07 season, but the flu made its way through the dressing room in December, and the team never recovered from the long losing streak that followed.
"It is tough because when we're on the ice you have to be at a high level to compete and be quick and strong and just have the endurance that we work so hard to build up," Pothier said. "That just comes in and wipes everything out. You have no strength, no stamina, no endurance - it sucks to be sick and play hockey. You're just like a zombie on the ice."
• Corey Masisak can be reached at cmasisak@washingtontimes.com.


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Taxes, safety and freedom: Reasons why people are leaving Democratic states
Alvaro Colombres Garmendia | TheBL 12/23/21, 04:29
The electric car company Tesla, moved its factory from California to Austin, Texas Nov. 2021 (CNBC Television/YouTube)
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2021 reveals that, during 2021, more people moved from Democrat-run states to those governed by Republicans due to the rising cost of living, insecurity, and pandemic mitigation measures.
Washington DC, which is not a state, lost almost 3 percent of its population from April of last year to now, followed by New York, which lost 1.6 percent, Illinois nearly 1 percent, Hawaii and California suffered a 0.7 percent decline.
Meanwhile, the states that experienced the most significant population gains were those governed by Republicans, starting with Idaho with an increase of nearly 3 percent, followed by Utah at 1.7 percent, Montana at 1.7 percent, Arizona at 1.4 percent, and South Carolina at 1.2.
Florida and Texas, the two states most criticized by the mainstream media and the Biden administration for their opposition to the Democrats' mask-wearing, school closings, critical race theory, and immigration policies, had 1 percent growth, although substantially, Texas was the state that received the most major business from California because of its flexible tax and regulatory policies with business.
According to Fox News, due to the size of each state, the largest internal migration increases occurred in Florida, which received 220,890 new residents, followed by Texas and Arizona. The most extensive domestic migration loss occurred in California, which lost 367,299 residents, followed by New York and Illinois.
The southern states were the only region with a positive net internal migration of 657,682 between 2020 and 2021. On the other hand, the Northeast lost 389,638 net over the same period.
High taxes, insecurity, and individual freedoms
In September, the Hoover Institute released a report revealing that hundreds of companies closed their California offices to move to Texas primarily because of high taxes and invasive business regulations.
California was ranked as the worst state to do business in and Texas as the best.
From 2018 to 2021, of the top 256 companies that had their offices in California, 114 moved to Texas, where the flexibility to open a business and low taxes attract entrepreneurs.
Among the most well-known companies that left California because of the hostile environment for business are Hewlett Packard, Tesla, and Oracle.
Along with New York, California also implemented the most stringent measures to combat the pandemic, which impacted the overall positive business cycle.
On the opposite side of the aisle, Governor Ron DeSantis never resorted to total lockdown, was the first state to open the economy and schools. Yet to this day, the state has experienced no major outbreaks or deaths from the virus.
"The taxes I was paying in Cook County … were getting really insane. My property tax went up $1,000 in one year. And I realized that that trend was going to continue," said Paula Miller, a former Chicago-area resident, adding that she also feels "truly safe" in Florida because Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, "is a law-and-order governor."
"Our plan was to reassess in the summer of 2022 where we wanted to go," former Chicago resident Lauren Callahan told Fox, "but with COVID and city life in general … we decided to come to Florida in November."
A former New Jersey resident Warren Cohn, who now lives in Miami, said that in addition to the tax benefits, Florida, 'it's a state that has …various freedoms. … I think that the governor has done a good job here allowing people to decide what's comfortable or not for themselves.'
A lenient 'justice' system
Another factor that caused internal migration is the insecurity experienced in Democratic states.
Due to the progressive approach of California district attorneys like Chesa Boudin and George Gascon, who refuse to send criminals to prison, the state saw an exponential increase in crime.
Videos of thieves looting upscale stores in broad daylight, taking carts of stolen goods from supermarkets past security guards, or smashing car windows to loot cars became commonplace in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Neighbors in San Francisco's Marina District neighborhood were forced to hire private security to patrol their neighborhood streets amid increased thefts.
The 'defund the police' movement promoted by the Marxist group Black Lives Matter and supported by Democrats such as New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, who shut down the city's Police Department's anti-crime unit, spiked crime to a record level and violence, especially in the poorer neighborhoods where the unit was responsible for disarming criminals.
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