I loved their performance. It was a magical experience. It was intense. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are both artists, sharing a moment in history where they are both literally vibrating at the very highest level (artistically speaking) and sharing a collective moment in celebration of their recent work.
Their performance was a work of art that needs to be celebrated, not speculated about. And I personally think it says a lot more about how "shallow" we are as a society that we feel the need to place meaning on it or to suggest that it was anything other than sheer perfection and mastery of their craft.
There are few moments in life when you'll experience anything close to what these two artists must have felt in this moment. Success. Ultimate fulfillment. Mutual respect for each other's work. Gratitude for how their work has been received. Combined with sheer joy in the opportunity to perform and celebrate their movie and song.
There's simply no reason to place meaning on their performance or to speculate on their relationship. Their performance was spell-binding. Magical. True artistry at its very highest level doesn't need explained or defended. It was simply beautiful.
As a PR pro and copywriter, I spend a whole lot of time sharing other's voices and messages, but today, this really struck a chord with me and when I saw a post from my favorite celebrity wellness guru and author of "The Right Fit Formula" Christine Lusita on Instagram (@ChristineLusita), I knew I needed to weigh it. In her Instagram story, she spoke of their buzz-worthy performance and the importance of women supporting each other and finding the good in others, encouraging us to use the hashtag #goodseeker to lift each other up.
And I couldn't agree more. Thank you Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper for your inspirational performance. Thank you Christine for reminding us to look for the good in each other and to not be so quick to judge and place meaning on things that aren't important.
Final thoughts. It's important to remember that when you criticize others or throw shade trolling on the internet, it often times says more about you than it does the person (or persons) you are bashing or gossiping about. It speaks to your personal brand and speaks to the very core of who you are as a person. I've read that the lyrics from "Shallow" are about finding your voice, something we should all strive to do. Do you want your voice to be one of negativity? Do you want to be known for being the type of person that casts shade on other women? Do you really want to be that "shallow" in bringing other women down?
I personally felt moved by their performance. And grateful to have shared their moment with them. And of course, with millions of other viewers glued to their screens.
I guess I'm just the kind of person who is seeking the good. As women, we need to remember that we're all in this together. So in addition to #goodseeker, and the #metoo movement, let's encourage each other with the hashtag #LeaningIntoWe as well.
Congrats, Lady Gaga, on your Oscar win for Best Original Song!!!!!!!!!!!!
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One thing that almost all hard-working people have in common is a struggle with job stress. The type of work that causes the most stress is often unpredictable or involves things out of your control. This is typically the case for business owners and professionals who struggle with balancing their career goals, financial pressures and family demands. Unfortunately, stress defeats your ability to perform at your optimal level and can even hold you back from achieving your business goals. Set out to manage your stress so you can reach higher success in your business endeavors.
Getting your business finances in order is one of the best ways to tackle stress right at the source. Budgeting, prioritizing and staying organized can set you up for success by helping you allocate money where it can be the most useful. E Simplified recommends making use of software for tracking financial records and coming up with a budget plan. All you have to do is plug in your numbers and these programs will do all the calculations for you. Don't forget about the importance of business credit when it comes to getting loans and landing good interest rates. You should make it a priority to repair bad credit, paying off debt as quickly as possible by using your business profits. You can also try contacting your money lenders and negotiating a change to your repayment structure.
You might think that doing more than one task at once will make you more efficient, but this is not the case. Multitasking only creates an illusion of productivity, according to Inc.com. In reality, it forces the brain to switch between multiple tasks, reducing its ability to work efficiently on any single thing. Instead, focus on just one task at a time, and you'll be able to get your work done faster.
Additionally, learn to schedule and plan out your work so you can prioritize important tasks that are causing you the most stress. We often avoid the things that make us feel anxious, causing us to procrastinate when we would feel better just getting something over and done with. Along these lines, Bustle recommends setting short deadlines for yourself so you avoid issues with procrastination.
Many of us overlook the importance of exercise, adequate sleep, and healthy eating on our mental health. In fact, simply getting enough exercise on a regular basis has been found to elevate mood and improve anxiety symptoms. Exercise causes chemical changes in the body that are beneficial to our mood but also helps increase our self-esteem and confidence. Additionally, diet plays an important role in stress-reduction as excessive caffeine and high-sugar diets have been linked to increased anxiety. Finally, sleep is important for maintaining the balance of chemicals in the brain to keep our moods steady and increase our brain's resilience to stressful situations.
Having a stress-management plan will help you quickly get back on track with your work or personal life when you're consumed by feelings of stress. If you're at work, this may mean taking a quick break to go outside and walk around, or simply sit at your desk and practice deep breathing. At home, you may like to set up a meditation space where you can practice mindfulness and build resilience against stress over time. One of the best stress-relievers is doing something fun. So, pick up a hobby you can be passionate about or go see a movie with friends when you need to wind down.
A lot of job stress can be dealt with by reorganizing your work style, dealing with financial issues and engaging in stress-reducing activities. But, sometimes you just have too much work on your plate. Look into hiring an employee or contractor to help you out with business tasks. This takes a lot of the stress off, giving you time to explore new revenue sources and focus on your business goals.
Julie Morris is a life and career coach who strives to help others live the best lives that they can. She believes she can relate to clients who feel run over by life because of her own experiences. She spent years in an unfulfilling career in finance before deciding to help people in other ways.
From maximizing your marketing efforts, facilitating creativity, and achieving success, employing the ancient art of feng shui can help you build a better brand.
I recently spent some time doing some spring cleaning, de-cluttering really, and in the process, took a deep dive into the art of feng shui. While it's widely known you can use feng shui to create a better quality of life, improve your health, attract more harmony and happiness to your relationships, even help build a more satisfying career, did you know that feng shui can also help you build a better brand, better marketing, and better communications for your business?
With all these potential improvements, is it time to Feng Shui your brand?
What I took from the experience of de-cluttering, a basic premise of the philosophy of feng shui is the importance of balance and harmony in your life; also the importance keeping things in your life that bring you joy and possessions that bring value. Along the same lines, I started thinking about the art of branding and how important it is that all your brand elements, platforms, tactics, messaging, etc. bring harmony, balance, and value to your business. Is your tagline in line with the key benefit of your business? Are your logo colors setting the right tone and evoking the right emotions? Do your logo shapes and symbols tell your story? Does your website provide an enjoyable online experience? Does your email marketing bring value to your prospects and customers? Does it bring value to your business in terms of results? Are you crafting the right message to the right audience and sending them to the right landing page? (That's where the harmony comes in to play!) If you're not sure, perhaps it's time for a little digital marketing and branding feng shui.
Importance of Keeping Your Brand Clear and Simple. If by keeping your life simple, free of clutter, serenity will follow, does they same hold true of your brand? If you keep your brand clear and simple will success follow? Ultimately, there's a lot more that goes into success than creating an awesome brand image, however, in my experience, your brand image represents and communicates the essence of who you are as a brand so if it is indeed clear and simple, brings value to your brand, and communicates the "joy" or key benefit of your service or product, then it goes to follow that applying feng shui principles to your brand can go a long way in helping to set you up for success.
Stay tuned for our Feng Shui for Business series as we explore how it can be utilized and leveraged for all aspects of your brand and small business. Do you have a question about bringing balance, harmony, and value to your communications strategy and branding? We'd love to hear from you! Leave us a comment and we will try to answer your question in an upcoming post.
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Four Important Content Trends to Watch in 2018.
Is it time to double down and invest in content marketing? PR Daily says yes! Check out these 4 trends that prove content marketing is on the rise.
Success in content marketing (in 2018 and for the foreseeable future) is achieved by having the right people with the right skills empowered by the right tools and processes.
1. Top-performing content marketers value (and prioritize) creativity in their content production process.
A major part of breaking through the noise online is creating content that is uniquely engaging— and that's really hard to do if you're not embracing the creative side of your content marketing brain. Thankfully, according to Content Marketing Institute, 74 percent of marketers (and 88 percent of high performers) say their organizations value that creativity.
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In this series I am looking at Paul Draper's article "Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists". In it, Draper argues that certain observations (O) we have made concerning the biological utility of pain and pleasure are more surprising on the hypothesis of theism (T) than they are on the hypothesis of indifference (HI).
In part 2, I summarised Draper's basic argument. In part 3, we saw how standard theistic answers to the problem of evil do nothing to undermine this basic argument. In this final part, we will see whether there are any other considerations that can tip the balance of probabilities in favor of theism.
An analogy will help set things up. When Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, he showed how it could explain certain facts about the geographical distribution of species and the existence of atrophied organs better than the alternative hypothesis of special creation.
Now, over one hundred and fifty years later, as evolution continues to grow as an explanatory theory and as a scientific research program, no evidence has been found that could resurrect special creation. We are still waiting for those rabbits in the pre-Cambrian.
Is there any reason to think that the hypothesis of theism could overcome the hypothesis of indifference? Draper thinks there are four reasons why this would be difficult.
First, HI is not ad-hoc and it's difficult to see how T could be more intrinsically probable than HI. After all, T is a very specific supernatural claim with a strong ontological commitment at its core. HI is neither of these things: it is consistent with a variety of naturalistic and supernatural claims and it contains no positive ontological commitments.
Second, most of the other arguments for the existence of God are not rationally compelling. That is to say, even the majority of theists do not think they do enough to coerce people to believe.
Third, most of these arguments – e.g. argument from design, cosmological argument, argument from consciousness – do nothing to establish the moral character of the divine being. At best, they establish the existence of an omniscient and omnipotent being, but that being could be morally indifferent. This would be consistent with the hypothesis of indifference.
Fourth, the popular brands of religious experience epistemology, such as those promoted by William Lane Craig and Alvin Plantinga, tend to be morally ambiguous. While theists might be inclined to believe in a good God when life is sweet and satisfying, they can also have experiences of indifference and moral ambiguity (the dark night of the soul) that undermine that belief.
In other words, such believers might have non-propositional evidence for the existence of some creative force, but that evidence is unable to outweigh the propositional evidence in favor of moral indifference.
I've really nothing to add here, but I wanted to thank you for your excellent exposition of Draper's argument. I guess the lack of responses just goes to show how solid the argument is – I certainly can't think of anything wrong with it.
I had a nice time going through the paper and JohnD's commentary today, so I have to thank him as well. I appreciate that he took the time and effort to write this post series.
That being said, I am somewhat more skeptical about whether the argument is a good one than I was earlier today. Two things might account for this. First, I was collecting pdf files of responses to this argument, briefly skimming over parts of them, notably parts that questioned whether the argument, even if it is successful, gives a good reason for a theist to reject theism. Second, I was also thinking about the deductive problem of evil given by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong in God?: A Debate Between A Christian And An Atheist, and suddenly I remembered part of something that he said that would be a strong blow to this argument being a good reason to reject theism. He was remarking about the fine-tuning argument, but his comments can easily be applied to this argument.
He said that, "This point can be made more technically by distinguishing likelihood from from conditional probability. The likelihood of fine-tuning and intelligent life, given that a traditional God exists, seems high. Nonetheless, the probability of such a God, given that intelligent life exists, still might be low. To see which figure is relevant, consider the following analogy: The likelihood of hearing noises in your attic, given that there are ghosts in your attic, is high. In contrast, the probability of noises in your attic, given ghosts in your attic, is low. The low probability shows why noises give you no reason to believe in ghosts, even if you have no other explanation for the noises. The point is not that ghosts are inherently improbable, but only that there are too many other possibilities to justify jumping to the conclusion that ghosts caused the noise, without assuming that there are ghosts in the area. You also should not believe that the noises were caused by bats until you have additional independent reason to assume that there are bats in the area (and the noise was caused by bats as opposed to squirrels, birds, wind, and so on)" (Sinnott-Armstrong, pg. 48).
The opponent of the ghost hypothesis can accept that given that ghosts are in the attic (or bats in the area), the probability of there being noises is high, but then he or she can respond by saying, "So what? That is not relevant, and it does not give me a reason to stop denying the ghost hypothesis." Likewise, the theist can respond by asking "So what?" as well. Even if the Pr(O|T) < Pr(O|HI), that does not imply that given O, T is improbable and HI is probable.
The idea of formulating the problem of evil probabilistically does appeal to me, but perhaps Draper was arguing the wrong thing. Instead of arguing that the Pr(O|T) < Pr(O|HI), perhaps he should have argued one of two things: a) Pr(T|O) < Pr(HI|O), or b) Pr(O|T) < Pr(~O|T). Option b appeals to me more than option a does since much of Draper's remarks about how low the Pr(O|T) is could be applied to an argument trying to prove option b.
I'm sure that there are other criticisms to this argument, and I would not be surprised if Draper's modified versions sidestep this criticism, but I need to do more research to find out.
Then again, maybe the situation is different than the situation of ghosts in one's attic.


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Werdau är en stad i det tyska distriktet Zwickau som tillhör förbundslandet Sachsen.

Orten ligger vid norra gränsen av bergsområdet Erzgebirge och genomflyttas av floden Pleiße. Större städer i närheten är Zwickau (8 km avstånd), Gera (26 km) och Chemnitz (39 km).

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I området som under tidig medeltid utgjorde en flodslätt skedde större strider mellan slaver och germaner. Under Karl den store och Henrik I av Sachsen fick germanerna övertag och grundar här samhället Werde. Enligt olika berättelser fick den stadsrättigheter 1298 men den första urkunden finns först från 1304. Redan under 1300-talet etablerade sig flera väverier i staden som under 1800-talet växte fram till en större textilindustri. Werdau drabbades av två stora bränder, 1670 och 1756. Läget vid den för textiltransporter kända vägen Reichenbach – Altenburg – Leipzig gynnade staden som i början av 1800-talet hade omkring 3 500 invånare.

Under andra världskrigets slutskede förstördes flera byggnader av amerikanska bomber. Werdau blev även intagen av amerikanska enheter men hamnade senare i den sovjetiska ockupationszonen. Under den östtyska tiden byggdes huvudsakligen hus för att motverka den allmänna lägenhetsbristen. Känd blev även en dom från 1951 mot en grupp ungdomar som hade protesterat mot det socialistiska statspartiet. De dömdes till fängelse mellan 2 och 15 år.

Efter Tysklands återförening stängdes många textilfabriker. Därför är arbetslösheten hög och flera invånare har flyttat till väst.

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Bierwart är en ort i Belgien.   Den ligger i provinsen Namur och regionen Vallonien, i den centrala delen av landet,  kilometer sydost om huvudstaden Bryssel. Bierwart ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Bierwart är huvudsakligen platt. Bierwart ligger uppe på en höjd. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  kilometer söder om Bierwart. Runt Bierwart är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.. Närmaste större samhälle är Namur,  kilometer sydväst om Bierwart.

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The Court of Justice's Preliminary Ruling in Huawei v. ZTE: The Final Word?
The application of competition law to standard essential patents (SEPs) has been the subject of significant debate. The latest instalment was provided by the Court of Justice on 16 July 2015 with its much-anticipated preliminary ruling in Huawei v. ZTE, which concerns the circumstances in which an (presumptively dominant) SEP-holder who has given a FRAND commitment may seek injunctive relief without infringing EU competition law.
Given that the conduct at issue concerns allegedly abusive use of the processes of EU national courts, it is both surprising and disappointing that the ruling from Europe's highest court ignores the established EU competition law standard on abusive litigation. It would seem that the Court of Justice has also conflated the questions of when an injunction should be granted with when it would be abusive merely to request one from a national judge. Instead, the Court of Justice has designed a novel legal standard that firms involved in licensing will likely find both incomplete and detached from reality, and which will result in significant uncertainty.
This note explains and analyses briefly the license negotiation procedure for SEPs in respect of which a FRAND commitment has been given proposed by the Court of Justice. It also explains and analyses some of the more obvious shortcomings of the ruling.
View full memo, The Court of Justice's Preliminary Ruling in Huawei v. ZTE: The Final Word?


mc2gallery is proud to present a selection of two renowned African photographers works that were able to show us the great dignity and culture of the Mali population: Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, recognized and acclaimed also beyond them country. Both artists capture the personalities of an Africa in a sudden evolution, an Africa that would strongly claim its identity.Keïta's and Sidibé's portraits release their characters from racist stereotypes, returning beauty and individual personality to Malian people. They realize real black and white portaits where all details are meticulously arranged. Women, men, couples, and families create a gallery where graceful and charming characters parade in front of our eyes either in everyday life moments or in spontaneous and funny situations. Their faces express emancipation, the dream of freedom and a great empathy among artist and persons.


Since our economic downturn began in in early 2009, I have been giving many workshops on the challenges of staying motivated and engaged when everything is changing around you. Bringing out the best in others (and in ourselves) has always been a favorite topic of mine but it has taken on more urgency in these tough times.
When people say "You can't motivate someone else" I disagree. I think it's actually quite easy. One just needs to understand a bit about human nature and what innately drives most of us. Pick up Daniel Pink's book "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" 2009. I think you will be pleasantly surprised that you do know what motivates us and it's not just a crunchy carrot.
For years, business has used the "carrots and sticks" style of motivating others. Reward behavior you want and punish behavior you don't want. These extrinsic motivators can work well for routine, non-creative work that just needs to be churned out. But our 21st century world now is far more complex and challenging. And we desperately need the best and the brightest ideas and solutions. Luckily, that's what most of us also want. We yearn to be doing interesting, creative work that makes a difference.
Now ask yourself, "How could I bring more of what really motivates me into my work week?" Start by making small shifts. Keep up the momentum by acknowledging your progress each night. When you hop into bed ask yourself "Was I better today than yesterday?" Try it. It works!
What a whirlwind! I just returned from the wonderful annual international coaching conference (ICF) held this year in Las Vegas, NV. This is my sixth conference – Quebec, Saint Louis, Oakland, San Jose & Montreal – and each have been a great experience well worth the money and time.
Here in Nevada, we had approximately 1,000 coaches from 42 countries attending bringing a wealth of experience and expertise to this four day conference. My head was spinning from first attending our own state-wide NV coaching conference to hearing from the incredibly inspirational key-note speakers (Michael Gelb & Steve Farber) to soaking in the rich content offered by renowned coaching professionals in the many breakout sessions. The evening wine & hors d'oeuvres events in the exhibit hall finished off each day beautifully.
But the very best for me is always meeting coaches from all over the United States and the world. During the opening session, it is truly a thrill to see the world map up on the big screens and then as each country is called the country's coaches stand to thunderous applause. This year there were more coaches from Africa, the Middle East and the Eastern European bloc than I remember in past years. The UK, Canada, China, Australia and South America have hundreds of coaches attending as well.
The International Coach Federation (ICF) is the industry recognized professional association for coaching. Currently, there are 8,000 credential ICF coaches and 125 chapters in 109 countries. It is relatively young for a professional association – just 16 years old – but then again our profession is young as well with its formal beginnings in the early 1990's. At the conference, I saw a significant trend toward corporate internal coaching, business development and leadership coach specialties.
And what a delight to have great conversations with Anne-Marie Sevenster, South Africa; Vedat Erol, Turkey; Alexander Vreede, Netherlands; Gilles Gambade,Greece and Angela Kontgen & Victoria Stikeman from Toronto, Canada. I also had a chance to work in small groups with coaches from Mexico, Brazil, Sweden and Romania – even got an invitation to meet with the coaches in Greece! There is such a positive energy, an incredibility strong entrepreneur spirit and a willingness to think BIG – all in the service of others world-wide.
Ideas, resources and business cards were flying back and forth. Some of my training materials are going to South Africa and others are going north to Canada. What fun to share our expertise, our experiences and our support for each other and for the emerging profession of professional coaching. These individual conversations are truly what I treasure after each conference. I feel connected and honored to have several more friends and colleagues around the world . . . and I think I just might followup on that invitation to visit the coaches from Greece!
Freshening up the look of your website every couple of years is really important. And it's much easier now that many of us are using Word Press or a similar platform. My wonderful webmaster/media expert, Judith Harlan, Web Words That Work, has been encouraging me for years to switch to a platform that would allow me to make my own changes easily and quickly. I was very hesitant since technology is a steep, time intensive learning curve for me. But finally with no more excuses left and both feet dragging I agreed to the switch.
And what a pleasant surprise! It's as easy (relatively) as Judith promised it would be. And since I had been using the Word Press platform for my blog these last six months I was familiar with the general layout. It still takes time. Each page needs to be updated – new content, new pictures. But it gives me a chance to review and refresh what I offer in both the coaching and training areas.
By reworking your website you can communicate the best of what you have to offer. Your website is an electronic career portfolio telling others what you do, how you do it and the value that you bring others. Make it colorful. Make it welcoming. And make sure that your voice comes through on every page. That is what engages others and encourages them to contact you. So taking this time to freshen up my website has been well-worth it. And switching to a platform that allows me full control is pretty neat. Now back to my updates . . .
Northern Nevada has been struck with two terrible community tragedies in just the last 10 days. First, we had a random shooting in a local IHop coffee shop killing four people including three National Guard members in uniform. Many others were injured – all who just stopped by for a quick breakfast on a Tuesday morning after the Labor Day holiday. Now tonight we are hearing of multiple deaths out at the Reno Air Races from an aircraft which careened out-of-control into the public viewing stands.
The impact of these events is huge. Not only for the friends and families of the people killed and injured but for the community as a whole. Nevada has had a very difficult time with our high unemployment, high foreclosure rate and an endless stream of bad news for an economic recovery. But that's when we rediscover resiliency . . .
One of my favorite workshops topics is about resiliency – what it is and how to keep it. Resiliency is all about hope. Resilient people intuitively believe in these three things.
First, that the situation is temporary – resilient people see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Second, they have some control over their own response to the situation. Resilient people tell themselves, and others, that we will make it through this difficult time.
Third, that they are not personally responsible for the situation occurring. They didn't cause it. They are not to blame for it. It's bigger than them.
I often ask people in my workshops this question "How did you learn to be resilient?" Often, they say they learned by just watching someone else. It was usually someone older in their family or in their community as they were growing up. Children watch and learn from those older than them – an important reminder as we are raising and mentoring younger people.
The same is true in our professional lives. And as I watch the community leaders on TV tonight, I'm looking for them to demonstrate the qualities of resiliency – that yes, this too will past and that we will handle it well. That is leadership at its best.
So that was the question I posed to my "Coffee, Careers & Conversation" coaching group that morning. And I loved the answers which all related to the idea of getting up and above the normal things we see every day. When you're able to get up high – as coaches we call this the 30,000 ft. perspective – the world looks quite different. All of a sudden, there is so much more out there.
We see things from a whole different perspective. And it's not only what is below the balloon basket but also the richness of a full 360° view of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Lake Tahoe and the California border just beyond. We can't help but start to think of the opportunities – the possibilities – that are out there.
And that's what the group members were inspired to do by simply watching these hot air balloons early that Friday morning. We stand in our own way too often. But how better it is to see the bigger view and then to challenge yourself to explore, stretch and grow into new opportunities. As Dr. Seuss would say "Oh, the Places You'll Go"!


3PM: Bob talks about the main suspect in the shooting of the 12 year old boy being released, and the dignity of the Syracuse Police Department. Plus, he takes your calls for a loosy goosy Friday!
4PM: Bob talks about the lottery, and his personal feelings on gambling.
5PM: Bob has the chance to talk to Onondaga County DA Bill Fitzpatrick, plus discusses other things surrounding the safety of the city.


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The intensifying rhetoric came just two days after Kiron Skinner, the State Department director of policy planning, said on Wednesday, "We're thinking about the Russian presence very seriously and its ramping up and the growing complicated nature of Venezuela." Other US officials have also acknowledged that Maduro has proven unexpectedly resilient, due in part to support from Cuba and Russia.
However, the beauty about unattributable media briefings is that, well, they don't mean much beyond raising hackles, without anyone losing face in particular. The remarks on Friday can be put in perspective. The point is, a certain propaganda build-up is necessary toward coming Wednesday when the US Vice-President Mike Pence is due to address the UN Security Council in New York regarding Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Pence delivered a speech on Venezuela on Friday at the Rice University's Baker Institute at Houston, Texas. The venue suggests that Pence was addressing the domestic audience. The Hispanic population in the US form about a fifth of all eligible American voters.
Pence's speech was highly rhetorical and he kept repeating that Trump is 'unwavering' in his commitment to support the Venezuelan opposition as it struggles to replace the Maduro government. Of course, Pence condemned President Nicolas Maduro as the epitome of all evils, including socialism. Pence listed out the sanctions and other measures that the Trump administration has employed to bring down Maduro.
Simply put, no matter the US' keenness to bring Venezuela into its strategic orbit, Trump has understood that Maduro is not a pushover. Despite the barrage of US propaganda, the fact remains that Hugo Chavez's legacy endures in Venezuela. Arguably, there is an entirely different reality in that country to what is being propagated in the US narrative.
At the same time, it is important for Trump to be seen as following through on his promise on Venezuela. Republicans working for a second term for Trump and other GOP victories in 2020 are looking for a boost from Venezuelan-American voters. And Trump estimates that taking a stand against Maduro is a double whammy: it fights back the Democrats' socialist policy pitches while on the other hand it could also generate some votes for the Republican Party.
Trump is inherently malleable. North Korea, Mexican wall, trade war with China, New Cold War with Russia — and now, Venezuela — what Trump says he'll do isn't necessarily indicative of what he will do. His decision to transfer the problem to the UN SC under the circumstances is eminently tactical. It didn't come easy for Trump who detests the UN and has a deep aversion to multilateralism, but it seems to him the only realistic approach.under the circumstances.
Career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for over 29 years, who served as India's Ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995-1998) and Turkey (1998-2001).
he asked the venezuealean ambassador to go back home.


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Softball coach convicted in Aug. Co. sex case
Brad Zinn
bzinn@newsleader.com
STAUNTON — The all-time home run leader in women's softball for Eastern Mennonite University was convicted Wednesday on charges she had a sexual relationship with a teenage girl last year while a youth coach in Augusta County.
A judge found Courtney E. Allman, 23, of Grottoes, guilty on two felony charges of taking indecent liberties with a child while in a supervisory role.
The Augusta County Sheriff's Office arrested Allman in October after the victim's father discovered she was having a sexual relationship with his daughter.
At Wednesday's trial in Augusta County Circuit Court, evidence showed the victim was 15 years old when she and Allman began having consensual sex last summer. Allman was the victim's first-base coach and also an unpaid math tutor, according to testimony.
The victim testified Allman fondled her on several occasions at her Augusta County home and at Allman's former Crimora residence.
The father of the victim testified he discovered phone texts in October between his daughter and Allman, which led him to confront Allman. He said she admitted to having a relationship with his daughter.
After the father contacted the sheriff's office, Investigator Michael Roane questioned Allman, who confessed to the inappropriate relationship. Roane said Allman told him she took her role as coach, mentor and tutor "too far."
Allman testified her arrest resulted in her losing her job at a Harrisonburg assisted-living facility. The arrest also squashed a job offer from EMU to become a softball coach, she said.
Allman — described by Augusta County assistant prosecutor Corey Smith as EMU's all-time record holder for home runs in women's softball — testified she regretted her actions.
"If I could, I would definitely take it back," she said.
In convicting Allman, Judge Charles L. Ricketts III said it was clear she had a supervisory relationship with the victim.
Allman faces the possibility of 10 years in prison when sentenced, and will have to register as a sex offender.
Ricketts allowed Allman to remain free on bond. Sentencing is set for Oct. 23.

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text:
Q: Take the header token from header of server How can I change the code in order to take the token because it is always null? The console doesn't return any error and in the postman(application) the server side works correctly.
I have this code in the server side:
 router.post('/', async (req, res) => {
  const { error } = validate(req.body);
  if (error) return res.status(400).send(error.details[0].message);
  let user = await User.findOne({ username: req.body.username });
  if (!user) return res.status(400).send('Invalid username or password.');

  const validPassword = await bcrypt.compare(req.body.password,
  user.password); //to bcrypt pairnei to req.body.pass kai to kanei encrypt
  me to hash kai to sygkrinei me to user.password pou brisletai sth bash
  if (!validPassword) return res.status(400).send('Invalid username or password.');

  const token = user.generateAuthToken();
  res.header('X-OBSERVATORY-AUTH', token).header('Access-Control-Expose-Headers', 'X-OBSERVATORY-AUTH').send(_.pick(user, ['_id', 'email', 'username','isAdmin']));
  });
 }

and the code of angular in client side:
login( username: string,  password: string) {
var user: User = {  username: username, password: password };
this.http
  .post<any>("http://localhost:3000/api/auth",user, {observe:'response'})
  .subscribe((res) => {
    const token = res.headers.get('X-OBSERVATORY-AUTH');
    console.log(token);
    this.token = token;
    if (token!==null) {
      this.isAuthenticated = true;
      this.userId = res.body._id;
      this.isAdmin=res.body.isAdmin;
      this.authStatusListener.next(true);
      this.saveAuthData(token, this.userId, this.isAdmin);
    }
  });
}

A: It seems an issue with the HTTP response, not with the Angular.
The backend is not adding the header X-OBSERVATORY-AUTH to the Access-Control-Expose-Headers
The browser won't allow the application to access all http response headers. If you wanna allow some header to be accessible, you must add it to the Access-Control-Expose-Headers.
You can find more information here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Expose-Headers
EDIT:
I don't know much about node.js but it seems that the only thing you have to do is:
...
res.header('X-OBSERVATORY-AUTH', token).header('Access-Control-Expose-Headers', 'X-OBSERVATORY-AUTH')
...

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Star Trek: The Next Generation 2x18.
Meet the Bringloidi: Danilo, Brenna, and the colonists. Their interests include farming, washing, and drinking. Also meet the Mariposans: Granger, Granger, Granger, and the others. Their interests include clones, cloning, and being cloned. It's time to play the Feud when we put "Up the Long Ladder" into the Mission Log!


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Mateus Webba Da Silva
reader, School of Pharm. & Pharmaceut. Sc.
reader, Faculty Of Life & Health Sciences
Emailmm.webba-da-silvaulster.acuk
Mateus Webba da Silva holds a PhD in Chemistry from Exeter University (1996). He was a Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), and Senior Research Associate at Duke University (USA) before taking up an academic appointment at Ulster University in 2005. He is currently Reader of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Ulster University, a position that he has held since 2011. Dr Webba da Silva's main research interests are in understanding nucleic acids self-assembly, their biological implications and applications. He is member of editorial boards of the journals Scientific Reports and International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Dr Webba da Silva is a recipient of Ulster University's Distinguished Research Fellowship (2012), and was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy, having served in its 'Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences Committee' since 2014. He is Head of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Group of the Biomedical Science Research Institute.
Dive into the research topics where Mateus Webba Da Silva is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
G-Quadruplexes Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Pyridine Engineering & Materials Science 81%
Ligands Engineering & Materials Science 74%
Metal complexes Engineering & Materials Science 60%
Coordination Complexes Medicine & Life Sciences 55%
Transition metals Engineering & Materials Science 54%
Encoding canonical DNA quadruplex structure
Dvorkin, S., Karsisiotis, A. I. & Webba da Silva, M., 31 Aug 2018, In: Science Advances. 4, aat3007, p. 1-10 10 p., eaat3007.
G-Quadruplexes 100%
Guanine 81%
Scaffolds 26%
Topological Characterization of G-Quadruplexes by UV Absorption and Circular Dichroism
Karsisiotis, I., Ma'ani Hessari, N., Novellino, E., Spada, GP., Randazzo, A. & Webba da Silva, M., Oct 2011, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50, p. 10645-10648
Circular Dichroism 100%
UV Absorption 61%
Topology 38%
Guanosine 31%
Light absorption 28%
Geometric Formalism for DNA Quadruplex F olding
Webba da Silva, M., 30 Oct 2007, In: Chem. Eur. J.. 13
DNA sequences 100%
DNA Sequence 84%
NMR methods for studying quadruplex nucleic acids
Webba da Silva, M., 16 May 2007, In: Methods. 43
Thermodynamics 100%
Solution NMR 99%
Cations 82%
Nucleic Acid 69%
Design of a G-Quadruplex Topology through Glycosidic Bond Angles
Webba da Silva, M., Trajkovski, M., Sannohe, Y., Hessari, N., Sugiyama, H. & Plavec, J., 2009, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48
DNA 100%
Dihedral Angle 81%
Distinguished Research Fellowship by the University of Ulster
Webba Da Silva, Mateus (Recipient), 2012
Ulster 100%
Fellowship 90%
Editorial Board Member for the journal 'Scientific Reports', Nature Publishing Group. Section board for 'Chemistry'
Mateus Webba Da Silva (Participant)
Editorial Board Member for the journal 'International Journal of Molecular Sciences', MDPI. Section board for 'Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics'
O que revela o G quadruplex


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Update on "You, The Movie"
Monday, 4:41pm
Overcast, cold and yet oh, so toasty here in my office…
Just a quick note here about how the stories are going.
Mostly, I'm very impressed. Those of you who kept to the 3 lines really worked at it, and that's the idea. You learn to be concise, to stay on target, and still deliver a good story.
For those who had to go over 3 lines: Some very nice stories… but they can all be trimmed to 3 lines. Trust me on this.
I had an idea of how to help: Check out "haiku" on Wikipedia. It's the Japanese poetry form that is strictly limited to 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables each. No more, no less. Forced to adhere to such limititations, the resulting Zen poetry is crushingly beautiful. In the West, we tend to go more for story lines (rather than koan-type mysticism)… but it's still the 5/7/5 form.
The marketing equivalent: Adwords. You have strict character limits for each line (though you can do less, but never more). We've taken to calling it "Adwords haiku" because of that.
Few Westerners have been forced to "write inside the lines" like this before, and we tend to struggle with limits. But I'm telling you, it's worth doing.
As you listen to great storytellers, notice how economical they are with words. They find just the exact right word, or short phrase, to nail the mood, direction and plot. This is "power words" in action.
You may scratch your head, at first, looking at haiku. But notice how long the entry is in Wikipedia… and know that it's long because people care. And it's good stuff.
You're about to be enlightened in ways you won't understand for a long time yet.
Side note #1: Kudo's to Moffatt for his insight on the exercise. People who collect and tell stories lead better lives… and when they sell, they almost always do a better job of it. Stories are about the human experience, and at the end of the day, that's what it's all about — broadening and enjoying the experience you're having, as a human.
Side note #2: Karen, is that YOU? In Kiwi land? (Of course, I know it is. No one else knows the piano disaster story.)
How are you? I tried to find you in the phone book during a short lay-over in NZ last year, but you weren't listed. Damn. I'd love to catch up. The boys have my private email — just shoot Kevin a note. Hope all is well.
Great story, too. Hard to believe we survived the chaos of those times…
Side note #3: I hope everyone is reading all the stories. When you hang out with writers, you don't really need Hollywood at all, you know. Even a relatively uneventful evening at the hotel bar with a snaggle of wordsmiths will put the entire acadamy awards to shame…
Side note #4: Dean, I recognized your KKK story. Made me laugh out loud. And would somebody translate Javier's comment for me? I just wanna make sure it's not dirty or anything…
Side note #5: Weird things happen when you collect stories, too. "John" in the comments told a nice one about some train tracks in his home town that disappeared… a nearly identical experience to one I had. I grew up ninety feet from a Sierra Pacific line, and the house rattled twice a day for fifty years. I both love and am comforted by the sounds of trains… but one day I went home to visit Pop and the tracks were gone. Just gone. Big weedy path where they once proudly laid, like a scar running through my old stomping grounds. Whew. So much of the world that surrounded me as I grew up is now alive only in memory and photos, always at risk to wash away like tears in rain…
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John Richardson says:
I was siting in a graveyard park with a friend of mine and he started talking about telecanesis. I had never heard of it, but the vivid way he described it actually got me high. I came crashing back down to earth, though, when a tramp came up to me and asked if I wanted to buy a sock.
This is fantastic!
I went into this little experiment of yours thinking that long copy is always better…
And it is, BUT:
What you helped me figure out is the difference between "long copy" and "bloated copy"…
Note to self: must be quality quantity, not just quantity…
"So now we all know what's under the hood, why don't we see what's behind the wheel," was all it took to provoke him…
Later, veering onto that damned gravel covered shoulder to pass him once and for all, I swore I had the upper hand, I swore I actually had him.
The last thing that I remember before waking-up was the deafening sound of "Halo 8 track 4" and this feeling that I can only describe as elation's evil counter-part…
The Doctor in his most solemn voice told me… he has two years more or less, his heart is worn out… from beating to fast.
What would we do now, his life is only half, done…40 is to early to think of things like this,and the transplant that we sold everything for our ray of hope, he didn't qualify now it is gone like a whisp of smoke.
So we cried a little… and worried lots but decided to live with a new plan and do what we needed to, and hard as it is at times…we have made it work 8 years longer than they said was possible.
Alexis Kauffmann says:
This exercise is really awesome for building writing and sadly enough, many people here did not take seriously enough the limitations in which to do the job.
I will not participate here only because my english writing skills are poor – it is a foreign language for me. But I can testify it really does work to write within strict boundaries. For instance, I once proposed to a literary website a new section called "300 touches", where all stories should be told with no more than 300 characters (including spaces!). The section was a success at the time and many master storytellers could tell a whole story using 50 or an even shorter set of characters.
Besides making you a better writter… It is fun. Give it a taste!
dmh says:
By the light of a full moon that blazes like the sun, we splash and paddle a rickety canoe across the murky depths of the alligator-infested Amazon.
Suddenly, a harsh slapping and splashing sound erupts as something unseen hits and rocks the canoe so hard that it shakes my heart and freezes my soul.
"Probably just a river dolphin…" my guide pretends.
I pretend to believe him and paddle on… river dolphins are good luck after all!


NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) Less educated women face a greater risk of developing heart disease, research from Sweden shows. This is largely because women with fewer years of schooling are more likely to have heart disease risk factors such as cigarette smoking, sedentary lifestyle, high body mass index, high blood pressure and diabetes, researchers report.
There is a well-established link between lower socioeconomic status and higher heart disease risk among men, the research team notes in the American Journal of Epidemiology. A number of causes have been proposed for the connection, including that less educated, poorer people may have unhealthier lifestyles or less access to medical care, or that they may face more on-the-job stress.
To investigate the relationship between social status and heart disease in women, Dr. Hannah Kuper of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK and colleagues analyzed data from a study of 49,259 women who ranged in age from 30 to 50 at the study's outset in 1991-1992 and had been followed for an average of 11 years.
Women with the least education were more than three times as likely as those with the most years of schooling to have a heart attack during the follow-up period, the researchers found. Nearly all of this relationship could be attributed to the higher prevalence of heart disease risk factors such as smoking and overweight among the less educated women.
The researchers also found a weak relationship between increased job stress and lower social support on the job and heart disease risk, but this relationship could not account for the heart disease-education link.


text:
from curses import wrapper

class GameView:

  def __init__(self, game):
    self.game = game

  def print(self, screen, p):

    if p.is_it:
      self._print_polo_view(screen, p)
    else:
      self._print_marco_view(screen, p)

    screen.refresh()

  def _print_marco_view(self, screen, p):
    """prints the "marco" view of the board. Meaning all other players are
    hidden from view and only the direction of the "polo" response is visible.
    This is what the non "it" players should see."""

    polo = self.game.marco(p)

    for y in range(self.game.board.size):
      for x in range(self.game.board.size):

        if [x,y] in polo:
          screen.addstr(y, x, '*')
        elif [x,y] == p.position:
          screen.addstr(y, x, 'X')
        else:
          screen.addstr(y, x, ' ')

  def _print_polo_view(self, p):
    """prints the "polo" view of the board. Meaning all players are visible.
    This is what the "it" player should see."""

    for y in range(self.game.board.size):
      for x in range(self.game.board.size):

        player = self.game.get_player_at([x,y])

        if (player == None):
          screen.addstr(y,x, '.')
        elif (player.is_it):
          screen.addstr(y,x, 'X')
        else:
          screen.addstr(y,x, 'O')


text:
package server.handler;

import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request;
import skinny.http.Method;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class PostMethodHandler extends MethodHandler {

    @Override
    public Method getMethod() {
        return Method.POST();
    }

    @Override
    public void handle(String target, Request baseRequest, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        try {
            if (request.getMethod().equals(getMethod().toString())) {
                String userName = request.getParameter("userName");
                String result = "userName:" + userName;
                //System.out.println(result);
                response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
                response.getWriter().print(result);
                baseRequest.setHandled(true);
                response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
            } else {
                response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN);
            }
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Presence Capital Launches Venture Capital Fund to Back Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Startups
Presence Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based early-stage venture capital firm, has just launched to invest virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) startups.
The firm, which has held the first closing in its inaugural fund of $10m, aims to create a pipeline of startups to accelerate innovation, creativity and forward movement within the emerging VR and AR markets.
Led by by founding managing partners Paul Bragiel, Amitt Mahajan and Phil Chen, Presence Capital has invested in Harmonix (makers of the game Rock Band), Baobab (story and character-driven cinematic experiences in VR), Waygo (Automatic translation of Asian languages to English), among other unannounced companies.
The Managing Partners
– Paul Bragiel founded three startups and subsequently started five funds across four continents, including being an early advisor to companies such as Uber and Unity. Collectively, he has invested in seed rounds to more than 150 companies, including Unity and Zappos.
– Amitt Mahajan is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor. Prior to Presence Capital, he was the founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga) and the founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google). While at Zynga, Mahajan co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Before his entrepreneurial work, he was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.
– Phil Chen founded the HTC Vive project at HTC and brokered the Valve and HTC partnership. As head of HTC's business and corporate development, he has led investments into KKBox (#1 music service in Asia), Soundhound, Magnet and the acquisition of Beats electronics. Previously, Chen was VP of Product for the Alex eReader and founded Glo Bible.
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Watch Game of Thrones Season 5
Just hours ahead of the Game of Thrones Season 5 premiere in the US, the first four episodes have been leaked. It's believed they have originated from DVDs given to journalists prior to the premiere.
Now you must ask yourself and important question. Should you watch these leaked episodes, or live under a rather large rock avoiding the impending spoiler minefield that lays ahead. What say you to spoilers?
Where can I watch Game of Thrones Season 5?
You've got a few options here, including torrent sites like the PirateBay. We're going to cover the much easier one – Showbox.
What is Showbox
Showbox is an Android app, not available from the Google Play Store. You must sideload it (install it manually yourself – it's easy). Showbox is very similar to Netflix, but has up to date movies and TV Shows, including the leaked season five episodes of Game of Thrones.
Is Showbox Legal?
How do I install Showbox?
Okay, so here's the step by step on how to download and install Showbox.
On your Android device, go to Settings and Security. Look for an option to "allow installation from unknown sources".
Visit www.coolvideoapp.com to download the Showbox apk file.
Once downloaded, open the file and select install.
Open up the app and rejoice in the amount of entertainment available to you
It's really that simple. Once you've done those steps, you'll be able to watch Game of Thrones, season five.
Can I download Showbox for laptop?
Yes and no. You can download a program for your PC called Bluestacks. This is an Android emulator, allowing you to run Android apps on your PC. You can then install Showbox this way.
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Mangalyaan can survive for 'years' in Martian orbit: ISRO chief
Mangalyaan can survive for 'years' in Martian orbit: ISRO chief
The orbiter that has already completed the scheduled six months, encircling Mars.
By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad | Updated: April 16, 2015 6:54:55 am
Scientists described the Mars Orbiter Mission, affectionately nicknamed MOM, as flawless.
India's first interplanetary expedition – Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan – has completed over 800 orbiting circles of the "Red Planet".
The orbiter that has already completed the scheduled six months, encircling Mars, can last several "years" in the Martian orbit with the 39 kilograms of fuel that it still has in it's fuel tanks, said AS Kiran Kumar, chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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Mangalyaan had entered the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014 after NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) orbiter that began encircling Mars on September 5, 2014. MAVEN has completed over 1000 orbits of Mars in about 200 days. Both ISRO's and NASA's mission are aimed at studying the Martian atmosphere.
"Their (MAVEN's) orbital period is shorter. We take about 2.5-3 days to complete an orbit…. Ours is a highly elliptical orbit and so we will take more time…..Their orbit is probably one-third of ours. In the six months (about 180 days), we have completed about 800 orbits of Mars," said Kiran Kumar while talking to mediapersons about the mission on the sidelines of Gujarat Innovation Society Award Function in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
"Originally when we planned the mission, the life of MoM was estimated to be about six months after the insertion (into the Martian orbit). So on March 24, we completed our originally planned mission. But all subsystem are still working fine and we have a fuel of 39 kilograms still remaining. So it can last for a long time," the said of ISRO said emphasising that the MoM could survive for "years" in the Martian orbit.
The Ceramic Servo Accelerometer, weighing about 50 grams, have one of the most important fuel-saving devices on-board the Mangalyaan which is carrying five important payloads including a Mars Colour Camera, Methane Sensor for Mars, Lyman Alpha Photometer, Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser and Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer. Last year, Joji Chaman, Group Head, Mechanical Design and Production, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Thiruvanathapuram had received the prestigious Shri Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr Vikram Sarabhai Research Award 2013 for developing the device along with his team.
"But we have one major event which we have to look at. Sometime in June, this year we have for two weeks a communication blackout, because the Sun, Earth and Mars will be in the same line, as a result of which no communication will be possible for 14 days. So during that time, the autonomous systems built in the satellite is supposed to take care of all operations. But anyway, we have to wait and watch," Kiran Kumar said.
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