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Deep River Books Renews for 3rd Year With FrontGate Media to Train Authors in PR, Social & Digital Marketing
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Orange County, CA – DEEP RIVER BOOKS has extended the agreement with FRONTGATE MEDIA, one of the world's leading Faith and Family marketing agencies, to assist their authors with Coaching and Consulting for PR, Social and Digital Marketing.
Now in their 3rd year together, this year-long contract extension with FrontGate provides Deep River Books with two individual coaching sessions for each author and a quarterly group webinar to train authors how to market their books and build their career as an author. Deep River Books has signed a wide variety of writers, so these coaching sessions allow FrontGate to give exclusive and focused plans and input to meet each individual author's needs and questions.
The quarterly webinar conferences for the entire Deep River Books imprint are 45-minutes in length and allow for visuals, screen shares, and demonstrations in each area of discussion. This content is also available for authors who may have been interested in participating but were unable to attend the live conferences.
Topics covered include PR and social media strategy, content development, author events, audience engagement, plan execution, and results analysis.
The sessions have drawn high praise from Deep River Books:
"We are so happy to be renewing our partnership with FrontGate Media," stated Andy Carmichael, Publisher at Deep River Books. "Their professionalism and PR services have exceeded our authors' expectations. We are already seeing residual successes from their social media coaching and webinars. It's clear our authors are reaching a broader audience."
"FrontGate has been very helpful with my Facebook and Instagram. I really appreciated their knowledge and patience." added Danielle Shryock, author of "Unspoken Love."
"My meeting with my FrontGate PR coach was excellent. She really helped me plan my author events. She had many great suggestions. I incorporated all her ideas into my launch plans." shared Kaitlin Covel, author of "Atoning for Ashes."
"Authors must develop and build their own audience through lead generation and relationship building using social media and digital communications. We love to empower authors to take control of the communications process, bonding with their readers," shares Scott A. Shuford, Chief Engagement Officer of FrontGate Media. "I am excited by Deep River Books' talented writers and the diversity of their books. We look forward to these custom sessions that help the authors while raising the tide for the whole publishing group."
FrontGate Media is a one-stop marketing shop for publishers and authors who desire to reach the Faith & Family audience, with a 20-year history of working with every major Christian publisher and most of the developing publishers as well as serving the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's (ECPA) past events: the PUBu Marketing Conference, The Christy Awards, and the Writers' Conference. FrontGate hosts the official archive of ECPA's Rush To Press news at //www.FrontGateMedia.com/category/ecpa.
About Deep River Books
Deep River Books has become a leader in innovative publishing solutions for authors, with several books on various best-seller lists. Their unique mentoring approach to full-service partnership publishing has set a standard for excellence in both production, marketing, and sales. //DeepRiverBooks.com
Award-winning FrontGate Media is the leading marketing agency and media group specializing in the faith and family audience. With a 20-year track record of success, the firm serves as "Your Gateway to the Christian Audience." FrontGate's full-service agency and media group has been trusted with over 5,000 campaigns, providing Faith-based market Strategy Development, Public Relations, Social Media & Marketing, and Media Buying. FrontGate's own Digital Network also provides reach to 10 Million UMV, 20 Million Email Subscribers, and Millions more Social Followers each month. Founded in 2001, FrontGate has repeatedly been honored in the Internet Advertising Competition and the WebAwards. The company plays a key role in the success of for-profit and non-profit organizations seeking faith-based and family-friendly audiences. //FrontGateMedia.com


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by Olalekan Abiodun Fadeyi
In spite of the barriers ahead of women in their various endeavours in life, especially with education, they still constitute an invaluable and tangible resource for overall nation and international development. The paper will discuss the potentialities and the known barriers confronting the modern day leadership of women in open learning across Africa. This paper will discuss the preponderance of men and how this can be abated with adoption of gender oriented perspectives. (G.O.P). The second part will explores the substantial differences between women and men, using data collected in some African countries to juxtapose the achievements recorded by some notable women leaders, and how their experiences helped them to overcome the challenges and rigors in distance learning.
The concluding aspects examine a cursory analysis of the transformational styles. African women educationists and leaders are adopting in public life, signing off with contemporary perceptions of marginalization in societies, and how these provide opportunities.
It is indeed a fact, that the issues arising from challenges of women marginalization in distance and open learning have probably assumed a critical status and is most frequently been talked about not only in international for a worldwide, but also at national and regional conferences, platforms and seminars. Hence, tongues have continued to wag everyday and everywhere as more people express concern about the welfare of women vis- a- vis that of men. The initial premise attractions were the increasingly technologized teaching and learning environment of higher education. This raised concerns and argument as to whether fresh pedagogical understandings are needed to inform thinking about instructional design, if distance learning is to yield any meaningful and sustainable results to support women, especially in developing countries of Africa. In spite of these barriers ahead of women and their various endeavours in life, they still constitute invaluable and tangible resources significant in open and distance learning (ODL) and for overall national and international development.
This paper examines the varying penalties and identified barriers confronting the modern day leadership of women in open learning across Africa and discusses the preponderance on men and how this can be abated by the adoption of gender- oriented perspective (G.O.P) This paper essentially focuses on the substantial differences between women and men, juxtaposing with research data, achievements recorded by some notable women leaders; their experiences and how they overcome the challenges and rigours in open learning to adopt transformational styles in public life. The paper rounded- off with a cursory analysis of contemporary perceptions of marginalization in African societies and how it provides opportunities for women.
It is known fact, that there are ample evidences from research that in pre –colonial times, the public and domestic domain in African societies were not as rigidly delineated as they had become in the nation states of industrialized western world. There was considerable overlap between domestic and public spheres in the traditional societies. The capitalist economic system, which African countries acquired in the colonial era seriously, affected the status of women in the society because; women were seriously disadvantaged from entering the changing new labour market.
In the pre –industrial societies, women had influence, power and authority. Status was not a vertical male female divide. The emphasis translate from Victorian societies that the women's place was only in the kitchen reduced the influence of women and therefore her status in public affairs. Since then the quest for gender equality in open learning has consistently attracted attention, provoke debates and concerns of vigorous academic discourses. Over the past 15 to 20 years for instance, the quest has been catapulted to incredible heights and has assumed an overwhelming dimension, and in fact, promoted to a recognized academic exercise.
This might not be unconnected to the fact that on the one hand women, the victims of the skewed gender structure in the world system have reached a critical threshold and are challenging rigorously technological and religious beliefs, traditional myths, reactionary sexist notions, anthropological theories that defines humanity in terms of men's experience. Such views have not only structured our societies to be male – dominated, male – identified, male – centred, thereby treating women as appendages of men and not as separate, autonomous human beings that are anointed to co – exist with men, according to a code of conduct that treats both as equals. While it becomes more imperative to use communication technologies to increase learners' access, the question "access to what?" should be addressed in all of its complexity especially as it relates to women. A disparate terrain of new literature about teaching and learning, technology and corporeality has brought fresh perspectives to bear on the nature and prospects of pedagogical work from women.
Even then, such literatures are rarely brought together, researches and observations around these ambits only work across aspects of learning theory, critical theory and post- structuralism to explore the question "access to what?". In so doing, important questions, again are raised about the embodied nature of teaching and learning and the potential of both 'embodied' and 'disembodied' teaching, to produce counter marginalization. My argument is, that all decisions about the appropriateness of particular pedagogical practice must engage with such question considering the women angel.
Thus, this paper projects to analyse the inherent marginalization of women; to empowering them to compete better and enhance their place and roles in the society. Although, it's obvious fact, that this is indeed an enormous task, considering the question of, how to balance the narratives about marginalization. One may be tempted to ask, why must the methods traditionally used to marginalize women include male- centred interpretations of culture and religion? What best practice can we use to reduce or eradicate 'zoning out' of strong and intelligent female members of the society? And lots more.
Women, Gender Inequality and Marginalization
It seem trite to state, men constitute the first and underlying cause of gender (and perhaps every other form of) inequality. But it is a fact that people do not consciously make decisions, which put them in disadvantaged situations. The male, seemingly advantaged with a physical build that shows brawn and therefore, more physical strength than the women, has played a dominant role in the family, society and in his relationship with female. But, at what point did women begin to think that superior physical capability of the male also meant superior intellectual powers and/or superior intelligence? Did it follow from the male physical ability to fend and protect in times of danger, as well as female physical slowness and clumsiness during pregnancy? Was the physical dominance of the male then extended and translated into all areas of domination with regard to decision making in matters – social, cultural, economic and intellectual?
While all this questions are not for us to answer here, the fact remains that it has become the prevailing custom in many societies that the male, gradually but determinedly acquired and retired decision within the family and other institutions of the society. Making decisions in such private and public matters definitely translates into holding and retaining the power to control and direct most affairs. And little surprise, such decision of cause, would always be more beneficial to the male!
It would be useful at this point to examine those infringements that negatively affect women's access, rights and succinctly promotes marginalization in learning as it is. Most African societies are part and parcel of the world patriarchal structure which values men than women. In most countries and communities, women are treated as properties. They are to be bought by their male counterparts through the payment of what is known as the "bride- price". The amount of price varies from one culture to the other. In almost all however, no matter how small the amount is, it is a significant determinant of who owns who. This is probably why a former chief justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria stated that "the concept of equality of sexes is foreign to some of our native laws and customs."
In most African societies, there is a growing discriminatory employment practice that are based on sex and which favours the male. That is why a male teacher or secretary is more likely to find employment faster than a female teacher or secretary. Often in her quest for employment, maternity leave, child bearing and child caring needs are cited in discriminating against the women. And this has serious adverse effects on their access and opportunities to learning and education.
Many firms and institutions in Africa today, still make decision on welfare practices and education based on needs of the young male. Profiles of many institutions and firms also show a preponderance of unskilled (or at most, semi- skilled) female staff and a gross under-population of female academics, managers or executives in decision making positions. Equally frustrating women encounter this unprecedented unequal opportunities in accessing funds or scholarships when young males and females need to seek support especially to finance education in distance learning situations, which is becoming popular in under-developed and developing nations of Africa. On the on hand, most economic activities in which women are engaged are non-monetized, and, on the other hand, there are still lack of access to financial resources due to insufficient understanding and lack of information on the ways and means of obtaining scholarship and supports.
One obstructing fact is that, no matter how educated, women do not belong to the Boys/Men's clubs. In the so-called "Boys/Men's clubs" social groupings, that are exclusively male, information is freely given and decisions reached. Such decisions agreed on exclude women. They indirectly encourage male chauvinism by giving undue economic, political and sometimes educational advantage to men.
Segregation is another means for denying women any participation in endeavours, even in Education! Equality of opportunity is a natural follow- up to empowerment. It means that women should have equal rights and entitlements like men to human, socio- economic, cultural and educational issues. Women experience exclusions from participating in most cases, because the work (or academic activities in this case) is considered by men to be too physically/ mentally strenuous or demanding (of time and concentration). Not having access to higher educational or other levels can be traced to male domination of positions in decision making bodies of schools, industry, etc. Being excluded from high-income positions and authority automatically short- change and amputates women's potential wherewithal to function contributively and positively to the course of education and open learning in our societies. It is no wonder that women are generally poorer. Hence, the statement that poverty has a woman's face --- a more pungent reason why the girl- child education advocacies and campaigns has attracted (in the global reckoning) a commanding appeal for underdeveloped and developing countries of Africa. Key point is the anchor to marginalization and infringement of women's right and lower status stems from the fact that women have less access to education and learning than men. In the area of Distance and open learning for instance:
Women of Nigeria have noticed with utter dismay the almost complete deterioration of (their) gender- oriented values, borne out of more than three decades of continued male dominated and oriented misrule. Empowerment became more pivotal to enabling women act without restraint and gives them the capacity to take responsibility for ideas, plans and actions that would have remain hidden and inaccessible.
In mapping out the path to a sustainable rebirth, the systematic entrenchment process must stop. (Emphasis mine) The methods traditionally used to exclude women from actively participating in shaping the course of open and distant education include male – centred interpretations of culture, teaching curriculum, technology, religion and sharp practices such as "zoning out" of female candidates or prospects; and failure to establish facilities and incentives that can serve as focal point for the comprehensive development of projects to actively support women's participation. Although, conscious of the necessity to induce sustainable change, a number of civil society organizations, partner agencies and funders have been running advocacy programmes, training and researching on affirmative action for teachers in school; women leaders in political parties and other leadership positions. The profile of these efforts has focused on identifying, analyzing and developing strategies of combating the various modes of marginalization women encounter, most especially in their participation and contribution to pedagogical learning's and educational efforts. Notably amongst these modes of marginalization includes:
Labelling as strategy of exclusion and deprivation
Discrepancies in enforcing equality between women and men in employment
Lack of or inadequate support to promote voluntary vocational skills development.
Unresolved conflicts of wage discrepancies.
Lack of protection of working women during pregnancy/' after- birth.
Unequal access to major/sensitive information and educational activities
Gender inequalities in the management of Distance learning programmes.
Stereotyping and lack of respect for the human rights of women.
Low level of parental education.
Under- representation of women in higher education.
Incidence of Early Marriages and Teenage Pregnancy.
Identified Techniques for Eliminating Women Marginalization in Distance Learning
The study further identified a repertoire of techniques that can be used to reduce or eliminate the tendencies of marginalization and improve on the experiences and opportunities of women in open and distance learning (ODL).
Educating and equipping woman to contribute their useful quota to the society and eliminating all forms of illiteracy. (Azikwe, 1992)
Institutionalizing greater dimensions of openness and flexibility, whether in terms of access, curriculum or other element of structure.
Promoting cost-effective, convenient, conducive, efficient and comprehensive unstraddling of many facet of the social system. (Jegede, 2003)
Encouraging leniency in obedience to the Islamic practice of purdah.
Halting the radical approach to instructional processes of the girl-child.
Doctoring bias-free socialization to sensitize women about family planning issues, HIV/AIDS issues, issues relating to peace and governance with their societies, primary health, maternal and infant mortality as well as environmentally sustainable practices.
Processed skills acquisition and capacity building to enable women develop self-awareness and self-esteem.
On a general note, inspite of the emergence of these, and numerous other techniques, it is clear that a major Educational (cum Socio-Cultural, Economic and Political) transition is occurring in Africa. It is a transition from grass to grace.
There is a considerable evidence from South Africa, Ghana, Egypt, Nigeria and some other African countries that have significantly increased the participation of woman in Educational and leadership roles, that the quality of their educational and political systems have improved. Transparency and accountability standards have gone up while the use of thuggery in politics has declined unlike before. The believe is, that the more woman in Education management and political activities the higher the quality of education and democracy will become.
The profiles of two African women discussed below chronicles a concrete transition of personalities to a high-level of doggedness, leadership traits, Will to serve, exposure to unbiased access, commitment to growth and a passion for genuine development for their people and countries.
HAJIYI FATIMA BALLA ABUBAKAR
Fati Abubakar was a Nigerian woman born of Fulani mother and a Kiba father, in Gombi a small town in Adamawa State, where she lived most of her childhood. Mrs. Abubakar was brought up in a social environment that was defined by the religion, Islam, as well as the Fulani Culture. She was brought under strict Islamic teachings, which involved daily Islamic lessons and teachings. She derives her strong personality and senses of purpose mainly from her father, who was the famous Mr. Balla, a nationalist, who struggled along with other able Nigerians during the pre-independence period.
Mrs. Abubakar's capacity to go against what is considered the norm is clear. Growing up in a place like Gombi where girl child education is not encourage, she was perceived, in the footstep of her father, as a deviant in relation to the societal norm on the position of the girl child. Her leadership qualities manifested at a tender age, right from her primary school days where she held the position of a "head girl".
Fati took up employment with the then Gongola State Government as information officer immediately after her service in 1997. She rose to the position of chief information officer which was equivalent to Director (i.e. the highest professional position in the ministry) at the state level. She was later appointed as the first woman Director – Generals initially appointed with her. The performance during her career in civil service was outstanding. Her achievements during these years are man. She set up the first newspaper in the state 'weekly scope' and acted as the Editor in chief while still retaining her position as a Director in the ministry. She also starts up scholarship funding for female adolescent from primary through University education which she named "Fati Balla Scholarship Fund". Her foray into politics eventually saw her taking up the challenge as a senator representing the Adamawa central senatorial district under the Grassroots Democratic movement (GDM). Her choice to serve in the capacity was solely guided by choice and ideological commitments to contributing to the building of educational goodwill and political parties relationship in her state. She is one of those well-noted women who have brokered power with leaders of thought that owns their own, and she continues to enjoy traditions support from her people through and through.
CHIEF ONYEKA OWENU Chief Onyeka Owenu is internationally and locally acclaimed as one of Nigerian's best female musicians, Born on 31st January 1952, Onyeka grew up in an Ibo community that is known for its preference of the male child. But then, lucky as she would be, her parents were not one to give any inkling or reference to the differences in their children sexes. Onyeka feminist attitude springs forth from her education in the United States; she was a student at Wellesley College and New York School for social research. While studying her masters' degree, she was also working with United Nations office of public information as a tour guide. Onyeka grew up well-bred and sees herself as a social critic/activist through her songs and rightly so too. Most of her songs are reflections of her life experiences. Onyeka launched her musical career with the release of her first album in 1981. By 1989, she has grown to become a world music titan and in same year, the United States Agency for international Development (UNAIDS) presented Onyeka and King Sunny Ade with an award and certificate of appreciation for improving the lives of African families through the Artistic communication of family planning messages in the songs, "Wait for me', 'Choices' and 'One Love'. 10 years after, her grand entry into politics began with her foray as she vied for the position of President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN).
The profiles of women chronicled above demonstrates clearly, that women's immense potentialities in education and other facets of life could be translated in to realities by removing all the known barriers to participation in decision-taking and involvement in the development process. To do this implies the adoption of a gender-oriented perspective (G.O.P) to development, which recognizes and takes into consideration the adoption of women rights. A gender-oriented perspective may combine one or more of the following strategies:
Developing constitutional reforms that will provide for and guarantee the application of quotas for women as a basis for community, economic, political and educational representation.
Reforms of educational policies and the electoral laws to allow for a system that gives more room to women.
Promotion of serious and co-ordinate formal and political education; information and political engagements with grass root women.
Developing sustainable long – term networks that can strengthen the capacity of women.
Developing platforms and medium that emphasizes issues, principles and popular interests rather than the use of money, violence and the usurpation of women participation.
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Publishing comprehensive reports of the research efforts of women activities and participation in education and society's decision taking processes.
Publishing case studies and individual profiles of teachers and women leaders as well as reports of advocacy efforts on promoting the participation of women in education and politics.
Development of easy –to – read fact sheets and/or brochure summarizing the books that will be mass – produce for advocacy purposes.
Organizing policy brief directed at the executive, the legislature and the leadership of women organizations.
Production of animal calendar highlighting women's successful cases.
Launching of website. Presenting all available information about gender equality and presenting profiles of world women leaders.
The production of audio – visual versions for grass root/community narratives.
We could indeed, go on and on to list the many strategies and medium that can promote ODL, but it is our belief that the pathetic plights of women alluded to earlier has already dawned on us. Should that be the case, as we hope it is, then it is time for action. Change must as matter of factly change. Only concrete action will make ODL be seen as a viable route to achieving what to us is a basic human right, the treatment of women as equal human beings in the participation and provision of education. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a basic and vital pillar for our only truly sustainable development. I thank you all for your kind attention.
Jegede O.J. (2003) Taking the Distance Out of Higher Education in 21st Century Nigeria. An invited Convocation Lecture Presented at the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State.
Prof. Odumosu et al (eds.) (2000) Social Problems and Social Works in Nigeria. Violence against Women in Africa: The case of Nigeria (p.68 -76). Centre for Planning Studies, Lagos State University.
Prof. Ojo Afolabi (2002) Women and Gender Equality for a Better Society in Nigeria. Women' empowerment, Equality and Development (p.203 – 218)
Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page.
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CHVRCHES Don't Have All the Answers, But They've Found a Map With 'Love Is Dead'
CHVRCHES (Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty) talk to Billboard about their excellent third album Love Is Dead, out today (May 25).
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Scotland's finest synth-pop export CHVRCHES (Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty) has returned returned today (May 25) with their excellent third album Love Is Dead.
If it feels like a while since we've heard from CHVRCHES, who stopped touring towards the end of 2016 — which in a fan's mind can roughly translate to a band disappearing off the face of the earth — it's only because they were busy focusing on this next effort. Mayberry did go on a holiday before getting back in the studio, though: "I went to an island in the Bahamas full of iguanas. You don't live on the island, obviously, because it's solely populated by iguanas and it's not allowed. It's kind of like a reserved area for these giant, fuck-off iguanas."
The band then convened in early 2017 to begin writing. "There weren't really a lot of preconceived ideas going in," Mayberry says. "We just kind of get in there and start doing things, and the direction of it makes itself apparent after the fact." Doherty adds, "You just get in there and challenge yourself every day to write the best song you can write. That's the kind of process that we've always used."
The trio also worked with producer Greg Kurstin (whose staggering resume includes Adele, Tegan and Sara and Foo Fighters) on a bulk of Love Is Dead's tracklist. "It was nuts. It was electric, being in his space," Doherty says, and Cook shakes his head in awed memory: "The way his brain works musically is unlike anyone else I've ever met."
Mayberry then brings up the misconceptions people have about big-name producers. "People are like, 'Oh, you've got Greg Kurstin,' and talk about him as if he's like this big pop factory producer," she says. "That belittles how good a musician he is, and the musicianship of what he's doing. He doesn't just go in with one thing and apply that to everybody; he's such an intuitive person, and he listens. I feel like when people are like, "You've got the big pop guy,' I'm like, 'Well, I don't think that's really fair to say that.' It kind of undermines the talent of him, and the level of collaboration that's going on.
"These are still CHVRCHES' songs — he would never even step in on the toplines unless we had all hit a wall," she continues. "And he would never go, 'You should just do this.' He's not really like that. His keyboard playing is so inspiring that I really feel like you can just jam all day. I genuinely felt like he was coaxing the best melodies out of everybody, out of me, without saying a word. That was really empowering and really special to me."
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CHVRCHES' first two records — 2013's The Bones of What You Believe and 2015's Every Open Eye — are named after lyrics from certain songs, but Mayberry thought the third effort deserved something "slightly more theatrical," and landed on a phrase that sums up the story she wanted to tell.
"It was supposed to be a little jarring. And I don't get up every day and agree with [the phrase] every single day, but fucking some days I do," Mayberry says. "It's supposed to be a starting point for the conversation that happens across the record. Somebody is trying to figure out why they feel the way they do and you don't necessarily have an answer, but you're trying to wade through that frustration and confusion — and what do you do with all that once you know."
The band recorded Love Is Dead in New York, London and Los Angeles, writing over 40 songs in total (there are enough unheard demos for "a proper full-on guitar album," Doherty says) and self-producing three of them. For "My Enemy" featuring The National's Matt Berninger, "God's Plan" and "Really Gone," Doherty says that they were able to see these tracks through to the end of the process after six months of writing and recording. (Asked about that decision, he's quick with a joke: "It was cheap.")
But self-production is actually how CHVRCHES operated in the very beginning, with Doherty and Cook bringing their technological backgrounds from their time in other bands to the table. "I always felt like I had those skills at a certain level and a high opinion of what I thought I could achieve, but you need to find your perfect collaborator to lift you," Doherty explains of the days before the band became official. "Iain and I were getting together as mates because we always said we would, and I was at the point where I was about to quit the music business, because I felt like a failure and I had no prospects. Then we wrote those songs and they were coming out quite fully formed and I thought, 'Oh, maybe we can do this.'"
CHVRCHES is touring all summer and fall, with a stop at New York City's Governors Ball on June 3. It's a rain check, if you will, from 2016, when the festival had to cancel the Sunday lineup — including a headlining set by Kanye West — due to thunderstorms. "I'm going to be so pissed if we get rained off again, honestly," Doherty laughs.
When it comes to the band's live show these days, putting together a setlist is tricky, "There are songs that you love on the record and they just don't work live. It's more about the emotional arc of it, what you need for that moment and what fits. You don't want it to be all new album stuff," Mayberry says. Indeed, the band is practiced at finding a balance between fresh songs that are exciting to play, and old favorites that the crowd has a foot-stomping demand for. "We go to enough shows ourselves and watch bands we like to what's a good mix. As much I respect it — it's your choice — I kind of hate when it when you turn up and people don't play any of the songs that a lot of people are there to see. You have to be aware that yes, it's a creative process for you, but you're there because people love those songs. So, give the people what they want," she says.
Finally, the talk turns to Stranger Things; the Internet has argued there's a resemblance between Mayberry and actor Finn Wolfhard, and though she doesn't want "to be that guy," Mayberry would like to remind everyone that she made the joke first. "My friend Ross kind of looks like a grown-up version of Gaten [Matarazzo]. So he was the one that brought it up to me, like, 'You and I look like the grown-up version of Dustin and Mike.' So I found a picture of it and posted it when the first season came out and thought it was funny," she says. "And then somebody from Papa John's Pizza or something that started this whole thing. So, I was like, 'Gotta get on board with the joke.' I don't think it means that he looks like a 30-year-old woman or vice versa. No teenaged boy wants to be told they look like a 30-year-old chick."


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Probably one of the most interesting photographs in the family collection. The person we'll call James crouches in front of a stick fence which appears to contain a garden. The upper half composition is sliced clean in two by a diagonal tree trunk. A butte and a home appear in the background, with either another taller home or a church behind that. There is a rudimentary miniature crucifix on the left side near the fence. We are probably seeing the back of it.
What is James doing outside the fence containing a cross and a tree? Why is he wearing a cardigan and tie? What does he have in his left hand? Is he paying his respects? Why is the photographer crouching in the grass? Who was buried?


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Q: Layout with center of view matches center of central item with minimum padding I am trying to create simple layout with an image and two labels (one above the image and one below it). I use the inflated view to paint it to a canvas. My interest is to create the view with a rectangle that has as center the center of the image. Using fill_parent or match_parent dimensions for layout is not desired since the final view will occupy all the available space, not the minimal space (resulting in a too big bitmap).
This is the code I have used so far:
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    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <ImageView android:layout_centerInParent="true"
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        android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/bt_beacon"></ImageView>
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    <TextView android:layout_below="@id/ivBeaconType" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
        android:text="-99 dB" android:id="@+id/tvRssi" android:textColor="#FF0000"></TextView>
</RelativeLayout>

This has a problem. The relative layout does not grow to fit both texts (the label above does not show up and the one at bottom is painted too close to the image). I could render correctly the view by aligning image below first text and third text below image but that would not result in a perfect center around image center (or by using a linear layout).
What can do? Another valid solution would be getting the center of the image relative to the layout drawing area. Any ideas?

A: I got it. getLeft()/getRight()/getTop()/getBottom() methods of a view return the relative position within parent. The only captcha is that they only return valid values after the layout phase so this solved my question:
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    {
        /* Calculamos las dimensiones si no está creado el bitmap */
        beaconView.invalidate();
        beaconView.refreshDrawableState();
        beaconView.measure(
                MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED),
                MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED));
        beaconView.layout(0, 0, beaconView.getMeasuredWidth(),
                beaconView.getMeasuredHeight());
        ImageView ivBeaconType = (ImageView) beaconView
                .findViewById(R.id.ivBeaconType);
        Rect beaconIconArea = new Rect(ivBeaconType.getLeft(),
                ivBeaconType.getTop(), ivBeaconType.getRight(),
                ivBeaconType.getBottom());
        beaconBitmapCenterX = beaconIconArea.centerX();
        beaconBitmapCenterY = beaconIconArea.centerY();
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"This time last year," I thought. For the voice, asking its rather staggering questions over the long-distance wire, yesterday, was the same voice that had telephoned this time last year, almost to a day. It belongs to a friend who has spent a good many years in public life and public service. There was the same tenseness in his voice now as there had been a year before, but for reasons as different as if, in the meantime, the world had spun over on its axis and reversed its poles. Then the voice had seemed to me curiously optimistic (the Hungarian revolt was on). Now it seemed to be speaking from the bottom of a pit (Sputnik II had been launched the day before). Until that moment, I had not realized, could scarcely have believed possible, the degree of alarm that the second Communist moon had stirred in the West.
The voice said: "Suppose the Russians have one hundred rockets of the thrust that launched the second Sputnik, 1 and that the rockets have hydrogen warheads. Suppose they are trained on the United States. Will the Russians first give us an ultimatum in the hope of taking our technology intact? Or will they launch the rockets without any ultimatum? Certain quarters," the voice went on, "have put that question to their Communist experts. What would your answer be?" As put to me, it was a purely personal, unofficial question; I am not a Communist expert. Perhaps that is why, instead of reaching for a graph, I thought: "This time last year.. " Let us remember that time a little, because it bears both on my friend's question and my answer.
This time last year, I came out of my workroom, one morning, to find my wife waiting, shaken and distracted, just outside. "They've come back," she said. "They're bombing the city. It's horrible." It was Sunday, November 4, 1956. The Soviet armor had wheeled back on Budapest. We listened to the pleas for help from the Hungarian resistance radios; boosted, rebroadcast or paraphrased by the stations of the West. One appeal broke off: "May God help you and help us." "At that point, the Hungarian station went off the air," said the American announcer's Sunday voice comes out like a ribbon, lies flat on the brush. At that point, in fact, the man with the tommy-gun had kicked in the door, and it required no imagination at all to know what had happened next in that Hungarian studio. My wife burst out: "Why don't they stop those horrible commercials! Why don't all the stations pray, why doesn't everyone simply pray to God to help the Hungarians? Poor people, oh, poor, poor people!" She rocked back and forth silently in order not to give way further to her grief.
I said nothing. I was thinking of what the West would do, or, as I surmised, would not do, with this historic opportunity. I was remembering certain words of Lenin's at the great turning-point of this century. He was warning his sluggard henchmen that history sometimes gives men one chance, and that it seldom gives them a second chance; that, for resolute and intelligent men, given that chance, not to seize and act upon it is "crime"; that "to temporize is like death," "to temporize is death." This time last year, the temporizing UN was trying to try to push through a resolution condemning the Hungarian horror; was screaming moral indignation, though somewhat like the duck in Peter and the Wolf, "from the middle of the pond." This time last year, the voice that telephoned me yesterday called from Washington to ask hopefully: "What do you think? Will we intervene in Hungary?" I said: "No intervention. The people are afraid it means world war. If you could put it to a vote, you would not get one thousand votes for intervention in the whole country." The figure might just as well have been one million votes without in any way changing the fact.
This is not because the center of political gravity in the satellite situation lies in Hungary. Events are likely to disclose that it lies, as it has from the first, in Poland and in the Germanies (West as well as East). Least of all is it, as we have so often heard of late, because Soviet action in Hungary has at last stripped the mask from Communism and revealed its true face. Anybody who had to wait for Budapest to tell him that does not know what century he has been born into. Nothing has happened in Hungary by way of horror that has not happened repeatedly within the Communist Empire, and more humbly. Millions of Russians (let us remember) have already been destroyed, defying Communism. Their struggle and their cries were lost in the distances of Euro-Asia. But we heard the Hungarians, and they tore at least at our nerves.
Those cries command our attention first to a challenge that is as simple as it is timeless. All other factors change or fade — the politics, economics or their catchwords that men defied or defended. But resistance enacts a human meaning that is always the same. It says that when man, the sufferer, rises by courage above the odds of pain, he liberates by his act the one force that brute power, destroying all else, is powerless to destroy. There is more. To the exact degree in which brute power is most incontinently brutal, those who resist compel it to collaborate in dramatizing that meaning. That done, resistance, though it can be crushed, cannot be defeated. Disaster is not defeat. Resistance outlives disaster because the sons remember the fathers, and that memory is caught at again and again by others who suffer, and whom it moves to dream of resisting in their turn. This is the dialectic of hope; it stirs in darkness.
But there is not just one challenge. There are two of them. It is not only Soviet power that the Hungarians have challenged. They also confront the West with a challenge equal to, or greater than, their challenge to Communism. The history of the past forty years has been marked by this incongruity: that Communism, permanently strife-torn and precarious, and weak in most material ways beyond anything imaginable to the average experience of the West, has repeatedly stood off or scored off a West in most material ways immensely more powerful. Until Communism detonated its A and H Bombs, it was never a question of comparative power. Power, on the part of the West, was never lacking. Will was lacking. And that failure of will was matched by a failure of intelligence, taking form as an inert complacency, varied recurrently by sweeps of illusion that Communism was about to change into the exact opposite of what it is, into the opposite of all that has given it power and empire, into something more like that image that the West cherishes of the West, something more eligible for the garden party guest-list. This of the most consistently implacable revolution in history. It is to that failure of will and intelligence in the West that the Hungarians have cried: 'Halt!', challenging it to reverse its forty-year retreat by giving it precisely what most it dreads — an opportunity.
But at last I pushed those pages to one side. Who, in the West, would read in them anything but overblown feeling; as if revolution for Communism or against it, were ever made by anything less than feeling, running molten under the pressures of necessity. But feeling does not, as one of our fondest notions has it, keep·the measuring mind from measuring narrowly the reality of what it feels about. I knew before I had finished writing that, within weeks, what I was writing about would be as dated as if it dealt with another age.
If the Russians have one hundred ICBMs trained on us and mean to use them-then, in my fallible opinion, you can be quite sure that there will be no ultimatum. The Russians will launch the rockets first and talk afterwards, if there is anybody left worth talking to. On the other hand, again in my fallible opinion, the Russians do not have one hundred such rockets trained on us. Nor do I believe that such saturation attack forms any part of over-all Communist strategy at this time. Communist strategy seems to me to have quite different procedures and ends in view, geared to a close, forty-year scrutiny and experience of the West.
"For once," said the voice, brightening, "you are more hopeful than I am." I said: "That is not hope." I meant this: Budapest convinced me that the will and intelligence of the West are still unequal to what besets them, and this regardless of the sumptuousness of our retaliatory power. What price retaliatory power if, having it, you must stand by, lacking the will or ingenuity to improvise "even a gun-running service for us"? I take it to be a matter of simple fact that the retaliatory power of the Strategic Air Command still offsets any temporary thrust ahead of Communist rocket prowess — as the President has assured us in the first of his "chins-up" talks. Retaliatory power is a simple necessity of survival. But retaliatory power keeps rocketing into ever more terrifying stages of stalemate. And there is probably a limit, not easy for the layman to grasp, beyond which these sprints into progressive stalemate can sprint no farther. Even now, neither side dares break the relative stalemate except in the certainty of consequences so frightful that imagination rejects as pointless the effort to picture them.
Forward motion in either direction would seem, therefore, to lie outside the central stalemate. This is a revolutionary conflict we are locked in, and, in it, we are, perforce, compelled to act as much as revolutionists as the enemy, though in a different way. For victory must presumably go to him who succeeds in overleaping or bypassing the weapons stalemate, and swinging to his side decisive population masses and their economies now beyond his control. This is the strategic thrust of the theses of the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, now personified in the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. That is what, at the moment, the Middle East is about. This is why what I can see by Sputnik II's dim light alarms me less than it alarmed my telephoning friend and millions of others. It is why, instead, I look back from Sputnik II to Hungary, this time last year.
Some years ago, I met in an unlikely executive office, high in a New York skyscraper, a little group of men, introduced namelessly as leaders in America of a Hungarian resistance movement. I did not know why we had met and I do not know now. The modem world is like that. But suddenly the spokesman for the rest asked me: "Do you know what is America's secret weapon?" I said: no. He brought his hand with unexpected force against his chest as he answered: "We, we are your secret weapon." In the days of Budapest, I thought often of that odd conversation. I thought, too, that, if we were holding it again, I should have put a question in my turn. I should have asked: "Do you think we shall know how to use our secret weapon?" But I should have spared them from answering by answering myself: "Neither do I." The moment when the West, by action, has made that answer untrue, will, I suspect, mark a turn in history quite as decisive in its way as Sputnik II.


We arrived at the Almost Heaven RV Park in Manvel, TX on Thursday, November 11, 2004. It was rainy in the Houston area and it rained every day for most of the next two weeks. We spent most of our time inside. We visited a few of our relatives, had lunch with Kathi's Mother and step-father a couple of times and spent several afternoons and evening visiting with my sister Carol and her husband Lloyd who were staying at the same RV park. Ten days of rain and staying mostly inside was getting to us some and we both started feeling yucky. Too much of anything gets depressing after a while.
Wednesday the 24th, the rain finally let up a little, although it was still windy and cold, but feeling the breeze in my face felt good. I like the wind and cold as long as I do not have to dwell in it. I enjoy it moving from here to there then getting out of it again. Anyway, we were glad to be out and about.
It turned out some of the diamonds were the wrong color or shape and would not enhance the overall design, so they got left those out of the finished product. They ended up using the original wedding ring stone as a centerpiece surrounded by diamonds from Kathi's 25th anniversary ring.
Thursday was Thanksgiving and we spent it at our nephew's home. John and Shanna Clark had a nice home on the northwest side of Houston off US 290 near the Telge exit. John and Shanna were excellent hosts as usual. Most of the family was in attendance, with the exception of our two sons who were in California. Kathi talked to both of them on the phone in the evening. They were both sharing Thanksgiving with friends. Family get-togethers are always fun and this was no exception.
If you enjoy travel blogs, Al Bossence and his wife are excited about their new Jeep Liberty. He takes great pictures and posts on thebayfieldbunch.com.
Wesley, Andrea and Larry Clark talking to David Clark.


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Memphis deputy superintendent Lin Johnson leaving to pursue a doctorate at Harvard
Deputy superintendent Lin Johnson
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One of two deputy superintendents for Shelby County Schools is leaving to pursue a doctorate in education leadership, the district's leader announced Tuesday evening.
Lin Johnson, who oversaw finance, human resources, business operations, and information technology as deputy superintendent, will be at the Harvard Graduate School of Education near Boston. His last day is July 12, Superintendent Joris Ray said.
Johnson started in Shelby County Schools in 2015 as the district's chief of finance under former superintendent Dorsey Hopson. Previously, he was the director of special initiatives for the Tennessee Department of Education and director of finance and operations for the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board. As deputy superintendent in Tennessee's largest school district, Johnson made $193,800 a year.
During his tenure, Johnson spearheaded the district's shift to "student-based budgeting," which allocates more money to schools with high numbers of students who are in poverty, have low test scores, disabilities, or special needs.
Ray, whom the board appointed as superintendent in April, called the move a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" for Johnson. The audience gasped at the announcement.
"He's a guru of finance," Ray said. "Truly my brother in the work."
John Barker, the district's chief of staff, who was hired in February, will take over Johnson's position. The chief of finance position Johnson left when he became deputy superintendent is still vacant.
School board members also took turns praising Johnson following the announcement.
"We know your leadership has been led through an equity lens," said board chair Shante Avant. "You superseded my expectations."
Laura Faith Kebede @kebedefaith lkebede@chalkbeat.org
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Shitty articles about punk's "faux-inclusivity"
I just read another article (this one from The Guardian, penned by a member of Ramshackle Glory) condemning punk rock as being some club for straight white boys. The author, a white trans woman, laments that white males " get to be their whole authentic selves on stage and off" while other punks like her are stuck feeling like they're "being given permission to play along."
I'm not gonna laundry list women who play a major role in this scene in order to counter the author's argument that "men run the scene, men are the scene, and men always have been and probably always will be at the center of the scene." What I am gonna do is explain why I find these articles so frustrating.
I am white, straight, and (for all intents and purposes) male. I qualify that last one 'cause I was the kind of kid who grew up getting called a "pussy" and a "faggot." I wear tight low-waisted jeans and crop tops. In other words, I'm not the most masculine guy around. I still refer to myself as a "kid" not because I have delusions about my age (29) but because the word "man" makes me uncomfortable.
Anyway, I've played in punk bands, written for punk zines, and I used to run a punk record label. I have more friends in punk rock than I can count and – by any outsider's estimation – it's almost certainly inarguable that I have been accepted by (and my contributions have been valued by) the punk community. And you know what? I still don't feel like I belong. I still feel anxious at shows, I still don't ever feel secure, I still feel like I exist on the fringe of the community and like I've somehow snuck past the guard and tricked the others into thinking that I belong here. Do you know why? Because I'm a weirdo, an emotional fucking basketcase, and a perpetual outsider. In other words, I'm a punk.
My problem with these articles has nothing to do with race, gender, or anything like that. My problem is that the authors always assume that these feelings of alienation and discomfort are something that they have a monopoly on. They don't. We're all fucked up and we're all broken; that's why we came to punk rock in the first place. That's why we were fucking born into punk rock. Because there's something that's not quite right about all of us. And that sensation of not belonging has a lot more to do with our own fractured psyches than gender, orientation, or anything that we can blame punk for. This scene bends over backward to make sure that we all feel like we're welcome. I know because I've seen it and because – despite my own sense that I'm some kind of outsider or intruder – I still fake the role of ambassador and make those efforts to try and help others feel comfortable, welcome, and wanted in this scene.
If you feel like you can't be your "whole authentic self" in this community, I've got some advice for you: DO IT ANYWAY. Instead of writing editorials bad mouthing this scene (that, for all its flaws, has given us all more than we could ever hope to give back to it) why don't you brave up and fucking be yourself? I can't promise you that you won't still feel like a fucking weirdo. In fact, you're probably still gonna feel like you don't quite belong. Just like the rest of us.
And that's okay. It's why we're here.
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Cruz campaign asks stations to stop airing anti-Cruz ad
By NICK GASS
Ted Cruz's campaign sent a letter to TV stations across South Carolina and Georgia on Tuesday, demanding that they stop airing what it calls "a false attack ad" from the conservative super PAC American Future Fund that goes after the Texas senator on national security.
"The ad falsely claims 'Cruz proposed mass legalization of illegal immigrants.' Ted Cruz has never introduced, outlined, or supported any policy that would give legal status to illegal immigrants," wrote Eric Brown, general counsel to the campaign, in the letter shared with the media. "Indeed, quite the opposite, Ted Cruz led the fight in Congress against legislation written by Senator Rubio, among others, that created legal permanent status for millions of people in the country unlawfully. At least two fact-checks have evaluated this claim and determined it to be false, and others found no evidence to support it."
American Future Fund has spent heavily against Cruz in Iowa and in South Carolina, painting the senator in the latest spot as soft on immigration enforcement and "weak" on national security, including by tying him to Bernie Sanders and President Barack Obama. POLITICO reported last week that the group, which is overseen by veteran GOP operative Nick Ryan, is spending $1.5 million on broadcast and cable stations through Saturday, the day of the Republican primary.
"Cruz proposed mass legalization of illegal immigrants," the anti-Cruz group's spot says. "He even praised the traitor Edward Snowden. Ted Cruz's talk is cheap. His national security record is weak."
In its statement, the Cruz campaign urged the stations to consider their respective statuses as FCC-licensed entities in deciding whether to can the advertisement.
"Because this advertisement makes a flatly false factual claim for which your station is ultimately liable, we strongly urge you to exercise your discretion as a licensee to refuse to continue to broadcast this advertisement, and, because it is already airing, immediately pull the advertisement from your rotation," Brown wrote.
American Future Fund responded with its own letter to stations, calling the Cruz campaign pushback "a meritless attempt to deny the public the opportunity to view and consider an advertisement critical of well-documented, public positions."
"The ad is 100% accurate. Sen. Cruz should be embarrassed by his desperate effort to stifle AFF's right to speak, rights which are clearly granted in the First Amendment and consistently recognized by the Supreme Court," said Ryan. "Most ironic today is that Sen. Cruz is holding a press conference chastising Donald Trump for sending him the same letter that Cruz sent to us. His campaign is clearly unraveling and he is desperately lashing out. He looks like just another typical politician."
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2520 je:
 Abundantní číslo
 Složené číslo
 Nešťastné číslo
 Nejmenší číslo, které je dělitelné všemi jednocifernými čísly (další taková jsou např. čísla 5040, 7560, 10 080 atd.)

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