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Dan Plumley
Dr. Dan Plumley
Senior Lecturer in Sport Business Management
I began lecturing at Shefield Hallam in 2011.
I completed my PhD in 2014 in the area of sport finance, which specifically focuses on holistic performance measurement in English professional football.
My main research interests are in the economics, finance and governance of professional team sports, and I have numerous publications in these areas. I regularly present at major international sport management conferences and am an active researcher with the Sport Industry Research Centre (SIRC).
I also work closely with the media linked to my research area and provide comment across local, national and international media outlets, including corporations such as the BBC.
I have been involved in the Sport Management industry since 2006 and completed undergraduate and post-graduate degrees at SHU before joining the teaching team officially in 2011.
My main research interests are in the finance and governance of professional team sports. My PhD focuses on measuring financial and sporting performance in English professional football. I regularly present at major international sport management conferences and I have numerous peer-reviewed publications in the sport management field that focus on the financial health of professional team sports and other contemporary sport management related topics. These include competitive balance in professional team sports and managerial change in professional football. I have also co-authored several book chapters that appear in mainstream sport management textbooks linked to this research area, and I am an active researcher with the Sport Industry Research Centre (SIRC).
I have experience working in major contracted event projects, including the economic impact of major sport events such as the Virgin London Marathon, the ATP World Tour tennis finals, the Women's British Open golf, the British and European Badminton Championships, as well as in large research projects like the 'School Games' commissioned by UK Sport and the Youth Sport Trust. I also contribute to numerous media pieces discussing the finances of football with local, national and international media outlets including corporations such as the BBC and Sky News.
My main teaching and research areas include:
the financial health of sport organisations (c.f. Deloitte Reports)
the ownership structure of British professional sport teams
accounting and finance in a sporting context
performance measurement and organisational performance in British professional sport teams
economics and finance of professional team sport
governance in professional team sports; competitive balance in professional team sports
managerial change in professional team sports
I currently teach on all levels of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as currently being Collaborative Course Leader for the MSc Sport Business Management delivered in partnership with SHAPE in Hong Kong.
My main teaching areas include the economics and finance of professional team sports, management accounting, financial accounting and research.
Sport Business Management
BSc Sport Business Management, MSc Sport Business Management
I currently lead and deliver on the following modules:
Principles of Marketing and Finance for Sport Managers
Applied Marketing and Finance for Sport Managers
Financial Skills for Business Decisions
Sport Research in Practice
Research in Sport Business Management, Project
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G. & Wilson, R. (2018). The unintended consequence of Financial Fair Play: An examination of competitive balance across five European football leagues. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal (in press).
Bachmaier, B., Lammert, J., Plumley, D., Wilson, R. & Hovemann, G. (2018). Regulatory intensity in English and German professional football: A comparative analysis of national requirements for ensuring financial stability. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 8(3), 276-297.
Ramchandani, G., Plumley, D., Boyes, S. & Wilson, R. (2018). A longitudinal and comparative analysis of competitive balance in five European football leagues. Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 24(5/6), 265-282.
Wilson, R., Ramchandani, G. & Plumley, D. (2018). Parachute Payments in English Football; Softening the Landing or Distorting the Balance? Journal of Global Sport Management (online first).
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G. & Wilson, R. (2018). Mind the gap: an analysis of competitive balance in the English football league system. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 18 (5).
Wilson, R. & Plumley, D. (2017). Different shaped ball, same financial problems? A holistic performance assessment of English Rugby Union (2006-2015). Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 7 (2), 141-156.
Plumley, D., Wilson, R. & Shibli, S. (2017). A holistic performance assessment of English Premier League football clubs 1992-2013. Journal of Applied Sport Management 9(1), 1-29.
Flint, S.W, Plumley, D. & Wilson, R. (2016). You're getting sacked in the morning; managerial change in the English Premier League. Marketing Intelligence and Planning 34(2).
Wilson, R., Plumley, D. & Barrett, D. (2015). Staring into the abyss? The state of UK rugby's Super League. Managing Leisure: An International Journal 20(6), 293-310.
Plumley, D. and Flint, S. W. (2015). The UEFA Champions League: Maintaining the Status Quo? Team Performance Management: An International Journal 21(5/6), 247-258.
Flint, S.W., Plumley, D., Peake, R. & Polyakova, O. (2014). Using sport as a tool to market unhealthy food. European Journal of Business and Social Science 2(12), 15-25.
Flint, S. W., Plumley, D. & Wilson, R. (2014). You don't know what you're doing! The impact of managerial change on club performance in the English Premier League. Managing Leisure: An International Journal 19(6), 390-399.
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G., & Wilson, R. (2014). Towards a model for measuring holistic performance of professional football clubs. Soccer and Society (ahead of print) 1-14.
Wilson, R., Plumley, D. & Ramchandani, G. (2013). The relationship between ownership structure and club performance in the English Premier League. Sport business and management: an international journal 3(1), 19-36.
Plumley, D., Serbera, J.-.P., & Wilson, R. (2020). Too big to fail? Accounting for Predictions of Financial Distress in English Professional Football Clubs. Journal of Applied Accounting Research. http://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-05-2020-0095
Bond, A.J., Cockayne, D., Ludvigsen, J.A.L., Maguire, K., Parnell, D., Plumley, D., ... Wilson, R. (2020). COVID-19: the return of football fans. Managing Sport and Leisure. http://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2020.1841449
Wilson, R., Plumley, D., Mondal, S., & Parnell, D. (2020). Challenging parachute payments and unmasking English football's finances. Managing Sport and Leisure. http://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2020.1792745
Plumley, D., Mondal, S., Wilson, R., & Ramchandani, G. (2020). Rising stars: competitive balance in five Asian football leagues. Journal of Global Sport Management. http://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2020.1765700
Wilson, R., Plumley, D., & Flint, S. (2019). Making sense of the sack race: the impact of managerial change in the English Football League. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal. http://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-10-2018-0079
Ramchandani, G., Plumley, D., Preston, H., & Wilson, R. (2019). Does size matter? An investigation of competitive balance in the English Premier League under different league sizes. Team performance management. http://doi.org/10.1108/TPM-10-2018-0064
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G., & Wilson, R. (2019). Editorial: Performance management in professional team sport. Team performance management, 158-161. http://doi.org/10.1108/TPM-07-2019-0067
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G., & Wilson, R. (2019). Guest editorial. Team Performance Management, 25 (3-4), 158-161. http://doi.org/10.1108/TPM-06-2019-080
Liu, D., Wilson, R., Plumley, D., & Chen, X. (2019). Perceived corporate social responsibility performance in professional football and its impact on fan-based patronage intentions: An example from Chinese football. International journal of sports marketing and sponsorship. http://doi.org/10.1108/ijsms-06-2018-0059
Plumley, D., Wilson, R., Millar, R., & Shibli, S. (2019). Howzat? The Financial Health of English Cricket: Not Out, Yet. International Journal of Financial Studies, 7 (1), 11. http://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs7010011
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G., & Wilson, R. (2018). The unintended consequence of Financial Fair Play: An examination of competitive balance across five European football leagues. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal. http://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-03-2018-0025
Ramchandani, G., Plumley, D., Boyes, S., & Wilson, R. (2018). A longitudinal and comparative analysis of competitive balance in five European football leagues. Team Performance Management, 24 (5/6), 265-282. http://doi.org/10.1108/TPM-09-2017-0055
Plumley, D.J., Ramchandani, G., & Wilson, R. (2018). Mind the gap: an analysis of competitive balance in the English football league system. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM), 18 (5), 357-375. http://doi.org/10.1504/IJSMM.2018.094344
Bachmaier, B., Lammert, J., Plumley, D., Wilson, R., & Hovemann, G. (2018). Regulatory intensity in English and German professional football: A comparative analysis of national requirements for ensuring financial stability. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 8 (3), 276-297. http://doi.org/10.1108/sbm-02-2017-0012
Wilson, R., Ramchandani, G., & Plumley, D.J. (2018). Parachute payments in English football: Softening the landing or distorting the balance? Journal of Global Sport Management, 3 (4), 351-368. http://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2018.1441740
Wilson, R., & Plumley, D.J. (2017). Different shaped ball, same financial problems? A holistic performance assessment of English Rugby Union (2006-2015). Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 7 (2). http://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-10-2016-0063
Plumley, D.J., Wilson, R., & Shibli, S. (2017). A holistic performance assessment of English Premier League football clubs 1992-2013. Journal of Applied Sport Management, 9 (1). http://doi.org/10.18666/JASM-2017-V9-I1-7353
Flint, S., Plumley, D.J., & Wilson, R. (2015). Managerial sacking : ethical considerations. Marketing Intelligence & Planning. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/mip
Wilson, R., Plumley, D.J., & Barrett, D. (2015). Staring into the abyss? : the state of UK rugby's Super League. Managing Sport and Leisure, 20 (6), 293-310. http://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2016.1141367
Plumley, D.J., & Flint, S. (2015). The UEFA Champions League : maintaining the status quo? Team Performance Management, 21 (5/6), 247-258. http://doi.org/10.1108/TPM-01-2015-0003
Flint, S., Peake, R., Plumley, D.J., Polyakova, O., Reale, S., Wilson, R., ... Pheonix, F. (2015). The impact of athlete endorsement on estimates of nutritional content of food meals. Appetite, 87, 395. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.12.174
Flint, S., Plumley, D.J., & Wilson, R. (2014). You don't know what you're doing! The impact of managerial change on club performance in the English Premier League. Managing Leisure, 19 (6), 390-399. http://doi.org/10.1080/13606719.2014.910000
Flint, S., Plumley, D.J., Peake, R., & Polyakova, O. (2014). Using sport as a tool to market unhealthy food. European Journal of Business and Social Sciences, 2 (12), 15-25. http://www.ejbss.com/volume-2-number-12-2014.aspx
Plumley, D.J., Wilson, R., & Ramchandani, G. (2014). Towards a model for measuring holistic performance of professional Football clubs. Soccer and Society, 18 (1), 16-29. http://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2014.980737
Plumley, D. (2014). Sports Fundraising: Dynamic Methods for Schools, Universities and Youth Sport Organizations. Managing Leisure, 19 (5), 377-379. http://doi.org/10.1080/13606719.2014.931512
Wilson, R., Plumley, D.J., & Ramchandani, G. (2013). The relationship between ownership structure and club performance in the English Premier League. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 3 (1), 19-36. http://doi.org/10.1108/20426781311316889
Flint, S., Warman, L., & Plumley, D.J. (n.d.). Males' exposure to the muscular body. Health Psychology Research.
Sela, O., Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2020). Examining athletes' leadership skills development and transfer from sport to business [abstract only]. In SMAANZ Week 2020 Program, 30 November 2020 - 2020. https://smaanz.wordpress.com/smaanzweekprogram/
Plumley, D., Wilson, R., Millar, R., & Shibli, S. (2019). Howzat? The Financial Health of English Cricket: Not Out, Yet. In European Association for Sport Management.
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G., Mondal, S., & Wilson, R. (2019). Rising stars. Competitive balance in five Asian football leagues. In European Association for Sport Management.
Catlin, E., Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2019). Competitive balance in professional team sports: A systematic review. In European Association for Sport Management.
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G., & Wilson, R. (2018). The unintended consequence of Financial Fair Play: An examination of competitive balance across five European leagues. In European Association for Sport Management.
Ramchandani, G., Plumley, D., boyes, S., & Wilson, R. (2018). A longitudinal and comparative analysis of competitive balance in five European football leagues. In European Association for Sport Management.
Wilson, R., Plumley, D., & Ramchandani, G. (2017). Parachute Payments in English Football; Softening the Landing or Distorting the Balance? In European Association for Sport Management.
Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2017). Making Sense of the Sack Race; The Impact of Managerial Change in the English Football League. In European Association for Sport Management.
Wilson, R., & Plumley, D. (2015). Breaking the code; a financial comparison of rugby union and rugby league in England. In European Association for Sport Management.
Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2015). Different shaped ball, same financial concerns: the financial health of rugby union in England. In European Association for Sport Management.
Wilson, R., Plumley, D., & Barrett, D. (2014). Staring at the abyss; the state of the Super League. In European Association for Sport Management.
Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2014). The English Premier League at 20; economic crisis or financial power? In European Association for Sport Management.
Wilson, R., & Plumley, D. (2013). The establishment of a model to measure financial and sporting performance in professional team sports. In European Association for Sport Management.
Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2013). The establishment and utilisation of a model to examine financial and sporting performance in the English Premier League since its inception in 1992. In European Association for Sport Management.
Wilson, R., & Plumley, D. (2012). Problems Ahead? UEFA Financial Fair Play and the English Premier League. In European Association of Sport Management.
Plumley, D., Wilson, R., & Ramchandani, G. (2012). Where next for FFP? Towards a model for measuring financial performance and financial sustainability in the English Premier League. In European Association for Sport Management.
Wilson, R., & Plumley, D. (2011). Ownership Structure and Financial Crisis in the English Premier League. In European Association of Sport Management.
Wilson, R., & Plumley, D. (2010). The Premier League of Nations; Foreign owned or English owned, does it really make that much financial difference? In European Association of Sport Management.
Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2009). Is Foreign Investment in English Football really worth it? In European Association of Sport Management.
Plumley, D., Ramchandani, G., Wilson, R., & Preston, H. Does size matter? An investigation of competitive balance under different league sizes. In European Academy of Management.
Millar, R., Plumley, D., Wilson, R., & Dickson, G. (2020). Cricket's financial Ashes: A model of economic dependency [abstract only]. In SMAANZ Week 2020 Program, 30 November 2020 - 2020. https://smaanz.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ali_a_abstract-merged-1.pdf
Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2019). Corporate Ownership in Sport. In Who Owns Sport?. Routledge
Wilson, R., & Plumley, D. (2018). Finance and Accounting in Football. In Chadwick, S., Parnell, D., Widdop, P., & Anagnostopoulos, C. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management. (pp. 186-198). Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Football-Business-and-Management-1st-Edition/Chadwick-Parnell-Widdop-Anagnostopoulos/p/book/9781138579071
Wilson, R., & Plumley, D. (2018). Finance and budgeting for community sport and physical activity. In Wilson, R., & Platts, C. (Eds.) Managing and Developing Community Sport. (pp. 161-179). London: Taylor and Francis: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317201106
Plumley, D., & Wilson, R. (2018). Corporate social responsibility in community sport management. In Wilson, R., & Platts, C. (Eds.) Managing and Developing Community Sport. (pp. 81-92). London: Routledge: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317201106
I am currently external examiner for UCFB (BA Football Business Management) and Brighton University (MSc Sport Business Management).
Postgraduate supervision
I am currently supervising a PhD student who is focusing on analysing competitive balance in English rugby union.


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Trish Gresham (born March 5, 1996) is an American professional wrestler and powerlifter currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where she performs under the ring name Jordynne Grace. She is a former two-time Impact Knockouts World Champion. She is also a former one-time Impact Digital Media Champion and Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champion. Upon becoming the inaugural Digital Media Champion, Grace was recognized by Impact Wrestling as the first Knockouts Triple Crown winner.

She is also known for her appearances in Beyond Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, Pro-Wrestling: EVE, and Shine Wrestling. As a powerlifter, she holds the World Natural Powerlifting Federation (WNPF) Georgia State and National Records holder in the squat at , the bench press at  and the deadlift at  in the 165 lb. weight class.

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2018–present)
On September 1, 2018, Grace participated in a 19-person over budget battle royale to determine the number one contender to the ROH World Championship on All In, being the only female in the match. Grace was able to eliminate Brian Cage, but was ultimately eliminated by Bully Ray. On October 28, Grace unsuccessfully challenged Jazz for the NWA World Women's Championship on Women's Wrestling Revolution (WWR), as they main evented at the WWR's event WWR vs. The World.

Impact Wrestling

Knockouts Champion (2018–2020)

On October 16, 2018, it was reported that Grace had signed a two-year deal with Impact Wrestling. Grace made her Impact! debut on the November 8 episode, as she defeated Katarina. On the January 3, 2019 episode of Impact!, Grace rescued Kiera Hogan as she was attacked by Allie and Su Yung. That led into a tag team match at Homecoming, which they lost as Yung technically submitted Hogan. With Rosemary's return to Impact, Grace teamed with her and Hogan to defeat Allie, Su Yung and The Undead Maid of Honor in the "Dark War". On the March 15 episode of Impact!, Grace defeated Tessa Blanchard to become the number one contender for Taya Valkyrie's Impact Knockouts Championship. At Against All Odds, which aired on March 29, Grace won by count-out, however, Valkyrie remained the champion. On the April 9 episode of Impact!, she received another chance to become number one contender for Valkyrie's title by defeating Madison Rayne. On August 2, at Unbreakable, she teamed with Scott Steiner and Petey Williams to defeat Dicky Mayer, Gentleman Jervis and Ryan Taylor in a six-person tag team match.

On January 12, 2020, Grace had another opportunity for the Knockouts Championship at Hard To Kill against Taya Valkyrie and ODB, but Valkyrie retained when she covered ODB. On January 18 (which aired on tape delay on February 11), she defeated Valkyrie to win the championship. After successfully retaining the title against Havok on February 22 at Sacrifice, Grace declared an open challenge with the Knockouts Championship on the line, which Madison Rayne answered by sending Miranda Alize and Lacey Ryan on the February 25 and March 10 episodes of Impact! respectively, but they failed to beat her. On July 18 at Slammiversary, Grace lost the title to Deonna Purrazzo, ending her reign at 182 days. A rematch was scheduled on August 25 during the second night of Impact's Emergence special, in the first Knockouts 30-minute Iron man match in Impact history, where Grace lost to Purrazzo, two falls to one.

Grace then entered into a rivalry with Tenille Dashwood when she returned on the September 1 episode of Impact!, interrupting her confrontation with Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo during her Black Tie Affair. She lost their first match on the September 22 episode of Impact!, but won the rematch the following week, culminating in a final match and win by Dashwood on October 3 at Victory Road. On the October 6 episode of Impact!, Grace answered X Division Champion Rohit Raju's open challenge for the title and beat him, but he changed the rules so that it wasn't up for grabs. At Bound for Glory, she competed in a six-way intergender scramble match that involved Chris Bey, TJP, Willie Mack, Trey Miguel and Raju, who won to retain the X Division Championship. At Turning Point, she teamed up with Dashwood in a losing effort against Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie.

Championship reigns (2020–present)
On the November 24 episode of Impact!, Grace revealed that her partner for the Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship Tournament was former WWE Women's Champion and NWA World Women's Champion Jazz. The duo would debut as a team on the December 1 episode of Impact!, defeating Killer Kelly and Renee Michelle in the first round, but lose to Havok and Nevaeh in the second round on the January 5, 2021 episode of Impact!. Their lost led to a match at Genesis, where Grace defeated Jazz. On the February 23 episode of Impact!, Grace and Jazz defeated Kimber Lee and Susan to become number one contenders to the Knockouts Tag Team Championship, held by Fire 'N Flava (Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz). The two teams fought at Sacrifice, where Grace and Jazz failed to win the tag titles.

At Hardcore Justice, she competed in a weapons match to determine the number one contender for the Knockouts title, which was won by Tenille Dashwood. On the April 15 episode of Impact!, Grace teamed with Jazz in her final match and beat Fire 'N Flava in an impromptu non-title bout after they interrupted her retirement ceremony. The following week, she defeated Hogan by disqualification and was beaten up by her and Steelz, before being saved by a debuting Rachael Ellering. Three days later, at Rebellion, Grace and Ellering defeated Fire 'N Flava to win the Knockouts Tag Team Championship for the first time. On May 7, it was announced that Grace had signed a new multi-year deal with Impact Wrestling. Eight days later, at Under Siege, she and Ellering dropped the titles back to Fire 'N Flava. On the May 20 episode of Impact!, Grace challenged Ellering to a match but failed to win. On the June 3 episode of Impact!, she and Ellering challenged Fire 'N Flava to a rematch for the Knockouts Tag Team Championship, but failed to regain them. Nine days later, at Against All Odds, Grace lost to Dashwood.

On July 31 at Homecoming, Grace teamed with Petey Williams to compete in a tournament to crown a Homecoming King and Queen, but lost to Matt Cardona and Chelsea Green in the first round. In October, Grace competed in the Shannon "Daffney" Spruill Memorial Monster's Ball match at Knockouts Knockdown, which was won by Savannah Evans. She then entered a tournament to determine the inaugural Impact Digital Media Champion, where she defeated Johnny Swinger in the first round. At Bound for Glory, Grace defeated Green, Crazzy Steve, Fallah Bahh, John Skyler, and Madison Rayne in the final to win the Impact Digital Media Championship. Having won the Digital Media title, Grace was then recognized by Impact Wrestling as the first Knockouts Triple Crown winner in the promotion's history.

On January 8, 2022, at Hard to Kill, Grace participated in the inaugural Knockouts Ultimate X match, which was won by Tasha Steelz. On the February 3 episode of Impact!, Grace lost the Impact Digital Media Championship to Matt Cardona after he hit her with a steel chair. At No Surrender, she fought Cardona in a title rematch, but lost by disqualification after delivering a low blow. On the February 24 episode of Impact!, Grace challenged for the title again in a Dotcombat match, but failed to win. On the March 31 episode of Impact!, she competed in a Knockouts World Championship #1 Contenders Battle Royal, which was won by Rosemary. At Multiverse of Matches, Grace competed in an Ultimate X match for the X Division Championship, which was won by Trey Miguel. On April 23 at Rebellion, she teamed with W. Morrissey in an Eight-Team Elimination Challenge for the Impact World Tag Team Championship, but were eliminated by The Major Players (Cardona and Brian Myers). On June 19 at Slammiversary, Grace won the Knockouts World Championship for a second time in the inaugural Queen of the Mountain match.

On July 1 at Against All Odds, Grace successfully defended the Knockouts World Championship against Tasha Steelz in a rematch. On July 31, at Ric Flair's Last Match event, Grace retained her title in a three-way match involving Deonna Purrazzo and Rachael Ellering. On August 12 at Emergence, Grace made another successful title defense against Mia Yim. On September 23 at Victory Road, she defeated Max the Impaler (Masha Slamovich's handpicked opponent) in a Pick Your Poison match. At Bound for Glory, Grace defeated Slamovich to retain her title, thus ending Slamovich's undefeated streak in Impact Wrestling. On the November 10 episode of Impact!, Grace made another successful title defense against Gisele Shaw, but was attacked by Slamovich afterwards. Eight days later, at Over Drive, Grace defeated Slamovich in a Last Knockout Standing match to retain her title.

On January 13, 2023, at Hard To Kill, Grace lost the Knockouts World Championship to Mickie James in a Title vs. Career match, ending her reign at 208 days.

Personal life
On December 21, 2018, Parker announced her engagement to fellow professional wrestler Jonathan Gresham. The couple married in September 2020.

Championships and accomplishments

Powerlifting
 Federation Records
 World Natural Powerlifting Federation (WNPF) Records
 Current WNPF Georgia State and National Record holder in the squat at , the bench press at  and the deadlift at  in the 165 lb. weight class.

Professional wrestling
 Battle Club Pro
 BCP ICONS Championship (1 time)
 Black Label Pro
 BLP Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 Impact Wrestling
 Impact Digital Media Championship (1 time, Inaugural)
 Impact Knockouts World Championship (2 times)
 Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Rachael Ellering
 Impact Digital Media Championship Tournament (2021)
 First Knockouts Triple Crown winner
 2022 Queen of the Mountain
 IMPACT Year End Awards (2 times)
 Knockouts Tag Team of the Year (2021) – with Rachael Ellering
 Knockout of the Year (2022)
 Lancaster Championship Wrestling
 LCW Vixen Championship (1 time)
 Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Lucha Libre World Cup: 2023 Women's division – with Deonna Purrazzo and Kamille
 NOVA Pro Wrestling
 Women's Commonwealth Cup (2018)
 Progress Wrestling
 Progress World Women's Championship (1 time)
 Revelations of Divine Love Tournament (2019)
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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All Power To The People Reading List: Emory Douglas and the Black Panthers
On 28 and 29 November 2018, The Black Archives developed a pop-up exhibition at the ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE international symposium with Emory Douglas (former minister of Culture Black Panther Party )in the Hague. At this symposium The Black Archives curated exhibition based on a selection of books on the black power movement, black resistance and black radical intellectuals from different parts of the African diaspora. The pop-up exhibition also included several documents, artifacts and pictures from the archives.
You can find the All Power To The People Reading List here.
Which books should people read if want to be informed about the history of black resistance? Send your suggestions to theblackarchivesnl@gmail.com.
Emory Douglas, a revolutionary artist
Both in the US and in the Netherlands, institutional and everyday racism is still the cause of social and economic inequality between various groups in society. Emory Douglas' works and his appeal for revolution form a major framework to have a critical look at current times. During the two-day international symposium we investigated the role of artists and activists in the battle for a fairer society. The exhibition is open until December 22nd 2018.
After the symposium Emory Douglas, Firoze Manji (founder Pamazuka News) and Aldon Kimbrough (collector) visited The Black Archives. The work of Emory Douglas and The Black Panther Party inspired people all over the world, including Surinamese people in Amsterdam. Check out the video for more information.
Former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party of Self-Defense
Emory Douglas was born in 1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has been a resident of the Bay Area since 1951. He became the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party in 1967, a role he held until the party disbanded in the early 1980s. During the Party's active years he served as the art director overseeing the design and layout of the Black Panther, the Party's weekly newspaper. His work played no small part in propagating its combative criticisms of the U.S. government, as well as any other institutions or persons the party viewed as perpetuators of racism, police brutality, poverty and global imperialism. As the art director, designer, and main illustrator for The Black Panther newspaper, Douglas created images that became icons, reflecting the result of tensions and social unrest of the late sixties and early seventies. Immersed in a very complex space between art and politics, communication and propaganda, social activism and the portrayal of a society in a certain time and space, his practice can be understood as a collaborative body of work, in which the context, as well as the participation of a social movement and its representatives, constructed one of the most interesting imageries of protest and a new aesthetic of politics.
Artikel NRC: "Voormalig Black Panthers: 'Politiegeweld wordt nu in elk geval erkend als probleem"
Dominique van Varseveld schreef voor het NRC een artikel over Emory Douglas en het symposium:
Cleaver: "We werden geïnspireerd door Malcolm X. Anders dan Martin Luther King, die stond voor vreedzaam protest. Als jij aanvalt, dan buigen wij. Dat deden de Panthers niet. Als jij aanvalt dan vechten we terug."
Lees het artikel hier verder.
Black Panther Party Solidarity Committees in Europe
Whilst working on The Black Archives in 2016 we found a letter signed by Kathleen Cleaver to European Solidarity Committees besides several copies of Black Panther Party newspapers and documents of Dutch solidarity committees. During the symposium Kathleen Cleaver told us how these committees came about. As the Black Panthers were facing severe repression by the American state through police violence and politically charged persecution of members of the part several committees arose around the world to show their solidarity with the Black Panther Party. One of the committees was formed in Amsterdam. The committee translated communiques of the party and organized events such as movie screenings and protests.
Kathleen Cleaver
Kathleen Neal Cleaver was born May 13, 1945 in Dallas, Texas. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinator Committee (SNCC) in New York in 1966, and moved to the organization's headquarters in Atlanta in January 1967. She became SNCC's campus program secretary. While organizing a Black Students Conference in Nashville in Spring1967, she met Eldridge Cleaver. Kathleen Cleaver was the first woman to be accepted on the Central Committee of the Black Panther Party. She spoke throughout the country on issues concerning the Party, including the 'Free Huey' campaign which she helped organize in 1968. Also in 1968, she campaigned, unsuccessfully, for the state Assembly in the California Bay Area on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. When Eldridge Cleaver fled the country from a federal warrant for his arrest in 1968, she joined him in exile in Algeria the following year. In Algeria they established the International branch of the Black Panther Party, returned from exile in 1975 and divorced in 1987. Kathleen Cleaver returned to academia in 1981 on a full scholarship from Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in History and subsequently getting a law degree from Yale Law School. Currently, Cleaver is a senior lecturer at Emory University School of Law as an expert in African-American history. Cleaver has brought her unique perspective on critical issues of race, gender and class to a wider audience, while maintaining her commitment to social and economic justice.
More about the Black Panther party of Self-Defense


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2D just won't lose its edge
So what's the fuzz around the 3D printer these days?! As long as they don't appear in kick-ass music videos (besides from a rather lame cameo in Will.i.am's video 'Scream & Shout'), you know the 3D printer hasn't made it yet.
The laser cutter on the other hand, designed to shape 2D sheet material is still going strong, witnessing the many amazing stop-motion music videos it produces. Just take a look at 'Katachi' ('shape') by Shugo Tokumaru. It's made with approximately 2000 PVC shapes, by Polish video makers Kijek and Adamski.
We all know Monty Pyton's characteristic cutout animations from the seventies and Southpark from the nineties, but did you know this very early cutout animated music video from 1958? Le Merle is made with just paper and Stanley.
Ever since, stop-motion is the way to go for letting two dimensional shapes come to life. You can find the best cutout animated music videos right here on 2Pause.
Katachi is not the first video on 2Pause from Kijek and Adamski. They wowed us before with the brilliant cutout artwork 'Dziwny Jest Ten Kraj' by the band Pink Freud. In this mixed media music video, black and white photos are used as moving collages, with a very punk poetry feel to it.
You should definitely also check out 'Every Time' from the band 'Oi Va Voi'. No scissors, nor laser cutters, but a paper shredder is used to cut out the shapes. It's animated by a process called 'photo motion', by, you could've guessed it: Kijek and Adamski.
Looking at stop motion animations there's always the 'OMG, that's so much work!'-factor. Luckily, a lot of these promos come with an additional 'making of' video, featuring several tips and tricks! Such is Sverre Frederiksen's behind-the-scenes for Tim Knol's 'When I am King', showing his work with cutout plywood.
That a making of-video can also be a music video in itself, is proved by the making of 'Dear Moon', directed by Pikaboo.
And while we're patiently waiting on the making of Katachi, we are daring every music video maker to take it to the next level and make impressive new work with the 3D printer. Who'll be the first?
By Klazien
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The fever for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 has just begun, which will be held from 14 February to 29 March. A total of 49 ODI matches will be played between 14 countries from around the world. The mega tournament is being jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The final match will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia. The International Cricket Council has sold the rights for broadcasting Cricket World Cup 2015 to ESPN and Star Sports. ICC has declared a total prize money of $10 million for the tournament, which is 20 percent more than CWC 2011. Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the brand Ambassador for 2015 Cricket World Cup by the ICC for the second time, after 2011 Cricket World Cup.
To view Cricket World Cup 2015 Fixtures, visit here.
Cricket fans can watch the Cricket World Cup 2015 on Television, broadcasted officially by Star Sports in India. However, if you don't have a TV and want to catch up the World Cup online via Internet, then you can watch CWC 2015 live streaming in high quality on StarSports.com for free. The live webcast for CWC 2015 is available in English, Hindi and 4 other regional languages. Besides the live video, users can catch world cup through Live Scores and Live Audio on Star Sports site.
The live stream can be watched in different resolutions of upto 2064 kbps and in full-screen mode too. Along with live video, users can watch pre-show, former innings, view commentary card, scorecard, player stats, etc. The match highlights clips are also available to watch on starsports.com.
Free sources to Watch Cricket World Cup 2015 Online –
1. StarSports.com – Official Live Streaming site to watch CWC 2015 matches live online in India
2. Extracover.net
3. Star Sports YouTube Channel – Match highlight videos
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Paraphernalia, dress, copper lamé knit, circa 1967, USA, gift of Mrs. Ulrich Franzen.
Trimfit, tights "inspired by Twiggy" in original packaging, nylon, paper, 1967-68, USA, gift of Dorothy T. Globus.
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More than 1,000 inmates in prisons across California remain on hunger strike over conditions for thousands held in solitary confinement in the state's prisons, with the protest entering its third week. This is down from approximately 30,000 prisoners in more than 24 prisons who began their hunger strike on 8 July to protest against the state's policy of long-term solitary confinement in so-called "Security Housing Units".
On 11 July, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation threatened to take disciplinary action against all those participating in the hunger strike - a move which may extend their time in the secure units. Hunger strike leaders have also been subjected to increased isolation, where they face harsher conditions and increased restrictions on communication with their lawyers. A core group of hunger strikers in the north Californian Pelican Bay Security Housing Units claim the prison authorities have blasted cold air into their cells, as well as confiscated fluids, hygiene products and legal materials.
Last year Amnesty published a highly critical 58-page report on the units, describing the "shocking" conditions endured by more than 3,000 prisoners, including 78 people who had spent more than two decades in isolation units (see http://amn.st/12HjOav ).
While California's Department of Corrections has introduced changes to how individuals are assigned to the units, and how they can work their way out, Amnesty believes that these reforms do not go far enough. Numerous studies have shown that being held under such harsh environmental conditions is detrimental to a prisoner's psychological and physical health. Prisoners held under these conditions are denied rehabilitative or educational programming, and have little or no social contact - including with family members. Most are eventually released back into mainstream society where the long-term effects of their confinement make reintegration harder.


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"""
STP: Simplest Tracker Possible

Author: Jonathon Luiten

This simple tracker, simply assigns track IDs which maximise the 'bounding box IoU' between previous tracks and current
detections. It is also able to match detections to tracks at more than one timestep previously.
"""

import os
import sys
import numpy as np
from multiprocessing.pool import Pool
from multiprocessing import freeze_support

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..')))
from trackeval.baselines import baseline_utils as butils
from trackeval.utils import get_code_path

code_path = get_code_path()
config = {
    'INPUT_FOL': os.path.join(code_path, 'data/detections/rob_mots/{split}/non_overlap_supplied/data/'),
    'OUTPUT_FOL': os.path.join(code_path, 'data/trackers/rob_mots/{split}/STP/data/'),
    'SPLIT': 'train',  # valid: 'train', 'val', 'test'.
    'Benchmarks': None,  # If None, all benchmarks in SPLIT.

    'Num_Parallel_Cores': None,  # If None, run without parallel.

    'DETECTION_THRESHOLD': 0.5,
    'ASSOCIATION_THRESHOLD': 1e-10,
    'MAX_FRAMES_SKIP': 7
}

def track_sequence(seq_file):

    # Load input data from file (e.g. provided detections)
    # data format: data['cls'][t] = {'ids', 'scores', 'im_hs', 'im_ws', 'mask_rles'}
    data = butils.load_seq(seq_file)

    # Where to accumulate output data for writing out
    output_data = []

    # To ensure IDs are unique per object across all classes.
    curr_max_id = 0

    # Run tracker for each class.
    for cls, cls_data in data.items():

        # Initialize container for holding previously tracked objects.
        prev = {'boxes': np.empty((0, 4)),
                'ids': np.array([], np.int),
                'timesteps': np.array([])}

        # Run tracker for each timestep.
        for timestep, t_data in enumerate(cls_data):

            # Threshold detections.
            t_data = butils.threshold(t_data, config['DETECTION_THRESHOLD'])

            # Convert mask dets to bounding boxes.
            boxes = butils.masks2boxes(t_data['mask_rles'], t_data['im_hs'], t_data['im_ws'])

            # Calculate IoU between previous and current frame dets.
            ious = butils.box_iou(prev['boxes'], boxes)

            # Score which decreases quickly for previous dets depending on how many timesteps before they come from.
            prev_timestep_scores = np.power(10, -1 * prev['timesteps'])

            # Matching score is such that it first tries to match 'most recent timesteps',
            # and within each timestep maximised IoU.
            match_scores = prev_timestep_scores[:, np.newaxis] * ious

            # Find best matching between current dets and previous tracks.
            match_rows, match_cols = butils.match(match_scores)

            # Remove matches that have an IoU below a certain threshold.
            actually_matched_mask = ious[match_rows, match_cols] > config['ASSOCIATION_THRESHOLD']
            match_rows = match_rows[actually_matched_mask]
            match_cols = match_cols[actually_matched_mask]

            # Assign the prev track ID to the current dets if they were matched.
            ids = np.nan * np.ones((len(boxes),), np.int)
            ids[match_cols] = prev['ids'][match_rows]

            # Create new track IDs for dets that were not matched to previous tracks.
            num_not_matched = len(ids) - len(match_cols)
            new_ids = np.arange(curr_max_id + 1, curr_max_id + num_not_matched + 1)
            ids[np.isnan(ids)] = new_ids

            # Update maximum ID to ensure future added tracks have a unique ID value.
            curr_max_id += num_not_matched

            # Drop tracks from 'previous tracks' if they have not been matched in the last MAX_FRAMES_SKIP frames.
            unmatched_rows = [i for i in range(len(prev['ids'])) if
                              i not in match_rows and (prev['timesteps'][i] + 1 <= config['MAX_FRAMES_SKIP'])]

            # Update the set of previous tracking results to include the newly tracked detections.
            prev['ids'] = np.concatenate((ids, prev['ids'][unmatched_rows]), axis=0)
            prev['boxes'] = np.concatenate((np.atleast_2d(boxes), np.atleast_2d(prev['boxes'][unmatched_rows])), axis=0)
            prev['timesteps'] = np.concatenate((np.zeros((len(ids),)), prev['timesteps'][unmatched_rows] + 1), axis=0)

            # Save result in output format to write to file later.
            # Output Format = [timestep ID class score im_h im_w mask_RLE]
            for i in range(len(t_data['ids'])):
                row = [timestep, int(ids[i]), cls, t_data['scores'][i], t_data['im_hs'][i], t_data['im_ws'][i],
                       t_data['mask_rles'][i]]
                output_data.append(row)

    # Write results to file
    out_file = seq_file.replace(config['INPUT_FOL'].format(split=config['SPLIT']),
                                config['OUTPUT_FOL'].format(split=config['SPLIT']))
    butils.write_seq(output_data, out_file)

    print('DONE:', seq_file)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    # Required to fix bug in multiprocessing on windows.
    freeze_support()

    # Obtain list of sequences to run tracker for.
    if config['Benchmarks']:
        benchmarks = config['Benchmarks']
    else:
        benchmarks = ['davis_unsupervised', 'kitti_mots', 'youtube_vis', 'ovis', 'bdd_mots', 'tao']
        if config['SPLIT'] != 'train':
            benchmarks += ['waymo', 'mots_challenge']
    seqs_todo = []
    for bench in benchmarks:
        bench_fol = os.path.join(config['INPUT_FOL'].format(split=config['SPLIT']), bench)
        seqs_todo += [os.path.join(bench_fol, seq) for seq in os.listdir(bench_fol)]

    # Run in parallel
    if config['Num_Parallel_Cores']:
        with Pool(config['Num_Parallel_Cores']) as pool:
            results = pool.map(track_sequence, seqs_todo)

    # Run in series
    else:
        for seq_todo in seqs_todo:
            track_sequence(seq_todo)

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Q: Tkinter Text Widget Indexing I am building a simple calculator using Python and Tkinter.
On this calculator am using the Text widget as the screen.I have buttons with numbers and symbols, which, when pressed, insert a character onto the screen. The idea is that I take the contents of the screen as a string and pass them to eval().
How do I grab this contents of the screen? I've looked at indexing but it just doesn't seem to work.
def buttonCommand(mytext, sym):
   mytext.insert(END, sym)
   if sym == "=":
      return eval() #<-- something goes here?

A: def buttonCommand(mytext, sym):
   mytext.insert(END, sym)
   if sym == "=":
      return eval(mytext.get())

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L.A. charter school supporters Austin and Arkatov nominated to state school board
Two Los Angeles residents with deep roots in local battles over education reform are among four nominees to the state Board of Education, it was announced Monday.
Overall, the nominations by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signal his continued support for charter schools and his impatience with gradual reform, observers said.
A potentially controversial choice is Ben Austin, 40, who led a successful lobbying campaign last year for a state law that gives parents new powers to launch aggressive reforms.
His "parent trigger" allows parents to choose what will happen to a low-performing public school if a majority sign a petition. The options would include shutting the school down and starting over or converting it to a privately operated charter school.
The 11-member board sets education policy for California. The governor appoints its members.
Austin's nomination is "an ongoing signal that the governor wants aggressive action and that he tires of process, that he wants someone in there who's going to be slamming away," said a Sacramento insider who asked not be named because of his position within the state bureaucracy.
Austin heads a parents group funded by charter school operators and philanthropists closely allied with them. He has a long history as a behind-the-scenes Democratic political consultant. A past bid for the elected L.A. school board was cut short over errors in his nomination petition.
He also won a version of the parent trigger in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He earned the ire of the L.A. teachers union through his role in helping to convert Locke High into a charter school and for lobbying in favor of last year's school-control reform. Under it, poorly performing schools and new campuses could be turned over to outside operators.
Austin's nomination won immediate praise from L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
The other local nominee, veteran public relations executive Alan Arkatov, heads a company that is seeking to blend "the positive aspects of interactive games" into school curriculum.
Arkatov, 48, also sits on the board of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. The alliance has opened 16 charter schools in the Los Angeles area and was among a handful of charter operators singled out for a major Gates Foundation grant to link teacher evaluations to student performance. In February, the Los Angeles Board of Education denied the alliance the right to run a small high school in a new education complex east of downtown, overruling L.A. schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines.
Arkatov's alliances are not strictly with pro-charter forces. He's also been a longtime ally of former L.A. school board member Marlene Canter and at times has advised the leadership of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Also nominated was Jeannie Oropeza, 49, of Woodland. Oropeza has served as program budget manager for the California Department of Finance since 1998. She's well known to Capitol insiders for her background briefings explaining the financial effect of the governor's education proposals.
All three nominees must be confirmed by the state Senate, as must two re-nominated board members, David J. Lopez and state board President Ted Mitchell. The renomination of Lopez was part of Monday's announcement. Mitchell had been renominated previously.
On the whole, the state board leans toward charter school allies, said Scott Plotkin, executive director of the California School Boards Assn.
"We know a couple of these nominees as very accomplished people," Plotkin said. "But we're looking for a little more balance on the board."
-- Howard Blume


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Q: See if an object is an instance of a class passed through a string I imagine that there has to be some way to use reflection to do what I want to do.
I need to be able to take a string at runtime that is of a certain class, for example:
string s = "mypackage.MySuperClass"

Then I may have an object of some type. It could be one of the following:
mypackage.MySuperClass obj = new mypackage.MySuperClass();

or
mypackage.MySubClass obj2 = new mypackage.MySubClass();

or
someotherpackage.SomeOtherClass obj3 = new someotherpackage.SomeOtherClass();

What I need to do is see if an object (which its type is determined at runtime), is equal to the string s (which is also determined at runtime via completely different means).
In the cases above I would want obj and obj2 to be the same type as s (since MySubClass is a subclass of MySuperClass), and obj3 would not.
Is there an easy way to do this in java? Possibly something using instanceOf?

A: Sounds like you want something like this:
boolean isInstance(Object o, String className) {
    try {
        Class clazz = Class.forName(className);
        return clazz.isInstance(o);
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
        return false;
    }
}

Or you could do it the other way round - take o's class (o.getClass()), find all ancestor classes and compare their names to className.

A: You can use Class.forName(String className) to get the Class based on the string value passed in.
If all you're concerned with is whether it is an instance of a particular class, you can then call isInstance(Object o) on the Class to test whether a the parameter is an instance of the class.
If you actually need an object of the class, you can call newInstance() on the Class.  You can then test the resulting object with instanceOf against another object.


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Q: Can't find the "free space" in the partition table while installing ubuntu I am trying to install ubuntu with pre-installed Win 8.1, I shrinked the C parition and I have the unallocated parition in disk management .But when I am at the parition table step in installing ubuntu , I can't find the "free space" in the parition.
Screenshot:

A: You need to convert your dynamic partition to one logical partition. Then do this steps.

*

*Download and Install EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition
(my favorite app ;) )

*Run EASEUS Partition Master then click Go to main screen option.

*Here, select the partition which you want to install Ubuntu. In your case select 31.25GB unallocated partition and right-click on it and select Create Partition. Under the Create as drop-down, select Logical and click OK.

*Click the Apply button at the top of EASEUS window (under view menu) then click Yes. This operation needs to restart your computer to completing

*Finish
If you continue the Ubuntu installation from (USB/CD) you will see the unallocated space.


This coalition government came together, so they say, in the national interest; to tackle the deficit they inherited from the previous government.
They have propagated a line on the deficit and public debt which roughly equates to 1) We need to cut the deficit quickly to reassure the markets, and 2) We need to cut the debt as it wouldn't be fair to land that responsibility onto the next generation. But, isn't that exactly what they are doing?
Yes the markets may be reassured, but in order to cut the deficit now we are going to be pushing debt directly onto the next generation. This is potentially dangerous. Household debt in the UK is currently £1,452bn, over £200bn more than our national GDP.
The financial crisis was as much to do with personal debt as it was to do with greedy bankers. It may be reassuring to see ourselves as the victims and the bankers the scurrilous enemies in their tower blocks in the City, betting, hedging and gambling away our money. But, of course, we wanted all the luxuries of the age. We wanted the flat screen televisions, the nice holidays and most importantly, those with houses wanted, and thoroughly expected, the value of property to rise. All of this is fine if you have the means to afford such goods, and if you don't really care that you may be forcing an entire generation out of the property market for the foreseeable future. But for those who didn't have the means to buy the latest games console, or blu-ray player or exuberantly valued property there was a handy solution; credit.
Credit was easily available and for people who expected, and where expected, to keep up with the metaphorical Jones' it was the only solution. Of course, if people remain relatively poor, yet are expected to purchase the latest high-street goods, in order to keep the growth figures high, it can only end in disaster; when people realise they cannot afford to pay back the money. This eventually manifested itself in USA with the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007, which had spread through the banking sector. This is not say I do not find any culpability on the bankers side, they were all to happy to go along with such a high-risk, yet unsustainable model of growth and profit. They should have seen the signs, yet were seduced by short-term gain and profligacy.
Initially the Conservatives seemed willing to tell people they had to borrow less money. And now in government, whilst still lecturing us on the evils of debt they seem more concerned with the national debt and have been far less vocal recently on household debt. Perhaps it is too much for a government to tell us to spend less? And certainly in such economic times as we now find ourselves, when the economy needs a shot in the arm deliverable only from personal consumption of goods and services, it may seem counter-productive to speak of austerity.
The country should be run like any housewife would run the family budget remarked Thatcher, and so say Thatcher's children. Only, that no longer appears to be the case. Because, when it comes to higher education, the debt obsessed, 'live within your means' crusaders would have us believe that dumping a huge chunk of debt, which, contrary to what many commentators say, could, with political courage and will, be paid for from the national purse, upon the heads of, not just a generation now in the job market, but a generation who has yet to even consider university is 'progressive'.
Clegg et al would respond, 'but why should a 50 year old tax payer working on the tills at Tesco have to pay for your education?'. I find this argument now rather cliched, repetitive and tiresome. It is the coalition government's own policy to raise the personal allowance to £10,000 over the life of this parliament, thereby allowing the poorest in society to keep more of what they earn, a policy I wholeheartedly support. Therefore I would not expect low paid workers to subsidise my education. But we must address the issue of those who benefit the most from the rather large pool of graduates the UK's universities churn out into the job market annually. Is it the graduates, who face an ever more competitive market, who benefit most? Or, is it the businesses that employs graduates, who have made no or little contribution towards the education of the individuals they scoop up from Russell Group and Red Brick's alike and mould into model professionals. I do not see it as an unfair proposition to ask big business to contribute more to the funding of it most valuable asset; its employees.
I must be fair to the government, and I am willing to concede that, compared to some of the other options mooted post-Browne their proposal does seem rather preferable. Nobody pays a thing upfront, nobody pays a penny until they earn at least £21,000. There will also be suitable provisions for providing one, maybe even two, years free tuition for the poorest students. But it does seem to me rather like saying capital punishment should be administered by lethal injection rather than hanging, after all, it is more 'humane'. It's the principle I take umbrage with.
There is also the rather muddied issue of the 80% cut to the higher education teaching budget - the real reason for the tripling of tuition fees. While most of the nations media thinks students are marching only against the rise in fees they appear to overlook the effective privatisation of the majority of the higher education sector. Many degree courses, ones which are not seen as economically proficient or of national value i.e. almost all bar nurses, doctors, teachers, engineers and scientists will be funded almost exclusively from student contributions. Perhaps overlooking the idea that someone who graduates with a degree in media studies, the bane of Daily Mail-esque commentators, could go on to become a social worker; a noble employment we all to willingly undervalue.
We now live, not just in the age of austerity, but also the age of hypocrisy. For, how can we take seriously a government which lectures us on the sin of national debt, of bad book keeping and the thrill of thriftiness, those who proclaim, no less, to be saving future generations from debt by personally indebting them?
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Округ Ређо Емилија () је округ у оквиру покрајине Емилија-Ромања у северној Италији. Седиште округа покрајине и највеће градско насеље је истоимени град Ређо Емилија.

Површина округа је 2.293 км², а број становника 519.458 (2008. године).

Природне одлике
Округ Ређо Емилија се налази у северном делу државе, без излаза на море. Северна половина округа је равничарског карактера, у области Падске низије. Јужни део чине планине северних Апенина. Најважнија река у округу је По, као северна граница округа. Друга битна река је мања река Тресинуро, која тече његовом средишњим делом.

Становништво
По последњим проценама из 2008. године у округу Ређо Емилија живи близу 520.000 становника. Густина насељености је изузетно велика, преко 220 ст/км². Северна, равничарска половина округа је знатно боље насељена, нарочито око града Ређо Емилија.

Поред претежног италијанског становништва у округу живе и велики број досељеника из свих делова света.

Општине и насеља
У округу Ређо Емилија постоји 45 општина (итал. Comuni).

Најважније градско насеље и седиште округа је град Ређо Емилија (166.000 ст.) у средишњем делу округа. Други по величини је град Коређо (25.000 ст.) у северном делу округа.

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We're proud data geeks at Tableau, and each year we put our brains together to look forward at the trends we expect to see during the coming twelve months.
Our predictions for 2014 included data moving from specialists to the everyman, the mainstreaming of cloud business intelligence, and the rise of NoSQL.
What will be trending in 2015? Read on for our top 10 predictions for the BI market in 2015.
Just as the business intelligence landscape has transformed from static reporting to interactive, self-service data, so too must governance transform. Simple approaches like locking down all enterprise data won't work any longer—nor will the approach of doing away with any process at all. Organizations will begin to investigate what governance means in a world of self-service analytics. New processes and best practices will emerge to keep data secure while letting business people get answers from that data.
In 2014 we saw organizations begin to analyze social data in earnest. In 2015, the leading edge will start to take advantage of their capabilities. Tracking conversations at scale via social will let companies find out when a topic is starting to trend and what their customers are talking about. Social analytics will open the door to responsive product optimization. And as a result, the social advantage of the leaders will make their competitors feel that these companies have an eerie ability to see into the future.
Today's data analyst may be an operations manager, a supply chain executive or even a salesperson. New technologies that provide ease-of-use and browser-based analytics let people answer ad-hoc business questions. While there will still be Data Analysts and Data Scientists for the heavy lifting, sophisticated data analysis will trickle into day-to-day activities. Companies that recognize this as a strategic advantage will begin to support everyday analysts with data that's easy to get and tools and training to help them do what they're doing.
The consumerization of IT is no longer theoretical, it's a fact. People use products that they enjoy using, and analytics software is no different. They want to engage and learn with other users, inside and outside their company. Companies whose products inspire and empower are seeing their communities flourish. And prospective customers will also look to the health and happiness of product communities as important proof points in crowded marketplaces.
The last 10 years have seen a massive amount of innovation across the data space, resulting in mixed environments for everything from data storage to analytics to business applications. We won't see a return to the age of monolithic systems. However, organizations are losing patience with multiple logins and clunky processes to move and manage data. In 2015 we'll see more organizations adopting systems like single-sign on, and less room for applications that don't play well in a larger ecosystem. People will no longer accept manual integration and data quality efforts. Rapid integration leveraging simple interfaces is going to become the standard.
In 2015, we'll start to see the first major use of cloud analytics--- for on-premise data. Until now, cloud analytics have been primarily used for data in cloud apps. In 2015 companies will begin to choose the cloud when it makes sense for their business case, not only because the data is there.
We are starting to see an age when data is accessible and interactive enough that it can become the backbone of a conversation. Now that people have flexible, speed-of-thought analytical tools, they can quickly analyze data, mash it up with other data and redesign it to create a new perspective. Meetings can become more engaging as people explore data together rather than plod through a set of slides and take down actions for later. And as a result of this collaboration, organizations will get more insight from their data.
The arrival on the scene of Vox and continued ascendance of sites like fivethirtyeight.com will force more newsrooms to integrate data analytics into their online presence. Readerships will no longer be satisfied with just text. Interactive charts and guided stories becoming more vital for the mobile generation, and an important pre-election year in the US will accelerate people's taste for data. This trend will have a spillover effect from the public sphere to organizations, encouraging companies that are lagging in analytics to get with the times.
Workers are spending less time at their desks. But that doesn't mean they should be less informed by data; in fact they have a greater need for data than ever before. Mobile solutions for many analytics emerged years ago and are finally reaching a level of maturity that means that mobile workers really can do light analysis from the road. And the emphasis on mobile has forced vendors to offer more natural and intuitive interfaces across the board.
Advances in graphical, intuitive modeling will mean that business users can begin to use predictive analytics without the need for extensive expert consultation or scripting. As self-service analytics becomes more mainstream, more advanced analytics such as basic forecasting will become a more common – and less painful-- activity. Strong products will allow self-service modeling and add intuitive feedback that gives users enough information to understand the pitfalls of their models.
The bottom line is we expect to see more and more people - from students to business people to journalists - make data a part of their lives. The way people interact with data is changing fast, and mostly for the better.


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Guest Blog: My dad talks about seeing Nat King Cole record Mona Lisa
My dad wrote this in 2000. He passed away in 2003. My daughter had to look up Nat King Cole for research, which reminded me of this article my dad, Hank Henry, wrote:
Witnessing Nat Cole's greatest hit
A recent brochure on the Ashland Cabaret Theater's upcoming musical, "King of Cool, the Life and Music of Nat King Cole," brought back memories of my encounter with the great singer 50 years ago.
As a teenager, I had dreamed that I would someday become an expert on the music of the swing era's big bands and the singers who appeared with them. I would then use this knowledge as a disc jockey in a big market or to write about the music scene for a magazine like "Downbeat."
I started collecting facts and anecdotes about people in the music business in 1942 and returned to the field when I came back from the war.
In 1950, before Nora and I married, I spent my vacation in Hollywood, interviewing people in the record business for source material. By then, the industry had turned to huge tape recorders for making record masters. Home-type tape recorders were still rather rare, but I rented one from a record store and lugged it over to Capital headquarters. There I recorded interviews with several singers and with Dave Dexter, a vice-president of the firm.
Dexter offered to get me into a recording session the next morning. The star, he said, would be Nat King Cole. Nat was 32 years of age then, a wonderful jazz pianist who did not consider himself a great singer, but he was.
The session was recorded on the morning of March 11, 1950. The studio had a large stage and bleacher seating for about 50 people. I was the only audience. On the stage was the Les Baxter Orchestra and Chorus, a total of about 30 people.
In the middle of the stage was something that looked like a telephone booth made mostly of glass. Cole stepped inside and put on a pair of earphones. Having him in isolation allowed the engineers to record his voice on one tape, the orchestra on a second machine, and the chorus on a third. The final "marrying" of the tapes would be done days or weeks later with the producer, the arranger and the orchestra leader calling the shots.
The third song I heard that morning was almost not recorded. I learned from Dave Dexter that Nelson Riddle, the arranger for the session, had pushed for the song, but Nat thought that lyrics about a painting by Leonardo da Vinci were too esoteric for his fans, but he finally gave in. The song was "Mona Lisa." It became Nat King Cole's biggest hit ever, even bigger than "Unforgettable," which came later. "Mona Lisa" remained at the top of the charts for months and that one song helped make him a millionaire.
Though popular with fans, Nat King Cole faced discrimination throughout his life. He was the first black performer to have his own television how. It ran for two seasons in the 1950s, but NBC was unable to find one advertiser willing to sponsor a black singer.
By the mid-1950s, big bands were disbanding everywhere. Small groups had long been recording under the category of "Rhythm and Blues" or "race records," but those designations were renamed "Rock and Roll" by the music business after Elvis Presley appeared out of nowhere. He didn't coin the name, but he rode the tide of change.
With the disappearance of big bands, my hundreds of pages of material on the music scene were suddenly outdated. By 1960, even Nat Cole's records were not racking up sales as big as they had before. He died Feb. 16, 1966, of lung cancer, a victim of his two-packs-or-more-a-day habit. His death came exactly a month short of his 50th birthday. Yet the tremendous sales a couple of years ago of the CD "Unforgettable" by Nat's daughter, Natalie, revived interest in the man.
Through the wizardry of the control room, and thanks to the recording method of making four or more tracks of a song, Nat King Cole and his daughter sang a duet of the title song.
He would have loved it.
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Pepper contributes to a healthy climate for composers in three primary ways, by supporting new music sessions throughout the US, through our My Score self-publishing platform and grant program, and by making as wide an array of music as possible available to musicians through our retail network.
New music sessions. Pepper is the largest provider of new music reading session materials at local, state and regional music conferences. Through that work we help scores of new composers a year get their works into the hands of conductors. Most scores and composers featured in these sessions are selected by association repertoire committees to address a variety of audiences, themes, and needs of their membership. Pepper is a proud supporter of hundreds of reading sessions across the United States. It's quite a lot of work, but we think it's worth the effort as these sessions help bring new music and composers to the fore.
My Score. In 2012, Pepper launched My Score, a service specifically designed to bring music by self-published composers to market, creating a more inclusive library of offerings. Currently more than 1,400 independent composers have their works for sale through this website. My Score encourages many new voices to be found through our network. Our goal is to provide music leaders with the broadest array of music available so they can choose what works best for their performers.
My Score Membership Grants. To further that goal, Pepper funds My Score grants to nonprofit composer organizations and educational institutions annually, with special consideration given to composers who have written for or plan to write for school-age performers. The spirit of the grant program is to enrich the repertoire for young performers so they can experience more diverse composing styles.
With My Score and the grants, we hope to make a difference in raising awareness of writers who wish to bring their works to a larger audience.
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A traveling medicine show arrives in a small town and one of its participants is arrested for vagrancy. The corrupt local officials mistake him for a tax inspector in disguise and chaos ensues.
Trivia: This movie won a Golden Globe award for Best Original Score. The star-studded cast includes Gene Lockhart, who appeared with wife Kathleen Lockhart and daughter June Lockhart (Lassie, Lost in Space) in 1938's A Christmas Carol. His granddaughter, Anne Lockhart, has appeared in over 60 TV series over the last 40 years. Director Henry Koster received a Best Director Academy Award nomination for the 1947 Christmas classic, The Bishop's Wife.


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