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Art Crimes: Graffiti News and Events
Graffiti Vandal 'Revok' Arrested At LAX, Headed To Ireland
Posted by Susan
Labels: 5-O, jail, L.A.
Buy an Askew print to benefit Revok's defense
Labels: benefit, jail, L.A., prints
The Real Reason Revok Was Arrested
UK, London: April 7, 2011: H2TK
Hail to the King
Opens 7pm at Resistance Gallery, 265 Poyser Street, Bethnal green, London, E29RF
Info: http://jasonatomic.blogspot.com/2011/04/h2tk-hail-to-king-teasers.html
Labels: Exhibition, London, UK
NJ, Trenton: April 8, 2011: Soul of the Message
Labels: Exhibition, NJ
NY, NYC: until April 30, 2011: It's Alive
Urban Folk Art Gallery presents
Graffiti Icons Group Art Show
Brooklyn, NY- Adam Suerte and Omar Sanchez, the founders and curators of Urban Folk Art Gallery are pleased to announce their Spring Show "It's Alive", A collection of Old School Graffiti Icons. On March 11, 2010 at 7pm Brooklyn will be able to see how this form of art work began and in turn transformed pop culture. "Graffiti is a marketing tool now." says Suerte. "It's used to sell anything from fashion to toys; these guys helped start this movement before it was acceptable and mainstream. They were the ones who inspired us when we were young graffiti writers. We want people to see where this movement began; this gallery is the perfect forum for that.
The show will include works from such notorious artists as Dr. Revolt, Mark Bode, Stan 153 and Jean 13. Dr Revolt is one of the founding members of The Rolling Thunder Writers (RTW) and is infamous for taking over the 1 subway line with his signature graffiti style. Stan 153, who got his start on the corner of 153rd Street and Eight Avenue defined the landscape of Harlem in the dawn of graffiti history, the 1970s. He has been documented in The Faith of Graffiti by Norman Mailer. Jean 13 who also gained fame in Harlem during this time, was one of the few writers on the first Graffiti Wall of Fame. Mark Bode, son of the legendary comic book artist, Vaughn Bode, has developed quite the following for taking his family legacy and applying it to the comic and tattoo worlds. He is also well known for his tribute murals to his father's notorious comic characters such as Cheech Wizard.
The show will also be selling one of a kind limited edition t shirts, silkscreen prints and mini comics created by Bode, Stan153 and Dr. Revolt specifically for the "It's Alive" show.
Urban Folk Art Gallery
urbanfolkartstudios.blogspot.com
Labels: Exhibition, NYC
Australia, Melbourne: April 14-25, 2011: DOES
Labels: Australia, Exhibition
CA: Los Angeles: April 17-Aug 8, 2011: Art in the Streets
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the history of graffiti and street art. The exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved. Following MOCA's presentation, the exhibition will travel to the Brooklyn Museum, where it will be on view March 30,2012–July 8, 2012.
Art in the Streets will showcase installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists from the graffiti and street art community, including Fab 5 Freddy (New York), Lee Quiñones (New York), Futura (New York), Margaret Kilgallen (San Francisco), Swoon (New York), Shepard Fairey (Los Angeles), Os Gemeos (São Paulo), and JR (Paris). MOCA's exhibition will emphasize Los Angeles's role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture. The exhibition will feature projects by influential local artists such as Craig R. Stecyk III, Chaz Bojórquez, Dr. Dax, Mister Cartoon, RETNA, SABER, REVOK, and RISK.
A special emphasis will be placed on photographers and filmmakers who documented graffiti and street art culture including Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant, James Prigoff, Steve Grody, Gusmano Cesaretti, Estevan Oriol, Ed Templeton, Larry Clark, Terry Richardson, and Spike Jonze. A comprehensive timeline illustrated with artwork, photography, video, and ephemera will provide further historical context for the exhibition.
Art in the Streets will feature several shows within the show. There will be a special section dedicated to the Fun Gallery, which connected New York graffiti artists with the downtown art community in the early 1980s. Co-curated by gallery founder Patti Astor, the Fun Gallery installation will feature the work of Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the graffiti artists who shaped the gallery's history. A section dedicated to the seminal film Wild Style (1983), co-curated by the film's director Charlie Ahearn, will document its influence on the global dissemination of graffiti and hip-hop culture. The exhibition will also feature a memorial presentation of Battle Station, a rarely seen work by legendary artist and theorist RAMMELLZEE, and a display of graffiti black books and other historic works from the Martin Wong Collection presented in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York. A highlight of the exhibition will be a Los Angeles version of Street Market, a re-creation of an urban street complete with overturned trucks by Todd James, Barry McGee, and Steve Powers.
The exhibition will open with a skate ramp designed by pro-skater Lance Mountain and artist Geoff McFetridge. Skate demonstrations by the Nike SB skate team will be held onsite for the duration of the exhibition.
Art in the Streets will be the first exhibition to position the work of the most influential artists to emerge from street culture in the context of contemporary art history," said MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch.
This quintessentially urban and dynamic partnership between the Brooklyn Museum and MOCA began with the 2005 Brooklyn-organized exhibition of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the consummate American street artist of his generation; continued with the MOCA-organized ©MURAKAMI in 2007, defining critical elements of worldwide street art; and now culminates with a groundbreaking exhibition devoted entirely to street art and graffiti," said Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman. "The partnership has, in itself, provided a major record of public art over the past half century."
Art in the Streets is organized by Jeffrey Deitch and associate curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose. Gastman is the author of The History of American Graffiti, which will be released in April 2011, and was a consulting producer on the film Exit Through The Gift Shop. Rose curated the exhibition Beautiful Losers and directed the related documentary film. Ethel Seno, editor of Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art, is the curatorial coordinator of the exhibition. The Brooklyn Museum's presentation will be organized by Managing Curator of Exhibitions Sharon Matt Atkins.
ART IN THE STREETS CATALOGUE
A comprehensive catalogue on the history of graffiti and street art published by Skira Rizzoli and edited by Nikki Columbus, former associate editor of Artforum, will accompany the exhibition. The book traces the birth and dissemination of styles through the stories of graffiti writers and street artists all over the world. It features a foreword by Deitch and essays by Carlo McCormick, Greg Tate, and Diedrich Diederichsen. It also features interviews and discussions with influential street artists about wild style, cholo graffiti, and the art that emerged from skate and punk subcultures. Additional contributors include Fab 5 Freddy, KET, Caleb Neelon, Lydia Yee, Kathy Grayson, Cheech Marin, Bill Daniel, and Hiroshi Fujiwara. The book was designed by Conny Purtill, whose previous projects include Barry McGee: The Buddy System and Beautiful Losers.
RELATED EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH
An extensive program of educational and community workshops will complement the exhibition. As part of its exhibition sponsorship and ongoing community collaboration initiative, Levi's® will host the Levi's® Film Workshop at MOCA, offering a diverse schedule of programming that celebrates the craft of filmmaking and explores the exhibition's subject matter. Access to the Levi's® Film Workshop's resources is open to all and free of charge.
Special versions of Associate Curator Aaron Rose's Make Something!! educational project will also be presented at Culver City High School and at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in conjunction with Nike SB. Art in the Streets will include a graffiti and street art film festival presented in collaboration with the Cinefamily, and music and dance programs featuring some of the originators of hip-hop and break dancing.
Art in the Streets is made possible by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
This exhibition is generously supported by the Sydney Irmas Exhibition Endowment.
Major support is provided by Levi's®. Additional support is provided by Mandy and Cliff Einstein, Nike SB, MOCA Contemporaries, MOCA Partners, and Montana Colors.
In-kind media support is provided by Ovation, Los Angeles magazine, and KCRW 89.9 FM.
Saturday in the Streets is presented by Ovation.
MEMBERS' OPENING
Saturday, April 16, 7–10pm
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Join us for another legendary opening party at MOCA as we premier Art in the Streets, featuring performances by the stars of the classic hip-hop film, Wild Style—Busy Bee, Cold Crush Brothers with Grandmaster Caz — and the award-winning B-Boy crew from Los Angeles, Killafornia. Cash bar.
INFO 213/621-1794 or membership1@moca.org
FREE for MOCA members, $25 for additional guests
Labels: Exhibition, history, L.A., museum, streetart
FL, Miami: April 8t - May 1 2011: Lost and found
Lost and found: freedom in post-graffism
The first Post-graffism show by the Surface Merchants collective; deriving inspiration fromthe discontent originating from the current economics of life in modern day America. The Surface Merchants collective is comprised of Miami artists Raymond Adrian, Alex Yanes, and Daniel Fila.
All works showcased in "Lost and Found" will be collaborative pieces from all three artists, blending their individual distinctive styles to create a unique experience for the viewer.
On Friday April 8th at 8:00 pm, the show will debut accompanied by a short film presentation showing the Surface Merchants creative process. The show will run from Friday April 8th 2011 to May 1st 2011, the venue will not be open on Sundays.
PRIVATE SHOW: Fri. April 8th, 7pm-11pm-RSVP REQUIRED
OPEN RECEPTION: Sat. April 9th, 7pm-11pm
Cafeina Lounge 297 NW 23 ST.
www.cafeinamiami.com
RSVP: info@cafeinamiami.com | 305.438.0792
For more information contact: info@marguliesagency.com
Labels: Exhibition, Florida, Miami
NJ, Trenton: Graffiti Art Class
Labels: classes, NJ
NY, NYC: until April 16, 2011: JOSÉ PARLÁ
WALLS, DIARIES, AND PAINTINGS
Walls, Diaries, and Paintings features fifteen new paintings, that chronicle Parlá's exploration of the diverse places and cultures he has traversed. From Istanbul to Havana, from Tokyo to New York, the colors and textures of the neighborhoods and alleyways have found a forceful and moving resolution in Parlá's works that are both inspirational and revealing.
BRYCE WOLKOWITZ GALLERY
www.brycewolkowitz.com
NY, NYC: April 7, 2011: KingBee
Opening will be on Thursday, April 7th, 9pm-4am. The one night only solo event will exhibit RARE works by The Royal KingBee. 'RARE TIMES' features works with various types of mediums. You can expect to see his trademark "Bees" and also some new RARE paintings. Besides the original RARE paintings, there will be 25 limited edition, numbered and personally signed Professional Endura Supra Lustre prints 11" X 14" of KingBee's latest Bee's on Canvas. For you sticker lovers, there will be DieCut Custom Screen Printed Stickers/White Vinyl 4" x 4.6". Come on out and join us on this Thirsty Thursday.
Visit http://www.kingbeeuw.com/blog/ for more info....
Opening 9pm-4am
HYPE LOUNGE
info@hypeloungenyc.com
Train: 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, L
Bus: M14
The Royal Kingbee UW, AKA Kbornik Acid, AKA Kborne, was born in Harlem NYC, and raised in the Bronx in the early 70's. Kingbee began his illustrious career painting graffiti on walls until gathering recognition and eventually being commissioned to perform his artistic abilities for numerous businesses, public and private all throughout the city of New York. Some being Youngland, Bacardi, and RiteAid just to name a few. Highly talented, respected, eccentric and probably the most underestimated underground artist of our time. Kingbee continues to create art in all mediums and categoríes including body art, canvases, logos, and clothing. Kingbee has influenced other well known artists and continues to impress new upcoming artists in the art world. You can find more information and see exclusive shots of Royalty at its greatest at www.kingbeeuw.com this Summer 2010.
NY, NYC: June 11, 2011: *KR.ONE* QUEENS TOUR 2011
NY, NYC: April 16, 2011: *KR.ONE* QUEENS TOUR 2011
MN, St Paul: April 9, 2011: A night of art and dance
Labels: breaking, dance, Hip Hop, jam, live, MN
AZ, Tempe: April 8, 2011: Sticker Phiends 4
Labels: AZ, Exhibition, stickers
NY, NYC: April 7-18, 2011: Cope2 Solo Show
Cope2, Transition
TT Gallery is proud to present the exhibition of COPE2, Transition, from April 7th – 18th, 2011. Opening Reception - Thursday April 7, from 7pm-10pm.
Transition, a solo exhibition of new works on canvas by Bronx based artist COPE2. As his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Transition, features canvases with various types of mediums reflecting on graffiti aesthetics synthesized with fragments of street art elements. These new chapter of paintings arise from the obstruction of producing graffiti pieces in the streets paradigm to a permanent transfixed surface. COPE2 integrates color and texture to translate his raw energy, intertwined with his trademark bubble letters and tags, into abstract compositions on canvas.
Among the original paintings on exhibition will be 100 limited edition giclée print on archival paper titled Most Wanted, 18" x 24", 2011.
COPE2's paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and auctions throughout the United States and abroad. He is a self-taught artist who is a celebrated figure for over 30 years in the graffiti art culture. One of New York City's most prolific graffiti artists, he began tagging his name in the South Bronx in 1978. He developed his style in the subways and streets of the Bronx creating graffiti productions throughout the 1980's and 1990's achieving international recognition for his distinctive style. In recent years COPE2 has been commissioned by Time Magazine and designed a set of sneakers for Converse and a full clothing collection for Adidas. He has worked with Steiner Sports collaborating with the New York Yankees' Derek Jeter producing graffiti on memorabilia. His work has even crossed into the virtual realm with appearances in video games such as Mark Eckos: Getting up and Rockstar Games: Grand Theft Auto IV. He has also delved into curating successful group art exhibitions. Today, you can catch COPE2 in the studio creating art on a daily basis. COPE2 crosses between art world, mainstream and street culture alike.
www.cope2.net
COPE2 (Fernando Carlo, Jr.) was born in 1968 in Manhattan, NYC. He currently lives and works in the Bronx, NY.
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import lassie

class LassieTwitterCardTestCase(LassieBaseTestCase):
    def test_twitter_all_properties(self):
        url = 'http://lassie.it/twitter_card/all_properties.html'
        data = lassie.fetch(url)
        self.assertEqual(data['url'], 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic')
        self.assertEqual(data['title'], 'Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe')
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        self.assertEqual(len(data['images']), 1)
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        self.assertEqual(image['src'], 'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/fWNaR-rxAic/maxresdefault.jpg')

        self.assertEqual(len(data['videos']), 1)
        video = data['videos'][0]
        self.assertEqual(video['src'], 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/fWNaR-rxAic')
        self.assertEqual(video['width'], 1920)
        self.assertEqual(video['height'], 1080)

    def test_twitter_no_og_title_use_twitter_title(self):
        url = 'http://lassie.it/twitter_card/no_og_title_use_twitter_title.html'
        data = lassie.fetch(url)

        self.assertEqual(data['description'], 'A test case for Lassie!')
        self.assertEqual(data['title'], 'Lassie Twitter Test | no_og_title_use_twitter_title')

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Аерофотозйо́мка, Аерофотозніма́ння — фотографування земної поверхні з літака чи супутника за допомогою спеціальних аерофотокамер. Дистанційний метод вивчення земної поверхні шляхом фотографування в різних областях оптичного спектра з літака чи інших літальних апаратів.

Види
Розрізняють планове аерофотознімання — при вертикальному розміщенні оптичної осі фотокамери і перспективне аерофотознімання, коли вісь нахилена до горизонту. Розрізняють:
 аерофотозйомку,
 багатозональну сканерну зйомку з цифровим записом (в тому ж діапазоні хвиль, що й фотографічна);
 інфрачервону,
 радіолокаційну,
 аерофототопографічну зйомку.

Знімальна техніка
В геометричному відношенні аерофотознімок являє собою центральну (чи іншу) проєкцію, центром проєктування якої служить задня вузлова точка об'єктива АФА.

Види аерофотознімків:
 горизонтальний — отриманий при строго прямовисному положенні осі АФА. У випадку плоскої і без нахилу місцевості масштаб горизонтального аерофотознімка на всій його площі постійний;
 плановий — отриманий при проведенні планового аерофотознімання, відхилення оптичної осі АФА від прямовисного положення не перевищує 3°;
 перспективний — отриманий при перспективному аерофотозніманні. Місцевість на перспективному аерофотознімкові зображається без збереження подібності фігур, масштаб в різних його частинах різний; користуватися таким знімком у вимірювальних цілях без застосування фотограмметричних приладів недоцільно;
 кольоровий — місцевість зображається в кольорах, близьких до натуральних;
 спектрозональний — кольоровий аерофотознімок, на якому об'єкти місцевості зображуються не в натуральних, властивих їм кольорах, а в умовних (червоному, зеленому, блакитному тощо); завдяки цьому різні об'єкти чітко розрізняються за своїм забарвленням;
 топографічний — отриманий топографічним АФА.

Застосування
Аерофотознімання є одним із методів вивчення земної поверхні, який широко застосовується при створенні топографічних карт різних масштабів, а також під час геологічних та геоморфологічних досліджень, при обліку рослинних та водних ресурсів, у транспортному будівництві тощо.

Аерозйомку в геології і гірничій справі застосовують для картографування і пошуків корисних копалин, виявлення структурних елементів поверхні, складання планів відкритих розробок.

Застосовується для складання планів кар'єрів, при підготовці програм рекультивації, геологічному картуванні тощо. Аерофотознімання виконується за допомогою спеціального аерофотоапарата при заданому вертикальному (планова аерозйомка) або похилому (перспективна аерозйомка) положенні оптичної осі. Аерофотозйомка включає льотно-знімальний і фотолабораторний періоди, польові фотограметричні роботи. Для отримання суцільного фотографічного зображения ділянки місцевості, аерофотозйомка виконується за прямолінійними паралельними маршрутами з частковим перекриттям сусідніх аерофотознімків одного маршруту (поздовжнє перекриття) або суміжних маршрутів (поперечне перекриття), що дозволяє визначати просторові координати точок місцевості. Дані аерозйомки в гірничій справі і геології застосовуються для складання планів кар'єрів, підготовки комплексної програми рекультивації, при геологічному картуванні, дослідженнях зони прибережного шельфу тощо.

Перспективні галузі
Тепер застосовують кольорове та спектральне аерофотознімання з різними світлофільтрами.

Розвивається метод фотозйомки радіопроменем для фотографування крізь хмари, туман і вночі. Особливо важливе аерофотознімання при дослідженнях важкодоступних районів (заболочених та дуже розчленованих).

Див. також
 Аерозйомка з повітряного змія
 Аеророзвідка
 Безпілотний літальний апарат
 Дрон
 Дистанційне зондування Землі
 Зйомка
 Пришвартований аеростат
 Супутникова зйомка
 Фотоплан

Посилання

 Термінологія

Техніка фотографії

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Mandatory review of DOD's compliance on CMMC is delayed
By Lauren C. Williams,
| April 6, 2021
The Defense Department was supposed to submit a review to Congress by March 1 assessing whether components complied with the guidelines of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. That deadline has been pushed to June.
Procurement Policy
The Defense Department has asked for more time to deliver an assessment to Congress about whether its components comply with the unified cybersecurity standard for defense contractors known as Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, Defense Systems has learned.
A provision in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act requires DOD's CIO and the commander of the Joint Forces Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network to review each DOD component for cyber hygiene and assess compliance with CMMC.
The report is supposed to identify a "component's CMMC level and implementation of the cybersecurity practices and capabilities required in each of the levels of the CMMC framework," according to the legislation.
Those components that don't meet CMMC level 3 requirements, also referred to as "good cyber hygiene," will have to "implement relevant security measures to achieve a desired CMMC or other appropriate capability and performance threshold prior to March 1, 2022."
The report stemming from that review was due to Congress on March 1, but has been pushed to June, according to a Hill aide familiar with the matter.
DOD spokesperson, Russ Goemaere, told Defense Systems the review was now due June 30 so the CMMC assessment "could be met by cross-walking compliance with the department's more stringent cybersecurity control standards."
The CMMC program, a unified standard that defense contractors handling controlled unclassified information will have to meet to bid on contracts, is expected to enter the pilot stage with select contracts later this year; full implementation for all defense contracts is planned for 2025.
"The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification will continue to be a focal point," for ranking member Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Cybersecurity Subcommittee ranking member Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)," a spokesperson for Senate Armed Services Committee Republicans told FCW. "One area where the committee is particularly concerned is balancing the cybersecurity of the defense industrial base with making sure the burden on small- and medium-sized businesses isn't too great."
DOD has not yet responded to a request for comment.
The Defense Department is also running a separate review of supply chain and risk management programs, including CMMC, led by Stacy Cummings, DOD's acting acquisition chief.
"In light of increasingly frequent and complex cyber intrusion efforts by adversaries and non-state actors, the Department remains deeply committed to the security and integrity of the defense industrial base," DOD spokesperson Jessica Maxwell told FCW. "As is done in the early stages of many programs, the DOD is reviewing the current approach to CMMC to ensure that it is achieving stated goals as effectively as possible while not creating barriers to participation in the DoD acquisition process….This assessment will be used to identify potential improvements to the implementation of the program."
News that DOD was conducting an internal review was first reported in FedScoop.
This article was updated to include a statement from DOD and was first published on FCW, a Defense Systems partner site.
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The importance of unit economics and the associated metrics (CAC, LTV, LTV/CAC ratio) is well established in the SaaS world. But how you calculate your operating numbers isn't as well understood – these critical non-GAAP metrics aren't consistently defined. And changes in calculations – not the business – can have a real impact on your decision making.
Accurately calculating the underlying components of SaaS metrics is more complex than many companies expect and it can affect your business operations, for example, in Sales and Marketing and drive greater growth – or limit growth.
We have seen companies that are held back from growing as much as they can because they don't have the data and analysis to make good decisions about where to place operational bets. We have also seen companies that are less confident of the outcome and don't have much margin for error. So, what can you do to get the SaaS metrics right when you can't afford to get them wrong?
Watch out when changing the methodology you use for these SaaS metrics – it can result in unpleasant surprises, as well as losing valuable trends data. Try explaining to senior management and the board why key metrics like Gross Margin (driven by Cost of Revenues) and Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) have improved or worsened, when nothing obvious has changed in the business, other than the method of accounting for these metrics. The better a process you put in place for calculating SaaS metrics early on, the more value you will get from them over time.
Should Customer Success be a COGS or a Sales expense? It depends.
Situation One – Customer Success is helping with both Sales and Support. Companies initially often just arbitrarily pick COGS or Sales for simplicity, but we advise them to split it 50/50 so the numbers don't get skewed incorrectly. Let's call this the blended model. It is important to look at Customer Success compensation plans and see if they are compensated on revenue (Sales) and/or customer satisfaction or usage (COGs). If it is both, then this is a good example of the blended model and it makes sense to allocate expenses.
Situation Two – there is a dedicated support team focused on supporting customers (COGS), and Customer Success is focused and compensated based on upsells/renewals like a salesperson. In this case, Customer Success should be a Sales expense.
Situation Three – Customer Success is involved in the upsell/renewal process, but they are not compensated on revenue but on things like customer satisfaction, overall churn rate, etc. In this case, they should be COGS.
If you move from Situation One to Situation Two where you now have dedicated resources for both customer support (COGs) and dedicated upsell/renewal sales people, you may skew either COGs (GM) or Sales expense (affecting CAC) if you didn't initially allocate those expenses across both COGS and Sales expense buckets, at least in the initial phase of transitioning to a dedicated model. Make sure to clarify this clearly to senior management.
Should on boarding and implementation costs be COGS or Sales expense? This is one of the trickiest questions, as implementation often spans the pre-sales and post-sales process.
In general, we recommend implementation work that is done as part of the pre-sales and demo process be a sales expense. Implementation work that is done after a customer has been signed should be COGS.
Think of implementation of a customer site as professional services, even if you do not bill separately for it.
Demos, proof of concepts and free trials – implementation costs for these are generally selling expenses.
Getting customers onboarded successfully and up and running on the platform – implementation costs for that are generally COGS.
Look at the metrics on a rolling window basis to avoid seasonality and spikes, rather than calculating the metrics only for a single month at a time.
Make sure that you are looking at costs and expenses over the same time frame as revenues, and that you're properly allocating expenses like annual subscriptions over the entire period.
Think about the impact that changing how you calculate or define an expense will have on your analysis. The direction various metrics are trending provides valuable insights into your business, but that requires consistency in calculation over time. You lose a lot of value in these metrics if you change the definitions or do things that skew them during your growth.
Comparing your company metrics to peer benchmarks can help you identify where you might be calculating your numbers differently than your peers.


8 Very Bad Habits That You Must Stop During Your Periods!
Each month (almost) all women go through a difficult time when they suffer from abdominal cramps, mood swings, fatigue and many other troublesome symptoms caused by major hormonal changes: this is the period rules. To preserve your health and balance during these difficult days, discover 9 bad habits to stop absolutely.
Even if your periods are not abundant, it is essential to change the sanitary pad every 3 to 4 hours to reduce the risk of bacterial growth and consequently of infections.
Feeling pain during menstruation is not an isolated or rare phenomenon, quite the contrary. If you are one of the women who suffer from it, do not push the limits of your body by causing you more pain. So forget the waxing and shift your appointment at the dentist for the next week.
Regular physical activity is essential to keep your body healthy. However, certain recommendations should not be overlooked. During menstruation, for example, it is advisable to be satisfied with mild to moderate physical exercises, not to fatigue even more your body, already weakened by bleeding.
The hormonal changes accompanying this phase of the female menstrual cycle can be the cause of appetite disorders in women. This is why some of them do not hesitate to skip their meals because of their lack of appetite. This habit is to be stopped immediately, because the body's nutrient and hydration needs increase during the menstrual period, since it must compensate for the loss of blood and energy it suffers. It is therefore recommended to eat his three main meals a day and choose a healthy and balanced menu. It is also possible to provide healthy snacks (fruits, dried fruits ...) to boost the body's energy level.
Unlike the previous point, some women are overwhelmed by an irresistible craving for sweet foods and fatty dishes, which can sometimes occur in the middle of the night. To prevent your body from wasting its energy for a difficult digestion, try to control your impulses, or at least, content yourself with a fruit or some nuts.
Because of abdominal cramps, digestive problems, or menstrual discomfort, many women find it hard to fall asleep or wake up several times during the night. However, a deep and sufficient sleep is essential to allow the body to relax and recharge its batteries. Do not hesitate to take relaxing teas before bed, to help you to sleep more easily.
Rich in arachidonic acid, a fatty acid that promotes the production of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins, red meats are to be avoided during menstruation if you do not want to intensify the pain of your cramps.
Low morale and hypersensitivity are two very common psychic symptoms during menstruation. To avoid sinking even more in this momentary depression, do not be tempted by depressing movies and sad songs. Instead, try to see fun shows or comedies that will change your mind and give you a smile.
Savvy Life Mag Plus: 8 Very Bad Habits That You Must Stop During Your Periods!


"'American free-enterprise, capitalist democracy and the right to make as much money as you can and spend it any way you choose' (as long as there's no law against it :-) is the single agency of greatest per_capita resource/environment destruction and waste in the history of man."
I do this?' his mother agonized, knowing one of her newborns would not live. But for 43 hours, he was hers to cherish.
WICHITA, Kan. — She wanted to honor her son, to celebrate his life, however short. That's why she had refused an abortion, even after doctors told her that her little boy would be born without a brain.
Now he was here, squirming in his blankets, and Danielle Hayworth could not bring herself to hold him.
Her hospital room was packed with relatives cooing at her son's sweet face, telling her to enjoy every minute she had with him.
Danielle turned away from the bassinet. This was all she had dared pray for: a few moments to hug her son close, to memorize his sounds, his smell, how his thin fingers felt clasped around her own. But all she could think about was losing him, and how her heart would break.
She could not bear the waiting. She wept, and wished for it to end.
"Is that bad of me?"
Danielle found out she was pregnant in May when she dragged herself to the emergency room, weak from days of vomiting. The news left her stunned and scared.
Her two marriages had ended in divorce, and Danielle, 30, was raising her two boys alone. Her boyfriend, Lee Crump, was excited about becoming a father for the first time, and he was able to offer some financial support; he had a decent job pouring cement. But Danielle didn't trust any man to stick around once the responsibilities of parenting caught up to him.
She wasn't sure she was ready for more responsibility herself. A high-school dropout, she had earned an equivalency degree, but worked mostly in temporary clerical jobs. She got health insurance from the state; federal housing vouchers; disability checks for her 9-year-old, Jonathan Price, who has cerebral palsy. Still, there was never enough money.
Her bungalow, across the street from a lumberyard, was sparsely furnished: a ripped couch, a TV, a shelf of children's books. The scuffed walls of the living room were bare except for a few framed portraits of her boys. Danielle didn't have a bed for her 3-year-old, Dashon Starr; he had to share with her. A baby would need a crib, a car seat…. She lay awake nights.
In early June, a sonogram picked up two heartbeats: twins. Danielle felt sick.
Two weeks later, another scan detected five cysts, possible signs of a birth defect, in Baby A's gestational sac. Danielle thought of abortion, but only briefly; she knew she couldn't, because of Jonathan.
Her son had suffered an unexplained cerebral hemorrhage in the womb at the start of her third trimester. Warning of severe brain damage, Danielle's doctors recommended abortion. But Danielle had recently started going to church; firm in her newfound faith, she decided to leave the baby in God's hands.
Jonathan suffers frequent seizures and can't always control his hands. He's prone to outbursts so violent that Danielle once called police to subdue him.
But he also can be gentle, and protective of his momma. He told her that he wanted to get a job at Taco Bell so he could buy her a car that wouldn't break down. When she sits on the couch, he kneels next to her and rests his head in her lap. He cuddles with her, rapt as she reads him "Thomas the Tank Engine."
He makes her smile, too. Like the day he climbed off the school bus and, with a swagger, announced: "I need some breath spray so I can smell good for the ladies."
His brother Dashon is a happy-go-lucky kid who tears through the house wearing nothing but saggy shorts and an enormous grin. Danielle calls him her little stinky and smiles every time she talks about him: "He makes me feel like I've done something right."
When she was 16, Danielle aborted a pregnancy at her father's insistence, she said. She has made peace with that now. But when she thought of Jonathan, when she felt the bump of her stomach, she knew she could not abort the twins. Nor would she consider adoption.
"I couldn't give up my babies. I couldn't," she said. "They're my kids. I'm going to take care of them."
She and Lee, 32, picked out their names: Baby A, the boy, would be Lee Jr. Baby B, the girl, would be Leah.
It was five weeks before another ultrasound, in late July, clarified the problem with Lee. In the first weeks of embryonic development, the neural tube that forms the brain and spinal column had failed to seal, a defect sometimes associated with a lack of folic acid in the mother's diet.
Lee's brain stem, which regulates breathing and heartbeat, was probably intact. But his skull had not formed, nor the back of his head, and any bits of upper brain tissue that had developed now steeped, unprotected, in amniotic fluid. He would not see or hear or think.
Anencephaly occurs in 1 in 10,000 live births in the U.S. A very few afflicted infants have survived as long as four months. Nearly all die within days, many within hours, from dehydration, infection or trouble swallowing.
The specialists she consulted offered Danielle a "selective reduction": They could abort the malformed twin. That might give her a better chance of carrying the healthy baby to term, but there was also a chance that the procedure could harm Leah. Danielle was not interested in weighing risks.
"I couldn't make God's decision," she said. "Everything happens for a reason."
The sign offering free ultrasounds hangs off a modest white building in central Wichita, around the corner from a car dealership and a budget motel. By letting women glimpse the life growing inside them, Choices Medical Clinic aims to dissuade them from abortion.
Danielle came to Choices for a pregnancy test days after the emergency room doctors told her she was expecting. She was looking for confirmation and reassurance, someone to talk with as she came to terms with the news.
Then Lee was diagnosed with anencephaly, and Choices became a lifeline for Danielle. The nonprofit clinic runs one of the nation's few perinatal hospices: a free support program for women carrying babies they know will not survive.
Such women often feel abandoned as their pregnancies progress; friends and family don't know what to say, so they tend to retreat. Choices' medical director, Dr. Scott Stringfield, steps into that void. "We pour on the love," he said.
An intense man who favors black T-shirts and keeps his gray hair cropped military-short, Stringfield, 48, bluntly explains to his patients what their child will look like when he is born, and how he will die. He insists they think through the choices they will face: when to insert a feeding tube, when to resuscitate, when to do nothing more than hug a dying baby tight.
But Stringfield also helps expectant parents to anticipate the birth with joy. He offers them ultrasounds as often as they want so they can marvel at all that's right with their child instead of dwelling on what's wrong. He shows them it's OK to laugh as well as to grieve.
Hospice patients continue to see their obstetricians for medical care, freeing Stringfield and other Choices volunteers to focus on their emotional needs. Between appointments, many patients turn for support to Tammy Schafer, the clinic's nurse.
With a nurturing spirit and bubbly laugh, Tammy, 34, treats her hospice patients as family. She brings them chicken soup when they're sick. She takes them shopping for baby clothes and for urns. When they go into labor, no matter the time, she meets them at the hospital, camera in hand, prepared to share every bittersweet moment.
"It helps them to know that they did everything they could to enjoy that baby," she said.
Several medical students Stringfield has mentored at the local Catholic hospital plan to open their own perinatal hospices. Outside the antiabortion community, the concept is also gaining support, driven by improvements in prenatal diagnostics, which allow more women to learn of birth defects earlier in pregnancy.
Hospices serving the terminally ill in San Diego, Fresno and Kansas City, Mo., run well-regarded perinatal programs. Several hospitals around the country, including St. Joseph Hospital in Orange County, offer a similar service. Trinity Kids Care, which serves Los Angeles, is also moving into the field.
Choices, which opened in 1999, has guided three dozen families through its hospice.
Danielle looked wary when she came in for her first consultation one morning in late September. Her face was drawn and pale but for her freckles; her curly reddish-brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail. Though she was halfway through her second trimester, she barely showed under her T-shirt and jeans; she had gained less than 7 pounds. Almost as soon as she sat down, she was in tears.
"What hospice really means is that we're going to share this with you. We're going to bear it with you," Stringfield told her.
"Who's your support system?" he asked.
Danielle tried to think. She and her boyfriend, Lee, had broken up and he had moved out. Her friends avoided talking about the twins. Danielle spoke with her mom sometimes, but she was ashamed to ask for much help; she had made her own bad choices in life and she wanted to set things right herself.
"I have nobody," she finally said.
Stringfield reached over to rub her arm. "You have us."
They talked for more than an hour. Stringfield asked Danielle about her fears, finances, even her heartburn, and listened attentively, jotting notes. Finally, he led her into the clinic's darkened sonogram room. Danielle was so worn out, she barely looked as Tammy squirted ultrasound gel on her stomach in the shape of a smile.
Then the twins appeared on the screen in blurry black and white.
"There's Lee!" Tammy called. "There's his leg and his knee and his little fist."
Danielle's jaw unclenched. Staring at her son's curled fingers, she beamed, eyes glistening.
"Want to hear his heartbeat?" A rhythmic whoosh filled the room.
"My baby," Danielle said, her voice swollen. "No matter what, that's my baby."
Tammy switched off the heartbeat and Danielle looked back at the screen. "I don't ever want to forget him," she said. "Memories fade. I don't want to forget."
The dream came on an early October morning, after another restless night.
Danielle saw herself holding baby Lee. She wanted to show him off to her friends, but all she could say, over and over, was that he would soon die. Then she was trying to get him to nurse. She was frantic to keep him awake.
The dream shifted; she was at home. Lee rolled off the couch before she could stop him, bloodying his mouth and his nose.
"I don't know if I can see my baby die."
Each time she visited the hospice, Danielle was reminded that she had a choice. The windowless beige building next door is Women's Health Care Services, one of the best-known abortion clinics in the nation.
Dr. George R. Tiller specializes in terminating late-term pregnancies after the fetus has been diagnosed with a birth defect: a deformed heart, missing kidneys, Down's syndrome, anencephaly.
He calls his work a "reproductive ministry," and he offers his patients many of the same services as the hospice. Tiller encourages parents to hold, dress and photograph their aborted children, whom he delivers stillborn but intact. His staff takes ink-prints of tiny feet and hands; he brings in a chaplain for baptisms. Letters from grateful patients line the clinic's walls.
Antiabortion activists gather outside Tiller's clinic nearly every day, amid dozens of white crosses they have placed along the sidewalk. They yell at the women who turn into the parking lot: "Mommy, save me! I don't want to die!"
Those shouts disturbed Danielle every time she drove to Choices. She felt she was doing right by her baby and by God. But she understood why other women went next door.
As she neared the start of her third trimester, in mid-October, decisions pressed in on Danielle.
Stringfield had told her Lee would have a much better chance of living a few hours if born by caesarean section. Vaginal births put a lot of stress on a baby's head; without skulls to protect them, anencephalic infants often do not survive the trauma.
The thought of hurting her son made Danielle cry, but so did the thought of a C-section. The surgery would keep her in the hospital an extra day. Who would watch Dashon and Jonathan? She'd come home sore. What if Jonathan had a seizure? How would she pick him up? "I feel so torn," she said.
Then there was the funeral. She was anxious about how Lee would look in an open casket, but mad at herself for worrying about it; she didn't want to be ashamed of her baby.
A prayer ran constantly through her head: Give me strength.
One morning, overwhelmed with despair, her body aching, Danielle called Tammy. Two hours later she was lying in the clinic's ultrasound room, marveling at Leah's chubby cheeks. Danielle had to smile when she saw Leah's nose — it looked just like Lee Sr.'s. "Poor thing," she said.
Tammy had noticed in an earlier scan that Lee had a severe cleft lip. From then on, she talked up his cutest features: his long fingers and pert chin, a fringe of hair above his ears.
"I've been bawling all weekend, but after I saw that sonogram, I just don't feel like crying," Danielle said a few hours later. "Sometimes I wish I wasn't pregnant. But then I look at the pictures of the babies and I feel thankful."
The next day, she decided she would ask for a C-section.
"I want that chance with Lee," she said. "I want every single second that God gives me."
It helped that she felt less alone. She was still separated from Lee; he told her he didn't know how to cope with the pending birth and death. But his cousin Latrina "Teeny" Jones, 35, stepped in to help. She came over to cook, to vacuum or just to talk.
Danielle talked regularly with Christine Beck, a former hospice patient who had given birth in 2001 to a son with anencephaly. She called or text-messaged Tammy five, six, sometimes a dozen times a day.
"Then I don't feel so crazy," Danielle said.
She and Tammy talked about getting a tiny hat to fit Lee's head, about finding a heart-shaped jewel box to hold his ashes, about buying books to explain the concept of death to Dashon and Jonathan. Tammy found a donor to pay for Lee's memorial stone and arranged for a Choices volunteer to drop off groceries now and then.
Every time Danielle came by for an ultrasound, Tammy printed dozens of pictures of the twins. On the best of them, she typed: "Hi, mom!"
Danielle and Lee met at Broadway Mortuary on a late October afternoon to plan their son's funeral.
"I hate these places," Lee muttered, a toothpick dangling from his lips.
Danielle could not talk. Her hands trembled as director Donald Davis led them into a conference room, hushed but for the drifting piano music.
"I understand you have twins and one of them is not expected to make it?" Davis said, offering them seats. "We have some special pricing for children. For anyone under 12. What were you thinking of?"
Danielle sat motionless, her hands over her face.
"We have caskets for babies. We can have a viewing, if the condition of the child warrants it."
"I don't want him in a casket," Danielle said hoarsely. "I want to get a basket for him."
"That's not a problem." Davis looked at her with sympathy. "Any time you need a break, you just let me know."
Danielle wanted only to get through it. Pressing tissues to closed eyes, she listened as Davis reviewed cremation fees and obituary guidelines. She walked stiffly through a display room filled with caskets, as Davis pointed out the urns that came in smaller sizes for children: pink, blue, floral, frosted gold.
At last, Davis walked her and Lee to the door, handing them a sheaf of paperwork labeled "Baby Hayworth" as they stepped into a blinding sun.
"You all take care of each other," he called.
Danielle stumbled to her car, tears streaming.
Dashon had been born three months premature, so Danielle did not expect to make it to her due date in late January.
By November, she and Lee had met with a neonatologist to discuss how they would care for their son, and had decided he would receive comfort care only — nothing to prolong his life.
A bereavement counselor had prepared Danielle for Lee's death, explaining how her baby would turn pale as his circulation slowed.
Danielle had picked out two outfits, one pink, one blue, and put them on layaway at Wal-Mart. She was still looking for a basket to nestle Lee in for his funeral, but as a backup, Tammy had given her a small white casket. Danielle kept it in her closet.
Two days before Thanksgiving, Danielle rushed to the hospital, sure the twins were coming. Hooked up to a fetal monitor, she noticed Lee's heart rate dropping with every contraction. She begged for an immediate C-section but the doctors refused, saying she wasn't in active labor.
They would not intervene this far before her due date to save a baby who would die anyway — not when there was a healthy twin to think about. Angry and scared, Danielle went home.
The first week of December passed. Danielle worried that she was withdrawing from Lee Jr., walling off her emotions so it wouldn't hurt as much to lose him.
Her electric bill arrived and she decided not to pay it. She wanted to get those outfits out of layaway.
Two heartbeats, amplified by fetal monitor, echoed through the overheated hospital room, strong and steady and nearly in sync: 134 beats per minute … 133 … 135 ….
It was Tuesday, Dec. 13, and Danielle had been admitted to Wesley Medical Center with unmistakable contractions. Numbed by an epidural, she sat up against her pillows, her hair matted, her face puffy, as the hospice team from Choices held hands around her bed. Danielle bowed her head as Stringfield prayed: "Lord, we appreciate your grace."
Christine Beck, the first patient counseled by the hospice, rubbed Danielle's belly and told her: "We're here for you, honey. It's going to be OK."
Lee, in scrubs and a surgical mask, held her hand as a nurse wheeled her to the operating room. "This is a new start for me, right here," he said. He had been at Danielle's side all morning, feeding her ice chips and smoothing her sweaty hair. He had knelt by her bed, his face against hers, when the neonatologist had come in to confirm the do-not-resuscitate orders for their son.
"I'm scared," he told her.
A moment later, though, she looked up at Lee eagerly: "I can't wait to see them."
The surgeons delivered Leah Jean Crump first — a healthy 4-pound, 2-ounce girl with light cocoa skin, a frizz of black hair and lungs that let the world know she had arrived. "She's beautiful!" Tammy called. "Can you see her?"
Danielle smiled, but her mind was on her son. "Is he out yet?" she said. "Is he breathing? I want him!"
Lee Charles Crump Jr. was born a minute after his sister, at 4:19 p.m. — wiggling, pink, but struggling.
"He's so cute, Danielle," Tammy called as two nurses grabbed him and rubbed him with a blanket.
"Why don't he cry?" Danielle wailed. "Is he breathing?"
"He's trying," Tammy told her. "C'mon, baby. C'mon."
The nurses pulled a hat over Lee's exposed brain tissue and dressed him hurriedly in the outfit Danielle had picked out, a sweatsuit with a soccer ball on the jacket and the letters MVP.
"Sweet boy," Tammy said. "Here he is, Danielle."
Danielle, heavily medicated, could not focus her eyes. She reached out for her son, murmured, "Hey, little man, I love you." Then she sank back, dazed.
Lee was starting to turn blue.
"We have to keep him going until Mom's awake," nurse Deanna Kowalski shouted. She clamped an oxygen mask over Lee's mouth.
"Just give us a half-hour, baby," Kowalski said. "Just give us a half-hour."
Lee held the oxygen mask to his son's face as the doctors stitched Danielle. He had flinched when he first saw his baby's mangled head, "but now I'm OK with it," he said. Gently, he stroked Lee's cheek; softly, he murmured "precious child … precious child of God."
In the recovery room, Danielle sat up slowly. "Does he look like a monster?" she whispered.
"He doesn't," her physician, Amy Madril, told her. "He's happy as can be in his little oxygen tent."
Danielle opened her arms to receive her son. She rocked the tiny bundle a moment, then pulled back his hat with a groan. "I'm so sorry, baby. Oh, sweetie. I'm so sorry."
The room was bright with balloons and flowers; Lee was handing out pink and blue bubble-gum cigars. Danielle didn't want to touch her son. The mass on his head was awful — bruised, swollen, worse than the pictures she had been shown in medical texts. Stringfield had told her that anencephalic infants can't feel pain, but it looked like her baby was suffering.
"I'm so sorry, little man," she sobbed.
Someone took the baby and put him back in his bassinet. Danielle looked away.
Danielle was afraid to fall in love with her son, but he had such a way about him.
He cooed at everyone who held him, grabbed their fingers and squeezed tight. When Tammy rubbed him under the chin, he made little hums, like a contented kitten. But when she unsnapped his romper to massage his wrinkled legs, he jerked back with a squawk.
Lee weighed 3 pounds, 13 ounces, with his clothes on; he was all eyes and chin and cheeks. His daddy couldn't stop stroking his face. "Hey, Junior, how're you doing?" he'd ask.
Leah had been taken to neonatal intensive care as a precaution. She did so well that a few hours after the birth, her nurse said she could briefly leave the ward. So Danielle brought the twins together one last time. She nestled them side by side in a bassinet for photos. Then she cradled her babies, one in each arm, and kissed their perfect little ears.
She was quiet as she looked at them, and when she asked to be wheeled back to her room, she told the nurse she wanted to disconnect Lee's oxygen.
But the baby adjusted to less oxygen. He slept Tuesday night in his father's arms and in the morning, he opened his eyes. Danielle had to laugh when he started chirping in a rhythmic peep-peep-peep that sounded like a hospital monitor. He mewed and squealed. Lee's cousin Teeny even swore she caught him giggling.
The cleft made it hard for him to latch on to a bottle, but Lee smacked his lips so vigorously that visitors kept exclaiming: "That boy is hungry!"
"Pig," Danielle teased. "Fits right in with my other kids."
To keep their son comfortable, Danielle and Lee asked a nurse to feed him every two hours, a teaspoon of formula through a thin tube in his nose.
Almost every moment of his life, Lee was in someone's arms. Teeny talked to him nonstop. Joyce Bencent, a great-aunt, cradled him and recited in a singsong croon a list of all the distant relatives who loved him.
Danielle's mother, Rhonda Wilson, held the baby for hours. She had been anxious about how she would react, but now that he was here, "I feel really at peace," she said. "It's meant for us to have this time with him."
Lee's great-grandmother held him, and a dozen cousins, aunts and uncles. Even Dashon and Jonathan took turns.
"Hi, baby," Jonathan called. "It's your big brother!" He gave Lee one of his toys: a plastic cellphone.
Lee slept a second night snuggled up to his daddy. But with the morning light on Thursday, his parents could tell he was fading. His skin was cold and the pink had drained from his cheeks; he breathed in ragged gurgles.
Danielle held him naked to her bare chest, whispering to him, smelling his neck. He still had the strength to wrap his hand around her finger.
When she could no longer endure the waiting, Danielle bundled her son in a white satin blanket embroidered with angel wings. Passing him gently to Teeny, she went downstairs to feed her daughter.
When she returned an hour later, Lee was limp. Danielle held him in silence a long while, then looked up: "How do you know?"
Tammy unwrapped the blanket and put her stethoscope to Lee's chest. There was silence as she listened and when she said, "He's gone."
It was 11:19 a.m., 43 hours to the minute after his birth.
Lee Sr. cradled the still body against his wet cheek. So softly it was almost imperceptible, he began to hum "Amazing Grace."
The room filled over the next few hours with family and friends and doctors. Linda Spear, a hospice counselor, knelt by Danielle's chair, talking of angels.
Danielle looked at her in anguish.
"I feel like I'm going to forget everything about him," she said. "I hope he knows how much I loved him."
"It was pure love," Linda assured her.
"It makes me want to get my life right," Danielle said. "So I can see him again."
Released from the hospital that evening, Danielle found she couldn't sleep. When she closed her eyes that night, and for many nights after, she saw Lee's face.
"It hurts so much, my heart," she said. "I just want to know, when does it go away?"
She wished she could go back in time. If she could do it all again, she said, she would have given her son her whole heart from the start, no matter how it hurt.
"I just hope he understands."
After the guests had cried and hugged and departed, Tammy turned on a video montage she had made to honor Lee. His parents sat side by side in the front pew to watch.
There was Danielle's big belly as she was wheeled to the operating room; and Lee Sr. in his scrubs, looking nervous. There was their son in his MVP sweats, an oxygen mask over his face. There he was lying next to his sister, and sleeping in his parents' arms.
There was his tiny hand grabbing a finger and holding tight.


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"They Love You When You're Gone": Jeb Broke The Cardinal Rule Of Well-Liked Ex-oliticians; He Came Out Of Retirement
Some people are already waxing nostalgic about Rep. John Boehner, who has resigned as the Speaker of the House and leaving Congress.
Testy and stiff, the hard-drinking Ohio Republican wasn't exactly a beloved fixture on the national scene. Sniffling over the pope helped soften Boehner's image, but the main thing that's made him more likable is the fact he'll be gone soon.
It's a strange American phenomenon. No matter how low they get in the polls, politicians start becoming more popular the minute they leave office.
Blamed for high gas prices and the Iran hostage crisis, Jimmy Carter got booted from the White House after four years. Today he is cheered wherever he goes. This is partly because of the charitable work he's done since leaving government, and partly because Americans have a soft spot for the politically departed.
Saddled with Ronald Reagan's sputtering economy, George H.W. Bush also lost the presidency after one anemic term. He's never been more popular than he is today.
Same for Bill Clinton who, despite his impeachment saga, draws crowds like a rock star. Even George W. Bush, the brains behind the disastrous U.S. occupation of Iraq, is more fondly regarded now than during his last few years in the Oval Office.
Which brings us to his younger brother, Jeb, whose popularity has been creeping in the wrong direction ever since he announced his candidacy for president.
A mind-bending new Quinnipiac University poll shows Jeb running fourth among Republicans in Florida, behind Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Marco Rubio.
For those of you too young, too old, or too new to the Sunshine State, John Ellis Bush doesn't just happen to reside in Florida. He was the governor for eight years, elected and re-elected with the crossover support of conservative Democrats.
His entire presidential campaign has been crafted around his self-buffed legacy as Florida's chief executive, touting it in every stump speech and in every debate. Yet now, only 13 months before Election Day, he's mired in fourth place in the one state where it was supposed to be a slam dunk. How is this possible?
The explanation might be simpler than you think: Jeb broke the cardinal rule of well-liked ex-politicians. He came out of retirement.
Not so long ago, when he was still a private Coral Gables businessman, he was a venerated and unassailable figure among Florida Republicans.
Check out the latest numbers:
Trump leads the pack in Florida with 28 percent. Next comes Carson at 16 percent, followed by Rubio with 14 percent.
Jeb is hanging on at 12 percent.
It's one thing to be trailing a silly character like Trump in places like Iowa or New Hampshire, but to be 16 points down in a critical swing state, your home state, is truly shocking.
Rubio's a legit contender, but Carson is a loony bird who can't go more than a week without babbling something that requires a hasty "clarification." His recent comment suggesting that the victims of the Oregon college massacre were too passive during the shootings was particularly idiotic.
It's astounding that Jeb is lagging behind even this guy in Florida.
Sure, the former governor didn't show much fire during the two televised debates. He's also had some stumbles of his own, including that appalling "stuff happens" remark about the Oregon killings.
But stacked up beside the insult-belching Trump and the spacey Carson, Jeb should be looking like Winston Churchill.
Imagine if you were one of the wealthy donors who wrote a six- or even a seven-figure check to the Bush Super PAC early this year, thinking you were betting on a sure winner. Now you're looking at the headlines and lunging for the bourbon.
The situation is so serious that Jeb is considering taking his ex-president brother on the fundraising trail, a once-unthinkable strategy. He risks reminding voters about Iraq and the 2008 financial meltdown that left the country with a Bush hangover. A seven-year absence from the scene is what has boosted George W's numbers.
It's too early for Jeb's supporters to panic, because the race is far from over. He has collected more money than any other Republican, and he's finally starting to spend some on advertising.
Jeb hopes that the conservative infatuation with Donald Trump will fade, Ben Carson will go home to Mars and other long-shot candidates will go broke and drop out. That's the only path back to the top of the polls.
Where he would probably still be, if only he'd stayed retired.
By: Carl Hiaasen, Columnist for The Miami Herald: The National Memo, October 13, 2015
October 14, 2015 - Posted by	raemd95 | GOP Presidential Candidates, Jeb Bush, Politicians	| Bill Clinton, Conservatives, Donald Trump, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, House Republicans, Jimmy Carter, John Boehner


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We are proud to present the Finalists of our Photographer of the Year Competition. The standard of entries this year was exceptionally high, to the extent that our list of finalists is larger than we had originally planned for. After days of judging and intense debate we could not reduce our list to fewer than 26 finalists. The finalists are listed in no specific order.
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Navigation: Click on the arrow buttons on the side of each image to navigate through this exquisite gallery.
Superb images! Good luck choosing the overall winner!
Amazing photographs. I am glad I do to have to choose the overall winner. WOW! They all are shots to be proud of for a lifetime.
Amazing Photographs. I am glad I do not have to select the overall winner! Each is a shot they can be proud of for all their lives. Well done.
However would one choose the winning shot! Spectacular captures! Thank you to all the photographers for sharing your amazing views!
Brilliant images well done to those who got this far.
All are awesome but so my 2 favorites have made the finalist. "Circle of protection" and "light as a feather" good luck to all finalist.
My favourite is also "Circles of protection" – but I am so glad I do not have to choose just one.
Me like one with gorilla throwing feces!
Article on Hwange very interesting and good to see there are still so many Elephants – good to see them at the waterhole.
"A magical shower" is amazing – what an incredible shot!!
'A Magical Shower' is a brilliant photo, wonderful capture!
I love 'On the prowl' and 'A magical shower' – they're both beautifully shot.
Magical shower is a very unique beautiful shot, never seen a photograph like that.
"A magical shower" is my favourite! Love the depth of field on the raindrops and the distant stare in the cat's eyes.
Got to be a magical shower, but they are all so good.
I absolutely love cheetahs and A magical shower captures their spirit so well!!
All incredible photos, however 'a magical shower' has got to be my favourite.
Oh what a difficult job the judges have, but Majestic Elephant Bull & A Magical Shower are my ultimate favourites!
This image captures the cheetah's spirit so well. Love the light in it too!
Wow! That photo perfectly captures the ambience and atmosphere of what I guess it would be like at the location. I like the editing too as it adds to the "magical" moment.


L ight , Healthy and still yumm ..Quite a one pot meal! Tats all tat I can call this recipe.. Its full of my fav flavour.. with just the right ingredients..
My friends mum used to make this for his lunch box.. at college.. More than 6 yrs up .. and one fine day I managed to get in touch with this friend of mine.. who used to call this a Macroni pasta.. We used to wait all those 4 years whenever he would get this for lunch and we wud attack it right then. My first introduction to Pasta…when was urs??? I have given this borrowed recipe a twist with the available ingredients..
Cook Pasta of your choice in enough water with few drops of olive oil and a pinch of salt. I have chosen Penne.. Once done , drain the water through a colander and run it under tap water.
I have used Red Onions , thinlysliced carrots ,green peas , black olives and diced green peppers to make my bowl of veggies.
Heat 2 tsp of oil in a pan , drop in chopped garlic . Once it gets fried , add in chillie flakes and the veggie bowl. Saute them for about 2 min . Make sure veggies are still crunchy. Drop in ajinomotto and sprinkle the required salt.
Now mix together the cooked pasta and saute for another a min. Sprinkle the basil and serve it hot.
Alternatively prepare by adding garlic, dried red chillies and rock salt in the blender and give it blend. Add them to the olive oil , once done drop in the veggies and saute them with a pinch of ajino motto.Mix together the cooked pasta , saute for a min , garnish with basil and serve hot.
The perfect recipe for a quick, delicious n a light meal!!!
Hey Sandhya, mine was much later sometime in my late twenties…I remember eating pasta in Pizza Hut Dubai!
Ever since, i have made all types of macroni pastas at home for Niki trying my tweaked flavours…poor child had to have them all.
Off late I have not made much, yours tempts me to try this on dear husband!
Wat an eyecatching clicks, very tempting dish..
yum yummmmmmmmy mouth watering and tempting pasta.
beautiful presentation…wow..amazing…lovely one pot meal….
Thank god for easy dishes like this, life is so much more easier rt? i love pasta in any form and its something i have at hand all the time.
Love the simplicity of the dish and looks awesome,nice capture sandhya!
vegie pasta luks delicious,wounderfull clicks sandhya.
thank u for ur comments!
I had a number of clicks.. under direct sunlight.. the ones inside with a white board showed it off better.
I m sure Niki must b enjoying her new flavours..
My lil one is on pasta since 1 yr old.. He occasionally likes them .. and occasionally dislikes..
its all in the mood.
love one pot meals like this. never added ajinomoto to Pasta. looks very comforting.
Beautiful clicks..love one pot meals n this looks awesome, simple n so flavorful!
Simple and filling pasta veggie delight….
Looks so yummy …… love the clicks too.
A delicious quick meal! I love it.
awesome pasta Looks so scrumptious.
Quick and a tasty recipe for sure.
thanks for dropping by and welcum to my blog santhosh!
Will definitely check on ur space.
healthy and yummy one pot meal…so good!!!
Hi Sandhya, first time here. Loved your veggie pasta. Looking for some pasta dishes recently. Do visit my blog when time permits. Happy to follow you.
I love going thru' recipe blogs, enjoy the presentation one makes and yes, we can bring small changes in the recipes which we are used to regularly. all the best.
thank u pushpa.. it means a lot to me!
thank u chithra for posting such a lovely comment.. u have made my day!
Hope Veggie Pasta lived upto ur expectation..
This is perfect for me. I am starting to be vegan right now and this is a big help.


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Trade Mark Infringement – Muslim Dating App Meets its Match [.com]
By Connor Sargeant on May 19, 2022 Posted in Trade Mark
A recent Intellectual Property Enterprise Court Decision (IPEC) on 20 April 2022 has decided that 'Muzmatch', an online matchmaking service to the Muslim Community has infringed Match.com's registered trade marks.
The decision by Nicholas Caddick Q.C was that Muzmatch's use of signs and its name amounted to trade mark infringement and/or passing off of Match.com's trade marks. This case follows successful oppositions by Match.com to Muzmatch's registration of its marks in 2018, and unsuccessful attempts by Match.com to purchase Muzmatch between 2017 and 2019.
Match.com is one of the largest and most recognisable dating platforms in the UK. It first registered a word mark 'MATCH.COM' in 1996 and also owns other dating-related brands including Tinder and Hinge with other marks including the word mark 'TINDER'. Match.com used a 2012 TNS report to illustrate its goodwill and reputation and 70% of people surveyed would be able to recall Match.com if prompted, 44% unprompted and 31% of people would name Match.com as the first dating brand off the 'top of their head.'
Muzmatch is a comparatively niche but growing dating platform, which aims to provide a halal (i.e. in compliance with Islamic law) way for single Muslim men and women to meet a partner. Muzmatch is comparatively much smaller and was founded in 2011 by Mr Shahzad Younas and now has had around 666,069 sign-ups in the UK alone.
The Court considered that the marks 'Muzmatch' and 'MATCH.COM' and each company's graphical marks, had a high degree of similarity in the services provided. The marks were also similar in nature orally and conceptually and the addition of the prefix 'Muz' did not distinguish the two marks, nor could the lack of the suffix '.com' or stylistic fonts/devices.
The key issue of the case relates to the idea of the term 'Match' which is used by both marks to describe the nature of the business: match[ing]. Muzmatch argued that as both marks share this descriptive common element, so it is difficult to conclude that there is a likelihood of confusion between the two marks as the term just describes what each business does.
The Court found that finding that there is a likelihood of confusion for a common descriptive element is not impossible, as the descriptive element can be used distinctively. The average consumer would conclude that the portion 'Match' is the badge of origin for Match.com due to its reputation as a brand and the very substantial degree of distinctiveness in the dating industry. An average consumer would have seen the word 'Match' as the dominant element in the Match.com trade marks and Match.com is often referred to as just 'Match' in advertisements.
Aside from its marks, Muzmatch utilised a Search Engine Optimisation strategy from January 2012 whereby it utilised a list of around 5000 keywords which would take a user to a landing page on the its website. In the list of the keywords used, Muzmatch used the words 'muslim-tinder', 'tinder' and 'halal-tinder' which were accepted by Muzmatch during the litigation to have infringed Match's trade marks of the Tinder brand including the word mark 'TINDER'. Muzmatch's SEO use was also found to cause confusion based on some of its keywords including 'UK Muslim Match', which again uses the term Match distinctively, therefore a consumer may confuse a link to 'UK Muslim Match' with 'Match.com'.
Therefore, the Court found that there was likely to be confusion between Muzmatch and Match.com because of the distinctive nature of the term 'Match' in the world of dating platforms. An average consumer would conclude that Muzmatch was connected in a material way with the Match.com marks, as if it was targeted at Muslim users as a sub-brand, so this confusion would be trade mark infringement under S10(2) of the Trade Marks Act 1994.
The Court also considered that Muzmatch had taken unfair advantage of Match.com's trade marks and had therefore infringed those marks under S10(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1994. This was due to the reputation of Match.com's trade marks and because a consumer would believe that Muzmatch was a sub-brand of Match.com.
The Court rejected Muzmatch's defence of honest concurrent use and found that Match.com would also have an alternative claim in the tort of passing off.
The Court found that a common descriptive element can acquire distinctiveness in an area, solely because of a company's reputation and influence in that market.
The use of Search Engine Optimisation strategies can also constitute a trade mark infringement.
The lack of the suffix '.com' in a mark is not sufficient to distinguish use from a household brand such as Match.com, so care should be taken with brands such as 'Match.com', 'Booking.com'[1]
[1] Match Group, LLC, Meetic SAS, Match.Com International Limited v Muzmatch Limited, Shahzad Younas [2022] EWHC 941 (IPEC)
[1] Note- Blog Post of July 6 2020 Relating to Booking.com- https://www.iptechblog.com/2020/07/us-supreme-court-opens-doors-to-generic-com-trademarks/
Tags: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, passing off, trade mark infringement


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Category: music	 December 9, 2019 274
Award winning New Brunswick composer Zachary Greer talks about composition, inspiration and how he got started writing music for film and theatre.
If you're a musician interested in exploring the fascinating world of film scoring, Zachary Greer has some advice for you.
"The industry moves very slow and patience really is a virtue."
Greer is a Fredericton-based musician who, for the past few years now, has been concentrating a lot of time and effort towards building a career as a composer for film, television and theatre. He has studied composition at Memorial University and has attended the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in New York City led by American composer Mark Snow (who penned the iconic theme for X-Files) and four-time Emmy winner Sean Callery (Jessica Jones, Designated Survivor).
He has contributed music to a number of independent film projects over the past few years including The Nashwaak (which won him an Excellence in Film Composition award at the 2018 Silver Wave Film Festival) and credits much of his career motivation and interest in composition to the instruction and encouragement he received from St. Thomas University professor Martin Kutnowski.
"My time at St. Thomas University would not have been anywhere near what it was without Martin Kutnowski," said Greer. "I went on a field trip with my high school music class to St. Thomas because our jazz combo was playing in a STU Jazz concert. Earlier in the day we attended a theory class that Martin put on, basically giving us a preview of what the university level would be like. I had just started playing guitar that year and had very little knowledge of theory, so I was incredibly intimidated by his lecture."
Greer admits he was so intimidated by the experience that he questioned whether or not music would be something worth dedicating his time to once he finished high school. As a grade 12 student sitting in on a university level lecture on music theory, Kutnowski's words flew far over his head. But after taking a one year break from education between high school and university, Greer ended up enrolling at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. And despite being overwhelmed by what he faced in Kutnowski's lecture, he enrolled in a few of his classes.
"One of the main things I've always appreciated about film music, or instrumental music, is that it's unbiased and can connect to anyone's story."
"I struggled for a while with theory, but Martin is so good with providing constructive feedback, and giving you the opportunity to demonstrate that you're learning," said Greer. "His evaluations were never as simple as, 'here's your grade and that's final.' He would always point out areas where you improved and what you need to do to keep improving, and he'd allow you a couple times to go back and redo things, which is how true learning happens. His pedagogy, for me, is above any professor I've ever had. He would always push his students to go the extra mile too."
The Way Home by Zachary Greer
It was Kutnowski who first suggested Greer attend the NYC workshop, an experience that would prove to be a major catalyst in his development as an emerging film composer.
"The ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop at NYU is a two week program where the accepted participants compose, orchestrate and record a cue for symphonic orchestra," said Greer. "It was very much an individual based workshop as far as the writing goes, but all the participants would share their works in progress and discuss them.
"On top of all the time spent working on the cues, we had various presentations from people in the industry, including Nancy Allen who has worked as a music editor on some of the biggest films ever, like the Lord of the Rings. I definitely felt a bit overwhelmed at times during the workshop and it was very humbling too, because I was surrounded by such amazing talent. We got to record our cue with part of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, and I opted to conduct them for the session, which was probably the deal sealer for me. Being in front of musicians at that level and feeling their energy coming back at me was one of the most amazing experiences. It was like a milestone reward for all the work I had done and money I spent to get there," he said.
To date, Greer has composed music for a pair of stage productions by Theatre St. Thomas and several independent film and television productions including the documentary Yukon Harvest which is set to air on APTN sometime in 2020.
"One of the main things I've always appreciated about film music, or instrumental music, is that it's unbiased and can connect to anyone's story," said Greer.
While working for theatre and film both present very different challenges, Greer has found that to date, his experience in both creative worlds carry with them a number of parallels.
Beneath Black Glass by Zachary Greer
"In my experience, the process of film composing usually begins with the composer talking with the director about the story and how they envision the tone of the project," he said. "Based on that, I like to dive right in and start writing sketches, or record rough mock-ups that I think evoke the director's vision. However, once you see the picture a lot of things could change and you may have to alter your original ideas, or scrap them and start over. Sometimes it really is just watching and playing, until something you do clicks with the picture."
Although his two experiences working with Theatre St. Thomas where very different in nature – he wrote and performed the music for The Trickster of Seville and His Stone Guest live on stage but was able to write and record his work for No White Picket Fence – the process still focused closely on having a solid working relationship with the director.
"For theatre I found the process to be very similar. I've only worked on two productions, so I can't say it's always like this, but the communication with the director happens continuously. When I worked on The Trickster of Seville and His Stone Guest I would discuss music with the director (Robin Whittaker) after almost every rehearsal, and specifically with that show since all the music was performed live on stage, we'd discuss slight changes after each performance. That show was fun. My only regret is that I played in it as well as wrote the music, which I say only because I would have liked to see how the music paired from the audience's perspective, so I could critique my compositions and not focus on my playing.
"The second theatre production I worked on was No White Picket Fence which was directed by Robin Whittaker and Sue McKenzie-Mohr. That was a less taxing production for me, because the music was not performed. I remember when I played one of the first cues I'd recorded, which was the main theme for the show, and I looked over at Sue and she was wiping away tears. That was a nice bit of reassurance for me. It's moments like that that are my favourite part of composing. Seeing the music and performance come together and create a wave of emotion."
Greer has made some his composition work available through Bandcamp. Last month he released the album The Way Home and the EP Beneath Black Glass, both complex collections of mood and atmosphere.
"My passion lies in scoring for film and television, but I've also always believed that scores can stand on their own as pieces of music, which is why I decided to release instrumental albums," he said.
Bloodletting by Zachary Greer
"The Way Home is a collection of new and old tracks. Some of them contain material as old as four years. I recorded new parts and remixed and mastered the old stuff. When I had initially recorded them I didn't have the engineering chops to bring them to an acceptable form. The narrative of the album unfolds like a series of memories or reflections of period in someone's life. There's definitely hints to specific events that have occurred in my past, but the music can translate differently to whoever.
"Beneath Black Glass contains tracks that I had originally written and recorded for a short film, but scheduling conflicts led the project to be postponed indefinitely," he said. "Thematically the music is a commentary on the current social climate in regards to technology and social media. I also just wanted to release music that showcased my abilities in a more experimental way with regards to harmonies and timbre. There's some play with atonality in there and electroacoustic elements that I got from recording random sounds in my house."
Greer's latest collection of compositions entitled, Bloodletting, was released last week.
To stay current with Greer's music and to learn more about his work, visit www.zacharygreer.com
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How Has Covid-19 Affected Recording Artists?
The nation is under a COVID-19 lockdown. Hardest hit was Los Angeles, which has over 2,000 recording studios all of whom were shut down. Then California gradually opened up for business, and quick as you could say, "Abra Cadabra" the state's COVID-19 rate began skyrocketing up again, and Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the 2nd lockdown for almost all of California. The point being, that most recording studios are closed in the State of California, as
Top 5 Benefits of Artist Development
So you are a musician and you are getting really serious about making this a career. Good for you, except are you ready for all that such a career entails? You just want to focus on music because it's your passion, but you will soon find that in order to make money, get a record deal, sign with a recording studio, you will need a manager or a mentor. On top of that, you will
The Content Creation "Overthinking" Dilema
A common dilemma in a time where digital content is king is the "what the heck do I post?" process and overthinking. Many young artists inquire whether the quality, song choices, length and type of content is appealing enough to attract new followers or sufficient engagement. While all those factors are important to weigh out, they can hold you back from actually getting things done. Sometimes, when it comes to online content creation, you just have to DO,
Reputation, Personality, and Your Audience
Reputation, Personality, and Your Audience Reputation is easy to tear down, and difficult to rebuild. As you work to build your brand value, it's important to understand that how you interact with the public, followers of your music, can have far-reaching effects. Reputation is built on fundamental principles: active listening, being considerate of differences, and in the age of digital media – being an active voice in the marketing machine is key. The online
Practice Makes Perfect: How to Easily Invest in Yourself as an Artist
Practice Makes Perfect: How to Easily Invest in Yourself as an Artist As an artist, you have your back against the wall — a wall that will take all of your resources to break through. Many artists don't realize that to gain traction in the industry, attract fans and followers, and get noticed by industry insiders, their music and brand needs to be bold and equally important: authentic. Too many artists, especially indie artists, put


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