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Social, Organized and Psyched | Teachers College Columbia University
Social, Organized and Psyched
A program at the center of its field convenes alumni from some of the world's major corporations and non-profits
Corporations today often function like freestanding states. Non-profits have become key partners with governments in addressing the most pressing issues of human survival. The military is as much a peace-keeping and nation-building force as a fighting machine.
Against that backdrop, "clearly, there is a need to educate the world about how organizations think, function and learn," TC President Susan Fuhrman told listeners at the inaugural Social-Organizational Psychology Exchange in October. "And clearly TC belongs at the forefront of that effort."
As Fuhrman noted, the College's social-organizational psychology program boasts a diverse and influential alumni base. (Just a sampling: Riva Kantowitz, a consultant to the World Bank, the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations; Vera Vitels, Director of People Development at Time Warner; Dina Artzt, Senior Vice President of Investments at UBS Wealth Management; Marla Schaefer, former co-CEO of Claire's Stores and currently a member of TC's Board of Trustees; John Barkat, Assistant Secretary-General for the United Nations Ombudsman & Mediator Services; and Naif al-Mutawa, creator of the international comic series "The 99.")
The Exchange, which will be held twice yearly, brought together some 150 faculty, students, alumni and friends of the program in October. The goal of the series, beyond professional networking, is to position the College as both a research and consulting resource center for organizations in New York City.
"We want to establish TC as an idea forum and intellectual center in this rapidly involving field," said Debra Noumair, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, who put together the event.
To that end, each Exchange will feature a guest lecture. At October's event, William Pasmore, a new faculty member in the department who has consulted for Nabisco, United Airlines, the U.S. Navy, Hewlett Packard and other major corporations, spoke about "Trends in Organization Change."
"Change is becoming more complex and critical, and for many organizations, failure in instituting change is simply not an option," Pasmore said. Yet studies have found that only about one-third of corporate change efforts succeed, he said, and far fewer among these efforts create sustained impact or the capacity to implement change on an ongoing basis. Successful leaders need to build change from the "inside out," Pasmore argued, rather than react to external events. To do that, they must also build support for change among all stakeholders in their organizations and create the capacity at all levels to learn from the way change plays out.
As Warner Burke, Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education, outlined in his remarks, TC's social org-psych program has been addressing issues of change from an increasingly wide range of perspectives since its founding in the early 1960s. The program's roots were established by Morton Deutsch, now an emeritus professor and widely viewed as the father of the field of conflict resolution. Over the years, it has added executive leadership Ph.D. and certificate programs and two programs that serve faculty and students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Today, program faculty specialize in organizational learning agility, organizational networks, leadership strategy, large group interventions, executive coaching, action learning, conflict resolution, adult development group dynamics and diversity.
Additional changes are now planned that will bring the program full circle with its past. In January, Pasmore will become editor of The Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences (JABS), which was founded in 1965 under the editorship of TC psychology professor Goodwin Watson. The first issue included articles by several leading names in American psychology, including Carl Rogers and Chris Argyris.
Then as now, Burke said, the journal's focus was on "how individuals and institutions change."
Burke is also planning the creation, possibly as soon as next fall, of a Center for Group Dynamics. The name harks back to the legendary Center for Group Dynamics Research founded at MIT during the middle of the last century by Deutsch's mentor, the psychologist Kurt Lewin. That center, together with the National Training Laboratories, which was then part of the National Education Association, co-sponsored the creation of JABS.
"Group dynamics have become an important focus in many areas of the College, so we see our center as a focal point for cross-disciplinary work," Burke said.
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Men's basketball uses strong second half to halt losing streak
CSUN'S Junior forward, Tavrion Dawson(left) and CSUN'S Junior center, Dylan Johns(right), working together to defend a UC Irvine player at the game on Saturday, January 21st. Photo credit: Breaunne Pinckney
Andrew Goodman
CSUN men's basketball's Rakim Lubin scored a career-high 17 points as the Matadors used a strong second half to pull away from the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.
This win brought their three-game losing streak to a halt, where they won by a score of 78-57 in Santa Barbara Wednesday night.
CSUN started the game slow, trailing by as many as seven in the first half and putting up only six points in the first eight minutes of the game. The Matadors found their footing near the end of the half, going on a 15-6 run in the final three minutes to take a 36-32 lead going into the break.
The team came out of the halftime intermission on fire, finishing the game shooting an efficient 61 percent from the field and outscoring the Gauchos 42-25 in the second half. The half was dominated by the Matadors, who led by 28 points in the frame.
Rakim Lubin made all five of his field goal attempts and missed only one of his eight free throws in reaching his career high. Mike Warren also added 13 points while Kendall Smith and Darin Johnson each added 12 of their own.
The Matadors are back in action Saturday evening as they travel to UC Riverside to take on the Highlanders at 5 p.m.
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An interface just says what an object can do, but not how to do it.
Why would this make me use an interface? When I have to type the method name anyway?
About abstract, interfaces, and when i should use this.
IMO interfaces are one of the most powerful (and beautiful) features of java, but also can be the hardest to wrap one's head around. It allows a programmer many things from multiple inheritance to abstraction/encapsulate of a behavior. In other words, they provide a great many things that facilitate writing reusable and easily maintainable code.
Lastly, google "java design patterns". They are techniques that are proven to work to write re-usable and easily maintained code, and rely heavily the use of abstraction through interfaces and abstract classes.
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This is the best comment I've had so far! Thank you good sir!
Try designing a plugin acceptable program without them.
One more question, are there certain things you can not do unless you implement an interface?
Any behavior defined by a class/implementation that requires an interface cannot be done without the interface implementation. Using my example above, you cannot add an action listener to listen for Action events on, say, a JButton. without implementing the interface.
But why did they make that decision that you have to implement an interface to use the action listener? It just doesn't make sense to me.
What doesn't make sense? If it were based upon classes: one can only use instances of that class. Based upon interfaces: ANY object can be a listener. Like I said its not an easy concept to wrap one's head around, and usually understanding comes more with experience than anything else.
right? Why would I need an interface to tell me what's possible when I already know it by default?
No...that function defines the interface, but you can't add the method, you must add a class that implements ActionListener - you must tell the compiler there is an ActionListener throughimplements or new ActionListener (for an anonymous class). From the perspective of the class receiving the ActionListener object, all it cares about is the actionPerformed method.
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Oh yes they've tried to challenge every word said every action made. There are some People irritating enough to want to scream at the top of my lungs. That's right. Perhaps waiting to see if there will be a snap. Waiting for a break. There are environments which can cause a person's health to decline and that's why it's important to limit the "time" in such environments. There can and should be peace. There are some adults with minimum line of thinking. I've faced some of the toughest challenges. Some are criminal and really need to be placed where criminals reside.
Seeking justice takes a lot of courage. There should be order and the ones continuing to disrupt laws and important avenues should receive the due justice. There are some incarcerated because they've made a mistake and there are some needing to be incarcerated because they're continuing to commit crimes. I've probably tolerated more than some are willing to tolerate giving individuals the benefit of the doubt. Their actions have demonstrated that they're incapable of being productive citizens. Imagine individuals thinking that they are qualified to hold prestigious positions while committing crimes. There are some thinking such a thing.
There seems to be a lot of individuals taking unnecessary risks because wither they're desperate or they're hopeless. The adversities won't prevent the seeking of justice. "They've tried to demonstrate that they're more qualified but have criminal records." (Tanikka Paulk). To think and to incur hopefulness is something some are unable to do. There are some believing that if they attack a person long enough then the person will stop moving forward. What are some willing to do in order to obtain? It appears as though some have already risked their freedom.
It's amazing how some are willing to take big risks because they're unable to handle witnessing a shine. Perhaps they're lacking confidence or there are some just wanting to be a pain in the rear. No matter how many times I'm challenged there will be movement as long as I'm here on earth. No amount of attacks will stop what has already been purposed. Perhaps they've thought that I am Pinky. Brainless? No. When they think that I'm under and when it appears as so they'll find that what they've perceived they were wrong and they are wrong. There are more individuals demonstrating that they're corrupt than there are demonstrating that they're good citizens. (civilians).
The word attacks could have broken my progress and the cynical expressions could have caused setbacks but there is so much confidence that what's said won't cause me=Tanikka Paulk to move backwards. The demonstrating of who's smarter I'm smart enough to be free from being apart of a breach, hacking, monitoring and the other crimes committed. Imagine folks committing crimes in front of every law enforcement agency. They're certainly in no position to call out. The crimes committed "certainly should" receive punishments.


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Tell us a bit about how you got started.
I grew up on Long Island and I was a trumpet player; my brother played sax and we were in jazz ensembles. I realized that I loved rock bands, but I wasn't going to be in a rock band playing trumpet.
I then discovered a bit about what was involved in making records and I was hooked. I went to the Recording Engineering Program at the University of Miami music school. One summer while I was at college I worked as an assistant in San Francisco at Music Annex, and another summer at a studio called Planet in New York. After college I got a job working for New England Digital who made the Synclavier. I was doing field service in LA and also in London, covering most of Europe. It was amazing just going all over the place but after a couple years, I realized that I wasn't making records. So I quit that job, came back to L.A. because there were so many people I went to school with from Miami out here, and it just seemed like the place to be. From there, it was just trying to get freelance work.
Did you work at a specific studio?
No, other than those two summers, I never actually worked at a studio. I did a lot of work for people who had rooms at studios. For a few years, I did a lot of work for John Barnes, a keyboardist who played on a lot of Motown and other R&B records.
So how does a young engineer get started?
Whatever gets you in the room! Assisting is sort of the traditional way if you want to be an engineer, but back then a session might have a Synclavier operator or a programmer. Then a few years after that you'd have a Pro Tools guy, so I became a Pro Tools guy. I did a lot of Pro Tools on sessions which then allowed me to engineer, but I always got in the room based on something other than engineering to begin with.
Were you working digital at that time?
No, not at all. I was in Miami from '84 to '88, so it was kind of the very beginning of digital, certainly the beginning of digital tape. There was no disc recording at that point. Synclavier had mono disc recording, but it was more like sampling than recording. While I was working for Synclavier, that's when they came out with the direct-to-disc, which was a 16 track recorder. Pro Tools TDM didn't come out until around '92, so I cut a lot of analog tape. I am really glad that I spent the first five years pretty much working exclusively analog, with some digital things in the room.
What records blew you away when you were getting started?
I would buy any record with Brian Eno's name on it. I discovered Talking Heads from Fear of Music, which is just a black album cover that says "Talking Heads Fear of Music" on the front, and on the back all it says is "Produced by Brian Eno". I thought, well alright, I'm going to check this out, because I really like Eno from all the ambient records and the stuff he'd done with Robert Fripp. And then from there was the obvious progression into Daniel Lanois.
You're associated with a lot of hard-hitting rock and pop rock stuff.
I'm fortunate in that I'm able to work on music I like. There are some people whose second or third record they work on is huge and makes their career, but quite often, it's not necessarily in the genre they want to be in. It makes a huge impression on everybody else in terms of what it is that they think you do. I had such a slow steady climb that I was able to spend a couple of years tuning vocals because that was really well paid work, but I didn't get pigeon-holed. It wasn't a big deal for me to stop taking that work and start transitioning myself a little more into the music I like. So, I've been really lucky that way, getting to work with bands I love. I love the Chili Peppers records. I loved working on the Metallica record and obviously U2; they're definitely some of my favorite bands.
What is your approach like?
I always remember that the session is a dynamic human interaction. To me, that's the most important part; engineering is almost secondary. Obviously, you have to be really good at it, but if people don't like you, you're not going to work. So I show up and try to create some sort of rapport. It's always very organic, and you get pretty quick at reading people, what they like and what they don't, who you can joke around with and who you can't.
I've been using Waves for years. I think probably the L1 was one of the first things that I knew. I knew of the Q10 because it was the most flexible equalizer plugin that there was at that point, but I think it was the L1 where I really decided that I need to own the stuff and I needed to use it.
DeEsser might be the plugin I use the most; it's so quick to pop it on and fix the problem. I use it on vocals all the time, but I also use it on overheads if there's cymbal that's really harsh, and on guitars ALL the time when they're too noisy.
When I first started, we had the dbx 902s, and they had the switch to go between high frequencies only to full bandwidth, and I was like, "Hold on! What's actually going on to split the audio up?" Once you get your brain around how it's working, it doesn't seem odd to put it on a guitar.
The first time I tried it I was mixing something, and there was sort of a high end fizz all over this guitar and I thought, "The DeEsser will get rid of that." I wanted it to be dynamic and not just be there all the time, so it just seemed really obvious. People usually don't think of it that way, so that's a huge thing, to really think about how the stuff you use works.
Have you checked out the new H-Comp Hybrid Compressor?
I do tons of parallel compression—that's ALL I do — and H-Comp does a really good job of it. I love the release time tied to the tempo and the punch control is very cool.
What do you think of its Sync Release feature?
It's pretty cool, especially if you're going to start really crushing drums in order to get the cymbals to release in time and things like that. I also love the wet/dry mix. You need to have it just because of the nature of the effect, but also to be able to really hear the compression you're going to use, even though you're only going to use a tiny bit of it. In the end, it's brilliant and it's just like being able to solo the sidechain on the DeEsser or the noise on the Z-Noise It only really matters what it sounds like after it's been processed, but while you're trying to hone in on what you're doing, it's great to be able to solo the process.
How about H-Comp's Analog character types?
I used it on a stereo piano that was a little lifeless, and I wanted to make it a little more aggressive without changing the attack. The attack was really good, but there wasn't a whole lot of sustain or tone to it, so I was pretty aggressive with the compression side of it but mixing in only a little of it. That's why I use parallel compression in the first place; I always hate losing the uncompressed character of the sound in order to be able to mix in a really crushed version. I used it on acoustic guitar for the same type of thing, to really bring out some sustain and on an overhead as well.
Do you have any general mix tips you feel like sharing?
Well, the first thing is, try a high pass filter on everything, even on your kick drum and your bass. As much as you might think you don't want to do that, it will clean up your mix 1000%. If you have 20Hz information rattling around on a vocal, it'll kill your kick drum, so that's probably the very first thing for somebody just starting to mix. Pick one of the EQs, Renaissance EQ or Q10, and get a high pass filter. Start with it somewhere around 40 – 70 Hz and put it on every single track and just see how that helps you out. Remember that the filter doesn't completely remove audio below the cutoff frequency. Make sure to play with the slope as well.
The other thing is, don't do more than you have to. A lot of people will start with putting an SSL E-Channel on every track and engaging everything on it. I don't directly compress very much at all. There's a lot of parallel compression going on, but the uncompressed signal for every instrument is the louder element of what's in the mix.
Also, a lot of times you might solo something and you want it to sound as good as possible solo'd. But that has nothing to do with what it should sound like once it's in the mix. The only way to get good at that is practice. After you've mixed a hundred drum kits on rock tracks, when you solo a kick drum, what sounds good to you is what works in a mix. That's because you're used to going after that particular kind of kick drum.
The more you do it, the more you start listening for different things?
Yes. You need to do as much as possible. If you're trying to EQ an acoustic guitar so that it doesn't fight with the cymbals and the vocals, leave it in the mix, don't solo it up, and start EQing going for a great acoustic guitar sound, because it won't necessarily work. When you put it back in the mix, you may think it's okay, because the top end is good; but all of a sudden, the low mids are really fighting with the vocal, but it's hard to hear, because your ears go to the higher frequency. But if you leave it in the mix and start EQing, you might have a hard time hearing it. Just turn it up a bit, make it too loud for a minute, but not crazy loud, and start EQing. You'll have much better luck finding a sound for the acoustic guitar that actually works with everything, so when you turn it back down, you're still good.
The other thing is, if you're mixing stuff with vocals, don't put the vocal in last. A lot of people tend to build their mixes from the kick drum up, so they go to the drums, get the bass going, get the guitars going, and THEN they put the vocal in. That way, you may not have left any room for the vocal, especially if you're working with distorted guitars and things like that. So, you need to get the vocal in early.
How do you see the function of the engineer and a mixer?
It's the core question of what we do. I think for me, the role of the engineer to get out of the way. I think the biggest thing for an engineer is to just present the music so people can hear it and give the music a sonic place where it can exist and be exciting. It is much more about the music and the performance than it is about your engineering skills. And that's not to say that you can't be very stylized and come up with really cool sounds along the way. But if somebody gets done listening to a song you've worked on and they say, "What a great snare sound," as much as you might be excited about that, then you're probably not doing your job. Their first impression needs to be either, "What a great singer!" or "What a great song!" And if they don't come away with that, then all the rest of the stuff is meaningless. It should sound amazing, but it always has to be in service to the song.


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(CNN) — The mother of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing says she believes the tragedy that killed three people and injured dozens more was staged, that the bombing was fake.
She has seen a video purporting the wild idea, she told CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, who interviewed her in Makhachkala, Dagestan. He asked if she has seen the news images of the actual bombings and the suffering they caused.
"I haven't," she answered. There was no blood, she said. It was paint. But her disbelief broke down when she spoke of the victims.
"I really feel sorry for all of them. Really feel sorry for all of them," she said, her voice cracking. But she is resolute about not believing that her sons, Dzhokhar, 19, and Tamerlan, 26 were involved.
Tamerlan's body remains unclaimed. Dzhokhar is hospitalized with severe injuries, and faces terrorism and murder charges.
"This is really crazy," she told Paton Walsh. "I have no strength. I have nothing. I have no sleep, I am just like dead," she said, sobbing as she spoke.
Her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, is expected to step off a flight in the United States in the coming days after a long journey from Dagestan. She will not be flying with him.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev is wanted on 2012 felony charges of shoplifting and property damage in Massachusetts, according to court officials.
The family lived there before she jumped bail, and they moved the same year to Dagestan, a semiautonomous region of Russia, officials said.
He is to depart for the United States as soon as Friday, human rights activist Kheda Saratova told CNN. Saratova is serving as the parents' representative.
No one had claimed Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body as of Wednesday, the Massachusetts chief medical examiner's office said. Relatives in the United States have publicly said they are ashamed of the two young men. Several Boston-area imams have said they would feel uncomfortable presiding over Tamerlan Tsarnaev's funeral.
Characterized in fair condition at a Boston hospital, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been communicating with authorities. His father has spoken for hours with U.S. and Russian authorities, Saratova said.
On Wednesday, FBI agents were in Makhachkala, Dagestan — a city that Tamerlan Tsarnaev called home for several months in 2012 — to talk with the suspects' parents.
The conversation, which included members of Russia's federal security service, ended Wednesday evening, the suspects' mother told Saratova.
Both parents have publicly said they believe their children are innocent and were framed — "just because they were Muslim," as Zubeidat Tsarnaev put it.
The family's adopted republic has become a focus for investigators, especially given that Tamerlan Tsarnaev went there during a six-month trip to Russia last year.
A friend named Misha, whom Tamerlan met in the United States, steered the older suspect toward a more devout practice of Islam, Tamerlan's relatives have said.
The brothers may have planned to celebrate the Boston Marathon bombings by driving to New York City and "party," according to Ray Kelly, the New York police commissioner.
"It may have been words to the effect of coming 'to party' in New York," Kelly said.
A man who was carjacked and held hostage — allegedly by the two brothers — just outside Boston last week said he thought he heard the two men say "Manhattan" in their conversation, which was in a language other than English, the commissioner said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has indicated that his older brother planned the attack and described him and his brother as self-radicalized jihadists, according to a U.S. government source.
He has denied any direct influence by terror organizations such as al Qaeda.
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"A Wake-up call for SMBs"
What did Smith & Wesson do?
The short version is that they agreed that their rep would give approximately $11,000 worth of pistols to contracting officials in Pakistan as bribes to win an order for 548 pistols that represented $107,000 in profit.
You can imagine how the rest of the story plays out. They were ordered to disgorge the profit, pay interest and a fine which totaled two million dollars.
In the two years since S&W was fined by the US SEC the world has become substantially more aware of the scope and magnitude of global corruption. And finally, it seems, governments are collaborating more on investigation & prosecution and harmonizing their statutes.
For residents of emerging markets who are disproportionally hurt by the secondary effects of plundered national wealth, that's good news.
For US SMBs who do global business - selling AND buying - that's a reason for alarm.
And unless you routinely sell to foreign governments, you probably aren't even aware of most of this. Much of what's written about it is in stiff legal language and cumbersome & complex theory. But as a SMB you need to know. Here's the skinny.
Of course you don't. That's not the point.
Bribery is illegal everywhere in the world; there are differing degrees of enforcement, but nowhere is it not prohibited.
And more statutes are being added to the books while those that have been laying fallow are increasingly enforced.
That means that "not paying bribes" is no longer enough. You may well be responsible for the actions of your 3rd parties (selling distributors, buying agents, freight forwarders, customs brokers, etc) - EVEN WHEN THEY ENGAGE IN CORRUPTION WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
In fact the Department of Justice has brought FCPA enforcement actions simply because a company which included audit provisions in foreign rep agreements had failed to conduct those audits - essentially absent any indication of wrongdoing, they were in violation for failing to take steps to detect any potential violations.
It's not enough to simply have a clear philosophy yourself. And since a majority of enforcement actions originate in customs related actions, there's little safety in the traditional assumption that only sales to foreign governments led to the risk.
But wait....it gets even worse!
It's not just your company that will find itself in the cross hairs of an FCPA Enforcement action - individuals can too. And it's not just civil exposure, but criminal too. So officers & directors of corporations may be exposed in addition to any who participate directly or conspire in violation of the FCPA.
And that's got some profound implications to corporate strategy. For instance, the calculation on time and investment to enter markets, or savings from sourcing from markets, could be substantially impacted by the realization that doing business there (obtaining import or export permits, certifications, etc) often entails compromise to strict anti-corruption policies.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't buy or try to sell there. But you must build compliance into your strategy. Are you willing to invest for 7 years to get the first order or must you have it in 2? If your shipment sits on the pier waiting for export clearance for 2 months will you lose a big order? Are your sales people's compensation plans based on commission? Do your quarterly earnings calls assume a "get it done" tone?
I recently interviewed FCPA expert Richard Bistrong on his FCPA enforcement experience and the lessons he learned that could benefit SMBs. He had a lot to say - and what he says comes with the very compelling authenticity that only his background can provide.
The biggest lesson, though, has to be the role that boards need to start to play in compliance. Leaving the "compliance" expert in the CFOs office to manage it is akin to catching falling knives. Anti-corruption compliance must be designed into every company's go to market plan.
Let's assume your board, CEO, president, VP Sales, CFO - in other words the entire executive leadership team - embrace and model a philosophy of unwavering sanctity in all business activities. That means that they say it not only semi-annually at the required training, but further never send conflicting messages about deals, markets or situations. That's a start.
And even if you would be decisive in responding to a distributor who asked for a falsified invoice to reduce import duties - or some other request which they believed to be routine and innocuous and you knew to be simply wrong.
That still doesn't address the issue of your exposure to 3rd parties taking actions on their own which benefit you. How do you limit that exposure or mitigate the risk? Regular training is key. Zero tolerance (that means no ignoring, much less not winking) is critical. But starting long before any potential transactional issues is most important - and the right way to start is with appropriate due diligence screening.
I recently obtained TraceCertification for my business so that I could advise others from a practical perspective. The process is extensive and potentially arduous; and it's supposed to be.
allow the screening process to happen before there's a seductive "deal on the line"
You've probably heard of the FCPA (maybe Siemens, or Wal-Mart) but never stopped to think how it might apply to your business. But it does - whether you sell or source globally.
I've combined my interview with Richard and my years of experience on the ground in notorious markets like Brazil, India and Nigeria, and put together a practical guide for SMBs to understand, manage and mitigate their FCPA risk. It's a free download. Grab your copy here.
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Facebook's big changes to the platform — key takeaways
Kim-Mai Cutler	 October 28, 2009 5:06 PM
Facebook did go through with the big top-down overhaul we reported on earlier. This could have significant implications for the way top-performing games attract new users through the system. (If you want the full live-blogged version, it's here.)
Facebook is releasing an open graph API that can turn regular pages into Facebook Fan Pages. They can appear in a user's profile and publish into their stream.
Notifications are going away.
Requests (for example, to join games) are being shuffled into the inbox.
The boxes tab on a user's profile is going away.
It sounds like Facebook is going to more aggressively police applications that don't comply with the company's policies. They're getting rid of the Verified Application Program, which gives apps a special certification if it meets special standards, as a standalone program. Instead, they'll be applying those standards to all games and randomly checking ones of a certain user size for compliance.
There will be a new applications dashboard and a games dashboard. The dashboards will have 'counters' that show when it's time to take an action inside a game.
There will be a new status page showing how the Facebook platform is performing (and whether there are problems that might bog down apps).
Applications will have to get direct access to users' e-mail addresses instead of relying on Facebook as an intermediary.
Facebook is building a new Developers Web site at (http://developers.facebook.com) with a product roadmap.


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Our Generous God – Today's Family Devotion
Our Generous God
GOD VALUES GENEROSITY BECAUSE HE IS A GIVING, GRACIOUS GOD.
Bible Reading of the Day: Read Psalm 65:1, 9-13.
Verse of the Day: "Freely you have received, freely give" (Matthew 10:8, NIV).
Jenny held hands with her friend, Kris, and Kris's mom and bowed her head. She felt odd as she listened to Kris's dad pray, thanking God for the food on the table and for many other things as well.
When Kris's dad said "Amen" and everyone raised his or her head, Jenny smiled nervously. "We don't do that at my house," she said.
"We always pray, especially before meals," Kris said. "Sometimes Dad prays for hours!"
"Really?" Jenny asked seriously.
Kris and her parents laughed. "No," Kris said. "It just seems like it."
Jenny accepted a bowl of vegetables that Kris's mom passed to her. She cleared her throat. "Why do you do it?"
Kris and her parents looked at Jenny with surprised expressions for a moment before Dad answered.
"We do it to give thanks to God for the food and everything he's given us," he said.
"After all," Mom added, "God is so generous with his blessings."
"What do you mean?" Jenny asked. "I mean," she added sheepishly, "you paid for all this food, right?"
Dad nodded. "Yes, but God gave me the ability to work, and I believe he gave me the job I have." He lifted a glass of water to his mouth and took a sip. "As a matter of fact," he said thoughtfully, "his generosity is an important part of who he is. He's not just generous sometimes, like when he feels like it. He is a gracious God, who is always giving."
"And he gives us lots of things we could never earn," Mom said. "Like the sunrise, the rain, the birds who sing outside our kitchen window, our families,… our friends."
Kris nudged Jenny with her elbow. "You never thought of yourself as a gift from God, did you?"
Jenny smiled. "No," she answered. "I never did. I'll try to remember that."
TO DO: Think about the gifts you have freely received. Make a list that you can add to whenever you think of something. Keep the list somewhere handy where everyone can add to it.
TO PRAY: "God, you are a gracious and generous God. You give us so much, we could never finish thanking you."
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Although the media and the political establishment constantly proclaim they condemn racism and racist discrimination and oppression, they actually support massive racial discrimination by means of the positive sounding policy of affirmative action.
White people face a massive institutionalized racial discrimination in hiring and promotions on the local, state and federal level. Every one of the 500 largest corporations in America have clear policies that discriminate against better qualified white people in favor of other races.
White students with better academic records and far better qualifications and test scores face discrimination across the board in universities and other kinds of educational institutions.
They also face discrimination in both public and private scholarship funds.
European Americans of European Christian heritage are approximately 70 percent of the highest performing students in America, yet make up only 20 percent of the most elite universities in America, including the Ivy League.
Your future should be based on merit.
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Meet Andy
Andy Davies is a designer from Providence, but got his start in San Francisco, where he built a lot of websites for startups before moving into building systems and identities for foundations and open-source movements. Andy originally studied print design, but annoyed his professors by turning every project into an app or website.
In his free time, Andy enjoys drawing black metal album covers, trail running, and judging other people's taste in beer.
Read on to learn more about our newest team member.
I went to the University of San Francisco (where I only spent a few semesters studying design; I went there originally for biology). From there I worked at an interactive agency called Mule and then the Washington Post.
I built an anniversary campaign for the Wikimedia Foundation. Designing something that had to accommodate dozens of languages and alphabets (and per the user culture, be built only with open source tools) was by far the gnarliest, most fascinating challenge I've ever had to beat.
3. What do you enjoy most/least about design?
Love: building things that make someone's life easier and maybe a little bit better. Don't love: Design cultures that don't take responsibility for what they're building or their obligations to users.
4. What personal characteristics do you feel are necessary to be a successful designer?
Humility and hunger. Designers tend to have a huge chip on their collective shoulder (for many, many reasons), but it doesn't do a lick of good—it hurts the product and irritates everyone you work with. A willingness to be wrong, to listen, and to learn better methods and thinking is absolutely critical.
5. What do you get out of design work that you couldn't get from any other kind of work?
I get a chance to marry form and function—the latter trumps the former, but it's an opportunity to combine delight and quiet simplicity with functional products. Plus there are the precious moments where you're given free range to get real weird with a project.
6. Describe a time when you confronted a problem that really tested your know-how.
I once had to figure out how to turn a film catalog into an industry-focused, information-dense resource instead of a consumer-oriented visual experience (it's a bunch of films, so it's the sort of approach you'd expect—but not one that was appropriate for the client's audience).
I'm real stoked to build larger-scale, fleshed out products. Things that are gonna touch larger audiences that'll interact with them on a daily basis.
Julie Zhou and John Maeda do a lot of fantastic writing about design and design leadership, and I love RWD and ShopTalk's design/front-end podcasty goodness — Ethan Marcotte and Chris Coyier are two weird, delightful Web dudes. Jen Simmons has some incredible design/web dev writing and showcases experiments with a lot of CSS weirdness.
9. You've been banished to a deserted island with—gasp—no wifi, but lots of power outlets.
Does this mean I can charge my Tesla? It's 2016, I'm assuming they can turn into boats and/or spaceships at this point.
AR. It's still pretty buzzwordy, but really, once you've built a Pokemon game out of it what can't you do?
11. If you weren't a designer, what occupation would you choose?
Medicine — I originally wanted to be an oncologist. That same deductive approach and human focus informs a big hunk of my design process.
Doing something that matters with people who care.
Also calzones and lawns (after seven years in San Francisco and New York, man, I really missed grass).
Blue pill. I'll sleep through the robot apocalypse, thanks.


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Comic Book Review: 'Avenging Spider-Man' #5
Posted April 1st, 2012 by Scott West
Last month, Spider-Man teamed up with Hawkeye to take down Sidewinder from a terrorist attack on Grand Central Station. This issue, Spidey teams up with the rest of the Avengers with a focus on Captain America to track down the source of the gas that Sidewinder used in his attack.
As the issue opens, we are given a glimpse at an old 1940's comic about a strapping young lad named Roger Stevens who battles criminals and promotes liberty bonds under the guise of his superhero identity of Sir Spangled, the Human Tank! It's quickly revealed that this comic was drawn by a young pre-super serum Steve Rogers aka Captain America. Upon reading it, Peter Parker gets it in his head that Captain America is a comic geek and, being as Peter is a geek himself, decides that he should get to know Cap better.
For the rest of the issue, Spider-Man hangs around Captain America like a gawking nerd trying to make a new friend, even going so far as to "call" Captain America as his partner during the attack on the Serpent Society's hideout when the Avengers go after the source of the Sidewinder's gas. In the end, Spider-Man has a touching scene with Captain America that will put a smile on any geek's face.
The story is what I've come to expect from writer Zeb Wells. It's got a lot of action but, more over than that, it's a ton of fun to read! From the start of the 'Avenging Spider-Man' series, I commented on it being an updated 'Marvel Team-Up' and Wells has done a wonderful job so far in recreating that fun lets-put-Spidey-with-a-fellow-superhero-and-see-what-happens feel that I so enjoyed in the original Team-Up title. This issue and last issue with Hawkeye were wonderful examples of done-in-one issues with great humor and introductions to the various Avengers lineup. That makes this one of the titles that I find myself recommending to people just getting into Marvel Comics.
The art from Leinil Yu is great for this title. Yu bounces back and forth between the mundane fun of the Avengers sitting around the Mansion ribbing up Cap for drawing bad comics and the team taking down villains with ease. If there's any qualms I have about the art, it's that there are several panels where it seems like Yu was going out of his way to make Peter Parker look like Andrew Garfield (from the upcoming 'Amazing Spider-Man' movie) but it's not overly distracting and it's to be expected around movie release times in these books.
Verdict: Buy
AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #5
Written by ZEB WELLS
Art by LEINIL YU and GERRY ALANGUILAN
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Q. I noticed that my Basic life insurance has a 75 percent reduction. I'm aware of the fact that I chose that. What has me puzzled is the amount of insurance before reduction and the amount of insurance after the final reduction.
Q. Can you please tell me what reduction in my FERS annuity will be required so I can stay on my wife's FEHB enrollment after she retires?
Q. My ex-husband is retiring from the post office and right now he covers our 21-year-old daughter on his insurance plan. Will he still be able to keep himself and her covered with the same cost he is paying now, or will the cost be higher?
Q. I have been approved for Federal Retirement Disability after having applied for it almost 15 months ago. I am receiving interim payments. I was separated from my federal position before I applied and could not afford to pay for COBRA benefits during the time I waited to be approved. When could I anticipate receiving my health insurance benefits back? How will they calculate my portion of the health insurance premium?
Q. Will Medicare continue to be deducted until an employee is age 65, or do deductions stop once they retire (at age 59 or 60)?
Q. I'm enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program. It seems taking Part A of Medicare, which is free, can't hurt. Is that true? How would taking Part B of Medicare help or hurt? I now also cover my wife and three children.
Q. Does my wife have to sign up for Medicare? If so, when does she have to sign up? And, if my wife does not sign up for Medicare, will she incur any penalty? Scenario: I am a working FERS employee and my wife still works. She is not a government employee. I have self-and-family Federal Employees Health Benefits coverage. I am not yet age 65. My wife will turn 65 this year.
Q. I am retiring next month. I am over 70. I have Blue Cross/Blue Shield. If I get Medicare parts A and B, do I still need BC/BS?
Q. I am retired and collect an annuity from the government. I also pay a monthly premium for insurance. Is the premium deductible along with any other out-of-pocket costs that I can claim on my income taxes?


The Cascada has standard Active Head Restraints, which use a specially designed headrest to protect the driver and front passenger from whiplash. During a rear-end collision, the Active Head Restraints system moves the headrests forward to prevent neck and spine injuries. The TT doesn't offer a whiplash protection system.
The Cascada Premium/Sport Touring has a standard collision warning system, which detects an impending crash through forward mounted sensors and flashes a bright light and sounds a loud, distinctive tone to warn the driver to brake or maneuver immediately to avoid a collision. The TT doesn't offer a collision warning system.
The Cascada Premium/Sport Touring's lane departure warning system alerts a temporarily inattentive driver when the vehicle begins to leave its lane. The TT doesn't offer a lane departure warning system.
Both the Cascada and the TT have standard driver and passenger frontal airbags, front side-impact airbags, driver and front passenger knee airbags, side-impact head airbags, front and rear seatbelt pretensioners, four-wheel antilock brakes, traction control, electronic stability systems to prevent skidding, daytime running lights, rearview cameras and available front parking sensors.
The Buick Cascada weighs 584 to 771 pounds more than the Audi TT. The NHTSA advises that heavier cars are much safer in collisions than their significantly lighter counterparts.
Buick's powertrain warranty covers the Cascada 2 years and 20,000 miles longer than Audi covers the TT. Any repair needed on the engine, transmission, axles, joints or driveshafts is fully covered for 6 years or 70,000 miles. Coverage on the TT ends after only 4 years or 50,000 miles.
The Buick Cascada's engine uses a cast iron block for durability, while the TT's 2.5 turbo 5 cyl. engine uses an aluminum block. Aluminum engine blocks are much more prone to warp and crack at high temperatures than cast iron.
To lower fuel costs and make buying fuel easier, the Buick Cascada uses regular unleaded gasoline (premium recommended for maximum performance). The TT requires premium, which can cost 20 to 55 cents more per gallon.
For better ride, handling and brake cooling the Cascada has standard 20-inch wheels. Smaller 18-inch wheels are standard on the TT 45 TSFI.
The Cascada has a standard space-saver spare tire so you can replace a flat tire and drive to have the flat repaired or replaced. A spare tire isn't available on the TT; it requires you to depend on roadside assistance and your vehicle will have to be towed.
For a smoother ride and more stable handling, the Cascada's wheelbase is 7.5 inches longer than on the TT (106.1 inches vs. 98.6 inches).
For better handling and stability, the track (width between the wheels) on the Cascada is .8 inches wider in the front and 1.5 inches wider in the rear than the average track on the TT.
The Cascada's front to rear weight distribution is more even (58.2% to 41.8%) than the TT's (60.7% to 39.3%). This gives the Cascada more stable handling and braking.
The Cascada has standard seating for 4 passengers; the TT Roadster can only carry up to 2.
The Cascada has a much larger trunk with its top down than the TT Roadster (9.8 vs. 7.5 cubic feet).
Pressing a switch automatically lowers the Cascada's rear seats, to make changing between passengers and cargo easier. The TT doesn't offer automatic folding seats.
The Cascada has a standard remote vehicle starting system, so the vehicle can be started from inside the driver's house. This allows the driver to comfortably warm up the engine before going out to the vehicle. The climate system will also automatically heat or cool the interior. The TT doesn't offer a remote starting system.
In case of a sudden change of weather, the Cascada has a standard remote convertible top that can be raised from a distance to protect the interior of the vehicle from damage. The TT doesn't offer a remote top, so the driver will have to run to the car, get in, turn the ignition on and raise the top to prevent the interior from being damaged.
To help drivers avoid possible obstacles, the Cascada has standard cornering lights to illuminate around corners when the turn signals are activated. The TT doesn't offer cornering lights. The Cascada also has standard adaptive headlights to illuminate around corners automatically by reading vehicle speed and steering wheel angle.
To shield the driver and front passenger's vision over a larger portion of the windshield and side windows, the Cascada has standard extendable sun visors. The TT doesn't offer extendable visors.
The Cascada's sun-visors swivel front-to-side to block glare from the side windows. The TT's visors are fixed into the windshield header.
On extremely cold winter days, the Cascada's standard heated steering wheel provides comfort, allowing the driver to steer safely and comfortably before the car heater warms up. The TT doesn't offer a heated steering wheel.
The Cascada's standard dual zone air conditioning allows the driver and front passenger to choose two completely different temperatures so people with different temperature preferences won't have to compromise. This makes both the driver and front passenger as comfortable as possible. The TT doesn't offer dual zone air conditioning.
For greater rear passenger comfort, the Cascada has standard rear heat vents to keep rear occupants more comfortable. The TT doesn't offer rear vents.
Insurance will cost less for the Cascada owner. The Complete Car Cost Guide estimates that insurance for the Cascada will cost $590 less than the TT over a five-year period.
IntelliChoice estimates that five-year ownership costs (depreciation, financing, insurance, fuel, fees, repairs and maintenance) for the Buick Cascada will be $5202 to $20667 less than for the Audi TT.
The Buick Cascada outsold the Audi TT by over three to one during 2018.


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We protect Medina County's Environment to ensure a healthy ecosystem for today's residents and future generations. Learn more about us and check out our events on our website.
Get informed about the Nexus Pipeline that threatens Medina County. This pipeline is proposed to go through countless residential areas and can be placed as close as 50 feet to people's homes. At least 100 feet of property along the proposed route is required to be cleared for building this pipeline. Trees, forests, cropland and anything else in the proposed route will be cleared. If built, a 50 foot exclusion zone around the pipeline would prohibit reforesting of trees and building of any structures.
MEDINA DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Our goal is to support, train and help elect Democratic candidates to office in Medina County. While anyone is welcome to attend our club meetings & events, we specifically are aiming to engage democrats that live in Medina City and the surrounding townships of Granger, Lafayette, Medina, Montville and York. Learn more at our website.
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This is a grass-roots effort to save the Medina County Courthouse located on Medina Square. The Medina County Commissioners have teamed with the Medina City Council to combine the County Courts with the Medina Municipal Courts by tearing down the existing Courthouse (all except the front of the original builidng) and replacing it with a 130,000 sq foot building that will cost at least $38 milliion dollars. All without any say from Medina County voters! Learn more at out website.
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Let's go to the Herpa Christmas Market, that's the motto of Heidi's high proof vehicle. With its van and trailer it travels from Christmas market to Christmas market to "warm the hearts". This is a fantasy model.
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Chrystal uses her poignant story of an early and unexpected pregnancy, as well as other raw and vulnerable moments in her life, to let readers know she understands what it's like to try and find your way after some missteps or decisions you didn't plan on. In She's Still There Chrystal emphasizes the importance of the personal process and the beauty of authentically sharing your journey one girlfriend to another. It's a book of "me toos", reminders of the hoped for, and challenges for the path ahead - to find direction, purpose, and true satisfaction.
Also available: She's Still There DVD series and study guide.
As I started reading this book, I laughed, I cried, I sat and stared into the ceiling... I saw myself over and over and over again throughout the pages. When Chrystal says she's talking to you, she's telling the truth. The book speaks to the reality of who I am and as I near the empty nest season of life, I am assured that I can find the girl in me who has been so many things to so many people and rescue her so I don't get lost on my journey back. I've learned to be careful of what I say about myself. Remembering that my "drifts, decisions, and collisions don't define" me and so much more! So if you seem to have lost your way as you wind your way through different seasons of life, grab hold of this book, get ready for the ride of lifetime, and put on your cape to become your own superhero and rescue the girl in you! On a scale from 1-10, I rate this book as follows: • Readability - 10 • Challenge - 10 • Encouragement/Inspiration - 10 • Godly Wisdom - 10 I highly recommend this book for any woman looking for encouragement, self evaluation, and self improvement. There's also a study guide available!! Happy Reading! Thanks, Chrystal for allowing us a peek into your life for inspiration and encouragement. Thank you for being a model for other women!
Chrystal Evans Hurst shows vulnerability, authenticity and love for women of all ages desiring to find the girl inside who had hopes and dreams yet has gotten lost in the midst of living life. Through her new book She's Still There, Chrystal takes you on a journey of self-discovery through the retelling of milestones and drifts in her life. As your read She's Still There you will laugh, you will cry (more than likely do an ugly cry or two), you will be inspired to dream again, and most importantly you will take steps towards working on goals that will transform your life. Brew or pour a cup of your favorite hot or cold drink, sit down in your favorite chair, and ensure you have tissue and a pen as you start reading this amazing book in order to find the girl inside---because she's worth the work and she's still there.


Lovely beach wedding bouquets can easily pick up the feel of the oceanside wedding with tropical wedding flowers, or incorporating unusual accents such as seashells.
At a recent flower show, I thought it was really fun when they produced bouquets that were supposed to convey the feel of a destination wedding. The beauty of this bouquet was enhanced by the addition of sea shells and sparkle gems inserted into the flowers.
Here's a closer look at how the sea shells are wired and then tucked into the bouquet. The floral designer used pot glue to attach the shells to the decorative wire.
She picked up the soft natural pinks of the sea shells with chunky gemstones on wire picks.
Creating coordinating bouquets for the bridesmaids included sea shells as well. This ingenious touch had a decorative wire cage surrounding the flowers and topped with a shell.
You can purchased this bouquet made of seashells and starfish already made and ready to use. Please note that every bouquet will be unique as the shells used are real and may not look exactly as pictures.
Get creative! Glue or wire your own seashells to the Amazing Bouquet armature. Add in bouquet jewels for extra sparkle!
See more beach bridal bouquets incorporating sea shells into the design here.


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First Job Spotlight: "I Was a War Reporter at the New York Times…in Yemen"
Can you imagine this being your first gig?
Jennifer McCartney
As a young war reporter covering the Yemen uprising for the New York Times, Laura Kasinof received an important piece of advice from local protesters: "Don't be afraid of the bullets." In retrospect, she's developed a more practical (and less dangerous) bit of wisdom for anyone desiring a career as a foreign correspondent. "Move abroad and work at an English language newspaper or magazine in a foreign country," she advises. "That way you get your feet underneath you and learn if you really like this profession."
All advice aside: You can't ever precisely predict what's going to happen when you relocate to a completely new place, and in Kasinof's case that proved particularly true. After graduating from college with a degree in Middle Eastern studies, she decided to move to Cairo to work as an English teacher, intending to stay for only a year. But things didn't go quite as planned. A short while after arriving, she ended up as a reporter for the Times, breaking stories about Yemen's unfolding revolution—and starring on a Yemeni soap opera (no, we're not kidding). Not exactly a standard career path, right? Here's how it happened:
After leaving teaching to work for an English-language magazine in Cairo, Kasinof realized she enjoyed being a reporter—and while Cairo was teeming with other journalists trying to make a name for themselves, she discovered there were no American journalists based in Yemen. After a late-night conversation with a friend at a party back home in Brooklyn, New York, she made up her mind to go.
"At that time, Yemen was much, much safer for foreigners than it is today," Kasinof explains, "so my family wasn't that worried, but other friends were definitely like 'What? Yemen? We've never heard of that place. Where is that? Africa?'" Even though people didn't really understand her decision to leave, Kasinof says she didn't let that bother her or tamp her sense of adventure. "Growing up, my parents traveled a lot and always took me with them, and I think that's how I developed this yearning for adventure and love for learning about the rest of the world."
After a peaceful year living in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, Kasinof relad into the slow way of life, and even sold a few stories. But in early 2011, the protests began in earnest—inspired by the Arab Spring that saw thousands of Yemenis taking to the streets to call for their dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to step down. And Kasinof was there, watching and writing, during the unfolding drama the rest of the world witnessed from afar.
"It really was a case of right place, right time," she says. Once the protests began, the government wouldn't let any journalists into the country. That meant it was up to her and her freelance comrades to report on what they saw for the world's major newspapers. She got in contact with the New York Times and told them, "You need someone to cover these protests and I'm here. Use me!" They agreed. And so Kasinof officially became a war reporter.
"When the Yemeni government started to attack the protesters, using lethal force, I was worried that total chaos would break out and that the protesters would fight back. But a really amazing thing happened: They didn't," Kasinof remembers. "They left their weapons at home. Yemen is the second most armed population in the world after the United States. They would only protest peacefully." And while she admits that having a front seat to the protests was extremely difficult in many ways, it was also moving to witness a non-violent political movement and see the people of Yemen dethrone a dictator who had oppressed them for the last thirty years.
As a young female reporter in a conservative, patriarchal society, Kasinof says she was treated with total respect by Yemenis. "They went out of their way to help me, because I was a woman and they believed that they should help women, but I also got to spend time with Yemeni women, which western guys couldn't do." It also didn't hurt that she spoke Arabic, which she'd studied in college, and that she truly loved the country. "When foreigners go to Yemen and act like they are better than Yemenis somehow because they come from America or Europe, Yemenis naturally balk," she explains.
It also likely helped that she'd starred as a "western woman" in a popular Yemeni soap opera during her first year in the country—a part she'd landed through her Arabic language teacher. "I'd be trying to interview someone about the political situation and they wouldn't answer my questions, they'd just say 'Hey, you're the actress,'" she explains. Kasinof eventually wrote a memoir about her experiences called Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets For anyone with a sense of wanderlust, it's definitely a must-read real life account.
It's fitting that her final piece of advice to aspiring international journalists is to learn another language. "If I didn't speak Arabic," she muses, "I don't know if I ever would have gotten started with the New York Times." One thing's for sure: Communication is often the key to opening doors—and we can't wait to find out the next one Kasinof gets behind!
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Mystery of the coronavirus origin: Experts still seeking answers
Canadian Cases
The Symptoms
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By Saba Aziz	Global News
Updated November 26, 2020 8:13 am
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China or Italy? Bats or pangolins?
More than 11 months since the first cluster of coronavirus cases was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, there are still questions about the exact origins of the virus and how it jumped from animals to humans.
Experts believe the zoonotic COVID-19 disease came from a Chinese wet market selling wild animals. New research, however, has emerged which indicates the virus was circulating in Italy in September, adding another layer to the mystery that has so far eluded scientists.
Read more: Wuhan scientists interviewed over coronavirus origins, WHO says
A study published earlier this month in the scientific magazine Tumori Journal found coronavirus antibodies in 11.6 per cent of 959 asymptomatic people enrolled in a prospective lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020. Italy's first official COVID-19 case was detected in Lombardy on Feb. 21 this year.
"Our results indicate that SARS-CoV-2 circulated in Italy earlier than the first official COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Lombardy, even long before the first official reports from the Chinese authorities, casting new light on the onset and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic," the Italian researchers said in their Nov.11 report, which is yet to be peer reviewed.
The World Health Organization (WHO) told Global News it has reviewed the paper and would reach out to the authors to discuss and arrange for further analyses.
Dr. Sasha Bernatsky, senior scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, called the study "very interesting and provocative", but said it was inconclusive.
"Unfortunately, we have yet to really understand the antibody response to COVID and how durable it is," she told Global News.
2:30 Mink COVID-19 outbreaks raises concerns over new strain
Mink COVID-19 outbreaks raises concerns over new strain – Nov 8, 2020
In September, a WHO-led international investigative team was formed to study the source of the novel virus, the possible role of an intermediary animal host and how the virus was transmitted to humans.
Researchers believe that SARS-CoV-2, which is the seventh known human coronavirus, originally came from bats as the reservoir hosts. Some studies also suspect an intermediary link to the pangolins, a mammal found in Asia and Africa.
Read more: COMMENTARY: China's response to coronavirus criticism is diplomatic 'charmless' offensive
Kerry Bowman, a bioethicist and professor of global health at the University of Toronto, said the entire chain of events of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, emerging in a Wuhan market has not been proven, but the Italian findings did not change the fact that the virus was of animal origin.
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"What caused this was likely wild animal markets and none of that has changed," he told Global News.
"What I do think is there's going to be years of back and forth before we really have a smoking gun as to exactly what caused it and what the chain of events was."
Politicizing the pandemic
Since the start of the pandemic, China has faced a lot of criticism from Western leaders, especially U.S. President Donald Trump, accusing Beijing of a lack of transparency and not reporting its outbreak in a timely fashion.
In May, a groundbreaking investigation by Sam Cooper of Global News found that before China informed the world of the potential lethality of the novel coronavirus in late January, it told embassies and consulates around the world to secretly buy up all the personal protective equipment they could.
Meanwhile, a Harvard Medical School study analyzed hospital traffic and search engine data to suggest that the virus may have been circulating as early as August. China has dismissed the findings as "ridiculous."
1:51 Canadian health experts and entrepreneurs make strides in the fight against COVID-19
Canadian health experts and entrepreneurs make strides in the fight against COVID-19 – Nov 23, 2020
Levon Abrahamyan, a virologist at the University of Montreal, said as with previous experiences with other outbreaks, a new virus needs time to fully adapt to new hosts — in this case, humans — which could offer an explanation for the delay in detecting it.
"The political element was very, very strong, especially regarding the origin, because China was accused of not giving the true story, not reacting immediately, not informing the World Health Organization on time regarding the outbreak," he told Global News.
"For a virus to adapt to humans and become (a) human-to-human transmissible virus, that could take several months, that could face a couple of weeks, all depends on the viral genetic background of the population around."
More than 17 years after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), another coronavirus-caused respiratory illness, was detected in China in 2003, its exact origins still remain a myth.
The same could be the case with the COVID-19 pandemic.
"How an infectious disease crosses the animal-human barrier is a riddle that can take years to solve," the WHO says.
Bowman agreed, adding: "It's going to take time before we really get to the bottom of it."
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Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa scrambled for a first down against Texas A&M. Associated Press photo.
Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa had a career day and still sat out the entire fourth quarter.
The 2017 Saint Louis alumnus threw for a career-high 387 yards and accounted for a career-best five touchdowns in the No. 1-ranked Crimson Tide's 45-23 victory over No. 22 Texas A&M today at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Tagovailoa set career highs in passing attempts (30) and completions (22) and tied his best outing of four touchdown passes. His fifth score was on a 1-yard TD run.
The 387 passing yards are the fifth-most in school history. Only Blake Sims (2014) has thrown for more yards at Alabama under head coach Nick Saban.
Tagovailoa threw a 57-yard touchdown pass with 2:01 left in the third quarter and didn't return to the game with Alabama ahead 45-16 at that point.
Through four games this season, Alabama is outscoring its opponents 148-20 in the first half.
As the Crimson Tide's starting quarterback this season, Tagovailoa has led the Alabama offense to 20 touchdowns in 31 drives. Another two ended with field goals.
Tagovailoa is now 17-for-20 passing on third down this season for 372 yards and six TD's. He's also rushed four times for 36 yards and picked up a first down on each attempt.
Next up for Alabama is Louisiana next Saturday at 6 a.m. Hawaii time.
Alabama looks scary with Tua running the Show!


United States Flying Eagle Cents 1856 to 1858!
The act of February 21, 1857 provided for the minting of a new small cent called the Flying Eagle Cent. The Flying Eagle cent is a United States coin that was minted from 1857 to 1858. The Flying Eagle was the first small-sized cent coin minted in the US, replacing the earlier large cent. The obverse of this new small coin depicts an eagle in flight. The reverse of the coin has the words ONE CENT surrounded by a wreath, similar to the reverse on the later Indian Head cent.
The United States Mint in Philadelphia struck between 1000 and 2000 Flying Eagle cents in 1856. They were properly refered to as pattern pieces. These pattern pieces were a way to show influential Congressmen and Senators what these coins would look like. These 1856 Flying Eagle Cents were supposed to have been returned to the Mint and destroyed as they had not been intended for release to the public, but some managed to escape destruction and are quite valuable. The mintage for the 1858 was 17,450,000 and 24,600,00 in 1958.
The best place to purchase Flying Eagle Cent coins is at eBay. Most of these coins are very expensive in the better grades. However, if you just want one or two for your collection look for Flying Eagle cents dated 1857 and 1859 in the lower grades of good, very good and fine. You should be able to find a specimen for your collection in the $10.00 to $25.00 range.


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Hiring the right people to take your company forward is so important, and this is a process you need to get right. There are a lot of things to keep in mind when it comes time to hire employees for your business. This is a process that too many business owners gloss over, and you have got to make sure you perfect it in the best way you can because it will help the company.
Getting the right people can make such a massive difference, and really play a big role in taking your company onto more successful things. When you are choosing the perfect person to hire, there is a lot of work that has to go into that. So, make sure you are focused on helping the company thrive and grow, and do as much as you can to keep these ideas in mind when hiring the perfect candidates.
What are the CVs Like?
When you are considering people to hire, the first thing you will need to do is take a look at the CVs you have been given. These are the best way of making sure you are choosing the right candidates. A lot of CVs will be dull, unprofessional, or nondescript, but there are some that will certainly stand out from the pile. These are the ones you need to be looking for and taking onto the next stage.
The interview part of the process is something that is really important to keep in mind because this is the stage that reveals the best candidates for the role. People who have a good CV, and who interview well, are certainly people you should be considering. Make sure you come up with the best interview process you can, so you will really get a feel for who the best people for the role might be.
You also have to be aware that you are choosing the right candidates for the role at hand. This means doing your homework and making sure the people you hire are going to reflect well on the business. Coming up with ways of screening candidates is really important, and running a background search is a big part of this. You've got to know the sorts of people who will be representing your brand.
Will They Fit into the Team?
Another thing you need to think about is whether or not they were going to fit in your team. There are a load of things that you have to consider when it comes to hiring candidates for the business, but whether they fit into the team properly is one of the biggest considerations. There are so many things that play a part in this, and this is a focal point that is absolutely necessary.
These are all important things you simply must keep in mind when it comes to improving the business and hiring the right employees. This is a big concern for a lot of business owners, and the more you can do to get this right now, the better it will be for the business. Use these tips to help you hire the right people and take the company forward effectively.


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HomeMusic Saturday: HEARTIST and ASKING ALEXANDRIA (a bit of a rambling piece…)
Music Saturday: HEARTIST and ASKING ALEXANDRIA (a bit of a rambling piece…)
May 24, 2014 Civilian Reader UncategorizedMetal, Music, Music Video, Rock
As I've mentioned in the past on here, one of my other passions is music (in fact, this is a passion that has dominated far more of my life than books and reading). I used to spend hours each day investigating new bands, albums, songs – subscribing to multiple magazines (even importing them from the US). I even ran a little fanzine, "MWRI" – a Terry Pratchett reference, "Music With Rocks In" (even then, I was a SFF fan). Recently, however, I've been listening to less new music.
Partly, this grew from an impression that things were starting to stagnate a little in the rock and metal communities. "Heavier and Louder" were the order of the decade, it seemed. I like plenty of groove and melody, though, so when ever some of my favourite bands started to conform to the "bludgeon thy listener unto death" gospel of rock, I lost ever-more interest, narrowing the number of bands I followed religiously. True, this is just a personal impression resulting from exposure to what felt like endless hardcore clones. Nevertheless, I felt slightly disillusioned with the scene I had called home since I bought Guns 'n' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark as a kid (I should thank Chris Green, a school friend, for lending me his discman and these two albums when I was ill – eternal gratitude). Although, I think Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA was the first album I loved (not as "hard" rock, but still part of the same larger community, I've always thought).
Over the past couple of years, though, melody and groove seem to be making a massive come-back, as bands and fans remember that it's rock and roll, and that there's nothing wrong with writing hooks. One of my favourite bands, Five Finger Death Punch, have been releasing consistently excellent (and progressively better) albums each year. Trivium rediscovered their love of classic, Metallica-esque metal, and released a stunning album. And so on. Recently, I finally discovered to new (for me) bands that write in the bounds of my tastes: HEARTIST and ASKING ALEXANDRIA.
HEARTIST is actually a new band – their debut EP, Nothing You Don't Deserve was released last year by Roadrunner Records (to whom I used to be a staunch, buy-everything devotee). I have a great many fond memories of interviewing RR bands, getting into their gigs for free (I was, quite literally, "On the guest list" – which made me feel oh-so-special). Nothing You Don't Deserve is a pretty solid EP, too – a perfect introduction to their music, if you haven't come across their music videos on YouTube – as, I'm sure, most people now do when discovering new bands (remember MySpace? Yeah…). The band mixes a lot of influences into a very modern-sounding punk-rock-metal melange. "Heart of Gold", for example, has elements of Linkin Park and Funeral For A Friends more radio-friendly sounds, but still sounds different enough to not be a rip-off. Probably the best two songs on the disc, which meld a number of their influences and tempos, are "Where Did I Go Wrong?"…

… and "The Answer".

If you get the chance, I'd recommend them very highly.
ASKING ALEXANDRIA are a pretty well-established metalcore band, but I only sat up and took notice when I stumbled across their video for "The Death of Me", from their latest album From Death To Destiny (Sumerian Records):

As it turned out, this is actually the Rock Version of the song – the main album version is a fair bit heavy, with melodies that are more understated, but by no means absent.
These guys have added a hell of a lot more groove-elements and melody than in their previous albums. And it works really well. They're still firmly in the metalcore camp, but damn they can pen some catchy songs. Some songs on From Death To Destiny are far more commercial and less aggro – such as "Poison", "Moving On" (reminiscent of Bon Jovi, this one), "White Line Fever" and "The Road". But the aforementioned "The Death of Me" and "Run Free" are sufficiently heavy to please metalheads of yore. Here's the video for "Run Free", which highlights perfectly their heavy groove and soaring melodies…

I love this album, and it's been on near-constant rotation since I bought it. Very highly recommended.
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