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Anne-Marie performed on The Greatest Dancer live show this weekend (Saturday, February 8).
The hit singer performed her brand new single Birthday in Saturday's latest live show.
Anne-Marie put on quite the show, singing her song live for the first time in collaboration with the incredible Boy Blue.
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The Greatest Dancer airs Saturday nights on BBC One.
On Saturday competition continued as the remaining ten acts take to the stage for another of the live challenge shows.
Each dance act is competing to win £50,000, a chance to dance on Strictly Come Dancing and be crowned The Greatest Dancer.
Every week, each dance act is set a challenge which they must tackle with their Dance Captain to create an unforgettable performance. For the first time the power is in the hands of the viewers at home, as they vote to decide who stays in the competition.
For the four Dance Captains Todrick Hall, Cheryl, Matthew Morrison and Oti Mabuse, the pressure is on as they mentor their acts through the rest of the live challenge shows.
Last weekend saw two acts eliminated as all female Jazz group The Queens on Cheryl's team and Todrick's commercial solo dancer Ryan Gibson were sent home.
Those left competing for the top prize this week were Duo Lily & Joseph and all male contemporary dance group Brothers of Dance on Cheryl's squad.
On Oti's currently full squad are hip hop dance crew Dark Angels, contemporary group Vale and Latin & ballroom pair Michael & Jowita
Matthew also still has a full squad with contemporary fusion dancer Hannah Martin, contemporary soloist Harrison and street dance duo Ross and Travis.
Finally, Todrick's squad features contemporary performer Ainsley Ricketts and mixed contemporary dance group Dancepoint.
Episodes are available to watch online in full via BBC iPlayer.
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Q: Creating a pivot table in SQL with multiple JOINS an ex-colleague of mine made a query to create pivot tables. I understand how it works if I use one table (MSM_WRKCTRSETUP):
DECLARE @cols AS NVARCHAR(max) = Stuff((SELECT DISTINCT ', ' + Quotename(SKILLRELATION)
         FROM   MSM_WRKCTRSETUP
         where SKILLRELATION <> ''
         FOR xml path(''), type).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'), 1, 1, '');

DECLARE @maxCols AS NVARCHAR(max) = Stuff((SELECT DISTINCT ', max(' + Quotename(SKILLRELATION) + ') as ' + Quotename(SKILLRELATION)
         FROM   MSM_WRKCTRSETUP
         where SKILLRELATION<> ''
         FOR xml path(''), type).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'), 1, 1, '');

DECLARE @query AS NVARCHAR(max) =  'SELECT     fat.ROUTERELATION, '+@maxCols+'
                                    FROM       (SELECT ROUTERELATION, '+ @cols +'
                                                FROM   MSM_WRKCTRSETUP A
                                                PIVOT(Max(A.WRKCTRDEFAULTACCOUNTNUM) FOR A.SKILLRELATION IN ('+ @cols +')) piv) fat

                                    group by   fat.ROUTERELATION';

EXECUTE(@query)

This is the result:
currentOutput
But instead of A.WRKCTRDEFAULTACCOUNTNUM I want to JOIN some tables on the source table to create my desired output:
desiredOutput = A.WRKCTRDEFAULTACCOUNTNUM + '-' + C.NAME + ' ( ' + D.LOCATOR + ' ) '
This is the query that needs to be added to the existing query but I don't know where to put it (and how) and I will end up getting errors of columns that are found multiple times or ambiguous names:
LEFT JOIN VENDTABLE B ON
A.WRKCTRDEFAULTACCOUNTNUM = B.ACCOUNTNUM
AND UPPER(A.DATAAREAID) = UPPER(B.DATAAREAID)

LEFT JOIN AR_DIRPARTYVIEW C ON
C.PARTY = B.PARTY

LEFT JOIN AR_DirPartyElectronicAddressView D ON
D.PARTY = B.PARTY
AND D.TYPE = 1

Any ideas how retrieve my desired output? Many thanks in advance!

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Prof Akin Abayomi, Lagos commissioner of health, says there could be another lockdown if there is a rise in COVID-19 cases.
In a statement made available by Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, director of public health affairs of the ministry of health, issued on the commissioner's behalf, Abayomi said many countries all over the world have found it imperative to impose a second lockdown "which have significant socio-economic and security consequences".
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"The Lagos State Government has once again stressed the need for residents to strictly adhere to precautionary measures against COVID-19 infection transmission to prevent a recurrence of the situation that led to the lockdown of the economy," the statement read.
"A resurgence of cases in Lagos may lead to the reversal of the strategically calculated measures put in place by the Government to open up the economy.
"The first wave of coronavirus started in December 2019 and swept through an unprepared world. The first case of COVID-19 in Nigeria was recorded in Lagos on the 27th of February 2020. Lagos has since become the epicentre of the outbreak in Nigeria with a record of 21,107 confirmed cases and 212 deaths from the virus till date.
"The containment measures put in place at the time included COVID-19 testing, isolation and treatment, surveillance, total shutdown of the State for about 12 weeks and partial shutdown of social, economic and academic activities for over four months."
The commissioner advised citizens against noncompulsory movement and social gatherings, saying travelling into and outside the country should be discouraged except when absolutely essential.
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"Though we have reached our peak as predicted and are now experiencing a decline in the number of positive cases, this is not a reason to conclude that all is over. COVID-19 is still very much with us as evidenced in the number of cases being recorded in the community daily and occasional deaths from severe complications."
Abayomi said the reasons for a drop in COVID-19 cases in the state is traceable to a number of factors, including public adherence to safety regulations of physical and social distancing, hand hygiene, use of face mask in public places, expanded testing strategy and contact tracing, among others.
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I worked for Glenn Wallace there in the early 70's in the ticket office, one of 3 jobs l had whole attending College. My wife worked in the concession stand as a second job. One summer, l hung off a rope pulley to paint the name on the back of the screen.
I'm positive the Starlite was still open at least through the summer of 1968 and still owned by the Wallaces as I was a projectionist there that summer. One of the movies we ran that summer was Hawaii, released in 1966. I took my mother and she watched from our car parked outside the booth door.
The Starlite Drive-Ins of Ludington/Scottville were indeed one and the same. The Starlite was the only Ludington-area drive-in, and was actually much closer to Ludington than Scottville. It was located at the corner of Pere Marquette Rd. and US-31/US-10. The now vacant site is behind a McDonalds and a Holiday Inn Express, and a portion of the site is used by a car wash.
There is no evidence a drive-in ever stood there. The Starlites owner was Glen Wallace, who also owned the indoor Star Theatre in downtown Scottville. Thanks to Jim Nichols at the Nichols Drug Store in Scottville for clarifying this, and helping us find the exact location of the Starlite. The Nichols Drug Store is on Main St.
directly across from the old Star Theatre in Scottville.
Hi! My Mom is from Ludington so as akid we would spend the summers in Ludington with my Grandparents. I saw my first PG rated file there The Bad News Bears They would also have Flea Markets there when somthing else was going on at the Fair Grounds. Sitting in the same spot right now is McDonnalds and the Holiday Inn Express. Ponchos Pond RV Park is back there too. It was a great place on a Summer Night!.
A recent site inspection revealed nothing much is left, an empty lot with an electrical hookup behind a McDonalds and a Holiday Inn Express.
The Starlite was torn down. There is now a McDonalds on the site. Bobby Peacock.


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'The Silent Wife' is the tenth book in the Will Trent series by internationally bestselling author, Karin Slaughter, slated for release on August 4th, 2020. Her previous novel, 'The Last Widow,' was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller. She's sold over 35 million copies across 120 countries worldwide.. and believe it or not, this is the first of them I've read.
You have to forgive me, her first novel was being published in 2001.. at a time things in my life were getting just a bit wild. That only really began to come to a halt last year and now I'm just getting to a lot of great authors who were breaking at a time reading was just not happening. That being said, I've heard a ton of praise for her work and she absolutely lives up to the hype.
The story follows Will Trent, a GBI investigator with demons of his own to wrangle, as he ends up at a state prison to look into a murder that occurs there during a riot. While he and his co-workers are beginning to piece together what might have happened and who may have been involved, another prisoner reaches out with information to trade.
Claiming his innocence, the prisoner offers them a plethora of details in exchange for his request that they investigate a death that seems to mimic one he was accused of eight years earlier. He insists that the young woman who was brutally attacked and left for dead is the work of another and that he believes he has proof the attacker is still active.
Slaughter's pacing is superb. She does a wonderful job of shifting between non-linear timelines and multiple narrators, giving the reader both the backstory and the current lay of the land simultaneously. Both timelines move with a steady, parallel rhythm that continues forward smoothly. Transitions are seamless, characters have their own distinct voices, and they're all fascinating in their own right.
I definitely have a soft spot for characters like Will and I can see why he'd be part of a series with such longevity. I'm certainly interested in going back and reading some of the other titles. His childhood was rough and his relationships as an adult have mostly been toxic too. It's easy to see how badly he could have turned out, if not for second chances and a grim determination to make something of himself. He's still a little broken.. and he's not the only one.
His girlfriend Sara has had some tough moments too. She didn't get the difficult start Will did, but there's absolutely a point in her life where everything changed for her.. and those changes have affected her daily life in long term ways. Through it all, she remains compassionate and incredibly likeable.
None of Slaughter's characters are infallible. In fact, most of them feel very real. I found myself comparing them to people I know. Some of them try the reader's patience far more than others, however, and I had several theories as I made my way through this book. Ultimately, I enjoyed every step of the journey. I'm pretty solidly versed in procedural information and she still pulled out a few things I'd never heard before.
There may be some triggers here if you're sensitive to violence. The assaults are vicious. The premeditation and methodology are the stuff of nightmares. But wow, what a read.
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Restoration Heights
By Wil Medearis
Read by Angelo Di Loreto
Wil Medearis Harlequin Audio, Hanover Square Press 9781335218728
Reddick, a young, white artist, lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a historically black Brooklyn neighborhood besieged by gentrification. He makes rent as an art handler in Manhattan and spends his free time playing basketball at the local Y. He is also the last person to see Hannah before she disappears. When Hannah's fiancé, scion to a wealthy Upper East Side family, refuses to call the police, Reddick sets out to discover what happened to her. The search pulls him through a dramatic cross section of New York, taking him to the heart of a many-layered mystery that, in its unraveling, shakes Reddick's convictions and lays bare the complex power dynamics of the city. In lyrical, addictive prose, Wil Medearis asks the question: In a metropolis that prides itself on its diversity and inclusivity, who has the final say over the future? Timely, page-turning and sweeping in vision, Restoration Heights is an exhilarating new entry in the canon of great New York novels.
Reddick, a young, white artist, lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a historically black Brooklyn neighborhood besieged by gentrification. He makes rent as an art handler in Manhattan and spends his free time playing basketball at the local Y. He is also the last person to see Hannah before she disappears.
When Hannah's fiancé, scion to a wealthy Upper East Side family, refuses to call the police, Reddick sets out to discover what happened to her. The search pulls him through a dramatic cross section of New York, taking him to the heart of a many-layered mystery that, in its unraveling, shakes Reddick's convictions and lays bare the complex power dynamics of the city.
In lyrical, addictive prose, Wil Medearis asks the question: In a metropolis that prides itself on its diversity and inclusivity, who has the final say over the future? Timely, page-turning and sweeping in vision, Restoration Heights is an exhilarating new entry in the canon of great New York novels.
"An atmospheric and poetic noir debut. Wil Medearis paints a vivid portrait of the changing face of New York City while crafting a compelling old-school mystery." —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author
"An instant New York fiction classic, exuding dark poetry from a lyrical narrative populated by well-defined characters in carefully, or, shall we say, artistically, arranged settings." —Booklist (starred review)
"Smart and evocative…Medearis' novel adeptly explores white privilege, racism, the demands of creating art, and how members of all socioeconomic classes close ranks when it comes to protecting their own." —Publishers Weekly
"A compelling read." —Kirkus Reviews
"A portrait of contemporary New York that would have Jay McInerney green with envy. New York has a new noir poet in Wil Medearis." —Ken Bruen, author of The Guards
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Jean-Luc Nancy and Phillip Warnell, Strasbourg 2009.
Warnell has produced three films and one photo-work with Jean-Luc Nancy. Their collaborations commenced in 2007 with the production of a group portrait (which didn't quite take place) around the sole surviving example of Franz Mesmer's uncanny 'baquet', housed in Lyon. Strapped to the device, a kind of parlour room uncanny self-diagnosis would take place, each participant holding a skeletal, metal arm protruding from the vat, containing magnetised water. Ultimately, the baquet supposedly caused bodily transparency, and with it promoted an ability towards group therapeutic aims.
In 2009 Warnell and Nancy made Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies which featured a text specially written for the film by Nancy of the same name. Nancy himself is an onscreen presence in the film, reading the text in a series of episodic passages. The project also featured a co-authored artists' book, 'Outlandish'.
In 2014 they made Ming of Harlem: twenty one storeys in the air, to which Nancy contributed a 101 line poem, 'Oh, the language animals'. The poem works as an insert in the film, voiced by composer Hildur Gudnadottir. The poem has been reproduced in numerous books/publications, including 'Animals' (MIT/Whitechapel contemporary art docs, editor Filipa Ramos).
In 2017 a third film was released, The Flying Proletarian, in which Nancy also contributed an original text, 'Canton'. The film features a voice-over/character, delivering the text intermittently during the film.
Warnell has written a number of book chapters and texts on their collaborations and film works, including a recently submitted PhD (by prior publication, 2019) titled 'Anatomy of the Incorporeal'.
Placebo (with Mesmer's baquet), photographic slide projection, 2007
Photographic slide projection and lightbox guide (see Installations)
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New World: The studio wants players to ask 20 questions to further improve the quality of the game from AnneBullock's blog
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Air Force defends (but pulls) Super Bowl ad
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On Tuesday, one of the year's most obscure Super Bowl ads got a massive burst of attention when the White Stripes accused the U.S. Air Force Reserve of lifting one of their songs without permission. If you were curious to watch the spot for yourself, you were probably out of luck. The Reserve quickly pulled the regional ad from its Web site, despite its claim that the soundtrack was totally not a redux of "Fell In Love With a Girl" but was actually "original music" commissioned by Blaine Warren Advertising. The spot is posted above. In my opinion, the song is a pretty clear knock-off, though I doubt the White Stripes will push the issue much further now that they've publicly shamed the Air Force Reserve (and sent millions of visitors to AFReserve.com in the hope of watching an ad that would otherwise have gone unnoticed). Besides, it might be the Who's turn now to accuse the Air Force of stealing a song.
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Data thieves target debit cards, PINs at point of sale
Data thieves are compromising point of sale terminals in department stores, supermarkets, gas stations and even your doctors' office. Their prime target: your debit card account number and PIN.
Data thieves target debit cards, PINs at point of sale Data thieves are compromising point of sale terminals in department stores, supermarkets, gas stations and even your doctors' office. Their prime target: your debit card account number and PIN. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/SP73Js
Byron Acohido, USA TODAY Published 6:09 p.m. ET Nov. 5, 2012 | Updated 12:48 p.m. ET Nov. 6, 2012
Verizon risk expert Wade Baker describes how, and why, criminals are huge incentive to tamper with POS devices in stores, gas stations, even health clinics to steal debit card account numbers and PINs.
A Visa credit card is tendered at opening of the Superdry store in New York's Times Square.(Photo: By Richard Drew, AP)
Corrupted POS terminals more widespread than you think
Gas stations, supermarkets, even you doctor's office could have corrupted PIN pads
Banks are not obligated to work with victims in POS fraud cases
SEATTLE — Using brash ingenuity, criminals out to steal your personal data are tampering with the checkout machines in department stores, supermarkets, gas stations and even your doctors' office.
Their prime target: your debit card account number and personal identification number.
Thieves use ruses, such as posing as repairmen to alter and corrupt payment terminals — installing skimmers and storage devices that capture account numbers from the magnetic strip on a card as well as the PIN numbers the customer keys in.
STORY: Why you should use your debit card sparingly
"Technology is making it easier for criminals to develop smaller, more effective skimming devices," says Dale Dabbs, CEO of identity theft protection service EZShield.
The compromised checkout machines are so widely dispersed that many crimes go unnoticed and public reports are sporadic, says Jeff Hall, director of Technology Risk Management Services at consultancy McGladrey.
Barnes & Noble recently disclosed that data thieves got away with installing corrupted checkout terminals in 63 bookstores in nine states. The case is under investigation, and the company has not said how many customers were affected.
In late September, Toronto Police arrested four men at a subway station in possession of 168 counterfeit debit cards. A fifth suspect was arrested later in his west side condominium — with a cache of point of sales (POS) terminals. Some of the devices were ripped apart for use in assembling altered terminals, says Toronto detective Ian Nichol.
Verizon's data-breach investigations unit noted that data thieves have begun targeting POS terminals used by patients to make co-payments and pay deductibles in health services clinics and facilities. Verizon annually investigates several hundred data-breach cases and reports on trends, but does not disclose names of the victimized companies.
Debit card account numbers and PINs are highly sought because they can be converted quickly into cash. A device called a mag stripe encoder can be purchased legally on the Internet. For about $200, anyone can embed a stolen payment card number onto a blank magnetic striped card. With the associated PIN, free cash is only an ATM away.
"PINs are the Holy Grail," says Hall. "If it's a debit card, you can cash in up to the limit on the ATM."
ATM fraud using counterfeited debit cards began catching on in the mid-2000s. In 2007 the TJX retail store chain disclosed that hackers cracked into its network and siphoned off unencrypted information, including PINs, for 94 million customer transactions. Two years later Heartland Payment Systems disclosed that intruders cracked the system it uses to process 100 million card transactions per month from 175,000 merchants.
Since those two events, big retailers have tightened down their networks and expanded use of encryption. So data thieves have now turned their prowess to that moment in time debit card data remains unprotected in a public setting — during the swipe and PIN-entry process.
"The hackers are many steps ahead of the card issuers and financial institutions, who are unable to pivot quickly," says Cynthia Larose, who chairs the privacy and security practice at the 500-attorney firm, Mintz Levin.
Debit card users should be mindful of the heightened risks, Larose says. Financial institutions generally will act quickly to make a victim whole in cases of fraud involving use of a credit card or an ATM machine. However, banks are not obligated to work with a victim in fraud cases involving use of a debit card at a POS terminal, she says.
"Other than avoiding the use of debit cards at POS terminals, there probably is little a consumer can do," Larose says. A final piece of advice: "Use cash."
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Two highly enjoyable performances of Handel's great pastoral masque were given in the Younger Hall. This charming work is hardly ever seen in Scotland, even in concert, and a full staging is extremely rare. The production (both simple and elegant) was directed by Jane Pettegree. The set, designed by Jean Duncan, comprised a high screen at the back, with varying projections to heighten the mood. Costumes, with the exception of Polypheme's business suit, were effectively pastoral.
Conductor Michael Downes had assembled an excellent little band of nine professional period specialists. They showed a judicious mixture of youth and experience. The latter was represented by the familiar face of double bass player Ninian Perry, a regular with most Scottish musical groups, and Alan George, whose tenure of the viola seat in the Fitzwilliam Quartet goes right back to their studies with Shostakovich in the '70s. The youthful talent was typified by the two fine oboists (doubling on recorder) - Leo Duarte and Joel Raymond.
On stage, there was a well-drilled chorus (also nine-strong), and five soloists. If the performance was dominated by Laurie Slavin as Acis that was perhaps inevitable, given his fully mature tenor, always lyrical, but with power in reserve when required. The other roles were well-sung and acted, but there was an unavoidable feeling that they would have been happier in the intimate Byre Theatre, still unavailable until its financial woes are sorted out. Maddy Kearns gave an effectively sweet-toned performance as Galatea - it is quite a substantial part, but she coped with no sign of fatigue. Ted Haxby's Polypheme was perhaps more baritone than fruity bass, but was a confident stage presence. The two minor roles of Damon and Coridon, with one song apiece, were well taken by Chris Huggon and Caroline Taylor. This second performance ended with some quite beautiful singing in the final chorus.
There is a gap of over a week before the single performance in the Perth Concert Hall, but that auditorium is excellent for baroque music, and this thoroughly enjoyable production should work well.


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Notes on affirmative action
At Prof. Stackhouse's blog, the discussion concerning diversity continues. I want to strengthen my point that affirmative action has (1) watered down academic standards; (2) is discrimination against certain minorities (particularly Asians and Jews). Here are some of the articles that I found:
When Affirmative Action Is A Quota System (at the American Thinker)
By Russell Eisenman
A university professor, Eisenmann claims that affirmative action has become a quota system that is basically un-American and leads to resentment. The Ku Klux Klan could have invented it as system to make whites hate blacks.
By the way, it may be that some elite schools can do their affirmative action hiring and hire a top candidate. But, this is certainly not the case for most schools. In my experiences, and in that of colleagues I have discussed this with, when affirmative action hiring is done, the dilemma is always that there are better qualified candidates not within the quota category. Sometimes, the person hired, because they have the right skin color or sex, is markedly less qualified than some of the other applicants.
Should Colleges Have Quotas for Asian Americans? (Washington Post, 2004)
By Jay Mathews
Matthews' article writes about Chinese-American Ed Chin who has been very critical of the quota system of Ivy League schools. But Matthews, against Chin, concludes its ok for the best schools to discriminate against Asians, because they can get into other schools. But dear Mr. Matthews, racial preferences have made it more difficult for Asians to get into other schools as well.
And yet the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action preserved the system at most selective private schools in which Asian American students with very high tests scores are passed over in favor of African American and Hispanic students with lower scores because the schools want significant numbers of all ethnicities on campus. Supporters of such policies say a diverse student body helps everyone learn to live in the real world, and there are plenty of other fine colleges that take students, Asian American or otherwise, whom they reject.Whenever I raised this point, Chin would accuse me, rightly, of shrugging off the American commitment to fair play for individuals. He cited comments made by Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Massachusetts state school board member. "I think these racial preferences are very pernicious," she said in an interview on a PBS Web site after voters banned the use of affirmative action based on race in University of California admissions. "I don't think they do black students much good. I think they're poisonous in terms of race relations. And I do not think they are fair to the Asian student, for instance, who has worked very, very hard and is kept out of a Berkeley because a student with a slightly different skin color has gotten in as a consequence of racial identity."
The Asian-Jewish connection: Is it really kosher to call Asians the "new Jews"? (SF Gate, 2010) by Jeff Yang; The New Jews? by Jennifer Rubin (Weekly Standard, 2008). Rubin writes to belie Matthew's point above:
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court cases concerning racial preference policies at the University of Michigan's law school (Grutter v. Bollinger) and undergraduate school (Gratz v. Bollinger) highlighted further evidence of great disparities between groups. At Michigan's law school, the admission rates of "preferred" minorities miraculously held steady between 10 percent and 17 percent in the years for which data were provided. According to Peter Schmidt's Color and Money, "Among applicants with certain grade point average and LSAT-score combinations, the university was admitting virtually every black applicant while white and Asian American applicants had a less than 1 in 40 chance of getting in."
The article that first made me aware of the problem of discrimination against Asians, was in the American Thinker in 2005: Asian Americans and Affirmative Action, by James Chen, who writes about the extraordinary measures that Asian parents will go to in order to overcome discrimination of their children, even moving to "white" areas so that their children will have a better chance of graduating close to the top of their high school class. Chen's article infuriated me. I realized that all of the job post advertising women and minorities are encouraged to apply did not at all mean me, since if a university will discriminate against students applying to a school, how much more will they be willing to do so when hiring a professor?
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By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press
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A radical Muslim sect responsible for attacks that left more than 100 people dead in northeast Nigeria this week could bomb three luxury hotels frequented by foreigners in the oil-rich nation's capital, the U.S. Embassy warned Sunday.
The unusually specific warning from U.S. diplomats identified possible targets of the sect known locally as Boko Haram as the Hilton, Nicon Luxury and Sheraton hotels. Those hotels draw diplomats, politicians and Nigeria's business elite daily in the country's central capital of Abuja.
The embassy said the attack may come as Nigeria celebrates the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha and that its diplomats and staff had been instructed to avoid those hotels.
Deb MacLean, an embassy spokeswoman, declined to offer further details about the threat or the source of the information Sunday.
The warning came as a Nigerian Red Cross official said Sunday that more than 100 died in a series of attacks in northeast Nigeria launched by the radical Muslim sect, as sect gunmen shot and killed another police officer.
Ibrahim Bulama told The Associated Press he expected the number of dead to rise as local clinics and hospitals tabulate the casualty figures from the attacks Friday in Damaturu, the capital of rural Yobe state.
While the hard-hit city remained calm and its Muslim inhabitants celebrated a religious holiday Sunday, army and police units manned roadblocks leading into the town and streets remained largely quiet, Bulama said.
Meanwhile, the sect known locally as Boko Haram killed a police inspector Sunday in the city of Maiduguri, the sect's spiritual home about 80 miles (130 kilometers) east of Damaturu. Sect gunmen stopped the officer's car at gunpoint as he neared a mosque to pray with his family, local police commissioner Simeon Midenda said.
Gunmen ordered the family away, then shot the inspector to death, Midenda said. The sect members later allowed his family to drive the car away, he said.
The killing prompted a frank acknowledgment from the police commander, whose men remain under siege from constant assassinations by the radical sect.
"Our men who live in the midst of the Boko Haram are not safe," Midenda said.
Statements issued late Saturday show the U.N. Security Council called the attacks Friday in the cities of Damaturu and Maiduguri "criminal and unjustifiable" and asked members to help Nigerian authorities bring those responsible to justice.
A statement on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for "an end to all violence in the area," while offering sympathy for the victims.
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday appealed for an end to all violence, saying it only increases problems, sowing hatred and division even among the faithful. He told tourists in St. Peter's Square that he is following with apprehension the news from Nigeria.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attacks Friday, which included suicide bombings and shootings.
Boko Haram wants to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, an oil-rich nation of more than 160 million which has a predominantly Christian south and a Muslim north. Its name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, but instead of schooling, it rejects Western ideals like Nigeria's U.S.-styled democracy that followers believe have destroyed the country with corrupt politicians.
Boko Haram's attacks occurred ahead of Sunday's celebration, or the feast of sacrifice, when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son. Police elsewhere in the country had warned of violence ahead of the celebration in Nigeria.
An Associated Press count shows the group has killed at least 361 people this year alone.
Associated Press writer Njadvara Musa in Maiduguri, Nigeria and Frances D'Emilio in Rome contributed to this report.
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MindUP teaches children parts of the brain and the science behind how the brain influences their thinking, emotions, and behavior. They also learn about the connections between what they are thinking, how they are feeling, and how they are acting. Gaining this insight can help children make self-regulating choices to influence this interplay among their thoughts, feelings, and actions.
A brain break is a short three-minute break when children are asked to quiet their minds to prepare for learning. Neuroscientific research has shown that when the amygdala (the part of our brain responsible for fight, flight or freeze responses) is overly activated, it is much more difficult for the pre-frontal cortex (the part of the brain that is responsible for decision making) to do its job, or for the hippocampus (the part of the brain that holds our memories) to remember what you have learned. That's why teachers are encouraged to practice brain breaks with their classes three times a day—in the morning, in the middle of the day, and near the end of the schoolday. Neuroplasticity research has shown that as little as 15 minutes of mindful practice each week can change the physiology of the brain and facilitate access to calm and relaxed concentration—think of this as exercising the brain like a muscle.
Built on positive psychology research, MindUP promotes pro-social behavior to help children transition from a "me-centric" orientation into a "we-centric" mindset. MindUP encourages children to explore their world with a sharpened sense of seeing, smelling, tasting and movement. MindUP's pro-social curriculum includes encouraging acts of kindness to others, exploring different perspectives to gain deeper insight, and expressing gratitude for what we are thankful for.
In the TEDMED below, Goldie Hawn talks about MindUP with Dan Siegel, M.D., one of the MindUP curriculum developers, which also include neuroscientists, positive psychologists, teachers, and mindfulness practitioners.
Goldie Hawn and Dan Siegel at TEDMED 2009 by TEDMED is licensed under Standard YouTube License.


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In most No Limit Hold'em poker games, whether it's played online/live, a solid strategy is to adopt an aggressive post flop game, since it will make a lot of money over the long haul. There are lots of reasons for turning up the aggression and putting money into the pot. Once such reason is betting to protect your hand, when you expect to currently have the best hand, but don't want to give free cards and allow the other players involved in the hand to realize their equity.
Betting for protection is an important concept to grasp when thinking about betting ranges versus certain opponents. It goes hand in hand with analyzing the texture of certain flops. A protection bet, that is betting to protect your hand from being outdrawn is definitely a play you should make as part of an overall aggressive style of play.
Some poker players will scoff at the idea of betting for "protection" as the two big reasons for betting is either for "value" when you can expect worse hands to call, or as a "bluff" when you are trying to get better hands to fold. Really, though, a "protection" bet is under the guise of a value bet, since you can expect worse hands to call your bet, it simply has the added benefit of protecting your hand and get drawing hands to pay to see the next card, as your hand is vulnerable.
Every time you get your opponent to do something they wouldn't do if they could see your cards, i.e. call to chase a draw with incorrect odds, you win. Obviously, a big part of accomplishing this is to bet big enough to really get drawing hands to pay. The thing about community card games like no limit texas hold'em is the strength of your hand can change dramatically from one street to the next. So, it becomes crucial making your opponents pay for trying to make the better hand, and the times they don't improve and you scoop the pot, you win a bigger pot.
A monster hand like trips on the flop can turn into the losing hand if a potential flush is now possible on the turn. Hence, the reason you should rarely slow play, especially when draws are out there! If you don't utilize this play then you can be losing lots of small pots which were rightfully your if you were to have turned up the aggression earlier in the hand. All of these small pots add up over the course of your poker career.
You expect to have the best hand and can expect worse hands to call. Of course, it becomes a trickier proposition when betting medium strength hands vs aggressive opponents, in these spots it can be better to pot control in case you are behind but when ahead also not losing value since you can expect them to bet aggressively with their draws.
Of course, you are required to analyze the board texture to determine if it's worthwhile trying to protect a made hand. The more connected, both in the rank of cards and suits, the greater number of drawing hands that are out there which can draw to the winning hand. By checking, you are making a big mistake, as you're giving your opponent exactly what he wanted, a free card when he/she currently has nothing. There are some hands like a gutshot or two over cards that would have folded to continuat bet, only to catch up with that miracle card in the deck they needed, which can end up costing you a big pot.
There is the misconception that betting for protection is a bad reason for betting in NLHE. The reason being that it can be difficult getting worse hands to call, which when value betting is the fundamental reason you are betting. However, like every situation in poker, it depends on the board texture, your opponent's likely holdings, and the playing style of the player.
If they are a straightforward opponent, meaning they're not floating you on the flop with garbage, or generally looking to make your life miserable, then when you have A5 on a board of K-7-5. You have bottom pair, which isn't looking really good, but could be the best hand. Although it can be difficult for many worse hands to call, namely 22, 33, 44, Ax it's basically a probing bet designed to make your opponent sacrifice their equity in the hand, for the times they are holding QJ, etc and if they are loose they will also call with worse. If you are called on the flop, then you can re-evaluate your hand on the turn. There is also the chance they didn't believe you on the flop when they have only ace high and you still take down the pot.
All in all, betting to protect your hand is an important side effect of your poker betting strategy particularly against loosey goosey fish who call with lots of hands preflop and don't like folding on the flop. If you're betting to protect your hand, you obviously expect to have the best hand, and can expect worse hands to call. In other words, it's a value bet, and the better you get this down pat, the more money you will make playing no-limit holdem poker.


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A challan is a form that is used for depositing or remitting money generally used in the context of statutory payments and is related to making payments to the government authorities. A CIN (Challan Identification Number) is generated as an acknowledgment once a payment has been made online against a challan. For people who do not have the means to pay online, provisions are included so that a printout of the challan can be taken, and people can visit a bank nearby to make manual payments.
The system is GPS enabled – hence one can log in from any location.
The system has in-built functionality of clicking and storing photos of vehicles, number plates etc. This feature enables the enforcement officers and citizens to collect evidence by clicking and uploading photos/videos of the situation as well as the receipt.
The traffic police officer simply needs to select the type of offense and the amount will be automatically calculated.
The system supports both, English and Hindi languages.
Stakeholders are sent automatic messages and alerts during the challan process.
All relevant stakeholders can use the system because of the presence of a user-friendly interface. Enforcing agencies or officers carry the Android smartphones wherein the mobile app is available. The web application is for all other stakeholders to use – citizens of the country, the state and regional transport office, Ministry officials etc. Since the system is automated and uses cutting age technology, it ensures the integrity of data as well as reliability and transparency. In states where the system is already up and running, it has been proven that corrupt and bad practices have been reduced. At the same time, digitization of records has enabled the department to focus their attention on repeat offenders, repeat offences, payment defaulters etc.
The transport department in the country had lots of challenges in the manual challan issuing and tracking system. All these have been reported to be successfully countered by the online system of e-challan.


I tried using the iOS app to check the tension on my Gates Carbon Drive belt (centre-track, CDX I assume as it's driving a Rohlof) and I could not get a consistent measurement over the length of the belt. It varied between 35Hz and ~70Hz.
Is this what is causing the belt to make horrible noises and the spokes of my rear wheel to loosen, such that I've had to go around and tighten them three times within the space of a week?
[*] Might it be caused by "rolling the belt on" to the sprocket in direct contradiction to the Gates manual which says "don't do that" (pages 4, 16, 17)?
I understand that to measure the tension you pluck the belt and app measures the frequency. Anyone who plays guitar will know a string sounds differently when is plucked near the bridge compared to plucked closer to its center. Plucking near the bridge suppresses lower harmonics.
The app instructions should tell you where to pluck the belt, but halfway between the chainring and sprocket is probably the correct spot.
Find the tightest point, then mark the two sprockets and the belt (e.g chalk). Now turn the pedals looking for the next time you get the tightest point.
Is it happening every rotation of the front sprocket, or at a fixed point on the belt, or at the rear sprocket?
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Businesses which are failed to impress target audiences should review their Marketing and Public Relations (PR) activities. The only thing constant in this world is 'Change' and PR is also changing rapidly with the ongoing advancements in the world of marketing and brand development. PR in 2016 is drastically different than the PR of 2006. That's why, top PR agencies in India and abroad are making great efforts to revamp and re-engineer their services and work tactics.
Today social media is the high-speed vehicle for the digital PR that's fuelled by super content and driven by the growth-hackers on a digital track, straight and break-free. Digital Marketing is the turning-point of public relations growth in the realm of unconventional marketing and branding. And, it is the power of content that pushes PR in both traditional and digital format. Strategic, interactive, stimulating, engaging, and effective content is the catalyst of every marketing campaign. Creative content rules the world and gone are the days when people were not annoyed by the clichés and uncreative jargons. Right from the birth of a brand to its growth and maturity, the content creator should be creative enough to weave the story of a brand. Story attracts people but boring details distract the target customers. Now PR agencies can create a buzz using all types of communication media and content types in a variety of media vehicles.
Integrity in communication depicts strength and coordination and no doubt PR is heading towards the absolute integration of print, electronic and digital media. Hence, for a successful campaign there should be a uniformity in all the messages irrespective of the media or marketing vehicle. Whether it is the promotion of a brand on social media or participation of the same in an exhibition, its theme must remain same yet unique. In the nutshell, the content must have the freshness of ideas but it should be weaved very strategically that campaign on print media must support the campaign on social media or electronics.
The world is evolving at the speed of light, but there are many organisations still stuck in the traditional PR format for branding and image building. Yes, it is absolutely true that media relations play a vital role in effective PR propositions, but it is not the be all and end all of PR in the modern contest. Those who are recognising changes are benefiting from the revolutionized PR models in the digital age. The new model of PR is armed with right weapons of social media and mobile applications such as blogs, online forums, discussions, online gaming, video releases and many.
How should you approach doing PR?


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The link between the body and the mind and between emotion and the body are not clearly understood. However a number of physical therapies have been developed to attempt to improve psychological symptoms. Little systematic academic research has been conducted to evaluate their effectiveness and until this is done they should be regarded as pseudopscientific practices.
In alternative medicine, body work or massage therapy refers to any treatment which involves some form of touching or physical manipulation. It refers to massages or the application of pressure or vibration to the soft tissues of the body, including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and joints.
A survey released in May 2004 by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine focused on who used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), what was used, and why it was used in the United States by adults age 18 years and over during 2002. According to this recent survey, Body work, or massage therapy, was the 6th most commonly used CAM therapy (5.0%) in the United States during 2002 ( table 1 on page 8) when all use of prayer was excluded. Consistent with previous studies, this study found that the majority of individuals (i.e., 54.9%) used CAM in conjunction with conventional medicine ( page 6).
Mehling, W. E., DiBlasi, Z., Hecht, F. (2005). Bias control in trials of bodywork: A review of methodological issues. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 11(2), 333-42.


Lewis Ritson's rise to a European title shot has been as quick as each of his three British Lightweight title defences. His unwavering approach to boxing has made him the biggest ticket seller in Newcastle, and an attraction all over Britain.
Having not found a suitable dance partner to take him past the opening stanza's in the UK, Ritson 17-0(11KO's) looks to Belgium's Francesco Patera to take him into uncharted waters.
Patera 19-3(7KO's) was a proud owner of his Lightweight belt when he edged Edis Tatli (W SD 12 & L UD 12) last May, but was beaten 7 months later by the same man.
Patera is a hard working boxer who lacks a dig to go with his activity. He pushed Sean Dodd (L SD 10) all the way in his last visit to British shores, but was handily beaten by Yvan Mendy (L UD 12) several years ago.
Each of Robbie Barrett (W TKO 7), Joe Murray (W TKO 1), Scott Cardle (W TKO 2) and Paul Hyland Jr (W TKO 1) have come unstuck in the last 12 months when faced with the explosiveness of 'The Sandman'.
Even going back a bit further he is one of just five to stop the tough Jordan Ellison (W PTS 6 & W KO 7) and one of just three to halt capable journeyman Nathan Hardy (W TKO 2).
With the upmost respect to Patera, this is not about whether Ritson gets the job done, but simply whether or not he can become the first man to stop the visitor.
Patera is unlikely to sink into his shell, so the answer to that question is a definitive yes. As he rises through the levels, Ritson is likely to meet a match to defuse his gung-ho style, but Patera is not that man, and through gritting his teeth early he can see himself reach the halfway mark, but no further as Ritson finds the finishing combination in the 7th.


Blue Cornbread: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In a food processor, combine the butter, cornmeal, flour, baking powder, eggs, and salt. Process 20 to 30 seconds, until just mixed. You may have to do this in 2 batches. Pour in the buttermilk and process for 20 seconds more. Pour into a buttered 12 by 12-inch pan, and bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until firm to the touch and golden. Cut into squares. Serve hot with red chile butter.
Red Chile Butter: In a food processor, combine the butter, chipotle, garlic, onion, and salt and pepper to taste. Process until completely mixed. Spread the butter in a cylinder about 1-inch in diameter along the long side of a sheet of parchment paper or waxed paper, leaving a 1-inch border. Roll up the butter in the paper to make a log. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.


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HMRC 'is taking a punitive approach' to care worker back-pay issue
15 November 2017 by Andy Ricketts
The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group says there is a lack of clarity with the scheme to make care charities give sleep-in staff back pay within 15 months
A charity representing more than 80 voluntary sector and not-for-profit disability and care organisations has accused the government and the taxman of taking a punitive approach to charities over the back-pay issue for sleep-in care workers.
The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group accused HM Revenue & Customs of "bullish tactics" and of sending "ultimatum letters" that give organisations 30 days to sign up to a voluntary scheme drawn up by the government to resolve the issue.
The VODG said there was a lack of clarity around the scheme, making it difficult for its members to decide whether they should sign up.
Sleep-in care workers, who are widely used in the sector to care for vulnerable adults, were typically paid a flat rate of between £35 and £45, with workers receiving either the national minimum wage or the national living wage for any hours actually spent providing care rather than being asleep, according to VODG.
But in the wake of two employment tribunal decisions from last year, the government changed its guidance to ensure that the national minimum wage applied to sleep-in carers for the entirety of the time they are present.
Mencap estimated in the summer that the back-pay bill could cost the sector £400m and bankrupt many social care charities and providers.
Earlier this month, the government and HMRC published details of a scheme that gave providers a year to identify what they owe and a further three months to pay off the arrears.
But charities criticised the announcement, with Mencap saying that organisations signing up to the scheme could be "writing their own suicide notes".
They want the government to foot the bill because they believe the issue has arisen as a result of the government providing incorrect guidance on the matter.
In the VODG statement yesterday, Steve Scown, chair of the organisation, said: "There are too many unresolved questions for providers to make an informed decision as to whether to join the government's compliance scheme.
"In the absence of answers, and funding to cover the back-pay bill, HMRC's approach and the timeframe it is imposing is unhelpful to a sector that is at full stretch financially."
The chief executive of one disability charity, who did not want to be named, said: "This appears to be a concerted and planned campaign by government to undermine the sector when a constructive, not punitive, approach is needed.
"At a time when we need more funding for social care, the sector is instead being hammered by the HMRC, intent on taking away resources from the sector."
An HMRC spokesman said the government had consistently made it clear that all employers were expected to pay workers according to the law.
"The social care compliance scheme is designed to maximise the prospects of workers being paid arrears owed to them, while at the same time protecting existing jobs and the stability of the sector," he said.
"HMRC is engaging with the sector to help providers consider whether they are eligible for the scheme. As part of this we have contacted all social care providers who were already subject to a National Minimum Wage investigation at the scheme's launch and where we have received a worker complaint."
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Fred Bernard Phillips, Jr.
May 17, 1947 — August 5, 2021
WADESBORO – Mr. Fred Bernard Phillips, Jr., 74, died Thursday, August 5, 2021 at Wadesboro Health and Rehab in Wadesboro. Fred was born May 17, 1947 in Richmond County, NC and was a son of the late Fred Bernard Phillips, Sr. and the late Helen Louise Anderson Phillips. He was a 1966 graduate of Hamlet High School and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He worked for many years as a truck driver, having worked for Howard Lisk Trucking and Max Kendall Trucking. Surviving are his children, Crystal Jean Phillips (Lindsey Hathcock) of Wadesboro, Angela T. Gurley (Szhon) of Clarendon and Chris Phillips (Lori) of Wingate; his grandchildren, Krista Elizabeth Phillips (Shamara) of Hamlet, Jonathan Kyle Phillips (Nicole McLain) of Arlington, TX, Alex Walsh of Polkton, Ryan Phillips (Meredith Younger), Devin Phillips, Riley Hyatt and Marta Hyatt all of Wingate and Dana Williams of Wadesboro; his great-granddaughter, Kyristen Graham – Purcell of Hamlet; his sister, Marsha Bruton (David) of Hamlet; his nephew, Johnny A. Johnson of Hamlet and his canine companion, Odie. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Becky Jean Hooks Phillips and by a granddaughter, Kaylen L. Phillips. There will be a memorial service at a later date. The arrangements are in care of Leavitt Funeral Home and online condolences may be made at www.leavittfh.com
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The Lagos State Signage and Advertising Agency (LASAA) Monday said the agency's operations had no political colouration.
The agency's assertion came on the heels of a report that five of its officials destroyed the campaign billboards of the Lagos State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Jimi Agbaje.
A statement by Mr. Mobolaji Sanusi, LASAA Managing Director, said the officials were on routine cleaning exercise when Agbaje's supporters attacked them.
The LASAA boss said the agency had been inundated with over fifteen petitions from existing owners of advertising infrastructures, especially the streetlamp posts on major highways in the state.
"As an agency, we owe practitioners the duty of protecting their investment wherever we can. It is unfortunate and shocking that some thugs molested our staff in the course of discharging their lawful duty of removing illegal outdoor materials/structures from the highways consequent upon complaints from registered practitioners who carry out their legitimate businesses along such corridors in the state," he said.
Noting that it is evident in recent times that the agency has been battling the menace of environmental blight arising from illegal and indiscriminate political posters, such as A-Frames and other outdoor advert materials, Sanusi said in compliance with its statutory duty of ridding the state of illegally deployed outdoor materials/structures, the agency had been in the forefront in its advocacy efforts to ensure safety of lives as well as protecting the investment of all registered practitioners and advertisers operating along the various corridors in the state.
He said: "It will be wrong to read political meaning into the action of our men. Regularly, our men engage in cleaning exercise and no political affiliation is taken into account in doing this. All we are interested in is the cleanliness of our dear state and this action predates this current political era. We clean up whether or not there is election coming or not. It is just that we have to do more when there are polls coming because that is when politicians deface our state. All political parties and their candidates must contact our agency to clarify where campaign materials can be deployed. We believe election campaign materials should not devalue the huge investments of Advertisers and Outdoor Advertisement Practitioners who already paid their permit fees to LASAA.
"We enjoin political parties and politicians to comply with the extant law in deploying political campaign materials/structures, especially the ones that impinge on public safety and with the potential of undermining/demarketing the investment of registered practitioners in the state. Till date, negligible percentage of these politicians/parties complied and the noticeable infractions occur on major highways across the state. We have a job to do and we're doing it in tandem with provisions of extant laws. We are shocked that some thugs molested our staff in the course of discharging lawful duty of removing illegal outdoor materials/structures from the highways consequent upon complaints from registered practitioners in the state. They were molested and taken to the Pedro Police Station. Lagos environment and its cleanliness is so important to us and we'll do everything to sustain this.


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Why Do We Love Sad Songs?
Posted on December 28, 2011 by pls
My sister recommended I listen to this story on PRI's "To the Best of Our Knowledge."
The show looks at sad songs from classical, rock, jazz, and country music.
Program 10-12-12-B: "Why Do We Love Sad Songs?" originally aired on Dec. 12, 2010.
They break up the hour-long program into three segments: Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, a little psychology linking speech and music, "pop" music (which includes rock, jazz, and country), and Bach's Cello Suites.
As far as the Adagio goes, I will always be reminded of a time I helped write public service announcements. It was for a domestic violence shelter and our boss joked that every script should have that song as the background music. The other thing I think about is probably the most famous scene from Platoon.
At one point, while talking about the structure of the Adagio, they said the melody plays through three times, at which point it reaches a climax. And then silence. Those six seconds may be the loudest part of the song. And from there, the piece is just exhausted with itself and is trying to find an end. But it never quite resolves, so Barber finds a way to give it a sort of benediction.
That exhaustion and lack of resolution is what I think make Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" a truly sad song.
They also talk a little about speaking sadly, which roughly follows the same tone patterns as music. Once, long ago, I wrote a song (albeit, not a sad one) by recording the one line I had and looping it over and over. Eventually, I built my melody around what I heard in my own natural speech patterns. I had forgotten about this, so when I heard this research, it was like hearing something from a dream I had once. I think this, as opposed to making the words fit the melody, is a better way to write songs.
They also mention that adding cello to a rock song is a sure-fire way to make a sad song sadder. I admit that one song I am working on has cello for the first two-thirds of the piece in an effort to emphasize its emo-indie roots.
As I post, if there is a sad song, I will tag it back to this post. If there is some sad song you want me to talk about, or if you want to do a guest post, just let me know.
Among the other music they cite as being sad, they include:
"Greensleeves," which, although minor, I do not think of as sad. Whether you are singing about the Lady Green Sleeves or Jesus, that song brings more wonder than sadness.
Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven," which was certainly written at a hard time in Clapton's life. His then four-year-old son, Connor, fell 53 stories from a window. But the song itself does not make me feel sad.
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which, although not an up-beat song by any means, I feel is more hopeful than sad. That is also how I feel about
R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts." At the end of the song, Michael Stipe sings "Hold on." What could be more hopeful?
A variety of country and jazz songs that make me want to listen to more of those genres.
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As of Jan. 4, 2012, the saddest song I think I have written about is Dispatch's "Turn This Ship Around," from their self-titled 2011 EP.


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How and Why to Transform Your Business into a Digital Ecosystem
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By Anant Jhingran, Products for API Management, Google
This article was prepared by a guest contributor to ProgrammableWeb. The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the view of ProgrammableWeb or its editorial staff.
By now, most business leaders know that in today's landscape, all businesses need to be technology businesses. It's the sort of catchy truism that can sound good in a PR statement—but when it comes to actually running a company, what does "be a technology business" really mean?
There's a big leap separating the recognition of a general imperative—like Digital Transformation—and the execution of strategies that successfully fulfill that imperative. Put another way, it's easier to understand that your business needs to operate like a software business than it is do anything about it.
So let's make the abstract digital transformation imperative more tangible by focusing on the mechanics of one of its most hyped and most important elements: the ecosystem.
What is a digital ecosystem?
To a degree, digital ecosystems are easy to visualize because most of us participate in several of them as consumers. If you use mobile apps on your smartphone, you're probably participating in the iOS or Android ecosystem. If you use Google Maps to route your directions when driving yourself and a ridesharing service that uses Google Maps when you need someone else to give you a lift, you're connecting with the Google Maps ecosystem from multiple angles. When you use Facebook or Google to authenticate a subscription with the New York Times or Washington Post, you're engaged with more ecosystems in action. You get the idea.
As technologies advance and use cases become richer and more intricate, interconnections among ecosystems become astronomical in number, variety, and complexity—and that's where it gets hard. Launching mobile apps or leveraging services such as Google Maps are examples of ecosystem plays—but the full scope of ecosystem strategies involve so much more.
So, how can enterprises participate in ecosystems and maybe even form their own?
At its core, ecosystem participation isn't about being on a given Platform or launching a certain type of app—it's about not doing things alone. As demonstrated by the aforementioned examples where ridesharing services use Google Maps and newspapers rely on Facebook or Twitter for Authentication, as digital products become more interconnected and complex, no single company will own all the pieces of the customer experience. Ecosystems represent a future in which companies leverage their core strengths while using other providers' strengths to drive growth.
With mobile apps, universal authentication, and all other other examples listed above, the end User Experience grows richer and more complex because it's composed of services from a variety of providers, often by way of application programming interfaces (APIs). Consumers are attracted not just to single apps or capabilities, but to the continuous connected experiences among them. It's this critical mass of consumers and providers that make ecosystems so powerful, enabling non-linear growth to occur as rapid gains in parts of the networks translate in a Flash to expansion elsewhere.
Value in modern economies, then, is created by interactions among apps and APIs across ecosystems. Participating in these ecosystems requires expressing core business capabilities as APIs, then making those APIs accessible and interoperable— that is, designing and managing the APIs not as Integration technologies, but as products that empower developers to build new digital experiences around your business. The goal is to turn your business into a digital platform that can engage with other platforms to deliver value when, where, and how customers demand it.
Still sound complex? Let's look at some real-world examples.
All companies have valuable capabilities. Pitney Bowes has a 100-year history rooted in mailing and shipping solutions, for example. During that span, the company has amassed data and technical capabilities around a range of complicated digital logistics and e-commerce areas. These are assets that many other companies cannot easily develop—which makes them potentially valuable in an ecosystem.
Pitney Bowes now manages these valuable digital assets via an API platform with more than 160 public APIs and 400 internal APIs. While the internal APIs have helped accelerate production of Pitney Bowes' own apps by making services easier for developers to repeatedly leverage, the external APIs, delivered via the company's Commerce Cloud, have attracted outside developers who want to build apps and services around Pitney Bowes capabilities, combining them with other APIs. This—along with other initiatives, such as the use of Android in the company's newest SendPro-C devices—creates a series of developer ecosystems around Pitney Bowes services, opening new opportunities that company leaders have credited with tens of millions of dollars in new revenue.
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Walgreens is also an excellent example. It also possess a range of unique services that can be expressed through software—prescription fulfillment, photo printing, customer loyalty programs, etc. By managing these assets via its API platform, the company has made it easy not only for its internal developers to more quickly create new products but also for external developers and partners to build Walgreens capabilities into their apps. As a result, the Walgreens customer experience no longer occurs solely within stores; instead, stores are one dimension of a cohesive, rich set of experiences that seamlessly traverse both online and brick-and-mortar spaces. Likewise, the Walgreens value chain is no longer influenced just by traditional players, such as packagers and shippers of physical goods; they're increasingly governed by ecosystems of developers and software that allow the brand's presence to manifest across new interaction models and use cases.
The key takeaway in both of these examples is that the companies are leveraging their particular strengths while engaging with ecosystems to complete the full value chain. Again, in an increasingly connected world, no single company is likely to possess all the pieces necessary to satisfy rapidly changing market dynamics and consumer preferences.
You Won't Be the Center of Every Ecosystem
Even once a company has accepted that it should engage with external ecosystems, the right strategy can be elusive. Part of the problem is this: It's one thing to engage with other ecosystem participants via platform strategies, but it's something else altogether to aspire to be the platform—the dominant, gravitational center of the ecosystem.
The appeal of gravitational platforms is obvious; if your business sits at the center of the ecosystem, with billions of suppliers and consumers interacting with one another through your services, there's a good chance your company is basically printing money.
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That sounds great—but needless to say, it isn't easy. Offering the platform that everyone else wants to build on means spending billions in innovation research every year. It also generally means being one of the first platforms in your particular space; because successful platforms facilitate non-linear growth around them, if your company hits the market late, it had better have a superior product—because it may need to convert millions of suppliers and consumers already happily habituated to the competition. Becoming a dominant, gravitational platform is possible, but for many businesses, it won't be the right first step.
Instead, many businesses may be better off leveraging existing platforms to drive more users toward their services and capabilities. Developer ecosystems already exist around platforms such as iOS, Android, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and many others, for example—so if you're not in a position to disrupt the market with a new platform, you should be finding ways to bootstrap from these existing foundations. This means, among other things, focusing on evangelism within these communities and designing APIs as products for developers.
This focus on partnering into ecosystems, rather than attempting to immediately position oneself at the center, can facilitate rapid user growth that over time can give a platform more gravitational qualities. Many sharing economy apps began by bootstrapping off other platforms, for example, but have since become major platforms in their own right. They key to getting there is to remember that ecosystems aren't always about sitting at the center—they're about leveraging other participants' resources to create better, farther-reaching, and more powerful services than most single companies could ever build alone.
Be sure to read the next API Strategy article: How to Prioritize API Integrations
Anant Jhingran Anant Jhingran (PhD Berkeley) leads Products for API Management at Google. In his role, he looks after technologies to build API driven ecosystems and platforms. Prior to this role, he was the CTO at Apigee, where he helped build out the leading API Management platform used by hundreds of enterprise customers.
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