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Gen.G promotes several staff, strengthens C-level global team
Tom Daniels 16 June 2021
Multinational esports organisation Gen.G has announced several backroom staff changes with multiple personnel being promoted.
Clarissa Avendano and Martin Kim have been promoted to the position of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Revenue Officer respectively. In addition, Gina Chung Lee has been appointed as the organisation's Chief Marketing Officer. All three names held senior executive roles at Gen.G.
RELATED: Gen.G Tigers of Shanghai relocates to University of Kentucky
According to the announcement, the esports organisation has credited its growth in 'education, partnerships and competitive teams' as the reasoning for the promotions.
Another key promotion is Silvia Hong, formerly Gen.G Korea's Senior Director of Operations, who has been named VP of Operations for its Korean division. Moreover, Jihun Lee has been appointed as VP, General Manager for the organisation's Korea office, which oversees its League of Legends, PUBG and Overwatch League teams.
The Gen.G Global Academy has also formally introduced Guan Wang, who was previously at education technology start-up VIPKID, as its President. Chung Lee and Kahlil Keys, who is Gen.G's Director of Strategic Initiatives, will also become advisors for the Gen.G Foundation.
Chris Park, CEO for Gen.G, commented: "We believe the future of learning will be inspired by the present and future of play.
"The diverse talents of our leadership team — drawing from sports, fashion, and edtech — will guide Gen.G's open-minded commitment to both. Tiger Nation welcomes all people who want to get ahead through their passion for games."
RELATED: University of Kentucky, Gen.G and ISA join forces to launch student exchange programme in South Korea
The announcement follows on from Gen.G Global Academy, the organisation's education-first platform, having its first graduating class. As part of the first class, students received their college acceptance letters.
Gen.G Global Academy features the Gen.G Elite Esports Academy, the Gen.G Scholarship Foundation, and Gen.G's learning-focused content programme #WorkFromHome.
Esports Insider says: Gen.G's promotions and emphasis on developing its academy project should hopefully bolster the esports job development ecosystem. Only time will tell if these changes have any major impact on the Gen.G Global Academy and the organisation's growth.
Apex Legends Mobile is shutting down Game developer Respawn Entertainment and publisher Electronic Arts (EA) have announced plans to sunset Apex Legends Mobile. The two parties stated despite a strong start, the 'content pipeline' for the…
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Video: Rob links Winton at Matsuri – Garage Dusty Exciting Car Team!
Although his weekend was interrupted, Rob did manage to lay down this blistering run.
I'm off to Perth tomorrow for a few days, will post the rest of my Matsuri photos when I get back. Stay tuned for a much more comprehensive version of this video in coming weeks too. Won't give too much away, but I will say we had multiple cameras on Rob's car all weekend and we've got some more great footage to share!


What. Just. Happened? Danny MacAskill just blew our minds and is about to break the internet again with Cascadia, a mesmerising ride across the rooftops and high walls of Gran Canaria. Danny takes us on a crazy POV journey that will leave your jaw on the floor. If you only watch one MacAskill film ever again in your whole life it's going to be this one!


Do you have a burning question about tech? Well, it's time to ask Jon Rettinger and hear him answer one of your pressing queries on video. Until 3 PM PST on Thursday, July 5th, leave a comment with your question for him, and then you'll be able to see him answer them in a video posted to our Revision 3 TechnoBuffalo channel on Monday at 5 PM PST.
Is RIM in trouble or not?
What did he think of the Nexus 7?
Is he sad the mysterious webOS phone was never released?
How awesome was it having Sean Aune, the Editor-in-Chief in the Irvine office for two and a half weeks?
Remember, you only have until 3 PM PST on Thursday, July 5th to submit your questions via the comments on this post or on Twitter to join in the fun!


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Warriors in the Community are delighted to announce that we will continue delivering Employment Training to young adults in to the New Year.
This will be the Community Programmes 4th Intake of a Stage 2 Falkirk Council Employability Programme delivered at the football club by Head of Community Football William Hoggan.
William added; "We are excited to bring a new group of young adults along to Ochilview Park next week to help them achieve some of their goals in life. They will be with us for 12 weeks and we will work on various activities such as; 6 SQA units to help the group achieve their Falkirk Employability Award, we will develop their IT and Online Learning skills, deliver activities based on communication and team building and mainly to help get them more ready for the work place or into further education".
William will deliver each day of the course with support from Senior Community Coach Danny Newbigging and support from the Falkirk Council Employment Training Unit Team.
The new group of 8 young adults will start on Tuesday 5th December at Ochilview Park.


Peking Palace workers serve samples to Taste of SI attendees. The restaurant, which has been featured all 21 years of the Taste, this year featured chicken lo mein and crab rangoon.
From left, Taste of SI founder Michael Tison of Harrisburg and state Sen. Dale Fowler of Harrisburg said the 21st Taste of SI will help clothe numerous children across southern Illinois.
Mackie's PIzza of Harrisburg, which has attended every Taste of SI, featured an out-of-the box selection for 2019: crab rangoon pizza.
Rupert Johnson, left, owner of Johnson's Southern-Style Barbecue, speaks to an attendee of the Taste of SI Sunday. Johnson's Barbecue has been a staple of Taste of SI for the past 20 years.
Music at Taste of SI was provided by The Penguins. From left are Melinda Tolley, Bruce Boone, Greg Hodson and George Sisk. Not pictured: Jim Smith.
A server for Purple Toad Winery of Paducah, Kentucky pours a sample. Purple Toad has attended Taste of SI for the past three years. This year, they offered a variety of wines including their Red Sangria, Lauren's Blackberry, and Paducah Harbor.
Koerner Distributor/Speakeast Liquors was one of the featured vendors at Taste of SI.
HARRISBURG -- Once again, a sellout crowd enjoyed samples of the finest fare southern Illinois has to offer as the 21st Taste of Southern Illinois hosted food and drink vendors from across the region Sunday while raising money to clothe the children of southern Illinois.
"It makes my heart warm, so many fine people of Southern Illinois coming together in support of SI kids. It's just a fun event with great food, which makes for a good formula. It really is the food and the restaurants that bring people here," said Michael Tison, founder of the Taste of Southern Illinois.
State Sen. Dale Fowler, R-Harrisburg, chairman of the board of the Fowler Bonan Foundation, said the success of the event means more children in southern Illinois will be provided with new clothes and coats. The foundation's Clothes for SI Kids is the beneficiary of money raised from the event.
"People love coming to this event, and as Michael said for our clothes for kids' program, this is just going to help us clothe more underprivileged children of Southern Illinois; people support that, they support the event, so it's a win-win. We really couldn't do it without the restaurants' support," Fowler said.
The event featured both local favorites, like Peking Palace, Johnson's Southern-Style Barbecue and Mackie's Pizza, in addition to other popular venues from the region like Marion Red Lobster, Koerner Distributor/Speakeasy Liquors, and Purple Toad Winery of Paducah.


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OSCEOLA - Anthony J. Castagna, 43, died Sunday in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Mishawaka, after an illness. Survivors include a son, Joshua; two sisters, Margie Laws of Valparaiso, Ind., and Donna Dills of Shorewood, Ill.; and a brother, Andrew of Portage, Ind. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Chapel at Graceland Cemetery, Valparaiso. There will be no visitation. Palmer Funeral Home-Guisinger Chapel, South Bend, is handling arrangements.


Like every person I have my disadvantage! I do not want to hide it!
Unpredictability is my second name! Today I want a quiet home evening, and tomorrow dinner at the ocean with delicious dishes! The only thing I'm 100% sure about is that I'm ready for the family! If I made a choice - I will never betray!!
There are no special criteria! If you both feel sympathy for each other - what barriers can there be?
I've never been afraid to make difficult decisions! Choosing between "YES" and "NO", I will choose "YES"! It's better than regretting that I have not tried it! I want to be chosen without a doubt!


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MU gives $5,000 for downtown historical restoration
Manchester University's roots in North Manchester go deep – all the way back to 1889.
To honor that 127-year connection, the University has donated $5,000 to the North Manchester Historical Society for the façade restoration project at the Center for History.
"The center is a great asset for the town, and we want to help the historical society in its ambitious project to restore the downtown building," said MU President Dave McFadden, who hand-delivered the check to society President Mary Chrastil.
The historical society is raising money to restore the former Oppenheim Department Store building at 122 E. Main St. to its 1925 appearance.
"The façade restoration is the largest we have undertaken since we bought the building in 1999," Chrastil said. "We are confident we can reach our $215,000 goal, but as a private not-for-profit with no regular government support, we cannot be successful without out-of-the-ordinary support. Manchester University's backing is crucial in helping us complete the project."
The society serves the community with its museum, educational programs, research and artifact collecting.
The North Manchester Center for History tells the story of the history of the Eel River Valley. In the past year, about a third of its exhibits have been updated.
The Center is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Its collection includes more than 28,000 documents, photographs and three-dimensional artifacts. This includes a section on Manchester University history.
For more information about the center or how to donate to the project, call 260-982-0672.
Manchester University, with campuses in North Manchester and Fort Wayne, is one of six colleges across the nation grounded in the values and traditions of the Church of the Brethren. The University offers more than 60 areas of academic study to 1,500 students in undergraduate programs, a Master of Science in Pharmacogenomics, Master of Athletic Training and a four-year professional Doctor of Pharmacy. Learn more about the private, northern Indiana school at www.manchester.edu.
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Ethelbert Lort Phillips (Wales, 1857 – Darthmouth, 15 oktober 1943) was een Britse zakenman, jager en amateurnatuuronderzoeker. In Noorwegen werd hij vooral bekend omdat hij daar (nog steeds bestaande) vakantiehuizen liet bouwen voor bemiddelde toeristen die op zalm en forel wilden vissen in Sunndal (Møre og Romsdal).

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Ethelbert Edward Lort Phillips was een van de vier kinderen van het echtpaar Richard Ilbert Lort Phillips (1819–1860) en Frederica Isabella de Rutzen. Ethelbert trouwde in 1891 met  Louisa Jane Forbes Gunnis. Als zo veel bemiddelde Britten maakte hij tussen 1884 en 1895 reizen naar Afrika om vogels en zoogdieren te verzamelen als zoölogisch specimen en voor de jacht op groot wild. Hij ontdekte twee nieuwe vogelsoorten in Somalië, de Somalische lijster (Turdus ludoviciae) en kortstaartleeuwerik (Pseudalaemon fremantlii). De Somalische tapuit (Oenanthe phillipsi) is als eerbetoon naar hem genoemd.

In 1886 kwam Phillips voor het eerst in Noorwegen om op zalm te vissen in de Noorse provincie Møre og Romsdal. Tot 1937 bracht hij samen met zijn echtgenote vaak daar de zomers door en liet er verschillende fraaie houten zomerhuizen bouwen in Schotse Hoogland-stijl.

Hij was zakenman uit Dartmouth in Devon en hij was daar tussen 1910 en 1911 burgemeester.

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Why this bar is partly liable for impaired driving accident
June 20, 2019	by Greg Meckbach
Offering 12 beers for less than half price might be a good way for your client to get a crowd of customers into its bar, but it is not necessarily the best risk mitigation strategy.
A Niagara area bar is 20% liable for an accident caused by an impaired driver, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in Hummel v. Jantzi, released June 13. The damages are greater than $10 million.
Wesley Hummel and Philip Jantzi were drinking with four companions at the All Star Tap & Grill House in the community of Pelham, south of St. Catharines, on the night of June 6, 2012.
They got a special deal, where a group can get 12 beers for $12. Each glass had about six ounces – or half a bottle – of beer.
At about 1:30 in the morning, Hummel was riding in the front seat of a vehicle driven by Jantzi. An accident left Hummel with a catastrophic brain injury. Hummel will never work again and require supervision and treatment for the rest of his life, Justice Gerald Taylor found in his 88-page ruling.
Hummel and his family sued Jantzi and the All Star Tap & Grill. A 39-day trial was held October, 2018 through this past January. There was no debate about whether Jantzi was at least partly responsible. Jantzi pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol and causing bodily harm to Hummel.
One exhibit presented in court was a photo – taken shortly after midnight – of a pyramid made of 36 empty beer glasses at the group's table.
Justice Taylor ruled Hummel is 25% contributorily negligent for failing to wear a seatbelt, getting into a vehicle with an impaired driver and encouraging the driver to speed. This leaves Jantzi mostly liable while the bar is 20% liable.
Lawyers for the parties still have to submit their numbers so the court can finalize the judgement. Justice Taylor did assess the cost of Hummel's future care at more than $9 million and loss of future income at $1.7 million.
On June 6, 2012, the group of six went to the bar to watch Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals. They ordered four rounds of the 12-beers-for-$12 special.
A deal of this type is "specifically discouraged" by the Smart Serve program, Justice Taylor wrote. At the time, the bar's regular price for beer was $4.25 a bottle.
"It was the responsibility of the All Star to be vigilant to prevent someone who was intoxicated from putting users of highways at risk by taking steps to assure that the intoxicated patron would not operate a motor vehicle," he wrote.
Staff with the All Star had no idea whether Jantzi was in the care of a responsible person, no one asked who the designated driver was and staff did not know how much beer any one person in the group had consumed, wrote Justice Taylor.
The bar's owner was not there the night of June 6, 2012. The owner told the court, on cross examination, that the bar had no procedure in place to monitor how much any one person drank when the 12 for $12 special was served to a group.
Both employees working that night were Smart Serve qualified.
One of the servers testified that it did not appear that anyone in the group was drinking more than the others.
But Justice Taylor found that Jantzi drank about 20 beers, which is more than one-sixth of the beer served to the group. He also found that the bar did not have enough staff on duty. There were only two servers and no one was at the door, Justice Taylor found.
Jantzi's blood alcohol level was probably between .22 and .24% (more than twice the legal limit) when he left the bar, Justice Taylor found, citing expert witnesses. Jantzi had a blood alcohol level of 0.19% at 3:10 a.m. when his blood was tested.
A server agreed on cross examination that it is difficult to count the number of drinks any individual patron consumes if a group orders the 12 for $12 special.
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1 Comment » for Why this bar is partly liable for impaired driving accident
william hazelton says:
The judgement was wrong. This on the driver and his so called friends. You are ultimately responsible for your actions. Time to stop trying to spread the blame. Pathetic really.


Jennifer Greer is associate provost for administration for The University of Alabama. Previously, she was interim dean of the College of Communication & Information Sciences and chair of the Department of Journalism. She's served as a graduate director, department chair, associate dean or interim dean for 15 years. In addition, she's taught journalism and mass communication courses, including writing, reporting and digital media, at Alabama, the University of Nevada, and the University of Florida for more than 20 years. She also served as executive director of UA's Knight Fellowship in Community Journalism for two years, working in conjunction with The Anniston (Ala.) Star. Greer researches online news delivery, media effects, and sport and gender issues and has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and an edited book, Media Issues. She serves on the editorial boards several of three of the field's leading research journals: Mass Communication and Society, Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs, and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. Greer worked for The Kansas City Star as a business reporter and was managing editor of The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun's first online edition. She earned bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Missouri, a master's degree in political science from the University of Kansas, and a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Florida.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA – Attorney General Jeff Landry's Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (LBI) has arrested a New Orleans man wanted for an armed robbery committed in Hammond.
Jermaine White, 18 of New Orleans, was arrested by the LBI on July 6, 2017, for armed robbery. The investigation into White was initiated by the Hammond Police Department. When he could not be located, the LBI opened a fugitive investigation and located White on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. White attempted to flee, but was quickly apprehended by the LBI. He was booked into the Orleans Parish Prison as a fugitive from the Hammond Police Department.


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All that you will need for this is a mat, a yoga video (which are available easily on YouTube,) and some conviction. Yoga may not an instant way to lose weight, but, it definitely is the most reliable way to keep fit and lose weight in the long run. Apart from helping you to keep fit, the peace of mind it offers is felt from day 1 itself. Also, if you're up for it, join a yoga class with a few friends. Your motivation to keep fit shall shoot up instantly.
A great way to lose some flab and not get drenched or fall victim to mucky roads. Tried and tested. Indoor bicycling or spinning classes are widely available everywhere these days. Join with a few friends and cycle your way to fitness.
Exercise doesn't have to be boring. Add a little spice of fun to your workout regime with dance aerobics, Zumba, Bollywood dancing or Belly dancing, etc. a hoard of options are available for all the danceholics.
Try different combinations of floor exercises to keep fit. Base your exercises on whichever part of your body needs the most amount of attention. If that doesn't seem like a good option, try circuit exercises to tone your entire body.
Check out our blog on healthy and easy ways to lose weight.
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Both integrated in the applications and linked to the VBA-help for coders. A must-have for us ADX-users, I think.
BTW: Dmitry, maybe it's a good idea to set up a knowledge base which provides resources about the AddIn-programming?
Thank you for your idea. We will discuss this and will try to make a special page.
I think a good starting point would be a page where all demos which are in the forum are listed with a short description.


Rinderer Abstract's Exhibit "The Elixir of Color" was a success!
Artist Sherry Rinderer and her guests attended the opening reception at Agora Gallery in New York on June 15, 2017.
The exhibit appeared through June 30th; but several pieces are still available at Agora Gallery. They can be viewed in person at the gallery or virtually at Agora's online gallery ARTmine.
Contact us to arrange a time to view any of Sherry's pieces.


Ist ein interkulturelles Training auch etwas für Sie?
As part of the International Program (IP) at Hochschule Karlsruhe Technik und Wirtschaft, the new course on intercultural communication in business will start next Monday.
As always, it will be a comprehensive seminar, covering all aspects important for your internship in Germany based companies. We will talk about cultural topics related to day-to-day life in business, answer the "unspoken" implicit questions stemming from deeply rooted cultural expectations during discussion, in problem-solving and decision-making processes. Also we will discover your individual strengths and weaknesses, your motivation, and I will walk you through the whole application process. During your final exam, I will simulate an individual business interview with each of you.
If you wish to join the class, please apply with the career services and contact Anja Voges with the international programm in Room F 313.


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Important Days of February 2020
In the continuity of the series of Important days and themes, here is the list of Important Days with themes for the month of February 2020. Questions from this topic are frequently asked in the exam. Hence, it is very important to be aware of the days and its themes. Given below is the detailed information about important days, themes along with other relevant information.
1 Indian Coast Guard Day- February 01
2 World Wetlands Day- February 02
3 World Cancer Day- February 04
4 International Day of Zero Tolerance for female genital mutilation– February 06
5 National Deworming Day- February 10
6 World Pulses Day- February 10
7 World Unani Day- February 11
8 International Day of Women and Girls in Science-February 11
9 National Productivity Day-February 12
10 World Radio Day-February 13
11 National Women's Day-February 13
12 World Social Justice Day-February 20
13 International Mother Language Day/ Matribhasha Diwas-February 21
14 Central Excise Day 2020-February 24
15 World NGO Day- February 27
16 National Science Day-February 28
Indian Coast Guard Day- February 01
The Indian Coast Guard Day is celebrated every year on February 1.
The year 2020 marks the 43rd raising day of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG). The force protects India's maritime interests by enforcing maritime law over the territorial waters of India.
The ICG operates under the Ministry of Defence. Though the force was formally established on August 18, 1978, by the Coast Guard Act, 1978, but the interim ICG was established on February 1, 1977, to prevent sea-borne smuggling of goods.
For effective command and control, the Maritime Zones of India are divided into five Coast Guard Regions – North-West, West, East, North-East and Andaman & Nicobar. There are currently 42 Coast Guard stations along the coastal line of the country. Along with this, the force also has five air stations and 10 air enclaves.
World Wetlands Day- February 02
Celebrated annually on 2 February, World Wetlands Day aims to raise global awareness about the vital role of wetlands for people and the planet.
The Day also marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
Today's World Wetlands Day under the theme, 'Wetlands and Biodiversity,' is an opportunity to highlight the importance of wetland biodiversity conservation.
The significance of wetland biodiversity was stressed recently by the global IPBES assessment which identified wetlands as the most threatened ecosystem. This impacts 40% of the world's plant and animal species that live or breed in wetlands.
World Cancer Day- February 04
World Cancer Day is observed on the 4th of February every year to create awareness about cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally.
The theme for World Cancer Day 2020 is "I Am and I Will" to acknowledge that everyone has the capacity to act in the face of cancer.
International Day of Zero Tolerance for female genital mutilation– February 06
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is a United Nations-sponsored annual awareness day that takes place on February 6 as part of the UN's efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation. It was first introduced in 2003.
2020 Theme: "Unleashing Youth Power"
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women.
National Deworming Day- February 10
The National Deworming Day is being observed across the country on 10 February
Children and adolescents in the age group of 1-19 years will be administered a single dose of a safe medicine Albendazole in all states and Union Territories on the occasion.
Organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the objective of the day is to deworm children and adolescents to reduce the prevalence of parasitic worms in the intestine. It ensures that the worms are no longer a public health problem.
World Pulses Day- February 10
World Pulses Day is observed on 10 February. The day aims to create public awareness of the nutritional benefits of eating pulses.
On 20 December 2013, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to proclaim the year 2016 as the "International Year of Pulses (IYP)". The day aimed to recognize the value of pulses. In 2019, the UNGA proclaimed 10 February as the World Pulses Day. The day aims to increase the public awareness of the nutritional and environmental benefits of pulses as part of sustainable food production.
The theme of the World Pulses Day 2020 is Plant proteins for a sustainable future.
World Unani Day- February 11
World Unani Day has observed every year on 11th February.
This day is celebrated every year to mark the birth anniversary of great Unani scholar and social reformer Hakim Ajmal Khan. He was an eminent Indian Unani physician who was a versatile genius, a great scholar, a social reformer, a noted freedom fighter, a Unani medical educationist and founder of scientific research in Unani System of Medicine. He was one of the founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.
The main objective of World Unani Day is to spread awareness about health care delivery through Unani system of medicine through its preventive and curative philosophy.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science-February 11
On 11 February, the United Nations will mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
This year the theme is 'Investment in Women and Girls in Science for Inclusive Green Growth.
In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/70/212 declaring 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
National Productivity Day-February 12
National Productivity Day is observed on 12 February.
The day is celebrated by the National Productivity Council (NPC) to promote productivity culture in India. Also, National Productivity Week is celebrated from 12-18 February 2020. The day aims to propagate productivity, quality, competitiveness, and efficiency.
NPIA aims to bring forth innovative enterprises in different sectors. The main objective is to raise consciousness towards innovation and productivity. It encourages shareholders and database that helps in decision-making, improving system and procedures.
World Radio Day-February 13
World Radio Day is celebrated annually on 13 Feb. On this day, UNESCO has called on radio stations to uphold the diversity, both in a newsroom and on the airwaves.
Radio is a medium to educate and provide information. It also helps in promoting freedom of expression across cultures.
The theme of World Radio Day 2020 is "Radio and Diversity". The theme focuses on diversity and plurilingualism.
The main purpose of celebrating World Radio Day is to spread awareness among the public and the media to raise the importance of radio.
National Women's Day-February 13
National Women's Day 2020 was celebrated on 13 February in India
In India National Women's Day is celebrated on February 13, the day Sarojini Naidu was born in 1879. She was vocal about women's rights, women's suffrage rights, etc. Thanks to her struggles, the Indian National Congress agreed for the Universal Suffrage in 1931.
Sarojini Naidu, born in Hyderabad and educated in Cambridge was the powerful face of Women in the Indian Independence struggle. Indian Nightangle Sarojini Naidu shines both as an activist and as a poet. In 1925 Sarojini Naidu became the president of the Indian National Congress. Sarojini Naidu was one of the forefront leaders who led the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Quit India Movement.
She rewrites the history by becoming the first woman to hold the office of Governor in the Dominion of India.
For Women's Rights, suffrage and representation in organizations and assemblies she established Women's India Association in 1917. Given the exemplary work she did for the upliftment and empowerment of women in India, poet, and politician Sarojini Naidu's birthday is regarded as Women's Day in India.
World Social Justice Day-February 20
World Day of Social Justice or World Social Justice Day is observed on February 20 every year.
To raise voice against social injustice and to remove barriers regarding gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or disability World Social Justice Day is observed.
The theme of World Day of Social Justice 2020 is "Closing the Inequalities Gap to Achieve Social Justice."
International Mother Language Day/ Matribhasha Diwas-February 21
On 21st February, International Mother Language Day (IMLD) was celebrated as a worldwide annual observance of UNESCO.
International Mother Language Day is celebrated across the globe on 21st February to celebrate the linguistic diversity that exists in the world.
The theme for International Mother Language Day 2020 is 'Languages without borders'.
Central Excise Day 2020-February 24
Central Excise Day is celebrated every year on February 24 across India.
Central Excise Day is celebrated to encourage the employees of the excise department to carry out the central excise duty all over India in a better way in order and even to prevent the corruption in goods manufacturing business as well as implement other rules to carry out best possible excise services.
World NGO Day- February 27
World NGO Day is celebrated on February 27 every year to encourage people who are involved in this and devoting their time to help people in need.
In the year 2010, It was officially recognized by the member countries of the IX Baltic Sea NGO Forum Council of the Baltic Sea States in Lithuania.
The member countries of the Baltic Sea NGO Forum are Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Norway, Iceland, Latvia, and Denmark.
The First World NGO Day was celebrated on February 27, 2014, at Helsinki, capital of Finland.
National Science Day-February 28
National science is celebrated on February 28 every year to pay tribute to the discovery of the Raman effect by Sir C.V Raman. He did this discovery on February 28, 1928.
In 1986, National Council for Science and Technology (NCSTC) has requested the Government of India to mark February 28, as National Science day.
The First National science day was observed on February 28, 1987.
The Theme for the year 2020 is Women in Science.
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A Rewards & Attitudes Survey has found that professionals in the industry are mostly positive about the outlook for the real estate and built environment in 2019 - despite Brexit gloom.
More than half of respondents to the 20th RICS and Macdonald & Co. Rewards and Attitudes Survey - supported by ThisWeekinFM - expect their companies' revenues to increase as they benefit from new business opportunities. However, there is a shadow tainting the optimism, with more respondents expecting negative effects on their personal situation, their employer, sector and region because of Brexit.
33% expect investment in technology to increase versus 16% who expect such investment to decrease.
25% expect investment in staff training and development to increase versus 18% who expect such investment to decrease.
34% expect their company to increase the hiring of new permanent staff opposed to 22% who expect hiring or new permanent staff to decrease.
Commenting on the survey findings, CEO of Macdonald & Company Peter Moore said: "It doesn't surprise me that there is negativity surrounding Brexit. It is an emotive subject and the uncertainty caused by the whole process is unsettling all sectors of the economy. However, when asked to concentrate their minds, professionals in the real estate and built environment sector are more considered. There is huge investment in infrastructure across the UK – with projects such as HS2, Hinkley Point and Heathrow boosting business – and the underlying demand for new homes is proving difficult to supply.
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How Glocal Healthcare Systems ensures affordable quality treatment
Anik Basu | Edition:Feb 3, 2013
Glocal Healthcare Systems, headquartered in Kolkata, but with all its hospitals based in rural or semi-rural areas of West Bengal, hopes to change the face of rural health-care in the state - and subsequently in other parts of the country.
Dr Sabahat Azim Photo: Subir Halder
GLOCAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
LOCATION: Kolkata
BUSINESS: Health-care in rural, semi-urban areas
FOUNDED IN: July 2010
LED BY: Dr Sabahat Azim
COOL QUOTIENT: Runs five hospitals providing low cost, high quality facilities
Ashish Majhi, 22, gropes for words when asked what his ailment is. He can only describe the way he is bleeding. His father, uncomfortable in the alien trappings of the modern hospital where his son has been admitted, also does not know. It is left to a male nurse to explain. "He has fistula," he says.
Doctors at the 72-bed Glocal Hospital in Bolpur in West Bengal's Birbhum district, about 150 km from Kolkata, say the Majhis typify over a quarter of their patients: poor folk from rural backgrounds. Treatment for them is completely free, thanks to a central government health insurance scheme. Glocal has tied up with the government to implement the scheme in all its five hospitals in West Bengal. The Bolpur one aims to tap the 550,000 rural insurance policyholders in Birbhum district. "People said this is a very good hospital," says Ashish Majhi's father. "They said I had the card (insurance policy), and so I wouldn't have to pay anything."
But even those who are not part of the insurance scheme get top quality treatment at affordable cost. Glocal Healthcare Systems, headquartered in Kolkata, but with all its hospitals based in rural or semi-rural areas of West Bengal, hopes to change the face of rural health-care in the state - and subsequently in other parts of the country. "We are not catering to the luxury market," says Dr Sabahat Azim, CEO, Glocal Healthcare. "We want to deliver the health-care that I would like for my family, but at an affordable cost." While a regular Caesarean operation in a small town, for instance, costs about Rs 15,000, excluding doctors' fees, and up to Rs 1 lakh in a metro, at Glocal the charge is Rs 12,000, which includes the obstetrician-gynaecologist's and paediatrician's fees and five days' stay in an air-conditioned room. For insurance card holders such as Majhi, it is cashless.
Dr Azim, 38, a former Indian Administrative Service officer with a medical degree, says he hated his desk job and quit in 2006 to co-promote an e-governance venture. He left that to start Glocal in 2010 with former SEBI chief M. Damodaran as Chairman. His medical technology team is led by division CEO Saurabh Bhattacharya, an MBA from Harvard, and supported by Chayan Chatterjee, a Wharton graduate. In striking contrast, Glocal Healthcare's Chief Operating Officer Asutosh Srivastava started as a newspaper hawker.
Glocal's business logic is simple: cut the frills and keep costs low to earn Rs 25 lakh per month per hospital. All five Glocal hospitals have broken even in six months. In such areas, land costs much lower than in metros. Capital outlay is also tightly controlled - for example, Glocal hospitals do not have intensive cardiac units which cost patients an average of Rs 10,000 per day, but make do with high dependency units, which have nearly the same facilities, but cost around Rs 1,500 a day.
Glocal Bolpur Business Head Sanjay Mahapatra says the company's rural marketing team trains village paramedics and sources qualified doctors from Burdwan Medical College, the only medical college in the vicinity. It has formed a subsidiary, Indigram, to train nursing assistants and emergency medical technicians. "We also hold camps in villages to spread the word about the health insurance scheme," Mahapatra adds.
Technology too, is used wisely and economically. The Bolpur unit, for instance, does not employ a radiologist, but all radiological images are sent to a central lab in Lucknow digitally, which sends back prompt reports. Its model has found favour with venture capital funds Sequoia Capital and Elevar Equity, which have put up Rs 14 crore of the Rs 33 crore Dr Azim needed for the five hospitals. There are talks on with the financiers to fund an ambitious 50 more hospitals in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh. Each one, comprising 100 beds, is expected to cost Rs 8 crore.
Is rural health-care financially sustainable? Dr Azim says he is confident of 20 per cent net margins. "There are three major challenges in rural health-care - quality, scalability and retention of clinical experts," says Sandeep Sinha, Director of Health-care and Life Sciences Services, Frost & Sullivan. But Glocal's doctors wave away the challenges. "I was making tonnes of money back home in Jabalpur, I don't need money," says Glocal Bolpur's anaesthetist Inder Mohan, a former army doctor. "My work is here, with these people."
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Vinyl Love: Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
Band on the Run December 1973
In the very late 70's and early 80's when we only had one cable television network, I remember watching a Wings concert movie, I think it was footage from the 1979 UK tour, I remember the lighting and stage setup and I know that it was not Rockshow, I watched the replay at least three more times when it aired. It burned a spot into my memory. Songs like Live and Let Die and Band on the Run reached a whole new level of cool for me as I watched them be performed. Paul McCartney and his ensemble became something that I would never forget.
1. Band on the Run
2. Jet
3. Bluebird
4. Mrs. Vandebilt
5. Let Me Roll It
6. Mamunia
7. No Words
8. Helen Wheels
9. Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)
10. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
The making of Band on the Run was plagued with trouble that seemed to start with the McCartney's deciding to record the album in Lagos, Nigeria. The studio was was under equipped with a faulty sound board and a single 8-track tape machine. This was just the beginning.
During one session of recording Paul began gasping and choking for air. Thinking it was something inside the studio causing it, he was taken outside where his condition worsened. Paul eventually passed out from the lack of oxygen and was diagnosed with a bronchial spasm. The band was protested and publicly accused of coming to Nigeria to steal and exploit the music and sounds of Africa by political activists and local musicians. After one night of recording Paul and Linda were mugged, notebooks containing lyrics, demo tapes and personal valuables were taken. Lagos was not the exotic paradise locale that McCartney was hoping for.
The album turned out to be worth all of the trouble. Here in America the album reached number one on albums sales charts three diffrerent times and would sell over three million copies. Band on the Run peaked on thirteen international album sales charts, reaching number one on seven of them.
The album is loaded with some great songwriting and musical composition. The title track is a masterpiece all on its own, and I could go on and on about that song alone. I can listen to that song over and over with the tiny crackles and occasional pop when putting needle to vinyl. I love that song. Both sides are solidified with the likes of Jet, Mrs. Vandebilt, Helen Wheels and Picasso's Last Words.
On a sidenote, as I slowly add to my vinyl collection and work through playing the albums, it is incredibly rewarding to see my kids get into the music, especially when they haven't realized that they're doing it and it's fun when they try to deny it. I'm going to have to get sneak some video of that to post.
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Dada Shaheb Phalke Awardee K. Viswanath mesmerises UoH Students
Kuch cheezo ko hum choo sakte hai ,kuch cheeze mehsoos ki jaati hai,kuch cheeze sirf mehsoos ki jaati hai .Hamara music,dance,yoga jo saalo se hamare andra ki bhook ko shant karte aaya hai ,wo jo mehssos ki jaati hai. -SPICMACAY Discover Yourself
Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (SPICMACAY) organized an interactive session with the renowned director of Tollywood K. Viswanath in Savitribai Phule auditorium, University of Hyderabad. Kasunathi Viswanath is an Indian audiographer turned director, screenwriter. He is known for his work in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi Cinema. He was awarded the 2017 Dadasaheb Phalke Award. The session was preceded by screening of Swarnakamlam , one of the great films by the director. The screening was followed by an address by Professor Aruna Bhikshu , Head of Dance Department University of Hyderabad.
Professor Bhikshu an ardent follower of K.Viswanath gave a quick glimpse of the director's career span in Tollywood. In her own words, "He is a craftsmen who brought classical dance, music together in his work. He is someone who has contributed to the cultural history of India." She started the address by throwing light on the director's early life as an audiographer. His role as a screenplay writer was not known to everyone. In most of his movies dance, literature, music all become an integral part of the narration. Though dance is a recurrent theme throughout all his movies, he has made around 30 movies which deals with caste, untouchability, repression ,economic disparity and women's issues .Kaalam Marindi was one such movie on caste issue dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi. His movies are something that represented the society in all the actualities. This is evident from the fact that the villains in his movies were not classical Mokambo types. Here the villain was a normal being which one can relate to.
Professor Bhikshu says, "Sagara sangamam ,the musical dance film needs a special mention here. It was only after this movie that boys from my colony got themselves enrolled in dance classes. The mothers of that time wanted son like Kamal Haasan as portrayed in the movie. That was the power of the movie. In the form of message the movie clearly delineates two types of dancing .One where the person dances for himself. The other where the person dances for the stage, audience for the glory. To trespass the barricades of body is the magic depicted by Kamal Haasan in Sagara Sangamam ." Talking of Swarnakamlam she said it depicts the importance of Gurus, the Teacher. Gurus who themselves can't make both end meet are still shaping the lives of the students. The magic of the directors film was so that it got may Hindi remakes as well. Sirisirimuvva got remade in Hindi as Dafliwala, Swathikiranam got adapted in Hindi as Sur .The other movies she discussed were Subhasankalpam, Swathi Muthyam, O seetha katha, Sankarabharanam and Sruthilayalu.
After the discussion Dr. Zaidul Haque, the Cultural coordinator of the University felicitated Professor Aruna Bhikshu. After her address, the hall rose to welcome the renowned Director Shri K. Viswanath. The director once on Dias was asked for a initial note before Q & A session. Through the note he mentioned of the campus and his desire to study from such a place. The greenery, the ambience attracted him. Going along this note he addressed VC that let his application for the university be accepted for the next birth as he is too old in this birth to join for some program. During his interaction with the students he stressed on the importance of alignment of Mansa, Vaacha and Karmana in order to do justice to any work. That your mind, word and actions need to be in perfect harmony , only then the work will reflect your love.
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I am god; You are god; All is godness – or Material Reality, Transcendence and the difficulty of maintaining a both/and awareness
On February 11, 2013 January 31, 2013 By MaryIn growth into humanity, laughter, transcendence, vision and perspective
I recently finished re-reading Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land." I first read the book when I was in college, (it was quite the cult favorite back in the 60's and 70's). The memory that most resonated for me from when I first read the book was the word "grok" which means to drink deeply in the sense of deeply understanding or loving and becoming one with whoever or whatever is groked. As I read the book this time around the phrase that resonated equally for me was "thou art god" as an expression of the responsibility of each of us for the ongoing creation of our world, our universe, and also our oneness with all that is. Ah, I thought, if only we all really got that, we really could celebrate the unity and diversity – the diversity and the unity of all that is! And then, we really could deeply respect the dignity of all that is, and live lives of compassion and justice. If only!
And then I came across a story in Joseph Campbell's "myths to live by" that reminded me of the difficulty of keeping all of this in our awareness. Here is my ever so slightly tweaked version of the story:
Mara, a young spiritual aspirant whose teacher had just brought home to her the realization of herself as identical in essence with the power that supports the universe and which in theological thinking we personify as "god." In english, Mara just 'got' on every level the meaning of "thou art god." Mara, profoundly moved, basked in the euphoria of being one with the Lord and Being of the Universe, virtually levitated away in a state of profound absorption. Still caught up in the ecstasy of the realization, she walked though the village and came upon a great elephant bearing a load on its back and with the driver, riding – as they do – high on its neck, above its head. And our young candidate for sainthood, meditating on the proposition "I am god; all things are god," noticed that mighty elephant coming toward her, she added the obvious corollary, "The elephant also is God." The animal, with its bells jingling to the majestic rhythm of its stately approach, was steadily coming on, and the driver sitting on the elephant's head began shouting, "Clear the way! Clear the way, you idiot! Clear the way!" The young saint to be, in her rapture, was thinking still, "I am God; that elephant is god." And, hearing the shouts of the driver, she added, "Should god be afraid of god? Should god get out of the way of god?" The elephant and driver came steadily on, with the driver at its head still shouting, and Mara, in undistracted meditation, held both to her place on the road and to her transcendental insight until the moment of truth arrived and the elephant, simply wrapping its great trunk around our somewhat lunatic Mara, tossed her aside, off the road.
Physically shocked, spiritually stunned, Mara landed all in a heap, not greatly bruised but altogether undone; and rising, not even adjusting her clothes, she returned, disordered, to her guru, to require an explanation. "You told me," she said, when she had explained herself, "you told me that I was god." "Yes, said the guru, "all things are god." "That elephant, then was god?" "So it was. That elephant was god." "So why did that elephant not recognize me as god as well?" Mara retorted. And the guru smiled and asked, "Why did you not listen to the voice of god, shouting from the elephant's head, to get out of the way?"
Joseph Campbell credits this Indian fable to Ramakrishna. Both use the story to illustrate the difficulty of holding simultaneously in the mind the two planes of consciousness, the plane of material reality and the plane of the transcendent. So, there is a project to work on – fully groking the material world and the transcendent world even while we work to bring dignity, compassion and justice more fully into it all!
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Being that here in Italy All Saints Day is a Public Holiday we decided to make the most of nothing being particularly open and knock up a couple of hundred Km's of mountain roads and head north.
With the satnav offering the non toll route at 4 hours or the tolled version at an hour and a half, the choice was simple.
You couldn't really call the autostrada a motorway, but the dual carriageway is an engineering masterpiece, some clever soul has literally cut holes through the mountain side. So bridge followed tunnel, followed bridge, followed tunnel for about an hour we spent 80% under the ground!
So Paloma has come to rest in the small village of Torriglia (N44.516480 E9.160780), about 30km North of Genova, Italy.
We had no expections and picked on this Sosta purely due to the fact it was free, but what we found was amazing.
Parking up in the huge free Sosta with an amazing mountain view, we thought we had already hit Gold, but with the sun still shining and a huge ruined castle looming high above us an exploration mission was required!
Luckily for us, the town didn't just have a ruin, but an entire history trail for us to follow.
We followed the trail around the town, taking in all the sites from the old communal ovens through a few piazzas and then onto the huge church that dominates the town centre.
Eventually we made it to the crowning glory the ruined castle that had started this mission and it did not disappoint!
With the sun still filling the afternoon sky, we stopped off in the local bar for a glass of vino.


The sun-baked African savannah was usually not a quiet place, but right now, it was. The lions, rhinos and elephants were apparently content to lay low today. In the red oat grass and sour plums all was still, barring the rustling of a light breeze, an occasional bird flying past, chirping insect or small mammal on the move; and the hunting party of Sir Henry Samuel Dartforth III.
Henry was not very pleased at the moment. He and his party had expected more game out today. Consisting of Henry, William (another hunter he knew from Scotland), and a native guide, the party in question had been searching for suitable hunting for a number of hours. That only made the uncharacteristic lack of animals on that particular day all the more irritating.
"Musele!" the gray-moustached, pith-helmeted hunter called to his native guide. The tall ebony man was by his side in a matter of seconds. "We've been out here for ages. Why in the bloody Hell isn't there anything out here?"
"Well, sir…I'm not sure. I expected more as well."
"Blast! I can only spend so much time in country, you know. At this rate I'll only have three kills to show the lads back at the club. Most disappointing." He proceeded to take a drink from his water canteen. Musele rolled his eyes. He wasn't exactly crazy about the rich foreigners who more and more often traveled to his home land to shoot innocent animals, but unlike most from his tribe, he very much preferred guide work. He hoped Ngai would understand.
"Aye, better be something out there. I didn't bring this little wee gun for nothing." The large red-haired Scotsman spoke up in his broad accent while patting his .50 caliber elephant gun: the largest firearm any of them owned. Henry looked at his own rifle. True, it had gotten him through quite a number of scrapes, but for a moment he found himself wanting a bigger gun.
"Took the words right out of my mouth, old boy," Henry agreed as he replaced his canteen. "Our chances would be improved if we kept a stiff upper lip, I should think."
As the party continued trekking in silence through a particularly dense stand of camelthorn trees, Musele thought he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. It looked like he was the only one who could see it in the first place.
What he saw was a gorilla of average size, half-hiding behind a nearby tree. Which was quite surprising; gorillas weren't very common in this part of the land. What was even more surprising was the unusual, self-satisfied smirk on the gorilla's face. The cold, unrelenting eyes. He suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. The gorilla's mouth split into a wide smile…almost too wide. Musele shivered involuntarily and closed his eyes.
A second later when he reopened them, the gorilla was gone, yet the feeling of insecurity and chaos still lingered. He had almost no idea why a common animal shook him so. Was it his guardian? Musele felt it wasn't his place to know, which was disconcerting at best. The African turned back to his company, and Henry must have caught the shaken visage of his guide when he did.
"You look like you've seen a ghost! Is anything the matter?"
"No." Musele shook his head. "Maybe I'm feeling a bit under the weather." It was probably for the best that the Englishman stayed in the dark. The jungle seemed even more humid.
"Well, you know what I always say. A little bit of endurance in the face of adversity never hurt anyone, what! You can persevere my good man, I know you've got the strength of your kind." He playfully punched the arm of his black guide. Musele nodded.
Wiliam, his interest piqued, turned to look at Musele, and the tribesman looked back in turn. The look on his face told the Scot all he needed to know: something wasn't right. Musele took a swig of water from his canteen. That would have to do for now until he found out what was in store for him. William for his part didn't believe in ghosts.
The hunters eventually reached an open plain, with a few umbrella thorn trees scattered about. The grass grew halfway up their shins, the afternoon sun hung in a cloudless sky, and grazing on one of those trees a short distance away was a solitary giraffe. Henry and William almost jumped for joy, then realized that would have probably scared the thing away.
"You see it?" the Scot half-whispered. "That one's mine."
"The devil you say," Henry replied likewise. "You got that elephant back by the river two days ago, and the lion that was stalking it. This one's mine, old man." This was his first good potential kill in what felt like eons, and even if it was just a giraffe he wasn't about to let it slip away.
Always the good friend, William conceded, but that didn't stop him from huffing as his fellow compatriot readied his weapon. The other two men stepped back as he quietly prepared his rifle. Musele thought he could feel the same piercing eyes from before watching him from behind. He didn't really know what to make of the situation, so he just stood still and hoped the actions of his bloodthirsty charge didn't herald anything odder to come. He'd been through worse situations. Why was this one so tense?
Sir Henry kneeled and looked down the ironsights of his Magazine Lee-Enfield, drawing a bead on the unfortunate giraffe's head. He idly wondered if those leaves tasted as good as the creature made it seem, the way it was eating like that. He dismissed the thought. No time for that now. His finger caressed the trigger, and his breathing slowed. He was in his element, and soon he would have his trophy. The distant rumbling noise served as a…distant rumbling noise?
The giraffe looked up from its delicious meal. It saw the hunters. The hunters in turn saw that the streak in the sky was heading right for them, getting closer by the second. What seemed like an almost comical moment quickly became one of chaos as someone cursed, the sky darkened and the three men turned tail and ran, yelling in fright. The giraffe paused in its eating, ears swiveling about, then fled from the scene, long legs swinging.
The men were near the forest from which they emerged when they heard an outstandingly loud BOOM, saw a white flash of light on the trees before them and were knocked forward by a mighty shockwave. The last thing Henry did was go flying forward, bound for a hard landing with the red earth.
When Henry eventually came to, he was sprawled on the ground, rifle and helmet lying a few feet ahead of him, and he was plagued with a terrific headache. He staggered to his feet, fighting back a wave of nausea and brushing the dirt off of him. What he saw was his companions lying beneath the now orange sky in front of several trees, which were mostly bereft of leaves. What in the blazes happened?
He turned around. The ground rose up in a small ridge a distance from where he stood. A faint column of smoke rose from behind it. Henry finally put two and two together as he ran up to the edge.
He saw no sign of it amongst the strewn soil and rock matter. He seriously doubted it survived.
He was aware of footsteps behind him. He turned to see Musele approaching.
"It's gone," Henry said, deadpan.
The white man paused. Then he whipped around to face his guide.
"Well of course it's bloody gone! You didn't hear that giant explosion?!" Henry gesticulated towards the crater. "Come and have a look at this hole in the ground!"
The African chanced a look over the crater. A blanket of blackened soil greeted him, yet there was no sign of any giraffes. Henry sank to his knees, helmet off-balance; which it rarely ever was.
"To think…I haven't even shot half a dozen of the things. And now this." He gestured towards the hole again, now more disheartened than angry. "Still. I guess this might make a smashing story. Just wish I could've bagged the bugger."
The largest man among the group stumbled up to the crater's edge, groaning; seemingly as if he were half out of it.
"It's not fair, you know. Only three kills."
It seemed William was more than half out of it. Musele stumbled out of the way as the Scotsman tripped over an errant rock and crashed into Henry, who only noticed too late to move, sending them both over the lip.
He looked at them, rolling downward over the debris in one angry, noisy mass, to the helmet lying at his feet. The image of a grinning gorilla entered his head, and despite being the only one standing over the crater he didn't feel alone. Gone was the anxiety he felt before. Ridiculous laughter escaped his lips as he closed his eyes and spread his arms in the dry breeze.
And in the far reaches of the heavens, a trickster laughed as well.


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require 'spec_helper'
require 'ruby_event_store/spec/event_lint'

module Test
  TestCreated = Class.new(RubyEventStore::Event)
  TestDeleted = Class.new(RubyEventStore::Event)
end

module RubyEventStore
  RSpec.describe Event do
    it_behaves_like :event, Event

    specify 'default values' do
      event = Test::TestCreated.new
      expect(event.event_id).to_not           be_nil
      expect(event.data).to_not               be_nil
      expect(event.metadata).to_not           be_nil
      expect(event.data.to_h).to              eq({})
      expect(event.metadata.to_h).to          eq({})
      expect(event.timestamp).to              be_nil
      expect(event.valid_at).to               be_nil
    end

    specify 'constructor attributes are used as event data' do
      event = Test::TestCreated.new(data: {sample: 123})
      expect(event.event_id).to_not  be_nil
      expect(event.data[:sample]).to eq(123)
      expect(event.data).to          eq({sample: 123})
      expect(event.metadata.to_h).to eq({})
      expect(event.timestamp).to     be_nil
      expect(event.valid_at).to      be_nil
    end

    specify 'constructor event_id attribute is used as event id' do
      event = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: 234)
      expect(event.event_id).to eq("234")
      expect(event.data).to     eq({})
      expect(event.metadata.to_h).to eq({})
    end

    specify 'constructor metadata attribute is used as event metadata (with timestamp changed)' do
      timestamp = Time.utc(2016, 3, 10, 15, 20)
      event = Test::TestCreated.new(metadata: {created_by: 'Someone', timestamp: timestamp})
      expect(event.event_id).to_not          be_nil
      expect(event.data).to                  eq({})
      expect(event.timestamp).to             eq(timestamp)
      expect(event.metadata[:created_by]).to eq('Someone')
    end

    specify 'constructor valid_at attribute is used as event metadata (with validity time changed)' do
      valid_at = Time.utc(2016, 3, 10, 15, 20)
      event = Test::TestCreated.new(metadata: {created_by: 'Someone', valid_at: valid_at})
      expect(event.event_id).to_not          be_nil
      expect(event.data).to                  eq({})
      expect(event.valid_at).to              eq(valid_at)
      expect(event.metadata[:created_by]).to eq('Someone')
    end

    specify 'for empty data it initializes instance with default values' do
      event = Test::TestCreated.new
      expect(event.event_id).to_not  be_nil
      expect(event.data).to          eq({})
      expect(event.metadata.to_h).to eq({})
    end

    specify 'data can be anything' do
      event = Test::TestCreated.new(data: nil)
      expect(event.data).to be_nil
    end

    specify 'UUID should be String' do
      event_1 = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: 1)
      event_2 = Test::TestCreated.new
      expect(event_1.event_id).to be_an_instance_of(String)
      expect(event_2.event_id).to be_an_instance_of(String)
    end

    specify 'UUID should be unique' do
      event_1 = Test::TestCreated.new
      event_2 = Test::TestCreated.new
      expect(event_1.event_id).to_not eq(event_2.event_id)
    end

    specify 'UUID should look like an UUID' do
      event = Test::TestCreated.new
      uuid_regexp = /^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[1-5][0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i
      expect(event.event_id).to match(uuid_regexp)
    end

    specify 'two events are equal if their attributes are equal' do
      event_data = { foo: 'bar' }
      event_metadata = { timestamp: Time.now.utc }
      event = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: '1', data: event_data, metadata: event_metadata)
      same_event = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: '1', data: event_data, metadata: event_metadata)
      expect(event).to eq(same_event)
    end

    specify 'two events are not equal if their payload is different' do
      event_data = { foo: 'bar' }
      event_metadata = { timestamp: Time.now.utc }
      event = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: '1', data: event_data, metadata: event_metadata)
      different_event = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: '1', data: event_data.merge(price: 123), metadata: event_metadata)
      expect(event).not_to eq(different_event)
    end

    specify 'two events are not equal if their types are different' do
      TestDeleted = Class.new(RubyEventStore::Event)
      event_metadata = { timestamp: Time.now.utc }
      event = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: '1', metadata: event_metadata)
      different_event = TestDeleted.new(event_id: '1', metadata: event_metadata)
      expect(event).not_to eq(different_event)
    end

    specify 'an event and a random object are different' do
      event = Test::TestCreated.new
      object = Object.new
      expect(event).not_to eq(object)
    end

    specify 'only events with the same class, event_id & data are equal' do
      event_1 = Test::TestCreated.new
      event_2 = Test::TestCreated.new
      expect(event_1 == event_2).to be_falsey

      event_1 = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: 1, data: {test: 123})
      event_2 = Test::TestDeleted.new(event_id: 1, data: {test: 123})
      expect(event_1 == event_2).to be_falsey

      event_1 = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: 1, data: {test: 123})
      event_2 = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: 1, data: {test: 234})
      expect(event_1 == event_2).to be_falsey

      event_1 = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: 1, data: {test: 123}, metadata: {does: 'not matter'})
      event_2 = Test::TestCreated.new(event_id: 1, data: {test: 123}, metadata: {really: 'yes'})
      expect(event_1 == event_2).to be_truthy
    end

    specify "#hash" do
      expect(Event.new(event_id: "doh").hash).to eq(Event.new(event_id: "doh").hash)
      expect(Event.new(event_id: "doh").hash).not_to eq(Event.new(event_id: "bye").hash)

      expect(
        Event.new(event_id: "doh", data: {}).hash
      ).to eq(Event.new(event_id: "doh", data: {}).hash)

      expect(
        Event.new(event_id: "doh", data: {}).hash
      ).not_to eq(Event.new(event_id: "doh", data: {a: 1}).hash)

      klass = Class.new(Event)
      expect(
        klass.new(event_id: "doh").hash
      ).not_to eq(Event.new(event_id: "doh").hash)
      expect(
        klass.new(event_id: "doh").hash
      ).to eq(klass.new(event_id: "doh").hash)

      expect({
        klass.new(event_id: "doh") => :YAY
      }[ klass.new(event_id: "doh") ]).to eq(:YAY)
      expect(Set.new([
        klass.new(event_id: "doh")
      ])).to eq(Set.new([klass.new(event_id: "doh")]))

      expect(klass.new(event_id: "doh").hash).not_to eq([
        klass,
        "doh",
        {}
      ].hash)
    end

    specify "uses Metadata and its restrictions" do
      expect do
        Test::TestCreated.new(metadata: {key: Object.new})
      end.to raise_error(ArgumentError)
    end

    it_behaves_like :correlatable, Event
  end

end


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Once in a generation, the greatest poetic minds converge into a single evening. It is a beautiful gathering of precious souls and creative spirits, the likes of which will never be seen again. Until the next time.
Word Nerds! is the brainchild of Ben and Dom, a Prose & Cons live event hosted by the effervescent Stir Crazy staff. Of course, we could not do it alone! We are blessed with our acquaintance of Michele, Imani, and Roscoe of The Writer's Den as well as Richard Rose, Lanvi Nguyen, Koreena Lawson, Dante Ruff (Lithium God), and Priest. Dom and I even perform our own pomes!
If you couldn't make it out this time, never fear! We'll be doing more soon. Stay tuned, and thanks for listening.
Mikemetic is a man of many modes and balances life as a father, musician, community advocate, and educator with a constant influx of new creative engagements each year. He is an Honorary member of University of Richmond's Alpha Psy Omega Theater and Dance Society, a former Style Weekly "Top 40 Under 40" selection, and an author with a number of forthcoming titles. His 2017 release "Hood Haiku Volume One: Sidewalk Science" earned him the characterization as "part Public Enemy, part Zora Neale Hurston" and has allowed him to continue pushing forward the dialogue around art, culture, and identity. Mikemetic has also been a volunteer at WRIR for over a decade with 8 years as host of Middle East Coast Mecca, and several more years as a regular contributor and guest host on Mellow Madness and a number of other shows.
A.M. Pressman is an Indonesian-American poet living in Richmond, Virginia. Their work has appeared on Button Poetry and Write About Now, and explores issues of mixed Asian identity, family, faith, and trauma through personal narratives. They are currently an undergrad student at VCU. Their work has appeared on Button Poetry, Write About Now, Slamfind, and other publications. Pressman is the 2015 VCU Grand Slam Champion, 2016 CUPSI Best Poet Nominee, 2016 Southern Fried Indie Finalist, 2017 WOWPS and IWPS Representative for Washington D.C.'s Beltway Slam, and 2016-2017 President of VCU's internationally ranked poetry team, Good Clear Sound.
Lydia Armstrong lives and writes in Richmond, Virginia, with her two cats. Her work has appeared in Voicemail Poems, Blotterature, Neon, The Axe Factory, Arsenic Lobster, apt, and others. Her poem, "The November We Are Fifteen," was selected for the Crack the Spine Anthology XV and The Best Small Fictions 2017 (Braddock Avenue Books). She was a 2017 nominee for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2016, Lydia helped operate Slam Richmond, a local spoken word venue, and facilitated writing workshops in conjunction with Slam Richmond open mics, in high schools, and for private groups. She is currently working on a novel.
Wednesday, April 18, 7:00, 117 N. 18th St.
The second annual Lit Crawl is upon us! This year's events will be staged in various venues throughout Carytown and will feature dozens of local authors. We will be there to record readings and perhaps even give out some P&C swag! For more information, check out their website.
On the last Thursday of every month, poets and poetry enthusiasts gather at Infuzion RVA for The Writer's Den Poetry Slam. Poets include members of The Writer's Den slam team, as well as walk-on performers. Slams provide a unique experience: during the course of three rounds, poets advance (or are eliminated) based on the combined scores of judges from the audience. The growing success of these events is due largely to the efforts of the founder of The Writer's Den, Roscoe Burnems (one of our guests for our second-ever show, along with fellow TWD teammate Monica Edwards).
Last month, I attended my second Writer's Den Slam. Upon arriving, I was asked to be a judge. I was given a small whiteboard and an unexpected dose of anxiety. How do you judge a poem? How do you compare one poet to another? Turns out, it's as simple as it is stressful. I decided on a handful of basic criteria and tried to keep my cool when my score was met with pained yelps from the back of the room.
Each poem had its own distinctive style and tone. Some were bitter, cursing an ex-lover. Others downright hilarious. Two particularly charismatic performers were Michelle Dodd and Rob "Robalujah" Gibson.
"The Dodd is good…" "All the time." "All the time…" "The Dodd is good." Michelle Dodd is the only member of the Writer's Den who receives her own battle cry before each performance. Michelle is a black woman who was adopted by a white family, and much of her poems revolve around feeling out of place and uncomfortable in her own skin. She is also a musician, often incorporating ground-shaking vocal performance into her poetry. Michelle Dodd is a powerhouse poet. She has published two books of poetry, which you can find on her website.
Robalution. Robalujah. Robalu. Rob Gibson is a poet, artist, musician, and coach. This man breathes verse. While we were recording this episode, I saw that Rob was writing or doodling on some scrap paper while we spoke. Afterward, we saw that he had sketched each of us in the room.
Writing this, I realize that I actually know very little about Rob. Maybe that's part of his charm.
During our conversation, Michelle mentioned that another member of The Writer's Den once said that all poets can be classified as of the elemental "benders" from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra: water, earth, fire, and air. Michelle is a self-described water poet, Rob an air poet. This seems about right to me. Michelle's poems will wash over you with total emotion. Rob is whimsical and daring with his poetry, like Aang riding the wind on his glider.


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Unpacking The Ukraine 'Game Change'; Is A Major Conflict Inevitable?
Authored by Alastair Crooke,
Any political solution – however theoretical, at this point – would involve Moscow sitting with the collective West. Kiev had become a bystander.
Russia is preparing for an escalation in this war. She is augmenting her forces to the minimum level that could deal with a major NATO offensive. This decision was not precipitated by a significant attrition in the existing force. The facts are clear: The militias of Donetsk and Luhansk represent the majority of the Russian allied forces fighting in the Donbas. The militias have been reinforced by contract soldiers from the Wagner Group and Chechen fighters however, rather than by regular Russian forces.
But this is about to change. The number of Russian regulars fighting in Ukraine will rise dramatically. However, the referenda in the Ukrainian oblasts come first; and those will be followed by the Government of Russia and the Duma accepting the results and approving the annexation of these territories. After that is concluded and the territories assimilated into Russia, any attack on the new Russian territories would be treated as an act of war against Russia. As former Indian diplomat, MK Bhadrakumar, notes, "The accession of Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye creates a new political reality and Russia's partial mobilisation on parallel track is intended to provide the military underpinning for it".
Clearly, we – the world – are at a pivotal moment.
'Collective Russia' has concluded that the former low-intensity war is no longer viable:
Unimaginable flows of western $ billions; too many NATO fingers in the Ukraine pie; too wide a 'Ho Chi Minh Trail' of ever more long-range and advanced weaponry; and too many 'delusions' that Kiev can still somehow win – effectively have undercut any 'off-ramp solution' and portend inexorable escalation.
Well, 'Collective Russia' has decided to 'get ahead of the curve', and to bring the affairs of Ukraine to the crunch. It is a risk; that is why we have reached an inflection point. The $64 thousand dollar question is, what will be the studied reaction of western political leaders to Putin's speech? The next weeks will be crucial.
The point here is that western leaders 'claim' that Putin is just bluffing – as he is losing. Western hype is 'shooting the moon': "Putin is panicked; Russian markets are falling; young men are fleeing conscription". Yes, well the Moex Russia index closed higher on Thursday; the rouble has remained steady; and the big queues are at the recruitment offices, rather than airline offices.
Just to be clear: The limited mobilization Putin announced only applies to those who serve in Russia's reserves and who have seen prior military service. It is unlikely to hobble the economy.
The Russian pre-planned, tactical withdrawal from Kharkov – though militarily sound in logic, given the troop numbers required to defend a 1,000 km border – has generated throughout the West a fantasy of panic in Moscow and of Russian forces fleeing Kharkov before an advancing Ukrainian offensive.
The danger to such fantasies is that leaders begin to believe their own propaganda. How could western Intelligence reporting become so divorced from reality? One reason undoubtedly is the explicit decision to craft 'cherry-picked' intelligence to serve as deliberately 'leaked' anti-Russian propaganda. And where would be the best quarry for such propaganda material? Kiev. It seems that largely, intelligence services come to accept and circulate what Kiev says, without cross-checking for accuracy.
Yes, it is hard to believe (but not without precedent). Politicians naturally love what seems to bolster their narratives. Contrarian assessments are met with scowls.
Therefore, western leaders are doubling down on promises to continue sending money and advanced weaponry to Ukraine that will be used to attack – among others – Russian civilians. A new co-ordinated narrative from the West is that whereas on the Russian side, one man can end the war; on the other, for Ukraine to stop the war would mean 'no Ukraine'.
Neocons, such as Robert Kagan, naturally have put their own spin on the official psyops, by pushing the line that Putin is bluffing. Kagan wrote in Foreign Affairs:
"Russia may possess a fearful nuclear arsenal, but the risk of Moscow using it is not higher now than it would have been in 2008 or 2014, if the West had intervened then. And it [the nuclear risk] has always been extraordinarily small: Putin was never going to obtain his objectives by destroying himself and his country, along with much of the rest of the world."
In short, don't worry about going to war with Russia, Putin won't use 'the bomb'. Really?
Again, to be plain, Putin said in his speech on 21 September:
"They [Western leaders] have even resorted to the nuclear blackmail … [I refer] to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia".
"I would like to remind … in the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff".
These Neocons advocating 'hard deterrence' rotate in and out of power, parked in places like the Council on Foreign Relations or Brookings or the AEI, before being called back into government. They have been as welcome in the Obama or Biden White House, as the Bush White House. The Cold War, for them, never ended, and the world remains binary – 'us and them, good and evil'.
Of course, the Pentagon does not buy the Kagan meme. They well know what nuclear war implies. Yet, the EU and U.S. political élites have chosen to place all their chips on the roulette wheel landing on 'Ukraine':
Ukraine's symbolic expression now serves multiple ends: Principally, as distraction from domestic failures – 'Saving Ukraine' offers an (albeit false) narrative to explain the energy crisis, the spiking inflation and businesses shutting down. It is icon too, to the framework of the 'enemy within' (the Putin whisperers). And it serves to justify the control regime currently being cooked-up in Brussels. It is, in short, politically highly useful. Even perhaps, existentially essential.
Russia thus has taken the first step towards a real war footing. The west will be well advised to acknowledge and understand how this situation came about, rather than to pretend to its public that Russia is on the verge of collapse – which it is not.
How did 'collective Russia' arrive at this point? How do the pieces fit together?
The first piece to this jigsaw is Syria: Moscow intervened there with a tiny commitment – some 25 Sukhoi fighters and no more than 5,000 men. There, as with Ukraine, the operation was one of giving support to frontline forces. In Ukraine, through aiding the Donbas militia to defend themselves – and in Syria, through offering the Syrian army air-support, intelligence and mediation outreach to those with whom Damascus was not talking.
The other key piece to understanding Russia's Syria 'posture' was that Moscow could rely for the cutting-edge ground-fighting on two highly skilled, and motivated fighting auxiliaries, in addition to the mainstream Syrian army: i.e. Hizbullah and the IRGC.
Taken together, this Russian intervention – limited to a supporting role only – nevertheless yielded political results. Turkey mediated; and the Astana Accord resulted. Notwithstanding that Astana has not been a great success – but its framework lives on.
The point here is that Moscow's deployment in Syria ultimately was politically oriented towards a political solution.
Fast-forward to Ukraine: The militias of Donetsk and Luhansk represent the majority of the Russian-allied forces doing the fighting in the Donbas. The militias are reinforced by contract soldiers from the Wagner Group and Chechens fighters. This explains why Russian losses of 5,800 KIA, during the SMO are 'small'. Russian forces were rarely on the frontlines of this war. (In Syria they were not on the frontlines at all.)
So, the Syria blueprint effectively was lifted aloft, and fitted down over Ukraine. What does this tell us? It suggests that originally Team Putin was angulated towards a negotiated settlement in Ukraine, just as in Syria. And it almost happened. Turkey again mediated, with peace talks occurring in Istanbul in late March, with promising results showing.
In one respect however, events here did not follow the Syria pattern. Boris Johnson immediately scuttled the settlement initiative, warning Zelensky that he must not 'normalise' with Putin; and if he did reach some accord, it would not be recognised by the West.
After this episode, the SMO nonetheless continued in its highly restricted format (with no signs of any political solution on the horizon). It persisted, too, despite growing evidence that taking down the defences that NATO had spent eight years erecting in Donbas likely were beyond the militia capabilities. In short, the SMO was demonstrating its limitations: what worked in Syria, was not working in Ukraine.
More forces plainly were required. Could this be done by tweaking the SMO (which imposed legal constraints on Russian regular forces serving in Ukraine), or was a complete re-set required? What resulted was the limited mobilisation and referenda outcome.
Plainly, however the decision to assimilate Ukrainian territory would foreclose on a likely political settlement, but this latter possibility was falling away anyway as the West fell for its fantasies of a Ukrainian complete victory, and as NATO escalated.
The 'war' was becoming less and less about Ukraine, and more and more NATO's war on Russia.
Well, this was the point at which other geo-politics thrust itself into the equation: Russia, under sanctions, must pursue a strategy of building-out a protected 'strategic depth' that trades in own currencies (outside the dollar hegemony). MacKinder called this sphere the 'World Island' – a land-based mass, well distanced from the naval Great Powers.
Russia needs the support of BRICS and the SCO as partners both in creating this 'trading strategic depth', and for the multi-polar world order project. Some of its leaders though – particularly China and India – mindful of the SCO's 2001 founding charter – naturally could have difficulty in lending public support to Russia's Ukraine plans.
Yes, China and India are sensitive to interventions in other states, and Team Putin has worked hard, continually briefing its allies on Ukraine, so that they could understand the full background to the conflict. The summit at Samarkand was the final 'piece' – the personal briefing of what was to come in respect to Ukraine that needed to fall into place.
How will the West react? With a public display of 'fury' for sure; yet despite the hype, some fundamental realities will have to be addressed: Does Ukraine, with its severely abraded forces, have the wherewithal to continue this war after the loss of so many men? Is Europe even able to mobilise towards a larger NATO war against Russia? Do the U.S. and Europe retain a sufficient inventory of munitions, after so much has already been passed into the hands of Kiev?
The next crucial weeks will provide answers.
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As Summer approaches in Westchester County, we thought it would be useful to offer some information explaining some of the different issues and solutions that arise in each of the seasons. You know Sterling Property Solutions as a residential, condo, and commercial property management firm. But did you know we are licensed real estate professionals who not only can help you buy or sell your home in Westchester, but also know the area, the ins and outs of the market.
Spring and Summer are the busiest seasons for selling or buying a home. But the reality is, homes are bought and sold all year long. There are clear challenges to selling a home in the winter, but there are also challenges to summer selling – think about keeping the lawn perfect as just one summer example.
An off-peak season might be the right time for you or your family's situation. And for some sellers and buyers, winter has some advantages – as long as you know how to sell for your house's season, whichever it may be.
Play up your home's amenities for the season in which you choose to sell.There's a selling myth that you should wait till springtime to sell your home. While spring is the busiest season for real estate sales, people buy homes 365 days a year. If you decide you need to sell your home in the off-peak season, emphasize its seasonal amenities.