After months of prevarication, I have finally started to write my next book! Here is an extract from an early chapter.
After about 5 years of working as a professional actor, with some promising but ultimately false starts, I settled into a generally haphazard routine of working in temp jobs in the city of London and auditioning for acting roles. During this time, I studied for a teaching qualification with plans to run theatre workshops or work as a supply teacher while I waited for the next acting job.
Life is what happens while you make other plans, sang John Lennon and how right he was. I gained my Post Graduate Certificate in Education and immediately after landed what was to be my last professional job as an actor, although I had no idea it would be at the time.
Believing that perhaps my fortunes as an actor were about to change, I threw myself into the role and the work. Something though was different. I felt little of the magic and passion that I had felt for acting since I was 10 and even though I enjoyed the experience, I found myself wondering if it was time to call it a day. I finished the work and returned home to London and back to working in office temp work again. Soon, the same old drudgery set in and I wondered what was next? How to make a change that would give me some clear direction and purpose.
What came next was the break-up of a relationship, a move away from London and back to the South Coast where I'd grown up. I found myself living in my sister's spare room and looking for work at yet another employment agency. This time I took a permanent job in a call centre and decided to focus on looking for teaching work. Without really ever making the decision, I realised I was turning away from my childhood dream of working as an actor. I'd got so far with it (further really than I ever imagined I might) and even though I was still very young (just 25 at that time) I was tired. I was tired of living hand to mouth, tired of trudging in and out of one temporary job to the next. I craved stability the same way I'd craved the variety and unpredictability of the life of an actor all those years ago.
The funny thing is, as I look back and compare those days to the life I live now, not a great deal has changed outwardly. Day to day existence is still quite precarious for me and much of it lived on a knife edge and almost always hand to mouth and yet none of that is a problem anymore. Deep inside there is a peace and a sense of perfection that is profound and affecting although certainly not immediately apparent. I want certain things it's true. I strive even to make changes and create things in the world.
However, I no longer labour under the illusion that any of it will complete me or offer any lasting satisfaction or fulfilment. In that sense, I feel free from the yoke of desire that promises to fix me or my life. If I achieve a certain thing or create certain conditions, all well and good. No longer do I invest my sense of happiness and well being in a dream of how things could be. Rather, I find that the happiness I for so long sought in things outside of me is naturally present in the very ordinariness of life. Present in walking in the park, in enjoying a good meal, watching a film with my partner or like now, writing and sharing my perspective.
Back then however, in my sister's spare room I did labour under the illusion that fixing all these various conditions in my life would provide fulfilment, satisfaction and happiness. I wanted a job that I would be happy in, I wanted a relationship that would make me feel good and I wanted to find somewhere to live that I could be comfortable and at home in.
This mode of living – under the illusion that moving around the furniture of one's life will eventually bring about the perfect conditions in which you can live out your days in unbroken happiness – is quite the norm for the vast majority of humanity. Have you noticed however, that life doesn't really cooperate for very long with our insistence that things always go our way?
All of us will one day lose something and someone dear to us. All of us will grow old, all of us will get sick and eventually all of us will die. That much is certain. One could even say that suffering is the one certainty and that suffering is even inevitable.
Except that, once we accept the simple facts of life – that it is ultimately unsatisfactory, that it is fleeting and temporary and that there is nothing here in form that has any kind of persisting, solid reality – then suffering is just how life shows up from time time. In that sense, when we no longer resist and push against those things that we call suffering, they cease to be suffering in the way they once were. Perceiving the world and life this way is the end of suffering.
This is a major breakthrough for many and like so much on the path to awakening, this one insight alone unfolds to reveal many more levels within it as we progress further along the path.
We may initially see that suffering occurs when we resist what is and then as we re-visit this insight as our life unfolds and our sense of awakening deepens we may begin to see that insight at work in our lives. If a loved one dies, for instance, or we experience the break up of a special relationship we may then begin to actually live the truth of this insight. To actually experience the fullness of loss without the narrative of suffering overlaying it.
This wisdom was only apparent in my own life however, once much more suffering had come my way. Not that one needs a great deal of suffering to live by the fruit of awakening. There are some people who do not suffer as intensely as others. For me though, there was much more suffering to come before I would begin to wake up to the reality of life here and now.


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Peter Greene: The Brookings Institution is in Charter School La-La Land
Peter Greene reviews a new charter school study from the Brookings Institution that exhibits near total ignorance of the perils of privatization. Any time that a study rests its case on DFER data, its a clue that it should not be taken seriously. DFER (Democrats for Education Reform) is an organization created by hedge fund managers to lobby for charter schools. Their "studies" and polling data supply talking points to advance their cause. Similarly, when a study cites Albert Shanker's initial advocacy for charter schools but fails to acknowledge that he abandoned charters and concluded they were indistinguishable from vouchers, the author has done a slipshod job.
Charter schools began thirty years ago. The research on them has repeatedly demonstrated that some get higher test scores, some get lower test scores, but on average they have produced no amazing innovations, no secret sauce. The Brookings author doesn't know that. She seems to think that charters have discovered remarkable innovations and those innovations should be replicated by public schools.
Her grand notion that charters will teach public schools how to succeed, he argues, is absurd.
Since the [charter] movement is largely premised on the notion of unleashing free market forces–well, in that context, this proposal makes as much sense as telling MacDonald's that they have to show Wendy's how to make fries.
There is zero reason to think that the charter world, populated primarily by education amateurs, knows anything that public school systems don't already know. Charter success rests primarily on creaming student population (and the families thereof), pushing out students who won't comply or are too hard to educate, extending school hours, drilling tests like crazy, having teachers work 80 hour weeks, and generally finding ways to keep out students with special needs that they don't want to deal with. None of these ideas represent new approaches that folks in public education haven't thought of.
If charters were pioneering super-effective new strategies, we would already know. There is a well-developed grapevine in the public education world. If there were a charter that was accomplishing edu-miracles, teachers all over would be talking about it. Teachers who left that charter would take the secret sauce recipe with them, and pretty soon it would be being shared across the country. After decades of existence, charters do not have a reputation in the education world for being awesome–and there's a reason for that. Puff pieces and PR pushes may work on the general public and provide fine marketing, but that's not what sells other teachers.
Short answer– if charters knew something really awesome and impressive, public school teachers would already know and already be copying it.
Maybe the author of this paper should meet with Andre Perry, who led charters in New Orleans and left disillusioned. He is also at Brookings.
Categories Accountability, Charter Schools, Corporate Reformers, Education Industry, Education Reform, Privatization, Research
So-called "think tanks" like the Brookings Institute are actually propaganda operations themselves (the very term think tank is propaganda). So its supposed "studies" are the same as the propaganda produced by Democrats for Education Reform — as you say, Diane: "Their "studies" and polling data supply talking points to advance their cause."
The author didn't err in failing to cover Albert Shankar honestly or in failing to talk to Andre Perry — she did her job, promoting charters by any means necessary.
Inadvertence or ignorance?
Laura H. Chapman says:
IGNORANCE. It shows in her full professional vita. She has never taught in any school. She is a policy wonk with not a clue about anything she is writing about.
Gaah
Catherine King says:
Diane Here's Mitch McConnell at his best at taking advantage of conflicts of interest:
HEAD OF USPS GOV. BOARD IS ALSO DIRECTOR OF MCCONNELL SUPER PAC
"A new corporate filing Monday revealed that the chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors is also listed as a director of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's $130 million super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund.
"The revelation about Chairman Robert 'Mike' Duncan comes as Democrats are accusing President Donald Trump, the postmaster general, and Republicans of sabotaging the Postal Service in an attempt to suppress mail-in voting, supposedly to tip the election in Trump's favor." [HuffPost 09-01-20] CBK
as much can be seen in who the reformers WON'T talk to as in who they do choose to interview and quote
NYC public school parent says:
carolinesf,
I agree. Part of "promoting" means that these studies must never address cherry picking in urban charters. Not only are high attrition rates intentionally ignored, but they also depend on the false narrative that nearly 100% of the African American and Latinx students in urban public schools are abject failures, despite that not being true.
In 2018-2019, over 15,000 African American and Latinx 4th graders in NYC public schools were proficient on the state math exam
In 2018-2019, fewer than 1,600 African American and Latinx 4th graders in the large NYC Success Academy Charter network were proficient on the state math exam.
Ed reform does not acknowledge the 15,000 African American and Latinx 4th graders in NYC public schools that do well – those students are invisible to ed reformers. Their very existence must not be acknowledged because to do so would ruin the narrative that charters turn abject failures into high performing scholars and cherry picking is absolutely, positively impossible. (And truly gullible education reporters in NYC don't need anything but the word of an ed reformer to be absolutely positively certain that cherry picking is virtually impossible — which should be a firing offense and would be a firing offense if they were science reporters.)
And this is all so blatantly racist. If there were 15,000 proficient white students in NYC public schools and a large charter network taught fewer than 1,600 white students, would anyone — including the white education reporters so enamored of charters — be saying that charters had discovered a secret sauce to turn failing white students into high performing scholars? Would those white students doing well in public schools be as invisible to education reporters as the 15,000 African American and Latinx 4th graders in NYC public schools are invisible to them?
The think tank wankers are paid to write "white papers" which are nothing more than opinion pieces masquerading as scholarship and meant to advance an ideology.
The really sad part is that the wankers ( financed by billionaires like Gates and working to advance ideology) have also invaded and taken up residence in our universities (eg, Harvard)
Oops, spelling error. It's "Her grand notion [is] that charters will teach public schools how to $u¢¢€€d."
"As the charter school movement evolved over time, charter school advocates prioritized charter school growth with little attention to how charter schools might benefit traditional public schools, especially low-performing traditional public schools. (By low-performing schools, I mean schools with the lowest student performance in a state or nationwide."
This understates what happened to the point that it is dishonest.While charter and voucher advocates were "prioritizing" the schools they support public schools were grossly neglected.
They have not delivered anything to public schools other than standardized testing. They have not put any effort or attention or support into our schools AT ALL and they have so captured lawmakers and policy people that we can't get anyone else to pay any attention to our schools either.
If this were just a situation where the "ed reform movement" promoted charters and vouchers and marketed them incessantly that would be one thing, but it goes much further than that. They have harmed students in existing public schools either thru neglect or thru actual efforts to weaken public schools.
Go try to compile a list of what ed reform has contributed to public schools over the last twenty years- there's one thing on it- testing. They simply do not serve public school students and families. That's a problem in a country where that's 90% of students.
It's how the ed reform echo chamber works. Study by ed reform anti-public school group, policy derived from study by anti-public school ed reform group.
That's why public schools and students never benefit from ed reform policy. It's written by people who are opposed to their schools. That's a problem for the students, because they are IN the schools ed reformers oppose.
retired teacher says:
Insular non-peer reviewed 'research' is more likely to yield the type of information that special interest groups want it to reveal particularly when it is played on a continuous loop by members of the echo chamber. Charter school amateurs have no ground breaking findings that can shared with actual professional teachers in public schools.
It is really amazing how it is IMPOSSIBLE to get an ed reformer to propose something that is focused on public school students. They won't do it.
Public schools are seen as only in relation to charters, and are only valuable to the extent that they may or may not benefit charters.
We are always, always, an afterthought in this "movement". If our kids happen to benefit from ed reform policy it will only be accidental- as some incidental benefit that comes out of a singular focus on charter schools.
They have no "public school policy". They have charter and voucher policy that sometimes reluctantly and grudingly admits that public school students exist.
Why don't public school students deserve advocates? Ed reform advocates for charter and voucher students. Why can't our kids have the same thing?
What a great idea! After 8 years of the Bush Administration neglecting public schools, and then 8 years of the Obama Administration neglecting public schools, and then 4 years of the Trump Administration not just neglecting public schools but actively attacking them, the next administration should come in and work exclusively on…charter schools.
Maybe they're trying for 50 years of not contributing anything at all to the schools 90% of people use. Let's keep this decades long streak going!
At what point does ed reform get around to "improving public schools"? When does that work start?
It's like the Ohio legislature. They haven't gotten anything done in this state for public school students since ed reformers hit the scene. They're either drafting and funding charter and voucher laws or changing charter and voucher laws. Session after session after session. Nothing for public school students.
Chiara "Why don't public school students deserve advocates? Ed reform advocates for charter and voucher students. Why can't our kids have the same thing?"
Reformers would counter that public schools have the advantage of NOT COMPETING in a marketplace situation (duh). From THAT distorted view, public schools as a PUBLIC SERVICE (like the USPO) are not "playing fair." <–again, speaks of a massive misunderstanding of the import and meaning of PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Also, Diane's question about "inadvertence or ignorance" also speaks to an educational background that, for whatever cause, didn't inform them of their own political roots (democracy) or how those roots differ from other political roots . . . and how a democracy is NOT an equivalent of market-based capitalism. As I see it, too many people in our culture really don't understand that difference.
The moral aspect is when those folks consciously embrace class and other kinds of bias as a "reason" for their arrogance.
But the whole movement of political ignorance is rooted in our 50-year movement to emphasize tech/math/science and to DE-emphasize history, political and social sciences, the arts and humanities. In my view, we are paying for that huge oversight as we speak.
Some of these people (like in my own family) cannot understand the distinction between issues of health (mask-wearing) and issues of political manipulation. That's someone who hasn't thought one-bit about their freedoms or the political ground that the walk on. CBK
"…how those roots differ from other political roots . . . and how a democracy is NOT an equivalent of market-based capitalism. "
The thinking that there is an equivalent relationship between personal and economic freedom is very deeply ingrained in the American thought process. Oddly enough, we have never been too keen on the enlightenment idea that one person has freedom that extends until it infringes on the freedom of another. That belief would get in the way of success, which is sacrosanct.
Roy "The thinking that there is an equivalent relationship between personal and economic freedom is very deeply ingrained in the American thought process."
As is, it's not the problem. The foundational problem is that economics and markets are viewed as the ONLY thing; and so holders of this view cannot even think that there might be a place for public service, much less that such service is ALREADY at the core of an authentic capitalism.
And so they end up, in fact, shooting themselves in the foot. Kill democracy=Kill the freedoms associated with economic/capitalism. Unless, of course, we think oligarchy and authoritarianism will preserve economic freedoms for all . . . .? Good luck with that. CBK
jim2812 says:
Peter Greene failed to mention the most powerful attribute of charters and vouchers: discrimination!
I don't want my kids going to school with ______. Just fill in the group you want the public to pay for your kids to be segregated.
Housing segregation sets the table for American segregated schools and "choice" policies of districts reinforces segregated status quo and increases the segregation due to suburban and urban housing segregation.
Richard Rothstein's book labels the cause of American school segregation by class and color, as not accident but government policies that are by design discriminate.
The title of his important book is "The Color of Law".
Thanks to Greene for exposing Brookings. One day, intellectual prostitutes
and their soul (less) mates, lobbyists, may be made to understand justice.
The Brookings author was formerly a "research" analyst at Stanford –a place that is a think tank with students or a university?
Small world.
Stanford is home to Hanushek (associated with libertarian Hoover Institute) and, his wife who is Credo's director, an organization funded by Walton heirs.
Stanford is also home to the Hoover Institute, which houses "stable geniuses" like the fellow advocating that the US adopt a "herd immunity" strategy for the coronavirus.
The fellow , whom Trump wants to put in charge, has zero background in infections diseases but nonetheless believes he is an expert.
Actual experts warn that adopting such a strategy would probably kill millions of Americans.
Hoover is a crackpot institute.
Stable genius
Cruel, "crackpot" policy positions are the tactics necessary to feed their greed.
It's as true at harvard's Dept. of Ed as it is at Hoover.
Remember Roland Fryer's prescription, testing everyday for the poor kids and Shakespeare for the kinds like his in affluent suburbs.
So that's what Current White House Occupant meant when he said he was a stable genius. Now it makes sense. He meant he can talk like Mr Ed. I wonder if his handlers have to put peanut butter in his mouth before the State of the Union Address.
Why are people still writing crap like this?
Here's Brookings' reason for publishing Vakilifathi's rehashed not-news: "How Democrats can compromise on charter schools to benefit all students." Gaah.
Lloyd Lofthouse says:
I do not think this study was written by an ignorant person that doesn't know what they were talking about.
I think it was deliberate.
I think it was propaganda designed to mislead to sell a toxic product called charter schools.
When Trump won the White House with his endless lies and lots of help from Russia, that wasn't the first time someone with money and power lied to get what they wanted.
This study is just another example of how toxic the United States has become since President Ray-Gun and the first burning Bush got rid of the Fairness Doctrine that opened the door to alternative facts (lies marketed at the truth).
Trump wasn't the one that built this dystopian world we now live in. He is a byproduct of it. The evidence is how much time he spends watching the liars and hate merchants like Hannity, Limbaugh, Alex Jones, et al.
If the Fairness Doctrine had survived, this wouldn't be happening now.
I'm probably banging my head against a wall with the following topic, but I'll write it anyway. My district is obsessed with SEL. They added an extra class to the online schedule to have us teach SEL. SEL is promoted by think tanks like Brookings with funding from Zuckerberg and Gates, among other billionaires and wealthy banking and tech corporations. They have a mountain of research supporting SEL, except that it's not university research; it's corporate R&D. With SEL, we're teaching a generation to have warm, fuzzy feelings while using Competency Based Education apps. Thrilling. Are there no independently minded academic scholars in this country?

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My friend brought me to Twin Lakes Park in Greensburg, Pennsylvania to walk and enjoy the scenery. Every turn was more beautiful than the next as we circled the two lakes in the park. The light was perfect, so I took advantage of the quiet moment and snapped this picture.


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Ruby is installed on my 'Windows'.
Inserting following command:
npm install ruby-sass

I get everything done. But on running 'Grunt' command, I get error:
You need to have Ruby and Sass installed and in your path for this task to work.

Can someone tell why my console is showing error after it successfully runs the 'concat' task, and showing error on the 'SASS' task?

A: Use npm install -g ruby-sass, which installs the ruby-sass gem globally in your environment variables. Then proceed.
I recommend using Gulp over Grunt. They are similar in function but I prefer Gulp due to it's pipeline assets. Worth learning for sure.

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Teleperformance to buy Intelenet from Blackstone at $1 bn valuation
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French company Teleperformance has agreed to acquire business process outsourcing firm Intelenet from Blackstone at an enterprise value of $1 billion (Rs 6,800 crore) in a deal that marks the private equity giant's biggest exit from an Indian portfolio firm.
This is the second time Blackstone is exiting Mumbai-based Intelenet. It had first bought a stake in Intelenet in 2007 and sold it to the UK's Serco in 2011. The PE firm bought back Intelenet from Serco in late 2015 for about $385 million. The latest exit from Intelenet will help Blackstone generate an internal rate of return, or annualised return on investment, of about 50% in dollar terms, according to VCCircle estimates.
The sale comes barely months after VCCircle first reported in February that Blackstone was looking to sell Intelenet at a valuation of about $1 billion and that it was considering strategic buyers instead of another PE firm.
For Teleperformance, this marks the second big India-related transaction within four years. In July 2014, it had agreed to acquire BPO company Aegis Ltd's operations in the US, the Philippines and Costa Rica from Essar Group for $610 million.
Teleperformance chairman and CEO Daniel Julien said in a statement that Intelenet's "strong integrated solutions and digital optimization capacities will immediately and significantly enhance" the French company's offerings.
Intelenet provides omnichannel customer experience management, back-office, human resources and financial and administration services. The company has more than 110 blue-chip clients worldwide, mostly in the English-speaking market, India and the Middle East.
Intelenet primarily serves the banking, financial services and insurance sector, as well as the travel, transport and accommodation, e-commerce, e-services and healthcare sectors.
Founded in 2000, the company has 55,000 employees in over 40 delivery centers across India, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Poland and Guatemala.
Intelenet's revenue grew 10% to $449 million for the fiscal year ended March 2018. Its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation was $83 million.
Teleperformance said the deal is likely to have a positive impact of around 10% on its earnings per share before amortization of goodwill in 2018 on a pro forma basis. It added that it will finance the acquisition through debt provided by BNP Paribas, JP Morgan and Natixis. It may later replace the debt in whole or in part by a bond issue.
Paul Hastings LLP and Linklaters LLP acted as legal advisers to Teleperformance on the acquisition and the financing, respectively. Sullivan & Cromwell acted as the tax adviser.
JP Morgan acted as the exclusive financial adviser to Intelenet. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Platinum Partners acted as legal advisers. Ernst & Young and KPMG acted as accounting and tax advisers, respectively, to Blackstone and Intelenet.
The transaction is likely to close by September 30, subject to receipt of certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
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Pesto is one thing I have never tried until very recently!
I've always been very curious about it, but never bought it or made it before.
I am so glad I did though, it is so good!!
It's one of those things I wish I would of tried a long time ago.
I wanted to make a paleo version without the dairy.
This recipe I put together is easily made either way, with or without dairy.
Both ways are super delicious.
that's what I wanted to try it on since most people use it in pasta dishes.
One thing I like about pesto sauce is you can put it on a lot of different things!
even put on top of a baked sweet or white potato.
It goes very well with different kinds of meats too. Some people put it on a grilled cheese sandwich.
You can do many things with your pesto sauce.
So get adventurous and feel free to share some of your ideas in the comments below!
in case your wondering how to cook them up to go with your sauce if you want to go grain/gluten free.
• 2 cups fresh basil leaves,spinach and cilantro combined or just use one or the other.
• 1/2 cup olive oil or organic refined coconut oil (this kind does not have a strong coconut flavor).
If using the coconut oil, melt over a low heat first.
have a slightly cheesy flavor) or, do 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese if you are doing dairy.
• a few good shakes of celtic sea salt and pepper to taste.
Pulse together in a food processor all the ingredients, except the oil, till they are of a fine consistency.
Add the oil in slowly at the end.
Put into an air tight jar which can be kept up to a week in the refrigerator if you are not using all of it immediately.
However, warm thru first before using it again.
Put on top of your favorite pasta or zucchini noodles or whatever you want to put it on and enjoy!!!
First of all you will need a zoodler!
This is the one I use here and I love it!!
You can buy them almost anywhere now a days.
You will need 2-3 medium sized washed zucchinis.
Put 2-3 tablespoons coconut oil or butter in a skillet over med-high heat along with a clove or two of minced garlic .
When hot, add the noodles.
Cook or basically stir-fry for about 5 minutes. Be sure to not overcook or else they will be too soft and mushy. This is very important for good texture.
You want them sort of an al dente texture.
When done, serve and top with your favorite spaghetti sauce or pesto and slurp away.
Add a freshly sliced avocado, some black olives, and /or halved cherry tomatoes for a delicious healthy garnish.


For You to open to the healing power of Nature and find financial stability.
I speak my word, fully supported by this power, claiming my highest good. I open myself to the healing power of Nature to make my body and mind whole and totally functional now. I release all doubt and fear into the void from which it comes and place my faith in this power that is fully present in my awareness now, for I know beyond all doubt that I am totally and completely supported by this power in manifesting the potential born in me that is mine alone to manifest. As I relax with my awareness on this power all my needs and desires are revealed and made manifest now. In this revelation the means to fulfill my needs and desires are also present. I accept emotional, spiritual, physical and financial stability here and now.
I accept my ability to move and think and feel and act on my inner guidance and I accept the good that comes from my actions unequivocally. I am one with the creative power of the universe and I celebrate this fact with gratitude and humility. Thank you power within for expressing through me so clearly and completely. I am grateful now and forevermore.
With a clear heart and facile mind I release these words to Nature's law and let them be so now and always.


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Two black men who served 42 years in prison set free after another man confesses to crime
Author: Nathaniel Crabbe
Category: Latest News in the World
Clifford Williams Jr. was 34 and his nephew, Hubert Nathan Myers, 18, back in May 1976, when they were both arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murder.
At a party in Jacksonville, Florida, Clifford Williams Jr. and Hubert Nathan Myers were arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison for shooting of two women in May 1976.
The two women were shot in a nearby apartment, one of them fatally. And the men were quickly arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
In March 2019, the state threw out their convictions and set them free.
Williams and Myers shook hands and shared a long hug before emotionally joining family members gathered in the courtroom.
Myers kissed the ground outside after his release.
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"I'm nervous because I feel like I'm still locked up. Once I get with my family and know I can look back ... and the reality hits in, I think I'll be all right," he said.
The woman who survived the shooting told police that Williams and Myers emptied their guns from the foot of the bed she shared with the murdered woman.
But evidence showed the shots were all fired outside, and from the same gun.
Still, Williams and Myers were convicted of murder and attempted murder after a two-day trial.
Their attorneys presented no evidence or witnesses, although party-goers reported being with the men when everyone heard the shots that night.
The pair always maintained their innocence, throughout the trial and the next 42 years they spent behind bars.
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They filed multiple failed motions for "post conviction relief," prosecutors said.
Things began to change when they petitioned the Conviction Integrity Review unit, which the state attorney created in 2017.
Among the findings, another man reportedly confessed to people that he committed the murders and felt bad Williams and Myers were imprisoned for it, the Conviction Integrity Review investigation report said. That man died in 1994.
The new unit's review led to the first-of-its-kind result, with the cases being tossed.
The Conviction Integrity Review unit determined that "it no longer has confidence in the integrity of the convictions," according to a press release from State Attorney Melissa W. Nelson.
Williams, now 76, and Myers, 61, were wrongfully convicted in the murder of Jeanette Williams and attempted murder of Nina Marshall. Marshall died in 2001.
Judge Angela Cox vacated their convictions, and the state dismissed the indictments.
"I lost almost 43 years of my life that I can never get back," Myers said in a report from the state attorney. "But I am looking ahead and will focus on enjoying my freedom with my family."
The state attorney established the conviction review unit in 2017 and began reviewing Myers' petition in 2018.
Prosecutors say this is the first time an investigation by the unit has led to a release.
"We have a continuing, post-conviction ethical obligation to pursue justice when we become aware of material evidence suggesting a conviction is not correct," Nelson said.
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A switch has been discovered that instructs blood vessel cells to become blood stem cells during embryonic development in mice. Using single-cell technology, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Rome discovered that two sets of specific factors in these cells work against each other, and when the balance of these factors changes, the vascular tube cells convert to free blood cells.
Reported in eLife, these findings could pave the way for further research into creating new blood cells for blood transfusions and in better understanding cancer development.
Blood vessels and blood cells develop from stem cells in the embryo. In fact, all blood stem cells responsible for the generation of all blood cell types, develop from the vascular cells which line the walls of blood vessels. This process happens in fish, birds and mammals, and is critical for the formation of blood.
However, how these vascular cells decide when to transform into blood stem cells was unknown. To understand the process of blood cell development the researchers studied seven transcription factors known to be important in blood cancers, using a powerful new technology called single cell transcriptomics. They discovered that in mouse embryo cells that are transitioning between vascular cells and blood cells, all seven of these factors are expressed at one time. However, when the team engineered various combinations of these transcription factors into embryonic stem cell lines (ESCs), used to model embryonic blood development in the petri dish, they discovered factors split unexpectedly into two distinct sets, one supporting the vascular cell fate and the other — blood.
"This was the first time that anyone has been able to show how a group of transcription factors causes a vascular cell to choose to develop into a blood stem cell, and demonstrates the power of single-cell transcriptomics for characterising a really complex system of transcription factors. Using this technology, we could see the exact genes that were switched on in every single cell, and found that the transcription factors acted as a fork in the road of development of blood cells."
Martin Hemberg PhD, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom and corresponding author on the paper.
Dr Tallulah Andrews, joint second author on the paper from the Wellcome Sanger Institute: "This was a very challenging computational problem as there was a huge network of interactions in the complex that needed to be unravelled. By applying recent advances in statistics to this biological question, we were able to predict that some of the transcription factors were acting in opposition to each other like a switch, rather than working together, which the study was then able to prove experimentally."
Dr Christophe Lancrin, a corresponding author on the paper from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Rome, adds:"We have revealed the gene regulatory network responsible for switching off the vascular cell fate and switching on the blood program to generate blood stem cells. Interestingly, the process of metastasis in cancer also involves changes in cell states and may use a similar process to the one we have discovered. If we could better understand how the transcription factors responsible for different cell states compete with each other we could begin to think of ways to specifically inhibit this process and improve the chance of survival of cancer patients."
Authors: Isabelle Bergiers Tallulah Andrews Özge Vargel Bölükba?? Andreas Buness Ewa Janosz Natalia Lopez-Anguita Kerstin Ganter Kinga Kosim Cemre Celen Gülce It?r Perçin Paul Collier Bianka Baying Vladimir Benes Martin Hemberg Is a corresponding author Christophe Lancrin.
Diagram of how HSC cells are formed during embryonic period from endothelial cells — the building blocks of the vascular system responsible for blood circulation throughout the body. This process is called endothelial to hematopoietic transition (EHT). EHT is dependent on the activity of transcription factor RUNX1, a master regulator of blood development. Image: Lancrin Group EMBL Rome, Italy.


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NZ-made genre titles vote winners in US
Over the weekend Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople took the audience award for narrative feature Montclair Film Festival, ahead of his and Jemaine Clement's What We Do in the Shadows (pictured, top) collecting two wins from the Fangoria Chainsaws.
Shadows won the Chainsaw awards for Best Limited Release and Best Screenplay. The film wasn't the only title with strong Kiwi connections picking up wins or mentions.
Also named a winner was TV show Ash Vs. Evil Dead, which won Best TV Series and Best TV Actor (Bruce Campbell). The show was also among the top five for Best TV Supporting Actor (Ray Santiago); Best TV Supporting Actress (Dana Delorenzo); and Best TV Makeup/Creature FX (Roger Murray).
Jason Lei Howden's Deathgasm took a couple of top-five placings for Best Score and Best Makeup/Creature FX. For the latter award it missed out to Weta Workshop, whose work on Krampus took the win.
Kimberley Crossman in Jason Lei Howden's Deathgasm
Krampus was also a nominee for several other awards: Best Score, Wide Release, Actress (Toni Collette), Supporting Actor (David Koechner) and Supporting Actress (Krista Stadler).
The full list of winners in the Fangoria Chainsaw awards was:
Best Wide-Release Film
Best Limited-Release/Direct-To-Video Film
Best Foreign-Language Film
Kurt Russell, Bone Tomahawk
Maika Monroe, It Follows
Joel Edgerton, The Gift
Jessica Chastain, Crimson Peak
Best Screenplay
Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, What We Do In The Shadows
Best Score
Disasterpeace (Rich Vreeland), It Follows
Best Makeup/Creature FX
Weta Workshop, Krampus
Worst Film
Best TV Series
Best TV Actor
Bruce Campbell, Ash Vs. Evil Dead
Best TV Actress
Eva Green, Penny Dreadful
Best TV Supporting Actor
Richard Armitage, Hannibal
Best TV Supporting Actress
Gillian Anderson, Hannibal
Best TV Makeup/Creature FX
Gregory Nicotero, Howard Berger, The Walking Dead
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This year may be the most "improved" year for the domestic Android system
November 5, 2020 Savior
There is a feeling that this year may be the most "improved" year for the domestic Android system.
Of course, this is limited to a certain meaning. Unlike the era when domestically produced systems flourished, although there were many but the overall level was not high, native Android was too rough. But with the benchmark of iOS, there has always been a huge gap from the "world leading level".
Looking back now, the system interface that I thought was pretty good at the time was actually limited in its strengths than "QQ space beautification".
But this year domestically produced Android gives me a very different feeling.
The difference this year is to advance aesthetically
Last year's MIUI 11 has actually seen efforts towards aesthetics. At that time, Slogan was "renewed in efficiency and full of sound and color". The second half of this sentence is the reinvention of the overall MIUI design language.
If you still remember the updated content of MIUI 11, for example, the system interface has removed a large number of dividing lines to create the white space, the font thickness of the infinite change, the bold dynamic effects when you click the clock and dial numbers, including the overall sound effect. Construction, it can be seen that MIUI has indeed begun to rethink aesthetics.
MIUI 12 is still moving forward on this road, but MIUI 11 is incomparable in terms of overall completion. MIUI 11 is like just learning a few words when learning English. It can only jump out one word by word, which can barely make people understand what they want to do.
By MIUI 12, I have been able to communicate in English relatively fluently, and have reached a relatively self-consistent design style based on the overall design, and have touched the threshold of the design language, from the UI to the UE level.
The most obvious example is in motion effects. MIUI 12 has created a new "Miyou Light Cone Motion Effect Architecture", which includes animation engine, rendering engine, and illustration engine.
However, the use of a new set of dynamic engine and visual style also brings a lot of underlying optimization problems. In the process of upgrading MIUI 12, the priority will be the newly launched Xiaomi Mi 10 series this year, contact priority and flagship The performance can also maintain a smooth experience, and the older models are not optimized in place, and the lag problem has become the focus of the community.
▲ The imitation of iOS 6 compares the flatness of iOS 7. Picture from: ExtremeTech
In fact, this point even reminds me that when iOS was upgraded from the quasi-style iOS 6 to the flat-style iOS 7, there were also a lot of lag problems. The subsequent adjustments to each generation of frosted glass brought new pressure and bugs. , This year is also the most serious time for iOS lagging problems, and it was not until the last two years that the fluency finally returned to perfection.
OPPO, another mobile phone brand, has a similar course. Perhaps many people think that the launch of ColorOS 6 at the end of 2018 will bring greater changes in visual style. I agree with this point. When ColorOS 6 was launched, the new visual style suddenly let OPPO's system get rid of the hat of iOS bot imitators, and became its own sufficiently recognizable product. Audit Director Chen Xi also said that ColorOS 6 is A generation that inherits the past.
But if Color OS only stays in the visual style that is relatively fresh or special, Flyme and Smartisan OS can also do it. If ColorOS 6 is an entry point, ColorOS 7 has a taste of "understanding", but in terms of presentation, there are still some visuals. And the function is in a semi-finished state. In ColorOS 11, it has been cultivated to a great degree. What is lacking is improved memory efficiency, 120Hz stability and other underlying optimizations.
After ColorOS 11 this year, I think this system has stood at the same height as MIUI 12 (and better-looking), and is currently the absolute first echelon of domestic production.
Among the top four domestically produced "OV Huami", the systems of Xiaomi and OPPO have entered a new level, and Huawei has stepped forward.
Why is it that Huawei has only stepped forward by one foot? In fact, Huawei has adopted an unbalanced development, focusing on dynamic performance while despising the modernization of interface design. When using a Huawei mobile phone, you can feel the smooth and delicate dynamic performance, but you have to endure the rough and backward interface design.
As for vivo, the current Funtouch OS is still bouncing in place. However, the new system Origin OS is already warming up. According to many inquiries, the new system is operated by designers with real aesthetic ability, and some people who have seen it have already patted their chests to indicate that this new system is excellent as a whole and is expected to become The domestic first echelon.
When the system shifts from simple functions to thinking about aesthetics and design language, the last piece of the puzzle of domestic high-end mobile phones is filled.
Aesthetics is a powerful piece of high-end puzzle
What is the difference between the nouveau riche, demolished households and the real upper-class rich is temperament. Where does the temperament come from? It comes from the accumulated knowledge and pursuit.
Chinese companies that are good at learning have made progress in hardware manufacturing faster than software. We have been able to create hardware with exquisite industrial design two or three years ago, but the aesthetic evolution in the system has only begun last year. Fortunately, the brand We have realized the importance of aesthetics, admitted that we were "earth" in the past, and worked hard to transform themselves at high speed.
Why is the evolution of aesthetics important? This actually represents a brand that tears off its original label and moves towards a higher level.
From the perspective of Xiaomi, the biggest change of Xiaomi this year is the launch of the Xiaomi Mi 10 series, which officially enters the high-end. Xiaomi has a very powerful supply chain control ability, can make a very good level of hardware, but also can make a cost-effective magic machine.
However, in the past, Xiaomi was constrained by various labels. The hardware ties hands and feet and dare not to be truly high-end. In terms of software, the visual style has become backward after the introduction of Google's Material Deisign language, relying on localization and Rich functionality wins.
Xiaomi dares to hit the high-end this year, and it is not just about hardware manufacturing, MIUI 12 is also indispensable. When the Mi 10 Extreme Commemorative Edition appeared with a shiny silver body and a completely new system, it was a transition from 85 points of "excellent" to 95 points of "top".
The "high-end temperament" of the system is more obvious in OPPO. In fact, I think the Find X2 series is the perfect crystallization of OPPO's brand upgrade and transformation in the past two years. Although there are shortcomings in functionality, such as insufficient battery capacity, no wireless charging, etc., but the temperament is enough to highlight the high-end.
Imagine if Find X2 Pro is running the ColorOS 5 era system, even if it is functionally successful, it still looks like a "factory girl" temperament. It's a bit like a "static goddess" on the Internet. You can only look at photos, and you lose your temperament when you move.
The typical negative case is vivo. The aesthetics of the Funtouch OS system is still in the ColorOS 5 era. If there was no ColorOS 6 turned out at that time, it is now half a catastrophe with Funtouch OS.
If you think that the "NEX series" that should have become the "Find series" of vivo is always a breath away, then the bad temperament of Funtouch OS has to be more than half of the pot, and it is not a black pot.
This also leads to the fact that vivo has not spared any effort to build a "super flagship". The industrial design level of the vivo X50 Pro+ released this year is already quite high, but vivo still has a handful of dual speakers and an X-axis linear motor, plus the system temperament For the shortcomings, not competing for the super flagship for the time being is also a strategy.
This shortcoming may be filled under the new Origin OS and new hardware. I believe that next year's products will be more interesting.
Although this is a talk-like article, full of subjective taste, and there is nothing to prove, but it did affect my consumption behavior this year.
When the OPPO Find X2 Pro Bamboo Green Edition was launched at the end of May, this is the phone that I think has done the best in terms of overall functionality and aesthetics this year. Even if many people complain about battery life and no wireless charging, I still think this is I want to buy a mobile phone at my own expense.
Buying OPPO's flagship mobile phone was unimaginable for me in the past. I would buy BlackBerry Passport and Palm Pre because of the "uniqueness". But if I buy a flagship mobile phone, after using many international brand flagship mobile phones, this standard It will be very high.
Obviously, this year's domestic brands did not disappoint me.
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Intel: Foreshadow Flaws
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Another Week, Another Security Flaw
Foreshadow, also known as L1 Terminal Fault, is another problem with speculative execution in Intel's processors. Foreshadow may allow malicious software to break into secure areas that even the Spectre and Meltdown flaws couldn't crack.
What Is Foreshadow?
Specifically, Foreshadow attacks Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) feature. This is built into Intel chips to let programs create secure "enclaves." These can't be accessed, even by other programs on the computer.
Even if malware were on the computer, it couldn't access the secure enclave… in theory. When Spectre and Meltdown were announced, security researchers found that SGX-protected memory was mostly immune to Spectre and Meltdown attacks.
There are also two related attacks, which the security researchers are calling "Foreshadow – Next Generation," or Foreshadow-NG. These allow access to information in System Management Mode (SMM), the operating system kernel, or a virtual machine hypervisor.
In theory, code running in one virtual machine on a system could read information stored in another virtual machine on the system, even though those virtual machines are supposed to be completely isolated.
Foreshadow and Foreshadow-NG, like Spectre and Meltdown, use flaws in speculative execution. Modern processors guess the code they think might run next and preemptively execute it to save time. However, this speculative execution leaves some information behind. For example, based on how long a speculative execution process takes to perform certain types of requests, programs can infer what data is in an area of memory — even if they can't access that area of memory.
Because malicious programs can use these techniques to read protected memory, they could even access data stored in the L1 cache. This is the low-level memory on the CPU where secure cryptographic keys are stored. That's why these attacks are also known as "L1 Terminal Fault" or L1TF.
To take advantage of Foreshadow, the attacker just needs to be able to run code on your computer. The code doesn't require special permissions. It could be a standard user program with no low-level system access, or even software running inside a virtual machine.
Is Foreshadow Being Used In The Wild?
Foreshadow was discovered by security researchers. These researchers have a proof-of-concept — in other words, a functional attack — but they're not releasing it at this time. This gives everyone time to create, release, and apply patches to protect against the attack.
How You Can Protect Your PC
Note that only PCs with Intel chips are vulnerable to Foreshadow in the first place. AMD chips aren't vulnerable to this flaw.
Most Windows PCs only need operating system updates to protect themselves from Foreshadow, according to Microsoft's official security advisory. Just run Windows Update to install the latest patches. Microsoft says that it has not noticed any performance loss from installing these patches.
Some PCs may also need new Intel microcode to protect themselves. Intel says these are the same microcode updates that were released earlier this year. You can get new firmware, if it's available for your PC, by installing the latest UEFI or BIOS updates from your PC or motherboard manufacturer. You can also install microcode updates directly from Microsoft.
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Russell Westbrook continues to excel in Rockets' pressure moments
The Rockets are 3-1 on the young 2019-20 NBA season, but they easily could be 0-4. Consider that Houston's three victories versus the New Orleans Pelicans, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Washington Wizards have come by an average of 2.7 points per game.
In two of those three games, Houston trailed heading to the final quarter — only to have newly acquired guard Russell Westbrook take over while playing with remarkable poise under pressure.
In fourth quarters this season, Westbrook is averaging 11.8 points and 5.3 rebounds on 61.5% shooting from the field and 42.9% from behind the three-point arc. That's especially impressive since the outside shot has historically been Westbrook's biggest weakness. He's also averaging less than one turnover in those fourth quarters.
Westbrook's 11.8 fourth-quarter scoring average is second to only Portland's Damian Lillard (12.2) among NBA players to have played in multiple fourth quarters this season.
Westbrook's late efficiency has also bailed out his backcourt mate, James Harden, who is shooting just 28.0% from the field and 16.7% on three-pointers in fourth quarters this season.
"One thing about this team, we don't quit," Westbrook told the Houston Chronicle's Jonathan Feigen after Wednesday's come-from-behind victory in Washington. "We don't give in, we stayed locked in through all their runs and towards the end of the game."
The Rockets trailed by 11 with just over four minutes left in Wednesday's game before Westbrook went to work. The 6-foot-3 guard first hit a three-pointer from up top to bring Houston back within single digits, then had a rejection at the rim on defense to win back possession for the Rockets.
In the final three minutes, Westbrook connected on a driving left-handed layup to bring Houston within five; a tip-in of a Harden miss to cut Washington's lead to two; and finally, with Houston down two points with just over 30 seconds to play, a running bank shot at the rim while being fouled. Westbrook made the ensuing free throw to put the Rockets in front, and they never trailed the rest of the way.
Overall, Westbrook had 14 points (6-of-9 shooting) and eight rebounds in Wednesday's fourth quarter alone.
Russell Westbrook has been incredibly clutch so far.
He is averaging 11.8 PTS and 5.3 REB shooting 61.5 FG% and 42.9 3PT% in 4th quarters, and the Rockets would likely be sitting at 0-4 right now if it wasn't for him.
Here are his best 4th quarter plays X Highest In The Room pic.twitter.com/3fwgpcPrhS
— Play Gary Clark (NBA (@Itamar1710) October 31, 2019
Russell Westbrook tonight in the 4th Quarter:
– 14 PTS
– 6/9 FG (67%)
– 8 Rebounds
CLUTCHBROOK 🐐
pic.twitter.com/b7vtQFu4QP
— ⚡ (@TheWestbrookEra) October 31, 2019
Going forward, of course, the Rockets have significant work to do on the defensive end of the floor. While Houston's total of 159 points was the most in franchise history, the 158 points tallied by the Wizards represented the most by any losing team in NBA history.
For the season to date, the Rockets rank first in the league in net offensive rating, but second-to-last in defensive rating. They're currently allowing 127.5 points per game while scoring 128, though both figures are likely inflated a bit based on the much faster pace that the Rockets are playing with this season (due to Westbrook).
For games played through Oct. 30, here's where the #Rockets rank in advanced stats:
OffRtg: 117.7 (1st)
AST%: 62.9 (6th)
AST/TO: 1.78 (7th)
TS%: 58.7 (3rd)
Pace: 108.75 (2nd)
*DefRtg: 117.2 (29th), just ahead of GSW
— Aqib Gazi (@Aqib_Rockets) October 31, 2019
But despite Westbrook's reputation as an inconsistent defender prone to excessive ball-watching, the data doesn't show him to be a big part of the problem. In fact, the 30-year-old has graded out as one of Houston's most valuable defensive players through four games by the "defensive points saved" metric.
Through games on Oct. 30, here's how all members of the Houston Rockets have fared in TPA during the 2019-20 #NBA season. #OneMission pic.twitter.com/VP8ffnpO7d
— NBA Math (@NBA_Math) October 31, 2019
For the Rockets as a whole, of course, it can't just be about Westbrook. As evidenced by their new "One Mission" slogan and the presence of two former NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) winners, they're all-in on winning a title this season, and that's unlikely to occur with a defense as dreadful as what they've shown through four games.
However, because they're winning games in the interim, it buys the Rockets time to sort through their defensive struggles. They didn't have that a year ago, when a 1-5 start led to Carmelo Anthony's early exit and eventually an 11-14 record at the 25-game mark.
The Rockets improved their defensive dramatically as last season progressed, but that poor start to the year meant that even a 60+ win pace over the team's final 57 games (42-15, .737) could only get them to the No. 4 seed in the West. Unlike last year, though, the 2019-20 Rockets are finding ways to win these early-season games without their best defense — and it's only fitting that Westbrook, as the newcomer, appears largely responsible for the change.
If head coach Mike D'Antoni and his staff can work the same in-season defensive magic that they did a season ago, they'll have Westbrook to thank for keeping them afloat during this inconsistent start and buying them more time to resolve any issues.
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👀Russell Westbrook 12 rebounds (5 offensive) and none bigger than this one!!#Rockets beat #ThunderUP 116-112@HoustonRockets #OneMission pic.twitter.com/ZrhBqru0q1
— AT&T SportsNet SW (@ATTSportsNetSW) October 29, 2019


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Who is the Richest YouTuber? Top 5 Highest Paid Content Creators
Sophie Webster, Tech Times 15 May 2021, 07:05 am
(Photo : GettlyImages/ John Lamparski) Richest Youtuber
The biggest YouTube stars today are considered celebrities in their own right. In fact, the earnings directly from YouTube are becoming a smaller percentage of their actual net worths.
The richest YouTubers make more money from launching their own merchandise, music labels, and other businesses using their massive follower base as free marketing.
Top 5 Richest YouTuber
The richest YouTubers in the list are those that branched outside of YouTube using their massive followings to launch other businesses, according to GrooveWallet.
These earnings were considered toward their ranking because it was an indirect result from their massive YouTube platform.
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5.) Ryan's World
Ryan's World began on YouTube in 2015. He watched toy review channels and thought that children should be able to review toys as well. His mother quit her job and worked on Ryan's World full-time.
The name of the channel used to be Ryan ToysReview. His family also changed their last names, Guan, to his on-screen last name, Kaji.
The family currently runs 9 YouTube channels. These channels cover toy reviews. They also cover DIY science experiments, and Ryan participating in different challenges. They also created channels in Japanese and Spanish. Most of the toys that Ryan's World reviews get donated to charity.
Ryan has a net worth of $32 million. His earnings in 2020 totaled $29.5 million. His YouTube channel has 45 million subscribers with 61.3 billion total views.
4.) DanTDM (Daniel Middleton)
DanTDM played "Pokemon" and "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" under PokemanDanlvl45 in 2009. He then started his main YouTube channel, TheDiamondMinecarft in 2012. His primary focus on that channel was Minecraft.
Dan continued to play other games too. He set a Guinness World Record for most views for a dedicated Minecraft video channel. He also set the record for most goals scored in a Rocket League game by a team of two and three players.
Now, he has a net worth of $35 million, and his channel has 29.3 million subscribers with a total of 18.5 billion views.
3.) Markiplier (Mark Fischbach)
Markiplier joined YouTube in 2012. He began doing sketch comedy where he would play every character in the sketch. That is how he got his YouTube name.
Before YouTube banned his Adsense account, he played video games on that channel, he then went to create markiplierGAME.
In 2019, Markiplier made a new YouTube channel called Unus Annus with Ethan Nestor. They made a video a day for a year. After the year was up, they would delete the whole channel, along with the content.
Mark's net worth is $35 million, with earnings in 2020 amounting to $19.5 million. His channel has a total of $28.8 million subscribers and a total 15.4 billion views.
2.) PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg)
PewDiePiE became famous for his commentary on video games. He played games while commenting on his experiences and displaying funny reactions. There were not any big gaming channels at the time, so his rise came at the perfect time.
Felix had 5 million subscribers in 2012, which was the most at the time. Now he is the most subscribed individual user channel on YouTube. He is the third-most subscribed channel too, according to Forbes.
Felix's net worth is $40 million with a total of 109 million subscribers and a total vies of 27 billion.
1.) Jeffree Star
Jeffree Star started with doing different makeup and modeling jobs. Jeffree joined Myspace and had one of the largest followings. He was a blogger and he tried his luck in the music industry, according to Slice.CA.
In 2014, his music career was not panning out. He used his life savings to start Jeffree Star Cosmetics and used YouTube to promote himself and his brand.
Now, Jeffree Star Cosmetics earns $100 million a year. He now has a net worth of $200 Million with a total of 16.5 million subscribers and 2.4 billion views.
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Boston Red Sox lefty David Price tossed 25 pitches in the cage on Saturday and afterwards reported no problems. The outing was a nice step forward for Price who is trying to come back from an earlier elbow scare but the big issue is that there was no damage found in the UCL. While Price will begin the season on the disabled list, as long as he doesn't have any setbacks he could be ready to come back in mid-April. His 2017 fantasy baseball draft price has dropped more than a little but Price could turn out to be a swell value play.


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The Portland State Chamber Choir won the Grand Prix at the largest choral festival in Asia. Portland State was the first American choir ever to compete in the Bali International Choral Festival July 14-20, which featured over 100 choirs.
"This trip was a profound experience for Chamber Choir students," says Ethan Sperry, the Barre Stoll Director of Choral Activities in the PSU School of Music. "Asian choirs have a distinctive approach to music, and our ears were opened to a new palette of sounds."
The Chamber Choir won two categories: Music of Religions and Gospels & Spirituals. They earned the highest score in the entire festival in Gospels & Spirituals, and were proud that their presentation of this distinctly American art form had such an impact on judges from other countries.
During the 10-day trip, the Chamber Choir toured cultural sites, visited a program to alleviate poverty and sang at a charity concert to raise money for homeless youth. The choir also joined two Indonesian choirs to sing opera chorus at a gala for Catharina Leimena, Indonesia's first opera star.
This is the second international competition that the Chamber Choir has won in recent years. In 2013 they were the first American choir to win the Grand Prix at the Seghizzi International Competition for Choral Singing, held in Italy.
"The Doors of Heaven," the Chamber Choir's recording of works by Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, will be released on Friday, August 11, by Naxos, the world's largest classical music label. The CD is available for pre-order on Amazon.


The building material in landscape architecture is living matter. Such building material is always alive, and it can be organic matter like plants, inorganic material which acts as alive, for example river sand moved by water, or inorganic matter like stone or concrete, which is a conglomerate of organic matter. The ecology of landscape systems is capable of adaptation and transformation through the dynamic interplay of growth and change. However, anthropogenic construction has historically concealed landscape systems by channelising waterways, manipulating the top ography, removing native vegetation and planting to extend cities and beautify urban environments. We are thus looking at how landscape systems can be reset, so they can deploy their way of operation at the territorial scale and use the intelligence imbedded in the landscape to make its own environments more resilient.
Landscape architecture was conceived of as a synthetic discipline, and one which can look beyond its immediate context and site. In the early days of the profession, agriculture, forestry, hydrologic engineering, bridges and roads were all within the range of landscape architects. The Back Bay Fens project in Boston (Frederick Law Olmsted) used various problems of urban life, such as sanitation, transportation, and bank stabilisation, as a catalyst for innovative design. Since the area was primarily not designed as a park, it was not manicured and maintained as a fixed design, so natural evolution could take place on its grounds. A project which was initially designed as a form of sanitation and transportation infrastructure is now seen as a natural public park with historic, as well as ecological, value. Following this promising start for the profession, there were almost two centuries of landscapes designed by landscape chief builders whose tendencies were to achieve equilibrium and the fixed state of sites.
Following a decline in this trend, the past two decades have increasingly witnessed a rebirth of landscape ideas and ecological thinking in discourses on society, culture, urbanism and design. Working concurrently with science, the idea of ecology has moved away from an equilibrium-based model which supported stability, certainty and order, to a continuously adaptive model of nature which favours more contemporary understandings of dynamic systemic change, and the related phenomena of adaptability, resilience and flexibility.
Together with other professions, built environment disciplines have had to accept the notion that we have entered the Anthropocene era, in which no region of the globe is left unaffected by human impact. Those forcesare now shaping a territory beyond the urban perimeters.The prevailing distinction between city and landscape no longer exists: That is whyevery site must be understood as the composition of forces which expand over the defined borders of the site to enter territories to lands beyond. Expanding human activity is causing global climate and ecological destabilisation, and has brought natural resources to the tipping point before the collapse of living ecosystems. We are beyond the point of sustaining things as they are, and are entering a time when we need to focus on the restoration of natural habitats, lost ecosystems, and extinct species to reframe our understanding of design on a territorial and geological scale, and source the landscape intelligence of sites to accelerate the regeneration process.
It is useful to acknowledge the understanding of both terms, "landscape" and "intelligence", to attempt to define the fundamental shift in the term "landscape intelligence". A general perception of landscape is a description of an expanse of scenery and surface, generally seen from a single viewpoint which may display and convey a narrative of nature as filtered through one person's image and perceived with their senses. This is also how most anthropogenic landscapes are designed. The word "intelligence" is mostly connected to human cognitive and mental capabilities involved in calculating, reasoning, and so on (Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth edition, 2006).The Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a more comprehensive explanation of intelligence as an .. . ability to adapt effectively to the environment, either by making a change in oneself or by changing the environment or finding a new one . . . intelligence is not a single mental process, but rather a combination of many mental processes directed toward effective adaptation to the environment. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006). The last description is closer to the capabilities which we want to recognise as landscape intelligence. When we describe landscape intelligence we understand landscape as territory. Territory is understood here as an expanse of land where the influence and complexity of networks engage fields beyond sites, national borders and continents. Despite the vast territorial engagement that is possible, the ingenuity of its adaptation techniques lies in the unseen, under layers and on a micro level, which really contains the information and properties which enable landscapes to adapt to new conditions.
With this idea of an open-ended design process, the Aire river project in Geneva by Superpositions uses the parameters of time, change, and chance to create conditions for landscape intelligence to take place. The competition brief was to break up the channel and re-naturalise the river bed. Instead of designing a conventional-looking river bed, a pattern is proposed which allows the river to carve its way through prepared mounds of sand. By understanding the landscape intelligence of water's meandering forces, a rhomboid-shape pattern was proposed which opens a complex series of channels for the flows. The result is a process-based aesthetics which enables the site to constantly reinvent itself through the erosion of an initial design state, and respond to the influence of other natural forces.By working within a responsive territorial platform, design outcomes can adapt and be evaluated for specific environmental, social, and economic measurables in relation to a site's goals and objectives.
A progression from this design stance is seen in the In-Situ Network project by Amphibious Lab and Linkscale, situated on the island in Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. Palm tree branches are used as a simple measure to respond to the imminent threat of coastal erosion – due to rising waters and habitat destruction. Inserted into the sand, the spoon-shaped branches constitute an ideal barrier, causing sea currents to slow down and deposit material into the concave inner surface of the leaf branch. Sand mounds are thus created which gradually elevate coastline embankments, allowing aquatic plants such as mangroves to grow and secure the beach. Here the landscape intelligence is not used as a force to change the initial design state, but rather as a generator for sites to build and reassemble themselves.
Figure 6: Territorial generative production through a strategically inserted array that interacts with in-situ currents and orchestrates sedimentation patterns, enabling autonomous island nucleation. Images courtesy of Amphibious Lab and Linkscale.
Due to this responsive landscape platform being used within a digital three-dimensional environment, real-time data simulation can be explored to communicate analytical metrics in relative and visual measurements, thus reducing the abstraction of landscape performative benefits. Methods of representation are transformed to address landscape performance complexities by using dynamic visualisation techniques that can include analytical datascapes, possible future scenarios, and interactive models in response to spatial and temporal conditions. Territorial data modelling creates a responsive workflow by taking territorial data from deployed landscape receptors in networks, such as that monitoring sea currents, tidal fluctuations, hydrology, sand movement, vegetation, and climate – to devise a framework of constraints and opportunities on site. From these potential outputs specialist knowledge is used to draw decisions which are continuously reformed based on the ongoing territorial data outputs. Because the calculations are performed in a digital site model, the analytical output can respond to changing environmental conditions. By combining the quantitative territorial data with the digital model in a collective aggregation, not only can dynamic representations of existing conditions be extracted from the digital source model, but constantly reinvented futures can be projected, and from here more informed decisions can be made.
Figure 7: Simulation of coastline articulation processes. From minimal to maximal surface interface.
Figure 8: Territorial 3D printing with in-situ material and forces (water currents and tidal fluctuations). Generative production protocol for articulated island nucleation. Stages 1 to 4 for a resilient coastline (the In-Situ Network project, in development 2011-2013, Holcim Award Asia Pacific 2014) Both images courtesy of Amphibious Lab and Linkscale.
This last project reveals a new approach to landscape architecture. Every discipline that wants to stay relevant must constantly reinvent itself. Disciplinary realignments and alterations, scientific discoveries, and cultural shifts and disturbances help reimagine new positions in known design practices. In a hyper-connected world, the responsibility to do this doesn't lie only on a single profession or discipline. There is instead an urgent need for multiple disciplines to come together and combine real-time information from the environment to form an alternative to the current decision-making system for both landscapes and anthropogenic environments.
We are past the point of a "multidisciplinary approach" being a collection of educated voices justifying their decision making based on their own isolated valuation systems and criteria. Architecture and other built environment professions can no longer define their parameters and responsiveness at the scale of an immediate site and context, but have to operate at the scale of expended territory, a broader site that is thickly overlaid with geological information, ecological systems, economic fluctuations, social and political demands, means of mobility and an ever-expanding built environment. This broadened field is based on the notion that the role of a future built environment specialist will be to synthesise across great extremes of scale and complexity using design thinking overlapped with environmental information, and so be able to make a design that fits the site.
A territorial platform is suggested here as a theoretical, educational and practical alternative to current design decision making, so the understanding of design for sites is reframed and constantly reinvented on a territorial and geological scale, incorporating the intelligence embedded in landscape systems. Organisation of this novel platform does not only demand expertise and knowledge from professionals, but must also make use of knowledge obtained with computation and artificial intelligence, combining facts, figures, and theories. Information from sensorial networks which will be deployed in territories will source and learn from the intelligence imbedded in landscapes and natural systems. A platform is needed to serve as an interface between the human specialist, artificial intelligence and territorial data. The proposed territorial platform goes beyond data visualisation and the stagnant projection of site phasing, where every site has a final state. It is rather an ongoing interface which showcases multiple concurring and ever-changing moving parts, with the stable points in time and space. These serve as a framework instead of just a form of how predictions will be made and scenarios of future outcomes derived. With time, change and chance as the environment's main parameters, future territorial designers and specialists will define the levels of flexibility. Enhanced and sourced landscape intelligence will pave the way to a new processed-based aesthetic.


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Pioneers 'honored' to face Wounded Warriors
Elmira will play Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team as part of weekend of events at Dunn Field.
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Some of baseball's all-time greats, many of them eventual Hall of Famers, have displayed their talent on the baseball diamond at Dunn Field over the years.
With all due respect to the likes of Wade Boggs, Jim Palmer and others, it's not a stretch to say no team that has played at Elmira's stadium since it opened in 1939 compares with the group that will play there this weekend. The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team (WWAST) will take on the Elmira Pioneers in a nine-inning softball game at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10 for VIP box seats, $8 for adults, and $5 for seniors and students. Veterans admitted for free.
"We're super excited," said Robbie Nichols, co-owner of the Pioneers. "We booked this three years ago. We're thrilled it's here. These guys do so much for our community, especially with all the craziness going on in the world and the United States. It's amazing what these people have done.
"Everyone has some ties to the military. I think it's a great day to honor these people for their service."
Nichols said members of the Pioneers, a Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League team, are excited for the chance to play the Wounded Warriors. He said some have been taking practice swings with a softball to get ready.
"They're all honored to get a chance to play against these gentlemen," Nichols said. "It's a fun game, but they're excited."
The game is part of a weekend of events revolving around the Wounded Warriors, with proceeds going to the Bath VA Medical Center and the military rehabilitation program at the Sitrin Health Care Center in the Utica area.
Members of the Wounded Warriors are scheduled to visit the Bath hospital on Friday. The day will conclude with a concert at Dunn Field featuring three bands: Wendy Owens and Renegade; Still Kickin' and Rust. Gates open at 5 p.m. and the concert starts at 6. Admission is a donation of $10.
A motorcycle ride will take place Saturday. Registration, at a cost of $15, starts at 11 a.m. at Dunn Field, which is where the ride begins and ends. The ride starts at 1 p.m.
Gates open at 6 p.m. for Saturday's softball game, which will be followed by fireworks.
"It is very exciting to be playing in Elmira," Dennis Wince, WWAST executive director and a retired U.S. Army veteran, said in a press release. "Working with the event organizer, we have seen firsthand the strong pride that this area displays for military personnel and Wounded Warriors, and it is very gratifying to see the recognition for those that have served our country."
The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team is a charitable group focused on inspiring and educating others while enhancing the health and welfare of wounded warrior amputees.
Several members of the Wounded Warriors are equipped with artificial limbs after suffering injuries during combat or elsewhere. Some examples:
Nicholas Clark, from Yakima, Washington, had his left leg amputated below the knee after his convoy was ambushed with small arms fire and RPG's.
Cody Rice, from Newark, Ohio, had his right leg amputated below the knee after he was hit with a grenade.
Chris Hutton, from Grand Forks, North Dakota, had his right leg amputated below the knee after he was struck by a drunk driver while operating his motorcycle after returning to North Dakota.
Matias Ferriera, from Atlanta, had two amputations below the knee after he landed on a 30-pound IED after jumping from a rooftop.
"There's 10 players coming and they all have different stories," Nichols said. "The bottom line is it's a real baseball team, not some sideshow. They want to win and they want to play softball against us."
That event is sponsored by Hilliard Corp., Arnot Health, First Transit and the Pioneers.
WOUNDED WARRIOR WEEKEND
Concert: 6 p.m. Friday at Dunn Field, with gates opening at 5. Features Wendy Owens and Renegade, Still Kickin' and Rust. Cost is donation of $10.
Motorcycle ride: Saturday, with start and finish at Dunn Field. Registration begins at 11 a.m. and the ride starts at 1 p.m. Cost is donation of $15.
Softball game: 7 p.m. Saturday at Dunn Field, with the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team playing the Elmira Pioneers of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. Gates open at 6 p.m. and fireworks will follow the nine-inning game. Tickets are $10 for VIP box seats, $8 for adults, and $5 for seniors and students. Veterans admitted for free.
Information: Call the Pioneers at 607-734-2690.
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