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Black Woman Attacked And Arrested By Sexual Predator Police At Waffle House
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Crackers Phinn said:
I had never heard of Waffle House until this board. Sounding as country as it can be.
There are at least 100 in Atlanta-METRO alone. There is one on every exit in GA, FL, MS, AL, SC, NC.....This is a HUGE outrage for Southern Blacks because its one of the few places that's open as late as it is....and is a hangout for people of all colors (but mostly blacks) after late night events. The young lady looked like she was dressed for a night out at the club or concert. I live in a college town and its always flooded with young people after 8-9 PM. You can also call your order ahead and pay less than $15.00 for a full breakfast to go. Its a "diner-style" look, some look kind of run down but the franchises have been doing EXTREMELY well off the backs of blacks. We love some cheese grits, eggs, waffles, sausage, bacon, toast, OJ, hash browns to go for cheap. And its usually pretty good.
OAN...there was an MSN article saying police are not sure why that guy came in and shot up the black people....I'm rolling my damn eyes knowing damn well he went there knowing black folk STAY in the Waffle House. Most people get their stuff to go.
If Cracker Barrel is on the news...I may have to end it all.
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Live.Laugh.Love said:
This is EXACTLY what Disney does, so that they don't have to follow the rules of the city of Orlando. Disney has its own city, Celebration, FL. They can do whatever they want with their theme parks. But Disney also has deep pockets.
You are strategically thinking like white people with our own city. I like!
Asian people have done this in nomansland, Georgia....a small town in NY state is run by Ashkenazi jews who recently ran all the non-white looking POC OUT HAS done it too.
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Atthatday said:
I don't put much stock in any video that's owned by anyone else, especially when they give it to police first. The police have been known to alter video.
Police have been caught on video doing all kinds of treacherous things and it hasn't stopped them at all. We've got to find other ways to protect each other and ourselves.
The idea I'm working with is a camera build into glasses, small piece of jewelry, or easily installable anyway in your car that starts recording and saving a cloud as soon as you say a code word. The moment it starts recording, it can be automatically posted on to social media by relatives who have the passcode.
So instead of relying on outsiders to record, we can record as soon as the interaction starts discretely without the police knowing. Also, we'd also have the option of using it during any interactions with yt people, like clerks, government officials, neighbors, etc.
Also, I want to start a campaign where victims receive better representation and are advised to sue not only the city, but all parties involved including the officers present, the police chief, and Th police union. Shawn has found that police Unions have paid of DA ensuring no prosecution of police officers. I think families should sue them for judicial interference.
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Southernbella. said:
And let me give you this tidbit: if it weren't for the white folks, we wouldn't be a city now anyway, because it took their majority vote in the House and Senate to make it so. All I told the white senators and the House of Representatives was this: I don't need your free tokens; I don't need your handouts; I don't need any of that nonsense. What I need for you to do is to put us on the ballot so we can make our own decision and then I can live with the results of it from there.
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this right here!
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frida1980 said:
Police officers lie. Fact.
and plant evidence. One was caught on camera planting drugs
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Mingus said:
(Note: This is kind of long. So, feel free to just read the first paragraph which has the basic sentiment and then keep it pushing.)
Honestly, I'm also very tired of protesting and boycotting. Which is why, for me, not frequenting non-black restaurants is not so much about a boycott or a protest; it's instead about self-preservation. I had a complete mental shift a while ago, even before this latest incident, where it occurred to me that too many wypipo in this country simply do not know how to act right (and not enough who do are putting those people in check), and I'm putting myself in harms way every time I decide to put myself in their spaces. Sometimes it can't be helped, but there are plenty of times when it can be helped. Where it can be helped, I've just decided to refuse to fund my own oppression. Why should I keep paying these people money to call the police on me or people who look like me? I'm not doing this to punish them; I'm doing it to save myself. It will probably take more than a generation for these people to catch some sense, which means that I'm committing to years of not frequenting certain places (at least in this country).
I agree with what @weaveadiva quoted upthread with regard to not using black businesses only as a last resort when our faves are acting up. I agree, because I've decided that some of my "faves" need to go, not so much because I'm an innate separatist (I'm really not), but I have recognized the need for self-preservation as I said. So, I'm needing to find a new normal in spaces where I can feel more safe and accepted. I used the language of boycott in my prior post, because that's what a lot of people in our community understand. In all honesty though, I think that each individual should conduct a personal audit into ways in which she may be funding her own oppression and make changes accordingly. That way we're not constantly in a position of having to react with protests and boycotts all the time. There's no boycott needed if most of us are already divested. And if most of us are already divested, then we would see significantly fewer incidents like this, because our people simply would not be in these spaces. That would also leave us with a lot more energy and mental space to attack broader issues more strategically instead of constantly having to rely on kneejerk reactions to the latest offense, which is exhausting. In battle, the best soldiers know when it's time to fall back and regroup.
The great thing about a personal audit is that it's personal. You can take a look at your own life and determine where you have room to begin divesting, and you can do it at your own pace and in your own way. Here's what my personal audit for divestment has changed so far:
Restaurants and coffee shops:
I just don't go to non-black establishments anymore. I live in the Pacific Northwest. So, it's hella hard to find black owned establishments here, but it can be done. There's even a black owned vegan restaurant that I can go to called Plum Bistro. The food is really good.
I eat at home a lot. More times than not, the food that I make is better than most of what I can get from a restaurant anyway.
It's much more difficult when needing to meet people out, because I don't generally want to set foot in places I would have normally gone. This one hasn't been tested much yet. But there are parks in my general area where I can meet people. They can stop and get food on their way, and I can bring food from home if they want to make it a lunch meeting. If necessary, there's also the option to simply not spend any money wherever I'm meeting that person. That's a last resort option though, because I simply do not wish to physically be in certain spaces anymore.
Movies and TV:
This one is easy, and I've actually been doing this for years. I don't pay money for or give ratings to movies and TV shows that don't include me. (i.e., No BW, no money) The ratings part is easy, because I don't have cable, but typically I will support TV shows that have BW and girls central to the story by buying or renting the streaming videos from Amazon or the Google Play Store.
That doesn't mean that I don't ever watch Movies and TV shows that don't include BW and girls. I just don't pay for them. (eta: If you do have cable, giving shows ratings is a way of paying for it, because not only are there the commercials, but they also get the audience numbers to be able to sell that ad space.) Some people may find that option objectionable, which means anyone choosing to go to this level of extreme may be cutting out a lot of different shows and movies. I personally don't have a problem with it, so that's how I roll.
Church:
Living where I do, there aren't a lot of options in this category. I used to attend a multi-cultural (predominantly white) church in the area. A few years ago, it occurred to me that probably half of the people at that church were regular viewers of Fox News. Those same people may smile in your face, but they were feeding on a steady diet of hatred and misinformation. I decided that predominantly white churches were not a place where I could be properly nurtured. This was long before the 2016 election. I can imagine that most, if not all, of those people voted for Trump (as over 80% of white evangelicals did just that). I'm glad I left before that.
Honestly, I had been suffering from church fatigue for a while. So, the race issue was only one of the reasons I left.
Area that needs more work:
Online shopping: I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. But a lot of the things that I order are so unorthodox. Most of my necessities are purchased at the grocery store. Where are the black online vendors to sell me supplements? Or diatomaceous earth? Or fountain pen ink? I could stand to order more clothing from black businesses, but other than that...
But again, this is the type of stuff that is directly within my control. And doing this keeps me from having to constantly react to the latest thing that's happening. Another thing that helps is that I also refuse to look at anymore of these videos. I know this mess is happening. I don't need to see another video as proof. All it does is make me angry. So, instead of getting angry, I make a mental note to review my most recent divestment audit to see if I need to make any additions or adjustments. In this case, I didn't, because I'm already doing the thing that I need to do to keep myself out of this specific situation. Which brings me back full circle where this is about self-preservation, not a specific boycott. For those of us tired of the reacting, a divestment mentality seems to me to be the next level.
Okay, I'm going to come back later and read the rest but I agree with you about not entertaining non black establishments. We rarely eat out but I try to buy black as often as I can and support black business when I'm given that option. I'm in Texas and I've been cussed clean out at a Starbucks by some crazy white lady who said me and my friend (waiting for our order) were too loud. Mine you, the whole place was loud and we honestly weren't loud at all. I think the lady had mental problems but my issue was when the manager didn't do anything. She just watched, I got my order and haven't been to one since. Pretty soon with all this protesting, we will only be able to go to black establishments anyway, might as well start now!
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Crackers Phinn
Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.
Sridevi said:
I might get hate for this but I think these hypothetical cities should be run by only Black women. Once Black women get past the racism will still have to deal with deeply entrenched misogyny among Black men so I'm not convinced our circumstances would be too much better if Black men are allowed to take charge. I won't get into the corruption that is seemingly inherent in most men who rise to power.
You get no hate from me but the bolded is the elephant in the room that is always tapped dance around wherever it is discussed. As long as only black women can be depended on to stay focused on the overall concerns of the community, then both sexes are wide open to attack from the outside. None of this works over the long term unless black men play their part. Unfortunately, as a collective black women don't believe in black men's ability to lead and for the most part black men don't believe in their own ability to best white men on any level except a "fair" physical exchange. There are reasons for this but everybody is going to have to adjust their attitudes because black women have literally been holding the bc together with scotch tape and prayer for 60 years and it has taken a horrific toll on everybody.
I know somebody is feeling some kinda way about that last bit but consider this: If someone, oh I don't know, (ME) had proposed that black men take it upon themselves to get mad enough to build a brand new black city from scratch, there would be a thread full of reasons of how impossible it was. Not just here but every black board I post on there's always a million reasons why "black men can't". Yet, here comes Jason Lary with Stonecrest. Did white supremacy take pity and give him step by step instructions on how to do what he did? Naw, he exploited prejudices and resources and figured out how to carry out a plan from start to finish. Does this make him a unicorn or did he just step up and try even though it was a hard job and failure was an option? What is the faith level that there is just ONE black dude in all 50 states (or states with a big enough black population) who could replicate what has been done in Ga? Just one. If "we" can't even imagine the possibility then the ceiling is the limit, forget about the whole sky.
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guudhair
just step up and try even though it was a hard job and failure was an option?
This sums up the majority of these conversations to me. Move forward
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msdeevee
AnjelLuvsUBabe said:
Anyone else mad that the friend didnt want to fix her clothing though...
I didn't read past 1st page so I'm sure this was addressed.
How could her friend step in that mess to fix her clothes? With those 2-3 police holding her down and fighting the woman threatening to break her arm. . If the friend had stepped in there to try to insert herself in that fracas she would have been pounced on by those idiots and possibly hurt worse or with the mentality of some police now maybe even killed. The police would have said it was self defense. I did hear the friend in the part of the video I saw yelling " you got her T*ts out! That's all she could do. The police didn't care.
Trump has really emboldened these racists to be themselves.
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I can totally imagine a Black man leading — and then proceeding to imitate White men in terms of the misogyny and oppression of women. I believe Black men see themselves as men first and Black second. Black men still have not had a #metoo reckoning. Misogyny still runs rampant among black men in entertainment.
I don't think Black men and women are on the same page as far as moving foward as a race. Black women would not be content progressing in the world without Black men. Black men seem to be fighting, not for the black race as a whole, but to gain the privilege of White men including unfettered access to White women. This is why they don't take to the streets in protest when black women are harmed. Whenever a black man like Cosby gets rightfully convicted of a crime against women you'll have a host of Black men complaining that a White man wouldn't have been convicted.
This to me cones off like " how come we can't rape women too?"
I think women as a gender are generally more empathetic- a quality that makes for great community leaders.
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Southernbella.
I hear you but here's the thing...I don't think it would be enough for black men to move like Lary and create black cities all over the US. I feel like it would need to be on par with white cities for you (general) to give it credit.
Stonecrest will never be Buckhead because no matter how many well off black folks live there, it won't get the same investment that white cities get and homes wont appreciate at the same rate because race. Would it still be a great place for black folks to live? Absolutely, and I know this because I grew up in such a place. THAT'S where the point of contention is for me...there ain't no catching up with white folks and life is always gonna be about trade-offs for black folks. The sooner we realize this the better off we'll be.
So again, going back to what the goal is...is it to catch up with/pass white people or is it for black folks to have a good quality of life and do better than the previous generation? Because we can have the latter in places like Stonecrest but y'all still won't like the stats.
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I agree with all that you said. I would only fine tune it to say that black men don't need to imitate white men in terms of misogyny because they already have their special brand of it down pat. That misogyny is also not going anywhere especially if black men ever make their come up. The black community is not a meritocracy, black men are a privileged class within the community which is why an ex-con drug dealer/pimp, who without question exploited black women and also with a white woman track record is the universal face of pro-blackness. I give Malcolm X reverence because look at what he built with just the knowledge of a street hustler but I don't forget that the road to his redemption was paved with damaged black girls and women.
I am no fan of misogyny or misogynoir, but it would be easier to swallow coming from a collective of black men who were actively building and policing a community that significantly lightened the load for the collective of black women. That is the least they "should" do in exchange for their sense of entitlement.
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nlamr2013
The links for the video keep going dark because of the nudity.
This brought me to tears. Wow! The first thing they should have done was clearly request and on camera a female officer. Whenever I have any encounter with law emforcement(twice) I request female officer to be present.
Like they had her bare body on that nasty floor and what was that in his hand his gun or his taser? Either way unnecessary because she literally wasn't doing anything.
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There is never ever EVER going to be one solution to cover all the needs of the black community. There is a long list of moving parts needed to get the ball rolling but to name a few: We need Lary's for infrastructure. We need Tristan Walker's to come in and create new or remix existing products to create new business industries. We need Robert Smith's for financing those Entrepreneurs. We need non raping Bill Cosby's to keep a foot in other black men's so that they pull up their pants and get to work. We need black marrying Thurgood Marshall's to go to bat politically for African American rights. (Hell, maybe even get us some reparations.) On the ground level, we need black male cops, teachers, social workers, etc. front and center to buffer THEIR black fathers, uncles, sons and nephews from what happens when those roles are left to outsiders to come into THEIR communities to do.
2. The long game is to surpass white folks. It's not going to happen overnight and without a miracle it will definitely take more than one generation. I think where you and I don't see eye to eye on catching up/vs surpassing is that (my interpretation of what) you believe is that white people are a nonfactor that can be worked around/ignored. Whereas I look at white people/ white supremacy as Deebo from Friday. Deebo is go with you out of the pure joy he takes in doing it and he will go out of his way to find you to torment just because it's Thursday. So how do you deal with Deebo?
Sometimes it takes a brick to the dome to level a playing field. Even though that's not in the "rulebook".
Then you run his pockets, recover your stolen property, steal some of his property and then get as much of a head start running (surpassing) him before that wakes up, realizes what happened and comes after you. And yeah, he's going to come after you, that's why catching up is not enough. You gotta be out of immediate reach with the ability to keep moving as a target.
When you think about white folks as defeatable beings (Deebo) instead of some otherworldly omniscient powerful entity (the devil/demons) catching up, surpassing, keeping your foot on their neck becomes a less daunting task. They can be beaten. They have been beaten before. We can beat them but nobody can promise a fast or easy beating.
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What kinds of supplements? I know
https://www.instagram.com/backtoyourrootsherbs
https://www.instagram.com/tierragoesgreen
Have some supplements but nothing like oh this is vitamin A or whatever.
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weaveadiva
I believe Black men see themselves as men first and Black second. Black men still have not had a #metoo reckoning. Misogyny still runs rampant among black men in entertainment.
I don't think Black men and women are on the same page as far as moving foward as a race. Black women would not be content progressing in the world without Black men. Black men seem to be fighting, not for the black race as a whole, but to gain the privilege of White men including unfettered access to White women. This is why they don't take to the streets in protest when black women are harmed.
Wow. You said a mouthful.
The older I get the more I agree. It's a painful realization.
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I agree, I think that's exactly where our paths diverge. I'm tired I don't wanna deal with them at all, even if it means not beating them. But I'm not trying to stand in the way of progress so I'm rooting for everybody black (tm Issa) to beat the brakes off them if thats their path.
One question...are you saying we've beat them before or just that somebody has beaten them before?
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I think the misogyny and it's accompanying trauma for women is the same regardless of the race of men. Having a Black man beat , rape or oppress me wouldn't feel any better than if a White man did it. This is why my hypothetical city would be led by women from the start. It would be hard to take away the power and authority once you give it to men.
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Thanks for the recommendations. The first one doesn't look as if there's anything that I would buy. I do purchase some regular degular supplements like iron and zinc, etc. I also sometimes do Chinese herbal supplements, but I didn't see anything that I use there. The second one also doesn't seem to carry a lot of what I would buy except she does seem to have probiotics, which I do use. So, I'd be willing to check her out for that. I saw somewhere that she said she has an Amazon store, but I can't find a link. Do you happen to have a link for tierragoesgreen Amazon store?
Yeah I thought b2yr May have been too obscure lol
As far as I know Tierra doesn't have a store just an affiliate link. Her actual products are sold on her website.
Affiliate link :
https://www.amazon.com/shop/tierragoesgreen
https://tgg-tierra-goes-green.myshopify.com/collections/wellness
Yeah, other brown and yellow people that aren't black.
I understand being tired. I'm tired too but white people are not going to leave us alone. They are going to be there every step of the way undermining, assaulting and worse because that's the hobby of bullies everywhere. Now with this fool in office they are emboldened in a way that black Americans have not seen since segregation. I don't think we've seen the worst yet.
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I guess my question is what will the men be doing while the women are running everything? The majority of those black women in your hypothetical city are going to go home in some shape or form to black men. Excluding black men from the building and running part of the vision is like starting a long trip with only a half tank of gas. It's go take a whole lot of pit stops and rest breaks to get to your final destination.
I agree that oppression doesn't feel better based upon the race of the oppressor. Whether right or wrong, bw already accept and internalize bm misogyny,(see Bill Cosby, Nate Parker, 90% of hiphop and reality tv) in exchange for very little. I'm just saying, if you're going to accept the behavior get something in return for doing so.
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I didn't say that Black men would be excluded - only that the leadership positions be held by women. Black men can assist and support these female leaders
however they choose.
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Regarding brown and yellow people, are you referring strictly to beating them financially?
DeepBluSea
No telling how much money that blob has extorted from customers. She was mad because those women saw through her scheme.
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nysister
I HATE these animals, those aren't police they are scum in an alley. They need to die that was disgusting.
How can we donate to help her win this case.
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1QTPie said:
I don't love this country and I'm not crying over it either. I get my just deserts hitting people in the pocket. Sell to them or sue them, but don't give them your emotion, they're not worth it.
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Firstborn2
Stop frontin, you know me!
I'm bad at updating but it's been a lot of activity going on. It looks like the family has retained Benjamin Crump. A press conference was held on Wednesday. Al Sharpton is on his way down there I believe my cousin said, next Wednesday for a Town Hall.
http://mynbc15.com/news/local/rev-a...ss-controversial-saraland-waffle-house-arrest
Saraland, is trying to discredit the young lady by posting her mug shots, however, they under estimated black folk because some one went digging for the Waffle House Lady who called the Cops and found out she was involved in a Meth Ring,lol
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here's mug shot.
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We are seeking a grant writer to help us with the process of researching grant opportunities, writing the grants and helping us with a crowd funding campaign.
Because we are a start-up 501 C3, we are looking for funds that will contribute to the overall expenses of staff, administration, equipment, services, and training. The amount we would need 68,587.
We are a client navigation service for seniors and the disabled. We will access the client's needs in order to connect them to the agencies and organizations within the community that best fits their needs and/or wants. We direct our clients to the educational opportunities within the community that speak to their unique challenges and situations.
Provide your hourly rate for research and locating grants for: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks. For a total of 24 hours.
We have an agency mission statement: Our mission is to help find solutions and resources for Natrona County's aging population, disabled adults, and veterans, enabling them to maintain their independence as long as possible while remaining in their home.


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petrol blue- black iron-on patches! The beautiful petrol star on black were backed by high quality ironing film to make attaching a child´s play! The small size of these round Patch with petrol star patch makes them ideal leggings patches. But not only for leggings, but also to jeans to repair clothes of this small round black ironing patches are well suited with the petrol star. The small size is suitable for smaller holes, stains or blemishes. The Patch with star set of 3 are supplied in a package with one detailed ironing instructions per order.


As the prices of Gold and Oil increase, they put more pressure on USD. Today, there are no major economic reports in Eurozone, but the US is publishing ISM Manufacturing data.
The support rests at 1.18920 with resistance at 1.19640 which the weekly pivot point at 1.19180 is located in between the lines. The EMA of 10 is moving with bullish bias along the ascendant channel and it is above the EMA of 100 and the EMA of 200. The RSI is rising towards the overbought area, the Stochastic is showing upward momentum and the MACD indicator is in neutral territory. The ADX is showing buy signals.


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"Discover Daniel Galvin Jr's Award winning product ranges"
Daniel Galvin Jr has been passionate about living an organic lifestyle since his late twenties. Since then he has been instrumental in not only the designer hair care market, but in changing the world of beauty for the better.
To find out more about his organic product ranges, choose from the menu below
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Tried & tested in the salon by his A-list TV star clients including Kelly Brook, Amanda Holden and Holly Valance, OrganicHead™ is free of any parabens, SLS, mineral oils or animal ingredients and has been developed using Daniel's extensive research, knowledge of the organic market and ethical integrity.
Rooted in Daniel's philosophy of protecting the hair's integrity and enhancing women's natural beauty with his expert colour techniques, OrganicHead™ was developed to answer to the demand for a professional-grade, organic hair care range.
Rich in essential oils including organic Aloe Vera, Orange Oil, Argan Oil and Wheat proteins, OrganicHead™ comprises a full range of every day shampoos and conditioners for blondes, brunettes and over-processed hair.
Mild and gentle Everyday Shampoo & Conditioner is made with Organic ingredients that cares for coloured and natural hair even with everyday use. Detox & Purify Shampoo & Conditioner is a great cleanser for your hair, it nourishes and revitalises tired and over processed hair.
Blonde Shampoo & Conditioner have been specially formulated to naturally enhance all types of blonde hair, whilst our Brunette Shampoo & Conditioner uses an exclusive blend of ingredients including Sage to gradually darken brown hair, Elderberry to add richness and lustre and Black Tea to enhance chestnut tones.
Brand new to the collection, Volumising Shampoo and Conditioner uses our own special blend of essential oils and is combined with organic aloe vera, rich in nutrients, to add body to your hair leaving it full and shiny.
The OrganicHead range has won 6 awards to date and we are pround to be registered with the Vegan society with our salon professional range.
OrganicHead products are stocked in the UK at Ocado, Myonlife.co.uk and at the salon and online shop, in Australia at Woolworths, and in the USA on Amazon.com.
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More children today are born with allergies than ever before. The huge amount of synthetic ingredients in haircare products exacerbate these allergies as they affect the immune system. Our products contain organic ingredients which will not adversely affect the body.
Free of any parabens, SLS, mineral oils or animal ingredients, Dubble Trubble has been developed using Daniel's extensive research and knowledge of the organic market.
Created and launched in response to the growing demand for organic children's haircare and body products, but without the price tag, Dubble Trubble offers performance results with ethical integrity. Daniel was keen to use his kids range of hair care as a vehicle to raise funds for worthy causes around the world and he certainly delivers on that vision.
In the UK Daniel Galvin Jr has donated over £50,000 to the Prince's Trust UK through the sale of Dubble Trubble products, which has enabled them to support over 50 disadvantaged young people in the UK. Money raised helps to fund the Prince's Trust support helpline, give one to one support mentoring to young people, fund places on enterprise courses that assist young aspiring entrepreneurs become self-employed and much more…
www.princes-trust.org.uk
Proceeds raised from Dubble Trubble in the USA help benefit The Prince of Wales Foundation, a non-profit founded in the United States by HRH The Prince of Wales in 1997, dedicated to financing and advancing projects with disadvantaged young people, educational initiatives, arts and cultural programs as well as urban and rural renewal.
To date, Daniel Galvin Jr. has helped contribute almost $50,000 to the Foundation with Dubble Trubble. "The money raised from the Dubble Trubble range will make a real difference to disadvantaged young people across the U.S., giving them the skills and confidence they need to turn their lives around," said Daniel Galvin Jr.
www.princeofwalesfdn.org
Most recently launching over in Australia, The Prince's Trust Australia supports the development and delivery of innovative, high impact projects that align with the charitable interests of his H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. The charity has a number of project areas including the following categories:
Health & Wellbeing, The Build Environment, Rural & Regional, Defence Members and their Families, Young People, Environment & Sustainability, Arts and Culture.
www.princes-trust.org.au
Dubble Trubble products are stocked in the UK at Ocado, Tesco, Myonlife.co.uk and at the salon and online shop, in Australia at Woolworths, and in the USA at Target and Amazon.com.
The Highgrove Signature collection is inspired by the gardens at Highgrove House, the private residence of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. HRH The Prince of Wales manages the gardens and estate at Highgrove with the strictest sustainable principles. Ethical management of the gardens and recycling of all waste materials ensure they thrive in complete harmony with nature. With this in mind, the range was developed to meet the high standards of the Soil Association, who have certified the products organic content.
The Highgrove Signature range has been created by Daniel Galvin Jr and Alexandra Soveral, world renowned aromatherapist and facialist. All the products have been created using pure organic essential oils that have active properties and are well known for promoting a sense of wellbeing and vitality, making this is a fragrance free range.
Included among the key notes are rose, used to treat all skin conditions from dry mature skin to sensitive complexions; immune system-boosting bay leaf; refreshing and uplifting bergamot to alleviate stress; lime with its healing properties; juniper berries to balance and protect the skin; geranium to rejuvenate; lavender to aid a feeling of calm and black pepper to activate the circulation.
A donation from the sale of Highgrove Signature products is paid to The Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation. The Foundation operates primarily as a grant making trust and aims to use income raised from its trading subsidiaries to support charitable causes and make a strategic impact for good.
www.princeofwalescharitablefoundation.org.uk
For more information about The Royal Gardens At Highgrove: www.highgrovegardens.com

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Hartford Seminary Partners with Boston University for Cooperative Master of Divinity Program
May 26th, 2016 @ 11:59am
Hartford Seminary has an exciting new partner for its Cooperative Master of Divinity program: Boston University's School of Theology.
The Seminary's agreement with BU means that students can start their Master of Divinity degree at Hartford Seminary, taking advantage of its rich, multifaith environment, then, if accepted, transfer up to 36 credits to BU's School of Theology to complete the M.Div. The Seminary's other partner in the cooperative program is Yale Divinity School.
Bryan P. Stone, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at BU's School of Theology, said BU's program is designed for "maximum flexibility."
"The curriculum is structured around the process of exploring the knowledge, skills, and practices of religious leadership, including interdisciplinary reflection on the contexts, theologies, and historical experiences that shape that leadership," he said. "Recognizing that religious leadership takes place in a variety of vocational arenas, the curriculum is built around five distinct tracks: pastoral ministry, chaplaincy, global and community engagement, church and the arts, and religion and the academy. Hartford students may select a track upon entering the program or they may complete the M.Div. in an 'open format.'"
Prof. Shanell T. Smith, who directs the Cooperative M.Div. Program at Hartford Seminary, describes the two-part program as an opportunity to "listen for God's voice."
"I am dedicated to working with our faculty, staff, and partnering schools to help our students succeed in their academic pursuits," she said. "Even more important are the one-on-one conversations we have with our students, asking them the essential questions throughout their discerning process."
For more information about how the Cooperative M.Div. program works, visit this link.


Find them in the video below gushing about it.
This is the boys' recipe for chocolate peanut butter Greek yogurt but you can see from the video that they might have gone a bit overboard on the chocolate portion when it came down to filming it. As I said, the recipe is completely flexible and allows you to add as much chocolate as you might try to get away with, something my boys have apparently tested in some depth.
Check out their video and be sure to subscribe to their channel Half Pint Hacks.
Place in the freezer for a few hours. Eat.


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The Photo Feature was launched on the main page on March 12, 2005 as part of a main page redesign, replacing the quote article. Images run on the main page with a description as well as the date that they were photographed. They are run at 350×467 resolution at that location if vertical, and at 600×450 if horizontal.
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Chancellor Street, a cobblestone alley between South 12th and 13th Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Featured: June 10, 2016
Photographed: June 9, 2016
Railroad signal and crossbuck on Gun Road, at one of the exits for Patapsco Valley State Park in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Featured: May 29, 2016
Photographed: March 17, 2016
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Exploring an abandoned house…" in the Journal, and "Scott's House" in Photography.
Former Shoppers Food store in Ellicott City, Maryland, two hours after closing for the final time.
Photographed: October 18, 2014
An unfinished Best Western hotel, after construction had been halted due to financial problems, in Thornburg, Virginia.
Photographed: November 29, 2014
Notes: Construction resumed on this hotel in 2015, and as of this writing is substantially complete, with new paint and stone facing on the exterior. The hotel will be branded as a Best Western Plus.
HAWK beacon at the intersection of 16th and Jonquil Streets NW in Washington, DC.
Featured: May 6, 2016
An opened container of whole cloves sits on a counter in the kitchen of an abandoned house near Elkridge, Maryland.
Featured: April 22, 2016
The M/V Neuse, a River Class ferryboat, running the North Carolina Ferry System's Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry service.
Photographed: June 28, 2014
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Outer Banks" in Life and Times.
Power plant building at Lorton Reformatory, a former District of Columbia prison in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Featured: April 9, 2016
Photographed: December 10, 2015
The "D-Hall Deli" station at the Fresh Food Company, one of several eateries at Gibbons Hall, the main dining hall on the campus of James Madison University.
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A visit to JMU…" in the Journal.
A 2007 Champion EZ-Trans cutaway van, formerly Ride On's bus 5214, parked on South Newkirk Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
Featured: March 25, 2016
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "What happens to a retired Champion..." and "A shopping center full of what once was…" in the Journal.
Rusted Sears Craftsman LT1036 lawnmower in the front lawn of an abandoned house in Elkridge, Maryland.
A frozen drink, still in its cup, at the Convention Center light rail station in Baltimore, Maryland.
Photographed: February 11, 2016
Notes: First photo feature taken with Nikon D5300 camera.
A man and a woman stand together on High Rock, taking photos of the view with their phones.
Featured: February 26, 2016
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "High Rock" in Photography.
A woman speaks at a demonstration in support of Private Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning outside Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia.
Notes: This photo is part of the From the White House to Quantico set in Life and Times.
Activated ADT pull station in the bus terminal at Union Station in Washington DC.
Notes: First photo feature taken with Samsung Galaxy Note 5 camera.
A 1000-Series railcar at the Largo Town Center Metro station, in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Featured: February 4, 2016
Photographed: July 4, 2006
Light switch inside a building at Lorton Reformatory, a former District of Columbia prison in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Featured: January 23, 2016
Fire alarm horn and strobe at East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Notes: For more photos from this day, see the Pittsburgh with LPCM photo set in College Life.
A basketball goal near the beach at Sandy Point State Park, near Annapolis, Maryland.
Featured: January 7, 2016
Photographed: February 9, 2013
Notes: This photo is part of the Sandy Point State Park set in Photography.
Walmart shopping cart abandoned on the side of Columbus Blvd in Philadelphia, near IKEA.
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Fun in Philadelphia..." in the Journal.
Interior of PATCO I railcar 223, manufactured by Budd in 1968, in Lindenwold, New Jersey.
Featured: December 24, 2015
Rusted water tower at Lorton Reformatory, a former prison for the District of Columbia, in Lorton, Virginia.
Bus 6379, a New Flyer DE40LFA, at White Oak Shopping Center, northern terminus for the Metrobus K6 route.
Mountaintop sign for WTBO, a radio station in Cumberland, Maryland, just before sunset.
Featured: December 2, 2015
Photographed: October 2, 2014
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Back to Cumberland..." in the Journal.
Millipede on the Humpback Rock trail in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Featured: November 21, 2015
Photographed: May 28, 2012
Notes: This photo is part of the Humpback Rock set in Photography.
A can of Steel Reserve beer, wrapped in a paper bag underneath a bench in a bus shelter at the Takoma Metro station.
Sign for former Ames department store at the Diamond Point Plaza shopping center, near Baltimore, Maryland.
Featured: November 5, 2015
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A shopping center full of what once was…" in the Journal.
Sunset as viewed from High Rock, on South Mountain in Pen Mar, Maryland near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
Featured: October 29, 2015
Notes: For more photos from High Rock, see "I feel like I was shooting the photos for those motivational posters…" in the Journal.
Brick in the parking lot at the mostly vacant Diamond Point Plaza shopping center outside Baltimore, Maryland.
Headstone for the grave of a person named Butt, at Harper Cemetery in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
MARC locomotive 24 leads a consist while operating westbound Brunswick Line service, at Point of Rocks, Maryland.
Featured: September 30, 2015
Photographed: August 4, 2015
House at 10 St. Luke's Place in New York City's Greenwich Village, used for establishing shots of the Huxtable residence in the 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show.
Notes: For those interested, despite that The Cosby Show was set in Brooklyn, the house used for establishing shots of the home is located in Manhattan.
Bus 80, a 2004 Orion V operated by DASH, at the King Street-Old Town Metro station in Alexandria, Virginia.
Photographed: August 21, 2015
House at the intersection of 16th and Buchanan Street NW in Washington DC's 16th Street Heights neighborhood.
Featured: September 4, 2015
Photographed: April 12, 2015
Afternoon sky over Parklawn Drive in Rockville, Maryland.
Featured: August 28, 2015
Photographed: July 15, 2015
A Hitachi hydraulic excavator works from the top of a pile of dirt at the construction site for the new Wheaton High School in Wheaton, Maryland.
Sign for the Quarry overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, in Botetourt County, Virginia.
Featured: August 7, 2015
Photographed: September 1, 2014
Sign for bacon at Whole Foods Market in Rockville, Maryland.
Featured: July 29, 2015
A woman leans on a tree branch while watching a squirrel in New York City's Central Park.
Notes: The person depicted in this photograph is my friend Doreen, with whom I traveled to New York City on June 9, 2015.
A sign printed with "REALLY" is mounted beneath a standard stop sign on the campus of Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland.
Mouthwash cup with napkin on a stand in a dental office in Washington DC.
Featured: July 1, 2015
The Transamerica Tower, in the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, Maryland.
Photographed: September 14. 2014
Notes: For more photos from this day, see "No longer a Baltimore transit virgin…" in the Journal.
Cherry blossoms on a tree in Washington DC's Petworth neighborhood.
Clouds reflect off of the glass facade of One World Trade Center, in the Financial District of New York City.
Maryland flag flying over the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
Featured: June 4, 2015
Photographed: September 14, 2014
Sign denoting the border between the District of Columbia and Silver Spring, Maryland at the 16th Street traffic circle.
"Big Kmart" sign on the roof of the North Plaza Shopping Center near Baltimore, Maryland, in the early evening.
Dandelion on a lawn in Washington DC's Petworth neighborhood.
Heart drawn in the foam on the top of a mug of hot chocolate at Red Emma's Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Baltimore, Maryland.
Railroad signal and crossbuck in Cumberland, Maryland, using "button copy" on the crossbuck text for reflectivity.


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Madonna on Japanese TV News
by MT2006 · September 20, 2006
Thanks to M-Tribe contributor nnn for sharing these capture from Japanese TV morning news reporting about Madonna attending the opening of the X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS exhibition in Tokyo last night.
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Pink Floyd Release 'Run Like Hell' 2019 Remix Video
Bruce Henne | 11-16-2019
(hennemusic) Pink Floyd are streaming video of "Run Like Hell" from the 2019 remix of the 1988 live set, "Delicate Sound Of Thunder", as the latest preview to the November 29 release of a new box set entitled "The Later Years 1987-2019."
Produced by Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour, the project was remixed by Gilmour and Andy Jackson with assistance by Damon Iddins.
"Delicate Sound Of Thunder" - which captures the band during a five-night stand at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, NY - has also been remixed over 2CD and Blu-ray and DVD editions of the new 5-CD/6-Blu-ray/5-DVD package, which delivers the work of Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright from 1987 onwards, a period that saw the group generate sales of more than 40 million records.
Also presented is an updated version of 1987's "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason", a series of 1987 & 1994 live recordings and unreleased studio recordings, and full versions of the group's 1989 Venice Concert and 1990 appearance at Knebworth.
Among the DVD/Blu-ray material in the package is a restored and remixed concert film for "Delicate Sound Of Thunder", a restored and re-edited edition of the 1995 live set "Pulse", and a number of various unreleased live films, music videos and screen films.
"Pink Floyd: The Later Years 1987-2019" will also be available in a 2LP / 1CD 'Highlights' package that comes in a gatefold sleeve (for both CD and 2LP), while each will contain a 24-page booklet containing previously unseen and rare photos. Watch the video here.
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Tofiq Bəhramov (en àzeri: Tofiq Bəhramov) (Bakú, RSS de l'Azerbaidjan, Unió Soviètica, 25 de novembre de 1926-Bakú, República de l'Azerbaidjan, 12 d'octubre de 1993) va ser un futbolista, àrbitre i jutge de línia (actualment àrbitre assistent) de futbol azerbaidjanès.

Trajectòria

Conegut a Anglaterra com «el linier rus», va ser l'àrbitre representant de la Unió Soviètica a la Copa del Món de Futbol de 1966. En aquest campionat només va arbitrar una trobada, va ser el que va enfrontar Espanya contra Suïssa (2-1). A la final celebrada el 30 de juliol de 1966 entre Anglaterra i Alemanya Federal arbitrada pel suís Gottfried Dienst, quan la trobada estava empatat a 2 gols, al minut 11 de la pròrroga, el davanter Geoff Hurst va xutar a porteria des de fora de l'àrea de meta, impactant la pilota al travesser, i rebotant aquest, sobre la línia de gol sense arribar a entrar a la meta. El linier del partit, Tofiq Bəhramov, va concedir gol a la jugada del davanter Geoff Hurst, convertint des de llavors en un dels gols fantasmes més famosos de la història del futbol.

Des seu salt a la fama mundial, a l'Azerbaidjan és considerat un símbol, on l'estadi Tofiq Bəhramov, el més important del país, porta el nom del jutge de línia. El 2004, aprofitant el partit entre les seleccions de l'Azerbaidjan i Anglaterra, corresponent a la classificació per a l Copa del Món de Futbol de 2006, es va celebrar un gran homenatge en el seu record, incloent-se entre els assistents Geoff Hurst, Michel Platini i Sepp Blatter. Entre els actes en memòria a l'àrbitre àzeri, es va donar a conèixer una estàtua de mida considerable amb la figura de Bəhramov actuant com a àrbitre, sent el primer àrbitre a tenir una estàtua en el seu record. Els aficionats anglesos que es van desplaçar a l'Azerbaidjan a presenciar el partit el 2004, es van desplaçar fins a la seva tomba per deixar flors i honrar a la memòria. A Anglaterra on també se li té gran estima, el 2006 la marca Kit Kat va llançar un anunci televisiu, reproduint la famosa jugada del gol fantasma en què apareix Tofiq Bəhramov menjant Kit Kat, i després d'acudir l'àrbitre principal a consultar per la jugada, Tofiq Bəhramov en veure sorprès dona gol.

Enllaços externs
 Perfil de Bəhramov

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Wharton's New Advanced Corporate Finance Program Explores Complex Areas of Global Finance
Every day finance executives must make rapid-fire decisions about corporate strategy, capital allocation, investment decisions, balance sheet structure, acquisitions, and other mission-critical concerns. To help them identify core issues and craft a decision-making approach, the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has launched a new Advanced Corporate Finance program. This course will expose executives to sophisticated tools aimed at helping them anticipate and respond to today's hot-button issues, including options, risk management, international finance, and emerging financial technologies.
Backed by the world-renowned research and thought leadership of the Wharton School, executives across industries will be immersed in the latest research and real-world business applications surrounding corporate finance. Participants will also be exposed to emerging trends in the financial technology area, which poses a future major disruption to the banking economy and to financial markets.
"Interest rates are rising from record lows, regulatory regimes like Dodd-Frank are under attack by the administration, and blockchain and other technologies are transforming the way that companies raise capital and engage in business," says Itay Goldstein, Wharton's Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor and Professor of Finance. "Today, everyone who works in finance—inside and outside of banking—needs an update."
Advanced Corporate Finance brings together a powerhouse of Wharton faculty from multiple business disciplines such as economics, finance, and legal studies. In addition to Goldstein, other Wharton faculty teaching in the program include Finance Professors David Musto, Joao F. Gomes, and Karen Lewis; and Peter Conti-Brown from the Legal Studies & Business Ethics department.
Musto is chair of Wharton's Finance Department and also the Ronald O. Perelman Professor in Finance. Gomes, an expert at the intersection of macroeconomics and financial markets, is Wharton's Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance. Lewis is the Joseph and Ida Sondheimer Professor in International Economics and Finance at Wharton. Conti-Brown is assistant professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, and author of The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve.
"A key differentiator of Wharton's Advanced Corporate Finance program is the way it will immerse participants in the latest research surrounding corporate finance," says Goldstein, noting that the faculty bring deep connections across a wide section of industries. "One of the highlights of Advanced Corporate Finance is the use of live cases, where participants will be exposed to real companies facing real problems."
Program participants will evaluate different challenges that companies face, and will make specific recommendations that will be evaluated by Wharton faculty based on feedback from company representatives.
Among other benefits, program participants will have the opportunity to:
Tackle capital structure decisions either through debt, equity, or a combination of both
Manage risk across borders in a global economy
Use real options to expand, change, or curtail projects based on changing economic, technological, or market conditions
Value and assess the financial and risk implications of decisions
The program targets executives with finance responsibilities, across all industries, who have strategic financial oversight of their company/division and wish to strengthen or broaden their understanding of corporate finance.
Session topics include:
Capital Structure: Debt vs. Equity
Real Options: Decision Tree Models
Global Trends: Macroeconomics, Regulation, and Financial Technology
International Corporate Finance: Valuation and Risk
For more information about this program, visit: execed.wharton.upenn.edu/ACFN
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The different regulations, rules and other parts of the real estate purchasing process can make you crazy. Becoming more educated with the process of buying real estate is vital to your success at it.
When negotiating with real estate purchases, always use a moderate approach. The worst thing to do is be aggressive with the price. Be firm in what you want, however, let your Realtor and lawyer go at the negotiations since they are used to fighting those battles.
If you have kids, you need to make sure there is enough room for the family. Think about safety too. A swimming pool or stairs present a major risk for small children. Purchasing a house from a family who has already raised children can guarantee the house is safe.
Properties that require major improvements are usually sold at a lower price. This allows you to save money up-front, and work on the house at your own rate over an extended period of time. You are increasing the value of your home with each improvement and have the flexibility to design it the way you want. Take the potential of a property in consideration before letting the drawback discourage you. Your dream house might just be a diamond in the rough.
Get a partner that you trust when you want to make the step and buy an expensive commercial lot. It gives you someone to consult with, and also will increase your standing when applying for a mortgage. A partner can assist you with a down payment, and help qualify for a good commercial loan that you might not be able to get on your own.
Consider these tips as a starting point in your real estate education. Make certain that you use any information here that may be useful so that you don't run into a lot of common problems. Have fun house hunting.


Born in Draperstown, Co Derry in September 1980, Vincent Kennedy is an artist working almost exclusively in the medium of liquid enamel paints. Very rarely using a brush, he instead drips or pours the paint onto the canvas. He also uses a squeegee to mould and shape the paints on his large abstract paintings.
Vincent was artistic from a very young age and started drawing portraits in his early teens which developed into painting portraits in his early 20's. Although a skilled portraitist, this form of painting did not satisfy his creative drive or emotional needs.
After studying and researching different forms of abstract art, it was abstract expressionism that captured his imagination. Now working with complete freedom and high energy, and using bold colours, he creates works with spontaneous but often times subconscious direction. He has no fear of making drastic changes while painting but instead trusts his instincts and reactions to the image being created.
Each of Vincent's paintings is a voyage of self discovery and a unique insight into the artists psyche.


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May 26, 2015 No Comments by Anibal Arturo Casco Avila
What happens when you mix zombies, aliens, lots of cameras, and the rugged mountain woodlands of the Southwest? You get Robert Conway's The Encounter, coming out on June 2nd for your viewing pleasure. Sure, the ingredients are all there, but does this found-footage sci-fi jaunt in the woods have the scares?
The Encounter is actually four stories told through an hour and a half of footage from various cameras. The axis around which the horror unfolds is the wreckage of a crashed alien craft deep in the Arizona wilderness. After falling from the sky in a dramatic spectacle captured by an aircraft control tower's camera, the action unfolds as seven people enter its dark radius of malevolence in the desolate sylvan environment.
What starts out as a camping trip for two young couples, a hunting expedition for two friends, and a regular day for a park ranger turns ominous as the influence of the strange craft drives some to madness and others to death. Strange pods spread a virulent ichor that turns its victims into vicious mindless drones. To add to this, the constant threat of the carnivorous aliens makes their escapes all the more terrifying.
Eventually, only one survivor remains, totally unable to relay the truth to the government agency that is assigned to investigate what unfolded during that fateful night on the mountain.
One of the best things about this movie is its effective jump scares and, moreover, Conway has done a great job with The Encounter to create an atmosphere of foreboding dread as the hapless victims make their way through the verdant labyrinth. Great acting by most of the actors helps bring the viewer into the horror like an abductee caught in a tractor beam (One of which does actually appear in the movie).
Unfortunately, there are a few things that somewhat stifle the otherwise fabulous experience of the film. Awkward pacing and cheesy special effects bog down the action and the dialogue feels clumsy and overwrought at times.
But make no mistake, The Encounter is certainly worth watching in a dark room late at night.
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Doctorate recipient numbers in the U.S., by ethnicity 2018
Published by Erin Duffin, Dec 11, 2019
This statistic shows the number of doctorate recipients in the United States in 2018, by ethnicity. In that year, at a total of 28,585, the majority of doctorate recipients in the United States were white or Caucasian.
Number of doctorate recipients in the United States in 2018, by ethnicity
Number of doctorate recipients
White 28,585
Asian 14,815
Hispanic or Latino 3,603
Black or African American 3,058
Ethnicity not reported 2,943
More than one race 1,213
Other race or race not reported 862
American Indian or Alaska Native 116
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Federal funds for postsecondary education in the U.S., by department 2018
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Expenditure of public and private colleges and universities U.S. 1970-2018
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Educational attainment in the U.S. as of 2019
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Revenue of public degree-granting postsecondary institutions U.S. 2017/18
The 20 richest colleges in the U.S. 2019
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U.S. - forecast for higher education outlays 2019-2030
Education expenditure per student at U.S. private bachelor's institutions 2007-2018
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First-professional degrees earned in the United States by ethnicity 2017
U.S. student loans - number repaying debt/in default 2008, by 4-year institution type
First professional degrees earned in the United States for selected professions 2017
Percentage of U.S. population groups with a bachelor's degree, by ethnicity 2010
Higher education - annual charges in public institutions 1970-2018
Number of engineering and science doctorate recipients U.S. 1957-2018
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Typically the first program you write when you are learning a programming language is, "Hello World!". Due to the popularity of my prior post on optimizing the traveling salesman problem with genetic algorithms I decided to write a general parallelized Genetic Algorithm Framework for LabVIEW, naturally the first thing I taught it to do was to say, "Hello World!".
I have been interested in Machine Learning for a while now, we interact with it all the time in our day to day lives and those interactions will only grow in frequency with time. Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a subset of Machine Learning that I have found to be pretty interesting ever since I heard about how NASA used them to design an antenna. In my previous post I played around with using a GA to find a solution to the traveling salesman problem and it triggered a lot of activity on the blog, so I figured I would write a generic framework that could be applied to other problems easily. (Writing the framework wasn't entirely altruistic, I am also going to be using it for my NI Week 2016 presentation I am doing with Alan C. Smith).
It turns out that Douglas Adams was right when he wrote that the Earth was created as a super computer to answer the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything". Earth is a computer, and the program it is running is evolution. Evolution has given us unique and unexpected results to the problem of survival.
Genetic Algorithms are designed to model this evolution of species as observed on earth. Because of this symmetry the main components of GAs are Genes, Chromosomes, and Populations, and the main functions are Mutation, Mating, and Evolution.
My Genetic Algorithm Framework (GAF) follows the paradigm. There is a Population class that handles a population of Chromosome objects, which in turn are made up of Gene objects. The Population class handles the algorithm itself, in so far as it dictates when mutations occur and when chromosomes mate to produce new chromosomes (this is called crossover). The Chromosome class handles the specific details regarding how mutation, mating, fitting, and construction work. The Gene class is the representation of the data being acted on. In the Traveling Salesman problem a Gene would represent a city, in the Hello World problem a Gene would represent an ASCII character.
Both the Population class and the Chromosome class are Actor Framework Actors, and communication of data between the Population, Chromosome classes and the UI is done using the Simple Mediator Framework I put together. These design decisions make the code a little more complex than it had to be but the cost of complexity is paid for by the benefits it provides. These benefits include the ability to run my chromosomes as Actors in parallel, the ability to run many populations as Actors in parallel, the separation of the UI from the Genetic Algorithm Framework using the mediator pattern, and the fact that this design better fits my needs for my NI Week presentation (kind of a cop out, but I told you I wasn't being entirely altruistic).
To use the framework you will need to create children of the Chromosome and Gene classes. The Chromosome class has four methods that must be overriden; "Calculate Fitness.vi", "Generate Random.vi", "Mate.vi", and "Mutate.vi". You will need to write code within each of these VIs that fits your problem domain.
Lets take a look at the Chromosome and Gene children I created for the Hello World! example. In the example the child of the Gene class is named, "Character" and its class data is a string.
The Character class has two methods named, "Compare Chars.vi" and "Construct Gene.vi".
The Construct Gene method will generate a random ASCII character between the values of 32 and 90. This defines the subset of genes that my chromosome can have. The Construct Gene method is called whenever I need to generate a random character that will be inserted into my String class.
The Compare Chars method takes in two Genes, which are ASCII characters in this example and compares them, assigning a fitness score to the comparison. If the characters are the same then the fitness score is zero, the score gets proportionally higher the further from a match the two characters are. With this implementation a lower fitness is a better match. Note that this fitness is just for the gene comparison, not for the chromosome as a whole.
The child of the Chromosome class is named String and it has four must override methods and one public method I created as a way to get the solution string into the algorithm. The class data for the String class holds an array of Character objects.
The Calculate Fitness.vi evaluates the chromosome's fitness, this evaluation is problem domain specific but the Genetic Algorithm Framework expects that the fitness of the chromosome increases the closer the fitness score gets to zero. In the Hello World example the fitness is calculated by comparing each Gene from the Chromosome to its corresponding Gene in the solution. The fitness returns as zero if the two genes match, and is otherwise weighted by proximity on the ASCII table. This method must call its parent method, and it must call it after the child's code has executed.
The Generate Random.vi will generate an array of random Genes for the Chromosome. This method is only used for the initial creation of the population. This VI must call its parent implementation, and the call must happen after the code in the child implementation executes.
The Mate.vi takes in two Chromosomes as inputs handles combining their Genes to create some number of children. The Hello World example calculates a random pivot point at which to slice the gene arrays and then recombines the first half of Gene one with the second half of Gene two, and the first half of Gene two with the second half of Gene one. The two new children are then passed out as two new Chromosomes to be launched as new Actors, while the original parent Chromosomes will eventually be put out to pasture.
The Mutate.vi defines how the Chromosome mutates in the event that random mutation is triggered. The mutation typically consists of the injection of a random Gene into a random location within the Chromosome, which is precisely what the Hello World example does.
The Chromosome class also has a static dispatch public method named Load Target. The purpose of this method within the context of the Hello World example is to get the solution string, "Hello World!" (or whatever else the user wants to optimize towards) into the Chromosome object. You may or may not need to have a method that serves this function, it all depends on the context of the problem you are trying to optimize.
The last piece of the puzzle is the top level VI. This VI has two staging areas, one for the setup and launching of the Population Actor, and the other for the registration for data and events for the UI using the Mediator Pattern. Notice that you didn't see any mention of the Mediator Pattern in the children of the Gene and Chromosome classes, its use within the framework is already coded up. You can, however, access it from within your child of the Chromosome class if you need to for custom UI design.
Zooming in on the staging area for the Population Actor you can see that this where the parameters fort he Genetic Algorithm are entered; Population Size, Crossover Rate, Elitism Rate, Mutation Rate, Tournament Size, and the total number of Generations. This is also where you will inject your child of the Chromosome class, here you can see the String object being wired into the "Chromosome Type" property. To run the framework against your custom solution the only thing you have to do is inject your child of the Chromosome class here.
Population Size: The Population Size is the number of chromosomes that you want to exist in your population for each evolutionary iteration. The framework will keep this many Chromosome Actors in memory throughout the duration of the run. The largest the number gets the slower the genetic algorithm runs.
Crossover Rate: The Crossover Rate is a number between 0 and 1 that defines the likelihood that two chromosomes will be selected to mate each evolutionary iteration. Setting this value to 1 guarantees mating each iteration.
Elitism Rate: The Elitism Rate is a number between 0 and 1 that defines what percentage of the population will persist between evolutionary iterations. This idea is kind of weird, its like saying that a parent's genes are so good that they become immortal and keep mating with each new generation, at least until the new generation catches up on gene quality at which point the immortal parent summarily done away with. A non-zero value here means that the best x percent of the current generation gets copied into the next generation.
Mutation Rate: The mutation rate is a number between 0 and 1 that defines the likelihood of a random gene mutation being injected into a chromosome. This is a tough number to get right; if it's too large then it becomes hard to bring a solution into focus, but if it is too small it becomes easy for the evolution to get trapped in a local minima.
Tournament Size: The Tournament Size is a number between 0 and the Population Size. When a chromosome is randomly selected for mating a tournament is held between n chromosomes, where n = Tournament Size. During the Tournament n random chromosomes are selected and fittest of the group is selected for mating. The Tournament is run twice to select two mates, and then they mate.
Generations: The Generations input is any number greater than zero and it dictates how many evolutionary iterations (or generations) the genetic algorithm should run for.
Zooming in on the Message Broker staging area we see that we are registering for three pieces of information; Fittest Score, Fittest Chromosome, and Generations. As the Genetic Algorithm runs the Population will broadcast these three data points, by registering for them here we can use them to update our user interface. If you add broadcast points to your Chromosome class you will need to subscribe to them here in order to pass them to the UI.
That is a quick introduction to the Genetic Algorithm Framework, you can see a video of it running above. You can download the VI Package for the framework on the Tools page, right now I am only supporting LabVIEW 2015 and higher, but not for any good reason. As a note, this package depends on the Simple Mediator Framework, which can also be downloaded on the Tools page.
If you want to see a heartier version of the framework be sure to attend my NI Week 2016 presentation, it is titled, "Unfunded Liabilities: How Poor Package Design Drives Technical Debt and What You Can Do About It" and is scheduled for Monday August 1st 2016 at 9:45 AM (which is Alliance Day).
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