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Nick Grimshaw planning Top of the Pops spin-off show
Samantha Maine Jun 1, 2016 5:28 pm BST
"It's a music show, it'll be a show getting music on television."
Radio 1 DJ and ex X Factor judge Nick Grimshaw is planning a Top of the Pops style show which will get music back on television.
The last episode of BBC's Top of the Pops was aired in July of 2006, making this summer the tenth anniversary of its departure from UK screens.
Speaking to The Sun, Grimshaw said he's planning a music show as it's "what the country needs". "I'm writing a show with my friend Aimee," he continued. "We've just started writing it. We're in talks to do a show."
"It's a music show, it'll be a show getting music on television. It's what we need so I'm going to make it happen. It's my mission."
It was announced today (June 1) that Nick Grimshaw and his fellow ex X Factor judges have been replaced with Sharon Osbourne, Nicole Scherzinger and Louis Walsh for the 2016 return.
Explaining his departure, he said that appearing on the show alongside his Radio 1 programme was too much work.
"I love going to work and I like to be busy," he told The Daily Star of his decision. "But doing X Factor and the radio was work all the time. I was doing the [BBC Radio 1] show in the morning and then working on X Factor from midday to midnight. It was every day. I will miss X Factor but I don't regret my decision to go."
Top of the Pops was first aired back in 1964 and featured performances from the likes of David Bowie, John Lennon, The Smiths and the Spice Girls.
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Oct 17 heralded in the beginning of the new school term, and npTribune set out to discover how our current students' ambitions, motivations and expectations have changed over the course of the year.
How have your motivations and expectations changed from the last semester?
I am more motivated this semester, and as the semesters have gone by, it has gotten more difficult. I feel that if I work harder, and am more motivated, I will be able to further improve my results and do even better. With the help of my classmates, I think I will be able to do well this semester.
Now that you are back in school after a two-month break, is there anything you are looking forward to eating?
I'm looking forward to having the Kaki Fuyong from Makan Place. It's the bomb.
Now that the both of you are starting the second semester of your first year at NP, what do you hope to achieve this semester?
Christine: I hope to achieve a 3.8 GPA. I just want to do better and be able to get into a good university.
What do you and your friends do during the first week of a new semester?
Jasmine: During the first week of school, we usually go out for dinners to hang out and catch up with one another.
You are back for the second half of your third year here at NP. What are the best moments you have experienced in your third year so far?
I think I would be the take aways from internship. During internship, you are exposed to external companies, learn to be more professional and get to do things that you do not usually get to do in school. Other than that, I am also excited for Red Camp, where we get to introduce the school and courses to secondary school students. It allows them to understand their options better and make their choices more wisely.
Considering that it is your final semester in NP, is there anything in particular you would like to experience before you leave?
Actually, I have never been to Dialogue in the Dark. I would like to visit Dialogue in the Dark before I graduate, and I heard that it is actually free-of-charge for NP students.
How have your motivations changed this semester as compared to last semester?
Last semester was my internship, so it was very different from school. Motivation wise, it was more of trying to please my supervisors and get my work done. For this semester, however, it is more of how I want to fare and how well I am going to contribute to my group during group work.
How do you feel that this is your last semester in NP?
It is bittersweet, in a way. I definitely cannot wait to get out of here, but these three years have also been the best years of my life. It has been very fun and really different from anything I have done before.


Our company has a R&D Team that has the courage to make innovation, dares to challenge the limits, and pursues excellence. In the team, there are 10 Senior Engineers, over 20 members with bachelor's or master's degrees, and 5 Senior Experts and Advisors in the industry. They take full advantage of industry-university-research cooperation and have in-depth R&D cooperation with Anhui Agricultural University and Nanjing Forestry University in basic wood materials and improving the performance of fast-growing poplar. Plentiful substantial achievements have been made. What's more, the company also has strategic R&D cooperation projects with major overseas customers.
In recent years, the company took part in formulating national standard "Modified Wood Dimension Stability Test Method", formulated enterprise standard "Poplar Plank High Temperature Dipping Treatment", applied for the approval of multiple regional standards, and got 10 patents for invention, 11 patents for utility models. So far, a number of patents for invention have entered substantive examination.
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Aside from sparing the life of trees, particularly rare, exotic species, laminate flooring has several advantages over real hardwood flooring.
First, comparable visuals and designs can be achieved at a fraction of the cost to the end-user. Second, laminate flooring can be installed both above and below grade, where hardwood flooring can only be installed above grade.
Third, laminate flooring is installed without nails or glue, making it a perfect choice for do-it-yourselfers.
Forth, Laminate flooring is generally designed to be scratch-resistant and fade resistant, two areas where solid hardwood flooring is known to be more vulnerable.
Another big advantage is that of price: laminate flooring is typically half the cost of traditional hardwood flooring. Sometimes the savings are even greater, depending on the types of flooring in question.


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Sulfonamidy jsou rozsáhlá skupina antibiotik obsahujících sulfonamidovou skupinu –SO2–NH2. Jsou odvozené od sulfanilamidu. Tyto látky působí na mikroby bakteriostaticky, pomocí kompetitivní inhibice zamezují správnému průběhu cyklu kyseliny listové. Ve většině případů však sulfonamidy byly již nahrazeny účinnějšími a méně toxickými léky.

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Three employees in the Wake Forest University Office of Information Systems recently received promotions.
Jay L. Dominick was named assistant vice president and chief information officer. He will be responsible for overall technical direction for the university's academic and business computing. Previously, Dominick was director of information systems. He joined the university in 1991.
E. O'Neal Robinson of Kernersville was named director of information systems. He will oversee the university's computer center operations. Robinson, who joined Wake Forest in February, was assistant director of information systems. Previously, he worked for MCI Telecommunications Corporation as the manager of network services and data center hardware planning and requirements.
Anne Yandell of Mocksville was named assistant director for projects. She will direct major computing projects and implement the new student records computer system. Previously, she was the assistant director of administrative computing. Yandell joined the university in 1981.


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And the answer is … maybe?
As background, attorney Richard Goren was unhappy with two reports about him that were posted on Rip-Off Report. He sued the complainer, Christian DuPont, and, in a default judgment, the court assigned the copyrights to Goren and appointed Goren as attorney-in-fact, which allowed Goren to execute the assignment documents. Goren then later assigned the copyrights to plaintiff Simple Justice. (More about the default judgment in a moment.) In the instant case, Simple Justice sued Xentric on several theories, relevant here are the counts for copyright ownership and infringement. If DuPont had granted an exclusive license* to Rip-Off Report, then the court couldn't have later assigned the same rights to Goren.
The fundamental struggle for the court was that the checkbox wasn't clearly labeled as assent to the Terms of Service, the text in the box immediately above it. It didn't say "by checking this box you agree to the Terms of Service above and that …"; rather, the check box could be interpreted as agreeing only to the text next to the box.
So what to do? The court sets off on the hopeless task of trying to decide whether this is a "clickwrap" or "browsewrap" license. I have come to agree with Venkat Balasubramani and Eric Goldman's view that this has become a meaningless distinction, and what we should do instead is just look at basic contract formation principles.
Xcentric construes the terms and conditions as a clickwrap agreement, but the user never affirmatively indicates his agreement. The terms accompanying the checkbox do not state that "I agree to the terms and conditions" or other such language indicating express accord. By checking the box, the user agrees only to the terms accompanying the checkbox. This means that the terms and conditions, including the grant of an exclusive license, which is paramount to a copyright transfer, constitute a browsewrap agreement.
[B]rowsewrap agreements do "not require the user to manifest assent to the terms and conditions expressly. A party instead gives his assent simply by using the website." [Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble Inc., 763 F.3d 1171, 1176 (9th Cir. 2014)]. Clickwrap agreements are generally upheld because they require affirmative action on the part of the user. Because no affirmative action is required by a website user to agree to the terms of a browsewrap contract other than his or her use of the website, the determination of the validity of a browsewrap contract depends on whether the user has actual or constructive notice of a website's terms and conditions. If there is no evidence of actual notice, then the website owner must show that it "put[ ] a reasonably prudent user on inquiry notice of the terms of the contract." Nguyen, 763 F.3d at 1177.
(Some internal citations, brackets and quotation marks omitted).
But here's the problem. We're not looking for assent to just any contract, but an assignment of a copyright. That requires a writing. Ngyuen was about arbitration, and whether there was assent to a contractual provision about arbitration is not the same question as whether there is a writing signed by the assignor of the copyright.
But how could that be right? How can the court find that (1) there was no signature, or signature equivalent, because the checkbox did not refer to the Terms of Service that conveyed the exclusive license and yet (2) there was an assignment? Yup, that's just irreconcilable.
The Court concludes that DuPont transferred copyright ownership to Xcentric by means of an enforceable browsewrap agreement. Xcentric is thus entitled to summary judgment as to Count I (declaratory judgment as to copyright ownership) and Count II (copyright infringement). Moreover, even if the browsewrap agreement were considered invalid and DuPont retained ownership of the copyrights to the Reports, he nonetheless granted a non-exclusive license to Xcentric and, therefore, he waived his right to sue Xcentric for infringement where its use did not exceed the scope of that license. The latter scenario also requires summary judgment for Xcentric as to Count II.
I don't know whether this was a valid assignment or not because the court answered the wrong question. The right question was "is this checkbox a signature agreeing to the Terms of Service"? The court said not, but while looking at it through the wrong lens. The court talked a lot about how everyone would understand scroll bars and hyperlinks and layout in the context of assent, so if one was looking at it in terms of a signature, rather than assent, the outcome might have been different. Eric Goldman says "I'm confident that a super-majority of users understood that they were agreeing to the terms when they saw that scrollbox and proceeded to post," and I agree. So I don't think it would be a stretch to say that this could be a signature to an assignment.
Or, alternatively, would the checkbox terms suffice for a copyright assignment? They might, there's a lot of law around the language of assignment, but that wasn't explored by the court.
So, in conclusion—who knows. It was just the wrong question and therefore examined using the wrong law.
And the bonus issue: The district court's assignment of the copyright to Goren in a default judgment is unlawful under Section 201(e), which prohibits an act "to seize, expropriate, transfer, or exercise rights of ownership with respect to the copyright, or any of the exclusive rights under a copyright" by a governmental body, except in bankruptcy, provided that the owner of the copyright is the original individual author who has never transferred it. (Some history here.) The court's transfer of the DuPont copyrights was therefore ineffective.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog view of the case here.
Small Justice LLC v. Xcentric Ventures LLC, No. 13-cv-11701 (D. Mass. March 27, 2015).
I use the same language that the grant clause uses, "exclusive license," although the grant includes the right to "use, copy, perform, display and distribute" the content. Further, not in the opinion but on the current Rip-Off Report Terms of Service page, the grant continues "and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing." Although called a "license," it doesn't look like there are any rights that the submitter will have retained, so this is a full-blown assignment.


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Willis-PB made history, not hype
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They made a movie about Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey breaking the color line. Heck, they never even wrote a book about Bill Willis and Paul Brown.
If baseball's Robinson and Rickey were Hollywood, then football's Willis and Brown were off Broadway. Which is pretty much where football in mid-America hid in the shadow of baseball and New York in that giddy first post-war year of 1946 when babies and ball boomed.
Maybe it's just as well the book isn't written yet. Willis and Brown are writing another chapter more than 50 years after they first went to press.
The only place Willis could be on Sept. 10 is in Mike Brown's box for Paul Brown Stadium's regular-season opener. The Bengals are playing the Cleveland Browns, Paul Brown's namesakes and his first pro team. They are also the team for whom Willis became one of pro football's first African-Americans the summer before Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Indeed, many of the books, including Paul Brown's autobiography, say Willis, the lightning quick nose tackle, was the first. But in history, it's almost treated as mysteriously as that first shot on Lexington Green because it's not as definitive as Robinson.
Who was first? Woody Strode and Kenny Washington broke in on the West Coast later that summer. Marion Motley, the wondrous fullback who foreshadowed Jim Brown, joined the Browns' training camp a week after Willis arrived.
"I'm a little bit hazy on it myself," said Willis the other day from his home in his native Columbus, Ohio. "What was happening with the other guys was a thousand miles away and it's not like today. We just didn't hear about it. All I know is that we all started that same season."
Willis and Brown never made much of the color barrier. That wasn't their way. Willis had played for Brown at Ohio State in the early '40s and they just both figured that was the way it was supposed to be.
"I never had problems on the team," said Willis of that first day he was the only one. "I wasn't a complete stranger. I knew a lot of the guys from college. (Lou) Groza. (Dante) Lavelli. In addition, I knew Paul Brown pretty well. The thread follows the needle. Everybody takes their cue from the coach. That was his attitude. He was looking for good players who could play football together."
Maybe what meant more to Willis happened shortly after his coach died nine years ago and Mike Brown extended his father's long-standing invitation to Willis and his wife to join him in the owner's box of the Bengals.
"Mike would always put me in Paul Brown's seat when I went to the games," Willis said. "That was quite an honor to sit in Paul's seat. Mike would be on one side and Pete (Paul's other son) would be on the other side. That has always meant a great deal to me."
As Mike Brown sat in his office the other day and watched the finishing touches put on his father's stadium, he shrugged.
"It was supposed to be an honor," Mike Brown said. "My father liked watching football games with very few people. Bill Willis was one of those people."
Willis, now 78, is one of those guys who was the game before hype, the salary cap and Dennis Miller. In the summer of '46, Willis was trying to decide between coaching the line at Kentucky State or playing with the Browns. He figured he'd play a year or two in the pros so he could learn about the entire offense and then go back into coaching.
Then after a couple of years, Willis figured he'd play another year or two and then coach But the next thing he knew, it was eight years in the game and then it was 1977 and Paul Brown was presenting him for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Mike Brown smiles because he remembers when he was 12 years old and he would sneak up to the second floor of the Browns' dorm at training camp. He would play Hearts with Willis, Motley and Horace Gillom, everyone trying to dump the "Dirty Heart" on Motley because he was the guy who would complain the loudest about getting the Queen.
"We were all very impressed with the fact that Mike would come into camp and no one was allowed up on the players' floor, but he came up anyway," Willis said. "Here was this little guy who was crazy about his association with us."
"Oh yeah," Mike Brown said 50 years later. "Those guys were like great gods to me."
Then Mike Brown looked out the window a little longer and recalled how Willis, Motley and Gillom almost never went out at night. Then he remembered it was the late '40s, a time when blacks weren't always welcome in the same establishments as whites.
But Willis doesn't dwell on those things. He admits he faced the same racism Robinson did. He and Motley didn't travel with the Browns in '46 to play the Miami Seahawks because it was against Florida law for blacks and whites to compete against each other. Willis says Brown "laid his groundwork" to avoid potential problems. Such as being barred from the team hotel on the rest of the trips.
But Willis prefers not to discuss it with the same powerful dignity that allowed him to rebound from a terrible stroke 10 years ago that paralyzed his left side. He speaks clearly, walks with a cane and has an
F-stop memory of how he became a Cleveland Brown.
Rickey handled the Robinson experiment with the smoke and mirrors of a machine politician. Brown also used some cleverness. He wanted Willis, but he also didn't want the kid or his team overwhelmed in national exposure.
Brown waited until the Browns were settled at training camp before Willis got a call from Brown's friend at The Columbus Dispatch, Paul Hornung.
"I think he wanted to make it look like I came in uninvited, that I just showed up," Willis said. "I had an offer to play in Canada and I thought that was quite exciting because I had never been on a plane before. But I decided to stop by and when I showed up at the end of practice, Paul hollered across the field, 'Do you think you can still play?' I told him yes and he said, 'Go in and get a uniform.' "
Then the next day, Willis lined up across center Mo Scarry and proceeded to make life miserable for a guy known as pretty quick. It got to a point where quarterback Otto Graham was saying Willis was offsides.
Later on, Graham ended up setting up over center with feet parallel, but one foot slightly behind to push off faster to get away from Willis. Other pro teams soon picked it up. Call it the Bill Willis Step.
"I went under him, I went over him and then I finally went through him," Willis said. "He couldn't get the ball to the quarterback, so Paul put a coach on each end to make sure I wasn't offside and they never caught me. I could just tell by what (Scarry) was doing with his fingers. Everytime he started trembling, I knew he was going to center it. He was so anxious to get the ball back to Otto Graham, he stepped on Otto's toe.
"Paul stopped practice. It was about to end anyway," Willis said. "So he made a little joke. It was something like, 'We can't have Otto Graham getting his toes stepped on.' He told me he would announce me making the team on his own good time."
These were just two guys who thought the best players play. Two guys who respected each other. Willis remembers how close they became after his playing days. Brown and Willis called each other often, particularly when there was a milestone in either family. When Willis was named to the College Football Hall of Fame, Brown made sure Willis' three sons were able to travel to the ceremony.
"The fact that he integrated pro football should obviously be remembered," Willis said. "There's also all his innovations and he had the combination of being a great organizer and master psychologist. He had a way of making every guy feel he was the most important guy on the team and that if Bill Willis didn't do his job, the Cleveland Browns weren't going to win."
Sure, Bill Willis will be there Sept. 10. It might not be a movie, but football and friendship and a seat in a box is all you need for two guys who made the game better.

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Recharting Penn's Woods: The Early American Mid-Atlantic (July 18-21, 2015 Chicago IL)
Society of Early Americanists/Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
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Since the 1939 publication of Perry Miller's classic The New England Mind early Americanists have acknowledged the fundamental role New English Puritanism played in the subsequent development of American culture. Scholars like Edmund Morgan, Sacvan Bercovitch, Andrew Delbanco and many others have placed New England at the center of the development of American identity. Yet in the past generation other scholars have broadened an understanding of regionalism in the construction of American nation-hood, with many focusing on the polyglot, multiethnic and religiously non-conformist colonies of New York, New Jersey, and especially Pennsylvania. This panel planned for the Society of Early Americanists and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture joint conference scheduled for July 18-21, 2015 and to be held in Chicago Illinois asks for papers that help to recontextualize the central role that the middle colonies held in the future development of American culture. How did the Mid-Atlantic contribute to later understandings of religious pluralism and multiculturalism? Potential topics could include Mid-Atlantic religious culture, including discussions of the Society of Friends, Moravians, German pietism, Dutch Reformed churches, Anabaptists including the Brethren as well as the Amish and Mennonites, as well as smaller sects including the Ephrata colonists and the Society of the Women in the Wilderness, and general religious culture from the first to the second Great Awakenings. Other papers could examine the history of European colonialism in the Mid-Atlantic from the English, Dutch, and Swedish, as well as interactions with native populations including the Lenape and the Iroquois, racial conflicts such as those involving the Paxton Boys or Pontiac's siege on Fort Pitt, German Pennsylvanians, Huguenot immigration to Pennsylvania and Delaware, Presbyterian immigration on the western frontier, linguistic diversity in the Mid-Atlantic, military history including the Seven Years War and the Revolutionary War, as well as Mid-Atlantic writers including Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Benjamin Banneker, and Francis Daniel Pastorius among others. Please send a 300 word abstract and a one-page CV to Ed Simon of Lehigh University (ens310@lehigh.edu) by September 10, 2014. CVs must include mailing and email addresses as well as phone numbers. Participants will be informed of acceptance within a week, if the panel has been accepted participants will be informed sometime after September 15.


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BENSON / PREUSCHL / PREUSCHL 15.01.2015
obviously we kick off 2015 with a music highlight…
byzantine flavour – a classic will open up the serbian new year
benson/preuschl/preuschl
Renee Benson: Gesang, Text
Julian Preuschl: Trompete, Beatboxing, Loops
Raphael Preuschl: Bass, Effekte
"My profile will not appear in any history book
There will be no three-day concert in mud
Or stories of bell bottomed bliss
Just the shadow of an old worn out hat
Worn on top of my head…
Each day I drive 10 times from Front Street to Main Street
In your town
Hoping
Someday someone will want to see my garden"
http://www.freifeld.at/html/neues.html
Music. Life. Words. Light. On Thursday,
music and rhyme featuring excerpts from the series, "'Hero of Hiroshima (by Renee Benson)" will join together for an evening at Verein08.
byzantine flavour
Folk music – arranged for two guitars – from Balkan region with strong basis on Macedonian and Serbian indigenous musical tradition.
Macedonia's and Serbia's geographical location contribute for this kind of music very much. It's a real melting pot of centuries of various kinds of musical and cultural fusion. At first glance it is basically very calm, simple and diatonic, but very specific. Especially because originally played on several instruments particular to the area. One of them is called a kaval, which is a diagonal flute, bagpipes and a big drum called a tapan that's played with a heavy stick on one side and a thin stick on the other. This instrument also appears in Bulgaria, Turkey and India.
Then there is a very heavy influence of the Ottoman Empire, which had highly developed classical music within what's called the Maqam system — a modal system, not a harmonic system. Then there's Turkish folk music and the really important influence of the gypsies (ornamentation and a lot of the metric stuff that comes more from India and Turkey) who traveled from the south of India and then moved to the west.
When you add it up, Macedonian music has several polarities. One of them is it has really beautiful, melancholy roots that are in free time, that usual relate to the mountain life which are played by shepherds in the mountain and are then brought into a concert situation with compositions. Macedonian music also has odd meters that are very common to the area. For example, most popular songs are written in seven beats. Seven, nine and 11 are other common meters.
It is very simple, but very beautiful. If you take one of those simple tunes and play it, it feels perfect. But if I try to write something like it, I'll never be able to really nail it completely because there's a characteristic of the folk music that's very simple, but very specific.


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Building peace in the minds of men and women
Introducing UNESCO
About Almaty Office
Major documents
Programme and budget
Gender Equality Action Plan
Education transforms lives
Fostering Freedom of Expression
Protecting Our Heritage and Fostering Creativity
Learning to Live Together
Building Knowledge Societies
Science for a Sustainable Future
Preventing Violent Extremism
Silk Roads Heritage Corridors
National Commissions
UNESCO Chairs
Introducing Partnerships
For Journalists: Press room
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UNESCO Courier
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World Arabic Language Day
The Arabic language is a pillar of the cultural diversity of humanity.
It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, used daily by more than 290 million people. World Arabic Language Day is celebrated every year on 18 December since 2012. The date coincides with the day in 1973 that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted Arabic as the sixth official language of the Organization.
In the diversity of its forms, classic or dialectal, from oral expression to poetic calligraphy, the Arabic language has given rise to a fascinating aesthetic, in fields as varied as architecture, poetry, philosophy and song. It gives access to an incredible variety of identities and beliefs and its history reveals the richness of its links with other languages. Arabic has played a catalytic role in knowledge, promoting the dissemination of Greek and Roman sciences and philosophies to Renaissance Europe. It has enabled a dialogue of cultures along the silk roads, from the coast of India to the Horn of Africa.
Arabic Language Academies: Necessity or Luxury? is the theme of World Arabic Language Day celebration in 2020.
Technological advancements and the extensive use of global languages such as English and French has resulted in numerous changes in the use of Arabic. Increasingly, these foreign languages replace the Arabic language in both daily communication and in the academic field.
In addition, Classical Arabic is being used less as more people are opting for the use of local Arabic dialectics. Due to this shift, there is a growing need to preserve Classical Arabic's integrity by making it compliant with the demands of our changing language landscape today.
Through a virtual meeting with academics and professionals in Arabic language, UNESCO will initiate a global discussion to examine the role and the need of language academies as a space to safeguard and preserve the Arabic language.
By exploring these questions, World Arabic Language Day 2020 will provide an opportunity to reflect on and discuss how Language Academies can help revive and enhance the use of classical Arabic. The Day will also give an opportunity to showcase and celebrate the richness and global importance of the Arabic language worldwide.
The celebration is organized in cooperation with the Permanent Delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Foundation.
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Shark Tale
Oscar, a fast-talking little fish who dreams big, is showered — with fame and fortune when a great white lie turns him into a hero. But — when his lie threatens to make him the Catch of the Day, he must try to — tip the scales back in his favor again. Animated.
Voice talents of Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Renee Zellwegger, — Martin Scorcese, Robert DeNiro, Jack Black, Peter Falk
PG for some mild language and crude humor, 91 min.
La Dolce Vita —
Marcello Mastroianni stars in Fellini's classic 1960 film — about a playboy celebrity journalist who sees his life in shallow, hedonistic — Rome society as worthless, but cannot change. One of Fellini's most entertaining — and least ambiguous films, with a brilliant performance by the young Mastroianni. — Written and Directed by Federico Fellini Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, — Anouk Aimee
NR but contains nudity and sexual situations, 174 min.
Ladder 49 —
A firefighter trapped in the worst blaze of his career — awaits rescue. While his life hangs in the balance, family, dignity and — courage come into focus.
Juaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Morris Chestnut, Robert — Patrick
PG-13 for intense fire and rescue situations, and for — language, 115 min.
Outfoxed —
Scathing documentary about the Fox News Channel and, in — a broader sense, an indictment of media empires and the dangers of ever — enlarging corporations deciding the public's need-to-know. Includes interviews — with former Fox News Channel employees and inter-office memos they provided.
Directed by Robert Greenwald
NR, 71 min.
Silver City —
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling — politician's campaign for governor of Colorado. Political comedy/drama — touches on greedy developers, lobbyists, brutal moguls, apathetic journalists, — exploited immigrants and Machiavellian campaign managers.
Directed by John Sayles
Chris Cooper, Danny Huston, Mary Kay Place, Kris Kristofferson, — Maria Bello, Daryl Hannah, Richard Dreyfuss
R for language, 129 min.
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Shall We Dance
A businessman discovers a new passion for dancing, and — for a beautiful dance instructor. His passion for dancing revitalizes — the young woman, and her instruction leads him to revitalize his marriage.
Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez
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$! Do We Know? —
Best Documentary Award Winner at the 2004 Ashland Independent — Film Festival. A woman finds herself in an Alice in Wonderland experience — when her uninspired life quite literally begins to unravel, revealing — the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our reality. A — mixture of documentary, animation and drama illustrates ideas woven together — by a Greek chorus of scientists, physicians, mystics and theologians. —
NR. 111 minutes.
Friday Night Lights —
Based on the best seller, the story focuses on the small — town of Odessa, Texas, their obsession with high school football and the — pressure to win. Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Derek Luke
PG-13 for thematic issues, sexual content, language, some — teen drinking and rough sports action, 118 min.
Forgotten —
A grieving mother is told by her psychiatrist that she — has created the memories of a lost 8-year-old son that she never had. — But then she meets a man who has had a similar experience, and she sets — out to prove her son's existence.
Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Anthony Edwards, — Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache
PG-13 for intense thematic material, some violence and — brief language, 91 min.
Garden State —
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his — clinically depressed mother, a journey that reconnects him with some of — his past friends. Because the trip coincides with his decision to stop — taking his powerful anti-depressants, he also begins to reconnect with — himself, rekindling emotional attachments and confronting his father, — a psychologist.
Written and Directed by Zach Braff
Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard
R for language, drug use and a scene of sexuality, 109 — min.
Hunting of the President —
Adapted from the book by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, this — documentary uses dramatic narration provided by Morgan Freeman, ominous — music, and humorous stock footage to develop tension, drama, humor and — outrage in telling the story of the alleged Republican conspiracy that — tried for ten years to discredit President Bill Clinton.
NR, but contains testimony about sexual relations, language, — glimpse of a woman in a wet t-shirt, news footage of an execution, 89 — min.
Raise Your Voice —
A small town girl with a big voice defies her father's — wishes and secretly heads off to spend a summer at a Los Angeles performing — arts academy. There she finds herself in a highly competitive program — in an intimidating new city. Hilary Duff, Jason Ritter, John Corbett, — Rebecca De Mornay, David Keith, Rita Wilson
PG for thematic elements and language, 107 min.
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Angie has flashbacks while working with the Shakespeare — Festival in Ashland, Oregon. She replays her tormented past through an — encounter that becomes angry and assaultive. She attacks her brother, — Kurt, then attempts suicide. Their tormented past becomes a detective's — obsession, a psychologist's nightmare, and a forgotten soldier's personal — war. In this mystery/drama, no one escapes what they cannot control or — forgive in themselves. Written and Directed by Ashland's David Oas Starring — Alicia Legano, Morgan Spector, Doug Rowe, Michael Elich, Richard Elmore
R for violence, sexual content, and some drug use and — language, 102 min.
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Belle is New York's fastest cabbie. An over-eager cop — puts her skills and her souped-up car to use in pursuing a gang of bank — robbers. Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallow
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Cosmos » Birds » Even migratory birds can keep their cool
7 December 2021 /
Imma Perfetto
Even migratory birds can keep their cool
Lighter-coloured feathers help keep migratory birds from overheating over extreme distances.
A flock of mainly white-rumped sandpipers (Calidris fuscicollis), a long-distance migratory shorebird. CREDIT Pablo F. Petracci
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Migratory birds are specially adapted to tackle the remarkable tests of endurance involved in undertaking their long and arduous journeys. And now we know that one of these adaptations might resemble one of our own during the summer months – keeping it cool in lighter colours.
New research has found an unexpected way that migratory birds avoid roasting in the sun: lighter-coloured feathers.
"We found across nearly all species of birds, migratory species tend to be lighter-coloured than non-migratory species," says Dr Kaspar Delhey, of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany.
"We think that lighter plumage coloration is selected in migratory species because it reduces the risk of overheating when exposed to sunshine. Lighter surfaces absorb less heat than darker ones, as anybody wearing dark clothes on a sunny day can attest! This would be particularly important for long-distance migrants that undertake extensive flights during which they cannot stop to rest in the shade."
Delhey and his team have studied the effects of climate on bird colouration before; their earlier research showed that in general lighter-coloured birds are found in places with high temperatures and little shade. More recently, they came across new research which showed that some migratory birds fly at higher altitudes during the day compared to night, raising the question as to why the birds would make the trek to climb to such high altitudes.
"Because flying at high altitude is likely costly, these changes required an explanation," Delhey says. "One possibility was that flying higher, where it is colder, would offset the heat absorbed by the plumage when the sun was shining."
They realised that another way to reduce the risk of overheating would be to have evolved lighter (more reflective) plumage to absorb less solar radiation in the first place. To test this relationship between plumage lightness and migration they used bird images from the Handbook of the Birds of the World to quantify overall plumage lightness (from 0 = black to 100 = white) for all bird species.
By comparing this data to the species' migratory behaviour and controlling for other factors known to affect plumage colour – specifically climate, habitat structure, and body size – they found that bird species get increasingly lighter as they migrate farther. Resident birds tended to be darker than short-distance migrants, which in turn were darker than species which travel long distances.
Amazingly this effect remained consistent across different types of birds, with the same pattern holding true for land-dwelling and waterbirds, large and small.
These findings come as another reminder of the significant role of temperature – and climate factors more broadly – in influencing the evolution of animal colouration. With the escalation of global warming, this research also has implications for understanding its impacts and the potential adaptive evolutionary responses they provoke.
Originally published by Cosmos as Even migratory birds can keep their cool
Imma Perfetto is a science writer at Cosmos. She has a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Science Communication from the University of Adelaide.
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From 6 March through 18 April the Noorderlicht Photogallery presents a personal photo document about the Roma by photographer Joakim Eskildsen. Between 2000 and 2006 Eskildsen travelled together with the writer Cia Rinne through seven countries to obtain more insight into the life and culture of the Roma. The result, The Roma Journeys, has been applauded internationally for its splendid photography, and is now to be seen for the first time in The Netherlands.
Joakim Eskildsen and Cia Rinne's trip began in Hungary and by chance expanded to include India, Greece, Romania, France, Russia and Finland. As Eskildsen and Rinne came to know more about the culture, language and living conditions of the Roma, their interest developed into solidarity. The countless profound encounters proved a great source of inspiration during the project. Eskildsen and Rinne often stayed for long periods as guests with various families and could work with their subjects' full confidence. The photographs reflect the intensity of the contact between the Roma and the photographer.
Together with the Calé, Sinti and other groups the Roma constitute Europe's largest ethnic minority. Colloquially they are however all generally called 'gypsies'. The Roma community has been wandering through Europe for six hundred years now, in search of a place to settle permanently. Right down to this day they must defend themselves against discrimination and distrust from surrounding societies.
Joakim Eskildsen (b. 1971, Copenhagen) completed his studies at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki in 1998 and was for some time in training with the Danish court photographer Rigmor Mydtskov. Among Eskildsen's publications are Nordic Signs, from 1995, and iChicken Moon, published in 1999. The book The Roma Journeys (2007, Steidl), which appeared to accompany the exhibition, has captured several photography prizes including the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (Gold) in 2009.
Opening Friday, 5 March, at 5:00 p.m. in the Noorderlicht Photogallery.


May I just say thank you to all those who were able to make the Emergency Branch meeting. More details will follow about the meeting early next week.
At the aforesaid Branch Meeting pay was discussed and I attach all the relevant documents from the National Officer. In essence the final offer is 1%, with a bit more for the bottom 8 spine points. Please read the attached letter from the National Committee. It was with this message in mind that there was a show of hands at the Branch Meeting.
A large majority of the meeting voted to accept the 1% offer.
1 person voted to reject and there were several abstentions.
Therefore I invite your votes by email over the next week so we can form a fuller picture of what the Branch wants.
I will then forward the Exeter result to the National Officer late next week.
It is only a consultative ballot at this point, when the Union gets all the branch results in, Unite will communicate the result and what the next steps are, if any.


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Scientists Are Going To Create The Coldest Spot In The Known Universe
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The universe is freezing. In spots like the Boomerang Nebula, the temperature drops all the way down to one degree Kelvin (-272.15C). But if NASA scientists have their way, the known universe will have a new coldest place, and it's going to be inside the International Space Station.
The Cold Atom Lab will be an atomic refrigerator that aims to push temperatures down to unstudied depths of 100 pico-Kelvin. That is to say, one 10-billionth of a degree above absolute zero, at which point matter's movement stops entirely. In theory anyway. At these ridiculously frigid temperatures, matter should stop being a gas, liquid or solid, and instead opt to assume totally quantum state of being. How could you not want to study that?
Unfortunately, we'll all have to wait a bit. The science module for the Cold Atom Lab isn't due to get shot up into orbit until 2016, and because of the pesky effects of gravity, it won't do much good down here. But expect some awesome results once it's in action. Probably almost as magical as zero-gravity cloth wringing. [ScienceAtNASA via Geek]


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From Israel with love: on Tu B'Av, the Jewish holiday of love, we've got 10 splendid photos for you, all part of Passage to Israel, an invigorating exhibit exploring the soulful beauty of the land of Israel.
"Passage to Israel" is a book and exhibition – the book was published by Skyhorse last fall, and the exhibition has traveled from NYC to Jerusalem, Jaffa, and now the Haifa Film Festival. It will be going to South Beach in the spring as part of a Israel 70 years celebration.
The book includes 200 images of Israel from 25 photographers. You can see many of them at passagetoIsrael.org, under Gallery.


"ARE your GABA receptors playing up?" It seems that these brain cells are to blame for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) – the mood swings some women experience before their period starts.
Many women feel a little irritable around this time, but up to 8 per cent have extreme symptoms, including anxiety and fatigue. Symptoms of so-called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) begin around a week beforehand when women are in the "late luteal" phase of their cycle and progesterone levels are high.


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Stefan van Biljon: Unearthing the urban unknown
This Cape Town and New York-trained architect talks about uncovering the invisible forces that influence our relationships with our cities.
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Stefan van Biljon is an architect and artist from Cape Town. He completed a Masters of Architecture at the University of Cape Town and a Masters of Architecture II at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, graduating in May 2014. Van Biljon is interested in dismantling our assumptions and discovering the hidden forces that shape our relationships with the cities we live in.
In this Design Indaba Conference 2014 talk, Van Biljon presents his thesis projects from both his masters courses, both looking at Cape Town.
The first of these projects is from Van Biljon's 2010 thesis for the University of Cape, titled KL-Metamatic: Ghost Ship.
"The project is located in a K/L berth," says Van Biljon, "just a stone's throw away from where we are sitting, in Cape Town's harbour. The site used to be an anonymous point in open water. It was reclaimed in the 1930s and this idea of transformation from one state to the next, from water into land, became the guiding light of this project."
He began by building models from pieces of old models and bits from scrap yards around Cape Town. Then he drew pictures of the models, "absorbing the shapes in the paper and transforming them into something new".
Van Biljon then talks through images of his project from the first site model. He designed a machine that would slowly return K/L berth to the ocean over the course of 200 years. Van Biljon's models also included a space where a single visitor could sit in the Ghost Ship and listen to the sound of the wind beating around the space. KL-Metamatic: Ghost Ship won van Biljon the 2010 South African Institute of Architects' Best Student award.
The second project Van Biljon talks about is his thesis from the Cooper Union, Military Urbanism. Van Biljon uses drawings and maps to investigate the history of Cape Town's segregated urban planning.
"This project really represents my attempt to try to unearth the unconscious of Cape Town's urban divisions."
The Group Areas Act, passed by the Apartheid government in the 1950s, saw the city carved into racially isolated areas. But the scars of that era are not the only ones that Cape Town bares. The lines that divide Capetonians date back long before the Apartheid bulldozers hit.
In a series of images, Van Biljon shows how "the city's fractured character is rooted as much in the soil and landscape as it is in the social dynamics."
Cape Town has a history of land appropriation and exclusion, with the Dutch and then the British displacing the Khoi tribes' people who farmed the land there, in favour of ethnic and economic homogenisation. Van Biljon uses maps to show how the Khoi were kept out of what used to be their summer pastures, and what is now the City Bowl. The landscape itself and Table Mountain were used as part of the city's fortifications.
"This drawing shows the first hundred years of Dutch agriculture expansion and the Cape colony, with the spectre of the Khoi's movement routes over that."
After the abolition of slavery in the 1830s, new ways of creating a working underclass were created in the very architecture of the city. Then, in the early twentieth century, the bubonic plague broke out and the black and coloured population in District 6 were rounded up and moved out to the first segregated township – "setting the tone," according to Van Biljon, "for the rest of the twentieth century's urban development in Cape Town".


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"Gotham" EP reveals title for the first episode of season 3
"Gotham" executive producer John Stephens shared a picture on Twitter revealing the title of the first episode of season 3: "Better To Reign In Hell…".
Here we go. #Gotham pic.twitter.com/mIEJxAtLyi
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It's not really possible to properly embed a video in a Github comment, pull request or issue like it's possible for images for instance. So if you want to put a video in a Github pull request (I do that quite often), you have to upload it to a video hosting service like Youtube and then you can put the link in the description. This is not what I would call embedding a video but at least it's simple and effective.
If nothing is selected in the textarea, hitting button will just prompt the user for a Youtube URL to embed. This script should also work in Greasemonkey clones for Chrome, though I did not test it.


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Amazing Grace is already a hit with Aretha Franklin fans, before the film has even been released.
The Queen of Soul's fans attended a special screening of the 1972 documentary Thursday night at the Directors Guild of America Theater Complex in Los Angeles, kicking off the 2019 Pan African Film Festival (PAFF).
The audience included PAFF Executive Director Ayuko Babu, actor-director Danny Glover, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price, who presented the film's producers — Alan Elliott and Tirrell D. Whittley — with a city proclamation. Alexander Hamilton, who directed the choir in the film, also attended.
The film documents the recording of Franklin's 1972 gospel album titled Amazing Grace at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Although the documentary was intended to be a companion piece to what became the best-selling gospel album ever, it spent years on the shelf due to copyright and technical issues.
Fans praised the doc during the post-screening Q&A with the film's producers. Urban Hollywood 411 founder, Anita Bennett, moderated the Q&A on behalf of the African American Film Critics Association.
Some people in the audience said they cried during the film because they were so moved by the music.
The movie's road to financing was also discussed, with Elliott saying "no one" would pick up the project. The producer said he used his own money and connections to correct technical issues and restore the film because he believed in the project.
As for bringing the documentary to theaters, Elliott — who is white — believes race was a factor in his struggle to find a distributor. He credited Spike Lee with helping him get distribution after the BlackKklansman director saw the documentary at a screening in New York.
"Spike said, 'talk to me, black man to black man,'" Elliott recalled as the audience laughed.
"I told him, if Paul McCartney had died… and they found a movie of Sgt. Pepper being filmed, and it was the best reviewed film of the year, and Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Apple didn't bid on it at all. What would you say?" Elliott explained.
He said Lee then hosted screenings in Los Angeles to spread the word about the film. Distribution company Neon picked up the film's North American rights in December 2018.
The movie has also acquired distribution deals in several foreign markets, Whittley revealed.
After screening the movie at the DOC NYC festival in November 2018, Whittley and Elliott are now focused on promotion. "We are working on a grassroots marketing campaign," Whittley explained to the audience.
The movie is set for a spring 2019 theatrical release, and producers noted that an official premiere date will be announced soon.
You can watch the Amazing Grace trailer below.


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Actions As many as 100 people per day can visit the new drive-through vaccination site at the Lowndes County Civic Center. Posted at 5:21 PM, Jan 18, 2021 and last updated 2021-01-18 17:21:38-05 VALDOSTA, Ga. (WTXL) — As many as 100 people per day can visit the new drive-through vaccination site at the Lowndes County Civic Center. Mable Miles was one of the first to visit the new site and says the process was quick and painless. "I say it was no problem. It didn't hurt because I'm afraid of needles. It didn't
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Tuesday Storm to Bring High Winds, Rain, Light Snow to Parts of County
A small storm system with winds up to 45 mph is approaching San Diego and is expected on Tuesday, NBC 7's Sheena Parveen is forecasting Parveen said San Diego will be getting rain and some wet mountain snow or a rain/snow mix in the second half of the day -- mountain residents won't see much accumulation. Winds will increase as the system moves in. with gusts near 45 mph in the mountains Tuesday night that may reach speeds of up to 30 mph for inland valleys. There is a lingering chance of showers on Wednesday,
nbcsandiego.com , 46min 0
Indonesia grapples with multiple emergencies amid COVID-19 pandemic
Click arrows to view gallery Click arrows to view gallery On top of the COVID-19 pandemic, the residents of Indonesia are grappling with multiple crises at once, with emergency and first-aid services stretched thin Monday. Ten straight days of rain have flooded the South Kalimantan province of the island of Borneo, with evacuees now living at a bus terminal in Banjarmasin. Rescuers search for more victims of a Saturday landslide that killed 32 people in Sumedang, West Java province. A magnitude 6.2 earthquake
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On MLK Day, Dr. Ala Stanford calls on Biden to send National Guard to support vaccination efforts
(Philadelphia) – In March of 1966, at a press conference ahead of his address to the Medical Committee for Human Rights in Chicago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that, "of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death." Those health disparities were the focus of this year's MLK Day of Service in Philadelphia. The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium set up a testing site at Girard College, the annual host of the city's
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Virtual events held to honor life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
His brothers and sisters at the 36th Annual MLK Scholarship Breakfast held a discussion - was Dr. King a movement, a moment or both? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy were celebrated virtually on Monday. Those that knew him and those who were inspired by him shared their messages on what they think he stood for. Members of New Britain Youth Service's Youth Leadership Group participated in memorializing Dr. King Jr. The children may not have walked the steps from the 1950s, but they do believe history
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Skip to content BINGHAMTON, NY – While unable to gather this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the United Way of Broome County still honored his legacy by celebrating a day of giving back. Through its social media sites, the charitable organization has suggested ways to help those in the Black community, including supporting Black-owned businesses, donating to a civic or justice organization, or performing random acts of kindness. The battle for social justice and equality that Doctor King fought continues today,
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Florida invasive pythons could help with coronavirus vaccine
Experts say a key ingredient to vaccinating Americans against the coronavirus is deep within the Florida Everglades. The snake is record-breaking 18-foot, 9-inch Burmese python. The largest ever captured in Florida.(Source: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission) EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. (WVLT/WTSP) - Experts say a key ingredient to vaccinating Americans against the coronavirus is deep within the Florida Everglades. What, you might ask? Invasive Burmese pythons, WTSP reports. Daryl Thompson, Director
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Several area college students are just weeks away from returning to campus following their winter break. Local colleges are making sure they can give students the best education possible while keeping them safe in the spring. Winter break for college students is nearing its end and while some will be going back to campus, others will be learning remotely. 22News spoke with representatives from multiple schools across multiple counties to find out their spring semester plans. At
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Skip to content ALBANY, NY – As New York State continues to wait on a state and local aid package from Congress, we're anticipating the Governor's executive budget to be outlined tomorrow. NewsChannel 34's Corina Cappabianca has more with a budget expert on what to look out for. ((Andrew Rein, Citizens Budget Commission President)) The key is to be realistic about the size of the problem, realistic about the federal aid, make less painful first choices. And then, if you want to assume some federal aid,
Matt James walks to a date on 'The Bachelor.' The Bachelor Matt James has opened up about the importance of faith in his life. James grew up with his mother, Patty James, and older brother, John, in North Carolina. Patty James raised her kids Christian. His mother and his father didn't stay together long and separated when James was young. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Matt James (@mattjames919) "Unfortunately, my parents split up before I could remember," James said during the premiere.
heavy.com , 50min 0
CobbleStone Software Recognized as CLM Industry Leader by Digital.com
CobbleStone Software, a trusted leader in contract management software, is excited to announce its recognition by Digital.com in their article "Best Contract Management Software Companies of 2021." Digital.com is an online publication that helps business leaders find the right tools to take their business to the next level by providing reviews and comparisons of the best products, services, and software for their needs. PRINCETON, N.J. (PRWEB) January 18, 2021 CobbleStone Software, a trusted leader in contract
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Actress Jill Wagner and David Lemanowicz. Jill Wagner and her husband David Lemanowicz got married in 2017, but they actually met many years before that when Wagner was only 17. They took a few tries to get it right, and their story is so unique that Hallmark is considering making it into a movie, Wagner has said. Here's a look at Wagner and Lemanowicz's love story. The Started Dating in Earnest about 5 Years After Their First Few Dates Jill Wagner Shares Her Real-Life Hallmark Love Story "Extra's"
Walled Lake dispensary offering free pre-rolled joints to anyone who got COVID-19 vaccine
File Photo WALLED LAKE, Mich. (WXYZ) — A dispensary in Walled Lake is offering free pre-rolled joints for anyone who has received the COVID-19 vaccine. The Greenhouse of Walled Lake said the promotion is a "thank you" to everyone involved to helping end the pandemic and getting life to normal. Titled "Pot for Shots," the promotion begins Friday, Jan. 22 and runs through Sunday, Feb. 28. Founder and Owner Jerry Millen said the promotion is his way to assist helping the community get back to normalcy. The Greenhouse
fox47news.com , 50min 0
Los Angeles Mall Closures To Be Debated
County sources say the Board of Supervisors is trying to balance the health crisis with economic considerations. (Capital & Main) Los Angeles County officials tell Capital & Main that the Board of Supervisors will meet in closed session tomorrow, Jan. 15, to consider tightening COVID-19 restrictions on shopping malls and other nonessential retailers in an effort to slow the spread of the deadly respiratory illness overwhelming area hospitals. The county sources, who requested anonymity because they are not
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Moving trucks arrive at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club on Palm Beach
Actions Police expect Trump to arrive in South Florida on Inauguration Day Several large moving trucks arrived at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club on Palm Beach Monday morning, sparking speculation that he'll move to South Florida once he leaves office. Posted at 5:21 PM, Jan 18, 2021 and last updated 2021-01-18 17:21:42-05 PALM BEACH, Fla. — Several large moving trucks arrived at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club on Palm Beach Monday morning, sparking speculation that he'll move to South Florida
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Biden's Keystone canning came more rapidly than expected, Trudeau flailing
You'll recall the news from Monday on Keystone: Reuters have a bit of a recap up on it with Adam's name in lights! "The Canadian dollar is indicating some disappointment on the Keystone XL front," said Adam Button, chief currency analyst at ForexLive. "Few market watchers were expecting the pipeline to be approved but that it will be axed so quickly indicates that Trudeau doesn't have much sway with Biden." CAD has chilled out a little since I posted the breaking news (red arrow in old chart below) ... it was
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Fred Weinberg: Believe It or Not, There's Good News Coming for America
President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an announcement at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday. (Alex Wong / Getty Images) Alex Wong / Getty Images Joe Biden will soon be President Biden and his followers in the media would like to make it illegal to say that the Nov. 3 election was rigged against President Donald Trump. Some years ago, our Reno radio station did high school football broadcasts. One week, we broadcast the Reed High School Raiders playing Carson City. Reed was heavily favored
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Tennessee Fires Coach, 9 Staffers
Pruitt accused of major recruitment violations Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt calls out to his players during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Auburn in Aubuen, Ala., in this Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 photo. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File) Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt calls out to his players during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Auburn in Aubuen, Ala., in this Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 photo. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File) (Newser) – Tennessee has canned coach Jeremy
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When you want to get control of your finances, you can start by taking a look at your present expenses and income. Although it may seem as if these things already are already, there is some short-term planning you can do. By taking a fresh look at how you spend what you earn, you can make some new choices that make life easier today, tomorrow, next week and into next year.
It's easy to fall into the habit of stacking up your bills until you have money to pay them. Most of your bills are about the same every month, so you can add them up to know what you have to pay on a regular basis. This is the beginning of your short-term financial plan. For example, if your rent or mortgage payments, utilities, credit card payments, car expenses, insurance and food costs average out to $3,000 a month, that's the first figure you can jot down for your short-term plan on how to cover monthly expenses.
You need to know the total amount of your take-home pay. If you earn an hourly wage and your hours vary from week to week, calculate an average that you make in a month. If you have a salary, you know your monthly income. If you have a business, you may have to look at a year's income and average it out by the month. Use an after-tax figure, the money you actually have to spend each month.
When you start looking at where your income goes after paying the bills, the first place to look is entertainment. Figure out how much you spend on movies, eating out, nights out with friends, hobbies and trips. You may be spending this money randomly as the mood strikes you, and taking a hard look how much you're spending each month in this category helps you plan. You don't have to stop having fun just because you're making a budget; you can simply decide how much fun you can afford.
Part of your short-term budget can be about stashing money away in a savings account. You may be spending money so randomly that you think of savings as what you happen to have left over at the end of the month; however, this approach almost always means that you don't have anything left at the end of the month. To save, you must plan on a specific amount to set aside. This can come either from your "fun" money or from cutting back on your regular expenses.
If you make only minimum credit card payments, there are two things you might consider for your short-term financial plan. One is to stop using your credit cards so you don't get further into debt. The other is to make a set payment every month. A problem with the minimum payment is it decreases as your credit card balance drops, which means it could take you years to pay off your debt. If you repeatedly make a payment at or above your current minimum, you can pay off your credit card debt in less time than you might imagine.