Sometimes it happens that a traditional job — that thing you left behind to pursue full-time entrepreneurship — rears its ugly head again in your life.
Maybe in the midst of self-employed bliss you lose your biggest clients, experience a financial rough patch, and are faced with the decision to go back to a conventional 9-to-5 before you fail to pay next month's rent.
But what if you set your ego aside, fight those feelings of failure, and embrace the idea that returning to work is just what you need to get your business back on track?
Entrepreneurship is never easy, and sometimes along the path to your business's success you experience times of transition that feel difficult and downright dreadful. However, when accepting a new opportunity you have the power to take the fresh skills you'll learn and use them to fuel your entrepreneurial success.
During your transition, aim to embrace a few key opportunities to ensure that your new venture can actually help your business.
It's important to remember that taking a full-time job after entrepreneurship or self-employment is not about failing — it's about adding a new experience to your repertoire. Embrace that mentality and aim to find a position that has the potential to directly help your business by teaching you a new, relevant skill.
Maybe you've always struggled with marketing your products or services. Find a position that will allow you to work alongside a marketing or sales team. Have you always wanted to learn video-editing for your website but have never found the time? Aim for a communications position where you'll have the opportunity to master the editing software.
The training you'll undergo and the skills you'll learn have the potential to impact the success of your business later on. And if you're not sure where to start, check out my new goal-setting guide, which can help you get specific and action-oriented about what you want to accomplish.
A mistake that many struggling entrepreneurs make is underpricing their products and services, which is often a culprit for financial struggle.
When you're back at a corporate office, or even working in the food or retail industries, you're in a position to directly observe how products of value are priced and sold.
Use this knowledge to your advantage. Think about your business and the services you're providing. How much value do they bring your customers or clients? Determine how you can optimize the worth of what you offer, and learn how to communicate that so you're prepared to effectively sell to future clients.
Now look at what you charge. Are your products priced too low? For example, have you been charging hourly rates for your services when you shouldn't be? Think about how to properly present your services as a valuable asset. Adopt a value-based pricing system and have the confidence to stand behind it.
A perk of working for an established company is that you get to reap the benefits of their reputation. This means working with more esteemed clients and taking on larger projects.
While you may have landed some big clients while on your own, chances are that the ones you'll work with in your new position will be bigger. There is no substitute for credibility, so when you start your new job and get to take on their reputation as your own, you have now upped your client game.
Embrace the opportunity to work with more prominent companies and to make a fantastic impression with their teams. Even though you're representing your employer and not only yourself, keep in mind that you may not have ever gotten the opportunity to work with that particular brand or lead that exciting project if you had not been working for your current employer.
Document the clients you serve, the companies you work alongside, and the projects you launch, and get excited about using this to your advantage. Not only have you expanded your list of experiences but you have also added weight to them, which can significantly impact your future personal business endeavors for the better.
Running a business, especially if you're self-employed, can often feel isolating. Don't get me wrong — there are many upsides to working alone, like skipping the office politics and those pesky cubicle interruptions. But sometimes working with a group of people can be a refreshing change.
Maybe you've spent the last few months or years relishing in your one-man day-to-day grind, where most of your interactions are with clients, customers, or an online community. However, going back to an office setting can actually allow your creativity to flow in new ways.
Despite what modern personal development culture insists about the traditional 9-to-5 environment being soul sucking and outdated, the value of working with the same strong team everyday should not be overlooked. When a workplace is filled with collaboration, creativity can thrive and work can feel rewarding — even enjoyable.
Embrace your new coworkers for the value they bring to your team. Utilize their knowledge and allow yourself to learn from them. Networking is never a bad idea, and you never know when you can one day call upon the connections you're making.
Opening yourself up to taking a job after being a full-time entrepreneur can actually lead to new, invigorating experiences that can help your business thrive. It's true — your new job can pay you a fair, steady income, allow you to have fun with coworkers, and present you with interesting projects that you feel invested in growing.
While returning to the office may feel defeating, it doesn't have to feel like a step away from entrepreneurship. Instead, embrace the new opportunity and dive in — the change of scenery and new skills you'll learn could be the missing pieces that your business needed to succeed all along.
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The Maltby and Shires contemporary musical revue, "Closer Than Ever," will open April 9 at Wake Forest University.
The Wake Forest University Theater will present performances April 9-10 and 14-18 in the MainStage Theater of Scales Fine Arts Center.
In "Closer Than Ever," directed by Assistant Professor of Theater Cynthia Gendrich, there is no story line and nothing spoken, but every song is a self-contained story. The revue offers a gallery of contemporary urban people struggling with everyday problems.
Most of the songs were written in the late 1980s and examine "thirty- and forty-somethings" reflecting on the choices they have made.
"Each song describes a character and tells a story, and does so with precision and psychology that better-known songwriters such as Andrew Lloyd Webber only occasionally touch," said a critic for USA Today.
In the song, "One of the Good Guys," performed by freshman Derek West, a husband describes the joys and frustrations of fidelity. In "Life Story," performed by sophomore Aileen Socrates, a woman ruefully examines her independence. In "If I Sing," presented by junior Bill Diggle, a man describes his relationship with his father. The revue begins and ends with songs including the entire cast.
"'Closer Than Ever' is challenging because it tells 23 short stories that make sense together, but one song or situation doesn't always lead directly into the next," says Gendrich. "Everyone's been in love or at least had love in their lives, so we can all connect to some of these songs," she adds.
Three students-a pianist and two basses-provide musical accompaniment. David Hagy, director of Wake Forest's orchestra, directs the musicians. Teresa Radomski, associate professor of music, coached the singers.
Performances are at 8 p.m. in the MainStage Theater in Scales Fine Arts Center. A 2 p.m. matinee performance is scheduled for Sunday, April 18. Tickets are $10, $5 for students. They may be purchased at the box office at 336-758-5295. The box office is open weekdays, noon-5:30 p.m.


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Lightning: Fire in the Sky
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Before Ben Franklin came along, people thought lightning was a terrifying type of fire. Then, in 1751, Franklin tied a key to a kite's tail and flew it in a thunderstorm.
He was lucky not to be zapped by lightning. A small electric spark jumped from the key. That proved lightning was really electricity. It also helped Franklin invent the lightning rod, which is still placed on tall buildings to protect them from lightning strikes.
Today, when something is not likely to happen, we may joke that "there's a better chance of getting hit by lightning." But Earth gets about 100 lightning strikes per second. Lightning remains the second-biggest weather-related killer after floods. It also causes more than half of all forest fires. The beauty of nature's fireworks can turn deadly.
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Sherwood Ross (May 5, 1933 – June 21, 2018) was an American journalist, activist, songwriter and poet. He was best known for publicizing James Meredith's historic voter registration drive through rural Mississippi called the "March Against Fear." He was credited with helping save Meredith's life after the civil rights leader was shot during an ambush.

"James, he's got a gun!"
The march set out from Memphis on June 5, 1966, with only a handful of participants – five men, including Meredith and Ross. Meredith wanted to inspire black voters in his home state of Mississippi to exercise their voting rights. His march was to become a flash-point for the civil rights movement. The next day a lone white gunman opened fire on Meredith in Hernando, Mississippi. Ross can be seen in photos tending to Meredith's gunshot wounds. Ross had hoped to avert such a tragedy by encouraging news agencies to follow the event. Meredith was ambushed all the same, but the ensuing media coverage sparked outrage and galvanized the movement's leadership, which had spurned Meredith as a lone crusader.

"James, he's got a gun!" Ross was quoted as saying in his eye-witness account of the shooting that was published on the front page of the Washington Star and other major newspapers. Photos of Meredith writhing in agony appeared in newspapers around the world. One such photo by the Associated Press garnered the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. These images – along with Ross' appearance the following day on NBC's "Today Show" calling for reinforcements  – prompted Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders to rally to Mississippi to continue in Meredith's footsteps. "Thousands from all races responded over the next few weeks so that the renewed march became, literally, a turning point and victory celebration over Jim Crow in Mississippi," Ross later wrote about the event.

After his release from the hospital, Meredith rejoined marchers on June 25 – the day before the conclusion of the 220-mile trek to Jackson, Mississippi. As they descended upon the state capitol building, the number of protesters had mushroomed to an estimated 15,000. The event came to be known as the "Last Great March of the Civil Rights Era." It also signaled the beginning of the "Black Power" movement as Stokely Carmichael made a fiery speech popularizing the slogan following his trespassing arrest in Greenwood, Mississippi. Ross' involvement in publicizing the march and his efforts on behalf of Meredith were chronicled by historian Aram Goudsouzian in his 2014 book Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Meredith March Against Fear.

Goudsouzian credits Ross with helping save Meredith's life by threatening the ambulance driver with losing his job if he didn't speed up and rush Meredith to the hospital. Many years later, Meredith himself recognized Ross' contribution in a story published following Ross' death in June 2018. "The Mississippi March Against Fear was a big deal primarily because of him," Meredith told the Chicago Sun-Times. "Nobody was paying attention. I told him what I was going to do …He took it serious." Ross approached Meredith about publicizing the march after attending Meredith's announcement at the White House Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. Many observers considered it a suicide mission, as Meredith had rejected support from major civil rights groups. Following the assassination attempt on Meredith and the subsequent groundswell of support, Dr. King publicly thanked Ross for his efforts on behalf of racial equality.

Years later, Ross wrote to a media colleague that his intentions were to have Meredith "surrounded by reporters" when he trudged through Ku Klux Klan territory "so they just couldn't come and shoot him and dump his body in a swamp like the three they murdered in Philadelphia, Miss." Ross made his remarks to a producer at The New American Dream radio show, which devoted a segment of its August 18, 2015, program to his first-hand account of the Meredith march.

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After a stint in the U.S. Air Force resulting in an honorable discharge, Ross attended the University of Miami. He was a member of the UM debate team, which included Gerald Kogan, a future Florida Supreme Court justice and life-long friend. He also wrote copy for the Miami Herald, and had a play, "The Peacemonger," produced at the Miami students' Box Theater. In 1955, he earned UM's first-ever degree in Race Relations. In 1956, Ross became the first white editor at Ebony magazine. In 1958, he ventured into politics as a speech writer and publicist for Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. He returned to journalism in 1962, covering urban affairs for the Chicago Daily News and, in 1963, he won  and award for best spot news coverage for any Chicago radio station for a documentary on Dr. King's historic "March on Washington." Inspired by the likes of Chicago community organizer Saul Alinsky, Ross again took a hiatus from journalism and turned to activism and civil rights. In 1964, he left Chicago for New York where he would become news director for the National Urban League led by Whitney Young Jr. He wrote speeches for Young and ghost wrote a syndicated column for Young called "To Be Equal." In one such column from August 1964 titled "A Visit to the Children's Zoo," Young challenged the publishing industry to end racial stereotyping and to diversify the images of children appearing in books to include blacks and other minorities. Ross also hatched the idea for a "Domestic Marshall Plan" that Young advocated, calling for investment in U.S. black communities similar to the Marshall Plan to reconstruct Europe after World War II.

WOL's "War on slums"
In 1965, Ross moved his young family to Washington, D.C., where he became public affairs director for the influential soul music radio station WOL (AM). His impact in that role was colorfully depicted by reporter Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame in a May 1967 profile in the Washington Post's Sunday magazine Potomac. "Finally, there is the legacy of Sherwood Ross, called 'the boss with the slum sauce' by the disc jockeys," Bernstein wrote. He added Ross was known by other monikers, among them "Robin Hood of Sherwood Jungle … the only honest white man in town … the first white guy to get some results." Ross created and hosted WOL's public affairs program "Speak Up," which aired from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sunday nights as part of his effort to empower listeners. Bernstein spotlighted Ross' "War on Slums" in which Ross would drive around the city in his WOL "Slummobile" and expose substandard housing conditions. Kids would run alongside the car and tell him about vermin-infested apartments. He identified slum landlords on the air and was responsible for the repair of hundreds of dwellings. In the article, Bernstein quoted Ross' on-the-air rant against one such landlord, advising him against evicting a tenant who had called the station to denounce the condition of his rental unit. "Slum lord -- you have run-down, rat-infested, raggedy houses all over Washington and I know where they are ... If it takes me a week, if it takes me a month, I will personally inspect every one of your slums and turn my reports over" to city building inspectors. Ross told Bernstein that the "War on Slums" showed it was possible for a radio station to get results on behalf of listeners "in an action program that runs counter to some of the city's vested interests." Ross went on to say that "soul radio" stations such as WOL were a vehicle for civil rights leaders to reach a wider audience.

Public relations man
Ross left WOL that year and soon thereafter founded Sherwood Ross Associates, a national public relations firm that was featured in a 1971 New York Times article titled "Public Relations With A Twist." "At 37, Sherwood Ross has already been a Chicago newspaper reporter, a star of a Washington radio show, a news director for the National Urban League and a press aide to political candidates," the Times noted. The article went on to state that Ross' firm was the first to promote the editorial content of magazines, helping them promote their stories in newspapers, radio and TV. In doing so, he helped many of his clients expand their circulations significantly. "He's terrific and he's the only public relations man I've ever heard editors say anything good about," the Times reported, quoting a spokesman for Business Week, one of his many clients. A leading radio analyst called Ross "a pioneer" for his work as a magazine publicist in the 1970s and 1980s, noting that it was "groundbreaking" at that time for magazines to get their stories quoted with attributions in major newspapers. Ross publicized more than 100 national magazines and his client roster included The Atlantic, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, the New Yorker, The Nation, Playboy, Penthouse, Psychology Today, Inc. Magazine, and Essence. Ross' work publicizing "The Education of David Stockman" for The Atlantic Monthly in 1981 spurred a national debate about the Reagan Administration's philosophy of "trickle-down economics" and helped boost the sale of the magazine by 100,000 copies. Throughout the 1990s and beyond, Ross continued to work in journalism and public relations. His business column for Reuters News Service was turned into a weekly "Workplace" column syndicated to U.S. dailies for 10 years. Ross also did public relations for a number of colleges and universities – among them Johns Hopkins, Baylor, Kalamazoo College, Miami Dade College, and the Massachusetts School of Law. He was described in a 2000 profile in the Rapid City Journal as "A Flack with a Conscience."

He "Sliced pastrami for the CIA"
During the 1980s, Ross was a regular at the Greenwich Village folk music scene and made a name for himself performing offbeat material, such as "Nightmare Room," "Don't Go to No Sperm Bank," and "I Sliced Pastrami for the CIA (And Found God)." Ross had five original songs recorded on the Fast Folk label, which was later published by Smithsonian/ Folkways Records. After Ross moved to Sturgis, South Dakota, in the 1990s, he focused on writing plays – including "Baron Giro," "Yamamoto's Decision," and "Kremlin Wife," historical dramas that were met with limited success. "Yamamoto's Decision" was first read by local actors in Deadwood, South Dakota, and later in Montreal, Canada. "Baron Giro" was performed at the Live Arts Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2004. However, after returning to Miami in the early 2000s, Ross found a niche for himself as a poet and was a crowd favorite at student poetry slams and other readings. His poem "Hiroshima" was widely republished on the Internet to commemorate the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Ross dedicated a tribute poem to James Meredith titled "Jesus in Mississippi" about the 1966 "March Against Fear." He won several awards from the Florida State Poets Association, the first in 2013 for his poem titled "Bon Voyage" about the death of a former lover, followed by "The Egret" and "O, Guitar!" in 2014, and "The Astronomers" in 2015. He also wrote anti-war poems such as "War No More" and "America, The Imperial," which can be found on the U.S. Peace Memorial Registry.

Family history
Ross spent his boyhood in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, where he grew up in the same row of buildings as Shel Silverstein, who was three years his senior. Ross' father, Boris, immigrated to the United States from Kiev after fighting as a teenager in the 1917 Russian Revolution. Even though he fought for the prevailing side in the conflict and suffered stab wounds, Boris Ross was forced to help his family flee Soviet Russia because of continued persecution against Jews. Boris Ross moved to Chicago where he met Sherwood Ross' mother, Libbe, who later became an elementary school teacher. The family moved to Miami in the late 1940s when Ross was in high school. He graduated from Miami Senior High. Ross married and divorced three times, but had a 30-year relationship with Dolores Curry of Sturgis, S.D. He sired four children and five grandchildren. In 1975, he purchased Woodrow Wilson's former governor's mansion in Princeton, N.J., but lost it in a divorce five years later. He was a New York City YMCA-league squash champion in the early 1970s, and competed in USATF masters track and field events well into his 80s. He died in June 2018 from injuries resulting from a traumatic fall in July 2016 that happened while he was walking to the gym in his Little Havana neighborhood.

References

External links

 Sherwood Ross Papers at the Newberry Library

1933 births
2018 deaths
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
Poets from Illinois
Journalists from Illinois
American civil rights activists
Journalists from Florida
Poets from Florida
Writers from Chicago
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'Avengers 2′ Extended Trailer: Ultron Crashes the Party
Britt Hayes
Britt Hayes Published: October 28, 2014
Those who tuned into the newest episode of Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' tonight were rewarded with a little treat: brand new footage from 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' to go with that pretty sweet trailer that dropped just last week. This new extended trailer, which just popped up online, expands upon the Ultron-heavy trailer mostly by adding a party scene to the mix.
Following last week's early leak of the first 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' trailer (thanks, Hydra-jerks) and Marvel's release of the official trailer right after, the studio went ahead with their plan to debut something new from the upcoming sequel during 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' The footage premiered during tonight's new episode, titled "A Fractured House," expanding on the trailer we saw last week by adding some additional footage of a party scene crashed by Ultron, as well as a few tiny flashes of scenes we didn't see last week, though it's not the same footage we saw at Comic-Con over the summer.
'Avengers: Age of Ultron' stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and James Spader, and hits theaters on May 1, 2015.
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Kings XI started well and stands on the 4th position with 4 out of 7 wins. They have a balanced squad to compete like Chris Gayle, Lokesh Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Moises Henriques, Ravi Ashwin, Sam Curran, Nicholas Pooran, Mohammad Shami, Hardus Viljoen, Mujeeb, and Andrew Tye.
On the opposite side, RCB performed badly this season as they didn't able to win a single game. Bangalore has a good squad with the players like AB de Villiers, Shimron Hetmyer, Heinrich Klaasen, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Tim Southee, Mohammed Siraj, and Dale Steyn.
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Geoff Rosenberger (independent), Council Vice President Aaron 'Sporty' Randolph (Democrat) and Matthew McGrath (Republican) addressed Atlantic City issues during a 1st Ward candidates forum Tuesday night at the Uptown School Complex.
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Geoff Rosenberger, independent candidate for 1st Ward council, speaks about Atlantic City issues during a candidates forum Tuesday night at the Uptown School Complex, while Council Vice President Aaron 'Sporty' Randolph (Democrat) and Matthew McGrath (Republican) look on.
Council Vice President Aaron 'Sporty' Randolph, Democrat, speaks during Tuesday night's 1st Ward candidates forum at the Uptown School Complex.
Matthew McGrath, Republican, addresses the crowd during Tuesday night's 1st Ward candidates forum at the Uptown School Complex.
Geoff Rosenberger (independent), Council Vice President Aaron 'Sporty' Randolph (Democrat), and Matthew McGrath (Republican) address Atlantic City issues during a 1st Ward candidates forum Tuesday night at the Uptown School Complex.
Atlantic City 1st Ward candidates debate state's role, local issues
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ATLANTIC CITY — Three candidates vying to represent the city's 1st Ward on City Council offered varying perspectives on the state of the city and its future during an open forum Tuesday night.
Council Vice President Aaron "Sporty" Randolph, Matthew McGrath and Geoffrey Rosenberger participated in a candidates forum jointly hosted by the 1st Ward and the Bungalow Park civic associations at the Uptown School Complex. With all six ward seats up for grabs Nov. 5, the 1st Ward is the only district with three candidates jockeying for one position.
Questions about the state takeover of the city, code enforcement, a rise in the city's homeless population, the proposed change in the form of municipal government and neighborhood-specific issues were all posed to the three candidates.
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Randolph, 64, the incumbent Democrat who was first appointed to the seat in 2010, emphasized his connections to the community and willingness to work with state officials. After working with other municipal officials to "fight Trenton" and the state takeover that began in 2016, Randolph said being cooperative with the state has produced better results than being resistant.
"I think that, and I hope that you agree, for the first time, the state is working with the city to improve the quality of life for all our residents," Randolph said. "Cooperation is key. There is now a line of communication. Until recently, we did not even exist under the state takeover. We have a seat at the table."
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Rosenberger, 62, the only independent candidate running in Atlantic City this year, pushed back against the idea that residents are benefiting from the state's involvement. He suggested much of what the state has done recently were simply "givebacks" in an effort to "make the state look good."
"How many can touch it?" Rosenberger asked rhetorically about tangible improvements for residents under the state takeover. "We are not an equal player, we are an afterthought. ... A place at the table is fine, but I don't believe it."
McGrath, the 27-year-old Republican candidate, did not address the state's role in Atlantic City directly. But on several of the localized issues, such as the installation of catch basins for trash buildup caused by flooding or fixing broken sidewalks and pothole-ridden streets, McGrath said he would use his position on council to "press" the state to do more for residents.
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The topic of trash buildup in Gardner's Basin — which started occurring in 2018 after the city activated the Baltic Avenue Canal to reduce flooding citywide — briefly dovetailed into a referendum on council's effectiveness and accountability, which Randolph scoffed at.
Rosenberger said the trash issue was brought to the governing body "within days" of the canal being turned on and "more than a year later, it's still not fixed." He characterized it as a "lack of attention to detail" on the part of council.
Randolph, who is chairman of the public safety and public works committee, said Remington & Vernick Engineers was contacted after the problem was brought to his attention and the firm is working on correcting the problem.
"It wasn't for lack of effort on my part, or council's part," he said. "I'm not going to be held accountable for Vernick or the Public Works Department that runs that pump out here."
Proposed change in form of government
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The proposed change in the city's form of government also drew strong remarks from each candidate. A group called Atlantic City Residents for Good Government is circulating a petition to adopt a council-manager form of government as opposed to the current mayor-council system. Should the petition garner enough valid signatures, a special election would be held so residents have the option to decide whether they favor the change.
Proponents claim it would create a more efficient government and reduce costs, while opponents contend it amounts to a coup attempt by special interests from outside the city.
Ultimately, the state Department of Community Affairs, the agency that oversees the city, has the option of treating a successful referendum effort as advisory.
"I'm not going to entertain a new form of government," Randolph said and discouraged residents from signing the petition.
McGrath said he was not against the change of government but opposed the "direction" such a move would take the city.
"Obviously, we all know that there are some efficiency issues going on here," he said. "I'm against all the people who are out of the area, who don't walk the streets, don't see the people, don't know what they feel and what they go through on a daily basis. And they want to come in here and they want to take our resources."
Rosenberger said the petition effort was "suspect at best" but indicated he understood the genesis for wanting change in Atlantic City.
"What they're saying to us is the system is broken. And I can attest to the system being broken because it's hard to bring people with money into this town. One of the reasons is the unstable politics and the makeup of the council in their decisions," he said.
St. Nicholas Church Renovation
A sign greeting visitors to St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church in Atlantic City reads in part, 'This church is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Your generosity in the collection will help us restore this church.'
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Gustavo Gallego of Evergreene Architectural Arts works last week on the restoration of St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church in Atlantic City. This phase of the project is expected to be finished in time for Christmas Eve Mass. 'They are going to be amazed when they first walk in and see the whole picture,' the Rev. Jon Thomas said.
A portion of St. Nicholas Church in Atlantic City is going through a million dollar restoration project. Oct. 2, 2019 Craig Matthews / Staff Photographer
A portion of St. Nicholas Church in Atlantic City is going through a million dollar renovation. Oct. 2, 2019 Craig Matthews / Staff Photographer
Gustavo Gallego of Evergreene Architectural Arts doing work on St. Nicholas Church in Atlantic City, which is going through a million dollar renovation. Oct. 2, 2019 Craig Matthews / Staff Photographer
Father Jon Thomas looks at the renovations so far. A portion of St. Nicholas Church in Atlantic City is going through a million dollar renovation project. Oct. 2, 2019 Craig Matthews / Staff Photographer
Gustavo Gallego of Evergreene Architectural Arts doing work on St. Nicholas Church in Atlantic City, which is going through million dollar renovation. Oct. 2, 2019 Craig Matthews / Staff Photographer
St. Nicholas Church in Atlantic City is going through a multi-million dollar renovation. Oct. 2, 2019 Craig Matthews / Staff Photographer
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Dorothy Appleby (January 6, 1906 – August 9, 1990) was an American film actress. She appeared in over 50 films between 1931 and 1943.

Career
Appleby gained early acting experience as an understudy and a chorus member in plays in New York City. A newspaper article reported that Appleby "came to New York fresh from winning a Maine beauty contest."

Appleby was seen in many supporting roles, almost always in short subjects or low-budget feature films. The trim brunette stood just over five feet tall, and her early leading men (like comedian Charley Chase) towered over her.

She soon found steady if not prestigious work in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies. She appeared frequently with The Three Stooges. She worked with Columbia comics Andy Clyde, El Brendel, and Hugh Herbert, and she had an uncredited part in John Ford's Stagecoach.

Some of her Stooge comedies were Loco Boy Makes Good, So Long Mr. Chumps, and In the Sweet Pie and Pie. One memorable appearance was as Mexican brunette Rosita in 1940's Cookoo Cavaliers. In the film, Appleby gets clobbered by the Stooges when a facial "mud pack" made of concrete dries on her face. Her petite figure belied her age, and she continued to play "younger" roles into the 1940s. One of her last screen roles was a one-line bit (playing a college co-ed at age 35) in the 1941 Jane Withers feature Small Town Deb.

Personal Life and Death
In October 1925, newspapers reported that Appleby had married Teddy Hayes, an athletic trainer. Days later, however, Appleby contradicted that report. "Honest Injun, I'm single," she said. "Didn't mean it when I said I was married to Teddy Hayes." On May 11, 1932, she was granted a divorce from actor Morgan H. Galloway. She left Hollywood in 1943 and married musician Paul Drake soon thereafter. The two divorced in 1980.

Dorothy Appleby died in Hicksville, New York, on August 9, 1990, aged 84.

Partial filmography

 Paradise for Two (1927) - Young girl (uncredited)
 New York (1927) - Young girl (uncredited)
 Square Crooks (1928) - Kay Ellison
 Under Eighteen (1931) - Elsie
 Trick for Trick (1933) - Maisie Henry
 King of the Wild Horses (1933) - Napeeta
 The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) - Woman in Bar (uncredited)
 As the Earth Turns (1934) - Doris
 Jail Birds of Paradise (1934, Short) - Miss Deering - Prison Warder
 School for Girls (1934) - Florence Burns
 I Give My Love (1934) - Alice Henley
 Two Heads on a Pillow (1934) - Mitzie LaVerne
 Fate's Fathead (1934, Short) - Dorothy Chase
 Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) - Nardi
 Let 'Em Have It (1935) - Lola
 Riffraff (1936) - Gertie
 Lady of Secrets (1936) - Erma (uncredited)
 North of Nome (1936) - Ruby
 Paradise Express (1937) - Kay Carson
 Sea Racketeers (1937) - Dancer (uncredited)
 Make a Wish (1937) - Telephone Girl
 Fit for a King (1937) - Waitress (uncredited)
 Small Town Boy (1937) - Sandra French
 Live, Love and Learn (1937) - Lou - Bob's Model (uncredited)
 Making the Headlines (1938) - Claire Sandford
 Stagecoach (1939) - Girl in Saloon (uncredited)
 The Flying Irishman (1939) - Maybelle - a Waitress (uncredited)
 When Tomorrow Comes (1939) - Waitress (uncredited)
 The Women (1939) - Treatment Girl (uncredited)
 Nothing But Pleasure (1940, Short) - Mrs. Plunkett
 Convicted Woman (1940) - Daisy
 Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940, Short) - Tessie
 Pardon My Berth Marks (1940, Short) - Mary Christman
 The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940) - Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
 Gold Rush Maisie (1940) - Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)
 From Nurse to Worse (1940, Short) - Dr. Lerious' Receptionist (uncredited)
 The Taming of the Snood (1940, Short) - Miss Wilson
 The Spook Speaks (1940, Short) - Newlywed Wife
 The Devil's Pipeline (1940) - Stewardess
 Cookoo Cavaliers (1940, Short) - Rosita (uncredited)
 High Sierra (1941) - Margie - Joe's Girlfriend (uncredited)
 So Long Mr. Chumps (1941, Short) - Pomeroy's Girlfriend (uncredited)
 Manpower (1941) - Wilma
 In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941, Short) - Tiska Jones
 General Nuisance (1941, Short) - Army nurse Dorothy
 His Ex Marks the Spot (1941, Short) - Buster's second wife
 Loco Boy Makes Good (1942, Short) - Twitchell's Girl
 What's the Matador? (1942, Short) - O'Brien's Secretary
 Small Town Deb (1942) - Tim's dancing partner (uncredited)

References

External links

Dorothy Appleby at threestooges.net

1906 births
1990 deaths
American film actresses
20th-century American actresses


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The Powerbitches Interview: Shanthony Exum
January 30, 2019 Rachel Hills
Shanthony Exum. AKA Miss Eaves
Shanthony Exum, better known as viral music sensation Miss Eaves, is a force to be reckoned with. A multi-media artist whose work spans music, video, paper mache and fine art, her fierce femcee electro-pop-rap-dance-explosions celebrate confident women who aren't afraid to love themselves and have landed her on lists of feminist anthems alongside legends like Beyonce.
When Powerbitches picked up the phone with Shanthony this week, she was plotting a new EP and accompanying music video. By the end of our conversation, she had gotten an email from a TV show that wanted to license one of her songs.
You can catch Shanthony in person at our next Powerbitches Salon on February 19 (tickets here).
Powerbitches: When did you start making music?
Shanthony Exum: About 10 years ago, when I was 26. I was living in this artsy town [Winston-Salem, NC] where everyone was in a band - all my friends were in a band, my boyfriend at the time was in a band... so I thought hey, I want to do that too.
My boyfriend and I started a band together, even though I didn't have any real credentials at the time. It was a noisy electro party band, and I was writing songs about eating snacks, Smurfs, and wearing spandex pants.
The band was pretty bad, because I was still learning how to rap. But as an artist, I've never stopped myself from doing something because I don't know how to do it. I just try to figure it out and get better along the way.
PB: And when did you realize it was something you wanted to pursue more seriously?
SE: I was 28 when I started Miss Eaves. My ex and I broke up, and I still wanted to make music, so I started making my own beats and putting out these little demos. Very quickly I found that people were more interested in my solo work than the stuff I was doing with the band.
In 2012, I put out a song called Diva Pop and made my first music video as Miss Eaves for it. This DJ in Belgium saw it, and invited me to collaborate with him and go there on tour.
I coincidentally was leaving for tour right after I got laid off from my job in North Carolina. I wasn't super happy at that point, and wanted to start taking my music more seriously, and live in a bigger city. So instead of going home when the tour was over I got off my connection in Newark NJ and moved to a tiny apartment in Sunset Park in Brooklyn. I started freelancing, spending more money on making music videos, and really pushing things.
PB: What drives your work?
SE: I think my art is driven by my experiences. I'll start with something that frustrates me and I think is probably universally annoying. I'll try to write something that is true to myself, taking out all the stuff that is super super specific to me.
"Chub rub" is the feeling I have when I wear a sundress as someone with thick thighs, and Paper Mache is about the fact that the first thing people want to talk to me about is whether I've seeing someone, even though I'm making all this cool art. I take things that no one else is really talking about in music, ask how do I feel about this, and how do I capture that vibe?
"A viral hit is a big crack in the wall, but the wall is still there."
- Shanthony Exum
Still from the video for one of Shanthony's songs, Thunder Thighs.
PB: You had what most people would consider to be your "big break" in 2017, when your song Thunder Thighs became a viral summer hit. What was that experience like?
SE: Thunder Thighs was definitely my biggest song so far. I kind of see it as a fluke. My song before that, Hump Day, had done well and my fan base was growing steadily. I've always loved this quote by the artist Molly Crabapple that there's no such thing as a big break, there's just tiny cracks in a wall of indifference. A viral hit is a big crack in the wall, but the wall is still there.
At first it was really hard, like "I'm never going to be able to live up to this." When you have a viral hit, everyone's like, "Can you write another Thunder Thighs?" That's not how it works. What I do isn't marketing. It's art. Thunder Thighs was a fluke. I wrote that song because I felt it. I can't replicate it. I'm not a musical robot.
It was a little crippling. I thought I wasn't going to write anything again. Then Rich Matthew gave me this beat, and I wrote the song Paper Mache, and a lot of people were into it. I wrote my EP Me AF. I learned that I have to just write art for art's sake and not try to write Thunder Thighs over and over again, even if people are pressuring me to do that.
"If you're making art to please other people, it's not going to work." - Shanthony Exum
PB: I love how you spoke before about how when you first started, you didn't care that you weren't all that good, you just wanted to work at getting better. How does this ethos of constant improvement play out in your art now?
SE: For me, it's about learning from other people. If I like an artist, I'll deconstruct everything they're doing and try to figure out how I can apply those concepts to my work. I really value critiques from friends, asking, do these lyrics make sense? I learned from talking to other rappers that I used to overuse metaphors and similes - it gets boring after a while. Also, practicing a lot. Before I go to the studio I've already gone through the song 20 or 30 times to make sure it sounds right.
If you're doing stuff to please other people, it's not going to work. Every time you make a piece of art, work to make it better than the last piece you made.
PB: What are the biggest challenges facing musicians today? How do you navigate them?
SE: It's really hard to be heard. There are so many people who are making music and it's hard to stand out, especially when you're competing against these giant artists. When everyone is only talking about Cardi B - Cardi B is cool, but it's hard for indie artists to be seen and heard over these huge music machines.
I'm still trying to figure it out. I'm still pushing, making music, investing in myself. I put a lot of money into my own work.
PB: What advice would you offer to other women wanting to launch a career in music in the current climate?
SE: Be prepared to put in the work. A lot of times, people get really caught up in the glamor of it all. They want to play these big shows, go on tour, and they haven't even written a song yet. If you want to have a lasting career, it has to be a slower build.
[Shanthony receives an email saying that a popular TV show wants to license one of her songs.]
See, I always feel discouraged and then stuff like that comes though. So that's another bit of advice I give - not to get discouraged. You have to believe in the work and do it for the work's sake, rather than doing it for other people's approval.
And invest in yourself. People will go out to eat, go to bars… why are we not putting that money back into our projects? For this new video I'm working on, I'll be paying for it out of pocket. But now I might be paying for it out of this TV money!
Shanthony Exum will be in conversation with Powerbitches founder Rachel Hills at our February Salon event. Click here for more information and to secure your tickets.
Editor's Letter: A More Meaningful Way Of Talking About Work
There's an adage that Americans begin conversations by asking what you do for a living, while people from other, presumably more sophisticated countries (France, Italy, even my home country of Australia, according to a recent article by New York Times columnist Bari Weiss) ask you where your family's from, where you like to go on vacation, or your favorite condiment to add to your avocado toast.
This tendency, we are supposed to think, is a symptom of a lack of imagination. To speak first about work is to reduce a person to their economic status, to say that what we do to earn a living is more important than what we do for leisure.
And to some degree, I get it. I too hate being asked "what I do" - as a self-employed person juggling multiple roles and projects, I lack the easy shorthand of a title and job description that clearly and quickly answers the question.
But I LOVE talking about work. More, perhaps, than anything else.
Talking about work isn't inherently unimaginative or superficial. At their best, conversations about work can be a form of rich interpersonal engagement, a way of asking someone: What do you care about? What are you doing to make the world better, more beautiful, or more interesting? What are you finding difficult about making that happen? How are you working through those challenges? And what are you learning about yourself and others in the process?
These are the conversations that have formed the foundations of many of my closest friendships, and they are the types of questions that form the basis of every Powerbitches event: be it a group conversation about money, an intimate dinner with a leading artist and musician, or an evening spent brainstorming our way through the challenges our members are facing in the projects they're working on.
These conversations aren't just more interesting than the standard "what do you do" conversation. They also build a greater depth of connection and understanding. So, how do we have more of them?
One answer is to get more specific. To go beyond the easy shorthand of the one- or two-word answer (a relief for people like me, who don't have one) to explain what we actually do, and to be curious enough to encourage others to do the same. Another is to be more expansive in our definition of what work is - "I'm a designer/lawyer/babysitter, but what I'm really excited about is..."
Finally, we can move beyond the "what" of our work to the "why." Why do you do what you do? What contribution do you want to make? And if your current job isn't the best vehicle through which to make that contribution, where else could you make it?
Talking about work doesn't have to be meaningless small talk. It can be the basis of some of the most meaningful and exciting conversations we have.


Upon You's Italian friends Re-Up have rustled up this very promising release called The New Mood. These two tech-house experts have dug deep to give you "Darkness," with its ecstatic drum rolls. A2 gives you the title-track, with its dubby-chordy kind of sound, like magically pulling the reins on an Indian horse. "What Else," they ask themselves on B1, while they gallop over the UY parkour to end this little journey with "So Good" on B2.


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package com.google.gwt.sample.dynatablerf.client.widgets;

import com.google.gwt.event.logical.shared.ValueChangeEvent;
import com.google.gwt.event.logical.shared.ValueChangeHandler;
import com.google.gwt.event.shared.EventBus;
import com.google.gwt.event.shared.HandlerRegistration;
import com.google.gwt.sample.dynatablerf.client.events.FilterChangeEvent;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.CheckBox;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Composite;

/**
 * Used by DayFilterWidget.
 */
class DayCheckBox extends Composite {
  private final CheckBox cb = new CheckBox();
  private int day;
  private final EventBus eventBus;
  private HandlerRegistration filterRegistration;

  public DayCheckBox(EventBus eventBus) {
    this.eventBus = eventBus;
    initWidget(cb);
    cb.setValue(true);
    cb.addValueChangeHandler(new ValueChangeHandler<Boolean>() {
      public void onValueChange(ValueChangeEvent<Boolean> event) {
        DayCheckBox.this.eventBus.fireEvent(new FilterChangeEvent(getDay(),
            getValue()));
      }
    });
  }

  public int getDay() {
    return day;
  }

  public boolean getValue() {
    return cb.getValue();
  }

  public void setCaption(String caption) {
    cb.setText(caption);
  }

  public void setDay(int day) {
    this.day = day;
  }

  public void setValue(boolean value) {
    cb.setValue(value);
  }

  /**
   * Attach to the event bus only when the widget is actually attached to the
   * DOM.
   */
  @Override
  protected void onLoad() {
    filterRegistration = eventBus.addHandler(FilterChangeEvent.TYPE,
        new FilterChangeEvent.Handler() {
          public void onFilterChanged(FilterChangeEvent e) {
            if (e.getDay() == getDay()) {
              setValue(e.isSelected());
            }
          }
        });
  }

  @Override
  protected void onUnload() {
    filterRegistration.removeHandler();
  }
}

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The PHP 7.3 is the latest version available for installation on Debian 9 Stretch Linux machine. Ubuntu users can visit our tutorial for installing PHP 7 on Ubuntu. This tutorial is for the Debian 9 Stretch users to install PHP 7.3, 7.2, 7.1 or 5.6 on their system.
First of all, you need to complete the prerequisites step and then go forward to install the PHP version of your choice or requirements.
Login to your Debian 9 system using shell access. For remote systems connect with SSH. Windows users can use Putty or other alternatives applications for SSH connection.
Run below commands to upgrade the current packages to the latest version.
Let's execute the following commands to install the required packages first on your system. Then import packages signing key. After that configure PPA for the PHP packages on your system.
Now use one of the below options to install PHP of your requirements.
Execute the following commands for installing PHP 5.6 on your Debian 9 Stretch system.
Also install required php modules.
You can also install the Latest PHP version on your system. Run the following commands to install PHP 7.3 on Debian 9.
You can also install the Latest PHP version on your system. Run the following commands to install PHP 7.2 on Debian 9.
If your application has the specific requirement of PHP 7.1, You can use the following commands for installing PHP 7.1 on Debian 9 Stretch system.
Also, install the required PHP modules as per your requirements. Here is a list of some frequently used modules.
Thank you again, great tutorial!
Do not forget install apache module!
Thanks alot! you saved me!
Hi i try for long time to install php5.6 on my debian 5.6 bur when i execut this command.
11 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list –upgradable' to see them.
Package php7.3 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
Thanks Julien, Command is updated now correctly.
php7.2-common is included in the command. FPM and CGI packages are optional and install only on the requirement, That's why I didn't include them with command.
Thanks, Working fine on Debian 9.


I reviewed CityEngine Indie last week, here is my review of CityEngine Vue. If you read last weeks review I'll not apologise for lifting large parts of it with only minor changes as there are only minor differences between the two products. CityEngine Vue is exactly the same underlying software as all the other versions of CityEngine. The only major difference is that CityEngine Vue is restricted to exporting Vue's vob file format so you have to load the model into Vue. All the other features are the same but you pay $196 less ($296 less if you're a C.Club member at Cornucopia 3D)!
CityEngine is a procedural modelling programme for the automatic generation of cityscapes. Using one of the example projects supplied or the CityEngine wizard you can generate a textured city model in a dozen clicks. You can then export it to Vue Vob format to load into Vue. This version is compatible with all Artist and Professional versions of Vue 9. It is also compatible with all Artist and Professional versions of Vue 8.4 and Vue 8.5 with a build # higher than 51429 only but imports are limited to 128 materials.
Moving beyond the examples and the wizard the first thing most users are going to want to do is to create a city of their own. The model is built based on elements you can control. The street network and associated lots controls the layout of the city. Obstacle, attribute and height maps can be used to shape the model. The allocated Computer Generated Architecture (CGA) file tells CityEngine how to create and texture buildings, streets and other elements of the model.
CityEngine also has a road generation tool to expand on your street network. For a fictional cityscape I found this a great time saver. Simply fill in the main routes and then let city engine create the fine detail of side streets and back ways. You can fine tune the sort of network it builds which is a great help in creating the layout you're looking for. Once the road network has been created it will generate the lots inside them. You can allocate a CGA file to all or part of your network and then have CityEngine generate the models from it.
After generation the city isn't set in stone. You can edit the street layout using the same tools as were used to create it. Redrawing streets reorganises the lots and the buildings are then regenerated to fit the new lots. You can see this happening live in the display as you drag streets around – a really fun and useful feature. If you don't like a particular building you can select the lot and have it generate a new seed number to create a different building randomly or enter values for the attributes of the building to manually shape it.
The textures generated are simple UV bit maps. There is currently no support for separate layers for bump, luminosity, reflection or other effects. Although the resulting models will look ok for the best results (as with any model imported into Vue) the results can be dramatically improved by enhancing or replacing the textures inside your rendering package of choice.
The facade engine is marked as being a beta feature. I have managed to achieve reasonable results with the tutorial facade but I found a couple of evenings working with this feature with my own photograph to be quite frustrating resulting in poor results.
Now I don't think CGA will be for everyone. When I first started working with 3D if you wanted to include a person in a model you had to model and texture the meshes for them from scratch. Since then you've been able to use software like Poser to work with figures or buy pre-made meshes. Over time I'd expect the same sort of ecosystem of hobbyists selling and giving away the CGA files to emerge as has happened with Vue, Poser and pretty much every other kind of 3D software I use.
On paper CityEngine Vue's major differences from the CityEngine Pro and CityEngine SE are minor. Like Indie it lacks Python features – since the versions that do have Python are out of my price range I've not looked at what it can do with Python in detail but most of those features seem to relate to enhancing export and workflow. Only CityEngine Pro offers a floating network licence which is unlikely to be an issue for most hobbyists.
Overall I'd have to say CityEngine Vue is a brilliant piece of software. If I'd known it was coming out I'd have bought it rather than City Engine Indie. If you just want to work with CityEngine and Vue it's the perfect choice. I said in my review of CityEngine Indie that the features included for the price are amazing: well CityEngine Vue's features are astonishing for the price. If you want to create scenes of human habitation in Vue, from a simple village to a town to a full cityscape, CityEngine Vue is the ideal complement to Vue's nature simulations.


Home » News » Sweater Weather and Local Lattes!
Sometimes the best moments during the holidays are "Coffee Breaks!" It's never on our "to-do's" but it's always a necessity. It's time we stop, take a breath, and recharge our bodies with a cup of freshly brewed local coffee! We can get so caught up in our crazy busy days to get everything done just in time for the next festivity, that we forget to take care of ourselves and do what makes us happy!
We arrived a little after closing, but the owners were so kind to open their doors for us!
After ordering our lattes, we could not resist but to have a mini photoshoot! We loved the ambiance & lighting and the decor was the cutest! The coffee….d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!
So when you're in the area doing your holiday shopping at ILEENGIRL, don't forget to take mini coffee break at Perk Coffee House!
Here are a few photos we fell in love with from our shoot at the coffee house.
Our first look is our Grey Bell Sleeve Sweater matched with our Brown Tote! And for our second look we have our Long White Sweater (similar) with our Brown Clutch.
We love these two sweaters so much we used them both for our Latte photoshoot! We accessorized with our Dream Catcher Necklace & Pearl Diamond Earrings and Gold Bangle.


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Tutor Trust is hiring: Alternative Provision Tutor - 16th January 2019
Job Title: Alternative Provision Tutor at Tutor Trust
Reporting to: Director of Alternative Provision
Responsible for: Delivery of academic intervention in Maths, English and Science to alternative provision pupils forming part of the Alternative Provision project at Tutor Trust
Location: Greater Manchester
Salary: Approximately £20K per annum, depending on experience and qualifications. This is a full-time or part-time position on fixed-term contract to 31st July 2020.
The Tutor Trust, in partnership with TLC Talk Listen Change, has won a £500K grant from the Department for Education's Alternative Provision Innovation Fund (APIF) to boost the education outcomes of young people who are not in mainstream schooling, including Looked After Children. The pupils will all be of Secondary school age, either KS3 or KS4.
The collaboration between Tutor Trust and TLC will combine academic tuition and therapeutic support in ways that could be life-changing for young people in Greater Manchester, and scalable to the rest of the country. We are thrilled to have this chance to pilot a truly joined-up approach to tackling the causes and the symptoms of under-achievement. This is a two-year project, that launched in September 2018.
We are creating a new role at Tutor Trust to work on this project – a 'full-time' or 'part-time' tutor, to carry out tuition. You will carry out tuition on a one-to-one basis with children in alternative provision educational settings. The majority of sessions will take place in educational centres that we have partnered with (i.e. Pupil Referral Units), or in home.
Job Purpose: Main Duties and Responsibilities:
To plan and deliver tuition to secondary school aged pupils (from 11-16 years old) across Greater Manchester under the Alternative Provision Project at Tutor Trust in Maths, English, and Science on a one-to-one basis
To fill in appropriate paperwork relating to tuition with pupil (register, feedback sheets, etc.)
To liaise with Alternative Provision Coordinator and Quality Manager for Alternative Provision at Tutor Trust, as well as Case Coordinator at TLC
To undergo additional appropriate training throughout the role to enhance understanding of alternative provision work
Person Specification – skills and attributes
One year of tutoring experience required or QTS.
Ability to tutor Maths, English and Science to a secondary school level desirable (or happy to train in order to do so)
Bright, enthusiastic and well-motivated tutor confident in dealing with young people
Robust and resilient character with excellent time-management skills
Must have achieved a minimum of Grade B at GCSE in Maths, English and Science
Demonstrate a commitment to the goals and ethos behind The Tutor Trust
Enthusiasm and ability to contribute to the successful development of The Tutor Trust
Understanding of the National Curriculum, GCSE syllabus and have a broad understanding of policy issues and educational best practice relating to improving pupil achievement at KS3 and KS4
The ability to work with children from complex background and with complex needs
- Closing date for applications: Friday 31st January
- Interviews to be held: tbc
- Start date: ASAP
The job is a full-time position and will be based at the Tutor Trust office in central Manchester, with frequent travel required across Greater Manchester to deliver tuition. All reasonable travel expenses on Tutor Trust business will be reimbursed (not including your regular commute from home to the Tutor Trust office).
Holiday entitlement will be 28 days per annum (inclusive of Bank Holidays, pro rata). The role will involve working occasional unsocial hours in the evenings and at weekends.
Tutor Trust is signed up to the Government-backed NEST pensions scheme, which is offered to our employees (with an employer contribution) after the qualifying period.
In accordance with our Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this position requires an enhanced DBS check and two satisfactory references.
Candidates are required to submit a completed application form outlining how they meet the requirements of the role and why they want the role. Please find the application form here.
Please email your completed application to [email protected] by the date above.
The Tutor Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer
For further specific information on our two-year project with the Alternative Provision Innovation Fund:
https://www.thetutortrust.org/news/new-500k-project-on-alternative-provision-as-tutor-trust-and-tlc-talk-listen-change-win-major-contract-from-department-for-education
The Tutor Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children, and expects our staff and volunteers to share this commitment


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Box Office: 'Star Trek Beyond' Tops With $59.6 Million, 'Ice Age: Collision Course' Bombs
by Nick Roman on July 25, 2016 at 11:43 am
The box office numbers are in, and Star Trek Beyond has delivered one of the best openings of the summer so far, taking the No. 1 spot with $59.6 million. Granted, this is considerably less than the opening for Star Trek Into Darkness, which earned $70.2 million back in May 2013. Of course, there are a variety of reasons that could explain the decline. For instance, Into Darkness opening at the start of the summer movie season could have meant people were more amped for it, as opposed to a late July release, when people are sort of fatigued by all the sequels and blockbusters. Or maybe people simply weren't looking forward to Star Trek Beyond as much.
While $59.6 million is certainly a strong number for this weekend, the movie will have to make a killing overseas to justify its $185 million budget. So far, Star Trek has earned $30 million internationally to bring its current worldwide gross to $89.6 million in its first weekend. I guess we'll see if this movie has legs in the weeks to come, but I'm not that optimistic, since the movie will be facing stiff competition from Jason Bourne and Suicide Squad. Granted, Star Trek Beyond is already one of the best-performing sequels of this summer. So there's certainly hope for the movie to at least break even. Still, this film will need support from more than just Trekkies and sci-fi fans to turn a profit.
Naturally, the news of Star Trek Beyond becoming one of the best-performing sequels of the summer is contrasted with a film that has just become one of the worst: Ice Age: Collision Course completely bombed in its opening weekend, earning just $21 million. This is a drop of 55% from the opening weekend of the fourth film in the series, Ice Age: Continental Drift, which earned $46.6 million in 2012. To make matters worse, this is officially the worst opening for an animated studio tentpole in a decade.
If there's any good news in all this for Ice Age 5, it's that it's doing better business overseas, raking in $30 million to add to its international cume. With an overseas gross of $178 million, Ice Age: Collision Course, has a global total of $199 million to date. And as an added bonus, the film still managed to finish in the Top 5 for the weekend, landing at No. 5.
As for the rest of the Top 5, The Secret Life of Pets finished at No. 2 in week three with an impressive $29.3 million, to bring its North American total to $260.7 million. Worldwide, the film has earned a staggering $323.7 million. Meanwhile, it was a tie in the supernatural department, as horror film Lights Out and comedy reboot Ghostbusters tied for No. 3 with $21.6 million, thanks to a stronger-than-expected turnout among young audiences.
In other box office news, Indian gangster drama Kabali (Tamil & Telugu), from director Pa. Ranjith, landed at No. 9 with $4.1 million, while Dinesh D'Souza's new Hillary Clinton documentary, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, landed at No. 10 with $3.7 million.
But how did the rest of the Top 10 do at the weekend box office? Check out the full Top 10 below:
TOP 10 AT THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: 07/25/2016
1. Star Trek Beyond ($59.6 million)
2. The Secret Life of Pets ($29.3 million)
3. Lights Out ($21.6 million)
4. Ghostbusters	($21.6 million)
5. Ice Age: Collision Course ($7.2 million)
6. Finding Dory ($6.4 million)
7. The Legend of Tarzan	($5.4 million)
8. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ($4.4 million)
9. Kabali (Tamil & Telugu) ($4.1 million)
10. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party ($3.7 million)
Via: The Hollywood Reporter
What, if anything, did you see at the theaters this weekend, and what do you want to see at the movies in the weeks to come? Sound off in the comments!
And for more on the weekend in entertainment, watch the incredible first trailer for Wonder Woman as well as our first full glimpse at the Justice League movie!
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Q: send file to user when file created I'm using moviepy to create a new movie when the user click a button on a html page. I'd like to return the new movie to user.
But movie creation takes time. What can I do to send_file only when the file is created?
@app.route('/createVideo', methods=['POST'])
def createVideo():
    content = request.get_json()
    videoPromo = content['videoPromo']
    videoPerso = content['videoPerso']
    subclip1 = VideoFileClip(videoPromo)
    subclip2 = VideoFileClip(content['videoPerso'])
    subclip = concatenate_videoclips([subclip1, subclip2], method="compose")
    subclip.write_videofile("out.mp4",progress_bar = False)
    vid_path = os.path.join(MEDIA_PATH, 'out.mp4')
    return send_file(vid_path)

My HTML code :
    <video id="videoPromo" controls class="video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-big-play-centered">
      <source src="http://localhost:5000/var/myvideo.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    </video>

    <video id="videoPerso" controls class="video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-big-play-centered">
      <source src="http://localhost:5000/var/oceans.mp4#t=0.7" type="video/mp4">
    </video>

    <div class="btn-group" role="group" aria-label="...">
      <button class="create-video btn btn-default" type="button">Create Video</button>
    </div>
<script>

$(".create-video").click(function(){

  $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "/createVideo",
    data: JSON.stringify({  videoPerso: $("#videoPerso source").attr("src") , videoPromo: $("#videoPromo source").attr("src")}),
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    dataType: "json",
    success: function(data){                console.log(data);
},
    failure: function(errMsg) {
        alert(errMsg);
    }
});
  });
</script>

A: If your task is taking a while and you don't want to make the user wait (and block the python interpreter!), you can return a temporary result, saying something like 'processing...' and then fire off a background task using some sort of task queue, like celery.
On your page, you can poll a certain endpoint periodically to see if the background task has finished creating the video and get back the url once it had. Having got the url back, you can show the video to the user.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Movie Gallery Inc. movi after Friday's closing bell said that eight of its namesake and 13 of its Hollywood Video stores remain closed due to damage incurred by storm and power outages from Hurricane Katrina. Several other stores have limited operating hours due to power outages, floods, and "dusk-to-dawn" curfews, the Dothan, Ala.-based company said. The affected stores represent less than 1% of its 4,800 stores across North America.


A BRITISH man was trampled at the Running of the Bulls, part of the annual San Fermin festival in Pamplona.
Tom Hadfield, from Nottingham, began vomiting blood, after suffering four fractured ribs and puncturing a lung after attempting the decades-old tradition of the encierro.
'It's a miracle they didn't crush my skull or break my back,' says Mr Hadfield, who is expected to return to work next week.
I do know the pain of broken ribs; I'm delighted for him.
Should be fun and games with his health insurance.


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Can I travel after getting the COVID-19 vaccine?
June 30, 2021 at 11:07 pm CDT
It is that time of year when many people are looking forward to their summer vacation plans. However, people may be wondering if this is finally a time when they can travel with minimal health risks, or if they may have to postpone adventures once again, just as they did last summer, when the global pandemic was still raging?
Though social distancing, sanitation and crowd limits press on this year, a few things have changed since last summer. After a year of living in a pandemic, doctors and the public in general have learned what is working and what is not in regard to managing surges and avoiding a rush on hospitals and health centers. In addition, at press time, various effective COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to millions of people, and another is potentially on the horizon. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these vaccines are effective at protecting people from getting seriously sick. People who have been fully vaccinated can start to do some things they ceased doing because of the pandemic. Many may wonder if that means traveling.
Experts say that those who have been fully vaccinated (receiving both shots for the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines or one for the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine) it is likely safe to travel again. But caution is still needed. The vaccines do not immediately provide full protection. The Pfizer or Moderna vaccines provide full vaccination two weeks after the second dose, while the J&J vaccine provides protection two weeks after the single dose is administered.
The CDC offers that those who have been fully vaccinated can gather indoors with fully vaccinated people without wearing masks, and gather indoors with unvaccinated people from one other household without masks, unless any of those people or anyone they live with has an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
However, some things have not changed even for people who have been vaccinated. Gathering with unvaccinated people (or if you cannot confirm they've been vaccinated, such as on an airplane or in other public settings) still requires wearing a mask, staying at least six feet apart from others, avoiding crowds, and avoiding poorly ventilated spaces.
"Getting vaccinated does not say you have a free pass to travel, nor does it say you have a free pass to put aside all the public health measures," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Experts, like Dr. Chris Beyrer, a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health notes, "We also do not know the answer to the question, 'Are people who have been immunized still infectious to others?'"
There also is concern about how well vaccines will protect against all the COVID variants.
Until more is known about long-term vaccine efficacy and until more people receive their full doses, it may be wise to avoid normal travel patterns this summer, and standard precautions should still be implemented for those who choose to get away.
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Apple (AAPL) has formed a well-defined trading range (see Retreat or Breakthrough for Apple?).
Looking at the price chart, you see AAPL hit the top of the trading range, previous resistance, on below-average volume.
You think AAPL most likely will pull back here, fall down into the middle of the trading range or further. But this is America's favorite stock (at least one of them), capturing the idealism of short-term traders and long-term investors alike. At any time Apple can announce new products that will bring strong buying into the stock. You think in terms of a bearish trade but remind yourself to use a tight stop, that is until you notice AAPL can gap pretty well at the open.
Recalling your option training, you think that a straddle could work here. Apple's options are typically richly-priced. It can be hard to make a profit on a straddle, which generates a net profit only if the underlying moves a certain minimum percentage in either direction within a short timeframe. But, you wonder, are there times you can increase the odds of success with a straddle trade on AAPL?
A straddle trade is where you buy equal amounts of calls and puts, at the same strike price, in the same expiration date, typically a near-term date. They work best when the Implied Volatilities on the underlying's options are near the lowest point of the past year's range, when the underlying is on a strike price, and the underlying is more likely to fall than rise (because a falling stock will typically increase Implied Volatilities, which aids a straddle position).
On Friday, AAPL closed at 454.45, which is very close to a strike price (455). There are only 5 days left until August monthly option expiration. That is too soon for a straddle trade to work reliably.
September monthly option expirations are 40 days away. If a straddle trade was going to work, AAPL should move enough within 20 to 30 days to make the trade profitable. With the September monthly's, we would pay for more time value than we need, which makes it harder to make a profit.
Ah, but AAPL has weekly options and they are very actively traded. Apple weeklies expiring the first week of September would give us 26 days for the trade to work.
Pricing a sample trade, using Friday's closing mid-point option prices and a Buy 1 AAPL September 6th, 2013 455 call and Buy 1 AAPL September 6th, 2013 455 Put trade would cost $20.30 to enter (times $100, or $2,030).
To raise the probabilities of such a trade working out, I like to target a 20% profit target on straddles, expecting to quickly hit the profit target and get out (say within 2 weeks).
Entering a 20% profit target within 2 weeks into an option pricing model, I see that AAPL needs to either rise to 477 or fall to 432.5. assuming nothing else changes, for this trade to work.
On this chart I've drawn the minimum levels AAPL must hit within 2 weeks for this September 6th straddle trade to be up 20%. Any trader would have to decide whether that is likely enough to happen to consider this trade.
In today's Seasonal Forecaster newsletter, I answer the questions "Can we further raise the chances of this trade working? Is there any way to know when a straddle trade on AAPL is more likely to work?", provide a simple technique to do that, and address whether I think the September 6th 455 straddle trade makes sense right now.


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Q: windows xp 2 GB missing hard drive space I've got an odd problem with a machine that has a old windows XP installed on it (changing the OS is sadly not possible for that machine).
The hard drive is a 90 GB drive (84 useable). So far so good.
Now when I tried to clean up the contents I enabled seeing all hidden files in the windows explorer, made a clean hard drive command on the hard drive properties and then went through all the main folders in c:\ and noted down the sizes to see where I could best get started.
So far so good with only one exception......the hard drive says that 11,7 GB of space are used (properties) but I only come up to 9,52 GB including the pagefile in C:\ when I mark all in C:\ and use properties) as 72,3 of the 84,0 GB are empty.
So my question is where could those 2,18 GB of missing disk space be at?
(already did a chkdsk but it came up inconclussive and I'm running out of ideas now because of that)


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Justice minister, secretary resign
Kim Hyun-woong(L), Choi Jai-kyeong(R)
The minister of justice and the senior civil affairs presidential secretary tendered their resignations, the Blue House said Wednesday, following an unprecedented clash between President Park Geun-hye and her own prosecutors over an abuse of power investigation and their description of her as a "co-conspirator" in the case.
Presidential spokesman Jung Young-kuk said Wednesday Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong and Senior Civil Affairs Secretary Choi Jai-kyeong expressed their intentions to step down from their posts, but Park has yet to accept the resignations.
"Minister Kim believed this is the right thing to do, considering the circumstances," the ministry said in a statement. "He tendered the resignation Monday."
Choi did not issue a public statement on the resignation.
Kim was appointed to the post, which oversees the criminal justice system and other legal affairs of the administration, in July 2015. He and Prosecutor General Kim Soo-nam are alumni of the Judicial Research and Training Institute.
Choi was appointed on Oct. 30 and received his credential last Friday. The senior civil affairs secretary is a powerful post that supervises the prosecution, police and the National Intelligence Service. Choi replaced Woo Byung-woo. Park resisted months of pressure to fire Woo, accused of corruption, but let him go in the aftermath of the mushrooming abuse of power scandal.
The resignations were submitted as the prosecution made clear it has no intention to go easy on the president as they investigate ever-widening accusation that Park's friend Choi Soon-sil committed various crimes with the help of presidential aides - and, according to prosecutors last Sunday, the president herself.
Over the past weeks, the prosecution conducted a special investigation into a series of allegations that Choi, Park's longtime friend, strong-armed conglomerates into making massive donations to cultural and sports foundations and misappropriated the money to create slush funds. She was also suspected of having influenced state affairs by receiving confidential information from the Blue House.
On Sunday, prosecutors indicted Choi and a former Blue House aide over a wide range of charges including coercion. Another former presidential secretary was indicted on charges of leaking secret information to Choi. The prosecutors said Park was a co-conspirator in most of the crimes, but it could not press charges against her because of presidential immunity guaranteed in the constitution.
But she can be prosecuted for those crimes after she leaves office.
Prosecutors summoned Park for questioning last week, but she delayed it. Following Sunday's indictments, Park, through her lawyer and spokesman, questioned the integrity of the prosecutors and refused to cooperate with their plan to question her. The Blue House and Park's lawyer denied all charges, calling them a "house of cards" destined to collapse in a courtroom.
There is no sign that the conflict will subside, and the prosecution said Wednesday that it still wants to question Park in person. The special investigation team sent a request to the president through her lawyer that they want to question her before next Tuesday.
The clash between the president and the prosecution appeared to be a dilemma for Kim and Choi. In an interview with newspaper Money Today, Choi said Wednesday that he decided to step down because he failed to properly assist the president and oversee the law enforcement authorities. "As a public servant appointed by the president, I thought resignation was the right thing to do."
"Some people say the Blue House is a wagon going up in flames and I must abandon it quickly," he said. "But this is not why I decided to tender my resignation."
"Choi was trying to take moral responsibility, as the prosecution's attacks on Park were far stronger than anticipated," a Blue House source said.
Sources in the prosecution and at the ministry said Kim was also frustrated when the president became a suspect in the case. Before last Sunday, prosecutors described her as a witness, not as a suspect.
After the National Assembly approved an independent counsel to go after the president, Kim decided that he must not stay in his post, the sources said.
A senior prosecutor said Kim and Choi probably felt uncomfortable that they were not informed of the prosecution's conclusions in the case in advance. In an ordinary criminal investigation, the Justice Ministry receives a briefing from the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office and a report is relayed to the Blue House's senior civil affairs secretary.
After its launch on Oct. 27, however, the special investigation team bypassed the ordinary reporting channel and only briefed the prosecutor general.
"The prosecution was extremely cognizant that it would face a catastrophe if there was a report that the investigation findings were offered to the ministry or the Blue House," said a prosecutor from the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office.
A prosecutor-turned-lawyer said Kim and Choi were actually challenging the president. "Park's refusal to cooperate with the prosecution's investigation is undermining the authority of the prosecutor general, whom she appointed," he said.
BY SER MYO-JA, MOON BYUNG-JOO [ser.myoja@joongang.co.kr]


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