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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses the conference of Bangladesh ambassadors in Middle Eastern countries in Abu dhabi on Monday night. Photo: PID
BSS, Abu Dhabi
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked Bangladesh ambassadors in Middle Eastern countries to strengthen ties with Muslim countries, exploring new markets for Bangladesh products there and draw their investment to the country.
"Reinforce relationship with Muslim countries . . . explore new markets of our products there and draw their enhanced investment to Bangladesh," the premier's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told newsmen quoting her as saying at the envoys conference last night.
The Prime Minister, he said, asked the Bangladesh envoys to act in line with demands of the host countries to accomplish their goals of exploring Bangladesh markets and draw investments.
Sheikh Hasina simultaneously asked the envoys to use their diplomatic expertise in resolving any misunderstanding with friendly countries including neighbours saying such situations could emerge in foreign relations but those should be resolved through dialogues.
The conference was held at her place of residence, Shangri-La Hotel here on Monday night Bangladesh time as the premier is now on a visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
"You would have to work bearing in mind that the world is now considered as a "global village". Each one is depended on another one. So, everyone should move ahead with the mentality of extending assistance to each other," she said.
The premier asked them to protect Bangladesh workers interest abroad simultaneously reminding all that they were sending the maximum remittance from the Middle East countries.
But she said Bangladeshi workers were exposed to cheating often while collective and coordinated efforts of all were needed for their protection particularly asking for a massive campaign so no overseas jobseekers fall victims to the fraudulence.
Sheikh Hasina also asked for necessary measures to stop charging money beyond the official rate for sending an overseas jobseeker to any country, saying, "We all should look into the matter".
She said Bangladeshi expatriates continued to contribute massively to strengthen the country's economy while the government by now established "Probashi Kolyan Bank" for their welfare.
"The expatriates can take a loan from the bank for conducting businesses," she said.
The premier said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had given the nation a foreign policy with its main essence being "Friendship to all, malice to none."
She said the government was now working with the blue economy to unlock its potential to elevate further its economic status while the country was once needed to struggle to take loan from the doners.
"But the situation has changed as Bangladesh has come out of that… now we don't call anyone a donner, rather the development partner," Sheikh Hasina said.
The premier said her government has been working to reduce the poverty rate to three more per cent as it has already reduced to 20 per cent.
She also said her government has contained the terrorism and militancy with its mechanism, adding, "The effort will be continued."
The premier informed another book titled "Amar Dekha Naya Chin" written by the Father of the Nation is being published.
About observance of "Mujib Borsho", the premier said, "It is a great fortune for us to get a chance to observe the "Mujib Borsho".
She said many programmes will be held in Bangladesh as well as in the foreign countries when the Bangladeshi envoys would have to take measures to this end.
"We have got self-identity and passport as the Father of the Nation liberated the country," the premier said.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam, and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, were present, among others.
The Bangladeshi envoys in the nine Middle East countries were present at the conference.
They were Golam Moshi (Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Imran (UAE), Maj Gen (Retd) KM Mominur Rahman (Bahrain), AFM Gousal Azam Sarker (Iran), AMM Forhad (Iraq), SM Abul Kalam (Kuwait), Abdul Motaleb Sarker (Lebanon), Md Golam Sarwar (Oman) and Ashud Ahmed (Qatar).
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Q: Loops in real-life problems I'm learning C as my first programming language. I'm confused on how do loops work in real-life. In programming every function has a reason.
example - if/else statements are used if we have conditions. Nesting if/else statements are used if we have conditions inside a condition(more condition).
I am going to try my best answering this using a real-life problem. I tend to understand better using Facebook as an example.
Let's say a user is signing up for Facebook. We don't want users signing up of age less than 13 years old. If users age is less than 13, it should terminate the sign up page and give a reason saying "Sorry, you're too young". Do we use if/else statement behind situation? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Now, Loops are used for shortening up the program/application. What's the real-life analogy behind this? Using Facebook as an example.
Can 'News Feed' be a strong example of using Loops?

A: Please read this very carefully.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD316.2.html
"In order to meet these objections, we introduce a repetitive connective which, again for historical reasons, is written in two parts "while...do". Using this connective we can write the algorithm:"
What follows is a real-life loop.  Explained in detail.

A: Using Facebook as an example. Click to view your friends list. Everybody has a variable number of friends, so you need code to iterate over each friend to display their photo, name, and profile link. A novice might try to achieve this through copy/paste programming:
show_friend($user->friends[0]);
show_friend($user->friends[1]);
show_friend($user->friends[2]);
// and so on, and on, and on

Or you could use a for loop:
foreach(var $friend in $user->friends) {
  show_friend($friend);
}

A: Take for example tagging your friend when you upload photos. What you are doing there is iterating over a collection of photos and doing something on each one of them.

A:
Can 'News Feed' be a strong example of
  using Loops?

I would hope not. If it is pulling data from a database, then it should be using set-based logic not loops.

A:
I'm learning C as my first programming language.

I'm so sorry.  C is a great language for a lot of applications, but teaching isn't one of them.
As far as how loops would be used for a Facebook-style application, it would mainly be for things like displaying a sequence of entries, such as your list of friends or people you may know.  You'd retrieve the list of friends from the database into some sort of list or array structure, and then use a loop to walk through the list and generate the HTML for display, something like
Friend *friendList = getFriends();
size_t i;

for (i = 0; friendList[i] != NULL; i++)
{
  generateHtmlFor(friendList[i]);
}

or alternately
i = 0;
while (friendList[i] != NULL)
{
  generateHtmlFor(friendList[i++]);
}

Not that the above code looks anything like real Facebook code.  I'm pretty sure Facebook isn't written in C.
Logically speaking, you'd use a for loop to iterate over a finite sequence of elements (such as in an array), whereas you'd use a while loop to iterate while a condition was true (and a do-while loop to execute the sequence at least once and continue to execute while the condition was true).  C kind of blurred the line between for and while loop structures, and there are places like this where you could use either one equally well.  We know the list is finite, but we don't know how long it is (you can't tell from a pointer alone how many elements are in the sequence), so we use a protocol where the last element in the list must be set to NULL.

A: Typically, your do/loop would be used in instances where you don't necessarily have a count.
Say, for instance, you have a collection that you move through, but that collection can be added to (or removed from) at any time.
Possible real life scenario - some sort of auto-reading application that reads all new messages out loud, moving to the next message once one is read.
In this case, a for/next on an index of the original count would not get any new messages that are added. Once the original count is hit, it ends.
Also, if the ability was provided to remove a message that was previously sent out, the for/next would fail, because you'd be trying to iterate to a message that no longer exists (index out of bounds).
A Do/Loop, however, can walk over each of these, and gracefully leave when there's nothing left to display.
do while there are more messages
    read message
loop
end
Sorry, I can't think of a better example right now.

A: Consider any sequence of events in your life that are repeated and you'll see an example of a loop.  For example, buses in transit systems tend to be an example of a loop where the bus goes around and around.  Another example would be to consider an ATM where while you are performing transactions, the software of the machine is in a loop to process transaction after transaction until you acknowledge that you have no more to do.
Another example would be to consider cooking a dozen hot dogs where there will likely be some tasks in this that are repeated if you document the steps and then simplify the algorithm if you wanted to teach this to another person.
To give a Facebook specific example, consider how Facebook updates your Friend requests/Messages/Notifications at the top of the page.  This would generally use a loop as you wouldn't want to be requesting an update constantly yet you do want the browser to check periodically for an update.

A: An if condition can be thought of as a degenerate while loop. To illustrate this and other looping fundamentals, I offer this awesome video: Prime Factors Kata (Annotated). It's not Facebook, but I'm sure you will be able to understand what's going on.

A: There are, including this one, 10 answers on this page as I post. So how would you display them?
if (answerCount >= 1) displayAnswer (1);
if (answerCount >= 2) displayAnswer (2);
if (answerCount >= 3) displayAnswer (3);
if (answerCount >= 4) displayAnswer (4);
if (answerCount >= 5) displayAnswer (5);
if (answerCount >= 6) displayAnswer (6);
if (answerCount >= 7) displayAnswer (7);
if (answerCount >= 8) displayAnswer (8);
if (answerCount >= 9) displayAnswer (9);
if (answerCount >= 10) displayAnswer (10);
if (answerCount >= 11) displayAnswer (11);
if (answerCount >= 12) displayAnswer (12);

So how would you display a page with 13 answers? How would you display a page with 100 answers? That's where you use a loop.

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Street-Level Sales and Marketing
Sean Carton's June 11 ClickZ column brought up an intriguing idea -- and raised a spectre of sorts. While Google's Street View can be used as a useful shoe-level tool in terms of orienting one's self on a street corner or while in transit, it also opens up opportunities for dynamically inserted advertising.
One approach to this -- albeit in a nascent state -- can be seen in the technology offered by Idelix. That company's tools allow advertisers to dynamically insert spots on directions provided by mapping services from Google, Yahoo, Mapquest, and the like. Ads can be placed at the city, street, or brand level.
It's only a matter of time before ads are dynamically inserted into Flickr pictures, perhaps!
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Hybrid Viral Marketing
Thanks to Jason Kottke for pointing me to a new paper by Duncan Watts that explores the idea of "big seed marketing."
Basically, the idea is that viral marketing campaigns bolstered by large mainstream media advertising campaigns can create an escalating conversion effect that neither activity would catalyze on their own. The math behind the idea seems solid, and it reminds me of my recent PodCamp talk "What If Ads Were Content?"
The more ways people are able to share, keep, and annotate ads online -- and off -- the more effective those ads could become.
Labels: research, viral marketing
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XLNT Party Time
XLNTads, which specializes in consumer-generated advertising, announced the members of its Creator's Advisory Board today. The board will advise the company on user features and other aspects of the business, which is slated to introduce brand advertisers in July.
Sean Bury, Invisible Engine Films
Angela Calman, video producer and publisher of Mediamogirl.com
Jefferson Chaney, video editor, director and producer
Mark Day, comedian and video creator
Kevin Nalty, viral videologist and founder of Will Video for Food
Zack Scott, video creator and entertainer
Matt Wyatt, Invisible Engine Films
That's a pretty impressive roundup of videographers, producers, publishers, and entertainers who've made names for themselves on YouTube, Revver, Metacafe and other popular video-sharing sites. It'll be interesting to see what develops.
Labels: CGM, videoblogging
The Rise of the Machines Rises Again
Zimmerman's Pick-n-Click might have met its Bride of Frankenstein crushworthy counterpoint in the debut of Blip.TV's DIY ad-making service. The service is designed to help Web content makers make promos for their content and is being tested by Make magazine.
Spamvertising
A big ol' boo and hiss is sent out to Skycontrol, an "international magazine" of aviation and aerospace news.
I recently received an email from them, and because I've never signed up to receive anything from them -- and don't want to -- I followed the instructions at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe from whatever list they had me on. This is what I got in response:
This mailing list is currently not accepting unsubscriptions.
Huh? Isn't that... illegal? I've contacted the company directly to request removal. We'll see what they say in response.
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Rest in Posts
The AdJab team is calling it quits. Coverage of the ad industry will continue in TV Squad.
I've appreciated your work, folks. May this change bring only the best and brightest to all involved.
Boston Bombshell
A marketing stunt pulled off by the Cartoon Network and New York-based marketing company Interference Inc. went haywire this week when almost 40 blinking electronic signs promoting the cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force were mistaken for bombs.
The signs, slightly reminiscent of and perhaps inspired by the Space Invaders tile graffiti, raised quite a ruckus. Law enforcement agencies closed down highways, bridges, and part of the Charles River. Two men were jailed and later released in connection with the stunt, which was replicated in nine other cities to no hubbub.
Community leaders in Beantown showed little sense of humor in response to the campaign. My favorite remark was made by Congressman Ed Markey, quoted in a MediaDailyNews article: "Scaring an entire region, tying up the T and major roadways, and forcing first responders to spend 12 hours chasing down trinkets instead of terrorists is marketing run amok. ... Whoever thought this up needs to find another job."
Personally, I think the use of electronics -- and the urban installation approach -- is intriguing. But it seems the stunt backfired. If the campaign was intended to inspire word of mouth marketing, it seems limited to bad mouthing -- even if the too-proper Bostonians overreacted.
(On another note, does Frylock look like Jim Mahfood or what?)
Subliminal Messiahs
I'm watching the 1980 movie Agency tonight. Directed by George Kaczender and based on the 1974 novel by Paul Gottlieb, the movie focuses on a series of intrigues at an advertising agency.
Lee Majors plays the firm's creative director, who begins to get suspicious when the staff of the agency -- recently acquired by a man with no advertising experience (played by Robert Mitchum) -- begins to agressively turn over. What finally persuades him that something is awry is the mysterious suicide of a colleague, who'd been acting increasingly paranoid.
I won't give away too much of the plot, but in the end, the movie is about the insidious insertion of subliminal messages in advertisements. There are some quite comic moments, including an opening sequence of a surreal goth-meets-hippie dance number staged for an underarm deodorant featuring a breathy musical chorus of "No sweat," a scene in which Majors's character points out that a print ad for Scotch includes a subliminal death mask in the ice cubes, and the scene in which Majors's character sees the real ad behind the ads.
The print of the DVD, issued by a division of PMC Corp., isn't that great. There are some momentary glitches in the very beginning, and the audio is marred by some amount of hiss and overly boomy voices.
Regardless, if you're at all interested in advertising, it might be a movie worth watching.
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// TODO(kmadhusu): Implement mtp device delegates on other platforms.
#if defined(OS_LINUX)  // Implies OS_CHROMEOS
typedef class MtpDeviceDelegateImplLinux MtpDeviceDelegateImpl;
#endif

}  // namespace chrome

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Q: MySQL insert statement over remote server is extremely slow. How can I speed it up? I need to insert values to a remote MySQL server. However it is extremely slow compared to a local MySQL server.
This is my timing for the local MySQL server
Needs["DatabaseLink`"]

conn = OpenSQLConnection[
   JDBC["MySQL(Connector/J)",
    "localhost/schema"], "Username" -> "root",
   "Password" -> "pass"];

list = Table[{SQLDateTime[DateList@{2015, 1, 1, 1, 1, i}], i}, {i, 1,
    100}];

SQLInsert[conn, "albedometer", {"dateTime", "volts"},
   list]; // AbsoluteTiming

{0.045335, Null}

This is my timing for the remote MySQL server
conn1 = OpenSQLConnection[
   JDBC["MySQL(Connector/J)",
    "remoteServer/schema"],
   "Username" -> "server", "Password" -> "server"];

list = Table[{SQLDateTime[DateList@{2015, 1, 1, 1, 1, i}], i}, {i, 1,
    100}];

SQLInsert[conn1, "albedometer", {"dateTime", "volts"},
   list]; // AbsoluteTiming

{117.437, Null}

As you can see the difference is huge 0.04 vs 117 seconds.
It is just plain impossible to work with such an small insert speed.
How could I speed this up?

A: So finally I decided to create a BatchInsert[] functions that is 100 times faster than SQLInsert[]. This is the code:
BatchInsert[con_, tableName_, columns_, data_, max_:100]:=
    Module[{
      dataSplit, str, res
    },

      dataSplit = Partition[data, UpTo[max]];
      SQLBeginTransaction[con];
      res = InsertSingle[#, con, columns, tableName] & /@ dataSplit;
      res = Total@res;
      If[res === Length@data,
        SQLCommitTransaction[con];
        True
        ,
        SQLRollbackTransaction[con];
        $Failed
      ]

    ];

InsertSingle[data_, con_, cols_, tableName_] :=
    Module[{ll, str},
      ll = StringJoin@
          Riffle[Table[{"(",
            Sequence @@ Riffle[Table["?", Length@cols], ","],
            ")\n"},
            Length@data], ","];

      str =
          StringTemplate["INSERT INTO `tab` (`cols`) VALUES `ll`"]@
              Association@{
                "cols" -> StringJoin[Riffle[cols, ","]],
                "ll" -> ll,
                "tab" -> tableName

              };

      SQLExecute[con,
    str,
    Flatten@data,
    "JavaBatching" -> False
  ]
];

You can compare both functions with:
Map[AbsoluteTiming[#[con,tb,col,data];]&,{BatchInsert,SQLInsert}]


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Current intelligence and security legislation
The appointment, functions, duties and powers of the Inspector-General are set out in Part 6 of the Intelligence and Security Act 2017. The Inspector-General also has functions under the Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act 2017, the Protected Disclosures Act 2000, and the Privacy Act 1993. The Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act 2013 is also relevant to intelligence activities.
Intelligence and Security Act 2017(external link)
Protected Disclosures Act 2000(external link)
Privacy Act 1993(external link)
Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act 2013(external link)
Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act 2017(external link)
Legislative review
The Intelligence and Security Act came about following the government's response to the First Independent Review of Intelligence and Security in New Zealand, conducted by Hon Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy. The Review produced the report Intelligence and Security in a Free Society.
Intelligence and Security in a Free Society [PDF, 2 MB]
The Inspector-General participated in the Review and made submissions to the Select Committee about the bill that became the Intelligence and Security Act.
First IGIS submission to the Select Committee [PDF, 365 KB]
Second IGIS submission to the Select Committee [PDF, 454 KB]
Third IGIS submission to the Select Committee [PDF, 443 KB]
Historical legislation
The Intelligence and Security Act replaced four pieces of legislation.
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1996(external link)
Intelligence and Security Committee Act 1996(external link)
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Act 1969(external link)
Government Communications Security Bureau Act 2003(external link)
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Q: What is the difference between | and ^ Selector? In W3 Schools selectors refrence they have written
[attribute|=value] [lang|=en]

Selects all elements with a lang attribute value starting with "en"
[attribute^=value] a[href^="https"]

Selects every  element whose href attribute value begins with https
So what is the diffrence between them if they both select an element starting with a word?

A: You can check the difference by yourself. They both look for attribute values starting with some value. However, using |= you need the whole word (or the word separated by a hyphen - from the next word) to be selected. Example:

Welcome

Hello world!

Are you learning CSS?

[class^="top"] will select the three of them.
[class|="top"] will select only the two first elements. The last
 has the class topcontent and therefore the selector won't find the isolated word top

A: You can find (usually) more detailed documentation in Mozilla web docs or the W3C Recommendation which should be a base for browser implementations.
[attr|=value]

Represents elements with an attribute name of attr whose value can be
  exactly value or can begin with value immediately followed by a
  hyphen, - (U+002D). It is often used for language subcode matches.

Meaning it either matches value or value-more-text (value followed by -)
[attr^=value]

Represents elements with an attribute name of attr whose value is
  prefixed (preceded) by value.

Meaning it is more loose than the previous selector as it matches an attribute that begins with value and can be followed by any other characters.


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Le Trophée de la meilleure sixième femme de la WNBA ou  est une distinction annuelle de la Women's National Basketball Association créée en 2007 pour récompenser la meilleure joueuse ne débutant pas les rencontres, mais ayant apporté une contribution significative à l'équipe. Sont éligibles les joueuses ayant entamé la rencontre plus de fois du banc que dans le cinq de départ. Le prix a été intitulé « Sixth Woman of the Year » tout au long de la saison 2020. Le mot « Woman » a été remplacé par « Player » en 2021.

La gagnante est choisie par jury de journalistes sportifs américains, qui choisissent chacun trois joueuses, la première obtenant cinq points, la deuxième trois points et la troisième un point, la joueuse ayant le plus de points remportant le titre sans égard pour le nombre de première place. Sont éligibles les joueuses ayant plus de fois sorti de banc que démarré la rencontre.

DeWanna Bonner a remporté ce titre trois fois consécutivement.

Palmarès

Références

Liens internes
 Sixième homme
 NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award

Lien externe
  Historique du Sixth Player Award

Sixth
Distinction fondée en 2007

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require 'spec_helper'

describe MindBody::Services::SaleService do
  subject { MindBody::Services::SaleService }

  it { should respond_to(:get_accepted_card_type) }
  it { should respond_to(:get_sales) }
  it { should respond_to(:get_services) }
  it { should respond_to(:get_packages) }
  it { should respond_to(:get_products) }
  it { should respond_to(:get_custom_payment_methods) }
end


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While education levels have improved on the national level, many metropolitan areas fall far behind the United States average when it comes to ensuring the success of the high school students. In some cities, graduation rates fall well below 70%.
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Of Memories and Forgetfulness
Opening Reception: Friday, June 23, 6-9pm
Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Of Memories and Forgetfulness, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring artists Caroline Liu, Pooja Pittie, and Brittney Leeanne Williams. The ability to remember and forget performs an important role in our lives and is linked to the questions we ask ourselves. According to postcolonial theorist, Françoise Verges, "the mechanism of forgetfulness has ramifications far beyond the importance it has played in psychoanalysis." She goes on to quote Sigmund Freud in noting that "forgetfulness is not left to psychic arbitrariness, but that it follows lawful and rational paths." Memory, on the other hand, remains in constant flux, susceptible to the analysis of remembering and forgetting, unaware of its successive distortions, vulnerable to manipulation, predisposed to being long dormant and periodically revived. Remembering and forgetting almost always occur in tandem. In Of Memories and Forgetfulness, the artists' reclamation of memory, evident in their work, functions as a counter-hegemonic act asserting their agency and subjectivity. Through explorations of identity and personal narrative these artists use memory as a tool of recognition. Utilizing the almost ritualistic form of recalling, this act of remembering solidifies and grounds each artists firmly in the present. Brittney Leeanne Williams' work explores remembered narratives of race, invisibility, and state-sponsored violence. Pooja Pittie's abstract paintings recall her ability to move freely while confronting her progressive muscle disability. Caroline Liu's work tackles her short-term memory loss while grappling with feelings of vulnerability. Of Memories and Forgetfulness is curated by Sheridan Tucker. Closing Reception Artists Talk Wednesday, July 12, 6-7 pm Women have long made profound contributions to the medium of painting, but are routinely left out of the art historical spotlight. Please join painters Caroline Liu, Pooja Pittie, and curator Sheridan Tucker in conversation with The Joyce Foundation's Director of Culture Program, Tracie D. Hall to discuss the erasure of women of color in the arts and the need for equality and diversity within the art historical canon. artist bios Caroline Liu is an artist who creates paintings that visually navigate the inner workings of her concussed mind. Four years ago, a solid wood door fell several feet onto her head and her short-term memory never fully recovered. Her work became a therapeutic practice and vehicle for self-exploration and documentation of her everyday struggles as a person with irreparable memory loss. Through repetitive patterns, mark making, and textural floral elements, her paintings depict personal narratives that focus on feelings of identity, vulnerability, and loss. Pooja Pittie is a visual artist who lives and works in Chicago. Born and raised in India, she studied finance and accounting and moved to the U.S. in 1999. Pooja relocated to Chicago to pursue an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, which led her to a career in finance and entrepreneurship. In late 2015, she decided to follow her lifelong passion for art and shifted her focus to painting full-time. Pooja has an incurable and progressive form of muscular dystrophy and uses painting as a way to capture some of the movement she has lost through her disability. Along with the HATCH residency, Pooja is also a participant of the Spring 2017 Bridge Program at the Hyde Park Art Center. Brittney Leeanne Williams is a Chicago-based studio artist who is originally from LA. She attended the School of the Art Institute from 2008-2009. Her work has exhibited in Los Angeles, Chicago, Madison, WI, and Ann Arbor, MI. This spring she will have work exhibited in San Francisco's Luggage Store Gallery as well as exhibit work in the Art Incubator's Petty Biennial. She also does conceptual work, including set design for the short film Self-Deportation (which has screened at film festivals nationally and internationally, including the 15th Annual DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival and the Pineapple Underground Film Festival, Hong Kong). Currently a resident of Chicago Artist Coalition's HATCH residency, Brittney will also be a resident at the notable Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency this summer. Curator Bio Sheridan Tucker is a curator and art historian who is interested in exploring cultural phenomena through visual art. Sheridan seeks to introduce new ideas of inclusion and diversity in arts institutions through cultural pluralism and community engagement. She is currently a Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts at the Museum of Contemporary Photography and a Curatorial Research Assistant at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. She has a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MA in Art History from the University of Chicago.
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Recessions, recoveries and regional resilience: Evidence on Italy
Di Caro, Paolo
Paolo Di Caro
This paper analyses regional resilience and local economic growth patterns in Italy over the past four decades. Place-specific transient and permanent effects of aggregate employment shocks are studied. Geographical asymmetries in engineering and ecological resilience are found, providing auxiliary insights on the rooted Italian regional inequalities. The territorial impact of different crises is investigated and a direct comparison with the UK case is offered. The importance of manufacturing activities for explaining economic resilience is assessed, finding out a positive relation between the resilience of the industrial sector and the overall local economic development. Some policy implications are conclusively discussed.
Di Caro, Paolo, 2014. "Recessions, recoveries and regional resilience: Evidence on Italy," MPRA Paper 60297, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL POLICY
A GLOBAL TOUR ACROSS THE EU LEGAL FRAMEWORK: FROM THE EARLY 90S TO THE TV / ONLINE / ON-DEMAND MODERN AUDIOVISUAL EUROPE
Several European organisms / institutions have been quite active in the development of international regulations related to TV broadcasting since the early 90s (mainly The Council of Europe, OSCE and the European Commission). The European Convention on Transfrontier Television, in force since 1993, provides an international framework for the circulation of television programme services among Member States. It set down rules for the protection of individual rights, such as the freedom of reception, the responsibility of broadcasters, or the content of programming, advertising, teleshopping and sponsorship.
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Audiovisual Europe has gone under vigorous and continuous change since 1989 when the Television Without Frontiers Directive (TWFD) defined the first core set of rules for television broadcasting in the European Union. Already then, satellite television did not stop at national borders. New opportunities for content delivery raised the question of how these services should be regulated in the near future... What rules should apply to videos available from the internet or to films that are supplied at the user's request (on-demand services)? Three technological innovations were most likely contributing favourably to the development of the audiovisual sector in Europe: high definition TV, flat panel display, and interactive television (e.g. movies on-demand without player controls and high interactivity in which, for example, an audience individual affects the programme being watched by applying a real-time voting on the screen). The Television Without Frontiers directive (TWFD) constitutes the cornerstone of the EU's audiovisual policy. However, most EU Member States were concerned with the need of a thorough revision of the Directive which would take account of the technological developments and structural changes of the audiovisual market.
THE AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA SERVICE DIRECTIVE (AVMSD): INNOVATIVE RULES FOR OUR EVOLVING AUDIOVISUAL EUROPE
The Audiovisual Media Service Directive was created, amending / renaming the TWF Directive. Providing more flexibility within regulation vs. less detail. We would like to emphasize the fact that it modernizes TV advertising rules to better finance audiovisual content. The AVMS Directive entered into force on 19.12.2007 –and had to be transposed by Member States by the end of 2009. The Audiovisual Media Services Directive covers all EU audiovisual media services (including on-demand services) in the digital age, adapting EU rules to the evolving audiovisual environment. These days we can watch our favourite TV programme/s from all over Europe not just on TV, but also via the internet or on our advanced mobile smartphones' screens. The rules laid down in the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive governs EU-wide coordination of national legislation on all audiovisual media, both traditional TV broadcasts (linear service/s) and on-demand services (non-linear service/s, e.g. on-demand films and news – Art. 1.1/a). Who decides when a specific programme is transmitted (a) and whether a schedule exists (b), makes distinction between the two approaches / services. Therefore, TV broadcasts are 'linear' services because they follow a schedule arranged by the broadcaster, while on-demand ('nonlinear') services leave users to make a decision on when to watch a specific programme. It is true that while these services differ in how they are made available, they are both addressed to the general public. The Directive treats linear and on-demand services differently, taking into account the degree of user control over the service. On-demand services are thus subject to lighter regulation that matches the relative impact they have on society as a whole. Beyond this, the Directive upholds core societal values (e.g. Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law), from protecting minors / human rights (e.g. with access codes protecting children from adult content, art. 12) to ensuring accessible services for people with hearing or visual impairments (e.g. by subtitling and audio description, art. 7). Meanwhile, it comes to terms to the pivotal role that user choice and responsibility play in the new on-demand environment (e.g. transparency obligations for editorial decisions by which all audiovisual media service providers must indicate all relevant data needed to ensure that whoever makes the editorial decisions can be effectively liable, art. 5).
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A SET OF CLEAR RULES BEFORE A STRAIGHTFORWARD BASIS
"To support the development of new business opportunities without jeopardizing important public interests such as the protection of minors and human dignity, the rules for audiovisual media services have to be as concise as necessary and as flexible as possible".
– EU Commission, Information Society and Media. OCT 2008.
The development and uptake of new and innovative services rely on the upholding of rules for stable and predictable business environment. Knowing this set of rules and who must enforce it, therefore, is a special concern for service providers and users alike. Since users possess different degree/s of choice and control over on-demand audiovisual media services, a basic tier of rules apply to them. Although it is necessary to be stricter on the legal framework to address advertising and protecting human dignity and children.
When it comes to jurisdiction for satellite broadcaster, the AVMSD reverses the criteria defining jurisdiction under the old rules: when a broadcaster based outside the EU uses a satellite up-link in a EU country, the country of origin will have plain jurisdiction. Solely when there is no up-link within the EU, does the EU country whose satellite capacity is used gain jurisdiction. The key question which arises at this time is which country's rules apply then? Under the new rules, EU countries can restrict the retransmission of unsuitable on-demand audiovisual content –e.g. neo-Nazi propaganda- which may not be banned in its country of origin, (art. 2).
NEW CHALLENGES EVENTUALLY ARISING. CONSUMER PROTECTION AND ADVERTISING RULES
In this context, relevant new challenges are also addressed, such as the potentially unhealthy foodstuff ('fatty foods') through calls for industry self-regulation or even combined with local government regulation (co-regulation, art. 4.7). However, private correspondence falls outside the scope of the Directive, as do services that do not primarily seek to distribute audiovisual content, such as the electronic versions of newspapers and magazines. As on-demand services become increasingly popular, it is important to protect a reasonable economic foundation for all audiovisual media service providers and the AV stakeholder community. The Directive updates the rules on television advertising across the new audiovisual environment. As an outcome, users now benefit from general requirements that make advertising and commercial messages readily recognizable, protect human dignity, and abstain from using surreptitious / subliminal techniques. The new rules have a broad definition of what constitutes advertising; including sponsorship, product placement (it refers to products in film scenes or as part of certain audiovisual programmes), and / or teleshopping. Programme sponsorship has to abide by the same rules in all audiovisual media services (art. 1.1.h). This enhances that all forms of commercial audiovisual content are covered by a common set of rules, whatever mode of delivery is used for the programmes to which they are associated. The existing ban on tobacco advertising is extended to on-demand services. The same applies to the portrayal of alcohol thus giving special consideration to the protection of minors. Furthermore, in our view, products / programmes / brands / symbols which encourage teenage anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and all kinds of eating distress should be banned as well. Broadcasters enjoy more flexibility as regards the insertion of spot advertising and sponsorship comprising the established hourly limit of 12 minutes for advertising / teleshopping spots. In this manner, all service providers can best exploit the enormous potential of EU audiovisual commercial communications, while a high standard of consumer protection is ensured.
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FIRST THINGS FIRST!: COMPETITION COEXISTING WITH PROMOTION OF EUROPEAN PRODUCTIONS
Competition plays a vital role in the media sector. The rules within the competition arena are designed to prevent illegal restrictions (e.g. price-fixing agreements or cartels between competitors) avoiding international market's distortions. Antitrust law aims at eliminating agreements which restrict competition and the abuse of a dominant position on the market. The latter agreements and practices reduce the quality and diversity of content. Merger control ensures that no excessive concentrations are created which could be detrimental to effective competition, thus ensuring cultural diversity while taking into account, simultaneously, the need to have European media companies of a sufficient size to compete at a global level –to reach a balance between the both is not an easy task. In practice, horizontal and vertical concentration in the media industry, particularly in the pay TV sector, and the consolidation of satellite platforms, led the EU Commission to examine a number of complex and high profile cases. Finally, the application of State Aid rules focuses on the effects on competition of aid granted by Member States and ensures that such measures do not distort competition in the Common Market. In this respect, the European Commission and the Council of Europe have taken initiatives in the field of public service broadcasting and cinema (State aid to cinema and TV productions, e.g. The MEDIA 2007 programme 2007-2013.
European Member States must ensure that not only TV broadcasters but also on-demand audiovisual media services promote European AV industry. Eurimages – European Cinema Support Fund is a bright example of this (the Council of Europe fund for the co-production, distribution and exhibition of European cinematographic works, aiming to promote the European film industry by encouraging the production / distribution of films and fostering co-operation between professionals.
MEDIA PLURALISM AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. A BASELINE ANALYSIS
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression", including the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers".
– Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (echr).
The EU's commitment to respect freedom and pluralism of media while enhancing the right to information and freedom of expression is enshrined in article 11 of the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights as well as article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Measures to guarantee media pluralism typically limit maximum holdings in media companies and prevent cumulative control or participation in a few media companies per State Member at the same time. The final aim is to safeguard that the media reflect a spectrum of views and opinions. The Commission's Green Paper on services of general interest of May 2003 noted that protection of media pluralism is primarily a task for the Member States. A number of Community law instruments contribute directly / indirectly to the aim of preserving media pluralism (in particular through its provisions on the promotion of European productions, and of works by independent producers). In a related move, the Commission initiated a Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom within the Schuman School of the European University Institute to reflect and advise on the underlying issues. The institute's long-term mission is to support the process of European integration and it has accumulated unrivalled expertise in the area of European governance. Governments may be tempted to control the media, in particular state-owned TV / radio stations, as a means of influencing public opinion. This is often, but not only the case, in times of crisis (e.g. during wars and terrorist attacks). Attempts to control of the media can take different forms, such as by the threat of the media being closed down, by censorship, and self-censorship when this is the only way to continue operating.
Journalists are subjected to police harassment, unjustified imprisonment and even killing... Another threat is that concentration has put major media in the hands of a few strong multimedia groups, reducing the diversity of information sources. With democracy, the rule of law and human rights being the common values of European Member States, freedom of expression and information are generally respected in most countries. However, recently both the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly and the Secretary General have expressed concern about the situation in Member States such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Russia where, despite democratic progress in many fields, rules on freedom of the press are not always respected. Several Western Balkan governments are tempted on a regular basis to control media (1). The case law of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo shows that there is room for improvement while monitoring / lobbying for Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) financial and editorial independence. The Mission assists the Independent Media Commission (IMC) in drafting regulations in line with the EU audiovisual media service directive and an optimum strategy for media digitalization.
THE INTERNET AS A CHANGING COURSE OF ACTION WITH REGARD TO THE PROTECTION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION
The internet has become a major means of communication which has acted as a catalyst for freedom of expression and information. The current European legislation comprises a set of principles (e.g. the European Convention on Human Rights applying to the global web) which implies that no control or restriction should be set on the access to information on the internet, though measures should be put in place for protecting children and other vulnerable groups. In this new environment, the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers also defends self-regulation and the anonymity of users. In order to address challenges to freedom of expression on the internet, the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on Cybercrime, the first international treaty on criminal offences through the internet, and a specific protocol on racist and xenophobic content. The European Convention on Human Rights protects each individual from the abuses by the State. In the internet and mobile age, governments, rule makers and private sector must cross some fundamental bridges to reach key agreements in order to make sure that users are protected from degrading conditions by the European state / non state actors while playing the fluctuating cyberspace rules of the game.
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(1) It is important to keep in mind that Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia as well Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244/99 are potential candidates to join EU membership once they are ready.
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Q: Tableau: show number of occurances of each number on a fixed scale of 1 - 5 I have data with teacher and student scores (on a scale 1-5).  I want to show how many teacher grades were 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and same with the students grading themselves.
I have the data in 2 formats, in the same row, and pivoted on 2 seperate rows.  ie
Same row like this
 student name   |   Teacher Score    |   Student Score
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 Jack                4                     3
 Jim                 2                     3
 Tom                 5                     4

Pivoted like this
student name  |    Pivot Field     |     Score
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 Jack              student score          3
 Jack              teacher score          4
 Jim               student score          2
 Jim               teacher score          3
 Tom               student score          4
 Tom               teacher score          5

I'm just looking to do this in tableau, count how many of each grading scores were casted by teachers, and students, like this
ALL 5 SCORES  |    TOTAL COUNT TEACHER   |   TOTAL COUNT STUDENT
   1                       0                         0            (zero 1's were given out)
   2                       1                         0
   3                       0                         2            (ie both Jack and Jim gave themselves a 3)
   4                       1                         1
   5                       1                         0

Does that make sense?  Please let me know if I need to further explain.  I feel like I should know this but I'm stumped and I'm having trouble putting the right words together to search for it.. thank you in advance!

A: Try creating a bin field of your scores. Right click on you score field and select create then select bins. In the size of bins box change it to 1. Then add the new field to your columns and number of records to rows.


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Now this asssembly contains only one namespace and some classes in that namespace and I want to fetch the name of that Namespace . What is the syntax to fetch that name.


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End of Watch Saturday, August 16, 1997
Shayne Daniel York
Deputy Sheriff Shayne York succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained two days earlier when he was shot by a robbery suspect after being identified as a deputy sheriff.
Deputy York and his fiancée, who was also a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, were off duty in a hair salon at 7921 Western Avenue in Buena Park when two suspects entered and ordered everyone to the ground. While one suspect covered the customers the other collected everyone's wallets and purses. The two suspects discovered Deputy York's badge and immediately shot him in the back of the head as he lay on the ground. Deputy York had not resisted and remained calm throughout the entire robbery trying to keep others from getting hurt.
The two suspects were arrested later in the day during a traffic stop by members of the Fullerton Police Department. In August 2000 the suspect who pulled the trigger was found guilty of first-degree murder with special circumstances and sentenced to death. The other suspect was sentenced to life in prison.
Deputy York had served with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for two years. He is survived by his fiancée, parents, and brother.
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Incident Date Thursday, August 14, 1997
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Shayne,
I often think about the last time I spoke to you when I came in on PM shift to relieve you that day. We said a few silly jokes and our goodbyes, as you were off to more important things that weekend. I still remember you walking down the ramp. I will never forget you or the feeling I had when I heard the terrible news. I was lucky to have known you. I take comfort knowing you are still watching over us.
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Ben Simmons: Better to Trade than to Keep
Matthew Schwanke, Reporter
Nov. 20, 2019.
Two seasons in the NBA- 172 games.
Zero for 17 on three-point shooting.
Ben Simmons would hit his first three-point shot during this game against the lowly New York Knicks.
The Wells Fargo Center burst into an eruption of screams, cheers and clapping. Simmons's teammates went nuts on the sidelines.
Some people thought this would be the beginning of an air raid trend for Ben Simmons.
Instead-he has only made one three-point bucket since.
This is just one of the never-ending problems that will plague the 76'ers, and for the rest of Simmons' career. It also is a perfect example of why the 76'ers need to move on before it is too late.
Simmons throws down a one-handed dunk in Philadelphia. Photography Courtesy of @sixers via Instagram
Simmons is a different player. He has the ability to distribute the ball like a point-guard, while also being able to post-up like a power forward. It is widely known that Simmons is very talented and has the potential to do LeBron James type moves. By age 23, Simmons has already made it to the second round of the playoffs twice. His talents are showcased very often.
The problem with his talents is that there are not enough of them.
This year, Simmons ranks 160th in usage at 19.6%. Of all the players he is surrounded by on that ranking, he is the only one who is not a post-player or three and D player. As a point guard, you have to have the ball in your hands. The point guards job is to orchestrate the play. That can not happen when the point guard does not have the ball. When the 76'ers win, Simmons average only grows by .3%. During losses it drops down to 19.1%. Those small fluctuations show that Simmons is consistent. It also shows how little he impacts the game though. He does not dominate during wins, nor does he drop the ball during loses. He essentially does nothing.
His shot total average is down from 12.2% a game to 10.8%. For someone who already could not space the floor, he is now taking less attempts. His points are also down from 16.9% to 14.9%. It is not just the long ball either. His offense in general is not really that great for someone who is considered a fringe all-star. Ben simmons is ranked at 107 for shots per game. Most talented teams have at least two players in the top 50, such as Harden and Westbrobrook, Wiggins and Anthony-Towns, and Doncic and Porzingis. These are just a few.
Simmons drives into the paint against the Golden State Warriors. Photography Courtesy of @NBCSWarriors via Twitter.
The final reason of why Simmons needs to be traded is because of a very unfamiliar stat- PIE. Not like the food, or the math term, this PIE essentially ranks how important a player is on every play to his team. It ranks both total and average free-throws, rebounds, turnovers, steals and then points in regards to their worth. Ben Simmons is ranked 40 in overall PIE statistics. When ranked against other guards, he is ranked at 18, and as a forward, he ranks 28. Overall, he is not great at either. Most people think he is crucial on offense as well as defense, but his offense kills his game. Simmons does rank second in assist with 312, but how much does that actually matter when the opposing team does not have guard him.
There are three players that Simmons could realistically be traded for. The first option would be Chris Paul. Paul has done a great job in OKC with a roster that was expected to fail. This year, however, they are in the seventh spot in the west with playoff aspirations, thanks in large part to Pauls's play. He would still have the passing skills Simmons does, while also adding shooting and leadership to a team that needs it. Another player who could help shooting is D'Angelo Russell. His assists total is down, but then again his team is awful. With a good team, his assists will pick back up, and his shooting has only gotten better every year. Besides the basketball skills, Russel is also seen as a model citizen, except for the one marriage that he broke up. The third player he could be traded for has not come into the league yet. They trade Simmons for the number one overall pick and select one of the top point guards from this year's draft. That seems the most unlikely; however, the Sixers are right on the cusp and need consistent offense to push themselves over the top.
Everyone likes Simmons. He is a good guy, who plays hard. Unfortunately for him and his team, he will not be the one to bring Philly a title. He is not as good as Joel Embiid, and is not the type of player to make Embiid better either. For that reason, it is time to move on.
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The Greene Effect: Novelist Graham Greene's connection with Harrow
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Many regarded Graham Greene as an eminent figure in twenty-century literature, a respected journalist, and a prolific novelist.
Mr Greene is an oddity. Well-versed in all facets of writing. Notably, his transparent prose style will leave an indelible mark on those who choose to indulge him. "When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another.
Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity."—Graham Greene. His first publications were in the late 1920s, with novels like The Man Within, Stamboul Train, and It's a Battlefield.
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Mr Greene was a disciplinarian. "Over twenty years, I have probably averaged five hundred words a day for five days a week. I can produce a novel in a year."— Graham Greene.
Graham Greene's novel England Made Me's central theme was nationalism. Published in 1935, four years before the Second World War, Mr Greene ironically did not sense the danger looming over central Europe and the deadly force nationalism was in the near destruction of western culture.
The story's plot is based in Sweden and is about separated twins, Kate and Antony (Tony) Farrant, who are distinctively different in temperament and outlook. Antony Farrant pretends that he has been educated at Harrow School. Fernando Minty, a quirky figure and an alumnus of the Harrow, questions the validity of his claim when he sees Anthony wearing a Harrovian tie.
Antony flails under interrogation and reveals his fraudulent character. England Made Me is a maturing novel from a master craft man learning his trade. The novel is still in circulation and available in bookshops, charity shops and libraries in the harrow borough if one is willing to snoop around.
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I'm going to be vain and post my daily outfits here afterall. Hopefully it will spur me up to dress better and crack my brains on how to shop out of my wardrobe which consists of 3 clothes rack (fyi, my husband has only 1). Although I'm not sure if I'll follow through with it everyday, depends on my outfits!
Okay vanity aside, I've been feeling quite down. The question of happiness popped in my head yesterday when I was on the way home after work. It came out of nowhere and jolted me up straight. It kept questioning me if I'm really happy.
Happiness is such a subjective term. How do you define happiness anyway. When you're thirsty and you gulped down an ice cold coke, you feel happy. When you finally met your favourite idol, you feel happy. When you snatched that last pair of shoes that was on sale from another mad woman's clutches, you feel happy and a sense of triump to add onto it. And perhaps when you finally pooped after 2 weeks of constipation, you feel happy too.
Happiness results from the possession or attainment of what one considers good.
For me, happiness is more of being in the moment. That moment when I woke at 2am this morning and realised I still have another 4 hours more of sleep, I am happy. That moment when my bus and I arrived at the same time at the bus stop, I am happy. The moment when I held a $1000 note in my hands, I was happy until I had to return it. Or that one time I tried on a pair of Christian Louboutins shoes and was walking around the store till the sales assistant kept giving me dirty looks and I had to take it off, I was happy.
I don't know about you, but I get my happiness in short moments. Which means I can be unhappy and miserable for a long time before my shot of happiness comes. And when it does comes, I am only happy till I remember I have to face certain ongoing struggles, then I get all moody and depressed again. What can I say?! I wear my heart on my sleeves.
But! I am working my way towards to being a better person. I am striving to contain my emotions and being contented in my happy state for a longer period of time. Through enjoying my family time, fueling my current obsession with style blogs and my trying attempts at it, heh. And if all else fails, at least I still have him for my happiness rush.